Naruto rises from his bed. He sees Zabuza and Haku standing on each side of the bed in there cloaks and masks.
"Anything suspicious go on through th night?" Naruto asked placeimg his mask on his face.
"No, not really. Will we accompany you to the exams?" Zabuza asked.
"Yes, but you will not enter the academy with me. I read everything The Hokage has given me. You two will go to his office after dropping me off." Naruto finished walking to his bathroom with his clothes. Not five minutes later he walks out dressed.
"Shijo and Gaara are waiting outside." Haku told Naruto as he slipped on some shinobi candles. Naruto walked out of his room with Zabuza and Haku on his trail.
"Hey Naruto! How was your sleep." Shijo asked walking on Narutos left.
"Fine. How about yours and Gaaras?" Naruto asked noticing Gaara to his right.
"Fine. Sleeping is really nice." Gaara responded.
"Yeah. It is nice. Especially when you dream about big busty blonde woman." Shijo responded looking at the ceiling as he holds his chin. Naruto punches him in the gut.
"Would you stop thinking about woman for five seconds. You are getting more and more obsessed with them by the month. I heard there are gonna be some powerful opponents in this exam." Naruto said as Shijo rubbed his stomach.
"Yeah, whatever. Say, when did you get so serious?" Shijo asked rubbing the top of Narutos head.
"When I became a Kage of a village I suppose." Naruto responded.
"It's best we don't draw to much attention at first. There is no reason to take out a lot of people in beginning. The end of the exams is when people see your villages shinobis skill." Gaara interrupted the two.
"Yeah. That's probably smart. The more there are at the end. The more we get to show our skill." Naruto replied. Shijo shaded a tear and stopped, causing the others to look at him.
"I can't believe it. My two little younglings have gathered so much information by themselves. I'm so proud of my teaching skills." Shijo pretended to cry in joy.
"Say that to our Ninjutsu." Naruto fired back causing Shijo to grab his heart and anime fall.
"We should continue before we draw attention." Gaara said. The two stop and continue.
-Leafs Academy-
"Alright. See you two later." Naruto said walking in.
"Goodbye Zabuza and Haku." Gaara walked away.
"Bye cutey. By Zabuza." Shijo said walking away. Haku blushed. The three walk into the academy and up the stairs.
"All right. Take a right here and..." Naruto stopped when he saw a crowd of kids. Some older and some younger. Some where strange and some he recognized.
"A Genjutsu." Gaara said.
"I wonder why." Naruto said walking into the crowd. The other two followed.
"If you can't get passed us, you don't deserve to take the exams." A kid that looked a year or two older than Naruto said. Naruto was going to confront him, but stopped when he saw a black haired kid walk up first.
"Take down the Genjutsu." Saskue demanded.
"Looks like someone noticed. Still got to get passed us though." The other kid said. Saskue and the kid both sent a kick only to be stopped by a kid in a green jumpsuit with really bushy eyebrows and bowl cut.
"You shouldn't fight now. Yiu should wait for the exams!" He said loudly giving the two a thumbs up.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked.
"Oh my! What beautiful kinochi! Please! Marry me!" The green beat yelled sending hearts at Sakura. Sakura dodged all of them luckily.
"No. Your way to weird." Sakura responded. The kid looked down in defeat. Then he noticed Saskue.
"Saskue Uchiha! I ask that you fight me! As I am Rock Lee, and I shall show you what hard work can do to a prodigy like you!" Rock Lee yelled.
"Fine. Let's go somewhere with more room first." Saskue said.
"Yosh! I shall prevail!" Rock Lee shouted again.
-Outsude of exam room-
"Saskue Uchiha! I shall fight you! Are you ready to be squashed." Rock Lee yelled. Saskue scoffed.
"I'll take you down in two hits." Saskue said getting into a fighting possision. Rock Lee did the same.
"Hey now! We don't want to do anything to drastic now." Naruto said walking in with Gaara and Shijo behind him.
"Hey! It's nice to see you guys again!" Sakura yelled.
"Sakura. We have disguised on. We prefer not to be singled out." Naruto responded. Sakura took the hint and quieted down.
"Saskue it's those really strong guys." Sakura told Saskue.
"Yes I see that." Saskue replied.
"My name is Rock Lee! We where only doing a friendly sparring match!" Rock Lee told Naruto.
"I see, but wouldn't it be more youthful and exciting to do it in the exams. Not only proving your hard work to othere, but showing your youthfulness?" Naruto asked. Rock Lee's eyes lighted up.
"Yes! That is the perfect idea. Thank you for bringing it to my attention! Saskue I shall fight you in the exams and prove my youthfulness their!" Rock Lee shouted.
"Good. Now goodbye." Naruto said walking past him with Gaara and Shijo following.
"Wait up!" Sakura yelled running up to them dragging Sai and Saskue along. "Do you mine if we tag along with you guys?" Sakura asked.
"Sure." Naruto said walking through the doors and into a classroom filled with the other participants.
"A lot of people. Who do you think we should watch out for?" Naruto asked.
"I think there are some sound ninja. They will most likely be a problem to the Leaf shinobi." Shijo responded.
"Hey Sakura!" A blonde yelled running up to the group.
"Hello Ino-pig." Sakura shot back.
"What did you say billboard brow?" Ino screeched back.
"I see you got everyone else with you. Hi Shikamaru, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Akamaru, and, Choji." Sakura greeted the rest.
"Hey Sakura. Who are those guys?" Choji asked.
"Oh. This is Shijo and the others haven't told us there names, but we met them during our first c-rank. They're really strong." Sakura explained.
"Why do they have masks and cloaks?" Ino asked.
"We don't want to be easy to identify." Shijo told them.
"Oh. Well you look like the most obvious people in the room." Ino told them.
"We don't care if we're attacked, we just don't want to show our faces." Naruto told them.
"Enough talking maggets!" A man with scars all over his face walked in. "I am your instructor for the first exam. Pick a number than pick the seat that corresponds with that number." Everyone does what the man tells them to.
Naruto sits down in his seat. He looks at the instructor.
"My name is Ibiki. I will tell you the rules. You are here to take an exam. You will be given a paper with nine questions. You are to complete these questions. If you get one question wrong, you and your team fail. If you get caught cheating three times, you will be disqualified along with your team. You got one hour. I will give you the last question then. Begin!" Ibiki said sitting down.
Naruto looked at the paper. "It's easy for me, Gaara, and Shijo. These are way to hard for a Gennin, unless there a bookworm. I'll have these answered in no time though. I think we're suppost to cheat, but what's the point in that when I can just do it." Naruto finished his exam in five minutes. He flipped his paper upside down, showing he was done.
He looked around the room to notice a familiar sight. He didn't catch on earlier some how, but the girl sitting next to him was the girl he helped when he was six. "Hinata I think." Naruto thought looking at her. "Yep. Those eyes definitely confirm it." Naruto thought.
Shijo looked at his paper. "Is this a joke? These are to hard for a average Gennin, but no problem for me." Shijo said scribbling down answers. "Wait...where is question ten. I can't remember if he was going to say at the end or to answer it now. I can't raise my hand. That'll be to embarrassing." Shijo struggled to think about it. If only he was paying attention. He glanced at another persons paper.
"Oh thank goodness. They don't have ten either." Shijo blew a sigh of relief.
"You. Two more times and your out. Stop cheating." Ibiki said.
"We aren't suppost to cheat!" Shijo thought.
Gaara stared at his paper. "Easy." Gaara said as he did the paper.
-1 hour later-
"All right. Papers down!" Ibiki yelled. "Now. For the last question. I'll give you a choice. Stay here and take the chance of the last question, or leave." Ibiki gave them a choice.
"Why wouldn't we take it?" A random Gennin asked.
"If you take it and don't pass, then you will fail and never have the chance to become a Chuunin exam." Ibiki said causing the whole class to uproar.
"This isn't good. He's obviously bluffing, but some won't be able to tell. I need as many as I can make it through." Naruto thought as he stood up getting everyones attention.
"Are you quitting?" Ibiki asked.
"No. I only got one question. What authority do you have to control to make it where we couldn't become Chuunin. Especially ones from other villages?" Naruto asked. Ibiki went quiet.
"Someone realized my bluff so quickly." Ibiki thought.
"You are trying to trick us into giving up. Even in the field of battle, when everything looks to be against you. You should never give up." Naruto told him.
"Good speech. Sit down." Ibiki said. Naruto complied. "Is anyone quitting?" Nobody left. On que a window busts open as a woman roles in.
"Hello everyone. I'm the great and beautiful Anko!" Anko yelled only getting a whistle from Shijo. "Alright everyone. Get to training ground 44 in the next thirty minutes, or you fail!" Anko yelled disappearing. Naruto, Gaara, and Shijo did the same.
-Training ground 44-
Naruto, Gaara, and Shijo arrive seconds after Anko does to her suprise.
"Hello. May I ask why your here?" Anko asked.
"We're here for The Chuunin Exams." Naruto replied.
"I was talking to the man kiddo." Anko said leaning against Shijo rubbing his sword. "Say. What's a big strong man doing with kids like this?" Anko asked. Shijo almost foamed from the mouth.
"I'm here for the same." Shijo told her.
"Oh? Must be pretty weak then." Anko said waving him off. The others soon arrived.
"All right maggots! Welcome to The Forest of Death!"