Naruto rises from his bed wiping the tiredness from his eyes. He then stands up and goes to the door, opening right before Gaara knocked on it.
"I'm suprised your up." Gaara stated turning around.
"Give me a minute." Naruto said shutting the door. What provided behind that door, no one knows. The noises coming from it though could make you think a circus was in there, but it ended as Naruto opened the door once again. He was wearing black pants, his shirt was oreange and short sleeved. It had a black swirl on his belly.
"Ready then?" Gaara asked. Naruto nodded as the two got to walking down the hall and eventually out of the hotel they where in. They made there way to a building they where meant to be, but saw many others going as well. He then saw some familiar faces. A pink haired woman, behind her was a boy in a green jumpsuit while next to him was another boy with long brown hair and milly eyes.
Naruto and Gaara found themselves behind the three of them as they walked in. The room they where lead to had many long tables. They found themselves sitting across from the ones they where following. When they sat down the boy in the green jumpsuit wouldn't stop staring at them.
"You! May I ask your names!" The boy yelled pointing at Naruto and Gaara.
"Naruto and Gaara." As Naruto answered they all grew suprised faces.
"Yosh! I knew I recognized you!" The boy pointed at Gaara. "One of my greatest rivals!" The boy yelled.
"I recognize Gaara, but I dont recognize him." The pink one pointed at Naruto.
"He was the one in the mask." The milky eyed boy answered.
"Oh really! You where really cool at the Chuunin Exams!" Sakura said blushing a little.
"Sorry to say, but we forgot your names." Naruto said and Gaara nodded.
"I'm Sakura Haruno, The one in green is Rock Lee, and the other one is Neji Hyuga." Sakura answered.
"Are you still as stuck up as before?" Naruto asked looking at Neji.
"No he is not, when you beat him up he changed a lot, and has taken a more humble path!" Rock Lee shouted.
"So I heard you where a Kage of a village! What's it like!" Sakura asked.
"I haven't been there in a while. I just hope Shijo is taking care of it." Naruto answered.
"A Kage huh. You must be very strong!" Rock Lee once again yelled.
"Ask Saskue Uchiha." Naruto said smirking. Sakura clenched at the name.
"Saskue actually fled the village. He even tried to kill Sakura, but we stopped him before he could. He got away though." Neji joined in.
"I could've guessed that would happen. That kid is nuts." Naruto responded spinning a kunai in his finger.
"Do you know where he went?" Gaara asked.
"He went to one of the Three Legendary Sannin. Orochimaru." Sakura responded.
"You miss him don't you?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah." Sakura said looking a little sad.
"Want some advice?" Naruto offered.
"Yeah." Sakura responded as her eyes brightened.
"Forget about him, he obviously doesn't care about the village or especially you considering he was trying to kill you. You're just gonna get yourself killed." Naruto told her, effectively shutting the hope in her eyes off.
"Have you run into him?" Neji asked.
"No, but if I do I'm gonna kill the little asshole. He broke something very valuable to me." Naruto said as he though about a broken sword he has stored in a seal.
"Quiet!" A voice from the front yelled. The room quieted down as they all looked forward. "You will beginning the Jonnin exams now. It will start of with basic knowledge of being a Jonnin shinobi, harder questions will give you bonus points. The second stage will be a race, the last will be a combat exam. The winners of that will be de died it they are fir to become Jonnin or not, the score will include how you do in all the exams. Your first teacher will be here in a bit. Talk whith your team while you can." The man said as he walked off.
"No offense to you, but I've heard rumors about Saskue. He supposedly very strong now." Rock Lee stated.
"Well I'm stronger, and so is my friend here." Naruto said nodding his head towards Gaara.
"Hey, that man that was with you at the Chuunin exams. Where is he?" Neji asked.
"Shijo? I left him in charge of the village while I was gone. I hope I don't regret it." As Naruto finished another man entered the room. It was Darui.
"All right. The first exam will start now. There will be twenty questions, they are each worth five points. There will be three hard questions that are worth ten points. They will add onto what ecmver grade you get from the basic questions. The papers will be passed out now." As Darui finished men holding stacks of papers handed out papers to all the ones taking the exams.
"Now separate from eachother. There are just enough seats to have one between everyone. There are one hundred people here. A lot of you are expected to pass this. Good luck." Darui said walking off.
As Naruto looked at his papers, he smiled. "Easy." Was the one thought coming from his mind. As he layed the pencil down finished with his exams, all the questions answered.
-AN HOUR LATER-
People are finally done and that's when Darui walked back out. "That's all for today. Come back tomorrow, same time. That's when the real fun begins, and bring your big boy pants." Darui said walking off.
"Who in the hell talks like that?" Naruto wondered before standing up. As he stood up he felt something walk past him. When he turned around a saw a blonde haired woman. "Hey! I know you know who I am." Naruto called out to her. "Correction, who we are." Naruto corrected him as Gaara now stood next to him.
"So what if I do. You will and be crushed anyway." She said as she walked off.
"Number two is spicy, isn't she." Naruto said as she walked away.
As the women walked away a voice spoke to her. "Kitten! Turn around! Those where very good looking men and they are like you! I know what you are thinking about them! I can hear it!" The voice said.
"Stop Matatabi!" The women screamed eternally as she blushed on the outside.
"She sure is." Gaara agreed as he saw her walk away.
"What was that about?" Sakura asked.
"Another tailed beast." Naruto answered her.
"Tailed beast! Her! I know the cloud had to of them, but I didn't know that they would be part of the exams. How could you tell?" Sakura asked.
"Because I'm the Nine Tails, and he's the One Tail Jinchuuriki." Naruto finished. As Sakura heard this, she was almost frozen, out of fear and amazement.
"I knew I recognized you." Neji joined in.
"Well of course you did! We met these two youthful people in the Chuunin exams!" Rock Lee yelled.
"No. I meant before that. Remember that yellow haired kid out parents told us to stay away from constantly, that's him." Neji replied. Sakura looked at Naruto closely.
"Oh yeah! It his him! We even played ninja together and you won!" Sakura said in excitement. "But why where we told to stay away from him?" Rock Lee asked.
"He said it himself. He's the Jinchuuriki of The Nine Tails. People hated him for something out of his control." Neji explained to Rock Lee.
Naruto and Gaara have already walked off when Sakura said she recognized him from when they where kids.
Naruto and Gaara where already out on the street walking to a open field. When they got closer they stopped. "I bet I'll beat you again." Naruto said smirking.
"Maybe in the handstands and pull ups, but when it come to push ups, and Sit ups. I always win." Gaara smirked, something very rare.
"Whoever does the least has to buy dinner." Naruto said. Gaara nodded. Naruto pulled out a seal and it puffed into smoke and very heavy bracelets popped out. Naruto the pulled out another seal and he set it on the ground. When it puffed into smoke it revealed may rocks of different sizes.
Naruto and Gaara tied small boulders to eachother. They where a lot heavier then they looked. Then they put on the braclet weights. Around there wrists and ankles. They then did a handstand, both did it without moving. Naruto and Gaara both had poker faces.
After twenty minutes there faces started sweating, there faces still remained blanks. After ten more minutes they both stopped the handstand at the same time.
"Dammit! I knew if I waited one more second you would've lost!" Naruto yelled.
"Like you could." Gaara responded as they both untied the small boulders. They then removed there shorts revealing ther slim built bodies. They looked like they where chiseled from the god themselves. This being a field used by many people, attracted a lot of attention, especially females. People started looking there way.
"Alright then! Push ups!" Naruto challenges Gaara. They both got into a pushup position. They both started doing pushups. They where going fast enough that they looked like a blur to anyone without a good eye. After a while they both stopped, sweating a lot.
"Who did more?" Gaara asked.
"We'll reveal it at the same time." Naruto said. "1, 2, 3. Go!"
"Four thousand!" They both yelled.
"All right. How about sit ups!" Gaara asked.
"Let's go!" Naruto yelled as they both instantly appeared in position. "Go!" Again they both seemed like blurs as they did many situps. Eventually they both stopped panting.
"This will be decided by a race then." Gaara offered.
"One hundred laps around this village." Naruto told Gaara how it would be decided. Gaara nodded.
As they lined up in position they notice many spectators. Mostly women. They started there race. It has been a while and most of the spectators left because it was getting late. Naruto and Gaara finally stumbled across the finish line panting.
"Who won?" Gaara asked.
"Let's just split it." Naruto said starting to recover.