-4 hours later-
It had been 4 hours since Ryu and Sakumo had boarded Hatsumi to travel to the hidden sand village, in those 4 hours Sakumo had his childhood fantasy of being able to able finally fulfilled and even as a mature grown adult, Sakumo couldn't help be calmed and enjoy the scenery below him and think of how peaceful everything looked from the sky right now and wished he could take his wife here perhaps as he knew she would absolutely love this.
Meanwhile Ryu was just enjoying the delicious onigiri that Kiyomi had packed for him and had even offered Sakumo one who had kindly refused stating, apparently Sakumo had his own lunch given to him by his wife so he had just shrugged and went back to munching on the onigiri all while thinking of an idea he had now that he had a pretty decent elmental control over wind, fire and lightning but knew it would still take approximately two to three years to completely master them but he would still give his idea a go whenever he gets some free time.
As of right now, they had just crossed the land of rivers an hour ago and he could feel the heat of the sun increasing making both him and Sakumo sweat slightly from the heat just he noticed a deep furrow in the land and the wide desert starting from the green lands of rivers which was an ally of konoha, Sakumo also noticed this and said,
"Ryu I think we should land here and continue on foot from here on, if we fly on Hatsumi san the suna shinobi may see this as an hostile attempt"
As Ryu also nodded in understanding knowing that the tensions were already high between konoha and suna and said to Hatsumi,
" Hatsumi let's land down here"
Following her summouner's orders Hatsumi gave and a growl of approval before diving down making Sakumo and Ryu hold on tightly to her scales.
As Hatsumi landed on the ground, Ryu simply fixed his violet hair and got off the dragon along with Sakumo and said,
"Thank you for your help Hatsumi"
As Hatsumi just rubbed her head against his head before vanishing in a puff of smoke as Ryu and Sakumo jumped on towards the borders of sand village and started walking towards the village in the desert.
The duo had just walked for a minute or two when they were suddenly surrounded by five suna anbus one whom, apparently the leader, stepped forward and looked at Sakumo asking,
"Konoha shinobi state your purpose of trespassing the village borders!"
As Sakumo had already anticipated this and calmy handed over the chunin exams form to the anbu saying,
"Me and my student are here for the chunin exams"
As the anbu captain glanced at Ryu and matched his appearance before letting the duo pass through and so Ryu and Sakumo continued on their journey although now they were travelling at higher speeds.
After half an hour of running through the desert they finally reached the village gates somewhat drenched in sweat due to the overbearing making Ryu somewhat hate suna already and after Sakumo verified both himself and Ryu to the gate gaurds the duo went directly to a nearby hotel where Sakumo was going to stay to stay.
After a quick shower Ryu quickly checked his supplies and got a good luck from Sakumo before heading off to the academy using a map of suna given to him by Sakumo. While Ryu was walking through the streets of sunagakure he noticed that here everything was totally different from the hidden leaf village including their behaviour, clothes, food, etc but he paid it no mind and continued on his way.
As Ryu reached the academy he saw a large group of genins from all the five hidden villages and even the minor villages of different ages entering the academy, as Ryu walked through the crowd gaining the attention of many probably due to his age and the uchiha fan on his back, he entered the academy and simple walked upstairs with a stoic look on his face.
Upon entering the 3rd class of the 1st floor he saw approximately a hundred genins who turned their attention to himonly for them to be ignored as Ryu went and took his assigned seat besides a suna genin and a mist genin. As Ryu had started to analyse his probable opponents and just in a couple of minutes a suna shinobi wearing a eyepatch walked in and announced loudly,
"Alright! Settle down first of all welcome to the sunagakure hope you enjoy your stay here and now we'll start your 1st part of chunin exams"
Saying this a couple of instructors came in and distributed a sheet of paper to everyone in the glass before taking seats at the corner of the room.
As Ryu took out his sharpened pencil and saw the paper in which many puzzles and questions were given which was according to him to test the iq if the participants.
Ryu already knew that these puzzles were pretty tough and needed a good IQ to pass, after 30 minutes he had finished his paper and simply sat down with his desk on the table .
After another 30 minutes the jounin finally rang the bell and the chunin instructors started collecting the papers while also disqualifying some teams who argued with them. Under 10 minutes all the papers were solved with the help of the chunin instructors and then the jounin stood up and said,
"Allright now every team I call out please stand up"
And went on to call the numbers as one by one half of the class was standing with a smug look like they had already passed, just then the jounin smiled menacingly and said,
"Well it looks like it's your bad luck guys please leave the room"
Now this caused somewhat of an uproar in the class room which was quickly quitted by the jounin's killing intent and one by one the standing teams were sent out of the room as the jounin said to half of genins left,
"All right you guys have advanced to the second round of the chunin exams congratulations, a new teacher will pick up for the second part of the exams"
Before vanishing in a puff of smoke leaving Ryu to calmly observed his future opponents whom he might face in the further stages of the chunin exams. A select few have caught his attention especially a genin from mist who had a somewhat thin body 12 years old boy with short black hair and amber eyes but was most noticeable was that he was carrying a long club on his back and Ryu could definitely say that this was the sanbi jinchuriki because he had already read a profile report on the sanbi's jinchuriki provided to him by the third hokage which also had a picture of the the said jinchuriki.
Also Ryu had taken a look at the two teams from konoha, in the first team the leader was an hyuga and had a inuzuka girl and a aburame boy, while in the meantime Ryu recognised the leader of the second group as Fugaku uchiha, the grandson on one of uchiha clan elders, along with whom was a civilian boy and a yamanaka boy. What Ryu noticed was that the teams from konoha except for Fugaku and the hyuga were glaring at him in what he deduced as jealousy before he saw Fugaku glance at him making the violent haired boy raise his eyebrows and didn't know that both Fugaku and the hyuga had targeted him since they felt ashamed that the hokage decided to place a 6 years old on a solo team while they were consisting of three people directly suggesting that Ryu was stronger than their entire team combined and that didn't fit right with them.
Ryu had also noticed that everyone in the room was atleast 5 years older than him and were obviously much taller than him, he could see it in their gazes that they had decided on him as the easy prey in the 2nd part of the chunin exams but Ryu didn't mind it at all and knew that he'll show them whose the predator and whose the prey in the next round of the chunin exams. Just then the doors to the room slammed open and in walked in another male suna jounin who just looked with a sadistic gaze towards the remaining genins making many of them shiver and then the jounin spoke,
"All right worms follow me to the venue for the 2nd part"
And walked out the room as everyone started to following the suna jounin whereever he was going. While following the jounin in the back of the crowd of the genins heading towards the venue , the young uchiha couldn't help but think to himself with a small excited grin on his face,
'I think the second part is going to be way much more fun than the first one'