"My name is Rock Lee. You're Sakura-chan, right," he asked. Sakura nodded and Lee struck a pose known as the good guy pose. His right thumb up and brilliant teeth glinting with a 'shink' sound to go along with it.
"You're an angel. How about you go out with me? I'll protect you until I die," Lee said. Sakura's face showed horror as Naruto snickered before he noticed that the two troublemaking boys were gone. Naruto and Team 7 turned to leave when Neji spoke up, "You, what's your name?"
Sasuke, who stood nearby thought he was being addressed, spoke up, "It's customary to give your name first on introductions."
Neji looked at him before giving a barely audible snort.
"A rookie? How old are you," Neji inquired.
"I see no reason to answer that," Sasuke replied. Naruto rolled his eyes at Sasuke and Neji.
The two biggest egos, Naruto mentally snorted, Sandaime-jiisan should have spent a measure of time and energy humbling those two. How Hina-chan was never taken in by the Hyuuga's arrogance had to have been by divine intervention.
Naruto then walked and went on his way before the others in the crowd followed after him. As Naruto and the others entered the designated room, they came to see that there a large number of competition this year from different villages and their own. Genins from both major and minor villages were all over the room.
"I call challenging the strongest ones here to give me a good fight," said Naruto earning a few stares from some of ninjas in the room.
"Hey Naruto," said Shikamaru as Choji and Ino made their appearance behind him, "Nice way to make an entrance. You can be so troublesome at times."
"Whatever," Naruto retorted as Ino went over and hugged him affectionately.
"It's great to see that you made it Naruto-kun," Ino said gleefully.
"Was there any doubt Ino-chan," Naruto replied as the girl released him of her hug.
"None at all," Ino smiled. Just than Hinata, Kiba and Shino made the scene.
"Hey you guys," Naruto said as she looked over at Team 8, "Glad to see that you three made it here also."
"Like we'd let you have all the fun," Kiba remarked conceitedly, "We didn't come all this way for nothing you know. We'll kick everyone's ass. I admit that I'm surprised that you were admitted into the exam seeing that you're not part of a 3-man Genin cell division."
"You're not the first to mention that Kiba," Naruto replied, "But you need not worry about me. I'll manage just fine."
"Whatever," Kiba said before changing the subject, "But on another note…"
Kiba went over to Naruto and asked hopefully, "Is there any chance you can put a good word in for me with that Haku girl seeing how you're more familiar with her than I am? You see, I'd like to impress her by-"
"Kiba," Shino spoke seriously, "We're here for the Chuunin Exam, not to help you get a date."
"Who asked you," Kiba retorted before turned back to Naruto, only to see that he was no longer in front of him.
"What the-," Kiba said as he turned to see Naruto speaking with Hinata momentarily. Kiba snorted at them with annoyance. After giving Hinata some verbal motivational boosts, he was rewarded with her blushing heavily with a near faint that followed. Luckily, she was able to control herself from fainting in front of everyone.
Naruto then looked around the room and soon spotted Gaara. The Suna Jinchuuriki went over to Naruto until they were face to face. Naruto saw that the red-haired ninja's eyes looked a lot less sleep-deprived. However to prevent anyone else from noticing and suspecting anything, black eye-make-up was applied around Gaara's eyes to make them looked as though he was still an insomniac. From what Naruto was told from Temari and Kankuro, Gaara slept in for days, enjoying every moment of sleep was he's been thirsting for.
"Naruto," Gaara greeted with a voice that carried the same cold demeanor as before.
"Sabaku No Gaara," Naruto replied with a calm demeanor, knowing that Gaara was putting on a pretense so as to not alert anyone of anything wrong. Kiba, Sasuke and the other rookie nine saw the tension between Naruto and Gaara. Sasuke sensed that there was something strong about Gaara though he couldn't put his finger on it.
"Hey," Sakura said, "You're that same Suna nin Naruto and I saw a few weeks back."
"So what of it," said a haughty feminine voice belonging to Temari as she and Kankuro stepped besides Gaara.
"If I recall," Naruto spoke, "You said that you three are here for the Chuunin Exam."
"That's right," Temari replied before smiling at Naruto flirtatiously, "I trust that we'll be seeing you very soon, Naruto."
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