"BOSS WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO! IT'S RIGHT BEHIND US!" Konohamaru shouted as he, his three friends and Naruto ran. The young Sarutobi looked back to see Sakura still chasing after them, spurring him to run faster
"Well why don't we just consider this…training. Yeah! That's a good idea, this is a part of your training!" Naruto said, not in the least bit tired or worried about the rampaging pink-haired…girl behind him.
"TRAINING!" Konohamaru yelled as he looked behind him. He paled as he saw the pink-haired demon getting closer, "HOW CAN THIS BE CONSIDERED TRAINING!"
"Why, we're testing your speed and endurance of course," Naruto said with a laugh, "Now…run faster!"
Konohamaru did run faster, passing the others as he turned around a corner and continued running, right until he smashed into someone and fell down to the ground.
"Ow…" Konohamaru rubbed his face as he tied to rub away the stinging sensation. After a couple of seconds he looked up to see what he had run into, and saw that it was a guy wearing a black jumpsuit with a pair of cat ears on his head, and some kind of odd make-up on his face with an odd oblong shaped thing on his back, wrapped in bandages.
Next to him stood a girl with sandy blond hair done up in four pigtails; she was wearing a black and white battle kimono with some mesh leggings on her, on her left ankle, while the other was higher up on her thigh. She had her headband hanging loosely on her neck, and a red sash wrapped around her waist. There was also a large battle fan attached to her back.
The headbands they were wearing was the symbol for Sunagakure No Sato, the Village Hidden in the Sand, which was a ninja village allied to Konoha.
"That hurt you little punk," the teen wearing the cat ears said. Bending down he picked up Konohamaru by his scarf, forcing the kid to grab onto his hand, "I think I need to teach you a lesson about watching where you're going."
The girl walked up behind him and shook her head in annoyance, "Kankurou just drop him, you know we're going to get in trouble if 'he' shows up."
"Relax Temari. He won't show up for a while yet," Kankurou looked back at her, before turning his attention back to Konohamaru. "Besides, this kid needs to learn not to disrespect his betters."
"Put me down you stupid make-up wearing freak!" Konohamaru yelled, "If you don't my nii-san's gonna kick your ass!"
"It's war paint you little shit!" Kankuro said with a snarl, "I'll teach you to mess with your betters!" he was just about to hit Konohamaru when another voice spoke up.
"You know, if you're trying to look threatening you're doing a piss poor job of it." The two looked up to see Narutostanding there, and despite the light nearly conversational tone he spoke in, was glaring the Suna Genin in the cat suit. A few seconds later Moegi, Udon and Sakura came up behind him and watched the small confrontation. "Though that might have something to do with the make-up. Now I suggest you put the boy down."
Temari and Kankuroy looked over at Naruto, one of them scowled while the other blushed. Oh, looks like a local cutie, Temari eyed the blond up and down.
These look like Leaf Genin, Kankuro thought to himself with a small sneer, "maybe I should play with them for a while instead."
When Naruto did not receive the reply he was looking for from either of the Suna Genin he scowled, "Hey make-up boy! I said you might want to let him go! If your not going to listen to me, perhaps I could persuade you better by putting my foot off in your ass!"
That seemed to get a reaction as Kankuru scowled and Temari giggled.
"It's not make-up! It's war paint!" Kankuro yelled out.
Naruto grinned, "So says the transvestite walking around in a cat suit."
"That does it!" Kankuro said as he grit his teeth. He tossed Konohamaru away and reached behind his back to the large mummified looking object.
Naruto disappeared in a burst of speed as he rushed behind the young Sarutobi and caught Konohamaru, setting the boy down before he turned a glare on Kankurou.
Sarutobi looked at all the ninja who had assembled into his spy room where all the meetings of great importance were held. Many of them were Jonin for the Genin teams, however there were also a few Chunin who would be serving as proctors, as well as the few Jonin who would proctor for the event he had called them for.
"I'm sure you are all wondering why I have called you here," the aging Sandaime said. "You've all assembled for one reason. It should be obvious by some of the members here."
"So it's that time already eh?" Kakashi asked rhetorically.
"It's already been reported to the other countries. I saw some of them in the village," Genma, a Tokabetsu Jonin wearing standard Jonin clothes, a bandana style headband, and a senbon in his mouth commented.
Kurenai decided to ask the obvious question, "So when is it?"
"In a week," Sarutobi announced, causing several members to mumble about it starting sooner than they expected. "I'll announce it properly seven days from now. On the first day of the seventh moon, the Chunin selection exams will commence."
Sarutobi frowned for a moment before pressing on, "Before we get to the announcement on who will be participating among our teams, I have some information I wish to tell you. It seems that both Suna, and Kumo have sent a Jinchuuriki here to participate in the exams."
This caused a lot of the ninja there to burst in outrage. Many saying it was not fair for nations to send such monsters into the exams.
A burst of killing intent from Sarutobi shut them up, "While I can understand how you feel about having such powerful ninja in the exams, I would suggest you refrain from speaking about them in that way."
He stressed the word ninja when he spoke, making his opinion on Jinchuuriki known and telling them he would not tolerate people giving into their irrational hatred. "In any event, it is not illegal for a Jinchuuriki to participate in the exams, so long as they are a registered Genin. So there is nothing any of us can do about it. I merely informed you so that you are aware of what your Genin will be up against in the exams."
"How accurate is this information Hokage-sama?" asked Kakashi.
"I received the information several days ago via Jiraiya's spy network," Sarutobi said. He had only just managed to get a hold of the man because of it, something that irked the Sandaime even though there was nothing he could do about the man's elusiveness at the moment.