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Chapter 23 - CHUNIN EXAMS-1

SAKURA POV:

Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke climbed up to the second floor of the academy, where the first phase of the Chunin Exams were going to take place.

They stopped on the way to the third floor however, when they saw quite a commotion in front the door labelled 301.

"I Dunno shit about Genjutsu and I know that's fake" Naruto muttered beside her.

"Probably a way to weed out the dumb ones" Sasuke said.

Sakura was going to turn back around when...

"PLEASE LET US THROUGH" said a loud boy wearing a green jumpsuit with a bowl cut and eyebrows the size of caterpillars.

"Gai sensei has a son?" Naruto questioned with wide eyes.

"No, you idiot" Sasuke said "That must be one of the students he told us about, he is practically his clone though"

While their conversation was going on the commotion had escalated.

One of the black-haired try-outs who Team-7 had realized was Kotetsu ( the gate guard) lashed out at Lee, who had directed a fist towards Kotetsu as well when...

Both their hands were caught by Sasuke, who stood between them with his hands in a cross.

"Don't be getting into fights before the exams even begin" he said as he released both of them.

"Tch" Kotetsu said "Got lucky today brat"

After the disguised Chunin had disappeared Sasuke turned to Lee.

"Please restrain yourself senpai"

Lee nodded before looking towards Sakura.

In a blur, he was in front of her.

"YOU ARE AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE WINTER'S MOON. PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME" he said (yelled, but that's normal for him )

"Uh, no ?" She said, holding her ears .

"PLEASE RECONSIDER. I PROMISE I WILL KEEP YOU SAFE FROM HARM FOREVER"

"Oi" Naruto, who had sensitive ears, said as he slapped Lee on the back "Stop yelling or I'll give ya a reason to"

"YOU MUST BE HER BOYFRIEND THEN. I AM ROCK LEE, THE HANDSOME BEAST OF KONOHA AND I CHALLENGE YOU TO A FIGHT FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL FLOWER HERE"

"With the shit you're saying I think she's feeling like fighting you" Naruto replied, gesturing at an annoyed Sakura.

"MY APOLOGIE-" Lee was interrupted as Sasuke punched the latter's stomach, causing him to gasp for breath.

"Give it a rest already." He said before leaving with Naruto and Sakura in tow.

"WAIT!" Lee yelled as they got to the other corridor.

"WHAT NOW ?" the three yelled at him together.

"Uchiha Sasuke, Fight Me!"

"No"

"WHY NOT"

"We're literally going for an exam; it'd be better to conserve energy don't you think?" Sakura said.

"WHILE THAT IS TRUE, I MUST INSIST THAT WE FIGHT, I MUST PROVE THAT MY GENIUS BEATS YOUR GENIUS"

"Did he say his Genius beats your Genius?" Naruto questioned, trying to figure out what kind of plant Lee smoked before coming to the exam.

"Don't stress your pea-brain over it" Sasuke said to him " Ok, I will fight you. Just to get rid of you"

"YOSH. LET US ENGAGE IN A YOUTHFUL BATTLE"

"Don't lose too early" Naruto cheered on.

SASUKE POV:

"Here are the rules" Sakura, who was acting as judge said "Taijutsu only, No maiming or killing "

They both nodded, and she dropped her hand .

Immediately, they both vanished in blurs and met halfway, Lee's fist caught in Sasuke's open palm.

"You are quite strong to be able to block my hits" Lee said

"Thanks, it's not that difficult" Sasuke said before using the caught hand to throw Lee at a wall.

Which Lee bounced off of, using his legs like springs.

Sasuke bent in a way that his back was parallel to the ground, Lee just barely passing over him and crashing through the opposite wall.

Sasuke was going to check on him, but he heard a whoosh sound behind him before he was sent into the air by a kick, and Lee appeared behind him once more, this time the bandages on his arms unravelling.

Before he could do anything however, a pinwheel came out of nowhere and pinned the bandage to the wall.

Lee seemed to be surprise and stopped fighting immediately, and seeing this Sasuke calmed down too.

"LEE" a voice said ( once again, I mean Yelled) .

"Is that.. a turtle?" Naruto asked.

"I think that's a tortoise" Sakura said.

"Basically, the same thing"

"LEE, DID YOU PLAN ON USING THAT ON A FELLOW LEAF SHINOBI?" the tortoise lectured.

"I PROMISE THE THOUGHT OF ACTUALLY HITTING HIM WITH IT NEVER EVEN CROSSED MY MIND"

Then the tortoise suddenly poofed and now Gai sensei was there.

"That's new" the three muttered.

"LEE, FOR THIS TRANSGRESSION YOU MUST RUN 100 LAPS AROUND KONOHA "

"YES GAI SENSEI, AND I SHALL DO IT ON MY HANDS"

"YOOOSHHH I SHALL JOIN YOU ON THIS MIGHTY ENDEAVOUR"

"Gai sensei, Lee. You both forgot about the exams didn't you" Sakura deadpanned.

"Ah yes, In that case we shall do this after the exams"

"YES GAI SENSEI"

After that, Gai checked up on the three, asking some questions about their training before going off somewhere with Lee.

"Well, that was weird." Naruto said with a smile.

"Can't believe I lost to a guy who was lectured by a tortoise" Sasuke grumbled

"I can"

"Both of you, shut up and let's go" Sakura said with an annoyed roll of her eyes.

Side story: Naruto's summons

He couldn't feel the floor which had been under his feet.

He couldn't hear anything but the blood rushing through his ears and...flapping wings?

He opened his eyes to see that he was floating in a dark void.

'What the heck?' he thought to himself 'Kurama, you seeing this shit?'

'Yeah, no idea what's going on though. There is something you should know though'

'Spare me the drama and tell me already'

' As far as I can tell, not only are we not in Konoha, we aren't even in the Elemental Nations'

'...what ?'

' This isn't exactly impossible or anything, it's likely that you were summoned here'

'You mean the 'POOF HERES AN ANIMAL' summoning?'

'Please never say that again.'

'Is it that or not ?'

' It's an application of that. When the summoner gets summoned it's called reverse summoning'

'I don't even have a summon yet '

'We'll discuss this later; something is approaching you'

Not liking the sound of that, Naruto looked up to see...

A white faced...thing with black wings, a forked tail and a black body.

Naturally, he screamed.

The creature flinched and covered it's ears with its hands while its tail swished back and forth in agitation.

Once he was done, it glared at him.

"Is this how you greet everyone?" it asked in a raspy voice.

He just stared at it for a second before saying "No uh, sorry"

"It's fine, I suppose that humans aren't used to seeing us"

"Us?"

"Well, it's only me right now, but I meant our species. Devils."

Now, most people would probably freak out at that.

Not Naruto, he's literally lived with a demon fox his whole life, so he aint exactly 'Most People'

"Ooh, you're a devil?"

Even the devil looked put off, but nodded.

"The name's Liebe Akuryo, and you are...?"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki" he said.

"Welcome to Naraku, the home of the Akuryo clan"

"Wait you guys have a clan?"

"Of course we do, every creature in the world belongs to a clan"

"I don't though?"

"You do, even if you aren't aware of it"

" Life questioning statements aside, do you know how I got here?"

"Oh, that's easy. I brought you here"

"...what?"

"Yeah, I was bored so I did a summoning to see what would happen"

"WHAT?"

"Didn't you know? If someone does a summoning without a contract the person with the highest affinity to them gets summoned"

"Wait but I'm not a summon?"

"When a summon like me does it, It's called reverse summoning. So, the person with the highest affinity for devils got summoned, as in you"

"Ahhh. I don't get it"

"Basically, you're gonna be our new summoner if you accept"

"COOL ! "

"I know. We're pretty cool. We should go see the boss first though"

"Sure. What's he like?"

"Ke ke ke, you'll see" Liebe said as he turned around and started walking on a platform which had magically appeared

'That's not ominous at all'

"Woaahhh" Naruto said as he craned his neck up to see the top of the black castle

There were two others at the gate who looked like Liebe but tall who quirked their eyebrows when they saw Naruto but otherwise said nothing.

As Naruto walked through the courtyard towards the throne room, he saw that Liebe was looking at him now, with a smirk on his face.

He found out why a moment later as he fell to the ground.

There was a presence nearby so strong that just being near it made him unable to even move.

'Even Kurama's presence wasn't this strong!'

'I take offense to that'

'You know what I meant!'

Liebe touched his shoulder, and somehow Naruto managed to get up and keep walking.

He entered the throne room, and looked up the rows of stairs to look at the throne.

Or more appropriately, the being sitting on it.

"Welcome" said the king of devils "To my world"