Next Chapter!-construction noises- Use the crane to hall it up... yeah yeah... a little more... a little to the left...a little more...aaaand... dropt it.-loud crash- AAAH! MY FOOT!! MY FOOT!! PICK IT BACK UP!! GET IT OFF!!-more construction noises- Son of a- Oh, you. What do you want? A new chapter already? C'mon... Fine but it'll cost ya an extra fifty thousand...

OK Yeah I'm just a little hyper. Who else is? Don't be afraid, just raise your hand. Ok I can't see your hands, but good for you that are. And for those of you that aren't... well, have a candy bar or twenty.

Side note: For anyone who hasn't seen my profile yet so doesn't know this- Kikai is only going to be mean to Sakura and Sasuke for a couple more chapters, then things will even out between them. Truthfully, it's fun seeing Sasuke get his ass kicked and be insulted and to see Sakura be taken down a few notches, but you have to set a limit. So yeah. Why they come to respect eachother... you'll find out eventually.

Side question: Does anyone know if it's necessary to do a Disclaimer every chapter? I'd really like to know. If I get sued over not putting one every chapter that would really suck.

Chapter two: The Chuunin Exams Begin, The Written Test

"WHAT!?!?"

"We were able to complete the mission, but only barely," Kakashi said to the loudest of his four students, "I'm glad Hokage-sama ordered you to stay here."

Kikai looked ready to explode. For an entire month his team did D rank missions, then finally, when they get something out of town, the Hokage orders him to stay behind just because he doesn't know that much in self-defense yet.

"God damn that crotchity old bastard! Making me stay behind! I could of been of some help!"

"Pfft! Yeah, right. You'd have only gotten in the way," Sasuke stated with a cold glare. He recieved a sharp kick to the back of the head, curtesy of Kikai's steel toed left boot.

"Fuck off, Mr. High and Mighty Avenger Who Passes Out Fifteen Minutes Into A Battle! Naruto did all the work! You just acted tough and got your ass handed to ya!"

Naruto stood off to the side trying not to be noticed. Unfortunately considering Konoha's Second Loudest Shinobi was part of his team, it was damn near impossible. Luckily the title of Loudest belonged to Gai and his student Lee( a tie between them). He felt kind of sorry for Neiji.

"QUIT KICKING SASUKE-KUN!!!" Kikai wound up with a knot on the back of his head and face first on the ground. He stood up quickly and retaliated fiercely with a kick to Sakura's shin. She let out a pained cry.

"Kikai, Sakura, break it up," Kakashi said to them boredly. Teaching these four was such a hassle. "Kikai did you make any progress while we were away?" His curiosity was genuine, he needed to know to be able to nominate his team for the chuunin exams like he wanted.

"Yeah, I did!" Kikai was suddenly excited for another reason, "Sis says I'm comin' along nicely. Another month and I'll be ready for the chuunin exams," his look suddenly turned devious, "She also says she'll go out with you afterwards if you can succeed in teaching all four of us a jutsu." He held his hand out to his team.

Kakashi suddenly looked up interested.

"Did she really?" Kakashi may not be actually stalking the female Suzumebachi, but he was certainly interested in her.

"Yep. She says it has to be something we can really use too."

"Hmm... Tell Iyou she has a deal," Kakashi smirked. How hard could it be to teach four kids a jutsu?

((Three days later.))

"You know... You really have no talent," Kakashi said to Kikai who was growling angrily while staring at the tree.

"Why do I have to do this again?" It was little more than an inaudible growl. The tree he was glaring at seemed to be the momentary bane of his existance.

"Because, you need to learn to control your chakra. If those baka's in the schooling system would teach the students chakra control before hand this would be so much easier," the scarecrow replied.

"One: School is never really good for anything other than meeting a drinking buddy. Two: I didn't go to the accademy till the last three days anyway." Kikai focused his chakra as best he could and ran at the tree. He took three steps before he was blown back. "DAMN IT!!" He proceeded to take out his frustration by kicking the tree till he winded himself. Kakashi was no doubt amused.

"Just keep at it. Meet us at the usual spot once you've mastered it," Kakashi told his subordinate before walking away, his nose deep in the orange book. Even when he was some distance away he still heard the shouts of rage coming from the younger Suzumebachi sibling.

"He really has no talent," Kakashi repeated.

(( two weeks later, Ichiraku Ramen Stand.))

"Two orders of Miso, one of pork, and three shrimp ramen, please, Teuchi-san," Naruto said softly to the ramen chef. He and his teammates had come back from a rather boring mission(weeding gardens) and Sakura decided she wanted to try some of the world famous Ichiraku Ramen. Somehow Sasuke had been convinced to come along.

"One miso," Sasuke stated in his normally detached tone.

Sakura thought for a moment before ordering, "One shrimp ramen."

"Comin' right up!" the chef said happily.

Naruto abruptly became rigid, a cold chill going up his spine. Next thing the poor boy knew his face was being firmly pressed into the developing bustline of a certain Hyuuga heiress who practically shouted, "Naruto-kun! I missed you!"

Whatever it was he was responded with was muffled, but judging by the fact his entire body was turning so red it made tomatoes pale in comparison, it was probably just a bunch of incoherent babble anyway.

His teammates, who had not once met this loud and rather bold Hyuuga Hinata, could only jump to one conclusion: Naruto was being attacked.

"Hey! Stop trying to kill my teammate!" Sakura yelled at the indigo haired girl. Hinata looked up and blinked her light lavender eyes a couple times in confusion before slapping on a big smile. She let go of the poor fox boy who by now had a serious nosebleed, and greeted his team.

"Hi there. You must be Lil' Naruto's team. I'm Hyuuga Hinata, his best friend! Nice ta meet ya!"

"Lil'... Naruto?" Sasuke looked, for the first time since the massacre, like he was trying to hold back laughter.

"You must be Sasuke," the Hyuuga heiress pointed at him, "and that makes you Sakura." She stopped for a moment and looked the girl up from down and back again. She then leaned over to whisper in Naruto's ear. Naruto, who had righted himself by now, almost squeaked when he noticed how close his crush was.

"Hey, Naruto, she's kinda pretty. She your girlfriend?" Of course a whisper for this loudmouth was normal speech for anyone else.

"N-no. B-besides, H-haruno-san is interested i-in Sasuke-san," Naruto blushed as he added in his mind,'I'd much prefer the indigo haired angel whispering to me.'

"Yeah, you're right. Her forehead is way to big anyway," Hinata did not seem to feel the killer intent coming from the Haruno.

Just before Sakura could try to kill the Hyuuga a cry of 'YATTA!!' echoed through out the whole village. Beofre anyone could question the happenings a scruffy looking Kikai dashed into the ramen stand, kicked Sasuke on the back of the head before he could insult him and ordered two bowls beef of ramen.

"Yatta! I did it!" he shouted for the world to hear.

"Did what? Grow a brain?" Sasuke recieved another kick to the head. Kikai of course recieved a good knock from Sakura and she in turn was the proud owner of a newly bruised shin.

"I finished the exercise! I can walk up trees! Yatta!" He eagerly dug into his ramen. Everyone even the Hyuuga girl just stared at him.

He looked up and around when he noticed the silence.

"What?"

"Uh... Well, let's get the ramen to go, Naruto-Kun. I wanna hear all about how you kicked ass in Wave," Hinata dragged a blushing foxboy away who was precariously holding six bowls of ramen and trying to get the idea out of his head that his might be considered a date.

"She's kinda strange," Kikai said as he watched his teammate being taken away.

The other two just stared at him blankly.

"What? She is."

(( Ok getting bored skipping ahead to the day before the chuunin exams))

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T JOIN THE EXAMS!!?!" Kikai was in such a state of rage an amber fringe could be seen in his bright pink eyes.

"I wasn't finished," Kakashi said while wiggling his pinky finger in his ear, checking for damage from the last audio assault on him.

Kikai glared straight at him his eyes slowly becoming pure pink again.

"Team Ten has an opening. The Nara boy didn't want to go to the exam. Said it would be too troublesome. You have all of today to convince his team to let you join before both they and you are expelled from this exam," Kakashi stated calmly, not once taking his cloth covered nose out of his little orange book. When he looked up to see his student all he found was a dust trail heading for team ten's training grounds.

(( guess where))

"Why should we let you join us? Shikamaru was probably better than you," Ino said arrogantly, staring down the Suzumebachi.

Kikai looked at her for a moment before a grin adorned his face.

"How about a spar. If I can beat you and the fa-" Chouji suddenly looked at him daring him to say the word that would sign his death warrant, " ahem, the chubby one seperately then I get to join your team if not... if not I'll get you a lock of Sasuke's hair."

Kikai noticed the now predatory look in the Yamanaka's eyes. She smirked and cracked her knuckles.

"Sounds fair to me. How 'bout you, Cho?" The young man swallowed a mouthful of chips and nodded. "Great! I'll go first. Don't go down too quickly, Dweeb." Ino took up a fighting stance and Kikai put his hands in his pockets and yawned.

Ino attacked. Her fist was pulled back dramatically. Kikai smirked and tilted his head downwards so his red hair covered his eyes.

As Ino neared him she heard the words, "Whispering Dragon of The Five Elements: Disintegration." Before Ino and Chouji's very eyes the young man disolved into nothingness. Beleiving it to be genjutsu, Ino formed a handseal and shouted 'Kai!', but the young man did not appear.

However his voice was heard from all around.

"This is why I was allowed to pass the exam Yamanaka-chan," Kikai's voice seemed to be everywhere, from right beside her, to next to Chouji.

Suddenly she felt breath on her ear(she blushed at this, having not had any guy be so close before) and a slight sting on her left shoulder near the neck. Her vision began to darken and she felt herself falling backwards in slow motion. The last thing she saw before she passed out completely was a pair of amber eyes with black slits for pupils.

Kikai focused for a moment and opened his eyes. They were back to their 'natural' color. He looked over at the Akimichi boy and smirked.

"Your turn."

Chouji instantly put both hands up as if someone was olding a gun at him and said, "N-No, That's quite alright. You can join us."

Kikai smirked. He knew it'd work out for the best. Now they just had to wait for Ino to wake up and start planning ahead for the exam.

(( ok once again bored. Skipping ahead directly to when team seven enters the doors of the exam room.))

Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura finally arrived in the exam room of the building. Almost immediately Sasuke received a kick to the head from a certain pink eyed boy.

"BAKA!! Your late!" He was then bopped one by both his current and former female teammate, though he noticed that either Ino was weaker than Sakura or decided not to go so hard on him.

Kiba was laughing at the scene and turned to look at Hinata only to notice she wasn't there. Istead she was talking to a certain heavily blushing blue eyed Uzumaki. Kiba almost growled in annoyance. It was clear as day to anyone willing enough to look that Naruto had a crush on his closest friend. Kiba just happened to have the same crush, but also had the misfortune of knowing that Hinata also knew of the Uzumaki's budding love for her and returned it, although rather akwardly. She would do anything she could to either get him to stutter or have a nosebleed, trying to break him out of his shy shell.

Shino stood back ever stoic until Chouji almost stepped on a bug. He placed his hand infront of the boy to stop him and bent down to pick up the small arthropod.

"Watch where you step, Akimichi. You might anger my comrades if you don't."

Chouji frowned in bemusement. Shino's teammate's didn't look at all disturbed by him almost stepping on a bug so what did the boy mean? Oh, well he'd worry about it later.

"You guys shouldn't make so much noise."

Everyone turned to look at the person that spoke and saw a tall young man with glasses, silver hair, and a leaf forhead protector.

"There are a lot of guys here that don't like leaf-nin," he warned them. Kikai looked around the room and saw a bunch of the foreign gennin glaring at them. He was about to mention something about being popular to Ino when a certain Hyuuga started shouting.

"I'M NOT AFRAID OF ANY OF YA!! NARUTO-KUN AND I WILL KICK ALL YOUR ASSES!!" Hinata was waving her fist in the air at the crowd and Naruto looked like he was trying to hide.

"Hinata-sama, it is unbefitting for a Hyuuga to-" Hyuuga Neiji, the former rookie of the year, tried to scold his cousin only to be interrupted.

"Ah, blow me! Those stuck up bastards can act however they want, but I swear that when I become Clan Head there'll be some major changes," Hinata said at a normal, for her, level. for a second there was silence... then Kikai's laughter filled the room soon joined by others.

"I like you," Kikai said to her simply. Naruto suddenly looked a little nervous that he might have someone else after Hinata's affections. "You'd make a good mate for Naruto." And Naruto's fears were squashed and his face reddened to another level. The word 'mate' sent some very... interesting... images of him and Hinata through his head.

"You mean wife?" Hinata asked with an eyebrow risen.

"Huh?"

"You said 'mate'. You meant 'wife... right?"

"Uh, yeah," and for the first time ever, team seven saw Kikai look ashamed of something.

"You guys are really stupid," it was the silver haired young man again.

"Yeah? What about you buddy? Aren't you a little old to be in a chuunin exam?" Kikai growled to the guy. A sudden look of familiarity went through his eyes as he looked closer at the proclaimed gennin. He felt it. The aura... of snakes.

He quickly grabbed Ino And Chouji by their wrists then called to team seven before the silver haired man could speak anymore. "You guys should sit down. The proctors will probably be here soon." He then proceeded to drag his team to a random row.

A/N: Ok this chapter is really boring me now. I think i'll just end it hear and start the next one. I really am not gonna write much of what happens in the forrest of death because just like most of the what happens in the written test and in wave country stays the same. things start really getting different in this story once the prelims start.