Chapter 5: The Written Exam Part 1

Silence. That's all there was at the moment. Pure and utter silence. You could easily hear a pin drop. Because as soon as Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura walked into the room, that's all they received along with dozens of unfriendly glares of both hatred and anger. Soon enough, the silence was broken by the sound of someone's voice.

"Well, look what we have here." A voice said, getting Naruto's and his teams attention.

They turned toward the voice and came face to face with Shino, Hinata, and Kiba with his partner Akamaru. However, the moment Naruto turned toward them his eyes landed on Hinata. She noticed this and blushed while poking her fingers together.

"H-hi...N-Naruto." Hinata said with a shy stutter.

"Eh? Oh, hey Hinata what's up?" Naruto greeted with his usual foxy grin making Hinata's blush deepen.

'Ugh, Hinata's never going to get through to him. Can the idiot really not take a hint?' Kiba thought to himself with an unnoticed sigh before turning his attention back towards his former classmates. "heh, looks like we've got some competition right, Sasuke?" Kiba asked with a cocky smirk.

"Kiba, yeah some real competition." Sasuke replied with his own cocky smirk before someone screamed his name.

"Sasuke!" A voice screamed as the person it came from jumped on Sasuke.

Everyone looked to see who it was and to their mild surprise, and Sakura's anger, it was Ino.

"Hey, get off of my Sasuke Ino Pig!" Sakura yelled with a tick mark on her forehead.

"Your Sasuke!? I don't see your name on him Build Board Brow!" Ino yelled back as she got in Sakura's face.

"Oh great, your here? This is so troublesome." Shikamaru said as he and Choji walked towards them all.

"Ha, looks like the Rookie Nine are back together." Kiba said with Akamaru barking in agreement.

They soon started talking to each other about the missions they've been on with their sensei's and other random stuff while unknown to them in the crowd of Shinobi there's three people eyeing Sasuke with a calculating gaze on their faces. One of them was thinking to himself.

'So, that's the one Orochimaru-sama wants. I'm still not sure why he does. After all, that kid looks like a weakling like the rest of those Genin around him. However, Orochimaru-sama said he has a plan to make him stronger and he wants us to be the first to test his power after he's put the curse seal on him.' A guy with bandages on his face thought with hidden eagerness. 'Hmmm, this could be interesting.'

Elsewhere in the crowd, we find the Sand Siblings watching the Leaf Ninja.

"Heh, what do you know. It looks like those Leaf Genin chose to take the Chunin Exams after all." Kankuro said with amusement. "I've got to say, I thought that little loudmouth would give up before the exams even started."

Temari watched Naruto with joy in her eyes. She knew he would be in the exams. After the small speech he gave to her and those Rain Ninja yesterday you'd be crazy to think he wouldn't participate.

"You really shouldn't doubt him Kankuro." Temari said getting her brothers attention.

"Eh? Whys that?" Kankuro asked with confusion.

Temari just smirked and walked toward Naruto while ignoring her brothers question.

'Sorry Kankuro, but if you want the answer to that question you'll just have to sit back and watch him for yourself.' Temari thought with amusement.

"Tch, whatever, like I care." Kankuro said to himself as he watched Temari walk away.

'Something is different about that one. Whatever it is won't matter after I feed him and the Uchiha to mother.' Gaara thought to himself as he eyed Naruto and Sasuke with a cold stare.

While this was happening we find the Ame Ninja just now noticing the new arrivals or more specifically Naruto. Seeing him made them happy since it was him who gave them the confidence to participate in the Chunin Exams.

"Well, it looks like Naruto made it." Yahiko said with an agreeing nod from Nagato.

"Yeah, and that must be his team." Nagato said as he noted Sasuke and Sakura.

"Must be, I wonder how strong they are?" Yahiko asked himself until he saw Konan blushing as she watched Naruto and got an evil idea. "Say Nagato, how's about we go meet up with Naruto and his friends? I'm sure Konan would love to see her boyfriend and his friends, right Nagato?"

"W-what!? H-he's not my b-boyfriend!" Konan yelled as she turned even redder.

Nagato saw what Yahiko was doing and joined in on the amusement.

"Yeah, I'm sure Naruto would enjoy seeing Konan again too. After all, he could never resist his angel." Nagato said making Yahiko and himself laugh.

"W-we're just friends." Konan said as she tried to hide her blush.

"Sure you are. That's why ever since he first called you beautiful you've been crazy about him." Yahiko said with a face splitting grin.

"S-shut up! Let's just go see him already!" Konan said as she walked towards Naruto with Yahiko and Nagato close behind.

Back with Naruto. He and his friends just finished talking about their missions with their sensei's. Shikamaru decided that talking about missions was too troublesome and decided to see if anything actually interesting happened to someone.

"So, missions aside, did anyone do anything interesting?" Shikamaru asked with his usual dry attitude.

"Well, I don't know if it's interesting, but I've been hanging out with some awesome people." Naruto said, making most of them look at him like he was crazy.

"Yeah right, who would hang out with someone as lame and weak as you Naruto when they can hang out with Sasuke instead?" Ino asked as she grabbed Sasuke's arm much to his and Sakura's irritation.

Just as Naruto was about to yelled about how he's better then Sasuke someone called Naruto's name. They all turned to see a girl they didn't know, with the exception of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, walk up to them.

"Heh, hey Temari." Naruto greeted as she walked next to him.

"Hey Naruto, I knew I'd see you in the Chunin Exams." Temari stated before turning to the others. "So, these guys must be some of your friends you've told me about? It's nice to meet you all, I'm Temari."

They all stared at the new arrival standing next to Naruto with different reactions and thoughts. It was like this for a moment until someone finally spoke.

"Well, Ino *munch* I'm not saying *munch* you were wrong, *munch* but-" Choji began, in between eating his chips, before being cut off by Ino.

"Shut up Choji!" Ino yelled before calming down and turning back to Naruto. "She's probably just hanging out with you Naruto to make Sasuke jealous so he'll make her his girlfriend." Ino finished, thinking she was right on the money.

"Tch, firstly, I would never do that to anyone, especially Naruto. And second, why would I want to be some jerks girlfriend or act like some stupid fan girl?" Temari question with a small smirk appearing on her face at seeing that she made Ino and Sakura mad.

Just as Ino and Sakura were about to jump at Temari in pure anger, three others appeared beside Naruto.

"There you are Naruto. We were wondering where you were." Yahiko said as he put his arm around Naruto's neck. "Heh, for a minute there we thought you weren't coming."

"Ha, yeah right, as if I could stay away! I meant what I said yesterday and I never go back on my word! Believe it!" Naruto exclaimed with his foxy grin making Yahiko grin back.

"That's good, because it would probably be boring without you here." Yahiko said as he let go of his friend.

"Yeah, and besides it was you who inspired us to take the exams in the first place." Nagato said as he smiled at Naruto.

"Heh, thanks guys, but there's no reason to thank me." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh, that's where you're wrong Naruto. We have every reason to thank you." Konan said as she walked to Naruto's other side.

As konan stood on Naruto's side, she turned toward Temari with a glare. Temari noticed this and glared right back. Both of them just glared at each other while neither one of them noticed Hinata glaring at them both from the side. Soon though, a new voice was heard making everyone turn towards the person it came from.

"So, you're the Genin fresh out of the academy." A guy with white hair in a ponytail said as he walked up to them. "It's nice to meet all of you, I'm Kabuto Yakushi."

"Kabuto huh? Yeah, it's nice to meet you too and what did you mean by fresh out of the academy?" Sasuke asked with curiosity.

"Nothing really, just that this is your first year taking the Chunin Exams and it's not everyday that people take the exams and see some green Genin." Kabuto answered calmly.

"If you don't mind me asking Kabuto, how many times have you taken the Chunin Exams?" Temari asked. "After all, you seem to know a lot about people who take part in them."

"Well, this is actually my seventh time taking them." Kabuto said as he robbed the back of his head embarrassed and shocking everyone.

"Huh, you must not be that good then." Shikamaru said bluntly.

"Heh, well, you know what they say, seventh times the charm." Kabuto said. "Anyway, maybe I can help you guys out a little."

"Really? How's that?" Nagato asked.

"With my Ninja Info Cards." Kabuto answered as he pulled out said cards.

"Ninja Info Cards? What are those?" Sakura asked everyone's unasked question.

"There cards that allow you to find out information about other Shinobi. For example, who's participating in the Chunin Exams this year." Kabuto replied as he shuffled his cards.

The minute Kabuto said that, Temari became cautious of him. Someone who has info on ninja from other villages could easily be a threat to anyone that attacks them, especially other ninja.

'Whoever this Kabuto is, he's not a normal Shinobi. Something about him makes my skin crawl.' Temari thought as she watched Kabuto with suspicion.

"So, does anyone want to find out about someone here in the exams?" Kabuto asked after shuffling his cards and put them on the floor in front of them.

"Yeah, I've got some in mind." Sasuke replied as he walked up to the cards. "Rock Lee and Gaara of the desert."

The last name shocked Temari, but she decided that she would remain silent. As much as she wanted to warn them about her brother, she knew she couldn't. What made it worse, is that her brother wanted to kill one of Naruto's teammates and knowing Gaara he wasn't going to let any of them live. It really hurt just thinking about Naruto being killed by her brother.

"Aww, that's no fun you even know their names." Kabuto said as he put Chakra into one of his cards before Lee's info appeared. "Let's see, Rock Lee was second best in his class. His team have done 11 C rank missions and 20 D rank. However, there's no info on his Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. Though, his Taijutsu is his strongest factor in fighting. Other then that, there's not much else on him."

"Taijutsu huh? That explains how he sent Sasuke flying." Naruto said with mild understanding.

'I hate to admit this, but Naruto is right. That Taijutsu of his is strong and my Sharingan was outmatched by it.' Sasuke thought to himself before watching Kabuto pull out another card.

"Now for Gaara of the desert." Kabuto said making said persons info appear. "Here we go. Well, this is interesting. Apparently he's been on 1 A rank missions and 9 B rank, but get this he's never been hurt or injured on any of them. He's never even been cut before."

The info Kabuto gave them really shocked everyone, except Temari. She knew why no ones ever touched her brother before and it made her afraid of him. She's never even been able to get close to him without his sand stopping her. Worse, the more she looked at Gaara the more she saw only the demon.

"No way, he's never been touched before? That's impossible." Yahiko said with shock.

"Yeah, there's no way someone can fight and not get hurt." Nagato said.

"Not really. In fact, look at this card." Kabuto said as he held up a map of the Elemental Nations. "You see these bars on these villages show just how strong they are. Most of that villages strength comes from it's Shinobi and as you can guess, that strength is based mostly on its Jutsu. As you can see, they show just how strong that villages Shinobi are. Simply put, Konoha is the strongest while Oto is the weakest." He finished bluntly.

Elsewhere, the three from before were ticked that someone had just insulted them and their village.

"Did you hear that Dosu?" One asked the now revealed Dosu.

"That guy called us weak." A girl said with anger.

"Yes, I think we should show him not to underestimate us. What do you say Zaku, Kin?" Dosu asked his teammates who nodded and charged toward Kabuto.

Kabuto saw this and jumped back just in time as Dosu's fist past by him without harm and shocking everyone around them. However, the shock increased after Kabuto landed on his feet, but just as he did his glasses shattered and he fell to the ground and through up.

"Heh, you really shouldn't underestimate the Village Hidden in The Sound." Dosu said coldly.

'He didn't even touch him, but Kabuto fell to the ground and started throwing up. Just what the hell happened?' Naruto thought to himself as he watched Kabuto with shock and fear.

'Damn, I could've sworn he didn't hit him, but he just fell to the ground like he was punched in the gut. Whatever these guys are they're not to be taken lightly.' Shikamaru thought to himself as watched the Sound Ninja, ready to fight if they attack any of them.

No sooner, a large cloud of smoke exploded in the front of the room drawing everyone's attention. Soon the smoke cleared to reveal a man in dark gray clothes with a black trench coat and bandanna headband. He was also surrounded by several Chunin.

"It's time to begin. I am Ibiki Morino your proctor, and from this moment your worst enemy." The now named Ibiki said with a frightening smirk.

Okay, and that is chapter 5. Sorry to those of you that wanted the Written Exam out of the way already, but this is going to be two part deal. Also, some of you have sent me request to have Fuu, Samui, Anko, and Kurenai in Naruto's harem. I won't lie, I have thought about that because those are some of my favorite women in Naruto. I will consider expending the harem for them if I put them in. Also, I just got a new idea for a crossover between Naruto x Batman Animated Series. If someone wants to take the request then PM me and I'll give the request. It's a romance between Naruto x Harley x Ivy X Livewire. Anyway, peace.