Chapter 15 - CHUNIN-EXAMS (Part-1)

"Hey konohamaru how you're doing." said naruto.

"I am working hard boss and one day I will beat you after all I am 3rd's Grandson." said konohamaru.

Behind him were his two buddies ,Udon and Moegi.

"Humph you won't be defeating me anytime soon after all I will become the Hokage one day." said naruto with pride.

"Wowww....boss you are amazing I too will become like you one day." said konohamaru as fire burned into his eyes.

"Hahahaha....hahahaha..." both of them started laughing foolishly.

Konohamaru turned around to move but he bumped into a boy wearing blackish outfit and had strange stripped markings on both sides of his face.

Konohamaru fell on the ground and raised his head to see in whom did he bumped into. Suddenly the boy with strange marking lifted konohamaru up by his collar and said "Can't you see where you're going."

konohamaru got scared but naruto shouted while pushing the boy back ,freeing konohamaru from his grasp.

The boy stumbled back as he said while gritting his teeth "Why you....." as he was about to retaliate.

A voice was heard as two figures came into view "Haven't you had enough ,we didn't come here to cause trouble." a girl of about the same age as sakura and a boy with the word *LOVE* written on his forehead could be seen standing some distance away for the marking boy.

The boy introduced themselves "I apologize for my subordinate's behavior my name is Gaara ,this is Tenmari and Kankuro we are here from the hidden sand to take part in the chunin exams ,we shall take our leave now."

"What is your name??." asked Gaara to which naruto replied "Naruto Uzumaki, the future Hokage."

Gaara and team left as sakura said "Weird people."

{Meanwhile in hokage's office}

Old gramps asked us "Submitted the name of team which will be participating in the chunin exams."

"Team 1 will participate..."

"Team 2 will participate...."

"Team 3 will participate..."

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"Team 7 will participate..." kakashi and I nodded to each other.

After the meeting was over and everyteam who will be participating have been registered . We returned to our teams to tell them about it and make sure that they are prepared for the coming chunin exams.

"You 3 will be participating in the chunin exams this year as I have already submitted your names after consulting with Ichizu." said kakashi.

I said "You guys need to work hard and pass the exams only then you will be promoted to chunin rank and this is time many teams will be participating in the test so it will be quite challenging so be ready for anything and start training. You guys have about a week left."

Naruto/Sakura/Sasuke said together "We won't disappoint you guys."

{The all mighty time-skip} the day of chunin exam.

The instructor "The chunin exam is divided into 3 stages and you must clear every stage to pass the exam .Please take your seats as the first stage *The written test* will begin in 5 min."

"Wri...tten written test Noooooo....."

"Before the exam begans let me state some rules which you have to follow during the exam. There are 10 questions 1 marks each if you are caught cheating then 2 marks will be deducted on each try. The last question will be given 45 min to you to solve it.If anyone from your team scores 0 points them the whole team will be disqualified.Now begin...."????????????(Many instructors surrounded the room to watch them and deduct marks if they cheat.)

After reading the questions Sakura thought "This test is like inviting us to cheat all the questions asked here ,I don't think many except me can answer these questions.Please naruto just scoring one marks will be enough."

While naruto was having a mental breakdown , Sasuke was thinking "Now I get it this exam is to test our information gathering skills with them noticing ,means we have to acquire information without getting caught that's why instead of disqualifying those who cheated they only deduct 2 points ,this also implies that someone in this room has all the answers.I hope you quickly realize this naruto."

A girl asked naruto " Naruto I will show you my sheet."

Naruto looked towards her and said while smiling "A shinobi like me doesn't need to cheat hinata thank you."

Hinata said "But you haven't answered any of the question if this continues then you will fail."

"But if I get caught that would implicit you too ,I can't take this risk so don't worry about me." said naruto.

She replied "Sorry for asking you to do the unnecessary."

Naruto replied "It's okay hinata."

{Meanwhile others}

Gaara used his sand eye to acquire the answers , Neji and sasuke used their Do-jutsu to see others answers and copy other movement while they wrote their answers respectively ,Tenten used mirrors placed on the ceiling to copy and relay answers to Lee ,Ino used *Mind transfer jutsu* on sakura and copied all the answers before relaying them to Choji and Shikamaru. Others also used different methods to acquire answers.

After 15 min the instructor told them that if they didn't attempt the last question then they will be disqualified and if they answered it wrong they will be genin forever and asked what is their choice will they answer or not. Many people left the room.

Naruto stood up and shouted "I will never quit even if I have to stay a genin for all my life even then I will become the hokage." Sasuke and Sakura were shocked by naruto proclamation.

The instructor smiled and said " Congratulations to those who have stayed in the class, you all pass the aim of the paper was to test your courage and will."

Everyone was shocked as the instructor added " Now on two the next stage ,the *Forest of death*.

Anko said "Here you guys will be given different element scrolls and you have to acquire the corresponding element scrolls from the different teams in the forest."

While walking in the forest Naruto , sasuke and sakura tried to find those teams who would have the scrolls that they need.

Sakura says "Guys be on high alert ,we have to be cautious from ambushes."

Sasuke says "Sakura is right we have to be careful so stop fooling around naruto."

Naruto counters by saying "I am not fooling around, I am trying to see if there are any teams around us."

Suddenly both naruto and sasuke sensed someone. Naruto jumped from where he was standing as sasuke launched *fire-style:-fire ball jutsu* onto the ground.

All this happened so fast that sakura was still processing what happened. A snake suddenly appeared out of nowhere and devoured naruto.(Well not really.)

"So you both sensed me huh...." said the figure which emerged from the ground.

"You guys want this scroll don't you well come and get it." after saying so he swallowed the scroll. Boundless killing intent emerged from hia body. Both sasuke and sakura were paralysed due to it.

He threw two kunais at both of them, sasuke thought "Move move move move I can't let myself or sakura die otherwise I won't be able to rescue Itachi Nii-san." he stabbed his leg as he awakened his 2nd tomoe and escaped the kunais with sakura.

Naruto used multiple shadow clone jutsu to tear his way out of the snakes mouth.

"So you came out well maybe this will get a little challenging." he said as he slithered towards naruto and sasuke.

Naruto and sasuke both jumped towards him at the same time whereas sakura was placing traps all around the place stealthy.

Naruto punches towards his face as sasuke attacks at his legs ,their opponent blocked the punch with his hand and clamps sasuke's left leg with his own ,turns drops a punch towards naruto's stomach and a straight kick towards sasuke's chin.

Naruto creates a shadow clone in mid-air and jumps higher using clone as a board avoiding the punch and drops his heel towards his opponents head whereas sasuke jumps back to avoid the attack and throws many shurikens towards the person who launches *Wind-style:-Gale palm* towards the incoming attack blowing naruto away with it. Sasuke uses wires to propel himself towards left while naruto summons 5 clone and ordered them to rush towards his opponent as he created some distance as he knew what was coming, sasuke uses the big tree as a cover and uses *fire-style:-fire ball jutsu* from multiple directions.

The person dodges the attack but he didn't knew that it was all a farce as he was currently standing inside the trap placed by sakura ,many wires suddenly wrapped them selves onto their opponent as some paper bombs could be seen hanging on the wires.

Sakura says "That's what you get for ignoring me."

BOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!....

This formation was one of the things Ichizu taught them. Their sensei spend most of his time teaching sakura many techniques as kakashi taught naruto and sasuke.

The 3 of them landed near the area where that person was confined. Suddenly the ground beneath naruto and sasuke cracked as a person attacked them by Punching them hard on the stomach "Excellent formation who ever taught you this must have really focused while creating such a formation as it can be used even by genins like you guys."

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were paralysed by the *Ninja-art:-paralysis jutsu* he was about to make his make but stopped as he said "You sasuke will someday seek me to help you get stronger at that time remember my name Orochimaru hahahaha....".

He disappeared.

Naruto and sasuke heaved a sigh as they collasped on the ground simultainiously.

{Flash back}{Orochimaru view point}

He thought "Now lets have them experience some pain..." he suddenly felt a chill ran down his spine ,he could feel a piercing gaze locked onto him if he made a move against the brats then that person will surely interfere and he knew the person watching him was not afraid on him not one bit ,the aura that could be felt from his gaze told that he could fight me equally and maybe trumph me if the fight lagged on.

Little did orochimaru know that the person gazing at him is much more capable than he thinks.

i told sasuke that he will find me when he wanted to become stronger.

{Mc's view point}

"Correct decision Orochimaru, we will meet but not yet." i said while contacting Nikasu "He has arrived in the village be on guard when he will attack konoha we have to make sure that there will be as less destruction as much we can.Tell Zabuza and haku to take out the sound shinobi's when the time comes as we rescue civilians."

"Lets hope nothing too drastic happens."