39 Chunin Exams Part 1 (1/2)
Kibo had gotten a message from Kakashi, the next day; they were to meet up at the bridge near the school. He woke up in a pile of crumbled up papers and research notes, he had spent so much time working on his studies and blueprints, that when looked outside, he realized it was time to get up and dressed to meet up with his team. However Kibo could have gotten a bit more sleep, but was so tired that he forgotten the fact that Kakashi never arrives on time.
Kibo was sitting half asleep against the wood railing, as Sakura came up and asked, ”Are you alright?” Karin sat next to him and placed her hand on his head, ”Just a little sleep deprived is all; I'm fine Karin, thank you for asking Sakura.” Sakura nodded her head and pulled out a folded piece of paper that had three mud ball shaped pills in them. ”Here eat this, it won't taste good, but it's extra healthy, they're my own creation of the Military Rations Pill, but without all the terrible side effects.
Kibo took one into his hand and swallowed, Sakura was right about the taste as Kibo couldn't feel his tongue anymore; however the pill did its job as Kibo felt wide awake and fully stimulated. He hopped up and said ”Thanks Sakura, it's a shame I can't teach you Alchemy's Pill Refining Technique.” Kibo suddenly discovered that he could talk about his profession with her; he was surprised that Sakura had a talent for the Alchemy skill he had gained through the relic. ”I guess Sakura has the talent to learn this profession!” Kibo was happy to teach her, but he wanted to wait until Tsunade became her master and learned everything she could from the legendary medic Nin.
As they waited, Naruto could be heard shouting, ”Every time, why do we do this to ourselves?” he was about to curse Kakashi, when a familiar voice called out from on top of a power line. ”Hey guys sorry I'm late, but I got lost trying to find this place.” Yamato appeared before him and shook his head before saying, ”We called you today, to give you these.” Yamato pulled out 6 slips of paper, ”This is for the Chunin Exams, fill out the paper, and head to the location on the instructions.” Kakashi added, Naruto jumped up grabbing his application while saying, ”It's about time!”
Yamato jumped down and handed off the registration papers while saying ”The exam begins in one week, until then feel free to come to us for training.”Team 7 took the slips and thanked their teachers; that night Kibo looked out over the village and created 10 perma-clones ”You know what to do.” Kibo said as they vanished into the horizon, he looked up at the sky and hoped for the best as he went to sleep.
The next day he went to Yamato, and asked if he could teach him, wood release Jutsus, Naruto went to Kakashi to ask for training alongside Sasuke, Karin and Sakura went to the Hospital to receive further training on their medical Nin-Jutsu. Hinata asked her father, and her Uncle to train her for the upcoming exams, and they agreed without a second thought.
A week had passed and team 7 had meet up at the exam center, as they made their way inside, they ended up on the second floor, where a crowd had gathered, a young boy with a bowl cut hair style, black oval shaped eyes, and bushy brows was being knocked around by a couple of Chunins in disguise. The boy had a single piece green track suit, he wore his Konohagakure head protector around his waist, both his arms and hands had bandages wrapping them up, and orange line striped leg warmers that almost reached his knees.
The boy stood back up and when a girl stood forward, she wearing with black hair balled up into two buns and short fringe-bangs framing her face that covered her forehead protector slightly. Her eyes were grey with deep black pupils that seemed to almost shine. She wore a pink sleeveless qipao-style blouse with red sleeve trimmings and yellow fastening buttons; she wore dark green loosely fitted pants, with her pouch adjusted to her thigh that was over some bandage wrappings.
”Please just let us pass!” The girl said as she tried to make a move for the door, the Nin guarding it quickly slapped her away. Another student looked on at the situation while grimacing ”Man that's cruel!” under their breaths. The Nin guarding the door looked out into the crowd and said, ”What did you say? I think you misunderstanding the situation here. What we're doing is trying to spare you. The Chunin Exam's are a harsh and difficult test, and we should know, we've failed 3 times so far.” The man paused and looked over the crowd like he was judging them, ”We've seen it all, some people give up being a Shinobi, friends die, or are crippled; some are even reduced to vegetables.”
The man then closed one of his eyes as he said, ”Besides that, a Chunin's job is as a team leader, the responsibility and lives of their comrades firmly rest on their shoulders, and yet you wet nosed kids, who still smell like your mother's milk think you're ready?”
A bit of killing intent seeped out of the two guard's bodies, ”We're saving ourselves the troubles by weeding out the weaker flies beforehand.”
”Sounds good in theory, but you'd better let us through and drop your Gen-Jutsu while you're at it.” Sasuke said accompanied by the rest of team 7, many people in the room were shocked as the guard stated, ”So you managed to figure it out.” The sign above the room changed from 301, to 201.