26 Chunin Exam Part 2 (1/2)
-FLASHBACKNO JUTSU-
*giggle* ”Ayane-san is naughty”
Kakashi was currently reading in the mission lounge while waiting for the reports about the missions they completed this week to be approved.
”Oh Kakashi, thanks for the reports, how is it working out for you in a team” Kakashi looked up to see Iruka handing him the approved paperwork, he took it and placed it inside his vest while answering.
”It's tiring, those kids can't let me rest for a second”
”Oh seems they're troubling you?, must be Naruto, he was the same in my classes, never paid attention and just did the bare minimum, still asking myself how he passed”
Kakashi shook his head, he started shivering when he remembered how his precious collection was confiscates. ”It's not troubling, they are a pretty good team so far, the problem is they train too much and I had to join them and make training plans or else they would threaten me”
Irukas eyes widenes ”It's normal to train them, that's the duty for you as their Jonin sensei. How did they manage to threaten you though, they're just new graduates.”
”Don't mention it, I'll be leaving now since we're done, ja ne” He waved before disappearing not wanting to explain, he started heading towards the memorial. He was just about to arrive when he saw a white bird schreech in the air, he slouched his shoulders in disappointment and changed his direction towards the Hokage tower when he saw this. Meanwhile when all Jonin with teams and required personnel who had been notified beforehand saw this, they quickly finished what they were doing or dismissed their students and headed towards the Hokage tower. They soon all gathered inside the Hokages office before Hiruzen started addressing them.
”Good, all of you seem to have seen the summons, you've all been assembled for only one reason. All the countries and villages were already contacted and some foreign shinobi are already here, some of you have already guessed it. So I'll announce this officially, the Chunin exams will be held 7 days from now, on the first day of the seventh month”
”So it's finally time” Kakashi.
”What, so soon? I've already seen some of the shinobi coming though I didn't expect it to be in a week.” The one who spoke was Genma Shiranui, one of the official members of the Hokage guard platoon. He has brown, shoulder length hair and brown eyes. He wears his forehead protector like a bandanna, and the standard jonin outfit with a senbon in his mouth. He alongside Might Gai and Ebisu were one of the few to have witnessed The Eternal Genin Might Dai (Gais Father) fight the previous generations 7 swordsmen of the Mist to save them, sacrificing himself by opening all the 8 inner gates and taking down 4 of them with him.
”Now, we'll first hear from the new batch of recent gradutes, Asuma, Kakashi and Kurenai, since your students have completed the required 8 missions, are there any of them you want to nominate for the exam”
Kurenai was the first to step forward ”Under the name of Kurenai Yuhi I nominate Team 8, consisting of Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka and Hinata Uzumaki, to take part in this Chunin exam”
Asuma directly walked up afterwards ”Under the name of Asuma Sarutobi I nominate Team 10, consisting of Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akamichi and Ino Yamanaka, to take part in this Chunin exam.
Kakashi just looked up” I'll be nominating Team 7, consisting of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, to take part this time”
Hiruzen knowing the strength of these teams just nodded, he was about to continue when he was cut off.
”Wait a second Hokage-sama”
”What is it Iruka?”
”Please let me have a word Hokage-sama, I cant understand the Jonins reasoning. I don't think it's a good idea to nominate them, though most of them are talented but they're too inexperienced to join the Chunin exam and might get hurt or worse, die. All of them were my students and I can't just sit still and watch them get ruined.”
”I became a Chunin at 6, and they've been complaining about missions being too easy, this should wake them up a bit”
”THEY'RE NOT LIKE YOU, THEY WILL GET HURT”
Kakashi turned around and released some pressure ”Ma ma I can understand your anger Chunin Iruka, but you have to understand that they are no longer your students, but our soldiers, so stay out of this since its no longer your business”
”Kakashi, Iruka is right, even my team waited 1 year to gain greater strength before signing up, let yours mature more at least.” Gai came up with a rare serious face.
”Hey Gai, they may not be as mature as they can be, but I can already tell when my team is ready, and they'll take over yours quickly, so don't come complaining after it happens”
-FLASHBACK NO JUTSU END-
Kakashi held out the nomination forms for the exam infront of his students while explaining to them about what the exam consists of and its implications.
”Those are just nomination forms, so you can still decide to not take part in the exam if you think you're not ready, but if you decided to join, then take these forms and deliver them to room 301 by 4pm tomorrow. That is all”
When Kakashi vanished Naruto turned to the other two while walking home. ”This should be interesting. If one of you decide not to participate then inform the others, we can only do this as a team and it won't work if we go alone. I hope you reconsider it carefully and see if you're ready, there will be a lot of strong people, especially from our village and the ones we saw yesterday Sasuke”
”Hn dobe, don't be stupid, I'll definitely join”
We stopped walking when we saw Sakura looking unsure. Sasuke decided to talk, ”Annoying, you shouldn't be so insecure Sakura”
Sakura looked up surprised, before answering with a quiet voice, ”I can't even keep up with you two, I'm not sure if I'm ready for the Chunin exa-OUCH, WHAT WAS THAT FOR BAKA”