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The outfit I wore to the exams consisted of my black gym shorts, shinobi sandals, and a fishnet t-shirt under my Jounin vest. My weapons pouch was wrapped around my thigh like usual, but I slipped on two black compression sleeves over each elbow unlike usual.
After chilling in bed for a minute or two I went to the kitchen made breakfast, and ate in the living room. The miniature grandfather-clock on one of my side tables read ten o'clock. "Damn, I was supposed to meet the team an hour ago." I quickly finish my breakfast, cleaned up, and flashed out the door.

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After running up two flight of stairs I heard someone say, "-see you dodge this." So I halted on my way to the third floor and backtracked to see what was going on.
I looked around and saw that a lot of people were scattered on the second floor waiting.
"What the hell?" I exclaimed jumping slightly when I saw a mini version of Gai (in that oh-so familiar green jumpsuit). He was holding Sasuke's leg back from hitting some dude in front of a set of double doors. "Why is everyone gathered on the second floor?" I questioned tilting my head at the Lee simultaneously pushing Sasuke away from him and behind me. "I'm protecting you from his youthfulness Sasuke. Be grateful." I advised the Uchiha before he could complain.
The two Chunin guarding the door were interrupted by the Rock again. He had hearts in his eyes. I blinked twice and looked around. He then ran over to Sakura who was standing slightly behind me. "Such beautiful youth!!" He got down on one knee and took Sakura's hand in his. "I am Rock Lee and I vow to protect you with my life!" She understandably freaked out. "No way creep! Get lost!" Sakura punched the poor soul into a nearby wall.
"Well damn Sakura." I felt her confused gaze on me whilst I was taking a long sad look at Lee shaking my head. "Heh, my bad." She rubbed her arm shyly while glancing between me and the green bean. "Nah your good." She smiled. "If somebody introduced themselves like that to me, I'd run for the hills."
I turned to his teammates. "Have you tried keeping him on a leash." I whispered, side glancing at Lee, who had fallen out of the newly formed crater, courtesy of Sakura.💪🏻 Ten-Ten sighed. "Hai." She looked at her fallen comrade in shame. Nejii nodded his head in greeting. "Konichiwa Hiroto-sama." Ten Ten grinned taking my hand in hers. "Hey Hiroto-sama, remember me?"
"Of course. I'd never forget my favorite tomboy." We broke the hand shake after she giggled. We chatted for a while before I had to say goodbye.

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Sakura ran after Sasuke and we all followed his lead up the stairs. Naruto and me were the only ones talking. "So I was thinking after the exams we should go to Ichiraku's again to celebrate!" The blonde gestured excitedly. I sweat-dropped. "Naruto. I love you, but why don't we go eat somewhere else for a change." I tried my luck, but Naruto looked ready to yell. "Hey you! Uchiha!" We all stopped and turned and saw Lee behind us. 'I really want to thank you, but I don't want to see you.' I thought seeing the youthful Lee. "Oh greetings Hiroto-sama!" I blanched. "Hello to you too Lee." I shook my head laughing. "What do you want with Sasuke?" Said Uchiha stepped forward and Lee went off on him about proving that he was better than the Uchiha clan until said duckbutt accepted Rock Lee's challenge. Little Lee got into his taijustu stance and gestured for his opponent to go first.
Sasuke accepted the offer and attacked Lee head on, but taijustu user was easily able to block and immediately go on the offensive. Which was to be expected of Lee. After all I trained with him on speed under Gai-Sensei so I knew that Sasuke was too slow to be battling Lee. I saw Sasuke eyes turned red with one black tomo and I figured he was going to his Sharingan to figure out Rock Lee's technique, but once again, that didn't work in the his favor either.
Sassgay charged at the Rock a second time, but again, Rock Lee was able to block and return the favor. Lee then went on to explain what I already knew. That his moves were pure taijutsu and that Sasuke's Sharingan wouldn't work because even if he could see the techniques, his body wasn't fast enough to react yet. Then Lee began to use his Shadow of the Dancing Leaf technique to finish Sasuke off, but a large turtle stopped his attack before it hit. 'Shit, that's one of Gai's summons. I'm leaving.' Keeping to my thoughts I walked away so I wouldn't have to face the situation.
Naruto and Sakura gave me a weird look as Sasuke joined the group again. "Tell Gai i'll see him later." Sakura nodded.

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I spotted Kakashi reading his precious Icha-Icha paradise on the rails near the double doors and thought, 'My curiosity is going to be the death of me.' before sunshine'ing behind an unsuspecting Kakashi.

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"Wow, the story itself is phenomenal, but I do agree that there are too many sexual scenes." I whispered to myself momentarily forgetting that I was right by Kakashi's ear.
He jumped away from me throwing his book in the process, but I was able to catch it before it hit the ground. I interrupting him before he could start yelling, "Team seven is going to be here any minute now man, chill." but he easily ignored my commentary and reached for his book. I simply turned my body away from him each time he was about to succeed in retrieving his precious.

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"What the heck is going on here dattebayo!?" I glanced up from the book and noticed that team seven had slowed to almost a complete stop on the last couple of steps.
They were looking at us weirdly and I can understand why. I mean Kakashi was so persistent that I ended up balancing on the the balls of my feet on the rail reading the book in the one hand holding Kakashi's head/face back as he flailed his arms about. Kakashi made another move to hit the book out of my hands again, so I dodged it with a jump flip on the rail. I ended in a one-handed handstand while the bottom of my foot held Kakashi back from me instead of my hand.
"Damn it Hiroto! Give me back my book back before I hurt you!" I glanced up from said book and at the him. "Try hurting me and see if I don't return the favor tenfold." After my threat I shushed the yelling Baka and then pointed to the rest of the squad with an annoyed look on my face.
Kakashi stopped short and quickly turned around then let out a few awkward coughs. With a laugh I pushed off the rail with the one arm and flipped onto Kakashi shoulders still reading. "Ignore me." I advised as Kakashi place his hands on my legs to keep me steady.
He and his other students sweat-dropped at my behavior. "Anyways;" Kakashi started gaining the teams attention. "It's a good thing you all came," He gave Sakura a pointed look. "because if one of you didn't show up you all wouldn't have been able to take the exams." He let out a short breath, rubbing the bump from where I had hit him for not telling them something so important. "The waiting room is right through those doors, make me proud." He finished his speech and I closed the book sharply after he finished talking.

"Hey Kaka-Baka?"
"What?"
"Let me go." I tried to move my legs from his death grip. "No." He tightened his grip on my legs and calmly walks away from the door.
"Kakashi you have three seconds to let me go. I have a job to do." I commanded tugging hard at his hair. He shook his head ridding my hand free and continued to ignoring me. "Three." I started my countdown, he just chuckled at my actions. "Two." I leaned down and wrapped hands loosely around his neck and he stopped walking. "One." I quickly tightened my grip around his neck strangling him so his breath shortened. He was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Both of us being relentless. Just as soon as he began loosening the death grip he had on my legs, I jumped away from him simultaneously letting go of his neck. I flipped back a few times to put some distance in between us. He turned around. "That wasn't very nice." He said crossing his arms over his chest with a playful glare. "Not my problem." I sassed. After a sending him a playful wink goodbye I transported to the waiting room before he could say anything else.

"-get a number and line up." Was the first thing I heard as soon as I entered into the waiting room. I scratched the back of my head nervously. "Is it too late now to say sorry?"

"Mr. Shuyo?" I turned to Ibiki Morino: the first proctor and gave him my infamous military salute. "Hai." He smirked saluting me back. I held my hands together behind my back with a smirk. "Go next door before I take you back to integration." He waved me off and I let out a small chuckle. "Roger that Ibiki-sama." I'm actually one of his favorite people.

I walked in line behind my team. "How do you know him Hiroto-sama?" Sakura asked shakily. I simply shrugged as I walked through the double doors.

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