Master of Genjutsu

CH-15 The Chuunin Exams: Part 1

The three walked into the room, only to be completely surprised as to the amount of contenders there were within the room. At least, Sasuke and Sakura were, Naruto was simply smiling goofily from his spot next to his teammates. "What did you say earlier Sasuke?" Naruto asked quietly as he kept his smile, Sasuke's surprised face instantly turned into a smirk, confidence radiating off of him as he took a step forward. Naruto's smile turned slightly forced as he felt someone come rushing at Sasuke.

"Sasuke-kun! You're late." Ino yelled as she jumped onto Sasuke's back and held onto his neck smiling at him. Sakura almost instant gained a tick mark on her head in annoyance as Ino continued her tirade, oblivious to Sasuke's own annoyance, "It's been so long since we've seen each other!" she wailed as if they hadn't seen each other two weeks ago, Naruto idly wondered why she hadn't glomped Sasuke when they had their day of relaxation.

"Get away from Sasuke-kun, Ino-bunta!" Sakura yelled as she glared at Ino.

Ino looked over, as if just noticing Sakura and Naruto, her eyes skipped past Naruto, his smile becoming even more forced as she answered Sakura's declaration, "Ah! If it isn't Sakura, Big ugly forehead as always!" she said in heat of their rivalry. Naruto ducked out from in between the two feuding girls as he sensed Shikamaru and Chouji.

"You guy's are taking this troublesome test too?" Shikamaru asked as he looked at Naruto's forced smile, a brief glance telling him he understood Naruto's actions, before he spoke again, "What a drag." he declared.

"Hey Shikamaru! Chouji!" Naruto exclaimed loudly, drawing some glares from the surrounding ninja. Naruto's smile almost seemed to turn into a smirk to Shikamaru, who hid his own smirk behind his lazy facade. Chouji looked at Naruto with a question in his eye before shrugging it off.

"Yahoo! Found you!" Kiba said as he and Team 8 joined the other six rookies, making them the group of youngest people within the room. "Well Well, everyone is assembled." Kiba said as Hinata greeted everyone, Shino simply acknowledging their presence with a simple push of his glasses.

"Geez, you guys too?" Shikamaru whined as he subtely looked around the room behind Team eight.

"The rookie nine of Konoha." Kiba said excitedly, explaining himself quickly at seeing the confused looks, "The first time in years since rookies have attended the chuunin exams and we are the ones to do it, hooo boy! This is gonna be one hell of a showdown." Kiba said as Hinata put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

"You sure seem confident Kiba." Sasuke said as he finally divested Ino from his back and looked at him.

Kiba scoffed. "We did a lot of training, we won't lose to the likes of you." Kiba said with bursting confidence. Naruto smirked as he turned from the group, casting a glance at an approaching grey haired gennin from Konoha. The guy had small black eyes with round circular glasses on his nose, he was wearing a dark purple shirt with a white undershirt and a white obi around his waist worn at a slight angle. He also wore dark purple pants with a shuriken holster on his left hip.

"You guys should be quiet." he warns as he steps closer to the group, drawing everyone else's attention. "You guys are rookies just from the Academy right?" he asks as if he hadn't heard Kiba's loud declaration, "Screaming like schoolgirls, This isn't a picnic." he explains.

"Who do you think you are?" Sasuke asks, annoyed at the guy's obvious remarks.

"Me?" he asks surprised, "I'm Kabuto, but I'm not who you should be worried about, look behind you." he says, to which everyone looks away from Kabuto, only Naruto and Shikamaru keeping the guy within their sights as they look where he told them. The sight that greeted them was of a pissed off genin team from another village glaring at them, causing Hinata to step behind Kiba slightly to hide herself and the rest of the rookies to flinch back. Naruto, ever one to annoy, simply turned to them and smiled, waving at them which caused them to glare more.