The Rinnegan

Chunin Exams: Part 1

The next morning, we made our way to the ninja academy, handed in our forms, and made our way the exam room. There was a crowd of people outside room 303. So I barged up to the front to the two Ninjas blocking the way and saw straight through their little 'prank'.

"This isn't even the third floor. We are stil on the second floor, which everyone else had managed to miss, so move out the way because I have an exam to go to." I said cooly to the two boys infront of me that were sneering at the crowd. "Oh and by the way, I can tell you are proctors, so you can remove your jutsu as well." I pushed past them and lead my team past them to the right room. I looked behind me and everyone, and I mean everyone, was staring at me. Even the two proctors. It wasn't that hard to figure out.... Honestly, I thought Konoha Ninjas were supposed to be smart.

As I was looking back I saw Gaara's green eyes staring at me accompanied by a little smirk. Is he flirting with me? Or am I just being crazy... Probably the latter.

As we all filed into the right room, a proctor said that our exam would start in half an hour. I decided to get some air whilst I could, because it was getting too cramped in that room for my liking. As i stepped on the balcony and leaned over the railing, I felt a slight breeze swing past me.

"Hello, Mineko." the sultry tones whispered into my ears, and I felt my head swimming a little.

So Gaara was flirting earlier. But I have NO idea how to flirt.

"Uh... Hello Gaara..." I felt so out of place, and I did not know how to react. THAT is why living in a village with no-one your age sucks.

"Why are you so nervous?"

"um.. I don't really know... I could take out half the room with one hand gesture, and most are scared of me anyway..." I wanted to say that he was making me nervous, but that would not help me at all.

"Why would you say that?" I swear his voice was getting sexier by the minute.

"er.. Have you even looked at my eyes? Even back at my own village they are all scared of me..."  

"Mineko everybody is scared of me, even if they don't know what I'm capable of. You know what I am, right?"

"No... But I don't know what they're afraid of... "

"I'm a jinchuriki. I am evil, I'm a monster. Everyone should be scared of me, even you."

"You are not a monster. You could never be evil, everyone has kindness within them, and to me, I could never be afraid of you, no matter what you did. I..."

My team mate called my name, and told us that the exam was about to begin. I was NOT looking forward to it at all.

"Well good luck with the exam, Gaara, and I hope you pass... Goodbye!" I said and ran off trying to mingle in with the crowd and find my team mates. Why did I have to run off? I am so awkward it's embarrassing. And why did I say those things to him? He's never going to like me now.

As entered the room I could hear Naruto boasting to the whole room. He is going to get beaten up for that... And to top it all off a group of sound ninja were trying to fight someone called Kabuto... Great. The exam hadn't even started and people were already trying to kill each other.The few proctors in the room started giving us numbers to allocate us to a seat in the room, which could only mean a written exam. That is easy... Oh who am I kidding? I suck at written exams! And I had to be sitting right next to Gaara of all people! I swear they did that on purpose to be honest. I tried not to look at him, but it was quite hard. I mean, who wouldn't stare at a hot boy? The chief examiner and a load of proctors appeared at the front of the room, and started to give out the instructions for the exam. We had one hour to complete the whole exam. But the rules were not easy going. Firstly you had to get a set amount of points to win, secondly, if one member of a cell is disqualified or fails to get the set amount of points, the entire cell is disqualified. Well I thought then that I was going to fail there and then...

But then it hit me. They wanted us to cheat. They wanted to test our information gathering skills.

The chief examiner told us to start, and out of the corner of my eye I could see sand. Sand? Gaara smiled at me as I turned my head slightly to look at him, and he then blanked me. I think it was a kind of jutsu, so Gaara had already figured it out as well. I looked at my paper and thanked god that my sensei had made me do written work. I actually knew half the answers, so I figured that I could pass with the answers I had already, but I wanted to test out my skills as well.  

By the time I had used one of my jutsus I had figured out that two of the ninjas in the room were fakes that knew the answers, and I got the rest of the answers from them. Gaara had as well, and we both had all the answers within half an hour, but we still had one question left to complete, which would be given out 45 minutes into the exam. So I had 15 minutes with Gaara smirking at me. I felt like such an idiot for what I said to him earlier, and I hope that he might talk to me still. I felt so termite to just blurt out my feelings there and then, but I would have been disqualified. Why did I have to be sitting next to him? I just felt so awkward without being able to talk to him..

The next thing I know, we're being given the last question, which was basically whether we would accept or reject the last question. I had to accept it. I had to become a full-fledged shinobi.  

Many people rejected it, and their whole cell was disqualified. By the time everyone had made their decision, the chief examiner told us that we had passed. The last question was whether we would accept or reject. I found it a bit pointless really, but it was supposed to have some meaning to it. I'll figure it out some other time.

Then they took us to one of the training grounds and told us that we would then begin the second exam. Yet another exam to help me make a fool out of myself.