Bonds ➳ SasuNaru

Six | The Chuunin Exams and A Difficult Mission!

About a month later perhaps, team seven went through the difficult chuunin exams next, meeting another team, team Guy, Neji, Rock Lee and Tenten, and a team of siblings from the Village Hidden in The Sand, Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro, as well as a helpful man named Kabuto.

In the middle of the exams, Sasuke was bitten on the neck by a snake-like man, named Orochimaru. A mark appeared on his pale skin near the bite, and the creepy snake guy had said Sasuke would come searching for him eventually.

Sasuke had fallen into a deep sleep after, and Naruto had too, due to another seal being added to his current one on his stomach.

Sakura ended up cutting her long hair while being attacked and Lee came to her rescue.

- I promise to protect you with my life - She recalled him saying their first time meeting.

Sometime after the second test, there were some fights to exclude extra genin. After the winners were chosen, they were given a month to train before they had to do the third test.

Naruto had met a new sensei (because Kakashi needed to train Sasuke and Sakura had already lost), a pervy toad sage named Jiraiya.

During the exams, after the fights to exclude some of the genin but during the third test fights of skill, Konoha was attacked and the third Hokage was killed by Orochimaru, his student.

But sometime later, after Orochimaru and the Sand intruders had retreated and after Hiruzen's funeral, although the exams were not completed, Sasuke and Naruto ended up having to fight Gaara in his one-tailed form. They won, and the village was being rebuilt and everything was okay for now (but at some point Naruto found out that Kabuto was working with Orochimaru).

Kakashi smiled behind his face mask when he reached his team, Jiraiya following. They were at the ramen shop, Naruto eating, Sasuke looking a bit bored and Sakura trying to get the Uchiha's attention.

"Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura," Kakashi uttered, his getting the attention of his team.

"Kakashi-sensei, Pervy Sage!" Naruto exclaimed, grinning.

"Hey kid," Jiraiya said with a smile, rubbing Naruto's head (which the genin did not like very much). "And hey, what'd I tell you about calling me that nickname in public?" He whispered, blushing, and Naruto chuckled.

"What is it, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked, tilting her head.

"You have a new mission," Kakashi told his students.

"That's right," the sage smiled, patting Naruto on the back.

"What is it?" Naruto asked excitedly. "What's the mission gonna be?"

"You are going to accompany me on a trip to find a woman," Jiraiya told them, and Kakashi nodded.

"Lady Tsunade," Kakashi continued, smiling lightly. "We need her here at the village."

It was true, they needed Tsunade at the village, but they also needed Naruto out for a little while. Kakashi, Guy, and two jounin - the leaders of team eight and team ten - fought with Itachi Uchiha, Sasuke's older brother, and another, a shark-like man named Kisame. Itachi had said he needed Naruto - well, more specifically, the Kyuubi - and was planning to kidnap him.

And plus, they needed Sasuke gone too, in case Itachi showed up to take Naruto while Sasuke was there. Things would not go well if the two faced each other.

Itachi was the one who massacred the Uchihas, after all.

And Sasuke just wanted to kill his brother. He wanted revenge.