Kibo had gotten a message from Kakashi, the next day; they were to meet up at the bridge near the school. He woke up in a pile of crumbled up papers and research notes, he had spent so much time working on his studies and blueprints, that when looked outside, he realized it was time to get up and dressed to meet up with his team. However Kibo could have gotten a bit more sleep, but was so tired that he forgotten the fact that Kakashi never arrives on time.Kibo was sitting half asleep against the wood railing, as Sakura came up and asked, "Are you alright?" Karin sat next to him and placed her hand on his head, "Just a little sleep deprived is all; I"m fine Karin, thank you for asking Sakura." Sakura nodded her head and pulled out a folded piece of paper that had three mud ball shaped pills in them. "Here eat this, it won"t taste good, but it"s extra healthy, they"re my own creation of the Military Rations Pill, but without all the terrible side effects.
Kibo took one into his hand and swallowed, Sakura was right about the taste as Kibo couldn"t feel his tongue anymore; however the pill did its job as Kibo felt wide awake and fully stimulated. He hopped up and said "Thanks Sakura, it"s a shame I can"t teach you Alchemy"s Pill Refining Technique." Kibo suddenly discovered that he could talk about his profession with her; he was surprised that Sakura had a talent for the Alchemy skill he had gained through the relic. "I guess Sakura has the talent to learn this profession!" Kibo was happy to teach her, but he wanted to wait until Tsunade became her master and learned everything she could from the legendary medic Nin.
As they waited, Naruto could be heard shouting, "Every time, why do we do this to ourselves?" he was about to curse Kakashi, when a familiar voice called out from on top of a power line. "Hey guys sorry I"m late, but I got lost trying to find this place." Yamato appeared before him and shook his head before saying, "We called you today, to give you these." Yamato pulled out 6 slips of paper, "This is for the Chunin Exams, fill out the paper, and head to the location on the instructions." Kakashi added, Naruto jumped up grabbing his application while saying, "It"s about time!"
Yamato jumped down and handed off the registration papers while saying "The exam begins in one week, until then feel free to come to us for training." Team 7 took the slips and thanked their teachers; that night Kibo looked out over the village and created 10 permclones "You know what to do." Kibo said as they vanished into the horizon, he looked up at the sky and hoped for the best as he went to sleep.
The next day he went to Yamato, and asked if he could teach him, wood release Jutsus, Naruto went to Kakashi to ask for training alongside Sasuke, Karin and Sakura went to the Hospital to receive further training on their medical Nin-Jutsu. Hinata asked her father, and her Uncle to train her for the upcoming exams, and they agreed without a second thought.
A week had pa.s.sed and team 7 had meet up at the exam center, as they made their way inside, they ended up on the second floor, where a crowd had gathered, a young boy with a bowl cut hair style, black oval shaped eyes, and bushy brows was being knocked around by a couple of Chunins in disguise. The boy had a single piece green track suit, he wore his Konohagakure head protector around his waist, both his arms and hands had bandages wrapping them up, and orange line striped leg warmers that almost reached his knees.
The boy stood back up and when a girl stood forward, she wearing with black hair balled up into two buns and short fringe-bangs framing her face that covered her forehead protector slightly. Her eyes were grey with deep black pupils that seemed to almost shine. She wore a pink sleeveless qipao-style blouse with red sleeve tr.i.m.m.i.n.gs and yellow fastening b.u.t.tons; she wore dark green loosely fitted pants, with her pouch adjusted to her thigh that was over some bandage wrappings.
"Please just let us pa.s.s!" The girl said as she tried to make a move for the door, the Nin guarding it quickly slapped her away. Another student looked on at the situation while grimacing "Man that"s cruel!" under their breaths. The Nin guarding the door looked out into the crowd and said, "What did you say? I think you misunderstanding the situation here. What we"re doing is trying to spare you. The Chunin Exam"s are a harsh and difficult test, and we should know, we"ve failed 3 times so far." The man paused and looked over the crowd like he was judging them, "We"ve seen it all, some people give up being a Shin.o.bi, friends die, or are crippled; some are even reduced to vegetables."
The man then closed one of his eyes as he said, "Besides that, a Chunin"s job is as a team leader, the responsibility and lives of their comrades firmly rest on their shoulders, and yet you wet nosed kids, who still smell like your mother"s milk think you"re ready?"
A bit of killing intent seeped out of the two guard"s bodies, "We"re saving ourselves the troubles by weeding out the weaker flies beforehand."
"Sounds good in theory, but you"d better let us through and drop your Gen-Jutsu while you"re at it." Sasuke said accompanied by the rest of team 7, many people in the room were shocked as the guard stated, "So you managed to figure it out." The sign above the room changed from 301, to 201.
"It wasn"t that hard, everyone on our team is capable of that." Sasuke remarked as one of the guard moved to strike him while saying "Not bad, but seeing through it isn"t enough." The two positioned a kick at each other, when the boy who was being smacked around earlier stepped in between them, catching their feet he looked at the two stunned ninja"s and let out a breath of air, when Neji showed up. "Lee, I thought you said we were gonna hide our true strength." Lee wiped the blood off his face and stared at Sakura for a second, "But..." He started to blush a little as the girl from earlier came up and said, "Here we go again." Neji sighed as well as he turned to the girl and said, "Tenten I don"t think we can stop him."
Lee walked over to Sakura and smiled while saying, "Your Sakura Haruno right? I"m Rock Lee." Placing his hand up to his face he gave thumbs up as he smiled and asked, "Would you like to go out with me? I"ll protect you with my life!" Sasuke stood in front of her and frowned, while Sakura replied from behind him, "No way! Besides I"m dating Sasuke."
Lee drooped his shoulders over as let out a disappointed whine, when Neji and Tenten walked up to them, alongside them were three members that Kibo didn"t recognize from the Canon. One of the boys was from the Hoshi clan his name was Akino, the other two girls were from the Tenma Clan Tulala, and Kinomaru from the Sarutobi clan.
"Good to see you again, Lady Hinata, Naruto." Neji turned to Kibo and bowed, "It was been a while Kibo Hoshi, Father asked you to come visit again, when you have the time."
"Neji Nii Chan!" Hinata bowed, "Been a while." Naruto said patting his shoulder, "I"ll stop by some time and play a game of chess with his again." Kibo had made a chess set, it wasn"t that he hated Shogi he just got a little bored of only playing it, so he brought chess around to some of the Ninja families, it was well excepted by both the Hyuga, and Nara clans, he also brought out several other board games like Go, and Checkers.
Neji looked to Sasuke and said, "You must be Uchiha Sasuke! I"m Neji Hyuga." Sasuke shook his hand and the teams" introduced themselves. As they walked away together the guards who were standing behind the door, undid their transformation technique to reveal themselves as experienced 20 year old Chunins.
"We got some good talent this year." The man with the bandage over his nose smiled as his partner nodded his head while saying, "Looks like we"ll get to watch an amusing show for this exam."
As they walked away, Lee told his group "Go ahead without me, I"ll catch up later." After he turned his eyes to team 7 he jumped down off the railing, landing in front of the stairs he placed his hand forward and said, "I don"t think you have what it takes to protect Sakura, I challenge you to a fight for her love." Sakura"s face paled as Sasuke"s eye twitched, Kibo walked forward, in between them and smiled before saying "Rock Lee, I know you want test yourself, but even if Sasuke somehow lost, do you think she"ll just fall into your arms."
Sasuke suddenly shouted out "I wouldn"t lose! But he"s right about that other part, Sakura wouldn"t leave me." The confidant look on his face made Sakura blush, and Rock Lee cry. Kibo placed his hand forward mimicking Lee"s stance making the Bushy Brow go bug eyed, "You know th. ." Kibo interrupted him by saying, "How about this, if I win I shave off your eye brows and give you a haircut." In the anime it was hard to tell, but looking at him in real life, Rock Lee was the spitting image of Bruce Lee from his earth, a personal hero of Kibo"s. Like a star gushed fan he even bought a manual on Jeet Kune Do, back then it was just for fun, but since he came to this world he polished it well enough to use in combat, Chen Roshi even offered some advice on how to improve it. Since he was planning on giving the Martial Art to Lee in the future, he figured the great martial artist of his old world, would be revived in the new.
Lee"s eyes went wide at the notion, as he covered up his eye brows and held his hair with his other hand, "Those stakes are too high. Besides what would I get out of it in return?" Kibo laughed as he showed of one of Chen"s kicks. After blocking and being thrown back he looked at him with surprise, "That"s. ." Kibo lifted his finger and said, "If you win, I"ll teach you the Leaf Dragon G.o.d technique." Lee dissipated in a blaze of speed, Sasuke who was well trained in Tai-Jutsu, and thanks to Kibo and Naruto constant sparing; he didn"t need his Sharingan to see his movements, he then whistled and said "He"s good." Naruto then followed up, "But not good enough."
Lee had reappeared in front of Kibo, his body was position beneath him and his hand slapped the ground as he was ready to kick, Kibo raised his foot and met Lee"s attack before he could gain any momentum. Their feet clashed together making Lee change his stance, he spun on his back and let out his foot to attempt a low kick. Kibo jumped over him while grabbing his shirt, he then threw him away as Kibo landed on his feet. Lee landed on the wall and leapt from it making a small hole in the wooden surface, his body ached back as he called out, "Soaring Leaf Kick." Kibo placed his hand out and caught Lee"s foot before saying "I see you"ve practiced the Pink Muscle Transformation Technique to Perfection. Guy must of paid allot of money to hire a Raiton user to perform the technique on your body. Tell me; has there been any change to the level of strain when you open the gates?"