Chapter 44: Chunin exams (4)

Another day passed as Team 9 trained together with the Jonin, Naruto learned how to make chakra strings and learned some valuable information about Jinchuriki's from B, he also learned who the other Jinchuriki was.

At the end of the day two more teams arrived, the weird thing was that one team only had one member, it was a team from Iwa, the member that arrived was a very buff guy that looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there, and the other team was actually Kumo's team, in addition, their Jonin-sensei was B so Naruto, Shino, and Sasuke got along with them quite nicely, they even sparred a few times.

The mint-haired girl, Fu had arrived with one other teammate, in total 16 people turned up.

Naruto actually saw some interesting stuff happen after Fu arrived, Shino started acting shier than usual and would hang around places where Fuu was usually to be found, so a dark smile appeared on Naruto's face, it seemed like Shino had found his first crush.

Naruto went to the training field that a Jonin had erected, while the Jonin exams were very tense most teams that had arrived were pretty calm and didn't cause any trouble or tension between each other, except for the guy from Iwa who seemed to hate everyone.

Naruto then saw Fuu sparring with her teammate who looked like he was barely keeping up with her.

"Yo, you want an actual opponent." Naruto's voice rang out over the field.

Fuu turned around shocked, it seems that she had gotten used to sensing people with her heightened senses.

"You!" Fu said.

"Me?" Naruto quirked his head.

"You're the one that released the Bijuu chakra!" Fu said.

"Hmm? You didn't know? I am the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, and since you're from Takigakure I assume that you're the Jinchuriki of the seven tails." Naruto said almost as if he was confused.

Fu rubbed her head and chuckled sheepishly "I was actually sleeping, so I didn't see whose chakra it was."

Naruto almost facepalmed, sleeping during the Chunin exams, he only expected someone like Shikamaru to do that, not a Jinchuriki.

"Anyway, how about we have a spar?" Naruto continued, "We can even use our Bijuu chakra if you want to."

"Ah my control of it is not good enough to use it safely, I'm surprised you can use it safely," Fu said

"Well only have access to the one-tailed form so I am quite limited in using it but it is quite a strong upgrade," Naruto said as he stood in front of her.

They stood apart from each other as Naruto smiled "Let's begin!"

Naruto rushed forward at Chunin speeds, he was actually surprised that Fu managed to keep up albeit while struggling, Naruto decided to end the fight quite quickly, he didn't need a fight as drawn out as the one with B was.

Naruto drew his sword and wounds slowly but surely started appearing on Fu's body, eventually, she got overwhelmed and she was forced to use a special Jutsu, Insect Carapace Jutsu, it would give her a small boost as she used a very minimal amount of chakra from the Seven Tails to power the jutsu.

She was surrounded by a large carapace which caused Naruto's sword to not deal much damage to her anymore, it seemed he needed to rely on more brutish methods as he switched to using his fists, specifically Guy's Strong Style which would allow him to deal high amounts of damage to the tissue underneath the armor as the impacts created by it would break the bones of opponents and shred their muscles.

Fu didn't last long, after just two minutes she lost too much vitality and her stamina ran out as she fell over onto her back while breathing heavily.

"Damn, you're way too strong," Fu said between heavy breaths.

Naruto chuckled "I'm probably the strongest Genin to ever exist in Konoha so I wouldn't be surprised if you lost to me, but if you do want to have a good sparring partner then I recommend my teammate, Shino, his clan works with insects so you could probably talk to him about them," Fu seemed to become interested, she had heard of the Aburame clan as she had a wide collection of insects so she wanted to compare her own colony to one of theirs.

Seeing that his plan worked Naruto walked away, now he only needed to wait and hope that Shino didn't mess up, but that wasn't up to him.

The remaining days passed by quickly and they started heading back, Naruto had indeed seen Shino together with Fu and they seemed to enjoy each other's presence and their love for insects was a great thing to bond over, Naruto considered his plan a success.

But good things don't last forever as they headed back to Suna, the other teams had a much harder time than Naruto's team as Naruto had used his chakra sensing to avoid the giant scorpions and other chakra enhanced animals that walked the desert.

They made it back within a day and arrived back to where they started, except this time there were only 16 people left over.

They waited for a few moments before they heard ominous footsteps echo in the hall.

The Kazekage himself had appeared in all his glory.

A once charismatic leader, now reduced to but a cold husk of his former self, the toll of sealing a Bijuu in his own child and having his wife die right after seemed to break the Kazekage who had lived through wars and seen countless people die, of course, he was still as strong as ever but his mind seemed to be absent, much like at the current moment.

"I congratulate you all for passing the first two parts of the Chunin Exams, you will be given a month to prepare yourself for the finals which will be a 1 on 1 tournament, I hope you do not disappoint us, as a lot of important people will be present," Rasa looked around the room, his eyes lingering on the two Jinchuriki that had taken the Chunin Exams simultaneously, they were successes unlike Gaara his own child who had turned out to be a failure, he still needed to figure out how to kill him.

With his cold speech done Rasa left just as quickly as he appeared leaving the Genin of Suna disappointed and the other Genin wondering what the situation in Suna was like, if their Kazekage was like that it was no wonder they were the weakest of the 5 hidden villages, at least that was what most teams thought.

Naruto could sense the negative emotions and sadness coming off of the man, but it had nothing to do with him, Sunagakure was only weakened by such a leader so he considered it as practically a benefit to Konoha.

The teams all started leaving, Shino said goodbye to Fu although it was a very reluctant goodbye.

Team 9 had qualified and would be taking the Chunin exams in 1 month's time.

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