Chap. 10: Team Training

"Sasuke, Naruto, Hinami, the Chunin exams are coming up. I want to recommend you three for it." Kakashi said, his white hair up above his head, wearing his headband diagonally over his face, hiding his scar and his left eye, wearing a blue mask on his face hiding his mouth and nose. Wearing a blue ninja outfit with blue sandals and gloves on his hands. to the group on the training grounds, his black eye looking towards Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinami each of whom placed their hands under their chins looking towards eachother. Thinking something over,

"Let's go through some more training to prepare, is there anything you can tell us about the exams, sensei?" Hinami asked her black hair in a plait braid with one lilac strand and one yellow strand intertwined with her own. wearing a lilac purple sleeveless top with a black skirt, paired with a tan cropped jacket overtop, with the hyuga symbol on the arms, with the Senju symbol on the back in black. Wearing a shuriken holster on her right thigh with a kunai pouch on her back, wearing sleeveless black gloves on her hands with arm guards underneath her jacket. Her scar which sat on the left side of her face, just outside of her eye, she came close to loosing the appendage, but was lucky. Kakashi hummed a moment, looking towards the team, 'A hint, huh?' he thought, 

"Lets see… Try not to die." He said, a finger on his chin a moment, 

"That's supposed to be encouraging?!" The four genin said in return, looking at their sensei who shrugged a moment, 

"Let's train for anything. The chunin exams will probably have a written portion. So.." Sasuke said his hair spiked behind his head as he wore a blue short-sleeve shirt with tan shorts, his shuriken holster on his right thigh, with his blue headband tied around his forehead. Wearing tan arm warmers on his forearms, and blue sandals on his feet. 

"Awww! A written test! You think so! Oh man!" Naruto said in return, his blonde hair sitting around his head falling around the metal of his headband. Wearing a blue-orange ninja outfit with his shuriken holster on his right thigh. and Sasuke and Hinami sighed looking over towards him, 

"We can all revise ninja history and law together. If it makes you feel better, there's definitely fighting involved afterwards." Hinami said in return looking over towards Naruto who began hanging off of her, looking at her with tears in his eyes,

"You mean it?" he said in return, and Hinami laughed

"Yeah, but we should stay sharp, lets train in physical abilities now, an all out spar free for all." Sasuke said in return and the two others nodded, 'Well then… There's just one thing they're forgetting.' Kakashi thought looking towards the genin

"This all sounds great, but are you forgetting something?" He asked looking towards the team, who hummed towards him in confusion, before Kakashi held up the three applications, 

"Don't forget you've got to fill these out and submit them." He said and the team looked towards him with a grin, 

"Right." They said thanking him for the applications, placing them carefully in a pocket of their ninja outfits, well… Sasuke and Hinami did, Naruto shoved it into his back pocket. 

"Thanks sensei." Naruto said and Kakashi nodded in return, before the three jumped apart, ready to begin their first part of their training. Physical endurance.

"You four are working hard, training for the exams?" Nawaki asked as he walked up, his brown hair was in a fluffy ponytail behind his head, he wore a dark green longsleeve shirt with black pants, his shuriken holster on his right thigh with his kunai pouch on his back waist, his headband tied around his forehead with a light blue poncho resting on his shoulders with the Senju clan symbol on the front in black. Each of the kids had marks from training and were panting from the work they were putting in. Hinami looked over, as he walked over, 

"Uncle Nawaki! You were watching?" Naruto said wearing a blue-orange ninja outfit with his headband around his forehead, wearing his shuriken holster on his right thigh with his kunai pouch on his back waist, wearing blue zori on his feet, and Nawaki shook his head a moment, admitting to have just shown up on the grounds. 

"Perfect, we needed a sparring partner for team movements, father." Hinami said, her black hair in a plait braid with one lilac strand and one yellow strand intertwined with her own. wearing a lilac purple sleeveless top with a black skirt, paired with a tan cropped jacket overtop, with the hyuga symbol on the arms, with the Senju symbol on the back in black. Wearing a shuriken holster on her right thigh with a kunai pouch on her back, wearing sleeveless black gloves on her hands with arm guards underneath her jacket. Her scar which sat on the left side of her face, just outside of her eye, she came close to loosing the appendage, but was lucky. 

"Yes, this would be good for us to work on our moves for the exams." Sasuke agreed, his hair spiked behind his head as he wore a blue short-sleeve shirt with tan shorts, his shuriken holster on his right thigh, with his blue headband tied around his forehead. Wearing tan arm warmers on his forearms, and blue sandals on his feet.

"What do ya say, uncle?" Naruto questioned, excited at the prospect of fighting him, Nawaki nodded, 

"Alright, but I won't go easy on you three, especially you, Hinami." Nawaki said and Hinami nodded in response, the three tensing for a fight with Naruto in front, Hinami on the right, with Sasuke on the left, the three standing in front of the man who hummed in response. Before getting in a fighting stance, looking towards them, 

"Alright, lets go." He said Naruto running forwards for a frontal assault with Sasuke and Hinami running on either side for a pincher attack, ducking underneath Nawaki's leg Hinami continued, jumping up, kicking Nawaki's head, forcing him forwards as Sasuke's fireball jutsu came down. Nawaki hummed before using the substitution, changing places with one of Naruto's clones, causing the boy to be confused momentarily. The training ended with Sasuke and Naruto on the ground, Hinami's hands on her knees, looking forwards.

"That's as far as we go." Nawaki said his hands on his hips, looking at the genin, he didn't even look to have broken a sweat. Looking at the Genin.

"Thank you for sparring with us, father." Hinami said and Nawaki nodded in response, 

"I'll be rooting for you all in the exams." Nawaki said before disappearing,

"Alright, Naruto. does that make sense?" Hinami said as they revised, they only had 3 days until the exams and they had to be well rounded before then. Her black hair was in two braids behind her head, wearing a light blue kimono top with black pants, sitting on her knees as she looked over towards Naruto. They sat in Narutos living room as they did so, Kushina in the kitchen a moment. Making some tea for the team who were working constantly, to prepare for the exams that they found out about last month. Kakashi telling them early for this reason, he knew they'd go haywire preparing. Hinami's control with the forest release had grown exponentially, able to summon more vines without loosing control, adding flowers into the mix slowly. 

"yeah!" he said nodding assured of himself and Sasuke looked over, 'he said that way too quickly..' he thought, looking over with suspicion in his gaze. His onyx eyes meeting Naruto's violet, a sweat dropping behind Naruto's head a moment as he looked over.

"So when was the first kage summit?" Sasuke said, his black hair sat around his head, wearing a blue teeshirt with a large collar, paired with tan shorts, and Naruto paled looking over, rubbing the back of his head as he answered,

"Um it was uhh sometime with someone talking about something and uhh…" Naruto said pushing his fingers together as he looked over towards Hinami and Sasuke, his blonde hair sat around his head as he wore a green teeshirt with orange pants, the shirt having a land of fire symbol on the front in red. A sweat dropping behind his head 'We're doomed' Hinami and Sasuke thought as they looked over, meeting Naruto's eyes a moment

"You idiot! That's not even close! How are you so bad at this!" Sasuke said jumping over, whacking Naruto over the head with his book, Naruto falling to the ground, as he turned around, grabbing Sasuke's collar, 

"Hey! That hurt! You trying to start a fight!" Naruto said raising his fist, Hinami sighing from where she sat on the ground 

"Boys." She started

"Yeah! As if you could fight me! You can't even remember basic history!" Sasuke said in return, grabbing his collar

"Boys." Hinami said again, looking over with her pink eyes, the two continued to wrestle around before Hinami stood up from the ground, activating her byakugan, glaring towards the two

"Boys!" She said, the two looking over before jumping apart, 

"Right… Sorry." Naruto said returning to their original spots.

"let's try something easier, which village in the five nations was first? Cloud, Stone, Sand, Mist, or Leaf." Hinami said, looking towards Naruto, holding a book in front of her on ninja history. Naruto looked over towards her a moment, 

"That's easy, the leaf was. wasn't it?" Naruto said, Sasuke and Hinami breathing a sigh of relief

"You kids sure are working hard for these exams." Kushina said as she walked over, 

"Yeah cause I'm going to be hokage, ya know!" Naruto said with a fist in the air

"I'm setting to break uncle Minatos record in the exams written portion." Hinami said

"All four of us have to pass the exams together though since its a team based exam. Which means Naruto you need to study this stuff more." Sasuke said looking over glaring mildly at Naruto who paled as he held up his book, 

"Hey come on, ya know. Its hard to memorize this stuff." Naruto said and Hinami looked over

"Do your best, Naruto, Hinami, Sasuke." Kushina said with a grin, 

"Do you have an idea on how Naruto could memorize this stuff?" Hinami asked and Kushina hummed before shaking her head, unfortunately, she didn't have a clue. Or well, not one that was coming to her right off the bat.

"Jonin leaders. Please submit your recommendations." Minato stated looking towards the jonin in a meeting room referring to the genin teems for the chunin exams, numerous jonin supervisors came forwards, looking towards the man seriously as they submitted their recommendations for the exams. Minato nodding along, writing something down on the clipboard in front of him, likely checking off names for the exams.

"Might Gai, I lead Neji Hyuga, Tenten, and Rock Lee. I recommend all three for the chunin exams. Oh yeah!" Gai said with a thumbs up, his black hair was in a bowl cut around his head, wearing a forest green jumpsuit with a his protector on his waist underneath his jonin flak jacket. Wearing orange leg warmers on his legs sitting overtop his blue ninja sandals.

"Asuma Sarutobi. I lead Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akamitchi, and Shikamaru Nara. I also recommend all three." Asuma said, his black hair spiked over his head, wearing his headband around his forehead, his beard sitting around his chin, wearing a blue ninja outfit with a forest green flak jacket, wearing the guardian shinobi 12 light blue fabric around his waist. His shuriken holster on his right thigh, with his kunai pouch on his back waist, wearing wrappings around his shins, with blue sandals on his feet

"Kurenai Yuhi. I'm recommending my team of Hinata Hyuga, Shino Abarame, and Kiba Inuzuka to 

the chunin exams as well." Kurenai said, her black hair reached her upper back, her bangs parting over the headband around her forehead. Her red eyes which held an additional ring around them, looked towards Minato who sat at the desk. Wearing red lipstick and purple eye-shadow on her face, wearing bandages around her hands and forearms, as well as on her thighs under her wrap dress. Wearing a sleeveless mesh armor shirt under the dress to hide her cleevage. Wearing a white dress wrapping around her body with decoration of rose vines on the fabric. The dress had a red long sleeve on her right side, wearing blue zori on her feet.

"Kakashi Hatake, I lead Hinami Senju, Naruto Namikaze, and Sasuke Uchiha. I reccomend them for the exams." Kakashi said is white hair up above his head, wearing his headband diagonally over his face, hiding his scar and his left eye, wearing a blue mask on his face hiding his mouth and nose. Wearing a blue ninja outfit with blue sandals and gloves on his hands

"Wait, I taught those genin, are you certain theyre ready for the exams? Maybe Hinami, but the others…" Iruka asked testing the genin himself, before apologizing to the leaders. His brown hair in a ponytail behind his head wearing a headband around his forehead, wearing a blue ninja outfit, with a chunin flak jacket overtop. He had a scar going over the bridge of his nose, under either eye, wearing black zori on his feet with a shuriken holster on his right thigh and a kunai pouch on his back waist. 

"Put me down!" Konohamaru said struggling in Kankuro's grasp, Sakura stood on the ground with Miho beside her, he tried and failed to get Kankuro to release the academy student. his red hair sat flat around his head, wearing a red ninja outfit, his shuriken holster on his left thigh with his kunai pouch on his back paired with his headband on his left bicep, his protector around his forehead. Looking towards Konohamaru who was held up by a sand ninja he'd never met before, the boy had a hood with cat ears on his head where his protector sat, wearing an entirely black outfit with the kazekage symbol on the front of the shirt, wearing wrappings on his back. He wore purple facepaint on his face. 

"hey other ninja can't enter another's village without permission!" Sakura said trying to get them in trouble, her salmon hair sat behind her head, wearing a red sleeveless yukata with black shorts, her shuriken holster on her right thigh with her kunai pouch on her back waist. Before Temari could answer, a voice sounded from the front of the alleyway.

"Calm down. Nothing's more annoying than screeching. Konohamaru, meet Kankuro, for all his talk if he was actually going to harm you, he would have. Sakura if you actually read the flier, you'd know that they're here for the chunin exams, you know… The one that states the Sand, Rain, Waterfall, Grass, and Leaf were participating with the Leaf hosting. Honestly. If you're not going to read even the most basic of things, should you be in the chunin exams?" Hinami said looking over, her hands in her pockets of her jacket, wearing her black hair in a half up half down braid secured with with one lilac strand and one yellow strand intertwined with her own. wearing a lilac purple sleeveless top with a black skirt, paired with a tan cropped jacket overtop, the hood over her head, hiding her hair and partially hiding her features from view, with the hyuga symbol on the arms, with the Senju symbol on the back in black. Wearing a shuriken holster on her right thigh with a kunai pouch on her back, wearing sleeveless black gloves on her hands with arm guards underneath her jacket. Her scar which sat on the left side of her face, just outside of her eye. Before a rock flew from the nearby tree forcing Kankuro to drop Konohamaru the boy hissing in response, dropping the boy on the ground

"Oi! What was that for! I wasn't hurtin' him!" Kankuro said looking up in the tree at Kyoto who didn't respond to him instead glaring towards the girl who grabbed the rock aimed for her head out of the air, the girl glancing towards the tree, blinking as she noted her cousin standing there, Kyoto Uchiha. 

"We had this. Hinami. You didn't need to help." Kyoto said, the girl just blinking over, the boys midnight blue hair sat fluffed around his head, his black eyes looking forwards towards the girl. Wearing a black short sleeve top with tan shorts, his shuriken holster on his right thigh with his kunai pouch on his back.

"Did you really… " Hinami said in return, looking over towards the team, Kyoto was angry with Hinami, but the girl for the life of her had no idea why.

"Shouldn't you be with your team anyway?" Kyoto said in response, and Hinami shrugged, 

"Yeah, but I heard whining coming from over here, so I thought I'd check it out." she said in response yawning a moment, 

"If you're not taking the exams seriously, then don't take them. It'll be annoying otherwise." Hinami said,

"You're one to talk, are you even going to take the exams seriously." Miho commented,

"Yeah. Naruto'd pop a gasket if I didn't. I really don't want to deal with the whining from him if I don't." she said in response

"Really? That's the only reason you have?" Temari questioned wearing a light purple dress with off-shoulder longsleeves that reached her innerelbow, wearing fishnetting underneath, a red belt over her waist, her protector on a dark violet fabric sitting around her neck, wearing black ninja sandals on her feet.

"Aunt Tsuna would also pop a gasket, but also I want to be chunin, probably go jonin in a year provided I pass this chunin exams. Hope we face eachother, but uh, where's Sana and Gaara?" Hinami questioned in return, 

"Gaara's around here somewhere, but Sana's competing with her team." Temari said in response and Hinami hummed in response, 

"Nice." Hinami said in response, as another one jumped down, wearing a black shortsleeve shirt with matching pants, wearing a large gord on his back, his red hair parting over his tattoo, with a white cloth over his body diagonally, wearing his headband attached to the tan belt coming from the gord. Wearing black sandals on his feet with fishnetting underneath.

"Wait, Hinami you know them?" Konohamaru said and Hinami looked over with a blank expression

"No." She said in response, blinking a moment as she kept a straight face, before turning back towards the sand siblings, 

"See you guys later, I'm gonna go meet my team to check in." Hinami said before disappearing, Gaara'd noted the coldness, heartache, and grief that'd made their home in her eyes, just from their brief encounter. As well as the scar on the left side of her face

"Anything interesting?" Sasuke asked as she returned and Hinami hummed looking over as Naruto looked over, nodding in excitement. 

"Gaara and his siblings are attending, and some sound ninja may be some competition, but nothing concerning otherwise. team 6 doesnt seem to function as a unit." she said in return, the exams were upon them. They looked at the entrance of the academy building, taking a breath before entering, ready for what awaited them. Finding the rest of the genin trying to turn their papers in a floor below where they needed to go, crowding the entire hallway, making it impossible to pass. 'So it begins…' Hinami thought, looking towards her team who nodded in return,