He will fight for her…but now, he will cheat for her.
After witnessing Satsuki get bodied by Rock Lee, Naruto had come to an important conclusion:
The competition in this exam was insane.
Which meant, as the future Hokage (and self-declared savior of Satsuki’s social and emotional well-being), it was his duty to scope out the other competitors.
And, of course, he did this in the most Naruto way possible. "Alright, listen up!" he announced loudly, hopping onto a table in the exam hall. "I, Naruto Uzumaki, am gonna be the next Hokage, and I will be fixing the Uchiha, so if any of you think you can stop me, you better be ready to throw hands!"
Dead silence.
A hundred genin turned to stare at him.
Satsuki, sitting beside Sakura, hiding her face in between her hands. "I don’t know him," she muttered.
Sakura groaned. "Why are we friends with him again?"
Meanwhile, Naruto was too busy pointing at random competitors to notice their suffering. "You! You look kinda scary, so I’m keeping an eye on you!" He pointed at Gaara, who stared back with dead, soulless eyes. Naruto’s confidence faltered for a second before he quickly moved on.
"You! The guy with the glasses!" He pointed at Kabuto, who simply smiled in a way too nice way. Suspicious.
"And you..." Naruto turned to Kiba, who blinked at him.
"Dude, we’re from the same village."
Naruto ignored him. "—are on my watchlist, too!"
Just as he was about to continue his absolutely flawless analysis of the competition, a loud voice interrupted.
"Alright, brats, shut up!" Naruto turned, still standing proudly on his table, to see a group of examiners entering the room. The lead one, a scary-looking guy with scars on his face, gave him an unimpressed look.
"This is the first part of the Chunin Exams," he announced, "and it’s a written test."
Silence was so loud that till this day, the rumours still goes till this day that you can hear the sound of Naruto's brain crashed.
A test.
A written test.
As in, with questions.
As in, the one thing Naruto Uzumaki was absolutely, completely, and utterly terrible at.
His face drained of color. "Oh, crap."
Satsuki, finally looking amused for the first time that day, smirked at him. "What happened to being the next Hokage?"
Naruto swallowed hard. This was fine. He could handle this. He had trained for battle, for survival, for protecting Satsuki from herself and her terrible life choices...
Ah shit...Was it too late to just fight Rock Lee now?