~Chunin Exam (PT 1)~
Sakura was waiting for kakashi with naruto and sasuke.
Go figures he's late, he always has the same excuse's as well:
'a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long route.' or ' i was helping a grandma out with her groceries'.
He finally appears out of thin air again making naruto jump back for the hundredth time.
"Hello my lovely little genin, I have signed you guys up for the chunin exams, so you get a paper and you get a paper and you also get a paper. Paper for everyone." he said eye smiling, all while exaggeratedly pointing at each one of them and handing each of them a paper.
Sakura grinned, she couldn't wait.
She wanted to show everyone how strong she actually was.
Kakashi saw the look on sakura's face.
"Anyways that was all see you at the exams!:>" he left.
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Sakura was pissed off after everything she proved she was strong and yet they decided to test whether she would join the exams for herself or listen to 'sasuke' and not participate what on the kami's earth made them think that was okay?
All the more reason to find her clan and be accepted she hoped.
'Like fucks they'd accept you.'
Sakura jumped.
'Where the fuck have you been!?'
'On the road of life.'
'For fucks sakes!!'
'Aww saku-chan , don't be a potty mouth'
'Funny coming from you.'
Sakura decides she doesn't want to deal with whatever this is and resolves to sneak into the jounin section to prove to herself that she is capable.
'Fuck Kakashi and his threats'
'That's what I was saying'
'You know I mean it differently!!!' she inwardly blushed.
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Sakura had actually managed to get into the jounin section.
It was surreal to her.
She wasn't 8 anymore.
'obviously'
She was very much not tiny enough to slip between book shelfs and hide between books.
(And yes she had actually done that)
Nevertheless she was here by some miracle, and intended to use this opportunity to the best of her ability.
She expected there to be very few jounin in here as most jounin level nin were clan nin and so had there own clan libraries.
What she hadn't expect,and which was kind of a stupid assumption to make in retrospect, was that there would be a whole ass anbu squad sat at one of the tables.
Doing...
'Wait, are they writing lines?!' Both inner and sakura thought at the same time.
Sakura was the most confused-amused-terrified she had been in her entire life.
Inner cackled.
The fearsome anbu were in fact writing lines all while a even more menacing anbu stood over them.
Suddenly the anbu caught her eye.
The man stalked up to her in 4 long strides.
"Hello young one, would you mind explaining why your in here when you are barely genin level?" The man spoke well, it was unnerving paired with the grinning koi mask.
'How can a koi, grin?'
'I have no idea'
"I snuck in." She said in barley an audible whisper
"Really?" he sounded sceptical, but then he seemed to mull it over before concluding that it was the truth.
"Interesting I'm sure you were just about to leave, am I right?" he prompted.
"Yes I was sir, thank you." She said managing to get her words out in spite of the quite truly intimidating man in front of her.
He nodded before turning, and that was that.
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She saw her team outside the academy where they were supposed to meet at.
She had everything prepared.
She was going to win, she had to.
She craved the recognition, she grimaced at that thought but ultimately accepted it.
At first her goal was to find her family, Now it was to prove she wasn't weak and to gain respect.
She walked to the first floor, then to the second then to the 'third' she knew it wasn't, sasuke knew, but naruto was ever the idiot
At the door, two 'boys' refused to let anyone through she was walking up the next set of stairs when she was stopped by them.
"Oi pink in case you can't read the third floor is this one." one said.
"I can read." Sakura affirmed.
"Then where are you going?" The other said.
Naruto scrunched his face and was about to speak but sakura didn't let him.
"Izumo, kotetsu, cut the crap." She said, the two boys in a poof turned into the well known gate guards.
"Awe c'mon sakura do you gotta give up our cover like that." Izumo said scratching the back of his head.
She just giggled
They followed the winding stair case up.
"Sakura your amazing how did you know?!" Naruto said heart shapes filling in his eyes.
"It was easy because I see them everyday and I know there chakra signature." Sakura explained, a little off put by the hearts.
Once they had gotten up the stairs they were met by a bushy browed, bowl haired boy, a hyuga and a girl with brown hair
"You are a truly youthful blossom, please date me! What is your name?" The boy in the green leotard said his companions deadpanned
"Ah my name is sakura and no, unfortunately I am not interested at the moment." Sakura said, as politely as she could muster.
'Really? Was the unfortunately all you could think of, think of the childrennnn.'
'No.'
"That is truly unfortunate I hope that you will come around my youthful blossom." The boy said
They all went into the waiting room, sasuke a little crestfallen.
After all a few minutes before he was beaten by the boy, who's name was Rock Lee, and was only saved from more humiliation because the boys equally 'youthful' sensei had a 1 on 1 session with him after he was about to use an ultimate move.
To sum up the conversation it was about how he, lee, was very youthful for admitting his mistakes.
There was a lot of tears, and traumatization for everyone there.
Except for lee and his sensei.
They were very happy actually.
Once they got to the waiting room they were met by the rest of the rookie 9, who were sat inside the room already, they joined them and naruto made a speech about how he was never going to give up and believe it or something like that which got them all death stares.
Sakura curled up her fists and hit naruto on the head for being so blatant and loud then a grey haired shinobi with glasses approached them.
He introduced himself as kabuto yakushi, sakura had heard that name before then it clicked kabuto yakushi had participated in the chunin exams 7 times before always quitting before the last round.
she found herself unable to look past that fact having a hunch that it may be a part of something bigger.
But he showed the rest of the rookie 9 information.
That he shouldn't know mind you.
But he did.
It made sakura all too aware he could be a spy.
But he was from their village, she didn't want to throw around baseless accusations.
"Oi Forehead!!you did an a-rank?!" In all but screamed in shock.
"Yea pig." Sakura replied smiling.
"That's not fair!!!" She pouted.
"Were making a spectacle of ourselves quite down." Shikamaru said
And true to his word everyone was staring at them either with hate or annoyance.
There was this whole thing with a sound nin and the yakushi boy but sakura didn't care.
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The written exam was made to test your communication skills.
She of course being the best at written work had finished and gotten them all right, naturally.
She had no doubt despite what she thought about sasuke that he would have done fine.
It was naruto who she couldn't stop thinking about.
She hadn't ever actually wanted a team.
They have only dragged her down, if she had a better team like ino's maybe she would have been happier.
Content.
But she wasn't.
She was haruno sakura and she didn't train her ass off just so she could be dragged down by two boys who had unrealistic ambitions.
'You done with your monologue outer? I'm all for it really but it's getting cringe."
Sakura had to stop herself from laughing out loud.
The test was finally finished thought the end question was really a ruse.
Next was the forest of death.
They had to do well in this.
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It was so not going well.
Sakura thought as she watched the grass-nin-sanin disappear leaving the Pinkett with 2 unconscious body's.
Sakura wanted to kill them.
They just cost her time.
Time she didn't have, why did they not just give the scroll sasuke had the right idea as vexed as she was to admit it.
And fucking naruto, don't even get her started.
There's no room for bravery and what not when your opponent is literally a sanin.
She dragged there bodies into a tree using a genjutsu to make it seem like no one was there.
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Sakura was glad she had the forethought of using genjutsu instead of traps.
In her weakened state she wouldn't have been able to fight the three genin sent her way.
She watched as the sound nin talked about how Orochimaru wanted this and that and how they needed to find the uchiha boy.
At this point sakura wanted to throw sasuke out to them but thought it wise not to.
"Damn right the village will be after us if they find out we did that."
Sakura wanted to sigh but the nin had not left.
After what felt like hours they left never noticing the genjutsu hiding three genin.
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Sakura managed to finally get to the tower with two scrolls.
No thanks to her team who just stood there God's she wanted to rip there throats out of there-
"Bad Outer!" Inner said spraying a black and white water spray at sakura.
Sakura ended up just opening the scroll in the tower because it said it.
The other two were wary only time in there lives they were.
Sakura snorted.
Iruka came out and congratulated them.
All In all it was uneventful.
For her at least, sasuke was ushered away to report the encounter with Orochimaru.
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She had to face the strongest fucking sound nin and she was not looking forward to it, she walked into the (makeshift?) she thought it looked makeshift, arena.
He gave her a grin as if he new her, as if he new how she was gonna loose.
But she wasn't, sakura wouldn't.
He used the same jutsu he used on yakushi to break his glasses.
It hit her in the leg.
She almost screamed, the pain was painful.
'Such an eloquent way to put it'
'Not the time.'
A laugh escaped her bloody lips, if it had been her arm she would have been done, out for good.
She untied the material that restricted the fan part of her odatchi fast as she could all the while spinning away from attacks that would and could debilitate her.
She was all too aware of the crippling pain blossoming in her leg.
Sakura was just glad it seemed like a hairline fracture and so wasn't fully broken.
All the same, she needed to end this quickly.
"Seijitsu Kaze-ken" ((Wind Style: Faithful Wind Blade))
A 10 foot blade of wind materialized near her fan, shadowing it's movements, she batted her fan at the area the nin was taking cover.
He was trying to hide and attack, long range attacks were his speciality she deduced.
The blades of wind ripped through the mud walls the nin had erected to cover himself .
In all reality she didn't realise that the jutsu she used was for a sword and that by using it in conjunction with a fan it gave a wider area affected or in laymen's terms a deadlier impact.
So when she was met with cold silence and a lot of red she flinched.
"The winner...is sakura haruno." The Proctor said hesitantly and sakura was flooded with pride?
She had killed one of the enemy.
'Keep telling yourself that, maybe one day you'll actually believe it'
She ignored inner.
Her. She had. Everyone was staring at her and no one said anything as she went to join them up as a spectator.
The matches continued.
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By the end of the matches;
Neji had won against Hinata
Naruto had won against Kiba
Shikamaru had won against the girl from sound.
Gaara had won against the third boy from sound killing him in the process.
Temari had won her match against ten ten.
Shino had won some random shinobi she couldn't remember.
And kankuro had won against someone she didn't know either.
Ino had lost against a random sound nin quite spectacularly.
Sasuke match up was shit for him in his current situation, considering he couldn't use much if any of his chakra.
He fought rock Lee and was defeated spectacularly but true to his word sasuke did not use his cursed seal, It was admirable but expected.
After all who wanted to be locked up because they couldn't control they're body?
Sakura wasn't blind enough to believe the village wouldn't do that.
Neither was sasuke, it seemed.
Sakura was walking back home when she was tapped on the shoulder, inwardly she cursed at the fact she let her guard down.
When she turned, fake smile already in place she almost faltered.
Stood there with varying expressions and emotions written plainly across their faces were what looked to be the whole Konoha 12 minus herself.
They were obviously here to broach the topic of her kill, no doubt.
Questions like:
'Why?' Ino was going to say she was sure.
'How?' From sasuke of course
"Sakura...wait up." Ino shouted but there was a hesitance to her voice.
They were scared?
Probably.
" of course there scared you killed someone! Now we cant even have cute babies!!!!!"
'Inner. Not. the. time.'
"Pig, what's up?" Sakura tried to sound jovial but by the look on ino's face it wasn't working.
"Sakura...why did you kill him." Ino ask a pleading lilt to her voice.
Everyone was paying rapt attention to her answer.
"You don't want to know." She evaded.
"Sakura-chan please?" Naruto asked again, a look of almost pity in his eyes.
"What do you want me to say?! What are you trying to uncover! Do you want me to say I just enjoy killing? Because the truth is kind of plain and stupid, I didn't realise that the jutsu I used would have been more powerful with my fan than my odatchi."
Everyone was shocked at the outburst the explanation was even worse, some nodded whilst others covered there mouths in horror.
"How can you live with that?" It was ino again.
"What a drag, were ninja, some day were all going to have to kill." Surprisingly it was shikamaru who said that.
Sakura just left the genin to stew over her morality.
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She was pissed off.
Naruto and Sasuke got tutors to teach them but sakura got no one.
'Sasuke didn't even make it to the fucking finals'
Kakashi said and she quotes:
"Maa sakura-chan maybe you should take so you time, reflect on your kill, do some girl stuff."
She was going fucking show him.