The first test, new ninja and an agenda

As soon asTeam Seven opened the door, they saw the room was filled with all kinds of ninja, not just ones from their village. Naruto saw ninja from all over, his lessons with the team including recognzing other villages ninja.

The majority hailed from the Konoha, but some ninja from Iwagakure and Kumogakure and Kusagakure were scattered through the crowd. Naruto also noted a team from Suna in the corner of the room, consisting of a red-headed boy that looked like he hadn't slept in a while and was giving Naruto bad vibes, a boy with makeup and something in bandages on his back, and an attractive girl in pigtails with the biggest fan he had ever seen in his life.

Naruto saw a single team from Kirigakure out of the corner of his eye, and he saw a girl playing with a needle in her hand, obviously telling her teammates to act accordingly to whatever she was instructing them on.

Naruto also saw a few ninja that he hadn't had a clue what village they were from. Two groups with music notes on their headbands stared at them as Narutos eyes fell on them, one group with Naruto saw looked pretty average, a guy that had nothing to standout from, another that looked like a mummy, and a raven haired girl that seemed less then pleased with her teammates.

The other group had two guys who seemed more afraid of their red-headed female teammate who was giving them. in Narutos opinion. the most vulgar chewing out he had ever heard in his life- "Wow, this is different.". Naruto muttered as his two teammates nodded in agreement. Seeing nothing else to do, they moved off to a free part of the wall and waited for the exam to start.

"Hey Naruto!", a voice called, catching his attention he saw a grinning Kiba walking over making, Naruto smirk as Akamaru barked his greeting. "Hey Kiba, you guys caught on at the last minute or something?", Naruto asked. "Our troublesome teammate demanded our lazy teacher give us a mission that matched yours after hearing about it.", Shikamaru said boredly as he stepped out from behind Kiba.

"Really? What was it?", Ino asked as Shikamaru sighed. "Guarding a troublesome convoy to a troublesome town, it was a drag.", Shikamaru sighed again, making Kiba snicker a bit. "Looks like the teams are all here.", a voice called, getting their attention as Choji walked up with Shino and Hinata. "All but the Uchiha.", Shino said quietly, making Sakura realize it.

"Um... where is Sasuke-kun?", Sakura wondered, looking around. "The troublesome teammate is getting a private talk from sensei, probably trying to get an edge up above us or something...", Shikamaru answered. shaking his head a bit at Sasukes apparent outlook on team work. Naruto smiled, seeing his other girlfriend over with her team.

Tenten, who caught Naruto's smiles at her, smiled likwise and gave a flirty blown kiss to him, getting a very loud shout of love and youth from Lee while the Hyuuga on her team seemed to roll his eyes in annoyance. Kiba couldn't help but grin at the looks the two were giving each other and elbowed Naruto a bit.

"Looks like things between you two are going well, eh, Naruto?", Kiba snickered as Naruto rubbed the back of his neck, laughing nervously.

True, they were. But Naruto and the girls had decided to keep the intimate relationship between him and his three girls on the low for now, though thanks to Ino holding onto him earlier, he wondered how long that would last anyway.

But for now, Tenten was Narutos only announced girlfriend, a fact that, though accepted, wasn't well liked by either Ino or Hinata. Naruto felt a little more relaxed then he had been that morning since he was around so many friends. The conversations drifted from the exam to missions they had done up to this point.

Naruto heard the door open and in entered Sasuke Uchiha and after looking around, spotted his team. Naruto noticed a grimace on his face after seeing the rest of the group. "Sasuke-kun!", Sakura squealed as he walked over, though the last Uchiha didn't respond to her.

"Hey Ino, aren't you happy to see him too?", Shikamaru asked, wondering why his friend wasn't acting like she normally was. "Nope, I'm over him. I guess I realized that there are better flowers in the garden...", Ino said, making Shikamaru stare at her before smiling and muttering "Troublesome woman.".

Naruto kept his eyes on all the other teams, feeling a bit unsure about the different counties ninjas all in one room. "Hey Shikamaru, I got a question.", Naruto said, getting the attention of his friend beside him. "Yeah, what is it?", Naruto looked towards a few points of interest in the room.

"What can you tell me about the teams from Sand, Mist, and those ones with that sound sign on their headbands?", Naruto asked, getting a muttered 'Troublesome' from his friend before he went into detail. "Well, the sand team are something like royalty apparently.", Shikamaru muttered. "They're the heirs of the Kazekage, so you know they must be strong if their dad is the leader of their village.".

Naruto nodded as he listened. "The mist ninja is something weird, usually they stay in their own country and don't do much, seeing as their pretty weak in the number of ninja.". Looking over at the girl with the needles in her hand Shikamaru frowned. "Though apparently that girl of theirs is strong, she has this kekkei genkai that lets her contol ice and water.". Naruto stared at his buddy in wonder. "What's so weird about that?"

"Well, if you consider about sixty percent of your body is water, she could kill you as easy as look at you.", Shikamaru informed him making Naruto sweat a bit nervously. "And as for those ninja with the new headbands... our sensei told us about them, apparently some new village sprung up recently and they felt they should send two teams to take the exam, in case one doesn't do their job.".

Naruto looked back over at the two groups and nodded. "Something weird about them though, huh?", Naruto said questioningly. "Yeah. If you ask me, they're a bit too well trained for this. That troublesomely loud redhead walks like sensei does, she's too well trained for such a young village.", Shikamaru said as he thought about it deeper before suggesting "I think we need to keep an eye on a few teams here.". A nod from Naruto was all the answer Shikamaru got as suddenly, the room filled with smoke.

"Alright, you ninja wannabe's!", a voice called out and as the smoke cleared Naruto saw thr room filled with teachers and a man Naruto had never seen before standing at the front. He was huge and had scars all over his face. "Everyone get a seat! This is the start of the written exam! And I'm the instrucor, Ibiki Morino!". As everyone got a seat, the man nodded. "These are the rules: Ten questions, how you answer them is up to you!", the man began, "If you're caught cheating three times, you're out!".

Naruto grinned to himself, hearing the man listing off rules like a drill instructor. Thankfully, Tenten had given him and the others the heads up on this part of the exam and how you were supossed to cheat, after all it's a ninjas job to be sneaky and underhanded.

Tenten herself was going to help him in this part since she made sure to get the seat right behind him.

"Just keep your head up Naruto-kun, you'll get through this part no problem.", Tenten whispered as the man stopped talking. At the call of the start of the exam most seemed to have figured it out, either copying off of others or teammates acting in groups to get the job done,. Naruto smiled and glanced at the ceiling without attracting too much attention to himself.

Tenten had tossed a mirror up to the rooms top, suspended by wire and two kunai, a feat worthy in itself considering there were high ranking ninja watching their every move and Tenten hadn't been caught doing it. Apparently, Lee, who sat some behind her, was also using it to get the answers like he was. Naruto was glad to see none of his friends were tossed out of the exam for being caught but quite a few teams were.

By the end of the exam the empty seats had grown to show quite the divide in the teams. "Good, those that remain here pass the first part of the exam.", the man said gruffly before grinning like a predator.

"But the next part is even tougher, so get ready because....". He couldn't even finish his statement as he looked to the window to the exam room as an object broke through the closed window, shattering the glass and making all the remaining teams stare in shock.