Then beside the Raikage was the same Jonin who accompanied him to Konoha just over a year ago.
As Naruto waited for the proctor to begin the third exam, he knew that his own family was missing from the stands.
Before they had left for Suna, Minato and Jiraiya had decided it would be best to keep the twins and Mina in Konoha since they did not want to risk any assassination attempts. Kushina had readily agreed which made Naruto angry.
He wondered if his parents actually remembered about him at all. They had not shown any concern when he left for Suna over a month ago and yet they were threatening over the twins. Instead of coming to Suna they would instead watch from the chunin stadium in the leaf where they would be playing the chunin exams on the big screen for those that had not gone to Suna to be able to watch it.
His eyesight then turned towards the shinobi he and his team would have to go against but noticed that the Iwa Kunoichi was glaring at him. Kurotsuchi who name he remembered outfit was the same as before but her eyes were brimming with confidence.
"I bet she has gotten a lot stronger since her grandfather is the Tsuchikage after all," he thought as he looked back up at the Kage Box to see Onoki looking down at his granddaughter with a prideful smile before he turned to Naruto gaze before narrowing a little and scoffed a little.
Over in the stands Tsuande who was keeping close eye on Naruto saw where his gaze was going san noticed Onoki looking at him. She let a growl build up in her throat promising pain to Onoki if he tried anything during the exams.
Next to him Anko let her eyebrows shoot up a little."You okay Naruto?" Anko asked as she tapped her friends on the elbow since she saw his frown on his face.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Just thinking that all," he said looking away from the stands and just focusing on the ground in front of him.
"Always dangerous," she said snickering a little while Naruto knocked her a little with his hip, making her almost trip. He got a glare in return.
Konoha
Kushina sat in the kage box with many of clan heads as they waited and watched the chunin exams, wondering how well Mikoto's team was going to do since she had bragged that her team was definantly going to make chunin first time around. It earned a lot of scoffs thinking it was ridiculous but were curious none the less.
Kushina sat with Mina on her lap who was giggling happily as she saw her brother on the big screen.
"If it was not for the eyes, he would be a carbon copy of Minato," Inora said as her daughter Ino sat by her feet, happily playing with Mito and the other clan children.
Suna
From the centre of the arena a small smoke cloud appeared and got quickly swept away. Pakura arrived and stood in the arena drawing attention to herself as her being their signalled the matches were about to begin.
"Good luck guys," Naruto whispered.
"You too," both Itachi and Anko said to him before they paid close attention as the Kazekage stood up from his seat and began to speak as his voice projected through the arena.
"Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the Third part of the Chunin exams. I welcome everyone who is from the village of Konoha, Iwagakure and Kumogakure and hope you are enjoying your stay here in Suna. Watch as these eight young genin will show the world why they are ready to advance into becoming chunin of their village. Pakura, I leave the rest to you."
Pakura nodded towards her Kazekage before looking at the eight genin. "If any of you want to drop out now, then now is the time to do so she said as everyone watched as no one moved."
"In that case would everyone except for Anko Mitsarashi of Konoha and Raido Kuroshini of Kumo please leave the field and go to the competitor's box," she said. "Kick some ass Anko," Naruto said as Anko grinned at him knowing that kicking ass was exactly what she had in mine.
Naruto and Itachi left the arena and stood next to one another as they watched their friend and team mate.
"So how do you think she will do?" Itachi asked watching as Anko took up her position as did the Kumo shinobi.
Naruto grinned at the question. "Anko is going to win, no questions asked. She has been working her butt of this last week so there is no way she would lose to this guy."
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