•Together until the end•

•Dangos•

"Yep, that's me! It's nice to meet you we didn't get to meet earlier since the incident." Sakura rubbed the back of her neck, 'She just did a full 180 with her wanting to murder on the spot to friendly. Jeez, Konoha girls are complicated.' You smiled and lightly petted her head as well making her smile. "My name is (Y/N)(L/N) I hope I can crush all your spirits during this exam and I won't show any mercy!" Y/N gave them a nice but menacing smile, making them all sweatdrop from the threat she just said.

A tall man with scars covering parts of his face and other leaf ninjas suddenly appeared after some of the smoke cleared.
"All right, you baby face degenerates, pipe down and listen up. I'm Ibiki Marino, your proctor and from this moment your worst enemy." Ibiki said with a smirk plastered on his face.

While everyone gasped, Y/N sat back against the wall just saving her energy since she most likely needs it later. 'Hopefully, this exam doesn't take too long. My parents and I were going to get some new flowers for the garden.' Y/N sighs.

Itachi's POV

"So are going to pass the L/N's place? It's been a while since we've been there." Kisame asked as we snuck around Suna.

"Of course, M/N makes the best dangos but it also gives the chance to see how Y/N is progressing with her Rinnegan. Its part of the mission like pein told us." I didn't want Pein to know about Y/N's Rinnegan, I wanted to protect her from the Akatsuki and live here peacefully in suna but apparently, he started to become suspicious of me when I started to ask for more mission in suna and then started to follow me. When he found about her rinnegan he decided he wanted to use this and wanted to wait until she was strong enough to join the Akatsuki.

"True, but we do need a break I'll feel like become dried fish here." Kisame chuckled as we arrived near the L/N's estate.
"Hm? is that you Itachi and Kisame?!" M/n dropped her watering can rushing over to us, and pulled us into a bone-crushing hug.
"I-It's nice to see M/n, how's it been?" Kisame managed to stutter out, M/n released us.
"It's been going great, Y/n is currently in Konoha for the chunin exams so you won't be able to see her." She leads inside their home, offering us tea and some sweet dangos.
"I see, how has she improved?" I asked as I dig in.
"She's growing faster than I thought her jutsu's are becoming stronger but we still want to wait a bit before we train with her rinnegan, The L/n power is in those eyes and I'm worried about if it's going to be too much for her tiny body." M/n sighs as she sits across from us.

"Don't worry too much about it, she's strong like her mother so she'll be fine."
"Ah, itachi you always know how to flatter me. Before I forget I got everything in the back to help you clean samehada, Kisame!" she said with her usual cheery tone.
"We should visit Suna more often, Thanks M/n." Kisame took off with his sword.

"So how long are you staying this time?" she asked as she picked up the empty plates from the table, I helped out with cleaning them.
"Until Y/n comes back, I have something to tell her."
"Well I don't mind that! That means more family to feed plus you guys can help me in the garden!" M/n hummed.
I felt at home here like I use to before the massacre, These people took me in after I had slain my clan and still take care of me with nothing in return. I want to protect them even costs my life.
"Itachi! C'mon, we just got new plants and I want to show them off!"

Back to Y/N's Pov

I sneezed as I walked back to our hotel room."You okay Y/N?" Temari asked me as she opened the door to our room.

"Yeah I feel a bit cold since I'm not used to the weather of Konoha." I took off my sandals and sat down at the table.

We passed the written exam pretty easily. I was the one that knew how to answer the questions while Gaara used his Sand eye to copy my answers then sharing it with other siblings but when I looked over at Naruto, he seemed to be panicking badly throughout the whole written exam though he did manage to get the tenth answer correctly with long speech after some teams were disqualified for either cheating or not wanting to get the Tenth answer wrong. Right now we're waiting until tomorrow to start the second part of the exam.