Minato was having a mini panic attack, Orochimaru was disguised as the Kazekage and his daughter's crush still hadn't shown up, even Kakashi under threats by Mikoto and Kushina had shown up on time but Kou Tenebrae was nowhere to be found. Worse his supposed to be sensei came in and complained about Kou never showing up, "-and if Kakashi is going to steal my students please let me know so I don't search for them for three days." Ebisu finished before bowing and leaving.

Kou sat on the rooftop next to Itachi, "Shouldn't I go down and join them?" He asked dubiously while Itachi kept munching on a pocky, "No you need to show aloofness and power when in the chunin exams." Itachi spoke reassuredly, "Go down when your match is supposed to begin."

Naruko and Sasuke sat anxiously waiting as many of the rookie nine tried to talk to her but her she was only speaking with Sasuke, "Where is he?" She murmured, "Don't worry." Sasuke patted her shoulder reassuringly, "You mean the worthless dobe, he probably didn't have the courage to show up." Neji sneered before Sasuke retorted, "He still managed to beat up your teammate remember." Neji clenched his fists and began to walk away. Before a loud announcement sounded, Would Kou Tenebrae and Neji Hyuuga please come down for match one! Neji jumped into the arena and activated his byakyugan waiting.

"Well guess that's my cue, thanks for everything sensei." And with that Kou faded away, leaving a for once in his life wide eyed Itachi. The arena gasped when Kou Tenebrae appeared in a swirl of ravens. "No Itachi you didn't." Minato whispered, Sasuke smiled happy because he knew his friend had found pan excellent teacher, Mikoto clenched the railing till it broke, "So that was what you meant when you said you had to train the new anbu recruit and why you asked for Kushina to get yo specialty healing cream from Tsunade."

Neji studied Kou nothing much had changed except he now wore a large oversized black cloak and could shunshin with ravens. So what it was Kou's fate to lose.

Kou pulled off his cloak revealing him to be shirtless and Mikoto's hands clenched even harder when she saw the condition of his body. He had scars, burn marks, and bruises all over his torso. Naruko was gawking as Sasuke smirked, "You have a bit of drool on your mouth." He called out but she brought her hand down on his head but Sasuke had the foresight to dodge.

Kou faced down Neji, who looked back with the veins in his eye bulging. Neji raced towards him and got caught in a vortex of ravens, Neji began to spin and created a dome of chakra. Kou backed up as Neji tried to catch him with the one-hundred twenty-eight palms technique. Kou stood breathing heavily, 'this took a lot out of me I have to finish this in one move.' "Neji this is my ultimate move I created try to survive it." Kou spoke as Neji charged.

Kou had a look of serenity on his face as he dissolved into thirty ravens. Too late Neji began to spin before each raven started detonating. Boom! Boom! Boom! Neji was tossed around in the vortex of explosions before being launched outwards into a wall and crumpling to the ground.

Kou watched in slow motion as the match was called and Neji was shuttled off before falling backwards and being caught by Itachi, "Thanks, Itachi-sensei." He said before falling unconscious.

Kou woke up feeling the gentle breeze of the rooftop and found Itachi sitting next to him on the Hokage's head and the village was damaged . What happened he asked while groggily sitting up. "Orochimaru with the sand attacked while impersonating the Kazekage but was killed and Gaara transformed into the full Ichibi and was stopped by Naruko." Kou stayed silent mulling over what had happened and what his teammates had accomplished.

"Is everyone okay." He asked tensely before Itachi nodded. He smiled in relief but seeing Itachi's impassive expression decided to prod, "What's wrong, Itachi?" He asked

Itachi straightened up and collected himself, "Naruko and Sasuke have been promoted to chunin." "Let me guess I haven't." "They didn't like how you chose to win your match." Kou stood up and disappeared in a flock of ravens. Itachi stood with his sharingan active he had seen where Kou had gone but had decided to let him go. Kou reappeared in a blur choosing to forego theatrics, "Two things, one do you wanna get food because I'm hungry and to celebrate you're great teaching and two can I borrow a shirt." Kou finished before Itachi tossed him a black high collar Uchiha gave Itachi a competitive look, "Race ya to Ichiraku's, o shunshining " They both sprinted towards the ramen stand arriving with Kou arriving breathless and Itachi as collected as ever they took their seats.

They had ordered with no problem and were both savoring their ramen when a large cry of Kou was heard and he barely managed to shunshin to avoid being hug tackled by Naruko. He turned to see Kushina, Minato, Sasuke, Mikoto, Mito,Fugaku, and even Kakashi not far behind. Sasuke and Naruko began marching towards him while the parents walked in a slow mechanical way towards Itachi. They shared a look of 'Oh Kami' before standing tall. Mito awkwardly walked towards the ramen shop not sure what was going on. "

"So." Mikoto ground out slowly, "care to tell us why you subjected a boy and no less a genin to anbu level training." She started with her sharingan spinning, "I saw potential and chose not to act on it." Itachi replied with a hint of fear "He was going to be trai" Minato tried to start but Itachi turned to him with anger in his voice "So you sent him like a lamb to slaughter, you gave him To academy teachers who would've taught him chakra control, look what he's done under me. Kou has created a jutsu, learnt to summon so fast only the sharingan can read it, and survived two weeks of survival training hunted by me hitting him full power." Kushina, Mikoto, and Fugaku stood shocked while Minato turned to Itachi. "You still directly undermined my authority by training him.

At this point everyone in the street including the children were watching, this verbal sparring match. "In all due respect haven't I bettered the village by training and I believed it a tragedy that this boy was passed up for chunin, in fact I am offering a spot on my anbu team to him." He finished before turning towards Kou, "This is a serious offer." He spoke with his trained onto Kou. "I will accept, thank you sensei." He finished before walking away.

Kakashi grabbed his shoulder, "Kou I am your sensei and I will not allow you to enter anbu." "So you're now interested." He spoke with fury and tried to shrug out of his grip but Kakashi held firm, "I'm not going to let an unprepared genin throw away his life." Kakashi spoke, 'Obito and Rin I will correct my mistakes.' Kou exploded into ravens and disappeared. Itachi sighed, "I regret teaching him that." Before vanishing too the adults looked around to see only Mito and the dust trail of Naruko and Sasuke.

Kou sat back on the Hokage heads and watched the village releasing his anger from afar. No matter what he did. Mito, Naruko, and Sasuke would be praised if they won like he did they would be called daring. Nothing mattered, 'Anbu it is.' He thought. He turned to face his constant observer "Train me." He stated in an empty voice not turning around. Kou felt a woosh and saw a slip of paper on the ground. Meet me tomorrow at the forest of death at the crack of dawn.

He smirked, if he couldn't be someone he would be no one.