Today was the day of the chunin exams. I wasn't particularly nervous, but it would finally be the day where I had interacted with my team again. Sasuke kept glaring daggers at me, Naruto was of course clueless to the whole thing, and Sakura was acting nervous about the whole exam.

We were making our way to where the first part of the exam was being held. As we were walking, there seemed to be a disturbance in front of us. There was a girl I remember with twin buns on her hair, she tried to get into a room where two familiar people blocked the door.

One of the boys had knocked her down and was about to strike again until a well known bushy eyebrow guy with a green jumpsuit stood in front of the blow and blocked it easily. I watched silently as Sasuke tells off about the genjutsu that was placed since we were on the second floor.

Me feeling a bit irritated about waiting, I left my team behind as they talked to that green monster and his team. I make it to the third floor and there stood Kakashi waiting by the door. He looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Where is the rest of the team?" he asked.

"Fighting with the bushy idiot."

Knowing exactly who I was talking about, Kakashi nodded.

"So... anything new with you?"

I sighed. He's trying to make small talk with me... But I can see it, he suspects something is wrong.

"Nothing new really... just the same boring routine."

He grunted in response as we awkwardly stood there. The atmosphere felt a bit tense and I didn't like it at all. It makes me feel all queasy. A few moments later, my team finally showed up. I mentally sighed in relief knowing the tension is going to die down. But I was wrong, as my brother congratulated us, both Sasuke and he had been eyeing me the whole time.

I shifted uncomfortably under their gaze and immediately walked into the classroom, and boy was there a lot of people here. I was soon brought away from their gazes by Naruto greeting those we used to be in class with.

Just then a loud voice, came crashing in.

"Oh Sasuke! I haven't seen you in forever! Did you miss me?"

I looked over to the sound and seen it was Ino.

"Oh Satoshi-kun!~ You're here as well! I missed you!"

Ino then latched onto my arm and snuggled into it making me have a scowl on my face.

"YOU INO-PIG, GET OFF OF SATOSHI-KUN!" Sakura shouted.

"MAKE ME BILLBOARD BROWS!"

Ino and Sakura then began to bicker at one another throwing insults after insults. My left eye twitched a bit due to feeling a bit irritated by the situation. I was going to put an end to all of this nonsense until a guy with silver hair and glasses spoke up.

"You newbies should quiet down. You don't want to get them angry." he said.

I looked at him a bit suspicious by his looks. He wore the Konoha hitai-ate, but I don't recognize him at all. I know basically every here in the village! I even know the people in ROOT! Sure, I know they never gave me their real names, but I know them... I'll just have to keep my eyes on him.

I ignore the silver haired kid and leaned on a wall with my arms crossed. I watched him as he eyed me down. I narrow my eyes at him and scoffed. He smirked at me as he returned his attention to the crowd he was receiving from my team and former classmates.

I listen in on their conversation, but it was hard since I was a good bit away. The only information I got out of it was that he collected information on some cards throughout the years he's been retaking the chunin exams. That made me even more suspicious at his acts. What made me even more interested was that a kid, I had no idea was, had asked the silver haired kid about me.

"Oh, you want to know about Satoshi Hatake?" he asked amused.

By now, everyone I knew practically leaned in waiting for the information to be given.

"Yeah, I think he might be a worthy opponent." the kid with shaggy brown hair.

I walked a bit closer to listen in on the conversation.

"Ah, here we go.. wow! He's been on 1 S-Ranked mission, 10 A-Ranks, 16 B-Ranks, 19 C-Ranks, and 72 D-Ranks." the silver haired kid said with a slight smirk.

Everyone's eyes had widened at the amount of missions I've been on, especially when they heard about the high ranked missions.

"How is that possible?! He's not even a chunin yet! Nor a jonin! How did he even get to get those kinds of missions, higher than his rank?!" the brown hair kid shouted.

I mentally chuckled at his words. I was allowed to go on those missions because they were my brother's missions. I would sneak behind his back, but in the end, I was always caught red handed. But I showed a lot of potential so the Hokage allowed me to go to those kinds of missions. However, the S-Rank mission was how I was able to gain such a privilege. Boy was my brother angry when I snuck along with him that day. Heh, I regret nothing.

"Oh, look here... it says Satoshi has a kekkeigenkai from his mother called th-"

Before the boy could finish, I flashed in front of him and burned the card in my hand.

"What?! No! Kabuto, did you read his kekkeigenkai was before he burned it?!" the brown haired boy shouted.

The boy named Kabuto shifted his glasses as he replied. "Sadly, no, but I bet it's powerful."

Everyone had turned to me giving me suspicious looks, but I couldn't care less, all I care about is that sliver haired swine! I gave him a hard glare and he was giving a sly smirk towards me so only I would see it. He knew what I had before even reading that stupid card of his, I just know it! Just how many people were freaking researching me?!

He then continued with his petty cards and this time it was my turn to smirk. A sound ninja had thrown a kunai at the four eyed bastard. I would have laughed if Ibiki hadn't showed up. He sure shouted at those sound ninjas because it made even flinch a little.

We all took a number of where we would be seated and I was right next to Sasuke and some random ninja. I looked over to Naruto and he looked like he was freaking out over there. But he should know a thing or two about the chunin exams. This part of actually the easiest part of the whole test. He really should have studied more.

Ibiki shouted for us to begin and I looked with my eyes. Sasuke looked deep in thought and it looked like he figured it out because he activated his Sharingan.

'Heh, smart as always... he's such an Uchiha.'

I then looked down at the guy a step lower than me on the right. He was writing on his paper like crazy and finished. I then activated my kekkeigenkai that allows everything around me appear in slow-motion, however, for me, it allows me to react and speed up my movement so my opponent has zero chance of actually hurting me, especially since it lets me see what's in front of me from a mile away.

My kekkeigenkai is called Hoku-me, meaning Hawk eyes. My eyes turn into a glowing teal color with a weird pattern . Anyways, once I had activated them, everything around me slowed down immensely.

I then stood up and walked down to grab the paper and copied everything down and gave the paper back to that kid. I sat back down in my seat and deactivated my eyes.

I looked over at Sasuke once more and he was still writing. Once he was done, he looked over at me and noticed I wasn't writing a thing. He then looked down at my paper and his eyes widened a bit.

"How did you finish so fast? I didn't even see you move a muscle."

"You were probably too distracted to see me even pick up a pencil, baka." I said bluntly.

His eye twitched a bit as he turned his gaze away from me and stare blankly ahead of him. Sasuke doesn't know about my kekkeigenkai nor my older brother, I never told them about it because I don't trust anyone knowing my power. The chance of getting this kekkeigenkai is rare, there is only a 5% chance of getting it within the clan my mother was in.

After an hour had passed, the test ended and quite a few teams had been taken out. Hn, such amateurs... the tenth question was given and I already knew it was a trick question.

Naruto seems displeased with Ibiki's last question and stood up. He gave a little speech and it seemed to give the other shinobi's some motivation to stay. I was pretty impressed, but the more shinobi's in the exam, the better I can act like a prick. Well, I can say this whole exam is going to be full of surprises.

After the test, I had quickly left the scene and went into my sacred place. It was in the forest and it was pretty much secluded. I sat down, leaning on a nearby tree and just did nothing. I didn't feel like reading and I had no thoughts to recollect since I see no more point in rethinking about the situation.

My mind was blank, and I can feel I have no more light in my eyes. They fell... dull. My muscles were limp and I stared blankly at the grassy landscape.

It was peaceful yet sad... but I don't shed a tear. No... not yet.. I won't let my tears fall so no more weaknesses, no feelings, and no more bonds. Erase everything and pretend you've been in the shadows all your life.

This is how I must live my life now... and I mustn't complain. How can you complain when you chose to live a life of a shinobi? Heh, and here I thought being a shinobi would be easy. I thought wrong...

That day where I had sat there doing nothing, I was slowly breaking... Of course for my age, it was a hard thing to do. I remember the story Itachi told me of why he did what he did. Seeing how his life was and how mine corresponded, they were totally different.

Geez, and I thought I had the tough life. But none of this really matters... the past, I'm showing you all, there is no point... well, not in my eyes at least. But I will say this, the thing I wished the most for my past self, was to leave with a proper goodbye.