dear god i dont want to see another exam. it would be almost as bad as doing a damn tournament story arc in DBZ. who would like to see one of thos again? i just want to see more of what naruto can do in actual life and death situations on actual missions.

im pretty sure everyone will agree with me that when naruto teamed up with sasuke against zabuza it was one of the better part of the series.

and like others said its pretty obvious that he is going to be promoted through something like this mission to get akatsuki.