Disclaimer: As you know I don't own Naruto. There are more made up Jutsu tha make no sense in english but hey all the Jutsus in this great show and manga sound better in japanese anyway. Well R&R plz hope you all like it!!
Chapter 3: The forest of Death exam.
After Morino told everyone that they passed he explained a bit more about the first part of the test telling them that it was all to see how the gathered information skills as not to jeopardize any of their members in a squad. He removed his bandana to reveal what laid underneath. Cuts, burns, and holes everyone looked surprise and even scared a bit.
" To gather incorrect information can cost you your village and teammates. We basically used information gathering in the form of cheating. Those who couldn't pull it off in this field were failed. This is what happened in this test." he explained.
" Then what about the tenth question. I still don't get it?" asked a student.
Morino merely smirked.
" That question was the main question within the test. It was a take or not take question. If you couldn't take it then you and your team failed. If you did choose to take it and couldn't answer it then you couldn't take the exam forever. This question was insincere. So what about the tenth question? Heh, lets say you were all Chuunin and your mission was to recover a secret document. The number of enemy ninja, abilities, and armaments are not known. They have set up numerous traps and there is a risk of loosing one of your squad members and even your own life. Do you choose to take the mission or not?" he added his voice still low and unnerving.
Everyone gulped and continued to stare at him.
" Even if your team mates and yourself or in danger with this mission. Are you able to avoid it?" he paused smirking still seeing their faces.
" No. You have to show your courage to your team whenever needed and be ability to get through a bad situation. This is what we look for in a Chuunin. A leader to help their team to accomplish their mission with the least injuries. Those who gave up the chance because there is a next year their minds waver over uncertain futures. They are ones who have light determination that have no right to become a Chuunin. That is what I believe. Those who have chosen to take this have given the right answer to the tenth question. With this I believe you all can deal with the difficulties you will face in the future. You have broken through the entrance the first exam of the Chuunin selection ends now." he finished lastly.
Everyone in the room relaxed a bit hoping that the worst was over. That is till a black ball came crashing into the window. It released a huge banner and in front of it was a woman with dark purple hair in a ponytail. She had lavender eyes and wore a mesh shirt with a short tan skirt and tan jacket that laid open leaving little to the imagination for any of the guys in the room.
Akako, Sumomo, and Kairi all fell to the side seeing their sensei's entrance.
' Why does she have to do that?' they all thought.
Naruto glanced at Akako raising an eyebrow wondering why she acted like that. Before he could ask Akako the woman spoke up.
" I'm the second examiner Anko Mitarashi. Let's head to the next exam!" she called before punch her fist upwards.
" Everyone follow me!" she added.
Everyone sat there while Anko's three students sat there twitching. Morino turned to Anko and began talking to her. During that Naruto turned to Akako.
" Akako-chan what's wrong? Why are you twitching?" he asked.
Akako turned to him and gave him a smile best as she could.
" That's mine, Sumomo, and Kairi's sensei. I think she went a bit overboard with her entrance though." she answered.
Sasuke gave a small laugh and smile seeing Kairi shake her head in a slight defeat.
' Looks like their Sensei is like Naruto. Heh this should be interesting.' he thought to himself.
Anko smirked seeing her students sitting there.
' So they did pass. I hope they'll be able to pass the next test.'
She continued to smirk and replied to Morino.
" I don't mind if they are excellent students but I'll make more than half fail the next one. I'll explain everything tomorrow we will head somewhere else. Ask your Jounin teachers about this rally point and time. Dismissed!" she said to them letting them leave the room.
Leaving the room Anko pulled Kairi and the others to the side. The girls were curious and surprised at their sensei's actions.
" Alright you three. This is what you have all trained for I trust you will be able to handle it. Now the place were the second part will be held at the Forest of Death be there at one thirty pm." She said to her students.
" Hai Anko-sensei." they said together.
Anko smiled and placed hand on Kairi and Sumomo's shoulder.
" I wish you three luck. You can go now." she said turning on her heel and walking out of the building.
Sumomo turned to her friends.
" You guys ready to take this baby?" she asked with a lot of enthusiasm.
Akako and Kairi laughed.
" You betcha we are. I say we should get some rest before tomorrow." Kairi said grinning feeling some of the excitement radiating from Sumomo.
" Alright, See you guys tomorrow." Said Sumomo as she headed off home.
Kairi and Akako did the same heading in the same direction till they had to separate from each other.
" See ya later Kairi-chan." Akako said giving a small wave to her.
" See you later too Akako-chan." Kairi replied.
Akako headed home feeling excited as well. She walked into her home and grabbed a small book and bag before heading out again to the mountain with the Hokage faces carved into it.
She sat down and crossed her legs and opened her book and pulled out a pencil hastingly sketching. Akako sat there her mind not wondering from her task at hand.
Naruto left the building and decided to gather his mind sitting in front of the Hokage faces. He grinned and walked up the stairs and stopped at the top for a brief moment. There he saw Akako sitting cross legged against a pillar looking as if she was lost in her mind her hand absent mindly moving. Naruto smirked and snuck up to her to try and scare her. Tapping on her shoulder she squealed and turned to the laughing blonde who doubled over.
" Naruto-kun! Why the hell did you do that?!" she asked clutching her heart to stop it from beating rapidly.
" Sorry Akako-chan I couldn't resist. You looked so spaced out at the moment." he answered wiping a tear from laughing away.
She pouted and playfully tapped his forehead.
" I'm sorry to have worried you Naruto-kun. See ya tomorrow." she said before winking and walking away.
Naruto blushed beat red and stood baffled watching her walk away.
' Why does she leave me feeling like this?' he thought.
' That's because you love her silly boy. You're denser than I thought.' replied the Kyuubi inside his mind.
' Who asked you anyway you stupid fox?' Naruto came back getting a little irritated that the Kyuubi decided to rear his head and voice in his thoughts.
The Kyuubi just smirk.
' Heh, sorry kid but I know it's true. Even if you don't think it is. I'll give you time before you realize it.' the fox demon added before leaving Naruto alone.
Naruto shook his head before continuing to clear his mind to prepare for the second part.
The next day every one arrived to the entrance of the forest of death. Anko stood before them her smile on her face. This made all the students nervous.
" This is were the second part of the selection exams will take place. Number 44 training area also known as the forest of death." she said to the students.
At this point everyone but Akako and her friends and others that were confindent were the only one that didn't shake and shiver. Everyone stood silent waiting to hear more from Anko.
" You all will experience why this called the forest of death." she started.
Naruto frowned and a bit and acted like Anko.
" You all will experience why this is called the forest of death." he mocked.
Akako, Sumomo, and Sakura sighed and shook their heads.
" What an idiot." Kairi and Sasuke both muttered.
Anko grinned.
" You seem pretty confident. People like you are always the first to die." she said before throwing a kunai that whizzed past him cutting his cheek.
She appeared behind Naruto and whipped away a bit of blood from the coat on his cheek. Anko's eyes went serious when she felt a presence come behind her. She turned around kunai in hand. A grass ninja handed Anko the Kunai she threw by the tongue.
" I was just returning your knife." the ninja said.
" Why thank you Grass Ninja." Anko said her eyes closed and smiling.
" Please don't stand behind me like that unless you want to die early." she added.
The grass ninja nodded and stepped back to stand with her fellow squad members.
Anko turned back to the students after grabbing her kunai back and walking to the front of the fence.
" Before the second exam can begin I will pass these to everyone. A consent form that must be signed by those taking this exam. For now on people will die in which we need people's consent before we continue. If not then I will be held responsible." Anko said ending with a laugh.
Anko's students just sweat dropped and shook their heads all thinking the same thing.
' Why did our sensei have to be a nut?'
Anko handed the stack of forms to Naruto who took one and passed the rest to another.
" Now I will begin to explain the second exam. This is a survival test and match. Let me explain the geographic features of the area. There are forty four entrances and it is a circular region. The tower in the center is located ten kilometers from each gate. There is a river and forest within this region. In this the survival match is a completion were anything goes battles over these scrolls." she stated pulling out two scrolls.
One had a dark blue border and marked with the symbol of Earth. The other had a light colored border and had the symbol for heaven written on it.
" These are the heaven and earth scrolls you will be fighting for theses. Once you have turned in your consent form your team will recivie a scroll. Half will recivie an earth scroll and the other half will have the heaven scroll. You have to have both earth and heaven scrolls in order to enter in the tower located in the center of the area with all members of your team. This means only about half of you will pass this test. Of course you have to complete this within five days. You are not allowed give up in the middle of this exam." She paused looking over the students quickly before continuing.
" Here are the conditions of failing. One, if a team is not able to bring both scrolls to the tower with all team members then they will fail. Two, a team that looses or can't recover a lost teammate will fail. Just as a note you are not allowed to look inside of the scrolls until you reach the tower and go inside. Let's just say you don't want to know what is inside. Of course this exam is test your reliability and survival skills as a Chuunin. After you turn in all three consent forms from your team you will be handed your scroll and picked an entrance. After picking your entrance the exam will begin and everyone will enter at the same time." Anko stopped and sighed.
" One more piece of advice. Don't die!" she added.
With that everyone went their ways to read and sign the consent forms. Akako with her friends went to a tree and sat by it reading the forms. Sumomo was nervous just as everyone else.
" You think we can do this?" Sumomo asked.
Kairi nodded.
" Yeah we can. We have to be on alert at all times the next five days. Besides we're close to becoming Chuunin and we shouldn't give now." Kairi replied signing her form.
" Yeah Sumomo-chan we've come this close so let's not disappoint our selves and sesnei. We have to get through this exam." Akako added also signing the form and standing up.
Sumomo nodded and smiled.
" I'm glad I have friends like you guys. Let's do it." she said signing her form and standing with her friends.
The other two girls giggled seeing Sumomo's renewed determination. They stood against the tree and waited when it was time to turn them in. One of the other examiners pulled back the curtain and called out.
" Alright time to turn in your forms."
All the students stood and walked to the small hut to get their team's scroll and head into the forest. When Sumomo and her friends turned in their forms they received an Earth scroll. Anko turned to the students.
" Once you received a scroll follow the person in charge to your designated gates. The test will begin in thirty minutes." she said to them.
Sumomo and the others followed their charge and stopped at gate 13. The girls all gulped and clenched their fists.
" No turning back now ne?" Kairi said to her friends.
" Yeah no turning back." Sumomo replied.
" This is it." Akako added.
The minutes passed till Anko's voice could be heard over the other examiner's coms.
" Let the test begin."
The examiners at the same time opened the gates and all students rushed into the area. Needless to say none of them wasted any time in hiding them selves among the trees or setting traps for unsuspecting ninja.
Akako and her team reached a small clearing. They stopped and it had been ten minutes and they stood to get a feeling of were someone will be. Kairi glanced to her left and right pulling out a kunai in preparation.
" Alright guys so far there are no enemies around but we can't be too careful." she said to her team.
They nodded and were about to head off to find a Heaven scroll when a huge gust of wind blew past their way. They ducked into the brush and peeked through seeing a huge crater marking the ground and an orange blur rolling around the mark and landing at a tree.
After the wind passed Akako and everyone stood up and blinked a few times before investigating further. They saw Naruto getting up from the bottom of the tree he stood up only to come face to face with a huge snake. The snake lunged at Naruto but he managed to dodge the head but the tail grabbed him. The girls cringed when the snake had swallowed him.
Gritting her teeth Akako jumped and rushed over to the snake and threw a couple of Kunai at it. The Snake dodged them and moved towards her. She dodged the snake's tail and landed on a tree branch.
" Come on you stupid bastard of a snake." Akako said to the snake to egg it on.
Sumomo and Kairi watched Akako and gulped feeling worried for the snake and not their friend. They've seen her like this before when both of them were injured by a ninja who attacked them for kicks.
The snake came for Akako and she smirked letting the snake take her into its throat. She shivered slightly at being inside a snake's mouth. She saw Naruto hastily pulled out kunai and crawled to him.
" Naruto-kun. Naruto-kun can you see me behind you?" she asked.
Naruto inclined his head towards her and blinked in surprise.
" Akako-chan what are you doing?" he asked.
" Trying to get you out of here. Come on grab my hand and we'll get out of here quickly." she said to him.
Naruto nodded and wondered why she was doing this. Meanwhile Kairi and Sumomo's eyes went wide seeing the snake eat their friend. They secretly knew what was going to happen but still decided to help that is until a group of Ninja's threw kunai and shriuken at them. The girls moved out the way and growled and stood facing them.
The enemy ninja smirked and stood ready.
" Give us your Earth scroll." they said.
" Like hell we will!" Kairi said lunging towards them.
" Heh, this should be easy." the ninja said meeting Kairi mid-lunge.
Sumomo gritted her teeth and charged towards the other ninja Kunai in hand holding it in a reversed way.
Inside the snake Naruto and Akako were still inside. He watched Akako do a couple of quick hand signs and placed one of her hands on the snake's lining.
" Suiton Hontai bakuhatsu no jutsu." she said,
While Kairi and Sumomo were fighting the ninja they instinctively jumped out of the way leaving the enemy ninja's baffled. That is until the snake suddenly exploded sending the pieces of snake everywhere letting the digestive acids go in all directions. The enemy ninja dodged the pieces of the snake but wound up getting hit with a kunai or two.
Naruto and Akako flew out and landed beside Kairi and Sumomo.
" Naruto-kun head back to your team we'll be able to handle these jerk wads." Akako said grabbing a kunai and spinning it to were she held it reversely.
Naruto nodded and gave a small smile.
" Thanks Akako-chan." he said before heading off to Sasuke and Sakura.
Akako turned to the two ninja's in front of them.
" So what have I missed?" she asked Kairi and Sumomo.
" Oh the usual. A couple of idiots wanting to fight us." Sumomo answered throwing a kunai at one of them.
The ninja dodged and lunged at Sumomo who in turn avoided his attack. Kairi leaped as well and attacked the other ninja head on while Akako attacked the one Sumomo had dodged. The ninja's both evaded the girls attacks and did a few hands seals using a jutsu that sent the girls flying as well as clones to attack from all angles.
The girls barely had time to avoid the attack they did manage to get hit with a few shuriken and punches. Landing all three female Genin nodded and attacked at the same time. Sumomo did quick hand seals.
" Nezuku tsuna no jutsu!" she called.
Roots started to sneak up behind the ninja's. The two barley dodged but a root managed to grab both of them by the ankles and held them against the tree.
" What the …?" one of them said.
Kairi did a few hand seals.
" Chisei Sakkaku no jutsu!" she called sending their minds into hallucinations.
Akako appeared behind the ninja's and took the heaven scroll from them.
" That was easy." Akako said watching the enemy suffer through Kairi's mind trick.
She tossed the scroll to Kairi and smiled.
" Shall we leave these two idiots here or what?" she asked.
Sumomo and Kairi nodded grinning.
" Who knew it would be that easy?" Kairi said still grinning.
They walked away from the two agonizing ninja's who couldn't escape from their predicament.
( a/n this is a time skip to the fourth day. I think we all know what happens to the rest of characters in the show so. Let's focus on Anko's team shall we?)
It's the fourth day into the exams and the three female Genin were outside the tower.
" Well, we made it! Time to face the music and see what the next part is." said Sumomo excitedly.
Kairi and Akako laughed as they walked through the door. They were surprised to see at least eleven teams already there.
" Wow, I didn't think there would be this many people already here." said Kairi.
Sumomo was frantically looking around the room After being briefed by a Chuunin about the last part of the exam. She grinned and rushed over to a familiar boy wearing a green jumpsuit.
" Lee-kun!!!" she called latching herself to Lee.
Lee jumped slightly feeling Sumomo hug him.
" Sumomo-chan?" he asked blushing madly and looking at her.
" Yes Lee-kun? What is it?" she responded.
He blinked and shook his head.
" No…nothing Sumomo-chan. It's good to see you too." he answered.
She just smiled and giggled feeling happy that he was there.
Akako and Kairi sighed and decided to sit in a bench waiting for the start of the exams.
' I wonder how Naruto is fairing right now?' Akako thought sighing before drifting into sleep.