Thank you for reading my story also:

Sakra-chan: Yay! I'm so glad that the update made your night!!!

ninbunny alchemist: Yeah, Writer's block is annoying, isn't it?

mathcraze: I have updated this as soon as I had free time.

Thank you for the reviews! You made me so happy!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Never have, never will.

Chapter 4: The Forest of Death Part 2

The two cells prepared for the battle, unaware of the Rain shinobi concealed in the trees.

Kukiko started the battle by making a few hand signs and disappearing behind Sakumo. She kicked out her leg to kick his chest, but he caught her leg and threw her aside.

Scowling, she quickly jumped up and dodged shuriken thrown at her. One shuriken managed to graze her left elbow. She hissed in pain as she grabbed her elbow. Using that opportune moment, Sakumo did a couple of hand signs and disappeared. Kukiko looked up and wondered where he went. "That coward ran off." She muttered.

She then screamed as she felt something grab her ankle and pull her towards the ground. Her body became submerged under the ground, only her head was above the surface as Sakumo appeared from his hiding spot under the soil.

Kukiko glared at him as she struggled to free herself. Sakumo said in disappointment "That's it? I was hoping for a better fight. You disappoint me, Kukiko."

"Urusai! Once I free myself, you are dead!" She retorted in rage moving her arms in an effort. Sakumo smirked and walked off to help out his weakest team member in her fight.

As he strolled off, Kukiko freed herself and after brushing the dirt off she made a few hand seals then nearby vines crept up to Sakumo and wrapped itself around the boy.

Sakumo was surprised as the vines tied him to a tree. "How did you do that? You were stuck!!" Kukiko smirked and said "I pretended that I couldn't get out. Daijiro used to play that little trick on me all the time when we were academy students. I taught myself how to remove oneself from that little predicament. When you turned around to help out your cellmate, I used that little trick and once I was out of the hole, I then did the jutsu my mother taught me."

After her little explanation, she tossed a kunai at Sakumo and then she tightened the vines and replied "Now, that you can't get out but we promised not to kill anyone. Oh well, I will help out my cellmates, although I doubt that they will need my help."

Sakumo cursed as he tried to take the vines off, but it tightened and strengthened itself anytime he moved.


As Kukiko was occupying Sakumo, Daijiro threw kunai at the whiny girl and threw a few punches in as she was distracted. She used the substitution jutsu, so when Daijiro hit the log, his fist bruised a little. The girl then made a tiger seal and shouted "Earth Landslide!"

Daijiro heard some rumbling and saw a flood of soil and mud coming towards him. He ran off as fast as he could, but he was caught in the avalanche and was quickly buried under it screaming.

Kukiko was just finishing up with her battle as she heard his screams. Cursing, she ran to the girl and Daijiro. Daijiro was nowhere to be seen, the only thing that was there was a huge pile of earth piled up. She turned to the girl and shouted "We agreed before we started fighting that we would not kill anyone!!"

The girl shrugged her shoulders and replied "He is not dead, yet. If you still want him alive, you best get him out before he suffocates." Sakumo smirked and shouted to her "Oi! Maki! Help me out here!"

Maki looked over at him and responded "No. I think keeping you like that would lower your ego a bit. You can stay there, while I finish with the rock genin, so we can get out of here!!"

Sakumo was about to retort in anger as Kukiko made a few hand signs and the vine wrapped itself about his mouth. Sakumo glared at both girls as he muffled out his rage.

Then Kukiko started to dig out Daijiro, but Maki tossed a few kunai at her. Kukiko dodged it and made a few hand seals. Logs flew around Maki and made a wall around her. (1)

Maki screamed for her Uchiha cellmate to help her out, but he was busy with Takeshi, so he ignored her. (2)

When that was done, Kukiko rapidly dug for Daijiro's life.


Takeshi looked over at his opponent for any weaknesses. His foe started to get impatient after two minutes went by so he started to make a hand sign. "Katon! Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

Takeshi dodged the flame in time, singeing his clothes a little. He gave a sigh of relief as he made his move. Takeshi quickly made a couple of hand signs and poofed and reappeared behind the Uchiha.

He aimed to hit the back of the Uchiha's head with the hilt of his kunai, but his enemy seemed to be expecting that and blocked the kunai with his arm, grabbing unto Takeshi's arm with his other hand and tried the same jutsu. "Katon! Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

He smirked as the body in his grasp turned into ash. But Takeshi was not harmed, he did the substitution jutsu and a log took the damage for him. He whistled at the Uchiha from a tree branch, smirking as he transported himself away from the kunai being thrown at him.

The Uchiha was getting impatient as he threw shuriken at Takeshi this time, but Takeshi dodged those also.

Takeshi then felt the earth shake and heard Daijiro's screams. He made a few hand signs and a whirlwind went around the Uchiha. Then he ran towards Kukiko and helped her dig Daijiro out.

Once Daijiro was freed from the earth, his clothes were muddy and filthy and he inhaled the air like it was candy. Kukiko rubbed his back and hugged him. Takeshi glared at the leaf genin and spoke "You tried to kill not only me, but you nearly killed my friend. You lose. We agreed not to kill each other and you guys couldn't wait to get our blood on your hands. Give us your Earth scroll now!" He demanded, clenching his fists removing the whirlwind from the Uchiha.

"No. We are ninja. It is what we are supposed to do. We are not supposed to trust the enemy." Maki said huffing. Sakumo sighed and glared at his cellmates. The Uchiha glared and gave them their scroll. Maki was protesting the whole thing, shouting at her cellmates for giving away their only scroll. The boys ignored her as Kukiko undid the jutsu binding Sakumo to the tree. Sakumo stretched his muscles, glad to be free.


As Takeshi put the scroll into his bag, the rain shinobi jumped from their hiding spots and said "We were somewhat entertained by the battle."

Kukiko glared at them and demanded "Who are you guys and how long have you been watching us?"

One Rain shinobi smirked and responded "We are genin from the Hidden Village of Rain. We have been hidden since the battle began. We are looking forward to spilling some blood." His companions snickered with glee as they pulled out kunai and did hand signs and clones of them appeared. (3)

Both cells prepared to battle. The clones walked up to them and stood around them in a circle. The real ones threw kunai at them as the genin were slashing at the clones. But every time they slashed the clones, it would repair itself and walk even closer to the genin.

After an half an hour, both groups started to get exhausted and wear down on their attacks on the clones. Maki collapsed onto Daijiro. Daijiro shook her off and gathered the conscious shinobi to him. "We will need to distract them. Oi! Uchiha! Did you copy the move they made to make those clones?"

The Uchiha nodded his head and Daijiro smirked "Good. Your bloodline limit can come in handy. Make a clone of yourself and me and then transform yourself into one of them."

"So, we can attack the real ones?" The Uchiha asked. Dajiro nodded as the Uchiha made a clone of himself and then transformed himself into a rain shinobi, Daijiro transforming himself at the same time as the Uchiha.

They managed to trick the clones and walk out of the tight circle dodging the kunai. "When will those rain shinobi run out of kunai?" They both muttered as they looked for the source of the kunai being thrown.

They found the ninja, only two were throwing the weapons hidden in the trees, two of them were together, snickering. Daijiro and the Uchiha went separate ways. Daijiro went to the two ninjas and the Uchiha went towards the last one.

Since they were caught off guard, they were beat up till they were unconscious. The Uchiha went through there bag and found both scrolls. He and Daijiro walked up to the gang and showed them the scrolls. The clones disappeared when the real shinobi were defeated.


"They must have been trying to eliminate competition." Takeshi said looking at the scrolls and handing them over to the leaf genin.

"Since we both have our scrolls, we can head to the center tower." Sakumo said getting up picking up Maki and putting her arm around his shoulder and put his other arm around her waist.

"I say we should do that tomorrow morning, because we won't know if any traps would be laid ahead of us and we should regain our full strength before moving onwards." Kukiko suggested looking at Maki and Daijiro.

"That's a good idea, but we can't spend the night in an open area such as this. We need to find a more secluded area, away from each other." Takeshi said.

"Come on. We both have each of the scrolls that we need. One person from each cell can stay up, keeping an eye on the other team. It's getting late and we each have people who need to rest, Takeshi!" Kukiko replied, giving Takeshi puppy eyes.

"Fine. I'll take the first watch with the Uchiha." Takeshi said, crossing his arms.

Kukiko smiled at him and then replied "Okay then, we will need to find a place to sleep." She gathered the things and walked off, the others following her.

"I remember finding a cave near the river a while back that we can use. The entrance is hidden by the trees. We will be able to stay there as long as no one lights a fire." Sakumo said looking at his cellmate.

"Tch. I won't light a fire." The Uchiha said huffing.

"Good. I will keep you to that, Ryuu. Okay, let's go." Sakumo lead the way to the cave he found earlier that day and let everyone in first. Then he looked around for spies and entered the cave last.

Maki was on the cave floor, using her jacket as a pillow. Daijiro was beside her fast asleep. Kukiko stretched and laid her back against the wall, looking bored.

Takeshi looked at her and said "Kukiko, go to sleep. I'll let you know when your watch is." "Okay, Takeshi." She said, closing her eyes.

Sakumo looked at everyone and said "How did we end up together again?" He shrugged his shoulders and laid down. He closed his eyes and eventually fell asleep to the light breathing and the crickets outside.


1. I tried making up a jutsu to the best I could.

2. Yes, I gave Sakumo an Uchiha cellmate. I figured that they had more Uchiha's since this is taking place way before the massacre.

3. It is not a Kage Bushnin. It is one of the clones used against team 7 during the Chunnin exams with Kabuto.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I am not good at writing fighting scenes. I worked hard on it though. Please review! Thank you!! Next Chapter is the Final Test. Look forward to it. I'm skipping the preliminaries since they won't have a lot of surviving teams like Naruto did.