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NARUTO TCG: CHUNIN BATTLE TOURNAMENT DUELS-

COILS OF THE SNAKE

Chapter 7:

Survival

Next morning, everyone shows up at the 44th training area - the Forest of Death. The giant trees made it very dense. This is where the first part of the Chunin Battle Tournament begins. Mitarashi was just explaining the rules. Later…

"...That's why they call it the Forest of Death!" she finishes. Everyone could tell that it looks too scary. Everyone, that is, except for…

"They call it the Forest of Deeathh! They call it the Forest of Deeathh!" Naruto says sarcastically while shaking his rear. "You think something like that's gonna scare me? I'm not afraid!"

Anko notices she's getting made fun of. Not taking Naruto's comments lightly, she pulls a kunai knife and throws it at Naruto, clipping the hair of another ninja in the process. She appears behind Naruto with her face just beside his. "Tough guys like you leave their blood all over this place." She says as she licks the blood off Naruto's cheek. Then Anko pulls out a kunai because she noticed that a serpent-tongued ninja was behind her.

"Here's your kunai." She was actually holding the knife with a long tongue. Anko grabs it away from her.

"You know," she answers, "you don't want to get close next to me… unless you want to die."

"I'm sorry. It just that I get excited when I see blood. Also you cut my precious hair, so I can't help myself."

Naruto notices the grass ninja's tongue and tries to imitate it. "Hey, I wonder if I could do that with my tongue?" he says to himself.

"Seems like everyone here today is quick tempered." Anko says. "There must be something in the air...Hm? This is gonna be fun."

'Quick tempered?! Sheesh. You're the one who threw the kunai at me!' Naruto thought.

"Now before we begin, I have something to give you." Soon, Anko hands out consent forms. " These are consent forms. Those entering the tournament must sign these."

"Why?" Naruto asks.

"Because from here on, people will die. And if I don't have you sign these, it will all be my responsibility." She smiles. "The first thing you need to know is that this test will tax every one of your survival skills."

"Survival...what a drag." Shikamaru moaned.

"First I'll explain the area in which this will take place." Anko continues. "The 2nd exam is a survival exam in the 44th training area, a circular region surrounded by 44 locked gate entrances dubbed the Forest of Death. There is a river, a forest, and in the middle is a tower within the area. The area is also infested with vicious monsters and poisonous plants. During this portion of the tournament, you are asked to complete a certain task. For each participant who will use just the cards they have in their decks, the test consists of... an anything-goes duel to get your hands on these cards." She pulls out a card which symbolizes 'heaven'.

"We have to get both of them?" Sasuke asks.

"Yes, you'll be dueling to get both a Heaven card and an Earth card. Squads must bring both a Heaven and Earth card to the tower." She then pulls out another which symbolizes 'earth'. "These cards will be evenly split among 26 teams. Each team receives either a card of heaven or a card of earth. To pass, a team must bring both cards to the tower within 5 days. That means at least half won't pass."

" Five days out there?!" Ino exclaims.

"What are we supposed to do for food?!" Choji follows.

"Just look around." Anko answers. "There's enough food to feed everyone. Anyway, each team's fatigue level will rise eventually and they will only have a short time to recuperate."

"So um, let's say in the test, can we quit?" Shikamaru asks.

": Of course not! In a middle of a battle you can't say "Sorry, I quit"...Well, I guess you can, but it will only get you killed! Once the consent form is signed, bring them to the sentinels to exchange them for the cards. Now for the disqualification rules: A team that cannot bring both cards to the tower with the other two teammates will fail. Any team that loses a teammate or produces an unrecoverable teammate will fail. Now exchange the 3 forms for you card. Then choose a gate to start from."

Sasuke sits contemplating the consent form. Because no one knows which team has which type of scroll, they may have to battle each other if necessary to acquire the correct information. Sakura is walking around when Ino sees her. They start to tease each other until Ino gets mad. Shikamaru and Choji are watching it and suddenly became really scared of them. Soon the sentinels started to hand out scrolls. When they finish everyone went to their gates following gates:

16: Squad 8
27: Squad 10
12: Squad 7
20: Sound Village Team
38: Kabuto's Team
6: Gaara's Team
15: Snake Person's Team
41: Squad 8

"I almost forgot to tell you one thing:," Anko shouts "There will be a slight alternation in this game: in these duels, you are not allowed to play jutsu cards or counter mission cards from your hand during your opponent's turn, but instead you can set the ones you needed face down before you end yours. However, cards that are placed face-down still count as being in your hand. Is that understood?" everyone nodded. "Get ready! The tournament begins in 3… 2… 1… GO!"

The exam begins. Hinata performs her Byakugan and uses the piercing eye to see everything for up to several miles. They find a team almost immediately and claim their scroll. Meanwhile, the different Genin are taking on various strategies to prepare themselves for their upcoming battles. A team of Hidden Rain ninjas are attacked by killer bugs. The leeches in Konoha are able to detect perspiration and body temperature and jump onto their target in groups. If they suck a person's blood for 5 min, that person will die.

Meanwhile, Naruto and team hang out and bide their time. "Excuse me, I gotta, you know."

Naruto unzips his pants and Sakura hits Naruto over the head. "Yeah right! Not in front of me you don't! What is this, a kennel? Go find a bush!"

Sakura and Sasuke spent 20 seconds waintin for Naruto to relieve himself. When he returns, Sasuke could see that there's something funny about him. That's when he immediately attacks him. Hen punched Naruto in the face and watches him fall against a tree. "Sasuke! What are you doing?" Sakura yells.

"Take a good look at him. That's not the real Naruto." Sasuke and Sakura both looks at Naruto. "Talk! What have you done with Naruto?"

"What, I am Naruto!" he exclaims.

"Then where is the cut on your cheek? I guess you didn't know that Naruto got a cut on his face before this test. Also, your shuriken holster is on your left leg, not your right, but Naruto is right handed! Your transformation jutsu is worse than Naruto's."

"Hmph. So you already figured me out. No matter." The imposter transforms into his true form. He wears a white strait suit with a mask. He is also wearing a respirator covering his mouth. Hidden Rain nin, Mubi, transforms and attacks. Sasuke attacks with a fireball technique. He then searches for Naruto, who is lying tied up and releases him. Mubi takes the opportunity to attack Sasuke by throwing a couple of knives and attached in one of the knives is a paper bomb. Sasuke was able to dodge but Mubi appears right behind him. He says to give him the scroll card if he doesn't want to die. Naruto comes to his rescue and throws a kunai at Mubi. Sasuke catches the kunai using his feet. He had chakra in his feet and he was able to throw the kunai at Mubi. Mubi dodges and Sasuke used the sharingan to stab Mubi with his kunai. Martally wounded, Mubi runs into the forest. Meanwhile, team 7 were catching their breath under a tree, thinking of a plan.

"Alright, if we get separated next time," Sasuke says, "even if it's one of us, don't trust them. It could happen again."

"So what, then?" Sakura asks.

"We'll use a password. If any of us gets the password wrong when I ask 'when does a ninja strike?', assume they are the enemy no matter what they look like. This is the password:

'A ninja waits until the time is right.
When the enemy sleeps and drops his guard,
When his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night.
That is the moment for a ninja to strike.'

I'll be holding the scroll from here on."

Suddenly, Naruto gets hit & his cheek sliced. A large gust of wind hits them. Strong gale force winds separated the squad 7. when the smoke cleared, Sasuke met up with Sakura, but still kept a safe distance. " Sakura, when does a ninja strike?"

"Oh, yeah, 'A ninja waits until the time is right. When the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, When his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike."

Naruto appears just when Sakura finishes. "Naruto, when does a ninja strike?"

"I know, 'A ninja waits until the time is right. When the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, When his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike."

Naruto remembered the password. Just then, Sasuke throws a kunai at him and missed.

"but, Sasuke, Naruto remembered the pass word!" Sakura said.

Sasuke immediately recognizes Naruto as an impostor, as the real Naruto would never remember it. He took to his true form. A Hidden Grass Ninja appears.

Meanwhile, the real Naruto is lying limp upside down on a tree. "Uh...Uh-uh! Okay, upsie-daisy." He got right side up again and lied on the ground. "! Hey, where did Sasuke and Sakura go, I wonder if they…" Suddenly, a giant explosion is made. A giant snake appears before Naruto. "Oh my gosh! That's-that's-that's... That...is one big snake."

The snake strikes, but Naruto dodges it. The snake wraps its lashing around him and then swallows him whole.

Meanwhile, Sasuke and Sakura meets the strange grass shinobi. 'No wonder Sasuke could see through him,' Sakura thought. 'If it were the real Naruto, he would've announced that he forgot the password.

The grass shinobi holds up a card representing the heaven scroll. "Here it is," she said. "Isn't that what you wanted?"

Sasuke takes out his shield and converts it to duel mode. "Sakura, stay back. I'll handle this one."

"You're going to regret doing this alone." The grass ninja takes out her shinobi shield. It is a bit different from Sasuke's, resembling a coiling snake. "Soon one of us will have both scrolls…" she mixed her scroll card into her deck. Then she converts it into duel mode, only this one flips open a large card zone from inside the left side of the disk. Then from out of the card zone pops out another, repeating with each one until 5 card zones are revealed(A/N: similar to the yugioh's anime chaos duel disk). "…and the other will be dead."

Both: "DUEL!"

Meanwhile, Naruto is being slallowed in further and further through the belly of the giant snake. "C'mon, let me out! Open up!" No matter how loud he screams, he couldn't escape. 'At this rate, I'm really going to be snake food. I just can't get out of this.' 'Are you giving up already, Naruto?' the fox sage suddenly appears in his consciousness. 'Aren't you the one who is always talking about how you're going to be hokage someday, how you're finally going to get the respect you wanted? You can't give up now. As you said yourself, you don't quit and you don't run. You never gave up before and you are not going to now. That's you Nindo… you ninja way.' Naruto has a near-death recount of his friends as he wonders if he will die in the snake's stomach. The sage is right. He cannot give up now. "You're right. I never gave up before and I won't now." Naruto makes a cross of 4 fingers, 2 crossing each other. "That's it. I'm out of here, whether slither-puss likes it or not! Shadow Clone jutsu!" Many copies of Naruto multiply inside the snake's belly. There were so many that the snake can't contain them all. And finally, a giant explosion ripen all of the shadow clones out of the snake he was finally free. "I'm the one who's going to be hokage someday! I can't be turned into snake chow now!"

'That's the spirit. Now let's go and find our friends.'

"Right!"

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Next time: Affliction

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