Hello guys! Here is chapter number 9! Enjoy!
Chapter 9 The start of the Second Exam
" Everybody, there's no time to be happy." Nani?! What is going on here?
" I am the Second Examiner, Mitarashi Anko. Let's go to the next exam! Follow me!" She said. Then it was silent. Nani? Another one who is very annoying. Ugh… But whatever… We are going to the second exam!
" You are early Anko…" Said Ibiki to her, and she was not looking happy.
" You will hear from you sensei where and how late you must be for the second exam tomorrow, you are all now dismissed!"
We all left the room and walked back to our houses or whatever. The four of us walked back to our apartment, I was smiling bright and Temari and Kankuro must laughing about it. I looked at Gaara, but he did nothing. Just looking forward with no expression on his face. I sighed, is he not happy that we past the first exam?
" Asuka?" I tensed up when I heard his voice. I looked at him and tilted my head.
" We are going somewhere else." He looked serious at me, and Kankuro and Temari were looking surprised. " O-Okay, but where?" I asked him and didn't quite understand him. " Just somewhere." He took my hand and dragged me somewhere, I looked back at Temari and Kankuro and just waved at them. I had no idea where he would going. So I was just looking around, to see where he could be going. And then I saw it, wait… Why the hot spring? We jumped in front of it and I looked amazed and confused at Gaara.
" You had talked a lot about that you would go to the hot spring. So I found out that Konoha had one. Are you not happy?" He looked angry at me and I shook my head.
" Of course I'm happy Gaara. But it is just suddenly. And…"
" You don't like it. Whatever." He wanted to walk away but I stopped him.
" I told you that I was happy Gaara! So yeah I like it!" It shocked me, that I had yelled at him, but he irritates me so badly sometimes. " Come we are going to the hot spring." I grabbed his wrist and walked to the hot spring and was looking around where we could change.
" They have a room where the man and the woman could change together." He said and looked at him.
" Aah, the couple hot springs." I saw he looked annoyed at me and I sighed. " Come on Gaara!" I took him to one of the couple hot springs and got undressed. But Gaara did nothing, I looked at him with confused look but he just looked away.
" Gaara why are you not changing?" He looked at me and just shook his head.
" You can remove your sand armor. And the water is not that deep, so why are you not changing. I have choose for nothing the couple hot spring. I want together with you." I put the towel around me and walked to Gaara and tugged at his shirt. And began to remove first the wide leather band and then the white scarf, I saw that he wasn't resisting. I smiled at him and removed the rest of his clothes and gave him a towel. He did it around his waist and crossed his arms.
" Why can't you just smile Gaara." I smiled at him and walked to the hot spring, I removed my towel and went in the water.
" So nice! Much better than a hot bath at home~" I was sitting in the water, you could only see my nose and my eyes. I had my hair in a high knot and saw that Gaara also was coming in the water. He was sitting next to me but did nothing. Why is he so boring?
" Ne, Gaara. Are you excited about the next exam?" Again nothing.
" Why are you not talking back to me, I thought that you would at least talk to me. I am your mate." I got up and let him see his mark on my hip. " So please, talk to me!" I was sitting again in the water and was looking sad and covered my face with my hands. I felt some movements in the water and felt that he had his arms around me. I looked up and was facing him. Still with the same expression on his face and I hugged him. " It is so boring when you are not talking back to me. So please when I ask you something answer me." I buried my face in his shoulder and tried to relax. He had still his hands around me and was resting his head against mine and so we were sitting for hours in the water.
When we had sat there for some hours we went out and dried ourselves and got dressed again, we walked outside and sniffed the scent of nature. " What are we going to do now?" We walked back to the center of Konoha and where looking for something to do. " I don't know. Shall we just go back to the apartment?" I was thinking and nodded. " Yes, that is good." We walked back to our apartment and greeted Temari, Kankuro and Baki, at least I greeted them Gaara went to the roof.
" Where were you going to? We were actually a bit worried." Temari drank her tea and was looking at me.
I was also sitting at the table and just smiled. " We were at the hot spring. And I'm very excited about the next exam." We had talk a lot and what we could expect from the second exam and what kind of exam it would be. And that we mustn't make Gaara angry. Well If I make him angry he would only slap me in the face, but he will kill Temari and Kankuro. I sighed, I told them that I take a shower and went to bed, because I was tired. I went to the bathroom and undressed myself and got under the shower and washed my body and my hair, when I was done I turned it off and dried myself and got dressed again. I did my hair in a braid and went to bed.
The next morning we were standing at the place where we must be for the second exam. We were standing in front of a giant forest it looked very scary though. Everyone who have passed is here, even those annoying people. They irritates me so badly. I was standing next to Gaara and was looking around for the other people. There were a lot who looked very scary, or dumb. I sighed and had also my arms crossed like Gaara. Then we looked all to the women who was about to talk about the second exam.
" This place is where the Second Exam will take place. The 44th training area… Also known as the Forest of Death." The Fo-Fo-Forest of D-D-Death… Then so blonde were chased by a kind of what supposed to be a rock... Then they came out of that rock and it was those three from earlier. They were very noisy though.
" Hey there! What are you doing?!" Said Anko and walked to that group. They talked about a news paper and about the exam. They asked about that in a time like this!
" Tsch… That's not really important so stupid news paper." I looked very annoyed and Temari and Kankuro nodded.
" The Second Exam is more important than that." I laughed and Temari smiled.
" Okay, we're going to have a 10 minute break now. If you are asked any questions just concede and cooperate quietly. " She said.
" Now we must wait longer." I walked to a spot by a rock and was sitting on it, Gaara was sitting next to me and Temari and Kankuro were sitting in front of the rock. " This is boring, I want that the Second Exam starts now. Although the forest looked very scary, it is not for nothing named the Forest of Death."
" Yeah, you're right Asuka."
" How did you actually meet that girl?" I looked at Gaara and was thinking what he was talking about, and then I knew it.
" I had met her when I had left without saying. She is very nice and we had a lot of fun. We had also eat together." I had a bright smile on my face and Gaara looked at the girl.
" But she is now the enemy, you know that right." He said with a cold voice and I agreed with him.
" Yes, I know that Gaara." I looked back at them and saw that they were done and we walked back to our spot where we were standing. And were waiting what she had to say about the Second Exam.
" You will be able to experience why this place is called the Forest of Death." When she said that the blonde boy copied her but on a stupid annoying way.
" You will be able to experience why this place is called the Forest of Death. " He moved in a disgusting way. " There is no point in trying to scare us like that! I'm not scared at all!" He pointed to her with a bright smile.
" Really? You sure are energetic." With some fast movements she threw a kunai to the blonde and cut his face and landed somewhere behind him, and was so fast that she was standing behind the blonde.
" Boys like you die the fastest. After spilling out that red blood I love all over the place." She said and lifted the blood with her finger on his cheek when she suddenly turned around with a kunai, but a strange women was just returning the kunai what she just threw a few minutes ago. They talked a bit and the women returned to her team mates.
" It looks like there are a lot of hot-headed people here today. This is going to be interested." Man, that was scary! Also that women is scary! She walked back to her spot and was going to explain to us about the Second Exam.
" Before we begin the Second Exam, I'm going to pass these out to everyone." She grabbed some papers out of her jacket. What kind of papers are that?
" These are consent forms. Those taking this exam must sign these." Signing papers?
" Why must we sign those papers." I asked to her and some people were also curious about that.
" From here on, people will die. Therefore, we need people's consent before we continue. Otherwise, I'd be held responsible." She began to laugh, but there was nothing to be laughing about. " Now, I will begin the explanation of the Second Exam. To be concise, you will all go through an extreme survival match." While she was talking she passed the papers to the blonde boy who also passed on, on the others.
" So we must doing a survival match." I got the papers and took one paper from it and passed it on in my team. I began to read the paper.
" First, I'll explain the training area's geographical features." She let us see a map on a scroll. "The 44th training area is a circular region surrounded by 44 locked gate entrances. There is a river, a forest, and a tower in the middle. The tower is approximately 10 km away from the gates. Inside this limited space, you will have to go through a certain survival program. The program consists of… " She buried the map in her jacket. " A competition where anything goes… Over these scrolls." She held out two different scrolls. " The Scroll of Heaven and the Scroll of the Earth. You will fight over these scrolls." It was very silent when she explained that. So we must hunt everyone down to get those two scrolls…
" 26 teams in total passed the First Exam. Half of those teams will get the Scroll of Heaven. The other half will get the Scroll of the Earth. Each team will get one of these scrolls. Simply, you have to fight over these.
" And what is needed to passes this test?" I looked at the group where Michi is in and the guy with black hair asked that question.
" Bring the Scroll of Heaven and Earth to the tower with your teammates."
" In other words, the 13 teams, or half the people here, that have their scroll stolen will fail." The pink lady said.
" But it needs to be done within the time limit. This second exam had a limit of 120 hours. or exactly five days." Five days!
" Five days?!" Said a girl with long blonde hair.
" What about food?!" Said a boy who looks fat and was on the same team as that girl.
" Scrounge it up yourself. The forest is a treasure box of nature. There should be plenty of food, but there are also man eaten beasts and poison plants… People will get hurt in the process of fighting over a scroll, and those who cannot bear this program's strictness will emerge, as well." She explained.
" Excuse me, can we quite in between?" Said a boy with a ponytail. Who also is a teammate from that blonde girl and fat boy.
" As a rule, you are not allowed to give up during the exam. You will spend the five days in the forest… while we're on this topic, here are the conditions that will fail you. First, a team that cannot bring both scrolls to the tower with the three teammates will fail. Second, the team that loses a teammate or produces an unrecoverable teammate will fail. Also, just as a note… You are not allowed to look inside the scrolls until you reach the tower… If you become a Chuunin, you will be handling top secret documents. It's to determine your reliability. That is it for the explanation. We will exchange three consent forms for one scroll at that hut, I know there are two groups with four people, so for them would it be four consent forms for a scroll. And after picking your gate entrance, everyone will begin at the same time. Here's a last piece of advice. Don't die." Easy to say then to be done. We all separated and read the form.
" Man, a survival for five whole days! And then we must hunt teams down for a stupid scroll." I sighed hard and crossed my arms.
" I hope that it is done fast. Five whole days in that forest gives me the creeps." I agreed with Temari and looked at Gaara.
" Don't worry Asuka, I will protect you. I had already told you that." I nodded to him and stand close to him, and was reading the paper again. I also saw that they were preparing to exchange the forms for the scrolls. We all four wrote our names down on the consent forms and waited till we could exchange it. Gaara took me somewhere behind a tree so we were alone for a few minutes. I looked if no one was nearby and started to hug him. He pushed me against the tree and kissed in my neck. I hold his shoulder tight and kissed him on his lips. " I'm scared Gaara… I don't want to die." I looked very worried at him and buried my face in his shoulder.
" I will not let you die, and if someone wants you dead, then I will kill them." He let me look him directly and I nodded slowly he gave me a rough kiss with his tongue and hold me tight.
After some minutes we were back at our group and we were told that it was time to exchange our forms for a scroll. Everyone was ready and waited till it was their turn. We arrived at them and exchanged our forms. We got the Earth scroll and Gaara keeps it with him.
" If you have received a scroll, follow the person in charge and move to your designated gates. We will begin in 30 minutes." We were going to our locked gate and must wait when we may go in. Man we must wait thirty minutes. We were standing at gate number 6 and I could feel the tense between our team. Five whole days with Gaara. Well, I have no problems with that, but Temari and Kankuro does. I know they love their little brother but because what happened in the past it doesn't care Gaara…
" We will now begin the Chuunin Selection Second Exam!" When she said that the gates opened and we were gone. We were jumping from branch to branch searching for the other scroll.
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