'One down.' Malkeru smiled, this might be easier than he thought. Out of nowhere a black blur burst into the room, kunai attached to what seemed to be a fabric of some sort flew by sticking into the walls, blocking Ibiki from sight.

"You guys! This is no time to be celebrating!" A woman Malkeru had found to be quite attractive appeared in front of the fabric which read 'Anko Mitarashi'. Malkeru assumed that was her name. Her hair was pulled back into a rather spiky pony tail, and she wore a rather reveavling cross stiched one piece with a skirt barely covering her. Over that she wore an open robe. "I am the Examiner for the second test! Let's go! Follow me!" She looked around and counted out the remaining genin. "Seventy-eight? Ibiki you left twenty-six teams? Your test must have been too easy."

"This time there just happened to be a lot of outstanding ones."

"Bah, that's fine, I'll cut them in at least half with the next test. Let's go!" Anko led them to a abandoned forest surronded by a gate Malkeru had never seen before "This is practice field number fourty-four. ANBU, however, refers to it as the 'forest of death'. And you'll soon find out why it has that name." Malkeru didn't think he had ever seen someone smile as big as this woman was.

"You think that name scares me?! I'm not scared of anything!" Naruto was taunting the Jonin now.

"Yeah, you're spirited." Still smiling Anko whipped a kunai at Naruto, leaving a scratch on his cheek. Before anyone noticed she was behind Naruto. "But, you all bleed that red blood I love." she the procceded to like the blood from Naruto's cut. A man surprised Anko, his long tong holding her kunai.

"Here is your Kunai back, proctor."

"Thank you grass ninja, but, if you don't wanna die, I wouldn't sneak up on me again."
"I'm sorry, I just also get excited when I see red blood." The two shinobi smiled, Malkeru thought it was the creepiest thing he had ever seen and shuddered.

"Looks like we have a lot of bloodthirsty ones this time around!" Anko just kept on smiling "This should be fun." She pulled a pile of papers out. "Now before we start I have to hand out these waivers."

"Waivers? For what?" a random ninja behind Malkeru asked.

"Glad you asked. There will be deaths in this exam, and if you don't sign these well...it will be all my responsibility." Anko laughed and laughed

'This bitch is seriously crazy.' Malkeru was actually getting frightened by her.

"I'm going to explain the second test and then each of you will have to decide whether or not to sign that form. Simply put, you will attempt the ultimate survival test. First, let me explain the area in which it will take place. Around pratice area fourty-four are fourty-four locked gates. Inside is a forest, river, and a tower in the center. From the gates to the tower is about 10km. During this test you will be asked to complete a certain test. Using your many weapons and jutsu you will compete in a no rules scroll battle. You will be fighting for these scrolls labeled Heaven and Earth. There are twenty-six teams here so half of you will be getting the heaven, and half will be getting earth. That means at minimum only thirteen of you will move on. To pass this test, simply bring one of each scroll to the tower, simple huh?" Anko's smiled kept getting bigger and bigger.

'Good,' Malkeru began cracking his knuckles 'With Sharingan we'll be just fine in a fighting test.'

"But, there is a time limit. This second test will last One-hundred-twenty hours, so exactly five days."

"What about dinner and food!?" Choji was freaking out.

"The forest is full of food. Kill something and cook it. As the days go on, the distance to the goal will become farther, and the time to rest will become shorter. Not to mention the area is crawling with enemies so you won't get much sleep. Now for the rules, exciting huh! First, those who do not make it to the tower in the five days instantly fail. Second, those who lose a teammate or those who have a teammate killed instantly fail. As a general rule of thumb, there is no quitting in the middle, you will be in the forest for five days. Finally, you must not look inside the scroll until you make it into the tower. A chunin will be asked to hand classified information. This is to test your trust-worthiness. That's it for the explanation. Exchange your forms for your scroll, then choose a gate and get ready. Malkeru instantly signed his form, he wasn't backing out now.

"M-M-Mal?" Hinata was behind him, she looked nervous.

"Ya Hinata?"

"Do...do you think I should take this test." Hinata wasn't red like usualy she was just scared, which surprised Malkeru. She was always nervous, but never scared. He smiled at his kunoichi teammate

"Don't worry Hinata, no matter what happens I'll protect you. I don't let my comrades die." Hinata signed her paper after that, Kiba had already signed and was heading towards the booth, waiting for his teammates. They were given a Heaven scroll and sent away. Malkeru decided to choose gate sixteen, no idea why, it just seemed right.

"Alright guys, survival is the specialty of the Inuzuka clan! We got this in the bag! Just don't go soft on us Hinata!" Kiba was amped, even Akamaru gave a bark

"H-hai!" Hinata seemed more ready than usual.

"Alright guys," Malkeru stepped closer to the gate "With our strengths, we should aim for Choji, Shikamaru and Ino first. Shikamaru is lazy, Choji's attacks are all slow, and Ino is...she's Ino."

"Why not Naruto's squad?" Kiba asked

"Well, for one, they were my teammates. They know how I fight. Secondly, Naruto may be stupid, but he's very strong, Sasuke is as well. Sakura is a wild card, she may not be as strong as Sasuke and Naruto, but she has a monstrous punch." Malkeru rubbed the back of his head, phantom pain coming back.

"You three, the gate is going to open in thirty second" The proctor watching their gate said.

'Alright, you can do this.' Malkeru dug his feet into the ground, ready to sprint.

'20'

His eyes turned into a scowl as his heart raced

'5'

He thought his heart was going to burst through his chest

'3...2...1..BEGIN!'

Squad eight charged through the gates, heading into the woods as soon as possible. Malkeru headed into the trees and Kiba and Hinata followed, after a few meters Malkeru held out a hand for them to stop.

"Hinata."

"Right!" Hinata made the ram sign and focused her chakra into her eyes. "Byukugan!" Malkeru and Kiba watched her back as she scanned the area for enemies. The byukugan allowed her to see much farther than the average human, even kilometers into the distance. The only drawback was that she couldn't watch her back while she did it, not with her level of training at least. She snapped back. "I found someone, Two-hundred meters west.

"Kiba take the left, Hinata right with me. Akamaru take their south. We're gonna try and flank them." The three jumped and prepared to strike, Malkeru could see his prey, activating Sharingan he landed on a branch to the left of them. Hinata landed next to them. He had a clear line of sight to Kiba and started making sign language to him.

"Mal," Hinata whispered "I've never seen hand movements like that."

"It's an Inuzuka code, we don't teach it to anyone outside."

"Well, what did you say?"

"I said leave it to me. I'm going to try a jutsu I saw Kakashi use." 'Focus Malkeru, make the signs and focus your chakra..you've been able to do this in practice, this is no different..' Malkeru took a deep breath. 'Ox, spread fingers, rabbit, spread fingers, monkey. Spread fingers, now concentrate your Chakra!' Malkeru imitated his sensei grabbing his wrist and facing his other palm to the ground. Then he heard it, the crackling of his chakra being turned into lightning.

"What! What is that!?" Hinata said as quietly as should could. Malkeru just smiled, his face illimuniated by the blue light of his jutsu

"Watch this." In a flash, Malkeru was gone. "RAIKIRI!" he screamed, piercing one of the genin below them. He made sure to miss the heart, but leave him damaged enough he wouldn't be able to fight. Quickly Malkeru made more handsigns, "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Malkeru launched a giant fireball at the remaining two genin, driving them into Hinata and Kiba separately. Hinata and Kiba dispatched of their enemies quickly enough, both enemies falling to the ground. "Easy enough." Malkeru said, panting slightly.

"The hell was that!"Kiba jumped down from his branch. "You stabbed that kid in the chest!"

"No, I stabbed him to the left of the chest. He'll live, he just won't be able to use his left arm until he gets that hole fixed."

"Mal, that was an impressive jutsu.." Hinata was trying to keep the two boys from fighting.

"Hn? Thanks, it was Kakashi's. I saw him use it on our B rank mission."

"Wait, you copied a jutsu like that after seeing it once?" Kiba couldn't seem to understand. Malkeru's only response was to point at the two tomoe eye he now possessed.

"Hinata, check your guys, Kiba, check yours. We gotta find that scroll." Malkeru knelt over the man he stabbed with Raikiri, he seemed to still be concious.

"Y-y-you..that jutsu..what was it?"

"Shh, save your strength, I didn't stab you that deep. Just enough to immobilize the chakra networks in your left arm and disable movement in it. Here." Malkeru began to bandage the wound. "There's no point in you dying over this exam. You did well to pass the first test."

"Why...why help me?"

"I'm a shinobi, not a murderer. Like I said, there is no reason for you to die. All we want is your scroll."

"I see..thank you.." The man passed out from loss of blood at that point but Malkeru had staunched the bleeding and forced some water down his throat, he would be fine. Kiba patted Malkeru on the shoulder.

"They have a heaven scroll, just like us. Good thing you didn't kill that man, would have been for nothing."

"Damn..I was hoping to end it here." Malkeru scratched his head "Alright, Hinata, keep watch. Kiba, help me drag them under that tree over there."

"Huh, why would we do that?" Kiba asked, helping his brother drag the stabbed man.

"Because Kiba, there are monsters competing in the chunin exam who will kill these guys just to get them out of the way, not to mention the creatures. Quit complaining and help me." Malkeru and Kiba got all the shinobi under the cover of a tree and tapped Hinata to let her to know to end the Byukugan. "Alright, what now guys? Try to attack another team?"

"Why not? You can take them out with that Raikiri of yours right?" Kiba said knocking his brother on the back.

"Er..no..I can't."

"What?"

"Well, Raikiri uses a lot of chakra, I can only use it once a day otherwise I risk putting myself in risk of going unconscious."

"I figured a jutsu like that had some stupid drawback. So what do you think we should do?" Malkeru was about to speak when he was interrupted.

"I-I have an idea.." Hinata shocked both of the Inuzuka boys, she had never actually been one to plan anything.

"Go on Hinata." Malkeru said, giving her a genuine smile.

"Well, everyone has to head to the tower, right? Why not just set up camp there and intercept them? If they're heading to the tower they should have both scrolls."

"That's..that's actually a really good idea Hinata, they'll also be weakened from their fights." Malkeru drew out a kunai and started drawing in the dirt.

"What are you doing?" Kiba bent down to inspect his brother's drawing.

"Drawing a map of the forest..I saw it with my Sharingan and now I can't unsee it." Malkeru continued for a good two minutes before stopping. "Here." he pointed to an area where the river intersected with the tower and drew a two kilometer radius around it. "We'll set up camp there and using Kiba's smell and Hinata's Byukugan we'll trap anyone in that radius. Agreed?" Everyone nodded and the ninja took off. The trip was quiet as they didn't want to alert anyone to their movements. By the time they reached "camp" it was already night time.

"Good! We're here let's make a fire a-" Kiba was interrupted by Malkeru.

"No fire, fire makes smoke and light. We don't want them to know were here."

"How are we suppose to cook food then?"

"Kiba..we're Inuzuka, don't you remember our survival training? We can create heat with our chakra. Tonight may be a bit cold, but, so be it. At least it's summer." Malkeru started to undress and Hinata got a red never before seen on the color scale. Malkeru noticed and quickly put his pants back on. "OH! Hinata I forgot, I was just going to catch some fish and I didn't want my clothes wet..I'll go undress over there."

"Hahaha, baka" Kiba laughed. Malkeru returned fourty minutes later with five fish strung over his arm.

"Hinata, can you do anything with this salmon?"

"Hai! I can make a nice stew if you guys want?"

"Ya!" Kiba loved stew more than anything else. Malkeru cut one of the fish in half and started to fillet it. He noticed everyone looking at him.

"For Akamaru..I didn't think he should be eating stew.." The stew Hinata made was delicious given what she had to work with. With their bellies full, Malkeru volunteered to take the first watch. He ended up just watching all night. He was good with no sleep, he always had been. The night was uneventful, no one attacked and Malkeru couldn't feel any chakras nearby. He woke them both up at six am. "Let's go hunting." Kiba smiled and even Hinata got a small grin.

"Byukugan!" Hinata went into her blank stare again and Malkeru and Kiba waited. "There! 600M north. One shinobi."

"Just one?" That worried Malkeru, but, he could always be used as a hostage so they headed out. They decided to flank again, it was just one ninja after all. This time Kiba attacked.

"Man beast clone!" Kiba's attack hit dead on, there was no way the shinobi was recovering.

"Good job Kiba." Malkeru said landing next to his brother.

"Ya kiba! Nice move!" Hinata seemed happy for once, and Malkeru enjoyed that. The shinobi they jumped wore the same garb as Kabuto except in black, which Malkeru found weird. His hair was shoulder length, drawn back in a ponytail and it was as yellow as Naruto's. Malkeru searched him and found both a heaven and earth scroll on him, good.

"Well, I guess we can leave him here. He should wake up in fifteen minutes. Let's g-"

"Or, I could wake up right now." Malkeru turned and the shinobi was up, standing as if nothing had happened. "Did you brats think such a weak attack would work against me!" The genin moved with incredible speed, punching Kiba and knocking him back into a tree. Kiba hit the ground and didn't move

"KIBA!" Malkeru rushed to help his brother but was stopped by the blonde genin moving in front of him.

"No, I'm your enemy for now and if you want to treat him, you'll have to beat me."

"Fine! If you have a death wish so be it!" Malkeru activated his Sharingan and struck at the man. The blonde had no problem blocking all of Malkeru's attacks, forcing him to jump back. "Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu!" (Fire style! Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!) Malkeru screamed as he weaved his hand signs, sending multiple fire balls towards the man as he jumped back, each fire ball more powerful than the last. Only one managed to hit him.

"Hehe, good try kid. I like you! What's your name"

"Malkeru Inuzuka! Yours? And where's your squad?" Malkeru was starting to worry about his ability against this ninja.

"Oh, my clan doesn't matter, but, my name is Sonji. Pleased to meet you. As for my squad simple really. They're dead. Now, I hope you know I am going to need my scrolls back."

"Over my dead body!" Malkeru looked back at Hinata "Hinata, stay out of this one. I don't want to see you get hurt. If he's managed to survive this long without his squad, he must be powerful."

"Oh, that's cute. You care for this girl? Well in that case.." Sonji disappeared, reappearing behind Hinata, slashing her across the cheek with a kunai.

"Hinata!" Malkeru body flickered, grabbing Hinata and jumping back. She was stunned, paralyzed even.

"Oh, ya, right, sorry about her not being able to move now. All of my weapons are coated in a poison that immobilizes the one afflicted." Sonji took another look at Hinata before raising his kunai closer to his own face. "That girl..her eyes..she has the Byukugan, no? Well then, this should be fun!" Sonji licked his kunai, cleaning Hinata's blood off of it. His face started to contract and stretch, his eyes became black. Malkeru watched with intent.

'What the fuck is going on?!' Sonji's eyes cleared, revealing the same pale gray eyes Hinata had. "W-w-what?!" Sonji just laughed.

"Like that brat, I possess a kekkai genkai. A special blood line ability passed through my family. If I ingest the blood of anyone with a special bloodline ability it allows me to copy all their jutsu, even dojutsu (eye techniques) such as Byukugan."
To prove his point veins protruded from the side of Sonji's head. Feeding chakra into it. His eyes became the same as Hinata's when she activated her Byukugan.

"You bastard..!" Malkeru clenched his fist "I'll kill you for hurting her." He raised himself, going into a taijutsu stance.

"Of course you will." Sonji smiled before diving into it. He began imitating Hinata's gentle fist style, which Malkeru dodged easily. He had been training against this fighting for months.

"Little slow aren't we?!" Malkeru taunted the man, delivering a powerful jab to his jaw, causing him to stagger back.

"Eh! You brat! How are you do- your eyes!" Malkeru looked at the Sonji not dropping his guard.

"What about them?" Malkeru said jumping back into the fight. He managed to land a knee to the man's abdomen while dodging in between his attacks.

"If you're an Inuzuka, why do you have the eyes of a Uchiha!"

"Who knows!" Malkeru tripped the man with a sweep of his feet. Focusing chakra in his legs, he jumped high in the air, weaving hand signs as he flew. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Malkeru's fireball hit his target dead on. 'No way he survived that' Malkeru thought as he landed. Malkeru was disappointed to find that the man had replaced himself with a log.

"Behind you!" Malkeru managed to dodge the kunai strike, but barely. Sonji still drew blood. Panting, Malkeru taunted the man.

"Go ahead and eat my blood! I don't have the kekkai genkai of the Uchiha. Just the eyes, like my sensei Kakashi."

"Hmm, if that's true that's disappointing. But, why are you able to move?"

"Oh, my mom is crazy and has been poisoning me since I was four. I'm immune to everything but the most powerful poisons."

"A mother did that to her child? That's...you're right. She is crazy. Oh well, I'll just kill you with your own jutsu!" Sonji ate his blood, and closed his eyes. Malkeru saw nothing happening and laughed.

"See? I told you. I'm not an Uch-" Malkeru froze. Sonji had opened his eyes to reveal the two tomoe eyes he had.

"Not an Uchiha, eh?"

"That's no..but.." Sonji took this chance to strike knocking Malkeru into the tree behind him.

"Oh, I like this one. It not only raises your awareness, but also your speed and strength as well. I'm going to have to drain you dry aren't I? But first.." Sonji picked up Hinata.

"NO! PLEASE! Take me just leave them be!" Malkeru raised himself slowly, he had taken a beating and although he could resist the poison, it was still slowing him. Sonji just laughed at his pleas.

"You hit me. No one ever hits me, I'll make you pay with this girl first, then the stupid boy." Sonji drew his shuriken, drawing it across Hinata's chest. Blood erupted from her wound.

"HINATA!" Something inside Malkeru snapped, he closed his eyes, they were burning. Tears streamed his face.

"Oh, is the big hero crying now? How sad. One more slash should finish the girl." Sonji brought his Kunai down again, but this time, it didn't connect with Hinata, Malkeru was in the way, blocking the Kunai with his palm. The metal dug into the flesh of his hands.

"No more...you'll hurt her no more.."

'How?! He moved so fast even these eyes couldn't keep up!' Malkeru looked into his eyes and Sonji saw it. They were different. The two tomoe he had possessed before had split. There were now three, forming a triangular pattern around central pupil. Malkeru kicked the man in the chest sending him flying back. Malkeru grabbed Hinata and began to weave handsigns. When Sonji opened his eyes, Malkeru was gone. "Where is he?!"

"Where you would never look!" A hand emerged from the ground and pulled Sonji down to his knees. "Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu!" (Earth style! Headhunter technique!) Malkeru rose from the ground in front of Sonji. "This jutsu usually brings the victim down to their neck. But, that just gives me a smaller target for this jutsu, and I'm not very good with it yet. Malkeru began weaving signs again his eyes never leaving Sonji. His hands began to crackle again, electricity forming in them. "RAIKIRI!" Malkeru drove his hand all the way through the neck of Sonji, killing him instantly.