Everyone looked up at the location of their second test.
"This is scary..." Sakura mumbled with a small hope of Sasuke commenting such things like, "I'm on your team, you will be fine."
"..."
She looked over at him.
"..."
Hoping too much only let her down even more.
"..."
Sasuke simply smirked in excitement.
Sakura pouted a bit.
From what they can see, there was just lots and lots of trees.
Lots and lots of big trees. It seems to be there just to cover up what was really inside of that forest, the forest of death. Konoha has placed a whole fence around the forest, just made it seem more creepy.
Saharu smiled a bit, it was a confident smile. She remembered the days when she use to run out of home and play around in forests like these, until when night came and her worried mother would come out looking for her. There was even a few scars on her body from climbing trees, (falling off trees) and a cuts she obtained from running through numerous branches. This was definitely an advantage for her. Especially with her katana she had gotten earlier, (that is attached to her waist) it made her feel a lot better too. Saharu was only hoping not to meet with Anko, their new examiner, especially after seeing the whole thing where she had licked blood off Naruto's cheek.
She shivered a bit at the thought about it.
Naruto gulped as he read over the contract each of them was given, "Of course no one is gonna die, Anko is only doing this to scare us!." He thought, the third Hokage who was a kind old man wouldn't let such things happen...
Right?
Simply, it was to steal the scroll you need from another team member. Just a couple of ninja fights, weapon clashing, kunais darting, and just the usual.
Gita nodded, "Five days, make it in tower with both scrolls. No dying team mates."
It seemed easy for him, the world he was from had people dying everyday from everything. A small camp like this was a piece of cake.
Mystery was like Naruto, convinced that no one was actually going to die. Well, actually, she was more skeptical rather than convinced.
She then spotted Sakura waving at her, Mystery jogged over while waiting for Saharu to collect their team's scroll.
"How did you do in the exam?" Sakura asked, in a friendly matter. They were the only girls on team seven; they might as well try to be friends. But Mystery always thought Sakura was doing this to get more approach with Sasuke, a lot of fan girl's of Sasuke did, she decided that she might as well take advantage.
"Uhm, well, didn't we all pass?"
Sakura nodded, "I was quite surprised by Naruto's action, but I'm thinking a little different about him now."
Mystery grinned, "I never knew Naruto could be so cool!"
"Haha, well. I feel so sorry for the team mates who was with that really tall, orange hair guy that talked back to Ibiki."
"...Yeah, me too Sakura, me too."
Naruto ran over and cling Mystery's shoulder with his arm, her and Naruto got quite close ever since the days of team seven started. Sakura who was always busy with chasing Sasuke, Naruto who was failing in trying to do the same, but to Sakura. So then, Mystery and Naruto naturally bonded together, just naturally, like brothers and sisters.
"Oi, Mystery, whose on your team?" He asked.
"...Well, uhm. There's...That girl." She pointed over at Saharu.
Naruto looked over, "Have you sparred with her yet?"
Mystery shook her head, "But I'm sure she's strong."
"Whose the other team mate?"
"...My...Other team mate..." Mystery looked over at Sakura, "Well...He...OH!" She spotted the other member of team seven, Sasuke.
"SASUKE! HOW DID YOU DO IN YOUR EXAM?" She yelled at him to change the subject, Anko managed to do it, and it was something much more embarrassing to cover up too.
"Hn, it was easy, as expected."
Sakura smiled, "He's so cool..."
Naruto pouted a bit in jealousy seeing Sakura's reaction to that, "I did really well too!"
Sasuke snorted.
"HEY! WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN?"
"What do you think, dobe?"
Just as Naruto was about to yell insults at Sasuke, a voice shouted out to them.
"Mystery! Saharu has the scroll! Let's go!"
They looked over to see the orange haired guy that Sakura was talking about.
"That's...Your other team mate?"
Mystery slapped her own face.
"Alright, who's got a plan?"
Gita coughed, ready to explain his plan he had in his mind for a while. "Since we have the heaven scroll, I think we need to figure out who has the earth scroll first, so we won't waste our energy fighting a team that has the same scroll as us."
Saharu nodded, a bit surprised Gita could come up with such ideas.
"Okay, who's got a plan?"
He pouted, hunching his back in a way to show his annoyance of being ignored.
"Well, I think we should stick together…Because no one really knows about the forest."
Mystery nodded, "Good idea."
"BUT MY MINE WAS BETT-"
"We're going to be here for quite a while, let's first find a place to stay for the night."
"..."
"Something wrong?" Saharu asked.
"...Is it me, or can you guys see that too?" Mystery pointed at the direction right behind Gita and Saharu, they both turned around to see a gigantic snake slithering to them. Its eye balls rolled to look at them and screeched loudly, the gush of breath came out from the snake and caused their hair to blow back forcefully.
Saharu eyes widen and quickly jumped to a tall tree to avoid any attacks from the snake, so did Gita.
"HOLY SHIT! GUYS! THIS SNAKE IS HUGE!" Mystery shouted as she took a few steps back, but noticed her two team members has disappeared.
"GUYS?"
Thinking fast, Gita grabbed out a kunai and threw it at the snake and aimed for it's eye, it simply moved its head and the kunai bounced off it's steel like skin.
The huge snake reminded him of the reptile creature he had encountered before in his world, called viperal or something like that.
"I guess seeing something like this to them is a huge deal..." Gita thought, he then decided to try and seem a bit surprised too, he didn't want anyone suspecting him.
Mystery snapped out of the shock of seeing the humongous snake, she used her initiative and jumped to a tree like the other two.
The viper screeched again and opened its mouth wide and shot at them.
"SHIT! IT'S AIMING FOR US!"
Saharu made some hand jutsus and a beam of water gushed out from her mouth as she curved her hand around her lips. The strong jet of water sprayed at the snake's eyes and aimed at its pupil, the pressure of the water had caused a discomfort for the large snake and it pushed itself back with another screech.
"RUN!" She yelled, her other two members heard her and did so.
As they jump from tree to tree, they looked back once in a while to see if the snake was still chasing them, their doubts were soon answered when they noticed the trees behind them was collapsing to each other.
The snake was chasing them.
"HE'S RIGHT UNDER US!" Mystery yelled as she felt the vibration on the trees she had jumped past.
Before anyone said anything, the snake shot up and pushed the trees away from each other, Mystery had lost her balance and flew towards the ground.
"AHHH!"
Sasuke moved his head approximately the direction where the scream came from.
"Mystery?"
Sakura grabbed her left arm tightly, she could feel the sweat coming from the palms of her hands, "I'm…Getting a little nervous...That was a human scream, right?"
Sasuke fought the urge to go and look for her, his own team was at risk and he wasn't prepared to leave them by themselves like that, not especially with Naruto.
"..."
"I got to take a piss."
Just before Naruto had unzipped his pants; his head fell forward with an aching pain.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN FRONT OF A LADY?" Sakura shouted at him, completely forgetting about how scared she was just five seconds ago.
Sasuke sighed silently, the two temporary team members Mystery was put into seemed strong, she should be fine.
"See! I told you its fine!"
She looked down at the height; it would hurt so badly if she had fallen down this tree and onto the ground. "Sasuke…I'm scared!"
"Don't be! I'm with you!" Sasuke said confidently and stood up tall on the branch. "See?"
Mystery smiled and stood up slowly.
"..."
A small spider fell on her shoulder.
She felt the small tickle and screamed, "AHHH! GET IT OFF!" Mystery quickly brushed her shoulder to get rid off whatever it was that landed on her shoulder. But this caused her to loose her balance; her feet slipped and flew towards the ground.
She felt someone grab her and held her in place.
"…Sasuke?"
Saharu blinked, "What?"
Mystery woke up from her déjà vu, "Sorry…I thought-"
"We need to fight him! We're going to completely run out of energy if we try to run from him!" Gita shouted at them. "How do I know it's a him?"
A small, typical Gita moment right there.
Saharu nodded, "Lets do this."