Chapter 11: Gohan in the Forest of Death pt1
Gohan was waiting at the gate to the forest. He held his form in hand and tapped his foot. He knew he was early and as such he shouldn't be so impatient, but he had a feeling that he needed to get this over with. A smirk crossed his face quickly as he thought of a plan. He placed his hands into the Tiger seal. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" A clone of Gohan popped into existence. "Henge into a rabbit or something and scout the forest, when you reach the middle, dispel yourself." Gohan ordered, and the clone turned to jump over the fence, suddenly a kunai burst through it.
"Tsk tsk tsk. Gohan I thought cheating was above you." Anko said, "Yamato told me you were an honest boy, don't want your sensei to be a liar, do you?" She asked, though it sounded a lot like she was kidding around with him.
"There is no rule about scouting out an area before a battle." Gohan pointed out, "In a real fight, the one with knowledge of the geography has an advantage, and if you know where a fight is to be held, it is smart to scout out that area first."
"True, but this is a test, on a test do you get the answers before the questions?" Anko rebutted, countering Gohan's earlier statement.
"I see where you are coming from, but you can't stop me from sending a clone through." Gohan smirked, and made three more clones.
"Wanna bet?" Anko smirked and bit her thumb, "Summoning Jutsu!" She slammed her hand into the ground and three snakes popped up beside her. One was a twelve foot cobra that had a girth of around four feet, another was a fifteen foot long, three foot wide horned viper, and the last was a gigantic thirty foot long, ten foot wide blue spiny bush viper. "These are my friends, Lamia" She pointed to the cobra, "Ruban" she pointed to the horned viper, "And the strongest, Upear" She pointed to the gigantic viper. "Still wanna disobey me?"
Gohan dispelled his clones. "You win." He sighed. Her summons left in a gigantic puff of smoke. Gohan walked towards her. "Here, they're all signed" Gohan handed her the waiver forms.
Anko checked them over, "Alright, now we wait, wanna play a game?" Anko asked, a sadistic looking smile on her face.
"No, I'm going to meditate, over there." Gohan pointed to a faraway tree and walked towards it. He remembered that Piccolo liked to meditate, and so he figured maybe Piccolo's hobby would help him with calming down, he was anxious, he had a strange feeling something would happen during this test, something horrible. He got to the tree he had pointed at and jumped up, reaching a branch that was a good twenty feet up, and sat down, it's width being good enough to support Gohan easily. He closed his eyes and focused on nothing.
"Hey, brat, time to go!" Gohan's eyes snapped open, he barely dodged a kunai that was aimed for his head.
"Watch it!" He yelled, then jumped down, pushing chakra out of his feet to slow his descent, it was a familiar feeling, being in the sky, not anchored by the ground. Gohan looked up at the sky. It was a serene blue colour and the clouds moved through it like fish in a stream. 'I want to remember.' He thought sadly.
Gohan joined his team, who were near Naruto's squad.
"This challenge is unusual, I guess too many people passed the last test. They need a sudden death round." Said a kid with white hair and horn rimmed glasses. Gohan could also hear Sakura and Ino fighting over Sasuke, Ino complaining that Sakura got more time with him, and Sakura rebutting with the fact that rookie of the year and top kunoichi were always together in a squad.
"Gohan, where did you go this morning?" Goten asked, "I'm getting a bit worried about you."
Gohan ruffled his brother's hair, "I was here, I had a hard time sleeping, that's all. I'll go get the scroll." He walked up to Anko and took his scroll, heaven. He looked to Naruto's group, earth. "Looks like we might have to go up against you guys, huh?" Gohan said to Sasuke, who shrugged and said, "I hope not, I'm not sure I can take the three of you, and Naruto will get knocked out too quickly if you fought him." Gohan was sure that was Sasuke's way of joking, so he smiled and patted his friend's back. "Good luck."
"You too, let's hope we don't have to fight each other." Sasuke replied, a smile actually on his face. The two walked towards their respective groups to formulate a plan.
"Ready?" Anko yelled, all forty-eight teams were lined up, waiting for the gate to open. "GO!" She yelled, and threw open the gate, every team rushing inside.
"Follow me!" Gohan yelled to his teammates over the noise of every other group running and screaming. Videl and Goten nodded and jumped up to the trees with him.
"So what do we do first?" Videl asked, "We can take out one of the weaker teams here, or go deeper into the forest."
"First things first," Gohan made a shadow clone, who then transformed into a sparrow and flew off, "We wait for him, there's five days, he'll take at most four hours, we wait here and make fake scrolls until then." Gohan took out some scroll paper and brushes, handing a brush to each of his partners and putting the scroll in the center of them.
The group spent the better part of two hours making fake scrolls, with Gohan placing flashbang seals, which made a giant flash of light and a huge noise, or phoenix-spitfire seals, which shoots out small fireballs like Goten's 'Fireball Spasm Jutsu', just not as many. The second seals was something that Gohan and Naruto had designed while they were practicing Fuuinjutsu. Gohan felt his clone disappear and clutched his head as the memories come to him.
The clone was flying through the air, he had a mission and he would complete it. It looked down and saw a kunai flying at it, he dodged and flew higher. After an hour of flying, he saw the center of the forest, the tower that they were supposed to get to. The clone landed and stopped it's Henge, almost out of Chakra. He snuck around to see how to get in, but stopped when he felt an evil presence, it was all around him. He looked around and saw a strange, pale woman? no it was a man. The man had long black hair, and had golden eyes with purple snake-like markings around them. The man looked directly at the clone and moved behind him with amazing speed that the clone could barely react to. A dodge to the left saved the clone from decapitation, but he quickly had to dodge again, and again. Gohan's clone could take it anymore and pulled out a seal, attaching it to the man's arm. The clone performed a hand seal and the tag exploded, obliterating the clone.
"Clone's dead." Gohan said. "Some weird looking dude with a purple rope belt and long hair, watch out for him, I can tell he survived the explosion."
"Alright, should we get moving?" Goten said and Gohan nodded.
"One sec, we should eat first." Videl said, and took out a scroll, unraveling it she pushed chakra into the seal and out popped three picnic baskets, one noticeably smaller than the other two. "Dig in." She smiled and the three ate lunch.
When they finished Gohan stood up, "Alright, here's the plan, I'll make a clone to scout the path ahead of where we are, seeing that we have so many opponents, we should be able to find someone easily, if they have a heaven scroll, take it and leave them with a fake one, if they have an Earth scroll, take it and replace it with a fake one. Once we have an earth and a heaven, we'll go to the center of the forest and finish this test." Gohan said.
"Why do we give them a heaven seal if they have an earth?" Goten asked, Gohan shook his head. "You made heaven, Videl made earth." He explained. Videl put two fingers over her left eye and struck a pose. "Let's go!" She said, Gohan made a clone.
They quickly came across a group from Kirigakure, two girls and one guy. All three had dark skin and one of the girls was extremely short, barely reaching four feet tall. The short girl had long black hair that was in pigtails on the side of her head and green eyes. She wore a yellow vest with a spandex black shirt underneath and a pair of brown pants. The other girl had hair covering one eye, and going straight down her back. Her one visible eye was a striking yellow colour, and she wore the same outfit as her female partner. The male in the group was the tallest, he had a sword strapped to his waist and a pair of shorts, with his torso and half his face covered by bandages. All three wore their headbands on their necks, hanging a little loose.
"Goten" Gohan said and his brother nodded, performing a series of hand signs, "Fireball Spasms Jutsu!" Goten yelled, shooting dozens of small fireballs that flew at the Kiri-nin. Gohan and Videl jumped into the small clearing with kunai in hand. The three Kiri-nin flew at them, hate filling their eyes, the short girls went straight for Videl. "Water Bullet Jutsu!" The short girl yelled, shooting a bullet of water at Videl, who dodged neatly and kicked the girl in the face.
Videl flew after the other girl, and flashed some hand signs, "Katon: Flame Cloaked Fist!" Videls right hand was covered in fire, she caught the other girl with her left hand and delivered an insanely powerful right hook to her face, knocking out a few teeth.
Meanwhile, Gohan was dodging fists from the other girl, who was enraged at the fact that her hair was burnt now, and slashes from the guy, who apparently didn't talk to his enemies. Then, from nowhere, Goten popped out of the ground and grabbed the girl, pulling her under so that just her head was above ground. Gohan dodged a slash and kicked the sword away, all the while going through hand signs, "Raiton: Lightning Charged Fist!" Gohan's fist was covered in lightning chakra, and speeding towards the guy from Kiri, who took the hit to the stomach and fell unconscious. Videl dragged the short girl to the center of the clearing.
"Look, it's gonna go like this, you tell me where your scroll is, and I'll give you this one, you see, we're trying to find an earth scroll, and we have a couple heavens so, I'll give you this one for your earth, or I can burn all your hair off" Goten told the girl he had captured, a sadistic smirk on his face.
"Jargo has it, it's in his pouch." She said. Gohan made a clone and it went to check the boy's pouch, the clone grabbed the scroll and studied it, before dispelling. The scroll was legit. "Thank you." Goten smiled, then kicked the girl in the face. Gohan's squad took the three and put them somewhere they hopefully wouldn't get killed, and left a 'heaven' scroll with them.
"Ya, I know. That was a weak ass team just then." They heard a guy laugh.
"I know, a bunch of losers." A girl laughed with him.
"Almost as dumb as you two." A deep voice lazily rumbled.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" The two laughing from before yelled.
"I said you were stupid, now shut up, we have to find Gohan." The deep voice said again.
"Why?" The other two asked, in unison again.
"Juno! Rex! Do as I say!" The deep voice yelled, causing one of the nearby trees to shake.
"Yes Zaiden." Juno and Rex said.
"Good, now Juno use your eyes, Rex I need you to use your nose and ears. Got it?" Zaiden commanded, "Master Zodyak wants Gohan and Goten alive. Videl can die, so go find them."
"Crap, we're in trouble." Gohan said, "Let's go, no more stopping." The three began speeding away, making little to no noise on their way to the center area, where there was bound to be ANBU guarding the winners.
And that concludes this chapter, Next will be Naruto's group. Tell me what you liked / Disliked, and if you have any questions, PM me. Also the poll is finished and I will be doing Crescent moon and land of snow. Thanks for reading.