Aren't you all curious what exists outside the elemental continent? In this world there are three more continents, you can consider elemental continent as the western, there is the eastern, northern and southern in cultural terms. Southerns are like africans, eastern are like americans notherns are mostly europeans, we'll explore these worlds later and their systems which differ from the shinobi system.
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SURVEILLANCE ROOM, CENTRAL TOWER
"Why dont we place our bets on which of our teams will be the first to arrive at the central tower." Asuma Sarutobi spoke in his usual laid back manner with a lit cigarate i his lips as he eyed all the other jonin sensei in the room who were observing the genin preparing to enter the forbidden forest. "50,000 ryo, winner takes all." As he said this, about 20 or so jonin confident on their teams placed the money at the table and kept watching their teams on the numerous screens covering the wall showing live videos of the genin inside the forest.
40 minutes later Recca stood and collected all the money before sealing it with a big grin on his face. 'I wont tell you this directly but I'm proud of you brats and not because you reached the tower first but because you're giving the others hell.'
"Wait, if your genin already finished, what were those clones for?" A red eyed kunoichi of konoha, kurenai said as she recalled the uzushio genin summoning clones and handing them scroll and disappearing into different parts of the forest. "Eliminating excess competition." Recca answered as the jonin saw a genin team in one screen from kumo getting caught in an explosion leaving only one male genin missing an arm but still barely alive.
Roof top, Central tower
"Naruto, were the explosion seals you used the new and untested ones you made?" Karin couldn't help but watch with her binoculars as a kumo was blown in a huge explosion leaving only one person alive although in a very sorry state.
Naruto chuckled nervously as he watched the overpowered seal that most likely caught the other genins attention. "I could of sworn they werent in that scroll, but hey, they do work wonders." he said trying to show his friends the big picture, "I mean look at that explosion its localised and intense at a range of 5 meter radius."
Yes both Karin were amazed at the power and concentration of the explosion as only charred land was left in the crater where trees once were, even most of the animals run away from the area around the explosion.
'Well there goes another one' Haku thought as he watched another seal in the south go off as a konoha genin team and a suna team which were fighting triggering three linked seals causing another very loud explosion this time leaving no survivors. 'This just looks ruthless and metaphorically cold' haku thought shaking his head as another seal activated only this time jagged ice spike protruded from the seal causing the team triggering it to escape narrowly receiving only scrapes. 'now that was cool' so okay he was sadistic when ice was used and not fire.
"I tried to use that hyoton attack we sealed when experimenting on the attack seals so I thought I'd try it." Karin said smiling at Haku.
"Who's the one using untested seals now?" Naruto said smirking only for Karin to send him a death glare but couldnt refute the accusation and hypocrisy.
Team 7 of KonohaHinata and her team walked through the dense forest, they were about a quarter the distance from when they started and had not encountered any other team.
"A team from suna is about 25 meters to our east." Hinata suddenly said to her teammates. "They also have an earth scroll, we should take fro this team since it looks like we can handle them."
"Agreed!" Sasuke said as they changed direction and headed towards the suna team.
It took only a few minutes to have the team in site before Sasuke and Mizuchi both threw a hail of kunai at the team only for the kunai to be stopped by an invisisible force before flying into the black haired girl's hand who responded by throwing them in the direction in which they came from, both Sasuke and Mizuchi deflected the hail of kunai and stood on a tree branch as they watched the Suna team which have also stopped and were watching them preparing to attack.
"Give us your scroll and we'll let you go unharmed." Sasuke said with a voice that implied the suna team were mere ants and could be squashed just by his word.
"You really are dumb if you think we're just going to give you our scroll just because you said so." Kazuma said as he removed a scroll in his back and unsealed a six armed puppet which had a sharp metal horn on the middle of its forehead with what appeared to poison glistening at the tip toward Sasuke who jumped on its head and jumped to a higher branch before throwing two shuriken attached to a ninja wire which wrapped around the puppet and and the brach he was on before the wire tightened and pinned the puppet in the tree. He watched as Hinata who hadn't attacked with them initially appear infront of Kazuma before unleashing barrage of fast strikes to his body sealing Kazuma chakra points and was about to hit him with a palm on his core but was forced to jump away from two balls of very hot orange flames.
Landing on a tree, Hinata watched as the girl, Yukina after shaking off Mizuchi with a poison smoke bomb retrieving Kazuma and proceed to run away on ground, Izayoi decided to explode his scorch balls which gave him a chance to catch up with his teammates. Hinata and her team chased after them from behind while watching for any traps since this looked more like a planned ambush. It was after two minutes of running that Hinata saw with her byakugan a fuinjutsu circle about 20 feet diameter lit up with an explosive array whith them already in range. Hinata quickly decided to angle herself perpendicular between her teammates and charge chakra to her palms while pointing at Sasuke with ther back to Mizuchi before lightly jumping to remove an anchor.
"Eight trigrams: vacuum palm" This caused Sasuke to be blown away to the side by a big distance while Hinata used the reaction force to barrel into Mizuchi at high speed and also taking them out to the side by a considerable distance just out of the fuinjutsu circle when it fully lit up and a huge explosion rocked up the ground with concentrated heat within the circle.
Both Sasuke and Mizuchi's stared in disbelief at what their teammate just saved them from whith shrunken pupils and sweat trailing all over them. Hinata picked herself up and watched the fire raging before they were all broken out from their reverie by a miserable cry on the other side. They went arround the fire only to see a very disturbing site of Yukina pulling away Izuyoi whose legs were cauterized by the fire. He was the missing both legs from the knee below and seemed to be the source of the anguish cries whereas Kazuma was no where to be seen, most likely dead in the flames. When Yukina saw the team seven members, she panicked and hurriedly reached into Izayoi's slighly charred kunai pouch and pulled out their scroll before throwing it to team seven.
"Please dont hurt us, there's the scroll you want just leave us." Yukina managed to say in between tears as she tried to heal and ease her teammates wounds and suffering.
Mizuchi caught the earth scroll before he and his teammates reluctantly turned to leave. Now that they had both scrolls it was best to leave the forest but with more caution lest they end up in one of those freakish explosion traps.
It took them one more day to maneuver in the dense jungle avoiding deadly animals and fauna and other teams but like most other teams also in the forest they all lost more time carefully moving to avoid the explosion seals aince thete seem to be explosions sounds in many different directions. They reached the tower after a day and a half before openning both scrolls only for Iruka, their chunin academy sensei to appear and congratulate them on passing the second test.
"You're the third team to arrive at the tower." Iruka told them as he watched them coveted in some soot.
Hinata still thought on the seal. It was too comlex from normal explosive arrays and even though it lacked the telltale spiral in the middle, she was sure those seals weren't in the forest as a test but were put by the Uzumaki team which left a sour taste in her mouth. She vaguely heard Sasuke ask Iruka on which teams already arrived.
"The Uzushio team arrived yesterday and sand team arrived just this morning another teams are also arriving now, follow me to the rooms you'll be staying at until the 5 days are over." And with that they followed him while also noting a team from Kumo also entering.
After the five days of the second portion was over, only 10 teams remained as they had managed to collect both earth and heaven scrolls. While they were filtering into a stage they all saw the fourth hokage, Fugaku while behind him stood ten jonin sensei whose teams had passed and below the raised ground stood 8 proctors of the exams, four on each side of the hokage.
When Kabuto entered in the lines with other genin he watched the Hokage speaking about their numbers being a lot for the third exam thus their number will be cut down in half, his vision suddenly went behind the hokage watching the jonin sensei of other teams when they landed on the red haired uzushio sensei who was slightly smiling directly at him and his mind went blank, his pupils to shrink as the memories of about five years ago in the sound village invaded his mind. Memories of a red eyed uzumaki slaughtering everyone before appearing in vision with Kabuto's own heart in his hands with a blood covered face and a pained bloodthirsty smile. Hayate Gecko had started to announce that anyone not up feeling to the preliminary matches is allowed to leave before almost all jonin noticed Kabuto with a large wet dark spot on his pants who seem to most likely have frozen up in fear and unconsciouly peed on himself. His teammates decided to lead him away from the stage announcing that Kabuto wont be able to participate in the exams anymore.
Hayate shook his head before coughing and adress the remaining genin. "Anyone else?" A girl from Iwa, Namida, raised her before leaving. "The matches will be randomized with this machine," he said indicating to a blank screen above, the screen flashed different names before stopping at Kenshin VS Riku". "Alright everyone else leave the arena for the contestants, If I feel that the match is over then I will stop it."