(A:N/ Okay, so. Before I start I just wanna say that I'm sorry for the really short and undescriptive chapter last time. I just hate the first part of the exam and I don't feel like going through the whole process of explaining it. Plus, I didn't want to make them exactly the same. So, this chapter we're skipping straight to before the 2nd Exam, seeing as you already know the outcome of the first.)

I sign the Consent Waver they gave everyone with my team. Nervous thoughts spinning in my brain.
This forest looked insane. The name put me off even more.
The Forest of Death?
Why do they have to pick the most intimidating name ever?!
And we have to stay in there for 5 Days?!
Oh geeze.

I peer around at the other teams. A suspisious looking group of Mist Gennin stands to the side, while all the other rookies converse with their team mates. Well. Except me. I'm too busy trying to calm my nerves. Garra stands emotionlessly with Kankuro and Temari.
I walk around, pacing nervously, my hands sweating furiously.
Whats gonna happen? What scroll are we gonna get? Are we gonna get killed?!
Thoughts race through my brain.
I feel a hand on my shoulder and look up to see Kiba's face. He smiles at me and Akamaru scampers around our feet.
"Nervous?" He asks. I nod. I kneel down and pick Akamaru up, cuddling him in my arms affectionatly. He licks my cheek.

"Yeah. I just... I don't really know anymore..." I say. Kiba pats my head.
"You'll do fine." He says. I smile. "As will you." I reply. I give him Akamaru as my team calls me back over and I jog towards my team, giving Kiba a quick wink. My step is a little more bouncy as I do.
We sit for a few minuets, talking startegy. I'm about to tell them about my Sharingan but I am stopped as the Second Proctor, Anko Mitarashi, calls us us up to get our scrolls. I stand up and rub my hands on my pants.
When we enter the booth to get the scrolls, we hand a man our Consent forms and recieve a Heaven scroll in return.
"Please wait at gate 12." he says. Sasuke puts the scroll in his pocket and we all leave the booth, heading towards the gate we were told to wait at.
I shift nervously beside my pink haired teammate as the gate is unlocked.
My thoughts drift the the other teams. Especially Kiba.

There is the sudden unanimous sound of shuttering metal as the gate's are opened all at once. We race into the woods, trying to cover some ground. About 5 minuets in, we hear the sounds of screamin gecho through the woods. We all freeze.
"Was that..."
"Another Team?" Sakura finishes quietly. We all shake our heads and keep moving. Suddenly a Mist Gennin jumps down from above us and tackles Sasuke to the ground, a kunai hovering just over his neck. Sakura lets out a yelp and I whip out a shuriken or two. I whip them forward and he jumps away from Sasuke, the metal hits one of these big ass tree's with a thunk. (A:N/ That was also an attack on Titan refrance. WOO GO LEVI AND EREN! XD)

I notice Naruto frozen in place and I narrow my eyes, activating my Sharingan for a half of a second. I quickly deactivate it and run forward, slicing the phony's cheek. Saukra looks around, frightened and confused.
"I know your fake. Where's the real Naruto." I say.

"What are you talking about?!" Naruto exclaims. I go into the defensive position.
"Naruto had a scratch on his cheek from Proctor Anko. And, he's right handed. Your left." I say. The fake grins as the Mist Ninja fighting Sasuke dissapears.
"Unlucky." He says. I throw some shuriken at him and jump up, landing behind him. I grab his shirt before he can move and he struggles. A shuriken hits his shoulder, he was luck to miss the others.
He urses and jumps away. A few moments later, Naruto and Sasuke walk out of the bushes, Naruto wrining his hands from rope marks.
Ropes. I shudder at flashbacks that race through my mind. We trek a little way's farther and then we stop, sitting in a circle.
Sasuke lifts his hands over his mouth for a second.

"Okay. I have an idea." He says. We all lean forward, listening intently. "A password." He says. Naruto tilts his head.
"Password?" he asks. Sakura snapps her fingers.

"Of course! So then whoever doesn't know it is a fake!" She says. "Thats brilliant Sasuke-kun!"
I sigh a little and turn back to my cousin.
" Ok. So what's the password gonna be?" I ask. sasuke eyes us all a little.
"Listen closely, cause I only wanna say this once." He says.
"The question will be: When does a ninja strike? And the response is: A ninja waits until the time is right, when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard. And his weapons lay forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike." (A:N/ OH! DID THAT ONLY OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD SUUN!)
I think a moment before nodding.
"Got it." I say. Sakura nods.
Naruto scratches tentivly at his cheek.
"Uhh. Can you repeat that?" He asks. I facepalm.

"You should have payed attention Naruto." I sigh. Sakura bonks his head.
"You should study more Naruto!" She exclaims. Naruto rubs his head as we stand, prepairing to leave.
Suddenly, a large gale blows through the area and we are all sent tumbling.
I let out a yelp as I tumble across the dirt floor. I have become separated from the others. I stand up and launch into a tree, quickly running around the area as the wind lets down.
Damn! I should probably search for their Chakara signatures...

Sasuke's POV:

Ok. It's bad enough that we lost both Naruto and Kanami but this Grass Nin girl is freaky!
I had to stab my own leg to get away from her. I was so scared, Sakura and I almost got eaten by a giant snake.
"I'm losing my mind!" I yell. Suddenly the snake launches at me, and in its eyes I see the death that was in the Grass woman's eyes. I saw that death. It was mine. And Sakura's and everyone I've known to love.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" I yell, throwing shuriken at the snake. It falls with a loud crash against a nearby tree and with a hiss of pain, dies. Sakura and I land on branches around the snake.

Suddenly, there is a strange noise and my eyes widen as the snake's skin begin's to crack, a large lump building at the center of the crack.
Sakura gasps as the skin breaks around the lump.
A dark head of hair that is extremely familiar to me rises from the snakes skin. My throat makes a gutteral noise.
"Hmm. Very good. The prey must always be alert..." The woman looks up at us, her eyes filled with an amused malice. She lickes her lips with her freakishly long tongue.
"When being chased by its predator." She flickes her tongue slowly, much like that of a snake, and then begins to laugh miniacly. Suddenly her body is coiling around the branch towards me. I freeze, utterly terrifyed as the woman nears me.
Suddenly a handful of Ninja tools lands in front of her.

Kanami's POV:

"Sasuke!" I exclaim, running in the direction where I had heard Sasuke yell. I hope everyones ok. I jump from tree to tree. I'm scared now. What happening?!
I run for about 30 minuets before I come to a circle of trees. Several branches are snapped and a giant snake ay dead over a branch. There are scratches and burns in the trees.
I see Naruto hanging by a kunai on a tree trunk. Sasuke and Sakura are on a tree branch nearby. They all look awfully beat up.
I notice a Grass Ninja nearby.
I activate my Sharingan and jump over to the branch my cousin stands on.

"Sasuke! Sakura! What the hell happened?!" I ask rushedly. Worry fills my voice. Sasuke jumps and lifts his arms in a defensive position and Sakura gasps.
He looks at me for a second before regesturing me as his cousin. My eyes widen as I see the damage they have taken up close.
"Oh my god. What did she do to you?" I ask. I whip my head over to the Grass Ninja.

"What the fuck did you do to them?!" I exclaim. Suddenly I freeze as the woman's eyes land on me. Or should I say... man. Now that I see up close, the man wears a woman's face over his own. It is partially melted away to reveal a pale face and snakelike yellow eyes.
He smirks as a tinge of surprise and amusement flash through his eyes.
"Well well. What have we here?" The man says, his cold voice sending a chill through my spine. I go to grab a kunai shakilly but I collapse on my knees. I shakilly stand back up, gritting my teeth.
The man chuckles .

"Well. I see we have two Uchiha. Both with the Sharingan and both with a great spirit." he says.
He licks his lips creepily.
"Who shall I pick?" He asks. Sasuke shakes like its an Catagoty 5 earthquake beside me. I grimace.
"Shannanro!" I mutter, throwing my hands into a hand symbol.

"Sabaku no sogi!" I exclaim. The dirt from the floor of the forest separates into small grains of sand and lifts upward towards me.
I throw it forward with a shaky hand, almost losing my grip on the branch.
"Kanami no!" Sakura yells.

I jump down and attack the man with a mixture or Tai Jutsu and Sand attacks.
"I'll teach you to mess with my team!" I yell. He catches one of my fists and throws me backward. I land on my feet as he throws a Fire Type Jutsu at me. I jump up and throw the tendril of sand I had snuck behind him up his leg.
He suddenly bursts into mud.
"Shit!" I yell. Suddenly I am slammed onto a tree branch.

I cough up some bile and roll to the side, my Sharingan serving its purpose as a slab of earth rockets through the branch. I freeze as I stand, and fall back to my knee's clutching my head.
Horrible visions flood through my mind.
N-No! You n-ned to stand u-up! You can't l-let your guard d-down! I scream in my skull.
The man laughs again as he gazes at us both.
"Now that that's taken care of." he grins, putting his hands in a strange symbol.

"I think I've found a compromise." There is loud grunting above me as Naruto begins to awaken. I don't know how he recover's so fast!
His eyes open as the man stretches his neck towards Sasuke. Its quite gross actually.
"S-Sasu... ke..." I rasp. Sasuke lets out a wail as the man's teeth sink into his neck. He collapses, clutching his neck while Sakura lets out a worried gasp.

I hear Naruto gasp slightly.
The man turns to me and his neck extends towards me. I go to move but to no avail. I let out a yelp and grimace as his teeth sink straight through my jacket and shirt onto the top of my shoulder.
He removes his fangs from my skin and suddenly a shockwave of undescribeable pain shoots through my body and I scream.
Naruto's eyes shoot open as I fall to my side, having already been on my knee's, and dig my nails into my shoulder.

I don't hear his screams. I dont hear Sakura's. All I hear are Sasuke's gutteral wails mixed with my own as the man laughs and sinks into the tree, dissapering.
I let out a wail as Naruto shakilly removes himself from the tree and runs over to me. Sakura holds Sasuke's head in her lap, him passed out and a tear trails down her cheek from her lonesome and scared green eyes.
The last thing I see are Naruto's eyes.

Then its just nightmares.
Of that night.
Of other nights.
Of battles I dont want to re-live. I scream, knowing that no one else will hear me.