The first test is to put it bluntly boring as heck. It's a written test. Sasuke already knows everything so it's a piece of cake. His teammates might be struggling but he does have a solution to that. Not that he's going to use it. Let them struggle. It's hilarious to watch.
'What's so funny number 937?' The man in front of the classroom asks. Sasuke has seen him once before, he was talking to the mummy man, which makes Sasuke unimpressed.
'I was just laughing at the struggling faces of my teammates.' Sasuke tells the proctor.
'If they fail then so do you.' Does this man try to make him scared? It's not working.
'Bullshit. I got plot armor.' Sasuke smirks. The man only shakes his head.
'Kids these days.'
The test goes on for a little bit longer. Nothing much happens except for people leaving the room after they got caught. Sasuke is just eating some candy he found on the ground. It tastes a little like sand, hold on it is sand, but he does not care one bit. It does have a bit of a bloody after taste.
'Now for the final question.' The man starts. Sasuke doesn't really care, he'll get it right anyway. Then the man starts telling some fairy tale about getting tortured. Sasuke is pretty sure he heard it before. Something about cutting of your pinky to unlock a secret door after which ravens hide. He leaves out the dwarves though. He's not a very good story teller. He makes it sound like it actually happened.
Then comes the major decision to take the test. Of course, they'll take it, they've already gotten this far. No chance they're going to give up now. Naruto voices these thoughts a bit too loudly in Sasuke's humble opinion.
'Then you all pass.' To say Sasuke was disappointed was an understatement. Where is the live and death situation? The philosophical situations they would get themselves stuck in. No wonder Itachi passed when he was six.
Then suddenly a lady bursts through the window. 'I'm the proctor of the second part. The amazing Anko!' A banner appears behind her. It's a strange sight. Sasuke recognized the woman.
'Snake lady.' Sasuke looks her dead in the eye.
'Snake boy.' She looks at him. Her stupid smile is still on her face.
Sasuke ignores all the stares in his direction. All of the girls would soon convert to Sasuketors anyway. 'Fancy seeing you here.'
'Fancy seeing you without your brother.' She retorts. Sasuke doesn't like her. She's snaky. And that's only allowed for him.
'I'm only with him when we go to dango stores.' He's not like he was in the past. Nowadays he's most often seen with other people, like his followers.
'The only moments I see you.' Which is at dango stores, so her assumption makes sense to some degree.
'I'm still the most snaky person in the world.' Sasuke shows off his amazing looks. Anko only laughs.
'That still goes to Orochimaru.' Sasuke won't take that bait.
'Who?' No way he's going to admit that there is someone more snake like than him.
'You know… alright I give up. Follow me to the forest!' she shouts at the rest of the people in the room. They all look at her in anticipations, as if the previous conversation didn't just happen.
'Which one?' one of the Leaf ninjas asks. There are so many forests.
'Of death.' Anko clarifies.
'The new one or the old one?' The same ninja asks.
'Training ground 44.' Anko is getting annoyed and Sasuke takes all the pleasure in it.
'Which subsection?' That same ninja asks again. Apparently, he doesn't know when to shut up, so it's likely he won't be promoted.
'Just follow me.' And Anko jumps out of the window. Sasuke's teammates catch up with him. He had already moved to the window during the conversation he had previously.
'You know her Sasuke?' Sakura asks. It should've been obvious, but she still asks these questions. He only tolerates her because she's an important follower of his.
'She's a bit crazy.' He explains.
'You're crazy.' Naruto laughs at him. Sasuke could retort and retort, so guess what he chose to do.
'Have you looked in a mirror?' Sasuke says to Naruto. 'But she's fun. She's very snaky.' She tries to copy him. There are different kinds of followers after all.
'And has a good body.' Naruto says, smile still on his face. Sasuke can see where Naruto is coming from, Anko does show her body a lot. It's like she's got only one outfit, and she's not the only one. Sasuke thinks he might be the only one that got different outfits for different occasions.
'So, do I.' He argues.
Naruto looks him over for a second. 'I think you're a bit over confident.'
'He's not. He's Sasuke. He will one day rule the world.' Sakura steps in to make the argument even more redundant.
'The universe. Not the world, that's for weak people, the universe.' Sasuke clarifies. They both look at him strangely.
'How big is the universe even?' Naruto wonders.
Sasuke shrugs. 'Bigger than my heart.'
'Isn't everything?'
The forest of death the first isn't too far away. Sasuke has been there before. It's a nice place to find murderous animals. They also make really good cuddle buddies, once you beat them up. He still remembers Itachi's scared face when he came to get Sasuke out of there. It's truly one of his best memories.
Each team gets a scroll, heaven or earth, and they have to get the other scroll to get into the tower in the center of the forest. The only thing missing is a hell scroll, one that would suit Anko perfectly. Maybe a purgatory scroll as well, or is that the wrong culture?
They get released into the forest. It's not as spectacular as it sounds. They just walk in and nothing happens. They can hear a tiger roar but that's about it.
'We have to get the other scroll.' Sakura says in their quick handmade hideout.
'No shit.' Naruto says. He's holding onto the scroll, after all he can confuse people with his clones.
'We won't get into the tower otherwise.' Sasuke agrees. He's already mapping out various pathways they can take to make it there. The only problem lies in encountering other teams.
'Not true.' Naruto says. Sasuke and Sakura look at him.
'What do you mean?' Sakura asks.
'There is this secret tunnel in the east side of the forest that leads right into it.' Naruto points to the map Sasuke had quickly thrown together in the sand.
'And you know this because?' Sasuke asks. How the hell does Naruto know such a obscure thing.
'I used it a couple times to run away from pranks.'
'I don't think we're allowed to use it though.' Sakura argues. Sasuke has to agree with her.
'It's a safe option for the possibility that we lose our scroll.' Sasuke says.
'Let's search for another team then.' They all nod and leave their temporary hideout.
The search took a little bit, not longer than an hour. Then they found a suspicious looking girl in one of the trees. She's alone and is eyeing Sasuke, likely because she wants to date him.
'Well there little Sasuke. Aren't you most interesting?' Her tongue darts out and slithers for a bit.
Another chapter. I have no idea what got in me the first half of the chapter. Sorry if it's a bit weird. Also first cliffhanger of the story!