Author's Note: As I've explained already this story is mature for a reason. Adult themes and natures are written and discussed. Just trying to make them funny and non judgmental. I also try not to make them to explicit. You've been warned. I own nothing it's only for fun.

... Academy ...

Naruto looked around as he and his teammates entered the academy's second floor. A large group had gathered on the outside of room 202, which confused him because they wanted room 302 on the third floor. The blonde was stumped until Sakura grabbed his shoulder and whispered, "Wait, think, the exam has already started. Take a closer look at the two Genin by the door; also, look at the door number."

Naruto and Hinata studied them for a moment and soon realized, though difficult to see if you weren't looking for the tell, a faint hazed shimmer at the edge of their persons; the door itself was marked 302. The two Genin were under a basic Illusion to appear younger, responsible it was to fake people into thinking they were Genin when in reality they were Chunin; the door was also under Genjutsu to read different. The blonde thought this was a bit much, why not just ditch the flake jackets and pretend to be older Genin, the door he could understand but not the fake appearance. "Should we say something?"

Before anyone could answer a black haired boy wearing a green jumpsuit, leaf headband like a belt, with bowl cut and bushy eyebrows was thrown to the floor. His teammate, a pretty brunette Kunoichi with hair done up in two big bobs, pink sleeveless shirt with tie rope buttons on front, and headband on her forehead moved to help him of the ground. Turning angrily to the two 'Genin' blocking the way she asked. "What's your big deal, we need to get inside?"

One of the Genin, a boy with spiked black hair, oddly red nose, and two large kunai like swords on his back, scoffed and said. "Look at you, these exams have been known to kill those participating. You can't even make it through one measly door and you think your ready to be Chunin?"

"N-n-no." Hinata answered Naruto's question as she observed the scene; her compassionate and caring side clashing with her intellectual Kunoichi side. "If these Genin remain here on the second floor then they won't enter the exam. That means less competition for us."

Shrugging, Naruto decided the plan was a good one and proceeded to just walk around, until an arrogant voice brought everyone to a halt. "Let us pass. We're heading for the third floor, not the second. This Genjutsu is pathetic."

Team Eight turned to watch Team Seven walking up with an arrogant Uchiha and equally arrogant Inuzuka, Shino Aburame's face was unreadable but it was turned towards Sasuke with slightly narrowed eyebrows. It had been the raven haired fool that opened his mouth. The 'Genin' by the door was about to say something but Naruto beat him to it. Growling the blonde exclaimed. "Damn it Sasuke, all you had to do was keep your mouth shut and walk around and none of these guys would have entered the exam! We could have eliminated half the competition!"

Everyone began looking around stupidly as the door turned to 202 and the impostor Genin disappeared in the confusion. Sasuke gained a look of indifference trying to play off the blonde's words, even if he did realize he had a point. Kiba and Shino said nothing as Team Seven continued on its way. Sakura and Hinata were giving Naruto pointed looks, he was about to do what Sasuke had done; even if his motives were helpful opposed to arrogant bragging.

Before Team Eight could continue on the bowl cut boy approached them. Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura all noticed the minor cuts and bruises the boy had been sporting from his small beating disappeared; was it Genjutsu. (1) "Greetings, I'm Rock Lee! You are Sakura Haruno correct!? Please go out with me and be my girlfriend! I swear to protect you always with my life!" He finished with an impossibly bright smile and thumbs up.

For her part Sakura stood mortified in the hallway as Naruto and Hinata disparately tried not to laugh. Getting a thought to gather in her stunned brain the pinkette squeaked out, "No way in hell."

Turning she proceeded down the hallway with her teammates following. A dejected Lee stood downtrodden in the hallway. Tenten walked up and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Come on lover boy, I'm sure you'll land the next one."

A little while later Team Eight made it to the third floor. In the distance they saw their Sensei waiting for them. "Glad you could all make it."

"Hey, Sensei, did you come to wish us good luck!?" Naruto asked in his usual overexcited manner.

"Yes and no." The Jounin replied. "I do wish you all the best of luck, but I also had to make sure all three of you came. Only teams of three can enter the exams."

"What!?" Hinata asked shocked. "But you said it was our choice."

"It was." The woman smiled at the young girl. "It was your individual choice but that didn't mean it wouldn't effect the team; this is true in life as well. You had to make the choice without being pressured into it by others. Only you could know if you had the confidence to take the Chunin Exams."

Waiting for her words to sink in the Kurenai continued. "Anyways, it doesn't matter. All of you are here and you decide to come of your own free will. I'm proud of you all."

Beaming, Team Eight walked past their Sensei and through the double doors; and froze dead at the sight of everyone glaring at them. 'Crap, that's a lot of angry looking people; most are older than us to.' Naruto thought annoyed.

Just then an screechy high pitched voice cut the silence as Team Eight registered Ino Yamanaka screaming out, "Sasuke!", over passionately while latching on to his right arm.

Sakura quickly ran past her teammates to latch on to the boy's left arm and glared at Ino. "Back off PIG, he's mine!"

Pore Sasuke stood between the two fan-girls looking annoyed. Kiba and Shino stood a little ways away, the dog ninja looked jealous while the bug ninja remained unreadable. Naruto turned to Hinata and stated. "Come on Hina-hime, let's extract our embarrassing teammate from the three-way-tug-a-war."

"Naruto-kun, have you no shame?" The Hyuga asked shocked. "You could have worded that differently."

Naruto gave his girlfriend a deadpanned look. "When it comes to the over-the-top level of ridiculous infatuation the girl's of our class have for that duck-butt hairdo rocking asshole, no I have no shame and will call it as I see it; just learn to share and they'd all be happy. Well, Sasuke would have a massive headache but the girls would stop fighting."

Hinata refused to laugh even though she really wanted to. 'They wouldn't all be happy, they'd fight to be top girlfriend.' The moment the thought crossed her mind the shy princess's face turned scarlet red at the double meaning those words held. 'Bad Hinata, bad Hinata, distract yourself, look at anything, the angry Genin glaring your way.' Glancing at the crowd she became fearful. 'Another bad idea, oh I know, Naruto's butt.' The blonde had moved slightly in front as he marched towards Sakura. Glancing down the Hyuga Warrior admired the view; until she realized she was ogling her boyfriend in hostile territory. 'Dang it, bad idea.'

Naruto finally reached his teammate and pried her off the Uchiha. "Come on Sakura, at least act like a professional Kunoichi. Your embarrassing us, yourself, Sasuke, and the whole Leaf Village."

"Hey, back off Naruto." The pinkette growled. "Besides, what do you care when your dating Hinata."

"Oh, that's real good." Shikamaru stated walking up. "Just offer all relevant and vital information about yourselves to the enemy. Have you forgotten were we are?"

Sakura calmed down and looked out into the sea of rage being aimed at her and the other rookies. Gulping she calmed down and stood sheepishly with her hands behind her back. An older white haired Genin with a Leaf Headband on his forehead, purple paint, matching sleeveless shirt with a high collar, and glasses walked up with a casually smile on his face. "Could you guys be any louder? Your making one hell of a scene you know. Everyone here is already on edge and now you've given them a target to focus their aggravation on."

"And you are?" Sasuke asked taking charge.

"Kabuto Yakushi." The boy answered.

"This your first time taking the exam?" The Uchiha questioned coldly.

"No it's my seventh." Kabuto answered scratching the back of his head awkwardly.

"Great." Shikamaru groined. "I guess what they say about the damned thing being hard isn't an exaggeration."

"Hey, don't give up before you even try." The bespectacled boy said trying to cheer everyone up. "Here, maybe I can help you out a little." Reaching into his tool kit he pulled out a deck of cards and explained. "These are my Ninja Info Cards. They're encoded with my chakra so only I can unlock them." He placed one down and applied chakra with his right hand revealing a map of the world; the countries with Shinobi Villages showed bar-grafts on the number of participants taking the exam. "See, I have information on just about everyone here taking the exam, well not Hidden Sound; their small and irrelevant."

"You have information on individual Shinobi?" Sasuke asked eagerly.

"Yep, even you guys." Kabuto mocked.

"Gaara of Hidden Sand." The Uchiha spoke with no hesitation.

Meanwhile, the three Hidden Sound Genin Naruto met earlier were stewing in anger. Thanks to their abilities and training they had overheard Kabuto's comment regarding their home village. Without a word the three began moving towards the Leaf Village Rookies as the bespectacled fool told them something shocking about Gaara.

Naruto, who was half way paying attention to the conversation and half way focusing his Yumegan to search for threatening chakra, instantly keyed in on the Sound Genin's hostile intent. Moving with perfect precision the blonde intercept Kin and Dosu with a chokehold one-handed neck grip. Zaku appeared in midair and hurled two basic kunai at his team's target, which Kabuto easily avoided, figuring Dosu or Kin would follow up. When they didn't everyone focused back on where Naruto was standing with his two trapped enemies.

'Damn it Naruto, how strong have you become.' Sasuke thought angrily. 'We didn't even feel that attack coming and you stopped it cold. You're holding them in a chokehold and Paralysis Genjutsu combo effortlessly.'

Zaku pointed his arms at Naruto straight out preparing to retaliate. Before he could launch whatever attack he had planned a large puff of smoke came from the far wall of the room. A smaller puff registered between Naruto and the threatening Sound Genin. At the far wall appeared multiple Chunin and a scary looking dude in a black trench coat with Leaf Headband Bandana. Between Naruto and Zaku appeared a Chunin that had his whole head covered in Ninja Wraps except for his mouth.

"That's enough!" The trench coat man yelled out. "There will be no fighting without permission, is that clear. You Sound Genin knock it off. And you blonde brat, let them go."

Naruto complied and both enemies backed away angrily. Zaku joined them sulking and they disappeared back into the crowd. Trench coat guy waited a moment for people to calm down and continued. "Alright, lessen up and lessen close; no more fighting unless an instructor says so. Also, lethal force is frowned upon; if all you know to resolve issues is killing than your clearly not ready to be Chunin. My name is Ibiki Morino, I'll be you proctor for the first exam. Come forward to turn in your applications and receive your written test."

"Ah, come on! No one said anything about a written test!" Naruto cried hysterically.

…….

The blonde hero looked down at his test paper with increasing frustration and anxiety. The proctor had laid down the rules regarding testing and grading. If you got caught cheating five times you were disqualified, along with your entire team, because each question was worth two points and there was only ten questions provided; every time a Chunin Proctor along the walls caught you they deducted two points. On the other hand if you didn't answer any questions correctly and got a zero you failed along with your entire team. He had absolute confidence that Hinata and Sakura would pass no problem but hoped he could at least answer one, a hope that was dwindling quickly as he read over the questions; they might as well be in another language.

'Alright Naruto, calm down and think it through. Kurenai is always going on about finding truth in what is being presented; because the truth isn't always out front for everyone to see. What were the rules again? If you get caught cheating five times your out along with your team. That is an odd rule. I mean Iruka wouldn't give you five chances. He actually through that one kid out the window.' That was when a lightbulb lit up in the boy's mind. 'Those sneaky bastards want us to cheat. Ok, so how do I… Duh, Yumegan.'

Across the room the Genin began implementing their own various ways of cheating. The proctors didn't actually miss Tenten's mirror on the ceiling and Rock Lee's tell he could see it. They didn't miss Ino Yamanaka posses the body of Sakura Haruno, one of the few Genin capable of answering the questions on her own, nor Kiba and Shino using their partners or Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyuga discreetly activating their Dojutsu; Hinata was another capable of answering the test by herself. The Sand Shinobi were funny with their puppet show and Gaara's Third Eye made from sand was creepy, but these examples of cheating weren't what the Chunin Proctors were looking for, just the more blatant signs. However the most vexing Genin in the whole bunch was Naruto, he would take an eyes closed thinking pose and suddenly have the answer, there was no way the boy was coming up with the solutions on his own but no obvious signs of cheating either.

Ibiki Morino stood up front smirking amused. He hadn't missed the various ways of cheating being used nor the frustration on his subordinates assigned to Naruto's section. None of them were on the Need-To-Know-List the Hokage kept so had no idea about the Yumegan; he made a note to ask them all later about what they thought the blonde was doing to see who could get the closest answer.

"Alright, pencils down! It's time for the tenth question!"

Ibiki gave everyone a minute then continued. "Before I give you the last question you should know it is by far harder than any you've taken so far. If you choice to take it and fail to answer correctly, you automatically fail the test and can never attempt the Chunin Exams ever again, but if your teammates get it right they can move forward."

"That's horse shit!" Kiba screamed.

"To bad." The proctor continued uncaring. "I'm making the rules this year and that's that. Stay and risk your career or leave and try again when it's safer. Put your team before yourself and stay, or put yourself before your team and walk away causing the to fail; your choice."

One by one terrified Genin stood and apologized to their teammates as they all headed for the door. Naruto watched for a moment growing irritated with the whole show. As bad as he wanted to say something he remembered Kurenai's lessons about impulse and self control, he figured out the bastard was messing with their heads and only wanted to see who would value themselves above their teammates; it was the True Genin Test all over again.

Finally, when no one else stood to leave Ibiki spoke. "Very well, remember this is your careers your jeopardizing. Anyone wish to leave?" Seeing everyone stubborn or board refusal to leave, depending wether or not they had figured out the mind game or just decided to plow ahead regardless of consequence, the man smiled. "Than I have only one thing to say; congratulations on passing the first part of the Chunin Exam."

"What!?" Kiba asked surprised.

"All of you choice to remain despite the fact doing so could jeopardize everything you live for." The man explained. "If you become Chunin realistically you will lead missions that will be difficult. When those times come you can't always back down and wait for a safer opportunity to present itself."

Here Ibiki paused and removed his bandanna. The Genin were all shocked to see the level of scaring, results from previous extensive torture. "As Chunin and squad leaders it falls to you to carry out missions for the good of your village. Those missions must be completed, even if at times it means your lives. It your not ready to shoulder that responsibility than you have no business being here ….."

What ever else Ibiki had to say was interrupted by shattering glass as a large ball of roped cloth cane careening through the window. Kunai shot out carrying the tethered corners outward until a banner reading, 'The Sex And Single Anko Mitarashi'. The mention Jounin was out front, arms crossed, smiling like a bad ass, most people thought she looked foolish; Naruto wasn't most people.

"That was awesome, Anko Sensei!" The excited blonde screamed.

The Snake Mistress was looking out at the Genin appalled. "Come on Ibiki, we're you even trying to aliment applicants?"

"We have a good crop this year." The man defended. "Also, your early again like always."

"It's not my fault you take forever." The purplette sniffed. "I get bored easy." Turning back to the Genin she called. "I'm Anko Mitarashi l, the second exam proctor. Your dismissed for now. Talk with your Sensei's about we're to meet tomorrow. I suggest you pack as if heading out for a week long mission."

…. Training Ground 44, Next Day ….

Team Eight stood together looking at the heavily wooded ominous area laying beyond the chain link fence. Around them were the various teams that had also past the first part of the Chunin Exams. Turning to his teammates Naruto asked in a shaky voice. "Do you think that celebratory dinner Kurenai Sensei treated us to doubled as a last meal?"

"Oh, shut up Naruto." Sakura said rolling her eyes. Hinata just giggled cutely at her boyfriend's antics.

"Alright maggots!" Anko screamed out walking up to the large group. "Gather round so I can explain the rules." Everyone proceeded to do so as the purplette continued. "Behind me is Training Ground 44, also known as the Forest Of Death. You will be given one of two scrolls to start with." Her the woman held up a blue Earth Scroll and a White Heaven Scroll. "The objective is to acquire the second scroll within the five day time limit, or 120 hours, and reach the tower in the middle of the area. If you aren't able to do so you fail, if a team member dies you fail, and if you open your scroll at any time during the test you fail. For those of you that haven't realized it yet fighting will take place during this portion of the test. Anyone have questions?"

The Genin were all to scared to really voice anything so Anko continued before anyone could find their nerve. "Great, each team will come forward to the tent to receive a scroll only after signing liability forms. From here on out death is a possibility and I don't want to get blamed." Hearing a Chunin behind her deliberately clear his throat seemed to remind the Snake Mistress of something unpleasant; judging by the ridiculous face she made. In a appealed voice she continued. "Oh yeah, one more thing we're trying this year, apparently people are trying to minimize death or something, you will all receive a red flare. Use the flare and you are automatically disqualified. If you encounter a team and beat them to a point they can no longer reasonably continue, send out their flare for them. You don't have to, it's entirely your decision; whatever. The moment we see a flare we, me and the Chunin Proctors, are heading that way to extract. A flare is not an open invitation to attack downed Genin and if we catch someone being that big a lowlife we will hurt them badly; that is all.

A little while later Team Eight stood of to the side trying to come up with a strategy. Sakura looked around and discreetly explained to Naruto. "We need to know who has what scroll. Think you could take a look? They've probably planned for a Hyuga."

"Just a sec." Closing his eyes Naruto took his thinking pose but soon opened them aggravated. "I can see inside alright, but the scrolls are individual wrapped and the proctors are instructing everyone to wait until they've entered the forest to check what they got."

"Great." Sakura muttered. What was the point of having two teammates with X-ray vision if both forms were rendered useless. "What do you guys think would be the best way to track a team down?"

"I've thought of that." Hinata explained quietly. "We know each team will enter through an assigned gate. I say we follow the fence from our gate to another teams and trail from there."

Naruto and Sakura figured it was as good a plan as any so decided to go with it. Luckily they didn't have to wait much longer before gaining a scroll and heading for their assigned entrance. Unfortunately, they were one of the first groups in place. "Oh come on!" Naruto cried outraged. "Someone blow the damned whistle already! Let's go!"

"Oh, shut up, Naruto." Sakura growled aggravated. She was bored and frustrated to, but the blonde's complaining was making it worse. "It will be time when it is time and not before. Complaining only angers those around you and doesn't help the situation at all."

After a long wait the Chunin Proctor unlocked the gate and stepped back. Checking his watch he called out. "Begin."

All across Training Ground 44 gates opened to allow Genin Teams entrance. At the gate Team Eight was going through the proctor watched amused as the three kids simply walked in casually and proceeded left along the fence line. This wasn't a new tactic by any means but it was an obvious one that many overlooked.

Naruto was keeping his Yumegan actively searching for chakra signatures when he hit pay dirt. "Come on, I sense the enemy this way!" He whispered excitedly.

"Good." Sakura whispered back. "They probably veered away from the more obvious used trail to make a basic camp and hide. No doubt most teams will try and bunk down during the day and hunt by night; try to catch a team that was active during the day sleeping."

"That's not a bad idea for us to try." Hinata observed. "However, with my Byakugan and Naruto's Yumegan finding the enemy isn't very difficult, and I'm sure we all agree getting out of these woods as fast as possible is the best plan."

"No kidding." Sakura shivered. "This place is down right creepy."

The team became silent as the took to the tree tops to close in sneakily on their targets. It wasn't much longer when they found them, three Cloud Genin, wearing standard Cloud Shinobi Garb minus the one strap vest, crouched inside a large clump of bushes. One was rather large, one rather tall, and the last dark skinned and muscular. The muscle boy had a katana strapped to his back and all three looked to be at least a few years older than Team Eight.

"Ok." Naruto whispered extremely quietly. "I'll take the sword guy since I have jutsu that can give me an edge against sword types and …."

Hinata cut her boyfriend off though as she reminded him. "Um Naruto, we are primarily a Espionage Unit; as in deceptive spy tactics, covert assassination, non-confrontational assault. I think it would be best to play to our strengths. If we can beat them without making to much noise we have a far better chance of not attracting another team."

The blonde folded his arms in an angry pout, it wasn't like he didn't agree with his Hina-hime's logic, but he really wanted to fight the tough looking Cloud katana user. 'Oh well, at least I can try my new Genjutsu Kurenai Sensei taught me.' Turning to his teammates the Jinchuriki explained. "I'll trap them in my False Visual Submergence Technique.'

Both girls nodded in agreement with the plan. False Visual Submergence was a more advanced form of the False Visual Jutsu that not only made someone see what the caster wanted, but also made them focus so unnaturally on the image they slowly detached from reality. Once all of their senses were rendered completely under the Genjutsu, they past out unconscious and could remain that way for days; unless an outside force woke them up.

Naruto made four hand signs, rooster, ram, boar, and rooster again, while whispered out, "Genjutsu Art: False Visual Submergence." Then began to laugh as if he just pulled of a joke. Both girls looked worriedly at their teammate realizing they hadn't actually asked him what he would make the Cloud Genin see.

Down in the small clearing the Cloud Genin were setting up a small perimeter while discussing tactics. The taller lanky boy explained in a low deep voice. "Those rookie teams from Leaf will be the easiest targets. Tracking them down will be the most difficult part but taking their scrolls well be simple enough."

"My specialty is tracking Mashiro." The heavy boy reminded his teammate defensively; his voice low with anger. "I can track them all down no problem. The team with the slut blonde would probably be easier pickings than the team with the slut pinkette; did you see the way that blonde guy stopped those Sound Genin cold? Didn't even look like he was trying at all."

"A loser stops two much weaker losers and our own loser Hajim is impressed." The darker boy scoffed superiorly.

"Shut up Jurou." Hajim growled low. "You think I'm afraid of you and that pig sticker on your back. I'd kick your ass without trying fool."

"Hmm!" The Kenjutsu user scoffed. "You'd have to catch me first …."

"Quiet." Mashiro spoke quickly. Craning his head the lanky boy began peering deep into the brush. "Did you guys hear that."

Slowly the three Genin creeped to just the other side of the tree line and saw a small pond. Bathing inside the pond were three girls wearing nothing but their underwear. On the shore sat their uniforms, judging by the headbands they were from grass.

"Oh come on." Jurou spoke appalled. "What idiot would fall for such an obvious trap. Like a team of three Kunoichi would just bathed together in the middle of hostile …."

The boy stopped speaking when a pretty brunette removed her top, she was quickly followed by her two teammates. "Come on." Hajim nervously spoke. "If this is a trap I say we have a closer look at the bait."

Coming out of their hiding spot all three boy pulled kunai and stood threatening before the Grass Kunoichi. "Don't move! Surrender your scroll and you won't be harmed."

A three girls laughed cutely and put their hands up; Hajim dropped his kunai without noticing. "Oh, we're being attacked by three big strong Cloud Shinobi; how scary." A blonde spoke in a babying voice.

As one the Kunoichi Shunshined next to a boy and wrapped them in hugs. Not knowing what to do the completely flabbergasted boys just stuttered out non-coherent syllables. Mashiro managed to formulate a sentence and ask. "Jurou, w-w-were's the tr-tr-trap?"

"I don't know anymore!" The boy wined; he was so confused.

Up in the trees Team Eight watched on as the Cloud Genin fell for the Genjutsu. Naruto grinned triumphantly. "It won't take much longer but soon they won't even be able to tell what's going on around them. We can just mosey up to their packs and lock at are leisure. They'll pass out soon, I think; never actually tried this on anyone and Kurenai doesn't make a far target because she's, well you know, Genjutsu Mistress."

"Naruto." Sakura asked scared; something about the way the boys were acting sent alarm bells blaring in her head. "What exactly did you show them?"

"Three nude Grass Kunoichi." The blonde spoke without missing a beat. "Figured it would be the most distracting thing. Think they thought the Kunoichi themselves were the ones setting up a trap; so that actually help entrap them in the Genjutsu. They believed the Kunoichi were the real enemy and focused on them until they became all they could focus on."

"Naruto-kun, umm, I understand the choice you made but couldn't you have picked something less …" Hinata petered off unsure how to finish the question. So Sakura finished it for her in a low angry growl. "Perverted."

The Jinchuriki looked between his two teammates defensively. "This worked. They're trap in my technique so we don't have to fight them, which was what you two wanted in the first place, so I don't see a problem; Genjutsu is meant to distort the mind to give the caster an advantage in combat." Here the boy stopped talking and gestured to the Cloud Genin who stood red faced blushing with disbelieving blank looks on their faces. "I rest my case. Now come on, let's get the scroll."

The boy jumped ahead of his teammates and Sakura turned to Hinata. "Remind me to kill your boyfriend later." The Hyuga giggled as she followed the pinkette that jumped after her blue eyed heartthrob.

Landing by the three discarded packs Team Eight began pilfering through. It wasn't long before Naruto found the still wrapped scroll. Opening the paper revealed a Heaven Scroll, the very one they needed. Giving a happy fist bump to the sky he turned to show his teammates, but realized they weren't there. Both had discarded the packs they were searching through to go stand by the tree line; blushed looks upon their faces.

"Guys, what's up. I got a Heaven Scroll so we can head for the tower." However, walking up to the blushing girls drove the thought of the scrolls, tower, and Chunin Exams clear from Naruto's mind as he saw what his teammates were looking at.

The False Visual Submergence was a much more powerful Genjutsu than its predecessor for a a few reasons. One, it could actually confuse the sense of touch, to a degree anyways. Two, it penetrated the mind to a much deeper level so breaking it was harder. Three, it slowly cut the victim off from the world around them until they fell unconscious in a dream-like state. The problem with the Cloud Genin was they had started happily groping empty air, while feeling what they thought was there, only to start groping each other. Somehow the Genjutsu had led them to all go topless and have a three way make out session; each boy believing they were making out with two girls instead of their teammates.

"Well, this is an interesting turn of events." Sakura spoke while blinking rapidly; not something she ever thought she'd see when taking the Chunin Exams.

"What do we do!?" Naruto asked scared. "Kurenai Sensei never covered this!" Not being able to look anymore he quickly turned to Hinata. "Think you can snap them out of it!?"

"Me!?" The Hyuga asked shocked. "Do we really want to release them anyways? Won't they attack us?"

"I don't care!" The blonde exclaimed. "Preferences aside they thought they were making out with girls, we can't leave them like this!"

"Oh, this is wrong but the naked Grass Kunoichi were ok." Sakura asked hypothetically. Both blonde and bluenette turned as the pinkette snapped a picture from a camera she was carrying. Seeing her teammates giving her astonished looks she asked. "What? I promised my parents I'd take photos so they could see what I got up to during missions and such."

Naruto shook his head hard and explained. "There were no actual girls involved and I could have done the same thing with imagined guys swimming naked to an all Kunoichi Team."

"And if they started making out topless I bet you wouldn't be in such a hurry to break them apart." Sakura accused amused.

"What!?" Naruto asked somewhat hurt. "Do you really think so little of me I'd use my Genjutsu as means to do horrible perverted things to people!? They were supposed to pass out in a happy dream damn it! Maybe if we were talking about three versions of Hinata ….. never mind!" The boy stopped quickly realizing what he was saying. The Hyuga Princess started doing her nervous finger tap habit.

The pinkette started giggling at them both. "Relax Naruto, I know you're a better person than that. The solution is simple, they're obviously incapacitated so we send up their red flare and leave. Shouldn't take Anko Sensei more than a minute to collect them actually, we're still close to the fence."

"You want to leave them like this for Anko Sensei to find!?" The Jinchuriki exclaimed. "That's even worse! She's going to tell everybody!"

"Yep." The pinkette smiled happy. "Oh wait, one more thing." She took out a piece of paper from her tool kit and wrote a quick note. Naruto looked over her shoulder and read. 'Curtsy of Kurenai's Squad Eight. Naruto's fine example of when Genjutsu goes horribly wrong.' She even drew a Leaf Symbol on the bottom. Walking back to the packs the medic-in-training grabbed the discarded flare and came back to the three boys making out. Jamming the pointed butt into the ground she pulled a cord to launch the flare and left her note in the empty canister; the Cloud Genin never reacted to any of this.

"Come on." Sakura laughed as she grabbed her teammates' hands. "Let's get out of here before the proctors show up."

As they skipped from tree to tree the pinkette through in. "You know, the three versions of Hinata is a possibility. Just imagine if she learned the Shadow Clone Jutsu; you have an incentive to teach it to her now Naruto."

"Oh, would you drop it Sakura." The boy growled embarrassed. "Your not helping."

The pinkette continued to giggle at her teammate's embarrassment while Hinata curiously wondered if she had enough chakra to use the forbidden technique; she'd ask Kurenai later.

…. A Little While Later ….

Anko Mitarashi looked down in morbid shock at what she was seeing. Her career as a Kunoichi had shown her many disturbing and amusing things over the years; you had to learn to laugh to keep what little sanity you could after all. When it was decided to use the red flares as a way to signal for help during the exams she had strongly pointed out you couldn't do this on a real mission; her opinion was shot down quickly because the exams themselves were a battle simulation and additional precautions were not detrimental to the overall testing. Looking down at the three Cloud Genin she couldn't help be happy she lost the argument; those red flares were the best idea ever.

Casting the Genjutsu Release she was greeted to an even more amusing sight; three boys breaking apart in absolute horror at what they were doing. Not one spoke as their feeble brains tried to make sense of what just happened. Anko decided to show mercy and leaped down to illuminate some of their curiosity.

"High." She spoke casually as each boy took a battle ready stance. "I'm going to take a guess and say you guys weren't planning on having a three way in the Forest Of Death. Looks like you fell victim to a powerful Genjutsu. Your enemy had the curtesy to send up a red flare for your retrieval."

"What!?" Hajim asked shocked. "We aren't disqualified! We could have kept fighting!"

"Before or after you cons…" Anko began asking only for Jurou to interrupt quickly. "Please don't finish that sentence."

The Snake Mistress walked forward and picked up the spent flare. Looking inside she found the note and chuckled. 'Wait till Kurenai hears about this.'

…. Clearing Not Far From Anko ….

Sasuke looked around bored as he and his teammates stood around in the open; he hated this plan. It made sense to use a trap to capture a team and acquire their scroll, but he would have rather challenged them head on to test his power; he was out voted two to one. This exam was nothing more for him than a proving ground to see if his time training was well spent or waisted. If he was to avenge his clan he had to get stronger so as to kill his older brother, the traitor Itachi Uchiha.

"How much longer?" The raven haired boy asked exasperatedly; eager to move on to something more challenging.

"Soon." Shino promised. "They're almost in position."

"Good." Kiba smiled vindictively. "The sooner we get an Earth Scroll the better. No need hanging out in these woods longer than necessary."

Up in the foliage a squad of Rain Genin were watching Squad Seven. "Look at them." A boy commented. "They're just kids, they must want us to find them the way their in the open and all."

Looking over at his teammate the boy saw he was pale and shaky. "Hey, are you ok!? You look sick!"

The boys shirt fell down revealing a large leach sucking at his neck. Before his teammates could react a large number of the beige colored creatures fell from the canopy. The Rain Genin fell to the ground covered in the slimy monsters. "What the hell are these things?" The first boy asked.

"Giant Blood Sucking Leaches." Kiba answered with a vindictive casual manner. "If they suck your blood for five minutes you die. Hand over your scroll and we'll signal the proctors to save you."

"Here." One of the Rain Genin offered presenting an Earth Scroll; the one Squad Seven needed. "Please, help us."

Kiba moved forward and took the scroll. Taking out a kunai he cut a trip wire net that ensnared the Grass Genin and carried them upwards. Jumping up he searched through their packs still strapped to their backs and produced a flare canister. Landing on the ground he planted the signal in the ground and set it off.

"Come on, we have what we need. Let's get to the tower." The Inuzuka barked happily. Both teammates had no objections; Shino eager to be done with the forest and Sasuke eager for greater challenges to his skill.

As Teams Eight and Seven made for the central tower they had no idea they were being pursued by a monster that would stop at nothing in acquiring their individual powers.

Author's Note:

(1)- I remember this happening in the show. Rock Lee can't use jutsu so how was this possible? Was it Tenten casting the Genjutsu or Neji?