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Academy-Room 301-9:23 AM-July 5
The room was currently filled with genin teams from other villages, so it wasn't a complete surprise for Yami to see Team's 8, and 9 walking towards them. The Uchiha watched as Sakura and Ino spoke to one another, each hoping to face the other in the exams in order to show how far both of them had gone. He cracked a smile at this, both had been rivals since the Academy, it reminded him of the rivalry between Naruko and Satsuki. The four were lucky to find their rivals, someone to test yourself against constantly and a friend for life, well if it was the right kind of rival. It was something he had hoped to find but because of him training his ass off for prolonged periods as well as his dormant but still powerful Otsutsuki genes, he found that there was no other that could test his power or at least nobody alive.
However, he was determined to find a rival, it would be difficult but also for another time. He currently had to deal with a mutt with high testosterone.
"Looks like the twelve rookies are back together again in the Academy, this'll be fun." After saying his piece he chuckled while grinning at his former classmates. He continued on a moment later, "At least for those that can actually provide a challenge, right Yami?"
The Uchiha's dark eyes moved towards the Inuzuka's equally dark eyes and regarded him for a moment before eventually responding to him, "Kiba, it would be best to control yourself before you make a fool of yourself in front of all of these people."
The feral teenager clenched his teeth at the smug (In his eyes) Uchiha but then gave his own arrogant smile and gave a reply, "That's what you think, but my team and I have gotten plenty stronger since the last time we all saw each other. We can take down you and any of the other Genin teams in the Chunin Exams.
Sai spoke up from his position on the right of Yami, "You may have gotten stronger but it seems your personality hasn't changed at all, but it's gotten worse."
The Inuzuka heir turned his head towards the paintbrush user and growled out, "WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?"
"It means that you're the same arrogant clan heir you were months ago. You may have trained these past few months but what makes you believe that we haven't? You still the same arrogant mutt that you were in the academy." finished Kitsuke.
The Inuzuka clenched his fists but he didn't move, he decided that he would face the Uchiha later and beat him in front of the entire stadium.
"Hey! You lot might want to be a bit quieter around the competition." warned an unfamiliar voice.
The group in question looked to the speaker and saw Kabuto Yakushi with a headband with a leaf design clearly disguising himself as a Konoha nin not that any of them knew that. Well except Yami, thanks to his spy network.
As Kabuto was introducing himself to the group, Yami thought to himself, 'You may have some of them fooled Snake Jr. but not me, so keep acting as the helpful guy your acting as. In the end, you will be helping me out by telling me everything I don't know about Orochimaru's plans.' While Yami had indeed spied on Orochimaru, he hadn't gotten close enough to find out any more valuable information besides the invasion and that Orochimaru was planning on abducting an Uzumaki from Grass during the exams. As well as the fact that the snake obsessed pedophile was also hunting down any Uchiha for their Sharingan, to be more specific himself, Satsuki and Itachi in that order. So he was expecting to run into the rogue Sannin during the exams and considering that he was feeling a distinct presence nearby, he figured the pale Sannin was already in the village.
He was broken out of his thoughts when Kabuto brought out an orange deck of cards with kanji on the back of each card and spoke to the rookies again, "Since you all are rookies, I'll help you out with my Ninja Info Cards."
Satsuki hummed in though then repeated the aforementioned name, "Ninja Info Cards? Cards that can tell you a ninja's information right?"
"Exactly! However, it is only the type of stuff that is already known about the individuals." elaborated Kabuto
The next question came from Kiba, "So your cards could tell us some information on a shinobi. [Kabuto nodded] Then tell me some info about Yami Uchiha."
The bespectacled man was about to do just that when the card he picked had a kunai thrown right in the middle of it with the card being separated into two halves.
"It would serve you well to not search for information about the person who is only a few feet away from you." was the warning from Yami along with some killing intent.
Kabuto had some sweat rubbing along the side of his head and thought to himself, 'S-Such pressure. I don't know if all the rumors about him are true but at least some of them must be if he can generate such potent killing intent. I will have to tread carefully around him.' He regained some of his composure before responding, "Y-Yeah, I'll keep that in mind for next time."
Yami diverted his attention away from the bespectacled man in order to look at the woman with a braided blond ponytail, he knew she held a Bijuu thanks to being in contact with Naruko for so long. He was eager to see how far her limits were in a fight, but such things could wait for another time.
His thoughts were put on hold again when a cloud smoke erupted from the front of the classroom and a scarred shinobi with a black trench coat and a bandana-styled Konoha headband at the front along with some other Konoha nin appeared when the cloud dissipated and the man in the front yelled out, "ALRIGHT MAGGOTS LISTEN UP!!!"
A few seconds passed and all of the chattering in the room decreased until it eventually stopped altogether, so he continued on, "Now that I have your attention, my name is Ibiki Morino. But for the time being, you can call me your worst enemy."
The Proctor, Ibiki, explained the parameters of the First Exam of the Chunin Exams, it was to be a test that would prove the worthiness of the contestant taking it. There would be Nine questions while at the end of the exam he would ask the tenth question personally. Each of the competitors was to go grab a slip of paper containing a number and within the room were tables with seats that contained a number which determined where each genin would sit. It had taken a few minutes for each of the competitors to sit in their respective spots in order for the test to begin, Yami was currently positioned between a member from the Land of Rain on his left, as well as the kunoichi from Cloud on his right obviously.
Ibiki had explained that there were also rules for the exam as well, he explained further that the entire exam was based on a point reduction system and that each contestant started off with Ten points. Since there were ten questions on the test, any question wrong would be a point off their total score, not only that but they were also being scored as a team. The other nin that had shown up with the trenchcoat-wearing man were to act as sentinels, keeping a close eye on any contestant that would dare cheat on the exam and any cheater they spotted was to lose two points from their overall score. After saying that there were a few murmurs of apprehension from some of the genin but all were ignored by the torture specialist. Once Ibiki explained that should a member of the team fail the test, the entire team would fail then there were a few uproars that were quickly silenced.
The test would last only an hour and after no delays, he began the test. After a few minutes, Yami was able to complete a few of the answers but quickly found out that he was unable to answer the rest of the questions so he just resorted to his Sharingan to copy the rest of the answers from those nearby by their handwriting movements. Satsuki did the same method, while Naruko merely copied from the people near her, just very sneakily. Both Kitsuke and Sai used Anbu hand signs to communicate any answers either of them had missed and copying off of others when they both could not answer a particular question. After completing the nine answers of the test, Yami decided to relax for the time being, he looked at the clock and saw that there was still thirty-six minutes left in the test, so he laid his arms on the table area in front of him and took a nap.
The Uchiha woke up to himself instinctively grabbing a hand most likely trying to rouse himself awake because the test was most likely done. He opened his eyes, got up from his resting position and released the hand caught by his own appendage and saw that it belonged to the blond ponytailed jinchuuriki. He saw she was preparing to speak, "The test is nearly over, thought I should wake you up before then."
He figured that was the case, "Thank you for that then..." he for her to inform him of her name.
"Yugito, Yugito Nii." said the Kumo kunoichi
"Well my name is Yami Uchiha, nice to meet ya!" he responded jovially.
His greeting was a bit too loud which prompted the genin on his left to whisper to him, "Shut up!, I'm trying to concentrate!"
This had the opposite effect than what he expected, Yami turned and looked the Rain shinobi in the eyes with his Sharingan appearing for merely a moment and then they were gone. However, the effect they had on the shinobi was evident when he ripped up the test he was working on for the past hour and walk out the door when he was finished. Ibiki looked at the foreign shinobi and called his and his teammate's numbers for them to leave the room.
Yami smirked but felt a pair of eyes looking at him and looked to his right to see Yugito staring at him with an eyebrow raised and so he asked, "What?"
"You just took away that team's ability to take on the rest of the Chunin Exams and not be able to go up a rank, how do you feel about that?" she replied.
Yami placed his hand under his chin and rubbed it while simultaneously saying, "Well if you really want to know, I don't care, at all. If he was really thinking about passing these exams, he shouldn't have messed with the wrong person. Maybe he would have lasted longer if he just stuck to himself and his team, who knows maybe I would have probably met him later on in the exams and with how the Rain teams have been acting since they got here, it would have been a worse scenario for him. He wouldn't have the chance to become Chunin if we met in a fight, so if anything I just saved his career, he should be thanking me."
Yugito only blankly stared at him and replied, "Yeah, I'm sure he is happy about still being alive, as well as angry since he can't even participate in the rest of the exams."
The Uchiha shrugged then replied, "Well, you win some, you lose some."
Their conversation was put on hold when the proctor had decided to announce that the test was over now. There a few angry yells that followed the exclamation from genin that were not able to understand the true meaning of the test and were disqualified on the spot along with their teammates.
After all of the disqualified teams left the proctor spoke up once again, "With the test over, and all of those that failed gone, we can now proceed with the Tenth question."
He waited a few moments, gauging their facial expressions, searching for any fear in their eyes. The torture specialist then continued on, "However, before we get to the final question, there are some rules for it that you need to be aware of. First, all of you may choose to take the final question." He paused, looking at the faces of each shinobi in the room. There were many that had their eyes go wide with nervousness and there were others that took it with stride. "However, choosing not to take the final question results in you and your team disqualifying from the rest of the Chunin Exams."
There were several uproars of some genin saying of "Why give up now?" or "Why would they give up their chance to become Chunin?"
But all was silenced when Ibiki cut off every one by talking loudly, "You didn't let me finish. On the flip side, if any of you choose to take the exam and you fail, you will not only fail the exam but you will also relinquish your ability to take the Chunin Exams!." The whole room was silent until some of them started yelling at the torture specialist. One of them was one standing Kiba Inuzuka, "What kind of bogus rule is that!? There are people who have taken the exam plenty of times in this room!"
Ibiki then began to laugh ominously causing a few of the genin in the front to be nervous, "Well, that I wasn't the one making the rules in the previous years, but I am now. But you don't have to take the question, all you have to do is leave and you can try again later in the year." said Ibiki. He was almost goading the dog-like boy into doing just that, but currently he was paralyzed on not knowing what to do. "Alright, now who wishes to take the Tenth question? Those who do not want to proceed with it raise your hands, once we confirm your number you are free to go." There were several teams that came and went until only sixteen teams remained.
Ibiki nodded to the sentinels and spoke aloud once more, "I like your determination, for those that are still here there is only one thing left to say. You've all passed the first exam."
Shock was the only thing on some of the faces of the teams here, Temari Subaku of the Sand trio loudly spoke at the proctor, "What do you mean we passed?! How?!"
"If any of you paid attention, I had already asked the final question. Remember my words earlier? "Who wishes to take the Tenth question?" If you paid attention, that was the last question and you all have passed." explained the scarred man.
The eldest second-gen Subaku still had more to say, "Then what were the previous nine questions about?!"
The torture specialist looked at her and grinned before speaking, "They were designed to test your ability to gather information in unfavorable circumstances. You were supposed to work as a Team to find the answers and so you would have to find a way to communicate with them so they could pass the exam"
After the explanation, the sandy blond was stunned since it was a very good reason and so she offhandedly said, "Well, that clears it up I guess."
After her words, a ball of something wrapped in cloth came flying through the window, causing the glass to go flying along with some of the shinobi in the room to narrow their eyes at the disturbance and about to act. Only for the cloth to be revealed to be a banner as it was spread out by two kunai that were impaled into opposite ends of the room and the top ends of the banner were tied through the holes of the kunai. Now that it was spread out, those in the room were able to see that there were words on the banner, "The Sexy and Single Anko Mitarashi"
Anko looked to all of the genin in front of her and yelled out, "This is no time be celebrating, you may have just passed the first exam. But you still have to pass the second. I am your next proctor, Anko Mitarashi! You ready for the second test?" She paused, baring her teeth at the numerous teams of genin in front of her and continued, "You ready for the second test? Then Let's go! FOLLOW ME!!!"
The room went quiet after her entrance, some of the genin had surprised expressions on their faces, others were openly ogling Anko since her attire didn't exactly cover everything and finally, those that trained their senses extensively had already sensed-in their own way-that Anko was going to enter the room. A moment later Ibiki moves a part of the banner away so his face could be seen and he dryly stated, "Anko, your early...again."
The kunoichi in question awkwardly chuckled with a tint of pink coloring her cheeks, but, she quickly regained her composure and counted the remnants of the Genin teammates before coming up with a single comment, "Just the right amount." She had expected more to emerge from the senior torture specialist's test, as she believed he was losing his edge but clearly the old man still had some intimidation left in him.
She now would have to work extra hard to prove she was more fearsome than even Ibiki, "Forty-Six, great job Ibiki, seems your not losing your talent like I thought you were." Anko criticized.
The torture specialist only chuckled
Anko hummed after that, she then studied the genin, searching for any shortcomings in them before she gave her rebuttal, "Let's see what they could do after I cut them in half." She did a cutting motion with her hand which caused the shinobi in the front row to flinch back.
A moment later, she continued speaking, "It may have been easy for you maggots so far but trust me, after dealing with the Forest of Death, you lot will be wishing you had never taken these exams. I'll inform your squad leaders on where you all are supposed to meet me, so I'll see you all in the morning. Dismissed."
At her ousting, the classroom that was once filled with genin was slowly clearing out of the room and heading to wherever they were temporarily or permanently staying at. Yami and his team headed out of the room with Team 7 joining them.
Once out of the building, Kitsuke addressed Yami, "I'll see you later Yami, I'm supposed to help out my family with a gathering of theirs after the exams."
The Uchiha gave out a quick reply, "Alright, I'll see you tomorrow for the second exam." His teammate then jumped high in the air and landed on a rooftop and he ran home.
The next response came from Sai, "I also can not participate in any team training, although since Kitsuke is gone it doesn't really matter now." He received a nod from Yami, then he walked onto a different street that lead to a certain flower shop he knew about.
Yami was about to question Team 7 on their plans when Naruko spoke before he could get a word in, "We are going to train, doesn't hurt to get some extra training in." With a smile, he rubbed their hands that had on his own and then the three of them took off to the training ground.
With nothing better to do, Yami decided to use the day to train. So he summoned Yamato to his right hand and he removed the weapon from the scabbard. He then dispelled the sheath and put his fingers in a cross position, three clones spawned in front of him with smoke covering their appearances. With a wave of the katana, the residual smoke was gone, Yami removed Shadeslicer from its position on the back of his waist and he threw it to the first clone (Clone #1). He then handed the second clone Yamato (Clone #2), while the last clone received the newly summoned Blazing Flash (Clone #3).
Once finished handing out weapons, the Uchiha had the Blades of Chaos appear in a blaze in his with the chains still wrapped around his forearms, still burning into his skin but not making any headway through the muscle. He placed his forearms into a cross position with the blades having their sides showing, each of the clones took their stances and got ready to fight. These Shadow Clones won't go down easy than usual clones, he pumped enough chakra for each of the clones to be considered A-rank.
Both sides looked to one another before all four of the blurred and vanished. Then all hell broke loose. Dust and earth kicked up and once some of the cloud parted, Yami was revealed blocking the spear and Yamato with both of the blades. He then spun while releasing the fire blades and he watched as they both clashed with Yamato and Blazing Flash on the first contact while doing next to nothing to the wielders. So he put in some more effort by bringing his arms together and swing both of the blades at the Clone #3, the Blades of Chaos knocked the clone right off his feet and had him combat roll in order to stand once more.
Yami hearing footsteps behind him, pulled the blades into his hands and parried the diagonal strike while slashing at the clones exposed abdomen, but it didn't flesh, instead, it met against metal. The duel blade-wielding teen caught the sight of steel under the sharp edges of the Chaos blades, but he wasn't given enough time to react because of the kick to the chin he received from below him. As he was sailing through the air, all three clones closed in on him, preparing to deal some damage. A smirk made its way unto the black-haired teen's lips and he grabbed the chains, before spinning in the air. His tactic bore fruit when the blades slashed into the arm of Clone #1 and the back of Clone #3 but Clone #2 escaped unscathed due to a well-placed teleport courtesy of Yamato.
Yami then proceeded to use the momentum he had in the air to do land on his feet as he was falling backward, but he blocked a slash coming from a teleporting clone. He was able to get his second blade out of the hold and was about to strike if it wasn't for Clone #2 parrying it away before he struck out with a kick, nailing him in the gut. He landed on his back and dragged along the ground before rolling backward and landing in a crouch while looking at his opponents. The Uchiha saw both the clone he was fighting and Clone #3 was heading towards him but he had no clue where Clone #1 was. He experienced a shiver, then turned his torso just in time to dodge the chokuto aiming to pierce his stomach.
He roundhouse-kicked the clone before parrying the spear heading for him at fast speeds and blocking two consecutive strikes from Clone #2. He jumped over the low slash before kicking the clone in the chest and following up with a diagonal slash, he then brought the blades to his chest before slashing at the Yamato-wielding clone, pushing him back and almost causing him to fall. He was only able to clash each of their blades once more before he had to jump back to avoid Clone #3 dropping on his last location, spear in his hands with it slammed into the ground, cracking the earth. The clone wrenched the spear out of the ground with flames heading his way as he moved the spear. Snorting, Yami placed both of the Blades of Chaos in front of him and the flames flew right to the twin weapons and were absorbed when they got close enough to touch.
The Uchiha then blocked a series of strikes from both Clone #1 and Clone #2, he blocked a low diagonal strike from Yamato and a horizontal strike from Shadeslicer, he looked to the left for a brief moment and saw Clone #3 running at him with the spear aiming to impale. All three were in a close enough position for an attack he's been meaning to try out, so he loosened his weight onto Shadeslicer and backed up enough so that the tip of Shadeslicers blade went a few inches from his forehead, with Yami focusing his force onto Yamato, Clone #2 was struggling to hold the blade further but he received a knee to the gut. Clone #1 attempted to recover from falling forward but he didn't have enough time to since he was punched in the face. Yami then jumped into the air and throwing both Blades of Chaos into the ground but with the chains crossing over each other in an X, he used the blades to land on the ground a bit aways but he used the fire he got earlier to heat up the blades and he added some extra fire into them which caused the blades and chains to glow an ominous orange. The Uchiha then yanked them from the ground, simultaneously causing an explosion to cover the area the chains had crossed over.
The smoke cleared in a few seconds, all that was left were the weapons given to each of the clones. Seems the explosion was too much for the Shadow Clones. The blades were dispelled, Yamato flew to Yami's hand while the sheathe materialized in his other hand and he sheathed the katana before dispelling it to his personal dimension. After reaching his remaining weapons, Yami sheathed Shadeslicer behind him before dispelling the fire spear. He looked at the Sun's position, noticing that it was beginning to set, he noticed something else too...
Yugito Nii was a genin that proved that she was worthy of being a kunoichi, she proved it even more by showing that she was a powerful jinchuuriki too, he trained with the Raikage's brother, Killer Bee, in how to control the toxic power of a Bijuu. So since she had those accomplishments, why was she currently spying on the Uchiha Patriarch, all because she was a little bit interested in him or at least when his eyes turning red since they didn't have any tomoe, meaning they were not the Sharingan. She was only interested in that, despite what her feline partner kept on telling her.
"Kitten, you spying on him like this only proves my point further. You may not have any feelings for him but you are definitely interested in him." spoke Matatabi.
She couldn't deny that she was interested in him but not in an attractive way, it was probably the eyes. Anyways, she was stuck here, watching the Uchiha train to his heart's content with his strange weapons. She saw him lure his clones into a trap and explode using his chained blades. Feeling light flash in her eyes, Yugito placed a hand in front of her face but being mindful of the need for stealth. She looked to the sky and saw that night was fast approaching and she might as well head back. That was the plan and if she looked behind her, she would have seen Yami looking in her direction.
Yami could feel a chakra signature nearby, no matter how low it made itself appear to be, Yami would be able to sense the chakra. It felt familiar, but, he decided against chasing after this being, especially since it seemed as if whoever it was would come to him first and so he would wait. For now, he would go home.
With that, the Uchiha jumped onto a tree branch and leaped across trees in order to head home. As he was leaping, Yami began to think about the recent events. Through his own spy network, he was able to find put that Orochimaru had summoned the deceased kage of Konoha, Kushina Uzumaki, and Madara Uchiha, thanks to his clones Byakugan. Unconsciously, his hands began to close into fists and he smirked. He couldn't wait until the invasion began, to face the first two legends of Konoha would be a great feat. His excitement left as quick as it came when he remembered that Naruko's parents were revived, if only she could have the time to stay with them. To be able to be in their presence without battle separating their family bond. If only...
Uchiha Compound-12:38 PM
Landing on the ground with his legs bent in an angle before they straightened and he walked to the door of his home and walked inside. The door responded to his chakra signature and a few others, it would let them inside no problem but anyone else would get the shock of their life. Upon entering, he smelled an unfamiliar but pleasant aroma, he also noticed that none of the lights were on as well instead there were only candles. Noticing they were heading in a particular direction, Yami had a pretty good feeling of what this would entail but he would play along. Following the trail of candles, the Uchiha only found the trail leading to the bedroom, having a feeling a what was going on, he opened the door and was not surprised in the least upon doing so.
The reason? His draconic mate was currently wearing a black bra and panties, she was also laying on her right side with her head position upon her right fist. It turns out that the ritual had the unintended side effect of increasing the love between Yami and Nihila. It also had the effect of making it so that if they were separated for long periods of time it would make both want for the other to be in their midst. It wasn't permanent in any way, it would only take time for the urges to lessen until it would be controllable but Nihila had moments of allowing her urges to take control. They wouldn't go all the way of course but enough for Nihila to be satisfied. He has to deal with this from Naruko and Satsuki after all, it was only because Naruko asked for it to be on a special occasion but it didn't stop them from wanting to be pleasured in other ways.
The silence between both lovers was broken by the one laying comfortebly on the bed while looking at her beloved eye to eye, "I was wondering when you would arrive, I thought I would be all alone for the day."
"Well I'm here now."
"Yes you are."
Another silent halt filled the air, both stared into each other's eyes, the held that stare for a full minute just sharing their love through their gaze alone. Instinct flared in their eyes, Yami walked forward a few steps until he caught the Nothingness user and he had to backpedal just a step. Their lips intertwined with each other, it started slow with gentle pecks between the two but that wasn't enough to satisfy. So the Uchiha took the initiative to turn his head to the right and placing loving bites on the female dragon's neck with the dragon in question moaning softly.
"Harder..." She gasped out.
The Uchiha clenched his teeth and bit down on the right of Nihila's neck and kept up the pressure until he punctured her skin, with Nihila simultaneously moaning at the feeling. Disconnecting from her neck, he saw blood flowing from the puncture marks, he was stuck between letting it flow or consuming it, he didn't take long to decide when he lapped up her life essence.
Nihila was feeling this and was enjoying such love from her mate, but she saw how he was attending to her, with a smile she removed her arms from the embrace she had and tightened her legs around her mate's waist. She grabbed his face in her hands and moved his head until they looked one another in the eyes once again.
It took her a few moments to catch her breath, once she did, she spoke, "You think I'm just gonna let you hog all the fun huh?"
Yami had no reply for her, he only smirked. That damned smirk. She knew what it meant, it was a challenge and she would give him one.
Kissing each other passionately, they resonated their souls with each other before connecting the tendrils that were eager to build a bridge between both lovers. They quickly became engulfed in the moment, though they didn't go so far in their lovemaking.
July 6th-Forest of Death Entrance-8:24 AM
The genin that passed the first exam was walking along the road leading to the most dangerous training ground in Konoha, the Forest of Death. They were all following Anko, who was walking in front of them while having a stick of Dango in either of her hands. Soon the group of genin made it to one of the many entrance gates of Training ground 44, that was when Anko decided to gain their attention.
"Well brats, welcome to my home, The Forest of Death." informed Anko. She took a few seconds in order for each of the genin to have their look at the dangerous training ground, then she announced, "But before we begin with the test, I would like to pass out these documents." She paused, letting the genin get interested before continuing on, "It's a consent form, basically if you die in these exams, we don't get blamed for it. You have to sign it or you don't go any further." The Snake Mistress then began passing out the slips of paper, there weren't that many genin who hesitated to sign upon taking the consent form, but there were none that had quit. Some of them were gonna wish that they did.
Once all of the forms were collected, Anko decided it was time to explain the exam, "Alright, before I send you to your death, I'm gonna explain the layout of training ground 44. *She let the scroll she was holding unroll and present its map information to group of genin.* Training ground 44 is surrounded by forty-four locked entrance gates, inside there is a forest, rivers, and a tower in the center of the grounds. It's exactly ten kilometers from each of the gates to the tower, your job is to make it to the tower but with one of each of these scrolls." She presented two scrolls in either of her hands, each of them with a different kanji, "The Heaven Scroll, and the Earth Scroll."
Satsuki spoke up, gained the snake users attention, "So we are supposed to get two scrolls?"
Anko nodded but kept speaking, "Yes, but each team has one scroll and so you all must take the corresponding scroll from another team however you can. Half of the Sixteen passing teams will have the Earth scroll while the other half has the Heaven scroll. After gaining the missing scroll, you must head to the tower."
'So, half of the teams will be able to pass, she wasn't kidding when she said she'll cut the number down by half.' thought Satsuki.
"However, the test is timed, you all will have five days to get the needed scrolls and get to the tower, once the five days are up, we'll send out some jonin and chunin to remove those still stuck in the forest," explained Anko
Choji from Team 10 freak out and yelled out, "FIVE DAYS?! WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO FOR FOOD?!?!"
"Well there are plenty of edible wild animals and plants in the training ground, you just have to know which animal is good to go after and which plant isn't poisonous." Anko informed him.
Kitsuke raised his arms behind his head and kept them there while saying, "What a challenge, surrounded by enemies while having to take an important scroll from them. Not only that, many of us here are varied in our skills. This'll be interesting."
Anko raised a hand and addressed them once more, "Alright the other conditions for disqualifying, if a team loses a member or if he or she becomes injured then that team is disqualified. But the Number 1 rule is to Never open the scrolls until you reach the tower. Now after handing in your consent forms, each team will pick a gate with all of them will opening simultaneously once all the teams are in position." After her explanation of the rules, the Snake Mistress sighed and gave one last directive, "Also, don't die."
Forest Of Death-8:57 AM-July 6th
It hadn't taken that long for the genin teams to hand in their consent forms and to their respective gates, currently, Yami was in the middle of his squadmates, shoulder to shoulder as all of the participates were preparing for the gates to open and the second exam to begin. They didn't have to wait long since a few seconds after the last team entered their area, all of the gates opened and it was time to move. Kitsuke tossed the scroll he possessed to Yami and after confirming it was the Earth scroll, he sealed it onto the top of his right wrist.
The three dashed to the tree's ahead and started to traverse across the branches while remaining vigilant of their surroundings for any indication of an enemy team. However, both Team 7 and Team 11 would not attack one another but everyone else was free game.
Yami was the one to speak first, "Sai, get some Ink birds into the air, they will be used to seek out any enemies and report back to you once they have found some." The pale teen nodded and got out his equipment to carry out the directive.
Their planning was put to a halt by shuriken flying at them from both sides, Yami threw one of his customized kunai at it. The kunai was a bit smaller than the standard kunai, the handle possessed red wrapping, as well as a ring on the pommel, the edge of the blade was red with the center being black. Once it knocked out a shuriken it changed directions to the other shuriken on their left while Kitsuke and Sai got rid of the others with their respective weapons. Yami landed onto a branch but had to duck under a Rain shinobi's thrust with the retractable spear in his hands, which had gotten stuck in the bark of the tree, this was exploited when Yami rammed his elbow into the enemy's abdomen. It also had the unintended side effect of dislodging the spear from the tree and he had to roll out of the way, so to not be skewered by the weapon piercing where he was crouching. He equipped Shadeslicer and parried two consecutive hits before moving his abdomen out of the way of the piercing strike, he countered by pulling a feint with his chokuto that had the shinobi guard his left side but Yami merely swept the shinobi's feet from under him, pushed himself into the air and slammed the sword directly into the chest of his opponent, directly through the heart.
Sai was currently dodging senbon from the umbrella the rain shinobi possessed, while some had nearly embedded themselves into his skin, his skill with his tanto put an end to that. He dashed off a tree and landed on the ground in a slide to avoid another onslaught of senbon, but he had also gotten closer to his opponent as a result. Jumping to his feet, Sai knocked away the umbrella out of the shinobi's hands with a kick and he was able to get off two deep cuts to the chest before the teen was able to back off and bring out two kunai, they clashed their weapons together with both vying for victory in the clash. Thanks to the cuts on his opponent's chest, Sai released one hand from his tanto and was able to land a devastating palm strike on the opposing ninja's chest, further aggravating his wounds. The pale teen sped forward to cleave off the opponents head when three shuriken interrupted him by making him back off, he looked to his right up above amd saw Kitsuke fighting the last of this team, and the clear interloper in the fight. But he had no time for interruptions, he refocused his attention to his enemy and immediately had to block a kunai on his left before spinning and parrying the kunai on his right, causing his opponent to lose his balance due to the force in the tanto. There was no one to save him this time as his head was lobbed off and currently rolling on the ground to a stop. It was also when Kitsuke finished his opponent by slicing off the arm and piercing the head right in the center.
"It took you that long to dispose of your opponent? I don't think you're ready to be a Chunin Kitsuke." admonished Sai.
It took all the self-control he had to not respond by yelling since it would only serve to expose their location to any genin nearby. So he resolved to breathe through his nose so he doesn't respond back, an action Yami appreciated. Kitsuke searched his dead opponent and found another Earth scroll, he pocketed the scroll in case it would be useful. A few seconds later they dashed to the tree's once more, seeking more opposition.
A few minutes passed had passed but there was no one near and Sai's birds had not returned to him yet so the trio was just stuck jumping onto branches waiting to come into contact with another team.
Forest Of Death-Same Time
In a different location, Satsuki and Sakura were currently planting traps while the last member of Team 7 was planting boundary seals-seals that could detect intruders within a boundary of seal tags-in order for the female team to set up a complete area for them to base at. Their plan was to eliminate some of the competition for two days, then head for the tower. Naruko had just finished with the last seal when she heard a whistling sound, looking up she saw a burst of wind directly for her. Backflipping off the branch, she witnessed the previous branch she was crouched on completely torn to pieces of bark, as well as the tag she used for the seal.
"My, my, what quick reflexes you have there, here I thought you Konoha genin were rookies but it seems I was mistaken or you are just a prodigy." said the assailant.
Looking upwards, Naruko saw a shinobi with long black hair and an overall average face standing onto the side of a tree looking down on Naruko.
The Uzumaki smirked, 'Finally! Someone to fight in this damn forest, we haven't seen anyone since we entered. Well, until now but where is his team.'
Without wasting time, the man ceased channeling chakra to his feet, resulting in him dropping down to Naruko. She leaped into the air and once close enough smashed a fist into the man's face but her fist made no contact as her quarry had bent his head and back ethat she had missed her target's chin. She used the same hand to knock away a kick to the right side of her face with an opened palm, her left hand wasn't idle as it was currently sailing towards the mysterious man's face at high genin speeds. However, she didn't expect the other leg to kick her in the face at a speed faster than what she currently was exhibiting. The kick sent her flying towards the ground head-first until her arm planted on the ground at he last second and she propelled herself up to her feet, staring down her opponent that had just landed on the ground in front of her.
A smirk grew on the man's face and he spoke once more, "My name is Shiore let's see if you can survive against me."
After his piece was said, they ran towards each other and once they got close, Shiore launched a punch to her face with Naruko trying to sock the man in the gut but both were blocked by one another. They ripped their respective limb out of the other's grasp with Shiore launching a kick to Naruko's midsection to which she promptly back away from while sending two shurikens at the shinobi. He dodged, just as she hoped as she did a single hand seal and yelled out, "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
Her cheeks swelled before she released the gale winds from her mouth, sending Shiore through a couple of unfortunate tree's.
Once she landed her eyes focused on her last location until she jumped into the air to avoid the man bursting through it a second later. Putting up an X block with her arms, she received five consecutive punches to her forearms before spinning and roundhouse-kicking the man in the face, causing him to go crashing into the ground, with debris being thrown around and the possibility of a ground attack, Naruko remained on a tree. Staring at the crater intently, she decided that waiting would take a while and so she grabbed three kunai with explosive tags attached to them and leaped to the crater site and threw the kunai at the ground after channeling chakra to the tags. The ground exploded with rocks and dirt flying around, but there was no sign of her opponent. She stepped on the ground, believing her foe dead until...
"LOSER, LOOK OUT!!!" yelled put a familiar voice.
Naruko looked to her left and saw Satsuki and Sakura running towards her, then she saw pink flesh around her and realized quickly that she had been eaten.
On the outside, the snake was currently slithering away from the battle as Satsuki was forced to block an onslaught of punches from Shiore while Sakura chased after Naruko, knowing that Satsuki would be able to handle the black-haired man.
Speaking of the Uchiha, she was currently trading fists with her opponent while no side was truly gaining a hit on the other, they both slammed their right fists together and backed up.
The black-haired man spoke aloud to her, "One of the last Uchiha, this must be my lucky day."
Satsuki narrowed her eyes at the man and put up her guard further, there was just something about this man that wasn't human but she believed she would be forced to find out in this fight.
Satsuki dodged the dashed right hook and let out a kick to the midsection that, unfortunately, got blocked.
Just the beginning of a memorable battle
Look, I got no excuse besides trying to get that spark back, yeah a few months in the making but at least I got a chapter up. Better late than never right? Yeah, I bet there is someone yelling in their head at m for taking so long with an update. I won't bother letting you know he next update until I can start updating daily, just please bear with me.
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Posted on 3-15-20