1 chapter: Surprise surprise, a womans determination!
The sun rises over Konoha once again. No one now what the day will offer them and what they are going gain or lose on it, No one knows if they are gonna be attcked or if the day will be as all the other days this year, No one knows that they all are in for a surprise today and that they will be put under pressure.
No one except for Tsunade.
Tsunade had fallen asleep at work yet again, which wasn't very surprising to the guards because it happened ever so often now and they would be more worried if she didn't take a nap.
She had fallen asleep on the desk in her room and had somehow managed to create a blanket of the papers that had been piled up beside her head, she must have managed to touch them in his sleep resulting in all of them covering her.
But right now her mind wasn't at the office that her duty required, no.. she was having the most wonderful dream. If she wasn't asleep she would call it a vision and no one would have believed her. But now safe from interupption inside her own dream she could scheme without anyone disagreeing, but it wasn't so bad this time.. it was acually a very good idea.
Shizune had surprisingly also fallen asleep in her chair that hed been placed in the corner. She had insisted that she would supervise the blonde Hokage because she knew that if she didn't do it Tsunade would only fall asleep before she had finished her work. But this time she had failed as she closed her eyelids first of the two. Letting her guard down the Hokage had swiftly taken advantage of the rare event and closed her eyes to.
The sunlight penetrated the windows on the tower and searched their way up to Shizunes eyelids. She tried to turn in her chair to avoid the sleepdisturbing beams only to find out that the chair wasnt a bed and fall head first down into the floor.
She groaned as she caressed the bump on her head with her hand, she wasn't a morning person and could very easily lose her temper. She looked around with murderous intent to make sure that no one had seen her, the only thing that caught her eyes was the strong female that had decided to make the desk to look like it been bombed. The papers had scattered everywhere and she was covered in the most of them and Shizune also saw in horror how Tsunade had tipped over the ink so it resembled a black puddle on the desk. The only thing that kept Shizune from yelling the colors out of the present Hokage was the fact that Tsunade had planted her cheek right into the puddle and was now mixing the ink with her drool.
"Tsunade-sama?" Shizune shaked the Hokage and noticed a smile on her lips "What are you dreaming about?" she asked to for herself.
Suddenly Tsunade answered a little groggily "A great idea.. Kakashi will surely back me up" Shizune looked at her sceptically, if she was having an idea it wasn't good and if she thought Kakashi would agree it only meant disaster because they shared the same wicked humor.
Terrified that the blonde Hokage would scheme some more if she was asleep Shizune tried 'a little' harder to wake her up.
"TSUNADE-SAMA!" she yelled at the top of her lungs and was glad that Tsunade seemed to react. In a matter of seconds Tsunade was sitting straight up in her chair with a pencil in her hand.
"huh? I wasn't sleeping, just felt like closing my eyes for som seconds" Tsunade said oblivious to the fact that she was soaked in ink from the forehead to the chin.
Shizune pointed on her own face to make the Hokage notice that she had ink on her face, but to no avail as Tsunade sent her confused look and raised one of her eyebrows.
Shizune pointed at the mirror that was in the other end of the room and Tsunade looked in the direction of her finger and soon a terrifying roar could be heard from the Hokage Tower.
After she had washed her face and Shizune had cleaned her desk (there was some benefits of being Hokage and there was no chance in hell that Tsunade would have cleaned her own desk) Tsunade sat down again and striked a pose with her head leaned on her hands, which made her look a tad more powerful and a look that she was determinated.
"Send a message for the Special Jounins of Team 5, 7, 10... oh! You can also send a message for Gai too!" She said too Tsunade while she waved her hand towards Shizuna as a gesture that she should hurry. "I've come up with the most brilliant idea"
Shizune sighted... she couldn't go against the Hokage, but maybe she could talk Tsunade out of this.
"Maybe you should rethink th-" she was cut short by Tsunade
"Last time I looked I was the Hokage" Tsunade said with a icing glare at Shizune telling her that it was no choice but obey.
"I have a relly bad feeling about this" Shizune thought when she left the room and the only person left in the room now was a madly smiling blonde kunoichi. Which wasn't considered a good sign.
Team 7, Kakashis cell!
Team 7 was going through their daily routine at the moment, which wasn't training that they should have begun with an hour ago... they were waiting for their sensei Kakashi.
Naruto had woke up early this morning eager to train and found himself at the bridge 5 minutes too early at the brudge, hoping that for once Kakashi would at least show up in time. But now an hour later he was still standing there and now accompanied with his Teammates Sakura and Sasuke.
Sakura had showed up only minutes before Naruto and Sasuke had came half an hour later which dusted Narutos hopes about a Sasuke free day.
Naruto looked over to his black haired rival that was standing on the other side of the bridge, Sakura was glad for this because if they were within a radius of 5 meters they would begin to throw insults at eachother. Sakura sighed because she didn't like the fact that the two boys lacked so much teamwork.. but as long as they were rivals they still kept growing in strenght.
Sakura had also began growing in strenght the last couple of months, she had been training with Tsunade and her taijutsu had increased rapidly and if you was the target for her punch you really would be sent flying.. lucky enough she didnt have the strenght as Tsunade yet because she still had a long way to go.
Suddenly smoke erupted from nowhere which made Sakura and Naruto flinch, but they soon relaxed as they saw the person coming out from the smoke.
Kakashi was still Kakashi and he was now looking around at his three students who seemed fairly surprised, maybe they were supposed to see him in about an hour or so. But Kakashi had thought that he would change his habit for today and be extra early.
"Your late!" shouted Naruto and Sakura at the same time.
Kakashi rubbed his neck with his left hand as he tried to excuse himself. "I had a little trouble finding here, I was on my way here when I completly lost my sense of direction and then I spent an hour looking for it"
"Your lying!" said Naruto and Sakura as they raised their voices again.
Kakashi sighed as he looked at Sakura and Naruto, how could they manage to look through all of his lies. It must be the fact that he is their sensei, they had finally learned a little about looking underneath the underneath.
"Ok, the real reason why I didnt make it in time tody was because I was at the Hokage Tower. Hokage-sama had asked for all the Jounins with teams to listen to a suggestion.. eh , wrong word.. a declaration" Kakashi said while holding up one of his fingers to tell them to not interrupt.
"You're ly... wait.. what was the declaration, does it concern us?" Sakura had been on her way to call him a lier again but had remebered that Kurenai had passed them on her way to the tower.
Naruto didnt remember of course and was still calling a now sweatdropping Kakashi for lier the third time in the past 2 minutes.
Kakashi smiled at Sakura "Yes, actually it did" this made Naruto to shut up. "And it doesn't only concern you, it concerns all of the Genin 9 and Gais team as well"
By now Naruto was listening intently and with a questioning expression on his face "what is it then? Tell us!" Naruto returned to his old loud self.
Kakashi gave them a mysterious look, he smiled slightly to himself as he noticed that he had caught everyones attention even the Uchiha heir was leaning forward to hear what his sensei would tell them.
Kakashi opened his mouth, but soon he closed it again... he got a pressured look on his face and started to sweat a little.
"It's even hard to think about it.. and even harder to say it. It's a very cruel, advanced, horrid thing the Hokage had asked you to do" Kakashi said and a hint of madness crossed his face.
All of them had began to move closer and now they were standing in a very small circle, if somone had passed by right now it would have looked like they were having a tactic chat.
Kakashi leaned back and put his hand into his pocket, he slowly lifted it up and held forth his clanched fist. He opened it slowly to reveal a white piece of paper.
Naruto tried to take it from him, but his hand was slapped away by Kakashi.
"The task she has given to you.." All the members of team 7 were now sweating and looked petrified at the paper. Kakashi unfolded it and looked at it without letting anyone of his students have a peek.
"oh, right... it was only a survival test.." he said while letting all the tension go. All of his students falled dow to the ground because of the fuss Kakashi had made about a simple survival test.
"You didnt have to make such a fuss about it" Naruto shouted at him with his fist raised.
"Sorry sorry, I just wanted t-" He was interrupted by Sakura.
"You forgot what the declaration was..." Sakura said in a defeated voice, Inner Sakura was for the moment beating the Kakashi dummy that she had just recieved while screaming insults to it and cursed it for rising her blood pressure for a test.
"But this isn't a normal survival test.. just like the Chuunin exam that all of you passed it contains three parts and one of them is a fighting part. The Hokage did this because she wants to see if you were worthy of your Chuunin vests and if you improved yourself to the level of the ANBU scholarship" He said while letting out a true smile.
He actually was very proud that his students had came to the point of entering the ANBU survival test and maybe even begin in a special school that was created for the sake of becoming ANBU.
He must also admit that they truly deserved it.
Naruto was trying to not scream out in happiness, but he wouldn't have managed that even if he wanted to scream because his chin was touching the ground for the moment.
Saksukes eyes had gone wide and a smile had began to form on his face at least something that resembled one. He would at last have the chance of growing much more in power and even go out and hunt missing-nins... like his brother.
He even was about the same asge as Itachi when he had been nominated for ANBU, that means he is keeping up with his brother.
Sakura had gone stiff and she was just not believing the thing her sensei just said, it had been a long time since Inner and Outer Sakura had reacted the same way.
Sakura regained her colors and smiled again, even she had been nominated. Sakura wasn't doubting herself as much as she did before and now she had began to fill up the emptiness the doubt left with determination, Sakura was on her way of becoming a female Naruto. She had also gained some confidence because Sasuke commented improvement and he said that she was going to become a decent kunoichi if she kept on going like this. It was a victory if you got the Uchiha kid to say you were decent.
Kakashi continued talking "during this Survival exam you'll be staying on a isolated island which have a very annoying climate and a weird vegetation. There is many traps and monsters like you encountered in Area 44, the forest of death." He looked at the reactions of his students and could face the fact that neither of them would back down because their faces were serious and determinated. Even Naruto was serious... for once.
"The Island is located so central that it have all of seasons and you cant predict if it are about to snow, rain or sunny. There is also a snowy area a beachy area and a forest plus a big green field with high grass which is a 25 of the island... it's very big indeed." Kakashi said as he had picked up another paper that seemed to be some sort of map over the island.
"All of the teams shall get an orb from all of the five locations and bring them to the temple at the north side of the island where we will be located" He said with his usual lazy voice...
"5 bucks that it is located at the beachy area.." Naruto grumbled
Team 10, Asumas cell!
"This is troublesome..." Shikamaru said with the usual lack of motivation.
They had just heared the news that they would compete in the survival exam... and Shikamaru wasn't the kind of person to be thrilled.
"First you all Jounins put pressure on us because you want us to become chuunins and now when all of us managed it you aren't satisfied, Jounins are like women.. when you give them a hand they go for the arm." Shikamaru whined, he had no intention to leave the peceful Konohagakure.
"Nara Shikamaru, did you just call all the Jounins for women?" Asuma asked with a raised eyebrow.
Asuma hadnt changed at all, he was still as big as a bear and seemed stronger than one, on top of that he always was smoking his cigarette.. he never seemed to drop this hole cigarette thing. Everytime you saw him he had a cigarette and that made most of the villagers wondering if he was smoking a neverending one because it didn't seem to shrink.
"No, I didn't" Shikamaru said because he didn't want to start any troublesome fight or argument.
"Thought so..." Asuma answered as he looked over towards the other two members.
Ino was wearing a confused expression which didn't seem to fit her face and Chouji had completly stopped eating and stared disbelieving at his sensei.
"So we are gonna compete against the other cells and the one who proves them most worthy will get a spot in the ANBU school?" Ino asked Asuma.
"Thats correct"
"And the Island is located at the very center of the world so it has all the four seasons and it exist both an mountain made of ice and a beach on it?" Ino said with a voice filled with sarcasm.
"Yes"
"That sounds so fake!" Ino almost shouted with a finger pointing accusingly at her teacher.
"You'll just have to wait and see for yourself then" Asuma told her calmly hoping that his voice would calm down his blond and loud student.
"That sounds cool.." No one had really noticed that Chouji had regained his voice and everyone jumped as he spoke. "I would totally look cool in a ANBU uniform and mask, wouldn't I Shikamaru?" He said and smiled towards his childhood friend.
Shikamaru smiled back and before anyone could disagree Shikamaru said "Yes, of course you would.. hehe, you'll also get that cool tatoo they wear." Shikamaru said encouraging his friend.
Ino on the other hand had diffrent opinions "No way! A ANBU uniform should be carred by a sweet and strong Konoichi such as myself and they surely hasn't got anyone you fit in... because you are kinda chubby" Ino said before she or Asuma and Shikamaru for that matter could cover her mouth.
"I'm just pleasingly plump!" Chouji roared as an answer with his eyes full of determination. "I'll win that exam and show you that I can fit in a ANBU uniform!" He punched out his fist in a victorious sign.
"yeah Chouji, show Ino how wrong she is" Asuma said as he noticed that this made Chouji even more determinated.
Chouji went over to his spot that he usually sat on, it was a treestump and it was many bags of chips laying around. Now when he was so determinated he went over to it and did the thing he usually used to do when he was determinated... or sad, or angry, or happy, or asleep.. eating!
Shikamaru and Ino smiled as they watched the team member munching chips with a determinated look on his face. He shuffled them with a fast pace into his mouth.
"I must praise you for that" Shikamaru whispered to Ino who was standing at his side. "You really made him serious, looks like this exam will be something special"
Ino sighed "Whatever you say, I thought I was done for when I called him chubby... but do you really think that he will fit in a ANBU uniform?"
"I'm pretty sure that they would make one specially sewn for him" Shikamaru said as he alked over to Chouji.
Ino stood there a while before cracking a smile...
"True"
Team 8, Kurenais cell!
"Wohoo, did you hear that Akamaru? We are gonna become ANBU!" Inuzuka Kibas voice was heard over the hole forest, he had as many of the other persons been surprised but only for matter of seconds. After he had heard Kuranai tell them about the exam he had looked at Akamaru and so the celebrating had begin.
"Don't judge too soon Kiba, I said that other teams were competing and thatif you proved yourself worthy you all might get a chance of go to the ANBU school. God dammit, I didn't even say that you would become ANBU! I said that you'll become ANBU students and it can be years in the school before you get the ANBU rank. Are you even listening to me Inuzuka Kiba?" Kurenai was beinning to lose control oer her extremly wild student and was slowly gaining a headache because of the dogboy.
"JUST SHUT IT KIBA! OK?" she desperatly shouted which thankfully made the furry boy to stop his giddering.
A bit away Hinata and Shino stood, Hinata was giggling at the scene infront of her. She felt a little pity for Kurenai but nothing could match the expression on Kibas face when she told him off.
Shino was as always quietly watching all of his teammates and Kurenai. He wasn't a man of words, he prefered the way of the brain instead the way of the blabber- and loudmouth. Such as Kiba. He quietly reched up and pushed his sunglasses up so it covered his eyes, he noticed a bug on his hand and recognized it, it was the one he called Tom.. they hadn't spoken to eachother for some weeks now so he decided to catch up and spend some quality time with him. He began to converse with the bug while Kurenai and Kiba were stuck in a shouting match.
"By the way..." Kurenai said when she had regained her composure from the bashing Kiba session. "Like I said before, this is a survival exam so there is some rules... I'll tell you one of them and the Hokage will tell you the rest when we are on our way towards the Island" Kurenai looked around to see that she had everyones attention.
"The rule says that each and everyone of you shall bring a total of one item each.. such as matches, food, medical stuff etc." Kurenai looked around once again to see if everyone had understood. Everyone seemed to be clear about the hole thing.
All three of the team members were deep in thought, how should they organize this? After many suggestions they concluded what they would bring.
Hinata would bring the medical supplies, Shino would bring matches and Kiba would bring food.
"This will be a piece of cake!" Kiba shouted as he returned to his old self.
"We will show them how much we've trained and beat everyone into the ground!" He followed up this cocky sentence with a mad grin. "But so you are aware of it I must tell you to not touch Naruto... He's mine!" Hinata sighed.. She really wanted to touch Naruto.. she didn't know though that Kiba would be her opponent when it came to that.
"Got it?" Kiba asked to make sure
"Got it" Shino answered, at least they guessed it was Shino because you didn't see his mouth as it was hidden behind his disturbing high collar.
"Ok" Hinata answered feeling a littel depressed... but she did't want to let Kiba down, she didn't want to do anything to hurt her comrades.
Kiba threw Hinata a confused look, she did sound kind of sad for some reason.. Kiba snapped his fingers when he figured out why Hinata was so sad.
"Don't be so upset Hinata.. I'll just punch him a little bit, so he knows who's the boss.. then you can get the rest for all I care" He said and smiled broadly, he seemed to have nailed it because Hinata looked so much happier now.
"I knew she wanted to beat him as badly as I wanted, she just wants her share of the bloodbath" Kiba smiled at himself for being so smart.
"Thank you Kiba" Hinata said stuttering a little.
"No problem Hinata, just remember to be careful.. it'll be the first time you actually goes head on right?" Kiba said while laughing. He had missed the hole scenario with Neji.. he seemed to have blacked out somewhere after the fight against Naruto.
Hinata blushed at Kibas words, she wouldn't be so bold. She hid her face in her jacket when they walked home to hide the blush on her face. Kiba was beginning to feel confused, did he do anything wrong? He concluded that he never would understand girls.
Team Gai, Gais cell
"The springtime of youth have arrived! Now is the time when you all shall harvest the benefits of your skills and make the other Chuunins pray for mercy! We shall conquer the island and you are gonna proclaim yourself king and rule over it like no other!" Gai shouted at the top of his lungs, even if his team only were standing 2 meters away. He had just announced the exam and explained the rules, now he had moved on to the pep-talk.
"Yes, Gai-sensei! I shall break my way through the enemy lines and conquer the island!" Lee shouted at the same volume as Gai "Oh, Gai-sensei you are so wise!"
"Yes, Lee! To become a Special Jounin you can't only be strong, you must have brains too!" Gai said with much feeling. A audible "dammit" was heard from Lee.
"Don't feel discouraged, you can make anything happen if you put your soul into it!" Gai striked his nice guy pose with a thumbs up and sparkeling teeth that belonged in a commercial for toothpaste. "write this down Lee!" he said and pointed at Lee who pulled out a notepad from his weapon pouch.
While Lee and Gai was having a privet lesson in being smart Neji and Tenten was standing at the sidlines. They quickly made sure that they hadn't gone deaf by all the ruckus and then looked over to the green beasts again. They had to turn away from the sight to check if they hadn't gone blind by what they saw, Lee and Gai were hugging with a sunrise and waves roaring in the backround.
Gai noticed that they looked away and screamed at them "There is nothing wrong between the love of a sensei and his student! It's something that should be praised!" Gai hugged Rock Lee in another bone crushing hug, but none of them didn't even flinch... both had trained their bodies to sustain this kind of torture.
Neji turned back to face Tenten again and noticed that she also had a greenish color on her face.
"What about following me to the nearest ditch to throw up?" Neji asked Tenten, she smiled at his question.
Neji had loosened up a lot more since the fight with Naruto, but he still had the same way of talking. Even if she knew that he had changed much she also knew that under that mask he was wearing he hadn't completly healed all the wounds from his past. He was still a little bitter about the head council in the Hyuuga state had sacrificed his father. He didn't have a grudge against the main house for that reason, but he was bitter because they didn't took care of him when he needed someone the most. When he had no one to turn to. When his dad had died and left him all alone.
The main family hadn't cared very much, he had been all alone in his house with his mother and father dead. Why hadn't the main house offered him a place with his uncle, with Hiashi?
Tenten had looked many times at the Hyuuga and felt sorry for him, even if he hated to be pitied. He was acting very nice and warm but emitted a cold aura, Tenten could understand him a little. No one liked to be alone.
"So? How about it?" Neji asked again, giving her one of his true smiles.. he hadn't had any friends before he began to train with them. Neji had after some years opened up to them, he could even laugh with Lee sometimes.
"That sounds wonderful" Tenten said as they walked away from the green big babies that was crying in eachothers arms.
"Don't let me down Lee!"
"I won't Gai-sensei, I will conquer the island!"
All of the teams were assembled at Konoha Port the day after the announcement.
Team 7 were checking eachothers items to make sure that no mistakes had occured.
Sakura showed a compass, while Sasuke had brought his Fuuma shuriken which hadn't been counted as a weapon that fitted in his weapon pouch. He had been mumbling for awhile, Naruto guessed that he was cursing under his breath becuase he had thought that he could bring the Fuuma shuriken if he just kept it in his scroll, but they had been informed by Kakashi that they could only take so much weapons that fitted in the pouch and that excluded unsummoned objects like Fuuma shuriken. It was pretty oubvious because they could keep a boat if they wanted one in the scrolls.
"Hey, dobe.. tell me again teh exact reason why you brought a pyjamas when you were supposed to bring food" Sasuke said with cold fury as he tried to not strangle the dense, blond chuunin.
"Well, I can't sleep without it and I thought that I would need all sleep I can get to be as strong as possible" Naruto said with a voice that was completly conviced that he had done the right thing, he didn't noticing how Sasuke slowly started to twitch.
"It's cool, actually I've prepared for this because I know Narutoo is too dense for his own good" She gave Naruto the box with food that she cooked herself.
Suddenly they heard a horn blow and a big boat entered the port, many of the chuunin and jounins doubted that it would fit and was afraid that it would get stuck if it came too close.
It was a very big, white boat and it seemed as it had a swimming pool on the upper deck.
Many just stood there not believing there eyes, while some of them just gasped.
They began to board it as soon they had opened the cargo and stuffed in all their items.
As soon as everyone boarded the boat began making it's way away from the port and out towards the ocean.
Everyone gathered around Tsunade who stood besides the swimmingpool.
"This is where it all begins, are you ready for the task that awaits?" No one answered Tsunades question.
"Answer for god sake, are all of you mutes?" She looked from person to person.
"Yes, Tsunade-obachan!" Naruto screamed by himself which earned him a punch so he was thrown off the boat.
"Man overboard!" Someone shoted in the distance and in a couple of minutes Naruto was brought back shivering and tied up in a blanket.
Everyone seemed to go mute after that incident.
"Now, I'm gonna tell you the rules.. Im invented some of them myself" Tsunad said while a crazy look erupted on her face, everyone gulped loudly.
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we serch for the adventures,
we search for glory and power,
we serch for a challange and to test our limits,
Some search for themselves,
But all of us goes in the same direction.
Straight forward.
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Naruto: What? She made up her own sadistic rules!
Tsunade:Hehe, I can make them even worse for you if you continue shouting like this..
and we need new refined rules if we want to get the best of the best to the ANBU school.
Next time on Naruto Ultimate test: High expectations!
The exam island Sasuke: Shut it, dobe. It can be worse then we expect