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True Power

Chapter 12: Chunin Examinations

Find Power, Kill to get it, Keep Power, kill to hold on to it.

Motto of the Village Hidden in the Spiders Web

Naruto, Gaara, and Haku were leaning against the rails of the bridge; Naruto was reading a book entitled, "Kitsunes, Loki, Raven, and other tricksters", and Haku was wrapping sutras around his sebon needles.

"Good morininggg…" Kakashi said as he appeared on the arch above the bridge. Only, the arch was an illusion and Kakashi landed on the bridge. However the boards below his feet were illusions as well and Kakashi fell into the river with a splash.

"Your 2 hours late," Gaara said, as Naruto burst out laughing.

"Sorry, a black cat crossed my path, so I had to take the long way here."

"Funny, it only takes 30 minutes to get here if you go the long way from your house." Haku replied.

"You know where I live?" Kakashi asked uneasily

"Of course and the location of the 20 other residences that are under your name."

"Anyway…" Kakashi said changing the subject, "I have a C rank mission for you today. There is a slight spider problem in the village's sewers system and we just need you to kill the source of the spiders."

"What's the catch?" Naruto, Haku, and Gaara asked in unison.

"Well the spiders are a tad large." Kakashi answered as he disappeared in a poof of smoke.

"Think we should take this mission," Haku asked.

"Why not?" Naruto answered.

Sewers of the hidden Leaf Village

Team 7 crawled along the ceiling of the main pipe line. The leaf village was notorious for the subterranean carnivorous fish that they let loose in the sewers.

"Kami, this place stinks!" Naruto said cutting off chakra to his nose.

"Umm... You two," Haku asked nervously, "look behind you."

Naruto and Gaara looked over their shoulders. There was a giant black spider the size of a horse, anchored to the pipe ceiling, its blade like legs latching onto the stone.

"Well at least we have a way to kill boredom now," Naruto said as he cracked his knuckles ominously.

Hokage's Tower

"Okay, everyone as we all know the chunin exam is coming up, as of this year we have had four teams graduate from the academy, though we usually wait a couple of years for the teams to gain more experience we will let the teachers decide weather or not to enter them." The Hokage greeted

"Team 7, Haku, Gaara of the Sand, and Naruto Uzimaki, I recommend all of them for the chunin exams." Kakashi said as he stepped up to the stage.

"Team 8, Sakura Haruno, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame, I recommend all of them for the chunin Exams." Feneris said after Kakashi.

"Team 5, Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuuga, and Kai Takashi, I recommend all of them for the chunin Exams," Itachi said.

"Team 11, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Chouji Akimichi, I recommended all of them for the chunin exams." Asuma said, the smoke from his cigarette making several people cough.

"Excellent! The Hokage responded, "Make sure to hand your teams the application forms."

As the jonin left the tower Feneris spotted Itachi leaving, he was very easy to spot as he wore a black and red cloak with the symbol of the Uchiha clan printed on it.

"Hey Itachi," Feneris yelled as he chased after the former ANBU captain, "I need to talk to you about something!"

Itachi turned around, but before Feneris could say anything a white and red spider floated up through the ground and lunged at Itachi. Itachi dodged and threw some kunai and shurikin at the spider. Only to have them go right through the spider with out causing any damage at all.

"Itachi! Use fire jutsus on it, weapons and taijutsu will be useless." Feneris said as he chucked a fire ball at the spider.

Itachi then put hi hands together and formed a couple hand seals; he then sucked in his breath and said, "Hells breath jutsu."

He then spewed forth a giant stream of black fire from his mouth totally immolating the spider. The spider backed away furiously and as the flames away its life.

When the spider was dead Feneris turned to Itachi and said, "Have you heard anything about giant spiders recently,"

"The maintenance crew found some spiders that were about the size of a small dog in the sewers, but Kakashi volunteered his team to go take care of them."

"O shit." Feneris mutter as he cast a spell and sunk into the ground.

The Sewers of the Leaf Village

Team 7 was up to there eyeballs in spiders; they were swarming out of the tunnels like roaches.

"Just a Tad big?" Naruto yelled as he incinerated several spiders with a fire jutsu, "these things just keep getting bigger and bigger."

"Miss me?" Feneris said as he popped out of the ceiling and jumped down. "Here's some advice, try using poisoned smoke."

"That's good advice." Naruto yelled at him, "but we'd just poison ourselves as well!"

"I'll take care of this then." Feneris said as he took a silver bottle out of his pack and put a few dried leaves in the bottle and tossed the cork away. The bottle started pouring out great streams of green opaque smoke.

"That's spider poison." Feneris explained, "Just leave the bottle here and the poison will get the spiders, and only the spiders."

The elf then disappeared in a gust of wind.

"Want to go yell at Kakashi?" Naruto asked after a while.

Feneris House

A figure wearing a heavy black cloak with the hood pulled up to cover his face stood in the middle of the platform the elf had laid across the trees branches.

"So he is here," he thought, "he would have taken care of 20, wraith, sword, and phase spiders by now. I wonder just how strong he has gotten since we last seen each other?"

He let out a hollow laugh and sunk into the shadows on the floor and disappeared.

Authors Note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter

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