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xxx Hokage Office xxx
"~sigh~ So you wish to discuss about the Kyuubi" Sarutobi took a deep breath as he watched Naruto nodded. He had received the news a day ago and had prepared for today. He saw the boy had a look of bytral and shock, both of which he rightly deserved.
He motioned his ANBU to silence the entire room before closing the blinds.
"Were would like to start first?" the old man asked.
"... Why did you hide this from me, that I had the Kyuubi of all things inside?"
"I didn't mean to bring you any suffering, I had hide this not from you but your entire generation and after. I had hoped that you would be able to live a normal life and make friends and bonds to the village. However, you can see that it did not work: I do not know who did it but someone had revealed your secret and I was forced to confirm least our enemies get any ideas. I forbade anyone from speaking of the Kyuubi to the younger generations under threat of death" said Sarutobi.
"And I still was hated by my generation" Naruto said glumly.
"Yes, there is so much killing, threatening, or persuading can do to those who wish not to change. I tried explaining that the fourth wanted you to be seen as a hero but even that failed. Hatred is such an ugly thing that makes even the kindest of people do terrible things, a hatred that is passed down is the worst" said Sarutobi.
"So why did the fourth seal inside of me of all people?" Naruto asked.
"That I do not know naruto. However, if I was to guess from the seal the fourth wanted you to harness the power of the kyuubi. Your seal is different from most jinchuriki in that it slowly takes chakra from the kyuubi and purifies it before inserting into you, because of that you chakra reserves are the largest among your generation" The third gave his reasoning.
"So ... you think I should use the kyuubi? I mean if the fourth wanted me to use it ..."
"That is up to you, I recommend that you at least think over it before deciding. If you really wish to tap into the demons power then tell me, I have shinobi who can help you control the beast" said the third "But most of all, do not try to talk to the demon or access it's powers without mine or another jonin's permission! Such power is incredibly dangerous and can put you and your comards in danger. Do you understand"
Naruto nodded as he was dismissed. Once he left Sarutobi let out a sigh, his shoulders sagged as his ANBU opened the blinds again.
"Watch over him Kakashi, I don't want him to do something stupid with the kyuubi" the man ordered "And someone get me a quill and paper, I need to recall jiraiya."
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"And what about the chunin exams? I understand we're hosting it this cycle. With naruto wanting to learn about the kyuubi do you think I should avoid sending in team seven?" Kakashi asked.
"No, give them the chance to enter. If naruto does wish to learn then he will have to wait during the one month period or after he is disqualified" said the hokage.
Kakashi nodded and left room.
ELSEWHERE
Black obsidian towers fell to the ground as he watched hundreds of people flee from the grimm. The local militia was trying to put up a fight until the royal guard could arrive. They sadly would not live long enough to see that happen.
"My lord, the relic of creation has been safely transported to one of your temples" spoke on of his followers. He nodded, good he had his people erect hundreds of temples to fool Salem. It should keep her preoccupied while his real hideouts were safe. They followed him as the screaming became distant.
What a waste, hundreds of people and resources all lost because one of his men could not keep their mouth shut. Something along the lines of freedom or what other nonsense they wanted to spew at me. Freedom meant nothing if she was not stopped, freedom meant a quick death to the grimm endless suffering to mankind.
Had he more time then the runes would have been all placed and for the first time a land not controlled by grimm could have existed.
Didn't matter, he could try again.
"What about the people my lord, many of the nobles will object if they lose their lands to the grimm" a hot blast of Sanus desert winds passed by "We will also lose another oasis again"
"Then we will get more slaves, the nobles know better then to raise against their king. I was there when the first nobles were nothing more than dung famers who got lucky, sometimes I do not know why I bother with them they always whine and complain for one to the next. I've seen farmers with more experienced then they do" he growled. He gently rubbed the green jewel of his staff to calm him down, it always did.
"That is because they do all of your paper work my lord" one his people chuckled.
"Yes, and that is the only reason I do not strike where they stand" he sighed. "Sometimes I wish I did not hid the relic of choice. Not that is matters now"
The ground cracked underneath as massive grimm ripped from underground. It's mandible dripped with venom as it eyed his staff hissing out in anger. His men circled him but he pushed them away.
"No, I need something to vent my annoyance this will be good target practice" he said. His staff glowed and blasted the grimm
KONOHA
BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP
Naruto sprang out of his bed, holding his head as he calmed himself. That incarnation was new, didn't know he was once a slave owner a few thousand years ago.
"Different time, we were desperate in creating the current runes that protect the four kingdoms. And mind you slavery was common back then, for us to not have any was not an option, nor was it possible for us to change it. Luckily for us after the gish kingdom fell we were able to implement new reforms ... they worked every so often different from era to era. Well until Mantle showed up"
"Yeah, I remember that" he did not mean for mantle to attack Vacuo but the King and his council wanted the materials now instead of waiting for the trade deal to finish.
Getting up from the bed he cleaned himself up before racing to meet his teammates. After waiting for three hours, during which naruto practiced water walking, Sasuke did cloud watching, and Sakura pulled a book: They had learned to bring or do something to pass the time. Kakashi-sensei arrved and was berated by Sakura and he gave some lame excuse. Then they did some D-ranks.
After finishing the last D-rank naruto sighed as he fell onto the ground.
"Oh jezz, didn't we tell you not to over exert yourself? It's been less then a week since we came back" Sakura said as she helped him up.
"Hey the faster we finish these missions the more likely we can train with kakashi-sensei" Naruto explained his reasoning.
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"You may want to put a raincheck on that. Well today is going to be cut short, you guys do what you want for today I have to go meet with the hokage" he vanished.
"Hmph, then I'm heading home" said Sasuke first.
"Oh sasuke, wait up! ... I was wondering if you and I could train together, you know, do some teamwork exercises?" She fluttered her eyebrows at him.
"I'll pass. I'd rather not waste my time with someone who wants to flirt instead of training. Naruto is far better then you and he was just the middle student" he brushed her aside.
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Naruto patted Sakura on the shoulder "I'm sure you can get him next time ... try uh ... being more discrete?" he tried to offer advice. Sadly for him being an ancient immortal did not come with the skills to woo men or at least young boys. Unless Sakura wanted to go kill an elder grimm with him.
"Thanks Naruto, I'll take into consideration" she muttered sadly.
"You think he's angry about the wave mission?" he asked.
"Wave? Why would he be angry at that, you saved us all and help sasuke get his sharingan?" that made no sense to the girl. To be angry at someone who saved them, nonsense.
Naruto was about to give an answer before a loud cloud of smoke covered them, they both started to cough as naruto used a little bit of wind magic to clear it up. The smoke cleared to show three kids.
Sakura looked perplexed
Naruto groaned
"Eck sorry sensei I think I added a bit to much smoke powder"
"I told you not to add so much" warned the kid with big glasses and snot coming from his nose.
"... So um, who are these?" Sakura asked.
Naruto sighed as he introduced "These are the ... ~sigh~ Konohamaru corps and by they are Konohamaru, Udon, & Moegi. AKA my new students"
Sakura tilted her head
"One prank gone wrong and now the hokage is forcing me to teach them" that certainly got the girl to be amused "Yeah yeah laugh it up chuckles"
"Must be a lot of work, doing D-ranks and training with the kids" said sakura.
"You have no idea Sakura. If thought teaching the kid some of my moves will calm him down, well then started to bring in his friends and then they wanted learn some kickass moves. It went downhill from there" he said.
"Hey sensei, who's she? Is she your girlfriend or something?" Konohamaru asked.
"Nah we're just teammates" said Naruto.
"Oh I see, I can see why with a forehead like that you need a good girlfriend boss"
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"Konohamaru my stupid student, run you fool run" he sighed. The boy looked until his turned his attention to htte growling Sakura. He made the wise decision to run.
"Get back here you stupid brat!" She chased after the kid ready to teach a kid a lesson. Naruto ran after them with Udon & Mogi following to, somebody needed to keep their friend/student from dying. As they ran after him a few minutes later they heard him cry out. Turning the corner they saw him being held up by a guy in a black suit.
"Stupid twerp, maybe someone's needs to teach you a lesson on manners" the black clad growled.
"Hey drop that kid, he did nothing to you" sakura demanded.
"Come on kankuro, we don't him to get annoyed with us" the blond girl next to him warned.
"Just a little bit, one punch will—What the!?" He was forced to drop Konohamaru as something hit his wrist. Everyone turned around to see sasuke sitting on a tree with a stone on his head.
"Sasuke!"
"At least I don't need to get serious" naruto thanked that his teammate was here.
The suna nin looked at him with suspicion, or for kankuro's case anger. "Alright I was going to go easy on you but fine, guess this is the best time to try out crow" The girl looked ready to object.
Until another voice spoke up
"Kankuro, cease" said a gravelly voice "Your being a disgrace to our village."
On the same tree a red hair boy with dark bangs glared at kankuro. He had a large gourd strap to his back and his eyes were cold. "I can't believe you would let yourself be provoked by these ninja. Have you forgotten why we are here the first place?"
"G-Gaara, please you have to understand that they—"
"Shut up, or I will kill you" he appeared before his team. Team seven looked worried, to threatened death to his own comards ... something was wrong with that team, something very bad. It did not help the red head was giving off a cold feeling. "Apologies for my comrade, we will leave you alone."
"Wait! What brings suna nin to konoha. I understand that we a treaty with each other, but foreign ninja are not allowed here unless for an important reason. You have to tell us or leave" said Sakura.
"Hmph, man your stupid. We're here for the chunin exam, if you don't know about that then tough luck girl" said the blonde.
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"Who are you ..." said Gaara. He stared at Sasuke.
"Sasuke Uchiha" a shiver went down his spine as that gaara guy looked at him. For a second he thought he was being looked at like a piece of meat. The red head nodded the suna nin left.
xxx The Next Day xxx
The next morning team seven waited for Kakashi to arrive. Soon the man poofed into existence.
"Good morning my cute little genin" the jonin called out.
"Sensei ... you're a little earlier than usual" Naruto commented.
"And for good reason. I heard about your little scuffle with those suna nin, no doubt they told you about the chunin exams. Well after some time I belive you guys should try the exams out" he pulled up three sheets "Of course before you go you need to sign these forms. However, do note that these exams are voluntary and no one expects you to join. If you do want to join then head to room 301 at the academy at 4:00PM."
He handed out the sheets before disappearing.
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"Well what about you two, I'm interested in this chunin exams seems like it will be pretty fun" said naruto. "Plus that gaara kid is worrying, something is wrong with him"
"Sounds like a good place to test my strength, I wonder if any of them are like Haku?" Sasuke agreed. "Plus that means I can fight that gaara kid too"
Sakura was silent as she mulled over it. If the exams had anyone like gaara or haku then here chances were pretty slim, but yet both her teammates were going ahead. Could she really stay back as the weakest link of their team?
xxx The Next Day xxx
Team seven watched as a bowl cut genin was throw to the ground, the crowd of ninja made things difficult to see. But from what they saw two other genin seemed to be blocking the way in. Another genin this time a girl with two buns begged to be let in but was rebuffed via kick.
"A genjutsu is on the room number" Sakura whispered to her teammates. She was the first one to see it with Sasuke & Naruto realizing soon after.
"I say let's ditch them. If they get stuck with this then it isn't worth our time" said Naruto. Both of his teammates agreed, less completion for them. They soon went up the stairs and as they did Sakura noticed that the bowl cut boy realized it too.
A few minutes later the boy meet up with them.
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"That is ... a lot of green" and that was coming from the man whose main color was green.
"Wait! My name is Rock Lee, or you can call me Lee for short" Lee pointed to Sakura "Excuse me, but are you Sakura Hanro?"
She nodded
"Would you like to go out with me! I promise I will to protect with my life!" He declared.
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"No ... just, no" Lee looked dejected as Naruto patted him on the back.
"Very well, then I wish to talk to Sasuke Uchiha. I wish to spar with you here and now!" Lee pointed to the uchiha "I heard that you were the rookie of the year and I wish to see it for myself!"
"Are you sure about that? We both have only thirty minutes before we have to turn in our papers. Perhaps it will be wiser for use to wait during the exam?" Naruto offered.
"Please, this will only take 5 minutes" sasuke assured, he charged at lee.
The two began combat as they started to taijutsu. Sasuke hoped to use his improved speed to beat him but the boy was fast enough to dodge and strike back at him. He tried to block but stop when he felt his arm go numb for a second, before he could dodge Lee's speed increased and was hit in the first throwing him back a few meters.
Slowly getting up he looked back but this time with the sharingan. He charged again as Sakura looked excited but Naruto worried.
Lee upper cutted him into the air as both looked surprised. Sasuke's entire body felt like it was in pain, barely able to move, and lee appeared behind him. The bandages on his arms unraveled.
"I admit I heard of the sharingans legendary abilities to copy and predict the enemies movement and copy it. But even when you copy my moved you do not have strength nor speed to us it, there is no ninjutsu or genjutsu here but only sheer taijutsu. Your bloodline is useless here, this power I have is not natural talent but hard work and I will show my signature technique!" said Lee.
A shuriken was struck at his bandages
"Lee, that's enough!"
The boy stopped as he let sasuke fall to the ground. And knelt to a ... turtle.
The turtle started to berate the boy as lee tried to explained himself. Smoke came from the top of the turtle as a ... bigger lee appeared? Before lee could react gai punched lee's face before having a talk to him. And then they started to hug and cry.
... Yeah team seven was weirded out by that and decided to take the wise route.
Leave
xxx
"Hello my cute little genin!" called kakashi "I'm happy to see you all made it. Had you one of you not made you could not even start the exams ... oh, I guess I forget to mention that my mistake. Still I'm happy to see you all here"
"Jezz, could have warned us before" naruto muttered. Kakashi shrugged.
"Now before you go in there do know that this is a three man exam meaning if one of you fail then you all leave. The chunin exams are going to split into three parts but what they are I can't tell you. I know all of you can handle this, after wave I don't think their is much here that could scare you. Stay together and you'll be safe, good luck" Kakashi motioned them to the door.
Team seven entered into the room
Imemadity they felt everyone look to towards them as KI was being shot at them. But after dealing with zabuza the effect was mitigated somewhat, after a bit the genin in the room stopped looking at them and turned back to whatever they were doing.
"Sasuke! Did you miss me hubby?" Ino latched onto the uchiha as the rest of team ten welcomed them.
"Well looks like the old gang is all back" called Kiba as team eight came to them. Each of them gave their welcomes as they started to chat among themselves. Until another voice came up.
"Jezz, you really are rookies. You know everything is looking at you like idiots. You should try to keep quiet, look around" a teenager with glasses came to them "The name is Kabuto, look at those guys behind you, ame-nin, they have really short fuses. Everyone here is tensed and you all are acting like this is a field trip."
"Well who the hell are you, we certainly didn't ask" Kiba barked back.
"Someone who had done this exam already ... technically my seventh time. I tell you these exams are brutal. However, I'm feeling a bit nice right now so I figured I'll help you rookies" Kabuto whipped out a deck of card. Applying some chakra stats of different shinobi and maps of the world appeared "These are my personal skill card, they are filled with knowledge of all kinds of shinobi, something I made to give me an edge over others"
"Do you have info of the people here?" Sasuke asked.
"Anyone particular?"
"A guy named Rock Lee & Gaara"
"Hm ... well for a rock lee, he's a year older and has completed 20 D-ranks and 11 C-ranks. His taijutsu skills are off the chat and so is his physical abilities, however, he has no talent in ninjutsu or genjutsu. This is his first time taking the exams and his teammates are Hyuga Neji and Tenten. As for Gaara—My god, 8 C-ranks and 1 B-ranks and on top of it he has always come back unscathced. Everytime"
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All of team seven looked worried, to back unscatched form every mission what was suna bringing?
"Suna, Kusa, Taki, Ame, & Oto have send their genin. However I don't know much about Oto but that it's a new village, but if they are new then I doubt they will be too much, if anything they will be a breeze" said Kabuto.
A sound nin jumped and threw two kunai at kabuto. He dodged as another Shinobi, the sound nin went to swipe as Kabuto dodged it. Smirking he was about to—His glasses cracked as blood came out of his mouth, forcing him on his knee. Before anyone could react a cloud of smoke appeared, and in it were the proctors for the first part.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting. The names Ibiki Morino and I am the proctor for this part of the exam" the man pointed to the sound nin "You better quit right now or do you want to be disqualified?"
The sound nin went back to their seats
"Better, now each of you will be assigned to seat. When everyone is seated we will begin handing out the test" said Ibiki. he watched as the genin went to their seats and the test sheet passed out. "Now let me go over the rules. First rule, all of you will be given ten points and how many you get wrong our points will be subtracted. Second rule, you will only pass if the collective score of the team is at a passable level. Third rule, is that if anyone cheats then you will be deducted two points. And the last one, if one of your teammates failed the entire team fails. Begin!"
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"What in the world is this!?" Naruto looked at the first question ... then the second one. He did not look at the others "I can't solve this, I barely understand the first problem and that was because of our memories!"
"Naruto, calm down. You are correct when you say these questions are difficult. Hm ... I do not think the purpose of the test is to answer them, not truthfully at least. I think they want you to cheat" said Ozpin. "Yes, they want us to cheat, more importantly they want us to cheat without getting caught"
"That doesn't help me at all. You think we have anyone that could help me answers these?" He could try to use his magic or maybe pull some cool aura trick ... but the problem was that each one was a bit flashy and he did not want anyone to know of that stuff. Hm ... well maybe not ... maybe, yeah! He could do it that way and Ozpin seemed to agree on it.
He requested a bathroom break and a few seconds later was in the bathroom with a proctor waiting outside.
His eyes became coated in green fire as he opened a portal. He pulled out a dark glass orb and his magic was funneled into it, slowly fuzzy images could be seen until he was able to see the entire test room. Moving it around one the proctors board it contained the answers he was looking for. He push the ball back into the portal and came back into the room.
Writing down the question he relaxed until the tenth question came by.
After nearly an hour the tenth question came
"Alright you brats time for the tenth question" Ibiki barked "But before we get to the tenth question I'm adding a new rule. This rule is absolute. First you must choose whether or not to answer the tenth question."
"Choose! What if we don't choose the tenth question!?" asked temari.
"If you reject to take the question then you will fail automatically and both of your teammates leave" everyone started to shout, aruge, and complain as Ibiki continued "Because if you take the question and fail ... you can never take the chunin exams ever again"
"Bullshit! I know there are people here how have taken the chunin exams several times before and they never got banned!?" Kiba shouted
"Heh, well sadly for you they chose me to be the proctor" said Ibiki "I've been upfront with you all for this part and I recommend that you fail and try again next time. Better to fail now and try again then loose whatever chance at being a chunin."
Nobody spoke
"If you want to quit then raise your hand. Don't worry, take you time"
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"And like that being the advisor to the daimyo sounds more and more appealing" Naruto thought "Come on this guy can't be serious ... can he?"
"I do not know, maybe he is right or maybe he is playing mind games. Regardless we should wait and see, we already have plans in case we don't become hokage" Ozpin cautioned. The immortal was not sure if Ibiki was telling the truth or not, on one hand if he was then they had to hope they got the final answer right. But on the other hand ... he wondered if ibiki would interested in helping him fend off Salem. A man like that would be an asset against her.
One by one genin started to raise their hands as the pressure for the remaining grew.
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"Naruto ... you always dreamed of being hokage and to stop someone ... you always protected us and now your own dream is at risk. Sasuke goals at least don't matter on rank" sakura started to raise her hand "So please, let me protect your dream this time!" The pressure was too much for her, she knew her teammates had better futures then her, besides, she would only pull them down.
Before she could raise her hand naruto raised his.
And then slammed it back down
"I'll take that tenth question, even if I do fail that won't stop me from being hokage. Even if I have to be a genin all the way through I will, I'm not afraid! A year or decade it doesn't matter to me. I will succeed in my goals, because I have all of time to achieve them" Naruto declared.
"Naruto you crazy bastard, you didn't even care of us there and yet you pulled through. Sometimes I forget how gutsy you are" Sasuke smiled.
"Naruto ... your one crazy teammate ... but your my crazy teammate" Sakura thought as she smiled.
"I'll ask you one last time. This decisions could affect your career forever, quit now when you still have the chance"
"And I tell you the same thing. Time is on my side Ibiki, not yours"
As if someone had given the remaining genin liquid courage the remaining ones straightened up, their fears and worries suddenly vanished as they all waited for the question.
"Kid destroyed whatever fear was in the room. Seventy-eight still remain ... but it's hopeless now, none of them will quit. Naruto Uzumaki, what an odd kid" the nodded from the rest of the proctors confirmed it. Well no need to keep it going any longer.
"Not bad, very well. Congratulations, you've passed the first exam!"
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"What?"
"Wait what do you mean we passed? We didn't even ask the tenth question" asked Sakura.
"There was no tenth question, well besides the whole do or do not part" he smiled back.
"Wait so you're saying we wasted our time over a non-existent questions" Temari demanded to know.
"It wasn't a waste. Every question was specifically chosen. The first part of this exam was two fold. One, to test your spying skills as chunin you will be tasked with such missions that don't require brute force. We snuck in chunin during the exam that had the right question to help you find the right answers" the man unfroughed his bandana as it revealed a heavily scared head with dozens of different torture methods
"There will be times that the info you get from the enemy may be false or that you could be clumsy to catch. Such missions could cost more then your life as your tortures rip bit by bit all the info from your head. The test was designed in such a way that only those skilled would be able to get the answers, because you never know when you will get wrong info and knowing how the get the right info can be a matter of life or death for your village."
"Wait what about the tenth question!?"
"Ah, that was a your first real test. Let me explain, if you become chunin there will times that you may be sent on missions to gather important intel. On those mission you may not know the strength, manpower, or skills of your foes; You will not know what kind of land you need to cross or if it is bobby trapped. So do you take the mission? Sure you could not take it and play safe, but in the shinobi world safe is not always an option. Their will be times that you have to take the risk and more importantly give those under you the strength and courage to partake such a mission. This is what is desired from a chunin
Those that cannot gamble there own fate ... who never trades today's certain risk for tomorrow's unknown future ... never taking the chances before them ... are weaklings Who make weak and easy decisions. By choosing to accept you answered the tenth question correctly, if you can keep that indomitable spirit then you can make it through whatever comes in your path. Good luck to you all"
CRASH THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK TTTTKKK
A black blur crashed through the window as four kunai anchored a flag. Standing up it was a purple haired women wearing a long brown cloak "No time for celebration. The names Anko Mitarashi and I'm the proctor of the second exam. Time's A-Wastin people let's move!"
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"... Once again anko entrance skills do not disappoint" said Ibiki
"Looks who's talking. Seventy-eight genin, jezz are you getting rusty or something?" Anko asked
"What can I saw, we a good crop this year"
"Psst please, I'll cut them down in half" she assured him "Oh that gets my all fired up. Alright follow me I'll explain things as we get the next part"
xxx Forest of Death xxx
"This here is the location of the second exam. Known as training ground 44 or as it is otherwise known, the forest of death" said Anko
"W-Why is it called the forest of death" Sakura asked out.
"Don't worry you'll find out first hand why this is called what it is. However, before we get to that" she pulled out a stack of papers "I need you all to sign these forms. Just need to make sure you village doesn't get pissed off for what happens next. I'll explain the details first and after that you can sign the forms over at that hut over there, kay?"
No only answered
"Great! So, the second exam is a no hold all out survival exam. To begin the forest of death is circled around a large perimeter made interlocked forty gates, there a forests and a large river that goes straight through, plus a tower at the center where you need to go. From here to the center is around ten kilometers. Inside the forest there are no rules against what you can use, go crazy. But due mind you also have to bring two scrolls to.
One of which is the heaven scroll and the other is the earth scroll. Get both and get to the center. Don't have both? I hope you like hiking back. Open any of them before you reach the tower and ... I'll let you figured that one out. Now since we have seventy-eight, thirteen gets the heaven ones and other thirteen gets the earth ones. Oh and you have five days to reach to center"
"Five days!"
"What about food!"
"Hey the forest has food, if you are willing to kill" she shrugged "Anyway, if you take to long you lose and team gets kicked out. Also the same thing applies if you lose a team member ... and you can't leave until it is over too. Alright, everyone get in line, once you get your scroll go to the proctor calling for you."
Team seven waited as they got their scroll, heaven for them. They were lead to their entrance to the forest as they waited for the signal. Two minutes later Anko gave the call.
The second part began now
