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The Forest
Teams Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten along with Chao and her friends were walking together on their way to the next location for the Chunin Exams.
"So, Naruto how have you been while I was away?" Chao asked him.
He shrugged "I've been good. Did a few pranks here and there, like painting the Hokage Monument. I've also kept your lab clean."
Chao looked at him a little shocked before smiling "I can't wait to hear the story of how you painted the Monument. But, please tell me you didn't touch any of my inventions. You do remeber what happened the last time you did, right?"
"Yeah, I swore never to touch them again unless you told me to" he replied as his face paled and he shivered slightly.
Most of Naruto's fellow Genin's saw this and were a little worried by his reaction.
Ino though, being a gossip, stepped up next to Chao "What happend and why would he be afraid to touch something you made?"
"Let's just say he learned a very important lesson on why it's not polite to touch something without asking" Chao told her with an evil grin.
"Will you all just be quiet and hurry up! I don't want to be disqualified for being late!" Sasuke yelled back at them from the front of the group.
"What up with him? Why he so angry?" Ku asked confused by Sasuke's attitude.
"I don't really know. He's always been like that. I figure its because he has a Kunai stuck up his ass" Naruto said with a smirk.
Chao and her friends along with a few of the other Genins laughed at his joke.
"Naruto-baka! Don't talk about Sasuke-kun like that!" Sakura yelled as she got next to him and raised her fist to hit him on the head.
When Chao saw her do this she immediately grabbed Sakura's arm and twisted it behind her back. "If I EVER see you do that again I will BREAK your arm. I don't care if your his teammate or a citizen of Konoha. NO ONE hurts my brother" she told Sakura as she twisted her arm a little harder. Making Sakura 'eep' in pain as she nodded vigourisly.
When Chao let go of her arm she shoved her forward a bit to get her away from them.
Sakura looked back at her while rubbing her now sore arm with a very scared look on her face.
At that moment they arrived at Training Ground Forty-Four 'The Forest of Death'. They saw a forty foot tall fence in front of a forest filled with trees whose trunks looked to be about the same width as the height of the fence.
Mana whistled "Wow, those trees are almost as big as 'The World Tree' at Mahora."
"H-How b-big i-is t-that t-tree?" Hinata asked softly as she walked up to her.
Kaede put a finger to her chin "I think it's about a hundred feet in diameter and over three-hundred feet tall."
Those of teams Eight, Nine, and Ten looked at her in shock.
"For a tree to get that big it must have been able to tap into the 'Power of Youth!'" Lee shouted off to the side with a huge smile that showed off his sparkling teeth.
"Lee keep it down! I want to keep my hearing intact for the exam!" Tenten yelled at him.
As they waited for the other Genin teams to show up they continued to chat. After about ten minutes the last of the other Genin teams arrived and Anko showed up with three other people. As she walked to stand in front of the participating teams her three helpers began to set up a large tent with a table and three chairs inside.
"All right gaki's, this is Training Ground Forty-Four 'The Forest of Death'. Once you enter you'll know why we call it 'The Forest of Death'" Anko said with an evil grin.
"Ooh, you'll see why it's called 'The Forest of Death'. Your threats don't scare me" Naruto said as he mocked her.
"The weakest always yell the loudest" Anko said as she quickly threw a Kunai at him.
It sliced his cheek open drawing blood. She then disappeared and reappeared behind him as she started to lick the blood from his cheek.
Immediatley after that Anko felt something sharp jab her in the back as someone whispered in her ear "I would appriciate it if you could try not scaring my brother, Anko-sensei."
Anko turned her head and saw Chao standing behind her with a smile on her face. Anko then smiled back at her "I'll leave him alone for now, but you are going to get punished for threatening me later."
Chao nodded as she backed up.
"Good. You'll be punished after the Chunin Exams" Anko told her with a smile as she walked out from behind Naruto and made her way back to stand in front of the teams.
Naruto turned around and looked at Chao "Why did you call her sensei?"
"It's because she's one of our two Jonin-sensei's The other one is Ibiki, the main proctor from the first part of the exam" Kotaro said as he walked over with a smile on his face.
"That doesn't sound fair to the rest of us. They could tell you how to pass their parts of the exam" Kiba said with a slight growl.
"I assure you they didn't. They've only been our sensei's for the past week and the only thing they've taught us is teamwork" Mana told him as she stepped closer to Chao and Naruto.
They all stopped talking when they heard Anko clear her throat.
"Okay, before we start the second part of the exam there's a few things I need to explain. First, if you want to participate you'll have to sign a consent form" Anko said as she waved a piece of paper in the air. "Signing this form makes it so that Konoha is not responsible if you're injured of die from this point forward. Can't have me getting in trouble, can we. The next thing is that this exam will consist of each team getting one of these scrolls" she continued as she held up two scrolls. One with 'Heaven' on it and the other one with 'Earth'. "Each teams goal in this part of the exam is to get the other scroll that they don't have. You'll have five days to do this in. After you've gotten both scrolls you'll have to go to the tower in the center of the forest. One last thing, under no circumstance are you to open the scrolls until your in the tower. If you lose a team member, don't arrive at the tower within five days, or open the scrolls before you get to the tower you will be disqualified" she finished with an evil smirk.
After that all of the teams signed their consent forms before took them to the tent. In the tent they exchanged their forms for one of the two scrolls and got assigned a gate number.
Anko and her helpers then directed all of the teams to their assigned gates. She then blew her whistle signaling the start of the exam's second part.
When Chao, Ku, and Zazie had only been traveling in the forest for about ten minutes when Chao raised her hand signaling for them to stop.
As they stopped on a large branch Chao reached into her pouch and pulled out a small device that had a screen with two images on it. The first was a picture of Mana's head that was off to the left and slightly behind the center of the screen. The Second image was a chibi Naruto that was near the top right edge of the screen.
Chao then smiled "Mana, can you hear me?"
"Yes, I can hear you Chao. We've stopped briefly as planned to check the radar you made. From what I can tell we'll be at your location in about two minutes" all three of the girls heard over an ear piece they had on.
"We'll be waiting" Chao said over the ear piece.
Ku smiled at her "I still surprised that you able to make six communicaters, three tracers, and two tracking devices. I also surprised you able to get tracer on you brother."
Zazie nodded as she agreed with Ku.
"Creating the tech was easy. Getting the tracer on Naruto was the difficult part. I managed to slip it into his shuriken pouch when we hugged before the first part of the exams" she told them with a sad smile.
At that moment Kaede, Kotaro, and Mana landed on their branch.
"What's the plan Chao?" Kotaro asked while he leaned against the tree's trunk.
"We're going to meet up with my brother. Then we're going to make sure all three teams make it to the next round" Chao said with a slight smirk.
Mana smirked "That's a good strategy. I doubt any of the other teams will try that. Though I hope that the emo and the weakling from your brothers team don't screw it up."
"Yeah, I can't believe now stuck up that Sasuke was and what is up with those two girls. They looked like they were willing to do whatever he would ask of them, even if it was to kill themselves. Though did any of you notice how Hinata looked at Naruto?" Chao asked with a grin.
Kaede chuckled "Yeah, she reminded me of how Nodoka is around Negi-sensei. In fact, she even looks like her. If I didn't know any better I would swear they were sisters."
"..." Zazie told them with a hint of worry in her voice.
The others nodded before they took off to find Naruto's team.
It took them about two hours to find Naruto's team location. When they got there they saw Sakura sitting in front of the hollow of a huge tree with a look of worry on her face.
"Hey, where do you think the other two are?"Kotaro asked in a whisper.
"They're probably inside that hollow. Though I wonder what's up with the look on her face?" Mana asked while also whispering.
"Well, let's go down and find out" Kaede whispered to the others.
They all nodded before they jumped off the branch towards where Sakura was sitting. They landed surrounding her, which caused her to let out a startled scream.
Sakura then pulled a Kunai out and held it in front of her. "L-Leave here and I-I'll let you l-live" she said while not realizing who they were.
Kotaro laughed when he saw this "Put that away. We're not here to hurt you, pinkie."
"Who are you calling pinkie!" she yelled at him before she realized who it was. She then lowered her Kunai "What are you guys doing here?"
"We're here to help your team pass this part of the exam. So, where's your teammates?" Chao asked her.
Sakura broke down and pointed to the hollow of the tree "They're in there. They were hurt when we were attacked by Orochimaru. He did something to both of them and now they won't wake up."
Chao started running towards the hollow of the tree "Sakura, Zazie follow me!"
Zazie followed right behind her while Sakura hesitated until Mana pushed her towards the tree.
When the three of them were in the tree hollow Chao turned to look at Sakura "Tell us what he did to them."
"He slamed his open palm against Naruto's stomach, then bit Sasuke on the neck. After that both of them passed out" she told her while looking at Sasuke with worry.
Zazie went over to Naruto and lifted up his jacket and shirt to look at his stomach. She then motioned for Chao to come over and look with her.
As they were looking at his stomach Zazie pointed at the seal on it "..."
Chao then pointed at five spots around the edge of the seal "I've never seen those before. Do you have any idea what they are?"
"..." Zazie told her with a frown.
"I hope it's not something dangerous" Chao said with a sigh.
Zazie then went over to Sasuke and pulled the collar of his shirt down to see where he had been bitten. When she saw the mark Orochimaru had left she screamed and scrambled to get away from him by pressing herself against the tree next to Naruto.
Chao looked at her with concern "What's wrong? Why did you scream?"
She shakily pointed at Sasuke "..."
"are you sure?" Chao asked with worry.
Zazie nodded her head while wrapping her arms around herself.
"What are you two talking about?" Sakura asked while looking back and forth between the two.
"Zazie recognized the seal that was put on Sasuke. She called it an 'Enslavement Seal'" Chao told her while glancing at the frightened Zazie.
Sakura paled "Does she know what it does or how to remove it?"
Chao looked at Zazie who started to shake her head. She then looked at Sakura who had her head in her hands and was sobbing. Chao then walked over to Zazie, put her arm around her, and led her out of the tree.
When they got outside the others looked at them very worried.
"Who scream?" Ku asked while looking between the two.
"Zazie did, because she saw a 'Demon Enslavement Seal' on Sasuke" Chao told her with a deep frown.
The others were a little unnerved when they heard this.
Mana then looked at Chao "How's your brother?"
"I'm not sure, Orochimaru did something to the seal on his stomach. We're going to have to talk to Jiji to see how to fix it. To do that, we're going to have to complete this part of the exam as quickly as possible" Chao told them as she wrapped her arms around herself.
Kaede walked up to her and put her hand on her shoulder "Don't worry Chao. We'll go and get the scrolls all three teams need. You and Zazie stay here with Sakura and watch over those two."
Chao nodded before she turned to the hollow in the tree "Sakura! Come out here!"
It took about a minute before she came out. Her face was streaked with tears and she was looking really depressed.
"Sakura, four of us are going to go and retrieve the scrolls we need. So you're going to have to tell us what one your team needs, so we can get it" Mana told her assertively.
Sakura looked at her even more depressed than before "We need both. Orochimaru took ours and destroyed it."
"We'll that just makes this more fun" Kotaro said with a smirk.
"Why would that be more fun? It means we have to fight even more teams to try and get both scrolls. We'd be more likely to die that way. We should just give up and leave the exam, so that they can treat Sasuke-kun" Sakura told them while she started to quiver with fear.
Chao shook her head "There are a few things wrong with what you just said. First, you would have had to fight the other teams until you got the scroll you needed. There was no gaurente that you would've gotten the scroll you needed from the first team you fought. This leads to the second thing that was wrong. We signed waivers before we entered the forest for this part of the exam. So, if you're so afraid of dying by fighting the other teams I suggest you resign your position as a Genin Kunoichi of Konoha. That's if you want a life with no danger. The last thing I have to say is this. We don't know what will happen if we do move them, it could actually make things worse."
As Chao finished her speach to Sakura she turned to Mana "Please procceed with the plan. I would also like it if you would report your progress about every hour."
Mana nodded before her and the others three left to get the scrolls they needed.
About two and a half hours later Mana and the others finally found another Genin team. They stayed on a branch above them so they could observe them.
The Genin team they were watching consisted of three boys. The first one had red hair that was styled to make his head look like it was on fire. The second one had shoulder length blonde hair and wore glasses. The last one had short black hair with a jagged scar running from just below his left eye to his jawline. All three wore the standard ninja attire with hatai-ite's showing the symbol for Waterfall Village.
"We need to take them by surprise. Kaede I want you to take the one with the scar, Ku the one that looks like his head is on fire, and Kotaro you get the one with the glasses. I'll stay up here and cover you three in case something goes wrong" Mana whispered to them.
The others nodded before they jumped away.
Kaede landed in the bushes behind the one with the scar. She quickly went through all of her options that she had before she realsized her best option at the moment was to grab him and put him in a choke hold.
She jumped from the bushes and wraped her arms around the Genin's neck, taking him by surprise.
Ku hid in a bush just like Kaede did. As she looked at her target she thought that the best way to deal with him was to knock him out with a blow to the head.
When she saw Kaede emerge from the bush behind the black haired Genin, she knew it was time to attack.
She ran out of the bush towards the flame headed Genin's back. When she was about five feet from him she jumped into the air and did a spin kick aimed for his head.
In the bush that Kotaro was hiding, he was mentally grumbling to himself "Why did I have to get stuck with the weakest of the three? One punch will probably knock him out."
As he watched he saw both Kaede and Ku run from their hiding spots to attack. He did the same as he ran from the bush towards the glasses wearing blonde. When he was right behind him he went to punch the blonde in the head.
As his fist connected with the blonde's head he disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving Kotaro's fist to hit a log.
Kotaro then began to look around to try and find the missing blonde. As he looked he saw that both Kaede and Ku had successfully taken out their assigned Genin targets. Ku's was on the ground with a bruise starting to form on his right temple and Kaede's was on the ground with a very pale face.
"Where blonde go?" Ku asked taking a quick look at Kotaro.
"I don't know. He used a Kawarimi on me" he replied while still looking around.
"I tried to warn those two idiots we were being watched. If they had listened to me they wouldn't have been taken out so easily. I'd try and fight you myself, but with three of you on the ground and another up in the trees I don't stand a chance" they heard sigh from one of the bushes.
"Surrender and we won't harm you" Kaede said as they all looked at the bush.
The blonde stepped out of the bush with his hands in the air. "Okay, I surrender. If you want our scroll it's in Taki's pouch" he said as he tilted his head towards the black haired Genin.
Kaede bent down and did a cautious search of the pouch attached to the Genin's belt. After about a minute she pulled a scroll out that was marked 'Earth'. She then consintrated her chakra and let it out in a small burst to make sure it wasn't a Genjutsu.
Kaede smiled as she put the scroll into her own pouch "We got the scroll so we'll be taking our leave now."
Before the got a chance to leave the blonde put his hands down "Can I ask you why I sense four of you when there should only be three people on a team."
"Because there are four of us "Kaede said as he shrugged before they all jumped away and disappeared.
As Mana and the others were jumping through the trees they heard "Fuuton - Kaze Kiri no Jutsu!"
They jumped out of the way just in time to see a large translucent crescent blade cut along the path they were heading. When they landed they looked behind them and saw three Genins with Suna hatai-ite's.
The one on the left had short black hair with a tan veil over the lower half of his face. The one in the middle was crouched down with long blonde hair in twin pigtails while licking the blade of her ninja-to. The one on the right was about a foot taller than the others with a bald head and built like a weight lifter.
The one with the tan veil tilted his head "I think you missed Ami."
"Shut it Rava!" the blonde replied turning to glare at him.
"Will you two be quiet. Our ambush might have failed, but it means we get to toy with these Konoha scum before we kill them" the big one said as he cracked his neck with a grin.
Mana took a quick assement of their opponents before she smirked "Ku take the big guy, Kaede take the blonde, and Kotaro you take the one covering his face. I'll help who ever may need it."
The others nodded with smiles on their faces.
Ami turned back to look at them "You actually believe you can beat us. We're the best Genin team from Suna. The only team better than us is the Kazekage's children."
"It doesn't matter how tough you think you are, we'll still beat you" Kotaro said as his smile turned into a grin.
At that moment the blonde lept from the branch she was on with her sword raised so she could slash Kotaro. When she was right in front of him she swung her sword.
Just before the sword would have cut him in two, it was blocked by a huge shuriken held by Kaede.
Kaede pushed the girl back to where she had jumped from "I'm to be your opponent, remember."
She then jumped towards the blonde while Kotaro and Ku jumped at their opponents.
As Kaede was nearing Ami she smiled "I hope we can have a enjoyable fight."
"Yeah and I'm hoping to see your blood fall like rain. Fuuton - Kaze Kiri no Jutsu!" she yelled in response to Kaede's comment while swinging her sword unleashing another clear crescent blade towards her.
Kaede grinned as she swung her giant shuriken to block the incoming jutsu.
When the jutsu connected with her shuriken it disappeared. Her momentum wasn't stopped as she continued towards Ami.
"Eightteen Shadow Splitting Technique!" she yelled as she created a multitude of copies of herself.
Ami had a look of confusion and shock on her face just before she got overwhelmed by Kaede and her copies.
At the same time Kotaro was going after Rava. Kotaro jumped towards him and just before he would've been able to land a hit, Rave jumped backwards while pulling something from behind his back.
When Rava landed he put his hands together and revealed a kusari-gama (A/N: kama with a chain and ball attached). He took the chain of his weapon and spun it a few times before he threw it at Kotaro.
Kotaro saw his opponent throw the chain at him and quickly threw a kunai to intersept it. His kunai deflected the incoming chain as he landed on the branch that Rave had just left.
As he stood there the shadows around him started to rise and take the form of wolves. After the shadow wolves where fully formed they launched themselves at Rava with incredable speed.
Rava was surprised that his opponent had deflected his chain and scared when the wolves came from the shadows jumping at him.
The wolves moved faster then Rava could react, as he was quickly surrounded and defeated.
Ku was aiming a punch at her opponents stomach when she saw him swinging a fist at her.
As Kalin's, Ku's opponent, fist made contact with the small girl who had chosen to fight him, he smirked. His smirk was short lived when her body disappeared in a cloud of smoke and was replaced by a splintered log. He then felt a blinding pain from his temple before his vision went black and he lost consciousness.
After Mana saw the last Suna ninja get knocked out she jumped on to the branch next to Kaede "Let's hurry up and find their scroll. Then we can head back to Chao and the others."
"Why we go back?" Ku asked as she started to search the body of her opponent.
Mana sighed "We've been searching for over six hours. It's starting to get dark, so we need to get to a safe place and that's back with the others."
Kotaro was chuckling as he was going through Rava's pouches "These guys were so weak."
"Kotaro, you have to remember that we only won against them becasuse they didn't know what we could do" Kaede told him with a sigh while rumaging through Ami's pockets.
After a few minutes of everyone searching for the scroll Kaede stood up holding a scroll with 'Heaven' on it "We now only need two scrolls."
The others smiled as Mana held out her hand "We're heading back to the others to rest for the night and tommorrow we're going to look for the last two scrolls we need."
Kaede handed her the scroll, which Mana put into one of her pouches.
They then got back into formation as they headed back to where they had left they're companions.
"This maybe easier than we thought" whispered a hunched over boy completely covered with bandages, except for his left eye, and wearing an Oto hatai-ite to his two teammates along with a team wearing hatai-ite's with the symbol for Rain.
"True. Just remember the deal. Your team gets the Uchiha, while my team gets the Uzumaki" replied one of the Rain Genins, who was wearing a respirater on his face with a sword straped to his back.
"I know. Zaku you go into the tree hollow after we capture the girl" the bandaged Oto Genin said.
"Whatever you say Dosu. I just want to get this mission over with so we can get on with our masters plan" replied the only other male Oto Genin, who had long spikey black hair spiked to the left side of his head with the kanji for death written on his shirt.
"You head into the tree hollow with him Kuroda. Shinji I want you to retrain the girl" the Rain Genin with the sword told his teammates.
His two teammates nodded.
"When are we going to attack?" asked the final member of the Oto Genin's, the only female of both groups.
"I think now would be a perfect time to do it" Dosu said as he cocked his head to the side.
All six of them at that moment disappeared from their hiding spot to start their attack.
Sakura sat in the clearing next to the tree where her teammates were laying unconscious. She was worried that Sasuke would die and she wouldn't be able to get him to notice her. She was also completely ignoring her surroundings, so she was unaware of being surrounded by enemies.
"Suiton - Suibe no Jutsu" someone yelled behind her just before a whip of water bound her arms against her side. She struggled to get free but was unable to. When she realized that she couldn't free she moved her head to see who had attacked her.
She saw six people , five boys and one girl. Half of them were wearing Oto hatai-ite's and the other half were wearing Rain hatai-ite's with respiraters. As she looked at them an Oto ninja with long black spiked hair that slanted to the left along with a Rain ninja that had short blonde hair and a pair of kama's attached to his belt headed towards the tree. She also saw that the one holding the water whip that bound her had short black hair and an evil look on his face. Next to him was the last of the Rain ninjas, who had a sword on his back and a bored look on his face. The last male of the Oto group was covered completely with bandages, except for one eye. The only girl of the group had long black ankle-length hair and was eyeing Sakura as if she were something she would love to break.
The only thing that went through Sakura's mind was "I'm going to die. These people are going to kill all of us. I swear to Kami if I live through this I'm going to start traing to be a better Kunoichi."
She watched in horror as the Oto and Rain ninja entered the tree. Almost immediatley after the two went in they flew back out and landed unconscious on the ground. Then both Chao and Zazie walked from the inside of the tree with looks of anger on their faces.
"I suggest you let Sakura go and leave or else" Chao told them as she got into a stance that no one recognized.
The Rain ninja with the sword looked at the bandaged Oto ninja "I thought you said the girl was the only one protecting them Dosu?"
Dosu tilted his head "We've been observing her for three hours Vulkner. she didn't move from the clearing and no one came into it until us. They must have been inside the tree the whole time we were watching her. Though I do recognize them from the first exam. I think the one in the black and white body suit is the Uzumaki's sister and the other on is her teammate."
"Uh, Vulkner. We were told there was only one Uzumaki left" the one holding the bound Sakura said with a bit of confusion in his voice.
"You're right Shinji. So either we were misinformed by our superiors or she's not his real sister" Vulkner said as he turned to look at Chao and Zazie.
Chao actually growled as she listened to them before she spoke "What do you want with my brother?"
Vulkner chuckled in reply " We just want to take him back to our village to give him a better life. Though that wont be long for him."
"What do you mean?" Chao asked as hse narrowed her eyes.
"Let's just say we know about his burden and we're going to relieve him of it" he replied as he drew his sword and leveled it at her.
"I think you all are forgetting about me and my teammates. We don't care about the Uzumaki. We just want the Uchiha, so we can kill him" Dosu said as he stared at Chao and Zazie.
"NOOO! DON'T KILL SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura yelled as she started to struggle against the water that held her.
The female Oto ninja looked at her and started to laugh"You are so pathetic. Crying over a teammates possible death. I'll really make you cry after we force you to watch as we kill him in front of you."
"Enough with the banter. Both of our teams have a job to due and it looks like we'll have to kill these two to get them done" Vulkner said just before he jumped towards Chao with his sword raised.
As Sakura watched she felt the water that held her fall away. She turned around and saw Ku standing over the unconscious form of the ninja who previously held her.
When Vulkner got about ten feet away from Chao a huge shuriken struck the ground in front of him, stopping his attack.
Kaede then landed next to the shuriken "I suggest you drop your scrolls and leave before you get hurt or worse."
Vulkner put his sword away before he reached into his pouch, pulled out a scroll marked 'Heaven', and tossed it at Kaede's feet.
"What are you doing Vulkner? We can still finish our missions" the Oto female said with some contempt in her voice.
"You may want to look behind yourself" said a female voice from behind her.
The Oto girl looked over her shoulder and saw Mana standing there with a kunai in both hands. One pointed at her neck and the other pointed at her lower back. She also saw Kotaro with a kunai held against Dosu's neck.
Dosu felt the kunai against his neck and spoke very carefully "I'm going to take out our scroll." he then slowly reached into his pouch, pulled out a scroll marked 'Earth', and dropped it on the ground.
Vulkner held up his hands and walked over to the unconscious form of Kuroda, before he knelt down to pick him up and throw him over his shoulder. After that he walked over to Shinji's body and picked it up. He finally turned to Chao and the others "I warn you now. Others will be coming after the Uzumaki's burden." He then looked at Dosu "Rain will not be helping your master with his plans." He then left the clearing carrying his unconscious teammates.
After Vulkner left Mana and Kotaro stepped away from Dosu and the female Oto ninja. The two Oto Genins walked over to their unconscious teammate and picked him up. As they were leaving the clearing Dosu looked at Chao and the others "This isn't over. We will kill the Uchiha eventually and there's nothing you can do to stop us."
The female Oto Genin looked at Sakura " I can't wait to hear you cry in anguish and despair when we kill the Uchiha."
The Oto ninjas then left the clearing with girl laughing manically.
Sakura fell to her knees shaking after they all left "I owe all of you my life. I don't know how I can repay any of you."
Chao walked over to her and helped her to her feet "You can start by becoming a better Kunoichi. No more being the Uchiha's fan-girl, because the situation you just found yourself in could happen again at anytime."
Sakura nodded as she realized that Chao was right and she needed to get stronger if she wanted to continue living the life of a ninja.
Mana and Kaede walked over to them as the others went towards the tree.
"Well we have some excellent news" Kaede said with a smile.
"We have three complete sets of the scrolls" Mana told Chao as she pulled out the other scrolls from her pouch.
Chao grinned as she looked at the scrolls "Great! Then all we have to do is wait for the boys to wake up. After that we head to the tower in the center of the forest."
Everyone then gathered together near the tree. Chao and Sakura went inside while the others started to set up camp outside of the tree.
Naruto woke from a dream where he had been on a date with a girl that he felt made him whole. The only weird thing about the dream was the fact that he couldn't remember what the girl looked like.
When he opened his eyes he saw that he was lying inside the hollow of a tree. He looked around and saw his sister, Chao, sleeping against the inside of the tree."
He sat up still looking at his sister "Umm...sis, why are we inside a tree?"
As soon as Chao heard Naruto's voice her eyes shot open. When she saw Naruto sitting up and looking at her, she quickly launched herself at him giving him a bone crushing hug.
Naruto hugged her back "Chao, what's wrong and where are we?"
After a few minutes Chao let him go and the explained most of what happened after he passed out. "Sasuke woke up a few hours ago. We were just waiting for you to wake up before we started for the tower" she finished telling him with a sigh.
"So, you and your teammates got my team the scrolls we needed to finish this part of the exam?" asked her with a little confusion in his voice.
Chao nodded "Yeah, I wanted to make sure that you were able to pass this part of the exam."
They then got up and left the inside of the tree. Outside they were greeted by the others before they all took off and headed for the tower.
It was about five hours before the three teams reached the tower.
Chao looked at the other teams "We'll see you guys in a few minutes."
The three teams then split up and headed towards seaperate sets of doors.
After Chao's team entered their set of doors they saw a huge scroll attached to the wall. The scroll had some advice written on it.
If qualities of Heaven
are your desire.
Acquire wisdom and
knowledge to take your mind higher.
If Earthly qualities are what you lack.
Train your body in the fields and prepare
to attack.
When both Heaven and Earth
are opened together.
The path of peril will
revert to the righteous path forever.
This " "is the secret way...
...that guides us on from this
place today.
The Third Hokage
Ku tilted her head "What does mean?"
"It means that we have to open both of our scrolls simultaniously" Chao replied with a chuckle. She then pulled both scrolls out of her pouch and handed one to Zazie.
They then opened them together. After the scrolls were opened they began to smoke. When they saw the scrolls start to smoke they dropped them and jumped backwards. The scrolls spewed smoke for a few seconds before it began to clear. Where the scrolls had been dropped on the floor stood Ibiki Morino, their sensei.
"Thank Kami it's you Ibiki-sensei. We need to get ahold of Jiji. Something terrible has happened during our exam" Chao told him with panic in her voice.
"All right. Follow me and we'll go see him" he replied as he turned around and led them out of the room.
Along the way Chao and the others told him bits and pieces of what happened.
A/N: Well here's the latest chapter. I hope everyone enjoys it. Now I'd like to tell everyone that this story has more than 2,000 hits. The next chapter will be the prelims of the exam. There is just one last thing the dream that Naruto had was hinting at the girl I'm going to put him with. There is only one thing I'm going to say about it and that is she will not be Chao. They think of each other as siblings and that would just be wrong in my own opinion. On another note I am looking for a Beta, so if your interested pm me. Also I've set up two challenges on my profile. If you want to try them I've set up a forum with a like there if you want to take either of my challenges. Lastly please review.