Chapter 11

Life as a Fox

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No one in the room said a thing, but he could see many backs and bodies jerk with sudden surprise, a few even turned their heads to the side trying looking at each other, but not Fluffy, he remained apathetic.

But still Naruto couldn't help but study the face before him, Mammoth had deep memorizing eyes, it was as if you were looking into the eyes of a great beast, his face had three scars running across, his Brown hair with a few streaks of grey was plaited back. his face showed his character, strong, proud, willing to fight, a true leader, but his face also betrayed him it shown the beginnings of older age, yet still the way his eyes studied them made even Naruto lower his gaze slightly.

Mammoth enjoyed the tight tension in the room, to him men standing at attention with their backs aching and there body physically pushed to its limits while the mind was constantly trying to maintain the composure was a very entertaining thing to watch, but today was not the day for entertainment.

He cleared his throat, "Today is the day we weed out the strong from the weak, you will be separated into groups of five, each group member will have a leader randomly picked from it, if you are the leader you have absolute control, you decide what the group will do, this will let us see who has good abilities to lead, and who has good abilities to follow".

He turned and walked over to three tables set up, "each group will be given the usual rations, no more and no less, each group will have the same number of projectile weapons, each group is equal, the only thing that groups will be different on is, each individual group member's ability, for that is something we cannot control".( I added this part in case they have a blood trait I want to add in randomly on the spot.)

He turned back to the waiting men and few women, "the test is simple, you each will be placed unconscious and we shell drop you off in a hostile environment, with these fake intelligence papers, each dossier is unique to each group, and will be marked as so, that way if any of you try to steal another groups file and pass it off as your own we'll know".

He swept his gaze across all standing there levering them with it, "this test is made to reenact a mission in all possibilities, you will be in an environment not known to you, living and working with people you may not necessary like, and it shows how much dedication, hard work, and blood you will be putting into each mission, and how to cope or keep going of you lose a member of your team because I will confirm the rumors , several have died on this test." he paused then letting it sink in, then he grinned coldly, in the back he seen a man twinge.

He stepped forward, "where you shell be placed is several small villages, more like wandering tribes of assassins and bandits more than anything, and lets just say they don't take kindly to strangers, in fact you could even say that a little birdie gave them a heads up that some unknown ninja are going to be in their territory, stirring up trouble, you could even say that this birdie may have said it would be willing to pay a large sum of money for each head." He smiled again, "but that's just the gossip talking, then again birdies never lie…"

He left them with that, and then turned to Mouse, his office assistant, "you know what to do", then he left the room, but not before looking back at a certain four-legged trainee, who also was glancing over at him with the corner of his eye.

Naruto was put in a group of trainee's who he knew very little about, two of them he had weapons training with so was on good terms with, one (who was made their leader) he actually shared a bunk house with, there group also had one of the six female trainee's as well, they all studied each other for a moment, the large man named Ichino, stared down his nose at him, Naruto knew he would have problems with this one, Goza was next he was neutral, neither resentful not supporting of Naruto on his team.

Then there was the women, Ainu, she looked at him with interest and a small fraction of amusement, then last but not least their fearless leader, was Toyi, his eyes where wide as they quickly glanced at each person, Naruto sighed on the inside, then said "well from what I know when you are going to work with new people you start out with introductions, I will start"

Naruto cleared his throat, "My name is Fluffy, my Human companion is Hinata Hyuuga, I specialize in tracking, Information gathering, fighting both offensive and defensive, and sealing teqnigue, my favorite food is Tacos and Ramen, and my hobbies include playing fetch, watching T.V and playing shogi".

They stared at him for a bit, He then sighed "Also I would like to mention, that just because I am a demon does not mean I have special powers, I can only talk and have use of my own Chakra system which is far greater in quantity then any of yours", He stated matter of fact like.

Then Ainu spoke, she had long black hair put up in a bun with senbon holding it, her mask was hiding her face, "I am Toroyomi Ainu, I specialize in Genjutsu, poison, and camouflage, I am an offensive type, my favorite food is Rice balls, my hobbies include dancing and shopping".

Toyi then started his voice was slightly shaky, "My name is Minako Toyi, I specialize in hand to hand combat and trap detection, I prefer defensive fighting, my favorite food is pizza, and red beans, my hobbies are going to movies and drinking with my buddies".

Goza snorted then said gruff but in a kind voice "My name is Zurachi Goza, I specialize in documentation forgery, battle strategy and long range projectile weapons" he said then added "I prefer to be attacking then sitting idle, I like all food" he said patting his rather large abdomen, "and my hobbies include bird watching and going out with interesting women" he said scooting closer to Ainu and putting an arm around her, she looked at him then grabbed his arm and stiffly pushed it off of her shoulders.

The in a rough almost bored voice Ichino said "I am Yakushu Ichino, I specialize in Taijutsu, explosives, and geography, I Attack first always" he said glancing down at Naruto in a challenge, "I like meat, any meat will do, as long as it is a animal and is cooked I will eat it" he said a hint of amusement in his voice aimed at Naruto, Naruto said nothing.

He crossed his arms then said "my hobbies include weight lifting and grilling" he said then stopped looking at Naruto there was a tense tension in the circle as each one beside Naruto and Ichino looked at them both then to each other.

Naruto took a breath then said with a bored expression "that is very interesting Ichino, I too like to eat meat, in fact I like it so much that my kind will hunt in packs and take down animals, then we will eat the meat right there without cooking it, it's better that way all bloody and juicy" He said grinning showing of his canines.

Ainu made a small chuckling sound and Goza snorted a few times, but Toyi glanced hurriedly between him and Ichino, Ichino said nothing then straightened himself grumpily, "whatever" he said, there was a silence over them for a few moments, then Naruto sighed and said "look I know you don't like me, or you don't like the idea of me, whatever I get it, but the fact is for either of us to make it to Anbu, in fact any of us we have to work as a team and trust each other, like it or not we are all each other has to survive this."

Ainu nodded then said "Fluffy is right Ichino, if you really want to be the Anbu your always bragging you are going to be, you're going to have to learn to work together" Ichino muttered under his breath for a few moments then said "I get it, but I thought Anbu were loan rouges, not depending on any one, no feelings just hard core killers".

Naruto shook his head, "you will find those type of people in prisons" Ichino snapped at him "look just because I am teamed up with you and have to work with you, you stupid mutt doesn't make it all right to talk to me like you're a human!" Ichino growled at him, a few groups were looking there way, Naruto could also see tension in a few other groups as well.

Naruto said shook his head and remained silent, a few minutes passed by of them saying nothing then Toyi said "Lets go get our supplies and get this over with", Ichino stalked away shouldering past Toyi, the rest followed Ainu whispered to Naruto "Its okay I trust you, and so does Goza" Goza nodded and the three of them together trailed after Ichino and Toyi.

Once they had gotten the supplies they needed, each group was lead separately into rooms, when Naruto turned to ask what was happening he saw a flicker of movement, then a sharp pain in his neck then he saw blackness as he fell into unconsciousness.

Origianlly chapter 10 and 11 were together but as I stated in the afterwords in chapter 10 there was inside turmoil in the group so this is how it is now.

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