Warning: since I'm not good with describing battles I'll just skip some.
~Vega's PoV~
"This is the location for the 'second exam', the 44th training field. Also known as... the forest of death" Anko explained.
I was slightly scared. Probably Rigel too. I also brought some food and water, you know, just in case.
"This place is called the forest of death, you'll soon realise why" Anko said.
Then Naruto imitated her mockingly saying that he wasn't scared at all.
Yeah yeah, Naruto.
Anko that was probably annoyed, threw a kunai at him, cutting his cheek and flashing behind him.
"A kid like you dies at the very beginning, dappled with the red blood I like" she said picking up a bit of his blood.
Before licking it a grass ninja with an enormous tongue gave her kunai back.
"Thank you for taking the trouble, but... don't stand behind me thirsty for blood. If you don't want a quick death..." Anko said grinning weirdly.
"Well, it's my nature to act up at the sight of red blood. And my precious hair was cut, so I got excited..." the grass ninja said.
After a long explanation about the consent and the scrolls, how we get half teams the heaven scroll and the other half the earth scroll and how we must take them both to the place in the middle of the forest in a time limit of 120 hours. Then the disqualification rules.
Soon we had to take the scroll and go to a gate. They prevented the other people to see what scroll each team gets.
As we were given the start signal we dashed into the forest. We suddenly heard screams. I was scared and it will be like this for five days...
Ugh...
"I-I'm getting kinda nervous" I said, worried.
"I-I have to pee..." Naruto muttered, unzipping his pants.
"Naruto! Go behind some bushes!" I yelled at him.
I then told Sasuke I was heading the other way because I needed the bathroom too.
~Time skip~
After we were done we came back and we were sitting in a non perfect three people with a cat circle. Sasuke then told us about a 'password' for what apparently happened to him a while ago. Basically someone transformed into Naruto and tried to fool him, but with no result.
"If there's an instance that we become separated, don't trust him if he looks like your teammate. Just like now, there's a possibility that an enemy will transform to get close to us!" Sasuke spoke.
"So what do we do?"
"We'll decide on a password. Listen, if the password is incorrect, no matter what he looks like... presume he is an enemy! I'll only say it once, so listen closely" he then proceeded to say the password. "That's it"
"Okay!" I said while Naruto asked him if he could repeat it.
Then all I remember was really strong wind and me hitting several trees before sliding off a big rock before passing out.
~Time skip~
I woke up confused, it was between morning and midday of the next day and couldn't find my teammates. So I used my sharp sense of smell to find them and with Rigel between my arms I walked in the forest until I found them. They were near a river cooking some fish. Even with my sense of smell, I had trouble finding them. It took me three days.
We were sitting around a campfire eating fish, talking about the scrolls and our possibilities to finish the exam for good. At the end of the conversation, Sasuke left to get some water. Naruto then picked the earth scroll and told us that we don't have an enemy to fight so he took out other scrolls from his bag.
"Naruto, you know that this won't work" I told him.
"B-but... what if we could predict the content?" He said as he showed us the earth scroll.
"Have you forgotten the rules?" I scolded.
"But, at this rate, we'll be in a hot spot, right?" Naruto said anime crying.
"I still don't want to open them, it might be dangerous" I said.
"But Vega, it's the only way" Naruto whined.
"Ugh, fine"
At Naruto's whining I surrendered, and I saw that he was really tense. When he was on the verge of opening the scroll someone caught his hand and stopped him from doing so.
"Thanks" I thanked, noticing that the person who stopped Naruto was Kabuto.
Ugh, him...
"You'd best not do it"
~Very small time skip~
Sasuke just came back and was scolding us.
"That was close"
"W-we're sorry" I excused.
"Those who ignored the rules are forced into the situation of having to retire" Kabuto explained us.
After a short talk, he then turned away to leave us, until Sasuke asked Kabuto to fight him. After another short talk about ninjas, we ended up teaming up and moving on to go to the tower.
While we were heading there, we talked about settling traps, how others think that too and about collectors. They basically gather extra scrolls for when enemies approach them and stuff.
~Time skip~
When the tower came into view, it was night already. Naruto striked a really huge centipede. I was disgusted and Sasuke was as always impassible.
"Naruto, I'd like to avoid inadvertent sounds and careless actions from here on" Kabuto told Naruto. "As long as time allows, we should go slowly while remaining hidden"
"Yeah"
"Sure"
"Hai!"
We started heading towards the tower until Naruto suddenly stepped on a 'throwing kunai trap'. Kabuto rushed and jumped on Naruto to protect him, luckily he used the substitution jutsu.
We continued to walk for a while until we noticed the giant centipede that Naruto striked before.
"It seems that we're already within the enthusiastic welcome. Take a look at that" Kabuto said pointing the giant centipede.
A genjutsu, huh?
"What on earth is going on?"
"No way!"
"Is it genjutsu...?" Sasuke asked (probably rhetorically).
"Yeah it is" I replied.
"We're being watched..." Sasuke said.
"Probably. They intend to wear down our physical strenght and catch us unprepared when we're bone tired" Kabuto explained.
Soon multiple copies of a rain ninja appeared and started coming towards us. One of them tried to mock us so Naruto went to punch it. His punch, however destroyed it but it was somewhat slimy.
Another clone appeared from the half hole made by Naruto's punch and threw a kunai at him, only to get his hand destroyed by Sasuke's shurikens. The copy then attacked Sasuke but he couldn't move for some reason and Kabuto pulled him down, getting injured instead.
"Is it clone jutsu or genjutsu? Which one?" Naruto asked concerned.
"It's an enemy genjutsu" Sasuke said, panting.
"It's as Sasuke says. Probably the enemy is hiding somewhere... coordinating their attack with the movements of the 'genjutsu shinobis' and attacking from a different location, pretending as if those genjutsu shinobis are attacking" Kabuto explained.
That makes sense.
Soon Naruto started making clones and told us to hide. He had a plan. Basically we hide and he makes his clones fight until the real ninjas shows up. It actually worked.
Great Naruto!
The rain ninjas came out from their hidings and Naruto punched them and as they got up they made fog clones appear. Naruto went to punch one by one to find the real ones.
Then they appeared from under the ground and went to attack Kabuto. Something distracted them and Naruto kicked them in their faces.
"Great Naruto!" I told him.
"It was nothing, hehe" he laughed, grinning.
He went to search for the scroll and he found a heaven one, good. Then we headed for the tower and when we got here we said bye to Kabuto that entered the door next to ours with his teammates.
We entered to see an empty room with an 'inscription' attached to the wall in front of us. Then I read the inscription.
"If heaven does not exist, enrich your knowledge and prepare for the chance. If earth does not exist, run the fields in search of an advantage. Open the series of heaven and earth and the perilous way shall be redressed... this is namely the secret of the one that guides..."
We noticed that a word is missing.
"I guess it's time to open the scrolls"
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UpriseDragon