Chapter 3
(Flashback)
"Everyone take your seats."
Everyone rushed to take a seat and seeing how the scarred ninja was not one to be tested.
"Alright, now is the time for the first part of the exams, the written exam. Now, you only have three chances. You waste your chances, you waste your chances you are going to be tossed out on your ass, now brats. Get to it."
(Present)
Everyone then went on penciling their answers through different methods of cheating, Gaara using his third eye, Tenten using her weapons and her mirrors to get the answers and giving them to Lee, Neji and Hinata using their bloodline, Sasuke getting his answers and disqualifying the people around him, Sakura used her brain to get the answers, Ino jacking the answers from her and giving the answers to Choji and Shikamaru barely trying, but knowing the answers. Naruto and Rita get the answers in their own unique ways, Naruto snatching the answers from other people and Rita doing the same.
Soon the time for the nine questions was finished and Ikibi said, "Pencils down, brats!"
The students did what they were told and waited.
"Now, it's time for the tenth question, however if you choose to take the question you will risk your chance at promotion."
The room was filled with silence, then it explodes with protests and screams of the potential chunin, he let the screams keep up for a few moments before he unleashed light killing intent to make the room quiet.
"Now, make your choice. Take the question and fail or leave and try again next time." Ikibi stated as he watched several give in to his threat and leave the room.
Sakura was shaking and pale. She didn't want to deny Sasuke a chance at going to the next level, she couldn't give two shits about Naruto, though, she just hoped Sasuke would forgive her for this.
She was going to raise her hand, but a loud smash stopped her.
"Haruno! Don't you dare raise that hand a damn inch higher! How pathetic are you for you to indulge in scar face's threat?! Do you think you are doing your emo lover boy a favor? Pull your head out of your ass and look at him, because I am damn sure he'll throttle your ass the second we left the room because of your pathetic cowardice. How about you grow a fucking spine and get the hell out of your comfort zone or I am going to break both your arms and drag your ass out myself!" Naruto snarled.
Sakura shakily put her hand down as tears ran down her face in the middle of his rant.
'This is not Naruto. He would never talk to me like that! Where the lost puppy who would cheer me up and support me when Sasuke would politely refuse my affections?' She thought to herself, Inner Sakura had nothing to say as she was in shock at Naruto standing up and tearing them to pieces.
She looked at Sasuke who was darkly glaring at her with an unspoken threat. 'Screw this up, I will never forgive you and I will make you pay.'
Sakura put her head down and didn't look at anyone.
Ikibi looked at the blonde genin with a slight hint of respect.
'Everyone needed a good tongue-lashing to get their asses moving now and again. Apparently there is more to the dead last of the Rookie 9.' Ikibi thought.
"Anyone else?" Ikibi asked.
No one moved an inch and then Ikibi said, that those who remained past.
The several people of the Rookie 9 looked shocked at the words that spilled out of Naruto's mouth. The Naruto they knew would never curse out his precious Sakura.
"Good, those that remain you pass!"
"WHAT!" Several people shouted out.
*SMASH!*
"The sexy and single Anko Mirashi is here!" Anko yelled posing in front of the group of teams of potential chunin.
The room was silent.
Anko looked around and saw many teams still left.
"Ikibi you're losing your touch, so many teams are left."
"No, Anko it's not me. Ask the blonde genin who tore into one of his teammates."
"Really~?" Anko said, eyeing the Kyuubi container.
"Oh, well. Don't care. Alright, brats its time for you the second part of the exam and it will be in training ground 44, if you are not there in 5 minutes, you are disqualified now get to it." Anko finished, jumping out of the hole she made in the wall.
Naruto inclined his head to the wall to Rita who caught it along with Hinata, Shikamaru, and Shino. They informed their teams and they all raced to the training ground found themselves in front of a wired gate and some teams who didn't get there on time were knocked unconscious when they failed to arrive at the area, considering that they got lost or they were spies from other villages, that were..disposed of.
"Okay brats, now I will give you these."
"What are they?" A random genin asked.
"Forms so the village cannot be blamed for your deaths and that you went inside willingly. You can still pussy out if you want?"
Some of the genin frowned at her language, but everyone signed the paper.
"Good, now that it is out of the way, this.." she gestured to the massive dark forest behind her, "is the forest of death."
"Doesn't sound too scary." Kiba stated.
A kunai grazed his cheek, causing a crimson line of blood to appear as a cold kunai touched his Adam's apple, making Akamaru whimper and Kiba to freeze.
"Confident, arrogant brats like you always have the blood I like to taste. I hope when you enter, you spill more of your pretty blood for me." Anko stated as she licked the kunai.
A shudder ran through the group, but then Anko straighten her stance and creepy feeling made her head snap back to look at a genin with a long tongue holding her kunai.
"Oh, well thank you." Anko said, grabbing the kunai from the long-tongued genin, that made her smirk at the pale skin of the surrounding genin.
Naruto just looked at ninja with a disinterested stare, but inside he was grinning, telling Kyuubi that he smelled snake and that he wanted it. Kyuubi agreeing with him, along with a whole lot of bloodshed as well.
"Anyways, let's move on. You will all take one scroll either a heaven or an earth scroll, it is your job to make sure that you get the other scroll. You have five days to get them and head to the tower."
"What about food?!" Choji asked.
"There are many things, that can be eaten the forest and they can eat you as well."
Choji turned pale but remained silent.
"Alright, it's time for you brats to enter. Just remember..Try not to die."
She slammed down a button that simultaneously opened the forest doors and the teams raced through them. Some will make it to the end, others may not, we will just have to see, won't we.
Naruto entered with his team and we find them running forward with Sasuke glaring daggers into Naruto's back.
"Uchiha, if you something to say, then say it." Naruto stated, not once looking back.
Sasuke then stopped and stood at the trunk of the tree with Sakura right next to him and Naruto stood in front of him crossing his arms.
"You can drop the act dobe, you have things to answer for."
"And what would I have to answer for, Uchiha? Me not giving any shits about you or your sidekick?"
"What the hell is your problem? You've got problems and you have caused nothing but holding me and Sasuke-kun back!"
"I wouldn't be talking, considering you almost got your precious Uchiha disqualified."
Which made her flinch, but she continued to glare at the blonde aloof genin.
"Can we finish this stupid conversation later? We have to get the damn scroll and reach the tower. If you want to continue to bitch at me, then let me have it and getting off your chest emo boy so we can move on." Naruto stated, crossing his arms.
Sasuke stared at him, then growled and shook his head and said, "Fine, the more important part is finding the scroll and then we will have words, dobe."
"Whatever gets that massive log out of your ass you fuck yourself with and lets us move forward, I'm game." Naruto shrugged.
The team then leave the area and as a pair of interested yellow eyes follow after them. As they traveled from tree to tree, suddenly a large snake appeared out of nowhere, snapping its fang into the tree trunk where the team barely left behind, lest they wish to be eaten.
"Uchiha, take your fangirl and go ahead. I've been bored and I want to play."
"Naru-"
"Leave him, let's go. He's a bother anyways." Sasuke interrupted and jumped away leaving Naruto behind, with Sakura trailing behind him seconds later.
"Such backstabbing idiots, oh well. It makes ripping their heads off much sweeter." Naruto said to himself.
'I wonder what Rita's doing now?' He thought as he avoided another swipe from the massive snake.
Said girl was away from her teammates and just killing a newbie genin team from the Rock Country. She got two scrolls both Heaven and Earth and put them in her ninja pouch and went to find her teammates and make it to the tower.
With the Uchiha and his scream sidekick, they just left Naruto behind to face the massive snake and they focused on finding a scroll so they could pass this test and move on, but what Sasuke didn't know was that Naruto had the real scroll, a heaven scroll and kept it sealed in his leg, the one Sasuke had was a paint bomb that would blind him and then a clone would pop up and would stomp on his crotch repeatedly.
The pair of genin rested against a tree to catch their breath. However, a large gust of wind blew away Sakura who landed on a tree branch away from Sasuke's position, safe and unconscious.
Sasuke moved to a defensive position, but a dark, slimy voice whispered in his ear.
"Hello, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke jumped forward and moved away from the creepy voice and found the genin with the long tongue appeared.
Sasuke armed himself with a kunai and prepared himself. "Who the hell are you and what do you want?"A tight knot forming in the pit of his stomach.
The strange genin licked his lips with his very long tongue and said, "You will find out when I get there."
Sasuke couldn't help, but gulp at the dark statement.
Ending it! Onwards to the next chapter and Yes, I am alive and active. Hooray for early summer vacation for college students. Alright, Orochimaru has made his move to appear in front of Sasuke, what will become of him. Whatever, my sick and twisted imagination can come up with. Laters, fellow readers.
~Kourtney Uzu Yato