PuppyWoofwoof-13: I have other plans for Mizuki and the scroll later on.
edus: The story is just getting started. There's plenty of time for action.
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It was 6 am sharp and every one apeared at the Dango shop at the same time, except Anko, who was already there waiting. She smiled at them, not one of her insane 'I'm going to skin you alive and feed you to one of my snakes' smiles, but rather a more comforting smile. At least thats what they were thinking. "Glad you all made it on time. Now we can head to my personal training grounds. Everybody, follow me!" The three newly promoted Genins looked at each other with mild curiosity mixed with aprehension before shrugging and following her. 5 minutes later they found themselves on the outskirts of the village and in front of a large gated of training grounds that had a sign saying do not enter. Anko looked at her charges with a weird glint in her eyes, something that thouroghly unnerved the three of them. "Welcome to our training ground kids, training area 44, or more comonly refered to as the forest of death."
"W-why's i-it c-called th-that?" Hinata asked, not quite liking the name of the semi-creepy looking area.
Anko's smile just got bigger, making them even more nervous than they were. "It's a normaly off limits training ground usused almost specificly for testing in the chunin exam and my personal training ground. I had to get special permision from the Hokage just to get this as our grounds, so be thankful!"
"Why here? What are you getting at here Anko-sensei?" Asked Naruto As he used part of a pack of cards no make 28" long sword blade extenting from the center of the deck. Shikamaru mutterd something that distinctly sounded like troublesome blonde.
"Survival training of course!" almost squiled Anko. "All you have to do is retrieve a scroll from the building in the middle of the grounds, as this scroll contains one of the vilages many secrets. Failure is not an option." She then gave them a picture of their objective.
"Troublsome." Sighed the lazzy genius.
"You have five hours. Now begin."
"What!" Screamed Naruto.
"You heard me! Times tickin'. Now get moving!" Anko yelled. The three of them shot over the fence, for some reason more scared of their new sensei than of the dark forested area.
About a hundred yards in, they stoped for a moment to check their gear real quick. They also took this time to commit the picture to memory and then burnt it, as per regulation. "Ok, we need a plan." stated Naruto to nobody in particular before looking at Shikamaru and Hinata who both noded their heads in agreement. Shikamaru then crouched down, placing his hands together so that they made the form of a box and closed his eyes. About 3 minutes later shikamaru opened his eyes and stood up.
"Alright, I think I might have a plan. heres what we know. We know were in a training feild that judging by its name is full of horrible things. in the center is a tower with our objective in it. It would be safe to say that it will be gaurded by more than just this forest, probably a unit or two of chunin level or better ninja. and all we need to do is get by the ninja, get in the tower while also avoiding any ninja that may be in there, retrieve the scroll and repeat." Naruto and Hinata looked at him, shocked because he didn't say anything about it being troublesome or a drag. Shikamaru just shook his head in disbelief and mutterd one familar catch-phrase before they took off tword the center of the grounds.
-meanwhile with Anko-
"Hmmm, feels like I forgot to do something...oh well, can't be too important." Anko then used Sunshin to poof over to her favorite dango shop to have breakfast, beating the morning rush croud.
-2 1/2 hours later at full speed-
When they were about 300 yards from the tower they stoped to gather what little information they could within the constraints of the time aloted. Shikamaru looked at Hinata. "hey, you're able to use the Byakugan, right?"
Hinata, now the center of attention turned bright red. "Y-yes." She said as she activated her blood line limit. She then started to scan the area and detected 4 genjutsu traps, not to mention 2 squads of chunin gaurds gaurding the grounds. she ralayed the information to the other two as she saw it.
He then looked at Naruto. "You said you like to prank people right? How about you make us a little distraction."
Naruto nodded before molding some chakra and whispering 'Origami bunshin'. He held out his right arm, releasing a cloud of post-it notes that quickly condensed into a paper version of him, which he then sent it off to distract the gaurds in front of the gate leading the building. The three of them then snuck in the gate while the gaurds chased a paper clone around the clearing.
Inside the building was rather basic. There were two corridors, one going right and left, the other going forward. Naruto and Hinata both looked at the lazy boy, expecting him to have an idea.
-Outside the building-
The paper clone that gaurds were chasing around stopped, looked at them and waved hi to them and the proceded to give them the finger. The two gaurds then ran at it with kunai's in hand. Smiling, it promptly flew apart, flinging the deadly post-it notes in ever direction. The two gaurds recieved numerous cuts on most of their body along with pieces of paper imbeded in their flesh, leaving them in no condition to fight, let alone call for help.
-back inside-
"Gate gaurds neutralized." Naruto seemingly said out of the blue.
"Hinata, can you see the scroll or any indications of its direction?" asked Shikamaru. She nodded then pointed down the left side corridor. Naruto then made one handed seal as he tossed a peice of paper that turned it's self into a paper airplane and flew down the coridor, scoping it out. After about 15 seconds they followed after the plane. Quickly and silently they made their way to the room the scroll was in, only to have to stop when the paper plane was destroyd as it entered the room. Hinata Reactivated her Byakugan as soon as they stoped, signaling with her fingers that there were 5 people in the room.
Shikamaru quickly formulated a plan and told his two team mates. After nodding, Naruto pulled out 6 cards, 3 in each hand. Jumping across the doorway, he flung the cards, hoping for them to hit home. Hinata shook her head, indicating it didn't work. He and Hinata then rushed in; Naruto creating a giant sheild of paper to block any incoming jutsu. He then contracted the paper sheild and then forcefuly pushed it out, smashing the gaurds to the sides of the room.
After pulling his orange paper back, he made his sword out of a deck of cards again, though this time he charged the first gaurd in his sights. He slashed diagonaly twords the mans chest, though he jumped back and avoided the slash. Naruto smiled as he swung again horizontaly. "Extend!" He yelled, causing the card sword to grow in length, slashing aacross the gaurds chest and making it so he could no longer participate due to the gaping wound.
Hinata slid into the basic stance of her familys taijutsu style, the Jyuuken, as one of the remaining four gaurds threw a hand full of shuriken at her before charging with a kunai. She easily glided between the projectiles and planted a chakra covered hand right in the guys stomach, stopping him in his tracks.
Shikamaru then made himself known as he stepped into the doorway and used one of his familys signiture jutsu, Kagemene no jutsu, capturing the remaining three. Hinata grabed the scroll and then proceded to knock them out one by one with a presure point on the back of their necks. They then quickly exited the building and made their way back out of the gated off forest. 2 hours later they got back to the spot Anko was waiting at and handed her the scroll.
Anko grined at her new team. "Congradulations brats, you just experienced what a C-rank mission is like. Unfortunately since your still just fresh genin you dont get C-ranked missions yet, instead you get D-ranked ones. Emphesis on rank for those. Well, since I did't expect you guys to pass you have the rest of the dy off. Meet me here tomarrow for training. Dismissed." Anko then poofed away to report the results of the test.
-Hokage tower, Sandaime's office-
As soon as Anko got there she knew she was going to be in for a little wait. So instead of standing around doing nothing, she started writing up a list of things to do for the next week of torture that she was going to put them thrue under the guise of training. Asuma was sittin back on the couch and smoking while playing a game of chess with himself. Kakashi arived just as Asuma said checkmate, causing Anko to laugh. Said ninja just raised his visible eyebrow and then shrugged.
"Ok, now that everybody is here, we can get going." Started the aged Hokage. "Kakashi, you may begin, since I dont want to waste your 'precious' time." he said sarcasticly.
"Hai Hokage-sama. I administered the bell test to my team and they failed miserably. If it wasn't for the council I'd send them back to the acadamy. The Uchiha believes that his team mates will just get in the way, and unfortunately, in this case he's right. All Haruno and the Yamanaka seem to do is faun over him like love sick little girls, of course thats when they're not fighting over him"
Asuma began without missing a beat began his report. "My squad passes. I had them perform a simulated recon mission. The Inuzuka has a good nose, the Aburame is equaly as skilled with his bugs and the Ackamichi rounds the team out for a great defence if things get hairy."
Anko gave the hokage a semiphychotic smile before she started her report. "For my test I had my team infultrate the forest of death and retrieve this scroll," she held up the scroll at this point "from the tower while gaurded by chunin. they came out unscathed and used exeplerary teamwork." The Hokage smiled at this bit of information. Asuma and Kakashi both looked at her like she was nuts using a test like that against genin, though you couldnt realy tell through the shock on their faces.
"Alright, you're now free to go. Dismissed." Both Asuma and Kakashi diapeard in a plume of smoke, leavng behind Anko.
"I take it theres more you wanted to add Anko-chan?" He asked.
"Hai. They completed the mission I gave them without recieving a single scratch because of their teamwork."
"Without a scratch you say, and it was c-ranked? Hmmm, I think they'll go far under your guidence. Goodluck!" He then smiled at her, letting her know that unless she had anything else to add she was dismissed.
-with team 8-
Team 8 AKA team guinea pig, as they were calling themselves because of their unstable sensei, just got back to the main area of town and were quite intent on getting something to eat. None of them realy cared whare they ate, just as long as they did eat something. They stopped at the first place they happand to see, a dango shop. They each bought 5 sticks of dango, and quickly ate the first couple, or in Naruto's case went back and got more. Anko then apeared to inform them that they recieved a mission and to meet up in an hour and a half. The group then made their way to their respetive residences' to take a shower befure meeting up with their sensei in an hour for a D-ranked mission, specificly to clean off the paintjob given to the hokage monument. Several hours later after they finished cleaning up Naruto's mess, they all went home for a night of rest.