A/N And here it is, the next chapter of Wrath of the Fox. It's been so long since I updated this. But hopefully I'll get to write at least one chapter of this before I have rabid fans attacking me for not updating my other stories. It may sound ridiculous but I've had PMs demanding updates on the threat of physical violence. So without further ado.
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Demon/Summon Speech"
'Demon/Summon Thought'
"Jutsu"
Chapter 5 - Exams can be Brutal
As team 7 entered room 301 they were bombarded with killing intent. Sasuke and Sakura flinched but Naruto just bared his fangs before releasing Kurama's killing intent. Several genin got up and left the room, some with suspicious wet patches in their shorts.
Gaara visibly flinched while his teammates shivered in fear.
'How can this guy emit so much power? It's like Gaara but more powerful and more controlled.' Thought Temari.
As soon as Naruto saw that the weakest of the enemies had left he released the killing intent. The room collectively sighed in relief.
Shortly after Naruto let up the K.I. teams 8 and 10 walked in. Ino tackled Sasuke and started arguing with Sakura. Kiba, Choji and Shikamaru leant against the wall, Naruto joined them, at first they were stunned with the changes but they shrugged it off. Naruto was known as the most surprising ninja in Konoha.
As Sakura and Ino reached their loudest point a tall boy with silver hair and a Konoha hitai-ate walked over.
"Hey you might wanna keep quiet, this room is filled with the best of the best and you guys being rookies is just painting targets on your back, and being loud isn't helping your chances for remaining unnoticed." Explained the new comer.
"Who are you, I haven't seen you around before?" questioned Sakura.
"Oh, I'm Kabuto Yakushi. If you want to know anything about these exams just ask." Stated Kabuto.
"Is this your second time Kabuto-san?" asked Ino.
"Heh Heh, no this is my seventh try." Said Kabuto sheepishly.
"Wow you must suck!" yelled Kiba. The other guys just chuckled.
"Well I might but with all my failures I've collected information on the exams and individuals in the exams." Explained Kabuto.
"Tell me about Gaara from Suna, Rock Lee from Konoha and Naruto Uzumaki from Konoha." Commanded Sasuke.
"Oh you know their names, too easy." Said Kabuto as he pulled out three cards.
"First up Gaara of the desert. He's the son of the current Kazekage, his teammates are his siblings. He has been on 50 C rank missions, 20 B ranks and 2 A ranks. I don't know about his abilities because he's from another nation but it's rumoured he returned from each mission without a scratch." The rookies, except Naruto, were shocked beyond belief. They had been on 1 mission above D rank each and even their weak missions had resulted in injuries.
"Next up Rock Lee of Konoha. His teammates are Neji Hyuuga, the prodigy of the Hyuuga clan and Tenten, an orphan. Their sensei is Might Gai the Green Beast of Konoha. Lee has been on 200 D rank missions, 20 C ranks and 1 B rank. Ability wise he isn't that impressive. He was the dead last of his class, he can't use nin or genjutsu but his Taijutsu is rivalled by none of the other genin of Konoha." Sasuke clenched his fist in anger. He hadn't just been beaten by a freak with giant eyebrows; he had been beaten by a dead last freak with giant eyebrows.
"And finally, Naruto Uzumaki. His teammates are Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. Their sensei is Kakashi Hatake. His team has been on 30 D rank missions and 1 A rank. Ability wise he is worse than Lee. He has very little ninjutsu, using only the shadow clone technique. His genjutsu is non-existent and his Taijutsu is only effective if he has a large amount of clones. The most impressive thing about him is that he has chakra that can rival the average Kage." Finished Kabuto.
"I hate to break it to you Kabuto but your information is out-dated." Said Naruto.
"I doubt it." Chuckled Kabuto, before Kabuto could continue a cloud of smoke appeared at the front of the room.
"Alright maggots, I hope you're ready for the first exam!" called out a bear of a man. "I'm Ibiki the first proctor. You have thirty seconds to get a number and sit in your seat for this written portion."
The room turned into a blur of motion as each genin raced to be seated.
Naruto found himself sitting next to Hinata.
'Could be worse, although if I was next to Sakura I could have cheated off of her test' thought Naruto. (A/N just a little joke that you'd get if you read Konoha's Red Flash)
Ibiki went on to explain the rules of the test and the elimination system.
'Hang on, only two points off for cheating. This is meant to for information gathering. Hey Kurama send some yokai to my eyes so I can see through any genjutsu.' Thought Naruto.
"You got it Kit." Said Kurama as he sent enough yokai to turn Naruto's pupils into slits. Immediately Naruto spotted three chunin disguised as a team.
"Good work Kit." Praised Kurama.
'Now then how to cheat, I could just get up and scare the crap out of someone and take their paper. That would only count as cheating once wouldn't it? But that isn't information gathering it's more like intimidation, which I will admit is funny.' Thought Naruto, 'Maybe I should have a look around to see what everyone else is doing, might give me an idea.'
Naruto looked around at the other genin. Kiba and Shino had similar tactics of using their respective animals. The Hyuugas and Sasuke were using their dojutsu. Sakura and Shikamaru were writing the answers. Choji was moving at the exact same time and exact same movements as Shikamaru. Gaara was using sand to temporarily blind people and then using an eye of sand to get the answers.
'I got it.' Thought Naruto triumphantly, 'this is going to take a lot of control.'
Naruto concentrated before discreetly forming the hand seals for the standard academy clone, using a bit of yokai to make the illusion almost impossible to recognize. Because the clone was intangible he sat inside it and used his stealth training from Kurama. He disappeared and walked around the room until he reached Sakura. He memorized all her answers before walking back to his seat and dispelling the clone before writing the answers down.
He leant back and put his arms behind his head and waited for the test to end.
"Well done Kit. That was done almost perfectly, but I think the Hyuuga next to you may have noticed a slight blur of chakra left in your wake." Said Kurama.
'Well let's hope she doesn't call me out.' Replied Naruto.
50 minutes into the exam Ibiki started talking again.
"Alright time for the final question" It was at this point that Kankurou walked back in from his toilet trip, "I hope you found playing with your dolls enlightening." Said Ibiki.
'Crap he knew.' Thought Kankurou.
"Now as I was saying it's time for the final question. You can choose not to take it and fail right now." Continued Ibiki.
"Why the hell would we do that?" Yelled out Kiba.
"Because if you take the question and get it wrong then you'll be kicked out of the chunin exams and will be prohibited from entering the exams again." Replied Ibiki.
"What, there are people who have failed before here!" Yelled out Kiba again.
"Yeah but I wasn't their proctor." Grinned Ibiki evilly, "Now is there anyone who wants to quit?"
At first no one moved, until the disguised chunin raised their hands and left. This opened the flood gates as team after team left. Almost trampling each other to get out of the room. Naruto looked behind him to see Sakura about to raise her hand. Channelling a bit of yokai Naruto growled, the sound reverberating around the room.
"You don't have the authority to prevent anyone from never becoming chunin. There are three children of a Kage here. I don't think it would help a village's image if the family of the Kage couldn't be promoted. So that's Suna out from agreeing to something like that and without permission from each participating country you wouldn't be able to do it. And another thing who cares if you do have the authority to prevent us from getting promoted. That could be helpful to us; a rank doesn't guarantee strength so you making us stay genin would cause others to underestimate us. Resulting in their downfall." Said Naruto, his speech whilst strange had given the remaining genin the courage to stay.
Ibiki looked around the room and saw the determination of the faces of every single genin in the room.
"Well if no one is going to leave then….. You all pass." Exclaimed Ibiki.
"What! What about the tenth question?" yelled out Ino.
"There was no tenth question or rather the choice to stay or go was the question." Explained Ibiki.
"Then what about the first nine, what were the point in doing those?" asked Temari.
Ibiki went on to explain the need for information gathering and the need for correct information. He then took off his bandanna to show everyone the scars that covered his skull.
Naruto wasn't paying much attention, this stuff had already been explained by Kurama during his stealth training.
His attention was caught when a ball crashed through the window and kunai shot out revealing a banner which read "Anko Miterashi, sexy, single proctor of the second exam" shortly after the banner had unravelled a woman jumped through the broken window. Naruto didn't listen to the banter between the proctors, it was something about going soft.
"Now then, follow me to training ground 44, better known as the forest of death. If you aren't there in 5 minutes then you will be disqualified." Said Anko before jumping out the window. For a second no one moved before all making a mad dash for the window. Naruto shook his head.
'Why do they always do that, they get told they need to be somewhere and they all hesitate before sprinting like lunatics.' Thought Naruto before channelling yokai to his legs and darted out the window, overtaking all but the proctor on his way to the training ground.
Once 5 minutes were up Anko looked at the assembled genin, they had all kept up fairly well.
"Now then gakis, this is a survival exam. You will each be given either a heaven or earth scroll. You must obtain the both before making it to the tower in the centre of the forest. You have five days to complete this exam." Explained Anko.
"Five days! What will we do for food?" called out Choji.
"There are plenty of plants and animals in there, although you'll have to eat them before they eat you." Said Anko.
"This will be easy." Commented Naruto dryly. Anko smirked before launching a kunai at Naruto, grazing his cheek. She appeared behind him and was going to lick the blood off of his cheek.
"I wouldn't do that." Stated Naruto as he wiped the blood off and flicked it onto the ground. The blood turned black and sizzled into smoke. Naruto's finger then glowed red. Everyone watched in stunned silence as he ran the finger over the cut causing it to heal rapidly.
Anko got off of his back and turned and picked up her kunai to find that the edge that had cut Naruto was now rusted beyond repair.
She sighed before walking back to the front of the group.
"Now you all need to sign one of these waivers. I don't wanna get in trouble if you die. Once your whole team has signed their waivers then you can exchange them for a scroll and a gate number. Oh and don't open the scrolls, if you do you won't like what happens." Explained Anko.
Team 7 got their scroll and Sasuke demanded that he carry it. Naruto didn't care, he would probably collect a few extras during the exam. They were escorted to a gate by a chunin and told to wait until Anko called the start. As they waited all three members remained silent, they knew that they could die in this part of the exam and were all serious. Suddenly a voice boomed over the loud speaker set up along the fence.
"NOW LET THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CHUNIN SELECTION EXAMS BEGIN!"
A/N Oh it's getting exciting now. Sorry for the long wait with updating this story. I'm going to start a system for writing. I'll write two chapters for a story then two of the next and so one so forth. So expect another chapter of this soon.
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