(Here you go friends.)
The next day, every contestant for the Chunin Exams met Anko outside a large forest blocked off by gates and fences, "Whoa, this place is giving me the willies." Ino gazed at it.
"All right listen up!" Anko caught their attention, "Welcome to the Forest of Death. Before we begin you must sign a consent form so that we're not held responsible for any casualties.
So they each signed one and turned them in to another Chunin as the proctor continued, "Now this forest is where you will partake in the second phase of the Chunin Exams. The forest itself is surrounded by forests and in the center is a tower which serves as the end point of the second phase. You will be forced to fight to the death while capturing scrolls."
"Scrolls?" Naruto asked.
"Yes," she pulled out a white and black scroll, "There are two scrolls. Each of you will be given either and heaven or an earth one. Inside the forest you will need to fight other teams and acquire the scroll you don't have all while making sure you don't lose your own to another team. Once you have both scrolls you can enter the tower. To top it off you have five days to make it there in success or you're out."
"Five days out in that forest?" Sakura asked in worry.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Chouji said holding his stomach.
"You think you're sick now? Well just wait till you see what kind of surprises are waiting for you inside the forest." Anko smirked sending chills up their spines.
"What kind of surprises?" Ino asked but wasn't sure she wanted to know.
"That's for you to find out," Anko answered, "Now let's talk about being disqualified. You will be disqualified if you fail to retrieve both scrolls in the given time, lose a teammate, leave the forest, or look at the contents of either scroll before reaching the tower. Any questions? Good. One member from each squad will follow a Chunin to a tent and receive their given scroll!"
As Naruto and Ino waited for Sasuke to get their scroll they looked around seeing the competition with some being Konoha and others from the other nations, "Quite the competition." Ino said.
"Yes. We could be forced to fight any one of them." Naruto added.
"Guy," Sasuke came over, "I have our scroll."
"We'll look at it once we're in the forest." Naruto instructed as they nodded before proceeding to one of the closed gates as did the other teams.
"And… go!" Anko called as the gates flung open and the teams dashed in taking off.
Inside the forest, squad seven was making their way around hoping to find a targeted team to get a scroll. Soon they stopped on the ground to go over their plan, "All right Sasuke. What scroll do we have?" Shredder Naruto asked.
Sasuke pulled out the scroll revealing to be an earth scroll, "An earth scroll."
"This means we'll have to find a heaven scroll," Ino noticed. "But first we need to hide our scroll."
"I got that covered," Naruto said taking the scroll and placed it inside a compartment located in the left arm of the armor, "Any ninja foolish enough to try to take it from me will end up dead." He said showing off the blades on his armor.
"Well the scrolls safe now." Ino said.
"Yeah, but now we have to find someone with a heaven scroll. That's not going to be an easy task." Sasuke added.
"So we better pick our fights wisely." Naruto warned them.
"Then let's hurry." Ino said as they carried on through the forest.
After awhile, Naruto stopped making his team stop as well, "Hey what's the hold up Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"Naruto-kun?" Ino wondered what was wrong.
He answered them quietly, "Keep it down. It's too quiet out here."
Sasuke and Ino squinted and both grabbed a kunai to defend themselves. Naruto reached back for the Tengu sword but concentrated on where he could sense they were being watched. His gaze finally fell upon another tree right in front of them. He drew the Tengu sword and fired a shockwave right in the direction. Jumping out into the open was a Kusa Genin team.
"I guess you're more perceptive than I gave you credit for." The female leader named Shiore said.
"You here for trouble?" Sasuke asked with a frown.
"Not trouble. Just your scroll."
"You want it you have to take it." Naruto warned her.
"With pleasure." Shiore answered as she and her team went for squad seven who jumped away to gain distance.
"I'll handle the leader! You two take her flunkies," Naruto motioned to the other two.
"Ok but be careful." Ino replied.
"I will." Naruto nodded and the three go off against their opponents.
Ino and Sasuke went up against the Kusa genin leader's two teammates using their own skills. Sasuke was using his Sharingan to fight his opponent along with the use of his fire jutsu. Ino was using what Foot clan martial arts moves against her opponent who was able to keep up with her moves until he left himself open allowing Ino to finish him.
Meanwhile, Shredder Naruto and the Kusa genin leader were squaring off, "So the rumors are true. Someone has finally taken up the mantle of the legendary Shredder."
"So you know of my mentor's reputation?" Shredder Naruto asked as he defended himself with his sword and bladed armor.
"Who doesn't dear boy?" the woman asked.
"Touché, but just because you know him doesn't mean you know me!" Naruto answered as they fought.
The Kusa team leader was jumping from tree branch to branch avoiding any shockwaves Naruto fired at her from his blade, "Doesn't look like there's much to know other than the fact you're a genin child trying to measure up to the real Shredder's standards."
"I have met the real Shredder's standards and I am the new true Shredder!" Naruto barked as he continued to fight against the genin who went through some hand signs.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" she shouted and in a poof of smoke there appeared a giant snake.
"Whoa!" Shredder Naruto gasped as he jumped away before the giant snake could eat him.
'Snake summoning, but this can't be,' He thought, 'There have only two ninja to use that summoning and that's either the proctor from this exam or…' he tried to think but couldn't for he had to focus on the giant snake trying to attack him.
"Naruto/Naruto-kun!" Sasuke and Ino called as they found him.
"That's a giant snake!" Ino gasped.
"What's with this ninja?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto finally seeing the snake was under a tree fired a shockwave from his sword to a few large tree branches above it and they fell on top burying it, "We defeated your team and your snake, now out with it! Who are you really?" Shredder Naruto demanded.
"What do you mean Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah what're you saying?" Ino asked in confusion.
"This ninja isn't who we think it is," Naruto frowned beneath his helmet, "You're Orochimaru the Snake Sannin of Konoha!"
Squad seven gasped and the ninja snickered and looked back up and spoke in a male voice, "So you figured it out, was it that obvious to you?"
"Not at first, but then I remembered that only two people in this village know how to use snake like jutsu. Anko and you." Naruto pointed accusingly at the ninja called Orochimaru.
The ninja snickered again before pulling on his face and ripped it off revealing a male face with pale bleach white skin, beady yellow eyes, and a mop of black hair on his head, "Well I guess some genin these days can't be fooled." He said licking his lips with his long tongue.
"We gotta be careful guys, this ninja's in a whole other league." Shredder Naruto warned the two.
Orochimaru formed hand signs and snakes slithered out of his sleeves and dove for the genin. Naruto jumped in front, "Stand back!" he shouted sending another shockwave from his sword incinerating the snakes.
"Good move boy, but can you handle this?" Orochimaru called as snakes attacked Naruto from behind.
The snakes wrapped around Naruto's armor trying to strangle him. Ino and Sasuke rushed to help him but found more snakes were blocking their way from reaching Naruto. Naruto struggled as the snakes tried binding him but he had a plan, he formed some hand signs, "Ninpo; Shuredda Gosunkugi no jutsu (Shredder Spike technique)!" he shouted and more spikes started popping out of the Shredder armor piercing the snakes forcing them to release him. He spun and struck the other snakes with more spikes.
Sasuke took this as an opening and attacked Orochimaru with a punch but what he punched turned out to be a mud clone that melted, "What?!" Sasuke gasped.
They see Orochimaru on a higher branch, "I've got you now, Sasuke Uchiha." He made a few hand signs before his neck stretched over and bit Sasuke in the neck. The Uchiha screamed in pain. As Orochimaru removed his teeth from his neck, Sasuke fell to the ground with three black comma markings appearing on his neck.
"What'd you do to Sasuke?!" Ino demanded.
"Just a simple gift that will make him seek me out for more power." Orochimaru answered.
"You bastard!" Shredder Naruto growled.
"Well children until next time!" Orochimaru attempted to flee, but Naruto jumped him.
"You're dead!" Naruto attempts to swipe him with his gauntlet blade but Orochimaru sunk into the tree and Naruto ended up putting a slice in the tree bark.
"He's gone." Ino gasped.
Shredder Naruto looked down and back at Sasuke, he couldn't stop Orochimaru from biting him, and he let him get away. He whimpered for a bit until it erupted into a loud scream of frustration which echoed throughout the forest, forcing a flock of birds to fly out of it in fright.
(And that's the chapter.)