Hello once again everyone. I am really happy that you guys want me to update this story further :) Thank you for all your reviews and I am really trying to update faster. My dad hogged the computer . Anyway, enough stalling, here is chapter 8.
Chapter 8
After another hour of waiting, the rest of the Genin teams from Konoha showed up. Naruto saw one team with the blonde girl he met a few months back, Ino Yamanaka, with two of her teammates beside her. One of her teammates was a boy with black, pineapple-shaped hair, wearing a mesh shirt under a gray short sleeve jacket. The boy looked like he would rather be somewhere else.
The other boy had two tufts of brown hair sticking out of two holes from his hat/forehead protector. He wore a white shirt with the kanji for 'Food' on it, and he was munching on a bag of chips.
Naruto observed some of the other teams. One team had a girl with lavender hair and white eyes with no pupils, wearing her forehead protector around her neck wearing an oversized jacket. Naruto quickly identified her as a Hyuuga. One of her teammates had tan skin, with feral looking eyes with two red fang markings on his cheeks. He had a gray fur coat on with a brown and white puppy sitting atop his head.
Her last teammate was hard to figure out. He had brown shaggy hair with a gray coat concealing the lower half of his face. He wore the standard leaf headband on his head.
"Looks like all the rookies are here!" stated the boy with the dog. Ino quickly ran towards Sasuke, hanging onto his body with all her strength. "I missed you, Sasuke-kun!" Ino shouted. Sasuke merely ignored her and decided to scout out the competition.
When Ino noticed that Sakura wasn't fighting over Sasuke as usual, she grew confused. "Wow Forehead, not going to fight over Sasuke-kun?" Ino asked in surprise.
Sakura shook her head, "Nope, I'm all over him now." Sakura replied. Ino had a look of utter shock on her face. In her mind she was thinking, 'Yes! Now that Forehead is out of the way, Sasuke-kun is mine!
"You should really quiet down. Wouldn't want to attract attention to yourselves, would you?" asked an unknown voice. Everyone turned their heads to see a silver haired man wearing glasses walking up to them.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked. The man rubbed the back of his head. "How rude of me, I forgot to introduce myself. Well my name is Kabuto." he said. "How many times have you taken these exams, Kabuto-san?" Naruto asked politely.
Kabuto gave them a sheepish grin. "Seven times, actually." he replied. "Wow, you must suck then!" the boy with the dog shouted. Kabuto adopted a serious look. "These exams aren't as easy as they seem. Luckily though, I have compiled all the information I have acquired on these 'Nin-Info' cards."
He took out of a deck of blank cards, receiving a sweat drop from all the rookies. "These cards may seem blank, but I assure you, they're anything but that." Kabuto said as he channeled chakra through one of the cards. A picture of an unknown shinobi appeared on the card.
"So is there any information on one of the competitors you want?" Kabuto asked. Sasuke stepped up to the silver-haired Genin. "Gaara of Suna and Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha." Naruto looked suspciously at Sasuke. "You know their names, that makes it easy." Kabuto stated.
He took two cards from the deck, and channeled chakra into them. A picture of Gaara appeared on the card, showing his statistics. "Gaara of Suna, 30 D-Ranks, 18 C-Ranks, and 2 B-Ranks." He then looked wide-eyed at the next piece of information. "Has never received any injuries?! Impressive. Techniques unknown. "
'Must be Shukaku's sand shield.' Naruto thought. Kabuto took turned over the next card. "Naruto Uzumaki. High Ninjutsu, High Taijutsu, and Average Genjutsu." Kabuto read off the card. Naruto narrowed his eyes. 'There's no way he could have that information. The only real fighting I did was against Kakashi and Haku, and even then I was holding back.'
"Do you know anything about the teams participating? Naruto asked. Kabuto nodded, Sure do, let's see… teams from Konoha, Suna, Taki, Iwa, Kumo, Kusa, Kiri, Ame, and Oto are competing in these exams."Though I wouldn't worry too much about the team from Oto. The village just got started so they're pretty weak."
Suddenly, a man with a face covered in bandages appeared in front of Kabuto. He made to punch Kabuto in the stomach, but Naruto appeared in between them. He easily caught the mummy's fist and sent him a glare.
"Now why would you be fighting before the exams even started, buddy?" Naruto asked. The mummy was shaken by Naruto's intense glare. "He made fun of our village." he replied.
Before Naruto could retort, a puff of smoke caused everyone's heads to turn to the front of the room." A group of Chunin and a giant man standing in the middle of them appeared. "Alright you little shits, shut up and sit down!" the giant bellowed.
Everyone rushed to take a seat and instantly quieted down. "Welcome to the Chunin Exams! My name is Ibiki Morino." the man introduced.
"The first part of this exam is a written test. Anyone who is caught cheating is automatically disqualified with the rest of their team, and you won't be able to retake this exam. One of the Genin decided to speak up.
"How's that fair, people here have taken these exams before!" a Genin shouted. Ibiki smirked. "Well since I'm conducting the exam, the rules are mine to give." Ibiki retorted.
"Anyways, you get three chances for cheating. If you are caught cheating three times, you are disqualified. There is to be no talking or sharing answers during the test. You will have forty-five minutes to complete this test. At the end of forty-five minutes, I will give you the tenth and final question. "
When Ibiki asked if anyone had any questions, no one answered. "BEGIN!" Ibiki shouted.
The Chunin hopefuls attacked their papers furiously. Naruto examined the paper and found that he couldn't answer them. When he was in the forest the Sage taught him math, language arts, etc, but not even all that could help him now.
Realization dawned on Naruto. 'They expect us to cheat. They knew no Genin could answer these kinds of questions unless they were a genius.' he thought. He quickly put his hands under the table and made several hand seals. "Wood Release: Wood Clone" he whispered.
Outside of the classroom, a body emerged from the floorboards and changed into Naruto. The clone waited for one of the Chunin to exit the room. When one finally went out, the clone got behind him and knocked him out. It dragged him into a random room. The clone then changed its appearance to match the Chunin.
The clone reentered the room and immediately looked over at the Genin's papers. The clone's vision got transferred to Naruto who proceeded to write down answers to the test.
Half an hour later, Ibiki announced the tenth question was about to be said. "Now before I ask the tenth question, who here wants to drop out now?" Several hands shot up and the respective teams left. Ibiki looked over at the whole group and he gave them a wide smile. "Congratulations, you all pass!" Ibiki shouted.
Most of the Genin were shocked, annoyed, pissed, or all three. "What?! What do you mean we pass, what about the tenth question?!" shouted an annoyed Genin.
"The test was to see if you could gather information without getting caught. The tenth question was to see if you had the courage to fight for the information you needed." Ibiki took off his headband to reveal a bald head with scratches, burns, puncture wounds, and all the possible methods of torture. "You got to have the guts to keep your information to yourself, or to steal someone else's." Ibiki stated.
Some of the Genin were trying desperately to not to throw up at the gruesome sight. Then, from out of nowhere, a canister broke through a window, filling the area with smoke.
When the smoke cleared, it revealed a woman with purple pineapple-style hair with fair skin, wearing a fishnet shirt clearly revealing her…assets. On top of the shirt was a brown trench coat.
Once she finished looking over the remaining teams, she scowled at Ibiki. "Twenty-nine teams left? You must be losing you touch, Ibiki!" the women said. Ibiki shrugged, "We have some talented Genin this year. "Well whatever, my name is Anko Mitarashi, and I'm your proctor for the second part of the exams. Meet me at training ground 44 at noon. Be prepared, cause I'm hoping to cut the number of teams in half!" With that, she vanished in a puff of smoke.
As told, the remaining teams arrived at training ground 44. There was sign on the large fence that read, 'Forest of Death.'
Some of the teams were intimidated by the name. Team 7 only scoffed at the scared teams."Weaklings" Sasuke stated. Naruto snickered while Sakura giggled.
"Alright maggots, listen up!" Anko exclaimed while reaching into her pouch to pull out two scrolls. "Your task is to get both of these scrolls. A Heaven and Earth scroll. You will get either one of these scrolls when the test starts. Your job is to get the scroll that you didn't get. You will have a total of five days to get to the tower at the middle of this forest."
"What will we do for food?!" Ino's chubby teammate asked. Anko had a sinister grin on her face. "There are a lot of small animals and plants that you can eat." she said.
When she received on further questions she handed out one scroll to each team and made them sign a waiver.
Team 7 waited outside of their gate, waiting for the signal to begin. A loud bell could be heard all over the forest as the teams raced into the Forest of Death.
Naruto made several shadow clones to scout out the area. "We should find a safe place to camp for the night while my clones try to look for the team with the scroll we need." Naruto suggested.
Sasuke and Sakura both nodded as they set up camp under a giant tree that had an equally giant hole in it. Naruto made more clones to gather food and water while Sasuke and Sakura searched for fire wood.
One of Naruto's clones dispelled, indicating that it had been destroyed. Before Naruto sent out his clones, he made them all henge into a random person as not to alert the other teams whose team they were on.
'Someone strong enough to destroy one of my stronger clones…interesting.' Naruto thought. By nightfall, all of the clones had found no sign of a team with the scroll they needed.
Team 7 decided to look around for a team with the right scroll, careful not to stray too far from camp.
With no such luck, Team 7 decided to head back to the camp, but as they were turning around to walk back, a powerful gust of wind blew them into different parts of the forest.
Sasuke and Sakura were relatively close to each other, but Naruto was nowhere to be found. They heard a sound that sounded a lot like hissing.
"Kukuku… now that there are only two of you, this will make it easier to retrieve my prize…" A woman from Kusa stepped out from her hiding place, with a long tongue sticking out of her mouth. "Now Sasuke-kun… your body will finally be mine. "
I am very sorry for the very late and short chapter, school has started up again and I have a ton of homework. On top of that, my dad has been hogging the computer as you might have known. I usually start off with a chapter one day and finish it another day, so you might have been confused by my words. Anyway, this was chapter 8, see you next time.