I am so SO sorry its taken so long!

I have had no time what so ever to get any writing done due to work and a recent placement.

My workplace is working me to the bone, and its mostly evening shifts.

I'm working on the next chapter, so please be patient with me.

A blood curling screamed echoed through the vast depths of the forest, making me and my team pause our walking.

"That was someone's scream, right?" Asked Sakura nervously.

A flock of Birds flew overhead, terrorized of what they just heard, flying fanatically away.

I narrowed my eyes, "we're only five minutes in the exam, and already the killing has started" I stated "jeez this place couldn't get anymore intense!"

"I'm starting to get nervous..." Sakura muttered.

Naruto placed his arms on the back of his head, "It's nothing, Sakura-chan!" he tried to reassure, even though he sounded just as jumpy as she did. But then suddenly, he ran towards the tree behind him.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"I need to pee."

I did a double take "Whoa hang on a second!" I cried, Sakura managed to stop him by punching him on the back of the head.

"You idiot!" she yelled "What are you trying to do in front of a lady!" She then pointed towards the bushes and ordered him to do his business there. Not wanting to annoy her any more, Naruto quickly disappeared into the greenery.

I took this moment to try and sense out my surroundings, but the trees were so tall and thick, it made wind reading practically impossible.

"Do you hear that?" I muttered.

Sasuke glanced at me, "I don't hear anything..."

"Exactly" I cut in "no more birds, no breeze, this place is practically a dead zone."

Sasuke knew what I was getting at, which means that we couldn't rely on my wind reading skills this time around, unless we found a more open area.

Naruto then reappeared.

"Are you done?" I asked him.

Naruto sighed in a light tone "I peed a lot! That felt good."

I cringed "too much information."

"Like I said" Sakura snapped, holding her fist in the air "don't say such a thing in front of a lady..."

WHAM!

All of a sudden, Sasuke attacked Naruto out of no where, knocking him backwards on against a tree.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sasuke said still shocked "you didn't have to go that far!"

Naruto rubbed his now sore cheek "Why... did you do that?" he asked carefully.

This caused me to raise my eyebrow 'That's not the kind of reaction I'd expect from Naruto... unless...' Yes, the Naruto I know would start screaming furiously at Sasuke, and demand that he fight him fairly and what not.

As Sasuke continued his attack, I finally realised what was going on.

Naruto tried to escape through the trees, but got knocked back down.

"What are you doing all of a sudden?" Naruto asked relatively calm.

"What, you ask?" Sasuke mused "that's my line!"

Sakura tried to stop him from attacking our teammate further, but I managed to intercept her.

"What are you doing!?" she hissed at me.

"Just hold on a sec" I whispered back, "something isn't quite right."

Naruto and Sasuke clashed knives, and both dodged one move after another.

"Sasuke-kun, please stop!" Sakura pleaded.

"Look at him closely!" Sasuke ordered.

Sakura was still confused, for a smart girl she can be really clueless sometimes.

"Spill it!" Sasuke commanded "Where's the real Naruto?"

Naruto gasped "I don't know what you're talking about."

I huffed "oh I think you do."

"What happened to the wound on your face?" Sasuke pointed out.

Now that he mentioned it, Naruto showed no sign of the scratch he received from Anko earlier.

Sasuke repeated himself one more time, he also noted that Naruto always had his shuriken on his right leg, not the left.

I got my kunai out, "also Naruto would never react so calmly when attacked, especially by Sasuke."

"You're even worse than Naruto at transforming, you fake loser" Sasuke insulted.

Smoke interrupted around Naruto, completely hiding him from out sight. Once the smoke cleared, Naruto was gone. In his stead was a boy in a white jumpsuit, a gas mask and a grass ninja headband.

"How unlucky" he commented, his voice slightly muffled by the mask "I guess I have no choice, since you found me out. Which one of you has the scroll?"

I pointed the Kunai at him "you're in no position to make any demands."

"If you give it up quietly, I'll spare your lives" he tried to bargain.

I tsked, "why you over-confident brat." I charged in for the attack. The grass ninja's eyes widened in amusement "I see, I have to use force now!"

I threw a kunai at him, which caused him to dodge to the left, like I predicted. I went to do a leg sweep to try and knock him off balance, but he managed to dodge it by jumping up in the air.

"Too easy!" he boasted.

I smirked "is it?"

He blinked in confusion, not realising Sasuke was weaving hand signs behind him.

Fireballs shot out from his mouth. The grass ninja looked behind him to see what was happening.

'Now's my chance!'

I kicked him in the gut, causing him to fling into the fireballs. However, he seemed to recover quickly and jumped against a tree. Sasuke met him in the middle and they clashed kunai.

"Hey! Sasuke!" I heard someone yell.

I jumped over the large Branch to see Naruto tied up. Sasuke must have noticed him to, as he threw another kunai knife on the ground, next to our teammate. Quickly I jumped down to grab the knife and cut him free.

"Okay!" Naruto cheered as he threw the ropes off him. Sasuke continued to battle with the grass ninja, and it seemed pretty even until he threw an exploding tag.

"Sasuke!" I called out.

Thankfully, he managed to get away from the cross fire and land back on the ground. But the grass Ninja was too fast and got behind him.

"Lucky me" he sang "if you move, I'll kill you."

Sasuke glanced behind him as the ninja demanded that he hung over scroll quietly.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried out.

I went to his aid, but Naruto beat me to it, by throwing the kunai knife he was given by me.

"You're not getting away!" Naruto bellowed.

Sasuke glanced backwards at the Kunai, his Sharingan fully active. With his chakra, he held the blade under his feet.

'Whoah! That some serious chakra control!' I thought as he swung his leg around to fling the blade at our enemy.

The ninja dodged the blade, but completely forgot for about a certain Uchiha. Sasuke took full advantage and managed to stab him in shoulder.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried again.

"Don't just stand there, Sakura!" Sasuke barked.

"Huh?"

I shook my head "idiot! He may not be alone, so keep your guard up!" I snarled "Or you're really going to die!"

Sasuke managed to kick the enemy off of him, "I could use a little help here!"

"Right!" I jumped past my teammate and directly to my target.

'Mountain Fist, Claws of the Mountain Wolf!'

I heard Him gasp has I hit my claw on his wound, aggravating it more.

"This is unlucky" I heard him grunt.

I smirked "that's what you get for charging in on your own."

The ninja turned in the air and fled through the forest, I tried to follow, but he disappeared into the shadows.

"Damn it!" I cursed, as I shook the hand I used to attack. "Is everyone alright?" I called back as I turned to face them.

I made my way back to my team, Sasuke wiped the blood off his face whilst Sakura and Naruto walked over.

"I've never seen you do that move before" Sakura commented.

I grinned "That's because I only learnt it a week ago."

Sakura looked at me in amazement and demanded how I found out about it.

"Well, it was my brother who told me about it, but I never made the effort to perfect it" I explained. "It wasn't until Sasuke reminded me of it during our training that I remembered it, I figured it would be useful."

"Right... its kinda scary that you managed to master it so quickly" Sakura muttered.

I paid no mind to her comment, she obviously didn't remember that I was able to learn techniques fairly easily.

We all sat in a circle to figure out what our next move was. Sasuke, was the first to speak.

"If the four of us get separated, don't trust anyone even if he looks like one of us" he stated. "There's a possibility that an enemy will transform into one of us and approach."

"So, what should we do?" Sakura quizzed.

I folded my arms and hummed in thought "we need some sort of code, or secret password."

"Password?" Naruto repeated.

"I agree" said Sasuke, and explained that if a different password is given, we must assume that they are an enemy no matter what he looks like.

"I'm only going to say this once, so listen carefully" he stated.

'W-wait a second!' I screeched in my head, Sasuke knows that when it comes to remembering phrases, I had to hear them at least wince!

Oh don't judge me, it's a language thing!

"First" he began "you ask, 'The ninja song Ninki'? The answer is the following... It is a good chance when a large number of enemies are making a scene. There are no hideouts even in a quiet place. It is important for a ninja to know the right time. The time when the enemy is tired, and has his guard down... That's it."

"Okay" confirmed Sakura confidently. I however felt a little lost.

"Could you say it one more time?" Naruto asked.

Sakura threw him a disappointing look.

"I said that I'm only going to say it once" Sasuke replied sternly.

Sakura scoffed "could you not remember it all? You're stupid. I memorised it right away."

Well now I felt like a fool, because like Naruto, I couldn't remember it either. Maybe if Sasuke repeated it in Yamakurism I'd understand it better.

"I remembered it perfectly, too!" Naruto countered "I just wanted to be sure by hearing it one more time..."

Sasuke stood up and decided to keep the scroll, but Naruto told him to wait. However, he was suddenly cut off when he cradled his cheek.

"What's wrong?" I asked, then I noticed fresh scratch on his other cheek. Suddenly, I massive gust of wind fell upon us.

"A new enemy?" Sasuke questioned, shielding his face. Closing my eyes, I was able to briefly sense the enemy through the vibration of the wind.

"Three..." I managed to muster "there's three of them-AHHH!"

It was no use, the gale was so powerful it flung me backwards towards a tree. My back hit with loud, painful thud. I harshly hit the ground and probably had stars floating around my head.

"Owie!" I cringed holding the back of my neck, "this exam is becoming a pain!" Groggily I stood up and scanned the area. From the looks of it, I didn't stray to far from where my team was. I guess the tree was a slight silver lining.

A rusting of bushes could be heard from behind me, I prepared for attack.

"Tomoko?"

I blinked, "Sasuke!"

"Wait!" he commanded, pulling out his kunai knife "what's the password?"

"Er..."

"The ninja song 'Ninki'?" he started.

I began to panic, being killed by my own best friend wasn't exactly what I wanted! "Well... it was something to do with... making a scene? And hideouts... erm... ninjas and time... ahh... GOD DAMN IT!"

I stomped my foot "ðu bastard! Hú béon ic gewénan æt gemonan á þæs! Gif ðu cannot recognise mec æfter ðu béon á lousy freónd! (You bastard! How am I suppose to remember all that! If you cannot recognise me then you are a lousy friend!)."

Sasuke suddenly chuckled.

"WHAT'S SO FUNNY!?" I asked very ticked off.

Sasuke smirked "I knew there was no way you'd remember all that, that's why I only said it once in my first language. I also knew you would start insulting me Yamakurism, you do that when you get flustered."

"You... you did it on purpose!?" I screeched "What happened to killing anyone who didn't know it!"

"Like I said, I knew you wouldn't remember it. Quit getting so mad, at least I'm not trying to kill you" he told me.

I couldn't help but huff, although it was brilliant strategy on Sasuke's part, I couldn't help but feel upset that he used my weakness as a way to distinguish me.

"Then what about Naruto?" I shot at him "you do realise that he isn't gonna remember any of that password right?"

"Of course" he replied "why do you think I only said it once?"

I felt a vein pop in my head "you don't have to be a jerk about it!"

Suddenly, I sensed a presence coming to towards us, Sasuke prepared for an attack.

"Sakura!" I called seeing her standing there.

"Tomoko! Sasuke-kun!" she replied as she took a step forward, only to be stop by our male teammate demanding the password.

"O-Okay" she stuttered, and repeated the answer flawlessly.

Seemingly satisfied with her answer, Sasuke relaxed a little.

"Hey wait a minute" Sakura spoke and pointed at me "aren't you gonna ask her?"

"er..."

"Don't worry, I already asked her" Sasuke answered.

"And she got the answer, right?" Sakura asked.

"What the heck is that suppose to mean!?" I snapped.

Sakura squealed and pulled a scared expression "okay, there's no doubt you're Tomoko..."

I was about to retaliate to that comment, but I was cut off by Naruto yelling at us...

'When did he get here?'

"Hey, Everyone, are you okay?" he asked us, sounding out of breath.

"Naruto, wait a minute" said Sakura, stopping him in his tracks "say the password."

Naruto grinned "I know" he confirmed.

"It is a good chance when a large amount if enemies are making a scene, There are no hideouts in a quiet place."

'Naruto is remembering all that?!' I thought, 'no way! He's gotta mess up at some point!'

"It is important for a ninja to know the right time. The time when the enemy is tired, and has his guard down."

Sakura let out a sigh of relief.

"Well that was impressive" I commented sarcastically.

"Hehe thanks!" Naruto gushed.

"That wasn't a compliment."

Naruto didn't have time to retorted, as Sasuke to caught on to what I was thinking a threw a Kunai at him.

Naruto barely dodged it, by stumbling to the ground "what are you doing!?"

"This time, we have someone good enough to dodge my attack" Sasuke stated.

"What are you talking about Sasuke-kun?" Sakura demanded "Naruto said the password correctly!"

"That's why we have a problem" he casually replied.

"Huh?"

"Oh come on!" I said becoming very pissed off "do you honestly think Naruto would remember a long password like that?!"

Sakura blinked, finally piecing it all together "good point, he would say 'sorry, I forgot'."

"And the movement he showed when he dodged my attack is different from Naruto" Sasuke concluded.

"Enough tricks! Show your real self!" I ordered.

Naruto then threw us a very, unnatural grin and chuckled. And if that wasn't creepy enough, the guy licked his lips with an abnormally long tongue.

"I see" he mused, and in a puff of smoke, Naruto disappeared and was replaced with another grass ninja.

'Wait a minute, that's the same guy from earlier! Who crept behind Anko!'

"If you knew that he was going to forget it... why didn't you use a shorter password?" he asked my male teammate.

Sasuke pulled his signature smirk "I knew that you were evesdropping on our conversation inside the ground. That's why I made a long password."

The grass ninja removed his straw hat and sent a smirk of his own "I see, so you don't let your guard down."

"As if we can let our guard down in a place like this" I remarked acidly.

"Looks like I can have more fun than I expected" he sang and licked his lips again.

I shivered "urgh this guy is a total creeper!" But I couldn't help but wonder where Naruto was. But I couldn't think about that now, as the snake freak pulled out a scroll.

And it wasn't just any scroll either, it was an earth scroll.

"You want our Scroll of Earth, right?" he asked "Since you have the Scroll of Heaven..."

"What... are you going..."

I never got to finish my sentence, as I watched in horror this guy wrap his snake like tongue, around the scroll and swallowed it whole.

As if I was weirded out already.

"Now..." he jeered, "lets begin... the fight over our scrolls..."

I held my arms up in a defensive position, preparing myself for the worse

I heard Sakura and Sasuke gasp behind me, distracting me slightly.

Then, out of the blue I felt a massive surge of chakra coming towards us. Turning back to our enemy, I was suddenly by a red light, and was surrounded by blood.

'What's going on!? My whole body feels numb!'

Kunai came flying towards my forehead, I tried to move my arms to block the attack but they felt heavy like led.

But then everything stopped, I once again had control of my body and the gory scene that I just saw was gone.

"What?" I heard the grass Ninja mumble.

I scanned the area in front of me and looked down on my arms... a slight green tint shone from the vanbrace.

'Did they just cancel out the Genjustu?'

Movement could be heard from behind me, turning my head I saw something I never wanted to see. Both my teammates looking utterly terrified.

Sakura fell to the floor and Sasuke was panting heavily, he then doubled over and vomited on the floor.

"Sasuke!" I called frantic.

I looked at Sakura to see her shaking like a leaf in the winter cold, tears streaming down her face.

Crap this isn't good.

I glared at the enemy in front of us "What did you do to them!?"

The Ninja gave me a cold glare "I just demonstrated my intent, to kill you all."

Sasuke tried his best to get up, but was completely frozen.

"S-Sakura..." he called, but got no reply.

"Oy! I don't know what you two saw but you gonna snap out of it!"

"They won't be moving for a while" the ninja remarked.

I cursed under my breath, all I could do now was distract him long enough for them to recover.

"I have to say" he crooned "I'm quite impressed, you must have incredible will power to break out of my Genjustu."

I narrowed my eyes at him "flattery will get you nowhere!"

He burst out laughing "Oh yes, now I understand why they are so interested in you!"

"Interested? Who are you talking about?!" I demanded.

But all he did was lick his lips again "let's play... Tomoko-Kendra..."

My eyes widened, how did he know that name!?

Like the speed of light, he went in for the attack, hitting me straight in the face. Completely caught off guard, I stumbled backwards.

I went to high kick him, but he was too fast and ended up behind me.

'So fast!'

He grabbed a hold of my arm and yanked it upwards, causing a shooting pain to surge up my arm.

I grinded my teeth in pain, and froze in one place.

"What's wrong?" he asked me in a weird tone "why are you holding back?"

With my free hand, I elbowed him in the gut, but he saw it coming and dodged backwards... letting me go in the process.

I skidded backwards, joining my team once again.

"It looks like they still can't move" he remarked "you're not showing me your full potential."

"I've had enough of you!" I yelled charging at him, moving my right hand into a claw.

"Hm?" he hummed.

'Mountain Fist! Claws of the-'

"Now lets not get hasty."

I gasped in shock as he flawlessly grabbed my wrist, and cancelling out my flow of chakra.

"How did you..."

"Questions, questions" he repeated playful and without flinching, struck me on the side of the head. I was flung violently to the ground, skidding and tumbling in the dirt.

"How disappointing" I heard him say.

I glower at him as I pushed my upper body up.

"You have such a rare power, and you don't use it." He stated "Why is that?"

Rare power? I don't have a rare power!

At least... I don't think I do...

"hmmm" he hummed "I know, I'll give you some motivation!"

I saw him turn his attention to my teammates.

"NO!" I cried out, "SASUKE! SAKURA!"

"Looks like you still can't move" he told them walking towards them.

Although still white as a sheep, Sasuke managed to move his arm and get out his kunai.

The grass ninja constricted his gaze "What are you going to do with that?"

Sasuke's eyes widened, realising that our enemy was watching him.

The Grass ninja pulled out two kunai knives and told him that he would end their lives in a flash.

I tried to get up, but my body was in too much pain from my fall. "Sasuke! Move! He's going to attack!"

No response.

"God damn it Sasuke! MOVE!"

But it was too late, the Ninja threw the knives at my helpless teammates... and all I could do was watch.