Kenkaku no Iwa: Swordsman of the Rock Another of Jinsoku's titles

Quicksilver Sensui. One of Jinsoku's titles

The Second Exam Begins: Revelations

As the group of examees made their way to the site of the next part of the Chuunin Exams, Ibiki was making his way to the Hokage with information regarding his missing daughter. When he arrived at Minato's office, he knocked once and waited for the sound of shuffling clothes to end before walking inside, immediately noticing Minato's and Kushina's ruffled appearances.

Keeping a neutral face, he bowed before his leader and said, "Hokage-sama, through the course of the First Exam I have discovered information pertinent to the rescuing of your daughter."

Before he could continue, he was set upon by two anxious faces that were way too close for comfort. Taking a step backward didn't seem to change anything as they moved with him. Giving a mental sigh, he continued, "It appears that she is currently under the guise of a young Shinobi that bears the name Naruto Sakamoto, and has blond hair and blue eyes."

Minato and Kushina blinked as they processed this. Giving Ibiki a suspicious glance, Minato asked, "Naruto? Really?" Ibiki nodded. Minato frowned, "Strange, I could have sworn that nobody read Sensei's book except me and Kushina. Unless it was chosen because the person was eating ramen and saw one in his food. But really, Naruto?"

He had every right to be skeptical; after all, the daughter he had been looking for all this time bore the given name of his own son. And so, seeing as this wasn't getting anywhere fast, Kushina decided to take the reins.

Pressing her face within inches of Ibiki's, which was only accomplished by standing on her toes, she asked, "So what is being done to save her?"

Both Minato and Ibiki sighed. "We can't dispel the henge just yet," Ibiki explained. "It would be seen as deliberate sabotage and she would immediately be removed and taken back to Iwa."

Kushina's face fell. But then she suddenly perked up, causing both Ibiki and Minato to look at her warily, especially when an evil smirk appeared. Ibiki stepped back, and when Minato tried to do the same, Kushina grabbed his hand and squeezed it hard in warning.

Looking up at her husband, she said, "Honey, I know how we can get her back without having to dispel the henge on our own. And all we need is her godmother."

Minato paled, and Ibiki was barely holding it in. "H-her g-godm-mother, Kushina? Are you sure that's wise? The last time we tried to get her involved she threw me over the forest and Mount Hokage before I could use my Hiraishin to get to safety."

This time Ibiki did visibly pale. Kushina, however, simply grinned smugly, "Well, dear, that would be because you tried to flash her here and she didn't like that. Now, my plan will be far more effective, and successful, in that all we have to do is tell her that her goddaughter has been found."

Minato gulped, "And by we you mean me, don't you?"

Kushina patted his shoulder, "Glad you understand, now get going, mister, you don't have a lot of time to find her."

And so the hunt began.

Meanwhile in Tanzaku Gai

Tsunade was playing at the slot machines when she suddenly got 3 7's. Her eyes widened comically, and then, turning around, she yelled, "Shizune! Grab the winnings and the pig! We're getting out of here!"

Unfortunately for her, as soon as she got out of the building, she ran smack-dab into Minato, who had decided to take a break while looking and had just Hiraishined in front of the building. Both of them, being unprepared for the sudden collision, fell backwards, with Tsunade on top.

Minato, after recovering from banging his head, looked up to see who ran into him and gasped, "Tsu-tsu-tsunade!"

It was after he said this that Tsunade recognized the blond mane and eyes and groaned. "Not again! I am not going on some hair-brained mission to find a dead girl!"

It was at this moment that the Yondaime grinned. "She's not dead, Tsunade." He pulled them both to their feet, which should have been impossible considering he was on the bottom but ninjas' like to be confusing that way. He held up his hand to silence her ready-made argument. "She's not dead, and I can prove it." She raised an eyebrow. "I know you must think I am crazy, but she's in Konoha right now, and, while she might not be portraying her true gender, she is there. All we need you to do is come back to Konoha and help us get her back."

Tsunade narrowed her eyes, "And why do you need help to get her when she is in your village?"

Minato's smiling face turned grim, "That's the thing, Tsunade, we can't just take her. Iwa will declare that we are stealing their Shinobi and declare war. And we are still reeling from the Kyuubi attack. Yes, that's right, Iwa. They kidnapped her that night and took her away to train her as a weapon to be used against us. Right now they entered her in the Chuunin Exams under a henge of a blond boy and unless you help us, when this Exam is over, they will take her away and we will never see her again!" He got down onto his knees, "Please, Tsunade! I'm begging you! Don't let them take my baby girl away from me again! I don't think I could manage a second time."

The Legendary Sucker tried to resist, but inevitably fell under the sway of the terrifying Puppy Dog Eyes Jutsu. With his task accomplished, Minato prepared to return to his village but Tsunade stopped him to grab Shizune and the pig and then they all flashed together to Konoha, where the Second Exam was about to begin.

Back in Konoha

Anko stood on a raised platform with her back to a dark enclosed forest that was making many disturbing sounds, to which she only smirked as she saw the reactions of the Genin before her to them.

Anko, in her tiny skirt, mesh shirt and brown trench coat and her purple hair in a ponytail made an intimidating image, especially with the creepy way her tongue kept flashing out at odd intervals.

"Alright you maggots, listen up," you could tell she had been taking lessons from Ibiki, "The forest behind me is known as the Training area 44, otherwise known as the Forest of Death, or my playground. You will be spending five days in this place, trying to get two of these." At this point she held up two scrolls, one with the Kanji for Heaven, the other with Earth. "You will be in your squads, and as a warning, do not open these in the forest."

"And why not?" a random Genin asked.

Her smirk grew, sending chills down the spines of most present. "It would be in your best interest to do as I say, brat. Moving right along, there is a tower in the center of the forest where you re to deliver the two scrolls. You will be often asked to deliver messages for clients for missions, and like those missions, you don't open the letters to see what's inside. Well, enough for the warning. One member of your team will be given the scroll to carry. Oh, and two more things, you can only take in what you have on you right now." She was greeted with a roar of disapproval from the examees, the loudest being one Choji Akimichi, who complained about the lack of food on his person while eating a bag of potato chips. Still smirking, she continued, "There is also no limit on what you can do to get the scroll you need from other teams. That means killing is allowed, which is why you will all have to sign a waiver so that we won't be held accountable in the case of your 'unfortunate' demise." The way she said unfortunate send even more shivers down their spines. Surely this woman wasn't normal. "This is a no holds barred exam, go over to the tables to get your waivers and scroll and then once the paperwork is done, go to the gate number they give you."

After the teams signed the waivers and got their scrolls, they all lined up at their designated gates and waited for the signal.

With a certain explosive-happy shinobi

Deidara was leaning over a piece of paper with a very complicated seal written on it. It was a seal along the same lines as Danzo's loyalty seal, except that not only does it stop the bearer from talking about it, they have to do whatever the person who knows the seals commands them to do, like, say, destroy the entire Hidden Leaf Village.

And, of course, Deidara being who he was, was too concentrated on the paper before him to notice that someone was watching him. A small fly was hovering in the air behind him making far less noise than a real fly should. But it was only a matter of time before the blonde nin noticed it and took it out the only way he knows how: with a bang. But the result was that it the seal got peppered by debris thus ruining it and making the whole thing useless. But Deidara wasn't an expert on seals and so didn't notice.

Now the seal would only prevent the bearer from talking about things, and, while that can get annoying, wouldn't stop information from getting out completely.

And so, outside the room, Roshi was going over the memories he had just received from his clone and sighed. If the Tsuchikage continued down this path then he would be forced to make choices he would really prefer not to.

Now, the reason that Roshi could make a clone and henge it is that Jinchuuriki, by way of their tenants, have higher amounts of chakra then others, and so tend to overdo the simplest jutsus, and so the perfect henge came into being.

With the Second Exam just beginning, things would be really messy if that seal was applied, and Roshi would be damned if he let Onoki get his way this time without him doing something about it.

It seemed that he would have to get a message to Jinsoku somehow.

The kid, while young, was one of the most accomplished ninja in all five major villages and his skills were above and beyond what you would expect to see in someone his age, which he used to his advantage. Now, after all that, one would wonder, then why is he still a genin? The answer: he's not. He's actually a member of Tremor. Being a member of the visible yet invisible force of Iwa, Jinsoku was assigned to protect the oldest child of the Yondaime Hokage with his life if need be. Now, you don't give a Tremor that kind of order when the person they're watching is likely to jump ship thus requiring them to do the same. Which makes the order defunct that in turn makes the whole thing pointless, but then again, there are those fanatic few who would follow their orders even beyond their village's walls.

Now, the Kenkaku no Iwa was no slouch, and with his track record, he was easily the most accomplished of his peers, but, by virtue of his age, he was the only one actually able to pull acting as a genin off. Although being in several Bingo Books definitely wouldn't make this easy.

He only hoped the Uchiha clan didn't catch wind of him, especially when he bears the Mangekyo.

Please tell me what you think! Sorry for taking so long, been working on all my stories at the same time so its slow going. Stay tuned for the next chapter: Chapter 11: The Second Exam: Between Rock and a Snake