DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know this by now...
(A/N) Like what I did here? It's chapter 44, and we get to go to training ground 44...Yeah...I'm not funny.
But anyway,
TO THE STORY!
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Chapter 44: Training Ground 44
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After a while people began to file out of the room. Giving up. Once all the quitters left Ibuki looked around the room. "Alright, everyone left in the room you all...Pass." he said. He got a few 'What the fucks' and intelligent 'huhs?' from the room. Naruto just snickered as Ibuki explained the importance of gaining information and how much of a risk it is to get it. Once he finished his speech he was about to congratulate them when a black mass shot through the window.
A sign held open by kunai unfurled. Naruto paled when he saw what it said. 'THE SEXY AND EXPECTING UZUMAKI ANKO HAS ARRIVED!'
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Anko proceeded to crash through the window and land on top of Ibuki's desk. "Alright ya snot nose brats! It's time for the second Exam!" She yelled with a sadistic grin. Ibuki sighed and facepalmed. "You're early Anko...again." he said while shaking his head.
Naruto stood up and pointed at his mother. "YOU! You're not suppose to be here! You're on maternity leave!" he roared. Anko froze when she saw Naruto. She took a second to find an excuse to be there while Ibuki raised an eyebrow and looked at his coworker with a critical eye.
Anko's eyes darted around the room a couple of times before she stammered out an excuse. "Oh, uh...Naru-kun...ah...the doctor said that if I'm not doing any physical labor then I could keep working..." she said, obviously nervous. Naruto just gave her a deadpan stare. "You mean like you were just doing? Mom, I'm pretty sure busting through a window and being a proctor for the Chunin exams is physical labor. Go home." he ordered her while pointing back out the window she came from. Anko hung her head and slowly walked to the window and crawled out of the room, all while muttering things like 'mean sons' and 'stupid rules' and something about no 'torture'? Naruto shook his head and sat back down. The entire room of Chunin hopefuls were looking at him like he was crazy.
He looked back at them and scowled. "What? I don't want my Mom to do anything stupid while pregnant. Gotta problem with that?" he said letting out a little killing intent. There were 'no's' and head shaking throughout the room. He turned back around and faced Ibuki. "Wait...she's actually pregnant?" Ibuki asked in a questioning tone. Naruto nodded. "Yup, twins." He said with a grin. Ibuki just raised an eyebrow and let out a amused hum. He cleared his throat to get the attention of the Chunin hopefuls. "Well, that little interruption aside. Follow the proctors to Training Ground 44. You will continue to the second portion of the exam. And one last thing. Good luck." he said with a smile, scaring the absolute shit out of everyone.
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About thirty minutes later all of the teams were in front of a large fenced off forest. They waited there for a few minutes before a tall and pale Tokubetsu Jonin walked up in front of the group. He wore a bandanna that covered his brown hair. "Hello *cough*, my name is Hayate Gekko. *cough cough* And since Uzumaki Anko can no longer be in charge of this portion of the exam, *cough* I have taken over. So, lets go over the rules. *cough* This forest is Training Ground 44, otherwise known as 'The Forest of Death'. *cough cough* Your mission is *cough* to survive for five days *cough* in the forest while searching *cough cough cough* for other teams and taking their scroll. These are the scrolls you need to pass." he said as he held up the Heaven and Earth scrolls. "Your team will *cough* be given one of these two scrolls, and your objective is to make it to the tower *cough cough cough cough* in the center of the forest with both by the end of the five days. If one of your members die or are incapacitated when you arrive to the tower you will be disqualified.*cough cough* If you open the scrolls before you arrive to the tower you will be disqualified. Anything else goes. *cough cough cough cough COUGH!*"
Everyone of the Chunin hopefuls sweatdropped at the sickly shinobi. "Man Hayate...see a doctor!" Naruto thought as he saw the poor guy struggle for air for a moment. As soon as he got his breath under control and held up a stack of paper. "Here are the wavers to saw that if you die in the forest it's not the fault of Konoha. Please sign them or drop out." he said as he almost got into another coughing fit, but was able to keep it under 'some' control. Each team went up and signed their release forms and walked over to receive a scroll.
Sasuke was handed a Heaven Scroll and walked back to the rest of his team. Team 7 waited in front of one of the many gates that lined the fence around the forest. "Hey, Sasuke. Once we get into the forest hand me the scroll. I've got an idea." Naruto said in a hushed tone. Sasuke gave him a questioning look for a moment but just shrugged it off. They waited for a moment and then heard the speakers turn on. "Ok *cough cough* in 3, 2, 1...begin!" Hayate said over the speaker. The fences opened and Team 7 spare no time dashing in.
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About a quarter mile into the forest they stopped. Sasuke turned to Naruto and tossed him the scroll. "So what's your idea Dobe?" he asked in a halfway mocking tone. Naruto just grunted in reply and took a scroll off of one of his belts. He opened it and laid the Heaven scroll on it. "Fuinjutsu: Kai! (Sealing Style: Release)" he stated as a puff of smoke came from the scroll. Once the smoke cleared there were now four Heaven scrolls sitting there. Sasuke and Sakura's eyebrows shot up. "What did you do?" Sakura asked. Naruto smirked and tossed on of the scrolls to her. "I made some replicas. We'll openly carry these three fake scrolls while I seal the real one into one of my storage seals on my wrist." He said as he tossed a scroll to Sasuke. He took the last fake and strapped it to his belt and sealed the real one into his wrist. Sasuke smirked. "You know Dobe, that's not a bad idea. But what keeps someone from killing you and taking it out of the seal?" he asked. Naruto smirked right back at him. "The items in almost all of my seals can only be released by my own chakra. No one can get into these puppies without my chakra." he said as he tapped his scrolls on his hip.
"So, I found us a good decoy plan. Sasuke, what's the offensive plan?" Naruto asked the Uchiha. Sasuke thought for a moment. He crossed his arms in thought and then sighed. "I guess we could head straight for the tower and set up a base there. We wait for other teams to come and take them out with any traps possible or just ambushing them." he said. Naruto hummed thinking about it. "Not bad, Sakura your thoughts?" he asked the pinkette. Sakura snapped to attention, not thinking he would ask for her opinion. "Oh, uh yeah, what Sasuke-kun said." She said a little nervously.
Sasuke nodded and tuned to the towers direction. "Alright lets go the-" he started to say but was interrupted by a powerful gust of wind, which was focused mainly on Naruto. "SHIT!" the blonde yelled as he was launched away from his team. "Naruto!" Sakura yelled. She started to go after him but stopped in her tracks when sh saw who sent in the wind.
"Oh? You can leave if you want, little girl. All I want is Sasuke-kun after all." a tall raven hair kunoichi from Kusa. When Sakura tried to move she froze. The amount of killing intent the kunoichi was giving off made her sake and fall to her knees. Sasuke wasn't fairing any better. He stayed standing but could move.
"Kukukuku, so the prey is already caught? Oh, I expected more from you Uchiha Sasuke."
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"God damn sneak attack!" Naruto roared as he got his barrings. He looked around and noticed he was sent FAR away from his team. "KIT JUMP!" Kurama warned. Naruto heard a loud hiss from behind him and channeled chakra into his legs to jump high into the air. Right as he got out of the way a massive snake snapped past where he was. "Holy shit your big!" he said as he landed on a high tree branch. "That's no ordinary snake, Kit. That's a summons." Kurama informed his host.
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "The only snake summons holders in Konoha is Mom...then who could...OROCHIMARU!" Naruto mentally screamed. "He's the only other known snake summoner in the world! But what the fuck is he doing here!" he ranted in his mind.
He looked down just in time to see the snake pounce at him. Naruto jumped to a different tree. "Oh no you don't! Take this! Kitsune no Hikari! (Fox's Light)" he yelled as he summoned the Kitsune no Kiba. He unsheathed the blade and shot a slice of pure red chakra at the summons in one fluid motion. The chakra slash cut right through the snake cleaving it perfectly in two. "Hm, teach you to try to eat me." he said as the summons disappeared. "Alright time to get back to Sasuke and Sakura!"
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(A/N): Gonna end the chapter here for today.
So, I have some good news!
Since Winter Break is starting, I'm gonna do something special, just for you guys! :D
So, starting tomorrow, I'm gonna make the chapters over 2000 words, minimum. And, I will also try to pump out more than one chapter a day! Like, maybe two to three a day! Or I could just make a super long Chapter a day...I don't know yet.
Well anyway,
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