The next day, a couple hours before the second phase of the chunin exams started, I got up early so I could train some more and get ready for the next part of the exams. When it was almost time for me to meet up with my team, while I was training, I kind of got carried away. I ended up wounding my arms.

My arms were bleeding so I went inside to put some medicine on my wounds and wrapped my arms in bandages. I also wrapped my left hand in bandages so people wouldn't see the word 'blood' that I cut into the back of my hand. The word I cut into the back of my hand is needed in order to use the blood jutsu. The cut has to be deep but not deep enough to draw blood.

Once naruko finished patching up her wounds she left to go meet up with her teammates. When she got there she went to greet her team. "Hey sasuke and sakura" naruko said. "Well at least you didn't keep us waiting" sakura said looking away. "Geez what happened to your arms?" Sasuke said concerned. (Naruko's not wearing her jacket.)

Sakura look at sasuke confused. She then looked at naruko and saw that her arms were wrapped in bandages. Shocked, sakura asked "yeah what happened?" Naruko looked at her arms "oh umm…" she started scratching the back of her head "I got up early and I went to do some training and I kind of got carried away" naruko said. "Naruko if you want to train for the exams that's fine but don't train so hard you end up seriously injuring yourself. If you did we would've been unable to continue with the rest of the chunin exams" sakura said. "I know, sorry" naruko said.

The second part of the exams started. "Before the test all of you are going to have to read over this form and then sign it" Anko said. "What for?" Naruko asked. "Some of you may not come back from this test and I have to get your consent to that risk other wise it would be my responsibility" Anko said then laughed.

People started whispering and some of the teams were starting to get scared. "Now I'll explain what you'll be doing on this test." She handed the forms to naruko "here pass these out." Naruko took a form and passed the rest of them to the person next to her. "The first thing that you need to know is that this test will test every one of your survival skills. First I'll give you all a description of the terrain on the practice field. The forty fourth battle training zone has forty four locked entrance gates. There are rivers and a forest inside. In the center is a locked tower, located ten kilometers form each gate it's in this confined area that you'll under go the survival test the test consist of an anything goes battle to get your hands on these scrolls" Anko said.

"Both of them?" Sasuke said. "Yes you'll be fighting to get both a heaven scroll and a earth scroll" there was a moment of silence "all together twenty six teams will be taking part in this test so half of those teams will be going after the heaven scroll and the other half will trying to get the earth scroll. I'll hand over one kind of scroll to each team and that's what you'll vine for" Anko said. "Ok so how do we pass the test?" Sasuke asked.

"Your entire squad must bring both a heaven and a earth scroll to the tower" Anko said. "That means at the very best half of us will fail, more if not every team is able to get both the scrolls" sakura said. "No one ever said it would be easy. Oh and one more thing, the test has a time limit. You must finish it within five days" Anko said.

"Five days out there!" Ino said sounding scared. "What are we supposed to do for food!" Choji shouted. Anko looked at him and said "just look around. The forest is full of things to eat. There's plenty to feed all of you." "Yeah but that's not all the forest has plenty of, there are man eating beast and poisonous plants in there" kabuto said.

"Aww man" choji whined. "Quite down. This is why they call it survival you know" ino said. "That means with these circumstances there's no way half the teams will pass the test" neji said. "With the days getting longer the nights are getting shorter we will have less time to sleep and less time to recover. It is a challenge indeed" lee said. "Completely surrounded by enemies there won't be time to rest. We'll have to keep a constant watch" sasuke said.

"Right. This test also measures endurance behind enemy lines. This is designed to be a grueling test and I'm sure some of you won't be up to the challenge" Anko said. Shikamaru then raised his hand and asked "so umm… let's say mid exam can we quit?" "Of course not. In the middle of a battle you can't say sorry I quit. Well I guess you could but it's probably gonna get you killed. There are also some way you can get disqualified. The first is simple… If all three members of a team can't make it to the tower with both scrolls after five days, number two if a team loses a member or if a member becomes incapacitated and can not continue. Most important none of you, absolutely none of you, may look at the contents of the scrolls until you've reached the tower. There are times when a ninja will be asked to carry secret documents. The scroll rule is to test your integrity. Ok we're done. Each team take your consent forms and exchange them over there for your scrolls, after that each team pick a gate and you'll be let inside. Oh and I have one more word of advice… just don't die!" Anko said.

A while later, when the second part of the exam started, everyone entered the forest of death. Upon entering the forest of death the ring naruko was wearing around her neck fell off. When naruko noticed that the ring was gone she had her team stop while she went back to find it.

After a bit, when naruko hadn't come back, sakura was staring to get irritated. When naruko came back sakura started going off on where she been and that she kept them waiting. Then out of nowhere sasuke punched naruko in the face sending her flying into a tree. "Hey it wasn't that bad. Don't you think that was going a little overboard?" Sakura said. "Yeah what the heck was that all about?" Naruko said. Sasuke looked at naruko mad and said "ok where's the real naruko?"

Confused sakura looked at naruko. "Better watch out sakura I think he's gone crazy" naruko said. "Yeah right. What happened to the bandages that were wrapped around your arms? I noticed you've got your shuriken holster on your left side, naruko's right handed. Your transformation skill is worse than naruko's. Tell me who you are" sasuke demanded. Naruko smiled and said "so you got me. I'm still gonna take your scroll" the person said then transformed back.

In front of them was a ninja with a gas mask from another village. He rushed at them demanding that they hand over their scroll. Then out of nowhere a kunai came hurling towards the ninja with a gas mask. Then naruko joined the fight. It was easy to tell that naruko was not all that thrilled right now.

After the ninja received some brutal attacks naruko ended the fight with a kick to the chest, causing sasuke to wince. He swore he heard something break. The ninja then left. After a little bit, naruko calmed down and regrouped with her team. "That proves that we can't just trust appearances. We have to come up with a way of knowing that each of us is who we say we are and not some imposter using a transformation jutsu" sasuke said.

Naruko nodded her head. "Alright so what do we do?" Sakura asked. "We need a password" sasuke said. Naruko was a little surprised and said "what kind of password?" "A secret one something known only to the three of us and don't trust anyone who doesn't know it no matter what. Ok listen closely because I only want to say this once. The question will be 'when does a ninja strike?' And the response is 'a ninja waits until the time is right when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard when his weapons lay forgotten in the stillness of the night that is the moment for a ninja to strike' got it?" Sasuke said. "I got it" sakura said.

After a bit naruko, sasuke, and sakura were separated. When sakura found sasuke she tried to ask him what happened only for sasuke to stop her and ask her what's the password? Sakura nodded her head and said "a ninja waits until the time is right when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard when his weapons lay forgotten in the stillness of the night that is the moment for a ninja to strike." Sasuke let his guard down a little relieved.

Then naruko came running towards them "hey! Are you guys ok?" Naruko asked. "Don't come any closer" naruko stopped. "What's the password?" Sakura asked. "Oh sure no problem. Ok a ninja waits until the time is right when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard when his weapons lay forgotten in the stillness of the night that is the moment for a ninja to strike" naruko said.

Sakura sighed relieved. Sasuke smirked and threw a kunai at naruko. Naruko moved out of the way, landing on her side and shouted "what was that? You could have killed me!" "Gotta hand it to you you're quicker than the last one" sasuke said confusing sakura. "What are you talking about? What was wrong with that? She just got the password right word for word" sakura said. "Exactly that's what's wrong" sakura and naruko looked at sasuke confused "you really think naruko could memorize all that and get it word for word. Not the naruko I know, not in a million years. You'd have a better chance teaching it to a hamster" sasuke said. "Oh right you've got a point" sakura said.

"Besides you saw the way this guy moved when she dodged my attack. That was definitely not a naruko move. Alright come on out whoever you are party's over" sasuke said. The person disguised as naruko smirked and said in a different voice "aren't we the clever one." The person then transformed back revealing a female grass ninja. "Tell me if your teammate is really that dimwitted why would you come up with a password she'd never be able to remember?" "You see it wasn't meant for naruko so much as for anyone who might happen to be near by trying to eavesdrop on us. It was meant as a trap and you stumbled right into it" sasuke said.

The grass ninja smiled and said "I'm impressed. You certainly haven't dropped your guard have you? This promises to be very entertaining." 'Ugh she gives new meaning to the word creepy but where is naruko?' Sakura thought.

Naruko was knocked out with her back against a tree. She woke up confused "w-what? What happened? Where is sasuke and sakura? I hope they're ok." Something then appeared in front of her. "W-what the hell! That is one big snake!" Naruko shouted while getting up.

The snake knocked naruko away. The snake then used it's tail to grab naruko but naruko kept dodging the snake's tail and it's attempt to swallow her whole. Naruko threw shurikens and kunais at the snake and started attacking it while avoiding the snake's tail.

Back over with sasuke and sakura, the grass ninja grabbed an earth scroll and showed it to them. "You'd love to get your hands on our earth scroll wouldn't you? It would go so nicely with your heaven scroll" the grass ninja said. She then wrapped her tongue around the scroll and swallowed it whole, shocking and disgusting both sakura and sasuke. "Well when this is all over one of us will have both scrolls and the other will be dead" the grass ninja said pulling her bottom eyelid down.

Sasuke and sakura were paralyzed with fear as the saw a vision of themselves getting killed. Both of them dropped to their knees trembling as sasuke was breathing hard. 'Is this and illusion' sasuke got on his hands and knees and threw up. 'No it's more than that. Her thirst for blood is powerful. Looking in her eyes I saw the moment of my own death. Who is she? What is she?' "S-sakura" sasuke said looking over to sakura and saw her shaking and crying out of fear. 'It's no use she's got it worse than me. We've got to get out of here and get away from her. She's death' sasuke thought.

The grass ninja laughed 'what's wrong with me? Move. Come on move sasuke. Move.' Sasuke manages to grab a kunai. 'That's it you can do this.' He managed to stand up, still shaking and can't move. 'Even if it's just a little you've got to move' sasuke thought.

"Very good now what happens?" The grass ninja asked. Sasuke still couldn't move no matter how much he tried. The grass ninja started walking towards sasuke and sakura with two kunais in her hand. "Don't worry I'll make it quick but I don't have to tell you that do I? You've seen it with your own eyes…" the grass ninja raised her hand getting ready to throw the kunais in her hand. "I expected you to be more of a challenge how disappointing" the grass ninja said. She then threw the kunais at sasuke and sakura. Blood splattered on the ground.

Meanwhile with naruko, She was still attacking the snake while also dodging the snake's tail and mouth, although she was having a difficult time because of all the wounds she received fighting it. The snake smacked naruko with its tail sending her crashing into the ground. The snake then lunged at naruko but before the snake could reach her naruko jumped out of the way. Naruko was getting fed up playing cat and mouse with this damn snake

'God damn it I can't keep wasting time on this. I need to get back to my team before something bad happens to them or I get killed.' Naruko took off the torn up bandages revealing all the bad cuts and bruises on her arms 'I didn't want to do this but I can't spend any more time on this' naruko thought, removing the bandages that was wrapped around her hand showing the word blood she cut into the back of her hand.

Naruko grabbed a kunai and stabbed it into her shoulder making it bleed. She then went through various hand signs, collected as much blood as she could and shouted "blades of blood!" And threw the blood at the snake. The blood naruko threw hardened into many blades that sliced right through the snake killing it.

Once the snake was dead naruko fell onto her knees panting. 'Finally it's dead' naruko then looked at the back of her hand with the word blood cut into in 'I can't use my blood jutsu here anymore. Someone could've seen me and I went a little over my limit. If I don't go and find sasuke and sakura now I'm not gonna be able to.' Naruko stood up and started running to find sasuke and sakura 'I hope their ok' naruko thought.