Chapter 12-Chunin Exams start up first Written (only touching on it) and Forrest of Death
In the academy, team 7 was placed into their assigned seats and Naruto was seated next to the Oto Kunochi, on the left side of the class, with Ino and Hinata on the opposing sides five rows apart, while the other members of Konoha were scattered threw out the classroom and a exam veteran named: Kabuto was sitting behind him. Once the last group was seat, the proctor Momori Ibiki of the I&T department explained the first exam as a theory exam, to the cries of, "Nani?!" from the populas.
With the input from Kurama, Naruto realized that the true purpose of the test was on a persons able to gather information as stealthily as possible and that cheating without been caught is the method to passing, bar simply answering the 10th verbal question and with that in mind, Naruto concentrated on an ability of his Kekkei Genkai: Sonā no ryōshū-sho, the power to search, locate and mimic heard sounds, which he used to scan the pen scratching of: Kabuto, who happens to be just starting his questions and answering them as if he was a Jonin not a Genin.
After he finished writing his answers, the Oto girl next to him noticed and secretly spy on his answers, not caring Naruto just put his head back and silently sighed, relaxing his power to reduce strain on his ears. What felt like 20 hours, finally passed by and in that span of time, the group of Chunin hopefuls was reduced down to 10 teams of 3, with 30 teams been removed and it was now time for the 10th question. The 10th question caused fear to run threw 3 people, causing their final result to be: 7 teams of 3, making the end count of: 27 individuals passing when Naruto snapped at Ibiki and emboldening the rest of the candidates.
Once the true purpose of the test was explained, Anko the second exam proctor made a showy entrance and had informed the assembled, "Okay Gaki's, following me for the 2nd exam," before jumping back threw the previously broken windows. With team 7 jumping out of the window behind Anko, as the rest get caught running threw the same door, though some had lost their patients and followed the example of team 7 and Anko.
Once everyone was able to exit the classroom, they all followed Anko to a place that made Naruto grin as if he had just approaching his home and in a way he had as: the sight before him was the training ground number 44 or Forest of Death, a place where he had always been able to stay safe from the different crowds that had tried to kill him during his youth (and not the Flame Of Youth [also Ow! That hurts]) when it was his birthday. Anko, snapped Naruto out of his memories by saying, "Okay brats what stands before you is: Training Grounds 44, the forest of Death," smiling at the terror of the assembled (not yet noticing Naruto face), before she went on, "This test is another information gathering style test, but this one is a live combat type, where you must fight to gather the opposite of one of these two scrolls (as she hold the Heaven and earth scrolls up for all to see) but you must not open the scrolls while in the forest or let's just say, 'you won't like it,'" before fishing out several scrolls of paper, explaining that you can only start the exam after you've signed the waiver in the scrolls.
So with team 7 been the first to sign and get issued a heaven scroll, before team 9 sign and received theirs, resulting in the rest of the hopefuls sign the waivers and getting their scrolls and the hopefuls were now ready for the start of the test. While in the Uchiha compound, Sasuke the last living Konoha Uchiha was been wooed into joining Otogakure with the promise of power and the freedom to kill his brother, by none other than Orochimaru and Sasuke accepts, causing Orochimaru to bite him in the next and making Sasuke faint under the strain of curse seal break threw all the seals keeping him from using his Sharingan and chakra.
Back with team 7 as they just entered to the forest and Hinata begins to make a plan to obtain the earth scroll required for the completion of the task. The plan decided was to Head directly for the tower and ambush the first team that shows up. So with plan formulated, team 7 retrieved their Dandeliner Lockseeds, open them to form hoverbikes and then they mounted them and flew to the central tower.
Once at the treeline before the clearing of the central tower, Naruto and the girls landed their bikes and collapsed them, before they hid and waited for their first victim. It was later afternoon, when movement caught the attention of team 7 and they then find the forms of Oto team, all of which were arguing on how they had not been able to find a heaven scroll, well the 2 males of the team were, but the woman of the team and the one whom had sat by: Naruto, look to be clutching her cheek in pain and fear.
Seeing the look of pain and fear plastered all over the girls face, Hinata, Ino and Naruto had deduced that one or both of her male teammates had hit her and fear that they'll hurt her again, she also seemed to be looking for a way out of her deal with Oto. But there was time to talk about that later, right now team 7 needed their earth scroll and they happen to have one, so with that thought in mind, Naruto waved his hand as he eyes flashed misty blue, causing a dense fog to emerge for the vapor in the air.
With the Oto males duos as they shouted at each other, unaware of the fog that was rising up, until they stopped shouting at each other to yell, "Shut up bitch," to Kin whom was seeing the fog and became aware of visitors, and once the 2 males yelled, they then became alert to the fog and then they all heard a weird noise, a weird noise that sound suspiciously like, "Yoink!" before the 2 head of the males butted together at the forehead, with bone shattering 'CRACK' before they dropped to the floor. Once the sound stopped echoing, the fog dropped revealing to Kin (much to her relief) the boy, she sat next to and 2 girls, that were obviously his teammates, with all three of them standing in a non threatening way in front of her.
Seeing that the Konoha ninjas weren't going to attack her, Kin felt it safe to remove her Hitai-ate and scored the metal surface with a line via her senbon. The action itself confused the hell out of Naruto and the Girls, before Kin then dropped the Hitai-ate on top of her former teammates and said, "I'm quitting Oto, I am of no use to Orochimaru-teme after this," as she then sees to comprehension on their faces and finished with, "I am willingly giving myself up to you, in exchange for asylum and warn you of a invasion coming during the 3rd round of the exams."