anko's little sunshine

chapter 16: chuunin exams second round. a game of cat and mouse.

Everyone was in front of the gates to The forest of death and was waiting for the challenge to be explained as Hinata passed out a concent form and said." Please sign this paper Wich states that anything that happens to you gennin teams from other villages konoha's not liable for since your village leaders sent you knowing that you could die and can't declare war or compensation of any kind. Now then. Here's my rules. This is the forest of death. Naruto has rigged the entire forest with traps both lethal and non-lethal. You must avoid The traps and reach the tower in the center of the forest within seven days each day you waste is time you waste making decisions on your first Solo mission. You must also identify each trap and plan your route to the tower accordingly. Get caught and your disqualified. Fail to make it to the tower in the given time limit and your disqualified. You may use any ninjutsu Genjutsu and other skills you have. including bloodlines killing is allowed. This is a survival challenge. Good luck.  Your time starts.... now.!!!." Everyone went running into the forest of death and had no idea that they were going to need everything they had to survive. Naruto then walked up to Hinata and said." That kusa shinobi isn't gennin level. She's actually orochimaru in disguise. I sensed it and I know you saw it with your byakugan right???." Hinata nodded her head Yes and said." Do you think he's going to take The bait???. Using your shadow clone with your rinnegan eyes active???." And naruto said." OH he will. Anko nee-chan told me that he was obsessed with power.and what's more powerful than the rinnegan???. Once he's tripped The traps every shinobi of jounin level or higher will be on him. The best part is that I have The honors of watching him be tortured by jiraia and tsunade. They have a few bones to pick with him. Broken bones that is. HAHAHA!!!." And hinata said." OH Naruto-kun. you are so adorable when you have that twisted laugh of yours. I love you so much." And naruto said." Same here Hinata-chan. I love you also. Let's get to the tower." They then disappeared in a puff of smoke and waited to see if anyone would be able to come out of the masochistic traps naruto's placed.

Meanwhile back with Neji and his team. Neji had taken the lead on this particular challenge since his byakugan would spot the traps before they could Trip them and ten-ten would disarm them while Lee stayed back and covered Them from behind. They were doing fine until Neji saw a trip wire and said." Wait!!!. There. Under the grass and soil. The ground has been disturbed. and it appears we hit our first obstacle. A four corner barrier. Very impressive. Naruto's fuinjutsu skills certainly are acceptional. It seems like it's triggered when any of the four connected Trip wires are hit. And any form of escape impossible. Can you disarm it ten-ten???." And ten-ten said." Possibly. But this is a very complex seal barrier. CRAP!!!. Neji look above us!!!." Neji did so and noticed that the trip wire connected to the barrier also triggered three giant hanging logs that would have flattened them. And Neji said." Naruto isn't making this easy for anyone that's for sure. Even if we disarmed the barrier trip wire we'd still have to keep pressure on All four wires to the logs from tripping and killing us. A backup plan should the first one fail. Quite genious actually." And ten-ten said." Neji Hyuga!!!. This is no time at all to be complimenting naruto on his trap making skills!!!. How are we going to get past this trap!!??. There is four wires and three of us!!!." And Neji said." Lee. Your stronger than me and ten-ten. Take those three wires and wrap them around the tree behind you. Ten-ten. You and I will take The fourth one and wrap it around the tree behind us. That should disable both traps and we can proceed." Lee and ten-ten did as Neji said and to their relief it actually worked and then reset the traps after they were clear. Ten-ten Then said." Thanks Neji. That was a close call. But DAMN IT Naruto's insane!!!. That could have killed us!!!. Does he want us to litteraly treat this like an actual life or death situation!!??." And Neji said." Believe it or not. You would die in a straight up fight with naruto. The last time I sparred against him his blows almost crippled me. broke three of my six ribs and nearly ruptured my lungs. Unintentionally of course. he can Hit you without touching you and as you saw in the first exam. Could mess with you mentally to the point of insanity. He's not called the BLOODY FOX of konoha for no reason. And you wouldn't even want to see OR hear anything about his physical torture methods." Now Lee and ten-ten are worried. This was never the naruto They had remembered!!!. So Lee asked." What caused naruto to become such a person!!??. That's so unyouthful!!!." And Neji said." He was adopted by anko mitarashi. Konoha's snake mistress. and when you insult her or kurenai Sensei. You deal with The BLOODY FOX of konoha. They say opposites attract. Well.The snake was drawn to the Fox. That's all I can say on the matter." Now it all makes sense to them!!!. The riddle. The Cold personality. The mind games in The first round!!!. Lee and ten-ten then said" Naruto was trained to be a physical and psychological torture expert!!!." And Neji said." Yes. And one of konoha's best torture expert's if what Lord Hiashi has told me is true. He's the true embodiment of the shinigami. His Aura and presence Alone make even veteran shinobi like The clan Heads fear him. As does the entire civilian council and Anbu black ops" Lee and ten-ten went pale at Neji's explanation. And Neji smirked knowing that he could scare people also. With but two words. BLOODY FOX.