Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Disturped Chaos ❯ Enter the Forest of Death ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Digi Harpy: Before we get into the excitement of the chapter, let me say two things, I don’t own Naruto, because if I did, my OCs would actually be in the anime, and Sasuke wouldn’t be should a big fat emo. And I hate written exams so I’m not giving much description to that part.



Naruto woke up early that day. He quickly ate breakfast and changed into his usual attire. Then he looked down at the two headbands on his night table beside his bed. Memories of last night events running through his head. Without much further thought, the blonde picked up the beaten headband and ran out his apartment.
As soon as Naruto got to the academy, he was greeted by his teammates. It was Sakura’s usual “Good morning” and Sasuke’s usual “Hn.” Naruto returned their greeting and the trio went inside the building to begin their next challenge. No sooner had they entered the building did three other gennin come running after. Tabitha, Hikari, and Mimiru followed the three into the building panting like mad.
“I can’t believe Hoshin-sensei didn’t wake us up this morning.” Mimiru said through each pant.
“Can you really blame him?” Hikari asked, trying to defend their sensei. “I mean, we did put it on ourselves with that late night pillow fight.”
“It doesn’t matter, we’re still going to make it.” as soon as Tabitha said that, she crashed into someone. The person she had bumped into was a boy about her age with bright red hair. On his back was a large gourd near as big as he was. His outfit was a mere black short sleeve shirt and matching black pants with sandals. The boy’s companions, a boy in a black jump suit and a girl with her blonde hair in four pony tails, looked on with shock and fear. She could tell something was off with the guy due to his teammate’s expression alone.
“Gomen nasai,” Tabitha said with a respectful bow before continuing on her way. Hikari and Mimiru followed after, ignoring the strange feeling they got from the boy Tabitha had ran into.
Garaa, the redhead, watched the girl leave, a strange feeling inside of him. For once, someone showed respect instead of fear. It confused him. His sister, Temari, tried asking him a question, but he ignored her. “Come on,” he said. Without waiting for a reply, Garaa walked in the same direction the three girls ran to with his sibling following behind him.
Naruto and his team soon arrived to Room 303 and were astonished to discover a crowd in front of the room. Apparently, two other gennin were refusing to let anyone in. Tabitha and her team walked over to see what was all the commotion was about. Taking one look, Hikari turned to her teammates in confusion and asked, “Why are they gathered in front of the wrong room?”
“Beats me, let go.” Tabitha said. However, before she could go any further, she heard a loud an obnoxious voice call her name.
“Oi! Nee-chan!” looking at the source of the voice, Tabitha saw a boy that looked identical to her He had spiky brown hair and the same eyes as the girl. Across his nose was a small band aid. He had on an orange sleeveless shirt with a dragon design and black shorts with a flame design to them. Around his wrists were black sweat bands and on his forehead was the same headband as the three girls in front of him. “Hey, what’s up sis?”
“Ryuumaru? What are you doing here?” the girl asked.
“Isn’t it obvious, I’m taking the Chuunin Exam duh.” he said with a grin on his face. Tabitha just stared at her brother before smirking.
“Well, then, I guess that you’re the other team Yamikage was telling us about earlier huh?”
“Yup. Sho and Taichi are here too.” he said pointing over to his teammates. They were two boys about the same age as he was. Sho, who was possibly the shortest one there, had blue spiky hair and a pair of glasses over his green eyes. The small boy wore a simple short sleeve blue shirt and baggy pants. Strapped to his belt were two pouches. The taller boy standing by him was Taichi, a boy with a lot of brown spiky hair that short of defy the laws of gravity. He wore a red sleeveless muscle shirt over a short sleeved fishnet shirt. He also had on a pair of baggy pants and strapped to his back was a black bag. The two boys noticed Ryuumaru talking to his twin and walked over to the group.
“Hey, I didn’t know you guys would be here,” Taichi said.
“How come you guys aren’t trying to get into the room?” Sho asked.
“Because that’s not Room 303,” Hikari replied. This got several people’s attention. “It’s a genjutsu. In fact, those guys blocking the door aren’t even gennin, they’re using a genjutsu too.”
“Nani?” someone asked. Hikari looked up to find the entire group of gennin staring at her.
“What? You guys didn’t notice?”
After the mild confusion and relocating the correct room, all the gennins found themselves in Room 303. All of Rookie Nine were gathered and conversing among themselves while across from them were Tabitha and Ryuumaru’s teams were watching them. They’re previous attitudes and personality completely changed. They were now composed and serious.
“That’s him huh?” Ryuumaru asked.
“Yup, Hikari pointed him out them minute he walked in.” Tabitha replied.
“I’m actually more interested in that guy you bumped into earlier Tabitha-sempai.” Mimiru stated, “There was something about him. I mean for someone so small, he made his teammates so scared of him.”
“I didn’t get a chance do check him out, but you’re right about one thing,” Hikari started, “he has this disturbing aura about him.”
“You guys talking that guy with the big gourd on his back?” Taichi asked, pointing directly at Garaa.
“That’s the guy alright.” Tabitha said, “Hikari.” The girl nodded before performing a few hand signs. Her eyes gave a strong pulse before giving a slight red tint to her black eyes. Hikari looked over at Garaa for a second before turning disengaging her jutsu. She then looked to her friends and nodded. They all nodded in response.
“Ok, so here’s the plan then,” Ryuumaru started. “my team will follow Garaa and investigate him even further.”
“Then that means my team will follow our original target.” Tabitha finished coldly. “Why’d you give me the easier job?”
“Hn, You know me. I like a challenge.”
Before the conversation could go any further, the instructor for the first exam came into the room and, in laments terms, told everyone to shut up and sit down. The first exam was a basic test where everyone would get one point for each correct answer. However, they would lose a point if they got a question wrong. In addition to that, if anyone got caught cheating, that too would result in loss of points. Ironically, the questions were so difficult that you actually had to cheat in order to pass.
Everyone started using their jutsu and skills to help cheat. By the time the test was over, about half the gennin who had entered were gone. In the end it turned out, that if you just accepted the tenth question, you would’ve passed instantly. “Well that was extremely pointless.” Tabitha thought. Strangely, her eye sight went from her paper to Garaa, who was sitting next to her. There was a loud crash and the next instructor stood before them.
“All right you brats, it’s time for the next exam. I’m your instructor Mitarashi Anko. Your next exam will be held at the Forest of Death.” she sad sadistically. The second exam was to be taken in a training field known as the forest of death. And true to it’s name, it was a forest. Anko held up a form in front of everyone before explaining further about the exam. “All brats, here’s the deal. You all must fill out these waver forms stating that we are not liable for when you die.”
“Don’t you mean if we die?” Naruto asked bluntly.
“No, I stand by what I said kid. Now you have to fill these out. That is unless you’re afraid….”
“I’m not scared of anything!” Naruto countered. Anko merely smirked and held out two scrolls, each with a different kanji written on them. The white colored scroll had Heaven written on it while the black colored scroll had Earth. “All right, you see these scrolls here. You each will be given one of these scrolls as soon as you turn in your form. You have five days to retrieve the other scroll and head to the tower in the middle of the forest. Any questions?”
“So you have to get the scroll from another team? Is that what you meant by dieing?” Hikari asked.
“Smart kid.” Anko complimented. “That’s right, you guys are going to have to get a scroll from another team by any means necessary.” her voice became dark and sadistic as she said the last part.
“I like the sounds of this already.” Tabitha said to her teammates. Everyone started to fill out the forms and son traded them in for a scroll. Anko gathered everyone in front of their own gates.
“I just have one thing to said before you all go.” Anko said suddenly. “JUST DON’T DIE!!” with that, the gates opened and every team flew into the forest.
Tabitha’s team were already in search of their original targets while keeping an eye out for any other ninja teams. Hikari then spotted a group of Rain ninjas not too far from them. She immediately reported this to Tabitha, who nodded in reply. The three girls changed their movement patterns and sent out to ambush the Rain shinobi. Elsewhere, Team 7 was discussing on what to do incase they were to get ambushed or if one of their members was taken and replaced by one in disguise. It was then that Sakura noticed something different about Naruto.
“Hey Naruto.”
“Yeah?”
“What happened to your headband? It looks all beat up. What you do, stick it in a blender?”
“Huh, oh this?” the kyuubi container took off his headband and looked down at it. A sad expression suddenly came over his face, slightly confusing his two friends. “It’s kind of complicated.” he said.
“What do you mean complicated?” Sakura asked, taking the headband from the boy, leaving him someone surprised. The girl looked over the item and quickly noticed the kanji written in the center of the item. “Hoshin Uzumaki? Whose that?”
“He’s none of your business!” Naruto snapped, taking the headband back from the girl and began to tie it around his forehead.
“He?” Sasuke asked. Naruto started to realize the error of his pervious words and remained silent. Naruto looked back at his friends to find them giving him a stern look. Ok, well Sasuke was giving him a stern look and Sakura still looked confused. Naruto looked away and ignored the looks. “Well Naruto? Who’s Hoshin?” The boy in question muttered something inaudible. “What was that?” again, an inaudible answer. “Naruto!”
“He’s my brother ok!” there was a chorus of gasps. “He was a brother.” Naruto repeated in a calmer tone.
“Naruto, you never told us you had a brother,” Sakura stated. The boy glumly turned away from his friends. Sasuke gave Sakura a dirty look and the pink hair Kunoichi remained quiet.
“Had is the operative word Sakura-chan. My brother died on a mission when I was five.” the blonde explained. “I vaguely remember how he looked like. I mean, we barely had any pictures of the two of us. In fact, I don’t even remember his face. The only thing I remember about my brother is the fact that he’d watch over me when I got into trouble and the fact he’d take me out to eat ramen very week.”
“Naruto.”
“Hn, get over it dobe,” Sakura looked appalled at this statement from her crush. “It was years ago like you said. The past is the past.” Sakura was about to protest when a slight chuckle stopped her. To her surprise, it was Naruto who was chuckling.
“You’re right, it was years ago. I mean, right now we have to focus on the Chunnin Exam so I’ve got no time for stuff like that.” the blonde’s comrades looked oddly at the boy as if he’d grown an extra head. “What?”
Suddenly, before anyone had a chance to react to Naruto’s comment the wind started to pick up and blow everything away. And when I mean everything, that also included the unprepared blonde. Naruto was sent sailing into the air and crashing into the tree of the forest around them. As soon as things calmed down, Sakura got up and tried to pursue the blonde, only to have Sasuke push her to the ground. “Sasuke wha-” the sharingan user pointed in the direction of kunai that nearly hit her.
“Kukuku, clever Sasuke-kun. You saw right through my attack.” a voice said to the Uchiha. It seemed as if the voice was coming from all directions. Sasuke was quick to take in the situation and looked around.
“Right…….Left……..Behind… 230;Above……?” without warning, Sasuke grabbed Sakura by the arm and jumped into the air just as a grass ninja erupted from the ground in an attempt to stab them with a kunai.
“Kukukuku. This will be interesting.”
Elsewhere, Naruto found himself crashing through foliage until he finally came to a sudden stop. “Itai. Man that hurt. It’s a good thing I landed on this………..” Naruto trailed off as soon as he realized what he had landed on. It was the head of a giant snake. “Oh Sh-” He was quickly cut off as the serpent sent the boy rocketing straight into the air and let him plummet directly into it’s waiting mouth.