Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Of Love and Betrayal ❯ ANBU Exam ( Chapter 9 )

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Warning: Blood, Gore, and Violence and a lot of it too!

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She turned back to the sitting ANBU and then walked out the door with no more threats to her person. The head ANBU smirked under his mask pleased with the pink haired Kunoichi's response.

“Let's see just how good you are Haruno Sakura.”

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- VIIII -

ANBU Exam!(Revised)

 

As promised, Sakura had a blindfold placed around her head and she was led by two ANBU through many sets of doors and finally out into a forest. After a long time she was stopped and the blind fold was removed. Sakura looked around at her surroundings curiously.

She was in a forest but it wasn't one of the forests outside of Konoha because she knew all of those like the back of her hand. No, this forest was much older and darker.

“Haruna Sakura.”

Sakura turned to the man that had called her name and she was surprised to see four ANBU standing behind her. Instead of there usual cloaks they each had on silver chest armor and arm guards that only came up to mid bicep, showing off the ANBU tattoo on there upper arms.

“There is a fortress about a mile ahead due west. You will go there as captain of your team and you will instruct them in getting into the fortress. There are a total of five guards outside the main building and an undetermined amount inside the building. Your mission is to get a scroll in the main dinning room on the lower floor. We know that there is a powerful shinobi guarding this room and you will most likely have to fight him. Once you get the scroll you are to bring it back to ANBU HQ. Make sure not to kill anyone and lead your team safely back to HQ. You have three hours to finish this mission and do not get any of your team captured. Your time starts now!”

Sakura and her team disappeared into the trees in a blink of an eye.

The sole ANBU remaining in the clearing gazed after the retreating team, his brown eyes glittering.

“I hope your right about her Tsunade.”

- 0o0 -

Sakura sped through the tree tops, her mind calculating and formulating a plan for her team to get into the fortress as easily and quietly as possible.

`They are not making this easy at all, it would have been a lot easier if we could kill our enemy.'

Sakura stopped when they reached the edge of the forest. She looked through the underbrush and saw a huge grey structure before her.

`This is it.'

She turned to her comrades. “Make sure to mask your chakra, we will go in and get out quietly and fast. I want each of you to take up a position around the fortress. One will go in from the north side, another to the west, and the last the south. I will be going in the east side. If you encounter an enemy get them unconscious as fast and as quietly as possible.”

Sakura looked back to the fortress, her eyes scanning the layout of the place. She saw that there were two guards at the front gates and there was also a guard patrolling at the walls at each point they were to enter.

She lifted her hand and motioned for them to move and each disappeared from her side going to their designated entry points. She sped to her point and once there she moved quickly over the wall, masking her chakra as much as possible. Her eyes scanned the surrounding clearing and saw the guard that was patrolling her entry area. She quickly threw two Senbon at the guard and he immediately crumpled to the floor. She hastily slid the guard's unconscious body under a bush and made her way to the main building.

“I'm in, our goal is to reach the main room which should be in the middle of the building, make sure to get into the building and make your way there as soon as possible,” Sakura whispered into her microphone and when she got three responses she peeked into the dark window on the first floor. She saw no one in the room but she decided to enter on a second floor window instead, thinking it would be least likely for her to get caught breaking in that way. So she walked up the side of the building and looked into the next window. She saw a light coming and she quickly ducked away.

`So a guard walks through the rooms.'

She waited and counted to herself until the guard made his way to her room again.

'10 minutes, that's enough time to get in.'

When the guard left again she quickly channeled her chakra into her finger and cut into the glass, when she was finished she unlocked the window and made her way inside.

`Damn I have to hurry I only have thirty more minutes.'

She quickly replaced the cut out glass and made her way through the empty room. She peeked outside the door and saw that the hall was empty. She swiftly made her way down the hall and down to the first floor without running into any problems.

`This is way to easy… there is something wrong.'

Just as the thought went through her mind she felt the presence of another and she instantly jumped away barely avoiding being sliced in half by a kunai. She looked around trying to figure out where her enemy was. She felt the hiss of another kunai flying through the air past her ear and she quickly moved away again. She threw her own kunai into the darkness around her, trying to draw out her target. She heard something move to her left and she jumped that way to intercept her enemy. She came into contact with a medium built male. All she could see of him was his dark bluish hair because there was an all white mask covering his face.

She threw a flurry of punches and kicks at him, of which he blocked all of them.

`Damn I don't want to waste chakra; I know the guy in the scroll room is going to be my toughest opponent.'

She threw Senbon at the guy's neck but they were blocked easily as well. Seeing she had no choice, she created seals and went after the guy again, her hands glowing blue. She quickly cut the guys muscles in his arms and legs making him unable to move and then she threw Senbon into his neck. The man went unconscious like the last and Sakura quietly pulled his heavy weight into another room. She wiped the sweat from her face and breathed in deeply. That had depleted her chakra a lot more then she had wanted it to.

She quickly made her way down the stairs and to the door of the main room… the scroll room. She already found two of her companions there waiting for her.

“Where is the other?”

“He is fighting a guard; he will be following us in a minute.”

“Good I will go in first, if you sense any traps or anything go in after me and if I can't get to the scroll make sure you do, it's imperative to get the scroll back to HQ.”

Sakura opened the door slowly and slid inside keeping to the walls. Her eyes scanned the large room, surprised to find a fire raging in the fireplace and the scroll in the middle of a table. She knew that there was a trap so she didn't go directly for the scroll instead she kept to the shadows and crept along the walls looking for the last guard.

Suddenly a large arm wrapped around her neck and she was pressed back violently into a large warm chest.

“Did you think it would be that easy to get the scroll, weakling?” she heard a man whisper into her ear.

She tried to twist out of his tightening grasp but failed; instead she created a seal with her one free hand and severed the muscles in the guy's side. The man bellowed and let her go immediately. She stumbled away breathing hard and turned to face her opponent. He was a large man and something about him was really familiar to her but she shook her head and forced chakra to her hands and feet. She then took off and tried to punch him but he dodged and kicked her into the concrete wall. She gasped in shock from the pain coursing through her but she had no time to recuperate because the man threw another punch at her and she dropped to the ground and swept his feet from under him and then she flipped to her feet and punched him, landing a hit which made him fly through the wall and out into the clearing.

Not to be out done, the man ran back in, forming seals and then he disappeared before her. Sakura looked around her, confused. All of the sudden she felt something wrapping around her ankles. She looked down and saw a root clinging to her ankles. She tried to get out of its grasp but was distracted when the man reappeared before her and punched her in the face. After that a flurry of punches and kicks rained on her until she sagged against her restraints. Thinking she had passed out the man undid his jutsu and grabbed the woman by the neck, lifting her up.

“You're not worthy to be an ANBU,” he spat and then threw her to the side. He turned to leave when he was suddenly thrown into a wall. He looked up to see the pink haired woman standing above him, breathing hard.

“This match is not over!” Sakura said and then performed seals.

`Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!'

Sakura took a deep breath and then let out a huge fireball hitting the man dead on. When she could not maintain the jutsu any longer, Sakura stopped and saw that the man was lying on the ground. She quickly made her way to him and checked for a pulse. She sighed in relief when she felt a faint pulse under her fingers.

Sakura quickly turned away from the man and took the scroll and ran outside the room. The minute she had taken the scroll an alarm had started to ring around the building. She knew that all the guards would be after them in a couple of minutes so she gave the scroll to one of her companions.

“Make sure you take this to HQ, run as fast as you can, avoid capture. I will stay back and give you some time.”

“But swan what about you, we can't leave you here, what if they capture you?”

“Don't worry about me if I get captured I would rather forfeit my life then betray Konoha. Plus I have been through torture before its nothing new too me. I will be fine just hurry and go. Make sure you split up and each have a scroll on you so that if the enemy gets past me they will be confused. Now go!” She ordered and she was pleased when they each ran quickly out the building and over the wall of the fortress. Her pleased expression was quickly wiped off her face when she felt something hard impact the back of her neck and she fell into darkness…

- 0o0 -

She was awoken when she felt someone smack her face, hard. Her eyes began to water from the impact but she stubbornly blinked the tears away. She looked around her and found herself in a dark room. She was strapped to a strange chair and she couldn't feel her chakra.

`Dammit, these ropes must be infused with chakra, so that I won't be able to use my own.'

She looked up suddenly when she felt another presence.

“What was your mission in the fortress today? What village are you from?” Some one asked her but she kept her mouth shut. She would not say anything no matter how much she was tortured.

“So you're not going to talk? Well let's see if pain will loosen your pretty little mouth,” the man said evilly.

She felt her mind slip into unconsciousness again but when she woke up she was laying down in a hauntingly familiar room.

`No…'

She saw Sasuke enter the room, his face emotionless as always. But his eyes held an evil truth. He made his way to her and roughly ripped off the clothing covering her. She cried out in protest and was rewarded with the feel of cold metal slicing into her. She watched as Sasuke cut into her with a kunai in many places, causing her crimson blood to leak out and slather her body in its warm liquid. He bent down stabbing the kunai through her stomach. Sakura arched in pain, her eyes closing tightly trying to wake herself up.

`It's just a dream'

“What village are you from?” she heard Sasuke ask and she opened her eyes to stare at him confused. Why would he ask what village I'm from if he already knew?

She closed her eyes again and then heard laughter to her side. Her eyes opened to see a 12 year old Naruto and Sasuke lying next to her looking up at the sky.

She knew that it wasn't real but she couldn't help but feel like she wanted to stay in this place forever.

She turned over, smiling at the two boys. Her two boys...

They both turned towards her smiling, their eyes sparkling with happiness.

“Hey! What was our mission again?” he asked a smile still planted on his face.

Sakura frowned a little but she smiled too.

“I don't know, why do you ask?”

Just then the scene changed again and she was standing in a familiar walkway, a bench at her side. She looked up to see Sasuke with his back turned to her.

“Why didn't you just tell me? Now I have to leave. It's your fault!” Sasuke said accusingly.

Sakura shook her head confused, tears starting to leak down her cheeks.

“What's my fault? I don't know what you want to hear from me!” she cried.

Sasuke turned to her, his black eyes angry and accusing.

“Because you wouldn't tell me your mission, now I will never be happy again. It's your fault team 7 broke up, you are too weak!”

Sakura cried out in dismay, not wanting to hear his accusing voice.

“Get out of my head! Get out! GET OUT!” she screamed almost ripping her own hair out.

“It's your fault, you could have told me. Now I will die, your friends will die,” She heard a voice whisper in her ear.

Sakura felt her blood begin to boil angrily. He was stroking her temper and that was a dangerous thing to do. She bit down on her tongue, hard. She opened angry emerald eyes and found herself in the dark chamber she was first in. She glared at the man before her and smirked, blood leaking from her mouth down her chin.

“Do you think that just because you can fuck around in my head that I will give up my friends and the only family I have left? Fuck you bastard!” She whispered menacingly before she kicked her legs out and forced the chair to fall backwards. She felt a sharp pain go through her head and then she fell into the warmth of unconsciousness.

- 0o0 -

The next time she woke up she was in a familiar hospital room and the sun was pouring in through the windows.

She groaned and looked down at her self, surprised to find bandages wrapped around the many wounds she had.

“Sakura-chan your awake!”

Sakura looked up abruptly and saw Naruto sitting by her bed. He looked tiredly at her, his blue eyes concerned.

“Naruto… how long have I been in the hospital?”

“This is your second day. Don't worry all people who take the ANBU exam go to the hospital for that long.”

That's right she was taking the ANBU exam. It was a hazy memory to her now but she looked back up at Naruto.

“Did I pass?”

Naruto smiled at her and hugged her gently.

“Yea you passed! Congratulations Sakura you've made it to ANBU.”

Sakura just sat in his embrace, shocked out of her mind. She had passed…. It was like her mind couldn't process the concept fast enough. A wave of excitement swept through her and she smiled openly, her eyes sparkling for the first time in a while.

“Naruto I passed! Oh my god I passed!” she yelled excited.

Naruto said nothing his blue eyes just stared down at her, a happy smile on his face.

`Yea Sakura you passed, we all knew you could do it. I'm so proud of you.'

- 0o0 -

Sakura was released from the hospital the next day. She had found out that she had many wounds around her body and that she had severe chakra depletion but other then that she had come out unscathed and she was rather proud of herself. She walked down the busy streets of Konoha and contently gazed at her surroundings.

When she got home she found a messenger bird waiting there for her. She took the scroll from its foot and unrolled it. It was from ANBU; she was to go to the blue building behind HQ and there she would meet up with two ANBU who would escort her inside.

She burned the scroll in her hand and then made her way inside her house. She quickly got dressed and left her house, following the scrolls instructions. When she turned the corner she saw the blue building and two masked men waiting for her. She nodded at them and then followed them inside. She was led into the same room she had been in last night before her exam; only now there were five ANBU sitting at the table before her.

“Congratulations Haruno Sakura you have passed your exam. You have shown us your strength physically and mentally. During the mission you showed your abilities as a leader and your capability to be calm under stressful situations. You also have shown that you understand the number one rule in ANBU. No matter what, your duty is to complete your mission, and if one of you has to stay behind make sure that the rest can escape back to Konoha.”

Sakura gazed at the middle ANBU who was currently speaking. She knew that her actions were being watched the entire time and she was glad that she had been able to get through the mission so well.

“During the interrogation you experienced your own memories but altered so that the enemy could get information out of you. The fact that you saw through Ibiki's methods is quite impressive. You will get your ANBU mark today as well as meet your new team. Your new uniform will be given to you as well as your mask. Your new name will be Swan. You're dismissed!”

“Hai!” Sakura bowed respectfully and left the large room. She followed the two ANBU to another room where she got her own dark cloak, ANBU gear and, her mask which was white with slanted wholes for her eyes. It also had pink markings on the forehead and on the side of the mask. To her the mask was beautiful and it symbolized her perfectly. She then was lead to another room where she got her ANBU tattoo. She was surprised when another masked man had actually used his chakra to make the familiar marking on her upper arm. It had hurt like hell but she liked how it looked afterwards even though it was still slightly sore.

The two men led her to yet another room which was empty except for a table and four chairs.

“You will be meeting your new team, just take a seat and they will be here shortly. Make sure to put on your ANBU uniform and mask before they come.”

Then the two ANBU left her alone in the small room so she sat and looked through her new uniform. The uniform itself was much to her liking. It was mostly black except for the chest armor and the ends of the arm guards which were silver. She had seen many ANBU wearing this uniform and she was almost giddy at the thought of wearing it. She quickly changed into her new uniform and was surprised at how snuggly it fit to her curves. She then placed the mask over her face. She looked around through the slanted holes, liking that the mask didn't obstruct her vision what so ever. She turned when she heard the door open and two males walked in. the first male had straight pale blond hair and was tall and lean. The other male was tall as well, almost the same height as the first. He was also lean with a bit more muscle on him. His hair was a dark black-blue color and it was long almost reminding her of Neji's hair.

“Hello.” She said almost timidly.

The two males turned to her. “Hello, I guess your swan?”

“Uh yea… do we always have to use our code names or can we know each others real names?” she asked suddenly curious.

The blond male laughed under his masked and shook his head.

“No we don't, my name is Kaijo, Yanati Kaijo,” He said pulling up the mask from his face.

Sakura was surprised at how handsome his face was. He had blue eyes like Naruto's but they were not as blue, they were more pale blue. His face was pale but strong and handsome. She could feel the power coming from him in waves.

The other man lifted his mask as well and she was surprised to see the man's familiar eyes.

“And I am Hyuuga Naizu, my code name is eagle and his is tiger,” he said pointing at his friend.

Sakura studied the Hyuuga's face, seeing something very familiar about him. He had the white Hyuuga eyes and the pale face.

“Are you related to Hyuuga Neji?” she asked not able to hold back the question anymore.

Naizu smirked and nodded. “Yea I'm his distant cousin, how do you know him?”

“I've known him since my first Chuunin exams and we have had a lot of missions together since then.”

“So what's your name?” Kaijo asked watching her curiously.

Sakura lifted the mask off her face. “I'm Haruno Sakura it's nice to meet you guys. So I guess we are part of a team now.”

They both nodded. “Yea but wait till you meet our captain! He's one of the most powerful ninja in the village!” Kaijo said excitedly.

Sakura could see that the man looked up to their captain. She looked at the clock on the wall, wondering when exactly the captain would come. Both Naizu and Kaijo sat down at the table.

“We'll be waiting here for a while, our captain has a tendency to be late,” Naizu said leaning back in his chair.

“So tell us more about yourself.”

Sakura sat as well looking at the two males before her.

“Uh well I'm trained as a medic Nin but I'm good at Genjustu and Ninjutsu. What about you guys?”

“As you know I'm skilled with Byakugan.”

“And I'm skilled with elemental jutsu's.”

At that moment the door opened and another man walked in. Sakura's eyes narrowed and then widened when she realized just who had walked in.

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Authors Note:

So that's the end of that. If you think about it the captain could be a number of people namely Naruto or Neji, so who do you think it is? Review your answers and if anybody gets it right I'll update the next chapter faster! Lol. Well this chapter was not as long as most but I thought that this would be a good place to stop. Also I know the fighting scenes weren't that great but oh well at least I tried. If anyone has any comments or suggestions please review thanks for reading! Ja Ne!

 

Next chapter:

Sakura's ANBU captain is revealed and they have their first training session together as well as their first mission…