Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ True Hyuuga Genius ❯ Chapter 12 ( Chapter 12 )

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No sooner had the last failing team left, than one of the windows exploded into the room, followed by a kunoichi in a trench coat who managed to land just as a banner unfurled itself behind her.
 
“All right you brats, I'm Mitarashi Anko, and I'm the examiner for the next portion of this exam!” The silence wasn't what she was expecting and took a quick look around the room.
 
“Damn, Ibiki, I know you can be a tough ass, but there are only eight teams left! You didn't leave any for me to have fun with, you louse!”
 
The first instructor just shook his head and began to mumble to himself. Something along the lines of `If there were any more you would complain that I was going soft.'
 
“Aww, do you think that little of me?” The weird jounin had turned and was shedding fake tears for the jab at her. Instantly Ibiki, never one to hurt a woman's feelings, tried to apologize, only for Anko to turn back to the genin and was ordering them to meet her at training area forty-four in ten minutes.
 
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Ten minutes later, at the specified training ground, all of the teams were waiting for the instructor to speak on their task.
 
“All right, listen up! Since there are so few of you left, my first plan has been thrown out the window, and when that happens, my secondary plans usually involve lots of pain, so you can consider yourself lucky.” The corners of her mouth curled into a grin at those words, before she continued her speech.
 
“The first order of business is for everyone to sign these release papers! In this exam some of you will die, and it is not the Leaf villages fault that you weren't prepared for your own deaths, this is just a formality.” When every team had handed in their forms and she checked over them all, the rules and objective was explained.
 
“Ok, listen up, `cuz I'm only gonna say this once! Each team will draw a number from this box. That number is the gate where you will enter the forest behind me. This is Konoha's legendary training ground forty-four, the forest of death! Inside the forest exist all manner of perils, from poisonous plants and animals, to downright enormous insects.” (It should be noted that upon this announcement, Shino's eyes picked up.) “Your mission will be recovery. At your gate, each team will be given a scroll and an opposing team from which you must retrieve their scroll. Each scroll has been marked by our proctors, so it's no use trying to make a fake scroll, even if you knew what was in it. That actually leads me to my next point, if you look inside your scroll or any scroll you may come across, you will be disqualified! Also, you are to go after your specified target and no other! If you finish this test with any scroll, other than the one you are supposed to, or attack at team other the specified one, your team will be eliminated. In this round, killing is legal, and although this is still a team exam, should your team come up…short, the remaining members will be allowed to continue on, since there are so few of you. Once you have the scrolls, you must make it to the tower in the center of the forest. Once there you are considered safe, and no fighting may happen inside the walls of the tower. You only have three days to finish this task, since there are so few of you, so make good use of your time.”
 
Each team went to their specific gate and received their assignments. Of the eight remaining teams, five were from the leaf. Team Seven, Eight and Ten; Team Gai and Kabuto's team were all alive and running for the title of chuunin. There was the Sand team still there, as well as a team from Grass and from Rain. Team Eight was supposed to go after Team Seven, of all people, and recover their scroll. Unbeknownst to Team Eight, Team seven was supposed to go after team Gai. Team Ten was to go after the team from Grass and coincidentally, the Grass team was supposed to find team Ten. Team Gai was going to find the Rain team and the Rain squad was to find team Eight. This left the Sand team to find Kabuto's team and vise versa.
 
The teams were all let into the forest shortly after receiving their assignments and each quickly took to their own specialties. Team eight began to scan for their opponents, mostly though Shino's connections with the insects in the forest, though the twin's byakugan helped to avoid any teams that they needn't concern themselves with.
 
Team ten was strategizing for their confrontation with the grass team, all they while Kiba and Akamaru were keeping a nose out for other teams.
 
Team seven was being their usual dysfunctional selves. They…well Sasuke, had decided that it would be better to set traps for their team, though there wasn't very much thought to the placement of their traps, and instead of placing them near the tower, where every team would have to go eventually, they set their traps in the middle of the area where they were dropped off.
 
Team Gai decided to wait the first day out, hoping that rain team would tire themselves out trying to find their own target. Neji's byakugan had picked out team seven a ways off, but they seemed more interested in trap making than this exam.
 
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About three and a half hours into the exam, the first sightings of the Rain team began to show up on the twins extended vision. The three weren't any threat to the team and team eight knew it. Their chakra levels were only marginally better than team seven's and they even had worse test scores than the most inexperienced team Konoha had to offer.
 
By the time that the foreign team got close enough to see their targets, Shino had attached over 200 kikaichu to the team and their chakra was already at half of what they were at full strength. They felt their chakra do down, but attributed it to the forest and their running, not to Shino's sabotage. They saw the members of team eight sitting around a small, smokeless, fire and decided it would be a good time to get the drop on them. However, as each member of the team stabbed their target leaf nin, they were shocked to quickly find themselves covered in chakra leaching insects that drained what little chakra they had left very quickly. The twins quickly put them out of action for a good while longer, and decided it would benefit them to take the now incapacitated ninja's scroll. That way, they could give it to another leaf team or destroy it, should it belong to one of the other teams. As long as they didn't check into the tower with the stolen scroll, they couldn't be penalized. They put the fire out and moved away from the rain ninja, there was no need to be there and team seven would need to be found tomorrow.
 
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