Chapter 5
Naruto decided to take a leaf out of Anko’s book and didn’t inform her teammates or classmates where the exam was going to take place. Or that they would most likely have to stay in the forest for several days either. She did however take plenty enough provisions in scrolls with her for Team 7. She wasn’t that evil.
I would have to disagree. I would never leave my siblings to fend for themselves as you did with Indara’s reincarnation.
Kurama. You realise that is basically all you did after the old man six paths passed away right?
What of it?
Instead of replying she ignored him and made her way to training ground 44, also known as the forest of death. Naruto had mixed feelings about this training ground. It was practical for survival exercises, hence why Kakashi sensei had made them find him in the forest yet at the same time, held so many dangerous and poisonous things such as plants and animals no one of a genin status would suspect.
Minus her team since they had previously been in there anyway.
Once she arrived, she joined her team and not long after the meeting point was full of different teams and she spied the nine konoha rookies as well as team Gai. She also noticed the sand siblings were also there so she informed Sasuke she would be talking to them, not that he paid much attention. He was too busy glaring at Neji and Rock Lee.
This time instead of jumping onto Temari’s back, she decided to jump onto Gaara’s. The reaction was just as she thought, sand from his gourd poured out and attempted to suffocate her, and it would have succeeded had it not been for her careful planning earlier to apply Kurama’s shield around her neck.
Your plan?
Okay, fine. Your plan. So what, who cares?
I do. Now go back to reality.
“Gaara! Let go of her!” Temari hissed at her brother, wide eyed, clearly not wanting to get in trouble with Konoha for killing their yondaime’s only daughter.
Deciding to mess with their heads a bit more, she channelled more chakra into her neck, causing Gaara’s sand to disperse. She clicked her neck as she bent it left and then right, not once removing her eyes from Gaara’s slightly widened ones. “That’s one heck of an ultimate defence you’ve got there Gaara. Oh and don’t worry Temari- senpai. We’re all shinobi here, Gaara’s reaction was simply a defence. Anyway!” she clapped her hands together as a large smile made its way onto her face. “First’s things first, Gaara. Have you reconsidered my offer from yesterday?”
His wide eyes returned to a glare as he looked at her yet they weren’t as fiery as they were the previous day, “No.”
She decided not let his answer upset her and nodded, but she did pout. She looked over to Temari and said, “I hope you’ve got enough supplies to last you a few days. Since Anko is our proctor, she’s going to make us stay here in the forest of death for a few days at least. This place is literally her baby.”
“Forest of death? I thought this was training ground 44?” asked Konkuro as he looked at her in the eye. Temari, Gaara or their jonin sensei must have had a word with him that it was rude to stare at a girl’s chest. Although in all fairness, Naruto wasn’t doing very much to hide them since they were loosely wrapped in bandages and the zipper to her hoodie open from just under her breasts.
“This is training ground 44. But to everyone here in Konoha it’s known as the forest of death since it has venomous snakes, spiders, poisonous plants and lots of other dangerous crap. Perfect for survival training, right?” she gave a smile and tilted her head to the side, causing a shiver to run up Konkuros back.
That’s the sort of smile a yandere gives, just without the hands on the face.
No one asked your opinion on my choice of smile, Kurama.
Yo yo! Kurama! Long-time no see big bro! There was a third voice in her head, and it seemed to be a tanuki?
Shukaku! Leave here at once! You’ll cause my jinchuriki unnecessary pain which I will have to heal!
Like I care bro! I wanna know how I can be here!
I refuse to answer. NOW LEAVE! Kurama roared and forced Shukaku to leave.
Kurama wasn’t exaggerating when he said Naruto would be in a lot of pain. She walked back a few steps as she clutched her head with both hands, balling them up into her hair.
Very few black dots clouded her vision, so closed her eyes, willing the pain to go away and after ten or so seconds it did. Uzumaki blood, plus having the nine tails makes you the fastest person to heal on the planet.
She opened her eyes to see all three sand siblings wide eyed, Gaara’s hands raised in defence.
Her eyes were still squinted as she let one hand fall to her side, the remaining one clutching her head and massaging it at the same time. “I see why you don’t get much sleep Gaara. Shukaku is a pain in the ass.”
IF at all possible, all three of their eyes widened as they all took a step back, causing Naruto to mentally pat herself on the back for being able to do so without even trying.
“H-how do you?” Temari asked, pointing to Gaara and the younger blonde as her head looked between the two of them.
“I’m an Uzumaki. We have great sensory abilities. Gaara has two chakra signatures, his own and Shukaku’s. Here’s how I knew it was Shukaku; the two tails is in kumo, three tails is the mizukage, four tails is in Iwa, the five tails is also in Iwa, six tails is in Kiri, seven tails is in Taki, eight tails is in Kumo, and the nine tails is in Konoha. Also the one tails is in Suna and always has been due to his sand affinity. Did I miss anything?” she looked at the three sand siblings, her yandere smile back on her face as she placed her head in her hand, which ultimately led to her chest to bounce which drew the attention of both boys.
At this, both Temari and Naruto raised a brow, shocked Gaara would even look. Naruto’s seduction classes were paying off. She beamed, causing Temari to blush.
It was then that Naruto felt Anko’s chakra and mentioned it to the three of them, going over to her teammates as they gathered together.
At some point a kunai cut her cheek and Anko decided to be creepy and licked it off, her reason for doing both was because she wasn’t paying attention to the tokubetsu jonin.
Kurama, however, started to growl and lash around her mind scape when another sound ninja came and handed Anko her kunai via her tongue.
She was unable to make out what he was saying through the growl and gnarls but managed to make out: snake, paedophile, sharingan, Orochimaru, experiments, snakes again, sennin, and other similar words.
Naruto froze at the implications and as they made their way into the tents, she made a clone to warn Anko and the other proctors of what was going on, as well as the teams she knew.
They made it to the gate when Naruto told her teammates about Orochimaru being here at the exam, and at first the two of them were very sceptical but after some convincing they believed her and the three of them cautiously and quickly made their way through the forest.
As she thought of the forest she realised one very important detail about the tower; it hadn’t fallen during the nine tails attack during her birth, meaning the hiraishin seal inside the tower should still be there.
She informed her team she would try to get access to the seal that was there, she had after all been there so it should make things a little easier. After a few minutes she found herself in the jonin room where everyone was watching the exam. All eyes went onto her, causing her to turn red, hastily apologise and return to her team.
When she returned the team was happy that they could quickly make their way to the tower and took a short lunch break, Naruto insisting on having a barrier seal placed she had only recently learnt as she sent out over a dozen clones to scout out the other teams and get a scroll if necessary.
Their lunch break lasted just under a half hour in which time nearly half of Naruto’s clones had been dispersed and the other half still doing as she requested.
They carried on through the forest when Naruto was suddenly face to face with a tree size snake. Doing what any other debatably sane kunoichi would do, she through a kunai with six explosive tags into its mouth as it tried to eat her, causing it to explode moments later, filling her and her teammates with snake essence.