Hn, glad your all enjoying it, now then, lets get on with things.
Ibiki observed the remaining genin and let his eyes travel to Naruto, the Hokage had warned him, Konoha's Demon. He would never have recognized him of course, having always seen him with the old Anbu mask.
He would have a word with the kid later, every time he captured someone he didn't even have to interrogate them, they'd be so terrified they would spill their guts if he promised to keep him away from them.
For a professional like him, it was starting to chafe..
Snapping out of his reverie he let his eyes wander over the group again. "Well then, everyone that's still in this room…" He paused. "Passes."
He held back a smirk as he saw the look of shock crossing over almost every gennins features, the only ones who remained indifferent were some Suna kid with red hair.
'What the hell do you mean! A Suna Kunoichi with four pig tails spoke up. "What about the tenth question?"
"There never was one." He answered simply. "The tenth question was, quite frankly to see if you had the guts to take it. Cowards do not deserve the rank of Chuunin."
"I still don't understand." An Inuzuka boy yelled frustrated.
Ibiki held back from sighing at such stupidity.
"There was never a tenth question." He explained calmly. "It was all a test, to see, if any of you actually had enough guts to risk taking it."
He saw comprehension dawn on the Inuzuka boys face.
'Jeez, kids today are getting dumber and dumber by the minute.'
Just then, a brownish blur crashed through the window, revealing…
"Alright kiddies, my name's Mitarishi Anko. Your second proctor." The purple haired kunoichi said with that familiar smirk on her face. When her eyes fell on Naruto, it took her a second to realize who he was. She hadn't really believed the Old Hokage had the cojones to put a wolf with the sheep.
'Maybe there'll be some more blood in this exam than I thought.' She thought, her smirk widening ever more.
"Alright you little shits follow me." She said walking straight across the room and out the door.
"Alright kiddies, here's where you'll be taking your next exam." She paused for dramatic effect. "The forest of death."
Most of the gennin cringed, Naruto's attention was elsewhere however, or more specifically, the masked scent of snakes the gennin from the grass village held behind him.
If this figure was who he thought he was, then immediate action must be taken without alerting him. He watched as Anko intimidated the other gennin. He sent out the faintest nudge of Chakra in her direction.
Anko noticed it and turned to face him He discreetly formed a few, signs used by the Anbu which basically said. 'Intruder.'
Anko carried on without missing a beat but Naruto knew she had seen him.
Some time later, Naruto heard the gates being announced for the different teams, his team was assigned gate 12. With a simple nod of his head he turned and began walking.
It was some time later, Naruto felt the presence again, they had felled a mist team already and had received the necessary scroll to continue on. He turned to his two teammates. "The two of you move on." He stated, the tower is only another three miles."
Hinata raised an eyebrow. "What are you gonna do?"
When silence greeted her she sighed, knowing that she wouldn't receive an answer. She shrugged after a few moments. If anyone could take care of themselves it was him.
Naruto heard them leave and then turned to where he had sensed the snake smelling stalker, he was standing directly in his path, if he wanted Hinata or Sasuke, then he would have to literally go right through him.
Which was highly unlikely.
Moments later, he felt the ninja try to leap over him, Naruto was slightly surprised by his stealth skills, many jounin wouldn't have detected him, but he supposed it was normal for this one, after all…
The Jinchuriki, leapt straight up, appearing directly infront of the startled grass nin. Then, with speed few could comprehend he delivered a hard right which connected with a sickening crunch sound, sending the grass nin flying back straight into another tree. Naruto landed calmly and stared at the ninja as he rubbed his jaw.
"Orochimaru of the sannin." He drawled. "S rank missing nin in Konoha's bingo book, bounty of over 600,000 ryo. Current holder of the snake summoning contract. Said to be the greatest Kinjutsu user in over a century.
Orochimaru snarled and grunted as he set his jaw back into place. "And who might you be?"
"Your executioner."
Gaara, Temari and Kankuro, who were also on their way to the tower came to a sudden and abrupt stop as Gaara's leap came to an all too sudden halt.
"What's wrong Gaara?" Temari asked as she landed in a crouch nearby.
The youngest of the siblings did not respond, his heightened senses had picked up an unnaturally high spike of chakra and that could only mean one thing.
The other jinchuriki, Naruto, was fighting.
He turned back to his two siblings. "You two go on ahead, I'll catch up." That said, Gaara turned and sped off in a different direction. Temari and Kankuro exchanged a glance, before they both shrugged and continued to the tower. Gaara could handle himself.
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