+- Naruto: The Hidden Curse -+ ---[Starts!]

[Sworkill87]

Hyuuga Raizen and the Deathly Forest:


“We have to get it correct or we can never be chuunin?” Raizen asked himself as the terms for the 10th question were given. Everyone was looking around now, some people were leaving, and their teammates with them, but it seemed that everyone from Raizen’s academy class was staying. “Well if they’re all staying… But, what if Masato or Ushi get the question wrong…” Raizen glanced around again. “Okay, Neji’s staying, there’s no way in hell I’ll let my brother beat me here.”

And so Raizen stayed put until the proctor announced that the final question was all a test of character, and they had all passed. “Cool.” Raizen said with a slight sigh as a female ninja burst into the room and Ushi tackled him to the floor in the excitement of passing. “Gah! Get off Ushi!” Raizen eventually pulled himself out of Ushi’s death grip of a hug and they all followed Anko to the second part of the exams.

***

Raizen stood in front of the large gates leading to where the second part of the exams was to take place. “The forest of- “

“Death?” Masato finished. “This isn’t going to be all rainbows and kittens is it?”

“Oh but I like rainbows and kittens.” Ushi said looking a little disappointed as he was handed a Heaven scroll.

“Okay,” Said Raizen, “We’ve got the heaven scroll, and all we have to do is obtain an Earth scroll and make it to the tower in three days. At least it’s not complicated; we just have to worry about the other ninja.”

Just then the signal was given and everyone rushed in through their respective gates. “Raizen,” Masato said quite some time later, as team 15 leapt from tree branch to tree branch, “hold on to the scroll, nobody’s going to sneak up on you.” They stopped high above the forest floor so Ushi could hand over the scroll.

“Oh, I have an idea” He said, and with a quick note on his flute two more scrolls appeared, each identical to the original. “We might as well fool anyone trying to attack us.” Ushi said as he passed them out. “Now nobody will know which the real one is.”

“Hey, as long as we’re stopped I’ve been thinking.” Masato chimed in. “Why blunder around in a forest when Raizen can search it for us.”

“I was just about so suggest that myself.” Raizen said w/ a smirk. “Byakugan!” His vision now extremely enhanced Raizen scanned the forest. He jumped to other trees every once and a while, and after a few minutes smirked again. “I’ve found the perfect target.” He said. “They are approximately 50 yards southeast of us on the forest floor. It looks like they are planning an attack or something.”

“What scroll?” Masato asked immediately.

“Earth. And they have no idea we’re here.” This time all three teammates smiled.

***
Three shinobi sat in a small clearing amidst thick trees as they spoke quietly amongst themselves. One with long black hair and wearing his Grass headband around his neck seemed to command the other two. “And finally, if we place explosive tags at these four locations-”

“But…” Said a more timid looking ninja with sunken green eyes and a full arsenal of summoning scrolls. “If we do that we might hurt someone…”

“That’s not the point.” said the third shinobi. This one female with a wild look about her and holding a gigantic scythe.

“Yes,” said the leader. “The point is to obtain a Heaven scroll. And to do that-”

The long haired ninja was cut off as a two kunai sunk themselves deep into both his shoulders. Everyone looked up to see three Leaf ninja standing on a branch 20 feet above them.

“Nice shot Masato.” Raizen said as they hopped down to land a few feet from the Grass team. “Now,” He called out to the wounded leader. “If you three would hand over your Earth scroll, we’ll be on our way.”

“You think that we’ll just-”

“With your arms like that, you are in no condition to fight.” Masato cut in. “In fact, if I hit you exactly where my friend suggested,” He nodded at Raizen, “you shouldn’t even be able to wiggle your fingers.” Sure enough the leader of the grass team could not move his arms an inch.

“If you wanted to disable us you should have done it all at once!” The wild looking girl with the scythe yelled as she started to charge team 15, only to stop as she heard her other teammate give a blood curdling scream. She whirled around to see the sunken eyed ninja writhing on the ground, trying desperately to get away from something. “What are you doing Shinji?!” But it was too late; he had passed out, apparently from shear terror. It was then that Raizen and Masato appeared on either side of the scythed warrior. She took a swipe at Raizen who dodged in time to receive no more that a shallow cut on his cheek as Masato proceeded to disarm her.

“Eight trigrams!” Was the last thing she heard before loosing consciousness. The three of them then walked over to where the long haired leader lay.

“We’ll take your Earth scroll now!” Ushi said happily. Not having an option either way, the Grass shinobi was forced to watch helpless as Raizen dug through the sunken eyed ones arsenal of scrolls. “There we go!” Ushi almost squealed as he multiplied this scroll as well and handed a copy to Masato and Raizen in turn.

“Now you stay out of trouble.” Masato said as they got up to leave. “We don’t want you kids winding up lost in here.”


***
“Wow, we got lucky, that went way better than I’d hoped.” Raizen said as they hopped from tree to tree again. “I kinda wonder if they should have been in the chuunin exams.”

“Yeah, but did we have to be so cocky?” Masato asked. “Some of it just felt like too much.”

“Eh, maybe.” Raizen responded. “But we had to act overconfident to keep them un-nerved. And of course now we have a bit of a reputation.” He added with a smile. “By the way Ushi, what did you have that one with the summoning scrolls see anyway?”

They were carefully trying to avoid what looked like one of the ominous sound teams now.

“Oh, nothing special,” Ushi whispered with a smile that betrayed his words. “Just rainbows and kittens.”


(Wow, that was a long post, sorry. I hope nobody fell asleep reading it. ^_^)