ANBU boot camp

Chapter 49

Day 1,

Hiruzen finally reached his office, it was already well into the night after the teams had left the village,

"Stop hiding," he spoke as he lit his pipe.

Both Tsunade and Jiraiya came out of the shadows,

"How is it you can still spot us even after all these years?" the woman asked as she and Jiraiya sat down.

"That is why I am the master and you are the students," the old man smirked.

"How did it go?" Jiraiya asked after a moment.

"Well, though it took forever, but I can say we got things done. I just have one last chore to handle and we will be ready for the Exams." The old teacher replied.

"What's that?" his students asked together.

"To pick my successor," the old man replied and snapped his fingers.

Several of the ANBU arrived as they brought two desks you would find in the school, on each desk was a stack of paper and several sharpened pencils. The desks were set up to be facing each other.

"Sit," he ordered.

The two got out of the comfortable chairs and moved to the desks. Tsunade was able to easily slip into hers but Jiraiya had to suck in his breath in order to squeeze his larger frame into the seat.

"On that desk, you will find paper and writing tools, use them as you study and observe the person in front of you and write down every reason why they should not be the next Hokage," The Hokage smiled as he sat back and watched his student.

They had an air of a young student that did not study for a test.

Day 2, Pre-dawn,

Panting heavily, the man ran through the woods. Roto Mizuhara was no fool, he had sensed he was being tracked a while ago, but what shocked him was that no matter what trick he used he could not lose them.

It was the howl that got him running because he knew he had an Inuzuka tracking him which meant he had Leaf shinobi tracking him.

He started running, using every trick he knew; pepper bombs, Genjutsu, and anything else he knew to avoid detection.

Nothing worked,

"Shit!" he called out as he entered a clearing and his foot got caught in a snare.

He hit the ground and rolled trying to reach for his ankle when a set of large powerful jaws encased his head.

He froze, his head was inside the mouth of a large animal. Slowly he lifted his hand and started to feel the fur of the animal when his fingers gently brush along a leather strap. Another touch and he knew this animal had an eyepatch.

At that moment shadows started to emerge from the trees and brush, soon he realized most were female. All adorned with the red war paint of the Inuzuka clan, that and the large dog that held the man's head in his powerful jaws told roto that he was dealing with the elite tracking and hunting team of Tsume Inuzuka, one of the top three most sadistic members of the Village Hidden in the Leaf.