The Prodigy Namikaze by SoulReaperCrewe

Chapter 9: Chunin Exams- Survival

"Oh, what hit me?" Naruto groaned aloud as bright light shined directly down upon him causing him to groan even more and put his hand in front of his eyes it order not to go blind from the sun.

He didn't know where he was, but where ever it was it was hot, very hot. So much so that his forehead was sweating an awful lot and could feel his clothes were sticking to him a little making him feel a little uncomfortable.

The ground beneath him was flat and soft, however it felt lose and like it was shifting beneath him.

"What am I lying on?" he thought as he began to sit up. When he went to rub the back of his neck he found sand covering it. Look behind him completely he saw his whole back was covered in sand.

"What the…?" he said before he finally took a good look around and noticed they were currently under the shade of a few cacti that were piled together, which were station in the middle of the desert.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?" he shouted out causing movements to stir next to him. Looking over he saw Anko and Itachi all lying next to him, but were showing signs of beginning to wake up.

"Guys wake up, we got problems." He said as he shook them both awake. The last he remember was being in the classroom with the other teams that passed the first tests

"Ok already, take it easy dude," Anko complained as she began to sit up and rub her eyes. Itachi did the same and was blinking his eyes.

As they both began to wake up, they began to notice where they were. They blinked furiously as if believing it was a genjutsu and even tried to dispel it. Once they realized it was not a genjutsu and they were really in the desert, Anko summed up everyone's thoughts.

"WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE!?"

"The desert by the looks of things; damn proctor must have knocked us out with knockout gas." he said as the trio began to shakily stand up.

For the next minute they checked themselves over and sighed happily that everyone still had all their belongings. Naruto was especially thankful no one took his blade but then again he had that in a storage seal on his right wrist since he did not want people seeing his beautiful blade just yet.

"There's a note." Itachi said as he look over at one of the cactuses and saw that pinned to the center cactus was indeed a note.

They all got up and went towards it. Itachi delicately took it off, not wanting to get struck by one of the prickles of the cactus plant and read out what it said.

Congrats for passing the first exam. Now the real test begins. Your team has been stranded in the middle of the Suna desert to which your team must survive. You have five days to return to the Suna village. If you do not return in that time then you will be disqualified. Along the way their will be a surprise in store.

"Oh goody, this sounds like a heap of fun." Naruto commented dryly as Anko and Itachi could not help but agree with him.

"So we are stranded. Who the hell came up with this stupid idea?" Anko wailed as the two sighed and shook their heads.

"Five days, huh? I don't suppose anyone actually know which direction we have to go in, do you?" Naruto asked as he looked around them.

"I guess that is another thing we have to figure out. Navigation and stuff like that." Itachi added, though he was more worried about getting food and water once they ran out.

"Well if we have five days than I guess we should aim to get their sooner than that. Everyone check you packs to see what food or water we have since water especially is going to be something we will need to treasure in the desert."