Naruto love story

5-Surviving The Forest

"Everyone must sign a form." Anko orders as we each recieve a form. "It states that we won't be held accountable if anything unfortunate happens to you."

"Why would something bad happen to us?" asks Sakura.

"Because you'll be going in there." Anko responded as she points behind her to a forest that's surrounded by a fence. "It's called the forest of death for a reason."

"F...forest of death?" Gulped Naruto in fear as sweat ran down his face. I can't believe how easily he gets frightened. I look at the forest wondering what could be lurking inside of it.

"That's nothing, I'm not afraid!" shouts Naruto in denial.

"Yeah, your spirited," replies Anko quietly with a smile. She then caught us all by surprise when she threw a kunai knife at Naruto, scraping his cheek and landing behind a mysterious ninja. Why did she do that? Does she think that she's actually tough by hurting Naruto, one of the weakest ninja?

"Kids like you are quickly killed," she stated as she appears behind Naruto, who's in shock and is bleeding from the kunai. She then licks the blood off of his face. I need to keep my eyes on her, she's definitely not normal.

"Here," the mysterious man, or woman says as he/she holds Anko's kunai in its tongue. Anko is startled.

"Why, thank you," Anko replies with a creepy smile, "Just don't sneak up on me again unless you want to die." I'm really getting tired of her attitude. I try to say something but Shikamaru puts his hand on my shoulder. I look back at him and he shakes his head. I guess he knew that I would try to start trouble again.

"Alright, you will all fight over these scrolls," Anko states as she whips out 2 different scrolls. "Half of you will be given the earth scroll, and the other half will be given the heaven scroll. You have to acquire the scroll that you don't have in order to advance to the center of the forest and win. The time limit for this test is 5 days."

"What about dinner!" Choji yells in anger and concern as he clenches his fists together.

"The forest is filled with food," she replies. If half of us get one type of scroll and the other half gets another type, and we have to get both types. That means that half of the teams will fail. Anko wasn't just threatening us when she said that.

"Oh and by the way, don't open your scrolls until you get to the center of the forest, or else." Anko warns us. "Alright, everyone hand in your forms and each team will receive a scroll," Anko commands.

"Hey, Naruto," I say to him, attracting his attention. "Are you okay?" I don't know why I asked him that. Since when do I even care about his well being. I guess I just don't like seeing Anko pick on Naruto, probably the weakest student, and think she's all tough for doing so.

"Yeah, it's just a little scratch, ill be fine, no need to worry!" Babbled Naruto as he blushes, probably surprised that I even care about him.

We collect our scroll and I carry it in one of my pouches.

"Why does she get to carry our scroll?!" Argues Ino. I really don't have the patients to put up with her non sense right now, I haven't fought in a while and I'm on edge.

"Do you want to hold on to it then?" I ask her impatiently.

"Maybe I do!" she replies.

"Fine, but if you lose it then I WILL kill you, do you understand?"

"Um, that's alright, you can carry it," she nervously responds.

"You guys, follow me to your gate," a random ninja tells us as we follow him to a door on the fence that's labeled '27.' We wait for him to open the door.