Nothing Special

Chapter 11

The next morning Aceso stood at the Forest of Death with the Chunin exam testees and some others including Anko. She always hated going in there, but she loved the Chunin exams. Out of all the things in the world, centipedes were her biggest fear, it didn't help they were gigantic in the Forest of Death.

" Whoa, nice place," Naruto complimented. " What is it?"

" This is the location for the second phase of the exam," Anko explained. " It's the 44th Battle Training Zone. But we call it the Forest of Death."

" Forest of Death?" Naruto gasped. He then looked to the side to see fake rocks creeping up to him, he then started running, the rocks followed, he then stopped and faced it, and the fake square rocks stopped as well.

" That's the worst disguise of all time!" Naruto shouted pointing at the rocks. " There's no such thing as square rocks. It's completely obvious."

" You saw through my camouflage again!" Konohamaru shouted. " You're slick boss. Just what I'd expect from my greatest rival. " The box shined greatly, it came with some explosions, and smoke, three kids were coughing from it. " I think we used a little too much gunpowder, you guys." They looked up questionably at Naruto.

" I'm Moegi, the sassiest kunoichi in preschool," Moegi announced. " Check me out!"

" I love Algebra," Udon announced. " Call me Udon."

" And I'm the number one ninja in the village," Konohamaru announced. " Konohamaru! And when we're all together..."

" We're the Konohamaru Ninja Squad!" the three announced.

" Yeah, I knew it was you guys the whole time," Naruto said, Aceso shook her head. " What do you losers want? I'm getting ready to take the second phase of the Chunin Exam, and you're interrupting me. I don't have time to be playing around with you guys now."

" We didn't come to play around, boss," Konohamaru stated. " We're on official business."

" Yeah, that's right," Moegi declared. " We came here for an exclusive interview."

" Uh-huh," Udon nodded. " Uh-huh."

" An interview, huh?" Naruto asked.

" We're here on an assignment to write an article for the academy's newspaper," Konohamaru explained. " It's a bigtime feature story, all about the Chunin Selection Examinations.

" So that's why we want to do an exclusive interview with you," Moegi added. " Please tell us you're going to do it?"

" It would mean a lot," Udon pleaded befoe sniffing up snot.

" Yeah, but right now?" Naruto asked. " Ugh."

" Hey, you over there!" Anko shouted as she walked over.

" Huh?" Naruto asked as Aceso followed her.

" What are you doing?" Anko demanded. " You're holding up the exams."

" Uh, sorry," Naruto apologized. " But Konohamaru was telling me something about an interview for the academy newspaper." Anko let out a gasp and her eyes went wide.

" Oh, yeah, I forgot all about it," Anko laughed as she put a hand behind her head. " Lord Hokage had mentioned something about them interviewing me.

" Uh, interviewing you?" Naruto asked.

" All right, we're taking a 10-minute break," Anko announced. " For those that are scheduled to be interviewed, please be courteous and respectful to the reporters from the academy newspaper."

" I thought I was the only one being interviewed," Naruto said.

" No, boss," Konohamaru denied as he held out a pen and paper. " But you are the most important."