Stream of past

Welcome to the Jungle

All the genin picked a number and took a seat in the examination room. Surprisingly she was seated next to Gaara this time. She inwardly gulped at the killing intent he was emanating. Shukaku sure wasn't a nice thing. And that's putting it extremely lightly. She can't wait until Naruto beats some sense into the red head.

She looked around the room and saw Naruto in the front row, next to Hinata. Behind Hinata was Ino. She could bet her money Ino was going to to use her mind transfer jutsu on the Hyūga heiress. In the back of the room she saw Sasuke seated behind a hidden chunin. Lucky bastard. That guy probably has the answers to every question. Next to Sasuke sat Kiba.

After everyone was seated, Ibiki started explaining the written exam. It was so obvious they were supposed to cheat, especially when he said that you had 5 chances at cheating. Once Ibiki said start, the pinkette quickly started writing the answers. They were so easy, at least for her. Half an hour into the exam and she started noticing others cheating. Ino was slumped on her desk, meaning that she entered Hinata's mind. Neji had activated his Byakugan. She could see Shino's bugs float around and hear Akamaru barking answers to Kiba, most likely Sasuke's. Eventually the time for the 10th question came and a few genin started quitting.

"Damn it! I'm not a coward! Give me your stupid question! I'll still become Hokage, even if I'm just a genin!" yelled Naruto. After the little outburst, the genin stopped raising their hands and waited for the 10th question. When Ibiki said there was no question and that they all passed, she saw people sigh in relief. Just then Anko made her loud entrance.

"HEADS UP LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS NO TIME FOR A CELEBRATION! I'M YOUR PROCTOR FOR THE SECOND PART...ANKO MITARASHI! Ready for my exam? Great! Let's move it!" exclaimed the woman.

"You're early...again..." said Ibiki.

"Wowie, Ibiki! Is this how many passed? You're getting soft. Your test was way to easy." said Anko.

"Or it may be a stronger batch of candidates this year..." said Ibiki.

"Yeah right, once I'm through with them, I'll reduce their numbers in half! I'll tell your squad leaders where to meet me, dismissed." said Anko. After Anko left the genin made their way out of the academy.

"So, you guys wanna go to Ichiraku?" asked Naruto.

"Sorry Naruto, I still have my shift at the hospital. Maybe after the exams?" said Sakura.

"You got it Sakura-chan! Teme? Wanna come?" asked Naruto.

"Hn."

"That's not a real answer, teme." said Naruto.

"I think that's a yes. Uchiha-nese is an easy language once you get the hang of it." said Sakura, while laughing."Here, let me teach you." She brought Naruto's face close to her's as they both stared at Sasuke, who raised an eyebrow. "He raised his eyebrow, which means he doesn't believe me and thinks the name Uchiha-nese is stupid. Now he's frowning but his eyes widened a bit, he's surprised but still doesn't believe I can understand his weird alien language." While Sakura was reading Sasuke's emotions like an open book, Naruto was laughing his butt of as Sakura explained more and more of Uchiha-nese. "Ooh, a glare. This means he had enough of me talking. Ah, look he turned his head, that means he is embarrassed, maybe he finally admitted defeat?" Sasuke glared at Sakura, again, this time a bit red."Maybe not...Oh well, you can also understand Kaka-sensei with this. He's just the advanced version since you can only see his eye." By that time Naruto was struggling to breathe between laughs. In the end Naruto went alone to eat with a black eye, courtesy of one angry Sasuke, after the blonde tried to read his expressions like Sakura. Apparently only she can get away with this.

...

The next day, the genin met outside of the forest of death. Anko was standing in front of the participants and explained the second exam. Sakura tuned her out as she thought about what was to come inside the forest. Orochimaru was there. Last night she made a plan to stop him from giving Sasuke the curse mark. She really, really hoped it will work, because if not, she honestly didn't know what to do.

Her train of thoughts were interrupted when Anko grazed Naruto's cheek with her kunai. Then she went behind the blonde and licked the blood off his cheek. She saw a grass nin pick up the kunai and give it to Anko. Little did she know it was Orochimaru in disguise. The genin were each given a scroll and sent into the forest. Team 7 had a heaven scroll.

As the genin entered the death trap, they could only feel more and more on edge. Right now they kept to the trees, jumping from branch to branch to god knows where.

"Guys, can we stop?" asked Naruto. "I really, really need to pee."

"Fine..." said Sakura as she jumped down from the branch. "We should also make a plan on how to get the other scroll."

Naruto nodded as he hopped towards a bush. "Go behind it, dobe!" yelled Sasuke.

"Yeah, yeah teme!" said Naruto.

Sakura and Sasuke stood at the base of a tree and looked around, bored. They waited 10 minutes until 'Naruto' came back.

"Much better, I almost wrote my entire na-" 'Naruto' was cut off as Sakura threw a shuriken at him. "What the heck Sakura?"

"Where's Naruto?" asked Sakura.

"What do you mean, it's-" He got cut off again, this time by Sasuke, who threw a kunai at the fake blonde. "Not you too Sasuke!"

"Hn, your weapon pouch is tied on the wrong leg, the dobe is right-handed. Also Naruto always called Sakura, Sakura-chan."

"So you figured me out, eh? Impressive!" There was a puff of smoke and the genin revealed himself to be from Ame. "Now, which one of you has the scroll?" he only got glares as a reply. "Not telling me? Fine! I'll just have to beat it out of you!"

The rain ninja started running towards them at full speed. Sakura made a signal towards Sasuke and the Uchiha nodded. The medic punched the ground, making it crack under her fist, while Sasuke leaped in the air and did the hands signs for Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu. The huge fireball sent the ninja directly into a tree, making him go unconscious with burn marks all over his body.

Sakura sighed, she was about to suggest searching him for a scroll when she felt a hand choke her. She glanced behind her and saw another rain ninja halfway passed through a tree. Another one jumped into the clearing and was facing Sasuke.

"Surrender the scroll or pinky here dies." said the Ame ninja. Sasuke glared and gripped a kunai. The pinkette was having none of this shit and yelled at her teammate. "Duck!" And duck he did, as Sakura brutally ripped the ninja from the tree and threw it at his teammate, making them fly across the clearing.

She took a greedy breath of air as Sasuke went to the rain genin and knocked them out with a good hit behind the head. Then he took the scroll from the burnt one looked back at Sakura.

"You ok?" asked Sasuke.

"Yeah, don't worry about it. Did they have an earth scroll?" asked Sakura.

"Heaven." said the Uchiha.

"Damn! Well let's go look for Naruto and hopefully make some sort of plan." said the pinkette. Sasuke nodded and they both went to look for their blonde teammate. Luckily they eventually found him behind a bush all tied up.