Happiness. || Gaara x reader

[Ch 4] Die or survive

Suddenly, a violet-haired woman broke into the room, giving us a fright. «I'm Anko Mitarashi and I'll proctor the second stage of the Chunin exam! Now come with me to continue the test!».

Girl, calm down.

We slowly began to approach her, who was still busy counting the teams that passed the first stage. «Twenty-six, don't you think you've been too nice this time?» «Good luck.» Ibiki-san simply replied.

She led us to the forest, where the exam would take place. «Alright, let me explain to you what the second stage consists of. It's an extreme survival programme, this place is also known as ‘The forest of death’, you'll soon realize why-» «ThE fOreSt oF dEatH, yoU'll sOoN reAliZe wHy» Naruto mocked her, and guess what? She heard him. In fact, as fast as possible, she threw a kunai, which cut his left cheek, to him. Now he's in trouble. Well sucks to be you, my guy.

«A kid like you dies at the beginning.» Anko-san stated, you could say she was pretty mad. Then, she proceeded to lick the blood that was leaking. I'm sorry, but what the hell-

When Naruto freed himself from her grip, he came again beside me. I lent him a napkin and whispered «Next time, just shut up.» «Yeah, but wasn't she overreacting?» He frowned, moving his gaze to the other side and crossing his arms. «Look, it's an advice. Listen to me or do what you want to do, little reminder that the problems you cause may affect the whole team.» «Fine, I'll be quiet, but seriously she was exaggerating.».

As we finished discussing, she returned to explain. «First of all, take a look at the map: this is the forty-fourth training ground. It is surrounded by forty-four locked entrances, each team will enter by a different entry. As you can see, there's a river, which crosses the forest. At the centre there's a tower, the distance from it to the entrances are about ten kilometres.».

«So, I guess we just need to reach the tower and the first teams will pass the exam. Tks, easy.» I glanced in the boy's direction, "You're screwed, man". «Wrong! As I told you earlier, this place is called ‘The forest of death’ for a reason. Don't underestimate this exam and take it seriously!».

«In this confined area, to survive you must use all your techniques and skills, exploit them because it's the only way to pass. There's no rules, actually. It's a battle for these scrolls. I want you to fight for them: the Heaven Scroll and the Earth Scroll. Thirteen teams are going to have the Heaven Scroll and the other half the Earth Scroll. You must have both of these scrolls and reach the central tower.».

«Only thirteen of twenty-six teams will pass.» I commented. «Exactly! Lastly, there's a condition: the time limit is one hundred and twenty hours-» «Which means we have five days.» «You're pretty smart, Uchiha.».

Well, it wasn't so hard to figure out.

«Absolutely don't look at the contents of the scrolls, until you reached the tower! This is to test your reliability. Before you can take part of this test, you have to sign this. It's a consent form, from here on out, corpses are going to come out, I have to get your consent to that!».

She distributed the papers to each of us. «That's so unfair, dattebayo!» «Mmh? What's unfair, Naruto?» I looked at him with a confused face. «It's so unfair that only half of the teams will pass, don't you think?» I chuckled at his statement. «No, you're completely wrong. Think about it, more teams will fail more chances we have to pass.» «But what if we're one of those who will fail?» «We won't.».

After reassuring him, I began reading the consent form. As I was about to sign it, I caught someone staring at me. He then approached me, «So, your name is Y/n Uchiha.». I nodded and dropped the pen to face him. «Why didn't you tell me when we first met?» «My parents always told me to not talk with strangers, but I guess now you're not a stranger anymore, since we know each other's names.».