Chapter 79 – The Forest of Death

Chapter 79 – The Forest of Death

The next day bright and early the team that passed the first exam met in front of a fenced-out entrance for the training ground 44.

Each team kept a safe distance from one another until a familiar face showed up and everyone gathered up to listen to the instructions for the second exam.

“Welcome everyone, I, Yugao Uzuki will be the proctor for the 2nd test.

"This here is Training Ground 44, the Forest of Death, and you’ll soon find out why?”

‘Anko...’

‘Yes, I gave her my line to practice, hehe’.

Naruto scoffs, about to make fun of Yugao but I steal the opening before he can open his mouth.

“Are you sure? 4 for death twice is a sign of good luck, and I going to get lucky inside?”

Yugao laughs before unsheathing her short Katana, happy with my provocation.

I likewise grab the handle of the katana I have strapped at my waist and as Yugao charges I unsheate my katana and block her swing.

The sound of metal colliding is heard as Yugao gets behind me.

“You’re getting rusty Yami, thank you for the meal.”

Yugao says as a small cut shows up on my neck.

Yugao licks my necks savouring every drop as her body shivers.

By now most of the participants have established both Yugao’s strength in kenjutsu and her craziness having publicly licked my blood.Reêad latest novels at novelhall.com

This is why Yugao thanked me, for both helping her assert her position and letting her have some of her favorite blood secretly by holding back.

Though I wasn’t lying about getting lucky in this forest.

That’s the main goal of several of our plans.

‘Thank’s Anko, please keep Yugao safe.’

‘How are you Ino?’

‘All good, we are in gate 2 to the northwest’

‘Be careful of Gaara to the north or east and try to steer further west, you might find team Guy around there’

‘Understood...’

“Final chance to choose our plans Sakura, Hinata”

Over half the plans we have readied involve this second phase of the exam, this is the best chance to act out secretly and try to steal some pieces.

“R-1.” Hinata says

“Hmm, I also think it has good chances but be careful, Sakura?”

“I'll just go for plan D...”

“Have fun, I’ll make sure plan O-1 goes right before going for plan K-1, I’ll keep in contact every hour or so. We’ll have to keep a look out for chances for plan M after.”

One big advantage we have over other teams is we’ve looked at every information and map available for this training ground.

Not only are we aware of the dangerous region and precautions required, we also know the position of relevant landmarks and can easily find each other using my telepathy, and of course our Byakugan to locate threats that are far away and navigate around other teams.

We are also properly supplied for several days in the forest and we each have our own rations and water supply.

“Exam Start!”

Our doors open and we start running inside.

With my Byakugan I can see only the two closest teams to ours but unlike every other team, we immediately split up.

Hinata goes in the northwest direction, I head east while I give instructions to Sakura and point her to the closest team to us belonging to the sand village.

Half an hour later Sakura acquired an Earth Scroll, the same type we already had and I pointed her to where Hinata found another team.

Left behind were 3 fainted Sunagakure ninjas and 6 broken puppets, each taken out with a single fist.