"Stand up, shut up and stop being a little shit." Naruto said bluntly as he took a step back, allowing the boy to scramble to his feet and back away as fast as he could, retreating back to the safety of his team.
"'Stand up, shut up and stop being a little shit', that's the best you were able to come up with? Considering your whole ruthless and deadly rep I was expecting something a bit better." Anko said mockingly with a smirk.
...
Naruto shrugged in response, he wasn't the woman's performing monkey. He then cocked an eyebrow before nodding at something behind Anko, gaining the woman's attention as she twisted around another kunai in hand.
"Excuse me, you dropped this." A female Kusa genin with long black hair said as she stood a metre or so behind Anko, having been approaching the violet hair woman whilst her back was turned.
No doubt hoping to return Anko's kunai, which she currently held with her tongue… and people thought the Outcasts were odd.
Anko scowled as she watched Kusa genin approach, having not sensed her approaching until just before Pain had indicated something was behind her. Cautiously reaching out to take her kunai back, Anko said.
"That was a dangerous stunt there. I could have killed you just now for that."
"My apologies. I'll be sure to watch my step with you next time." The Kusa genin replied sweetly as she returned the kunai and left.
Naruto's eyes narrowed as he watched the girl from Kusagakure walk away. Something about that girl was wrong he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was but something about her did not sit right with him.
"Do you want to get on with the explanation then Anko?" Naruto said abruptly, tearing his gaze away from the girl, and instead looking over at Anko, getting a nod and a smirk from the slightly older woman as he did so.
"Easy there tiger, there is no need to rush. Well anyway, listen up you lot, this portion of the exam is a field exam. All of you will be inside this forest for five days," Anko started giving Naruto a wink before she turned to look around at the genin, once again getting into her role of proctor now that the disruptive miscreant had been dealt with.
After her little display before none of the other genin dared to interrupt her, even if a few of them did look a bit put out about having to be in a forest for five days.
Reaching into the pocket of her coat Anko pulled out two small and compact scrolls, one of them with the kanji for 'earth' on it, and the other one with the kanji for 'heaven.' Raising her hand she made sure all the watching genin could see the scrolls.
"Each team gets one of these, and you're to get the opposite from an opposing team. By any means necessary," Anko said as she looked around at the watching genin, reaching into her pocket she then held up a bunch of papers with her other hand.
"These are release forms that dismisses any charges against Konoha for whatever will or might happen to all of you. After all, none of you want to see me get into any trouble, right? Sign these forms, and exchange them for the scroll in this booth," Anko said and started passing out the forms.
Before she nonchalantly gestured at a small booth that two Konoha chunin were setting up behind her. "You have twenty minutes to consider whether or not you'll risk your lives here and sign the forms.
Then come one team at a time."
"So," One of the Oto Shinobi began, the man in question having multiple bandages on his face, a strange metal gauntlet on his right arm and a heavy cloak around his shoulders.
"In other words, killing is allowed in this part of the exams, correct?"
Anko retorted, "Didn't you hear me the first time? You're to get the opposite scroll from an opposing team by any means necessary. Me and Pain over there will be in the forest but we are not going to stop you from killing each other.
Our job as proctors of the exam is to stop any of you receiving any external assistance."
Naruto turned to give the genin a deadpan look as he heard that, his red eyed gaze moving over the assembled genin making the weaker and meeker genin flinch. Some though like Mito, Erza, Sasuke and a couple of other genin, notably including a Hyuuga boy and his team mates.
One of whom greatly resembled Maito Guy, whilst the other was a pretty brown haired girl, it these genin that did not look away they met his gaze and instead held strong.
With Anko's explanation done the genin went to sign the forms and get their scrolls, and after barely five minutes, all of the genin teams had signed the forms and had their respective scrolls in hands. All of them ready to start the next stage of their examination.
"Finally, everyone have their scrolls. Good now the fence around the forest has 44 gates, which you will pass through. In the center of the forest, about six miles from the gates, there is a tower. All of you must make your way there within five days with both scrolls. You have each been assigned a gate number.
Go to your assigned gate and wait for it to open. That will be the start of the second exam," Anko explained.
Naruto turned to watch as all of the genin hurried to their assigned gates. Looking away from their retreating backs, he then glanced over at Anko. "So what is the plan, you take one side of the forest I take the other?"
Anko shrugged in response, "We could do it that way I suppose. Would probably be better if we just freestyle it, just keep moving and tracking down the teams, don't interfere just make sure they are not being helped by their Jounin or something."
"And if they are?" Naruto asked blandly.
"Then they are disqualified, let them continue to take part in this stage of the exam, but as soon as they reach the tower in the centre we tell them they failed." Anko replied before she causally went through some stretches, shifting her body around as she prepared to shoot off into the forest.
"By the way, as much fun as I am sure it will be, try not to kill any of the genin."
Naruto turned to look into the forest as he heard that, his lips quirking upwards in a crooked grin. "Oh I will try…"
...
(Thirty Minutes Later in the Forest of Death)
Kabuto shifted uncomfortably as he led his team through the forest. By rights he shouldn't be feeling this way, he was after all in his own mind an elite Jounin level Shinobi, who had been trained personally by Orochimaru of the Sannin.
He was so beyond the level of an ordinary genin it was laughable, yet here he was feeling distinctly nervous as he led his two teammates through he thickly wooded forest.
His two teammates were nothing special, two Konoha rejects who had failed to make the big leagues and had been seduced into following Lord Orochimaru by promises of power and status.
The two of them were fools, yet greater men than them had been taken in by Orochimaru's silver tongued promises, just look at the Kazekage.
The man was willing to betray his alliance with Konoha and join Orochimaru in invading the Leaf Village, all for the promise of greater status as a Village and an influx of contracts, wealthy and new bloodlines, whether he Orochimaru would be that generous with him though was debatable.
The same of course could be said for that foolish woman Mei Terumi, the Mizukage, he didn't know what the woman was playing at by sending Pain here but she was an idiot if she thought she could refuse Lord Orochimaru.
Under his guise of the Otokage he had approached her and laid out the basics of his plan, she had agreed, that was all there was to it, she would stick by her agreement or she would die.