SAKURA POV:
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura tree hopped through the forest of death.
They had already beat a team from Amegakure but they had a heaven scroll, same as team 7.
"Naruto, did any of your clones find anyone" Sakura asked her friend
"Yeah, but no one actually worth fighting"
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF THIS EXAM" Sakura yelled "WHERE'S THE NEAREST ONE?"
"THAT WAY MA'AM! SORRY MA'AM!" He said while pointing towards northwest while also saluting.
"Both of you stop screwing around" Sasuke interjected, Sharingan active " I think I found a place to camp for tonight"
Both of them immediately got into serious mode, and entered a triangle formation with Sasuke at the tip to lead them to an empty clearing.
Naruto let out a whistle as he set down his bag " Nice find Sasuke. Who knew having a Sharingan meant easy camping"
"Please don't use it as a fancy map" Sasuke sighed as he pulled out equipment to make food.
"Oi, someone needs to go hunt and one more needs to get water." Sakura said.
"I'll do the hunting" Sasuke called while unsealing up his sword.
"I'll get the water then" Naruto said while picking up a bucket.
"Leave the tents to me" Sakura said while picking up a hammer and the bundle of cloth.
"Wait" Sasuke called out "We should come up with a code, just in case."
It made sense, they were Ninja, in a Ninja exam, with other Ninja and the literal first jutsu (not including bunshin) they teach Ninja is the henge(transformation).
"A ninja waits till the time is right. When the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike." Sasuke ratted off immediately.
Sakura nodded while Naruto scratched his head "I-uh-sure ok I totally remember that"
Sakura knew for a fact that he would, as a matter of fact, totally forget that.
And that's what they were counting on.
SASUKE POV:
Sasuke punched the fake Naruto through a couple of trees with a Hiken (Fire fist).
"How could you have known?" the imposter hissed.
"You said the code perfectly" Sasuke answered.
"And that makes me suspicious?" the attacker looked confused now.
"It does if you're trying to if you're trying to impersonate Naruto 'Can't remember shit' Uzumaki" Sakura said as she landed beside Sasuke.
"I resent that" called out Naruto as 7 Narutos landed in a pentagon around fake Naruto before each held up the same hand seal, creating the Shichikakukei bariashīru (heptagon barrier seal), the only barrier technique Naruto could actually do.
The imposter seemed amused though.
With one hand-sign, the transformation ended to reveal a lady with a Kusagakure headband.
Sasuke had a bad feeling now, along with ending the henge It seemed the lady had also stopped suppressing her dark chakra.
There was no time to waste.
He felt the real Naruto and Sakura tense beside him as his arms were covered in raging flames.
Flames he unleashed at the Kusa ninja, who had already made a few cracks in the barrier by simply unleashing her chakra.
Above him, Naruto had created a wind storm on only the ninja, causing a raging inferno right on top of the enemy.
Naruto landed beside him with a smirk.
"That must have-"
He was interrupted by a giant snake crashing into him, taking Naruto away to god knows where in the forest of death.
Sakura was about to chase after him but stopped when she realised the Kusa ninja was standing in front of her, half her face melted.
"Quite the combination" she said as she peeled off the rest of her face, revealing a white skinned man with black hair "Easy to get out of though."
Both Sasuke and Sakura knew who this was.
SAKURA POV:
There were 2 notorious rogue ninjas Konoha had produced.
One was Itachi Uchiha.
The other was…
"Orochimaru" Sakura gasped "Why is the Snake Sannin here"
"There's only one reason I'm here" Orochimaru said, shedding the Kusa ninja attire to show plain grey garbs with a thick purple rope tied in a knot behind his back. " and that's you, Sasuke Uchiha."
Sakura tightened her grip on her spear. "Why are you after Sasuke?"
Orochimaru chuckled. It was a soft laugh, but Sakura felt like she was going to be skewered by kunai anytime.
She was scared out of her mind. Visions of gruesome deaths flashed in her mind as she trembled.
She couldn't walk, couldn't talk, she could barely even think.
This wasn't just chakra any more, this was pure killing intent.
She was barely able to shift her gaze to her side, where somehow, Sasuke had managed to pull out a kunai and stab his own leg to free himself of the intent.
He then proceeded to grab her and jump away from the still laughing Sannin.
"Oh, I do love the chase" Orochimaru said to himself before he sank in the ground, still chuckling.
NARUTO POV:
Naruto was NOT having fun.
The snake had apparently decided that it's lunch would be blonde human and had decided to eat him.
Now, Naruto was standing in its belly slicing up everything in sight with his twin swords and wind chakra.
In about 2 minutes, Naruto was out.
He was about to rush to where the other 2 were when…
"Well, if it isn't the blonde tic-tac" said the mummy looking sound ninja from before as he and his 2 teammates appeared before Naruto.
That did it.
Naruto had had enough shit for the week. First he was kidnapped the other day into a random demon world ( a good thing since he has a great summon, but still could do without the kidnapping) , then attacked by a random ninja who had a snake which ATE him, took him god knows where and now this wannabe mummy with a trashy dj setup on his arms called him a tic-tac.
'Why do I get the feeling that the tic-tac comment was worse than the kidnapping to you?'
'Cuz it was'
'Ah. Don't take too long though, I sense some heavy chakra from where you came from'
'Don't worry' Naruto thought back to Kurama as he unsheathed his blades and got in a stance "This won't take more than 5 minutes"