They're the first group to arrive and find Anko just standing around outside of the gated forest. "Hey Anko."
"Well if it isn't Kurenai-chan's brats. Try not to get eaten by the deadly animals inside, it'd be a shame, I do like you three." Relief instantly floods the team. Hinata asks curiously.
"Are deadly animals the only thing we have to worry about?"
"Well there are also man-eating plants and the other genin." Oh this is great then, plants seem to like Naruko for some reason and animals are afraid of her because of the Juubi, so the only threat in the forest will be other genin. Naruko had a contemplative look on her face. The other genin quickly arrive and Anko speaks. "Welcome to training ground 44, or as I like to call it, The Forest of Death."
Kiba scoffs, "It doesn't look so tough." A kunai whizzes by him, leaving a cut across his cheek.
"You know Kiba, Hana-chan would be pretty sad if you died in there. Well maybe only a little. But for her sake try not to get killed, it's brats like you who die first." She spins as someone comes up behind her. It was a genin from Kusa, she had her kunai and was handing it back to her. "You should be careful, coming up behind me is normally a death sentence." Unless it was Hana-chan, but that's different.
"Sorry, I just got so excited by the sight of blood." The Kusa genin backs away.
"Right well before we begin I'm going to need all of you to sign these waivers." She says holding out a stack of papers. "Don't worry these are just to make sure that from this point on in the exams Konoha can't be held liable for your inevitable deaths. Those of you from Konoha don't need to bother, you already signed the waivers by being our ninja." That was roughly a third of the teams who didn't need to sign anything. So she quickly hands them out to the foreign genin. Once all of the waivers are submitted she continues. "Each team will be receiving one of two scrolls. Your objective is to get the other scroll and make it to the tower in the center of the training grounds. Don't open the scrolls."
"What happens if we do?"
"Not only will you be disqualified but you'll also get a nice little surprise. Each team will be starting at a separate gate, It'll be your job to track down another team for your scroll. If you make it to the tower and any of your teammates are dead or missing then you fail. Killing is permitted."
Suddenly Naruko smacks her hand into her palm and says to her white eyed girlfriend. "I realize why I recognize this place now. I slept here a few times after getting kicked out of the orphanage. I was always so disappointed that the giant tigers wouldn't let me cuddle them. Or eat them." Most of the genin are looking at her like she's grown a second head. "The plants with teeth were pretty cool though, they always gave me shelter when it rained."
Hinata sighs, she remembered now, this was the training ground "four four" that Naruko mentioned when they were four years old. By the time she could count to forty-four she had stopped caring about it. "Naru-chan try not to paint a bigger target on us."
"Why should I? Most of the people here are two weak to be a threat anyways. Not to mention I'm feeling, I don't know this weird longing for my childhood." Which was odd given how terrible her childhood was when she had to stay here. Hina-chan was the only good aspect of her childhood.
"Nostalgia is the word you're looking for."
"Ah right, I just didn't know that was the feeling it described." Naruko was plenty smart, but she has trouble with most words concerning emotions. Ah well, that's part of the reason she loved Hina-chan. She always helped her learn more about what she was feeling. She gives her girlfriend a quick peck on the cheek.
Sasuke sighs, why must they do this. He notices the glares the team is receiving for their casual attitude. Whatever they were weaklings anyways.
"Right well, Naruko's odd childhood aside. You all need to go into the tent and get your scroll, one at a time." They quickly do as ordered and once again are standing around outside the forest. "Alright then, we'll be moving you to your gates now." Several chunin appear and escort the various teams to different gates. Team 7 is left with Anko at the first gate. "You three will be given some time to plan, I'd suggest using it."
"Way ahead of you, Hinata did you see who has the earth scrolls?" She had activated her Byakugan as soon as she entered the tent. She nods and quickly describes the teams who have them. "Good Naruko, enter Sage Mode and find out which of those groups is the weakest." She would be able to tell their relative strength based off the way their chakra feels. It's not absolute, for example Rock Lee feels weak according to his chakra but is incredibly powerful. The good news is that suppressing chakra won't help the enemy teams hide from this.
She does so quickly and says, "Do we want to target Konoha teams? Because Team 8 is an option. If not then then one of the team from Suna works, one of the ones that don't have Gaara."
"No, we shouldn't fight Konoha teams if we don't have to."
"We should avoid Kusa at all costs."
"Why's that Naru-chan?"
"I hadn't felt it before now, but the woman from Kusa is way to strong to be a genin, easily as strong as Jiraiya. Not to mention she gives off the same feeling as Anko's curse mark." Anko goes on alert hearing that, she had been eavesdropping on the brats.
"Can you tell if she's marked, or is she the source?"
"I can't tell, we're too far away, and I don't want to get close." The other two nod at that. They would avoid Kusa then. "Oh Fuu is here too. Looks like she's being put in as a genin." So she's a wringer then, because she was at least jonin level in strength.
"If she goes near you I'm gonna kill her."
"Calm down Hina-chan, you know I love only you. Though you know you're pretty hot when you're jealous, or when you're angry or all the time really, but especially when you're angry."
"Are you two seriously flirting when we might be walking into our deaths?"
"Well what if we do die? Then we'll have missed our last chance to flirt." He sighs, he hates them but he loves them.
"You two are the worst."
"Naw, we could be like Anko and Hana, remember the time Hana started groping Anko right there at dinner?"
"Don't remind me." As a straight teenage boy, that had been hard to watch and maintain his cool. What could he say, they were both attractive. "And don't ever do that in front of me or else."
"Or else what?"
"I don't know I'll abandon the village for some guy whose into young boys or something."
"That seems worse for you then anyone else."
"Fair point."
"Hey Sasuke?"
"Yeah?"
"You know how Kurenai-sensei taught you the Shōsen Jutsu (Mystical Palm Technique) in wave?"
"Where are you going with this Hinata?"
"Do you ever wonder why she didn't use it to heal your hand?" The three go silent as Sasuke stands there with a look of shocked betrayal.
"Wow Kurenai-sensei is a sadist huh."
"That's it, Kurenai-sensei is officially on my hit list, right there at number one."
"Wow she replaced Itachi?"
"She stabbed me for fun, not even to test herself. She must be evil incarnate."
"I'm telling Kurenai-chan you said that." The three genin turn to Anko, they had forgotten she was there.
Sasuke begs, "Please don't Anko-sama, I don't want to be stabbed again."
"Hey Hina-chan now that I think about it aren't I due for a hand wound? Cause Sasuke already got stabbed through the hand and you lost yours."
"Don't Jinx it Naru-chan, I was hoping if we don't talk about it then it won't happen."
Anko couldn't help but laugh, these kids were great.
"Alright kids, it's time for the exam to start." She grabs a mic and the speakers along the fence ring out as she speaks. "Alright the exams begins on three… Three." The gates swing open and twenty genin teams rush in. Anko immediately sets out to go find the nearest Anbu, if Orochimaru is here, or connected to the team from Kusa then they need to be on high alert.