I was nervous, just by looking at the questions I knew Naruto wouldn't be able to answer them. Sakura and I could easily do all of the equations in our heads but Sasuke and Naruto, not so much.

I nervously bit my pencil as I watched the time tick by. I had already finished my test. Hopefully our team didn't flunk at this stage.
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"I don't care , I'm not quitting now." Naruto finished off his speech about not quitting and I couldn't help but feel proud of him.

"Anyone else quitting?" Ibiki asked. "Well I guess I can say that you all pass the first part." He smirked and then some asked how and the point of the exam was revealed.

(Skipping to the beginning of the second exams after signing their waivers.)
3rd POV

"Are you sure you don't want to hide inside my body?" Akumi ask and Naruto frowned. "I'm fine, I'm stronger now." He grumbled. She opened my mouth but closed it knowing there was nothing for her to say.

Sakura frowned as she finally understood. 'She must feel like everything that happen to them is her fault.... that's why she's always worried, if he even lost the ability to walk it's no wonder why she is worried about his health. And if it got to that point, I wonder if his organs were permanently damaged?' Sakura thought to her self.

"Okay so you ready to go in?" Akumi asked as she looked at her teammates and they nodded.

Both Sakura and Sasuke wanted to know more about Akumi and Naruto's childhood now that they had heard a portion of it.

To think they thought murder and torture of other children was normal didn't sit right with them. Both were wondering how brainwashed that woman had them to think that it was as simple as a mother punishing her misbehaving children, what kind of fucked up reality was that.

In a way Sakura couldn't help but feel bad. She remembered asking Naruto about Akumi's first kill. She had thought it had been some heroic fighting but thinking about how what they told her it made her sick to her stomach. No matter who Akumi's first kill was it wasn't the only murder she'd witness. She also remembered what Naruto had told Kabuto about Timoro, 87 accounts of murder and 65 of torture. Were there other survivors from that place?

"Okay, this place is pretty dangerous so we will be staying close to each other." Akumi sighed as she looked up at the tall gates. "Man, I hope we get through this portion of the test quickly." Naruto smirked as he lightly stretched his muscles.
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Team seven waited impatiently at the gates to the forest of death.

After a loud opposition of akumi saying. ' If it requires Naruto to sign a waiver should we even continue?' And lots of reaffirming from Naruto's part reminding her she had no say in the subject. They had finally made it to the entrance of their gate.

"Formation 2 pairing B, if anything goes wrong we fight together and stick together. Sakura and I will deal with finding edible food. Naruto and Sasuke shelter. We have the advantage of numbers so if fighting starts either Naruto or I'll hide in order to find an opening to get the scroll." Akumi stated as they all stood impatiently.

"Tch" "Okay Akumi-chan" "Hai Nee-chan"

And a few moments later a bright green flare was shot up to the sky and the gate doors were opened.

"Lets go show them what team seven is made of." Sakura smirked as they rushed in.
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Akumi Pov

Not even five minutes in there was a loud screech making us come to a halt. "Seems like some teams already got started." Sakura stammered and I nodded.

"Yeah narrowing competition already." I say as I looked around.

"We can't be out here in the open." Sasuke stated as he crossed his arms.

"Yeah well I gotta use the rest room."Naruto shrugged as he was walking over to the bushes.

"Naruuutooo not in front of a lady!" Sakura snapped raising her fist up as she was about to hit him.

She hesitated for a moment as she noticed how he flinched, slowly she lowered her hand and lightly flicked his cheek. Well not lightly but not as hard as the punch would've been.

Naruto grunted an apology and hurried off to the bushes. "Wait I'll go with-" I was about to say when Sasuke interuppted. "Let him use the bathroom in peace Akumi."

I opened my mouth to protest when I noticed they all crossed their arms. "Okay fine, gang up on me but he can't just go out there alone." I protested. "Of course he can." Sakura pipped in while both boys nodded.

I sulked, as I once again was outvoted and Naruto left.

I noticed a figure come out of the bushes and cocked a brow. Who the hell was this guy? His chakra signature vastly different from my brothers, the way he moved and his appearance resembling nothing like him except the color of his hair, clothes and eyes.

"Ah man, I'm glad I used the restroom now. I even managed to spell my name out." He pipped up smiling widely.

"Nii-chan, I was worried. It was dangerous out there you should've at least let me come with you." I say with a smile as I walk towards him.

"Huh, nah I'm fine. I'm glad your worried about me little sis. But don't worry leave everything to Nii-chan I'll protect you ." He smiled as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Akumi-" Sasuke called out my name as I approached the imposter. Naruto would never call me little sister because I'm his Nee-chan and he's my Nii-chan. Naruto knows that I protect him not the other way around but most of all Naruto would never be glad at the amount of time I spend worrying about him.

"That's nice." I say smiling as I pull out a kunai and attack him. I use my chakra chain to grasp his leg and yank him down.

I quickly embedded the kunai into his arm making sure to lodge it in deeply as I use another chain to grasp the imposter uninjured arm.

"Gahhhh, what the hell!" The imposter yelled out as I pulled another kunai out pressing it to his neck. "What have you done to my brother!" I snapped.

His face was contoured into an expression of pain. It had a striking resemblance to Naruto's but I know what he really looked like when he was in pain. "Dammit how did you know?" He gritted out as his henge vanished.

"I said what did you do to my Nii-chan Dammit!" I yell as I twisted the kunai in his arm making him scream. "Let go you crazy bitch!" He yelled in pain as he tried to kick me with his free leg.

I used as chain to grab his leg. "What did you do to my brother." I hissed as I placed my hand on his kneecap. "Stupid bitch let go." He hissed.

I put pressure on the palm of my hand on pushing his kneecap back and with all my strength I slammed it down. Suddenly there was a large popping sound follwed with a cracking noise. The ninja howled in pain struggling as his kneecap snapped and his leg bent in an odd angle.

"I-I tied h-him up ahhhhhhhh!" He squirmed and screamed his breathing becoming laboured. " I didn't kill him I swear-" he didn't get to finish his sentence as I slit his throat. "Akumi..." Sakura gasped stepping back slightly. "Lets go find my brother." I say dropping the body.

"Hey guys what did I miss-" I heard Nii-chans voice and I snapped my head to look at him. I felt relief. "You're okay." I gasp out as I rush toward him.

"Wait akumi that could be an imposter!" Sasuke quickly stated as I hugged Nii-chan.

"It's not, I know my brothers chakra signature perfectly." I say with a small smile as I pull away.

"That guy was the one that attacked me, I'm assuming you killed him nee-chan." Naruto stated glancing at the body in disappointment.

"It doesn't matter. Now there's one less team. If a team member dies they are automatically disqualified." I say recalling the rules of the exam to my advantage.

"But you didn't have to kill him like that." Sakura grumbled as she gingerly stepped over the corpse.

"Well now we have a body. Let's clean him up and use his body to trick his teammates and get their scroll." I shrug as I squatted down to look at the dead ninja.

"Oh yeah, that ability of yours." Sasuke grumbled lightly kicking the mangled body.

"So who's going to use it, Naruto or -" Sakura didn't even get to finished when a sudden burst of wind hit us. Sasuke was nearly thrown back but sakura and I stayed in our spot as we used our enhanced chakra control to hold our place.

"Shit!" I heard Nii-chan yell as he was thrown back and out of sight.

I looked back and searched for my brother but saw no sign of him. I felt an awful killing intent and turned to look at our opponent.

"Would you look what we have here." A woman with long black hair stated as she came out of the shadows. I gritted my teeth and took a deep breath as I tried to get used to the killing intent she was leaking. I glance over noticing Sasuke and Sakura who were also paralyzed in fear.

I noticed Sasuke glance at me, unlike Sakura he was handling the killing intent better than her.

"Look here seems like you three are to scared to move." Her smile spread and I frowned. I didn't like the vibes this woman was giving out.

"Seems you two have a bit more experience." She smirked as she looked at Sasuke and I. That's when I saw it, a kunai being thrown at us, for a second it felt as if it was going to lodge itself into my skull. I closed my eyes for a second.

Death? That's something I'd grown accustom too. Death threats? I was used to dealing with near death experiences and injuries that could be considered life threatening so what did a little kunai embedding itself in my forehead really do.

An illusion not followed my the familiar pain of stab wounds was something I could easily over come.

I opened my eyes and stood up, my feeting was a little wobbly but I easily managed. "Aren't you a little brave one." The woman smirked. "You think that pathetic vision would slow me down? I've felt the real deal so cut me some slack." I hiss as I threw a barriage of kunai.

I quickly used the opportunity to help Sasuke grab Sakura and escape. Sasuke's leg was bleeding from what I could assume was the injury that broke the genjutsu.

"That ninja is on a whole other level. We have to get away." I say in near hysteria to him as we made it through the trees. Sasuke nodded, his face contoured into a pained expression.

"Let me heal you so we can move faster." I say licking my lips nervously as we set sakura down.

Sasuke collapses slightly and I quickly began healing him. "You two will go okay, and please.... please find my brother. If anything does happen to him or that ninja gets a hold of him. I-I don't know what I'd do." I say trying to keep my voice steady.

That ninja wasn't genin level, I could easily tell by her massive chakra reserves and the level of killing intent she released was insane.

I finished closing Sasuke's wound. "Sakura, Sasuke here." I say pulling out a small stack of seals. "They're the same seals we placed on kakashi sensei. If we do engage in battle and manage to place at least one on the ninja, we will all start placing as many seals, no we will place all the seals on her and then make a run for it okay." I said as I split the stack into three and handed them each one.

They both glanced at each other and took the seals placing them in their weapons pouch.

I heard a loud buzzing sound and quickly pushed them both to the ground. There was a loud crash and I felt a stinging pain on my back. A giant fire ball had been thrown at us and we narrowly missed it. My entire back felt raw and I felt the familiar sensation of blood coming from my wound.

I flinched as I quickly got up, on my back I felt a stinging pain. I gasped, bit my lip and got into a fighting position. "Oh my God. " Sakura gasped as she stared at me, mostly my back. I grimaced knowing that what she was looking at was probably gruesome.

"C'mon let's fight this bitch." I say through gritted teeth as I tried to ignore the pain. I pushed my thoughts to the back of my mind, if I find my brother we will be alright .... this pain is nothing.

The woman smiled her face contoured into a devil like grin. "High pain tolerance huh." She smirked. "Didn't even let out a little squeal huh. I wonder what I can do to make you cry." She smirked as she launched herself forward.

Her speed and agility, she's strong. "Get back!" I yelled as our team split up.

I took in a deep breath as I managed to dodge her frontal attack. Calm focused, that's what we had to be otherwise she'd kill us.

I quickly engaged her in a taijutsu battle. I tried to keep her in one place as Sasuke did his shuriken fire Phoenix attack, I flinched slightly as I pulled back.

The flames went right past me. I could feel the radiating heat as it hit her, Sakura's kunai came from the side nearly stabbing her.

"Do you think those pathetic team attacks could hurt me, huh my akumi-chan." I heard a soft whisper and a cold hand press itself on my back, long nails digging into my raw flesh.

I felt a wave of pain, my legs felt weak as she slammed me into the ground. I wanted to scream as her nails dug in deeper into the burnt flesh. "What was it you did? To that other ninja?" I heard her laugh as she stabbed a kunai into my arm.

"Get off her!" I could hear Sasuke yell from afar but my ears started ringing. I was losing blood, from the fire attack and now the kunai in my arm.

I took in deep breaths, this was nothing. I was alright just heal and protect Nii-chan. Also get everyone away from her, she's too dangerous.

Ignoring the weak wobbly feeling that seemed to douse my body I forced myself to stand up. I used my medical ninjutsu to try and treat my arm injury. I watched as Sasuke and Sakura tried to team attack her but to no avail.

I was in pain, I probably had a second or first degree burn on my back and the ninja had stabbed my arm the way I'd down to the rain ninja.

"I'm here to save the day!" My head snapped up as nii-chan made a flashy entrance. "She's too strong-" I could barely hear what they were saying.

Their voices were muffled. I finished healing my arm anf started healing my back but it would take a while and I was losing blood.

"I'll distract them get out!" I yelled as I was building up chakra when she suddenly summoned a giant snake.

I managed to somehow jump out of the way of a snake when nii-chan suddenly faught it to save Sasuke. "This...worthless....waste... time." I could barely make out the words that she was saying when she suddenly attacked me.

She harshly kicked my stomach sending me flying back but before I could get out of her reach she grabbed a fistfull of my hair and yanked me back. I gasped as I felt a sharp kunai impale me.

I closed my eyes as I fell on the floor. All I could hear was my brother yell my name and the fighting.

Flashback
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"Kaa-san will Nii-chan be alright?" I asked nervously. She glanced at me cocked her head and shrugged.

I looked down and sighed. "Help, help me it hurts." I noticed the little girl my age crying. Poor girl, she had no legs and no fingers either. Maybe if she would've been a good girl she wouldn't be crying.

"Akumi-chan don't you think she deserved it?" Kaa-san asked and I instantly nodded, nobody ever disagrees with kaa-san. That's because Kaa-sans always right.

"Good now leave, your brother doesn't eat for now so wait a few days, when it's his feeding day so go." She quickly dismisses me and I rush out of the room, it's better to leave when asked than stay and be punished for whatever Kaa-san says you did.

Today was mine and Nii-chan birthday, today we turned six and I would be excited if he wasn't so sick. "Good morning birthday boy." I say as I slowly turn the knob and opened the door. Nii-chan laid in bed his eyes slowly fluttering open.

"A-akumi." His voice was barely audiable. I smiled softly although I wanted to cry. Just looking at him made my chest feel tight. His hands were thin and his face wasn't nice and plum like it used to be, his cheeks were now hollow and he had bags under his eyes.

His breathing was always laboured and he was always cold. "I have a surprise for you, since today is your birthday and it's the kyubii festival I'm going to take you out to see it. Last year some other kids snuck out and this year we will go with them." I say smiling as I held his hand.

Kaa-san had told me, she said I should start digging a hole for Nii-chan because he wasn't going to make it through this winter. If big brother died I want him to be happy, every year he said he wanted to go to a festival and from now on I'll try to do my best to make sure he gets everything he wants.

"The.... festival." He smiled slightly as he spoke. "Yeah and, I promise to buy everything you want okay." I quickly held his thin cold hand. I didn't say anything else, if I did I would probably start crying and I never want him to see me cry because I don't cry. I can't cry, I have to be strong for him .

I wipe my stray tears and gently run his hand trying to warm it up. "Lets get you dressed up okay?" I say as I look at the small folded clothes I brought. "But first I'll bathe you so you can be nice and clean okay." I say as I helped him sit up.

I slowly lift his arms and take his shirt off and then his pants. I could see the outline of his bones and his tan skin looked a shade of sickly pale. "But akumi-nee you don't have money." He stated as I picked him up carrying him to the bathroom.

"Don't worry about that nii-chan, today I'll make sure you get everything you want." I say as I sat him down making sure not to let him go otherwise he could fall.

I turn on the hot water and quickly began washing him. The hot water seemed to warm his cold body. I washed his hair and body before rinsing him off. "When are we leaving?" He asked and I smile. "Soon." I say as I finished and grabbed a towel.

I quickly dry his hair before wrapping him in the towel. Another thing I noticed about my brother was how much smaller he is. Compared to me he hasn't grown much and even if that makes him easy to carry it kind of made me sad. We were twins, we are suppose to look alike even if it was only a little.

I dry big brother up and put a long sleeve shirt on him, I made sure the shirt was a size 4 so that it would fit him, regular 6 year old clothes fit him too big. I put another shirt over that one this one being a short sleeve. I then slipped on his underwear and pants before putting two pairs of socks on his feet.

"Are you going to carry me the entire time?" He asked and I nodded. "Don't worry about it, you aren't heavy so I can carry you. We will play games and win prizes, it's going to be fun." I say while grinning as I slip his shoes on.

I combed his hair and slipped a jacket on him. "Imma take a shower so you wait here okay." I say as I helped him lay down. "I'll take a nap, I'm exhausted already." He stated as he started drifting off.

I watched him for a moment but quickly hurried to take a shower. I didn't even bother setting the water temperature, I had to hurry up and make sure he didn't stop breathing all of a sudden. I rushed out and dried myself before slipping on a pair of pants and shirt and slipping on a jacket and shoes before going back to where he was.

I reached under the bed and pulled out the crumbled up money I had been hiding. For nearly a year everytime I'd see money id take it and hide it here. I grabbed the little bag of coins and stuffed them in my jacket pockets. I didn't know much about money except what I'd learned by running errands in town with the other kids.

Whenever Timoro-sama wanted something she'd send us with the money to get it, I never stole from that money because she always knew how much she was going to get back.

I sat down in my chair and held nii-chans hand and started to fall asleep.

I woke up and it was late evening. I looked at the time 7:00 p.m by this time Timoro-sama was drinking her sake.

"Nii-chan wake up." I whispered softly and he woke up. "Let's go " I say as I stood up, he nodded as i helped him sit up. I helped him get on my back and I hurried out the orphanage.

We were a bit far from the town so I had to walk past training grounds and a bit of forest.

The village was decorated in pretty lanterns and there were games and stands of food. I felt my stomach grumble at the sight and scent of the food. "I want to try that." Nii-chan stated as he pointed to a food stand.

"Excuse me, can I have one of those?" I asked the man, he looked at us and frowned. "Here take it and leave." He hissed, I was able to catch the food and I smiled at him. "Thank you mister, your so kind." I say smiling widely. Who knew they'd give us free stuff . He glared at me but I smiled, he must be such a nice man.

I handed it to nii-chan who grabbed it and began eating it. "Akumi, the food is so yummy, better than the one at home." He smiled as I walked down the street. "I'm glad you like it."

As the night went on nii-chan had nearly tried all of the food, some of it we got for free. I made sure to thank them profoundly even if some of the food fell on the floor, a little dirt didn't change the taste and they were nice enough to give us some.

I was happy I nearly spent all of the money but I was content. Nii-chan was smiling and he didn't even seem to be thinking about his illness, he also actually let me taste the food too. "Akumi don't you want to play some games or get some food?" He asked. "I want a chocolate covered bannana." I say as after thinking for a moment. "Why don't you get one, you haven't eaten much." He stated. "Yeah but they're all the way over there." I sat looking back. "You can put me down and run to get some. I want you to have fun to, datttebayo." He grumbled.

"Okay, I guess but will you be alright while I go down there?" I ask and he nods. "Don't worry about me." He smiles. I walked into am alley and set nii-chan down.

"Stay here I'll be right back okay." I say kissing his cheek. I smiled as I noticed he looked better now after eating so much. "Okay." He smiled.

I quickly hurry out of the alley only glancing back once and making sure I memorized where I had left him. I ran through the crowd squeezing by people and hurrying to the stand. It took me a while to find it. "Hello mister can I have two chocolate bananas." I say and he looks at me with a cocked brow. "16 ryo." He stated and I dug into my pocket and put the change on the counter. "Is this enough?" I asked as I notice he was smiling widely.

Some of the coins had a two and a zero others had a four and a zero and thankfully it had been enough.

"Here you go." He smiled as he gave me the bananas. "Thank you mister." I say taking a bite of one and hurrying back to where my brother was.

When I made it back into the alley I had nearly finished my food. "Nii-chan?" I looked around and didn't see him. I walked deeper into the alley looking for him, he can't walk so where did he go? I heard chuckling and talking. I noticed there was another alley at the end of this one. I walked there and noticed there was blood on the walls.

My heart stopped, did kaa-san find us? I dropped the food and ran I turned the corner. My heart felt like it was about to burst . My eyes watered at the sight.

There were tall men standing over Naruto's body. His arms were bent awkwardly and he wasn't moving. He laid in a puddle of blood. He looked like the other kids, the ones we throw in holes and never see again.

"Nii-chan." I whimper out, my eyes filled with tears. I don't want to dig a hole for Nii-chan, I don't want to say goodbye to him too. My throat felt partched as I started walking toward them.

"Its not funny, don't..... don't just lay there." My voice trembled as I stared at him. "Who the hell are you..... those marks." The man hissed as he stared at me but I didn't care. Nii-chan wasn't moving.

"Big brother!" I began to cry

"Kyubii's slut huh. Let's show her what we did to this other brat." One of them laughed. I felt them grab my arm and yank me forward but my eyes never left my brother. I was waiting for him to breath or move, I was waiting for him to do something.

"His body's to skinny to fuck and besides he should be dead by now, so why don't we fuck this little red headed freak." He laughed.

Nii-chan .... is dead.

He's dead

He's dead

He's dead

They killed him.

"You killed nii-chan." I whisper, I felt empty.

It felt like all the tears stopped.

"What ya say?" The man asked.

"My nii-chan..... I, I'LL KILL YOU.!" My body shook as I yanked him as hard as I could, he stumbled slightly.

"He's dead, he's dead, he's dead!" I yelled, I felt a burning sensation on my lower back as well as a warm sensation in the pit of my stomach.

Suddenly I felt taller I looked down and my hands were larger, my body felt stronger. "Akuma!" One of the ninja stammered out as he backed away. "You killed my brother!"
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I barely managed to stand up, I couldn't let them fight alone.

I noticed the woman had a hold of Naruto, whilst Sasuke and Sakura looked beaten up. "Let go of him!" I snapped running towards them. I was sent back flying by a powerful wind.

I heard a loud cracking sound and noticed nii-chan had been thrown against a tree. "My my aren't you two twins pathetic." She smirked. I noticed sakura's kunai was holding Nii-chan up otherwise he'd fall. I didn't waste a moment to run towards him. I concentrated chakra to my feet and quickly grabbed him.

His body was covered in bruises and fresh blood.

My eyes widen in horror, not again. I can't lose him he's all I have, what if this time.....

Why wasn't he moving was this one of his little pranks. No it can't be, she killed him my brothers dead.

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