A weird lady!

It all went faster than most could follow, but from what Naruto could tell, the window bursted and in the room flew a black bundle of cloth. A loud voice rang out of the bundle while it continued its path in the middle of the room. "Beautiful Special Jounin, Mitarashi Anko, arriving!", the unmistakable female voice yelled loudly, ensuring that everyone heard her.

Then, the cloth twisted, revealing the shape of a woman inside as she turned in midflight and threw two kunai to the ceiling, which were attached to the cloth. Then, she landed gracefully and turned around, the cloth now covering Ibiki and it had the words 'Second exam, sexy teacher Mitarashi Anko." written on it.

The woman stood now in front of the stumped Genin. Naruto figured she was about Kurenais age. She had short, purple hair and wore a long trenchcoat, shorts and a fishnet top underneath. Wait, was she even wearing a bra? Naruto couldn't help but look closer to her cleavage, which, by all means, was rather impressive. He could also see a few of his male peers doing the same, and some of the girls also looked a bit more closely than they should. "Listen up you brats, this is the second exam! And I'm it's proctor", the woman pulled all of them back into reality with that announcement.

"You're too early. I still wasn't done with my announcement.", Morino Ibiki said from behind the curtain that now covered him.

The woman groaned and waved Ibiki off as he stepped next to her."Ah, zip it, Ibiki! Nobody wants to hear that anyway.", she said bluntly before looking at the gathered crowd of Genin who had passed his first test. She smirked as she scanned the number. "Wow, your exam failed, there are way too many people still here. Let's see... 72 people, that means 24 teams. Heh, I bet you're all confident that you're gonna make it, huh?", she adressed the young ninja.

"Let me tell you something, tomorrow might be the last day for some of you. Because tomorrow, we will go to the Forest of ****!!!", she announced triumphantly, as if she got a kick out of the idea that some of them would die there... maybe she even did.

Of course, that announcement made the Genin somewhat nervous. "Th-That's just a name, right? I mean, a Forest can't be deathly, right? Right?", a timid young Genin from Kusagakura that sat in the first row asked the Genin next to him.

Anko had overheard his question and stepped in front of him. "Oho, good question. The forest will be the real test, but I will explain more tomorrow. But you better believe me when I tell you that I'm sure that at least half of you will not pass that test! Heck, wouldn't even surprise me if you all died in there, if you stare at me like that!", she declared loudly before laughing to herself.

'Man, is she a sadist? Creepy...', Naruto thought to himself as he watched the woman walk up and down the aisles of the room, apparently trying to get a good look at every single Genin present.

Eventually, when she had returned to the front, she adressed the Genin one last time. "Anyway, better show up at the gates tomorrow at noon. Now, time's a-wastin' people, let's go!". And with that, she disappeared in a poof of leaves.

The tense atmosphere of the exam now slowly vanished along with the Jounin as well, and one by one, the teams left the room, either returning to their lodgings, their sensei for advice or training for the rest of the day. The new generation of Konoha Genin that participated for the first time today gathered in the yard of the academy, the place where they had so often trained together.

They all took a deep breath of the fresh air and gathered together. They were much more confident now, seeing as they all had passed the test. Or at least, it seemed that way...

"Whew, at least we all made it, huh? Now we only have to worry about tomorrow... can you believe that chick? I mean, was she serious?", Kiba asked, laughing nervously.

"If you want to chicken out, go right ahead.", Sasuke said with a mocking grin to his teammate, naturally provoking the dog shinobi to an angry response.

Still, Naruto still dwelled on something that Mitarashi-sensei had said. he couldn't figure it out for himself, so he decided to ask. "Oi, Shikamaru, what's a special Jounin? I've never heard of that rank before..."

Shikamaru looked at him with wide eyes and sighed. Sakura hit Naruto across the head for his stupidity. "Gee, don't you know anything? Jounin are the elite, able to compete on all fields of a ninja. Special Jounin choose one or maybe two special areas and become experts on those fields while not being as well-rounded as normal Jounin. So, in a way, they're above Chuunin but below Jounin in level.", Sakura explained.

"Haha, that's our Sakura-chan... owowow, did you have to hit me so hard?", Naruto asked as he rubbed his head, which was still smoking from the punch Sakura had given him before her explanation.

But, there was still something else bugging him, mostly from what he had heard from Shikamaru earlier. "Man, I really wonder about all those strange Genin. I wonder how strong they are... hey, who's with me in the quest to find out?", he asked the gathered Genin.

He received some questioning glances in return. "Eh? You mean you wanna spy on them? What if they get angry and attack you here?", Tenten asked, raising a valid point.

But Naruto waved her concerns off. "Ah, like that would happen... so, who's with me?", Naruto asked again.

At first, there was no reply, but shockingly, it was Sasuke who answered first. "Hmm, sounds interesting. I'm also intrigued by them. For once, you have a good idea, blockhead.", Sasuke agreed. Naruto saw that he was eager to see for himself how they were. Was he looking forward to test himself against them?

"Ooh, I'm in, too!", Sakura chimed in, but whether it was because of Sasuke or of her own curiosity, Naruto couldn't tell. Ino, Kiba and Shino also agreed to participate in this intel-gathering-mission, so Naruto turned towards the rest of the group, hoping to get some more in on the job.

But he was to be disappointed. "Geez, that's childish. Can't you guys wait until tomorrow? I'm gonna go train a bit. You with me, Lee?", Tenten asked and as expected, the green-clad boy was all for some more training.

Neji declined on grounds that he felt himself superior to anyone participating in this exam. Hinata also had to go because her father required her presence for a ceremony. Choji and Shikamaru also considered this quest to be too much of a hassle and left the group alone, probably to do what they were usually doing, Shikamaru staring at the clouds and Chouji eating right next to him.

So, all in all, the spying team consisted of Naruto, Sasuke, Ino, Sakura, Kiba and Shino. "All right then, let's get going!", Naruto yelled, eager to get this self-imposed mission going.

"Hey, if this is a sneak-mission, why are you yelling already, stupid?", Sakura groaned in frustration...