Preparing For The Exams

I woke up in the morning, got ready and went out to meet Sakura and Naruto thinking 'There are only three days left for the chunin exams. Better prepare fast'. and walked in front of Sakura's house and knocked on the door. Her mother opened the door and lead me in. I went and sat down on a chair. Sakura's mother called her and she came down and was shocked seeing me, then she asked "Sasuke kun, why are you here?" I just smiled and said "I came to pick you up."

She then said give me 5 mins and ran upstairs to get ready. Her mother served me some juice and thanked me for taking care of her daughter. I just nodded and started drinking the juice. After some time, Sakura came down and said I'm ready. Lets go. Then we said goodbye to her mother and left. We walked around the town seemingly looking for Naruto. Then we found him after a while sitting on the hokage faces.

I called up to him and asked him to follow us. I made sure nobody is following us and went to a secluded place near the forest of death. Using the Kamui, the three of us teleported inside the forest in a swirling portal. Once we were inside, I spoke "This is the place where we will be taking the second phase of the chunin exam. So lets explore this place so that it will be easier to find our way during the exam." Then Sakura ssked "Isn't it like cheating?" I responded "Yes, but to avoid the dangers we are in especially Orochimaru, we need to prepare to survive."

They both nodded and we started exploring the forest discreetly. We also saw the tower that we are supposed to reach during the exam. After a while, I used Kamui and teleported us out of the forest. I also told them what to prepare for the exams like food and other stuffs and we went to the uchiha compound to do some training. I started practicing some wood release jutsus. Mainly 'Wood release tracking seeds' which will be very useful in the chunin exams.

So I tried out the jutsu on Naruto and Sakura and told them to move in different direction and started tracking them to know the distance, amount of chakra needed to locate and all. It took me nearly two days to perfect the jutsu. It works like a transmission device which provides me the direction and distance of the person from me upon whom I have planted the seeds and I can use the Kamui to close the distance or get far away or hide easily. The kamui really comes in handy. The person planted cannot sense the seeds as well.

The last day before the exam, I told both Naruto ans Sakura to search for a read haired girl with glasses in the village. All three of us searched for the girl and finally in the evening, Sakura found her and notified us. Soon I went to the location of where she supposedly sighted Karin. There I saw Karin sitting alone in front of a hotel. I discretely approached her and planted a wood seed on her so that it will be easier to track her during the exams instead of searching the whole forest. After that we met each other and went home to rest.