Naruto: Starting as a Root trainee in a White Room Program( Rewriting)

"Fine" No.13 said while pouncing on the emerald-haired girl from above with a kunai which was blocked by her sword. In the next instant, his Kunai was getting pierced like butter, but he placed his other hand on her shoulder which was easy for him as he was still mid-air.

He left his hold on Kunai and made a hand sign with that hand. In the next instant, he was propelled away from the girl, narrowly dodging her sword which would have cut him in half.

He has also learned Gale Palm Jutsu, as it is quite useful in such scenarios.

"It seems that you only know how to swing this sword, quite a brute are we?"

"Well, this brute is gonna cut you off then" She sent a flying slash towards him.

However, unlike Ice-guy, No.13 just side-stepped and dodged it calmly. The following was just him creating the distance from his earlier battlefield by retreating backwards and slightly dodging his opponent's slashes.

'For able to do this feat, one either had to have a Kinetic vision of Sharingan or need to be a Highly skilled Sensor to sense the chakra along with fast reflexes' The Swordsman, err- Swordswoman... Swordsgirl or Swordskid came to that conclusion herself.

'I just need to close the distance then' She decided and was gonna shunshin, just then her eyes widened at what she was seeing.

A flying crescent-shaped chakra slash was aimed at her Neck was coming at her, and she parried it away with her sword. "This is cheating" The girl subconsciously said.

"Darling~ It's not that hard, sending chakra slashes is similar to how you swing a wet sword to make it dry, I just used that analogy and surprisingly it works, How about you help me do some more experiments with this technique" Another Sword Slash was aimed at her but this time this was Huge, easily dwarfing her previous slashes.

At this instant, she could only parry it or block it. Contrary to how it looks, parrying it away took less effort than the previous one, probably due to the same amount of chakra as the previous one stretched in a large arc.

However, the next slash was upon her already, it was hiding in the shadow of the previous one. Now, if she had more time to think, she could have seen the pattern and would have dodged this slash instead of blocking it with her sword.

This small slash made contact with her sword and she was thrown away like a ragdoll. 

'This was compressed in a small arc with the same amount of chakra, I fell for it' She thought while the last words she heard before blacking out.

"Take a nap" She was hit with a blunt object.

'Let's see, what is taking too long with S-chan' No.13 disappeared from the view, not before using D-rank Temporary Paralyzing Jutsu on her.

S-chan was currently getting thrown like a ragdoll at the walls of the barrier. Her opponent clearly had focused on physical conditioning and on top of that, he was clearly older than her, her saving grace was her bukijutsu but after running out of projectiles, she just was a glass cannon in this condition.

Hits were harder when she parried and blocked, it won't take her long before she fainted, her Chakra was already exhausted, and she had to consciously stop herself from converting her stamina into chakra mid-battle to not waste it.

But it seems her opponent did that before the battle even began, so it was just her buying time for one of her teammates to break the barrier from inside.

"If you are thinking of buying time, then you are in for the bad news, our chakra sucked will not only keep the barrier running but also be used for defensive measures, there is a reason that this is an A-rank Jutsu" He boasted.

S-chan suddenly asked looking directly at him "What about breaching the barrier? Is it possible to do it without breaking the barrier?"

"Well, it is nearly impossible, only someone specializing in Fuinjutsu could do that, even if it will require L4(Expert), but I don't think someone of that level will be at this exam, heck I just had barely reached L3(Advanced) myself" If it wasn't clear by now, then now it was, this guy really loved to give information like a candy to kids.

"But, why are you asking? is it buy time?"

"Nah, I was just curious and wanted to know if such a scenario would happen" S-chan grinned and signalled him to look back.

Now, such a thing is foolish to do on a battlefield, but the distance between them was enough for a quick sneak peek at the back, so he did.

He was met with a punch in the face followed by him blacking out.

"It took you long to come to Senpai, or were you camping to come at just the right time to act as a prince in white armour." 

"Hmm, no, I just was trying to preserve the chakra and from a distance, you won't actually be able to tell if a barrier was employed, you have to be close to notice such a high-rank barrier"

"I was just kidding, ya-know"

"I see anyway, let me dismantle this barrier, meanwhile you tie this guy up"

"Aye-Aye Sir" She saluted with a mischievous smile

'Whatever, let's not psychoanalyze kids, I would just be running in circles' He started dismantling it.

Meanwhile, Ice-Guy was getting dominated by the white girl.

In the start, he was hit with a senbon with a paralytic agent which reduced his speed and reaction time, His only grace was that his Ice structures didn't immediately melt when they came in contact with her fire.

"Fire Dragon's Fiery Roar" 

"Ice Boar's Vociferation"

A clash of a boar and a dragon could be seen coinciding with the exchange of B-rank techniques.

Mist could be seen all around, it seems that it was not only due to the previous exchange but due to someone actively creating it. It was D rank jutsu, Hiding in the mist technique which is used by genins of Hidden mist generally.

"Got you" A Kunai could be seen kept on the girl's neck

"Idiot" That was the last thing Ice-guy heard before getting hit from behind and blacking out.

No.13 could be seen walking with S-chan who was dragging a body via a rope.

"It seems the battle over there is over? Do you think that idiot won?"

"If he won, then we will loot these guys, if he didn't then if he was killed, then we will kill this hostage, if he wasn't then we will exchange"

"Fine"

They arrived to see Delta tied with a rope along with the white-haired girl and now awake Emerald-haired girl. They already knew that she had escaped when they went to retrieve her too.

"It seems that we have to do a hostage exchange" No.13 started.

"Or we could kill both of these and then settle it ourselves," Emerald girl said while internally 'If such a case happened, then our chances of losing are higher, that guy from what I heard wasn't even scratched by my teammate and he also was able to copy my technique, I don't even know his actual cards, apart from him being an earth elemental, but he didn't even use that in any of the battles'

"Are you sure, you can win? Plus isn't this guy, her brother?" No.13 pointed out and the said girl gritted her teeth, she was hoping that he to not notice as she wanted to use it to her advantage in an argument but it seemed that it failed.

"Fine Hostage exchange, but first wake both of them up"

No.13 complied and S-chan kicked the black-haired guy to wake him up. 

"Wakey-Wakey" 

That guy groaned and woke up, Ice-guy was also made conscious in a similar manner.

"Don't be smart asses and make it harder for us" After explaining the situation, this incident calmly occurred.

"How about we exchange plaques, our target Plaque is with you guys"

"Which one?"

"We want No.69"

"We do have that, but you would have to give us No.95 for that, that is if you actually have that."

"Oh, we do have that"

They cautiously exchanged the plaques while checking the fact that it was not Genjutsu or Transformation.

They Happily went their own ways as meaningless bloodshed was not what any of the team wanted. The ambush in the beginning was done to make things easier for their team as they didn't know that they had this team's target Plaque too.

S-chan's Team hid in a bunker made by No.13 and rested for the rest of the day to recover their chakra.

No.13 did his Mindscape training at this time, S-chan was looking at some Fuinjutsu theory and Ice-guy was sleeping.

S-chan also took a nap afterwards, having a Fuinjutsu expert with them frees people from guard duty.

They woke up at night as it was relatively easy to find prey at night and this team had 2 ambush experts.

They had a quick bite and started moving. They left the bunker as it was with hidden seals in it. No.13 will be notified if somebody enters to rest and even employs that A-rank barrier, one of his opponents used today.

It is a sure death trap after including a few explosive seals, the only reason S-chan was alive was due to her stealth which made that guy pull himself into that barrier too.

"You guys remember the first rule/condition of our collaboration Right?" No.13 suddenly asked.

"Yes, Our own life is more important than the other two" S-chan said with a hint of seriousness.

"Yes, Just Don't forget that and we are good"

"Also, why are we still hunting other teams?" Ice-guy asked

"Right, we need to have that discussion, why did we even leave the bunker in the first place?" S-chan complained.

"You are the one who hurried us out saying that you are bored"

"Did I ?"

"Yes" "Yes"

"Oops... Sorry about that" She didn't look apologetic at all.

"Let me put a silencing barrier along with a Visual Genjutsu"

"Okay"

"Okay, so we don't actually know how rankings in Round 2 are decided, we were only told the condition for qualifying, nothing about failure to do so." No.13 started.

"Maybe we have to gather this information by ourselves?" S-chan suggested.

"Maybe, but from where and how?"

"The only thing we are given is our plaques" Ice-guy said in a low tone but both of them heard it.

They proceeded to remove the plaques they had which were No.95 and No.68.

"It doesn't seem to have anything hidden in it"

"Maybe it's hidden by a Fuinjutsu or something?"

"Senpai, do something"

"Let me try"

He knew how to know whether a seal was hidden by another seal or not. It required poking with chakra and seeing how chakra is reacting to identify what kind of seal it is to remove it, which makes doing such things complicated.

It took No.13 a few seconds to remove the hidden seal. "It seems that they put this intentionally easy for everyone to be able to remove it, a non-fuinjutsu user could remove that hidden seal by pouring a lot of chakra in it."

"Oh, I was gonna suggest that next" S-chan said, but whether she was lying or was telling the truth was a mystery.

"Sure"

"You are mocking me, clown?"

"Hmph, I am not afraid of you now, If you try to kill me, then I will use my suicide jutsu to take you down with you" 

"Oh, I will kill you before you can react"

"Have you heard about the autonomous mechanism, bumpkin?"

"Bumpkin?, I will kill you, clown!"

Just as both were preparing to throw their hands, a third wheel interrupted them.

"Kids!, don't you want to know what this says?" 

"Who are you calling kids?" "I am not a kid" Both shouted at the same time.

"Anyway, this says that we can earn extra points by showing extra plaques at the end of the exam, still nothing about failing"

"Well, then, let's kick some asses"