She saw Anko have an opening and went to kick her but stopped when a thud was heard behind them. Looking round she saw a bottle of water on the ground that was used to collect the water from the cacti from earlier.
"Suiton: Sentou no Umi,"
a voice said from behind revealing Naruto who had used the camouflage jutsu to hide himself from the enemy.
Their eyes widened a little from the name of the jutsu and looked down to the bottle of water that was still before the water suddenly shout out of the bottle and created a sharp spire about five foot high. The shinobi cursed inwardly and had to jumped forward, towards Anko and Itachi in order to get out of the way.
When they did though, Anko's foot hit the ninja's stomach hard and Itachi through a kunai that grazed their right arm. Shaking out of her stupor, the ninja went to make some hand sign but felt another presence from behind them.
Naruto appeared from behind and has both his hands on Shusui. The masked shinobi noticed the blade has a blue aura around it showing Naruto is pouring chakra into it.
Bringing the sword up for a moment with both his hands as he channeled his chakra though the blade before swinging it down, making a after image be left in its place form how quickly he brought the blade down.
"Kiri Shigure!" he said as the blade hit the kunai that was being used to stop it but it cut right through it and the tip of the blade managed to slice across the ninja's cheek and a bit of their shoulder.
"Shit!" the shinobi said allowed without the voice muffler revealing to all of them that it was a woman behind the mask. The now revealed kunoichi jumped In the air away before making a few hand signs.
"Shakuton: Kajōsatsu,"she said making the trio look in surprise before three swirling balls of gas just like what they had first seen earlier appeared and shot towards them.
"Doton: Doryūheki," Naruto said as he shot mud out of his mouth to make a mud like wall in front of him and the others which they all crowed behind as the explosion hit making the wall quickly crack and get destroyed. It pushed the trio back and made them land on the sand but they quickly got back up. "What was that? Scorch Style, I have never even heard of that before? Is it some kind of bloodline?" Anko asked.
"An old bloodline of Suna, though I am unsure of how many there are that can use it since I don't think there are many left." Itachi said as they readied for another attack but instead saw there was no one there.
Naruto they asked as they looked at Naruto to see him concentrating before he let out a relieved sigh. "They're gone. I can just about sense her leaving the area."
"So we pass then and can keep going back to the village?" Anko asked as Itachi nodded.
"Thank Kami." she said before dropping to the ground which was quickly followed by Naruto and Itachi as they could finally catch their breath.
"Man that match was intense. She was so strong and her hits were hard. Not as hard as Baa-chan but they still packed a wallop." Naruto said as the others agreed with him.
"She was very skilled. From what I could see form her speed and strength and following her movements with my Sharingan, she must have been Jonin level. I think my Kaa-san would have even had a bit of a struggle with her." Itachi mentioned, panting slightly from the fight.
Naruto grinned. "Well who ever she is I want to fight her again one day. She seems like an awesome opponent!" he said making Itachi and Anko shake their heads, but had to admit they agreed with him.
As they rested they noticed a small scroll sitting a little beside them that they just noticed. Itachi took it and looked at the symbol on the scroll and showed a symbol of the chunin exams.
"I guess that's for us?" Naruto asked. "Since we passed this test, I guess this is just to confirm it. The kunoichi must have left it here just before she departed."
They all accepted the answer and took another few minutes to rest from their recent skirmish.
Elsewhere
The masked shinobi dropped down beside a rock formation a few miles away from the battle she had just been in and took a few ragged breaths as she got her bearings together.
"Those brats were actually pretty good." She breathed out as she henged making her form get covered by a small cloud of smoke. When it disappeared, it showed Pakura, the proctor of the chunin exams.
She winced, a little as she bandaged the cut on her shoulder before getting it seen to later when she returned to the village. She then traced over the small cut on her cheek. The blood had dried off but she was surprised that the trio, Naruto mainly had even managed to hit her.
'Those kids are quite something.' She thought having been impressed by Naruto in the first exam which prompted her to want to test him during the second. 'I may not have been going all out but to actually wound me and make me use my Shokuton is not an easy feat.'
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