"Is that a giant snake?"

"What?" Naruto looked up from the traps he was dismantling. "A giant snake? Really?"

Sakura squinted at the direction Sasuke is looking. "I don't see any sna- wait, is that log moving- yeah okay, it's a giant snake."

Naruto crowded between the two and squinted at the same direction. "Huh, it is a giant snake. How about that."

"I don't remember seeing snakes that big when we were training in here."

"Me neither."

"Hn. Could be the proctor's pet."

At least it's not a giant cockroach."

The three immediately shuddered at the reminder.

The three genins watched as the giant snake seem to slither slowly between the trees with morbid curiosity, eyes never leaving the enormous creature as it came closer and closer and-

"Is it just me or is that giant snake coming right at us?" Sakura commented calmly.

"Hn." Sasuke grunted as he took out a kunai.

"Yep," Naruto agreed while pulling out his special exploding tag. "I wonder if one tag is enough to cook it..." he wondered curiously.

"With your tag, it'll explode before it can even be cooked." Sakura rebuked. "Still, I can't exactly trap it. I'm not completely sure how big or how long it is exactly and I don't think I'll have enough time to put up a barrier big enough to contain it."

"So we should set up traps then?"

"Enough to either immobilise or slow it down so I could put up my barrier."

"I don't think that snake is originally from here." Sasuke suddenly said. Both Naruto and Sakura turned to see Sasuke's sharingan being activated. "I can see chakra in that snake and it's not the same kind of chakra I see in the animals I've seen in this forest," he continued.

"I thought Uchihas can't see chakras?" Naruto wondered to which Sakura sighed.

"Despite being different, sharingans and byakugans share some similarities and one of that is the ability to see chakras. Granted, byakugans can see it better and in finer details compared to sharingans." she lectured. "Honestly, this is why you should pay attention in class."

"No, I don't think there's a class about them." Naruto sweatdropped.

"Enough about that. What are we going to do with the snake? It's coming closer now," the Uchiha interjected.

"For now, I think we should get as far away from it as possible. If it is a summon, then that means its summoner is somewhere near and we do not want to fight them." Sakura stressed. "And before you idiots ask why, need I remind you that we're merely genins and can barely go up against a single jounin with the three of us combined."

"So? We're in a Chuunin Exam! That means that this guy or girl or whatever is a genin too!" Naruto pointed out.

"That's... actually true." Sakura conceded. "Nonetheless, it still doesn't change the fact that this person is strong enough to call such a big summon. We should avoid them as best as possible."

"Still, I wonder what it will taste like? I mean, since it's big, its meat must be juicier, right?" Naruto guessed as he continued dismantling the last pieces of his traps.

"Wonder if it's tastier to roast it," Sasuke signed, eyes still stuck on the slithering snake."Or maybe stew."

"I bet it has more meat than fat. Cooking it over the fire sounds nice right now," Sakura imagined dreamily.

While the three bicker about what the snake will taste like, the snake suddenly picked up speed and lunged at them. Sensing the danger, both Sakura and Sasuke automatically jumped to higher grounds, leaving Naruto alone on the lower branch.

"Eh?" was the only thing Naruto was able to say before he was swallowed up by the snake.

Ten seconds later, the snake exploded into pieces, meat and blood raining down and splattering wetly against the barrier Sakura had put up around herself and Sasuke.

"This is so gross." she made a face and pinched her nose despite not being able to smell the blood and charred meat through the barrier. "Why did you use your second strongest special tag, Naruto? Now look at the mess you've made," she glared up to where Naruto is, a similar barrier as hers surrounding him as well.

"I thought it wouldn't be enough to kill it if I use a normal one." he admitted, scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Should've used the normal one. At least it'll stay intact and we could eat it." Sakura pouted.

"I doubt you can eat a summon." Sasuke pointed it out. "They tend to disappear if their chakras are suddenly disrupted."

As if to prove a point, smoke immediately covered the area and filled their vision white. When it finally subsided, the blood and meat from earlier were nowhere to be seen.

"Well, I guess that takes care of it." Sakura shrugged as she took down the barriers. "Good job with the clone, Naruto."

Naruto beamed in pride at the compliment.

"When the exam is over, we're so going to force Kakashi-sensei to treat us to some meat." the girl suggested to which the two boys agreed fervently.

Meanwhile, somewhere within the forest, a certain someone with questionable gender was left wondering what the fuck just happened to their snake summon.