The Shadows

The Shadows is the sixteenth Chapter of Season One, as well as of the series as a whole.

Plot
The members of Team Kakashi have officially passed the First Exam of the Season One Chunin Selection Exams. Sakura asks Ibiki to explain the purpose of the Exams, as it does not seem to her something that Ibiki would devise. Ibiki discusses the First Exam and its purposes in problem-solving using only resources at the candidates' immediate access. He informs them that thirty-six teams out of the original sixty did not pass this Exam, however, Team Kurenai, Team Asuma, Team Guy, and Team Baki all passed. At that moment, Anko Mitarashi breaks into the café by destroying the wall to gain access in order to explain to them the Second Exam. Anko dismisses them, and later on the teams gather at the Forest of Death, where they will each be given either a Heaven Scroll or Earth Scroll, and will be fighting to acquire the other.

The teams enter the Forest, and immediately Team Kakashi is confronted by the team led by Todoki Jikyogu. Despite the two teams having the same scroll, Team Todoki still wishes to fight for them in order to maintain a stock of scrolls. Shikuri Hagemo is the first to attack, and as the members of Team Kakashi escape harm, Sakura pursues Shikuri while Matt and Naruto face off against Todoki and Kento Gansha.