Naruto Fan Fiction / Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction / Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Fan Fiction ❯ The False Apocalypse ❯ Curse of the Snake ( Chapter 20 )

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The Chuunin exams are well under way when an unexpected surprise awaits our heroes in the forest of death.

Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction / Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction / Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Martial Arts / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.15.2009 | Pages: 9 | Words: 12.6K | Visits: 195 | Status: Completed

The False Apocalypse

The Shinobi Saga

Chapter 20

Curse of the Snake

Disclaimer: See Chapter 1

“Yaaaaaaawww…..uuuhhhh…. what time is it….eight?….well time to get up.” Naruto looked at his alarm clock and got out of bed to began preparing for a particularly eventful day.

He grabbed his blades and fresh stock of kunai and shuriken, quickly adding them to his person. “This is it, this is the day to prove myself. To prove I can be Hokage!” Naruto fastened his hitai-ate around his forehead as he peered into a mirror, and soon left to meet his group. As he was about to jump out his window he noticed someone walking by the building towards the academy.

“….? H-Haku? Oy Haku!” She heard him and looked up to the building wondering who would actually know her after the few days of actually being here. Little did she know it was a particular blond she already knew.

“…Naruto? Hey Naruto what's up! ” She waved, deciding to talk for a moment.

“I am duh!” They chuckled as Naruto leaped off the building into a flip, landing next to the ice master.

“So I guess things went well with joining the village?” Naruto asked

“Yea, Hokage sama is really as nice as you said. He made Zabuza an Anbu and me a chuunin.”

“NANI! I can't believe it, you're a chuunin already. That's awesome Haku, I still have to take this stupid exam.”

“Actually that's where I'm headed right now, I'm suppose to help make people don't cheat on the first portion.”

“Well you don't have to worry about me, I'll ace it easy.”

“I'm sure you will. After the way you fought Zabuza I would be disappointed. That would make him very mad.” They walked on towards the academy building and as she finished her last statement Haku noticed Sasuke and Sakura walking hand in hand towards the building.

“OY Sa…..!!!???” Haku's hand found itself over Naruto's face before he had enough time to react. Placing a finger over her mouth she hushed him. “This will be much more funny. Haku raised her hands and solidified some water in the air spiking up their hair with ice sickles. With shocked faces Sasuke and Sakura turned to each other freaking out and screaming at the top of their lungs. “HAKU!!!!!!!!!!”

“Hide…” “Right!” As soon as they started running they were both pulled into a nearby corridor by an unknown figure. Naruto wanted to scream but soon realized it was someone he knew.

“A-are you ok, N-Naruto kun?” It was Hinata, luckily stalking the blond yet again and somehow managed enough courage to pull the two into the hiding place and place a quick genjutsu over the crevice to hide their presence. Why Sasuke never used his Sharingan to find them they will never know.

“Yea thanks Hinata…HINATA! Hey, Hinata did you get my letter?” She shook her head no as she thought `H-he sent me a letter?' She could feel herself becoming feint, and forced herself not to do so. She looked at Naruto and noticed a clock in a store across the street. `The exams…They start in ten minutes!' “A-ano, the-the exams…” She stated while pointing at the clock across the street.

“Exams?” Naruto turned to the clock. It didn't take long for the lack of time to sink in. “O SHIT! LETS GO!” Naruto grabbed both girls and leaped up on top of the building dragging them along through the air as they closed in on the building very quickly. The jarring leaps and bounds were too much for Hinata, forcing her to stay awake though the entire experience, an experience she was very happy to have had.

Arriving at the building they met up with Sasuke and Sakura at the door scoffing at a stupid genjutsu on the wrong floor. Haku vanished and the remaining four ignored it, moving on to the next floor, leaving the morons stuck down there to their misery in failure.

“I can't believe those idiots. Most of them have called me a moron before and they can't see through such a simple trick. It's insane!”

“y-yea…A-ano you said s-something about a l-letter?” Hinata asked having tried to build up the strength for several minutes now.

“Meh don't worry about it, I'll tell you later. Just focus on the exams. You're going to do great Hinata.” A few moments later Hinata left to join her team over on another wall. They were surveying the competition and rather impressed with some of the veterans.

“Finally figure something out dobe?” Sasuke commented having noticed Naruto with Hinata and caught the part about a letter. Both he and Sakura's hair was still frizzled and simi-frosted over from the incident with Haku, an event they swore would be repaid.

“Yea teme, something I'm going to fix after the exams are over.”

“It's about time…” Sasuke would have contenued but his eyes diverted over to a figure getting closer to them than he would have liked.

A silver haired boy in a strange attire with large round glasses was walking over to the area where the rookies were spread out. What he wanted with them they hadn't a clue.

“So you're the new rookies, I must say I'm impressed for so many to make it. Usually there's only one or two teams of them between all the villages combined.” The room was surrounded with shinobi. Actually it was crowded. The were over 17 teams of rookies participating in the exams, all of which seemed to be mysteriously powerful for their age.

“And why should we care?” Sasuke groaned getting a bit of a bad vibe off the guy, hoping he would just go away. “Comparing us to past years is only looking at the past.” Shino `s voice sent chills down Kabuto's spine, having never liked the Aburame clan from the start. They were always so…stoic…and creepy…(Yea coming from a guy that hangs out with pale snakes.)

“I'm Kabuto Yakushi, a bit of a veteran of the exams. I figured since this is probably my last year taking it, I would offer you some advice.” He pulled out some cards and began shuffling them, drawing the attention of everyone in the area. “These are information cards, apply a little chakra, and think of someone and it will directly access any non confidential information from the shinobi records.

`Interesting, maybe this buffoon can be of some use after all.' Sasuke was happy at the turn of events. This was his opportunity to finally see what team 13 was capable of. Then again there was that Gaara no Suna he ran into a few days ago, he was defiantly someone to look up.`I already know everything about Naruto…he'll make a good data card to compare.

“I have a few ideas. How about, Naruto Uzumaki, Gaara No Suna, Nazomishi Mitsukoi and Aoshi Shinomori.”

“Whoa, interesting in a lot of people are you? Any you don't know the names of?....No, too easy.” Kabuto shuffled the deck one more time and placed chakra in the top few cards, picking them up to reveal the information.

“Naruto Uzumaki, finished with impressive scores in the academy, privately trained by, wow Sandaime Hokage and Hayate Gekko. A member of, wait he's on your team? Ok…He's got chuunin level ratings in swordsmanship as well as Ninjutsu and only an academy level knowledge of Genjutsu. You already know your missions so I wont bother with those.” Kabuto looked back to Sasuke after he finished reading the data card. Sasuke was obviously disappointed. The Uchiha shrugged off his hopes of learning anything useful from this guy.

“I figured, that data is a little off.”

“Really? How so?” Kabuto asked, wondering how his cards of all things could be off. In truth the data wasn't from the shinobi records. It was actually from his own spy network and personal experience. In Kabuto's mind, his network was second only to Jiraiya's famous network.

“ The data's older than shit that's how.”

“Really now…” `He's using it as a comparison…interesting…looks like the third taught him more than we thought.'

“Well on to Gaara no Suna. Lets see here, not really a whole lot of information on him. Apparently he uses Sand based jutsu, and get this he's done several B and A-rank missions. He's never come back with a scratch, damn. I've never seen a genin with a card like this. Shit…there's even a flee on sight order from his own village.” Several audible gulps were heard around the room while many restless eyes wondered to the psycho with rings around the eyes.

“Lets see here, next was Nazomishi Mitsukoi…”Kabuto's eyes widened as he noticed the second line. `Impossible the kid's got a titleat this age.'

“What's wrong? Something interesting?” It was blatantly obvious to Sasuke that this Kabuto saw something interesting in

“Y-yea…He's got a bingo book title already, Hitokiri Zansatsu. He uses his own swordsmanship style incorporated from dozens of known styles. He calls it Sentoryuu (Thousand sword style.) Apparently he has a bloodline but the details are restricted. An A-rank and several B-rank missions, a few C's and almost no D-ranks. I wouldn't believe it if the card didn't say he's a genin. It says here on a mission to wave him and the rest of team 13 killed over 300 mercs, and …”

“It was easy…” A strange voice popped up behind Kabuto, revealing himself as Nazomishi as Kabuto turned around.

“How are you still a genin?” Kabuto asked Nazomishi, recognizing him instantly. It was practically impossible for a team with that kind of mission list to be a genin. `So this is him, the man Hiko told us about, one of the Zate. It's no wonder he warned us of this caravan. If the others have cards remotely like this we may need to change our strategy.'

“I'm a rookie, it's my first time taking the exam…continue.” `Seal the deal with a little force fear and some killing intent and you have the perfect recipe for fear.'

“He…uh…” `What the hell is this sensation! He's doing nothing but my body's telling me to run and never look back. I haven't felt this way since I first met Sasori.If half of what Hiko said is true he's at least at my levelalong with the rest of his team.That feeling, it's the same with all of them!'

“Uh, the next one…Aoshi Shinomori. He uses various sword styles revolving around Kaiten-Kenbu. He's got a bingo book title of Hitokiri Arashi. He's got a bloodline that lets him control ice. He…” `So cold…they're unreal…I have to contact Orochimaru Sama.We need to deal with them.'

`And now we are his first targets…' If their plan worked as well as it was working they could distract and manipulate Orochimaru's plans to focus more on the Zate than the destruction of Konoha. With the information in those cards they will now be forced to look at the Zate with a closer eye. They will be forced to see the Zate for what it is and calculate in a few dozen extra Jounin level Shinobi into the equation. That many high level Shinobi cannot be ignored. They will be forced to attempt assassination or coordinate their strikes to take down stronger ninja as opposed to focusing on collateral destruction and eliminating supplies.

“Well that was useless, your cards know about as much as I already know. The only one I learned a thing on was Gaara and everyone else is missing so much it's ridiculous.”

“You could just ask me you know? It's not like I'm one to hide things from friends.”

“Uh yea…” Before he could say much more a strange scarred man in a trench coat walked in and started screaming for everyone to calm down.

“You all have five minutes to meet me in the room through that door. Your numbers are up here on the wall, get it and sit down.” Everybody did as instructed and received their numbers. The arrangement was strange…erratic. Obviously so people couldn't cheat off their teammates.

“Good now that everyone's here, Welcome to the chuunin exam. This test will determine if you are cut out to be real shinobi. Let me start out by explaining the rules. This is a team based effort, either everyone in your team passes or they all fail. There are ten questions, for each question you answer correctly you receive one point. Each member of each team must receive at least one point in order for the team to pass. In total the team must rack up at least ten points or the entire team fails. There are nine questions on your tests and the tenth question will be administered at the end. Around the room are dozens of shinobi trained to know everything going on in the room. They are here to prevent you from cheating. Each person will start out with ten points and each time you are caught cheating we will deduct one point from that total. If you reach zero points you and your team fails. Any questions?”

“That…that's insane, So we all fail if one person is bad at taking tests!”

“If that's a problem then you should have studied harder.”

“But …”

“No buts, the exam starts now.” And with that everyone looked upon the horror that was the written portion. The questions were ridiculous, if a shinobi with this set of muscle strength threw a standard kunai south in an open field at a set speed where would it land with respect to the shinobi, and magnetic north if there's a north eastward crosswind with gusts topping 32 miles per hour. Yes the questions were ridiculous, including calculus and physics questions which only a genius could answer. Many questions were missing information vital to the normal working of the problem and the stress level in the room multiplied rapidly.

`Ok only an idiot couldn't guess the real meaning of this. He wants us to cheat. If he didn't even Shikamaru would have trouble with this. He's probably got fakers set around in the seats with the answers.' Sasuke figured Naruto and Sakura would have similar ideas and decided to fend for himself. He used his Sharingan to copy the movement of the pencil in front of him. Sakura on the other hand was somehow smart enough to answer two of the problems with little effort. Naruto on the other hand was calling the scarred man's bluff. The point was obviously to cheat but the fox revealed an interesting revelation to him. The revelation that there must be something to the final question, saying odds were that the final question was the one that really mattered.

Nazomishi and team 13 of course knew the true meaning of the test. They more or less scribbled junk on their exams and waited for the final question. Nazo on the other hand had something a little more… interesting in mind. He took the scribbling on his paper and applied some chakra to the metallic substance. `Focus…there we go…now on to team seven.' Nazomishi used his ability to manipulate metal to send the minute amounts of metal across the under side of the desk over to team seven's seats and relayed the message to them.

The message read “Stay and pass.” Short and to the point it got the message across. Or at least it would once the final question started.

“Alright maggots pencils down. It's time for the final question. But first there are a few rules. You have the option not to take the question. If you choose not to then you and your team will fail. However the other rule is this, if you take the question and fail to answer correctly, then you not only fail the exams but you may never take the exams again. ”

“OY Teme! What the hell kind of rule is that! There's tons of people in here that's taken it before. Who gives you the right!”

“I give me the right, your just unlucky that I'm your examiner. Remember you still have the option to come back next time. Maybe then I won't be here but for now it's your tough luck.

`So that's what he meant…thanks Nazo.'

`Stupid ruse.'

`Who gives a shit I'm staying right here no matter what dattebayo!'

`He still doesn't get it…' Aoshi sighed, having read Naruto's mind and seen his true thoughts. `Why Nazo wants him to be a captain, I'll never know.'

All kinds of people started standing up and leaving the room with Ibiki severely disappointed with the percentage staying. `This is impossible there should be under half of them left. I must be loosing my touch, there's nearly two thirds left. Oh well,I'lljust let them squirmfor a bit.'

“Oy what's up are you going to give the question already or do we have to sit here till dinner. I'm hungry dattebayo.”

`This kid puts new meaning to “Thinking with your stomach.”'

“Anyone else, remember if you fail you fail for good… Alright here's the question. You all…pass.”

`Well I'll be damned, he was right.'

`I love knowing the future…'

“Wahoo I win!”

“Wait…what? How did that happen? What do you mean we pass?”

“Yea yea yea now sit down. Energetic kids…You pass because in the world of shinobi there is the mission and only the mission. When your on a mission things can get tough. You can be up against certain death, but unless your willing to put everything on the line for the good of your country then you simply aren't worth your rank, or any better than a dog…” Without much further explanation a strange ball burst through the wall spanning out into a congratulations flyer that read more specifically, “Good luck fuckers.” A phrase that caused several obvious blushes within the crowed. Standing in front of it was a woman in a very revealing fishnet shirt wondering why the hell there were so many left.

“Well well well, looks like Ibiki's loosing his touch.” A vein popped in his head annoyed by the comment even though he was the thinking the same thing only minutes ago. “I am Anko Mitarashi and I'm the examiner for stage two of your exams. I guarantee you that less than half of you will pass my section so don't look forward to getting killed. You have ten minutes to meet me in battle training zone 44. And if you haven't heard of it that way before it's better know as….” She sneaked up close to one of the odd men out and whispered “The forest of deathhhhaa…” Causing the poor kid to fall unconscious with wet pants as the frightening phrase was spoken with a snake like hiss.

At the forest of death everyone was explained the rules of the Heaven and Earth scrolls before wavering their life away to the demonic forest. After what seamed like an hour of waiting outside of the forest the teams were finally taken to their respective entrance gates.

“We've got a problem Rei.”

“Yea what's that? Did you forget to seal a new weapon? Seriously will you ever have enough of those?”

“No and…no…Naruto's team is on the other end of the forest, we have to get there fast.” Both Rei and Aoshi closed their eyes as they walked slowly to their gate, concentrating on a strange feeling they had, had for several hours. Then suddenly both said in unison “He's coming.”

Elsewhere in the forest, not long after entering the forest Kabuto and his team met up with the team from rain just as Orochimaru finished stealing a new body.

“I see you're old body gave out sooner than expected eh Orochimaru Sama.”

“Don't give me that shit Kabuto, You know very well these weak bodies can't support my power.”

“Of course why else would you be interested in Sasuke Kun.”

“Why indeed Kukukukuku. The Kazekage proved more of a challenge than I thought and his guard was up. It took more out of the body than I had expected but all this means is that I will have a few years of training my new one to look forward to.” Orochimaru chuckled maniacally as he finished off the jutsu and tossed aside the bodies of the other rain nin. “Enough of that I have new orders for you, Some problems came up with the sound four and I must tend to them personally. I'm leaving a clone to take care of dear Sasuke Kun. However I need you to monitor the exams. I don't care what you reveal in your skill, I have one of our spies rigging the lineups for the preliminaries. Test Hiko's judgment, if any of his former friends are remotely as strong as you two then things could prove problematic.”

“So you want me to kill whoever I face?”

“If you win then all is well, if you die in the match then they may prove a better body while I train Sasuke Kun. I won't stand for in-betweens. You either win or die, otherwise I will kill you.” The killing intent Orochimaru gave off has Kabuto shivering and his team on their knees struggling to breath till the pail snake finally let up. “Go, make sure Sasuke trusts us above all else.”

“Yes Orochimaru sama.” Orochimaru took his leave and Kabuto's team finally regained their composure, all the while thinking and wondering?`He senses it too. Their presence is ridiculous for children their age. Even Hiko is far beyond anything we have ever trained. If Orochimaru weren't so keen on obtaining the Sharingan he would probably take his body out of lust for the raw strength.'

Back in their part of the forest team seven was making their way to the center knowing they could ambush another team later on and have a strength advantage. They could sense the skill level of the fighters in the exams. Most were Chuunin level or higher, some like Nazo's team were easily handling a Jounin level poise. `Something is defiantly up here.'

“Hey Naruto what do you think of those other guys.”

“They're strong I can tell you that. Did you notice those strange marks on their clothes?”

“What the tree, yea.” He had noticed it back in the holding room. It was the same symbol Nazomishi had on the back of his coat. He didn't know what it was but they were somehow related.

“What are you guys talking about, what tree? What team?” Despite her increased training regimen, little of it had revolved around being aware of her surroundings, a skill she was now planning on working on.

“Most of them, some kind of sakura tree with the numbers 1 through 3 on them.” Sasuke added, there had to be some sort of connection, some sort of meaning to it all.

“Right...what would a Genin from different villages have to do with each other? Seriously it's not like it ever happens.” Sakura was being a little skeptical of the whole thing, hardly paying attention enough to notice it at all.

“Probably that Zate Nazo's team was talking about. They were probably part of the caravan that got attacked.” Naruto added while placing his hands behind his head in a relaxed position. Why he was acting so relaxed in a place titled `the forest of death' was beyond Sakura.

“That would make sense I guess, Come to think of it Nazo did have the same pattern with a one on his coat… hey guys what are you…?” Sakura paid attention to her speaking and had no clue what was going on till she looked over to her team mates to notice they were leaping away. The sudden shock gave her just enough time to leap away, avoiding the great jaws of a massive snake.

“Where the hell did that come from!” Sakura screamed as she pulled a fist to her side, preparing to strike should it make another move towards her.

“I don't know but it won't be here much longer.” Sasuke drew one of his blades holding it backhanded and charging it with electricity before starting a charge on the snake. Meanwhile Sakura took a defensive stance watching the snake fallow Naruto's movement.

At her most recent view Naruto kicked off of the snake's face propelling himself into a tree then leaping back off and charging a Rasengan, driving it into the snake's face. While Naruto drove the Rasengan into the snake's face Sasuke was dropping down from the sky with a backhanded slash at the snake's spine. The blade bored itself deep into the serpent, creating a bloody gash, severing its spine, rendering its midsection back entirely useless. Naruto's Rasengan on the other hand blasted the snake's face into the air but left it relatively unharmed.

“Sasuke! Hiittou no Jutsu”

“Right!” Both Naruto and Sasuke leaped around, landing on opposing sides of the serpent's length. Both held their blade in the right hand while focusing chakra in their left utilizing half of the ram seal. Both drew their fingers along the length of their blades bursting them into a powerful flame thrower. Using all their force in one powerful vertical stroke they created a moon like arch of fire blasting towards the snake, roasting it in its entirety and more or less cutting it in half. Sakura looked on from her defensive position admiring the teamwork and hoping that they could work on some for the three of them to use in the future.

“Damn guys you didn't even give me enough time to help. That was awesome!” Sakura screamed over to the others. A smirk appeared on her face at the thought that they might actually be able to make a meal out of the snake. At least until she realized it was snake and she wasn't particularly fond of snake anyway.

“Kukukukuku I'm impressed Sasuke Kun. To take down that level of summon is quite a feat.” A rain nin stood upon a branch clapping with a mild sense of amusement. She wore a large strong hat but could be seen licking `her' cheek with an abnormally long tongue.

“Who the hell are you?” Sasuke asked with anger in his voice. The tongue giving away the fact that this Shinobi was a snake user and likely the one that summoned the snake.

“Oh and using an A-rank fire jutsu in combination, it takes me way back.” The freaky woman licked her eye with a massive serpentine tongue as she brushed her hair back revealing more of the madly deformed face. A face as if it were a body stuffed inside a smaller skin, pale as a white board, completely devoid of color. “Your new best friend Sasuke kun, in fact I have a gift just for you.”

“Sorry but I'm taken.” Sasuke added assuming an alternative fighting stance. He figured some of the Kaiten Kenbu he had learned would be more useful against this person.

“I think you'll reconsider.” With an effortless movement of the left hand a series of shuriken flew through the air, maintaining a trajectory which would make it very difficult for Sasuke to see. Sasuke simply scoffed and spun his blade around rapidly smashing away all offending shuriken.

“Did you honestly think that would…!” Sasuke sensed something wrong and leaped up from the ground just in time to avoid a snake bursting through the ground and cut it in two with a quick swipes of his sword.

“So you are the one who summoned the snake.” Sasuke emphasized are, confirming his suspicions to his teammates. Naruto and Sakura took offensive stances next to Sasuke realizing this wasn't going to be an easy match. Summons rarely let anyone use them unless they had done something to prove their worth to the summons. For this reason, few short of Jounin had summons. No normal genin was going to summon snake that large without having some power themselves.

“What's wrong Sasuke don't you want the power to kill you're brother? I can give you power, ultimate power.”

“Thanks but no thanks, I can make my own power.”

“Dattebayo You tell her Sasuke!”

“Too bad, we could have made such lovely PArtners.” Orochimaru popped the way he said partners, spitting a fang at Sasuke. Team seven leaped away and began a charge at the snake user from three separate sides with Sasuke driving up the middle; and Naruto and Sakura on the sides. Sasuke was the first to arrive with his direct rout taking a slash at the face only for it to be blocked by a blade sprouting out of his mouth.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed when the mysterious blade didn't even take a gash from his own blade “Stand back!” The other two sopped their movement, jumping back at his warning.

“Sasuke I think it's the Kusanagi.” Naruto commented remembering the distinct characteristics of the blade from the books Hayate had them read on legendary swords.

“Run Sakura if he hits you there's no curing the poison.” Sakura blinked taking the time for it to register but remembered a lesson from the academy that Orochimaru of the Sannin is the last person to have wielded the legendary blade. `No… that's the man controlling Oto.' If this was true then he was way out of her league, and without a blade of her own she's completely screwed. She nodded and left to hopefully find an Anbu.

“Kukukukuku I see you know your blade Sasuke kun. And to be so proficient with a blade, has that caravan boy been teaching you?”

“How do you know about him?”

“Lets just say an old friend of his wasn't much of a friend.” Sasuke flared his Sharingan and a golden glow began to surround Naruto's blade. In the midst of the forest the combatants stood on opposing sides in a small clearing. Sasuke removed his leather kimono top while Naruto removed his gi simultaneously releasing their restriction seal. Orochimaru was somewhat surprised by the seals and the chakra that was released from the two. As far as he could tell Naruto's was as high or higher than his own and Sasuke's was about half.

“If you have the Kusanagi then you must be Orochimaru.” `Damn mission I cant let him know what we know. What the hell does he want with me anyway?That blade…I need to focus on his blade. That booksaid it can extend so I've got to keep my guard up.' Orochimaru reached up to his face and ripped of a layer of skin as if it were a mask, revealing his true horrific face.

“Kukukukuku Amazing Sasuke Kun you're far more advanced than I had expected. This proves that you crave power.” Orochimaru licked a bang out of his eyesight with his crazy tongue and leaped into action at speeds that were a blur to Naruto's eyes and required some effort from Sasuke's level two Sharingan. In reaction Sasuke drew his second blade with a spin using the force of the draw to counter Orochimaru's insane speeds. `Even with the weights off he's still faster…this is crazy.'

The clash of the blades could be felt by Naruto as if hit by an ocean wave who strengthened his grip on the ground knowing this fight could turn bad, real bad. Naruto's eyes narrowed like a foxes waiting for the proper moment to jump in. “Kit draw on my chakra I think you'd like the results. ”`What are you talking about.'? The Kyuubi smirked and snickered, loving the way things were going. “Just do it gaki, trust me. It's in all our best interests.” `…eeeh…Fine…' Naruto started drawing a bit of Yokai and noticed that the Kyuubi's chakra didn't come out, instead his blades glow became brighter and began to burn. As Naruto looked back to the fight from his blade he noticed that his sight and hearing had improved as well. Little did he know that his eyes had turned from their deep cerulean to a slitted and glowing gold.

Sasuke and Orochimaru were exchanging strike for strike with their blades at a masterful pace. Sasuke's skill with the twin blades would put Kimimaru to shame and Orochimaru knew this all too well. Sasuke's only disadvantage at this point was the gap in speed. Orochimaru had to end this, if he could just get in close enough to give Sasuke the seal everything would be in place. All in all the entire war was meaningless in comparison to obtaining the Sharingan.

The moments of exchanged blows continued and eventually Sasuke was starting to gain ground. That was when Naruto saw his chance. He used the purified Yokai to kick off with enhanced chakra levels equivalent to his no tailed state. The force of the launch mildly cracked the ground as he sped through the air slashing at Orochimaru's head

The snake man was easily able to slither around the attack by extending his neck backwards looking back at Naruto as he speed through the air and landed on a tree, kicking off of it once again with enough force to partialy uproot the ancient thing, crushing the bark where his feet landed in his path to a second strike.

That was just the break Sasuke needed as he charged Chidori Nagashi through his blade and took a thrust at Orochimaru's stomach. The blade impaled the pail faced freak with a sickening combination of squish, burn, and chirping birds. Naruto flipped around in the air, scooting to a stop as he watched Orochimaru fall to his knees clutching the offending blade. `It can'tbe that easy. The guy's a freaking Sanning, there's no way in hell it can be that easy.' Sasuke was right, it wasn't that easy. The supposedly dead Orochimaru began to shrivel up and spread out into dozens of snakes which slithered away, leaving only a mutilated log where the body had once been.

`Damn it, where are the Anbu, I thoughtthey were watching the exams for the war, not sitting on their asses while Kage level Chakra signatures flared about.' “I would say they hope you will die because of me.” `That doesn't help Kyuu.' “Well forgive me for being trapped in your body for the past decade, it's only your father's fault that I'm eternally bound to your soul.” `Ok this is defiantly not the time for that. Hey Kyuu can you sense him?' “Sorry I can only get what you do”

“Kukukukuku, so disappointing Sasuke kun, you couldn't even tell that was a replacement.” Orochimaru's voice echoed from various places in the surrounding forest making it immensely difficult to track down an origin.

“Show yourself coward!” Sasuke shifted his position rapidly using his Sharingan to scan the area, sadly to no avail.

“No need for haste Sasuke kun, you're still weak, really Itachi was stronger in the academy.”

“Why would I care!”

“Why wouldn't you, he did kill your parents in front of you didn't he? You know you hate him, and I can give you all you need to beat him…”

“You don't know what I need.”

“Oh but I do Sasuke I…DO!” Sasuke turned horrified as Orochimaru screamed `do' directly behind him bearing his fangs like a snake just before the final strike. Sasuke was completely defenseless to the attack as snakes burst forth from the ground holding him in place bringing only pain and suffering. Orochimaru's fangs grew ever closer to Sasuke's flesh when off in the great distance was a great rush of wind fallowed by an iron clad fist connecting square with Orochimaru's jaw, blasting the pale Sannin into and through three trees and deep into the forest. The trees fell to the ground gaining the attention of most everybody within the forest of death. The primary reaction though was `Glad I'm not fighting whoever did that.' Sarutobi himself was already looking into his crystal ball, observing the fight. Two battalions of Anbu were already half way there and Sakura still hadn't seen anybody.

“Rei get him!” Aoshi screamed over his scouter comlink.

“Roger!” The snakes poofed away, leaving a badly scarred Sasuke griping the bight marks on his legs and wrists.

“Oh damn, not smart.” Nazomishi groaned as he looked down at his fist and noticing a fang lodged deep in his right hand, strait through the knuckle back into the palm of his hand. With one painful stroke he pulled out the fang and began trying to heal his wound by filling it with the metal from a kunai. Strangely instead of the normal absorption of the metal, the poison of the fang seemed to repel the healing properties of his bloodline. The metal from the kunai disintegrated instead of being added to his body.

“Well that's not …normal….” Nazomishi felt like he was going to puke, with a nauseating sensation filling his body. His vision slowly began to blur and he began to loose his balance only to be caught by Aoshi. “Nazo, you ok? Nazo…NAZO!”

“What happened to him?” Sasuke limped over to Aoshi fighting his own pain, preying the Anbu would get there soon.

“I don't know, it's some kind of poison. Stay with him, we'll take care of the Snake. Rei's the only one with enough medical knowledge to help. And she can't help till he's gone.”

“Right...” In those moments Naruto went off fallowing Rei along an indention in the ground to what looked like Orochimaru shedding his skin, plopping a fresh and battle ready version out on the ground.

“Aw now that's just sick.” Rei commented as Orochimaru wiped off the slimy entrails of his former innards.

“This day amuses me to no end, honesty how many Jounin level Genin can I find in one day. Even you Naruto Kun, your chakra levels are incredible, well above my own to be sure. And who's this? Rei, correct? Hiko has told me so much about you.”

“Seijuurou? What did you do to him?” `This guy annoys me so fucking much.'

“Doesn't matter, what matters is your friend just stopped me from obtaining my prize, now you must die.” Orochimaru's legs turned into a snake's tail allowing him to wave above the ground like a cobra ready to strike. Kusanagi in hand Orochimaru rose into the air and dove upon her with a thrust, which she dodged with relative ease. Unfortunately for her this was exactly what he wanted her to do. Orochimaru dove into the ground like a burrowing snake and in a matter of a second his entire body was underground capable of immerging anywhere.

Aoshi arrived near the scene just as he went underground and looked on in horror as he heard Rei scream “It's Sasuke, he's going for Sasuke!”

“He what?!!” `It was a trap!'They realized wishing they had focused more on anticipating his actions with the force, a reflex that had dulled significantly during their stay in this world.

With little time for reaction Orochimaru burst from the ground above the now resting Sasuke. Sasuke had so little time that all he could do was open his eyes in horror as Orochimaru bit hard into his neck producing immediate results with his trademark cursed seal.

“My job here is done Sasuke Kun, enjoy my little gift.” As Orochimaru turned to leave he saw a very pissed Aoshi, Rei and Naruto standing behind him.

“Your too late kiddies, sorry I can't stay to play but I've got other work to…!”

“Naruto run…” Rei's red hair was starting to stand on end and Aoshi knew he didn't want to stick around to see it.

“What?” Naruto questioned momentarily as Aoshi leaped over grabbing Sasuke and Nazo's bodies as Naruto leaped away into the trees.”

“You have no idea how fucked you are.” Late in her sentence Rei's voice became deep and scratchy as her hair turned to fire, standing on end as the ground beneath her feet began to burn with rage and the leafs on the trees began to shrivel under the heat. Orochimaru being the curious bastard he is looked on wondering how the hell someone could be so literally on fire, forgetting that it was he whom she was pissed at. By the point he was able to shake his stupor, her flaming hand grabbed his head and turned the body to blackened ash in a mater of seconds. In the rotting ash Rei looked down and noticed. “Summon clone…” She was very …very pissed.

“Rei get over here, Nazo's in bad condition, he's gone into Cardiac arrest!”

“NANI! What happened!” Rei rushed over, talking a look at the fang mark in his hand. It was blatently obvious how bad the wound was by the colors his hand was turning. It was already blue and boils were starting to grow.

“I think its poison.”

“I hope you're right.” Rei could tell this was no ordinary poison, If it was poison it was a one bad ass toxin to act this violently this quickly. Nazomishi's body was fighting it off and consuming his chakra at an alarming rate. His hand half way up to his elbow was blue from lack of oxygen, while shriveled up to the point that the shape of bone could be seen from the skin and the blood loss was already bad enough to have killed a normal man.