Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Tail of Two Bijus ❯ The Forest of Death ( Chapter 11 )

A/N: Alright, I'm back! It's time for the introduction and severe beating of Orochimaru, and Naruto to gain his most powerful signature move (and no, it's not the Rasengan, suprisingly, it's BETTER!) As always, I hope my creativity gives you some semblance of pleasure to read.

 

(A): Hyuga Neji (Neji will be owned hardcore, because frankly, I think he's a jackass): 2

 

(B): Rock Lee (A battle to see which is better: The Demonic or Celestial Gates and who can open up more of them, ie a battle of epic proportions): 3

 

(C): Uchiha Sasuke (basically a battle of the Doujutsu to prove which clan has the best Bloodline Limit and which has the most power: The Curse Seal or the Demonic Gates, Chidori or Rasengan): 1

 

It stands at two for A, three for B and one for C.

 

The winner for this vote is B, Rock Lee Vs Uzumaki Naruto.

 

Aslo, here are the names of the Eight Celestial Gates and the names I came up with for the Nine Demonic Gates:

 

Celestial:

 

1: Open Gate

 

2: Energy Gate

 

3: Life Gate

 

4: Wound Gate

 

5: Forest Gate

 

6: View Gate

 

7: Insanity Gate

 

8: Death Gate

 

Demonic:

 

1: Armour Gate

 

2: Regeneration Gate

 

3: Intention Gate

 

4: Blood Gate

 

5: Power Gate

 

6: Size Gate

 

7: Hell Gate

 

8: Slaughter Gate

 

9: Release Gate

 

Anyways, I'll get to the point you've all been waiting for.

 

Legend:

 

'...Thoughts...'

 

“...Speaking...”

 

“...TWO PEOPLE CASTING THE SAME JUTSU...”

 

'...Biju Thoughts...'

 

“...Biju Talking...”

 

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A Tail of Two Bijus:

 

Chapter 10:

 

The Forest of Death:

 

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20 Minutes Later, Infront of The Forest of Death:

 

The remaining Genin from the first test had gathered outside a rather creepy looking forest. Their instructor turned to them.

 

“You'll soon find out why this is called the Forest of Death.”

 

“Really? You mean why you Jounins change the name of this forest from training area 44 to that only for the Chunin Exams? I've always wanted to know that...”

 

People were beginning to warm to this blonde kid. He put down every single attempt their examiners made to screw with their minds and raised their own confidence with his. The Jounins however, were beginning to hate this kid. He ruined the atmosphere that the Jounins had tried so hard to set up. Anko smiled, before releasing a kunai from her sleeve, which she threw at Naruto. Yukiko ran in, grabbed the kunai and body flickered behind Anko, with the Kunai at her back. Naruto had also used his Hiraishin no Jutsu to get behind her.

 

 

“I suggest what you watch what you throw at my boyfriend. I may just be inclined to do some serious damage if you even harm a hair on his head.”

 

Everyone was now well aware that Team Seven weren't bluffing when they said they were strong. What kind of kids could do that to a JOUNIN? Anko also looked surprised.

 

“My my, what a protective young girl. Well, I won't be doing any damage to him, however, those kids will be.”

 

Anko pointed to the others. Yukiko just laughed.

 

“Highly unlikely. Well, maybe except for that Sabaku no Gaara. Apart from that, maybe one other could harm us.”

 

With that, Yukiko glared at a suspicious looking Grass nin. Anko slumped in defeat and sighed. Yukiko and Naruto used the same techniques to get back to their team. Sakura just sighed, while Sasuke smirked.

 

“Show off.”

 

“Of course!”

 

Anko decided to continue with her explination.

 

“Before we continue, I need to you to sign these forms.”

 

Naruto and Yukiko looked at them and grinned.

 

“Sweet! Concent forms! I assume that means we have permission to kill for this test?”

 

Everyone was now on edge. They had the chance of running into this team and Team Seven were alowed to KILL them? This was getting worse and worse by the second.

 

“That's right. These are basically to state that your death is your own responsibility, not mine. I'll start handing them out.”

 

Naruto, being the impatient guy he was used Hiraishin no Jutsu to yank four forms out of Anko's hand and procceeded to pass them to his team mates. Anko sighed again.

 

'This team will get through to the finals no problems.'

 

She began walking around to the rest of them and passing out the forms. She gave them half an hour to sign them. Suprisingly, at the end of the half an hour everyone had signed them. Anko gathered them all up and began the explination of the test.

 

“Basically this is a survival test. You will be stuck in training area 44 for five days. You may not leave before that five days is up.”

 

Choji looked horrified.

 

“What? How are we suppoed to get food?”

 

Naruto answered for Anko.

 

“This forest is abundant with food. You just have to know where to find it.”

 

“That's right. It's also full of creatures that will fight you for that food. Some of them are bigger than humans.”

 

“Eh? Those millipedes? Sure, they're omnivorous, but the largest size animal they'll go for is about the size of a rabbit. They won't touch humans unless you severly piss them off.”

 

Anko was really getting irritated by this boy. She held her anger in check, and pulled a mapo out of her pocket.

 

“This is the layout of the area. The forest is circular in shape, with 44 enterance gates spaced equally around the perimiter. In the center of the forest, ten kilometers from the gates, is your objective. There is a tower there that will be the location of the announcement of the final test of the exam in five days time. However, there is one requirement for you to even enter the tower.”

 

Anko held up a white scroll and a blue scroll. The white one was labeled 'Heavan' and the blue one was labeled 'Earth'.

 

“Before we send you to your starting gates, you will each be given one of these. Which one you're given, only your team should know.”

 

Anko turned to Naruto hoping to use his smart arse attitude to her advantage.

 

“And would mister smarty pants want to have a guess as to what the objective is?”

 

“No, I don't want to guess. I'll tell you though. The objective is to gain the other scroll you need from an opposing team. Whether that means beating them into submission, maiming or killing them, it doesn't matter, as long as you get both scrolls and get to the tower within the five day limit, you're good. That's what you meant by cutting the teams by at least half.”

 

Anko couldn't have put it better herself. The kid had just done exactly what she had hoped he would. She decided to press a bit more.

 

“Do you know what I meant by at LEAST half?”

 

“Yeah. Basically, there will be others that will be either removed from the exam or killed. Whether this be due to a fight with the creatures of the forest, teams get greedy and kill for the sake of eliminating possibly competition so they don't have to face them in the finals, whatever the reason, there will be teams who fail for reasons other than losing to another team for their other scroll.”

 

Anko was actually starting to change her opinion on this kid.

 

'He's sure easy to manipulate...'

 

As if Naruto had read her mind, he responded.

 

“I'm not doing this to help you instill fear in the other Genin, I'm doing it so I can warn them of the dangers and also to show them that if they don't take this seriously, like a select few teams aren't, they will end up regretting it. Sure, my words instill fear into them, but they need to know exactly what they're instore for. I personally know my team will make it through to the finals no probs, because I'm confident we're the strongest team here. Our speciality is survival.”

 

Anko sighed inwardly. This kid had read her like a book. She went back to explaining the last two rules.

 

“Well, those are most of the rules. There are two more however. One is that you will not open either scrolls until you are in the tower.”

 

Naruto activated his 'Seal Eye' and looked at the scrolls in Anko's hand. He saw they were wrapped in a Genjutsu. A sleeping one to be precise. Anko noticed Naruto snicker.

 

“What's so funny?”

 

“Just what you put as a deterant on the scrolls to stop people from opening them. It's a nice clean way of removing them from the exams.”

 

'How the hell did that kid find out it was a sleeping Genjutsu?'

 

“How did I find out? I'm not telling you. Let's just say I know, and leave it at that, hmm?”

 

Anko muttered to herself and pushed on.

 

“Those who open the scrolls when they're not in the tower will be instantly disqualified, along with there team. The final rule, is that all of your team mates must make it to the tower by the end of day five in a state where all of your team mates are alive. That covers all the rules. Get into a line with your team and wait here. One team at a time will go behind that curtain and recieve their scroll. Once all teams have their scroll and have arrived at their starting gate, I will give you ten minutes to finalise stratergy. Then, I will open the gates and the test will begin.”

 

With that, the teams lined up and went through the curtained booth one by one until all of them had their scroll and had reached their starting position. Team Seven had recivied the Heave Scroll and were assigned to Gate 12. Team Seven immediately conversed. Naruto already had an idea.

 

“Guys, I have the solution.”

 

Sasuke, Sakura and Yukiko turned to Naruto, waiting to hear his plan.

 

“When I looked at the scrol that Anko held up, it contained a summoning seal surrounded by a timed sleeping Genjutsu seal. I saw that the Genjutsu seal will be dispelledd upon entering the tower, meaning if anyone diecides to open it before the end of the test, they will be put to sleep. However, this will work in our advantage.”

 

“Go on.”

 

“Since I saw the seals in the scrolls were almost identical, except that the summoning seal was different for each scroll type, I can activate my first demonic gate which will grant me enhanced senses. When I find another team, I can use my 'Seal Eye' to determine which of them is carrying the scroll, and also which scroll it is without them even revealing it. So what we can do is you guys make your way to the tower, and I'll catch back up to you. However, to do that, I'll need a shred of each of your clothing to track you with.”

 

They all nodded before tearing off a piece of their clothing and handing it to Naruto, who put them in his pocket. The Chunin looked at his watch and announced to Team Seven that they had one minute before the test started. Naruto formed some hand seals and turned into his Kyubified form. He then concerntraited and released his first Demonic Gate. He gained the Chakra armour and bit back the scream of pain. Finally, after it engulfed him, he put his head to the ground and sniffed. The Chunin opened the gate and the test commensed. Naruto charged in and ran after the smell of humans in the local vicinity. The other three ran towards the tower.

 

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Three Minutes Later:

 

Naruto had found a team of Hidden Mist nins. He activated his 'Seal Eye' and scanned each of them. Before noticing one of them had the Earth scroll.

 

'Perfect.'

 

Naruto didn't give them time to ready a defense. He jumped down and growled out his gutteral sentence.

 

“Give me your Earth scroll now. Or I will not hesitate to kill you.”

 

The Mist nins knew they were seriously outclassed. The one to the left shakily walked forward and pulled out the Earth scroll.

 

“Please... Take it! Just don't kill us!”

 

“If you handed over the scroll like you just did, I had no intention of killing you. However if you had resisted, I would have ended your lives. Thank you for cooperating. Good luck in next year's exam.”

 

With that, Naruto lept into the trees and pulled out Yukiko's clothing and took a sniff before following the scent north east in the direction of the tower. Naruto had just about caught up with them when he felt a huge chakra signature pulse from the location of his team.

 

'SHIT! Who the hell could have that large a chakra signature?'

 

'Why don't you go find out, kit?'

 

“I was intending to.'

 

Naruto sprinted into the clearing to see the Grass Nin that Yukiko was suspicious about had Sasuke and Sakura on the ground paralised. The Grass nin was just about to throw two kunai at their heads.

 

'Shit, that guy's good! I have to make it in time!'

 

Naruto jumped in and gathered up Sakura and Sasuke and headed off to where Yukiko was waiting. The kunai the Grass nin had thrown hit the tree root behind where the two young ninja's heads had been with a solid 'THUNK'. The Grass nin smiled a proceeded after his pray.

 

Naruto landed next to Yukiko who was shivering and weeping uncontrollably. Naruto put down his other two team mates and ran over to hug Yukiko.

 

“Yukiko-Chan! What's wrong?”

 

“I... I saw you die... Naruto-Kun... He mutilated your body and then fed your corpse to a snake... It ws horrible!”

 

“Yukiko-Chan, he's a genjutsu master. What you saw was nothing but an illusuion. I'm alive and I got the other scroll. Now come on! We need to get out of here before that snake freak shows up again-”

 

“I assume you mean me?”

 

Naruto cursed himself that he hadn't detected him before. He turned to the Grass Nin and smiled Sadistically.

 

“You're not really a Genin are you? You're not even at Jounin level, I'd say closer to Sannin level. There's only one Sannin who uses snakes, eh Orochimaru?”

 

Orochimaru smiled. This kid was way beyond sharp. This would be interesting

 

“That's right, Naruto-Kun. I'm glad you are smart enough to figure out those things. Your team mates certainly weren't. I'm surprised how easy it was to deal with your team, considering that rumors have it that you four are supposed to be our replacements. Even that blue haired girl foolishly took me on. I showed her a beautiful image of your death.”

 

“You snake bastard! How dare you defile my girlfriend's mind like that! You and I are going to sort things out, right here and now! YOU WILL PAY FOR DOING THIS TO US! SECOND DEMONIC GATE, THE REGENERATION GATE. KAI!”

 

Naruto's power levels doubled, and a second tail sprouted. Everyone in the whole forest felt the huge killing intent and cowered in fear. They didn't have to wait much longer until they felt the source of the intent wash over them in a huge shockwave. They heard massive exploisions going off near the tower. At the scene of the fight, Orochimaru was getting his ass handed to him. Naruto had gone into a blind rage, destroying anything and everything that Orochimaru dissapeared behind with a huge chakra hand. Naruto finally managed to see an openeing and grabbed Orochimaru before slamming him into the ground. He was falling towards him with a chakra powered fist ready to end the snake bastard's life. However, Orochimaru saw an opening and shot out his tongue and wrapped it around Naruto. The tongue started to sear and burn, but this was his only chance to take care of him. He pulled the boy level with his face and pulled up his shirt. Orochimaru then made the tips of each of his fingers and his thumb on his right hand glow with purple, with a separate kanji appearing in the center of the fire. He slmaed his hand into Naruto's stomach and screamed.

 

“Fuuin!”

 

With that, Kyubi's chakra drained rapidly. And Naruto started to lose conciousness. Orochimaru let him fall to the ground. And decided to beat a hasty retreat. Yukiko had managed to recover and get over to the scene to see her boyfriend lying on the ground unconcious. She ran over to him and picked him up and began to cry.

 

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Later That Night:

 

Sasuke, Sakura nad Sasuke had all recovered from their genjutsu ordeals and had dragged Naruto to saftey. They attended to Naruto's high fever and obvious physical discomfort. Yukiko had used her Bloodline Limit to see that he was not poisioned, had no internal damage and no other vissable reason for his discomfort. Sakura was worried about her team mate.

 

“Neh, Yukiko-San, can you see what's wrong with Naruto?”

 

“No, it's really strange. There's absolutely no reason his body should be reacting like this.”

 

At that point in time, Naruto had recovered just enough to gain conciousness.

 

“No.... He put... Another seal... On my... Stomach.... It's sealed off... The Kyubi's... Chakra... My body is going through... Withdrawal symptoms...”

 

They looked at Naruto in shock. Yukiko vowed she would personally kick that bastard's ass when she next met him. Yukiko turned to Naruto.

 

“Can you unseal it?”

 

“Yeah... But I still... Need time to... Recover... Even after I... Fix it...”

 

Naruto pulled his shirt up and focused as much chakra as he could into his right hand. He formed five small flames on his fingers and thumb and slammed it into his stomach.

 

“Unseal!”

 

Naruto convulsed as the outter ring of the seal dissapeared, before finally dropping back ontp the ground and going to sleep. Yukiko looked on as she smiled, giving Sakura a thumbs up. Sakura smiled, knowing that her team mate was on the road to recovery. They took turns guarding Naruto while he recovered throughout the night.

 

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The Next Morning:

 

Sakura was assigned to hold the last watch. Sasuke was out collecting food for the team and Yukiko was collecting water. She snapped her head up when she felt something running at her. She saw it was a squirril, smiling she watched the squirril run towards her. She became alert and threw a kunai at the squirril to stop it's advance.

 

'That was far too close...'

 

Unknown to her, the three from the Sound were watching this observantly from the scrub nearby.

 

“Oh? She's an observant one.”

 

“She noticed the explosive tag?”

 

“No, that's not it...”

 

“Then what was it?”

 

“Let's find out now, shall we?”

 

With that, the three jumped out of the bushes and landed on the other side of the clearing from Sakura. Sakura recognised them as the team from the Sound.

 

“What do you three want?”

 

“We're hear to see Sasuke-Kun. We want to fight him. Be a good girl and tell us where he is.”

 

“All I know is that he went off to collect food. Where he is, I have no idea.”

 

The tallest one cracked his knuckles.

 

“Well then, I'll just have to kill this girl and wait for Sasuke to get back.”

 

The other boy on their team held up his arm.

 

“Wait, Zaku.”

 

“What's wrong, Dosu?”

 

Dosu walked forward and stopped at a patch of ground that would be no different to anyone who wasn't looking.

 

“A recently overturned stone, different coloured dirt... Grass doesn't grow here... This is obviously a booby trap, and a very poorly made one at that. Frankly, you have no skill as a Ninja.”

 

“Pfft, how stupid.”

 

“Since we have no use for this girl....”

 

Sakura readied herself.

 

“Kill her.”

 

With that, the three sound nins jumped at Sakura, who just smirked and cut a wire string she had been sitting in front of. The three from the Sound looked up to see a gaint log attached to a rope crash through the canopy and right towards them. Dosu just smirked and put his hand on the log and shattered it.

 

“Pathetic. People like you should work harder before you mess with guys like us.”

 

Sakura just sighed and waited for the end. However, one green spandex wearing ninja had seen this whole engagement and decided to intervine at that point in time.

 

“Konoha Senpuu!”

 

Lee smiled as he sent the three from the sound flying back before taking his personalised taijutsu fighting stance, with the squirril that the explose tag had been strapped to on his shoulder.

 

“Then you guys should aslo work harder...”

 

“Who are you?”

 

“I am Konoha's beautiful green beast, Rock Lee.”

 

Sakura mummbled.

 

“Why... Are you here?”

 

“I will always appear when you are in trouble.”

 

Lee put the squirril on the ground and watched it scamper off.

 

“Well... Thank you, you saved me.”

 

“I said it before.”

 

Sakura wondered what theat meant.

 

“I would protect you until I die.”

 

Lee smiled to himself for his small victory

 

'Yes! I'm awesome, Gai-Sensei!'

 

Dosu was the first into action.

 

“I'll take care of them.”

 

With that said, Dosu ran at Lee. Lee plunged his hand into the ground as Dosu lept into the air to try and gain the advantage of added weight to his attack gained by the momentum of falling. Lee pulled out one of the tree's roots to form a sheild for himself and Sakura.

 

“There's some sort of trick to your attacks, right? I'm not going to take them head on.”

 

'Even so, three on one is a severe disadvantage. I have no choice but to take all three out one at a time with full power.'

 

Lee remembered the one strict condition he was supposed to abide by when using his signature technique.

 

'To protect an important person!'

 

Naruto had just managed to regain conciousness and saw Lee do his trump card.

 

'That could be useful...'

 

Naruto watched the tecnique with interest.

 

With that, Lee dissapeared and reappeared underneith Dosu, kicking him under the chin, causing him to sail through the air. Lee once again dissapeared, and reappeared behind Dosu. Dosu's eyes widened in fear.

 

“This is then end!”

 

Lee wrapped his medical tape around Dosu and began spinning at an extreme rate before plummenting to the ground. Zaku knew he had to intervine or else Dosu was going to be six feet under. He formed a set of hand seals and plunged his hands into the ground, sending two raised tunnels of air filled dirt towards where Dosu was going to land, and the twin tunnels turned into a raised mound, just as Dosu was slammed into the ground at a terrifing speed.

 

“Omote Renge!”

 

Lee smirked while the Sound ninjas stared in awe. Dosu started to pull himself out of the mound. Lee was shocked at this. Naruto at this point lost the fight to stay concious.

 

“NANI?!”

 

“What a truly terrifying technique. I landed on a sponge of dirt and air, and it still hurt like hell. However, it's my turn now.”

 

Dosu ran at Lee, who was still recovering from the wracking pain of openeing the first Celestial Gate.

 

'Damn it... I can't dodge...'

 

Dosu aimed a punch at Lee's head, but Lee managed to block it. Or so he thought. His head started to swim.

 

“If your moves are at high speed, then ours are at the speed of sound. I'll show you a wall... That no amount of hard work can surpass...”

 

Lee lost his balance andfelt to the ground, throwing up.

 

“Lee-San!”

 

“Heh heh. You see, there's a little trick to my attacks. You can't just dodge them. Our attacks are made purely of sound. Even if you dodge my attack, sound will still reach you. Do you know what sound actually is?”

 

“Vibrations...”

 

“Exactly. Hearing sound means that your ear drum is catching the shaking of the air. And the human ear drum will break if it picks up any sounds in excess of 150 Mega Hertz. Deeper in the ear still, lies the semi-circular canals. If they are damaged you lose your balance. He he, you won't be able to move your body for a while.”

 

“Hah! Lame old Taijutsu won't work against us. I have to say though, you were doing well enough to force me to use a jutsu. I can freely control super-sonic sound waves and air pressure to the extent that I can destroy rocks with ease. Blasting air into the dirt and creating a cushion is nothing. Our techniques are far superior to your stupid ones.”

 

Dosu raised his right arm (god damn it, why does everyone have to be right handed?! Yes, I'm a lefty) to reveal a device strapped to his forearm.

 

“Alright... Your turn!”

 

Sakura readied herself. Lee, on the other hand, had other ideas. He charged in and performed a half strength Konoha Senpuu. Dosu looked on in shock.

 

“Man, don't scare me like that! Heh, although you some how managed to move, it seems you're at your limit. I'll finish you off now.”

 

Dosu gave a sweeping right hook. Lee brought his hand up to block it. Dosu just smirked at this.

 

“This arm amplifies the small sounds produced to their ultimate level. You could say it's a speaker! However, the direction of the sound does not follow the arm, I use my chakra to make sure it reaches it's intended target.”

 

The sound waves were indeed bending and aiming towards Lee's ear. When they hit the ear, Lee screamed and dropped to the ground. Dosu turned back to Sakura.

 

“Now, let's finish this.”

 

Sakura suddenly got a burst of determination. She picked out some shuriken and kunai and threw them at Dosu.

 

“I won't let you!”

 

Dosu just sighed.

 

“Oh please...”

 

Unknown to them, Ino, Shikamaru and Choji were watching from some nearby bushes. Choji was the first to speak.

 

“We should get out of here! They're too strong!”

 

“It seems like Naruto is knocked out and now it's just Sakura against those three. Even Lee's been defeated. What will you do?”

 

“What do you mean, what will I do?”

 

“Well, you and Sakura used to be good friends right?”

 

Ino took a little trip down memory lane to the time when Sakura had declared that they were rivals from now on.

 

'Why am I remembering that?'

 

“Hey Ino? What are we going to do?”

 

“What can we do? If we go out, we'll just be defeated!”

 

Sakura had just unleashed another wave of shuriken at Dosu. However, Zaku intercepted and blasted the shuriken back at Sakura, forcing her onto the ground. Just as Sakura was about to get back up, she felt someone appear behind her and yank on her hair. Sakura turned to see the female sound nin holding onto her hair.

 

“Much glossier than mine. If you have time to take care of your hair, then train some more you female swine.”

 

“Zaku, kill that blondie while we wait for Sasuke.”

 

Sakura stiffened vissably at the mention of killing Naruto. This did not go unnoticed by the female Sound Nin.

 

“Don't move.”

 

Sakura began to cry.

 

“I... I am still... Just getting in the way... Always being protected... I can't stand it... This time... This time I thought... That I have to protect those who are important to me...'

 

Zaku began walking over to Naruto.

 

“Now... Shall we?”

 

Sakura knew this was her last chance to prove herself to Team Seven. She pulled out a kunai.

 

“That won't work against me”

 

Sakura just gave the female ninja a cocky smirk.

 

“What are you talking about?”

 

With that, Sakura used the kunai to cut her hair, releasing her from held in place. This shocked everyone beond belief.

 

'I always said I liked Sasuke-Kun. I used to always lecture Naruto. I used to try and be like Yukiko... But all I ever did... Was watch your backs. Now, it's time for you three to watch my back!'

 

Zaku snarled and turned to his female team mate.

 

“Kin! Kill her!”

 

Kin responded by stabbing Sakura in the back with a kunai, only to find Sakura had used Kawarimi no Jutsu. Sakura reappeared and began running at Zaku, a kunai in between each finger.

 

“Pathetic... Air pressure 100 percent... Sound waves 0 percent... BLAST!”

 

Sakura again used Kawarimi no Jutsu.

 

“You're fooling no one. You're above. Time to get serious!”

 

Zaku released a wave of kunai at Sakura and began looking around madly.

 

“Now, where did you go?”

 

Unfortunately for Zaku, Sakura had not used the replacement technique, and had taken the attack head on. Zaku realised this when Sakura was about two meters from him. He brought his arms up to block, and Sakura stabbed his right forearm with her kunai and bit down on his left forearm. Zaku growled and began punching Sakura in the head.

 

“Let go of me!”

 

Sakura held on in grim determination. Zaku was getting pissed off.

 

“I said let go of me, god damn it!”

 

Finally, Zaku managed to dislodge Sakura from his arm and prepared for an air cutter attack.

 

“You brat!”

 

Just as Zaku was powering up his technique, Ino's team had decided to take that moment to jump in. Sakura looked up at her saviours.

 

“Ino?”

 

“I said I'd never lose to you, Sakura. I already said that.”

 

“Hmph. Seems some more wierdoes have crawled out of the woodwork.”

 

Choji suddenly tried to scramble away.

 

“What are you two doing?! We'll be killed! Shikamaru, let go of my skarf!”

 

“Yeah right idiot. It's troublesome, but since Ino jumped out, we as her team mates have to join her as well.”

 

“Heh, you can run if you want... Fatty.”

 

Choji suddenly stopped his flailing. He stoped dead. Ino and shikamaru looked on in interest. Choji said something in little more than a whisper.

 

“I'm sorry, I think you just said something, although I didn't quite hear it. Care to repeat it?”

 

Zaku looked at him in confusion.

 

“Eh?”

 

'The word fat is taboo for choji. Say it twice and...'

 

Gathering his composer again, Zaku repeated what he said.

 

“I said you can just go jack off in the woods, FATASS!”

 

Choji whirled around.

 

“I'M NOT A FATASS DAMN IT!!! I'M JUST CHUBBY!!!!! HORRAY FOR CHUBBIES!!!”

Zaku looked amused. Choju turned to his team mates with fire in his eyes that would make Lee turn even greener than he was already with envy.

 

“You two! You know this is a war between the leaf and the sound, right?”

 

Shikamaru let go of Choji's skarf.

 

“Man this is going to suck.”

 

“That's our line.”

 

Ino called out to Sakura over her shoulder.

 

“Sakura! Take care of Naruto!”

 

“Yeah...”

 

“Alright! Time for Ino Team's full power! Let's go! Choji, do your thing!”

 

“O K! Baika no Jutsu!”

 

Choji suddenly turned into a giant sphere with arms, legs and a head. He drew his appendages in, and began rolling twards Zaku.

 

“Ha! What kind of a technique is thus? It's just some fat ass rolling! Air Cutter!”

 

“The streme of air seemed to stop Choji until Choji bounched into the air, attempting to land on top of Zaku and squash him. Dosu began running at Zaku to tackle him out of the way, however, Shikamaru wasn't going to have that.

 

“Oh no you don't! Ninpou, Kagemane no Jutsu!”

 

Shikamaru's shadow shot out and touched Dosu's feet, stopping him in his tracks. Shikamaru made a strange gesture with his hands, which was mirrored by Dosu. Kin screamed at her team mate.

 

“Dosu, what the hell are you doing?”

 

“Ino, now there's just the girl.”

 

“Mhm. Take care of my body, Shikamaru! Ninpou, Shintenshin no Jutsu!”

 

Suddenly, Kin seized up and the howl of a wolf could be heard inside everyone's minds. Ino slumped to the ground, and Shikamaru caught her and leaned her up against a tree. Kin pulled out a kunai and heled it to her own thoat.

 

“This is it. If you guys move an inch, I'll kill this Kin girl.”

 

However, the two ther members of the Sound team were just snickering. Zaku raised his hand a let loose an ir cutter on the Ino controlled Kin. Zaku smiled as he got up.

 

“You guys are confused. Our mission is not to get the scrolls or even to pass this exam. It's Sasuke-Kun.”

 

Shikamaru's Kagemane no Jutsu had drained all of his chakra. Sighing he released it.

 

“Oh? It looks like the limit for this jutsu is about five minutes. It also seems from the internal bleeding of your team mate, if we kill Kin, she'll die too.”

 

Then, another voice came from above them.

 

“Oi! What the hell do you think you're doing to our team mates and friends?”

 

Everyone looked up to see Sasuke and Yukiko glancing confidently down at the group. Zaku was the first to reply

 

“Well, if it isn't our target Sasuke. Why don't you come down here and fight us?”

 

Yukiko took a look at the swirling red chakra surrounding Naruto.

 

“That won't be necessary. It seems my boyfriend will finish you off.”

 

“Boyfriend?”

 

“She means me.”

 

Everyone turned to see Naruto surrounded by an aura of blood red chakra. When Naruto raised his head, they gasped. His eyes were blood red, with cat like slits for pupils. His whisker marks had elongatened, widened and darkened. His fingernails had turned into claws and his cainines had lengthened. Naruto lowered himself onto all fours. He looked at Sakura and he let forth a gutteral snarl.

 

“Sakura-Chan. Who did that to you?”

 

Sakura was just too scared to talk.

 

“Tell me! Who did that to you?!”

 

Zaku got some of his confidence back.

 

“I did you demon bastard. What are you going to do about it?”

 

Naruto looked at Zaku and gave him a very sadistic smile.

 

“Firstly, you just said something that's the equivalent of calling Choji fat. NO ONE calls me a demon bastard. Secondly, as for what I'll do to you...”

 

Naruto looked thoughtful.

 

“Probably sever your head and show it to that snake bastard Orochimaru before I kick his ass a second time. Hah, and he's supposed to be a Sannin... Pathetic.”

 

Zaku was now not so sure of himself, but he quickly decided he was bluffing.

 

“Bah, you could never even lay a finger on him!”

 

“5 percent power should be sufficient to kill you three.”

 

“Don't underestimate us, you demon bastard! Maximum Air Cutter!”

 

A huge cone of air rushed out of Zaku's hands. Everything in it's path was obliterated. Well, except one particular demonicly enchanced boy.

 

“How did you like that, you demon bastard?”

 

“I frankly found it boring. Is that the best you three failures have to offer?”

 

Zaku just stared in shock. That bastard had just taken the full force of his attack as if it were a light breeze. Naruto body flickered behind Zaku and pulled both of his arms back behind him and put a foot on his back.

 

“It seems you're pretty proud of these arms, eh? Would you like me to rip them off and beat you with them?”

 

“Please... Stop...”

 

“Fat chance, you bastard. Not after what you did you Sakura-Chan.”

 

Everyone heard the sound of tearing tendons and muscles. Finally, Naruto gave one final yank and broke the Sound Nins arms, dropping him to the ground in a screaming heap. Naruto turned slowly to look at Dosu, who cowered.

 

“Please tell me you are more fun to beat up than he was.”

 

Dosu just stepped back. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his scroll.

 

“Please... Take our scroll, just let us leave alive...”

 

“I don't need your damn scroll. We got ours within the first hour of entering this place. Now, shall we continue?”

 

Dosu shivered in fear and cringed as Naruto started walking towards Dosu. Yukiko shook her head and jumped down, before putting herself in between Naruto and Dosu.

 

“Naruto, I know you're blood thirsty at the moment, but seriously, what will killing these guys achive?”

 

“Revenge.”

 

Yukiko just sighed and pulled the Kyubified Naruto into a kiss. This shocked everyone beyond words. After about ten seconds, Yukiko pulled back.

 

“Seriously Naruto, why do you have to go around acting so irrisponsible?”

 

“I'm sorry, Yukiko-Chan...”

 

Everyone noticed that Naruto was returning to normal. Who had this kind of power over the previously untameable Naruto? Naruto turned back to Dosu.

 

“I've changed my mind. Leave your scroll, get your team mates and leave. I may not be able to use it, but I'm sure on of our friends could.”

 

“Very well. We hope to see you in the main matches. If we both get there, we will not run away.”

 

“I sure hope so.”

 

With that, Dosu put Kin and Zaku over his shoulders and jumped up into a nearby tree before retreating. Everyone turned back after a second to see Naruto and Yukiko enjoying a special moment. Ino was the first to speak up.

 

“Yukiko! That was a dangerous thing to do-”

 

“Hardly. Naruto-Kun would NEVER hurt me, not in a million years. I'm too precious for him to touch in any way other than in love. I don't expect you to understand, Ino. You've lived a sheltered life compared to Naruto-Kun and I. Anyway, I think we need to get going. I want to be at that tower in 30 minutes. Come on Team Seven, we're moving out! Naruto gathered up Sakura and turned towards the tower before jumping into the trees. Sasuke followed next. Yukiko smiled and threw the Sound's scroll to Ino.

 

“Sort out amongst yourselves who gets it. We'll see you at the tower. Goo luck people!”

 

Yukiko lept up and followed her team mates leaving the others stunned at the whole spectacle they had just witnessed.

 

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Day Two Evening at The Tower:

 

Naruto was the first to arrive. Sasuke landed next to him and Yukiko on the other side of Naruto. Naruto looked down at Sakura.

 

“Neh, Sakura-Chan, can you walk yet?”

 

“I think so... Thank you for saving me back there, Naruto-Kun...”

 

Everyone was a bit shocked at the suffix Sakura had attached to his name. Naruto let Sakura down and Sakura brushed herself off. Naruto turned to see Kabuto and his team come out from behind the bushes to their left.

 

“Ohayo, Naruto-Kun.”

 

“Ah! Kabuto! You made it too!”

 

“Of course we did-”

 

“NIISAN!”

 

Yukiko lept off the tree and gathered Kabuto in a hug. Kabuto was still by no means used to signs of such affection and he smiled before setting Yukiko back on the ground.

 

“Ohayo, Yukiko-Chan.”

 

One of Kabuto's team mates looked at him questioningly.

 

“Niisan?”

 

“Ah I suppose I'd better explain it to you. Basically, You know how I was found outside the Hidden Village of Konoha as a child?”

 

His team mates nodded.

 

“What had apparently happened was that I was born in the Village of Snow. However, Nibi, the two tailed queen of the damned appeared just outside the snow about the time I was born. The elders of the village selected a few of the clan heirs and other important people to be sent away from the village incase Nibi turned violent. I was one of them. Yukiko-Chan here, was born 7 years after me. A few days before Yukiko-Chan was born, Nibi turned violent and began attacking. Our entire clan was sacrificed to seal Nibi into Yukiko. Yukiko returned to the Village of the Snow on a mission a few weeks ago and searched through her appartment for anything she could take home with her, and Naruto-Kun accedentally broke a section of the wall to reveal a safe. Inside that safe was a letter from our parent's addressed to Yukiko. The letter asked that she also show it to me. That pretty much sums it up.”

 

Kabuto's team mate who was wearing normal glasses narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

 

“I see, how charming. Well, we'll go on ahead, you can stay here and talk to your sister and her team mates.”

 

“Ok, I'll catch up with you in a bit.”

 

“Don't be too late. Our sensei doesn't like to be kept waiting, you know.”

 

With that, the two went inside the building. Kabuto turned to Team Seven with a look of pure fear.

 

“Niisan? What's wrong?”

 

“Listen very carefully to what I am about to tell you. I am currently not really a member of the Leaf.”

 

Naruto was about to let out a screech when Kabuto clapped a hand over his mouth.

 

“Don't make a noise! This is beyond serious! I've led a dark life. Currently, I am the right hand man of a very evil person called Orochimaru.”

 

“HIM? I beat the shit out of him!”

 

Kabuto glanced at Naruto in shock. He shook his head before continuing.

 

“Please listen to me! The Leaf is in grave danger! The Sand and the Sound have joined forces and are planning to invade Konoha during the main matches! I've already renounced my affiliation to the sound once I found out I had something worth living to protect. Orochimaru is planning to kill the Kazekage and take on his appearance and use it to get close to the Hokage. I was supposed to put the entire staduim under a sleeping Genjutsu spell, and that would trigger the invasion. However, without my spell, the Sand and the Sound will likely think that Orochimaru has abandoned the plan. I need all of you to give Hokage-Sama this. I may not make it, so I need you to warn both the Sand and the Leaf of the impending deaths of their leaders! However, do it in secrecy. Don't announce it in the preliminaries or the finals. However, I want you to go to the Hokage's office and deliver him that letter. He'll understand everything. I have to get going, Orochimaru is expecting me, and I have to play along until I can find an opportunity to escape. I'll catch you guys in the preliminaries.”

 

With that, Kabuto ran off to meet with Orochimaru. They were about to look at the scroll when they remembered what would happen if they opened the Heaven or Earth scrolls outside the tower and put the scroll away. They walked into their designated door and nodded amongst themselves. Naruto chucked Sasuke the Earth scroll and he took the Heaven scroll. They both opened their scrolls before chucking them to the floor. Smoke started coming out from the seals in the scrolls and eventually, a puff of smoke appeared. Once it cleared, they saw their old Academy Sensei. Iruka.

 

“So it seems you guys made it here? Congratulations! I knew I could expect this from you guys.”

 

They just chatted for a while, before Iruka poffed back to the Academy. Team Seven just enjoyed their three days of rest before the next test.

 

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A/N: Another chapter out of the way. If you're wondering why I had Naruto answer all the examiners questions, it's because I've realised that I'm going to have to split off from the story eventually and make my own. I'm powering through the manga and anime story far faster than I expected. What has this got to do with Naruto knowing the answers to the examiners' questions? Basically, I'm trying to start moving the plot away from following the Manga exactly word for word with the exception of an OC in there. So now, I'm going to start going off into my own story line soon enough. Naruto's going to be COMPELTELY different after he comes back with Jiraiya after his two and a half year journey. You'll notice that Naruto will be quite OOC and will be acting more like a cross between Jiraiya and the Yondaime. (basically a guy who loves his village and is a closet pervert, or something like that.) I hope I didn't just ruin the whole chapter with this OOC'ness, but the fact of the matter is that while I'm following the official storyline, it's very easy to keep everyone in character, however once I move off into the unknown, I have to think about exactly what everyone would do in the given situation. For most of the characters, it's farly easy, but some of the ideas Naruto comes up with I could never hope to emulate. I don't have the mind of a prankster, so it's hard to understand his mentality. Again, my appologies if this was not what you came to expect from me. Until next time, my avid readers!

 

Ja ne,

 

Specula.