Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Power Of Three ❯ Start of the Chunin Exams ( Chapter 7 )

A/N: Finally at the chunin exams. Sorry if last chapter was a little... off as it was mostly a filler chapter with a two, possibly three key events that need to be said. Though next chapter I will promise you will like the prelims. The OC(that could be paired with Sakura if voted on at my forum) will appear this chapter and will be a kind of like Sasuke is in canon, just more of an asshole(his character will change gradually... or something else). This chapter is LONG and so will the next one... hopefully. The next lemon will be during the one month training period, just in case you wanted to know.

I Do Not Own Naruto.

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Chapter 7 The Start of the Chunin Exams

It had nearly been a month since they had returned and things could have been better. Yugito living with Naruto and Sasuke was both a blessing and a curse. With her there, they actually could have cooked meals as they both lacked in that department, she made sure Naruto ate once she learned he had a habit of not doing so, much to the relief of Sasuke as his job load was lightened a bit and she was a good sparing partner for the two. The down sides were that both Nibi and Hachi had increased the level of pheromones produced by their vessels and Sasuke ended up on the wrong end of this as he was constantly between the two when this happened and was separating the two every time. It finally stopped as Naruto and Yugito tortured their tenants with a combination of the Telitubbies, Barney and them gangbanging their tenants or themselves. Another down side was that she tended to be a little moody at times and lashed out at everyone and she had a tendency to sleep walk. Normally this wouldn't be bad, but since she slept in the nude most of the time... well let's just say there was a few nose bleeds and very awkward situations that followed.

Other than their home lives, the training they were receive was more of a review of what they knew, learning the waterfall walking for chakra control which only Sakura had managed to master so far and continuing the steps far the Rasengan. Naruto had managed to make it, but only with the help of a kage bunshin so he still practiced using it one handed, but had no luck as he couldn't make the shell while spinning his chakra on his own. Sasuke was having the same problem as he finally popped the ball a week after Naruto had managed it. Sakura had made little progress with it as she couldn't pop the ball. Rikimaru told her it would take longer time to learn than her teammates as she didn't have the power to pop the ball yet which would take a while. It discouraged her but she continued to prove that she could learn as fast as Naruto and Sasuke.

Naruto was sitting up against the bridge railing as Sasuke leaning over it, counting the fish in the water while Sakura was doing all she could to pop the rubber ball in her hand with her chakra. The two were impressed by her determination and her slow change into a kunoichi instead of a fan girl but refused to say anything as they might jinx her. Naruto let out a loud yawn and looked towards the river as well. "What's taking sensei so long? He usually never late unless something important has happened... or he was put in the hospital again for sparring against Gai again." Sasuke just nodded in agreement as he was wondering the same thing. Sakura sighed and put up the ball. "Well he said the chunin exams were approaching earlier this week. So he probably in a meeting about them right now."

Both of the boys sweat dropped as they had completely forgotten about the exams making Sakura sigh. "Neither of you remembered, did you." Naruto shook his head while Sasuke looked down in shame. A loud poof was heard as Rikimaru was standing in-between the three of them with his hands in his pockets. "Sorry for being late. Had a meeting to attend and I forgot about it." Three tick marks throbbed on the gennins head as they stared at their sensei as he pulled three cards out of his pocket. "Well on the bright side, you three are officially nominated for the chunin exams, even if Iruka protested it with all his might." All three shook their heads knowing Iruka was over protective over his former students and would go out of his way to protect them.

"You didn't do anything to stop his tirade, did you? He only cares for our safety." Asked Sakura as she rubbed her temple. Rikimaru shook his head with a an amused smirk. "Didn't have to. Anko handled that for me. You be surprised what a cobra to your crotch will make you do." Both Naruto and Sasuke flinched as they closed their legs, glad it was Iruka and not them as Rikimaru continued. "Anyways, just be at the academy at ten in the morning. The room number is 301, so don't forget it. Otherwise you'll be stuck with me for a whole six more months." He said with a wicked smirk on his face that promised pain and torment if they didn't get there on time.

In another poof of smoke and Rikimaru was gone, leaving the three gennins behind. Naruto looked up at the sky and figured it was about noon. "Hey guys. Want to get something to eat..." Both Sasuke and Sakura glared at Naruto making him shrink back. "That's not ramen." Both nodded their heads in agreement. "I want to check out that new sushi bar that Yugito has been going to recently." Sasuke spoke in his stoic voice though he was almost as addicted to it as Naruto was to ramen. Sakura nodded while Naruto just followed them as they walked in the direction. He stopped as he sensed something behind him and turned around to see a square box with an eye hole in it. Both Sasuke and Sakura turned around to see why Naruto had stopped and noticed the box as well.

Sasuke and Sakura rolled their eyes as Naruto's twitched. "Konohomaru, Udon, Moegi. That is the worse camouflage yet! And besides, I though I taught you guys the Henge already." A explosion was heard from the inside of the box and smoke started to seep out of it. "Dammit! Udon, you used to much gun powder. Use explosive tags next time." Sasuke twitched at that and turned to Naruto. "What are you teaching them? Two demolition experts are enough. We don't need you training the next generation to be the same. We'll have that when sensei has kids with the unfortunate girl that he'll end up with."

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From nearby, a neko masked Anbu sneezed loudly as she was heading towards the Hokage tower. 'I have a feeling Rikimaru is talking about me. Or at least it better be him or I'll kick his ass!'

In the Namikaze estate, Rikimaru sneezed into his manga messing up the print and making it illegible. He shrugs and throws it in the trash as he pulls out another one and started reading where he left off. 'Always be prepare incase someone is talking about you. Though I do have a sense of impending doom...' "THAT'S IT! I'M SO FREEZING YOUR ASS!" Rikimaru blinked as he heard the scream then realized what he did as ice mirror formed in front of him. "Fuck. This won't end well. Need to remember living with women changes the rules of the house."

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Naruto shrugged his shoulders, uncaring as the Konohomaru corps emerged from the smoke. "Sorry taishou. I kind of forgot that I could do it." Naruto sweat dropped at the statement and shook his head. "Alright, what are you three doing here today." Konohomaru looked at Naruto with confusion. "You, Sasuke-nee-san and Sakura are suppose to pay ninja with us today, remember." All three blinked as they didn't remember ever saying that, then came to one conclusion.

"Rikimaru-sensei!" From across town their currently frozen sensei heard them and mentally cringed.

After calming themselves down, Naruto turned towards his teammates, who shrugged as they didn't have anything better to do before he turned back to the trio and smiled sadly. "Sure, but after we get something to eat, alright." The three nodded their heads enthusiastically as Naruto turned back around and noticed Yugito had jumped down to join them. "So you guys in the exams." The three nodded in response making her smile wickedly at Naruto. "Great. Now let's get some sushi... or ramen, I don't care. As long is it one of the two." Sasuke sighed before walking away before any other distractions could stop him from his goal and the others followed once they realized he was leaving and was the only one that brought money with him.

Konohomaru looked at Yugito with interest before turning back to Naruto. "Hey taishou. This your girlfriend." Yugito stopped in her tracks as she heard this and turned around and gave Konohomaru a death glare, only intensified as Nibi started speaking. "See kitten! It's obvious to everyone else that you two are meant for each other. Now give up and mate with him. Or do I have to do it for you." Nibi found herself surrounded by Telitubie versions of the bijuu looking at her with grins on her face. "NNOOOOOOO! NOT ANOTHER GANGBANG LIKE LAS..." She couldn't finish as she was forced to suck on the Shukaku while getting taken from behind by Kyuubi, Shichibi and Rokubi.

Naruto shook his head answering for her. "No. She's just living with me and Sasuke for now." Konohomaru nodded sagely. "Yeah, it's for the best. You can get a much better girlfriend than her." Yugito unleashed unreal killing intent at Konohomaru who seemed unaware of it as he continued on. "Besides, she looks like kind of boyish and would surprise me if she was a lesbian." Naruto seeing he appending doom rushed over to Moegi and Udon and moved them out of the firing lane as Nibi's youki covered a pissed Yugito as she glares at Konohomaru. The said boy looks towards Yugito and noticed the ominous energy coming off of her and took off running for his life with Yugito right on his tail.

The rest chased after them to make sure that no permanent damage was done to Konohomaru. As he was running he ran into a teen wearing a black suit that had resemblance to that of a black cat with something wrapped tightly on his back. The said teen turned around and grabbed Konohomaru and looked at him with contempt written on his face. Yugito stopped chasing as she saw this and let the others catch up before speaking. "Drop him or face the consequences." The blonde girl with four pig tails sighed as she turned toward the teen with face paint. "Kankuro, just put him down. It's not worth getting into trouble over." Kankuro shook his head. "No Temari. I'm going to teach him a lesson."

Before he could blink he had a scythe blade and boomerang at his neck while a wakizashi and a kunai was placed at the wrapped up object. Temari's eyes widen seeing this while Kankuro started sweating bullets as Yugito cuts the wrapping of to reveal the real Kankuro. The Kankuro holding Konohomaru began to crack and shed it's skin to reveal a puppet with six arms. Naruto put his blade up against Kankuro's neck and lightly cuts his neck. "Release him." Kankuro nodded and flicked his finger which made the puppet drop Konohomaru who ran towards Moegi and Udon in fright. Naruto pulled his sword back and sheaved it as he walked towards the children with Sasuke, Sakura and Yugito while Kankuro gets up.

'No one embarrasses me like that.' He flicked his fingers sending Karasu at them only for it to be intercepted by a wall of sand scaring both the puppeteer and Temari. Kankuro began to immediately apologize as a red headed boy with black rings around his eyes wearing a gourd that seemed to be made of sand strapped to his back. "Gaara, I didn't... they started it!" The boy know as Gaara looked at him with his cold emerald eyes. "Quiet. Did you forget why we are here? Do not get into trouble again or I will kill you." Kankuro nodded in fear as Temari let out a sigh of relief which in turn made Gaara turned to her. "The same goes to you Temari. Do not let him get into trouble." Temari nodded instantly knowing it was best not to piss off her younger brother.

Gaara turned around to look at the group. "I apologize for his behavior. He is... more trouble than he is worth." Yugito looked at him an noticed his him as she was shown a picture of him by Kyuubi. "Sabaku no Gaara. Jinchuuriki of Ichibi no Tanuki or Shukaku as she calls herself also know as psycho bitch as the other bijuu call her." Both Naruto and Sasuke's eyes widen as they here this while Sakura still looked confused as to what Jinchuuriki meant. Gaara stiffened as Yugito spoke of him with no fear and actually sounded... excited? "How do you know that." Gaara said emotionlessly but had his cork nearly unplugged just incase. Yugito smirked wildly at him before responding. "It takes one to know one." Gaara kept his stoic appearance but was raging inside as Shukaku was screaming for her blood.

Yugito smirked grinned as she could tell that he was doing all he could to control his inner demon. "And he..." She points at Naruto. "Is one a well. He even managed to defeat me using his own power without resorting to his tenants while I was in my one tail stage." Naruto's eyes narrowed at Yugito as he didn't want others to know what he held as Gaara's attention was turned to him instead of Yugito. He mentally sighed and gave Yugito a small dose of Hachi's killing intent which was quite large to everyone else besides the vessels. Gaara noticed this and narrowed his eyes slightly as he heard Shukaku stop raving about blood and become silent and was completely focused on the pale blonde.

"... And you are?" Naruto eyes narrowed further, but answered as a small part of him would like someone to know who he was. "Uchiha-Hyuuga Naruto. And the girl over her is Nii Yugito. My two teammates here are Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura." Gaara nodded his head slightly at them. "I look forward to seeing you at the exams. Temari, Kankuro. We leave." Gaara turned around and walked between his siblings while the others. 'Kaa-san. Why are you quiet around the blonde boy.' Silence was all Gaara heard, which was a rare oddity since Shukaku was nearly always raving about her need for blood. Gaara shrugged it off, glad that she wasn't demanding anything from him and was walking in front of his two shell shocked siblings before Shukaku responded.

"Master is sealed within the boy."

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It was eight in the morning as team seven arrived at the academy. The reason the three were early was to study their competition so they knew what and who they were going up against. They knew heading into the exam blindly was asking to fail and only fools rushed in without a game plan. Naruto was wearing a loose black shirt with the fully spread fan of the Uchiha crest on his back, indicating that he had become an adult in the clan's eyes if they were still around. He wore black shorts and wore the stander sandals even if they were black. His arms were bandaged and strapped down as Sasuke's were like in the chunin exam finals. He had a kunai pouch on each side and had his wakizashi strapped to his back.

Sasuke was wearing his normal attire for once except that he had a full fan on the back instead of the partial open he used to have also indicating that he had to became an adult and had his scythe strapped to his back. Sakura was wearing a navy blue jacket that was zipped up to just above her chest showing that she was wearing a fishnet shirt underneath. She wore loose black pants and had them taped up so she wouldn't step on them and wore her kunai pouch on her right thigh while her boomerangs were on each hip pocket. They headed towards the designated room to notice three teams standing at the door of a room that said '301' with two gennin guarding it. Sasuke quickly activated his sharingan as he knew they only traveled one floor and saw the genjutsu. Turning to his teammates, he noticed that both had seen through it as well.

Naruto looked at the ones standing in front of the room and noticed Yugito with her arms cross over her ample chest with Haku standing next to her smiling brightly as she saw them. Next to her was a boy with pitch black hair, dark emerald eyes with a thin, aristocratic face and a light tan. He wore a navy blue vest that cover his black sleeveless shirt and navy blue kakis with a black belt. His muscles were well developed, but in a more lean way as he looked to be built for speed. The said teen noticed Naruto and sneered at him, earning him a senbon to his throat as Haku saw the look as well. She leaned over and whisper in his ear that no one could hear, but the reaction was evident. The young teen eyes widen in fright and closed his legs as he nodded his head rapidly as Haku pulled her senbon back.

Temari, Kankuro and Gaara were there as well, probably for the older siblings to scout out any competition for them, as they knew Gaara only competition was in the form of a pale blonde and a blonde girl that looked pissed, for an unknown reason. Neither were to adamant on fighting them as they made Gaara somewhat wary, the pale one more than the girl. The other team that was their was none other than the ever exuberant, team nine also know as team Gai. Neji leaning against the wall away from the room while Tenten was absently twirling a kunai while Lee was looking like he was ready to explode as he saw Naruto and Sasuke.

"NARUTO-KUN! SASUKE-KUN! MY OTHER YOUTHFUL RIVALS HAVE ARRIVED!"

Everyone nearby the screaming green life form held their ears in pain. Most notably was Yugito as she had her hands clamped on her ears and was on her knees and Neji as he was standing right next to Lee as he screamed. Naruto shook his head clear as the back of Lee's head was slapped by Tenten. "Quiet down Lee. We don't want to stand out." Neji blinked in confusion as he turned towards Tenten. "We are one of the first teams here. We already are standing out. Though she does have a point Lee. Try and... conceal your flames of youth for now." Neji said in slight disgust as he said 'flames of youth'. Lee nodded happily. "YOSH! I WILL CONCEAL MY YOUTHFUL WAYS OR I WILL DO 500 LAPS AROUND KONOHA ON MY ARMS WHILE CARRYING A ONE TONE BOULDER."

Suddenly another green blur rushed in the room, frightening team seven and nine while the others looked on confused, until Gai spoke... well screamed at the top of his lungs. "YOSH! AND IF YOU CANNOT FINISH, I WILL CARRY YOU ON MY BACK AND REDO THE 500 LAPS WITH A THREE TON BOULDER!" As this was said, everyone back away as it was clear the two were so insane it made Gaara look like a innocent flower. "AND IF YOU'RE ATTACKED BY S-RANK NUKENIN DURING THE LAPS, I WILL FEND THEM OFF ONLY USING A RUBBER BAND AND A TOOTHPICK!"

From nearby, Genma hears Lee's rant. "HEY! DON'T MISUSE THE TOOTHPICKS!" Hayate sighs before coughing and heading towards his apartment to get ready for his upcoming assignment.

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

A rainbow hovering over a setting sun on a cliff with a large, sparkling ocean appeared behind the two, freaking everyone out. "Dear Kami! It's never been this powerful before!" Screamed Tenten as she pointed at the brightly glowing sun making everyone, including Gaara, tremble in pure terror. The gennin turns towards each other and ran out of the room as they fear if they stayed longer their sanity would be nonexistent, leaving poor Kotetsu and Izumo to witness the horrendous sight.

Naruto was panting as they made it to the room with Rikimaru, Kurenai and Baki looking at them strangely. Well Baki looked frighten that Gaara looked like he just saw the devil. Rikimaru looked over who was their and paled. "Oh no. The sunset back." Everyone nods making Rikimaru and Kurenai pale to the same skin color as Naruto. They both shivered as Baki looked at them curiously. "What is the sunset?" Kurenai look towards Baki and shook her head in shame. "It should be ranked a SS-rank genjutsu that is impossible to break and classified as a secret weapon, only to be used in emergences. Here, it's a picture of what it looks like." Kurenai pulled out a photo and handed it to Baki who dropped the picture and ran out of the room screaming. "MY EYES! THEY BURN!"

Everyone sweat drops at seeing this and sighs while Rikimaru looked at Kurenai curiously. "Why do you keep a picture of the to hugging?" Kurenai grinned evilly at him. "It's the perfect why to scare any opponent of my and/or torture them to give me the information I need." He shakes his head and turns towards team seven. "Good your all here. Now go in there and kick ass... OR FACE THE PICTURE!" Rikimaru yelled at them as he grabbed the picture of Lee and Gai hugging, making team seven dash in the room, along with the others there.

As they entered the room, Gaara's team separated and walked to the other side of the room as the rest sat down at the back rows to observe everyone that came in. Not to long after teams eight and ten arrived an was sitting with the others... except Ino as she attempted to glomp Sasuke and Naruto and only managed to succeed in catching Naruto. Yugito unconsciously gritted her teeth seeing this and started to leak a barely noticeable killing intent. Of course Neji noticed it and turned to Yugito and Haku as he was curious as to why the blonde was acting like she was and he hadn't seen them till recently.

"Hey, what your names." Yugito eyebrow twitched as she turned to Neji and glared at him, making him regret being so forward. "Normally I would tell you to fuck off, but since your related to Naruto I'll bare with it. Nii Yugito, this is my teammate Onbinaisu Haku. And this prick here is Yami Hiboruto." Neji nodded as he heard about the two girls from Naruto. Yugito said pointing at the teen sitting next to her. Hiboruto scoffed at her comment. "Whatever irokichigai. You know you like me and want to give me a ride."

Yugito twitched and was using every ounce of her will to keep from ripping Hiboruto into shreds for his comment and that wasn't enough as Haku was holding her back with a combination of her physical strength along with using her bloodline, Aisuseishi to freeze Yugito's legs. After a few moments, Yugito gave up and sat back down looking miffed and a little sad as well. Haku sighed and sat besides her once more, knowing she would have to hold Yugito back from attacking him again. Hiboruto smirked at Yugito as he noticed her look. "Aw, poor sei dorei. Are you sad that you can't make love to your tatsujin."

Naruto hearing this was about to beat the shit out of the guy as only a coward in his book would say something like that to a women. He didn't have to say anything as a kunai appeared at his neck and an illusion flickered out to show Kurenai standing behind him. "Hiboruto. I will make this clear one more time. If I catch you saying something like that again, I will make sure you will be a permanent gennin, understand." He nodded quickly as not to incur his sensei's wrath and Kurenai was known as the 'Ice Queen' for a reason. Kurenai narrowed her eyes at the boy. "Say it, otherwise I will carry out my threat." Hiboruto eyes widened in surprise before they narrowed in anger. 'Damn bitch.'

"I won't ever harass a women again, sensei." Kurenai looked him over before sighing. "Alright, but if I hear this happens again, I can guarantee you won't be a chunin." With that said she left in a poof of smoke, her job finished as other chunin candidates started to enter the room. Naruto looked coldly at Hiboruto before sitting down next on the desk by Yugito. Hiboruto narrowed his eyes and walked away, not caring and mumbling. She looked startled by Naruto sitting in front of her, but he saw his glared at her teammate and understood why. As she had stayed with him over the month she learned that Naruto was very protective of his precious people. She blushed lightly at that but hid it quickly, but Neji noticed it and didn't say anything. Hinata noticed it as well and narrowed her eyes, but calmed herself down. 'Naruto deserve happiness, even if it isn't me.'

As they talked quietly to each other, getting caught up what was happening, a older teen around eighteen with silver hair in a purple outfit that had walked in earlier headed towards them. They instantly stopped and looked at the teen with suspicion as he approached. Naruto, Yugito and oddly enough Lee felt something strange about the man and didn't like it. Naruto looked at him with concentration as he lightly sniffed the air. 'He smells like weasels... and snakes? Wait only Anko, myself and...' Naruto hissed loudly at the eighteen year old, frightening everyone as her violet eyes became darker as he stared at the teen.

The teen looked shocked before his eyes narrowed at Naruto. 'This isn't good. He must be able to smell the scent of snakes on me. I need to inform Orochimaru-sama of this.' He shook his head before smiling at the group. "Sorry, if I startled you. The names Kabuto by the way." The gennin still looked at him with suspicion as Naruto doesn't hiss at anyone, he normally ignores them or gives them the one finger salute. "You must be rookies by the way your acting." No one said anything as Yugito leaned up against Naruto and whispered. "Why did you hiss at him?" Naruto leaned his head over hers, to make it look like a romantic gesture before faking a kiss on the top of her head. "He smells like snakes. Only people that have signed the Orochi contract have that smell and I know I haven't allowed anyone to sign MY contract."

Ino and Hinata stiffened as they saw this and a loud crash was heard outside as a certain jounin was watching as this occurred and fell to the ground. Hinata's heart sunk a bit while Ino looked furious and was about to run over to the girl and beat her when Kabuto continued. "It's nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone was a rookie once. If you like I could help you. I have information on the other gennins taking the exams." Sasuke looked somewhat interested, but remembering Naruto's hiss at Kabuto he decided against it. Most of the gennin narrowed their eyes knowing that only elite jounin and Anbu captains had access to data like this.

"I would like to see Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Hinata and Naruto." came from behind as Hiboruto walked up towards Kabuto.

Kabuto smirked as Hiboruto. "Aw. You know their names. That makes it to easy." He pulled out the first card and a picture of Sasuke appeared on it. "Uchiha Sasuke. Prodigy and sole survivor of the Uchiha clan. Was named rookie of the year as he aced the academy. His teammates are Haruno Sakura and Uchiha-Hyuuga Naruto." Kabuto glanced at Naruto before turning back to Hiboruto. "His sensei is Akanami Rikimaru, also know as the Bloody Wave. His ninjutsu would be on par with that of a exception chunin, his taijutsu would be equal to that of Maito Gai as he was a gennin and his genjutsu is unknown for the most part as he has not been seen using it. Though since he has activated his Sharingan it is very likely that he has the capability of using it. His kenjutsu is beyond most chunins and improves in it daily. He has a high chakra capacity, higher than most chunin and even some jounin. Definitely one of the best in the exams."

Hiboruto nodded, figuring that Sasuke would be his only opponent as he believed everyone to be below him. He glared at Naruto as he had not know he was part of the Uchiha and the Hyuuga's clans and made his hatred for him grow. "Hyuuga Hinata, heiress of the Hyuuga clan. Teammates are Inuzaku Kiba and Aburame Shino and their sensei is Mitrashi Anko." Kabuto cringed at that. "Known to be mild mannered and timid at times, but a formidable opponent in battle as she has been reported to be ruthless when fighting someone other than family or her friends. Her taijutsu is the famed Jyuken and could easily beat most chunin in a pure taijutsu fight, unless they were Hyuuga's themselves. His ninjutsu is from the academy as Hyuuga's aren't know for learning many jutsus outside their clans. Her genjutsu is probably higher than most as she has trained some with Yuuhi Kurenai, the Genjutsu Mistress. Her kenjutsu is average for a gennin. Her chakra capacity is higher than the average gennin, but doesn't rely on it very much. Definitely a contender for becoming a chunin."

Hi nodded his head figure as much knowing the Hyuuga weren't to be underestimated. "Finally, Uchiha-Hyuuga Naruto. Finished fourth in the academy, just behind Aburame Shino. His teammates are Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura and his sensei is Akanami Rikimaru. His ninjutsu is equal to that of Sasuke's but probably has a few less jutsu then his. His taijutsu is good enough to hold his own with an average chunin, but it is possible he knows the jyuken, just prefers not to use it. His genjutsu is non existent, but can easily dispel any genjutsu within a mile, proven with the incident two months ago. His kenjutsu was third best in the academy, only behind Sasuke and ... can't pronounce her last name, Tenten. His swordsmanship is reaching that of Gekkou Hayate at his age. He has learned more kinjutsus than most jounin and knows how to use them very well, as seen with his Kage Bunshin during his and his sensei's wide spread pranks."

Kabuto gritted his teeth at this. 'I will get you for that you bastards. I had to throw out my clothes as I couldn't get the pink dye out.' "His chakra capacity is... no way. It's twice that of Hatake Kakashi's, Konoha's ninjutsu expert as he learned over a thousand jutsu." Everyone nearby that heard this had their eyes nearly pop out of their skulls. I mean a GENNIN that had more chakra than the LEGENDARY Hatake Kakashi, is not someone to fuck with. The only ones unsurprised were Sasuke, Sakura, Shino, Shikamaru, Yugito and Gaara as he used his third eye trick to spy on them. Kabuto shook his head as a grass gennin from nearby, narrowed his/her eyes. 'Damn. This kid could be trouble in the future... unless... Of course!' The said shinobi refrained from laughing as he/she had a perfect plan... soon as his/her stomach stopped hurting so much.

"I would say, he is defiantly chunin material, and is probably one of the best candidates to become chunin. Anyways, there are other gennins from different villages here, except no Iwa or Kumo shinobi as they still hold a grudge against Konoha. There is even gennin from the new village of Otogakure here, though don't expect to much from them. New villages tend to be weak and they are probably trying to prove they aren't defenseless so other villages don't try to invade them and take their land." The three Oto gennin narrowed their eyes as they heard this and were about to move, when a massive killing intent filled the room.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" The result was instant, everyone shut up and the rookie twelve was cowering in fear as they saw the one man they wished never to meet again as he was standing in front of a number of chunin, Morino Ibiki. "Now that you are finally quiet. Come up here and grab as slip of paper out of this box and read the number and head for the said chair. You have five minutes or you fail the test before it even begins." The potential chunin ran towards Ibiki and grabbed the slips quickly in fear of going home without becoming chunin. Once everyone managed to sit down in the five minute expired, leaving Ibiki stumped. 'Everyone managed to get to their chairs in time. That's never happened before. Well, I'll make sure more will fail.' He grinned evilly at that as he looked over the nervous gennin.

Naruto looked over his right and smiled as he was sitting next to Hinata. "Alright, this is the first test of the Chunin Exam. It is a paper test." The majority of the gennin groaned in despair as they were hoping to fight someone. "SHUT UP! Now that you stopped your bitching, I'll explain the rules. Rule one, you have ten points per person, meaning you have thirty points for your team. Rule two, if your caught cheating, two points will be deducted from your score." Naruto perked up as he heard that. 'Wait, don't you normally fail when you are caught cheating... something up here.' Similar thoughts were going through other gennins as the room as Ibiki continued. "If you are caught cheating three times, you and your team fail the exam." Several burst of complaints were heard over the room as they didn't agree with this rule.

After washing his KI on over them, they shut up so he could continue. "Now as I was saying, your team will fail if you fail. Rule three, each question is worth one point. If you have zero at the end of the exam, you and your teammates fail." Ibiki nodded to the chunin beside him and they handed out the papers to everyone, even Naruto though the guy tried not to, a Byukugan glare from the heiress made him change his mind. Ibiki looked over everyone carefully. "You have forty-five minutes before the tenth question is given. Begin."

Everyone flipped their papers and picked their pencils up as the started reading the questions. As Naruto finished reading the first question, he had one thought that everyone else was thinking, including the freaky Kusa shinobi. 'WTF! HOW DO YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTIONS! HELL I DOUBT SENSEI COULD ANSWER THESE!' He noticed the guy next to him answering the question as if it was the easiest thing in the world. A tick mark grew on his head as he saw this and was about to go back to trying to figure out the question when he thought over the rules again. 'Wait a second. I only lose two points if i cheat... That's it! I'll cheat of the bastard next to me.'

He focused chakra to his eyes and was about to activate them when Hachi spoke up. "Or you could use the super smart demon that sealed within you and not waste any chakra." Naruto stopped his chakra flow and went into his mind and looked up at Hachibi. "Why is that? Normally you would be all for me doing this on my own, why help me when I can do it on my own." Hachibi looked down on him before speaking. "Simple, Kusanagi is nearby. I feel it calling to me. But the chakra of the one that holds it is... has higher reserves than your own when using two of my tails." Naruto's eyes widen hearing this and knew he could only handle two tails and even then he barely had control over it. He was somewhat glad he was in his mind when practicing to use her youki.

"The only way to reclaim the sword is to be at peak performance and using two of my tails. Though you have not used them outside this room so that does present some danger as it's only your mind under the stress and never your body. But if your using two of my tails, Kusanagi should come straight to you if you beckon it, if your close enough. That's all we will do, as I know you cannot win against the being with that malicious chakra. At least not now, not without training." Naruto eyes narrowed as he heard this, but nodded as Hachi wouldn't lie to him about something like this.

Returning to the real world, Naruto grabbed a pin and started writing the answer as Hachi gave them to him. Ibiki noticed this and frowned. 'So he using the demon to answer the questions. Gaki, I hope you know what your doing.' Ibiki turned away from him and checked on the other gennins. One of the chunin proctors noticed Naruto quick answering of the test, obviously believing he was cheating was about to throw as kunai when his arm was grabbed and a feminine voice whispered in his ear. "Do not attempt that chunin. Even if he is cheating, you know that it has to be at least to be below C-class attempt at doing so to deduct two points. If I see you do it again, I will put you under my most powerful genjutsu."

The proctor nodded his head slightly and was released as he looked over the others, trying to find obvious cheaters. Ibiki had noticed this as well and flashed a few hand signs at her. Kurenai smiled before turning back, and watching the proctor as Sarutobi order since he knew some would try and purposely fail Naruto.

Naruto sighed and flipped his paper over and noticed he still had twenty minutes left and mentally was pissed that he had twenty minutes to do... 'NOTHING! There is nothing to do! Shikamaru got the right idea. I'm going to sleep.' Naruto places his head over his desk and within seconds he was sleeping like a rock.

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Rikimaru sighed as he leaned against the bench as he looked up in the sky. Asuma smirked seeing this. "Your team finally managing to wear your on nerves." Rikimaru shook his head. "Nah. It's just to quite without them around. It's boring not listening to them destroying things as they train... or argue." Anko nodded as she sat down next to him and pulled out a stick of dango. "Don't worry. They'll be back soon." Rikimaru and Gai's eyebrow went up with that. "I don't think my youthful team could fail so quickly. THERE FLAMES ARE BRIGHTER THAN MY OWN!" Rikimaru nodded in agreement. "Same as Gai... without the youthful part."

Asuma sighed as he took a puff of his cig. "Ibiki is doing the first exam this year." Gai stopped his ranting. "That could be a problem. He is excellent in mentally breaking people as well as physically doing so." Anko nodded. "Yeah, though he can't harm them physically, I will put my money that none of out teams will make it pass the first exam." Rikimaru shrugged as he looked back at the sky. "Mine will." The others looked at him, telling him to explain. "You manage to take on an S-rank mission that involves Kyuubi no Kitsune, former A-rank nukenin and Ame-nin Rokusho Aoi and former A-rank nukenin Momochi Zabuza and survive it. They did not only that, but they managed to win to come out of it practically unharmed... besides chakra exhaustion and riddled with senbon holes."

The other shinobi sweat dropped at the last part and shook their heads in exasperation. Anko put her hand on Rikimaru's shoulder. "How come all your missions turn into higher ranks than what they should be? And where do you get the clones for that cat, I want to start working my team on assassination missions." Rikimaru sweat dropped and mumbled about purple hair women that could keep their mouths shut, which in turn end him a fist to the skull as he forgot Anko had purple hair as well.

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He felt a jolt as Hachi had forced him awake as Ibiki was speaking again. "For the tenth and final question, there will be some different rules placed on it." The remaining gennin that survived the first nine question burst out in complaints, but were hushed quickly. "Now on this question, you can leave if you don't wish to take it. But, your team will fail along with you just as before. But if you take the question and don't answer it correctly..." He paused and looked over everyone in the room.

"You will fail and you and your team and never be able to take the exam again." Ibiki said glaring at the gennin with a hardened look on his face. Almost everyone in the room scream how unfair that was which in turn made Ibiki laugh at them. "Fair! Ha! Good one. The world is an unfair place and in order to live in it as shinobi, you must be the most unfair of all. But, I will give you a chance. If you leave now, you will be able to take this test again, during the next chunin exam six months from now. If not, you better pray that you answer it correctly, otherwise your dreams of being chunins are crushed."

The first to go was a trembling teen from Konoha as he raised his hand. "Number 39... 119 and 132 fail as well." Both his teammates got up and scowled the boy before hitting him on the top of the head. Ibiki glared over the other gennins and they started to drop like flies leaving twenty one teams left. Ibiki looked over the rest and found no one near crumbling, not counting the cowering dog on Kiba's head, he thought about releasing a large amount of KI to scare Akamaru so he could laugh his ass off seeing the dog wet Kiba's head again and failing one more team, but he let his honor get the better of him.

"It seems no one else will leave so...... you all pass!" Everyone face faulted in their chairs, excluding Gaara who was looking passively at Ibiki. Temari jumped back up and pointed at Ibiki in fury. "So you mean to say the first nine questions were absolutely pointless!" Ibiki shook his head at her question. "No. The point of the first nine was to test your ability to gather information, from cheating to already knowing the answers. As you all figured out there were four amongst you that were fakes and were put in here to see if you could seek them out." The four fakes raised their hands showing who they were before Ibiki continued.

"Also, the tenth question had a purpose on it's own. You will be face with main lose-lose situations and will be forced to make the best of it. The ones that left, brought their teammates down with them and could possible be the reason you die on a mission because of poor decision making. Sometimes no matter what the choice you make it will not be for the better. Sometimes, it will lead you to your death... or even worse." Ibiki removed his hitai-ate and then his bandana to show the massive amount of scars on his head to the gennin. "One wrong mistake, you could find yourselves in the enemies clutches as they torture you anyway they can to get the information they want. Yet if your are incapable of making such a decision that could end up having a great reward, you are not ready to become a chunin. That was what the tenth question was about."

He put on his bandana and hitai-ate and sighed loudly as he looked at his watch. "Well, we'll be here for a while. Mine as well get comfort..." A poof of smoke appears next to him as a man with silver gravity defying hair, a normal jounin attire, a mask over the lower part of his face and his hitai-ate cover his left eye. Ibiki put a kunai at the man's throat and growled at him. "Who are you and what have you done to Kakashi?!" Kakashi sweat dropped. "I was forced to be on time, otherwise I would have a month of D-rank missions and couldn't use Kage Bunshin and read my precious books." Ibiki stared and stared and stared at Kakashi... before he fell to the ground clutching his ribs as he busted out laughing.

"OH MY FUCKING KAMI! HAHAHAHAHAHA! THAT IS TO RICH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Kakashi sighed in annoyance and cursed the Sandaime for his strict policy when it came to the chunin exams before he turns towards the gennin, ignoring Ibiki's roars of laughter. "I'm your next examiner, Hatake Kakashi. Meet me in training ground forty-four in a half an hour." He poofed away as all the gennin walked out of the room and headed towards the said training ground.

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"Finally here, about time." Kakashi closes his book and puts it in his pouch as all the kunoichi were giving him dirty looks. He ignored them and spoke in a laid back tone. "Welcome to Training Grounds Forty-Four, or often know as the Forest of Death." Naruto sweat dropped at the mans attitude as did many others. 'Why do I have an odd feeling that other Narutos in different dimensions have to put up with this man everyday.' "Your hallucinating kit... I MEAN HATCHLING!" 'Oh thank Kami. I was beginning to worry for the other mes out there.' He was pulled out of his world as Kakashi continued talking in his laid back tone.

"Your test for this part of the exam is to make it to the tower in the middle of the forest in five days." All the gennins nodded as they figured it would be easy to do. "While trying to get the opposite of these scrolls here that you have from opposing teams." Kakashi said pulling a brown and white scroll out, showing all the face faulting gennin. Kakashi looked over them with his eyebrow raised. "You didn't think it was going to be that easy did you." Each gennin got up and mumbled about annoying proctors... well most did, Naruto just gave Kakashi the dual birds.

He takes out a stack of papers from his pouch. "Here take these and sign them." Kiba looked at Kakashi confused. "What's on them so we know what we are signing." Kakashi sighed and looked at the paper and began to read it, to the annoyance of everyone there. "Basically says that Konoha cannot be blamed if you die during this exam." Shikamaru eyebrow raised at that. "And what if we don't want to sign it." Kakashi shrugged in indifference. "You and your team fail. One less thing for me to deal with." Shikamaru respect for the man rouse one notch as Kakashi's laziness rivaled his own. Ino smacked Shikamaru as he was about to walk away and dragged him towards Kakashi. "Troublesome women. Troublesome exam."

Kakashi nodded his head in agreement as he handed them the papers as other gennins soon followed. As everyone had finished signing their papers he pointed towards wooden stands nearby. "Turn your papers in over there and you will get your scroll. Now leave me alone so I can read my book in peace." Kakashi pulled out his favorite orange book and started giggling like the pervert he was as everyone rolled their eyes at him as they headed towards the stands. After turning there papers in, team seven was handed a heaven scroll and told to be at gate twelve. Sasuke turned to Naruto and threw him the scroll. "Do your... trick."

Sakura was wondering what he was talking about as Naruto shrugged and unhinged his jaw and opened his mouth wide, to see a snake come out of it and swallow the scroll before it went back down into Naruto's gut. Sasuke shivered as he saw it as Sakura looked creped out. "Naruto. Don't do that again." Sasuke sighed. "Even if it's disgusting, it makes it that much harder to gain our scroll." Sasuke purposely left out the part that the scroll was now being guarded by Hachibi as that's were the scroll really went. Shrugging it off Sasuke sat down on the rock next to their gate. "So who should you think we should go after."

"We avoid the Kusa team, something about them disturbs me." Sasuke and Sakura's eyes widen and nodded their heads in agreement as not much disturbed Naruto and they weren't really interested in facing what did. After wiping that off their minds Sakura asked next. "Let's avoid the sand team and Haku's team as they would be a tough fight and we might not win." Both Sasuke and Naruto nodded, accepting it would be a tough fight, not that they couldn't win. Sasuke looked up. "Avoid Neji, Lee and Tenten as well. I really not looking forward to an all out taijutsu match while dodging weapons left and right."

Naruto nodded before looking up. "We go after Shikamaru's team, the Oto team and that bunch of Ame nins without umbrellas. Ino hasn't been training much as she almost always hunting Sasuke and myself down or is working at the flower shop. Chouji is physically strong, but he would go down easily in a ninjutsu assault from Sasuke or myself. Shikamaru's kage mane is good, but I can overpower it easily if need be. The Oto team as they seam to be somewhat weak yet at the same time strong enough to give us a decent challenge. That Ame nin bunch as a last resort since they seem to be the weakest of all the gennin left."

"Alright then. We have our targets. Now as for a plan, Naruto use your Kage Bunshins to search the nearby area to see if we they are close. We head to the towards the tower and wait for the teams to arrive to steal their scrolls. Sakura... I know your going to hate me for this, but you will be our bait. You hair will attract others to us, so we need to be careful and avoid the ones we don't wish to fight or if we are tired. When a group we wish to fight is close we'll use you to pull them into a trap." Sakura scowled at her part in the plan, but sighed in resignation. "Fine. But I better get compensation for this."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at Sakura. "As long as it's not a date, I don't care." Sakura had a pervert grin creep on her face scaring Sasuke. "Or anything sexual." Sakura pouted, but got serious as a voice was heard over the loud speaker, even if it was lazily done. "The gates will be opening in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 1/2" many angry shouts were heard around the forest. "Go." The gates swung open and team seven rushed in at a moderate pace for them as they didn't want to look like prey, but didn't want to exert to much energy as soon as they started. Naruto created a ten kage bunshins and scattered them around the area as they started to headed towards the tower at a steady pace.

"We have a Ame nin behind us. One of my bunshin picked him off easily, but he had no scroll." Sasuke nodded figure that, knowing they would get one right away. They kept this pace up for ten minutes as the clones weren't picking anything up. Sasuke stopped as he looked at were they where. "Let's rest here, it might take some time before others reach the tower so we shouldn't be in a rush." Naruto nodded and was about to pull out a food scroll when he heard something. Suddenly the memories of his clones being dispatched with ease came to him as Hachi spoke up. "Hatchling, the sword is close." Naruto heard a brush of leaves before yelling. "WIND BLAST!"

Both Sasuke and Sakura put chakra to their feet to stay where they were as they heard Naruto's yell, but Naruto wasn't as luck as he didn't have enough time himself as he was closes to the blast. Naruto was taken back a few feet before he finished the hand seals he was going through. "Futon: Daitoppa!" He placed his hands in front of him and a blast of air equal to the force of the attack neutralized it allowing Naruto to land easily behind his teammates. "The Kusa team is here. They managed to wipe out my clones before I could inform you guys." Sasuke narrowed his eyes and activated his Sharingan as he started to search for them, only to see one person walk towards them from the blast of wind.

"My you surprise me. Most gennin don't have those kind of reflexes and skills." Came a feminine yet somewhat male sounding voice as a women wearing a creamy white tunic over a long sleeved black shirt and pants, a purple belt across her waist and a creamy white leg warmers. Naruto heard rustling behind him to notice a giant snake behind him and was about to devour him and smirked. "Shinja. Stop." The large snake stopped a foot in front of him before coiling back as the snake recognized Naruto's voice. "What is thy request my lord?" The Kusa shinobi looked surprised at this turn of events as Naruto smirked wickedly. "Attack this fool." Shinja turned towards the Kusa nin and lunged at the girl with impressive speeds forcing her to jump back in order to dodge the large snake.

As she landed, Shinja lunged at her once more but only to have the girls foot connect with it's lower jaw with amazing force. The snake was dazed from the hit and was unable to block the kunai to the skull. Shinja went up into a large poof of smoke and a moderate gust of wind followed it as the Kusa nin landed on her fee in front of the gennin. Team seven tensed as they knew a summon of that size should take more than a kick and a kunai to defeat Shinja. "Ku ku ku. It seems you three are full of surprises. But it still wont be enough." The Kusa nin started oozing killer intent at the gennin making Sasuke and Sakura freeze up in fear while Naruto was trying to throw it off as images of a kunai splitting their heads open

Using his over large fangs, Naruto bit his lip to overcome the killer intent and the paralyzing jutsu that was used on them. He pulls out two senbon and throws them at his teammates thighs. Both yelled in surprised and took the senbon out before turning back to the one more surprised Kusa nin who narrowed her eyes. 'Dammit! Hachimata's container is becoming a nuisance. Then again, he would be a fine addition to my collect if I can mark him as well.' Naruto looked over the shinobi from Kusa and turned to his teammates. "Something is not right here. No gennin should be able to use Kanashibari much less be able to use it to such a extent that Anbu members would envy."

Both Sakura and Sasuke nodded in confirmation having the same thoughts going through their head. Naruto unsheaved his wakizashi and slipped into a stance that only the Kusa nin could recognize as it was rarely used. "He's using the Shingyoto-ryu. This could be interesting, but I must first test Sasuke to see if he's worthy. So I must find a way to distract him. My snake summons won't work, as Hachimata is the lord of the Orochis. I doubt a Tsuchi Bunshin could hold him off long enough for me to mark Sasuke. Can't use the girl for my Edo Tenshi as it would fail these two and I need to see their progression during the exam. Ah never mind, I can test both at once.'

Sasuke gripped his scythe as Sakura slowly reached for her boomerangs as they saw Naruto readying himself. "Ku ku ku. Let's begin shall we." The shinobi rushed toward them in blinding speed and Naruto could barely pick up as he activated his Taiingan. Naruto turned his shoulders to avoid the strike from the freaky nin and was kicked in the stomach before he could counter. As Naruto stumbled back, Sakura threw a kunai out of her pouch towards the grass nin, who easily dodged but only to be kneed in the chest by Sasuke who followed up with a haymaker to her face. As she stumbled back, Sasuke dug his scythe into the ground and delivered a spin kick to the chest, knocking the kunoichi to the ground.

She jumped back up before Sasuke could put up a defense and gave him a spin kick of her own to his temple. The kunoichi ducked under boomerang throw by Sakura only to see a wakizashi aimed for her head. Naruto felt the sword pierce the kunoichi head and frowned as it was to easy to go through the skull, as if there was no bones. Just as he was trying to solve why it was so easy, the nin turned into a mud and slid of the sword surprising Naruto. 'Shit! A Tsuchi Bunshin!' Naruto jumped as the girl shot out of the ground leaving a gaping hole where he had stood. He landed on a large tree branch about thirty feet in the air, only to have to roll out of the way as the girl appeared next to him with her hands in a seal.

"Kaze no Yaiba!"

A blade of wind cut the tree branch in half and unfortunately for Naruto, he was on the opposite end of the tree as he plummeted to the ground. The kunoichi dodged another boomerang and turned around to see Sakura rushing towards her. Not thinking much of her, the kunoichi went to casually block the punch that Sakura threw at her. A loud crack was heard as Sakura's fist broke the girls hand and into her chest, sending the kunoichi flying through a nearby tree. 'Dear Kami! She has Tsunade like strength!' The girl pushed herself out of the cratered tree before it collapsed on itself. She was forced to jump back as the Sasuke was upon her with his scythe in mid swing and had a minor cut along her chest as the scythe managed to get a hold of her.

Sasuke stopped on a dime and drove his scythe into the ground and quickly went through some hand seals as he breathed in deeply. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" A large ball of fire rushed out of his mouth soon as he exhaled and headed straight towards the vulnerable kunoichi and engulfed her. As the flames began to die out, Sasuke found that there was only the remains of hardened mud where her body should have been. A creaking of wood to his left made him turn to see the kusa kunoichi appearing out of the tree with a kunai in hand and was inches away from Sasuke. His eyes widen knowing he would be able to do anything quick enough as she was nearly upon him as a boomerang embedded itself into her head, turning the women into mud.

Sakura rushed up and picked her boomerang as she started searching for the wayward kusa nin as Sasuke looked at her in shock before a light smile graced his face. "Thanks Sakura." Sakura would have beamed him with a smile if the situation wasn't so serious. Sasuke looked around and found Naruto finally able to push off the large branch that he was underneath and looking for his teammates. He easily located them and headed towards them, when a black blur appeared between Sasuke and Sakura. His eyes widened as she kicked Sakura of the branch as she grabbed Sasuke and threw him higher up into the canopy before turning into mud from Sasuke's scythe that he embedded her with.

Naruto jumped up and caught Sakura in mid drop as he searched for Sasuke and the gender confusing kusa nin as her scent was that of a male and female. "Dammit! Where are they?!" Naruto yelled as he put Sakura down. "You can't see them?" Naruto shook his head as he frantically searched, he knew Sasuke was strong, but against this shinobi he doubted that Sasuke had a chance in hell of winning. "No. They are out of my range. They went up higher so let's check up there." Sakura nodded as she and Naruto bounded higher into the tree canopy, but not before grabbing Sasuke’s scythe.

Sasuke landed on not so gracefully on a large tree branch near the top of forest canopy. He looked off the side to see how far up he was and paled. 'HOLY FUCK!....... I cannot fall off as that would be instant death.' Sasuke heard the creek of cracking wood and turned around to see the grass kunoichi staring at him with lustful eyes. "OH HELL NO!" Was Sasuke's only response as he knew those eyes all to well... the eyes of a hormone raging fan girl. Sasuke jumped up and charged her with full intent on pushing her off the cliff. She rushed him as well and both started to exchange, dodge and block punches. Sasuke was starting to sweat as he couldn't land a hit on her and was being forced on the defensive.

He jumped back and back flipped a few times to put some distance between them as he pulled out his a kunai and between his teeth as he crouched down as his hand neared his pouch. 'If I can't hold my own against her, how am I suppose to be able to beat him.' As he thought that Sasuke Sharingan eyes had a fire burning brightly in them than ever before as his tomoe adjust a bit as another begins to form. The kusa nin watched this with glee over her face. 'So he's achieved a mature Sharingan. Let's see what he can do with it.' Sasuke rushed towards her at full speed but noticed her building up a lot of chakra and the wind around her push out in attempt to stun Sasuke. Instead he jumps above it while reaching into his pouch and pulling his kunai out of his mouth and throwing a few kunai towards her which she easily dodged.

Landing on a the trunk of a tree, he pushed his chakra against it and launched himself at her with a battle cry. As he reached her, she brought up her arms to guard her face as Sasuke attempted to kick her in the neck. Seeing his kicks fail, Sasuke flipped over here and managed to dodge her upward kick at him as he landed on the ground and back flipped to gain his balance. Soon as he landed she rushed him with what used to be speeds that he had trouble keeping up with. Not wanting to be on the defensive he rushed to meet her. He tried another air kick to test her defense once more as she blocked it with ease so he back flipped in mid air and slid his feet back a bit as she tried to trip him.

They both tried to exchange a flurry of punches but easily made them miss. The kunoichi using her obvious speed advantage increase the fury of her attacks forcing Sasuke on the defensive once more. Sasuke easily side stepped a the punches and kicks and blocked and parried the few he couldn't. 'I can see her movements that I couldn't before.' He noticed an opening and tried a spin kick, but she jumps over him and rushes around the area leaving a cloud of dust of where she had been. Sasuke eyes easily saw the movements as she went through the tree as a serpent. Sasuke eyes narrowed as he saw this and was finally realizing why Naruto wanted to avoid this team as he saw her stretch her body to impossible lengths.

She pulled out and struck at him like Shinja did to her, but Sasuke easily saw it and avoided it as he jumped back and did a few quick seals as he landed on the ground. "Ryuka no Jutsu!" A small stream of fire shot out of his mouth and engulfed the kusa shinobi, but Sasuke didn't stop their. He flashed through more seals and took a deep breath as he concentrated a large portion of chakra to his lungs. "Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Another large ball of fire was blown out of his mouth and engulfed the girl who didn't even look the least bit worried other than for her eyes as the fire around her turned into a small vortex.

Sasuke's eyes widen remembering when Naruto did the same thing to his fire attacks before. Soon as the fire stopped a cloud of dust erupted and headed towards him. Sasuke jumped out of the way as the girl appeared from it and tried to grab him. As he landed for away the girl turned around a swung her arms towards the direction he was end and a blast of wind headed towards him. 'A Futon: Daitoppa without hand seals! No way!' Sasuke bounced on the tress behind him while hoping he didn't fall as the blast neared him and collided with the tree and slid of the top and fell to the ground below. Sasuke jumped on the tree branch above the girl and used a chakra enhanced jump and grabbed her as they head on a downward decent. He flipped them in mid air and aimed at a nearing branch and pile drived her head into it.

As Naruto and Sasuke headed up the branches, Naruto saw this and turned to Sakura. "I got them, come on!" He rushed over towards were they were.

Pushing himself off, Sasuke stood up and watched the girls body fall limp, only to turn into mud. His eyes widen as he turns around only to find a foot in his gut. He bent down and fell to his knees and started coughing and hacking to get his breath back. He tried to use the girl to get up only for her to push his arms away from her. "Now you die little boy." She was about to pull out a kunai when Sasuke smirked as he was hanging around Naruto to much. "Boom." Two small explosive tags on her back lit up and exploded, surprising her and making her stumble and trip over her own feet.

Seeing a chance, Sasuke jumps into the air and pulls out his fuuma shuriken already tied with ninja wire and throws them towards her and wrap around her and the nearby tree. He lands on a dead tree and puts the wires in his mouth as he flashes through his hand seals as fast as he could. "I will not die till I kill him and revive me clan! Katon: Karyu Endan!" A large dragon made of fire erupted from Sasuke's mouth and raced towards the stunned Kusa ninja .As the dragon reached her, she screeched in pain as the super heated fire burned her and started to melt the skin on her face.

Sasuke panted and fell to his knees as he used most of his chakra in the last attack and was sure he had won. 'Now I got to find Naruto and Sakura... NO!' The fire around tree finally had stopped burning to reveal the Kusa kunoichi almost unharmed except for the melted face. "Well this disguise is ruined." The girl reached up and grabbed the melt flesh as Sasuke had thought it was and pulled it off reveal a pale white face with yellow eyes and a slitted iris smirking at him. "Ku ku ku. You lived up to my expectations Sasuke-kun. Now you're mine." His neck extended and his head raced towards him with his mouth opened revealing his fangs, reminded Sasuke of a snake. Unable to move, Sasuke closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable, only to her Sakura scream.

His eyes snapped open as he saw Sakura in front of him with the snake like man's fangs in her collar bone. He pulled back and shrunk his neck back as Sakura fell to the ground. The snake man gritted his teeth at the interruption, but smirked as he felt no one else nearby other than a few mediocre gennin that just arrived and were watching the fight in horror. "Ku ku ku. Seems like I still have more time to play with you two." Both Naruto and Sasuke's eyes narrowed and Sasuke tried to stand back up, only to fall back down to his knees as he was to drained. "Sasuke, guard Sakura. I'll finish this fight." Sasuke glared at Naruto, but nodded his head as he was sure that they couldn't get away. "Fine, but do me a favor, and kill this fuck."

"We got to help them, look what happened to Sasuke-kun and Sakura!" screamed Ino as she and her team had felt the high chakra signatures and came here to see what was going on. "For once Ino, I agree with you. I know they are strong, but what can we do if a Karyu Endan failed to even harm this... person!" Shikamaru said as his brain was trying it's best to find a way to stop him, and was not having much look. "I don't know, but I know Hebi-kun needs help!" Chouji nodded along with Ino as he didn't want to loose a fellow ramen lover as Naruto. Shikamaru sighed as he sat down and placed his hands in an upside down diamond and closed his eyes. Both Ino and Chouji waited so Shikamaru could come up with a plan, in the meantime they had to watch Naruto take on the snake.

"So you've returned home, Orochimaru of the Sannin." The snake man smirked at Naruto as he watched Naruto steadily walking towards him. "Ku ku ku. I am Naruto-kun, but not for long as I only came here for a few things." Naruto stopped a few meters from Orochimaru as he glared steadily in his eyes. 'Hachi, start following your youki into my system. I'm going to need everything I can get to stand a chance in this fight.' The giant snake nodded and was already started doing so. "And that is?" Orochimaru laughed at Naruto question. "And you think I would tell a gennin like you?" Naruto figured that much out, but was surprised when Orochimaru continued speaking. "Well I came here to mark you and Sasuke and give you a little gift as I no longer can use it."

Naruto's eyes narrowed and rushed towards the snake sannin with higher speed than what he was earlier. Orochimaru wasn't surprised as he could feel Hachimata's youki starting to flow in her jinchuuriki's system. Naruto quickly unsheaved his wakizashi and swung is at a low arc. Orochimaru easily dodges and kicks Naruto's arm before spin kicking him in the gut. Naruto sailed off the tree but managed to recover. He looked for his sword and noticed that Orochimaru kicked it off the tree canopy, making Naruto twitch. 'What is it with me fighting people and not being able to use my sword.' Shaking his head he concentrates on the man eerily similar to himself except paler.

Seeing Naruto wasn't going to go on the offensive without his sword, Orochimaru raced towards him at a faster speed then what he did with Sasuke. Naruto unable to keep up started discharging his chakra out of all his tenketsu. Orochimaru appeared next to him and punched him, only for it to be stopped centimeters from Naruto's smirking face. Orochimaru's eyes went wide as he knew what was about to happen but didn't have the time to kawarimi out of there. The chakra started spinning around Naruto before he to was spinning. "KAITEN!" Orochimaru flew back from the pressure of the swirling vortex, but easily recovered and skidded across the ground.

Orochimaru rushed towards Naruto as his spinning started slowing down and soon as it did, he was on Naruto. Surprised by this, Naruto couldn't do any but attempt to block and dodge the fury of punches and kicks that were being sent at him until he finally noticed an opening and sent a palm strike at the snake sannin's stomach. Seeing this, Orochimaru bent his body around the strike, surprising Naruto as he took a fist to his face. Naruto stumbled back from the force to see Orochimaru smirking at him. "Ku ku ku. Surprised are you. I had to experiment on my own body to get it this far so I could fight like this. But even then, you will be able to fight just like this during your life time without having to change your body." Naruto narrowed his eyes and charged once more at the snake sannin only for him to bend out of the way and wrap his tongue around Naruto.

Naruto struggles as the tongue restrains him but couldn't get free. Orochimaru flipped him upside down to have his shirt flutter down to reveal his pulsing seal. "Well need to get rid of this problem." Orochimaru pulled his hand back and started gathering chakra to his finger tips and thrusted his hand towards the seal. "Gogyo Fuin!" Just as his hand was about to reached Naruto seal it stop against his will. "Kage Mane success. Chouji your up." The large boy jumped on the branch. "Bubun Baiku no Jutsu!" His arms became giant like and gripped a hold of the tongue holding Naruto down and started to pull his friend free.

Ino jumped out in front of Sasuke and looked at the two, trying to figure out who was more important to move first. Sasuke answered for her as he stood up even if it was painful. "Ino, take Sakura and get her out of here. I have to help the guys." Ino was about to argue saying he was in no condition to fight when she saw Sakura shiver and noticed the sweat covering her body and her skin becoming paler. She nodded at his request and picked her up. "Don't get hurt further." Sasuke nodded his head and rushed towards the struggling boys.

Chouji was close to free Naruto when Orochimaru began to over power the Kage Mane. "Shit! Chouji hold him down!" Chouji moved his arms and started to restrain the snake sannin as Sasuke arrived and picked off were Chouji left off. It seemed the harder Sasuke tried to pull Naruto free, the stronger the grip became. Gritting his teeth, Sasuke pulled out a kunai and started to cut the seemingly fleshy tongue only to not even leave a scratch on it. Sasuke gritted his teeth and started to form an incomplete Rasengan in his hand knowing it would drain the rest of his chakra, but it need to be done. Sasuke drove the unstable ball of chakra into the tongue, drilling into it making the snake sennin scream as his tongue was ripped off and Naruto became free as Sasuke fell to his knees as his chakra was depleted.

Landing on all fours, Naruto pulls off the disgusting tongue and put his hands in a familiar hands seals. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Both Chouji and Shikamaru looked somewhat relived knowing Naruto clones would definitely help in this situation, to see only one. "NARUTO! Create more dammit!" Screamed Shikamaru as his body was shaking as he was reaching his limit as he held Orochimaru down. "There won't need to be more than one." Naruto outstretched his arm to the clone and focused his chakra to his palm as Sasuke did earlier. A ball started to form in his palm as the bunshins hands swirled rapidly around the ball of chakra, but unlike Sasuke's it was smooth and calm.

Naruto looked at the surprised snake sannin before rushing in front of him. "Shikamaru, NOW!" Shikamaru released the Kage Mane as Naruto drove the ball into Orochimaru's gut. "RASENGAN!" The said ball of chakra drilled it way turning and tearing into Orochimaru shredding his stomach. "NARUTO! LOOK OUT!" As Chouji yelled, a spear made of bone pierced through the middle of Naruto's chest stopping the ball of chakra as he slumped to the ground.

Everyone there looked on horrified as a teen with white hair and two dots on his forehead dropped down and looked at the tired boys. He quickly rushed to Chouji and punched him in the temple with a chakra enforced punch added with reinforced bones that were nearly as hard as steel. Chouji dropped to the ground unconscious as he let go of Orochimaru. Shikamaru fell to his knees as he looked on, helpless as he completely drained his reserves and stamina holding down Orochimaru for the brief time. Orochimaru turned to the teen with a critical eye. "That wasn't necessary Kimimaro. I had everything under control."

Kimimaro bowed. "Sorry Orochimaru-sama. It seemed that you were in trouble." Orochimaru walked towards Naruto unconscious body. "It doesn't matter now anyways. Let me mark them and let's get out of her before the Anbu arrive." Kimimaro nods as Orochimaru picks up Naruto and does he starts the Gogyo Fuin once more and speaks softly that no one can here before slamming it into Naruto's stomach. Orochimaru extends his neck and bites Naruto on the collar bone. He retracts his neck and looks at the mark to see three small chains appear around the bite. 'Hm... The Seal of Torment. Quite appropriate actually.' He turns to the barely conscious Sasuke and extends his neck and bites him as well, leaving the Cure Seal of Heaven on him. He turns back to Naruto an sighs.

"I really don't want to give this up, but it has been unresponsive to me as of late. Well it doesn't matter anyways, you'll come to me anyways." He tilts his head open and opens his mouth to reveal a snake that spit out the Kusanagi surprising Kimimaro. "Orochimaru-sama. You aren't seriously giving this boy the sword." Orochimaru sighs as he lays it beside him and places scroll of Earth in Naruto's pouch before turning towards Kimimaro. "I do not need to explain myself Kimimaro. Now let's go." The teen nodded and followed Orochimaru as the leapt onto the trees and moved with amazing speeds.

Ino came out of the tree trunk she was hiding Sakura and watching the fight and rushed towards the boys noticing all but Shikamaru barely conscious. She digs into Chouji's pouch and pulls out a small pill and forces it into Shikamaru's mouth. Chewing and swallowing it, Shikamaru felt more energized and figured it was a soldier pill. "Help me get them to the hollowed tree I found." Just then three others jumped into the area making both Ino and Shikamaru tense but relaxed as they saw it was Neji, Lee and Tenten.

Neji was the first to speak as he saw Naruto, Sasuke and Chouji unconscious. "What happened here?" Ino shook her head. "Some snake like freak attacked their team and we decided to help, but still weren't able to stop him from biting and leaving this weird mark on Naruto and Sasuke's neck. He also put this thing he called Gogyo Fuin on Naruto's stomach where this weird tattoo came up." Neji tensed as the seal that contained Hachimata was mention but didn't show it. "Alright, let's get them out of the open." Neji went to pick up Naruto and noticed the sword next to him. Neji went to pick it up, but jerked his hand back as he was shocked. He narrowed is eyes and pulled out a scroll before laying it on top of the sword and sealing it inside before putting it up and lifting Naruto up and followed Ino and Tenten carrying Sasuke towards the hollowed tree.

From within the seal Hachibi's was completely calm as she laid on the ground since she couldn't do anything anyways. 'Well that could have went worse, but at least my son wouldn't do anything to harm me on purpose, though I wonder what he is up to.'

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