Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Fox and The Phoenix ❯ Snakes ( Chapter 15 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

The Fox and The Phoenix
(Sono Kitsune Oyobi Sono Fenikusu)

Key

S.S = Sick Shit (is more than likely NC-17 and etc.)

*thinking*

"talking"

*thoughts progressing into speech"

'substitute for italics' (Kyuubi or Soriyu at times)

//telepathy//

::scene change:: (more for my reference than anything else)

~POV~
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Summary: Naruto's 6 years old, his caretaker, Iruka, was killed by bandits, and he was left orphaned. Well, until a mysterious wanderer appeared...


A/n: Ano...well to answer a few questions, yeah Haku's there to watch the Chuunin exams and watch over Naruto, you didn't honestly think Sanziya bought that B.S did you? Haha, and another question, I am going to kill off Sakura, and, if possible, I'll try and have Sarutobi live, although if he dies I just have something else planned anyways, so eh. I do want Tsunade to become Godaime though.


Y'know what? Here's a few questions no one has bothered to ask. :)

1. How did Sanziya seal the beast into herself?

2. Doesn't it require a sacrifice? And who did she use?

3. Don't you have to be a baby to become a jinchurikki?


Vote for them and the one that gets the most shall be answered. :D


Chapter Fifteen: Snakes


~Author~


::Forest of Death Entrance::


After Naruto finished sobbing on Haku's shoulder, the boy went to give a sealed scroll to Anko, explaining why he was there, and that he wouldn't help any team in the exams. Her eyes widen as she reads the scrawled print, the purple-haired kunoichi nodding, and opening the gates to the forest as the exams commences.


"Remember, we aren't responsible if you die! Now go!" she states, gesturing with her right hand, the other clenching the scroll tightly as the genin teams disappear into the dense forest. She looks down at the scroll in hand, unfurling it to read it's print once more.


'Dear Anko-chan,


Please allow the bearer of this letter to accompany Naruto and his team within the forest. He will only be watching over 'Naruto' as the others are not suicidal. Said bearer of this letter will not helping if his team is to be attacked. He also, of course, should be allowed the right to defend himself if and when one of the other examinees dares to attack him.

He will only intervene if Naruto attempts to injure himself. (Or is about to die from some outside cause such as poison or an enemy.)


As the latter at least, should not be the case, since he has trained under myself for six years, but of course there is always the possibility. Also, I wish you well, and would ask how your teacher is doing if I didn't already know he was a traitor to our village, the bastard. Don't think I haven't managed to keep tabs on you guys while I was gone. ; P


Messenger bird of course, and a friend of mine in the village. I wish you all the well I can muster at the moment, which isn't much, but I know you can appreciate it.


Take care and come visit soon,

Sanziya'


Anko lets her snakes eat the scroll, frowning as she chews on a piece of remaining dango on a the stick.


"I hate it when she calls me '-chan'." she mutters, teleporting out.


::Forest Of Death::


Sasuke is shooting death glares at a very nervous Sakura every few minutes, and casting worried glances at Naruto. Haku trails behind them, wishing that he could kill the girl right then and there, but remembering his probation, and Sanziya's orders of course. Naruto still has that glassy-eyed look about him, but he seemed more focused now, and slightly pissed that Sanziya felt the need to have someone keep watch over him.


'It's for your own good, kit.' Kyuubi tells the boy, still angry at him for almost letting Sakura kill them both.


*You act like you don't 'want' to be free of me.*


'That may be so, but I don't want you dead!'


*...*


The boy mentally turns his head away from Kyuubi, effectively closing the link. He feels a low chakra signature approaching them as they stop for a few minutes to rest, although he'd worry about that later as there were 'other' bodily needs to attend to.


"I gotta go piss." he tells the group, Sasuke nodding and Sakura not replying as he goes behind a tree to do his business. He comes back a few minutes later, Sasuke pointing a kunai at him.


"Stop there."


'Naruto' cocks his head to the side, looking at them quizzically.


"Hai, Sasuke-kun?" he asks, Sasuke throwing the kunai at him.


"Faker, Naruto only calls me Sasuke-teme, his holster is on the right side, not the left, you forgot the band-aid from Anko-sensei's kunai, and the bandages from his cat scratches. You suck at bunshin"


He laughs, going up in a poof of smoke, to reveal an Ame-nin.


"Very good Uchiha boy, now give me your-." he says, getting cut off as a kunai impales his shoulder. Naruto comes from behind the tree, rope trailing from his left wrist where the nin tied him up, the boy seething as he brings his clothed weapon down upon the Ame-nin's skull, very hard.


"Bastard, a guy can't piss in peace anymore can he? Kami-sama, you fucking asshole." he gripes, rifling through the unconscious Ame-nin's clothes, to come up with a Hebi scroll. "Don't even have the scroll we need...stupid..." the rest of his muttering dissolves into intelligible mumbling.


He closes his eyes for a second, hands glowing with blue chakra as he picks the Ame-nin up, and throws him into the far reaches of the forest. The remaining members of Team Seven and Haku, shudder, he was 'fucking scary' when he was angry. They set off again, Sasuke devising a long as hell password in case something like that happened again, which, of course, it did.


This time however, the clone looked exactly like Naruto, right down to the 'cat' scratches on his face, and once again, Sasuke stops him with a kunai.


"What's the password?" he asks, still shaken from the giant snake that had attacked them earlier.


~Naruto~


::Meanwhile...somewhere else in the forest::


Well this sucked. I was stuck in the belly of some giant snake, and it wasn't pleasant smelling. I took out a ration bar, throwing it some ways away from me, only to watch it dissolve in a sea of green foamy acid. Okay, so if I didn't get out of here, that's what would happen to me. In a way, I suppose, it's not a very pleasant option to have to die like that at all, I can only hope my team and Haku are faring better than myself.


~Author~


::With the remaining members of Team Seven and Haku::


Naruto had recited the password perfectly, and Sasuke threw a kunai at him, again.


"Sssasuke-kun, you're good at perceiving tricksss."


"You didn't mask the hiss in your voice well enough, Kusa-nin."


The boy shakes his head, transforming into the tall straw-hatted Kusa-nin from earlier, holding up a Chi scroll.


"This is the scroll you need? Am I correct?" she asks, seeing a slight flicker of hope in the two genin's eyes as she smiles malevolently. She holds up the scroll, wrapping her long tongue around it to drag it into her mouth, and she swallows it down whole as both genin look on in horror, shock, and disgust.


"You'll have to kill me to get it I suppose, ne?"


Her lips turn up into a frightening smile as she sends a wave of killer intent at the trio, not disregarding Haku just because he wasn't helping.


The three freeze up in fear, all seeing kunai's being thrown into their foreheads as the Kusa-nin rips them apart. Shaking in unconcealed fright, Sakura drops to her knees, arms wrapped around her torso, crying. Sasuke remains stockstill in terror as the Genjutsu fades, Haku leaning back onto a nearby tree to steady himself.


~Haku~


That was a high level, A-rank at highest. It's one of the worst Genjutsu I've ever encountered, although there's no damage physically, mentally you feel as though your whole body has been put through a meat grinder. I couldn't help these children if I wanted, but I could defend 'myself'. If she came at me, I'd do so.


::With Naruto::


~Naruto~


I suppose this isn't neccessarily the 'worst' way to die, well, if you're normal anyway. I just happen to have fast healing thanks to Kyuubi, so if I couldn't get out of here I'd most likely starve to death before being dissolved. Sigh, did life have to suck that much?


Well, back to important matters, no time to be dwelling on my sucky life when my teammates could be getting murdered right now. As much as a welcome thought that may be concerning one pink haired kunoichi. I maneuver myself into a ball, figuring out that I'm stuck in one part of it's stomach, with enough expanding, or a cutting jutsu, I could be free. I weighed my options, I could use Kage Bunshin or Ryouchi Kuuken, but Kage Bunshin would work better, because Kuuken took too much chakra. Mentally going through the seals, I manipulate my chakra to form about thirty clones, and as they appear the snake's belly expands 'til it 'pops'.


I have snake guts all over me, some in my hair, so I jump into the nearby stream as I disperse my clones. I hated being dirty, especially having the stench of Hebi(Snake) clinging to my body...ugh...Not to mention that Anko woman smelled of Hebi...


Hopping out, I heighten my senses to smell out my teammates and brother.

~Author~


::With Team Seven and Haku::


The Kusa-nin was coming at the three with a kunai, with the way she was angled it'd be possible to injure them all and give two a fatal wound in one swipe.


Sasuke was willing himself to move, having activated his Sharingan to help with that little problem, Sakura wasn't doing anything but weeping pitifully, and Haku had said earlier that he couldn't help. Actually, he was trying to get the nin to attack him so the other two Genin would have time to get away, but it wasn't working.


~Sasuke~


*I have to move, got to get away, or she'll kill us. Move, damnit, move!*


I shakily got my hand to my kunai pouch, withdrawing one, and shutting my eyes.


*I've got to do this.*


I stab myself in the leg, breaking the spell she's cast over us. Quickly, I grab Sakura, jumping out of the way of the woman's attack, Haku following behind me, as we end up somewhere up in the trees.


*Gotta get away, gotta get away, or she'll kill me! Please don't kill me!*

~Author~

Sasuke was thinking a mile a minute, somehow this little scene made him remember what happened with Itachi. He had thought the same thing while running from his insane older brother during the Massacre. He shakes his head to get that thought out of his mind, focusing on running along the thick branch, when the Kusa-nin appears in front of them. Sasuke stumbles back, trying to keep a hold on an unconscious Sakura as he falls on his ass.

"Now, now Sssasuke-kun. It's not nice to run from people, you know." the Kusa-nin tells him, smiling as she forms handseals. "Tajuu Shuriken Bakuha no Jutsu!" (Multi Shuriken Blast Technique!)

She throws out a volley of explosive-tagged shuriken (about ten), which quickly become 100+ as they approach the trio, one snags itself on a low-hanging branch, and detonates, disentegrating the limb.

Haku and Sasuke are shocked, thinking the same thing as they dodge a few.

*Those are no illusions!*

The shuriken follow them, the Kusa-nin laughing in delight.

"There's no use in dodging, they've honed in on your aura." {1}

A snort is heard from above as a black and blue blur jumps down in front of the fleeing Genin, taking the brunt of the shuriken. Haku looks on in utter shock, not being able to do anything.

*Damnit, Naruto you better not be dead, or Sanziya will wring my neck!*

As the smoke from the blasts clear, Naruto is seen, surrounded in some kind of white sheen with a few cuts and blood, but for the most part, unharmed. He bares his teeth in a feral grin as the sheen fades.

"You sent that snake after me, didn't you bitch?" he asks, everyone is taken aback at his appearance as the Kusa-nin recovers enough to chuckle, nodding. Sasuke looks frantically to the seemingly cocky boy.

"Naruto! Get away, we have to get away! She's too powerful for us to kill, she's not a Genin!"

Naruto looks back to Sasuke, blue eyes tinged with red staring at the boy in sadness, emptiness, and fear as he shakes his head from side to side slowly.

"I want to fight." he replies, voice slightly distorted, like a growl, like a fox.

Sasuke clenches his hands into fists, he had long since set Sakura down, and shakes his head back at the boy, looking over his shoulder at the Kusa-nin.

"We'll give you our scroll, but you have to let us go." he states, pulling the scroll from a slightly stunned Naruto's belt, he couldn't believe what Sasuke had just said. Aforementioned boy goes to set the scroll down halfway between the distance of themselves and the Kusa-nin.

"What are you doind Sasuke-teme?!" he asks as the Kusa-nin goes forth to get the scroll, the fox vessel blurs out of sight, the scroll disappearing before the woman can pick it up as the boy reappears in front of Sasuke, landing a solid punch to the stoic boy's face. "You've lost your mind or something Sasuke, 'cause normal you wouldn't give up so easily! There's no guarantee this chick'll let us go even if we gave her the scroll, damnit!"

Sasuke looks away from the boy to the ground, frowning, but Naruto grabs his shoulders and shakes him somewhat.

"If you even try to betray us like that again, I'll kill you, friend or not. Shinobi Rule Number 15: Don't betray your fucking comrades!" he states, pocketing the scroll, and turning around to rush the Kusa-nin.

"Naruto, don't do it!" Sasuke yells, Haku silently agreeing.

The nin pushes up her sleeve to reveal a lengthy and odd looking tattoo as she bites her thumb, and smears the blood down it, slamming an open palm to the ground.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" (Summoning Technique)

A large red and black spotted snake appears, hissing, as some vile orange poison drips from it's blue forked tongue.

::Somewhere outside the forest::

"Hawk, Toad, Wolf! Over here." the cat-masked ANBU yells over to his comrades as he looks down at the three cold bodies before him. "Their faces are gone...it's as if they were peeled off."

"Aw, that's sick." Toad states, bending down for a closer look.

The four men go to immediately inform Anko, who comes over to investigate. Anko, examining them, says that they're Chuunin Exam registrants from Kusagakure no Sato. (The Village Hidden in Grass)

*This could be 'his' work.* Anko thinks, picking her teeth with a dango stick.

"Give me pictures of the appilcants right away!"

The ANBU bow, nodding and taking of somewhere, only to return moments later with the Chuunin registry book. Rifling through the book, she stops on the name she found on the dead body of the woman.

"This is..." she starts, remembering the woman who gave her back the kunai at the beginning of the exam. "Inform Hokage-sama at once! Tell him I request for a mobilization of at least two ANBU squads to go into the Forest of Death! We're going after these guys..."

"Yes ma'am!" the ANBU state, disappearing again.

::Somewhere in Konoha, nighttime::

"Whooooo!" a cry of happiness that can only come from one person rang throughout the bar. Zabuza looks over to his drinking partner and sighs. She had been riding that mechanical bull for a half hour now, the owner was turning red 'cause he owed her a near ass load of money because she beat the challenge. However, Zabuza didn't think that was the real reason said owner was pissed, he thought it was because Sanziya was off-her-rocker drunk, was 'still' drinking, and hadn't fell off the bull yet.

Sighing once more Zabuza holds up his cup for more sake,...this was gonna be a long night.

::In the Forest::

"What cute prey." the woman states as the snake whips it's tail at the branch Naruto stands on. It breaks in two, Naruto jumping up, but getting caught in the backlash of the snake's tail so that he is sent flying upwards through a number of branches.

"Naruto!" Haku and Sasuke scream in unison.

The fox boy finally comes to a stop, slamming into a particulary thick branch, and coughing up blood, Sasuke looks on in horror. The Kusa-nin smiles slightly, chuckling.

"Eat him for now." she tells the snake. Said snake opens it's mouth wide to devour the seemingly unconscious boy, when he opens his eyes, the orbs now fully tinted red.

"Damn it!" he yells, flipping over to deliver a heavy kick to the snake's nose. Purple silk from his weapon fluttering slightly, as if begging him to use it, but now was not the time for it. The shockwave from the kick travels throught the snake and master, who looks stunned as Naruto pushes off the snake's nose to jump into the air a bit. The slimy reptile rears it's head back, hissing as Naruto comes back down with a giant grin, hands glowing red as the nails grow longer.

*What is this kid? Could he be...?*

The woman doesn't get a chance to answer her own question as Naruto attacks her relentlessly, putting her on the defensive. A swipe to the midsection, kick to the head, jabs and swipes at her legs, grappling, and throwing. This boy had a style similar to...no...she died a long time ago, at least that's what the woman heard in rumors. Dodging a very vicious kick, she finally sees an opening, using it to lob off a hell fireball so that the boy is forced back.

*This is getting fun.* she thinks, looking down to a shaking Sasuke, an awakening Sakura, and an on guard Haku. "You're next, Sssasuke-kun, fight well."

She directs the snake towards the stunned Genin, closing in on them fast. Sasuke stands there, looking retardedly frightened as Naruto pushes off from a nearby tree, coming back fast, but not fast enough.

"Sasuke-kun look out!" Sakura yells, performing the seals for the jutsu she knew she hadn't perfected yet. "Fuuton: Ryouchi Kuuken no Jutsu!"

The pink-haired girl shakes her head and gathers as much chakra as possible into her hands, sending it flying towards snake and master in the form of curved blades. One strikes the snake's side, the reptile hissing, but not poofing out. The other is not so lucky on it's path as the Kusa-nin dodges, Sakura tries to direct it back towards the woman, but messes up, the wind blade going off course to slice into an utterly shocked Naruto. It made a neat cut from his shoulder to his hip, the boy screaming in pain as he loses control of his chakra, resulting in the chakra string he was standing on to dissapate. He falls to the ground beside a barely breathing Sasuke, who stares on in fright, concern, and anger as blood from the boy pools at his feet. How could the girl mess up so badly? Haku rushes over to tend to the boy as this counted on his list of things he was ordered to be there for.

~Sakura~

Shimatta, shimatta, shimatta! I have throughly screwed up now! Crap! And with that earlier attempt on his life they'll think I did it on purpose. Why did I use that jutsu? Why?

The glare on Sasuke's face was enough to make me want to piss myself. I knew that if I didn't die in the exams, then he, Haku, Sanziya, and probably that Zabuza guy, would kill me. Regardless of the consequences.

Life friggen' sucked.

~Haku~

You'd think that Kusa-nin would attack us like this, trying to heal a teammate and all, but she didn't do anything, just sat ontop of that snake of hers and watched.

I worked fast to heal my little brother, downing five blue pills to keep my chakra up that I knew I would regret taking later, but I didn't care. Medical jutsu's took alot of chalra, but Naruto's life was at stake, and I smile when, under my influence and Kyuubi-sama's, the wound begins to heal. Naruto growls at me to get off him and I comply, not particularly wanting him to start fighting so soon after that, but there was no arguing with a determined boy like him.

~Author~

As soon as Naruto gets to his feet Sasuke tries to get him to sit back down, but the boy shrugs him off.

"Back off Sasuke. I'm fine." he replies, digging a claw into his ear lightly as the woman's long tongue wraps around the boy, bringing him to level with her face.

"Hm...hm, ssso you're the Nine-tailed child?"

"Goddammit! Let me down you freaky Hebi bitch!" Naruto yells, struggling and trying to get away. However, the woman's tongue was stronger than it should be and kept the boy bound.

"Sssuch foul language, and in front of a lady no less. Well, well, looks like I get to teach you a few mannersss."

Steadying her hand, the woman's fingertips start glowing with purple fire as she lifts his shirt with the tip of her tongue.

'Kit, get out of there now!'

*I'm trying damnit!*

The woman slams her hand into his abdomen, cutting off his connection with Kyuubi.

"Gogyo Fuuin!" (Five Element Seal)

Five swirly teardrop like marks appear on Naruto's stomach, the boy's eyes dimming back to sapphire blue as he loses consciousness. The woman smiles, taking his Chi scroll from the pouch and throwing him down to the three Genin. Haku catches the unconscious boy, doing a medical scan on him as Sakura pleads with Sasuke to snap out of his stupor and fight.

After a vision of his brother, he comes to his senses, Sharingan activated as he takes some of Naruto's poisoned kunai and hurls them at the woman. She blocks, thinking they are just normal kunai, but regretting her decison to just let them hit her arms as the quick acting poison starts to set in.

"Poison?!"

Sasuke tackles the now shivering woman, holding her as the two fall through branches and whatnot to the earth below. The nin hits head first, but melts as Sasuke realizes she’s just a doton bunshin.(earth clone)

"You'll have to do better, Sasuke-kun." a voice states from behind him as the nin slams him into the ground, Sakura cries out for him, not being able to help as of yet.

"Moeagaru!" (Burst)

The explosive tags on the surprised Kusa-nin's back burst into flame as the boy catches the nin off-guard and uses Sharingan-Controlled Triple Windmill Blades to tie the woman to a tree with razor wire.

"Katon, Ryuuka no Jutsu!" (Fire Element, Dragon Fire Technique) he yells, sending a stream of fire flaring towards the struggling woman. She goes up in flames.

"Yay Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yells, cheering about his 'victory'.

However, as the fire dissapates, they see only a husk of the supposed burning woman. She had molted, just like a snake.

"Kanashibari no Jutsu!" (Temporary Paralysis) the nin yells from somewhere in the foliage, the three Genin not being able to move. The woman jumps down out of a nearby tree, congratulating Sasuke on activating his Sharingan so early and using the abilities as well as he did for his age. "At this rate Sssasuke-kun," she whispers into his ear. "You may have even more potential than your older brother Itachi-kun."

Sasuke growls at the mention of his brother, but finally gets a good look at the 'woman'. Part of the nin's face is burned off so that a single, golden, slitted snake-like eye is visible, the skin underneath noticeably paler than the rest, like paper almost.

"W-w-who are you?" Sasuke asks haltingly, trying to get his limbs to respond, they, of course, don't.

"Don't you hurt Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yells from her place a small distance away.

The 'woman' ignores the pink-haired fool.

"My name...is Orochimaru, I was so pleased with this fight, if you want to see me again, you must survive the trials I have set for you. Goodbye Sasuke-kun." he starts to walk away, but turns back around, as if remembering something. "Oh yes, almost forgot, here's a gift for you."

He stretches his long neck out to Sasuke, sinking his long fangs into the boy's neck. Sasuke screams, clutching his new curse mark as Orochimaru withdraws.

"You 'will' seek me out Sasuke, with that I'm sure you will."

Sasuke's screams fill the air as the snake-man disappears and the paralysis wears off. He sinks to the ground, Sakura coming over to help, Haku trailing behind her.

"Sasuke-kun?" she asks, trying to help him. He slaps her hand away.

"Don't...don't touch me Sakura..." he states, fainting dead away.

Sakura sniffs, starting to cry, but steeling her resolve as she makes to pick up both the boys, and drag them to a safe place. Haku would've helped, he could've carried Naruto as this was still a life-or-death situation, but he was still pissed with the girl for earlier, of course, who wasn't? Let her suffer, Naruto's wound wasn't even halfway healed internally, it had went deep, and if not for Kyuubi-sama making a chakra barrier, albeit weak, at the last second, he would've died. Yep, let her suffer, he wasn't going to offer to take a watch shift either.

*I really hope this is over soon, the girl would kill her own teammates with 'her' level of control over the jutsu Sanziya nee-chan taught her.*

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


{1} Cheap shot at YYH, yeah, I know. :)


Anaki: One word: Stupid fucking writer's block


RC16: That's four words.


Anaki: -vein popping out in forehead.- Urusei! (Shut up)


RC16: -rolls eyes- Not my fault you can't come up with anything good.


Anaki: -twitch-


RC17: -pats Anaki's shoulder- Now, now, calm down, you can kick his ass later.


RC16: -snorts- Yea, when cows fly. Review all.