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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Kyubi/demonic speech"
'Kyubi/demonic/ inner Sakura thoughts'
Merged thoughts/speech
'This grass nin is crazy' thought Sasuke as he dodged another blow from his opponent. 'Not only did he come here on his own, but he managed to kill the dope before the fight even started…were in trouble' was his only conclusion as his sharingan enabled him to dodge another blow while Sakura watched from a distance not sure how to help her crush.
Sasuke wouldn't show it but he was tiring fast. 'Darn it!' looking back he saw Sakura a bit behind him and decided it was best to run. Facing back towards their grass nin assailant Sasuke created the hand seals that were all but natural to him, as he finished he exhaled his held breath with the cry of his attack "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu". With that a large fireball made its way to its target, Sasuke, not wanting to stick around grabbed Sakura and ran till he could find somewhere to hide.
When they found a spot to hide, Sakura couldn't help but ask "Sasuke-kun, are you alri" Sakura's words of concern were cut short as Sasuke covered her mouth. 'We must run before we are found again' Sasuke thought while he caught his breath 'but how…how can we run away?' Next to him Sakura had her own thoughts 'for Sasuke-kun to panic this much…I've never seen him like this' "hmmp!" Sakura cried before she got out of Sasuke's hold "Snake!" was all she had time to say before both she and Sasuke leapt away with the fairly large snake that seemed to appear out of nowhere and was now following Sasuke.
'I was so afraid that I didn't notice the snake' it was after that thought that Sasuke saw the grass nin's image appear behind the snake's "Get away!" he cried as he launched both kunai and shuriken at the monster. The weapons pierced through the snake's head countless times, nailing the snake to a tree branch undoubtedly dead.
Sasuke's rest was short lived, however as the snake's corpse quaked and out from it came the very nin he was afraid of. The nin charged at Sasuke wrapping around the tree branch like he himself was a snake only to be stopped short as kunai and shuriken were embedded into the tree right where the grass nin would've been half a second later.
"Sorry Sasuke, I forgot your codeword" as everyone looked in the direction the kunai flew from. 'N-Naruto!' both Sasuke and Sakura thought happy to see their teammate alive.
"Well, it seems that you've defeated that snake I sent after you" their enemy said as he was already atop another snake as large as the one Naruto had defeated earlier "you should've ran when you had the chance!" he sneered as the snake whipped Naruto into the air before Naruto knew what was happening.
Naruto was slammed into a tree. "you may eat him." The grass nin said casually as the snake closed in on Naruto.
'I'm not about to be eaten again!' Naruto thought as everything slowed down, his pain subsided, and Naruto felt a lot stronger, as the snake closed in Naruto pulled back his fist and slammed it into the snake right where its nose was however the snakes momentum still sent Naruto flying back.
'Those eyes… so the kyubi brat is still alive, this is interesting' the grass nin thought as Naruto landed on the ground the nin turned his attention back to Sasuke "Sasuke-kun now it's your turn! What will you do?!" said the nin as his snake charged at a frozen Sasuke.
The charging snake however was stopped dead by Naruto just as it was in front of Sasuke and Sakura, Naruto locked eyes with Sasuke and said the only thing that came to mind "hey… you…alright… scaredy cat?" as what looked like the grass nin's wrapped around Naruto and pulled him towards the nin 'sorry Naruto-kun but I want more fun with Sasuke-kun kukuku' the nin thought as it made hand signs slamming them into Naruto's exposed stomach "five part seal!" with that Naruto fell unconscious.
Meanwhile the words Naruto spoke to Sasuke were having a huge effect on him, first he thought about their mission in the land of waves and how he used the same sentence on Naruto after saving him from the demon brothers' attack, and then he thought of his older brother and his final words that night.
"Foolish brother…if you want to kill me... then hate, spite, And survive pathetically! Run and run… and cling desperately to life..." 'No!' Sasuke mentally screamed as he was filled with both the desire to kill his brother and protect his friends, he slowly opened his eyes to reveal two fully evolved sharingan eyes leaving the grass nin in shock 'so he managed to fully evolve his sharingan not only in the middle of a fight but bypassing two other stages as well…I must have him!' the grass nin thought.
Before the grass nin could do anything he was snared to a tree via ninja wire and Sasuke was done forming hand seals 'ugh, when did he!?' "Katon Ryuuka no jutsu!" screamed Sasuke as flames wrapped around him before flying towards the trapped grass nin using the ninja wire as a guide blowing a hole through and incinerating the tree behind the captured nin.
Sasuke jumped down from the tree he was on to the ground facing Sakura who's face of relief was suddenly full of fear "kukuku Sasuke you shouldn't let your guard down in the middle of battle!" the nin said behind Sasuke as he attempted to stab at the back of Sasuke's turned head with a kunai.
'I didn't' Sasuke smirked as the kunai hit its mark and then continued through as if nothing was there "What?!" screamed the nin "it's called an afterimage" Sasuke answered glad that he was able to catch Lee use it in their previous spar before the exams with his sharingan. Sasuke's hands stopped in the tiger seal still wearing his smirk "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu"Sasuke said only a few feet from the grass nin.
Sasuke knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the nin smile 'what the?' Sasuke's unasked question was answered as the nin jumped out of the way to reveal Naruto, who was planning to attack the nin from behind, Sasuke watched in horror as the fireball crashed through trees and out of sight taking Naruto with it.
"Naruto!" Sakura screamed as Sasuke fell to his knees 'I-I-I killed him' Sasuke thought as the world left him and darkness was in its place 'I…killed…him'
The nin was calmly approaching Sasuke ready to deliver the gift he had for the last Uchiha only to be stopped by another Kunai 'when will these nuisances end? He thought before he looked to the source of the kunai to find a girl with pink hair staring at him, she was obviously scared out of her wits. As the nin looked up at her Sakura could see that his face was seriously burned "w-what are you?" she asked "kukuku, to think that Sasuke-kun blew off my little mask" the nin said "it's not what but who little girl, I am Orochimaru."
With the introduction the now named sannin did the impossible and ripped off his own face to reveal an older man with pale skin and yellow eyes that resembled a snake, not paying much attention to Sakura Orochimaru looked at the sky above them "Looks like I still have a bit of time to play." And with that he made some hand signs and stopped only to look at Sakura and smirk.
Sakura who had been anticipating a jutsu was surprised to see that nothing happened, instead of an attack she was greeted by Orochimaru's smile before he appeared next to Sasuke, who was still stricken by Naruto's death, with his hands around Sasuke's head. Sakura watched as the snake sannin turned towards her again with a sadistic smile on his face before quickly moving his arms, one forward the other back, snapping Sasuke's neck.
"NOOO!" was all Sakura could say as tears fell down her face 'he can't be dead, he can't be dead!' she cried from inside.
"Wake up flesh bag" 'huh… where am I?' slowly Naruto got up from his position unable to remember where he was or what he was doing. The fact that somehow he was in a sewer was aiding to his confusion.
"Come here" the voice sounded again echoing through the tunnels. Naruto slowly turned around searching for the source of the sound "Over hear" it whispered again, this time it didn't echo as the voice wasn't strong enough allowing Naruto to pin point the source. Quickly running through the tunnel the sound had come from he found himself in front of a large cell with a note that had the word "Seal" written on it. "Come closer boy" the voice said again as softly as the last time it spoke.
Sensing the power behind the bars ahead of him and the fact that it was sealed gave Naruto enough sense to say "I don't think so." With that a claw twice as long as Naruto was tall came through the cell between the bars in order to strike Naruto, unfortunately or fortunately depending on your perspective, the claws missed Naruto by an inch. Naruto on the other hand was glad he didn't get any closer and decided to back away some more. "Foolish mortal come here so I can kill you!" the being behind the bars raged. Clueless to who he was talking to Naruto responded "Saying you're going to kill me isn't going to make me come closer" with that the last thing Naruto had expected happened, the voice behind the cell laughed.
"You idiot, do you have any idea who you are talking to?" the monster said "No but I get the feeling you're going to tell me" again laughter was heard "Fool! I am the mighty Kitsune, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox!" Naruto froze "The K-Kyubi, no you're supposed to be sealed inside me how did you get out!" "you idiot!" the Kyubi laughed "we are not outside, for if we were I would've killed you by now…no we are inside your mindscape and as you can see, there isn't much here." The Kyubi chided.
Naruto was dense to many things but he has been insulted before and was quick to return the favor "So what you're saying Kyubi-sama," he mocked "Is that an empty minded twelve year old has been holding you captive for as long as he's been alive, right?"
Naruto finished emphasizing his last word. The comment earned another laugh from the powerful demon "You amuse me kid, maybe being your prisoner may not be so bad after all" the Kyubi gave a fox like grin showing a massive fang. "Well now that we're on the subject, how about paying some rent as me and my team have some maniac trying to kil… oh No!" realization dawned on Naruto "Sakura-chan, Sasuke! Are they dead; am I dead, how long have I been dead? Crap!" again the demon laughed at Naruto, the twelve year old was really making his day. Deciding to be generous he answered the blonds questions in the order asked. "Well let's see, No, Nope, You've been unconscious for about five minutes in your world, and for your previous question I'd love to give you the power to destroy that snake bastard but he sealed off my power from you." The fox paused as an idea came to him
"However, I do know how to get rid of him with the chakra you still have left and play the biggest prank in the history of the ninja world while you're at it. Interested?" after the Kyubi told Naruto his plan both wore a wide grin on their faces. "You know what to do, now… wake up!" and with that Naruto was pushed out of his mind.
Five minutes ago…
"NOOO!" was all Sakura could say as tears fell down her face 'he can't be dead, he can't be dead!' she cried from inside. "Shhh it's ok, it's ok" Sakura's inner self said as it tried to help her more emotional self. "Well little girl how does it feel, being the last one alive on your little team?" Orochimaru spoke knowing that he was crushing the young Kunoichi.
What Orochimaru failed to notice was the slightest increase in killing intent from the young girl before as he laughed. "Don't worry," he continued "you can tell them how pathetic they were in death because you're next." He finished while walking towards Sakura. Sakura's head was down and she didn't realize what was happening as she was still in shock. Meanwhile inner Sakura was on the rampage "I'LL KILL YOU!" inner Sakura screamed. "I'll kill you." Sakura said softly as a bit more killing intent left her.
Inner Sakura was surprised as her other half repeated her words, something that never happens. "What was that?" Orochimaru continued oblivious to the minor killing intent coming from Sakura. "Were you just saying how weak your teammates were?" He smirked, fully enjoying the way the girl before was shaking. "I said" Inner Sakura started "I s-said" Sakura followed "I'LL KILL YOU!" they finished together, merging in both mind and spirit, Sakura's true form was released.
Orochimaru stopped two steps away from Sakura when he heard those words, it wasn't her words that worried him it was the fact that now was when he noticed her shaking wasn't due to fear 'oh, that's odd' he thought 'but if it isn't fear then what is it then...rage?' at that instant he noticed it, Sakura's killing intent… rising.
"What the" was all Orochimaru could get out as he was blown back. Sakura's merger with her inner self finally finished, her killing intent combined with her newly unlocked chakra, blasted Orochimaru back into one of the many trees behind him while also causing a small crater to form on the ground directly below Sakura. Orochimaru, from his end, could feel her power, as he looked into her emerald eyes he saw that they were glowing slightly as if promising to make good the threat she made earlier.
From Sakura's end she was surprised to find how at peace she was, like a void had been filled, and yet she knew something was missing. 'Sasuke-kun, Naruto…' she remembered glaring at the one who caused her suffering "you're dead" she stated. Before she could act however, her world shattered like glass.
Orochimaru was having a lot of fun; first he saw Sasuke push his sharingan to its mature stage through sheer will power and actually received some real damage from Sasuke's attacks, and then the Kyubi brat showed some raw power if not promise only to be roasted by his own teammate's attack. Orochimaru then ended his little game by placing the useless girl in a genjutsu that was bound to break her spirit and end her ninja career.
'Oh my, I really love these games but everything must come to an end…well except me of course" Orochimaru thought happily 'and I still have more than enough chakra to give Sasuke-kun the curse seal' he finished while walking towards his true prey.
Three steps into his stride Orochimaru felt it, his sixth sense that alerted a veteran fighter to danger, but unlike any before he was worried because this feeling scared him. With his extra sense and quickness Orochimaru attempted to jump away but was nowhere near fast enough to dodge the fist that slammed into his face turning Orochimaru into a rocket aimed at a large stone away from Sasuke.
'That felt like a punch from Tsunade when we were younger' Orochimaru thought. he knew he couldn't dodge the fist so Orochimaru's only other option was to apply as much chakra to the point of impact to reduce the damage. He looked up ready to kill whoever dared to attack him while he was having fun only to stare into Sakura's glowing green eyes and outstretched right arm that obviously delivered the punch a second ago.
'How did she get out of that jutsu?' Orochimaru thought 'And this power rivals a sixteen year old Tsunade, she's only twelve… looks like I have another recruit' he smiled before launching himself at Sakura who was defending Sasuke. Looking back at her crush Sakura said the first thing that came to mind "Wake up idiot!"
'I killed Naruto' Sasuke thought. The idea of killing his teammate and, though he wouldn't say it, best friend was eating away at Sasuke while he wandered in darkness. 'I killed him' "Sasuke" Sasuke turned, though hearing his name meant nothing to him, the voice did. Even though it was merely a whisper Sasuke new that voice from somewhere. "Sasuke" he turned in search for the voice.
As Sasuke followed the voice through the darkness he failed to notice the new source of light until he was right next to it "Sasuke" the voice called out once more. Sasuke looked up for the first time since he started walking to look straight into the face of his mother Mikoto.
"Mom?" Sasuke whispered, and then everything that had happened since the Uchiha massacre came to surface and Sasuke's carefully constructed wall that held his emotions crumbled. "Mom!" Sasuke cried as he wrapped his arms around her and cried. "Sasuke, what's wrong my son?" Mikoto asked her youngest child. "I thought you were dead!" Sasuke cried even louder "an…and I killed my friend…my…only friend" Sasuke said as he quieted down though his tears were still flowing.
"Sasuke it's not your fault." Mikoto said "and your other friend needs you now." Sasuke looked at his mother's face confused "other friend?" he asked. "Yes" Mikoto said with a small smile "Sakura" Sasuke said softly attempting to recall the name, then it hit him "Sakura!"
Jumping up and in a fighting stance Sasuke was looking in the darkness waiting for an attack and looking for Sakura at the same time. "Where am I?" Sasuke asked "where's Sakura?" he almost yelled. Mikoto watched with a smile as her son worried over his friend's safety. "Sasuke calm down" Mikoto started gaining Sasuke's attention and to her amusement he calmed as well.
"She's calling for you Sasuke, that man is the cause of your pain, if it wasn't for him your other friend would not have died so soon. Sasuke, because of what that man did you have to help stop him, you must use your sharingan to a level that even your brother has not reached." Mikoto finished. Then sensing the killing intent from Sasuke after mentioning Itachi she decided to add something else "Sasuke, when you are out of this mess I need to recall everything about that night, I know you don't want to but you must to make yourself stronger." Sasuke was about to retort when he noticed that Mikoto started to disappear. "Mom!" Sasuke yelled "Sasuke, my time is almost up. I'm dead son and nothing you can do will change that. You must live on and bring your brother back from the darkness." Mikoto said as she was now transparent.
"What do you me…?" Sasuke asked but was cut short when Mikoto spoke again for the last time "Sasuke there are more things hidden in the ninja world than you can understand, for now I have given you a key to unlock one of those secrets. Now help your friend and be the ninja that the Uchiha clan can be proud of. Goodbye my son." And with that Mikoto faded completely and Sasuke was back in the forest of death.
The first sound Sasuke heard when he regained consciousness was the sound of a tree being snapped in half. Fearing the worst for Sakura he slowly looked up to be greeted by a sight that he would never forget even if he wanted to because his sharingan was still activated. Standing protectively over him was Sakura with her arm extended, following the path of her arm he found Orochimaru's body climbing out of a small crater in stone.
'Sakura did that?' Sasuke thought as Orochimaru continued to climb out of the crater and faced Sakura with a face that Sasuke didn't like, one of desire and the same one he gave Sasuke. Orochimaru then charged at the pair dividing his chakra so he could give both children the curse seal.
"Wake up idiot!" Sakura yelled at Sasuke knowing she couldn't fight on her own. 'If it wasn't for him your other friend would not have died so soon. Sasuke, because of what that man did you have to help stop him, you must use your sharingan to a level that even your brother has not reached.' remembering his mother's words Sasuke rose back up, eyes focused on tracking Orochimaru's speed before his vision shifted and everything slowed even more than before making Orochimaru travel at the speed of a crawl to him.
Flashing through seals as fast as he could, which was also slow in his eyes, he called forth another fire jutsu. "Katon: Hosenka no jutsu" he said as multiple fireballs shot from his mouth.
Sasuke's sudden revival surprised Orochimaru as he was now focusing his chakra to evade the small fireballs. Sasuke's sharingan however made dogging the fireballs difficult. Shooting off three more blast predicting Orochimaru's path and setting up his last trap as he was almost out of chakra (not including what he needs to live) Sasuke made his last set of hand seals "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu" and once more the massive fireball appeared.
Orochimaru was pissed. Not only had the Uchiha started fighting again but he could now predict his moves to the point of where his inferior speed was no longer a real issue from a distance. 'If this keeps up I'll only be able to give him the curse seal' Orochimaru thought as he dogged the last small fireball.
Looking up, Orochimaru looked at the massive fireball in front of his face with no time to dodge or escape with a jutsu. 'Damn' Orochimaru thought as he went crashing back again. After the fireball stopped the now burned Orochimaru shed his skin and reappeared uninjured but slow on charka. 'I've played too much' he thought while forming hand seals and launching his head and now elongated neck straight for Sasuke intent on delivering his curse seal at a speed that even if Sasuke could see it he wouldn't be able to move in time.
Orochimaru was so focused on Sasuke that he didn't notice Sakura had traversed to distance to his body until he felt a powerful blow to the gut an inch away from Sasuke's neck and was sent crashing through the trees again.
"That's it!" Orochimaru yelled releasing all his remaining chakra and full killing intent freezing the young Gennin "Sasuke! You will be mine!" he yelled moving even faster than before only to be stopped in his tracks.
Same time in Konohagakure (konoha):
Civilians and ninja alike all stopped in shock and fear as a massive wave of charka washed over the land; though not Kage level it was close.
Nearby the forest of death Anko fell, or more likely was forced out of her chair by the amount of chakra coming from inside the forest. Slowly getting up she ordered the Chunnin nearby to inform the Hokage and alert the Anbu before entering the forest hoping there wasn't any trouble.
Inside the forest:
Both Hinata and Neji had their Byakugan active when the chakra hit temporarily blinding both. Akamaru was hiding in Kiba's jacket while Shino's bugs rested inside him after suddenly being filled with chakra. The Ino, Shika, Cho trio were blasted away from the chakra source and decided to get as far from it as they could.
Everyone in the forest away from team 7 all moved away from the group. Gaara's team was neutral as he wanted to fight the power that rivaled his own but decided to fight him in the next stage of the exams, after all there was bound to be one on one fighting eventually.
Hinata had her own thought while her team was racing away from the fight. 'Naruto, please be alright'.
Team 7 and Orochimaru
Orochimaru's neck was back to normal as he stood in fear of the chakra release and had he paid attention it was only slightly larger than his own, however the only thing registering in his brain was 'Run, really really fast!' as he was looking into the eyes of the Kyubi.
"Hello flesh bag" the Kyubi said with its fangs visible in a smile.
A/N:
Well that's it for now. This is my first fanfic so I decided to get some feedback from my first chapter before deciding to continue or not.
Plans:
There will be pairings naruxhina, sasuxsaku, tentenxneji, and some others when I get to them and most likely not in that order.
I follow the manga and am therefore up to date with what is going on in the real Naruto universe and my story will pick and choose elements from the manga universe.
Finally I'm not really in favor of a godlike Naruto. That being said people will get hurt and chakra will run low in large battles. If I make one character strong others will follow soon or there will be a limitation.
That's it please review: