Max: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters.

Ambushed

"Move it Dobe." Sasuke shouted to Naruto. Naruto had just frozen in place, while they were on the move in the middle of the Forest of Death searching for other teams. The second part of the chuunin exam was taxing on their body. Sakura glanced around with the feeling of dread filling her stomach. Sasuke seems to ignore the feeling but stays on guard for attack.

"I have a bad feeling." Naruto said as he unconsciously covered the seal on his stomach. They quickly went back to looking for another group so they could acquire another scroll. From within the seal the Kyuubi looked around in panic. It recognized the atmosphere around his host and had conflicting emotions of elation and fear. It would soon have an opportunity to escape its seal, but if it made a mistake it could be trapped in the dark abyss.

Meanwhile a shadowed figure watched his prey as they raced through the forest. If he had been paying attention he would have noticed the warping of space-time occurring behind him. Soon someone stepped out of the distortion gaining the other's attention. Drawn by that man's sudden appearance Orochimaru was caught in the middle of unleashing a powerful wind based jutsu, and the gathered energy dissipated. He looked at the stranger's eyes and saw nothing. No emotion. No feeling of life. Just a pitch black color. As he peered into his eyes a saying creped into his mind that he had heard a long time a go from Sarutobi. Stare into the Abyss and the Abyss stares back.

"What are you?" Orochimaru asked as he tried to prepare for anything unexpected.

"Just a fading dream." The stranger said. Before Orochimaru could react to the threat, the stranger appeared an arms length away and had grabbed him. He had tried to use his snakes to free himself from this person but darkness enveloped him and he vanished.

"Hey did you hear that?" Naruto said stopping again.

"No, your probably just hearing things." Sasuke said as he turned and faced Naruto and Sakura. At that moment they suddenly jumped and got into a fighting stance. Sasuke saw this and quickly turn around to face who ever appeared. He was surprised when he saw the stranger dressed in what would not be considered ninja attire. The stranger seemed to have an air of royalty as he approached. His white and indigo garments seemed to float above the dirt of the forest floor. His dark blue hair contrasted with his pale skin. And his eyes looked like Sasuke's but much darker. It surprised them as a twisted smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"I found you!" The stranger said as he released a killing intent into the air. Reacting out of reflex Sasuke started throwing kunai. Just before they hit they all disappeared. The stranger held out his hand and each finger had one of Sasuke's kunai balancing on its point.

"Fast." Sakura said as Naruto charged followed by Sasuke. He easily dodged Naruto's brutish attacks and Sasuke's clan taijutsu. Both Naruto and Sasuke were getting frustrated as they couldn't land a hit on him. They jumped back and started going through hand seals for their attacks. A gigantic fireball raced at him from Sasuke. The stranger seemed to pause for a moment before the fireball consumed him. Sasuke smirked as his attack hit its target. It didn't last long as his own kunai flew from the burning mass and struck his chest. His eyes widened as the kunai embedded into his chest. there was a puff of smoke as he had replaced himself with a log.

The stranger soon found himself surrounded by an army of blond, orange clad shinobi. At a silent command they all started to swarm him. With a fluid like grace he would dodge an attack, grab a clone toss it into another causing them to dispel. He would attack with a single kunai, that he had stolen from Sasuke, still had on hand destroying clones by the droves. He looked around quickly and spotted his target within the mob. He maneuvered himself through the mob and grabbed the real Naruto. With a twisted smirk he threw him right into Sakura, stunning them both.

As the stranger was approaching the stunned nin he was forced back by a barrage of kunai. He raised an eyebrow as a few of the kunai had completely missed him. A kunai embeded in the ground right in front of him with a slip of hissing paper on it. Before he could analyze what it was the tag exploded. The force of the explosion threw him backwards into a web of steel wire. When ever he moved he would tangle himself in more of the wiring. The more he struggled the trap tightened. He noticed too late that there was one wire around his neck. It had tightened cutting off his air and he passed out.

When the stranger was motionless in his steel wire trap, Sasuke dropped from the canopy, where he had hidden. He watched as the body dangled from the trap. Naruto and Sakura soon regained their bearings and started to approach.

"Who was that?" Sakura asked her crush. Sasuke ignored her question and started to search the body.

"Hey, bastard, what are you doing?" Naruto shouted from his prone position next to Sakura.

"I'm checking to see if he has a scroll on him." he ruffled through his clothing finding nothing. Naruto and Sakura were approaching to see if they could help, but as they were approaching the sound of snapping wires caught their attention. Before Sasuke could jump to safety, the stranger's hand shot out and grabbed his head. Every time he moved he broke more of the wires that bound him until he was free. Sasuke was struggling under the man's grip trying free himself. Naruto and Sakura charged hoping to aid their team member. Just as they were in range to attack him, a spark of electricity was seen in the stranger's free hand. He clutched his hand it caused Sasuke to start screaming in agony. Electricity arched from Sasuke's body into the surrounding area. After a moment his attack stopped and he spoke.

"Lets force fate's hand." He said as he threw Sasuke's smoldering body to the side, like garbage. The sight caused Sakura to stop. She watched as her crush landed on the ground, lifeless as far as she could tell. When Naruto saw this an uncontrollable fury grasped him as his body started to leak red chakara, his eyes turned red and slitted and his whisker marks darkened and grew more defined. Sakura and Naruto soon found a fist in their stomachs. It stunned them and knocked the wind out of them.

"Now lets not have any of that." He said as he ran electricity though his fists and into them. They both screamed as they fell to the ground, darkness starting to cover their vision. The stranger then unballed his fists and placed his hand on Naruto's chest. With a twisted smile he pushed into his chest with a sickening crunch. Sakura would have gasped at what she was seeing, if she had the strength, but the attack had left her lethargic. She saw him withdraw his bloody hand, bringing with it a blue human shaped energy. She only saw the start of it before darkness consumed her vision. She felt a pain in her chest as her vision returned. What she saw left her wishing that she was still knocked out. Since she was face to face with a dark horned creature. It's black hair seemed to be clutching several glowing objects. If she looked closely, those things had faces. The pain in her chest made her look down at the arm that was holding her. The other arm she saw was Holding a blue transparent Naruto. And behind the creature she saw something that drained the color from her ethereal face. She felt like her blood had chilled at the site of her body, burnt and tattered laying in a heap next to a tree. Naruto was in the same position of shock as he was facing the dark creature. A disembodied voice caught their attention.

Yes. You two will make fine entertainment for our guests. Was all they heard before darkness consumed them again.

Naruto awoke to the sterile scent and blinding white of a hospital room. He noticed the iv in his arm and the wires monitoring his condition he tried to move but found it very painful to do so.

"Oh your awake. I'll go get your sensei." Naruto was able to sit up after quite bit of effort. His limbs felt weird, he tried to stretch his arms but found it difficult to move.

"Good your awake." Kakashi said lazily as he entered the room "You shouldn't be moving so much your still recovering from all your injuries."

Naruto tried to ask how long he was out, but when he tried to speak his voice wasn't working properly and came out very rough. He didn't sound like him self. From what he could tell his voice was off. He soon saw Kakashi handing him a glass of water. He grabbed it and drank greedily, not realizing on how thirsty he really was. He finished and threw the glass to Kakashi who set it down on the table next to him. He was about to try to speak again when a lock of pink hair covered his face. He froze. He slowly reached up and tugged on it. It hurt when he pulled too hard and let out a pained noise. He froze again when he heard his voice.

With a start he ran to the bathroom and faced a mirror and was facing the reflection of Sakura staring back. He held up his hand and touched his face, or should I say her face. Everything was starting to blur! This was too much for him!

'It had to be an illusion! A Dream! It had to be something! He shouldn't be seeing Sakura in the mirror!' He thought loudly to himself.

'Will you be quiet! I'm trying to sleep!' another voice spoke in his head. He had calmed down at the voice for a moment and thought for a moment and swore that it sounded like Sakura. He looked back into the mirror at the jade green eyes that were staring back and the pink hair that was on her head. He took a breath and passed out. Kakashi quickly had caught his student and placed her back in the bed shaking his head.

A piercing scream was heard from the adjacent room, as Sakura Haruno ran from the bathroom and jumped into the bed. She woke up feeling better than she had ever felt before, so full of energy she could barely hold still. When nature called she rushed to the bathroom and did the usual thing. When things didn't go the way it usually went she looked down noticed the difference.

"What's going on!" she shouted to herself. She then recognized the voice that came out of her mouth. She dared to peak into the mirror only to find Naruto staring back. Her eyes widened. Thinking rationally with a slight panic she tried to dispel the illusion with no success. Several emotions ran through her mind as she tried to get a grip on her current situation. She started to hyperventilate and soon passed out on the bathroom floor. Kakashi had arrived in time to catch Sakura in Naruto's body before she hit the floor and place her on the bed.

"Something is really wrong here." Kakashi muttered to himself after he checked on two of his students. He had one more to check on and wondered if he would find him passed out on the bathroom floor as well.

Kakashi walked into his third student's room. What he saw relieved him. He saw Sasuke sitting up in his bed staring out the window. But when he walked into the room he noticed something wasn't right. Sasuke had not reacted when he entered. He just continued staring out the window not noticing his presence. Kakashi had to cough to get his attention. When Sasuke had turned to face him he had the look of curiosity and confusion on his face. What he said shocked and worried Kakashi even more.

"Who are you?"

Max: The hardest thing to write in this story is when they discovered that they had switched bodies. And one more thing switching between genders is hard... and confusing... ow... my mind. After thinking about this a little longer, I had realized how twisted my thoughts could become. (looks around) Yay I escaped my other personalities.

?: For now... heh heh heh...