I now present chapter 3 beta by FenrirKeyblade. It's an extra long chapter since I was away for a while. Can I please get a shitload of reviews and other crap! This is part 1 of the chunin exams. Oh yeah this chapter doesn't focus on Naruto that much.
I don't own Naruto. Though, I wish I did.
Fear is only in our minds
Taking over all the time
Fear is only in our minds
But It's
Taking over all the time.
-Sweet Sacrifice(evanescence)
A blond jinchuuriki lay on a dark blue bed, waiting for his 'sensei' the blond scoffed at the very term. He was waiting for his sensei to finish with his cheap whore that had momentarily had captured his attention.
He told the blond it had been for the sake of 'research.'
Flashback:
His sensei was supposed to be training him for the last round of the Chunin Exams; the exams that were held in Konoha this year.
His other sensei, Kakashi, had given his team the papers for the exam literally a week before the exams were due to start. Their sensei had told Team 7 to think carefully before entering.
His lone eye had rested on the blond and pinkette while saying those words. What the scarecrow was really saying was 'enter the exams for the Uchiha'. Sakura, his pink haired teammate, did not need any persuasion. She had entered the exams to add more fuel to the fire with her rivalry between herself and Ino. This was her chance to impress Sasuke-kun with her strength, too!She didn't bat an eye at the possible danger she was in, all that mattered was her Sasuke-kun.
The blond had entered without a choice; it was either that or be ostracized even more by the whole village for holding their Uchiha Heir, last hope for the Sharingan, back.
It turned out that to enter the exams was an all or nothing deal. If one teammate didn't wish to enter the whole team would be held back until the next exam. Their team along with all of the Rookie 9 had decided to enter this year.
To even get into the waiting rooms they had to pass through a genjutsu. Other starting teams had no idea they were really on the second floor. The Rookie 9 and Team 7 were the only ones to figure the pre-test out.
As soon as they were in the waiting room, their teams were met with angry glares and taunts from various teams from around the Elemental Nations. Some were even from minor villages like the Shadow Village, or The Village of the Star.
Another shinobi sought to help them. His name was Kabuto Yakushi, a silver haired genin who had taken the exams six times before. While in each exam he had gathered information cards for which could be viewed only by his chakra.
No one saw this as a suspicious but as an advantage to be used. Sasuke of course used this to get information on two particular people.
Sabaku no Gaara, a red head teen from Suna. His whole person had concentrated Killer Intent around it. It had made anyone close enough the redhead to shiver while trying to move away as fast as possible.
He had carried a gourd around that made anyone wary around him. Especially if you just happened to be in a fight with him. Kabuto's cards had said Gaara had come back from even dangerous missions without a scratch, which made them even more wary.
Next Sasuke had wanted information on Rock Lee, who had engaged the Uchiha in a taijutsu fight. The ravenette had tried to use his Sharingan to copy his moves but to no avail did it help in the slightest. Lee was purely focused on taijutsu, but couldn't do any other jutsu.
Once Sasuke had been satisfied with the new information, the first proctor of the Exams Ibiki had each given them their first test, a written test. The test needed you to use your stealth skills to answer the near impossible questions for a genin.
If you were caught cheating three times you and your team were out of the exams. You only had one hour to gather any and all of the answers. At the end of the hour Ibiki called time.
Almost seven teams had been kicked out for cheating. Ibiki cleared his throat before starting.
"This is the last question. You each have a choice. If you don't answer the question, you along with your team will be disqualified. If you do answer it and you get it wrong... you'll never be able to take the chunin exam again!
"If you want to get out of the exams right now and have another chance later, go right ahead! But don't forget if you go your teammates go. You'll have a chance next year, though your teammates may never forgive you.
The choice is yours." Ibiki had finished, grinning sadistically at the scared genin as they each had their inner battles with their choices. One brown-haired girl had raised her hand the pressure too much for her to stand. [Not meant to rhyme but oh well.]
The blond using his goofball façade raised his head only to slam it immediately down on the desk and started yelling. "I WON'T QUIT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS! DATTEBAYO!" The remaining genin stared at the blond in wonder and respect.
Ibiki grinned slightly, leering "Are you sure about that?" The blond nodded his head in a 'yes'. Giving a full-blown smirk Ibiki turned to the genin. "You All Pass!"
"What?" They all yelled at him in unison. He answered. "A shinobi isn't all fun and games. Sometimes you will be in tough situations where you may need to decide between your comrade and the mission.
"It's a spit second decision; you have no time to think or correct any future mistakes you realize were wrong. That is what it means to be a Chunin."
As he finished a large purple ball burst from the window, falling straight behind Ibiki.
'Mitarashi Anko' was displayed in white writing on the piece of cloth. It was young woman shown to have purple hair done in spiky ponytail wearing a dark orange skirt and a mesh top. She spread her arms wide open.
"Boys and girls, this is no time for celebrating! I'll be your next proctor. Anko Mitarashi! You ready the second test? Good! Follow me!" She said loudly, vaguely reminding several people of a girl Naruto. Without warning the purple haired lady had disappeared from sight.
The blond and his team quickly made their way to training ground 44, otherwise known as the Forest of Death. All genin had lined up to sign contracts stating that if one of them happened to die, "Tough shit. You can't sue us or blame the Elemental Countries in any way."
They each received a scroll. Team 7 had gotten the heaven scroll. They had 72 hours to reach the tower in the middle of the forest with both the heaven and earth scroll. If not they would be disqualified from the exams.
Absolutely under no circumstances were you allowed to open the scroll. If you did, again, you would be kicked out the exams. After each genin had lined up and signed everything they each waited thirty minutes where at the exact same time the gates all around the forest opened.
Still holding on to his façade the blond ran into the forest with a "Dattebayo!", his teammates following. As nightfall came they had decided to make camp at one point. Sasuke had come up with a password that they all had to remember. "A shinobi waits until the time is right, when the enemy sleeps and drops guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night, that is the moment for a shinobi to strike."
Naruto had raised his hand a sort of dazed look was on his face, effectively playing his part well. "Can we think of a shorter password like... Miso?" His teammates glared at him making the blond quiet down.
Thirty minutes later he had gotten up, going into the bushes for business. Five minutes later he had come back. Sasuke stood up. "What is the password?" The whiskered ninja scratched his head, thinking for a minute.
"Come on guys." The blond whined but Sasuke held his ground. Huffing, Naruto had repeated exactly. "A shinobi waits until the time is right, when the enemy sleeps and drops guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night, that is the moment for a shinobi to strike."
Smirking, Sasuke raised a kunai, throwing it at the blond. Naruto dodged with a yelp. "What the hell was that for SASUKE?" Still smirking, the Uchiha threw more kunai at the supposed Naruto.
"First, the dobe would never remember that sort of password. Second, your pouch is on the wrong leg. Third, what happened to that wound you had on your cheek from when you started the match?"
At last he had corned on the imposter, "Lastly, Naruto never calls me anything but Sasuke-teme." "And more reasons?" He added while pressing the cold metal on the imposters jugular.
The imposter sputtered one last time, trying to say he really was Naruto before Sasuke slit his throat with a quick flick off his wrist. Meanwhile, a certain blond was battling against a large snake.
The lady with the long tongue had been there ten minutes ago when she summoned the large reptile. Commanding it with a single, "Attack." before disappearing in a purple fire.
The large green snake poised for an attack. Naruto moved to the right the same time the snake made its move. The blond moved several times trying to defend himself and find an opening but every time the snake dodged and defended itself.
'There must be a way to destroy this scaly ass.' Naruto thought as he jumped high into a tree. The snake followed, Naruto continued to jump from tree to tree until he stood in one spot, not moving.
The snake saw its chance, wrapping its huge body against the blond and constricting any movements, so he could not escape. Its mouth was wide open; you could see the pink inside of its mouth along with two very large and sharp fangs dripping with venom.
Hissing the snake struck, lightning fast, toward Naruto's body, swallowing the orange ninja whole. Inside the snake's stomach, Naruto had begun to movie. Looking at his surrounding, seeing his was knee deep in stomach acid that was even darker than the snake's scales he took a deep breath.
Flashing through his signature jutsu- at least to the Rookie Nine- he said, "Multi Shadow Clone no Jutsu." Hundreds- no thousands of clones came from Naruto, each one pushing against each other along with the inside of the snake's stomach.
As each clone was pushing at the same time the snake's midsection began to bulge. It became larger and larger, until a loud 'pop' was heard and the snake was in shambles.
The clones Naruto had summoned had popped out of existence. A certain blond was now covered in snake guts, blood, and stomach acid. "Finally, that jutsu worked on something." He muttered while attempting to get snake guts off of him.
At the original base Sakura and Sasuke were moving at very fast speeds trying to find their teammate before stopping on a wide tree branch. Across from the pinkette and ravenette there was a tall pale woman.
She was just standing there, staring them down with a large grin upon her face. "Why hello, Sasuke-kun." A slight hiss could be heard when she had said Sasuke's name. "What do you want?" The ravenette's body on defense.
Ready to attack, each genin pulled out a kunai. Getting ready to jump, while the other defended. "Tsk tsk, Sasuke-kun… that won't do." Smiling as the two tried to move and attack.
"What do you want?" Sasuke repeated, feeling scared for the first time. He continued trying to move. His body just wouldn't listen. Shaking, his hand moved slowly toward his thigh. Looking one more time at the girl, he stabbed himself.
Regaining movement, though he now had pain in his right thigh, he glared. "Now I'm going to ask you again. What do you want?" He asked while ignoring a surprised ''Sasuke-kun.''
"Why I want your scroll of course." The snake lady answered, herself getting in position for a fight. Flashing through hand signs that neither Sakura nor Sasuke could follow, the girl slammed her hand on the ground.
A large snake about forty feet high was hissing dangerously as it glared down at the to genin. It was poised to strike going straight toward the raven when an orange blur caught it by slamming a kunai into the base of the snake.
The blond this time feeling something for the raven called in a mocking tone. "Are you scared, scaredy cat?" He looked up into the raven eyes, breathing hard.
Smirking, the raven was glad to see the blond. "Not a chance." The snake lady watched the exchange of words. Sasuke dropped the kunai and ran through signs before stopping at Tiger. Blowing a large fireball straight for the snake. The snake had no time to move.
The fireball consumed it all. The snake made a pained hissing before it was a charred corpse. The blond jumped next to Sasuke though something different was about his eyes now.
They were blood red, his slits as pupils, his canine teeth longer and sharper than the Inuzuka Clans'. The lady gaze shifted from the Uchiha to the blond. Frowning she quickly moved before either of them reacted.
"This ought to keep you quiet and still for awhile." She said as her right had glowed a purple on each finger with a white kanji from the number one through five. She slammed it down on his stomach.
The blond landed on the tree base with a loud 'thud' before he rolled over, slowly falling to the forest floor. A stray kunai whizzed to catch Naruto's jumpsuit, nailing him to a tree where he dangled unconscious.
His necklace glinting in the sunlight as he continued to dangle unaware of the outside world. Sasuke glared full-force at the snake lady who was back on her other side.
"Now that he's gone." Her gaze back on Sasuke, glee and malice in her eyes. Sasuke was about to move to attack when he felt something strong that brought him to his knees. The snake lady felt scarier than before. The ravenette tried to back away but he was frozen on the spot.
"You are feeling my KI right now."
"Please, we'll give you scroll, just leave us alone." The ravenette begged, feeling hopeless. A sense of despair was running through his veins. It felt as if he was eight again.
His aniki was back. He was scared. He needed someone. Shaking her head the snake lady frowned. "It looks like I don't want you after all." She took a threatening step forward.
Sakura (forgot about her…) shouted. "Don't give up Sasuke-kun!" The ravenette still on his knees with the heaven scroll in his hands. She knew only one thing would snap him out of his stupor.
Bellowing to him, "Naruto wouldn't have done this! Are you a dobe just like him?" Sasuke frowned; no he wasn't a stupid dobe. He slowly got up putting the scroll away. Looking with new fierce determination he closed his eyes.
Opening them suddenly, this time instead of pure black eyes they were a deep red with two tomoe in each eye. "No." He answered, as he quickly ran to attack the snake lady who engaged him in an intense taijutsu battle.
Dodging, kicking. Defending against various limbs all aiming for a vital spot. The girl moved like a snake, slippery and not letting him get close.
Sasuke bounded of the trees while blowing various sized fireballs at the lad who didn't let one get close, blowing them each away with a strong wind jutsu each time. Sasuke could see every movement.
Moving toward the girl he grabbed her in the air. Using all four limbs he held her tight, switching her position upside down. The two spiraled fast toward the ground, Sasuke holding her tighter and tighter until an audible 'thud' was heard.
Sasuke moved away watching the woman fall to the ground. Trying to see if she was dead, the Uchiha moved cautiously toward her body.
It quickly melted into a deep brown. Sasuke's eyes widened and he slowly backed away. Though, the snake lady was suddenly behind him, punching from behind. He fell on the ground where the raven curled into a protective ball.
In a mocking tone she said, "The Uchiha name must be crying at such a weak child." Sasuke glared up at the arrogant lady before smiling, shocked the chocolate hair lady who felt something go off on her back.
Getting back up nimbly, Sasuke quickly grabbed two shuriken, ninja wire tied around them, throwing them around his opponent while jumping off the large oak tree going around several times as he made sure everything was tight.
The women's eyes were wide. Sasuke stood in the middle of all the wire. Taking a huge breath, flashing through tens of signs before stopping at horse. Fire erupted around him, licking at his body like a mother's gentle touch before the fire formed into a giant dragon, roaring loudly scaring several large predators. Waiting next to Sasuke for command, the raven simply pointed at the stunned woman.
The dragon growled before slamming into the woman and tree, going through both. The woman screamed as she felt the fire burning at her very being, then it stopped. Her face was torn and sagging revealing an even paler face with golden eyes and black slits as the pupils. Hair a solid black, eye outlined with a light purple. Sasuke's body slumped to the ground, tired from everything.
"Kukuku…" She laughed as she broke from her restrains. "It seems I do want you after all, Sasuke-kun~." She said as her gaze turned into a sort of look a happy child gave only when they got something they had been wanting.
"Your eyes hold so much more potential than his. Your really Itachi's brother."
"Who are you?" Sasuke whispered. Everything had hurt, he was ready to give up and sleep for awhile.
"Why, I am Orochimaru, the snake Sannin." He or She gave them a smile, before extending their neck to bite Sasuke's. He hadn't had time to defend himself even if could. A black mark with three Sharingan-like tomoe appeared. (Freaky kind of hickey.) (Orochimaru's personal hickey, maybe.)
Sasuke screamed, dropping to the ground holding his neck. "What did you do to me?" Sasuke panted. "I gave you a present." Turning to face to the pink haired girl as he/she sunk into the ground.
"Sasuke will come to me for power. No doubt." Then they disappeared. Sakura dropped to Sasuke's side.
"Sasuke-kun what's wrong?" She asked worriedly as she tried to inspect him.
She gasped as she saw the black seal. Still trying to stand up but falling to the ground Sasuke was in searing pain. It felt as if his inside were being burned. "Hang on Sasuke-kun!" Sakura as she tried to give him whatever comfort she could.
Sasuke's world was spinning, it was getting dark and hard to see. The raven fell onto Sakura's lap, out cold, and if this wasn't such a crucial moment Sakura would have squealed in delight.
It was sunset now and the pinkette didn't know what to do. Calling out, hoping Naruto would come back to the awake world. "Naruto! Sasuke-kun….Sasuke-kun…" But if fell on deaf ears, her gaze switched between her now still orange teammate, his usual expression full of emotion was now void of any of it, at least to her knowledge.
Her gaze dropped to the Uchiha on her lap, his normally void expression replaced with pain written all over it.
"I don't know what to do. Please help." She whispered as she watched the sky darken.
I hope you all liked that. Don't worry PeinxNaru will happen soon! Oh, yeah my beta and I were talking, how soon do you want pein/naru? He is thirteen right now and Pein is like 25-26. So I won't have anything major yet unless you want that. Oh yeah I need a song preferably from evanescence to match this chapter. In fact the whole chunin exams.