Chapter III
Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata leaned casually against the fence of the Forest of Death as Anko looked at them in irritation. Why did these particular gakis think that they were hardcore? She humphed and crossed her arms before she began her speech. She grinned evily at the Genin. She placed her hands on her hips and looked over all the prospective genin as they shivered in fear from a bloodlust roar from deep within the forest.
"That's right. Here is where the second part will be located Your task is to make your way to tthe tower at the center of the forest. You mahy use whatever means nessecary. However, there is a catch." She said as she held up two scrolls barining the kanji for Heavan and Earth. "You must arrive with both a heavan and an earth scroll. This will gurantee that only half, at most will move on."
Another ear splitting roar caused several of them to take a few steps back in fear. Anko grinned.
"They call it the forest of death. And soon, you'll know why."
Naruto snorted as Anko rounded on him.
"Just give us our damn scroll and open the gates Anko-san."
Anko glared and hurled a kunai at him that he batted away with his hand. Before she could do more than hiss a few choice words at the blonde, one of the Chunin helping with the test walked over to her and handed her a clipboard.
"Your lucky gaki. If I didn't have to fill out this paperwork, I'd have your blood." She hissed as she headed off to what had to be the operations tent.
"You sure it's wise to piss her off, Naruto?" Sasuke asked him casually.
"Eh. It's okay. She won't kill me cause I reminder her too much of her childhood crush." Naruto said, smirking.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Really? So what happened?" Sakura asked.
Naruto grinned.
"Let's just say that I'm glad my first time was willingly with Hinata. The fifth from Anko was very rough."
Sasuke's jaw dropped while Sakira's eyes widened and looked like they'd never return back to their original size.
"She...she had her way with you." Sakura asked with a gasp.
"Yeah, but we were both hammered that night. Besides, Hinata took care of it the next day. Right Hinata? Hinata?" Naruto looked around for her and saw her targeting Anko with a kunai.
Naruto grabbe grabed her wrist. She turned to him with an innocent look.
"What? I was going to do anything, honest."
Naruto smirked.
"Nice try. No impaling the exam proctor with kunai. Besides, she hasn't done anything yet." He told her.
Hinata humphed and crossed her arms, the kunai back in her pouch. She reached a hand up to run it through her heair when she reminded herself that she had cut it short when she was younger.
"Ugh. I miss my hair. Someone explain to me why I have it this short?" She asked.
"Becuase we were all stupid as kids. That and, you thought that since Naruto and Sasuke were polar opposites, and that girls said that Sasuke like girls with long hair, you figured that Naruto liked short hair. Which is actually reverse. Sasuke likes short hair and Naruto likes long hair." Sakura explained.
"Oh. Yeah. I remember that reason now." She muttered.
Naruto got himself punched for the menaical laughter at everyone's reverse logic when they were kids.
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"B-but boss! We need this interveiw!" Konohamaru whined.
Naruto felt his headache mounting as he pinched the bridge of his nose.
"No. For the final time. We will not give you and interveiw about the forest of death untill we've gone through the forest of death. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?" Naruto asked him.
The three students mumbled about stupid olders kids and stormed off back to the Academy. Naruto shook his head and walked back to his team. He motioned for Sakura and Sasuke to come over along with Kiba. They all waited for what he had to say.
"Alright. Sakura, Sasuke, Hinata? It's time to start bringing in the others starting with Kiba and Shino. We'll meet up in the prearranged spot. Then yes, Sasuke, we wll go after hebi so you can kill him again." Naruto told a smirking Sasuke.
Kiba looked at Shino who shook his head, signifiying that he had no idea what they were talking about. Before any questions could be asked, they heard a whistle blast an knew that the test would soon commence.
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Naruto and Team 8 arroved at the rendevous with Team 7. The four shinobi of the future nodded and they all sat down, followed by Shino and Kiba. Their rendevous was high up in the trees meaning they were safe from interlopers.
"Alright. What is it that you have to tell us?" Kiba demanded.
Naruto looked at the others and nodded. They each stood up and flashed a few handsigns. Kiba and Shino saw a seal on each of their wrists glow brightly before each of them was enveloped in a bright light. Kiba and Shino covered their eyes as the light fadded. What they say shocked them. Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke were there alright, but they looked older. Sasuke had a scar that ran down the right side of his face from his temple to his jaw. His hair was longer and his eyes shown red from the fully mature sharingan. He was wearing a traditional Anbu uniform and Kiba noticed the sword strapped to his back.
Sakura had her hair short and was also wearing an Anbu Uniform. Shino could see a small scar on her left arm. She had a pair of Tonfu attached to her thighs and they could see the womanly body she had develpoed felt his jaw drop and drool start as he looked at Hinata. She wore the traditional Jounin vest with it unzipped. He figured she couldn't zip it because of the size of her chest. She had waist length hair and looked absolutly stunning. Even Shino had a small blush.
But what caused them to gasp the most was Naruto. He looked just like the Fourth. He had long blonde hair that framed his face and he had on his black jacket like cloak with his Jounin vest underneth of it. What then got their astonishemnt were two things: He and Hinata both had gold bands of their fingers and when Naruto turned around, they saw written on his jacket proudly were the words Rokudaime Hokage. Kiba opened and closed his mouth several times while Shino had to remove his sunglasses.
"What...what is the meaning of this henge?" Kiba asked.
Shino shook his head.
"It's no henge Kiba. This is them. No illusion." He told his teammate.
"But, but they have to be almost twenty!" Kiba said pointing at them.
"Actually, Twenty-two." Sakura told him with amusement.
Kiba's jaw dropped even further while Shino put his glasses back on.
"So...You must be from the future. I'm assuming that Sakura and Sasuke are the Anbu Captains assigned to protect the Hokage and his wife." Shino guessed.
"Nah. They just wanted to come along for the ride." Naruto told him, smiling.
"I see. My apologies...Hokage-sama." Shino said uneasily.
"No. It's just Naruto for now."
Shino nodded while Kiba looked at his and Hinata's wedding ring.
"So..." He began, turning red.
Naruto cut him off before he could continue.
"Now is not the time. We brought you hear to bring you into our little plan." He told them.
Both boys exchanged looks before facing them.
"What did you have in mind?"
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Kiba was shocked. And he was confused.
"But...Your Rokudaime Hokage! You run the village! Why would you want to destroy it?" Kiba demanded as Shino restrained him.
Naruto gave him a bored look.
"Because it is beyond saving. We tried several times but it didn't work. This is the fifth time we've tried altering the history of the village to prevent it's destruction. We went back to the founding of the village, altered it to where the Uchiha never joined, but then the Hyuuga clan became the arrogant ones and they were massacured by Neji. So, we tried altering the Uchiha massacre, but it still caused a rebellion and allowed control of the village to fall to those who are causing the problems. We tried to change Sasuke's retrival. It didn't help that Sasuke killed his younger self." Naruto said smirking.
Sasuke sighed.
"The me in that timeline was way too hell bent on getting revenge. I had too."
Naruto shook his head.
"And we just came from an attempt to keep Danzo from getting his hands on the temporary position of Rokudaime Hokage." Naruto finished.
Shino and Kiba both sat in silence before Kiba spoke up.
"But..why did you come here?"
"Becuase in jumping around we realized that Danzo is the cause. We narrowed it down and the best chance to destroy him is this time period." Hinata told him.
"Then just kill him! Don't harm the rest!" Kiba counted.
Sakura shook her head.
"No. His influnce is too strong. One more will just step into his place. Besides, we have to level the village to destroy all his hidden facilities and such. Along with his failed expiriments." She told him.
"And most of the civilian population are under the effects of Danzo's hypnosis. We kill him, they attack Konoha from the inside out. Like an infection."
Kiba and Shino were quiet. They knew that anyone with a connection to Danzo would be under his spell. They each knew that this meant their clan heads and their own clan councils. Kiba hung his head while Shino looked to them with multiple emotions.
"It's the logical thing...and the right thing, even if it will hurt." Shino stated, thinking of his father.
Hinata looked at him puzzled before she understood what he meant.
"No. No. The Clan heads are not affected. Only the council members of the clan are along with the civilian council." She corrected them.
Both of them looked relieved before they nodded.
"Alright. We'll help."
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Naruto sighed as they waited patiently in the forest clearing, waiting for Orochimaru to make his move. He glanced over and saw Hinata's questioning look.
"Yes?"
"Why can't we stay adult?" She asked him queitly.
Naruto sighed.
"Becuase that seal is kinda like a summoning. It allowed us to summon out older forms while we inhabited the bodies. However, we can only hold those forms for a little while. Our bodies, when we came back were actually our youngerselves bodies. With our minds being stronger than theirs, they were, for all intents and purposes were absorbed into our minds."
Hinata looked at him for a second before shrugging.
"Okay."
Naruto smiled as he went back to watching Team 7. They didn't have long to wait before a massive blast of wind slammed into their clearing, scattering them. Naruto saw the snake move into the area and began to attack Sakura and Sasuke. The Blonde smirked as he watched Orochimaru falter at their unexpected strength. He could see the snake's worry. Naruto grinned and signaled Hinata. The pair fadded from view. Orochimaru ducked just in time before a kunai sliced right where he had been. He looked up to see two more Genin arrive, these two also impossible strong. He recoginized one as Uzumaki the Kyuubi container. The other was a Hyuuga. He could tell by her pale, pupiless eyes. All four glared at him with such hate and intensity that even he had to take an involuntary step back.
"So. More cannon fodder. Oh well. I'll just kill you all and mark Sasuke as mine." Orochimaru told them as he prepared himself to launch his attack.
Naruto grinned.
"Bring it on you old teme."
Orochimaru glare daggers at him as he tensed.
"You'll die first!" He screamed as he rushed them.
Naruto moved foreward, the others simply held back and watched. The snake sneered. They were confident, he'd give them that. But noone could take him on alone and win. Naruto brought his knee up. Orochimaru slapped away his knee, but he didn't see the fist that slammed into his jaw. Orochimaru stumbled back and glared at Naruto who grinned at him.
"Heh. Guess we're not just canon fodder, huh?"
"Lucky shot. You won't get another one!" Orochimaru screamed as he rushed him again.
Naruto dodged the attack as he accessed the demonic chakra inside him. Naruto began to cover himself with dark red chakra, however, it was absorbed into his skin. As they watched, his ears elongated as his chakra tails solidified into real tails. His eyes gained slit pupils, turning blood red as his canines lengthened. Naruto glared at Orochimaru as he tensed his body, his blonde hair defiying gravity. Naruto vanished in a blur of speed. The Snake recived a powerful kick to the chin, sending him skyward. Naruto lept into the air, pulling his leg back before slamming it into his chest, hurling him horizantal to the ground. Naruto, defeying gravity, appeared over him. Naruto coiled back his arm, slamming his fist into Orochimaru's face, sending him into the ground with enough force to create a crater. Naruto landed in front of him, before back flipping, bringing his heel down onto the Snake's chest. Just before the attack connected, he melted into the ground.
"Curse you Kyuubi brat! I'll kill you for this!"
They stayed on their guard for several moments before they relaxed. Sasuke shook his head while Hinata hugged him tightly. Naruto chuckled.
"It's okay hime. I'm stronger than almost everyone on the planet. Very few could even come close to harming me."
Hinata smiled as she remembered just who it was that was stronger than him.
"Fine. But next time, we're helping." She told him sternly.
Naruto agreeed becuase even he wasn't stupid enough to argue with his better half.
