Senju and Uchiha

Note: Hey guys this is just a depiction or story that I worked out considering the possibilities of what might have happened if Sasuke was a Senju and Naruto was an Uchiha. I know there are a lot of stories out there similar to this one but one thing is certain I will check any suggestion given by anybody who happens to read this. For those of you who have not seen Naruto , I would personally recommend watching or reading the Manga but don't get addicted to it. There are quite many spoilers or some chapters or parts of the story similar to the actual story so BEWARE OF SPOILERS and if you haven't seen or read the actual story and then proceed to read this story I am not responsible so I would personally tell you to read this story later. Thank you for reading this. I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. ALL RIGHTS TO MASASHI KISHIMOTO.

CHAPTER 7

" Looks like we finally reached to the point of chunin exams huh" Minato looked outside the office to see preparations. "This year we have five teams from Konoha itself. One from Suna and many teams including one from Iwa too so we need to increase security greatly. The Annu nodded their heads and left. The five jounin were left. Minato started "You five have shown great leadership over many missions and also taught your students really well to make them ready for the chunin exams so I wish you people best of luck. Now I hope you will go and give a bit of encouraging for your students". The five jounin left but Minato noticed the anger in Kakashi's eyes. "You saw it too huh Minato?" The Third hokage entered the room. Minato stood up "Sandaime sama". Hiruzen waved his hand at the sama part but asked once more. Minato looked down "Yes I noticed it. Its because of Naruto after all he is Kakashi's most skilled but also the worst student of his". Hiruzen looked at the picture of Senju Hashirama who was the first hokage "Its just like the old times but then again I wouldn't call Naruto as worst…you see skill always comes at a cost but there are some who are like your son from the very beginning. It wouldn't be right if we were to blame Naruto completely as it isn't his fault" Minato looked down "I'm afraid I don't understand" Hiruzen saw the village "Tell me Minato how would you feel if you are all alone and nobody cares? You would be angry right? More than Anger, you would want revenge. The same way, Naruto has also suffered a lot of pain such as witnessing the murder of his family by the one person who he considered as a brother. Of course revenge would come but Itachi is still a lot more high rank than Naruto is now so he focused everything on Training and did not pay attention to details such as his attitude and sadly his friendship…similar to Shisui and Itachi. The difference being they had each other, Now Naruto has none other than Sayuri but I don't understand why he pushes anyone far from him". Minato got up "Do you think he doesn't want to go through that exact feeling he felt during the massacre?" Hiruzen closed his eyes "Yes Quite right but there are some mysteries that add a lot of suspense to it nevertheless I guess its only a matter of time before something like that occurs in the first place". Minato took his hokage hat "Well I guess we have to start the ceremony then". Minato teleported himself leaving the third hokage to think for some time. Hiruzen imagined the face of Uchiha Madara and hoped that Naruto would not follow his ancestor's way but gave up thinking about it anyway.

NINJA ACADEMY: ALL STUDENTS ASSEMBLED THERE

"All students welcome to the chunin exams. First of all I congratulate you on getting qualified here and second for agreeing that Konoha being made the place for the chunin exams. Please proceed forward to the first exam". "Hey where is Naruto?" Sakura tried searching for Naruto through the crowd but spotted team 7 without Sasuke. "Hey thats weird, even Sasuke isn't there". "Looking for someone?" Team 10 looked up to see Naruto sitting on a tree. "Nar..Naruto is that you?" Sayuri looked at him. Naruto jumped down "I believe I have always looked like this Sayuri". Sakura clenched her fists "Where were you huh? You think appearing late like kakashi sensei is cool?". Naruto sighed "I have been here since the start. Now if I remember correctly, I think we should go". "Sasuke there you are, you know hanging out with kakashi all the time does make you a lot lazy" Mito said after punching her brother. Sasuke and Naruto narrowed their eyes on each other. "Are you listening? Where were you?" Mito screamed not noticing the eye contact made by the rivals. Sasuke got up "Long story lets go". Team 10 approached the staircase where two guards were present. "Hey brats can't you read the chunin exam is on the second floor so why are you going up?". Naruto smiled "I am gonna ask you politely to move aside" in a voice that promised pain. Attention was caught towards the Staircase. "Hey Naruto..it does say on the second floor so why?". One of the chunin "Doesn't have common sense. I'll kick you.." The chunin collapsed due to quick chop by Naruto towards his neck. "Hey are you alright. What is your problem huh" the other chunin was starting to attack Naruto who caught his hand "I did say something very politely now didn't I ?". Sayuri stopped. Naruto "Enough Naruto, he is doing his duty so lets forget it for now". "But what's wrong? We are on the second floor" Sakura looked at the board. Sayuri looked at the sign "Its genjutsu". Naruto opened the door "I think we might be a bit late so hurry up". The two kunoichi followed their lone member up. Team 7 arrived "Hey whats this all about?" Sasuke looked at the fallen chunin. The conscious chunin looked at his comrade "Th..that b…boy he did it". Sasuke clenched his fist "I will fight him somehow. Mito , Sai come on". Before entering the hallway. Team 10 was stopped by Rock lee. "Naruto Uchiha of team 10". Naruto stopped and turned around to see a boy with bushy brows in an absurd outfit. "I challenge you to a duel". Naruto was turning around when "Are you scared of me?". Naruto turned his head and his sharingan was activated. Lee stepped back a bit but jumped down. Naruto smiled "Its rare to see somebody so eager to fight me". Lee went into his fighting stance "I am definetly not the only one who wants to fight this year's rank 1 genin of Konoha!". "Ready or not Naruto kun, here comes the swirling hurricane". Naruto was surprised by his speed but was able to dodge it with ease and threw kunai at Lee. Lee dodged everything and for a second, tried to check whether he was under a genjutsu by punching his arm. The moment he punched his arm, Naruto's fist made contact with his body. "So all this while, I was inside a genjutsu huh" Lee fell down but got up again. Naruto wiped the dust of his shirt "You have endurance". Lee jumped at Naruto and tried to use his lotus style which Naruto allowed himself to do to check Lee's strength. His teammates particularly one was worried for his safety but knew Naruto would not like it if someone would interfere again. Suddenly Naruto was caught by the tape in Lee's hands and Lee started spinning and crashed down. Sayuri was about to scream but was stopped by Sakura who pointed to the other side where Naruto was standing. Lee got up half tired "How?" The truth was a simple one … Naruto had created a clone and the real one was substituted into a chair nearby to avoid suspicion but Naruto had to accept that the pain felt by his clone was quite dangerous. "LEE!" Lee got down and started apologizing to a turtle whom everyone considered weird. Then suddenly Might Guy appeared and started to talk to Lee which made Lee cry. "Don't use that till I tell you. Oh is that Naruto kun? Would you like to join our sprngtime of youth". Naruto with sweatdrops "Nope but thank you for the offer though". Guy fell into tears "Who knew that Kakashi's team had a wonderful person" and they went into their sunset pose freaking everyone out. Sayuri looked at Naruto "Are you alright?". Naruto nodded. They reached the main hallway where the door was. kakashi was waiting for them there or more precisely two of them there. "Ahh there you people are" Kakashi put the book down and smiled "Congrats on making it here. This is the final time we will meet until round three so good luck and put your best effort into it". The two kunoichi nodded while Naruto narrowed his eyes on Kakashi who did the same at him. "Well now go ahead". Before Team 10 moved forward, Naruto looked at Sayuri "You know Sayuri, I think you should be the captain of the team". At first she refused saying that the strongest should lead but Naruto insisted since Sayuri and Sakura showed great teamwork and coordination and since Sayuri was at good terms with everybody like how exactly a captain should be with others.

The door opened and the large room was filled with so many genin. The other Konoha teams were already present. Most of the genin's eyes were fixed on Naruto and Sasuke, the obvious fact being their rank. Mito felt disgusted "Hmm so this is what it is to be top huh..I feel like there is almost no attention or respect for the rest but oh well its not like we didn't expect it". Shikamaru looked at Naruto and Sasuke "Oh god these people are both strong. I wonder where I will be but its troublesome to think". Sai smirked "A perfect chance to spy". The sand siblings had their eyes fixed on Naruto especially Gaara "I still don't know how he was able to do that but I'll kill him for sure…for mother's sake". The team from Iwagakure consisting of kurotsuchi, akatsuchi and another ninja Kai. Kurotsuchi narrowed her eyes on Sasuke as he was the son of the yellow flash who was the most hated man in Iwa. The team from kumogakure consisted of Omoi, Karui and A who was the raikage's son. "Hey see that boy in black? He is said to be Konoha's rank one. Rank one? I thought that the hokage's son was rank one". The other teams particularly Team Guy was interested in Naruto as they hadn't seen him at all and were seeing him for the first time. Neji clenched his fist "So he is Naruto huh. It is his fate to lose against me for sure". Sasuke simply shouted "HAHA I am gonna become hokage. You people watch out!". Some genin simply were amused by his antics while others had sweatdrops or did not react at all like Naruto. However this might have caused civil war where Kiba and his dog became angry "Oye I am gonna become hokage okay. You have no chance agains't me". Ino sighed "This fool started again". Some genin started talking "Hey listen to that fool HAHA". Kiba sulked in the corner when he heard such hate comments. Outside Kakashi sighed but was relieved and for once happy when he heard Naruto's decision and also when he heard Sasuke shout like that "He really likes to shout huh". A purple coloured ninja appeared "Oh you people are also from Konoha? Me too". Kabuto introduced himself "….if you want to know about others, tell me their names and I will give their info to you…the history isn't important". Sasuke looked at Naruto "Hmm I don't want to know about him but wait that Gaara..". Sasuke looked at Gaara "I will have his card" Kabuto gave Gaara's card to Sasuke. "Oh 4 A rank missions, 1 S rank! And many B ranks.. He is strong". Neji came up next " I will have Naruto's card". Kabuto looked at Naruto and with a little smirk "Here you go". Neji looked at the card " 2S rank! 5 A ranks…He has the complete sharingan and no other info" Neji looked at Naruto with his byakugan "I'll defeat him". Kabuto spoke "I have information about major genin but not about minor genin like the new village genin". Three genin inside the room were alerted. One of them with the long hair "Lets go!". The three raced through the class and attacked Kabuto. Kabuto dodged the attack but suddenly the long hair genin used his hand with a device and Kabuto fell down. Neji looked at his team "You were able to see them right?". Lee and Tenten nodded. The sound genin looked at his victim "So what were you talking about? Small and minor village huh? Fool can't even protect himself". Sasuke intercepted "Hey thats enough". The sound ninja looked at Sasuke's menacing eyes "Tch fine whatever. At least tell your fool to mind himself and certainly not insult villages like that". Kabuto stood up "Thanks for your help Sasuke".

Sasuke looked at Kabuto "But it doesn't seem that you are a genin?". Kabuto laughed "Well I have failed the chunin exams seven times and each time I was better prepared as I collected information about different genin..it may seem pesky but it works" Naruto looked at him "Hmph what a waste" Sasuke looked at his rival in anger "Hey what is your problem if he is still a genin? Even you are one". Naruto narrowed his eyes at Sasuke "Both of us know who we are Sasuke. I hope you know that much at least". The room felt a battle brew up with the spiking of two great chakra. The genin surrounding them didn't do anything as they expected this and had witnessed this since the academy days.

FLASHBACK:

Iruko Umino looked at the two genin standing in front of him "Okay Let the battle begin!". Back then the only person who cheered for Naruto was Sayuri though the latter did not notice however each time, the result was nearly the same. Either Sasuke lost or they resulted in a draw. Even the simplest duels were fought with hate, anger but most of all..EXCITEMENT! Each time they fought, each left some damage on the other and helped build strength and their rivalry increased". "I will take you down Naruto!" Sasuke said before charging towards Naruto who was waiting patiently, a clash of fists and kicks increased attention towards the duel and before long, the whole academy was watching through the glass or were present in the field. Both would get hit equally but when it came to genjutsu Naruto would win but did not want to reveal his sharingan and could inflict low level genjutsu so they skipped to the ninjutsu part which was the speciality of them both. Sasuke did his seals "Suiton : Mizurappa!" A strong jet of water was directed towards Naruto who did his seals as well "Katon : Goukakyou no Jutsu" A huge fireball intercepted the jet and even though there was a disadvantage for Naruto, he blocked it well. The rest of the class were silent as they were witnessing such things at a pretty early age but continuing cheering on. Naruto then engaged Sasuke in a battle but this time with the wooden kunai they were given. The sound of wood clashing wood was clearly heard and seen. Iruka was going to cancel the fight but was having a hard time with the crowd gathering. "Looks like we are going to have to complete this quickly what say? Make this the last move?" Sasuke said while engaging Naruto. Naruto landed to his corner while Sasuke landed back to his corner. The two hurled kunai and shuriken at each other but were almost equally matched but Naruto won that round. Sasuke powered up his remaining strength "Okay here goes" after a combination of hand seals "SUITON: HAHONRYUU!(Destruction torrent) while Naruto also powered up and immediately did his hand seals "KATON :ZUKOKKU (An A rank jutsu)" a huge amount of water collided with burning hot flames and the result was a draw as both corners had fainted. Since they were both genin, the power of their jutsu during that time was comparatively far less than the actual but it would have ended differently had Naruto used his sharingan but Sasuke hadn't used his potential wood element as a safety measure and hence the match was over. It was the last fight they fought in the academy as they were suspended and yelled at by the teachers for using jutsu as the duel was supposed to be an only taijutsu one. The class respected both but when it came to power, both were almost equally matched and no genin would dare attack either one of them.

PRESENT:

"What's going on here?" Ibiki appeared. The genin looked at the man with scars on his face "That guy is creepy". Ibiki looked at the group of genin "Hmm thats a massive crowd this year. Five teams from Konoha alone! The top dogs as I heard it were an uchiha boy and the hokage's son". Ibiki turned his head towards Sasuke. In his mind "Yes thats him. From what I heard, he is a kind boy and protects everyone". Ibiki noticed the uchiha symbol on a boy "So that is him. Naruto Uchiha. Nobody knows much about him including the hokage. Kakashi also instucted me to try and keep an eye on him". Naruto's eyes narrowed on Ibiki which made him a bit nervous "What was that?..Never mind I have to start". Ibiki stood on the podium "Welcome to the chunin exams. Now we will start the first exam which is a test. Some genins murmurred "What? I thought this was supposed to be about strength". "THis is c***" some genin shouted. Ibiki shouted "QUIET! Attempt this now or LEAVE!". The genin sat down in their respective places. Most of them were separated from their teams. Naruto looked around "Hmm the no of chunin present in the room means that they won't just let us write in peace". Sasuke sat down next to Hinata much to Sakura's and Ino's jealousy. Hinata blushed seeing the hokage's son sitting next to him unfortunatley Sasuke wasn't in a mood to talk rather he was focusing on the test and obviously Naruto but did not fail to notice the no of chunin in the room "Obviously they have something else in their mind about this test". Ibiki cleared his throat "Hmm now these are the test papers. Remember one thing though. Try to cheat and thats it". The papers were handed out. Sasuke had a sweatdrop and so did the others except a few. Naruto saw the paper and silently laughed "Great I don't know any of these but I do recognise some questions as Hinoko told me some facts but this is defintly anbu level intelligence and not even close to chunin level". "Your exam starts NOW!" The whole class started to try and remember whatever they could. Sasuke stopped, he may have been top in his class but his intelligence was nowhere close to this "What do I do? Wait a second. I'll consider myself as average and then definetly there should be some other average people here? How are they doing?" Sasuke tried to look around carefully when he saw others in a panic mode but observed Naruto with his sharingan activated and copying a person who seemed to know everything. Sasuke smirked "How foolish I was. This test is basically how to steal information from others. Well then Naruto, I'm not far behind myself in stealth". Sasuke closed his eyes and immediately held the tiger symbol. Just like how Yamato used to travel through matter (Solids), he could do it too at a smaller scale. He managed to go under the table or rather through it and saw the genin who was being copied by Naruto. Sasuke copied most of the answers and returned back. One of the chunin tried to see what was going on but couldn't understand. Ibiki smiled "Hmm he is quite smart but question is how did he manage to locate him?" Ibiki looked to see Naruto close his eyes as much as possible and write "Oh he saw him huh. The question is how did he..?". An instant later, Shikamaru figured the purpose of the test and began to use his shadow possession to his advantage. The only people who could solve the paper included the chunin present as they knew the answers and one more member. A member who was known for solving questions unfortunately for Sakura, she was struck by Ino's mind technique while writing the paper. Many others were there as well such as Shino and Kiba using the help of their animals to get the answers while Gaara used his third eye and Dosu using the frequency of the sound vibrating through the air from the disguised chunin. Seeing others copying including Naruto, Sayuri decided to copy too but this team she copied Sakura as she was the most academic of the class. Ino used her mind transmission on Sakura. I will leave this until the last question. Ibiki shouted "Well done now for the last question!…Even if you have answered a question wrong, you can make it up in this question. But either attempt it this year and get the right answer only or try next year". The number of genuine had reduced due to copying. A number of genin started booing at the examiner who stayed firm. Eventually some left the exam. Naruto sighed "What a pain now". Sasuke pointed his finger "It doesn't matter whether we lose or not…" and with that motivation speech, Ibiki smiled "YOU ALL PASS". Skip part until Anko appears. Anko crashed through the window in her weird outfit but enough to make some genin have a bloody nose. "Huh whats this Ibiki? So many genin…maybe you are losing your touch". Ibiki sighed "Nope. Maybe there are many great genin here this time". Anko looked at the batch "Hmph Whatever. Hey you brats come to the forbidden forest by the next hour or you are disqualified" with that she teleported. "Hey who was she huh ordering us like that?" Sakura was ready to pound her until Sayuri calmed her down. Sayuri looked at Naruto "Hey Sakura, I think we should tell Naruto some of the formations before leaving". Naruto on the other hand looked at Sasuke with his narrowing eyes until "YO NARUTO KUN! Would you like to train in the springtime of youth?" Naruto sighed "Hey lee, I know you like your springtime or whatever but I don't want to learn it or rather think of it like I am not good for it!". Lee had tears in his eyes and did his pose "I'll remember the great youthfullness you have!".

Naruto closed his eyes for a second and then "Sayuri , Sakura I think we must leave for the forest". Sayuri wanted to apologise for something but something made her ignore it. Sakura clenched his fist "HEY DON'T BOSS US AROUND". Naruto looked at Sakura "Oh yeah, I'm no longer captain". Sakura had no expressions. She thought that Naruto would ignore her like always but how? Sayuri looked at Naruto worringly "I haven't seen him for the past few weeks and his attitude is radical. If this continues on, I don't think he will speak to anyone". Sayuri interrupted "No its fine Naruto. Sakura was just not thinking straight so why don't you lead us after all you are the stronger than both of us so it seems fit for you to do it". Naruto looked at Sayuri "Then its settled. Come to the forbidden forest quickly" Sayuri nodded. With that Naruto teleported. Sayuri looked at her hands "What has happened to you Naruto? Why have gone so far and distant from all of us?". Sasuke saw all of it and decided something "Mito come here a second". Team 7 discussed something and then as soon as team 10 was leaving "Wait Sayuri!". Sayuri turned around to see Sasuke "Yes what happened Sasuke?". Sasuke gave her something "I noticed something and since our teams have been allies during the month. This here is a flare. When something is wrong, just apply some chakra and then it will explode indicating that you are in danger and then our team will come as fast as we can towards you. Its more like a beacon". Sayuri held it "I don't know if he.." Sasuke put his hands on her shoulders "Look Sayuri. I understand you care for him but understand this. Just because he is strong and cunning, doesn't mean that he is the best. One must also have some relations or friends for that matter. Moreover, You are the captain?". Sayuri nodded when Mito interrupted "Also its not only our beacon but also the rest of the Konoha teams can sense it so you can call for help whenever you require it because it doesn't seem like your other team member has any sense towards it. But be wary, not all of us may be allies during the second phase as my mother used to say that this was where half the remaining number gets cut". Sayuri smiled at that. Mito had always hated Naruto for one reason which was his attitude and skill other than being the top rank. "Well lets be off then".

FORBIDDEN FOREST:

Some genuine saw the creepy looking forest "He..hey is th..that our ne..next test?". The other genin "I..I thin..tink so". Naruto arrived there "Oh so this is the the most creepy training ground huh. Many areas of this place are still unexplored according to Hinoko" He saw most of the genin teams arrive and saw Gaara's team arrive "I don't why but something that I felt in Sasuke is kinda same with him. What can it be?". Team 10 and team 7 arrived. Sayuri spotted Naruto "Thank you for your support. We will be leaving". Sasuke narrowed his eyes on naruto "Sayuri remember what we told you about the beacon. EVEN if he doesn't allow it". Sayuri nodded. Mito put her hand on Sasuke's shoulder "Oye how long will you look at him like that? I understand that you are rivals and all but you do understand he has gone farther and farther away from everybody. Instead of trying to pull him back, don't lose your path". Sasuke scratched his head "How many times have I told you to speak to me in simple words?". Mito sighed and spotted Sai looking at the two of them "Sai , I promise you I will kill you if you look or spy at us without letting us know what you are upto". Saw simply giggled in his weird smile.

Anko was eating some dumplings and at the same time spying at some of the genin present "Hmm that Ibiki was right. Many good genin are present here today. That reminds me the hokage's son sasuke should be here..ah there he is. He sure is strong from what I heard from Yamato. However he is not the top dog this year, from what I know his name is Uchiha Naruto and he has the mature sharingan. His skills as of now are unknown but from what Ibiki told me, he is dangerous…yep there he is with the long hair and the uchiha symbol. Well I think we have to start". "EVERYBODY! ASSEMBLE HERE!". Naruto covered his ears "Tch a pestering woman". Anko threw a kunai towards Naruto who dodged it easily. Anko appeared behind him and tried to cut a bit of his skin using another kunai but to her surprise, Naruto had teleported behind her by that time. Anko turned her head to see Naruto's sharingan deactivate "Genjutsu? When". Naruto narrowed his eyes on Anko "I don't remember any jounin who wanted to draw blood so soon". Anko was embarassed but nevertheless stood up "Well consider it luck kid". Some genin were amused while others did nothing. Gaara looked at Naruto menacingly "Mother wants his blood". Sasuke wanted to stop it but in the first place it was Anko's fault. A weird genin licked the kunai that Naruto dodged earlier "Yum that tastes good". He gave it to Anko who felt disgusted at that moment and threw it away at some tree pole. "Let me explain the rules". The team from Iwa observed it and their leader with the relatively short hair compared to the rest of the kunoichi other than sakura was surprised "Oye why is that we did not get any info on that guy? He also looks strong". Akatsuchi looked "Dunno? Maybe we were fixated on the target". The team from Kumo felt the same way.

AFTER EXPLAINING RULES:

Some genin teams quit as they thought it was better to live rather than try to raise ranks. Forty teams remained and that would mean only ten teams would pass in a worst case scenario. A looked at Naruto "Hmm a really strong competitor that guy. Even that Sasuke". Each team were given their scrolls. Anko shouted "REPORT TO YOUR GATES NOW!". All the teams went their ways but not before wishing others luck. Team 10's gate was no 33. Team 7's gate was no 22 while other teams also coincided. Ion asked Shikamaru "Hey shikamaru, do you think that our team is strong enough?". Shikamaru sighed "Huh I think so. But don't get your hopes too high that we will win this. Remember that Naruto and Sasuke? Just hope that we won't run into those guys in the process". Kurotsuchi on the other hand was thinking of destroying Sasuke at the test. As soon as the gates opened, all genin rushed into the huge unexplored forest trying to get through. After about some time, Naruto stopped "Wait this is no good. We need to create a password that only the three of us can understand". Sayuri nodded in agreement. Sakura thought for a minute "How about a name of a place all of us know?". Naruto closed his eyes. He had not spent too much time being with his teammates in the first place so that was a challenge. Sayuri noticed it "How about the training ground we first met?". Sakura smiled "Yeah thats got a good memory". Naruto looked at Sayuri and wanted to thank her but that would be unusual so he kept quiet. Nearby some tree leaves fell down and some bushes slowly rustled. Naruto stood up and threw a kunai towards it. The bush exploded with a loud sound, Sakura jumped back along with Sayuri "What was that for? There was nobody there..". Naruto looked up and saw the same genin who had licked the kunai disgusting others. Naruto took his scroll "Sayuri take this scroll and under no circumstances will you give it to anyone understood?". Naruto threw the scroll and Sayuri caught it "But why? We can also fight with you..Don't think that we will allow only you to do the clearing work". Naruto turned his head with his sharingan activated "That is no genin..that chakra is huge and dark enough". Sayuri stepped back seeing the bit of shock in Naruto's eyes. Sayuri closed her eyes "No not again. I won't step back from battles again and again. I too have have trained to become a kunoichi". Sayuri activated her sharingan and started to throw shuriken and kunai at the genin but not before handing the scroll to a freaked out Sakura. The genin giggled and landed down on the ground. Naruto did his seals and sent a huge heated fireball towards the genin. The genin was shocked to see the size of the fireball and the speed at which the seals were done but managed to dodge it. Sayuri ignored Naruto's attacks and charged ahead at the genin. The genin blocked all attacks of Sayuri with ease and even when Naruto tried to intervene, the genin's clone kept Naruto occupied. The genin laughed after dodging all moves of Sayuri "HAHA you call that a charge? Such a shame. Itachi was even better than you at this age". Sayuri froze at the name of her older brother while it was the opposite in Naruto's case. Naruto's eyes narrowed on the genin and with rage, destroyed the clone using the teleportation technique. The genin looked at Naruto "Kuku at least he is more useful than you are girl" with that Sayuri was sent flying by a kick from the genin and a fireball directly. Naruto attacked with full rage leaving the genin no time for a counter attack as well as as deliver a raging Zukokku. Naruto managed to burn the outfit of the genin badly enough to force the genin to escape temporarily. Naruto turned towards Sayuri who was frozen at that state badly. He clenched his fist "Sakura take care of Sayuri". Sakura nodded "But what about you?". Naruto looked towards the genin "Don't worry about me, I have to do something about him". Sakura could have sworn that she had seen the devil as it was the first time she had seen Naruto angry about something.

Meanwhile other teams had heard the explosion loud and clear. Sasuke's team had just defeated their prey and had taken their scroll when they heard it. "Hey do you think that it is one of us?". Mito nodded "I don't think so, otherwise we would have been alerted". Sai smiled while Sasuke looked towards the blast "I don't know why but I feel like it is team 10". Lee jumped at the sound of the blast "Someone's springtime of youth has exploded!" While his two team members sighed at his antics. Anko smiled at the sound of fighting "Looks like it has finally started". The genin came out into the clearing but this time without any disguises. Naruto stepped back a bit "No you can't be.. Orochimaru". Orochimaru smiled "Well well well. How lucky of me to bump into Konoha's rank one. You certainly are strong. Shisui's brother and yet you got defeated by Itachi so easily HAHA". Naruto knew it was a death wish to go and fight a sannin head on like that but there were limits on how much you can tease a person. Naruto unsealed something on his wrist. Orochimaru took out his weapon against Naruto's katana. Sakura saw the weapon on Naruto's hand "When..when did he have a weapon. Wait that beacon Sasuke kun told us about. Where was it?". The battle started. Orochimaru cast his jutsu while Naruto countered using his own jutsu. Orochimaru smiled "He sure is good. But is it good enough to defeat me?". Naruto did some hand seals "KATON: HOSENKA NO JUTSU!" A series of fireballs were directed at orochimaru who used the mud wall technique to block it. Naruto attacked Orochimaru with rage "What do you know about Itachi?!" Orochimaru jumped up while Naruto did not leave him at all "TELL ME!". Orochimaru could not believe that amount of rage inside Naruto "This boy, he is just like his brother fast and agile". Orochimaru landed on the clearing "Phew that was a good battle in a long time but now I have to finish things one…when did he reach here?". Naruto appeared next to Orochimaru and attempted to kick him but instead kicked a substitution. Orochimaru looked at the boy below the tree "When did I think that a low level jutsu like substitution would save me. GRR its my focus, if I had gone full into battle, he wouldn't survive but I need him to. After all he is my next body". Naruto broke the substitution and looked at Orochimaru. Orochimaru tried to catch him but instead got trapped by naruto's genjutsu "What? When". Naruto sent another fireball towards Orochimaru but this time Orochimaru's hands were stuck by the rope. The fireball hit Orochimaru leaving him a bit injured. Naruto landed on the branch "WIND ELEMENT: GREAT BREAKTHROUGH!". A gust of wind was directed at Orochimaru when he finally broke through and escaped but the poor tree got blown off or more precisely broken.

Orochimaru bit his thumb a bit and then " !". A giant snake was summoned. The size was enormous covering trees. Orochimaru was on top of it "So Naruto kun what is your move?". Naruto stepped back a bit when he heard it "Is this the might of Uchiha Shisui's brother? What a shame. No wonder you let Itachi kill everyone" Naruto stood there with his fist clenched "You…have gone…..one step too…far" in a voice that promised pain. Orochimaru giggled but failed to see Naruto creating a single hand seal "This jutsu was something my ancestor used". Orochimaru's eyes were different "It..It can't..It just can't be". A horse seal was implemented and then "KATON!: GOUKA MEKKYAKU!" a huge tsunami of fire was sent towards Orochimaru burning everything in its path. You could see fire from a long distance however since Naruto's chakra wasn't too much in quantity, he couldn't maintain it for a long time. Orochimaru first created a mud wall that got burnt and then "If that is the case then WATER DRAGON JUTSU!" From few of his clones. It took Orochimaru two clones to extinguish the fire. The place was in steam completely making it hard for Sakura to try and find the beacon "What…what was that..I have to find the beacon. I think it was dropped there..QUICKLY I don't know how long Naruto can keep him down". Orochimaru saw a tired Naruto "That boy. Phew if he wasn't an uchiha, he would have fainted long ago. ENOUGH ATTACK!". The humongous snake attacked Naruto. Naruto who himself was exhausted after fighting teleported and dodged it. "Splendid move Naruto kun. Now lets see whether your friends can also escape like that" with that the snake lashed forward towards Sakura and Sayuri! Naruto stood for a second "Guess that will be my last move?". The snake went as forward as it could towards Sakura but then something else caught its attention, a lightning bolt in Naruto's sword? Orochimaru stepped back, the sword was covered in lightning and so was the air around up every bit of energy left inside him, Naruto leapt from above and boom! An explosion was heard throughout the forest. Sakura took Sayuri and escaped from there as fast as she could. The poor snake was blown and it was like a small meteor had fallen down but what was more worse was the speed of the impact. Naruto was almost chakraless and was injured along with Orochimaru who protected himself as much as he could from the snake's body. Naruto was covered in bruises, cuts and blood while Orochimaru was hit a bit severely on his arms. Naruto was feeling unconscious but managed to keep his fight stance. Orochimaru began acting weird and then became a snake. Naruto tried to defend himself but was unable to do so because he was weak. Orochimaru bit Naruto and a strange mark was formed on Naruto's shoulder "What did you do?AAHHHH" Naruto tried to control himself but finally succumbed to his injury suddenly a beacon was fired. It was Sakura with the beacon and fired it. Orochimaru could have carried Naruto away but he sensed some fairly large sources and decided to leave. The landscape had definetly changed. Sakura tried to heal Naruto but was unable to "Something is not allowing me to heal him. But what? Now all I can do is try and keep both of them safe. But Naruto is at a totally different level, going face to face with a sannin like that though Orochimaru was in his weaker stages recently as told by Tsunade sama. Hey whats that on his shoulder, a tattoo? I'd better tell someone later". Meanwhile team 7 almost reached the end or probably were abut an hour from completing the second round when they heard an explosion, steam "Phew somebody is fighting really in top form there huh?" Sasuke climbed up the tree "That looks like team 10's direction isn't it?". Mito sighed "Sasuke you do know Sayuri or Sakura would call for help right?" Suddenly a beacon exploded. Sasuke saw carefully "A blue one? Mito who did we give a blue beacon to?". Mito bit her lip "We have red and other have yellow, green, purple wait blue we had given to Sayuri". Sai tried to giggle but did not take his chance instead looked up to find Sasuke gone! Mito clenched her fist "Hey we better hurry". Other teams also felt the strength and destruction. Gaara cared to stop for a second at the blast's direction for it and continued. Kurotsuchi fell of the branch when the impact struck while A who was on the other end felt the tension of battle. Outside the forest Anko was rather shocked to see genin fight like that but "ANKO! THERE IS ANOTHER PERSON IN THERE!". Anko looked like she had seen a ghost "Its him isn't it. All right go warn the others while I go in there" with that Anko dashed into the forest though the chunin tried to stop her. Meanwhile Sakura took her teammates into a nearby tree hollow unknown of the fact that she was being seen by three ninja. Dosu among them "We should go and destroy them now while that weakling is protecting them". His two team members agreed. Sakura felt something and threw some kunai into the bushes to find that it was a rabbit "Phew only a rabbit. I really need to train hard to become like at least Sayuri let alone Naruto". "Well well well looks like the pink girl is all alone" the sound trio jumped and landed in the clearing. Sakura got up and in a defensive stance threw some shuriken at them which were blown away. Sakura held her ground "What do you want? You will have to fight me if you want this scroll". Dosu laughed "Fight you? What a joke. We can kill you in this round too you know?". Sakura stepped back "Damn it if I die they die. I gotta muster some courage now. Just when I need someone". Dosu sat down "You two get her". Kin ran first and threw senbon at Sakura who just escaped and threw kunai at her. Zaku fired air bullets at Sakura who got hit by it.

Suddenly Lee appeared, I won't allow someone who's youth of springtime is evil! Dosu stood up "Yo bushy brows get out of the way or you are finished. Lee smiled in his pose "Not now" with that he attacked Dosu pushing him a bit and in the process saw Naruto and Sayuri unconscious. "Sakura san why is Naruto kun and Sayuri san unconscious?". Sakura jumped back "Long story Lee san but we'd better finish these people off". Lee attempted a lotus on Zaku who was surprised at that attack but was more shocked when he couldn't escape from it at all! Dosu tried to help his comrade but another ninja stopped him who? It was Sayuri! "Sayuri! You are all right!" Sakura couldn't believe it but Sayuri was very much alright. Sayuri and Sakura were back to back "Thanks Sakura for saving us". Sakura hid her tears "Well you'd better thank me because our other teammate won't thank us at all". Sayuri giggled at that but she had noticed the wounds on Naruto as well "Wait a bit Naruto and we'll help you". Zaku suddenly started firing air bullets on the ground and when he collided with it, he barely got any damage thanks to Kin's water jutsu and the soft soil however Lee was exhausted "Phew, one lotus could exhaust me very easily considering the fact that I have not stopped since we started at double the pace". Suddenly another group of ninja attacked them. It was another band of ninja with masks "Anbu? No wait nobody was allowed to come inside these people are attackers!" Sayuri sent a fireball at them which destroyed their formation and injured some members. "GET THEM!" Ninja started to attack the three of them, in large numbers! After an intense fight with the Anbu, the commander threw smoke bombs at them and immediately left the scene leaving the three of them to regroup for an instant. Suddenly the sound trio appeared again Sayuri used her sharingan on them but her genjutsu wasn't that strong compared to Naruto and added the fact that she had been put under a torture genjutsu by orochimaru, Kin stepped back a bit "She..even she has the sharingan? Should we..wait.." Dosu looked at Kin "No our only target is him". Kin nodded. Lee was with the last of his energy when he finally tried to attempt another lotus but Sayuri stopped him "Not now. If we lose you , we will be outnumbered easily". Zaku charged at Sayuri and when Lee tried to intercept, Zaku fired a great breakthrough towards him pushing him away Sayuri tried to throw shuriken at him but it was blown off quickly. Sayuri was weak but instead of killing her Zaku trapped her and mercilessly started to beat her. Sayuri had never felt such pain before..It was as though she had no hope left at all when suddenly Team 8 appeared. Shikamaru used his shadow strangle to release Sayuri who was bleeding bad while Ino defended her and Choji used his expansion just and was ready to strike. Zaku was different, he enjoyed beating her but unfortunately for him, he did not know the future yet.

Sakura charged towards Dosu who attacked her with ease and just as he was going in for the kill, somebody stopped her from above..but who? It was Sasuke! Sasuke kicked Dosu who managed to narrowly escape it. Kin and Zaku on the other hand were battling Team 8. Sasuke jumped into the clearing and immediately used his water torrent jutsu and pushed the enemy back. Sasuke scanned the location clearly and spotted Naruto unconscious but injured and on the other hand Sayuri was low on health but bleeding. Sasuke clenched his fist "I..I won't forgive you for this at all!". Sasuke charged towards Dosu first who tried to counter him but the hokage's son wasn't rank 2 for no reason and certainly not for giving up. Kin tried to save her comrade but Ino took her under her control using her mind transmission. Kin began to attack Zaku but Kin herself wasn't that strong and she had been injured by Sayuri before. Tenten and Neji were with Lee who had fainted but Neji looked around to see a lot of damage done inside the forest "Not even jounin ninja inflict such damage so who could have done it? but more importantly who countered it?". Sasuke did not stop for a second until he threw Dosu mercilessly. Shikamaru sensed something.."What was that?…something behind me?". Ino was still controlling Kin when suddenly a wave of energy was sent everywhere. Shikamaru turned around to see Naruto standing up with his head down but something on his neck was sending patterns everywhere. Shikamaru gulped "What the..What is that?". A wave of dark energy was covering Naruto in spirals. Sayuri was conscious and saw Naruto like that "Naru..Naruto?". Naruto stood up with his sharingan activated. Shikamaru could have sworn something bad was going to happen so immeadiately "Ino get back here you too Chouji!". Kin collapsed and the others saw Naruto in his state. Sakura was too scared to move, she knew that Naruto was kinda evil in some way but the chakra he radiated was huge and importantly dense. Zaku clenched his fist "So he is Naruto huh. I'll kill him". Sasuke felt it but he did not want to leave Dosu alone but nevertheless retreated. Dosu felt that energy "So much energy its just like orochimaru sama said. Don't do anything funny Zaku you will regret it later". Tenten saw Naruto and grabbed her kunai just in case while Neji tried to observe anything. Naruto looked at Sayuri who was trying to get up "Sayuri..who did this to you?". Sayuri tried to get up "Naruto..what..what has happened to you?". Naruto looked at his hand and saw the cursed seal "He did this to me huh. I will accept this as a gift then…I am all right don't worry about me but who did this to you?". Sayuri did not speak anything but Zaku's pride forced him to. Zaku laughed "Oh is she another weakling friend of yours? Because I did this to her". The others had one thing on their mind "He is such a fool". Naruto narrowed his eyes on Zaku who stepped back but mustered up his courage and "GREAT WIND BREAKTHROUGH!" The huge gale of wind destroyed the entire field Zaku laughed "Ha is that it?". Naruto smirked "I'm afraid not" Zaku turned around to find Sakura on the ground when she was supposed to be there and Naruto carrying Sayuri. Shikamaru looked closely "He teleported himself and his team to safety? Quick". Zaku "Is that it then here is another one". Naruto laid Sayuri down "Sakura take care of Sayuri. I'll take care of him". Zaku was going to fire air bullets at Naruto but suddenly Naruto caught Zaku's hands from behind "You like these hands I assume?" Naruto pulled Zaku's hands from behind with immense force. It was an act of brutality but nobody tried to stop Naruto for they didn't want to get involved. Sayuri heard the cries from Zaku and tried to stand up. Finally "crack!" A broken bone was heard and Naruto kicked him towards the other side. Naruto spotted Kin a bit awake and decided to finish her but something stopped him mentally nevertheless he walked towards her but suddenly somebody grabbed him from behind or more hugged him. It was Sayuri "Please stop Naruto". Naruto's sharingan looked into her eyes. There was a stare but finally Naruto's cursed mark returned back and he fell down. Naruto touched the ground "Thank you Sayuri". Sayuri on the other hand was glad that her team was safe. Dosu spotted his teammates fallen and rushed to take them when Sasuke jumped into the clearing again "I won't allow you to escape again if we meet again". Dosu nodded but saw Naruto first "That is him. He has the curse mark?". Dosu ran away leaving the konoha genin to regroup. Mito and Sai reached there and immediately started to heal the injured. Naruto refused any help but Sayuri forced him to.

Team 8 and Team guy left when Lee woke up and before he could ask Naruto for his springtime of youth. Naruto's seal was still there but he did not mind it as long as it did not take over. Naruto narrowed his eyes at Sasuke "Thank you". The rest of the team members other than Sasuke fell down as if something was wrong. Sayuri giggled while Sakura couldn't control laughing together with Mito, even Sai could have sworn that something was very awkward. Sasuke hid his smile "No problem. We are rivals anyway right. Only the two of us can defeat each other". Naruto smiled slightly before turning towards his team "I think it is time we should head towards the tower now". Sayuri looked at the ground "We still don't have another scroll so we can't..". Naruto threw the scroll towards Sayuri who caught it "A scroll? How?". Naruto looked at the battlefield where he fought Orochimaru "Got it from somewhere. Long story". With that team 10 left the scene.

"You be careful Sasuke. I don't want my brother to become like that guy" Mito tried telling her brother to slow down. Sasuke was observing the place which was destroyed "Mito look at this place. It is so different, this is supposed to be full of trees but the whole place is uprooted and destroyed. See there is still steam and the place is …. ". Sai was observing another patch "Hmm better report this to grandfather soon. But whoever fought are equally skilled according to me". Sasuke looked at blood "Hmm better save this sample and give it to Shizune nee to examine". The team left only to be leave before the team from Kumo arrived. A boy put his hands over his head "Karui. I told you not to throw stones here. Look what you have done". Karui ,a red headed girl had fake tears in her eyes "Bu..but I did not want to..". A sighed "Quit it a stone can't do something this big. There was a battle here not too long ago". A looked everywhere "Hmm this is strong stuff I should be able to defend myself and the pride of kumo if I have to battle either one of the combatants". Omoi saw the sun "Hey look its almost dark now. We'd better rest for the day or find another team". A looked at the site "We will not pitch camp here. We'll go closer to the tower and pitch".

Geez we have encountered only one team and got their scroll so we just left them like that?" An impatient Kiba together with his partner Akamaru shouted to his teammates. Hinata who was spying forward using her byakugan and shino who was collecting information through his bugs was just looking at his teammate "Even after seeing something like that Suna genin, you still want to fight?". Kiba stopped "Hey..th…that wasn't an ordinary genin and you know that as well right..besides we have two scrolls so we should hurry along shouldn't we?". Shino stopped this time, Hinata turned around "Shino kun? What happened?". Shino looked at the sky "I don't think we should continue any longer for now. Its dark already and going forward would be suicide so I think we should stop for today….I'll explain everything then…you know about those explosions we heard from far and the smoke..one of my bugs returned and…told me about it".

TEAM 10:

Naruto stopped "Phew…we will camp here. By tomorrow we will reach our destination". Sayuri spotted a tree hollow "Why don't we go there?". Sakura agreed "We have water and for dinner. We can have fish". Naruto looked at the river beside them "Sounds like an idea". After dinner, Naruto offered to keep watch which the two kunoichi agreed. After some hours, Sayuri woke up "what was that..oh just a dream huh. Naruto is still watching?". Outside Naruto was watching the moon and was with some squirrels. Sayuri giggled a bit scaring away the squirrels. Naruto turned his head towards Sayuri "I thought you would be sleeping?". Sayuri yawned a bit "Well I just got up. How long have you been watching?". Naruto saw the moon "About five hours". Sayuri looked at the moon "You like the moon huh?". Naruto looked down "It was a night just like this. Quiet and calm but then I come in to see my brother killed and I couldn't do anything" Naruto's eyes started to water a bit when he felt someone wipe his tears. Sayuri sat down next to him "Naruto after all these years. I always wondered why you wouldn't open up to others but until now I don't know why?". Naruto saw his hands "Its just that I don't feel like it". Sayuri sighed "Well a few could come in handy everyday" Naruto smiled slightly "Come to think of it, you have made everybody your friend and I have don't remember how many friends I have now though we started from the same scenario". Sayuri clenched her fist "Stop telling this that you don't have friends. You have Sasuke, kakashi sensei and more importantly us! If you did not have friends, you wouldn't be alive now while those sound ninja took you away and also you protected us from Orochimaru". Naruto's eyes perked a bit and he touched his shoulder , Sayuri looked at Naruto "Does it hurt?". Naruto nodded "Only while using it. Wait a second, before I took him away from the team site, you fainted? Why?". Sayuri's face was a bit turned down "He showed me Itachi talk to me and the image of a burning family to a clan". Naruto's sharingan activated "I won't forgive him. Not a bit". Sayuri nodded "There is still a lot of time before sunrise so..why don't you carry on and sleep while I keep watch?" Naruto looked at the floor "Nah I'll sleep in a few hours but never mind that". Sayuri smiled "You know forgive me for talking but whenever I get up like this at night, I used to go to my mother's room and talk to her until I got sleep so I don't think I can sleep just like that". Naruto grabbed his kunai "Well okay..since I have nothing else to do I'll talk". Sayuri nearly fell off the tree but not before checking Naruto's forehead causing him to sweatdrop. The two talked about various topics ranging from how sakura had saved them to Sayuri's request for Naruto to train her which at first surprised him "What?Me?…You must be an idiot to think I'm good enough to train you". Sayuri clenched her fists "Is that the reason you went head on and nearly fought him like his equal for some time?". Naruto looked ahead "No". Sayuri then looked at him again "then why not? Is it about me being bad or something? Or maybe I'm not of any.." she was cut off by Naruto "Where do you even get these ideas from? Obviously the reason isn't about you but me…the thing is I've never taught anybody anything". Sayuri couldn't believe what she was hearing "Are you sure this is you? For the first time, you seem to talk to people". Naruto smiled a bit "Well its not every time I can be like how I was". Sayuri smiled as she remembered her childhood "Hey Naruto do you remember those days when we used to play in the compound?..You know chasing butterflies, dogs and cats of course you were better than me even then". Naruto looked at the squirrels gathering near Sayuri "But the fact that they always liked you was something even Itachi, Shisui or even me did not have". Sayuri blushed a bit at that comment but continued to pet the squirrels.

The other teams were also sound asleep. Team 7 had also camped for the night and were sound asleep with Sai forced to stay awake. Team 9 and Team 8 were also sleeping with Shikamaru and Kiba as the lookouts. Though the both of them were the laziest in their teams. Team Neji had Neji as the lookout while Tenten was giving lee medicine. The Suna Team had reached the tower a long time ago while the Iwa and Kumo Teams had just settled in for the night and were going to wipe out the competition a bit before leaving, A wise startegy to begin arrived in a clearing in the forest on her search for her tutor orochimaru and also the person who left her in that state she was currently in. "Where is he? I figured he'd best be here after all this place suits him the most. Suddenly a genin attacked her "Hey I'm on official..oh its you". Orochimaru smiled "Kuku well look what have we here? A fine place for you to die don't you think?". Anko held her ground "After all this time, you show yourself now? Why?". Orochimaru laughed "Its obvious isn't it? My new body has arrived and is in good shape as well for me to take revenge". Anko charged ahead and engaged him in a battle of taijutsu to which she was defeated. "Katon: Endan!" A huge fireball was hurled towards Orochimaru who couldn't use his arms fully due to the damage but instead used his snakes to destroy the move and hurled Anko across the forest crashing the tree. Anko got up "Damnit I'm no match am I?". Orochimaru landed on the floor "I'm afraid I'll let you leave or rather live to tell others the tale huh? But in the end you are a shame…even that genin with the sharingan performed leagues better than you ever could have". Anko felt rage swell up "Oh yeah well I'm not exactly done am I?" With that she tried punching Orochimaru but only managed to touch him a bit and once again "Take this…my strongest jutsu KATON: KASEIKEN, a flame began to form in Anko's left hand and she tried to hit him with it but managed to touch him again but orochimaru could feel the power of the jutsu and hurled anko through the clearing in the jungle crashing trees and immediately left. After a while…"Huh? Where am I?" Anko felt her head which was bleeding and noticed a huge centipede make its way closeby and was into a fighting stance but was saved when an anbu killed it. The anbu looked at Anko "Are you all right? Lord Fourth sent me to rescue you and safely bring you back". Anko was relieved "Thanks but before you do just make sure you have a perimeter set right around the area…just to be sure!". The anbu captain looked at her three partners "You two..that way and you..make sure the northern entrance is fine. Reassemble in forty minutes". The anbu sent to the Northern post was someone very familiar to Naruto. It was his teacher after all. Hinoko continued on towards the northern entrance, it was eleven in the night and figured it would be quiet and it was. After about fifteen minutes of fast scouting, she managed to see something she could not believe..Naruto was sleeping with Sayuri's head on his shoulder, it was a moment or rather scene to make fun of in the future but just as soon as she was about to leave, he teleported behind her "Ahem…care to explain? Sensei?". Hinoko removed her mask "You fool. You know I have told you not to call me like that in this form". Naruto looked at his teammates "No problem. They are asleep. But what brings you here?". Hinoko sighed "You see..Anko was attacked by Orchimaru…wait are you injured?". Naruto tried to cover his hands and his bandaged chest when he was hit in the head "You fool. I know you went off to fight him didn't you…do you know what you are doing?". Hinoko turned away and sat on the branch but a surprised Naruto asked her for what. "Naruto..you may be a prodigy in the ninja world but if you cannot figure out what bonds mean, it is useless. You will understand only when you are in my position". Naruto sat beside her "After the second phase, I want to talk to you for a bit". Hinoko nodded and got up "Take care and you know I mean it" as soon as she was going to leave, she turned around "It seems that anko was attacked and destroyed but I don't think Orochimaru is going to stay here anymore so forget about that". Naruto turned around "Thanks..". He carried sayuri and laid her inside the hollow beside Sakura and continued watching the stars and eventually dozed off.

THE NEXT DAY:

At 8 am, Sakura woke a sleepy Naruto sleeping outside the hollow "How long are you going to sleep?". Naruto woke up "What?..is it time already?". Sakura went inside "Um yeah and Sayuri went to collect food so you'd better freshen yourself by the river now". Not all teams were sound asleep like team 10. Team 7 had made it to the tower followed by team 9. The Iwa and kumo team had cleared a lot of teams during the night and were nearing the tower. Naruto got up "Hmm. Come to think of it, when I fought that air blast guy, I was going to attack the kunoichi but something stopped me. No not Sayuri but something else? The power?..very unlikely but my thoughts…maybe but I have to make sure that I have confirmed it before long". After having food, Team 10 left the vicinity of the hollow, they had two more days including the current and were confident to reach the tower by mid day or max..evening. They encountered a team which was waiting for another team to arrive so that they could steal the scroll. Naruto jumped down and cast a genjutsu and took their scroll and handed it to Sakura "Ahh finally…a sky scroll. I think we should make a dash for the tower now that we have what we need". Sayuri led the team towards the tower and reached by midday. "So this is the place huh? Wonder who all are in". Naruto scanned the place "A hospital at first, then a reassemble point for anbu and now it lays abandoned according to the book". As soon as they entered the building, they were greeted by a number of familiar faces. Two of the konoha teams were present while the suna team was already present. Naruto was never present in a meeting so he did not quite catch the names of team 9 and was unable to think of anything to talk about. There was tension in the air and it was suddenly intensified when Gaara walked forward "Uchiha Naruto…I want to have a spar with you now". The rest of the team members were shocked, Temari and Kankuro were starting to wonder what could possibly be wrong with Gaara to go ahead and just challenge him like that. Team 9 knew they had no chance as they were leagues away from the combatants. The only person who was capable of doing such a task was Sasuke and he was feeling humiliated for being ignored. Naruto noticed it "I'm in no mood for a fight but I'll tell you what. Lets meet up at the field behind at 5 and oh yes the condition being there are three combatants, two of which are us and one is left for the genin present here if they wish to". Temari almost got ready to run "Darn it that bastard. He made new rules but even worse..he spoke up to Gaara". Gaara looked at Naruto "Fine..have it your way but if you escape or.." He was cut off by Naruto who had his sharingan activated "Don't worry you don't have to worry about me but probably yourself".

How will the match go between Naruto, Gaara and the future combatant? Why did Naruto act like that in his new mode and what is it? Who all have passed and most of all, Who is this new character Orochimaru? Find out on the next chapter of SENJU AND UCHIHA.

HEY GUYS SORRY FOR THE UPDATE ON THE SAME CHAPTER. APPARENTLY I FOUND SOME NEW IDEAS AND GAVE IT A GO! SO DO YOU LIKE IT? IF SO PLEASE FOLLOW OR LIKE THE STORY AND PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR REVIEWS. IT TRULY HELPS. SHIPPING FOR NARUTO: NOT TOO SURE BUT I THINK SAYURI SHOULD BE FINE? SHIPPING FOR SASUKE? NOT SURE BUT PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR REVIEWS ON THESE AS WELL. ALSO PLEASE FORGIVE MY SPELLING ERRORS.

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