Chapter 7: Stay Together for the Genin

Nanashi: Welcome one and all to the long awaited Episode 7 of Behold the Mimic. This story is wonderfully looked over and sometimes even co-written by Tigee86. I thank you Tigee.

Tigee86: Yeah, yeah well I've been waiting for this to go through. We've been editing the last chapters forever. So stop smashing your head into the table and post this!

Nanashi: Right let's get it on! Naruto hit the music.

Naruto: I'm back oh thank the Kami! Let's do this

Intro Music ON: STFU by Girugamesh

Cover: Naruto standing in the Forest of Death, a look of fury on his face. Two other Narutos are behind him, one with a fully charged Reigan and the other with its hands in the ram seal. The original Naruto's hands are at his sides with the palms facing outward, the hands clenched in a claw shape. Behind all three blondes is an enlarged pale face with yellow snake-like eyes. The face is a ghostly image in the background and its eyes hold a craze of greed.

Disclaimer: I and Tigee86 do not own anything that is used as material.


'Snort' snicker..."Heh heh."

The rest of the Konoha Genin looked curiously at Kiba as the Inuzuka boy struggled to contain a laugh.

"Heheh haha!"

"Kiba-kun?" Hinata murmured curiously "What is so funny?"

"Nothing," Kiba gasped, losing the fight against his amusement. "This just explains why I always thought 'Sasuke' was a little bitchy! Bwahahahaha!"

Suki's eyes widened slightly before they narrowed dangerously at what the Inuzuka said. "I'm sorry Kiba, what was that? I do believe you said something about me being a what now?" Suki gritted out. The boy in question stopped laughing abruptly and shut his mouth as he felt four different killing intents on him, even one coming from Hinata which scared the hell out of him.

"Uh ladies let's not be too hasty." Kiba said as he backed himself up while Ino and Sakura walked slowly towards him. The rest of the boys watched in sympathetic pain as both girls beat down the poor boy from the dog clan, his screams of pain and terror making all the other men in the room wince in empathy.

"Man you guys sure are loud. I'd keep it down if I were you." Naruto looked up from the savage destruction of Kiba to see an older boy walk towards their group. His hair was the same color as Kakashi's Naruto noted, and the way he kept adjusting his glasses made it seem like he needed to get them repaired in the blonde's opinion.

"Who are you?"

"Me, oh my name is Kabuto. And you'd best keep it down. You're drawing unneeded attention to yourself." Kabuto said. "Everyone in this room can tell you guys are rookies." the Konoha Genin looked out into the crowd and saw the whole room giving them evil looks. A small amount of killing intent was directed towards the Genin as well.

Sakura, who had left Kiba moaning in the corner, stepped beside her teammates with a worried expression. "They don't look to happy to see us." she whispered to them.

"No, I don't think they would be. You guys are the fresh meat. These exams are pretty rough." Kabuto said. "They'd look for any chance to take out the competition and you guys aren't helping yourselves." Naruto looked on at all the faces staring at them and grinned.

"Oi! I hope you all are ready to get beaten by me cause I'm here to kick your asses!" Naruto yelled out. Surprise washed over the Chunin hopefuls from the blonde boy's comment before turning into anger. Naruto only grinned to himself before getting pulled into a headlock by Sakura.

"What do you think you're doing you asshole?" Sakura hissed. "Do you want them to attack us?" Kabuto smiled at them and tried to diffuse the situation.

"Now, now, no need to kill your teammate. I believe that I can help you young rookies." the silver haired boy said to them.

Kiba came from behind the group looking at the other with wary eyes, a little beaten up from the girls but ok. "Why should we trust you?"

"Well I do believe that I have some experience in these exams."

"Oh yeah how many times have you taken them?" Naruto said after extracting himself from Sakura's grip.

"Seven times actually." Kabuto said. Kiba laughed loudly and yelled a loud 'You suck!' which was shushed by Ino. Kabuto only laughed light heartily and pulled out a deck of cards. "These here are my ninja info cards. They have information about things I've picked up through the years."

The Genin looked at the deck of orange cards and Kabuto pulled one from the top. "Hey what gives they're blank!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Ah that's cause I haven't put any chakra into them yet. Now watch." The boy sent a surge of chakra into the card and a map of the hidden countries appeared. "As you can see I've gotten some good information. I even have information on some of the Genin."

Suki's attention was piqued after that last comment and she stepped forward. "So you can get information on any Genin I ask?"

"Well for the most part yes." Kabuto said looking at Suki strangely before realization flashed in his eyes for but a second and was replaced by his usual happiness. 'Uchiha Sasuke? I always thought that he was a boy. I wonder if this will interfere with Orochimaru-sama's plans.' Kabuto fanned out the cards in front of him and said "So who do you want to know about?"

"Hyuuga Neji, Rock Lee, and Gaara."

"Aww you know their names already. Now that just makes it too easy." Kabuto said pulling out three cards. "Okay so we have Hyuuga Neji under jounin leader Maito Gai. Completed a hundred twenty-eight D rank missions, twenty-five C rank, and three B rank. From the famed Hyuuga clan who hold the Byakugan. He is said to be a prodigy with their Taijutsu style and was the top rookie from his graduation class. Now we have Rock Lee. He is from the same team as Neji and has the same mission record. However he seems to have been the lowest scoring person in his class. His ninjutsu and genjutsu skills are nothing, but his taijutsu is amazing. From what I've heard he is a special case and was requested specifically by Gai. This is probably due to his outstanding hand to hand skills." Suki clenched her fist at hearing that. She'd experienced firsthand Lee's skill and now she learned he was the lowest scorer like Naruto. This did not help her self-esteem. "Now we have Gaara or Sabaku no Gaara, let's see...whoa."

"What's wrong with that guy's card?" Naruto asked trying to get a look at it.

"Well it says here that he has completed twenty D ranks, a hundred and forty C ranks, two hundred B ranks, and he has an A rank or two under his belt. The scary thing is that that every mission he has been on, he has never gotten a scratch." Everyone was shocked by this and their moods dropped slightly after hearing about all the strong competitors.

"Now guys its ok. You all should be fine. There are people here that I know you can take. In fact there is a team from a new village called Oto and my information says they aren't very strong." Kabuto said smiling.

Three people behind the silver haired boy bristled at that comment and looked at each other. "Hey Dosu we gonna let that glasses-wearing freak bad mouth us?" the spiky haired boy said.

"I say we teach him a lesson." the girl said, her long black hair swaying from side to side. The boy in the middle looked to nod though it was hard to see it due to the bandages covering most of his face but his right eye. The fur like coat ruffled with his nod.

"Shall we?" With that Kin threw a round of senbon at Kabuto causing him to dodge to the side. Dosu than rushed at him and swung his right arm at the stumbling teen. Kabuto dodged it and smirked before his eyes widened and his glasses broke. A cough escaped his lips as blood seeped from his mouth. 'What happened? I thought I dodged.' Kabuto thought.

"Don't bad mouth Oto shinobi, punk." Dosu said to the gasping Kabuto.

"Oi! What the hell you bastards!" Naruto yelled, getting ready to pounce on the boy in front of him. Suddenly a blast of smoke caught everyone's attention as a loud voice from the front of the room silenced all the talking.

"What the hell is going on here!" a man bellowed as he walked out of the smoke. His large trench coat swaying from his movements while a black bandana with his leaf head band attached to it covered a good portion of his head. "There is no fighting unless I say so! Everyone got that!" Ibiki yelled loudly. "You got that you Oto brats?"

"Sorry, we're just really hyped up." Dosu apologized though he really didn't mean it.

"Whatever. Now everyone my name is Morino Ibiki and I shall be your first proctor for the Chunin exams. Find your name on a desk and sit down so I can explain the rules." There was a shuffling of feet as everyone found their seats. Naruto was in the middle of the pack and noticed that Sakura and Suki were placed a fair distance away from him.

'I wonder what this test will be?' the blonde ninja thought.

"This portion of the exam is the written exam." There was a collective gasp from the crowd but Ibiki carried on. "You will be given a test and you and your teammate's scores will be taken together. If one person fails then the whole team fails." Naruto started to sweat heavily as he could feel his team's eyes on him. "You all start out with ten points. For each wrong answer you will lose a point. If you are caught cheating you will lose a point. If you are caught cheating three times you fail automatically. You and your team will then be kicked out! And remember we are all watching." Ibiki finished his speech and motioned to the ninja that were along the walls. Naruto's pupils slowly shrank to the size of pinpricks as the reality of the situation hit him.

"So this is a test then?" Naruto said raising his hand, the only audible thought that would come to him. Ibiki sneered at the boy and walked around the desks to look down at him.

"Yes, that would be correct. What part of that didn't you get idiot?" Ibiki snarled. Naruto bristled at that comment but held his tongue. If this guy was looking down on him he'd show this jerk.

"Now let's begin!"


The Genin were all silent as they tried to complete their tests. Suki was looking down at her paper in morbid fascination at the questions in front of her. 'What the hell is this? No one could answer these questions.' Unknown to her Sakura was almost halfway done with her test with Ino watching her intently. Suki looked around her and noticed that something was off. Many people were like her and were staring baffled at their papers. It then hit her. 'Why would they only take away a point if you cheat? If this were a test back at the academy we would fail immediately. They want us to cheat!' Suki looked around before looking down and closing her eyes. "Sharingan." She whispered, her doujutsu springing to life and she peered up slowly, easily finding someone who seemed to be doing well on their test. She immediately started to copy their movements.

Unlike his female team members, Naruto was having a small breakdown. He was racking his brain for anyway to get passed this test and he could only come to one conclusion. He had to cheat. Sifting through his move set Naruto failed to realize who he was sitting next to.

Hinata had noticed that Naruto was struggling. After using her Byakugan to copy the answers from one of the people sitting in front of her she used the rest of her time to observe her crush. She had practice observing the blonde before, in the past, though she wouldn't compare it to the fan girl obsession that other girl's from her class had with Sasuke. She would never admit that it was dangerously close.

Shaking herself from those thoughts, Hinata shyly poked Naruto on the arm to get his attention. "Naruto-kun." Naruto looked over and saw the blue-haired girl poking her fingers together. Raising his eye brow in confusion he leaned forward. "I-if you w-would like you can look at m-my test." Naruto looked at her in surprise and smiled. Hinata may have acted a bit weird sometimes but she was really a nice girl. But he really didn't want to get her in trouble. She seemed too nice to get thrown out. Looking around he noted the proctors watching everything like a hawk. A pair of eyes found his and he two stared at one another for a moment before they both looked away. No. If he cheated off Hinata's paper he might get her thrown out too. He had to do this on his own. But he still had no ideas.

"Sorry Hinata, but I can't do that." Hinata looked at Naruto and was afraid she did something wrong but Naruto only grinned at her. "I don't want you to get in trouble for helping me. I'd never hear the end of it from Kiba. Getting help from you is a...real...stretch…" Naruto said as his eyes widened. Hinata seemed to calm down after that and nodded before turning to look at the others wondering why Naruto started to speak strangely at the end. For Naruto, as he was speaking he just got one of the most brilliant ideas of his life. Now to make sure he could go through with it.

Looking all around him, Naruto leaned forward and quietly whispered 'Henge' as he transformed his arm. Leaning back in an attempt to look casual, Naruto stretched his arm to the ground and began walking his hand forward with his fingers. Snaking his rubber limb through chair legs, Naruto's hand arrived behind one of the examinees who had finished. Waiting until the older boy wasn't looking; Naruto snatched the boy's paper and let his arm retract.

WHOOOSH! Snap

Everyone jumped at the unexpected sound, looking around.

"What the hell was that!" Ibiki boomed, peering into the crowd of Genin angrily.

Ignoring the stir he'd caused, Naruto erased the other boy's name and cheerfully wrote in his own. "Hehehe, who's an idiot now?" he whispered as his grin reached his eyes while he looked at Ibiki as the imposing man looked around for the source of the noise.

"Hey, what the hell happened to my test!" the boy Naruto stole the test from yelled out. Hinata looked at the Genin confused seeing as she had used him to copy her answers. The Genin was kicked out after the outburst and Naruto just sat there and smiled. Suki however had heard that elastic-like snap before and her eyes fell on her smiling teammate. He did something but as long as he passed she didn't care.


"That's complete bullshit!" Naruto yelled loudly as he slammed his hand onto the table glaring at the man in front of him. "Even if you ban me from these exams I still will find a way to become Hokage. You can bet your life that I will do it." Naruto growled out towards Ibiki and Ibiki only stared back before looking up to the rest of the Genin, most of them having already left.

"So no one else is going to quit now?" His question was met with defiant stares. 'It seems that blonde brat gave them confidence' the head of the T&I department thought. "Fine than, I guess you all pass."

"What!"

"Being a Chunin is more than just using your strength. You have to be a good leader and know how to make tough decisions." Ibiki said as he took off his bandana and showed the room his scars and burns. "This is what being a ninja is about. You will need to lead someday and be ready to sacrifice everything. Are you ready for that?" The scarred man spoke to the whole room but his eyes were on Naruto alone. Naruto nodded to the man and he nodded back and put back on his headband and wrap. "Now since-" Ibiki was cut off as one of the windows to the side of the room shattered and a smoke bomb went off. A banner then crashed in and attached itself to the ceiling with kunai tied to the corners of it. The banner said 'Here comes the second proctor, the sexy and single Mitirashi Anko!' A blur flew in and once the smoke cleared all the guys had to hold their noses thanks to the young woman in front of them.

"Here I am, Tokubetsu Jounin, the sexy, single Anko!" she said as her tan mini skirt and matching trench coat flapped behind her. Her fishnet shirt barely covered her modesty and sent the boys imaginations wild while her purple hair was pulled up. "Wow Ibiki you sure are slacking off. There are twenty-six teams here."

"What can I say? We got a good bunch this year." was his reply.

"Tch whatever. Alright you maggots get outside and follow me!" Anko then jumped out the window leaving a very confused group behind her.

Naruto got up from his chair and ran up next to his teammates as they filed outside. "So what do you guys think is next?" he asked. Suki shrugged and Sakura held her chin in contemplation.

"We might have to do an obstacle course. We've already done a test." Sakura said as they walked out to where Anko was standing in front of a large gate. Naruto looked into the forest behind the fence while howls and roars filled the air.

"I hope not. Or at least not in there." he gulped. The group formed around Anko as she explained the rules of the second exam. After Naruto heard that he nudged Sakura causing her to look at him. "I'll take the obstacle course please." The pink-haired Genin could only nod with a pale face.

"Now line up and sign these waiver forms. After that, pick up your scroll and head to your gate." Anko said. Team seven signed their forms feeling in the pit of their stomach that something bad was going to happen. Grabbing their Heaven scroll, they waited for the bell and when the gates opened, they rushed off.


"So if we get lost and separated we are going to need a password." Suki said as they rested on a branch after running for a few hours. Naruto and Sakura agreed and sat down. "So the password will be the Nin song. The shadows and silence is a ninja's weapon. Those who hide in their weapons will surely win. Got it?"

"Got it."

"Wait, what?" Suki shook her head Naruto.

"I'm not repeating it dobe. Just be ready if something happens." Suki said. Naruto grunted and nodded before standing up.

"Fine then, I just won't get separated from you guys." Naruto boasted.

"See that you don't."

"Don't worry, I won't. Just make sure you keep up Suki-teme." Naruto was smacked in the head after he said that.

"Naruto quit talking to Suki like that!" Sakura yelled.

"Ow jeez Sakura-chan. You hit ha-. Wait, do you guys hear something?" Team seven stopped talking to hear a loud whooshing noise. Suddenly, a great gust of wind whipped around the three teens. Sakura and Suki were lucky enough to get behind a tree and brace themselves with chakra. Naruto wasn't so lucky and flew through the trees.

"Gahhhhh what fuckkkkkk..." Naruto's yell was lost in the wind as he tumbled head over toe into the dark forest. Naruto landed heavily and rolled on the ground before stopping next to a tree. Coughing a bit, he pushed himself up and checked his equipment.

"Ugh man, what was that? Well looks like all my stuff is good and Hauk's phone is still perfectly safe. Man I guess this thing is made of metal." Naruto said, poking his phone. "Now where am I?" Naruto looked around the clearing he was in but stopped when he heard a hissing noise. Turning around he came face to face with the biggest snake he had ever seen. "Sweet Kami you're bigger than a house." the shocked boy whispered. The snake screeched before lunging for the boy. Naruto managed to jump out of the way with a very unmanly shriek.

The snake crashed into the ground and reared back up while letting the dirt and mud fall from its mouth. Naruto jumped to a nearby tree and looked at the snake in fear. "Holy crap I'm going to die!" The snake reared its body up and lunged for Naruto again. With a precise jump Naruto flew above the snake and quickly transformed his arm, Luffy's style. "Gomu Gomu no Pistoru!" Naruto yelled throwing his arm back then shooting it forward. The extending fist smashed into the snake's head. The force behind the punch caused the snake's head to fly back before it brought its head forward again. Its eyes looked enraged after the punch and Naruto yelped before flipping over the creature's next lunge and sliding down the body of the snake. "Not even that knocked you out! Fine, let's try this one." Naruto said as he ran around the giant serpent, its eyes following the blonde. When the snake struck again, Naruto jumped to the side and stretched his arm again. "Gomu Gomu no Pistoru!" as the arm stretched towards the snake Naruto grabbed his transformed arm with his left hand and twanged it so that it sprang up and down. "To Shottogan(Gum Gum Shotgun)!" Instead of one fist flying towards the snake the vibration from the rubber arm made it so that it was a small flurry punches that rained down on snake. The extra hits caused the snake to crash down into the ground and Naruto's arm sprang back with a loud snap.

"Haha take that you stupid reptile!" Naruto yelled as his arm became normal again in a burst of smoke. As he turned around a shadow fell upon him causing him to look up. "Kami have mercy..." he squeaked before he was swallowed. The snake seemed to smirk and settled down for a few minutes. A loud roar from its stomach put the snake back on the alert but it was for naught. "Tajuu Kage bunshin no jutsu (Multi Shadow clone jutsu)!" Hundreds of Narutos sprang from the snake and the serpent was left a blown up husk. "That was disgusting." Naruto said as he wiped off the snake guts from his clothes.

"Yuck. This is worse than the time I had to throw you at that Zabuza guy." A Naruto said as it tried to get grime out of its hair.

"Yeah, well, this is way worse. Wait a second." Naruto stopped trying to clean up and looked at the bunshin. "What do you mean when you said 'I had to throw you'? Wasn't that Suki who did that and plus, how do you even know you did that?"

"Oh yeah, it was her wasn't it. And me, well, I guess I keep my own little conscience. You assigned me as your main clone that one time so I named myself Naru-ichi. Though I guess you could just call me Ichi for short." Ichi said as he squeezed out his hair. Naruto looked at his clone oddly.

"So whenever I use Kage bunshin you'll be there?"

"Pretty much. I'm your main clone so even if you call one out that'll be me I believe. I'm still just a clone though." Naruto stroked his chin in thought.

"Hmm odd, but whatever. I need to go find the girls so see ya."

"See ya boss." And with that Naruto dispelled his clones and bound off.


"Naruto!" Suki yelled as she saw Naruto fly away. Suki looked back to see a woman from Kusa drop from the foliage and look at her and Sakura with a hungry look.

"Suki-chan, what are we going to do. Naruto isn't here." Sakura whispered.

"Don't worry. We'll just get the scroll off this woman and find the dobe after." Suki said.

"Well hello Sasuke-kun. I'm glad I finally found you. I've been hoping to battle you for your scroll." the woman from the village of grass said. Suki glared at the woman in front of her and reached for a kunai. 'If this lady still thought I'm Sasuke than she must be here to try to get the glory of beating me.' Suki thought, disgusted. Sometimes having a famous name wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.

"Sorry to disappoint!" Suki yelled across the clearing. "But I'm not Sasuke anymore. But if you still want to be beat I'll gladly give you a beating." The woman walked out from the shadow of the branches and looked closely at Suki before tilting her head curiously.

"So the rumors are true." she chuckled. "The famed Uchiha Sasuke is actually a girl. My, this is a strange occurrence but it doesn't hinder my plans too much. So now I do believe we have an exam to finish." Suki and Sakura pulled their weapons out after hearing the Kusa Genin's comment and waited for her to move. She only shook her head and scoffed while reaching for her eye.

"Ha, foolish…" She pulled down her eyelid and the two girls were instantly hit by the strongest killer intent they have ever felt. "You should never let the enemy make the first move." the mysterious woman said.

Suki could only stare in fear as she saw her death. She saw it over and over again and the cause of it was this strange woman. 'I'm going to die. I'm truly going to die!' Suki thought as she stood petrified on the branch, her pink haired teammate not fairing any better. The Kusa nin further disturbed them by pulling out her scroll and asking them if this what they wanted before swallowing it whole.

As Sakura fell to her knees and tears fell from her eyes the woman only let out a sinister chuckle. "Now really, is that all you have? I would have expected more from the Uchiha. Well I guess if you're this bad you aren't worth keeping alive." The Kusa Genin then pulled a few kunai from her pouch and flung them at the two girls.

Suki watched the flying weapons approach her and could do nothing as her mind was still paralyzed in fear. While they inched closer a voice boomed in her mind. 'Move you fool!' The voice broke the trance Suki was in and with quick thinking she bit her lip till she bled to make the pain free her body. The kunai struck wood and the older Genin looked at the tree that the two Konoha ninja were hiding behind.

"How interesting, using pain to break your fear. I commend you for that." Suki looked back from the shadows after snapping Sakura out of her fear. This woman was strong, maybe even stronger than Zabuza. What was she doing in these exams? Suki dismissed those thoughts while quietly thanking the voice for the help. The girl version of her younger self still was with her; this may need to be addressed later. Suki pushed that thought to the back of her mind and turned to Sakura.

"Suki, who is that?" Sakura gasped. "That can't be a Genin."

"We may have to fight our way out of this Sakura. When I give you the signal I want you to use your best genjutsu. You have learned one from that book right?" Sakura nodded her head and started to build chakra for her technique. Suki looked behind the tree again and slowly walked out.

"Oh, so you are ready to fight now?"

"That last attack surprised me. But now you have my full attention." Suki got into a fighting stance as her Sharingan sprang to life. "Now I will show you the might of the Uchiha." Suki sped forward using chakra to boost her speed as she ran up the tree towards the other ninja. The Kusa woman laughed loudly and ran to meet Suki while throwing out a punch. Suki easily dodged to the side while still running and threw out her leg and caught her opponent in the stomach. Hearing a hiss of pain, Suki capitalized on the woman's stunned form and spun around the Genin, slamming her fist into her head.

The woman fell forward and tried to right herself only to receive a kick to the face that sent her skidding across the tree branch. She stood up slowly and brushed herself off while smiling still. "My, it seems you do have some skills."


Orochimaru, still disguised as the Kusa woman, cackled loudly as he jumped from branch to branch. He was glad that Suki seemed to be fighting back. After she had broken free from her fear and saved that pink haired girl they had traded blows back and forth. He was currently going higher into the tree tops looking around. Suki was out of his field of vision at the moment. Just as he jumped into the air again he felt like the sky and the earth were ripped apart and flipped upside down. This gave him an unwanted case of vertigo that was sickening but not too debilitating to a ninja of his power. 'So that pink haired brat knows Ninpo: Sora Kagami no jutsu (Ninja art: Sky Mirror jutsu)? Quite the complicated genjutsu for a Genin.' Orochimaru thought. His thoughts were cut off as Suki came from above and slammed his body into the foliage of a large tree. Suki wasn't done as she pulled varying sized shuriken from her pouch and threw them at the disguised Sannin. Using her Sharingan to guide the attack, she manipulated the wires leading down to the shuriken to wrap around Orochimaru, effectively pinning him to the tree.

"Now it's time to end this!" Suki said as she ran through handseals. Using the trick she had learned from Kakashi's book she held the chakra in her mouth and compressed it, effectively making the fire chakra raise in temperature. "Katon: Ryuuka no jutsu (Fire style: Fire Dragon jutsu)!" Suki opened her mouth as a flame roared around her and then ran down the wire leading to the trapped shinobi. The flame looked almost white hot, much more powerful than it should be, as it ran down the line and hit Orochimaru. The fire hit him in a blast of heat and incinerated a good portion of the tree leaving the rest of it smoldering.

Suki plopped down and breathed heavily. That was one of her strongest fire jutsus and compressing the chakra to a more concentrated form took a lot out of her. Luckily, the technique should have finished that Kusa Genin. Too bad it might have burned that scroll too. Sakura jumped up to the branch that she was resting on and sat down beside Suki.

"So you think we killed her?" Sakura asked in a shaky voice. She was a ninja but killing was still foreign to her. She may not have killed the other person but she sure helped. Just as Suki was about to respond the two of them heard chuckling and both turned to the melting crater in the tree to see a form pull itself out.

"Oh my, what power. I truly am proud of you Suki-chan." Orochimaru stood up and pulled off the face he was using showing his pale visage to the world. "Oh yes, I do believe you will do nicely for this gift." Orochimaru jumped forward, reaching for the downed form of Suki when an orange blur knocked him off balance.

"Well now, looks like I came just in time." Naruto said as he stood up in front of his two teammates. "You guys ok? By the way Suki, I forgot that stupid password."

"Naruto! Thank god you're ok! This girl, no guy, is really powerful. We need to get...what smells like snake guts?" Sakura said cutting off her speech as she sniffed the air. Suki too gave a sniff and wrinkled her nose at the foul smell. The two girls looked at Naruto who looked away with a blush.

"What? Shut up! I had to survive okay!" Naruto yelled back. "Anyways, come on this guy can't be too hard. We can take him." Suki picked herself up and stood in front of Naruto while reaching into her pouch.

"Here take our scroll. This is what you want right?" Suki said about to throw the scroll over, ignoring the squawk of surprise from Naruto. Just as she was about to throw the scroll over Naruto grabbed her arm and pushed her away. "What the hell dobe?"

"Who are you?" Naruto said jumping away from Suki and Sakura onto another branch. "The Suki that I know doesn't just give up like that!" Naruto said pointing at Suki.

"Oh I believe she was doing the right thing Naruto-kun. Giving an offering to the predator so you, the prey, can get away." Orochimaru held up his hands smirking.

"Shut up or I'll shut you up!" Naruto growled out putting the scroll into his pouch.

"Kukuku what makes you think you can defeat me if your obviously more talented teammate can't." Naruto's eyes flickered red before they went back to their shining blue as he growled.

"You want to see what I can do!" Naruto made a handseal and four clones appeared beside him. "I'll show you what I can do!" After that exclamation Naruto and his bunshin all ran out going to flank Orochimaru.

"Wait Naruto, stop!" Suki yelled as she went to stop him. She stumbled and reached for the trunk of the tree, finally noticing how much her last attack had really drained her. 'Damn, I can't move right! Naruto is in way over his head!' Suki thought as she yelled out for him to stop.

Sakura watched in fear as the strange man weaved in and out of Naruto's attacks while dodging surprise attacks from his clones. This person frightened her. At first he was a strange woman from Kusa but now he looked like someone she knew she had seen in books. He was someone of great danger and one of the most dangerous men in the ninja world. "Orochimaru..." Sakura ignored Suki's puzzled expression and ran to the edge of their platform-like branch. "Naruto, run! Hurry please!" Sakura screamed. "That's Orochimaru!"


Orochimaru looked down at Sakura with a small frown as he threw the blonde's final clone into a tree effectively dispelling it. "Well it seems like my cover is blown. Now I have to get rid of that pink haired girl before she screams it out to the whole forest." Orochimaru said to himself as he performed a set of seals before slamming his hand onto the wood he was standing on. "Kuchiyose no jutsu (Summoning jutsu)!" A large cloud of smoke obscured the three Genin's vision and when the smoke cleared they saw an enormous snake towering over them.

"Shit! Not another huge snake!" Naruto yelled as the snake straightened itself so that it stood tall with Orochimaru on its head. With a flick of the Sannin's wrist the snake hissed loudly before rushing at the two girls. Naruto's eyes widened and he rushed forward. Just as the snake was upon Suki and Sakura, just as Sakura screamed in fear and backed away, just as Suki stumbled back and the Sharingan faded due to lack of chakra concentrated to it, a roar pierced the sky and blur of orange and red sprang in front of the snake. The Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune had tapped into his tenant's chakra and used the blood red energy to speed in front of the snake. With a yell of anger he punched the snake making it screech and its head fly up.

Naruto screamed in rage and jumped high as he kicked the larger than normal snake into the ground, his ruby red eyes shining in malice. The snake screeched out again as it felt pain erupt across its body, but the Kyuubi-induced craze that Naruto was in didn't let him stop there. The blonde boy landed on the snake's head and pointed his hand down at the serpent in a gun shape. Red chakra swirled around him before Naruto's finger glowed bright with crimson power as an orb encased his pointer finger's tip.

"REIGAN!" Naruto roared letting loose a blast of red chakra that tore into the snake's head brutally, sending it back to the summon realm. Orochimaru looked on in surprise, a sick grin spreading across his disguised face.

"Oh my yes Naruto-kun, you have such an enormous amount of power don't you?" the Snake Sannin laughed having jumped away since Naruto's first hit. Naruto turned his head up to Orochimaru before growling and blurring up to him. Suki could only watch mesmerized as her teammate moved at insane speeds to the point where he flickered in and out of her vision. So scared was she that she had forgotten to activate her Sharingan again, the doujutsu that could maybe give her a chance to see Naruto blurring about.

Naruto appeared on a branch below Orochimaru and threw out one of his arms towards him. The arm transformed quickly and flew at the surprised man. Orochimaru's eyes widened at the act and quickly leaned to the side letting the punch pass by him. "Gomu Gomu no Raketo (Gum Gum Rocket)!"

'What the hell is this?' Orochimaru thought but had to jump up to avoid Naruto who used his rubber arm to pull him at startling speeds towards Orochimaru.

The Genin skidded across the branch before launching himself back at his enemy and throwing his arm back once more to stretch. Orochimaru was taken by surprise of the ferocity of the boy and watched as Naruto sank low and threw the stretched fist forward to slam into his stomach for a close range attack.

"Gomu Gomu no Burreto (Gum Gum Bullet)!" Orochimaru's body careened back and slammed into a tree with a sickening crunching sound. The force of his impact was so strong that the massive tree trunk that Orochimaru hit started to groan and crack. The snake Sannin pulled himself out of his crater with a grunt.

"What power. I can only assume that it is coming from the Kyuubi." Orochimaru said standing tall. "However, those strange attacks intrigue me. I will have to watch you more closely Naruto-kun." After Orochimaru said his he appeared behind the berserker boy with blinding speed and grabbed him by the neck. "Amuse me more in the future boy. I can't wait to see what you can do." The Sannin said as he wrapped his tongue around the blonde to free up his hands to perform seals. His fingertips glowed in an ethereal light as the kanji for the main five elements showed on his fingers. "Gogyou Fuin (Five Element Seal)!" With a quick jab the man's hand struck Naruto's abdomen and the boy let out a pained scream. His vision started to fade and he felt weightless. The last thing he could remember as he tried to stay conscious was the creepy man extending his neck and biting Suki on the neck.

"Suki..."


"So you like these precious arms of yours do you?"

"Gah! Let go you crazy bitch! Graghhhh!" Crack!

"Suki, please stop!"

Naruto opened his eyes slowly and groggily rolled himself into a sitting position. He had been awakened by screaming from some very disturbing dreams. He couldn't remember all of it, just something about a red glowing eye and a huge cage. Odd... Looking around he noticed that he was in some kind of tunnel made of wood. Naruto was interrupted from his observations as he heard someone scream at another person to stop.

"Suki stop! If you don't you'll rip his arms off!" Sakura screamed as she ran towards the crazed Uchiha. She had been taking care of Suki and Naruto after that crazy man had done something weird to both of them. She thanked Kami that they even got out of there alive. They should be dead after facing someone as strong as Orochimaru. While she was taking care of the two, a team of Oto Genin had dropped down on her and said they were going to fight the Uchiha. Using the best of her skills, Sakura tried to hold them off but was defeated. She was saved by Rock Lee just in time but after using an amazing move, he was left open to a counter-attack.

Just as the Oto ninja were going to go for the sleeping form of Suki, Team ten had come to the rescue. However, even with their help the other Genin had no hesitation about causing harm to their teammate if it also cause harm to Ino's body. Sakura was frantic as she tried to help out, but right when Lee's team came out of nowhere the boy with the Byakugan told the Sound team to look back towards the place Suki was laying. There in front of everyone was Suki with strange black markings sprouting from her left shoulder. Accompanying the flame-like tattoos was a dark and evil-feeling purple chakra that was strong enough to be seen. This repulsive chakra spiraled off the girl for a bit before she looked toward the sitting form of Sakura.

Suki had asked who had injured Sakura and when Sakura's eyes drifted to the Genin from sound Suki took action. The one boy from Oto with the spiky black hair had tried to blast the girl away using a powerful blast of sound that affected the air and sent a wave of it at Suki. When Zaku boasted about blowing her apart, Suki had appeared behind him in a burst of speed and beat him down to the ground. She wasn't done though for after Zaku was slammed to the ground she grabbed his arms and pulled it behind his back, stretching in a way they shouldn't be. As Suki pulled the boy's arms till they cracked Sakura had rushed forward and held Suki around her waist, screaming for her to stop.

This was the scene that Naruto came to as he wearily walked out of the canopy. As everyone's attention was set on Suki and what she was doing no one noticed Naruto till he stepped on a twig causing everyone to turn their heads to him.

"What the hell?" Naruto said rubbing his neck and looking around. "What's going on here? Hey Bushy Brows, what happened to you?" Naruto said noticing the injured form of Lee.

"Naruto, you're up! You're ok!" Sakura said relieved. Suki too was relieved as she let the boy in her grasp fall forward in a heap to groan in pain. The tattoo marks slowly receded while the disturbing purple chakra dissipated. Dosu looked around him and noticed that with all these Konoha, by himself he was no match.

"It seems we have been bested. I ask that you let me leave with my teammates in exchange for my scroll." Dosu said putting down his Earth scroll. Suki eyed him before inclining her head at him to leave. The boy picked up Kin and Zaku and bounded off. He didn't know why Orochimaru wanted him and his team to fight the Uchiha but he had said nothing about him giving her the Curse Seal.

Naruto watched the team leave while sitting down against a tree to relieve some of his grogginess. He may have just woken up but he still felt like crap for some reason. It felt like his chakra was fluctuating inside of him. If so, that can't be good. With shifty chakra he was afraid to try any jutsu. Especially the Reigan. Naruto heard a sound next to him and spotted Suki sitting down beside him. He looked to his side and noticed her disheveled appearance.

"You ok dobe?"

"Yeah fine I guess. You don't look to good yourself." Naruto replied.

"Better than you." Naruto grew a tick mark on his head but stayed silent. "So are you going to tell me and Sakura what happened back there, when you went bat-shit crazy back then?" Naruto looked confused for a moment before understanding dawned in his eyes. He looked away from the girl and scratched his head, clearly uncomfortable.

"Ah that, well I'll tell you about that after the exam. It's kind of a long story." Naruto said while chuckling nervously. Suki cocked her eyebrow but said nothing. He said he would tell her so that was all she needed to hear.

"Mm, fine. Well anyways, get up. We still have to get to the tower plus we still need another scroll."

"Why do we still need a scroll? Those other guys just gave us the one we need right?"

"Yeah but I don't know what happened to the other one. When I put theirs in my pouch I didn't find ours." Suki said as they walked back to Sakura. Sakura looked up to them as Ino fixed her hair after the last battle.

"Yeah but I still have ours remember. I put it in my pack after that one guy attacked us. See." Naruto replied pulling out the Heaven scroll.

"So we can head to the tower?" Sakura asked hopefully. Naruto flicked the scroll in the air and caught with a grin on his face.

"Let's get the hell out of this forest."


Team seven had reached the tower the next day with only a few issues. Thanks to a team from Amen, Naruto found out that he could still use Kage Bunshin to a degree and he could also still transform but he couldn't hold it like he normally could. Whatever that snake guy did to him was really messing him up. They also ran into Kabuto again and thanks to him they had made it to the tower a lot faster than just walking wildly through the forest.

Naruto looked around and noticed that many of the teams that began the second exam were no longer there. 'I wonder if they died' Naruto thought with a gulp. Turning his attention back to what was going on, he listened to the Sandaime explain why the Chunin exams were held. Naruto blanched when he heard that they weren't going on to the third exam just yet. When the Hokage was about to explain more a pillar of smoke appeared before the examinees.

"Please Hokage-sama allow me explain the next exam." the mysterious man said. The Hokage thought for a moment before agreeing and letting the man stand straight to face the crowd. He looked of average build with dark hair and the headband used as a bandana but what everyone noticed immediately was how sickly he looked. "My name is Gekou Hayate and I shall be the proctor for the preliminaries. I ask you all that if you wish to resign then now would be the best time."

Naruto looked in shock as he watched Kabuto leave. He thought that the older boy would be able to withstand the exam. Sadly not the blonde guessed. Hayate ushered everyone into the balconies that were set up as he motioned for everyone to look at the display board. "Due to the amount of people these prelims will decide who will go into the final exam. First up," everyone watched with baited breathe "Uchiha Suki vs. Akado Yoroi." Naruto looked at Suki and watched as she walked down the stairs. Before she hit the floor Naruto called out one more thing to her.

"You better kick his ass Suki."


And with that the next Episode has been put out. I hope you all like it and please let me know all your thoughts. Now I must work on the next Episode. God give me the strength to finish everything.

Quick note I wanted to get this chapter out now and then send out all the edited ones. At the moment I have chapters 1 and 2. The rest will be sent out immediately. Thank you everyone!