Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying"

Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking.

A/N: Listen everyone I have the results of the poll: Kyuubi form: 28, Sage mode: 8. So I would like to say thank you to everyone who voted, but let me say this I will not be getting rid of sage mode. This poll was to determine what FORM Naruto would get and everyone wants him to have the Kyuubi's power, but I've been getting some ideas and I think I have one that could help me keep sage mode in. I'll just tell you from here: Naruto needs natural chakra in order to complete the rasenshuriken so what I have planned is a seal to help gather up Natural energy, but if you have any ideas I'll be more then happy to listen.

"Vision...? What would you know about my vision? My vision would shatter the world you have come to understand, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you and everybody else who have dared to follow suit. Now ask yourself, are you ready to see that vision?" - Unknown


"That final question was weird." Naruto told others as he scratched the top of his head.

"Yeah, but I still can't believe you set off a smoke bomb in the exam room." Sakura said, a small crease forming on her forehead.

"It worked, at least." Naruto put his hands behind his head and smiled as they walked with their new proctor Anko. "Besides, it was awesome. Other than the fact that when he put my coin on the desk a smoke bomb exploded, he had nothing else to support his suspicion that I caused the smoke bomb."

"Yeah, but if he found out that you did do it, then you would be in so much trouble." Sakura looked at Naruto with a stern look on her face.

Suddenly, she stopped talking along with many other students, as they realized which training ground they were at.

"Welcome to the Training Ground Forty Four." Anko smiled sadistically at the group. "Also known as Shi no Mori (Forest of Death)."

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"We're back!" Denpa shouted out when they entered a small hut and he was rewarded with a smack on his head by Ishiki. "What was that for?" Denpa complained.

"You don't need to yell, baka." Ishiki frowned at childish Denpa.

Denpa started to defend himself but before the two brothers could go at each other, a cough caught their attention. They turned on a dime and gave a formal bow to an elderly man.

"How did it go?" The elderly man asked as he sat down carefully.

"It went okay." Denpa answered as he leaned against a tree. "The items were delivered to the Uzumaki as you wished."

"Excellent." He looked at the two with a gleeful smile. "And how is the Uzumaki?"

Denpa and Ishiki looked at each other and smiled naughtily. "Don't worry about him." Ishiki told the old man with a mischievous grin.

"We're keeping an eye on him." Denpa chimed in with Ishiki, an equally mischievous grin on his face.

"Then perhaps the Uzumaki clan does have a chance to return." The old man was then sent into a fit of cough which subsided after a while.

"Perhaps you should go inside and wait." Ishiki walked over and picked up the old man.

"There is no reason for you to stress yourself out." Denpa walked over and helped his brother pick the man up.

The two escorted the elderly man inside the building and sighed.

"He doesn't have long left." Ishiki spoke and received another smack from his brother.

"You think I don't know that?" Ishiki just looked at the ground. "We just have to hope that we can get the chance to talk to Naruto and bring him here."

Denpa nodded his head and walked with his brother to the woods once more.

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Naruto and his team entered the woods and felt a strange sensation of being watched.

"This is just creepy." Sakura shivered as a strange cold feeling nipped at her.

"Don't worry we'll be fine." Naruto told her in attempt to reassure her as he walked forward and looked into the dark forest.

"What's wrong, dobe. Scared?" Sasuke teased Naruto who just glared back at his teammate.

Suddenly, the entire team heard a loud howl like a ghost coming from the forest. Naruto looked behind him and saw Sasuke give an involuntary shiver.

"What's wrong, teme. Scared?" Naruto laughed as he walked into the forest with Sasuke glaring at him, but unbeknownst to the three gennins, three mysterious figures were watching their every move.

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Naruto was separated from his because of a little issue that came up. After relieving himself on the ground hidden by bushes, he turned around and came face to face with a giant snake.

Naruto's eye narrowed as he saw the snake look at him. Just as the snake lunged, Naruto created a Kage Bunshin and had it throw him into the trees nearby. The snake swallowed up the Kage Bunshin, making Naruto smile despite the fact that the snake turned towards his direction.

The Snake opened his mouth and gave a very low hiss as smoke came out of his mouth.

'Good thing I packed some Shoukyaku Fuinjutsu.' Naruto thought just as the snake began to thrash around until it erupted into a cloud of smoke.

"Summoning." Naruto realized just then and that was when Naruto started to get a bad feeling in his stomach.

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"What's wrong, Sasuke-kun?" The snake-like man that stood before Sasuke and Sakura jeered at Sasuke. "Is this the extent of the Uchiha clan's power?"

Sasuke gritted his teeth in anger and a giant jet of flame came roaring towards the snake man who easily jumped out of the way. Orochimaru, for that was the name of the snake man, looked up and frowned for a second for a reason unbeknownst to Sasuke, but quickly smiled.

"Well, I thought you would be in my snake's stomach by now." Orochimaru spoke and Sasuke was confused as to who he was talking to.

"So that oversized reptile was yours."

Naruto appeared out of nowhere and stood before Orochimaru and his team. He looked behind him to see his team battered and bruised.

"Did you do this to them?" Naruto asked menacingly, much to Sakura and Sasuke's surprise.

Orochimaru chuckled at the tone in Naruto's voice.

"So what if I did?" Orochimaru taunted.

Naruto glared at him and Orochimaru thought for just a split second that he saw the Kyuubi inside the Jinchuriki's eyes. He was right. Naruto's cerulean blue eyes were turning into red slits and Sasuke felt the feeling he had felt on the bridge begin to pour off of Naruto in huge waves.

"Sasuke, get Sakura somewhere safe." Naruto hissed at Sasuke between his gritted teeth.

Then, Naruto jumped off the branch and headed straight for the snake that Orochimaru had summoned. Orochimaru smiled and spat out a long sword and swung it through Naruto, but found that it was just a clone. Orochimaru turned around and saw three more Naruto's charging at him, but Orochimaru simple cut through the clones once again, his sadistic smile getting even bigger.

"You're using Kage Bunshins for two reasons." Orochimaru stated rather amusedly, making Naruto curse. "One, in the hopes of distracting me enough for your friends to get away. Two, to scout me out and then perhaps come up with a counter-attack. But let me just tell you one thing. Neither of these ideas are going to work."

Sasuke suddenly came out of nowhere with his fingers in the tiger seal, his blood red Sharingan blazing.

"Sasuke, don't!" Another Naruto came out of the tree and started to run towards Orochimaru and Sasuke.

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Sasuke spat out a large fireball, managed to get Orochimaru, and slammed him into a tree, catching the tree on fire.

Naruto finally caught up with Sasuke who just glared daggers at the blond.

"I don't need you to protect me, understand?" Sasuke continue to glare at Naruto who was just staring back at him with a confused expression.

"That doesn't matter. You're hurt. I can buy you guys enough time to-."

Suddenly, Orochimaru's blade came sailing through the air and plunged Naruto directly at his side, almost piercing Naruto's heart. Naruto coughed up blood as he looked through the smoke and saw Orochimaru emerge from it unscathed, not counting his burnt shirt.

"You should pay attention, Naruto." Orochimaru sneered at the blond.

Naruto just glared at Orochimaru as he was lifted off the ground by Orochimaru's inhumanly long tongue that held the sword. Orochimaru then swung the sword along with Naruto and Naruto sailed through the air into a tree, getting knocked out cold. Naruto began to plummet towards the ground, Sakura barely catching him before he fell to his death. Sasuke glared at Orochimaru who was smiling even bigger.

"You certainly have grown into a powerful ninja Sasuke-kun. I have to go now, but I'll leave you with a gift."

Orochimaru slapped his hands together and his neck stretched out at an alarming rate. Before Sasuke could dodge, the elongated neck appeared right next to his and Orochimaru's teeth sank into his neck. Orochimaru pulled back and saw that the black mark was appearing on Sasuke's neck. Sasuke gripped his neck as pain shot through his entire body, screaming out in pain. Sakura laid Naruto on the forest floor as carefully are possible before jumping at Sasuke. She grabbed Sasuke before he could fall head first to the ground.

"What did you do?" Sakura asked in a frightened voice as the snake man just laughed.

"I gave him a gift."

Orochimaru just stepped back into a tree and began to sink through the bark with a twisted smile on his face. Sakura felt Sasuke go limp in her hands but still breathing. She put Sasuke's arm around her neck before jumping down where Naruto was and placed in the hollow out tree next to Naruto. She went to check up on Naruto and found that his injury was gone.

'That's not possible.' Sakura thought. 'There is no way someone should be able to heal that quickly.'

Sakura took off Naruto's cloak, vest, and shirt, and found out that there was not a single injury left.

"I'm positive that he got hurt."

After searching Naruto for any sign of injury and failing, she turned her attention to Sasuke who was shaking like he was running a fever.

"Hold on Sasuke. I'll go and get water." Sakura told Sasuke softly.

Sakura left and returned several minutes later with some water in some bottles. She poured the water onto a rag and draped it over Sasuke's head to keep him cool.

"I guess I'm taking first watch." Sakura looked out the hollow tree, not seeing the eyes that were watching her every move.

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Team Eight had the best luck of all. When they started, they made a trap. Luckily, the first team they caught had the very scroll they needed. Hinata was looking at picture and was smiling at it when she heard someone approaching her. She quickly put the picture away and looked to see Shino walking towards her.

"What are you thinking about?" Shino asked with his usual stoic face.

"I'm just wondering how Naruto and his team are doing." Hinata blushed as she looked at the water and saw her reflection.

"Don't worry about them." Shino sat down next to Hinata while he looked at the ground for some bugs. "If I know Naruto and Sasuke, they're not going to give up easily."

Hinata smiled at her friend who just got up after seeing no bugs and went to go look for some. Hinata looked and saw that Kiba was lying down against a tree with a smile as Akamaru ran around him.

'Please be safe, Naruto-kun.' Hinata prayed in her mind.

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Sakura was thrown to the ground by the Oto (meaning sound) nin named Zaku. Not minutes after Sakura came back with some water, she and her unconscious teammates were attacked. At first, she was captured by her hair by the female of the attacking, but Sakura quickly took out a kunai and cut it off. After that, she managed to hold her own against the team with some Bunshins, but after she managed to land on Zaku, he quickly punched her off his arm.

Rock Lee came out of nowhere to help, but Dosu managed to incapacitate him by sending a sound wave into his inner ear, rupturing his eardrum. Sakura watched as Kin approached her with a grin on her face.

"I guess it's time to end this." Sakura spoke softly.

No sooner had those words left her mouth, the entire area was shrouded in dense and evil chakra. They all looked back to see Sasuke standing on his own two feet with Sharingan activated and surrounded in purple chakra. Sasuke looked at the people in front of him as black marks traveled up the left side of his face. He looked and saw Sakura beaten, battered, and bruised.

"Sakura, who did that to you?"

Sasuke voice was thick with anger and rage. Zaku smiled despite the power he felt pouring off of Sasuke.

"I did. So what?"

Zaku immediately regretted saying anything as Sasuke vanished and delivered a swift brutal punch to Zaku, causing him to fly into a tree. Dosu and Kin tried to go and help their teammate when Sasuke began to speed through hand signs.

"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu."

Sasuke spat out tiny fireballs that went straight towards the two Oto nin. The two dodged, but Kin became the unlucky target of Sasuke's kick. Sasuke looked at his hands and began to giggle like a maniac.

"All this power is just flowing through me!" Sasuke looked at Dosu who laid his scroll on the ground.

"Spare me and my team and you can have the scroll." Dosu begged.

Dosu watched as Sasuke just shook his head.

"Sorry, too late." Sasuke began to approach the three nins, but was stopped when Sakura hugged him from behind.

"Please stop, Sasuke!" Sakura cried into Sasuke's back as the three ninjas took their chance and escaped leaving behind their scroll. "You won now, please stop."

Sasuke looked at her and seemed to calm down as the purple chakra and black markings disappeared. Sasuke stumbled a bit after the sudden release of his power.

"Sorry, Sakura. I guess I kind of lost it there for a second." Sasuke told her but thought about something else. 'All that power coursing through me. It was amazing. Whatever that snake did, it made me stronger.'

The two of them heard a groan and looked to see Naruto sitting up rubbing the top of his head. Naruto looked around and saw that he didn't have his vest, shirt, or cloak on.

"What happened?" Naruto looked between Sasuke and Sakura and right before Sakura could speak, Sasuke shook his head and mouthed the words 'don't tell'.

"We had to check your injury, Naruto. That's why your top clothing is off." Sakura looked at Naruto with a smile.

Naruto looked around and saw Sasuke pick up the scroll that the Oto nins dropped.

"What's that?" Naruto asked as he stood up and put his clothing on him.

"It's our ticket inside that tower." Sasuke told him with a smirk.

Sasuke proudly showed his team the other scroll they needed to complete the test. Naruto jumped with excitement, Sakura smiled, and Sasuke just shrugged his shoulders.

'One step closer to my revenge.' Sasuke thought.

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Unknown Location

"So have you located the Uzumaki?" A mysterious figure asked in a deep voice.

"Yes. Apparently, he is in Konohagakure." A man answered respectfully.

The name of that village seemed to bring anger into the mysterious figure.

"We can't just approach the village. We would have to be careful." The figure stood up and started to pace. "We have to wait until he is completely alone. Then, he will be ours."

The figure punched a nearby wall and the entire wall crumbled away, revealing an Uzumaki symbol on a flag with blood and burns all over it.

"I'll make sure that this time when I kill you Uzumaki, you will STAY DEAD!"

He grabbed the flag and ripped it off the wall and set it on fire. He watched it with cold eyes as the flag slowly burned into ash.

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Naruto and his team were running through the forest, watching every step they took.

After Naruto managed to get dressed, the group turned to Rock Lee who was still out of it. They stayed with him until he finally woke up. They asked him if he could stand to which he jumped into the air screaming about the flames of youth. Before they could ask if he could make it back to his team, he ran off.

When three figures ran across their path, the three tensed but after taking a closer look, Naruto saw that it was Hinata's team. Sasuke and Sakura tried to stop Naruto, but he continued to run towards the three with a smile.

"Hey guys." The entire team turned on a dime and entered different stances. "Whoa, you guys sure are jumpy." Naruto slowly backed up with a nervous smile.

"Sorry, but this is a test where it's every man for themselves." Shino told the blond as bugs came out of his clothes.

Even Hinata kept her distance, but still gave Naruto a slight smile, blushing profusedly.

"So you guys don't trust me?" The group simply tightened up their stances. "Judging from how you're not attacking, I would go as far as to say that you have all your scrolls."

Kiba facial expression was all Naruto needed to confirm his suspicion.

"Don't worry our secret is safe with me. My team was just going to the tower as well how about we join together. You know safety in numbers."

"Oh and how do we know you don't plan on stealing our scrolls?" Shino asked.

Naruto reached into his pocket and produced both scrolls.

"Why would we?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke and Sakura suddenly came down from the tree and Sakura sent a punch to Naruto in the head.

"What are you doing?" Sakura screamed at Naruto who was slightly off from the punch. "You don't let the enemy see what you have."

Team Eight just watched in amusement as Sakura continued to shake Naruto like a rag doll.

Hinata then did the same thing, revealing that they had both scrolls.

"Hinata why did you do that?" Kiba said in a horrified voice.

"Be-because Na-Naruto ha-has a point." Hinata stuttered as she looked down at the ground while pushing her fingers together. "It wo-would be saf-safer to trav-travel to-together."

Kiba was going to speak once more when Shino spoke up.

"It is a logical idea to band together." Shino looked at his two teammates and watched as Naruto picked himself off the ground.

"Cool. So it's decided we'll go to the tower together." Naruto began to walk towards the direction of the tower with a smile on his face.

The group walked towards the tall building, but each one was watching the other except for two: Naruto was looking at the tower and Hinata was watching Naruto with a bright red blush.

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After reaching the tower, the teams opened the scrolls to find a different person popping out of the scroll in front of them. For team Eight, it was Kurenai, but for team Seven, it was Genma. They told the Genins what they what the meaning of this test. After waiting for a little longer, some more teams began to file in. Then Sarutobi appeared and looked at the group who were all battered and covered in dust.

"Now before we move on to the next part of the Chunin exam, if there is anyone who doesn't want to continue please speak now." Sarutobi watched as several people raised their hands and left the tower. "Now, we may begin and but since we have such a large group this year, we will be splitting the last test of the Chunin exams into two parts." This got many groans, but after Sarutobi raised his hand he continued. "Now, this test is to see what you've learned and how well you can beat your opponent. I will leave the rest of the explanation up to Hayate."

Hayate did just that and explained the rules to the participants.

"Does everyone understand the rules?" Hayate looked around and saw various people nod their heads. "Alright. We will now see who's going up first."

Everyone looked up at the screen and saw different names run through it until it final stopped at two names.

"Zaku Abumi Vs. Naruto Uzumaki." Hayate stated loudly.

The teams began to leave the area when Naruto looked over and smiled at Zaku who just glared at him.

"Is the participants ready." Hayate looked from Zaku to Naruto who both nodded their heads. "Alright… BEGIN!"

Hayate jumped back and good thing, because no sooner had he said those words Zaku raised his arms up showing Naruto his palms.

"Zankūha (Decapitating Air Wave)!"

Naruto watched as wind pressure was being blown towards him and other Kage Bunshins that he created. Zaku saw and heard the explosion as the pressure wave managed to hit its target.

"One down, two to go." Zaku stated proudly with a smile

Zaku turned, but had to duck when he saw Naruto went for a kick to his head. Zaku jumped and swung his arm, facing Naruto, but then, Naruto pulled out a red seal from his pouch.

"If I didn't dodge that, I would've lost a lot more then this match." Naruto smiled at Zaku. "I would love to know how this is done." Naruto looked at the red seal he had just pulled out, causing Zaku to frown even more.

"Well, if you like that, then you'll love this." Zaku began to absorb more air pressure. "Zankūkyokuha (Extreme Decapitating Air Wave)!"

Zaku fired off a much larger version of his previous attack which soared towards Naruto and Naruto could have sworn that he heard the very air around him getting cut.

"Fuinjutsu: Shoukyaku."

Naruto shouted loudly just as the shock wave came within a few feet of him. The tag exploded and shot out a flame stream, but that was Naruto's mistake. As soon as the flame stream hit the pressure wave, it was blown out. Naruto's eyes widened as he was hit with the attack full force. The people behind Naruto were forced to move out of Zaku's blast or suffer whatever punishment that done to Naruto. Zaku began to laugh mirthfully as the smoke began to filter out and everyone saw Naruto lying in a crater, blooded and hurt.

"I win, you weakling." Zaku walked over, but was stopped when he heard a noise he looked up and saw another Naruto falling towards him.

Zaku raised one of his arms and fired his pressurized air blast, but Naruto created a shadow clone that pulled him out of the way just in time. Naruto landed on the platform were the other participants awaited their turn. Naruto pulled of his cloak and threw to Kakashi who caught it.

"Keep it safe, sensei. I don't want to trash it." Naruto told his sensei as he jumped down to the floor below. "Now where were we?"

Zaku gritted his teeth and raised his arms once again.

"Oh yes. Now I remember you losing." Naruto smirked at rather angry Zaku.

Naruto charged just as Zaku launched another attack.


Here we go Zaku vs. Naruto. I hope you all enjoyed part one of this little fight, but don't worry in the next chap the fight won't last long. Read, Enjoy, and Review.