IMPORTANT AN
I finally realised why so many people were getting confused with the ages, the problem was that I made a mistake and had Madoka and the others graduate at 11 instead of 13. I went back and have added two years to all the character, meaning Naruto is now 15 and Madoka 13.
I think I changed it all where it needed to be changed but if anyone sees something I missed please let me know :)
Also, several people have asked me if the third eye on Sasukes head was a 'Jagan', I had no idea what it was when I wrote the last chapter. After reading the information on what it is I can say that I don't think it is. I will say well done to serialkeller, because he is the only one so far to figure out what it does.
One last thing before you start reading I am looking for someone to Beta this fic, including the previous chapters, if anyone is interested please PM me :)
Enjoy the chapter :)
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Disclaimer- I own nothing :(
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Chapter 10- Your What!
None of them could look away from the strange eye, it seemed to mesmerise them, pull them in and hold them in place. The sclera was pure black and although the pupil looked almost exactly like the Sharingan, a dot with three comers surrounding it, unlike the sharingan instead of black they looked like four small mirrors slowly spinning in a sea of black.
Even while Sasukes normal eyes, sharingan active, were half closed and slightly dazed, the one on his forehead was wide open and alert to every move they made. They watched amazed as it blinked at them, before slowly moving around the clearing, as if cheeking for any other attackers. It seemed to linger on Samui and her teammates for a moment, but after spinning slightly faster, moved on.
The whole time this was going one Sasuke didn't move, it looked like he was sleepwalking, acting on auto pilot. After several more minutes of the eye searching, it slowly started to close until all that was left was a small line in the centre of the young Uchiha's forehead.
The moment it closed completely Sasukes body went limp and slumped to the ground in a heap.
Quickly getting over their shock, Madoka and Sakura ran to their downed friend, Samui and her team only a few steps behind. Turning him over so that he was lying on his back Sakura, her hands glowing with a soft green light, started to check for any damages.
After a few minutes of waiting, even though she didn't understand why they were there to begin with, Karui frowned and leaned over to look at the unconscious teen.
"What the hell was all that about, why the hell does he have three eyes?"
Jumping at the red headed kunoichi's voice, Madoka looked up at the three Cloud-nin that had saved them and frowned.
"Even if we knew that why would we tell you? You're from a different village."
Eye twitching, Karui held up her fist in a threatening gesture and growled slightly.
"Hey squirt! Is that any way to talk to the people that just saved your sorry ass?"
Before anymore could be said Samui sent a small glare at her short tempered teammate, which silenced her instantly, stepped forward, crouched down next to the Sakura and looked at the still form of Sasuke as the pink haired medic did what she could.
"What's his condition?"
Leaning back and sitting on the ground, Sakura wiped the sweat from her head before looking at the older blonde and, after a moment of hesitation, explained what she had found. After all if they were going to attack them they would have by now, not that either her or Madoka could do much to defend themselves in their current state.
"His charka is low, nothing a good night's sleep wouldn't fix, but he has a high fever to which is worrying me. As for the eye, I have now idea."
"Is it safe to move him?"
Thinking for a moment, in which she looked at both Madoka's tired and beaten appearance along with her own, Sakura shook her head.
"I don't think that would be a good idea, until his fever breaks it's best to move him as little as possible."
Nodding her head in understanding, Samui stood and turned to her team.
"Set up a perimeter around the clearing, report in every ten minutes and if anything happens let me knows and I'll come and help."
Frowning at their captain's weird behaviour, Karui and Omoi both looked from the three Leaf-nin then back to Samui. Stepping forward so she was stood next to the blonde, Karui leaned in and whispered in an attempt to keep the others from hearing.
"Why the hell are we risking our necks for them, we've got both scrolls so why don't we just leave them and go to the tower?"
Even though she had whispered the others in the clearing had all heard her as clear as day. Sighing, Samui leaned over and whispered, low enough so that only Kauri could here, into her ear. They all watched as the red headed teens eyes went wide and her mouth fell open in shock.
"What do you mean your-!"
Before she could finish her sentence Samui placed her hand over her mouth and sent her a hard glare. After a moment silence Karui nodded her head and, though she didn't look happy about it, turned to a confused Omoi, grabbed his arm and pulling him towards the tree line.
"Come on Omoi"
"but-"
When the two had left Samui turned back to the two conscious members of team 7 to find them both looking at her with raised eyebrows. Letting out another sigh, the older blonde went about setting up a small camp in the clearing next to the one they had made earlier.
After a moment of thought, Madoka stood from her position next to Sasuke and walked over to the Cloud-nin, leaving Sakura to tend to Sasuke.
She came up behind the older girl, who was crouched down while she set a small trap at the edge of the clearing, and after taking a deep breath spoke.
"I'm sorry about what I said before, about you being from a different village."
Without stopping what she was doing Samui looked at the blonde out of the corner of her eye. Despite the different hair colour, the tan skin and eyes she was almost an exact copy of her brother, they both had the same face.
Standing up and turning to her fellow with her usual expressionless face, Samui let a small, almost unseen smile cross her lips.
"It's cool, and you don't need to apologise, you were right to be weary of us."
For a moment Madoka didn't know what to say, slightly shocked at hearing her brother's favourite word coming out of the stoic kunoichi's mouth. Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, the young Namikaze smiled back at the older girl before a thought hit her and a confused expression came to her face.
"Why are you helping us anyway?"
At the question Samui closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She had hoped, though it had been unlikely, that she wouldn't have been asked that question. Though she didn't really care who new, especially now seeing as she had told Karui, that she and Naruto were dating, she didn't want to be the one to tell his sister before he had the chance to tell her himself. After taking a moment to decide what she should say Samui settled on telling her the truth, just not all of it.
"I know your sensei so I thought I'd help, my team followed my lead."
"You know my brother? Why didn't you just say that from the start?"
"There were more pressing matters to deal with at the time."
Rubbing the back of her head and chuckling, Madoka smiled and nodded her head before moving back to her teammates.
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The two teams spent the night in the small clearing and by morning Sasukes fever had broke so they were packed up and setting off towards the tower just as the sun came up. None of them had talked much, though Samui knew that both Karui and Omoi were going to bombard her with questions the moment they were alone.
Sasuke was still unconscious, which meant Madoka had to have two clones carry him, but even that didn't slow them down too much. They were just lucky that they had camped so close to the tower and that they didn't run into any other teams on their way.
Neither of the teams said anything to each other as they walked through two different doors, giving each other silent nods before going their separate ways. The moment the door closed behind them Karui turned to Samui and, after take a deep breath practically screamed.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOUR DATING HER BROTHER!"
Her face still not changing from its usual bored expression, the blonde Cloud-nin crossed her arms under her large chest and levelled a blank stare at her red headed teammate.
"It means I'm dating her brother."
"B-b-but their Leaf-nin!"
"So?"
Looking towards Omoi for help, only to see him on the other side of the room whistling, Karui growled and threw her sandal at his head, knocking him over. Turing back to her friend and captain, Karui frowned.
"Just who the hell is this guy anyway?"
Walking further into the room and looking at the inscription written on the wall, Samui pulled out their two scrolls from her kunai pouch before answering.
"You met him about a week ago."
Getting a confused look on her face at the girl's words, Karui frowned.
"That's impossible, the only Leaf-nin we met last... week... was..."
Trailing off at the end of her sentence as the realisation of what she was being told hit her, Karui's eyes went wide and her mouth fell open in shock.
"You mean you... and... that girl was... but... WHAT THE HELL?"
Still not turning to look at her flustered teammate, Samui continued to look from the scrolls in her hands to the wall, a thoughtful expression on her face. After another moment of thought, the blonde kunoichi turned to Karui and Omoi, her face still showing almost no emotion at all.
"Yes, I'm dating Naruto Namikaze, yes that was his sister, no we haven't talked about anything to do with the Exam, no Be-sensei doesn't know. We've been seeing each other for about a week now and neither of us wanted to tell anybody until we were ready, the fact of the matter I that if it wasn't for the situation in the forest I don't know when we would have told anyone. Now pull yourself together, we are still in the middle of the chunnin exam and I am about to open these scrolls so we can move on to the next round."
Without waiting for them to reply Samui opened the scrolls and threw them on the ground in front of her, taking a step back as smoke started to rise out of the pages. Without warning a small explosion of white smoke erupted out of the scrolls and when it cleared there stood a man that all three Cloud-nin recognised.
He looked to be in his late teens to early twenties, with his black hair tied back into short pony tail and two bangs framing both sides of his face. He wore a long black trench coat that reached down to his ankles left undone, showing the dark blue T-shirt and black shinobi pants that he wore underneath it. His face looked almost exactly like the boy from the team they had helped, the only real difference between the two was that the man stood before them was older and more experienced.
The grin on the older Leaf-nins face as he looked at them did nothing to help both Karui and Omoi's unease at the sight of one of the most feared Genjutsu masters in the Elemental Nations, Uchiha Itachi. After there encounter with Naruto Killer-Bee had made his team memorise all of the active Leaf-nin in the bingo book as punishment for Karui almost picking a fight, meaning that they knew all about the things Itachi was able to do and his reputation for being one of, if not the most sadistic shinobi.
Though they did wonder why he looked like he had been in a fight recently, jugging from the multiple bruises on his face and the fat lip that still seemed to be bleeding slightly.
However unlike her two teammates that looked about ready to wet themselves Samui let a small smirk grace her lips when she saw his eyes land on her, the mischievous light that seemed to flash into his eyes telling her all she needed to know. He knew about her and Naruto, and he was going to try and he was enjoying the reaction his presence got from her teammates.
With his hands in his pocket, Itachi slowly walked forward and circled around the blonde Cloud-nin, showing that he was limping slightly, his eyes taking everything in as he hummed to himself quietly. When he cam to stand back in front of her he stopped walking, put a hand to his chin as if thinking for a moment, before his grin practically doubled in size and he nodded his head.
"Congratulations on finishing the second round of the chunnin exam, at this point I'm supposed to explain to you the meaning of the words written on the wall, but to be perfectly honest I'm not going to. Why, because I just don't give a flying monkey shit about it."
Laughing, Itachi sent a beaming smile towards Samui, ignore the other two completely, and put his arm around her shoulders to pull her into a one armed hug.
"So you're the one that's dating Jacky-boy? Well I approve you seem like a lovely young woman, not to mention the fact that know I can make fun of him for finally having a girlfriend. Me and you have got to go and get drinks sometime, give me a chance to tell you all the funny stories I have on him."
Raising an eyebrow at the dark haired Leaf-nin, Samui kept her face as neutral as she could and turned to look at his still grinning face.
"Did Naruto tell you?"
Taking his arm off her shoulders and rubbing the back of his head as he let out a small chuckle, Itachi took a step back and gave her a weak smile.
"Not exactly..."
Seeing he wasn't going to explain what he meant by that Samui turned to her teammates, who had now calmed down enough to realise that he wasn't going to do anything to them, and had move to stand on either side of her. After a moment of silence, Karui couldn't take it anymore and gestured to Itachi and his beat up appearance.
"What the hell happened to you?"
Looking down at himself for a moment, the older Uchiha flashed a proud grin.
"I pissed off my Girlfriend and she kicked my ass."
At his words, along with the proud grin that was still on his face when he said this, both Omoi and Kauri face faulted. Before any of them could ask any more questions, there was a loud noise muffled by the thick stone walls, then ice started to form on the wall to their left.
Looking at the wall with a raised eyebrow, Itachi scratched the side of his head in thought.
"Hmm, well that could be one of two things. One, someone just pissed off Haku-chan or two, someone just pissed off Jacky. Either way, I should probably go and check that out be-"
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The first thing Sakura and Madoka did when the door closed behind them was lay Sasuke down on the ground next to the wall on their left and take a moment to catch their breaths. Looking at the still unconscious Uchiha in concern, Madoka turned to her pink haired friend.
"What do we do now?"
Looking around the room Sakura soon found her eyes drawn to the writing on the wall.
"I guess we have to open the scrolls..."
Nodding her head at the pinket's words, Madoka unsealed both their scrolls and without a word threw one to Sakura. The moment they opened them they realise that they were summoning scrolls and the moment the smoke started to leak out they threw them to the ground just as a large puff of smoke exploded out of them.
When the smoke cleared it revealed Naruto, standing with his hands in his pockets and a small smile on his face when his eye landed on his sister. Before he could even get any words out he was forced to steady himself as a blonde hit him with enough force to almost throw him off balance.
At first he thought it was just Madoka doing what she always did, but after a moment he realised that something was wrong. He felt the tears that were falling down his sister's face, and even though her face was pressed into his chest he could still make out the muffled words she kept repeating over and over.
"It's my fault"
That was when his eyes landed on Sakura and Sasuke, the pink haired med-nin in training kneeling down next to the young Uchiha's unconscious body. For a moment Naruto feared the worst, thinking that the boy was dead, but after a moment he relaxed a little when he saw that Sasuke was still breathing. Separating himself from his sister the white haired jonnin quickly made his way over to his other two students and knelt down next to Sakura.
"What happened?"
Before any words could leave Sakura's mouth Madoka spoke one word that made her brother's entire body go stiff.
"Orochimaru"
The temperature in the visibly dropped as the two conscious members of team 7 started to see their breath in the air in front of them.
"He was in the forest and attacked us, I lost control. Sasuke pushed me out of the way and got injected with something and..."
Stopping what she was saying as she looked at her brother Madoka's eyes widened and she started to slowly back away, Sakura doing the same thing as she pulled Sasuke with her, as the area around Naruto started to get colder and colder to the point the ground around him had started to freeze. They could see his body start to shake with uncontrolled rage as what cold be seen of his face under his hood started to turn a light shade of blue and the white swirls in his eyes covered the blue completely.
Quickly standing up Naruto was about to make his way to the door and tear the forest apart looking for the man that had been the cause of so much of his pain when his eyes landed on the unconscious form of his student. Like a bucket of cold water had been thrown on him Naruto stopped and thought about what he was doing. The snake would be long gone by now and Sasuke needed him.
Letting out a breath, Naruto turned and leaned his head against the wall to try and help calm himself down, barely even registering the fact that he hit it and that in his mental state he wasn't able to control his ice chakra and it burst out of his fist on impact, freezing the wall in the process.
When he had calmed down enough so that his features had returned to normal, Naruto turned back to his team, picked Sasuke up and without saying a word walked off towards the infirmary, Madoka and Sakura right behind him.
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Hope you all enjoyed this chapter; I know it's a little short but the next one will be longer, this was just the best place to stop it. Next chapter will have semi-finals.
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