Chapter 10: (This Time Around...)

disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the other anime I'm takin shit form.

Note: ok I'mma try to answer some reviews:

TimeReaper, um well like I said the sannin have to power up ALOT to be on par with Naruto, also you have to understand that Naruto is still a little upset about the whole village thing.

The only 2 ppl he thought really ever cared abt him have disowned him, one of which being Tsunade . There will be some slight Naru/Tsu in the time preparing for the chuunin exam..

Good news is I have some really good plans on how to make the sannin stronger.

Which span from shaolin temple training to some concepts from full metal alchemist.. (thas all the preview for that for now but keep an eye on Jiraiya he's gonna get a Really nice power.)

Oh yeah also, I've come up with some really interesting ideas for pairings. I won't spoil it but I have all 4 legendaries set up with a ...significant other.

madnarutofan, thanks, yeah I like sexy no jutsu, and it will be a regular technique used in my story fairly often as it was in the first few episodes.

Morrisa, what's a beta? (First time writer here, I don't usually write fanfics I, rap and practice kung fu. Das my shit mostly.) Enlighten me.

Mrasdfghj, um I don't know anything abt "kohonas white fang" I don't know where to research any thing on him, if u want him to be in it then plz give a reference site that I can use for it.

Itachi, Yondaime, and Sarutobi's son will be in it, I have a lot of ideas for much later stuff in it, once relationships are better established.

Chaotic Prayer, um aight, I feel u I guess.. lol.

Pace is like "peace" but with "southside" drawl

Flamers, I already told yall I don't give a fuck abt grammar, if I catch it then I'll fix it, and I proofread it abt twice once spaced out in the document manager. My highschool GPA is 4.08. That's above straight A's

so I have good grammar when I care, aight.

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And now on wit the story..

The Yellow Dragon Inn was buzzing with sound. The clatter of bowls being put up after the dinner rush was fading.

Several customers were busy chattering while sitting down and wrapping up their desserts. Of course one group was not finished with the main course. In fact, they were far from it.

Tsunade stared in absolute utter amazement as the bowls began a 5th stack.

Orochimaru just shook his head, his eyes wide as saucers. Jiraiya was about to burst from all the laughing he was doing. Sarutobi finally decided it was time to speak up. "Um, Naruto do you think that that might be enough for the main course?"

The blonde looked up from his bowl as he sucked up the final noodle. "Aww Cmon, old man it takes a lot of work to summon up that much power, I need to recharge."

Sarutobi shook his head. Naruto had certainly put out alot of power. But still... this had to be his 40th bowl of noodles.

"Well, if you keep this up your going to send me to the poorhouse."

Naruto shrugged.

"Okay, Im ready for dessert!"

Sarutobi saighed.

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1 hour later.

He was a machine. Uzumaki Naruto was an eating machine.

Where he put it all was a complete mystery.

Sarutobi decided that after he'd finally finished they could play some games.

However they all found out very quickly that playing any type of strategy game against Naruto was asking for either a swift defeat or an intense migraine.

Until..

Jiraiya pulled out a tin box.

"Oh my gosh..." Tsunade said as she slapped her forehead.

Jiraiya grinned.

"Very good"

Naruto blinked.

Jiraiya continued.

"But are you a Pokemon master!"

Naruto blinked as the 100's of little slips of cardboard were dumped out and shuffled.

Finally 12 prizes were chosen, 14 cards for their hands, and the little coin was flipped to decide order.

Naruto's eye twitched as he saw the little Pikachu on the front of the coin when he called out heads.

Damn, slave driving rat... made good jerkey though..

Orochimaru stared in disbelief.

Pokemon!

They were playing a game that was popular when they were 5!

Naruto placed a Magicarp in play and a Celebi on his bench.

Jiraiya played a Charizard on his area and a Mewtwo on his bench.

He then attacked the Magicarp killing it.

Now of course he was cheating out his ass. But, this was Jiraiya after all.

So what if he skipped 2 evolutions and didn't use any energy cards. Naruto attached a grass energy to his Celebi which did absolutely nothing. Jiraiya then placed a Feraligator in play and used his Polymerization card.

To fuse them into Charizaligator! "Now Charizaligator attack his life points directly!"

Naruto blinked. He had never played this game before but even he could see that there were 2 different card games being mixed together.

"Um, Jiraiya I think you might be goin a little overboard..."

Jiraiya's eyes blazed with righteous flame.

"Silence, the heart of the cards banishes you to the shadow realm!"

Naruto blinked as he sat back a bit. Jiraiya smiled like a maniac.

"And now Charilzaligator I sacrifice you in order to bring forth...

The Persian God Cards!"

"1,000,000,000,000 times stronger than the Egyptian!"

"Now Come forth Majin Buu the valiant!

And use your power to raise your anger 5 levels to your next personality stage!"

"Um Jiraiya.."

"Ahah fool you fell right into my trap! Activate face down card!"

"Majin Buu the enraged! Go fish!"

Naruto raised his eyebrow as a large sweatdrop formed behind his forehead.. Tsunade continued grinding her forehead into her palm

He is such an idiot...

Naruto decided to end it.

"Um ok well that was.. Uh.. fun.."

Jiraiya smirked triumphantly

"So you admit defeat! Haha even the mighty Kyuubi is no match for the awesome Jiraiyaness of Jiraiya!"

Sarutobi was barely containing his laughter. A few games later the tired Sarutobi finally dismissed team 5 to do as they wished.

Tsunade's mother had made her do chores before showing up for her meeting so she was completely ready for bed.

Eventually the young genin's had dispersed.

Naruto was walking along the balcony when he came in view of a young pale skinned boy sitting on the railing staring at the moonlight.

Without so much as a glance in his direction the young boy asked

"You have so much power.. How is it that even you a demon are capable of such foolishness?"

Naruto blinked. He had been thinking about it for awhile since he'd first seen him.

Orochimaru was not his Orochimaru.

He was a shadow of what he was to become. Naruto wondered if it would be possible to change him. "Orochimaru, I want to show you something." The young pale skinned boy looked at his new teammate.

Naruto opened up his crystal screen. The 2 boys watched as scenes began to unfold.

"What is this?" asked the young snake Sannin.

"I want you to know what you're going to become if you continue down the path you're on.. I think you deserve to know."

The pale skinned boy widened his eyes for a moment and looked back at the screen.

He saw a lean pale skinned man walking up to an old man. He listened to the conversation.

"...well Sarutobi, I found the secret to immortality."

The older man shook his head. "Orochimaru your jutsu is a forbidden art, you must turn from this path or I will be forced to silence you." the pale skinned man laughed and said.

"If you think you have the ability to do that old man then be my guest!"

At this he summoned 2 coffins and out from which stepped the 1st and 2d Hokages.

Orochimaru stared on in disbelief as more and more was revealed.

He couldn't believe that this was his future.. His destiny. He wanted to be powerful, not some..

Freak.

When he learned the horrible secret of the immortality jutsu he began shaking in fear.

Naruto was not unaware of the effect that his glimpse into the future was having on the young genin.

But it needed to be shown.

Orochimaru had such potential, if he wouldn't give in to the quick and easy way, if he would trust in his own skills and learn to draw strength from within, he could so far surpass the Orochimaru of the sound by such great lengths it was almost unfathomable.

Naruto continued, showing his battle with Kabuto and the fight between Sannin.

Orochimaru was struggling to remain impassive. unemotional. But Sarutobi was the only one who had seen his potential, the only one who was willing to take a class reject like him and give him the attention he needed for growth.

He had been top of his class, but he was shunned for his dark nature and abnormal appearance. Sarutobi was the closest thing he'd ever had to a father and he... Was going to kill him..

Naruto finally closed his eyes and said

"But yno.. There is a neat little thing abt all this that you can do..."

With this he opened up his eyes and just as a picture of the older Orochimaru showed up with maniac smile and fangs bared, he smashed the crystal screen into a thousand pieces.

Orochimaru blinked as if snapping out of a trance.

Naruto smirked. "You see that.

You can take that loser and smash him into a thousand pieces."

"You don't have to be that guy, you can choose."

"You should keep that in mind."

Orochimaru looked down over the balcony as he stared at his reflection in the water below.

When he looked up Naruto was nowhere to be found.

He hopped off the balcony and exited the gate that set the perimeter of the Inn.

He continued running till he was at a small grassy clearing. It appeared to be in a park. He wished it was as easy as Naruto had made it sound.

But if it was his destiny that he was to become that... monster. Then... there wasn't much he could do about it.

Destiny was set long before he came and it would be in place long after he'd gone. But that didn't change the fact that he did not want to become that.

Did Sarutobi know?

Surely Naruto had told him in his showing of what events were to come.

And yet he'd treated him no differently during the bell test.

Encouraging him, "...good job Orochimaru, ...ingenious, ...Jiraiya you should be more aware of your surroundings like Orochimaru"

Sarutobi knew and yet he still treated him the same.

This made Orochimaru feel even worse.

Naruto had explained his story to them while they waited for their food.

He'd had a hard life. Being hated as the Kyuubi, and being shunned by the children and not knowing why..

Of course he had power now.

And he'd worked for it.

He had heard of the many exploits of his world, and the more he heard the more he realized one universal fact.

Naruto's time sucked.

Orochimaru sighed. Still, as he'd said that the choice was his alone.

It just seemed to be out of his control, but if he could change, would he achieve the power he wanted..

And if he did gain the power would it be worth it to pay the price of what he'd become...

Orochimaru didnt know. He stared down at his reflection in the lake again.

It was surprising how similar he looked to the man in the screen. His long black scraggly locks hanging over his snakelike eyes and pale skin.

Long purple robe. He blinked.

He reached out his hand and the image faded as the water was momentarily scattered. He suddenly smiled. He knew who he was. He looked back at he reflection.

Then still smiling he turned and walked off into the misty Kohona night.

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Naruto woke up about the same time as Jiraiya, Tsunade had to be literally dragged out of bed. And with her monstrous strength that wasn't something that even Sarutobi desired to do.

Finally three of team 5 were present. Sarutobi yawned. "Does anyone know what happened to Orochimaru.. He's not in his room?" The 3 genin shook their heads. Suddenly a large yell was heard.

"Oiy Sarutobi sensie!"

The 4 turned to look and dropped their jaws in near synchronization. A young pale skinned boy was walking into the lobby from the front entrance.

He had short spiked back hair with 2 slender tails poking out from the back of his head. And the usually cold snake eyes were curved in a upside down v. he still had onthe purple robe he always wore.With a red sash, and his forehead protector bearing the leaf showing proudly.

He had a toothy grin showing his abnormally sharp tooth out of the corner. "Sorry I'm late I had to go home an get some stuff.."

Sarutobi blinked.

"Um.. Thats ok... Orochimaru... I see you decided to change your look a bit."

Jiraiya stepped up. "Yeah snake boy what brought that on?"

Orochimaru just smiled and turned to Naruto.

"I decided that I knew who I was, and I didn't like it.. So I decided to change it."

Tsunade blinked.

"So are you like a new Orochimaru or something?" The young snake shrugged. "Guess so."

Sarutobi smirked.

Naruto must have talked to him. He couldn't help but wonder if Orochimaru had just joined the long list of people that had been saved by the young kitsune.

"Well now we need to get ready for the training regime.

We start missions next week."

Tsunade pointed out "It's kinda pointless Naruto is crazy, he'll just surpass us in everything." Naruto smiled. "Well I guess I could give you a few pointers to help you be a little closer to my level."

Sarutobi cocked his head to the side.

Naruto was going to train them as well huh..

At that moment Sarutobi, as well as the Nidaime looking through his crystal ball,and a very large fox named Kagen all inwardly chuckled and thought the same thing.

hmm, This should be interesting...

Note: Ok I coulda gone more into it and convincing Oorchimaru to be good and change.

But, alas, I'm a lazy mofa. Anyway, Orochimaru is good (yay) and Naruto trains them along with Sarutobi and vice versa.

Remember way back in "the 18 levels" how I didn't explain how Naruto's knowledge of chakara was wrong.

Well the whole shinobi system of coils and the way they use it is going to change.

and I will explain the new more effective way to store and use chakara allowing the sannin to build up lifetimes of chakara so they can fly and launch energy balls too.

(Tsunade yells "KAME-HAME-HAH!...)

(but nothing happens)

(Tsunade: damn. it worked for Naruto-kun..)

(Tsunade goes off and sulks on her slug's head.)

Also since I haven't seen it done before.

and why... I dont know..

because the way they dress is the same, the way they fight is the same,

give the guy longer hair and cover one eye, leave the other open an u got kakashi almost exactly...

I decided to make the shuriken master a girl.

A girl named Ayame.

who just happens to know another ninja named Rikkimaru.

(cough slight cough tenchu/naruto cough cross cough over.)

and all my n$$$as said WWWHHAT! OOOOKKK!

Pace.