Naruto: The Third Eye

Kyuubi Talking

'Thoughts'

Flashback

Chapter Ten: Kill or Be Killed

Naruto began by charging at his opponent with his sword which evidently wasn't the wisest decision because Orochimaru had vanished and he came from behind Naruto and kicked him in to a tree with a crash.

"I would've thought the Kyuubi brat be much more of a challenge than th-"

"Fire Release: Great Flare Explosion!" Flames exploded out of the spot where Naruto crashed surrounding the area and burning everything that stood in its way.

The attacked seemed to have a much desired effect because Orochimaru had to retreat momentarily while Naruto told Sasuke to take Sakura and run for it. As soon as they were gone, Naruto began to prepare himself for Orochimaru's return.

A While Later...

"You damn brat! You let the Uchiha escape!" Orochimaru said when he returned.

"Hey you think I'm just gonna stand by while you give one of your snake hickeys to my friend?"

"Yes I think you shou-. Hey how did you know about that?"

"Never mind that." Naruto replied quickly. "I just want to stop you, you psychotic homo."

"Wait what!? You think I'm some kind of homo?"

"Well you do go after guys..." Naruto said while Orochimaru was becoming outraged. "I mean seriously you could go after girls, but that would make you a pedophile as well so..."

"...It's a choice of life." Orochimaru said quietly.

"I knew it! I told you, but yeah your right people make there own choices in life." Naruto said almost sympathetically.

"Wouldn't it be a great world if everyone was just able to make their own choices and not be afraid of what everyone else thinks? If that were true maybe I wouldn't be a missing nin now."

"Okay, how about we have some lunch and you can tell me more about this."

Thirty Minutes Later...

"Wow, you may have just changed my perspective on life..." Naruto said.

"You know your not such a bad kid. I can't believe your hated on so badly. Well its been fun, but I gotta be somewhere. I'll go after Sasuke some other time. Truce?"

"Yeah, gotta finish the Chunin Exams." Naruto said turning to leave.

"Naruto! I'm here to help you! Sasuke said jumping down from the tree.

"Hey, what do you know? I can finish my business now. Orochimaru said while making a strange seal. His head then stretched out and his teeth closed on Sasuke's neck.

"Dammit Sasuke! Just when he was about to leave." Naruto said as Sasuke fell down.

"Sorry for breaking the truce, but hey he was here and I might as well finish my business now." Orochimaru said shrugging his shoulders. Orochimaru jumped away calling behind his back. "Tell Sasuke that he will come to me seeking power..."

Somewhere in the Forest of Death...

"Okay, so Sasuke is unconscious, we don't have any of the scrolls seeing as Orochimaru ate one, and we have a couple of days left." Naruto explained to his other teammate Sakura.

"So, what do we do now?"

"Well we have to go get both scrolls, but since Sasuke's useless right now and you aren't...uhh...fit for fighting, then you stay here and watch Sasuke while I go find the scrolls."

"What if someone comes and finds this place?" Sounding scared at the thought of being unable to do anything.

"Set and exploding tag and detonate it when you find yourself in trouble. Now I'm off."

Two Hours Later...

Naruto was walking back from his victory against a rain ninja team. They had a scroll and of course Naruto took it. He was still and hour or so away from the base site, when an explosion went off in the direction of his camp. Rushing back as quickly as he could he could only hope that everything was still okay.

The scene Naruto walked into was far from okay. There were two unconscious sound ninjas and Rock Lee who was also unconscious, Sasuke was facing the third one looking ready to kill, while Sakura was sitting on the ground petrified by fear and he also saw two teams nearby. Team eight was there as well as Rock Lee's team. Everyone was watching Sasuke and no one had noticed him yet. He took this time to survey the situation. Sasuke seemed to be going crazy and no one could stop him. The third sound ninja was backing away pleading with Sasuke to stop and even dropping his scroll.

'I'll need to knock him out before he causes anymore damage.' Sneaking up on Sasuke delivered a blow to him that knocked him out and Naruto felt all the evil energy residing in the area dissipated. The tension was lifted and everyone rushed toward the Lee of Sasuke pushing Naruto out of the way.

While everyone was busy paying attention to one of the two or both, Naruto snuck behind them and snatched the scroll the sound ninja dropped. He then noticed that only one person had not gone to see Sasuke or Lee. That was Neji who was watching Naruto carefully atop a tree as if he would pull something crazy for him to observe. Naruto mouthed the word 'mine' to Neji and then he looked away.

The Central Tower...

Arriving at the tower was no problem seeing as by day four many of the teams have been eliminated and it made the journey easier. When team seven entered the tower they found a board with writing on it, that had some letters missing. They decided to open the scrolls seeing as this was the only option they had in order to move on. Turns out the scrolls had summoning seals on it and none other then their old teacher Iruka popped out. He went on explaining what the board meant like he was explaining things back in the academy. Soon they parted ways and the entire team really deserved to rest after everything that happened.

'So the third exam is tomorrow...' Naruto thought.

"Why do have such idle thoughts. Of course the exam is tomorrow. Unless you think it's Christmas or something. Thats always fun. Then there's Easter..."

'Okay shut it. The Sasuke thing kinda freaked me out. Was that the power that Orochimaru promised to Sasuke?'

"Who knows exactly. The chakra that was unleashed was somewhere between demonic like my own and yet it has chakra of human mingled into it. Much like if I were to mix my chakra with yours creating the same effect as the dark chakra. Of course I would never do that."

"What would happen if it were to be unleashed again?"

"This evil chakra is not meant for humans to wield. Using such power will corrode the soul as well as destroy their inner persona making them an empty shell."

The knocking on the door disturbed his thoughts and he felt familiar chakra signals. It was team ten with Kiba leading them.

"Hey Naruto!" Kiba yelled enthusiastically.

"Hello..." Hinata said in her shy voice.

Shino gave a nod of acknowledgment.

"Okay, so I know you didn't come here to just to greet me." Naruto said.

"Umm...yeah so we wanted to congratulate you and your team..."

"Spit it out! I need to prepare myself for tomorrow."

"Okay so we heard from Shikamaru and the others about what happened in the forest and we would like to know some more about what happened. I got info to tell you too. Its about that sand team with that redhead."

Naruto's interest was instantly piqued and he leaned forward to listen to what they had to say. Even Shino felt he needed to say something about this. He had heard that they were the first to make it to the tower in record time and that the boy named Gaara single-handedly crushed a team by himself without a problem. Even Naruto had a bit of trouble with the rain team that he had to fight. After he heard everything he kept his end of the bargain and told them what he felt they should know minus Orochimaru. Eventually they called it a day and team ten left amazed at the turn of events.

The next person to interrupt Naruto was Kakashi who had taken Sasuke away to seal the curse mark. Kakashi felt that his other two students needed to know so he came by each of them to tell them. After that team eight came in interrupting Naruto yet again. As much as Naruto enjoyed the company of his friends he became irritated with the interruptions. Naruto sat down to meditate and another knock came on to the door. Sighing he got up again and found Sakura mumbling a bunch of nonsense about Sasuke being okay and Naruto did his best to comfort her and then she finally left.

Naruto waited for five minutes to see if anybody was going to knock on the door again. It did. This time it was Iruka who dropped by. He bought some ramen takeout for Naruto which Naruto was glad to have. He sat down to eat when another knock came to his door. When he opened it, it was none other then...

"I will kill you." Gaara said.

"Thats it? You came by like ten floors just to say that?"

"I will kill you." Gaara repeated. Naruto slammed the door in his face and sat down. A knock again.

"I will kill you." Gaara said again.

"Okay fine, you can kill me, but can it be done at a decent hour it's like 11:00 at night."

"Okay I'll kill you tomorrow then." Gaara said having a tone that sounded disappointed and with that he left.

"Weird guy."

The Next Day...

The next morning was a bright and clear the ideal kind of day for fighting. All the survivors of the second exam were all to stand in the main room while the hokage explained the history of the chunnin exams. He said explained that it was more than to promote talented ninja, but was a action to replace war between the five great nations. Then a sickly man appeared claiming to be the third examiner. He explained that there would have to be a preliminary in order to eliminate more people from the tournament. He told the examinees that if they're not up to it then they may excuse themselves. Surprisingly Kabuto was the one that pulled back saying that he did not feel up to it. That answer seem to satisfy the majority except the sharp ones mainly Neji, Gaara, Naruto, and Sasuke, who was back from getting the curse seal sealed up. With that the board picked the contestants.

Uchiha Sasuke vs. Akado Yoroi...

Not being in the best shape to fight because of the sealing, Sasuke was at a disadvantage, but felt he could win since he could use his jutsus and Sharingan. He began by using his Sharingan and going straight in with taijutsu. It was a mistake. Even with Sharingan, his guard was down so Yoroi could pull of his secret technique which was to drain Sasuke of his chakra. This sent Sasuke staggering backwards drained of his strength. He tried to use one of his fire techniques, but couldn't gather chakra. At that moment something unexpected happened. Sasuke disappeared and kicked Yoroi in the air similar to what Rock Lee did to Sasuke before the exams except he did kicks in the air and called this move Shishi Rendan. Exit Yoroi.

Aburame Shino vs. Abumi Zaku...

Zaku, who Naruto recognized was one of the sound ninjas that was unconscious stood there smirking at Shino, who didn't seem to take any of this indifferently. Zaku moved one of his arms out of his cast and then blasted wind out of it at Shino, who stood there and took it. He got up again, and as custom with his clan bugs were crawling out of him. Many who did not know of Shino or his clan were a freaked out, mainly the foreigners. Mumbling something that only his opponent could hear, Zaku turned around to be face with a huge number of insects with Shino appearing right behind. Zaku was in a standoff. With only one arm he could either go after the insects or Shino. He chose both as he revealed that his other arm was in perfect condition and only a ploy to fool his opponent. Now that he felt he could not lose he began to smirk again. As he began to fire nothing came out but chakra that was supposed come out was trapped inside and was about to blowup, which it did. Exit Zaku.

Kankuro vs. Tsurugi Misumi...

One of the members of the sand team came forward as well as Kabuto's other teammate. It began with some words and turned to a death match with Misumi winning having Kankuro trapped in his bendable like body and getting ready to snap his neck if he didn't give up. In the end Kankuro's head was snapped, but it wasn't Kankuro. It was a puppet and now the roles were reversed as the puppet had a tight hold on Misumi. Under Kankuro's command the puppet began to squeeze him until he gave up and was sent to the hospital. Exit Misumi.

Haruno Sakura vs. Yamanaka Ino...

This match was neither interesting nor boring. They talked and talked about stuff having to do with their childhood and then proceeded with fighting. Kicking, punching, slapping was all they could do to each other. Then Ino decided to use her family technique. The Shintenshin. While those who knew what that technique would do, shook their heads at such a mistake. Again it was all another ploy to lure the opponent into a false sense of security. Ino pretended to use the technique but in reality was preparing a binding technique with her hair which she cut earlier in the match. Then by some miracle unknown to the audience, the technique was broken and both competitors were on their last legs. It ended with a tie. Exit Ino and Sakura.

Tenten vs. Temari...

This match to say the least was pretty sad. Tenten although tried to fight strategically could not beat her opponent being at a disadvantage since she only uses weapons. Sure to say it was an easy match. Exit Tenten.

The next match did not surprise Naruto, but made him feel like this would be a tough thing to go through.

Uzumaki Naruto vs. Inuzuka Kiba...

Well here it is! Hope it was better than the last chapter. Please review!