For the Greater Good Chapter 10
Naruto stood in front of Orochimaru sword drawn and at the ready, his face carried the look of determination, his hair partly covered his left eye, his right eye was clearly visible and displayed his dojutsu, the Rinnegan and Sharingan combined, in front of him was the Sannin Orochimaru. Sweat was accumulating in his forehead beneath his headband, he felt hot on the inside and cold on the outside, behind him were his fellow leaf ninja looking nervous about what was going to transpire in a few moments. They were in the Forest of Death facing an unknown threat, it was a five against four fight in the leaf shinobis favor, but what they were looking at didn't inspire confidence, a pale faced man smirking at them as if they were prey, as if he was going to have the time of his life tearing them apart.
"Don't worry guys, I will handle the big one, you guys take the other three, but be careful, don't get caught in their attacks, they use wind or sonic blasts from their arms and hands that are devastating. Watch each other's backs ok, we can't afford any mistakes here, not against these people they'll kill us all, Sasuke use your Sharingan, Naoko bring up the Fox's chakra, we need to finish this as fast as possible." Naruto ordered, Sasuke activated his Sharingan and Naoko drew on the Fox's chakra, a red cloak surrounding her.
"So you are the container of the Fox, well it is going to be a pleasure toying with you girl-" Orochimaru was cut off when a blade of wind originating from Naruto's sword flew passed his head only missing him after ducking at the last second.
"You're not going to touch her, today you face me, and believe me today is the last day you live," Naruto dashed forward hand outstretched, he blew a massive Shinra Tensei at Orochimaru and the Sound ninja, blasting them backwards. Sasuke and Naoko rushed forward too along with Lee, Sakura and Sai, each picked a target, Naoko and Sakura took the girl of the group, Sasuke took the one wrapped in bandages, while Lee and Sai took the last boy.
Naruto began to bring his sword down when Orochimaru landed and tried to stab the snake but Orochimaru brought his kunai up and deflected the attack making the blade borough itself into the ground above Orochimaru's head. "Interesting power brat, I can already tell that your body is strong, imagine the secrets that my experiments of you will reveal, you can say I collect special people, and you are just proving to me how much of a prized collection you will be…" Orochimaru's neck extended and he tried to bite Naruto in his neck, but Naruto jumped backwards leaving his sword and retaliated by throwing a kunai at the head that was following him. Not one to give up what he wanted so easily Orochimaru quickly followed and took out his own kunais deflecting the one coming at him, then bringing them together, arcing them to try and cripple Naruto but Naruto's legs caught them in their tracks.
Orochimaru continued his assault by extending his snakes from his arms to wrap around Naruto's legs, giving him a good grip he lifted Naruto up further into the air and then smashed him on the forest floor creating a cloud of dust. Jumping back to get some space between him and his prey he lifted up his sleeve and bit into his thumb, swiping it across his arm he slammed his hands on the floor. From below him erupted a giant snake, Orochimaru began to scan the floor ground below from above the snake's head but saw nothing where Naruto should have been, instead what he was looking for was behind him. Naruto thrust his retrieved sword forward piercing Orochimaru in the chest. Again Orochimaru tried to brand Naruto with the curse mark, grabbing the sword by the blade that was protruding from his body he extended his neck again and turned it around to get Naruto, Naruto tried to pull out the sword but couldn't. Not wanting to let the disgusting snake sink his teeth into him he let go of his sword and caught Orochimaru by the neck gripping it hard to try and squeeze the life out of him.
Orochimaru was impressed, very impressed, the boy was strong, he was fast, and he had a dojutsu that he had never seen before, he could tell because it was looking at him right in the eye, not two feet from him, it looked like a Sharingan but had another part surrounding it.
Orochimaru opened his mouth bringing forth his legendary blade, the Kusangi, it began to erupt from his throat pushing toward the boy in front of him but Naruto ducked and brought another kunai to stab Orochimaru in the throat which met its mark giving a surprised expression to the snake sannins face. Gurgling on blood and choking on the kunai in his throat, Orochimaru's snake went into action jerking its head up suddenly sending both of them into the air. The giant snake turned to their still airborne bodies and lunged forward mouth open, the next second they were both inside the snake's mouth travelling down its gullet.
Inside the snake Naruto no longer felt the cold touch that came from his hand around the snake man, instead he was enveloped in darkness, his surroundings pushing on him as if they were trying to squeeze him to death. Naruto didn't want to have Sasuke or Naoko face Orochimaru, possibly be branded with a curse mark, so he performed one of his most used jutsus in the past.
From the outside it looked as if the giant snake was a balloon, getting bigger as if air was being blown into it, but on the inside Naruto was multiplying himself a hundred times over. And just like a balloon, when filled to the brim it explodes, not one to fail that imitation the snake burst in a rain of blood and guts, scattered itself across the forest leaving a drenched Naruto standing in the epicenter of where the snake was.
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Naoko and Sakura were fighting the sound ninja who let her name slip during the battle, it was Kin, and she was very confident in her abilities, but in the state the Naoko was in, she was being pushed back and getting beaten roughly. Having access to the chakra of the strongest tailed beast and being able to stay in control of her body was a big benefit to Naoko and she was showing that in the battle, pushing Kin back and protecting Sakura from Kin's constant attempt at the life of the weaker of the two. Naoko was slashing at Kin constantly, but Kin's speed kept her alive and in the fight.
Naoko was trying to keep the space between her and Kin short but Kin was skilled with senbon, and barrage after barrage of those deadly needles was keeping her at bay, the anchor that Sakura was making was also not helping. "Sakura you need to get back to the others, you're slowing me down, I need to finish her as quickly as possible and help big brother." Naoko said as she dodged another barrage of senbons. Naoko looked behind her to see the downcast face of Sakura and she immediately felt guilty about what she had said, by no means did Naoko think Sakura was weak, but she was just not as strong as her or Kin, she after all had years of more advanced training and Kin was probably also trained harder than normal people. "I don't think you're weak Sakura but I have the power of a biju on my side, it's a completely different level, now go please!" Naoko finished.
Understanding the seriousness of the situation Sakura began to retreat, "Good luck Naoko, I'll meet you back with the others." Seconds later she was gone from the fight and Naoko and Kin were left to continue to battle on their own.
"It seems the pinky is gone, now shall we get serious." Kin began to dash forward her arms crossed in front of her; she then slashed down and released the senbon that she was holding. Naoko dodged them and rushed forward her fist aiming for the face of the girl trying to kill her and it connected sending Kin flying backwards into a tree. She rushed forward as Kin detached herself from the tree and like a mad animal began to punch Kin in the stomach, however it wasn't ripping her guts out because Naoko had dropped the chakra cloak for the damage that keeping it up would cause. Feeling that she had enough, Naoko let go of Kin's hair, letting her fall to the ground unconscious.
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Sasuke was having a hard time; this guy was blasting him with sound waves by the amplifier on his arm, his ears were bleeding and he was feeling disoriented, this was the worst opponent he could face, his Sharingan couldn't see passed what the sound ninja was doing because it was pure sound that was beating down on him. Sasuke needed to finish off this guy quickly, he couldn't fail his team, against such a weak being, he was an Uchiha after all, an elite clan of Konoha, and he was the last of them, he would not fail here. "Do you know who I am? I am going to destroy you for making a mockery out of me!" Sasuke rushed forward his Sharingan blazing and drew a shuriken, he jumped into the air and threw his shuriken at the sound ninja, but his opponent just blew them off of their course with the sounds vibrations. Sasuke substituted himself with a piece of wood in a nearby tree dodging the sound wave headed for him and let loose a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it.
"Enough with the same tricks boy, you are going to die here, you are all going to die here!" The sound ninja shouted not seeing the explosive tag attached to the kunai. Not moments later the sizzling sound of the timer on the tag gave away the trick and the sound ninja began to bound away, but that was not all the tricks Sasuke had up his sleeves, the sound ninja was under the impression that it was a basic explosive tag, not one of team seven's own custom explosive tags, a tag that was at least ten times more powerful than basic ones. Sasuke bet on this and it panned out, the tag blew with a larger blast radius than he could have imagined, it was one of Naruto's own concoctions and Sasuke had to admit ever since Naruto took up sealing he was getting amazing, he would soon even be skilled enough to rival Minato.
The blast from the explosive tag left a massive crater in the ground, the trees that were surrounding them were ablaze in a fire storm that was creating a suffocating temperature, heat waves blasting against Sasuke's face, the oxygen being sucked from the area. The sound ninja was face down on the ground, his body smoking from exposure. "Damn Naruto, those tags are dangerous." Sasuke whispered out looking at the aftermath of what the single tag just did, all of a sudden he was a bit nervous about carrying four more in his back pouch, self-detonations were rare, but not unheard of, and he had enough faith in the sealing abilities of Naruto not to take the kunais out of his pouch immediately.
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Lee and Sai were fighting the boy named Zaku, they were giving him a beating, Lee's speed and strength was easily overwhelming the sound shinobi, but Lee was not one to toy with his enemies, he was already finishing up, with a couple of punches and kicks to the boy's face, head, abdomen, chest and back, he was sure that he dealing broken bones and internal bleeding to Zaku. "This need not drag on, we are both honorable shinobi in the pinnacle of the flames of our youth! Yield and we can stop this, we still have most of the exams ahead of us. Yosh," On the side of Lee was Sai who was providing support to the green gennin, trying not to stab the boy for being so awkward to be around.
"I won't give up! I won't lose to creepy trash like you, with your creepy jumpsuit and that creepy worm on your face you call eyebrows, and I won't fail him!" Zaku put up his arms, "Extreme Decapitating Airwaves!" then out of his palms a massive gust of cutting wind erupted, leveling the surrounding area, wiping out everything in its path, luckily Lee nor Sai were in the path of the attack, Lee's speed allowed him to get behind Zaku and give a quick and hard chop to the base of his neck knocking him out.
"I am Konoha's Beautiful Green Beast, not some creepy stooge. Yosh!" Lee spoke looking down on the unconscious body of Zaku.
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Naruto, Naoko, Sasuke, Sakura, Sai, and Lee came back to where the fight originated, they all looked tired and beaten, "Well there is an upside to this fight, I got us the scroll that we needed and an extra from the guy I beat, do you guys have the earth scroll?" Sasuke asked to Sakura, "We have an extra heaven scroll since we already got one at the beginning of the exam."
"No, we need the heaven scroll as well," Sakura said as she was looking over the unconscious body of her teammate Yutao who was knocked out the entire fight. Sasuke handed her the scroll that her team needed.
"Well I should be going; I think my team is worrying about me, maybe not Neji but Tenten for sure. Goodbye Sakura," Lee said to the pink haired girl kissing her hand on his way to exit.
"Good bye Lee and thank you for helping us," Sakura looked on as he began to leave.
"Is it just me or do his eyebrows look like they're constantly moving," said Naoko with thoughtful look on her face, "It's almost as if he-" She didn't get a chance to finish as Naruto interrupted her train of thought.
"I didn't finish off Orochimaru, we need to still be on alert, he finds us interesting, and don't forget what he said about killing us, he wants to make father suffer, and we're still alive so his job's not over." Naruto stood up from his kneeling position, and took a deep breath, he looked at his team and couldn't help but feel like he had let them down, he was the only one who didn't take out his man, and he should have, they would have been able to keep the smiles they had on their faces when Sasuke announced that he had found the scrolls that they needed.
"We need to move out as quickly as possible, wake that guy up." Naoko said to Sakura indicating to Yutao, they all began to pick up their things and Naruto inspected everybody healing their wounds or drinking some water.
"I can't, that guy bit him, he said that he was interesting, he has this mark on his neck," Sakura explained and Naruto turned back, wondering what the kid had that Orochimaru wanted. He let it go noting it for later, making sure he would investigate what the boy's gift was.
"Naruto I must say you went a little overboard with those explosive tags, I almost blew myself up. Not to mention the guy I threw it at." Sasuke said as he took a swig of water from his bottle.
"Oh that was what made all the noise, I told you that they pack a bigger bang," Naruto said with a sheepish smile, he began to walk away but a sadistic voice stopped him in his tracks, sending chills down his spine as well as the spines of all the other Konoha gennin.
"Very interesting, you are all quite talented to be able to defeat my subordinates, it will be a pleasure in taking you three, imagine, the children of the Yondaime Hokage, and the last Uchiha doing my bidding." Orochimaru looked at them thoughtfully. He then regurgitated his sword and grabbed it bringing it to his side.
"We both know that will never happen," Naruto gave him a sadistic smirk.
"And why is that Naruto, I'm going to destroy your spirit and your sisters, I will give Sasuke the power that he needs to avenge his clan. In the end you will all kneel before me." Orochimaru said beginning to walk forward.
"That's not what I meant, what I meant is that we are going to kill you, because you cannot defeat the eyes that we hold," Naruto pointed to himself and Sasuke, "And Sasuke is above taking help from the likes of you, don't pretend that you care what happens to him, the business of his family is his to handle as he pleases. Besides, the irony behind what you just offered him does not escape me, you could not defeat Itachi yourself, what makes you think you can help Sasuke do it. Leeches like you just want the power we hold, you seem pedophile as well, wanting us for our bodies, you sick snake." Naruto jumped forward with a battle roar and unsealed his gunbai getting ready to bring it down on the snake and release the wind chakra he was focusing into it. He brought it down and let loose the attack he was preparing shredding Orochimaru on its way, not one to go down so easily Orochimaru had let his earth clone take the attack, allowing the real him to appear behind the Konoha gennin.
"Today is not your day is it," Orochimaru brought up his sword ready to behead Sakura who was frozen in shock. Naruto wouldn't let his comrades die, he intervened in the attack by catching it with his own sword that he had switched out for his gunbai, but he should have known better, the Kusangi could scratch diamond, the most sturdy mineral that there ever was. That was the main reason that he took the sword when he had killed Orochimaru the first time, it's deadly sharpness and the power that the weapon alone held. It cut threw his sword like a knife through better, after it passed through his sword it was headed for his body threatening to cut him in half.
Quickly getting over his surprise not less than a millionth of a second later he used a Shinra Tensei to blast Orochimaru away. "That's it Orochimaru, the kid gloves are coming off." Naruto charged again flaring his chakra so that he moved faster and hit stronger than he did normally, and just the fact that he could actually be faster and get stronger was a testament, he already had the strength of Tsunade naturally. He reached the flung back Orochimaru and grabbed him by the neck smashing him into the ground and kneeing his sternum breaking bones. Naruto lifted his other arm fist balled up and punched downwards, over and over and over literally breaking in the snake monster's face, the crunch of facial bones below him was sickening, blood was splattering all over Naruto's face.
In tandem Naruto was smashing Orochimaru with his knee continuously. Orochimaru had had enough, he was gauging the boy's power and was surprised he was that strong, he wondered what his secret was, Orochimaru then flared his own chakra causing the pit that they had created from intensity of their chakra and the beating that Naruto was giving to widen further and push Naruto off. A battered and beaten Orochimaru burrowed into the ground. "Damn it you slippery bastard show your fucking face!" Naruto shouted out frustrated, he remembered killing Orochimaru the first time, and remembered that it took a lot less to kill that asshole, maybe it was because he had Itachi by his side last time.
Naruto began to jump back to the group that was looking on but Orochimaru began talking from a branch in a tree, "However you got your power boy, I am very intrigued, do not do anything to dilute that strength, for when the time comes, perhaps you will be the one that can truly contain my soul, and riding your meat suit is going to be the time of my immortal life, imagine the jutsus I can develop with a body like yours, to add to my infinite library of jutsu and knowledge. But in the mean time we need to get you stronger, much stronger, and like Sasuke I'm going to fuel you with hatred, watch as I tear your world apart brat." Orochimaru's body turned into a pluthera of snakes and began to fall.
"Genjutsu won't work on me you piece of shit," Naruto looked on as the snakes continued to fall to the ground below.
"It's not genjutsu boy," Orochimaru said from behind Naoko and he thrust his Kusangi into her, right where her heart would be.
The world stopped in that moment, everybody's mouths were agape, they heard nothing but the wind rustling the leaves in the trees, saw Naoko gasping for breath, unmoving and unbelieving, Naoko looked down to see what was a sword through her heart, she kept staring at it and then looked up to see her friends, her brother, and then it went black for her, she fell to her knees making Orochimaru turn his wrist downward to allow the sword to follow. The thud when her knees hit the ground created a small dust cloud making the Konoha gennin come back to reality, then when her body fell to the side, Orochimaru had pulled out his sword; they realized what had just happened. Orochimaru had just killed Naoko.
Sasuke was the first to react, his eyes began to burn he noticed, he began to be able to see more clearly, see more, his Sharingan was active, he tried to pierce this so realistic genjutsu, but his eyes saw nothing, just that Naoko's chakra was fading, fading fast.
To the outside world it was surprising to see that Sasuke had fully matured his Sharingan, three tomoes were floating around one central point. His face had a furious expression on it; he jumped forward eyes blazing red, his hands gripping two kunai so hard that his knuckles were white. "I'm going to kill you!" Sasuke was on him in less than a second swatting the Kusangi away with his kunai and thrusting the other forward to embed itself in the heart of Orochimaru. Not a moment later he dropped one kunai and put his hand up to his mouth, with one handed signs he blew a storm of fire on the body of Orochimaru until a blazing hand erupted from behind that wall of fire grabbing on to Sasuke's neck stopping the attack. Orochimaru brought Sasuke to stare straight at his face.
"My, my, my you have no idea how many times I have looked upon those eyes and wondered, what does it take to unlock the secrets behind them, what secrets can those eyes and those eyes alone uncloak. Soon I will see what they can do myself little one." Orochimaru then punched him in the stomach dropping Sasuke to the floor.
Naruto was behind them, trying desperately to heal his sister, pushing as much chakra as he could into her body, trying to heal and restart her heart. His hands were caked in blood, and his eyes were red from the tears falling onto his sister below.
He was hoping for the sake of hope that his healing abilities and the Fox within her would get the job done. If not, then he would summon the King of Hell himself to get her back, the Shinigami if need be, she wasn't supposed to die here, she wasn't supposed to die to filth like Orochimaru, he wouldn't let it happen.
"Come on sis' you can't die here, you can't give up here, COME ON FOX YOU CANT'T LET HER DIE HERE!" Naruto was now screaming in her face.
Naruto looked up when he heard footsteps coming toward him, he looked up to see the face of a smirking Orochimaru, "Let that anger drive you, let it become you, and soon you will have the power that I need." Orochimaru began to pat Naruto on the head, and then walked away disappearing in a wave of wind and leaves a few steps later.
Naruto looked up to see his friend clutching his stomach on the floor, looked behind himself to see Sai shifting and Sakura looking on with a blank face holding Yutao's head in her lap. He looked around again and realized where they were, in the Chunnin Selection Exams, for all they knew enemies could be sneaking up on them at any moment. "We need to move, we're to exposed out here, let's go, Sasuke get up I'm trying to heal her and I think the Fox is too so she should be ok. Come on!" Naruto picked up Naoko gently and began to walk in the direction of the tower, scrolls in his back pouch. Sasuke soon got up and began to follow, along with the other Konoha gennin.
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The gennin were walking along still and Naruto was still trying to heal his sister and he had almost put her back together proverbially, but his progress had plateaued he was no longer feeling like his abilities were having an effect and that was beginning to worry him. "We need to hurry guys," Naruto quickened his pace when a voice rang out.
"Somebody help me please!" A feminine voiced screamed out into the open woods, it looked to be coming from not that far off.
"Come on we have to help whoever that it is," Sasuke called out, he felt like he needed to do something good after failing to take down Orochimaru, he needed to beat down on something, he needed to let off steam. Finishing his sentence he began to rush to where the voice had come from and no sooner did he come to see the sight of a giant bear about to eat a red headed girl around his age. Sasuke rushed forward and began to do hand signs again to perform one of his clan's signature techniques. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu," A ball of fire erupted from Sasuke's mouth hitting the bear on its side eliciting a roar from its mouth showing off its giant sharp teeth. Turning to them, the bear prepared itself to attack but caught sight of two pairs of eyes that looked frightening; they were red, blood red and looking menacing. That was enough to cause the bear to turn tail and run in the opposite direction; it was already in agony from the fireball that smashed into its side moments ago, it didn't need more trouble.
Sasuke moved to help the girl, she had glasses in addition to red hair, and she was a shinobi from Kusagakure, cowering at the base of a tree. "Are you ok?" asked Sasuke stretching out his hand for her to take.
"Ye- Yes, I'm fine, -thank you." She answered, "Thank you so much." She took his hand and got up, dusting herself off. She looked toward the group behind her and saw that one of them was injured, "I'm Karin, thank you so much for saving me."
"No problem Karin, what happened here anyway, why are you all alone, where is your team?" questioned Sasuke.
"They're dead, that bear caught us off guard and it killed them," Karin answered looking teary eyed, "Not moments before you showed up to save me. I would have been bear food if you didn't show up." Karin turned to the boy holding the girl in his lap, "Is she okay?" Karin pointed to the downed Naoko with Naruto on top of her still trying to heal her. "I might be able to help, I'm a great medic. Well if you can call me that, it's just my ability actually," Karin approached them and leaned down; she lifted up her sleeve and put it close to Naoko's bloody lips.
Naruto looked at her curiously and put more effort into healing his sister; Karin gently opened Naoko's mouth and made her bite down. Naruto looked at her even funnier and wondered what the hell she was doing. Then he sensed Naoko's chakra getting stronger, she was coming back.
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Naoko was in nothing but darkness, she couldn't move and couldn't see, and then she was getting her strength back, she was seeing flashes of light. In a sudden burst of life she launched herself upward, and hit something that made her go back down. "Oww," Naoko heard from whoever was above her, she opened her eyes to see her brother holding his nose. She got up again and looked down to her chest were she remembered a white hot pain suddenly appear not to long ago. "What happened?" Naoko asked as she checked to see what happened to the wound. Naoko looked to her brother for answers.
Recovering from the blow to his nose he glared at her, "You almost died you idiot, the Sannin Orochimaru stabbed you in the back and left. Sasuke fully matured his Sharingan and oh yeah, we got the scroll we needed to pass this part of the exam," Naruto took out the scrolls and showed them to her.
"Oh," was all that Naoko could think of to say, she felt happy that they could continue the exam but was angry that Orochimaru got the drop on her. Then her mind turned to the other thing Naruto said, "Oh Sasuke congratulations! You finally fully matured your Sharingan; you've been waiting for that for a looooong time." She got up and hugged him which he gladly returned. Sasuke was ecstatic that she was alive.
Naruto didn't like when guys touched his sister so he quickly intervened, "It's time to get going, let's not stay exposed out here, come on Karin you can join us too since your team is dead." Naruto picked himself up and began walking toward the tower, but beyond everything else he was glad his sister had survived, and extremely pissed at Orochimaru, he would show that snake bastard the bloodlust that he constantly held at bay, he would tear that man apart.
"Yeah bro, ruin the moment thanks." Naoko let go of Sasuke and began to follow her brother towards the tower.
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Authors note thingy-
So guys, who should I pair Naoko with, I like all the ideas you guys gave like Gaara, Shikamaru, Kimimaro or Sasuke, and how quick should I give Sasuke the Mangekyo, also who should I pair him with, thanks.
Review pretty please it shows me the love yo, I need that love.