Chapter 11
The next day Naruto woke up at the light of dawn. He was excited. He had slept well last night, but with what was to come his body had decide on it's own to wake up earlier than he was use to. Who wouldn't when your mind was going everywhere. He was already wondering what the second part of the exam was going to be. Knowing his aunt, the second part was not going to be a piece of cake. Nothing with her heading it was. She always loved when thing weren't easy.
Plus where they were to meet, he had heard stories about Training Area 44 A.K.A The Forest of Death. None of them sound at all good, but then again most of the stories came from his aunt, who thinks its funny to scare little kids. As he grew up he learned to not listen to her when she talked about that training area because she was know to also go over board in her telling in some things. However if he heard the same stories about that place from someone else that was reliable to know things from, he would believe her.
Most of the stores he had heard was that anytime anyone were in there for training, you were known to get scratched up from many of the plant life within the place and some of the creatures. That was another thing; the creatures in that place were known to not at all be normal. They were said to be at least 2x or 10x normal size. These along with the plant life were shown to be the cause to several deaths in the beginning. Over time many people had been foolish and more than like got themselves injured for not being careful or worst. That was how the name came to be. Also it seemed most fitting compared to how many live had been lost over the years.
Not wanting to sit in bed, Naruto decide to get dressed. When he was done he made sure he cared just enough things on him for anything, especially if the exams were going to be done in that place. Then he left the guest room Sasuke let him have for the time being. He walked down the hall. He by passed the kitchen to the garden in back of the house.
That was where Momo was. Staying here Sasuke wouldn't allow him to let Momo into the house. He had tried several times asking his teammate, but it was still a no. Naruto didn't like it. All his life Momo and he slept in the same room at night, so it had bothered him for a while until he got use to it. Once the exams were over he would be glad for his old sleeping routine.
"Momo," he whispered knowing the fox had heard him as soon as he stepped out side. Momo swiftly move out of the bushes to his master. "Your ready for the day aren't you." The fox simply nodded to him. "Be up for anything." Again the fox nodded his understanding.
"Is the demon fox inside the reason you can understand him?"
Naruto and Momo turned to Sasuke coming outside. "I don't really know. It could possibly since the fox has somewhat fused within me over the years, but even so if I wasn't what I was I would most like still have a connection to Momo. I was four at the time when I saved him and he was my first friend. Over the years you learn to predict what the other is thinking or might do."
"What do you mean your somewhat fused with the demon?"
"Somewhat because I'm the container for the fox, there are some sides of affects of caring him in my body. My senses are heighten along with a little of my features. Also if I need extra charka I can rely on his for it, but I've only ever used it in emergencies or when I can't control my emotions at times like back in Wave. However most of the time I pretty much rely on my natural abilities."
For a while it was quiet, before Sasuke moved away back inside. Just before entering, he stopped. "We should leave within the hour so gather all you what you need dope."
"I'm already to go. Your the one delay us teme." Sasuke just continued on to the kitchen like Naruto didn't say anything.
Just before reaching the Forest of Death, they met up with their last remaining teammate. When they got there, they got their chance to see how many teams were left. Total there was 78 people, which meant that there was 26 teams left in the running to be chuunins. Looking around everyone seemed ready to go. Most were talking about why they were here at this place, while some were thinking it would be most likely be harder by who their next proctor was.
"So Naruto...Do you know what your aunt might have us do for the next test?" asked Sakura looking at him. Team 8 and 10 were listening along with team Gai.
"Not a clue," he said looking at the forest of death. "But looking at this place, she defiantly wants to scare us. One thing I do know about my aunt is that she gets a kick out of scaring the pants off of anyone. Oh and that if you tried doing it back to her she'll make sure you regret it." Everyone who knew Naruto knew he wasn't lying.
"Alright you maggits," said Anko popping up in front of everyone. She also had two chuunin with her. "Your next test as you know it will be done in the forest of death. You kiddies will be given a time limit of 5 days to complete the test. Your test will be protecting a scroll from other teams, but its not that easy boys and girls.To complete this test your team need two scrolls a heaven scroll and an Earth scroll. Once your team has both scrolls, you'll need to proceed to the building in the center of the training grounds.
"However if you don't manage to get your hands on both scroll, you go packing home crying to you mommies telling them how much you are a loser." Then Anko got an even more sinister look. "Oh and there is a chance that some of you might die if your not careful, so scream loud so I can hear you good enough."
Looking around everyone seemed to get the point of what they had to do. Make sure you had a Heaven and Earth scrolls, work together within your team, and make sure to be in the center of the training field before five days are up. It seemed simple, but it was not. So if they wanted to keep a hold of the scrolls they were going to have to fight other teams for them. So that meant at least half or less might be gone by the end of the fifth day.
"Now that you maggots got the info, go line up so we can begin. You'll be given a scroll along with a gate to start at. When everyone is at their gates, they will open and then the test will begin."
Soon one by one teams went to a tented booth and retrieved their scroll. Then they would proceed to the gate they were to wait by. When nine in the morning came everyone's gates open to let them into the training area. All the teams went in there with a plan to retrieve their other scroll and a thought of which teams they should go after.
As team seven walked into the forest of death, they prepared themselves for everything. Not knowing where they should go they walked a little ways in before stopping. Naruto checked the area along with Momo to make sure they weren't in a trap or would be spied on. Once he was sure no one was near them, he turned to his teammates with a plan. He pulled out an empty scroll and the earth scroll they were holding.
Sasuke looked a little shocked that Naruto was holding the scroll since he had thought that he was still carrying it. Naruto saw the look and said, "What can you say I'm like a sneaky fox. I think we should carry fake scrolls just to be safe. So each one of us should use an empty scroll to look like the real one. Those that try to take it won't see it coming should something happen."
The other two were very much impressed. They hadn't thought about carrying fakes. So they became very impressed. "But whose going to carry the real one?" asked Sakura pulling out a scroll from her pouch to copy the real one.
"Momo," was all Sasuke said as he did the same.
"Right on the dot. He maybe small, but he knows a lot of tricks. Besides Momo isn't a normal fox for nothing. Being part demon can get you a lot of things."
"He's part demon!" asked a shocked Sakura with an equally shocked Sasuke.
"Yup. Didn't you guys think it was weird that a fox could walk on water or do things that no normal fox or animal for that matter do? Momo grows as I grow and will live probably as long as me. Besides his true form is a lot bigger than this, but it safer if he's in this form."
"I guess that explains some things."
"Enough," said Sasuke breaking the chit chat. "We need to get the Heaven scroll before the time is up."
Sakura and Naruto nodded. Once Naruto copied the Earth scroll, he took the real one over to Momo to hide the scroll within his pet fur. When he knew the scroll was secured, they began their travels once more looking for another team. Naruto and Momo were the ones that could find others faster. After an hour of nothing they finally got a lead. Naruto informed the others and they quickly hid in the bushes.
In the spots that they had just disappeared from appeared a rain team. The team looked around and to team seven they knew that the other team knew that someone had just been their. Being quick about getting the rain team's scroll, team seven took a member of the other teams out. For Sasuke and Naruto it was easy, but Sakura had a little harder time taking out her target. When she finally punched the guy out cold, she searched the guy for the scroll and found it since neither of the boys found it.
"That was easy," she said holding up the heaven scroll they were looking for.
As soon a she said that something shot out of the bush at her. Naruto in a quick move to her along with making sure he was replacing the heaven scroll. All the intruder would think was that Naruto was trying to get the scroll from Sakura, but decide to get her away from who ever that was going to attack her. So here now stood the intruder who held the scroll in his hands with a smile.
"You are very bothersome person," said the person they realized was from grass. However something in Naruto rose up in him, telling him that there was something more about this guy than there appeared to be. The person glazed at him for a second before looking at Sasuke with a sickening look in the person's eyes.
Sakura, who had been ignored, spoke up. "Hey give that back."
The man looked at her with that same sickening look then down at the scroll in his hands. "You want this?" the grass shinobi said holding the scroll up. "If you want it, you're going to have to tear if from my body." Just to prove that they were going to have to do that, the grass shinobi held the scroll above his head and opened his mouth wide open. Out came the person's long tongue. It reminded Naruto of a snake's tongue as the man's tongue wrapped it around the scroll and swallowed it.
"Now the only way to get it back is to kill me for it," the person said with a laugh. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura then prepared themselves to fight the other person. But then suddenly as they looked at the mysterious person, there bodies felt heavy and they felt like they need to each start to panic for some reason in fear. The person just laughed more, "You can't do anything, you're starting to realize that each one of you is going to die." Then he started to move slowly towards them.
It was at that moment that both Naruto and Sasuke had begun to calm themselves down. They knew that had to get out of there and taking a quick glance they needed to help Sakura since she seemed to be suffering the worst. Unfortunately they couldn't there bodies couldn't move. Naruto was now trying to work quickly of how to counter whatever jutsu this person was using on them.
It was only when Momo suddenly bit Naruto hard enough that there was blood. He started thinking again. The bit didn't hurt, but it stopped him from being trapped in the person's trap. Thinking fast Naruto kicked some pebbles hard enough that they would hurt on contact, but not injure them. Then in a quick move he moved them and Momo fast away from the creepy man.
As they hid, Sakura and Sasuke seemed to recover. They looked at Naruto grateful, but annoyed at him for using pebbles. Naruto on the other hand signed to them by pointing at Momo and then to where his bite mark was healing with a look that said would you want him biting you. They shook their heads saying they prefer his way of helping them out.
"What are..."
Sasuke quickly covered Sakura's mouth and glared at her to stay quiet. Naruto quickly checked the area. Nothing seemed to be up. Both boys took the time to think up ideas to deal with the situation of what they should to. Naruto was even thinking it wise to take his teammates and it out of the area and tell them that he had the real scroll on him.
But before that could even happen, Sakura whose mouth was still covered, screamed. Both Naruto and Sasuke turned to her as what was wrong until the saw a huge snake getting ready to strike them. Before they could even react, Momo was first to react and defend them. Sakura and Sasuke had never seen anything like this as Momo transformed in front of them to a fox that was at least one story high. Momo grabbed then snake just below its head with his mouth.
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke all move out of the way, but somehow Sasuke had gotten separated from them. They didn't notice this until; Momo had finished off the snake. The air around Naruto felt wrong and looking over at Sakura he could tell that she too was feeling it. Then looking over to Sasuke, he realized his teammate and friend was missing. Looking around he tried to sense out where Sasuke was, but something seemed to be blocking his senses.
However Naruto didn't let that bother him as he continued to search. Then he got his chance when he heard a noise in the other direction. Then he heard Sakura gasp. Naruto looked at her before looking in the direction of where she was looking. There in the clutches of the strange person was Sasuke. Then suddenly the stranger opened his mouth and descended on Sasuke's neck. The person then bit into Sasuke's neck with Sasuke trying to deal with the pain.
When the man retracted his mouth from Sasuke, Naruto got good look at what the man really did. That was when everything started to click. Most of the uneasy feeling was coming from this person in front of him. The smell of the man was the same traces that were on Kabuto and the sound ninja. Also a clue to who this man was, was that he could summon snakes, which his aunt only learned from one other person known to use it. Plus what that man left on Sasuke's neck confirmed it all.
"I think you should release my teammate, Orochimaru," he said not happy and drawing out a kunai.
The man seemed to be slightly surprise. "So you know my name. Interesting. And how do you know my name boy?"
"You can thank my Aunt. She told me all about you and what you did to her when she was younger. You're a sick bastard, you know that. And I have a clue as to what you just done to Sasuke."
The man just laughed. "So the rumors are true. I heard that my stupid student had a nephew. How interesting to know and clever as well. So you know what I did, but you can't do anything about it. He'll come looking for me to get stronger..."
"Not if I can help it. You're not going to infect his mind with you sick thoughts. I'll stop that curse mark. Now get away from my teammate or I won't hesitate to do it for you."
"I would like to see you try. You know who I am and what I'm capable of doing boy."
Naruto was getting angrier by the second by this sick snake man. Then as he glared at the man, Naruto's eyes flashed to look like the fox eyes. Orochimaru's own eyes widen and some things for him began to click. "It's you who should be worrying not me. I've been taught by many different shinobis and even taught by a former teammate of your's. Plus I'm not normal." Orochimaru seemed a little confused at the last part. "Now release Sasuke," Naruto screamed.
When Orochimaru did no such thing, Naruto knew he was going to fight. So doing what he was good at doing he did a clone jutsu for a large scale attack, but he used his hands since he didn't want his enemy to know what he really could do. Once he knew he had enough, Naruto along with the clones moved in to surrounded both Sasuke and his captor.
Lucky for Naruto, Orochimaru didn't know what Naruto had up his sleves. Before Orochimaru could do anything or kick the clones away, Naruto replace the hostage with a fake clone of Sasuke. As they silently moved away Naruto could tell that his friend was unable to move. Once Naruto was back over by Sakura who took hold of Sasuke with a silent cry, Naruto's anger was at a boiling point. Momo even came over to protect Sasuke, since it knew its master wanted to fight Orochimaru.
That's exactly what Naruto did. He wasn't going to let Orochimaru get away with what he did. Naruto eyes still continued to look like fox eyes, but this time he was doing his best to not to let his emotions of the situation get the better of him. That was hard to do since he was madder than hell. Taking a quick glance at Orochimaru, he was given a good chance to tell Sakura to take Sasuke and hide.
"Sakura," he said in hushed whisper getting the girl to hear him. "Go and hide with Sasuke. Momo will watch you guys."
"What about you?" she replied still holding Sasuke who seemed to be in a lot of pain.
"I'll catch up later with you guys. Don't forget that I can find people easily. Plus when we meet back up, I'll help Sasuke. So hid where no one will see you."
"Are you sure?"
"Ya. Now hurry before he knows that you guys are gone. If anyone should look like me, Momo will know."
"Alright. Don't take to long."
"You know me." Then Sakura was gone with Sasuke and Momo close behind.
Naruto then turned his head back to his his enemy ready for anything. He wasn't going to let Orochimaru get a way. The legendary man had done to much. He had hurt his friend, hurt his family and the village that he had grown up in. It didn't end there, the man in front of him. He promised right there that he would get rid of the missing-nin for good.
When the man finally got rid of the last of the clone, Naruto had to laugh that the man was still holding the fake clone of Sasuke. It also proved that the man didn't know that Sasuke was now hidden. Now he just had to think of a way to out smart the man quick enough before it would be too late. His mind was racing for ways.
"Your causing to be a real problem boy."
"Good to know that," he said holding a kunai.
Orochimaru just chuckled. "Pity that you have to die."
"You know every time someone says that to me, they are the ones that actually die."
"Oh really."
"Yeah," said Naruto from behind the man.
Orochimaru's own eyes widen at how quickly Naruto move, but he recovered fast enough to block whatever move Naruto was going to do. Naruto moved away when he knew he was going to be stopped. Then he moved back in to attack again. Once more the attack was blocked. The whole time Orochimaru still didn't know he was carrying around a clone.
Naruto was still thinking fast to figure out ways to attack the other man. He then hastily summoned more clones and attacked again. This time he was able to get a hit in. The arm that was holding the clone was bleeding pretty badly. Ready to do some more damage, he was preparing to go this time at the other man's leg. As he close in Orochimare came back at him at full force destroying the clones and kicking Naruto back into a tree.
"You think you can hurt me, boy, you can't."
"Well, I did and I will."
"We'll see."
Then Naruto summoned more clones again to do the same thing. However this time he grabbed an exploding tag without the other man knowing. Then he moved in to set a new plan into action. Being fast about it Naruto knew that it wouldn't take long to destroy the clones again and hitting him away. Just after he got close enough to do what he had to do, he was being countered. But this time Orochimaru striked Naruto with a hard object to the side.
If Naruto had been another kid he would have screamed out in pain, but since he was not and only hissed a little in pain. Even though he was a fast healer, he still needed to check the wound. So in order to check it he had to block Orochimaru's next move. Knowingly Naruto knew he had to protect his wounded side, since that was the way Orochimaru was indicating.
Once Naruto had blocked the move he quickly moved back and away. Orochimaru seemed pleased for some reason. Naruto didn't know why, but he knew in a second that smirk would be coming off the sick man. Swiftly checking the wound, he was glad to see it wasn't serous and was healing nicely. Looking back at Orochimaru the man was still smirking. It was then why he was smirking. Instantly Naruto moved from his spot and not a second later was another huge snake where he had been.
"You think me a fool boy."
"Yeah I do," said Naruto dodging the snake as Orochimaru just watch.
At first Naruto thought the sannin could do jutsu's in his mind just like him, but then he realized that the man had summon it the normal way when he saw the man preparing to summon another. Except this time Orochimaru didn't get the chance. At that moment Naruto's well planted tag decided to go off. It was no surprised to Naruto as he continued to dodge the snake that Orochimaru had not seen what he had done.
Since he didn't have to worry about Orochimaru for the minute, Naruto decide to get read of the snake. Given that he had gone up against similar snakes before thanks to his aunt he chosen to use a fireball jutsu to do the job. Not taking long doing the jutsu, the snake was sent a blazed and was dead in seconds.
After that Naruto turned back to where the exploding tag had gone off. Orochimaru stood badly burned and bleeding. The man wasn't at all happy as they glared at each other. Naruto also could tell that Orochimaru was making up his mind about something. What he was thinking, Naruto didn't know. However Naruto did think it was time to piss Orochimaru of once more. He had decided it was time to ended the clone jutsu on the fake Sasuke still in the Snake man's arm.
It was then Orochimaru realized how much of a fool he was made into that day. From where Naruto stood, he could hear the man cursing how much the man had underestimated him. Naruto had to inwardly smirk, but this was no time to show it. Right now he had to think of a new way to get rid of Orochimaru. Yet before he could do anything, Orochimaru made the finishing decision to their fight.
"I have no more time left destroying you boy. Next time I won't hesitate in killing you." Then the Sannin was gone in a puff of smoke.
Naruto didn't even have time to attack the man, but he was somewhat glad that Orochimaru had chickened out. Naruto was no fool. He knew for a fact that if the fight had continued and the man had stopped underestimating him, he would more than not have survived the fight. He may have skills to go up against one and put up a good fight, but he wasn't that much skilled to over throw a Legendary Sannin yet.
Thinking it wise to track down his teammates he scented the area for one to find their location and two to make sure he wasn't going to be followed when he found them. Finding no traces of anyone near him, he went on his own following the scent trail of his teammates. Moving quickly and silently he left the area. He kept to the shadows and the bushes as he left.
Along the way he came across several other genin passed out. Looking he noticed that they had opened their scroll. It had confirmed his thoughts on why they need two different scroll and that if you open them you would be knocked out. Not letting that thought bother him, he continued on his way to find Sakura, Sasuke and Momo.
It wasn't another ten minutes that he knew for sure that he was close to him. He could smell them. Sakura was the strongest smell, since he could even smell her tears in the air. Not long he finally got a clear view of where they were. They were hidden under an up rooted tree. It was a good spot to hide in. As he moved in closer to them, Momo reacted. When the fox reacted Sakura also got prepare for a fight. Seeing him she was about to put her weapon away, but he stopped her.
"If I had been the enemy, Sakura, you would never put your weapon away until you knew for sure I'm your teammate. Momo knows me best and seeing as he not attacking me, he knows I'm the real one." Then Naruto moved over by her. "How's Sasuke doing?"
Putting her weapon way for the time being, she turned with Naruto to look at their teammate. "He's in a lot of pain Naruto. I don't know how he can stay awake."
Moving closer, Naruto sat down. Then he moved Sasuke's shirt aside to look at the mark Orochimaru had left behind. Flaring his finger tip with a little bit of chakra, he got he wanted. Looking at the curse mark and feeling the area around, he found out that this one was slightly different from the one his aunt had. Hopeful when it's taken away, Sasuke won't have any problems just like his aunt didn't once she had hers removed.
"What are you doing, dope?" said Sasuke still in a great deal of pain.
"I'm planning to remove the curse mark from you," Naruto said.
"Curse mark?" asked Sakura.
"Yeah, that's what he has, but it seems that it is an evolved form of the one my aunt has. From what I know of it is that when my aunt got her's it would cause her mind to do things by suggestion. It even builds as time goes off of your main goal in life if you can't control it, which I don't think can be control at all, but only Orochimaru. That man did a lot of shit to her."
"Who is he?"
"He's a wicked man. He use to be a shinobi of our village. He is a sannin just like Jiraiya. He became a missing-nin after the higher ups found out he was doing illegal experiments on animals and humans. Before he could be taken in he escaped. He even wasn't happy when the old man had decide to give leadership of Hokage to my dad, so he has a lot of hate for the village"
"That's it?" asked Sakura.
"That's all I'm allowed to vouch out to anyone."
"So, how are you going to get rid of the mark, dope? I don't want to be controlled by that man."
"I'm going to use my chakra to remove it. A modified version of a release sealed jutsu. Mine was created for my aunt and since your's is an evolved version, there could be side effects, but you won't be controlled by him. I don't know what the side effects are. So they could benefit you or not, but I know you can over come it."
"Just get it over with."
Naruto nodded and moved one of his hands way just a little. Then in that hand he began to built up chakra. To both Sakura and Sasuke it felt like a lot and wonder just how much chakra he had. Then before Sasuke knew it, he was screaming out in pain when Naruto slammed his hand down on the curse mark. This was too much.
"Bare with it. You'll be thankful later. It may feel like you can't take this, but you can," growled out Naruto.
"Is it suppose to hurt like this?" said a very worried Sakura.
"Yeah. My aunt was hurting pretty badly, but there is no other way to counter it. Plus I'm the only one that has really figured out a way to counter it. To counter it, I have a lot of chakra. More than what any normal person has."
Sasuke continued to scream. Just watching him, sweat was forming all over his skin. Even Naruto was sweating. The longer it took the more Sakura was getting even more worried. Slowly Sasuke screams got less loud until he was quiet and you could only see his displeasure on his face. Then finally it was over with Naruto let out a huge breath and checked the area one more time to see the mark was gone. The only indication that something was their or use to be their was the bit marks Orochimaru left.
"Any more pain?" he asked. Sasuke shook his head no. "That's good to know. So do you think you can stay awake long enough to get to the tower?"
"So you defeated him?" For a second Sakura had cheered up.
"No. Otherwise that mark would have been gone. He escaped. He hadn't expected me in his plans."
"Then how did you get the scroll from him?"
"He swallowed a fake. Before he realized what I was doing. You should of seen how pissed he was when I released the clone of Sasuke. He wasn't happy to know he was lugging around a fake."
"This whole time we..."
"It wouldn't have helped Sakura," said Sasuke trying to get up but fell.
Naruto caught him. "Don't try anything. You need to recuperate. You should be full back to strength in a day to two. So I'll have to carry you there."
"Get your pet to carry me."
"Can't I don't want too many people seeing what he can do yet. So suck it up." Then Naruto lifted Sasuke up so his who body was supported by him. Then Naruto turned to Sakura. "Momo will be in the lead. You follow and we'll be behind you. It shouldn't take us long to get to the tower."
Naruto was right. Moving from the hiding spot they made it to the tower within twenty minutes without any problems from other teams. Looking around the outside of the building they notice that they had to enter throw a door with the same gate number that they were given. Coming to the door, they entered into an empty room. Not knowing what to do they looked around.
"Maybe we should open the scrolls," said Sakura.
"I don't know. Before running in to you guys I came across a couple teams that had open their and they were passed out."
For a second it was silent, before Sakura spoke up once more. "Maybe you can't open them outside or one of them alone. I have a feeling that it's safe to open them inside here. Your aunt said that we just have to bring them here. She never said that we have to give them to her. They could hold a clue to what we have to do next."
"But what if your wrong," said Sasuke just above a whisper. "I are you going to take the fault that you're the one to ..."
"And we were working just so fine. I'll take the blame," said Naruto. They looked at him shock. "What the point in waiting? If Sakura is right, then we thank her. If she's wrong, you can blame me. Momo bring me the earth scroll. Sakura hold up Sasuke."
Once Naruto had both scrolls, he looked at his teammates one last time. Then at the same time, he opened the scrolls. Nothing happened happened. He didn't pass out or anything. Then suddenly both scrolls began to go up in smoke. Naruto throw both scrolls to the ground and move to stand by his friends. As the smoke grew, they heard a popping noise.
Soon the smoke started to disappeared to reveal Iruka. The older chuunin looked at each one of them with a smile on his face, but soon it disappeared as soon as he saw the state of Sasuke. Looking at Naruto again for answers, he noticed a patch of blood and that there was a hole in Naruto's clothing on the side.
Naruto saw this. "We'll tell you after you tell us what your doing here Iruka-sensei."
Iruka accepted this and told them. He first congratulated them on making it to the tower in one day. Then he told them why he was here. Then he went on to telling them the meaning of being a chuunin. They all took it in easily. By the time he was finish telling them each one of them were glad to be doing the exams together.
"Now tell me what happened to Sasuke and you Naurto?"
"Orochimaru is what happened." Iruka paled. Naruto went on to tell him the whole story of what happened.
When Naruto was done, Iruka turned to Sasuke. "Your lucky Naruto is on your team. Orochimaru is not one you want to get close to or him getting a hold of you Sasuke." Then Iruka turned back to Naruto. "And you, Naruto, what were you thinking taking on that man? You could have been killed. He is no one you should be going up against."
"I couldn't just let him keep a hold of Sasuke or get a hold of him. Besides I had to keep him away from Sasuke long enough. Lucky for me he didn't predicted how skilled I am. Plus I know that I wouldn't have made it out of there alive if he decided to get serous. I may be able to hold of a sannin long enough, but not fully. Also if it came down to that I had several thought out plans to escape."
"Well what's done is done. I'll show you to your courters for the next several days."
Naruto took Sasuke back and helped carry him down the corridor. "Iruka is the old man here?"
"Naruto quick calling the Hokage that, I believe so. Why do you need to speak to him?"
"Yeah. remember he wants me to keep him inform of any information."
"I'll tell him about Orochimaru, but I be..."
"No, I've got more to tell him."
Seeing that it was no use, Iruka gave up. He led them a little longer before leading them to a room. Inside there was three beds and a bath room. They were even given a TV and a little space should the need to train themselves. Leaving Sasuke and Sakura, they went to a few rooms away. Iruka knocked on a door and another Shinobi answered. Walking inside there was the Hokage and Naruto's aunt.
They seemed a little surprised that he was there already. They even gave him the once over and knew that they weren't going to like what they were about to hear. They were right as Naruto informed them of everything. His Aunt was trying her best to control her anger, but eventually she ended up pounding a fist into the nearest wall.
"That's not all. The same smell coming from that Kabuto person and the sound guy was that of Orochimaru. There is seriously something being planned for our village and I believe Sand might be apart of it," said Naruto finishing.
Sarutobi nodded. He was starting to believe the same thing. Things were just not right. "Thank you for the information. You did a good job in protecting Sasuke, but ..."
"I know. Iruka already scolded me..."
"Naruto," said his aunt looking very upset now. "I could have lost you..."
"No you won't. For one he wasn't after me. I was too unpredictable for that asshole. Two, I had two different escapes planned out should I need to get out of there. Three, the dam fox won't let me die just yet or what to die. Four, I won't let that bastard win and kill me."
"Still..."
"Am I going to have to get you a pink dress because you're getting soft?" Naruto got punched to the face.
"As if."
"Good to know your back to normal." Then he turned to Sarutobi. "So what do you want to do?"
"Continued on gathering information. Also keep your control in check no matter if you hate keeping quiet. However for now I suggest you get some rest."
Naruto nodded and did just that ten minutes later, once he was back in his assigned courters.
