Naruto the Fullmetal Fox Alchemist

Chapter 11: A Game of Fox and Snake

Disclaimer: Why would I be writing on a fan fiction site if I did own these two stories?

Hinata was leading Team Alchemy away from a very powerful foe. The two girls and one boy thought one thing, 'How did we get into this situation?'

Their answer started six hours ago when they marched with the other Chūnin hopefuls to the forest of death. Lead by the examiner and leader of the Nature Clan during war, Raven Hunter, a tall, dark, and mysterious man that has black hair and black clothing. He can turn into a flock of ravens in an instant and kill everyone with dark Chakra. Revan began to explain that the tournament would take place in the Forest of Death, and they had to go to the tower within five days with a heaven and earth scroll, with them be given one of the scrolls. They had a Heaven scroll.

Not even an hour in the forest, they were attack by some Rock and Rain Chūnins disguised as Genin. Apparently, they snuck in to capture them to try to break them to learn about alchemy if not kill them. Sadly, for them, Team Alchemy was above Chūnin, so the teams quickly found themselves defeat badly and they continued on to the tower since they now have an Earth scroll and two Heaven scrolls.

They then decided to hit the tower and a few hours of tracking in the forest, a powerful gust of wind sent them down on the ground. However, they got up just in time as a female Grass-nin came crashing through the trees and slammed a sword down where Hinata was. The group quickly got into position, where Hinata was already ready in defense,; Shino then sent a piece of wood from a tree speeding as a bullet and Tukiko used fire alchemy on their opponent. The rock fist and fire unfortunately revealed that their foe used a water clone to get away before they could hit the girl.

Then they heard some chuckling as they looked up to see the strange Genin unharmed and amused. However, what truly frightened them was the fact she had yellow silted eyes that matched an adversary of Naruto's. "Orochimaru," Tukiko stammered.

Orochimaru disguised as a Grass-nin chuckle as he pulled off the skin of the poor girl he killed to reveal his pasty white snakeskin. "Bravo, you figure me out despite the fact that I used techniques I normally don't use or the fact the skin hides my scent. I say that Naruto has taught you all well."

"Why are you here?" Hinata asked in a stammer.

Orochimaru formed a smile that only the devil would be proud to have. "I came to find new subjects for my experiments and remembered the first three Alchemists that Naruto trained and knew that they owed me for derailing my plans and hurting my pride. Especially the Aburame," he said with a sneer and Shino didn't know whether to smirk or shrink in fear.

"How about… no," Hinata stammered before using her alchemy from her pendant to send a torrent of wind, that hit Orochimaru and sent him flying in the air.

The team didn't stay to hear Orochimaru's scream and rammed head first into a tree before getting up and looking truly pissed. They went deep into the forest towards the Tower to make their way to the tower and play hide and seek with Orochimaru being the snake and they are the mice. They continued for half an hour with Hinata scouting, Tukiko creating a bunch of fake trails with mud clones and fire alchemy while Shino covered their trails with insects and earth related Jutsus and Alchemy. They almost got away until two huge, gigantic, grey snakes spotted them.

After getting separated from Shino, Tukiko and Hinata double teamed one of the snakes with Hinata acting as bate to lure the snake before she sent it flying high due to her wind shield. While in the air, Tukiko combined Fire Style: Fire Dragon Jutsu and fire Alchemy to create one green/purplish flaming dragon rushing the snake turning it into a roasted snake that crumbled into ash. The girls then turned to see Shino handle the other snake by pelting it with bugs and rocks until it got annoyed enough to try and swoop down and eat him. Shino then jumped high and with Armstrong's technique, hit with a force strong enough to turn the snake's brain into goo.

They were about to continue, but then the snake went poof and it was then they realize the snake was summoned and in which they knew Anko didn't summon it. They were about to run when a powerful gust of wind reappeared and sent them all crashing into the ground. They were able to jump back up in time to see that they were facing the Snake Sennin again, with his sword out, chuckling. "It is truly remarkable, for children your age to take out not one but two of my summons. You all will make excellent test subjects." Orochimaru then flick his sword to say, "But play time is over."

However, before he could even take a step towards them, he heard a loud clap within the area. The next thing he knew, the roots of the tree came rushing up and started to squeeze him with enough force that he let go of his sword. That was when Naruto with a fox on her shoulder, Anko with Kunai in each hand, and Hana with her three dogs coming out like ghosts about to exact their vengeance. Orochimaru was never so scared in his life.

"You think you can try and harm my students and get away with it?" Naruto snared as she rolled up the sleeve on her left hand to reveal several Alchemy tattoos. "Think again!" Naruto yelled as she rushed the purely white Orochimaru.

Then with her left hand, grabbed Orochimaru and began to destroy him from the inside out. It wasn't long before his entire body gone splat, leaving nothing but flesh and blood. Naruto then looked at her arm and felt something was off.

Break

In a dark room, red eyes with three black swirls and one yellow slit, panted heavily in the night after coming so close to death. He then began to chuckle as he had escaped that woman's wrath and won't realize it until he was long gone. He then got up to search the house for seals that kept him here and see what his new Uchiha body is like.

Break

Back in the Forest, Naruto continue to look at her arm as she asked, "Hinata, Shino, Tukiko, do you three have your two scrolls?"

"Yes sensei," the three acknowledge.

"Good, then head back to the tower," Naruto ordered and the Genin then acknowledged before running to the Tower. Naruto then said, "Anko, use the seal remover to claim Orochimaru's Grass Cutter (sword). I believe he owes you for that crappy seal."

Anko gave a million watt smile to be able to take something from Orochimaru for taking away her childhood. Even though she was a little mad, that Naruto got to kill him. While Anko was claiming the sword, Hana became a bit worry about Naruto, "Naru-Chan, are you alright?"

"I am fine, I feel the same," Naruto commented. "Which is wrong."

"Wrong, how is feeling fine is wrong brat?" Anko asked as she strapped the sword to her back.

"Ed, didn't you tell me I should feel the soul that gets absorb into my arm?" Naruto asked Ed who thought for a moment. Anko and Hana eyes went wide since they knew what she meant.

"You should feel soul of Orochimaru, which should give you satisfaction and make you sick," Ed explained before he asked, "Do you feel anything?"

"I feel nothing," Naruto commented, "Which means Orochimaru's soul might still be out there."

"How is that possible?" Hana stammered while Anko smiled since that mean he still alive for her to kill.

"Remember when we discovered that he was close to perfecting his Immortality Jutsu to allow his soul to jump in and take over his future victims?" Naruto asked and made Anko and Hana pale, more so with Anko since her former curse seal was a key to get into her body.

"You think he succeeded?" Ed asked for the group.

"Let us gather the remains and see for ourselves," Naruto commented, never knowing white eyes, and dark eyes hidden under glasses watching them from a far.

Break

It was mid afternoon and all the Jōnin and Clan Heads from Leaf, one from Suna and one from Mist. They were getting together to discuss today's events. "As some of you may be aware, Orochimaru was found within this village," The Hokage announced to the group.

"What was he doing here?" One red-eyed beautiful Jōnin asked.

"We believe that he was here to find new targets," Naruto explained with Anko nodding beside her.

"Were any of our Genin hurt?" Zabuza asked since he was worried about Haku.

Naruto nodded her head no, "As far as we can see, Team Alchemy was the only one he was after before I made his body splat."

"So Orochimaru is dead?" asked Asuma, the black beard, chain-smoking Jōnin.

"We're afraid not," Anko answered the group. "We believe he perfected a Jutsu that allows him to transfer his soul to a new body willing or not and may have escaped before Naruto gave the killing blow."

"How can you be sure?" The black-haired man named Inferno asked.

"Lady Tsunade, Lady Eboshi," The Hokage directed to the two doctors.

"After examining the body that was once Orochimaru, we found many genetic changes," Tsunade explained.

"At first we thought it was just him, experimenting with himself but found the alterations too numerous to account for," Eboshi continue to explain before switching back and forth with Tsunade.

"We found that he altered the body pigment to be white, changed his eye color, and modified his joints."

"His gender was also change as we believe that it was XX chromosomes instead of XY." The Hokage truly looked down in shame while most of the Jōnin were disgusted.

"We believe that this was once a body of a female member of the Fūma Clan if the few unaltered Genetic Markers found in what was once the womb are any indication," Tsunade finish their report.

"The Fūma clan?" a scared man named Ibiki asked. "Does Orochimaru still have some of his forces in Rice Country after Team Alchemy kicked him out?"

"A small force at the very least since he was able to trade in Sin," Anko commented. "However that is not the main concern as we still have traitors among us," Anko statement brought shock to the whole group.

"Who would do such a unyoutful thing?" a man in Green spandex name Guy asked everyone.

"I can name numerous reasons, but I wonder how do you know there are traitors among us?" A Jōnin from the Fūma clan named Arashi Fūma asked Naruto and Anko. His grey eyes narrowed and his hair turned a bit grey as he hoped they didn't accuse his clan since they were one allies with Orochimaru.

"One is common sense since only a few know what entails of exam since we decided a month before it began," Naruto listed off her reasons. "Second is that we tried to capture a known spy which belonged to Kabuto, the Genin who taken the Chūnin exams seven times."

"When we cornered the team, it was revealed that he was the true leader if the scared Jōnin gave way was Kabuto, who then butchered him and his teammates before escaping," Anko continued to explain.

"That is why Hana is not with us right now as she is trying to track down Kabuto," Naruto added which made all the Jōnin realize that Hana isn't there.

"Won't have to worry about our forces," Zabuza explained. "We have combed through our forces thoroughly to make sure we got everyone that would possibly betray us to old regime or other villages."

"We have only combed the higher ups since some of them had been cohorts with Orochimaru but after your revelation, we'll check our lower ranks as well," the man with half his face-covered named Baki said. The rest of Leaf's allies also stated they would check their men as well as they don't need someone like Orochimaru interfering with them.

"As for all Konoha-nins, double our search and report anything that is unusual, even if may seem nothing or is on a buddy. I rather have a inconvenient officer that is safe rather than an ignorant one that became sorry," Naruto ordered and everyone nodded in acceptance and began to leave except the Hokage, Anko, Naruto and Ed, and a black-haired, black-eyed beauty named Mikoto Uchiha.

"Ms. Uchiha, do you have anything to report?" The Hokage asked.

"Yes, even if I regret reporting this," Mikoto admitted before explain. "A couple of days ago, my son, Sasuke, who is under house arrest began acting strange. Instead of brooding or acting angry all the time, he is smiling, more eradicate and darker. I was told by our guards who quoted, 'I will soon be filled out with power to kill my brother and beat that blond bitch.'" The four listeners frowned at that. "We thought he just finally lost his mind but became more concerned when he made another personality switch three days ago. Now, he has become all quiet, cold and gives anyone the shivers with his new calculating look. The same look at that Orochimaru gave when he was in this village."

Everyone was quiet as they digested the report until Anko summed it up, "So Orochimaru gave the Uchiha the curse seal and then took Sasuke's body after he figured he was going to lose."

"Naruto, I thought you said you put seals to prevent anyone leaving or entering without a key seal?" The Hokage asked.

"It is, however if someone as skilled as me can make a duplicate key given enough description of the seal and anyone can see it going into," Naruto explained.

"Orochimaru is not skilled enough to pull something like this off," Sarutobi stated, as he knew his students well.

"Look like Orchi has a strong ally," Anko pointed out.

"Maybe the ones Lust and Sloth warned us about," Ed whispered to Naruto who nodded in agreement.

"Thank you Mikoto, please return to the Uchiha compound and be on guard and don't do anything against Sasuke unless me or Naruto order it," Hokage said as he puffed his pipe.

Mikoto then bowed before leaving the tower and leaving the four others alone. Naruto then got out a radio to order, "Hana, Report."

The radio reply, "Hey Naru, this is Hana. I lost track of Kabuto. He masked his trail to as low as he can and then he created a dozen clones going different directions with each being a faint scent. This guy is Jōnin level at least."

"I see," Naruto nodded before asking, "Were those trails going away from the Uchiha compounds?"

"Yes Naruto," Hana answered.

"Then that is where he will be," Naruto said with conviction. "Hana, go to Sasuke's house and meet us there. We are going to check it out."

Break

Outside Sasuke's house, Naruto and the gang was watching the house from a safe distance, as well as listening in due to some bug seals that Naruto's clones disguised as insects planted outside of the house. Now they waited until a certain silver-haired boy snuck in with a copy key seal.

"Kabuto?" a black hair boy hissed within the room.

"Lord Orochimaru," Kabuto bowed. "How is your new body?"

"Pathetic," Orochimaru answered Kabuto in anger. "This boy was pampered way too much that he is physically weak and his brain power is lacking. He is no genius, as his supporters would say. I should have picked his cousin that Naruto trained but I had no grantee she wouldn't resist like Anko until Naruto painfully removed yet another curse seal."

"Yes," Kabuto chuckled. "It was painful as part of your original soul was obliterated." Anko silent jump for joy to know the seal being removed caused him pain.

Orochimaru then got serious, "Yes, well despite this body being weak, I am still trapped within for at least three years and will make use of it. But that is not the main problem. The main problem is that I am stuck here and may soon be discovered once someone comes to inspect 'Sasuke.'"

"What will you want me to do my Lord?" Kabuto asked.

"Contact our ally and get her here as soon as possible," Orochimaru ordered and Kabuto complied.

Kabuto then pulled out his arm to reveal a complex seal that Naruto has never seen before. He then put some chakra through it as it pulsed. A few minutes later, a hologram picture revealed a woman with in a cloak.

It then spoke in a voice that Ed recognize and couldn't believe but made him speak, "Dante."

"What is that you need, Orochimaru?" Dante asked.

"Ah, Dante, I seem to have gotten myself in a situation," Orochimaru then explained how he wound up in this situation.

Dante's lips twitched before saying playfully, "Always was too greedy for your own to good. I told you wpuldn'tbe happy with the Uchiha brat and work on other things outside of Leaf's notice. Oh well, so I take it you want me to get you out? You know my price?"

"Yes, the standard dozen ninja's souls and two dozen samurai's subjects or six dozen regular subjects people souls. In addition, all research notes I have on curse seal warriors for your complete assistance it getting me out of here and help in setting up the curse seal army," Orochimaru told Dante and the group got more than a little worried about the price tag.

"Very good," the hooded woman answered with a nod. "However, I have to ask when you want this done as breaking Naru's seals will take time?"

"We'll do this during the Chūnin Exam's tournament, where my men will create enough of a distraction to keep everyone distracted to escape," Orochimaru answered the woman who began to smirk before disappearing.

"Kabuto, ready our forces, this is what we are going to do…"

Break

"… and that is what happened last night," Naruto and Ed explained to the old Hokage.

"So, who is this Dante?" The Hokage asked.

"Dante is a very powerful Alchemist that's older then I am by four hundred years," Ed explained. "However, unlike me who became immortal, she survived by transferring her soul in a similar fashion Orochimaru does. In fact, he probably got the idea from her," Ed explained to the group. "She also used the Homunculus as her soldiers to create the philosopher stone. So she is very manipulative, very powerful and has little regard to human life."

"How did she get over here?" Sarutobi asked.

"Probably the same way I did, most likely a few weeks after me when the gates were wide open," Ed explained. "She probably stayed out of sight, taking bodies when she needed to and creating the stone from wars that came and went. I wouldn't be surprised if she found a way to absorb souls to keep her soul alive."

"Well, from what I heard and read, she is someone that we will need to kill and we have the perfect opportunity," Naruto pointed out. "Thanks to the scouting, we now know the entire battle straggly of Orochimaru and we can not only take out two major threats, but also cripple a potential third gang after we lopped off the head."

"It's very bold plan Naruto, please continue." The Hokage nodded as Naruto began to explain the more detail of her battle plan. "Very well, Operation Snake Trap is a go."

"Thank you Hokage-sama," Naruto bowed but was about to leave the room when a sickly Jōnin walked in. His brown eyes looked around as his black hair barely moved.

"Hokage-sama, (cough), the five days are up but we seem to have too many Genin," the sickly man listed off teams that made it: five leaf teams, one sand team, one mist team, and one from the new Sound village created by the Fūma clan and supported by the Leaf. "With your permission, can we hold the prelims?"

"Wait Hokage-sama, Hayate, can I make a suggestion that will rock the Chūnin's Exams and keep our enemies distracted?" Naruto asked as she began to form a plan.

Break

Meanwhile, in an auditorium with two stairs leading to two balconies, an arena floor and a stage, waited the eight Genin teams all spread out with the team with the Sound insignia being the furthest from anyone. In the center was Team Alchemy trading stories to a familiar Mist-nin that was a feminine black-haired boy while his teammates were busy. "Wow, amazing, we don't get mission like that when I travel with Zabuza," Haku commented with a blush that only increased with, "So that it's what it like to be students under Naru-Chan."

"Yeah, one head puzzle and danger after another," Tukiko commented off handily.

"You are still lucky that she was there to save you as some Jōnin would have gotten you guys killed," Haku told the group, especially Hinata while thinking of a former Leaf-Nin that looked like a scarecrow.

"Yeah, I guess," Hinata had stammered as she felt someone bad was watching her.

However, before she looked around, the Hokage and all the Jōnin appeared. "Welcome all Genin to annual Chūnin's Exams and congratulations to making it to the third part of the exams, where you will show off your strength of your village." The Hokage then smirked, "Now take a good look around you, as you can see there are over twenty-four contestants, way to huge to be an individual tournament." The Hokage then smirked again as everyone got wide eyes. "However, under the suggestion of Naruto Uzumaki-Elric, I decided that instead of a tournament bracket of individuals, but of teams." The Hokage then got a big smile when he announced, "Here to explain more is Hayate Gekkō."

Hayate then walked up to start things off, "Alright, you will be randomly (cough) pulled into four brackets with the winners advancing and (cough) facing each other. During the test, we (cough) will see teamwork skills, individual contributes to teams and skills, and (cough) leadership qualities to determine (cough) if you are Chūnin material."

"So all of us could advance?" the brown-haired girl in brown robes named Bastila asked.

"Yes, but all could fail if none of you show any good team work," Hayate added to damper their spirits.

"You have a month to train up your skills as we need this time to advertise across the Elemental Countries and make room for many guests that will come," the Hokage told the group who nodded to Hayate as they showed on the board of who is facing who.

The screen first showed Team 8 of Ami Rika, Kiba Inuzuka and Sakura Haruno vs. Team 10 Ino Yamanaka, Chōji Akimichi and Shikamaru Nara. The two Genin teams breathed a sigh of relief, as they were facing teams that were not so hard. Next showed Team 6 Night Wolf, son of Wolf Dreamer, Bastila Roth, and Revan Roth vs. Team Sand with Gaara of the Sand, Temari of the Sand and Kankurō of the Sand. The teams squared each other up and knew it will be a tough fight.

The next set of matches will be strictly foreign as it is Team Aqua and Team Hope. Team Aqua is made up Haku Momochi as the leader. Next to him are Chōjūrō, a shy boy with short messy blue hair, and square blue glasses/ear muffs, and a huge sword with two handles rapped up. He twitched his hand while muttering, "I hope I don't disappoint Zabuza and Mei-Sama." The third and final teammate is Akai Ken. A quiet man with brown hair tied under his bandana and intimating eyes that only added by a faint scare over an intact an eye. He wore a red trench coat as well as black sleeves shirt, his hands twitching and staying close to his two swords, a black zanbato and a red katana.

The Mist-nins then looked over to Fūma clan's sponsor village of Sound. Standing in front is the leader, Kagerō Fūma, an ugly hunch back guy with buckteeth. Standing beside Kagerō is Sasame Fūma, a girl around Team Alchemy's age. She also had long orange hair, beautiful brown eyes hidden under thick grey cloths and cap. The final member was not a Fūma clan member but a civilian trained ninja named Kin Tsuchi, a black eyes and hair beauty that wore similar clothing Sasame minus the cap. The Sound team looked at their opponent to see a subtle skill in each other, and knew that it will be a difficult test.

The finale team to be revealed to fight was a surprise; it was Team Alchemy and Team Guy. The two greatest teams from Konoha and ultimate grudge matches of Taijutsu vs. Ninjutsu, weapon mistress vs. bug user and Branch Hyūga vs. Main House Hyūga.

"This will be youthful!" Lee yelled out, only to be hit by Tenten for being too loud.

However, Neji was the most unnerving as he looked at Hinata with a sinister smile as he said, "We will soon fight Hinata-sama, and Naruto-sama won't save you like she did against the late Orochimaru."

Neji statement shocked everyone and talked among themselves while Naruto, Anko and Hana looked at their Genin in concern and knew they needed to double their training, especially Hinata as they are facing an opponent who has no problem killing them.

Please review, I need to know what you think.

Author Note

A) I like to thank Leaf Ranger for the creation of oc: Akai Ken.

1) To all guys out there can agree that the worst kind of pride to hurt is the manly kind. Just don't ask me to explain it as I am a guy and I don't fully understand it.

2) Sasuke body now having the Sharingan made sense to me. Orochimaru was almost literary killed and would awaken the Sharingan do the adrenaline the level the body would produce as he took control.

3) In the first Anime, Scar arm did more then perform alchemy, but also collect souls. Since Naruto hasn't killed anyone with that arm, she can tell if she had taken Orochimaru's soul and knew that he may be alive.

4) In canon, they reveal that Anko's seal and Orochimaru are connected, so he should feel it if Anko lost her curse seal.

5) The Fūma clan Sound village was purely last minute discussion, one I hope I don't regret. I didn't go for the Rain team because I wanted someone to challenge the Mist's Team.