It's been two hours since the second phase of exam started and Team 7 hasn't run into any other teams yet. "Sasuke let's head to the river and set up camp, but first I think I hear a tree calling my name. Be right back." Naruto says and takes off to find a tree. A few minutes later he returns and has an earth scroll. in his hand. "Actually Sasuke forget camp let's just head to the tower." Naruto says.

"Wait how do we know that you are the real Naruto?" Sasuke asks getting into a defensive stance.

"Fine if you want proof that I'm the real Naruto." Naruto says and pulls out a piece of paper and writes something down. "This is something only the real Naruto should know." He says and tosses the note to Sakura who blushes as she reads it. Then quickly channels fire chakra in her fingers to burn the piece of paper.

"That's the real Naruto, let's go." Sakura says and takes to the trees with her team behind her while Naruto laughs at his girlfriend's attitude.

"What did the note say, Sakura?" Sasuke asks Sakura who blushes again.

"It's nothing Sasuke." Sakura says quickly. "Let's just hurry up and get to the tower okay."

While this was going on Naruto was using his Rinnegan to search the area in case someone places them in a Genjutsu or tries to sneak up on them. He senses someone following them and moves up to warn his team. "Don't turn around just keep looking forward. We're being followed and they are more powerful than a mere Genin." Naruto says. "Get to the forest floor, but don't stop moving." He orders and his team complies. After traveling for about a half-hour Naruto flies through a series of hand seals and turns around. "Earth Style: Earth Wall." Naruto shouts and slams his hands on the ground blocking the force of the wind jutsu used as it hit the wall full force. He goes through another series of hand seals. "Earth Style: Earth Dragon Projectile Jutsu." Naruto shouts and a dragon forms in the center of the Earth Wall and fires mud projectiles at the assailant.

"Naruto what's wrong?" Sakura asks seeing the look of fear on his face.

"Ku ku ku." A voice laughs and carrying a lot malice with it. "My my an Earth Wall and an Earth Dragon as well. That's quite impressive for a Genin."

"Where are you. Show yourself you bastard." Naruto yells as Team 7 continues looking around back to back.

"My that's quite a mouth on you Namikaze." The voice says while laughing again.

"How the hell do you know my name?" Naruto growls. "You know what fuck this. If you won't show your face we'll just sniff you out. Ready Sakura." Naruto says and Sakura nods her head and they both fly through a series of hand seals.

"Summoning Jutsu." They both shout placing their hands on the ground and there is a puff smoke and two foxes appear a white fox and a blue fox each having 2 tails.

"What do you need of us Lady Sakura, Lord Naruto." The foxes ask.

"Katara, Saito We need you to find out where the person tracking us is." Sakura asks.

"No problem." The blue fox called Saito says and they both sniff the air and then look at their summoners'.

"Lady Sakura he's over there and be careful he smells like a snake." The white fox called Katara warns.

"Not good. Not good at all. If we hope to survive we will need to work together." Naruto says scared.

"What are you talking about loser?" Sasuke asks Naruto now even more annoyed with him.

"Oh my god Sasuke do you even think." Sakura says in a pissed voice. "He's saying that the only people that should smell like snake are Anko the proctor of this exam and Orchimaru S-class missing nin of the Hidden Leaf Village." Sakura says drawing her Katana as does Naruto.

"Ku ku ku aren't we perceptive little one's aren't we." Orochimaru says laughing. "Do you even know how to use those swords or is it just for show?" He asks

"Shut the fuck up you gay pedophile freak." Naruto says slamming his hands on the ground making giant crystal's charge towards the snake bastard's location who sneers at Naruto as he jumps out of the way.

"I am not gay." Orochimaru hisses at Team 7.

"So you are pedophile freak." Sakura says in a matter-of-fact voice and her remark is met with silence.

"Oh my god it's true hahahaha." Naruto says holding his stomach "I knew it with all those sick experiments I read that you did on little children."

"You'll die you little brat." Orochimaru hisses and charges at Team 7 and Naruto activates his Rinnegan and Sasuke activates his Sharingan.

Naruto and Sakura stab there katana's into the ground and Team 7 goes through a series of hand seals and shout.

"Collaboration Ninjutsu: Mega Fireball Jutsu." Team 7 shouts. (Two Fireball Jutsu's and a Great Breakthrough) The jutsu hit's Orochimaru dead-on and engulf him in flames, but he turns to mud.

"Lady Sakura to your right." Katara shouts as Orchimaru appears and Team 7 goes through another series of hand seals.

"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu." Team 7 shouts and fire 30 or so mini fireballs at the Snake Sannin while the foxes guard there backs.

"Dammit, we need to escape. We won't be able to beat one of the Sannin." Naruto growls and flies through another series of seals. "Earth Style: Rising Stone Pillars." Naruto says and giant pillars rise up from the ground and the treacherous serpent has a little trouble evading them, but is successful in the end. Naruto goes through another series of hand seals. "Lightning Style: Black Panther Jutsu." Naruto says and a panther forms and charges at Orochimaru but he dodges it.

"Naruto we need to warn somebody! " Sakura yells "You have to use that chakra!"

"Right." Naruto says. "Kurama I need a huge chakra spike." Naruto says to the fox.

"How much Kit?" Kurama asks.

"Enough to reach the Hokage's Tower." Naruto says and makes the ram hand sign and start's to build as much chakra has he can.

"On it." Kurama says and starts to flood Naruto's chakra pathways with his chakra as Naruto molds it and then releases all the built up chakra and it explodes outwards.

The Hokage Tower:

"...then let's." the Hokage says and feels Kurama's chakra.

"Sarutobi that's Kurama's chakra." Kushina says. "Naruto's in trouble he shouldn't need to use his chakra in the exam."

"Lord Hokage" An Anbu says as he appears in the office an kneels down on a knee. "We have just received word that Orochimaru is in the Village."

Hiruzen stands up "Get squads 2,9,12, and 10 and head towards where the foxes chakra was sensed." He orders and the Anbu leaves in a Shunshin.

Back in the Forest:

"Damn that brat he has the Nine-Tails in him." Orochimaru sneers. "I have to do this now or it will never happen, but those damn foxes can sense where I am before I attack." Orochimaru then smiles at Naruto. "Well that was an impressive trick Naruto. I would love to see what else you can do or was that it." Orochimaru says and Naruto falls to his knee. "I guess that was it oh well. Maybe Sasuke can do more. He does seem stronger than Itachi, but I could be wrong." He says goading Sasuke into attacking him one-on-one.

"I'll destroy you and Itachi." Sasuke roars and pulls out a Demon Wind Shuriken out of his pack and launches it at Orochimaru who dodges it but get's stuck to a tree because of the ninja wire and Sasuke goes through a long series of hand seals. "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu." Sasuke shouts and flames go down the wire and engulf Orochimaru in flames as he screams in agony. Sasuke smirks at the job that he done thinking that Orochimaru was finished.

When the flames die down Orochimaru is still there and smiling at Sasuke and licking his lips. "That was impressive Sasuke. I think that you are worthy of my gift." Orochimaru says and makes the Ram hand sign and stretches his neck and latches on to Sasuke's and he screams in pain and after the Snake Sannin let's go, Sasuke collapses onto the ground.

"Sasuke noooo!" Naruto screams. "You fucking bastard! You'll pay for that Almighty Push!" Naruto shouts after raising his hand. Orochimaru slams into the tree with as much chakra as Naruto put into that jutsu. Orochimaru dissolves into mud though shocking Naruto.

"If Sasuke want's more power he will seek me out. Ku ku ku."Orochimaru laughs and disappears into the tree as a bunch of kunai and shuriken imbed themselves into the tree branch. Anbu appear shortly after and surround Team 7.

"Are you three alright?" The Anbu with the Cat mask asks.

Naruto goes over to Sasuke and looks at his neck and his worst fears have been realized. Sasuke did get the Curse Mark. "Get my father, Kakashi-sensei, and the Hokage. Orochimaru gave Sasuke the Curse Mark." Naruto says and picks up Sasuke and puts him on his shoulder and heads towards the tower with Sakura and the foxes following close behind. The Anbu teams rush to report what Naruto said. "Sakura can you keep up?" Naruto asks. "We have to hurry up Sasuke only has a 1/10 chance at survival."

"I can keep up Naruto. I didn't use as much chakra as you did" Sakura says and they push themselves even harder.

5 hour Time-skip:

When Naruto and Sakura enter the tower they come across a poem on the wall and open the scrolls and there is a pop of smoke and Iruka appears. "Iruka-sensei we need to get these two to the infirmary and are the Hokage, my father and Kakashi-sensei here?" Naruto asks before Iruka could even open his mouth.

"Right this way and who is the girl?" Iruka asks as they make their to the infirmary.

"We don't know all we got out of her is 'Orochimaru'." Naruto says with venom in his voice. "We were attacked by Orochimaru and he gave Sasuke the Curse Mark. We came here right after-wards." They enter the infirmary.

"Put them here." A doctor says seeing Sasuke and the girl being carried in.

"Naruto, Sakura are you two alright?" Minato asks seeing them in the infirmary.

"We're fine Dad." Naruto says. "I don't know about Sasuke and the girl though."

Sakura speaks up "I ran a prognosis and the girl seems to be fine. She's just suffering from chakra exhaustion. Sasuke though has a high fever border-line life threatening."

"Why don't we continue this conversation upstairs." The Hokage says and they head to the Hokage's Office within the tower. Once there the Hokage takes his seat.

"Before we begin sir. What's going to happen now?" Naruto asks. "We had an incapacitated teammate upon reaching the tower."

"Nothing will happen considering there was outside interference. So you are allowed to continue with the exams." Sarutobi says easing the Genins' hearts on the matter. "Now explain to me what happened in the forest."

"When we entered the forest nothing happened for a while then I had to find a tree." Naruto says. "I was attacked by a Rain ninja and I got my team the other scroll needed to finish this part of the exam. We continued on and were making good time. I then sensed that we we're being followed so I ordered my team to head to the forest floor. After traveling for a half-hour more I felt the usage of wind chakra and a strong breeze headed our way. So I put up an earth wall to block the wind style jutsu and then created an earth dragon jutsu right after-wards. A huge blood-lust and killing intent was directed towards us and Orochimaru started talking to us and trying to goad us into fighting him."

"Naruto and I then summoned the foxes Saito and Katara who sniffed him out and warned us that he smelled like snake and that is how we knew we were up against one of the Sannin." Sakura says taking over where Naruto left off. "Naruto put his hands on the ground and used crystals to attack Orochimaru's hiding place forcing him in the open. We knew that if we ran we wouldn't get very far so we had no choice but to stay and fight. When we attacked him together we had him on the defense and we were doing very well thanks to sensei's training. We knew though that we wouldn't last much longer even with our wide range of jutsu. So I told Naruto to use Kurama's chakra to send out a signal and it drained him a little bit. It was enough though for Sasuke to be goaded into a fight against Orochimaru alone, because in Naruto's condition if Orochimaru attacked him, Naruto would not have been able to defend himself." Sakura says and Naruto put's his head down in shame.

"Naruto don't blame yourself. What you did was the right thing to do in that situation." Minato says placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"But if I didn't do that though Sasuke might not have gotten that damned Curse Mark." Naruto says sitting in a chair.

"Please continue Sakura." Minato says knowing now's not the time to discuss this.

"Well Sasuke went after Orochimaru and pinned him to a tree using a Demon Windmill Shuriken and ninja wire. He then used the Dragon Flame Jutsu to burn Orochimaru. We thought that it was over until Orochimaru was still there. He then made a hand seal and bit Sasuke's neck giving him the Curse Mark. Naruto screamed and used the Almighty Push to get that snake away from us. Orochimaru then said that if Sasuke want's more power to seek him out. Anbu then appeared shortly after and Naruto told them what happened and that they needed to let Minato, Kakashi-sensei and you Lord Hokage know after seeing the Curse Mark. We then left and came across a red-haired girl being attacked by a giant bear and we saved her." Sakura says. "Speaking of Kakashi-sensei where is he?" She asks and the door opens revealing said person.

"Sorry I'm late. I was checking on Sasuke's condition." Kakashi says.

"How is he Kakashi?" Minato asks.

"He isn't doing good. He has a very high fever, he's also in a lot of pain. The doctor's are doing the best that they can. As for the girl, she is awake and wants to to see the Hokage and the one's who saved her life." Kakashi replies.

"Very well. I'll give you three a minute before coming down." Sarutobi says to Naruto and Sakura.

The red-head's room:

When Naruto and Sakura get to the room the girl is staying in she smiles at them. "Thank you for saving me today. I owe you my life. My name is Karin, Karin Uzumaki" The girl says and that get's Naruto's and Sakura's attention and Naruto creates a Shadow Clone to tell the Hokage about this. "What's wrong?" Karin asks. "Did I say something I shouldn't have?" She asks with a scared voice and Naruto shakes his head.

"No Karin everything's fine. It's just that my mother's last name is Uzumaki." Naruto says with a smile. "Before you passed out you mentioned Orochimaru. How do you know him?" He asks.

"He owns me and my older sister Tayuya. Only he gave her the Curse Mark though and I tried to figure it out, but I couldn't. Now she guards him, but we still talk to each other sometimes." Karin says.

"How do you contact her?" Sakura asks.

"I put a mental link within the Curse Mark so I can contact her or she can contact me." Karin says.

"Have you told her what happened?" Sakura asks.

"Yeah I told her Orochimaru attacked me and my team. Now she's pissed and she can really cuss up a storm." Karin says with a laugh.

"Karin can you explain to your sister that there is family here and that she can stop working for Orochimaru. My father and I can take a look at the Curse Mark and figure out how to get rid of it." Naruto says and Karin nods her head.

After a few minutes Karin is done and Sarutobi, Kakashi, Minato and Kushina enter the room. "Tayuya says that she'll be at the gate's in about 10 minutes. She really wants that hickey gone." Karin says confusing the hell out of the adults.

"Long story short, this is Karin, Tayuya big sister, Karin put mental link in the Curse Mark Orochimaru gave Tayuya." Sakura says and gets a lot of 'Oh's, ah's and okays'.

"Well Minato shall we go and await our guest?" Sarutobi asks and Minato agrees.

"Oh Dad before you go just a forewarning, she pretty much cusses non-stop." Naruto says and Minato just sighs as he and Sarutobi leave in a Shunshin and a flash.

"Karin, what did you need to speak to the Hokage about? Kushina asks.

"Orochimaru plans on attacking the Village." Karin says shocking all Leaf shinobi in the room. "He says that he will make the Leaf pay and watch it burn to the ground along with it's fool of a Hokage. He plans on using his village and The Hidden Sand Village as well. He didn't tell me how he got Sand involved in this though."

"Karin why would Orochimaru tell you this?" Kakashi asks.

Karin puts her head down. "I used to work for Orochimaru. He killed our parents and blamed it on thugs or rogue ninja. When Tayuya found out that it was him she was furious she swore to me that she would get us out of his grasp. She never could find a way though. I'm really glad you two found me." Karin says raising her head and smiles at them. They start talking about what Orochimaru had Tayuya and Karin do.

Time-skip:

After about 30 minutes pass they hear someone yelling and cussing in the hall. "Karin, Karin where the fuck are you?" A loud voice asks and Naruto sticks his head out the door.

"She's in here." Naruto says. "Are you Tayuya?" He asks.

"Yeah, who the fuck are you?" Tayuya asks.

"I'm one of one's who saved Karin and you apparently." Naruto says. "And we know what Orochimaru is planning. We need to do something about your mouth Tayuya. The first time I said that word was when I was fighting against Orochimaru with my team."

"You fought against that fucker and are still breathing." Tayuya says. "Way to go cuz." She notices the down looks on Naruto and Sakura.

"We may still be breathing but our teammate still got the fucking Curse Mark." Naruto says. "Now you're making me say it more."

"Sasuke Uchiha right?" Tayuya asks getting shocked looks on the Leaf-nin's faces. "We are supposed to escort him to The Hidden Sound to be the snake fucker's next vessel."

"You don't mean he perfected that jutsu do you?" Kushina asks. "And Naruto's right you do need to clean up your mouth."

"Yeah that fu...I mean bastard -hehehe- perfected his Immortality Jutsu and since I'm gone he's gonna want the Uchiha even more now. Not just because he wants the Sharingan either, but because the Sound 4 just became the Sound 3." Tayuya says. "Sasuke will want to go to Orochimaru just as badly. That bastard made the Curse Mark stronger since the Sound 4's creation."

"Did you tell this to the Hokage and Minato-sensei." Kakashi asks.

"Yep told them when I got to the Main Gates of the Village and on the way here." Tayuya says "I also told them that there is a traitor here in the Leaf by the name of Kabuto Yakushi."

"Kabuto Yakushi!?" Naruto and Sakura yell.

"I take it you met him." Tayuya says.

"You could say that." Naruto says with disdain in his voice. "I knew something wasn't right about him. He knew too much about what I could do and some of what he said were sealed away. So Orochimaru knows all I can do that's just great. He would try and take me out since I could become a threat in the future. Especially since I have the Rinnegan."

"Wow you have the Rinnegan. That's AWESOME!" Tayuya yells. "And you're right Orochimaru could perceive you as a threat in the future, but lucky you. You have someone who know all of Orochimaru's tricks. And about Kabuto he is a strong medic and his skills overall are close to Anbu level. He has been training under Orchimaru since his defection from the leaf."

"That's Just great. An Anbu medic-nin who's combat skills rival Kakashi-sensei's." Sakura says.

"Alright then, Karin the doctors are going to keep you here for observation. Tayuya you can stay here or you can come with me and check out your new home." Kushina says.

"I'll stay here for now and go when Karin is out of here." Tayuya replies sitting down in the chair next to Karin's bed.

"That's fine." Kushina says. "Umm...If you don't mind my asking. What were your parents' names?" She asks.

"Takeo and Harumi Uzumaki." Tayuya answer's sadly.

"I thought so. You look so much like your mother." Kushina says and seeing the looks on their faces she says. "Harumi was my older sister. She and her husband left Whirlpool to go visit friends in Wave when Whirlpool was destroyed."

"So we really are cousin's then." Tayuya says with a smile.

"Yes you are and I'm not gonna pressure you to call me Aunt Kushina or call Minato Uncle Minato. Take your time with that." Kushina says. "Well I'm gonna go and talk to Minato about making some room at the Namikaze Compound." She leaves and takes Kakashi with her leaving the four younger one's alone.

"I'm sure that you are both tired so we're gonna go since we are tired as well. Since fighting Orochimaru and pushing ourselves to get here as fast as we could drained us a little more than it should've." Naruto says.

"Get well Karin and get some rest as well since we are gonna have hard-times ahead of us in the near future." Sakura says.