Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, if I did then Tayuya, Jiraiya and Yugito would still be alive and Kyuubi would be female. I do own the story plot, original jutsu and oc's.

Chapter 12

A Snake in the Grass

Everyone in the room had sat themselves down as they waited for the proctor to tell them what the first exam was. The proctor was tall and dressed in a long,black-leather jacket and had a black bandanna covering the dome of his head. His face was riddled with nicks and cuts also a more noticeable a scar going down his upper-lip. He looked at the genin in the room with a sneer as he tried to see who was trash and those that actually have some talent to speak of.

"Alright you slimy piles of shit for your first test I've devised something special."

That statement immediately grabbed Naruto's attention. In his experience whenever his sensei had something special in store for him it would usually involve some grueling task of physical endurance which would leave him temporarily scarred, so naturally he was excited.

"The first test is so grueling.."

'Yes..'

"So mind numbingly painful.."

'Yes!'

"So inhumane.."

'Yes!!'

"Something that would drive even the most advanced of ninja to insanity."

'Yes!!'

"And that something is..."

'YES!!'

"A written test."

"FUCK!"

"Now shut up and listen to the rules for the test."

Several chunin passed out papers as the proctor set out telling everyone what the rules were. Too say that they were confused would be an understatement, all of the rules contradicted each other and if one teammate failed or was caught cheating several times then the whole team was disqualified. As Naruto read over the paper he quickly became worried.

'Ok lets get started. 'Question 1: If ninja A is hiding in the growth of a forest and is 32m away from ninja B who throws a steel shuriken with the density of 1.2 at ninja A who also retaliates with an iron kunai with a density of 2.4. When will the shurikens from ninja C reach both of them?'...Where the fuck did he come from?! How the hell am I supposed to know the answer to that...unless...I'm not supposed to know it but find someone who does!...Fuck!'

Once Naruto figured out the true meaning behind the test he knew that he was royally screwed. The only information gathering skills that he knew of was to beat the shit out of people and if they died, go to the next person. Though that seemed to be one of the worse things for a ninja to be taught it was actually extremely effective in the field but there was no way he would be able to do it with out being caught. As Naruto started to silently panic to himself he suddenly got the idea of trying to answer them to the best of his abilities.

'Ok for question 1 its obvious that the answer is...High grade explosives.'

Naruto continued to 'Answer' the questions on his test while the rest of the ninjas in the room continued to answer their tests by cheating. Sasuke had his Sharingan activated copying the movements of some other genins pencil. Sakura was able to answer the questions without a problem but was the victim of Ino's jutsu. Tenten was using wires to control a panel of mirrors attached to the ceiling of the room which reflected the answers to Lee who was wearing his hiate-ate around his forehead. Kiba was using Akamaru to peek at the other tests while Shino was using a fly.

'Alright now I'm pretty sure that I got this wrong. Why did I put the same answer down for each question?! Calm down Uzumaki you can do this,you just need to concentrate. Gotta concentrate, gotta concentrate, gotta concentrate, gotta look at that fly...No I need to concentrate on my test! Thankfully I have plenty of time.'

"5 minutes you miserable sacs of meat!"

'Fuck!'

"Excuse me but can I go to the bathroom?"

Ibiki stared at the face-painted ninja with with a sneer for a few seconds. Finally he turned to one of the chunin at the side of the room with a nod who just walked over to the ninja with a pair of handcuffs.

"Fine but you will be escorted by one of the chunins to the bathroom."

"Of course."

"And if you don't make it back for the final question you and your teammates will be disqualified. Understand?"

"100 percent."


(Kakashi)

Kakashi,Kurenai,and Asuma were sitting in the sensei's lounge where they were discussing their own teams. Kakashi was listening to Asuma as he told them about how that after every training session he would have to take his team to the Korean BBQ resturant due the persistent nagging of Chouji when Kurenai interrupted his story with a question.

"I wonder who's in charge of the first exam this time?"

Both men stared at her with a surprised look for a few moments due to her sudden question. When they finally came to Asuma was the one to answer her back.

"Well I heard that this year it's being run by Ibiki."

"You don't say? Already it seems that our students have their work cut out for them."

"Why? Is he really that bad?"

Asuma turned to Kurenai for a moment in confusion but quickly realized the problem.

"Thats right, you just became a Jonin not to long ago. Ibiki is a complete sadist. He doesn't need to perform any sort of physical torture, not his style, but instead he attacks the mind. He likes to put those he interrogates in a no-win situation then he just waits until they destroy themselves."

"And he's in charge of the first exam?!"

Kakashi was listening to their conversation and decided to add his 2-cents.

"Like I said before. It seems they already have their work cut out for them."

Kurenai turned her attention to Kakashi. Just as she was about to talk the door opened to reveal a green man.

"Ah Kakashi there you are."

"Hello Gai."

"I ran into your students not too long ago and I must say that-"

'Did I go to Ichiraku's twice yesterday?...I don't think so but maybe I...no wait, now I remember! I went to Ichiraku's for lunch and for dinner I made some instant Ramen. I had Ramen for lunch and dinner so no wonder I thought I went there twice.'

"-Truly fine specimens!"

"Hm?...I'm sorry did you say something?"

"Curse you Kakashi and your hip attitude!"


(Room 301)

Naruto was freaking out and trying to answer the questions at the same time. So far during the whole course of the test 14 teams had been eliminated and now he only had a minute to get at least one question right. He continued to re-read the questions over and over again but it didn't help at all. The door slid open again to reveal Kankuro still handcuffed while being lead by the chunin.

"I hope you found your trip 'Enlightening'."

Kankuro stiffened slightly for a moment or two but quickly got over it. He walked back to his seat and Naruto noticed him drop a little roll of paper at his teammates desk then sit in his own. A few seconds later Ibiki called for everyone to stop writing on their tests and to listen to the new rules for the tenth question.

As Ibiki told them what the rules were for the final question they found out that all the other questions were complete crap and if they didn't answer this question correctly then not only do they fail but they couldn't take the test again. This elicited serveral shouts of protest from many of the people in the room but surprisingly none came from Naruto. His eyes widened momentarily in realization then quickly went into a calm state.

'So thats his game. I can't believe I didn't see it before, he's pretty good. And to think I almost fell for it.'

As Ibiki continued to lay down the rules he gave them the option of leaving and trying again next time. Several minutes passed and one by one people raised their hands to quit but this time Naruto was completely confident in himself. Suddenly Naruto felt a little tug in the back of his mind, a kind of tingling sensation that gave him the impression of being followed or something bad was going to happen. He turned around slightly to see Sakura starting to raise her hand in the air which he realized that she was raising it for him. He knew that she must of saw him freak out during the test and wanted to save him the embarrassment. So thinking quickly he came up with a plan and started to raise his own hand.

As he raised his hand he felt several eye lay upon him in surprise. When his hand was raised as high as he could reach, it quickly came down, slamming onto his desk. Shooting up from his seat he stared straight into Ibiki's face with a confident smirk.

"If you think I'm gonna give up just because of some stupid question then you got another thing coming Scarface! I don't care if I can't take the exams every again cause I've been through worse you jackass!"

Everyone stared at him with new found confidence. Ibiki scanned the room for a few moments and once he saw that all of the hands stopped raising he decided to end the first exam.

"Well if thats everyone. Now the ten question is..."

Everyone sat on the edges of their seats awaiting for the final question. Ibiki waited a few moments just to torture them a little and finally he began to speak once more.

"You all pass."

Naruto sat back in his seat with a victorious smile while he listened to the sudden outbursts from some of the other genin. while Ibiki was explaining the relevance of the tenth question a ball smashed through the window and a banner was raised from no-where.

"Alright maggots I'm Mitarashi Anko and I'm-"

"Early."

A woman around 5'5 with purple hair that was tied into a spiky ponytail in the back stood in front of the classroom. She had a long tan over coat with a fishnet shirt, a tan mini skirt and a pair of blue ninja sandals. Ibiki was staring at her from behind the banner with an exasperated look on his face as she smiled sheepishly with her hand rubbing the back of her head causing Ibiki to sigh with frustration. She quickly turned to face the classroom with a smile only to have it replaced with a puzzled look then she started to point at a few genin, counting in her head for a few moments.

"Hey Ibiki what gives? There's 78 of these maggots left! I guess you've lost your touch."

"Or maybe they're just good."

"Nah that can't be it but don't worry when I'm through with them, more than half of them will be long gone!"

Anko turned towards the classroom once again with a sadistic smile that sent shivers down most of their spines. Naruto on the other hand never noticed this smile as he just discovered that her fishnet shirt was see-through and she wore nothing underneath it. Unfortunately Anko saw this and quickly came up with a plan to deal with him.

"Alright you Maggots I'm the proctor for the 2nd part of the exam and I want you all to report to training ground 77 in 1 hour."

Everyone got up from their seats and turned to the door. As Naruto exited the room he suddenly felt a slap on the back of his head. He turned to see who was stupid enough to hit him and saw Sasuke with a tired look on his face.

"Why are you such a idiot, Dobe?"

"Up yours Teme! Besides someone had to show that jackass he's not as scary as he thinks he is."

Sasuke only shook his head and walked away from Naruto towards the training grounds. As Sakura exited the room she immediately felt a hand lay gently on her shoulder grabbing her attention. She turned around to see Naruto smiling warmly at her then suddenly leaned over to whisper in her ear.

"Thanks for that back there. I really appreciate you wanting to save me the embarrassment."

And before Sakura could answer him back she suddenly felt him kiss her lightly on the cheek and walk off towards the training grounds. Sakura stood frozen on the spot with a slight blush and her hand raised, touching the spot of her cheek where Naruto had kissed her.

For several moments she stood stock still and thankfully for her no-one was there to see her just standing there like some idiot. Finally she got to her senses and quickly decided to join the rest of her teammates.


(Training Grounds)

A huge mob of genins huddled themselves in front of a giant forest that was cut off from the rest of the grounds by a long chain-link fence with several gates in them to allow people in. Though the group was considerably smaller than when the exams started but it there was still 26 teams left and none of them looked like they were pushovers.

There was a small wooden stand in front of the group in which Anko was standing with a pile of papers in her hand. She scanned across the group until she found Naruto and let a small smile appear on her face. Once she was ready to get her revenge on him she quickly handed the papers to the nearest genin.

"Alright you maggots before you can go through the 2nd part of the exam you need to sign these waivers."

A anxious genin in the crowd quickly blurted out a question to Anko.

"Why do we need to sign a waiver to take the next part?"

"These waivers are to make sure that in case you die than Konoha won't be blamed."

A murmur went throughout the crowd as they heard Anko tell them that they could be killed in this part of the exam. Several people didn't even care about that threat as they were already used to the idea of being killed so it didn't really faze them. As Anko watched the genin sign the waivers she decided that they weren't scared enough quite yet.

"Once your done signing the waivers your to hand them in to retrive a scroll. You will either get a heaven or an earth scroll. Once you get your scroll you are to report to your assigned gate. The point of the exam is to retrieve the other scroll from one of the other teams and not open your own scroll. Unfortunately other teams are not the only thing you have to worry about you'll also have to worry about giant animals, man-eating plants, and venomous insects. Thats why training ground 77 is also known as 'The Forest of Death!'"

Almost all the genin quickly became worried as they knew that they might not survive this test. Naruto on the other just rolled his eyes and began to talk out loud so everyone could hear him.

"Ooh so scary 'The Forest of Death'! Couldn't you think of a more original name?"

Suddenly a kunai whizzed pass Naruto who had dodged it and quickly pulled out a kunai to block one that came near his neck. All of a sudden he felt someone lick his cheek with their tongue and then grab his crotch.

"Ooh a tough guy eh? I like tough guys, their usually the first ones to go. And if I ever catch you staring at my tits again-"

Suddenly Anko's hand squeezed around his groin very tightly causing Naruto to bite back a pained groan.

"-I'll rip these right off of you."

Everyone saw and heard what was said and every single of the Konochi present had approval written all over their faces as they agreed with Anko and all of the males had subconsciously moved their hands over their own parts and had pained looks on their faces, even Gaara. Naruto still bit back a groan of pain but managed to apologize and Anko released her grip. After that Naruto fell to the ground in the fetal position while holding his jewels.

"Serves you right Naruto-baka!"

"Damn Dobe! That had to hurt huh?"

"What the fuck do you think Teme?!"

After Anko had her fun she went back to the stand to face the crowd once more. Everyone watched Anko as she continued to tell them what the 2nd part of the exam was and that they only had 5 days to get to the tower in the middle of the forest. Naruto had just gotten up from the ground and limped over to the booth to bring in his waiver. The man at the booth just gave him a pitiful look and gave him a white scroll with the symbol for 'Heaven'. Naruto limped back to his team with the scroll were Sakura snatched it from his hand and glared at him.

"I said I was sorry."

"That's not the point!"

Soon afterwards the group entered into their assigned gate and readied themselves. As the rest of the teams entered into their own gates and waited for the starting signal. Suddenly a red light went off on top of each gate along with a siren went off, unlocking every gate allowing each team to rocket out into the forest.


(Forest of Death)

After a few minutes of running through the forest when Team 7 decided to take a break to formulate a plan. The stopped in the middle of a small clearing and sat on the ground in a three man circle. As Team 7 started to try and come up with a solid strategy Naruto got up from the circle.

"Hey Dobe where do you think your going?"

"If you really got to know I need to take a leak."

Before Sasuke could snap at him, Naruto disappeared into the bushes. After several minutes both Sasuke and Sakura began to worry a little so they both decided to see what was wrong. Just as they stood up from the ground a body came flying through the bushes and slammed itself against a tree, falling on it's head with it's legs sticking up. The figure turned out to be a Amegakure ninja wearing a yellow body suit and a mouth piece. The bushes began to shake once more causing both Sasuke and Sakura to turn around with kunai in hand. Suddenly Naruto appeared from the bushes with one of his hands keeping up his pants.

"Son of a bitch tried to ambush me."

A groan could be heard coming from the ninja as he started to come out of his daze. Naruto walked over to his body to reach into his weapon pouch and pulled out a 'Earth' scroll. He walked over to his team to show them as the other ninja fell over and stood up on his feet. Suddenly he was lifted up by his shirt and slammed against the tree for the second time to see Naruto glaring at him.

"I understand that your just trying to pass the exam but to try and sneak up on someone while going to the bathroom is a bit too much."

He then tossed him to the ground and watched him scramble away into the bushes once more. Naruto turned back to his team with a bit of a smile.

"Well that was pretty easy. We already got both scrolls so now we need to get to the tower, right?"

"I guess even you can do something right once in awhile, Dobe."

"Up yours! Well anyway I think I should carry both scrolls."

Naruto turned to Sakura who already had their 'Heaven' scroll out and handed it to him. Just as he gripped it in his hand Sasuke snatched it from his hand and stuffed it in his pouch. Both Sakura and Naruto turned to Sasuke with surprise and Sasuke just grabbed the 'Earth' scroll from Naruto's other hand and stuffed it with the other scroll.

"It's better if I held onto both of the scrolls."

Naruto wanted to tell him off so badly but at the last moment he decided that it would have to wait because now they had a tower to reach. Once they climbed up the trees surrounding them and jumping branch to branch for several minutes Naruto couldn't help but wonder what the rest of the teams were doing.


(Team 8)

"It's a good thing those guys had a 'Heaven' scroll or else that would have been a complete bust."

"Indeed."

"Well I just hope they'll be ok."

"Don't worry Hinata I'm sure they'll be ok, right Shino?"

"They lost a lot of blood due to the leeches but they should be alright if they get medical attention soon."

Hinata, Kiba, and Shino were traveling throughout the forest towards the tower as they finally gotten both scrolls on the first try. Kiba and Hinata were talking to each other when Shino stopped short in front of them. Just as Kiba was about to ask him what he was doing he raised his hand for silence then laid himself on the branch with his ear to the ground. He was silent for a few moments then raised himself off the ground staring out into the trees.

"Kiba tell me if you smell anything unusual."

Kiba just did as he was told and lifted his nose into the air. After several sniffs of the air he caught a whiff of several different scents that surrounded the area. He quickly differentiated the scents from the plants and from several animals until he was left with at least six that were human.

"Yeah I smell at least 2 other teams coming...from the west."

"Hinata can you see how far away they are?"

"Hai."

Hinata faced to the west where Kiba pointed earlier and closed her eyes in concentration while forming a single sign. Suddenly her once pale blue eyes became near white with several veins forming near her sockets. She continued to stare in the same direction for a moment when she closed her eyes again and turned to her teammates with her eyes back to normal.

"There's exactly 6 of them but one of them is fighting the other three by himself."

"I say we check it out and see what the competitions like. Maybe we can take out both teams so there's less of it."

"K-Kiba maybe we should just-"

"I agree with Kiba."

Both Hinata and Kiba turned to their teammates with surprise written on their faces and Shino answered their question without even waiting for them to ask.

"The more we know about our enemies the better prepared we will be."

Without even waiting for them, Shino ran off leaving both teammates momentarily stunned but swiftly caught up. They ran for at least an hour until they came down to the ground and quietly settle themselves among the bushes of an opening.

In the middle of the opening stood three ninja's from Amegakure with the biggest and meanest of the three stepping forward. On the other side was a ninja covered with face paint wearing a black outfit with a cat-eared hood and a wrapped bundle on his back. One of his teammates was a girl around 15 with four blond pigtails, She wore a purple skirt with a matching top and had a giant iron fan strapped to her back. Finally the last member appeared to be the youngest of the three had a head of short red hair, dark rings around his eyes, and a giant gourd on his back.

"Hey short-fry! Why not just tossed your scroll over here and I might allow you to live!"

The Ame ninja began to chuckle as did his teammates as they continued to watch Gaara just standing in the middle of the field with his eyes closed. Kankuro began to chuckle causing the Ame ninjas to stop their own.

"Whats so funny?"

"The idea of you thinking that you could stand a chance against Gaara. I find that hilarious!"

The Ame ninja just growled at Kankuro and reach for the umbrellas on his back. Once he had all three umbrellas in his hands he threw them into the air which they then opened up and floated on the air currents. He jumped back a few feet and started to form a couple hand seals.

"Ninpo: Jouro Senban" (Ninja Art: Raining Needles)

The umbrellas began to spin faster and faster until several thousand needles shot out of them and made their way straight towards Gaara. As the needles flew through the air Gaara continued to stand in the exact same spot without moving a single muscle when all of the needles smashed themselves at Gaara, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Woah you guys see that? That big guy just obliterated that little guy!"

Team 8 had seen the whole thing and couldn't believe how quickly it ended. Thankfully Kiba's little remark was in a whisper so they hadn't been caught. They continued to watch the fight when Kiba suddenly felt a tugging at his shirt and saw Akamaru hiding in his coat shivering in fear.

"Whats wrong Akamaru?"

"K-Kiba what's the matter with Akamaru?"

"I don't know but somethings really got him spooked."

"Thats why."

Team 8 turned their attentions back to the fight to see instead of a skewered corpse, a giant wall of sand in the shape of a gourd surrounding the red headed boy. The Ame ninja wasn't just confused by this phenomenon but also enraged. He once again formed a few hand seals allowing his still airborne umbrellas to spit out a few remaining needles towards Gaara only for them to be stopped by a small section of sand.

"The sand protects Gaara from harm and he's the only ninja that can command the sand to do whatever he wants.

"Hm..You made it rain needles. I got an idea, how about we make rain blood instead."

Suddenly the Ame ninja looked down at his feet to see he was ankle deep in sand. Gaara raised his hand in a shape similar to a claw but sideways. Several pillars of sand in the shape of hands wrapped themselves around the ninjas body tightly ceasing all of his movement.

"Sabaku Kyu" (Desert Coffin)

He then raised his hand up causing the sand to raise into the air as well with the ninja still inside. Once he was about 10ft into the air when Gaara clenched his hand into a fist.

"Sabaku Soso" (Desert Funeral)

Suddenly in the blink of an eye, the sand that imprisoned the Ame ninja imploded spewing out sand mixed with blood and guts. As the gore continued to fall from the sky the other ninja stepped back in fright and Gaara just held up one of the umbrellas that fell from the sky in order to keep himself clean. The other team put their scroll on the ground while Gaara began to speak to them.

"He died quickly without feeling any pain. The sand crushed his heart so he wouldn't."

"W-Whatever man! J-Just take the scroll and go!"

"Sorry but there isn't nearly enough blood, I'm going to have to fix that."

Once more sand covered the ground entrapping the other two ninja and quickly engulfing them in a crushing shell of sand. Just like before both shells imploded, crushing both of them. The face painted ninja step through the gore and sand to bend down and brush off the sand from the scroll.

"Just what we needed, alright lets get out of here."

As he turned to his teammates he saw Gaara holding his head while shivering. Temari rushed over to him and tried to calm him down from his blood induced fit but was simply back handed by him. Just when she was about to go back to calm him once more she felt a tightening grip around her throat. Kankuro witnessed Gaara attempting to strangle Temari with his sand and upon this Kankuro rushed forward to save his sister.

"Gaara let her go now!"

Surprisingly Gaara did as he was told allowing Temari to back away taking in several deep breaths as she attempted to re-open her air-way. Kankuro quickly grabbed Gaara by the collar and glared at him while Gaara returned his gaze with an bored expression.

"Damn it Gaara why can't you listen to us for once?! I'm your older brother and Temari is you sister so will you just do as we say?!"

Gaara just slapped away his hand like it was nothing and continued to stare at Kankuro with an expressionless face but Kankuro could see a hint of anger in his eyes.

"We may be related but I've never seen you as my older brother nor Temari as my sister. Be warned that the next time you get in my way...I will kill you both."

Gaara then turned his arm towards the very same bush that Team 8 was hiding behind causing them to tense slightly. As sand began to gather around his hand all of Team 8 had to fight the urge to run away and finally Gaara's hand closed shut into a fist then re-opened to show a cork in the middle of his palm, allowing him to seal the gourd on his back. Temari quickly became worried and tried to calm him down for the third time.

"There's no need for that Gaara. We're all on the same team we just want to look after you thats all! Right Kankuro?"

"Y-Yeah we just want you to be safe."

Gaara just stared at them with a dull face and then turned his back on them.

"I don't need your protection nor your pity. I would be worried with your own safety rather than mine."

Gaara then jumped into the trees leaving Kankuro and Temari to themselves. After giving each other a few looks of worry they reluctantly went after their brother. Team 8 slowly came out of the bushes to get a closer look at the carnage. Hinata gripped Kiba's jacket with a horrified look on her face while Kiba embraced her with disbelief at the gore that used to be ninja. Shino on the other hand crouched down to pick up some of the sand.

"Hmm..."

"H-How could anyone kill someone so...ruthlessly?"

"I don't know but there's something wrong with that kid."

"There's a problem with this sand too."

Both Kiba and Hinata turned to Shino who was just getting up from the ground letting the sand slip through his fingers. He turned to his teammates with the sun reflecting off his sunglasses.

"There's a massive amount of chakra flowing through this sand."

"Why is that a problem?"

"My insects tell me that it isn't human chakra that's why."

Kiba's eyes widened as he heard his teammate tell him that it wasn't human chakra flowing through the sand.

"Are you saying that kid isn't human?!..Well I guess that makes sense but then what is he?"

"No, that boy...Gaara is in fact human."

"But if he's human then how come there's a different chakra in his sand?"

"The only thing that I can think of to explain it was that he possess 2 different chakra sources in his body."

After Shino's explanation Kiba could only think of one thing, and that was to never be anywhere near that Gaara as long as he lived. All of team 8 walked off from the site in hopes of reaching the tower and not to encounter any of those Suna ninjas on the way there.


(Team 7)

Naruto and his teammates were running along the ground as quickly as they could. With Sasuke in the lead followed by Sakura and Naruto coming up from the rear. They had been running for at least two hours and so far they hadn't even seen any animals let alone enemy teams and they all felt like they had this exam in the bag.

Suddenly Sakura felt Naruto push her into Sasuke pushing both of them to the ground. When they both turned around to see what was going on they saw Naruto being blasted by a powerful gust of air destroying most of the trees surrounding them. Thankfully due too Naruto's actions Sasuke and Sakura were able to dodge the brunt of the attack but they were still blown away from the site. After a moment Sakura got up from the ground and looked around the damaged site to try and find her teammates. A rustling in the bushes was heard to show Sasuke coming out of them.

"Sasuke-kun what happened?"

"I don't know...where's Naruto?"

"Ugh...I'm ok."

Naruto stumbled out of the bushes with a weak smile and several cuts. Sakura had reliefe written all over her face while Sasuke was just indifferent. Naruto limped his way over to his team with the same smile on his face.

"Well that was definitely unexpected."

"It's a good thing you pushed me out of the way or else we'd all of been blown away."

"I couldn't let you get hurt, I mean your my teammates after all!"

Sasuke was still indifferent but couldn't help but to feel that something was wrong with this situation. He turned to Naruto who still had a smile on his face and that continued to unnerve him.

"Well if everyones ok than we should get to the tower."

"Ok Sasuke-kun."

"Hopefully we'll be the first ones there. Wouldn't that be awesome Sasuke?"

Sasuke's eyes narrowed suddenly and within a second he punched Naruto in the gut quickly followed by an uppercut to the chin. Naruto stumbled back in pain while Sakura was stunned by this sudden attack.

"Sasuke-kun why did you hit-"

"That's not Naruto Sakura. Since when has Naruto called me by my actual name?"

Sakura understood what Sasuke was saying and she knew that Naruto always called Sasuke Teme. Suddenly they heard a soft chuckle coming from Naruto who was staring down at the ground. The imposter Naruto slowly lifted his head to show that his eyes had become a golden color with black slits resembling that of a snake.

"Kukukuku...So you saw through my disguise that easily? Well I guess I should of paid closer attention."

His voice had become colder than his usual voice and sounded more like a hiss than anything. His body suddenly morphed to show a feminine looking man that had a Kusagakure hiate-ate and was a few inches taller than they were. He wore a beige robe with a purple rope tired around his waist in the shape of a bow.

"Who are you and where's Naruto?"

"I wouldn't worry about him, I've made sure that he will be greeted by a special friend of mine and there's no need for my name."

Both Sasuke and Sakura pulled out a kunai from their pouches in their hands. The Kusa-nin chuckled lightly and before either of them knew it, both Sakura and Sasuke were frozen in their spots riddled with fear. He casually reached behind his back to pull out two kunai.

"Kukukuku, Is there anything sweeter than seeing one's prey frozen with fear? I can practically smell your fear all the way from here."

Sasuke tried to move but continued to have trouble with even the most simplest of movements. The Kusa-nin took his aim and lazily threw the kunai at the petrified genin with a simple smirk. Surprisingly Sasuke was able to take the kunai that was in his hands and stab himself in the leg enabling him to snap out of his fear induced trance and getting himself along with Sakura out of the path of the kunai.

"Interesting, using pain to overcome fear. What a clever boy you are."

Sasuke hid himself and Sakura behind a tree in order to catch his breath. He moved his hand towards his leg and quickly pulled his kunai out from his leg. Sasuke was shaking slightly and felt as though he was about to be sick. Suddenly he felt Sakura tighten her hand around his shoulder, shaking it violently. When he turned around he saw a gigantic snake around the size of a building looming towards them. He quickly jumped out of the way with Sakura when it came down, destroying the branch they were on previously. As all of this was going on Sakura couldn't help but wonder.

'Where's Naruto?"


(Naruto)

About a half a mile away from Sasuke and Sakura was the impact site of where Naruto had crashed from the rushing wind. Naruto lifted himself off the ground and started to survey his surroundings. He saw several trees were knocked down and huge amounts of broken rock. As he began to dust himself off he heard a loud hiss coming from behind and when he turned there was a giant snake staring right at him.

"Oh Shi-"

The snake launched itself straight at Naruto with it's mouth wide opened and quickly snapped shut, swallowing Naruto whole. The snake began to slither throughout the forest with a satisfied look on it's serpentine face. On the inside Naruto was struggling from all of the snake slime that was covering his body and the constricting muscles that were crushing his body. After several minutes of struggling his lunch came out of his pouch and began to dissolve at an incredible rate.

"Fuck No! There is no way I'm becoming your lunch you scaly oversized worm!"

In a fit of desperation and rage, Naruto managed to got one of his arms free from the snakes tightening muscles and formed a cross like seal. On the outside the snake had managed to find itself a cozy little spot in between two trees so it could digest it's meal properly. The snake began to expand in size quite rapidly until a small ball formed near it's mid-section. The ball grew and grew until it was roughly the size of a large boulder when the snakes body could no longer take the strain and burst open, raining blood, goo, and meaty chunks from the sky. Hundreds of clones erupted from the dismembered carcass of the once great serpent and all turned into puffs of smoke except one.

"I...Fucking...Hate...SNAKES!"


(Team 7)

Sasuke continued to evade the snake as best as he could but it was proving to be difficult. On top of that the mystery nin seemed invincible, every punch he threw at him was either evaded or did absolutely nothing. Sasuke had managed to hit him with a surprise attack with mini bombs but that only slowed him down momentarily finally he managed to get both scrolls from Sasuke and destroy them. Sasuke quickly looked around to find where the Kusa-nin was until he heard sudden movement coming from behind him. The Kusa-nin was standing on top of the serpent's head with a sickening smile.

"It seems as though our game ends here."

The serpent opened it's mouth as wide as it could with a deafening hiss. Sasuke couldn't move as the snake came closer to him when he swore he heard a whirring noise in the the air, signifying a rather large object was traveling throughout the area extremely fast. Just as the snake was about to reach it's objective a red blur came out of nowhere and flew upwards, slicing off the snake's upper jaw right at the eyes. The serpent fell to the forest floor dead with the Kusa-nin jumping off just in time, landing on a branch. Everyone fallowed the red blur as it arched it's way back like a boomerang, slicing straight through several trees like they were nothing. The blur flew in a complete circle then straight into a raised hand, catching it like it was nothing. A figure could be seen on a branch above looking down at everyone with a pair of red eyes, a fanged grin, and a giant pulsating sword made of red flesh and glistening white fangs.

"It looks like I made it just in time to save your ass, Teme."


(Authors Notes)

I finally finished the chapter! I'm not going to make Orochimaru a pedofile or some sick rapist but he will be creepy.(I've seen to many fics turn crappy because of over-bashing) I know its been a while since my last chapter but I was suffering major writers and I was playing Smash Bros. And Zelda for the Wii a lot.

I read the latest chapter and I know that Tobi is Madara so stop telling me damn it! Though I still believe that Obito has something to do with Tobi I want to make it clear that I follow Tobi not Madara. In case if your confused Tobi is the fun loving idiot of Akatsuki while Madara is the true leader. One person, Two different personalities! Also people have been flaming me about Kisame saying no to the Akatsuki to easily and stuff like that but I promise you that all will be explained in due time.

Please review, my Lord and Master commands it!!

"In Tobi We Trust"