Note: I don't own Naruto.

Note: Some of the things here may conflict with the facts of the actual anime, but in this universe things like Sasuke and Naruto's fight and Tsunade's return and Sarutobi still being alive were all under different circumstances. I'm basically doing the story my way. Please bare with me.

Note: You are going to see the Sound 5 again. Because I believe that some of them were such freakin' cool characters, it was a crime to give them only one shot in the series.

Stop! Do not read this story if you have not read Naruto&Hinata: True Strength Revealed. Or you will not understand some of the story.

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The sun shined across a large area of rice fields wavering in the wind. Approaching a mountainous region was a blood spattered ninja wearing camouflage fatigues. He wore a black mask covering his head and atop his forehead was a black headband bearing the symbol of the Hidden Sound village. He slowly limped to a nearby cave. Suddenly two ninjas bearing the same headband appeared out of nowhere aiding the fallen comrade.

" What happened?" said one of the guard nins.

" They...came from nowhere. All my men are dead." said the injured ninja.

" Hold on we have to get you to the medical ward." said the other guard nin.

The two men lifted the fallen nin into the cave. Within that cave was more than it seemed, as it showed there was actually a community dwelling in it, all wearing Sound headbands. The men eventually reached the medical ward. They quickly layed the injured man on the ground.

" Hold on, we're going to get someone for you, Medic!" one of them shouted as both men left the room.

As the man lay in the medical bed, he seemed to be breathing heavily, then suddenly...he stopped breathing. The so called injured man then burst into thousands of insects who then began burrowing within cracks of the walls and under the doorways.

" We're in." Shino said to the group as about 20 Sound nin lay sprawled out on the ground behind them. It's not known if they're dead or not. Shino's insects did their part in casing the area. There seemed to be many Sound nin moving about.

" There's alot of soldiers." Shino said.

" How many is alot?" Jiraiya asked.

" A whole lot." Shino responded.

" We shouldn't have to worry about being outnumbered..." Naruto said. "... especially if I unleash my Tajuu Kage Bushin No Jutsu, and with Gaara's sand and Hinata-chan's Taijutsu skills, we shouldn't have a problem getting past them."

" Maybe you're right. But the question should be not how many there are, but how many we have to worry about." Shikamaru said to Naruto. " Sasuke we definitely need to worry about. Orochimaru is another. I also know there are some other badasses in there that won't be easy to take down. That is why we need to keep Shino as our look out. We'll communicate with him through the radio to give us the heads up on who's moving where."

"Right." Naruto said.

" Right now we just wait and see if anyone turns up in there that we might have noticed during the invasion. Based on that information, we should make our move." Shikamaru said.

" Wow kid, you're pretty smart." Jiraiya said to Shikamaru.

Jiraiya then looked to Naruto. " Why can't you be smart like that?" he said.

" Don't compare me to him." Naruto said to Jiraiya pointing at Shikamaru.

" There's an entrance at the cave over there, northeast about 350 meters from here, one at the east side about 300 meters down, there should also be one more at the west side about 250 meters fro here." Koichi said.

" We should split into groups to cover more ground. If one group's in trouble, Shino will guide the next closest group through the place to go aid them." Shikamaru said.

" I see that makes sense." Jiraiya said.

Shikamaru looked over to Sakura.

" Sakura, you should go with Hinata." Shikamaru said.

" Right." Sakura and Hinata said in unison.

" Ino, you should go with Chouji."

Ino and Chouji nodded.

" Temari-chan, I think you and I should stick together." Shikamaru said.

Temari nodded.

" Koichi, you should go with Jiraiya-sama and Kiba, since you have a better chance of leading him to Orochimaru and since Orochimaru will most likely have people by his side, you and Kiba can back up Jiraiya-sama while he goes after him ."

" I understand." Koichi said.

" Naruto, that leaves you and Gaara. Like you said with your clones and his sand, you should be able to keep the masses off our backs." Shikamaru said.

" You can count on us." Naruto said.

" Shino, we'll need you here to communicate with us, it's best to stay hidden." Shikamaru said.

Shino nodded.

Jiraiya looked forward at the entrance. " I want you all to know there is a possibility we could die on this mission." Jiraiya said turning to the group." If you are feeling hesitant at all, now is the time to tell us."

Jiraiya waited for a response to see that nobody showed any signs of backing out.

" Ok, then...let's do it." Jiraiya said.

Meanwhile in a cold dark room beneath the surface, a shadowy figure sat sharpening the blade of his katana. The sparks flying off the blade from the sharpening stone lit up the smiling mouth a a raven haired young man, he opened what were demonic red Sharingan eyes. It was Sasuke Uchiha, and he seemed quite happy, not only because of the presence he felt nearby planning to attack, but the presence of someone he had not seen in a long time. Someone he felt he had to test his strength against before he could face his brother.

" Naruto..." Sasuke said to himself.

Two Sound guards were standing watch of an entrance way from the inside. Suddenly one found a black gloved hand over it's mouth. He tried to break free only to find that the person holding him had great strength. He looked over to his comrade hoping to get help, only to find that the other guard keeled over after a slender hand had reached out from the shadows touching his back.

At another entrance way two guards suddenly found themselves locked in a shadow imitation jutsu from behind. They attempted to shout only to find that their own hands, which they had no control over, covered their mouths as they were walking backwards into the shadows. At another entrance way, one of the guards suddenly became surprised, as if he had suddenly become possessed.

" What is it? " The other guard said.

The possessed guard had a different demeanor about him, he looked over at his fellow guard.

" I heard something." he said. " It came from over there." pointing toward the shadows.

As the guard walked back there, he was greeted with a fist smashing into his skull. The other guard then fell over from exhaustion when Chouji came out from the shadows and knocked him out.

" Good work Ino-chan." Chouji said.

Chouji then pressed the button on his communicator. " We're in." he said.

At yet another entrance way, two guards were standing watch.

" Pardon me..." said a high female voice from behind them.

They turned to see a blond bombshell appear in a cloud of smoke, shocking them and causing them to druel. This distracted them from the sand coming up behind them.Eventually the rest of the team made it into Otogakure.

" Shino, can you tell us anything about where Sasuke or Orochimaru are?" Shikamaru said on the communicator.

" I had him before, now I can't see him anywhere, it's possible he's no longer in the village." Shino responded.

" We'll proceed to Oochimaru's library area. It's possible the scroll might be there." Shikamaru said.

" Shikamaru, be careful, this place is filled with traps." Koichi said. " Eeven I don't know where all of them are."

" Understood." Shikamaru responded.

" We'll try to find Sasuke. Hinata, Sakura, if Shikamaru and Temari run into trouble I ask you to be their backup." Jiraiya said.

" Hai." Hinata said.

" The rest of you make sure you remain hidden. If we get the scroll, you are to evacuate immediately, but if we run into trouble you know what to do." Jiraiya said.

All complied. As Jiraiya, Koichi and Kiba w/ Akamaru they were being watched from a surveilence camera, obviously well hidden if Shino's insects had not picked up on them.

" It would seem we have some unwanted guests." Kabuto said.

The Leaf and Sand alliance transformed themselves into Sound nins so they would not be noticed. As Naruto and Gaara walked around trying to blend in, a hand came onto Naruto's shoulder.

" Hi there." said a familiar face from the Chunin exams. Akane Taga( From my previous story.)

" Akane-chan, how may I help you?" Naruto said. " Thank God I remembered her name from the last exam." he thought.

That may do no good however as Akane seemed to have a superior smirk on her face.

" You guys aren't by chance headed to level 8 are you?" She asked. " I need some men to assist me in handling some test subjects for Orochimaru-sama down there."

Not wanting to blow his cover Naruto quickly looked to Gaara then back to Akane and replied. " Absolutely Akane-chan. We would love to help you."

" Well that's great." Akane said walking in front of them as to lead them her way." But you see...there's one little problem...There is no level 8..."

Naruto and Gaara froze in their place, Kabuto had already informed Akane of the invasion. Akane jumped in the air thowing shuriken at the two poser Sound nins. As they dodged, they saw that Akane had made two clones of herself which appeared behind them and with a simple touch against their backs, she discarded their disguises.

" Intruders! Intruders Have Entered Otogakure!" Akane shouted, alerting the entire village.

"Shit!" Naruto said.

Without warning dozens of Sound nin attacked Naruto and Gaara.

" Tajuu Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" Naruto shouted making dozens of copies of himself.

As Naruto's clones subdued the Sound nins, Gaara followed after Akane, who was off to gather more re-enforcements. A large blast of sand was headed for Akane, sensing this, Akane spun around taking a deep breath and unleashing her dreaded scream attack against the sand. With that, Akane managed to escape from Gaara, Gaara looked back at Naruto and thought it would be best not to leave his side.

Meanwhile, Kabuto was speaking to Orochimaru on how to handle the situation. In the same room were some of his most personal guard. One young man wore a light purple sleeveless shirt and black shorts, this was the boy Naruto battled in the Chunin exam, Jirobo. By his side, stood a young woman with bright red bangs peering out under a black bandana atop her head with a Sound headband around it, she wore a yellow long sleeved shirt with black baggy pants, in her hand, strangest of all things was a flute. One of Orochimaru's most personal guard Tauya. Facing her on the opposite side of the room was a yong man with his hair in a ponytail similar to Shikamaru, he wore a black shirt with white pants, but the most intriguing feature about him was the fact that he had not 2 but 6 arms! The young man's name was Kidimmarou. Finally, the young man next to him had flowing light purple hair, he wore a light purple shirt with black baggy pants, one thing that was very noticable on him was there seemed to be another head of purple hair opposite on his back This guard was known as Sakon. The one thing all these guards wore in common was a light purple rope tied in bow form around their waists.

" So... Naruto Uzumaki is here..." Orochimaru said with a sly grin on his face.

Suddenly a young man appeared leaning his forearm against the doorway, he wore black wide legged pants with a long-sleeved white shirt, around his waist, he wore what looked like a light purple rope tied in bow form (like the others.) by his right side, behind his waist he wore his Kusonagi katana." It took you that long to figure that out?" Sasuke said entering the room, stunning everyone as Sasuke rarely makes an appearance to them. " I knew he was here before they even entered the village." he finished.

" Sasuke, if you knew, why did you not inform me?" Orochimaru asked authoritatively.

" I assumed you knew, if you hadn't, perhaps you should sharpen your skills." Sasuke responded.

This comment put an uneasy look on everyone else's face, but only Sasuke could ever get away with speaking like that to Orochimaru. Considering he was soon to be his vessel.

" Sasuke, I am in no mood. There's no need for you to get involved in this, the others are fully capable of taking care of this." Orochimaru said.

" So I assume you know it's not just Naruto and Gaara..." Sasuke responded.

" We have been on to them all since they arrived Sasuke-kun, we have it under control." Kabuto said.

Sasuke looked around the room at Orochimaru's personal guard, then focused back on Orochimaru.

" This isn't enough, you'll need my assistance." Sasuke said.

" Sasuke!...I will decide when I need your assistance." Orochimaru said sternly causing yet even greater tension amongst the others.

" Very well, when they're all dead, you'll know where to find me." Sasuke said exiting.

As Sasuke left, Orochimaru noticed something about his katana. It was slight, but Orochimaru saw it. It was vibrating ever so slightly.

" Sasuke...your katana..the katana I have taught you to charish as if it were a part of your body. It senses the bloodlust in you heart. It knows you wish to kill someone strong and it's trembling with excitement." Orochimaru thought.

After the unpleasant confrontation, Orochimaru dispatched his guard to deal with the intruders.

" We should go help Naruto and Gaara." Chouji said.

Ino nodded her head in agreement. As the two ran to aid their comrade, two mammoth arms reached up and grabbed Chouji by the legs pulling him under and discarding his disguise.

"Chouji-kun!" Ino shouted, discarding her disguise and running over to Chouji, grabbing his arms.

" Ino-chan! Get back!" Chouji said not wanting Ino to get sucked in as well.

Ino had no choice but to let go as Over a dozen Sound nins appeared from the walls attacking her.

Meanwhile as Hinata and Sakura searched the halls for enemies they began to notice they were coming across a door with the number 1 on it, the next door was number 2 , then 3, they soon saw that there was a long line of doors. Sakura checked the map.

" It looks like these are the rooms for his test subjects." Sakura said.

" Byakugan." Hinata said, looking inside one of the rooms.

She looked inside to see young man much older than her, restrained in a straight jacket banging the back of his head against the wall. Hinata then looked into the next room to see a young woman in her 20's simply standing in the middle of the room. As her and Sakura walked along the hall, Hinata gasped to see that in another room, there was a little boy with purple hair lying in the fetal position on the floor.

" How could they endure such pain?" Hinata asked.

Little did Hinata and Sakura know they were being watched from afar by hidden cameras.

" Perhaps you would like to ask them yourself." Kabuto said before flipping open a latch marked 18 on it and pressing the button under it.

Hinata and Sakura jumped into a defensive stance as they heard a door open. On the door was the number mark "18". The two kunoichi stood still, waiting for any surprise to come through that door. Suddely they saw a foot peer itself out the door. They looked on to se that a young blonde woman not much older than them slowly walk out, her steps slow and somewhat a little clumsy, as though she did not walk much. Her only attire was a dingy tan hospital gown. Her long ragged hair draped over her left eye. As she looked over at the two, she turned and slowly walked toward their direction. Hinata noticing the girl's awkward movements, took the initiative.

" Are you alright?" Hinata asked concerned.

The worry in the two kunoichi began to build as they saw that the girl's steps were becoming faster, and faster and soon, the girl was seen running at them, a fist raised high in the air.

" I'm not going back!" she shouted in a hysterical rage.

Hinata and Sakura quickly jumped out of the way which was a good move on their part as the very area the escaped, became a crater under the girl's fist.

" She's very strong!" Hinata thought.

" She has strength like mine." Sakura said to herself.

The girl then went after Hinata as she was in mid-air. The girl swung only to put yet another crater in the wall this time. Hinata jumped back as the girl struck at her, however, Hinata managed to evade every blow knowing that if one connected, that would be it for her. Hinata evaded another strike and moved in to strike her chakra pool. This to a degree stopped the girl long enough for Sakura to jump in showing her that she was not the only one with monsterous strength, as she slammed her fist against the test subject's jaw. This Kabuto saw from the security video. He turned to Orochimaru.

" Orochimaru-sama perhaps it would be best to seperate the teams. They apparently have been paired based on their teamwork." Kabuto said.

" Do what you think is best ." Orochimaru put bluntly.

Kabuto noticed Orochimaru leaning with his hand against the wall, Kabuto knew Orochimaru had alot on his mind right now, much of it pertaining to Sasuke. The confrontation earlier had put some tension and worry in the former Leaf Sannin.

" ...sasuke..." Orochimaru said to himself.

Chouji looked around to see that he was no longer in the hidden village, but instead in a forested area. He did not see who it was that pulled him down. Off in a distance, the young Akimichi saw one of the entry ways into the village. As he ran forward he suddenly became encompassed by a large dome of rock.

" What the hell is this?" Chouji said.

"This is where you're going to die." Said a low toned voice from outside the dome.

Outside Jirobo had his hands on the dome, suddenly his arms began to glow of blue chakra.

" This dome is your tomb." Jirobo said.

" Baika No Jutsu!" Chouji shouted turning into a massive ball hurtling himself into the wall of the dome.

Chouji spun against it for a good minute trying to break himself free. As Chouji stopped and backed away, he saw that he had done minimal damage. To make matters worse, any damage that he had done to the dome was repairing itself.

" Damn it!" Chouji shouted stomping his foot to the ground leaving a rather large pot-hole.

Chouji again attempted his meat tank attack against the dome, this time putting more effort behind it. However, like last time, Chouji's efforts were for not. The damage he did to the dome regenerated as before. That was not all. Chouji started to feel himself get worn out quicker than he usually does.

" What's happening...why am I getting so tired?" Chouji said.

" The reason for that is because I am syphoning away your energy. Soon you will barely have enough strength to stand." Jirobo taunted.

" Shit, how am I gonna get out of this?" Chouji asked himself.

Suddenly Chouji noticed something peculiar. The pot-hole he had made with his foot was still in the dirt, It was funny because after every effort, the wall of the dome regenerated itself. Chouji concluded that the ground must not have the same effect as the dome. This gave Chouji and idea.

" Baika No Jutsu!" Chouji shouted forming into a giant ball of flesh yet again.

" I told you that is useless." Jirobo said.

Chouji tried his attack again. This time he aimed low to the ground rather than at the all itself. Dirt began kicking up from the area Chouji's attack was digging. Chouji had to keep going as hard as he could because he could feel himself getting weaker. Jirobo was completely unaware that Chouji was about to escape his rock fortress. Suddenly, Chouji managed to break free by going under the dome and popping up from the ground on the oppisite side of Jirobo.

" What was that? " Jirobo said stopping his technique.

As Jirobo came around the side of the dome, he saw a large tunnel that had recently been dug.

"...the hell?" Jirobo said as he turned around, only to receive a greeting from Chouji in the form of his fist.

Jirobo was sent back flying, then sliding against the ground. He looked up to see Chouji popping a food pill, then cracking his knuckles.

" Hey, aren't you the guy Naruto beat the crap out of in the Chunin exams?" Chouji asked mockingly.

Jirobo stood to his feet. " Aren't you the kid Dosu-kun took out effortlessly in the year before that?" he said.

Their eyes suddenly narrowed at eachother.

As the two powerhouses prepared t face off, Ino was busy fending off a wave of Sound nins. Suddenly they stopped coming and disappeared into the darkness. Ino was confused as to why they would retreat. It then became obvious as to why, as Tayuya appeared standing across from her.

" So are you one of the ones givin' us all this shit? Huh ya fat bitch?" Tayuya said.

Ino's eyes became infuriated. " That one's definitely gonna cost you!" Ino shouted.

Kabuto watched from the video cameras as some of Otogakure's strongest nins attacked the intruders.

" This is shaping up to be very interesting." Kabuto said.

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Next Time.

Naruto: They're seperating us, but we can't lose focus of the mission. Shikamaru, hurry up and find the scroll!

Shikamaru: I'm workin' on it.

Naruto: Next Time. Teamwork Thwarted! Save the Day Solo!

Naruto: Sasuke...where are you...

More coming. If you got any ideas for battles between the Shinobi here, tell me your idea, but PM me please if you do. I'll give ya credit if I use it.