3rd Person Perspective
First Exam
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Second Exam
"I'm Mitarashi Anko and I'm your proctor for the second exam! The exam you just took is so easy compared to what you're in for in my exam! Be prepared, maggots!" Anko yelled.
"Hey, Ibiki. You passed so many. Are they that good?" Anko whispered to Ibiki.
"That blonde girl has spirit. Knock it out of her," Ibiki smirked.
"Sure thing," Anko laughed.
"Maggots! Follow me to the Forest of Death!" Anko yelled.
"Here in the Forest of Death you don't have to hold back against your opponents! You have 5 days to get to the tower in the middle with both a heaven and earth scroll to pass to the third exam! But before you start killing, you must sign a release form!" Anko yelled.
"For what?!" Naruko yelled.
Anko threw a kunai at her and it sliced her cheek.
Naruko froze as Anko reappeared behind her. A Kusa ninja gave Anko her kunai back.
"Aren't you that girl who's dating that Uchiha?" Anko whispered and Naruko's face turned into a deep blush.
"NO!" Naruko yelled.
"Well, all of you form a line and sign these forms to receive your scroll!" Anko yelled as she moved to a tree.
Inside the Forest of Death
After a few minutes, Hinata voice her opinion about a way to tell if they were really them. Sasuke agreed and said a code to make sure they were really Team 7.
"Hinata-chan, teme, I'm going to find a bathroom," Naruko said and began to walk away. Sasuke nodded and began to set up traps around the area. Hinata kept her Byakugan activated to watch for enemies.
"I'm back!" Naruko grinned.
"Wait. What's the passcode?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes. Naruko gladly told him.
"Sasuke-san, Naruko—" Hinata started.
"You're not Naruko. The kunai Anko threw cut her cheek and Naruko is right handed," Sasuke yelled. "Who are you?"
"Ah, you noticed me. Now die!" the Ame-nin charged at them.
"Genjutsu!" Sasuke yelled as the Ame-nin looked into his eyes. He promptly crumpled to the ground.
"Sasuke-san, we have to find Naruko-san," Hinata looked around with her Byakugan.
"Do you see her?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes! About 100 feet from here, north!" Hinata began to run and Sasuke followed her.
"I see another shinobi fighting her. She's being pushed back," Hinata said. "What is this chakra coming from their battle!?" Hinata's eyes widened.
"What chakra? Is it from the shinobi's jutsu?" Sasuke asked.
"No…it's coming from Naruko!" Hinata said.
When Sasuke got to Naruko, he saw Naruko on the defensive with a kunai against a Kusa nin.
"Oh, what good timing, Uchiha Sasuke-kun," the woman said. She jumped back and Sasuke moved in front of Naruko with his Sharingan activated.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Sasuke whispered and a ball of flames headed for the Kusa nin.
"Naruko…" Sasuke started but suddenly stopped as he felt fear envelop his mind. What….what is this?!
Sasuke watched as the nights of the Uchiha Massacre replayed in his head again and again. Suddenly, he saw a new nightmare begin to unfold.
"Sasuke!" Naruko yelled. Behind her was Itachi, about to kill her.
"SASUKE!" Naruko screamed and Itachi stabbed her.
A voice called to him from behind him. He turned and saw Kama.
"How could you let my sister die?! You let her die! You let everyone in your clan die! This is your entire fault! Look at what you've done, Uchiha. You killed her!" Kama yelled and stabbed him.
Then, another nightmare began to unfold.
"Tou-chan! Tou-chan!" a small child ran up to Sasuke.
"Haruka, where's Kaa-chan?" Sasuke smiled as he picked up the small blue-eyed black-haired girl.
She looked at him and began to cry.
"He took her!" she cried.
"Who?" Sasuke frowned.
"I don't know!" she cried harder. After calling Naruko's name out, Sasuke found her.
"NARUKO!" Sasuke yelled.
"Sasuke, take Haruka and run! They're after me! Go!" Naruko yelled. She was bound in chains made of sealing script.
"I'm not leaving you here!" Sasuke yelled. Suddenly, Naruko's body was covered in red chakra and she collapsed once the red chakra dissipated.
"Otoutou, you're a failure. You'll never kill me because you don't have enough hatred!" Itachi smiled like a madman. "Now I can kill you like I didn't three years ago!" Itachi rushed at Sasuke but Haruka jumped and allowed herself to protect Sasuke.
"O…tou…chan…" she whispered and ended in the same fate as her mother, dead.
"HARUKA!" Sasuke yelled.
"You killed her!" another Sasuke told him. This Sasuke was different; he had grey hair and not sharingan eyes, but simply red eyes.
"I loved her and you killed her!" the other Sasuke told him.
"No! Itachi killed her!" Sasuke felt tears run down his cheeks.
"You let her die, filthy Uchiha!" other Sasuke said.
"I…I…didn't…!" Sasuke began to panic. No…there's no way I killed her…I would willingly die for her…
"Yes you did! If it wasn't for you, neither of your precious people would be dead!" other Sasuke said.
"I did…" Sasuke fell to his knees.
"Well, now that that's over, I can finally do what I wanted to do," the Kusa woman sighed. Hinata was in the same state as Sasuke, filled with fear.
The Kusa walked over to Naruko, who was glaring at her and threw some shuriken.
"Child, shuriken will not help you," the Kusa woman smiled. Suddenly, Naruko's eyes turned blood red with black slits in them.
"RAHHHHHHHH!" Naruko screamed and hit her with her new jutsu. "RASENSHURIKEN!"
The Kusa woman laughed a little and summoned a snake to ride and dodge the attack.
"That's the power I want!" the Kusa woman laughed. I'm going to test her power more!
The snake summon moved to charge at Sasuke and Hinata. Sasuke wanted to move, but he couldn't. Move!
"TEME!" Naruko yelled as she jumped in front of the snake and stopped it.
"What're you doing?! Move, dammit!" she yelled at Sasuke. Sasuke stared in awe. She stopped the snake…to save me…
"HEY!" Naruko yelled at Sasuke. She growled at getting no response and punched him.
"Snap out of it, teme!" Naruko yelled. Sasuke slowly moved his hand to reach for a kunai and promptly stabbed himself.
"Take Hinata and get out of here!" Naruko ordered.
"I'm not leaving you!" Sasuke activated his sharingan.
Naruko growled. "Then get Hinata out of her trance. We need her teamwork."
Sasuke nodded and turned to get Hinata. Naruko turned to the enemy and summoned more Kage Bunshin.
"Numbers won't help you either, girl," the Kusa nin smirked. Her snake disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The Kusa woman released a water style jutsu, causing Naruko's clones to disappear and Naruko was sent tumbling back and hit a tree. Naruko got up and glared. The Kusa woman disappeared and reappeared behind her. Finally!
A shadow came from the tree and kicked the Kusa woman away.
"It's been so long," the Kusa woman smiled despite being in pain from the harsh chakra-enhanced kick.
"I had a feeling someone as creepy as you would be here, Orochimaru!" Kama glared.
"Why're you here all of a sudden? What happened to that vow?" Orochimaru smiled.
"Shut up! You know nothing of anything I've been through and had to sacrifice!" Kama charged at Orochimaru.
"Kama-chan, I never thought you'd be the type to break a vow, especially on their graves. And after leaving poor Naruko alone for 12 years with nothing. How did you manage to gather the courage to come here and face her?" he smirked.
"…" Kama weaved handseals and unleashed a powerful sealing jutsu. Orochimaru cringed as he felt her chakra winding through the air and wrapping itself around him, catching his body in a chakra net.
"Now die!" Kama yelled. Orochimaru laughed as he turned out to be a log.
"Substitution jutsu?" Kama hissed to herself. Where is he now?
Orochimaru smirked. Kama still hadn't figured it out yet.
He reappeared behind Naruko who was looking around for him, ready to strike. He weaved a few handsigns and dug his fangs into Naruko's neck while placing an odd numbered seal over Naruko's 8 trigram seal. She fell over and began to scream, holding her neck.
"Naruko!" Sasuke and Hinata ran over and watched in horror as their teammate's cries began to quiet down.
"Brats! Take Naruko and run!" Kama ordered as she weaved many handsigns.
Sasuke gritted his teeth and grabbed Naruko.
"You're not getting away, Uchiha!" Orochimaru laughed. He made his neck stretch so it reached Sasuke. Sasuke took a kunai and tried to stab Orochimaru. Hinata weaved handsigns for Water Release: Gunshot. She shot small balls of water from her mouth and Sasuke prepared to attack with a fire release jutsu. Orochimaru jumped into the ground using his earth-style affinity.
The log turned into Orochimaru. Kama turned and attacked him. I don't know if that's a clone or not, but he's going to die!
Orochimaru reappeared behind Hinata and released a lot of killer intent. Hinata froze and Sasuke jumped back and ran through more handsigns. His hand was engulfed in lightning and he set Naruko down. He glared with his hate-filled sharingan and charged at Orochimaru. Orochimaru released a wind-style technique and a fire-style technique simultaneously and a fiery wind engulfed Sasuke. He instinctively jumped back and covered Naruko's body with his own to protect her from the flames. Orochimaru took this as his perfect opportunity and went over to Sasuke and placed a Heaven seal of his neck. Sasuke screamed but didn't move from his position to protect Naruko.
Orochimaru glanced at Hinata, the heir to the Hyuuga clan with a Byakugan that could be used indefinitely. This could also help kill off the Akatsuki if I play my cards right with this Hyuuga. Still, she's weak. Would she survive the Curse Mark? Orochimari shrugged and placed an Earth curse mark on Hinata. You never can have too many pawns in your arsenal. Plus, you never know when she'll be useful. If neither of the two brats here survive the effects of the mark, she's a good candidate. Hinata sharply inhaled and began to scream, but she promptly collapsed after a minute.
"Orochimaru! What did you do?!" Kama was livid. "DON'T TELL ME YOU KILLED HER!"Kama unleashed three sealing jutsus at once, followed by a fire-style jutsu that covers a large area and scorched the surrounding trees. But by then, Orochimaru had already reverse summoned himself and then reappeared further away in the forest.
Another shadow came out of the tree. The figure sighed and almost cringed.
Kama stood, shaking in anger. Orochimaru…I'm going to kill him! Her eyes drifted to the figure and she almost screamed in anger.
"Hey! Where were you?! I needed your help killing him! But you just stayed in the tree, just watching with that sharingan of yours! I…I don't know why I liked you! You just left me to fight him and now look at them! They're going to die because of whatever that bastard did to them!" Kama was close to tears.
"Kama. I believed in your power. Plus, you just jumped in the battle recklessly. Also, they won't die. They're our siblings, after all. Have faith, Kama. And, don't stress yourself too much. It isn't good for either of you," Itachi scolded. He saw multiple emotions cross Kama's face and sighed inwardly. He smiled a little and hugged her.
"I-Itachi," she whispered.
"Come on, we've got to go," Itachi said.
"But…they're going to be left there and I can feel their bodies begin to develop fevers…" Kama said.
"You're such a good medic-nin. Don't you sense them coming? Sasuke and Naruko and Hinata are going to be fine," Itachi grabbed her and disappeared in the trees.
"Neji! You're going to fast! Wait up!" Tenten whined.
"No, Tenten! He's showing so much youth I think I'm going to faint!" Lee's eyes shined.
"I'm not waiting! Hinata-sama is in danger!" Neji argued.
"Hah? I thought you didn't like her?" Tenten asked.
"I understand some things now…thanks to Naruko," Neji frowned.
"Naruko-san?!" Lee asked, now having another reason to speed up.
"What do you mean, thanks to Naruko?" Tenten asked.
"The other day, I was training and saw her and Hinata training. Hinata and her took a break and I overheard them talking about the Hyuuga clan. Eventually, they went home. I was curious about what an outsider would know about my clan, so I confronted her and told her to stay out of it. However, she convinced me that Hinata wasn't the only one hurting and that I shouldn't let my belief on fate and hatred cloud my mind. After that, I realized how cruel I'd been and I apologized to Hinata-sama for everything and offered to help train her Juuken. So, we're on good terms," Neji said. If only Sasuke wasn't there. He isn't a good influence on Naruko, being filled with hate. Unlike him, I'm not filled with hate anymore. Perhaps Naruko will see this and be with me… Neji mused in his head. But it looks like I'd have competition from Lee and Kiba and Sasuke.
"Neji, do you see them?" Lee asked.
"Yes! This way!" Neji jumped down from the trees to see Sasuke shakily getting up and pulling Naruko over his shoulder. He carried Hinata in his arms and took shaky steps to find a cave to rest in. He saw his world become hazy and distorted from his fever.
"Sasuke!" Neji called. Sasuke blankly looked up for a moment but then continued walking.
"We're here to help; we don't want your scroll," Neji said. Sasuke nodded gratefully before collapsing.
"I'll take Hinata-sama. Lee, take Sasuke. Tenten, take Naruko," Neji said. He activated his Byakugan to search for a cave. After running through the tree branches for 10 minutes, he found a small cave to put Team 7 in.
A/N Wow…this chapter came out strange. And kinda messy for me. But, I hope you like it, even if it's a bit…everywhere. I'd bet there are a million plot holes in this chapter. XD sorry….