Yay this is my Halloween present to you, a big long chapter of goodness. Yes I know that the last couple of chapters have been boring and I apologize for that but I absolutely have to have the forest of death in the fanfic before I can really get the fanfic back and interesting again. But I would still like it if you do read this that your review on the fic and tell me how boring it is. I promise that after the forest of death (which will probably be done really, really soon) that I will probably not do the semi-finals or the finals for the exam and just go to the attack on Konoha, then after that just before Itachi shows up it will become wayyyy more interesting again.

Chapter 14: a fate meeting with the devil

The grass ninja pulled out of his weapons pouch an earth scroll.

"I imagine you need this!" he said holding the scroll up.

"Ah the scroll, we need that one!" Tori cried pointing to the scroll. The grass ninja laughed, then he swallowed the scroll whole.

"Heh… now we fight to the death, victor gets the scroll" instantly when everyone looked into the eyes of the grass ninja images of death flooded into their minds.

At the same time each one of the rookies saw and felt themselves being torn to shreds in a blur of unseen weapons. Blood smears covered the surrounding area around the four. Then he before anyone knew it, kunai's had been thrown directly in the middle of their foreheads. Sasuke fell to the ground on his knees and threw up on the ground.

'He's using Genjutsu. It's a powerful spell, when I looked into his eyes he made me feel as if I died!' Sasuke fell back staring at the grass ninja 'who the fuck is he?'

Sasuke slowly looked over at Sakura, Sakura was also on the ground shaking and crying without a word. Beside him Nazori was breathing heavily and Tori had collapsed on the ground wide eyed and also crying.

'Shit, if we don't withdraw now, were gonna die!'

"I image that you have realized it now…" the grass ninja smirked.

Sasuke slowly lifted up a kunai just as the grass ninja directed two kunai's towards sakura and another two towards Tori and Nazori. Sasuke's eyes flashed open revealing his Sharingan, two tomoe in each eye. He pushed Nazori to the side breaking the Genjutsu spell on him and allowing him to drag Tori out of the way before the kunai hit them. Sasuke quickly grabbed Sakura and took refuge in the trees. The grass ninja walked to where Sasuke was mere moments before and gazed up at the blood on the ground with a sick look in his eyes.

"Heh, astounding he stabbed himself so that he would focus on the pain in his leg and block out the Genjutsu!" he said playfully.

---With Sayaka---

Father way from Sasuke and the rest of the teams, Sayaka was quickly closing in on some unusual sounds that were up ahead of her. She could hear some screams that sounded remotely close to Narutos voice and some slithering sounds.

"Naru-Kun is that you?!" Sayaka cried running closer and closer. No one replied back and Sayaka ran closer towards the noise. When she got to the source of the sound there in front of Sayaka was a giant snake.

"Holy Crap What the Hell is a giant snake doing in a forest?" Sayaka screamed. The snake turned to look at her and Sayaka backed up against the nearest tree. The giant snake began to close in on her when it exploded from the inside and thousands of Naruto's exploded out of the snake covering Sayaka in snake blood and flesh.

"Yeah im Outta here!" Naruto cried gleefully releasing his Bunshin jutsu. "Im the shinobi whose gonna become the Hokage, I have better things to do then end up as a giant snake shit!" Naruto turned and looked at Sayaka who was now to shocked to speak. "Hey Saya-chan you're here?" Naruto looked at her confused. Sayaka snapped back into reality and shook her head.

"Uh… Yeah I went looking for you and I guess you didn't need any help." Sayaka said trying to wipe some of the blood off of her face. Naruto pulled out a piece of cloth from his pocket and handed it to Sayaka.

"Here use this… it's my fault that you have the blood on you" Naruto said scratching his nose. Sayaka looked down at the cloth then took it.

"Um thanks…" She said wiping the blood on her face.

"Right, now we should find the others!" Naruto cheered waving his hands in the air.

---With Sasuke---

Nazori and Tori managed to find catch up with Sasuke and Sakura. Tori had fainted and was now being carried by Nazori. Sasuke ripped out a kunai from his leg.

"Sasuke-Ku-…" Sakura yelled, then Sasuke cut her off; he covered her mouth with his hand. Sasuke was deep in thought debating on his next move. Sakura looked up and removed Sasuke's hand from her mouth.

"Sasuke-kun, Snake!!!!!" Sakura yelled. The three of them jumped out the way of the snake. Nazori landed beside Sakura and the snake followed Sasuke. The snake opened up its mouth and was closing in on Sasuke quickly.

"Sasuke move it!" Nazori yelled. Sasuke looked into the snake's eyes and saw the face of freaky the Grass ninja.

"Get away from me!" Sasuke yelled throwing shuriken at the snake's head killing it upon impact. The snake landed dead on a nearby tree. Everyone held their breaths as they saw the snakes skin split open, slowly the body of the grass ninja emerged from the body of the snake.

"Shame on you for letting your guard down, keep your guard up like good prey should. It would make the chase so much more rewarding for the predator!" the grass ninja began to slither along the trees incredibly fast, he was stopped when Kunai's and Shuriken were thrown in the direction of where the grass ninja was heading. Standing in a nearby tree was Naruto.

"Sorry Sasuke" a voice said, Sasuke quickly turned his head in disbelief towards the voice.

"I can't remember the stupid password!" Naruto said in a cool tone to his voice.

"Awesome Naruto that was sweet!" Sakura cheered. Naruto looked down at the grass ninja with confidence, and the grass ninja looked up at Naruto with disgust in his eyes.

"Hey Dunce, where's Sayaka" Nazori yelled at Naruto, Naruto gave him a sour look.

"Please don't call him that Teme-chan!" Sayaka said appearing behind Nazori and Tori. Nazori turned around and slapped Sayaka across the face with he free hand. "Hey what was that for?!" Sayaka yelled.

"I told you not to leave us and you did!" Nazori yelled at her. Sayaka turned away and her expression turned from happy to pissed. Tori slowly began to open his eyes.

"Wha- what the hell happened" Tori asked rubbing his head and sliding off of Nazori's back.

"You were hit with a Genjutsu…" Nazori explained.

"Hey what happened to Saya-chan? Why is there a red mark on her face." Tori asked looking at Sayaka who was now looking away from the two guys.

"I hit her for running off!" Nazori said coldly.

"And what's going on now?" Tori asked turning his attention to Naruto then looking at the grass ninja.

"A big mess" Nazori replied flatly.

"Naruto get out of here, this guy is way out of our league!" Sasuke yelled up at Naruto. The grass ninja tilted his head up at Naruto.

"My compliments to your defeat of my giant snake Naruto-kun!" he said.

'Damn every time I have ever tried to rescue the team, he has always mad things worse for us.' Sasuke thought to himself.

"Oi! Snake dude, why don't you pick on someone else!" Naruto yelled.

Sasuke released his Sharingan and pulled out the teams heaven scroll.

"if it's the scroll you want you can have it, take it and go!" Sasuke said.

"What?!" Naruto and Sayaka yelled in union, both in shock.

"Hu?" Sakura said confused.

"Sasuke what the hell do you think that your doing? Is this some bright idea of beating the enemy? Handing over everything we have?" Naruto yelled pointing towards Sasuke. Sasuke ignored Naruto and threw the scroll towards the grass ninja. Naruto didn't even hesitate when he snatched the scroll before it reached the grass ninja.

"Stay out of this you! You're going to ruin everything again!" Sasuke yelled. Before anyone knew what was happening Naruto punched Sasuke in the face. "What the hell was that for?!" Sasuke bellowed. Everyone was too speechless to talk but asked the same question silently to themselves, and Sayaka smiled slightly.

"I forgot the password so I can't prove that I am Naruto, but this Sasuke standing right in front of me is clearly not our Sasuke!"

"You dumbass I am me!" Sasuke hissed.

"That's bull shit!" Naruto stated flatly, Narutos voice became cold "and you're the Dumbass, and a coward which our Sasuke isn't"

"Sasuke-kun are you even sure that you need to be scared of this guy? And are you even sure that if you hand over your scroll that he will actually be willing to spare you three or all of us?" Sayaka asked placing her hands on her hips.

"Even if you are Sasuke I would still be telling you that you're a dumbass, probably even chicken!" Naruto finished. Sasuke knew that they were right and lowered his head a little.

"Oh you two, that's so rich" the grass ninja said breaking the silence; He lifted up his right sleeve just enough to reveal a tattoo, and then he bit his thumb so that it bleed. All attention was turned to him. "And you're right, why should we bargain when I can easily kill you and take the scroll?" he smeared blood down the middle of the design.

"Shut the fuck up!" Naruto screamed charging towards the grass ninja.

"NO Naruto stop!" Sayaka screamed running after Naruto.

"Don't do it Naruto!" Sasuke yelled. Naruto jumped into the air and took out a kunai.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" the grass ninja yelled, in a whirlwind of air and leaves the grass ninja summoned a giant snake, he was standing on top of the snakes head. Sayaka stopped in her tracks when she noticed the snakes tail moving towards Naruto.

"Naruto look out!" Sayaka cried. By the time that Naruto noticed the tail it was too late and it hit him at point blank.

"Naruto!" Sasuke and Sakura yelled in union. Naruto was knocked upwards smashing through thick tree branches before slamming into a tree. Blood started to gush out of his mouth before he fell back down towards the ground.

"Beautiful, but lets not take chances, devour the boy," the grass ninja demanded, the snake happily opened his mouth and was just about to eat Naruto when Naruto smashed into the front of the snakes nose.

"Eat this!" Naruto shouted as he attacked. Sayaka's eyes widened when she noticed Narutos eyes, they had changed from a blue to a red colour, and she could feel the bloodlust that was coming off of Naruto in waves.

"He's completely snapped but were did he get that kind of power?" Sakura said. The grass ninja made a few hand signs and blew a gust of wind towards Naruto knocking him into a tree. With Naruto out of the way the grass ninja turned his attack towards Sasuke.

"And now its Sasuke-kun's turn!" he laughed evilly. Time seemed to move in slow motion for a few second as the snake made its way towards Sasuke. Before anyone could blink Naruto was standing between the snake and Sasuke. Naruto had stopped the snake in its tracks by implanting kunai's held by his hands.

"You ok chicken?" Naruto chuckled. They stood like this for a moment before the grass ninja lifted up Naruto with his tongue so that Naruto was eye level with him. "Hey let me go!" Naruto yelled. The grass ninja looked Naruto in the eye and made some hand signs

"Heh, the kyubi brat is still alive and kicking I see. How intriguing, when you're consumed by rage you lose yourself and a little bit of the kyubi's power passes through the seal!" with his tongue the grass ninja lifted up Naruto's shirt revealing a marking that wasn't there before. "Here's the proof, the spell that sealed the kyubi appears on your skin like a tattoo." In an instance the grass ninja drove his hand into Naruto's stomach. Upon impact, Naruto's eyes widened then slowly closed. The grass ninja rummaged through Naruto's weapons pouch and removed cell 7's heaven scroll. Then he threw Naruto away like he was a piece of junk.

"Naru-kun!" Sayaka yelled, she ran as fast as she could and grabbed him before he fell to the ground. "Naru-kun wake up" Sayaka demanded.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled, Sasuke looked at her then turned away "Naruto may not be anything like you. He's clumsy and sometimes he holds us back, and sometimes he's a big pain, but at least he has guts. Naruto is no Coward! Right?" Sakura said. Sasuke closed his eyes tightly then he opened his eyes revealing his Sharingan with two tomoe in each eye.

"I wont let the voices of my past control me!" Sasuke yelled. When Sayaka noticed Sasuke's eyes her whole body froze. Sasuke reached into his weapons pouch and pulled out four kunai's and one windmill shuriken.

"Hey Sayaka are you alright?" Tori asked turning towards Sayaka. Sayaka eyes became fixated on Sasuke and her body began to shake. The grass ninja was moving at speeds that the normal eye would have trouble following. Sasuke followed him fine with his Sharingan, and began a series of attack directed at the grass ninja, when Sasuke had the grass ninja in his sights he preformed a few hand signs then released fire that came out of his mouth hitting the grass ninja in the face.

"Someone as young as you, having such mastery of the Sharingan. Really, a praiseworthy successor to the name 'Uchiha'!" the flames on the grass ninja began to fade away, the skin on the grass ninja's face began to peel away revealing another face beneath it. "In fact, I want you more then ever, Sasuke-kun" the grass ninja chuckled evilly. Sakura cried out Sasuke's name and ran beside him.

"its was a great deal of fun having you show me all of your tricks!" the grass ninja raised his hand up to his melting face covering his left eye. Suddenly everyone became paralyzed. "You really are his brother aren't you? You can see and conceal things with your eyes. Eyes that Itachi himself could never dream of!"

at the mentioning of Itachi's name Sayaka lowered her head and allowed herself to become consumed with suppressed rage. Faint traces of blue chakara began to surround Sayaka.

'Hmmmm, looks as if the Nibi brat is here as well…' the grass ninja thought to himself.

"Just who the hell are you?!" Sasuke demanded.

"My name is Orochimaru, if you ever like a rematch then pass this exam as fast as you can." Orochimaru smirked as he burned the heaven scroll in his hands. " I will see you again if you manage to defeat the 6 ninja who answer to me!"

"What are you talking about? We never want to see your face again" Sakura and Tori yelled in union.

"Hmmm, perhaps not but your wishes wont be enough to chase me away!" Orochimaru made a hand sign and extended his neck so that it reached Sasuke. Before anyone knew what was happening, Orochimaru had bitten Sasuke's neck. " I look forward to seeing you again Sasuke-kun." Orochimaru's neck snapped back to normal. Where Orochimaru had bitten Sasuke it left a mark on his neck resembling three tomoe.

"Arg, e-everything hurts!" Sasuke cried, he gripped his neck in pain.

"What did you do to Sasuke-kun?" Sakura demanded.

"Just a little present to remember me by" Orochimaru chuckled. Sasuke began to scream in pain. When Orochimaru disappeared Sayaka's rage passed and she fainted.

"What the hell…? Saya-chan what happened?" Tori cried shaking Sayaka's shoulders.

"Hey what happened?" Nazori said running up to Tori, Naruto and Sayaka.

"I don't know, when that Orochimaru guy said something about Sasuke-kun's brother Sayaka snapped and some weird blue chakara began to radiate off of her, then when he left the chakara began to lessen then she fainted." Tori explained

"Great… now we have two worthless bodies who cant help us out for a while…" Nazori head a thump then turned around, he noticed that Sasuke had just fainted. "Sorry make that 3 worthless people…" Nazori sighed.

---Hinode's team---

A little ways away, Hinode's team was examining their newly captured heaven scroll.

"Great we have the heaven scroll!" Tsume announced tossing the scroll up and down.

"Tsume-chan, when are we going to carry out Orochimaru-sama's orders?" Kikei asked.

"When Orochimaru-sama gives us the signal!" Tsume said tediously.

"Hey, Tsume-san… what is the signal?" Hinode asked.

"I don't know, he told us that we would know what the signal is when the time comes…" Tsume said scratching her nose.

"Well that's helpful" Kikei mumbled. Behind them a figure came out of the ground like a plant. The three of them turned their attention to behind them. The figure took a step towards them revealing him as Orochimaru. The three ninjas bowed down.

"Orochimaru-sama what are you orders?" Tsume asked.

"There has been a change in plans" Orochimaru said. Kikei raised his head and noticed that Orochimaru's face was half melted.

"Orochimaru-sama allow me to heal you" Kikei said standing up. Orochimaru said nothing and allowed Kikei to heal him.

"Thank you Kikei-kun" Orochimaru said

'Suck up' Hinode chuckled in his head.

"As I was saying, there has been a change in plans. I don't want you to act until we unleash our attack on Konohagure." Orochimaru stated looking at the three ninjas. "I just want you to spy on Sasuke-kun for now."

"Understood" the three ninjas said in union. Orochimaru turned away then stopped.

"Oh and Hinode-kun…"

"Yes?"

"Remember if you reveal what is going on to anyone, especially Sayaka-chan, you know what will happen!" Orochimaru threatened.

"I Know sir…" Hinode said looking away slightly. Orochimaru said nothing else and then disappeared by merging himself with the ground.

"So what now?" Hinode asked turning to Tsume. Tsume looked down at the heaven scroll in her hand then at the earth scroll in Kikei's hand.

"I guess we could just go to the tower then…" Tsume sighed.

"Right!" Hinode and Kikei said in union saluting her.

"you don't have to salute me…" Tsume moaned.

Yes! Another chapter done! Oh and I wont be writing as frequently because im doing a contest on nanowrima. I have to write a 50k (200 pgs.) story about anything that I want and I still don't have an idea… im probably going to do a sub story on either Sayaka's past or what Sayaka did during the 2 years that Naruto went training with Jiraiya… Please Review on this chapter as well!!!!