Story: Konoha's Beautiful Red Beast…
Author: Soul Teller!
Disclaimer: No disclaimer...
Speech index: "Talking""Thinking/Mindscape/Flashback"
"Kyubi/Biju/Monster Naruto"
Summary: Chased out of the village at the age of 5 a boy must survive in the wild as an animal but will he survive, and return as a human, or a monster?
A/N: All right Next chapter!
Chapter 18
Genin Battle Exams
Part 1
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura stared at Iruka who then pulled out a large, watch and looked at it. "You guys are way ahead of schedule but I guess Naruto was the reason why you were able to get here so quickly, correct?" Sakura gave a nod and Iruka smiled lightly and walked to Naruto raising a hand to pat Naruto on his large nose. "That's good. You behaving well right?" Iruka asked Naruto. Naruto nodded and Iruka smiled, "Good when you finish the next part of the exams I'll treat you guys to ramen how's that sound?" Iruka asked Naruto purred while Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other and shrugged then giving nods at Iruka. Iruka then pointed to the wording on the wall behind him. "Do you guy's know what those words mean?"
"If you lack heaven, seek wisdom, be prepared. If you lack earth, run in the fields, seek advantages." Sakura said, "However it's missing a word." she said looking at Iruka for help. Iruka nodded, and folded his arms across his chest.
"Basically if what you lack is a brain, then gain knowledge and be prepared for the mission. However if you lack stamina, the you must continue to train hard. But if you have both then missions will be a breeze." Iruka said.
"Then the part with the missing word?" Sakura asked. Iruka picked up one of the scrolls and held it out.
"These words represent the chunin, and the person word from this scroll goes in the missing spot. The final sentence is 'These rules will guide a persons extremes. Basically the supposed five days that you were supposed to be in the forest, were testing the basic abilities that you might have needed as a chunin. A test that you guys succeeded in. Now that is all I have to say... good luck in the final test!" Iruka said. Sakura and Sasuke saluted whilst Naruto bowed his head. Iruka smiled at them then his smile faded slightly. Naruto looked at this with one eye but shrunk down to his small fox form and pattered to the doorway in the wall. Sakura and Sasuke followed Naruto as Iruka watched them go. Praying to whatever god there was to watch over them.
Meanwhile
Anko sat outside the gate a bottle of sake in one hand and a plate of dango laid out in front of her. She drank some sake smacking her lips then grabbed a dango and bit off each small ball until only the stick was left. She then threw the stick at a tree where the outline of the leaf symbol was made from other dango sticks. "Sake and Dango what more could one want!?" She asked laughing to herself as she grabbed another dango and was about to eat it when she sensed a presence. "Whose there?" She asked two figures came from high above landing behind her. They both wore ceramic masks that hid they're faces. ANBU Shinobi, but what where they doing here? She looked at them. "What do you guys want?" She asked irritated.
"We need to show you something..." One said his mask was shaped very much like a birds. The other one in the shape of a bear. Anko ate the dango then threw it at the tree and chugged the rest of her sake.
"Let's go." She said setting the sake bottle down. With that the three blurred out of existence.
Nahati was fuming now Matsura and Nakuma had disappeared yet again and she was completely lost.
"DAMN YOU TWOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She roared sending birds flying for their poor lives.
Gaara turned as he heard a roar Temari and Kankuro also turned. "What the hell was that?" Kankuro said. Gaara flicked his eye's to Kankuro then he turned back and continued walking.
Neji landed on a branch then turned when he heard the roar. His companions turned as well when their feet touched branch. "What was that?" He asked. Tenten looked at him and shrugged, Lee however looked serious.
"What's up Lee?" Tenten asked her estranged comrade. Lee looked at her then he stood up straight.
"That was the cry! Of a maiden!" he announced dramatically. Tenten face planted at this whilst Neji looked disgusted.
"And how the heck would you know that!" Lee stared at her then he shrugged.
"That's what it sounded like to me!" He said Tenten hopped over to his tree, grabbed his ears and pulled. As he gave ouches of pain Tenten said.
"You need to get your ears checked listening to all that crap from sensei made you hear and think weird things!" She said as she pulled his ears. Neji didn't say anything to his two estranged comrades but turned his head to where he heard the roar.
Johuga turned what appeared to be a large black sword with a fur pelt on the hilt on his shoulder, blood was dripping off the blade. "Oh boy... that's my sister if I'm not mistaken." Johuga said. He then turned to his two teammate's, one of them was a male Nekomata, the other a human girl. The Nekomata had black fur and a black tail, however his eye's were a piercing shade of violet. The human girl had red hair, slightly tanned skin, and eye's of deepest jade. "Nihilus, Leean. I think we should head for this tower." Both of his teammates nodded. The three jumped into the air away from the bloody bodies lying on the floor.
Johuga landed on the forest floor and looked around he could see the outline of the tower through the tree stumps. He leaped up to where the other two were. Nihilus was sniffing the air, "What is it?" Johuga asked.
"Blood," Nihilus said with his strange accent(Hispanic if you will), "Large amounts of it." Johuga looked around, "What would you advise?"
"Let's just keep going and ignore any distractions we're almost to the tower." Johuga said. Nihilus nodded and wrapping his cloak around him and over his head to hide his ears and leaped forward. Johuga following with Leean behind him, they soon landed in front of the gate of the tower, only to find several bodies twitching on the floor. Johuga leaned forward and pressed a hand on the forms throats. "They're all right just knocked out. However this one." He pointed to one body that barely twitched. "Is bleeding from the inside. There's only one person with enough power to do that sort of thing that I know of... and I seriously doubt it was him." Leena looked at him.
"Whose that?" she asked.
"Kurodo Matsura... if it really was him then all three of them would be suffering from the same thing not just one." Johuga said. "So the question right now is... where is this being that's capable internal damage? Just how dangerous is he?" Johuga asked. With that he walked inside the tower.
Orochimaru was furious, not only had he lost one of his pet snakes... he had also lost track of Sasuke. His plans was not going as well as he thought they would, he should've killed that giant fox when he had the chance. He took a deep hissing breath and released it. He then looked up to see Dosu landing in front of him. "Well?" Orochimaru asked.
"We have confirmed that Sasuke Uchiha has made it to the central tower." Dosu said. Orochimaru's eye's narrowed.
"So... he made it out of here in one piece... truly a shame I wanted to give him something but it looks like that will have to wait for another day." Orochimaru said rather wistfully. Dosu looked up curiosity overcoming fear.
"'Give him something' my lord?" Orochimaru raised an eyebrow.
"Indeed a gift of power... But now I'll have to give it to someone else." Orochimaru turned his eye's onto Dosu, who then paled. "Don't get your hopes up you fool, it would be wasted on you." Orochimaru said, turning away and stare out into the dark forest. 'I could possibly use that brat whom has the nine-tailed fox inside of him... but no... he's also with Sasuke...' it was then that Orochimaru saw a flash and pulling out a kunai threw it. It landed on a branch where a black garbed figure stood.
"Well, well... this is unexpected... to see a grass ninja with a sound ninja with one prostrating in front of the other... quite suspicious especially since there's no treaty with either villages." Said a cool, calm voice. Orochimaru stared at the black clad figure who nearly blended in with the background.
"And who might you be?" Orochimaru asked. The figure unfortunately had a large collar so it hid his lips but Orochimaru had the distinct impression that he was smiling.
"My name is Matsuru Kurodo. Though I prefer Kurodo if you don't mind... and now I ask you the question you posed to me... Who might you be?" Matsuru asked. Orochimaru just chuckled and revealed his rather freakishly long tongue.
"Me... I guess it would best for me to be called Death!" Orochimaru now unveiling his full killers intent. Kurodo didn't even flinch as he was hit by a powerful wave of killing intent Dosu stared as he stood up taking several steps back. Kurodo smiled to himself, his own killer intent was leaking very slowly out.
"Is that really the best you can do?" Orochimaru was stunned, only someone on Jounin level could resist the killer intent. He smirked, it looked like he could have a decent challenge before he went to fulfill the rest of his plans.
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