A/N: Eheeee, next chapter…

Just to let you know, I've recently realised that MY PAGE BREAKS DON'T WORK! –cough- anyway, I'll be trying a new one.


Influenced By Ebil!

Last time…

Lee dodged a punch, but cried in pain as something invisible slammed into his ears. His vision got blurry and he felt sick.

"Your jutsu may be fast, but it is nothing compared to mine, which travels the speed of sound."'

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Naruto narrowed his eyes at the Dosu dude stood over Lee and started explaining how his special device was so cool it uses sound to destroy the inner ear as if someone cared. Naruto flipped back as Zaku tried to kick him in the head.

"No matter what you do, fox boy, you will not beat us. We have the jutsu of the future."

"Oh I'm so scared! Well I've lived with the jutsu of the past and it's done a pretty good job thank you very much," Naruto said, and charged quickly.

Zaku just smirked and dodged him easily, but didn't see the clone Naruto had made, which kicked him. He flew into a tree.

Zaku groaned and shifted himself upright. Naruto started walking towards him, his swords gleaming.

"Oi, stop right there or the girl gets it!"

Naruto turned his head, and sure enough, the sound girl, Pin, Naruto decided to call her, was holding onto a beaten up Sakura by her long pink hair. Naruto scanned the area out of the corner of his eye. Lee was on the ground, though in a different place… and nothing was different about Sasuke.

Kin smirks at Naruto, then tells Zaku, "Get up!"

Zaku groans in embarrassment and pain as he get's up and reappears next to Kin. Naruto does nothing.

"Come on, Zaku, he's right there, go kill Sasuke right now."

Zaku grinned and started to make his way towards Sasuke.

"Naruto, do something!" Sakura cried.

Naruto opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Kin screaming, "You move and I slit her throat!" Naruto closed his mouth and sighed, then glared at Sakura.

Sakura didn't understand at first, but then realised what he was saying. He can't do anything because I'm captured! Sakura pulled out a kunai, determination flashing in her eyes.

Everyone gasped as Sakura cut off her own hair, freeing her self. Kin growls and is about to recapture Sakura when she ducks to prevent her head being cut off by Naruto's sword. Ironically enough, the sword cuts off most of her black hair. Funny how the world goes round.

Kin screamed in anger as black hair floated around her, and Naruto couldn't help but snigger. Sakura used the distraction to charge at Zaku.

"Oops, my bad, sorry," Naruto says in a tone that clearly states he isn't sorry at all.

"You'll pay for that you insolent brat!" Kin screeches and throws several sebon needles at him. A flicker of red chakra efficiently blocks them all. (Lesson learned from the Wave incident)

Kin backed away a little, now less confidant.

"What the hell was that!"

Naruto pouted.

"What, just cause my chakra's a little different to yours doesn't mean you can discriminate."

Kin frowns, Naruto giggles, and they start fighting again. (Oh god I suck at fight scenes. Just, uh, make up what happens…)

Naruto had just kicked Kin into a part of the forest when Team 10 suddenly appeared in front of Sakura, who was by now quite beaten up. Naruto winced as he realised he had forgotten her. Ino and Sakura said something to each other, but Naruto was too busy wondering why Shikamaru was holding Choji by his scarf like a leash.

"These Leaf village worms will be sorry they squirmed into something that doesn't concern them," Dosu said.

Naruto sweat-dropped as Choji cried.

"What are we doing here, these guys are bad!"

"Don't look at me, it was Ino's idea," Shikamaru retorted. "What are supposed to do, let a girl do all the fighting?"

"Eehehehe, sorry for dragging you into this, but we are a 3-man-team. All for one and one for all," Ino said.

"Yeah, what's meant to happen will," Shikamaru replied.

"Team-work? More like suicide!" Choji shouted and tried to get away, but Shikamaru was still holding his scarf.

Zaku laughed. "Heh, better a live sheep than a dead lion. Right, fatso?"

Choji's ear twitched and he stopped moving.

"Would you mind repeating that?" Choji said with his back turned.

"I said you're smart to get out while you can, fatty," Zaku said.

"…"

"…"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING FAT I'M JUST A LITTLE CHUBBY OKAAAAAAAAAAYYYY! RAHHHHHHHHH!"

Naruto and Sakura stared at him with their mouths open.

"That does it, now this is personal! It's a fight to the death between the Leaf and the Sound!" Flames sprung up in his eyes.

"Good job, thanks a lot. Now we gotta live with him," Shikamaru said to Zaku.

"Don't worry it won't be for long," Zaku replied.

By this point, Naruto had sheathed his swords and turned around to search for Kin, but then there was a sudden shout.

"HUMAN BOULDER JUTSUUUUUUU!"

Naruto turned in time to see Choji jump into the air and transform into a spinning green… ball?

"You've got to be kidding, maybe I'm supposed to laugh myself to death," Zaku said and thrust his hands out. "Slicing Sound Wave!"

The boulder stopped, but kept spinning. Suddenly it leapt into the air and started falling straight at Zaku.

Dosu ran to help, but froze when Shikamaru's shadow paralysed him. Kin appeared and threw sebon needles at Shikamaru, but Naruto appeared in front of him and repelled the needles with his chakra.

"Thanks," Shikamaru said. Naruto gave him the thumbs up and grinned, and was about to charge at Kin when Shikamaru stopped him.

"Ino's got her."

Naruto looked curiously as Shikamaru caught her falling body. Naruto then looked at Kin, who had frozen, then slumped.

"Oh yeah! The Yamanakas's mind transfer jutsu." The Sandaime had pretty much drilled lessons about the clans into his head whenever the Hokage found time to visit him.

Turning the attention towards the other fight… Choji smashed into the ground, where Zaku had managed to dodge out of the way otherwise he would have become mince meat.

"Dammit! Kin!"

"…"

"What's the matter?" Dosu shouted.

Kin's body jolted, then her head rose, a large smirk on her face. She took out a kunai and held it to her own throat and shouted loudly, "Party's over boys!"

"If you guys move an inch, I'll kill this Kin girl. If you don't want it to end here, then leave your scroll and get out of here. When I can't sense your chakra anymore, I'll let her go."

Suddenly, Zaku raised a hand.

"Choji!" Kin shouted.

The big spinning green ball leaped up and landed in front of Kin, but was almost instantly blown away by Zaku's attack. Kin smashed into the tree behind her. Ino's body, which Shikamaru was holding, was being affected. There was blood coming out of her mouth.

"Ino!" Shikamaru cried out.

Kin looked up, one eye shut in pain. "These guys… Hurting their own comrade…"

Zaku grinned. "You let down your guard."

Behind him, Dosu added, "Our goal is neither the stupid scrolls nor to safely complete this exam.

"What!"

Dosu said, "It's Sasuke!"

Naruto wasn't paying attention anymore. He was staring at Sasuke, who's body seemed to be leaking malevolent purple chakra. Wow, that is evil! Not as bad as my father's, but pretty bad! Must have been something to do with Snake dude, cause I would have sensed it if Sasuke had that kind of chakra in him.

Naruto turned his head towards the treetops when he sensed two other chakra signs. One he recognised, but he didn't really remember where it was from. Sure enough, two people appeared. They watched for a few seconds before one of them said, "I've had about enough of this."

Everyone turned their attention to them.

"Hey Neji!"

Everyone then turned their attention to Naruto.

Neji blinked at Naruto, then sighed.

"Neji! Neji! How's Hinata? Is she okay? I forgot to ask you before!"

"Yes, Naruto, she is fine."

"Really! Did you find out what was wrong with her?"

"There was nothing wrong with her."

"What! Then why did she keep going red and then fainting! That's not normal, is it?"

"There was nothing wrong with her," Neji said/growled.

"But she kept fainting! What if she is really sick! She might die!"

Neji twitched. Not many people can annoy Neji, and now Naruto was on the list. Right next to Lee. And Gai. Neji decided to ignore him, and turned his attention to the Sound nin. Ya know, the ones they had kind of forgotten about.

"Some minor Sound nin bullying these second rate nin-"

"Hey! Who you calling second rate!"

A tick appeared on Neji's forehead.

"Naruto, please shut up. Just think of it as a figure of speech."

"…fine."

"Some minor- urgh, never mind. That knocked out bowl-head right there is our teammate," Neji said. Suddenly his eyes hardened, veins popped out around them. Neji had activated his Byakugan. "How dare you do as you please!"

Everyone gasped.

"What the hell!"

Everyone looked at Naruto, who was looking at Sasuke, who was looking at the ground. Sasuke was standing up, evil purpled chakra swirling around him, his the right side of his body was covered with strange black tattoos.

"Sakura… who did that to you?" Sasuke asked.

"Sasuke, your body is…" Sakura said.

Sasuke looked at his hand through Sharingan eyes.

"Don't worry, I can feel it, the power surging through me. Never felt better. He gave it to me. I finally understand now. I am an avenger. I must obtain power no matter what. Even if I must let evil (EBIL!) take hold of my body."

Naruto stared at Sasuke, thinking, Huh? Avenger?

"So Sasuke has the curse seal. Still, I can't believe he survived," Dosu said.

"Sakura, tell me, who out of these people hurt you!"

"I did it," Zaku said with a smile.

Naruto noticed that Shikamaru had retreated with Choji, wimp, and got Ino to return to her body.

Naruto turned his attention to Sasuke again. Whoa, that's almost as evil as my chakra!

Now the seal had spread to the left side of Sasuke's face.

"This is too much for us to handle," Dosu said.

"Come on, I can kill both of them. (Sasuke and Sakura) Supersonic Slicing Wave!"

Naruto was about to jump in and block the attack with his chakra when he noticed Sasuke in a flash had picked up Sakura and leaped off.

That's interesting. Naruto had never encountered something like this before. Usually, someone did not just get all powerful like that. (according to Naruto) All the demons Naruto had met either were already all powerful or not. There was a certain hierarchy based on power, and demons tended to stick with it.

"Heh, they're blown to pieces!" Zaku said.

"Who did?"

Zaku didn't even get to move before he was struck. The force sent him flying and skidding towards Dosu.

Sasuke flashed through hand signs. "Fire style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" he shouted and blew out several fire balls.

"Don't get so cocky! I can stop that!" Zaku cried and held his arms out. The sound blew away the fire, but not the shurikan hidden inside.

"Zaku, below you!"

Sasuke's form flashed below and behind, and in a second, Sasuke was holding his two arms and one foot on his back.

"You seem to be very proud of these arms of yours," Sasuke said ominously.

"No, stop it!" Zaku screamed.

Crack! Crack!

Zaku screamed as his arms were dislocated. (A/N: I think they were dislocated…) He fell to the floor, twitching. Sasuke turned his head towards Dosu.

"It looks like you're the only one left."

Dosu shook.

"I hope you make things more interesting than your friend did."

Sasuke started walking, past Sakura. Naruto appeared beside her.

"Hey, do you think you can stop him?" Naruto asked worriedly. If they didn't stop him soon, he might go on a killing spree. "I can try, but I'll probably just make things worse."

Sakura shook, tears welling in her eyes. She nodded, and got up.

"Stop it!" she cried. She ran up to his back and hugged him, preventing him from walking further. "Please stop."

Sasuke's eyes stared at her. Naruto pulled out a sword, ready to attack if he did anything stupid.

Sakura sobbed, tears falling down her cheeks. The two stood, not moving.

"Please. Please just stop it."

Eventually, the black seals on his body glowed red and receded. Sasuke collapsed onto his butt and panted.

Dosu shakily gets out his scroll, and puts it on the ground.

"You are strong, you have defeated us. Please let us leave and you may have this scroll in return."

"Deal!" shouted Naruto. Dosu picked up the two unconscious bodies of Kin and Zaku and hurried away.

Naruto pocketed the scroll, and then turned to Sasuke.

"What did that Snake dude put on you! That was some powerful chakra you were releasing."

Sasuke didn't say anything.

Neji and Tenten jumped down from the trees. Naruto grinned at Tenten.

"Hiya! Sorry I didn't say hi before." He looked at Lee. "Uh, I'm sorry about Lee."

Neji went to pick him up.

"He should be fine."

Team 10 came out of the bushes, and Ino walked up to Sakura.

"…here, let me help you shape your hair better. Shame on you for doing such a rough job!" she scolded.

Sakura smiled.

"Thanks Ino. Sasuke, will you be alright?"

Sasuke heaved himself up. "I'm fine."

Naruto rolled his eyes. Whatever the snake dude did, it didn't take away his bastardness.


A/N: For some reason, I don't really like this chapter. Maybe cause I just watched the episode and pretty much copied it…

Does Naruto seem to be too light-hearted to you? If he is, please let me know.

Anyway, I hope to have more reviews! I'll give you guys an Omake in return!