Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. This is nothing more than a story to alter the canon. Also I will use Jutsu of my own creation or alter the name of real ones to fit my work.
Author Note: This story includes gore, lemons and adult content. Also it will negate parts of the canon, like the space bunny goddess mumbo-jumbo. Lemons will be announced so is easy to skip them in case you are not willing to read them.
"Speaking"
"Thinking"
"Biju speaking/ inner Sakura speaking"
"Biju thinking/ inner Sakura thinking"
Jutsu.
INTO THE FOREST
All the chunin to be were gathered in front of training ground 44 when Anko, Team 8 and Team Bee arrived. The tension in the air was palpable which made the purple head woman grin madly.
"Ok maggots we are going to start now. For this part of the exam you are going to be inside this lovely forest. Your objective is to get this scrolls and arrive to the tower in the middle. You have 5 days." Anko giggled making everyone nervous. "Now the juicy bits. Each team will get one scroll. How do you get the other one? Don´t know, don't care. Buy it, steal it, kill for it… there are no rules inside the forest, just don´t open your scrolls or bad things will hapend. Je je je… by the way sing this papers, so Konoha is not held responsible for anything that may happen inside je je je."
Sakura sighted in relief. "We have Kiba and Akamaru to guide us inside the forest. At least this should help us."
A kunai flight next to her face leaving a shallow cut in her cheek. Anko appeared behind her liking the little blood trail on it. "You seem relaxed Pinky, you know the other name of this forest? The forest of death. And confident rookie ninjas like you tend to manure it with their tasty sweet blood."
Anko was giggling when she turned around kunai in hand to find a grass ninja holding the first kunai in her long long snake like tongue.
"Sorry proctor-san, I just want to return you this kunai, but the sight of blood excited me a bit."
"Wonderful! We have a bunch of blood lover this year! But you should know better than to sneak up on your proctor." Chirped Anko.
"Oh boy, more freaks. As if it was not enough with the Kumo whores." "Dam right you are, Let´s help Sasuke-kun ace this exam and stay away from those creeps." Thought both sides of Sakura´s mind.
"Excuse me proctor-san. What are we going to eat inside the forest?" Asked a worried Choji.
"Don´t worry about food, there will be plenty of animals inside the forest. You just have to hunt them before they hunt you." Anko´s muffled chuckles made the Genins get even more nervous.
"Well, my colleagues will guide you to the different entrances to this lovely place. In an hour I'll open all the gates with this remote. Try not to die!" Anko practically singed the las sentence.
Team Bee´s door.
Naruto was explaining the strategy she had, strategy for lack of better term, when Kurenai approached them.
"Team Bee right? I wanted to give you the same advice I offered the other Konoha rookie teams as you are here as part of a diplomatic mission apart from the exam. Please do not engage team 8 in battle. They are the team you arrived with. And if you do, please find a way to disable Ren-chan without hurting her. She has a special jutsu that she can´t deactivate and it takes effect every time she bleeds. I´m not trying to protect her, even if I would like to, is for you. And if in the worst case you get trapped in her jutsu let her help you."
"Wow thank you lady! Besides it is our plan to avoid Konoha teams because we are to be allies. But if a team attacks us we are going to fight back." Said Naruto scratching the back of her neck.
"Thank you" Answered the jonin before sunshining away.
"So what is the plan N-sama?"
"Haku-san, N-chan plans are more like guidelines. She loves to improvise. The plan is to enter the forest, find a target, take their scrolls and rush to the tower. If we can help the Konoha rookie teams it would be perfect, but is not a must do." Explained Hinata.
Team 7´s Door
"So what is the plan guys?" Asked Kiba worried about the incoming task. "We should avoid team 8. Momma says that Kurenai is an exemplar kunoichi so I don´t think she is trying to deceive us."
"I don´t care! I will crush whoever crosses my path"
Sakura sighted at Sasuke´s manliness. Kiba rolled his eyes.
"Whatever, I say we look for an easy target and avoid the others." "Specially the Kumo team."
"Are you scared mutt?" Snickered the Uchiha. "I´ll beat everyone to pulp. They shall witness the power of the strongest clan!"
"Yeah yeah, get down of your high and mighty horse dude. You are not alone, Sakura and I are not ok with fighting everyone. We are not Uchiha ya know?" Kiba´s sarcasm was not appreciated by the raven haired boy, after all he was highlighting the power of his family.
Sakura nodded and tried to give more arguments in favour of Kiba´s. Sasuke scoffed before agreeing, at least that will keep them quiet for a bit.
1 hour later.
Team Bee was running through the forest. They were tracking a team of grass ninja that Hinata had spied on before. They followed them to a clearing but stayed hidden in the tree branches.
"Man, we are so lucky we are not famous. Ya hear those rain ninja? Man so lucky I don´t have a bloodline. Imagine having a doujutsu like the Uchiha kid, all is fun and joy till you get a bunch of greedy bastards after your ass. They knock you out ant take your eyes out."
"Yes man, maybe we should look for them. If that kid is half as good as he think he is they may end up beating its other crap. There we go and the prize we get." Said the other male ninja of the team while giggling.
"He he he, I marked them with my special chakra treads. They looked like strong people so better to have the located." The kunoichi explained.
Up in the trees Naruto, Hinata and Haku were debating about following them to the team after Sasuke or disabling them now.
"We don´t know if they are going after them, we can ambush them now and maybe trade information for safety." Suggested Hinata.
"But Hinata-san, they could try to fool us out of spite." Reasoned Haku.
"Well, we can always track them the old way. But first we need the scroll. Helping konoha is of our interest but not a priority. Well then, let's take them out!" Naruto grinned unsealing the Kubikiribocho.
Team Bee positioned themselves ready to pounce on their targets. Luckily for the Kumo ninja the people from the hidden grass were not used to attacks coming from above.
Naruto got the first enemy Genin inside the hole of his sword and pinned the Kunoichi to a tree with the half hole. Haku held the other boy from behind twisting his arm and putting a kunai against his neck.
"Relax, surrender your scroll and we will do you no harm." Said Hinata holding her arms in front of them in a calming way. The captives were stunned, no Genin should be able to sneak on their equals as they did. But they were not ordinary Genin.
"We surrender, I have the scroll in that bag" Said thw one Haku was holding.
"Oiko why did you tell them!? We can fight back!" "Yeah, listen to her you spineless coward!"
"Shut up you two, don´t you see that they got us? We were not prepared for this exam!" Shouted the first one. Meanwhile Naruto made a clone to open the bag and take the scroll, just in case there was a trap.
"Well, we surrender alright!"
"Ey guys, no hard feelings ok? Besides you can try and get a new set of scrolls. But back to the point, we will tie you now and put a kunai on top of that tree. Reach it and free yourselves, we will be long gone at that point." Naruto pointed to the tallest tree in the clearing. "If you point us in the direction of that rain team you were talking about, we will offer you supplies to last this 5 days with no struggle." Naruto unsealed some food, first aid kits and water canteens.
The defeated accepted the deal and pointed them to the rain ninja after Sasuke. Team Bee rushed in that direction.
Deep in the forest.
Sakura and Kiba were resting in a cave under a tree with an unconscious Sasuke besides them. They had encountered a weird ninja by the name of Orochimaru. First Kiba had been swallowed by a giant snake, he managed to escape using the Tunelling fang and went to their teammates just in time to watch the grass ninja take off her face to reveal the pale sanin. Kiba and Akamaru, despite hating the Uchiha brat, tried theyr best to help him, but the elder ninja did a quick work out of them just before giving a weird hickey to Sasuke.
"Kiba-kun, do you think that the traps will be enough?" Asked a worried Sakura.
"Sakura-chan… We are deep in trouble. I am spent and Akamaru as well. Sasuke is K.O. and you… are exhausted as well. Our best chance is to rest and keep hidden till the exam ends." Akamaru whimpered alerting Kiba. "Oh for Kami´s shake… perfect, we have company. Just be quiet and pray they don´t notice us."
Of course they were not lucky, the Sound team sorted all the traps and forced them to go out. Kiba was too exhausted and injured to fight so Sakura knew that it was all in her hands.
"Bring us the Uchiha and we will leave you alone. Well? Come on?" Said Dosu.
"NEVER! I will not allow you to lay your filthy hands in Sasuke-kun." Sakura rushed to them kunai in each hand.
"I´ll take care of this je je je." Zaku stretched his arms while getting in the girls path.
Sakura threw her weapons but the sound ninja turned them to her with his Decapitating airwaves. Sakura used a substitution jutsu with a log and repeated her charge. At the third try she let the kunai stab her legs and landed a well-placed punch in the spiky haired ninja. She was about to try to stab Dosu when Kin grabbed her by the hair and rested a kunai in her throat.
"Such a nice hair… Is obvious that you are nothing more than a shallow-minded girl playing ninja! A true kunoichi does not have time to care about her hair or to look pretty. We train and we fight." Kin spited on her.
"That dam bitch, Let me have some fun with her, no one punches me like that and gets away with it." Zaku looked at her with lustful eyes. Kin didn´t like Zaku´s way of getting payback, he was a despicable pervert but this was an enemy so it didn´t matter right? So she kept her gram on the pink haired.
Zaku was about to grope her when Sakura found her resolve and cut her hair freeing herself and staving her aggressor in the left foot before rolling out of their reach.
"Bitch! You´ll pay for this! I was just going to have some fun with you but now I´ll rape you with a fucking kunai!"
Kiba could only stare at his teammate when a green blur entered in the scene shouting Leaf whirlwind and kicking both Kin and Zaku off of Sakura.
"You will not do such a thing to this beautiful flower. I, the young green beast of Konoha, Rock Lee will protect her!"
"Lee…" Sakura retreated to where Kiba was getting ready to protect her team.
Lee blurred frontwards kicking Dosu before punching Zaku against a tree.
"You are fast but that is not enough! The four eyed ninja said that you can only do taijutsu right? Looser, a real ninja in the one who uses ninjutsu… LIKE THIS! DECAPITATING AIRWAVES!" Shouted Zaku sending his air based jutsu to Lee. The green clad ninja dodged but realised that if he was not careful the next round could end up hitting team 7.
Lee charged kneeling Zaku before sending Dosu flying with a powerful kick. "Sorry Gai-sensei… but to protect my fellow Genin I must break your rules!" Lee vanished from sight and appeared behind the mummy like ninja. "I´ll end this quickly! Front lotus!" Lee grabbed his opponent and both descended spiralling at high speed. "Decapitating airwaves!" Zaku released his jutsu on the floor cushioning the impact. Dosu rolled after the impact and punched Lee with his sound gauntlet. Zaku was about to end him when he found himself unable to move.
"Stop right now! Or this girl dies!" Said Kin with a strange voice. A new team had entered the clearing. Shikamaru, who´s shadow reached Zaku´s, and Choji holding Ino´s empty body.
Zaku chuckled and pointed to Kin with one of his hands. "You are mistaken if you think that we are all lovely-dovely like you, tree-hugers… you are deeply mistaken…" And released his jutsu on the sound kunoichi.
"Well, well… it looks like every harm the receiver of your jutsu suffers you also get" Dosu pointed to Ino, who´s mouth was slightly bleeding.
"Ino release your jutsu, battle formation 4. Let´s do this!" Said a serious Shikamaru.
"Ninja art: Partial expansion jutsu! Punch!" Choji´s arm grew giant size and punched Zaku out of his way. Dosu was about to use his soundwaves on choji when Shikamaru trapped him in his Ninja art: Shadow imitation jutsu, said ninja jumped backwards forcing the sound shinobi to do the same. The Nara released his jutsu just before his victim crashed into a tree. Dosu, slightly stunned by the impact, was greeted by a hail of kunai courtesy of Ino. He managed to dodge, slightly.
Choji was about to stomp him with a giant foot when Kin threw several explosive kunai breaking a tree making it fall atop of the Konoha ninja. Choji and Lee managed to divert the falling object by punching it, but just after that Dosu jumped and attacked the trunk changing its direction again.
"Partial expansion: Double fist!" Shouted Choji holding the tree with both hands for his friends to get to safety. Dosu punched the trunk again making his sound waves reach Choji. The chuby boy released his jutsu in pain and rolled to safety, dizzy from the sound jutsu. Kiba threw his last handful of shuriken forcing all the ninja to separate.
They were about to resume the fight when a very foul chakra emerged from behind Kiba. There stood Sasuke with a weird flame like markings spreading over his body.
"Sakura, how did this to you?" Asked in a sadistic way the Uchiha, just looking for an excuse to fight. "What is this power? Is this what Orochimaru was talking about? YES, with this I can kill him!"
"I did it! Scared scrawny lad?" Joked Zaku while Dosu was worried about their target having their leader´s cursed mark.
Sasuke appeared behind him and grabbed his hands putting a foot in his back. "You look very proud of this arms… I will show you how useless they are when I rip them both of your body. Je je je… JA JA JA JA!" Sasuke started laughting like a maniac until Sakura hugged him begging him to stop. Sasuke released an unconscious Zaku.
"We surrender! Here is our scroll, just let us go away!" Beged Dosu knowing that they were no match for all of them together. Sasuke grunted in agreement and the sound ninja flew Dosu carrying Zaku.
All of them were astonished by the power Sasuke just showed, and alarmed when he fell to his knees. Tenten and Neji just arrived and picked up Lee.
Sometime later.
Ino was fixing Sakura´s hair while Kiba told team 10 about the recent events, Sasuke was brooding in a corner.
"Let´s check if I had understand all of this crap right. Orochimaru, as in Orochimaru the traitor snake sanin. Probably the worst nukenin our village has ever had. That Orochimaru just appeared, kick your asses and give Sasuke that weird seal hickey assuring that Uchiha will come to him looking for power right? And then Sasuke went all dark and powerfull with those marks coming out of the seal in his neck right? And then he is out of energy siting right there… yes?" Kiba noded to each of Shikamaru´s sentences. "How troublesome. Hey Uchiha-san! You´ll better not use that weird power again and have your teacher have a good look at it. Seal are tricky as hell."
"And why should I do that?" Asked Sasuke rolling his eyes.
"Troublesome…" Shikamaru took a small vial from Chouji´s pouch. "Do you know what these are? Soldier pills. Konoha produces the best soldier pills because the Akimichi and Inuzuka use them in some of their jutsu. Thanks to the Nara and the Senju these pills had been refined to the point of being more effective and less noxious. Nevertheless you only take one every 24 hours, two in extreme situations. If you take 3 you´ll get a huge power boost, 1 hour later your liver will stop working, your kidneys will double their size and in a couple of days you´ll die horribly. If you find some pills that are not from Konoha would you try them? Nop! Because you don´t know it´s side effects. In extreme situations you can gamble tacking one and one alone. With that troublesome mark the same. Until you have it examined and understand all of the effects it has, using it is suicidal." Explained the pineapple head. Sasuke just grunted.
They were about to have lunch when a yellow smoke bomb detonated in the middle of the clearing. Scattered away between coughs as 3 unknown ninja appeared.
"Hello our fellow Genin, how does my paralyzing smoke taste?" Joked a tall rain ninja dressed in a grey lab coat and a gasmask. His teammates, a kunoichi with similar clotting and a Mohawk and a bulky but shorter boy with the lab coat open and no shirt under it, he also had some menacing looking gauntlets. They snickered all together.
"WE are here for ´s eyes. You are about to start feeling sloppy and after the beating you took from those sound ninjas is in your best interest to not interfere with our task here. You know? Is not a good idea to disturb the doctor while operating…" Said the kunoichi, the bulky one just laughed like a maniac.
They were laughing while preparing the tools to do the eye extraction procedure to an unable to move raven haired boy. A puddle behind the shorter one froze and a human form slowly raised behind him, like a ghost rising from the underworld.
The rain Kunoichi was about to pass a scalpel to the taller male when a myriad of water tentacles grabbed her and dragged her body under the bushes.
"WHAT!" Shouted both boys.
"Please surrender…" Said Haku in an icy voice as cold vapour left his mouth. The shorter ninja found a kunai in his throat and a glacier cold hand in his forehead. From the bushes Hinata emerged dragging the female, which was enveloped in the tentacle like water constructs that grew from her hair. The leader of the rain team was about to use a new yellow smoke bomb when Naruto dropped behind him from a tree and took it from his hand nearly breaking his wrist, her other hand in his neck.
"Hi guys (Really big yawn) whatcha doing?" Hinata frowned. "What? Oh yeah, sorry H-chan. Surrender and give us your scroll and all that crap." This time her wife glared. "Eh… Yeah and promise to stop following the Uchiha boy… also… yes we will restrain you till the end of the exam or something like that."
A small needle appeared between he ninja under Naruto´s iron grip. "I seriously suggest you not to do anything hasty, we are not here to kill you, but we won't hesitate if you force us to." Hinata commented putting her hand in the back of the kunoichi´s head.
The Rain ninja threw the needle to his teammate striking him in the chest. The shorter rain ninja began having convulsions, Haku released him worried. Sudenly his body grew a bit and turned really really muscular, he started drolling and 4 vicious locking claws sprouted from his gauntlets as he roared to the sky: "KILL KILL KILL KILL!"
"Jejejeje Hizzu-kun is a master of the Ninja art: Berserk frenzy jutsu. That needle is the command that activates it, now all his senses are heightened and his mind is clouded, that means that he is going to shred to tiny bits every living thing that does not have certain chemicals on it until the command to release the jutsu is given. Jajajajaja you are dead." As the rain ninja spoke Hinata turned the kunoichi´s brain to mush with her Way of the waterfall: pressure impact!. The Berserk shinobi jumped to her even angrier seeing his partner in the floor gooey substance flowing form her ears, but Hinata was faster and jumped to Naruto´s side.
"Undo the jutsu or die." Hissed the tattooed Kunoichi.
"Never!" The rain ninja elbowed Naruto breaking free and jumping between his enraged friend´s legs as he threw himself to Naruto. A poof of smoke and Naruto deflected the assault with a big ass piece of metal.
"You got your chance to surrender… Now I must chop you down with the Kubikiribocho. Sorry, is the mission, nothing personal."
The humongous blade descended. The rain ninja snickered, there was no way for the kunoichi to pass through his teammate claws, and he was stronger for sure. Half second later the sword crashed aginst the floor raising a cloud of dust. His friend´s body fell to the ground splitting in two and soaking him in blood. The blade´s mark on the floor was larger than the blade itself, it seemed that the blade had somehow increased its reach.
"Monster! Take this! Ninja art: poison mist jut" He had no time to end his technique as the very same blade pierced through his chest ending his life painlessly. Naruto released her sword from the corpse and in a swift move sprayed the blood out of the blade, cleaning it.
"Well, so… What now huh?" Asked Naruto resting her blade in her shoulder. With her grinning friendly face no one could believe that the tattooed girl just killed two person as it was nothing.
"N-sama we should treat their injuries and offer them a hot meal and a chance to rest before we part ways." Suggested Haku checking the remains of their recent foes in search for a scroll. "Anyone need this?"
"Yeah. A weird ninja took ours. Is this ok we you team 10?" Asked Kiba. Shikamaru nodded and Haku tossed said item to the dog boy.
Naruto unsealed cookware and meat and started cocking it in her improvised BBQ while Hinata and Haku tended to the Konoha Genin. Sakura was eyeing with obvious fright the blond cook.
"Aren´t you afraid that we might try to take your scrolls Kumo-san?" Asked Shikamaru as team 10 seated in a trunk to use it as an improvised bench.
"Nah, you see these cool tattoos? They are seals and I seal everything I have in a certain way so no one can unseal it but me. Also you don't look like the backstabbing kind" She winked and Shikamaru and Choji blushed hard. Ino laughed her ass of.
While the 3 teams enjoyed the improvised yet delicious meal Sasuke keep coming in and out of his unconscious state. Hinata assured them that it was temporal and he would be all right in no time, but to have someone look at the weird seal in his neck.
Naruto was about to take out of the embers a new batch of meat, to Choji´s utter delaight, when Sakura finaly found herself able to speack. "You… You killed them… you cut a man in half like it was nothing and then you… you buried that… that horrible thing in the other´s… chest…"
"Yup, pretty awesome right? They weren´t expecting me to cut through their defences."
"You… think that it was COOL?! You just killed two men like it was nothing for Kami´s shake. SHOW SOME REMORSE! "Can they feel it?" Can´t you see what you have done? WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE YOU ARE PROUD OF IT!?"
"Because we are. Sakura-san you need to understand that while we don't take pleasure in taking a live. Taking it to protect someone is a commendable act worthy of praise. Besides is not rare for shinobi to develop quirks or kinks to help them cope with the truths of this job. I pray for every life I take. N-chan just makes a game out of it so it does not hinder her until the end of the mission." The bluennete said. Team 10 + Kiba understood perfectly what she was saying. Their own teachers were prime example of it. Asuma Sarutobi enjoyed being a laid back person to the point of lazing around on purpose, and the cigarettes. Kakashi was chronically late to everything but missions and enjoyed reading porn no matter the situation.
"You are a monster! "Yes she is! YES SHE IS CHA!" You hear me? A MONSTER!" Sakura screeched and Naruto plus the Inuzuka partners winced in pain.
"Yes I am, thank you for reminding me that I am only a monster. That is perhaps the gentlest comparison that I have received in a long time… because MONSTERS can cry at least…" Naruto let her hair cover her eyes.
"How dares she! Break that pink annoyance for good!" "Calm down momma… we will be hearing worst soon enough… But we will keep our cool, we are better than them."
Later, In the tower.
Anko was telling the Hokage about her encounter with Orochimaru and about him marking one of the Genin with his cursed mark when a team of AMBU arrived.
"Report Boar!" Commanded the old shinobi.
"We found no trace of the snake traitor, but we found something interesting while returning. The Kumo team not only helped team 10 and 7 saving the Sharingan from some greedy Rain ninja. They proved to be far stronger than a normal Genin team. They dispatched the rain team like it was nothing."
"Thank you Boar." Said a clearly amused Sarutobi.
The AMBU left the room while The Hokage and the Tokubetsu Jonin watched in the screens the teams that were arriving. The old man chucked.
"She is her mother with her father´s Physical features je je je. Please amuse this old man with the chaos that only your clan can bring… And forgive my foolishness." The Hokage looked happy but his eyes were pools of sadness. "Come Anko, lets enjoy ourselves observing the teams that already arrived… lets enjoy the calm before the storm… for the maelstrom brings the thunder, and with it the chaos. Brace yourself my girl, for great events will happened soon and not even Orochimaru is aware of the relevance of the gentle soul´s power. If the last whirlpool can forgive our sins then our enemies will soon be engulfed in the tides of the impossible."
Anko had no clue of what Old Sarutobi was speaking about. It would be a cold day in hell before the old monkey stopped his love for twisting words and encrypted messages.
