Kyuubichan Chapter 4, a naruto fanfic

Disclaimer - all original naruto characters are not mine

A/N: Again, I wish to thank the nice people who reviewed.

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Chapter 4

Sakura looked at the sleeping Sasuke occasionally changing the wet towel on his forehead. His fever had gone down a bit and showed no more ill-effects from the seal Orochimaru put on him. However she was worried about her other teammate she had searched for him in the ledge he fell through, which was not that deep, but she couldn't find him in that vicinity she looked as long as she can though she finally gave up later because she was worried someone might come on Sasuke and attack. So she took Sasuke and went to search for a suitable resting area and she had found a nice place on the base of a tree where the large roots have formed a canopy. She then laid Sasuke and then thought about Naruto. Where was he now? Is he safe? Had he been eaten by wide animals? She berated herself for being scared out of her wits when he fought the Orochimaru guy. She could have jumped in to help but she stood back shaking in her pants. She was very sleepy now but she tried her best to keep awake.

" Sakura, help me... " Sakura stared as Sasuke slowly crawled to her, bleeding from all sides and pierced from all side with shuriken, kunai and even katanas. She shrank as she saw Sasuke's eyes which was covered in blood.

" Sakura, why did you leave me? Why did you leave me to die in that place... Sakura-chan... " she then saw Naruto's body sprawled on where he fell a pool of blood underneath him, his face in a distorted expression, eyes staring back at her.

Then she saw someone that almost made her faint. Orochimaru was slowly approaching her, eyes full of killing-intent and sneering at her.

" Now Sakura it is time to join your pathetic teammates. " Orochimaru then drew several kunai and shuriken and threw them towards her. She was too scared to move and all projectiles hit her.

" No...this can't be, Sasuke-kun, Naruto... " once again images of her dying teammates flashed before her berating her for being too weak, being useless and being a coward.

"Sakura, you have failed your teammates, you are weak, you are useless and you must die. " Orochimaru drew a katana and slashed her neck splashing blood everywhere.

" NOOOO! "

Sakura woke up suddenly, shaking for her nightmare. She then looked at Sasuke, who was still sleeping then she sadly remembered that Naruto was not with them.

" Don't worry Naruto, I'll find you no matter what. And Sasuke-kun, I'll protect you with my life. "

She didn't notice three Sound ninjas watching her from behind bushes.

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A few moments before Sakura came to the place where Naruto fell, a rather strange event had took place. A scarlet-haired woman, appeared to be pulling herself out from Naruto's body. When she was done, she looked at her environment and smiled. She released the raw energy inside her that was pleading to be released then relaxed. She then look over to the blonde boy. ' He's even more cute from this perspective.' she said to herself. She then took the boy in her arms and carried him to look for a better location to rest. ' Ugh, he sure is heavy. '

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The three travellers felt relieved when they saw a forest up ahead. After seeing nothing but sand for the past few days, they finally get too see some greenery and no more sand blowing in their faces. The cloaked one removed his hood and stared as they entered the border of Fire and Wind countries.

" It's been a while since I left, I wonder if he's still alive.. "

" Who's the current Kage in Konoha now? " he asked the girls.

" Umm...Why would you care about that? You are not here to assasinate him are you? " Ayeka answered looking at him suspiciously.

"Ayeka! " Ayako stared at her sister in disbelief.

" And, What if I want to? " he replied smiling at Ayeka.

" You... "

" The Sandaime is still the Hokage, most people say he's too old and retire. He said that he would very much want to retire but he feels there's no one is good enough to replace him yet. " Ayako interrupted before Ayeka can say more.

" How did you know all that? "

" I work at the Government building, I'm the one who handles the documents that come in and out of his office. And on some days if the paperwork overwhelms him, he says such things. "

" Interesting... " Dan appeared to be thinking of something.

" And why are you interested in that? " Ayeka started again.

" Sarutobi thought me when I was young. "

" Impossible... " both girls stared at him.

" Well I was very young then, I was around 8 I think..." he then looked at the sky dreamily. " And I would have learned more from him, if I didn't have too leave. "

" Why did you leave anyway? " Ayeka asked getting really curious.

" I don't want to talk about it. "

" Oh... "

The three of them walked on in silence.

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The Nine-Tails looked at the boy snoring in her lap, occasionally caressing his hear. It been two fours since she was out. She wondered when would he wake up. Then she thought the way she got out. She knew the seal was only partly destroyed and she felt something was missing in her but she could not point out what it was. She definitely still had her demonic chakra, as she felt it stirring in her wanting be let out. A part of her wanted to return inside Naruto as being with him for his whole life had made her attached to him. But also the feeling of finally being free was exciting her. She hadn't had much fun in a while and she will have it sooner or later. She smiled at the idea of wreaking havoc again. But then she berated herself, she didn't want to destroy anything the place Naruto loved so much, which despised him in return. As long as she was with him she was happy enough. She then noticed Naruto beggining to wake up. ' Finally ' she said to herself.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes. He felt rather refreshed. Then he saw the girl looking down at him. He then sprung up fully awake.

" Ahhh! Who the heck are you? " Naruto screamed while looking at her suspiciously. For some reason she felt vaguely familiar.

" Awww...Don't tell me you haven't forgotten me..Naruto-chan.. " then Naruto remembered. The voice in his head. The girl in his dreams.

" You're the... "

" The Great Nine-tailed Fox demon who thirteen years ago, almost leveled the Leaf Village. You can call me Kyuubi-chan! "

" Right... " Naruto stared disbelievingly. Here was the demon which everyone was afraid of. But acted like a young, immature girl.

" But how did you get out, and what happened to Sakura-chan and and Sasuke? " now he felt frantic, he was separated from his teammates and here he was with a demon who might kill him for what he's worth.

" You hurt my feelings Naruto-chan, why would I want to kill you? You know I like you very much. And don't worry about your teammates, we'll find them and pass these test with flying colors. " however she thought it strange that she knew what he was thinking when she wasn't inside him anymore. And Naruto was surprised as well but was too curious to say it and also he was worried about his teammates.

" But how did you get out? "

" It seemed that the seal the creepy guy with a long tongue made a mistake when he put that seal on you. " Naruto then remembered his fight with the Grass ninja. " For some reason instead of sealing my chakra away from you, he opened the gate to my prison although just a little but it was enough, so here I am. "

" So...that means I can't access your chakra anymore? " he was a little bit dissapointed in that. He had depended on it when things got too tough.

" I don't know for sure... We'll find out sooner. But I can't be seen right now what will people think? " Naruto looked at her agreed. She was wearing the same thing the previous times they had met and it didn't look right to see someone like that out in the forest.

" But I don't have anything.. "

" Oh no worries I'll turn to something else. " saying that, she turned into a fine-looking wolf. Naruto wondered why she did not turn into a fox. Then he remembered that foxes are taboo in the Leaf since " that " incident.

" Now, get some rest we will search for your teammates when you feel better. And after you PASS this exam we will sort out this mess. "

Naruto had no choice but to wait, even though he was worried about Sakura ( he couldn't feel the same about Sasuke ), but Kyuubi's words made him feel a little better. After all, he had the Great Nine Tailed Deomn Fox helping him, what could go wrong?

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Sakura rubbed her eyes, as she woke, she had fallen asleep again without knowing it and she was relieved nothing happened during the night. She put a hand on Sasuke's forehead was glad that his fever had gone. He just needed some rest and he will be fine. Or so she thought. Then focusing again on their lost teammate, she felt angry at herself, for she could do nothing, she can't leave Sasuke in this condition and even if she did what chances of finding him out there? There was nothing to do but hope for the best. She got a towel that was hanging from a root and wiped Sasuke's face with it. She stared dreamily at his face, dreaming of the day when those cold eyes would look at her not with coldness but with love. She really loved Sasuke. Not the the "fangirl love" but "real love". Even her mother told her that she was too obsessed with that boy. She was busy daydreaming that she didn't feel the three sound-nins that were standing behind her until one of them called out.

" Hey you, Stop dreaming. "

Startled, she turned around and saw a girl and two guys, one of them had his head wrapped up in bandages. She grabbed a kunai and cut a string beside her. The girl-nin noticed it and laughed.

" You're a pathetic excuse for a ninja, we already disabled your traps when you were busy dreaming about your loverboy. "

The bandaged-guy walked closer and motioned towards Sasuke.

" Wake-up that guy. "

" What do you want with him? " Sakura stood up grabbing another kunai preparing to fight.

" We will kill Sasuke and after we have finished we will kill you. "

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Just behind some bushes, near Sakura's location, a blonde girl, a pony-tailed boy and fat-ass dude were watching Sakura.

" What will we do? " the pony-tailed boy asked their girl teammate.

" Ino! "

" What! "

" Are we going to just stand here and watch? "

Ino said nothing but continued to watch earnestly for what Sakura will do. Shikamaru just sighed and muttered something under his breath while looking at their other teammate munching away on his precious chips.

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Sakura carefully sized up her opponents, knowing full well she wouldn't have a chance in 3 on 1 battle but she was determined to protect the still unconscious Sasuke. ' If only Naruto was here... ' she thought. The sound girl was getting impatient standing there so told her to teammates to get this over with. The guy with bandages around his head just said it was too troublesome for him to fight a weakling. The other guy just sneered and advanced towards Sakura.

" I'm going to enjoy killing the two of you. " he said as fixed his sleeves to expose his hands. Sakura realized that if she stayed there Sasuke would be hit too but if she left him there, the other two might take advantage of it. However the other two Sound-nins appeared to be content on watching their other teammate finish her off first.

' I have to make a gamble ' she jumped leapt away from Sasuke's spot and threw a few kunais at her opponent

" USELESS! ZANKUHAA! " Sakura was shocked when a blast of wind threw her kunai off target. She threw another bunch at him but was also blown away.

" Your toys are useless against me. Don't tire yourself. " he said as he positioned both of his palms facing towards her.

" ZANKUUKYOKUHA! " Sakura put her arms in front of her to shied against the attack but felt ears wringing as the attack passed thru her. She fell to the ground clutching her head. ' What was that? '

" As you can see that was no ordinary air blast. " he said as he slowly approached her. " The air blast has sound waves with it that interferes with your hearing which in turn messes up your brain. "

" Zaku, you're taking too long with that bitch. " the sound girl jump towards them and grabbed Sakura by her hair. " Her hair... "

" What's the matter Kin? "

" Her hair is softer than mine. " she replied as she touched her hair with her free hand. Then using her knee to kick Sakura in the back she put a kunai to the back of her neck. " If you had time to train instead of trying to be sexy, then maybe you will still be alive. "

Zaku inched closer to Sakura who was being held by Kin then punched her in the face. Sakura winced as Zaku punched her a few more times, enduring the pain she was feeling. As much as she tried to keep from crying, it wasn't long when tears started falling from her eyes. Zaku stopped his attacks and laughed.

" This Leaf gennins are so pathetic, oh well time to finish you off. " he pulled a kunai from his back and and prepared to stab Sakura. " What a waste... " He then went in for the kill. But was surprised that he couldn't move at all.

" What the... "

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Team 10 came out of their hiding place and faced the Sound gennins. From where Shikamaru stood, his shadow was extended all the way where Zaku was. The other sound who had been just watching thought.

' Shadow Binding no Jutsu eh? '

" Chouji! Get that ugly face who wants to kill Sasuke-kun! " Ino screamed at the fat boy

" Eh? Do I really have to? I'm to hungry.. " Chouji said as he rubbed his stomach.

" CHOJI! YOU FAT-ASS GET HIM! "

" DAMN YOU INO! DON'T CALL ME FATASS! MEAT TANK! "

Chouji suddenly quadrupled in size and became a huge ball and began rolling towards the other Sound Nin. Dosu removed his sleeve and revealed a contraption on his arm then blew sound waves towards Choji.

The sound waves didn't affect Choji at all so he had to move aside to avoid getting hit. Meanwhile Sakura, although quite surprised by the appearance of Ino's team but recovered quickly, grabbed another kunai from her holster. Kin noticed and just laugh.

" That won't work on me bitch. "

" What makes you think I'm going to use it at you, bitch? "

To Kin's surprise Sakura used her kunai to cut her hair to where she was holding it. And after escaping her grasp, rolled away from her and threw another set then lunged straight at her kicking her in the gut. She was able to dodge the kunai but got hit by Sakura's kick and tumbled away. Ino cannot believe at what she saw.

' She cut her hair... '

A sudden flood of memories flashed through her mind, the day they met, the day she gave Sakura the ribbon, the day she returned it and the day they became rivals. She was snapped out of her stupor when she saw Sakura move again, attacking the Sound nin again.

" Ino, I can't hold this jutsu any longer we have to end this now. "

Ino nodded at Shikamaru and looked at where Choji was fighting the other Sound nin, he was sprawled on the ground from exhaustion. Zaku can already move again and aimed another air blast at Sakura sending her sprawling to the ground where Kin immediately took advantage and began hitting her.

" Shikamaru, watch my body while I'm gone. " Ino then made seal " Shintenshin no jutsu! " and moment later Ino's limp body fell in Shikamaru's arms.

Sakura noticed that Kin was no longer attacking her she then looked at where Ino and Shikamaru was. He was holding Ino's body. It means that Ino is now inside Kin's mind. Kin pointed a kunai at her own neck.

" Leave now or I will kill your teammate. "

Both Sound nins look at each other and laughed. Dosu aimed a sound blast at Kin. Kin didn't dodge and was hit with the sound blast. Shikamaru noticed blood running down the edges Ino's mouth.

" What are you doing? Do you want to kill your teammate! "

" Don't joke with us. Our mission is to kill the Uchiha boy we don't care if we have to kill our teammate to do it. " Zaku moved closer to where Sakura was lying and kicked her. Sakura winced as she held her stomach, a bit short on breath. " And now you pathetic fool are going to die for interfering with us. "

" Ino! Return to your body now! "

Kin nodded at him and a second later, her body went limp and Shikamaru felt Ino's body move. Ino got up, holding her head.

" Owie.. my head hurts... "

Dosu aimed a sound blast at Ino and Shikamaru. Shikamaru grabbed Ino and dodged the sound blast. Zaku aimed both arms at Sakura.

" Now where were we? "

" Sakura... "

All heads turned to the owner of the voice. They hadn't even felt that he had awaken already. All were startled at his appearance.

' The cursed seal! ' Dosu noticed that black markings on Sasuke's body. ' What was he thinking! "

" Sasuke-kun... " Sakura was horrified at Sasuke's appearance. He didn't look liked his normal self. He was emitting a lot of killer intent and a strange black aura surrounded him. "

" Who did this to you? "

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The wolf beside Naruto perked up it's head. Naruto noticed it and asked what's wrong.

" I can feel someone emitting evil chakra... "

" What do you mean? "

" I do not know, but your teammates may be closet than I thought. "

The white wolf got up and began walking.

" Let's go. You should be well rested by now. " and Naruto distinctly heard in his head. " There are some people following us. A lot of them. Do not show any signs that they have been detected. "

Naruto fixed himself and walked after the white wolf following it's advice. From the treetops, a team of Rain Nins talked to each other.

" Did I really saw what I saw? "

" Must be nuts, talking to a wolf. "

" Anyway, he is foolish to be alone and no wolf is going to save him. "

The three then leapt off and followed Naruto. From another spot a team of Leaf nins consisting of a pearl eyed boy, a girl with her hair tied into buns and dude in a green spandex suit watched the Mist nins and Naruto.

" Neiji, isn't that strange? " the girl asked.

" Are, there even supposed to be wolves around here? " the spandex guy added.

" I do not know, but that animal looked tame. Something is strange. We should follow them. "

The other two nodded and went off to follow Naruto and the Mist nins.

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" Ah, so you're finally awake. " Zaku turned around to Sasuke and aimed at him. " You're going to die now! Zankuhaa! "

However before he can release the air blast, Sasuke had already grabbed his arm and twisted it to his back. ' He's fast! '

" Is this the one who did that to you? " Sasuke asked Sakura as he increase the pressure on Zaku's arms. Team 10 was just bewildered. Sakura was terrified of this Sasuke.

' So much power.. ' Sasuke thought as he twisted Zaku's arm, almost dislocating it from its socket. ' I must have more! '

Zaku attempted to hit Sasuke with his free arm but Sasuke grabbed it and twisted it too.

" Let's see how useful you are with your arms! " Sasuke pulled both arms and twisted, almost tearing them from their sockets while Zaku screamed in pain and eventually passed out. Dosu was speechless.

' The seal is activating! Impossible! How can he survive that? '

Sakura watched, horrified at what Sasuke had become. ' This is not the Sasuke I know, What happened to him? It's that Orochimaru's fault! ' She cringed as Zaku screamed louder begging Sasuke to stop. Sakura could no longer bare to watch it. She crept slowly to Sasuke. She can feel the huge chakra he was emitting out. She ignored her fear and grabbed Sasuke by the shirt. She cringed as Sasuke looked back at her, eyes ablaze with greed and killing intent. She gathered up the courage and stood up, hugged him from behind and pleaded to stop.

" Sasuke-kun, please stop it. I'm alright. You're scaring me.. "

Sasuke looked at the girl before her and suddenly the seal deactivated and he fell on the ground holding the the back of his neck.

" Sasuke-kun! Are you ok? "

" I'm.. alright now. " Sasuke replied as he can feel the pain slowly subsiding. He straightened up and smiled weakly at Sakura.

" Are you alright? "

" Y..Yes... " Sakura smiled back at him turning red slightly. He had never been like that to her before. They didn't notice Dosu approach them and placed a scroll on the ground.

"You are strong opponent Sasuke-kun and we can't beat you. We are retreating from this fight and as an offering, we will give you our scroll. " He then picked up his two teammates and slung them on his shoulder.

" However, if we meet again anytime during the exam. We will fight you. " He then dissappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Team 10 , who had been speechless for a while, decided it was a good time to ask questions.

" Uhm, Where's your other teammate? " Shikamaru had long noticed Naruto's presence but had been too preoccupied to ask before. Sasuke hadn't noticed until now and looked at Sakura. Sakura however only looked away and did not answer.

" Sakura, where is Naruto? " he ask himself with firmness in his voice. Sakura looked at him, tears forming around her eyes.

" I don't know. I looked for him after our fight with that Orochimaru guy, but I couldn't find him. " she said holding back tears.

" Sakura... " a female voice beside them interrupted. Sakura looked up to find Ino standing beside her.

" Don't worry, I'm sure he's fine maybe he's just lost somewhere. You'll find him soon. " Ino said as she sat beside Sakura and put a hand on her shoulder. " Right now your hair is a mess, Let me fix it or Sasuke-kun will definitely go after me. Sakura smirked at Ino but let her anyway and Ino straightened Sakura's hair the best she can with a kunai. Sasuke was surprised to see Ino's team. He looked around and saw Shikamaru poking Choji awake. The absence of Naruto bothered him. Their team had already lost a one they hadautomatically failed the test. He took the scroll the Sound nins left and saw it was and Earth Scroll. He took their scroll from his pouch. They now have two Earth scrolls. He walked over to Shikamaru and asked him what scroll they had. Shikamaru looked strangely at him before answering.

" You're not planning to fight us for our scroll aren't you? After we helped and everything. "

" No, its just that we have now two earth scrolls and we fail the exam anyway. So I think you should have this. " he handed one of the earth scrolls to Shikamaru who looked at it.

' Well the rules say the whole team must get to the tower and since there's only two of them left... ' He then took the scroll from Sasuke.

" If you must know we have a Heaven scroll. " Shikamaru said as he put away the scroll. " However even if you are missing a member. Continue to the tower, so you can get rest. And who knows maybe Naruto thought the same thing and is heading there. " Though he highly doubted that Naruto did. He just wanted to make them feel better. Sasuke thought the same thing and smirked ' Yeah right as if Naruto had a brain '

He looked over to where Sakura and Ino was and breathed deeply.

' Naruto, you better be alive. '

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On another part of the forest the "missing" Naruto was facing the Rain nins who had been tailing him. Kyuubi in the form of a wolf appeared nonchalant and was cleaning herself. Naruto himself was smilin widely.

This infuriated the Rain Shinobi.

" Hey brat what are you smiling about? Don't you know you're about to get killed? "

The other two laughed and went into battle stances. Naruto just laughed.

" Look into the eyes of evil. " The three Rain nins wondered what he was talking about and were stupid enough to look directly in his eyes and saw gruesome images of their own death. Naruto smiled widely as he saw his opponents freeze before him and he slowly went closer to check which one had the scroll. He grinned as he found it.

" Hmmm, we already have an Earth Scroll unless the bastard Sasuke lost it. I'll take it anyway. " he took the scroll and put it in his pouch.

" That was boring. " he heard the Kyuubi speak in his mind.

" Well if you only you teach me more cool techniques! "

" Be patient I'll teach, we have a lot of time after the exam. "

" Hey, How come I can still hear you in my head? "

" You're so dumb sometimes Naruto, telepathy is duck soup for demons. But there are still others following us" she then began walking away. "Deal with them if they interfere. Now let us continue. "

Naruto nodded and followed the wolf. From their location Team 9 were awed by what they saw.

" Neiji-kun, They didn't even fight Naruto! " Tenten said with awe in her voice. " And he just took their scroll! Why didn't they fight? "

Neiji was just as bewildered, he hadn't even activated his Byakugan. So he did not see what Naruto did to his opponents. He thought maybe he used Kanashibari but there is no way a dead-last can do an Anbu-level technique. For some reason he didn't want to mess with Naruto right now.

" Yes! Another worthy opponent! Le'ts follow him and I will fight him! " the spandex dude was saying with fire in his eyes. Tenten shook her head and looked at Neiji. " What do we do now? "

" It's beneath the pride of the Hyuuga to face a lone guy. Let's search more worthy opponents. " Neiji said as leapt off. Lee and Tenten looked at each other and shrugged then went after Neiji.

Kyuubi felt the Team 9 leave and smiled to herself. Maybe humans weren't so dumb after all.

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Dan walked lazily on the streets of the city they were currently staying. The city was full of casinos, bars and stores, there was joyful mood around the city. He figured the city was a tourist spot seeing there were also a lot of people milling about. He hadn't really want to stop at the city but at Ayeka's persistence he finally relented. He had wanted to get to the Hidden Lead as soon as possible. He wondered what it was like now, years after leaving without much as word to the people he once knew. And of course he had to search for the Nine-Tails vessel. He had known that the container for Shukaku was in the Sand Village but was useless since Shukaku had messed to much with humans for any chance of release. So he had focused on Kyuubi, who was the smarter one and hoped she will help him, however he had a big doubt on that. He saw his new friends entering store selling clothes and remembered their conversation earlier, they had become sort of stiff after that and he resolved to fix that and decided to go after them

" Maybe I should think of staying in this world for a while. "

A/N: You will soon know who is this OC really is please be patient and i hope this chapter isn't that bad. As for pairings I'll work on it later, right now a lot seems to want NaruKyuu so it may be just that.

And sorry if the text appears big, for some reason it got larger when I uploaded it dunno why.