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"Sacred realm that is Naruto Fandom"? Ha, don't make me laugh. Obviously you need to acompany yourself to good stories, as you seem to have no taste for what is really great from reading so much Naruto. Go read some Inuyasha fics.

At least I think its a well known fact that almost all of the Inuyasha fiction authors and authresses put us all to shame. So go read some of their works, compare it to Naruto stories, then come back and tell me that the Naruto fandom is still "Sacred".

ON A LIGHTER NOTE, we get to see Naruto's summon today. I hope you all like it and that its as orriginal (yet not) as I claim. The chunnin exam has begun and everyones in for a bit surprise...

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Legend:

"Ramen!" - Aloud speech

'Damn!' - Thinking/ Thought speech

'Fool.' - Kyuubi thought speech

"Hark!" - Kyuubi Speaking

"Eh?" -Fox/misc speech

Fortune's Fool

Chapter 8 - Destined Spirits

By Mirazhe1

Naruto let out an extremely long and exasperated sigh; it was going to be a LOOONG chunnin exam, he knew. Already, before the first part of the exam had even started, Sasuke had made a spectacle of how they shouldn't draw attention to themselves.. Efficiently drawing attention of everyone on the street as they made their way to the site. And now, here they stood proudly (or at least Sasuke and Sakura did, as Naruto and Kyuubi stood back and rolled their eyes) declaring that the hidden chunnin should drop the genjutsu so they could get to the test. Sakura, surprisingly, had seen through the genjutsu first, but kept quiet at Sasuke's earlier orders. However, the traitor had turned hypocrite and called out the genjutsu. Kyuubi seemed as displeased with the traitor as Naruto was.

So that put them were they were now, in that huge room filled with desks and unfamiliar ninja, next to Hinata and hardly 15 seconds into the first test. With a silent seal, and even more silent "Kuchiyose no jutsu," and Naruto was on his way. Contrary to the common summoning, there was no loud pop and a summon running out to attack. To the naked eye, there was the smallest shimmer in the corner of the room, making the chunin examiners look about for a moment; a few even went as far to utter a quiet, "Kai", but none could quite figure out what the shimmer was, or who the odd chakra source floating around the room was from, so it was soon forgotten ot ignored.

Those with the Byakugan, however, were in for an odd surprise as they activated their bloodline and looked about for answers. That little shimmer in the air turned to a slender lithe fox, silently padding along the room and looking over people's shoulders for the answers to their tests. While it was still blue and shimmering with chakra, it looked intangible and near see through, like a ghost; the effect was only greatened with the fox's natural grace and with it's light steps, it seemed to float across the floor. Naruto looked to it as it signaled answers to the vessel. Hinata, still set to keep from cheating, noticed nothing, but another Hyuuga, her cousin Naruto had learned not long ago, uttered a surprised, barely audible, gasp at the sight.

Ignoring this, Naruto quickly scribbled down the answers on his sheet, looked up and nodded to the fox. He smiled a foxish grin and the fox returned it with a bow. An invisible wind fluttered up and the fox seemed to blow away with it, dispelling itself.

Toward the back of the room, Hyuuga Neji pondered over the sight.

Kyuubi, followed closely by Naruto, snarled deeply at the giant snake sat hissing before them. No fox, of any kind, liked snakes.

"Kitsune Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," The clearing burst full of smoke, and as it cleared, was filled with an army of foxes. Transforming to match, the vessel retreated for the moment to come up with at strategy. He needed to be quick: being separated from his team (no matter how useless, he thought with a snort) for any length of time was not a good thing. The snake, meanwhile began striking at the bunshins. For something so large, it was quick.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu," He murmured, having come up with a plan. Kitsune Bunshins, however strong, were to weak to stand against the snake, and though his Kitsune Claw was formidable against a ninja, without the gloves he had used to enhance it at the battle, it was useless against large prey. And he just so happened to leave the gloves at home. Just peachy indeed, as Kyuubi, across the clearing, began to mentally whip him for doing something so foolish.

So used to it, Naruto hardly noticed the air shimmer and turn to ghostly foxes (for his eyes anyway. It would have been a rather useless summon if the summoner couldn't see what they were summoning) as he preformed the summoning. The spirits, three of them and each different in looks and colour, dove down to the battle bellow. Each picked a preferred Kitsune Bunshin and dove into it and, like a spirit possessing a body, disappeared. The Kitsune Bunshin shimmered with the summons's respective chakra before it engulfed them to form a body around them, looking once again like the summon. The possessed Bunshin looked back to Naruto with a nod, and leapt forward to mercilessly attack the snake with their own style. The remaining Kitsune Bunshin dispelled and Naruto transformed to normal once again; the odd summons would be more than enough to take down one snake.

"You can come out now, Hyuuga Neji, it's quite safe," Naruto called out impatiently to the trees as his summons made short work of the enemy. The vessel was getting quite annoyed with being spied on by now. There was a pause, but, decided now, Hyuuga Neji leapt down from his tree top hiding place to face the vessel. "Your alone," Naruto stated, "Its probably not very safe to wander about alone in a forest named after Death."

"The same goes for you, Uzumaki," Neji retorted. His intimidating eyes (as he had his Byakugan activated) wandered away from Naruto, past him, to the odd summons as they just finished off the snake. "What type of summons are those? No one in Konoha summons anything close to that."

"Fox spirits," The vessel replied innocently enough. Neji's eyes narrowed, veins wrinkling around them. "Not all summons have their own bodies, ya know. These guys just need to... Find their own.. Temporarily anyway." To prove his point, the summons, their job done as they stood over a rather dead snake, wisped away until all that was left were a few confused looking Kitsune Bunshins who were dispelled shortly after.

"Why are they not visible?" The Hyuuga pressed on.

"Most summons are have their body, their chakra, and the summoner's chakra keeping it here. These summons just have chakra and spirit-y... Stuff..." Naruto waved a hand in dismissal, not all to worried he didn't quite understand it fully either. "Normal people can't see spirit-y stuff or chakra.. Though I guess people can sense the chakra," The vessel pondered on, much to the growing annoyance of Neji. "Anyway since you have a Byakugan I guess you're just seeing the summon's chakra." Neji frowned, his Byakugan de-activated.

"So your tampering with spirits... How... Rebellious of you..." The vessel didn't comment as Kyuubi curled around his feet, a scroll in mouth.

'End this quickly,' interrupted Kyuubi. 'By the pricking of mine thumbs, something wicked this way comes.' Naruto looked down at the fox demon, appalled.

'...You Don't have any thumbs, Kyuubi.' The fox demon startled, looking up at his jailer in an embarrassed manner.

'Tis but a saying, Kittling. But something evil does come, thou needs to return to thine team.'

Naruto merely snorted. Neji looked on in an interested way at the silent conversation, the vessel's expressions only giving of a clue they were talking.

"Yeah, well, that's just my style," The vessel said finally said to the Hyuuga, picking up Kyuubi in his hands. He was growing bored with the Hyuuga's interrogation. "Anyway, I gotta get back to my team; still got a few more snakes to fry. Good luck with the exams." Naruto waved lazily over his shoulder as he waved, but stopped and looked back after a moment, as if forgetting something. "Oh yeah, and Neji?" Said Hyuuga blinked in question. "Thanks for the scroll!"

Neji blinked, then started for a moment, looking to his belt for the exam scroll he had worked so hard to gain... to find it gone. He looked back up, fully intending to kill the vessel, regardless of his rather intimidating tampering with spirits. But, looking about, he was even more surprised to find Naruto as gone as his scroll.

Naruto frowned as he looked down at his team below him. They seemed to be confronting an odd grass-nin... Or at least, Sasuke was. Sakura kneeled at Sasuke's feet, clearly in a catatonic state from the sheer amount of killing intent the grass-nin was projecting. Sasuke remained unfazed, however, as the killing intent was clearly not for him. The vessel quietly pulled out a scroll, and preformed his all to useful recording jutsu, and pocketed the scroll once again. Just in time: at Sasuke's word, the grass-nin's neck extended, and his head shot forward, mouth clamping on the last Uchiha's neck.

Without wasting a moment, the vessel chucked a wooden kunai at it's neck. The grass-nin's head retracted back to its -thankfully- rightful place before it could hit though. Sasuke staggered, clutching at the bite, with a groan. The Uchiha fell to his knees in pain.

"Saaa," The snakeish man drawled slowly, "It seems we have a fox in our mist..." Naruto didn't comment, jumping down from his perch to land between his team mates. Kyuubi joined him immediately, landing in front of them all.

'The snake placed a seal,' Kyuubi informed his jailer. 'We've caught it early though; tis not nearly finished and fades already.'

The vessel looked to Sasuke; while the Uchiha squirmed in pain on the tree branch, and Naruto had the odd urge to help him, traitor or not, but his intuition told him the Uchiha was beyond help. He glanced to Sakura, only to find her unconscious.

"Snake..." Called Kyuubi. "Thou art a snake; mine nose wretches with the stench of it." The fox demon's nose quivered for a moment as the grass-nin stood watching in an amused way. "Yes... Thou art Orochimaru." Naruto frowned, while the grass-nin, Orochimaru, grinned evilly.

"You have quite the pet there, Naruto-kun," Orochimaru commented idly; his grin seemed to widen beyond the outline of his face, it was so wide. Naruto growled. "It must have been quite the job to... Tame him."

"Why are you here, snake!" The vessel burst out, rather impatient. "For Sasuke?" Naruto snarled; with the Uchiha's traitorous ways, he would no doubt go with the snake sannin without a fight.

"On the contrary, Naruto-kun," Orochimaru corrected, like a slow hiss. "Sasuke-kun came to me." The vessel blinked at this. "Come now, Naruto-kun, your more clever than that; you figured out Sasuke-kun was helping that silly King of the Whites so easily.."

Naruto's eyes widened. That missing-nin organization, supporting King of the Whites, was Orochimaru? That would explain why Sasuke had been so ready to send them a message. Then something dawned on the vessel, making his eyes widen even more and filter red with anger. The same organization that supported King of the Whites, Orochimaru, were the ones that attacked Konoha.

"Asshole! You attacked Konoha!" Roared the vessel, as Kyuubi bristled with a snarl. "Just because we fuckin kill your supporter!"

"Actually," The snake sannin interrupted with a chuckle, "We attacked for him." He gestured to Sasuke lazily. "He wanted me to take him from the village, its only my duty to try." His sinister grin slowly turned to a frown. "Unfortunately, Konoha has grown stronger in my absence. Stronger than a few thousand samurai, at least." Naruto roared with furry, Kyuubi's chakra flaring around him, and leapt forward.

"Kitsune Claw!" He lashed his clawed hand forward as it trailed with chakra and the blow landed, leaving the snake sannin with five long wounds. Though the technique was week without the gloves, it was not completely useless. The vessel was surprised enough to halt, however, as a hand burst through Orochimaru's mouth. And like a snake shedding it's skin, a new, fully in tact, Orochimaru crawled out of the torn up body.

"You amuse me Naruto-kun," The snake sannin said, grinning his evil grin. "But I have no time for this. Sasuke-kun has the power to come to me now, please tell him that for me." Bellowing, the vessel leapt forward once again, but the snake sannin stepped back to meld into the tree bark behind him, and disappear.

The vessel snarled, before letting loose a furious howl, and slashing his claws at the tree. While he didn't use any specialized technique, his already formidable nails left deep scars in the wood.

"Calm, Kittling. He has failed to notice his seal is naught." The vessel growled plopping down on the branch in a cross legged position. His shoulders hunched and, though his head was down, his eyes looked up to the unconscious body of Sasuke. It was a rather intimidating pose, the vessel sitting there his hands stained with blood and his eyes even redder.

"Why do I follow him... I wonder... Sometimes... If Konoha deserves all this shit when they're not even thankful for it..."

"Thou follows him to serve thine turn upon him." Kyuubi padded up to sit beside the disgruntled vessel. "Thou promised to help this village, unthankful or not, even if thou needest to drag each member from their homes, kicking and wailing." Kyuubi chuckled in a foxish manner. "Though thou did not needest to do quite that, this is thine way of helping the village."

Naruto was silent. As much as he was beginning to hate it, he needed to let the Uchiha and snake sannin do all of these horrible actions, so he could properly unmask him. Out the traitor too early, and he would get away from it, and no doubt be the end of Konoha. The vessel sighed and stood, whipping his bloody hands on his white pants without hesitation.

"Asshole," He murmured to the unconscious Uchiha. "Don't worry, jerk, you'll get whats coming to ya." Calm now, and feeling better, Naruto looked to Kyuubi. "I can't carry both of them all the way to the tower." Understanding the simple sentence, the fox demon nodded. The air around them throbbed for a moment, as if a powerful illusion was being dispelled, and the small form of Kyuubi disappeared and grew to nearly the size of a horse. The fox demon, larger now, certainly looked more impressive compared to the little thing he was moments ago.

Naruto grinned; it had been a long time since he had seen Kyuubi's faux body's true form. Working quickly, he lifted Sasuke and Sakura to Kyuubi's back and tied them on securely with some handy wire from Sasuke's supplies pouch (Kyuubi couldn't help but chuckle at that). Finished and rarin' to go, the fox demon and vessel leapt forward through the trees, toward the tower. Along the path there were many hazards, such as giant poisonous bugs and other shinobi, but thanks to the duo's keen senses, they steered clear of danger and made it to the tower in record time.

"Good to see you, Iruka-san," Naruto said with a foxish grin. Iruka smiled, the smoke around him dissipating (as he had just been summoned).

"Were are you teammates, Naruto?" The chunnin asked after a moment. He soon spotted them, however, asleep on the ground, back to back.

"Saaa... We ran into a bit of trouble in the forest, so we're a little tired," said the vessel, rubbing the back of his head. His posture turned serious, however. "It seems that Orochimaru has infiltrated the chunnin exams and gave Sasuke a bit of a.. Gift. Could you relay that to Godaime?" Iruka blinked, wide eyed. He had heard of Orochimaru and none of it was good. This was definitely a dangerous situation.

"I will, thank you for the.. Information Naruto," Iruka said, and with Naruto's dismissing nod, disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Naruto relaxed as the chunin disappeared; Iruka obviously hadn't been observant enough to spot that Kyuubi was missing. With a quiet "Kai!", the minor illusion keeping the giant fox hidden was dispelled. Kyuubi padded up, looking slightly embarrassed with the prediciment. While his borrowed body was useful, it didn't have the power to do something as complicated as the illusion that disguised him as the tiny fox everyone thought he was. Naruto sighed, and began preforming the long line of seals needed to disguise Kyuubi once again.

Damn. Uchiha had it coming to him.

Naruto despised genjutsu.

Hope you liked his summons. If they're not as amazing and heart stoping and original as I thought they would be... well.. then that sucks. Lol.

We're getting to the end with 8 to 12. Four chapters to go. Enjoy it as it lasts.

'Azhe out.