Warning: I do not own RWBY, that belongs to Oum & Rooster Teeth. Nor Naruto that is shonen and his creator.


"Come on Naruto don't you die on us you idiot" Sasuke whispered. He watched as sakura applied basic first aid to their fallen teammate. At the moment he looked stable or at the best he can be right now. Who knows what kind of damage the rogue sannin did.

"Sasuke, he's need to rest not get annoyed by loud voices" Sakura hissed at him. If this happened even yesterday he would have been shocked by the act. But now, not so much.

The needed to get to the tower, screw the whole exam at this point, getting their teammate to safety and out of this forest was more important. It has only been a day but they had made some decent distance. If he had to guess they may have around another day or more to get to the tower at their speed.

"We still have to, it's early morning and I want to get as much distance" said Sasuke.

He saw Sakura frown but nodded. Carefully putting away her supplies the two carried their teammate and began their journey

...

"You know, this isn't what I expected my shinobi creear to end up" said Sakura "Running away from an S-rank missing nin while making sure our teammate is still living. The same one that risked his life for us to escape. Seems crazy, even now"

"... Yeah, I guess you're right that this is pretty crazy" he agreed "I still have so many questions, he better answer them or else. Putting us through that, truly is living up to his nickname, the mysterious Naruto Uzumaki."

"You know, I never really like that name. The mysterious Naruto Uzumaki, it just felt wrong" she said

"And what would you call him?"

"Um ... er, well ... I think that a Wizard would work better. When his eyes were covered in flames it kinda felt different, magical almost" she explained

"W-Wizard? What's that?" he saw Sakura's confused look.

"You know, a wizard. Guys that shoot fire out of their hands or wave a wooden stick do stuff. They're old dudes wearing long pointy hats? How can you not know of them?" She asked.

"I ... my family never cared much in the way of civilian stuff. I grew up on our clans legends and myths passed down by word, mother and father rarely took me out of the compound as we had almost everything we need in there. After my clan died I never really cared to know about that" He answered. That was the most he talked about his clan in a long time.

"Well, do you want me to tell you about them? I mean I don't know everything about them but I'll tell you what I know" she offered

...

"Go ahead"

And so Sakura began explaining what she knew of wizards the fairy tales that her mother would read to her before going to bed. Sasuke listened and small part of him wondered is wizards were real. But nonetheless he still listened.

However, there was a ... ringing in his ear. Confused he tried listening in as he heard the ringing get louder. He grabbed both of his teammates and they fell down to a neary tree trunk. Just in time, the branch there were on exploded into a wooden pulp as three shadows meet them. It was the oto genin and they surrounded them.

"Looks you need to work on that aim Dosu" called out the short haired genin. The one covered in bandages growled back

"And you need to work on that tongue. But we can worry about that late. Well well well, look what we have here, Sasuke Uchiha. Our master told us about you, he wanted us to kill you" said Dosu. The genin charged straight at him

He threw his shuriken and dodged out of the way. He started going through hand seals before he spat out, covering his ears in pain. It was like someone scratched nails on a chalkboard right next to him! Dosu looked happy as he raised that gauntlet of his.

"Surprised? With this you can't dodge my attacks or doing anything, it used sound to stop you. Your're useless against me!"

"But are you as fast as me?" Sasuke asked. He turned into a blur as he kicked the genin at his gantlet, his leg throbbed as he heard some cracks. That was before his head ringed in pain and everything becoming blurry for as he flew.

"You fool, this gauntlet is not so easily destroyed" dosu laughed. He stopped laughing when he blocked two kunai thrown by Sakura.

"N-No ... S-Sakura ... run!" Sasuke gasped. They were after him, not them

"I refuse to run away again, I won't leave any of you behind anymore!" Sakura declared.

Sasuke tried to get up, if Sakura the weakest member of their team willing to stand up then what was he? It was painful to get up and he was forced to activate the sharingan just to even see at all. He was not going to run away, not again.

Dosu clicked his teeth and ordered his female teammate to go after Sakura. He pointed his gauntlet to finish him off.

And was smashed to the ground by lee

"Yosh, my friends are you ok?" asked Lee as he jumped back to Sasuke.

"Wha—How did you find us?" Sasuke wondered

"I heard the sound waves and watched form above. When I heard from this unyouthful enemy I knew it was time to strike. Can you stand Sasuke?" said lee.

"Barely, you have to take care of mummy guy. Then we need to figure out what his other teammates does, because I think their techniques involve sound and a lot of it" he said.

"I see, rest for now Sasuke. I will handle this myself" he unwrapped his bandages and vanished. He appeared before Dosu and wrapped them around the gauntlet before smashing it, this time the metal twisted and broke as dosu yelled in pain.

The spiky boy charged at lee as he was blast away from dosu by some force.

"Heh, you fool, do you think you stand a chance against us two!" Zaku growled. He fired more air blast as Lee was force to dodge. Then zaku smirked before turning to Sasuke who was still disoriented and fired at him.

Sasuke raised his arms readied to take the hit. That was before lee appeared in front of him as the bowled cut boy coughed up blood, the back of his clothes was torn off. Lee had taken the shoot for him.

"Oi, what was that for!?" he gaped

"Nrrgh, to attack a comrade of the leaf when he is down, Gai sensei would never let that stand and neither shall I!" Lee declared. Zaku looked annoyed before helping Dosu up.

As Lee and Sasuke dealt with them Sakura was dealing the female member of their team. And she was good, especially with those senbon of hers it reminded her of Haku a bit.

"Is that all you leaf nin can do, run and hide!?" she spat.

"No, but this could" Sakura only had three explosive tags with her as she wrapped one to a kunai. She then place a simple genjutsu on it before going through the hand seals for the clone jutsu. Leaping form her cover all her clones followed and threw their Kunai.

The girl was forced to run from the hail as Sakura waited for the right moment. She threw to where the girl was about to go as it exploded the minute it hit the ground, throwing the oto genin into the air. Sakura peppered the girl with her shuriken as they dug and scrapped against her skin.

One more to the ... head should do it. As she was about to throw it her body suddenly froze, genjutsu!

"Eh, not bad pinky but not enough for me" said kin "My speciality is sound based genjutsu. Those senbon I've been throwing, there's a reason for it"

"Bells!" Looking at some of them she saw bells attached to them. There so many all around her ... she was trapped. Kin walked up the girl and grabbed her by the hair snarling as she tugged.

"Look at this, so smooth and silkily what kind of jutsu was this? The jutsu of shampoo?" Sakura cried out her hair was pulled up "So much more pretty than mine own and a disgrace to all kunoichi around. You focus more time on your hair then you do shinobi skills, I'll enjoy killing you"

"No ... I can't lose here. Sasuke, Naruto ... all of you have done so much to protect me when I have been a burden. No! I refuse to say in the way not helping out. I want to strength to stand with them as a team and that, starts today!"

Moving her chakra she was able to disturb the foreign chakra in her arm, grabbing her kunai she stabbed herself in the leg. The pain shatter the genjutsu and with the same blade slashed her hair off, surprising kin.

She proceed to stab the girl in the stomach, pushing the blade deep in as she heard the oto genin cry punching her in the face. But she didn't care, at that moment she was not weak and that made the difference.

Kin yelled in agony, tearing the kunai out and was ready to stab sakura in the head.

That was before her body stopped

"What a troublesome day" Shikamaru grumbled. Team seven turned to see team ten coming from the woodworks, Ino gave a nod to Choji as he charged to aid Sasuke/Lee. As for her, she gave kin a good haymaker to the face.

"Nice seeing you forehead, love the new haircut there" said Ino as she spat on the fallen oto genin.

"I-Ino?"

"The one in the same, I saw what you did there. Not like I was going to let my rival in love to die to a foreign shinobi of all, especially one with such poor taste as her. Come on get on up" she help pulled her old friend off the ground.

Dosu watched as team ten arrived. This was not good at all, now they had to fight to six people and plus he & kin were nearly out of commission. He understood his orders from Orochimaru ... but then again then would have another chance in the other parts of the exam. This idea was further supported when the bowl cut teammates arrived next

"I would step away from my teammate if I were you. I rather not waste my time against you" said Neji. "And what are you doing lee? This is the genin exam, we can't afford to play nice."

"Ah, sorry Neji but I could not let a fellow comrade die to these unyouthful oto-nin" said Lee

"~sigh~ Whatever, not like this rookie team even has a scroll. Must've already lost to someone else"

...

...

"Zaku, Kin, we're leaving now!" the oto team got up and quickly ran from the combined gennin force. Neji was tempted for a second to go after the oto team, that was until he saw that they had the wrong scroll. Seeing no other reason to be here he ordered his team to leave the area. Team ten also bid their goodbyes when Neji informed them of team seven's situation.

Once they had left Sasuke and Sakura were left alone.

...

"We're real lucky back there, when the world those oto nin come after you? Do you think they worked for Orochimaru?" Sakura asked.

"I have no idea" he said honestly "Why in the world would they be after me or the sannin for that matter?"

"... Maybe the sharingan" she offered. It did seem like the greatest reason, it was a powerful bloodline after all. As for the oto genin they probably wanted to kill any strong genin before going to the next stage. It was dark but it seemed to fit their whole thing.

"Maybe, I don't like the idea of a traitor like him after my eyes" he grumbled.

"Sadly you are right to be unhappy, and ten points to you Sakura" said Naruto as he sipped his coffee

...

"N-NARUTO!" Sakura cried.

"In the fles—OOFF" His aura flashed as Sakura punched him in the face, before grabbing him into a hug. "Um, yes I'm happy to see you to Sakura, and you to Sasuke ... unless you want punch me to"

"I want to stab you with a kunai you bastard. Made us scared for you there" he growled.

"Well as you can see I am quite fine and good work dealing with those Oto genin, I knew you could handle them" he said

"Wait! You were awake, why didn't you help us!?" Sakura looked at him angrily

"Two reasons Sakura. One, to see how you will handle dealing with enemies when I am not around. I won't always be there to help you guys. Second, I knew that team ten and Lee's team were coming here so I really did not need to worry as they would help fight off them" He answered.

"And what if they didn't? This exam doesn't mean we're allies with them" said Sasuke.

"No, but we were konoha shinobi being attacked by foreign ninjas. Would any fellow comrade just watched as we were attack? That's a fun little thing of patriotism. Not only that but we do not have any scrolls too so there is no reason for them to attack us. However, if they did try to attack us I would've stepped in" Naruto/Ozpin explained.

"That and I was talking to the Kyuubi" Both of them thought.

"Well you better not run off to do something crazy ok. We're team seven and we won't abandon a fellow teammates, never again" said Sakura "So next time you do something stupid know that we are coming with you!"

The immortal smiled as he felt the girl violently poke him "I will certainly take that in consideration next time. However, we do have a major problem, we do not have any scrolls to go further."

"Go further? What we need to do is warn the hokage about Orochimaru, I think that takes bigger precedence" said Sasuke.

"Yeah sorry about that, not going to happen. Look I know where you are coming from, but I can't take that risk its—"

"—That green fire over your eyes, isn't it? Is that why you are so scared to telling people about Orochimaru" Sakura accused of him. She saw as he winched from the accusation but did not defend himself.

"Partially, it is that they would want to dig deeper and deeper at who I am if the learned of it. And that brings questions ... that I do not want to answer, at all" He said "I'm sorry if it sounds vague or confusing but please believe me when I say that I hold many secrets that I rather like to remain that."

None of this teammates like his answer but he gave a pleading look to them, it was too soon to reveal everything yet. But after Orochimaru he knew that he needed to tell the truth.

"I'll explain later by the end of the chunin exam I will explain everything you want to know. I promise you two" he vowed. Both of his teammates still looked displeased but after some time nodded. He they want their answers and he would give them it.

"Well we still need to get some scrolls" said Naruto "Got any plans?"

"Why don't you use that weird eye flame thing?" said Sakura.

"Unless their is another S-rank missing nin then I think not" he chided.

...

"~sigh~ We're going to have to hunt for one aren't we?" Sasuke sighed. Naruto's smiled only reaffirmed that.

xxx Later xxx

"So Kabuto, it's a pleasure to see you here but sadly at the wrong moment" Naruto greeted the genin as Sasuke had a kunai at his neck and Sakura looked ready to pin him with shuriken. Ah look at his teammates, growing up like that when he wasn't looking. It brought a small tear to the immortal's eyes.

"Yes, I can feel that" Kabuto replied "Seriously I'm not here to kill you or take your scroll! I was hoping to join with you. Look I even have a spare set of scrolls on me too. No need to kill me!"

Naruto watched the older boy squirm as he looked through Kabuto's stuff. And he was right, there was a second complete set of scrolls for them. How convenient, very convenient. He saw no genjutsu on them and Sasuke confirmed it, he pocketed the scrolls and motioned his teammates to let go.

"So, how did you get separated from your teammates?" Naruto asked.

"Some kid with red hair with a gourd. That guy killed an entire team by himself and without a single wound, it was insane. When that kid saw us we had to split or die, I'm not even sure my teammates are even alive at this point" kabuto answered.

Naruto narrowed his eyes and after some time agreed, after Kabuto explained all that knew of gaara they allowed the senior genin into their group. They started their trek to the tower.

...

"So what happened to you two? Did you fight some other teams?" kabuto asked.

"One of them tried to kill us" sakura muttered.

"Yeah makes sense. Genin who have taken the exams before know it's better to take care of enemy teams then later. They also have been known to take more scrolls then needed, let's them trade for info and other sorts of goods, it's a real black market in the second exams" he said.

"Kabuto, you've taken the exams seven times already, can you tell us what we will dealing with in the later exams?" sasuke asked.

"Well I can try, usually the exams are split into three parts. A info gather part, survival part, and then combat. How each nation does it is different, I know back when kumo hosted the exams we had to do the combat part first, it was a free for all and nasty one at that. I barely made it to the third exam before failing. Since we did info and are doing survival then combat is next. It'll be one-on-one, probably, in defentinly in the public" He explained.

"Public? Like an arena?" naruto asked. Suddenly getting amity and other galadatory memoires, most of them ended with someone dying.

"Yeah, it's to let daimyos to see what their village can produce and other lords/ladies a chance to see if their forces are worth the cost. Like a cattle actuation just with more steel and chakra. Depending on who wins said village can see an uptake of earnings while others can lose theirs, it's especially embarrassing for a hosting nation if their teams lose since they make up the most of participants" Kabuto answered.

"Hm, so it is somewhat similar to amity afterall" Ozpin mused. Even back home the amity games were primarily a way for kingdoms to flaunt their powers without resorting to wars and made people want to spend their money at their kingdoms and not others. It ended up becoming a pissing contest for kingdoms/Academies to see who was best ... not their original attentions for the games.

But it didn't mean they didn't like to rub it in when they were the headmaster.

While the rest of the teammates talked to kabuto naruto released more of his aura out to sense anyone. After half an hour he suddenly sensed a couple of people in the trees. Looking around they're were nowhere to be seen, either they were hiding or genjutsu.

He activated his semblance

The rest of the trip to the tower was breeze.

As they made it to the tower they were greeted by the rest of kabuto's teammates. The two teams decided to work together when they saw the sign in front of the door. It took them some time before they realized they needed to open the scrolls together. Instead of stunning them it instead summoned Iruka-sensei who explained the reasons for the riddle before letting them in.

The hokage welcomed them

And so did Orochimaru, not that anyone else knew. Naruto narrowed his eyes at the Oto jonin sensei as said man nodded to him.

One of the shinobi showed them their rooms, they still had two more days before the exams were finished. Their room was rather simple with two bunk beds. Sakura and Sasuke took one while Naruto and his cane took the other.

...

...

...

"Orochimaru is in the building, he's the jonin sensei of the oto group" he said.

That broke the ice

Sakura and Sasuke shot up with their weapons in hand, fear very evident. "Calm down, he won't be doing anything to use, not while he is so close the hokage. If he tied to even use a blip of chakra and every person will be on his ass you two."

"B-But what if does something. There's a reason he is a missing nin you know" Sakura whispered, scared that he may be listening through the walls.

Naruto's eyes turned gold as he tapped the wall. A green wave of magic washed over the room, now no one was going to hear them. "Sakura, Sasuke, I promise you that Orochimaru won't come near to you two. Stay next to me and he won't hurt you at all."

That calmed their nerves a bit, even Sakura moved to take the bed under him and Sasuke looked annoyed about that.

Cute

But next came the hard part

"However, I should inform you of the man. When I was fighting him I was able to get some info from him, none of which was good. To start, the man apparently thinks he has the secret to immortality, yes the one that makes it that you are invincible and can life forever. Second, he wants the sharingan, he thinks that with it he can complete his goal of mastering every jutsu in the world" Naruto/Ozpin explain.

Sasuke was the first to react and clenched his eyes. Of course that man would want them, how many people would kill for such a bloodline anyway. Kakashi sensei himself warned of it, but for that man to go such lengths for it. The uchiha shivered.

"D-Do you think he has immortality" she trembled at the thought of a man achieve such a power. What could even defeat him if he had immortality?

"Potentially" He thought "No, I do not think so. Still that does not mean he isn't easily beat. Leave that to the pros ok?"

He watched his teammates nod.

Good, it will be the day the gods came back before Orochimaru got his hands on his teammates.

What kind of Immortal Wizard would he be?

xxx

The next two days were a breeze. They hadn't had much to do but avoid the oto genin, who seemed fine and whatever wounds now gone. Orochimaru, definitely snake guy. The rest of the teams filtered in as they saw gaara among them. Like before his team sticked close to him as they tried to stay away from most of the genin.

By the sixth day they were called. Every genin was at the arena as the hokage explained the reason for the chunin exams and offered anyone to leave. Kabuto was the only one to leave, when he left one of the other jonin stepped in. He explained due to the number of genin they will be having a one-on-one battle to thin out the crowd.

Everyone was forced to the stands. Then the first contestants were shown.

xxx

Sasuke vs Yoroi Akadō

The battle was rather short. At first Sasuke was surprised by the other genin's chakra absorption ability but after more fighting with him he realized the boy relied too much on the jutsu and left his other parts open. Using some moves and modifying it he showed off his new Lion's barrage to the genin, knocking him out in one go.

xxx

Zaku Abumi vs. Shino Aburame

Team seven smiled at this battle. It was nice seeing their old attacker by humiliated and defeated by shino. For the immortal he was happy to see the pain that boy was in, hey you don't live as long as he did without becoming a little blood thirsty ... plus he did try to kill his teammates and worked for orochimaru.

xxx

Misumi Tsurugi vs. Kankurō

This was an interesting one, when their sensei had explained about the puppet master of suna it got his attention. Seeing the puppet in action made him think of the robots that Atlas used. He never something so unique before, never had he heard nor seen any aura user do something similar, and if he had to be honest it reminded him ... Ozpin, of the days when magic was common. More specifically the creation of golems.

It became a short battle too when Misumi learned that his attempts weren't working.

xxx

Sakura Haruno vs. Ino Yamanaka

Team seven watched as their teammates went to fight her rival and old friend. The battle was ... emotional for the two friends. It allowed them to see the Yamanaka's signature jutsu in action but more importantly, to see their female teammate in action. Sakura had but up a good fight, especially a clan heir, and was even able to eject the blonde out of her.

In the end the battle took almost everything to defeat each other, it ended up as a tie. Neither them would become chunin, but their friendship on the other hand started its long journey to mending ... a much greater victory for Sakura.

xxx

Tenten vs. Temari

A fast and brutal defeat for Konoha. Tenten was simply given a bad hand, her opponent was designed to take care of her and she had no real counter against the suna nin. The medics quickly took her away as gai went to see if she was going to be ok.

xxx

Shikamaru Nara vs. Kin Tsuchi

Another victory for team seven as they cheered Shikamaru for defeating the kunoichi and taking care of one more threat from them.

xxx

Naruto Uzumaki vs. Kiba Inuzuka

Kiba was the first to react as he cheered for it. For him it was time to see if he could beat the blonde, knowing that he was strong the Inuzuka worked twice as hard to beat him and with his sensei's training he felt he had a chance now.

Naruto watched his name appeared, taking a sip from his cup of coffee. He was stilled annoyed with the taste, what was wrong with Konoha's coffee?

The two entered into the stage, under normal circumstances he would like to fight kiba to see how far he had become. However, with Orochimaru watching him Ozpin and he agreed to end this battle quick: No need to give the sannin any more clues of his powers. As the proctor explained the rules naruto used his other hand to grab a smoke bomb. When the man finished he threw it down.

And activated his semblance.

THUD

The smoke cleared away to show Naruto sipping on his coffee while Kiba & Akamaru were knocked out. A simple application of aura to the neck. Kiba's sensei groaned as one of the other jonin teased the poor women.

xxx

Hinata Hyūga vs. Neji Hyūga

After his match the next one was a surprising one. Only after did their sensei explain that neji belonged to the branch house did he became worry. Ozpin had used naruto's body to learn all about Konoha and that included the Hyūga. The existence of the branch house did not sit well for the boy, when he first learned about he wanted to march to the old man and make him do something or maybe even go their himself.

Ozpin stopped the boy in that mindset. The immortal knew the blonde hated the idea that a family would willingly enslave their own family members. It also sickened him too, but he reminded the boy that rash actions would do nothing and that they were immortal. They had all the time they wanted to chance the Hyūga clan. It did not make it any easier but the knowing they can stop it calmed him.

As for the match, brutal ... just brutal.

Hinata tried to hold off against her cousin but the boy was just out of her league and was beaten back with ease. It did not help the boy had an angry look and longer the battle went the less likely he was going to hold back. Hinata tried to put up a good fight but it wasn't much, he thought that was it and that match was over.

That was before he saw the boy try to kill her. If it wasn't the jonin stopping him he was pretty sure he would dusted him later, he watched as the medics rushed to take the heiress away. His teammates shot him a worried look.

Naruto glared at neji and took a sip from his coffee

xxx

Gaara vs. Rock Lee

So this was the power of suna's jinchuriki ... well fuck him. At first the battle seemed to be in gaara's favor, that was until Lee's sensei allowed the boy to go all out. The boy began vanishing for most of the genin as he started to pierce through that defense of his, heck he even got gaara shocked. And that was before the boy started using the gates.

Kakashi and Gai explained the gates to them as Lee was able to get more and more closer to gaara with each gate. The eight gates ... what an interesting technique, something that he should look in later. Seemed like a good to move when he was going to die, yeah he kinda wanted that it sounded really badass.

Looking at the suna nin they looked scared and for ... lee?

Looking down he realized why. The boy was getting tired, each gate was making lee more exhausted and more prone to mistakes. Bits of sand grain grasp his legs. Eventually the boy was forced to deactivate his gates after a brutal final attack, completely opened for gaara. The boy only had time to cry out in pain before they were crushed. If it wasn't for gai the boy would have died.

The red head looked annoyed but the orders from his sensei stopped him.

Naruto sipped from his cup

xxx

Dosu Kinuta vs. Chōji Akimichi

Sadly another defeat for Konoha, the akimichi heir allowed his emotions to cloud him after dosu's insults. And that sound device was fixed to plus the boy rather apt knowledge gave him everything needed to defeat him.

xxx

After the last battle the proctor ordered them to grab a slip of paper from a box. Each had a number that corresponded with another, that person is who they had to fight.

Naruto Uzumaki vs Neji Hyūga

Gaara vs. Sasuke Uchiha

Kankurō vs. Shino Aburame

Temari vs. Shikamaru Nara

The next exam would be arena battle. They would be split into two brackets with the victor of each battle moved up until the end. They were informed they had a month to prepare before the third exam started. They were all ushered out of the tower through one of the tunnels that led back to konoha.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's shoulder

"Sasuke, you're going to drop out of the exam"