Strength, Power and Victory

Naruto/Temari fic

Darksider82

"Speech and Jutsu"

"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"

IV

Naruto and the rest of Team Seven had never felt so outmatched and outclassed. The team were never going to work in the first place and now here they were up against one of the most notorious Shinobi in the World; Who happened to be from their own village to be precise. Their opponent was Orochimaru no Densetsu Sannin or Orochimaru of the Legendary Trio.

Orochimaru smirked and licked his lips as he wove a rat seal "Fear of Lonliness." This was one of his own illusions or genjutsu. It made the subject of the illusion that they were all alone and with that he began to play with his prey, he stopped. One was the Jinchuriki of the Village; incapacitate, reduce chakra available to him a 'Five Elemental Binding' would do nicely. The pinkette no-one would miss her. Unfortunately he needed Sasuke-kun in the finals so a slow acting poison would suffice.

With his game plan intact he decided, claim his prize first. A criminal, scientist and monster he would be. But one thing that he wasn't was that lf organised. He knew how strong a Sharingan was even a maturing one. 'Fuuinjutsu Bite of Darkness." The Snake Sannin's neck extended and it clamped down on the Uchiha before anyone could contemplate what was happening.

Naruto drew his blades and channelled his chakra into them. Orochimaru had to fight a quick look of surprise off his face at the advanced Chunin skill. "Impressive, Naruto-kun...I know who you are or rather what you are. Because of that I have to disable you." Orochimaru vanished with the speed of a Kage, he learnt via his spies that Naruto could out run Chunin with ease, out smart Jonin so he needed to utterly crush the brat before the brat knew what hit him or even worse bring the fox out. He made one small miscalculation as he reappeared he struck out with an open palm strike designed to drive the wind out of the diaphragm. "Bunshin Daibukha!"

Orochimaru's eyes widened as the clone detonated with the force of a roll of Jonin class paper bombs. Naruto smirked as he caught the Snake Sannin by surprise "Nice technique Jinchuriki-kun. But not good enough." Naruto bent double as the strike slammed into his diaphragm, but he swung his left tanto, encased in chakra straight into Orochimaru's arm and inflicted a savage gauge. Not enough to remove the arm but definitely enough for Naruto, to throw several kunai.

Orochimaru realised slightly too late what was on the end of the kunai and wrapped around their hilts...paper bombs "Kunai Daibukha Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!"Orochimaru's eyes widened and a memory flashed from his subconsious. Naruto's fighting style reminded him of the Uzuki siblings. Uzuki Yugao had trained under Uzumaki Kushina if he remembered correctly and their was her brother. He couldn't remember who he trained under as a genin but all he remembered of him was the fact that he had numerous misdemeanours against him for having 'above his level equipment' particularly paper bombs, explosive tags and numerous kunai and blades. He was also very skilled with Futon and Katon Kenjutsu.

"Tell Uzuki Hari, I said Hi. Gogyo Fuin!" Naruto couldn't dodge this and he blacked out from the pain as the seal slammed into existence over his original one. Naruto blacked out and Orochimaru capitalised by grabbing him by the lapels and bodily threw the boy into the forest with his Sage Mode Enhanced Strength. He turned on Sakura and vanished in a sealless shunshin and reappeared next to Sakura, the only trace of damage on Sakura was small indiscreet cut but in it contained a deadly poison.

Naruto slammed into a tree, cracking it, peeled off and landed on the forest floor with a thump. Below him, one of the three teams from Suna were passing by "Gaara, Kankuro go three kilometers north and wait five minutes for me." Instructed the blonde. "Fine, five minutes only. Kankuro come." Gaara rasped before levitating up on a cushion of sand leaving Kankuro to scramble up the tree.

Temari had heard the crash and decided to investigate and she also needed the loo. Upon finishing her buisness she found the crumpled Naruto and smirked "A Konoha-nin, information for the plan and potential bait for the scrolls." Temari grabbed Naruto by the scruff of his jumper, grunting with effort got him on her shoulder and with some skill and effort was bounding through the trees upto where her brothers and teammates were waiting. "Why have you brought this weakling?"

"Because Kankuro, he's one of Konoha's. He may be able to give us information about potential weak spots." Kankuro stared at her and Gaara nodded. Tendrils of sand rushed out of the gourd, wrapped around Naruto and suddenly Gaara's eyes flashed in panic. Mother was trying to break free! "LET ME FEED ON HIS BLOOD! THAT BOY IS LIKE US!" Gaara focused his will and forced his demons spirit back with a mental conversation 'His blood will be better spilt in combat.' Naruto stirred to find himself looking at the binds of sand and the three genin.

"Who are you lot? I know you're from Suna." Naruto said only for the sand binds to push him into the tree "We ask the questions." Growled the boy in black. Naruto looked at the three of them and thanks to his tutoring he knew who he was up against; a puppeteer, wind rider and a sand user...Only the Kazekage's of Suna were known to use magnet styles meaning the red head was related to the Kazekage.

Their eyes widened "Impressive for a genin to know that much about us." Naruto smirked "My sensei's fought Suna-nin and alongside. He doesn't know your jutsu but he knows your specialisms...Now what do you want?"

"Information on Konoha and your scrolls." Naruto grinned slightly "You got the worst genin. I'm the deadlast and thus I know nothing about Konoha's defences and as for my teams scroll they're kinda destroyed. We just ran into Orochimaru." The Suna's teams eyes widened in fright; they knew of Orochimaru, you'd have to be under a rock not to. Naruto noticed that they knew something else. Naruto closed his eyes and through the layers of clothing he had detected a small microphone, thankfully when he had been slammed into the tree, he'd ridden the attack so that he didn't break the microphone.

(ANBU)

Deep in the 'Compound' and 'Playground' Konoha's dreaded guardians were running around...No they were too dignified to run; rather moving at a brisk pace. They were the ANBU Blackops. One of their training grounds was The Forest of Death, hence why they had microphones and camera's. "Neko! Where are the three squads of jonin to be sent into the Forest! Where's the runner that's supposed to notify the Hokage! The runners message to the Hokage and our genin sensei is 'Snake in Trees'! Neko stared at Panther in shock. She nodded and grabbed the nearest ANBU "Inu, Hokage- Sama, Sensei's 'Snake in Trees! Three hours ago."

That set a fire under the ANBU's backsides. Neko was the second in command of the ANBU. She had never been snapped at during her time in the ANBU and the rest new that. Add the fact she had just casually handled Dog; A talented tracker from the Hyuuga clan like a genin spoke volumes about the situation. "Crab, alert the sensei's. Crane tell the Jonin...Crab tell the message if Inu cracks. Also tell him I apologise for the handling but not..."

"No need Neko-Taicho. No need to tell Hokage-sama as he's here." Inu took a breath "HOKAGE-SAMA'S ON THE GROUNDS! LOOK BUSY! IF BUSY CARRY ON!" At that moment Inu followed by the Hokage entered the ANBU command. On principlethe ANBU either knelt or stood at attention "As you were. What are we doing about Curing the Snake?"

"Three ANBU squads are moving in on Miterashi Anko; Crab and Crane are either alerting the sensei's and jonin or the shinobi council. Not the elders...If they ask well Crab's basic written and verbal responses will suffice." Stated Neko.

The Hokage smiled Akimichi Yatsuhasi aka Crab was a plain shinobi politically. His main ways of making his point across were with his titanic strength and tetsubo or his doton jutsu which he used in lieu of his Kekkei Genkai which he struggled with. No-one in the Akimichi clan minded about his lack of ability to manipulate the abundance of Yang Chakra in his system. What he lacked in control of Yang, he made up for it with a Senju Tobirama skill over Doton. His file was littered with misdemeanours, he was known to only address a subject once and only going over it if the Sandaime ordered it. If one of the council ordered or tried to he simply stated 'Didn't get the memo about the Hat exchange'. Or 'Didn't get the memo'.

The Hokage grinned; dealing either with Crab and Naruto always made his day feel better. On some days were excellent because he had both of them to deal with. "I wonder how many people will take offence to Crab today?"

(Naruto and Sand)

The Sand siblings looked at each other, they hadn't recieved much information out of their prisoner. They were about to finish him off when a loud voice screamed "LEAF WHIRLWIND!" Naruto passed out as he felt something crunch.