Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters written here. They are own by their respective owners. Nuff' said.
Warning: This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.
Now on with the 24 chapter.
The Black Leaves
Chapter 24
Everybody's head snapped up when Ibiki's hand slammed on the desk. Baby woke up with a startled squeal and launched herself off Naruto and smashed into the ceiling. Seeing that there was no danger, the fission metroid silently sat back at her place on her papa's head.
"Time for the tenth and final question!" Ibiki repeated. "The rules for this question are as followed: You get one chance to answer the question correctly. If you answer correctly, you go on to the next stage of the exam. But if you fail, you and your team will never be eligible to become a ninja ever again! If you actually wish to stay a ninja, I suggest you quit now and try again next year."
The whole room became deathly silent as everyone soaked in the given information. After a few moments of silence, several hands slowly rose into the air and said genin were escorted out of the room. Naruto was going to shout out something about how Ibiki asking such a question was an insult to the blonde male; but Naruto suddenly found his mouth stuck closed by some symbiotic goo.
Before Naruto could complain, Venom answered with a short, 'Less competition' and allowed Naruto to figure out the rest. So, Naruto simply sat quietly as a few more teams left the room, but a slow movement next him caught his eye.
It was Hinata. She had her hand in the position to raise it and admit defeat. Fortunately, Naruto was right beside her to prevent her from making such an action. Before she could even left her hand past the desk, Naruto quickly grabbed her wrist and forced her hand back down. Hinata held in her sudden urge to look at Naruto and settled for simply blushing hard.
After a few more minutes of waiting, Ibiki slowly looked across the room, still filled with a large number of genin, and gave a big smile. "Congratulations! You all have just passed the first portion of the Chunin Exams!" He shouted loudly.
The whole room was silent for the next five minutes as the genin left in the room slowly absorbed what they just heard.
"What?" A Suna shinobi yelled as she jumped to her feet. Her most noticeable feature were the four short pigtails held in the back of her sandy-blonde head. Next to her desk was a large, folded up fan that appeared to be quit heavy if the slightly sagging wood floor was any indication.
Ibiki then went on about how the written exam was meant to serve as an indicator to how well the genin could gather information without getting caught. The final question was simply a test of how much determination and self-confidence each individual genin had in themselves and their teammates.
Just as Ibiki ended his speech a large black ball crashed through the window and quickly unfurled to reveal a banner. The banner was quickly pinned to the ceiling by a pair of kunai thrown by another jounin instructor.
Naruto did not pay a lick of attention to whatever the Hell the banner read. He was a lot more focused on the jounin instructor that had popped out of said banner. Automatically, Naruto noticed the woman's state of dress, a pair of blue ninja sandals with metal leg guards, A short tan mini-skirt, a just-as-tan coat, and finally, a thin fishnet shirt. Her whole body basically screamed sex appeal.
Naruto's eyes were already popping out of his head and Venom's perverted influence just added the copious amounts of drool spilling onto his desk. Most of the other males in the room had the same dumb-struck expression written all over their faces, but Naruto was literally drooling all over his desk and his unwritten exam paper.
Hinata did not approve of the woman. 'I should be the one causing Naruto to drool like that,' Hinata thought. 'I must have him see my sexy outfits. He'll definitely want to be mine when he sees me in that string.' Hinata then began to fantasies about all the naughty things Naruto could, and hopefully would do to the not so innocent Hyuuga.
"All right you little bitches!" The scantily dressed shinobi shouted. "I'm Mitarashi Anko and I'll be your instructor for the second portion of these chunin exam!"
"Your about ten minutes too early there Anko." Ibiki stated from behind the banner. Anko simply gave a deadpan look as she scanned all of the genin.
"You must be getting rusty there old man," She chuckled.
"Don't be so sure about that little Anko." Ibiki teased. "I think we got quiet a few exceptional genin this time around."
Anko gave a very unsettling chuckle before sending a scary look to the genin. "You don't worry old man. I'll make sure that their numbers will drop by over half when I'm done with them." This caused many of the genin to gulp in fear, except for Naruto, whose drool was now starting to spill onto the floor.
"Follow me you little runts!" Anko shouted before calming walking out of the room through the doors at the back of the classroom. Naruto quickly leapt onto his desk and sat there in an unusual squat; his eyes glued onto the Mitarashi's hidden ass. He then proceeded to leap a few times over the large wooden desk until finally landing on the hardwood floor.
Again, Naruto sat there for a moment, admiring the slightly swaying ass before him. He slowly rose up to his feet and quickly chased after the sexy kunoichi; his arms hanging limply at his sides as a trail of drool was all that showed where he was headed.
Back at the front of the room, Hyuuga Hinata was beyond livid. Her face was as red as it had ever been, and it was not caused by feelings of love, but of envy. 'Why can't Naruto-kun stare at my ass like that? My rear is just as nice as hers is. Dang it! I need to buckle down and show Naruto-kun how I feel about him' Hinata thought. 'I swear, that by the end of these exams, Naruto-kun will know of my feelings for him.' She swore to herself.
The rest of the genin made there way out of the exam room and followed the trail of drool leading out of the academy and through the village. The trail of mouth water came to a stop at a large forest completely surrounded by a large chain-link fence. There was a big sign that read "TRAINING GROUND 44! FOREST OF DEATH!" In large red letters. Many of the genin stopped for a moment to think about why the Hell they wanted to be ninja.
Naruto had finally snapped out of his perverted daze and was sitting on a large rock sticking out of the ground, waiting for the others to arrive. He turned his head to see a fist come flying right at him with a high, shrill voice screaming "PERVERT!". The fist made complete contact with Naruto's whiskered face. The force of the punch sent Naruto skidding across the ground for a few feet, until hitting the chain-link fence hard enough to cause a permanent bend to form in the fence.
Naruto slowly got up to his feet and gave a sheepish grin as he made his way back over to his teammates. He could tell by the very pale face Sasuke was sporting that he did not enjoy carrying Nightmare. Since Naruto left without her and Sakura made the excuse that women were too important to allow suffering back pain from carrying others. So, Sasuke had to carry the unhappy symbiotic princess.
"All of you little shits, listen up!" Anko shouted as she stood in front of the massive forest. "This is where the next stage of the exams will take place." She pulled out two scrolls, one with the kanji for Earth and the other with the kanji for heaven written on them. Anko then continued with how only one scroll was going to be giving to each team. But what team had what scroll was not to be known until the teams confronted each other in the forest. One final rule was that every team was forbidden from opening the scrolls until they had reached the tower or else be automatically disqualified.
When a team had one of each scroll, they were to make their way to the tower in the very center of the forest. Every team had one week to get a set of scrolls and make its way to the tower before a rescue team would be sent to search for them. But before all the "fun" could begin, every genin had to sign a form that basically said that the village was not responsible for any injuries or death that might occur within the Forest of Death.
After each member of a team handed in the release form, each team was to walk over to a covered gazebo and take one of the two required scrolls. Each team was then escorted to an entrance by a chunin and were kept watch over.
At thirty seconds before noon all of the genin teams had their scrolls and were at their assigned gates. Every single genin was as prepared as they possibly could be to survive the Forest of Death for a full week.
At fifteen seconds until noon, every chunin walked over to their respective gate and inserted a large key into the padlock that held each gate closed.
Naruto snatched his floating child out of the air and set her down on top of his head before slightly adjusting Nightmare on his back. "Hold on tightly you two," He said with a giant grin. "We're gonna' be hulling some serious ass!"
Five...
Four...
Three...
Two...
One...All the gates were thrown open at the exact same time and every genin team bolted directly into the giant training ground. Team Seven was no different. The instant those gates parted, Naruto jumped up onto a giant tree branch and started leaping, swinging and several other methods of rapid movement that don't even have a word. Sasuke and Sakura quickly followed their teammates as fast as they could.
Naruto's movements, as restricted as they were by carrying Nightmare and Baby, were quite a sight to behold. Not a single branch Naruto landed on moved a single inch and not a sign of his presence could be seen. Not even the leaves he passed showed any sign of disturbance.
Naruto had the world's largest grin plastered on his face as he traveled through the thick foliage. Baby was making a soft humming sound as she clamped down on her papa's head and enjoyed the ride.
Nightmare was letting out a soft, airy laugh as she slowly tightened her grip on the boy that was carrying her. Her burnt face slowly cracked into a pleased smile. She felt incredibly happy at the moment, even though she was in a very dangerous part of a still some-what unknown area of the world. Just feeling the wind go through her burnt skin, and the comfortable warmth of Naruto's back but the young symbiote at ease. She gently laid her head against Naruto's shoulder, snuggled in and breathed in his unique scent. It smelled very nice.
After a few more minutes of putting distance between them and the entrance, Naruto and his team finally settled down in a well hidden niche between two of the many gigantic trees that composed the Forest of Death. Not wanting to let go Nightmare kept her grip tight on her Naruto. Her intestine slowly slithered out of her open gut and slowly wrapped itself around Naruto's waist and pulled Nightmare closer to him.
For the next two days, Team Seven did nothing but search around the giant forest for another team with the scroll parallel to theirs with no luck at all. After searching for a few more hours, the members of Team Seven all met up to discuss what was to be done.
"Gah! This sucks!" Naruto shouted. He got a slap on the back of the head courtesy of Sakura.
"Shut up, stupid. Do you want every enemy ninja in this forest to hear you?" She hissed.
"Fine," Naruto grumbled as he pouted. Nightmare could not help but give a soft, airy giggle at Naruto's facial expression.
"We need to think up a better plan then just attacking any random group we come across. I say we make a trap." Sasuke suggested.
"I guess setting a trap wouldn't be that bad of an idea." Sakura agreed after thinking it over for a few minutes. "It depends on what the trap is though."
"Yeah!" Naruto shouted again and received another slap to the head. "It's gotta' have explosions and spikes and knives and a loads of stuff." This comment caused his other two teammates to look at him oddly. Naruto chuckled nervously, "You know. To make sure they're dead, or something." Sasuke and Sakura simply shook their heads in annoyance.
An hour or so later and the team's chosen area was completely filled with multiple traps all, obviously, concealed. Now all they needed was the bait and since Sakura beat it into her teammates that she was not going to be bait for anything, Nightmare ever so kindly agreed.
So, Naruto carried Nightmare into the center of the small clearing and gently set her down. Thinking quickly Nightmare fell backwards and positioned her body in such a way that her body automatically gave off that 'helpless' aura.
"Nightmare?" Naruto exclaimed as gazed down at her. Nightmare's glowing yellow eye looked up at Naruto and gave a cute and pitiful glance at the blond. Unfortunately for our lovesick princess, the oblivious blond simply got Nightmare into the 'helpless maiden' pose Team Seven had agreed was necessary for their trap to succeed.
When Nightmare was all set and ready, Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Baby all quickly got into their hiding places. Sasuke hid underneath a pile of rotting tree limbs Sakura hidden up in the canopy so that she could have an aerial view of the small clearing. Baby his in a small hole in one of the forest's many giant trees while Naruto simply pressed his back against a tree and used his symbiote's natural camouflaging ability to blend into the environment.
Now, they just had to play the waiting game. And so they did, for thirty minutes until a genin team finally arrived in the clearing. All three team members were wearing gas masks and had their headbands hidden so that neither friends nor foes could determine where they were from. The three ninja wore full body suits of, either black, gray, or tan coloration.
"Hehe," The tan ninja chuckled as he saw the 'helpless' Nightmare. "What have we got here?"
"Looks like a team decided to leave behind some weak kunoichi. I vote for playing with her a bit. I'm so fucking horny I could probably tear a whole through three inches of steel." The gray ninja said as he eyed Nightmare's hidden form.
"You idiots need to think with your heads and not your dicks," The apparent black clothed leader said as he casually walked over to one of the near invisible trip-wires Team Seven had placed to activate a trap. Using a kunai, the ninja slowly raised the wire so that his teammates could see. "Whoever set this shit up probably has several more surrounding the area. Spread out and search." He commanded.
The three enemy ninja slowly spread out and started searching the area; completely ignoring the now moving Nightmare. She did one final scan of the are and saw that that the rest of her team was ready. Using one of her burnt claws, Nightmare cut another wire hidden behind her. This caused a volley of kunai to come shooting out of a niche between a tangled mass of dead branches.
The incoming kunai startled the gas-mask team and caused them to jump around erratically to avoid the projectiles. The gray dressed ninja leapt directly in front of Sasuke's hiding place. Sasuke quickly threw his hands out and grabbed the enemy's ankles. He gave a sharp tug and pulled the guy's feet directly out from underneath him.
The guy did not have enough time to shout out to his allies before he was dragged underneath the brush pile and was knocked out with a quick punch to the back of the head. The other two did not have enough time to even notice their fallen teammate since one of them had hit another tripwire which caused a massive log to come swinging down from the canopy.
"Too easy." The black dressed ninja said as he and his tan teammate easily dodged the swinging mass of wood. The log continued past them then smashed into a tree that Naruto's team had previously damaged specifically for this trap. The tree slowly swayed for a moment before the sound of cracking wood echoed through the forest followed by the massive plant toppling over, directly on top of the two gas-mask ninja.
Naruto quickly dashed out from his hiding place and scooped up Nightmare before the tree could begin to fall. As said tree toppled over, it snapped several more hidden trip-wires that caused more kunai to come flying out of several concealed locations.
The tan team member leapt up above the area of conflict to avoid the onslaught of weaponry, only to receive a punch to the back of the head, thanks to one Haruno Sakura, hard enough to send him flying back to the ground. His body dug deep enough into the soft Earth that a large imprint of his body's position upon impact was created.
After dodging a multitude of sharp weapons for a good five minutes, the final ninja realized that he was all alone. But before he could even question where his teammates were Sasuke snuck up behind him and gave him a hard tap on the head with the blunt end of his kunai knife.
The team quickly searched the ninja and took their scroll; which just so happened to be the one that they needed, along with whatever weapons or equipment they deemed useful.
Just as they had finished looting their unfortunate prey the team heard an odd clapping noise radiate through the trees.
"Fufufufu." A disturbing laugh echoed through the darkening forest. "That was quit the impressive set up for ones as young as you." A female grass ninja slowly crept out of the shadows, clapping her hands as she gave the group an unsettling stare. Her eyes focused on Sasuke after her quick scan.
"Uchiha Sasuke, I presume?" She asked simply.
"And who are you to ask for my name?" THe Uchiha replied with an arrogant smirk.
The grass ninja's face split into a too big of a creepy grin. "Since I haven't been able to get to the rest of your clan. I might as well go for the second born of the clan's leader." She hissed as her abnormally long tongue slowly crawled out of her mouth and wrapped around a kunai knife she had at her waist. She picked the kunai up with her tongue just as an odd warbling noise started up from just below the grass ninja.
Venom quickly recognized the sound and forced Naruto to grab his teammates and toss them out of the way just as a massive wave kinetic force sent our blond ninja flying through several trees over a distance of a few hundred feet. The debris created from the blast all fell on top of the young genin, completely removing all visible sign of him even being under it all.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted as she and her fellow teammates picked themselves up and looked down at the path of destruction. Baby gave a terrified scream before zooming directly for where ever her father might have landed. Nightmare slowly turned to face the enemy ninja with an unholy glare in her glowing yellow eye.
With a loud growl emitting from her charred throat, Nightmare sent her intestine directly for the bitch responsible for harming her lord. The grass girl smirked and prepared to bat away such a pitiful attack. Or so she thought. Just before Nightmare's intestine reached her target; the organ suddenly expanded to a ten-foot diameter and was filled with countless numbers of wicked looking teeth.
The ninja just barely leapt out of the way of the massive organ before it smashed the very spot she was just standing on. 'What the Hell is that thing?' She screamed inside her head as she traced the long, slimy appendage back to the stomach region of the covered girl with the yellow eye.
"Heheh," Chuckled the spiky-haired teammate of the sound team that had attacked the Konoha ninja during the first part of the chunin exams as he and the rest of his team walked out from behind a few bushes. Zaku was wearing some odd orange-yellow padding on his arms, shoulders and whole upper torso that had a quilt-like pattern. He also wore two black gauntlets that had what looked like blue iron-knuckles but they were flat, glowing and were attacked to the gauntlets and the padding.
"These things are awesome!" He shouted as he pointed both gauntlets at the remaining members of team Seven. Nightmare snapped her head in the Oto ninja team's direction before retracting her intestine a bit before opening it wide once more and emitting a monstrous roar from the organ and attacking the true one for harming Naruto.
The Oto team separated and chose their respective targets. Dozu and Zaku went after Nightmare, who was now starting to spawn several Otherworld dogs that lacked any skin, ears or eyes. The Oto female, Kin dashed for Sakura with sinbon drawn and ready to be tossed into the Konoha konuichi's soft skin. Sasuke leapt up towards the Kasugakure ninja to confront her and to find out what her motives were.
Back at the pile of debris...
Baby was zooming excitedly over the large pile of splintered wood; screaming loudly in fear for her papa's safety. A slight shift in the pile drew Baby's attention closer to the spot. Suddenly, a badly damaged hand punched through a downed log. Baby gave a surprised screech before latching onto her daddy's hand with her two pairs of pincers and pulling as hard as her little body could.
Slowly, the rest of Naruto pushed through the debris and rolled off the wood and landed on the hard ground. He got to his knees and let loose a low groan of pain.
Now, this pain was not from the attack that he had just been hit with or from the trees falling on him. Oh no, this pain, was the pain of growth. Ever since Venom's sanity had returned, he had been 'saving' bits of energy every time he had feed. In fact, he only used what was necessary for him to stay in top condition and kept building up the remaining energy until it was needed.
What it was needed for was to transform into Venom's second form. Unfortunately, this also caused Naruto and Venom to become permanently bonded. If the two were to become separated, they would die within minutes upon separation. This also meant that both Naruto and Venom felt the pain of the sudden release of organic energy and the transformation it was causing to their body.
"Damn! You never said it would hurt this much!" Naruto growled as he hunched over and crossed his arms across his chest while clawing at his back.
'It's not a freaking picnic for us too!'
Venom shouted from inside his host. Naruto continued to push his head down until he was shoving it into the ground, gritting his teeth and groaning in agony.
Two small bloody spots appeared on the back shoulders of Naruto's scratched up jacket. The small red dots slowly began to increase in size and began to drip through his jacket and the droplets of blood rolled down Naruto's back. As the size of the bloody spots increased, so did two bulges that were beneath Naruto's bloody jacket.
The sound of the threads of his jacket straining and slowly tearing got louder as Naruto let out a massive roar of pain. Suddenly, the bulges ripped through Naruto's jacket and revealed that they were another pair of long arms! These arms were much longer than Naruto's initial set but were much, much thinner. They were not so skinny as to see bone, but had an unhealthy thinness about them.
Naruto used both pairs of arms to support himself as he continues to breathe heavily. He suddenly lurched back as his new pair of arms spasm wildly. The nails on each finger of his extra appendages slowly formed into sharp claws as another bulge appeared in the palms of both new arms. Naruto's extra arms continued to twitch and jerk violently as the bulges in the palms increased in size until two large, slightly curved blades suddenly burst through the skin in a massive spray of blood.
These new bone-blades had the coloration of freshly cooled steel and were as long as over half Naruto's natural height. Now, Naruto was panting and sweating hard as he used his normal arms and the very tips of his new bladed arms to hold himself up.
Expecting another violent addition to his body, but not feeling any, Naruto slowly rose to his feet. 'C-could you take over for a moment there, Venom?' Naruto asked his symbiote. 'I. I don't know how much longer I can last.' Naruto's legs suddenly gave out from underneath him but several tentacles sprouted out his gut and prevented his unconscious form from hitting the ground.
The tentacles forced Naruto's body onto his feet before quickly wrapping around his form and spreading out across his body. The transformation into Venom went as smoothly as usual, except for a few changes. Most of Venom's many teeth were now a little bit thicker with several in the back of his jaws curving slightly backwards.
His primary set of arms were now a little shorter than usual while his new set of arms increased in muscle mass. Each of the fingers on the two new arms spread out an even distance from each other with their claws growing as long as the palm-blades once were. Said blades grew larger and fused with the middle finger of the hand they were sticking out of. The fusion caused a large spike to sprout out of the top of each blade and caused them to become ridged and serrated. The rest of Venom's body remained relatively unchanged.
The black symbiote opened his large white eyes and smiled an unhealthily large smile, just as a giant snake suddenly appeared in front of him. Before Venom could enjoy a good scrap with the reptile, Baby took it upon herself to protect her daddy and charged at the serpent. Venom's smile became more proud then viscous.
"Play nice now, Baby."
He called after his child. "Daddy's got a buffet to enjoy."He leapt up into the foliage laughing loudly.
Back with Team Seven...
Sakura and Kin were going at it as hard as possible, but neither appeared to have the upper hand over the other. Kunai and sinbon littered the surrounding area along with large craters created from Sakura's impressive strength.
The combined efforts of Nightmare's intestine, the Otherworld hounds; skinless, nurses and several lurkers prevented any of Zaku and Dozu's attacks from even reaching the symbiotic princess. That is not to say that the Oto ninja did not get close. The only thing preventing Nightmare from summoning larger creatures like the Butcher or Asphyxia was the fact that her enemies had trapped her within a very small area with a floor composed of twisted and bumpy roots and vines. The terrain was much to rough for the Butcher to maneuver through and too small for Asphyxia or the Prayer to move without much difficulty.
High above the ground battle, Sasuke let loose an ear splitting scream as the false grass ninja chomped down on his neck. The false ninja revealed to be a tall white male Otogakure ninja that went by the name Orochimaru and who possessed astounding abilities that far surpassed anything that any member of Team Seven had ever witnessed before. During their confrontation, the Oto ninja extended his neck to reach Sasuke and missed several times. But when he successfully snagged one of the Uchiha's legs with an extended hand while standing on an adjacent tree; it was simple for him to bite down on his target's neck.
Just before he could dislodge himself from Sasuke, something grabbed his elongated neck and pulled both his head and body off of their respective surfaces and tossed him down to the Earth below. He fell down towards the two fighting kunoichi and righted himself before hitting the ground and landed on his feet. Orochimaru looked upwards just in time to see a pair of black, three-toed feet heading right for him.
The Snake-like ninja quickly jumped out of the way just as the pair of feet smashed into the hard Earth, causing a web of cracks to spread out across the area. Venom let out a mighty roar before swinging a powerful fist at Kin; who stepped back just in time to avoid it.
Sakura, seeing her chance to attack her female target, ran up to Venom and used his back as a springboard. She held her hands high above her head as she flew towards Kin. Venom did not see the end result at his prey had thrown three shuriken at him. The metal weapons imbedded themselves into Venom's soft flesh.
Venom let loose an angry roar and thrust his right arms forward, unleashing a torrent of black tentacles at his target. Orochimaru was able to dodge a few of the tentacles but was grabbed by a pair that managed to latch onto his ankles. Venom threw his arm down and thus caused the tentacles to slam Orochimaru onto the ground before lifting him high into the air and attempting to slam him down once again.
This time, however, the Oto ninja performed several rapid hand signs before thrusting his hands forward and unleashing a massive gust of air at point-blank range. The force of the blast caused Venom to release Orochimaru and attempt to hold his ground by digging his feet into the Earth. Unfortunately, Orochimaru used his new-found freedom to send a much stronger blast of air at Venom and sent the beast flying back into a thick tree; embedding his body deep into the wood with a loud snap of the spine. Venom remained motionless.
The pale ninja hesitantly walked up to the monster and looked it over. "Hmm. Pure black skin, three-clawed feet, giant white eyes, and massive fangs." He mumbled to himself as he got a little closer to Venom. "Could this be the secret being Danzo has been mentioning in his letters?" He got just a little closer to the black beast so that he could analyze it better.
The left side of the tree suddenly exploded into a mess of splinters as one of Venom's extra arm's tore through the wood and attempted to stab Orochimaru with one of his many long blades. The pale guy just barely got out of the way but still suffered a deep cut that ran across his chest. He stumbled back and lost his footing when a small black tendril shot out of the Earth and swiped at his ankle.
Orochimaru fell to the Earth and tried to put some distance between him and Venom just as the beast tore his form free from the damaged tree. He quickly grabbed the leg of the confused man with his left hand and yanked him closer as he raised his back right arm up in a threatening gesture. Venom pressed the very tips of each claw on that hand together so that the claws made a sharp half-cone point.
Venom thrust his clawed-hand directly into Orochimaru's chest, out his back and into the Earth directly below. The black monster gave a low and wicked chuckle as he gazed upon the shocked expression frozen on his pale face. His joy, however, came to an abrupt halt when his prey suddenly turned into wet mud and started to fall apart.
The symbiote violently tossed the mud clone away and let out an enraged roar before sniffing loudly in an effort to find his target. Unable to find the reptile-like sent of his prey, Venom gave another loud roar of anger before leaping up into the trees and returning back to where his host's teammates were.
Just a few feet away, Orochimaru slowly formed out of the tree he was hiding in and took quick look around to see if the coast was clear. He then leapt a considerable distance in the opposite direction the black beast had gone. Understand, Orochimaru was not scared by any means, just surprised. He did not even know the beast existed and thus it was impossible for him to plan on its sudden appearance.
He gave a growl of frustration as the pain from the gash on his chest started to attack him. He paused in his escape and ignored his reddening outfit; he'd worry about it later. Right now, all he knew was that he needed to have a little 'talk' with Danzo. The old warhawk never mentioned the sheer tenacity that the beast could possess. Sure, Danzo mentioned what he looked like and it's ability to cling to surfaces and it's tentacles. But he never mentioned it's strength, it's durability, or the two freaken arms sticking out of its shoulders! With even the short scuffle he had against it; Orochimaru could tell that there was a lot more to the beast that Danzo ever mentioned in any of his letters.
Oh yes. He was going to have a very long talk with Danzo.