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 second chapter.

The Black Leaves

Chapter 29

"Welcome home, Lord Venom." Annette said softly. Naruto's eyes nearly popped out of his head at the magnificent sight before him. He and the symbiotic women were all standing on the very edge of a steep cliff that led down to a massive canyon. The rocky walls of the valley were covered by giant tentacles that were at least the width of fully-grown redwood trees and continued onward into the surrounding woods. But that was not all that was covering the high cliff walls.

Hundreds of upon thousands of varying sized holes covered the many cliff faces with symbiotes of every shape, size and color crawling in and out of the holes as well as all over the cliffs. Looking further down the canyon, Naruto's mouth fell open. Below was a massive village that spanned all across the canyon as far as Naruto could see and around the bend of the canyon were countless numbers of buildings of various sizes, shapes and building materials. All covered in more symbiotic tentacles. A large river ran the length of the canyon and split the massive village in half. The streets, the river and even the buildings had symbiotes all crawling about and going on with they're own lives.

"Please follow us to our home, Lord Venom. We have much to do before we have to send you back." The symbiote leader said sweetly before leaping off the cliff and falling down to the village below. The other women quickly followed her while Naruto continued to just stare at the village. It took the blond boy a few seconds to realize he was all-alone before he took a running leap off the cliff and went directly into a spectacular free-fall. Nobody paid him any attention as he rapidly neared the hard Earth below.

He saw the women land relatively gently, but being the show-off he is, Naruto would not go for anything less then showy. He performed a forward flip before slamming into the ground, on his feet, with enough force to cause large cracks to appear in the ground and a large cloud of dust to burst out. This only caused a few heads to turn for just a moment to see what had happened, but that only lasted for a second before the symbiotes returned to their daily lives. Naruto was a little disappointed at the lack of attention.

Annette and the others shifted into their symbiotic forms and began to make there way across the massive symbiote village. Every few steps, symbiotes that the group passed would stop and great their leader. Naruto was about to do the same when Revenge told him to stop.

"It would be best for you to not show exactly who you are just yet, out Lord. We don't want to draw a crowd quiet just yet."

Naruto only nodded in agreement.

Naruto was still in awe at the various types of buildings that made up the village; it was nothing he had ever seen before. He had to be careful not to get lost and separated from his group. To be honest, the blond kid was a little happy at the lack of attention. At least he wasn't being seen as some sort of monster, especially since he was in a village full of monsters.

They continued to walk at a slow pace as the women gave Naruto a relatively quick tour of the village. They eventually came upon a large hole in the ground right in the middle of the village. The women all started to climb down into the hole and Naruto was quick to follow. The large hole was well lit with these yellow glowing crystals sticking out of the walls. Naruto could see countless other tunnels sticking out around the massive vertical tunnel he was currently crawling in. Most of the walls were covered in symbiotic matter, only the crystals and the direct earth they were connected to were left uninfected.

They continued to crawl straight down before the tunnel started to curve. The massive tunnel continued to twist and turn in every direction for at least a mile in several different directions before finally becoming straight vertical again. Just as Naruto was starting to get bored he saw a light at the end of the tunnel and quickly caught up to his group. When they approached said light; Naruto was shocked to find an even larger village inside a gigantic cave; with more buildings, holes and tentacles. The main thing that truly stuck out though was a massive pod completely made up of symbiotic matter. Billions of tentacles and smaller tendrils anchored the massive pod to the walls and ceiling while keeping it just a few feet off the ground. The sheer size of the organic matter took up a very large portion of the massive cave.

"Welcome to the center of our hive, Lord Venom."

Empress said in a cheery tone. She and the others leapt down and started to make their way to the mass of symbiotic matter. And again, they were continuously stopped by village members greeting their leader. Finally, they all made it to the massive pod.

Just below the pod were two large symbiotically enhanced gorillas standing underneath a small hole at the very bottom of the pod. Obviously, these two where the guards to the entrance of the pod.

Empress leapt up through the whole, again followed by her female companions. When Naruto tried to enter, the two giant symbiotes blocked his path and growled furiously at the young teen. Naruto put up his hands in a none-threatening gesture, but the gorilla's were having none of that. They reared up on their hind legs and let out threatening roars.

One of them raised its massive arms high above its head and was about to bring them down when a single tentacle wrapped around both arms. The beast swiveled it's head to see Empress' head sticking out of the pod. "Please do not harm our guest, he is very, very important."

The two beasts gave low growls of annoyance before slowly moving out of the way and allowing Naruto to make his way into the massive pod. The inside of the mass was nothing more than a maze of tentacles with random chunks of metal suspended into the air. They moved towards the center of the mass, where Naruto saw a large empty 'room' made up of intertwining tentacles.

"This is our chamber, Lord Venom. This is where we sleep, mate and make our most crucial decisions."

Empress chirped. Naruto just barely had a chance to look around the large chamber before he was literally shoved right out of the pod. His eyes widened in shock as he began to plummet to the hard ground below.

He simply performed a flip and landed in his feet before looking up at where he was shoved to see Empress sticking her head out. "Sorry about that. But we have just a teeny bit of work that needs to get done." She said while her tongue stuck out. "Why don't you go out and explore later. You'll know when to come back."

Naruto couldn't think of a way to verbally express his dissatisfaction at the news. So instead, he sulked before turning around and walking in a random direction. His goal, simple: Find a restaurant that sold ramen.

Naruto started his search by just randomly turning down streets, peeking into holes and just general wandering around. He found dozens of restaurants that sold mostly chocolate and meat; a few of which combined the two. But not a single place sold ramen. This severely depressed Naruto; how could there be a village that did not have ramen?

'This is no heaven.'

Naruto thought to himself. 'This is Hell.' The blond was about to burst into tears when a slight scent reached his nose. He instantly perked up and dashed in the direction of the wonderful smell. Naruto ran through streets, alleyways and over a few buildings before he saw the source of the delightful scent.

After only a few minutes, Naruto found it. A small little food cart with the word RAMEN painted on a sign in big red letters. He quickly jumped down from he roof he was perched on and slammed down a handful of crumpled bills onto the cart.

"Give us the largest bowl you've got!" Naruto nearly shouted. The man operating the food cart looked down at the money then back at Naruto before giving a big smile. "Not a problem kid." Naruto's smile matched the man's in size.

Naruto's smile never faded as the man prepared his food, all the while whistling a cheery tone. "Never seen you around here. What's your class?"

Naruto stared at the man for a moment. He had completely forgotten what level of symbiote he was and Venom just did not care. The man noticed Naruto's silence and glanced up at the boy without slowing down in his preparation of the meal.

"Um..." Naruto tried to quickly think up something to say. "We are at our second form." He spoke nervously before pulling out is extra arms to show to the man.

"We can see that kid." The man looked Naruto up and down. "We are going to assume that you two have been bonded for only a short time. So we re a little surprised that such a small body was able to withstand such a transformation without being torn apart."

Naruto stared at the man for a moment. 'WHAT!' He shouted at his inner demon.

'Oops. Did we forget to mention that you could have died from the transformation? Oh well. No harm no foul.'

Venom chuckled sheepishly. All Naruto could do was mentally kick the black symbiote for not telling him how much of a threat the transformation could have been to him.

"Well anyway. Here is your order kid." The man said while placing a massive bowl filled to the brim with ramen. Naruto salivated at the sight of the large bowl and quickly dove into his meal. He ate with the sort of gusto that one would expect from a starving man.

The very second Naruto stopped eating, he received a mental message from Empress telling him to return to her chamber. And so, the boy traversed his way through the maze-like city to the massive symbiotic pod.

When he arrived, he was greeted by the smiling symbiotic women. Empress gave a nod to Revenge, who crawled further upwards into the pod, before she swung her antenna over her head and let out a massive 'broadcast' for all symbiotes in the city to gather around her chamber pod. In a matter of minutes, the whole cave was filled with every symbiote in the massive city.

Every inch of the ground, buildings, walls, ceiling and the lining of every tunnel were filled to the brim with symbiotes. Even the air was thick with airborne symbiotes zooming and floating about.

Empress pulled Naruto up through the maze of her home, out the near top of the structure where a metal balcony-like platform was being held up by more symbiotic tentacles. Seeing their leader appear caused the sounds of conversing to hush slightly. It was still rather loud, but instead of conversations about random going ones, the conversations had shifts to wondering what was so important that Empress had every single village symbiote gather.

"Today is a great day for our kind!"

Empress announced loudly, causing a hush to fall across the crowd. She pulled Naruto in front of her so that all could see the blond teenager. "Our great Lord Venom has returned to us; with all of the power and sanity he had before his mournful departure years ago."

The wave of chatter washed over the crowd while cries of blasphemy erupted from several symbiotes. Empress just looked over to Naruto and nodded her head. The blonde stepped forward and raised his fists high into the air. He leaned back until his upper body was almost at a complete forty-five degree angle.

Right before his fists smashed into the ground, Naruto transformed into his symbiotic form. The echo of fists against metal was quickly followed by Venom releasing a powerful roar that echoed all through the massive city. The echo slowly died out and all that followed was complete and total silence.

Venom stood back up and grabbed the balcony's railing. "We're home." Again, silence suffocated the cave.

Without warning, the cave exploded with the roar of cheering, praise and general sounds of happiness and joy. Venom's wicked smile grew considerably as he chuckled at his reception. He turned to Empress; "Our host never go a reaction like this before of this magnitude. He's bouncing off the walls right now with excitement. Haha"

Venom turned back to the crowd with a massive smile. He gripped the railing and leaned back before launching himself into the air and over the still cheering crowd. Airborne symbiotes zoomed around him while those on the ground made a space for him to land. The very second he landed an orange and black, and very female, body slammed into him. His arms instinctively wrapping around the figure while his extra set instinctively created a sort of clawed cage around the pair.

"Daddy!"

The female symbiote said loudly. Venom slowly pulled her body away from his and set her down on her feet. The female's hair was a mix of black, dark blue and purple while her skin was such a dark shade of purple that it was almost black. Her clawed hands along with her forearms were a much lighter tone of purple along with her thin spider symbol that wrapped across her torso.

"Daddy!"

She said again. "It's us, your daughter Agony." She said with a massive smile. Before her father could respond, she quickly grabbed his hand and forced both of them through the slowly dispersing crowd of symbiotes. "We have been waiting so long for you to return. We got some good news Daddy; we have completely bonded with our host. In fact, we are our own host."She said smugly.

Venom gave a blank stare at his daughter to show his complete lack of understanding of what she said. Agony chuckled before giving the quick rundown that she had been with her one host for so long, that their souls have fused together and are all now just one being. Naruto still did not understand but decided against getting a lecture and simply nodded in understanding.

With a smile, Agony lead her father through the massive underground section of the city and towards one of the side tunnels that was built attached to the ground. Venom was lead inside and the two traveled a short distance before the relatively small tunnel opened up into a large cave. The floor of the cave was void of any rocky structures except for a massive pool of orange-yellow gel. The pool was encompassed by the rocky floor, which had large lawn chairs everywhere with symbiotes relaxing on them.

Above the pool was a large yellow crystal that illuminated the whole cave in a gentle glow. Before he could ask what the place was, Agony pushed her father backwards into one of the chairs before giving a large smile and skipping off to the opposite side of the cave where the entrance to a small tunnel could be seen, with the entrance to said tunnel having strings of beads hanging down.

Not ten seconds later, Agony returned with a skinny orange male symbiote and an orange female symbiote. The three ran up to Venom and the male instantly started to talk.

"Ah, ah! Lord Venom! We are zo honored to have you here at our grand feeding

und relaxation chamber. Pleaze, pleaze enjoy yourzelf and feed az much az you pleaze."

The female symbiote decided to speak up in a rather refined English accent. "Oh yes. Please enjoy your stay for however long that may be. We will be happy to accommodate any of your needs, Lord Venom." She then slowly walked away with a noticeable sway of her hips. The male symbiote was quick to follow.

Venom took note of how Agony stared after the other female while slowly licking her fangs. She looked over to her father and smiled, "We are attracted to women Daddy. So you don't have to worry about us raping you." She ended with a smile.

Venom was about to respond when Agony grabbed a fistful of his shoulder and pulled until a tentacle formed from his flesh. The symbiotic lord was about to protest when his daughter gave a harsh shush before placing the tip of the tentacle in the brothy pool. All thought of arguing left Venom's mind as satisfaction coursed through his body.

Agony smiled, "Enjoy the feeding Daddy. We want you to get as strong as you can. You'll need it for serving the Horde and whatever Lady Empress has planned." Venom did not feel like even talking and simply nodded before leaning back in the lawn chair and relaxing. Agony gave her father a friendly pat on the shoulder before sauntering out of the cave.

Venom slowly closed his eyes as he enjoyed the coolness of the cave and the satisfying feeling of absorbing nutrients. In fact, he could feel himself slowly falling asleep. Seeing no reason not to, the black symbiote let himself fall into blissful slumber.

Venom woke up several hours later to someone nudging his bulky shoulder. It was Empress along with her daughter and Revenge.

"Are you ready, Lord Venom?"

Empress asked with a somewhat neutral tone.

"Ready for what?"

"To help our daughter of course. We have found that a burnt, and still living, symbiote can be healed by either absorbing other symbiotes,"

Empress said casually. Venom quickly leapt out of the lawn chair and was about to roar out his protest when his leader held up a hand to silence him.

"Please, allow us to finish. The other option is for Nightmare to feed off a symbiote that is feeding itself. Unfortunately, this usually ends with the symbiote dying from lack of nutrition. But, considering how much of a powerhouse you are, Lord Venom; we think that you'll be able to handle the latter procedure without suffering the...severe side-effect."

Before Venom could speak, Empress twitched an antenna and Venom gave a simple nod before creating several tentacles and dipping them all in the nutrient broth. Empress looked over to her daughter ad gave a nod. Nightmare slowly approached Venom before allowing her tentacle like intestine out and gently placing the leech-like opening to his chest.

Suddenly, Venom doubled over holding his gut while letting out a loud growl. What he felt could not accurately be described as pain, but more of a need and lack of satisfaction mixed in with a blinding hunger. He could feel the combination of nutrients and his own energy being drained by the young female symbiote, and he did not like it one bit.

He could feel himself getting weaker and weaker as he was being literally eaten alive. He looked down at his hands and saw his body slowly getting thinner and thinner before splitting into tendrils and slowly giving way of Naruto's hands. He fell back into the lawn chair, this caused Nightmare to fall forward and land ontop of him. He tried to move his arms but found that they felt less like limbs and more like lead weights tied to concrete blocks inside a dumptruck.

Slowly, everything faded to black. 'You'd think this wouldn't happen since I just woke up.' Where Naruto's final waking thoughts. Once again Naruto awoke several hours later, this time with a fully awake Nightmare straddling his waist. The only visible difference Naruto could see that had occurred to the burnt girl was that she now had two yellow eyes wide open. The other four were still seared shut.

"Nightmare? How are you feeling?" Naruto asked with genuine concern. He actually saw Nightmare give a full, real smile. She moved her arms up so that Naruto could see and moved every single one of her fingers in a fluid and painless fashion. Her smile grew as she saw Naruto's eyes widen. Her lips were still connected together by thin pieces of flesh at several places, but she was able to move her mouth without showing any signs of pain.

"It doesn't hurt?" Naruto nearly shouted as he sat up quickly. Nightmare nodded while her smile grew and grew. Naruto tried to wrap the girl in a hug, but instead found himself sliding out of the lawn chair and falling to the cave's rocky floor. He found that he could not move his body. He heard Nightmare giggle as she looked down at him from her position on the lawn chair; another person's giggling drew Naruto's eyes over to Empress' who had a large smile that was rare for any form of life to see.

"We wish to thank you dearly, Lord Venom. It would appear that the 'operation' was a near complete success. While our daughter is not completely healed, thanks to you her mobility has returned. She will still need to depend on the Otherworld for protection since her flesh still cannot produce any sort of offensive or defensive capabilities. We are sorry but the procedure drained a large amount of your own energy, even with you feeding on the nutrient broth. So, we will leave you here in the care of the owner of this fine eatery and his daughter."

Naruto could have sworn he saw his leader wink to said owner's daughter off in the distance. This did not give Naruto any confidence in his virginity staying intact by the end of the month.

So, for the next several days Naruto slowly regained his health and energy by feeding off of the large vat of broth. Nightmare never left his side the whole time. After the blonde finally felt back to full health, he made his way to Empress' home and asked the alien woman if and how he was to train for his match against Neji.

She actually laughed at the kid. "Train? Lord Venom, you have no need to train. You could tear apart a train without much effort already." She laughed as Naruto just gave her a deadpanned look. Seeing the male host's expression, Empress gave the motion of rolling her eyes.

"If you wish to become stronger, then we suggest you go out and start consuming everything you can. We hope you are aware that, that is how we gain more power."

Knowing that there was potential for him to become stronger; Naruto could not possibly pass up the chance. Luckily for the wildlife surrounding the symbiotic empire, Venom was able to convince his host to actually explore more of the village before going on a feeding spree. So, Naruto explored more of the village.

He found that most all of the buildings were restaurants, grocery stores or shops of some kind. A large majority of the caves and tunnels lead to homes and other businesses ranging from simple convenience style shops to large mansion style caves. Leaving the main chamber, the massive entry tunnel had smaller tunnels that lead to caves that were used for food storage, food harvesting, nutrient broth manufacturing, birthing chambers and even medical caves.

When he finally made it to the upper section of the hive, he found the place to be the opposite of that of the inner sanctum. Most all of the buildings were homes and medical centers while only a few of the buildings were used for business. Traveling through the upper sector, Naruto discovered more massive holes all along the canyon that most likely lead to similar tunnels and caves. He wisely avoided the highly populated portions of the village for fear of being attacked by fans.

Unfortunately, that was almost impossible. With every step Naruto took, a mass of symbiotes would swarm around him and act, well, like over-eager fans. Several times Naruto had to talk his way out of fighting over-eager young symbiotes that have only heard of him. He was able to get most of them to think twice about challenging the symbiote lord. Unfortunately, one arrogant kid would not take 'no' for an answer.

"Don't ignore me!" The brat shouted as Naruto simply walked away. The kid was with a small group of other young symbiotes and was pissed that this supposed symbiote lord was just ignoring him and making him look like an idiot in front of everybody. The kid's arrogance and anger got the better of him and he tried to surprise Naruto by suddenly launching himself at the blond.

In one swift motion Naruto turned around and slammed his fist onto the back of the youth's head. The kid went from horizontal to vertical to ground in less than half a second. Naruto placed his foot down on the brat's head to hold him down.

"We are called Lord Venom for a reason kid. We are light years ahead of you. It would be wise if you learned your place." He pressed down a little on the kid's head to drive his point home before heading off in a random direction.

It was actually harder for Naruto to avoid the fangirls than anything else. Everytime he would turn a corner, a scream of his name followed by the sounds of feet and claws hitting the ground and walls as a horde of the hungry beasts would charge. Luckily, Naruto was able to get away from the every time, but it took a lot out of him to do so.

It was late into the night when Naruto finally ran out of juice. He was on the ground, against a wall, and surrounded by the horny monsters. Drool dripped heavily from their jaws, their eyes glowing with an extreme lust. The female symbiotes slowly approached their target slowly, savoring the moment before the 'kill'. All Naruto could do was look up in fear.

Just as the predators were about to leap in for the kill, a familiar blue shadow leapt in front of the downed Uzumaki. He instantly recognized the figure as Payback. The female symbiote held a hand forward in a 'halt' fashion. Due to her high status, the other symbiotes reluctantly obeyed. She then made a shoo-ing motion and the horde of females slowly dispersed; all grumbling or growling stuff about unfairness.

After they had all left, Naruto looked back up at Payback, her back still turned to him. "Thanks Payback. We've heard how bad human fangirls are, should have known that symbiotic fangirls are twice as bad." He chuckled the last part. He stopped chuckling when he noticed that Payback was not talking or moving.

Naruto was about to ask what the problem was, but was interrupted by Payback's rump shoving itself into his face. Naruto tried to shove the globs of flesh away, only to have Payback push back with that much more force. Naruto looked up at her in confusion only to get a dead-serious look in return.

"We made you feel good in your village. It is your turn to do the same."

She sent the boy a hard look. "Now lick!"She commanded loudly. Naruto tried to shove back again only for Payback to press her rear end harder against his face. She sent Naruto a nasty glare threatening untold pain and torture should he not pleasure her.

Giving a whine of defeat, Naruto sighed before gently placing his hands on Payback's blue-ish rump and kneading the flesh gently. He gulped before clenching his eyes tightly and sticking his tongue out.

He pressed his tongue against Payback's symbiotic groin and gave a slow lick upwards. He was rewarded with a slight inhale of air from the female symbiote along with angry growls from the few other symbiotes that had decided to stick around. He was about to stop when Payback produced several tentacles from her hips and held Naruto's head in place, his mouth open, and forced his tongue to stay out. She forced Naruto to continue licking her crotch until he, once again, started to do so on his own.

Naruto would admit that the taste was not bad and that there was an unusual addition to Samus and her symbiote; there were two different tastes. The combination of the two actually created something Naruto would not mind enjoying every now and then. He continued to lick and enjoy the small noises Payback made until she turned her head and spoke, "More." And then shoved the blonde's tongue inside of her symbiotic pussy.

His eyes widened at the sudden rush of fluids that covered his abnormally long tongue. Payback started grinding her hips against the appendage inside her and let out a loud breath of air mixed in with a deep lust-filled growl. Around the pair were more and more symbiotes, either glaring in jealousy and lust or engaging in their own lewd activities.

Another female symbiote tried to approach the two, her lust visible in her eyes and in the amount of liquids dripping from in between her legs. Payback quickly shot the other woman a glare and a low, threatening growl and forced her to back off. More Payback's juices leaked out onto Naruto's tongue and it wriggled around inside of her most intimate part. She continued to hump his face and force his tongue deeper and deeper.

Naruto could taste and feel every single fold that Payback's vagina as more and more liquids pour out of the love hole. It soon became too much for the boy to contain and drops of Payback's juices began to fall to the ground. A small male symbiote tried to dash in and catch as many drops as he could, only to receive a viscous slash across the face from a horny Payback. This finally got the message across that the pair was to be given a wide birth while performing their lewd act.

Finally, Payback let out a loud guttural roar as she reached her climax. A wave of her juices exploded out of her tight core and splashed Naruto's face; this surprised him and caused him to yank his tongue free and pull his face away from Payback's rear. Said female slowly fell forward onto her hands while breathing hard and trying to gain some control of the air flow. Naruto sat behind her panting lightly at the exercise he just put his tongue through.

Payback slowly turned to Naruto before pressing her face against his and rubbing her cheek against his in an affectionate manner. A gentle purr echoed out of her throat as she slowly pressed her body against his. After a few seconds, she wrapped her arms around the youth and launched herself off the ground on onto the roof of a building a block away.

"Cuddle."

She purred when Naruto sent her a questioning look. Naruto sighed in defeat; he could not get away, even if he wanted to.

Neji bent over and placed his hands on his knees to hold himself up from the extremely laborious training session he had just gone through. Several of the Hyuuga and Konoha council members had been watching him. Judging him. Verifying if he was good enough for whatever task that he was required for.

Standing back up, Neji turned his head towards the gathered old folk when his name was addressed.

"It has come to our attention that you will be facing the Uzumaki in the final's of the Chunin Exams." And aged woman from the Konoha council droned. "It has also come to our attention that your family's fighting style will have almost no effect on the boy." Neji took note of how the woman seemed to have trouble not seething at mentioning Naruto in any way that would acknowledge his humanity.

"May I ask what you are hinting at?" Neji asked politely. The old crone actually rolled her eyes at the Hyuuga's inability to read her cobweb-filled mind. Before the short-tempered granny could say anything, another council member was quick to interrupt.

"What my colleague mean is, because of the Uzumaki's lack of chakra the Gentle Fist fighting style will be absolutely useless against him. So, both the Konohagakure council and the Hyuuga council have seen it fit that you be trained under Danzou."

"May I ask, why him?" Neji asked, he was well aware who Danzou was considering he has overheard the name countless times when passing by council meetings.

"Danzou-sama has spent much time studying the Uzumaki's lifestyle, combat style, and anything else you will need to know on how to defeat him with ease."

"The Konoha council brought up this propose to us earlier," A member of the Hyuuga council spoke up. "And we believe that it would be in both your best interest as well as be best for the family if you accepted the offer and allowed Danzou to train you." As he said this, Neji noticed a council member's hands go up for activating the seal should Neji attempt to refuse.

Seeing that he had no option in the matter, Neji resigned himself to his fate. "I agree with the council's decision and will allow myself to be trained by Danzou-sama." He responded with a bow.

The council members smiled at Neji's answer before leading the boy out of the training area, out of the Hyuuga estate and towards a training ground where Danzou was waiting patiently. When he saw the group arrive, he could not help but let a fiendish smirk appear on his face. The group dropped Neji off and silently went their way.

"Let us begin. We have much to do if you wish to defeat the Uzumaki in your match."