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A/N: I'm sorry this one took a little to get out. I've been sick of late and having to deal with an eight year/old who decide now would be a great time to become a delinquent and get suspended from school for violence tends to be time consuming. I only write when I am basically alone. Anyway, Thanks to:
AiMila: I'm glad you enjoyed it. I chose not to make Naruto into a complete innocent idiot like he is in the manga.
Ankwhat: I'm glad you liked it. These will take a little bit to get out during the summer since my little girl will be out of school but I can write some bits every night.
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Chapter Eleven
A scream filled with terror fills the forest causing team seven to look towards its location. "That was…A human scream, right?" Sakura asked while a shiver of terror flows through her body. "I'm…Getting a little nervous."
"This…This is nothing, Sakura-chan." Naruto says as she puts her arms behind her head thinking of all the things Kyuubi has been showing her while teaching her in her dreams. "I…Got to take a piss." She says as she walks behind a bush undoing her skirt.
"What are you doing while in the presence of a guy! Go further than the bushes." She says as she smacks Naruto on the back of her head. 'It would be ok if it was Sasuke-kun, hehe hehe.' She grins and has an evil glint in her eyes as Sasuke glares at the girl when he hears Naruto's 'ouch'. He watches the pigtailed girl walk further with longing eyes and waited patiently until she returns to his sight.
"Man! So much came out! I feel great now!" She says with a grin while Sakura's face is filled with disgust and Sasuke's eyes narrow at her.
"I said not in front of a man and…!" Sasuke cuts her off when he draws his fist back and let's loose a strong punch straight at Naruto's face drawing blood that flies out of her mouth. 'Huh!?' Sakura looked confused as she watched Naruto flies and hit a tree. She turns quickly to look at Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun, you didn't have to go that far…"
"What the heck are you doing?" Naruto grits out as she wipes the blood from her chin.
"Where's the real Naruto?" Sasuke asks glaring at her from the corner of his eyes.
"Huh?" Sakura looked at him with confusion.
"What…Are you saying all of a sudden?" She asks him and Sasuke stood up straight to look at her.
"Your Shuriken holster is on your left side, she's right handed. And the main difference is you don't have the scratch that examiner put on Naruto's cheek. You're a fake loser who's worse than Naruto at transforming." Sasuke explains since he knows his girlfriend better than anyone. A puff of smoke forms around Naruto who is instantly revealed as one of the Hidden Waterfall Ninja's.
"Unlucky! You figured it out, oh well! Which one of you has the scroll?!" He hisses out and the two looked at him in shock and got ready for his attacks. "I'll just take it by force then!" He says and starts rushing towards them when Sasuke disappears and jumps into the air to form fire style Jutsu symbols.
"Mythical Fire Flower no Jutsu!" He shot out fireballs that randomly went in different directions towards the enemy Ninja. When it was clear they both started attacking each other so fast it was hard to tell which side was winning. The Ninja started running after their last clash making Sasuke run after him. In the process he noticed Naruto tied up between two huge roots on a tree.
"Sasuke!" She shouts up at him.
'Geez…You moron.' He grits his teeth in anger and throws a Kunai to land right next to her.
"Good!" She says and the Ninja turns around to see him not paying attention to him.
"Yes, there's an opening, Lucky!" He throws Kunai at him and Sasuke dodges behind a huge tree branch.
"Damn." His eyes widen when he saw a note tied to one of the Kunai's start to burn. 'Explosive note…!' It exploded leaving the area clouded in dust and Sasuke lands on his hands and knees while coughing from all of the dust around him. "Ugh."
"Now this is lucky! Move and I'll kill you! Hand over the scroll!" The Ninja says as he appears behind Sasuke causing the boys eyes to widen.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouts as she starts running towards them and saw the Ninja. Sasuke's lips quirk in a smirk and a Kunai starts propelling towards the Ninja who now notices and jumps away quickly.
"You won't get away!" Naruto yells as she starts running after the Ninja.
'You are always late, Naruto…' He catches the Kunai with his foot. 'Grab it with Chakra!' He releases it with a kick and it zooms towards the Ninja trying to get away as quickly as he can. Naruto's eyes widen when she saw Sasuke using his Chakra to jump with speed towards the now retreating Ninja who cries out in shock as the Kunai is so close to him. His eyes widen even more when he saw Sasuke right in front of him plunging the Kunai into his chest. His Sharingan glares brightly into the Ninja's eyes. "This is rough, but I have no choice! Don't just stand around, there may be others! Listen! Relax for a moment and you will really be killed!" He shouts at his teammates. The Ninja rips his body away from the Kunai that sliced the muscles on his chest connecting to his left arm.
'Damn…My left arm…How unlucky! Coming alone to hide better cost me.' He thinks as he starts running away from the group of Ninja's.
'He got away…' Sasuke thinks as he lands and watches him run. He gathers the team and they sit down in a secluded space between the roots of a large out cropping of trees. "If we get separated next time…Even if it's one of us, don't trust them. This could happen again."
"Then what do we do?" Sakura asks with her brows furrowed.
"We'll make a codeword just in case. Listen…If they get the codeword wrong; assume they are the enemy no matter what they look like." Behind them you could see what looks to be a bamboo straw poking out of a hole. "Listen carefully; I'll only say it once. The Nin song, "Nin Machine"…When this is asked, answer with… "A large amount of loud enemies is the friend of the Shinobi, hide and remain silent. A Shinobi must understand the proper time, when the enemy is tired and ill prepared"." Naruto looked like she is confused while Sakura smiles.
"Ok!" Her face looks at Naruto with a smug smile on it.
"Wait…That's impossible to remember…" She says.
"Are you stupid? I already memorized it." Sakura says with a little bit of a cocky tone.
'Smart plan…' Said the Shinobi hidden in the ground.
"Hey…Is this codeword really…" Naruto wonders out loud and Sasuke starts to stand.
"I'll hold the scroll." Naruto's face gets a cut in it.
"Ouch!" She says and puts a hand to her cheek. "…What?" A strong wind starts to blow against them and they shield their faces from the debris that is being blown their way.
"More enemies?!" Sasuke wonders as they all shriek from the pain they feel from the debris.
"You guys just play around over there…I'll take care of them myself." A Shinobi says and Sasuke is looking around from under a bush. He spots Sakura.
"Sakura…" He says while getting out from under the bush.
"Sasuke-kun!" She says with a huge smile on her face.
"Stay away. First the codeword. Nin song "Nin Machine"." He says while holding a Kunai at the ready.
"Oh, yeah!" She says and recites it from the top of her head.
"Good." Sasuke says as Naruto comes towards them.
"Oww...You guys alright?" She asks.
"Naruto! Wait a second, the codeword!" Sakura shouts at her.
"I know…" And she recites the whole thing while Sakura looks relieved but Sasuke has an evil smirk on his face. Sasuke launches a Kunai at her. "Whoa!" Naruto shouts out avoiding the Kunai.
'Huh!?' Sakura wonders why he threw it. "Sasuke-kun, why? Naruto said the codeword…"
"So this time it's someone good enough to dodge my attacks…" Sasuke says looking at the Kunoichi who fell on the ground.
"What are you talking about Sasuke-kun!?" Sakura shouts at him. Naruto looked at him with a leer in her eyes.
"Impressive that you knew…" Then a puff of smoke surrounds the slim body.
"What?" Sakura shouts out.
"How did you know? That I was a fake…" The Shinobi asked.
"I knew you were listening to our conversation from under the ground. That's why I made the codeword like that. There's no way she could remember a song that long." He says with a smirk on his face. "So you had to be a fake.
"I see…Neither tired nor ill prepared are we?" The Shinobi said while taking his hat off revealing his creepy face and long hair. "This will be more fun than I thought."
"Ouch…" Naruto groans as she lands on her shoulders with her neck bent. She flips her body back around and looked up around at her surroundings. "Huh? Where's Sakura-chan and that bastard Sasuke?" She grumbles as she starts boosting her body up. A shadow covered her completely and she looks up at the form that casts it. "Wha…Wha…?" A giant snake stared down at her and she starts panicking. "It's huge!" Her eyes shoot wide. 'I…I've never seen a snake so…BIG…! What's up with this forest…?'
'That snake is about to start attacking you, kit. Pay attention to its movements and that should help you.' Kyuubi says while she watched everything from inside of her. The snake lunges at her and she jumps out of the way.
'Behind!?' She wonders as she couldn't see where the next attack would be. "Gu! Tail?!" She cries out as it wrapped its tail around her. She cries out as she saw the wide open mouth of the snake and her constricted body is heading straight for it. "Uwaaaa!" She cries out from inside of the snake.
'I told you that you should pay attention to its movements, kit!' The fox growled out.
'He ate me…' She thinks as she is getting squished inside of the snake.
'Well, what did you expect from something a hundred times larger than you? I suggest you find a way out.' Kyuubi says as she smirks.
"Let me out! Damn you! Damn you! Barf me out!" Naruto whines while squirming quite a bit inside of the snake. 'Damn it…At this rate, I'm really going to be melted. How can I make him throw up?' She keeps on thinking.
'Shouldn't be too hard, kit. What makes you sick?' Kyuubi asks while sending out calming Chakra so that she won't panic. Naruto starts thinking about the time where she and Sasuke were competing in everything including eating the fastest. She remembers that both of them got sick when they ate too much too quickly. A grin pops up on her face.
"Take this! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" She created clones after clones and made the snake explode from full capacity. She stands up with her clones surrounding her and blood from the snake covering her. "I'm a Kunoichi who will become Hokage! I can't be turned into shit in a place like this! Ok! Time to go find Sakura-chan and Sasuke!" She kept on running in where she figured the rest of the team were and heard the sounds of fighting ahead. When she cleared a few of the trees she saw a snake-like person chasing after them while winding around a giant branch. She threw some Kunai and Shuriken to stop the person's movements. "I'm sorry, Sasuke!" When he hears her Sasuke's eyes widen and he whips his head to look at her with shock filled eyes. "I forgot…The code word!" Naruto says while smiling at them with her arms crossed over her breasts.
"Great job, Naruto!" Sakura screams out as she grins at the girl.
"Naruto! I know you think you're cool and here to save us…But forget it! Run away! This one is on a whole 'nother level!" Sasuke yells at her.
"Hehe…Looks like you successfully defeated that giant snake…Naruto-chan." The snake-like guy says.
'This guy sure looks like a snake…' She looks over at her team and the man evaluating them. 'I see…So it was him behind it…' She mused.
'With her coming to save us…It's not like we are in a better situation. What do we do?' Sasuke contemplates to himself.
"Hey! Hey! It looks like you were picking on the weak!" Naruto says to the man with a cocky grin on her face.
'This is bad…All three of us will be killed…There is no other way…' Sasuke deactivates his Sharingan. Naruto looks at him with narrowed eyes wondering what he was going to do.
'Sharingan…' Sakura looks at him longingly while the man looks at Sasuke.
"I will give you the scroll…Please…Take it and leave us." Sasuke says as he holds out the scroll.
'What?!' Naruto thought as shock and fury blow up on her face.
"Huh?" Sakura's eyes widen.
"Sasuke! What the hell are you talking about?! Why would you give the scroll to the enemy?!" Naruto asks while pointing her slim finger at him.
"I see…Very smart…The only way for prey to escape a predator…Is to give the predator a different meal." The man says with a small smile on his face as his snake-like body is still wound around the branch that he was on. Sasuke throws the scroll to him.
"Take it!" Naruto's jaw drops when she saw this and she started getting furious so Chakra covered her body with a small layer of the Kyuubi's Chakra and she disappeared only to reappear besides Sasuke with the scroll in her hand.
"You bitch! What are you doing?!" Sasuke shouts at her. "Do you understand the situation?!" When he says this Naruto rears back and lands a full on punch straight into Sasuke's face.
'Huh!?' Sakura wonders with shock on her face while her two teammates were at each other's necks. She noticed the furious expression on Naruto's face and realized that the girl hasn't ever really been this angry before.
"What was that all of a sudden?!" Sasuke shouts at his girlfriend.
"Naruto…What are…" Sakura stutters out trying to figure out what is going on.
"I forgot the codeword…So I can't test it but…You're Sasuke's fake, aren't you!?" She asks him and his face turns to shock.
"What?" Sakura asks.
"You total moron! I'm the real Sasuke!" He grits out at her.
"Liar…" Naruto smoothly says while the man continues to watch on. "There's no way such a stupid coward like you…Is the Sasuke I know!" Naruto growls out at him as she shows him that her blue eyes have a red ring around them. I don't know how strong this guy is but…What guarantee is there that he'll let us go if we give him the scroll?" As she says this to him Sasuke's eyes widen when he realizes she is right. "You're the one too freaked out to understand the situation!" Sakura looked at Naruto and wondered how she got so smart.
"Hehehe…Naruto-chan…" The man gets the girls attention. "You are correct!" He says as his long tongue starts locking up his own cheek. Sasuke's face turned from shock to disgust. "Since I can…" He pauses as he rolls his sleeve up revealing the tattooed emblem on his forearm. "…Just kill you and take the scroll." He bites his thumb and rubs the blood in a straight line over the tattoo. Naruto growls at him.
"Shut up!" She runs and starts to pick up a little bit of speed.
"No! Run away! Naruto!" Sasuke shouts at her trying to get her to get away from him.
'Damn it…' She growled more and jumps up. 'I've lost respect for you, Sasuke!' She thinks as red starts filtering into her eyes more.
"Summoning no Jutsu." The man says as wind whips around his body. Naruto looks at the man in shock when she saw that his summon looked exactly like the snake that tried to eat her. The snake quickly brings his tail to smack her with it and Naruto looks at it in shock as it keeps on getting closer and closer to her. The tail hits her full on.
"Naruto!" Her two teammates scream out as she flies through the air from the impact and goes through trees.
"Gua!" Blood spews out of Naruto's mouth from the hit and Sasuke starts panicking. Naruto starts falling.
"Hehe…Go ahead and eat her." The man tells his snake. Sasuke looked at Naruto and felt pain fill him when he saw the disappointment filling her eyes. She looks at the snake riding man and Sasuke's eyes shimmered when he realized that she might actually die her.
"Eat shit!" Naruto says as she punches the snake so hard he was forced to shut his mouth. Her eyes were completely filled with red now and the iris was feline-like showing how much the Kyuubi is helping her out.
'This kid…No way...' The man says with widened eyes. The girl yells out as she shows how pissed off she is.
'Naruto has snapped…But…Why is this Naruto so strong…!?' Sakura wonders as she covers her mouth while watching the girl fight the man. Naruto's eyes widen in shock as the man shoots fire out of his mouth. When it hit her she cried out in pain then was thrown a little bit until she hit a tree.
'Those eyes…There's no mistaking it…' The man thought.
'That is Naruto!?' Sasuke wonders not being able to take his wide eyes off of their movements. Naruto didn't get up so the man turned to Sasuke.
'Hehe, this is getting fun!' The man thinks as his lips widen in a full on grin. "Sasuke-kun, now it's your turn! What will you do?!" He asks as he got his snake to shoot off towards the teen. The boys jaw drops and he starts shaking all over.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cries out as the man gets closer. Their movements are stopped as a form jumped between the snake and Sasuke. The teen's eyes widen when he saw that it was Naruto who stopped it. She had two Kunai's in her hands and they were jabbed into the snake while Naruto used her body to stop its movements forward.
"Hey…You…Alright…" Naruto pants out as her face is still hidden behind her bangs. Sasuke's eyes widened and Sakura starts the move closer even though she doesn't realize she was. "Scaredy-cat?" Naruto finishes as she looks up into his eyes directly showing her red feline-like irises and the thick whisker-like lines on her face. She had blood trailing from both her nose and her mouth and her face showed a little bit of the strain she had while holding the snake back. Sasuke couldn't take it in, he realized that she was doing all of this for him and he was being a coward and not helping.
'Naruto…' Sasuke starts thinking about all of the times that he has taunted his girlfriend for even showing a small ounce of fear. Then remembered the pissed off red eyes that glared at him for being a coward. His eyes widened when he saw the Shinobi's long tongue wrap around the blond girls body and lift her up. Sakura is speechless because she can't think of what she should do as she watches Naruto cry out in shock.
"Damn it! Let go of me!" She screams at the man as she thrashes around in his tongues hold.
"Hehe…So the nine-tails brat is still alive…" Naruto's and Kyuubi's reactions were similar.
'Watch it, kit. This Shinobi is as strong as he is strange. Not counting he is your father's ex-teammate…' Kyuubi warns as her hackles start rising up, she wanted to be out of her prison because then she would be able to protect her kit from danger and the Shinobi is creating symbols that she recognizes. 'You won't be able to talk to me for a while, kit. I'll still be able to see everything but not contact you or help you in anyway, until the seal on my seal is unbroken.'
"When your emotions are heightened…The power of the nine-tails overflows…Very interesting…" As soon as he completes the seal symbols five flames pops up on his fingertips. He looked at the girls' expression and was surprised to see that she didn't even look shocked at what he was doing. 'She can't know what I'm doing can she?' He wonders as his tongue moves the mesh shirt up to reveal the seal on her stomach. "Oh my…The seal is visible…" He says as he saw the symbol darkening and new symbols appear in red above the ones around Naruto's belly button. 'What is that fox doing?' He wonders and he jabs the fingers onto the seal. "Five part seal!"
"Sasuke-kun! Naruto is…!" Sakura says as she panics for her teammate. She looks over at the brunette and glares at his immobile body. Naruto's eyes start turning back to blue and the pupil is back to being humanistic.
'12 years since the seal…Naruto-Chan and the Nine-tails Chakra are beginning to fuse…' The Shinobi says as his hands run over her back. He feels around in her pouch and removes the scroll. 'But right now you are in the way…' He thinks as his tongue throws the girls immobile body towards a tree.
'He's going to fall!' Sakura growls out and throws a Kunai towards her teammate. "Naruto!" The Kunai pins the prone figure to the tree by her jacket. Sasuke is still frozen looking at what is happening around him. "Sasuke-kun!" Sakura noticed that he is trembling slightly and her eyes tear up in disgust. "It's true that unlike you, Naruto is clumsy and can get in the way but…At least she's not a coward! Right!" Sasuke shuts his eyes thinking of all that his brother told him when he massacred his family and clenches his teeth as the fear runs stronger through him. He shakes it off when the thought of the fact that Naruto fought with everything and could have fought more if Sasuke were to help her. She could now die because of him.
'No!' He shouts out in his mind and opens his Sharingan activated eyes widely.
'Hehe…The blood of the clan is beginning to boil…' The Shinobi thought with a smirk on his lips.
'Sasuke-kun!' Sakura wonders what his is doing.
'I'll take my time and test your ability.' The Shinobi says as he brought his tattooed arm up and he releases his snake summon. Sasuke started digging around in the pouch on his back and he puts a Kunai in his mouth.
'I must survive in order to kill my brother…And save Naruto. That's what I believed. But I was the one that was afraid…' He said as he brandished a huge variety of Kunai in his hands. He jumps up to start his attack on the Shinobi. 'If I can't risk my life here, then how do I expect to do any of that?' He thought as he threw his Kunai left and right. He held a medium sized Shuriken in his left hand. The Shinobi dodges around the Kunai with his flexible snake-like body as Sasuke grabs a hold of a tree. 'I can see!' Sasuke thought as he started spinning the Shuriken around his finger as he starts moving closer to the Shinobi, and then throws it at the man whose eyes widen in shock. The man jumps up to avoid the Shuriken as Sasuke swings around the tree he grabbed onto. He takes the Kunai out of his mouth revealing the string tied to the loop of the Kunai. He infused his Chakra into the blade then throws it at the man who dodges it with a smile on his face.
'Not bad…He's reading my movements and going for a critical hit. So he can see…' The man now notices that there is string attached to the Kunai so he looks behind him and saw the Shuriken still there spinning. 'String? This is…The Sharingan windmill, triple blade!' The man thought as he stares at the weapons in shock.
"Alright!" Sakura cheers loudly for Sasuke who holds a twitching muscle at her.
'To read all the places I could run and attack from where I can't see…' The Shinobi thought as he caught the Shuriken in his mouth. "Hehe…Too bad…" He says and his eyes widen when he heard the snicker and saw the smirk on Sasuke's face. The teen held his hands in a symbol with the string going through the two joined sets of fingers that complete the Jutsu.
"Dragon Fire no Jutsu!" As he performs the Jutsu a wave of fire shoots straight for the man, whose eyes widens and is unable to move just yet. Sakura looks at them with shock as she thought this was amazing while Sasuke is still looking at the man while he is panting.
"To be able to use the Sharingan so well at this age…You truly are the man that carries the Uchiha blood. Just as I thought…" The man pauses as his face is revealed. The two teens gasp as it looked like his face was peeling off the mask the hid it. "I want you…"
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouted as she ran and jumped to him.
"I had fun testing your powers." The Shinobi said as he raised his right hand up to his forehead right where the damage is finished on the mask.
'Guu…My body is frozen...'Both of the teens thought at the same time as they started shaking again.
"You really are brothers. I sense your power in your eyes that surpasses Itachi." As he said this Sasuke's eyes widen.
"Who the hell are you?!" He shouts at the man.
"My name is Orochimaru…If you want to see me again…" He paused as he holds the scroll in his hand and lights it on fire. "Then survive and pass this exam…"
"Ah! The scroll." Sakura cries out.
"Of course, defeating my men, the Sound Nin Trio on the way." The man says while the scroll disintegrates in his hand.
"What the hell are you talking about?! We'd never want to see your face again!" Sakura shouts at him.
"Hehe…It won't go that way…" He says as he giggles and forms some symbols. His neck then becomes so snake-like it zipped his head quickly towards the duo that is just standing there. He latches onto Sasuke's neck since the boy couldn't move. Sakura looks at the man with panic stricken eyes and Sasuke looked to be in pain. Orochimaru removes his fangs from the boys' neck and releases his Jutsu which makes his neck turn back to normal. "Sasuke-kun will seek me…To seek power…" A symbol starts spinning around on Sasuke's neck starting to change his DNA make up.
"Ugh…What's this? Pain!" He cries out and cringes into himself. Sakura panics and then glares at Orochimaru.
"What did you do to Sasuke-kun?!" She shouts at him as the teen screams out in pain.
"I gave him a going away present." The man says as he starts going into the tree. The girl looks at him, confused while the teens screaming gets louder in volume.
"Sasuke-kun!" She cries out as she gets closer to his shaking form. His screams start to echo through the entire forest making small animals flee with the agony-filled sound. "Sa…Sasuke-kun…Hang in there, Sasuke-kun!" His scream answered her and she grabs his hand and wove his fingers in hers making him squeeze her hand. "Please!" She looked at Sasuke's neck and saw the symbols on it as tears flowed down her cheeks. She starts crying and looks up at the tree with Naruto hanging from it. "Naruto…Naruto…Sasuke-kun is…" She stopped when she noticed that the girl was still unconscious. She looked back and Sasuke's writhing form and hugged him to her. 'I…What should I do?!' She asks herself as she looks up to the treetops that spanned through the entire forest. She finds a hollow area under some roots of a huge tree and gathers her teammates to hide them there. She looked so depressed watching her team as they laid there with only one of them making any sounds. Every so often Sasuke cries out in pain. She places a cold rag on his forehead. 'His breathing is returning to normal…But still a strong fever…" She looked at both of them and saw Naruto's face look a little banged up. 'I…I…I must protect them…' She says as her face shows her determination.
"Hehe…Found him…" Zaku says as he looks through the bushes at team seven as they are trying to hide in the roots. "As Orochimaru-sama commanded we attack at daybreak. Our target is Uchiha Sasuke."
"But if the other two get in our way we can kill them, right?" His teammate asks while the other stands silent.
"Of course." He replies as they hunker down to wait for dawn.
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