When Naruto was ready he began trying to find Orochimaru. He walked through the dingy corridors wondering where he would be. Instead of Orochimaru, he found kabuto instead. "Do you know where Orochimaru is?" he asked. 'Orochimaru-sama said now was the time to begin the plan…I believe this is the perfect opening.' He thought. "You can't see him now because he's leaving soon." The effect on the blonde was instant as his face changed to pure panic. "Leaving? Leaving where?" he said. "Your not stupid, so I'm not going to lie to you Naruto-kun. Orochimaru has business to take care of, and without someone to back him up…he may not come back alive." Naruto was too worried to notice this huge lie. "He could die?" Naruto shouted hysterically. "He need someone strong to fight with him."
"I'll go with him!" Naruto said. Kabuto shook his head at this.
"Your nowhere near strong enough to protect Orochimaru-sama, unless…" kabuto paused for effect. "Unless what?" Naruto said predictably. Kabuto pulled something from his pocket and handed it to Naruto. The blonde looked at what he was holding; it was a syringe filled with a red looking liquid. "It's a special serum I made to unleash kyuubi's powers." Naruto looked up at him.
"Unleash Kyuubi? I can't do that because Kyuubi would kill everyone, including Orochimaru!" he said.
"Not with that." Kabuto replied, pointing at the syringe Naruto was holding. "I made it so you have complete control over Kyuubi." 'Hey, don't get any ideas kid. You know you can't control me. Just take our sorry ass back to Kohona. Back to Sasuke because you know you want to!' Kyuubi said. "Inject that into your arm, all of it, and Kyuubi will be yours to control." Naruto nodded. Kabuto watched as the last of the red liquid disappeared.
"I'll take you to Orochimaru-sama now." He said. Naruto obediently followed the medic nin into a room he hadn't noticed before. "I have great news Orochimaru-sama! Naruto is going with you to protect you." 'Perfect. Kabuto managed to get the boy to use the serum then.' "Orochimaru-sama is the closest most important person to you, correct?" kabuto asked the blonde. Naruto nodded. "Then use your new power to protect him from this." Kabuto pulled out several senbon needles. "A lethal poison is on the tip of each needle and the person they hit will be dead within minutes if not seconds." Naruto stared at him nervously, wondering what he was planning to do. "I'm going to throw them at Orochimaru in three seconds." He continued. "What?" Naruto shouted.
"Three." Naruto looked around aimlessly, hoping this was some kind of joke. "Two." Naruto began panicking, seeing how serious kabuto looked. "One."
"No!" Naruto screamed, quickly jumping in front of Orochimaru. Naruto covered his face as he braced himself for the needles. Feeling no impact he opened one of his eyes slowly. He saw red chakra tails blocking the path of the needles. Naruto gasped as he saw them clatter to the floor and the tails spread out behind him. Naruto growled angrily at kabuto and his now red eyes narrowed dangerously. Orochimaru admired the six tails of chakra Naruto now had. "That was very impressive Naruto-kun." Naruto's eyes changed back to blue and the tails disappeared. "I-I don't know how I did that…" he muttered.
"You will learn to control it, kabuto will teach you." Orochimaru said.
"But, I thought you had to be somewhere and I needed to come and protect you?"
"That can wait." He said. "Kabuto, I want Naruto to have complete control of all the new powers he may have." Orochimaru left the room for Naruto to begin his training. His plan couldn't have been more perfect.
Sasuke and Shikamaru had been running at full speed. They were heading for Orochimaru's old headquarters hoping for a lead on where Naruto could be now. Shikamaru moved closer to Sasuke as they raced through the trees so they could talk. "Do you have any idea why Naruto left?" he asked.
"No… I don't. I'm going to ask him though. After all that dobe went through to get me back he does something like this…" he muttered.
"Don't worry Sasuke, wherever he is…we'll find him." Shikamaru said. As they approached orochimaru's old hideout, they slowed down and masked their charka. When they sensed no one around, they went into the building. Sasuke shuddered as they walked down the hall.
"This is too familiar…" he muttered darkly. They checked several rooms until Sasuke heard Shikamaru shout something. "What is it?" Shikamaru pointed to the floor. Bloodied bodies littered the floor. Sasuke covered his mouth as the rotting smell reached his nose. He pulled Shikamaru out of the room and slammed the door, hoping to mask some of the smell. "What the fuck happened here?" Sasuke said angrily. Shikamaru sighed. "Isn't it obvious? Orochimaru finished everyone off in case we did what we are doing now. You know what this means? What have no lead whatsoever." Sasuke slammed his fist into the wall, making a dent.
"Damn it! Were just going to have to look then!"
"Without knowing where he even might be?" Shikamaru replied.
"You sound as bad as the hokage. If you don't want to, then go home. But I'm following that dobe to the ends of the earth if I fucking have to!" he snarled.