A/N: Hello and welcome back to my amazing story: Cursed Eyes! Now, I know that a lot of you are probably angry at the minor hiatus that occurred, but that's what happens when you're a fifteen-year-old writer: you get grounded from time to time. Also, pretty soon I should have another story coming out, but it'll be a lot different from this one. For one, Naruto won't be the main character. That's all the info I'm leaking on that! Now let's begin!

"Wow, Ibiki! 46 teams passed? You must be going soft." Anko Mitarashi jested. Ibiki smirked. "Or maybe it's just that we have a stronger crop this year," he said, sending a pointed look towards Naruto. Anko caught his eye. "Oi oi, what's so special about that brat?" she asked. "Watch the exams; you'll see soon enough," Ibiki said vaguely.

Now all eyes were on Naruto, who looked a little nervous. "It doesn't really matter how many you passed, Ibiki, because my test is guaranteed to cut these green genin in half. Maybe even less than that will be left," Anko continued, licking her lips predatorily. Every weak-willed genin gulped, but our main genin didn't even falter. "Alright, brats, meet me at training ground #44 in thirty minutes! If we start the test without you, you won't be joining at all!" Anko then shunshined away.

Naruto and his team met up in the center of the room. "We already know where training ground 44 is, but I doubt any non-Konoha ninja will. Let's hurry up and get there, dattebayo!" Naruto said excitedly. "Fine. I don't see a point in loitering around here anyway. See you there," Sasuke said, before disappearing in a raiton shunshin. Naruto followed suit, and Sakura used a normal leaf shunshin.

Samui studied the spot where Team 7 was just gathered. "It seems as if the entire team is a threat. I'd like to avoid them if at all possible. Come on, we don't have long to find this place," she said, before walking out of the room, followed by her teammates. "I don't like this," Omoi said to Karui. She nodded. "I don't, either."

_Cursed Eyes_

At the gates surrounding the 44th training ground, Anko began explaining the rules to the second test. "The rules are pretty simple, if you ask me. You start off with either a Heaven scroll, or an Earth scroll. You need to collect the opposite scroll from another team and make it to the tower directly in the center of the forest. That is, while avoiding any teams that want your scroll and any predatory beasts. This place isn't called the Forest of Death for nothing!"Anko grinned wickedly, sending shivers down the genins' backs.

Anko noticed, however, that she wasn't getting to Naruto. 'What does Ibiki see in this gaki?' Anko thought with narrowed eyes.

Naruto suddenly had to block a kunai and deflect a hand coming to his face. Sasuke was instantly behind the assailant with a knife pointed at her jugular. Anko grinned. "You kids are mighty fast for fresh meat. Don't ever let your guards down." Naruto and Sasuke scowled. "What's the big idea attacking me like that, dattebayo!? Ya could've hurt me!"

"You're no ordinary genin, Na-ru-to-kun. I'll be watching you," Anko whispered into his ear. Naruto shivered. Anko shunshined back to the front of the crowd. "Now, then, just sign these waivers here so we can let you continue!" she said, as if nothing had just happened. The genin all face faulted.

_Cursed Eyes_

Naruto and the gang were hopping through the trees in the forest, searching for teams. "If only one of us were a sensor'ttebayo…" Naruto complained. "Naruto, why don't you just make a ton of Kage Bunshin? Send them out for us to locate teams." Sakura suggested. Naruto grinned. "Great idea, Sakura-chan! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Fifty clones spawned near them and shot out in all directions. "I guess we should just set up camp for now,dattebayo," Naruto suggested. They all jumped to the ground and began to set up their tents. "I'll make four Kage Bunshin to keep watch for us as well," Naruto said, before doing so.

Then they made a fire and sat around it, eating ration bars and joking around. Suddenly, Sasuke stiffened. "Come out, we know you're there!" he shouted, standing up. Immediately, three Kiri genin jumped from the bushes and made their presence known. "Well, looks like we got some Konoha trash to take out, eh Metsui?" one of them said to the apparent leader. He nodded, "I'll take out the Uchiha myself." The other one said, "Save the girl for me!" he licked his lips perversely. Sakura began trembling with rage. "I want that one. Don't interfere!" She disappeared in a shunshin, before axe-kicking the despicable boy in his forehead, sending him into the nearby greenery. She promptly followed.

"First one to knock out their opponent wins!" Naruto said before flipping through handseals. "Fuuton: Reppushou!" Naruto sent a blast of wind at his enemy, who narrowly dodged, but Naruto was already in his face in an instant.

Sasuke widened his eyes. "No fair! Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu!" a large fireball erupted from Sasuke's mouth, enveloping his genin at the same time that Naruto delivered a crushing haymaker to his own. "Damnit, it was a tie, dattebayo! Oh well, let's go check on Sakura-chan…" The two hopped after their teammate.

They came upon a rather pleasing sight- Sakura kicking the shit out of the kid. Her rage made her two male teammates shiver in fear. "I don't want her angry at me, dattebayo," Naruto whispered to Sasuke. Sasuke nodded in agreement. Sakura went through the guy's things. "Kuso~! He has an earth scroll like us! We'll have to keep looking," she said. "Take the scroll anyway, so one more team can't pass." Sasuke said. He began walking back to camp. Suddenly, Sakura and Sasuke jumped into the air, just missing an unnatural wave of wind. "NANI~!?" Naruto shouted, as he wasn't lucky enough to escape the blast. He was thrown deep into the woods. "Shit! We just lost a heavy hitter, and I feel a really ominous chakra!" Sasuke said, pulling out a kunai and activating his Sharingan. Sakura quivered in fear. Standing on a nearby branch was a Kusa Kunoichi with an unnaturally long tongue. "Kukukuku… What do we have here?"

_Cures Eyes_

In mid air, Naruto was swallowed by a humongous snake. As he was sliding down the snake's interior, he began struggling. "Let me go! Let me go, damnit! My team needs me!" His body began glowing with a horrible red chakra. His eyes turned red. "I said let me GO, dattebayo~!" The red chakra exploded outwards, showering the nearby forest with snake gore.

The chakra receded. "I've gotta get back to Sasuke and Sakura-chan!" he immediately ran forward in the direction he came from.

_Cursed Eyes_

Sasuke and Sakura had begun trading blows with the slippery Kusa kunoichi, but to no avail. Sakura came in high with a heel drop while Sasuke went low with a leg sweep, but the kunoichi hopped slightly and blocked Sakura's leg, grabbing her and throwing her higher into the trees, then kicking Sasuke in the ribs. Sasuke spat blood, and charged her again. He put everything he had into his blows, completely forgetting about the Uchiha Interceptor Fist, and went into brawling mode.

Sakura sneakily cast the Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu on the kunoichi, making her movements lock up. This gave Sasuke the time necessary to power up his Chidori. He shoved his lightning-covered fist through the Grass nin's heart, feeling it rupture inside her body. He removed his hand, coated in blood, as Sakura joined him.

"She made Zabuza look like a joke," Sasuke wheezed. Sakura sighed. "Maybe she has the scroll we ne-" she was cut off as a most grotesque thing began occurring. A second body began crawling out of the Kusa nin's ravaged one, much to Sasuke and Sakura's disgust. It stood up, looking no worse than it was when the fight began. "H-how is that… possible… I killed you!" Sasuke shook with terror, knowing, that he had no chance of beating the reinvigorated enemy. Sweat lined Sakura's forehead. "We're finished… not even with Naruto could we even hope to defeat her!" she said, "It's hopeless!"

"Kukuku… I was hoping for a better show, Sasuke-kun. Well, when you receive my gift, I'll get what I'm looking for…" Suddenly, the grass ninja's neck extended past normal limits, straight towards Sasuke. He gasped, thinking it was over, but a cry of "Banshou Ten'in!" saved him. Sasuke flew backwards towards… "Naruto! You're alive"! He said in shock. Then his eyes widened in fear at the person who had saved him.

Naruto's body shook with rage, his entire being glowing with the Nine Tailed Demon Fox's chakra. His eyes were a piercing red, his whisker marks became more defined, and his canines and nails sharpened and lengthened. He was scowling heavily. "How dare you…?" he muttered.

The kusa nin smirked, "Kukuku… I never imagined that you would've survived my little snake's attack…" Naruto growled. "How dare you try to kill my friends, you BASTARD?!" Naruto shouted, leaping forward towards the kusa genin in righteous fury. They began exchanging devastating blows at supreme speeds- so fast that only Sasuke's Sharingan could follow. To Sakura, the claw marks that appeared on the trees nearby were completely random.

Then something clicked in her head. 'Snakes… she's extremely powerful, and she uses snakes…' "Naruto! That's Orochimaru of the Densetsu no Sannin! You're no match for him!" she cried in vain, hoping to get her teammate to stop acting so foolishly. It did nothing to stop the fight. "Sakura, if that's really Orochimaru, then we'd be doing Naruto no favor by standing in the way. We need to get farther back." Sasuke suggested. Sakura nodded. "R-right!"

Naruto kicked Orochimaru in the head, following up with a downwards elbow into his back, before finishing with "Fuuton: Juuha Reppushou!" This was his most powerful Fuuton technique because Kakashi had taught him to add the Kyuubi's chakra to it. The attack collided with Orochimaru's backside, crushing him into the ground. His limbs were bent at unnatural angles.

"Suiton: Teppodama!" Naruto's eyes widened as a ball of water smacked into his back, sending him to the ground. He noticed the body near him dissolve into dust. "Doton: Kage Bunshin…." Naruto spat. He flipped to his feet, looking up into the trees where the attack came from. Three Orochimaru's stood in the trees. They each yelled, "Fuuton: Renkudan!" Naruto's eyes widened at the jutsu. 'I've got an idea…' "Suiton: Suijinheki!" he spat a jet of water that formed into a wall, warding off the descending compressed air waves.

Suddenly, a Naruto appeared on the branch behind the clones. "Asura Path!" He fired both of his arms off into the middle Orochimaru, whom he suspected to be the original, then lasered both of the other Orochimaru's. The two rightmost ones dissolved into the dust, while the leftmost one shedded his skin again.

Naruto could keep going, but there was no point in continuing the fight this way. If Orochimaru could just shrug off even his most powerful jutsu,, and Naruto had endless chakra and stamina then eventually Naruto would make a mistake that the more experienced shinobi would capitalize on. 'So what can I do? My arsenal is limited, dattebayo!' Suddenly, the gears in Naruto's head began turning, slowly morphing his face into a grin. Orochimaru charged at him again, and instead of unleashing any jutsu, Naruto engaged in hand-to-hand combat. "Oh? You're fighting head on again. Don't tell me you think you can win without using any jutsu?" Orochimaru jabbed. Naruto smirked. "You lose, dattebayo." Naruto grabbed ahold of Orochimaru's wrists, and then seallessly made three Kage Bunshin that held onto him as well. They all shouted, "Preta Path!" Suddenly, Orochimaru's chakra began leaking from his system, and into the quartet of Naruto's'. "Wh-what the Hell is this…!?" he grunted, struggling to break free. Every second, he got weaker and weaker.

As Orochimaru lost most of his chakra, Naruto shouted, "Sasuke! Hit him with everything you've got dattebayo!" Sasuke smirked. He held his right hand out to the side, and it began cackling with lightning. His Sharingan was active, spinning wildly. At some point, he'd gained his third tomoe. Sasuke charged forward at the bumbling mess that was Orochimaru and struck his fist through the missing ninja's head. His body dissolved into a multitude of snakes. "Burn them! Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" Naruto spat twenty fireballs at each snake. Sasuke fired off his own gigantic fireball at a group of them. He panted heavily. "It's no use… he got away. We couldn't stop him."

Naruto spat on the ground in anger. "So what do we do, then?" Sakura walked up to them. "We get stronger," she said. "We become Chuunin and train harder than ever. Orochimaru is after Sasuke for some reason, and whatever that reason is, chances are that it's bad news. I say we get out of this forest as fast as possible and report this to Kakashi-sensei." Naruto and Sasuke both nodded. "Naruto-kun, I can't believe you just beat Orochimaru!" Sakura exclaimed. Both Naruto and Sasuke froze. "Did you… did you just call me, 'Naruto-kun'?" Naruto asked. Sakura blushed. "We-well… I mean…" Sasuke smirked. "So you've got a crush on him, now? Surprising, considering how revolted you were by him in the academy." "It's not like that!" Sakura shouted in vain. Naruto and Sasuke began laughing, and soon enough, so did Sakura.

Naruto suddenly stopped laughing. "Did you hear that?" He turned to the woods. "There's a team in there. Come on!" He hopped into the trees, followed by his teammates. Naruto was tackled backwards by an enemy dressed in black. They hit the ground. "Naruto!" Sasuke shouted, He unleashed a quartet of shuriken into the assailant's back. They simply stood up and hopped backwards away from Naruto. Naruto got up. "I'm annoyed with this. We'll beat them quickly and take their scroll, then head for the tower, dattebayo!" Naruto jumped into the air and butterfly-kicked the genin across from him. It dissipated into what looked like a thick mist. '"It's some kind of clone! I don't know how many they can make!" Naruto exclaimed.

Immediately, dozens of the enemy appeared in the trees surrounding the trio. Sasuke and Sakura backed up towards Naruto. "Naruto, maybe you should even it up a little bit," Sasuke suggested. Naruto grinned. "I couldn't agree more, dattebayo. Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto clones appeared in droves. The clone armies immediately began tearing into each other. After a while of this, Sasuke said, "Kai!" and all of the clones disappeared. "It was a Genjutsu?" Naruto asked, dispelling his clones. Sasuke noticed a genin who looked like the original of the clones. He threw a kunai and pinned the guy's shoulder to the tree he was in. "Looks like we might have what we need." Sasuke hopped into the tree and went through the guy's things. "Alright, I found it. Sakura, do you have a compass? Because the tower is north, last time I checked." Sakura nodded and checked hers. "That way," she said. She hopped into the trees, followed by her teammates. They made it to the tower within the hour.

Inside the tower, they read some writing on the wall. "Um.. so what exactly does this mean, dattebayo?" Naruto asked, scratching his head. Sakura nodded in understanding. "We have to open the scrolls," she said. Once she did, Iruka appeared in front of them. "Ohayou, Iruka-sensei! It's been a while, hasn't it?" Naruto said. Iruka smiled. "It has. Maybe once you're done in here, I can take you out for ramen- you know, for old times' sake." Naruto grinned cheekily. "That's a great idea, dattebayo!" Iruka's smile grew wider. "Naruto, I'm very proud of you- all of you- and how far you've come. I remember the kid who couldn't even do one bunshin; now look at you!" "Umm, Iruka-sensei, we fought Orochimaru of the Densetsu no Sannin in the forest of death." Sakura said.

…

"Na-NANI? Are you sure? Is he still out there?!" Iruka yelled/asked, panicking. "Calm down, Iruka-sensei! We beat him! He's hiding in the forest somewhere, not at full capacity. Just send some ANBU after him. They should be able to kill him!" Naruto said. Iruka's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. "You guys beat Orochimaru?!" "Well, technically, it was Naruto-kun who did… we didn't really do much to help…." Sakura said. "I told you guys I was a Super-ninja, dattebayo!" Naruto said with a triumphant grin. Iruka shook his head in disbelief. "To think it would be you of all people… you really are the number one unpredictable ninja, Naruto. Now go on into the tower- I'll inform Hokage-sama, and you'll most likely be debriefed. Anyhow, good job on beating a Sannin! Maybe you three will be the next Three Ninja." They all smiled at the thought of that. "Okay, Iruka-sensei, see ya later!" The three genin walked further into the tower, ready to face anything that came at them.

'Come on, World! Throw everything you have at me, dattebayo! I can take it.'

Well, it took a while longer than I wanted, but the chapter is done. Also, Ishould mention that Sasuke will be getting a sword, and Naruto will probably get trench knives like Asuma. Naruto never really takes full advantage of his fuuton affinity in most stories I read, so I want to do something about that. Also, if this chapter is any indication, Sakura WILL be a professional badass. I hope this does not upset anyone. Well, hell if I care if it does, I like Sakura. Any questions, feel free to drop 'em as a review, and I'll get back to ya. Ja ne!