Chapter 13

Naruto and Kiba's entrance into the arena is analogous with two fighting dogs being led into a ring to fight. Although Naruto and Kiba weren't snarling and straining at leashes, the tension was there. Hayate stood between Naruto and Kiba, eying them as they attempted to glare holes into each other.

"I assume you both know the rules?" Hayate asked both of them. The pair nodded.

"D-do your best, Naruto-kun! Kiba-kun!" Shouted the timid Hyuuga Hinata from up in the balconies.

"Yeah! Good luck, Naruto!" added Sakura.

Judge and participants glanced up at them. Naruto grinned and Kiba smirked in acknowledgement. Hayate cleared his throat. "Once again, this is not a fight to the death. Begin!"

Kiba sneered at Naruto. "Hehe, are you ready to lose?"

Naruto glared at him. "One day I will become the fifth Hokage. That means…" Naruto pointed a finger at Kiba, "YOU are going to be the one that will lose."

Yondame analyzed his opponent from inside Naruto. From his knowledge of Kiba's clan, he recalled that they used ninja dogs in their attack. However, considering "Naruto's" inactivity in studying and the fact that Kyuubi is asleep, Yondame was stuck trying to figure a plan to attack like an under trained genin. Flexing his fingers, Yondame expertly hit a few keys. "Yosh! Try this on for size, dog!"

Naruto clasped his hands together and made two clones of himself. The Narutos then punched the air in front of him, holding out the arm, fist closed. "Dog-boy, you're going DOWN!!" all the Naruto's declared, pointing their thumbs down for emphasis. Both then reached for his weapons bag, but were immediately stopped by a shout from Kiba.

"Oy! Oy! Akamaru's not ready yet!" Kiba barked, irritated. But before he could unzip his jacket, Naruto launched his attack. The clones leapt at Kiba all screaming for his blood.

He reached into his weapons pouch and threw three shuriken and a kunai with an exploding note attached to it. Yondaime made a note to get better weapons after the fight, the ones he had right now were not in good condition.

Kiba easily blocked the shuriken. He almost didn't notice the exploding notes until it was too late. He blocked one kunai, and then back-flipped to barely miss the explosions. Naruto came from behind with a kunai in hand, but Kiba smelled him and a well timed punch dissipated the clone. Another Naruto bore down from above. A flying roundhouse kick from Kiba took it out. While still in mid-air, Kiba's eyes widened as several shuriken and an exploding tag kunai came flying at him. Unable to block them, Naruto drew first blood.

Kiba used his arms to protect his vital points as three shuriken slammed into him. The tag exploded without the kunai reaching him and the force threw him into a wall.

"UWA!" Kiba grunted, spitting blood. Collapsing onto the ground, he leaned against the wall, panting. The real Naruto walked up to him, twirling a kunai on his index finger, and stopped five feet away. Kiba looked up at him and scowled.

"You moron, I wasn't even ready yet," Kiba spat.

Yondame flipped out. Naruto did likewise. "YOU'RE A SHINOBI!! YOU'RE ALWAYS PREPARED!!" Naruto shouted, thrusting a finger into Kiba's face. "WHO'S THE IDIOT NOW YOU MORON?!? HUH? HUUUUH?!?"

POW!

Naruto was sent flying by a well placed uppercut from Kiba. Once again standing, Kiba winced as he pulled out the three lucky shuriken. Then unzipping his jacket, he gently took out a small brown and white dog and placed him on the floor.

Yond stood, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. His reaction time was slower when his body was not conditioned and much smaller than his original body. He hated being short. His arm and leg reach were awful compared to his original body. Well, he would just have to compensate for that.

"OK! Ready Akamaru?" Kiba grinned at his canine companion. Akamaru barked twice in agreement and growled at Naruto.

Yondame eyed the dog warily. He knew that while it looked relatively cute and harmless it was dangerous…but only when provoked; similar to the policy of all Konoha ninjas. Yondame twisted in his chair just enough to check on the sleeping ball of dark orange fuzz. There was very little movement, but the occasional twitch told him that Kyuubi was alive, but sound asleep. Exhaling loudly, he turned back to his controls.

Two on one was hardly fair, and from the control room his reactions were a little slower than he would like them to be. Now, in the corner of the control pad there was a large red button with caution tape around it. This button would make things a lot simpler for Yondame, but could also lead to his permanent death if he screwed up. Yondame's finger hovered over this button for a moment, before pressing it. With a blinding flash of light, Yondame became Naruto.

Kiba rocked uneasily on his feet as he watched Naruto's eyes glaze over before closing. Kiba put his hands up into a defensive stance, ready for everything. "Any day now," he bluffed, Akamaru equally ready beside him. Kiba nearly yelped in surprise when Naruto's eyes flashed open, seemingly with a different intensity than before. Naruto dropped into his own fighting stance with, Kiba noted, more fluidity than the clumsy, jerky movements of the Naruto seconds prior.

Now with full control over Naruto, Yondame grinned at Kiba. "Two on one is a bit unfair, don't you think?"

Kiba grinned broadly. "Don't worry, we'll go easy on you," he replied mockingly. He ignored the pain in his arms. While Naruto drew first blood, he would draw the last one.

Yondame's grin widened. "I wouldn't be worried about me, dog-breath."

Kiba sneered. "Now it's my turn." He reached into his bag and threw a pair of kunai at Naruto.

Yondaime easily dodged the kunai only to barely dodge Akamaru's lunge. He pulled back his leg and sent a kick towards Akamaru. Akamaru jumped out of the way, and Kiba threw a punch at Naruto's face. He had used the kunai as a distraction to sneak up on Naruto

"You shouldn't underestimate Akamaru like that!"

Yond slid back, letting the force of the blow to roll off him. Pure instinct shifted his body to a crane defense form, a basic Anbu taijutsu move, something Naruto should not know. When his brain caught his body, he froze. Yondaime goal was to get through the exams without alerting people that he was not what he said he was.

Showing off was not a good idea.

Kiba sneered at Naruto's stupidity. "Stupid, dobe! I thought you were better than that!"

Yondaime shook himself before pointing a finger at Kiba. "You're the dobe, dobe!"

To his horror, he felt his vision going blurry. Something was wrong in the control center. He heard aiba yell something and then a whirlwind slammed into him.

Kiba made contact, sharp nails digging into Naruto and blowing him backwards into a wall.

At that precise moment, all motion and sensory control was back online. Unfortunately, that was when Yondaime slammed into the wall with a sickening crunch. He coughed out blood.

With a sudden yank, he found himself back in a chair with a controller. In front of him was a very mad Kyuubi. "You dimwit, are you trying to get me killed!."

With that Kyuubi shoved Yondiame out of the chair with a thump. He disconnected all traces of Yondaime from the system and took full control. With a roar, he opened his eyes and growled, releasing a bit of his chakra.

Naruto jerked, eyes flickering before straightening up and leveling a bloodthirsty glare at Kiba.

Eyes widening, he flipped backwards next to Akamaru. "Akamaru, here." he said, holding out a blue pill in his hand. Akamaru ate one, suddenly turning a dark, red color.

Grinning Kiba took out another small blue pill and ate it as well. "A lesson for you today Naruto. Now you know why his name is Akamaru."

With a sneer befitting a demon lord Kyuubi replied," I don't really care, dog breath." He was really pissed. He hated dogs. He really hated dogs.

"Feeding dogs drugs won't help you anyway. You're going down!" He ran towards Kiba, intent on making Kiba shaped hole everywhere.

"Akamaru!" Kiba growled. Akamaru came and jumped onto Kiba's back.

"BEAST-HUMAN TRANSFORMATION!" With a poof, both him and Akamaru were transformed into growling, sharp nailed humans

Facing Naruto head on, Kiba growled out, "GATSUGA!" A Jutsu that sent both himself and Akamaru hurtling towards Naruto like torpedoes

Kyuubi sneered once more. He stood there and waited. With astonishing speed, he grabbed the collar of both speeding torpedoes and clenched. When the torpedoes subsided, he smashed their heads together.

"Shit." Kiba wrenched himself out of Naruto's grasp. Akamaru did so as well, nipping Naruto's hand as he wiggled free.

Kyuubi gave Kiba and his dog a seething look. "Die." He spat and his chakra rose, flooding out of his body.

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Kakashi teleported Sasuke into a seal covered room. "Strip."

Sasuke looked at Kakashi oddly. "Sorry, but I don't work that way. I haven't even seen your face for that matter."

"Haha." Said Kakashi gruffly. "We need to put a seal on top of your curse seal. The sooner we get the seal on the better."

Sasuke blew away a stray strand of hair obscuring his vision. 'Great,' he thought, 'another seal. As if the first two didn't hurt enough...'

Pulling his shirt off over his head, he turned, bare-chested, to Kakashi and shrugged. "What do you want me to do?" he asked, pale skin almost glowing in the dim lighting.

Kakashi motioned for Sasuke to sit in the middle of the room. He started painting seals on Sasuke and on the ground.

"Okay, now this will hurt a lot." Kakashi started the seal. He didn't notice the second seal flash before disappearing. The characters traveled up Sasuke's body before making a ring around the curse seal.

"Huf, there that should hold." He examined his work.

"AAAAAAARGH!!" Sasuke cried in agony. Not due to the new seal Kakashi was putting on him, but because Kyuubi's seal was punishing his body for trying to cancel out the nine tailed seal. As soon as Kakaishi's seal was done, everything stopped, and his world faded to black. Oh how Sasuke was beginning to hate passing out.

A telepathic link was suddenly made between Sasuke and Kyuubi. Sasuke found himself staring to the most murderous blood-red eyes he had ever seen. In his true form, Kyuubi towered over Sasuke's pathetic human body and made Sasuke wish he had never made a deal with the demon fox.

"What. Did you. Do," growled Kyuubi menacingly, eye to eye with Sasuke.

Sasuke did his best to remain standing as he calmly replied, "Kakashi-sensei is trying to control orochimaru's seal with another."

Kyuubi swore. "That son of a- WHY did you go and let him do THAT?"

Sasuke smirked and blew a puff of air in Kyuubi's angry face. "Because YOU, oh Great One, told me to not let anyone know about your seal."

A well placed blow from Kyuubi sent Sasuke sprawling. Scrambling, Sasuke moved to defend himself further. Kyuubi angrily started towards the boy, then stopped. And laughed.

Sasuke just stared, spitting and wiping blood from his injured mouth. "What's so funny?" he demanded.

Kyuubi smirked. "I don't think I have to punish you much more. When you wake up, your body will remind you of the defiance you have shown me. Sweet dreams..." And with that, the image of Kyuubi dissappeared in a puff of smoke, and Sasuke was again left alone in hazy darkness.

Kakashi was a bit worried that Sasuke just suddenly collapsed. He was more worried when Orochimaru appeared in a jonin suit. "What are you doing here." Kakashi tensed, he had to protect Sasuke.

Oro cackled evily. "What am I doing here... what a question Kakashi." He grinned, licking his lips with his long purple tongue. "You already know why I'm here."

"You're not taking him." Kakashi said with a glare. He knew he was no match for the Senin but he had to try. "He isn't yours."

Oro's grin widened and he withdrew his tongue. "Not mine? You seem to need glasses Kakashi. He has my name written all over him..."

"No he doesn't." True Sasuke had the curse seal on him but Kakashi noted that Sasuke wasn't even using the seal, in fact the seal didn't even seem it was there. Kakashi has a strong sense of smell; funny thing was Sasuke smelled more like Naruto.

Strange.

"Maybe you need a new sense of smell."

Oro's smile faded. "Kakashi, you disappoint me! With your nose you should have smelled my scent by now! I take back my earlier dig at your eyesight. I'm sorry, do you have a cold?" Orochimaru asked in a mixture of sarcasm and irritation.

"You don't even have a nose to call your own." Said kakshi snidely. "I actually have a nose." He childishly pointed at his covered nose.

Orochimaru hissed in anger. "Hand over the boy, kakashi."

"Over my dead body." Snarled Kakashi.

Oro began smiling all over again. "As you wish, Kakashi," he grinned, quickly doing a series of seals and sending two snakes from his sleeves towards kakashi.

Kakashi jumped back and fired off a few kunai. He had to stall for time. He then fired off a few fire balls. He made a few clones of himself and they started firing fire balls as well.

Orochimaru did another series of complex hand seals and was about to wipe out all the kakashi's. when he smelled something coming, something too powerful for him. He couldn't place the scent, but suddenly, it all came back to him. "Kyuubi..." He hissed. Forgetting about Kakashi, he poofed himself away.

Kakashi blinked in surprise. He was alive. He took a deep stabilizing breath. What scared the snake senin away? He decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth and grabbed Sasuke. Sasuke looked like he needed to be in a hospital.

Kakashi picked up Sasuke and poofed away as well to the hospital.