Naruto's eyes began scanning the area around him. The ninja in the village must be very relaxed because Naruto could only see and sense chuunin level chakra reserves from every ninja even ANBU. This was disappointing.
Naruto then swung around and looked down onto a man who was literally pissing himself. Behind the man was Gaara and Kankuro while the girls were out shopping or something.
This man was a very important man because this man was a civilian council member who was in league with Orochimaru and Naruto needed the information regarding Orochimaru that instant.
"Please I'll tell you anything you want" The man pleaded.
Naruto nodded his head as he placed his hand on the man's head. "Oh I know you will" At that moment in time an unbelievable amount of pain shot through him and he couldn't even scream thanks to Gaara's sand in his mouth.
Naruto was concentrating and it was best not to disturbed him. What he was doing was really simple, he was sending quick bursts of chakra into the man's body and said chakra were swarming his brain, more accurately the part of the brain that retained memory. The chakra began scooping up the required memories and starts sending them to Naruto's brain where he began filling them and sorting them away.
Usually Naruto would use the Rinnegan properties in his eyes to deal with the interrogating but that would result in the man's death and because of his profession that would lead to too much suspicion so this would have to suffice.
When he was finally done Naruto let go of the man's head where he slumped to the ground, he wasn't dead just unconscious, he might have slight amnesia but Naruto placed a genjutsu on him to make him think he was drunk and was dropped of here by thugs because he insulted them.
After the job was done he and the two males disappeared without a trace.
The next day
"Enough!" The Hokage bellowed as he stared at the civilian council, a small amount of killing intent leaking off from him. Sarutobi Hiruzen hated many things but what he hated the most were bratty civilians going on and on about their precious Uchiha.
'If it wasn't for the promise I made you Itachi, Sasuke would be dead already for all the trouble he's caused me' Sarutobi thought into his mind as he stared into the eyes of every civilian as they began to choke from the Killing intent.
"Let us begin the discussion about the chuunin exams" Sarutobi said getting nods from the Shinobi side while the Civilians were mumbling to themselves. The sandaime felt the comings of a headache as the meeting would progress.
Koharu stood up and spoke with an air of finality "I decree that Jiraiya is to train the Uchiha and teach all his jutsus even the famed rasengan used by our hero the fourth"
The civilians nodded at this and the Shinobi in the room, minus Sarutobi's former teammates, began scowling. "Denied! Jiraiya will choose his own apprentice and the right to that A-rank Jutsu is held by none except for those with Namikaze blood!"
Sarutobi was fuming on the inside, he can expect this behaviour from the civilians but from his former teammates! Oh how they have fallen.
Koharu scowled while Homura remained impassive. Danzo however remained an unnerving silent, the old warhawk was lost in thought about the latest reports his ROOT had given him. He had been so adamant about that one thing that continued to be squandered in the village and after he disappeared, Danzo had been searching for him non-stop but it seems luck was on his side.
'If that boy is here than making him into a weapon would be easy' He thought, little did he know he was going to get a surprise.
In the Konoha market district
Kiba, Hinata and Shino were walking through the market, they had just finished training and were now looking for food when HInata caught sight of a peculiar sight.
In an old ramen stand there was a man wearing a white coat with the Kanji for sage on his back while scarfing down on the famed noodles in fire country and by the looks of the twenty bowls stacked next to him, he ate alot of it.
Hinata wanted to sweat drop but she was too shy to do that and instead just flinched and walked away but Shino and Kiba looked at the guy oddly having never seen someone like that before was sure something to see.
While that was happening Naruto was busy scarfing down on the beautiful mistress known as ramen however Kami,his wife-to-be, would always be glorious, this food was the greatest of all.
Ayame and Teuchi stood slack jawed at his impressive eating habit. They had only seen one other person eat that much.
Before they could say anything, the hooded figure that was seating on their counter eating ramen disappeared leaving behind a hefty sum of ryo on the table.
Ayame's jaw dropped to the ground at the sight of the amount of money 'Look at the amount of clothes I can buy with that!' She thought. Teuchi however was having none of it and quickly scooped up the money before she could even touch them.
Back with Naruto
"Ne! Why'd you take me away I was eating!" Naruto yelled furious his ramen time was cut down. Naruto turned his head to see another member of his little group.
This member was Yang, her hair was a frilly blonde and she wore a dark brown leather jacket with a white blouse underneath and a skirt that ended at her midcalf from the front while in the back it continued to just above her knees. On her waist was a Katana and on her back was a sword christened 'The dragon blade' but there wasn't anything special about it except for a hilt it had a dragons head.
"Naruto don't you know its not healthy to 'just' eat ramen right?" She asked with a stern face, which was strange seeing it on a girl at least one or two years younger th Naruto. "Ne, Yang where'd you been? Temari and Kankuro have been looking everywhere for you"
"Oh I spotted some slavers and thought I should pay them a visit" She said with a wicked smile making Naruto shiver, the blond bowed his head in respect to the slavers, though he hated slavery with a vengeance knowing that those poor souls who had to face Yangs wrath would be far worse from anything he would do.
"R-right, let's go" The blonde said as he began dashing off across the rooftops.
It didn't take long till they reached the rest of the group, Tayuya and Temari were talking animatedly and by seeing them Yang quickly made her way to them. Hikari was talking with Gaara while Kankuro was looking into a girls window using a high powered binoculars.
Naruto smirked seeing the male sand sibling, "Kankuro what poor girl are you spying on now?"
"Some blond girl...a Yamanaka I believe" Kankuro said with a perverted grin. "Damn, if she had paid more attention to her training maybe she might've spotted you already" Naruto said with a grin.
"Eh, makes my life easier" Kankuro said with a perverted chuckled only to get bonked on the head with a frying pan by Tayuya "Ero-baka!"
Naruto could barely keep his laughing in at his friends misfortune, but soon enough he had to get serious, the chuunin exams were happening soon and if his sources were right, Orochimaru would be there to get his precious Uchiha and when that happens he'd have to stop him and maybe work on the Uchiha's common sense a bit. But that would be a secondary objective.
"Alright guys let's go, watch each others backs" Naruto stated and the group nodded their heads before disappearing.
With Naruto.
The blond was racing through the woods at high speed and landed next to a camp in the woods, 'very devious' Sand and Sound had placed camps all around the leaf village and all of them were concealed in underground bunkers or caves and even if any patrols spotted them there were genjutsu users waiting to pounce on them and erase their memories.
'Naruto be careful, genjutsu may not affect you but they will still dampen your abilities' The fox warned getting a nod from the young sage. Closing his eyes Naruto activated his doujutsu that showed the chakra signatures of everyone in his line of sight. '1,2,3..25 this should be easy' thought the blond as he dropped onto the ground.
He landed with a crouch barely making any noise before speeding forward, his grace and movements were simply a breeze in the air. Silent, not a single sound was made.
He stopped behind a ninja and began running through hand signs before whispering "Heavenly Grasp" and just like that Naruto's eyes sent a spike of chakra into the man's body and began disrupting the flow before it reached the centre of its well and burned it all out.
The ninja died without even knowing how. Naruto smiled as he walked off and met another ninja, sand, he didn't need to die, in this situation they were victims, Gaara would agree. He walked forward and tapped his shoulder making the guard spun around and stare into his eyes before he was knocked out by a single whisper 'Tsukuyomi' the man was dragged into Naruto's genjutsu world where he was knocked out.
Before he could touch the ground the blonde grabbed him and pulled him away. He continued on his crouch walk and came across about ten different men standing outside the entrance to the bunker surrounding a fire.
'All sound except for two who are sand' Naruto thought as he began analysing the situation, he would go the sneaky way but going all out and putting the fear of god into Orochimaru was too tempting and technically Naruto was a god, just got to get hitched first.
Naruto smiled as he exposed himself to the ninjas. All of them began scattering the moment he stepped out, a few tried to run away and call for help but he stopped them using a mud barrier, not that it mattered since everybody else were dealing with the other camps.
"Well...this is going to be fun, well for me anyways" Naruto said nonchalantly as he pulled out a katana from seemingly nowhere (ahem..seals...ahem) and took up a stance. The group of sound ninja started to gain scowls and pulled out their kunai, overconfidence written on their stances however the sand nin seemed to be hesitant, it seemed they know when they were outmatched.
Naruto smirked, three sound nins jumped forward trying to get a hit on the cloaked figure that stood before them but ultimately hit nothing but a log before the same figure dropped from behind them and in one smooth motion bisected two while the third got nicked in the arm. That leaves seven with one that was wounded.
Naruto took up a ready stance as another sound nin jumped forward. Naruto's Katana met the nins kunai in clash of sparks before he took up a stance reminiscent to that of Jyuuken only it involved a blade and not his hands.
"One hundred gates of hell!" Naruto yelled out as his hands moved in a blur, the ninjas couldn't even see where his blade was hitting except for the familiar sound of metal hitting flesh.
When the strikes ended Naruto placed his Katana into his sheath that was revealed to be on his waist leaving the blade only inches out with his thumb before he slammed the blade completely in and making a thump noise.
As if on cue the sound nin that was attacked started to gain slash marks on his clothes and body before fire burst out of the wounds incinerating the man before he could even scream.
The surviving ninjas all began sweating at this sight, their opponent was very strong and they knew they wouldn't survive but if they were to die they would die with honor.
The sound nin from before who got nicked in the arm jumped forward and in a downward slash tried to impale Naruto's head only for him to sidestep it and push the hilt of his blade into the ninjas gut before pulling out his own kunai and ramming it through the poor pawns neck and ripping it out.
Before the lifeless corpse touch the body Naruto jumped forward and met another sound nin with a deadly dance of blades before Naruto jumped away from him and attacked a surprised nin, slicing his head in half before returning and attacking his previous opponent. 'Five'
The sound nin sent a plea to his allies and all together the ninjas jumped forward. Naruto had to be careful, he couldn't risk harming the sand nin. So he pulled back and rushed through hand signs "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!" The wall of pressurised air slammed into the sand nin launching them far away from the fight and leaving the three sound nin for Naruto.
The sage dashed forward and rammed his blade into one of the sound nins gut before he sliced his way through his dead corpse and towards the others.
The two ninjas regained their composure and met the blade with their kunai only for Naruto to let go it and take out his own kunai. He rammed it into the closest ninja before kicking the corpse into the other making him lose balance which is a very fatal thing.
Naruto rushed through hand signs as the centre tomoe of his eyes began expanding into a saw blade and out came a white flame of Amaterasu that burned away the ninja before he could even scream.
With the sound nin done Naruto dashed off to go deal with the sand nin.
With Yang And Tayuya
"Hey who are yo-ACHKK!" A sound nin yelled as he was impaled by Yangs blade.
"Pathetic" She spat before twirling and impaling another nin. Tayuya was off on a tree using her flute to make the sound ninjas fight each other, the looks on their faces when they were being attacked by their own comrades were priceless. The redhead snorted happily as her kill count began to rise.
The blonde girl saw this and smiled, Tayuya was the only one who could match her battle crazed mind. "Hey blondie I spotted a hottie not far from you" Tayuya yelled at her.
True to her word a big muscle toned man appeared wielding a large blade and was staring at Yang with what appeared to be lust, but that was what all Yang so on men's faces.
She felt bile rise in her throat as a look of disgust made it to her face, she turned to Tayuya and cried out her thanks. The redhead acknowledged her with a nod before the blond turned back to her opponent. He was readying himself in stance, this one was a brute as far as Yang could tell. He would be a worthy opponent.
She dropped down into her stance and the two dashed forward and met with a resounding *clang* eliciting sparks to fly as they stared into each others eyes. It stayed that way for awhile, before the two disengaged and began circling each other.
A brief moment of praise flash through the man's eyes, this young lady's figure betrays her strength, not many could hold up against him in a duel of power and this little girl seemed to be the first the be evenly matched with him. Just by that, he knew she would be a hard person to kill.
He dashed forward while she remained completely still till at the last second she sheathed her katana and pulled out her dragon blade where the two blades met with sparks. The man smirked "Do you really think that by just changing sword you'll win?" The man grunted, overconfidence lacing his voice. Yang all but smirked, perhap he wouldn't be a worthy opponent.
She sent a wave of her chakra into the blade and the eyes of the dragon head glowed before fire shot out and engulfed the blade. The man could feel the intense heat slowly burning his skin and he watched with horror as the metal of his blade began to melt.
Yang smirked as she rammed her shoulder into the man's gut and stood victorious above him.
The man could only look in fear as she placed the tip of her blade above his family jewels before an evil smile took residence on her face.
"Please, no" He begged but it only seemed to encourage her further as she let the blade fall.
With the sand siblings
"Mass Burial!" Gaara intoned as his sand engulfed a group of sound ninjas before crushing them into tiny little pieces.
In that very moment the two males felt a shiver run up their spines. Making them open for three sound ninjas and a sand nin to exploit but Temari sent a wave of wind that sent them back into the ground, knocking them out.
"What's wrong?" Temari asked her brothers worry evident in her eyes.
"I think Yang has found a worthy opponent" Gaara intoned, but if you listen closely you'll find pity there. Kankuro only shivered in response.
Back with Naruto.
"Sound Release: Blisters!" A wave of sound began ringing through the walls of the bunker. "Did you really think this would affect me?" Naruto asked.
In a way it was affecting him but the blisters that were being formed were quickly being healed before blood could burst from them 'You owe me something for this' Kurama said as he began working in overdrive.
'Yea yea, I'll go imagine up a vixen for you or something' The blond sage pulled out his katana from his waist and raced forward, driving the blade into the man's heart before jumping away and slashing against his enemies.
Naruto was skilled, and he wasn't sadistic. Something the sound nins don't have. Some may say being sadistic helps you be a better ninja but that's only true in a small way, it'd make you more deadly but the amount of mistakes you'll make just to quell your bloodlust would end only in your death.
Naruto ducked underneath a kunai before lashing out with his shuriken and embedding an enemy into a wall. Before the sound nin could react he was staring at white soulless eyes as the centre tomoe began expanding and forming a saw blade right before he felt his soul being ripped apart and taken into Naruto's own.
'So Orochimaru knew I'd be coming eh?' Naruto mused, through the memories of the cannon fodder he ripped apart Naruto found out that the snake sannin knew that he was being hunted down but thought nothing of it and instead believed that his men could deal with it before the invasion but it seems he was dead wrong. The pedophile always was overconfident in his abilities.
Naruto continued to walk down the hallways, swiping the blood of his blade before sheathing it again. He stopped himself when he reached a door, big red double doors. 'How subtle' He thought before he placed his finger on the door and using the motion of a simple love tap, the door burst open and collided into the ground with a smash. Sending dust and pieces of concrete everywhere.
"Ah, so the great and powerful sage has paid me a visit kukukukuku" The deranged sannin cackled as the blond stood in his position, the blond could feel the chakra Orochimaru was pulsing, thinking as if such a small and insignificant power could match up to his.
"You know about something I want" Naruto intoned.
"Oh and what ,might I ask, is that?" The pale man was smiling evily, a certain gleam in his eyes when he saw the doujutsu eyes that were shining in the man's eye sockets. There had been many tales that came from this so-called sage, most of which were about his eyes, such a powerful doujutsu, if Orochimaru were to come into possession of such eyes immortality would be an arms reach away.
"The location and members of the criminal organization Akatsuki" The sage replied before shimmering out of existence and reappearing behind the sannin, his blade out and against his neck. "I'm asking nicely here, you don't want to see me ask any other way" His voice was cold and dead and the sannin had to suppress a shudder as the cold metal of his weapon pricked his skin letting blood flow.
Acting quickly Orochimaru performed a sealless substitution jutsu and pulled out his blade, the Kusanagi, and prepared himself for a battle.
"(Sigh) And here I thought you were suppose to be smart" Naruto dashed forward using only a tenth of his normal speed and met up with Orochimaru with a sideward slash that was intercepted by the Kusanagi.
The snake sannin pushed away from his adversary before performing hand seals "Many Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!" A plethora of snake burst from his sleeves and slithered their way to the sage only for half their number to vanish in a poof of smoke. 'What!' The snake man was shocked at this 'Is this the power of his eyes?'
Meanwhile Naruto just smirked, the technique he used made it so he summoned snakes to do his bidding, but there was a catch unlike a usual summoning these are directly attached to the summoner and uses his chakra to be able to appear, which is why they appear from his hands. By using his ability and cutting of the chakra from reaching the snakes, these snakes will then disappear because of the severed connection but Naruto was only capable to do a handful but still, it made work easier for him.
Pushing wind chakra into a pair of shuriken he whispered "Vacuum blade" sending the shuriken out and transforming them into widespread, lethal fan blades that cut down the snakes before ultimately stopping by a swipe from Kusanagi.
Naruto and Orochimaru kept a stare down going on. "Wind release: Great Breakthrough!" A wall of pressurised air slammed into Naruto but the sage had pumped chakra into his legs glueing him into position.
"My turn! Fire Release: Fire Phoenix sage fire Technique" A volley of flames were sent to Orochimaru and the sannin was forced to be on guard to dodge all of them. But his eyes widened when nearly half of the flames he dodged disappeared to reveal shurken in them.
He was lucky to have dodged half of them but a good number of shuriken embedded itself onto his arms. "Yield!" The sage yelled.
"Never!" Orochimaru yelled defiantly as he raced through a number of hand seals before slamming his palm onto the ground. Out from underneath it came a giant purple snake, Manda, Naruto smiled, he just signed his own death warrant. "Manda kill him!" Orochimaru commanded but grew shock as the giant snake just stared at his opponent and then bowed to him. 'What!'
"Milord" The snake said, his head still low. This on its own made Orochimaru fear the man that stood before him even more. Manda was known for his extreme pride and for him to bow his head down to anyone would prove his strength. Even Orochimaru had problems when dealing with him.
"Hello Manda, can you help me deal with Orochimaru?" Naruto asked the snake, he was however inwardly laughing at the amount of sweat that was rolling off of Orochimaru's forehead. "Yes Milord"
Without another word Manda threw his head upwards, launching the sannin into the air before he crushed his summoner in a belly flop.
After Manda disappeared in a puff of smoke, Naruto had to hold his sides at the sigh of the squashed S-rank criminal before him. 'Oh this is too good'
Naruto made his way down onto the small crater of Orochimaru's defeat and looked into his eyes. The sannin said nothing as he stared into the eyes of the sage as the centre tomoe expanded and took the form of a saw blade.
Before succumbing to darkness.