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Chapter 8: Forest of Death!
The other teams were at the entrance of a large forest. The place was blocked of by a wire fence and some of the other teams were getting restless. Naruto hadn't shown up so Ino and Hinata were slightly nervous. Others however were getting impatient waiting for the blonde. Sasuke was grinning thinking Naruto had chickened out.
Kiba walked over to Hinata. "Looks like he isn't gonna show." he said smugly."Just wait," she said, "He'll come."
Kiba grinned, !C'mon Hinata. Stop playing hard to get. You know you want me." He put his arm around her waist and pulled her in close. In response she brought her knee and hit him right where the sun don't shine.
"I'm only saying this once," she growled staring him in the eye leaking killing intent, "I am Narutos. I am not yours. I will never be yours. So go find some other girl to bother!"
Kiba finally got up and walked away nursing his pride and hoping he wasn't sterile.
Ino approached her teammate. "All right! Way to show that jerk who's boss!" she yelled causing Hinata to blush. "I just wanted to get the message across." she said in an embarrassed voice.
"Not bad." said a familiar voice. The girls turned to see a smirking Sasuke. "I have to ask," he said, "why do you hang around that loser Naruto. He's a no-name loser. Why don't you leave him for a real man?"
Ino scowled, "Naruto is more man than you'll ever be." she said in a clear obviously annoyed tone, " and furthermore you aren't a man. You are just a whiny spoiled brat. You just expect anyone to give you what they want."
"They should including you," he said leering at her.
"Hate to burst your bubble but I'm engaged to Naruto too along with the other girls you tried to kidnap and force to wed. So you can't have me."
Sasuke scowled, "Then I'll take you!" He reached out to grab her but was intercepted by a massive silver claw. The force of the blow sent him flying into a tree. Everyone looked at the source of the noise to see a dragon made of silver chakra. I threw back its head and roared in anger. Then it vanished Naruto in it's place.
"So," he said nonchalantly, "What did I miss?"
10 minutes later…
The teams stood at separate gates of the forest. The 'Forest of Death' Anko called it. They had to get a scroll from another team under a time limit of three days. The hard part was that they didn't know what kind of scroll the other teams had so you had to go on instinct and pray that you got lucky. Plus you had to deal with whatever the heck lived in this place so good luck with that.
As soon as the clock struck noon Naruto, Ino and Hinata shot off into the woods. As did all of the other teams.
Naruto and his team stopped a few feet in and started to plan.
"So," Naruto stated, "What are we going to do?"
"We need to find someone with a heaven scroll to go with our earth scroll." Ino stating the obvious, "Maybe we can find one of the other teams from the village because I don't want to fight someone from here."
"Yeah," said Hinata agreeing.
At that moment there was a loud explosion. All three of them ran for it. They followed the sound to find Sasuke, Kiba, Shino, Sakura, Shikamaru and Chouji going up against a grass nin. She was tall pail and had long black hair. Sasuke was on the ground holding a spot on his neck where a strange mark was starting to grow.
Naruto narrowed his eyes but then he heard Kyuubi snarl.
"That's him!" growled the fox. 'What's up big guy?' Naruto asked. Kyuubi growled again. "Kid do you know why I attacked the village? I lived on earth for years until I came to my home to find my mate and my pups murdered! A leaf ninja headband was there so I went there to get revenge. The headband smelled of snake and so does this guy. That is no grass ninja that is Orochimaru!"
As soon as Naruto heard that his blood started to boil. He knew this guy was a traitor. He turned to Hinata and whistled. As soon as he did Ryu crawled out of Hinata's jacket. Apparently Hinata didn't want the little fellow to leave. "Ryu go get the Kage and a lot of ANBU." he ordered. Ryu nodded slightly and ran off.
Kyuubi snarled again, "Kid I want to get back at this guy for what he did to my family. You can set me free from the seal but it will only last until that snake is dead. Drive my sword into the ground and say 'Kyuubi awake from the dreamless sleep'.
Naruto smirked and ran forward into the fray before him. Orochimaru still in his disguise faced him. "Well look what we have here."
"Drop the act you snake faced freak! I know who you are Orochimaru!" Orochimaru smirked slightly and in a poof of smoke took his real form. He was tall pale and had long black hair. He chuckled, "So you think you can beat me little boy?" he licked his lips with an extra long tongue. Naruto chuckled this time. "Who said I would kick your butt?" He drew Kyuubi's sword and drove it into the ground then he stepped back and said, "Kyuubi awake from the dreamless sleep." As soon as those words left his lips the sword let out a burst of red chakra. It swirled around and then focused on point behind the sword. 'What…what is this power?' Orochimaru thought as the chakra burst. When the smoke cleared it revealed a man. He was tall and muscular covered head to toe in black armor. The helmet had two curved iron horns coming out of the sides like the devil. When his eyes opened they glowed like burning embers. The human Kyuubi looked at Orochimaru and chuckled darkly then he grabbed the sword by the hilt and raised it up and yelled "I'm Baaack!"
Meanwhile…
Minato was having a discussion with the other clan heads at the Nara compound. They were discussing when Minato would reveal Naruto to be his son. Just as things were coming to a close something shot through the window. All of them looked ready to fight when they saw it was just a blue four-tailed fox.
Shika, Shikamaru's dad(don't know his name either) was about to say something when his wife showed up. "Honey what's going…" she started to ask when she saw the fox. "AAW! So cute!" she picked it and started crushing it in a killer hug. "Could you let go of me, please?" Ryu managed to get out. This made her scream and drop the little fellow. "It talks how can it talk? That isn't possible is it?"
"Easy," Minato stated trying to calm the woman down, "His name is Ryu. He's one of Naruto's summons." He turned to the small fox. "Whats going on?" he asked
"We have a little problem…"
Meanwhile…
Orochimaru could have sworn this was a nightmare. He was standing face to face with the Kyuubi himself. If it weren't for the fact that he was standing in front of kids he would start shaking.
"So you overgrown rattler," The demon growled, "you ready to die?" The snake chuckled, "You will be the one dying."
With that said Orochimaru lunged at Kyuubi. The demon blocked his punch and sent him flying with a kick to the stomach. Kyuubi laughed and raced after him grabbing him by the throat and dragging him off to where they could fight in peace.
"Whoa…" was all Shikamaru could say. The rest of the guys, except Naruto, were in complete shock. "What just happened?" asked Sakura after the initial shock wore off. "Naruto summoned a demonic looking man with his sword and he just dragged the snake man off into the forest to fight him. Sakura stared at him and then at Naruto who just shrugged. "You get used to it." Was all Naruto said.
Meanwhile in another part of the forest…
Orochimaru was thrown into a tree by Kyuubi. The snake couldn't believe it he was actually scared. He grinned viciously. 'That power. If I can absorb his body I can truly become a god!' Hunger for power at it's finest folks. Orochimaru reached into his mouth and pulled out the nasangi. He charged at Kyuubi who blocked it with his own sword. Kyuubi then jumped up and brought it down on the nasangi. The result was the sword being split in two. Orochimaru knew he had to call them. "To me Sound Ninja five!" As he finished those words Five ninja showed up. A fat guy, a red headed woman, a guy with 4 arms, a guy with a second body coming out of his back, and an albino guy with a dagger made of bone. Kyuubi grinned under his helmet "Now your making it interesting."
Back with the teams…
Naruto was wondering what was taking Kyuubi so long. He was about to see if he could help him when he sensed a powerful energy surge. He and everyone else faced it to see Sasuke giving off purple chakra. As he got up they saw strange marking all over his body. Sasuke looked at his hands and started to laugh. "This power…," he said, "this power is what I've been looking for! I can finally kill him." He looked at Naruto. "But first I want to get rid of a small pain in the butt."
Sasuke charged at Naruto but missed him by a hair. Naruto drew Elyons sword and yelled out, "Dragon style: Dragon Claw." The sword burst into flames and Naruto sent them at Sasuke who barely dodged the attack. They both charged at each other and ended up grappling. The two pushed trying to get a leg up on the other when Sasuke suddenly backed off. He started clutching his head in pain and started to scream. The marks on his body started to vanish. 'What the…,' Naruto thought.
A few minute earlier with Kyuubi…
Kyuubi was staring at the sound ninja that had him surrounded when all of a sudden the clan heads showed up. Orochimaru was shocked when he saw Minato among them since he thought he was dead. The clan heads fought off the sound ninja and managed to knock them out. Minato faced Orochimaru and Kyuubi leapt to his side. "It's been a while you old fox." Minat stated. "Yes it has," Kyuubi said in a monotone voice. Orochimaru just snarled and tried to attack but Kyuubi held out a hand. "Demonic style: Chains of Oblivion!" Chains shot out the ground and wrapped around Orochimaru's arms, legs neck and torso. As soon they made contact he felt an incredible pain. "Surprised?" Kyuubi asked, Those chains are pumping youkai into your body. It's severing you chakra coils and destroying your body. Even you can't regenerate that much. Let's end this Minato. Both warriors held out there hands and formed a single rasengan. This one though was made of red chakra and was twice as big. They both crouched and shot forward and called out, "Demonic Rasengan!" As the move made contact Orochimaru screamed out in pain. After a few seconds there wasn't even ashes left of his body. As soon as he died the Sound ninja started to scream. Minato examined they to see the curse marks on there necks vanishing. They also heard screaming from somewhere else. They followed the noise to see the kids with Sasuke who was on his knees. Minato could just barely make out a fading curse mark. Sasuke growled as he saw Kyuubi and Minato. "My power. Give me back my power!" he charged only to meet a backhand by Minato into a tree. After everyone was checked for injuries Ino had to ask. "So now what?"
Minato answered, "Well seeing what you've been through I'd say that you pass the second part of the exam." Everyone grinned and looked happy about it except Sasuke who was unconscious and Sakura who was mad. "Aren't you going to punish him," Sakura asked pointing at Kyuubi.
"Why should I?" asked the kage.
"He hurt Sasuke he should be-" she didn't finish her sentence because she was sent flying by a kick from Naruto. Kyuubi just laughed then he turned to chakra and flew back into the seal on Naruto. As everyone headed to the tower Hinata pulled Naruto to the side. "When we get to the tower," she whispered, "You are going to explain this to me and the rest of your future wives." With that said she left with Naruto following her grinning.
Wow that was a long one. Hope you liked seeing Kyuubi in action. I just wanted to kill of the snake cause he was a major headache. Just so you know Kakashi is going to come back in the next chapter but you probably won't like it. I don't want to spoil anything but he is going to be hurt worse than from Kushina's beating. Let me know what you think. Later!