I had someone else comment about how Orochimaru is coming for Naruto, but I think things will stray a bit more from the canon than they have already as Kakashi doesn't know about Naruto's curse seal, so he won't go off to get him sealed after his match and Orochimaru won't try to get him while it's just the two of them.

Also, as I post this, I realize that I forgot that I hadn't posted this and the next chapter yet, so a treat for you readers, I'm posting three chapters today. Enjoy!

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Naruto listened to the instructions from the Hokage with anxiety, for once in his life, wishing he wasn't up to fight soon. He watched the screen and groaned. He was first to fight. Wonderful. He sighed.

Kiba said "Lucky, you're first to fight too!"

Hinata said "Ano...should the preliminaries start this soon?"

Naruto tried a smile at her, though he didn't feel it. "I'll be fine."

Sasuke and Sakura were somewhat disturbed by how serious Naruto was still acting. Naruto saw this and worried that they would get suspicious of him soon. He laughed "Heh, when I beat this loser, you wanna fight, sasuke-teme?"

Sasuke smirked. That was more like the Naruto he knew. Sakura rolled her eyes, but Naruto could tell she was less suspicious of him now. Naruto jumped down and was at once uneasy. There was something off about this man he was fighting. He smelled...familiar...who was he? He listened to the announcer start the match 'Yoroi Akado...I don't know the name, but still...

Akado looked at the boy in front of him. Lord Orochimaru had set him up to fight with him. He could feel the chakra coming from him and wasn't surprised that Orochimaru had picked the boy. Once the Kyuubi merged with him, he could be the most powerful ninja on the face of the earth. He didn't look it now though. Akado was looking forward to tasting the boy's chakra though. Through his modifications, he was able to use other chakra without it being poisonous to his coils. He should even be able to handle the yokai chakra.

Naruto said, annoyed "Are you going to start the fight, or what?"

Akado snapped out of his thoughts with a scowl. Then he smirked "Why, are you scared to make the first move?"

Normally, Naruto would have shot at him for that, but he really wasn't in the mood to fight. Then he thought 'The sooner I can get this over with, the better...' He said "Fine." He rushed at him. He would avoid using chakra if he could. After getting knocked down several times, he remembered that his taijutsu sucked. 'Crap, I'm gonna have to use chakra. Still, I should be fine as long as I keep my emotions under control.' Still something was bothering him. He found out what it was when he got close with a strike. He smelled of snake. Naruto felt a growl rise within his chest as his anger did. 'Oro-teme! He's still around here somewhere! And this guy is probably one of his lackeys' He felt his shoulder start to throb and tried to bring his emotions under control.

Up in the stands...

Anko felt her shoulder start to throb at the old place where the curse seal was. However, she wasn't thinking of a certain blonde. She thought 'Is Orochimaru here, watching?' She looked around. She didn't see him and there were guards about. Maybe she was wrong and it was just acting up for no reason...even though that hadn't happened before... She decided to ignore it when the pain lessened.

Down on the stage...

Akado taunted "That all you got, kid? I've been wiping the floor with you so far. Your taijutsu is terrible. Did you run out of chakra too?"

The anger turned to a need for vengeance. Naruto smirked and thought darkly 'I may not be able to get to that snake bastard now, but I can take care of this loser.'

He felt Kyuubi in the back of his head urging him on, also recognizing the snake and the other voice also agreed, willing to do anything that might lead to bloodshed. He grinned feraly and said "You haven't seen half of what I can do." Wisps of red chakra became visible around Naruto and blue chakra became visible too. Naruto charged.

When Naruto had gotten in range, Akado grabbed him, feeling a rush as he drained the boy's chakra. It just kept coming.

Naruto was enraged as was immobilized and he felt chakra leaving him, a lot of his own chakra. He broke free, weakened, but soon more red chakra flowed out to replace that he had lost. He growled and said "You bastard. How did you do that?"

Akado was full. He couldn't process any more chakra. The amounts the boy already had was incredible and it seemed he had free access to the Kyuubi's chakra as well. He wasn't even drawing upon the curse seal!

Up in the stands...

Kakashi and the rest of the adults who knew who Naruto was were alarmed. Was the Kyuubi breaking free?

Sasuke asked "What's that red chakra?"

Sakura asked "What did that weird guy do? It seemed like Naruto was down for a minute, then he got back up again."

A man they didn't recognize said "It's a chakra draining technique. It is unusual for Yoroi to reach his limit like that. The boy must have kage level chakra storage..." He looked at Kakashi. "Quite remarkable."

Kakashi was uneasy. He knew how Naruto had so much chakra. It was the Kyuubi. He was relieved when he was summoned by the Hokage. The stranger was close to the secret.

Sarutobi said "Kakashi."

"Hai?"

The Hokage looked uncomfortable as he said "If...it shows signs of breaking the seal..."

Kakashi frowned under his mask "Hai, I know what to do."

Down on the stage...

Naruto smirked and said,quietly, but menacingly "Full? You can't stop now, you haven't even eaten all of mine and you've barely touched Kyuubi's." He ran up and grabbed Yoroi's hands and forcefed him his chakra.

Yoroi cried out in pain after a couple of minutes of struggling from the boy's suddenly iron grip and passed out.

Hayate knew a defeat when he saw it. He walked up and said "This match is over. Uzumaki Naruto advances."

Naruto smiled, briefly and took his time walking back up to the balcony. He revelled in the feeling he had gotten from the fight though and from the look on the sound genin's face when he realized what he was doing. He laughed quietly, but by the time he had gotten there, he had his mask back up.He looked out to the stands 'I hope you were watching Oro-teme. I'll do much worse to you.' He went back to his seat in the bleachers and took note of the next fight. He felt all eyes on him. It was acting time.

"Wasn't I cool?" He boasted.

Kakashi said "Naruto, out there...what did you do?"

Naruto looked at Kakashi and grinned "I kicked his butt, weren't you paying attention?"

Kakashi had a serious look as he said "I mean how."

Naruto looked quickly at his shoulder. It had stopped throbbing after he had satisfied it by defeating the sound genin. The mark was still hidden because of Kyuubi's seal. The scar was still there, but he had covered it up with some concealer he had bought while in disguise in town the day before. He silently thanked Kyuubi for his seal. He didn't need the council breathing down his neck right now. He said "Well, he was sucking away my chakra, but I kept bringing it out. I think he took more than he could handle." He grinned.

Kakashi had also looked at Naruto's shoulder when he had. Nothing...still, his student had been acting strange. He asked "That doesn't seem like you."

Naruto said "Well, he was faster than me, and " He laughed embarassed, "My taijutsu kinda sucks, so it was the only thing I could think of."

Kakashi accepted this explanation for the moment.

Sasuke said "You had it lucky."

Sakura asked "Do you think he's dead? He looked pretty bad."

Naruto said "Oh no! Do you think I killed him? I didn't mean too..." He looked down, seemingly distraught. His act seemed to convince the others, but inwardly he was grinning 'I hope I killed that bastard, maybe it'll show his master who he's dealing with.'

Hinata walked over. "Ano...Naruto-kun..."

Naruto looked up and smiled "Hinata-chan?"

Hinata blushed "A..Are you h..hurt?"

Naruto grinned "I'm fine, I can beat anybody I come up against."

Hinata said "I...well, I b..brought you t..this." She handed him a little pot.

He opened it and sniffed it. "What is it?"

Hinata blushed more. "S..Salve."

"Oh, thanks. Hinata-chan!" He took it out and put it on the cuts he had gotten. Hinata smiled and walked away, still blushing.

Naruto thought 'The next fight's Aburame against another one of those soundnin. I bet this one's another one of the snake bastard's lackeys.' He smirked slightly, now more interested than before 'I wonder how bug boy will do against one of Oro-teme's henchman.'

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Sorry the chapter's so short, but I wanted to post Naruto's fight and I'm not sure if I'll be online at all next week. I know it wasn't as dark as some of you may have hoped, but I don't think it would be appropriate to take him from being the good guy to evil so quickly. The only reason why he was dark in this fight was because he felt he was getting revenge against Orochimaru. If you're wondering about Orochimaru coming after Naruto, this Orochimaru's going to be a bit more patient. I'm thinking of having him screw with Naruto during the third stage of the exams and trying to get him then. Let me know what you think of the idea.