Maiku stood in the middle of a clearing. He was breathing heavily as he stared at two shinobi from Amegakure. Naruto was leaning against a tree holding an earth scroll. "Having trouble aniki? You killed the first one with no problem."
"I'll admit I underestimated these two. But this shouldn't take much longer." Maiku raised his arms and gripped his tanto tighter as he drew another one. "Ready?" He asked his opponents, but charged them before he could answer. He quickly moved behind one and slit his throat, he blocked a thrown at him and charged again.
"Hurry up aniki, clocks ticking." Naruto announced. Maiku ducked under a slash from a katana and stuck his blades in his opponent's chest, one piercing the heart. "Time!" Maiku looked over to Naruto who was holding a stopwatch.
"A minute fifteen, not bad but you usually do better during training." Maiku cleaned his blades before returning them to the sheath on his lower back. "Well we got the scroll, now what?" Maiku just stared at Naruto before he realized what he said. "Never mind."
"We should rest and head to the tower tomorrow." Bogu said.
"Right, we'll camp out tonight and head for the tower at first light." The two went back into the forest to a tree the had found earlier. It's bottom was hollowed out and provided room for at least five people. "Well how many does that make today?"
"Four." Naruto answered as he looked over two pairs of scrolls. Naruto quickly made a fire outside the tree. "This exam is a little to easy."
"That just means we have better combat skills than the teams we went up against." Maiku explained. "Plus the first one was information gathering and we didn't get that at all."
Naruto chuckled. "Yeah. Just thank our demons for the answers."
"Your welcome." Bogu and Kyuubi said. The two containers let out a small laugh. They quickly prepared a small meal with some of the food they had brought with them before Naruto went into the hollow to sleep for two hours until Maiku woke him up to switch out the watch.
Naruto yawned as he stood up. "Well that was an relaxing night." Naruto turned his upper body to the left stopping when he heard a crack, then turned to the right.
"I know what you mean." Maiku said as he cracked his neck. "Much better. Well lets go." Maiku took to the trees, a minute later Naruto joined. They were traveling for an hour when Maiku stopped. "You feel that?"
"Yeah, thats some chakra." Naruto looked around. "I think its from over there." They took off in the direction to find team seven engaged in battle. "Should we help?"
"Yeah, I don't like that guy down there thats beating Sasuke." Maiku drew his sword and jumped into the battle, taking a swing at the nin. "Something isn't right about you."
Naruto went over to Sasuke who was gripping his shoulder. "Hey is he ok?" Naruto asked Sakura as he tried to look at Sasuke's wound.
"That snake guy just bit him." Naruto's eyes widened when he got a look.
"He's got a seal on him!" Naruto shouted.
"Shit." Maiku muttered as he took a defensive stance.
"Your turn to fight me now eh Maikeru-kun?" The pale man asked.
"How do you know me?" Maiku began thinking over where he could have encountered this man before, but none came.
"My friend Chigiri spoke of you often." He noticed the mention of the name angered Maiku.
"Bogu!" A hole appeared in the ground and black smoke rose from it. Soon Bogu crawled up like the undead. Sparks of electricity could be seen around his body and the cross tattoo had a dim glow.
"From the amount of chakra you allowed me to use I can tell this will be interesting." Bogu charged electricity into his mouth and shot it out at the snake man.
"Hey who are you exactly?" Naruto asked.
"Orochimaru." Maiku looked back. "Thats what he told us." Maiku nodded to the pink hair girl.
"Been practicing your entrances Bogu?" Maiku asked, more to just calm himself down than to make conversation.
"Yes. And I have a few more, want to see?" Bogu chuckled as Maiku made hand signs.
"Not right now. Raiton: Raion se Fungeki!" With training Maiku was able to produce three electrified lions. "Go!" Orochimaru was able to dodge the attack with ease. Maiku was shocked when Bogu disappeared. 'What the fuck are you doing?' Maiku felt a surge of Bogu's chakra.
"I got the idea from watching Naruto fight on the bridge." Maiku fell to his knees as a yellow chakra circled him. His skin turned darker and had yellow vein like markings on him. His seel also appeared, white, as did the cross tattoo on his chest. His hair also turned a light red. "There you go kid."
"Thanks." He said out loud and charged Orochimaru and punched him. Orochimaru put p a guard but it collapsed under the strength. He clearly underestimated.
"Interesting." Was all he said before he dodged a kick, that left a small crater in the ground. Maiku was about to attack again when there was a hand on his shoulder. It resembled claws. Maiku looked at the owner, he had red slitted eyes.
"Naruto, lets go." Orochimaru summoned a large snake. It lunged forward, only to have it's head smashed into the ground by Maiku. Naruto landed a punch on Orochimaru, knocking him towards Maiku. "I got a message for that bastard friend of yours. Tell him that when he shows himself again, I'll kill him."
Orochimaru collapsed into what looked like mud. "Very well I'll tell him." Maiku turned around to see the snake staring at him. "Though I must say you two surprised me. Next time I'll try harder. Now I must go, now that I finished my work." And the snake bastard, as Naruto calls him, left.
"Damn that snake bastard." Maiku and Naruto stood in place for several minutes before returning to their normal appearances. "How is everybody?"
"We're fine." Sai said as he tightened a bandage around his arm. "Thanks for your help."
"No problem.." Maiku walked over to the pale kid. "Have you gotten enough scrolls?" Maiku asked.
"No we don't have the required. He destryoed one of ours." Sai watched as Naruto began digging around in his bag.
"Here take one of our extras." Naruto handed the scroll to Sai. "Head to the tower as soon as Sasuke wakes up." Sai nodded as the two jumped into the trees heading toward the tower.
"And people say we don't do anything nice." Naruto said as Maiku burst out laughing.
Two figures opened a door a walked inside a room. "Open them?' One asked.
"Open them." They produced two scrolls and once opened dropped them on the ground. A cloud of smoke and standing there was Anko.
"Well done brats, and not a scratch on you. Though there is a bit of blood." Anko said.
"Not ours." Maiku said.
"Even better. Now then go on inside and relax, you still got four days until the exam ends." Anko opened the doors and walked inside.
"Not much for words are you sensei?" The two quickly went to their assigned room. "Damn this blood is starting to smell."
"The shower is down the hall." Naruto said.
"Damn." Maiku cursed and left with Naruto following. The shower was open and they went in. Maiku stood still allowing the hot water to run down his body over his sore muscles. He was deep in thought. 'He knows Chigiri.'
"Don't dwell on it kid. You'll get your chance, just be patient." Bogu said.
'Yeah.' Was all he thought as he finished and went back to his room and put on a white muscle shirt black pants and his boots. He strapped his sword onto his back. "Lets get some food."
"Sounds good." Naruto quickly pulled on a orange zipper hoody, leaving it open to reveal a black shirt. He now wore black shorts and black shoes. They made their way to a large room filled with tables and chairs. "Guess this is the cafeteria."
"No shit." Maiku said and walked to the counter and grabbed something to eat. "Sorry Naruto, no ramen." AHHHHHHHHHHHH Maiku plugged his ears as he sat down to prevent himself from going deaf. "You done?"
"Hey you two keep it down." Someone said. He had on black clothing, his head gear looking like a cat. He wore purple face paint.
"Or what?" Maiku said annoyed.
"Nice face paint. Borrowed your sister's make up?" Naruto said. The blonde, Maiku recognized he had seen her earlier, started laughing. The boy in black took something off his back.
"Kankuro, you shouldn't do that here." The girl said.
"Don't worry Temari, this won't take long." Kankuro said.
"Yeah Temari, you might be able to see what we do if you don't blink." Maiku unsheathed his sword and Naruto grabbed a kunai. In a flash they were next to the two blades at Kankuro's throat. "You might have been able to move before we got here if you weren't pissed off."
"It was easy to get you into an agitated state." Naruto said.
"They're right." A new voice filled the room. Everyone turned to see a boy with red hair and a gourd of sand on his back. He turned his attention to the two with blades at Kankuro's throat. "You two, I felt your chakra from here not long ago, it was impressive. What are your names?"
"Naruto Uzamaki." Said the blonde.
"Maikeru Yaiba." Maiku sheathed his sword. "And yours?"
"Gaara." He looked over to the others. "You've meet my siblings already."
"Unfortunately." Maiku said. Kankuro was about to say something but was shut up by Temari.
"Lets go. I look forward to meeting you two later." Gaara said and left the room. His siblings followed. Maiku and Naruto kept their gaze until they left before eating.
"Lets hurry up and go train." Naruto said as he got back up to get more food.
'Hurry up he says. Then he gets up and gets more!' Maiku sighed.
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