The Woren of Uzu no Kuni

by Foxcomm

When Naruto turned eight, something began to happen. He changed, growing fur and a tail. 'What do you mean I'm a WOREN' rated T for language.

11. Chapter 10

Naruto took a seat next to a woman from Kusa and a ninja from Konoha with silver hair. The Konoha ninja gave him a smirk while the woman looked at him coldly. Naruto was going to ignore them when he took a deep breath. A few more sniffs and he leaned over to the woman. "Miss, did you know that the lower half of your body smells like a male?" She tensed for a moment before a hand began to ease to her side. "Don't bother, I have a blade on the both of you," Naruto said, tapping a blade on her waist and close to his head. "Not that I really care." Naruto put the daggers away. "Why should I give a damn if you're sneaking someone into the exam? Just being a good ninja, I suppose."

She looked at him and whispered, "How did a fuck like you figure it out?"

"I have a good nose. Hey, you hiding in the pants, comfy in there?"

"Screw you," a voice said slowly from her pants.

The silver haired ninja was looking around Naruto at the conversation, chuckled, and looked forward. "You are very interesting, Naruto-kun. Maybe you could teach me a little about your clan?"

"Nah, you'll have to learn on your own. And you are?"

"Kabuto."

"And you? Wait, more specific. The head, who are you?"

"…Suck my, ouch." She hit her lap with her fist. "Tayuya, asshole."

"Well, Tayuya Asshole-san, best of luck in the test." Leaning back, Naruto waited for the start of the first exam.

"Now I'm going to explain the rules," the big man in front called out. "My name is Ibiki, I am going to say the rules only once and I'm not going to repeat myself. This will be a written exam and there…"

"WHAT!" Everyone turned to Aisha as she jumped to her feet and yelled that. "What on earth does a written test have to do with fighting!"

Ibiki didn't look to happy with being interrupted. "Sit down and shut up, girl! The next person to interrupt me, they and their team will be kicked out!" Aisha and him glared at each other a moment and Ibiki was an instant away from throwing her out.

"Aisha," Perrin said softly from a few rows behind her. "Sit down before I get up and force you to sit down."

She frowned but said, "Fine." When she was seated again, she was grumbling, "A berserker doesn't take a damn written test."

Ibiki watched a moment and when he saw she was done, he said, "There will be ten questions. You will each be given ten points to start. For each question you answer wrong you will lose one point. Each time you're caught cheating you will lose two points. If you or anyone on your team loses all their points, you're out of the exam. And the final question will be asked of you fifteen minutes prior the end of the exam. One last piece of advice, be honorable ninja. Begin."

—oo000oo—

Naruto took one look at the questions and knew he wouldn't be able to answer them. So he did the next best thing. He cheated. Oh, not something anyone could call cheating. He focused his hearing on Kabuto next to him, placed his pencil tip in the same location as Kabuto had his, and used the sound of his pencil moving to copy him. He doubted anyone but an Uzumaki actually had the senses training to actually do that. He was on the fifth question when Kabuto paused a moment and then began to write. Naruto didn't notice it at first but when he did, he couldn't help but smirk. There, written in his answer box was 'Naruto-kun, are you cheating off me?' Naruto gave a light chuckled as he just set the pencil aside and flip his test over. Four questions were good enough. Relaxing, he just sat back and waited.

Thirty minutes into the test, there was a snap at one of the desk. Aisha had cracked her pencil in frustration. "Ah! How am I supposed to know this!" She brought her fist down on the desk and Naruto could hear the wood split. "How is this important anyway!" Naruto shook his head and tried to ignore it.

"Aisha-ch-chan," Talon tried to call but the woman plowed right on.

"We were sent here to kick all of their asses and we're…"

Naruto had it. "Damn it, Aisha, shut up!" He looked at the answer of the first question, jumped to his feet, marched over to her, looked her in the eyes and said, "For once in your life, use that thing you keep in here!" He gave a hard tap at her head. "You're supposed to cheat! Honorable ninja, Aisha, that's what you're supposed to be! And Ladon the Dragon God knows that ninja aren't exactly the most honorable humans there are! Cheat woman and stop bothering the rest of us!"

Aisha looked at him silently a moment before saying, "Oh… But I don't know how…"

Frustrated, Naruto ran his hands through his hair for several seconds before grabbing her pencil, paper, and writing down the answer to the first question. "There, you successfully cheated!" He sat back down, threw feet up on the desk, and waited.

Naruto's and Aisha's guards looked to Ibiki and he shrugged. They were caught only once. They were both docked two points. The rest of the test was made in silence as they waited for it to finish. "Put your pencils down," Ibiki ordered at the forty-five minute mark. "Now, before I tell you the last question, I'm going to inform you of the additional rules for it. First off, you must choose to take it."

"What happens if we choose not to," Sakura asked.

"Then your points are reduced to zero and you and your team is kicked from the exam."

"Then of course we're going to take it," several people called out in reply.

"Ah, but I wasn't done with the rules," Ibiki said with pleasure. "If you take the tenth question and fail, you are forever more kicked from the Chunin Exam."

Many people started gaping until Gaara yawned. "Big deal."

"What was that," Ibiki demanded.

Gaara straightened and pushed the lip of his hat above his eyes. "I said…big…deal. Oh, I'm sure these ninja are worrying their little heads off but for me…heh, I don't care. I could fail right now and go on my merry little way. Ask any from Uzu no Kuni, to us this test means precisely…dick. We are here to kill, maim, humiliate, and utterly defeat ninja's in combat. Hell, not like we'll even die on this damn thing."

"You sound so sure," Ibiki said with a cold stare. "What makes you think you don't fear death?"

Now Gaara really grinned as he took a pouch from his side and dumping the contents on his desk. "Because…Death and I are poker buddies," Gaara said before waving a hand over the gray dust. It began to stir to his waving before dust shot up, forming the bones of an arm. From the pile another arms shot up and they both came down on the desk as if to pull something up. A skull formed next followed by the spine and ribs, pelvis and legs. The last of the dust turned to rotted flesh and gray hairs on its head as it got down, people scrambling to get out of its way. All of the flesh of its midsection was gone, showing its spine and up into its hollow chest. Its fingers were bony claws and the fangs sharp. It made a growling noise before heeling behind Gaara. "So bring on your test, bring on your ninja, I don't care one way or the other. You guys should though, after all some of us have abilities that surpasses even my own."

Ibiki, for once in his life, was actually shocked beyond words. He knew the Uzu could do incredible things from the rumors and reports they had received but this… "What is that thing," he asked softly.

"Gragh! Grr…gr…My name…is Daryl…" it growled out. Surprising as it was missing a tongue and had holes in the side of its mouth.

"…Hi Daryl," Ibiki muttered.

"I wanted to call him Bob but my kaasan called him Daryl and it stuck," Gaara said with a shrug. "But if you mean who was he, he was a ninja that came looking for trouble in Uzu. Who were you, Daryl?"

"D…Daryl was…Kusa…kage…"

"Right, right," Gaara said before looking forward.

"I quit!" a kusa ninja called out and ran for the door. "No way in hell am I getting in a fight with someone that killed the Shadow of Grass!"

Ibiki tried to remember where he heard that and it snapped. It was a title, The Kusa no Kage, a ninja that used a jutsu to attack from shadows and killing people by attacking their shadows. His face fell blank when he remember he had been killed trying to get into Uzu no Kuni and his body hung where other ninja could see it. It had gone down but not back to Kusa and now he knew why. "Well damn."

"Very close," Gaara said, pulling out a rune carved knife and cleaning out from under his finger nails with it.

"I quit!"

"I quit too!" It became a chain reaction as people decided it wasn't worth the fight. The numbers quickly began to dwindle as those without the intestinal fortitude up and left. Gaara looked up from his nails to see them leaving and smirked. He never said he was the one to kill him.

When the stream of those quiting ended, Ibiki looked around and said, "Just a reminder, if you fail you can't take this exam again. …No one else then? For those that remain…congratulations you pass the first exam!"

Naruto arched an eyebrow and said, "But what about the test, you haven't even looked at them."

"The test don't matter," Ibiki said with a smile. "All that matters is that you tried to answer them. As you said, the point of this was to cheat to gather information. If you get noticed, you aren't a very good information gatherer. Information is a very important on the battlefield, lives depend on it and being able to secure it unnoticed. If you are noticed, your enemy can manipulate you right into death. This the length people will go to get it." Ibiki removed his bandanna to show all the scars he had and they were numerous. From burns to slashes, to screw holes, he had been put through the ringer. Most people were shocked. Talon on the other hand began to cry. "Eh…I didn't mean to make her cry."

"She's not scared," Naruto said while covering his eyes.

"She's a bleeding heart," Konan sighed.

"I am so sorry for you," Talon said getting up and standing before Ibiki, tears still in her eyes with her hands holding her staff in front of her.

"She's gonna do it," Aisha groaned.

"Friend Undine, spirit of water, giver of life, heal this warrior of all wounds," she said while blue light began to shine off her before flowing into Ibiki. It rippled over him a moment before sinking into the scars, filling and healing them.

"And Talon, the world's largest sucker for a sob story strikes again," Temari stated.

"She was just trying to help," Din stated, her wings fluttering a little.

Ibiki ran a hand over his head and felt smooth skin under his glove. Taking it off, he saw his hands clean of scars as well and when he checked his head again he found the same results. "…Is there anything the Uzu can't do," Ibiki asked.

"Predict the future," Gaara offered.

"Duck Ibiki," Temari said with a smirk. "Incoming crazy snake woman."

"Mom," Kankuro and Gaara asked, looking to her.

"No!" A bundle burst through a window to Ibiki's right. It unfurled to reveal a banner and a woman wearing an orange skirt, no shirt, wire mesh armor, calf high armored boots, and a trench coat with a fang necklace, purple hair, and a tough look. "Her."

"Alright you maggots, this is no time to celebrate!" She blinked when she noticed the genin in front of her. The mousy girl was tense, her eyes wide, fins stiff, scepter held tight before her, her tail pointed up in the air, and unmoving. "Uh…hi?"

"LIGHTN…" Din appeared before Talon in a flash just as lightning gathered around her and covered her mouth.

"Talon, she didn't mean to surprise you. So if I let you go, will you not toast our next instructor?" Talon nodded. "Okay then."

Din stepped away and Talon took a deep breath before bowing to Anko. "Sorry for almost hitting you with one point twenty one gigawatts of electricity."

Anko blinked and rubbed the back of her head. "That's oddly specific."

"That is the weakest I could make my lightning bolts," Talon said before bowing again and rushing back to her seat.

"…Okay, so that is the oddest thing I have ever seen," Anko said before clearing her throat. "Let's see… Fifty teams, Ibiki? You're losing your touch."

He stepped out from behind the banner and said, "I barely got the chance to work their nerves once those kids from Uzu took control."

Anko glanced at him and nodded before turning back to him. "…You look different, done something with your hair? Go see a plastic surgeon maybe?"

"No, I'll explain later. Just get these gakis to your test." Ibiki replaced his gloves and headband before walking out.

Anko watched him leave and shrugged. "Everyone get to training ground forty four!"

—oo000oo—

"Look at it," Anko said, her arms spread out while facing a fenced in forest. "I give you the personification of life and death. Beautiful isn't it? This little forest is known as the Forest of Death and you are going to spend the five days inside it." She faced them and held up two scrolls. "This here is you objectives. You will be given one of these at random and you are going to have to find the other to complete the pair. Which means you are going to have to take from one of the teams around you. Now before all the bloody mayhem may begin, there are rules. First and my favorite, in combat there are no rules! That's right, you may kill, incapacitate, whatever may come into your freaky little minds! Rule two, once you have both scrolls and only once you have them you are to enter a tower in the center. You have until you get enter to this time in five days to get in. If you don't, you fail. Rule three, if you look inside the scrolls you fail. Rule four, if one of your team dies or is completely unable to continue, you fail. Rule five, no matter what you are spending five days in there."

"What about food," a chunky kid from Konoha asked.

"There are lots of food in the forest. Some of it is even edible. Just be careful not to grab the poisonous food or to be food for something else. Oh, and last rule, this isn't official but I'm going to say it anyway since there are some questionable ones here. If you feel the urge or desire to say rape someone in there, know that if you do I will kill you." She said it with a smile. "Slowly, painfully, I'll torture you and enjoy it before I feed you to a snake for it to finish you off. Okay?" She got enough nods to be satisfied. "Good! Now if everyone will just sign these, we can get started." She held up a bunch of papers and gave them to the nearest genin to take.

"And those are," Naruto asked, spinning a knife around his hand again.

"Those are waivers, after all if you don't sign them and you die, I'm the one that gets in trouble," she said happily.

Temari rubbed her chin a moment before saying, "Is there a certain time limit before we can attack another team?"

"Nope. Once you are inside you may do whatever."

Temari nodded and walked over to Din. "Hey, I have an idea…" They whispered to each other for a bit and didn't even read the papers before signing theirs. When they were done, they went to their teams.

—oo000oo—

Naruto, Din and Konan went to their gate with a Heaven scroll. "When the go is given, grab me," Din said to them.

"Alright," Konan agreed.

"Already got the battleplan," Naruto asked.

"Sure do. Noticed I stopped a moment at those gates?"

"Yeah…you memorized it."

Din nodded and said, "Be ready for a fight."

For a half hour, they sat there waiting. "And…" came over a speaker above them, "GO!"

Din teleported, taking her team with her and shocking the hell out of the chunin watching them as well as the chunin and team one gate over. They appeared in the air above them with Konan already doing a roundhouse kick to the jaw of one of the Kumo genin. He went down like a rock and didn't get back up. Naruto swung Cutter, breaking the arm of the genin he dropped on held up in a hasty defense. He followed it with by slamming the butt of his blade right in his nose, breaking it. While the third jumped back in surprise, Din stayed in the air and chanted a spell. "Hold!" The girl stopped moving and stood there like a statue. Landing on the ground, Din looked to her friends and saw they were done just as quickly. "…I think I may love surprise attacks."

"Search them," Naruto said as he crouched down over the one he fought. "If you don't mind that is," he finished looking to the chunin with the team.

"…No rules against this."

Konan had opened the pouch hers had on the back of his belt and dumped it out. "Got it. Heaven scroll."

"Keep it," Din said. "One of the others might need it. Time for the next jump." They grabbed her again and vanished.

The chunin looked to the girl that was still just standing there and said, "Wonder what she did to you."

—oo000oo—

This team had already made it into the forest so they took off after them. "Din, fly ahead, stop them!"

"On it," she said before flitting between the trees. She caught sight of three people jumping from branch to branch just a bit away so she began to chant a favorite spell of hers. There was a brief flash ahead of them that cut the branches in a line of each other. One of the genin was able to stop, they others flew into it. In midair they slammed into an invisible wall.

The one that stopped gaped a moment and said, "Ouch."

"Magic missile!" Three balls of light flew from Din's outstretched hand, weaving between the trees before striking him in the chest and throwing him to the ground.

On the ground one of them began to stir before Konan slammed her foot down on his chest. "Nya, I suggest you stay down."

Naruto had a dagger against the throat of the other. "Your scroll. Hand it over and you can go look for another."

Din fluttered down to the ground and landed on the one she hit. "So be nice, please." One of them reached into his pouch and dropped an Earth Scroll onto the ground. She picked it up and said, "Thank you! Have a nice day!" She got off him and walked over to the others. A quick spell and the two of them started flying up in the air. "Bye," Din said before following them.

—oo000oo—

"I wonder when we'll see a sign of Aisha," Naruto said, floating on a breeze as he awaited some catastropy or other to happen. They had already met up with Temari and her brother on their flying carpet. They had gotten it on the first try and were already inside the tower by now.

A great crack sounded from the forest as a tree was broken, grabbed, and then used as a weapon, sending a giant centipede flying pass them. "Nya, that's got to be…" Kona was cut off as a storm cloud suddenly build up above the forest before lightning got pulled to the epicenter and a huge bolt broke through the trees.

"That's Talinth," all three of them said before following it down. Talinth stood in a crater of her making, afraid because while Aisha and Perrin had been dealing with the centipede, a team of ninja had grabbed her from behind. So, naturally, when they suddenly grabbed her, she panicked and hit them with a lightning storm.

"Naruto-kun," she shouted on seeing him and ducking behind him. "I didn't hurt them too bad did I?" She quickly glanced over his shoulder before ducking back down. "Please don't let them hurt me!" The sad thing, the really sad thing, is that she meant it.

Aisha walked over to them and pulled off their headbands before tying them to her right arm where six more were already. "They're down, Talon," she said to calm her. "They aren't getting up for a while now."

Talon sighed in relief and said, "I don't think I can do this."

"I don't know," Konan said from the opposite side of the crater, ten feet across. "Nya, I think you can do it. Just next time just completely let go!" She gave a cat grin at that, wondering just how much damage Talon could really do.

"I-If you're sure," she said softly.

"Aisha, what scroll do you need?" Din asked.

"None, we're just making our way to the tower and keep running into these ninja."

"Want to fly there," Naruto asked.

"Do you see wings on any of us," she replied. "No, our feet are staying on the ground and thinning the herd a little more."

"But can't we…" Talon started to ask.

"Talon," Aisha said with a sigh. "You aren't in any danger. Just transform into your full form next time if you're scared." Talon nodded meekly

Naruto shrugged, he knew they would be okay. He kind of questioned if anything else would but they would be. Flying and to the tower, they were almost there when a dragon suddenly rose up above the threes and breathed a searing light down into the forest. "That's Talon," they said again with a sweat drop.

—oo000oo—

Aisha, Talon, and Perrin were resting up for lunch, now with four sets of headbands tired to Aisha's arms and their scrolls tied to them. "Talon, one of these days we are going to teach you restraint and confidence," Aisha said, looking back on the destruction she caused when she took her full form. The Ryu could be said to have three forms, their human form, their full dragon form, and the weaker dragon form. Most never use their full form because simply put it is huge. Deis would transform into a dragon over seven hundred feet long from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail. Dorogan wouldn't be too much smaller. Talon, being very young as far as a Ryu goes, would be a little more than a seventy five. Despite looking like she was fifteen, that was only how far she had aged. She was really a one hundred, twenty seven and a half. A Dragon Clan member ages one human year every eight and a half and just stop human aging just after they would be twenty three. But as a dragon they never stop growing. Thus why they learn to grow a certain size. Something Talon sometimes neglects to do when she gets nervous.

That crater and burned up trees around it where she started to unleash her breath weapon was at full power for her. The team had begged for mercy and offered their scroll and headbands when she missed. Well their scroll, Aisha insisted their headbands or she would let Talon incinerate them. Perrin stood up and swung his hammer up on his shoulder. "Guess Perrin thought we had been here long enough," Talon said softly as she stood up and began to follow. They were almost a quarter of a mile away when Perrin held up his hand.

"We have guest," Aisha said with a smile. "Come on out so I can add your headbands to the ones I've already gotten!" She waited patiently but no one came out. "Talon, could you summon a few elementals to bring them out. Gently," she finished to make sure they were still alive when they were brought out.

Talon nodded and said, "Friend Undine, spirit of water, Garuda, lord of gales, come forth and bring those that would wish us harm in the open!" Light pulsed off her before water from a stream rose up in the shape of a woman and the wind gathered together to form a see through man taller than even Perrin. They flew into the trees and scuffled with whomever was there before pulling them out encased inside their bodies.

"Let us go," a pink haired girl shouted from within Undine.

Who giggled at her struggling. "She's tickling me," the elemental said. "Be still like the other one." The other trapped inside her body was a boy with a face void of emotion.

"At least you don't have the hellraiser," Garuda said as a foot tried to kick through his chest.

"Let me out of this thing you filthy sub…" The air from his lungs was just pulled from it while Garuda crossed his arms with a look that said he might just let him suffocate.

The ninja inside him began grasping at his throat as he tried to get to air but failed. "Stop it, you're killing him," the kunoichi pleaded.

"He called us…" Aisha growled.

"Let him go Talon," Perrin ordered. She nodded with a harsh look to the boy as Garuda frowned but let air return to him before holding him up in the air and dropping him.

"Umph!" Aisha did smile at that. The boy began to get up but Garuda stepped on him. "I said…"

"Sasuke, don't! They wanted to kill you for saying that!"

"Quiet, Sakura," Sasuke said. "These things are less than human and shouldn't be allowed to even breed!"

"Sasuke," Perrin asked, kneeling down and setting his hammer next to his head. "Uchiha Sasuke, is that you?"

"I am so you better let me go."

"We should," Perrin agreed, surprising the ninja. "You are already living on borrowed time but it is not for us to kill you." He looked to Sakura and went over to her. "Your name is Sakura, yes?"

She swallowed and said, "I am."

"My name is Rand Perrin and I'm honored to meet you. Who is your teammate, the quiet one?"

"…He's Sai."

"Good. Sakura-chan, Sai-san, I am going to save your life and his. Take their scroll and throw them out of the forest."

"What!" They looked to Sasuke as he began to struggle again. "I refuse to be tossed aside like some piece of trash!"

"You don't get it, do you," Aisha said with a growl. "We want to kill you. Not for a test, not for a promotion, the desire to destroy you is all." She held up her fist, showing her claws that she wanted to use to tear his throat out. "But we can't. You have been marked for death, if we let you go and you go forward, you will die!"

"Why, because of Naruto," Sasuke said in a condescending tone. "I'm not afraid of him. I will beat him and take that sword of his."

"…Fool," Talon said with a shake of her head. "If you knew what you were doing, you would be afraid. Have you not wondered just why we won't hurt you?" The rage on Sasuke's face went away as he finally wondered that.

"Why are you so determined to save him," Sakura asked.

"Naruto has sworn an oath to do it. He plans to crush you, destroy you, break you down, and when you have nothing left then and only then will he kill you," Aisha explained. "You have made an enemy of the nicest, calmest, boy I know. He hates to get mad and upset. You in one fell swoop enraged him enough to want you dead. It's simple, you go forward, he will kill not only you but the entire legacy of your clan. Give up."

"…No," Sasuke said coldly.

"…Can't stop someone from doing something," Perrin said. "Not our right."

"But we certainly can slow them down," Aisha said before reaching into Undine. She grabbed Sai, began to search him for the scroll but failed to find it. She instead took his headband. She did the same search and seizure on Sakura. Looking to Sasuke, she walked over to him before kicking him in the stomach. "That is for calling us sub-humans," she spat before tearing his headband off and searching him. "And there is your scroll," she said while he coughed on the ground. She tied Sakura's and Sai's around her arm. "This is going to Naruto. You want it back, beat him for it." She put the headband in a belt pouch. She looked to Sai and Sakura. "You want to live, distance yourselves from him. Only then will you have a chance. And if you want your headbands back, you got to beat…Talon for them. She is the one that defeated you two."

Perrin picked up his hammer and stood in front of Sasuke. "Release them," he ordered.

"Thank you my friends," Talon said with a nod to the elementals.

"Oh, no problem," Undine said to her.

"Always good to come out and stretch a bit," Garuda stated with an ethereal smile.

The two vanished and Sasuke jumped to his feet only to freeze when he saw Perrin's hammer stopping right in front of his face, coming to a stop from a swing that would have taken his head off. "I would have killed you. Your head would have been ripped off and left here to rot. But it isn't my place to kill you. Go, now."

"Actually," a new voice said from the trees at the owner walked in, "I would prefer if he stayed right here."

All of them spun to face the Kusa ninja that came up to them alone. "Um…Please leave," Talon muttered. "Without a team, you don't stand a chance against us."

"Oh, are you sure? While I didn't win my last battle with an Uzu, I survived to fight another day," she said with a smirk.

Aisha looked at him and took a deep breath, her eyes growing narrow. "That's a he and he's a naga."

"Heh, never can beat one of the noses of the Uzumaki," he said with a chuckle. "I may not be able to beat your clan leaders but I can defeat you. Leave me Sasuke now and I'll let you live."

The three looked to one another and then to Sakura and Sai. "Who are you," Sakura asked.

"About five years ago, the Uzumaki entered a battle with a group of missing ninja and won," Aisha growled. "Of them, they were all very powerful and their members included a one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist. Some died, I heard one was even captured, but the others escaped. Including a half snake bastard that was strong enough to hold off several of our warriors at once. If what I know of your ranking is correct and this is him, he is better than your chunin or most of your jonin."

"You are Orochimaru," Sai stated.

"At your service," he said with a bow. "Now please, I would rather not agrivate the Uzu anymore in one life time so please leave me with my prize. I worked very hard to find him."

"You mean his Sharigan," Perrin stated, surprising them all. "The Uchiha were famous for their Sharigan. As he is one of the last of them, it is your hope he has one or my get one."

"…You got me, I do hope that."

"A worthless crutch," Aisha snapped, insulting Sasuke and making Orochimaru laugh.

"You know, against the Uzu, that might very well be true but I want to learn all the jutsu on earth and that will help me do it."

It was Talon who spoke up next. "W-We care nothing for the Uchiha, we w-will neither help n-nor hinder him. But what about his team?"

Orochimaru smiled behind his fake face. "That's what I love about you Uzu, you will leave someone be if they leave you be! As for the girl and the tool, I have no interest in them. The same invitation is extended to them, they leave and I shall not follow. They stay and try to stop me…"

"They will be dealt with," Aisha finished.

"Yes," Orochimaru stated. "So, will you?"

"…I will not interfere," Aisha said. "I hope you rip him apart."

Perrin said nothing but his slipped his hammer back inside his belt loop. Talon looked to the two then to the ninja. "If y-you leave them be, I sh-shall do the same."

Sakura looked to Talon and saw she refused to just abandon them here to this person. "…My sensei said that those that break the rules are trash but those that abandon their friends is worse than trash. I won't leave Sasuke-kun to you!"

Sai cleared his throat and said, "I have been charged to protect him. Life or death, I must do that."

Sasuke stood next to the two of them. "A sub-human like you does stand a chance. Leave."

The Uzu team growled at that but Orochimaru laughed. "I would be honored if I had been an Uzu, boy. Naga though I may be now, I was from this very village at birth, a human, and before I left it, I was the prize student of your Hokage. I wish you would reconsider, little girl, but alas you will not. So I am afraid you must die."

Orochimaru held up his arms and several snakes shot out of his sleeves heading right for the genin. "Lightning!" Several bolts of lightning hit the snake and made them drop to the ground dead. "I s-said that I would stand with th-those two."

Aisha sighed as she stretched her arms up in the air. "You couldn't have just let him do it? Sigh. Nothing for it but to help too, I guess."

"N-No, I will handle him," Talon stated.

Orochimaru looked her over and sighed. "You are a Ryu, correct? Like the red haired woman with wings?"

"No one is l-like Lady Deis," Talon said before a black cloud covered her. She was descended from the Black Dragon Tribe. When it fell, she stood taller than either of her team, a pair of mirror like wings spread out from her back, silver scales covered her body, her eyes were gold and serpentine, her toes and fingers had turned to talons, her teeth to fangs, and the tip of her now whip like tail held quills that came to an extremely sharp point. Her robes that were almost over sized on her human form now barely concealed her decency.

"I give you Talon," Aisha said with a smirk. "The only Ryu princess to ever master the humanoid dragon transformation under the age of five hundred."

Orochimaru looked her over and said, "And you're a child?"

"Who-ever-said-that," she said in what seemed like one word, making them all stare at her. "Everyone-of-the-Uzu-that's-here-are-powerful-fighters!" Talon's wings fluttered a moment as clouds gathered overhead.

Perrin looked up and said, "Looks like a storm."

"Actually," Orochimaru said as he looked to Talon, "I questioned if you were a child because you don't look like one now."

"I-suggest-you-leave-now," Talon shouted before flapping her wings, literally flying at Orochimaru. Orochimaru braced himself and held his arms up in a block, already knowing this would hurt. Talon did not disappoint. Her fist collided with his block in an eruption of fire, blowing him away. "Lava-Burst!" Holding her hands out, lava burst up from the ground to her hands and she threw them after Orochimaru. He made several kage bunshin and was able to avoid the attack and the slash when the missiles hit. Trees and plant life began to catch on fire from the molten earth and Talon just ignored it as she stalked forward.

"Wh-what is she," Sasuke asked, intimidated for the first time. "I thought she was a healer and the weakest one among you!"

"Talon, weak," Aisha asked incredulously. "She is an elementalist, she talks to the spirits of the elements and is able to use their power. If she wanted, she could destroy Konoha by making a volcano erupt right under it! Weak is not the word for her. Just over or under reactive."

"I-call-upon-the-power-of-all-the-world's-storms! Strike-lightning-and-thunder, destroy-my-enemy! Freeze-snow-and-ice, break-him-apart! Blow-gale-and-sleet, tear-him-asunder!" In that moment, tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and blizzards, all appeared over the village of Konohanosato.

—oo000oo—

Kakashi was walking out his favorite restaurant reading his book when the clear sky above him instantly vanished and in its place was rotating storms. First his was covered in a foot of snow, golf ball size hail dropped on that, then came the rain, followed by a tornado running down the street, sucking the snow up off him. "…What unusual…" A bolt of lightning split the sky and hit the ground right in front of his face. "…weather we're having." Smelling smoke, he looked down and saw the bolt of lightning had hit his copy of Icha Icha Paradise Vol. Three, splitting it in half and setting both pieces on fire. "NO!" Saddly for Kakashi, every copy of that book series had been hit by that freak storm. The great enemy of women everywhere had been destroyed, broke apart, and torn asunder. Oddly enough, the author of that book series was found horribly injured and hospitalized for over a week with severe frostbite, burns, bruises the size of golf balls, and broken bones by being picked up and thrown across Konoha into the mountain by a twister of all things.

—oo000oo—

"IS IT SAFE TO BE HERE," Sakura shouted to be heard over the wind.

Aisha shouted in return, "NO!"

"THEN WHY ARE WE STILL HERE," Sai asked.

"WE'RE IN THE CENTER," Aisha explained. "THAT THING MUST STRETCH FIFTY MILES IN ALL DIRECTIONS! WE COULDN'T GET SOMEWHERE SAFE IF WE WISHED IT!" A tree not ten meters away from them was pulled up from the ground and thrown deeper into the forest over their heads. "TYPHOON FRONT MOVING THIS WAY! HANG ON TO SOMETHING!" They all grabbed something just before being hit with winds moving almost two hundred miles an hour.

In the center of it all where the storms were rotating the fastest, Talon and Orochimaru stood rooted to the ground through some means the Konoha ninja didn't understand, still exchanging blows and when Talon ripped through his arm with her claws only for snakes to connect the two bodies and pull them back together, her momentum was stolen and Orochimaru was on the attack now. While his hands flew through handsigns, a snake came out of Orochimaru's mouth and a sword dropped from it. Talon ignored the ball of fire that was shot at her as she summoned her staff to her once more. The fire hit her only for water to douse it at the same time she blocked the sword with the staff.

Talon was talented and strong but she was barely more than a child to the Dragon Clan. Surprise and momentum lost, Orochimaru began to push against her. "NOT GOOD! TALON'S LOSING," Aisha exclaimed.

"WHICH MEANS WHAT," Sakura asked.

"THIS STORM IS CONTROLLED BY TALON'S WILL," Perrin told them. "WITHOUT HER, IT WOULD RAGE OUT OF CONTROL. I'LL GO HELP." Perrin stood up and leaned into the wind, letting go of his tree. Taking the first step, everyone including Aisha, thought he would get blown away. But he stayed on the ground and kept moving forward. He wasn't even noticed by the two combatants not even when he was right behind them and swinging his hammer. It hit Orochimaru and threw him into the air where he was thrown around.

"He's-mine," Talon protested but seemed to wilt under Perrin's gaze. "Sorry."

"Apology accepted," Perrin said as he went after him.

Orochimaru landed on a tree feet first and pushed himself to the ground. "So, you have joined the battle as well. And what do you do?"

"Me? I'm a blacksmith." He swung his hammer at a tree as hard as he could and was rewarded with a crack that could even be heard outside the forest if not for the storm. Dropping his hammer into his belt loop, he gave a punch that shook the tree before it started to shake and fall atop him. It landed right atop him.

"…What was that about?" His face feel blank when the tree that was a couple hundred feet tall began to move. Underneath it Perrin was holding it up, his muscles straining under the weight but he stood strong. Moving to where he could see Orochimaru clearly, he pulled back and threw the entire tree at him almost as fast a genin could throw a kunai. "Uh oh." Not even counting the fact that the tree was flying at him, just seeing someone catch a tree weighing several hundreds or even thousands of pound and be able to throw it was intimidating in and of itself. So in shock and awe, Orochimaru watched him heave the tree like it was a stick. It hit and flew deeper into the forest.

Perrin looked after him with a snort before turning back to his friends. He was almost back to them when one of his ears twitched and he looked back into the forest. It came almost faster than he could see, a giant snake moving lightning fast lunged at him with its jaws open to eat him. Perrin raised his arms up just before it hit him and pushed him back several yards as he dug in his feet. It tried hard to close its jaws around him while Perrin grit his teeth as he held them apart. Perrin had no pride in fighting and detested it greatly, he disliked being here at all, but he was one of the strongest men on earth without any magical enhancements. He was not going to be pushed around by a snake, no matter how big it was. Pushing against the ground even more, his feet finally stopped sliding. The snake crumpled up against him and tried to pull back only to fail.

"My, you are strong," Orochimaru said, landing on the snake's head, his fake skin and clothes torn.

"My turn," Aisha shouted, jumping over the snake at the nukenin. Her slaws slash him down his chest, broke through the snake's scales, and used that hand to flip into a kick. "Ragh!" She threw herself at him more and more, each time her defenses getting just a bit more sloppy as she growled and snarled more and more. "I'll rip out your heart," she roared when he jumped back. She ran right at him, leaving herself totally open and Orochimaru took advantage of it. Taking his sword, he threw it right at her chest and it hit. The blade entered her body and out her back, embedding right to the hilt. He smirked at an easy victory. Except Aisha didn't even notice it, much less stop. Her eyes were bloodshot, her blood full of adrenaline, and her blood pumping with incredible vigor. She slammed into him, clawing, scratching, biting, punching, and anything else she could do, the fur of her nose beginning to turn white and spreading out while leaving brown tiger stripes. Orochimaru got his feet under her somehow and kicked her off. She flipped in the air and landing gracefully on her feet in a crouch, snarling more. She was in a berserk rage and nothing was going to stop her. Her next snarl came out sounding exactly like a cat's.

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu," Orochimaru shouted as he got to his feet. Twenty clones appeared and tried to get pass her. Aisha growled before lunging at one, tearing him apart.

"Talon, he's going for the boy," Perrin called.

"Got-it! Lightning, hand-of-the-enraged-elements, come-forth-and-strike-down-our-foes!" Bolts of lightning fell from the sky, hitting all the clones and destroying them. When it was over, none stood standing. "Where-is-he?"

Perrin twisted his arms suddenly, snapping the snake's neck and killing it. "Talon…" While everyone else was looking around for Orochimaru, Perring was looking at Aisha.

"He's-gone!"

"Talon…"

From behind Sasuke, Orochimaru burst up from the ground and bit his neck. "Sasuke," Sakura shouted in surprise.

"Get-away-from-them," Talon shouted while pushing a hand out, sending wind and rain at him. Orochimaru let them carry him away, his task here finished. "Perrin, help!"

"I can't," he said softly.

"WHY…not," Talon had turned to him and froze at what she saw. The white on Aisha's fur had covered her head and shoulders and halfway down her arm and chest. Orochimaru was gone now but she was still seething with rage and hate. She was watching Perrin while growling. Moreover, the sword in her chest was shaking.

"Sasuke needs help," Sakura called while the boy was on the ground screaming.

"Quiet," Talon hissed.

"Don't just stand there," Sakura continued.

"Quiet! If you don't stop moving she'll…"

"She'll what!"

Aisha looked to her with a snarl, seeing the boy that so angered her, and started to run at him with the intent to rip him to shreds. The sword, Kasanagi, was still trying to get from from her armor and finally pulled back out of her before going flying through the woods after Orochimaru. The wound now open, blood came pouring out. She was almost stumbling in her charge but still she moved forward until the wall that was Perrin moved in her way. She hit him and fell to the ground, barely breathing and her eyes rolling up into her chest. "She's coming down, Talon," Perrin said urgently. While a berserker is in his rage, he will ignore any and all hits to their body but when they come down, their body finally becomes aware of them. More berserkers die after the battle then actually during it.

"Talon, help Sasuke," Sakura called desperately. He was such pain and he already had a fever. Orochimari must've poisoned him!

Talon looked between the two for a few moment unsure who to help before she ran to Aisha. Kneeling over her, Talon held her hands out on her chest and they started to glow green. "Close-the-wound, replace-the-blood. Close-the-wound, replace-the-blood. Close-the-wound, replace-the-blood! Damn-it-Aisha, open-your-eyes!" Grabbing her throat, she didn't feel a pulse. "Damn-it! You-aren't-taking-her-yet!" She hit a fist sparking with lightning down on Aisha's heart and pushed on it a few times before breathing into her lungs. "Open-your-eyes-damn-it! I-never-ask-for-anything, listen-to-me-now!" She hit her heart again with lightning and breathed into her lungs.

—oo000oo—

Aisha opened her eyes and could only see Talon kneeling over her, kissing her full on the lips. Her eyes widened as far as they would go before she began coughing and pushing her off. Aisha turned over onto her hands and knees and began retching. Soon enough, greenish water poured from her mouth, her body cleansed by Undine, the spirit of water. "Damn snake…poisoned me." Perrin picked her up and carried her away from the bile on the ground.

"TALON!"

The mercury dragon jumped to her feet and scrambled over Sasuke. Pushing Sai and Sakura aside, she began to cast her spells on him, trying to bring him out of whatever he was in. "It-isn't-natural-poison," she exclaimed. "It's-trying-to-change-his-body! Infect-his-cells-and-multiply!" She stayed crouched over him for a long while, trying anything she could think of to save him. She could feel it trying to do something and it was killing him. She could barely heal the damage before more appears and couldn't get to stopping it. For almost a half hour she sat there healing until she blinked in surprise and pulled back.

"What are you doing," Sakura asked.

"…It's-over," Talon stated.

"You cured him!"

"No." Talon stepped back and changed back to normal. "It just…stopped. Wh-whatever it was, it was a-accepted into his body. I, I don't understand it."

"Why can't you!"

"Damn it, Sakura, I'm a shaman, not a doctor! I don't know!" She flopped down on the ground a bit grumpily.

Sakura and Sai looked to the others for the sudden change in her mood. "It's the transforming, uses up all their energy. Have a cookie, Talon," Aisha said while holding one out. Talon took it and quickly munched it down, giving a content sigh when she finished. "Icecream works better but I couldn't keep it cold," Aisha said with a shrug.

Talon grabbed Aisha by the collar and shook her. "You didn't bring the ICECREAM!"

Perrin held a icecream sandwich between the two. "I had the Icecream, Talon," he told her. Talon grabbed it and ate it happily, humming to herself.

"The Ryu get cranky without their sugar," Aisha said with a smile.

The two looked to the calm again Talon and Sai said, "I see." Talon couldn't look happier, even the tip of her tail was wagging.

"Feel better," Aisha asked her.

"Y-yes," Talon answered before bowing to her. "Ano, I'm s-sorry, Aisha-san. I sh-shouldn't have d-done that. C-Can we head to the t-tower now?"

"We should," Aisha agreed. "I'm starving and I don't think we have the food for a full meal."

"Then let's go," Perrin said, picking up both women. He was about to leave when Sakura stopped them.

"What about us!"

"You're on your own from here," Aisha told her. "We weren't here to help you in the first place. Besides, I don't want you to get there anyway. Perrin, if you would be a dear." He nodded before sprinting into the forest and vanished from sight.

—oo000oo—

Naruto, Konan, Din, Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara all found the third team in the cafeteria, having gone in there almost as soon as they entered. Aisha had a ten course meal in front of her, devouring it heartily. Talon had a couple gallons of icecream around her that she was eating. While Perrin…was drinking some tea. "Nya, we miss something out there," Konan asked.

"Not…really," Aisha said around a mouthful of ham. Grabbing a whole pot of soup, she guzzled that down. "Hmm, eggdrop soup. Hey! Another plate of yakisoba! Ooh, bring a bottle of Rashamen Firewhiskey!"

"I don't think that have that here," Gaara said with a smirk.

"Oh, right, that's only brewed at the Lodges. Make that Dragonblood Ale!"

"Don't have that either," Naruto stated.

"WHAT! What about Honey Mead, do they have that!"

"Don't think so," Din told her.

"Nethergaurd Bitter! Dire Brew! Thunderbrew Lager! Moonglow Wine!"

"No, no, no… I think I saw…No, not that either," Gaara teased.

"NO!"

A water skin was tossed before her. "My bottle of Gutshaker," Perrin informed them. Dawh, dawh, dawh, DOOM!

"Gutshaker," Naruto asked, almost afraid to look at it.

"Gutshaker," Perrin confirmed. Even Aisha looked pale at the sight of that, Talon almost passed out in her Rocky Road.

"That might be a bit…much," Aisha said slowly.

"Don't have to if you're afraid," Perrin said as he picked it back up.

"Give me that," Aisha said before taking it, popping the cork, and raising it to her mouth, making everyone stare at her in awe. Taking several deep swallows, she suddenly froze.

"…I don't even drink that much at once," Perrin stated.

Aisha had turned ghost white, still froze in the drinking position. "Nya?" Konan tapped Aisha on the shoulder only for her to fall over. "…You killed her," she whispered as Aisha twitched on the ground.

"She'll be fine…I think," Naruto stated. "…Put food under her nose, that'll wake her." He grabbed a roast and held it under her nose. Her eyes fluttered open and she groaned before her eyes opened as wide as they could go and she began to gag. Jumping to her feet, she ran to the nearest bathroom where they heard her throwing up. "What a waste of good food."

—oo000oo—

Author's Notes: Hope I did a good enough job with the Orochimaru fight. I didn't want them to be so strong that they are unopposed but they needed to be as strong as what they were chosen for. That reason was to kick butt. And as you saw from Aisha, she took the names to prove it.

See ya Space Cowboy.