In case it had been forgotten I dont own Naruto or any of the characters
Chapter 8: The forest and the snake's
In the exam room Naruto was both stunned and amused by the rival of the women he so affectionately called 'the crazy snake lady'. It was a look of shock shared by most of the genin there were a few exceptions, Gaara's face held no expression whilst, Kiba, Kankuro and several others had perverted grins focused on the 'Sexy and Single' Anko Mitarashi.
"Well fuck Ibiki 34 teams left you must be getting soft oh well once I'm finished with them there will be less than half of these numbers. Ok you little gaki's, meet me at training ground 44 in an hour. And if one member on your team is late your whole team fails" and with that Anko left through the same broken window she came in leaving the still stunned genin to register what just happened.
"Well... damn" a random genin stated finally breaking everyone out of there stunned state.
(Training Ground 44 the Forest of Death)
"All right you little pieces of shit. Welcome to my home away from home, training ground 44 better known as the forest of death" Anko pronounced loudly so everyone could hear her. Naruto however just looked off with a bored expression unimpressed with her attempts to intimidate the competitors.
Anko saw the blond wasn't affected by her little speech and deciding to make an example out of him took out a kunai and threw it at the blond who was caught unawares as it sliced his cheek then she used a shunshin to appear behind him with another kunai to his neck.
"So your not intimidated by the forest hey, well that's fine but you wont have that pervert with you to scare the animals off this time" Anko said as she pressed her ample chest into his back and seductively licked the blood off his cheek.
Naruto tried to remain calm but found it difficult. Even if he knew that Anko was just trying to scare him and the others she was still a scary kunoichi. Then he also noticed the looks of jealousy some of the males were giving him and couldn't help but smirk.
"Yes but Anko-chan I contain a beast far more terrifying than anything that is found in the forest and they know it" Naruto whispered into the sadistic kunoichi's ear.
Anko was about to respond when they both felt a presence right behind them and quickly responded only to find a Kusa ninja holding out her hand.
"I'm sorry proctor-san I was simply returning your kunai" the Kusa ninja said before returning to her squad.
"You know crazy snake lady, I think she might even be more creepy than you" Naruto said suppressing a shiver.
"Hey I'll have you know I can be far more scary" Anko said in mock hurt.
Naruto arrived at gate 27 after signing his waver forms upon looking at the neighboring gates he found to his left were a team from Ame who were all rather tall and lanky and to his left he found a team from Iwa who were looking at him with hatred and anger Naruto felt uneasy as he recalled what Jiraiya had said about Iwa ninja.
(FLASHBACK)
"Kid in the chunin exams and out in the field a ninja might have to kill at any moment for a mission or to save a comrade its a sad fact about our life but it's true, and there will be times that you are forced to kill to defend yourself this is also important. So what I did is I went the the pet store in town and found the cutest bunny I could find I swear this thing has like a permanent puppy eyes jutsu on it here look at it" Jiraiya finished pulling what could only be described as the definition of adorable.
"Oh my god that thing is cute I want to take it home and charge people to see it" said Naruto.
"Ok, Naruto?"
"Yeah"
"I want you to kill it"
"WHAT, but its just too cute, come on erosennin people would throw out fluffy kittens living in shoe for that thing. And have you seen kittens living in a shoe erosennin … … There adorable... How am I supposed to kill it" Naruto complained.
"You have to because if you can kill this bunny you can kill anything … Do you think I want it to go, hell no the cute SOB got me laid three times since I brought it, and that was only yesterday" Jiraiya said in his tone serious to emphasis what he needed the blond to do before turning perverted.
"Fine give me the bunny" and with that Naruto brought his blade up and ended the bunny's life.
"It's done now why was this so important that I couldn't get a first kill like every other normal ninja" the blond asked.
"Because there will be some ninja who will target you in particular, especially in this exam you will be the one genin without a team and that will make you a target and I want you to be able to kill without the worry of it being your first kill" Jiraiya said seriously.
"Ok I get it erosennin I just wish I didn't have to kill such a cute animal, couldn't you have used Tora … although now I think about it killing that demonic cat wouldn't have been hard at all" Naruto said fantasizing about killing the Bane of all genin.
"There is one more thing Naruto, I want you to be extra careful of the teams from Iwa. They don't like Konoha at all and to make matters worse you happen to look a lot like the forth hokage who was the main reason Iwa lost so many men in the 3rd great shinobi war. I want you to promise me that you will do what it takes to defend yourself and wont hesitate to kill if needed" the toad sage finished giving Naruto a serious look to prevent him from arguing.
"Ok erosennin I will make sure I will defend myself and what ever is necessary to defend myself or others" the blond finished and the pair went back to training.
(FLASHBACK END)
'Now I see why erosennin warned me against the teams from Iwa, they really look's like they really hate me' Naruto thought as the buzzer rang and he quickly made several clones and sent them in different directions around him as he headed deeper into the forest.
Naruto headed through the tree tops at an average speed till a clone dispersed and his memories came back of the Iwa team attack it Naruto decided to keep moving and wait till they caught up .
Several minutes passed as Naruto ran before he felt chakra signature and movement behind him turning around he saw the three Iwa genin glaring at him the team was comprised of a tall boy around the height of Shino a girl slightly taller than Naruto with two pigtails on either side of her head and a short stocky boy even shorter than Naruto but wider than Choji all three of them had the same dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
'Well this is a bit sooner than I predicted, but I guessed they would catch up eventually I mean I wasn't exactly moving fast' "So how do you guys want to do this do you want to give me your scroll or do you want to loose in a highly embarrassing display of my strength" said the blond trying to intimidate the Iwa Genin hoping he wouldn't actually have to fight them.
"What ever your alone and you look just like the yellow flash, killing you will be our revenge for all the people he killed in the last war" the taller boy said.
"Well I really didn't want to have to do this but fine" said Naruto as he got into the toad style taijutsu stance.
"Doton rock armor" said the taller boy who became covered in thick rock right up to his head whilst the shorter was still performing hand signs "Doton Earth spears" he shouted.
Pillars of rock shot up out of the ground and flew at the blond who quickly made a shadow clone to throw him out of the way before he was impaled like the clone.
"Well you have some nice Doton jutsu but your going to need more than that" Naruto taunted still hoping he didn't have to take the lives of the team.
"Shut up you blond punk were going to kill you, and there is nobody here to save you your all alone" the shorter boy said.
"Fine but you asked for this" Naruto said creating six shadow clones before charging the Iwa team.
The clones and Naruto paired up two for each with Naruto and a clone taking the taller of the boys on the team.
The rock armor had made the Iwa genin slow but his defense proved impenetrable even with all of his strength Naruto failed to make more than a couple of cracks in the armor even despite all hits landing on vital spots the tall genin didn't seem phased.
'Damn I cant damage him at all, what am I supposed to do I have to think of something quick because I do not want to get hit with one of those punches I need to create enough force to breakthrough that armor... yes I got it' jumping back while his clone continued to cause a distraction Naruto made another shadow clone and through a kunai while the clone finished the hand signs for the jutsu "Fuuton gale palm".
A compressed pocket of air shot out from the clones hand and caught the kunai more than quadrupling the speed and power behind the kunai.
The taller Iwa genin didn't see the kunai till it was to late and it passed through his rock armor over his heart like it wasn't even there.
"Brother!" the smaller of the boys yelled while the girl looked on shocked having just dispatched the clones fighting her and her shorter team member.
"Well one down two to go" Naruto said his voice emotionless as he turned to face the remaining rock ninja holding his hand Naruto and the clone beside him started to form a rasengan while the the two other ninja were unaware of the threat coming from behind them.
The shorter of the two began realizing that they may just have been in over there head. And at seeing a jutsu feared all over earth country began sweating as Naruto began slowly moving towards them picking up speed as he went with each tree he jumped from.
"Run I will hold him off" the boy yelled to his female team mate as he pushed of to intercept the blond. But she was frozen in place with fear of the blond who had killed her teammate so easily, and she could only watch as Naruto drove a rasengan through the chest of her other male companion she was about to scream when she felt pain rush up through her looking behind her she saw a Naruto clone had just forced a kunai into her back over her heart.
'He looks like he is in such pain he wasn't the enemy we forced him to kill' the final thoughts of the girl as she faded into death as she looked into the eyes of her killer.
"Please let them have a earth scroll I do not want to have to fight another team" Naruto begged to nobody as he searched the bodies finding his objective before sealing the scroll into another with a blood seal where he stored his heaven scroll 'oh Kami thank you I can head towards the tower without having to be forced to fight another team' the blond thought as he kicked off towards the tower.
Ten minutes later and the tower had just come into view much to the relief of the blond, suddenly a massive chakra spike caught Naruto's attention 'That's not a genin's chakra, that level rivals my own and I have Kyuubi. And it definitely wasn't demonic, what could it be, what if its with one of the rookie teams damn it, what do I do, I have to check it out I still have 4 days to get here anyway' and Naruto pushed off from the branch he stopped in the direction of the disturbance.
Naruto had just slowed down upon sensing two chakra levels way above genin level and decided to suppress his own and creep closer thankful the training in genjutsu taught him how to suppress his chakra levels to aid in the release.
Sneaking close enough to hear what was going on whilst remaining hidden from site Naruto discovered that one of the voices was Anko and she sounded scared … scared and angry.
"Ah Anko-chan you seem to be doing well, the last time I saw you I had just marked you. Oh how time fly's" the second voice sneered.
"Orochimaru what are you doing here" Anko spat trying to contain her fear.
"Oh I was just admiring the talent of this years genin, and I was so impressed I choose to give one of them a gift" Orochimaru swooned.
"You didn't" Anko stammered.
"Oh but I did. I think Sasuke-kun will make a fine apprentice, even better than you were. That's if he survives of course but I think he will his will to live is strong and so is his hatred" Orochimaru chuckled at the expression on his former pupils face "Now now Anko-chan don't worry yourself if your lucky I may even come back for you"
"Go to HELL. SHADOW SNEAK HANDS" Anko yelled as several snakes shot forward.
"My my Anko-chan I think your forgetting who taught you that jutsu, it is done like this" he said and snakes shot out from Orochimaru hands heading for Anko who appeared frozen in place.
Naruto acted on instinct performing the gale palm and knocking the snakes off course.
"My my what do we have here if it isn't a little leaf genin. You shouldn't stick your nose in where it doesn't belong boy. I am simply having a conversation with my former pupil" the snake said leaking out killer intent.
Naruto saw the look on Anko's face she was frozen in fear Naruto knew he had to do something or else she was dead … he had no other choice he had to use the Yokai cloak.
Channeling the fox's Yokai Orochimaru was shocked to see the boy be able to draw out this much 'This boy must be the Kyuubi brat. This complicates things, I cant kill him or the Akatsuki will be after me well lets see what this boy can do'.
"Get away from her" Naruto said his voice sounding demonic "Get away from her now!".
Naruto kicked off from the tree at incredible speeds and his fist caught Orochimaru in the jaw sending him flying.
Naruto began to fall from the tree but a hand of red Yokai extended from the cloak and pulled him up to a level surface but where the hand had grabbed the tree was burned and blackened.
"You ok crazy snake lady your not hurt are ya" Naruto asked concern showing despite the presence of the demons chakra.
"Ye-yeah I'm-I'm f-fine" Anko managed to stutter out still frozen but now not in fear but in awe of the young genin's ability.
'Oh this boy to think he has such control over Kyuubi at this young age. Oh he will become very useful in dealing with the Akatsuki, but what if he becomes a threat to me, no I will deal with it when it comes not now. But I have to hit him with a five element seal and get out of here before the hokage comes to investigate' Orochimaru thought while charging the seals on his fingers and jumping forward.
The blond watched as Orochimaru charged waiting for him conscious thought beginning to slip and his blood lust towards the snake began taking over and he didn't notice the seals Orochimaru had formed, fortunately Anko had.
Just as he was about to mark the boy Anko reacted throwing a kunai piercing the snakes hand "Cant have me owing you now gaki" Anko said relieved she was able to prevent her former sensei from having his way.
Naruto realizing he couldn't control the fox cloak any longer released it in a huff "thanks for that Snake lady now how about we get this snake I still have a few tricks up my sleeve" the blond said crating a small army of shadow clones.
The clones attacked the now injured Orochimaru but despite his injured state was able to easily dispatch them as if they were nothing bu a nuisance.
Anko summoned a small snake and began poisoning her kunai and trowing them which Orochimaru noticed causing him to chuckle "Ku ku ku ku my dear Anko do you really think poisons will work against me. I am immune to all snake related poisons I thought you would have guessed that" he finished with a smirk.
"Damn it I am running out of ideas fast what about you" Naruto asked as he tossed another kunai at the closet pedophile.
"I have a few, but I don't know how well they will work. He was one of the legendary sannin after all" Anko replied.
"Yeah but we still have to try I'm sure jiji would have felt my chakra when I was using the fox, and has probably sent someone to investigate by now so we don't need to hold out much longer" Naruto responded throwing another kunai only to have it blocked by the aggravated snake sannin.
Orochimaru was fed up and started doing and sign's "Fuuton Great Breakthrough" he yelled as he took a deep breath in and spewed out a torrent of air removing branches and uprooting some of the smaller trees as it headed strait towards the unlikely partners.
Unable to escape the jutsu they both tried to cling on to the ground with chakra but the wind had such force behind it neither Naruto nor Anko stood a chance. Quickly getting to his feet Naruto saw Anko had a far harder trip and was suffering from at least a broken arm and was struggling to stand. Naruto was about to head over to help her when Orochimaru appeared behind him and gave him a kick to the sides sending him careening into a tree knocking the wind out of him as he casually walked towards the snake mistress without a care in the world.
The snake stood over the purple headed kunoichi who was still trying to stand and summoned several snakes to hold her down as he dew a kunai to finish her "Kukukukuku look at you now Anko-chan Sasuke-kun will make a much better apprentice than you ever wer-" he was broken out of his musings as he head a kunai come flying towards him at inhumane speeds turning he saw Naruto and a clone huffing from exhaustion.
The legendary snake sannin casually caught the kunai in the hand he was holding his own and flung them at the blond to fast for him to react both kunai hit in the leg to incapacitate but not kill but the snake was shocked when both turned into smoke indicating a shadow clone then he felt a large chakra pulse from just above him.
Looking up Orochimaru didn't have time to dodge and was slammed in the face with a rasengan sending the snake flying and lying in a crumpled heap dead.
Naruto relaxed and went to help Anko up but when he got there he saw a look of shear horror on her face whirling around he saw a pair of hands protruding from Orochimaru's mouth and just like a snake shedding hes skin Orochimaru stood there with no signs of battle.
"Kukuku well its been fun I am glad to say you amused me in the battle, I look forward to seeing how you progress Naruto-kun but sadly I cant stay it is becoming far to crowded" and just like that the snake dissolved into the ground without a trace.
Naruto kept his guard up expecting another attack but when he felt saw four new people in the trees above he realized why Orochimaru had fled.
The Sandaime hokage arrived in the clearing to see Naruto standing defensively standing over an unconscious snake mistress but soon relaxed when he saw the hokage.
"Naruto what happened here I felt a massive amount of Kyuubi's chakra" Hiruzen said urgently.
"Well jiji about 40 minuets ago I felt a massive chakra spike in the forest that wasn't from a genin and it wasn't demonic, so I went to check it out on my way there I found Anko-san here in conversation with Orochimaru of the sannin" Hiruzen visibly paled at this then the blond continued "I had noticed Anko was frozen and needed help but I am obviously no match for the snake-teme, I knew I needed help but I didn't know how to send for it with the message reaching you in time for it to make a difference. So I channeled as much of the Kyuubi's chakra I could until the one tailed cloak formed and I acted quickly knocking Orochi-teme away from Anko unfortunately I can not hold that form for more than two minutes at my current strength" Naruto sighed.
"Afterwords I dropped the cloak and with help from Anko was able to hold him off until you arrived jiji" Naruto said swaying from exhaustion.
"I see do you have both scrolls to complete the test" the hokage asked.
"Yeah I got my second off some Iwa ninja who seemed to really hate me for looking like the fourth hokage" Naruto said with a sombre expression on his face.
Hiruzen winced at the thought of Iwa finding out about Naruto's heritage while the Anbu present were just realizing how much the boy did in fact look exactly like Minato Namikaze.
"Naruto what happened to the Iwa team" the hokage asked.
Naruto looked down as if ashamed "I killed them, they didn't give me a choice. I gave them a chance to leave and they refused to take it and attacked stating killing me was be there 'revenge'" Naruto said sadly.
The aged hokage internally sighed in relief that the genin were dead even though he didn't like that the young boy had to kill he was glad the risk of Iwa finding out who Naruto really was were much smaller now.
"Well you better make it to the tower quickly so you can have a proper rest, I will take Anko-chan to the hospital" the hokage said as he and his Anbu vanished in a shunshin.
Less than thirty minutes later Naruto arrived at the tower deciding he had to open them now he discovered when the smoke cleared from the scroll that Iruka was standing there looking upon the boy with pride.
"Well done Naruto you are actually the second team here after a team from Suna... you look like hell by the way. Naruto what happened to you out there" Iruka said in interest.
"It's a long story Iruka sensei let's go in and I will tell you all about it" said the blond as they made there way into the tower. Naruto was looking forward to a nice long rest before the next exam.
End Chapter
How was it... believable did I make things to easy for him oh well I wanted to try my hand at an original fight with nothing to go on from the cannon so I am curious as to what people think