"Woohoo, bubblegum, asshole! Let's go kick some ass!" And so team seven rushed in, unaware that someone had a hidden agenda for their little team.
As team seven made their way further into the forest they heard a scream in the distance. Sakura could feel a chill going up her spine.
"Did you guys...hear someone scream? This place is creeping me out."
"Chill out bubblegum, this place is no big deal....shit I gotta pee, be back in a bit." Sakura and Sasuke waited and a few seconds later Naruko came back out from behind some trees.
"Oh man, what a relief! I feel better now!"
"Naruko, you're a girl, can't you act like one?"
"Why? Sasuke-kun doesn't mind at–" Sasuke in the blink of an eye slugged Naruko sending her flying.
"S-Sasuke? What the hell? Why did you hit Naruko?"
"Yeah, what was that for Sasuke-kun?"
"You have three seconds to tell me what you did with Naruko...now!"
"Hello! I'm right in front of you, bleeding I might add!"
"One: you're wearing your shuriken holster on your left thigh, Naruko is right handed. Two: Naruko never, ever calls me Sasuke-kun. You're worse at disguises than the real Naruko, now where is she?"
The now revealed fake Naruko exploded in a puff of smoke to reveal an Ame genin wearing a rebreather mask.
"Huh, guess since you've forced me to come clean, why don't you do the same? Which one of you have the scroll? Won't talk eh? Guess I'll have to be more direct!" The Ame-nin charged the duo and Sasuke immediately ran through handseals before launching off a katon jutsu, the phoenix flower. The Ame-nin dodged them small fireballs and both him and Sasuke went head to head with kunai leaping into the tree branches.
"SASUKE! HELP ME OUT YOU ASSHOLE!"
'That idiot...' He thought before tossing a kunai towards her allowing her to begin cutting herself loose. This opening of Sasuke's defenses did not go unnoticed by the Ame-nin who launched his own kunai at Sasuke who had been able to dodge thanks to a tree branch.
'Is that smoke I smell? Shit! Paper bomb!' Sasuke had barely gotten away when the Ame-nin appeared behind him ready to cut his throat.
"Now hand over the scroll!"
"OKAY! HERE YOU GO!" The ame-nin turned around only to get a facefull of Naruko's fist which sent him flying, his body skipping along the ground like a rock on water. Naruko bent down and brushed the wood shards off Sasuke's body with a smile.
"Thanks for getting me out Sasuke...now if you'll excuse me...I got a rain ninja to kill...no one ambushes me during such a vulnerable moment..." Sasuke had to gulp at how Naruko went from such a beautiful girl with a warm smile to a stone faced killer, at that moment he was glad he was not the ame-nin.
Naruko walked up to the unconscious ame-nin and gripped his collar, her mouth now a sickly sweet smile promising untold pain, this asshole had ambushed her while she was trying to pee, he had seen parts of her she was only planning to show her future husband if she got one and not only that but she still hadn't been able to go to the bathroom yet.
"Say good bye pervert!" Naruko began swinging the unconscious ninja in a circle over and over building up momentum until she finally let him go watching as he went flying through the canopy of the forest, Naruko could only smile and brush her hands clean of dirt as she watched him arc into the air and come down, probably somewhere still in the forest. Sasuke and Sakura both walked up to Naruko who smiled at seeing them.
"What happened to the ame-nin she-hulk?"
"Pervert went on a one way ticket to who the fuck cares via air-Naruko! Nobody sees that part of my body without my permission..."
"I understand what you mean Naruko, I'd probably be the same way." Naruko gave a small smile towards Sakura, she knew Sakura was far more girly than she'd ever be but at times they did agree on certain things.
"Okay I think we should come up with a plan in case we get separated again. We can't let this happen again! The safest way is for us to have a password, that way no matter what we'll know if the person is really us or an enemy. Listen very carefully because I'm only gonna say this once! It's a poem called 'Ninja Opportunity.' We thrive in the chaos of the enemy tide, quiet shinobi don't need dens to hide, our only concern is to watch and wait, until the enemy lowers the gate."
"....Couldn't we just use the fucking konami code or something? Something a little easier to remember?"
"Naruko you're such a dunce, I already got it down!"
"Eat me bubblegum." Naruko was flipping the pink haired girl off while saying this.
"I'll take the scroll."
"Why you? Why not m–Ow! What the..?" A large gust of wind ripped through the small clearing they were in causing Sakura and Sasuke to cover their faces, unfortunately Naruko was carried off by the blast. Sasuke went to the ground and waited a few moments before getting back up.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sasuke turned and drew a kunai holding it in a defensive position.
"Don't come any closer! Whats the password?"
Sakura recited the poem flawlessly and Sasuke let his guard down slightly.
"Where's she-hulk?"
"I'm right here! You guys alright?"
"Not so fast Naruko, the password?"
"Right right, we thrive in the chaos of the enemy tide, quiet shinobi don't need dens to hide, our only concern is to watch and wait until the enemy lowers the gate."
"Good...think fast!" Sasuke threw a kunai at Naruko who easily dodged it.
"Sasuke-kun what are you doing? Naruko got the password right!"
"Yeah and this time she was good enough to deflect my attack."
Naruko smiled at the two.
"Well done." An explosion of smoke revealed a tall grass nin girl with a straw hat.
"What gave me away?"
"I knew you were nearby, that's why I chose that kind of password. As much as I hate to say it the real Naruko would've flipped me off, called me an asshole, and said she didn't care to remember my stupid password."
"I see, well this is going to be more fun than I thought!"
Meanwhile Naruko was nursing a head bump she gained from hitting a tree at high speed. The tree though was in worse shape as it looked like a meteor had hit it.
"Oww, my fucking head...wonder where bubblegum and asshole went to?" The shadow of an enormous snake appeared over Naruko making her click her tongue in annoyance.
'If it's not one thing...it's another. What the hell is it with this fucking forest?'
Both Naruko and snake locked eyes before the snake's tail erupted from the ground behind her. Naruko dodged the tail only to be swallowed whole by the snake. Naruko was not happy and the fox began to take advantage of the situation.
"IT ATE ME! A FUCKING SNAKE ATE ME! THIS IS NOT HOW THINGS ARE GONNA GO DOWN! GRRRAAAGH!" A pulsing red light could be seen coming from the snake's belly and the snake stared at it in curiosity as the pulse began to grow in frequency. Soon the snake could feel a burning sensation coming from it's belly and began thrashing around trying to regurgitate the now corrosive meal only for Naruko to dig her sharp nails into it's stomach keeping her in place. The ground shook as the mammoth snake bucked and thrashed, its stomach distending and hissing before finally erupting in an explosion of gore and red chakra. Naruko stood there on all fours, a cloak of chakra surrounding her in the shape of a fox. Naruko sniffed the air and caught a whiff of Sasuke's scent and roared, the sound of her roar and killing intent rushing through the forest in a wave.
Sasuke and Sakura stood there watching the grass nin with caution who pulled out an earth scroll, the exact scroll they needed.
"I suppose you'd like to steal our earth scroll wouldn't you? Seeing as you already have a heaven scroll." The kusa female began swallowing the scroll, gulping it down and licking her lips.
"Now we'll see, just who will be stealing scrolls from whom? We'll fight to the death!" The kusa nin pulled down her eyelid revealing a completely different eye which paralyzed both Sasuke and Sakura who saw themselves being horribly maimed then killed. Both remaining members of team seven could do nothing until they heard the roar of a terrifying monster and its killing intent washed over them all, breaking the kusa-nin's concentration of her technique.
'What on earth was that? Such powerful killing intent and yet it feels remarkably familiar.' The kusa-nin decided dealing with these two genin would have be done swiftly, lest she have to face whatever it was that was giving off all that killing intent.
Sasuke and Sakura both fell to the ground, glad that whatever the roar came from broke the illusion of death, Sakura was still shaking but wasn't as bad as she could have been and Sasuke was just shaken up.
'That wasn't death, but an incredible simulation...I just looked into her eyes and I could feel it, it was so real! What did that roar come from? It broke the simulation prematurely which I'm glad for but if it could do that then it's probably far worse than this girl.'
"Sakura..." Sasuke could see she was still too terrified to move much.
'Damn, if we don't retreat now we're dead!'
"I take it you're completely paralyzed by now." The kusa-nin flung two kunai towards the two which made Sasuke activate his sharingan and stab himself with his kunai to break the hold the fear had on him, allowing him to catch Sakura and get away.
"Speak to me Sas–" Sasuke put his hand over Sakura's mouth, he needed to think but he was too freaked out to do it properly. Sakura had never seen Sasuke so jumpy and luckily her eyes caught movement above them allowing her to see the giant snake coming towards them.
"SASUKE! SNAAAKE!" Both of them jumped away as the snake bit the area they were just in not two seconds ago. The snake followed Sasuke and lunged towards him, its gaping maw and eyes reminding him of the kusa-nin and making him freak out.
"YAAH! GET LOST!" Sasuke grabbed a handful of kunai and shuriken and pelted the snake with them, knocking it into a tree, its bloody body confirming its death. Both genin's eyes went wide as the kusa-nin emerged from the dead snake's body before speeding up the tree like the snake it just emerged from. Just before it could get to Sasuke a windmill shuriken lodged itself into the tree trunk making the grass ninja leap off into a clearing, just where Naruko wanted her.
'Hmm, what are you up to girl?' The grass ninja watched as Naruko leaped out of the branches creating a bunch of shadow clones to use as stepping stones to get higher and higher. The last at the top grabbed Naruko's hand and spun her around like she did earlier with the ame-nin building momentum several times over before launching her at the grass ninja, the red chakra still covering her as she sped towards the kusa-nin like an angry red comet.
"Say hello to Uzumaki Naruko! KONOHA NO TSUIRAKU RAKURAI!" Naruto hit the ground and where Sakura and Sasuke were expecting a small tremor like back in Wave instead it felt like an actual meteor crash, sending shockwave after shockwave throughout not only the forest but all of Konoha. The hokage was the first to notice up in his office.
"Only two people in Konoha are capable of creating an quake of that magnitude...ANBU." Two ANBU landed in front of the hokage.
"Hai hokage-sama?"
"I just got word from Anko that Orochimaru is possibly in the forest of death, I believe he has just encountered squad seven consisting of Uzumaki Naruko, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura. Take a team and assist them asap."
"Hai." Both ANBU vanished from sight and Sarutobi sighed hoping Naruko was alright.
'Though from the force of that tremor I think Orochimaru has more to worry about.'
Both Sasuke and Sakura were amazed at the sheer devastation of Naruko's attack. Where the grass ninja was was now an enormous crater with a red chakra covered Naruko in the middle. Sasuke could tell the attack if it connected was instant death, there was no way it couldn't be. Naruko looked at Sasuke and he could see something in her eyes, it was as if she was asking if he was alright but not in a friendship teammate type of way. More like a loving caring type of way.
'Naruko...what happened to you? What is that awful chakra surrounding you?' Meanwhile Orochimaru was under the ground watching the demon chakra covered girl.
'Such devastating power! Like a demonic version of Tsunade-hime herself! The Yondaime's legacy is alive and kicking I see, too bad for the Kyuubi or I'd make her my host. Oh well, you can't have everything you want.'
"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" From beneath Naruko's feet erupted by far the largest snake she had ever seen, this thing could easily rival buildings in height. The snake moved towards Sasuke and Naruko appeared out of nowhere, holding off the titanic snake with a single hand, the red chakra surrounding her moving as if alive, her face smiling at the last Uchiha as she breathed in and out.
"I told you you wouldn't be saving me anymore...you big pussy." Naruko winked at Sasuke which made him realize that she indeed saved him, just like she had said back in Wave. Before either could do anything else Orochimaru's tongue wrapped around her and Naruko grabbed onto it, the red chakra surrounding her burning the appendage.
"Sorry no tongue...on the first DATE!" Naruko punched him away only for him to explode in a puff of smoke.
'A shadow clone? That means...'
"SASUKE! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Two Orochimaru's erupted from the ground, one in front of Naruko and another behind Sasuke, the one in front of Naruko had purple flames on his fingertips and he slammed them into Naruko's stomach knocking the girl unconscious and flinging her away.
"Naruko!" Sakura threw two kunai which caught on Naruko's t-shirt, preventing her from falling. Sasuke dodged out of the way of the clone behind him and the memory of his brother came to him.
'Do you really think you can beat me as you are now Sasuke? You're pathetic, if you want to kill me, settle for hating me until you can, hate me and live like the coward you are. Clinging to life, without honor!'
'NO!' Sasuke's sharingan activated and he immediately got into a stance drawing several kunai and a windmill shuriken from his pack.
'I've been living with the hope of one day killing you Itachi, hoping to make things better for me, make things safe for those I love and my future wife and children, if I can't even stand up and do what needs to be done now, I'll never be able to stand a chance in a fight against you, never have a chance to make things safe for me..and for Naruko.' Sasuke charged towards Orochimaru launching kunai at the speeding ninja who snaked along the branches dodging the kunai and windmill thrown at him only to to see the string attached the them all at the last second.
'Hmm too bad I can't have both of them, the Kyuubi girl and Sasuke would both make amazing hosts,with Tsunade's immeasurable strength and the sharingan I would be unstoppable! Maybe I should mark both of them....hmm...'
Authors Note: Wanted to leave it off right there, didn't know whether to keep going or leave a teaser, I love Naruko, she's got a sailors mouth and her comebacks to insults are simply eat me, fuck you, fuck off, flip off. Okay brought the fox out a little early and next chapter you'll all get to see the identity of that mysterious voice from Wave.
KONOHA NO TSUIRAKU RAKURAI -- Naruko's self-appointed title of Konoha's Crashing Thunderbolt