Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN NARUTO
(well, like i said, i got to 120 reviews, heres the chapter, the fastest ive ever updated this story)
"So this is the forest of death?" asked Sasuke rhetorically. They were one of the last groups to get there, and with Naruto's little performance, all eyes were on them.
"Yep, its not that bad, I'm sure we'll be fine." Naruto stated with confidence. Almost as soon as the words left his mouth, a kunai flew past his cheek, cutting him open.
"Is that so brat? Maybe you'll change your mind as your digested by a man eating plant?" came the sweet but threatening of Anko as she body flickered behind him and held a kunai to his throat.
Now was some time for some grade A acting. "There's no such thing!" the blonde sputtered out. Now almost everyone was scared. If the blonde was showing that he was timid, then what should they be feeling? "You owe me for this!" whispered Naruto
"Oh, but there are!" she responded in a sing song voice as she slipped a small scroll into his vest, though no one saw it because she was also licking the blood of his cheek, most guys in the area had to shift their stance as they had certain reactions to the hot proctor. "No problem, I'll just make Zabu-kun teach you something" she whispered back
"I'll b-believe it when I see it!" responded the blond shakily. Then they both felt someone approach from behind. They both spun around, or Naruto spun around and Anko went along for the ride. Which landed her in a rather compromising position.
"Your Kunai back, proctor" stated a kusa nin, she handed the kunai over using her amazingly long tongue.
"You shouldn't sneak up on people like that, Gaki, but I'll forgive you this time." said Anko as she took her kunai back and got off of Naruto's back.
"Sorry, but the sight of blood gets me going a little bit" the kusa nin announced.
"You know..." started Naruto as he sniffed the air and tightened his grip on his swords "I really hate the smell of snakes!" he grunted out.
The kusa ninja had a look of surprise. Not because of the declaration of her smell, but because the kusa ninja was in fact Orochimaru in disguise, and if the blonde knew it, then he could inform the proctor, who would summon the Hokage He couldn't chance it, he bowed and left, searching for a new body to inhabit until he could mark his targets. 'Damn that boy! First Kabuto and now this? He's much too good to be a genin. I'll have to separate them to put the curse mark on Sasuke'
As the 'genin' left, so did Anko, both to finish the preparations and to inform ANBU of the possible threat of another Orochimaru spy. It never dawned on her that the nin was Orochimaru.
Naruto took this time to read the scroll Anko had given him, it was actually 2 notes on the same scroll, though one was way less helpful.
'Team from Iwa are impostors. One B rank jonin and two C rank chunin. Also, watch out for the team from Suna, they have a Jinchuurki'
'Zabuza said "Don't fuck this up kid, I got money riding on you to win the whole thing, and if you don't, Haku will freeze your balls off! Also, I'm staying in your apartment for now, I kinda sliced a hole in my floor while sharpening my sword.'
"Sweet, bastard better not sleep in my bed, and what's with him and having Haku freeze people balls off?" Naruto asked himself.
"OK, this is going to suck!" stated Naruto as he Crumpled up the piece of paper and burnt it with a fire jutsu.
"What's up? Someone steal all the ramen?" asked Sasuke with a smirk.
"Don't even joke about that!" yelled Naruto, getting even more attention than before.
"Alright maggots! Every team come get a scroll and a gate assignment! Also you need to fill out this form!" yelled Anko with a psychopathic grin.
"What are the forms for?" asked a Kumo ninja
"Oh, nothing much, just that if you die your village can't take action. It is the forest of death after all!" cackled Anko, scaring several teams to the point where they just left.
"God... That laugh gives me nightmares..." said Naruto with a shudder. Everyone that heard him silently agreed.
-10 minutes later-
"How the hell did we get gate 13!" yelled Naruto, confusing everyone within earshot. Were there certain gates that had a harder path than the others?
"What's so bad about gate 13?" asked Sakura, what was the blonde so pissed about?
"ANBU does survival trailing here" whispered Naruto with a hand over his mouth, probably so the people around couldn't read his lips. A habit he picked up from having a mask on for most of his missions.
"We already know its dangerous, why does it matter if ANBU trained here?" whispered back Sasuke, also putting a hand over his mouth, figuring if Naruto was doing it, it was probably for the best.
"You don't understand, each gate is a training area. Gates 12, 13 and 14 are for ambush training. Wide open fields, no cover, and there are traps set up everywhere." stated Naruto. Both Sakura and Sasuke paled. An ambush was the last thing a ninja wanted.
"And to add to that, we have a team from Iwa and a team from Ame on both sides of us. Both hostel and both have been staring at us since we got to the gate. I know for a fact that Iwa wants me dead, but the rain is a wild card." he stated, getting a confused look from his team.
"Why would they want you dead? Did you kill a bunch of them in ANBU?" asked Sasuke
'Well that works' Naruto thought happily. "Yea, I lost my mask and they got my picture. Now I'm in their bingo book" it was a lie, but for now, it would do.
"So we're going to have a fight of the bat huh? I'm fine with that." stated Sasuke cockily. Even though he wasn't the power obsessed mental patient he once was, his ego was still large enough that you could shield yourself with it.
"Well, I just hope they're who they say they are, last genin exam held in Konoha, Kumo replaced a genin team with a 3 newly promoted jonin. I had to sneak into the forest with Kakashi and Tenzo-"
"Welcome, to the second portion of the chunin exams! Your goal is to get to the tower in the middle of the forest, and it starts...Now!" came Anko's voice from somewhere in the middle of the forest.
In a matter of seconds, every team was bounding into the forest, well every team but team 7, who Naruto had held back.
"What are you doing? You said yourself that this was the ambush zone! Why would we wait and let them set one up?" asked Sasuke
Naruto made 3 shadow clones and had two of them henge into Sakura and Sasuke and sent them into the jungle. "I'm seeing what we're up against, those clones are around mid chunin level. If they can take out at least one of them, I'll feel much better about going in. Plus the clones will map out a safe route into the forest."
"What do you mean those clones are about mid chunin? I though shadow clones are exact copies?" asked Sasuke, he was always told that clones were exact copies, where shadow clones different?
"No, shadow clones are only as powerful as the amount of chakra I put in. I only put in enough for mid chunin. For any clone to be the level of the creator, they need a massive amount of chakra. You need Kage level reserves to make more than one at that level. I have Kage level reserves because of my lineage and certain other factors, and I can only make 4 or 5 clones on that level, and after that I'm running on fumes." stated Naruto
"Wow, I never thought you had so much chakra?" said Sakura, for someone their age to have that much chakra was unbelievable.
"Yep, more than even the 3rd Hokage Though he has better control than I do, so it evens out." just then Naruto tensed and blinked rapidly. "The clones just got attacked, they killed 2 rain ninja before they were all taken out by the Iwa team... I'm going ahead, follow after in ten minutes."
Naruto turned to the forest and disappeared, no swirl of leaves, no blur, no puff of smoke, just pure speed, a feat only the fastest can do.
"Hey Sasuke, how strong do you think he is?" asked Sakura. If that show of speed was any indication, he was at least jonin.
"I don't know, I really don't know, but I would never want to fight him one on one." stated Sasuke as he grit his teeth. How did the blonde get so strong? He understood that Naruto was in ANBU, but he just kept getting stronger, at this rate he really will become Hokage
-With Iwa team-
"Those were shadow clones! How strong is this kid?" asked the younger of the two Iwa chunin.
"We'll be fine, calm down. He graduated this year! He can't be that strong! Just sit tight and wait for the bastards son to get here." stated the jonin. His father, brother and cousin were all killed in the battle where Minato Namikaze killed over a thousand ninja in just under ten minutes.
"You shouldn't talk about my father like that, I might get the wrong impression and end up killing you, that would be another thing we have common" stated Naruto in an ice cold tone. His eyes reflecting his icy voice.
"Oh, so the son of a bitch shows up. He really does look like that bastard. I wonder of those whisker marks are from his whore mother?" stated the older chunin with hate in his voice. He too had lost loved ones in that battle, and Minato Namikaze was the person that killed all of them.
Naruto just hung his head and began leaking such a huge amount of killer intent that it was felt by everyone in the forest and all the proctors in the tower.
-With sand team-
"G-Gaara, w-what's wrong?" asked Temari. Sure that hot blonde guy had helped her little brother, the redhead was even starting conversations now that weren't about killing everyone, but he had yet to get over his other psychopathic tendencies.
"Temari, that's not me" the redhead stated shakily, scaring the crap out of his brother and sister.
"What!" asked Kankuro, almost shitting himself
"Even mother is scared, mother is telling me to stay away from it." both siblings were now horrified. Even the one tail demon raccoon wanted to get away from it. "Mother says to curl up in a ball and hope it doesn't attack us"
-Team 10-
Shikamaru, Ino and Choji where shaking in their sandals, this amount of killing intent wasn't natural. It was like some sort of demon, a very pissed off demon.
"What is that! Yelled Ino, it was so total in nature that it felt like it was going to kill them all.
-Orochimaru-
"What the hell? I haven't felt this much killing intent since the time I said that Kushina looked fat... Come to think of it, that may have been the scariest thing I've ever seen! Even Tsunade doesn't punch that hard!"
-Back with Naruto-
"Care to repeat that?" he asked with absolute blood-lust in his voice. Even kyuubi was wondering what the hell was going on, the blonde wasn't even using demonic chakra, was his hatred for these people this strong?
"You heard him you scum, you're the son of a pile of shit and his slut!" yelled the jonin, sounding a thousand times more confident then he was.
That did it, Naruto was now solidly over the edge. A ball of spinning chakra formed in both hands, the Iwa jonin knew what it was immediately.
"Never. Insult. My PARENTS!" shouted the blonde as he charged them so fast that to the untrained eye it looked like the flying thunder god.
"RASENGAN!"
In an instant, both the jonin and one of the chunin had swirling blue balls of chakra blow holes THROUGH their chests. Shredding their heart and lungs and obliterating their spines, leaving nothing to support their upper bodies. They slid off the blonde's arms and collapsed to the ground.
"You..." Naruto turned his head to the last member of Iwas team that was still in one piece. "Leave, return to your Kage, tell him the next person he sends to kill me, I will take it as an open invitation to come to your village. And believe me, I'll make my father seem like a saint. Now GO!"
The chunin took off. Who wouldn't after seeing someone move so fast that they seemed to just teleport, then add the fact that both your teammates torso explode from a jutsu that sparked fear in everyone in your home village, you tend to want to get the hell out of there.
-7 minutes later-
"Hey, you feel that killer intent earlier? We felt it all the way back at the gate!" asked Sakura as she and Sasuke made it to where Naruto was sitting.
"Yea, that was me. I gave one of the Iwa ninjas a warning. The other two..." he said lazily as he motioned to the two bodies he had propped up against the tree.
"W-What happened to them?" asked Sakura in fear, there were giant holes where their hearts used to be.
"They disrespected my parents" was all Naruto said as he turned to walk away.
Both of his teammates confused and horrified, Naruto didn't have parents, or did he? Where the just both in ANBU?
-15 minutes later-
Naruto was still walking through the unnatural clearing of gate 13. His teammates on either side of him.
"Get behind me, Now!" yelled Naruto as he dropped to his knees and punches the ground, a 10 by 10 wall of earth rocket up, blocking a powerful wind that would have sent them all flying.
"Everyone OK?" Naruto asked, not wanting to take his eyes off where the blast had come from.
"Where's Sasuke?" yelled Sakura.
-Sasuke-
Sasuke had decided not to follow orders and was blown far away as a result of it. He now didn't know where he was, where his teammates were or could he remember much at all. He had hit his head extremely hard on a tree in his journey.
"Hello Sasuke-Kun, want to play a game?" asked a voice so sweet it could rot your teeth.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" yelled the last Uchiha as he stood and activated the sharingan.
"Very well, if you're so eager to be tested, then why don't we just start already?" came the same overly sweet voice. Suddenly, a man walked out of the wooded area on the right of him. A very pale man.
"Who are you? What do you want with me?" Sasuke asked, getting a hair raising chuckle in return.
"All I want is to give you power Sasuke, to kill you brother perhaps? Maybe even kill that blond who's always in your way? All you have to do is join me." asked the pale man.
"No, no one can just give you power without some kind of draw back, so why would I possibly join you? Besides, I gave up on my plans to kill my brother, a life filled with revenge will only get you killed or leave you empty." stated Sasuke, remembering the many conversations he had with Naruto and Kakashi.
"Well, then I'll just have to make you come to me then." Said Orochimaru as he began leaking his own killer intent.
-Suna team-
"Gaara? That you?" asked Kankuro, this was the second time that this happened.
"No, Mother is very afraid right now, even more so than that time we met the strange man in the green spandex"
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke was rooted to the ground, unable to even think. The pure killing intent was stifling, even Zabuza wasn't anywhere near this level.
Then, out of nowhere, a head came flying towards him, and faster than he could react, bit him on the neck, giving him the curse seal. Sasuke dropped to his knees and passed out from the pain.
"Sasuke!" came the voice of Naruto. He came bounding into the area that held his friend. He instantly saw the curse mark, knowing plenty about it from Anko. "Shit! Sakura, get Sasuke and get out of here, I'll deal with this guy!"
"Ku Ku Ku, so Naruto-Kun wants to play with me as well hmm? Well maybe I can have a little fun before I go, after all, you figured out Kabuto, so you must have some talent" said the pale man in front of him, Sakura left, not wanting to disobey orders. That or she just wanted to get the hell out of there.
"Well if that's the way you feel about it, the let's go, Orochimaru!" Naruto had already activated his doujutsu, he was going to need it in this fight. He was hoping that Orochimaru would underestimate him and that he could get him by surprise.
Naruto charged, ducking and weaving to hide his true intentions. He threw a punch that was caught by Orochimaru, a costly mistake.
"Uzumaki style: Meteor punch!" he yelled as he launched his fist which was surrounded by wind chakra. The combo of surrounding his fist with wind chakra and powering his punch was devastating. Orochimaru's arm exploded, leaving only the bone of his upper arm and some shredded muscle that had somehow stayed on. But the attack wasn't finished, after his arm exploded, Orochimaru took a sledgehammer like kick to his chin, shattering it on impact.
Orochimaru was thrown a far distance, laying in a pile that barely resembled a human. Then, something started coming out if his mouth, it was a hand. Following the hand was an arm, then a head then a whole body. Orochimaru got up off the ground, new arm, new chin, the only thing wrong with him was that he was covered in slime, though that didn't seem to matter to him.
"That was quite a punch... You know that hurt quite a lot, but I guess it's my turn now?" he charged the blonde, the only thing that let Naruto dodge and parry the blows was his doujutsu and the time he was in ANBU. "Stay still" grunted the Snake Sannin.
"You know, for a pedophile, your pretty good!" stated Naruto, more to piss off Orochimaru than to complement him. If he could piss the sannin off, then he would make mistakes. Unfortunately, Orochimaru was a master of emotions, he didn't faultier for a second.
They spent the next 5 minutes exchanging blows, or rather dodging or blocking everything in a strict Taijutsu battle. Even with years of experience and his taijutsu style, Orochimaru was still just too good to hit. Naruto had to marvel at this.
"Well its been fun, but I really must go, so I guess I'll just have to use Ninjutsu. Earth style: Dragon spear jutsu!" yelled the sannin, a huge dragon made of earth and rock rose up from the ground and charged Naruto.
"Uzumaki style: Lightning dragon jutsu!" an absolutely massive dragon made of pure lightning came from Naruto's mouth and collided with the earth dragon, completely destroying it and sending Orochimaru back, burns covering the front side of his body.
Once again, the sannin emerged from his own mouth, but this time, a little worse for the ware, 'I need to stop underestimating him. He hits like Tsunade and has reserves that surpass mine! I need to end this quickly' though the snake Sannin.
Naruto was having similar thoughts 'Damn, almost out of chakra, I put the rest I had in that last attack! I need the fox, it's the only way I can stand a chance!'
Red chakra started to bubble Out of Naruto, he was going to risk it, so he went right up to his max, but there was a problem.
'Fox! You said I could use up too 3 tails! This is barely 2!'
"I know, your body is too stranded from using so much of your own chakra before using mine, any more and your body will rip itself apart.' stated the fox.
Orochimaru used this opportunity to attack, though Naruto was somehow able to dodge it, though even with the boost from the fox, Naruto wasn't fast enough to dodge Orochimaru's follow up as he slammed his palm into the blondes stomach. "5 pillar seal!" hissed the sannin as he sealed off the fox's chakra.
Then, while Naruto recoiled in pain, what felt like teeth punctured his neck, and what felt like acid inject through the bite. He collapsed to the ground and heard "You're too strong to leave alone, if you survive the curse seal, you can come be my slave"
Then, everything went black... But not before he heard the kyuubi yelling at him
"Don't die on me Kit! Don't you fucking die on me!"
"NARUTO!"
-End of chapter-
(Sorry about the chapter being shorter, i really wanted to get to the next chapter and well, yea)
(Pairing poll is still open, and the announcement of the pairing will be pushed back, it conflicts too much with my plot, so the pairing will be made during the finals of the chunin exam or a little after.)
(Should Naruto learn Hiraishin (Flying thunder god) or Sage Mode? either one he will be a bad ass with, but im leaning towards sage mode)
(new review limit, i wont be posting till 155 reviews. as this will be one of my longer chapters, it will take longer to write)
(there will be a guest appearance in the next chapter, take a guess at who it is?)
