Uchiha Heiress Remix

by JGResidentEvil

They say that you can't expect everything, so what would happen when a crazy secret is revealed? You just have to wait and see! Pairings: Naruto x Hinata x FemSasuke, Neji x Tenten, Lee x Kin, more pairings coming along. Sakura and Civilian Council Bashing. Don't like, don't read.

17. Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Body of the Chunin and the Snake in the Grass

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"This place is really creepy. . ." Sakura mutter fearfully with a gulp.

Team Seven had heard this as they all looked at the forest, causing them to sweat-drop at the obvious comment.

"Bah," Anko taunted with a scoff, causing most of the genin to look at her. "You'll soon find out why it's called the Forest of Death." She stated with a sadistic smirk, causing most of the genin to also gulp in fear, all but the most harden or fighting maniacs ones and members of Team Seven.

Naruto started to sniff the air, smelling the scent of snakes that weren't Anko's as he turned to see a group of Kusa shinobi. "Better avoid them. . .and tell Anko about them. . ." He thought with concern.

The Kyūbi meanwhile rolled his eyes to that. "Really now? Thanks for pointing out the obvious." He remarked in a sarcastic tone.

"Oh shut it furball! Not in the mood!" Naruto retorted. Then he got near his teammates, wanting to tell them what his nose had discovered, but before he could say anything. . .

"Listen up, brats!" Anko then suddenly yelled out to the remaining genin, instantly getting everyone's attention.

Once all eyes were on her, Anko nodded. "As I stated, this is known as the Forest of Death, around the perimeter is forty-four locked gates. Inside there is as stated, a forest, but there is also a river as well as a tower in the center. That tower is where you'll need to get to in order to pass the second stage." She explained as she looked at the genin. "However, you can't show up empty-handed." She then added.

Muttering was soon going around among some of the genin as they were confused at what the proctor meant.

"During the survival in here, you will be asked to complete the a certain task. Using your many weapons and jutsu, you will compete in a. . ." Anko began as then took out two scrolls one in each hand, one white and one black. "A no rules battle for a scroll." She concluded with a serious tone.

"Hmm. . ." The Kyūbi got out in slight interest.

"So it's something similar to a long mission. . ." Hinata thought.

"Troublesome. . ." Shikamaru grumbled out in annoyance to the thought.

"This'll be interesting." Satsuki thought as she imagined the scenario.

"That's right, you will fight over these two scrolls, the white Heaven scroll and the black Earth scroll." Anko answered what most were thinking. "There are 78 people here. . .Meaning 26 teams. . ." She began to hint what was to come. "Half or 13 teams will get the Heaven Scroll and the other 13 will get the Earth Scroll. To pass the test is really simple." She stated with a happy expression before it turn into a sadistic one. "Your team must make it to the tower. . .with both scrolls." She concluded with a wide smirk in her face.

"But since this is survival and we can fight each other, not exactly thirteen teams will get a scroll." Neji then stated in a serious matter.

"Also." Anko suddenly called out to gain the genin's attention once more. "There will be a time limit. The second test will have a 120 hours time limit, which is exactly five days." She added.

"Five days!?" Ino exclaimed to the mere thought.

"What about food!?" Chōji then asked in a fear filled tone.

To the very disappointing questions, Anko didn't even bother to look at the two. "Your on your own, after all you are shinobi, deal with it, there's enough food in there, you just gotta look around." She then advised.

"However. . ." Kabuto then started. "There are other threats within the forest as well as the other teams." He then stated.

"Way to be a killjoy. . ." Anko whined with a small pout. "But he's right, in this area there will be a lot of thing you'll have to be on the watch for man-eating beasts, poisonous insects/plants, not to mention the rest of the thirteen teams out for both your scrolls and your blood so having all of your team in more or less in one piece and getting to the tower before the time limit. I seriously doubt you all will get much sleep at the fear of getting your throat slit." She informed then with a carefree tone and attitude.

"How the hell can she be so calm about this!?" Ino thought in a panic and a pale face.

"That's Anko for ya dattebayo. . ." Naruto whispered with a deadpand expression as his teammates simply nodded in agreement

"I like it when they are sadistic." The Kyūbi meanwhile thought with a smirk.

"So basically everyone can go wild in there huh?" Kiba then stated with a smirk.

"Great. . .this is really going to be troublesome." Shikamaru once more groaned in annoyance.

"Foooood. . ." Chōji groaned out at the thought while holding his stomach.

"It can't be worse than Gai-sensei's training." Tenten meanwhile thought as she shivered at remembering her usual daily training.

"Now then. . ." Anko stated as she ignored the disheartening faces of the genin. "I will tell you what will disqualify you." She informed them as she raised one finger. "The first one is, if a team doesn't make it to the tower with both scrolls within the time limit." She began as she then raise another finger. "Second, those who lose or get a single teammate killed." She continued. "As a mandatory rule, there will be no quitting in once you start this test, you will be in the forest for five days. And one more rule. . .You must not look inside the scroll until you make it to the tower." She concluded.

"What happens if it accidently opens?" Kiba then asked.

"Oh? That's a surprise for those that actually tries it." Anko simply replied with evil grin. "After all, a Chunin will be asked to handle classified information. This will also be to test your trustworthiness." She then explained with a serious tone as her eyes widen at remembering something. "One last thing I have to hand out before we can even start the test." She suddenly added as she then pulled out a pile of papers.

"W-What are those?" Sakura asked in a nervous tone as she saw the sheets of paper.

As if was waiting for the question, Anko smirked happily. "Just some agreement forms, like I clearly explain, there will be death in the part of the test, so that Konoha don't have to take responsibility for whatever happens to you in the forest. And more specifically and importantly, so that I don't take any responsibility in case any of you died in there." She jokingly explained with a happy tone.

Most of the genin paled at this, as their brains finally fully assimilated just how dangerous and life threatening the next test will be.

Anko then handed the pile to Shikamaru, telling him to take one and pass it to the rest. All of the rookies were thinking different things:

"Survival. . .how troublesome."

"Man, I can't believe we have to find food on our own, good thing I packed some snack."

"Alright, time to show what I got! I won't lose to Forehead."

"Alright! Survival's our specialty, let win this!"

". . ."

"Alright, time to prove to Sasuke-kun that I'm worthy of being his wife!" "AND TO SHOW INO-PIG WHO'S BETTER OUT OF THE BOTH OF US! CHA!"

"Time to start this. Satsuki-chan can probably drop the transformation while in the forest."

"Let's get through this together. . . Naru-kun, Nata-chan."

"It's time to show what we can do, Naruto-kun, Satsuki-chan."

Inside of the seal the Kyūbi let out an amused chuckle. "This is going to be entertaining. . ." He thought to himself.

Naruto looked at the paper as he then looked at Anko, who was smirking. "No way I'm gonna die here." He declared, then he started to intensify a glare. "Hey Anko!" He yelled out, causing most of the other genin to look at him.

To that, Anko turned her head as she looked at the blond. "What?" She then asked, the smirk not leaving her face.

Naruto then grabbed both sides of the paper as he then ripped it in half, causing gasps and muttering of confusion to go around other genins as he then threw the bits of paper into the wind. "If your gonna try to scare us, you'll have to do better than that since I got no parents you got nothing to worry what would happen to me or get any trouble if whether or not I sign this dattebayo." He stated in a serious tone.

At seeing this, Sakura merely rolled her eyes. "Stupid akuma, he thinks he can get sympathy from others with the no parents thing and also act tough by ripping up the paper?" She stated. "I bet he's parentless for regretting giving birth to that akama and got themselves killed." She then added in disdain,

Sasuke smirked as he ripped his paper up as well along with Hinata. "He's got that right, we aren't gonna die that easily" Sasuke stated as Hinata nodded in agreement.

Hinata nodded in agreement to this as she surprised the genin from her class by also ripping her paper. "Hai, we will make it through this test without fail." She then stated with confidence.

"And I'm the same as him, parentless that also got killed, so you don't have to worry, it's my decision." Sasuke then added while giving Sakura a heated glare for saying something that remind him of his deceased parents. "Payback's a bitch Sakura Haruno. . .just like you." Satsuki meanwhile thought in satisfaction.

To hearing this, Sakura immediately paled as she realized that she had made a huge mistake at getting Sasuke's attention.

Anko smile grew wider, she should had asked them to write the papers, but she knew that the trio will definitely will pass this test, so she didn't had to worry. "Well then kiddies, I'll see you at the tower." She responded.

The members of Team Seven then walked over to a large hut so that they could get their scroll, which was a Heaven Scroll.

"We better get to the gate now." Naruto said as they entered and grab the Scroll. He then looked at the Uchiha on the team. "Do mind carrying it?" He then asked in a whispered tone.

"No problem." Sasuke responded as he pocketed the scroll. "I like to see anyone try and get it from me." Satsuki meanwhile thought with cockiness.

After this, the trio left the hut as an escort then arrived to bring the thre to their gate as they continued to hear muttering from the other genin.

Soon enough, the rest of the Genin teams started getting their own scrolls and heading for their respective gates. Each had different emotions of how would they do and feel the moment they entered the very place that would most likely be their grave.

Team Seven on the other hand was really excited as they waited for the time the test to begin. "Alright. . .ready to go?" Naruto asked his teammates with an excited tone and getting nods from both of them. "Right then, let's get it started!" He then encouraged.

"Right. . ." Sasuke responded with a smirk. "Now it's time to show our skills!" Satsuki declared with smile.

"Yes." Hinata replied with a kindly smile.

Soon enough, all the teams finally reached their gates as Anko's wrist watch began ticking as they waited for them to open so that they could let all of them into the forest. Soon the watch finally got to two-thirty on the spot. "Alright you maggots! The second test of the Chunin Exams begins now!" She roared her declaration.

No sooner the proctor declared this, all the gates open at once as every single genin teams rushed in by land and through the trees.

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Within the forest. . .

The members of Team Seven dashed through the trees for a few meters away from the gate that they had entered, until stopping on a branch that was thick enough so they could all properly stand.

Naruto looked at Sasuke as he smiled. "Alright teme, since we're in here, you can drop the transformation until we get through this." He suggested, then he looked towards the sky before realizing something and widen his eyes when he did remembered. "SHIT! I forgot to tell Anko about those Kusa guys!" He shouted in his mind as he ruffled his hair frantically.

"Don't know why your so acting like that, I think everyone would know you would had forgotten something that important anyway." The Kyūbi remarked with a witty tone.

The blond could only mentally growl with immense irritation at that as he couldn't retort to that remark.

Unaware of the mental argument, Sasuke nodded with a smirk as he did a hand seal and dropped the transformation, revealing a very happy Satsuki at being herself again. "Ok then, Naru-kun, Nata-chan, let's find us an Earth scroll," She began, then she looked at Hinata. "Nata-chan, you're up." She then requested.

Hinata gave a quick nod as she did a hand seal. "Byakugan!" She declared and once activating her doujutsu, she started to look ahead to see a shinobi coming straight at them. "An Ame shinobi is coming over in our direction." She reported as she then concentrated more. "However I don't see the scroll on him so he must be a scout." She then added.

Satsuki nodded as she looked at Naruto. "Should we attack before he gets us?" She asked in a serious manner.

Naruto smirked as he made two shadow clones. "Way ahead of you. Take cover for now." He ordered his clones, the two nodded as they got away from him to some nearby bushes.

The clones then surrounded the area around him. The real Naruto took a deep breath as he took a deep smell so that he could find the scent of the Ame shinobi and as such were he was hiding. His eyes widen as he threw a kunai in the direction of where he was coming.

"Nice try idiot!" Naruto shouted with a cocky tone as he heard the Ame shinobi rushing at him with a kunai in hand as Naruto quickly blocked it with another.

"Alright punk, hand over the scroll or die!" The Ame shinobi ordered.

Naruto smirked at the threat from the enemy. "Yeah. . .Let me think- no. . ." He responded with a joking tone as he started making one hand signs to signal his clones.

The Ame genin's eyes went wide when he saw the sign. "What-" Was all he could get out as he felt his back being stabbed. "Urk!" He got out in pain as he struggled to move his head to see the clones stabbing him in the back with a kunai, but the clones made sure not to hit a vital area as they didn't want to kill him.

"Like you said before, nice try fool." Naruto remarked as his opponent dropped his kunai and used all of his energy to get away from the him and then ran away.

The clones then disperse as Hinata and Satsuki came out of the bush and over to him.

"Are you alright Naru-kun?" Satsuki asked in a concerned tone.

Naruto smiled as he pecked the female Uchiha on the cheek. "Yeah, the idiot barely made a scratch on me." He stated.

"Don't get cocky brat." The Kyūbi then advised in an annoyed tone from within the seal.

Even unaware of what the demonic fox said, Hinata then looked at her boyfriend. "Naruto-kun, I don't think we should get overconfident in a situation like this." She suggested the same thing the Bijū had just said.

Satsuki in turn nodded in agreement to this. "Nata-chan's right, that would be our downfall in this kind of scenario." She replied.

The blond could only lowered his shoulders in depression, but before he could say anything, he sniffed the air to smell. . .as his eyes widen in pure fright. "Shit! Move!" Naruto shouted as he quickly grabbed the two and threw them away.

The next moment, a large blast of wind came at incredible speeds, tearing trees and many branches in its path. The blond was able to get himself out of it in the other direction, but by doing so he sent far away from the two.

The blast of the wind attack sent Naruto a distance away before he readjusted himself after as he manage to dodge most of the damage done. "It's them, those snake scented Kusa guys!" He muttered as he looked for the girls and then smelled the scent heading at the opposite direction of him. "Shit!" He cursed loudly as he finally realized what was the purpose of the attack.

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The two doujutsu heiresses meanwhile were sent crashing in the bushes and used them as a hiding spot for the moment, the two were lucky they didn't had anything then minor injures or just light scratches as they saw the after blast of the wind attack and the destruction it had caused onto the land.

Satsuki was holding the side of her head as she shook the dizziness away. "Damn. . .what the hell was that?" She whispered in confusion.

Hinata was doing the same but she had a much more composed expression. "I have no idea. . ." She answered just as confused by this situation.

Before they could analyse anything else, the two then heard some strange and creepy chuckling echoed around them.

As Hinata and Satsuki heard the chuckling, it gave them the feeling of their skin crawling with fear.

"Crap. . .what do we do Nata-chan?" Satsuki whispered with a hint of fear.

"I-I don't know. . ." Hinata whispered back as her stuttler return from the same fear.

The two kunoichis couldn't say anything else as they heard the same chuckling echoing. Then they turned and saw the same tall and slim kunoichi that they saw back when they had gathered with the rest of the genin.

"I must say, I was surprised to find out that Sasuke-kun was indeed a female. . ." The attacker began, causing the Uchiha Heiress to go wide-eyed, cursing to herself a little for being careless. "I wonder if she's as skilled as Itachi-kun?" She then added.

Satsuki's eyes went even wider at the mention of the name of her older brother as she then saw the Kusa shinobi lick her own face. "Who is that!?" She thought with a hint of anger in her tone, but on the inside she was scared at the sickening feeling the kunoichi gave off. "Who or what is she!? And how does she know my brother!?" She then added to her thoughts in a panic.

The kunoichi chuckle once more as she was amused at the girl's attempt of hiding herself. "I suggest you come out, Itachi-kun's imouto. . ." She all but ordered, she soon heard footsteps as she then saw Satsuki and Hinata come out of the bushes, both looking ready to fight.

Ah, there she is and. . ." the kunoichi commented with a creepy tone. Then upon seeing Hinata she smiled evil and with interest. "Oh~ And what do we have here? An unsealed Hyuga, interesting. . ." She commented with a vile excitement tone in her voice.

Then the woman took out a black scroll. "You want my Earth Scroll right?" She asked with a hint of sarcasm. "After all you have the Heaven Scroll. . ." She then revealed as she raised her scroll on top of her head.

The next thing the two girls saw was a disgusting sight of the woman actually swallowing the scroll.

The two girls soon started to feel sick at the sight of what the woman just did. "What. . .the fuck?" Satsuki got out in disgust.

Hinata meanwhile was left baffled as she couldn't even say a word at the pure resulting action.

After completely engulfing the scroll, the woman licked her lips. "Now, let's begin. . ." She began as her left hand began heading towards her left eye. "The battle for each other's scrolls. . ." She stated as she placed her finger underneath her eye and pulled the under part of her eye lids. "With our live on the line." She declared with a deadly serious tone.

To the declaration, the two girls couldn't say or do anything as they were blasted the killing intent coming out from the woman as they continued looking on, each could literally felt and saw themselves being killed in the most brutal of ways, making them sweat run down their heads.

They were left shaken but still was standing, had they didn't had experience feeling such a feeling when they had faced Zabuza they would had left paralyzed in total terror. But they were still shaken up a lot as this killing intent was beyond Zabuza's by a landslide.

"W-Who are you?! A-And how do you know my brother!?" Satsuki questioned as fear was filling her body.

As if the kunoichi was waiting for the question, she started to chuckling with a sickly and vile tone. "Mmm. . .they were able to handle the power of my bloodlust, impressive. . ." She thought in a twisted form of satisfaction.

"Now that. . .will be revealed in time," She began. "So then, show me how strong you are." She ordered as she then rushed at the two. "Entertain me well. . ." She requested in a vile tone.

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Outside the Forest of Death. . .

Screams were coming from within the forest as Anko listened on. "Looks like it's starting." She commented with a sadistic glee.

The proctor meanwhile was happily eating her dango and drinking her drink. "Yum. . .nothing better than dango and alcohol. Once I finish, I think I should head to the tower." She decided as she then took out the stick and threw it at a nearby tree, getting it stuck with a bunch of other dango sticks in the form of the Konoha leaf symbol. "All done." She then got out in satisfaction.

No sooner she said this a smoke suddenly appeared near her. "Big trouble Anko-sama!" A shinobi announce.

This in turn got Anko's attention. "What happen?" She asked.

"We found bodies! Three of them!" The shinobi quickly reported.

"What's there to worry about that? There was bound to be in this test." Anko stated with a confused tone.

"No! They were found outside of the forest and they were dead before the second test even began!" The shinobi reported. But that's not the only thing, the bodies were strange. . ." He then added "Anyways, please come!" He soon requested.

"Strange? Besides being dead?" Anko thought to herself, but she still nodded all the same and both disappeared in a smoke.

A few moments later Anko had arrived to the scene where the bodies were located.
"After examining their papers and personal items." One of the shinobis began to explain. "They seem to be the Hidden Grass shinobis who were entered in this exam, but. . ." He reported as he let the purple haired jonin examine the bodies.

Anko's face however was in total shock at seeing this. "Shit. . ." She muttered out.

"The have no faces. They were completely cut off, no more like they were melted off." He concluded.

"There's no mistaking it. This jutsu is his. . ." Anko soon thought to herself with fear and with narrow eyes. "Why is he in this exam!?" She then questioned in her head with in a panicked manner.

Anko then quickly turned to the other shinobis. "Show me the pictures of these three!" She ordered.

"Yes ma'am!" Another shinobi stated as he did as what he was told, handing the photos to the jonin immediately.

Upon seeing the picture, Anko instantly recognize the faces. "He stole this face. . .So that time. . .He already. . ." She thought as she remembered seeing this face at the gathering. "You guys! Report this to the Hokage-sama immediately!" She ordered with a hint of panic in her voice.

"Huh?" They got out in confusion.

"Send some Anbu captains to the Forest of Death! I'm going after them right now!" Anko declared.

No sooner she said this, Anko rushed directly at the forest and find the intruders.

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Back in the forest. . .

Naruto was rushing through the trees as fast as he possibly could as the fear of what could happen to the girls was ever present in his mind.

"Damn, I gotta get back to them!" Naruto shouted with fear. The blond then picked up his speed even more, however he slightly wince at the earlier crash but quickly shook it off. "I deserve getting that hit. . .this was for not telling Anko about those guys!" He stated as he berated himself as he couldn't help but wanting to kick himself for what is currently happening.

The blond shook his pessimistic thoughts away as right now he need to concentrate. "Hinata-chan, Satsuki-chan, wait for me!" Naruto thought as he rushed further while going at full speed, when. . .

CRASH! HISS!

The sound of a tree falling stopped the blond as a massive snake blocked his path.

"What the hell!?" He shouted in both confusion and fright at the sight of the giant snake.

HISS!

The snake then plunged its huge mouth at Naruto, trying to eat him in one gulp.

"Kami dammit!" Naruto shouted as he had to jumped out ofthe way, just in time to see that the plung had tear a tree by its roots. The blond growled at the snake as he then pulled out his scroll. "I don't have time for you!" He declared as he summoned out the Executioner's Blade and grabbed it both hands.

Naruto then began to channeled wind chakra into the sword as he dashed with impressive speeds and with a quick slash, he cut some of the snake.

SLASH! HISS!

The huge snake let out a massive hiss of agony as it received a deep cut, though it wasn't deep enough to fatally injure it. Naruto didn't had to think twice as he used this chance to make a run for it. "See ya sucker!" He shouted as he quickly rushed passed the screeching snake.

The snake finally recovered as it used its tongue to detect where the blond was running as it started chasing him.

Naruto's eye widen to comedic proportion at the sight of the snake chasing him. "Oh come on!" He shouted in annoyance as began running frantically "What the hell is up with the animals in this forest dattebayo!?" He asked/complained.

"Kit, watch out, that guy isn't normal snake at all!" Kyūbi stated in a warning like tone. "This snake is a summon!" He informed.

Naruto was nearly eaten by another plunge of the snake but was fast enough to dodge. "What!? Like Kakashi-sensei's dogs!?" He asked the Bijū.

"Yeah! But this guy is at least mid level boss summon, no genin, hell no chunin should be have enough chakra to summon this level of summon!" The Kyūbi then declared.

"Got it!" Naruto thought as he began to think of how to kill it when he realized something. "Wait! If this is something stronger than a chunin and I barely was lucky enough to cut him, then how the hell will I kill it!?" He shouted in a panic.

"Mmm. . .That is true. . .your not strong enough to use your sword like no brows, nor do you know a jutsu that make a lot of damage to instantly destroy it, what to do?" The Kyūbi calmly stated in a pondering tone.

"STOP PONDERING AND HELP ME DATTEBAYO!" Naruto roared as he once again narrowly dodge another attack.

"Well I do have something in mind." The Kyūbi then stated as he was fighting a chuckle from escaping his lips.

"REALLY!? HOW!?" Naruto asked.

"Well. . ." The Kyūbi got out as he whispered what the blond had to do.

In an instant to the suggestion, Naruto's face turn whiter than paper. "WHAT!?" He roared in contemp.

"Is either that or get yourself killed~" The Kyūbi commented with a singing tone.

The blond growled lowly in resignation. "Fine!" He shouted as he placed his blade behind his back, then he began running to the upper branches of the trees and then jumped as high as he could.

The snake didn't feel dispirited by this action as it began to climb on of the trees to follow.

"I really am going to hate this. . ." Naruto thought to himself as he when through hand seals."Wind Style!" He declared while his right hand was gaining a lot of wind chakra in his hand as he dived downwards, straight to the snake.

Seeing this, the snake open its huge mouth to try to eat the blond.

When Naruto saw this he began to whimper at what he had to do and could had sworn he could hear the Bijū laugh loudly inside of his mind. "SHUT IT!" He shouted as he closed his eyes.

CHOMP!

The loud chomping sound was heard as the snake had eaten the blond whole.

"Beast Wave Palm!" Naruto roared from inside of the snake mouth.

SLICE!

The snake's head was instantly decapitated from the inside out as both its head and body fell to the ground as Naruto land a few feet away from him.

The Kyūbi knew that the snake outer skin was incredibly tough, however his insides? Now that was another thing entirely, so all Naruto had to do was get inside of his mouth and used the jutsu with the highest cutting power he knew so that he could cut its head clean off.

However the downside was that he would be covered in the snake's drool. Not that the Kyūbi wanted this to happen to have a good laugh or anything. . .

The now drool covered Naruto had a very annoyed face as he tried to get the drool off him. "BWAHAHAHAHA!" The Kyūbi's roaring laughter echoed loudly inside of his mind.

Never mind. . .

"I am so going to get you for this dattebayo. . ." Naruto declared with annoyance.

With that declaration, Naruto headed straight towards the direction of his girlfriends.

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Elsewhere in the forest. . .

The sound of metal, fire and flesh hitting flesh echoed violently.

"Striking Shadow Snakes!" The Kusa shinobi declared as she held her arm out as many snakes came out of her sleeves as they headed straight at the two girls.

The fight between Hinata, Satsuki and the Kusa shinobi hadn't been long, but the enemy was very strong that the girls had to use all of her skill and a lot of their jutsus to just keep up. This caused the two of them to lose a good portion of their chakra.

Thinking quickly, both girls had to dodge them. They had to used their taijutsu skills to dodge as well their kunais to kill the once that couldn't be avoided.

"Out of my way!" Satsuki shouted as she cut another snake's head with a kunai. "She used the same jutsu as Anko-neechan!" She thought.

"Who is this woman?" Hinata thought as she gracefully dodged another snake before roundhouse kicking another. "There's no end to them!" She then called out to her fellow heiress.

"Not for long!" Satsuki declared as she dashed backward and quickly made some hand seals. "Fireball Jutsu!" She yelled through the trees as she tried to burn most of the snake and pushed the Kusa shinobi away.

However the very nimble enemy easily dodged them as if she was like a snake, quite literally as she move and bend like one so that each fireball passed by her harmlessly.

Once the last fireball was sent, she started rushing at her only like a snake as she look like one as she somehow glided through the ground like one.

When the enemy had reached Satsuki, Hinata used her eyes to see the trajectory of where she would be to intercepted by stepping in her path as she tried to get some hit with her Gentle Fist, but it only resulted in all of the hits being dodge and only hitting air.

"H-How? S-She dodging all of my Gentle Fist attacks as if she knows them from experience?" The Hyuga mind got out in mass confusion, she knew that her gentle fist may not be as the same level as her cousins, but it was still decent enough for most locations.

As this thought filled Hinata's mind, her eyes widen before a new realization came to her. "This. . This person is not a genin!" She thought as panic began to fill her.

Seeing the momentary distraction, the Kusa enemy delivered a swift kick to the Hyuga's stomach. "Gah!" Hinata got out in pain and was send her flying backwards as fast velocity.

"Nata-chan!" Satsuki exclaimed in shock as she intercepted just in time before her teammate had hit a tree. "You alright?" She soon asked in a worried tone.

Hinata meanwhile held her side in slight pain from the attack. "H-Hai. . ." She replied as she got back up.

Then both girl began to heard a evil chuckling echo throughout the forest around them. "So then Sasuke-chan, Hyuga-chan, is that all you got?" She then taunted in an echo like way as they could feel the woman giving them a sadistic smirk.

All of a sudden. . .the air around them became suffocating and heavy as a single feeling was struck into both girls once again. . .

"N-No. . ." Hinata got out as she began to breath heavily, remembering the feeling that was coursing through her from before being on Team Seven.

"Not again. . ." Satsuki muttered. "Not again. . ." She repeated in a whimpering tone.

Fear. . .

Fear from being once again being struck by the insane bloodlust that the enemy was emitting towards the two, momentarily inflicted them with a mental paralysis. The two girls began to unintentionally began to slowly get away from her with one thought coming to their minds. "STAY AWAY FROM US YOU MONSTER!" They both yelled, throwing shurikens at her to try and stop her from getting closer to them.

Said monster only chuckle once more in amusement. "Why, that isn't nice to call someone that." The woman responded with a fake hurtful tone as she easily dodged the shurikens with little to no effort at all. "Sasuke-chan, you seem much different from your brother in personality and in ability, I wonder what he would say to this?" She then taunted with a sadistic smile.

At hearing this taunt, Satsuki replaced her fear with anger as she was now glaring at her with her activated Sharingan at the mere mention of her brother.

"Don't speak about my brother like that bastard!" Satsuki yelled as she then started to go through more than the usual handsigns. "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" She declared as she blew smaller but much more hotter fireballs came out of her mouth as they went at the Kusa shinobi.

"You'll have to do better than that Sasuke-chan." The Kusa shinobi taunted as she took a deep breath and blew a mighty wind to get rid of the flames. Once she did, the woman soon found out that inside of the fireballs, there were shurikens heading straight at her. "Concealing shurikens within the flames to deceive me, not bad. . ." She thought with both amusement as she dashed out of the way, then she felt a presence from behind her.

Hinata had recovered as well when her teammate had sent her attack and used this moment to silently reach behind the woman and once again tried to attack her weak points with her Byakugan activated. "Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms!" She declared as she went into to strike and delivered thirty two hits.

"Gah!" The Kusa shinobi shouted as she felt the stinging pain for the Gentle Fist hitting her back, temporary holding all her moments. "As expected of a Hyuga, stealthy as any other of their clan." She thought with a hidden smirk on her face.

"Looking the wrong way!" Satsuki shouted. "FIRE STYLE! FIREBALL JUTSU!" She roared as she took in a massive deep breath.

"They're both incredible! Both their abilities and talents are incredible!" The Kusa shinobi thought with glee as the roaring flame soon hit her in the face. "AH!" She roared in agony while being engulfed in flames.

It was at this point that both of the heiresses that they had reached their limit as they were panting heavily from the battle and had now completely ran out of chakra as they both struggled to just be able to stand properly.

Despite her tired self, the Uchiha Heiress let out a cheerful smile. "Yosh! We got her!" Satsuki thought as she felt her confidence fully returning after all the bloodlust.

Thanks to Hinata's Byakugan, she could see that the hit had indeed hit her and it couldn't had dodge or evade the attack. "Whew. . .she's incapacitated now. . ." She thought in relief. "We better get back to Naruto-kun now." She then suggested.

The Uchiha nodded tirely in agreement, however as they both turned around. . .

STEP. . .

The sound of a single step halted the girls in mid step.

Satsuki's eyes then widen as her body slightly shivered. "Oh shit. . ." She whispered.

"N-No. . ." Hinata got out as her body was doing the same as the Uchiha's.

A blast of yet another bloodlust struck them, however the first and second that they felt was nothing compared to this one. It was so powerful and foul that they nearly forgot to breath as their bodies began to turn as if they were in autopilot.

What they saw was the flame still burning the woman, but somehow she was still slowly walking towards them. Then the flame simply banished, revealing a slightly burnt enemy as only her face looked damage, it actually looked like it was the left upper part of her face was melting off and her very eyes change into a completely different shape and color while looked like one an actual snake would had.

"W-What. . ." Hinata got out as she couldn't even process the words fully, let alone say it.

"T-The fuck. . ." Satsuki meanwhile got out as she was no better.

"Excellent. . ." A voice came from inside the flames, but unlike the female voice they were used to hearing from the enemy, this one sounded more male and much more vile and sinister that made both gril tremble with pure terror.

However it wasn't just the voice that has changed, the very air around them was crushing and heavy that if there were weaker people in the vicinity, they would had either had fainted or they would actually die from the display of power it was emitting.

"So. . .you do have much potential like your brother. . ." The person inside the flames declared with a vile yet pleased tone.

Satsuki soon gulped as she now felt the overwhelming power coming from this person. "Again. . .what the fuck. . ." She questioned.

"W-Who. . .are you. . ." Hinata got out in more confusion than before.

The now revealed male then began to chuckle in a vile manner as he then began to literally lick his face with a disgustingly long tongue. "I must say now. . .this test. . . is over. . ." He stated in a satisfied tone.

The two heiresses eyes widen to that, to what they just heard. "A-A test?" Hinata got out in confusion.

Satsuki soon narrowed her eyes to that. "What do you mean!? Is this was actually part of the Chunin Exams!?" She then questioned.

The man only chuckle and smirked at their reaction. "Of course not. . .this was my own personal test, to see if you were worthy. . ." He simply replied. "And I must say, you passed with flying colors. . ." He added with a sickening sweet tone that send chill of fear in the girls spines.

However with that last addition, the girls immediately knew that something bad was coming.

"And so. . .I decided. . ." He began as he did one hand sign before suddenly, his neck extended in an inhumane manner as his head stretched towards the shocked Uchiha. "I must have you!" He then declared with excitement in his voice.

Satsuki was to tired to even attempt to move and Hinata was just as exhausted that she too couldn't move to help out her friend as the enemy rapidly approaching attack.

CHOMP!

The man soon sank his fangs into the Uchiha's neck and as she pulled away on instinct, however. . .

"AAAAAH!" Satsuki screamed in agony while holding her neck as she could feel foreign chakra invading her body.

"Satsuki-chan!" Hinata exclaimed with fear and worry for her friend and fellow lover's safety, however all she could do was watched her fellow heiress while she was in agonizing pain.

The man however smirked manically as he watched the Sharingan Heiress clutch her neck in agony as she felt like she had just been injected with acid. "That's one." H stated as he then turned to look at the Hyuga and smirked.

"Satsuki-chan!" Hinata called out once more, but couldn't move from exhaustion and low chakra reserve.

"YOU BASTARD!" Everyone looked at a nearby branch as they saw Naruto inches away from Kusa shinobi with a kunai in hand

The man's smirk never left as he didn't even felt an ounce of a threat to his being as he simply move his head to the side as the kunai harmlessly passed him.

Naruto skidded on the ground as he growled at his failed attack. While mental complaining about putting his blade back in his scroll as the Kyūbi had mysteriously order him to do so. "Why the hell did you tell me to do that anyway dattebayo!?" He mentally asked his tenant.

"Talk later idiot!" Was all the Kyūbi had to say about the subject as he knew now was not the time to talk.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata called out with relief at the sight of her boyfriend.

Thought Satsuki was still in agony, the sight of her boyfriend made her somewhat manage through the pain. "N-Naru-kun. . .you made it. . ." She struggled out as she held the spot where she was bitten.

Naruto immediately noticed his injured girlfriend as his anger increased. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?" He yelled out in rage.

The man then looked back at the exhausted Hyuga and the in pain Uchiha. "Oh just giving the two their rewards." He taunted as he suddenly disappeared in the same or even faster that Gai had displayed the day before.

"Where did he-" Naruto started then using his senses quickly detected his movements. "Hinata-chan behind you!" He yelled out to her.

"Wha-!?" Was all Hinata could got out as she tried to turn around but was struck with the same pain in the neck as the Kusa shinobi had bit down hard into her neck as well, causing her to scream in pain.

The man retracted his fangs as he watch three tomoes appeared in Hinata's neck with gleeful smirk. "And now I have both. . ." He gleefully declared.

"HINATA-CHAN!" Naruto rushed down the tree and tried to slash the man with a kunai, only for him to disappeared from Hinata's hold. "Where!?" He then turned to see the same man on top of a tree branch. "WHO ARE YOU!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?!" He roared in pure rage as his pupils became slited.

The man looked down at the boy as he smiled in self-satisfaction, then he moved his hand to grabbed the edge of his burn face and removed it, revealing his true face. He had the same eyes while having a pale white skinned face with purple line below his eyes.

"I am. . .Orochimaru." The now revealed Orochimaru introduced himself before he then somehow began to sink into the branch as the blond noticed his headband change to the Oto music note symbol. "And I expect those girls of yours to come to me for power." He finished as he chuckled in amusement before he then fully sunk into the branch, leaving the three members of Team Seven alone in the forest.

"DAMMIT!" Naruto yelled out as he went to the two heiresses, who had now passed out from the pain. "Hinata-chan, Satsuki-chan are you alright!?" He asked his girlfriends with fear and concern as then he noticed the same marks on their necks, three tomoe in a triangular position. "What are-?" He started to question as he looked on at the marks.

"Hold on. . ." The Kyūbi then ordered as he came out the seal in his chibi fox form. "Let me look, I'm not your father but I know my seals thanks to my idiot brother Shukaku." He then added as he placed a paw on the mark that resided on Hinata's neck.

However, just when Naruto was about to asked what he meant by that. . .

"THAT BASTARD!" The Kyūbi suddenly roared in pure fury and rage.

The Bijū was a being of chakra and as such he could feel all sorts of thing related to it. The Kyūbi feel that inside of the tomoe markings had a powerful, vile and tainted chakra as it was forcefully entering the two girls bodies.

"KIT, WE GOT TO STOP THESE MARKS! THEY'RE CORRUPTING THEIR MINDS LIKE POISON!" The Kyūbi told him with anger.

Naruto's eyes immediately widen to reveal. "WHAT!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" He exclaimed his question in confusion and panic.

"THAT OROCHIMARU ASSHOLE IS TRYING TO THESE MARKS TO CORRUPTED THEIR MINDS AND FORCED THEM TO GO TO HIM SOME DAY." The Kyūbi revealed in rising fury.

"OVER MY DEAD BODY DATTEBAYO!" Naruto then roared.

The Bijū then began to quickly analyse the marks to try and find a way to stop this, but he knew that he didn't had enough time to think of a perfect way to get rid of the mark, so he had to compromise. "I believe that my chakra will be able to destroy it, but there is only one way to get my chakra into the two of them!" He then stated.

"WHAT!? WHAT DO I GO TO DO!? I GOTTA SAVE THEM!" Naruto soon asked in a panicked tone before he then started to hear whimpering from the two as purple auras started to leak out of them.

"Well. . ." Kyūbi began as he was trying to find the right way to say it. "There will be a small catch to that. . ." He then added.

---

With the purple haired jonin. . .

Anko was rushing through the trees of the forest in an enraged and panicked manner. "I gotta find him quickly before it gets dark! But why!? Why is he here?! Why now at a time like this!?" She thought in confusion as she continued through the forest.

---

Back with Team Seven. . .

After a while, Naruto had taken the girls to tree that had a cave like opening at the base of it, a perfect hiding location to let the two girls rest. But not everything was calm for Naruto and his Bijū. . .

"I HAVE TO WHAT?!" Naruto yelled out as a mad and embarrassed blush appeared on his face to what he had to do.

The Kyūbi meanwhile rolled his eyes at the expected reaction. "You heard me kit, you have to bite them where the mark is so my chakra can be injected into them, I'll worry about them from that point." He explained. "Besides, I still gonna further analyzes these things in case something like this happens again in the future." He then added in his mind as he would rather become a male stripper at a yaoi club before he let the blond knew he was a big softy for him and the girls.

Naruto was soon conflicted at this, true he was worried about his girlfriends, but he was just as worried of what could happen to them if he did this. It wasn't out of distrust of the Bijū, it was more so of the result may bring.

However when Naruto looked back at the girls as they started to shiver in pain with a vile purple chakra starting to leak out of them he knew that as much as he didn't like it, it had to be done. "Shit. . ." He got out.

"Well?" The demonic fox then questioned in a serious tone. "What is your decision kit?" He then added to his question.

Naruto took a deep breath and clean the sweat of his face from the impossible decision he had to make for the girls. "I. . ." He tried to say.

Suddenly, the blond's heightened senses picked up something in the air, he sense another group of genin coming straight towards them. "Oh you god to be kidding me! Fine! I'll do it!" He shouted, not wanting to leave his girls in any more danger.

The Kyūbi smirked in amusement as he knew that this choice would change everything, whether for the better or the worst only fate could tell. "Good, now hurry, they aren't looking so good." He advised in a serious manner as he then went back into the seal to prepare himself.

Upon hearing this, Naruto nodded as he quickly went to the female Hyuga first while he looked at the Curse Mark on her neck.

The blond gently picked her up enough to be able to reach her exposed neck as he narrow his eyes in hesitation. "Hinata-chan. . ." He whispered in concern.

Naruto then gulp and an aura of the Kyūbi's red chakra, he opened his mouth wide and his fox-like canines began to growing out. With a quick and swift motion he then bit down into her neck, causing her to let out a loud moan. Whether it was from pain or pleasure he really didn't know and quite frankly, he really didn't need those thoughts right now as the Kyūbi's chakra flowed into her from his canines and into the girl's body as began to invade the Curse Mark.

After a minute had passed, the red chakra stop. "Alright, that's enough chakra for her." Kyūbi advised in a serious tone.

The blond then separated himself from her girlfriend's neck as an embarrassing blush was ever present in his face from feeling the female Hyuga's soft neck. "I am not going to get any sleep from this. . ." Naruto thought to himself as he knew he will have dreams of him being a vampire attacking a defenseless Hinata. Then he gently placed Hinata back on the ground.

The Kyūbi was to busy preparing for what he was about to do and that he didn't bothered to focus on his container's current thought process. "Good, now for the Uchiha Heiress." He ordered in a calm manner.

Though still embarrassed from the earlier action, Naruto nodded and picked up the female Uchiha in the same position he did before, when he found the Curse Mark on her neck, his blush increased once more as he bit down on it.

Like last time, it caused Satsuki to moan like Hinata did before, all the while his blush could only intensify. "I'm definitely going to have vampire dreams of Hinata-chan and Satsuki-chan after this dattebayo. . ." He offhandedly thought as he then started to feel the chakra enter her system.

After a minute, Naruto separated from her and gently laid Satsuki down next to Hinata, he notice that both of them were still unconscious. "Now what?" He asked the Bijū for what he needed to do next.

"I'll be concentrating on working to possibly destroy their marks, so you'll be on your own and won't use my chakra during this time. Also. . ." Kyūbi began before he started to chuckle while he got into a meditative position.

In the meanwhile, the blond was still watching the girls when his head jerked up. "What. . .?" Naruto asked, not liking that way the fox was laughing pervertedly .

The Kyūbi then started to grin wildly in satisfaction. "Oh not much. . .Just that my chakra could possibly turn their marks into mate marks, so it'll count as you three be married to each other and they'll also have access to my chakra, making them into possible pseudo-Jinchūriki, that's all." He explained as he waited for his container's expected reply.

A moment of silence went by before. . .

Naruto's face turn to the same levels of red that Hinata once had when he finally processed this. "WHAT?! YOU TRICKED ME DATTEBAYO!" roared in anger to that reveal.

---

A few meters away. . .

Unknown to the blond at the moment, the Oto genin team had appeared as they came to kill the girls, however they decided to wait for the right moment to strike as they didn't want to charge in blindly.

"So that's where the punk of a target is?" The spiky haired Oto genin questioned.

The sole female member of their team nodded to this as she looked on. "Yup, all three of them are in the tree cave. Though it looks like only the blond one is the only one still capable to fight." She answered.

The spiky haired boy smirked with a bloodthirsty expression at this. "Good, now we can get payback for embarrassing us at the first part of this stupid exam." He declared in twisted satisfaction.

The bandaged genin then looked at the blond in question as he took care of his teammates. "For now, we wait until he is completely exhausted." He ordered as then looked at his female teammate. "Just don't screw up Kin, you already lost our trap to use." He then reminded.

The girl now revealed to be Kin narrowed her eyes to that. "Oh shut it Dosu, it was Zaku that scared that squirrel off with his face and blowholes." She remarked.

Said spiky haired boy named Zaku balled his fist in anger to that. "Why you little-" He began in rising fury.

"Enough!" Dosu ordered as he narrowed his eyes while he looked at his teammates. "Just keep watching those brats." He then added.

The two merely scoffed or huffed at this, but they still did as they were told.

---

Elsewhere in the forest. . .

Anko's serious expression never left her face as she continued racing through the forest via tree branches.

Anko dashed through the forest as fast as she possibly could. Her face was of one of fear and concern. "It's almost nightfall. . ." She thought to herself. "I must find him quickly. . .once it gets totally dark. . .I will be at a further disadvantage. . ." She added.

The older kunoichi narrow her eyes with anger. "But why is he. . .at a time like this. . .What is his purpose?" She asked herself once more in confusion. "Well it makes no difference if you have come to this village, then we will settle things now." She stated.

Anko then began to ran even faster than before. "You are now a S-Rank missing shinobi." She thought to herself as images of a man with a snake appeared in her mind. "I must stop you even if it cost me my life. . .and if that's not possible. . ." She declared with resolve.

Stopping on a tree branch, Anko remain crouching down. "I must slow you down. . .until the Anbu arrives." She thought to herself with determination.

Then the older kunoichi began to stand up. "I learned everything from you. . .I was one of your men. . .and thus. . ." She then thought to herself. ". . .that is my job, right Orochimaru?" She declared vocally as she narrowed her eyes.

Right behind the very tree branch Anko was standing on, the man in question was somehow fused with the tree trunk as he looked at the woman. "That's not possible." Orochimaru declared with amusement.

Anko closed her eyes as Orochimaru remain motionless, still melded to the tree. Then the kunoichi jumped as high as possible while taking out a handful of senbons from within her jacket.

Before Anko could throw them however, Orochimaru simple raised his chin as his tongue began to move on the inside of his mouth. Next thing Anko saw was the S rank criminal actually extended his tongue in an inhuman manner.

The tongue had grabbed the hand where Anko had her senbons. This forced Anko to drop them and land to another tree branch.

"You won't get away. . .Striking Shadow Snake!" Anko screamed in her mind as many snakes came out of her jacket while they wrap and bit on the tongue.

Once she had a good hold on his tongue, Anko used every ounce of her strength to pull Orochimaru right off the tree and slam him to the one she was in, leaving a massive cracks on it.

However Orochimaru didn't look fazed as he began to dashed towards her and slamming into her to the trunk of the tree.

Thinking quickly, Anko used her left hand to grabbed Orochimaru's right hand and throw him to the bark while taking kunai from her right sleeve. Then in a manner of sacrificial move, she stabbed the same hand that held Orochimaru's to hold him in place.

Anko resisted both the pain and the urge to scream, then she looked straight at the eyes of Orochimaru's with a smirk on her face. "Hehe, caught you." She declared as she then used her right hand to fold his left while making a strange hand seal. "I'm going to borrow your left hand Orochimaru." She declared.

"This seal. . ." Orochimaru got out as he instantly recognized the hand seal.

Anko could only smirked at this even more. "Yeah. . .You and me will die. . ." She declared as she closed her eyes to prepare her suicidal jutsu. "Ninja Art! Double Snake Assassination-" She tried to declared in her mind.

However she soon stopped when she hear an evil chuckle. "Planning to commit suicide?" The voice from Orochimaru declared from a distance away.

Anko's eyes widen for a moment from realized what had just happened as she then narrowed them. "A shadow clone huh?" She then stated in a calm manner, no sooner she said this, the clone dispersed itself as she took the kunai out from her hand.

"You are a special jounin of this village. . ." Orochimaru began as he raised his hand and made a single hand sign. "You shouldn't all those. . .forbidden jutsu I taught you." He concluded.

Anko flinched and fell in her to her knees while holding her neck in agony. "Why are you here?" She asked through her pain. "Dammit. . .this fuckin' curse mark again. . ." She thought as she held back the pain she was going through.

Orochimaru chuckled once more to this. "We haven't seen each other in a while. . .yet you're so cold Anko." He remarked with sarcasm in his voice.

In response, Anko scuffed with disrespect. "Bullshit! Have you come to assassinate Hokage-sama?" She questioned while still holding her neck.

"No, no, I don't have enough men for that yet." Orochimaru stated while not denying the claim. "I thought I'd recruit some very outstanding ones from this village." He then revealed.

Anko was now feeling more pain than before as she was forced to crouched into a ball from the agony. Her hand finally moved her jacket enough and there was the exact same three tomoe mark on her neck like the girls.

"I just gave two pretty ladies one of those Curse Marks." Orochimaru declared with amusement. "I had originally one child that I wanted. . .but then I found another one that also peaked my interest." He added.

Anko weakly raised her head while she panted heavily. "How selfish. . .Those kids are going to die then. . ." She stated as she felt bad for whoever it was he had placed the same marks on.

Orochimaru hummed a bit to this as he began to think. "I would say that the chance of surviving is 1/10." He stated truthfully. "But. . .like you. . .they might not die." He declared.

Anko weakly smirked at this. "You must really like them then. . ." She joked with sarcasm.

"Are we jealous?" Orochimaru soon joked with an amused tone. "Are you upset that I threw you away?" He then asked while he chuckled.

Suddenly Anko was strike with even more pain than she could handle and was forced to hold the spot where the mark was once more.

Orochimaru then looked at the direction that the girls was left. "Unlike you, this two have immensely more talent that you." He stated as he turned once more to Anko. "The two are carrying ancient bloodlines. . ." He began as he licked his own face. "One which carries the Uchiha's Sharingan and the other the Hyuga's Byakugan." He then revealed.

Anko's eyes immediately widen when she realized who the two girls he mentioned were as she began to growled in anger. "T-That bastard! He's trying to get imouto-chan and Hinata!?" She thought in an enraged manner at the mere thought of the two girls she came to know and care for being branded like her or even going to her former sensei. However she couldn't even voice her thoughts from the pain she was enduring.

"They're both very beautiful. . .one will be a perfect vessel to be my successor and the other will be an excellent research material." Orochimaru stated with glee. "If they survive, things could get very interesting." He added.

The man then waited for Anko's breathing to become a bit smoother. "So please don't stop this exam prematurely. About three from my village are also taking part and I'm really enjoying this." He ordered more so than asked as he slowly began to melt into the tree branch. "If you try to end my enjoyment. . .believe that Konoha is finished. . ." He threatened as he completely vanished.

Anko meanwhile balled her hands into fists as she slammed them on the branch she was on. "SHIT!" She roared as she struggled to get back up. "Imouto. . .Hinata. . .you better survive what he injected you with. . ." She thought in concern.

---

Within Satsuki's mind. . .

Satsuki's eyes slowly began to open as she woke up inside of a very familiar area. The girl slowly stand in the place she was and was shocked when she saw that she was her seven year old body.

"H-How. . .how am I-!?" The Uchiha began before realizing that her voice was her seven year old voice.

Then the girl looked around and saw that she was at the Uchiha District, however she also notice that it was in the dead of night. "This. . .This is. . ." She meekly began as her voice was filled with dread.

Somewhere deep inside the back of her mind, Satsuki knew however just which night it was, but she just couldn't bring herself to run away. "I. . .I. . ." She struggled out as she began to breath heavily.

Her mind was completely murky, poisoned with the memories of what had happened on that fateful and painful night, almost like she was asleep. She probably still was, but that knowledge was of little consolation to her as she began walking past the bodies of the several clan members that riddled the streets, all the while tears were running down her eyes. "No. . ." She muttered out as more tears began to fall much faster than before.

Satsuki was still running without control and it was only when she finally reached to very room that filled her nightmares that she finally stopped.

"No. . No. . .not again. . ." Satsuki breathed out in rising panic.

As if Satsuki's body began moved on its own once more as she flung the doors open to her parent's room, to find the scene that filled her with horror.

The scene was of Itachi was just standing there while holding a katana as an insane smirk on his face with the his injured and defenceless victims were in front of him.

Satsuki however was too busy being terrified that she didn't find that smirk to be out of character from the way his brother normally behave. Had the girl had been in her calm state of mind she would had instantly notice it, but as it was at the moment, she was completely petrified as tears flowing freely down her eyes. "M-Mother. . .F-Father. . ." She barely got out in a whimpering tone.

SHING! SLICE! SPLAT!

Itachi's blade had sliced through the Uchiha Heiress's father and mother's necks like butter while blood splattered like a fountain as her brother's final words to her began echoing throughout her mind over and over again.

"If you wish to kill me, then hate me and curse my name. Your hatred will make you stronger and stronger. But to hate me, you must run. Run and cling to life like the little insect you are." Itachi's indifferent voice echoed.

The words kept repeating to her as Satsuki stood there for a long and silent moment, her hair and shadows covering her eyes.

This was the same nightmare that had haunted her dreams for years. All of the sadness, the anger, the loneliness that came from that day was the source of this feelings and then adding the subject of having to hide her true gender was only fuel for her ever tormenting fire.

As if reacting to this emotions, the curse mark began to glowed fire light as marks began to spread from it and began to covered her neck.

---

Elsewhere in the forest. . .

The members of Team Gai were taking a small break within the forest as as it was the dead of night. They had all just rationed their food and water they had found during their survival while in as they looked at one another to plan their next move.

"The sun should be up in less than an hour," Neji stated in a calm manner. "We've spent a day gathering food and water." He then reminded. "Most of the teams are resting at this moment, so it would be wise to attack during this time as was planned." He then decided.

The male Hyuga then looked at his teammates in a more serious manner. "We will split up and spend thirty minutes scouting the area, however if you find a team, spy on them for the thirty minutes before returning here. Got it?" He ordered as he then stabbed a kunai into the ground to mark where they would meet.

Tenten nodded to this, thinking it was a good strategy. "Ok!" She replied.

Lee meanwhile saluted to his teammate in an eccentric manner. "ROGER!" He excitedly responded.

Neji soon looked at his teammates intently and nodded once more with a smirk on his face. "Alright, go!" He ordered.

With that said and done, the three vanished as they went off into their own directions through the trees.

---

With Hinata's mindscape. . .

The female Hyuga's eyes groggily opened as she held her head in pain. "Where. . ." She got out in confusion.

After the pain became manageable, she looked down and her eyes widen when she saw that she herself back when she was four years old.

"W-What. . .?" Hinata got out in a meek four year old voice. "H-How is this possible?" She then added.

"Weak!" The Hyuga Heiress suddenly heard.

Upon hearing this word she had heard many times, Hinata turn and saw glares from her clansmen and her father. Each one of them had disappointed and angered expression as their multiple insulting words echoed inside of the room.

"W-What is this?" Hinata soon asked in confusion.

The clansmen and her father however didn't answer as they raised their amount of killing intent before. . .

"!" Hinata got out as she suddenly received a kick to the gut, causing her to hold her stomach upon the reaction.

Upon the impact, the Curse Mark glowed the fire like color when it felt the pain and sadness that Hinata felt while the rest of her family continued to stare down at her.

---

Back in the real world. . .

Lee was running through the trees as he continued to look for any potential teams when his eyes caught something on the ground. "Hmm? What is that?" He questioned at the sight he saw.

What he saw was a small squirrel screeching in pain while it violently rubbing it back on the ground as it had a stranger paper that was smoking.

The ever kind hearted genin that Lee was couldn't stand seeing the poor animal suffered. "I will not stand for this!" He declared in his mind as he dashed towards it.

CRASH!

There was a loud crashing sound as Lee was laying on the ground. "Phew, made it in time." He declared as he had the squirrel on his left hand and the strange paper on his right. "This was an explosive note, it would had blown up this little fella if I had not gotten it off." He added with relief in his tone.

Then the genin crushed the paper and stopped it from continuing burning while the little animal rubbed its eyes with relief. "Who would do something so unyouthful?" He couldn't help but wondered with a disgusted tone.

---

Back with the Team Seven members. . .

A full day had passed since the event's with Orochimaru, all this time Naruto was all of his power to making sure that the area was safe. All the while, the blond was still pissed at what the demonic fox made him do as it could possibly make his girlfriend's into his wives and pseudo-Jinchūriki as he watched over them.

Now the wives aspect Naruto didn't mind so much, but it was the act of doing it without their approval or say in the matter that really made him feel bad what he had done. He really did love the girls, probably more than anything else in the world, probably as much as his dream, but he was still unsure if marriage was a bit far since they were only twelve years old at this moment.

But he also had to add the fact that Naruto had turn the two of them into something like he was that made himself feel all the worst. After all, he would never want others to had felt what he had, much less the two girls he cared for the most.

After a while, Naruto tilted his head from nearly falling asleep, so to prevent that from happening, he decided to talk to the demonic fox again, who was still been silently working. "Oi Kyūbi. . .I gotta know something?" He suddenly asked.

"What is it kit? I'm busy." The Kyūbi questioned as his concentration was on the girl's marks.

This halted the blond for a moment as he was trying to find the right thing to say. "I've been wondering about something. . ." Naruto began.

"Yeah? What is it?" The Kyūbi replied as he kept his concentration on the task he had in hand.

The blonde knew that what he was about to say would really be insensitive, even for him, but he still needed to ask, not for himself but for the sake of the two girls he cared so much for. "I just gotta know. . .why?" Naruto then asked.

"Hmm? Why what?" The Kyūbi then counter asked with a raised eyebrow.

Naruto then took a deep breath as he gave a quick nod to himself. "Why are you saving them?" He soon asked the Bijū with a serious tone "And I don't mean you wanting to get back at Madara for what he did." He then added in the same tone.

The Kyūbi then began to think about it for a moment as he thought over his reasoning before chuckled while he started to give a perverted smirk to himself. "Well. . ." He manage to say.

Suddenly, now that the demonic fox was paying attention to the area around them, he finally sensed the three enemy shinobis that were near their location. "We'll talk later, we got uninvited guest. . ." He then advised.

Naruto eyes widen when heard this as he too was too busy taking care of the girls to not sensing them. He then narrow his eye as he stood up.

"I'm still working on these stupid seals, so hold these guys off." The Bijū then stated his order as he went back to his concentration at the work on hand.

"Alright." Naruto responded quietly as he went out of the cave like tree.

Seeing this, the three enemy genin knew that there was no use in hiding as they also came out of their hiding spot and approached the blond.

"What do you guys want? I'm a bit busy at the moment." Naruto stated with an intense glare in his eyes, showing that he was definitely not in the mood for them.

To that statement, Dosu merely chuckled as he looked at him. "We want to fight Sasuke, bring him out here now!" He ordered as he brought out his metal gauntlet out.

Zaku meanwhile smirked to this as he looked at the tree cave before looked back at the blond. "Come on, get him out here already!" He then ordered as well in a more antsy tone.

Naruto however stood up as he looked towards the three Oto genin and brought a hands out to signify that he would protect his teammates. "Not a chance bastard!" He yelled back.

Dosu then began to chuckle some more to this. "Then I guess this means we have to kill you before we can fight Sasuke then." He then remarked.

Naruto then narrowed his eyes to that. "Oh I get it now, your with that bastard pedophile Orochimaru aren't you!?" He then growled out in a more angered tone.

At that, the three Oto genin's eyes widen at the mention of the name in confusion.

The female Oto genin then narrowed her eyes as she looked at the blond. "How the hell does he know about Orochimaru-sama!?" Kin thought to herself as she found the orders they got from their master to be complete different than it should had. "Something is definitely wrong here. . ." She then muttered to her teammates.

Zaku then began to chuckle as he prepared himself without a care in the world. "Doesn't matter in the end, once he's dead, we can kill Sasuke." He remarked with confidence.

Dosu also prepared himself as he looked at the blond. "Exactly, it's time to kill this brat." He then ordered.

To hearing her teammates decisions, Kin didn't like this plan anymore, but she was still had to follow the other two or risk getting herself kill for betrayal.

Then the three Sound genin started to charge at the blonde, who was prepared to fight until. . .

WHOOSH!

"Leaf Hurricane!" A eccentric voice got out as suddenly.

The three Oto genin were were forced back by a familiar green spandex wearing shinobi, except he had a squirrel on his shoulder.

"It would be unwise to continue this, leave now or else I, Rock Lee the Beautiful Green Beast of Konoha will be forced to attack back for attempting to hurt a fellow comrade." Lee declared as he took a battle stance.

"The heck!? What the hell are you doing here Bushy Brows!?" Naruto exclaimed in confusion.

To that question asked, Lee then he turned to look at the blond Konoha genin with a smile. "Comrades should always help each other out. Especially youthful ones like you Naruto-kun!" He told him as looked at the squirrel on his shoulder before placing it on the ground. "And I have this little guy to thank." He then thought.

Naruto smiled as he stepped forward and cracked his knuckles. "You got that right Bushy Brows." He agreed, then he took out the scroll with the Executioner's Blade and unraveled it. "Well then you Oto shinobi assholes. . ." He began as he did the released hand seal and in an instant, a small amount of smoke appeared as it encased him.

Once the smoke had cleared, the were a variety of reactions from those around him.

"What the!?" Kin got out in shock at what she saw.

"Hmm?" Dosu got out with narrow eyes.

"Hmmp." Zaku grunted out as he just wanted to kill the two Leaf Genin.

"Naruto-san?" Lee said as he looked over at him, seeing the blade impeded in the ground as the smoke cleared.

Naruto smirked as he took to blade out of the ground and then rested it on his shoulder. "Bet you weren't expecting this huh dattebayo!" He declared with a smirk. "Now then, let's get shakin'!" He demanded while taking a kenjutsu stance and then rushed in.

Lee quickly backing him up after getting out of the shock of seeing the sword. "HAI!" He replied with eagerness.

"Tch. . ." Zaku got out. "Big deal, you got a massive meat cleaver." He remarked with an uncaring tone.

Dosu however glared at his spiky haired teammate. "You fool, that's one of the Seven Ninja Swordsman blades."" He then stated as he looked at the blade. "The Executioner's Blade of Zabuza Momochi." He then added.

Zaku only scoffed in response, not caring in the slightest what the blade is or who it belonged to. "Doesn't matter, I'll blow him away." He declared in a cocky and superior manner. "You can deal with the freak in green." He then stated.

Dosu only shook his head, but he still found the attack formation good enough. "Alright, Kin, you take care of Sasuke." He ordered the female teammate.

Kin nodded in response to that. "Got it." She responded as she then looked at the tree cave. "Though what's up with him? Something seems. . .off. . ." She however thought to herself.

Then the Dosu as he extended his right arm out and charged straight at Lee while Zaku pointed his palms at Naruto.

"Bring it on dattebayo!" Naruto roared as he got into his kenjutsu stance.

"Time to die blondie." Zaku remarked with a smirk as he then pointed the palms of his hands at said blond. "ZANKUUHA!" He then roared as high air pressure suddenly came from out of his hands.

Naruto's eyes widen at this. "Shit!" He cursed at the incoming attack, he knew that the attack was to quick for him to dodge or used a substitution, so thinking quickly, he adjusted his sword and used it as a shield.

When the attack had made impact with the blade, the blond was sent skidding backwards by the raw power of the jutsu. "That was close. . ." Naruto got out with relief glad the his sword was really strong to withstand such attacks. "Ok, got to do something about his long range attacks. . ." He then thought to himself while he readjusted his blade.

Zaku let out a tisked of annoyance at this, now thinking that he should had listen to Dosu about being careful about the blade. "Doesn't matter. . .I'll still kill you!" He shouted as he then revealed the holes in the palms of them.

At the same time this was happening, Lee narrow his eyes at the sight of the bandage genin heading towards him as he quickly bend down and trusted his fight into the ground.

"What the?" Dosu got out at the sight of this, but he didn't stopped his charge.

Next thing anyone saw was the boy pulling out a large and thick tree root from the very ground, while using it as a huge shield just in time for Dosu's attack reached it and the root exploded upon impact.

The Oto genin's eyes widen in startlement at the strength that Lee had shown.

Naruto on the other hand, his jaw dropped when he saw that. "Holy crap! How the hell did he did that!?" He exclaimed at the sight of what happened.

Lee meanwhile narrowed his eyes to that. "I had told you already, you are not getting past here. I will protect my youthful comrades in arms!" He stated.

With the declaration, Naruto and Lee began their attack to protect the unconscious girls.

---

Elsewhere in the forest. . .

"Man! What gives that asshole!" A female voice screamed out in annoyance.

The screaming voice of a very annoyed Ino echoed through the forest. Team Ten had encountered Neji and after a pathetic attempt of the girl trying to seduce him, they quickly made to retreat when the action annoyed said boy.

"How dare he ignore my sexiness!" Ino then ranted with her hand balled into a fist.

Shikamaru meanwhile groaned to the complaining from his teammate. "Troublesome. . .I knew that wouldn't work. . ." He grumbled out.

"Well we are in the middle of the exam, we should focus on getting the scroll we need." Chōji then reminded as he then looked off into the distance. "Like Naruto over there fighting the Oto genin." He soon added as he pointed a finger in a specific direction.

This made all three blink as they proceed what Chōji just said as he himself didn't had fully thought of this situation himself.

"Wait what!?" Ino exclaimed as she looked in the direction that her teammate was pointing at.

---

Within Satsuki's mindscape. . .

The flame like markings continued to spread around her neck and continue to do so to the rest of her body as her face was slowly becoming an emotionless and her eyes turn soulless.

"Kill. . ." A whispers began to echo through the mind of the Uchiha Heiress.

"Kill. . ." Satsuki merely repeated without hesitation.

"Kill. . .Itachi. . ." The whispers then continue to say with an inviting tone. "Accept my power. . ." It then hissed out.

"Kill. . .Itachi. . ." Satsuki then got out in a emotionless tone. "Accept. . .power. . ." She then added in the same tone of voice.

As the girl repeated those words, more and more of the curse marks began to cover all of her body, the marking were just a few inches from covering her completely and was about to give into the hatred.

"Satsuki-chan!" A loud and cheerful voice echoed through the whispers.

This made Satsuki flinched slightly from the echoing voice.

"S-Satsuki-chan!" A meek and slightly embarrassed voice called out.

"Who. . .?" Satsuki got out as she finally raised her emotionless face as she began to look for the source of those familiar voice. "Who was that?" She the asked.

Suddenly, Satsuki's mind began see images of a smiling blond and shyly smiling white eyed girl appearing within her head.

Satsuki's head jerked at recalling the memories as her eyes began to regain their bright and lively tone, at the same time the curse like markings stopped spreading.

Then more and more memories of what had happen after those dark lonely days filled her mind, the memories of truly meeting Naruto, the joyful and happy moments she had spend with Hinata.

Satsuki's face completely returned to normal as she lifted her hands and saw them being covered by the markings. "NO!" She screamed as she looked at the markings.

Then memories of the days she and the rest of Team Seven members, Kakashi and Haku and the memories she had shared with them filled both her heart and soul.

Satsuki's eyes then narrowed as she looked at what was all over her body. "GET! OFF! OF! MEEEEEEEEEEE!" She then roared in a demanding and fury filled tone.

These memories and the girl's new found strength soon caused the curse marks to began retracting back to the three tomoes.

Once the marks had completely retracted, Satsuki fell to the ground and was left panting heavily as she then took in a few deep breaths to calm herself down before looking at her brother. "No. . .no nii-san. . ." She started before wiping away the tears. "I'm. . .I'm done. . ." She declared while giving off a determined look.

Itachi then narrowed his eyes as he looked at his sister after forcing the curse mark back to her neck. "What do you mean your done?" He then questioned with a hint of disappointment in his tone. "Does that mean your gonna stay weak forever and not heed my words?" He added with an emotionless tone.

Satsuki's determined expression didn't weaver in the slightest as she got up to her feet once more and glared at him, not even realizing that her body had returned to her original age. "No. . .it doesn't mean I'm gonna stay weak forever. . .not by a long shot. . ." She answered with conviction as her voice also returned to normal.

To seeing that the failure of the Curse Mark's temptation, Itachi looked on as he sneered at her. "When what do you mean?" He demanded as his mannerisms had changed completely.

"Let's just say I remembered a promise I once made. . .one that I forgotten long ago. . ." Satsuki responded with a smile as she looked to the sky and closed her eyes. "I actually can't believe that I forgot about it. . .about that time. . ." She admitted with a longing in her tone.

Satsuki then closed her eyes as she returned her gaze at her brother with the same determined expression. "The truth was. . .the first time I met Naru-kun. . .it wasn't that night before the team selection. . .it was much earlier. . .and I almost forgot all about it. . ." She thought as she remembered.

---

Flashback No Jutsu!

The sun was setting on Konoha as a seven year old Satsuki was sitting on the pier of the river, crying to herself after the lost of her family to her brother.

"Niisan. . .why. . ." Satsuki muttered as she continued crying to herself, knowing it would be the last time for her to be herself before putting the transformation up and masquerading as a boy for what she believed was gonna be for the rest of her life.

"Hey, are you alright?" A male voice asked.

Satsuki reopened her puffy red eyes and looked behind her to see a boy with blond spiky hair, blue eyes, three whisker marks on both of his cheeks and was wearing orange and blue., she had also notice that the boy was about her age, but he was slightly smaller than her in terms of size.

"What are you doing crying your eyes out like that?" The small asked as he sat beside her.

Satsuki sniffled as she wiped away the tears. "I-I'm not crying. . .I just had something in my eyes that's all." She denied, trying to keep up a façade.

"Really?" The boy asked, somewhat oblivious as he tilted his head.

"Y-Yeah. . ." Satsuki muttered. "So what are you doing here?" She then asked.

The boy then smiled at her with a wide grin. "Oh nothing much, just returning to my apartment." He replied with a carefree attitude in his voice.

"Huh? Your apartment? Don't you mean your parent's apartment?" Satsuki asked, confused by the way the had said it.

Satsuki then saw that some of the boy's brightened eyes lost some of their shine as he shook his head. "Nah, it really is my apartment, I'm an orphan. . .apparently my parents died when I was a baby. . .and well since I got kicked out of the orphanage a few days ago, so I'll live on my own from now on." He admitted while his grin had a sad hint.

To hearing this, Satsuki went wide-eyed at learning and seeing someone like her living on their own. "Oh. . .I'm sorry." She apologized.

"Meh, it's alright, I don't mind much. I mean I get the whole place for myself." The boy said as he tried to be positive while the smile didn't leave his face.

Satsuki looked at the boy strangely as they both watched the river, sitting next to each while doing so. "So um. . ." She soon began as a small blush appeared on her face from being so near a boy her age, after all, sitting next to one in class was one thing but another was when their was no one around.

The boy found the blush on the girl's face to be strange but decided not to say anything about it. "Hmm? Yeah, what is it?" The boy soon asked as he tilted his head.

"M-My name is Satsuki, what's yours?" Satsuki asked while trying not to look at the boy.

The boy then got to his feet and gave off a huge smile to her. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki! And I'm gonna be the next Hokage dattebayo!" He declared loudly and with passion.

Satsuki blinked at his while looked at the blond with a confused expression as she stood up herself. "You want to become Hokage?" She then asked.

Naruto nodded as he smiled at her with a pure and happy in it. "Yeah, being Hokage is my biggest dream! And it's always good to have a dream Suki-chan." He replied with the same happy smile on his face.

To hearing this, Satsuki was left a bit baffled by the blond's pure, innocent yet strong determination that the boy had for his dreams before realizing what she was called. "S-Suki-chan?" She repeated shyly, not expecting to get a nickname like that.

Naruto soon placed his hands behind his head. "Yeah, a cute girl like you should have a cute nickname." He honestly and innocently explained with a big smile on his face.

Satsuki soon began to feel warm as her cheeks started to go slightly redder. "Y-You think I'm cute?" She meekly asked.

Naruto nodded his head positively. "Yeah, I'm sure you'll get a great boyfriend someday." He encouraged.

Satsuki's blush didn't leave her face as she started twiddling her fingers. "I-I don't know, I don't think I'm that pretty. . ." She replied with shyness in her tone.

Naruto gently patted her on the back. "Don't beat yourself too hard or sell yourself short. Girls like you should always be strong and confident." He encouraged.

In response, Satsuki tilted her head. "Eh? Strong? Confident? What do you mean?" She asked with confusion.

Naruto then started to chuckle. "You know, so your strong enough to protect the people you care about. And the confidence to be a hero to will protect others!" He replied with child like wonder.

"To protect the people. . .I care about? To be a hero?" Satsuki muttered, looking away for a moment, thinking to herself before looking at the blond again. "Maybe your right N-kun." She admitted.

Now it was Naruto's turn to blinked a few times. "N-kun?" He asked, slightly confused.

Satsuki began to giggle playfully before she gave off a smile as she began to leave the pier. "Shouldn't a cute boy get a cute nickname too?" She counter asked with a wink.

Naruto's mouth widen in a shocked and feeling slightly insulted at his masculinity, but he soon recovered as the two then started to laugh a little.

Once Satsuki had stopped laughing she took a deep breath. "Well I better get going, see ya N-kun." She then started to head home.

"Bye Suki-chan. . ." Naruto said as he then ran up to her. "Actually," He then brought his pinky finger up.

"Hmm, what's this N-kun?" Satsuki asked as she looked at him with her head slightly tilted.

"A promise for the both of us, to get strong and confident. And let's be heroes that help out people!" Naruto declared with a toothy smile.

Satsuki also smiled as she brought her own pinky finger up and wrapped it around Naruto's. "It's a deal N-kun." She replied as the two then went their separate ways.

However this promise would have been forgotten by the daily suffering both children would feel because of their respective fears, traumas and burdens.

Kai!

---

Back in the current time. . .

Satsuki reopened her eyes to see her brother still sneering at her, not realizing that the surrounding had completely changed to one that was completely black.

"I was stupid in not remembering that N-kun was Naruto or the fact that I forgot about the promise I made with him, but thanks to Naru-kun, I realized what you wanted me to do was pointless unless I became strong and confident like he said. To become a hero that will protect people." Satsuki soon admitted with determination.

Itachi's eyes merely narrowed to this, hiding his enraged expression to what was happening.

"And now I'm gonna do what he did and proudly say what I want without hesitation." The Uchiha then decided.

The black haired girl then took in a deep breath before exhaling it. "My name is Satsuki Uchiha!" The girl began with passion as she stared down her brother. "And my dreams is to bring my brother in for what he did, become a hero that will protect those in need and be with my best friend as we stay with the man we both love, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze!" She declared with all of her heart as her Sharingan activated, but only this time, they had two tomoes in them.

"Well said girl, your resolve impresses me." A deep voice praised.

Satsuki gasped as Itachi narrowed his eyes before the Uchiha Heiress looked behind herself and smiled at what she saw, actually feeling relieved of all things from what she saw. . .for who she saw.

---

Elsewhere in the forest. . .

". . ." Neji said nothing as he looked at the embedded kunai that marked where they were suppose to regroup.

"Lee sure is late." Tenten then stated with worry. "It's strange since he's usually accurate when it comes to this kind of thing." She reminded.

"There is the chance he could have ran into the enemy." Neji soon stated his piece.

Tenten's eyes the widen as she realized the thought. "N-No way. . ." She got out.

Neji meanwhile smirked to that. "That's is something he would do, but it is unlikely." He stated. "Let's go find him." He then suggested.

Tenten soon nodded in agreement to that. "Right!" She responded as the two went off.

---

Within Hinata's mindscape. . .

Hinata continued coughing from the previous attack before she then felt a stomp onto her arm making her scream in pain. "AUGH!" She cried out.

"Useless!" A clansmen began in a displeased tone and stomp her once more.

This made Hinata let out another cry of pain as the Curse Mark spread a little in a flame like manner like the Uchiha's.

"Disgrace!" Another clansmen voice echoed.

As the downed Hinata was trying to recover, she finally manage to stand, only for her to be struck with a slap to her face and to fall down yet again.

"Pathetic!" Another insulted.

As in the last time she was hit, the flames began to spread more and more while glowing more sinisterly.

As the fallen Hinata tried to weakly stand, just as she was half way up she was punch to the gut.

"Trash!" Another declared, but in a more demonic tone.

This continued with most of the members of Hinata's clan, each time she was struck and felt pain, more of the Curse Mark continued to spread throughout her body.

The now badly injured and beaten Hinata could just barely stood there with her eyes as hollow and lifeless while she continued to shed more and more tears, most of her body was now covered in black flame markings.

Soon, Hiashi came up to deliver a Gentle Fist strike on her. "Unworthy of being a Hyuga. . ." The man then declared in an uncaring tone as he went in for one more Gentle Fist strike, only this time to the defenseless girl's heart. . .

Even though Hinata saw this, she didn't mustered any strength to defend herself or even tried to dodge.

"You should accept it. . ." A voice whispered out in a tempting tone. "The power within yourself. . ." It then hissed out.

Hinata's so began to dull to that as she looked at the version of her father as her vision began to see him as a monster. "P. . .Power. . ." She whimpered out as more of the Curse Mark began to cover her body.

Her spirit was to hurt and damaged by the way she felt physically and emotionally so she simply closed her eyes as a sign of surrender.

"That's right. . .just accept it. . ." The voice then tempted.

"Just. . .accept. . ." Hinata weakly got out in dulled acceptance.

Just as the markings were to completely covered Hinata's face. . .

"Nata-chan!" A familiar female voice called out.

Hinata head slightly twitched at the voice. "W-Who. . ." She meekly got out.

Hiashi's hand was about to strike. . .

"WATCH OUT DATTEBAYO!" A familiar male voice warned.

To hearing it, Hinata's eyes widen as her eyes gain some of their color and life.

Time was suddenly halted as Hinata saw her father was frozen just a few feet away from her.

Hinata could slowly feel her heart began to feel a warm and strength that she had never felt during this painful memories as each painful memory was being replaced by a happier one.

The memories of pain were soon being replaced by ones of joy.

The memories of sorrow, replaced by ones of happiness.

The memories of loneliness, replaced by care and love.

With memory that was being replace the flames began to retract as Hinata's face gain a courages expression.

Then time began to move once more as she instinctively grabbed her father's right when he was about to hit her. "You. . ." She began as her voice was filled with courage.

At this, Hiashi was slightly startled by the action, but his face was soon was one of anger. "You little brat, unhand me!" He demanded.

Hinata however shook her head negatively as she looked up at him, as her body was had returned to her current age. "I am no longer any of those things. . .those painful memories did made me feel like I was suppose to. . .however they are not what define me anymore." She began in a calm tone.

Then Hinata smiled happily. "The memories I shared with Naruto-kun and Satsuki-chan, these precious moments I had made with them had shown me what I truly am." She softly declared, though her voice had new found courage.

Hiashi then felt his hand being tightened with Hinata's new found strength that made him let out a cry of pain.

"And besides all of those facts. . .you aren't my father!" Hinata declared with her Byakugan active as for just one instant, it had glowed blue before returning to normal, then with a junken strike, she pushed him back. "I already know. . .I used to be weak, defenseless and a disgrace to the clan. . .but not anymore, thanks to Naruto-kun and Satsuki-chan." She told her father.

Hiashi had to hold his chest from the pain of the hit but still looked at Hinata with anger. "What do they have to do with it!?" He began to yelled out. "They just gave you some supporting words and you think you have what it takes to conquer your weakness!? You're nothing and will always be nothing!" He yelled.

Once again, Hinata shook her head negatively. "No. . .your wrong, the day I became a genin, the time I first kissed Naruto-kun, our missions, discovering Satsuki-chan and every time we spent together. . .it wasn't just their words or just being around them. . .what happened was. . .I started to grow up. . .and was able to express myself. Not as a member of the Hyuga clan, but as myself, Hinata Hyuga." She declared with conviction.

"Gotta say Lavender eyes, you've really grown thanks to the kit." A demonic voice praised.

Hinata and Hiashi turned as she sighed with relief at who she saw.

---

Back in the real world. . .

Things weren't going as well as both sides ran out of chakra, both sides panting heavily as they stared at each other.

Lee had used a forbidden Taijutsu move that left him completely vulnerable to Dosu's sound base attack, thus leaving him barely able to move as the attack left him disoriented and unable to continue fighting.

This forced Naruto to fight the two males genins of the enemy group as he made a few clones to stop any of Kin's attempts of sneaking past him to reached the girls.

However because of the fight with the huge snake summon and being up for a whole day really tired out the normally untiring genin to his limits.

However it was thanks to the blond's unstable and unbreakable will strength that he had manage to tired the enemy genin to the point of exhaustion as they too couldn't fight against the tired Naruto.

Zaku's face, though it was clearly tired, he was beyond mad with rage from having someone making him feel weak. "Well then punks," He started with an enraged tone as he reach for his pocket and pulled out a dark purple pill that was usually glowing.

"The hell?" Naruto muttered in confusion at the sight of the pill.

It was at this point that Zaku's face had turn to a insane expression as he wanted to killed the person that made him feel weak. "It's time to end this!" He stated as he put the pill in his mouth and swallowed it.

At that moment, his entire body then began to convulse, dark purple chakra wafting off of his body but it focus more on his hands as then started to roar like a monster.

---

A few feet away from the fight. . .

Just behind some large bushes was Team Ten as they had decided to go and see what was happening, more so Ino made the two go so that she could see if Sasuke was alright.

However when the three had saw Zaku eat the strange pill, their face turn to horror at the sight of the monstrous transformation.

"W-What the hell!?" Ino exclaimed in a whisper before she then looked at her chubby teammate. "Hey your the food guy, you've seen anything like this!?" She then asked in a panicked tone.

"I-I don't know! I never seen or heard of a pill that could do that!" Chōji whispered out with a panic and scared tone.

"This isn't good. . ." Shikamaru got out with a nervous tone as he could feel the foul chakra that the Oto genin was producing.

"Good kami he's gonna kill the deadlast. . ." Ino soon breathed out as she continued to watch on with her team.

---

Back at the battle. . .

"What. . .the hell!?" Naruto panted out as he felt the vile waves of chakra chakra flowing out from the spiky haired Oto genin. Though it wasn't as potent nor as powerful as a Bijū's it was still foul to be around.

"What in the world!?" Lee panted out as well while trying to stay conscious, never in his life had he felt something like he was feeling at this very moment.

Dosu meanwhile watched the sight as he nodded to what he had done before taking out a similar pill. "Hm. . .good idea, Zaku. Orochimaru-sama's special combat medicine would be perfect for this situation." He stated and

Kin was still in a state of shock when he saw Zaku turn into this, then her mind finally registered what her other teammate had said. "Wait what!?" She got out at the thought of him willingly turn like Zaku.

Then without thinking it twice, Dosu popped the pill into his own mouth.

At that moment, the bandage genin also began to exhibit the same symptoms as Zaku but only difference was that his chakra was focus more on his right arm where his gauntlet was located.

He then also let out a monstrous screech from his gauntlet with enough force that it sent Kin and Lee staggering back in fear by the combined chakra of the two now monstrous genin as well as them covering their ears from the sound.

Kin soon recovered of this sound. "A-Are they nuts!? How could they just consume those experimental pills like that!?" She got out as her body was shivering at what happened to her teammates.

"I-It seems they got a boost in power!" Lee muttered out while his ears were still covered. "Could this be something similar like the Inner Gates!?" He added in his mind.

Naruto nodded in agreement with the spandex wearing genin. "Come on fox, what's going on!? What's taking so long!?" He thought as he placed the Executioner's Blade back in the scroll since he couldn't hold it anymore from the lack of chakra and stamina.

---

Within the bushes. . .

The three members of Team Ten eyes widen as they watched the second Oto genin change and release his own vile chakra.

"Damn, there's no way the deadlast can handle those two. . ." Ino got out before gulping in fear.

"So what do you want to do Ino?" Shikamaru then asked.

"Eh?" Ino got out in confusion.

"Should we leave or help out?" Chōji then asked, though he had already made his decision.

Ino soon looked back at the fight. "Damn deadlast. . ." She mumbled as she couldn't help but feel jealous that Naruto the said deadlast could fight against them for this long while knowing that she really didn't know if she should even help out, mostly because she knew that they really weren't ready to fight such opponents.

Then the platinum blonde haired girl saw that Sasuke, who was covered by the darkness of the cave, and Hinata weren't gonna get up at any moment. "What happened to Sasuke-kun and Hinata!?" She thought. "I. . .I can't just let him handle this. . . Sasuke-kun also needs help. . ." She then offhandedly added out loud.

"Hmm?" Shikamaru grunted out as he looked at his teammate.

"Ino?" Chōji asked in a confused manner before looking at her.

Then without answering and without warning, the Yamanaka Heiress grabbed Shikamaru's shirt and Chōji's scarf and pulled them towards the fight.

"Hey!" Shikamaru grunted out in annoyance.

"Guh!" Chōji also grunted out from having his scarf pulled.

---

Suddenly. . .

The members of Team Ten came out of the bushes and in front of the worn out Konoha shinobis'.

"Guys!? What the hell are you doing here?!" Naruto shouted as he was startled by the sudden appearance.

Upon hearing the blond's voice, Ino turn around and began to giggled awkwardly while she rubbed the back of her head as she looked at the two. "I really don't know. . .my body just moved on it's own." She admitted.

Shikamaru sighed as looked at the convulsing Oto genin. "It's troublesome, but Ino wanted to try and prove herself to Sasuke, he's in the tree of course, so she wants to help protect him and I guess you too." He explained to the blond as he got ready for the upcoming battle.

"Well I don't! I wanna get out of here before I'm eaten alive by these guys!" Chōji said in a panicked tone as he tried to crawl away.

However the plump boy didn't couldn't get far away as he was forced to stay in place thanks to Shikamaru holding his scarf. "Just give it up. . .you know how Ino is. . ." He stated with an annoyed tone.

The monstrous Zaku finally manage to more or less channel his new form as he grinned in a savage way. "Well then," He started grunting out in a monstrous tone. "You can leave if you want to. . .fatty." He insulted.

To that, Chōji stopped panicking as his ear twitched at what was said. "Did I hear that right?" The Akimichi questioned in an overly calm tone. "What did he just say?" He then asked.

"Huh? What was that fatty?" The once human spiky haired genin asked in confusion.

Shikamaru meanwhile groaned at this. "Damn, he just had to say one of Chōji's taboo words. . ." He thought with much irritation. "If he says another one. . ." He then added to his thoughts but then trailed off.

The monstrous Zaku then narrowed his eyes as he stared at the one that he just insulted. "I said that you can run away you dumb as shit fatass!" He then insulted once more.

And soon after more insulting words to Chōji, the plumped genin went ballistic, raging about how he doesn't like to be called any words in the overweight department.

This caused the Konoha genin to sweat drop at the sight of Chōji going nuts but his teammates quickly went to help him while Naruto was busy taking care of the monstrous Dosu.

---

Within the Kyūbi's seal. . .

The two young kunoichis, Itachi and Hiashi soon found that they weren't in their respective clan compounds, but instead were now in a slightly dim sewer as she was standing on the water, in front of the Kyūbi's seal.

"Eh?" Satsuki got out as she finally saw that Itachi was still in front of her, but the scenery had changed. "Where. . ." She began in confusion, however. . .

"Satsuki-chan!?" The Uchiha then looked to her right and saw that next to her was Hinata. "How are you here!? Before, I was confronting a fake version of my father." The Hyuga then asked.

Satsuki nodded in agreement. "Yeah, same here except with a fake brother of mine." She replied.

The two then looked at the fake versions of the people they know, sneering at them intensely and completely forgetting to act out their respected figures.

"But still though. . .where are we?" Satsuki soon asked in confusion.

"I have no idea. . ." Hinata admitted her answer while looking around.

"I'll explain that." A deep and powerful voice answered.

Gasping, the two girls quickly turned around to saw a massive gate with a seal on its center. Inside of it, the two could see a huge silhouette, when they focused more they finally saw it was none other than the Nine Tailed Fox.

"Yo." The Kyūbi lazily greeted as he raised one of his huge paw/hand, completely destroying the awed moment the girls felt as they deadpanned at the greeting.

Satsuki quickly recovered as she shocked her head. "K-Kyūbi?" She asked as her eyes widen in shock.

"H-How are you here!?" Hinata stammered out in confusion. "H-How are we here!?" She then added to her questions as she knew that the Bijū should be sealed inside of her's and the Uchiha's blond boyfriend.

The demonic meanwhile snickered at the sight of the confused duo. "Expected reactions, but never the less, you two have done well to make here thus far." He then stated in a more demonic and menacing voice.

To this, both Satsuki and Hinata sweatdropped at this. "Uh. . .what with the voice fox?" Satsuki deadpanned her question as they were used to the way the Bijū talked when he was in his chibi form. "You sound like some sort of cliche evil villain like that pedophile." She then added.

This caused Hinata to have a giggle attack, agreeing with the insulting comparison. "It's true." She soon admitted.

To here that, the Kyūbi immediately face faulted at the lack of reactions given. "Oi! You have any idea how long I wanted to say that line!? Don't hate the classics!" The Bijū ranted. "And not to mention that I ain't no frickin' pedo!" He soon declared in offense.

"You like to mention how big breasted I am." Satsuki reminded with her arms crossed over her chest.

The Kyūbi soon slammed his huge face against the cage while looking angry in a comedic manner. "I like breasts, NOT LOLIS!" He rebuttal his case as he stared at the Uchiha.

Satsuki did the same as she slam her own hands on the bars and stared back at the demonic fox. "I'M NOT A LOLI!" She declared with a tick mark on her face.

However before anyone could say anything else. . .

"YOU DAMNED DEMON FOX!" The two girls looked back at Itachi and Hiashi as their disguises melted away, revealing Orochimaru as the two of them then fused together into one. "YOU THINK I'LL ALLOW YOU TO BREAK MY CURSE! I WON'T ALLOW IT!" He declared as he rushed at the girls.

This startled the two girls as they knew that they were no match against the shinobi.

"Oh shit!" Satsuki exclaimed as she prepared to defend herself along with Hinata.

The Kyūbi then simply separated his head from the gate and just smirked as he let Orochimaru run at the girls, who were right in front of him. "Fool. . ." He calmly insulted without a hint of worry in his voice.

Just a Orochimaru was about to grabbed the girls. . .

The Kyūbi suddenly lashed a paw out between the bars as it grabbed as he was inches from the girls.

"AAAAAH!" Orochimaru screamed from the pain of nearly being crushed.

Then the Bijū simply pulled him inside the gate while widening his huge mouth as the snake man screamed before. . .

CHOMP!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!" A familiar voice screamed out.

The sound of a loud chomp was heard. "Bleh, a corrupt and snake like taste. . ." The demonic fox stated in disgust.

The two heiresses meanwhile gulped when they heard a bloodcurdling screams and loud crunching before the screams ended.

"Note to self Nata-chan, don't mess with a demon." The Uchiha Heiress stated as the Hyuga Heiress nodded in agreement to that.

The Kyūbi then did one last spit as he looked at the two. "Anyway, moving on," He soon started up again, gaining the two's attention. "To start by explaining that thing that took the form of Orochimaru that you two saw was a representation of those curse marks he had given you." He began to explain.

"A-A representation?" The Hyuga Heiress got out as she unintentionally touched the spot where she was bitten.

"So basically it was when that pedo gave us both a hickey. . ." Satsuki stated bluntly with much disgust in her voice.

The Bijū sweatdropped at that last statement. "Correct, it was made to corrode your minds to eventually make you two servants to him by using your fears and hatred to tempt you to go to him." He then revealed.

"No thanks," Satsuki immediately responded with disgust. "Naru-kun is the only man for me and as I told that fake Itachi, I really don't need power. . ." She then added.

Hinata nodded in agreement. "That's right, you and Naruto-kun are the reason for my growth." She stated with her voice sounding more calm yet courage than ever before.

Both Satsuki and the Kyūbi were slightly startled by the way Hinata now talked, but they liked it all the same.

Soon, the Kyūbi started to chuckle at how the Hyuga talked now before continuing. "Well then, now that I got rid of the pedo inside of the two of you. . .I do have a choice for you two to make, but it has to be of your own volition." He stated with a serious tone.

"Eh?" The two soon asked in unison while tilting their heads in confusion.

The demonic fox started to chuckle as the girls cluelessness. "Well. . ." He started.

---

Back outside. . .

The members of Team Ten were completely exhausted as they barely made a dent into the two members of the Oto shinobi, Dosu and Zaku while Kin and Lee knocked out from the pressure and killing intent in the air.

Only Naruto was the last one standing, however he wasn't much better than the rest because he was nearly ready to lose consciousness from exhaustion.

"Damn it. . .this is really troublesome!" Shikamaru groaned out, wincing from the pain.

"I'm not feeling so good. . ." Chōji muttered out as he felt like throwing up.

"M-Monster. . .they're monster. . ." Ino shuddered out in fear.

At this point, both Zaku and Dosu had completely lose themselves to the power that the pills had given them as they barely speaking in complete sentences now, the two let out a monstrous roar as they got ready to charge at them.

Naruto was panting heavily as his eyes widen at this. "Oh shit!" He grunted out as he prepared himself for another assault.

However just as the two monstrous genin was about to reached the tired Konoha genin. . .

Out of nowhere, a sudden explosion of red demonic chakra was felt throughout the area, stopping everyone in their tracks.

Ino soon looked towards the cave as she saw the chakra. "Red?" She voiced out.

Naruto also turned and was shocked by the very familiar chakra as he looked towards the tree cave. "Oh boy. . ." He got out.

"Showtime." The Kyūbi's voice echoed in his container's head as he had an amused grin on its face.

Suddenly before anyone could fully process what just happen, two crimson blurs rushed out of the cave as both smashed a fist into Dosu and Zaku making them slide backwards as blood and a few teeth flew out from the impact.

However this wasn't the end as the two blurs then started move around the baffled once Oto genin, they were so fast that they looked like streaks of red lights and continued to pummel the two monstrous shinobi, making them looked completely defenceless.

As this was happening, the members of Team Ten were in a state of stupefied.

"Whoa. . ." Ino muttered out in shock and wide eyes.

"What the. . ." Chōji got out in awe.

"Troublesome." Shikamaru sighed out, but he was still nervous whether or not what the two blurs were on their side or not.

---

Not far from the fight. . .

TAP! TAP!

At that moment, Neji and Tenten soon landed near the battlefield and when they saw what was happening their eyes widen from shocked.

"What the? What in the world is happening here!?" Tenten go out as she didn't believe what her eyes were seeing. "Leave it to Lee to find trouble!" She added in her mind.

Neji quickly activated his Byakugan so that he could better analysed the situation, only to go wide-eyed at what he saw. "H-How?" He got out in shock and disbelief.

Upon hearing the tone of her teammate, Tenten turned towards him in concern. "Neji? What wrong? What the heck is attacking those two freaks?" She asked, but she got no response since her teammate was speechless.

---

Back with our favorite blond. . .

Naruto meanwhile knew exactly who the two blurs were since he recognized the chakra. "OI FOX! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" He yelled in his head.

A moment of silence soon went by. "I gave the two a choice. . .and they made it. . ." The demonic fox answered in a serious tone

The blond's eyes immediately widen when he knew what that meant. "You mean they chose-" Naruto started with concern in his voice.

"Yes they did. . .and it was of their own volition." Kyūbi interrupted as he explained what had happened.

---

Flashback No Jutsu!

"W-W-WHAT!?" The two girl yelled out in unison as they were both blushing scarlet red that one would think that they were sisters.

Kyūbi started chuckling finding this situation hilarious to him. "You heard right, marry the kit and you two will have access to my chakra." He as he explained it again in an amused tone.

While most shinobi's would drool or even sell their souls at the chance to get free access to the Kyūbi's mighty chakra those making them immensely more powerful and use it to crush their enemies. . .the two heiresses on the other hand was more worried about something else entirely. . .

"OHMYKAMI!MEMARRYINGNARU-KUN!?THISISWAYTOSUDDENFORME!IMEANREALLYSUDDENWITHEVERYTHINGTHAT'SGOINGON!" Satsuki exclaimed in a rapid fire manner as her eyes became dizzy spirals and her face became even more scarlet.

"M-MARRYINGNARUTO-KUNATOURAGES!?B-BUTIT'SWAYTOSUDDENFORUS!WEAREONLYTWELVEYEARSOLD!OHKAMIIDON'TKNOWWHATTOTHINK!" Hinata meanwhile got out as she was in the same state as the Uchiha.

Even if the demonic fox would found this amusing the first few seconds, now he was just annoying him as he stared at the panicking duo. "STOP PANICKING YOU TWO!" He then roared out the order.

In an instant, both heiresses stopped, but their blushes didn't disappeared.

Soon enough, Hinata was the first to regain her cognitive skills back. "A-And the other option?" She timidly asked as she was rapidly twiddler her fingers together at the thought of marrying her boyfriend, sure they may only be twelve, but that didn't stop her from dreaming such things in her dreams.

The Kyūbi then smirked at the question. "That would have to be. . .going back to normal like nothing had happened." He simply answered.

"Really?" The two heiresses then asked in unison with their heads tilted.

The Bijū then scratch his chin in a thinking manner. "Well there is the sole exception of having to worry about the pedophile appearing again and trying to give you two hickies again." He added.

This got the two girls full attention.

"WHAT!?" Satsuki shouted in both anger and shock.

"W-What do you mean?" Hinata then asked with worry.

Kyūbi sighed as he was expecting to have to explain this information. "Even though I made it so the mark won't corrode your minds this time, but that's it. If the pedo ever places another one of those curse marks again with me and the kit not being there the moment it happens. . .he won't take chances as he will force you to go with him, by sending a massive amount of pain through your body." He began to explained.

The two girls gulped in unison at the thought.

The demonic fox then gave off a serious expression as he looked at the heiresses. "Remember you two, this is your choice. . .so choose wisely. . ." He stated in a calm tone. "And fast since you two are unconscious at the moment while the kit is fighting those Oto genin. . .and he's losing." He then advised.

At hearing that, the two instantly knew that they had a limited amount of time so they had to make a decision quick.

"What do you think Nata-chan?" Satsuki asked in a whisper.

"I-I don't know," Hinata started in a shy manner. "I mean, I love Naruto-kun and do want to marry him. . .but isn't marriage to early. . .I mean. . ." She began as her fingers were rapidly tapping one another.

Satsuki nodded in agreement to this. "Yeah. . .I mean. . .just. . .jeez. . ." She gulped as she looked back at the demonic fox.

Once more, the Kyūbi expected the girls to go into a state like this. "I understand what you two are going through, however this situation is different from the kit's since I was forced onto him." He began as he narrowed his eyes. "However, this time, I am giving you a choice for something that more power loving shinobis would dream about." He then stated.

This made the heiress gulp once more, now realizing that it was true that most shinobis would kill for the power of a Bijū.

"Still. . .us?" Hinata got out.

"Yeah. . .do you actually think we can handle it?" Satsuki soon asked.

"I don't know. . ." The Kyūbi simple and lazily replied.

At that, both heiresses face faulted at the reply.

"Where or not you can is up to you, if you use my chakra for evil or selfish desires then no, you won't be able to handle it. So it all depends on what you truly desire to do with it." The Kyūbi added.

"I figured as much. . ." Satsuki mumbled out. "Power like that. . .it shouldn't be taken lightly. . ." She then added.

Hinata nodded in agreement to that.

"The choice is yours, so make your decision wisely and without regret." The Kyūbi once more reminded in a serious tone.

The two heiresses gulped once more, weighing their options that were given to them, knowing that their time was limited.

"This. . .this is really happening to us isn't it?" Satsuki got out in disbelief. "This is a choice that could change my life. . .for the better or for worse. . ." She then added in her head.

Hinata lowered her face while having a concerned expression. "Yes. . ." She simply replied as she too was baffled by the choice she had to make. "This will forever change us. . ." She thought as she continued to think it over.

At that moment, the duo then remembered their favorite blond as they imagined him smiling and nodding to them. It was that smile that always calmed them whenever they feel uneasy, for it was always have that feeling that everything will be alright.

The Uchiha couldn't help but also smile at the image. "Right. . ." She got out in a mutter yet happy tone.

The Hyuga was also in the same state as a smile graced her face at the memories. "Hai. . ." also got out in a mutter as well.

The Kyūbi soon saw that the doubts of the two heiresses had disappeared and that they had seemed to make a decision of what they wanted to do. "Well?" He began. "What is your answer?" He then questioned.

With one more large and happy smile, Satsuki nodded. "I've decided. . ." She then started to walk up to gate without hesitation in her step. "I've made my choice. . .I'll marry Naru-kun. . .he's just too important in my life. . .and I never want to leave him. . ." She then felt a hand on her shoulder as she then looked over to see Hinata smiling.

Hinata nodded in agreement to this as she also walked up to the gate. "I'll marry him too. . .Naruto-kun. . .he is too important for our lives and I can't imagine a future without him in it." She responded with a reassuring smile as they both looked at the demonic fox.

To accepting his power and the permanent bond that they would share with Naruto, they both stretched their hand towards the gate.

The Kyūbi immediately grinned widely at this as red chakra started to flow from the cage, slowly slithering up the two girls while it began to gathered around the area where the curse mark once was, all the while they both moaned from the feel of the chakra.

"Excellent choice you made their girls, now then, embrace my chakra and fill yourselves with my power, the power of a Tailed Beast!" The demonic fox declared in a sinister tone followed by an equally sinister chuckle.

As both girls had an discomfort expression from feeling even more chakra, a tick mark appeared on their foreheads. "GET ON WITH IT! NARUTO-KUN/NARU-KUN NEEDS OUR HELP!" Both girls retorted from the cliche monologue.

The demonic fox soon sweatdropped as the atmosphere was completely ruin by this. "Fine. . .fine. . .killjoys. . ." He muttered in replied as he then continued to watch on as the heiresses in front of him as they continued to feel the changes their bodies were going through.

However, the Bijū was more concern about that last shouting from the two girls. "Why do I get the feeling that this is going to happen a lot?" He offhandedly thought with annoyance.

The Kyūbi then watched as they two girls had more or less gotten used to the new power as they closed their eyes, after another moment they reopen them, however their eyes were now different. "Well now. . ." The demonic fox started in a intrigued tone.

Satsuki's normal black iris-less eyes were now dark red, even more so than her Sharingan's and they also had a fox like silts, while Hinata's Byakugan eyes were still the gentle lavender color, but now had a slight reddish tone in it and could see invisible silts in them.

The last thing that was noticeable in their changes were that they both had three whisker marks on both their cheeks.

"So, how does it feel little girls?" The Bijū soon questioned with an amused tone as he slammed a paw down to create a mirror from the water..

The Hyuga was the first to process the question as she looked at herself. "I. . .never felt so much courage. . ." She muttered in amazement.

"I'll say Nata-chan." The Uchiha agreed as she looked at herself.

This statements slightly surprised the Bijū as he would had expected them to bragged about feeling powerful or invincible like many would had. "These girls really are different. . ." He thought to himself as he smirked from both amusement and impressed.

The Uchiha then grinned widely at the new features on her face. "The whisker marks are also a nice touch." She then admitted.

"Hai, their really look cute like Naruto-kun's." Hinata agreed.

In that instant, the Kyūbi face faulted. "And their goes my positive view. . ." He then added.

"That was meant in a good way." Satsuki reassured.

"Keep forgetting that they're nothing but little brats. . ." The Kyūbi stated with a deadpan tone.

"OI!" The duo heiresses exclaimed in unison.

However instead of replying, the demonic fox noticed the Curse Marks forced upon them from Orochimaru had also changed as the three tomoe reshaped themselves into nine wavy tail like lines in a circular formation with a spiral in the middle of it.

It was at that moment that the Kyūbi expression changed, as a feral grin appeared on his face. "Now then my dears, show them. . .show them all your new power and new bonds. . ." He ordered in satisfaction.

The red chakra then went and completely encased the two as the girls soon woke up in the real world while they laid on the ground inside of the tree with the sounds of battle going on outside.

"Hey Nata-chan?" Satsuki started with a playful grin.

"Yes Satsuki-chan?" Hinata responded, a playful smile on her face as well.

"Why don't we go show these guys not to mess with our husband?" Satsuki suggested with her Sharingan activated, hiding her giddiness of calling her favorite blond that.

However it was now different as the tomoe slightly merged with the silt of her eyes as the sign of the union between the Uchiha's Sharingan and the power of the Kyūbi.

"Agreed." Hinata replied with her Byakugan activated, holding back her happiness at the same thought as the black haired girl.

Like her fellow fiancé, her eyes too had changed, but while her eyes still had the same intense appearance when they received chakra, now the veins that would normally pulse around the eyes from chakra expanded them weren't there anymore.

At that moment, a huge pillar of red chakra exploded from within the tree as the duo immediately rushed out.

Kai!

---

"And that's what happened." Kyūbi finished explaining.

Naruto gulped at the thought if they didn't make the choice. "Would. . .would that really have happened to them?" He asked with concern.

To that question, the Kyūbi nodded his head. "Yup, because like I told the two, I only got rid of the source of the curse mark, so the pedo can just do it again. Only this time, he wouldn't try doing it the easy way of just tempting them." He explained in a serious tone.

Naruto then looked back at the savage beat down and smiled both happy and sad at the same time. "Damn. . .I guess this means they really do love me. . ." He got out with both happiness and concern.

The Kyūbi merely chuckled to that. "Can you blame them?" He then questioned.

Naruto chuckled as the battle/slaughter started to die down with of course, the girls winning by a landslide. "No, I can't. They love me and I love them both just as much. And I would give my life for them just at they would for me." He soon admitted.

"Why thank you Naru-kun." A familiar and lively female voice echoed in the blond's head.

"Huh?" Naruto got out as his eyes widen as he heard the Uchiha's voice in his head, surprising him for the moment.

"We really appreciate it." A more well mannered female voice echoed in the Uzumaki's head.

"What the-?" Naruto got out as he then heard the Hyuga's voice in his head.

Then two pairs of giggling echoed in Naruto's head.

Naruto narrowed his eyes in realization as he mentally looked at the demonic fox. "Another side effect of yours?" He questioned.

Kyūbi merely chuckled in response to that. "Guilty there kit. Since both of them now have my chakra in a similar manner as your seal, you three now can talked to each other in a telepathic links." He began to explained

"Huh?" Naruto got out in confusion.

The Bijū merely let out a sigh to that. "Why do I even bother saying big words to baka like you. . ." He grumbled out.

"OI!" Naruto shouted in annoyance.

"DON'T INSULT NARUTO/NARU-KUN!" The two heiress exclaimed in unison.

"Oh shut it. . .I bet the only one that understood that was lavender eyes. . ." The Kyūbi then accused.

". . ." Their was a surprisingly devoid of any noise as the trio said nothing.

"Figures. . ." The Kyūbi muttered out with a deadpan tone. "Basically, this connection is linked by my chakra which is now steadily flowing through them as well as your, making it so you three able to talk with one another and always can figure out where each other is, even from a long distance." The demonic fox explained.

"Well that's convenient." Naruto simply admitted.

Then the blond and the rest of the genin watched as the two heiresses beat the two to a pulp, but didn't kill them as they fell unconscious from both the over usage of chakra and the damage that their bodies had received. However their bodies still remain in their monstrous state.

Once the danger had passed, both girls red aura disappeared and their expressions return to normal as well. Hinata then went over to Zaku as she pulled out the scroll he was holding.

"Naruto-kun, they have an Earth Scroll." Hinata called out to the blond as she looked at the blond in mention.

Naruto let out a sigh of relief from both getting the scroll and ending the fight. "Good, now we got both scrolls." He then looked at the shocked members of Team Ten and let out another sigh. "Satsuki-chan. . ." He began telepathically.

Satsuki as she knew exactly what her boyfriend/fiancé was thinking. "It's alright, we can let them know." She told him mentally, then she slowed down so everyone could see her. "Whew, that was rough." She muttered, wiping the sweat off her forehead.

"Glad you two are alright." Naruto got out while resting on the ground. "Though I'm more glad that your two are now ok." He added.

Hinata nodded in response to that. "Mmhm, if fact Naruto-kun." She started as she smiled happily.

Satsuki gave off a playful smirk. "I think we're are even better than we've ever been." She finished.

Then before the blond could asked, Hinata grabbed the blond's face and pecked him on the lips.

This made said blond and everyone else around them widen their eyes and dropped their jaws to the ground from the action that they would never thought the timid Hyuga would do out of her own free will.

"H-Hinata-chan!?" A very surprised Naruto asked, more surprised then embarrassed by the hardly welcomed action.

"Surprised~?" The Hyuga got out in joking tone."I just felt so much courage that I feel like I could do anything." She then added.

"Uuuuuh excuse us but. . ." Ino interrupted, causing the members of Team Seven to look at her as she pointed at Satsuki. "Who are you?" She asked in confusion as she had never seen her before.

Satsuki soon lightly giggled with a sweat-drop running down her head. "Well. . ." She started as she rubbed the back of her head in a Naruto like manner.

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At the Hokage tower, Hiruzen had just finished his paperwork. "And. . .There. . .finally, all finished." He proudly stated with a healthy laugh as he was about to sign the last paper of the mountain sized pile around him. As he was just about to rest from all his hard work. . .

"WHAT!? I'VE BEEN CHASING AFTER A GIRL THIS WHOLE TIME!?" A female scream went out, breaking the window and causing the sheets of paper to fly out from a gust of wind.

". . ." The elderly man could only watch with an emotionless expression as the papers continued slowly flew around him.

Soon, the civilian were fearing all the swears they heard from the Hokage and Konohamaru learned many new colorful words, but was told never to use them by his teachers along with other little children being told the same thing by their parent.

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With new bonds forged during their time at the Forest of Death, newer challenges will come from it. But thanks to their strong bond, Team Seven are more than ready to face them.