Chapter fifteen let's go!

Hoping to conclude the whole sound team vs leaf genin section this time off. Also fit in another explanation corner omake as we have had a few oc jutsu I need to go over.

But please, comment, review, follow, fav and kudos I appreciate it all, very close to 200 favs on ff now.

Also like to apologize if these sections appear boring? Writing without Naruto and Satsuki, the two stars of this show is somewhat difficult, however I do plan to have sections where we work on these side characters more, one of the big criticisms with Naruto is the many side characters that get no time in the spotlight other then one or two times (big example was Lee being one of the most goated side characters pre timeskip then barely doing anything after that)

Speaking of, any suggestions on how to deal with Kaguya? Should I just completely ret-con her? Cus yeah one of the most hated things about Naruto is the ass pull of Kaguya and black Zetzu being the big bads all along.

Without further ado let us continue.

Forest of death, second day of the exam

Sakura looked over to Lee, they were both prone on the floor but Lee was significant worse for ware, he was stuck clutching his ears as they bled and trying to pick himself up only to have no balance and fall over into his own vomit, it was a truly terrible sight, Sakura herself could barely hear anything and her vision still had white spots in it, Dosu, the leader of the sound team looking down at them both smugly.

Sakura could barely make out what he was saying but she could hear him due to his proximity.

"Well, looks like this is the end of the road for both of you." Dosu spoke, smugly as Sakura started to pick herself up.

"I'm surprised you can stand, I saw a test subject of lord Orochimaru not be able to stand for two days after he took one of his paper flash bombs point blank, but I suppose that one did shield you somewhat, the flash must not have reached you fully." Dosu spoke, his cruelty still evident in his tone, Kin and Zaku standing back and smirking at their team leaders cruelty.

"I-I won't stop, for the sake of my teammates, Lee and my own dream, leaf kunoichi, don't back down from a fight." Sakura spoke as she weaved seals slowly, Dosu went to punch her with his gauntlet only for his fist to smash into a log, substitution.

Sakura appeared and threw some kunai at Kin and rushed her trying to engage her in taijutsu, only for the sound kunoichi to dodge through her attacks with ease, then to grab a fistful of her bright pink hair and force Sakura to her knees.

"Well it seems the all powerful 'leaf kunoichi' are pretty sad if you ask me. I mean just look at this long hair, not only is such a crappy color for stealth it's all soft and pampered, you should have spent more time training and less time with beauty products, I mean you're just sad." Kin spoke cruelty, her grip on Sakura's hair tightening, causing significant pain.

"S-shut up!" Sakura spoke, tears in her eyes, fuck she was a joke, she should have spent more time learning jutsu instead of pampering herself, what good would that do on a mission? Unless she was going undercover but she was only a genin, and her booksmarts she felt so great about, didn't help her get out of this mess.

"So how about you just die quietly and we'll sent some more leaf ninja to keep you company." Kin spoke as she slowly reached to grab a kunai, ready to be done with this stubborn little leaf ninja.

Only for Sakura to grab her own, and do something that significantly shocked to onlooking Ino, Sakura sliced right through her hair, freeing herself from Kin's grip and turning a slashing at Kin, slicing across her torso, however her jacket stopped most of the blow.

"Dammit Kin!" Zaku shouted as she threw a handful of kunai at sound, he would have launched a soundwave blast but he had to conserve chakra, he maybe had one big ultrasonic wave and that it, no spare chakra.

Sakura just weaved more signs and all the kunai hit was another log.

This pattern continued a few more times along with Sakura using the basic clone jutsu for some trickery.

She appeared above Zaku, weaving the same seals for the substitution only to fake them out, gritting her teeth as the thrown kunai sunk into her flesh, she landed on top of Zaku and started to punch him and when she was thrown off she held on by biting down on his arm, it wasn't so much a ninja battle as a guttural dogfight. Sakura's willpower fighting back against the seemingly insurmountable might of the sound team.

"Ino? Ino?! What the hell are we doing? Your call!" Shikamaru whisper shouted to Ino from their hiding spot. He could see she was in a state of shock from seeing such a passionate display of sheer will from the girl who used to be her best friend.

She saw her take blow after blow to the head, still biting down on Zaku, Ino could just stand there anymore.

"You have a plan Shikamaru?" She spoke turning to her friend, who just smirked.

"Yeah, now listen up." Shikamaru spoke as he quickly broke down his plan.

Zaku reached for a kunai planning to bring it down into Sakura's skull as just punching her wasn't doing anything, the bitch still held onto him with her teeth.

"Just fuckin die!" He yelled as he brought the kunai down, only for an incredibly large fist to punch him, sending him flying with great force and to gently scoop up Sakura and bring her over to the enlarged limbs owner.

"You okay Sakura?" A kind voice asked and through her blurry vision and swelling black eye she saw Choji looking down at her, a kindly smile on his face.

"C-choji?" She stuttered, seeing her old classmate save her, she looked past him to see Shikamaru and Ino there too. The modern day iteration of the age-old Akamichi, Yamanaka and Nara clan alliance, the infamous Ino-Shika-Cho.

"Shikamaru…Ino…why? Why are you three here?" She asked in wonder, she thought Ino would never step in to save her as their friendship crashed and burned all those years ago.

"It's obvious isn't it, while we may technically be against each other in this exam we are still leaf ninja, it's the way of our village, plus, you and Ino used to be friends right." Shikamaru spoke lazily with a slight smirk on his face.

"Okay that's step one, step two, get Ino a body." Shikamaru thought, the variables running through his head even faster then the sound ninja's jutsu.

"Shikamaru's right, we're leaf ninja, plus the next generation of the legendary Ino-Shika-Cho, we can't just leave you to fend for yourself." Ino spoke, slightly nodding tho Shikamaru, who started to slowly stretch his shadow out, with the sunlight shining through the trees canopy there were plenty of shadows to supplement his own, Shikamaru's reach was only limited by his chakra here.

"Ah, the infamous trio of clans who have been lifelong allies since the warring states period, the Yamanaka, Nara and Akimichi, also known as the Ino-Shika-Cho, luckily for us, you were some of the genin we were briefed on, that was the Akimichi clans special expansion jutsu huh? Its strength seems quite impressive." Dosu spoke. As their lord Orochimaru was a defector from the leaf village the sound had many insider secrets about the village, it's noteworthy clans and their jutsu being one of the major ones due to their lord fascination with the myriad of jutsu in the ninja world.

"Well then, you should know this one too, my Shadow possession jutsu." Shikamaru spoke, forming the stance as his slowly creeping shadow latched onto Kin, causing her to mimic him.

"Ino!" Shikamaru yelled as his female teammate didn't miss a beat.

"Mind transfer jutsu." Ino spoke as she formed the unique hand sign for her clan's unique jutsu.

Ino consciousness shot forth towards Kin who was unable to dodge and her mind was taken over by Ino, few ninja having the unique training and skills to resist an attack on one's mind and spirit, Kin not being among them.

Shikamaru released his shadow bit instead of recalling it to himself it shot towards Dosu, he wanted to end this as soon as possible.

"Stand still you mummy looking bastard." Shikamaru muttered as his shadow continued to hunt Dosu with the sound ninja just barely avoiding him.

"Kin!" Dosu shouted as 'Kin' seemed to snap out of her trance, only for her to smirk and throw senbon at Dosu, trying to slow him down.

Dosu really starting to panic, Zaku was sent flying so it was unknown if he was even alive or conscious right now, he figured Kin had been taken over by the mental based jutsu of the Yamanaka and he was inches away from being stopped dead by the spiky haired Nara, the briefing had mentioned that Nara were often gifted with incredibly sharp tactical minds but it seemed that was nothing but the truth, they had come in, and were picking all of them off one by one, he looked to see a smirk on Shikamaru's face, it seems he had truly planned all of this.

He was snapped out of his own thoughts as a large sweeping arm came at him via Choji, they were trying to box him in.

However Dosu just punched the arm back, sending a soundwave through it, causing Choji to drop to his knees, it wouldn't completely debilitate someone like a targeted inner ear attack would but he needed a fast and effective attack right now, irritating as it was, channeling a soundwave into the ear needed immense focus and a little time, which he didn't have with the show chasing him.

"Choji!" Shikamaru yelled seeing his best friend fall over vision unfocused and in a daze.

"Your next!" Fosu spoke as he ran at him, Ino in Kins' body moving to intercept, only for Zaku to jump from the brush and land a solid blow to her face, sending her flying.

Dosu would have gotten to Shikamaru if Lee didn't suddenly get in his way, stopping his swing and thus depriving Dosu of his deadly sound.

"How can you still move!" Fosu yelled to Lee, he was clearly worse for wear, blood drying around his ear and vomit on his clothing.

"I said I would defend Sakura with my life, and I won't go back on that promise, to thank her for having faith in me." Lee spoke, his sheer will the only thing that allowed him to battle against his injuries.

"What are you doing! If you kill me, you kill your teammate!" Ino spoke as she dodged Zaku's assault with a kunai in each hand.

"Yeah well we sound ninja ain't a bunch of tree hugger pussy's like you, if I have to cut down Kin to cut into you, so be it!" Zaku yelled as he attacked his possessed teammate's body, it seemed the sound had reached the end of their rope and threw their sadist fun to the wind, they just wanted…no NEEDED to spill leaf ninja blood."

"Ino! Body! Now!" Shikamaru yelled to Ino, he shouldn't have counted on the sound being unwilling to cut down a comrade even if she was being controlled, Ino could get herself killed if she tried to play off any bond as teammates these guys had, looks like they didn't have any.

"Damn we need to turn this around." Shikamaru muttered to himself, these two seemed to be very up close and personal attackers, something Ino and him were rather poor at and while Choji was great at it, he wasn't looking too good as he struggled to pick himself up, and while Lee was back on his feet, he'd probably be knocked down onto his ass just as fast as he was the first time, these sound jutsu were beyond dangerous.

Observation tower:middle of training ground forty-four

"So, he's back?" The Third Hokage asked one Anko Mitarashi as she held her shoulder, she seal still stung.

"Yes Lord Third, I definitely think he's planning something, apparently he's the one behind this 'hidden sound', best geuss, he plans to attack during the final stage of the exams, when all the land of fire VIP's are in the village and with many shinobi distracted with the festivities." Anko spoke, she never had know what was running through her ex-sensei's head but that was the obvious play if he was planning to attack the village.

"But one thing he told me was…he gave Satsuki Uchiha a curse mark." Anko told him, God she pitied the girl, the rest of her life would be forever different now she was branded with that bastards…filth! She had gone through a lot of therapy and a myriad of medications to balance the effect the mark had on your emotional state and mind, along with other disastrous effects, and that was only if she survived the process, many didn't.

"I see, I will inform Kakashi, he's her sensei and can perform an adequate sealing jutsu for it." Hiruzen spoke, the ghosts of his past have come back to haunt him it seems, he lay awake at night thinking about that day when he didn't have the heart to stop Orochimaru when he fled the village, how many people have suffered and died and will suffer and die in the future due to his inability to act, he should have killed him like a sick animal, as that's all he was, the experiments he was performing on children, goddamn children, made that fact perfectly clear.

"Yeah I need a sealing too, he broke through mine with ease, tell Kakashi to put a serious seal on her, she'll need it." Anko spoke, she'd had this damned thing sealed for years, hell the mark had even faded slightly, looking more like an old tattoo but now the black mark was clear as it was when she was first cursed with it, and causing no small amount of pain.

"Of course, take all the time you need. Thank you Anko, I can always rely on you. If I may ask, please can you maybe speak with Satsuki at some point, tell her from first hand experience that the 'power' the curse mark offers is more trouble then its worth?" Hiruzen asked her kindly.

"Yes of course lord Hokage whatever plans that piece of shit has for the girl, I'm more then happy to ruin them if I can." Anko spoke, a slightly sadistic smirk crossing her face at the idea of screwing with Orochimaru.

"Well I'd prefer, "helping a fellow leaf kunoichi" that works too." Hiruzen chuckled, as Anko gained an embarrassed look.

"Yeah that too." She spoke scratching her cheek looking away.

"Dismissed Anko, get some rest." The third spoke, taking another puff of his pipe.

"Yes Lord Hokage she said as she left, the old Kages jokes lightening her mood as intended.

"Tenzo." He simply spoke to the seemingly empty room only for an Anbu to suddenly appear kneeling.

"Yes sir." He spoke emotionlessly.

"Get me Kakashi please, it's not urgent but it's best he knows as soon as possible." The Third spoke to the Anbu who just wordlessly left.

"Orochimaru…maybe…it would have been better if you went with your parents to the next world." Hiruzen muttered to himself, wondering when that cold yet immensely talented young boy had turned into a monster.

He was worried for Satsuki, she would either be dead by now…or awakening to the dark corrupted power Orochimaru had given her…may whatever God existed help her.

Back with the sound and leaf teams

"Now then let's finish this up." Dosu spoke as he stepped towards the leaf ninja.

"I'd advise against that if I were you." A voice call, all current parties looked up to see two more leaf ninja standing on a high branch, Sakura recognized them both, Lee's teammates.

"N-neji, Tenten!" Lee spoke out his face lighting up at seeing both members of his team.

"You missed the rendezvous Lee, so we tracked you down, seems you got yourself in a real mess, one I once again will have to sort ou-...hmm, nevermind, seems things are already handled, although that chakra worries me." Neji spoke, his Byakugan activated clearly seeing something they didn't.

"Hahahah." All parties now turned to see him dark laughter, now fully awake was Satsuki, Sharingan activated, dark flame like markings covering her skin and a dense, malevolent chakra swirling around her form, it felt wrong, like a mockery of pure chakra, a dark copy that was made to insult and disrupt the natural order, but one thing was certain…it was immense in its potency, more immense then any of the present genin had previously felt, as Sakura was not close enough to feel the small sliver of the nine tails power Naruto unleashed on the bridge against Haku.

"So this is the power he spoke of. This feels amazing." Satsuki muttered to herself, she felt euphoric, she felt like she could burn this entire forest down with one jutsu! With this, she was even closer to having her revenge, to baptizing herself in Itachi's blood!

She looked around to see a rather large collection of ninja, the three shinobi from the sound and an assortment of leaf ninja, she also looked down and saw Naruto laying there unconscious, but seemingly alright…a small spark of happiness appeared in the back of her mind, but was just suppressed a second later by the amazing, overwhelming power she'd been given! But what good was power, if you didn't use it~? Her gaze turned towards the sound ninja, Dosu flinching slightly as she turned to him.

"So that's it. He gave you the mark, just like lord Kimmimaro and the rest of the sound five. We…we can't fight that, chakra like that, it's too strong!" Dosu rambled to himself, he'd been witness to the overwhelming strength Lord Orochimaru's curse mark granted a shinobi, they'd struggle against Satsuki normally but now she had this power? The power of their lord? It was impossible, fighting her as she was, it was suicide. So why would Lord Orochimaru send them to?...no, he wouldn't…were they just guinea pigs for Satsuki's curse mark?! So what all they were to their master?! The thought filled Dosu with rage at this betrayal, all three of them have dedicated their lives, everything! To Orochimaru, so how could he do this?

"S-satsuki?" Sakura muttered out, her eyesight impaired as her left eye socket was starting to swell.

"Just stay right there, all of you, I'll break these three in half, with my bare hands!" Satsuki spoke to the crowd, a sadistic and truly menacing grin crossing her face, faster then most of the current party could follow, in fact only Dosu, Lee and Neji could react, Satsuki struck Kin who was still slightly dazed from Ino's jutsu, Satsuki fist implanted hard into her chest, the Uchiha girls grin widening further as she felt Kin's ribs fracture and even break from just a single blow.

Kin hacked out blood as she was ragdolled across the forest floor by Satsuki.

She simply smiled, the flame markings across her body spreading further, a crazed, bloodthirsty look in her eyes.

"So what, I've been given power by lord Orochimaru too, you ain't special!" Zaku yelled as he held up both his arms, screw his chakra levels

"Supersonic slicing wave!" Zaku yelled as he pushed all his chakra into the attack, blaming an impossibly destructive blast at Satsuki, who just looked bored.

Where Satsuki was stood, there was now a tunnel of devastation, everything, dirty, grass, bushes, trees were all destroyed due to Zaku's jutsu, it was truly quite something.

"HAHAHA! Take that you bitch, no ninja is a match for the blessed augments I received from lord Orochimaru!" Zaku cackled as he held up his arms, proudly showing the air tunnels Lord Orochimaru had installed.

"Personally, I'm not impressed." A voice spoke next to Zaku, which caused dread to fill him as he turned to see Satsuki standing there completely unharmed by Zaku's hail mary jutsu.

"B-but how?! My jutsu is a blast of pure sound, nobody's that fast!" Zaku yelled at her, Satsuki just looked smug.

"That is true, your jutsu is fast, but you are slow, I'd be able to stay ahead of your blasts even without my Sharingan." Satsuki spoke, red eyes peering into Zaku's, deeply unnerving him. He stepped back in fear, a deep sense of dread filling him, Satsuki just unleashed a fierce right hook, fracturing Zaku's jaw, Satsuki grinning as she felt the jawbone crack, and sending him spinning, he barley managed to catch himself on his hands and knees.

In a display of completely uncharacteristic sadism and cruelty Satsuki grabbed both of Zaku's arms, placed her foot on Zaku's back…then started to pull, sending a look of horror through the watching parties, Zaku most of all.

"You seem quite proud of these arms of yours, rather attached." She joked, cruel grin ever present on her face, she could feel the joint in Zaku's arms starting to strain, she felt good, better then she had ever felt.

"N-no, please!" Zaku spoke out, with his arms, he would be useless, lord Orochimaru would dispose of him, he'd go back to being a starving child on the street.

"What? It's not good to be overly attached you know, here, let me help you." Satsuki spoke, sadism growing by the second, she wanted, no NEEDED to hear this weaklings arms dislocate from their sockets. Her markings were getting ever more intense too, there were more dark, flame like markings covering her body now, her skin was more black then its normal smooth pale color, was this even Satsuki? Many of the leaf ninja wondered Sakura most of all.

*snap* "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Satsuki felt a torrent of dopamine wash over her as she dislocated Zaku's arms, and heard his blood curdling scream which soon quieted down as he passed out, Satsuki then just tossed his unmoving body away like a broken toy, both arms at odd angles.

She then turned to Dosu, grinning like some sort of demon at his look of utter fear, oh goodie, somone else to break!

"S-stay back! All of you!" Dosu yelled, fear taking hold of his reason, his gauntlet shifted and he struck it with a kunai and cut off his hearing with his chakra.

"Chaotic Melody jutsu!" He yelled as a high pitched sound was let out by the gauntlet, causing all parties but Dosu, even Satsuki fueled by the dark powers of the curse mark was not unaffected by the sound.

Dosu ran at her, he had too, Orochimaru's new pet or minion be dammed, if she wanted any chance of staying alive or at least not maimed by Satsuki he had to take her out, he took out a kunai and was fully ready to cut open her jugular with a second thought, survival instincts now taking control of his actions. Not even considering the indescribably horrific fate Orochimaru would subject him too if he succeeded in killing her.

However, under the shade of the raised up roots of the tree Sakura had hidden Satsuki and Naruto, Naruto rose up.

"A debilitating sound attack huh? Quite interesting, but using his chakra I can defend by ears from the attack." 'Naruto' thought as he channeled chakra to his ears and thus blocked the harmful sound from effecting him.

He moved even faster then Dosu, instantly getting in front of both of them, he intercepted Dosu's thrust with surgical precision, like he'd done it a thousand times.

Dosu was shocked, the data they were given on Naruto Uzumaki was that he was useless, a non-entity, in this mission, so how could he do this?! And what's more, weren't his eyes meant to be blue not black?

In an expert move Naruto gave a shoulder blow to his chin and seemingly channeled chakra into his hand and gave a palm thrust to his chest, completely knocking the wind out of Dosu. Seconds later the sound faded.

'Naruto' looked back at Satsuki, still clutching her ears.

"Hmm, I wonder if it's just an odd coincidence, or fate that you look so such like Izumi, but then again, there's a lot of you in there too, my love, I only hope, these two will fare better then we did. Also with just a small part of mine and the others chakra, I wonder if he'll be able to use it?" 'Naruto' thought as he seemed to be dazed, he opened his eyes again, this time they were his bright blue again, he blinked and looked around in confusion, only to see Satsuki standing there, looking right at him.

"Satsuki!" Naruto said, seemingly not caring about the mass of black markings covering her.

"You're allright! Man I was worried we'd be killed by that crazy snake lady, or I'd wake up and you'd…you'd be. I'm just glad your okay." Naruto said happily, embracing the girl, that was a good point, they did narrowly escape death, all three of them. She also seemed to have snapped out of being controlled by her fear, he was glad, that shivering kunocihi who just wanted to run away wasn't Satsuki, not at all.

Satsuki was shocked by the embrace, but relented and hugged him back, her marking rapidly receded until just the initial mark on her shoulder was left.

It was only then they realized there were many onlookers to the display. Satsuki quickly broke apart from Naruto, heavy blush covering her face.

"D-d-d-dont do that! Y-you loser!" She stuttered out, shoving Naruto away from her, face totally red. She'd never been so embarrassed.

The onlookers didn't really have words for that.

"Holy shit Satsuki's a total tsundere. Don't know about her taste in boys though." Ino thought looking at the two, I mean yeah it was pretty cute but Naruto? Loudmouth deadlast? I mean maybe Satsuki liked the dumb ones?

"S-sorry." Naruto spoke, just realizing he'd majorly embarrassed his teammate.

"So what are you guys doing here?" Naruto asked looking around, then realizing there had been a major fight, Shikamaru's team were here, along with the two others from Lee's team and Sakura and Lee looked like hell, seems they'd both put their lives on the line to protect him and Satsuki he guessed.

Everyone turned to Dosu as he picked himself up, totally defeated, he could barely stand.

"We. *pant* we submit. Please, just take this and leave us be." Dosu spoke, knowing he had no chance against the collection of leaf ninja, let alone Satsuki as she was now. He placed a heaven scroll on the ground, quickly grabbed his teammates and fled.

"Yeah you better run!" Naruto yelled after him. Then he gave a dissatisfied look at the scroll, heaven, they already had one.

"Well shot we already have one of those…you guys want it?" Naruto said to the surrounding teams, Shikamaru just said it was a drag as they had a heaven too.

"We'll take it." Neji spoke as he and Tenten dropped from their high branch and walked over to Lee.

"Yeah he doesn't speak for the whole team, we aren't just giving it away." Satsuki spoke harshly, it was stupid just to give it away, plus this Neji guy was honestly coming off a bit of a prick.

"Then I could just take both your scrolls." Neji spoke, gaze hardening, threat very clear, ready to shut down the Uchiha's chakra network at the drop of a hat.

"Hey Neji! We have to help Lee out first." Tenten said to her teammate, not really wanting to battle fellow leaf ninja if she could help it.

"Hey please stop, I'm happy to give Lee our spare scroll, after all, all three of us would be dead without him." Sakura spoke, walking up to the four of them even with her injuries.

"Good." Neji spoke, tension in the air dropping as Tenten picked Lee up and Neji held up his hand for the scroll.

"Yeah I said I'd give Lee the scroll. Not you." Sakura spoke, a smirk on her face as she walked past Neji and offered Lee the heaven scroll.

"Lee…I don't know what to say. Truly, thank you, and for what it's worth, I believe even with just Taijutsu your already one of the greatest ninja I know." Sakura said, to Lee, hugging him, which got a wince of pain from Lee, but also got his eyes to light up as Sakura said that, he almost cried.

Lee took the scroll from Sakura gently. "Thank you Sakura, but next time we meet I'll be a stronger ninja still. And always remember, the leaf village lotus blooms twice." Lee said crypticly as him and his team left, Neji with an unhappy look on his face.

"Naruto, Satsuki, Sakura. I wish you luck in finding an earth scroll and moving onto the next stage of this exams." Lee spoke, giving a weak thumps up to them. Naruto just nodded with Satsuki looked away, appreciating the gesture but still a bit sour about losing to him yesterday.

"Man, it's never dull with you around Naruto, that's for sure." Shikamaru spoke as he, Choji and Ino walked up to them.

"Yeah, well trouble seems to just follow me sometimes." Naruto said chuckling scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah, it's a massive pain, like you." Satsuki jabbed at him, smirking, when he just deadpanned at her, but then smiled warmly.

"Hey Sakura, want me to fix your hair?" Ino asked her fellow kunoichi, her eyes just widened, well as much as one of they could with the swelling.

"I err…sure." She said as Ino smiled and had Dakura sit down while he expertly started to fix Sakura's hair with a kunai.

"Guess we owe you guys. Thanks." Naruto spoke happily to them both.

"Well us leaf ninja gotta stick together right, I'd take some time however, those sound ninja really put Sakura through the ringer, she needs rest." Shikamaru spoke, to which both of them nodded, Naruto, Shikamaru and Choji spoke a bit longer with occasional chime in from Satsuki.

"I'm sorry. About what I said when we were kids…it wasn't right." Ino suddenly said to her.

"It's alright…you know, about a year after we stopped being friends…I heard about your aunt, you were grieving, and you meant well truly, so…thanks, for looking out for me Ino, but I'll never give up on my dream of being a great kunoichi of our village, never." Sakura spoke to her, Ino just embraced Sakura.

"Now hold still, this will hurt." Ino said confusing Sakura only for her to cut into the swelling part of her eye, relasing the fluid that was starting to push against Sakura's eye.

"Ah! Shit Ino. Warn me your gonna do that!" Sakura said to her rival? Old friend? Eh she'd figure that out after the exams.

"Well couldn't let it blow up like that, it may have become bigger then your forehead." I o teasing, getting Sakura to shove her playfully as they laughed together.

Team team said their goodbyes and headed off into the forest, leaving team seven to rest.

"I'll grab some water." Satsuki said, grabbing their flasks and leaving, with Naruto just nodded, currently on watch while Sakura caught up on the sleep she'd lost looking after the two of them.

Naruto heard something hit the floor and he looked to see Satsuki on the ground shivering, "Satsuki!" Naruto yelled as he ran over to her and held her in his arms, she was sweating but she was also ice cold. He picked her up and quickly placed her next to Sakura who had awoke to Naruto's shout, kunai at the ready, only to see her female teammate shivering.

"Naruto what happened?!" Sakura spoke quickly as any drozyness faded instantly as they looked over the raven haired girl.

"I-i'm f-f-fine." She stuttered out, clearly anything but, she was freezing. Naruto quickly took off his jacket and placed it over her.

"It just came outta nowhere, any ideas Sakura?" Naruto asked the girl.

"Not much, get us this herb, if we can make some tea with it, it may help lessen the symptoms." Sakura spoke, showing drawing Naruto a crude picture in the dirt with a kunai, it was off a type of leaf.

"Find this!" Sakura said as she got some supplies out of her storage scroll for a fire.

Fire she was burning up after she got bit, now she was cold, she needed to see a proper doctor soon as possible, that bite wasn't normal, then there was that mark on her shoulder, then the marks running all over her body, along with that cruelty and dark chakra.

"On it!" Naruto spoke as he ran off to look around, he needed that herb, he for Satsuki!

It was about ten seconds until Naruto returned with a fistful of the herb shown.

"Is this it?!" Naruto asked quickly to which Sakura nodded dumbly.

"That was incredibly fast Naruto wow? It's not that common, whatever, better for us, get is some water which as possible for the tea while I get a fire going, about five minutes west of us." Sakura spoke as Naruto ran off again.

About ten minutes later Naruto returned, flasks full of fresh water.

As Sakura boiled the water on the small fire she'd made Naruto looked over Satsuki, he had placed her head in his lap and his jacket was still covering her.

"N-naruto." She weezed out as she looked up him.

"Don't worry, I got you." He spoke with a smile, which got her to give a weak smile back.

One thing was stuck on Naruto's mind, that brief moment he'd seen Satsuki covered in those markings, and as he saw a black mark on her inner shoulder, surrounded by angry, irritated red skin, he began to wonder what exactly had happened to his best friend after he'd been knocked out.

Of course what nobody, not a soul, knew was that before Naruto had been asked to find those herbs, were wasn't any, not a single leaf in the entire forest.

Naruto and Satsuki's explanations coner

Chili Naruto and Satsuki appeared next to a large scroll in the background.

"Sorry about the lack of us, the author has been writing chapters that are too long so there not much room for us to tell you about jutsu." Chibi Satsuki spoke, slaging me off.

"Our first two jutsu are from the rain ninja from chapter thirteen." Chibi Naruto spoke.

"First up, the unamed genjutsu they used. Aka water illusion:vapor clone chaos justu. Using water style they cause it to rain chakra infused water, this makes the air around the target humid with said chakra infused water, this water touches the skin or any part of the body and will render the target under genjutsu, clones then form and speak comments designed to anger the targets allies, but in truth, they are under genjutsu too, so while a clone speaks the real versions words, the real one speaks a clones words, the person gets pissed, attacks their teammate, ensuing chaos. However the jutsu requires a lot of chakra and in most cases, multiple ninja to perform the jutsu, not to mention great concentration." Chibi Satsuki explained, Chibi Naruto didn't really get it himself.

"Next is water style:vapor haze. Using water style the target breaths out chakra enhanced water vapor that can even blind Dojutsu like Satsuki's Sharingan. It's a super easy and basic justu." Chibi Naruto spoke.

Chibi Satsuki's Sharingan flared. "Wanna repeat that, nothing blinds my eyes." She said smugly.

"But big you literally was blinded by it." Chibi Naruto pointed out, Chibi Satsuki just hit him.

"Ow!"

"Next the sound justu from chapter fourteen." Chibi Naruto his a bump on his head spoke.

"Next is another tricky genjutsu, Melodic maladiction jutsu. First the user sends out a chakra infused sound, this travels into the ear and creates an 'entry point' to the chakra moving through the targets brain, next, the genjutsu is cast using the 'entry point' a bell is then used to constantly reinforced the genjutsu, making it very difficult to break out of, however the opening of a gate is a massive surge of chakra, few genjutsu can remain in effect when one is opened. It takes significant handseals and chakra however to maintain and cast this genjutsu." Chibi Satsuki spoke. With Chibi Naruto nodding along, not getting a thing.

"next is Melodic disruption jutsu. The mechanisms in Dosu's melody gauntlet shift, altering the sound made, this one, as explained last chapter, can destroy many basic seals, mainly things like paper bombs and other tag based ninja tools, seals of higher quality and intricacy are unaffected." Chibi Satsuki spoke as Chibi Naruto didn't get this one either.

"And finally this chapter. Only one the Chaotic melody jutsu, by shifting the gauntlet again Dosu creates a long lasting very high pitched sound that dibillitates the target, however it can be defended against and the sound does not cause any long lasting or permanent damage." Chibi Satsuki finished, with Chibi Naruto giving a thumps up.

"Also I'd should just say, the flash tags used in chapter fourteen. It's a flashbang, plain and simple, just in the form of a tag." Chibi Satsuki added.

"See you next time!" Chibi Naruto spoke waving, Satsuki just shook her head at him.

And we are done, bit shorter this chapter but out in less then a week, very happy about that, I hope I'm getting my vision across with these new jutsu, it always seemed odd to me that the sounds Dosu's makes are only for that one attack, also I've added ways to stop the gauntlet too, as it is op as fuck, Dosu just uses it and everybody just can't fight at all, which begs the question why Orochimaru didn't mass produce the things for his invasion.

We finally see Satsuki's curse mark unleashed, she is cruel, sadistic and the power is like a drug, literally, in my mind it makes perfect sense that Orochimaru would make the curse mark as addictive as possible so whoever he gives it too, uses it as much as possible, especially Satsuki.

I hope you all enjoy comment and review thank you so much, also we broke 200 favs on ff, which is just amazing thank you all. Until the next one, in which I hope to wrap of forest of death and move onto the preliminarys, I probably will write the fights just really gloss over the ones that stick to Canon, most fights will go via Canon results but it's mainly the others comments o