Author's Note: Hey everyone! Here's Chapter 19! Enjoy this chapter!

Bijuu talk/think or Jutsu

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Summons talk

====The Same Night Team Kushina Was Attacked with Team 7 At Another Corner of Forest of Death====

The team was tired because of Sasuke who went to challenge almost everyone who came in front of them with Sakura cheering for him from behind doing nothing. Nearly two-time Team 7 lost their scrolls because Sasuke picked up fights, but Sai managed to save both Uchiha and his fangirl with the scrolls. Currently they are resting under a tree with Sai went to lose his pressure. Sasuke stood up activating his sharingan spinning wildly in the darkness of night.

Sakura also stood but hide behind Sasuke after a hearing some small bells ringing, "We are surrounded by enemies," the moment she said that they were surrounded by some dozens of Root ANBU.

"Who are you? You are not looking like competitors," said Sasuke.

"We're here to kill you and your team, our master ordered not to damage the eyes," said on the Root ANBU (which we will call RA from now on).

"Hn, you know I'm an elite but still you came to fight me, how pathetic of you," said Sasuke.

"You're just a nuisance to our master," with that the RA attacked Sasuke with full speed.

Sasuke was surprised to see the speed. His eyes followed the RA though his body wasn't capable of to go with his eye, but he managed to dodge the kick aiming at his chest. The moment Sasuke dodged that some more ANBU came for his with full speed but amazingly Sasuke dodged every last of last them.

Sasuke had a small cocky smirk knowing he was untouchable with his sharingan, "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)," with necessary hand signs he threw the jutsu thinking many of them would die.

The RA easily dodged the fireball and threw kunai with explosive tags on it. Sasuke saw all of them and readied himself to return them back though one tag blasted behind him giving him a nasty burn on his back. He winced in pain but realized there are more of them, and he would be dead if he was hit two or three times. Sasuke closed his eyes thinking of his Uchiha luck and would do something and it did. Some Kunai came and deflected the explosive kunai and those kunai blasted from a distance from Sasuke. Sasuke opened his eyes when the explosives didn't blast on his face and saw Sakura was holding some kunai, he smirked knowing Sakura did something useful.

"Go ahead Sasuke-kun, I'm here with you my love," cheered Sakura.

It didn't take much time when an ANBU shunshined to Sakura and grabbed her by her long hair to throw her far. Despite the feeling of pain, he retaliates against those RA trying to kill him, but the pain slowed him down. Sasuke helplessly got kicked 9 times between nine RA then he was slammed on a bark of tree with the tenth kick.

When Sasuke burned back was rubbed at the spiky wood he screamed in pain, "DAMN YOU!" Sasuke roared in pain.

Before Sasuke could act another volley of hard kicks jammed in his gut before a large fireball coming towards him. He desperately tried to find an opening but unable to find it he shouted in frustration before the world in front of him more slowed down. Seeing the world slowed down he was able to see the attacks clearly and dodged barely the attack. The next moment wasn't the easiest moment he had after Itachi placed him in a genjutsu, every last of the RA attacked him. Sasuke unlocked the third tomoe in each eye which caused him more pain instant. Sasuke was overwhelmed with pain that caused him to fade into unconsciousness.

"SASUKE-KUN," Sakura screeched and frantically tried to reach at her love wanting to die with her lover if failed to save him. Some RA took out small katana and jumped on Sasuke to give the blow, but with a gust of wind all of them scattered and two people stood there guarding Sasuke. Sakura immediately recognized those faces as Kimimaro and Juugo though she didn't know their names. Then she heard a melody played when some monsters appeared and attacked the RA group.

"Oi fucking bubblegum princess take that fucking Uchiha get the fuck out of here, we have some fucking businesses with them," said Tayuya. Sakura wanted to speak but seeing her unconscious Uchiha she dragged him out somehow knowing she didn't have enough strength to carry.

"Don't let any of them slip through, kill every last one," said Kimimaro.

====The Same Time with Team Kushina====

"They are better than I thought," Nier shot a blue beam of chakra from her gun which was glowing blue with her chakra.

Haku shot some Kōri-Dan no Jutsu (Ice Bullets Technique) to penetrate his enemy's skin then freeze the inner muscled to kill them, "Why we are fighting in front but the sannin is almost doing nothing?"

"I am ssseeing is you two are worthy of my protection or not," Orochimaru hissed at the Hyōton user, "It'ssss not every day you sssseee a Hyōton ussser with a versssatile kenjutsssu ussser fighting like thisss."

"What about Naruto? He is alone with a cold-blooded assassin even if it's his clone," said Haku.

"It'ssss becausssse hisss clone he can only change her emotions and give her feelings. Only Naruto can make the puppet to a human sssso forget about him and fight yourssss," said Orochimaru.

Haku sighed, "Nier how about we impress a sannin with our combination attack?"

"Without Naruto it would be less effective but do it," Nier put the gun at a strap on her tight thigh then took out her signature blade.

"Makyō Hyōshō( Secret Technique (Demonic Ice Mirrors)," Haku used the underground water which Orochimaru dug up for her to use Suiton (Water Release) to create a large dome of ice mirrors trapping everyone inside of it.

Then he went inside the mirror taking her stance for attack. Nier took a deep breath then gathered as much chakra under her feet to jump down at the middle swinging her blade to cut 2 RA in front of her. Orochimaru watched from outside with disappointment when most of Nier's attacks missed to land a hit, but then he felt something and realized that whoever hit the mirror to dodge Nier, then got stabbed by Kubikiribōchō. His view changed into amusement that no one was able to come out because of Haku's speed.

'That boy's speed in the ice mirrors are amazing, he can give a veteran jonin trouble with that speed,' Orochimaru's thoughts ended when he noticed the dome was shrinking, taking more space from the occupants to dodge Nier's attacks, 'I get it how it works now, the Hyōton boy traps everyone inside of that dome and unless you have Doton (Earth Release) you can't get out because of Naruto and that girl. The girl is a heavy hitter rather than a speedster so a direct hit from her and serious injury, then Naruto-kun is the speedster inside to dispatch as many enemies as possible in the beginning to leave the rest for the girl or those who are near the perimeter get stabbed by the Kubikiribōchō, they are really amazing.'

Haku and Nier took out the enemies who didn't have Earth chakra to get underground to get out from the dome. When their Collaboration jutsu ended only 18 remained from 35 though they met Orochimaru outside who summoned snakes to devour them.

"Your jutsu still have some gaps without your third teammate and try to cover the ground so your enemies can't get out via Doton (Earth Release)," said Orochimaru.

"I never faced anyone with Doton (Earth Release), so it never came in my mind, but I'll try to add this," said Haku.

"What's next?" Nier looked at sannin wanting to know.

"Now wait for Naruto-kun until he finished his job," said Orochimaru.

====Current time: Forest of Death with Team Kushina, Orochimaru, And Taiyō====

"I guess everything went well?" questioned Orochimaru.

"I think yes," Naruto looked towards his clone and said, "Who are? What is your purpose?"

"I'm Taiyō, I'm still finding my purpose," Taiyō said with a half emotionless tone.

"Who am I? Who is Danzo?" questioned Naruto.

"Your friend, Danzo is no one to me," answered Taiyō.

"Taiyō? Sun?" questioned Nier.

"I thought she needed a name, so I have her a name which was because I was thinking about Kaa-san, anyways what did you feel last night?"

"Kindness, friendship, and happiness," said Taiyō.

"She is still new to emotions so it will take a good amount of time to make her normal human, she broke the forbidden puppet jutsu while I took out the seal Danzo placed on her also the self-detonation seal too," said Naruto.

"You did amazing, not only I have to confront Danzo, Sasuke-kun is also safe," said Orochimaru.

"No, I have already assigned someone to kill Danzo, who still has a grudge over him," said Naruto.

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, "Who?"

"It's a secret for now though thank you for your assistance, if you didn't alert then we would be caught off-guard," said Naruto.

"Hmm, how is Kushina doing? Did she find out that she can use Mokuton (Wood Release)?" asked Orochimaru.

"You knew?" asked Naruto.

"Of course, I'm the man who studied her for years, I couldn't let a Konoha shinobi harm," said Orochimaru.

"Heh! You're softer than Jiraiya and the old man used to say, I hope you can present the truth to the old man," said Naruto.

"You don't need to worry, I should take my leave," with that Orochimaru sunk into the ground.

"He is gone," said Naruto.

"To think Konoha's said biggest traitor is actually a good man," said Haku.

"Yeah, anyways let's go to the tower since we have two scrolls," said Naruto.

"What about her?" Nier pointed towards Taiyō.

"I'll teleport her with my clone at home," said Naruto.

"So, you can cuddle with her more," Nier teased.

"If you want, I'll cuddle you when we get to the tower," Naruto teased back.

"Alright do it fast," Nier said a little seriously, "I don't want that Uchiha whore shouting loser because they finished before us."

"Taiyō, I'm sending you home, it will be your new home until things settle down," said Naruto.

"Yes Naruto," Taiyō said.

Naruto nodded at the girl before making a clone to teleport them to his home, then sighed, "Well let's head to the tower."

After that Team Kushina progressed towards the tower without talking to each other, so not to be caught by other teams. Reaching at the tower at the fourth evening they opened their scrolls to summon someone so they could say they passed. To their surprise it was their sensei Kushina appeared with a bright radiating smile on her face knowing which team summoned her.

"Congratulations on clearing the 2nd stage of the chunnin exams, I'm very proud of you three," said Kushina with her smile.

"Thank you, sensei," said Nier. Naruto just smiled assuring his mother that something must have happened in the forest.

"So, care to tell me what happened in the forest," asked Kushina.

"Nothing Kaa-san, Naruto met some who looked just like him and tried to kill," said Haku.

Kushina blinked twice and heard Nier sigh before she snapped, "What?"

"Mom send a Kage Bushin (Shadow Clone) so I can teleport it home so you can learn something from her, we are here to talk about those things also," said Naruto.

Kushina nodded dumbly and created a Kage Bushin (Shadow Clone) to send it at their home, "Well I'll listen but first you should get cleaned up and get something to eat, also you're the first Konoha team and the third team to finish this stage. Only the Suna team and Oto team finished before you."

"If you don't mind my and Naruto will take a shower first," with that she dragged Naruto to the room that they got.

"Things are getting serious between them," she turned gaze from the love birds to her adopted son.

"It should be, but do you think that they are going a little too fast? But can you tell what happened the night when Nier stayed with Naruto?" asked Haku.

"I didn't know anything expect I found her coming out naked from Naruto's room so I guessed what a normal person should guess," said Kushina, "Though I didn't press the matter since it's Naruto and her personal life and until they did some mistake I shouldn't speak."

"Nier clearly has feelings for Naruto, do you think she will be okay once my Otōto, once he leaves for the fire capital?" asked Haku.

"Who is the girl from the forest?" asked Kushina.

"Naruto will explain her later, but Il tell you her name, her name is Taiyō," said Haku.

Kushina chuckled, "Our family is so not normal."

====Later That Night====

"SO Orochimaru is here as a good guy who just wanted good for his village and when he learned he was doing things wrong as he tried to make his wrong right," Kushina basically summed things up, "It was all Danzo who twisted Orochimaru and betrayed him to save his life and he sent his forces to attack you, but Orochimaru warned you and saved you."

"Yes," Naruto confirmed.

"Okay, Nier and Haku can I have some lone time with Naruto?" the two genin did questioned her but they nodded, and they left the Kaa-san and Sochi alone in the room.

"Naruto, I have no problem accepting Taiyō as my Musume (Daughter), I'll be happy to do that but what about you? How do you see her? As a Shisutā (sister) or something else?" asked Kushina.

"I only she her a my Shisutā, Kaa-san, nothing else," said Naruto.

"Then why did you not reclothe her after removing the seal?" Kushina said a little angrily.

Naruto didn't reply for a moment then slowly replied, "Kaa-san, I was very tried, and I guess I really didn't care."

"What was Minato doing?" asked Kushina.

"I told Tou-san to sleep because I wanted to finish the exams by myself without his help," said Naruto, "Even if he is sleeping his training, jutsus, seals already helping me out."

"Okay, anyways, you don't see her as a lover and why is that? Is it because of Nier?" asked Kushina.

"Maybe because I promised her that I'll not betray her feeling and-"

"Your actions nearly did," Kushina completed for Naruto, "Let's see if you did good enjoy and you filled her with enough emotions so she could break the jutsu," Naruto nodded in agreement, "You succeeded to secure the present but what about the future? I finished what I wanted to say now you think by yourself that you will do."

"Kaa-san!" Naruto called her seeing she was going out from the room thinking she is angry and disappointed.

Kushina turned to Naruto and gave him a small smile, "I'm not angry at you, but a very little bit disappointed. I don't want you to become a womanizer, you may remember what the vices are I said."

"Yeah, I remember," said Naruto.

"The I know you find out what you want," Kushina went out from the room to find out her next target, "Nier," Kushina called the teen.

"Yes sensei," she said with smile.

"I didn't come here to say something on behalf of my son but just something I wanted to say," said Kushina.

"Sensei why would I listen something on Naruto? He didn't do anything," said Nier.

"But you are a little upset with it, I can sense it, I'm a Kaa-san," said Kushina.

"I'm a little upset, but only because he cuddled with her, but it was in a brotherly way, it's stupid for me to be upset about it," said Nier.

"It's perfectly normal Nier, you truly are made for Naruto," said Kushina.

"Thank you, sensei, I'm upset, but it is not that bad and I'm sure if Naruto does something like that, he had a reason," said Nier.

"At least you realized it," said Kushina, "Now you should rest, there is still a day before the 2nd phase ends."

On the fourth day Team 9 appeared 3 hours after Team Kushina and Team 8 at late night. Team 10 reached at the fifth day morning with Team 7 which was the last team to complete the stage before timeout. Team Kabuto reached after the time and disqualified though Kabuto knew his job was done in the forest of death to track Team Kushina so they could reach without trouble from Danzo.

"Orochimaru," Danzo said the name with venom before smacking his cane into the ground, "He knew how to control Code 9 even if I made it with cautions. Is Code 9 captured or dead?"

"Orochimaru did gain control over Code 9 using the jinchuuriki against her strength but they couldn't break the puppet jutsu so it destroyed itself," said an RA.

"Another setback, no there's no setback this time, I'll gain control over Konoha and become Hokage this time," said Danzo.

"What is our order sir?" said the RA.

"Activate our sleeper cells," said Danzo.

End of Chapter 19

Author's Note: Hope you enjoyed the chapter! See you in Chapter 20! Please review! Bye!