The Forest of Death
Naruto sat at his desk looking down at the exam. It said a lot for his training that he actually knew how to answer most of the questions but at the same time he knew that there was no way in hell any genin should be able to answer them.
'I see the game here, he wants us to cheat! My guess is they planted people who knew the answers in the room and they want to see how good we are at gathering information' Naruto thought as he scaned the room to find anyone who had already started writing. He spotted one or two people in each section of the room. 'There they are! I don't need to cheat for this. Also the fact that they haven't given the final question is weird, I bet this isn't the real test. This proctor is clever, he is trying to stress the contestants out. All leading up to the final question which will be the real test' Naruto theorized. He grinned a knowing smile a Ibiki before shrugging and starting his test.
'That kid figured it out... I am sure of it. He doesn't look intimidated or worried in the slightest, not to mention I can't see how he is cheating at all. Does he know the answers already?' Ibiki thought as he studied Naruto. 'Hm he looks familiar where have I seen that boy before?' he wondered and decided to look through the team sheets until he found Naruto's entrance sheet.
Needless to say the Torture specialist was shocked to the core once he saw who it was that was sitting several meters in front of him. 'Naruto Uzumaki... you have really changed. I am surprised that I haven't had any extra work interrogating the civilians that attempted to harm him before he was kidnapped from the village. Anko was rather upset when he left, but she has always been a sadistic one' Ibiki thought as he looked at Naruto in wonder.
(Observation Room)
Kakashi and the other jounin sensei with teams in the exams were watching the exams on a large screen while eating popcorn.
"You know I am starting to regret putting my team into these exams, their chances of getting past the first round cant be that great with someone like Ibiki testing them" a tall man with a thin beard said while smoking a cigarette.
"What do you mean Asuma?" a dark wavy haired kunoichi with red eyes asked.
"That's right you wouldn't know, you have only just become a jounin haven't you Kurenai?" Kakashi said. Kurenai nodded in response.
"Ibiki Morino is the head of the Torture and Interrogation branch of the Anbu" Asuma informed kurenai.
"He has been known to be most unyouthful towards anyone he interrogates" the Green glad jounin said.
"Huh you say something Gai?" Kakashi asked.
"Ah damn you Kakashi and your hip attitude!" Guy whined.
"Surely he wont be allowed to harm the genin in the written exam?" Kurenai said shocked.
"That is not Ibiki's style" came a new voice from behind them.
"Jiraiya-sama!" the four shinobi said when they saw who it was that had over heard their conversation.
"Why are you here? If you don't mind my asking" Gai said.
"Well I came to see how my team are doing. Although there isn't much point as they are a sure bet" Jiraiya said confidently.
"Your team? You mean the teamof wandering shinobi are trained by you?" Asuma asked.
"Not exactly, only one of them is, but the other two have been trained personally by top shinobi" Jiraiya said.
"And which youthful student is yours?" Gai asked pointing to the screen.
But it was Kakashi who answered. "The blond one in the third row. Naruto Uzumaki"
"Wait you mean..." Asuma spluttered dropping his cigarette.
"Wait isn't that the boy that the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi into?" Kurenai asked.
"The very same. He is my prized pupil" Jiraiya said proudly.
"Wait if you are the sensei for their team why haven't we seen you in the village? In the last couple of days?" Asuma asked, lighting up a new cigarette to replace the one that fell on the ground.
"I was out of the village looking for Tsunade-Hime. She would want to know about the fact that Naruto was competing in the chunin exams. She would be able to make quite a bit of money off him. Enough to pay off almost all of her debts" Jiraiya said.
"You seem pretty confident, but my team is more than ready to fight anyone they come across in these exams. Because they burn with the brightest fires of youth" Gai said.
"Well then how about a bet? To see which team does the best in the exams?" Kakashi suggested.
"I'm in, I bet every one of my team make it to the finals and win in the first round unless they have to fight each other" Jiraiya said.
"Yosh! I too will nominate all three members of my team to make the final" Gai said.
"Well from the sheer number of competitors I would say there is going to have to be preliminaries so I would say Sasuke will make it and maybe Hinata" Kakashi said.
"Yeah I would say Shikamaru is easily chunin material, I put my money on him" Asuma said.
"And I put my money on Shino from my team" Kurenai added.
"Well that settles that, now lets watch, this should be far less boring now that we all have money riding on it" Kakashi said.
There plan to make the exams more exciting turned out to be a total failure. No matter which way they looked at it, there was no way of making a written exam exciting. The only parts that could even be considered remotely exciting was looking to see how various people were cheating.
Jiraiya was not surprised when fifteen minutes in Naruto turned his page over and began to sleep.
(Exam Room)
It had been about thirty minutes and Naruto was getting bored. Try as he might it just was not possible to fall asleep on a school desk. Weakly opening his eyes to look around Naruto noticed something very weird. A small beetle had crawled onto his desk and over to him.
'Hm this must be how someone is cheating. Jiraiya sensei did say that there was a clan in Konoha that used a special type of insect that live inside their bodies' Naruto thought as he watched the beetle with interest as he scurried over to him.
The insect climbed onto Naruto arm and began exploring while it consumed small amounts of Naruto's chakra.
"Oh I see the person who sent you is interested in me not my answers to the exam" Naruto said to the beetle as it continued consuming Naruto's chakra.
After about a minute the beetle had its fill of chakra and took off to return to the owner and relay its findings. Naruto subtly watched the beetle as it returned to a Konoha genin he could recall was named Shino.
Naruto watched as Shino appeared to talk to the beetle that he sent to investigate Naruto and gave an emotionless nod to what ever was said by the insect before turning his gaze toward Naruto who gave a friendly smile to the insect user. In response Shino simply gave Naruto a nod and turned back to his exam paper.
The rest of the written exam went without incident and it was not long before Ibiki stood up at the front and began telling everyone the rules for the final exam Naruto yawned until he got to the part where Ibiki told them that if they chose to take the final question but got it wrong they would be excluded from taking the chunin exams again which caused Naruto to stifle a laugh and other people to burst out in angry complaints. 'Gotta hand it to this guy! He has sure gotten under a lot of peoples skin easily. They are so tense and rattled that they are not using their brains. If they were calm they would know that the chunin exams are held every six months in a different village. Each village runs its own unique exams. So his threat to stop any team of genin from taking the exams is precisely that, a threat and nothing more. He wants to see if we have the guts to stay and face the final question' Naruto thought while analyzing the body language of the man.
Naruto watched as people around him began to file out of the room one at a time. Unsure of how long this would actually take Naruto leaned back and folded his arms behind his head while he rested his legs on the table giving him a completely relaxed and careless expression.
"You think this is a game huh?" Ibiki said after he noticed Naruto reclining in his chair.
"Not really. But it is a rather amusing little test you came up with" Naruto replied offhandedly causing other genin to look at Naruto as though he was insane for being so relaxed.
"So you are not worried at all about staying a genin for the rest of your life?" Ibiki said trying again to intimidate Naruto.
"Nah, could be fun. Besides why would I fear the final question when I am already taking it" Naruto said shocking the scarred jounin.
'Clever kid, he figured it out. Not only that his relaxed attitude has made other ninja less certain about taking the question. He is attempting to psyche out the opposition whilst he knows he will go through. That is a jounin's level of thinking not a chunin and certainly not a genin' Ibiki thought.
Ibiki waited a bit longer as several more teams left and eventually all the people that reamined seemed sure that they wanted to continue.
"Well looks like that's it for people who want to leave. So now... You all... Pass!" Ibiki said.
Naruto didn't look surprised but most of the others in the room did. "How do we pass? What about the final question?" Temari asked.
"Do you want to stay... That was the final question. All the other questions were nothing but a distraction and to see how good you all were at information gathering. Out in the field miss information can lead to the death of yourself or your comrades. Also collecting the propper information is of no use to anyone if you are discovered in collecting it or you loose the information to someone else" Ibiki said.
Ibiki was about to continue his lecture when a large black ball smashed through the window. When everyone came to their senses about what they were seeing they saw that the large black ball was a shapely kunoichi that was wearing very revealing clothing, a near see through mesh top and a tench coat that just hid her nipples from showing. She also wore a tight miniskirt that sowed off a large portion of her long slender legs. She had shoulder length purple hair that she kept tied up in a spikey ponytail and pupil less brown eyes. In her hand was a large banner that read. 'The Sexy and Single Proctor for the Second Exam. Anko Mitarashi!'
"Anko... you're early... Again" Ibiki said with a sweat drop.
"Oh sorry Ibiki, you can continue your boring lecture if you want" Anko replied.
"There is no point now" Ibiki sighed. And indeed there wasn't looking around the room there was predominantly two expressions. The males who were all ogling anko and trying to look at the areas either just hidden by the trench coat or mini skirt. Then there were the females who were angry at both the males for looking at Anko like she was a piece of meat, and angry at Anko for dressing like that.
"Well then Maggot's! You are with me now. Lets see... … 42! Ibiki you must be loosing your touch" Anko said.
"Maybe, or maybe we just have some very talented genin this year" Ibiki said giving a sideways glance towards Naruto that only Anko and the blond noticed.
"Well then. Looks like I am going to have to thin out there numbers... don't worry when I am done the numbers will be at least cut in half" Anko said confidently.
"Well that is the purpose of the second task" Ibiki sighed under his breath at the antics of his favorite apprentice.
"Alright Maggots! Training ground 44 in thirty minutes or you will be disqualified!" Anko said before jumping back out of the window she shattered leaving behind the large banner.
Naruto shrugged and got out of his seat followed by Akimi and Haku who having experienced the eccentricities of Jiraiya and Zabuza were less shocked by Anko's actions than the others. But soon everyone realized what was going on and they came to their senses.
"So how did you guys cheat?" Naruto asked.
"I used my ice manipulation to make mirrors in front of my eyes that showed me the sheets of various people" Haku admitted.
"I used swift release to quickly look at the pages of the people around me. What did you do?" Akimi replied.
"Nothing, I already knew how to answer most of the questions. And the others just sort of came to me as I looked at them" Naruto said.
"Figures, and here I was hoping for some amazing ninjutsu that allowed you to see what was going on. I was half expecting you to use a shadow clone and have it go fetch you the answers" Akimi said.
"I thought about it. But in the end it wasn't necessary" Naruto admitted.
They were not the first team to arrive at the training ground 44, far from it in fact. Naruto and his team had been so relaxed on there walk they barely even took note of all the other teams that were running past them to make sure that they made it on time for the second task.
Eventually the thirty minutes was up and Anko reappeared with several sticks of dango that she was happily eating.
"Welcome maggots! To my home away from home. Training ground 44, better known as 'The Forest of Death'" Anko said in a threatening tone in an attempt to scare the genin. However she then noticed Naruto, he didn't look scared at all, he looked bored. 'Perfect target to make an example of' Anko thought and she whipped out a kunai and tossed it so it would graze the blonds cheek.
The only problem was her attack failed. Naruto lazily moved his head out of the way as the kunai flew right passed.
Not wanting to be out smarted by a genin Anko continued with he attack this time using a shunshin to appear behind Naruto kunai in hand ready to slit his throat. Her plan once again failed miserably however, and she found her kunai expertly blocked by one of Naruto's own and felt the cold steel of another kunai pressed against an artery in her exposed thigh. 'No way! Not by a genin!' she thought in shock as everyone else began to stare in shock at the scene before them.
"Normally I would just kill someone who attempts to attack me like that. But it would be such a waste" Naruto whispered from where he was standing her breasts still pushed up against his back as she was still struggling to come to terms with the fact she had just been out maneuvered with ease by a genin.
"You're no genin, you move faster than most of the jounin in this village" Anko hissed quietly in his ear, still not moving but returning to her correct state of mind.
"Maybe, or is it that you went easy on me because you underestimated my ability?" Naruto said calmly tapping the flat side of the kunai against her exposed inner thigh.
"And if I wasn't?" Anko replied.
"Then your reputation holds a lot to be desired. Anko Mitarashi, Konoha's Snake Mistress" Naruto stated still completely calm.
While this was going on nobody could here what was being said. To all of the observers it looked like the pair were almost holding each other tenderly, apart from the blade Naruto was effortlessly holding away from his throat. They could not see his own. This was getting Naruto some rather jealous looks from a majority of the male population and some rather disapproving looks from Akimi and several other girls, who had not forgiven Anko for her over the top dress sense.
"As fun as this is, I think you should return to telling the other scared little genin about the second task. Oh and someone wants to return your kunai to you" Naruto said, before removing his kunai from the snake mistresses thigh.
"Oh I bet your blood would taste divine" Anko purred into his ear before licking the side of Naruto's face. This got him, Naruto blushed. All the calmness he had was now gone. "So you are human after all" She said with a seductive smile before backing away.
Looking around Naruto was met with the glares of almost everyone in the exams. All of the guys were now extremely jealous and the girls all thought he was a pervert. In fact the only person who found the situation humorous was Haku.
Anko backed away with a slightly satisfied feeling, she may not have gotten him with either of her attacks but she was able to make him blush and loose his cool easy enough.
"Your kunai, proctor-san. You should watch where you throw it" came a silky voice of a female ninja from Kusa.
'No fucking way! Two genin getting the drop on me in one day, I need some serious training!' Anko thought as she spun around to see who it was that had approached silently and had gotten through all of her senses.
Anko was slightly disturbed by the sight of the ninja, there was really nothing unique about her appearance. She was tall with long black hair. But her super long tongue made the Snake mistress rather uneasy. It held the kunai out to her and placed it in Anko's hand.
"Uh thank you" Anko said still unnerved.
"Don't mention it" the Kusa ninja somehow managed to say as her tongue retreated into her mouth.
'Creepy girl' Anko thought before turning to address the group of waiting genin. "Now in the second task your team will be competing against the others in a simulated real life mission situation. This means that from the moment you enter the forest, anything goes! That is why you will all need to fill out these consent forms" Anko said.
"Uh what are the forms for exactly?" a genin from Iwa asked.
"They are so that Konoha will not be able to be held responsible for your death or injury should any occur" Anko replied as several chunin arrived to hand out the consent forms.
"Looks like this is where the exams really begin" Naruto said.
"You're right but I feel you have shown enough skill to sufficiently frighten most teams from attempting to attack us" Haku said.
"Yeah I wouldn't be so sure" Akimi said darkly.
"Why is that?" Naruto asked.
"Well while you were off flirting with the proctor I noticed the two teams from Kumo. They all recognized me. You know that I have a huge bounty on my head, for my capture and safe return to the village. I believe they will target us in an attempt to capture me" Akimi said in accusatory tone.
"Hey I wasn't flirting with her" Naruto said, but he knew that there was a small amount of flirting going on. "Besides if they target you we will just have to stop them, I wouldn't let those Kumo bastards take you. Otherwise I loose my best friend. It's impossible to joke with Itachi sensei and Jiraiya sensei is always running off to do his research" Naruto said.
"You never know the fact that a couple of teams will be targeting us may prove to be beneficial. After all I am sure that there is more to this exam than we have been told so far" Haku added.
"Yeah you may be right. If I remember correctly these guys are nothing special anyway. Just some middle to low in the pack shinobi from the years above mine when I was in the academy" Akimi said her mood slightly improving.
"Then we shouldn't have anything to worry about" Naruto said calmly.
After everyone had handed their consent forms in Anko began to explain the second task in detail. "Alright, now that's taken care of we can move on. Your goal in this task is fairly simple. You need to get to the tower that is located at the center of the forest. However there is a catch. To do so you will need two objects. A Heaven scroll" she held up her left hand to show the genin what they looked like. "And an Earth scroll" she raised her other hand to let everyone compare the difference between the two scrolls. "Now each team will be given one of these two scrolls that can be hidden by what ever means you deem fit. Your goal is to locate and retrieve the opposite scroll so you have the pair and then make your way to the tower. Now that is said if you open your either of the scrolls before you get to the tower you will be disqualified. Finally you will have five days to complete your task" Anko informed the group.
"Five days! What will we eat!" Choji asked almost desperately.
"The forest is filled with many things that are edible. Although quite a few of those things will also try to eat you as well" Anko chuckled.
Choji paled at the prospect of running out of food and began counting his packets of chips. "Oh no I don't think I have enough!" he whined.
"Okay so, send one person from each team to collect either a Heaven or Earth scroll, alone with a gate number for your starting location" Anko said offhandedly before walking off to where she had a waiting plate of dango.
Haku collected there earth scroll and the group slowly made there way to the gate they were assigned. "I would wish you good luck. But from what I have seen I doubt you will need it" Anko cooed as Naruto passed.
Naruto didn't respond he just gave the snake mistress a playful wink and smile while he walked on. 'Damn I think I am starting to turn into a pervert like Jiraiya sensei... No it was just some harmless flirting. That doesn't make me a pervert. Even if she is almost ten years older than I am' Naruto thought as he walked.
They arrived at their gate which they found much to their disappointment was quite far away from where the team from Oto had been located. "Man looks like finding them in here could be a bit of a problem" Naruto sighed as he had a closer look at the incredibly dense forest.
"Nah we have almost five days to find them" Akimi replied.
"That is unless they finish the task early" Haku theorized.
"That's unlikely. This is the part of the exam where the security will be most lax. If Orochimaru gave them a specific job to do then my guess is now would be the perfect time for them to do it" Naruto said.
"Yeah makes sense to me, a whole forest with no jounin watching. Sounds like a perfect time for them to act" Akimi agreed.
The buzzer rang loud in the air and the gates opened ahead of the the shinobi. They wasted little time entering the and making their way deep into the forest.
It was close to half an hour later before Naruto and the others stopped. "So what's the plan? Do we go straight after the Oto ninja or do we collect some scrolls first?" Akimi asked, she was eager for some action after being stuck in Konoha with only sight seeing and basic training to occupy her time.
"Collecting some scrolls sounds like a good idea. How about we split up and each take out one team before returning here? Oh and try not to kill them if you can help it" Naruto suggested.
Alright time for some fun" Akimi yelled happily.
"This is a good strategy, by collecting more scrolls than are required we will lessen the competition later in the exams. I am in, although I do not share your eagerness to hurt my opponents, Akimi" Haku said.
"Oh relax, I'm not going to kill them. Well unless I have to, in the end coming up against me will probably be far less painful than coming up against someone Naruto or many of the other teams that are in these exams" Akimi joked.
"Alright so collect one scroll each then return here. I will see you guys soon" Naruto said before turning and jumping into the trees.
"Well I'm off. Good luck Haku-chan!" Akimi called and darted away at lightening speed.
(With Naruto)
It only took Naruto about fifteen minutes to locate a team, a group of Kiri ninja. 'Well they must be Yagura loyalists. There is no way the resistance would let their shinobi compete in a silly exam like this while there is a war still going on' Naruto thought as he watched the Kiri ninja from a distance set up a perimeter.
Naruto waited until they had finished scouting and started to relax before he easily slipped passed the perimeters traps and landed right in the center of the three Kiri ninja. "Hello, I would like you to hand over your scroll thanks" Naruto said with a smile and a friendly attitude.
"Like hell we would just give you our scroll!" the boy who seemed to be the leader of the group yelled.
"Oh well, looks like we have to do this the hard way then... … Shinra Tensei!" Naruto said quietly and a massive force of gravity flew forward sending the three Kiri ninja flying.
The flew back crashing through several branches before eventually coming to a stop unfortunately right on top of one of their traps. A large rope bound all three of their legs and hoisted the three ninja into the air.
They quickly went for kunai to cut the ropes in order to free themselves but no sooner had they drawn a blade than they were disarmed completely.
Naruto then appeared sitting cross legged on the branch holding the three ninja up. "Now do you see how pointless it was to attempt to fight me? I watched you set up your base and knew where every one of your traps were! Some of them were very well hidden and made by the way" Naruto said congratulating the trap builder.
"Fuck you kid!" a light blue haired kunoichi with shark like teeth yelled.
"Sorry your not my type, I would be two scared that you might bite down" Naruto joked before flipping off his seat and landing on the ground so his eyes were at the same height as their suspended faces. "Nice, you used chakra suppressing rope to prevent anyone from using a substitution to escape. But now that means you can't get out.. so tell me where your scroll is or I will be forced to kill one of you" Naruto said.
"Gah fine! It's in my ninja pouch that you removed after we were trapped" the boy who seemed to be the groups leader said.
"Now that wasn't so hard was it" Naruto said and he created a clone to check the pouch just in case it was booby trapped. It wasn't and Naruto had found the scroll he needed. "Well thanks for the help, see you guys around" Naruto said and he turned to leave after giving them a friendly wave goodbye.
"Hey wait! Aren't you going to cut us down?" the kunoichi asked.
"No. why would I want to do that? You could attack me. Besides with teeth like that I am sure you can bite your way through your ropes in no time" Naruto replied before jumping away perfectly between two hidden traps.
(With Akimi)
It had taken the dark haired former Kumo ninja awhile longer than Naruto to find her target but when she did she was pleased with what she had found. Three rather slow looking Iwa genin. 'Perfect, I can simply just attack them quickly and be back without any fuss' she thought as she quickly over took the team that was heading deeper into the forest.
"Hey there. Hand over your scroll and you don't need to get hurt" Akimi said in an authoritative tone.
"Heh and what could a little helpless kunoichi all alone do to us?" a large and think headed ninja wearing the traditional Iwa uniform said. He had shaved his head bald and that just made him look even more like a rather hopeless excuse for a ninja.
"Well I guess I could do... this!" Akimi said and in the blink of an eye she had disappeared and reappeared with her fist buried deep into the face of the balled genin. Again she vanished only to appear this time behind a short ninja with a bowl haircut not too far from a copy of Rock Lee's. Unlike Lee however he was not lean and built for fast movements. He was shaped more like an over grown beach ball and it was a quite comical sight when Akimi kicked him away and he almost seemed to bounce.
"Wha... What the hell are you?" the final member of the group said.
"I'm bored" Akimi replied before delivering a winding blow to the final genin's gut. "Now hand over the scroll or this will become painful" she said holding out her hand expectingly.
"Okay, here take it" he said handing over the scroll as the last of his consciousness faded.
"Well that was easy. Then again they are just genin" Akimi sighed before jumping off to return to the meeting location.
(With Haku)
The Ise users style was a little different from that of Naruto and Akimi. Rather than simply confront her targets head on she stalked them like the hunter ninja she used to pretend to be. And thanks to her practice with senbon once the group of ninja she was following had stopped she expertly sent senbon needles into key locations in their bodies completely paralyzing the ninja.
"I am sorry I had to do that. Now tell me where your scroll is. That is if you can still talk. I should have left you with that ability" Haku said appearing out from the shadows.
"What the hell have you done to us?" the ninja said as he struggled and failed to move.
"I have paralyzed you from the neck down. I suggest you tell me where the scroll is and I wont make it permanent" Haku said in a stoic expressionless tone.
"Man we don't have a choice, either way we are going to loose it to her. May as well just give it up and try to locate some more later" another member of the team said.
"Your teammate is smart, if you hand over your scroll you will still have four more days to find another one" Haku said.
"Alright fine! The scroll is in my back pack" The first ninja to speak said.
"Very good, I hope for your sake you are tell the truth, if those senbon needles are not removed within fifteen minutes the effects are permanent" Haku said.
After retrieving the scroll she removed all of the senbon from the three ninja that were her target.
Haku was the last to arrive back at the meeting point, mostly due to her more secretive style of attack to the direct approaches that Naruto and Akimi liked to employ.
"So now what?" Akimi asked once Haku had handed over the scroll that they put together with the others they collected.
"Well it is getting late so I suggest we make camp for the night and begin out search for the Oto ninja in the morning" Haku suggested.
"Good idea, we will take it in three hour shifts to keep guard over night" Naruto said.
They built a rather comfortable camp for themselves with a large fire and well spread out tents. They were not overly worried about a possible ambush as they knew that any one of them could handle a squad of genin.
The next morning they went off on a search for the Oto ninja. Naruto had summoned several birds to scout the area while they moved towards the center of the forest.
It was late in the day that Naruto received word that they had found them.
"One of my summons found them, not that far from here actually. They are currently fighting with a group of Konoha ninja" Naruto said.
"Well then what are we waiting for lets get going!" Akimi said eagerly.
Naruto didn't reply and just took off in the direction of the team from the sound. They landed on a large branch overlooking a clearing. In that clearing the green clad ninja that had so effectively wiped the floor with Sasuke was looking in a bad way. Next to him Naruto recognized Shikamaru, Ino and Sakura.
"What should we do?" Akimi whispered.
"Strike now while they are not looking?" Haku suggested.
"We could, but I would rather have some fun with them" Naruto said.
Down on the forest floor things were not looking good for the group of Konoha ninja.
"Zaku finish them off" the mummy faced member of the Oto team ordered.
"With pleasure Dosu" the spiky haired Zaku replied.
"As interesting as all this is. I am afraid I will not be letting that happen" came Naruto's voice from high in the trees before he landed at the far end of the clearing.
"Your that freak that basically let that proctor lady have her way with you" the kunoichi of the group said.
"Shut it! That isn't what happened" Akimi said landing beside Naruto followed by Haku.
"Well what ever, so you have come to suffer with these Konoha fools have you?" Dosu asked.
"Oh not exactly, more like came to interrogate you about your leader, Orochimaru" Naruto replied.
"Interrogate us? don't make me laugh. You wont be able to even come close to harming us" Zaku said.
Akimi broke out laughing at this. "Okay Naruto, I think I will let you do this by yourself. It will be hilarious to see the looks on their faces when you destroy them" she said in between fits of laughter.
Naruto casually walked forward while the three Oto ninja readied their attack. The Konoha ninja in the clearing just couldn't believe there eyes that someone who was not even a Konoha shinobi had come to their rescue.
Suddenly there was a massive spike in chakra that got even Naruto's attention. 'What foul chakra. No where near as potent as Kyuubi's but still this is disgusting' Naruto thought as the looked at the hole at the base of a tree where the chakra was coming from and Sasuke rose up his face now marked in a pattern of small flames.
Sasuke stood up and enjoyed the feeling of power serge through his body. 'Yes! With this power I can finally kill Itachi!' the raven haired Uchiha thought. Then he noticed Sakura and the others were hurt.
"Sakura who did this to you?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura pointed at the team from Oto and Sasuke took off. Faster than any of the Konoha or Oto ninja could follow, even Haku had a difficult time following his movements. The same could not be said for Naruto and Akimi.
Naruto allowed Sasuke the first strike just to see what kind of power this chakra could cause but when Sasuke went for a follow up he found his arm being held. "You!" Sasuke roared and violently lashed out at Naruto causing the blond to back flip away.
"What ever this chakra is it is not natural and we need to shut it off" Naruto said.
"Tell me where my brother is... Now!" Sasuke yelled and charged forward.
The Konoha ninja that were shocked by Sasuke's speed and strength before were now stunned into complete silence. Naruto had caught Sasuke's fist with ease and tossed him away like a rag doll.
"You cannot fight me while you are in that mental state. Your moves are predictable and easy to follow" Naruto said lazily.
During this encounter the team from Oto were trying to escape. However Akimi had other ideas and along with Haku rounded them up to make sure they didn't go anywhere.
"I will not be talked to like I am some child!" Sasuke roared and charged again.
This time Sasuke didn't even get close to Naruto as without even moving Naruto sent Sasuke flying back with a burst of gravity. "There is no talking to you like this. I need to put you out so that vile chakra will retreat" Naruto said and in one movement flew across the clearing and slammed his fist into Sasuke's gut.
The unique chakra receded into a small mark of three tomoe on Sasuke's neck and Naruto turned to face the team from Oto. "Now I am no longer in the mood for games. Tell me where Orochimaru is and what he is planning" Naruto said his face was now deadly serious.
"We cant tell you anything. Orochimaru would kill us" the kunoichi said.
"Well then we will just have to play a game called cooperate or loose a soul" Naruto said. It was like he had transformed, gone was the care free teen who was joking just moments ago with his friends. This was a fully serious ninja who would get the answers he seeks one way or another.
"What's going on?" Haku asked Akimi slightly scared.
"Naruto has stopped playing around. What ever that chakra was that boy was using it was not his own and Naruto must think Orochimaru is responsible for it. When someone is being harmed Naruto is like a completely different person. Completely serious and incredibly deadly" Akimi informed Haku.
"Now I am going to ask you once more. What are Orochimaru's plans?" Naruto said approaching the spiky haired Zaku.
"Fuck you!" Zaku yelled and thrust a palf forward and wind shot out of his palms. The Fuuton just seemed to hit an invisible wall around Naruto and deflect away from the blond however who proceeded to grip the genin's hand and crush it with his own strength.
Zaku screamed in agony while the others just watched in horror as Naruto placed his free hand on top of Zaku's head. "Human Path!" Naruto said his eyes rippling with energy.
The following scene would shock all of the ninja present other than Akimi to their very core. Naruto removed his hand from Zaku's head and he let out a silent scream as his voice left him. Attached to Naruto's hand was the transparent form of a soul that had been removed from its body screaming in agony.
Sakura couldn't watch any more and turned her head away not wanting to believe what she had just seen. While the others couldn't look away.
"Well it turns out he knew nothing... what about you. What is that mark on Sasuke's neck! And what is Orochimaru planing" Naruto asked the kunoichi who looked at Naruto like he was the incarnation of the shinigami come to take her before her time.
"I don't know" she cried. "Dosu was out leader he knows everything. Orochimaru gave him the mission we were just his back up"
"I see" Naruto said and turned to Dosu who did not seem anyway near as intimidated. "I'm not telling you shit, you freak!" the mummified genin spat.
""Very well then I will extract the knowledge from you and judge your soul at the same time" Naruto said. And he created two clones to rush forward and hold Dosu down while Naruto placed his hand on the Oto genin's head.
Once more Naruto removed the soul from the genin's body. Without only the slightest hint of remorse in his eyes.
"I have the information we need. Sasuke should be okay there is no permanent physical damage done to him. We should go" Naruto said there was now a small amount of sadness in his voice. He then turned to address the Konoha shinobi. "I am sorry you had to see that, it is not something that I enjoy doing. But those two both enjoyed the pain and suffering of others and if allowed to live would only bring more pain into the world. Akimi... Haku... We're leaving to the tower, let's go" Naruto said sadly and he turned in the direction of the large tower in the center of the forest and kicked off.
While this was going on the kunoichi member of team Dosu was still shaking from what she had just witnessed and decided that now would be the perfect time to flee.
End Chapter!