Capítulo 125: Chapter 10: Stage 2: Forest of Death Part 1: Arrival of the Snake
Note: 2 left for called out for which ships to revived or updated new ship. So be sure to which your idea for any class ship for make of how armoured is, and even how massive and faster the ship is. But be sure you have the right idea, and even those ship you making you idea will be the Assassins' Fleet.
(Story Starts)
==At training 44 5 min. before the exam starts==
Everyone was standing outside of the fence that surrounded training field 44, also known as the "Forest of Death". Now Naruko arrived is about until about 4 minutes and 40 or less seconds left until her rest of the team arrived, but...until a large shadow appeared, which made everyone looked up in the sky, that surprises everyone seeing a ship in the air, but many shinobis from the different village, includes Konoha-nins knew that ship was. Includes the Suna-nin minus Gaara was admitted about the ship's design, also Kumo and Iwa was did see it.
That ship is look like from Sora no Kuni, and a certain kusa kunoichi had seen it with interests. And Iwa and Kumo will informed their respective kages about Konoha's had their new developments.
As they saw someone throw a rope ladder on the ground, before weigh anchor, as saw a group of people jumped down with ropes tied into a spike pole on their hands; but only two of them, then they are landed on the ground with sky dive, which made the participators had recognized that uniform and robes like the rest.
Until Anko stepped in approaches Naruto and comment. "Nice entrance, gaki."
"Thanks, neechan." Naruto replied. "I told them the details for the second-stage of the exams like you told me."
"Yeah, well...better get everything set until the exams starts." Anko stated with a smirk admitted.
"Is that your friends?" She asked, seeing his apprentices pull the ship down. While Issei and Haru hammer the pole to secured; they using their weapons of choice to hammered the poles.
"Yup. I had my crew to fold the sails and anchored docked to secured everything." Naruto stated. "And this time, you will be board the Morrigan."
"I would love to." Anko appreciated.
"Just talk to Mutsu, over there." Naruto pointed at the dark skin man with a assassin robes that tighten the rope on the tree, with the team of Kumo nin had their attention seeing a familiar man before. "I will informed him to be sure."
"I'll do that, otouto." Anko replied, as she went back to the stall until the rest arrived.
Until the rookies came in several of them will met Naruto's apprentices along with Team Gai, with the ship they saw, it was marvelous ship that Naruto got himself to. With Ino spoke seeing the Morrigan. "Naruto-kun, is that your ship?"
"Yup, Morrigan will be prepared for anything." Naruto stated.
"Wait, is your ship named Morrigan?" Ino asked.
"Yup, named after the goddess, and also meaning the Phantom Queen." Naruto replied.
"No way, named after a goddess, seriously, never thought you got yourself a ship that can fly. I wish a ship like that, if I gave a name for her for myself, something beautiful." Ino said disbelief.
"Don't worry, it will do just fine when I will construct a ship..." Naruto said, before a grin on his face and make a joke. "If I had my workers to gave you a 'boar' figurehead for your ship bow."
"Not funny." Ino scold about having boar figurehead, since her name is 'Ino' translate to 'boar'. (AN: I will gave Ino a Schooner like Stede Bonnet, if it will be funny to see Ino got herself a 'ship'. But its very soon.)
Naruto chuckled, as he looked at Sakura and the recruits having conversation with the other rookies, after talking to Ino, until Lee wants Miya to become his girlfriend, but she decline for being weird.
As for his other Assassin apprentices had their own attire they had select for each of them;
Natsu is wearing like Connor, but dyed with colors; he dressed in a hooded white uniform jacket with red lining, as well as a thin red sash fastened with an Assassin insignia, and brown boots with leggings that extended past his knee, he was equipped with a Bow and Arrows, two indian flintlock pistols), blowpipe on his back besides the quivers of arrows, and a hanger sword (from AC: 3; Liberation and Rogue).
Next is Haru is wearing the same as Natsu; the color is blue with black lining, he was equipped with a Tomahawk with a blade shaped like the Assassins and a dirk knife, air rifle on his back besides the claymore. And also carries Spanish flintlock pistols.
And lastly is Issei; Now he is wearing a uniform that looks like Duncan Walpole's Assassin uniform, instead blue. The outfit is completely red and white; an Officer's Outfit. He had two additional holsters on his chest that place two flintlock pistols and other two is on his sides. He had a one-handed hammer (like Ezio's did wielded a hammer), was the 'Condottiero War Hammer', a Guillotine Gun strapped on his back and besides the blowpipe.
Which made TenTen into a fan-girl mode for weapons, if she wants to see it with stars on her eyes for if wants of those. After all, if Naruto had her to be on his Order, things will quite if he will to do so.
"Well...I will talk to Anko-neechan to taken the Morrigan to the tower with Mutsu, while I'll had him will take the wheel to set sail to the tower with some ANBU guards with her, but...she will not turn back against her battle."
"Wait, who's 'she'?" Ino wondered.
"I meant Morrigan." Naruto answered pointed at his Ship.
Ino protested. "But Naruto-kun, its just only a ship, not a-eep!"
That flinch from the platinum blond, seeing a hannya mask appeared beside Naruto with a smile and he said. "Ino...don't deny that comment or gossip about Morrigan is just a ship. She is a pride and also a gift of my father. And also this ship is legend too."
That cause more terrifying of Ino when many genin participators, once again, with a few steps back away from the horrified mask. with Anko smirked seeing her little brother's work, along with some chunin seeing Naruto's hannya mask was creepy. Some of them had wondered who taught that as well.
"Right, oops, sorry." Ino replied nervously, then with aura disappeared, but again, everyone was sighed relief.
"Good, so for now, you better head back to your team, until the next stage starts." Naruto stated, getting a nod from Ino and heading back to her team. As he looked around, and activate his eagle vision, now there several orange auras like Kabuto said, then Kusa's has light green, there's green is Suna, then Kiri is dark-blue, Ame is dark gray, Kumo's light yellow and lastly Iwa's brown. But...there is there is something strange three people that he knew they are Kusa, but their auras were purple like the Oto.
'That's strange? So why is their auras were purple? But I thought they are from Kusa.' Naruto thought with suspicious. 'Unless...'
Until with his thought were cut off, then as seeing TenTen want to know where can she find one? So they replied that were be given by Naruto. Then the weapons' mistress ran quicker like Gai, as she is on front of Naruto then grab his coat and shaken him like crazy. "Naruto! Where I can get those weapons!?"
"Uh...what?"
"Don't WHAT me! I want to know where did you got those weapons you friends over there!?" TenTen exclaimed. As Naruto was about to say to TenTen about those arsenals.
Until Anko cut Naruto and TenTen's stated. by called to everyone to prepared to exam. "Alright if you're done chatting up here!" And as they look up towards the snake mistress.
"Now then..." Anko started to announced. "This is the arena for the second exam: training field 44. Also known as…the Forest of Death!"
"It looks like a pretty creepy place." Ino said.
"You're about to find out firsthand…why they call this the "Forest of Death"!" Anko said.
"Why is it called the forest of Death?" Naruko asked.
"Don't worry, you'll find out soon enough. Now, before we begin the second exam, there's something I have to hand out." Anko said as she held up a bunch of paper forms "Their consent forms. Everybody has to sign one."
"Why?" Naruko asked.
"We want all the details covered before the first deaths occur." Anko said.
Naruto crossed his arms and sighed, and the proctor picked up on his attitude.
"Well played, neechan, just don't try and-"
The woman quickly slid a kunai from her sleeve to her hand and threw it at Naruto who, faster than anyone could see, caught it and continued talking. "-scare us before we've seen the arena for ourselves."
Anko smirked, his reflexes were top notch to catch the attack and not to mention how he did it without so much as a flinch. There were the series of 'wow's and 'How did he do that?'s among those gathered while others were not as impressed.
Gaara as expected continued to watch him with the same blank stare, but inside his blood was rushing in excitement. He wanted so bad to fight him, watch the assassin squirm in his sand as she crushed him slowly. 'Soon..I will have you in my Coffin.'
The Oto nin watched carefully, knowing that to complete their mission they would have to go through the assassin. His skill was impressive, so much to the point that it was obvious even to the tactical one of the bunch, Dosu, that they would have trouble. They couldn't fail though or their punishment would be death, better to be at the hand of a quick assassin rather than their master.
The silent Kusa shinobi hid their excitement beneath their straw hats. It would be quite an entertaining fight should they run into the one in the white robes.
'This will be...interesting.' Their leader thought, licking her lips. And she was interesting Naruto's ship about its potential.
The proctor made to move and disappeared in a blur, appearing behind Naruto. One hand rested on his shoulder while the other one wandered a bit over his chest, her face going from joking to perverted in only a moment.
She leaned forward, pressing herself against his back, and brought a kunai up to his neck and said, "You know, this place is only for strong ninja, you sure you don't need your big sis to come with you?"
Naruto sighed annoyance and mumbled, "Anko-neechannn~, stop it. This really isn't the time."
Anko chuckled and pulled slightly closer, getting the desired effect in the deepening of his small flush, she then said, "Come on, I'm sure you'll have fun."
Naruto had his eyes rolled away from Anko's face. Until Anko notice he whispered something, as he repeated that thanks to Naruto's teachings, she manage to understand what he had said, he said: 'We had Code S.'
That made Anko flinch that she know what he meant. As she whispered 'Are you serious?' Then he replied with a sighed, acted like it was yes.
"You better get the test started, many of the genins were impatient." Naruto 'sighed'.
"Hmm, you no fun." Anko pout, as she walked back around to her previous spot and said, "Alright kids, listen up! These are the rules for the exams."
The test this time was first-and-foremost a survival test (with Shikamaru a usual 'troublesome' about survival test), each team was given either a heaven or an earth scroll and they would have to forcibly take the opposite scroll from one of the other teams and bring both scrolls to the tower at the forest's center without checking their contents and they had to do it within five days.
Then Ino was complained about how long to survived, and Chouji complains about where can he can find food to eat; with Naruto shouted to anyone that is 'You're on your own?! You guys better learned to survived and find food for yourselves', so there you have it. With Anko agreed with Naruto about test's statement for survival.
Not to mention that they also had to get past all of the giant carnivorous animals that lived throughout the forest.
"One final piece of advice…stay alive!" Anko said after the explanation and all of the different applicants went on to signing the forms. With Naruto's Assassins will not be entering due that they're still a lot to learned, so Anko appreciated to have them as their eyes and ears for at least. After Anko will talk the girls while the boys will in the Morrigan.
"It's almost time to distribute the scrolls." A Chunin called out from the hut before pulling up a curtain.
'Smart! To keep us in the dark, they're concealing which type of scroll each team gets… and which member is carrying it! It's just like Ibiki-san said…stealing intelligence is a matter of life and death! Everyone is an enemy! And we're probably all equally determined. If we're all willing to fight to the death, this could become a massacre.' Naruto thought as he looked down on his consent form.
The genin soon dispersed and gave their last thoughts about whether to go through with the test or not. With the new information given to them by the proctor, it was most definitely more difficult than they would have imagined. Even then, most had already made up their minds that they would go through with it.
"Sakura, are you going to go through with this?" The pink haired girl looked to see Ino and her team come over and see her.
Naruto, who was sitting on a nearby dirt mound, chose to ignore them and let Sakura deal with her old friends. Sasuke was scoping out the other teams and wasn't even paying any attention the new arrivals. While each team obtained the scroll after signing their waiver.
"Of course I am Ino, I won't let my team down." Sakura determent.
The blonde put her hands on her hips and smirked. "You weren't too impressive back in the academy Sakura, I doubt you can handle the pressure. If I will Naruto-kun from you."
Sakura glared at her friend and Ino's taunting was rebuffed. "If you try, but I'm not the same girl I was back in the academy Ino...I think that much is pretty clear."
Her friend took a few steps back. "Yeah...I guess it is."
"Satsuki, Sakura, Naruko, let's get our scroll." Naruto got up and started making his way over to the hut with his team-mates close behind, pushing past Ino's squad.
Team seven was ready to begin the Second Exam.
'Heh heh…it's finally starting to sink in…why we want those consent forms!' Anko thought before yelling. "All right, everyone, follow your proctors to your respective gates! When the signal sounds in half an hour, the exam will begin!"
Once each team had received their scroll, the different teams were then brought to different gates around the forest. Now each of the Rookies gave luck to Team 7 and each other with mentally. Simultaneously, they would be released into the Forest of Death and would most likely come into contact soon after entering. Some of the more apprehensive teams tried to find entrances where they could not see other, stronger groups nearby.
Others like Suna just chose the closest one, unconcerned.
==Forest of Death, gate 16==
At gate 16 were team 8 waiting for the exam to begin. Kiba is excited, Hinata felt confident and less nervous ans Shino remain calm...well that's Shino for you.
"Woohoo! If it's survival skills they want, we've got it made! Don't go soft on us, Hinata!" Kiba said and Hinata nervously looked down on the ground.
"Hai, Kiba-kun." Hinata agreed. "As soon as we will passed the next stage."
"Yeah, but..." Kiba said before gazed at Naruto's Morrigan and also the wolf figurehead. "Since when Naruto got himself a ship, and even the wolf on that ship. And even those hottie chicks that Naruto had got himself to." With his thoughts about meeting two female apprentices of Naruto, and even the rest of his companions.
"It better for we will prepared for anything in this exam." Shino comment.
"You got that Shino." Kiba agreed, along with Hinata.
==Forest of Death, gate 27==
At gate 27 where team 10. Ino had everything is set, next Chouji had set his own food on his pouch after all, and even Naruto's delicious donuts and other snacks. Since Ino tried out its marvelous delicious, during he hanged out with him. And lastly Shikamaru did tried it out as well.
"A fight to the death? What a drag, but if it's the only way…" Shikamaru said.
==Forest of Death, gate 12==
At gate 12 where team 7. Now Naruto, Sakura and Satsuki prepared to begin, now they had hear their hoods on, with Naruto extended his hidden blades, then he slide them back its place, then Sakura punch her fist on her palm, Satsuki twirl her chain dart and Naruko pump her fist up.
"Yeah! Yeah! We can't lose, I tell ya! Anyone comes near us, I'll kill 'em myself!" Naruko said.
'Oh, please!' Sakura thought.
"Remember everyone. called out by code." Naruto informed, getting a nod respond by Sakura and Satsuki, and a confusing Naruko.
"What code?" The red haired asked.
"We'll tell you when we entered the forest." Satsuki replied.
==Forest of Death, gate 20==
At gate 20 were the three Oto-nins. Now they are prepared to followed their leader's orders.
'Heh heh…the time has finally come…to carry out our orders in the open.' The one that was obviously the leader of the three thought.
==Forest of Death, gate 38==
At gate 38 were Kabuto and his teammates waiting.
==Forest of Death, gate 35==
At gate 35 were Kumo Team were standing by. with Yugito had wondered about her bijuu companion about Naruto's chakra, and Omoi was still complained about knowing, with Karui bashed him for being lazy.
"Alright, this time, we will get things started." Yugito declared, getting a nod from her teammates.
==Forest of Death gate 27==
At gate 27, with the Iwa team do the same like everyone else. Kurotsuchi will encountered the Hokage's son, then fight or kill him. But be sure that everything prepared.
"Alright, lets go and find the Hokage's brats." Kurotsuchi declared.
With her teammates nod agreed.
==Forest of Death, gate 06==
At gate 6 where Gaara's team. Gaara is standing in the front gate with his arms crossed, then Temari and Kankurou were standing besides him.
'I've got to look out for enemy teams…but five days in the forest with that creepy Gaara…argh!' Kankuro thought.
==Forest of Death, gate 15==
At gate 15 where three Kusa-nins.
"Target the rookies first." One of them said.
"It looks like we've got carte blanche to pick them off from here on in which should make our job a lot easier." Another one said.
==Forest of Death, gate 41==
At gate 41 where last year's rookie team 3. Now Team 3 were prepared for everything when TenTen was still complained about Naruto having those arsenals from his apprentices. Its when Anko cut their conversation until its already starting.
'Gai-sensei, I will do my best!' Lee thought. "Yosh!"
TenTen sighed again for she will talk to Naruto later after the second exams, for at least she can't die without those arsenals.
"Don't worry, tenten." Neji said to his teammate, before he knew she want some weapons from Naruto. "I'm sure we'll going to the tower when you going to talk to Naruto after this."
"Yes, maybe your right." TenTen replied. "But I was about to do the same."
Neji nod for understand. "That's the spirit. Now lets get this test started."
==Forest of Death, with Anko==
With Anko informed by the Chunins for they on the entrance. As jumped aboard of the Morrigan, then heading to the pole of bow of the ship. As with Anko glance at one of Naruto's crew with nod, then he went to the mortal cannon, and insert a flare shell.
"Part two of the Chunin exam begins…NOW!" Anko yelled, now its their cue, then the crew member heard her call, then mortar fires then shots a flare in the air that's the signal and the gates opened.
==Forest of Death, gate 15==
The three Kusa-nins burst through the open gate, having already decided on what team to attack.
"Those four, right?" One of them asked.
"Go for the brats!" Another one said.
==Forest of Death, gate 12==
"All right! Let's move out!" Naruto yelled as he ran then with his teammates followed behind him through the gate.
==Forest of Death, team 08==
Three shinobi in black body-suits were jumping through the trees until they heard something and they stopped to look down on team 8 that was standing on the ground below them.
"The tower's where everyone is ultimately going… so we might as well set up traps as close to there as possible." Kiba said before Akamaru picked up the scent of the three ninja that were hiding above them "Found them already, huh? Where are they?"
"Stupid kids…they might as well be shouting, "capture us"! From the sound of things, they know we're somewhere nearby, but they haven't figured out where yet." One of the unknown ninja said before he suddenly felt something on his neck.
"What's wrong? You're as white as a sheet." One of his partners said before noticing a leech that was on the guy's neck and all three looked up to see several other leeches, coming down. The three of them tried to force the leeches off them, but to no avail and they fell down to the ground.
"The flying leeches of Konoha village can sense perspiration and body heat and fling themselves en masses! If you can't get them off your body within five minutes, you're finished. And if you panic trying to get away from them… well…one team down!" Kiba said as one of the three enemy ninja triggered a booby-trap that had been set up by team 8 earlier and the three was trapped in a net, hanging from a tree together with the flying leeches.
==Forest of Death, team 10==
The Ino-Shika-Cho team heard the scream before when they briefing to find a team to get the scroll.
"So, you want us to find Team 7 and work together?" Choji asked as he ate some of his potato chips.
"That's right. We've got a better chance of surviving this place if we have them on our side." Ino said with a smirk.
"And by 'them', you mean Naruto." Shikamaru said with his usual dull look.
"He's a powerful guy, what can I say." Ino said folding her arms with a smirk still on her face.
"Troublesome woman." Shikamaru muttered.
"What Was That?!" Ino yelled with a pissed off look on her facewith her tessen ready.
"Nothing, let's just go find your boyfriend." Shikamaru said.
"He's not my boyfriend…yet." Ino said smirking again. 'And also I won't lose to Sakura, for sure.'
==Forest of Death, team 07 - earlier==
"Did you guys hear someone scream?" Sakura asked as they heard the screams of team 8's victims "This place is creeping me out!"
"I think that scream, meant that its started." Naruto replied with determent.
Naruto stopped his squad in a clearing and took out their Heaven scroll. He had been hanging onto it since they received it, but felt it was better he did not keep it himself. "Sakura, here."
Sakura was shocked he chose her to hold their scroll and started to disagree. "Naruto, I don't think that's such a good idea..."
Naruto just shook his head and took her hand, pressing the scroll into her grasp. "I know you will take care of it, keep it safe."
She didn't understand why he wanted her to hold it but did not go against his order, placing it in her waist pouch.
"I understand Naruto..."
He nodded and took a look around them, it was a little too open for his tastes.
"We should probably get everything ready-" Naruto is about say about to prepared for anything to find a earth scroll and it seemed they were in luck, until a familiar voice call them.
"Well, would you look at that? The two children of Namikaze!" The three turned to see the three Iwa-nins.
"Iwa-nins." Naruko felt nervous that they encountered them, due her father massacre many of Iwa-nins during the 3rd shinobi war, when Iwagakure held deeply grudge her father.
"And you are…?" Naruto asked.
"Meet Kurotsuchi-san, granddaughter of Tsuchikage-sama!" Kurotsuchi's blond teammate said.
"And these are my teammates, Akatsuchi and Bakutsuchi!" Kurotsuchi said, gesturing to her two teammates respectively.
"Well, I'm Naruto Altair Cormac, but you know me as the Dark Templar and these are my teammates, Sakura Haruno, Satsuki Uchiha and Naruko Namikaze!" Naruto said.
"We know who you are Namikaze, and we're gonna prove once and for all that Iwa is – and always will be – stronger than you Konoha tree-huggers!" Kurotsuchi said.
Naruto frowned and asked his teammates. "Hey guys, what do you say? I'll take the girl and you get one of the others, while Sakura-chan and Naruko takes the last one?"
"Sure, but are you sure that you can handle her, niisan?" Satsuki asked.
"We'll see!" Naruto said.
"Hey, who said that you could decide who fights who without us?" Kurotsuchi yelled.
"Just play along with them for now Kurotsuchi-san, I'll take the Namikaze boy and make sure that it'd be enough of him for you afterwards!" Bakutsuchi said.
"No, you'll take the girl and the Hokage's daugher and Akatsuchi'll take on Uchiha!" Kurotsuchi said.
"What? But I wa…" Bakutsuchi started, but Kurotsuchi quickly cut him off.
"You haven't unlocked your Kekkei Genkai yet, remember? You won't stand a chance against Uchiha right now!" Kurotsuchi said.
"Fine." Bakutsuchi said. "Lets hope I can fight against the Namikaze's daughter."
As Naruto shift his language into English and said. "Ready guys, we'll as me and Sakura trained you Satsuki." That made Naruko and Iwa-nin confused about strange language.
"Sure, brother." Satsuki replied with same language, that made Naruko shocked for Satsuki did speck the same language.
"Will do, love." Sakure replied.
"Hey? What are they saying?" Akatsuchi wondered.
"Alright, Sakura-chan, Naruko, you'll take the one to the right, and Sasuke, you'll take the one to the left! Let's go!" Naruto said and they charged at their respective targets, before drawn his sword and dagger, with Sakura and Naruko drawn their swords and Satsuki create several hand seals.
"Oh, they're kenjutsu users." Kurotsuchi comment.
Bakutsuchi got out a kunai and threw it at Sakura and Naruko, but she easily dodged it however, the explosive tag wrapped to the kunai caught fire and as the kunai blew up and when the smoke cleared there was only the remains of a logs lying there.
'Kawarimi…!' Bakutsuchi thought before he sensed something approaching him and he ducked just in time to avoid three shurikens that had been thrown at him. Until he notice something strange about those shuriken's shapes. Until seeing Naruko in the air with sword before her head before he drawn two kunais and block the strike.
"Katon: Goukakyo no jutsu. (Fire release: Great Fireball Technique)" Satsuki called out the name of his attack and a large fire ball was shot towards Akatsuchi.
"Doton: Doryuheki. (Earth Release: Mud Wall)" Akatsuchi said and a wall of earth suddenly rose up from the ground and blocked the fire ball.
Satsuki then got out a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it and threw it at the earth wall, so that it was destroyed when the kunai blew up, but then came a large rock – that seemed to have arms and even a head – and it moved in to punch Satsuki.
"Futon: Kamikaze no jutsu. (Wind Release: Divine Wind)" Naruto said and he blew a powerful gust of wind at the Iwa kunoichi.
"Katon: Ryuka no jutsu. (Fire Release: Dragon Fire)" Kurotsuchi then fired a dragon made out of fire at Naruto and it was greatly strengthened by Naruto's Kamikaze.
"Suiton: Suiryudan no jutsu. (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet)" A water dragon then came out of a nearby pool and when straight through the wind-strengthened fire and hit Kurotsuchi. While holding his sword and dagger.
==Forest of Death, team 8 and team Fu==
Fu looked down on the three members of team 8 that were oblivious to her presence, which most people would consider strange considering that Shino's insects would react immediately on Fu's presence and Genjutsu don't work on bugs. But this case is different; Takimaru's clan uses Genjutsu that is strong enough to even fool one-celled organisms, and the best part is that only they can use it due to their Dojutsu.
Kiba, Shino and Hinata stopped when a thick mist suddenly covered the area.
"What the…? Where'd this mist come from?" Kiba asked before looking at Hinata, though he was only barely able to see her "Hinata!"
"Already on it. Byakugan!" Hinata said as she activated her Kekkei Genkai.
'It's no use, Takimaru-kun's Genjutsu mist is impossible to see through, even for the all-seeing Byakugan!' Fu thought.
"There, I see one over there, and there's another one in that direction and the third one's over there!" Hinata said, pointing in three different directions towards where she thought she saw the enemies and the three of them split up to take them on individually.
Kiba punched what looked like a person, but after he had punched it he saw that it was only… a tree? Shino punched what he thought was a person, but it wasn't, instead it was a boulder. Hinata used a palm strike on what she thought was a person – and the Byakugan even confirmed it – but instead it was a tree.
"What the…? Hey what's going on here?" Kiba asked before he turned around and yelled "Hey, Hinata. I thought you said that there was someone here!"
"There w-was, I don't get it, m-maybe…it's s-some kind of Genjutsu!" Hinata yelled back.
"That, doesn't make any sense, your Byakugan would've seen through it and besides Genjutsu don't work on my insects!" Shino yelled.
"Oh, the Hyuga's spot on, you're under the influence of Takimaru-kun's Genjutsu mist! Nothing can see through it and it can fool one-celled organisms, so a simple insect is no big deal!" Fu's voice came through the mist, apparently coming from all sides.
"Hey, where are you? Show yourself!" Kiba yelled, not only did the mist make Hinata's Byakugan and Shino's insects useless, Kiba's and Akamaru's noses were also useless, they were at a total disadvantage.
"Sorry, but I'm your opponent, not Fu-san!" Kiba turned around to see Shibuki approaching him and the mist around them cleared to make a small arena.
"Heh, you've got to be crazy if you think you can beat me!" Kiba said confidently.
"I don't know about that. After all, you're the ones who got trapped in our trap and you didn't even notice that we've been following you three ever since we entered this forest!" Shibuki said.
'What…? How could we not have noticed them?' Kiba wondered.
"In case you're wondering how you didn't notice us, simple… Takimaru's Genjutsu!" Shibuki said as though he had read Kiba's thoughts.
Hinata was looking around; trying to find whoever's casting the Genjutsu, if she could take him out, then the Genjutsu would be broken.
"Looking for me?" Someone behind her asked and she jumped in surprise before turning around to face him as the mist cleared around them to make a small arena.
He had shoulder length brown hair, glowing, red eyes, and he wore a green t-shirt with a red circle on the back that almost resembled an eye and the Taki insignia was on the front. He also wore blue pants and had his Taki Hitai-ate wrapped around his waist.
"Man, I can't believe that she made me fight a girl!" Takimaru said.
Shino brought out his insects, Fu was standing in front of him – in the small clearing in the mist – with a smile on her face, since Shino was an Aburame, this would be a complete mismatch because insects pretty much worships her or rather, they worship her tenant, but she'd still be able to turn any of Shino's insects against him.
==Forest of Death, team 7 and team Kurotsuchi==
"Yoton: Sekkaigyō no jutsu. (Lava Release: Quicklime Congealing Technique)" Kurotsuchi called out before spitting quicklime at Naruto and it hit said blond's feet as well as the ground around him as Kurotsuchi went through several hand signs.
"Suiton: Mizurappa. (Water Release: Water Trumpet)" She called out before spitting a lot of water on the quicklime, making it harden within a matter of seconds.
'Yoton? Maybe she could have taught me this if we'd met under different circumstances.' Naruto thought as he channeled Ice chakra through his feet, freezing the quicklime and he managed to break himself free to Kurotsuchi's shock.
"How did you…?" Kurotsuchi asked.
"Let me show you!" Naruto said before weaving a series of hand signs "Hyoton: Sensatsu suisho. (Ice Release: Thousand Needles of Death)"
The water from Kurotsuchi's Mizuranpa went into the air and froze into needles of ice and said needles flew at Kurotsuchi and she went through several hand signs.
"Doton: Tsuchi dōmu. (Earth Release: Earth dome jutsu)" Kurotsuchi called out and she slammed her hands down on the ground and suddenly came a dome of earth up around her, protecting her from the needles.
"Futon: Daitoppa no jutsu." A female voice called out and suddenly, a large vortex of wind was shot at them, with Naruto reacted, then extended his hand at the wind and yelled.
"Bakudo #81: Dankuu! (Way of Binding No.81 (Hachiju-ichi): Spitting Void)"
As a largest a translucent barrier in the form of a large rectangular wall that creates by Naruto. As the gust of wind hits the wall, which causes kicking up dust, dirt, and tree parts that's the barrier is unable to break.
"A new enemy?" Satsuki and Bakutsuchi questioned, seeing the destruction through the barrier.
"What justu was that!?" Naruko and Akatsuchi added, seeing Naruto's jutsu.
"What was that barrier that blocks anything?" Kurotsuchi wondered.
'Where are they...' Naruto kept his eyes open and tried to listen for their footsteps, the second attack had to come soon.
That scent...that scent he had from Kabuto and the Oto-nin. It was 'here'.
==At the distance, where Team 7 and Iwa fought==
The Kusa-nin brought her arms down from creating the jutsu, seeing that it was blocked by a barrier that seen it before. Her two team-mates stood on either side of her, waiting for orders.
"You two go have fun with the other genin. These three are mine..." They smirked and knew their Lord was about to have some fun.
"Yes...Orochimaru-sama."
They leaped away and allowed the snake to disappear in a flash to go find his prey.
==With Team 7 and Kurotsuchi's ==
Naruto was still searching for his opponent when he heard something coming toward him, fast. It made the ground slightly rumble as it approached and he quickly turned to face it and jumped back when he realized just what it was. A giant snake smashed through the trees into the clearing they were in, hissing and biting at the blonde.
'Damn!'
As Naruto somersault and draw his sword, and while in the air with a powerful thrust of his hips, and leg muscles, he...flew towards the giant snake with his sword in hand and cleanly slashes the snake's head off as everyone like Team 7 and Iwa watched the headless snake drop on the ground. Until the snake had disappeared with a puff of smoke.
Naruko and Satsuki was amazed about his skills in kenjutsu, and Sakura admitted, with Iwa like Kurotsuchi was disbelief seeing a deadly kenjutsu that can cut the snake's head off. Along with her teammates about the Dark Templar's skills.
"What was that, Niisan?" Naruko asked while her brother, Naruto landed on the branch. Which ignored by the blond assassin, and he glance at the direction, before the barrier fades.
"Alright! Come on out!" Naruto yelled at the direction.
"Kukuku how impressed about your skills." A feminine tone appeared, which made Naruto heard another gust of wind creating several hand seals.
"Doton: Doryuheki." Naruto shouts and slams his hands on the ground blocking the force of the wind jutsu used as it hit the wall full force. He goes through another series of hand seals. "Doton: Dosekiryū! (Earth Release: Earth and Stone Dragon)"
As a dragon forms in the center of the Earth Wall and fires mud projectiles at the assailant. Which made the Iwa team shocked in surprised seeing Naruto preforms their village's jutsu.
'Its our village's jutsu!' Iwa nin thought. 'When did he learned how to use it? And who taught him? And...sugoi! A Doton counterattack combo.'
"Kukuku..." A voice laughs and carrying a lot malice with it. "My, my, an Doryuheki and an Iwa's Dosekiryuu as well. That's quite impressive for a Genin."
"Where are you. Show yourself you teme!" Naruto yells as Team 7 and Iwa continues looking around back to back.
"My, that's quite a mouth on you Namikaze." The voice says while laughing again.
"Don't call me that!" Naruto yelled furious that made Naruko cling hearing her brother furious. Now Naruto is really hates their families' name. Now Iwa had heard Naruto's outburst.
"You know what fuck this. If you won't show your face we'll just sniff you out. Ready Sakura." Naruto declared and Sakura nods her head and they both fly through a series of hand seals. Instead eagles, since Naruto had receive his new summoning contract, and letting Sakura signed both; due eagles were scouts, messengers, air supporters and attackers. But now...with the new summons on the Assassins' arsenals of trackers and hunters. They have...
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu! (Summoning Technique)" They both shout placing their hands on the ground and there is a puff smoke and now the smoke fades, reveals to be two wolves appear; a white wolf and a blue wolf each having 2 tails. Which made Naruko had surprised seeing a bijuu summons.
'A tailed wolf summons.' Naruko disbelief.
"What do you need of us Sakura-sama, Naruto-sama." The wolves asked their command.
"Katara, Saito, we need you to find out where the person tracking us is." Sakura ordered.
"No problem." The blue fox called Saito said and they both sniff the air and then look at their summoners'.
"Sakura-sama, he's over there and be careful he smells like a snake." The white fox called Katara warns.
"Not good. Not good at all. If we hope to survive we will need to work together." Naruto said scared.
"What are you talking about, tree-hugger?" Bakutsuchi asked Naruto now even more annoyed with him.
"Oh my god you baka-iwa, do you even think." Sakura said in a pissed voice. "He's saying that the only people that should smell like snake are Anko the proctor of this exam and Orchimaru S-class missing nin of the Hidden Leaf Village." As she drawing her jian as does Naruto with his sword and dagger, then Satsuki drew her chokuto. Causing Naruko and the Iwa-nins eyes widen in shocked about Orochimaru.
Naruko knew Orochimaru was a former teammate for her godparents, ever since he failed to achieve the title as a Yondaime Hokage, since Hiruzen Sarutobi select her father as a successor instead Orochimaru. And even Mother wants to become the first female Hokage before the Sandaime. He was a man commit crimes for kidnapping infants, genins and etc for legal experiments, learned kinjutsu and even immortality.
He was interesting Satsuki and her clan's Sharingan. Naruko knew what he's here in the chunin exams.
Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi and Bakutsuchi knew about Orochimaru's history, he was traitor and missin-nin of Konoha, like their shinobis like Deidara when he stole the Iwagakure's kinjutsu for being in Explosive Corp. They knew about Orochimaru is same as the rest of the shinobi became S-rank. But now...they will fight a sannin.
"Kukuku, aren't we perceptive little one's aren't we." Orochimaru says laughing and he asked. "Do you even know how to use those swords or is it just for show?"
"Its none your business, teme!" Naruto yells as Team 7 and Iwa continues looking around back to back. As he looked at Kurotsuchi. "Kurotsuchi-san..." Getting the Sandaime's granddaughter attention to Naruto. "Old saying; 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. So how about it?"
"Well...we still enemies, so we will fight the same cause." Kurotsuchi replied.
"Kurotsuchi, you can't be serious." Bakutsuchi said.
"What choices do we had, Bakutschi." Kurotsuchi stated. "If we ran, we better start fighting."
"She's right, we might need their help to defeat him!" Akatsuchi said.
Bakutsuchi sighed in defeat. "Fine, but we better get this freak out."
"If wouldn't say..." Naruto stated. "As the matter of fact...we do it now!" As he is on look like a billiard stance. Then he thrust his sword and fires a bolt of chakra towards the snake bastard's location who sneers at Naruto as he jumps out of the way.
"Why you..." Orochimaru hissed and charges at Team 7 and Kurotsuchi's team with Akatsuchi and Naruko on their defesive stand and Bakutsuchi tossing couple of shurikens, until Orochimaru dodge them. As Naruto called in with English.
"Sakura-chan, Satsucki! Operation: Firestorm!"
Naruto, Satsuki and Sakura stab there their swords (and Naruto sheathed his dagger) into the ground and Team 7 goes through a series of hand seals and shout.
"Renkei Ninjutsu: Mega Gōkakyū no Jutsu. (Collaboration Ninjutsu: Mega Fireball Technique)" Team 7 shouts (minus Naruko). (Two Fireball Jutsu's and a Great Breakthrough) The jutsu hit's Orochimaru dead-on and engulf him in flames, but he turns to mud.
"Sakura-sama, to your right!" Katara shouts as Orchimaru appears and Team 7 and Iwa goes through another series of hand seals along with Kurotsuchi.
"Hōsenka no Jutsu! (Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)" Team 7 and Kurotsuchi shouts and fire 30 or so mini fireballs at the Snake Sannin while the foxes guard there backs.
"Dammit, we need to escape. We won't be able to beat one of the Sannin." Naruto growls. "Kurotsuchi-san!"
With the ravenette Iwa kunoichi nod and flies through another series of seals.
"Tachiagari Iwahashira (Earth Release: Rising Stone Pillars)" Kurotsuchi said and giant pillars rise up from the ground and the treacherous serpent has a little trouble evading them, but is successful in the end. And now Naruto raised his arm forward and outstretched, occasionally using their free hand to grip the firing arm for extra support, with the palm facing flat toward at the Snake Sannin.
"Everyone! Get Clear!" Naruto called as everyone is told, which made Orochimaru had wondered what he is up to, and then he exclaimed. "Hado #88:...Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō! (Flying Dragon-Striking Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon)"
And fires a gigantic beam of electrical and spiritual energy, which made Iwa team and Naruko awed and horror seeing a powerful jutsu without a hand signs like dankuu, with Orochimaru's eyes widen seeing a power attack towards him, which creates an enormous explosion upon impact.
==At Outside of Forest of Death - Earlier==
WIth Naruto's apprentice; Mutsu is on the deck of the ship, while Natsu were cheeking the broadside cannons with the crew, Haru practicing his skills with his claymore. While Miya and Karasuba were having a girl talk while eating dango, until they heard an explosion that causes the birds fly away with frighten, as they look towards to the direction, before Haru went to top.
"It seems sensei did went overboard!" Haru shouted informed, which made the girls shook their heads, seeing Anko had not thought her brother did a mess he made.
"Ara, ara, it looks like sensei did made a mess after all." Miya comment.
"I agreed." Karasuba replied, and take a drink a rum, with Anko had a good new taste of rum, it was good and sweat as well.
"Damn, gaki. Its be sure gaki will ruined my playground." Anko grumbled with annoyed. As she took another bite on a dango, before dip some chocolate syrup taste it.
"Yum, nothing is better than dango and rum, do you agreed." Anko admitted getting a nod from the girls. "Thank otouto for making some syrup for my dango, it was good after all."
"I agreed, Anko-san." Miya agreed and she took a sip of a juice.
"Now, once I'm done, I think I'll head back to the tower since in this program, the faster ones will be done in 24 hours. And Karasuba, can you had Mutsu-san to take the ship ready." Anko said. She then threw a senbon into the three and then said, "Konohagakure Mark complete." As the senbons she threw over time looked like the leaf village's mark.
"Sure." Karasuba replied, as she stood along with Miya. Until a chunin examiner came in.
"Big trouble, Anko-sama." The examiner with glasses said as he arrived.
"What is it?" Anko asked, with Miya and Karasuba turn to him.
"Bodies...three of them and they don't look normal either. You have to come!" The examiner replied.
Anko nodded and before left to go to the crime scene with Miya and Karasuba. With Miya before she called Mutsu in the Morrigan. "Mutsu. can you prep the ship for departure. We'll be back for a minutes!"
"Sure, Miya." Mutsu replied.
"After examining their papers and personal items, they seem to be the Kusakagure shinobis that entered this exam and you can see, they have no faces, as if they were melted off." The one that found them explained.
'No mistaking it, this jutsu is his but why is he here, at the exam?' Anko asked in her head. 'I think Naruto-otouto did knew the bastard is here.'
"Show me the picture of these three!" Anko ordered and when the examiners did, she immediately recognized the one she saw back when she was instructing the genins.
'So at that time, he was already there.' Anko thought. 'It seems that he also informed Ibiki about 'him'.'
"This is bad! Otouto was right! Report this to the Hokage immediately!" Anko ordered.
"Huh?" The examiners said.
"Send some ANBU captains to the forest of death! me and others are going after them right now." Anko said. "Naruto had signal code S...and tell Hokage-sama and send someone to Sandaime-sama that he's back, I mean it!"
"Hai!" Chunin replied, as he disappeared with a swirl of leaves.
==Forest of Death, Team 8 and team Fu - Same time==
==With Kiba vs Shibuki==
"Tsuuga! (Tunneling Fang)" Kiba called out as he spun through the mist, towards where he thought his opponent to be, only to smash through a rock.
"Great, another illusion. Only if my nose would work properly." He muttered to himself, it seemed that not only was the mist tricking Hinata's Byakugan, but also Kiba's nose and Shino's insects.
"Mizu Tatsumaki! (Water Tornado)" Suddenly a vortex of water formed right next to Kiba. The Inuzuka was then knocked out by the spinning vortex before it vanished and Shibuki came out from where it was and began searching the Inuzuka for the scroll.
==Hinata vs Takimaru==
Hinata hit yet another tree with her Juken. She wondered – of course – how it was that a Genjutsu could beat her Byakugan like this, it didn't seem possible.
Suddenly three kunai – all having explosive tags attached to them – flew down and embedded themselves in the ground near where the Hyuga was standing, and she jumped away just before the tags blew up.
Hinata then looked towards the branch that the kunai had come from and jumped up before hitting what seemed to be the silhouette of a person before she realized that it was a tree she had hit. Her eyes then widened as she turned around, realizing that it was a trap, but she was too late as she felt that someone hit her, hard and she fell unconscious.
==Shino vs Fu==
'Hmmm. My insects appears to be useless in this mist, I have to find a way out of it, and fast.' Shino thought before a he noticed a stream of insects flying at him. He then dodged the bugs only for them to vanish, and in their place was three shuriken.
'Shuriken? So, she's using the mist to her advantage. Letting it fool me into thinking that her shuriken and kunai are insects.' He thought before some red particles appeared in the air and the mist faded to reveal that the three Taki-nins were gone, and both Kiba and Hinata were unconscious.
"Ah. Kiba! Hinata!" He yelled before running over to them. Until they heard an explosion.
"What was that?" Kusa team exclaimed, as Shino looked around to see a large smoke its where Team 7 located.
==At the Morrigan==
Now they are board the ship with the ropes untied, as with Mutsu is on the wheel, with Anko on the left besides him with her arms crossed, and Miya besides her Assassin comrade on the right.
"Full-sail!" Mutsu yelled, as the crew unfold the sails. And entered the forest by the skies.
==Back to Team 7 and Kurotsuchi's team==
Now the whole part of the forest is nothing but a crater, seeing Naruto can do. It was most destructive attack, when Naruto had trained to use kido from Ryu, after all, the assassins will use the same thing.
"DAMN IT NARUTO-BAKA! YOU'RE SUPPOSED NOT TO USE 'THAT' IN THIS EXAM!" Sakura yelled with a angry look in anime-style. Before she appeared and bonk his head with her fist.
As Naruto sat up with a large lump on his head and sheepish. "Sorry, Sakura-chan, like I said; went overboard." As he stood, until Naruko and Iwa team arrived. "We better set camp, and the maintain, we better leave this area, after all...we can't risk seeing any enemy shinobi team knew about it."
"As the matter the fact, we better get going." Kurotsuchi declared. With that, Team 7 and with her team left the scene.
==Forest of Death, team Gai==
Lee, Neji and Tenten were sitting in the forest as they were eating. Before they heard an explosion is about where Team 7 is. And also Team 10 knew they did heard an explosion.
"It'll probably start to get light in the next hour or so. We were able to use our first day to secure food and water. Most of the teams will be resting now…making this the best time to act. Let's split up…and reconnoiter for the next half hour. But whatever you find, when the time is up… be sure you're back here. Got it?" Neji said as he dropped a kunai down on the ground with the pointy end first.
"Okay!" Tenten said.
"Roger!" Lee said.
"Good…! Ikuzo!" Neji said and they shunshined in three different directions.
==With Anko and Naruto's Assassins==
The Morrigan flew into the Forest of Death in the air, quickly ascending into the treetops for a better view. Only a few hours ago, the three bodies of Kusa ninja visitors had been found leading to an immediate investigation. What the rest of the examiners couldn't see that she could though, was that the technique used to steal their faces was something she had seen done before.
Only one man was willing to go so far to meet his desires, and that man was Orochimaru. An S-Class Missing ninja wanted by all major villages for too many crimes to count.
Who better to take him down than his own student?
She sensed his presence is here , looking anywhere for unusual signs of battle or the imposters. It was getting dark and would make it even more dangerous, not only for her hunt but for the genin inside the forest. Whatever or whoever Orochimaru was after was in grave danger and she had to find him before anything worse could happen.
'I hope 'he' is alright, wherever he and his team are in this forest.'
Her thoughts drifted to someone very important to her and in the back of her mind, she hoped she would encounter them somewhere in her search. She could at least warn him, that wouldn't be enough to break her cover would it?
"We need to hurry! Get this ship going any faster!" Anko yelled. With the assassins knew about her past, since she was a former student of Orochimaru, and also the first human experiment for the Curse Seal.
"I will gave you full sail!" Mutsu replied, now Anko gone impatient then she replied.
"I'll go on my own and you guys better catch up!" As Anko jump overboard and land on the top of the tree and jumps up in the air, faster.
"Hey, wait!" Natsu yelled to Anko, but its too late to call her out.
==Forest of Death, team 7 and team Kurotsuchi==
Now Naruto's assassins and Naruko, along with Kurotsuchi and his team were setting camp, but with Naruto did cook some dinner while Satsuki and Bakutsuchi had set traps for sure, as Sakura standing guard the perimeter with her ability she had her own 'Eagle Vision' now, with Naruto's guidance to learned its potential.
As Naruto pour the soup on a bowl and take a taste with a whole bowl, and then with a nod and he stood, which he called anyone to getting attention. "Dinner is ready, I better go out for a while for scouting, while you guys remain here for sure." As he put on his hood and then disappeared with a burst of wind.
Now they prepared to eat, with Naruko delight about Naruto's cooking.
"Wow, I never thought, Naruto-san did cook." Akatsuchi admitted.
"Yeah, Nii-san is first-rate chef in this village." Naruko explained.
"A FIRST RATE CHIEF!?" Kurotsuchi yelled in shocked along with Bakutsuchi was disbelief about Naruto's cooking.
"Yup, he did cook anything that surpasses kaa-chan and Kushina-sensei." Satsuki stated.
"I see...can't believe of someone was good at cooking like Ryōri-nin that making delicious foods." Bakutsuchi said about the rumor. "But...rumors had their trouble of their mission failed for the weight that slows them."
"Yeah, Tsuchi-ojisan did mention it, while me and kaa-san had ramen at the time." Naruko stated. "They should not ate too much when comes of cooking meals."
"Yeah, I had some more teachings from Naruto." Sakura stated. "So it better prepared for anything until tomorrow."
"Yeah, but since Naruto-kun refuse to taking some ingredients." Satsuki said about when Naruto refuse to learned his best food that Naruto had cooked. "He proclaimed that its he's recipe, and his alone, if Naruto refuse to have his skills a chef. He had no intention of sharing it to anyone. Besides it would take too long to cook. Naruto-nii said; 'You need to have a certain amount of skills to create them.'"
"No kidding." Kurotsuchi dumpfound.
"Yup, during the mission in Nami (Wave)." Satsuki started to explained about the first mission. Which made Bakutsuchi had known something about that subject.
"I heard of that, that's where Naruto, the Dark Templar did made a reputation." Bakutsuchi stated about Nami. which made Konoha-nin looked at him. "What?"
"Where did you heard it?" Naruko asked.
"Well...its on..." Bakutsuchi is about say about Naruto's title, until Akatsuchi spoke to cut his subject.
"Can you tell what's a 'Templar'?" Akatsuchi asked, which made Sakura and Satsuki tense.
"What you want to know about the Templar?" Satsuki asked.
"I was curious." Akatsuchi curious.
Sakura sighed and explained. "Well...it sort that look like the opposite of the Samurais."
"Seriously!" Kurotsuchi said. "You mean to tell me the Templar is an opposite to the Samurai?"
"Something like that...but...there is something that just a 'Templar'..." Sakura said proclaimed.
"What is it?" Kurotsuchi, as Sakura turn to Naruko.
"Naruko, can you go out for take a guard shift." Sakura said to Naruko, that flinches the red head.
"Why?"
"Its between me and them, you better not knowing about what we're having this discussion."
"But..." Naruto tried to protest. She want to know why the Templars were opposite to the samurais.
"I mean it, did you want any enemy shinobi will ambushed us?" Sakura frowned, which made Naruko nod for understand and stood and heading outside the cave.
"You too, Bakutsuchi." Kurotschi said to her teammate. Without hesitate, and he stood and left in the cave.
With them gone, now Sakura looked at Kutotsuchi and Akatsuchi, and said. "We'll tell you about our Organization that Naruto-kun had formed..."
"What Organization?" Akatsuchi asked.
Then Satsuki said to the Two Iwa-nins. "Its about the Assassin Order..."
==Forest of death, Anko==
Anko had jumped through trees, with the Morrigan had left behind.
'He's close..I can feel it.'
Anko's movements became faster, more erratic. She pushed herself forward, this was her one chance to stop him before he could do any damage. The criminal had slipped through their fingers, her fingers, too many times before to let this chance go past.
Landing on a long branch, she looked at the other side to see him. He seemed hurt and so it would seem she was too late to stop whatever he had tried putting into place, but perhaps she still had a chance to get revenge.
"Anko...It's been so long." Orochimaru spoke with a smile, seeing her approach.
"You are an extremely dangerous criminal..and that's why I'm going to kill you right here, even if it costs my life." Orochimaru began to laugh and it made her blood boil.
She threw a few needles at him but they were knocked aside as he shot his tongue at her as an attack. Jumping into the air and landing on the tree, she looked down to see the tongue still following her and was unable to stop it from grabbing her wrist, dragging her back down to the same branch. With her free arm, she aimed it Orochimaru and used a technique he had taught her.
"Sen'eijashu! (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands)" Four snakes launched from underneath her sleeve and dug into the tree Orochimaru was hiding in.
With a mighty pull of her arm, Anko wrestled the Sannin out and sent him flying straight toward her. Sidestepping, she quickly launched herself against him and held both his hands to keep him from moving.
"I'm sure you remember this jutsu..." Making a special hand sign, Orochimaru's eyes widened and realized what she was trying to do.
"You want to commit suicide?" Surprised by his presence from behind, she turned around to see Orochimaru pulling off the last of his mask and revealing his face in the yellow moon.
"A decoy..." She turned around and watched as the clone dissolved into mud, making her twist around and throw her kunai in frustration.
Orochimaru caught it and let it drop to the ground, forming a hand sign that activated her seal. Doubling over from the pain, she could do nothing as he approached her.
"Why...have you come here?" Anko questioned, holding her seal in pain.
Orochimaru smirked as he stood in front of her, relishing in her weakness.
"We haven't seen each other in so long and this is what you say?"
Anko tried to look away but couldn't as he grabbed her chin, forcing her to look at him. Falling to her knees, there was nothing she could do but listen.
"I tried to gave a little girl that same seal as a present just a little while ago...whatever you do, don't stop the exams. Times are getting interesting, and if my fun is put to an end, it will mean the end for Konoha. I think you understand." Orochimaru smirked but quickly lost it as he looked up in surprise.
Anko did as well and then she saw him. 'Naruto...?'
The Assassin leaped from the tree above and barely missed Orochimaru. He stabbed and ducked under Orochimaru's attacks with his hidden blade, trying to land a hit. Anko tried to get up and stop them but was still feeling the effects of Orochimaru's chakra.
"Naruto, don't!"
"Kukuku...I was wondering who 'owned' Anko since I left her behind. She bears your scent, 'Namikaze'." He spoke as he dodged and deflected Naruto's attacks, but was unable or unwilling to fight back.
"Like I said; don't call me that! In your information, you can't hide from me when I'll find you if you even try and touch her again, stay the hell away from her!" Naruto yelled, feinting a stab for his head that made Orochimaru lower his body to dodge.
With one foot planted, Naruto sent a bone crunching kick to Orochimaru's face. The hit launched him right back into the trunk of the tree with a sharp pounding. Before he could pursue any farther by took out his flintlock pistol, the criminal disappeared into the bark, retreating.
Naruto doubled back to rejoin Anko's side and checked her seal, it still held together even though it couldn't keep her from experiencing the pain.
"It was reckless of you to come here...otouto." Anko told him with a smile, as she had to go without saying it for so long to keep the right appearances.
"Don't push yourself Anko-neechan...I can say the same to you."
She chuckled only to flinch in pain.
"Neechan...where's the Morrigan?" Naruto asked her with a frown.
That made Anko flinched, with she sheepish. "Well..."
"You were going on your own and letting my students catch up to get there!" Naruto guessed more annoying.
"I was...well...your ship would had-"
"My ship maybe fast, but its very fast, you should listen to Mutsu while he was on the wheel as a captain, and even I had forgot to mention the ship has 'fast-travel'!?" Naruto exclaimed/explained.
"Come on, otouto." Anko complained. "I haven't listen to Mutsu when I was grow impatient if I kill that bastard."
"But you better and better get to the tower to safely until my Morrigan appeared." Naruto said, as he took out a medicine vial, and toss it to Anko before she catches it. "Its medicine, neechan. But I better head back to my team for anything happens."
As Anko glance at the metallic vial that he had given to her, as she opens it and take a drink and then the effects kicks in, that taste wasn't that bad and she comment. "You know that stuff taste like shit."
"I know." Naruto replied, as he took out his air rifle and took out a shell is unlike the grenades. As the blond assassin load a shell in the grenade launcher and aim the air in the air and fires a flare in the air. Before the Morrigan see it.
"Tell you what...I had something in mind, nee-chan."
"What?" Anko asked.
"Remember when I told I had to revived my Creed?" Naruto asked, knowing Anko would answered, which the snake mistress surprised for if she wants to be part of it.
==Later==
Now the Morrigan arrived, with the crew and the assassin trainees seeing their mentor with Anko, waving his hands. As the ship weigh anchor and with two assassins jumps down overboard the ship, appeared to be Mutsu, Haru and Iseei, until...
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Naruto smirked about his students did learned to use one of Rokushiki...Geppo (Moonwalk).
"So...did you guys still got it?" Naruto asked with a proud smile, as he saw three of his students landed on front of their mentor and Anko. With Mutsu replied.
"Yes, shishou." Mutsu replied, seeing their mentor's smile with pride. "We have get use of it over those months."
"That's good to hear." Naruto replied, with Issei stepped in.
"Shishou, we saw the flare." Iseei stated. "What would want us to do?"
"Take Anko-neechan to the medical quarters to the Morrigan." Naruto informed.
"Aye!" Mutsu, Haru and Issei replied.
"And you?" Haru asked his mentor.
"Returning to my team for sure." Naruto replied. "And the maintain, prep the ship to the Tower. Now get going!"
"Aye, sir!" They replied, with Issei and Haru take Anko and use Geppo to the ship, with Mutsu behind them, leaving Naruto. Until the ship were heading to the tower.
"Now, I better get going." Naruto said himself and then turn and jump and he disappeared with shunpo...
==Chapter Ended==
Author's Note: Naruto will use Haki and Rokushiki minus Kamie, so his students will. As for Kido did learned by Ryu...aka...Naruto Kurosaki. He did trained his apprentice that Naruto Cormac that he did teach them Rokushiki. And even they use Soru, instead shunpo. So Naruto is the only user to use shunpo, its like part of his bloodline.
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