The Witch-King Cometh V2

Chapter 1: Return of the King

Summary: When he was "attacked" by Orochimaru in the Chunnin Exams, Naruto finds a helmet that reeks of poisonously dark power. Fed up with the village as of late, he puts on the mask and becomes the newest to take up the mantel of the Witch-King. With the powers of darkness itself at his disposal, nothing can stand in his way. In time, the world will know the power of the Witch-King. And his new reign has only just begun.

A/N: Hello everyone and welcome to Version 2 of "The Witch-King Cometh" And it's about freaking time I finished this thing! I'm hoping that this one may seem better to you guys as well as my parents, and who knows? Maybe this one will get even more reviews. The pairing was a bit of a problem at first. I would normally have done someone like Hinata or Anko, but Anko has already been done for this kind of story (ironically the one that gave me the idea for this story) and I don't see Hinata ever falling in love with a psychotic king of darkness. Eventually my friend Mikal gave me an idea that hasn't been done that often, so I figured "Why not try it?" Basically, the pairing now features a Fem Orochimaru. I mean, come on! It makes sense! Well, in a sick, twisted way it does, but oh well. However, either the pairing might change in the future so don't hold me to it. So yeah, this is still rated M for the violence and SOME language, and possibly some blood/gore. Mainly it's M just because I'm a bit paranoid. Alright, with that little rant aside, let's cue the disclaimer and get on with this rewrite! By the way, I changed the circumstances so that I could avoid the stupid Wave Arc. Let's face it, that arc is done in practically every fanfiction I've ever read! It's iconic to the series, I know. I just really don't feel like redoing it or going with the cliché "Sealed Power in the Forbidden Scroll" type of thing. So enjoy! I apologize in advance for the lengthy time in which it took to rewrite this thing, I had some serious writer's block!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Lord of the Rings. Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto and TV Tokyo, Lord of the Rings and all its associated names/characters/etc. belong to J.R.R. Tolkien with all due rights and respects. Please support the official release. I also don't own about half of the little prologue thingy. I was too lazy to change anything there. It was too troublesome. Also, here's the speech key thingy.

Speech

Thoughts/Mind speak

Demon/Bijuu/Nazgul/Orc speech

Demon/Bijuu/Nazgul/Orc thoughts or mind speech

Jutsu/Spell (translation provided here if necessary)

Demonic Jutsu/Spell (translation here also if needed)

(A/N: Author's Notes will go here)

Prologue

The world is changing. All that once was, now is forgotten, for there are none who live who can remember. It began with the forging of the great rings. Three for the elven lords, immortal and undying. Seven, for the dwarf lords; great miners, and craftsmen. Nine, nine rings gifted to the kings of men, who above all else, desire power. For within these rings lie the powers to govern Middle Earth. But they had all of them been deceived… for another ring was made.

In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring, in which he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life on Middle Earth. One Ring to rule them all.

One by one, the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who fought back. A last alliance of Men and Elves, determined to break the power of the Ring. And on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought to determine the fate of Middle Earth. In that final battle, it seemed that good had triumphed. But the power of the Ring would not be undone. Sauron himself entered the fray, and his power could not be stopped. With one blow of his massive mace, he slew the king of men quicker than anyone could react.

It was then that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father's blade and cut the Ring from the hand of Sauron himself. And without the Ring, for which his soul was permanently bound, Sauron spontaneously combusted with the force to make all three armies fall to their knees. And so it was that Sauron, enemy of the Free Peoples of Middle Earth, was defeated. And the Ring passed into Isildur's hand, and he had the one chance to destroy evil forever. But the hearts of Men are easily corrupted.

Isildur kept the Ring, and in his greatest need, the Ring betrayed him. To his death. And there it lay, for centuries in the bottom of a river, until it ensnared a new bearer. The Ring came to the creature Gollum, and for 500 years it poisoned his mind. And there it lay in wait, until it heard the whispers. Rumors of a shadow in the lands of darkness, a nameless evil. And the Ring knew its time had come.

It abandoned Gollum, but fate had something different in mind for the
Ring. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature to ever do so. Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit from the Shire. And once again, the Ring lay in wait. Eventually, the Ring passed into the hands of Frodo Baggins, nephew of Bilbo. And Frodo, with the help of Gandalf the Grey, set out on a quest to cast the Ring back into the fires from whence it came, and destroy evil for all eternity. And Frodo did just that. But some evils managed to escape that day, for while the Nazgul, the dark riders who search for the Ring endlessly, were destroyed that day, a token of the Nazgul still survived. The mask of their leader, the Witch-King of Angmar, reformed itself and lay in wait, on a shrine made in memory of the Nazgul, as it waited for another wielder.

History became stories, stories became myths, and myths became legends. The tales of the so-called "Lord of the Rings" now serve as simply that. A tale to enchant and delight the children of the "modern" age. But the mask of the Witch-King survived, and sat there, waiting with its store of dark power. And finally, the mask was found.

After his battle with his friend-turned-enemy, Hashirama Senju had stumbled into a cave to heal and rest. And in that cave he found the shrine of the Nazgul, the dreaded Ring-Wraiths. And on that shrine, he found the mask of the legendary Witch-King himself. He could feel its power calling to him, but he knew that it was a dark power and it couldn't be trusted. He took the mask, but only to try and destroy it.

To say that Hashirama failed miserably would be an understatement. Nothing he did, not even his strongest jutsu could as much as scratch that mask. Finally, resigned that it couldn't be destroyed, he locked it away in another shrine in a dark forest in Konoha, with a warning left for whoever unsealed it to never put on the mask, or they would most likely die or become something terrible. The dark power of the mask began to corrupt the area around it, and the area of Training Ground 44 became henceforth known to the inhabitants of Konoha as the "Forest of Death" for that very reason.

Despite that warning that Hashirama left beside the mask, it was ignored, and one boy did unseal the mask. His name is Naruto Uzumaki, and this is the story of how one boy became a king. This is the tale of the new Witch-King.

Naruto lunged in front of the gigantic snake and quickly stabbed it right in the eye. The serpent shrieked in pain before dispelling in a cloud of smoke, revealing it to be a summon. "Snake summons?" he wondered aloud. Then it hit him. He grinned a fox-like grin. "So, Orochi-chan is here, eh?" he said to himself. He had met the Sannin a while back, and while some would say that Tsunade was better looking, Orochimaru was good-looking in her own strange, somewhat twisted way.

"So, that snake's in the forest huh?" Kurama stated. "Yep. Might as well go say hi then." Naruto replied.

The fox rolled his eyes. He didn't trust Orochimaru that much, but given a choice between Orochimaru or Danzo, he'd take Orochimaru. Of course, Naruto liked both of them. Danzo, cause he saw Naruto as actually a valuble asset to the Leaf and cause he actually trained him, unlike Naruto's supposed "sensei". Orochimaru… do the math.

Naruto jumped into the trees and followed the scent of snakes, easier with Kurama enhancing his senses, and landed on a branch to overlook the battle between the Sannin and the two Genin of Naruto's "team". Well, "battle" is a little too generous. Try more like "slaughter"

Orochimaru was simply toying with the two. Sakura was pretty much trying not to piss herself at the weight of Orochimaru's KI (A/N: don't ask me to explain Killing Intent. I really can't. Just think of the spiritual pressure in Bleach.) and was all in all being rather useless. Sasuke was trying (and failing) to hold off the Sannin with his two-tomoed Sharingan, which looked like it had just matured into that stage. Orochimaru licked her lips and smirked as she sensed Naruto's unique chakra signature. "Always the punctual one Naruto-kun," she thought.

Sasuke's eyes widened as Naruto landed in between the two. "Wazzup teme?" Naruto said, his eyes crimson with slitted pupils, his canines elongated, his whisker marks longer and more jagged than before. Sasuke shivered in fear. Naruto's eyes weren't like that of the goofball "dobe" that he knew and remembered. They were more like that of a hunter, a killer, a creature with endless amounts of cruelty.

Orochimaru grinned as she looked at the demonic blonde. "Perfect timing, eh Naruto-kun?" she said, licking her lips once again. Naruto (to which credit is due for his acting skills) grinned sadistically. "And you are?" he said mockingly. Orochimaru mentally rolled her eyes. She chuckled in a way that definitely sounded creepy to two of the Genin. To Naruto, it just sounded kinda hot.

"I am Orochimaru of the Sannin, formerly of Konoha," she said in a prideful tone, dispelling the genjutsu on her forehead protector. The symbol for the Grass village was instantly replaced by the music note symbol of Sound. She darted forward, summoning a large brown snake as she went, and sent a barrage of kunai at the Genin. "Sannin huh? You don't look so tough! Futon: Daitoppa! (Wind Style: Great Breakthrough)" Naruto yelled as he expelled a gigantic blast of wind that sent the kunai scattering and dispelled the snake summon. He quickly flipped through his handsigns. "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu! (Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)" he bellowed as he sent a stream of fireballs that were about the size of a basketball each. Orochimaru quickly Shunshined (Body Flicker) out of the path of destruction and pulled a katana out of the mouth of a serpent slithering from her sleeve. "Shall we dance then Naruto-kun?" she said with a smile.

"Futon: Shinkujin! (Wind Style: Vacuum Blade)" the Genin thought. Naruto exhaled an amount of yellowish-green colored Wind Chakra onto his kunai blade, creating a saber of wind energy. "Bring it!" he said as his wind-enhanced kunai blade connected with the Kusanagi blade in Orochimaru's hand. What nobody saw however, was the wink that Naruto gave to the Sannin.

Orochimaru fought the urge to snicker as she fought down a blush. Despite her attempts, a faint, barely noticable tinge of pink appeared on her pale skin. Naruto cackled like a maniac. "Hey Kurama! I'm gonna need some of your chakra to make this look a little more believable!" "You got it kit! One medium-sized order of Yokai (demonic chakra) coming right up!" Kurama called back. Naruto grinned as his chakra levels skyrocketed, and his KI that was seemingly directed at the Sannin doubling in weight and potency. Orochimaru flinched and was a bit shocked. "So, Kurama-kun is giving him some aid to aid in the act? This could be a little more difficult than I anticipated," she thought. She smirked. She always loved a good fight.

Naruto dashed back to "avoid" a strike from the Kusanagi. He flashed through his handsigns. Orochimaru quickly realized what he was doing and she flipped through her own handsigns. "Futon: Atsugai! (Wind Style: Pressure Damage)" "Doton: Doryuheki! (Earth Style: Earth-Style Wall)" Naruto inhaled and expelled a pressurized blast of air shaped like a tornado, while Orochimaru clapped her hands on the ground. Right before the blast hit the Sannin, a wall of earth quickly rose up to block the attack. Upon connection with the wall, the blast immediately exploded in a huge dome of blue wind chakra, vaporizing the wall and sending Orochimaru's somewhat shredded body flying. She hit the trunk of a tree with a sickening crunch, and lay still.

Naruto inwardly gulped. He hoped he didn't overdo it. He had a tendency to go a bit overkill. "Ya think?!" Kurama replied in response to his host's thoughts.

"Is it over?" Sakura asked fearfully. Her only response was the "corpse" sitting up and coughing violently. Orochimaru's mouth widened as an arm, followed by a torso, and finally legs were violently vomited out. Orochimaru stood, her shed skin dissolving into white liquid as she smoothed the greenish slime out of her hair. She laughed for a moment. "You surprised me Naruto-kun. I wasn't expecting an B-Ranked Futon jutsu at your age," she said. Naruto grinned. "I'm only sixteen! Is it such a surprise?" Orochimaru smirked. Inwardly however, she was experiencing much different feelings. "Danzo!" she thought to herself. "What the hell have you been teaching him while I've been gone?! You said minor Futon jutsus, like D or C ranked, not freaking B-Ranked Jutsu!" she mentally raged.

Naruto pulled out two shurikens and flipped through his handsigns. "Futon: Shinkujin!" he bellowed as he threw the small weapons at Orochimaru. The wind chakra formed over the shurikens, turning the small projectiles into basically a buzzsaw of wind. Orochimaru quickly ducked Matrix-style to avoid the shurikens, and she almost missed seeing Naruto darting in with another Shinkujin applied to a kunai. "You're mine now!" he yelled.

Orochimaru smirked and slapped the kunai out of his hand and wrapped an arm around his neck. Sasuke had finally gotten over his shock and noticed that Naruto was held in a choke hold by the Sannin. What he didn't realize was that Orochimaru had bitten Naruto almost tenderly on the neck, forming a three pronged seal that vaguely resembled a three-bladed shuriken on the side of his neck. (A/N: Basically think of Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan symbol on Naruto's neck.) "Kukuku. Now Sasuke-kun, what will you do? Will you attack me and kill your teammate? Or try to save him? Make your choice, or I'll snap his neck!" Orochimaru hissed.

Sasuke swore angrily and began going through his options in his head. "Sorry Naruto," he thought. He quickly flipped through the handsigns from the jutsu he copied from Naruto during the fight by using his Sharingan. "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu!" he bellowed before firing a swarm of fireballs at the pair. Orochimaru's eyes widened in shock that he would kill off his own teammate to kill her. Naruto was pissed off that, even though they weren't friends, Sasuke wouldn't hesitate to kill him if he was being used as a shield. So much for "sensei's" teachings.

Orochimaru quickly began flipping through her handsigns. "Sorry Naruto-kun!" she whispered as she gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "Futon: Daitoppa!" she yelled as she blasted Naruto out of the way with a burst of wind. Unfortunately, she overshot a bit and sent Naruto flying farther than she anticipated. She then fired a quick Suiton (Water Style) jutsu to block the fireballs. She held up the Tiger handseal and extended her neck to inhuman lengths. She quickly sank her fangs on Sasuke's shoulder, leaving a mark shaped like three commas arranged in a circle. "He'll pay for making me harm Naruto-kun!" she though angrily. She tossed the Uchiha at the pink-haired girl in disgust and jumped down onto the forest floor. She tasted the air with her tongue in a very serpentine manner and took off into the forest in the direction of Naruto's distinct ramen-flavored scent. "Hang on Naruto-kun," she said softly. "I'll find you."

With Naruto

Naruto slammed through the tree, through a cabin, and finally through a random clothesline adorned with a pair of red polka-dotted underwear, barely getting tangled up in the line and he just kept rolling. (A/N: Points to anyone who gets the reference!) Naruto yelled as he slammed through a boulder, a sickening CRACK resounding through the forest. Naruto proceeded to swear loudly in tones that would have made even a sailor blush. (Somewhere in the village of Oto (Sound) a red haired girl sneezed violently. "Some dumbass better not be talking about me!" she yelled before being reprimanded by her teammate for her language, at which point she told him to go do something that is not anatomically possible for a human male.)

Naruto kept rolling for what felt like hours (it was only a few minutes) and finally fell into a cave. He coughed and tried to support himself on his right arm. He immediately let out a scream of agony. Apparently that 'crack' was the sound of the bone in his forearms breaking clean through. Judging from the way his ankle felt, it was probably sprained. All from a B-Ranked Futon jutsu. Not that Naruto held it against Orochimaru anyways. It wasn't her fault. Given the speed of the attack (and the surprise that Sasuke had actually copied the Jutsu) if Orochimaru hadn't acted then Naruto wouldn't have been alive to argue. It still hurt a lot, but he was alive. In retrospect, Naruto began to question the workings of the minds of Konoha residents. If his traitorous mule of a teammate was willing to kill him to strike down an enemy, he hated to see how things were going to end up in terms of teamwork. If that was what the village golden boy would do while the hated pariah would prefer to SAVE his teammates, he hated to see how much further Konoha would go down the toilet.

He groaned and began pulling himself shakily to his feet, ignoring the blood dripping on his face from the cut on his forehead. Naruto grit his teeth and pushed his bone back into place and waited for the fox to work his magic.

"Kit. I take it we are in agreement to NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Kurama yelled from the seal. "Do you have any idea how much Yokai this is gonna take to heal your sorry ass?! I mean, dammit! Why did you just have to hit freaking EVERYTHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LETHAL IN THIS FREAKING FOREST?!"

Naruto groaned as reddish-orange chakra began seeping from his pores and slowly closing his wounds. "Would you just knock it off?" he growled, not bothering to think the sentence since they were alone. "If it weren't for Orochimaru-chan's jutsu, we would have been set on fire and probably wouldn't be arguing about this, now would we?" he asked retorically.

Kurama proceeced to shut up, given he knew his host was technically right. Naruto tested his arm, and upon feeling no pain he carefully stood up. He glanced around the cave he was in. It almost resembled a temple, given the stone columns seemingly holding up the roof of the cave. Naruto's eyes flicked back and forth, the crimson irises fading back into sapphire blue. "Where are we?" he asked.

Kurama pondered for a moment. "Kit, don't be alarmed, but I don't have a clue where we are." Naruto sweatdropped and slapped his forehead. "You're real useful aren't you?" he asked sarcastically. Kurama rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up meat-sack," the fox growled. Naruto shook his head and began walking down into the cave. He paused for a moment as he found himself in a large circular room. In the center was an empty pedestal adorned with ornate carvings of hooded figures on horses slaughtering enemies. One in particular had a strange helmet on, and was he riding a dragon?

Naruto walked up to the pedestal and brushed some of the dust off of the surface. He raised an eyebrow at the intricate circular design carved into the rock. "Hey fuzzball, any idea what this is?" "Two things. One: DON'T CALL ME FUZZBALL YOU STUPID NINGEN (human)! Second thing, yeah. I recognize it. That's a seal designed by the Shodaime Hokage himself. It was designed to hold something that's usually about as strong as a Bijuu." "So it's a Shiki Fuin then?" "Nope. This one's STRONGER than the one that was put on you that kept me stuck in your gut. My guess is, whatever Hashirama-baka sealed in that thing, it's really powerful."

Naruto's eyes widened. There was a seal that existed for holding something stronger than a Tailed Beast? Naruto's face broke out into a wide grin. "Well then, let's fire that sucker up!" he said as he wiped some blood off of his face. Kurama groaned again, but said nothing. Naruto smeared blood across the altar and channeled his chakra onto the carved stone. The intricate spirals and prongs glowed purple as the surface of the pedestal spiraled open like a camera lense. Rising up from a pool of purple energy was a helmet. And to the fox sealed within our hero, it REEKED of power.

It was simple in design. The mask-like helmet was forged of burnished steel, with a prong extending up from the forehead area and a crown of spikes jutting out from the scalp area on the helmet. It was a terrifying visage. It took Naruto a second, but he recognized it as the helmet on that dragon-riding being on the carving. It was then that Naruto noticed the runes carved on the ground by the altar. "Damn. I can't read this," he muttered. "Hey fox, can you read it?" Kurama rolled his eyes and nodded. "Here lies the leader of the Black Riders, the lord of the Nazgul, the strongest of the Nine, most ruthless of the Ringwraiths. Here lies all that remains of the Witch-King of Angmar," Kurama translated. "Wow, the old Orcish tongue. Haven't seen that in a few centuries," he commented.

"Witch-King of Angmar? Isn't that from that old children's tale, Lord of the Rings?" Naruto asked. "Yes baka. Don't you know that all stories and legends have some basis in the truth? I mean, I told you the myth about the Rikudo Sennin (Sage of Six Paths) and the Juubi (Ten-Tails) didn't I? And we both know that those stories were true." Kurama deadpanned. Naruto took the helmet in his hands and lifted it off of the pedestal. He pondered for a moment before raising the helmet and beginning to lower it over his head. The minute the helmet/mask was fixed to his head, the eyeholes began to glow an ominous purple. "Ah shit," Kurama murmured right before Naruto's chakra levels skyrocketed. A visible storm of purple chakra swirled around Naruto before exploding into a pillar of that same malicious purple chakra. And throughout the entire process, Naruto let out a shrieking scream that was eirily similar to that of a wraith.

With Orochimaru

Orochimaru was running through the forest when she suddenly stopped. She twitched for a minute. "That feeling. It's like I'm staring the Kyuubi no Kitsune (Nine-Tailed Fox aka Kurama) right in the face. What is that malignant chakra?" she thought to herself. Orochimaru glanced down and saw that her hand was shaking in fear. She grabbed her wrist and held up her arm. "Am I… trembling?"

Right at that moment a huge pillar of purple chakra shot straight into the sky. Orochimaru sank to her knees in shock and slight fear of the malevolent chakra she was feeling in the air. The thing was at least a few miles away, yet she felt as if the Juubi himself was leveling his KI at her. She tilted her head and heard a loud shriek like that of a wraith. She recognized that voice, screech or no. "Naruto," she murmured. She flipped through her handsigns at a fast pace. "Slithering Snake Mode," she hissed as her body from the waist down morphed into a black serpent tail. She immediately began slithering through the forest as fast as she could towards the pillar. "Hang on Naruto, I'm coming for you!" she hissed as she flicked her tongue out to taste the air.

Outside Konoha… Somewhere in the Land of Fire…

Hidan was sitting on the ground sharpening the blades of his scythe when he felt a familiar chill. He only felt that chill whenever he was spoken to by his lord, Jashin. He sniffed the air and adjusted his grip on his tri-bladed sythe while fingering the pendant around his neck. It didn't look like much, just a black circle with an upside-down triangle inside the circle. Hidan nervously raised the rosary to his eye level and began praying silently. "Jashin, what is this feeling of dread? Could it be that the one has returned?" Hidan's only answer was a gigantic column of purple chakra shooting straight into the sky. Hidan stared in shock and he actually dropped his scythe. "Oh. My. Jashin." That was his only response. His shock faded as a somewhat maniacal grin formed on his face. He raised his rosary again and let out a small prayer. "Thank you for showing me the way. Now I know…" Hidan opened his eyes and chuckled. "The Harbinger of Jashin has returned," he whispered. Hidan let the rosary fall back onto his unclothed chest as he picked up his scythe and sheathed it on his back. "It's in Konoha," he observed. Hidan cracked his neck and set off as fast as he could, dropping a black cloak with red clouds on it as he ran. Screw the Akatsuki, religion takes priority over all!

Forest of Death… Konoha…

Sasuke was at that moment beating the snot out of a trio of Oto genin. He grinned, the curse mark on his neck pulsing with power, as he grabbed the arms of one of them. Zabu? Zaku? Something like that. "You seem awfully proud of those arms," Sasuke said with a sneer. "Why don't we do something about that then?" Sasuke began pulling on Zaku's arms, and not in a direction that they were meant to move in. Zaku screamed as Sasuke brutally broke the boy's arms, almost ripping them out of their sockets.

Sasuke grinned wider and raised a foot to crush Zaku's skull when a distinct shriek pierced the air. Sasuke let go of the Oto genin and screamed as the shriek seemingly began frying his mind. A trickle of blood ran out of one ear, betraying a ruptured eardrum on the Uchiha. Sasuke turned angrily to try and put his attacker in his place when he froze in shock.

The figure was tall, at least 6' 3", and looked very menacing. He was cloaked in black robes that fell over steel armor with spikes on various places, such as the shoulders, elbows, and the knuckles and fingers of the hands. Sheathed at his sides were a long dagger with a spiked guard, and a two-handed longsword just next to it. A steel helmet guarded the face, looking menacing with it's crown of spikes jutting from the scalp, and the open-faced area of the helmet was empty and filled with shadows. But the eyes were the worst. Sasuke could see the blood-red eyes, with slitted pupils like that of an animal. Sasuke shook in unease… no it was TERROR that Sasuke felt.

The figure raised a gauntleted hand and closed its hand into a spiny fist except the index finger. The wraith waved its finger from left to right, in a "tsk, tsk" fashion.

Sasuke's fear quickly melted into rage. How dare this peasant, this THING, attempt to order around him? An Uchiha?! "Know your place!" Sasuke yelled as he flipped through his handsigns. "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu!" he bellowed as he sent a stream of fireballs at the wraith. The masked figure merely raised its gauntleted hand as its palm ignited in purple chakra. It waved its hand and formed a purple barrier in front of itself, blocking the fireballs. The fireballs hovered against the shield before being absorbed into the barrier. The wraith chuckled darkly as the barrier condensed into a small plate-sized circle. The barrier glowed and shot out the previously absorbed fireballs, the only difference being that they were larger and were now purple. Sasuke's Sharingan flared and he quickly rolled out of the way of the fireballs.

Meanwhile, the wraith placed a hand on its longsword and drew it from its sheath, holding the blade in front of its face with both hands. The creature began slowly walking forward, shifting its stance by holding the blade pointing forward from the right side while its left hand was held parallel to the ground as it pointed towards the Uchiha. (A/N: Basically think the basic combat stance of the Ringwraiths from the Fellowship of the Ring.) Sasuke smirked arrogantly and drew a kunai knife, intent to take down this thing.

The creature chuckled once again and blocked Sasuke's sloppy kunai stab with its sword before backhanding the Last Uchiha across the face, sending him flying straight into a tree. Sasuke groaned and sat up. The wraith snickered for a second. "I always thought you were strong. I guess I was wrong… teme," the wraith hissed as it lunged towards Sasuke. Sasuke was stunned. Nobody called him that except- "Naruto?" he asked right as the wraith slammed the hilt of its sword into the Uchiha's forehead, and all Sasuke saw was blackness.

Naruto POV

Naruto sneered a bit as he knelt down by the unconcious teen. He rolled his eyes for a moment before flipping through his handsigns. "Sorry Orochi-chan, but this bastard doesn't need any more power. The temptation factor of the seal is still there, so you won't have to worry. He'll come in time," Naruto thought. "Evil-Sealing Technique: Fuin! (Fuin= Seal)" he rasped as a small black ring with eight prongs formed around the seal. He nodded in approval. Sasuke could forcibly remove the blocking seal he had just placed, but it would take a lot of chakra… chakra which Sasuke didn't have.

Naruto stood and glanced over at his pink-haired teammate, only to find her not laying on the ground in shock like she had been a moment earlier. He turned to find her standing protectively over Sasuke. "I won't let you hurt Sasuke-kun!" she growled, attempting to sound menacing. That in itself is hard enough to pull off when you look about as threatening as a newborn kitten, and the fact that the kunai in her clasped hands was shaking did little to make her seem terrifying.

Naruto shook his head and pointed at the Uchiha. "Do not come between a Nazgul and his prey. It is most… unwise." Sakura tilted her head for a moment before Naruto looked her in the eyes. His eyes were now purple with two tomoe in each eye. "Sleep," he ordered. Sakura passed out immediately. The Witch-King's successor shook his head in disgust.

Orochimaru slithered down from a tree and canceled her Slithering Snake Mode as she looked upon Naruto's form. Needless to say, she was impressed. Naruto took off his helmet and looked at the Sannin. "Sorry about sealing his Curse Mark, but I don't want the Leaf to freak out if he looses control of it." Orochimaru raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Why not?" Naruto sighed. "Then they lock him up to the point where he'll never escape to come and join you, or they'll kill him if the Hokage has any say. Either way, your plan fails and I don't get to leave this hellhole," Naruto elaborated.

Orochimaru nodded and proceeded to look the blonde up and down. His blond hair was a bit longer, more like Minato's hairstyle, and his whisker marks seemed darker and jagged. As it was, his hair also was a darker shade of blond, with streaks of black and purple going through his bangs, with the tips of the hair at the sides of his face blood red. His face held no trace of baby fat, looking rugged and rough, almost as if he was carved out of stone. Orochimaru subconsciously licked her lips. To her, Naruto was a prime specimen of a man, and needless to say she wanted that specimen, given her "experimenting" obsession.

Naruto groaned and hefted the two Genin over his shoulders. "I better go, don't want to keep the Exams waiting," he said. Orochimaru smirked and tossed him a Heaven Scroll. "You'll need that then in order to get in," she said teasingly. Naruto grunted as he stowed the scroll somewhere in his robes. "You'll need to get out of here before your old apprentice shows up. No doubt she sensed both your chakra and whatever that was that shot out when I transformed. And we both know that if you're captured, the Leaf won't hesitate to kill you. Besides…" Naruto flashed in front of the Sannin, causing her to jump in shock. "I still want that date you promised me," he said in an equally teasing manner. Orochimaru fought the blush that made its way onto her paled face. Naruto grinned and disappeared in a flash of purple. Orochimaru cursed. "Dammit!" She shook her head and smiled. "You always knew how to keep a girl wanting more, eh Naruto-kun?" she mused, licking her lips once again.

End Chapter

Author's Note: Done! Finally, I managed to get this rewrite up and running! Okay, a few changes to the fic this time around. Obviously there will not be a harem, just Fem Orochimaru. Basically here's a list of powers Naruto will have.

Meiton (Dark Release)

Jiongu (Earth Grudge Fear)

Enton (Blaze Release)

Sharingan

Mangekyo Sharingan (will take some time to unlock)

Rinnegan (eventually)

Dark Sorcery and Magic of the Witch-King

Mokuton (Wood Release)? (Possibly, I'll need to think on that one.)

So that's the list so far. I'm cutting down the amount of elemental releases he can do, he'll be powerful but not really godlike as I originally planned. Don't worry, he won't lose fights that often, but he will have good fights I swear. So basically I'm offering three polls now.

1. Should I change the pairing to another girl instead of Fem Orochimaru? Comment with your opinion: yes or no… Just know that I will not write lemons, due to my beta readers at home and the fact that I suck at writing them.

2. What other powers do you want me to give Naruto? Comment with a suggestion. But know that I will not be making him outrageously overpowered to the point the Juubi is just an ant to him, he'll just be powerful.

3. I know it seemed like it had Sasuke Bashing, but that's just how I see it happening at the time. So for the final poll: Do you want Sasuke Bashing or not?

So that's pretty much it. Thanks for reading, leave a rate, comment, subscribe, whatever you want to do. Even if you want to criticize, I'm open to criticism. Sometimes it can tell me what you guys want and how I can improve my writing skills. Just try not to do it for no apparent reason. And for those of you who were reading "There and Back Again: Sauron's Tale" I might not be posting for a while on that one. Let's just say I'm going back over it and debating one of two options. So if you've read that one, please state which you would prefer to happen:

A) I revamp the story to keep in line with the actual personality behind Sauron (and minus the whole "Sauron being the Dragonborn" idea) and try to redo it.

B) I discontinue the story in favor of redoing it with a different character from Lord of the Rings in mind (I'm leaning toward Aragorn or Legolas)

C) I do both options A and B

Yeah, I'm confused. So help me out if you can! Alright, that's all I gotta say. See ya on the flip side!