Yo! What's up guys. I got a new chapter for you all.

So, without further ado, I present you to Chapter 3!

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Naruto stood straight as he stared at his sensei in the eyes or rather eye with a knowing look as he held his fists closed tightly from beside his body.

"It's time for the Chūnin Exams, isn't it?" Naruto asked with a small frown his whiskered face. Kakashi nodded his head and responded.

"Indeed. Though, since were… a teammate short, I need you to actually work together." Kakashi told them. His students nodded in understanding. "These exams are nothing to scoff at Naruto, Sakura. While I know both of you are strong individually, I still want both of you to be careful. Anything can happen these exams." Kakashi finished with a serious look on his masked face.

Naruto and Sakura both looked at each other, as if they were communicating telepathically, before nodding at each other in consent. Both of them knew how serious these exams were, not only to themselves, but for the Village as well. The Chūnin Exams were a world-wide event that happened every six months. What a lot of people didn't know, was it was also a way to show their strength for their respective village, as a substitute for war.

"I know I trained both of you for this, and I have complete faith that you'll both make chūnin, my cute little genin." The silver haired Jōnin stared at his students in pride. Naruto had gone from a practical loser, to now a practical genius. Sakura had come from being a… less talented Shinobi to now being a young, strong and capable Chūnin level Shinobi.

Naruto had opted a change of clothing, instead of wearing his normal orange pants, he decided to wear a pair of midnight blue colored Anbu style pants and wore a pair of blue colored gloves that had metal plating on the back, much like his sensei's. He also wore a pair of black Shinobi sandals. Naruto also had his Tantō in its scabbard, that was tied securely around his left pant leg. His Raijin no Ken was in its scabbard, that was tied around the opposite pant leg. Naruto surprisingly had two wrist bands with Kanji for 'Seal' on them both, inside those seals were used to access kunai and shuriken faster.

Sakura also changed her clothes as well. (Picture her clothes from Shippuden, I'm a bit to lazy to explain them).

"Good luck… the both of you." Kakashi exclaimed before dispersing in a puff of smoke.

Naruto and Sakura looked at each other, Naruto grinned at her reassuringly, giving Sakura a confidence boost. Both split ways to prepare for the upcoming challenges, they somehow knew that something was going to happen, they just didn't know what.

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Naruto had stopped by his house and basically stocked up supplies. 'Two large sized chakra wire stacks… check. Forty manually detonative explosive notes… check. Two-hundred kunai and shuriken… check. 5 flash bombs… check. An extra Tantō… check. 5 first aid boxes… check. Okay that should be everything.' Naruto listed off as he went through his inventory as he left his apartment… well at what was left of it. The whole apartment complex was pretty much all run down, and his apartment exclusively had 'Demon Slang' written on the house in all different types of profanity. To be honest, reading them all was amusing, but the ignorance that all them had was the icing of the cake from him. Before, seeing all those things saddened him to a great extent… but now… now was a different story; he didn't really care what they thought of him. To be honest, he couldn't care less, they were all blowing hot air at him. That's all it was. Hot air, harmless threats and empty hatred.

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Academy

Naruto and Sakura walked towards the ninja academy, several chūnin hopefuls were doing various exercises outside, probably hoping to warm up. The two teammates just ignored the group and headed up the stairs. Naruto counted the floor's till Sakura walked to the second floor seeing several genin looking at a door with a Genjutsu over it. Then a kid in green spandex, with his black hair styled in a bowel cut, beady eyes, large fuzzy eyebrows, wrapping's around his arm's, orange leg warmer's, and a Hitai-Ate tied around his waist on red cloth was knocked back by one of the two genin at the door.

"Why is there someone as talentless you as taking the Chunin Exam?" The first Nin to the right sneered. Naruto watched with a slight frown his face, why were they even here?

"Why bother? Your just a bunch pathetic weaklings. The first ones to die on the battle field!" The other asked with a smirk on his face.

"Bunch of wet behind the ears snot-nose genin. Trash, that's what you all are!" The first one said with a smirk and his partner nodded in agreement.

"You said it!" The other said and they 'fist pumped'.

Then a girl walked forward towards the two boy's. She had her brown hair done up into two bun's her bang's coming over her Hitai-ate, chocolate brown eyes, and a nice figure. She wore a pink Chinese shirt, with dark shinobi pants, her kunai pouch on her right thigh, and a pair of dark blue ninja sandals.

"Sakura, you noticed it right." Naruto asked quietly. His pink haired teammate nodded her head.

"Yes, I see it, but what are two chūnin here for?" She asked. Naruto grunted.

"It's to intimidate and weed through the weak." Naruto told her, she caught on quickly and nodded.

"I see what you mean. It does look like it's working." Sakura commented with a small cheeky smile, Naruto smirked at her before they both made a few hand seals discreetly.

"Henge no Jutsu." The two whispered in unison as henged into some random person and began walking to the next floor.

The two Chūnin smirked slightly, 'So, that's Hatake-senpai's team. Not bad.' They thought before they went back to taunt random Genin.

The two unhenged and began walking towards their destination. After a little walking, Naruto and Sakura made their way up the stairs and came to room 301 at last. Once they entered the room they were greeted by Kiba and his arrogance getting the better of him.

"Danm, I didn't know they let failures in the exam. Humph, I guess they pitied…" Kiba said, but was never able to finish before he fell first, unconscious. The last thing he saw were some freaky purple eyes.

"He calls me a failure, yet he failed to beat a D-Rank Genjutsu." Naruto stated quietly, only Sakura could hear his comment and she lit up with small giggles.

"K-Kiba-kun!" Hinata squeaked as she bent down to inspect an unconscious Kiba with her permanent blush on her face. She ran her hand across his body and began inspecting his body to see if he had any external wounds.

Just then a kid dressed in purple with glasses and silver hair walked up to the group of rookies, "Hey you guys are the rookies for this year, right?" The genin asked

"Yeah what of it." Shikamaru replied with an edge to his voice as he peered at the ash-haired kid. Naruto raised an eyebrow in curiosity, it would seem even Shika was on edge.

"Nothing really, just wanted to let you know that with all the ruckus your friend here has caused, you guys are first on the menu for them." Kabuto said smirking as he gestured to the downed Kiba.

The genin looked up and saw the glares they were getting from everyone, genin from Kiri were glaring, genin from the Hidden Cloud and hell even genin from the minor Villages were glowering at them.

"Anyways, the name's Yakushi Kabuto, and I think I can help you guys out." He stated with arrogant smirk etched on his face as he pushed up his glasses with middle and pointer finger.

"How's that four eyes." Naruto asked with a sneer. This had better not be waste of his time, he and Sakura had no time for distractions.

"With these, my ninja-info cards." Kabuto gestured as pulled out a deck of cards that had an orange backing to them. They were each engraved with some sort of lettering.

"Your what?" The now awakened Kiba questioned with a mocking smirk of face. "Those have got to be the lamest things next to the dead last. If you didn't notice, those cards a blank. Moron." Kiba muttered the part as he stuck his hands in his pockets and struck a cool pose… well at least to him.

"Maybe now, but if I channel chakra into them, I can get all of someone's information that I was looking for that I've gathered on them." Kabuto said as he did some 'Tricks' with them.

Naruto narrowed his eyes in suspicion, how would he get information from the rookies that haven't even taking the exams yet. Something was going on.

This gathered the attention to Kiba. "Give me everything you know about Uzumaki Naruto, Gaara of the Sand and Hyūga Neji." Kiba demanded did the 'C'mon motion' with hand and tapped his foot impatiently.

Naruto watched in disgust, 'What did I ever see in him as a friend. He would automatically sellout an allies' information when we could die any minute in these exams. It's official, I've lost all respect for you, Kiba.' Naruto thought as he had to keep a disgusted sneer from coming onto his whiskered face. Sakura was glaring heavily at hearing Kiba's demand. It would seem that her opinion over Kiba was even worse then it was before.

Kabuto drew five random cards and channeled chakra into the first revealing Naruto's. "Let's see Naruto Uzumaki, his lone teammate is Sakura Haruno and he had a former teammate who died on his first C-Rank mission; Sasuke Uchiha was his name and he was this years rookie of the year. Their sensei is renowned, Sharingan no Kakashi or Hatake Kakashi, Leaf's strongest Jōnin. He's been on 8 C-Rank missions and 3 B-Rank's… oh what's this, he also completed an A-Rank mission. He's also known for killing Aoi Rokushō the former wielder of the Raijin no Ken. He is very proficient in Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and Kenjutsu. He also showed a smaller aptitude for Fūinjutsu and Genjutsu" He listed off with an impressed look on his face. The other rookies either looked at him in awe or were glaring at him even more.

As much as he wanted to take the Ego boost, he knew there was something fishy going on. That A-Rank mission was labeled Hokage's only information, so how did get that information. Sakura looked at Naruto in worry, it seem she caught on as well.

Though, a large cloud of smoke erupted from behind the group and not even second later, they heard a shout.

"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" A loud voice shouted out from behind them.

Kiba lightly cursed the fact that he couldn't get more information from 'four eyes', though he reluctantly did so.

"My name is Ibiki Morino, and I'll be your proctor for this part of the exam. The written part." Ibiki said with a sadistic smile. Naruto lightly shivered, that smile was way worse then what he could ever do.

Everyone took their seats and Naruto got lucky enough to be in between Sakura and Shikamaru, two of the smartest genin that he knew.

"Alright you have 90 minutes to complete the first 9 questions after the time is up, I'll give you the tenth and the final question where you will have 10 minutes to answer. If you are caught cheating, you lose 10 points. If you get caught 5 times then your whole team is out of here, if your teams score isn't high enough you will not move on. Alright, with that being said, you may…BEGIN!" Ibiki yelled and the genin turned over their tests and some already looked like they wanted to kill themselves from just looking at the exam.

Naruto was completely relaxed and smiled at the exam. He already knew Ibiki's game, psychological warfare was one of the most dangerous sorts of torture. And it looked like Naruto's hunch was correct when he said all that stuff. After listening to Kakashi's riddles, Ibiki's riddle that he told everyone was simple. Don't get caught cheating. But if they cheated and didn't get caught then your fine. So far, it looked like he was correct.

Naruto grinned slyly before grasped some bombs discreetly tossed them over to Ibiki's table, causing the whole room to erupt with smoke, greatly obscuring Ibiki's view. Seeing the distraction, Naruto made two quick Kage Bunshin's and had them immediately Henge into a pencil that went onto Sakura and Shikamaru's desk. The smoke cleared a few seconds later, revealing an agitated Ibiki.

Naruto had a small smirk on his face as the Henged Clone dispelled a few minutes later after seeing Sakura finish he exam. He quickly sorted at all of the memories of his Kage Bunshin before he started scribbling down the answers.

'The little shit… it was him wasn't it… of course it was, that smirk says everything. Your cleaver, I'll give you that, Uzumaki.' Ibiki Morino thought a small smile on his face as he sat back down in chair.

Naruto lightly smirked as he sat back in his seat, completely relaxed.

Slowly, but surely, numerous amount of genin were either quitting or were getting caught by Ibiki, they were dropping like flies.

A few minutes later, Ibiki grinned. He was standing the exact same spot, as when he had told the rules of the exam. Ibiki spoke up, "looks like we've already dropped the incompetent ones. I will now give the problem, since 45 minutes have already have passed. So, listen up! This is the tenth and final problem!" The room was dead-silent, everyone were at the edge of their seats (besides Naruto), waiting for the 'final' answer to their exam.

"But before I do, there's one thing I must say… There will be one special rule for this last question." Ibiki continued with a chilling glare that was aimed towards the nervous and anxious genin.

"I will now explain" Ibiki continued. "This is a hopeless rule… First, you are all going to choose if you wish to take this tenth problem or not." That caught everyone's attentions.

It was Temari of Suna who spoke up, "Choose? So, what happens if we don't take the tenth problem?"

"If you choose not to take it," Ibiki replied, "Your points will be reduced to zero. In other words; you and your team will fail." A lot of murmur caused through the room "And here is the other rule." The room fell silent again "If you choose to take it, and you get it wrong, you will lose the privilege to take the Chunin exams forever!" He shouted with a mad look in his eye as a fresh wave of killing intent washed over the room, making many of the genin shiver in fear, however, to some of the more experienced genin like Naruto, Sakura, Gaara and Temari were just fine, as they have either been trained to withstand killing intent or they've felt way worse before. Bother were particularly right for both parties.

This really caught Naruto's interest, what game was Scarface playing? First, he says they get to choose whether or not to take the tenth problem, but if they don't, then we fail. But if you do take it and you get the question wrong, then your banded from Chūnin Exams ever again.

Kiba couldn't take it anymore. He had held in an outburst for way to long "What the hell!? There are people that have taken the exams in the past!"

"You were unlucky!" He countered with a shout, almost immediately as he expected that same exact outburst to happen. "This year I am the one making the rules. That is why I gave you the option of quitting. Those who are not confident, can choose not to take it, and just take the exam later this year, or the exam after that…" He trailed off when he heard chuckling, then full blown laughter. He turned to look and was heavily amused when Uzumaki laughing his ass off.

"Please… The villagers here are more intimating." Naruto scoffed as quieted down. "Tell me something… why does everyone think that the Chūnin Exams are the only way of getting promoted to chūnin. I mean it's simple, just get a field promotion. It a common thing, hell you can be foreign genin from a foreign village and not even make it through the exams, yet their respective Kage could probably promote them anyway. So, not doing the chūnin exams would be a cowards move; and I hate cowards." Naruto explained, much to the amazement and the shock to the Genin. Ibiki smirked for a quick moment before going back to his stone, cold emotionless act. Though he probably would never say it, that boy was special. He knew it the day he saw the boy out run a fully trained Ninja at the ripe age of ten years old.

"I will ask one more time…" Ibiki started, "This is the choice that will impact your life. If you want to quit, now is the chance." He finished.

Naruto leaned back in his chair, looking straight into Ibiki's eyes and said one word.

"Adorable."

Ibiki looked Naruto and shook his head in amusement, before shouting.

"Well… for all people who had the balls to stay… then you all… Pass!" He shouted the last part; his personality came to a complete 180. He looked up at the many shocked genin's and smirked

He looked at Naruto, who had closed his eyes but opened them to look at the window. "So, she finally shows her face." Ibiki muttered before he took a step back.

They didn't know what he meant, Though, they didn't have to ask since a big ball flew through the window and broke it into a thousand pieces.

The ball revealed a woman, who put the ball's cloth behind her, "Okay boys and girls, follow me! I'm The Sexy and Single Anko Mitarashi, the examiner of the second part of the Chunin Selection Exam." She shouted in flamboyant manner.

Many sweatdropped as Ibiki spoke behind the cloth, "You rushed it, Anko… again." He said slowly as he released a loud sigh of

Anko didn't answer; instead, she looked at the Genin and stated, "Wow, 77 people, Ibiki you let 26 teams pass? The first exam must've been too soft. Why did you allow them all to pass? Your exam must have been very easy; it seems you are going soft as well." Anko stated mockingly as she struck a pose. Ibiki sighed at Anko's antics, you would think after being around the woman for hours every day for that past five years then he would be used to it, but no… no.

"Don't look at me… this years batch is just a lot tougher then the last." He told her with a comical huff with his eyebrow violently twitching.

The genin just watched with collective sweatdrops, where was the strict and sadistic Ibiki that was just here a minute ago?

"Its been a while since I saw Anko. The last I saw her was when she taught me how to throw kunai at the Forest of Death. Ahhh, good times… good times.' Naruto reminisced as he watched the two Tokubetsu Jōnin bicker like little children.

Training Ground 44

The remaining teams and Anko shortly arrived at training ground 44, Naruto looked at the forest, with a look of pure remembrance. He had to admit, the forest still looked as creepy as it did before, but it didn't really faze him as much as it did all those years ago.

"WELCOME YOU MAGGOTS TO THE FOREST OF DEATH!" Anko announced with a gleeful look. Naruto stared at Anko with a look of admiration, that sadistic nature of hers was very enticing, especially to him, that body of hers wasn't so bad either-. Naruto snapped out his little daydream adopted a look of confusion.

'Okay what the hell was that just now? Was… was I just c-checking her out?!' Naruto thought incredulously with a small blush. Though, he wasn't wrong, she did have a really good looking body.

Though, his blush was wiped of his face when his danger senses went off and instinctively dodged a kunai that was flying straight at his neck. He turned around and caught the handle the kunai and discreetly channeled a small bit of chakra into the seal that was on his wrist and out popped an explosive note, then then wrapped it around the handle and pointed it behind him, which is wear Anko reappeared and the kunai was aimed right at her kidney.

"You move, and I stab you, you dodge, and I blow us both up… well, I wouldn't die though…" Naruto trailed off to the shocked Anko as she felt something dull poke her in the back, she lightly turned around and saw another Naruto with a smirk on his face.

"Cause, he's just a Kage Bunshin holding a kunai attached with an explosive note." Naruto finished, much to her surprise. "And that's not a kunai poking you… what is it you may ask, well…" Naruto trailed off much to her surprise once more and much to her sexual preference.

She stayed still before she nodded her head with rosy blush staining her cheeks and held up her hands in a 'surrender' motion as Naruto lightly lowered his weapon and she went back to the front of the line and began explaining about the second part of the exam. Soon after, Naruto and Sakura soon started a conversation, taking about what they should do and what their strategy should be.

Many girls and boys watched the previous scene with jealous stares. The girls were jealous that… slut for feeling such good looking guy like that and the guys… well, it's pretty self-explanatory.

Though, after a few minutes, she stopped explaining.

"Alright, the second part of the Chūnin Exams starts now!" exclaimed Anko as the training ground 44 doors all opened for the contestants.

Time Skip: 1 Day Later

Naruto and Sakura had quickly disposed of a team from Ame that tried to fool them with Henge and fortunately they had the scroll Naruto's team needed to complete this part of the exam. So, they decided to calmly head for the tower then relax for the remaining time they would have.

The poor Ame genin on the other hand… well, his family would be getting an unfortunate letter from their respective Kage.

Naruto decided that Sakura should hold both scrolls, as he was the best fighter out of the two and she took a more supportive roll, that's why they would think that Naruto had the scroll in the first place. While Sakura wasn't defenseless when it came to combat, she still wasn't nearly as strong as Naruto.

Suddenly, Naruto created four Kage Bunshin, which confused and surprised his female teammate, almost as if he sensed her confusion he turned to her as they came to a stop on a thick, singular tree branch.

"I'm sending these Kage Bunshin to scout the area while we traverse through this forest, I don't want to be hit by surprise and then somehow getting us being separated." Naruto explained before he mentally ordered the Kage Bunshin leave, which they immediately did so in a burst of speed.

"Good idea, Naruto. But do you sense anything?" Sakura asked her blond teammate who closed his eyes and concentrated for a few moments before he nodded his head.

"Yea, I got two teams to the west of us, along with a decently high chakra signature, around mid-chunin level… I say we move more stealthy, and suppress our chakra signature… I mean, I'm not the best sensor, so someone could be suppressing their chakra and they would be able to completely go off my radar." Naruto suggested.

She looked like she was thinking about it, before she nodded her head in agreement. She got Naruto's message. 'we can never be too carful', which she readily agreed to.

"Let's go!" With that said, Naruto and Sakura both disappeared in a burst of speed.

But, none of them had seem two yellow snake-like eyes watching them from above, before he to, disappeared in a burst of speed, but not without letting a creepy chuckle linger through the air.

Time Skip: Thirty Minutes Later

Naruto and Sakura were steadily traveling through the forest at an average speed, but they were moving a more conserved speed, neither of them wanted tire themselves out, just incase they would have to fight, which neither of them made plans to do, as they want to get the second exams completed without any problems and only minor injuries.

So far, they had pretty much over watched a total of two fights as they were traversing through the deadly forest and they saw nothing special, just average genin teams clashing with each other.

Suddenly, a strong blast of wind broke through the forest line that Naruto and Sakura were going through, but they dodged easily enough. They both jumped forward and ran up the tallest tree they could find and observed what they could.

"Sakura, that was defiantly a Futon Jutsu, so we could be running into a Suna team, so be on guard." Naruto ordered his teammate. Sakura readily nodded before she pulled out a kunai and held it in reverse grip.

"Kukukuku… It's seems the rumor about you Naruto-kun are true, you are a great team leader." A creepy, slithery tone sounded out from behind them.

Sakura immediately turned around and threw a kunai a rapid speeds at where she heard the voice coming from, but she just hit a random tree. She quickly pulled a few more kunai that were tucked in between the each of her fingers and crouched readily.

Naruto on the other pulled out his Tanto and held in a reverse grip as well, as he watched his surroundings and looked for any signs of Genjutsu, unsurprisingly, he found none. So that meant that it was a real person.

"Always on the ready… isn't that right, Naruto-kun." The voice sounded out again, but this time he threw out some killing intent aimed at Naruto and Sakura.

Sakura had a small bead of sweat running down the side of her face and Naruto looked emotionless and he looked completely unfazed by the killing intent.

"If your foolish enough to think that your insignificant killing intent so much as bothers me… then you're a danm fool." Naruto said at no one in particular.

However, the chuckles returned full force and the killing intent heaved heavier. Sakura's bead of sweat got even larger and Naruto still remained unchanged. After seeing their resistance, the chuckle had gotten even larger and gained a malicious intent to it.

"I guess having the Rinnegan, has perks."

Naruto raised his eyebrow at that, "Oh, so you know about me having the Rinnegan? I guess your not so foolish after all. But, then again, your dancing around in the shadows just taunting us. So, how about you come out and fight us like any real person would with balls." Naruto taunted him, trying to goad the person into fighting them face to face, as he knew that they were both at a disadvantage. This person knew who he was, and he knew that he had the Rinnegan, so he decided try and even the playing field out.

"HA! Very well, Naruto-kun!" The voice responded with an insane laugh as a figure appeared in front of him.

He had very pale skin, golden eyes with slitted pupils, purple markings around his eyes and fang-like teeth. He also had pronounced cheekbones and straight waist-length black hair with some locks covering and framing his face or to his shoulders. He wore plain grey garbs with a black polo and pants underneath, a thick purple rope belt tied in a large knot behind his back, blue tomoe-shaped earrings, and shinobi sandals with bandages around his calves.

Naruto unconsciously took a step back as a bead of sweat rolled his face and his eyes widened in shock. The man smirked at the boy's reaction before he took a step forward.

"I see you recognize me?" He asked with a mocking smirk on his marked face as his malicious golden eyes sparkled with amusement.

Naruto mentally growled before he steeled his resolve before his emotionless façade returned full force. "My sensei gave a list of three people who I should never try fighting. One was Killer Bee; the master Jinchuriki, Uchiha Itachi and… Orochimaru of the Sennin." Naruto started with the man's smirk getting even larger. "And your Orochimaru, aren't you." It wasn't it question, it was more of a statement.

Sakura's eyes widened in fear when Naruto said that; A Sennin in the middle of chunin exams? Why was he here? Were the thoughts running through the pink haired girl's head as she too took a step back in fear and she readied her kunai's with her now shaking hands.

Hearing his answer, Orochimaru cackled with sick laughter, "My, my, it seems you do know who I am."

Naruto growled, "Tell me… why are you here? Were just genin… oh please, your going to kill a bunch of genin to serve for you own sick amusement, aren't you?!" Naruto asked with an edge to his voice.

"Kukukuku… it seems that I've gotten you mad, tell me, what did I do to deserve such treatment?" Orochimaru asked in innocent tone, but his eyes held amusement.

"Naruto! Calm down, now!" Kyuubi ordered from inside the seal. Naruto stopped for a second before he took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"Sakura." Naruto said, getting her attention. "I want you to go with my Kage Bunshin and get as far away from here as possible, once you get tower, I want you to immediately warn the Hokage that Orochimaru is in the forest of death. Tell him that Naruto sent you." He ordered her in a commanding tone.

"W-What!? Are you crazy-," Sakura was cut short, by Naruto's shout.

"LEAVE! NOW!" Naruto ordered once more, but in a higher tone. She nodded meekly before Naruto created a Kage Bunshin and he grabbed her and immediately left in a Shunshin.

Orochimaru watched with a raised eyebrow as he saw the clone preform the Shunshin. 'Interesting. It seems Naruto-kun is even more impressive then I originally thought.' He thought in surprise and in interest.

Naruto's eyes snapped open to reveal a pair of two ringed Rinnegan eyes that made Orochimaru's mouth water at such magnificent eyes.

"Shall we?" Naruto asked as he slid into a Taijutsu stance before he sheathed his Tanto into it's scabbard.

Orochimaru said nothing before he charged forward in High-Chunin speeds and sent a kick towards Naruto's upper body, which was easily blocked as Naruto lightly leaned his body the opposite direction and reversed his hand and caught the kick with his palm, before shoved the Sennin's foot out of the way before channeled chakra into his seals and out came four shuriken and kunai, which were immediately thrown at Orochimaru's vitals', or they would have hit if he didn't sink into the ground, completely escaping the attack and Naruto's sight.

Seeing that he had no idea where his enemy was, Naruto jumped back and formed the cross hand seal.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto muttered as a clone appeared right beside him with a kunai already in his hand. Naruto mentally ordered the clone to watch his blind spots, which it responded by getting behind straight behind the original Naruto.

Just then, a barrage of shuriken were thrown straight at Naruto from up above, Naruto saw their path clearly as channeled chakra once more into his wrist seals and out came five shuriken, which were thrown directly at the incoming shuriken, effectively blocking them all and knocking them off their original path.

Naruto made some more hand seals at a good speed before he landed on the tiger hand seal, something Orochimaru caught from his hiding spot.

'So, Naruto-kun knows fire style ninjutsu? How interesting.' He thought with an impressed smirk.

"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as he breathed a fury of small sized fire balls which hit the top of a few trees, in which he was aiming, immediately setting them on fire. Though, one fire ball had hit its target, creating a small fiery explosion. Not even a second later, Orochimaru came jumping through the fire with absolutely zero damage done and his clothes were only smoking.

'Danm, not even a scratch nor a burn.' Naruto thought, with a slight frown.

Orochimaru smirked slightly, "That wasn't a bad jutsu, Naruto-kun, but do you really a mere c-rank fire jutsu is going to hurt me or so much as kill me?" He asked mockingly.

Naruto shook his head, "That attack wasn't for you." He told him to his surprise.

The snake Sennin rose an eyebrow before a smoking corpse fell from behind him and smacked dead on the ground.

"Oh, I see, you weren't aiming for me. You were aiming at completely different target. Bravo." Orochimaru praised as he clapped his hands an impressed smirk on his pale face.

"But how about I show you a jutsu of my own." Orochimaru said as he ran through hand seals at mid-jōnin speeds, which Naruto's eyes followed along with some trouble.

"Doton: Daitaisō Inin!" He shouted before he slammed his hands on ground as is started rumble. Orochimaru smirked at the rumbling, now he want to see what would happen if Naruto had to go against an A-Rank jutsu that he had never seen before.

Naruto, with his Rinnegan was able to see the chakra build up before the snake Sennin released the attack, so he had a head start on dodging, and which he did, he used a seal-less Kawarimi no Jutsu, before he also Shunshined away onto the top of a nearby tree. Though, his Rinnegan eyes also allowed him to copy the technique as well.

After Naruto escaped, about twenty sharp, large earth spears shot up from the ground and stabbed 'Naruto' in lots of different places, but namely, they stabbed him in his heart, one of his lungs, through his stomach and through the dead center of his right knee, which caused his body to start bleeding profusely from the wounds.

Orochimaru saw his attack hit dead center, but a few seconds later, a small cloud of smoke was made directly at the now 'dead' Naruto, which was replaced by a log, that skewered by the sharp earth spikes.

'Hmmm, a Substitution Jutsu, impressive.' He thought with his smirk getting slightly larger.

Naruto from up in the tree, made two hand seals and landed on the tiger hand seal once more cupped his hand near his mouth and shouted.

"Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu!" Naruto breathed a large fire ball, but soon it was developed into a flaming dragon head that zoomed in at the surprised Orochimaru at even more surprising speeds before it came into contract, creating a good size fiery explosion.

His attack created a good sized fire, that was caught by some random trees and the grass that below their feet.

Once he smoke cleared, Orochimaru was seen standing completely still, without injury once again, but this time, his clothes were burned pretty badly, as half of his kimono was burnt off and some of his pants were singed as well.

"Well, well, well, I certainly did not expect that." The snake Sennin chuckled when he saw frustration spark in the boy's Rinnegan eyes. "But it did pack a punch, I'm pretty sure it knocked the wind out of me." He mocked with booming laughter.

Naruto decided to take his distraction as an advantage as a kunai appeared from the seal and he coated it with raiton chakra before he threw directly Orochimaru, who wasn't laughing anymore.

"Please, if you think a raiton chakra enhanced kunai is going to-," His mocking words interrupted by Naruto's next words, which slightly scared him.

"Ninpō: Raiton: Kuani Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto bellowed as his one raiton enhanced kunai transformed and multiplied into hundreds that were all coated with the same blue raiton chakra, simultaneously strengthening their piercing power, their speed and durability all at once, increasing their attack power by a great amount.

Orochimaru ran through hand seals at blurring speeds, even in Naruto's eyes, before the snake Sennin whispered.

"Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu!" He intoned strongly as he sunk clean into the ground and started burrowing himself, as he tunneled down beneath the earth, completely avoiding the attack.

Naruto mentally cursed at his attack being avoided, but he soon got an idea, he closed his eyes and tried to sense the Sennin to fish him out of the ground, but that soon was proved ineffective when he found out that Orochimaru had suppressed his chakra. Just then, the ground rumbled from underneath him and Orochimaru jumped clean through his long snake tongue shooting straight out of his mouth, holding a kunai.

The blond immediately jumped up, but he cursed when he realized that exactly what Orochimaru wanted as the snake Sennin started go through hand seals at moderate speed, but unfortunately for Naruto, the snake Sennin only had to go through a couple hand seals. So, Naruto was stuck completely in animation.

"Fūton: Tadai Fūdan!" Orochimaru said his jutsu name before he took a deep breath of air before he breathed out a wide arc wind bullet. The attack wasn't supposed to pierce the target, no It was used to break bones and cause internal damage. The attack hit, and Naruto was hit head on and was sent though multiple trees like a knife cutting through butter.

Just as he came to stop, he tumbled around on the grassy ground before he stopped himself with a burst of chakra, he got up on one knee as held his chest and winced in pain.

'F-Fuck! I think that attack broke a few of my ribs. Kyuubi, would you be nice guy and heal me, please?' Naruto asked as he winced once again. He heard the fox 'humph' before he sent some of his chakra to his host and started numbing the pain first before the chakra started healing the freshly broken bones.

He steadily got up on his feet as the pain numbed and saw Orochimaru walking leisurely towards the blond, who was glaring heavily at snake Sennin. "Cool attack, that attack was a blunt force attack, right? Usually used to destroy smaller buildings, but you used it to break a few of bones to stall me, isn't that right?" Naruto asked curiously with a quirked eyebrow as he slid into a fighting stance as he drew his Tanto and held it in reverse grip.

The snake Sennin chuckled a small bit at Naruto's analyzation, "Your correct, once again Naruto-kun. Truly impressive healing abilities, I would say that it's your Uzumaki genes or your it's because your status of a Jinchuriki." He commented, slightly surprising Naruto with his insight of him being a Jinchuriki.

"So, you know that I'm a Jinchuriki." Naruto said mostly to himself, not once taking his eyes of his enemy. "To be honest with you… I'm actually enjoying this." Naruto admitted, much to Orochimaru's surprise.

"You said that your enjoying this… are talking about enjoying this fight?" He asked curiously as he crossed his arms. Naruto chuckled a small bit, before nodding.

"Yea, I don't know how, but I know that your toying with me… while that alone angers me, I know I wouldn't last against fighting an S-Rank Shinobi at their fullest potential… Not yet, anyway." Naruto stated with a frown. He hated feeling weak and he was starting to feel that exact same way. While he was talking, he was strategizing inwardly.

'There's no water around… so water ninjutsu, I've used my strongest fire ninjutsu and dueling against him Kenjutsu and Taijutsu would be pointless. Maybe… yes, that might work.' Naruto thought.

Suddenly a shout was heard from behind Orochimaru, which surprised him greatly.

"Shinra Tensei!" A bellow came from behind the snake Sennin before he forcibly propelled forwards Naruto who was running through hand seals as well.

"Fūton: Shinkū Taigyoku!" Naruto shouted as he exhaled a large blast of compressed air that raced towards Orochimaru's propelled form. That attack was Naruto's strongest Fūton jutsu that he had in his entire arsenal of growing jutsu. The attack hit head on and shredded Orochimaru's clothes instantly upon contact and his skin and bones were next before a large blast of compressed air exploded in a sonic boom which sent Orochimaru hurling back into a tree line, which he was sent through like a hot knife through butter.

Naruto breathed some ragged breaths before he jumped up to tree and observed the tree line that Orochimaru was just sent through and he went through hand seals once more before he settled on the tiger hand seal, he then cupped his right hand near his mouth.

Katon: Dai Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Naruto bellowed as he forced a great amount of chakra into his lungs, while shaping Katon chakra through his stomach and lungs, causing his chest to enlarge to a great diameter before he breathed out an exceedingly large fire ball that burned brightly with red hot flames that raced towards Orochimaru's downed form, which caused a good sized explosion of red chakra to erupt deep within tree line.

Naruto hunched forward and fell out of the tree, as he started breathing even heavier. That attack had taken a lot of chakra away from him, not only that, but that was first time he was even using the jutsu in battle, so it wasn't mastered in anyway. His chakra was already low before he even launched that attack.

Suddenly, a long snake-like neck shot out from the ground right next to Naruto and shockingly enough, it had Orochimaru's face attached to a long pale, white neck. His fangs were even longer as he opened his mouth to abnormal sizes.

Naruto wasn't fast enough to react, and he was tired as well, so his senses were dulled at the moment. Orochimaru's enlarged fangs chomped straight onto Naruto's exposed neck before he emitted a large amount of dark chakra and transmitted into the blond's neck, causing him to scream in absolute pain.

The snake Sennin stayed in his current position for a few more seconds before he disengaged his snake-like fangs and watched with a malicious smirk as three, black coma-like marks appeared onto Naruto's neck, directly above the place Orochimaru bit down.

Naruto's eyes rolled back into his head before he fell straight onto his back, occasionally writhing as different pain spasms rocked his body. They continued as more dark and malevolent chakra seeped and grown into the boy.

The rest of Orochimaru's body came through the same why his neck and face came before they pulled themselves together and wow and behold; Orochimaru was fully healed and fully clothed.

'Truly amazing. That boy is a prodigy that hasn't been seen since Itachi-kun. He didn't hesitate to kill me when I was down, he gave no mercy… he was ruthless and cunning, as shown when he tried deceiving me by making me think that he was down on his last legs. I truly almost believed it, but then the brat caught me by surprise with Shinra Tensei and used that Fūton jutsu. But he used what ever chakra he had left and used a large sized Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu, if it wasn't for the fact that I could regenerate from even the deadliest injuries, then I would be seriously hurt right now… to think that I could have died because I didn't take him seriously.' Orochimaru thought, clearly impressed. 'Yes… he'll make a magnificent host indeed.' Were Orochimaru's last thoughts before he Shunshined away.

How'd ya like it?

Now, a lot of you guys are confused; how strong is Naruto at the current moment? You might be asking, we'll as I've stated within the narration, Naruto was able to keep up with mid-jōnin speeds for a small bit of time, and as I've shown within the narration as well, Naruto isn't all that powerful yet, as he still has been only training for Four or so months. So, at the current moment, I would say High-Chunin Level.

A lot of you are also going to be mad about how tired Naruto was after using only eight or so jutsu, well, five of those jutsu were B-Rank jutsu, one of them were C-Rank jutsu and two of them were either high B-Rank or low A-Rank jutsu.

Mind you, that Naruto actually did really good against Orochimaru, Naruto knew right from the start the wasn't going to win, as I stated before the fight when Naruto first recognized Orochimaru. He managed to land a fatal wound and burn him in multiple areas, which were surprise attacks and wouldn't have worked a second time. But Naruto knew that they was running out of chakra and he decided to make his move with the Kage Bunshin that he created in the very beginning of the fight to watch his blind spot.

But, the main reason for me making Naruto fight Orochimaru was simple; #1: It was a way for Naruto to obtain his Curse Seal, without making it seem forced. #2: It was a way for Naruto to get more experience fighting those stronger then him and another way for him to copy powerful jutsu as he copied a powerful Fūton jutsu and two strong Doton jutsu, so that was success.

So, I guess that this is it!

Seeeya!