Speech"
'Kabuto's thoughts'
'"speech in memory" '
My team and I raced through the Forest of Death. As we jumped through the trees I heard screams of some genin but I ignored them and continued on. We continued to jump for a few hours. I turned to face my "teammates" and told them to split up then well meet at the tower, and sped off again.
Horse → Ram "Suishō Bunshin no Jutsu(Jade Crystal Clone Technique)" I whispered. As a hexagonal mirror formed in front of me, a clone of me stepped out of it.
I instructed my clone to head out and eliminate the stronger unimportant genin, and leave the weaker genin for the Rookie's so they could pass. My clone nodded and speed off, I quickly picked up Team 7's energy signatures and headed towards it.
When I arrived at Team 7's location I watched as Naruto go to the bathroom, only to get his ass kicked by a Rain Shinobi. The Rain shinoni incompletely henged to look like Naruto and failed to convince Sasuke who he was. Then Sasuke attacked him only for the Rain shinobi's henge fail, the Rain shinobi fled and Naruto came back. Only to be blasted away by a wind jutsu.
I watched as the disguised Orochimaru reveal himself to Sasuke and Sakura. Orochimaru aimed Jonin level killing intent to Sasuke and Sakura making both of them freeze up. Orochimaru lazily pulled out two Kunai, and casually tossed them. Sasuke used pain to gain lucidity and he quickly grabbed Sakura and then jumped off into the forest.
Orochimaru and Sasuke bartered for a while, till Orochimaru swallowed the scroll. 'No matter how many times I see that it still creeps me out a bit.' I thought with a shiver.
When Sasuke stared to give up Naruto came out of nowhere, cooked up on the Kyuubi's chakra. Orochimaru looked bored, so he summoned a large snake and ordered it to attack Sasuke and Naruto. Naruto still using the Kyuubi's power had the strength to hold it back, and started to attack Orochimaru. Orochimaru caught Naruto and applied the Gogyō Fūin (Five Elements Seal ) over Naruto's Hakke no Fūin Shiki(Eight Trigrams Sealing Style) cutting Naruto off from the Kyuubi's chakra.
The fight was relatively one sided with Sasuke barely keeping up with Orochimaru. Sasuke was able to trap one of Orochimaru's clones in ninja wire, and finished him off with a fire jutsu. There was a few minutes of silence then Orochimaru came out of the trees and bit Sasuke in the neck applying the Orochimaru no Juinjutsu(Orochimaru's Cursed Seal Technique) of heaven.
Sasuke blacked out because of the pain and Sakura drag him and an unconscious Naruto to a clearing, and then stared to patch them up. I got extremely bored and created another clone to prevent any genin other than the Sound genin to attack Sasuke then went to sleep.
-Few hours later-
I woke up to Team 7 and Team 10 fighting the sound nin, and to say the fight was pitiful would be an understatement. The fight was awfully slow and so many sappy moments. It was so painful to watch, so I left.
As I traveled through the forest I heard a loud roar near me. I went to investigate it what I saw was an interesting, a giant bear attacking Karin the girl that sat next to me in the first test. 'hmm so should I save her or should I let her die, from what I remember in the first part of the test she completed her written test almost as fast as I did so that might suggest higher than normal intelligence. She also has Red hair and high Chakra reserves is it possible she's part of the Uzumaki clan, if that's the case then I really shouldn't let her die.' I sighed. With that last thought I stepped into action.
I appeared behind the bear and used my Chakra scalpel sever its spine from its brain, killing it quickly, I jumped off of the bears corpse, I looked to Karin to see her sitting up and putting her glasses on. I walked over to her to help her up, and she blushed.
"Are you alright I" I asked her warmly.
"Y-yes" she stuttered while fidgeting with her glasses.
"Why are you out here alone?" I asked Karin.
"My team left me here" She informed me. Then she fidgeted around like she wanted to say something else. "I also need you to do something for me." Karin asked.
"Okay what do you need form me?" I questioned. She handed me a sealing scroll, and I sent her a questioning look.
"I need you to get this information to Orochimaru-Sama for me" she told me,' hmm so she's a spy for Orochimaru.'
"How would I get this to a S-Ranked traitor of the Leaf." I asked her pretending to be confused.
"Because a few years ago Orochimaru-Sama took me to Otogakure, when I was there some of the shinobi talked about you and said you were Orochimarus second in command. Also I saw you a there few times working with your apprentice in the medical labs were I was being tested." Karin explained.
I sighed. "Fine, alright" I agreed as I pocketed the scroll. I looked around the forest and then back to her.
"Do you need help finding your teammates?" I asked Karin.
"Yes please, I'm not much of a fighter I work better as a medic." She stated, as we started tree hopping to the tower. 'Hmm…so she's a medic?' I snuck a glance at her and I didn't notice any medical tools.
"How would you judge your current medical abilities?" I asked her, as I ducked under a low branch.
"Not that good per say. But by having people bite into my skin they can suck out my chakra and heal themselves." She informed me. I took another quick glance at her and noticed several bite marks on her arms and neck. 'Are the bite marks permanent?' I questioned myself. 'Maybe I could help her a bit.'
"Hmm, if we are ever in the same base for a while, I'll help train to you expand your medical attributes. While your ability is impressive I can't help but think that it's too dangerous for you, if you were to use your Healing bites more than once it could exhaust you to the point it might kill you." I thought out loud and Karin listens intently. "And when you're up to speed on more medical techniques I'll have to start teaching you to fight as well." I continued to think out loud. I glanced at her, only to see Karin beaming happily. After a few minutes of traveling I felt two chakra signatures, I glanced towards Karin to see her looking in the direction where the two chakra signatures originated from. 'Is she a sensor?'
"Karin, do you happen to be a sensor as well?" I asked her kindly. She nodded shyly. 'You just keep fascinating me more and more'. "Who do you sense?" I questioned her. She sighed in annoyance.
"My team" she answered in contempt.
"You don't like your team?" I inquired.
"No, there arrogant, annoying, assholes, a bunch of bitchy little girls, and they make fun of my hair." Karin explained while running a hand threw her hair.
"I don't know about them but I think your hair makes you look exotic" I complimented earning a blush from the aspiring Med-nin.
We started walking towards her teammates; I stopped earning a stare from Karin. I reached into my Ninja tool bag and pulled out a seal tag, and then I handed it to her. She looked at it and looked back at me questioningly.
"If your team abandoned you before there most likely going to do it again" I told her. "This seal is a combination of Alerting seals and a revers summoning seal. If you're in trouble channel your chakra into it, and I'll summon you to my location." I informed her. She nodded her face in amazement. I gave her one last smile and waved before launching myself into the forest.
-2 hours later-
I continued to jump till I felt two very familiar Chakra signatures. I headed to their location to investigate. When I arrived I stumbled onto a scene that was refreshing, the chakra signatures were Anko and Orochimaru fighting. 'Most likely to convince the Hokage that Anko is still hates Orochimaru.'
There fighting style was interesting but like with Sasuke, Anko barely kept up with Orochimaru. I saw them preform many snake based Ninjutsu and summoning calibration Jutsus. I wrote most of them down to try and recreate, and maybe improve them later. The way Anko fought was alluring to say the least she was precise in her attacks, never wasted a move and was ruthless exactly how a real Shinobi fights.
I noticed Anko quickly becoming exhausted. Then she grabbed her Curses Seal in pain and I sighed. 'While Anko survived the processes in getting the Curses Seal applied, the Curses Seals in general at that time were but prototypes and that means still had bugs in it. So while Anko has the Curses Seal she can't active it, any attempt to activate it results in pain. I'm still working on a way to fix that problem maybe I can recruit Karin's help. 'I continued in thought .
Anko blacked out from intense pain and Orochimaru had to quickly flee before any Leaf shinobi came. 'But knowing Anko she'll be up in about an hour' I thought to myself. Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram "Kuchiyose no Jutsu(Summoning Technique)" I said as a giant poof of smoke eclipsed me.
The smoke cleared to reveal a giant Black snake with a green tint to its scales, and had Blood red silted eyes. 'For some reason I always summon Black and Green colored snakes and they are always female.' I felt the snake wrap here body around me.
§mmm…Hello my masssster. Isss there sssomething you need? § The giant Snake hissed.
I rubbed her nose. §Hello Nagini. I need you to watch over Anko over there until she wakes up. § 'When I first performed the summoning jutsu, Nagini was who I first summoned though she was a lot smaller.' §and the next time I summon you it will be in a big battle with lots of blood. § 'she's also very bloodthirsty'. She nodded happily and un-coiled herself from me, and then slithered towards Anko's unconscious. Nagini then coiled around Anko's body protectively. With one last nod I speed off.
-A few minutes later-
'What was that' I focused my sensing ability towards the dark presences and I felt it originate form Team 7's location. 'Hmm…so that's what the Heaven Cursed Seal feels like, if I were anyone else I would be terrified by it.'
I focused on the dark presence location and headed in that direction. After a few minutes the presence dissipated but I had the general idea on where it was located and speed off towards it.
- a few hours later-
I walked over to the river where I felt Naruto's immense chakra stand out like a beacon. I noticed Naruto and Sakura about to Open there scroll and if they did that then Sasuke would be disqualified. Right before Naruto opened the scroll my hand stopped him, and I land right next to him in an awesome pose.
"You shouldn't do that...did you forget the rules?" I said as I glared at them from the corner of my eye. 'Honestly is he being stupid on purpose?'
"An Enemy?!" I heard Sasuke yelled. After I explained that Naruto was going to open the scroll, Sasuke understood. "Geez...what were you thinking?" Sasuke asked Naruto and Sakura.
Naruto said nothing while Sakura apologized.
"That was close, those that ignore the Rules, are put in a condition that forces retirement. In a previous Exam within the scroll there was a set up hypnotism type jutsu. Those that saw it would be knocked out here until the end of The Exam." I informed them.
"By the way, you're Kabuto right? What are you doing all alone out here?" Sasuke asked me suspiciously.
"It's not like I'm after your scroll" I told him.
"If you were, you could have just taken it from Naruto just then." Sasuke stated.
"So you're also after the Heaven scroll?" Sasuke asked
"No …I already have both." I informed him.
I held up a Heaven and earth scroll that I got from my Crystal clone that guarded Team 7 when they were incapacitated. "Something's happened and I'm on my way to the tower to meet up with my teammates."
I turned and started walking away. "Well I'm off."
"Wait!" I heard Sasuke yell behind me "Fight me." Sasuke Demanded.
"Fight…?" I turned my head a little. I heard Sasuke's teammates argue with him. Turning to face them I saw Sasuke glaring at me. "You're serious…sorry we don't have any time left" I stated, Team 7 argued once more. 'This is really getting annoying, especially with that Rain-nin spying on us.'
"We don't have a choice. I said it before; this is only way for us to survive in this forest." Sasuke declared to his team. 'My, what a passionate speech to bad it's all bullshit though' I thought.
"You're lying. You aren't as cold-hearted as you say. If this test had really turned you into that, than why would you even ask to challenge me? Instead of doing that, you could have just attacked me and tried to take the scrolls. That's a ninja." I said as I pushed up my glasses causing a reflection glare to form. "So... I'll tell you the path you should take." I spoke.
"But I'll tell you as we move. The smoke from your fire, the smell of fish can be sensed from far away. Wild beasts and enemies could be on the way" I informed them as I glanced at the hidden Rain shinobi. After I noticed the Rain shinobi gone I shot into the trees with Team 7 following me.