Chapter 35 - Orochimaru

soon anko and the second examiner arrived at the graveyard. "I checked their possessions and identifications They are ninjas from grass village registered in the chuunin exam, but, as you can see" the first examiner reported to anko. "They have no faces." anko filled in. "Eh, they're smooth and flat like they melted away." Anko felt her neck heavy as she lifted her hand to feel the area where she had her curse mark. Soon she started sweating at the sight as she continued to observe the corpses. 'without a doubt, this jutsu is that man's. why is he at this test?' anko thought anxiously.

"Show me the id photos of these grass village ninjas It's on their applications right?" anko asked. "Yes!" the second examiner affirmed as he provided the ids. Anko took a look at the photos as she focused on the one with the woman. "So, this one's face was robbed" anko concluded as she turned back towards the examiners around her and ordered. "Communicate this to lord hokage right away."

"Make a call for action to the anbu black ops to assemble more than two squads to the forest of death. That guy has come to the leaf village."

(From here on out it will be all about the clones)

Meanwhile back in the forest of death, Three clones were running. Suddenly, there was a gust of wing and Clone naruto was separated from the other two clones. Naruto thought 'its its really happening as Sasuke said.' and just as he was thinking that, he saw a giant snake. The snake started to attack him, but this Naruto was much stronger as he didnt get captured by the snake and started fighting it. After fighting it for a while he saw no hopes of winning and decided to escape.

Back to where Clone Sakura and I were, a women and two men appeared. The women told the two men to leave her and showed the scroll to us and swallowed it. Sakura felt disgusted. The women then put out her hilling intent. Sakura couldn't take it and went down on her knees. Even if she was stronger than the anime, Orochimaru was way stronger and brutal so she couldn't handle his killing intent. I couldn't fell anything maybe because my soul was stronger. Even the killing intent of Kurama didn't scare me when I visited him inside Naruto. But I acted scared to avoid suspicion and also dropped down on my knees.

The women was satisfied and attacked by throwing kunais at both me and Sakura. I saw Sakura couldn't move so I waited for the right time and rushed up and pushed her out of the way and told her to retreat and regroup with Naruto. She retreated safely and I faced the women. The women smiled and spoke "Its Noble of tou Sasuke kun trying to save your teammate and facing me." Then her body turned into a snake and started attacking me. I dodged all the attacks. Then she said "Impressive. I wouldn't expect any less from an Uchiha" and continued her attacks.

Meanwhile Sakura met with Naruto who had now escaped from the giant snake and they regrouped. They then hirried up coming back to my direction. When they came, they saw me barely dodging the women's attacks and as planned before Sakura shouted "Sasuke kun, I have sent the bird that Kakashi sensei gave us to inform him If we are in real trouble. Help will be here soon."

Hearing this Orochimaru clicked his tounge and thought 'This is an unexpected development. I need to finish what I came for soon and leave.' And then he slithered his way through at incredible speed and bit my neck and said "I'll waiting for you Sasuke kun Use the gift I gave you and find me If you want power" and disappeared into the ground. Naruto and Sakura Screamed "Sasuke and rushed towards me. I told them "Fast take me to a hiding spot and Naruto, dispell yourself and inform my main body of what happened."

They both nodded and we went in The search of a cave. Once they found a cave, we went inside the cave, They both laid me down and Naruto clone dispersed himself letting his main body know what happened. Sakura then just sat near me and waited for our main bodies to return meanwhile looking at the cursed mark on my neck trying to study its pattern and thought about what I had said to them while planning for the exam.

Before the exam. While speaking about the plans, I said " Sakura, we need a plan B just in case. we cannot let Orochimaru figure out about clones. So When he attack me, You escape to find Naruto, help him if needed and come toeards me. When you come towards me and still Orochimaru has not pyt the curse mark on me, then you shout loud for him to hear saying that we received a messenger bird from Kakashi and he told us to use it in order to save our lives and that you sent a message to him using it. So when Orochimaru hears it, he will stop attaching us and apply the curse mark fast and disappear. That way we can avoid the risk of one of our clone dispelling".

'I didn't fully believe Sasuke at first when he told us all the information, but now everything is happening just as he said. Then the village will really be attacked by the one that attacked us and the Hokage will be killed. How did Sasuke get all this information whis even the Hokage is unable to get? If I think about it, Sasuke really changed once we became a team. Is it because he lost his clan? Anyway whatever he does I will always like him.' Sakura thought.