"This is a fan fiction, I do not own Naruto in any from being anime, games or published format."

Naruto smiled at Anko and she knew that he was actually looking forward to entering his most favorite hunting ground once again. He decided to do a comment that shocked everyone. "So Anko, how are the poison spiders, man eating plants and hungry bears doing lately?" Anko took a stick of dango and threw it at Naruto who caught it between his fingers.

"Since you been busy killing rogue ninja they actually are doing pretty good. Hana told me you left without eating breakfast. See that you at least eat that dango before I start my little speech." Naruto knew that there was more to it than her giving him a stick of dango and sure enough the stick was a message.

He should keep an eye on Sasuke and his team. The Hokage wanted to make sure they made it through the forest. "I guess I was not the only one that skipped breakfast, is there something you need from me?" Naruto saw the Kumo kunoichi and she smiled. "I was wondering how much sugar one of those thing has. I can practically smell the sugar from where I was standing."

He broke the dango stick in half and gave her one half. "kukuku, my Naruto you sure are nice. I thank you for sharing this treat with me. Who knows maybe I can give you a treat later on." Naruto smiled and said he was looking forward to it.

"You know you have some real nice perfume. " Naruto told her and she laughed as she walked away finishing her half of the dango stink. Anko did not like the way he was treating that Kumo kunoichi one bit. She however would have to ask him later why he did that.

" Here is the deal you each has to sign this waiver before you can even take part in the second phase. I will save you some time by telling you this is a waiver of your villages right to seek monetary or other compensation in the event of your death. You are permitted to kill your opponents in this segment of the exams. "

She pulled out two scrolls." The exam is simple enough. You have five days to reach the tower at the center of this forest, but you must have both of these scrolls to pass to the next phase. Each of the teams will receive one scroll and therefore must hunt down and take the scroll of another team to have both scrolls, the scroll of earth and the scroll of the heaven. You must have both scrolls in order to pass and you are permitted to kill your opponents as I said before. "

She sat down next to a large box holding the scrolls." As soon as you give me the signed waivers I shall let your team take a scroll but if you try to take both thinking I will not notice I will kill the entire team, I will not permit cheaters to survive. "

They all did sign the waiver and each team went to collect their scroll and sure enough a team from Suna tried to take both scrolls and when they thought they had succeeded a snake came out of the second scroll and hissed at them. This was the signal for Anko to throw several kunai killing the cheating team where they stood.

No one dared to try that again in a hurry as they saw she was not kidding around. After Naruto got the scroll he, Hinata and Sai entered the forest. Naruto looked at Hinata and she just nodded her head as the team entered the forest for again.

When Sai and Naruto were sure they were not being followed and that nobody could listen Naruto asked her if she still remember the group that had the earth scroll. She smiled and told him she did. There was a team holding that very scroll a few hundred yards from their current location.

Sai looked at Naruto and decided to ask why did Anko look so upset about him giving the Kumo kunoichi half of the dango stick she gave him. "Honestly if it had been Hana I would understand her getting jealous, but our teacher Anko? I can't see that happening."

Naruto told them to come closer so that he did not have to shout. "Look Sai you might not know this but I am actually immune to the venom of the serpents she uses. The thing is the dango stick I ate was coated with the very poison of one of her favorite summons. The Kumo Kunoichi was also immune. This told us both that she was not a she but a he, and what is worse than means that he is a snake summoner. "

Sai was about to ask why it was so bad when he remembered that there are only two people in the history of Konoha that could indeed summon serpents one was Anko and the other was the worst traitor in the history of the village." That's right Sai, not only do we have to pass this phase of the test. We got Orochimaru running around in the forest. What is worse still I don't think he came back to Konoha because he is homesick. "

" So what do you think he is after? " Sai asked but Hinata wanted to know." Oh, several things come to mind Sai, not a one good. Revenge for being forced to leave his supply of test subjects and his delay in his research. A new body since his is pretty much as old as Jiriaya and he is no spring chicken. The eyes of a certain person who can copy any jutsu ever made. "

" In short he wants Hirunzen Sarutobi dead and he wants to take Sasuke Uchiha's body for as his very own. So time is not something we can waste. We go after the earth scroll and then we go after Sasuke and hope my brother in law can keep him busy till we get there. "

Sai knew exactly what they needed and so with some ink he began painting something on a scroll. As they reached the team they found something that they were not expecting. The team was dead by a few dozen snake bites, the scroll left on the ground with a message that said Told you I would leave something nice for you Naruto, be sure to get here fast I get so bored babysitting specially mutts.

"Great he knows everything we said and more than likely is waiting to ambush us too. I guess I messed up this time. Let's hurry and try to catch ourselves a snake. " Sai smiled and told him with his scroll that will be no problem at all. Hinata found that indeed Kiba was keeping a giant snake busy.

Naruto reached them that much faster and stopped the snake from eating Kiba and Akamaru. With his arms holding the giant snake behind him. He looked down at the both of them with red slit eyes. "Your not hurt are you kid? You fraidy cat." That got them over their fear and was replaced by anger.

He didn't even look and saw the Kumo Kunoichi behind him standing on the snake. "Sorry to keep you waiting Orochimaru, thanks for the gift by the way." Kiba was about to call his brother in law crazy till he heard the Kunoichi laugh. "Kukuku, don't worry about it Naruto. I had a wonderful time with Sasuke. I gave him a gift too."

"I don't know whether to feel disappointed that the much beloved little prince could not fight you off or wonder if he just happens to bend in that direction. Honestly Orochimaru you do remember that those eyes will eventually make you as blind as a bat right? "

Orochimaru decided to get rid of his facial mask and disguise." How very thoughtful of you Naruto. Was it the dango that gave me away or was it the scent? " Naruto looked at him and smiled telling him both.

" I happen to love the taste of snake meat, so tough, juicy and lean. I could eat snake meat for days and never grow tired of it. Take the big one behind me, the one I am holding back. She smells so delicious I am practically salivating. " The snake did not like the sound of that one bit." She would make a great stew.. " Ok she didn't even think he was even kidding.

The snake took off and was replaced by a larger and meaner looking snake." Manda, so nice to see you but I do believe I didn't even call you. " Orochimaru said as he jumped off the tree branch and unto the new snake." Some punk managed to scare my precious baby girl something awful and so I came to reach the punk a little lesson. "

The big snake looked around and asked who scared his baby girl? Kiba, Lee, Sasuke and Orochimaru pointed at Naruto who didn't seem that bothered by his stare. Considering who he spends time with in his sleep the big snake was not that major threat.

" She tired to eat my brother in law, normally I would not even care but my mate would be seriously angry with me if he was killed. I didn't even harm a single scale on her. You do know she does smell rather tasty, you not so much. " Manda was now upset about something else entirely." What exactly makes me less appetizing than my youngest daughter? "

Orochimaru could not believe that the comment of him not being tasty was the thing that made him forget the reason he came in the first place. " Young, juicy, lean, big leathery and dry you do the comparison I got places to be and a seal to remove from an ungrateful jerk. " This made Orochimaru mad too. "You can remove them? How? Nobody is as good with seals like I am except Jiriaya."

Naruto decided to help Kiba, Lee and an unconscious Sasuke to leave the area, but not before he told Orochimaru his answer and left him a surprise. He threw something that looked like a ball of paper it turned out to be a very strong glue that made Manda simply to nauseous to move and he was stuck on his head.

"I am an Uzumaki Orochimaru Sealing techniques are practically my bloodline. " Kiba first punched him for what he said about him and then hugged him in gratitude for saving him and his team. With the help of Sai and Hinata they found a team from Suna that had a heaven scroll. While Sasuke was unconscious he undid the seal and made a new one that would prevent Orochimaru from placing a replacement.

"I do have to say Sai that scroll really did the job, but don't ever tell me what you used to make the glue. That is the worst thing I have ever smelled in my entire life. " This caused the others to laugh as they made their way to the tower.

When they reached the tower Kiba asked why did he save him? He was tempted to tell him he was family but instead he decided to tell him a complete lie instead and one that he would believe. "Because if I am going to beat you in these exams, I don't need the interference of a traitor to help me. When I beat you it is going to be close and personal."

Kiba laughed and walked with his team into the tower but not before smiling and telling him he would have it no other way. Hinata wanted to punch him for not telling Kiba the truth but he did tell her that he did love Hana and her family but Kiba never would believe him, he spent too much thinking of him as the dead last to believe he did not want to get even with him.

They entered the tower and placed the scrolls as indicated by large sign. "what is this supposed to do Naruto?" Sai asked when he saw that nothing happened. "If you place them correctly a summon seal. Like so."

Anko appeared out of a puff of smoke that came from the scrolls and the scrolls were burned to ash. "So where is Orochimaru?" He pointed at Sai, "caught in his little glue bomb, a few miles south of here you can't possibly miss it just look for the snake throwing with Orochimaru glued to the snake's head."

Anko thanked Sai for trying to capture Orochimaru which made Sai blush. "Come on guys we don't want to miss the speech about the preliminary fights right Anko?" She smiled as she left to see if she could still capture Orochimaru.

The snake was not present but the stench sure was. She could have sworn it was made using the excrement of a salamander and the blood of a big snake. Naruto must be pretty strong to actually stand the smell. She silently looked at the sky and felt jealous of Hana. She actually found a pretty good mate.

Hirunzen saw Hinata, Sai and Naruto enter last. Sasuke looked pretty smug as he had entered before he did. "As you might have guessed there are currently too many examinees at this phase so we are going to thin the heard as it were. The officials that are coming to the finals would have to stay too long to watch this many fight in the finals if we didn't."

He saw Naruto and he did not look surprised. "So instead we are having some preliminary matches and they will be determined at random on the big display behind me. We are still waiting for our referee so relax he should be here soon anyways."

Kakashi came in the building and saw that his team made it. Naruto looked at him and smiled almost like he expected him to arrive late. "Let me guess you got lost on the road of life again and that is why you arrived late, I swear Kakashi you would arrive late to your own funeral."

Kakashi looked embarrassed as he heard his lifelong rival tell him that from a high walkway. It was almost like he lived for chances to humiliate him. "No, actually I was helping Anko with a little problem with the help of my summon contract. She needed to see if we could follow a scent. As fate would have it the stench in the area was simply so horrible that my dogs could not follow it for long."

Naruto decided not to say anything about his team having been really responsible for the horrible stench and if Anko did tell him, he was not about to volunteer that information. "Well since you finally arrived tomorrow we shall start the preliminary matches, and since you are staying here we also had your family and loved ones come and stay with you, we do not want you to lose because you were worried about them after all."