Hey everyone! Sorry for the really late update. I've been busy with work and school. Please read and review. The poll is still up for now. So far yes to a harem is ahead 12 to 4 over no. So….yeah….don't get mad at me if you don't like harem's I make one, and you don't like it. I'm going to try to incorporate other teams some into the mix. Mainly team 8.

'What a wonderful day' thought Anko as she cleaned off another dango and flicked the skewer into a tree.

"Arghhhhhh" was heard from the forest nearby.

Anko let out a contented sigh, kicked back on top of a picnic table and said, "What a wonderful day indeed."

Anko had been surprised at how many teams were left over from Ibiki She thought, 'No matter. My test is designed to cut at least half out...but still...that blonde best was interesting.'

Flashback

Anko appeared in the clearing just outside the Forrest of death, "Now just to wait for little rabbit to get he..."

She was cut off by a cold voice behind whispering in her ear, "Here."

On instinct she whirled around with a kunai she instinctively grabbed and threw it and hit nothing but air. Naruto said from a few feet behind her, "What kind of special jonin are you that I could get behind you?"

"I was just letting you get your confidence up rabbit."

Naruto smiled, "Sureeeeee...". Naruto added in his head, 'she's saving face.'

"Okay okay you got me. How the hell did you sneak up on me like that," Anko asked.

"Kit don't tell her" said the fox in naruto's mind.

'naw shit'

"hey a ninja has his secrets,"and with that the other teams started showing up.

Naruto's eyes widened as a kusa kunoichi appeared behind Anko. This ninja was POWERFUL. If the chakra radiating off her was any indication. Also, Naruto had unsealed his primary seal and placed on a smaller temporary seal keeping him at about 85% of his full strength and he had not even seen the Ninja moving in until the ninja was already standing still. Naruto shivered. 'This person is at least low-Jonin level. I'll be sure to tell my team to stay away from this one.'

"alright maggots...and rabbit...sign this form."

Flashback end

"That's an interesting one" said Anko.

Another scream

"Hmmm, I should go get more dango."

The radio came to life, "Anko...you'll probably want to come look at this..."

Line break

It had been a relatively easy test so far.

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura had taken off through their gate and instantly raced off of the main path that they were on. They didn't want to be caught in the open.

"Hey guys…wait a sec," said Naruto.

"Huh? What is it," asked Sakura.

"We have a heaven scroll so I made a few clones that transformed into fleas and then stayed inside of the scrolls of all the other teams. If they have an earth scroll they will dispel, return the memories to me, and we will be able to approximate where a team with an earth scroll is" he said.

"Great thinking dobe," said Sasuki.

"Yeah" said sakura.

"Thanks teme, banshee" replied Naruto to which Sasuke smiled and Sakura 'hmphed'.

"The clones also know to dispel when the team is stationary…so all we really need to do is continue a little ways, set up a small camp in a smart location and fortify the heck out of it" said naruto.

"Good plan" said Sasuke.

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With team 8

"Alright guys what's the game plan" asked Kiba.

"Hinata, could you use your eyes to see where enemy teams are…and could you also see what type of scroll they have," asked Kiba.

She nodded, "I know I can see the teams, but seeing their scroll depends on how they choose to hide their scroll."

Hinata then activated her byakugan. "There's a kusa team….nevermind it's an earthscroll…thank goodness….that woman has the most chakra I've ever seen outside of Naruto, and her's just LOOKS evil" HInata visibly shuddered.

"Well we'll be sure to avoid them" said Shino to which the other two nodded.

"There's one of the mist teams…they have a heaven scroll…they don't have all that much chakra either" said Hinata.

"What are they doing," asked shino.

"They are waiting in some trees. They have a genjutsu activated that acts like a trap. It seems all three of the mist teams are using the same method. I can see right through it and should be able to transfer the view to you shino, then you can have your bugs go and drain their chakra. Kiba can cover me as when I transfer my vision to you I'm temporarily blinded…at least at the beginning stages of this jutsu I am" said hinata."

"Okay, but let us get closer to them" he said as they took off.

'Heh, they fell for it so easily' thought a mist genin, 'the blonde one is a complete idiot.' The mist ninja then pulled out a kunai and let it fly. The kunai held true to it's flight and penetrated straight into Naruto's forehead. The same happened to his two teammates.

"Too easy" said the team leader of the genin as they jumped down.

"Alright, let's search these bodies for a scroll" said another genin.

"Yes" said the leader of their squad.

The genins got busy searching the bodies of team 7 before…

BOOM!

All three clones turned bright white and exploded. The genin were all thrown back and hit trees. Then they were bound to their tree by ninja wire. Finally a pink haired girl jumped down from the tree the leader was bound to and used a genjutsu to get him to tell here where his scroll was. She reached in his jacket and pulled out a scroll, "Naruto!" she tossed it to the team-sealing expert. Sakura turned back to the genin and knocked him out. Sasuke and Naruto, after catching the storage scroll, proceeded to knock out the other two genin.

Naruto looked the seal over, 'I'm just now at advanced sealing level 2, out of 10, but I can tell this seal is completely low quality'.

"Can you open it safely" asked Sasuke.

"Yes teme I can," said Naruto "whoever made this seal did it so hastily. They didn't even put a chakra specific gate in it" they looked at him confused, "it's like a door without a lock. Where the lock would be the chakra channel gate and your specific chakra would be the key"

"so you can just open it" asked Sasuke.

"yep, but still, just in case they have something else sealed in their" Naruto made a shadow clone that took the scroll and walked over to a tree stump and opened the scroll. Nothing happened.

"They must've sealed the exam scroll in this storage scroll when they first saw us coming into their trap" said Sakura.

The two others nodded.

"Hey guys I have to go" said Naruto.

"huh?" asked sakura

"you know, to the bathroom"

"Well then go dobe" said Sauke.

Naruto turned around and was about to go in the bushes when sakura yelled, "Not in front of me you idiot" and she kicked him in the ass and launched him through the trees.

A naruto shadow clone poofed into existence next to Sasuke, "hey, I'm here just in case anything bad happens I can relay the message back to the boss."

Sasuke and Sakura nodded.

"Wait! How did those clones hold together earlier after being stabbed in the forehead" asked Sakura.

"Seals," said the clone.

"What all can those things do anyways," asked Sasuke.

"A whole lot" said Naruto.

Meanwhile with the real Naruto.

"Ahhh, that's much better" said Naruto as he finished up his business.

He turned around to walk back to his team. As he turned around he came face to face with the kusa nin from before.

"Hello Naruto-kun…ku ku kui…aww…are you scared" taunted the creepy Kusa nin.

Naruto steeled his nerves and calmed down. He prepared for anything to happen. However, in the blink of an eye he was slammed on the top of the head by the nin. 'Damn she's fast' thought the blonde as his face quickly met the ground. Or it would have if it hadn't been for the kusa nin bringing her foot up to literally kick Naruto like a football, punting him away. The nin the performed a summoning jutsu and summoned a snake beneath Naruto which swallowed him whole.

"I can't die as snake food," shouted Naruto as he made a few hundred clones that bursts the snake. Doing so also alerted his clone with sasuke and sakura.

With Sasuke and Sakura.

"It sure is taking Naruto a long time," said Sakura.

"Hn"

"Huh" said the clone looking up.

"What is it" asked Sakura.

"Be on the lookout…boss just had his ass handed to him. Be careful because boss is temporarily indisposed of at the moment."

Just then Naruto walked into their line of sight and said , "Hey guys, how you doing?"

"Great…say Naruto come here, "said Sasuke pulling out their scroll, "can you show me something on this?"

"Sure" said Naruto as he walked over 'ku ku ku…let me test you Sasuke-kun.'

"Could you put some chakra into this storage scroll, I need to see something inside" asked Sasuke handing one of his storage scrolls over to Naruto.

'If it's really Naruto he'll know that his chakra won't work and only mine will…considering it was he who made the scroll for only me to use' thought Sasuke.

"Sure hand it over" said 'Naruto.'

Sasuke handed it over, 'good thing that's an empty scroll' throught Sasuke. Just when 'Naruto' pushed chakra into the scroll Sasuke and Sakura leapt back and an explosion shook the forrest.

Sasuke threw a barrage of shuriken into the dust cloud that was formed.

"That scroll has a seal on it to where it only opens to my specific chakra. Naruto himself made it for me, so he should've known what it was and that it was booby trapped so that if anyone else tries to force it open it explodes. You can drop the act imposter," said Sasuke. Sakura simply nodded.

"Ku ku ku ku ku…my my my, you are pretty smart aren't you Sasuke-kun" said the nin as the henge dropped and revealed the Kusa nin. "Let's see how you compare to Itachi though."

This statement enraged Sasuke. It took all his will power not to rush the Kusa nin, "how do you know Itachi!?"

"My my, so impatient," said the Kusa nin.

Suddenly the very air itself was saturated with so much killer intent that it felt like a liquid killer intent was hangin in the air.

'This is insane!' thought Sasuke as he and both Sakura froze. They saw their deaths. They saw as the kusa nin pulled out two kunai and, with a simple flick of the risk, sent the two kunai soaring into both of their heads. 'No! No! No! No!' thought Sasuke, 'I have to get stronger to avenge my clan!'

Sasuke took out a kunai and stabbed himself in the leg. He grabbed Sakura and disappeared just as two real kunai whizzed by where their heads used to be.

'That was a close one' thought Sasuke.

"Sasuke, wh…" he covered her mouth.

He said in a soft voice, "shh…we need to be quiet."

She nodded.

Just then a giant snake came at them. Sasuke threw shuriken at it and killed it.

Their victory was short-lived, however, when from within the snake the Kusa nin rose.

"Come Sasuke-kun…let us see if you are worthy of my gift."

"Keep your gift to yourself" said the Kusa nin.

"Don't you want to be as strong as Naruto-kun" asked the kusa nin.

Sasuke hesitated. "Shut up!"

Sasuke then offered one of their scrolls in exchange for free passage. At this time Naruto showed up and slugged Sasuke.

"Naruto! What was that for," screamed Sakura.

"You must be a fake Sasuke, because the Sasuke I know would never back down from a challenge. How could you achieve that goal of yours if you always ran away" said Naruto.

Sasuke furrowed his brow and smiled, "you're right dobe. Thanks….damn you hit hard!"

"Sakura…Sasuke and I are going to team up on this guy. You stay back and support with your genjutsu when you can and be sure to keep a look out for any other ninja snooping around" said the blonde.

Sakura nodded.

Sasuke and Naruto stood next to each other.

"A or B" asked Naruto.

"B" said Sauke.

Naruto's face was split with a grin.

The kusa nin had been quiet…just waiting.

Naruto made three clones. They both grabbed Naruto and flung him high into the air as Sasuke threw many shuriken at the enemy nin.

The two shadow clones then ran at the nin and began to engage him in a taijutsu fight. The nin was just toying with him it was obvious. Just then, however, a fireball came roaring at the Kusa nin, who smirked and raised a mud wall in front of herself. Then a futon jutsu crashed into the kusa nin from above.

'Damn , I forgot about that idiot' thought the Kusa nin. The Nin was forced to jump back, but didn't notice that he had just backed into a tree. Ninja wire wrapped around her and then Sasuke sent a fire jutsu down the ninja wire and then Naruto used a futon: great gust of fury that greatly enhanced the power and speed of the fire jutsu.

'Did we get him' wandered Sasuke.

'No, that was way too easy,' thought Naruto.

"Ku ku ku ku…you two are simply amazing," said Orochimaru.

The nin revealed himself by rising from the branch of the tree they were standing on. The only damage noticeable was the kusa nin's face seemed like it was falling off. No wait, 'It is falling off!'

The kusa nin reached up and peeled off her face revealing it was actually a 'he' not a 'she.'

"I simply must have you both" the snake said as he extended his neck towards the two.

Both Sasuke and, surprisingly, Naruto froze from the sheer amount of killing intent the nin was putting out. Likely just to make them freeze.

"Kit! Get the hell out of there!"

Naruto snapped out of his stupor and pushed Sasuke out of the way as the Kusa nin's fangs sank into Naruto's neck. Naruto screamed in pain and then his world started to turn dark.

"Kit!...can….hear me…what….on…it's invading….hold it off….."

Naruto collapsed.

"Naruto!" both Sasuke and Sakura shouted.

"ku ku ku, you should worry about yourselves. Especially you dear Sasuke-kun," said Orochimaru.

"Orochimaru!" someone screamed as they landed between Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Orochimaru.

"Ohhhhh Anko-chan. Fancy seeing you her…how have you beeeen" he asked like a snake, licking his lips, "I am just trying to acquire a new boooody."

"The blonde or the Uchiha" asked Anko.

"Both" said Orochimaru.

"Tough shit then" said Anko.

"I guess I should take my leave but Sasuke, if you ever want the real power required to kill Itachi you will have to quit PLAYING ninja in this weak village. Come to me and I will make your ambition come to fruition" He turned to Anko, "But be warned, if you stop the chuunin exams the hidden leaf will feel my unbridled rage," And then he sank into the tree.

Everyone there shivered.

"Brats! Do you have both scrolls?" they nodded.

"Okay, go find some place safe and rest then book it to the tower. I need to report this to the hokage asap. Here, this is an alert seal, if anything were to happen put chakra into this seal and it will summon me here" said anko handing a seal to Sasuke.

The two nodded, picked up their team mate and took off.

"Damn you Orochimaru…what the hell are you planning besides taking the Uchiha" said Anko as she took off to the hokage tower.