It's been long… I fear I might have lost my touch so here goes nothing…

Oh, and this is short so that I don't delay any longer on my other stories. Besides, I hit a writer's block… AGAIN?! FUCK!

===(NTCR)===

Naruto walks down the street heading for his assigned location in the exams. He wears his Achilles armor underneath a black tattered cloak that flows on the wind making it look more like a cape. This cloak is special since in this world, all but this cloak and the one used by Konoha for snow operations have sleeves. This one not only has nothing for his arms, but it is lighter than Konoha's standard winter cloak and tougher than steel.

"My lord," A myrmidon says as he walks up beside Naruto. "I have something you may want to see…" He then hands over a black envelope.

The contents inside are disturbing to say the least.

"How did you get these?" Naruto asks in a whisper.

"I doubt you would want to know."

Releasing a tired sigh, Naruto hands the envelope back to the man. "Warn the others… we're gonna get real busy soon."

"As you wish." The myrmidon says as he parts ways with his leader.

Naruto heads to the Hokage tower, the place of the exam's planning. He bursts through the door and says in all his Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Achilles glory, "Sarutobi Hiruzen, you better be ready for a beating of a life time!"

Half an hour passes and one can find little ol' Sarutobi black n' blue. "The fuck did you expect me to do?"

"CHANGE THE LOCATION OF THE SECOND PART OF THE EXAM!" Naruto exclaims.

"Oh yeah, and tell them that gigantic man-eating Titans are in that forest?! As if they'd believe me!" Saru says in a surprisingly fine condition. Anime logic, immediate fix up.

"Fine, then change my role!" Naruto demands bluntly. "I don't care what I have to do to get there, just make sure my men and I are allowed immediate access if anything goes wrong!"

Sarutobi coughs before gaining a serious expression. "We do have a problem… so far, we have no confirmation, but a man managed to get in yesterday… in this very room." The atmosphere turns cold. "He hid himself in some sort of thick fog and had actually manage to hold the ANBU in their places. He told me… Orochimaru will be there…"

Naruto freezes. His mind racing faster than all speeds combined. "Was he a dark shadow?" Seeing Saru raise a brow, he asks again. "WAS HE A DARK SHADOW?!"

"Y-Yeah, you could say that." The old man says as if he sunk in his chair.

"Prepare for war." Naruto says coldly and walks towards the door. On his way out, a light fog escapes his body. "If this is who I think it is… then we've ran out of time."

===(TBC)===

Shit so… yeah, short… I wanted to make it longer but seeing as my revised version of UOTO and HTF which I called UOTOHTF received a really bad review, I'm not that confident now…

*cries* See you next time… hopefully I won't have to abandon this fic as well. *Continues to cry*