I DO NOT OWN NARUTO

Drama, drama, drama, DRAMA! This is an excruciatingly long chapter, but I hope you enjoy! Ta-ta!

Hayoen

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura sweatdropped.

They found themselves in the middle of a verbal argument between two shinobi who were obviously under a genjutsu, and on the other end of the argument was a guy with a green spandex and shiny black bowl cut and matching thick eyebrows.

"I thought Lee wasn't supposed to take the exams for another seven years," Sakura whispered to the closest boy next to her.

"No, Lee was actually meant to go in six years, but they refused and wanted to train and extra year," Sasuke whispered back.

Naruto was getting annoyed. "Would you both cut it out? Izumo, Kotetsu, quit making us late and release the genjutsu!"

The two shinobi sweatdropped before releasing the genjutsu, revealing the level to be "201" instead of "301".

"Quite perceptive, aren't you, kid?" Izumo said to the blonde, smiling. "I take it you're one of Kakashi's students."

Naruto nodded. "Now if you'll excuse us," he motioned to his teammates, "we'd like to get to the Chuunin Exams."

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"Stop!" The kid wearing the green spandex and ugly orange ankle and arm warmers jumped down from the balcony above them.

"You!" he pointed at Sakura.

"I'm getting a major déjà vu," Sakura groaned. "But for the sake or courtesy. . . what do you want?"

"Will you go out with me?" he showed his teeth-pinging grin with a thumb up.

Naruto and Sasuke immediately slid in front of Sakura, cracking their knuckles. No one was getting to their sister unless they approved.

Sakura sweatdropped and put a hand on their shoulders, making them move away, albeit reluctantly.

"Sorry," Sakura smiled apologetically. "But I'm afraid I'm not looking for somebody just yet, and I doubt I ever will. . ." she sweatdropped once again at the thought of her overprotective brothers.

Spandex-Boy hunched over, depressed until Sasuke cleared his throat.

"Was there something else you wanted, or did you just want to come over to. . . ask my sister out?"

"You're the Uchiha, right?" Spandex-Boy said energetically. "Fight me!"

Sasuke sweatdropped. "No."

"Why not?"

"Because it's the Chuunin Exams. We will most likely have to battle it out in the end, and I would not like to give away my skill level so easily."

"A very youthful answer indeed!"

"You're not Rock Lee are you?" Naruto asked cautiously.

He got a teeth-pinging smile in response. "I am! How did you know, my youthful comrade?"

Naruto sweatdropped. "You don't need to know. How are you here anyway? Aren't you too young to be in the Chuunin Exams?"

"What about you? You're only five years old, are you not?" Lee responded energetically.

"Touche," Naruto agreed. "But it still doesn't explain why you're here. Don't you have a Genin team?"

"Indeed I do! Neji Hyuuga, TenTen and I form Team 9 under Gai-sensei!"

"I still don't understand," Sakura whispered to her team. "Why are they entering now?"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei, when did you get here?"

"Your team is impatiently waiting for you so they can enter the Chuunin Exams!" An older version of Lee said.

He turned and gave Team 7 another tooth-pinging smile. "You must be Kakashi's team, are you not?"

"Uh, yes?" Sakura said uncertainly.

Gai grinned. "Kakashi my most youthful rival! I knew his team would be entering!"

"There's your answer," Sasuke whispered back to a sweatdropping Sakura. "The one-sided rivalry."

Suddenly he went flying into the wall with a shinobi-sandal footprint on his cheek.

"I told ya, Bakashi's MY rival! How many times do I have to say it?!" Obito Uchiha yelled, steam pouring from his ears.

The three shied away immediately. "Um. . . we'll see you at the exams. Bye!" they yelled and shot off, hoping they wouldn't get caught in the conflict.

"Ah, I see my cute little genin have arrived together," Kakashi eye-smiled at them, Rin by his side.

"Huh? Where's Obito?" Rin looked around. "I thought he went to go see how you were doing with the genjutsu."

"U-Um. . . he may be fighting with Might Gai about who is Kakashi's rival," Naruto said nervously as Kakashi paled rapidly and Rin giggled.

"Oh dear. I'll go sort them out. Good luck kids!" Rin smiled at them before shushining away.

"Hmm, well yes. Good luck to you three, and just to let you know, if one of you hadn't turned up, none of you would be admitted into the Exams. Teamwork is the key. Always remember that," Kakashi said solemnly before opening the doors.

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The large blast of killing intent was suffocating.

Well for normal kids. . . but this team was anything but normal.

The entire room, which was made up nearly entirely of young adults, burst out laughing when they saw three five-year-olds standing in the doors.

"You lost, kids?" one man snickered.

But the combined killing intent from the three of them immediately made all of the rooms' occupants shut up.

Some even pissed their pants.

Their killing intent was that scary, suffocating and murderous.

Well, what do you expect? Those three have been through a devastating war. Weak killing intent like that couldn't scare them - they could send it back with a million times the force.

"Alright listen up! I'm the sexy and beautiful Anko Mitarashi, and I'm gonna be your proctor for the first exam! We're heading to Training Ground 44! Now let's go!"

(I feel so dirty just typing "sexy" >.<)

Team 7 silently snickered when they heard Anko's voice. Some things never change.

Anko did a double take when she saw three five-year-olds standing among the crowd of Chuunin hopefuls. So those kids were the ones Hokage-sama and Kakashi were talking about.

"Move it!" she yelled before taking off in a cloud of dust.

When she arrived at the gate, she was surprised to see the three kids sitting on the ground, drawing on the dirt boredly with their fingers.

"How. . .?"

"Ruto Hiraishin-ed us here," the Uchiha said lazily, a thin stick twirling between his fingers before he set it on fire with a minor fire jutsu.

His blonde brother spat a water bullet at the twig and the fire was doused out.

Sasuke scowled before lighting the other end on fire.

Naruto sighed and blew a gentle breeze on it, making the entire twig light up on fire and Sasuke drop the twig in shock.

The other two giggled, completely unfazed by the fact they were on the receiving end of an Uchiha Death Glare.

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"These amateurs do realize they could've just shushined here, right?" Sakura whispered to Anko, sweatdropping at the panting crowd of hopelessly exhausted Genin.

"Agreed, and their stamina is quite low," Anko clucked her tongue disapprovingly.

"Well to be fair, most of them don't know their way around, and Training Ground 44 is quite secluded," Naruto pointed out.

"Still," Sasuke grumbled, "they took their sweet sweet time getting here."

"That I will not disagree with."

"How. . . did you kids get here before us?" one guy said through pants.

"Okay two things. First of all we were smart enough to know our way around the village and also use a shushin to appear," Sakura shot a warning look at Anko, who quickly closed her mouth, "and secondly, why are you so exhausted?"

The guy glared at her. "Not everyone knows their way around the village."

"Your loss, our gain," Team 7 shrugged nonchalantly.

"Ahem," Anko cleared her throat, looking at the five-year-olds weirdly. "Now that we are all finally here, I will now proceed with the rules of this exam. Behind me is Training Ground 44, otherwise known as the Forest of Death."

She smiled eerily.

"Now, before we begin, I need you to sign these consent forms."

"Consent forms? What for?" A random guy called out.

Anko smirked. "From here on out, people are going to start dying. These forms are to say that Konoha will not be held responsible for your deaths."

Team 7 looked at each other in boredom. Same old, same old. Why couldn't they think of something better, something more challenging?

As lazily as possible, the three of them signed the forms before Naruto used a Wind jutsu to blow it towards Anko, and sent his chakra chains to take the scroll from an unsuspecting Anko's hand. They were too lazy to walk over, so why not improvise with the techniques they had?

Without looking back, the team headed towards Gate 25, not-so-eagerly anticipating the exam.

"We got Heaven. . ." Naruto sweatdropped.

"Couldn't be more fitting if they tried," Sasuke sighed.

"So, who has a Earth scroll, is the question at hand," Sakura said, looking at her boys.

"If I had to guess, I'd say. . . Grass."

The three of them looked at the Grass team that was suddenly looking a lot like the one Orochimaru disguised as. It made them shiver just thinking of it.

One of the creepy looking "women" - was it a woman or just a man who had long hair? - looked over at them and gave them a evil smile, her/his long tongue licking her/his lips.

Immediately they narrowed their eyes suspiciously, and they grew even more suspicious when they saw that Kabuto Yakushi was with his own team.

"GO!" Anko suddenly yelled, and all the gates opened, teams sprinting deep into the forest.

'We must've alerted them with our "prodigy presence",' Naruto hissed in his mind as he kept running to the center of the forest. 'Damn that Kabuto Yakushi! '

'What do we do? ' Sasuke felt like panicking.

'Don't worry, we just have to lose them. . . or kill them,' Naruto subtly glared at the team from Grass. If that pedo-snake decided to bite Sasuke again. . . there would be hell to pay.

'Okay, but please SOMEONE keep his f---ing mouth away from me! ' Sasuke ground out. 'I do NOT need another bloody Curse Mark hindering me! '

'It's okay Ke, we're not going to let him come anywhere near you,' Sakura comforted before she suddenly gave a mental shriek.

'What?! ' The two boys immediately stopped running, looking in concern at their sister with their guard up.

'Bloody f---ing Zetsu! ' Sakura seethed, cracking her knuckles.

Sasuke and Naruto, as much as they hated the annoying white plant that was always popped up out of nowhere, decided they should let Sakura destroy the enemy. If there was one thing they learned, it was to NEVER get in the way of an angry Sakura who was set to kill somebody.

"You go take out the Grass team and get the Earth scroll. . . I'm gonna deal with this little piece of sh-t. Meet at the tower, okay?" Sakura growled before rushing straight into the bushes, the ground flying up in pieces from the force she was using to punch the living daylights out Zetsu.

Sasuke and Naruto sweatdropped before looking at each other.

"Shall we?"

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"F---ing pedo-snake," Naruto cursed under his breath as he dodged that disgusting neck that expanded to ridiculous lengths.

"We could sure use Kura's help right about now!" Sasuke yelled from where he was frying the mini snakes that surrounded him.

They had found the Grass team, or to be accurate, a member of the Grass team found them, and the two immediately got a serious sense of déjà vu when the face of the shinobi peeled away.

So, as their team was quite incomplete, the two boys did what they thought was logical.

They fled.

Orochimaru was not far behind, though, and he eventually caught up to them and engaged them in battle.

The odds were not in their favor.

And so the two Uchiha's found themselves in this sort of situation.

"Ke, I have an idea! Cover for me!" Naruto yelled as he backflipped onto a bough.

Sasuke finished frying the last snake, immediately jumping to his brother.

"Kukuku, you think you can run from me?" Orochimaru chuckled.

"No, but do you think you can hurt us?" Sasuke growled, activating his Mangekyō Sharingan as he landed in front of the tree Naruto was behind, blocking Orochimaru's path.

Behind the tree, Naruto activated his Nine-Tails' Chakra Mode and focused on his mindscape.

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'What is it Kit?'

'Kurama, I need you to find Dad,' Naruto looked at his tenant intensely.

'Whatever for?'

'I wanna try something. You know how the Yamanaka use Mind jutsus to talk telepathically? '

'Let me guess. You want me to try contact your Uchiha father so you can talk.'

'Yes, and if possible, Kura, Mom and Itachi-nii-san too. We need their help to take down Orochimaru.'

'Even Itachi? And does Mikoto really need to know?'

'Yeah, Mom's probably gonna be worried sick. . .' Naruto frowned, looking down. If this was him in the past, he never would've thought he would say that sentence.

'Alright Kit. Let's try this.'

'Really? ' Naruto looked up hopefully, and was faced with Kurama's toothy fox grin.

'You better believe it!'

'You taking a page out of my book? '

'Maaaayyyyybeeeee.'

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At the tower, Fugaku Uchiha was calmly reading a book. He was there waiting for his son's team. He had absolutely no doubt they would pass. They were strong and worked very well together. He was proud of them.

Ever since Naruto came into their lives, Fugaku was a changed man. He was nicer and more supportive. He didn't push Itachi too much anymore, and he knew that Sasuke wasn't Itachi, and he was never going to be. He was his own person, and would create his own path that would make his father proud of him too.

Fugaku flinched.

Something was prodding at his mind.

'Dad? Dad! Dad, can you hear me? It's me, Naruto! '

Fugaku dropped his book in shock. "N-Naruto?!"

'Oh thank Kami I reached you! Dad, we're in the Forest of Death for the first exam, and we've come across a very dangerous situation.'

'You know you're supposed to survive on your own, right? ' Fugaku raised an eyebrow. Was his son honestly asking for help? That didn't seem like him at all.

'Fugaku you know our son wouldn't ask for help unless the situation is dire! ' the chiding voice of his wife came into his head.

'Mikoto/Mom?! ' the two exclaimed in surprise.

'I'm here too,' a calm, slightly suspicious voice added.

'Itachi! ' Naruto said in relief. 'So it does work. . . anyway, Dad you have GOT to send help. Orochimaru is -'

Naruto's voice was abruptly cut off, as Mikoto called her son's name worriedly.

Fugaku rose up from the chair, silently fuming. Orochimaru was in the forest? He was attacking his sons?

In firm strides, the Uchiha clan head was out the door and on his way to Training Ground 44. He didn't care what people said, he didn't care about the rules, all he cared about was making sure that his sons were coming out of that exam alive.

Orochimaru had picked the wrong people to fight.

And he was going to pay for it.

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"Did you get Dad?" Sasuke called over to his brother as he quickly activated his Susanoo in time to dodge the stupid snake's mouth.

How many times was he going to try and bite him?!

"You tried to telepathically communicate with Uncle Fugaku?" Sakura asked incredulously from where she was killing off all the snake summons.

She had arrived when Naruto abruptly left the telepathic conversation, and was just in time to save Naruto from being attacked by a summon.

"Yeah, and I don't know what he's going to do. I only managed to say "Orochimaru" and then I got cut off because I had to join the battle!" Naruto explained, firing off Wind Bullets.

Yes the three of them may have been the strongest shinobi in their time, but they only had half of their future power, and since they were only five their bodies could only endure so much training and chakra. They were fighting a losing battle. They had underestimated Orochimaru, and their only hope was that Fugaku would come in time to save them.

They may have considered this pitiful, but for those who did not know about their future, it was incredibly impressive that they managed to stay alive, unmarked and only suffering chakra exhaustion, yet somehow still had the strength to keep going against a Legendary Sannin.

Naruto growled slightly before he made a Shadow Clone. Maybe he would have enough chakra to use their ace. . .

Sasuke and Naruto exchanged sideways looks before nodding slightly.

Naruto sent out his golden Chakra Chains, binding the snake tightly to a tree trunk.

"Wind Style: Massive RasenShuriken!" the Uzumaki yelled, holding up a large mass of rotating wind in his right hand.

"Inferno Release: Susanoo Flame Control!" Sasuke cried, his Susanoo firing an arrow of Amateratsu fire at the RasenShuriken.

"Scorch Release: Halo Hurricane Jet Black Arrow Style Zero!" the two yelled simultaneously as Naruto hurled the jutsu towards Orochimaru.

https://youtu.be/fm5IgDaQdl0

Orochimaru screamed in agonizing pain as the jutsu created a vortex around him, attacking him countless times with wind chakra.

While Orochimaru was suffering, Sasuke quickly deactivated his Mangekyō Sharingan just in case anyone came, and his teammates made sure there was not one snake left alive in the clearing where they fought.

"Naruto! Sasuke!"

"Dad!" the boys cried in relief.

Fugaku was shocked to see Orochimaru lying dead at the foot of a tree, sporting injuries which were the effects of what he supposed as a very powerful jutsu, golden chakra chains receding into Naruto's hand.

"Did you boys do that?" he said in shock.

He didn't get an answer as Team 7 collapsed to the ground, chakra depleted.

"Are they alright?" Itachi said in concern as both he and his mother landed beside Fugaku.

"They should be, it's just chakra exhaustion," Mikoto said in relief after checking all three.

"I wonder what jutsu they did to kill Orochimaru," Itachi mused.

"Whatever it was, it must be very powerful," Fugaku answered him as he gazed at his sons.

"ANBU, take Orochimaru to the prison and have him under heavy guard. He may be dead, but who knows what tricks he might've had up his sleeve, and who might be coming to steal his body," Fugaku told the ANBU squad that had followed him.

"Yes sir!" the squad saluted before going over to the Sannin.

'I really am proud of you Sasuke, Naruto,' Fugaku thought smilingly as he picked up Naruto, Itachi piggybacking Sasuke and Mikoto carrying Sakura as they made their way out of the Forest.

However Itachi's train of thought was different as he followed his parents. 'Is this what you were talking about, Sasuke? How much strength do you and Naruto hold, to be able to kill someone of Orochimaru's caliber? How much are you hiding from me? '

As they were going back to the Tower, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura opened their heavy-lidded eyes and smirked victoriously at each other before falling back to unconsciousness once more.

How was that? Pretty long if I do say so myself. I'm quite proud of this, after that writer's block I had for such a long time!

Anyway, until the invasion!

Ta-ta!

P.S - for those who want to know, Panda-chan's memory will get restored eventually, but not now