Naruto sat on a clearing with his back pressed against a tree. Just a short distance away, Sakura sat right next to the still-unconscious Sasuke, her eyes shifting nervously back and forth between her sleeping teammate and her blond one.

They were already on the second day of the Chunin Exam, yet after the bizarre incident with the notorious missing nin, Orochimaru, there had barely been any words spoken between the members of Team Seven. Instead, everything that she had witnessed in the past 24 hours had been left to simmer inside the pink haired girl's mind, where it had been progressively eating her up from inside since. The situation has proving too much for the Haruno to handle. In the back of her mind she briefly wondered if she was perhaps still on her bed sleeping through the actual Exam and caught in a dream that started with a completely changed and cold Naruto and ended with an unconscious and wounded Sasuke. A short, mirthless laugh escaped the pink haired kunoichi when she realized how much she wished she was currently dreaming.

For his part, Naruto rather liked the silence. After a be coming close the the strongest tailed beast, it was the perfect thing to calm him down. For the past 24 hours, the conversation between the genins were limited to timid and hushed questions from Sakura, short and dry answer from the blond, and the occasional pained grunt from the unconscious Uchiha. The sudden sound of a chuckle from his teammate finally snapped the Jinchuuriki out of his thoughts. "I'm going to go look for the Earth Scroll." Naruto declared as he stood up.

Sakura was caught off guard by the mere fact that the blond had spoken with a complete sentence. "Wha… What…? Wait…!" She struggled to say, tripping over her own words.

"We can't wait any longer for Sasuke to wake up… The more time we waste the more difficult it will be to find one." The spiky haired boy firmly stated before starting to walk toward the edge of the clearing.

Having regained some of her composure, the young kunoichi stood up as well. "But…" Sakura tried to protest, wanting to say that it would be dangerous for the blond to go off on his own, but then she caught herself when memories of the fight she had witnessed the start of the exam flooded back into her mind, showing the girl how wrong her assessment of her teammate was.

Naruto stopped walking for a couple of seconds and carefully looked back over his shoulder at the rest of Team Seven before returning his gaze forward and continuing on his way.

With each step that the blond took away from them and into the depths of the forest, Sakura could feel her strength being zapped away until her legs finally gave out and she fell down sitting on back on the floor. The kunoichi's gaze fell on her unresponsive crush. In the short time since the second part of the Chunin Exam started she had witnessed more unbelievable events that she ever had in her whole life. "And this is coming from a genin that accidently stumbled upon an A Rank mission…" The Haruno reasoned as she sat there almost by herself.

Unlike when she first entered, the Forest of Death now felt eerily quiet to her. In the silence, Sakura thought that if she concentrated hard enough she could still hear the echo of the fight with Orochimaru, but, when she closed her eyes, all she could see was Naruto's dead blue eyes glaring back at her. The mere thought made the pink haired girl shiver in a mixture of fear, confusion, and curiosity. She could not said that blond had gotten stronger, that word did not even begin to cover it, instead the former class clown, dead-last goofball had simply become powerful. More powerful than any genin Sakura had ever seen, and that list included Sasuke.

About twenty-five minutes had passed since Naruto left in search for an Earth Scroll and Sakura had been left behind to ponder on her thoughts. Unexpectedly, the kunoichi was snapped out of her deep train of thought by a sudden presence nearby. Looking around, the Haruno hoped to see her spiky haired teammate walking into the clearing with the scroll in hand because, if he wasn't him, the girl was unsure that she could protect Sasuke for whatever new horror the Forest of Death was about to throw at them.

A faint thud sound caused Sakura to look up at one of the trees at the edge of the clearing and immediately her hopes were crushed. "What do you want…?" The kunoichi asked trying to muster as much menace and confidence as she could while taking out a kunai and placing her body in front of the unconscious Uchiha.

The three members of the Sound Team looked down at the Leaf genin before sharing a chuckle between all three of them. "It does not concern you…" The bandaged shinobi informed.

"We're here after the Uchiha and if you try to get in our way we will not hesitate to kill you." The black haired boy said, unable to hide the glee in his words.

To her credit, Sakura did not backed down. She was prepared to defend Sasuke no matter what happened next.

Another laugh was shared between the sound nin as they saw the pink haired girl tighten her grip on her kunai. The bandaged boy rolled up his sleeve reveal some sort of large device strapped to his forearm. However, Sakura was only able to look at it for a single second because, on the next one, all three of them charged towards her at incredible speed.

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Few minutes after Naruto left

Naruto was walking dealer into the forest where he sensed a team. He was floating to cover more ground and to get a bird's eye view of the forest. He looking around found a dead grass team that was attacked by a strange bear that has four arms and armor on.

Nick then told naruto through their link "Naruto that's a guardian bear demon. If remember right then this forest is home to the animal demons. Try talking to the bear about getting the scroll from the grass ninja and see if you could make a treaty with the animal demons." Nick said making naruto nod.

Naruto jumping down so he was in front of the demon spoke in a respectful tone " greeting guardian bear demon" this made said demon look at Naruto "may i grave the scroll that this team has for my team to pass this exam and I would also like to speak to the royal family of the animal demons to make a treaty with them." he finished with the head looking at him

"How do you know about us mortal" said the demon looking at Naruto like he was crazy but he felt a energy that made him look at naruto.

"Well I am naruto uzumaki" que bears eyes become dinner plates "and I would like to talk to you to make a pact to help if my time in this villages goes wrong" naruto finished.

The bear nodded and led naruto, after he (naruto) got the scroll they needed, and went deeper into the part of the forest not even the crazy snake woman goes and into some type of ruins

Inside he was lead into a main room with a many strange looking animals, humans, and strange hybrids but in the center of the room were a throne was a teen boy with green skin and a tail

The bear demon walk up to him and bowed and naruto followed.

"My princes i come to you with the Uzumaki and a royal one with business with us." The bear demon said which looked like I peeked the teen's attention. and when said teen looked at Naruto he couldnt help but blush at his sight. ( his blush is his skin turning darker green)

(Will now only use hold as with summons or large demons)

"My my my" stated the younger teen looking at Naruto. " what would a necromancer want with the demon animals" he finished while naruto still with his head bowed showing respect.

"I came to wish for help" naruto said making the others shocked. " I am not liked hear for i am the vessel for the nine failed fox demon and I wanted help with my clan home protecting it. And I chose you because I read the animal kingdom always had a good relationship with the Uzumaki clan. " Naruto finished.

At this the green teen said "look into my eyes.young Uzumaki for i may see if you are worthy for our help" he said as naruto looked at him and he seen his life.

The princes of animal demons just shook his head at human stupidity and look at Naruto in the eye and said " I have seen your life and I say we will help you. But I want a special deed. I want to be added to your harem and become your familiar " he said smoking all that the Prince would find his mate in a necromancer and be his familiar. "What do you say naruto and by the way my name is Beast Boy but you can also call me bb"

Naruto looking up nodded and got up and still his hand into his cloak and brought out a amulet for bb

Bb grabbed Naruto missed him and put the amulet on. He then said " we will move when naruto and I return and I believe that the castle is on its last legs so he prepared for us to leave. " th said and then turned into a snake and wrapped around naruto neck.

Naruto missing the snake on the head disappeared with him back too his place