Naruto didnt want to be involved in the folowing investigation so he picked up sasuke and ran away from the crime scene .
A few minutes later , anko areived followed by other instructors .
Seeing the area , anko began searching for clues and she found it .
A snake skin .
Her eyes widened as she couldnt help by react on reflex as she grabbed her neck .
Which held a similar seal that Sasuke now had .
' Orochimaru!!! '
' What is he doing here !!! '
' i need to inform this to Hokage sama !! '
Anko gave instructions to her subordinates to look after the test and she left to tell hokage about this .
.....
Naruto didnt waste anymore time as he had his fun , carrying sasuke on the back was also not something he was fond of so he wanted to finish this as soon as possible .
Also , if he was fast enough , he can spend some time with Temari at the central tower .
As the image of temaris long white and smooth legs appeared in narutos mind , he picked up the pace and ran fast .
Sasuke on the other hand was suffering, not only from the pain of the cursed seal but also from being treated like a bag of rice , naruto didnt care if a bunch of branches brushed past sasukes face .
He only wanted to spend time with Temari more .
Three hours later , Naruto and sasuke areived at the core , but were ambushed by a team of genin who had been lurking .
It was none other than Gosu and his team mates .
" oh yeah there it is .. the scene where sasuke wakes up and breaks off gosus hands and shoulder "
Axting as if he had been caught , naruto changed directions and tried to maintain a distance from them .
But he was caught and surrounded .
" About time ... "
Naruto muttered as he felt sasuke wake up .
Naruto put down sauke and used the shadow clone jutsu to buy time .
" HAHAHA... NOW THERE IS NO WHERE TO GO BRAT !!! ... YOU TEAMMATE IS DOWN AND CANNOT FIGHT !! "
Dosu shouted as he felt it to a humiliation as he was unable to defeat Naruto , a nobody, last time .
He was a advent fan of Orichimaru and idolized him .
For him , if his performance wasnt good enough he had failed in front of Orichimaru sama .
As for the chunins , he didnt care about them.
Naruto struggled as he was being overwhelmed by three v one .
Just before , kunai was about to pierce Naruto from behind , A hand appeared and caught it .
" Sasuke !!! "
Naruto shouted , unfortunately sasuke who was still in a daze didnt react and rushed to attack .
But as sasuke fought , the cursed mark started to activate and rows of mysterious seals surfaced onto Sasukes skin and covered his face and body .
Cursed seal stage 1 actuvated plus three tomoe sharingan .
The poor sound genin held no chance , moreover this time there was no sakura here to stop sasuke to show mercy .
Naruto watched sasuke break the limbs of all three genin .
Gosu was shocked and went mad when he saw the cursed seal on sasuke .
It was at the moment , he realised , that he and his team were nothing but pawns of Orichimaru and kabuto .
Their purpose was to see Sasukes growth .. they were disposable and were never meant to truely kill sasuke .
Dosu lost all hope as he lost his consciousness.
Sasuke who had lost control , as more and more of the seal overpowered him.
Turned towards Naruto to vent his rage .
Naruto who had been enjoying the show , chuckled as he vanished from sasuke field of view .
A punch to the head was all that naruto had to do .
' idiot ...know your limits '
Naruto picked up sasuke but as a punishment for acting against him , this time didnt carry him on his back but rather treated him like a hand bag .
Once he entered the central tower , he threw him to the side as if he was nothing but dead weight.
' Now where is temari !!? '
As Naruto scanned for Temari, his entrance caught the eye of many .
" Hey is that naruto and ... Wait was that sasuke !? " Choji Akimichi was eating a pack of chips when he saw Naruto and sasuke enter .
He called out to shikamaru and ino , who looked in the direction that choji was pointing.
" What !!? ..where is Naru.... Sasuke !? " Ino shouted as she looked
" Yeah ..its them alright , but something is wrong with sasuke "
Shikamaru said
" What !!? . something happened to Sasuke !! We need to go there !! "
Ino rushed towards naruto and sasuke .
Choji also followed along to see if sasuke was alright .
" what a drag " shikamaru complained but still followed byt his eyes were on naruto .
' Weird .. Naruto doesnt seem to be anxious..no he is weirdly calm '
He observed but didnt think about it much .
...
Ino's shout made many others turn their head , among them were members of team 8 , shiba aburame and kiba inuzuka and their new team mate another hyuga clan member .
When they heard about naruto and sasuke , they also started walking to check them out .
Apart from them , Rock lee , Neji hyuga and tenten also followed along .
Rocklee wanted another match with sasuke , neji followed because of naruto , as for tenten , she already like Neji ..so she didnt refuse and happily followed .
...
Naruto who was searching for Temari , finally spotted them and was about to go up to them , but ino rushed over .
" Sasuke !!!... Naruto!! What happened to sasuke ? " Ino saw that sasuke was unconscious and rushed to ask naruto , but unconsciously she grabbed narutos hand and was too close to him .
Naruto didnt pull back his hand , infact he felt the softness of Ino and her worried face , Naruto couldnt help but remember that he had been neglecting her .
Ino was spicy beauty , someone Naruto wanted to tame and make his .
Now that ino had taken the initiative, how could he not follow along .
Naruto smiled and patted her on the head .
" Dont worry ino , i saved him ... Actually we were attacked by some rouge ninja in the village .
That ninja was very powerful and attacked sasuke ... He did something to sasuke and i had to run away with him .
Ino why dont you help me find kakashi sensei , i need to report this matter to the instructors ... Ah perfect , shikamaru and choji , can you both look after sasuke while ino and i go together "
Naruto carefully framed his words and ino who was still in panic , didnt shrug away when naruto patted her head , rather she felt good and relaxed .
Shikamaru and Choji who were the next to arrive , looked at the scene with wide eyes .
Ino , who was always the dominant and unruly was acting like so dormant and allowed naruto to take the initiative .
Choji who usually didnt focus on anything else other than food , stopped eating .
Shikamaru who had been sleepy , woke up and was now staring at naruto take the initiative to give out commands
Speachless , they couldnt even refuse , before Naruto took the initiative to grab Inos hands tightly and pulled her along .
" Naruto .. i.. ah.. yeah ..lets go "
It was only after a while that ino regained herself and realised what had happened , her face turned red , as she felt the big warm hand of naruto holding onto her small slender hand , their fingers entangled in each others as she followed behind Naruto .