Kurama's POV:

Fuck, fuck, FUCK!

Dexter is out cold, the memories came way too suddenly and were too many for me to block.

The only glimpse I could get at them was that this Orochimaru guy used some seal on the Naruto clone. It must've disrupted his Chakra and forced a dissolve of the blood clone jutsu.

Dexter will have to overcome this rush of memories on his own, I'm only able to stop the haemorrhages. I... I just hope he won't change too much.

The plans he had can wait, it's more important to find out what happened to his Naruto clone.

And it's good that this Orochimaru has such vile Chakra, my ability to sense emotions will lead me directly towards him.

With that thought finished I increased my speed again and moved towards Orochimaru, he stopped and was fighting against someone else. The Chakra feels like Anko. Didn't Dexter-kun say that she will fight him in this forest?

A few seconds later I was almost up on them and then heard the painful cry of a woman. Then I saw someone fall down from a tree and it indeed was Anko, she was barely holding onto her consciousness and a man was watching her falling down.

This must be Orochimaru, this fucker.

I jumped up and channelled my Chakra into my fist, a red coat encompassed it and a devastating strike hit the right side of his face.

The man was blasted off of his position and flew though three thick trees before stopping in a fourth.

“Kukukuku, a new player?”, he asked as if nothing happened and broke out of the tree he was lodged into.

His face was partially ripped off and the remains of my Chakra were corroding strands of ripped of skin. Yet, it seemed like it wasn't bothering him at all. His snake like eyes focused on me and widen briefly. But they got back into their slitted form as fast as they turned larger.

“Interesting, tell me Dexter-kun, why is it that I can feel the Kyuubi in you?”, he asked with a grin.

I just snarled and let more Chakra out, two of the Chakra tails grew from my tail bone and the Biju cloak that will heal me and burn my enemies formed around me. The long purple hair of Dexter raised upwards and parted in two fox like ears. They too were surrounded by my Chakra.

“My my, what strength. It seems like I was right with my assumption that you are special. Still, I didn't know that you are this special. Sarutobi the old fool really did one on me with this secret”, said Orochimaru. He then grabbed the remains of his face and ripped them off, a younger face was under it.

“Then let's see if you are able to control this power of yours, I might even give you a gift if you prove yourself worthy”, he continued with a cruel smile and jumped to me, intending of hitting me with his fist.

I, on my side, gathered Chakra in my mouth and blasted him away with a pressure wave. He was thrown back but managed to land on a tree without any real harm done.

“What have you done to Naruto?”, I asked and plunged one of my tails sneakily into the tree.

“Naruto-kun? Fufufu, why should I tell you?”, he asked with a creepy laugh. His laugh instantly died down when my tail broke out of the ground and bound him where he stood. The corrosion was kept at bay, a little bit.

“Speak snake!”, I demanded and increased the pressure a little bit. His arms and legs broke and I'm sure a few rips were also squeezed.

“It seems like I'm in a bind”, he said mockingly and then looked past me into the forest.

“Sadly it seems like I have to leave now, my old fool of a sensei will come soon and I don't plan to show him too much of me as of now. So with that I have to excuse myself”, he continued and I instantly increased the pressure.

However, he threw his head back and opened his mouth wider than any human could possibly do. Out of it came a hand and then the rest of a new Orochimaru. My second tail jumped forward, ready to impale him, but I only managed to rip off his lower body. Which didn't seem to hinder him at all. Out of the bloody remains of his lower torso came snakes that formed themselves into a large tail like appendage and he slithered away. Not faster than I could react mind you, I jumped after him and he looked back to me, he opened his mouth to spit something at me and then used the time I needed to evade the obviously poisonous liquid, to dive into the ground.

He fled by using an earth-based Jutsu, something that I'm not able to counter without decimating the whole forest. Which wouldn't have been a problem for me, if it wasn't something against Dex-kun's plans.

Showing a little bit of strength wouldn't have been a problem, decimating the whole Forest of Death with all it's inhabitants would.

So I begrudgingly turned around and jumped back to Anko, my cloud already gone.

She was out cold now, painful moans came from her and I saw her seal pulsing in a violet glow.

She's going to survive, I have to find out what happened to Naruto. Maybe his teammates know more?

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But where are they? I never bothered to memorize their Chakra signature and even then I'm not as good as Dex-kun in sensing Chakra. I only can feel emotions.

Seems like I have to search out every distressed, fearful and panicked Genin in this forest. Good thing that only most of them feel like that....

TWO DAYS LATER:

*CRUNCH* “*Sigh*, these weren't those I search for as well”, I mumbled and let the body of a Kiri Ninja fall down. His neck is broken and his eyes already lifeless. His teammate was dead as well. Idiots tried to attack me.

It's now two days since I started with my search for this Sakura and Sasuke. I already took out more than 30 teams, how hard can it be to find two weak Genin?

And Dex-kun hasn't woken up as well. While I can feel that it isn't far away from happening, it still worries me what he will be like once he woke up.

He won't stay the same, that is for sure, but will he still see his teammates like before? Will he see Konoha in an even worse light? Will his feelings for Uzushiogakure change? And worst of all, will his feelings for me change?

… I choke my head, dismissing thoughts like these and concentrated on the here and now. There are only a handful of Genin left. I mostly searched those out that were only two people. I mean this Sakura and Sasuke don't have anyone else with them, but it seemed like a lot of teams lost one of their members.

Let's see, there are two teams to the north, near the tower, yet not inside.

And then there are five more people, one of them basically radiates fear. One of them feels like he's sleeping. And the other three have thoughts of hurting someone.

Another fight between two teams? Doesn't matter, they are the last ones.

I enhanced my legs with Chakra and run off to them. It didn't take me long to reach them. And finally, it was the Sakura girl. She was heavily bruised and was bleeding from a few wounds. But she was alive, that is enough.

Another girl with brown hair was next to her, a Kunai in her hand and raised for a final attack, something that I can't allow, this Sakura girl might now what happened.

I jumped forward from my position on a nearby tree and leaped at the second girl. She had no time to react and Dex-kun's metal plated boots crashed into her left temple. The force threw her away and her head impacted with a crunch into a nearby tree.

The other two jumped out of their hiding places as well and rushed at me. The first one to reach me had spiky hair and got killed by a hand through his chest. I have no time for people like them.

The second one was up on me the moment I pulled my hand out of the chest of his comrade and he struck his fist out to hit my head. I evaded the attack but noticed how my eardrums were torn apart, which is nothing that couldn't be healed quickly with a little bit of Chakra.

I turned around to see his smug face and kicked him away into a nearby tree. His back broke and the bandages that were covering his mouth were now bloodstained.

“What? Dexter-kun?”, asked that still dazed Sakura girl. This stupid wannabe Ninja is too dump to react quickly in fast changing situations.

“Tell me Pinky, what happened to Naruto?”, I asked and looked down at her. Her eyes grew wide as she saw my red and slitted pupils.

“N..Naruto? What do you want with the Baka? He ran!”, she said and spat the last words.

“What do you mean with ran?”, I asked back. The clone wouldn't have run. It was an order from Dex-kun that the clone would fight to the death, as it didn't matter when he dies. Just that he will die.

“This Orochimaru guy attacked him and he then puffed up like one of his clones. He clearly run that weak idiot”, she explained.

“Did Orochimaru say something?”, I asked and put some killing intent into my voice so that she is more likely to tell the truth.

“N.. no, he...he shouted something like 'Five Pronged Seal', but nothing happened, other than the vanishing of Naruto-baka's clone”, she said truthfully.

So a seal was the reason for the dismissing of the blood clone? I'm not good with seals, Dex-kun is the master with them. Ninja arts, in general, aren't really interesting. I mostly just crush my enemies with overwhelming strength and a Bijuudama here and there.

Now the next problem, is this girl important? I'm not able to create another blood clone or even using the modified Henge of Dex-kun. So I won't be able to create another Naruto until Dex-kun wakes up.

Which means that both Pinky and this Sasuke guy are basically out of the exam. Only full teams are allowed to participate in the next round.

“Can...can you look over Sasuke-kun? He was bitten by this creepy man and is now in a coma. Please”, asked suddenly that pink haired thing. I looked down, directly in her teary eyes.

“I don't care about Sasuke”, I replied and turned around, but Pinky grabbed my leg and began to plead for me to help her Sasuke-kun.

The annoying girl doesn't know when to give up.

“Fuck off or I'll kill you!”, I growled and she let go of me, the pressure I put on my voice was enough for her to loose her control over her bladder. Disgusting.

I turned around again in an attempt to leave, but I had to stop again, only this time it was from a large burst of negative emotions. They came from the downed Sasuke, who was now slowly standing up.

“HAHAHAHAHA, this power, this strength. Now I'll be able to get revenge, now I can finally beat him. But first I have to test this strength of mine”, said Sasuke in a psychotic and crazy tone.

He turned around and eyed his surroundings, taking note of the three dead Ninja and then of me and Pinky.

“Sakura, where is Naruto? I want to test this strength of mine”, he asked and a fire like tattoo was visible on his body. It crossed every visible part and glowed in an eerie purple aura.

“Sasuke-kun, you are fine!”, shouted Pinky in relief; “Naruto-Kun run, he used one of his clones to get away from this Orochimaru guy”, she then said with hate.

“Is that so? Then never mind, Uzuki, this means that I have to test my strength on you”, declared Sasuke and then jumped at me. However, I was too tired for this shit. I'm now running around this forest for more than two days and the constant worry I have about Dex-kun didn't help with my nerves. So I quickly backhanded him into a nearby tree which might have broken a few bones. He will survive, maybe.

“Keep your friend in check, or he might die”, I then said and jumped away. It seems like I could only wait for Dex-kun to wake up now.

Five minutes later I arrived at the tower and walked inside, there were still a few days left until the second exam ends.

I located the Dexter clone by searching for my own Chakra, something that is in every clone to mask the Chakra of Dex-kun from his clones, and killed him before burning his remains with my Chakra. I can't allow Dex-kun to get more memories now, not when he hasn't overcome the last influx.

“Dexter-kun? What are you doing here?”, asked suddenly a female voice from behind me. The girl that belonged the voice to was TenTen, the same girl that is in Dex-kun's team and has a one-sided crush on her. Dex-kun loves me and no one else.

…At least I hope he will still do....

“I was looking around”, I replied quickly.

“Is something? Your voice sounds different”, she asked and I cursed myself for forgetting to not use Chakra in my voice.

“*COUGH* No, I'm fine, just something in my throat”, I said.

“I hope it's not a sickness, you should rest, the next test will surely be hard”, she advised and I gave her a nod before walking to my room. It's good that the clone told me where this room is, or I would have to wander around, which would look suspicious.

I stayed in my room for the next four hours. I would have stayed longer, but I finally felt Dex-kun coming back from his sleep. I slowly gave the control over my body away and waited for him to wake up.

Waiting in slight fear of his changes and his view of me.

°Mhh, shit.... Kura-chan, what happened?°, were his first thoughts after waking up.

He is still using my nickname, and also with the same loving care that he used before. A few good signs.

°Orochimaru used the 'Five Pronged Seal' on your blood clone, this somehow changed the Chakra in it and forced it to dispel. The memory rush forced your mind into a shut down°, I explained.

°But aren't you normally taking care of these memory rushes?°, he asked.

°Your normal Shadow clones aren't the same as a blood clone, they are a lot less difficult to process and not as strenuous to your brain°, I further explained.

°Do..do you feel any different?°, I then asked and couldn't stop the slight tremble in my 'voice'.

°I don't know,... I... I remember the 'Fox Hunts' on my birthday, the glares, the assassination attempts, the badmouthing and the constant downgrading of everything I did.... I have the desire to burn Konoha down. To hurt anyone that might mock me...°, he said slowly.

His tone was full of hate when he mentioned Konoha and I think he didn't even notice when he spoke as if the memories were of his own.

°What about me?°, I asked after a pause.

°I can't detect any changes towards you, but there is a strong desire to hurt anyone that is badmouthing you. It made me so angry to constantly hear how they badmouthed you. Telling that I and you are evil. That we are only monster that wait for the right opportunity to attack them.

They will see what a self-fulfilling prophecy is. I won't oppose the things that the elders of the Uzumaki clan asked me to do any longer°, he said and I felt immense relive when he told me that he still loves me. Maybe even more now....

But if he's going along with the suggestions of the Uzumaki elders, then we will see a lot of fighting in the future.

°I'm glad to hear that you are mostly all right°, I said and pressed my emotions of relief and love though the link.

°I hope there won't be too many changes. Kura-chan? Can we spend some time together?°, he asked.

°Yes°, I replied and he concentrated so that he can come inside the seal.

Some things won't change with my Dex-kun.