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Chapter 7

Recap:

A few moments later the Kopī-mates in the clearing woke up and then ran off in the same direction. The ninja then started after them. They soon found the location of the Kopī-mates' doctor friend. "No, I know this place." Sasuke said.

"What is it?" Naruto asked.

"It is one of his labs." Sasuke said.

"You mean him?" Sakura asked.

"Yes it is. It is one of Orochimaru's Labs." Sasuke said.

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"How is Orochimaru?" Isamu asked.

"Of course you wouldn't know." Minoru said. "He was one of the Leaf's Sannin and a S-Ranked criminal do to his human experimentations to gain immortality as well as attacking the Leaf fifteen or so years ago."

"How do you know about him?" Date asked.

"He may have been a criminal but the concept of expanding ones life span intrigues me as a medical ninja, so this maybe good that you dragged me here with you." Minoru said.

Just then a wave of chakra was felt. "This chakra." Akemi said.

"You fell it." Naruto asked. "What does it feel like?"

"It is hard to explain." Akemi said. "It almost feels empty."

"Empty, how can something feel empty." Date said.

"It may mean that the person does not know who he or she really is." Sasuke said.

"You have an idea as to how it is, don't you Sasuke?" Asked Naruto.

"Yes Kabuto." Sasuke said. "So he escaped the Izanami."

"Well what ever Kabuto is up to we have to find out what it is and then stop him." Naruto said.

"Wait, I sense several chakras coming from the lab." Akemi said.

"I do as well." Benkei stated. "I count at least eight or nine active chakra sources and countless weak ones."

"So how do you what to deal with this?" Naruto asked Sasuke.

"I think as long as they work together we can deal with this." Sasuke said.

"Alright, but first we have to deal with the Kopī-mates." Naruto said. With that said they placed their plain into action.

A few moments later a old man was seen walking through the woods carrying chopped wood. Then with in moments a troop of Kopī-mates came running for him. The old man then dropped his load and then performed hand signs. "Violent Whirlwind." With that the old man launched a stream of wind that sent the Kopī-mates into the air. "Now." The old man yelled.

Just then Benkei and Kenichi jumped up with a net in their hand and then throw it onto the Kopī-mates. Then Isamu and Date ran out with a coil of rope in hand and then ran around the netted Kopī-mates and tied them up. The Kopī-mates started to screech but then Chiyome appeared and then said one word. "Sleep." With that all the monkeys fell asleep.

"Well that worked out well." Isamu said as he hit the old man on the back as he turned back to Nadeshiko.

"Good that is all of them." Kakashi said as he finished courting up the Kopī-mates.

"Now to make sure this monkey are not used by this Kabuto again." Isamu said as he started to run towards the lab area. The rest followed him but they where wondering how they will enter the lab undetected."

Several Kopī-mates have entered the lab and were making there why to the center of the lab and have found a door and as they approached it, the door opened and they entered the room. When there they saw a man with mid-length gray hair and a pair of glasses. "Since you return that must mean that you have taken care of the village. Drop the act Leaf ninja, Kopī-mates are not smart enough to search for a room they never were in."

"I guess the act was pointless." Just then all the Kopī-mates turned into the leaf ninja.

"Sasuke, it has been a while." Kabuto said.

"It has been Kabuto. Looks like you have lost Orochimaru from within you." Sasuke said.

"It does not matter to me. Actually I have to thank you and Itachi for placing that genjutsu on me and forcing me to accept that I have to find myself by my own skills."

"So what is with the Kopī-mates?" Naruto asked.

"Naruto, so you are hear to. Okay will as you could tell they memorize skills almost as effectively as the Sharigan so I have been trying to improve my soldiers by transferring the some tactic to them." Kabuto said.

"If that is what you are doing why are you sending those monkey out to attack villages?" Isamu asked.

"And who are you?" Kabuto asked.

"My name is Isamu Asashi, so now answer me why have them attack villages." Isamu shouted.

"It is simple, by attacking villages they attract ninja to learn skills from." Sasuke said.

"As keen as ever." Kabuto said. "Well I think that is enough talk for now." With that four snakes shot down from the ceiling and then wrapped themselves around Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi. Then the floor opened up except under Kabuto and the ninja fell down into it leaving Kabuto and the four captured Leaf Jonin the only ones in the room.

"Isamu, Nadeshiko, Akemi." Naruto yelled. "What have you done with them?"

"Well let's say that I haven't just been working with animals after escaping that genjutsu." Kabuto stated as he fixed the placement of his glasses and the floor reappeared. "But there may be a chance for you to meet again safe and sound."

Elsewhere in the lab, the Akemi start to wake up. "What happened?" She asked.

"Please don't move just yet." Satomi said as she was finishing tending to the wounds that Akemi had from the fall.

"To answer you, Kabuto caught the Jonin and then dropped us through the floor." Minoru said.

"Is everyone okay?" Akemi asked.

"A few bumps and bruises. Luck we were with you are it could have been worse." Minoru said.

"What do you mean?" Akemi asked. Just then she notice that Minoru, Kenichi, and Kenichi were exhausted meaning they used a lot of their chakra recently. "Wait were is Isamu?"

"Right here." Akemi turned to the source of the voice and saw Isamu wrapped with medical bandages.

"Isamu, are you okay?" Akemi asked.

"Yeah, I am fine." Isamu said.

"Why didn't you heal yourself?" Akemi asked.

"Even if I do, I we have more important things to deal with." Isamu said.

"May do we have a stubborn one." Said a voice that they recognized as Kabuto.

"Kabuto, Where are you?" Isamu asked.

Just then a television turned on in the corner of the room. The picture that appeared was of Kabuto with the Jonin. The Jonin's arms and hands were bond to prevent them from using ninjutsu and they were in separate cages. "What do you want with us?" Date asked.

"Well that is simple, seeing that you are hear you must have great potential if you were chosen to be trained by the apprentices of the Legendary Sannin, potential is one thing but you each must have the skills to match them and those are the types of skills that I need for my experiments." Kabuto said.

"Sorry but there is no way that we will do what you want us to." Nadeshiko said. "We will not fight each other just for you to gather our data."

"A smart one. I like you kid. But there is more then one way to get what I want from you." Kabuto said. Just then the door opened.

"What is the meaning of this?" Benkei asked.

"I had the lab space on that floor repurposed as a series of special training rooms." In each room there is a Sound Ninja that has been trained." Kabuto said.

"You mean modified." Sakura said.

"That too." Kabuto said and then continued. "At the end of the last room there is a staircase that will take you all the way here. Once if you can get up here you are all free to go, but fail then this four will pay the price."

"So we just have to beat your men?" Date asked. "Sounds fun."

"One more thing, There is a total of eight sound ninja and nine leaf ninja one of you're injuries seem to be too much so that means that only eight of you can fight. To make this interesting all fights have to be one-on-on." Kabuto said. "If you disagree then I will just kill them."

"How do we know you will keep your word?" Nadeshiko asked.

"You don't but I doubt you have many options." Kabuto said.

"Don't do it, fine a way out of here and leave us." Sasuke yelled.

"Sasuke you beat me to it again." Naruto said.

"Sorry Sensei, we will not leave you behind." Isamu said. "Those who disobey orders are scum, but those who abandon a comrade are worse then scum. And to me you are as much a comrade as anyone else Sensei."

"Don't worry we will be there soon." Date said.

"As much as it pains me I agree with this two." Minoru said.

"Since we are all in agreement, let's go." Isamu said as he and then the rest of the group left the room and headed for the first room.

The group entered the first of the rooms. "What is this place?" Asked Akemi.

They found themselves in a plain room with no windows. "I don't know but I am getting a bad feeling about this place." Benkei stated.

Just then someone started to approach the ground. It was a preteen boy with mid-length black hair and dark eyes, wearing a gray top an black pants with a dark gray sash on. He was wearing his forehead protector around his forehead with a black cloth on his right arm was a strange metal gantlet. "So you are the insects that Master Kabuto told me to crush." The Sound ninja said. "This is not going to take long."

"What was that?" Isamu yelled. "Don't you dear underestimate us."

"Spirited one. Too bad that won't help any of you." The Sound ninja said. "Come, The sooner I beat you the faster I can get back to my training."

"Why you." Isamu said as he was about to step forward but then Kenichi stepped in front of him. "Kenichi what is the meaning of this?"

"Just stay back, your injuries are bad enough to impair your movement in battle." Kenichi said to Isamu in a whisper. "Plus, we will need our best fighters for later on." Kenichi the walked forward and was standing parallel to the sound ninja. "I will be your opponent."

"Fine by me, it doesn't matter who I fight, as long as I can kill someone." The Sound Ninja said.

"Before we fight I need to ask you one thing? What is your name?" Kenichi asked. "My name is Kenichi Naikai."

"If you must know, call me Hibiki." The sound ninja said now known as Hibiki. "Now that introductions are finished..." Hibiki then charged forward with his gantlet arm ready to strike. "...time your you to die!"

Meanwhile Kabuto was observing the battle from his room with the Jonin in the background watching. "Looks like you four are going to die, don't worry I will kill you before your students try some attempt to save you after failing at the game." Kabuto said.

"I wouldn't make plans just yet." Sakura said.

"What do you mean?" Kabuto asked as Sakura pointed to the monitor and showed the match.

Back to the match. Hibiki was getting closer to Kenichi when suddenly Kenichi was behind Hibiki and his attack missed. "What the?" Hibiki said as he swung his right arm trying to hit Kenichi but Kenichi then dodged the attack again by ducking and then swept Hibiki's legs. "What is the meaning me this?" Hibiki said as he got back to his feet.

"Sakura sensei has trained myself and my teammates in two things. The first is not important at this point, but he second thing is to fight using our other special skill." Kenichi said.

"What type of nonsense are you talking about?" Hibiki said as he charged in to attack and attacked with a barrage of attacks. Kenichi jumped back to dodge the attack but was backed into a wall. "Try to dodge this?" Hibiki then throw a powerful straight punch with his right hand.

"Sorry I can't dodge it." Kenichi said.

"Don't admit that!" Isamu shouted from the side lines.

"Too late." Hibiki said as his fist got closer. Just then Kenichi then placed his left hand near the top of the gantlet and then pressed his right close to the wrist and then pressed both hand and redirected the strike into the wall and then jumped away to the left. Hibiki's arm then got stuck in the wall.

"I couldn't dodge your attack but I can redirect your punch so I did not get hit." Kenichi said. "Pulling your fist out like that will just cause you permanent damage."

"Shut up." Hibiki then held up his left hand and opened his palm to reveal a small funnel implanted in his arms. "Take this." With that he released a blast of cutting air and shot it at Kenichi who tried to dodge it but he got hit by it and was sent back into wall.

"Hey what was that?" Isamu asked in outrage. He was about to step in but then Minoru stopped him. "What are you doing, your teammate is in trouble."

"It just seems that way." Minoru said. As he was saying that Kenichi was getting back to his feet. "See, Kenichi is fine."

"So you are still able to fight. How annoying." Hibiki said as he blast the wall around his right arm to free it from the wall. "Looks like I have to go all out on this one." Hibiki then pulled out senbons and throw them. As they were being thrown Kenichi heard a bell ring. "He will try and dodge them and it will work, then once I throw another round of senbons, ones with and with out bells, He will either dodge only the ones with bells but be hit by the ones with out bells." Just then the first round of senbons hit Kenichi. "Guess that wasn't needed." Just then Hibiki's body started to go numb. "What is happening, I can't move my body. Did he do something to me. No how did he?" Just then the Kenichi that got hit by the senbons turned to a slab of stone. "The substitution jutsu."

Hibiki's body then collapsed and he then saw Kenichi standing behind him with his fingers glowing with medical chakra. "You are wondering how, well to answer that I have to tell you what Sakura sensei taught us, as in her team, and what my special skill is." Kenichi said. "Actually as you can tell she trained her team as an all medical ninja team. Of course to do that she would also need to teach us to defend ourselves in case we are forced into a combat situation. To do that she had use make use of the skill that made use each special. Seeing as my teammates have yet to fight I can't reveal there skills but as for mine, it is my observational skills. I am able to gather and retain knowledge at a faster rate then the others, so I simply memorized every standard fighting style and develop defenses by counter or disabling my opponents movements. Now you are asking why do I not just kill you? Easy, Leaf ninja have sworn only to kill as a last resort, and as a medical ninja I save lives, not take them." Just then a door opened leading them to the next location.

"You did good Kenichi." Sakura said while watching the the fight.

"He lucked out that is all." Kabuto said. "If Hibiki was not impatient then he may have one."

"Maybe but they have beat your man." Kakashi said. "Surrender and we will take it easy on you."

"Nice try but I know that you can't promise that." Kabuto said. "Looks like they have made it to the next location."

To be continued...