Hello and welcome back my fellow readers and loyal followers. It's time for the next episode of the bssc. Last time, our heroes had ventured into the second gate of the chunin exams. The forty-fourth training zone for ninja. Otherwise known as "The Forest of Death". Known for it's gigantic and man-eating wildlife, it was chosen as the next test for the selection of the newest crop of chunin ninja. Only about an hour in, and already many ninja began to perish. Our heroes had split into two groups. While jake, johnny and chiro went to locate an earth scroll, Sabrina, ben, danny and june had decided to sit and wait for their prey to come to them. But quickly realizing the situation and the environment around them, they knew the plan had more than a few flaws. Suddenly, an explosion was heard in the distance. The four-person squad now head towards the source of the explosion.
Alright, enough stalling…Let the heroic saga continue with….
Chapter 9: A game of Predator and Prey! Orochimaru appears!
Ben, June, Danny and Sabrina had raced through the forest at an incredible pace. Sabrina, who was in her fairy form had took the lead while Danny had been zooming through the trees behind her leaving Ben and June to bring up the rear.
"So, what do you think could have caused that explosion?" Asked Ben.
"Don't know. Paper bombs?" Asked Danny.
"Not sure. I don't think paper bombs carry that much kick." Said June. Suddenly, Sabrina had halted pressing her shoes forward making an audiable screeching sound.
"Hey guys, look up there!" Sabrina shouted pointing upwards to a higher set of branches. Following the direction she was pointing in, they saw naruto hung over a tree branch while sasuke was on one leg.
"Hey! Sauske! Sakura! Ben had called out as he and the others had arrived on a nearby branch.
"Holy cow, what the heck happened here? And what happened to sauske?" asked ben. Sakura had a look of worry on her face as she had began to remember the fight that just happened a few minutes ago.
"There was this creepy ninja that just appeared a short while ago. I really couldn't tell whether it was a shinobi or a kunoichi. But I think this ninja had control over snakes."
"Snakes huh? Would that same ninja be responsible for the remains of a giant snake we passed by earlier?" asked june
"Uh yeah, you mean you saw it too?" asked sakura "
Yeah, we think that the snake might have gotten a belly ache from eating too many ninja." june said jokingly.
"Actually, it did try to eat sauske, but he wasn't one to go down so easy. He blew up the snake from the inside." Said sakura nearly shocking everyone except Sabrina.
"He…blew him up.."
"From the inside?" Said ben and danny.
"He must have used his fireball jutsu. Only something like that has enough force to make a giant snake explode. So where is the ninja anyway?" asked June.
"My my, did somebody call my name?" said a man with a dark tone as they looked to the position where a single ninja was tied up by invisible strings that seemed to be still alive. It appeared to be the same grass ninja with the abnormally long tounge who tried returning anko's kunai to her. The only difference is, part of her face was peeled off revealing part of it to be white while the eye was slanted with a yellow and black eye with slit pupil that resembles a snake's eyes.
"What? how did he survive an attack like that?" asked sakura as the man had began breaking through the invisible wires with a small snapping sound.
"Well, it seems like I got more then I bargained for. The ninja began. Here I am looking for squad 7, and I already have four new play things." Said the man.
"Hey! Are you the one that did this to them? What's your deal?" asked Danny.
"I should ask the same thing about you, you four say you are ninja, but that couldn't be further from the truth could it?" asked the man.
"What's it to you? All you need to worry about is how fast were gonna kick your butt!" boasted ben.
"Hey, where's naruto? Asked danny.
"Oh, so you know the little fox boy too? Well it's surprises all around then, isn't it?" asked the man with a dark tone. "Just who the heck is this guy? And what beef does he have with kakashi's team?" Ben thought as they continued to stare down the mysterious ninja.
"HEY, answer us! Where's naruto?!" said danny.
The man only chuckled. "Why don't you try looking up? The man asked as he pointed upwards . when they all looked up they were surprised to see that naruto was unconscious and the only thing that was suspending him up was a kunai knife on the back of his jacket.
"You slime ball, what did you do to him?!" asked ben.
"It wasn't my intention. The little nuisance wanted to play hero and got himself in this situation. It's what happen to all who stand in my way. " said the man as the others continued to stare him down. Sigh but I wasted enough prattle talking you children. I must be taking my leave. Though before I go,I have a little parting gift for the young uchia." said the man as he made a strange handsign.
"Get ready, he could be getting ready to use a genjutsu." Said Danny as the others had got into battle position. But they were taken by surprise that the man did not use a jutsu at all. Instead he extended his neck to a very long range to that of a snake.
"What the hell?! Is that normal?! Asked ben surprised and disgusted by the extension of the mysterious ninja's neck. While they were still surprised they only just noticed that the head was heading for sauske attempting to bite him.
But the only one who had got their feet moving was Sabrina. She had jumped in front of the snake head and took the bite instead making her wince a little. "SABRINA!" shouted the gang as they saw Sabrina took the hit. Sabrina had let out a bomb dropping shriek right in his ear forcing him to retract his neck to save himself from going deaf. After a few seconds, the curse mark had begun to form on her neck.
Sasuke was at a loss for words seeing Sabrina shield him from the ninja's attack.
"Sorry, that curse mark was not intended for you. The ninja seemingly apologized. Quite the noble act shielding sasuke from my attack. But since you have the mark now, I'm interested to find out what it results I could gain from such a strange creature as yourself. But to the man's surprise, the curse mark on her neck began to glow with multiple colors as the magic in her body was kicking out the chakra used in the curse mark effectively disappeared.
"Wh-what? What happened?" The man asked in slight surprise.
Still a bit light-headed from the process, Sabrina had managed to rise to her feet.
"Don't think this means I like that creep, but I don't think sasuke is really into peduphiles.." Said Sabrina with a smug look on her face.
"Interesting. You were able to expel the curse mark by yourself. Just who exactly are you?" The mysterious ninja asked.
"I could tell you, but answering one question would only make room for others in their place. But just cause I'm in a good mood, I'll give you this piece of the puzzle. I'm part fairy. Happy now? Cause I suuure am! She said sarcastically. Hearing this only made the ninja slightly chuckle under his breath.
"What's so funny?" Sabrina asked.
"You say that you are half-fairy. Which means you would be the offspring of a fairy and from what I can guess, a human. The ninja began. However, fairies only exist in myths and legends. They do not exist in the real world. And if they don't exist, then their certainly shouldn't be a half-fairy. And yet here you are. A perfect example of such a myth. I'd think you'd make a fine test subject. Who knows how far your addition could take my research.
"Forget it you slithering creep! Said Sabrina as she had cringed at the thought of being a lab rat again. I've already had the pleasure of being the guest in a mad scientist laboratory! And I don't feel like reliving that experience.
"It seems like talking to you would be a waste of time. So I suppose I'll have to use force." The ninja said as he prepared to strike.
"Bring it on, ya long neck freak! I'll reduce you into a leather handbag! Shouted Sabrina.
"Sakura, take naruto and sauske and get out of here. We'll hold him off." Said Danny.
"Wait, but what about you guys?" Sakura asked. "Don't worry, we won't be taken down by the likes of him. I fought weirder things every day." Said ben as he was prepared to activate his omnittrix. Without saying anything else sakura had picked up sauske on her shoulders and began trying to escape.
"Little child, do you actually think I'd let you go anywhere? Asked the ninja as he quickly appeared in front of sakura almost sending a cold chill up her spine. But before the man could reach her, Danny and Sabrina had appeared in front of him and both used a respective shield blocking him off and allowing sakura to escape.
"Gah, Such insolence, You think I will be defeated by the likes of you?! Said the man as just one of his punches broke through danny's shield. He had managed to land back on his feet as he slid back a few inches on a nearby tree. Sabrina was still holding off most of orchimaru's attacks as her lght shield was still holding up for a few good minutes.
"I don't know who you are, or what you are for that matter, but you intrigue me. I haven't met too many lab rats that had such power to resist the curse mark. So I guess I'll have to take you on as a my test subject instead." The man said as a snake had started to come out of his left hand.
Dream on, I'm no one's test monkey." Sabrina had blasted the man in the face with one of her light blasts. When the smoke cleared the man wasn't there anymore. "Huh, did I incinerate him?" Sabrina asked as she looked left to right trying to find where he went off too. But he wasn't gone as he appeared above the young fairy and delivered a right hook to her sending her down into one of the neary trees. She had managed to use her wings to ease her descent on to a nearby branch.
"Hey ben, any time you wanna jump in here ,would be good." Said Danny
"Don't worry, I'm about to give this guy a dose of clone overload." Said ben as he slammed his omnitrix transforming into ditto. The transformation of course had caught orochimaru by surprise.
"What is this, some new form of transforming jutsu?" The ninja thought as the multiple aliens had performed handsighns.
"CLONE JUTSU!" shouted the dittos as clones of the alien clones had appeared around the ninja. "So creepy snake guy, think you can find the real one?" asked the dittos as the ninja looked at the surrounding clones of aliens.
"Intresting little trick, but I'm afraid that won't quite be enough ." The ninja said with a grin.
"Oh yeah, we'll see about that! Get him, boys!" Shouted the head ditto. Right on cue, the army of dittos had lunged at the mysterious ninja attempting to pound him into the dirt. Yet, the ninja had used his incredible speed and had just barely dodged the bombardment of clones. But just as he landed, june had landed right beside him and unleashed a flurry of strong punches and kicks. Even with june's strength, she was surprisingly matched by thhe ninja as he had countered her attacks with very little effort.
"Well, your quite strong for a girl your age now aren't you?" The ninja asked. June only replied by continuing her attacks. Eventually, she had went for a roundhouse which he had ducked and countered with a swift blow to the gut. Yet june managed to take the blow as expected from the te xuan ze's strength and had only slid a few meters away from the ninja. Before he could engage june in another hand-to hand combat, he had avoided an ecto-energy blast from danny. Yet things became more difficult when he had to deal with both Danny's ecto-enrgy attacks and Sabrina's wild barrage of light attacks. The result of these missed attempts had effectively started mowing down some tree branches.
"My, it's not just you. All of you have unique abilities. Some of which I have never seen before." Said the ninja slightly impressed.
"Just shut it! I'm gonna wipe that smug straight off your face when I'm done with you!" Sabrina shouted.
"Sabrina, control yourself for a minute would ya? Danny pleaded. Can't you see he's just baiting you into attacking. Don't bite the bait!"
"Danny's right, Besides, he's too fast. We have to stop his movements first then move in to strike!" Added june.
"I don't care! She retorted. I don't know what it is, but I'm getting a bad vibe from this guy. Like a complete and total psycho of a villan vibe. If I take him out, then I'd be doing this world a favor." No longer listening to her friends, Sabrina had began to bend the air around her until she began forming an air belt. She had expanded the air belt causing the ninja to jump to avoid it. However, the expansion of the air belt was just seconds faster than his movements and he was hit in the ankle forcing him to trip and fall back to the earth. With him invulnerable, Sabrina had formed another air belt, but this time using her fire in hopes of burning the creep. However, it seems as though the first hit she managed to land was just a lucky shot as the ninja was able to dodge this attack as well.
"Is that all you've got little girl?" The ninja asked pushing her anger even further.
"You want to see more? Then how about this?! Sabrina shouted as she had now began to use lightning bending. The ninja had, as sakura had described before, begun moving like a snake slithering about effectively dodging her lightning strikes. Yet the more she revealed, the more interested the ninja became in her diversity in elemental attacks.
"Impressive. Not only wind, but you also command fire and lightning. The ninja began.
"So, what's your point?" Sabrina asked as she had prepared to attack again.
"My dear, only those of jonin level could control at least two element types of chakra. But three?" And yet, you say that you have no chakra running through your body whatsoever. You seem to be just as interesting as sasuke." He continued with a sinister grin. Hearing that caused Sabrina to fire off another light orb at the ninja which he had easily dodged.
"DON'T EVER COMPARE ME TO HIM!" Sabrina shouted.
"Oh dear, not a fan of sasuke are you? Strange. Then why did you protect him earlier?" The man asked.
"I'll admit, the guy is not exactly at the top of my list of favorite people. But, I'll by a monkey's aunt if I let anyone like you sink their fangs into an innocent by standard. Sabrina said.
"While the ninja was about to strike again, he had suddenly felt a cold wind pass by him. It was brief, but he sensed what was coming. As he looked to his side, danny had reappeared right next to him ready to deliver a right hook square in his jaw. The ninja had avoided the blow from the ghostly hybrid and sought to return the favor. But to his shock, his fist had went straight through him.
'…! What is…?!" Was all he could say before he was blasted in the chest with another one of Danny's ecto-energy attacks sending him into the trunk of another tree. Just as he had tried to regain him composure, Danny had continued his assault as he had dashed towards him through the air to deliver a swift kick to his abdomen once again making the unknown ninja airborne. As the ninja struggled to open his eyes, the only sight that greeted him was the sight of the army of ditto clones raining down from the sky bombarding him with thousands of fists which had resulted in creating a crater in the ground effectively stopping the ninja in his tracks.
"Well, looks like that's it for him." Said one of the dittos.
"He's still breathing. Said danny after checking. After he comes too, we can question him on his beef with naruto and the others."
"Hey, let's check if he's got the scroll we need!" Said ben as he attempted to check the unconscious ninja's ninja tool pack. But his actions were halted as they suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"…I doubt that you'd find anything of use on that body." The ninja said from a higher branch surprising everyone.
'What the-? How is he-?! Danny stammered.
"Hey, this guy's a fake!" Said ben taking another look at the ninja they had thought they had knocked unconscious. But what was left there was a pile of mud.
"A clone jutsu!" June said in realization.
"Hmm…it seems that I have more than one nuisance in this than I had originally thought. The ninja began. All of you hold mysterious powers. And I intend to find the cause of that. Until then I shall leave you with this. My name is Orochimaru. And I have a feeling we will meet again very soon. The ninja now known as Orochimaru chuckled as he seemed to be sinking into the tree.
"HEY! HE'S GETTIN' AWAY!" Ditto shouted as he and the others raced to the top in an attempt to stop him. However, they were already too late ass orochimaru had completely sunk into the tree disappearing from sight.
'Dang, just missed him!" Said june.
"Just what was that all about? Danny asked. Why did he go after naruto's group in the first place?"
"Whatever the reason, he's gone now." Said ben.
"He said that we would meet again very soon. What could he have meant by that?" June wondered.
"Maybe he's part of this year's exams. Said ben. But, is it possible for him to have been a genin at that age?" He asked.
"Not sure if it matters now. We'll tell the hokage what we saw after we finish these exams."
"Speaking of which, we still have yet to find a the heaven scroll we need to proceed. We have to get moving!" Said ben.
"Right, no use in standing around here." Said danny. With that, they all headed into the forest to look for any ninja who might be holding a heaven scroll. All of course except for Sabrina whom was looking in the direction where sakura had taken the injured naruto and sasuke.
"Sabrina, what's the hold up?" Ben asked.
"I'm going to go check on naruto's team." Sabrina said.
"What? By yourself?" Asked June.
"You're welcome to join me if you want, but I can't just rest easy knowing that their team is injured. And you know sakura has no way of defending the both of them. With those guys out of commission, they're a bunch of sitting ducks out there! Sabrina stated.
"I guess you're right. Said june. If only to make sure that she's made it to a safe place. But oif you run into any trouble….
"I got it, I got it. I call you via communicator." Sabrina finished as she had briefly pulled out the communicator device given to her by Dexter. I'll see you guys soon." Sabrina said as she had flew off in the direction where sakura had escaped the fight with an unconscious naruto and sasuke.
'Think she'll be okay? Asked Danny.
"She can manage by herself…..most of the time.." Said june still slightly worried about the choice Sabrina made by going off by herself.
-Meanwhile, near one of the forest rivers-
We find chiro sitting by the stream with his stuff unpacked. There seemed to be a pot over a fire with boiling soup with different chunks of meat in it. He was happily gulping down the soup while he hadn't noticed that he was being watched by a team of ninja from the hidden sand village. The team consisted of two males and one female.
"Hahahhaha! This kid cannot be serious! It's like he's just begging us to take his scroll. Said an energetic girl ninja.
"Hold it, it could be a trap. Said the first male ninja.
"Seriously? The guys got his stuff unpacked like he's on a freakin' vacation or somethin'! And I don't see no trip wires anywhere! I say we go for it! Said the second male ninja.
"I agree with mizuno! Let's go already! Said the energetic girl ninja as she and the second male sand ninja jumped out of their hiding spot and stood behind chiro making their presence known. The girl had held her kunai close to chiro's neck who was surprisingly still eating his soup.
"Alright kid, I'm going to give you two choices." Said the girl sand ninja.
A: You can choose to hand over the scroll peacefully and I may decide to make your death quick and painless.
B: You could try to resist and make this fun for me and I could forcibly take it and make your death slow and excruciating.
After swallowing another spoonful of soup, chiro had finally spoke.
"I really don't see any way I could benefit from that. Either way, you'd still kill me." Said chiro.
"Huh? The female sand ninja asked slightly confused. I just told you could choose to die slowly or die quick! I'd say that's a pretty good deal."
"Well, I'd rather continue living if you don't mind." Said chiro as he took another sip from his soup bowl.
"That's it! Let's just kill the brat!" Said the male ninja as he had attempted to stab chiro ith his kunai. Yet just as he tried to approach him, the two were surrounded by a ring of fire.
"W-w-w-w-what the hell is this?" Asked the male ninja. Suddenly, without warning, both the male and female ninja were attacked by an unidentified flying object and dunked into the river. While they were airborne, they had lost their ninja packs containing their ninja tools.
Seconds after they had hit the water, they were suddenly trapped in a magical cage with Japanese numbers written on paper attached to the sides of the cage.
"What the-? Asked the female in confusion as she had tried to get up and break the cage. Yet the minute she tried to tough the bars, she was electrocuted.
'AAAH! She screamed in pain as she held her burnt hand. Looking up, she saw the boy she had just tried to murder looking through her ninja pack until he found what he was looking for. "Ah-ha! A heaven scroll! Chiro said in achievement.
"Hey! Let us out of here you brat!" Shouted the male ninja.
"Now what good would come if I did that?" Chiro asked with a visible grin. If I heard right, you two said you would kill me if wether I handed my scroll over peacefully or not. By the way, don't expect your friend to get the jump on me. He's been caught too. They wondered what he had meant until they saw jake fly in with their teammate in tow.
TORINO!" They both shouted surprised.
"Yo, found this guy lurking behind the rocks." Jake said as he had tossed the ninja to the ground."
"What are you guys? FREAKS?! Asked te female ninja from the cage.
"Nah, we're nobody important." Said jake.
"Just the ninja that beat you." Chiro said smugly as he had took out a scroll and gatherd all the supplies he had used for the trap they set. After preforming a hand sign, the supplies were sealed within the scroll.
"See ya!" Jake said before the two had left the scene. Soon, johnny had leapt out from behind a tree and joined chiro and jake as they advanced towards the tower.
'Yo johnny, what you find out?" Jake asked.
"Well, other than the fact that there are dead bodies littered all over the place, a few of the teams have already began advancing towards the tower. Said johnny,
"So I guess we're not exactly the first ones to cross the finish line are we?" Asked chiro.
"How 'bout you guys? Any luck?" Johnny asked, Chiro had only replied by taking out a heaven scroll from his pocket.
'SWEEET!" Said johnny. Then we can go ahead and finish this part of the test.
"Hey, shouldn't we check on how the others are doing?" Asked chiro.
"Yeah, we gotta make sure that they make it to the next round too." Said jake.
"Fine…Johnny groaned. But after we find them, we head for the tower!" With that, the three had continued into the forest to search for their friends. As the hours pass, night soon fell over the forest of death. Soon, it would be too difficult to see anything. Sakura had set sasuke and naruto under a the roots of a tree while placing wet towels on the top of their heads. Sakura had sighed as she looked down at the two incapacitated ninja. she had sighed as she looked up at the sky. " this is the umpteenth time naruto and sauske had saved me. I was just sitting there helpless, paralyzed with fear. And if that wasn't bad enough even the new guys jumped in to save the day.
It's good that I have friends that actually care so much but.. where does that leave me. I've been depending on naruto and sauske almost all the time now. Even with everything I learned, I still froze up and didn't do anything. Even naruto at least moved more then I did. Because I did nothing now there both knocked out. But soon a thought had came across sakura's mind. wait a minute, sauske is knocked out." She thought as she looked over the unconscious sauske. This could be my one chance.. to prove my affection for sauske." Sakura said as she began to lean in toward sauske's face.
"Come on sakura what are you doing? You shouldn't be doing this while he's asleep." Sakura began thinking to herself. "But, this could be the only opportunity I can get. Maybe just a little peck.." she said as she began leaning in towards sauske's face.
But she had stopped when she had heard rustling from the grass. She had took out a kunai knife in thinking it may be an enemy coming to attack them while they were still vulnerable "Is it that orochimaru guy again? Maybe the others didn't make it away safely… . "
But her worries were temporarily eased as only a squirrel had came out of the bushes.
Sakura had sighed with relief, "Geez, you gave me a heart attack little guy." Sakura said as she saw the squirrel coming towards her. But upon closer inspection she saw a paper bomb tied to the squirrels back. she had quickly threw a kunai knife at the squirrel causing it to stop from going any further. The squirrel had ran away in the opposite direction.
"That was a paper bomb. So there's someone here after all. Sakura had looked up and saw three ninja jump from the trees above.
Well, your quite the clever little girl to see that trick from a mile away. Said the first ninja. By the judge of their clothing they were sound ninja. Two males and one female.
The first male ninja's face was covered with a mask. He wore a grey robe and blue and grey camouflage pants. The second one had black spikey hair standing up with a yellow shirt and camouflage pants. The third one was a kunoichi with black long hair with the end of it tied with a small red bow.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Sakura asked.
"We're going to make it nice and simple little girl, just step out of the way and hand over sauske uchia to us." Said the man with the bandaged face.
"What, why do you want sauske?" Sakura asked as she took out a kunai knife.
"We were given orders to kill sauske uchia." Said the spiky haired sound ninja.
"It's my turn to protect you guys now." sakura thought to herself as she had stood in front of the sleeping shinobi trying to block the enemies off.
"Hey, it's ok if we kill anyone that gets in our way right? Seems like too much trouble to try to keep by standards alive. Asked the spiky haired sound ninja.
"I don't see why not. Just remember our true target is the uchiha." said the masked shinobi.
"Heh, well alright then." The ninja said as he prepared to attack." but before they could a large gust of wind had suddenly filled the area. "Tch, what is this? Some kind of trick?" asked the female sound kunoichi as she tried to shield herself from the gust of wind.
When the wind calmed and the dust cleared, Rock lee of the hidden leaf had appeared in battle position with the squirrel from earlier was on his shoulder.
"Huh, who is this kid?" asked the sound shinobi.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am the handsome devil of the hidden leaf. The green beast rock lee!" He said as the last bit of smoke cleared.
Geez, you leaf genin are like bugs. No matter how many we stomp on you just keep coming. Zaku, you and kin can sit this one out. I can handle this brat. Said the 1st sound ninja as he rushed at lee attempting to knock him out with one punch. "Lee had only smirked as the man had rushed for him. The sound shinobi tried to deliever a punch but it was easily blocked as lee had redirected the man's attack throwing him off balance.
This had surprised both of the sound ninja and sakura seeing that lee was able to defend against the attack as well as he did.
"You fool, do did you really think all leaf genin was as inexperienced as the ones you faced before me?" lee had quickly delivered a kick to the male sound ninja sending him up into the air. As the man was still airborne lee had appeared behind him again.
"what in the world? What is this?"
"This is my special technique. Feel honored that you are the first one to see it In it's glory. Bandages had started to wrap around the male sound ninja. soon his whole body was covered and he was't able to move. "Take this! Primary lotus!" lee had grabbed the body of the man then had spun around rapidly in the air as they descended to the ground. Lee had jumped out of the way just before impact to avoid being taken along with the ninja. it was a while before the dust from the attack had cleared. Both sides had waited for the dust to clear awaiting the end result. When the smoke finally cleared only the bottom part of the sound ninja's body was sticking out of the ground. He wasn't moving so it was believed that he was knocked unconscious. But what was suspicious was that part of the ground was sticking up sometime after the attack. And lee seemed to be struggling after the move as if he still took damage.
"Did, did that do it? Did he really take out that guy with one move?" sakura thought to herself as she waited for someone to make a move.
The smile had disappeared off of lee's face as the man began pulling himself out of the ground. "Well, that was a neat little trick you pulled of there. But I'm afraid that's not going to be enough to save you." the sound ninja said as he pulled himself out of the ground. . I could have seriously gotten hurt just now." the ninja said as he pulled himself back on his feet. Lee was standing there with a look of shock and disbelief on his face.
"What? how were you able to stand up to my attack? it should be nearly impossible for you to stand." Lee said surprised .
"Heh, it comes in handy when you have someone who can manipulate ultra sonic waves.
"ultra…sonic waves? What are you talking about?" lee asked when he looked over to the male sound ninja known as zaku ibiki had his hands buried in the ground. Lee had looked back at the patch of unearthed ground and put two and two together. "wait, was it you, who stopped my attack?" Lee asked as his gaze narrowed at the young sound ninja.
"I wouldn't say as much stopped as much cushioned the landing." The sound ninja replied.
See like he said I'm able to manipulate ultra sonic sound waves and air pressure get it? So that old fashioned taijutsu stuff isn't goanna work on us." Zaku said as he pulled his hands out of the ground. "Thanks to my special ability I can obliterate boulders or make the ground it's self as soft as a feather cushion. It's not that you're not good at it, it's just compared to our jutsu what's the point?" Zaku said as air pressure had started coming out from the holes in his hands. Lee only glared with anger knowing that he may have used his ace in the hole a little bit early. "Now, watch closely, were going to show you something called the wall." Said the masked sound ninja. there was a moment of silence in the area as no one had appeared to make a move.
Then in a split second lee's ear was experiencing excruciating pain. He had fell to his knees as the high pitched sound began tearing apart his ear drum.
"Agh, My, my ear." Lee had held his left ear in pain.
"Oh, I forgot to mention this little gadget I wear." The man said as he showed a device that looked like a gauntlet with 6 holes in it. "You may be able to dodge my blows, but you can't run away from it.
"What kind of trick does he have up his sleeve now?" sakura thought
"With this I don't need to hit you with any of my blows. I can hit you with the power of sound." Said the ninja as he showed off his device.
"S-sound?" lee asked as he was still trying to keep himself steady.
'What makes it possible for the ear to hear things. What is sound anyway?" he asked.
"Vibrations." Said sakura realizing what he had meant.
"Give the little lady a prize. Yes the vibrations of molocules in the air creates a sound wave. These vibrations are collected by the ear then directed to the ear drum. The human eardrum, the tympanic membrane, ruptures when exposed to an excess of sound waves in excess of 150 decebales. More so if it's enough to upset the fluid with in the deepest inner ear canals, it becomes impossible for you to maintain your balance. Lee was soon on both knees after the damage.
"Feeling a little nautios, dizzy? That's normal. It's best you not try to move at all for now. The man had then turned to sakura.
"Now then little girl, It's your turn!" he said as he had rushed right passed lee and headed for sakura. Sakura had took out a kunai knife as she prepared to defend herself.
"NO!" Lee shouted as he rushed to intercept the attack of the ninja.
"What?!" the ninja asked surprised as he had saw the leaf genin moving again.
"Leaf hurricane!" lee shouted as he tried to land an attack on the enemy. But intercepting the ninja's contact with sakura made him take another blow to the ear once more making him quickly lose momentum .
"Heh, not as effective as before is it?" the ninja had jumped above lee's leg then had put some distance between him and the leaf genin before he charged again.
"Still it's impressive that your able to still move at all. We're going to have to fix that aren't we?" said the ninja as he prepared to land another attack. lee was able to block the man's fist, but as soon as they collided the device on the man's arm started releasing sound waves again. Do you hear that? This device releases the vibrations of the impact, forming them into a wave of sound. A sound wave I can channel with my chakra. Focusing it's energy onto one target. The sound waves seemed to be focused directly to lee's eardrum. "Stop it!" yelled sakura as she was helpless to help lee do anything. It was soon too much for lee to take and had soon collapsed on to the ground. "Alright little man, time to end it" the masked ninja said as he was about to deal the finishing blow.
"That's what you think!" sakura said as she tossed a row of kunai knives at the ninja. But he had only blocked the kunai with his device. "Ah, I almost forgot about you." the man said being unfazed.
"Raaagh, Catch these!" sakura had threw a row of shuriken at the masked ninja. But zaku had stepped in front of him and used a wall of air to bounce the shuriken right back.
"A wall of air? My shuriken just bounced off. What do I do now?" sakura thought to her self. But before she could move again the sound kunoichi from earlier had grabbed her hair.
"My my, what soft and shiny hair. She began. You know what? If you spent less time shampooing and a little more time practicing your jutsu you might not be in this fix." The kunoichi said as she began to tug sakura's hair roughly.
"Hey Zaku, I got an idea, let's make little Ms. Beauty queen here watch while you finish off that sauske guy." She said as she looked towards sauske.
"Why not? Sounds fun to me. Said zaku "You stay away from him " sakura said as she tried to get up. But the sound kunoichi only pulled her back.
"Don't even try it.:" she said as she kept sakura in place. Sakura could only claw at the ground at this point. "It's no use, I got no strength left. Way to go sakura, even in the moment of life and death you cave. You'd think maybe just this once, when there all counting on you, you could do something." She thought as zaku had began walking towards the still sleeping body's of sauske and naruto. But before zaku moved any closer out of nowhere came a sharper than normal kunai knife that cut straight through sakura's hair cutting it in half causing the kunoichi to release her grib on sakura. The knife had ended up in zaku's left arm catching him off guard.
"What the hell? What is this? Hey I thought you were holding the girl back. "The sound kunoichi was about to grab what was left of sakura's hair but she had noticed that there was a paper bomb attached to the kunai that was in zaku's arm. "ZAKU! GET RID OF THAT KUNAI NOW! IT"S GOING TO BLOW!" the kunoichi warned as zaku just notice the burning paper on the kunai. "CRAP!" was all zaku could say before the paper bomb exploded sending him right into a nearby tree and temporarily disabling his left arm. "Dam, who's the bastard that did that? zaku asked as he began to stood up. "The sound kunoichi tried to look for who the culprit was, but while she was distracted in a split second she felt her body began to lock up. "W-what the.." before she knew it it was like a force of a brick wall had suddenly attacked her knocking her on her backside.
Sakura could only watch as the ninja who were just attacking them were falling one by one. "What is this? if you're not afraid in fighting a fair fight then show yourselves." Said the ninja bearing the device. When the smoke had cleared, jake , chiro , johnny and Sabrina were standing between the sound ninja and sauske.
"Geez, look who's callin who cowards. You tried to use an innocent little squirrel as a decoy." Said Sabrina as she was picking her ear.
"What the… who are these jokers?" asked zaku as he had got up on two feet again."
"We ain't jokers dude. Were just leaf genin looking out for leaf genin. Simple as that." said jake. "By the way, I suggest you tell your kunoichi friend over there not to move for at least 5 minutes. I hit her with an ancient paralysis technique. All but one of her chakra points are locked up and if she tries to do any excessive movement, it could prove to be a rather dire consequences to her health. "The female sound ninja eyes widened with fear as she could feel her body getting heavy.
"Hmm, why do you want to protect these genin anyway? are you after the uchia as well?" the man asked.
"Oh please, I wouldn't be that interested in a stiff like him even if you paid me. Regardless he's a friend to our friend so we can't really let you harm them. " said Sabrina.
"Heh, you punks may have gotten a lucky shot in, but that luck's about to run out." Said zaku as he was ready to make another attack.
"Dude, I suggest you reconsider about challenging us. I think the better solution here is that you guys leave your scroll and crawl back to whatever rock you came from." Said johnny.
"Well it seems as though you're a couple of brats that don't know your place. It seems like you three are in need of a painful lesson." Said the man as he rushed at the three.
"Johnny, if you would do the honors?" asked jake as he motioned towards the oncoming ninja. "Oh yeah it's about time!" Johnny said as he began rushing at the ninja. As the two were about to clash, chiro had appeared behind sakura.
"H-huh? Chiro how did you..?" sakura asked But chiro had cut her off. "Don't worry, we got your back. Come on, let's get somewhere safe." Chiro said as he put one of sakura's arm's over him. "Oh.. ok" sakura said as she and chiro moved to a tree a few feet above the battlefield.
"You're making a big mistake kid! Your going to end up just like the others." Said the sound shinobi as his device began making sound waves again. But to his surprise they weren't affecting Johnny at all. "What? what's going on?" the man asked as he and Johnny was about to trade blows. Right before Johnny landed a punch, he had ignited his left hand on fire. "FIRE PUNCH!" Johnny shouted as he had punched the man in the face. The punch had not only caused massive damage, but it had burned of some of the man's bandages causing him to scream in agony.
"Why you little brats! Try this on for size!" Zaku said as he began releasing air pressure once again. "Zaku don't! you don' understand!" warned zotsu.
"Watch this! I'll take care of all of them in one fell swoop!" SUPER SONIC SPLICING WAVE!" zako had shouted as he used an attack causing giant gusts of winds to blow against the others.
"Sabrina, I believe that's your cue." Said jake "On it. Sabrina said as she stood in front of the attack and stretched both of her hands out. "Heh, at least someone's deciding to accept their fate. Just stand there and meet your doom peacefully. But it wasn't as zaku suspected. After a few seconds Sabrina had turned the force of the air around and redirected the attack back at zuko.
"Wh… What the hell? What kind of freaks are you!? Zako asked right before he was flattened by his own attack. Soon the sound kunoichi was about to start moving again, but she had soon looked up and saw jake staring at her with a red piercing glare.
"Sorry, but this is it for you." said jake as the kunoichi looked at him with slight fear. A few seconds later there was a small explosion in the area.
At this time the masked man was able to see again but when he did he was surprised to see both of his subordinates passed out. "What? what did you do?" The man asked as he looked at the destruction. "Just teaching you guys why it's not good to pick on kids. by the way Sabrina nice touch. You really are good at airbending. I thought you were fibbing when you said you could before. Said jake.
"Nah I only lie when it's funny." Said Sabrina as she held her hands behind her back.
"Who are these freaks. Did orochimaru send us after sauske knowing they would get in our way? Does he really expect us to take something like these guys? This is bad. If we stay here any longer and there's a good chance we'll be killed.
"Ok, enough playing around. We still got one more guy to take care of." Said jake as he turned to the only enemy left standing at the time.
"Wait, I'm withdrawing from battle." Said the masked sound shinobi."
"What? you mean your giving up?" just like that? that's kind of boring." Said johnny.
"Orochimaru didn't tell us about the strange reinforcements you ninja had. I'm not one to drag out a pointless battle. We'd only be delaying the inevitable." The masked man said as he placed a earth scroll on the ground. "We'll strike you a deal. We give you the scroll and you let us go. The heroes only looked as the man had picked up his unconscious team mates. "It's obvious that we won't be getting sauske as long as people like you are crawling around places like this. But I warn you. the next time we meet we will neither run or hide. The man said before he walked off with one of his team mates on his shoulder and the second one in his arm.
"well that was easy." Said johnny
"Sakura had sighed with relief as she was finally safe for now.'
"Are you ok?" asked chiro. "Y-yeah, I'll be fine. Just glad you guys came when you did.
"Oh, sorry about your hair by the way. it was the only way I could think of to get you free in time." Chiro said as he looked down at his knees. "Ah don't worry about it, I was planning to do that anyway. I just didn't have the guts to move at the time. I wish I did have any at all." Said sakura
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked chiro
"Well I couldn't move, all I could do was just sit there and watch lee risk his life. I just threw kunai knives and shuriken. I was completely usless. "No you weren't. if you were usless then you wouldn't have moved at all. But you actually got up and tried to defend your friends despite the impossible odds. That's more then someone can say for a certain group of people I'm not going to mention. Said Sabrina.
"Thanks Sabrina." Said sakura with a smile.
"So, how are naruto and sasuke? How'd he get like that anyway? Asked chiro.
"Earlier, we had encountered this snake ninja named orochimaru. I don't know what he wanted, but he seemed to have an interest in sasuke. Sasuke tried to fight him. And for a time, it looked like he had him on the ropes. Around that point, the other half of your team had showed up.
"You mean Ben, Danny, June and Sabrina?" Asked Johnny. Sakura had nodded in response, After we got a good enough distance away from the fight, me and sasuke had decided to rest for a while. But…At that moment, sasuke's eyes had shrunk as he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. As if he was being bit. When sakura turned around, she was horrified to see orochimaru biting into sasuke's neck. After a few seconds, the curse mark had appeared. Sasuke had fell to the ground in pain as orochimaru had disappeared laughing evilly.
"Sasuke had fell unconscious after that. So I had to carry both their unconscious bodies to a safe place. And so, here we are."
"Have they shown any signs of coming too?" Jake asked.
"No. Not since we got here." Sakura replied.
"Tell me, how did you manage to get past that ninja's sound attacks?" Asked Lee.
"Easy. We watched the fight for a bit before we jumped into action.S aid Johnny. Afteer seeing what the mummy dude could do, we had put on these." He continued as he pulled out an ear plug out of his left ear. Gotta love the ear plugs."
"Listen, it's obvious you won't be able to defend them if another group of enemy ninja find this spot. How about we stay here until they come too?" Asked jake.
"Thank you. I'd appreciate it." Said sakura with a smile.
As the Jake, Johnny, Chiro and Sabrina aid sakura in watching over the unconscious Sasuke and Naruto, the days within the forest of death grow shorter and shorter. What will come of the curse mark orochimaru planted on sasuke? And how will it affect him and his team? Find out on the next episode of the b.s.s.c.!
Hey everyone! Naruto here! After sometime in the forest, I keep thinking what's inside these scrolls we're supposed to get to the tower. Sakura keeps telling me that I shouldn't open it, but even she can't resist finding out what's inside….I know the rules forbid it….but…
Next time on the B.S.S.C., Chapter 10:The secrets of the scrolls! Till next time!