Chapter 14

"SCATTER!" yelled Kakashi. Team 2 split up into twos about 50 kilometers away from their previous location and right where all of them had been a rock the size of 2 Ichiraku ramen shops. It would have crushed at least half of the team if Kakashi hadn't warned them.

"Come and fight me you puny leaf ninjas! I'm in the mood for a snack!" shouted Jirobo. He jumped out of nowhere and attacked Ino but Choji got in the way and shouted,"Partial expansion jutsu! Stomach!" Jirobo was blown back by the now giant, bouncy stomach of Choji and hit a tree that broke upon impact.

"ugh… I'll deal with you first… you pudgy leaf ninja. You'll pay for what you just did to me!" Jirobo jumped towards Choji but then froze in place. "What the-"

"Ino now!" shouted Shikamaru. Then Ino appeared about 10 feet in front of Jirobo, "Mind transfer jutsu!" Ino fell sideways and Shizune caught her and then Shikamaru released Jirobo and then he said, "Alright guys hurry I don't know how long this will last!"

"Alright Ino/Shika/Cho combination complete. Kakashi would you like to do the honors?"

Kakashi appeared behind the now possessed Jirobo and said, "This was too easy, just in case secure him again Shikamaru. Now Ino, release him." Shikamaru waited for Ino and then used his shadow possession jutsu. Jirobo came to himself again but Kakashi had a kunai to his back and his neck.

"Don't move, Jirobo of the east. This was way too easy for us or are you just that weak of a fighter? You insulted us and took my student and now I'm going to take him back." Jirobo gulped and asked, "What're you going to do to me?" Kakashi smiled and said, "I'm either going to kill you or send you back to the village to be interrogated but seeing as we haven't even seen all of you power, I think I'll kill you." Kakashi stabbed Jirobo in the back and sliced his throat for good measure.

They began moving on when a tree came flying at Kakashi and hit him square in the back. Shikamaru caught him before he fell and everyone else turned around in shock to see Jirobo whose features had also changed but he was holding his throat which was still bleeding but not as much as it was before.

"How in the world are you still alive? You should be dead right now in a pool of your own blood," Said Shikamaru. He put Kakashi down and had Shizune come over and look at him. Jirobo came at Choji and punched him square in the stomach and he went flying about 50 feet. "Choji," Shikamaru turned toward Jirobo and said, "You're going to pay for that!" Shikamaru went after Jirobo and threw shuriken, kunai, and throwing stars.

"Heh your all better off without him anyways. He's probably just a bunch of dead weight." Jirobo had dodged all of Shikamau's attacks and didn't let him get near his shadow. Then all of a sudden Choji appeared out of nowhere with his fist in the back of Jirobo. His body was glowing with yellow chakra and he looked thinner.

"I am not dead weight to this team fatso!" He gave Jirobo a round house kick and then a fist to the face and then he put all of his chakra into his foot and kicked Jirobo right in the throat and not only did Jirobo fly straight into a tree but his wound reopened and he began bleeding all over again and this time he couldn't stop it because Shikamaru had captured him once again with his shadow possession jutsu.

"Just in case you try to pull off another miracle I'm going to show you my new jutsu. Shadow strangle jutsu!" Shikamaru's shadows turned into outstretched hands and went for Jirobo's throat. It was obvious Jirobo was trying to say something but his throat was too damaged and in less then a minute he was finally no more. Shikamaru turned around to see Choji on the ground motionless and he jumped straight down, fearing that his best friend had gone too far.

"Choji! You didn't… you didn't eat the red pill did you? Tell me you didn't buddy!" Choji was still motionless and Shikamaru reached into Choji's ninja tool bag and pulled out a pill container that had a green pill and a red pill. Shikamaru sighed and Shizune came down to check on him and said, "He'll be fine Shikamaru I'll just heal him to speed up the resting process but if we get into another fight he'll have to sit it out."

Choji woke up and smiled and they congratulated him on a job well done and then they went to see Kakashi. He was standing but it was obvious he was still in pain. "Come one you three, we've lost valuable time fighting that guy. The others should almost be at the clearing." So with that they went after the sound ninja again. They were finally caught up with them just before they had reached the clearing. The sound ninja went out in the clearing and got as far as halfway before they were ambushed by Team 1.

They tried retreating back to the woods but then they were ambushed by Team 2 and they were now trapped with nowhere to go. Tayuya placed the coffin down and Sakon started talking to his other head. "What the heck is going on here Sakon? I thought that fatso Jirobo was going to take care of these worms!" Sakon stopped talking to himself and his other head began to come out of his body until there were two Sakons.

"Well apparently the group by the forest were the ones who killed both Kidomaru and Jirobo. At least that's what Ukon has told me ." They activated the first stage of their curse mark and splotches of black spread all over Sakon and Ukon's body. Tayuya pulled out a flute and shouted, "I can't believe that idiot died so easily! I knew he was the dead weight of this group! If we don't kill these guys we're going to be too late for Lord Orochimaru! Let's kick this up to second stage!"

Tayuya went straight into second stage for the curse mark and her body began to change dramatically. She grew 3 horns on her head, her hair grew longer and her skin turned into a brownish color. Sakon and Ukon both went into their second stage and Sakon turned into something of a red rocky monster with one horn and Ukon turned into a blue rocky monster with one horn.

"You won't be killing any of them and you won't be getting back to Orochimaru! At least not as long as I am Hokage," shouted Lady Tsunade. Sakon, Ukon, and Tayuya looked at Team 1 for the first time and realized they were extremely outmatched with Tsunade being there.

"What's one of the legendary sanin doing here? Don't you have something better to do than come with your lowly subordinates?" shouted Tayuya. Tayuya ran straight at Tsunade and gave her a hard kick to the stomach breaking some of her ribs and while Tsunade was recovering from Tayuya's attack, Tayuya summoned three ugly giants that came at all of Team 1 as she controlled them with her flute.

"Alright guys let's take down those ugly things!" shouted Naruto. "Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto made 5 clones and then 3 pairs of clones made rasengans. The 3 narutos that had the rasengan in their hands moved forward and the other 3 looked at Neji, Sakura, Tenten, and Kiba and said, "When they attack them you keep going at them with your jutsu so that we can take those ugly creeps out as soon as possible!"

The rest of Team 1 nodded and the Narutos attacked each giant individually and they were blown back 20 feet and then Team 1 went after them. Kiba and Akamaru used their fang over fang, Neji used his style of the gentle fist, Sakura used taijutsu and Tenten helped her out with one giant using her weapon mastery. They were only keeping the giants down but they weren't disappearing and then Lady Tsunade appeared behind an unaware Tayuya, and punched her square in the back.

Tayuya flew and hit the giant Neji was fighting and Neji quickly used his gentle fist 64 palms jutsu against her. All her chakra points were now blocked and her curse mark power faded. Tsunade picked up the flute and crushed it with her bare hands and then she stomped on it and it broke into several pieces. Neji checked to see if she had any weapons and she didn't so Tsunade went up to her.

"G-get away… you bitch… I'll d-destroy you…" Tayuya was now weak and close to passing out. Tsunade put her hand to Tayuya's forehead and Tayuya passed out. "What did you do to her Lady Hokage?" Tsunade grabbed Tayuya by the back of the shirt and said,"Knocked her out with my medical ninjutsu. I'm going to have Ibiki question her.

The three giants had disappeared in huge puffs of smoke and Sakon and Ukon had both screamed her name but it went unanswered. Team 2 was having trouble taking care of both Sakon and Ukon but Team 1 not counting Tsunade went over to help incapacitate the enemy. Kakashi was wounded badly from all of the fights so far and wasn't of much help. It was up to everyone else to defeat them.

Meanwhile the coffin was beginning to leak pinkish chakra and the only ones who noticed were Kakashi, Neji, Hinata, and Sakura. They had almost cornered Ukon but he quickly recovered and retaliated. He went after Sakura but Naruto blocked him and was hit in the chest and he collapsed but quickly rose and his features started changing. His eyes had turned red, his hair more wild, and his canine teeth grew larger.

"I'm not going to let you hurt my friends any longer! You won't be leaving here alive and you won't be taking Sasuke!" he said in a dark, growling voice. He went after Ukon and his red chakra burned him and Ukon got distracted and Naruto gave him one of his famous left hooks. Ukon went flying and didn't get back up but that didn't stop Naruto from using a point-blank rasengan on him. Ukon started to turn back to normal again and Sakon struggled to get to his twin brother even though he knew it was too late.

Sakon screamed in frustration and went after Naruto, who was now exhausted and out of chakra. He was about to pound him into the ground when Sakura came to his rescue and used a Firestyle technique that pushed Sakon back towards the others. Only a few were still fighting Sakon. There was Neji, Sakura, Kiba, and Hinata. Naruto and Ino were unconscious from loss of chakra but were slowly recovering thanks to the help of Shizune. The rest were watching the coffin which as now streaming pink chakra out into its surrounding area.

The fighting stopped when the others noticed and Sakon said, "The rest of my group may have been killed but you're all too late. The transformation is complete. The curse seal will no longer bother Sasuke and now the curse mark can be used to its fullest potential without it eating him alive! You've all failed your precious mission! Hahahahahahahahahahaa!"

Then Sakura stepped up closer to the coffin and said in Sasuke's voice, "Finally I can change back." She was covered in smoke and when it cleared Sasuke was standing where Sakura had been, and had a smirk on his face. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep up a transformation jutsu while involved in a full scale battle?"

Sakon looked at Sasuke and then at the coffin, which hadn't opened yet. "What the… What the hell is going on? You're supposed to be in there!" He pointed at the box and looked at Sasuke incredulously. Everyone laughed at Sakon's confusion and ignorance and Sasuke said, "Haven't you figured it out yet?"

Sakon's eyes widened and he said, "No… no… It can't be! Lord Orochimaru wouldn't make that kind of mistake!" Sasuke sneered at him and pulled down the neck of his shirt and where the curse should have been there was just plain unmarked skin. "Well apparently he did make a mistake and it took place way back during the 2nd round of the Chunin exams. I would explain it all to you but I'm sure you understand once you see who steps out."

Sakon snarled and shouted, "No one's going to come out of there while I'm here!" He made a move forward but Shikamaru stopped him in his tracks and then Naruto and Kakashi made shadow clones that surrounded the coffin and barricaded Sakon from getting through to it.

The coffin lid moved and finally slid off and out stepped a pink haired kunoichi with half of her body covered in black marks. She looked powerful and when she turned around one of her eyes had been changed because of the halfway effects of the curse mark. One eye was orange and the other one was a bright emerald green.

She stepped out closer to her friends and Naruto shouted, "Sakura you made it! I'm glad you're okay." Sakura smiled and said, "You were all very great in deceiving our enemy. Now let me give you guys a break and take care of the last bad guy. I want to try out my new powers."

The real Kakashi stepped forward and said, "Sakura be careful and don't let it consume you alright?" Sakura nodded and everyone made way for Sakura and Sakon to fight.

Sakon growled at her and said, "You! Why were you in the coffin?" Sakura stepped closer to him and got into a fighting stance and said, "I was the one bitten by Orochimaru in the forest when I transformed into Sasuke and he into me. I was the one you and the rest of the sound ninja talked too and I was the one who planned this whole mission."

"You won't leave here alive little girl. I'll crush you! Because of you my brother is dead and because of you Orochimaru's plans have been ruined!" He came at her but she stopped him with the palm of her hand and said, "Thanks to your ignorance and to that of Orochimaru's, I am much, much, much stronger than you now. And for that I thank you but I won't let you survive this. I am going to kill you for all that you've done Sakon of the west gate."

Sakon struggled to get free but Sakura kept on crushing his fist and then with her other fist she punched him in the stomach and forced her chakra into him and he collapsed as he felt his ribs break, and his lungs got punctured. Sakon started to feel true fear and looked up and the girl who had given him a death blow and she said, "I am Sakura Haruno of the leaf village, and now you will pay with your life for what you did to our village." She gave him a round house kick and he flew back and hit a huge oak tree with his back and he rebounded off of it and fell to the ground. He slowly bled to death, not being able to move because of his now fractured spine and the last thing he saw was Sakura Haruno staring at him with unfeeling eyes and Sakon took his last wheezy breath and died.