I was home sick today from school so I wrote a lot. Now you must read a lot.
Though in reality the fight had only lasted a few minutes, it already felt to those fighting that it had been going on for hours.
It was pretty much a stalemate between Orochimaru's army, himself and Kabuto and their opponents Tsunade's slugs, Jiraya and Kakashi.
"You're harder to fight when you have both arms!" Jiraya said to Orochimaru, while rasengan-ing him.
"This is for the Medical Room!" Kakashi said to Kabuto, while Chidori-ing him.
The slugs didn't say anything, for they bore no grudge to the Random Sound Ninjas they were swarming over.
"Maybe you're just getting weak!" Orochimaru replied, and a snake came out of his mouth and tried to bite Jiraya.
"Eww." Jiraya said, "That's just wrong."
"You talk about wrong when you write erotic books for a living?" Orochimaru shot back.
"They have plots, story lines, character development!" Jiraya defended.
"Did someone just dis Make Out Paradise?!" Kakashi asked angrily, stopping his fight with Kabuto abruptly and running over to where Jiraya and Orochimaru were fighting. "No one disses Make Out Paradise and lives!"
"Hey!" Kabuto shouted, "We were fighting here! Get back here you coward!"
After being ignored, Kabuto ran and joined the other fight between the two Sanin and the masked ninja, which was taking place on the backs of Gamabunta and Manda who were also locked in heated combat.
"Toads have warts!" Manda insulted Gamabunta.
"Snakes have lisps!" Gamabunta insulted Manda. (No offense to anyone who happens to have a lisp. Truthfully, I'm often teased for mine.)
Down below the slugs had dwindled Orochimaru's fighters down to one, who was hardly visible under the barrage of slugs covering him and bringing him to the ground.
"You're all out of men now, Orochimaru!" Jiraya pointed out, pointing to the slugs milling about on the ground, leaving slimy trails of slug-juice all over the fallen Random Sound Ninjas.
"I don't need them anyway!" Orochimaru declared, "Besides, I have everyone who ever worked for me coming here anyway. Soon you'll all be outnumbered and Konoha will be the new capital of the Sound!"
"Never!" Jiraya shouted, "Tsunade's already inside, taking Konoha back!"
"Not for long!" Orochimaru said, "Kabuto go and get her! I can handle these two on my own!"
"Yes sir!" Kabuto said and ran away from the fight into the Village.
"I'm here too, you know." Manda said, offended, "You're not alone…"
"And so am I!" Gamabunta said, "It's three against two, not two against one!"
"What about me?" Katsuyu asked, recombining back into one giant Slug, "I'm on their side too!"
"I was talking about the humans…" Orochimaru explained.
"So what?" Gamabunta asked, "You're species-ist? We're just as good as any human!"
"Yeah!" Katsuyu agreed, "That's not right!"
Orochimaru looked to Manda for support, but Manda just shook his giant snake head.
"I'm on their side." He said.
"And look at yourself, Orochimaru." Jiraya stated, "You're barely human anymore…"
"I'm done with this!" Orochimaru exclaimed, "I'm defeating anyone against me, human or giant animal!"
"Okay." Manda said.
"Alright." Gamabunta said.
"That's fair." Katsuyu said.
And so the battle continued…
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Looking at each other, dumbstruck, Anko, Kotetsu, Izumo, Genma and Ibiki all stood in the Hokage's office, trying to figure out what to do.
"So…Orochimaru's not here, I guess…" Anko said.
"Seems to be true…" Ibiki agreed.
"What do we do now?" Izumo asked.
"Help me take this Village back." A voice from behind them sounded.
Turning around, the prison escapees saw Tsunade standing in the doorway. She walked in and over to the ninjas.
"Jiraya, Kakashi, Katsuyu and Gamabunta are outside, fighting of Orochimaru, Kabuto, Manda and some Sound Ninjas." Tsunade stated, "Inside Konoha Orochimaru has soldiers posted on every street. I see you got two of them, Izumo and Kotetsu and are now wearing their clothes."
"Yeah." Kotetsu said, "It was a plan."
"We were going to come in her with Anko and Ibiki and tell Orochimaru they were escaping and we caught them." Izumo continued.
"And I was going to jump him from behind." Genma added.
"And then we would attack." Ibiki said.
"But he wasn't in here." Anko finished the sentence.
"I see…" Tsunade said, "We can still do a similar plan. We can all transform into Orochimaru, split up and tell all the guards to retreat to the training grounds where we dig a big pit and they all fall in."
"You know…" Ibiki began, "That might actually work…"
"Then let's do it!" Tsunade exclaimed.
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Back at the North Base (did you guys forget about that place?) Sasuke lay down on his bed to rest from the long journey back from Konoha.
But before he could get any sleep, he saw two eyes glint in the dark when glasses were pulled off of them.
"I knew you'd be back, my sweet." A female voice purred, "I've been waiting for you…"
"No! Karin! Don't!" Sasuke pleaded.
But to no avail.
Karin jumped on top of him and didn't get off. (Or maybe she did get off…get it? lololol.)
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Kabuto was walking to the Hokage's Building when he saw Orochimaru walk up to him.
"Kabuto!" Anko pretending to be Orochimaru shouted, "What are you doing here? Go back and fight!"
"How did you get in here so fast?" Kabuto asked suspiciously, "You were just outside fighting Jiraya and Kakashi…and Katsuyu and Gamabunta…" he added to be politically correct.
"I had to…uh…do something…" Anko said pretending to be Orochimaru.
"I know it's you, Anko!" Kabuto said, "How did you escape jail and why. Since your escaped that meant you're not loyal to Orochimaru."
"You think I'd be loyal to someone who threw me in prison!?" Anko said, turning back into herself.
"I came in here to get Tsunade, but capturing you will do!" Kabuto said, pushing up his glasses and grabbing Anko, "I'm sure Orochimaru will be very interested to know you disobeyed his orders!"
"Let me go!" Anko said, trying to get free or use a jutsu, but couldn't since he grabbed her arms.
Kabuto used medical jutsu to make Anko paralyzed and marched her back outside of the Konoha city limits.
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The training grounds were filled with sound ninjas, talking amongst themselves, wondering why the heck Orochimaru personally told them all to go there. From secretly behind a bush, Tsunade did a hand sign and the ground opened up under all the sound ninjas, who fell about fifty feet down, screaming in shock.
Tsunade got out from behind the bushes and walked over to the edge of the opening, looked over then waved and smiled at the people down below staring up at her angrily, trying to get out.
Ibiki, Izumo, Genma and Kotetsu all joined their Hokage in laughing at the fallen (literally), until they noticed Anko wasn't with them.
"I wonder where she is." Tsunade said.
"I haven't seen her." Izumo said.
"Neither have I." said Kotetsu.
Ibiki and Genma shook their heads.
"She always seems to be disappearing…I guess we better go look for her." Tsunade suggested and so they all went to go look for Anko.
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In the forest outside of Konoha, the fight was interrupted by Kabuto.
"Did you catch Tsunade?" Orochimaru asked when he saw Kabuto.
"There's no way he could!" Jiraya stated.
"I caught Anko!" Kabuto shouted up to Orochimaru from the ground, "She escaped, that meant she disobeyed you!"
"You also disobeyed me…again!" Orochimaru called down, "I told you to get Tsunade and now she's in there getting Konoha back."
"Sorry!" Kabuto said, pushing up his glasses.
"No you're not. You wouldn't have disobeyed me so many times if you were." Orochimaru physiologically evaluated, "But who cares. I'll deal with Anko now."
Kabuto stepped back, leaving a paralyzed Anko in Orochimaru's target range.
"No!" Jiraya said, "You're dealing with me!"
"And me!" Kakashi said.
But Orochimaru wasn't paying attention to them. Instead he got out a kunai and aimed at Anko.
"I gave you a second chance and this is how you repay me, by escaping!" Orochimaru yelled, "The penalty is death!"
"No!" Anko cried, but was unable to move out of the way.
Orochimaru threw the kunai and it hit Anko in the chest, knocking her over.
Everyone looked at Orochimaru wrong.
"I thought she would get out of the way!" Orochimaru tried to explain, shrugging, "Kabuto can probably heal her anyway…"
Kabuto went over to where Anko was lying on the ground and was about to heal her, but suddenly a bright, clear yellow light started shining from her body and so Kabuto jumped back.
Tsunade, Genma, Izumo, Ibiki and Kotetsu ran into the area.
"What did you do to her?!" Tsunade demanded, pointing at Anko's yellow light.
"We didn't do this!" Orochimaru said.
Jiraya, Orochimaru, and Kakashi jumped down from where they were fighting to join the others on the ground in examining the strange phenomenon.
"What happened then?!" Tsunade asked angrily.
No one knew.
Except Kabuto.
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