'The pain of stabbing himself must broke him out of it.' Orochimaru mused behind his Kusa disguise as Sasuke grabbed Sakura and made a tactical retreat.

"I understand you used Daitoppa to separate us but did you really had to sic a gigantic snake after me?" the blond before asked indignantly from where he blew him away. he blinked at the genin, the encounter with Anko made him realize he was more than he looked but he wasn't really expecting this much. the blond sighed and flicked away a snake scale from his shoulder.

"just give me your scroll and go mark Sasuke." the sannin raised an eyebrow in amusement.

"you seem quite informed..." it was as much a statement as a question. the blond shrugged.

"that I am. now, the scroll." he raised his hand. Orochimaru just chuckled.

"why don't you take it?" he asked. the blond sighed again, why does everyone play hard? he sent a hard stare to the sannin, whose eyes got widened by the genjutsu cast by Naruto, the look was a medium for it.

weapons.

from axes to shuriken, swords to senbon, weapons with a sharp edge or tip was every part of his body. he tried to raise his hands for weaving the hand seals to break the genjutsu but two spears ran through his arms didn't let him and he figured he had to give the scroll. he glared at the blond, he was deliberately taking his time for getting to him, not that he looked forward for it. A time that felt like hours later the blond grabbed him by his hair and pulled him to eye level.

"Be thankful that I deem you worthy for the job on my mind, or I would finish the job Itachi started years ago." Naruto spat icily. he reached to the snake's gut with his spare hand and the sannin winced as the hand started to pierce skin and meat alike and slipped inside. it rummaged around for a moment, in which the sannin tried to escape but even with the pain the genjutsu didn't broke, to the sannin's a small part of amazement and a big part of worry. Moments later the blond was holding the scroll he swallowed before. he coughed up blood and knew that he had to shed his skin, but thankfully the blond let him go, both physically and mentally. he screwed his face in disgust and sealed the scroll to the storage tattoo on his wrist.

"go and do your thing, I will be watching." the younger one conjured some kage bunshin to find a water source for cleaning. Orochimaru shred his skin meanwhile and debated whether or not attack the blond while he seemed distracted. He decided against it but sent a last glare at the blond's back nonetheless.

LINE

Naruto watched the snake sannin's neck grew ridiculously and bit the Uchiha on his neck. Their eyes met but the sannin didn't gave any reaction and just seemingly melt into ground. Sasuke howled and fell to his knees in pain for a moment then fainted. Sakura called for Sasuke… more like screamed his name to heavens (it came out a little wrong). Naruto shook his head and used a mild genjutsu to knock her out. He investigated the curse seal when she is out cold and decided it is best to use a suppression seal to minimize the damage seal was causing. He conjured 6 clones and divided them by two. He sent one squad to search for the missing one of the scroll pair (earth?), and other for find a shelter. He conjured 10 more clones to help him prepare a sealing ritual and stabbed a kunai through his hand to provide the blood requirement.

15 min. later

He pulled away the kunai from his hand. He then ordered a clone to carry Sasuke to the main circle and told 3 others to hold him in place. He weaved the necessary handseals and let the ritual take place. As expected, even while he was unconscious, Sasuke moaned and thrashed from the pain. The clones didn't budged however and held fast until the ritual is complete. He sagged a little in relief. Just as he was about to relax, the squad he sent to find a shelter dispelled to send him the info of a suitable place. He sighed but summoned another duo of clones to carry the genin while he guarded them. He gazed at the sky to see sun was about to set. He started his trek to the place his clones informed him about.

An hour later

It was a cave made out of a tree's roots but Naruto didn't really had the energy to care. He sat down on a root to wait. He idly watched the clone he sent for food bring some fruits and grilled fish, most likely by a Fire jutsu. He ate his fill and put some left over fruit to a storage tattoo on his arm. He drank a little water from a bamboo contained he had and waited for the last squad.

Another two hours later

He was about to sleep, so when a scroll was thrown to his feet and memories of a fight against some kiri ninja was arrived to his mind, he simply sealed the scroll and lied next to his teammates. He closed his eyes and let his mind pull him.

"can you wake me up if anything happens?" he opened one eye to stare at Tsukimaru. The fox snorted.

"do you need to ask?" the blond put his hand to a whiskered cheek with a small, content smile and kissed him.

"thank you." Was the last thing he said to the fox before he let his awareness fade away to the land of dreams. pink dusted The anthro-bijuu's cheeks a little and he raked his claws at soft blond locks in adoration.

"anytime"

"Naruto! Wake up!" the blond groaned from ground and yawned. A spike of chakra from out of their cave beat out the last of sleepiness and he quickly carried his teammates out of it.

"Decapitating Airwaves!"

A sound ninja, the teammate of the one attacked Kabuto. His eye twitched in irritation and prepared to make some human pancakes from them but a flicker of chakra alerted him that Sasuke was about to wake up.

End of Chapter

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