There is a reason
Chapter 35: the second test
Koomahana
Okay do you know how hard it was to adjust this chapter to keep Haku alive for all of you? I originally killed him off for the coming chapters but all of you wanted him alive so I had to make a huge six-hour long edit to this chapter.
I almost spent the entire day trying to fix it!
I hope it turned out well, please don't forget to tell me your thoughts
PS: The song is 'what doesn't kill you' by Kelly Clarkson
...no pun intended that was apart of the original chapter, I was just too lazy to change it
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine; you want the real stuff get off this site
Thoughts
Paragraphs are memories
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Anko snickered from her seat at the front of the bus; the proctors took up the back of the bus while everyone else took seats in the front. She had purposefully put the Sand team at the front, the red head alone in the front seat with the other two behind him, then she watched amusedly as the others got on. When she caught sight of Team 7 she pushed Sakura into the first seat beside the red haired boy and watched in amusement as the following, fresh out of the academy, leaf genin quickly took their seats around them, conversation still flowing unbroken between them. If anyone could get the boy to loosen up it'd be this bunch of brats but after seeing his glare aimed at her, Anko wasn't sure if she should have put the bubbly girl next to him.
Anko regretted her decision after ten minutes
Fubuki and Tayuya were waiting outside the academy for team seven to exist, when they did the sister's immanently gave each member of team seven a scroll and even Hinata got a scroll as well. Sakura opened her scroll now and simply passed it over to red head (Who tossed it over his shoulders carelessly at his siblings) and sat on the seat guard in front of her, her teammates quickly doing the same. Sasuke was holding a small guitar, while Naruto had pulled out a rubber drum set that he had mostly set up on the seats around him with his back to the window behind him. Hinata pulled out a small string instrument that she laid out in her lap, she passed the scrolls to her teammates and they each pulled out small instruments themselves. Team 10 was sitting beside team eight and Naruto passed them his scroll where they were able to get their own small and simple instruments.
Anko smirked as Sakura started the song instructing Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata into the beat she wanted, leaving everyone else to watch them curiously. It was a surprise when suddenly the bus was rocking with the loud fast pace of the chosen song, the pinkette singing strongly and loudly, her voice unhindered by the echoing in the bus.
"You know the bed feels warmer
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in colour
And do the things I want
Anko recognized the song instantly, her eyes widened as she turned to look at the pinkette singing across from her, smiling when she suddenly punched the air, a big grin splitting across her face. The blonde and brunet of the sand team opened the scroll and carefully took out the simple instruments that they could use, amusedly enough the blond got a tambourine and the boy got tiny drums.
"You think you got the best of me
Think you've had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong"
Sakura's smile was contagious as she moved her arms in the universal signs every time she said 'stronger', 'taller', 'fighter' and 'lighter', laughing loudly when her teammates started to mimic her comically.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
You heard that I was starting over with someone new
They told you I was moving on over you
You didn't think that I'd come back
I'd come back swinging
You try to break me, but you see"
Anko grin widened when she saw that the red head from Suna was watching Sakura with a mixture of Awe and confusion. That was good, he was loosening up, maybe he'll get rid of that 'I'll kill you slowly' Aura he hasn't dropped since he arrived.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
Thanks to you I got a new thing started
Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me
You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning
In the end...
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone"
Together the leaf shinobi in the front of the bus sang the last verses of the song
(Girls)
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone"
(Boys)
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone"
(Together)
"When I'm alone"
Then the sarcastic little brats dived headfirst straight into another up beat song that literally shook the bus that everyone on board apparently knew because everyone was sinning along
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Fubuki and Tayuya giggled and laughed as they listened to the music coming from the bus beneath them, knowing that it could only be done by their younger siblings. When you put instruments in those three's hands it isn't long before they're playing one song or another. They were impressed when Sakura started singing, Hinata and/or her teammates joining in on some points, but they'd never known that Sakura could sing.
Fubuki figured it was time she got her little sister into some of her own choir sessions
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When they got to the next stage of the exams, everyone on the bus was feeling remarkably better, they were smiling and cheerful and a few were talking loudly. Anko thought she was surrounded by a bunch of hyperactive preschoolers instead of a bunch of teens.
"Shut up!" Anko screamed out, finally having had enough of them, too bad she only succeed in startling those closest to her. Everyone else was chattering excitedly as they hurried forward toward the gates of her training grounds; it was rather depressing how everyone surrounded the musical teams as they walked and danced forward.
"Cheer up Anko" Anko turned to one of the proctors standing behind her; he shook the moccasins in his hands cheerfully. "If you can't beat 'em join 'em!"
"Die!"
"Kya!"
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Ibiki moved through the classroom, calmly collecting the test papers from the exam. He shook his head at the paper that read 'Naruto Uzumaki' with little swirls through out the entire name and not one question answered. He moved on to the other tests papers, shaking his head at the perfect score belonging to 'Sakura Haruno' (he honestly didn't expect anything less) and reached for the paper beside the pinkette's.
'Karin Uzumaki' stared up at him from the sheet, an arrow beside her name pointing to the backside of the paper. Curious he flipped it over and read the little note resting innocently on the back. At first he thought he imagined the note so he reread it... twice... thrice...
Not good, Ibiki thought, quickly collecting the other papers and checking their backs automatically. They must have heard his whispering before we interrupted them... he pulled out the three papers of the mist team and quickly left the stack of the other papers on a desk before he all but ran straight out the door, heading for the Hokage tower.
'Kabuto and team planning to put Fubuki and Tayuya Haruno into interrogation after the second stage of exam, knows they'll be de-ranked and placed in interrogation for a month'
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"Now that I have everyone's attention" Anko ignored Sakura's crying in the background. In order for her to get back control of the situation, she had literally taken Sakura's violin and slammed it into the ground until it was in tiny pieces. When she turned to look everyone else who was holding an instrument, they had immanently hid said objects behind them.
"Violins are expensive!" Sakura balled out, curling up on the ground before her broken-to-pieces violin.
"Then you should've stopped playing when you had the chance!" Anko snapped back mercilessly, "Back to the matter at hand! This is the 44th training grounds, also known as the forest of death!" At least she now had their undivided attention, "You will work your way to the center where there is a tower, carrying one of these scrolls" She held up a navy and white scrolls, the navy one reading 'earth' and the white one reading 'heaven'. "You will check in at the tower with both scrolls. There are ten scrolls of each color!"
"But that means that only half of the participants will be able to pass," Sakura said, looking up from where she was crying for her broken violin.
"That's right," Anko nodded in agreement to Sakura's declaration.
"How many days do we get in that forest?" Someone asked, which made Anko smirk at him
"You all have five days to get both scrolls and get to the center," Anko answered as she pulled out a few slips of paper from her back pocket. "And since there are so many casualties in this portion of the test I need all of you to sign this paper. It pretty much means that you understand the chances of your injuries and or death and won't hold me or the village responsible for it. If you sign this you can take the next portion of the test, if you don't you're disqualified from the exams, understand?"
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"She hates us doesn't she?" Naruto grumbled as he walked back to his teammates with papers in hand with Kiba and Suigetsu behind him. Sakura was still curled up on the ground sobbing for her violin with Hinata and Karin on either side of her, rubbing her back and reassuring her that everything would be okay. Sasuke, Haku and Shino were standing near the girls, half watching the girls and half watching everyone else.
"I doubt she hates us," Hinata murmured, as she took her slip of paper from Kiba. She read through it curiously before she took out a pen from Sakura's bag and used the pinkette's back to write on the paper. "Sakura-chan will you be going through this second portion?"
"Yeah~" Sakura sniffed rising to look at the paper Naruto passed to her. "They seriously think we'll get eaten?"
"And drowned?" Karin asked staring at her own
"Not to mention crushed," Hinata added with a smile
Don't say that with a smile, Kiba thought
"There's nothing in this about surviving..." Sakura said as she read through the paper, "They expect us to die." Sakura glared at the paper as if she was about to rip it up, Hinata sighed in relief as Sakura snatched her pen from her and signed her name, passing the pen to Karin who signed her own paper on Sakura's back. Karin passed the pen to Suigetsu who passed it to Haku who passed it to Shino, eventually everyone had their paper's signed and they were ready to get their scrolls.
Sakura and Karin hugged as her team went first, when they stepped out from behind the booth, Hinata gave Sakura a quick hug before she hurried over with her own team. Then team seven went and got their earth scroll, which Sakura hid in her left sleeve with a mischievous look on her face. The team ignored the stunned faces of the proctors and walked out of the booth to follow their own proctor to their given gate.
"So if there are 44 gates to this place and twenty teams participating..." Sakura said thoughtfully as she looked at the map given to them. "Then only one through twenty-four are going to get used..."
"How'd you figure that?" Naruto asked curiously, "Wouldn't it be twenty gates for the twenty teams?"
"No Naruto," Sakura sighed, "Take forty-four and subtract twenty from it, what do you get?"
"Twenty-four," Sasuke sighed in understanding, he reached over and pulled the map between him and Sakura, "They'll properly go every other gate..."
"Right," Sakura agreed stopping when the proctor stopped to face his given, she laid the map out on the ground, drawing lines with her pencil on the map. "Considering they went ahead of us, Karin's and Hinata's teams are properly stationed here and here..."
"Hay guys, how'd you know which station we're at?" Naruto asked looking at the map then up at the numbered gate in front of them. "You've got us labeled on an even number but the sign says odd..." confused both Sasuke and Sakura looked up to see that Naruto was right, their gate was labeled as 31, which would mean that thirteen teams went ahead of them...they didn't go every other gate
"Sasuke how many teams did you count go before Karin?" Sakura asked with narrowed eyes
"Ten," Sasuke answered, "With Karin and Hinata it's twelve... that makes us the thirteenth"
"And you have ten minutes," the proctor said, rolling his eyes as he unlocked the gate, "To figure out what you're going to do." Sasuke and Sakura nodded and quickly pulled out duplicate scrolls, working together they made two earth and two heaven scrolls.
"Five minutes," the proctor mumbled opening the gates. They both hid one of each in their kunai pouch and the case on their back hip, Naruto turned around just in time to see Sasuke pocket the 'earth' scroll.
"Huh? Sakura-chan why'd you give it to Sasuke?"
"Because everyone would expect me to have it," Sakura answered quickly. She knew Naruto, he always meant well but a good manipulator could insult him into giving the answer. She stood and quickly did a once over, grabbing her bag and pulling it over her shoulders and tightened the straps; Naruto and Sasuke both mimicked her quickly.
"Run at the bell," the proctor ordered
"Remember the time Tayuya found out that someone switched out her shampoo for black hair die?" Sakura asked, making the boy's pale at the memory, they hadn't actually figured out who did it but Tayuya blamed them anyways. "Well someone did it again... and she's heading towards us..." Half a second later, the bell rang and the three burst from the gates and ran into the dark forest leaving a cloud of dust in their wake that didn't disappear even after they reached the treetops.
"Damn" the proctor coughed, waving a hand in front of his face, "Didn't see that one coming, they're faster then they look."
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Sakura narrowed her eyes as she formed a hand sign, smiling she gestured to Naruto and Sasuke to lower themselves to the ground. When they did, Sakura opened her bag and pulled out a thing of water for Naruto, then passed Sasuke a similar bottle.
"Whoever has to go, do so now," Sakura mumbled as she pulled out her own bottle, "we have company watching." Naruto shifted uncomfortably in his seat then declared he had to use the bathroom, calling it 'Lu' which was their old nick-name for a pet cat they used to share. Lu wasn't the smartest animal in the world, she was always being caught in one thing or another, she was sweeter then sugar but she just wasn't that smart. Naruto just basically said that he'd set a trap for the guy by using himself as bait.
"Not in front of me!" Sakura snapped when Naruto started to go in front of them, he quickly hurried around the bush and behind the tree. Sakura counted to ten before she checked Naruto's chakra discreetly, her eyes narrowing as she saw that he was still at it and their follower hadn't moved any closer. She shifted uncomfortably as she barked at Naruto to hurry up, she was getting hungry but she wasn't dumb enough to eat during the first day and sure as hell not near an enemy. She hadn't actually drunken any water, simply pressing the bottle to her lips and tilting the bottle to make her enemy think that she was drinking when she wasn't.
"S-sorry about that!" Naruto said as he stumbled out of the bushes with a shy blush, not noticing how Sakura and Sasuke looked at him strangely, Naruto didn't apologize like that. "I ended up writing my name!" Sasuke and Sakura shared a look; sighing Sakura cleaned up and put everything into her bag.
"Come on Naruto we've stalled long enough," Sakura said stretching before throwing her bag over her shoulders. She dug into her back pocket and pulled out the 'earth' scroll and presented it to the blond, "Come on, we've agreed to this." Naruto stared dully at her, mouth slightly open and eyes wide. "Naruto don't you want your turn?" he nodded dumbly and stepped forward, reaching out with trembling hands to take the scroll.
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"Scatter!" She cried out just in time to avoid her teammate's getting hit head on by a sharp blast of wind that ripped bushes out of the ground and tilted the trees onto their sides. She peaked out from under the bush she took refuge in and counted to ten before she dared to move, she could feel her teammates moving now, slowly but surly getting back to her.
"Karin? Haku?" Suigetsu called as he re-solidified himself
"Suigetsu?" Haku called, his voice slightly distant
"Haku, Suigetsu?" she coughed, dragging herself to her feet, suddenly she felt another blast of chakra racing towards her, "Get down!" the sharp wind hit Suigetsu headfirst, yanking him away before Karin or Haku could get to him. Scared that the heavy bush that landed on her had hurt her, Karin counted to ten slowly before she dared to move.
"Karin?" Haku called softly, just as she got the massive bush off her so she could breathe, "Karin, where are you?"
"Here," She coughed rising to her feet and dusting her skirt off carefully, "I'm here Haku, did you see were Suigetsu went?" I didn't catch it before that second blast...
"No," Haku answered, "Who are my teammates?"
"Zabuza-sensei, Suigetsu and Kimimaro are your legal teammates," Karin answered, rolling her eyes, "I'm your temporary teammate."
"Good, Sorry I—"
"It's okay," Karin chuckled, forming a hand sign and concentrated on her teammate's signature. "Suigetsu is about a mile south of us... we need to hurry Haku, a powerful signature is making his way towards us from the north sector."
"Right," Haku bobbed his head and they both took off in the same direction.
"Damn," Karin hissed, glancing over her shoulder with an irritated look, "the signature is giving chase, we better hurry or we're going to end up dead meat."
"Do you know where Sakura and her team is?" Haku asked worriedly, "Maybe they can help us?"
"If we can teammate up with them we might be able to create enough noise to get some adults curious," Karin said, her eyes widening and a smile breaking out on her face, "How many mirrors can you make?"
"As many as I need," Haku answered
"Great, I need you to make a mirror one mile directly in front of us," Karin ordered, "go through it and get Suigetsu, can you take anyone through your mirrors?"
"No," Haku answered regretfully, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm gonna make enough noise to get the adults in here," Karin answered with a smirk, "Then I'm gonna head to Sa-chan. Hay if Suigetsu can hide in his water bottle could you take it with you through your mirror to my location?"
"That's an idea," Haku grinned, "How do you expect me to find you?" Karin thrust out her hand, all but throwing one of her bracelets at Haku
"Put as much of your chakra as you can into it without exhausting yourself," Karin ordered, "but not too much that you can't fight after you teleport to me."
"Got it," Haku nodded, already doing what he was ordered.
"Hurry," Karin hissed suddenly, "he's gaining!"
"Here!" Haku said passing Karin her bracelet and forming a seal with his free hand, "get to Sakura as quickly as you can!"
"Right!" Karin stopped dead in her tracks while Haku melted into his mirror, "Alright, let's do this!" Karin spun around, golden chains erupting from her back to lock around the trees surrounding her.
I will protect them!
Every tree within her reach exploded into sharp shrapnel, revealing furiously howling golden chains seeking to destroy everything within reach.
I will protect them!
Karin glared into the thick dust and debris that blinded her, she could feel something thrash against her chains; a loud pained scream echoing in the air as the golden chains ripped it apart.
I will protect them!
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He read the note in front of him carefully; setting it aside, he read the other two notes from the girl's teammates. He honestly didn't think much about the boy taking the exam so many times, he never stopped to question it as he went through the paper work for the exams. He should have realized something was wrong with the boy named Kabuto but for young Karin to accuse his teammates as well...
I better get security detail on them, he thought with a heavy sigh raising tiered black orbs to stare at Ibiki who was standing at attention in front of him. "What information do you have on him?"
"Not much," Ibiki answered handing over the yellow manila folder that was tucked under his arm, "Just some basic info from the academy, his adoption papers and the missions he's taken."
"We've never sent him to a physiatrist?" Hiruzen asked with a frown, staring at the horrifyingly thin document folder in his hands
"'fraid not sir," Ibiki answered, "there was never a need to."
"Once he's out of this second portion make sure he has a nice long chat with Inoichi-kun"
"Yes sir," Ibiki agreed with a smirk
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"You're not Naruto," Sakura whispered, slamming a blue glowing palm into 'Naruto's' left arm. She grunted as he kicked at her to dodge her blow, freeing himself to run even as his disguise broke.
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He had to get away; he had to get back to his teammates. If he didn't he might end up getting in worse condition. His left shoulder hurt but it wasn't anywhere near the pain in his right arm, he stumbled slightly as his world suddenly doubled and darkened.
Damn it! He cursed mentally as he finally found his teammates, he hadn't dodged her attach like he thought. He stumbled into the clearing and panted as his teammates caught sight of him and quickly hurried to his side.
"D-don't-don't l-le—" he panted harshly trying to ignore his spinning world, "L-let he-er... t-touch..." don't let her touch you! He thought desperately as his world darkened and he passed out against his teammate, unable to finish his sentence.
"Aw~ did the little boy pass out?" Sakura asked mockingly from where she sat in the tree high above the three Rain Nin, a kunai twirling on her pointer finger.
"Dose the poor baby need a doctor?" Sasuke asked with a smirk just behind and to the side of the team, making them snap around with wide eyes.
"Hay dose he need Sakura-chan's touch?" Naruto asked from his place almost directly across from Sasuke, the Rain Nin turned around to escape them but a great Orange wall of Naruto's clones prevented them from leaving the small clearing.
"Oh~ so I hit an arty? That's nice to know" Sakura giggled, "That means he has five minutes to get to a proper doctor, after ten minutes he's un-savable, after fifteen he's dead."
"You did this to him?" the one with one eye asked in a snarl
"Of course~" Sakura smirked down at him, "I'm a medic-nin in training. I simply sharpened my chakra when I touched him, I was aiming for his muscle but the idiot moved and made me miss. Now he's going to die if me or someone else doesn't fix that damage..."
"Give us your scroll and she'll heal you're teammate," Sasuke offered with a smirk, knowing that they weren't given a choice in the matter. If their teammate dies they're disqualified from the exams but if they give up the scroll then they still have five days to get two scrolls.
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Karin grunted as a huge snake swallowed her hole, she hissed and let her chains surround her in a perfective orb, taking in a deep breath she forced her chains out, ripping the snake apart and freeing herself in the process. She felt her chains react instantly, pulling and jerking her out of the now dead snake, giving her a bird's eye view of her destroyed surroundings.
"Well, well, aren't you a find," She glared down at the smirking, yellow eyed man far below her. "I come here for an Uchiha and I find one of the last Uzumaki, one with the famed golden chains too. You my dear are one in a million."
"You don't know the half of it," Karin smirked, letting herself hang from the golden chains like a spider would hang from it's web. Before the strange man could react her chains arced up from beneath the ground and wrapped around each of his limbs, "You can die now." the man screamed as his body was ripped apart but Karin didn't stay to watch, she had a sister to find. Her chains moved and swirled around her, dropping the torn apart body and forming huge legs under her, keeping her high in the air, towering over the forest.
Alright then, Karin closed her eyes and concentrated on Sakura's signature, she had it in a matter of seconds. Smirking Karin moved to head towards her child hood friend, doing so just in time to avoid getting stabbed by a glowing blade. Gasping Karin let her chains drop from under her and wrapped around the head and elongated neck of a pale skinned, yellow-eyed man.
"Monster," Karin hissed, twirling in the air and let one of her chains form a large flat surface in front of her, she slammed her open palm against the glowing surface and smirked as a series of memorized lines erupted out from her palm. She couldn't hide her smirk as electricity arced through her chains and electrocuted the man still bound by them.
Time to go, Karin thought pulling three of her strands back to arc in the direction she needed to go, she let another good curse of electricity race through the man's body before she dropped him and hurried away, looking like a giant spider with a really tiny body and enormous legs. She lowered herself to the tree line and slowly used her chains for travel less and less, slowly pulling them back into her body before she left any more signs of her direction.
No matter what happened she had to warn Sakura and her team about the strange man gunning for them. With luck Haku will get to Suigetsu and return to her soon after she reaches them, maybe they can work together to get rid of the man or at least create enough noise to get help from other participants if the adults weren't quick enough.
Then again, she did destroy five Ackers of land with her fight, maybe they'd check in just to see what the hell had happened.
Please come, Karin though, closing her eyes briefly to pray, Please, someone, anyone, help us! Save us! Rescue us!
She no longer cared who it was that she came across next, just so long as they helped her and her family, or at least battled with the strange yellow-eyed man. If he managed to survive that last attach, which she didn't doubt, then he wasn't going to take her lightly any more.
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"Fine," the boy with one eye growled out, pulling his scroll out and showing it to Sakura, "But you heal him first!"
"Like you have a chance in negotiating," Sakura chuckled jumping down from her tree and quickly approached the downed boy. "Hmm, oh! I sure did do a number on him..." Sakura mumbled as she set glowing palms over the knocked out boy's arm, once it was healed she did a quick sweep over his body and found that he had a slight infection trying to take root. Pursing her lips as her hands hovered over his chest Sakura decided that she could spare the extra chakra and gave his immune system a quick boost.
"Alright," Sakura murmured, still frowning at the boy. "He had a slight infection that was trying to take root, it's not from me so don't even start, he's had it for about a week. Most likely something he ate on his way here, I boosted his immune system to help get rid of it." Sakura removed her bag and dug around in her pack, pulling out a box and opening. "This'll help him with the blood lose and the infection, make sure he takes one of each daily for a week." Sakura pulled out two small bottles and held them out expectantly the nearest teammate, "I expect you to make it to the center and give me an update and return these for the medic's aid waiting there in the tower."
"You want us to get to the tower?" one eye asked taking the bottles and handing the white scroll over a little hesitantly.
"Of course," Sakura said as she rose to her feet and started to walk away, "You've earned my respect." Sakura smirked over her shoulder at them, stepping close to the bush at the edge of the small clearing and handing the scroll over to another Sakura waiting there. After that, the one who tended to their teammate disappeared, shortly after the two bottles in the boy's hand disappeared as well.
"I'm sorry," Sakura said walking forward and holding out the two bottles that her clone had given them, "But I couldn't trust you with my life. There was no guarantee you'd let me go with the scroll in hand."
"I understand," the boy nodded and took the bottles, but hesitated when Sakura's grip on them didn't lesson
"Thanks for not trying to kill me," Sakura smiled with a soft smile at the boy, she let go and jumped backwards into the tree, using it like a springboard and launching herself higher into the air. Simultaneously there was a loud pop as Naruto's clones disappeared; Sasuke disappeared in the same smoke. This told the group that he was a clone too and that the real boy was properly hiding beside their medic teammate.
"G-Guys..."
"Shhh Gansho," the boy with hidden eyes murmured as he crouched beside his downed teammate. "The girl healed you, you'll be okay"
"N-no... she'll—"
"Rest Gansho," the boy with one eye sighed crouching beside his teammate and lifting him up with his other teammate. "Your safe and we have five days to get to the center..."
"B-but she..."
"Saved you're life," He replied "In exchange for the scroll. She also told us that you picked up an infection while on our travel over here, she gave you some medicine for it too."
"Oh... Sorry..."
"Just rest..."
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"Hay guys do you see that?" They moved to join him on his branch, watching curiously as the trees seemed to move and surge on a central point, "I'm not the only one seeing that right?"
"Right," his blond teammate agreed slowly
"They're moving away from a certain direction," his brunet teammate observed, "let's try to follow that other direction... Ino how far out can you sense?"
"Pretty damn far," the blonde answered, moving to run beside her teammates through the creepy forest. "Want me to look for familiar signatures?"
"You got it,"
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She was almost there, she could feel herself get closer and closer to her desired destination. Unfortunately during her dead run the strange yellow-eyed man continued to give chase to her, she didn't know how he was still alive but he was and she wasn't going to question it at the moment. She landed on a tree branch, leaving behind a small seal with her landing before she took off again, smirking as she heard the tree move behind her, distracting the man still chasing her and putting more space between them. Every time she landed on a tree she placed the seal her mother drilled into her, making her repeat drawing the lines with her chakra in seconds instead of using ink and paper.
Nira had lived through the previous war and she understood that you didn't always have the luxury of having paper and ink at your disposal. So she drilled Karin to draw the seals in her mind and have her chakra recreate the seals on whatever surface she touched, she had just gotten in on doing it while moving and being attached when Karin was taken to the bridge to whiteness Tazuna's death. Although incredibly simple looking and easily destroyable, the seal she was drawing on the trees and leaving behind, effectively made inanimate objects—like cups and tables—come to life. When it was used on animate things, like plants, then the organic thing reacts to the person who places the seal on them, more often then not the seal reacts to what the caster needs—Karin needs the trees around her to protect her from the psychopath trying to kill her; so the trees were acting like giants and thrashing the yellow-eyed man into next week.
Who knew mom's psychotic training would come in handy? Karin thought as she ran, moving ever closer to team seven. The bracelet that held Haku's chakra in it thumbed and she hissed at the icy feeling threatening to take over her wrist.
Not now! Karin thought, gritting her teeth as she heard the man behind her fighting and cursing with the trees, not even his summoned snakes stood much of a chance with them; the only good thing was that she was putting more distance between them.
"Ow!" Karin waved her arm around, missing the chance to put a seal on a tree as she fell from the high branches and fell to the ground, "Damn!" Karin flipped and landed, taking off the second her feet touched the ground. Looking at her left wrist were Haku's chakra thumbed strongly, she glared at the ice that was trying to crawl up her arm, as if telling her of it's existence with pain and distraction.
Not now damn it! Karin hissed as she ran cradling her arm close and forgetting to put the seals on the trees as she ran full tilt to Sakura's destination, Fifteen minutes! Give me another fifteen minutes!
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"Thanks Naruto," Sakura murmured as she raced beside the blonde. Sasuke had found him tied up just behind the bush he originally was going to leak in; Sakura untied him and scolded him for underestimating his attacker.
"No problem Sakura-chan!" Naruto shouted with a bright smile "Now lets get to the center!"
"Wait up dube!" Sasuke snapped as he chased after them, "Sakura needs to rest; you know shadow clones have an effect on her!"
"No he's right Sasuke," Sakura murmured with a frown, "We need to hurry. If one of you can carry me I'll focus on sensing the chakra's around us and try to keep us away from the other teams."
"Alright," Sasuke sighed landing beside Sakura and pulling her onto his back, "Naruto and I will switch in an hour."
"Got it," Sakura yawned, wrapping her legs around Sasuke and forming a hand sign with her right hand while her left gripped Sasuke's shoulder. "We're making pretty good time," Sakura giggled, leaning in close to Sasuke with a smile, "We should get there in thirty minutes..."
"Just so long as we don't run into any genjutsu," Naruto grumbled, "I'm crappie at finding them and even worse at expelling them!"
"Don't jinx us dube!" Naruto was prevented from replaying by a scream tearing through the forest air, snapping around team seven watched as something glowing bright gold flew past them. Sakura's eyes widened as the golden blur seemed to slow before her eyes, showing that a golden chain seemed to dance in front of her vision before time restarted and a feminine scream reached her ears, the blur flew past and through several large trees before it stopped in a clearing, gouging out a long creator while it was at it.
"Karin!" Sakura screamed, Sasuke was already moving to follow the golden blur long before she even shifted to scream over his head.
"S-Sakura," Karin coughed, pushing herself up slowly with one eye closed as her chains slowly slumped against her like tread. Team seven moved ever closer in panic, trying desperately to ignore the howling and roaring coming from behind them as they ran full tilt to the red head.
"What happened?!" Sakura shouted as they neared, "Where are Suigetsu and Haku?!" Karin flinched and lifted her arm, showing that her black bracelet was acting like ice and trying to freeze her arm. Karin hissed as team seven got a dozen feet away, the ice on her arm launched itself off her and formed a large crystal mirror beside Karin, making team seven slide to a stop.
"Karin," a voice called from the ice, a familiar looking brunet taking formation in it, "What took you so long? I was beginning to worry!"
"Damn Haku did you have to freeze my arm?!" Karin asked as her teammate stepped out of the mirror and took a look around his new surroundings, noting team seven, the huge creator Karin was sitting in, and the howling fury a good dozen Ackers from their current position
"I'm sorry," Haku said letting his mirror disperse as he crouched beside her, "I didn't know that it would do that..."
"Karin," Sakura called as she clambered down from Sasuke's back and hobbled over to the red head, "What's going on? What happened? Where's Suigetsu?"
"I'm here," a tiered voice drawled from the bag on Haku's back, slowly the flap moved and out came a liquefied white head, "Thank you for asking about me—"
"Speak up next time you idiot!" Sakura hissed as she kneeled beside Karin and took her crimson stained arm in her hands, "Where the hell were you two anyways?!"
"We got hit with a blast of wind," Haku answered, "Suigetsu got hit full force, I was to get him and bring him back to Karin while she ran to you guys for help."
"Why? What's going on?" Sasuke asked with a frown
"We were being tracked by a yellow eyed man," Karin answered, "after Haku left I engaged him. I landed a few good hits on him but it was like nothing could kill him, I'd run and get a fair distance from him only for him to appear and attach me again. Every time it was like he was never hurt, his previous wounds would be gone and he seemed to have an endless kind of energy."
"Dube sounds like someone's gonna be a real challenge for you," Sasuke said turning to look back at his blond teammate, "dube?" Naruto wasn't even looking at them, he was standing with his back to them, his eyes locked into the direction Karin had flown through before she landed. Curious Sasuke rose to his feet and approached the still blonde; stopping beside him, Sasuke activated his Sharingan and stared off in the same direction.
"What do you see?" Sakura asked, glaring at her hands that were a flickering green that threatened to go out before she finished healing Karin's ice-burned wrist.
"Trouble," Sasuke answered, "We need to move, the faster we get to the tower the safer we'll be."
"I sent out some clones," Naruto said, his face twisting into a frown as he continued to stare straight ahead, "We can't out run him, he's too fast."
"What'd your clones tell you?" Sakura asked, giving up on healing the arm completely and digging in her back pouch to grab some bandages.
"Team ten is on their way to help us," Naruto answered, Sakura groaned as she pulled out a small plastic bag of black wires instead of her bandages, "and the man with yellow-eyes... Shikamaru said his name is Orochimaru, apparently he's apart of the great legendary Sanin."
"Great, just freaking great," Sakura grumbled, pulling out her correct bag of bandages and glaring at the bag of wires sitting on the ground beside her. "Of course we just had to get the same damn exam as Ta-nee and attract the Nuke-Nin Orochimaru's attention, what else could go wrong?"
"I don't know but he's sending out three more snakes to meet with us," Naruto said, head tilting to the side slightly, "one of the clones just got eaten."
"Haku can you see how far out Shikamaru's team is?" Sakura asked pausing in her wrapping to look up at the brunet curiously, "Shikamaru is the brunet boy with the blond kunochi and the constantly eating boy on his team."
"I can check," Haku nodded forming a hand sign and creating a long line of ice mirrors that seemed to get more space between them the further out they were from him. "Found them," Haku said, "leading them towards me now. Oh... we have another leaf team heading towards us... I think you called the girl Hinata."
"Great we could use them," Sakura said turning to watch one of the large snakes come straight at them, one hand was already reaching for the bag of black wires, "Karin do you still have those head phones Tayuya gave you before we left the house?"
"Yes," Karin nodded pushing herself forward and digging in her back pouch, "what number are we settling on?"
"Let's go with three," Sakura said pulling on her own communication devises, "didn't think I'd actually use them but I'm glade I have them." Sasuke and Naruto took the wire and head set from her, quickly strapping them in place, Naruto flinched and made a few more clones before he disappeared to the forest on their right, Sasuke diving into the left with ten of Naruto's clones.
"Who ever comes across Team ten radio in fast," Sakura said into her mike, glaring at the large snake that was beginning to slow as it neared them, rising to look down on them with glaring yellow eyes.
"Sasuke that's you," Naruto said in Sakura's ear
"Already got them, want me to fill them in?"
"Follow Shikamaru," Sakura advised glancing at Haku, "Can you create a dome inside him and remove his head?" She asked, referring to the snake that stopped and hissed at them threateningly
"You want me to gat eaten?" Haku asked with a raised eyebrow
"Here he comes!" Suigetsu bellowed, Haku hissed and moved in front of Karin and Sakura, throwing Suigetsu behind him and on their lap while he was at it.
"Ice Release: Ice Rock Dome of Magnificent Nothingness!" Haku bellowed out, the protective ice covering them instantly just before the snake could stop, "Ice Release: Certain-Kill Ice Spears!" Spears of ice surrounded the outside of the perfect protective sphere that surrounded them, the snake seemed to scream as the ice ripped through it's body, tearing it apart and killing it slowly.
"Well that's cool," Sakura smirked at Haku, "how do we get out? Are we supposed to remain here until everyone else gets here?"
"Fang over fang!" Sakura watched as two big black blurs tore around them, ripping the snake apart and moving carefully around the spike shield and staying away from the sharp points of the ice before disappearing as quickly as it came.
"Alright, now I can remove it," Haku bobbed his head and waved his arm around them carefully melting some parts and making the water carry the larger pieces of snake away from the dome before he took down the rest.
"Show off," Suigetsu grumbled pulling himself off Sakura and Karin, watching how Haku moved the larger bits of snake off them but also using the snake's body to form a kind of shield around them.
"Sakura!" Hinata called as she jumped over the snake body and hurried to Sakura's side, sliding to a stop and wrapping her arms around Sakura's shoulders, "are you okay? My bracelet started to hum and I knew you were in greater danger then normal."
"I'm fine for now Hina-chan," Sakura said pulling away and checking Hinata's bracelet that she was talking about. She nodded and reached out to it with her chakra, the hum died and Hinata sighed in relief of the now cold black band on her wrist.
"So what's going on?" Kiba asked as he and Shino landed just behind Hinata, observing the huge snake carefully
"A man named Orochimaru is after Sasuke," Karin answered, "he told me he was after an Uchiha and found an Uzumaki instead, which is my last name."
"Sasuke did you get that?" Sakura asked, pressing the mike on her throat
"Loud and clear, I'll stay out of sight," Sasuke's voice sounded in her ear
"Do you guys have mikes?" Sakura asked turning to team eight curiously, lifting one hand to show them three fingers, telling them what frequency to go to
"Team ten has mikes," Shikamaru's voice sounded in Sakura's ear, "Who else has them?"
"Mist team," Karin answered, watching Hinata pull out some mikes from her back pouch and quickly put one on, "That's Haku with Ice release ninjutsu, Suigetsu with a melting bloodline and me—"
"Team eight here, we're ready for your plans Shikamaru," Hinata interrupted as she quickly passed Shino and Kiba their own mikes. "Sorry Karin-san"
"I'll live," Karin replied smoothly watching Haku shift his water carefully to remove a large piece of spin out of their way.
"Great, all of us rookies are together," Shikamaru drawled, ignoring the girl's, "that works in our favor, team eight been spotted yet?" we haven't I want to keep it that way...
"I don't think so," Hinata answered, her Byakugan pulsating around her eyes as she watched Naruto take out a snake with his clones, Sasuke working with Chōji to wrap wires around another snake's neck and relive it of it's head; and a strange man running lighting fast towards them, the only thing slowing him down was that a few trees were seemingly fighting him.
"...I might be wrong but I'm seeing trees fighting Orochimaru," Hinata said, still not sure if she was seeing clearly.
"You're seeing clearly," Karin chuckled, "those are my special seals at work, I'm surprised there are some still working."
"I see three attaching him at the same time," Hinata said, "Two just got taken out with a snake summoning... one tree left."
"Orochimaru just fire balled it," Shikamaru said in his mike, "Where are you guys?"
"Hiding behind the corps of a snake," Suigetsu answered dryly, "is no one else disgusted at the sight of his still beating heart?"
"We see you," Shikamaru said, ignoring Suigetsu's question, "we're on our way."
"Naruto said there were three snakes earlier," Sakura said, "I'm standing in the middle of one."
"Naruto beheaded one," Hinata answered
"We just killed the third," Sasuke said into his own mike, "that leaves the new one, anyone got any plans?"
"Yeah, team eight can you ambush him?" Shikamaru asked curiously
"No they can't," Sakura replied into her mike, "I need Hinata here to cover me and Karin, we can't fight, Shino can you send out your bugs to the edges of forest or to the tower? If you can I'm sure they can get in contact with a few Anbu teams and draw them here."
"I'll need to concentrate," Shino replied his bugs already humming loudly and escaping his coat in thick black waves, "I'm keeping some to remain with me."
"I didn't expect anything less," Sakura replied, "Shikamaru you've got Kiba, Naruto, Sasuke, Haku and Suigetsu to work with; can I assume that Ino will also cover Karin and me while Chōji helps you?"
"I hate it when you do that," Shikamaru replied, meaning that he hated it when she interrupted him or completely shut down one of his plans. Thankfully he already had another dozen forming in his head and he still had more possibilities to work with, "I'll send Ino to cover you—"
"I'm already here," Ino grumbled, landing on the edge of the field to their left and hurrying over to hide behind the mass of snake, "Ew is that thing still moving?!"
"Be quiet pig," Sakura hissed, "Haku, Suigetsu, get out there and kill the snake first, Hinata and Shikamaru will give you tips if you need them. Naruto, Sasuke distract Orochimaru but keep a distance; Sasuke don't get seen, Naruto use your clones."
"On it!" Naruto hollered in her ear, a hundred clones burst out of the tree line and stopped Orochimaru half way through the field; it wasn't long before Sasuke was working through the cover of the trees, throwing in bombs and kunai to keep Orochimaru guessing about his location.
"We're on our way," Haku said as he and Suigetsu jumped over the snake corps and ran straight for the fray, Haku's hands moving through several signs, summoning water through the air and creating several weapons to bomb barb Orochimaru while Naruto distracted him. Suigetsu liquefied and hid himself amongst the wave of water ninjutsu coupled with small bouts of ice style fighting that looked a lot like Fubuki's fighting.
"My bugs have made contact with a team," Shino said suddenly, "leading them towards us now."
"Please tell me they're an Anbu team," Sakura said twisting to look back at Shino pleadingly
"No," Shino answered, "Hinata's cousin, Neji Hyūga, is on his way over with his teammates."
"Tell them to wear some mikes so they know what's going on," Shikamaru advised
"Neji-nii-san wouldn't carry them," Hinata replied with a frown
"Good thing I do," a feminine voice replied in everyone's ears, "Glad I got the right frequency, what's going on?"
"Shino how many bugs did you send to the tower?" Sakura asked as Hinata filled Neji's team in on what was going on.
"Two dozen," he answered, "feels like some are starting to come back..."
"Did you tell anyone you came across what was going on?" Sakura asked with a frown
"Yes," Shino nodded, "I had them form the kanji's for 'snake' and 'traitor' before making an arrow in our direction."
"You better send more bugs out to get in contact with the people in the tower then," Sakura sighed shifting uncomfortably, trying to ignore pain in her side, "sounds like you'd have better luck from there then at the guards at the edges."
"Alright I'm sending some other bugs," Shino said forming a hand sign and concentrating, "it's going to take awhile before anyone take's notice..."
"Not if you told the right person about Orochimaru," Sakura retorted
"Fourth snake has been eliminated," Haku said into his mike, "We're making our way to Orochimaru now."
"No Haku keep your distance!" Sakura shouted into her mike, "Use your mirrors, don't let him escape!"
"Just don't get killed!" Karin shouted into her own mike, voice full of panic
"Dube!" Sakura flinched at the scream in her ear, followed by massive sound of 'boom' signaling that Naruto's clones dispersed.
"What's happening?" Sakura asked loudly, panic beginning to get the better of her as nothing but Sasuke's cursing was reaching her, more shouts from Neji's team as they seemed to aid Sasuke in what ever he was doing "Sasuke?! Naruto?!"
"Damn!" Sasuke cursed loudly in his mike, "Orochimaru did something strange to Naruto! It looks like a weird seal!"
"Get him over here!" Karin ordered in her mike, "I might be able to remove it!"
"You know seals?" Shikamaru asked in her ear
"All Uzumaki's know seals," Karin replied flinching as a wave of pain cursed through her stomach when she tried to rise to her feet. "It's our family style, like using bugs or dogs, we use seals. It's what makes us Uzumaki, why do you think our name has 'Uzu' in it? Most seals have the swirls in them that signify our name sake!"
"Alright I don't need a history lesson," Shikamaru grumbled, "can you make anything that we can use against Orochimaru?"
"Well yeah but..." Karin hesitated for a moment, the last time she got that close he kicked her hard enough to sail through nearly a hundred feet of air, "I-I can't get close enough to lay a seal on him..."
"Leave that to us who can get close enough," a deep voice replied in everyone's ear, "me and Lee can get close enough."
"That's a suicide march Nee-san!" Hinata bellowed in her mike, her eyes wide
"Don't order me to do otherwise Hinata," Neji growled back, eyes narrowing at the yellow-eyed man fighting the dense mist that Haku had summoned to hide everyone and keep Orochimaru on his toes, "we just have to keep our distance until we can get the seals."
"I-I don't have any ink or paper," Karin replied, biting her lip. Nira had trained her write the seals with pens and normal paper (that's all they could afford while on the run) once she practiced a seal a hundred times she was trained how to draw them with her chakra. As such, she had more practice with drawing seals with her chakra then with ink... but she couldn't get close to hi—
"It doesn't have to be ink dose it?" Ino asked curiously, her head tilting to the side and drawing Karin out of her thoughts
"Ink would work best," Karin replied biting her lip worriedly, "but no it doesn't have to be ink. However, I still lack something to write on." Sakura pulled her bag off her shoulders and examined it closely, eyes thoughtful
"What about a thick cloth that's resistant to blades?" Sakura asked, holding her bag up with a curious look, "Mom said this was resistant to most bladed attacks, I can take out the liner and you can write on it."
"Sa-chan that just might work," Karin grinned at her, shifting to sit on her knees while Sakura emptied her bag and started to remove some of the smaller outside pockets. Ino pulled out her back pouch and dug around for her small make up kit, quickly pulling it free and then digging out some of her lip-gloss for Karin.
I'll have to go shopping now, Ino pouted as Karin worked on the first strip of cloth Sakura freed from her bag, she liked shopping and all but those were brand new bottles of lip-gloss.
"Huh, you have some expensive tastes," Karin observed as she drew with the sparkly pink gloss, "this'll get done quickly and they should hold rather well too, so long as they don't smear."
Umm... Ino's eyes widened and she went back searching through her make up kit, What doesn't smear? This smears, this smears—that's a massive mess waiting to happen... Ino flipped her black bag over and glared at the pile of make up seeming mocking her with it's sparkly looks and expensive name brands. Dose everything I have nothing more then a giant smear stain?! Oh wait... Ino held up a tube of lipstick that she hadn't had the chance to wear yet, honestly she forgot that she even had it, this might work...
"Oh this is even better!" Karin chimed, snatching the bottle of lipstick from Ino's fingers before the blond could blink. "This doesn't smear and it's made to work extremely well with chakra!" Ino felt like crying as the red head continued with her seals on the little red strips of cloth Sakura chakra-scalpel-ed from her bag, getting tiered of getting ripped nails for her efforts.
"Nii-san did you get that?" Hinata asked worriedly, "We'll have those seals ready for you in a little bit, keep your distance, look like one of you is hurt and retreating or something."
"Working on it," Neji replied coldly, pulling one of Tenten's arms over his shoulder and hurrying over to the hidden spot they had Naruto at, still unsure if he'd simply wake up or stay out like a light
"First seal done," Karin said moving onto the next small strip of red cloth, "hay Sakura-chan give me those white strips to, those are some high class cloth."
"It's resistant to spills," Sakura warned as she passed the smaller strips from the inside of the outside pockets of her bag
"But it'll absorb chakra," Karin replied working quickly on the next set of seals, "these will actually work better then your red cloth. I don't have to worry about someone smearing the lip-gloss and messing up the seal."
"I'm here," everyone looked up as Neji landed in front of them, eyes cold as he crouched in front of Karin atop the snake, "were are the seals?"
"Here's one," Karin said pointing to the finished white cloth, smiling as Sakura all but ripped out her white liner from her bag and proceeded to cut it into smaller strips for Karin's use. Easily cutting around the sewn in seals and giving Karin the left over cloth, stuffing the rest of the white cloth into her now liner-less bag.
I'll fix it later, Sakura thought with a depressed sigh, setting her torn apart bag aside, maybe
"I'm here," Sasuke said as he landed just on the other side of Hinata, holding Naruto up with one arm while Lee held Naruto up on the other side
"Here's two," Karin grinned passing the now finished seal to Neji, grabbing the next offered piece from Sakura, "please wait a moment I need to make two more for the seals to be effective."
"Set him over here," Sakura ordered Sasuke and Lee, ignoring the looks the green spandex wearing male was shooting her. "Haku, Suigetsu how are you two doing?" Sakura asked through her mike as she opened Naruto's jacket and lifted his black shirt to reveal his seal for the nine tails and the newer one Orochimaru just gave him.
"As good as we can be," Suigetsu grunted, "Damn this man is slippery."
"He's a snake," Haku drawled his agreement
"Then remove his head," Sasuke advised, "remove the snake's head and the whole body will die."
"We've tried," Suigetsu grumbled, "didn't work out so well, fatty took a good hit to the stomach."
"Who're you calling fat?!"
"Orochimaru called you fat!" Sakura bellowed in her mike, instantly drawing Chōji's wrath on to the snake Sanin instead of Suigetsu, "Work smarter not harder!"
"There the seals are done!" Karin smiled and handed the last of them to Neji who quickly disappeared from sight
"Neji give two to Lee," Shikamaru ordered, "I'll be able to trap Orochimaru for a moment but I need a good distraction to do it."
"Right,"
"Is this going to work?" Sakura asked worriedly as Karin turned to examine Naruto's new seal carefully
"Want me to ensure it?" Karin asked, peaking through her bangs at Sakura, who nodded worriedly
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"Scatter from Orochimaru," The boys didn't question the cold order, they scattered away from the snake man, landing several feet away from him and crouching lowly, ready to attach. Orochimaru held his kunais aloft, examining the children who surrounded him, watching him carefully.
"What's the matter children?" Orochimaru asked mockingly, slightly irritated that the children were using the thick mist to hide from him; there wasn't much he could do about the chakra-thickened air. They said nothing and he waited patiently for their next attach, he crouched lowly watching with narrowed eyes how four of the boy's moved simultaneously, running around in a circle to keep one of out of sight while another three stayed in sight. He had taken out the blond jinchūriki and the weapon's mistress earlier, he thought he had taken out the fat one but it wasn't long before he was back in the fight again. It was the smarter boys with distant attacks coupled with their close range teammates that was annoying him the most; the water user and the melting boy were particularly annoying. He was about to lash out with his sword at the closest rotating boy when he felt himself stiffen, eyes widening he stared down at the shadow connected to his feet that disappeared into the darkened woods far to his right. He growled lowly in the back of his throat, knowing that only a Nara could use the shadows to still him (which explained the two teams working almost flawlessly together despite the fact that they're from different villages). However, he was prevented from retaliating against the Nara child when golden chains erupted from the ground beneath his feet and wrapped around him tightly, letting the shadow disappear as quickly as it came.
"Damn you!" Orochimaru hissed, flinching as the Hyūga boy charged and proceeded to cut off his chakra network, not letting him spit out anther body. He felt the boy in green move behind him and hit several spots on his back, knocking his breath away.
"Uzu style: body paralyzes!" The Hyūga boy bellowed
"Uzu style: eternal chakra sleep!" The green spandex boy shouted almost at the same time as his Hyūga teammate.
Orochimaru cursed wildly as the two seals on his chest sparked into being, glowing a bright haunting blue before seeping into his skin and shutting down his brain's ability to make his body move. The two seals on his back seeped in through his clothing and into his skin, burning everything in the process and giving Orochimaru immense pain as it cut off his connection to his chakra net work.
Not even he could stay conscience with such agony ripping through his body
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Okay for the next chapter, I actually managed to rewrite a part of it, unfortunately I wrote so much that I'll have to take the chapter and split it in half to keep it from hitting like sixty pages.
I hope you like it, I'm mad that I couldn't save the original chapter for you but I think this verson turned out better
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