The remaining leaf ninja were still chasing after the sound ninja and were closing in on them. The other sound ninja saw this of course and were annoyed by their persistence.

"Damn it! Come on! Why can't they see that we won't be giving him back!" Tayuya asked

Jirobo chose this time to scold Tayuya.

"Tayuya, it isn't very lady like to curse" Jirobo said

"Shut it, fatso!" Tayuya yelled

Ogron intervened in their argument.

"Now's not the time for you two to be fighting. We need to shake them off now or else they'll catch up to us in no time" Ogron said

"Someone else should stay behind to stop them" Sakon said

"An excellent suggestion brother" Ukon said

"So who will it be this time?" Kidomaru asked

Ogron thought for a moment and made his decision.

"Anagan, you keep them busy while we go on ahead, I know with your speed that you'll be able to take them out easily" Ogron said

"Of course, Ogron" Anagan said

Anagan stopped and looked over towards his opponents.

"Looks like one of them decided to stay behind again" Kiba said

"This is fast so it's only natural that one who should stay behind should stay behind should also be very fast" Shikamaru said

"I'm not staying behind! I need to get to Sasuke!" Naruto said

"I wasn't talking about you, you moron" Shikamaru said

"Grr…forget it I'll force my way through!" Naruto said

Naruto then charged at Anagan head on.

"Naruto wait!" Bloom said

Anagan smirked. Taking the blonde out would be a piece of cake. Naruto would then use his signature jutsu.

"Multi-shadow clone jutsu"

Naruto made 50 clones and they charged at him; fists ready.

"Gotta admit that this kid has a crap load of chakra but having a large amount of chakra doesn't mean that you will win" Anagan thought

Anagan then charged and rammed right through all of the clones, causing them to disperse. He then looked up and saw Naruto and another clone with a rasengan. He dodged it easily and kicked his back causing him to fall back towards his group.

"You're too slow kid" Anagan said

Shikamaru watched and saw that this guy could move faster than the eye could see.

"Bloom" Shikamaru said

"What is it, Shikamaru?" Bloom asked

"You'll need to stay behind and fight this guy. You're the only one who's fast enough to keep up with him" Shikamaru said

"I understand" Bloom said

Flora then stepped forward.

"No, leave this guy to me" Flora said

"Flora, only someone with equal speed can take him on" Neji said

"Yeah, let Bloom take him on" Choji said

"I can stop his speed. If I can manipulate the earth that he stands on then he won't have much room to run around and strike" Flora said

"Flora? Are you sure?" Bloom asked

"Yes, please leave this one to me. The rest of you must go on ahead" Flora said

"Alright, Flora, we'll leave him to you then. Everyone else move out" Shikamaru said

The group then left Flora behind to get Sasuke. Anagan was about to run after them but couldn't move. He looked down and saw some mud holding him down. He then saw that the young senju had her hands on the ground.

"She stopped me from chasing after them with an earth style jutsu" Anagan said

Flora then used another jutsu.

"Wind style: Deep breath jutsu"

Inhaled and then exhaled. A strong wind blew when she exhaled and hit Anagan. He was sent back a meter due to the power of the wind jutsu.

Anagan managed to land on his feet and looked at his opponent.

"Not bad, girlie" Anagan said

Flora was about to cast another jutsu but Anagan was faster and was in front of Flora instantly and a roundhouse kick to her stomach sent through several trees and her back slammed against a bigger tree.

"I didn't even have time wave any signs. He's really fast. Maybe Bloom should've handled this instead" Flora said

The tan ninja then shook her head.

"No! I can't think like that! I volunteered to take him on. I need keep him busy" Flora thought

Flora stood up and looked around to see if he was anywhere nearby. She then heard him coming and looked over to see that he was approaching her at top speed.

"Gotta slow him down" Flora said

The tan ninja brought some kunai with explosive tags threw them on the ground in front of him. They exploded and sent Anagan back a couple of feet but he landed on his feet.

"That was a surprise trick you pulled there but it won't be enough" Anagan said

He started to run at her again. Flora had an idea on how to stop him this time and used a jutsu that would knock him off balance.

"Earth style: Mud wave"

The ground started go up and down like the ocean does at a beach. This proved to be effective because Anagan was knocked in the air after tripping over wavy ground. Flora then took this time to change the battlefield.

"Water style: Overflowing flood"

She released a large amount of water and covered the entire area in water. there was at 20 inches of water around them. Anagan managed to land on his feet and was now standing on top of the water. The water was wavy but he could keep his balance.

"With this much water it won't be easy to move at my top speed. This girl changed the area into a water battlefield to throw me off" Anagan said

Flora was now going on the offensive and made the next move.

"Water style: Water wave"

The tan ninja released a strong wave of water. Anagan dodged the attack easily. He then ran at her with more stable footing and Flora had not time to put her guard and got hit with a strong punch. She regained her balance quickly though.

"You really thought that I could be stopped by water. I won't be able to go at full speed but I can still b fast enough to hit you" Anagan said

He then jumped and delivered a powerful kick that caused a big splash. He realized that the girl was no longer there. She had managed to escape by going underwater.

"She escaped by going underwater. Clever" Anagan said

Flora was swimming under the water and believe that she would be safe but she underestimated Anagan.

"She made things easier" Anagan said

The sound ninja then slammed his palm on the water.

"Lightning style: Super watt jutsu"

A strong electric current was released in the water and Flora got shocked by the electricity. She then created a hole and all the water went down like it does in a drain.

"You thought you could beat me, but you were wrong" Anagan said

Anagan then charged at her with top speed again. Flora was actually a step ahead of him.

"Earth style: great mud river"

The ground under him changed into a muddy river. This actually shocked him.

"That's the third hokage's jutsu!" Anagan thought

Flora wasn't done yet.

"Earth style: Earth dragon bomb"

A dragon came out of the river and shot some mud bombs at him and he was not able to recover from losing his balance in time and took the hits.

Flora then created some shuriken out of flower petals and threw them at Anagan and took the hits and he was knocked towards the same tree that Flora was slammed against.

Flora panted a little bit because she was still recovering from some of the damage she took earlier.

Anagan then got up and spoke to Flora.

"I never would've guessed that you would two jutsu that the third hokage had" Anagan said

Anagan had black marking all over him. His curse mark had been activated.

"I never thought I would've been forced to use my curse mark. I don't remember the last time I had to use it" Anagan said

Flora looked at him in horror. She wasn't afraid of him because of the curse mark. She was more afraid for Bloom since she received a cursed mark from Orochimaru too.

"Now then let's continue" Anagan said

Anagan then ran at her and she got hit by a powerful kick before she can even blink. She was flying back several feet.

"He's even faster now" Flora said

Anagan was charging at her again and he managed to get several more hits in and knocked her away towards another tree.

Flora was struggling to get up but she managed to stand up.

"He's only using taijutsu, so I just need to use something that can guard well against him, I might have an idea" Flora thought

Anagan then charged at her and hit with a punch. Flora's dispersed and a log was in her place.

"A substitution jutsu" Anagan said

Flora then put her plan in action.

"Earth style: Stone box"

Both of them were now trapped inside a stone box and it was pitch black inside the box too.

"You think this will help you?" Anagan asked

"I don't think it will help; I know it will help" Flora said

Flora then casted her jutsu.

"Wind style: petal twister"

A small tornado with sharp petal appeared and Anagan started getting cut up and since there was not much space he couldn't exactly dodge them either. He felt the wall and would try to use lightning style to break free.

"Water style: Water wave"

Flora unleashed a water wave jutsu and filled the box up with water.

"You didn't learn your listen from last time did you?" Anagan asked

"Lightning style: super thunderbolt"

A thunderbolt shocked Flora and she was starting to feel the damage hurt more and more.

She then summoned another petal twister and Anagan got cut up even more and the stone box broke and both of them were on the ground. Flora's hair came undone, but she didn't care about that right now. She managed to get up slowly and pants heavily.

Anagan also got up and Flora saw horror right in front of her eyes. Anagan's skin was red and there was two slightly curved horns on his head.

"Well kid, you've impressed by lasting this long against me. I need to go into second state just to deal with you" Anagan said

"There's another version of the curse mark?" Flora thought

Anagan was right in front of her before she could even blink once and kicked her to a tree. She coughed up some blood from the power move. She was then hit by a power wind punch and lightning kick. He then surrounded himself with fire and tackled her hard.

Anagan chuckled. Beating her down like this was oddly satisfying for him. Flora opened her eyes and saw some flowers not too far from her.

"Sis" Flora muttered

FLASHBACK

Flora's oldest sister, Crystal Senju, was showing her something incredible. The ability to create nature, which was something that was called wood style.

"Flora, Wood style, was attempted to be mastered by other shinobi many times. The ones that are most capable of using wood style are those with a strong will and someone who has a close connection to nature. We are from the Senju clan" Crystal said

Flora's other older sister, Miele, jumped in too.

"Flora, you might have the potential to master wood style. You love nature just as much as we do, so we believe that your close connection to it will help you master wood style" Miele said

"You really think I can master wood style?" Flora asked

Both of her sisters nodded.

Flora's father Yamato came in too.

"I truly believe that you will master wood style and become just as good at using as the first hokage" Yamato said

Flora then promised and trained everyday to master this new jutsu.

FLASHBACK OVER

Flora now knew what she must do in order to win. She needs to use her new power.

Anagan saw her get up again and smirked.

"You can't beat me, give up!" Anagan said

Flora ignored him and used another jutsu. Anagan rushed towards her. Flora weaved her signs faster.

"Wind style: Great blowback"

Anagan was thrown back several feet.

"It's now or never" Flora muttered

She then weaved new signs.

Anagan recovered and saw her weaving some signs. He noticed that they were different from before.

He was about to charge at her but something stopped him and started to restrain him. He looked down and was shocked to see that it was wood.

"Wood?! Impossible!" Anagan yelled.

Anagan then looked over and saw that his opponent was the one that was controlling the wood.

"She can use wood style?! That's not possible! Grr…whatever, I can still kill her with my speed" Anagan thought.

Anagan managed to break the wood off and rushed towards her with blinding speed. Flora made a dome wall and blocked his attack.

"Her wood style is growing fast. She can cast jutsu before I can even get to her with my top speed" Anagan thought

Anagan jumped back to avoid getting caught but the next spot he landed on was a trap and entangled by tree roots.

"This entire forest is my advantage over you" Flora said

Anagan couldn't break out of this one since they were too strong to break. Only his head was remaining while the rest of him was covered in tree roots.

"Goodbye" Flora said

"Wood style: Tree bind eternal burial"

Anagan's entire body was now inside the tree and Anagan's entire body was crushed and he was killed instantly.

Flora fell to her knees and fainted because the fight was more intense than what she was used to and all the damage she took during that battle too.