Hello, and welcome to the next chapter.
Morregen; Thanks! It seems that he is yeah~ I do have a cool combination attack with him and Ryouta in mind for a later part of the story. Maybe he'll do that yeah~ I could see the Lady Snake Sage doing something like that. Yup, Ryouta vs Orochimaru is here! Kaguya's got an interest in him, why we'll be seeing in the future. Maybe she will be~ Thank you, glad you're enjoying it.
Mrgamerandwatcher; It would be intriguing huh.
Darkmaster10000000; It will be explained why she is in the future, and right now, I'd say it isn't such a great thing for Ryouta as we'll see in this chapter.
TheChamp123; Yeah, the fights gonna begin! Ryouta and Satsuki will do yeah, they'll have some cool combinations. The snakes name is Garaga, he's on the wikia. Something's will be tweaked here, but yeah he's there to look at, he's pretty cool.
danielsnow; Maybe he could do yeah. It would be quite the battle huh?
Skull Flame; Yeah, the snake wasn't with Orochimaru, and in fact hates him. Yeah, we'll be seeing more of them~
ShadowUzumaki55; He surely has yeah, and he thought they were affiliated with Orochimaru who he despises. Lets hope he can yeah. Satsuki did her best with the others yeah. For the moment it seems that he has stopped them. We'll be seeing what they'll wish for in the near future.
Silver crow; Thanks. Yup, he's turned up. We'll see what happens with that. Seems Black Zetsu is yeah. Seems for the moment Garaga has yeah. Karin's certainly showing off a bit of what she's learned, same for Ryouta. Team Seven did quite well. Maybe Anko and the Snake Sage did yeah. Garaga's backstory will be fleshed out a bit more as we go on. Glad you're enjoying Sakura here. Obito's a weird case with that, most of the time people can't use it so frequently without going blind. Yeah right now Obito isn't really up to anything, and yeah, Shisui's order still stands, whatever that is~ Those sound cool for RWBY. Maybe Sally could yeah. Maybe he could be like that with Mimosa and Noelle. Those are cool One Piece ideas. Yeah, Tobi's still forcing them to a degree. It would be cool if Ryouta was envoy. Haku and Karin could join as well. Satsuki could do yeah. We'll see what happens with Danzo. Yeah, seems like the Sound was like that. I've got some fun ideas with Gaara coming up. He'd learn different things yeah. I've got a few ideas towards the end of part one, things I can't spoil just yet. Maybe Konan will do. Kisame and Ryouta might end up having a fun dynamic between the two of them. Thanks for the suggestions.
ShadowKiller; Tobi's been in the story since chapter one and has shaped Ryouta's childhood in more ways than one. The woman in whites first appearance was chapter nineteen with hints beforehand she was there and her role is going to be expanded upon, and as shown in this chapter she isn't exactly an ally and why she's here in the first place will be explained. People like Pakura, Ameyuri, Mangetsu and others, whether they be good or bad people didn't really have screen time in the manga or weren't fleshed out at all, so I thought it would be good to expand on their roles more. Peace doesn't solely depend on the love Ryouta has with people from other villages, even if he's romantically involved with Kurotsuchi for an example, her Grandfather will act as he wishes to Konoha, Ryouta would help sure, but he isn't the only factor. Hope that cleared some stuff up. Also, with respect, I know you don't like this story, you've told me several times across different stories. I can only suggest if this story isn't to your taste, which is fair as not every story is going to appeal to everyone, there are other ones out there that I hope are to your tastes. Thanks for the thoughts.
TheGreatGodzilla; First of all, thank you very much! I'm glad you decided to take a chance! Yeah, some Uchiha have been spared, and are going to be playing various roles in the story. Karin and Naruko will have more interactions in the future. They both will be in the story as Pakura is, what they'll be doing I can't reveal just yet. Cool, I'll check it out. Yeah, there's many cool and interesting ships out there. Yeah, it would make sense that they'd possess one of each being from Uchiha and Hyuga. I do have some ideas about Uzumaki yeah. Tayuya, definitely a possibility. Yeah, it did seem odd that it wasn't mentioned what was going on with the Senju. Kurotsuchi, I do have a good idea of when she's going to be introduced, and it will be before she appears in canon. I take any kind of suggestions yeah, harem, story ideas, anything really. Glad you like those two are in the harem~
MDM11; He wont be killed yet, but he'll definitely think twice before attacking Ryouta and the others again. They'd be cool yeah. Pakura would be a cool one yeah. Ryouta very well might do yeah~ They'd also be cool choices to move up a rank considering everything they'll be going through. They'd be cool additions to the harem. He could recruit them yeah~
Guest 1; Yup, Garaga has appeared, got some cool stuff lined up with him and Ryouta. Maybe Garaga and that red snake are connected~ Yeah, all things considered with Orochimaru, Team Seven did a very good job. It's going to be quite the battle~ Kurotsuchi and Samui I've got good ideas for their interactions, much sooner than they were in canon. Thank you, and you as well~
Guest 2; That would be a pretty interesting idea for a story, thanks for the suggestion!
Andrew123456; We'll soon see about that~
Darkwubs; Yeah, maybe Jin could do that. Yeah, he could have scenes like that. He could learn some stuff from Lavinia. I like the sound of it, seeing him doing that with Jin's blades would be awesome. Thanks for the suggestions!
Guest 3; Thanks, glad you enjoyed the chapter! Yeah, they could learn some elements. Some could be harder to forgive yeah. I know what you mean yeah, no worries~ One day yeah, doing that with Susanoo. Training for those kind of abilities like that sounds pretty awesome to me~
War Sage; Thanks! Yeah, Garaga's appeared. Team Seven did yeah. They did pretty well, and we'll see how they handle themselves here~ Maybe she would be. I could see Gaara doing that. In Shippuden yeah I don't see why not. Thanks for the harem suggestions.
Guest 4; Thank you! Yeah, we're going to see Orochimaru vs the Uchiha's now~ Tobi's relationship regarding Ryouta is complicated, and I'm glad you're enjoying it. It could be~ Thanks for the harem suggestions.
Shadow55; Thanks very much!
Brainstorm Sorcerer; Thanks! Garaga is a pretty tough snake. I thought they'd be quite well paired together, with their personalities and powers. That snake could come into play. That would be funny. If he wishes to then he could summon smaller ones once signing the contract. We'll see some other teams yeah. I'm sure Anko would be rather happy if he did. They both have their uses, so I could see him using both the chakra needles, and the Yasaka Magatama. Ryouta will show his stuff against Orochimaru. Team Dosu would get a massive surprise. Maybe that is the reason~ Yeah, it's going to be quite the fight!
Guest 5; Yeah, the full details I'm still working on before doing anything with that. Those sound like cool ideas to explore. I don't know about when he'd meet with Diehauser, before or after that incident.
guest 22; No worries. Yeah, I'm going to try my best.
Hinata fan; We'll see how they do. Maybe Hinata could be. Garaga will be eventually. It could do.
Guest 6; I could see any of those swords being quite cool for the design, Shusui would be cool. I could see those powers being useful~ I don't see why he couldn't develop those powers in the future.
Guest 7; Yeah, they're cool characters. It would be cool to be a combo of them.
Well, with those reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter.
Orochimaru vs Uchiha!
Ryouta and Satsuki together, they look down towards Orochimaru, who sticks out his tongue that seemed to grow longer and longer. Tobi and the red snake watched on from a distance, the former concerned for Ryouta, and the latter glaring angrily at Orochimaru. Tobi also noticed one other being there, Orochimaru's own subordinate himself.
"So, he's got an ally here in case huh..."
Tobi mused, and watched keenly, Black Zetsu kept his eyes on Ryouta's form.
"Ryouta..."
A feminine voice rang within Ryouta's head.
His eyes looked around, but couldn't see anything that would have spoken to him.
"My, oh my, the Uchiha are going to come after me? How scary!"
Ryouta and Satsuki grimace, as he flings his tongue towards the pair of them.
"Ryou, lets do it."
"Yeah, lets!"
Ryouta and Satsuki shot off together at high speeds. Running across the large branch of a tree, Orochimaru gave bemused eyes, before he simply swung his hands out, gale sized winds came towards the two Uchiha.
Dashing left and right, Ryouta and Satsuki respectably dodge the attack, and go for Orochimaru who smirks as he whips his tongue towards Ryouta.
Satsuki saw it, and tossed a shuriken for Ryouta's neck, who bent down, as the tongue came around to wrap around Ryouta's neck.
"What..."
Orochimaru blinked as the shuriken came close to slicing through his tongue, but the tongue wrapped around said shuriken, only for Ryouta to bring up his sword and went to cleave through the tongue so it couldn't be used.
Orochimaru pulled his tongue back, but felt the sword cut into his tongue ever so slightly, Orochimaru watched as Ryouta got up close, and swung for him so fast that Orochimaru even was surprised, but he managed to block the sword by grabbing Ryouta's wrist as he kneed Ryouta in the gut who coughed up some bile from the force of the impact.
However, Satsuki came up from above, and aimed her foot down onto Orochimaru's head, Orochimaru smirked at the sight only to see that Ryouta had released several shurikens up close and personal.
"Hmph, nice trick."
Orochimaru lifted his foot, kicking Ryouta in the chin as Satsuki's leg was blocked with Orochimaru's arm, the pressure of the kick caused the branch below him to crack ever so slightly, while Ryouta twirled his blade around to try and slice off Orochimaru's arm.
Orochimaru scowled, as he summoned snakes from his sleeve, blocking the sword with mere inches from his forearm being sliced off, but that gave Satsuki the chance to land on the tree branch, and come in with a flurry of fast punches for the man's body.
Shooting the snakes from his arm, they went after Satsuki, who retreated as she weaved through hand signs.
"Fire Release, Great Fireball Jutsu!"
As she said it, Orochimaru laughed as he dropped Ryouta's wrist, and retreated back. The giant burst of flame travelled through the large thick branch of the tree, Orochimaru thought that he had gotten away with it.
However, he saw that wires were attached to his arm, thanks to Ryouta preparing them beforehand without Orochimaru's knowledge which was surprising in of itself.
But even more so when the flames from Satsuki's Fire Release was travelling across them, coming for him at such speeds that Orochimaru was surprised.
"They're so in time with one another, they didn't communicate verbally, or even with their eyes, they couldn't relay anything via Genjutsu. Yet, they worked so flawlessly together, knowing what the other was going to do based off instincts alone."
Orochimaru summoned the snakes from his sleeve to bite through the wires to get them off, but the flames reached the snake first, and caused them to be wrapped up with the wires, as Ryouta moved his hand to do so.
Seeing his snakes bursting into flame, Orochimaru laughed as he cut off the wires with a kunai instead, thanks to the snakes giving him enough time.
However, while looking at Ryouta, he briefly forgot about Satsuki who used the time to get around him, and by the time he saw her, he blocked her kunai from stabbing him, but she slammed her foot so hard into his back that Orochimaru's eyes widened.
Her physical strength alone flung Orochimaru forward, as Ryouta weaved through some hand signs.
"Fire Release, Flame Whirlwind!"
Ejecting flames from his mouth in a twister like motion, the flames were deadly, and hot. Even causing the area to be heated up as the flames neared Orochimaru.
Orochimaru licked his lips at the sight, and went to reveal a Wind Release, when he felt heat coming from the other hand side, so he turned his neck to see that Satsuki was also firing off a Great Fireball Jutsu.
At the same time, both Ryouta and Satsuki used the Shuriken Jutsu to fire off some weapons coated with paper bombs, that scattered around the front, back, up, down, left and right of Orochimaru himself.
"Hmm...seems like they really have cornered me pretty well. These kids are pretty dangerous together, the Uchiha do have some talented youths nowadays. I'm glad I chose to come after them, I've decided that I'm going to attain both of them, they'll both be very useful to my plans."
The intense heat of the flames, coupled by a paper bomb, Orochimaru knew that it would be dangerous regardless of which way he was going to go, so he bit his thumb and weaved through hand signs as the paper bombs were caught in the fire.
Creating a massive explosion within the tree, it burned the tree down to the ground, Ryouta and Satsuki jumped away and landed on the ground together, watching the huge explosion along with the fires blending together beautifully.
"That should at least do some damage to the snake bastard."
Satsuki murmured.
"Yeah, maybe he could have been burned. But, for the best case scenario, maybe we should go while..."
As Ryouta was speaking, within the flames, something fell out of it…
It was a corpse that was charred.
But it wasn't Orochimaru's.
It was a snakes, with Orochimaru coming out of said snake as it hit the ground with a hard thud.
Slithering out like a snake would do, Orochimaru ran a hand through his long hair, and adopted a small smirk on his lips, his eyes going between the two Uchiha.
"My, you two are truly fascinating. Having such great teamwork, not many can say they can replicate the level of teamwork you have. And the power behind your attacks, it definitely has taken my interest. Now which one is going to get my Curse Mark first?"
Orochimaru chuckled evilly.
The darkest of chuckles that felt like they were soul piercing...
As the fight with Orochimaru and Ryouta plus Satsuki was going on, Haku was getting things prepared if they went south. Using her knowledge of tricks and traps, she thought about what would be best.
She then saw that Karin was coming in with Sakura who was carrying Naruko around since she was knocked out, so she paused, and turned to them.
"Haku-san, Naruko...she's been knocked out or something..."
Sakura placed Naruko on the ground. Haku moved closer, and placed a hand on her neck to check for a pulse.
"She still seems to be breathing. What happened?"
Sakura explained what the events of the fight where until then.
As she did, Haku could understand why Ryouta was worried about Orochimaru, the skills he displayed weren't a joke.
"Haku...Ryou-kun and Satsuki-san are back there, with that creep. He tried to bite Satsuki-san, and he was able to avoid being sliced by Ryou-kun despite him going so fast."
"He reacted so fast?"
Haku asked Karin in disbelief.
Sakura however nodded.
"It was crazy. That guy...he's too strong. I'm not sure even Ryou-kun and Satsuki-san together will be able to win that fight."
"Yes...maybe you're right. But that's why we're here, to make sure that we have a good escape route and to make sure that he couldn't follow us. Even if he is a strong Ninja, I practiced these with Zabuza-sama and later on with the others to make sure that even a Jonin would be shocked. I know this man is stronger than an average Jonin maybe even stronger than Zabuza-sama and Kakashi-sensei...but, even this man will need a little time to be stopped."
"What can we do to help?"
Sakura asked.
Haku hummed before nodding.
"Ryou-kun said he's going to hold off this Orochimaru for as long as he can. Then when we're finished, we're going to make a tactical retreat. We don't know what this Orochimaru is capable of, so I've thought of some traps that would even pause a Jonin for a few seconds, so even a second against this guy is better than nothing. I need you both to help me set these up, we don't have a long time. Then after that, secure a safe location for us, Karin-san you know where."
Sakura nodded, wanting to help out the best she could.
The same for Karin, she didn't want the others to have to suffer because of this.
Haku then got back to work as the others did their best to help them out.
Going back to Ryouta and Satsuki, the pair watched as Orochimaru cautiously walked forward.
"You both really could have had it easy, but you had to throw it away. Now I'm going to have to start killing people…!" Orochimaru showed a dangerous look on his face. "But, who should I go for first? Though, if I went after you Ryou-kun, no one's going to worry about you, are they? Unlike Satsuki-chan there who's got big brother, and Mother, you don't have anyone, do you? No one's going to miss you when you eventually die."
Ryouta wasn't going to be shaken by Orochimaru.
But, Orochimaru twisted an emotional knife when it came to Ryouta.
"Shisui died, a pathetic death. I remember, he killed himself, didn't he? How sad, but if you like, I'll take care of you. The experiments we'll do together wont hurt that much. Only five or six times a day I promise. Just let me brand you, then you'll be all mine."
The venomous words caused Ryouta to feel sick.
How Orochimaru spoke about experimentation on people, and how he was claiming Ryouta was already his, it felt vile.
"You know nothing of my brothers death and nothing about him was pathetic. And you know nothing of us either."
Orochimaru licked his lips.
"You do have a passionate side. I'd love to make sure that spirit is broken before I take your power for myself. You've truly interested me, but I haven't gone all out just yet. Shall I show the true power that I have?"
As he said it, he allowed his tongue to hang out of his mouth. Extending out of his mouth, was a snake that seemed to be coated in poison, and shot forward. Moving faster than the normal eye could see, the Sharingan however was able to keep up with it, and saw that it was heading for both of them.
They pulled back, and went to move, when the snake grew larger and larger.
"Ryou..."
"Right."
Seeing the giant snake coming in fast and hard, Satsuki this time took the lead, and rushed at the snake.
When it came at her to bite on her, she weaved through some hand signs, and then as it bit down onto her, she replaced herself with a log, while Ryouta jumped up high, before coating his sword in flames, and came shooting down towards the snake to pierce it in the brain.
The snake lifted its head to meet Ryouta's body to bite down on him.
The red snake that Ryouta fought before watched with keen eyes as the young boy locked eyes with the snake, and cast a Genjutsu on said snake.
The eyes of the snake became hypnotized and paused so Ryouta managed to stab deeply into the snakes brain, releasing his flames into the snakes body and burned the body until it became a charred mess.
Ryouta didn't get the chance to relish in the victory as suddenly snakes came shooting out of the ground, and wrapped around his legs, dragging him underground. Orochimaru had both arms down, and snakes piercing through the ground.
"Damn Orochimaru, he's always so tricky."
The red snake thought while Satsuki growled.
"Ryou!"
Satsuki yelled, and shot for Orochimaru. The snake man opened his mouth, a snake came out of his mouth which came at Satsuki at high speeds. Growling, she used her Sharingan to avoid the first thrust of the snake, only for it to come around and go for her neck with poison dripping fangs.
Pulling out a kunai, she whipped it around and clashed with the snakes fangs, catching it before it managed to puncture her body, she pushed it away and then took out a shuriken, tossing it for the snakes body, but the snake moved out of the way with its nimble form, Satsuki growled in annoyance for the snake.
"What's wrong Satsuki-chan? Are you worried about your boyfriend?"
Satsuki glanced at Orochimaru, and nearly laughed to herself.
"I don't have to worry about him."
"Is that so? But he's being buried underground right now."
"Maybe, but he's not done yet."
Satsuki watched as the snake came for her, so she used her Sharingan to predict where it would be going, and moved to the place it was going to be, flicking her hand up, and released her kunai at point blank range, stabbing into the face of the snake, before she placed her hands on the ground, and flicked her foot up so fast, that she caught the end of the kunai, and pierced all the way through the snakes head, killing it off, impressing Orochimaru.
She then turned to see Orochimaru retracting his snake tongue, and laughed at the young girl.
"Looks like your boyfriend isn't coming...it's a shame really."
As he spoke, he suddenly felt something hot from down below.
He looked down to see the ground was burning.
"Oh shit..."
He pulled back, his snakes had been set on fire, and the flames were travelling towards his body. Cutting off the snakes, he then saw that out of the fire, was a single kunai, which had a paper bomb attached to it.
Orochimaru widened his eyes briefly, before summoning a wall of snakes around him as the flames and paper bomb mixed together, causing the paper bomb to explode and the impact of the explosion sent the snake around Orochimaru flying backwards.
Orochimaru appeared out of the snake, and landed on the ground as Ryouta dug himself out of the ground. Satsuki saw that he had some wounds on his body due to the dragging under the ground, Ryouta himself however glared at Orochimaru.
"I must commend you for thinking of a good way to fight me. Using your allies strengths in battle. But you must have forgotten, you're all cubs compared to me, you do not have a hope in hell in defeating me. What plans do you have? I've not even gotten serious yet."
Though he had said that, he had to admit that the combination of Satsuki and Ryouta was beginning to make him sweat. They were fast together, they had skills that complimented one another, and absolute faith in the other.
Ryouta himself hoped that the others wouldn't be long, he knew that they'd have to at least try.
"Though you say that, I can see the sweat forming on your brow."
At Ryouta's words, Orochimaru scowled.
"You're a fledging Uchiha, you don't have the power to defeat me."
"Maybe not, but I wont go down without fighting."
Using the Body Flicker, Ryouta created several speed image clones, spreading them out all around Orochimaru's front, even Orochimaru was briefly surprised and was having slight trouble keeping up with the real Ryouta.
At the same time, Satsuki cupped her hands together, and then turned herself into Ryouta's form.
Using the Sharingan, she mimicked his movements, how he stood when in those after image clones and slid between his speed clone images so perfectly even Orochimaru couldn't tell where Satsuki and Ryouta were, which one was which.
"Nice try, but this isn't going to be able to beat me."
Orochimaru exhaled and then shot off a strong burst of wind. The winds doused the area, and began blowing some trees back, the leaves of the trees got blown away as well as what he thought would be the after image clones…
However, they remained on the battlefield.
Orochimaru was surprised.
He knew they weren't Genjutsu since Orochimaru made sure of that fact.
He could only guess Ryouta was able to keep them going despite the intense winds.
Though if it was, then he wondered where Satsuki was…
He then saw from up above a single kunai came flying down.
"Pitiful, using these kind of tricks is rather funny to me."
He moved his hand, catching it between his fingers…
Only for the kunai to suddenly transform back into Satsuki, Orochimaru was shocked to see that, then felt Ryouta appearing before him, grabbing his arms, and used kunai's to stab into said hands, pinning him down into the ground.
Orochimaru thought that he'd easily get out of the kunai's…
Only to see that from a good distance away, two of the speed clones Ryouta had created, had been in fact Shadow Clones, and had their hands together, using what seemed to be a sealing Jutsu.
"What?!"
"Light String Formation! I can only hold him for a few seconds Satsuki-chan! Do it!"
"I got it!"
Orochimaru was beyond shocked.
He didn't even think that Ryouta had created Shadow Clones to assist him, and even using a sealing Jutsu on top of that to pause his movements, along with actually pinning him down into the ground, by his hands.
Satsuki delivered a devastating smash to his face. Brandishing her foot and leg with chakra, Orochimaru spat out blood as Ryouta and Satsuki jumped up together, and weaved through some hand signs.
""Fire Release, Great Fireball Jutsu!""
Combining their Jutsu's together, the flames looked like a meteor shooting down for Orochimaru.
Orochimaru, upon seeing this...began to feel some worry deep within. Because of the fact that he was being bound, and had even been pinned to the ground, along with the two Uchiha mixing their fires together…
Through sheer force of will, Orochimaru managed to break out of the binding Jutsu that Ryouta deployed, but the flames combined together smashed deeply into Orochimaru's body as he summoned a number of snakes to take the brunt of the attack.
However, it did leave Orochimaru with severe burns on his body.
Ryouta and Satsuki landed on the ground, panting.
Ryouta had been fighting the giant red snake beforehand, he also fought off Zosui as well, and now had used some chakra consuming Jutsu's, and Satsuki had been fighting Orochimaru longer than Ryouta had been.
As the flames died down, Orochimaru came stomping out, but blood was erupting across his face, and his body.
Seeing the prowess of the two Uchiha and how damaged Orochimaru was, Kabuto looked rather shocked, and wasn't sure what to do next.
"You little Uchiha brats...now I'm angry."
Orochimaru gave a sinister stare at the pair.
As that was happening, hearing the explosions and other things going off, Team Ino, Shikamaru and Choji were close enough to hear the explosions.
"Geez, what's going on over there?"
Choji began while eating some of his snack foods.
Shikamaru grimaced.
"Nothing good, lets stay away from it."
Despite saying that, Ino kept her eyes on the area, and she felt...something wasn't right.
She didn't know what it was...
"Ino, hey."
Shikamaru called, Ino turned towards her.
"W-What is it?"
"You've been staring over there for a little while, what's going on with you? Do you wanna check it out?"
"No...but, there's..."
Ino didn't know how to voice her thoughts.
She felt something familiar coming from the attack.
"There's what?"
Shikamaru asked, Ino shook her head.
"No, it's nothing."
Ino cracked her neck side to side.
She felt like she should do something.
But she didn't know why.
All she did know was that there was something happening and she didn't know what it was.
Back with Ryouta and the others, Orochimaru looked between the two of them, before he smirked at the pair of Uchiha.
"You two are deadly together. I guess that I should be taking you more seriously than I have been beforehand." As he spoke, his lower body turned into that of a snakes. "Now it's time for me to become serious."
Using his lower body, he shot forward at a fast speed. Ryouta managed to keep track of him using the Sharingan, but he still moved rather fast. Even then, Ryouta remembered Tobi, and how he was able to phase through attacks.
He had been training hard, he wouldn't go down now.
When Orochimaru came in close, Ryouta kicked off the ground and increased his speed, bringing out his sword, and coated it in flames, swinging it for Orochimaru again and again who began to dodge it with a nimble movements.
Satsuki also came in with a fierce movements of her kunai, and slashed at Orochimaru, moving in time with Ryouta and the pair began pressuring Orochimaru with their Taijutsu skills, being able to work in perfect tandem.
"Haaah!"
Orochimaru did a hand sign before exhaling a strong wind pressure out of his mouth, slamming against Ryouta and blew him away, who did a number of flips, landing sideways on a tree, then pushed off the tree so hard that the wood broke with the incredible strength of it, and propelled him to Orochimaru, at breakneck speeds.
So when they clashed, Orochimaru's body was pushed back as their weapons clashed, allowing Satsuki to deliver several kicks to Orochimaru's upper body, before Orochimaru slammed his head forward, hitting Ryouta squarely in the face, drawing blood out of his nose.
Ryouta summoned two clones and kicked them to Orochimaru as he was being propelled backwards, with Orochimaru cutting them down with a kunai, they exploded into smoke which gave Satsuki the time to get in close.
Orochimaru laughed however, and he made a single hand sign.
With him doing that, from his arms, many snakes came shooting out.
The snakes overwhelmed Satsuki to the point that they pinned her down to the ground.
"Satsuki-chan!"
Ryouta went to go and help her, when Orochimaru came in from the right hand side, so he blocked with his arm. But Orochimaru's strength was enough to send him flying backwards, hitting a tree hard, as a snake came out and bound Ryouta to the tree.
Ryouta looked to Orochimaru, seeing that he was panting.
Even though he was a Sannin, he did have limits, and it was clear that he was at least beginning to feel a little tired from fighting Satsuki, Naruko and Sakura, then Satsuki and Ryouta together, though Ryouta knew he and Satsuki also were beginning to be exhausted.
"Now I've had enough of playing, I'm going to brand you then I'll leave you alone. I hope you both survive."
Ryouta watched as Orochimaru's neck went towards the pinned down Satsuki.
Satsuki struggled, and looked on with fear as Orochimaru came closer and closer to her.
"No...Satsuki-chan...if he bites then...and brands her with whatever it is...no, I wont let him. I promised myself long ago...that I'd protect her...Orochimaru might be a Sannin...but I'm Shi-chan's brother...and he gave me the power to protect others..."
As Orochimaru's mouth came close to Satsuki's neck, Ryouta was left no choice.
He summoned the famed ability of the Mangekyou Sharingan.
A silver aura formed around his body, and a skeletal hand shot for Orochimaru.
Stunned by the hand, Orochimaru's body was grasped by the hand.
"W-What?! You also possess those eyes?!"
Orochimaru's eyes protruded at the same time as veins appeared across his eyes.
Ryouta looked him dead in the eye and cast a Genjutsu on him, causing him mental pain along with keeping him restrained.
"Be crushed!"
Ryouta clenched his hand, causing Orochimaru's body to be tightened more and more.
Orochimaru snapped out of the Genjutsu, and felt the incredibly painful feeling.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Rather than stay there, he suddenly began opening his mouth, wider and wider.
Coming out of his mouth, was Orochimaru himself, as if he was shedding his skin, like a snake, and the new Orochimaru appeared just as Ryouta crushed the former Orochimaru, Ryouta noticed a scroll fall out from the former Orochimaru, so he grabbed it, and placed it away for safe keeping.
Orochimaru didn't expect to feel pain fighting the Uchiha.
He thought that this would be a bit more easier than dealing with Itachi.
But seeing the Susanoo before him, and seeing Ryouta's Mangekyou Sharingan eyes, Orochimaru knew that this was going to be a fight that he could potentially be in real trouble...even if only a Genin, Ryouta with Susanoo gave him ultimate defence, and ultimate offence at the same time.
Rock Lee was currently separated from his teammates, due to being asked to find some supplies for them.
Neji at least thought Lee would be capable of doing that, so Lee did his best, and was beginning to make it a game to see if he could beat his time in finding more supplies by the minute.
However, while he was doing his little game, he heard what sounded to be a devastating explosive force.
"What?"
Lee looked towards the sight, and saw that some of the forest was on fire.
The heat hadn't reached him, and the smoke wasn't that heavy.
But it was clear from a good distance away, there was red embers coming into the sky.
Lee's eyes kept on the same location, seeing the burning forest, and wondered what was going on...
Back with Orochimaru, his eyes shifted back to Ryouta's face, seeing the silver chakra of his Susanoo surrounding him.
Ryouta's eyes went towards the pinned down Satsuki, before his left eye focused on that location.
"Nakisawame."
From the location his eye was, acid came out of a small warp in space and moved through space at a rapid rate. Hitting the snakes perfectly, the snakes melted off of Satsuki's body, as Ryouta once more widened his left eye so the acid didn't affect Satsuki by making it disappear from her.
Orochimaru was baffled to see what he had done.
Satsuki stood up, and moved closer to Ryouta.
"Ryou..."
"It was the only way, Satsuki-chan."
"Still...if you overuse them..."
Ryouta nodded.
"I know, but for this snake bastard, it's the only way. He's avoiding our eyes for Genjutsu, it's hard to lock him down with his weird Jutsu's, so it's time for my eyes to be released."
Panting, Orochimaru looked towards Ryouta, without looking in his eyes as he knew that would spell trouble.
"So...even having a secret like those eyes have you? I suspected you could based on what I know, but to think a child your age got them so young..."
"Everyone's full of surprises Orochimaru. This power was given to me by my brother, and I'm going to use them to make sure you wont hurt anyone I care for you slippery bastard!"
Orochimaru glared hard for the young boy, and tightened his hands together.
"While you might have those impressive eyes, I'm not out of tricks..."
Orochimaru flung his hands forward, with several snakes came out.
With poisoned fangs, they shot for Ryouta, and Satsuki at the same time, hoping to make Ryouta be unable to react to both of them.
Ryouta looked between them all, before the Susanoo hand along with another one came out, grabbing all of the snakes before they could reach their targets.
"You wont get us, snake."
Orochimaru was enraged by Ryouta's words, and saw tears of blood running down his cheeks.
"No!"
Orochimaru's eyes widening as Ryouta yanked the snakes backwards, bringing Orochimaru forward, where Ryouta released one hand of Susanoo from the snake, and then slammed it hard against Orochimaru's face, drawing blood out of his mouth.
Ryouta then slammed it down, causing Orochimaru's body to come crashing down at the same time.
Satsuki looked towards Ryouta, seeing the hands and seeing how they were taking care of Orochimaru.
"This is the power...the power he got when Shisui died. He told me about this...but, seeing it like this, I can see why the Mangekyou is called the evolution of the Sharingan, with these eyes activated, they're even handling this bastard..."
Satsuki looked at the eyes Ryouta had.
But she also saw that he seemed to be in pain as he was using the Susanoo.
Tobi who was watching close by was thrilled because of how Ryouta was handling himself. Seeing the beautiful silver aura of the Susanoo, seeing the expression that he had on his face that he was deadly serious as well.
Tobi was impressed to see what he was happening.
"So, I see that he's trained rather well. He's even able to make the acid not harm allies and rid it off the battlefield, that's a fun feature for him to have. Yet, he hasn't used his right eye...why hasn't he used it? Is he saving it for someone else? Perhaps even me...could he know I'm watching? Or, is he doing it on the off chance I could be, this child is tactical, he'll know when the time is to use it...even I don't know what his right eye is capable of."
While he thought about it, Orochimaru turned his menacing eyes onto Ryouta who was bleeding profusely from being slammed by Susanoo.
Ryouta then lifted his hand up, Susanoo followed suit.
"Yasaka Magatama!"
From his Susanoo's hand, summoning what looked like large silver chakra , they spun within the hand of Susanoo.
Orochimaru paled as Ryouta's left eye went towards it, and he murmured "Nakisawame." and coated the large beads in acid, igniting genuine fear within Orochimaru, as the Yasaka Magatama were thrown.
Creating a wall of snakes, they did no good as the acid ate through and moved so fast even Orochimaru had trouble dodging them.
While propelling himself upwards, Orochimaru saw Ryouta appear below him, grab the beads with Susanoo's hand, and toss them back up towards Orochimaru.
"I can't dodge it..."
Orochimaru tried to dodge, but the beads moved fast, and began cutting into his body, the acid eating through his legs so he used his own replacement Jutsu to make another body for himself free of damage, and jumped away from his previous dissolving body, feeling the hit to his chakra, while the red snake internally cheered.
"Haha...seeing the bastard being melted by the acid. Though the more I look at that boy...the more I can't help but feel like I've seen him before...well, anyone that can melt Orochimaru is someone I don't mind at all. Melt the bastard, and make sure he dies..."
As he was recovering in the air, Orochimaru saw that Susanoo's hand came towards him at a high speed.
Weaving through some hand signs, he breathed out a gale force wind to blast Susanoo's hand back and clashed violently with the fist of Susanoo.
"You might have those eyes boy, but I've got many years experience, so don't trifle with me!"
While clashing together, Orochimaru did a single hand sign, and caused a number of snakes to erupt up from behind Ryouta.
He glanced behind, and then opened his left eye, releasing the acid, melting the snakes out of existence to Orochimaru's growing worries.
"Ryouta...come to me..."
Again...
A female voice Ryouta could hear.
But no one else reacted to it.
While combatting the winds, Ryouta placed his hands together, and created an exploding clone, used Susanoo and launched it like a projectile for Orochimaru, who saw it coming, and launched a snake for it from his sleeve, which did indeed stop the clone from exploding near him, but the explosion was enough to dispel the winds, allowing Ryouta's Susanoo's hand to smash Orochimaru's body hard and fast.
He went flying, smashing through two trees before digging into the ground.
"Aaaaah!"
Using Susanoo so much caused immense pain, the Susanoo dropped around him, and he collapsed to his knees, his teeth gritted, his face displaying the amount of pain he was in.
"Ryou!"
Satsuki got close to Ryouta, and bent down to see him being in such pain.
"I-It hurts so much...but...I have...to continue on..."
Satsuki watched him panting, and was worried.
"Your other eye Ryou...that power could also..."
Ryouta thought about Tobi briefly, then shook his head.
"Not yet...if I need to then I'll use it..."
Ryouta kept panting and breathing hard, while seeing Orochimaru, who was bleeding harshly, beginning to move closer.
"Nice, very nice. You're only convincing me that going after you two was the right decision. Those eyes, will be-"
Orochimaru suddenly felt his body freezing below him.
Looking down, he saw that ice had grown across his skin.
Freezing him perfectly, Haku appeared before the two Uchiha.
"Ryou-kun, lets go!"
Ryouta was relieved to hear that.
Orochimaru, frozen to the ground, wouldn't allow them to go, so he opened his mouth, and summons a sword which slices through the ice, freezing his hand, and then he aims it towards the retreating trio.
"Don't think you can get away from me!"
Shooting out a snake to grab them, Ryouta turned back and opened his eye, revealing his Mangekyou.
"Nakisawame."
Whispering that out, acid shot out at the place he was looking, and hit the snake very fast.
The snakes body began melting, and the acid travelled down the snakes body, and to Orochimaru's own who didn't have a choice but to abandon his snake and jump back, seeing the acid melting through the snake and into the ground.
While they went, Kabuto came to Orochimaru's side, and began healing him so he didn't have to waste chakra with replacing his body with a new one.
"Orochimaru-sama, that boys power..."
"It seems that he has a strong power. I was keeping clear of his and her eyes thanks to what Itachi did to me back then...but, seeing the Mangekyou in someone so young, I can only presume it was when Shisui Uchiha died...and if it was, then he's the youngest I know of who awakened the power. Still, wielding it with such prowess, and keeping it active for so long despite how chakra draining it is...it's impressive. I was caught off guard, if I knew that he had those powers then I would've prepared more..."
"Now that you do know Orochimaru-sama, what are you going to do?"
"I'm not finished yet, they'll be low on chakra, now it's time for me to place the Curse Mark on them, and retreat. Keep following me Kabuto, your services might come in handy, I haven't seen what his right eye can do yet."
"He has another power up his sleeve?"
Kabuto was surprised.
Orochimaru growled.
"Yes...he's keeping it to himself, maybe as a trump card. Since I don't know what it is...though with the amount of chakra he should have left, he can't use it more than a single time, and I've got enough chakra to replace myself a few more times."
Kabuto nodded a single time, and continued healing Orochimaru the best that he could do.
As they were escaping, Lee had become more and more curious as to what was going on.
He approached the situation carefully, hopping across several trees at the same time as looking around.
However, while he was...
He saw something that surprised him.
It was a beat up Satsuki, Ryouta and Haku all making a retreat from the area he saw the fires burning bright.
"What's been going on...?"
Lee wondered, and went to approach...
When he saw only seconds later another individual coming in fast for them.
It didn't look like a Genin and Lee got a really bad feeling from hin.
Seeing the way Ryouta's eyes had tears of blood, Satsuki looking exhausted, and Haku seemingly also looking tired, he knew he couldn't leave it alone, and had to do something...
Orochimaru only took half a minute to get towards the retreating others who were hopping across the trees.
But as he did…
Suddenly wires appeared before him. Complex wires that ran across the entire upper forest. They looked deadly sharp, and his entire body was going towards them.
He then looked behind to see that was the case also.
The wires came close to his body, so Orochimaru's body turned into like that of a snakes, however he received a cut on his cheek due to the speed that the wires suddenly appeared thanks to the efforts of Haku and the others setting up the trap.
"So, that's it. During the entire fight, it was merely to buy time to set up these elaborate traps. Even I'm stunned, I have to move quick, yet carefully. These wires are able to even cut into my flesh. Damn kids."
Orochimaru's snake like body thanks to how he had modified himself began weaving his way through the wires, Haku looked back to see that was the case, so she created an ice mirror before her, and one high up.
Using that, she briefly appeared up above, and then she tossed a shuriken towards a certain wire in the forest, which changed the entire make up of the wires. Because they were that intricately woven and connected, Haku used her shuriken to change the shapes of the wires and what they'd be capable of doing.
The wires suddenly began shifting around, and turned more into triangles that were constricting.
"Shit!"
Orochimaru saw that the wires were going around his arm, so he pulled back, but the wire cut into his right arm, he winced as he shifted his body through the air, his foot placing on a tree branch, but then saw the wire was cutting through it, so he had to leap up.
The wires continued moving in unique ways, while Orochimaru tried to dodge. He had to admit that Haku and the rest had set up a very good trap. It was one that constantly moved, and one that was highly unpredictable as well.
Orochimaru didn't want to waste time and could see that they were getting away, so he brought out his famous sword, and swung it out, slicing through all of the wires that came close to him, and continued on towards Ryouta and the others.
However, as they came out of the sea of trees to a small opening, seeing them in his grasp, he shot forward…
Only to see Ryouta holding up a kunai that had strange markings on the handle.
To Orochimaru's keen eyes, it looked like the Flying Thunder God seal.
"What!? You know that Jutsu?!"
"See you later."
Ryouta didn't confirm or deny it.
Orochimaru was getting desperate, if Ryouta could teleport them out of there before he could get them, then this would have been for nothing for him.
So he turned his lower body into a snakes tail, and shot across the ground at high speeds...
Only for the ground to begin collapsing in on itself.
He looked down, seeing a giant hole in the ground, and saw that the walls and floor had been littered with paper bombs.
Sending out a snake from his sleeve to try to grab the pieces of rubble to pull himself to safety…
"Fire Release, Great Fireball Jutsu!"
Satsuki used the remaining chakra she had to blast all of the debris, and force Orochimaru back ever so slightly, who used his own Wind Release to blast the flames up and away from his body, but that left him falling through the earth itself.
Gritting his teeth, he went to shoot his snakes up, when Ryouta appeared above the hole.
"Don't you dare!"
"Bye."
Orochimaru widened his eyes as Ryouta breathed in deeply.
Ryouta then breathed out a stream of fire, Orochimaru seeing how it was activating all of the paper bombs at the same time, Orochimaru was trapped by all of the explosions, rubble falling down and began attempting to crush and pin the man down into the ground.
The red snake grinned strongly, watching the events he was happy to see what he believed Orochimaru deserved.
"Yes...Yes! Feel that pain you bastard! That's for giving snakes a bad name, and for being a piece of shit! This boy delivered! Orochimaru you know pain now!"
Tobi from a distance looked on with pride.
"Orochimaru was taking these kids for granted, and before he began getting serious, they also showed their talents and even caused him to have to force himself to regenerate all because he thought he was better and had the upper hand. By the time he realized his situation, these kids had already formed plans and traps for him, along with Ryouta showing his Mangekyou to him which caused him to have to use that Jutsu of his to create a new body at the cost of a good portion of his chakra. Then the trap with the wires, distracting the real trap within a hole, filled with paper bombs, and little ways for Orochimaru to get out easily. Because of his cockiness and superiority he believes he had, he now is paying the price."
Orochimaru looked up to see that Haku was forming a mass of ice over the hole, closing it up so the area was darkened.
Up above on solid ground, Ryouta and the others collapsed onto the ground.
They were nearly out of chakra.
"Seems like...he got desperate then..."
Satsuki noted, Ryouta nodded.
"I thought he might do if I showed the Flying Thunder God seal. Someone like him, I believed he'd at least know what the seal for it looked like. Though I can't use the Jutsu, I do know the design of the seal...it was enough to worry Orochimaru and make him desperate."
Satsuki liked that he did that, showing that he was using even things he didn't actually know to his advantage, and guessed about his enemy from fighting against him for a little bit.
Haku looked on, glad that they had managed to trap the Sannin and even cause him injuries.
"Ryou-kun, we should be going..."
Haku began, Ryouta smiled towards her.
"Yes. We need...to get out of here..."
Ryouta and the others began pulling themselves to their feet…
Only for a disguised Kabuto to come running up towards them, kunai in hand.
Ryouta widened his eyes, and went to move, when he panted and fell to his knees.
"D-Damn..."
Ryouta grimaced, wondering if he'd have to use his right eye in this situation.
Satsuki and Haku while panting tried to move to intercept him.
Kabuto came in quickly, and was ready to strike...
"Leaf Whirlwind!"
When suddenly, Lee comes up with a strong kick to the face of Kabuto, sending him flying backwards.
Landing before them, Lee sticks out his hand, and gets into a fighting position.
His eyes went back towards Ryouta, Satsuki and Haku, seeing them all panting.
"What's going on? How did you guys end up like that?"
"Long story..."
Ryouta murmured out, knowing they couldn't waste time and fight.
Kabuto however stood back up, and gripped a kunai, before pointing it towards Lee and the others.
Lee showed a strong expression on his face, tightening his hand.
"I am Konoha's Handsome Devil! My name is Rock Lee, and for targeting my friends and my rival, I will fight you!"
Kabuto wasn't all for it since he himself knew he wasn't crazy in Taijutsu, something Lee specialized in.
But, he had to for Orochimaru, so swinging out his kunai, Kabuto shot for them.
Lee was surprised by the speed he was going, faster than he had predicted, but he went forward, and twirled around, before coming down with an axe kick, Kabuto responded by dodging out of the way, and slashed towards Lee with his kunai.
Retreating back, he pulled out his own kunai, and clashed with Kabuto, the metal clanging noise reverberating, while Lee pushed forward, and twirled his body in the air, building speed and swung his leg for Kabuto.
Kabuto used his right arm to block the strike, while feeling the pressure of the kick.
Pushing him back, Kabuto weaved through some hand signs, before pooling some water around him into a large bullet for Lee.
"No!"
Lee jumps, and back flips as the water blast smashes against the ground.
Lee lands back on the ground and charges Kabuto once more.
Kabuto kept up with his movements and predicted where he'd be, but Lee used his speed to dodge Kabuto's kick, and came in from the right, kicking Kabuto's face hard enough that he went flying backwards.
Flipping back, Kabuto landed on the ground, scowling.
"This kid is deceptively good. I thought maybe he might be a little bit of an easy time, but he's doing rather well. Though I wont be beaten for Orochimaru-sama."
Kabuto leaps up, only to see that Lee was coming in with a strong kick for his upper body, but Kabuto moved surprisingly fast, moving his body backwards, allowing Lee's leg to go above Kabuto's body, before he comes back around with his kunai for Lee's upper body.
Lee moves his kunai in the way, and clashes with him once more, sparks going between them before they land on the ground, where Kabuto comes with a sharp kick to Lee's face, who moves his head back in high speed, while going low, and sends a good strong foot up for Kabuto's upper body.
Kabuto twirls to the right, dodging the foot, and then tosses his kunai right for Lee's upper body area.
Lee swings out his kunai, and bats it away from his body, only for Kabuto to stand on one leg, and force the other into the body of Lee. Lee felt the blow, but he didn't move, and merely grabbed Kabuto foot, lifting him off the ground.
Ryouta looked on, and saw that Lee was swinging Kabuto around, spinning faster and faster.
"Lee-kun's a very good Taijutsu user, and he hasn't even taken off his weights. Yet, there's Orochimaru, that trap wont hold him forever, we need to get going before he comes out. Though he must also be low on chakra or at the very least having burned through a good portion of it. I don't have much chakra left...but, I could use maybe one or two Jutsu's before...yeah..."
Lee continues swinging Kabuto around, before releasing his body, which went towards a tree.
He turned around, only to see that Lee was kicking the ground and in turn caused some of it to uproot, and then swung out his legs, using the earth as projectiles towards Kabuto, who scowls as he summons some more water from a nearby source, and blasted the rubble away.
Landing on the ground, Kabuto exhales a single time, and then pulls out another kunai, aiming it for the amazed Lee.
"You are a very good opponent! But you have endangered my friends!"
Lee announced.
But Kabuto didn't reply.
If he did, then his voice would be a dead giveaway.
Seeing that Kabuto didn't reply, Lee took a stance, as his hands began going towards his legs.
Ryouta could see what he was doing, and then spoke up.
"Wait Lee-kun, that's dangerous!"
Lee turns towards Ryouta, and shows a goofy smile.
"Coming from my rival who does dangerous things all of the time!"
Ryouta couldn't argue with that.
"Yes but...Lee-kun, even if you beat this guy, there's another guy here that could..."
"And if I don't fight, then you and everyone else will get hurt by this man, so I have to fight and protect you who has been my rival and friend! Who encourages me to become stronger, and someone that supports me as I support you! It's my turn to protect you with everything that I have!"
Lee showed a manly smile, but filled with emotion that even caused Ryouta to begin feeling emotional.
"Lee-kun..."
Ryoua then pulled out a kunai, and turned it towards Kabuto.
Lee without even speaking, knew what Ryouta was going to do, so he shot off towards Kabuto.
Kabuto glanced between the two, seeing Lee being the more dangerous threat, turned on him, and shot off a blast of strong wind.
Lee jumped high into the air, before coming down with his leg extended out.
Kabuto replied with a dash forward, attempting to catch Lee before he could hit Kabuto with the full force of his kick.
However, Ryouta tossed his kunai forward, towards Kabuto.
Kabuto expertly dodged out of the way, but then saw that a shuriken thrown by Satsuki had caused the kunai to change its movements, and was now heading back towards Kabuto.
Kabuto attempted to move out of the way…
Only to see that ice was below him.
"Ice Release, Frozen Capturing Field."
Haku announced, freezing Kabuto down to the floor.
"Damn it...I thought they didn't have the chakra to fight..."
Kabuto's eyes widened as the kunai came for him.
Kabuto raised his arm to grab it, when Lee's foot whipped around while in the air, kicking the side of the kunai, changed its path once more, and aimed for Kabuto's face, who pulled back, but the side of the kunai sliced the right hand side of his face.
Drawing blood out of him, Lee's kick then slammed hard into the young man's body.
Kabuto managed to move his arms in the way just in time, but he couldn't deny the kick was stronger than he had anticipated, breaking Kabuto out of the ice, and sent him flying backwards across the open plain, and landed near a tree. Pain surged through Kabuto's arm, it almost felt like it was broken with the amount of force Lee put into the kick.
As Kabuto was dealing with that, Lee came to the others as Haku weaved through some hand signs.
"Hiding in Mist Jutsu!"
Breathing out of her mouth a fog, it filled the area, with Kabuto left questioning what was going on.
As he cut through the fog, he saw a paper bomb on the ground.
Before he could trigger it, he stepped back, and cautiously moved through the fog.
Using some of his Jutsu, Kabuto was slowly able to cause the fog to be lifted.
But by the time that he had done, Ryouta and the others were gone.
"Damn it..."
Kabuto scowled, as he went over towards the area Orochimaru was trapped.
Cutting into the ice with some of his kunai, he did his best to break the ice.
As he did, he eventually got through, and saw Orochimaru climbing his way up the best that he could, seeing how much of a destructive mess it was he was in, and seeing how he was bleeding a good deal.
Orochimaru had used snakes to avoid major damage but even he couldn't escape complete damage.
Kabuto then saw Orochimaru bring out a snake, and shoot it up for the air, wrapping around a tree, and then dragged his body out.
Orochimaru panted, pulling himself to his feet.
"Kabuto..."
"They...had assistance from another Genin, and they made an escape."
A dangerous looked passed through the snake Sannin's eyes, Kabuto felt intimidated when Orochimaru looked at him.
"N...No, it can't be! I wont let them get away! Not after all of this!"
Orochimaru roared which ignited slight fear in Kabuto, seeing the rage truly on his face.
A far distance away, Lee carried Ryouta, Satsuki and Haku by himself.
"Thanks Lee-kun, we would've been stuck without you."
Haku thanked the young man, Lee showed a bright smile.
"It was my pleasure! Still, you guys are roughed up a bit, aren't you?"
Satsuki breathed out slowly.
"Yeah..."
"Lee-kun, we've made a base with Sakura-san and Karin-san taking care of Naruko-san, I'll guide you towards it."
Haku explained so Lee listened and took them over towards him.
"The person that attacked you, must have been strong. To stop the two Uchiha and even Haku-san..."
Lee spoke up, Haku nodded slowly.
"He was, I didn't have to fight him for long. But I got an evil aura from him, he felt as if he didn't care about anything other than what he wished for. More than Zabuza-sama...this man was truly evil, wasn't he Ryou-kun?"
"Yeah...he is rather evil."
Ryouta murmured out.
He didn't want to come across Orochimaru again.
However, he didn't get his wish.
As he saw coming for them, was a sword that grew longer and longer, heading for Lee's body.
"Look out Lee-kun!"
Lee looked back to see the sword, and at the beginning of it was Orochimaru's long neck, so Lee tried to move out of the way.
But the blade travelled fast, and Ryouta knew he wouldn't be able to avoid it while carrying them all...
Just then, Ryouta's eyes were taken somewhere else.
His eyes saw a beautiful waterfall, he himself was stood in ankle deep water.
Stretching out far and wide, the beauty of the water couldn't be ignored.
But it also felt...familiar.
"Ryouta...Uchiha..."
The female voice came back, his eyes shot behind him to see the woman stood there.
A woman he's seen several times in his young life.
Her eyes stared at him, and they felt cold.
Unfeeling.
They felt...as if she held no true emotions.
"You...You're...from back then, when Itachi cast that Jutsu on me..."
"We finally meet...the opportunity...finally presented itself..."
The woman breathed out, as she pulled closer and closer.
Ryouta tried to pull away, but the water felt as hard as cement and he couldn't move.
The woman's fingers came up, and pressed themselves against Ryouta's face.
"What are you doing...?"
"...Give yourself to me...and I'll give you great power..."
Ryouta couldn't trust this woman.
Her dark tone, her eyes that felt like they were truly emotionless.
"W-Why do you want me to give myself to you? I don't even know who you are!"
"...We've been together...since the beginning...and we'll be together...always."
"We've...been together...since the beginning? What do you mean?"
"...Together, we can make...a world...as we like, take care of this world together. You and me...all chakra will come to us."
"All...the chakra will come to us?"
As he spoke, her hair wrapped around his body, and pulled him closer and closer. Wrapping his arms, legs, even around his neck, completely binding him.
Ryouta felt something off...
He felt the chakra inside of him was being drained out of him through her touch, and through her hair around his neck, he felt as if he was being choked.
"W-What are you doing to me?"
"By taking your power...you'll accept my power. You wont have a choice."
"I-I choose what I have, and I don't want you or your power!"
"You might...not want me...but you'll need me."
"G-Get off me!"
More and more, he felt his chakra being stolen away.
He tried fighting it...
But this woman was stopping him.
Her power was great, yet at the same time it felt like a drop in the ocean of her true power.
More and more of his chakra was being stolen, his body was beginning to feel weaker.
He tried activating his Mangekyou...
But they didn't work.
"Your eyes...wont work here...I rule here boy..."
"S-Stop this..."
Struggling against her the best that he could, the woman placed a hand on his face.
Staring deep into his eyes, Ryouta felt conflicting emotions from her.
Sadness, and anger.
"Don't struggle...allow me to share my power..."
"I-I don't want this..."
"You will do as I say."
She growled out with a full of authority.
But Ryouta defiantly stared at her, and showed he wasn't going to back down.
"No I wont!"
As he yelled that out, suddenly a sword came down and sliced through the woman's hair, dropping Ryouta down to the ground.
He coughed, and looked up, his eyes widening at the sight.
The man smiled as he pushed the young boy back, whispering "I'm always with you." which filled Ryouta's heart with pure joy...
But suddenly, he heard the woman's voice say "You'll be back here...with me." as the world around him vanished completely.
Back in the real world, Ryouta saw Lee trying to dodge the sword with all of them on his back.
He felt low on chakra thanks to what the mystery woman had done to him.
Seeing someone else also save him caused many feelings to burst within him, and he wasn't sure how to process them.
But he knew that he needed to act now, before they were caught.
Even low on chakra...Ryouta made a choice.
Ryouta's eyes shifted to the Mangekyou, and he whispered "Nakisawame." and created a small portal, releasing acid from his eye, which hit the tip of the sword mere inches from piercing Lee, before running his eye across the blade, releasing his acid and melting the sword out of existence, along with going for Orochimaru's head.
Orochimaru spat out the sword, and then brought his neck back, seeing the acid raining down towards him like a wave, melting through everything in its path.
"Summoning Rashomon!"
Slamming his hand down, he created a large gate with a face on it. A thick one that was built for defence.
The acid hit it, and began melting its way through the strong sturdy metal, and soon was able to punch a hole through it, but that gave Orochimaru time to turn his lower half into a snake and shot off at high speeds, making him retreat, and therefore unable to follow them.
Tobi saw what had happened, seeing how Ryouta had forced Orochimaru away and truly had pushed him quite a bit. Tobi was pleased with what he saw, he saw Orochimaru's ability to reform himself without wounds, but Ryouta still threw hands with Orochimaru and pushed him a good bit before activating Mangekyou, and afterwards was able to drive the Sannin away and exhaust his chakra a good deal.
The red snake also saw what had happened, grinning ear to ear to see Orochimaru being beaten in such a way that he saw Orochimaru being in pain. He definitely saw that Ryouta was someone that he could see himself being beside.
"Hahaha, that Orochimaru finally got what's coming to him, that kid definitely is interesting. Hmm, I'll have to keep my eye on that one."
Satsuki saw it happen, and then she saw Ryouta's eyes closer, falling unconscious.
"Ryou..."
She could see that he had used a lot of chakra, and using the Susanoo placed a lot of strain on the users body and eyes, and he had used his eyes a few times during the fight, along with all of the chakra he used in the Body Flicker, the Fire Releases, among other things he was using.
Despite him falling unconscious, she knew that because he had pushed himself hard, and worked together with everyone, they saved themselves from Orochimaru for the moment.
But for how long...no one truly knew.
End chapter!
So, the fight went down! Ryouta teamed up with Satsuki and managed to surprise Orochimaru with their incredible teamwork, but Orochimaru being as strong and full of OP Jutsu's himself, including his regeneration abilities and since he fought Itachi knew to do his best not to lock eyes with either Uchiha though did get hit once with a Genjutsu, but to save Satsuki, Ryouta activated his Susanoo, and managed to surprise Orochimaru to the point that he was being pressed back, Ryouta showing his growth with his left eyes ability to produce acid, mix it with Yasaka Magatama, and then thanks to Haku who had set up some traps, along with playing on the desperation Orochimaru was feeling, managed to trap him for a good while.
But then a disguised Kabuto came in to try and stop them, only for Lee to come and save them, showing his skills and his friendships and then together, retreated. But Orochimaru being as persistent as he is, tried once more to get them, only for Ryouta to put a stop to that with his eye, and they managed to escape and avoid the curse mark, but Orochimaru is persistent.
Ryouta also had a true meeting with the woman in white...and it didn't go down well as she began stealing his chakra when he defied her, which added to why Ryouta passed out at the end of this chapter. But thanks to a certain something and Ryouta's ability to resist her to a degree, he escaped the woman in white...for the moment.
However, now with Ryouta and Naruko unconscious, Satsuki practically drained of chakra, Haku not doing much better, we'll have to see what happens next!
For those wondering about the name Nakisawame for his left eye power, like other Mangekyou abilities, this one is also named after a Shinto Gods, or this case Goddess. With what the Goddess represents, how she was born and other things related to her, I thought this was a good name for one of Ryouta's eye powers.
And those wondering about the other eyes power...as Tobi said, it seems he's saving it for something, and it will come, I've got a cool moment for when that's going to be revealed is all I can say.
Well, until next time, thanks for reading!
Ryouta; Satsuki, Sakura, Naruko, Hinata, Gaara (fem), Ino, Haku (fem), Kurotsuchi, Karin, Konan, Mei, Anko, Samui, Hanabi,