The last thing Sasuke saw before his fight with Dosu began was the pupils of Naruto's eyes narrowing into slits which told him that Naruto was going to be serious when fighting. He still held himself back when Dosu came rushing at him and tried to hit him in the side of the ear. Dosu looked shocked when Sasuke blocked the attack instead of trying to dodge as any normal ninja would, but the shock only lasted a moment before he smirked only for the shock to return when Sasuke's ear was not damaged by his attack.

Sasuke watched as Dosu said something to him, but he did not know what because Dosu's mouth was covered by the bandages wrapped around his face so he shook his head and with a smirk he said, "I cannot hear you. I'm wearing earplugs." He was pretty sure that's what Dosu wanted to know.

Dosu narrowed his eyes and tried to think of another way to fight against the Uchiha heir when he could not attack his ears. He sighed as he realized the only way was to use hand to hand combat and try to force the earplugs out of his ears. He ran forward at the Uchiha who was patiently waiting for him, and he noticed, a little too late, that Sasuke had activate his sharingan and had a clear advantage over him. His first attack was to try to punch Sasuke in the gut, Sasuke blocked this, which he used to cover up the fact that he was pulling out a kunai, Sasuke saw this, and tried to force it into Sasuke's chest as he tried to get into some sort of blind spot. Sasuke pulled out his own sword as the kunai came straight at him, but to him the kunai was moving much to slow and he had knocked it out of Dosu's hand and had him back in his sights before he even had the chance to blink.

The fight between them continued in this way, with Dosu trying to get into a blind spot and Sasuke never taking his eyes off him, for a short time until something caught Sasuke's eye that almost made his heart stop. Naruto was sprawled on the floor clutching at his neck as the seal fought its way onto his skin, his mouth was open in what Sasuke could only imagine was a terrible scream, and Kabuto stood above him, sword in hand, getting ready to cut his head off.

Dosu took the distraction as an opportunity which he did not allow to pass without using. Before Sasuke could look back at him he put all the force he could into a punch that connected with Sasuke's face on the left side making the earplug on the right side fall out as he fell to the ground to the impact. As the earplug fell out of his ear Sasuke was bombarded by the sound of Naruto's screams mixing with Sakura's trying to urge either of them to get up and save Naruto.

Sakura had been watching calmly throughout the fight, though she was smirking at the fact that Naruto was holding back as much as he usually would. He always held back unless he was on the edge and absolutely had to use all of his power which was not often. However, when Naruto fell to the floor and his screams filled the air she could not help but want to jump over the rail that kept her on the second floor and save her little brother, but as Kakashi moved forward to do that exact thing she knew she couldn't, but she would do the next best thing: keep Kakashi out of the fight.

She grabbed Kakashi's hand and quietly shook her head. "I am not going to let him die when I am perfectly able to save him," growled Kakashi.

"You'll only get in their way," Sakura said calmly trying to reassure herself as well as Kakashi.

"Naruto is too weak to defend himself. If I don't save him then he will die," Kakashi yanked his hand away from her only to have it caught in her hand again as he found himself on the floor with her weight on top of him.

"We are not your old team Kakashi-sensei," she hissed, "You are not the Fourth Hokage, Sasuke is not you, I am not Rin, and Naruto is definitely not Obito."

Kakashi was too shocked to move as Sakura got off of him. She turned just in time to see Sasuke get punched in the face and Kabuto readying himself to slice Naruto's head off. She could not go down there and help so instead she decided to do as Naruto had done on their first chunin exams. "Get up!" she screamed, "Fight it! I know you can do it! Get up!"

Sasuke stood on unsteady feet for only a moment before he jumped into the air, over Dosu's head, and ran straight to Naruto's rescue. He thrust his sword upwards as Naruto's sword came down knocking it out of Kabuto's hand. The glistening white sword flew gracefully into the air only to fall back down, with the tip first, next to Naruto's face.

Sasuke stood in front of Naruto as Dosu joined Kabuto. He knew that this was not looking good. He could not move to dodge any of the medical attacks that Kabuto used that could render him unable to move or they would hit Naruto, and he couldn't block Dosu's attacks because he could just use his weird jutsu to attack his ear, which would also render him unable to move. He couldn't leave Naruto alone either, because he knew these people weren't stupid enough to attack him before disposing of Naruto.

Kabuto stood before him with curious eyes, and Sasuke knew what he was wondering. "So I'm sure you're curious as to how Naruto has the seal placed on him when you know, being one of Orochimaru's most faithful underlings, that he bit me," he said, trying to buy time enough for Naruto to recover if he could. There were many gasps and he wasn't sure whether the gasps were meant for the fact that Kabuto's a traitor or the fact that Naruto had the seal and not him. He even heard as the Hokage had to stop Ankou from rushing over and arresting the man.

Kabuto glared fiercely at him as his cover was blown. "Yes I am," he growled, "How did you know that I work for Orochimaru."

"I have my ways," was Sasuke's only answer.

"I'm bored," hissed Dosu as he rushed forward to attack Sasuke.

Sasuke defended his face from another punch only to have the sound waves rush into his ear making him a little nauseous. He saw Kabuto rush at him, but was too late to defend himself as Kabuto's attack landed on his right arm. His sword dropped to the ground as his arm became useless, forcing him to only use his left to defend against Dosu's attack on the same ear.

He could barely hear as Kabuto told Dosu not to kill him because Orochimaru wanted him alive, but what he could hear, or rather couldn't hear because it was no longer there, was Naruto's screaming. He looked up just in time to see Dosu coming to attack again only to have a black sword slice through his neck, barely opening his jugular vein, and he fell to the ground trying to put pressure on the wound as he began to bleed to death. Sasuke smiled as he saw Naruto move to stand in front of him with both their swords in hand and ready to fight Kabuto.

Kabuto looked surprised when Naruto got up with no signs of the seal showing on his visible skin. He looked up to his master only to see that he had a small needle, often used by the hunter nins, embedded in one of his hands making it so that he could not make the hand signs at the moment. He looked back down at Naruto only to be crushed by a killer intent so deadly that he was actually afraid. His fear grew more as he remembered that he was already at a disadvantage because he was still unable to use his right arm.

Naruto smirked at the man he was about to kill. No one could hurt his Sasuke and get away with it so easily. Besides no one would misss Orochimaru's little minion, now that Sasuke had exposed the truth. In one quick flash Naruto had disappeared. Kabuto gasped at Naruto's speed as he tried to locate the boy only to find the boy's weakness right in front of him. He started to move, but found himself unable to as a sharp wire appeared wrapped around him keeping him in place. He tried to struggled, but with each movement the wire cut deep into his skin.

Naruto appeared before him with the edge of the wires wrapped around the dull sides of the two swords. His smirk grew as he slowly stepped back making the wire tighten around his victim in slow torture leaving big gashes where the wires were digging into the skin. When he was standing beside Sasuke and the gashes were at least one inch into the skin, he had made sure not to wrap the wire around Kabuto's head or neck, he yanked the wires as hard as he could in one quick motion leaving Kabuto in many small pieces.

"Seeing as both the opponents are dead," coughed the propter, "Naruto and Sasuke are the winners." His only answer was shocked silence as Naruto put both his and Sasuke's swords away and then helped Sasuke to a standing position.

The two of them moved to the stairs with the side that their friends had been on only to be met by Kakashi, Zabuza, Sakura, and Haku. "Thanks Haku," Naruto nodded at him with a bright smile. Haku returned the smile eagerly as Zabuza looked them up and down. Apparently finding nothing seriously wrong with them, or at least something that would warrant some sort of worry, he took Haku back upstairs leaving only team 7.

"Let me see him," said Sakura motioning for Naruto to let Sasuke sit down as the other medic nins looked over the dead bodies. He did so and Sakura immediately went to work. First she healed his ear, leaving only that nauseous feeling which she assured would go away in a few moments, then she worked on his arm, reconnecting the muscles that Kabuto had torn with his own jutsu. After she was done she turned to Naruto and said, "Now it's your turn."

"Sakura," he tried to reassure her, "I wasn't even injured during the battle."

"I don't care," she answered using her chakra to look him over and make sure he was telling the truth, which he was.

"You two," growled Kakashi making all three of them jump as they had forgotten that he was there, "are coming to talk with me."

"Kakashi-sensei," scolded Sakura, "at least let them rest for a moment. They just got done with a battle."

"No," growled Kakashi as the one eye narrowed into a piercing glare, "You will come with me now," he said to Naruto and Sasuke as, "and I'll talk to you later." With that he led the way out of the large room. Naruto merely shrugged and began to help Sasuke up, who politely declined saying he no longer felt dizzy, before they nodded to Sakura and walked off to catch up to their sensei.

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