By the time Sasuke arrived at the battlefield, there seemed to be a fight that had already started. Tsunade was injured, which meant that Naruto hadn't made it in time to save her, and shaking from her continuing fear of blood while Naruto stood before her getting ready to fight off their five enemies. That shocked Sasuke. They already killed Kabuto, so who were the other people? He looked closer at them as he slipped into a battle position and found that he recognized them as the people who helped him make the worst mistake of his life.

"This isn't good," Naruto said through their mind link.

"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked.

"We can't kill Orochimaru right in front of Kimimaro until I break his loyalty for the man," Naruto explained.

"What does that mean?" Sasuke asked. He was not liking where this was going. The original plan for breaking Kimimaro was by using Naruto's jutsu when there was no one else around, but now they were going to have to do it with one of their most powerful enemies standing before them.

"It means that I have to get into Kimimaro's head and I need you to distract them while I look for the memories that I'm still missing."

"Alright Naruto," Sasuke agreed even though he knew that this was going to be much harder than it was supposed to be. He was going to have to fight off Orochimaru and all of his henchmen while protecting both Naruto and Lady Tsunade without killing the two men who were going to be the biggest threat. "But please hurry. I don't know how long I'll be able to hold them off."

"I will," Naruto nodded before beginning to do a long set of hand signs.

Sasuke only waited a moment before he thrust himself forward to attack their two enemies. Normally he wouldn't have gone straight into battle without a plan unless any of the team was attacked first, but he knew that he needed to keep them as far away from Naruto as possible. He was only running for a couple of seconds before he was surrounded by the sound four. Kidomaru threw spider webs at him and he found himself trapped in Jirobu's large cave as Tayuya's illusions of demons danced around him.

"Damn it," Sasuke growled. He couldn't afford to be trapped here with his chakra being sucked out of him and every moment another one that Naruto could be hurt without Sasuke to protect him. "Damn it," he growled again as he allowed the sharingan to bleed into his eyes. He should have done that before he attacked, but he forgot so now he had to deal with escaping out of this mess that he got himself in. The first thing he had to concentrate on was getting the webs off of his body. Sasuke closed his eyes and allowed his chakra to flow through his body until he could feel it seeping through his skin. It was a lot harder than he would have originally expected, probably because Jirobu's cave was sucking out his chakra, but he was finally able to escape the webs. He reached into his pockets and found the pair of ear plugs that Naruto had insisted he keep inside his pockets just in case they ran into some other sound ninja and put them in his ears. If he couldn't hear the music that Tayuya played then he wouldn't see the illusions that she was creating. That didn't mean that she couldn't still control those demons of hers. Finally, Sasuke had to find a way to get out of the cave. Using his sharingan eyes, Sasuke looked around and found that the cave was actually lined with chakra which was weak to his right. He smirked as he created a chidori.

With a loud crash Sasuke was out of his trap and sprinting towards Orochimaru only to be blocked by Sakon and Ukon. "Get out of the way," he growled as he thrust the chidori into both of their hearts. He supposed it was actually a good thing that they got in the way because if they hadn't the chidori would probably be in Orochimaru's chest instead. He ducked as one of Kidomaru's yellow arrows flew by his head. This was going to be much harder than he would have liked for a situation like this. His only choice would be to kill the rest of the sound four before he was even able to battle Orochimaru and Kimimarou. It would have to be quick though because he didn't know how long before they would try to attack Naruto.

Another arrow flew past Sasuke's head as he ducked away from it and he turned and threw a kunai back in the direction that the arrow came from. Kidomaru dodged the kunai only to be hit by another kunai that Sasuke had thrown without him noticing. It wasn't a fatal wound, but it was damaging enough that he couldn't use his right arm. With a growl, Kidomaru spit a web towards Sasuke, but he saw it coming with his sharingan and was easily able to dodge it. With a growl, Sasuke sped forward as quickly as he could and thrust another kunai straight into Kidomaru's chest. This time he did not miss and the weapon was buried deep into his heart.

Sasuke only got a moment to recover himself before he felt the full force of Jirobu crashing into him. He was a thrown a ways away and was only just barely able to catch himself and land without being hurt, but he found that he was already being attacked by Tayuya's demons. "Damn it," he growled again as he dodged a rather painful looking attack. He needed to get rid of that flute next. And by next he meant immediately. The only problem was that he didn't have a clue where Tayuya was. He had lost sight of her the moment the cave had trapped him and had been unable to find her again. He dodged another attack from the demon and cursed. If only he had Naruto at that moment. Naruto would be able to find Tayuya by only the sound of her flute. Sasuke looked over to Naruto to see the boy standing completely still in front of Tsunade, but what worried him was that he was much closer to Naruto than he had thought. If he remained this close than Naruto would be put into his danger zone.

Sasuke jumped over the demon when it tried to attack him again and ran away from Naruto knowing that the demon would follow him. Unfortunately, he didn't realize that by doing that he also revealed his weakness to Orochimaru who had been watching him intently the whole time. Orochimaru smirked and began to conjure up his own chakra. He may not be able to use his hands, but he could still use his mouth. A snake made its way out of his throat and began coughing up his weapon of choice.

Sasuke looked around warily for a good hiding place for Tayuya to be in. He could see Jirobu standing in front of a rather large rock and he wondered for a moment why the man hadn't tried to attack him with the demons. Of course! Sasuke couldn't believe he had missed that. Tayuya must be hiding behind that rock and Jirobu was protecting her. Barely dodging another attack, Sasuke conjured up another chidori. This was his last one with all of the chakra that Jirobu had sucked out of him so he had to make this one count. With a chidori in one hand and a kunai in another, Sasuke ran as fast as his legs would take him so that his chidori went threw Jirobu and completely crumbled the rock behind him. He didn't give Tayuya the chance to try to defend herself as he thrust the kunai into her heart.

There was a scream behind him, one that Sasuke recognized belonging to Tsunade, and he turned to see Naruto standing there with a sword thrust through his chest as blood dripped out of his mouth.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too.