Daiki stared out over the destruction his jutsu wrought, a frown on his face.
Orochimaru was well out of range of them now, he could still see the man though thanks to the Shinkugan.
'He pulled that fucked up replacement of his and got rid of the injuries on his body.' he grimaced. It was fucking disgusting to watch a man regurgitate an exact copy of himself, then watch his original body melt into…slime or something like that.
But, it was gratifying to know, he was indeed capable of dealing such high amounts of damage to Orochimaru without slipping into his tailed cloak forms.
…Granted, that combination jutsu was probably the most powerful in his arsenal by a wide margin, it was a literal pair of lightning enhanced ice dragons that exploded into a giant freezing hurricane after all.
But, it was still very nice to see the fruit of his efforts.
'He's talking to himself.' Daiki noted after a second. The Snake Sannin was literally musing out loud to himself about Daiki. Granted, he was probably feeling safe that nobody was around him right now and had no idea that Daiki could hear him thanks to his eyes.
…He thought the Shinkugan was a precursor to the Rinnegan?
'Probably because of Isobu's eyes overlapping mine because I used some of his chakra.' Daiki bit his lip.
The thing was, Daiki honestly couldn't say it wasn't either. Because, the Rinnegan was an evolution of the Sharingan. And the Shinkugan, really did seem like a fusion of the Byakugan and Sharingan.
It my very well be possible for his eyes to evolve into the Rinnegan, 'Then again, for it, I'll need the Sage's chakra, Madara's eyes evolved from his own chakra mixing with Hashirama's. Enough chakra from Naruto and Sasuke might work t-'
He cut his thoughts off as he heard the next words out of Orochimaru.
'Gaara will not be enough for dealing with this one.'
…Ah shit.
Which meant the man had already decided that Daiki was someone he needed to plan around and have someone on hand to deal with him. That could range from Kabuto or Kimmimaro, to the Snake Sannin bringing some fucking crazy powerful dead kage back with Edo Tensei and sicking him on Daiki's ass.
"Sasuke-kun!"
Sakura's voice broke Daiki out of his observing the snake sannin, as his Uchiha friend, even unconscious started to howl from his clone's grip.
His clone looked him in the eye and grimaced, "We need to go find somewhere for these guys to lay low for now." he said.
Daiki nodded, "Let's go then." he agreed.
Jerking his head, Daiki beckoned his clone to follow him, before taking off through the tree tops.
"Daiki, wait!" Sakura protested from where he was carrying her, "We need to help Sasuke-kun, and that crazy guy did something to Naruto as well!"
"There's nothing we can do for Sasuke right now," Daiki shot her down instantly, "As for Naruto, I'll take a look at him when we have a safe place for you guys."
He'd been watching the fight from afar with his eyes, so saw how Orochimaru manipulated his chakra to use the Five Element Seal, and if he examined it on Naruto himself, he was quite sure he could undo it.
And perhaps learn how to apply seals with his chakra alone in the process while he was at it.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked worriedly, "What did he do to Sasuke-kun? And you for that matter, what is with those weird markings on you, and your chakra, it was completely visible a minute ago when he bit you, I've never seen chakra so powerful before!"
Just wait until she saw Naruto go into a tailed cloak for the first time then.
"It's a seal, specifically a Curse Seal created by Orochimaru," Daiki saw no harm in explaining it to her, he already had a few excuses planned for his knowledge on it now, "It gives the user a power boost, in the process, Orochimaru uses the seal to make the user dependent on it, addicted even and then uses it to take over the body of the one he marked with it."
"Take…take over the body?!" Sakura sputtered in shock, "He wants Sasuke-kun's body? Why?"
"For the Sharingan obviously," Daiki rolled his eyes, "There's only two Uchiha alive now, Sasuke and his brother Itachi, and Itachi is too strong for Orochimaru to target with his seal and steal his body, so he came after Sasuke who's much weaker and more vulnerable."
"Oh…" Sakura uttered, before pausing for a moment, then- "But wait, what about you? Can't he take your body now? And you still have those marks on you right now!"
He did indeed.
Daiki was keeping the curse mark activated to get more of a feel for it right now, and just in case Orochimaru came after them again. If he did and pushed the issue, Daiki wasn't going to hold back, he was going to go full on full tailed cloak alongside the Curse Seal of Heaven and mince meat him, even if he had to tear down this entire forest to finish him off.
"It's a lot more complicated than that," Daiki explained, "He basically puts a piece of himself in the seal, but I have a kind of special technique that let me kill it while it was connected to my body, so I can draw on the seal freely and use it's power. Sasuke doesn't, that's why he's fell unconscious."
"Like a bloodline?" the pink haired girl asked.
"Something like that." Daiki evaded, pausing on a branch as they arrived in a wide clearing, there was a large tree with the base hollowed out, looking like a large cave opening and with enough foliage around it, that hiding there would provide enough cover to keep out of sight for the most part.
The sound team were probably on the search for Team Seven right now as was their mission.
'Should I deal with them or let things play out?' he wondered, hopping down into the clearing.
He could deal with them easily. They were pretty trash to be honest. Even with their augmentations, they got held off by Sakura of all people for a time even three on one.
But it was a pretty pivotal moment, mostly for Sakura herself to shape herself up and take things seriously.
"You guys can rest here for now." Daiki told her as he landed and carried her into the tree hollow, followed by his clone who laid Naruto and Sasuke down gently.
He set Sakura on her legs, but the girl's legs immediately went limp beneath her and she slumped to the ground.
"S-sorry…" she apologised, giving him a brittle smile, "I…can't feel my legs." she admitted, a shameful expression appearing on her face, "…Thanks for carrying me as well even though I…you know…smell."
He'd been ignoring the fact she reeked of piss. She'd wet herself in terror when Orochimaru unleashed his killing intent.
Which was actually still better than what Sasuke did, she, at least managed to speak out initially and deride him for being a coward and spur his fighting spirit.
"Don't worry about it," Daiki waved it off, it didn't bother him, he was used to smelling worse, like charred and crispy corpses and the dead that just voided their bowls, a little pee didn't phase him, "Most would have the exact same reaction, worse even in your place." he assured her.
"Not you though," she pointed out, "…Or Naruto either. I was completely useless during that fight."
"Say what you will about Naruto, but he's not a coward," Daiki smirked, and decided to lighten the mood a little, "And as for me, I'm just built different and I'm totally amazing. It's why I can compliment you on that perky round ass of yours and not be afraid of any of taking a punch to the face like Naruto if he did anything like that."
Her cheeks pinked at his words, but surprisingly, she didn't glare at him, the pink haired girl just sighed, "…You're a real pervert huh?" Sakura sighed, shaking her head, "And to think, I thought you were actually real cool before."
"I'm the coolest guy there is, way cooler than Sasuke for that matter." Daiki snorted, turning away from the girl and making his way over to the downed forms of Naruto and Sasuke, he met his clones eyes and broadcasted a message straight to his mind, 'Go, make another clone and study the seal.' he ordered.
His clone nodded, and promptly left the tree hollow and disappeared in a blur of speed.
"You wish you were as cool as Sasuke-kun," Sakura refuted, "Wait, where's your clone going?"
"To scout the perimeter," he replied, crouching down over Naruto and lifting his jacket and mesh armour up and baring his torso, hmm, blondie was decently ripped, was shorter, but stockier than Sasuke and had a noticeable six pack, good on him, "And Sasuke isn't cool at all, hell he doesn't think he's cool. Only immature people find that whole silent, brooding edgy thing cool. Fuck, Naruto's cooler than Sasuke." he laughed lightly.
Naruto was loud, proud and unashamed of who he was, abrasive and annoying as he could be, that was way cooler than someone trying to be something they were not. Sasuke was only the way he was, because of his clan, he was nothing like that before.
Sasuke was actually a shy little bro-con dork at heart.
Sakura was struck silent by his words for a moment, and Daiki pressed his hand against Naruto's stomach, channelling chakra through his body and through the seal he knew was there.
A moment later, the seal on his stomach appeared and Daiki actually found himself gaping at it in awe.
Immediately he could see just from a glance, that the eight trigrams seal, was like a work of art. The idea behind it, was, while not simple, something he should technically be capable of himself, it was a layering of two four symbol seals together, to create an eight symbol seal.
But the sheer quality of Minato Namikaze's four symbol seals, put his to shame. It was like comparing the Mona Lisa to a toddlers scribbles. And that was before going into how he merged them.
In a way, it was akin to someone taking the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper and merging them seamlessly together, to the point where Mona Lisa was there, as a natural part of the Last Supper.
It was an absolute beauty of a creation, beyond anything his current skill would even come close to allowing him to replicate.
It was because of the sheer masterful artistry in the eight trigrams seal though, that made the five element seal applied by Orochimaru onto Naruto's stomach, stand out so blatantly, it was just so utterly crude in comparison that it really couldn't be hidden at all.
As if some stupid little disrespectful punk ass little bitch took a marker and drew a cock on the Mona Lisa's cheek.
It was literally almost appalling to Daiki's senses to see the seal on Naruto's stomach, besmirched by something of so low quality!
He was…affronted!
Hell, it actually kind of made him angry.
Somehow, he just noticed, seals had become something that he'd begun to take pride in and respect the power and creation of.
…Maybe he should be a bit thankful for it though.
Because it was so crude in comparison, the mechanics of it, stood out all the easier for Daiki to notice, especially since the seal was in effect, if he saw out outside of action and just how it was supposed to work, it would probably be a bit harder for him to decipher.
Or he could just be reading too much into it. Orochimaru was clearly a hack when it came to the sealing arts. A complete poser.
An utter plebeian.
'Let's try this out.' Daiki thought, holding his right hand up, fingers set in a claw like motion and focused his chakra into the tenketsu on his finger tips.
"…I'm….immature?" Sakura sounded ever so shocked behind him.
Hmm, it was kind of interesting actually, how care free she more or less was. In the other timeline, she'd be worried sick about Naruto and Sasuke, standing guard over them while they rested until she was exhausted and falling asleep at her post.
Here, she was much more relaxed.
He supposed it was thanks to his presence.
"Dreadfully so in romantic taste," he absently replied, a light smirk appearing on his face and deciding to push her buttons a bit, get her fired up, "Physically, you've got a bit of growing to do still for sure, but that ass though, damn girl you got it goin' on."
"…How am I immature compared to a complete pervert like you?" Sakura goggled at him.
"Well, to be honest, I'm not a pervert, I'm just a connoisseur of the female form and am kind enough to share my wisdom with the world," he replied, "You on the other hand, think you're in love with Sasuke despite knowing nothing about him and have very immaturely deluded yourself into painting an image of him that is nothing like him."
"And where would you base that off of!?" Sakura sounded angry now.
She began speaking again, but Daiki cut her off, "Alright then, here's two simple questions, what is Sasuke's favourite food and his preferred type of girl?"
These would be simple enough to hammer home what he wanted to say.
"What?" Sakura stopped, confused before huffing, "That's easy, his favourite food is red bean paste and he likes long hair girls."
"Wrong…so so wrong!" Daiki was actually surprised by her answer, so much so, he found himself laughing. Mostly because: "Red Bean Paste is Naruto's favourite food alongside Ramen, Sasuke's is tomato's, and he doesn't have a hair length preference, he's just into older, mature girls, preferably with big tits."
At the very least, he'd definitely noticed Hinata's tits and had paid attention to said subject when he brought it up during their training.
He looked over his shoulder to find Sakura gaping at him emerald eyes wide, mouth hanging low, "For the record, I do like long hairs girls and you have gorgeous-ass hair." he complimented.
He had nothing against short hair, just had a preference for longer. It was good to hold onto…like a leash and all that.
'Right, this should do it!' he thought a second later as he finished preparing the chakra in his finger tips. Dark purple and black chakra burned like embers over his finger tips and he brought it down atop Naruto's stomach, pressing against where Orochimaru's fingers had jabbed into him previously, and injected his chakra into the seal, 'Five Element Seal: Release!'
He manipulated his chakra through the seal, and felt it click, unlocking and before his eyes it disappeared.
A wide smirk appeared on his face, 'Get on my level snake scrub.' Daiki smirked widely and wildly, bringing his fingers up and channelling chakra through his fingertips again and watching burning embers of chakra flicker over them.
Through unlocking it, he'd learned everything he needed to apply it himself.
"Sasuke-kun…likes big boobs…..?" Sakura's voice murmured behind him, sounding horrified.
He looked over his shoulder again to see the pink haired girl was cupping her rather…meager chest and looking rather lifeless.
Oh right.
She looked like the whole world was falling apart around her just from that little tidbit of information.
Oops?
Daiki honestly didn't know whether he should be flattered or not, that his presence here with Sakura and her unconscious teammates completely changed up the very feeling in the air around her.
There was no desperate resolve formed here while she stood guard over her teammates to protect them, because he was here, which he supposed made sense, Sakura after all, just bore witness to him 'driving off' Orochimaru.
Why would she have to fear any run of the mill genin coming for her and her teammates, when he was around?
He honestly didn't know if it was really a good thing or not. Sure, it was a pretty nice feeling for her to find him that reliable, but at the same time, was he not getting in the way of her growth?
'At the same time though, Naruto and Sasuke are already different from the other timeline, both are stronger.' Daiki grimaced a bit at the thought, because if anything, he thought that maybe, Sakura was actually weaker than her counterpart.
From what he gathered from Sasuke, Naruto seemed to be putting all his effort into keeping up and they sparred constantly during team meet ups with Kakashi overseeing them and taking up much of their training time there, leaving Sakura to the wayside.
So Sasuke getting stronger from fighting Daiki all the time, caused Naruto to get stronger as well trying to keep up, and they both had learned the Earth Style: Barrier jutsu, though Naruto seemed to be the one using it a lot and not Sasuke, Daiki had barely ever seen the Uchiha boy use the jutsu.
Fucking Kakashi, couldn't he like toss the girl a genjutsu or something?
Shaking his head, Daiki put them out of mind and turned around from Naruto and Sasuke and sat cross legged in front of Sakura, "Yeah, from what little I've managed to get out of him, he doesn't really care about hair length and has a preference for big tits," he said, before a thought came to mind, of when he needled Sasuke a few weeks ago about any girls that caught his mind, the one name he'd let slip had quite surprised him, "The only one he told me that caught his eye was a woman you guys met on your mission to wave, named Tsunami?"
At the time, when Sasuke revealed it, Daiki had gotten a real good laugh, teased the Uchiha about being a 'Milf Hunter' and everything.
He hadn't gotten the joke until he explained what Milf meant to him.
Sasuke then refused to speak to him for the next two days.
"T-Tsunami-san!?" Sakura's eyes went wide in shock and she sputtered, "B-but, she's in her thirties and has a child!"
"There's a certain appeal to an older, mature woman," Daiki shrugged, more than one actually depending on ones general interest, "But as far as Sasuke said, she was quiet, demure, was helpful and kind, wasn't a bother like he claims you and Ino are whenever you gush over him, she apparently has some nice big breasts and is beautiful."
"A…a bother?" Sakura repeated lowly, biting her lip.
Sasuke-kun had called her annoying before, a few times, less than a week ago even when they were given the registration forms for the Chunin Exams.
He'd called her annoying then, and claimed she was weak, far weaker than Naruto even after she asked him out on a date.
That had stung fiercely, but now, she couldn't even deny it. Naruto had fought that Orochimaru off for a bit, even injured that humongous serpent he was riding on. before Orochimaru beat him down while she and Sasuke cowered from the man.
'Cha! I'll show him a bother!' her inner self raged.
Sakura cringed, ignoring her. Her chest hurt.
But, she found she couldn't refute what was said to her. Sasuke-kun more often than not turned up to their team meetings beaten, bruised and bloody, with a satisfied smirk on his face.
From training with Daiki.
Daiki was probably the person Sasuke-kun was closest to, beyond maybe Naruto. As much as they argued, Sasuke-kun and Naruto always seemed to be attached at the hip during team meetings and missions.
…She was always left behind. If Naruto didn't constantly pester her for dates and the new revelations she just got about Sasuke-kun from Daiki, she might have suspected something more was going on there.
"Well, all that and she can cook as well, Sasuke seemed to think you're a horrible cook," Daiki shrugged and Sakura felt another metaphorical arrow pierce her chest. Just stick her over a camp fire at this point, she was done, "Though, Sasuke's just into that traditional shit, being an Uchiha and all and honestly, I feel like a lot of the traits he feels are best in a woman are just because he idiolized his mother."
'Damn momma's boy, Cha!' her inner self spat.
Her lips quirked for all of a second before she remembered how far that stacked the odds against her, her breasts weren't going to balloon in size just because she wished for them to….though maybe she could change her attitude a b-
"Either way, romance is the last thing on Sasuke's mind anyway," Daiki broke her from her thoughts with a shrug of his broad shoulders, "Besides, he has trash taste in women unlike me."
"…The most I've seen out of you in regards to romance, is you commenting on how much you like my ass." Sakura deadpanned.
Daiki grinned at her, all teeth, "You have a great ass, best of our graduating class," he unashamedly shot back, "Besides, I'm pretty sure I complimented you on your hair and eyes as well."
Despite herself, Sakura felt her cheeks heat up a bit at his blatant admission, "…You're such a pervert." she sighed, but felt her lips quirk up just a little bit regardless.
"I just know what I like and I'm not afraid of saying so." the boy shrugged bluntly.
He was like that, all up front and blunt, he had no tact at all in this case. But…she couldn't deny that his words made her feel better.
Especially since Daiki was definitely very handsome himself. His was a handsomeness that was different from Sasuke-kun. Sasuke-kun, was beautiful, a beautiful person if there ever was one, and had all the baring of a tragic prince right out of a fairy tale.
Daiki on the other hand, he was broad and muscular, tall and strong. He had a wild air about him that just enhanced his looks, that all but screamed, 'Bring it on!' - as if challenging the world itself. Daiki, was far more humble in his handsomeness there was no doubt, but his muscles and frame aspired a sense of safety that she could see the appeal in, and he was far more raw than Sasuke-kun, more open.
If she had to compare them in just a few words, Sasuke-kun was like a full moon reflected on a calm water surface, while Daiki was like a gargantuan predator roaring his challenge to the world.
Both vastly different, so different they couldn't even be compared properly, but yet, majestic in their own different ways.
"And what you like is my ass." Sakura replied to him, forcing a deadpan look on her face.
"And the floor is made of floor." he snarked back, before suddenly standing up and making his way to the front of the tree hollow and peering out.
Her heart almost leapt into her throat, "A-are you going somewhere?" Sakura asked, the air changing around them almost instantly.
"I'll have to soon," Daiki replied without turning around, "This is an exam you know? And beyond that, I need to make sure the Hokage knows about Orochimaru being here."
Sakura froze-
That was right, Daiki was part of the exam as well, he had to finish and pass himself, if he was stuck looking after them, he wouldn't be able to do so.
And then there was Orochimaru as he said.
"…What about us?" she bit her lip, "If another team attacks, I won't be able to beat them and protect Sasuke-kun and Naruto."
"You can come with me if you want," Daiki shrugged and looking over his shoulder to look her in the eye, "But if you do, you'll probably be disqualified from the exam."
Sakura froze.
…She personally wouldn't mind giving up here and now, there would be way more chances to become chunin in the future. But…what about Naruto? And Sasuke-kun? Would they see it the same?
This exam was important to them, beyond important. Naruto needed to become chunin and get stronger for that silly dream of his and Sasuke-kun always wanted to get stronger and fight strong opponents.
She didn't know why exactly, but she had an idea:
'My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan and kill a certain someone.'
His voice drifted in her ears, from back then, on that very fateful day they became the three man cell Team 7.
'…Is this a choice I can make on my own?' she fretted.
"This is your call Sakura," Daiki said, "Sasuke and Naruto are down, so you're calling the shots here. If you want, I'll get you guys to the tower safely."
…It was all on her then.
Suddenly, it felt like a heavy pressure was pressing down atop her shoulders, rooting her in spot.
"I…." her thoughts raced, going with Daiki was the safe option, she would be safe, as would her teammates, she wouldn't need to worry, but-, "I can't, I'll stay." she decided.
Weak as she was, there was some things she just couldn't abide by or be cowardly about, and she couldn't trample on and betray the dreams and aspirations of her teammates.
"Oh?" Daiki's eyebrows rose, and his eyes regarded her with an almost piercing look that she couldn't describe, before slowly, a smirk spread across his face, "Well, you'd definitely need a pretty sturdy back bone to carry all that ass around."
She gaped at him, before growling, "You pervert!" Sakura huffed in accusation, the tense air was completely broken, "Everything was really serious there and then you bring it back to my ass! And you called it fat even! My ass isn't fat!"
"Yeah it is," Daiki shrugged unrepentantly, "Or well, it's on the way there, which is great, a nice big round ass is great on a girl."
…A fat ass, was a good thing for a girl?
"Anyway, if you're gonna stick around here, I suppose I can leave you with a little bit of help," Daiki mused, turning around fully and walking back over, kneeling down in front of her, "Lemme see your hands, I wanna try something."
"Why?" Sakura asked, brows furrowing in suspicion, "You're not gonna do something perverted, are you?"
Daiki gave her a dry look, as if she was the one that said something stupid here, "You realise I've been playing it up right? Because it gets a reaction out of you?" he deadpanned, before smirking, "Besides, if I was gonna do something perverted, I'd have told you to turn around then squeezed your ass."
'Turn around! Let's see if he's all talk or not, cha!'
Sakura sighed, to think she really thought he was super cool before after he defeated Sasuke-kun and during the mission to Waterfall. He was just a super strong, perverted idiot.
"Alright, fine." she relented and held her hands up to him.
Daiki rolled his eyes at her, "I'm trying to do you a favour here, you know." he pointed out.
Oh…right, she had forgotten, so caught up in the perverted banter he was unashamedly throwing around.
"Sorry." she apologised, face flushing.
He just rolled his eyes again, before reaching over and placing his palm over the top of her right hand. She was about to ask what exactly he was doing, when she felt a warm, powerful chakra spread over her hand and saw a purple glow emanate from his palm.
She felt something spreading out over her hand, threading between her fingers and going down into her palm.
Daiki pulled his hand back a moment later, and to Sakura's astonishment, there was black markings over her hand now. It started at the back of her hand from a single diamond like mark, branching out into multiple strands that looped elegantly over her knuckles, circled her finger bases and disappeared down into her palm forming another diamond like shape in the middle of it.
"…What is this?" Sakura asked. She knew it had to be a seal of some kind, which she had no clue, but since when could someone apply such a thing without ink of some kind?
"Nice! It worked!" Daiki pumped his fist into the air happily, "You know my Force Palm Jutsu?" he asked.
"Yeah?" Sakura nodded, of course she did, it was what he used to defeat Sasuke-kun.
"Yeah, well this seal will let you use a jutsu like that, you'll just need to channel your chakra through the seal I put on you to do so," Daiki informed, "You aren't quite built like me, so I put it around your knuckles to use through a punch and make it easier on you, and you already know how to use explosive notes, so the trigger will be easy for you to get down since it's based on that."
Sakura's eyes widened, "You…isn't that like your personal jutsu?" she asked, shocked. And he was just giving it to her? She bit her lip, wanted to refuse the generosity, it was really too much, but, forced herself not to…
With Daiki's jutsu, she would definitely be able to protect them, for sure!
"Kind of, it's a bit different if the same applications, instead of the Force Palm Jutsu this would be the Shockwave Fist Jutsu," Daiki explained, taking her other hand and repeating the same thing to apply his seal, "Don't go using it willy nilly though, your arms won't be able to handle the kickback, even I could only use it sparingly at the time I fought Sasuke back during that first time, right now, a few uses of it will probably break your arms, so make it count."
Sakura swallowed heavily, but nodded, "Alright, got it." the pink haired girl said. She had to pick the time she would unleash the Shockwave Fist Jutsu wisely, because…she was too weak to use it properly without it being a double edged sword.
Moments later, he was done and stood back up, dusting himself off and preparing to leave. On instinct, Sakura wrapped her arms around the boy, hugging him, "Thank you." she whispered gratefully, expressing her gratitude.
Not only for the seal and jutsu, but helping them, driving off Orochimaru and more. If he wasn't there, who knew what that freak would have done to them.
"It's fine," he waved her off, "Besides, I've already got my payment in my palm."
Sakura blinked in confusion, "Your paym-Eeee!?" she eeped, not finishing her sentence as she felt his fingers cup her backside through her shorts.
On instinct, she pulled away from him before growling and swinging a fist for his face, righteous feminine fury driving her.
Her fist met air as Daiki side stepped and spun around her and she yelped, jumping lightly, an echoing clap resounding through the forest as his palm met her backside in a cheeky spank.
She whirled around on instinct, only, he wasn't there, and then she jumped as another spank clapped against her other ass cheek.
"Daiki!" Sakura shouted, face burning red as she whirled around again, only he wasn't there.
Her hands went to her backside instinctively to protect it from another grope or spank, only she felt nothing…
Daiki's boisterous laughter echoed through the forest above.
It seemed he had left.
Sakura sighed, "That damn pervert." she complained, shoulders slumping and sliding down to her knees.
Despite that though, she found a small smile splaying across her face and she just sat there like that for a few moments, before remembering where she was and slapped her cheeks.
'Focus, I need to build some traps just in case.' she told herself and the pink haired girl forced herself to her feet.
And that's us back again with the big two by four twenty four.
Not a whole lot went down in this chapter. For the most part, it was just the after effects of the encounter with Orochimaru. Daiki made a few discoveries thanks to the Curse Seal, got a little bit of inspiration and managed to hype and power Sakura up a bit...while getting a laugh at her expense. Been working on a few other things besides this a bit, though we're still up to Chapter 32 on the Pa-atreon, just focused on a ton on a Blue-Mage Danmachi style fic for a bit that's on there as well at like eight chapters or so. Gonna be working on this again tomorrow so chapter 33 may be done and up by tomorrow night as well.
Anyway, again, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.