Sasuke, snapped out of his reverie, was now prepared to fight the sound nin who announced their presence so foolishly. He remembered them from the first exam, the weird kid all wrapped up in bandages had some sound device on his arm and the other male and the girl are unknown. "Sakura, you fight that girl, I'll handle the other two." Ordered Sasuke.

"Ok, Sasuke-kun." Replied Sakura, suppressing a squeal of delight at being addressed directly by the pretty boy.

'Where's that dobe? He wouldn't possibly be setting a trap could he?' thought Sasuke, as he dashed forward to meet his opponents. Sakura, however, decided go into a defensive stance.

The bandage guy, offended to be dismissed so lightly, said, "Zaku, you take the Uchiha kid."

"Gladly!" replied Zaku, as he dodged to the side and raised his right arm for his jutsu. "Zankuuha!" The blast obliterated a kawarimi log, leaving the sound nin all alone. "The high and mighty Uchiha resorting to basic techniques and now running away? Leaving your pink girlfriend all alone?"

At this, Sakura blushed and received a kick to the head for being distracted. As the sound girl closed in for the death dealing blow, she was intercepted by a grand fireball. "Katon: Goukakyou no Jutsu!" Hopping to the side, scorching only her hair, she flung her bell equipped needles at Sasuke. Hopping up a tree, Sasuke used yet another fire jutsu. "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" Half of the fiery missiles were blown away by the one trick pony's Zankuuha, returning the hidden shuriken. The remaining flaming shurikens struck the female, leaving the two others completely unharmed. At the same time, Sasuke had to rely on kawarimi once again.

Meahwhile, Kyuubi was still running. Deciding that he wont be able to lose Orochimaru that easily, he created 2 ketsueki bunshins sent them in opposite directions. Immediately, he switched to a different jutsu. "Doton: Hitoku." His body drilled into the earth. 'Kit, I will control a ketsueki bunshin and he will probably follow me. Keep the two ketsueki bunshins up and wait until I signal you. When I do, immediately release the clones and use kai to get out. Run for the tower and notify your hokage. He needs to know.'

With that, Kyuubi gave back control and ran off, in the shape of a nine tailed fox. Naruto, silently waited.


Back at the clearing with Sasuke, the bandaged one calculated their odds. Seeing that Sasuke is no push over and the blonde one had disappeared and would likely have a trap set up, even with the advantage of three able shinobi to two, the chances of success are not great. Calling for a retreat, he yelled, "Zaku, Kin. Retreat!"

Capitalizing on this retreat, Sasuke dashed forward and delivered a surprise kick to Zaku's head and sent him head first into a tree, knocking him out. "We surrender already!" yelled the bandaged shinobi. "Of course you do." Said Sasuke, preening and almost strutting. However, once his superiority complex had been satisfied, he found himself alone with Sakura, who was beaming at him with sickeningly admiring eyes. With a shudder, Sasuke turned and called out, "Naruto! Get out here!"

When there was no response, Sasuke found himself starting to worry. What had happened to his blonde teammate? 'Did THAT guy get him?' They may not have been the best of friends, but they were good rivals. They didn't hate each other, he was just better than Naruto and they often competed. "We'll leave you here if you don't come out!" he called.

Unfortunately, still no one answered. 'Dammit!' he thought. Suddenly, a terrible idea came to his mind. 'What if that was a missing nin?' Knowing there was nothing he could do, he made for the tower for reinforcements. 'You better live through this dobe.'


Jutsu:

Zankuuha (Air Slicing Blast)

A device implanted in both arms of the user (usually from the palms) allows the control of super sonic sound waves an air pressure. The device allows the currents to be concentrated in one place, and creates large blasts of air - shot from the palms. – Goukakyou no Jutsu (Fire Element: Grand Fireball Skill)

Blows a large ball of fire from the mouth

Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Element: Mythical Fire Flower skill)

Several fire balls are shot in a flower pattern. Shuriken can be hidden in these fire balls.

Ketsueki Bunshin no Jutsu (Blood Replication Skill)

Original jutsu for the chosen of the blood. It can make up to 3 clones max. Each clone takes a minimum of a quarter of Naruto's blood. They can all do only blood jutsus, no normal ones. Then can morph into any shape. Its healing capabilities surpass even Naruto's real body. It's really weak against chakra attacks and takes five times the chakra to maintain one as it does to maintain a Kage Bunshin.

Doton: Hitoku (Earth element: concealment)

User is hidden beneath the earth. Used for mainly for traps.