Orochimaru and Kabuto are sitting in their hideout, waiting for their henchmen to return. "Sometimes waiting for what you want seems to take forever," says Kabuto.
"Did you say that Kimimaro went out?" Orochimaru asks him.
"Yes."
"I don't know what you said to him, but with a sickness like that, he cannot last long out there."
"I didn't really said anything to him, but he's a man with a strong will. He's very loyal to you, you know?"
"I don't care much about him anymore. Who wants the body of a sickly person? All I want is Sasuke."
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The remaining Naruto clones charge at Kimimaro, but like usual, they are all taken out in with a few quick swipes. "Wow! He's strong!" remarks DK.
Unfortunately, all the clones are destroyed. "So it's only the real one and his friends left," says Kimimaro. "I should end this fast."
At this moment, the coffin-shaped box Sasuke is placed in starts to churn out thick purple smoke. Kimimaro looks at it and says, "Looks like it's almost time."
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Bowser is surprised by Tayuya's transformation. "Don't think you can scare me with your looks!"
"There's more to that than what you think, shell brain!" says Tayuya. She blows her flute again, playing a haunting music.
Upon hearing it, Bowser starts to feel dizzy. "Ooo… Why is everything around me spinning?" Suddenly, the scene around him changes into a large empty room, and he finds himself tied to a steel chain that is slowly lowering him into a pool of boiling acid below! "Uh! What's happening! How did I end up here!"
The chain goes closer and closer to the acid. "No! Help! Help me!" Bowser's tip of his feet touches the acid, slowly followed by the rest of the body. He screams in terrifying pain and cries for help. "AAAHHHHHHHHHH! IT BURNS! AHHHHH!" The acid burns against his skin and melts it. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
In reality, Bowser is just standing on the branch, screaming for help loudly, even though nothing is happening to him. "In my 2nd Level Curse, I can make people see illusions," Tayuya explains to no one in particular. "It affects the 5 senses of people—taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. It is so real that you can even feel pain."
While Bowser is screaming terribly, the three monsters jump over to attack him. The blindfolded monster punches him into the air, the armless one kicks him through the air, and the longhaired one hammers him with the spiked club, making him shoot to the forest floor like a meteor.
CRASH!
Tayuya looks down and says evilly, "You fail, loser!"
Bowser gets back onto his feet. "Don't think you can defeat me just like this! You're making me do this!" He puts on the Sharp Claws and takes a piece of paper and begins reading from it. "Power of the Royal Hand Families, you have lent us your power, so now we shall repay you! We give you our sacred blood in exchange for even more power, the power I have in myself! Unlock my true power! Let the holy one bring down the darkness!"
After reading this, his Sharp Claws transforms! The glove itself is larger than his hand and the nails grow longer than before! "Cool!"
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The Ice Climbers are still on the ice raft, sailing towards the light they see ahead of them. "I have a feeling that they might catch up soon," says Popo. "If they come, we're done for."
"Maybe we should try out our holy weapon's second level," says Nana.
"Good idea! First, we have to make ourselves bleed."
"I don't want to!"
"But you will after we kill you!" shouts a voice. They turn to the riverbank and sees Sakon and Ukon running along the bank!
"Oh no! They caught up!" says Nana.
"I will kill you this instant!" says Ukon angrily. He jumps to their ice raft and destroys it with a powerful punch, forcing the Ice Climbers onto the bank.
When on the bank, the evil siblings continue to beat the Ice Climbers around, Ukon taking on Popo and Sakon on Nana. After getting punched against the cave wall, Popo thinks to himself, "I must use the second level right now!" He reaches into his clothe and takes out a small note and begins reading from it, "Power of the Royal Hand Families, you have lent us your powers…"
As he is reading, Ukon throws a punch at him. "What time is it that you are still reading? You want to die?" And he kicks him.
This did not bother Popo; he continues to read, despite the beatings he took. "So now we shall repay you! We give you our sacred blood in exchange for even more power, the power I have in myself! Unlock my true power! Let the holy one bring down the darkness!"
As soon as he said this, his Quake Hammer begins to glow in a bright light, blinding Ukon and catching the other two's attention. When the glowing died down, Popo is holding a large hammer that glitters like diamond! "Wow!"
"So what if it just became more fashionable? What can a twit like you do!" Ukon charges at Popo with a kunai in his hand, readying to stab him in the heart.
Popo quickly swings the hammer at him. Though the hammer is huge, he swung it around quite easily. The hammer hits Ukon on the side and sends him crashing into the cave wall with a bang.
BANG!
He falls to the ground and is too hurt to move. "Argh… I didn't see that coming… Ouch… I think I broke a bone…"
Sakon runs to him and out of his back grow out some skeletal stuff that grabs Ukon and pulls him into his body. "You take a rest, big brother. I'll handle them myself!"
"And make them die painfully!" says Ukon one last time before his head disappears into Sakon's body.
Popo turns to Nana and says, "Quick! Say the magic words!" He tosses the note to Nana and she begins reading from it. He turns to Sakon and tries to hit him with the Crystal Hammer, but Sakon hops around very fast to avoid it. Whenever Popo swings the hammer, it let loose cold air that instantly freezes whatever it blows into.
"No matter how powerful your weapon is, you cannot do anything about your tiny body!" says Sakon. Suddenly, they see a bright glow coming from Nana's Quake Hammer. After the glow died down, the hammer in Nana's hand is now a…
"Toy hammer…?" says Nana with a strange look. The hammer is now some sort of a spring-hammer device with a trigger that when pulled, the hammer will strike down.
"Ha! You call that a deadly weapon? Don't make me laugh with your toys like that!" laughs Sakon. He dashes towards Nana to attack her.
"Nana! Run!" Popo shouts to her.
Nana trembles in fear as Sakon comes near to her. She lets out a scream and pulls the trigger. The hammer comes down on top of Sakon and crushes him into the ground. The impact is so hard that the entire cavern floor begins to crack, which goes all the way to the cave walls! Then the entire cave starts to shake.
"Run! We must get out of here!" shouts Popo. The Ice Climbers quickly run for the light they see on the other end while avoiding the falling rocks and stalactites. Finally, the made it outside just before the entire cave tumbles down behind them.
"Phew… We made it…" says Popo.
"It's thanks to this weapon…" says Nana. "It looks like a toy, but it's rather powerful!" She looks back at the piles of rock. "I guess we won the battle."
"I hope so. I don't want to fight freaky people again."
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Bowser jumps up the trees and begins to attack the monsters with his newly transformed weapon. He slashes the blindfolded monster, slicing it into pieces, and then it disappears in a puff of smoke. He turns to the longhaired one. "Time to cut your hair!" He slashes the monster rapidly and it disappears in the same fashion.
The armless one pounces towards him, so Bowser quickly sticks out the claws in front of him, and the monster pierces itself into the claws and disappears. "Hahahaha! I got them all!" laughs Bowser. "You're next, bitch!"
Tayuya grits her teeth angrily. "How dare you do this, shelled asshole! I have many more tricks up my sleeves!" She begins to blow her flute, but Bowser knows what she's going to do and jumps forward to attack her. She jumps off to another branch just before Bowser's claws hit her, and then she jumps off in a blink of an eye, disappearing from Bowser's sight.
"Where'd she go? She sure can run," says Bowser. "Now I wonder… Is there anything else to my newly transformed Sharp Claws besides the look?"
Tayuya is hiding behind a tree a few yards away from where Bowser is. "I'll play a tune from here and strike him with genjutsu (illusion skill), and then I'll kill him while he's in pain from it."
"Perhaps if I swing these claws hard enough, it'll fire laser beam thingies?" Bowser says to himself. "Why don't I just try it?" So he begins flailing his hands around wildly, and to his surprise, the claw shot out several crescent-shaped energy cutters! "I knew it!"
Tayuya is about to play her flute when suddenly a horde of cutters fly in and cuts down the tree, along with the nearby ones, she's standing on. "WHAT! YAAAAAAAA!"
Bowser continues to flail his hands like wild, shooting out several energy blades. "This is fun!" All the trees before him tumble down one by one, until he figures out he is having too much fun, so he stops.
He had chopped down almost all the trees in front of him, pretty much 40 percent of the entire forest… "Wow… I didn't know it's that powerful." Then he spies a hand sticking out from under pile of fallen tree trunks. "So that bitch was unlucky enough to get hit, eh?"
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Out in the open field…
Everyone watches the box as it churns out smoke. After a short while, the box opens and Sasuke stands up from it, his back facing everyone.
"Sasuke's up!" says Sheik. "This will lessen our troubles."
Naruto calls out to Sasuke in a friendly manner. "Sasuke! Good to see you all right! Come! Let's return to Hidden Leaf Village! Everybody is waiting for you!"
But Sasuke did not listen to him. He laughs out maniacally for no apparent reason, and then runs off into the forest on the other side. "Hey! SASUKE!" shouts Naruto.
"Why won't he come back with us?" asks DK.
Naruto is about to chase him when Kimimaro appears in front of him with a sharp bone in his hand. "Now die!"
Suddenly, a strong impact hits Kimimaro on the side and knocks him away. He gets up and sees that Mewtwo had protected Naruto from the fatal blow. Mewtwo turns to the others and says, "You three go and catch up with Sasuke. I will handle this villain here. He looks like a strong opponent, and just the kind of person I want to fight."
The other three agree with Mewtwo, so they rush off in the direction Sasuke ran. Kimimaro tries to stop them, but Mewtwo warps in front of him and says, "Your opponent is me. I will not let you pass!"
TO BE CONTINUED…