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Orochimaru
Ryuu looked around at the destruction as they ran. The jutsu, whatever it had been, had destroyed a lot. But they were nearing the area the jutsu had come from, and judging by the chakra Ryuu could feel pressing down on them, the fight was just ahead. Just as this thought occurred to him, he landed on the side of a tree, running around it and stopping, seeing naruto pinned to it by a kunai through his jacket, unconscious. A ways away and a little below them, Sakura and Sasuke were on a branch opposite the Grass Ninja leader, now with half of his face's false skin melted and with a massive hole in the tree behind him, looking to have been blasted by a Fire Style Jutsu. Except, Sasuke and Sakura weren't moving, and Sakura was on her hands and knees.
"If you're finished why don't you just beat it!" Sakura was saying. "If we never meet again it'll be too soon!"
"Oh, he and I will meet again," the Grass ninja said, voice smooth yet incredibly unsettling, reminding Ryuu of a snake.
That image was completed even more when the ninja made a hand sign like the tiger sign but with his middle fingers crossed over his index fingers. His head shot forward, his neck stretching as though he were made of rubber. His mouth opened impossibly wide and he exposed snake-like fangs. At the last second, Ryuu appeared behind Sasuke, his foot slamming into the ninja's head less than a second before he could bite Sasuke, sending the head and neck flying sideways and crashing into a tree, the neck wrapping around a branch several times. His body fell limp, dropping to hang from the neck, swaying slowly.
"Why don't you cut the act?" Ryuu said. "If your neck can stretch like that, obviously it wouldn't break so easily, and if you can survive whatever jutsu blasted that hole in the tree with so little damage, obviously I'm not killing you today. Now stop playing possum, Orochimaru of the Legendary Sannin."
"Oh, I'm famous even among this generation," Orochimaru said, neck retracting, pulling his body to the top of the branch before unwinding from it as Orochimaru stood, grinning widely. "How did you know it was me?"
"Because you're far beyond the levels of even the Jonin and ANBU I've trained under, and you've got abilities that make you like a snake," Ryuu said. "It's possible for you to have been someone else with similar abilities, but you're the only one that would have any interest in acquiring Sharingan. That is why you sent those two henchmen after me, isn't it?"
"Not bad," Orochimaru grinned. "You're smart. Very observant."
"The only question I have is, why were you trying to bite my cousin?" Ryuu asked.
"I was giving him a power known as a Curse Mark," Orochimaru said. "He'd thank me if you had let me."
"Why would anyone want to be branded with something that has 'curse' in the name?" Ryuu asked. "That sounds like exactly the kind of power I don't want."
"I wasn't offering it to you," Orochimaru said. "Sasuke is the one whose Sharingan I intend to claim as my own. Yours I intend to study."
"Well, I'm happy to let you know that neither of those is going to be happening," Ryuu said.
Orochimaru grinned wickedly, falling away as mud. Ryuu spun, activating his Sharingan as Orochimaru appeared behind Sasuke, bending down to bite him.
CRACK!
Orochimaru crashed through three trees before cratering a fourth, staring at Fu, who was crouching behind Sasuke, watching him analytically, eyes flashing around the area every couple of seconds.
"Oh, sorry," Ryuu said. "Did I forget to warn you about her? My bad."
Then, ink snakes shot out of a hole in the tree beside Orochimaru, binding him and beginning to glow. Orochimaru shouted in surprise just as the tree came alive, tree-colored ink falling away as paper bombs shot off of the tree onto Orochimaru and the snakes. Then, they exploded, the blasts lasted nearly a straight minute before ending, smoke filling the area. Sai and Shin landed off to one side, both holding their tantos, and Kegon and Yoro landed on the other, Kegon holding several Water Shuriken in each hand and Yoro replacing one of his scrolls, his free hand holding several shuriken.
"Did we get him?" Yoro asked.
"Don't count on it," Ryuu said. "He's Kage level, if not higher."
The smoke began to thin, revealing Orochimaru standing there, badly burned and with his right arm missing just below the shoulder, half of his face burned to the muscle. He glared at Ryuu, eyes seeming to glow slightly in the light of the small fires still dotting the blast area.
"You little brats," Orochimaru snarled. "You want to play? Fine. But I warn you, I play rough!"
Suddenly, he began to gag, tipping his head back. Then, pale fingers reached out of his mouth, pushing his mouth open before a second Orochimaru, this one fully healed, stepped out, covered in slime and saliva and bile. The wounded one crumpled to the branch at the new one's feet, and Ryuu growled in annoyance.
"He shed his skin to heal himself," Ryuu snarled. "I hate snakes."
Then, Orochimaru's arms shot outward crashing to the ground where the two teams used to be, scattering them as Orochimaru shot toward Fu and Ryuu. Fu charged first, throwing a punch at him only for Orochimaru to catch her fist, hurling her to the side. Ryuu crouched, readying himself. He hadn't fought using the Body Flicker Technique yet, but he had been practicing. And his brother was so good at it that he could create clones of himself by using it constantly, so technically the jutsu ran in his family.
Orochimaru threw a punch at Ryuu and Ryuu activated the jutsu, ducking out of the way before ending it and slamming an uppercut into Orochimaru's bottom rib, twisting his entire body and hurling Orochimaru backward, hopefully with that rib snapped off. Just as Orochimaru landed, a wall of Water Shuriken flew at him from one side and a wall of normal from the other. Orochimaru opened his mouth, a jian blade extending from his throat before he began to spin, twist, and bend in inhuman ways and at inhuman speeds, the blade extending and slashing the shuriken out of the air rapidly, not a single one getting through. The ink snakes were a different story. Once again, they swarmed out of a knot hole int he tree, wrapping around Orochimaru's body again, this time one limb at a time, not binding his body. At least, until they had wrapped around his entire body. Once they had, Sai slammed both hands into the ground and the ink snakes exploded, leaving an intricate seal formula over Orochimaru's entire body, the seal leaving Orochimaru motionless.
"Now!" Sai shouted.
"Fire Style, Dragon Flame Bomb!" Ryuu shouted, sending a stream of white-hot flames shooting through the air at Orochimaru.
"Fire Style, Great Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Sasuke shouted, landing beside Ryuu and sending a dragon-head-shaped ball of fire at Orochimaru.
"Fire Style, Searing Migraine!" Fu shouted, adding her own Fire Style Jutsu to the mix.
All three crashed into Orochimaru in a massive explosion, Ryuu, Sasuke, and Fu nearly being launched by the concussion. As the smoke began to clear, all three spun, Orochimaru punching Fu and Ryuu away, grabbing Sasuke by the face and biting him just as Sai and Shin slashing across the front and back of the abdomen, splitting him in half. Sasuke shouted in agony as a black mark consisting of three black tomoe appeared on the back of his neck where he had been bitten. Then, snakes shot out of Orochimaru's several portions, reconnecting him just before his upper body spun, his hand blasting Sasuke away before his legs jumped and twisted, kicking the two ANBU away as his body parts joined. Then, he landed on the side of a tree, beginning to sink into it.
"I win," Orochimaru grinned.
"Fire Style, Blockbuster!" Fu shouted, hands on the tree above him.
Orochimaru's eyes widened just as the tree exploded level with him, the entire tree for nearly twenty feet being reduced to shrapnel. Both teams got out of the way, with Ryuu taking Sasuke, by hiding behind other trees, but Orochimaru was caught by the blast itself, then the shrapnel after it, crashing down hard on the ground, a hundred meters below them. Ryuu dropped to the ground, landing on front of Orochimaru as he began to push himself up, Fu landing opposite Ryuu.
"Still feeling lucky Orochimaru?" Ryuu asked as Orochimaru shed his skin again.
"Damn you!" Orochimaru snarled, gagging up a jian with a snake-themed hilt. "Your bitch of a girlfriend is obnoxious!"
"She is quite the powerhouse isn't she?" Ryuu smirked.
"Yes, quite," Orochimaru growled before grinning. "Catch!"
He hurled the sword like a javelin, the blade extending even as it flew. Ryuu managed to deflect it with his tanto, but just as he did, Orochimaru ducked under a punch from Fu, slamming his finger tips into her abdomen, five violet flames burning at the tips of his fingers. Fu shrieked in agony before being launched backward into a tree and left unconscious. As soon as his seal was placed, Orochimaru spun, ducking as Ryuu slashed at him, passing him and landing at Fu's side, checking for a pulse.
"She'll live, but she'll be out for a while, especially now that her Tailed Beast has a second level of seals on it," Orochimaru grinned. "Imagine my surprise, two Sharingan wielders and two Jinchuriki in one day."
Ryuu turned to Orochimaru, gritting his teeth and clenching his fists, eyes narrowed and Sharingan glowing slightly.
"Oh, is the pacifist going to try and kill me now?" Orochimaru smirked. "Sure you want those nightmares?"
"You don't know what nightmares are," Ryuu snarled. "Allow me to show you."
Orochimaru grinned as Ryuu exploded into a flock of crows, the sky above him turning the color of blood and screaming beginning to echo through his head.
"Oh please," Orochimaru laughed. "You'll have to do bette than some screaming to scare me."
Then, his back exploded into pain. He dropped, gritting his teeth. Then, his face was in agony. His arm, foot, face, other arm, back, groin, foot, groin, face. Orochimaru staggered forward, staring down at his body as blood poured from his numerous gashes. He grinned, biting his hand and the gashes vanished. Just as they did, Ryuu's hand slammed into his side.
"Fire Style, Dynamite Punch!" Ryuu shouted, an explosion shooting off of his palm and sending Orochimaru flying.
He crashed to the ground hard and pushed himself up as Ryuu appeared before him, slashing him across the face. Orochimaru staggered backward, clutching his face and screaming as three Ryuus appeared around him, each slamming a hand into him.
"Fire Style, Dynamite Punch!"
Three explosions went off around Orochimaru at once, keeping him trapped in the center of the explosions. All three clones were destroyed, allowing Orochimaru plenty of room to collapse as Ryuu glared at him from a distance, something shiny in his hand. Orochimaru began to push himself up as Ryuu tugged on the thing, Orochimaru recognizing a metal wire just as metal wire burst out of the ground, binding him, including a wire wrapping around his head to keep his mouth shut.
"Fire Style, Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Ryuu shouted, a stream of flames shooting along the wire and exploding as it hit Orochimaru.
As the flames died down, Ryuu turned, yanking on the wires. As a result, the ends around Orochimaru sliced through his skin with ease, shredding it. Unfortunately, it was only the skin. Orochimaru himself was already standing before Ryuu again, breathing harder than before but with murder in his eyes.
"I've run out of patience, boy," Orochimaru snarled, holding his hand out, his sword shooting into it.
Ryuu exhaled a Vacuum Blade onto his tanto, readying himself. Orochimaru began to laugh.
"Oh that's rich," Orochimaru laughed. "You think I'm going to fight you."
Orochimaru stabbed with his sword, the blade shooting outward, slamming into Ryuu's Vacuum Blade and launching him backward. Ryuu planted his feet just as his Vacuum Blade shattered, vanishing instantly, reappearing behind Orochimaru, slamming both hands into him and placing a pair of Gravity Seals as high as he could make them, equalling somewhere around fourteen times gravity. Orochimaru crashed to the ground hard enough to crater it, his leg bones snapping and his knees being forcefully dislocated. Ryuu leapt away, landing on his feet as Orochimaru's mouth began to stretch open again. Just as he stood yet again, Anko landed behind him, a kunai to his throat.
"It looks like you've had your hands full, Orochimaru," Anko snarled. "I'll do you a favor and put you out of your-"
She stopped talking suddenly, looking down at the glowing blue blade extending from Orochimaru's chest. Then, Orochimaru fell away into mud, leaving only her to be impaled on his now glowing Jian. It had missed anywhere fatal, but it was obviously painful and debilitating.
"Nice try, Anko," Orochimaru hissed, striding over to her, gripping his sword's hilt and yanking it out, letting Anko crumple to the ground. "But I'm in no more mood to play."
He picked her up, throwing her over his shoulder as Ryuu appeared in front of him, only for his foot to crash into his gut, launching him backward. He crashed into a tree as his and Fu's teammates appeared around Orochimaru. Orochimaru spun, slashing them all shallowly across the chest, throwing them all away before sinking into the ground, glaring at Ryuu as he did. Ryuu tried to get to him but his ribcage flared in pain and he collapsed again, coughing up blood. Sai and Shin appeared in front of him after a moment, carefully helping him up and over to a spot where they could take cover under a tree's roots, Yoro and Kegon doing the same for Fu and Sakura doing the same for Naruto and Sasuke.
"So, in the end, he was able to bite Sasuke anyway," Sakura said. "And he kidnapped our exam's proctor."
"Sai, report Anko's kidnapping," Ryuu said. "They'll probably have to stop the exams. As for Orochimaru biting Sasuke, we made him work for it. I'll choose to be proud of that."
Sakura nodded as Ryuu dragged himself to Fu, examining the seal now spread over her stomach.
"Dammit," Ryuu growled. "Five Pronged Seal. I was afraid that was what I was seeing."
"Can you fix it?" Yoro asked.
"Well, I watched him place it with my Sharingan," Ryuu said, writing down the seal's formula on a scroll. "Thanks to that, I should be able to. but it's going to take me a but to get it right."
"Okay," Yoro said. "We'll rest here until the others wake up."
"The four of you need to bandage your wounds," Ryuu said. "Sakura, can you handle watch?"
"Yes," Sakura nodded. "I've got it."
Ryuu nodded, carefully laying himself on the ground beside Fu and closing his eyes, passing out within seconds.
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