A/N: Sorry, I meant to update this a week ago, but I had this horrible cold for the past week that actually prevented me from writing anything... so here's the next chapter and enjoy!

Chapter 72: A True Swordsman

Luffy, Naruto and Anko began to search for Zoro, as was the plan after they defeated their opponents.

"My guess is that the boner guy is fighting Zoro." Said Anko.

"Don't you mean Bone guy?" asked Naruto.

"I don't want to explain myself." Said Anko with a sweat drop, " Spider Man can easily track Sasuke which means that Bone guy stayed to fight… Either way I have the feeling their fighting… and from Kakashi told me about Zoro…"

There was a silence… as Anko began to think.

"It's a fight I don't want to miss!" said Anko taking out a ton of Dango from nowhere heading the direction she saw Zoro last.

"What's that about?" asked Luffy.

"You really don't want to know…" said Naruto with a sweat drop.

Back with Zoro, Kimimaro ran towards him… Zoro's three swords clashed with Kimimaro's bone sword. The two jumped away.

That's when Zoro ran towards Kimimaro shouting "Oni Giri!", for some reason Kimimaro didn't dodge, but he still stood.

"You might be someone that can be of some use now that I think about it." Said Kimimaro.

"What do you mean?" asked Zoro raising an eyebrow.

"Dance of the Camellia!" shouted Kimimaro.

Kimimaro began to use his bone sow rod to make fast movement at Zoro who began to block the sword strikes. That's when it began to hard and faster, in fact after a minute Kimimaro sent Zoro flying into a tree.

"Why… you…" growled Zoro.

"You know you could live if you quit." Said Kimimaro.

Zoro looked at Kimimaro, there was a look in his eye… a look he didn't like.

"Why would I quit?" asked Zoro.

"Because I think you might be some use to Lord Orochimaru." Said Kimimaro.

"You don't know anything about me." Muttered Zoro.

That's when Anko, Naruto and Luffy was close enough to the fight…

"Yup, I was right." Said Anko with a smirk, "So… are we going to interfere or what?"

Luffy looked at the fight, he saw that Zoro was getting up and saw the determined look on his face.

"We're not going to interfere with this fight." Said Luffy.

"Why?" asked Naruto.

"You idiot, you can see the look of determination on his face… he wants to defeat the weird guy." Said Kyubi.

"I knew that… I just wanted to ask for the sake of asking." Thought Naruto.

"I see…" said Kyubi who was sweat dropping in his cage.

"This is Zoro's fight, we're not going to interfere." Said Luffy.

The other two nodded and decided to watch from a nearby bush.

"This is going to be fun." Said Anko with a sadistic smirk knowing the blood will fly.

Both Luffy and Naruto looked at each other with sweat drops.

Back on the battlefield Zoro got up and looked at Kimimaro.

"You really think that I would join Sound?" asked Zoro.

"I believe that Lord Orochimaru would favor you..." said Kimimaro.

"I don't want to do that." Said Zoro.

"You a little too old for his taste if your referring that." Said Kimimaro.

"So then you do…" said Zoro.

"Just ignore what I said." Said Kimimaro which of course made Zoro sweat drop, "But Sound would be a good thing for you."

"I don't care if the goals involve building a utopia, trying to take over the world, searching for power or whatever, there's no way am I joining that." Said Zoro glaring at him, "It's not my style."

That and he wouldn't get to be leader of sound… but that's beside the point.

"Fine then suit yourself." Said Kimimaro, "I gave you a choice! Dance of the Camellia!"

That's when Zoo prepared himself, "Tiger Trap!" he shouted, before Kimimaro could touch him the attack hit Kimimaro.

Kimimaro fell to the ground but got back up, "Is that all you have?" he asked.

"No of course not." Said Zoro with a smirk.

The two once again began to clash with each other… neither side seemed to win. After the clashing the two once again faced each other.

"Are you ready to die?" asked Kimimaro.

"No…" said Zoro, "It's time to finish this!"

Kimimaro ran towards Zoro who shouted "Dragon Twister!"

Zoro spun his swords around in a manner that resulted in a twister that not only sent Kimimaro flying but also slashed him as well. He landed in a crumpled pile on the ground.

"I win." Said Zoro.

"You know your friend is in danger." Said Kimimaro.

"Which one?" asked Zoro raising an eyebrow.

"The one who went after the scroll…One of us is following him… and he doesn't stand a chance." Said Kimimaro who then passed out.

Zoro was sheathing his sword when he heard someone yell "That… was… awesome!"

Zoro turned around and saw Anko standing there with a crazed and scary look on her face, both Naruto and Luffy were staring at the crazed Kage with sweat drops.

"You were watching that match… weren't you?" asked Zoro with a sweat drop.

Anko walked over to Zoro and touched one of his wounds so that blood was on her finger, she tasted the blood, "You're an interesting one..."

"I think she likes him…" said Kyubi.

"Why because she's bleeding?" thought Naruto.

"That and he survived that fight and that fight she heard about… I can tell she's into the really kinky stuff…" said Kyubi who began to laugh.

"Shut up…" thought Naruto.

"Hey!" yelled Luffy, "We have to go find Sasuke!"

"Oh man! I forgot!" yelled Anko.

"So which guy is following him?" asked Zoro.

"You yeah… the bone guy told you." Said Anko.

"You were right there!" yelled Zoro with a sweat drop.

"Okay! To the cave!" yelled Luffy pointing in a random direction.

"The cave is the other way!" yelled Anko.

Meanwhile in the cave Sasuke got to the main chamber, where he found that many tree roots had sense grown over the chamber, cracks in the walls let sunlight though the chamber, in the middle chamber stood the scroll on a pedestal.

"There it is." Said Sasuke with a shrug.

He went to fetch the scroll when a voice stopped him by saying, "Thanks for leading me to the scroll."

Sasuke turned around and saw Kidomaru.

"You're one of those guys from Sound… how did you find me?" asked Sasuke.

Kidomaru pointed to the spider on Sasuke's back, which he finally noticed, "That spider's been there since before you spilt up with your friends. You've been leading me here the entered time."

Sasuke glared at Kidomaru, "I should have known it wouldn't be easy…" he said though he was also slightly smirking, finally he got some action.

"So why don't you give me the scroll and this can all be over with, after all you are a pirate." Said Kidomaru.

"No…" said Sasuke, "I promised my idiot captain and that crazy bitch that I'd keep it from you…"

"I see… I guess we have no choice but to fight then." Said Kidomaru with an evil smirk.

"That's right." Said Sasuke drawing his two swords.

And so Sasuke's fight for the scroll began.

Next Time: Sasuke is fighting for the scroll... but quickly finds out that Kidomaru's spider abilities are more dangerous than he first realized. What will happen? Find out next time!