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No, No, NO, NO!
I couldn't let that happen. I couldn't let him die. I didn't know what this was. Genjustu or what but it wasn't the truth, I wouldn't let it be the truth. My hand flinched. I was able to move. My hand finally able to grab a kunai. My eyes focused on the ground and not into the eyes of our enemy. This was going to hurt.
She lifted two kunai and I knew she was aiming with the intent to kill. "I thought you were going to be more of a challenge. How disappointing." I let out a soft cry when my kunai pierced my skin. That was all the pain I needed to wake the fuck up and move. It seemed my cry got Sasuke going to.
He grabbed me and leapt up into a tree trying to get away from this monster.
I panted, my hand around the hilt of the knife. Sasuke's red eyes danced around me looking for any other signs of injury. I bit my lip when I pulled it out. I wish Sakura was here to heal me. "Suiren. Are you okay?" His voice was unsteady still, shaking even. The fear was still present in the both of us. I just nodded. His red eyes relaxing me a bit. "We need – to keep moving."
He nodded quickly, putting a finger to my lips. His eyes scanning back and forth. I have never seen him so nervous. I grabbed a handful of his shirt to move him, "Watch out!" A snake, biggest I had ever seen was able to sneak up on us. Damn it. He jumped away from it, barely getting eaten alive. I landed on a branch and watched the monstrosity open its mouth at Sasuke. Quickly he grabbed some suriken and hit it dead on in the face. I tried my hardest to calm down my breathing.
My knee gave out for a moment under the pressure of the pain and terror before I could jump up to him. I watched the boy tremble, eyes wide open. The snakes skin cracked and from the inside of it emerged the grass nin like a sick nightmare. "I sense your fear and desperation. It's only natural. The prey must never let down its guard. Not even for a moment. In the presence of its predator."
"No!" All I could do was yell. I was such a fool. I did nothing as the nin wrapped and contorted its body around the branch straight toward Sasuke. I wasn't fast enough. She stopped and air caught into my throat when three thumps from kunai hit the bark in front of her.
"Looks like we came just in time!" Instantly the cloud of fear was pulled off my eyes when I heard his voice. Looking up I saw them. Naruto and Sakura. They were okay and they were here. The corner of my lips curved up, "Oh and by the way what was that password again?"
It was on, now I was mad and that was all I needed to move, to fight. It was time to fight.
"Naruto, Sakura run! You don't know what you're up against. Just run while you still can!" He was right. But if we ran she would find us I knew it. We were stronger as a unit. "So Naruto, Sakura. You seemed to have escaped from my friend. Well done." Sakura leaped down beside me. Instantly her hand became green and started to heal my wound. I braced for the pain for my skin being fused together.
"I don't know what's going on here but you have been picking on my friends and I don't like that. So you better slither back in your hole snake lady before I make a pair of shoes out of you." I saw the look in the kids eye. Sasuke was torn. He knew this battle was unwinnable. Hell I knew it but we had to try. His eyes shift back to onyx. He couldn't be giving up now.
Once the girl fixed me up the best she could I grabbed her hand, "Listen to me. Stay out of the fight. We need you if and when one of us gets hurt. What I need you to do back us up and keep safe do you understand?" Her eyes traced my faced and hardened before she nodded. She knew I knew that she wasn't weak. She was just important. Too important to get hurt. If we managed to survive this she was going to need all her chakra to heal us.
My eyes snapped up when he spoke, "You can have it. The scroll right. That's what you want? Take it and leave us alone." He looked at me and I just glared back. The baka. "Sasuke you idiot. We are just going to hand the scroll over to the enemy. No way! What's wrong with you?!"
"Shut up and stay out of it!" I jumped over to the branch he was on. "Very wise, very sensible. Sometimes the helpless prey, in order to save their own skin realize that their only hope is to distract the predator with something even more precious." Sasuke went to put his hand in my backpack and I shoved it back. "You can't be a damn hero!" He yelled in my face.
The slap echoed. It stung my own hand and the boy's eyes were wide as he jumped back to another branch from the contact. Probably the last thing he thought I would do since I was there. I felt the terror right down to my bones. "Who are you?" I hissed. He wasn't acting like the boy I knew and it was making me mad. "Yea how do we know you are who you say you are?" The knuckle head had his fist clenched.
"What are you talking about Suiren? How are you siding with this loser?" I bit the inside of my mouth. "The Sasuke we know isn't a coward, he doesn't choke. So wake the fuck up already."
The grass nin laughed. "it's true – but it doesn't matter. As far as the scroll goes I can simply kill you and take it." She pulled her sleeve up and bit her finger, running blood down a strange mark. I heard Naruto scream and jump toward her, kunai ready. "Wait Naruto don't!"
"Summoning Justus!" Using chakra I clung to the tree and covered my face. A large snake. Larger than the one before appeared under the grass nin. It came forward trying to smack into him barely missing the blonde. "What a tasty little meal you'll make for him." This girl needed to shut up. With a flick of the snakes tail Naruto went flying up, breaking two branches. I flinched when he coughed up blood and came tumbling back down.
"Eat this!" The boy spun, eyes a demon red, and axe kicked the snake in the face. He quickly went back for more and I knew I had to help him. Punch after punch into the snake's nose. I stabled myself and tossed a few kunai at the monsters stomach. It flinched and Naruto went back again but the snake flicked him off and the grass nin hit him with a fire attack. His body broke four more branches. "Now then let's see how well you do."
The bitch turned to Sasuke. Before I could push off the snake went for him head first. I didn't even see the blonde stop the big thing. His was panting, two kunai in the reptiles head. He glanced up at Sasuke who hadn't even moved, he would have taken that hit hard if not for the blonde. "Hey kid you're not hurt are you? You scaredy cat?" I knew this words hit the raven boy hard.
"Standing their like a frighten rabbit. No way that's not the Sasuke I know." That's it. I pushed off the tree and flipped over the grass nin with a few hand signs, "Fire ball Justu!" Taking a breath in I let out a good sized one. Straight hit, what the? The snake women didn't move only directed my fire ball back at me. I loosened my chakra from the trunk I was clinging to and slide down the tree, the blaze barely missed me. "Wait your turn brat."
She grabbed Naruto with her gross tongue and lifted him up, "Hey put me down before I yank this tongue out of your head." I crawled down to the branch bellow and grabbed three kunai that where stuck to it. I flung one at her tongue to try and free my friend but she just blocked it.
She pulled the boy close to her and made a sign. I knew that sign but what could she be doing that for? Her fingers glowed with purple chakra. She lifted his shirt and before I could get to him she jammed them into his stomach, "Five prong seal!" The boy screamed. My ears rung and my anger filled me to my eye balls.
The boy's eyes went back to his blue and they closed. She tossed him aside like garbage and I glanced at Sakura and she only needed one look before she went after Naruto. Flinging a kunai she got his jacket, pinning him to a tree and stopping him from falling to his death. She knew what she had to do, to get him out of harm's way and see what she could do for him.
I leapt up to the raven hair boy and grabbed the collar of his shirt, "Wake up jerk! Do something!" He shut his eyes and clinched his jaw. When he opened then those blood red ones appeared. He was back. "Let's do this. For Naruto." I mumbled and grabbed his shoulder.
With a few quick hand signs it was one, "Water style: Raging waters!" I spewed as much as I could and Sasuke started his hands. As soon as my justu was over his hands were out "Lightning style: Earth Flash!"
The snake lite up like a Christmas tree. In a puff of smoke the thing was gone and the nin stood on a branch with a sick smile that I wanted to rip off her face. "It has finally happened. Your Uchiha blood has finally come to a boil." Our name in her voice made me wanna puke.
"Just like we practiced." I said nudging the boy. I grabbed my kunai and we leapt in the air. My body contorted and bent at my will and I flung four kunai. She dodged them with ease. Sasuke axe kicked her and she blocked. Punch after punch and kick after kick she dodged and blocked. He flipped over her and I pushed off a tree and threw two punches and a kick of my own. "I'm not interested in you girl!" She grabbed my wrist and pulled it up hitting me in the solar plex.
Her and Sasuke where back at it. Each movement swift and quick, almost like a deadly dance. I got back up. He was dodging her shots with ease till she flickered behind him and kicked her speed up and notch. I couldn't keep up with my eyes but I was nervous. Afraid to use those red ones.
She darted all around him and although he didn't move his eyes followed her and when he was ready he left out a large stream of fire. I couldn't see her but I knew where he was aiming and I let out a ball of fire myself. She seemed virtually unaffected by it and jumped forward trying to swipe at him.
I gather my chakra and darted behind Sasuke. My back to his. The snake looked impressed but a flicker of annoyance came on her face when she looked at me. She hit us with a painful gust of wind. We dodged it as it cut into the tree we were just on.
With great reflexes the kid turned and grabbed onto her body, legs around her arms and arms around her waist. Her skull faced down to take the brunt of the impact. I flinched for a moment when her head made a sick cracking sound against the wood. Did he get her? Her hands went limp. Did we do it? He jumped back, just as anxious to find out as I was. I hung on the branch above him.
When her body turned to mud I growled. "Substitution!" I yelled and he flinched when a sebon grazed his cheek. He doge a dangerous amount of kunai and jumped off the branch using wires to bring him self back around. I jumped down throwing a few punched at the snake. Her eyes burned with fury and grabbed me by the neck, "If you get in my way one more time I will kill you!" He tossed me back and I heard a crack when my body made contact with the tree trunk. Damn it.
She jumped down and nailed Sasuke right in the face when he landed. She landed another and the sound turned my stomach and made my blood boil. Her knee made contact with his chin and he fell to the floor. Get up Suiren get up. "What a disappointment you turned out to be." I got to my feet. I had no site on Sakura or Naruto. I had to get up.
"You're ancestors weep. The Uchiha clan should thank me for killing such a little worm." My heart gave a loud thump. I ignored the pain and forced my feet to move. When I looked at the small paper bombs on her clothes I smirked. Alright then. When they blew Sasuke jumped throwing his shuriken. "Incredible. The Sharingan Windmill Triple attack."
I knew exactly what he was doing without the snake even saying it. I found my place behind him. We had practice this before on my clones. He pulled tight on the thin wires that linked the Shuriken to him so he could bend and move them at will. She was tight against the tree and he looked at me. That was all I needed.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Justu!"
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Justu!"
It was a double direct hit and her scream was music to my ears. That was great because I was low on chakra and I stumbled a bit. He let me lean on him for some support. "You did it." I mumbled. We were both panting. "We did it." He said leaning a bit onto meas well. I heard her move. Impossible. She stepped forward and her hands came together. I shuddered
We couldn't more. "It can't be." He mumbled. I was scared. My muscles were tight, paralyzed. I tried to fight. "Such master of the Sharingan at such a young age. You're a true Uchiha after all." That voice, her voice. His voice? It changed as it spoke and I didn't know what was up and what was down any more. "Yes you will do nicely." Sasuke screamed as he tried to move. I was frozen. A deer in headlights. "You are defiantly his brother. Your eyes might be keener then Itachi's."
"Who are you? What do you want?" My blood ran cold and my foot slipped. I saw it in his eyes he wanted to catch me but he couldn't move. I fell to the side, discarded and useless. My body ached. My back, my ribs, my head. Everything burned.
"My name is Orochimaru. But as to what I want that will have to wait until we meet again. Which won't happen until you finish this test with the best score of all. First you will have to defeat the hidden sound ninja that serve me."
My eyes snapped up. Those hands. He made a sign unknown to me. Through sheer will power I pushed myself up and everything in mean felt like it was breaking. No more hiding. This was not the time to be scared. I was Suiren Uchiha damn it and I would fight till the death for those precious to me.
I closed my eyes and when they opened I could see. This Orochimaru character's chakra was blinding and his head went up like a snake ready to strike. I focused my chakra, slowed down his movement. I could see. I just hoped this worked. My hands together and I flickered right in front of Sasuke taking the brunt of the attack. I screamed. "No Suiren!" The snakes teeth bore into my neck. He pulled back and I thought he would rip my spine out right here. "Why you insignificant little –"
My eyes watered but I forced them open and he looked at my red orbs. "My My My." He said. Eyes dancing with delight. That was when I felt it. Burning where he hit and I fell to my knees. "Two of you huh?" He put his hands together again but this time all I could do was watch as he came out and hit Sasuke with even more force. He got him anyway.
"That little parting gift wasn't meant for you. It will be interesting to see if you even survive it." I huffed and tried to steady my breath but the burn was spreading to every inch of my body. "Sasuke will come looking for me in search of power. In the mean time I enjoyed this little demonstration of his skill. As for you my little body flickering Uchiha. I'll be keeping an eye on you. If that bite doesn't kill you first."
He sunk into the tree. Just disappeared. And my clenched my fist. The pain. I had a high tolerance but this was almost unbearable. My brain halted at his cry and I turned to him. I must have not gotten the full dose. I must have surprised him or something and he pulled back. It wasn't for me but I still couldn't stop it. He fell forward and I pulled him to me. I saw the mark on his neck right next to the bite.
Three small tomoes creating a circle. He trembled in pain and grabbed my hand squeezing it and screaming again. "I've got you. I've got you." There was only so much I had left in me. I pulled him up and his body was like dead weight. He was sweating and I knew that I wasn't too far behind him. Whatever that poison was I knew I was next. His arm was limp around my shoulder and I wrapped my arm around his waist. I had to find the others and quickly.
My eyes, I was seeing black spots. I jumped from one branch to the other. I was slow but moving. One at a time. Ignore the burn. Ignore the pain. Keep moving. Another branch. Another. Come on Suiren! Move. Move! You have two strong legs use them. I felt him start to become hot. To hot.
The blob of pink hair caught my attention. When I landed on a branch my knees gave out. I couldn't help but scream, "Sakura!" The pain was too much. I was seeing stars, I can't believe I made it this far. Her eyes, wide held horror. But just seeing those sea foam green irises gave me hope. I whispered softly, barely able to keep consciousness, "Help him …"
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