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The pain was so strong. It radiated through my whole body. Through my blood and my nerves. I felt it deep within my bones. Run Suiren. Run and don't look back. All that was there was agony and darkness. If this wasn't death then I prayed for it to come quickly because I couldn't take anymore. My uncle's voice was ripping my heart to pieces. His smile. The mist. His last words. Trust no one. I wanted to scream but I couldn't. That little parting gift wasn't meant for you. It will be interesting to see if you even survive it. I saw the snake's eyes.
His laugh echoing in my skull. Bouncing off my cranium with pounds of force. Run Suiren. Run. I couldn't escape his laugh. Those eyes, the fear. It was smothering me. My heart was thumping erratically. This was the end. I wouldn't survive this. Sasuke …
My eyes flickered open and I saw light. I made it. I actually made it. I glanced around and then looked down at my hands. My Sharingan was off but I still saw it. Purple chakra. It was unknown to me from where it came from but I could feel it circulate around my chakra network.
I looked up and the sight I saw made me livid. It was an anger I hadn't felt before. It radiated through my soul and I felt my chakra increase to a level unfamiliar to me. The sight of these ninja beating up on my best friend. I just couldn't let that go. I pushed myself up and my aching bones didn't even bother me anymore.
Sakura was a healer, a medical nin in the making. Her hands were meant to fix things not destroy them. I had no problem with destroying things. The idea brought a tickle to my throat. I almost wanted to laugh. Laugh at the thought of their deaths.
I stepped out of the small trunk I had been laying in. The girl was grabbed by the hair and being held up by the female sound ninja. I noticed Rock Lee crumbled on the floor. He took quiet a beating but now it was my turn. "Look who came to join the fight." I noticed the cocky sound nin from the first exam and a smirk grew on my face. I cracked my neck a bit and felt the chakra grow. It started at a spot on my neck and seeped into my arms. Their leader, the one with the mummy wrapping eyed me. He look confused at the sight of me.
"Like I told this one here." The female said shaking Sakura by the scalp. "If you spent a little less time shampooing and a little more time practicing your justu, you might not be in this fix." A growled escaped my throat. "Kin don't." the leader said to his teammate. I glanced down at Sakura. She needed to be out of harm's way before I could rip that girls face off.
Something clinked in those sea foam green eyes and she wrapped her hands around the hilt of her kunai. "Come on girl what are you going to do to me with that?" She laughed and tightened the grip on her hair. Sakura looked up at her, a small smirk growing on her own face. "It's not meant for you." She reached up and cut her bright pink locks freeing herself.
In my head I saw the girl, when we had first met. She asked me about my hair. About its length and how beautiful it was. Sakura didn't need long hair to be beautiful and strong. She darted forward on the offensive with a new wave of strength. Before the female sound nin could attack her I ran to her and blocked her path. I threw two fast punches which she barley blocked. I felt faster as this new found power corsed through my body. Kin tried to punch me and I grabbed her fist in my hand squeezing it. I brought her to me and kicked her right in the solar plex. I didn't let her go but pulled her back again. I came up and my foot made contact with her chin. She stumbled back.
My ears caught the sound of kunai hitting skin. My eyes snapped and I saw the pink haired kunoichi biting and scratching the cocky nin. Doing anything she could. I flinched when he punched her. Once and twitch. I was about to aid her but I got kicked in the back. Damn it. I lost my focus. I tumbled forward and almost ate dirt but I tucked and got back to my feet. Before the nin could hit her again I grabbed his wrist. Her eyes looked up at me and could see the bruise on her face turning into a welt.
I pulled his wrist the wrong way and down. His scream echoed through the forest along with a nasty crack. I wanted to hurt him, to make him feel what it's like to be on the edge of death for what he did to her. He released my friend and her eyes held terror. I thought for a moment she had backed away from me. Why was she scared of me? The chakra I was feeling quickly residing back into me and I felt weak again. I fell to my knees. My head spun and the world slowed down. I could hear my heart beat in my throat.
I felt two arms around me before I could tumble and fall. I watched as team Ino jumped from the bushes to our rescue, blocking the sound nin from attacking us. I guess I couldn't hate the girl anymore. "Ino?" Sakura looked just as shocked as I felt. "Surprised to see me? I told you I'd never let you show me up didn't I?"
"This is suicide." Choji tried to run but Shika grabbed his scarf. Ino sweat dropped. I had faith in the team. "Better a safe sheep then a dead lion right fatso?" The cocky nin chuckled. He quickly wrapped his wrist tight and tried to ignore it. Choji stopped dead in his tracks. "Did I just hear that right? You want to try saying that again?" His voice was soft, it was weird seeming him react to something other than food. I guess the guy had pushed the exact right button. "I said get out while you still can fatty."
"Who are you calling fat?! Im just a little chubby OKAY?!" This was just the kind of kick in the butt team Ino needed the fight was one. Leaf vs sound.
Sakura focused back on me for a moment. "Don't worry; you're going to be okay." I glanced over at her. She was beat just as bad and still was trying to comfort me. She pulled me close. I couldn't focus on the fight. I looked passed her and saw Naruto and Sasuke laying down in the trunk. How did I not notice? I winced. My head was throbbing. The bite. I remembered the bite and it hurt. I felt it pulsate against my skin.
"You did so good S-sakura. I – im proud of you." Her eyes became wide and her hands glowed green. Frantically trying to heal me to some degree. I pushed her hand away, "Save your strength." I leaned up and tried to steady myself, the initial shock was finally subsiding. "The boys." I said looking over at them. She hesitated and I pushed a smiled "Go. They need you. Im fine I swear." Even Busy Brows needed some tending to. Better not to waste it on me.
It only took another moment but she rushed to them. Looking up it seemed that team Ino was in a great spot. Shika had his shadow holding on to the team leader. Choji was chasing around the cocky nin and it seemed Ino transferred her soul into Kin. "Alright, guys here is how it's going to go down. You're going to leave your scroll and walk away. As soon as you're far enough away that I can't sense your chakras I'll let your teammate go." Ino spoke from inside the female sound nin's body. We waited for a response but it didn't seem to faze her teammates.
"Choji!" She yelled and he rolled in front of her barely blocking an attack from the cocky sound nin hands. She was hit but didn't get the full force of it. I notice the hit to the female sound nin affect Ino's real body. This wasn't good. I had to move. I had to get up. I had to push passed the exhaustion. Choji stopped his human boulder Justu and he looked like he was going to puke.
"I don't understand what kind of monster attacks their own teammate?" She under estimated these sound nin. "I guess monsters like us." The cocky nin smirked. "See we don't play this game by your rules. It's not the scrolls we're after or even passing this test. It's Sasuke." Thump.
I grabbed at my chest. I bet he sent them. That snake. Shika's shadow Justu receded and the leader was released. This was going from bad to worse. "I see the deration of your justu is only about five minutes and your teammate over there can slip her soul into others bodies. Interesting trick but dangerous anything that happens to Kin happens to her too. So let's say if Kin where to die .."
"What are you going to do? Kill your teammate?" Shika why even ask they were monsters. Of course they would. "Well if push comes to shove, yea."
"Oh man what a drag." I could see the sweat beads rolling down Shika's face. I had to do something but what. I glanced around. Everyone was pretty beaten up. Half my team was knocked out and me and Sakura together didn't make a fully functioning Shinobi. I quickly ate a food pill from my pouch.
My blood started to boil. I guess this was what was meant by Uchiha blood. I was finally to my feet and I stumbled forward. "Suiren stop you're hurt." I brushed off Sakura's warning. I had a little left in me. "What are you going to do girl? You're about to fall over." The leader, Dosu they had called him faced me. I put my hands together and shut my eyes for a moment. I could hear him crouch down, "I don't like you picking on my friends." My voice was soft but steady, I was feeling that food pill and that as all I needed.
I heard the cocky nin chuckle. My eyes shot open, red and ready. "Let's go." I rushed forward toward Dosu and he pushed off to meet me. I wasn't stupid I wasn't going to get hit by that arm. I jumped up before he could pull his hand back. I saw that Justu. The one to blow out my ear drums. He couldn't hide it from me. With a few quick hand signs I let it rip when I floated above him. "Fire style, Fire ball Justu!"
His one visible eye widened and looked up at the massive ball of fire. I landed and my eyes saw the chakra from the cocky nin pump threw his arm. With a gust of wind he blew the embers away and I flickered behind him. Before he could turn I kicked him in the back and he tumbled into his teammate. I was about to move but that pain. "Damn it!" I had to turn off my Sharingan off as I fell to my knees. I couldn't hold back the scream from my throat. The pain was just so unbearable. I reach up to my neck and grabbed at the mark. I wanted to rip it off. "Looks like that little mark is unstable. Im not even sure how you got it." I glanced at Dosu. He was right. This was a problem.
"Did you really think you could beat us? Face it you ninja are just a bunch of hacks." The cocky one laughed at his own comment. "From a second rate village." The leader added in. "I guess that makes you third rate then." We all looked up in the trees. It was Rock Lee's team. I couldn't believe it. "I wonder if any of you amateurs are ready to take on the real thing."
"What?" Dosu looked over, two more leaf ninja. It wasn't over yet. "It looks like some used our teammate as a punching bag. No one does that and gets away with it." The pupiless boy, Neji. His eyes hardened and veins incased the sides of his face. "No more playing around TenTen. Full power." I leaned back and let myself stagger onto my butt trying my best to control my breathing.
"Well are you going to come down out of that tree and do something about?" Neji's eyes were back to normal and he smirk. "It looks like this was taken out of my hands." I tried to concentrate on the fight but I couldn't. I tried to hold on to consciousness. Everyone was quiet. Even through everything I could sense the large flow of chakra. It was so large it was visible without Sharingan. It was terrifying.
"Sasuke you're awake!" I heard it and I glance up at Sakura's words. I saw the boy stand but there was something so wrong. I crawled forward on my hands and knees. I was so far from my team. I was such a fool. I mumbled his name but it was barely above a whisper. "Sakura, who did this to you?" the girl was immobile. She couldn't answer.
The purple chakra swirled and it brought on a new wave of pain in my neck. I remembered the snake's chakra. When I had looked at him with my Sharingan and I remember just before when I looked at my hands. This was his evil chakra in us. It burned and my body curled up. I shrieked, biting the inside of my mouth to hold back a blood curdling cry. Those blood red eyes that once brought me comfort locked onto me and when I blinked he was bent down in front of me. I was shaking from head to toe. A pool of sweat collecting under me.
"Suiren." If it was possible the chakra became even wilder and the markings on his face spread even further. "Who did THIS?!" His voice made my skin crawl. "What happened to you Sasuke?" I could barely hear the pink haired girl. "Im fine. It's just the power flowing through me. In fact I've never felt better." Thump.
Soon Sasuke will come to me in search of power. The snake's words echoed in my head. "He gave me this gift and made me understand what I am." My heart was breaking at his words. No. No. "I'm an avenger. To follow my path I must have power at any price. Even if it means being consumed by evil." A lump in my throat. I pushed myself to sit up, I couldn't black out. I just needed more time. "Stop." My voice horse. It seemed to go unnoticed. "I'll ask only one more time. Who did this?"
"That would be me." That stupid idiot, his cockiness was going to get him killed. I tried to reach for Sasuke but it was no use. He was furious. The idiot put his hands up, "Supersonic slicing wave!" I clenched my eyes closed. "Look at that I blew them all away."
"Not quite." My eyes flickered open and we were behind the nin, all of us. He moved so fast, too fast. Raising his arm Sasuke knocked him clear off his feet about 8 feet back. His hands signs were quicker then ever, "Fire style, Phoenix Flower Justu!"
"I don't think so, try this!" He went again putting his hands up and blowing air to stop the flames like he did to me. Hidden in the flames where Suriken. "Zaku get down!" Dosu tried his best but he was just too slow. The suriken hit there mark and Sasuke was in back of Zaku almost instantly. Sasuke's foot on the nin's back as he pulled Zaku's arms. A sick smirk played on his face. This was all Orochimaru's fault.
"You seem to be very proud of these arms of yours. You must be very attached to them." He applied some more pressure to his back, Zaku's arms contorting in a way they shouldn't. "No. What are you doing?!" The boy was pleading for him to stop. Sakura shook. Unable to think or move. Her eyes unable to look away. You want power don't you boy? The snake's words rang. He did this to him. Thump. One crack followed by another. They were revolting and gruesome. I had to stop him. This wasn't him. This wasn't Sasuke.
He turned toward Dosu once he tossed Zaku aside, "I guess you're the only one left. I hope you make things more interesting than your friend did." I saw the terror in Dosu's eyes. This had to stop. I pushed myself up and grabbed the boy. My arms wrapped around his body. I couldn't stand so I put all my weight on him, my cheek against his back. "Please don't do this." My face was wet but I didn't care. It was a mixture of tears of pain and sorrow. "This isn't you. Come back to me." My voice was a murmur. It was all I could muster up. I could feel his heart racing and the chakra being sucked back inside of him.
He fell to his knees and all I could do was fall down with him. His face was stoic. No longer a grotesque sick spectacle of horror and terror.
"You are strong Sasuke." We looked up at Dosu who took his scroll from his jacket. "To strong. We can't hope to defeat you the way you are now. We will strike a deal. This scroll and you let us go." He placed it down and my eyes fluttered. The blackness was seeping into my skull. I was barely about to concentrate on what the sound nin was saying. "If we are to meet again I promise you we will not run or hide." He turned to leave but there were still so many questions. "Why?" Everyone stopped. "Why Sasuke? What does Orochimaru want?"
"I don't know. We were just told to target him. I know nothing." No real answers. Just more questions. I barely felt the girl's presence beside me. Her green chakra racing around my body. I let my eyes shut. I let the darkness take me.
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