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Chapter Sixty-Six
It took another day of walking, with a break to train, to get to the bridge. Once they arrived, Yamato transformed into Sasori. Rei and the others hid at the end of the bridge behind Yamato. They were lucky that the wind was strong and blew away their scent. Due to the noise they were also able to get much closer than would have been possible. They waited for the spy to show up and Rei could feel Naruto and Sakura stiffen at the sight of a cloaked figure appearing from the other end of the bridge. Slowly, the man slipped his hood off and Rei felt her eyes widen in surprise when she saw who the spy was.
"Kabuto...?" She muttered.
They remained silent while they watched Yamato talking with Kabuto. Even though they couldn't hear anything they knew that Yamato was doing a good job in keeping Kabuto fooled. Suddenly, Orochimaru appeared behind Kabuto just as Yamato pulled out a kunai. Kabuto saw this and moved next to Yamato. Everyone tensed as they watched the three on the bridge.
Kabuto activated a jutsu that Rei recognized and without warning, struck Yamato, blowing his cover. Orochimaru attacked, but Yamato used a substitution jutsu. They talked a bit and then Yamato signaled for them to join him. Rei frowned deeply, not wanting to come face-to-face with the snake bastard again, but there was nothing she could do.
She clenched her fists when she saw the snake bastard smirk at her. Rei could see the satisfaction in his face at the hatred in her eyes.
"Well, if it isn't my old apprentice." Orochimaru said with a mocking tone as he looked at Rei.
Everyone looked at the girl knowing how hard this was on her. Naruto was already being taken over by the Kyuubi's chakra. Rei could see his eyes glowing red and the marks on his face thickening. Orochimaru's taunts were driving Naruto to the edge as his attempts to get Sasuke back were made fun of. Before anyone could do anything, Naruto charged at Orochimaru and threw him back into the forest behind him. Everyone watched in surprise and awe.
"You're getting quite Jinchuriki like...little fox..." Orochimaru said as he emerged from the forest with a portion of his face missing.
Rei looked at Naruto with concern as he stood before them all. She caught only a small portion of what being said. Her mind was still on Naruto and how dangerous the situation had gotten. She knew that it would be dangerous to allow the Kyuubi's chakra to go unchecked for much longer.
Another taunt on Orochimaru's part cause yet another outburst from Naruto. The chakra surrounding him increased and formed what looked like three tails. Kabuto tried to attack Naruto as he glared at Orochimaru, but Naruto used his chakra to throw him back. Unfortunately, Sakura was also hit and the hard impact of her head colliding against the ground made her unconscious. Kabuto was thrown back and a large portion of the bridge was destroyed. Rei was about to fall off, but managed to grab onto a piece of rope from the bridge.
As she looked up she could see Yamato holding the bridge up with his wood style jutsu while Sakura was about to slide off of the bridge. Sai used his art of beast mimicry to summon a bird, but didn't bother to help Sakura as she fell. Rei watched as she fell and was stopped by Yamato's jutsu. She glared at Sai as she made her way up onto the bridge and checked on Sakura.
Yamato hurried towards them. Rei stood up and looked over at the forest on the other side of the bridge. She couldn't see Sai or Naruto, but she knew Naruto was fighting Orochimaru. She could sense the Kyuubi's chakra as it grew stronger by the turned back to where Yamato was explaining the situation to Sakura, who had just woken up.
"I'm going after them." She said.
Yamato shook his head.
"No, it's too dangerous. That fight is out of your level."
"But I have to know what's going on! Sai just left without thinking of us and Naruto is up against Orochimaru by himself!" Rei argued.
"There's nothing you can do about that." Yamato with a stern tone.
Rei clenched her fists, but said nothing more.
"Fine, but I can at least keep an eye on the situation."
She made some quick hand signs and summoned a small falcon and sent it off in the direction the others had gone. After making some more hand signs she touched her right eye as she closed it.
"Second Sight." She muttered.
She opened her eye to reveal a glowing yellow color. Sakura stared at her in surprise while Yamato created a wood doppelganger. He sent it off across the gap and to the other side.
Rei could see Sai up ahead as she closed her left eye and focused on her other eye. She scowled as she watched him glance at the bird while it flew by. There was a big explosion and the energy from it reached back to where Rei and the others were. Her bird was barely able to avoid it, but at least she could still watch what was going on with her teammate and the snake bastard.
As her line of vision cleared she could see that Naruto now had four tails and was completely covered by the red chakra. She frowned and a worried look was on her face as she watched Orochimaru summon his Triple Rashomon to block Naruto's attack. The fight went on for a while and Rei could hear Kabuto's taunts behind her. She glared at him and saw Sakura crying while Naruto stood only a small distance ahead.
Rei couldn't take it anymore. She clenched her fists and turned to face the other side of the bridge, where Orochimaru was. She ran towards it while making some hand signs and summoned a larger bird to take her over the gap. She could hear Yamato telling her to stop, but she couldn't just let Orochimaru get away and she had to find out what Sai was up to. She couldn't wait to get her hands on the snake bastard and possibly Sasuke.
End Chapter 66
Well, I hope you guys liked it even though I am once again, bot satisfied with the length or chapter as a whole, but there will be action in the next chapter...maybe. I'm so demanding of myself XD. Anyways, I kinda hurt my wrist a while ago and so the update was delayed, but hey, I got it done so please review. Until next time.