And here it is: the climax (and conclusion) of the fight and the beginning of freedom's charge.
Ignoring the cheesiness of the statement, it does describe what will happen.
Sorry for taking so long, I have no excuse for not updating earlier.
The Iwa Shinobi Chapter 12: The Second Exam: Quicksilver Sensui vs Snake Sannin
As the mysterious ninja turned around, Orochimaru gasped, for there, in the eyes of the man who just disrupted his attack, was a fully developed Mangekyou Sharingan.
"So Iwa had another secret that it kept up its sleeve, I see. But why did you interfere, boy? This is not your fight and Onoki will not be pleased to hear that you did."
Jinsoku Sensui, turning the rest of his body to face the nuke-nin, kept his face blank as he kept his hand on the hilt of his blade, "My mission is to ensure the well-being of my charge, and you are threatening that well-being, so I will make sure that my charge stays happy and whole." And with that he drew his blade and charged the Hebi Sannin, his blade a blur of light as it ripped through the older man's body with ease.
Such power! Said a certain raven-haired genin.
How can he move so fast? Dad can only do that when using Hiraishin! the blond prodigy thought with wide eyes.
I bet Naruto-kun is faster. Take a wild guess who said that.
But it seemed that the attack was pointless as the body just cut began to fall apart, revealing it to be made of mud.
But the sword-wielding shinobi wasted no time in dashing across the open field and thrusting his katana at a point behind Sasuke, "Did you really think I'd let you take my cousin that easily?"
Sasuke was understandably shocked at that statement, Cousin? But he's not from our village, and I know everyone that is around my age in the clan!
Of course what he wasn't expecting was to look into the other nin's face and see his eyes, within which surrounding the pupils were three straight lines that went up, and to the southeast and southwest surrounded by a sea of red. Sasuke recognized the signs, it was like his older brother Itachi's eyes. Mangekyou!
But how? How did this guy, who came from Iwa, have Konoha's highly coveted Kekkei Genkai? The only thing he could think of was that one of his clan members got drunk and bedded an Iwa woman, but they hadn't sent anyone out Iwa's way around the time that this guy was born, so who could it possibly have been?
The battle was heating up as Orochimaru decided to finally strike back, as he opened his mouth and drew out his sword. The long blade clashed with Jinsoku's, much to the Sannin's surprise.
Chakra blade!
The Iwa nin chuckled, "I see you've noticed my blade's not as normal as you thought. Well, it doesn't matter in the end."
Orochimaru looked at him confused, "And what do you mean by that?"
And that was when he made his mistake, he locked eyes with the Swordsman of the Rock and Sensui whispered, "Tsukiyomi."
Of course, the snake had a back-up plan, and quickly replaced himself with a clone he had hid nearby, resulting in the clone's destruction and Orochimaru getting off scot-free.
Rising out of a nearby tree-branch, he quickly called back the blade known as Kusanagi and leapt downward swinging his sword at his opponent, who was quick to parry and return a swing of his own.
They exchanged blows, neither getting a hit in edgewise. Jinsoku blurred behind his opponent, leaving an after-image in his wake, and swung his blade down, slashing through the skin from shoulder to hip. Orochimaru screamed in agony at the strike.
In a move of desperation, he spun around and swung his blade in a wide arc, hoping to cut him or at the very least give him some breathing room. Achieving the latter, he returned his blade to its original resting place inside his body and quickly went through the seals he needed and slammed his hand on the ground crying out, "Summoning Jutsu!"
When the giant cloud of smoke disappeared, an even larger snake was left behind with Orochimaru on its head. He quickly ordered it to attack, but what happened next surprised even Sensui as he hadn't expected anything from that quarter.
It wasn't until Orochimaru summoned the snake that Sasuke finally worked up the nerve to run through a series of seals and thought, Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!
The Ensuing ball of fire burst forth from the tiny ring around his mouth and sped toward the fighters. Jinsoku, having seen it with his Sharingan, jumped out of the way just in time for Orochimaru to scream in pain and his summon to disappear in the same manner it arrived as it didn't want to be deep fried, leaving its master to face the flames alone, having not expected the snake to run away like that, never once realizing that the clan of summons he controlled were seriously considering breaking the contract as he hadn't actually done anything to help them fight, tending to leave it to them which often resulted in them getting hurt. He had even refused to undergo sage training with them, and so, with this last act of making them do all the work, Orochimaru the Snake Sannin was no longer Snake and simply Sannin.
Emboldened his teammate's success, Naruto clapped his hands and cried out, "Wind Style: Gale Palm!"
Sakura, meanwhile, was cowering in the bushes too afraid to move.
Sasuke, on the other hand, quickly threw several shuriken and a couple kunai into the chakra-enhanced wind and watched as they were propelled at increased speeds toward the former Snake Sannin.
Orochimaru was confident he could avoid the incoming weapons, but that was before Jinsoku stabbed him in the gut. When his body was peppered with small blades, it turned to mud once more. The battle definitely wasn't going the way he had planned.
Orochimaru frowned at the proceedings. He hadn't counted on Iwa's Quicksilver Sensui showing up, least of all helping a Konoha team. He wouldn't be able to deal with him and the Genin at the same time, no matter how weak they were, because they would coordinate and strike him from all sides and it wouldn't be smart to try and attack them all at the same time because Sensui would protect them and he could potentially be defeated, so for now he would retreat and try his luck during the month reprieve.
But before he could leave, his opponent struck, and the snake lover was barely able to dodge the blade that cut the tree he was hiding behind in two. He wasn't a coward by any stretch of the imagination, but he also wasn't suicidal. He knew that if it came down to it, Sensui would win. His Kekkei Genkai giving him an advantage that he couldn't match, and so, after creating another mud clone he switched with it and shunshined away.
Honestly he couldn't have kept it up for much longer, with the cycle of making a clone and substituting with it only for it to get destroyed and him open to attack and repeat the procedure wasn't doing anything in his favor.
All in all, he had no other option but to run. Besides, he needed to be in tiptop shape for the invasion in a month. Plus the wounds he had received hurt like hell and he needed to get Kabuto to heal them. His shedding technique would exhaust him too much because of their severity.
The battle over, the Iwa nin sheathed his sword and turned around, his eyes deactivating as he did so. Team 7 tensed, readying jutsu and kunai in case he attacked, when he bowed his head, and began to walk away, leaving the preteens behind him gaping in shock. But before he could disappear completely, a soft voice called out, "Jinsoku-san? Are you there? Where are you?"
Sasuke stiffened. He would recognize it anywhere. After all, a henge only changes an appearance, not the person's voice. Granted it was obvious that it didn't sound completely feminine but that could easily be explained by the fact that Akahana was trying to make herself less noticeable, not that it worked.
The henged girl walked quietly into the clearing and stared in shock at the team before her, and tried to still her quickly beating heart as it increased in speed at the sight of the raven-haired genin before her.
Sasuke, exhausted from using jutsus, had deactivated his Sharingan and thus missed the blush.
The thusly named Jinsoku turned to face his unknowing charge with just the hint of a smile in his eyes before it vanished a second later.
"Naruto-san, we must be from this place, it is not safe, and I already have the scroll we need, so we shall be off to the tower."
And with that, after bowing shortly to Team 7, he turned around and disappeared in a blur of speed, with Akahana a few seconds after him, her hesitation only coming from Naruto and Sasuke calling after her.
Of course, what happened next no one saw coming.
A team of Sound genin burst through the trees and latched onto the girl, the one holding her bearing strange devices in his hands.
The one at the front was wielding a metal gauntlet on his right arm. His let eye was covered by a bandage and appeared to be the leader. In fact, he appeared to be a mummy if not for the eye and hair sticking out the top of the wrapping.
The second member of the team was wearing grey camo pants with a black top and her headband around her head, her black hair reaching down to her butt.
The last member had spiky, dark hair and dark eyes. He wore a beige shirt with two black stripes and three prints of the kanji for death down the front. His forehead protector had a face guard made of cloth similar to the Nidaime Hokage.
Jinsoku, too far away to do anything at the moment, stopped when he heard her scream, and stopped right in front of the tower, and quickly turned around, going as fast as he dared to go because his secondary bloodline caused muscles to break up if used too long.
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, on the other hand, were in prime position to beat the crap out of them, unfortunately they were recovering from the fight with Orochimaru (or at least Naruto and Sasuke were) and thus not in any position to wage a prolonged fight with a fresh opponent, but they readied themselves nonetheless.
The female of the team laughed, "Ha! You think you can beat us? Just hand over Sasuke and we will let the rest of you go."
Akahana stiffened in her captor's arms at the statement, who noticed and chuckled darkly, "So, you care about him, do you? What is he? You boyfriend? Hahaha!"
"Give it a rest, Zaku, we're here for the Uchiha, not to laugh at a pathetic fanboy," the last member growled.
"Fine, have it your way, Dosu, I was just having some fun. Although, this guy is rather small for a guy."
"That doesn't matter, now onto more important things." He turned his attention back to the weary Konoha Shinobi. "The Uchiha or your lives, starting with the brat. So what will it be? Wait, what are you doing?"
Unfortunately for Dosu and his team, however, Naruto had been running through a series of hand seals that he was going through while they were talking and when they noticed it was too late as he cried out, "Wind Style: Scattering Flower Dance!"
A cyclone of petals appeared before him and launched themselves at the Sound Team. Zaku quickly released his prisoner and threw up his arms, shouting, "Decapitating Airwaves!"
A wall of air threw itself at the petal attack which proceeded to shred the leaves into tiny pieces. He started laughing madly, noticing his former captive running through seals herself, but the girl did, and quickly threw a needle into a pressure point in her neck, incapacitating her.
Sasuke, seeing her treatment at the Sound nins' hands, growled, unconsciously activated his Sharingan and started to go through the seals for his signature technique before he stopped, remembering that Akahana would be hit as well. It was just as well since Sakura decided to make herself useful and threw a kunai with an explosive tag at Dosu. Only for Zaku to again stop the attack, redirecting the weapon into a nearby tree, which erupted in the ensuing explosion of energy and started to fall on the Sound nin, who leapt out of the way leaving their prisoner behind.
Naruto started to run for her but Sasuke beat him by a mile.
He appeared on the other side of the downed tree with her tucked safely in his arms. He looked down at her, relief evident on his face. It was short lived, however, as Dosu drove his fist into the tree and obliterated it.
Naruto, thinking quickly, yelled, "Sasuke, get her out of here!"
Now, while Zaku and Dosu didn't catch it, the girl did, and plans quickly began forming in her head.
Sasuke, not needing another prompt, took off into the trees as fast as he could with a person in his arms.
Dosu and the girl, who will now be called Kin, ran after them. Zaku, throwing up a wall of air at Naruto and Sakura, followed shortly after.
Naruto, after cancelling out the attack, raced after the bastards, with Sakura behind him.
The chase was on, and it would only be a matter of time before someone would catch them. The only thing that wasn't known, was who.
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