I hate Naruto fighting Sasuke, it should never be a tie. Sasuke is a hundred times more skilled than Naruto. Naruto, all he has is power. It should be no contest, we never see Naruto work on taijutsu or anything but big, dramatic skills.
Short yes, but my gosh does it work! Love this chapter.
Hinata never thought it possible, but she wanted to jab Naruto into oblivion. She had thought she loved him... but hearing him bitch about Mika and his statement about Sasuke's death, well it irked her on a scale she had never expected. It took all she had to not turn and scream at him. As it was, she was paying extreme attention to all things around her, including all the traps and tripwire they passed.
After what felt like a week, they finally made it to their target, and She reported what she saw. A Barrel, four targets all exhausted with charged chakra and covered in cuts and bruises.
Mika frowned in that direction. "We need to be careful, Neji you work and corral with Naruto, Kiba with Hinata. Tenten you stay with me. Naruto obey Neji... Now, We will blitz them, in...now!"
And they rushed forward, just as their targets threw a kunai laden with explosive tags at them. Mika saved them by tossing his own kunai pinning the tag to a large boy with orange hair, blowing him into chunks of meat. He knew the others were not strong enough to kill, not most of them.
"Jirobo!" Their enemies called out as the others landed.
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Mika felt a presence, a strong potent energy so vast that even a nonsensor could taste. One of them, a gray haired one, looked in shock as a man with white hair popped down. Like with Danzo, they oozed such power that the air seemed heavy with it.
"Mika..." The man said, his voice deep and potent. "I was told that you were likely to be on the mission to stop Sasuke, and that I was to make you this offer... Join us. Serve Orochimaru, who will bestow greater power than you can understand upon you." Mika, in a rare moment, was so stunned he actually gaped.
A girl with red hair snarled. "He is trash, why have trash serve Lord Orochimaru, Kimmimaro?"
The man, Kimmimaro, turned to her. "That boy is far from trash. He is already a jonin at twelve, a remarkable healer and kenjutsu user. He bested Gaara and Sasuke, he is far from trash and would be a perfect servant to our Lord." He turned to Mika. "And you, boy, what say you?"
Shivering, Mika's thoughts raced. 'First Danzo and now Orochimaru. What side do I pick?' And then, something in his brain, a distant chakra... Danzo's chakra, surged in his brain. A dormant genjutsu that Mika could taste, kicked in and Mika knew he had no choice but to obey. "Sorry, but for reasons I cannot explain, I have to decline your offer."
And the air shifted, a dark energy filling the air as all of Orochimaru's minions bar the white haired man activated some kind of curse mark, making things that much more difficult...
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was a fun chapter, but I love it.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.