Chapter 56: Fight of Fights! Fallen Blossoms!
At the Final Valley. . .
"I'LL CRUSH YOU DATTEBAKON!" Satsuki roared with fury as she rushed towards the traitor, the claw of dark crimson Bijū chakra scratching through the ground as steam followed behind her, enshrouding her as a result.
Quickly getting over her initial shock, Sakura narrow her eyes as she instinctively knew that the Uchiha was tapping into the Kyūbi's power. "Alright. . .no more playing around then. . ." She declared as she made a hand seal and multiple water tendrils erupted from her side, each glowing a sickly green as they charge straight at her opponent.
Satsuki however easily saw them coming and could had simply dodge them thanks to her enhance state. While she indeed avoided some because she just need to move slightly and the tendrils would harmlessly pass her sides, she didn't dodge most of them, instead she used her new chakra claw to slash and slice through the water tendrils into steam as they came in contact in a manner similar to a wild beast.
HISS! HISS! HISS!
The sounds of water hissing echoed as the Uchiha continued her charge as her Sharingan continued to glow along with her dark crimson chakra claw. Once she was within range, she kicked off the water surface and jumped right above the rest of the water tendrils.
Sakura saw this as her chance and made another hand seal while focusing a large amount of her Curse Mark's chakra towards the water below her and turning a part of the lake sickly green. "How useless~!" She soon taunted, her voice still full of confidence as she smirked under her mask made of earth.
The a massive water tendril shot out from right behind the traitor as they charged at the Uchiha at high speeds that made it look as if was a giant drill and let out a loud humming sound.
Not even concern by the incoming attack, Satsuki growled while she cocked back her claw and tighten her grip. The chakra appendage glowed sinisterly and even more intensity before the fist expanded and tripled in size. "TAKE THIS!" Satsuki roared as she swung the huge chakra appendage forward.
CLASH! HISS!
Both the giant water tendril and chakra fist clash into each other, each trying to overwhelm the other while creating a massive cloud of hot steam. The clash however didn't last more than a few moments as Satsuki suddenly open the fist and the claw shredded and with the force of the chakra completely evaporated the water tendrils.
"WHAT!?" Sakura roared in fury to this happening.
That was all the traitor managed to say as the huge chakra claw struck right on top of her and grabbed her. The Uchiha then land on the water surface while she made a large heave of her arm to pull the giant chakra appendage and by extension, the armored kunoichi as she began to spin her around.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! BIIIIIIIIIIITCH!" Sakura screamed in pain while being swung through the air as the chakra arm was crushing and burning her while flailing around, but it was thanks to its impressive defence that saved her from being completely crushed or burned.
Not even caring for the screams, the Uchiha finally managed to pulled her claw completely and released the traitor. Thanks to the spinning and powerful swing, the armored kunoichi was sent flying at breakneck speeds until she crashed into the rocky walls on the other side of the lake.
BAM! CRASH!
Sakura was left inside a large crater, most of her armor had huge cracks and some parts were completely destroyed as some water leaked from the armor. "Grrrrrrrr! Don't. . .underestimate me. . .~!" She growled out with an infuriate tone as her Curse Mark began to glow from inside, its continued to spread to even more of her real body as her armor began to regenerate using the earth and water nearby.
Satsuki then quickly pulled back her huge chakra appendage as it quickly return to its original size and shape. She then narrowed her eyes and grind her teeth when she saw the traitor getting out of the large crater while preparing her claw once more.
As some blood leaked out of her earth mask from some coughing, Sakura's eyes glowed the sick greenish-yellow as she glared at the one she hated most while her exposed hair started to clump together. "You think your strong now that you have to use that demon's power? Well it's nothing compare to Orochimaru-sama's Curse Mark! Nothing I tell you!" She furiously declared as she summon multiple water whips that took the form of a snake, each glowed with a bright green-yellow glow while they hissing ominously with smoky purple fangs. "And I'll show you just how strong I AM!" She then declared with insanity in her voice as she thrusted her arm forward, the water snakes all charging forward on her command.
HISS! HISS! HISS!
Satsuki's Sharingan witnessed the water snakes rushing towards her at a fast velocity, some of them charged straight barring their large fangs, while some were underwater, which serve little purpose of hiding them as they were still visible because of their green glow.
Then as the first snakes reached the Uchiha, the ravenette merely lean to the side as the snakes harmlessly passed her. However just as they had passed her, Satsuki motioned her chakra arm and slashed right through the snake made of water on her right, evaporating it in an instant from the intense heat. She then quickly swung her claw to the left and slammed it to the one in the right, the hit was so powerful that it literally burst all of the water apart.
"WHAT!?" Sakura got out with widen eyes as she couldn't believe how easy her snakes were destroyed, but just as quickly she narrowed them with anger. "Try this then!" She declared before motioning her hands as water coating her arms to create tendrils while also sending out more snakes of water.
SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH!
Suddenly from below, the water snakes that had rushed underwater sprang upwards in an attempt to crush raventee's eyes meanwhile moved frantically at every directions to see every one of their patterns. Finally setting on the one that was closest to her, she swung her claw at it and grabbed it, this allowed her to not only pulled herself out of the way, but also watch as the others slammed into one another.
"That's it. . .slaughter them all. . .massacre them. . ." The owner of the vile and dark voice stated in a tempting tone. "Unleash my power upon those that stand in your way. . ." It then practically demanded in a tone full of excitement as the dark crimson chakra continues leaking out, bubbling and pulsating all the while.
Still in midair Satsuki's expression and complexion was turning more and more savage in nature, grinding her teeth, her canines becoming sharper. While this was occurring, she narrowed her eyes at the snakes giving them a rage filled gaze. Then as if in slow motion, she cocked back her chakra claw, it gave out a slow pulse which continued to grow in intensity while it began to glow to a more darker hue of of red. The Uchiha then let out a mighty roar and swung her claw right over the bundle of snakes.
SLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH!
The results were instantaneous, the powerful slash had completely cut through the remaining snakes, the water didn't even get the chance to fall to the lake as the heat coming from the chakra claw was so intense that it completely evaporated the water.
As this all occurred, the armored Sakura growled in fury while grinding her teeth underneath her stone mask. "Grrrrrrr! You little. . ." She got out as she then started sending her both of the tendrils out towards the Uchiha.
The tendrils of water sailed just above the lakes surface with both speed and power that the water burst apart from them merely crossing from above.
Meanwhile Satsuki didn't moved from her spot, even in contrast to her angered expression and rising fury, she waited patiently for them to come. After all, for the kunoichi's eyes, the tendril were coming at her in slow motion and thanks to her increase of power, she dodged them with even greater speed and without fail.
Each time she dodge a tendril, the chakra slowly glowed a darker crimson. ". . ." Satsuki narrowed her eyes when she saw the tendrils paths and then looking at the traitor.
When the ravenette saw one of the tendrils was about to attack her in a vertical strike, she stop dodging as she quickly brought claw back and swung it horizontally to destroy it. However this action allowed the other one to be placed right behind the Uchiha.
Sakura's eyes widen as she saw the opening. "GOTCHA!" She got out with vile delight and not willing to let this opportunity slide, she quickly pulled the tendrils to slice the Uchiha's head off.
The tendrils moved even fast than ever before, but the Uchiha merely turn her head to looked at the tendrils coming and out stretch her claw. "Not a chance." Satsuki darkly declared as she went and held it with her claw while looking at the traitor with a dead serious expression on her face.
Sakura's eyes widened once more, this time in shock. "WHAT!?" She exclaimed with disbelief.
With her eyes flashing red, Satsuki tightened the grip the tendril some of the water began to vaporize from the contact of the intense heat from the chakra claw. Then the ravennette gave a massive pull to the tendri.
"WHAT THE!?" Sakura got out as she was jerked towards her enemy. (reaction of being pulled) it towards her.
As the Uchiha completely pulled the tendrils, she tightened her hold and completely vaporize it, then she concentrate her chakra onto her claw. "NO MERCY!" Satsuki suddenly roared as she delivered a vicious straight punch at the traitors face.
Sakura's entire body flew forwards while her head remain in contact with the claw for a few instances, before she was sent flying backwards from the brutal strike. "GAH!" She got out in pain from the strike as she saw that her parts of her helmet received multiple cracks from the savage blow, though the whites of her eyes soon vanished, completely replaced with black.
However the raventte didn't stop her assult there as she lower her stand to that of a runners and then dashed with enough force to blow away a lot of the lake's water below her. "LIKE HELL THAT'S ENOUGH AFTER EVERYTHING YOU DONE HARUNO!" Satsuki declared as she followed up with a flurry of chakra enhanced kicks
BAM! BAM! BAM!
The armored kunoichi meanwhile was left helpless as she could neither block or defend from the brutal barrage, which cause a lot of her armor to gain many more smaller cracks, though they didn't cause much to her real body. Regardless, with each hit she received, the traitor's rage for her opponent only continued to grow as a result.
Once Satsuki manage to make as much damage to the armor as she possibly could, she cocked back her hardening chakra claw and began channeling even more chakra the before that it gave off a menacing aura. "TAKE THIS! LETHAL PAIN!" She then roared with fury while wildly slashing the already cracking armored.
SLASH! SLASH! CRACK!
"!?" Sakura was stun beyond belief as she saw even larger gashes being made all over her prized armor. "NO WAY!" She exclaimed in shock within her mind to the occurrence.
Even as she continued to glide through the lake's surface, more and more of the earth of the armor started to break and fall off the traitorous kunoichi, sinking into the water at it kept breaking, until. . .
CRASH!
After the traitor finally stopped, but only until her entire body violently collided into the side of the rocky walls. As the smoked cleared more and more pieces of her armor continued to fall while the user could only lay in the crater as most of her armor had been destroyed and a lot of the main body was now visible.
Sakura didn't move a muscle and her hair was covering her eyes. However it was clear that she was not out of commission yet. Then the sound of her Curse Marks could be heard ominously moving.
As the Uchiha gracefully landed back on the lake's surface, then when she turned to look at the traitor she saw that her Curse Mark was slithering and spreading even more that it nearly cover most of her body. Now she saw that the pigment of her exposed skin had changed to become a light shade of orange and had some green scale like features. ". . ." Satsuki merely narrowed her eyes in disgust to witnessing these changes but made no comments.
Then the Traitor finally began to move as her hair finally parted to show a expression of pure rage, not for the being tossed around like a ragdoll or crashing into the cliffside, but for what had happened to her prize armor. "Che. . .cheap shot. . ." Sakura struggled out in annoyance, showing that all of her teeth had slightly sharpened.
Rumble. . .rumble. . .rumble. . .
As Sakura slowly began raising back to her feet, low rumbling began to echoed from the cliffside. Then her sickish green colored chakra expanded and began to drawn in the earth around her. The pieces of earth began to restore her shattered armor, but from the small cracks that remain, it wasn't at full restoration.
The traitor's eyes narrowed as she had an evil and hatred radiating from them. "Alright then. . .My turn. . ." Sakura declared in a calm yet raged filled tone.
SPLASH! SPLASH!
Sakura then forced her hands into the water as the water began to raise and coated her arms, then her Curse Mark began to wrap around the water until it gave it a gel like appearance. Then the gel like water slowly turned into the same water like snakes as before, only they looked a bit larger than her regular water whips.
HISSSSSS! HISSSSSS!
Satsuki however didn't look concern at this development, besides its gel like appearance, she simply thought that the traitor was just going to use just another variant form of her water whips she had used before. All the while the traitor was practically discarding her humanity in the process.
Without a single wasted moment, Sakura spread out both her arms which caused her new whips to extend to her sides. Then she tossed both of her arms back to get as much momentum as possible while they began extending to three times its size. Once she felt it was enough her eyes gave a ominous shine as she swung her new whips at full strength.
WHOOSH! SLICE! SLICE! SLICE!
The gel like snake flew across the lake at even greater velocity than the ones before ever did, they were so fast that it almost sounded like a very sharp blade was being swag, cutting the air in the process.
However just as before, the Uchiha saw them coming as in slow motion and easily got out of the snakes path. Once they had passed her, she quickly got out of the way as they simply turned around to attack her from her expose sides.
"The same tricks. . ." Satsuki thought with complete disappointment as she quickly did a full 180 degree turn and gave a massive slash with her claw, destroying both of the snake's heads instantly.
Then as in on slow motion the Uchiha began to turn around and got ready to charge at the traitor and hit her with a much more deadlier barrage. However at the exact moment she had completely turned around she heard a very strange bubbling sound before. . .
SLICE! SLICE!
"!?" Satsuki's eyes widen in pure shocked as she saw her own blood bursting out of her shoulders sides and felt her blood leaking out her sides.
Acting on pure instincts, the ravennette shushing from her current position and reappeared a few dozen feet away from where she was. She then looked up trying to see what just happen as her eyes widen even more at the sight.
What the Uchiha saw was that the gel like snakes main body was still extended in the same way they were first swung, but now there were two heads at the very end of bodies. The heads slowly turned towards her and she saw her own blood was dripping from their mouths.
"What the!? How!?" Satsuki thought in confusion and widened eyes to this development while her Bijū chakra slowly began to heal her wounds with the chakra from her claw slithering to the wounds.
HISS! HISS! HISS!
The gel like snakes continued to hiss with malevolent intent as they glared at the Uchiha along with their master. "Strike her down. . ." Sakura soon ordered.
On command the snakes charged at the Uchiha with their surprising high velocity. Meanwhile the Uchiha once again saw them coming, but she didn't want a repeat of their earlier clash. So watching their trajectories, she narrowly avoid each of them while trying to get at a safe distance so that she could analysed them.
WHOOSH! SLICE!
Unfortunately that idea was completely scratched out as the moment the snakes were avoided, they changed course and prepared to attack the ravenette's expose back like last time. But unlike that time, Satsuki never took off her eyes on them, so she quickly began dodging and weaving out of their paths.
This deadly dance between the Uchiha and snakes felt like it was hours in the eyes of her Sharingan, but it reality were but a few instances. That quickly changed when two of the gel snake attacked from both of her sides with their mouths wide open.
Satsuki quickly adjusted her body so that they could harmlessly passed to her sides, but that was when she saw it was a mistake. Suddenly the snakes turned to cross one another and wrapped around her body as she felt them cutting through her skin and blood began to burst out. "AUGH!" She winced in pain.
HISS! HISS!
Then the remaining snakes didn't waste a single moment as they charged to impale the Uchiha's head to effectively killing her. Satsuki's eyes widen as she saw them coming, so she concentrated her Bijū chakra and let out a violent burst of chakra, instantly destroying not only the snakes that had wrapped her but the ones that nearly put two massive holes on her skull.
Once free, Satsuki shushin away once more and began panting heavily. The hissing sounds of her wounds could be heard healing the wounds around her body, but only this time it was taking more time to heal by the size of the damage.
SPURT! SPURT! SPURT! SPURT!
The Uchiha quickly turned the moment she heard multiple water gushing out, she was left startled as she saw that the fours gel like snakes that nearly killed her were now a total of eight, each one and every one of them were hissing at her while they bare their fangs towards her.
It was then that Satsuki narrowed her eyes at finally realized what was happening. ". . .They keep multiply the more I slice off their heads. . ." She thought in annoyance while reading her claw once more.
Sakura then retracted all of her gel like snakes, all the while she smirked with a vile expression behind her helmet as she ordered two of them to raise her above the water while the rest began hissing at the Uchiha. "Curse Water Style: Hydra Gel Whips. . .~" She darkly declared with a smirk underneath her stone mask.
Satsuki could only glared at the traitor as she watch the many gel like snakes began hissing menacingly at her.
The traitor then turn her head and effectively petted one of her snakes. "This is another one of my aces~ Combing my water snakes with my Curse Mark, each time they are destroyed two more will take their place, not to mention that they have minds of their own~" Sakura then revealed with vile glee as the snake she petted let out a low hiss. "In other words. . .You'll never be able to destroy them before I slice and turn you apart into itty bitty pieces~!" She soon declared in vile excitement and glee.
The Uchiha however narrowed her eyes to the explanation of the jutsu and realized that she was now at a major disadvantage, she couldn't attack them or more will come out, but at the same time she couldn't get to near them or risk getting surrounded by them and getting wrap by them again.
"Though I have no choice but to get up close and personal. . ." Satsuki thought to herself while frowning. "I need to get around those snakes so that I can reach her and finish her off with a full powered hit. . ." She then added as she began channelling her chakra through her entire body while the heat of her chakra claw began to intensify that the water below her began to evaporate.
The Uchiha then rushed forward once more with her claw ready with narrow eyes. "Don't stop. . .can't stop now. . ." She thought in a determined and serious manner.
The armored kunoichi on the other hand didn't move as she looked on the incoming Uchiha with bated breath and a vile grin behind her stone mask. Then without a single word, the gel like snakes rushed forward, hissing all the way.
As the snakes continued their charge, they began moving in a fanatic and unpredictable ways, moving sideways, zig zagging, up, down, vertical, diagonal and any manner of ways. This caused the Uchiha to widen her eyes in shocked, her Sharingan saw to many paths that the snakes could and would take that nearly blinded her sight from seeing them.
"Damn!" Satsuki cursed as she forced herself to a stop and began backpedaling.
No sooner the Uchiha did so that, the area she was last located was swarmed with the traitors snakes. However they quickly pulled up and continued their assault until their prey had gain enough distance for them chace after.
Though there wasn't any clash, Sakura's smirk didn't fell, in fact it actually widen even more with insanity as she silently commended her snakes to return to her. "Hehehe~! Looks like you can't handle multiple targets moving at once. Your Sharingan can only focuses on a few targets at a time right~!?" She stated as her suspicious were proven correct.
Satsuki meanwhile could do nothing but grind her teeth at hearing that since it was true, while her Sharingan could see chakra paths and can predict where they will land, but if there were more paths that her mind can't keep up with, her brain can't keep up and process with all of paths in front of her at the moment.
While the Uchiha knew that she could handle this disadvantage with more training and years of practice. However, right now, she didn't have neither of those, an aspect that she knew that the traitor was going to take full advantage of.
"Well~?" Sakura taunted and charged as fast as her armor could let her. "What will you do now~!?" She then shouted the while her around snakes hissed loudly and dashed in a frantic manner.
Satsuki's eyes widen as her eyes once again saw a myriad of paths from the incoming attacks, forcing her to take a defensive approach and dodge every single attack that come her way.
However that was easier said than done, after all the Uchiha wasn't facing a simple jutsu that she can either dodge or break, it was like she was actually facing with multiple sentient opponents that can replicate.
SLASH! HISS! SLASH! HISS!
As the ravenette continued weaving and dodging across the lakes surface with incredible speed, however as time quickly when on, one or two snakes manage to bypass her guard and manage to cut through her skin, leaving large bleeding gashes. Not even bother to look, much less trying to attend said injuries, the girl desperately continued dodging the snakes or risk being ensnared by them again. And as wrong as it sounded, being wrapped by then would be much worse than being slice to bits if the damage she had received last time was of any indication. .
HISSSSSSS! SLICE! SLICE! SLICE!
However the water snakes kept moving themselves as they, slowly but surely, were constantly able to bypass the Uchiha's guard and deliver more and more cuts throughout the girl's body, creating even more wounds and tearing her clothes slightly as a result.
"AUGH!" Satsuki winced in pain as she was attack from every direction by the gel like snakes.
HISSSSSS!
Suddenly every and all gel like snakes appeared around the Uchiha's surroundings, circling around her as they all lunged at her all at once.
Satsuki's eyes widen in pure terror as she couldn't see anyway of dodging anymore, not unless she wanted to make the situation worse for herself. "AH SCREW IT!" She shouted as she made her chakra claw into a fist and desperately channeled her chakra into both her legs and dashed upwards with her fist raised high.
There results were instant as the Uchiha burst through the assault and manage to get out of area. However the moment she landed at a safe distance away, her fears were proven correct. . .
SPURT! SPURT! SPURT!
All of the gel like snakes that were destroyed by her attack were instantly replaced by two newer one. Each and every one of the snakes then turn to face her while letting out low hissing noises.
"Che. . ." Satsuki got out in annoyance once more while she was panting a bit. She winced in pain from all her wounds but her Bijū chakra began healing them. "This is going nowhere. . .gotta get rid of these damn gel snakes. . .But how? They just keep multiplying every time I take one out. . ." She soon thought as she started thinking of what she could do to turn this situation around.
From within the seal, the vile chuckle echoed through the bars. "Hehehe! Well it looks like the girl may need some assistance. I believe I have the perfect trick to deal with this. . .annoyance. . ." It chuckled to itself as a dark crimson glow started emanating and flowed out from the large gates.
HISS! HISS! HISS!
Not letting her opponent any chance or room to breath, Sakura sent her snakes while they let out hissing sounds. Once again, they charge in a frantic and erratic manner from every single direction at the Uchiha.
Satsuki could only back dash as the snakes sliced and pierced the area she stood, she then concentrate her eyes to focus only the snakes that were about to reached her. While it wasn't perfect as shown from the multiple cuts she received from this exchange, she manage to distract her mind from the endless paths from the myriad of possible ones which let her to be more effectively dodge them, if only slightly.
Once at a decent distance away, the Uchiha breathed heavily a bit while her Bijū chakra quickly began healing her wounds. "Looks like I got the hang of dodging them. . .but I'm just prolonging the fight. . ." Satsuki thought to herself while narrowing her eyes at trying to find away to counter this annoying jutsu.
And just as the Uchiha thought that. . .
VRRRN. . .VRRRN. . .VRRN. . .
"!?" Satsuki was startled when she heard a sinister humming, she briefly looked at her chakra claw as it started flicker in a dark crimson color as she could felt even more heat radiating from it.
"Now then my dear. . .let me show you how you should really use this. . .hehehe. . ." The vile voice echoed from the girl's head in a amused manner.
This in turn left the Uchiha confused to the words. "How to use it!? What are you-!?" Satsuki began to question, however. . .
The armor wielding kunoichi's eyes widen in excitement as she saw the Uchiha's attention complete shattered. "An opening!" Sakura declared in excitement as she then dashed forward herself with her snakes beside her.
VRRRN! VRRRN! VRRN!
Before Satsuki could do anything about the incoming attack, she felt her chakra coated arm began to move on its on. "W-What the-!?" She got out while trying to regain control of her limb but was unable to as it stretched straight forward and glowing with even more intensity.
HISSSSS!
"SHIT!" Satsuki cursed as she saw the snakes right in front of her while desperately trying to move her unresponding arm.
But just as the ravenette's panic was about to reached its limit, she heard a dark chuckle inside of her mind. "Let me show you just how to really used this claw to slaughter our enemies~!" The dark voice declared with a sinister amusement as the Chakra claw on the girl's arm suddenly reached a darker blood red color and then. . .
STRETCH! SPURT! SPURT! SPURT! SPURT!
The claw suddenly stretched and extended as it carved right through all the water snakes in a slithering manner with no end in sight for it. However because of the intense heat the claw was emitting, any and all water the snakes have was completely evaporated upon impact. Then it continued rushing through the snakes while aiming straight at the traitor.
Thought initially shocked by the sight of the extending chakra claw, Sakura's mind quickly recovered as she got out of the claws way just in time to avoid it hitting her. "WHAT THE HELL!?" She shouted in complete shock and annoyance.
Meanwhile the Uchiha was just as surprised by this as the traitor was. "What the-!?" Satsuki got out in confusion not knowing that she could do that, while completely forgetting about what the voice just had said before shaking it off. "The hell with figuring out how this thing works! I just have to make due with what I got dattebakon. . ." She soon decided in a serious manner.
"Hehe~ Best decision you've made so far my dear~" The vile voice quietly remarked in amusement.
It wasn't long for Sakura to replaced her surprised with rage as she began to tremble in uncontrolled rage, the fact that her prized jutsus were countered one after another by the Uchiha only made it worse. "GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" She growled out in rising and smoldering fury as her eyes glowed with ferocity.
As the Uchiha's chakra arm returned to its normal length, she she looked at it and slightly extended it to get a feel of it.
However this brief distraction caused Sakura's anger to grow even more as she thought that she was being ignored. "Kill. . .Kill. . .KILL!" Sakura growled out, her anger and hatred rising further and further to the one she hated the most, but somehow managed to still have her composure to not attack blindly.
Then the traitor took a deep breath, trying desperately recall all of her teachings she had as well as the grueling punishments of not listening to them. After finally managing to calm down just enough to a controllable level she quickly analyzed what just happened. From the moment the Uchiha had extended her claw, how it completely eradicated her snakes before having the chance to replicate and finally how different their jutsus were comparing them to one another.
". . ." Satsuki said nothing once she was satisfied with that brief experimentation of her new ability. Then she turned her gaze and glared at the furious traitor with a dead serious expression, her Sharingan eyes glowing intensely towards her.
With one last snarled, Sakura finally came up with an attack that would succeed. So she quickly began making the same hand seals as before, but they quickly double in amount. "CURSED WATER STYLE: HYDRA LEGION!" She loudly declared.
On command, a large amount of water surface from below the armored kunoichi, the Curse Mark expanded towards the water and gave it the same sick green color. Then the water burst into hundreds of the same gel like snakes all were either attached on the traitor's back or even the lake itself.
HIIIIIIIIIIISS!
The legion of snakes all hissed in unison while both them and their caster charged straight towards the Uchiha with full intention of ripping her apart. But just when their were a mere meters away from their target, the snakes all herder in front of the armored kunoichi, forming a massive tsunami like mass of snakes.
Satsuki however tisked at this development in annoyance as she swung her claw coated arm back. "Getting desperate and wanting to overwhelm me with numbers, huh? Not going to work though." She thought to herself in a serious manner before her claw briefly glowed with intense heat before she thrusting it forward, instantly extending it towards the legion gel snakes.
Even from behind the massive wave of snakes, Sakura easily saw the chakra apandage heading to destroy her snakes again. She continued to watch the claw getting closer with narrowed eyes. And just as the claw was about to reach her legion of snake, she formed another set of hand seals. "LIKE THE SAME THING WILL WORK ON ME TWICE! CURSED WATER STYLE: ANACONDA ENSNAREMENT!" She roared in her mind and she finished with a snake seal.
Suddenly from within the legion of snakes, the ravenette saw two large glowing eyes shine with ominous light. Before the Uchiha could process what she saw a massive gel like anaconda appeared from within the legion as it released a massive roar. Then with frightening reflexes, the anaconda curled around the claw, holding it down as a result, though it was slowly evaporating because of the massive heat, it still held it with bone shattering strength.
The Uchiha's eyes widened slightly in surprised to seeing that. "What!? Are you serious dattebakon!?" Satsuki thought in annoyance while unable to move her claw.
However that was the least of the Uchiha's concerns as her startlement quickly turn into terror when she saw the smaller ones going around her claw and heading straight at her.
Satsuki quickly tried to jumped or dashed out of the way, but was quickly reminded that she was unable to move. "SHIT!" The Uchiha cursed in her head as she used her remaining hand to braced for impact.
From within the seal. . .
Dark crimson chakra continued to flow out, but with an even faster velocity than ever before. While inside of the large cage, the low dark chuckling was hear while a dark crimson eyes glowed from within. "Hehehe~ This is getting fun now~ How about we. . .raise the stakes. . .just a bit~?" It suggested to itself with vile amusement with its eyes flickering.
THUMP! THUMP!
Suddenly, Satsuki's eyes widened when she began to feel a powerful surge of chakra from within her. Then her mind began to feel numb from the surge as she slowly began to grind her teeth, trying to withstand it, however an overwhelming rage began to take over her. ". . .Whatever's coming, better help. . ." She thought in a serious manner as she didn't even care what was happening anymore and just wanted to take down the traitor by any means necessary.
As if letting the surge of chakra take control, the Bijū chakra appendage glowed with blood red color. Time seem to slow down as the legion of snakes were but a few centimeters away from reaching the Uchiha's face, however her gaze were devoid of any of their seriousness they would have when fighting and were now filled with nothing but pure rage as her Sharingan eyes continued to glow.
Suddenly another claw suddenly appeared to came out from the main one and crushed the snake that was but an inch away from the Uchiha's face. Then time seem to returned as even more chakra claws came out from the extended claw, as each one of them began eradicate the smaller snakes.
SPURT! SPURT! SPURT!
Sakura eyes could only widen in horror as she watch her snakes being completely eradicated once again. "NO! NOT AGAIN!" She exclaimed in both shock and denial.
Meanwhile, as the snakes were being destroyed, the main chakra claw slowly began to doubles in size. The gel like anaconda was desperately trying to hold it down, but could do nothing but wail in agony because of the intense heat and painfully expanding its body. With futile struggle it continued to hold on until. . .
SPURT! SPLASH!
The large gel like anaconda exploded in a violent burst of water as its remains began raining down from all around the two kunoichis while the droplets that landed on the claw evaporated instantly from the intense heat.
"WHAT!?" Sakura roared with pure shocked as she couldn't believe her own eyes.
However the traitor had little time to fully recovering from her shock as the massive claw headed straight at her. It was at this moment that one could clearly see the massive size the chakra claw had gain as it made the armored kunoichi looked like a small doll in comparison.
Just as Sakura had managed to regain her senses, it was too late as she was grabbed in a powerful hold that would rivaled her destroyed anaconda. "AUGH!" She got out with a strain and painful tone while struggling to get herself free..
Satsuki briefly stared at the traitor with her enraged filled eyes, but she wasn't planning on standing by and letting this chance go by. "NO MERCY!" She declared as she clutched harder her claw.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Sakura began screaming in pain from the tight hold while her precious armor was slowly cracking all over. "NONONONONONO!" She struggled out in a panic.
Satsuki then focus more charka on her claw, it didn't just made her hold to tighten even more, but also swung it and by extension the traitor up in the air. Then with one mighty roar she swung it towards the mountain edge.
SLAM! CRAAAAASH!
There was a massive crash through the mountain edge shattering a large part of it. Meanwhile, Sakura was left briefly daze as she flew upwards because of the force of the impact while leaving massive damage on both her armor and herself as blood was leaking from many visible wounds.
Suddenly the chakra claw began to retract itself until it return to its normal size, but unlike before it's dark crimson color phased into a blood red color. The Uchiha grinded her teeth and then charges forward towards the dazed traitor.
"YOU THOUGHT I'D STOP THERE!?" Satsuki roared as she brought her claw back as it glowed with sinister crimson light before she thrusting it with an open palm strike, right into her chest. "YOU THOUGHT WRONG!" She declared with fury.
CRAAAAAAACK!
"!?" Sakura's eyes widen to their limit while gasping painfully as she felt all of the air escaping her lungs. Meanwhile her armor received even more massive blow that left larger spider like cracks all over her body.
". . ." Satsuki said nothing to this as the red glow from her Sharingan flared in a intense manner before pushing even more of her chakra into her claw. "ANNIHILATING CRASH!" She roared with pure fury.
BOOOOOM! SHATTER!
Then the chakra claw unleashed a powerful concentrated crimson chakra blast that not only destroyed a large part of the mountain but utterly shattered the traitor's earth/water armor. The blast has so much power that it sent her flying a great distance away from the Valley of the End, crashing through the earth and trees that were in her path.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Sakura was soon buried in rubble of earth and trees as a large smoke littered around the rubble. There was a long moment of silence until the traitor slowly began to push away all of the rubble and finally started to stand back up, as she did more and more fragments of what was left of her armor began breaking away.
Though that mighty blast did succeed in destroying the armor and cause heavy outer damage to Sakura's body which was shown by all of the bleeding that could be seen, it didn't manage to cause enough internal damage to the traitorous girls body to completely put her out of commission just yet.
Then the traitor's entire body began to shake violently, however, by no means it was out of fear, she was doing so out of pure fury and rage as her eyes glowed an intense sickly yellowish-green while having the appearance of a real snake's eyes. The traitorous kunoichi's armor was her pride and joy as it was a testament of all of her hard work and hellish training by every single shinobi that her masters had sent to help her.
However for Sakura it meant much more than that, it represent that no one could match, that not one could match her, or at least that's what she thought herself in her mind. So the moment when the Uchiha was slowly breaking as the fight went on until she had nearly shattering it, she in turn shattered her pride and everything she had to endure to attain it.
TAP!
It wasn't but a fraction of a second later that Satsuki landed but a few feet away from the traitor as she looked at her with the same intense rage filled eyes.
Sakura however didn't reacted at her opponent landing nearby, she was still looking at her shattering armor and shoke with even more intensity, before all of a sudden she stop and slowly began to raise her head. "I. . .had. . .enough. . ." Was all Sakura declared with a low yet enraged filled tone as she looked at the Uchiha with yellow snake like eyes.
Suddenly all of the remaining armor began to fall off the traitor's body and leaving her completely exposed. However as this was happening the Curse Mark was set ablaze as it spread all over her body until she was glowing in a sick green color.
The Uchiha then saw that the traitor's body was disturbingly moving as it was starting to change shape, from the top of her head to all the way down her feet. She first saw that both of her arms were slightly getting bigger and her fingertips were extending, sharpening and blackening as a result. Next there was ripping sounds as her pants were being shredded apart, but the glowing legs slowly began to merge together. Then the top of her head was began to turn into a rhombus shape with dark pink snake like scales while some of the ends of her hair started merging and were slowly starting to move on their own as if they were alive.
Finally the sick yellowish-green color from the Curse Mark began to vanish and blend with her scaly skin, revealing the disturbing form Sakura had taken. From below the waist, what used to be legs was now a long snake tail with sickly dark green scales with large white scale plates on the front.
Her torso still had a human shape and still had her pink shirt on, but now the skin was sick green color while her waist area had a few of the same bright green scales. Her arms were slightly longer, slender and also had the same sick green color, but her nails were long, sharp and black in color.
Finally the most disturbing feature of her new form was on her head, while her face still look the same save for her eyes that were now a sinister green color with slits pupils, her teeth were sharpened into fangs, three black scales on both her check and her chin, and her skin color, the top of her head had a large scaly dark pink and black headpiece that covered her entire head, while what used to be her hair had now changed into small snake like creatures that had mouths and glowing red eyes while hissing menacingly.
Meanwhile the Uchiha was still continued watching the traitor mutation into the hideous creature. She was so focused that she didn't realize that her dark crimson cloak that cover her left arm was slowly spreading towards her torso and then completely covered her entire body.
Satsuki's physical body also began to gain some changes as well, though not as extreme as the traitor's. The first to change was that her own nails started to grow out as they became like claws which was overshadowed by her having two chakra claws on both of her hands The Uchiha then had the urge to go on all fours with the nails on her feets also grew out into fangs. For the Uchiha's hair, it became more wild and untamed as it started to move like a whiplashing tail. Lastly for her face, the Uchiha gained dark fox like whisker marks that intensified her menacing appearance along with sharpened teeth that would tear through anything she would gnaw at.
Despite all of this changes on the girl's body, what really stood out the most was the chakra cloak that had envelop her completely, had taken on the silhouette of a fox shape form. However unlike before where it would just take a deform shape of a fox, this time it had a much more refine shape that it almost looked as if was a living breathing creature, but its appearance was nearly demonic as if it wanted nothing less than to kill all life that it comes across.
Finally, when the Uchiha's eyes reopened, they gain an ominous glow as the tomoes around it her red iris changed into sharper edges while in the center of her Sharingan her pupil became that of a fox. . .
A distance away from the valley. . .
WOOSH! WOOSH! WOOSH! WOOSH!
Within the shadows of the forest, an unknown number of hooded and shadowy blurs dashed through the trees in a stealthful manner. This blurs had such incredible speed and agility that the forest creatures didn't even detect them and only when they already passed them did they felt something.
FWOOOOOOOOOOSH!
However at that moment, a massive gust of wind suddenly blew through the air as it bent some of the trees back and even sent a few creatures flying from just the sheer intensity. Then once they reached the highest tree in the area the hooded blurs quickly jumped on top and stopped, because of the sun setting and the branches full of leaves their physical features couldn't be seen.
"Oi! Are we there yet!?" A very annoyed young male voice asked with a growl in his tone.
". . ." One of them didn't said anything but those that knew this person knew that he simply ignored the young male and was focus on the mission only.
"You know, its really annoying when you do that. . ." A young female voice stated with annoyance.
". . .Be patient you siblings. . .we are almost there. . ." An older more stern male voice ordered.
"Well! We should have been there by now for our Lady! " The young male remarked with irritated.
". . .That's Orochimaru-sama's protege and I still don't see why everyone is so excited by this little greenhorn." The young female voice declared with less than enthusiasm in her tone.
It was very apparent that two siblings didn't like this assignment and only doing it because of their master's orders.
". . ." The silent one leaned their head towards the siblings and narrowed their eyes.
"Tch!" Both siblings got out as they knew that the silent one had reached their limits and wouldn't push it anymore.
"Thank you." The stern man told the silent one. "Regardless how you two feel about our future Lady, we must retrieve her." He simply declared however he felt the two still being annoyed by this so her let out a sigh. "However that if she manages to past the test that is." He soon added.
This made the siblings grin maliciously as they couldn't wait for that.
Snap!
Suddenly the silent one snap their fingers and gain everyone's attention.
"Did you find them?" The stern one asked and received a nod in return. "Good, we must retrieve her before Konoha's shinobi's reached her." He then declared
With that, they all dashed at incredible speeds that completely scattered all of the leave in the trees as they each headed to the same location. . .The Valley of the End.
Back at the Final Valley in the forest section. . .
Pulse after pulse of pure chakra lashed through the air like a hurricane without any chance of it stopping for a moment. A distance away, trees and waves from the lake were being pushed away from the forest area of the valley. At the epicenter that where the source of this powerful pulses where two girls, for lack of a better term, monstrous in appearance as they were staring at one another without any sign of moving, each one of them glowed with a sinister aura. One had a dark crimson color while the other had a sickly yellowish-green color.
The two kunoichi, simply stood still, while it may looked like they were in complete control and calm from their appearance, it was completely the opposite from the inside. There was barely any thought process in their minds, just the animalistic and primal desire to eliminate the other to fulfill their own desires.
The Uchiha was in a feral stance on all fours as the dark crimson Bijū chakra had a lashing end in the form of a tail while her entire body was coated in the bubbling chakra, giving her more of an appearance of a fox. The ground below her was slightly melting from the intense heat the cloak was emanating as she gave off a menacing glare with deep whisker marks on her face and lowly growled at her enemy with her sharpened teeth and Sharingan eyes with the addition of a fox like appearance.
Meanwhile the traitor pose an appropriate snake stance fitting her appearance. Her nails began to slowly extend while they along with her skin produce the same poisonous and corrupted liquids they did at the beginning of their battle while her hair began to hiss menacingly and move as if they were real snakes now. However what shown very alarming was that, like her opponent, the ground was melting as well, but for a completely different reason. Her body was producing and releasing small amounts of green steam that began corroding everything around her while the liquid that dripped off and came in contact with the ground began to melt.
As the two glared at one another, waiting for the other to make a move, a small tree leaf began gently falling from a tree, this caused an effect on both kunoichi's as their hearts began thumping, both their hearts and adrenaline began to rise and spike to unhealthy levels. Then when the leaf hit the ground. . .
WOOSH! WOOSH! BOOM!
Both kunoichi dashed towards each other with inhumane velocity that the mere shockwave had destroyed parts of the forest, sending debris flying everywhere as a result. The two reached the other in a mere instant, both with their dominant hand cocked back, Satsuki's reading her chakra arm, while Sakura her sharp poison nails. And then both gave a wide vertical slice at the other.
SHINK! SHINK!
However neither was planning on letting the other's attack make contact as the two instantly got out of their opponents attack.
Satsuki quickly used her eyes to see the attack's trajectory and got out of the way while Sakura used her new snake-like body to bend herself backwards with inhumane flexibility and easily dodge the attack.
The Uchiha's strike instantly shredded everything in its path, trees, the ground, stones were completely destroyed by her raw power. On the other hand, while the traitor's attack didn't had the same destructive capability as her opponent, it still was very deadly as anything it touch was nearly was instantaneously melted by its potent corruding power.
Both kunoichi stared at each other for what felt like an eternity, while both had a seemingly calm expressions, their eyes were filled with nothing but anger, hatred and the desire to kill the other. Then the next instant both of them vanished from their current location creating another powerful shockwave.
Suddenly Satsuki reappeared on top of a large stone while she was on all fours, her head raised to match her animalistic stance as her eyes darted everywhere with frantic speeds, then in another instant she found the traitor on top of a tree while her body was coiled around the tree and dashed towards her with explosive power, resulting in the stone completely shattering.
HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
However as Sakura saw the Uchiha coming, she quickly moved from the branch before she vanished into the trees. Then moment her opponent had reached the tree she was in, multiple pink and green tips snakes came out from the back of the tree and attack the Uchiha while each began spraying deadly black colored poison from their mouths.
Satsuki saw all of this moving in slow motion while she slowly moved out of the way of the poison, however each time she manage to dodge, she felt the skin melting just by being near it and inmeanse pain that she forced to bare it. It was only because of her Bijū cloak that she rapidly heal the injury.
Meanwhile, Sakura also saw the attack coming, but not in slow motion, she saw it in real time thanks to the snakes on her head. Like real snakes, they could sense the thermic heat with their tongues and instantly transfer it directly to her brain. So she saw the attacks from multiple directions and used her snake body to dodge the attacks with ease.
SLICE! HISS! SLASH! SPEW!
While both of the opponents may had manage to dodge the other's attacks, it was however the area behind the two that was the one that suffered their deadly effects. The black poison passed through in a straight line while it began melting everything in its path with unnatural speeds. Meanwhile the chakra claw strikes sailed through the air while shredding and cutting anything solid that was in its path with its intense heat to the point where it charred it without catching fire.
SPEW! SPEW! SLASH! SLASH!
Then time resume its normal speeds as both kunoichis dashed away only to quickly clashed yet again. Each time the two attempted to use the same attack but in a different angle or position. At times they would clashed on top of the trees, which resulted in a good portion of them to be shredded, melted or ignited from their clash. Or they would dashed at ground level, sending much debris and dust flying by the inhuman speeds while attacking with the same ferocity.
BAM! SLASH! SLICE! SPEW! WHAM!
However Satsuki quickly had enough of this little game, so when she began to dashed once again, she sent to vertical slashed right at the sides of the traitor while still running at her.
Sakura didn't want to be trapped in the box like attack, so she quickly halted her dashed and turned around to get out of the attack, but by doing so, the Uchiha grabbed the her tail. "!?"
Though she manage to get a good hold on the tail, the Uchiha's hand began to hiss from the potent poison that came from the traitor's body. Though her skin was melting, it heal just as fast thanks to her cloak, it caused an unholy amount of pain and agony just by continuing holding her opponent like this. However Satsuki refused to release her enemy as she then channel a huge amount of chakra to both her arms and legs, then with a mighty swing, she lifted her opponent right in midair.
"!?" Sakura could only be left startled by this and remain floating on the air and before she could adjust herself to attack, she quickly felt the Uchiha grabbing her tail with her other arm and pull her down with all her strength.
CRASH!
Sakura's eyes briefly roll to the back of her head as she was left momentarily stunned and let out a gasp of pain from the violent impact, however before she could recover she felt her entire body being dragging across the ground.
Satsuki soon ran as fast as her new found velocity could permit her at any and all directions while violently dragging her opponent across every single stone, tree and anything that was hard enough to cause decent damage, which resulted in destroying or breaking it apart all for the sake as causing as much damage as possible.
CRASH! WHAM CRASH! BAM! CRASH! WHAM! CRASH! BAM!
This caused the snake mutated kunoichi to groan and shout and pain, but she quickly had enough as she raised on her hand and extended nail and stabbed deep into the ground, which caused a lot of excruciating pain to the entire arm she just used, but she manage to hold herself in place.
Because of this sudden action resulted in the Uchiha to nearly jerk back by the sudden lost in her momentum, but she still manage to hold on, but it was exactly what the traitor wanted as she then used her other arm to extend her nails and struck the Uchiha's expose right shoulder.
"!" Satsuki soon tripped up as a result as she couldn't help but fall to the ground as a result.
SHINK! HISSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Then the traitor pulled out her nails as a loud hissing sounds were heard right behind the Uchiha, which an intense agonizing pain soon follow. On her shoulder there was a huge hole created from the lethal poison, Satsuki grind her teeth and growl loudly as her cloak began to intensify on the injure and began to regenerate the flesh lost at inhuman velocity.
Once fully healed, Satsuki stood back up and looked around for her opponent, but quickly saw that she was nowhere in sight. "GRRRRRRR!" She growled out as she readied herself.
SLICE! HISS!
Satsuki's head jerked to the side as she heard that sound, it didn't took even a second thanks to her Sharingan to spot the source. She saw on of the trees a few feet away had gain a massive gash, which soon began hissing violently by black poison. It didn't took a few seconds before the tree to fall to the ground.
SLICE! HISS!
This time the Uchiha was ready and located the traitor, she saw her slithering between the ground and trees at blinding speeds that made her look like a dark green blur to everyone with untrained eyes. She also saw that with each tree she passed, she used her large poison nails to make large gashes which began to melt from the corrosion.
Meanwhile, Satsuki lean down on the ground and was now on all fours as her head frantically move at at all directions as she saw many trees began to fall around her in rapid and orderly succession, but they weren't falling near her location so she didn't had the need to dodge or move. However to her eyes everything was in slow motion as she was completely focus on tracking the traitor's movements, which were very hard as the traitor speeds made it harder to track down, regardless she was ready to attack if she got near enough.
BAM!
It was just when one of the tree's were about to fall to the ground when suddenly Sakura appeared right in front of it and used her tail to strike it with lethal force. The tree was sent flying with breakneck speeds at the Uchiha.
Satsuki however easily saw it coming, for her the tree was only coming at a moderate speed, which she slowly lean to the side and narrowly dodge it as it passed the side of her face. But while she was dodging, her Sharingan saw the traitor already in front of another tree in the same position as before. Her eyes widen as she rapidly looked around all round her and realized what it meant, the traitor just made the area around her into a shooting area and she was the target!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Sakura struck the tree she was currently in front and then quickly vanished, only to reappear in another section hit a trunk, then did the same action again and again with rapid velocity, each time sending a barrage of tree trunks at multiple directions, each with both deadly precision and force.
When Satsuki finally finished dodging the first tree, she quickly was forced to narrowly dodged the next but was unable to move from her location because of how meticulously the trunks were aimed at her, each were meant to keep her in check. Her eyes frantically move to every angle and saw the rest of the trees coming from every possible direction.
WHOOSH! CRASH! WHOOSH! CRASH!
The Uchiha kept dodging and each time they narrowly hit home as they shattered into piece the moment they hit the ground or another tree. But as ravenette continued to do so she quickly realized that she wouldn't be able to dodge them all at the velocity they were coming. So she quickly raised her both of her chakra claws and slashed one of the tree in half, this caused the two half to separate, they passed harmlessly beside the girl only to hit two incoming tree and deflecting or shattering them.
SLICE! SLASH! SLICE! SLASH! SLICE!
The Uchiha soon began hacking and slashing more trees and using them to deflect others when she couldn't find a way to dodge. While she looked like a red blur, to those that could actually see her, they would think that she was doing a beautiful yet deadly dance, with each shattered tree made it look like their were fireworks around her, making the image even more beautiful as it was deadly.
CRACK!
It was at the moment of intense focus on this dance that the Uchiha she didn't react quick enough to saw a large crack forming right below her. Then the next instant a green, black nail arm shot out of the ground and grabbed her neck with a deadly grib.
"!?" Satsuki was left stun and felt immense pain from her neck being hold tightly as well as the burning sensation of her own flesh being melted by the powerful poison that came from the traitor's nails.
Then the Uchiha's eyes turn to the left of her position when she saw a chakra signature, there was none other than the traitor as she had her left hand plundered into the ground. It was only when she saw her opponents vile grin that she realized that this was her plan all along.
WHOOSH! BAM! SHATTER! CRASH! WOOSH! CRASH!
However before the revenette could do anything, she was struck by a massive tree on the side of her head which the trunk shattered upon impact. This made Satsuki daze for a second as multiple tree trunks soon came from every direction and hit her with the same force, causing her to feel immense pain as each thick tree trunks that hit her shattered into pieces resulting her receiving massive damage all over her body, while being completely unable to defend herself as she was being hold in place by the throat.
Just as the last tree had shattered on the back of the Uchiha's head, the hand that held her neck suddenly sprang out of the ground and began pulling her straight at the traitor. Her slightly dazed eyes saw said kunoichi cock back her right fist back and saw her channeling a huge amount of chakra on it.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! BLUB! BLUB! BLUB!
Suddenly around the monstrous traitor, more earth and water started to gather and circle around her arms, the water first coating her arms before the earth embedded themselves over her arms into the same gauntlet-like armor when she had before. However this time water that was seeping out in between the rocks and water began hovering around it.
Once fully formed, the traitor clench her new gauntlet began to spin around them while humming like a chainsaw and glow a menacing red in color. "CURSSSSSSSE SSSSSSTYLE! KAIJU CRUSSSSSSHER!" Sakura menacing hissed out in vile glee and insanity in her warped voice as a wicked grin appeared on her face.
WHAM!
Satsuki soon found that her face was smashed by the traitor's earth cover fist and her head crashing onto the ground crashing a massive crater, but it didn't stopped there, the area around it began to give out and sent large portions of the earth surface flying upwards. "UGH!" She grunted out in pain as the wounds on her face weren't just brute blunt damage, they also had razor sharp cuts because of the water.
But before the Uchiha could do anything to reciprocate, the traitor then cocked back her other hand and quickly made another gauntlet. Not taking any more chances, she used her tail to bind her enemy across her torso, this was so that the Uchiha not only be unable to attack, but also so that she wouldn't be able to escape.
To this development, Sakura took a brief moment to enjoyed the look of the Uchiha's struggling to before she smirked in vile delight and excitement. "SSSSSUFFER! SSSSSSSUFFER! SSSSSSSSSUFFER!" She hissed out her demand as began her assault, thrusting both her spinning fists down onto the face of the one she despised the most.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
The Uchiha was left defenseless as her opponent mercelssy began pounding her into the ground as a crater was being created under her. She tried to struggle to free herself, but she was very surprised by the sheer force the traitor's tail had, even when it was also being burned by the intense heat her cloak was emanating, it still held strong. Meanwhile her face was receiving massive blunt force along with large gashes, it was only thanks to her regeneration abilities that they would heal at the same rate she was being hit, however that didn't stop feeling the pain each time she was hit.
"Well, are you just going to keep taking on these feeble attacks~?" The dark and vile questioned from within the Uchiha as a wide grin started to form from within the darkness.
"Grrrrrr. . ." Satsuki groaned and growl with a near animalistic manner as each hit only made her anger grow, but at the same time, her own strength was slowly increasing as well as if reflecting on what the voice said.
This amused the dark being as it knew the girl's answer and it was more than happy to help. "Why don't you show this abomination. . .how a real beast slaughters its prey~!" It then demanded in excitement as more dark crimson chakra started to pour out from the seal.
WIth one last powerful punch, Sakura completely buried the Uchiha until was below the earth and then retracted her tail from her opponent. She panted a bit from over using her Curse Mark's powers so quickly, but she was very satisfied with the results of her new power as she smirked vilely.
Vrrn. . .
Sakura suddenly stopped her thoughts when she began feeling the earth under her slowly began to shake. She began looking around with a confused expression as she first thought that she had completely untablelise the earth with all of the punches she had done, but she quickly discarded that as the area was solid ground, it would be impossible to do so even with her Curse Mark.
VRRN! VRRN! VRRN!
Soon Sakura felt the earth began to shake very violently that could easily reached an 7.0 magnitude. She was having great difficulty in maintaining her balance as she then saw at the center of the crater began to emit a lot of chakra, her eyes widen as she realized what it meant.
Crack. . .CRACK! BOOM!
At that moment, a massive explosion of dark crimson chakra was unleashed from the epicenter of the crater, literally blasting the monstrous kunoichi off her tail and crashing into a nearby tree, breaking it instantly and then skid across the ground before she manage to stop. "WHAT!?" Sakura could only manage to get out in shock.
Suddenly the Uchiha burst through crater with inmease force that sent huge chunks of earth flying everywhere. Then the kunoichi went down and was on all four of her limbs, giving her now the full appearance of a wild beast. "AWOOOOOOOOOOO!" Satsuki roared with pure fury while the mouth of fox like cloak made a howling motion to mimic her fury.
"Che! Damn beast-" Sakura began as she started to rise up, however. . .
BOOM!
Suddenly, the ravenette dashed forwards with enough force that the ground below her literally exploded as she ran on all four with speeds that could rival Lee without his weights. Anything that was between her and the traitor suddenly flew away or in case of the trees were either bend or blown away by the backlash of her chakra pressure alone.
"!?" The next thing that Sakura knew was a burning feeling and pressure on her face, she only had time to look down and saw that the Uchiha had appeared right in front of her with a chakra claw gripping tightly on her face.
SLAM!
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Satsuki soon roared loudly as she used her new strength to slammed her opponent onto the ground at full force.
Sakura then felt agonizing pain as the back of her head didn't just hit the ground, but also created a large crater by the sheer force of the attack. The monstrous kunoichi then floated in the air using the leftover momentum of the attack, as she recovered her thought process, her eyes widen when she saw the Uchiha once again right in front of her.
Satsuki then cock back her left leg as the cloak like foot began glowing with intensity. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" She roared yet again as she suddenly straightened her foot and delivered a brutal kick towards the traitors stomach.
The instant the Uchiha's foot hit Sakura's stomach, her face turn nearly cartoonish and disfigured as she felt not only pain but also felt her stomach nearly leaving her body through her back. This happen for one instant before her entire body soon followed and was sent flying at a breakneck velocity.
BOOM! CRASH! CRACK!
While Sakura was flying through the forest, it didn't destroyed everything on her path, but also created a large fissure was created by the power of the Uchiha's kick. This continued for what she felt like minutes on end because of the agonizing pain, but in reality it was just a few seconds, her speed decrease until she roll on the ground until she stopped.
BLUUURGH!
At that moment, the monster turned girl soon starts to puke up her contents, however as they left, the area where they landed instantly melted into a hot bubbling and smoking goo. Sakura used her hand to clean herself as began growling with even more fury, she didn't even care about her own arm was hissing and slightly melting because of her own poison.
"RAAAAAAAAAH!" Satsuki's roar could be heard as she charged once again towards the traitor on all fours.
This time, Sakura wasn't going to take anymore chances, she now knew that the Uchiha was physically stronger and faster, so she need to strike hard and keep out of her reach. Then she races across the ground and trees like a snake with insane agility.
While the traitor wasn't as fast as her opponent, her keeping moving in random directions that forced the Uchiha to stop her charge and then ran towards her again, but because of her snake like agility it made it difficult to change her course without slowing down and then charging again.
Just as Sakura turn again towards another direction, in a slow motion, she turned her body to face the Uchiha and smirked. Her earth like gauntlets began glowing and the water around them began humming. Then as time began to resume, she dashed towards the Uchiha when she slow down from her earlier dodge to delivered a powerful punch that could rival the current Hokage's legendaries punches.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAM! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
"AGH!" Satsuki shouted in pain as her face look distorted and the shockwaves of the punch throw her straight through multiple trees.
The Uchiha used her claws to stop herself, but that only worked until she was a good thirty feet away from the point of impact. She shook her head to try and regain her sense of balance, then just as her cloak was about to heal the injury. . .
BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
Satsuki was one again struck by another insane punch to the face, this time she manage to see the smirking face of the traitors as her earth covered fist's landed on her face before she was sent flying yet again.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
However this time the traitor wasn't planning to wait for the Uchiha to stop as she keeped appearing right in front of her opponents path while relentlessly striking again and again with vicious barrage of powerful one punches. Each time the hit landed, powerful shock waves were created, destroying or shattering everything in their range. This made Sakura smirk that she finally was giving the Uchiha what she deserves.
"GRRRRR!" Satsuki growl with anger and annoyance at being thrown like a ragdoll. Then she moved one of her chakra claws and stab it onto the ground.
Thanks to this decision, the Uchiha didn't stop herself, but manage to change her course and narrowly dodge the traitors next hit. Then she used the remaining momentum to flip herself and landed on all fours.
The traitor tisked in disappointment at that as she quickly change the direction of her course and tried to charge at the Uchiha to resume her barrage. As she charged straight at her opponent she began channeling even more power to her gauntlets that they began glowing with green color chakra.
"THAT DOES IT!" The Uchiha's animalistic voice roared with anger as she wasn't going to be a ragdoll again as she raised both of her chakra claws and thrusted them onto the ground, then she pulled back and held two large boulders on each claw.
WHOOSH! CRASH! CRACK! BOOOOOOOOOOM!
Then the ravenette threw both of the boulders with enough force to create a powerful explosion which resulted in a pure shockwaves to be sent at every directions. "Damn it!" Sakura curse at this as she was caught in the range of the blast.
Satsuki panted as she was already slowly but recovering from the earlier injuries that she had received, though it was at a slower rate. She shook her head as she slowly began to look at the area where the explosion had occurred, but she couldn't find any signs of the traitor's chakra signature. This made the ravenette frown because she knew that that wouldn't had finished someone like her.
CRACK!
Suddenly, right behind the Uchiha, a heavily injured Sakura came from the ground. At the last second before she was hit, she had used one of her gauntlet to create a counter shockwave to be able to protect herself from the first, but her gauntlet was destroyed on impact and she still received massive damage as a result. However thanks to this she managed to sneak past the Uchiha's defence.
Sakura had an infuriated expression as she positioned her gauntlet-less arm to the side, extending her black nail and produce the most potent and corroded poison on them that she possibly could. "DIIIIIIIIIE!" She roared as she sent a vertical slash to the Uchiha's exposed back.
Time soon seemed to slow down as the traitor's earth encase fist slowly got close and closer to the Uchiha's head. With each centimeter that the fist got closer, her battered and bloody face twisted with vile glee as she could just imagine the Uchiha's head bursting like a watermelon.
However just as the traitor was about to hit the ravenette, something completely strange occurred. The fox like cloak briefly shimmer in ominous glow. Then while still in slow motion, the fox like head of the cloak slowly began to turn to the side, which was very strange because the Uchiha did no such action to do so. The head fully turn to the side until its eye manage to looked directly at the traitor and it actually smirked with vile amusement at the now stupefied enemy
"SUUUUPRIIIIIISE~!" The fox like head declared in a sinister voice that was filled with nothing but vile and glee filled tone.
STRETCH!
Suddenly a large chakra claw extended right behind the Uchiha's back and delivered a brutal strike towards Sakura's mutated torso. "GAH!" The monstrous kunoichi got out in both shock and from the oxygen violently leaving her lungs as her entire body was then sent flying into the air.
Satsuki quickly turned her head and saw the traitor flying away from her. "RAAAAAAAAAH!" She roared as she then quickly chased after her, leaving a massive crater from the powerful pressure of her power. Not once did she notice that the head of her cloak was still smirking with vile delight while covering her head.
As Sakura awas flying through the air, she forcefully cough to regain her breathing capabilities. "What the hell was that!?" She thought with shock as she was sure she had the Uchiha. But she hardly had time to pounder this as her yellow-green eyes widen in pure shock.
A dark blood color arm suddenly grabbed the traitor's neck again and was feeling intense burning on her flesh, when she looked forward all she saw was the Uchiha staring right onto her blood red Sharingan/Bijū like eyes. The ravenette then took the deepest breath she had ever taken in her entire life as she forcefully pulled the traitor closer to her face.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Satsuki soon let out an extremely powerful roared. It was so powerful that it literally created a sonic boom, it rattling the area around the two.
WOOOSH!
As a result, the airborne montorious kunoichi was sent flying at supersonic velocity, her mouth was wide open and her eyes roll to the back of her head. She couldn't even think of anything as her brain had shutdown, her eardrums had burst open while blood began to burst out of them. She then simply continued rocketing across the forest, obliterating everything in her path until she began descending downwards. She somehow manage to pass right in between the two statues of the legendary shinobi's and angled right near the base of the waterfall.
CRASH! SPLASH!
Sakura soon crashed into the land near the base shore of the valley as her lower area was above ground in the destroyed foot of the Madara Uchiha statue while her upper body was in the water.
Back with the Uchiha just as she let out the sonic scream, she had landed straight on to the ground and she began panting heavily, while she still had her cloak, one of her eyes was slowly returning to normal. "What. . .What happened. . ." She got out in a strained tone
"Looks like this is the limit of my fun time. . .Oh well. . ." The vile voice stated to itself with a disappointed tone but it then chuckle sinisterly. "I'll just have to wait for the next time. . .good luck~" It then added in a vile delight tone
Satsuki's eyes then finally return to their normal Sharingan shape and then shook her head. "That's right. . .I was fighting Haruno! Where is she!?" She angrily got out with her rage still coursing through her mind.
CRASH! SPLASH!
"There!" Satsuki shouted as she dashed her way straight at the crashing sight. However she nearly fell just as she was about to take a first step. "W-Whoa!" She got out in a surprised manner before holding her head in pain. "D-Dammit. . .I'm reaching my limit. . .!" She mentally declared while grinding her teeth and then dashed after the traitor.
For the Uchiha, she knew that her body been over using the Bijū's chakra and was now taking its toll on her body. So she knew that it was only a matter of time before she would crash, which would mean the traitor would be able to escape or worse, be able to kill her in her weaken state.
"One way or another. . .This. . .ends. . .now!" Satsuki soon declared as she dashed down the Hashirama statue, her Sharingan eyes once more gaining the fox like silt.
At the bottom of the waterfall. . .
It was then a scaly green arm thrusted out of the lake, then the rest of traitors monstrous and heavily damaged body soon follow. Sakura began panting heavily as she slid her out of the water, her snake like hair looked as if they perish and were just dangling.
Once Sakura had recovered her breath, she began grinding her teeth with rage. But at the moment she did so she felt immense pain from her ear. She used her only gauntleless free hand to touch one ear, then when she looked at it, she saw that it was still heavily bleeding.
Seeing that, the traitor began channeling her Curse Mark's power to heal it. However when she did, she felt light headed, she quickly recovered and then felt her hearing returning.
". . ." Sakura then she saw that her wounds on all over her body didn't heal automatically like they would normally do. It only took but a fraction of a second for her to realized what it could only meant. "I'm reaching my limit for thissssss glorioussssss form. . ." She hissed out.
The traitor then close her eyes began to focus as much as of her Curse Mark power she could on her body. Slowly, but surely, all of her wound slowly began hissing as they began to heal. Only fully heal she began panting yet again and could now feel her power slowly returning to the Seal, she knew she could still use it, but now she won't be able to onto her body anymore or risk causing serious damage to herself from overused.
"How. . .annoying. . ." Sakura hissed out as she tightened her hand into a fist. "I need to either kill her now or. . .retreat." She then added as she slammed her fist into the wall behind her, causing it to crack. She loathe just the thought of having to run away, but she knew she had to consider the option at this point
SPLASH! SPLASH! TAP!
At that moment, the Bijū chakra coated Uchiha landed on the lake beside the waterfall before jumping onto the foot of the Hashirama statue behind her, though was panting heavily in a exhausted manner. "Har. . .u. . .no. . ." Satsuki growled out in exhausted fury, glaring at the enemy in front of her.
Sakura grinded her teeth at seeing the vain of her anger while she narrowed her eyes. But she calmed down somewhat when she saw the Uchiha's current state "She's exhausted. . ." She thought as she began channeling what she could still use of her Curse Mark directly into her remaining earth gauntlet.
Satsuki on the other hand narrowed her eyes at this, but manage to caught the traitor panting heavily. "Looks like even after turning into a literal monster, she also reaching her limits too. . ." She also thought as she stretched her left chakra claw, this cause it to began glow with even more intensity while small currents of electricity began circulating around it.
The two sworn enemies didn't bother to say a word at one another, they both knew they had reached their limits and that they couldn't afford to prolong this fight anymore. They continued to channeled more and more of their remaining chakra onto their respective arms, each of their final jutsu glowed with sinister power of different origins. "And that's why. . .I'm ending this now. . ." Both declared in their minds in unison.
The Uchiha then glared at her opponent intensely as her chakra claw now looked more solid than ever before while the normally light blue color of her sensei's signature jutsu was now a red and purple/violet in color. "Chidori. . ." Satsuki soon thought to herself as her Bijū eyes glowed intensely underneath the cloak.
The traitor's earth like gauntlet now had green like chakra flames around it, while the water circulating had puke green color and were spinning so fast that not even the train eyes of a jonin would be able to see it. "Kaijū Crusher. . ." Sakura declared as her entire arm began to glow in a sinister green and pink light.
As they continued preparing their last attacks, memories if the past started to surface.
In Satsuki's mind, she could only see memories of her being with friends that finally accepted her for being who she really was, Satsuki and not Sasuke. But then she remembered the last time she saw her friend Ino, whole and slightly annoying about that stupid fashion competition. . .only to be replaced by the image of her current state. . .amputated, mangled, beaten and her bloody body slept in hospital beds while reeling in pain. She could still vividly recall how she was merely lay there, unmoving and having great difficulty taking a single breath through her breathing mask. This cause the Uchiha to grind her teeth as her jutsu to growled with even more intensity being fueled by her rage.
Meanwhile, Sakura's mind had only images of her past self, how she was weak and completely powerless. . .how she hated and despised herself during those times. Always allowing others bullied and not being able to do anything but to rely on others. She would always thanks them, but deep down she hated having to do that. Then she could only recall how idiotic she felt to be attached to the Last Uchiha's male disguise in a pathetic attempt of falling in love or being strong. But, above all else, how that all that change when she recall all of the hellish and torture training she endured in order to finally be able to break free and kill her own weakness within her mind.
Regardless of the difference of what the two kunoichi's thoughts were, both of girl them had finally made up their minds and they knew what they want. . .no, what they had to do if they wanted to succeed or more precisely what they must to do.
In slow motion both of them cocked back their respective dominate arm back, while their eyes narrowed at each other. This simple action created a powerful burst of energy that blew a large amount of water on their side and complete crack apart the earth below them.
Even as the area around them began to literally tear apart by the powerful of their jutsu's, the two kunoichi's remained motionless while never losing sight of the other. Then in another moment, an ominous wind past the two and a the coldest chill were sent their spines, making their eyes widen, then. . .
WOOSH! WOOSH!
Then after a moment, the two dashed forward towards the other in unison through the air, anything, be it debris, water even dust itself was instantly obliterated when their jutsus passed anything. As they both continued to soar through the air at the each other, their jutsus would only grow with intensity as if to reflex the caster's hatred for the other kunoichi.
"HARUNOOOOOOOOO!" Satsuki roared as her chakra claw was covered in the large violet, red and blue colored Chidori. "YOU'LL PAY FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE TO MY FRIENDS!" She then mentally declared.
"UCHIHAAAAAAAAAA!" Sakura wailed with insanity as her dominant arm was coated in the Kaijū Crusher while it was violently glowing dark green and pink. "I WON'T LET YOU INTERFERE TO MY PATH TO GREATNESS ANYMORE!" She also mentally declared.
WHOOSH!
Then at that moment, the two jutsus were about to physically collide with one another, the the mere force from both jutsus created a shockwave that shook the area around them, even though they were in the air.
CLINK! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
It was after the initial clash of power, waves of chakra, lightning, stones and water kept scattering all around them. Lighting trying to strike the traitor's body, water began shredding the constantly regenerating claw like limb.
BAM! WHOOSH! GRIND!
Finally what seem to be forever, the earth encase fist finally reached the chakra claw. It was almost fitting as the fist hit straight onto the open palm claw. Satsuki then tighten her claw to hold onto the fist, letting out a loud grinding sound as lightning started coursing through it. Meanwhile Sakura continued to push forwards to burst through, while her spinning blade like water continued to shead anything it could.
The two kunoichi's on the other hand continued looking at each other with their teeth grinding and continued to push forward. Their jutsus power only continued to grow and grow at an alarming rate. Then when they reached their absolute limit the two let out a soundless scream while their forms began to blur out in a green and crimson light. . .
Far away from the Valley of the End. . .
Multiple people around the area soon felt a extremely powerful chakra signature a distance away. Their eyes then widen when they knew what was coming, so they instantly braced themselves as a powerful explosion soon follow.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
They quickly saw that just ahead their were signs of a sinister chakra emanating from that direction. No sooner that, the powerful wave ended that heavy rain began to fall all over the area as if the power of that last attack created a down draft.
A distance away. . .
Kakashi and the Viper Squad were in a state of bracing themselves from the explosion that they could still see from the distance. They remain in that position for a good thirty seconds before it finally ended and no sooner that it stopped they felt the rain beginning to fall onto them.
"What. . .What was that. . .?" Yami got out as she unshielded her eyes. "That was. . .unlike anything I had ever felt. . ." She then admitted.
For Nina on the other hand, she was still covering her face and was unusually quiet as she stared at the direction of the blast with unfocus eyes. Meanwhile from her animal companions, Ora and Ori looked towards their fellow animal companion because the small wolf cub was acting the same way as her older sister as her eyes were unfocused.
"I. . .have no idea. . ." Anko got out with a slight fearful tone in her voice. "But. .. that's where Satsuki is. . .count on that. . ." She then added in a more serious tone.
The experienced jonin however narrowed his eye as he suddenly dashed with the speed worthy of his rank. "We need to move, now!" Kakashi ordered in a dead serious tone.
Anko didn't even needed to be told twice as she quickly followed behind the jonin, however at a slower velocity than him.
"Right!" Yami replied as she too was about to move when she saw her teammate still covering herself. "Nina-chan?" She called out with a confused tone.
". . ." Nina meanwhile didn't say anything but nodded as she followed with an uneasy expression on her face while her ears drooped.
Now feeling concern, the older teen got closer to her. "Nina-chan?"
"Huh?" Nina got out as she blinked a few time and her eyes return to their normal playful shine. "Hey!? Where'd everyone go go Yami-neechi!?" She then asked as her ears perked up.
As if triggered by this, Okki jumped in place and began frantically looking around as she saw her fellow companions starting at her. "Arf!" She got out while growling a bit. "Hey! What are you two standing there! We need to go!" She declared but her friends only frowned at this and say nothing.
"Are you alright?" Yami soon asked in concern.
"Hmm?" Nina got out as she cutely tilted her head to the side. "Yeah! Why wouldn't I be?" She asked with an honest yet confused tone.
Seeing that there were no lies in her response, Yami could only frown in confusion. "N-Nevermind Nina-chan, let go, Anko-sensei and Kakashi-sensei went up ahead." She then informed as she dashed towards her team leader.
"What!? Let's go go! Okki-chi! Ora-chi! Ori-chi! Go go!" Nina declared as she dashed off to catch off with her jonin-sensei/big sister.
The silver-blue haired girl could only watch as the young girl raced off to follow the others as the girl's animal companions did the same. "Nina-chan has been acting very strange lately. . .I hope she's alright. . ." Yami soon thought as she dashed after the others.
Meanwhile ahead of all of the team, Kakashi was running that only the likes of his eternal rival would hope to match. But as he was gliding through the forest his mind was more focus on the current situation. "That was clearly the Kyūbi's chakra. . .and not just a small dose, it was at the same level when he attacked the village, for Satsuki to be forced to use that much power can only mean that she was clearly fighting someone way above her. . ." He thought with a grim tone. "I just hope that whatever she fought is the last of the threats, because I don't want to imagine her facing anything worse. . ." He then added as he stepped up his speed even more.
Whatever it truly was, the elite Jonin could only hope that they could reached his student before anyone else could. After all, if they could felt this powerful clash, he feared that anyone else could as well. . .
Back at the Valley of the End. . .
To the Copy Cat jonin worse fears, not someone had arrive at that ground zero zone, it was multiple people had arrive and where now looking down at the unconscious and barely covered kunoichis. However because of the heavy rain and them wearing hoods, their faces and physical appearance were nothing but shadowy blurs.
". . .Spectacular. . ." The man with a stern voice praised as he could somehow felt what had just transpire in the destroyed area and was very impressed by the kunoichi's prowess. "Both these kunoichis are exceptional. . ." He then stated.
However one of the siblings just scoff at hearing that. "More like them just being a pair of show offs. . ." The brother corrected not feeling impressed in the slightest.
"Yeah, like have they heard of stealth? Like that what a shinobi should alway be?" The sister then stated in complete agreement of the two unconscious kunoichis.
". . ." The silent one however was looking as if he saw something a distance away. Then he snap his fingers and pointing at the directions he was looking, past the Hashirama Senju statue.
To that action, the stern one instantly knew what that meant and let out a disappointed sigh. "Looks like they'll be here in a matter of moments. . ." He commented as he looked at the unconscious traitor's form barely covered form. "We need to leave. . .get Orochimaru-sama's protege. . ." He then ordered.
"What!? Can we just kill the other one and be done with it!?" The brother demanded, more so because he wanted to kill something before going back.
"For ones I agree with him! I just know she'll get in the way if we don't deal with her now!" The sister then declared, however for her it was because she knew that leaving someone like the Uchiha alive will only be a hindrance later.
DOOOOOOON!
Suddenly the entire area around them felt as if was suffocating and an inhuman bloodlust that would make the Demon of the Mist's be like a gentle breeze in comparison. This cause the siblings instantly stopped their complaints while they beginning to sweat in pure fear. Then they saw that to origin of this pressure was none other that the silent one. His coal black eyes looking straight at them, it was very clear that he had enough of the two and that he would kill them if the continue.
It was only the stern one that remained unaffected as he let out a sigh and place a hand on their leader's shoulder. "Easy. . ." He simply said as he turn to the siblings. "Our mission. . .is retrieval where the Sound Three failed. . .only her retrieval and nothing else." He then reminded.
It was at that final word that the silent one finally calmed down and releasing his bloodlust. Which cause the siblings to finally be able to excel the breath that they didn't knew they were holding.
"Fine. . .but don't blame us if this comes to bite us in the ass later. . ." The brother retorted as he went for the traitor's unconscious body.
". . ." The silent one briefly turn towards the incoming Konoha shinobi's before his eyes slightly turned towards the unconscious girl for a moment as his and the rest of his group's body began to fade away in the rain.
It was at the precise moment that Kakashi was the first to arrive and only managed to see multiple blurs, while one of them was holding the unconscious body of Sakura Haruno before they completely vanished with the heavy rain.
". . ." Kakashi could only narrow his visible eye at seeing that as every single cell in his body knew that just saw something that sent a chill through his spine, the same kind that he felt when he confronted the Snake Sannin as he then came to a realization. "She got away. . ." He muttered out.
Miles away from the Valley of the End. . .
It was a simple forest area that was completely normal, with only the rain falling from above, yet there was a slightly disturbing vibe imitating from on of the trees.
"Hmm. . .well those were very interesting fights. . ." A slightly cheerful yet disturbing voice was heard from nowhere. "I mean those guys turned into literal monsters." It then added with just an eerily cheerful tone.
"Indeed. . .that sounds like something Orochimaru would do. However what was more interesting was two of those two Konoha kunoichis. . ." Another more darker and sinister voice befuddled at the first voice
Then from one of the trees a plant like creature's head came sprouting out of the branch. One side was white while the other was completely black.
"Yeah, they both have the Kyūbi's chakra. . .but one of them was a Hyuga while the other had the Sharingan like Itachi." The white side stated with a confused tone. "But I thought only the Uzumaki had the Kyūbi." He then stated as he was sure that it was only the blonde who had the Bijū seal inside of him. "This is an interesting discovery to say the least." It then added.
"Regardless, we have to report everything that had happen during this event. . ." The black side declared as the head slowly began to fused with the rest of the tree. "Itachi has some explaining to do. . ." It then added as the creature completely sunk into the tree branch.
As the curtain has fallen on the battle, no matter the side, they didn't know how or why, but they all somehow knew. . .that this battle wasn't over. . .that this was only the beginning. . .of something much bigger that they could never possibly ever imagine. . .
JG (JGResidnetEvil)'s A/N: Hiya everyone! JGResidentEvil here with fight2protect with the final chapter of the Sakura Capture Arc!
F2P (fight2protect)'s A/N: Man. . .Thought it was just one massive fight, it took forever to finish. . .
JG: Tell me about it! So we better get right into the major part for this chapter, the first major battle between Satsuki Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, aka, this story's version of the Naruto vs Sasuke fight!
F2P: But as you all just read, it was very different and didn't had much similarities, well aside from the similar transformations and the ending clashe, it was all original.
JG: Which brings us to the end. . .and before you rant about what happened, we must inform you that this isn't supposed to be like canon, it's all supposed to be original with some similar qualities to the canon. I mean if it was exactly like canon Naruto, then it would just be rehashing the story. ^^"
F2P: Not to mention that EVERYTHING that had happened in this arc WILL affect later on the story. From each fight there was a small hint of future events. So if you thought that we just did what we did to make the fights be a different then canon, well WRONG!
JG: Indeed, and for the jutsus used in this chapter, let me just say that for Sakura, they are all not ass pulls, we had secretly planned each jutsu out and made to to have dropped hints here and there in the previous chapters/arcs so no one would be able to know about them until the time came. . .though for Sakura in her Gorgon/Medusa like Second Stage from her Curse Mark. . .it wasn't easy writing out her fighting style. ^^"
F2P: But it was very satisfying to finally show off all of the attacks that were in the same level of a kaijū fight because BOTH kunoichis had to push themselves if they wanted to win! XD
JG: Not to mention that final clash! Man that was satisfying to write out! And if you ask about their clothes all being destroyed. . .they only reason they didn't do it in canon Naruto was because they didn't want to show two naked boys. ^^"
F2P: I mean seriously? That humongous clash of power that comes from a monstrous source and they didn't had even a single tear on their clothes? I mean what are those things made off? A god like threads? I call BS.
JG: Exactly! So not complaining about it! We're trying to make it at least somewhat realistic.
F2P: Moving on. . .Well at this chapter, a few new characters have made an OFFICIAL appearances in the fic! I say official because they really didn't appeared physically as they were hiding in the shadows.
JG: But who they are though is a secret, they will be revealed in time though. But now it's time for review responses! It's been a while since we've done these so we might be a but rusty. Anyway, for my response, this is to Gamelover41592!
CURSE YOU AGAIN FOR THE CLIFFHANGER! but man great job on the fight each side soon turned it one sided vice verse and now I am looking forward to the final clash and good job getting the clean up crew I especially enjoyed Gaara talking with Naruto about Kimmimaro
Thanks! It was great to finish off every other battle at the time and we wanted to make it so Naruto, Lee and Gaara had a serious discussion on the matter being Kimimaro. So all in all, it worked out in the end. :)
F2P: Yeah! That talk was really important, because if you had payed attention, Naruto DID have a lot of animosity towards Kimimaro because he knew, deep down that like Gaara, he could had turn like him too if he haven't meet Iruka. So yeah, powerful thing for our favorite blond to think about.
Now then for my review. . .well I not going to exactly review a single comment, its because there's a lot of them and I don't think I want to put them all here and talk about each one, so I'm just going to simply state my thoughts on . reviews and no I'm not going to rant, because by this point we both don't think it's worth it anymore.
Well, in all honesty, I'll just talk about two things that caught my attention in your reviews.
I guess while its true that we follow too much the canon event's with our twist. While it's true that we may just change character A and B with someone else. But that's just simply how most fanfic writers do things, us specifically we're not trying to write something like a masterpiece that is completely different that canon. My respects for all of those writers that can, but we're not like them, so we use a lot of canon because its help us have base, if you say it's just us being lazy, well I guess it is, but as long as readers like it, were happy, but if you don't well that's fine.
And for the other point is that you think that we made Naruto way dumber than he should be and that he relies too much on both Kurama's power or his brains to resolve his problems to much. Again, in certain aspects, I guess I can agree with you, but saying stuff like "Make naruto an absolute pussy who needs to rely on Kurama" that's going a bit too far. I mean that's no different than saying that Killer Bee would be as you would say a pussy for using Hachibi too much. And we all know that his a beast with or without his Bijū's help. It was our intention since the very start of this fic that we wanted for Naruto to form a similar bond like Killer Bee, him using his power is no different than Hachibi giving his power or advice him on what should Killer Bee do is because he cares for his host and wants to keep him safe.
So if you think that we fail to demonstrate or write it like that, then I guess it's our bad, but again, we're not perfect and we will make mistakes, HUGE mistakes in certain parts. But we're just writing what we want because it's FUN for US, not because we want to make a masterpiece of a fic and if readers like you can enjoy it for bothe the good and the bad then GREAT! But if you can't stand the bad that it has then sorry we didn't do a good job and suggest that you stop reading the fic and look for other awesome fics that are written by awesome writers to read. Because I know you'll like those a lot better because we WISH we could write awesome stories like them.
Sorry if I ramble a bit, but those were my honest thoughts and I really didn't said all this just to for the sake of ranting on a reader that didn't like our fic, but if you take it as such I can only say sorry and it wasn't my intention.
JG: It's not a problem, everyone has the right to ramble here and there F2P, I know it all too well. As such, we must reveal that after this chapter, me and F2P deserve a major break from Uchiha Heiress Remix, a well deserved one at that after finishing this major arc! But don't worry readers, we will be back with the aftermath and then, the further development arc of Uchiha Heiress Remix! So with that, we must go for now! Have a happy summer everyone! Until next time!
F2P: Hope you'll have a safe summer and we'll see you again soon! Peace out!
