(A\N: What is this? Two chapters in one day? Yes because I felt bad for not updating in so long)
After yelling, Naruto jumped down the very broken, barley not collapsing tree that they were standing on and ran towards a clearing. Sasuke widened his eyes before he looked in the direction that Naruto ran. Sure enough, there was Sakura, standing on her knees, with her back towards them. Sasuke jumped down the three and ran towards her as well. At the second yell of "Sakura-chan!", the pinkette turned towards her teammates, and that's when Sasuke got a good look at her state. Her hair was messy with one leaf sticking grass, she was dirty like she had been buried underground and her left shoulder was bleeding.
The boys were about to approach her when she threw a kunai at their feet. Then she reached for another one and pointed with it at them. "Stay back. Password "When does a ninja strike?", Naruto goes first."
Both boys widened their eyes, before Sasuke glanged at Naruto. The blonde started panicking and was sweating bullets before he shakingly said: "Th-the password is, um...a ninja waits um, until night and has no weapons, no wait, until the enemy has no weapons and umm, sleeps? Maybe? Damn it teme why did you have to give us such a long password!" yelled Naruto and glared at the Uchiha.
Sakura snorted before she turned her kunai and eyes on Sasuke. "And you?"
The raven haired male looked at Sakura before saying the password without breaking eye contact. "A ninja waits until the time is right, when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night, that is the moment for a ninja to strike."
Sakura eyed him suspiciously "Naruto, was Sasuke with you the entire time?" asked the pinkette.
"Yeah, he was the one that woke me up, actually." said Naruto.
The medic sighed before she put her kunai back. "Alright, it really is you."
"W-wait but I didn't say the password right." said Naruto confused.
"We know Naruto, that was the whole point." said Sakura.
Naruto looked even more confused as he looked at his teammates. "We knew you don't have the brain capacity to remember it, so incase someone was listening on us, and transformed into you, only the one with the wrong answer was the real you." said Sasuke.
"Though we should have gone with something that only the 3 of know, because I know Sasuke and I can remember it but so can someone else. Next time let's just go with what book Kakashi-sensei reads or something." said Sakura.
" You guys are so mean!" yelled Naruto.
Sakura chuckled before she saw Sasuke's bleeding leg. "You're hurt." exclaimed the medic.
"I'm fine don't worry about it, besides you're the one with a bleeding shoulder." said the Uchiha.
"Which is healing as we speak, thanks for the concern. Now sit." said the pinkette. Sasuke opened his mouth to protest more but Sakura leveled him with a look. So the Uchiha sat on the ground, while Sakura healed his leg.
"The killer intent trick you told me about worked." said Sasuke.
"Oh yeah? I'm glad." said Sakura.
"What were you doing here Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto.
The medic shrugged. "Oh you know, just fighting that giant snake over there, trying not to get eaten, the usual." And surely both boys turned to look at the giant dead snake buried beneath a lot of threes and boulders.
Naruto looked back at Sakura with a horrified look. "Sakura-chan, what the fuck?"
The medic laughed as she finished healing both Sasuke's leg and her shoulder. She was gonna ask them what happened to themselves but before she could say anything another snake entered the clearing.
"Not again!" exclaimed the medic.
The three of them leaped away as the new snake lunged at them. Sasuke, in his panic threw his shuriken at the reptile, the weapons doing little to no damage to the reptile. Sakura and Naruto landed on a fallen tree, while Sasuke on a boulder just behind them. They all watched as the snake grossly suddenly spit the ninja from before.
"Don't lower your guard, not even for a moment, before your predator." said the grass-nin. Suddenly the snake started stretching, he was circling a tree when Sakura threw an exploding kunai in its path, the resulting explosions distracting the ninja just long enough for Sakura to grab Naruto and regroup next to Sasuke.
"We need a plan, this thing will-" said Sakura before she got interrupted by a gust of wind. The strong current blowing the 3 genin away. Luckily Naruto grabbed both Sakura and Sasuke's hand so they don't get separated. The three genin landed on a tree branch, that was still far enough to see the ninja perform the summoning jutsu. The new snake was 2 times bigger than the one that Sakura just fought.
"Ok guys I have plan, Naruto you make as many clones as you can and send them to distract the snake, then you and Sasuke try to immobilize it with your ninja wire." said Sakura.
"What are you gonna do Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto.
"I'll try to keep the ninja from attacking us while you deal with the snake." said Sakura.
"What are you talking about? We need to run! We can't fight that thing, we'll die! W-we, we-" exclaimed a very very panicked Sasuke.
"Oi Sasuke, I'm pretty sure running stopped being an option a long time ago." said Naruto.
"He's right, we either fight or die." said Sakura. "So what do you say, you with us Sasuke?"
The Uchiha widened his eyes before he sighed and pulled out his ninja wire. "Hn."
"Are you kiddsies done talking, because I'm done playing." said the grass-nin.
"And so am I." said Sakura as she leapt into the air. She threw 2 kunai at the ninja, that he dodged, before she landed on the snake's head. The 2 of them had an epic stare down before Sakura started running towards towards the snake, using one one of her hands a chakra scalpel to attack. The crazy disguised sanin said something about little blossoms wanting to play, but wither and die, Sakura didn't really listen, before he lunged at the pinkette with a kunai. Sakura dodged and punched him in the chest making him fall on his back, the pinkette raised a poisoned kunai, ready to strike him in the chest, but the ninja dodged at the last second, making Sakura hit the snake instead. Not that it did any damage to it, that thing has thick scales.
Meanwhile Naruto made at least 500 clones that were circling the Snake all of them were doing a good job of distracting the summon. The snake was lunging at every single one of them, which kinda made Orochimaru and Sakura's battle harder, but whatever. While Sasuke and Naruto were preparing their ninja wire. Naruto was hidden up in a tree, while Sasuke was behind a rock, both of them were waiting for the perfect moment to tie the snake. And when it came they jumped up in the air with ninja wire tied to a shuriken each. A perfectly timed throw made the shuriken collide with each other and they carefully circled each jaw of the snake, twice. Once the wire was tightly wrapped, they pulled from opposite directions, forcing the snake to open its large jaws.
"Now Naruto." yells the uchiha. And then 3 Naruto clones appeared in front of the snake's mouth and each threw 5 exploding kunais.
"Take this you stupid snake." yelled the clones as the forced the snake to swallow the kunais. Once the exploding weapons were inside the snake, the boys let go of the wire and yelled for Sakura to take cover. The pinkette used the distraction of the boys yelling to graze Orochimaru's cheek with a paralyzing kunai and embedded 2 poisoned senbon in his left knee. She jumped away at the last second but sadly the blast still got her and slammed her into a tree. She fell unconscious on a tree branch.
This must have pissed off Naruto, because he went ninetails mode and started recklessly attacking Orochimaru. Sasuke watched both amazed and horrified as Naruto started attacking Orochimaru for 12 minutes straight, before he snapped out of his daze and went to check on Sakura who was slowly starting to wake up. The Uchiha helped her stand up as she looked around. Her eyes widened when she saw Naruto lunge at Orochimaru with the ferocity of a wild animal. Suddenly the pinkette bit her finger before she slammed her palm into the ground and summoned a tiny slug.
"Oh Sakura my dear, you look terrible! What happened her?" asked the slug.
"Lady Katsuyu, we need help. We are currently fighting a very strong ninja and we're in dire need of healing, could you help us?" said Sakura. Then she looked at Sasuke's surprised and confused face before she started explaining. " Sasuke this is my summon, Lady Katsuyu, she can heal you and serve as a way of communication if were separated, ok? So I want you to take her with you."
The raven haired male nodded as the pinkette put the slug on his shoulder. "Don't worry dear, I'll get you healed up in no time." said Katsuyu as she went inside his shirt to hide. This was Sakura and Katsuyu secret plan, if things go south, the slug would get summoned to help prevent Orochimaru from giving Sasuke the curse mark.
"Alright, let's go help Naruto." said Sakura.