"Well, it's cool if you don't want to say," Naruto states as he shoves the wounded Shigeri to his clones and two of them lock the boy's wrist joints and drop him to his knees as a third clone presses a kunai at his throat. "But I'm not letting some weirdo hurt my family or bite them."
"You don't even know me," Karin sheepishly levels at Naruto.
"I want to though," Naruto returns. "I'm going to restart the Uzumaki clan, Karin-chan. Not only do I want to protect them, but I also want to get to know all the family I have left in this world."
'Urgh,' Karin mentally grunts at his emotionally honest kick to her gut. "Oh, whatever," Karin states repressively happy. "There was nothing left for me in Kusagakure anyway."
"Uzumaki, you traitor," Shigeri yells, despite the kunai at his neck. "The village will hear about this! We looked after you! We took care of you-"
"The village killed my mother, you abusive asshole," she yells at him. "And the village was going to do the same to me!"
"She's a member of my clan now," Naruto gravely tells the weak and bleeding boy. "You come after her, and you'll have to deal with me." Naruto waves to the clones and they let the exhausted Shigeri go.
"Since you're disqualified, the exit's straight that way," he tells him pointing to his eight o'clock. "You can let yourself out."
Once Shigeri is thirty yards away, Karin asks, "you really think it was a good idea to let him go? I mean, countries banded together to destroy Uzushiogakure because our existence was that much of a threat. Who's to say they won't do it again?"
Unimpressed, Naruto shrugs, admitting, "he'll have to survive first, and I just sent him toward the biggest nest of Konoha's Jumping Leeches in the forest. Just one of those bloodsuckers snags his skin for more than five minutes, and the only place he'll be reaching is the next world.
But if you want to tell him not to go that way-"
"No," Karin exclaims, easily sensing how low on chakra her former teammate is. Watching Shigeri labor just to leave, possibly to his death, Karin apprehensively expresses to her family her decision. "My mother and I we have special chakra that heals anyone who, uh, bite us.
"I just" Sakura starts. Still feeling her supreme terror, Sakura shakes her head a bit then finishes, "I'll treat you in a minute-"
"We don't have the time," Sasuke quickly whispers. With his Sharingan activated, he ignores her while he frantically surveys the dark and quiet forest for any hint of danger. "Finish healing yourself so we can get out of here!"
"Sasuke" she mutters, never witnessing this much panic from him. His panic inspires her own fears as she thinks, 'he's probably right.' Their attacker is leagues above them.
Sakura was only proud of the fact that she wasn't crying and shaking like a leaf when she barely managed to stab herself out of her fear-induced stupor with a shuriken. She's not even done closing her wound when a snake slithers down from the tree branch above.
"Sasuke!" She hollers and they both instantly leap in opposite directions, however, the large snake follows her teammate.
Yelling, "get away!" Sasuke kills the serpent with a reckless amount of kunai and shuriken, pinning it to a large branch.
'He's just as scared as I am,' Sakura oddly notes, as evidenced by his missing the snake sneaking up on them despite his Sharingan being activated.
Extricating himself out of the bloody and slimy snakeskin, like shedding its husk, this monster speaks in a scratchy and rancorous voice, "neither of you should relax for even a moment.
Prey should always try their best to run away" It wasn't until this monster's hideous eyes targets their very souls that he adds with a wicked grin, "in the presence of a predator, that is."
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