Without warning, the half villain, half snake slithers around the tree branch toward a frozen Sasuke. Before Sakura can heave her kunai, before Sasuke can bring out his own to defend himself, three shurikens and a kunai dart deep into cracking wood.
It isn't until a feral red-eyed Naruto lands next to her that they all notice the note-wrapped kunai smoke in front of the monstrous ninja.
"Sasuke!" Naruto calls as he grabs Sakura and they all leap away from the destructive explosion. Landing on the forest floor, Team 7 survey the area a moment before Naruto relays to his teammates, "I sent word about that guy. We just need to last until reinforcements gets-"
The forest floor vibrated horribly as the sound of rupturing tree roots interrupts him. The shaking earth they're standing on, sinks before exploding outward and Team 7 lands safely thirty yards away from the slowly rising long-haired genin.
Their heads tilt back as Orochimaru continues to rise out of the whole on atop the extremely large head of a gigantic snake.
"I still want to know the full extent of your powers, Sasuke-kun," his scratchy voice humorously declares. The snake large tongue hisses their death sentence and Sakura is at a loss of what to do. In the presence of such a large summon, what are three genin to do.
Feeling defeated, Sakura's mind reminds her, 'even Kakashi-sensei never made them run a mission scenario involving a summon.' Sakura simply can't tactically imagine their escape without sacrificing at least two members, an impossible choice for her.
The large snake bares its large fangs as Orochimaru spreads his stance in preparation to attack when the large beast hisses painfully loud, as if wounded.
Naruto carries Sakura princess style and leaps away, calling out, "Sasuke!" as she witnesses dozens of Naruto's clones descending from the trees with a large version of his chakra ball technique, peppering the large snake's body with a barrage of scale drilling strikes.
"This way," Naruto yells to their teammate.
However, before the three can get far, their impossibly strong adversary lands in front of them. Naruto sets her down as the long-haired shinobi, chuckles, "ku ku ku, very amusing, Naruto-kun. I never expected you to have such an impressive technique."
"He's forcing us to make our stand," Sasuke quietly tells his teammates.
"Correct," Orochimaru agrees with a wide smile. "Fear not, younglings. I will grant you a moment to safely strategize, but I warn you. When you come at me, intend to kill me like predators or you will die my prey," he finishes with his psychotic grin and chuckle.
"Naruto," Sasuke states, taking a step forward. "You cover my six. Sakura, stay behind."
"He's better than a one-on-one," Naruto tells his Sasuke. "We need to triple team him. I flank his left, you take his right and Sakura supports from the rear."
A feral-haired, red-eyed Naruto quickly intervenes, but surprising him is a second Orochimaru, manifesting from the tree before attacking Naruto, separating both boys to an ever-expanding distance. The further apart her teammates are beaten, the more Sakura realizes she needs to make a choice.
'Who do I back up?'
She's hardly helped but one-on-one essentially means death against this enemy. Then Orochimaru hits Sasuke so far, she loses sight of him. The pinkette wants to follow but, she's also worried about Naruto who's losing just as bad.
"Sakura!" Naruto yells as he hops as far away as he can. "Back Sasuke up! Hurry!"
Instantly leaping away, her thoughts are a grateful, 'thank you, Naruto!'
Landing on a branch, the sight before her shocks her to see. Sasuke is on the ground, unmoving while that horrible Orochimaru is over him. Sakura is about to defend her teammate when both she and the monster are taken by surprise when a small explosion jolts Orochimaru's back.
Sasuke twists waist and quick feet spin to leap out of the snake nin's range before hurling three wire-guided Fma Shuriken that quickly wraps Orochimaru tightly to the trunk of the tree.
"Katon: Ryka no Jutsu," Sasuke yells through wire-bitten teeth and an explosion of fierce fire rides the metal wire like a missile, striking Orochimaru square in the chest and through the other end of the tree, roasting the screaming man alive.
Landing beside the raven-haired avenger, Before a relieved Sakura can tend Sasuke's wounds, they both hear an evil sound from what should be a lifeless body.
"Kukukuku," Orochimaru cackles. "You really are brothers, Sasuke-kun." Sakura brings out her kunai but before either herself or Sasuke can do anything, he uses some form of jutsu that immobilizes them. "I sense power in your eyes that surpasses Itachi."
"Who the hell are you!" Sasuke yells. "What do you know about Itachi!?"
"Yes," Orochimarus sings. "I think I will have you."
Orochimaru turns toward the direction of Naruto's fight and chuckles evilly, muttering, "so that's the Kybi brat." 'Kybi?' Sakura mentally repeats and the monster returns his predatory attention to them, using a hand sign she's never seen before.
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