Chapter 20 One on One

Me: Welcome back people from the living and beyond! I'm back with another chapter; I really got no excuse this time, just lack of inspiration. And now I will introduce you to my new disclaimer… (Drumroll please) GAARA!

Gaara: …

Me: Come on dude, say something, do the disclaimer.

Gaara: No.

Me: What? But that's why you are here.

Gaara: Don't tell what to do.

Me: But I pay you… I even paid you in advance for you to show so do the disclaimer!

Gaara: If you tell me what do again with that tone… I'll kill you.

Me: … I should've seen this coming.

Naruto and Sakura walked out from the training ground… at least one did. Naruto had to carry Sakura since she pushed her body too far to keep up with Naruto stamina. They both had frowns on their faces, no one can blame them. If you had a best friend who was turning evil and was willing to kill you, you wouldn't be in such a peppy mood.

They didn't say anything for a long time; finally, Sakura broke the silence.

"Why us?" she asked no one, Naruto said nothing. "Why is this happening to team seven? I remember when we all use to get along and even have fun, but now… now…" tears fell from her eyes. "It's like I don't even know this team anymore… everyone is so serious, and it's no fun… I know we live in a ninja world but we're supposed to fight the enemy, not ourselves."

Naruto still didn't answer, too focused on walking Sakura's home.

"If only the third didn't die… we could really use his advice right now… but we can't. What will we do…? Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

Naruto didn't answer after a while. "I really don't know Sakura-Chan… let's hope Kakashi-sensei does keep an eye on Sasuke. Kami only knows what going on in the teme's head." Naruto replied.

Sakura looked at the ground. "Do you think… there might be a day that we're actually fighting each other to the death?" she asked.

"Hell no!" Naruto yelled with vigor that surprised Sakura. "We may be hitting a rough spot now… and we might hate each other so much that we'll be forced to change team." Sakura tear up more at that point. "But one thing that is certain is that we'll never try to kill each other." Naruto said, quite confident.

Sakura sighed. "I hope your right."

"You know I'm right."

Sakura nodded, Sakura closed her eyes but accidentally went to sleep. Naruto could hear the light snoring from her.

Naruto gave a small smile. 'If we lose Sasuke, at least I'll still have her.' he thought.

(With Sasuke)

Ever since his fight with Naruto and his talk with Kakashi, Sasuke has been in a sour mood. Grumbling stuff that people can't understand. Kicking/punching anything in his way, trees, can, bottle, paper, grass, you name it.

He was about to kick something else but stopped himself in time when he saw a cat.

Sasuke looked at the cat for a while; the cat tilted his head curiously.

Sasuke notice this.

"Well, you know what they say." he put his hand in a tiger seal. "Curiosity kills the cat." he spat flames at the cat, setting it aflame. The cat yowls and runs away.

Sasuke laughed. Not one of those humorous laughter, but one of those maniacal evil laughter, when Sasuke notice this he covers his mouth.

"Damn it… what the hell is with me?" he asked himself.

"I'll tell you what's wrong." Sasuke turned to see four people behind him. One of them was a girl with red hair and cloth on her head. Next to her stand a guy who could really stand to lose some weight, next stand another guy with purple lips stick and the weirdest hair he have ever seen, the other guy have hair similar to Shikamaru, has this ever present smirk and…

"Are those six arms?" Sasuke asked the mysterious guy.

"Yeah, so?" he asked.

Sasuke stare at him for a couple of second. "Whatever you guys want, I just lose interest thanks to… that…" he pointed at the six armed guy. "So whatever you pedophiles wants, I don't… have it…" he started to walk backward, looking at a seething mysterious man, and barely contained laughter from the only female on the group, the other two were indifferent.

"Sasuke Uchiha, we came here to-"

"Rape me, I know." that shut the purple lips stick guy.

"Excuse me?"

"You are here because you take interest in my body… I notice your bow." all four look at their purple bow. "Only one person took interest in my body and that was Orochimaru, he's a gay pedophile and if you guys work with or for him that means you four are also gay pedophiles and came her to claim my body… but you're not gonna get it without a fight." Sasuke turned to them, his sharingan blaring at them.

All four looked at each other then shrugged. All at once they dashed at Sasuke.

They all tried to punch Sasuke and/or kick him but most of the time they miss.

Sasuke got a little too cocky, you could tell when he started to pretend they were about to hit him but dodged them at the last second. Sasuke almost tripped by a branch and that earned him a punch to the guts from the fat guy. Sasuke cough some blood and he crashed to a wall, Sasuke grunt in pain as he looked at them. He charged at them but they also easily dodged his attack, after a failed punch to the lip stick guy face, he threw a punch at Sasuke's face which Sasuke was about to block but he suddenly got hit in the stomach and chest, making Sasuke gasp in surprised, leaving him open for a punch to the face, followed by a kick to the stomach again.

Sasuke growled. 'I'm getting defeated by them too!? I refuse to lose!' the cursed mark started to spread on his body. "Son of a bitch!" Sasuke blindly dashed towards his four opponents, expecting for him to kick their asses easily, he never expected for them to kick him around like a rag doll more easily than before.

Sasuke, ironically, ended up in the same place as last time. Sasuke was audibly growling at this point, not only have they defeated him before, but they did it again with even less trouble, despite the fact that he unleashed the first level of the cursed mark.

Sasuke's eyes widen when he notice all four having marks all over their bodies.

"Wait… you have-"

"The cursed mark?" lip-stick guy cut Sasuke off. "Why yes… we do."

Sasuke glared at them. "Who are you?"

"I'm glad you ask." Lip-stick guy said. "My name is Sakon and my brother name is Ukon." he said.

"Um… which brother?" Sasuke asked. Sakon turned his head slightly and part of his hair moved and revealed… another face. "Ello there mate" Sasuke was glad no one heard his scream, though now he have to hear the red head constantly call him a woman in disguise.

"Go on!" Sasuke growled at the red head.

She finally contained her laughter. "My name is Tayuya, dick… oh wait, I shouldn't call you that when you don't have one." she started laughing again, Sasuke's anger reaching new height.

"My name is Kidomaru." six arms introduced himself.

"I don't actually care about your name, you creep the hell out of me." Sasuke said. Kidomaru growled but he resists the urge to harm him.

"I am Jirobo." he said.

"Good to meet you fatty." Jirobo popped a vein.

Tayuya snickered. "Dumbasses." she said.

"I wouldn't talk if I were you." Sakon said. "We are here to take you to Orochimaru-sama."

Sasuke looked at them for a while before turning. "Not yet."

All four looked at him in confusion. "What do you mean by 'not yet'?" Sakon asked.

"It mean… I'll stay here for a while, if only to see if Kakashi will train me to get stronger, if he refuses… I'll come." Sasuke said.

All four look at each other. "Ok…" Sakon answers. "We'll wait for you arrival." Sakon vowed, along with the others.

Sasuke paid no mind; he simply jumped away with the other four jumping in the opposite direction.

(Days later)

Team seven times as a team was… uneventful. Like Sakura feared, Sasuke is getting more and more distant with them; Naruto tries to prevent Sasuke from doing so but to no avail. Kakashi was even trying to make them do trust building exercise but Sasuke outright refuse to do them.

Even now Kakashi wondered what made Sasuke change so much, he could easily remember Sasuke being all cheery and sunshine last week, whatever happened then must have change him completely.

They are currently walking away from a semi-failed semi completed c-rank mission. Semi-completed because they had to escort a guy safely over to the land of water, semi-failed because Sasuke ended up hurting him when the guy kept making fun of his duck butt hair.

Naruto and Sakura were walking back while Sasuke walked in the middle, as you already guess Kakashi is walking in front.

Kakashi looked behind them, Sakura and Naruto watching Sasuke closely, Sasuke had his ever present scowl. Kakashi sighed.

'Itachi, I curse you to the seven seas of hell' he thought.

They made it to Tsunade.

"Mission complete?" she asked.

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head. "Well, you see…" Kakashi stop to ponder his word so it doesn't sound like he's blaming Sasuke.

"Yes?" Tsunade asked. "Go on"

Kakashi sighed. "What happened was-"

"We completed the mission but I sent the guy to the hospital because he was making fun of me." Sasuke answered suddenly. All of team seven froze, knowing how violent Tsunade can be.

Tsunade sighed. "Why?" she asked.

"I told you because he made fun of me."

Tsunade stared at him for a while. "Is that really the only reason?" she asked.

"So what if it is?" Sasuke spat. Again, team seven held their breath.

"You shouldn't let your emotion get the best of you. You're a ninja." Tsunade said firmly. "Don't be such a brat just because someone made fun of you, everyone does. I bet even your team is spreading rumors of you behind your back."

Team seven looked alarmed and started making the sign for Tsunade to shut up. They all stop when Sasuke turned to them, they tried to act innocent but Sasuke saw through them.

"You spread rumors about me?" she asked them with narrowed eyes.

"Of course not, you're my friend and a teammate." Naruto said.

"Yeah, what would we gain from spreading rumors about you behind your back?" Sakura asked.

"Mh, money, drinks, gets to see Sasuke get humiliate, the list goes on." Tsunade said while checking her nail. Sasuke narrows his eyes at his 'team' and stomp out of the office and slammed the door shut. Everyone stared at the door.

"What's his problem?" Tsunade asked with a disinterested look in her face.

Kakashi sighed. "Sasuke have become more distant from his team, not going to team meeting, not working together, constantly saying he's better than Naruto and Sakura and he keep demanding exclusive training from me."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "What brought on this attitude?"

"I believe it has come from his second encounter by Itachi. He lost and come to believe that he never became stronger, and after seeing how powerful Naruto was becoming he felt he'll never be able to avenge his clan and he believes that having friends is taking his mind off his goal, making him weaker so he is becoming distant and he want to become stronger thus demanding more training session from me." Kakashi explained.

Naruto looked at Kakashi in shock. "Part of his attitude was… my fault?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi gave him an eye smile. "Don't feel bad Naruto, it's not your fault, Sasuke is just jealous." but that didn't make Naruto feel better.

Tsunade sighed. "What do you think Sasuke will do in his boiling point?"

Kakashi shrugs. "I honestly don't know, the worse he could do is completely blow us off like we're nothing." Kakashi replied.

Tsunade nodded. "You are dismissed." all three left, mostly in silent.

Kakashi looked towards Naruto. "Don't worry, if I know Sasuke, he'll never be desperate enough to kill one of us for power."

Naruto nodded. "I hope your right."

(Later that night)

Sasuke was packing his stuff in his house, his scowl held more anger than usual.

'Stupid village, stupid sensei refusing to train me, dumb dope constantly boasting that he's getting stronger than and stupid Sakura supporting him.' Sasuke expression turned grim, he sighed. 'I'll miss Ino, but I can't stay in a village that won't even help me avenge my clan, if Orochimaru is the only one that will help me, then so be it.' Sasuke put in his backpack and headed out. He was about to walk out the village gates until…

"Sasuke-kun?" Sasuke turned and his eyes widen when he sees a sleepy Ino rubbing her eyes. "Where are you going?" she asked.

"I'm going on… a mission?" he asked more than reply.

"Oh, ok…" she turned to leave but quickly stops. "Wait, where is your team? You're still a genin; the Hokage wouldn't let you go on a mission alone."

Sasuke glared at her. "So what are you saying!? Are you saying that I'm too weak to handle myself! That I can't handle a lone mission!?" he yelled.

Ino flinched and looked at Sasuke, terrified. "W-What's wrong?" she asks.

Sasuke turned away, he started to walk.

"S-Sasuke-kun, where are you going?" He still didn't answer. "SASUKE-KU-" Sasuke suddenly appeared behind her and covered her mouth.

"Then tell a single soul of this… got it." Sasuke said in a cold tone which made Ino shivered.

'What's wrong with Sasuke-kun?' she thought. "Can… can you at least tell me where you are going?" she asked.

Sasuke sighed. "I'm leaving… I can't stay in this village." he answered simply.

"Did the Hokage give you permission to leave?" Sasuke didn't answer. "Sasuke-kun, if you leave, she could-"

"I don't care…" Sasuke looked at Ino directly at her eyes. "I need to avenge my clan no matter what… I have to." Sasuke started to walk towards the gate again.

"Don't you mean you want to?" Ino yelled. Sasuke stopped dead in his track. "I know you're mad that your brother killed your parents and your whole family but it doesn't mean you can push us away. Why can't you stay here and train with your team?"

"That just it!" Sasuke turned to Ino. "My own sensei refuses to train me and my two supposed teammates keep bragging that they are getting stronger than me."

"Well that's no reason to leave!"

Sasuke growled. "You just don't understand!" he started walking away.

"Sasuke, don't go! Sasuke-kun! If you leave, I'll tell the Hokage, and she'll be angry, and she'll never let you leave the village again, and you'll never be able to-" Ino gasped when she felt something hit her neck, consciousness soon left her.

Sasuke stood over her as she fell to the ground. Sasuke picked her up and left her on a nearby bench.

He sighed. 'Itachi… I hope you had fun living.' he vanished after that.

Sasuke came to the Sound four and saw them kneel to him. "What's with the formality all of a sudden?" he asked.

"Orochimaru-sama gave us strict orders that as soon as you left the village, we would be your subordinate." Sakon explained.

"Oh, really? So anything I tell you to do you'll have to do it?" Sasuke asked.

"That's right." Tayuya said, though begrudgingly.

Sasuke smirked. "Oh, Ukon…" he called. Ukon turned his head to look at Sasuke.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Cut off Sakon face." he said, silence fell on them.

"What?" Ukon asked.

"Cut off… Sakon's face." Sasuke answered.

"You-You can't make us do that!" Ukon complained.

"Yes I can, you guys said that you have to do everything I say."

"Yeah but-"

"Imagine what Orochimaru will say if he finds out that you guys disobeyed his orders."

"No, please!"

"So cut off his face!"

"I can't!"

Sasuke stayed quiet. "Alright." Ukon and Sakon breathe a sigh of relief. "Sakon cut off his face."

"What?"

"I'M NOT GOING THROUGH THIS WHOLE FUCKING THING AGAIN! CUT OFF HIS FACE!"

"But why!?"

"Cause it will amuse me! Now do it!"

"Please, anything but that!"

"Do it now!" He threw a kunai which Sakon quickly caught before it pierced Ukon. "Now use that and cut off his face, wear it, and we'll see how long it'll take for people to figure out that you're wearing someone else's face!"

"I beg of you!"

Sasuke glared at them. "I was joking." Sakon and Ukon looked at Sasuke as if he had another head. "Yeah, I said it, I wanted to test if what you said was true, and you guys are real crybabies." Sasuke shook his head before jumping away, Kidomaru, Tayuya and Jirobo followed but Sakon and Ukon stayed there frozen.

"I hate him." Ukon said.

"I hate him as much as you do." Sakon followed Sasuke.

(The morning)

Tsunade was actually relaxing for once, there was no paperwork, no one was bothering her, and she could finally enjoy her sake, Tsunade could actually say that for once, she enjoyed her Hokage job.

SLAM!

"Hokage-sama! This is an emergency of skyscraping proportion!" Shizune said with Ino next to her.

'Son of a shit!' Tsunade thought before sighing. "What's the problem?" she asked.

"Sasuke-kun left the village!" Ino cried.

"Uh huh, that just means one less nuisance to deal with." Tsunade said none caringly.

"He went to join Orochimaru!" Ino added.

"Get every available ninja we have stat!" Tsunade suddenly yelled.

Shizune ran off.

(Minutes later)

"This is what you came with!?" Tsunade asked Shizune who nodded fearfully. "You got me an arrogant ass…" she pointed at Neji who looked impassive. "A loudmouth..." she pointed at Naruto who immediately started protesting. "A lazy-ass…" she pointed at Shikamaru who yawned. "A guy who eats way more a normal human should eat…" Choji happily ate his chips. "And a horny dog boy." Kiba started protesting too.

Shizune nods. "I'm sorry milady, but it's just Sasuke, and Naruto-kun is starting to become stronger so I'm sure he'll be able to defeat him and with Shikamaru's strategic nature, Neji's byakugan, Naruto's inability to give up, Choji's brute strength and Kiba's sense of smell, I'm sure they'll be able to get him, with little trouble." she answered, all while bowing to Tsunade.

Tsunade sighed. "Alright…" she turned to the five genin. "To explain to you in a nutshell… Sasuke left, he went and decided to join Orochimaru." the genins gasp.

"Why would he do that!?" Kiba asked.

"From what I heard is because a certain blond was bragging to him about the fact that he is getting stronger faster than him." Tsunade looked pointedly at Naruto; Naruto looked away but accidentally looked at Ino glaring at him.

"So it was your fault that Sasuke-kun left!?" she asked.

"N-no way, I mean-" Ino narrowed her eyes.

"Were you, or were you not, making fun of Sasuke-kun because you were stronger than him?" Ino asked in a threatening tone.

"I… I…" Naruto looked down in shame. "Yeah."

Ino clenched her fist. "You bastard! Since when did you become such an arrogant ass!?"

"I didn't mean to-"

"Oh you didn't mean to!? Then why would you brag!?"

"Ino, calm down!" Tsunade said firmly, Ino stepped back but she continues to glare at Naruto. "You know Naruto didn't mean to make Sasuke leave. Just calm down."

"But still…" Ino grumble.

"But nothing, beside, Naruto's bragging can't be the only reason he left, it probably something else." Tsunade reasoned.

Ino sighed. "Fine, but Naruto's still one of the reason he left."

Tsunade rolled her eyes. "Ok, you guys go on and try to get Sasuke back, bring him dead or alive." Ino gasped. "Alive… I meant alive… I got caught up in the moment… Go, and get Sasuke back alive."

All five nodded and left.

"Alright…" Shikamaru turned to them. "Because I am the leader, I get to tell you what to do, any complains?" he asked, Naruto raised his hand. "No? Then pack up and meet me in the gate in an hour."

"Wait!" Naruto yelled but Shikamaru was already gone. "Son of a…" Naruto walked to his house.

He packed everything he needed for the trip. Ramen, soldiers pills, ration, and some extra clothes incase his got dirty enough for a change. Naruto put his backpack and turned to leave but stopped when he saw Sakura.

"Sakura-Chan, what are you doing here?" he asked.

"I came to visit you, why are you carrying a backpack?" she asked.

Naruto gulped. "Um… I'm… going to sleepover Kiba." he said.

"You're lying."

"No I'm not."

"Yeah you are, you tend to scratch you head when you're lying." Sakura explained.

Naruto looked at his right hand which was on his head, he quickly put it down. "I'm going to train in the forest of death."

"You're lying again."

"I'm going to-"

"Naruto!"

"Alright, alright!" Naruto sighed. "Sasuke left." he said, he waited for Sakura's reaction. He turned to see her with a confuse expression.

"What do you mean left?" she asked.

"I mean he left the village." Naruto explained. Sakura opened her mouth. "Without Baa-Chan's permission." he added.

"Why would he leave? And to whom?"

"From what I heard it was mostly my fault he left for bragging to him about getting stronger than him, and he left to Orochimaru." Naruto said.

"Really? Orochimaru? Why the pedophile?"

"I don't know, look we're wasting time! I need to go otherwise we might lose Sasuke completely." Naruto ahead towards the door.

"Be careful." Sakura said to Naruto.

Naruto turned and gave her a thumb up. "Don't worry; I'll be back with Sasuke no problem."

"Not that…" Naruto looked confused. Sakura smiled and kissed Naruto. "Try to come back in one piece and breathing." she said. Naruto nodded with a serious expression and ran off.

Naruto meet up with Neji, Kiba, Choji, and Shikamaru.

"About time you got here." Shikamaru said.

"Sorry, I was-"

"No time, let's go!" Shikamaru commanded and they all jumped away.

Sakura stood in Naruto's room for a while, someone knocked on the door. Sakura answered to see Haku.

"Good evening." Haku greeted.

"Hey Haku, haven't seen you since… since we finished the exam which was month ago. Don't you live next door to Naruto-kun?" she asked.

"Zabuza and I moved; we found a better house. Where's Naruto?" she asked.

"Sasuke went rouge so Naruto-kun went to look for him." Sakura explained.

"What!?" Haku asked in surprise.

Sasuke continue to jump until Sakon jumped ahead of him and stopped him.

"Wait, I've notice how come you never tried to go to level two on your curse seal." Sakon pointed out.

"Yeah, so… wait, there is a level two for the curse seal?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah, all you have to do is get in this box with several complicated seal and soon your seal will advance." he explained.

"You don't even know what you're talking about." Sasuke pointed out. Sakon shrugged his shoulder. "Is this revenge for what I did earlier?" he asked, before he could blinked Sakon stuffed Sasuke in the box and sealed the lid.

"Why you son of a…" Sasuke soon fell unconscious.

The other three looked at Sakon with a disappointed expression.

"He'll thank me later." Sakon said and started to walk with Sasuke, the other started to follow him.

Shikamaru looked at Neji who was using his byakugan. Can you see them yet?" he asked.

"Not yet." Neji replied.

Shikamaru turned to Kiba. "You still got his scent?" he asked.

Kiba gave a thumb up. "Yep, still got it." Kiba started to speed up which forced the other to do the same.

They continued before Neji gasped. "Found them!" he said.

"Seriously!?" Naruto asked. "Damn, we must be going crazy fast!"

"Or they're just going crazy slow." Neji remarked. "One of them, who seem to be the leader, is carrying something and he seems to be struggling to carry it." he explained. And right he was as Sakon is panting heavily.

"Damn *Pant* what does this kid eat?" Sakon asked. They all suddenly stop. They jumped down and turned to see the four genin and one chunin landing in front of them.

"Son of a shit! They already caught up to us!? Fuck!" Tayuya yelled.

Shikamaru raised his hand; everyone else did which forced Sakon to release Sasuke.

"Neji, what's in that box?" Shikamaru asked.

Neji focused on the box… a little too much, he started to grunt while squinting his eyes to see inside the box.

"Neji…" Shikamaru called but Neji ignored him, he continues to grunt. "Neji…" Neji started to scream while continuously yelling 'byakugan'. "NEJI!" Neji abruptly stops and looks at Shikamaru. "Stop that, or you'll pop a blood vessel." Neji popped a vein. "See, just like that."

Shikamaru turned to the sound four. "Alright, give us Sasuke back or else." Shikamaru threaten.

"Or else what?" Tayuya asked.

"Or else this guy…" Shikamaru pointed at Neji. "Will start to grunt inappropriately."

"Alright, alright, just… let me go and I'll get Sasuke for you." Jirobo said with a shiver.

Shikamaru smirked. "That's more like it." He released Jirobo but as soon as he did Jirobo made a hand sign.

"EARTH STYLE BARRIER: EARTH DOME PRISON!" he slammed his hand on the ground and the four genin and chunin got trapped in a, like the name says, earth dome.

"Shikamaru!" Naruto yelled.

"I know, it was stupid of me to believe him so easily, it's a mistake I won't do again." Shikamaru said tiredly. "Kiba, just use your fang over fang and bust us out of here." Kiba gave a thumb up.

"FANG OVER FANG!" he spun around rapidly and hit the wall, making huge chunk of rock fly anywhere. Kiba eventually stops. "Ok, now we can…" he looked at the supposed hole in the wall, but there were no holes. "What the hell!? How can that be?" Kiba asked.

"Let me try." Choji said. "EXPANSION-"

"No Choji." Shikamaru interrupted. "Let Kiba keep trying. He'll get it eventually." Choji nodded and let Kiba to fang over fang every part of the wall.

Kiba was panting by then. "That's all of the corners." Kiba said.

"You forgot the back." Shikamaru pointed out. Kiba groaned.

"FANG OVER FANG!" he went through the wall. "I did, I finally did it!" he said.

"Nice job." Shikamaru said then turned to Jirobo who looked surprised.

"You son of a bitch, how dare you break my earth dome."

"Well, you are the enemy, so I shouldn't feel sympathy for you." Kiba said.

"You all will pay." Jirobo said.

"Bring it! We can all take you one no pro-"

"Naruto wait." Choji cut in. Everyone stared at him. "I'll take care of him." he said. Everyone stayed quiet for a while.

"Ok." Naruto said.

"See ya." Kiba said.

"Don't die." Neji said than they jumped away.

"Aww…" Choji groaned.

Shikamaru patted his back. "Don't worry; we know you'll catch up eventually." Shikamaru said with a smile. "Beat this guy so we can get Sasuke faster."

Choji nodded. "I will." he said. Shikamaru went to catch up to them.

"It seems they believe you." Jirobo said.

"Yeah, they do." Choji said cheerfully.

"They are a bunch of idiots for believe a fatty like you and your little friend there, Shikamaru…" he clenched his fist. "CRUNCH! Add it to the heap!"

"You take that back!"

"Too… late…"

"ARRRRRGGGH!" Choji charged at Jirobo.

Shikamaru finally caught up with the others.

"How's Choji? Is he dead?" Naruto asked.

"Nah, but I gave him a pep talk so he should survive for an extra minute." Shikamaru explained.

"Nice." Kiba commented.

"You still got his scent?" Shikamaru asked. Kiba gave a thumb up, Shikamaru nodded. "Let's make up for lost time." they speed up again.

Choji crashed to the ground, before quickly standing. He did a hand sign. "EXPANSION JUTSU!" he turned big.

Jirobo looked at him with an uninterested look, he even looked annoyed. "How many time are you going to try that?" he asked.

Choji started rolling. "HUMAN BOULDER!" he charged toward Jirobo but Jirobo simply swatted Choji away, almost as if he was nothing.

"Idiot." Jirobo said. Choji glared at him.

"This won't work, I guess I have to do it." he reached into his pocket and took out a case with three balls. "The green pill." Choji said before eating it.

Jirobo looked confused before smirking. "Whatever you just did…" he ran towards Choji. "It won't work!"

Choji planted his feet to the ground. "It will!" He easily stopped Jirobo.

'The hell! How much does this kid weight!?' he asked in shock. He was even more shock to feel Choji push him back. 'He's… pushing me back!?' Jirobo thought.

"I'll finish you fast… so I can catch up with my friends!" Choji punched Jirobo in the jaws, making him crash towards a tree. "Alright!" he took out several kunais in strings and tied them to himself. "EXPANSION JUTSU!" he turned big and the kunai stick out of him. "HUMAN BOULDER!" he spun towards Jirobo, Jirobo would've tried to stop it, but with the kunai adding spikes on the giant meat tank, he couldn't afford to try.

"Why you little…" Jirobo activated the first level of his curse seal which spread like several connected triangles. "Haaaaa!" he slammed his palm to Choji's fat guts.

Choji felt a vibration going through his body which felt unbelievably uncomfortable.

Choji screamed, he turned thin… or at least thinner… even if just a little.

Choji stood up and took the kunais off of him. "Damn it." Choji muttered. He ran towards Jirobo but Jirobo quickly punched his jaws.

Choji started to fly back but Jirobo quickly grabbed his leg and smashed him to the ground. Choji gasped in pain.

"Hehe, not so tough now are ya?" Jirobo asked. He punched Choji's stomach which got him to cough some blood and threw him away.

'I can't let this guy win… my friends are counting on me.' Choji thought. He slowly stood up and took out his spills again and took out the yellow pill. "Now for the yellow pill." he took it, he steady himself and all at once, his chakra flare out.

Jirobo looked at the visible chakra in amaze. "What incredible chakra you have, I'll enjoy absorbing them out of you." he said, Choji glared at him.

"PARTIAL EXPANSION JUTSU!" Choji yelled, making his arms big. Jirobo looked in surprised.

"Just his arm?" he asked. Choji threw a punch at Jirobo who blocked it but got thrown back, Jirobo fell to the ground. He notices a shadow over him and looked up to see a giant leg going down towards him, Jirobo rolled out of the way in time but wasn't able to dodge the hand that went down on him.

"Ha!" Choji said in triumph but then felt himself being lifted.

"You idiot! Never let your guard down!" Jirobo said.

"Thanks for the advice!"

"No problem!" Jirobo turned and threw Choji high in the air.

Choji right himself in the air and did a simply hand sign. "EXPANSION JUTSU!" but instead of transforming extra fat he turned into a giant.

Jirobo eyes widen, seeing the giant Choji.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Choji roar as he fell to the defend less Jirobo, the shockwave ripped several trees away and the area is filled with smoke. Choji stayed on the floor for a while, he smiles. "Good thing he was an easy opponent."

"I wouldn't count on it fatty." Choji's eyes widen when he heard Jirobo again, he was even more surprised when Jirobo lifted him up. "RISING PALM!" he slammed his palm at Choji enlarged stomach and surprisingly threw him off of himself, not only that, he also succeeded to make Choji airborne for 10 second and shot him twenty foot in the air.

Choji turned back and crashed to the ground.

"How weak, guess the pineapple guy was wrong in depending on you." Choji looked at Jirobo and was shocked by his change in appearance. Jirobo skin got darker, his hair is longer and doesn't look like he's balding or anything it also darker, and his sclera (Is that how you spell it?) is black.

Choji tried to get up but Jirobo quickly grab his neck. "I'll end it here." Jirobo crushed Choji to the ground, Choji grunt in pain as his neck and body got crushed.

Jirobo sneered. "No chakra huh?" he lifted Choji up and threw him away. "How useless…"Jirobo turned to leave but saw movement from the corner from his eyes. He turned to see Choji reaching for his pills. "Heh, too late!" he quickly reached Choji and raised his hand. "CRUSHING PALM!" he lunges at Choji and hit the ground, causing dust to fly off everywhere. When it finally cleared he found Choji gone. "What the… where did he-" he saw butterfly, glowing butterfly going behind him, he looked behind to see Choji growing butterfly wings.

"Why you…" Jirobo went to punch Choji but Choji easily blocked the punch with barely any effort.

"I won't allow you to mock me anymore!" Choji elbow Jirobo's stomach, sending him off several feet.

Jirobo held his stomach in pain. 'What the hell… why does it hurt so much?' Jirobo turned to face Choji, he gasped went he saw Choji hovering over him (Not literally).

"You can call me fat, you can go take someone I don't even care about, but don't you ever insult my friend!" Choji clenched his fist which all his chakra gathered.

'Crap, with that many chakras…' Jirobo tried to lift his hand but Choji stomp on it.

"TAKE THIS!" Choji punched Jirobo chest with all his might. Jirobo screamed in pain as Choji continually add pressure to his punch. Choji stepped back as Jirobo turned back. "I… did it… I actually… did it." his butterfly wings vanished as he grabbed his unique headband and headed towards where his friends went, he reached a tree where there was an arrow pointing to the right. "Ugh, what is that supposed to mean?" Choji asked himself. He saw down under the tree. "I need to sleep… even if it's… for a short while…" Choji closed his eyes after that consciousness left him.

All four continue to jump through the branches.

"That's odd…" Neji started. "They haven't put any traps." he pointed.

"They probably though we would die against Jirobo." Shikamaru summarized.

"Bastard! Underestimating us that easily!" Naruto yelled. "I'll show them." He started to speed up but Shikamaru stopped him.

"Relax; we can use this to our advantage." Shikamaru pointed out.

"How?" Naruto asked. Shikamaru just smirked.

The other three sound Nin was still jumping but they were doing it slower than usual.

"How long until fatty gets here?" Tayuya asked.

Kidomaru was holding the crate. "You're late." he didn't needed to turn to see Jirobo appearing behind them.

"Sorry, Those bastards were harder to beat, especially the blond one, he was the strongest." Jirobo said. All three looked at him with a weird look. "What?" you could hear someone from afar slapping their forehead.

"Yeah… you gayish obsession aside, you-" Tayuya was saying.

"I AM NOT GAY! TAKE THAT BACK YOU BITCH!" Jirobo yelled. All four looked at Jirobo in shock.

"I knew we shouldn't have let Naruto transform to Jirobo." Shikamaru whispered to someone.

"He was best when it comes to transformation, I thought it would work." Kiba whispered back.

"And look where it got us!"

Tayuya smirked. "I didn't know you were so sensitive about me calling you gay, more sensitive than when I call you fat…" Jirobo didn't react. "Who are you and what have you done to Jirobo?" all four stops.

Naruto drop his transformation. "Damn, they figure it out." but to his surprise, the three looked surprised.

"Wait, you were transformed to Jirobo?" Tayuya asked. Naruto nodded. "That little, 'who are you and what have you done to Jirobo' thing was a joke." Naruto blinked for a couple of second before he smacked his forehead. Someone else got smack.

"Ow! Bitch!" Kiba shouted.

"Idiot." Kidomaru muttered. He tossed the crate to Tayuya. "I'll handle them." He said.

"Try not to die." Tayuya said before she and Sakon jumped away.

Naruto reached for his kunai pouch but he suddenly got hit by a spider web. "What the… where did this came from?" Naruto asked.

"FANG OVER FANG!" Kiba yelled as he and Akamaru spin rapidly in a vortex, they were about to hit Kidomaru but he made spider web appear from his hand like Spiderman and hung from several tree branches.

"Heh, weak." Kidomaru said unknown to him that Neji sneaked behind him and was about to strike with a gentle fist but apparently Kidomaru did see him because he quickly snapped his spider string and fell, dodging Neji's attack.

"What?" Neji asked in shock.

"Too slow!" Kidomaru shot webs at Neji and spun it and trapped Neji in a cocoon.

"Aw damn it!" Naruto grabbed a kunai and tried to cut the web but couldn't. "What the hell is with this web!?"

"It can't be broken, it's near impossible." Kidomaru said. Naruto glared at Kidomaru.

Kidomaru started gagging with his cheek puffed up; He put two fingers from his six arms in his mouth before pulling the substance from his mouth to reveal six golden things.

'That's odd.' Shikamaru thought. 'Why would he take those out?' He asked himself.

Kidomaru threw one of those weapons at Naruto, hitting him at the chest.

"Gah!" Naruto screamed in pain… before he poof.

Shikamaru sweat dropped. 'That egghead, he could've warned us it was a shadow clone… since when did he do a shadow clone?' Kidomaru looked around him, he threw one of his weapons behind him, the thing pierced something and Naruto fell out.

"Naruto!" Kiba yelled, but Naruto poof. "You bastard!" Kidomaru continue to look around for Naruto.

He threw two of his weapons and hit two Narutos. Two Naruto's jumped at him at the same time but he threw his last two weapons at them, hitting them square in the chest.

"Heh, that's the last of-" he was shocked silent to see both Naruto's vanish. "What the… where is he!?" he quickly turned to see a punch flying towards him, he quickly blocked it but the force of the punch threw him off the branch, that punch belong to none other than Naruto.

"Take that you six armed freak!" Naruto yelled.

Kidomaru decided to rip off Spiderman again and shot webs from his wrist and swing to a nearby branch. "Heh, Not bad." he said. "But not good either." Naruto narrows his eyes at him. Naruto felt something pull him and looked down to see spider string on his arms.

"Crap!" before he could cut it, he fell from the branch towards Kidomaru, but before he could get close, Neji appeared out of nowhere and cut the string.

"What the… how did you…" Kidomaru asked, looking at Neji in wonder.

Neji sighed. "Not to brag or anything but I'm the only one who can deal with his jutsus." Neji told his team then turned to Kidomaru. "I'll deal with him."

All three look shocked at Neji, Akamaru whined and climbed to Kiba's jacket.

"Akamaru said that this guy is stronger than fatty back there, this fight will be tougher." Kiba warned Neji.

Neji nodded. "I'm aware of that, but getting Sasuke is more important than useless details."

"Actually details are important as they can-" Shikamaru was saying.

"Getting Sasuke is more important than useless details." Neji repeated in a warning tone.

Shikamaru nodded.

"I'll catch up to you guys later, if you don't leave now, you'll never catch up to them." Neji warns again, all three looked uncertain for a moment.

Naruto finally nodded. "I'll see you on the way back." Naruto said, Shikamaru nodded along Kiba and all three jumped back, leaving Neji to the Spiderman wannabe.

"I won't let you escape that easily!" Kidomaru yelled and shot more webs which started to stitch together as they got closer to Naruto, Kiba and Shikamaru but Neji, with his gentle fist, cut them before they got too close. "Tsk…" Kidomaru looked at Neji. "Aren't you the strongest? Seems like my playtime is over." He started spitting out web towards Neji who dodge most of them and even cut a few but Neji almost tripped which got him hit by a web and got his hands trapped.

"Heh, too easy, if you're the strongest then the other three must be really weak." Kidomaru said. "I'll finish you here and go after your other little friends." Kidomaru concentrated chakra in his mouth and chomp on it a couple of time before spitting out a gold rod which headed towards Neji's chest.

Neji gathered chakra from every part of his body that was covered in spider webs and unleashed it, destroying it, and jumped in time before the golden rod pierced him.

"What the-" Kidomaru stopped mid-sentence and looked down to see Neji in a low crouch.

"Look like I'll be the one to finish things…" Neji said as the field turned to black with a weird design in the middle. "EIGHT TRIGRAMS: TWO PALMS!" two hits. "FOUR PALMS, EIGHT PALMS!" Kidomaru backed up in pain but Neji quickly followed. "SIXTEEN PALMS, THIRTY-TWO PALMS." Kidomaru backed up to a tree but Neji didn't end it there. "SIXTY-FOUR PALMS!" Kidomaru went through the thick tree and crashed to another one.

Neji stood straight and was ready to leave before he's eyes widened. 'What the…' Kidomaru stood up with some kind of gold armor on himself. 'Those things are made from the same substance from the golden rod.' he thought.

"Hehe, those rods of mine doesn't only appear from my mouth, it can also appear from my sweat glands." Kidomaru explained. Before Neji could say anything, Kidomaru vanished.

Neji looked around for Kidomaru and right then he swiftly moved to the left to dodge a kunai with a paper bomb on it.

'Fake?' Neji thought but didn't have time to think about it as several projectile headed towards him.

'It's over.' Kidomaru thought before he saw Neji spinning. 'What is he…?'

"ROTATION!" Neji deflected those projectiles with ease.

'What the… what the hell did I just see?' Kidomaru thought.

"Get out…" Neji said. Kidomaru tensed. "I can see you." Neji turned to the direction Kidomaru is.

Kidomaru smirked. "This is pretty fun… difficult, but fun…" Swirls started to cover Kidomaru. "But alas, I'm wanted somewhere else, I'll finish this 'game' quickly." Neji simply narrowed his eyes. "Now… to get rid of that pesky jutsu of yours." he made several hand sign. "SUMMONING JUTSU!" he thrust his hand on a tree branch and a giant spider appeared.

'Why am I not surprise?' Neji thought.

The spider started had a cocoon come out of his unmentionable Kidomaru cut it opened and little baby spider came out to play… or to eat people alive.

Neji glared at the little spiders which were making a web behind them.

'Easy.' he thoughts. "ROTATION!" and he started to deflect the spiders. 'I'll just keep spinning and completely forget the fact that that guy said he'll get rid of my perfect defense.' the webs started to grip his perfect defense.

Kidomaru pulled a string and Neji's rotation suddenly stopped.

'Damn, he was serious when he said he would stop it.' Neji thought, he quickly moved to dodge one of Kidomaru's golden kunais. Neji cut the web that was sticking to him and looked around him. He looked up to see more webs falling towards him and golden kunais heading towards him. He jumped to avoid the web and kunai and continue to dodge the kunai before he suddenly felt a pain on his right shoulder. Neji clutch his wound. 'Damn it, why doesn't he come out, that cow-' Neji thought got interrupted when a kunai imbedded itself on his back. "Damn it." 'The fight isn't looking in my favor anymore.'

Kidomaru, who was hiding far, far away had webs attached to his fingers; he released whatever he was holding. It is quickly revealed that he had several hungry baby spiders attached to them which are falling to Neji right this moment.

'Son of a…' Neji started dodging in the best of his abilities, even hitting some spiders that are in the way. That all stopped when he felt a sudden intense pain on his back. Neji collapsed to his knees.

From his hiding spot, Kidomaru smirked. "Give up already, this game is over."

"And why would I do that?" Neji asked.

"For your obvious injuries, now stay still while I finish you."

Neji continue to Look around before looking at up at the falling spider. Neji quickly gave a gentle strike to the spider.

The spider screech as it started to bloat and it exploded. Releasing those web that prevent Neji from rotating, which is a shame taken those golden kunai headed for him again and there doesn't seem to be a way out.

"Gaaahh!" Neji grunt in pain and collapsed on the floor.

Kidomaru watched Neji for a few second before turning to leave. "Stupid brat." he immediately stops and looked behind him to see Neji struggling to stand. Kidomaru simply smirked and his cursed seal started to spread making him have bigger hair, black sclera, darker skin and a third eye. 'Alright, this kid is starting to annoy me…' he made a bow from his golden material and also arrows. 'Now die!' he shot the arrow towards Neji which hits him dead center. Kidomaru smirked but it quickly vanished.

Neji grunt in pain and looks at the hole in his left shoulder. Neji, once again, collapse to the ground.

Kidomaru glared at Neji as he stood again. "So he has a blind spot huh?" Kidomaru formed another arrow. "This is too rich; he's like a fly on my spider web." He shot the arrow which sail towards Neji but Neji was quickly able to dodge as best he could, resulting in a cut on his right cheek. "God damn kid, always dodging my arrows, why won't he die?" this time he added spin to his arrows. "I won't miss this one, I'll finish this now." he shot it to an unmoving Neji.

Neji closed his eyes. 'This is it, I might not win against this guy, it was good while it lasted, I hope Naruto does get Sasuke back, and if I'm the only one that dies, then so be-' his thought got interrupted by the arrow piercing his stomach, he grunt as he slam to a tree. 'He interrupted my thoughts! That does it this bitch is going down!' Neji channel chakra through the string Kidomaru has on the arrow which travels towards him.

The chakra enters Kidomaru and he suddenly grunt in pain. Kidomaru started to lose balance and fell of the branch. Neji cut his string and dashed towards Kidomaru.

Kidomaru grunt on pain as he fell. 'This may have happened to me, but that kid will still die, there's no way he could… wha… what!?' Neji suddenly appeared in front of him.

"It's over!" Neji said as he raised a hand and gave a single strike against Kidomaru, Kidomaru spun around before landing painfully on his back, he started to turn back.

"What the hell! Am I actually dying? By one hit?" Kidomaru asked. Neji nodded before standing. "And yet you're still standing as if you don't have a gaping hole on your shoulder and stomach! What the hell!" Kidomaru cough some blood.

"That's because in anime, the main character can take bloody hits, can have gaping holes, can even lose limbs. But it always takes one hit on the villain for them to die." Neji explained.

"Why couldn't I be a good guy?"

"You have six arms; I've never seen a good guy with six arms."

"True…" Kidomaru cough. "Here I go…" and he closed his eyes, to never open them again.

Neji grunt as he fell to the ground. "I won't die… not now…" Neji closed his eyes and collapsed to the ground. Consciousness left him.

Hi, sorry for the late update and I bet you're even more disappointed that I went back to the manga, I did change some stuff but the reason is because I'm almost running out of ideas for chapter and I need the manga to give me ideas.