Meanwhile in the outside world, Sakura was looking at Naruto with concern in her eyes. He was lying down on the ground with a dark red, almost black layer of chakra engulfing his body.
His body was used as some sort of endoskeleton by the chakra. He also had a fox-like skeletal structure around his body that creeped her out extremely.
Sakura could only pray that Naruto was alright. She looked at Satsuki who was leaning against a tree while looking at Naruto with a same worry in her eyes as Sakura has.
After Kakashi had stopped Orochimaru from biting Satsuki and giving whatever it was that he gave Naruto, a bunch of jonins and Anbu captains turned up to the fight.
Orochimaru revived himself using his own style of substitution Jutsu. His clothes and injuries were non-existent.
That was the last time Sakura saw Orochimaru and her sensei before she was ordered by Kakashi to carry Naruto and run away.
And now they were, hiding under
a large hollowed out tree to give them some cover, but it would be obvious they were there to anyone who looked.
Sakura winced a little as she heard Naruto grunt, almost like he was locked in some kind of struggle. What was worse than him being covered by the Kyuubi's chakra was that he was also leaking vile purple chakra out of the place he was bitten by Orochimaru.
'What is going on with Naruto?' Was the question on both Satsuki's and Sakura's heads.
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"Do you feel that chakra?" Kyuubi asked Naruto in his subconscious. Naruto looked behind him and saw nothing.
"What chakra? I don't feel anything." Naruto replied.
" Ah right, you can't sense it because you aren't trained in sensing natural energy." The fox grumbled, earning a confused look from Naruto.
"Natural energy? What's that?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi waved his hand.
"A subject for another time. In short, natural energy is form of energy that exists in the atmosphere and the earth, but you can't sense it. You can be trained to sense and absorb it to use senjutsu, but that's also a subject for another time."
" Senjutsu... what?" Naruto whispered to himself, getting even more confused from the Kyuubi's words.
"Enough about that. Let's focus on the seal that snake gave you. His influence over you is gone now, all you need to do now is to destroy the seal. But you're not going to do that. " Kyuubi muttered, surprising Naruto.
"Let me explain the functions of the seal first. First it absorbs your chakra and the natural energy from your surroundings, converting it into senjutsu chakra through the consciousness within the cursed seal and then pumping it back into your chakra pathway system to enhance your abilities."
"It give its bearer more powerful chakra, transform their body and enslave them to the snake's will. It contains his senjutsu chakra, a specially-engineered enzyme and a fragment of his consciousness."
" But since the consciousness is gone, the only function left for the seal is to absorb your chakra and the natural energy."
" What about the conversion to boost my power?" Naruto wondered.
"I don't know. But the snake's senjutsu chakra is still in it and it'll probably remain there forever if you don't find a way to release and control it." Kyuubi replied to him. Naruto nodded as he cracked his knuckles.
" Well, I'm leaving now. You better be back in that cage. "
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While all of that was happening in Naruto's subconscious, Sakura and Satsuki were encountered by Team Dosu.
"Looks like you've been up all night." Dosu commented smugly. Sakura stood up while Satsuki activated her now Two Tomoe Sharingan.
"You guys work for Orochimaru don't you!? Tell me what that mark that snake put on Naruto is!" Sakura demanded, causing the team to widen their eyes in recognition of the name.
The group of Oto ninja paused as they absorbed the new information given. The cursed mark was something only the failed experiments or the elite members of Orochimaru's forces had.
'Wait, it's not on the Uchiha?!' Dosu widened his eyes as he looked at Satsuki's eyes before looking at her neck and found no curse mark on it.
"What is that man thinking?" Dosu's muttered to himself. Something seemed off about their orders now. Why give the Uchiha and the Uzumaki a curse mark, only to have them assassinated a short while later.
"Since you possess that information, we can't let you three go now. I'll kill you, and then I'll kill the Uchiha." Zaku declared confidently. He then looked at where Naruto was and froze the minute he saw what was behind the two kunoichi of Team 7.
" Wh-what the fuck? " Zaku muttered as he felt like he was staring at the Devil himself. Dosu knelt down and ran his hand through the grassy ground in front of him. He grabbed a handful of dirt in his hand.
"A recently overturned stone, different colored dirt and grass doesn't grow here. You're not very good at laying booby traps." Dosu commented while squeezing the dirt. Satsuki smirked.
" Really? You're not very good at noticing this then." Satsuki held up a one handed hand seal.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan. Release! " She declared. Dosu was confused until he looked back down on the ground again. He widened his eyes in horror as that dirt he was grabbing was actually a kunai that had a exploding tag tied to it.
"Boom." Satsuki whispered before the tag exploded.
*BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!*
Zaku and Kin were blasted away by the violent explosion, the shrapnel of the kunai flew toward them, cutting them in the process. Dosu had used a Substitution Jutsu in time to avoid getting blown up to pieces.
Dosu used the Body Flicker Jutsu to appear in front of Sakura and start fighting her. Sakura jumped back and took out a kunai. Team Dosu regrouped and leaped towards her together.
Sakura subtly cut a ninja wire behind her. Dosu widened his eyes as he saw a large shadow tower over he and his team.
"A log! Another trap!" He muttered before putting his right hand in front of him. He performed a one handed hand seal before putting his right hand on the log.
The next second the log was split in two. The three then dove towards Sakura and Satsuki at full speed.
Zaku widened his eyes as a chain suddenly wrapped around his body. He was pulled away with a strong tug.
He looked st who did that and widened his eyes when he saw Sakura. He looked at the Sakura his teammates were diving towards. It suddenly dissolved into mud.
"A clone...." He whispered, realizing the severity of the situation. Suddenly, Satsuki appeared in front of him with her katana unsheathed.
*SHING!!!!*
*PSSH!!!*
There was a large diagonal slash wound on Zaku's chest. Zaku yelled at the pain he was feeling.
Sakura let go of the chain she was holding. She performed the snake hand seal. "Earth Style: Iron Skin!!" She declared as her hands became noticeably darker all while increasing their defensive power to become as hard as diamond.
She leaped towards Zaku, intending to pierced through his heart with one punch. But suddenly her vision became distorted and her ears began bleeding.
Sakura's semicircular canals were damaged by a mysterious attack. It threw her off balance and made her fall to the ground.
Satsuki caught her before she could crash land onto the hard ground. She laid her against a tree. Sakura gagged as she turned her head away from Satsuki to vomit onto the ground. After she finished, her palms glowed green as she raised them to her ears.
She began to use the Mystical Palm Jutsu to heal her damaged semicircular canals. Her vision became clear again.
"Sakura, he's using sound to attack you. He uses chakra to manipulate and direct it. It came from the gauntlet on his right hand." Satsuki explain while looking at Dosu.
" You like? I call this my Melody Arm. With it I can amplify sound waves and use the vibrations they cause to break through your eardrum and damage the inner membrane making you lose your semblance of balance."
"So that's how you're able to split that log apart with just a touch." Sakura whispered as she got up. Dosu looked at Zaku who was breathing heavily, that giant slash wound on his chest was taking a toll on him.
"Don't give them time to think about their next moves." Satsuki whispered. Sakura nodded and performed a group of hand seals at blinding speeds.
"Earth Style: Rock Shuriken!" Sakura muttered before she levitated small rocks on the ground and spun them like shuriken. The rocks flew towards Team Dosu.
Zaku raised his hand. "Decapitating Airwaves!" He declared before using his chakra to generate energy within his elbows, which he emits from a hole in his palm using a tube implanted in his forearm.
The energy is a mixture of sound waves and airwaves, Zaku fired airwaves at the spinning rocks and blew them away.
Satsuki appeared above them using the Body Flicker Jutsu. She took out a Fuma Shuriken and infused it with her lightning element. The shurken was crackling with lightning.
"Lightning Flicker." She whispered before throwing the shuriken at Zaku who widened his eyes at the speed of the flying shuriken.
"Decapitating Airwaves!!" He shouted as he raised both of his hands. He fired airwaves that absolutely destroyed the Fuma Shuriken. Sakura suddenly appeared in front of him, surprising him at how fast she was.
The pink haired kunoichi grunted as her semicircular canals were damaged by Dosu's Melody Arm again. She lost balance and her vision was distorted again.
Zaku smirked as he took out a kunai and attempted to stab Sakura in the heart. But before he could, something flew towards him.
"Dynamic Entry!!!"
*BAAANG!!!!*
Zaku spat out blood and flew away. He crashed into a tree as Lee landed in front of Sakura who had started healing her semicircular canals with the Mystical Palm Jutsu.
Lee grinned Sakura who smiled at him.
"Fear not, Sakura-san! Because I, Konoha's Beautiful Green Wild Beast Rock Lee, will be your hero for the day!!"
To be continued.....