Chapter 29
No Need For Anko's Tears.
Team 7's "Hole"
Sakura didn't know what to do, granted it's only been about 5 minutes, but she couldn't help but worry about her boyfriend and her brother-figure, not to mention being "alone" with a space bounty hunter that attacked Naruto because he looked like Ryoko, of course she knows sunstroke is a good reason, but she was still nervous.
Mimi was laying on Sakura's lap, the little cabbit was worried about her big brother, thankfully Sakura was keeping her calm and vise versa, so hopefully things will be alright.
A minute later, though to the girl and cabbit it felt longer, Naruto phased in front of them, Sakura was about to get up and hug him in relief, that is until Mimi jumped into his chest meowing happily at Naruto being back, then quickly clambers upto the top of his head again, when she got to the top she meows in victory, causing the two awake people to chuckle at that.
Sakura just sighed, then she noticed something in Naruto's hand, wriggling about, trying to escape the grip on it.
When Sakura got a good look at it she was about to scream, until Naruto used his free hand to stop her.
Naruto then whispers to her, "Calm down Sakura, this was what was in the seal, and right now, we don't want the other teams hearing where we are."
Sakura, unable to speak with Naruto's hand on her mouth, nods her head in understanding, Naruto removes his hand, still holding the "snake" in the other and sits down.
Sakura asks quietly, "What are you gonna do with "it" now that you got it out?" Understandably referring the "snake" as an it.
Naruto thinks for a minute, no doubt Anko knows about Orochimaru being here, since she once told him about how the snake uses peoples faces as a disguise, feeling queasy at the thought, oh sure Naruto killed people, the bridge at Wave being an example, but to go around and wearing dead peoples faces as a mask, that is just sick.
Anyway, no doubt Anko will come looking for Orochimaru for revenge.
Sighing, Naruto gets up, looks at Sakura and replies, "I'll take this thing with me, you don't need to worry, Sasuke will be fine now that this thing isn't inside him, but there is something I need to look into before we going."
Seeing Naruto's serious emotion, she couldn't try to argue with him at the moment, ok they argued all the time, but that was just them joking around, but now was not the time, so with that Sakura nods her head and watches Naruto flicker from view with Mimi on his head.
Naruto was flying through the air, using Mimi's computer to lock-on to Anko's Chakra energy, you see after Naruto got to know his girls, he asked them for permission, to let Mimi to scan and keep their energy in case they needed help, all they had to do was flare their Chakra and Mimi would tell Naruto.
Having a image in his head of a birds-eye view of the training grounds, he sees himself with Mimi next to him, Ino was close to where his team was, with a concentration look on the image, Hinata was in the center, with a happy yet worried image, no doubt happy to be out of the forest, but worried about Naruto and her friends, meaning she was safe at the tower, along with Kurenai, having the same expression as Hinata, no doubt feeling the same thing as Hinata.
Anko was close to the tiger section of the grounds, up Northeast of where he was and he was closing in on her, her image was that of anger, it was shaking meaning she was moving around, no doubt fighting someone and he had a sneaking suspicion on who she was fighting.
He was flying faster, wanting to get to her quickly, Mimi was gripping his head and leaning down, not wanting to be blown away.
The image of Anko in his head changed from angry to worried and scared, realizing what that meant, he flickered out of sight with Mimi.
Naruto sees Anko, being restrained by snakes, with a pale man, most likely Orochimaru, getting close to her with a sinister smirk, Naruto flickers and appears behind Anko, grabs her and vanishes with her, he sees Anko was weak, no doubt it took a lot out of her just face Orochimaru.
She looks up and sees Naruto's worried face, smiles and says, "I'm alright, I'm tired, just get him for me." Before falling asleep in Naruto's arms, Naruto kept the "snake" away from biting her.
He then flickers a few times, creating two of himself, with one holding Anko and Mimi, while the other was holding the "snake" in his hand, nodding to each other, understanding what their job was, the one holding Anko and Mimi were to keep them safe, while the one holding the snake will face Orochimaru.
Orochimaru was confused, he had Anko in his grasp, wondering where her seal has gone, granted it was a prototype, but it should've been difficult to remove.
Then all of a sudden the curious blond from the written exam appeared out of nowhere and took Anko away before he could "ask" her how her seal was removed.
Thinking quickly, he was about to leave, until he was rocketing through the forest, as he was flying, he saw the blond with his fist out stretched to where Orochimaru was, showing it was Naruto that punched him.
Before Orochimaru crashed into the tree behind him, he substituted with a mud clone that left a big splat on the tree.
He reappears on a branch next to Naruto's, with a smirk, "My, my, Naruto-kun, it is a surprise to finally meet you in person." Not showing Naruto's punch hurt him.
Naruto would have started taunting Orochimaru, but at the moment all he wanted to do was smash the teme's face in, to wipe that smug smirk off his face and get back at him for what he did to Anko.
Orochimaru then noticed something in Naruto's hand, "Oh my, Naruto-kun, what's that you have, is it a present for Anko-chan or something."
Not realizing he just gave Naruto the ammo, and enough time to calm down, Naruto smirks, which caused Orochimaru to wonder whats going on.
Naruto raises his hand, showing Orochimaru the "snake," Naruto then asks in a condescending tone, "I'm sure you know what this is, don't you, after all, you did make it." Naruto finishes with a Ryoko-like evil smirk.
Seeing what was in Naruto's hand, Orochimaru wasn't sure what he was seeing, it looked like himself as a snake, before he could say anything, Naruto places his thumb under the "snake's" head and flicks his thumb up, snapping it's neck and killing it in the process, as it dies it turns to ash, just like the last one.
Orochimaru was about to question about the show, until he leans forward and coughs blood, wondering why this was happening, until he realises why Anko doesn't have a seal, Naruto somehow figured out how to remove them, but how no-one, not even his foolish perverted ex-teammate Jiraiya had figured it out, he was about to continue thinking, until a fist caved in his face.
Naruto was pleased with the result, he managed to one up on the so called strongest Sanin, that is until the person in front of him turned to mud, using his energy blast, Naruto sent the mud flying everywhere, it seems Orochimaru slipped away using a mud clone, not sure when he switched Naruto sighed, it was his own fault, he shouldn't have let his guard down, just because he was stronger and had more power than Orochimaru, he let it go to his head, Orochimaru had more experience, Naruto may have Ryoko's and Miko's memories, but he didn't have their experience, and everyone knows experience beats power.
Shaking his head he flickers away, landing where his clone was, sighing Naruto then tells the clone to drop off Anko at the tower to get treated for injuries, while he goes with Mimi to his team, then when the clone get the all clear from the medics, to keep an eye on her.
So now the two flickered from view, one going with Mimi to his team and the other to the tower to get Anko some help.
Naruto sighs to himself and looks up at Mimi, "Ya know something, Mimi," Getting the cabbit's attention, Mimi meows questionably, "I'm beginning to see why Shikamaru says everything is so troublesome."
Mimi growls at that, not wanting her big brother to start thinking like that lazy boy, and starts scratching at Naruto's head, "AH! OW! HEY, MIMI STOP THAT!"