chapter 100

This was extremely frustrating. How did I get myself into such a situation? This completely derailed from exactly how I imagined they would go. The person I had been dying to meet for so long was standing in front of me, yet the hatred in his eyes was so evident, you would think I was the one who denied him the hokage seat a long time ago. And what was the source? From my mother, Mebuki.

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[Sasuke POV]

Who knew where this freak suddenly came from? But with the way she fought we knew one thing; We stood absolutely no chance against her. The best option was to have one of us as the decoy while the others run. The problem would be Naruto. That hard head would protest to it. I had never hated myself as much as I did now. Everyone was so powerful. Sakura, and now this freak. How can I have my revenge if I was so weak. I want power.

I had a strange feeling the woman's target was me. It was annoying. It felt as if she was trying to remind me of my powerlessness. She suddenly charged at Akari. I had a bad feeling. I began to run towards her, to get her out of the way, but she was too fast. Just when I thought all was lost, she came. Sakura. I felt relief and anger at the same time. That got me thinking. If she was here, then something was definitely wrong. It was no wonder this woman was so powerful.

They spoke to each other before the woman dashed at Sakura at terrifying speeds. Out of his sleeve countless snakes emerged, each sinking their teeth into her, dragging her back until she slammed into the tree. The woman followed closely behind and opened her mouth. Out came a long sword and stabbed into Sakura's head. The events were so fast, even with my sharingan I was only barely able to keep up.

Before we cold gasp, Sakura's body turned into water and scattered on the ground. Sakura suddenly appeared behind the woman and quickly swiped at her neck with a blade. Her head separated from her body, but just like Sakura, the woman's body burst into snakes which slithered away. Sakura stood there bathed in sparks of lightning as she glared at the woman. I had never seen her this angry before.

The woman appeared a few distance away from Sakura, who immediately extended her finger and shot out a lightning bolt at the woman, which went right through her. But her image suddenly faded. It was an after image?. At this point I could no longer keep up with the two. They were moving too fast for me to even know what was going on. Was this the gap between us? Was this how powerful Itachi was?

Suddenly they both stopped moving. "What will you do now, Orochimaru? Our fight has most likely alerted the higher ups. I don't mind us continuing." Sakura spoke to the woman who looked to be seething. She held her face and tore it off. The woman was actually a pale looking man in disguise.

"Just like your mother, you get in my way, little Haruno. I am not one to be trifled with." The pale man spoke with such hatred. He then looked at us, more specifically me. His neck suddenly elongated and came at me. It was too fast for me to react. Just as the head reached me, it quickly retracted. At some point, Sakura had appeared beside me and took a swing downwards. She aimed at decapitating the snake but he reacted quickly.

"I can't let you do that, now can I?" His eyes were completely red. It looked like he would charge at us at any moment. "You will seek me out Sasuke. That is the only to defeat your brother." With that the pale man disappeared into the trees before I could stop him. It looked like everyone knew about my brother except me.

"Hey Saku…" Before I could finish my words I froze. I had never seen Sakura in such a state. Quite frankly I was slightly frightened. Rage. She glared in what I assume to be the direction the Orochimaru fellow left. "Sakura!" Naruto screamed at her which seemed to snap her out of her state. What was going on? It looked like they knew each other.

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Things had turned out worse than I imagined. At this point I did not care about my old plans anymore. That slithery bastard tried to kill me for no reason related to me personally. There was no way in hell I was going to let that go. But I knew I was not yet powerful enough to take him. He was powerful. I knew he could go a notch higher, and honestly so could I, but the battle would have alerted most likely Hiruzen himself if he had decided to dedicate. Orochimaru was strong. I most likely would have had to pull out everything I had, and I doubt I would have been able to kill him. Granted, he would not have been able to kill me either if I wanted to run, but still. I will definitely kill that snake bastard.

"Are you alright?" Akari walked to me and asked, bringing me out of my thoughts. I was in a very bad mood, but I did not want to take it out on them. I nodded to her, not really wanting to say anything else. "Thanks. You saved me earlier." She looked down before looking back at me. I smiled slightly before nodding at her again.

Just as I was about to leave, Anko and a few chuunin appeared. "Sakura. What are you doing here? First you leave that girl behind, then you show up here?" She shook her head as if to bring herself back to the reason she came there, before continuing, "What happened here?" Looking at the scene, the battle was definitely something a group of pre-genin could pull off. That meant he had been there.

"You are better off not going to look for Orochimaru, Anko. You will most likely lose your life." I turned around and was about to leave when Anko appeared in front of me and grabbed my shirt. "Where is he?!" She demanded. I was already pissed off to begin with, and she was not helping in the least.

"Let go of me." I unconsciously released a little killing intent. I don't think a veteran like her was afraid of that, but she released me. For whatever the reason was that she did, I did not care. I flickered and left the area. I needed to calm myself down. I was not angry because my plans that I had been maybe slightly obsessing about for the past two and a half or so years had been for naught, but because he was trying to kill me for his personal grudge against my mother. The annoying part was I did not even know the full story behind it.