Time To Finish This.(1)

As soon as Orochimaru left, Tendo fell down on one knee clutching his neck at the spot where he was bitten. It was much more painful than the first time he took the Cursed Seal Of Heaven from Anko.

Tendo: 'Damn! Another cursed seal? I didn't expect this to happen right now! Tch! Even my arm is mangled from using the Way Of Heaven when my body wasn't ready. And I still have to take chakra from Naruto and Sasuke. Doing it now will be the most advantageous as they're supposed to be unconscious from their earlier fight with Orochimaru. Also, it's a wonder through all of this fighting that this blindfold stayed on.'

Tendo decided to walk away from the crater as fast as possible, which wasn't very fast at all because he was almost stumbling with every step. Several minutes later, he found himself back at a more vegetated part of the forest so he found a cluster of trees and hid in between them, sitting down on the ground to recuperate from his injuries.

Tendo: 'The only way I know how to heal myself is to use the Tailed Beast Chakra that I just absorbed. But using that may cause the beast to go out of control. Tch! Then I'll need to take a chance and use it in very small increments. I'll have a go and it and see what happens.'

Tendo circulated the tailed beast chakra all around his body and slowly started to release its chakra around himself. Red chakra bubbles suddenly started to escape from his body as he was releasing the chakra. He could already feel the Shukaku getting excited in his body from what he was doing.

Shukaku: "Hahaha, you're finally starting to use me? Good! Let me out and I'll destroy all your enemies for you! Anyone you want to take revenge on, I'll do it! Don't be scared, let more of it out!! The fact that you can even use my chakra without a seal letting you do so proves of weird of Jinchuriki you are.

Tendo ignored the beast and focused his mind, healing his body with the tailed beast chakra while ignoring the pain of the curse mark. The pain from the mark was coming in bursts so he slowly built up a resistance to it over time. About an hour later, Tendo finished healing every part of his body, except his arm. He could feel some of the pain still pounding through his arm, causing him to almost grunt in frustration. The tailed beast chakra was harder to suppress now that he has taken a bit of it out to use, but over a span of a few minutes, he managed to calm it down.

Tendo: 'Tch! All of this because I miscalculated on how much the Tailed Beast Chakra would damage my body and on when Orochimaru would show up. It's a good thing Orochimaru is as greedy as he is because I ended up gaining another mark. I wonder what would happen if I absorb this one too. That would be interesting but it would be better if I waited until I got back to the Senju clan to do it. Orochimaru might be watching.'

He got up and stretched, trying to loosen his body from all the pain. His left arm wasn't fit for fighting right now but he only needed one arm to handle a group of genin until he could absorb the body of any unfortunate shinobi he found first on his way there. Tendo closed his eyes and put his hand on the ground, trying to sense where his targets were located.

Tendo: 'Found them. Looks like I'm just in time. The sound Ninja is still fighting with Sakura and the rest of the Konoha Eleven haven't gotten to them yet. A chakra signature is closing in on them though. That must be Rock Lee. No matter, time to finally get my goal over with.'

Tendo flickered up on the branch of the tree he was laying on and boosted himself off, rushing towards the direction of Team 7 with blinding speed. A while later, he arrived at their location. He had met a few teams of Shinobi on his way but they were handled in a quick fashion. He managed to take the earth scroll from them, as that was the only one he needed. He had already taken the Heaven Scroll from the first group that was trying to hunt him.

Currently, Rock Lee was lying beaten on the ground. Dosu of the sound Ninja had already defeated him in battle and they were about to fight Sakura once again. One of them was holding her by her hair and taunting her. Other signatures were always around and Tendo knew that this was Ino's group. He knew that this was the moment to strike. Tendo flickered down behind the kunoichi that was holding Sakura and elbowed her in the head, hitting her away from Sakura. Sakura noticed the grip leaving her and looked back. She was going to thank whoever saved her but as soon as she saw who it was, she froze in fear.

Dosu: "Hmmm? Who are you? Just by looking at your speed and how ruthlessly you hit Kin, I can tell you're different from the rest."

Zaku: "Dosu! He doesn't seem that special to me at all. Our attacks move at the speed of sound so speed is not something we would lose to."

Kin struggled up and held her head as it was bleeding profusely. She looked at Tendo and as she saw him walking towards Sakura, she thought that he was here to save the girl.

Sakura was trembling even more as she remembered the day when Tendo killed all those men. She clutched her Kunai and pointed it towards Tendo shakingly.

Sakura: "T-thank y-you for the h-"

With a swift elbow to her head, Tendo knocked her unconscious and stepped over her body grabbing Sasuke by the neck first. Dosu moved extremely quickly and arrived in front of Tendo, throwing a casual punch.

Tendo: 'He's expecting me to dodge such a simple attack so his sound abilities would catch me off guard but, it's unfortunate that's facing me in battle.'

Tendo used his free hand to parry Dosu's punch and delivered a blindingly fast kick to his body, sending him backwards before he could activate his Sound Jutsu. Dosu kneeled down on the ground and started coughing up blood in his mask, turning the bandages on his face red.

Dosu: "This is an opponent that is highly skilled Zaku, Kin. Just from the way he dealt with my attack, I can see that he's gonna take a lot to put down. Le- Wait! That mark on his neck! Could it be?"