Chapter 18

"Rotation!"

Miyamoto's sword bounced off the blue sphere, he felt himself fall back before he laughed.

"How, interesting." Miyamoto curved his eyes, his smile reaching his max.

Before Miyamoto fell back, he grabbed the hilt of his sword with two hands before stomping the ground and using his fall as a wind-up for an attack.

Neji stopped his rotation and time slowed as he watched the sword cut through the air, the moon behind Miyamoto, encompassing him in darkness, his curved eyes and smile brought fear upon Neji and Tenten. Frozen by fear, they could only watch.

"Get away from my team!" Rock lee shouted as he learned a sneak attack on Miyamoto.

Miyamoto saw Lee flying at him with one leg out, ready to deliver a vicious blow.

If it hit of course.

Miyamoto crouched mid-swing and twisted his body so he would be slicing up at Lee's leg. As his blade contact with Lee's ankle, he felt the resistance of armour.

'Hm?'

Lee's leg was thrown into the air by the strike, he flipped and recovered.

Miyamoto was going to say something, but the tree slammed into the ground, Miyamoto jumped and rolled, but when he looked up, the team had jumped into the trees and ran away.

"Turning your back to me, SUCH DISGRACE!" Miyamoto yelled.

***

"Thanks, Lee," Tenten said as she looked back at the man they escaped.

Neji used his byakugan and saw the man had no chakra, but he could see that he was chasing after them, and he was keeping up as well.

"We need to pick it up!" Neji demanded as his heart was pounding against his chest.

"We should lure him to another team. Neji, search for a team," Tenten suggested.

"Great idea, Tenten." Rock lee supported the idea.

So team 3 came up with a plan.

Miyamoto was more than happy to chase them down until this exam ends, but a snake-like presence made itself known, so Miyamoto changed direction toward the presence.

"He's going another direction!" Neji said to his team.

"He is indeed" Rick lee confirmed

"I think we should rest for now, or at least me, I can't function right now, my muscles feel jittery," Tenten said as she slowed down to a halt.

The other 2 team members agreed silently and rested.

***

Miyamoto ran deeper into the forest, the trees were enormous, covering any light from entering the forest, but fortunately, Miyamoto was able to see clearly.

Running toward the presence, Miyamoto was able to pinpoint where it was coming from, unforyunently it was somewhere far from the ground.

'I could cut down a tree like before, but the tree branches are entangled, so that won't work.' Miyamoto thought as he ran through the brush of the forest.

Then an idea popped into his head, Miyamoto ran to a tree and ran up the trunk before slamming his fingers into the wood, shattering a small hole into the trunk.

Miyamoto smiled as his plan worked. 'Now I can find this presence, and if they are really like a snake, they should be quick, dangerous and hopefully survive 10 cuts.' The thought made Miyamoto climb faster, piercing his into the tree with his fingers.

***

"Are you jealous~?" Orochimaru said slyly, caressing Anko's face.

Anko glared in anger as she could do nothing to stop him as her curse mark forced her to listen to him.

"If he survives, hm..." Orochimaru detected a frightening presence drawing near, he looked in the direction out of curiosity.

Anko could only glare as he strolled away, not noticing the presence herself.

Even from far away, Orochimaru could feel the weight on his shoulders from the presence, looking closely at the trunk of some trees, he was able to see the warping presence of a samurai reaching the top of a tree branch.

Miyamoto lifted his head to see where the presence was now, but when he spotted the one exuding the snake's presence, his smile curled up his face and his eyes curled into crescent moons.

Orochimaru could just see Miyamoto's face curl into a creepy smile, he then felt the presence change from him warping his surroundings to his hair beginning to flow up and a glowing blue aura surrounding him.

Anko could feel the presence, she felt the pressure pushing her down to the ground, when she snapped a glance at Orochimaru, she was shocked before slamming into the branch by the pressure.

Orochimaru had cold beads of sweat roll down his face as he saw this demon standing atop a tree, pointing his sword at him.

'After years of experimentation, after years of looking into the eyes of shinobi as I took their life, years of hearing the screams of test subjects, I didn't even flinch, but to be scared of some pressure... Preposterous!' As Orochimaru's anger flared, he let off a presence that not even he knew.

Miyamoto could feel the clash of presences between him and Orochimaru, though Orochimaru was lacking.

After having a standoff with Miyamoto, Orochimaru knew he was wasting time, so he decided to leave, but when he turned away, he saw a transparent figure standing near him out of the corner of his eye.

Orochimaru jumped back, finding higher ground.

'What! How was I not able to detect it's presence?' Orochimaru took a closer look and visibly calmed down a bit.

"Just a Genjutsu, not worth my time." Orochimaru went to jump away, but when he turned his head, the hairs on his neck stood as the transparent figure was next to Orochimaru.

"Release!" Orochimaru shouted as he did the hand signal, thinking it did the trick, but as the figure still stood there, uncertainty ran through Orochimaru.

"What!" Was all Orochimaru could get out before the figure slashed at him faster than he could track it.

Orochimaru felt his chest burst open.

"Argh!" Orochimaru shouted, jumping back instinctually, landing back on the branch below.

The pain from the strike still burned, as Orochimaru stared daggers into the transparent figure.

As he looked down, he saw that nothing was cut, he was perfectly fine, but his skim was a little sensitive to the touch.

"What kind of Genjutsu?!" Before Orochimaru could get another word out of his mouth, the transparent figure jumped off the tree and launched itself at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru jumped back again, dodging the first strike.

The figure missed their downward slad, but twisting their hand, they were able to seamlessly transition into an upward slash, cutting into Orochimaru.

Orochimaru felt his arm get cut off, but one look and only a tinggling sensation was left behind.

While Orochimaru dodged the strikes of the figure, Miyamoto was able to make it across to where Anko was.

While Anko was stuck in awe at Orochimaru getting pushed back, she didn't notice Miyamoto standing next to her.

"Hello pretty lady." Miyamoto said, his creepy smile still on his face. Thanks to him looking down on Anko, he was able to find where the source of her demonic energy was coming from as he saw a make on her neck.

Anko looked up and saw the smile, she began to tremble at the sight, sweat rolled down her face, her instincts told her to run, but she was frozen.

Miyamoto lifted her up to her feet.

"You tried to fight against someone more powerful than you, that was stupid, but I admire the impulse." Miyamoto praised her, his smile still curved up his face.

Anko could only watch Miyamoto's back, stunned by his presence.

"This should be fun!" Miyamoto growled.