There is another

"So how long do you think he will last?"

"Shouldn't you be helping him?" Taki remarked.

"Yeah that was the purpose of my creation, but if I did that I'd be up against Sensei, so screw him." I said.

"Yeah, screw him," said Anko who was getting along with me quite nicely.

"You know Anko I don't see how you and the original don't get along, you seem quite friendly to me." 

Well it's not like we dislike her, more of a one sided rivalry kinda thing. It's kinda hard to become friends when one party has no interest in even being friendly.

I suppose it doesn't help that we regularly taunt her, should probably tone that down. 

"Well you're not.. actually Akinori, and you just screwed him over by not listening to him so… you're cool." 

In the distance we saw the original running from a bunch of snakes with Orochimaru following closely behind.

In the beginning of Sozo's hopeless spar with Sensei, Sozo created me to help him, and I took a moment to contemplate what I wanted to do with my short existence. 

Fighting Orochimaru was not on that list. 

It's not like Sozo in any actual danger so throwing my life away would be a waste, plus the whole point of this is to test his abnormalities so losing his clone will just make his situation all that more desperate, which in turn will yield better results.

Hopefully.

Plus it is not fair the first clone gets to live such a long life, for a clone. I want a long life as well.

We both win, I continue to exist, and we get better results.

Wow, some of those snakes are big, much bigger than our snake-sensei and I already thought he was big. 

A large explosion went off.

"Wow he actually got one of the big snakes," I said.

"What!" Taki exclaimed.

"How?" Anko asked, looking to me for answers.

"C4," I said, offering no further information.

"What's that?"

"It's similar to an explosive tag but its explosion is much bigger."

"Where did he get that?" Taki asked.

"Oh we made it with Fuinjutsu." 

Just as Taki was about to ask another question four explosions of equal size went off silencing him.

Turning our attention back towards the director of the fight we wondered what exactly was going on.

…

Four of the large snakes disappeared in a puff of smoke as I used to lull in battle to try and catch my breath. 

Those were my last C4 seals. 

Other than maybe a fire jutsu to the mouth I have nothing to handle the last one, so another future project. Figure out a countermeasure for large summons, not sure where to even start with that one but I'll worry about it later. 

Orochimaru, who was standing on the last large snake's head, jumped off the snake landing in front of me. 

"I apologize for once again underestimating you Sozo-kun," Orochimaru said as he pulled out a sword.

"Why… thank you Sensei, I assume we're calling it a day?" I asked, even though I already knew the answer.

Orochimaru chuckled before throwing a syringe at me, "Afraid not." 

Catching the injection I immediately stabbed myself with it before throwing it back.

"Let's do this," I said.

"Yes, let's."

Closing my eyes I let my Chakra run wild.

No restrictions, no limiting my chakra usage, consequences be damned.

Surging forward I swung my sword at Orochimaru, only to hit nothing as he vanished, my eyes went wide, as I realized my feet aren't on the ground. 

Fumbling a bit thankfully I touch back down on the ground sliding along the dirt ground until I stop myself by sticking to it. 

Looking back I saw Orochimaru who didn't vanish. He just sidestepped me as I shot past him.

Well thats a new record in the speed department.

Let's not do that again, I couldn't even follow my own movements.

I found it hard not to constantly control and monitor my chakra, right now I was over flowing with the stuff. Even the Chakra I used earlier to create that bastard of a clone was had already replenished, it's a shame I really don't have any jutsu that cost a lot of Chakra, now would be the perfect opportunity, most of it is being wasted anyways as I can't store all of it.

Stupid six year old Chakra reserves.

Oh well guess I'll just supercharge my fire jutsu.

Ok, gonna need to be really careful here.

I felt the fire release course through as each breath seemed to intensify the heat, I just kept pouring more chakra into the jutsu, before releasing it.

A torrent of fire rolled forward as everything in its path was burnt to ash.

Well almost everything.

A clear path of destruction laid before me as entire trees were rendered to ash, in the center of this path stood Orochimaru completely untouched.

Orochimaru smiled before clapping softly.

"Your aptitude for fire release, despite it not being your primary affinity, is impressive," Orochimaru said.

I didn't respond as I was to busy trying to heal my throat, it seems my control was a bit lacking toward the end there. 

"Let's see what else you can do."

Orochimaru's arm turned into a bunch of snakes before shooting out towards me.

Stopping the healing process i jump backwards cutting the heads off any snakes that get too close.

More snakes began to appear as the last big one from earlier once again was trying to eat me.

Fuck it

I began to transform my Chakra into fire release trying to match the same intensity as before. 

I need the big one to open its mouth. 

Stopping I stood there as the large snake approaching simple knocking down trees that were in the way.

Readying the jutsu I waited as the snake got closer. Thankfully this one didn't seem to be one of the intelligent snakes, just a really big regular one. 

As the snake lunged forward, its jaw wide open, I released the fire right into its mouth. The snake tried to close its mouth but it didn't matter as its scales begun to break down from the intensity of the fire. 

I didn't let up pouring more and more Chakra into the jutsu. By time I could no longer sustain such a drain on my Chakra; the snake was dead. 

This one didn't disappear?

I felt exhausted as my state of producing Chakra at an accelerated rate was over, along with my not so limitless energy.

So there is a limit before I simply can't sustain such functions, first time I've ever hit it through physical exhaustion, normally I have to qiat for it to ware off.

Standing up I took a few steps before suddenly I could no longer walk.

On this is bad.

I'm completely useless right now.

Oh well.

This is why we test.

Thankfully I didn't hit the ground as my Loving Sensei was there to catch me.

"Seems you're burned out."

Did he just make a fucking pun?

I try to laugh but it hurts.

"Can't speak? That's no good, let's go get you fixed up little snake."

fuck you.

….............