Chapter 17 (1/2)

[Sasuke POV]

'Who is she? All my senses are screaming at me to run away.'

”Who are you? I doubt that you're still a genin.”

”It doesn't matter who I am. All that matters is that you'll come with me.”

”Why should I come with you? Do you really think I'm that stupid?”

”It doesn't matter if you're willing or not, you'll come to me, eventually.”

'He disappeared!'

”Argh!”

I got hit and send flying by his punch.

”Sasuke!”

”Damn! Akamaru let's go!”

Akamaru transformed into Kiba.

<Wolf Fang Over Fang>

”Don't interfere.”

<Summoning Jutsu>

*POOF*

Suddenly a giant snake appeared. He sent Kiba and Akamaru flying with one swing of his tail. They hit the tree really hard, immediately knocking them out.

”Kiba!”

Sakura ran towards Kiba to check if he is ok.

”Are you sure you want to stay so stubborn?”

'There is no way out. The only thing I can do is fight.'

I took out a kunai and 5 shuriken. I ran up a tree and jumped above the weird woman. I threw my shuriken towards her. She deflected all of them. I landed on the snake and ran towards her. I used my kunai to fight her close quarters, but it was useless. I couldn't hit her even once.

”You're too weak!”

She started fighting back and I could bȧrėly block a couple of her attacks.

”I expected more from you. Compared to your brother, your nothing.”

She kicked my face, sending me crashing in a tree.

'Why am I so weak? It's the same as when I fought that weird eyebrow guy. I wasn't able to do anything. If only Naruto was here, he would be able to find a way to win. NO! I can't think like that. I need to show Naruto that I'm strong. I won't die here today. I still have to avenge my clan.'

Suddenly my vision got a lot better. I could see the leaves slowly falling and I can perceive little things that I normally never would.

”So you have awakened your Sharingan, and it directly went to two tomoes. It only makes me want you more.”

'She is crazy! I can never let her catch me.'

She disappeared again, but this time I was able to see which way she would attack. I put my arms above my head, blocking her kick. I pushed her into the air and started doing hand seals.

<Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu>

My jutsu hit her on her face. The smoked cleared and I could see that half her face was burned off.

”Haha, that was close. I almost died.”

'What is she laughing about?'

Suddenly her mouth opened up wide, and a head came out. The head stretched out and bit me on my shoulder.

”Argh, what did you do!”

”It's a present from me. If you want more, come and find me.”

He and his snake disappeared.

'What did he mean with present?'

”Sasuke!”

Sakura and Kiba came running towards me.

[Naruto POV]

I got the memories back from my clone.

'Everything is going as planned, but that Pedomaru is really disgusting.'

[3 days later]

'It's finally time to start the next stage.'

We were gathered in a battleground. We got told that we had to have preliminaries since there were too many people.

(AN: All the matches will be random. I just put them in a randomizer.)

”First match, Temari vs Rock Lee.”