Sakura was found asleep at a bench, the thought running through my head amounted to one word which was "finally". I have no grudges with Sasuke however I dislike him due to my personal view point that he is stupid for throwing away his privileges because of his ego and impatience.
Let's list all the things sasuke had before he went rogue; a country's backing, friends willing to help him, a supportive teacher, resources and time to grow, a sustainable income that could have lasted him and his family centuries if he played his cards right, his little fan club which could have let him repopulate his clan and lastly his positive reputation with his home. All of that gone because he was given an std power up and some mild flirting by a pedo snake.
Now he has his two extremely loud partners chasing him and is dragging me and several others into it. I'm also not complaining about the fact that I have to chase after him. I'm happy to do that as it can benefit me. But again he's dragging people into his mess that won't want to get involved if they weren't talk no jutsud into it.
Currently I'm standing there with my fellow konoha 12. It's been decided that me, choji, shikamaru, neji, naruto and Hana are chasing after him. I'm already geared up so I let shikamaru decide the orders while they mobilised. I waited patiently for everyone to reconvene before we took off after him. Hana was invaluable throughout this operation with her tracking skills. Neji wasn't half bad however I warned him to conserve chakra as we may be in for a rough fight.
We took off and things were so similar to canon except for one thing. There are five people standing in front of us with sasuke in a palanquin. There is jirobo, tayuya, kidomaru, the twins and lastly someone who made my eyes into dinner played. Tommyrod! The toriko villain with bug related gourmet cells that allowed him to store and nurture bugs in his body. It's when it clicked in my mind, he's an aburame test subject or something along those lines. If danzo could have an aburame clan member why can't Orochimaru.
I looked at one of the other members of the sound six as they called themselves. Tayuya of the demon flute. After appraising her with my senses it's safe to say she is definitely an uzumaki. I was always unsure as to why people never confirmed it.
Orochimaru loves messing with kekkei genkai and fuinjutsu so that clan was the mother load. Her foul mouth, rage issues and red hair didn't give it away then the covered up scent of ramen may as well have. I recalled my talk with tsunade sensei a few days ago when the team returned with Karen.
I asked tsunade if I found an uzumaki what should I do and she replied to capture and bring to her. This means she is my target, not sasuke. The talk continued between the others while I recalled events from this arc. She's going to die from temari's summon skill so I'll have to beat my opponent and save her just before it hits so she will incapacitated but alive.
Everybody body flickered away so I copied and ended up with tommyrod in front of me. "Lord Orochimaru warned us about you Toriko-kun, you killed my senpai Kabuto" he said in an exaggerated tone just like the one from the original series. "Funny they didn't mention anything about an aburame reject". I heard the sound of mandibles clicking and legs scittering so he's doing something to the bugs.
" I AM THERE BETTER!!!!!" He howled so I said " a bug is still a bug when it's squashed".
He opened his mouth and weaves some hand signs and made movements similar to spitting. It's that bug bullet move but I'm ready for it. The difference between me and the original is that I'm more versatile. I sped through the hand signs as soon as I saw him begin to weave his own.
"Fire style hiken" I said thrusting my arm forward launching a massive torrent of flames towards him while he belched out insects that were incinerated. The flames connected but I saw him jump out. He's burned badly from the jutsu and turned to look at me enraged. "You bastard" he snarled before launching himself towards me. What an idiot.
"Wind style leg knife" I said while swinging my right leg towards him sending a huge wind towards him. It cut into him and removed his left arm so he screamed again. He got up groggily while staring me down after landing which was a big mistake.
"You monster, I'm gonna kill you" he said while black swirly markings began covering his body. I chuckled drawing his attention while glancing down. He realised what I was doing through his bugs signals from inside his body. While he was rolling away I made a clone and used a very special jutsu that hasn't even been invented yet.
The clone burst free from the ground and drove a fork into tommyrod but he leaned out of the way so it dug into his back severing his newly formed wing from the curse mark. He swung his other arm and popped the clone while his skin turned grey and his hair elongated with a carapace forming on his body. Not wanting to waste time I flash stepped towards him causing him to bite into my shoulder.
I felt a needle prick into my me from his mouth as he smirked while biting me. I've decided to put my new training to good use. "Scorch style: sauna palm jutsu". With one hand gripped around his waste with another on his chest he began to struggle wildly as he felt pain rush through his body as his insects died.
Pakura taught me scorch style which was her personal creation based on the kekkei genkai. It is a highly advanced manipulation of fire and wind chakra which requires impressive control which I have in spades. The nature transformation was easy to reproduce for me. I haven't attained mastery in either yet but I'm close to doing so. Nature mastery was one of the things I worked on when I couldn't train that harshly as a child.
Scorch style can drain moisture or liquids straight from a body. An insect has far more moisture in their body compared to a human which means extracting and evaporating any of it can prove fatal. Tommy rod essentially strapped an oven to his chest and said let it rip. He shrivelled up like a prime and quickly died without reaching his final form or using half his arsenal. Shame.
I quickly cast a fireball Jutsu to cremate him and then use gale palm to scatter it. I then checked what poison he injected into my body and discovered it came from a blister beetle which I've already built an immunity to thanks to shizune but to be safe I disinfected the wound with alcohol and cleaned it out and used mystic jade palm to remove it from my system before it gets absorbed.
I left the scene and made my way and found the results of the battles. Neji has won his fight but is in critical condition so I did some minor first aid to save his life before I could move him. I placed him on my back and went to find hana as I remembered kiba stabbed himself in that fight. I found her in a similar condition and Kankurō who was treating her injuries. I was furious about what had happened to her and was glad kankuro killed them. She made the same decision kiba made not to abandon her partner which i deeply respected so I patched her up better. I left neji with them before heading towards temari and shikamaru who Kankurō pointed me towards.
I found them about to summon the kamaitachi so I did the next best thing. I through a senbon at them disrupting her from casting it while I tossed a stone with a flash tag towards tayuya behind the tree. She opened her eyes when she saw the tag which then led to her screaming because and I quote " fucking bastards destroyed my fucking vision"
I quickly gave her a knockout blow and then turned towards the couple and said "hey lovebirds I don't mean to ruin your fun but the others are in bad shape and I'm under orders to bring her in alive". I quickly filled in shikamaru about how the battles went while he inspected me and only saw some dirt and the shoulder wound that's healing.
I prodded tayuya with some senbon so keep her unconscious while I took her back to the leaf for tsunade sensei. I had the guards send her a message so I was escorted to an area where I met her, shizune and Karin.
I told them about the situation was and my theory into why I think she's an uzumaki. My teachers being the medical geniuses they are conducted some blood tests comparing hers to Karin and themselves. It confirmed she was an uzumaki.
While they talked about their next course of action and summoned jiraiya back for analysis of the curse mark I made small talk with Karin. She's a remarkable girl who went though a great ordeal, after tsuande brought her back she instantly became attached to her when she learned they were family. When she learned I informed them about her from spotting her during the chunin exams she thanked me profusely and stuck to me like glue.
She bonded quickly with my squad and has began studying proper medical ninjitsu rather than her bloody version while studying some uzumaki techniques left by Mito in the senju compound. Tsunade began talking to me about her plans to undo any brainwashing Orochimaru may have done while jiraiya worked with the toads on the curse mark to undo it.
Having samples from three different ones with be invaluable to curing it which I'm happy to hear.