Sasuke turned to look at her and frowned, "Sakura, who did this to you?"
"S-Sasuke-kun…your body," Sakura stammered at seeing the black flame-like pattern on his skin.
Looking at himself, Sasuke saw the flames spread out over the left half of his body, he smirked, "Its fine. I can feel the power flowing out of my body. I'm feeling pretty good right now. He gave it to me. And I finally understand. I am an avenger."
Even if I must make a deal with the devil, I cannot stop my quest to gain power.
While these thoughts were running through Sasuke's head, everyone else was looking at the raven-haired Genin in either shock or curiosity.
That shouldn't be possible. That mark only has a 1/10 chance of not killing the person who has it placed on them, Dosu thought in shock. For him to have survived…
Sasuke turned back to the pinkette, "Now tell me, who hurt you?"
"That would be me," Zaku stepped forward with a smirk.
Shikamaru's mind, for once, was actually working harder than it had when he usually played Shogi against his dad and Naruto as he watched Sasuke. Realizing the danger he quickly turned to Ino and began shouting, "Ino! This is going to get bad! You'll get caught up in this if you don't return to your body! You come here too Chouji! We're hiding!"
"Not good!" Kin/Ino put her hands together and her family's hand sign. "Kai!"
Kin slumped back to the ground as Ino returned to her body, "*Cough* *Cough*"
"You're back!" Shikamaru said in relief as he kept the girl up, "Thank kami!"
Sasuke turned around to face the Oto ninja, his teeth grit as the seals along his body began to spread to the other side, covering most of his visible skin.
"This is…!" Dosu's eyes widened as he realized at least a part of what was going on, "His chakra is too large!"
Zaku scoffed as he held out his hands, "Dosu, there's no need to be afraid of this half dead freak!"
Dosu looked over at Zaku in shock, "No Zaku! Don't you realize what that is?"
But Zaku wasn't listening as he shot his hands towards Sasuke, "Ultimate Zankuuha!"
A large blast of air was shot towards the area where Team Seven resided. The attack destroyed everything that had not been rooted to the spot.
"Naruto-kun!" Tenten shouted as she watched her friends form disappear within the jutsu.
When the dust settled, Zaku smirked as he no longer saw any trace of Team Seven, "Hah! I've blown 'em all away!"
"Blown who away?" A voice asked behind him. Zaku barely had time to turn around before Sasuke backhanded him, sending him flying back.
"He's fast!" Dosu said in shock. His eyes wondered over to the still unconscious blond and the pink-haired girl. "He managed to move so fast, while carrying them away."
Grinning Sasuke went through several hand seals before sucking in a breath, "Katon: Housenka No Jutsu (Fire Release: Mythical Fire Flower Jutsu)!" Six decent sized fireballs were launched towards Zaku.
"So what! I'll just blast them all away," Zaku thrust out his hands again. "Zankuuha!"
The airwaves blasted into the fire balls, putting them out. However when they were gone, everyone could see the six shuriken that had been hidden in the fire, "What!"
Zaku only had time to put his hands in a cross guard as the shuriken slammed into him, "AHHHH!"
Once the shuriken all hit their mark, Zaku looked around to find the Uchiha. He only had a few seconds to look before said Uchiha was behind him, grabbing onto both of his arms and forcing Zaku onto his knees. Sasuke put a foot on the Oto Genin's back and began to pull the arms back.
Ino looked at her crush in shock. His chakra is totally different than his time at the academy. What's going on?
Zaku tried to move, but was only able to turn his head enough to see Sasuke grinning at him, "You must be awfully proud of these arms of yours. I think I'll take them away!"
Not giving Zaku a chance to reply Sasuke began to yank on the Genin's arms, while simultaneously pushing his foot further into Zaku's back.
SNAP!
"AHHHHH!" Zaku yelled, and everyone else either flinched or blanched at the sickening crack as they heard Zaku's arms snap like a twig.
As this was happening all of the Konoha genin were watching in horror as Sasuke brutally dealt with his opponent. When Zaku's screams died off, Sasuke let go of him, no longer finding any fun hurting the near-comatose shinobi.
Sasuke's eye looked over to see Dosu and a smirk made its way to his face, "You're the only one left." He began walking over to the now petrified Dosu, "I hope you let me have more fun than he did."
This…this isn't Sasuke-kun,Sakura thought to herself in horror. She remembered all of the times she had watched Sasuke while on Team Seven. Even she could not deny that the Uchiha was cold. But even then, she knew that this was not Sasuke.
She was just about to run up to him and get him to stop when someone else did it for her.
Sasuke froze as a hand placed itself on his shoulder, "That's enough teme!"
Sasuke turned with a sneer on his face at the slightly familiar voice, though it was a tad deeper then he remembered. However the sneer faded and was replaced with a look of shock as he stared at the only somewhat familiar figure.
He could easily tell it was Naruto, the three whisker marks on each cheek and the blue eyes showed that. However there were several prominent changes that the blond had. The first was his hair, it had grown quite significantly, going from the short spikes to longer hair that, while still spiky, now went down to mid back. A pair of elongated canines could just barely be seen jutting from his upper lip and his whisker marks looked thicker than they had been. His face was a little bit leaner than it had been, it almost seemed as if the blond had aged a year or two as it looked more mature than the chibi-like face he had before. And finally Naruto seemed to have grown a bit, not much, but the fact that he was now taller than Sasuke himself and almost looked to be the same height as Shikamaru was a significant enough difference that it was noticeable.
"Dobe?" Sasuke asked in so much shock his seal reverted to its sealed state. "What happened to you?"
Naruto frowned at his teammates shocked looked, "What do you mean what happened to me?"
"N-Naruto?"
Naruto turned around to see Sakura and the members of team ten. He blinked for a minute before grinning, "Yo!"
"Man this is so troublesome," Shikamaru muttered as he looked over at Ino, who, despite the situation was drooling at the blond without even realizing it. Definitely troublesome…
Naruto looked around and frowned when he saw everyone in the clearing staring at him, "What the hell are you people staring at!"
With that everyone looked away and Naruto frowned again. Sighing he turned to look back at Sasuke, "I'm disappointed Sasuke, using something given to you by that man. You should know something like that is always a double-edged sword, nothing good can come of it."
Sasuke scowled and would have said something had a voice not interrupted.
"You are strong."
Everyone turned to see Dosu holding out an earth scroll, "Sasuke-kun, we can't defeat you at this time." He placed the scroll on the ground, "The earth scroll, a gift to you in exchange for letting us go." He rolled the scroll over to them, "I know this may seem convenient, but there is something we need to find out."
Naruto looked over at Sasuke and sighed before picking up the scroll. He pocketed it before turning to Dosu who was picking up his two unconscious teammates, "Do what you need to do, but I suggest you leave my teammate alone. If you show up again with hostile intent, it won't be Sasuke-teme you face but me." Naruto's eyes flashed red, "And I won't hesitate to kill you!"
Dosu stiffened as something in the blonde's gaze told him he wasn't lying and that not only could he kill him, but that he would kill him. Dosu nodded, "Very well, but just so you know, if we do meet in battle we will not hesitate to fight back."