33 Chapter 33

'More girls are going to hate me besides Tenten,' Kuzo walked along the team from the grass village, disguised as the woman he had knocked out. He had handed her to another jonin to medically care for her. Also, did you know you could use transformation jutsu on other people to change their look? It worked like magic. All you have to do is extend your chakra to them and form the hand sign to transform them.

Currently, he was with her team, who decided to sit in the corner and have a private talk. Meanwhile, Kuzo had sent a shadow clone, telling his squad to be ready for the fight.

"What did that kid say to you?" asked a teammate of hers.

"Just asking me out, again," replied Kuzo.

One of the teammates replied clearly annoyed.

"Where is he?"

"I don't know."

"We'll attack him first in the Forest of Death."

"Why?" he asked.

"Aren't you angry? That kid thought you are a girl. We were planning to seduce him so that we could kill him."

Kuzo started coughing violently. Looking at his hand, the hand he used to touch that guy's butt, and he thought if he should use burn it or wash it violently.

"Why are you crying?" Suddenly, someone appeared in front of them. It was a pale person, who you couldn't tell their gender, with silky hair tied in a ponytail.

That person was none other than Orochimaru.

He appeared next to Kuzo, biting one of the shinobis.

Kuzo jumped backward, created a couple of shadow clones, and they appeared to surround Orochimaru, who was done from killing the other. The two dead persons turned into flat corpses.

"You have a good reaction speed. Shame you are going to die," Orochimaru said.

Puff Puff

The transformation jutsu was undone, showing Kuzo in his true form.

"You're getting it wrong. I'm not the one who is going to die," said Kuzo.

Orochimaru looked at his headband that indicated his belonging to Konoha. He opened his eyes widely. Not being an idiot, Orochimaru could easily tell what happened.

"You're Kuzo. I've heard something or two about you," replied Orochimaru, licking his lip.

"I wonder what the teacher of the Sound genins is doing here," Kuzo walked around, pretending to be ignorant. "And why did you kill these two?"

"Why did you impersonate this one?" he replied.

"Because it matches your physical attributes," he replied.

"So, you know my plan." Orochimaru asked.

"I had a hunch."

"I must kill you then," replied Orochimaru, opening his eyes widely. A bloodlust flew out of them, hitting Kuzo.

Usually, this would make a jonin shake. It would paralyze a genin or a chunin.

But to Kuzo, he had never been the prey. He's the hunter.

Orochimaru had a bloodlust. Kuzo had blood crave. They were not the same.

Knowing that Orochimaru was like a palace full of ninjutsu scrolls, his Gluttony's power made him crave. After all, Orochimaru was an S-rank ninja, above a jonin.

"What a nice bloodlust," replied Kuzo, releasing his blood crave. "I want it."

"Fufufu," Orochimaru laughed, lifting his eyebrows. "Not many can still stand like you, Kuzo-san."

"I'm not many," replied Kuzo, taking a taijutsu stance and raising his fists, "I'm the many."

By now, one of his shadow clones popped out, which would send information to the other shadow clone to alert the others. Until then, he'd need to delay Orochimaru for a minute. Don't underestimate a minute. For very fast shinobis, one minute could be worth a full episode. A monologue and a few flashbacks included.

"Fufufu…" Orochimaru laughed. He then walked toward Kuzo, full of confidence that he would take him head-on.

The other shadow clone of Kuzo that he had sent away was popped out, getting bitten by a snake which Orochimaru had put in him.

Not backing off from the challenge, Kuzo walked toward Orochimaru, his heart beating louder and louder.

'This is a Jojo reference to you,' Kuzo extended two fingers. A shadow clone appeared from thin air and punched toward Orochimaru, who wasn't taken by the element of surprise. Orochimaru took a step to the back, holding the clone's hand. A snake extended from his sleeve, biting his neck, forcing the clone to pop out.

"You still need a hundred years to defeat me," said Orochimaru.

Kuzo weaved a series of hand signs. From the ground, a circle of lightning appeared, forming birds that flew toward Orochimaru, who glided to the side with amazing speed, dodging. He appeared behind Kuzo and kicked at his head. Kuzo turned, parried and held Orochimaru's leg. He then rolled many times before sending Orochimaru flying away.

There are two things you don't do against Orochimaru. You don't get inside his body, and you don't touch him for too long.

Kuzo forced his chakra to his feet, opening both arms widely, vanishing, and appearing in front of Orochimaru. A Rasengan appeared in each hand. This made the eyes of the sanin open widely. Orochimaru squatted and kicked Kuzo's feet off the ground. Kuzo jumped and back-flipped, turning toward Orochimaru and pointed the Rasengan at him. Orochimaru's lower half turned into a snake that slipped away.

BOOM BOOM

A large shock wave spread on the ground, creating a large hole. And by large, he meant that you could fit a house or two in it.

Once the shortwave was over, Orochimaru appeared in front of Kuzo with a kunai in his hand. Smirking, he stabbed toward his stomach. Not finding any other choice, Kuzo extended a few bones from his stomach, countering the blade and making Orochimaru open his eyes widely. Kuzo placed his knees on Orochimaru's neck, before flipping back and throwing him away.

He then crossed his fingers, four shadow clones appearing in four corners. They extended their hands, and a violet barrier was formed.

"You're more interesting than what I was told about you," replied Orochimaru, standing on his legs. When he saw the barrier, he couldn't help but laugh. "Immense chakra, Rasengan, and you even have enough chakra to sustain this barrier, and you still look fine. Not to mention, you have the Kekkei Genkai of the Kaguya clan. You're also a sensory type, aren't you?"

Orochimaru looked at Kuzo, extending his tongue and licking his own lip. "Someone as interesting as the Uchiha."

Seeing Orochimaru licking his lips, Kuzo, who knew that this was a real female, felt conflicted feelings.

'Is it straighter than what I have done earlier to the guy I thought was a girl.'

He took a deep breath and looked at the eyes of Orochimaru, saying, "Listen, shortie, I understand you're trying to be sexy. But I won't date a crazy bitch."

"What are you talking about?" asked Orochimaru, furrowing his eyebrows.

"I can smell the pheromones in your system," Kuzo said, lying to anger Orochimaru. If you learn something about Orochimaru from the anime, it would be that the snake doesn't take disrespect very well.

"Very well." Orochimaru laughed, "Before you choose death, let me ask you, would you like to leave Konoha with me?"

"Huh?"

"It's very small for someone like you. If you join me, you'll have more power, more respect, and whatever you want. Even if it's immorality."

"And go where?" Kuzo asked.

"My village, the Sound," Orochimaru replied.

Oh man. Kuzo was boiling to tell him that he'd destroyed the Sound Village. But he couldn't bear the consequences of saying that without his people with him.

"I'll say no." Kuzo took a deep breath. On his back, there was a seal that stored the sage chakra, which happened after absorbing the nature chakra into his own. For 5 months, the seal had stored 10% of his energy every day.

Thanks to killing the people with the curse mark, his reserves of sage chakra were very large. So what he stored was enough for him to enter the imperfect sage mode for hours. The seal released a bit of what it stored, and more ink marks covered Kuzo.

Purple chakra covered him, and the marks continued covering him until he turned into a monster-like creature.

Orochimaru, who had eyes of a killer, now had eyes of shock.

Many bones extended from Kuzo's body. He sank to the ground after using an earth jutsu, and then, from the ground, huge bone spikes released, each was 5 meters high.

Damn it, it didn't kill the snake. He knew that because the gluttony seal didn't absorb anything.

Merging himself with the bones, Kuzo emerged from a bone spike on the top.

"That's Kimimaro's jutsu," said Orochimaru, who was sitting on a bone. "Guess I'll have to break your bones."

"I believe you already noticed how we knew you're here," replied Kuzo, smiling as he felt friendly chakra coming his way.

Orochimaru turned his head, noticing around 50 shinobi surrounding the purple barrier. He lifted an eyebrow and frowned, clicking his tongue.

"Orochimaru, it's the day you die." Yelled Anko, ink marks covering her.

"This is troublesome." Weaving a series of hand signs, Orochimaru tapped the bones. "Summoning jutsu.

From the spikes, coffins emerged.

Kuzo knew what it was. He quickly undid the barrier, emerged with the bones to hide, and then got out. The clones then activated the barrier again.

Even with the imperfect sage mode, he didn't dare to fight those who were about to come out of the coffins.

He wasn't sure who was coming out, but he wouldn't risk fighting Hashirama and his brother. He had made some changes in the timeline, and he had to be careful about it.

"Kuzo, what's the matter?" asked Anko. "You've never been worried like this."

"These guys he's summoning are nothing ordinary," he replied, "Better observe first."