33 - Poisoned...

"Earth Style: Earth Golem…" The newly arrived stone Shinobi made an earth golem and sent it to fight against Fox. Due to his age, he didn't hold him in high regard.

"Satsuki, let me kill the son of White Fang…" Sasori said while removing the iron sand that protected him from the earlier Fire attack.

"Try to finish before I am done with this little monkey…" Satsuki said while approaching Monkey.

On the other hand...

"Good job, kid. Now leave him to me…" Dog said, breathing heavily due to exhaustion from overusing Sharingan, even though he isn't a member of the Uchihas. This also caused him to use more chakra than Monkey and Crow, who are using a pair of Sharingan each.

"Are you sure, captain?" Fox asked again to confirm.

"Don't worry, I am just tired. Try to help others and stay safe…" Dog said as he went forward with a long jump.

"As you like it, Captain…" Fox went to assist the golem with a sigh while thinking, 'Does he still underestimate me even after seeing that jutsu from earlier...'

"Shadow Clone Jutsu…" Fox said as a clone of his appeared beside him, and both of them nodded. After making two different hand signs, they said,

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu…"

"Water Style: Dragon over Dragon…"

With that, the second dragon covered the first one, creating a huge water dragon that easily destroyed the Earth Golem in the process of collision.

After destroying the water Golem, he went to assist Monkey.

"It seems you are not as helpless as you seemed, kid..." Satsuki said with an evil smile while running toward them, making heavy sounds with every step.

"Oh well, it's even better for me..." With a little push and a burst of evil laughter, he added, "Because you will die by my hands."

As he finished, his hands transformed into those of the Earth Golem.

"Kid, let me handle him for now, and you can act as a backup if needed for everyone…" Monkey said with interest while looking at Satsuki's huge momentum, showing no fear but excitement because of a strong enemy.

At this time, Zabuza and Crow prepared for the second round of battle…

"You ain't a half-bad kid, but I am done playing games with you..." Zabuza said while pointing his executioner's blade.

"Same goes for you..." Crow said without an ounce of emotion in his voice.

"Such a cold world. I like your personality, too bad I won't be able to get to know your name before I kill you because of that mask…" Zabuza said while swinging his blade and approaching Crow.

After a round of clashes, they weren't moving anywhere, so Zabuza started using ninjutsu. "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu…"

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu…" Crow also copied his jutsu with his Sharingan and used it to counter Zabuza's attack.

"That eye, hateful..." Zabuza said angrily while looking at the Sharingan, and, as expected, he got himself trapped in a Genjutsu.

This time, Dog and Sasori were having a life and death battle with each other…

"Iron Sand Storm…" Sasori said as a form made of Iron Sand started moving toward Dog.

"Water Style: Water Wall Jutsu..." Dog tried to weaken his enemy's attack as much as he could.

"As if that would work…" Sasori said while using more Chakra to attack Dog and tried to bury him under his sand.

Though Dog was trying very hard, he wasn't able to stop the incoming attack and got pushed back further away from his spot, making himself get poisoned. He wasn't able to understand that at that moment and continued to defend.

"It seems you are still not down…" Sasori said with surprise, then added, "I hate wasting time the most, so I will finish this soon... Iron Sand: Deep Forest Strike…"

After this, the Iron Sands started becoming sharp like particles, moving like tree branches which were sharp as needles and shaped like swords.

Though Dog was able to dodge a few of them, he still got stabbed by Sasori's sand attack.

Finally, without any other option, he tried to attack one last time with his full power lightning attack and escaped from Sasori.

On the other side, after not being able to defeat Satsuki by himself, Monkey finally accepted Fox's help...

"Shadow Clone Jutsu…" Two shadow clones of Fox appeared beside both sides of a fox.

"Water Style: Twin Water Dragon Jutsu…" Fox said after finishing his hand signs.

"Lightning Style: Lightning Wave…"×2

Both of the shadow clones helped to strengthen the water jutsu with lightning jutsu.

As Satsuki was pushed back by Fox's attack, Monkey took the chance and appeared behind him with his bloodied body, quickly killing him with a strike.

As they were done, Fox noticed Dog's miserable state and quickly went near him with a flash step, rescuing him quickly, and then asked: "Captain, are you okay?"

Crow was also in a bad shape fighting with Zabuza. Though he had already killed all the enemies injured by Fox's earlier fire, when Zabuza got out of the Genjutsu, he got bitten miserably and was forced to return to his team.

"We are done for now. Let's retreat…" Dog said, looking at the result.

"Yes, that will be best for now…" Monkey also nodded, seeing they were tired and almost out of breath, but they were able to kill almost all the enemies, with only two remaining. They didn't lose anyone in the team.

On the other hand, the remaining enemies seemed like they could put up a good fight even now, but on their side, only little Fox might be able to continue fighting. So fleeing seemed the best choice for now.

A few hours later, inside a small cave, the Konoha Anbu team stopped, breathing heavily…

"Are you okay, Captain?" Fox said, putting down Dog on the ground.

"I think I got poisoned by Sasori…" Dog said while shaking his head.

"So what should we do now?" Fox asked, looking at everyone.

"In our team, no one is a medic, and it will take almost a day to return to the village…" Crow said after thinking for a bit.

"No, it will be too late…" Monkey said while shaking his head.

"Also, I don't think anyone in the village will be able to cure Sasori's poison…" Kakashi said, his tone getting low.

"There must be something we can do…" Fox looked at everyone anxiously.

"How about Lady Tsunade?" Crow asked with a curious tone, as if he remembered something.

"Yes, she should be able to cure the poison…" Dog said in a barely audible voice.

"From what I know, we should be able to find her in Tanzaku City…" Crow said with a serious tone.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go…" Fox said, picking up Dog on his shoulder as he looked at the rest of them.

"Right…" With that, the cave once again became silent.

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