Crystal Clear Diamonds (A Naruto fanfiction)

Chapter 32: Why?!

I tilt my head in curiosity as Orovhimaru disgustingly uses his tongue to lift up a squirming Naruto's shirt slightly.

"See? Your seal surfaced." Orochimaru muses as Naruto continues glaring at him. Raising his right hand and pulling it backwards, he yells, "Gogyo Fuuin! Five element seal!" He proceeds to stab Naruto in the stomach at 5 different points.

Naruto gasps for breath as the air is knocked out of him. I growl. I hate it when people attack my buddy.

His eyes turned back to their normal blue and he fell limp in the grip of the tongue... He reaches into the shuriken pouch of Naruto and pulls out the heaven scroll before tossing Naruto behind him like as though he was a ragdoll.

In the back, Sakura yells at Sasuke, surely hoping that her hero would come to the rescue of Naruto.

"Sasuke-kun! Save Naruto!" She yells in vain to a stunned Sasuke Uchiha. Hiding behind a tree, I sigh. Sasuke isn't able to absorbed all he had seen. All he knew about Naruto was that he was some weak kid who was just overly enthusiastic about being a ninja. He knew that Naruto was a force to be reckoned with but he'd always seen himself as superior in terms of intelligence and skill. At the same time, I dont think Sasuke has ever come across such a ninja who was definately more than 5 times out of his league.

I myself don't know what to do. I remember Kakashi telling me and Leah not to interfere unless its something dire and really in need of our interception. Is this one of those situations? I glanced at Orochimaru. Have I ever had any kind of connection with that sort of evil? I don't understand this feeling of fear, I'd always been so calm and collected throughout. That, though, is probably due to the fact that I technically already know what will happen. This case is no different ! I know what the outcome of this fight is, I should put a stop to this but how?!

"Naruto !" Sakura screams as he starts free falling. "No, Sakura!" I tell her from behind. 'Talk some sense into your little 'sasuke kun' I'll get Naruto.' I tell her telepathically.

I jump after Naruto, catching him and landing on a branch nearby. I put him down and start checking his seal. The mark was still there but fading slowly. It had 5 distinctive marks that oro probably put to seal back the Kyuubi.

But why would he...

I thought.

"What's wrong Sasuke Kun?" She asks upset as she turns to face his direction but gets a shock as she sees him standing there, stunned. She furrows her eyebrows and scolds, "Naruto is different from you, Sasuke Kun ... He's dumber and a nuisance at times but.. At least he's not a coward! Right?!"

At this point, she took Sasuke by surprise as he shockingly looks her way before he closes his eyes painfully remembering something.

Suddenly Sasuke stands straight, his eyes returning to their Sharingan state.

Orochimaru's snake disappears.

Sasuke pulls out a shuriken and puts the side of it in his mouth. He runs forward at Orochimaru, jumps high into the air and does impressive turns and somersaults as he threw multiple kunai at Orochimaru who dodged all of them effortlessly.

Come on sasuke........

The two then engage in hand to hand combat, both easily blocking the others attack. Suddenly Oro sped up a little and disappeared. Sasuke looks around him in anticipation of an attack.

He watches as Orochimaru weaves through the branches and trees around him like a snake, keeping track of his whereabouts and movement.

Just as Orochimaru makes a move to attack, Sasuke jumps out of the way and yells,"I can see you!" Before blowing out fire from his mouth at Orochimaru.