Konoha, Training Ground 78.
DAMN!!!
Seeing Tsunade and Jiraiya dealt with so easily, the calm Orochimaru finally showed a panicked look, cursing and hurling all the shurikens at the enemy who landed back on the ground. Orochimaru saw the enemy literally turning into an afterimage, rushing through the barrage of shurikens effortlessly.
Thud!
Orochimaru hurriedly tried to make hand signs but even that was too late, feeling a hand grabbing his neck and a suffocating feeling appeared. The Kiri shinobi holding Orochimaru from the neck calmly raised him in the air, looking at him with a pair of merciless eyes.
"No…
Orochimaru felt the hand holding his neck tightening more and more every second, the suffocating feeling increasing as with fear clear on his pale face and immense will to live in his eyes he managed to say a word.
"Am I going to die here…?" Just when Orochimaru felt his neck would be crushed any moment and he was seeing death already, he felt the pressure around his neck disappearing and he fell down immediately.
Cough…Cough…
Orochimaru who was almost suffocated to death began to cough heavily, taking in deep breaths while kneeling on the ground, even spitting out some saliva, his fearful eyes on the kiri shinobi looking down at him with a smile on his face.
The powerless Orochimaru saw the man stretching his hand toward him once again, holding him from the back of his neck lifting him like a chicken walking towards the pits in which lay Tsunade and Jiraiya unable to move.
Thud!
Arriving near the two the kiri shinobi threw Orochimaru near the two like a piece of garbage, just as Orochimaru confused seeing the Kiri Shinobi tossing a kunai next to him.
"I saw it kid…that crazy will to live in your eyes so I'll give you a chance…kill these two and I'll let you live."
The Kiri Shinobi's words fell and chill swept through Orochimaru's back, eyes of Tsunade and Jiraiya in the pit widening also. Orochimaru seemed to have gone statue on the spot, eyes with all sorts of emotions in them fixed at the kunai before him, his body shaking visibly.
Tsunade and Jiraiya lying motionless moved their eyes to gaze at Orochimaru silent and confused, a bad feeling welling in their hearts.
"I don't have whole day kid…I'll count to ten and if by then you can't decide you can go to hell along with them."
10…9…8
The countdown started as the longest and toughest ten seconds of Orochimaru's, Tsunade's and Jiraiya's small life till now started.
7…6…5…4…
When the countdown came to four, Orochimaru finally moved and his eyes showing a hollow look, picking up the kunai before him and with his head down moving close to Tsunade and Jiraiya.
Seeing the approaching Orochimaru, Tsunade and Jiraiya showed despair as unable to do anything but watch the god of death approaching.
3…2…1….
As the countdown came to one, Orochimaru raised the kunai high and smashed it down but his wrists rolling at the last moment and its attack trajectory changing towards the kiri shinobi.
DIE!!!!
Yelled Orochimaru as he smashed the kunai, hatred on his face but all that hate unable to bridge the gap between him and the enemy. The Kiri shinobi easily dodged the attack and once again grabbed Orochimaru from the neck, who didn't show any resistance as he raised him high.
"Come on, kill me and get over with it." Said Orochimaru as he gazed into the merciless eyes of the enemy.
"You brats sure are… Said the Kiri Shinobi as he raised him even higher, his voice cold but his next words breaking the atmosphere completely.
"Pretty likable"
Poof!
Orochimaru fell down on his butt again but with his dazed eyes he saw the kiri shinobi before him bursting into smoke and a familiar handsome figure appeared, looking at him and the shocked Tsunade and Jiraiya in the pit with an approved look.