The Rise Of The Flame God

CHAPTER 2

The sound of fighting could be heard throughout the Forest of Death as Genin teams fought to the death over something as small and insignificant as a scroll. Teenagers killed others in cold blood all so that they would be able to advance to the next round of this tournament of death. This is the cold hard truth of those who pursue the life of a Shinobi: they were required to kill whom they were told to kill, seduce whom they were told to seduce, and even betray their own team mates if they were ordered to.

The perfect example of this was happening in a fight to the death between team 10, Sakura and Rock Lee vs subjects of orochimaru, the hidden sound village team. Due to various modifications, all three members used sound-based techniques. The team leader is Dosu Kinuta with Kin Tsuchi and Zaku Abumi as his teammates.

"You know the orders, kill Sasuke Uchiha." The mummified Dosu Kinuta stated as they continued walking, only to stop short of a simple snare trap.

"Pathetic." Zaku sneered as he went around the trap.

"Well, it looks like you are all alone girly." The mummified Dosu stated as he and his team walking in front of the team and cutting Sakura from escape.

'I'm doomed' Sakura though as she shakily raised a kunai to try and fend off the attacks that were no doubt about to be launch.

"She is not alone." Rock Lee stated as he dropped from the trees and attacked the other team.

"Ahh, so you do have some back up." Dosu continued to Sakura as if Rock Lee' help wouldn't matter.

"It is still not enough." The only girl in the team stated as she pulled out some senbon with bells while he two teammates lifted their arms for their respected weapons.

The mummy charged Rock Lee with a strait punch only for Rock Lee to dodge. However, the same thing happened with Kabuto. Rock Lee held his ears and fell to the ground.

"You cannot avoid sound." Mummy gloated as he kicked Lee away from Sakura.

The only girl grabbed Sakura by the hair and held her up. "You are a disgrace to Kunoichi around the world." The girl sneered as she continued to hold Sakura up.

Sakura seeing no other choice pulled out a kunai and cut her own hair, freeing her from the other Kunoichi's grip.

The other boy feeling tired of waiting raised his arms towards Sasuke and Naruto and called out his technique. "Decapitating Airwaves!" The boy called out only to freeze in mid cast as he lost the ability to move.

"Shadow Possession Jutsu achieved." Shikamaru stated from the canopy above them and jumped down, along with Ino.

While everyone was distracted from their sudden appearance, Ino cast her Mind Transfer jutsu on the enemy Kunoichi.

"Leave us alone and your teammate lives." Ino called out from the Kunoichi's body to the two shinobi.

"Ha, if she was weak enough to get caught, then she deserves to die." The boy under the shadow possession said as his partner ran towards the possessed girl raising his arm in the proses.

Ino with a surprised shout switched back to her body as the mummy unleased another blast of sound at his teammate. This this one was weaker than the one he used on Rock Lee.

'He would attack his own teammate?' All of the Genin present thought as one. To them, that was horrid as Konoha promoted teamwork above all else.

Everything came to a haulting stop, as a dark malevolent Chakra exploded from the hollow base of the tree. The aura made any animals nearby leave and all the people fighting felt a chill go up there spine. The source of the evil Chakra was one Sasuke Uchiha.