𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐤𝐢 | ɴᴀʀᴜᴛᴏ ꨄ︎ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘᴜᴅᴇɴ

Gravity and The Snake

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"I ssssmell corpssses.... Kumo-Sssan..." Manda's voice reeked of excitement inside of her mind.

Kazumi slid down a long slope, her eyes tensing at the dead shinobi littering the space. An then explosion destroyed the entire section below, cutting mental communications between everyone.

"Why do I see another man?" She asked, peering far into the distance.

Madara was very much there. During the quick journey here, she thought of many ways to involve destroying him with his already damaged torso. However, there was another man beside him, pulling more needless strings.

She couldn't quite decipher what they were standing on. Although it was leveled high in the air to look down on them like ants.

Manda slowly chuckled in her mind. "I'm surprised you didn't catch on. That second man is the masked-nin who claimed himself to be Madara. He is not."

Madara this, Madara that... What a pain.

She exhaled slowly, proceeding to walk across the destroyed battle ground.

"A ssslow approach. I'm getting antsssy..."

As she neared the front lines, familiar chakra's assaulted her senses. Running around were faces she once knew, developed as they aged into their later teens.

She saw almost everyone in such a short span of time.

In the far back, Sakura had her healing team, working tirelessly to aid the fighters.

She nearly faltered in her healing as she spotted dull blonde through the haze of battle. Her emerald eyes were wider than they could be, like she must have seen things.

There was no way the Kumo Kazumi from their childhood would be here. Not after the corruption of her appearance. The last she saw of her was the disguise hardly covering her charcoal dipped black and piercing yellow eyes..

The rush of other medics forced Sakura's startle away. Then, she disappeared from sight.

Kazumi accepted the gap between them. This was war, after all. She couldn't just skip over to gloat her triumph. As much as she felt like telling the world that Kabuto was dead, there were more pressing matters.

"And, Kaz... Promise to come back... to Team Seven, again. Please?"

The memory of Sakura left her silent as she turned to the sight of Madara and the Akatsuki member. What they stood on was not a platform, but a creature unlike anything Kazumi had ever seen before.

She certainly saw strange things in Orochimaru's labs.

However, this...

With it's long head the size of a meteor. With it's one large sharingan-mixed eye. With it's giant straight teeth and one single ear. With it's body boney, disoriented, and strange spiked tail that had multiple tentacles behind. It gurgled and roared

It didn't look real. Like a sketch straight from a child's imagination. She then envisioned the true size of Manda next to it.

Would you eat that?