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I made a brief stint of my return to writing. Shika beats Shino. Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi have arrived in time to watch Sakura fight. After some prodding and sly comments the stage is set for round 3 of the Chunin exams…

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Chapter 10: Rage On

Tsunade was a powerful ninja, no one would dare say otherwise. Sure she was a drunkard at times and even a slob, but she was still a shinobi capable of leaving no evidence of her presence minus a change a landscape that couldn't exactly be traced back to her. Now though, if one wanted her finger prints, they would simply have to look at the railing she had been holding onto. Jiraiya had already removed himself from the immediate area out of fear she would take out her anger on him. Orochimaru on the other hand was trying to conceal his smirk under his guise as the Kazekage.

FLASHBACK: (A/N: This gets violent)

"Begin!" the proctor claimed. Dosu charged Sakura with enough bloodlust that Genma was immediately on guard to intervene despite the calm on Sakura's face. Dosu swung with a hard right. His attack had two purposes, the first was to hurt the girl while the second was to create the sound waves needed to attack her further with the device on the same arm. His plans were cut short when the pink-ette blocked the attack with one arm and used the other to deliver a powerful strike to the device Dosu was using, cracking it. This is the result when a fighter is familiar with your skillset and Dosu seemed to be a one trick pony. Before Sakura could get in a second hit to destroy Dosu's device he aimed a kick to her head forcing space between the two combatants. Realizing that a close range battle would not end well for him he swung his right arm again but Sakura was quick on her feet and managed to catch Dosu's arm once again stepping to the outside of his swing which left her left arm free the finish breaking Dosu's sound generator which she did with a defining cracking sound at the impact and the force pushed Dosu away from the spot. Sakura's quick victory was shortly followed by screams of pain as her attack had accidentally shattered the bones of Dosu's arm beneath the device.

Sakura in her innocence quickly rushed to help the boy with the basic first-aid she had been learning from her teacher on the side of her normal training or when she was too exhausted to continue, Tsunade was a slave driver. Before Sakura could reach Dosu however her vision blurred, she felt sick and she too doubled over nauseated. Fighting the urge to vomit she watched as Dosu slowly stood back up, his screaming stopped and his broken arm was placed into a makeshift sling created from the wrappings that used to be tied around him. The sight beneath the bandages is what pushed Sakura and a few others in the stadium over the edge… she puked.

Dosu was used to this reaction, he smiled. He had only wrapped up because his teammates were uneasy around him but those wrappings also hindered the vast majority of his power which his device was supposed to compensate for. He stood there for a second letting everyone see what he was. Allowing everyone to see the holes that covered his entire being, soft tissue, bones, and muscles, there were piercings all over his visage. Now that he was uncovered, unbound as he preferred, this match was his. He took a deliberate step towards his opponent and chuckled as the girl doubled over again in more pain. He slowly made his way to the girl, taking his time to not only enjoy her pain but to also explain the turn of events.

"Stupid girl, the device you broke was only a toy for me. My body IS my weapon!" He took another step, this caused Sakura to vomit again. "Every movement I make allows air to pass by these holes in my body which in turn creates sound. You remember what I can do with sound right?" stepping forward again brought forth another scene of Sakura puking. "Luckily for me, you won't die from my sound. I don't have that skill yet." He said this as he glanced over the stadium to one redhead in particular. By the time he was standing over Sakura, she was all but unconscious her eyes unfocused as she was lying in a small pool of bile mixed with her own blood due to the strain on her throat and maybe internal bleeding.

PRESENT:

Due to Dosu's close proximity the vile quickly reached his uncovered foot. His reaction was clearly disgust mixed with pure amusement.

"Eww!" He stated, clearly not trying to hide his enjoyment in the clear damage he caused the girl just by walking up to her. He slowly raised his foot enjoying the twitch she made out of pain. She was clearly at the threshold of passing out from the sound attack he was using.

"Oh, no. We can't have you passing out now can we?" At this moment, Dosu relinquished his chakra control over the sound emitting from his body, at the same time he slammed his foot down into Sakura's gut which was quickly followed by her scream of pain only to be met with more and more crazed kicks and Dosu's laughter.

In the stands Tsunade was gripping the life out of the railing. Yes, the violence was allowed so long as Dosu didn't kill her and the rules were set so that no favoritism was shown which effectively tied Genma's, and everyone else's hands from interfering unless Sakura verbally gave up, fell unconscious, or a killing strike was about to be delivered. Tsunade's fists opened and closed out of reflex and sheer desire to destroy the boy, her healing abilities would negate his sound attacks easily 'If only I had focused a bit more on teaching her to heal wounds with chakra'. The joy of both Hiruzen and Jiraiya at Tsunade's apparent care for the girl were completely overshadowed by the horrific display in the ring and while Tsunade wanted to maim the boy, they wanted Orochimaru and Hiruzen forced down the impulse to attack the fake Kage next to them.

In the spectator's area, there were three individuals that the other participants were slowly trying to get away from. The Sand team of course were backing away from Gaara as the violence and blood were cracking into his calm demeanor, his "Mother" wanted blood and was quickly losing patience. Gaara's chakra was flaring, the only thing still keeping him in line were the chakra flares coming from the blond boy nearby. The two chakras, one gold the other was blue with a light-purple hue, lashed at each other. Though they were currently equal in power (A/N: mid-high Chunin) the blonde's chakra was easily more potent. Gaara would've loved to fight this person too, he could tell the blond was like him. Gaara also sensed a third chakra almost hidden behind the blond, though it was not as powerful, it was certainly dangerous enough in its own right. His upcoming opponent, Sasuke, was visibly shaking out of rage. His charka wasn't normal either, at least from what Gaara had seen up to this point. His aura sparked and crackled looking as if lighting was dancing over it, if that wasn't enough to warrant concern, there were brief moments were his chakra flared to his level, turning purple (A/N: Not curse mark purple btw) before nearly instantly returning to its "normal state". Kakashi from his place took notice of the three thankful that chakra was invisible generally invisible to the naked eye, the energy however could be felt and those trained in chakra control could feel the feelings of the user behind it. The Genin near the three spikes were getting a blast of Bloodlust, concern, and rage.

Back in the ring, Sakura was still being brutally hit by Dosu flailing just before each hit in attempt to maybe spare herself from the damage. She had declared her forfeit earlier and didn't understand at first why no one moved to stop the beating. She tried to call out again but this time a small part of her forced her to look at Dosu while admitting defeat, his reaction was a smile and another painful kick to the ribs. 'He's not letting the sound get through' was her thought then. Now she knew that the only way this fight would stop is if she passed out or was about to die, her body went limp, ready to accept the pain till it was over.

Dosu noticing his prey going limp quickly reeled his leg back for another kick, this time the kick was chakra loaded and aimed for her head, if he was quick, he could get the kill before anyone could do anything about it, a twisted smile on his face as he whispered goodbye to the poor girl. Seeing this motion and change in behavior; Genma, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke all moved as fast as they could knowing that they might not be fast enough due to how close Dosu was to Sakura if he had ground to cover to get to her, then it wouldn't be a problem. If the two Sannin were in their prime, they could've reached her, but no-one there at the moment could save Sakura. With a loud crack, the same sound that started the brutal onslaught ended it.

Genma being right behind Dosu was shocked as the boy suddenly got closer in a very quick manner, dodging around him Genma quickly realized that the sudden speed burst was not his doing but by that of a Dosu flying in towards him. He could also see that the Sannin had stopped just outside the ring, Jiraiya holding back a clearly pissed off Tsunade, just behind them was Kakashi holding on to both his Genin. Genma was having a hard time understanding what was happening and wasn't given much time to think it over as Dosu slowly rose to his feet...blood was smeared on the wall behind him as more trickled from the open gash on the back of his head. Sakura's last punch clearly broke a few ribs not to mention the young man's unfocused eyes showing that he was unconscious, at this point Genma's job was easy.

"Winner, Sakura Haruno!" Tsunade quickly rushed to her charge in order to heal her quickly but the victory as well as the Sannin were brought to a halt as an ear splitting noise fell upon all in the stadium, it's center point...the unconscious Dosu.

All the combat specialist in the arena knew what was going on immediately, it was not uncommon for a nin to display new abilities once losing consciousness, two of the three members of the sound team were having horrible flashbacks at the moment, the final member was fixated on covering his ears and something else…

'Blood...blood...BLOOD!' Before anyone could move to disable the sound genin's final assault, he was being hosted into the air by a cloud of sand, the sound coming from the boy was more than enough to slow any would be saviors from reaching him before the sand warped around him and blood erupted from the sand encasement. With the source of the debilitating sound now crushed to nothing a new sound was heard. The sound of a particular nin laughing as he lost his grip on reality.

TO BE CONTINUED...

(A/N: Lost all office works when comp crashed, just had the idea of using google drives and bingo! Word is semi-up and running. Hopefully this chapter shows that our favorite team isn't quite as OP'd as I've lead you to believe thus far. Also...not sure how you feel about the fight, but it HAS been a few years so my "innocence" is kinda gone, in fact I avoided swearing by making Dosu unconscious in the last bit so expect that later. Also, i there are spelling errors (Name's/Rank's) please let me know, again it's been awhile. Thanks!)

Guess that's it for now. Next Chapter: To Live!