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inanna's ring!sasuke wakes up in narutoverse
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She freezes in place.

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Sugira jumps down from his perch.

"Let her go."

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"Aw. But the fun just started."

He laughs. "These weak bonds of yours... They're all that's holding you to Konoha, aren't they? And all bonds break, in the end." He, quite unnecessarily, rests a kunai against Chihiro's throat. "The question, of things you want to know: do I kill her slowly, quickly, or not at all? The question, of things I want to know: how easy will breaking you be?"

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"I don't negotiate. But if she dies, I won't rest until I've eradicated you so thoroughly not even the greatest of all gods could restore you."

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"I'm fascinated to know how you plan to do that."

And his hand twitches - 

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And Sugira replaces with Chihiro.

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What happens next is quite quick.

Orochimaru slams Sasuke to his knees, hard enough to crack something. No sense in making sacrifice free.

And then his neck extends to bite the boy in the meat of his shoulder.

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Sugira starts screaming.

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And concentrated rage fills the clearing, the air turning a hazy red.

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The seal- She's almost out of chakra-

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Naruto is faster than Chihiro like this, strong enough that his blow shatters the tree when Orochimaru dodges - 

But he has enough presence of mind to make clones, including one to grab Sasuke and carry him over to Chihiro.

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Orochimaru dodges, allows him to remove the boy, and then grabs Naruto, lifting his shirt and slamming a glowing hand into the now visible seal.

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Naruto's clones disappear as he slumps and falls unconscious.

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And Orochimaru tosses him aside, to fall to the forest floor below.

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She struggles to take a fighting stance.

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"Do take care of my vessel," he says. "I had quite a bit of fun with this test. I look forward to seeing what you three become."

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Vessel? Does that mean he's leaving?

Her confusion is evident on her face, but she doesn't make a move.

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He laughs and vanishes

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And Sugira's whimpering finally fades into unconsciousness.

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She takes a deep breath, lets it out.

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She checks Sugira's pulse first. Still alive, but it's fluttery and too fast. She spots the seal Orochimaru left. That's... not good. Then over to where Naruto fell.

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Deeply unconscious. Heart-rate is slow, weak, and uneven, his heart frequently skipping beats or failing to contract entirely. He's bruised, but there's no obvious spinal or cranial injuries. The feeling of the Kyuubi's chakra is gone entirely.

His shirt's ridden up a bit, revealing his jinchuuriki seal - with another array looped around it, the style blatantly clashing.

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Also not good. She drags him carefully over to where Sasuke lies. She... needs to find a place to fortify, wait until one of them wakes up. Nearby. She can't move the both of them very far by herself.

A quick scout reveals a large fallen tree, rotted out on the inside that will serve as a shelter. Scattered bear spoor indicates it is unlikely to be an area trafficked by wildlife, but the age of the spoor indicates the bear is not currently in residence. She moves the two over and sets some traps by the entrance to guard them while she covers the tracks. That done, she sets more traps along the perimeter and approach, raiding the boys' pockets for more material, before retreating back inside.

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Naruto's pockets are a gold mine of trap components.

Sasuke's... Beyond a slightly higher than standard amount of kunai and shuriken, unless she knows what to do a multitude of odd specialty inks, multiple pages with the dizzying symbols he uses for magic, or a hand-bound journal containing math, notes in either code or a different language, and diagrams, she's out of luck.

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That's... She puts those back. Carefully. Without examining them closely.

Once everything's set up, she stands her vigil inside, waiting for someone to approach or one of her teammates to wake up.

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