Konoha Spider

The forest of Death part 2

Peter huffed and puffed a few seconds as he watched the retreating forms of the pair of Sound Ninja before he leaped to the ground next to his friends. Once he got there he collapsed to the ground tiredly. "I think that I could go without having to deal with those guys again." He said tiredly.

"No kidding," Naruto panted, "but hey we made them run away right?" He said brightly causing the other two to stare at their teammate in disbelief.

"Idiot, they left because they didn't think that we were worth the trouble." Sakura growled at Naruto, too tired to even bother taking a swing at him. "They were both so strong compared to us."

"Yeah well come on, we need to get out of here before they decide to come back." Peter said as he forced himself to his feet. "I really don't want to find out what they'll do if they want to finish us off or something."

"Right." The other two said as they slowly climbed to their feet and chose a direction, and began running doing their best to put some distance between them and their battle field.

"So far we've been in two different fights, and all we've got to show for it is some extra supplies." Naruto grumbled. "There has to be a better way of doing this."

"You figure it out, you tell me." Peter said as he checked his pocket and saw that they still had their Heaven Scroll, it would be embarrassing if that ninja had managed to pick his pocket after all that. The group stopped though as they saw something that they hadn't been expecting a giant black snake like thing was fighting with a real snake. The only problem was that the black snake was only about half the size of the giant snake and was obviously losing.

"What is going on?" Naruto asked in confusion as Team 7 watched the writhing figures twist and turn as they tried to strange each other.

"Look down there." Sakura said pointing. The group looked to see a roughed up Sai busily doing something with a scroll. A moment later a second black snake rose off of the paper to engage the large snake. The now outnumbered snake writhed angrily as it tried to shake off the two chakra serpents. Within moments the snake was pinned and the last of its life was being choked out of it. Sai nodded as the snake suddenly disappeared in a cloud of smoke. He then rose to his feet and made a hand sign and the hissing serpents suddenly turned into black liquid. The boy took an unsteady step and then fell face first into the ground.

"Come on let's check on him." Sakura said as the trio rushed to his side. The group looked the older ninja over worriedly.

"Well?" Peter asked the girl.

"Chakra exhaustion," Sakura explained, "he must have used up nearly all of his strength fighting that snake."

"It was the second snake." Sai rasped out.

"Second, you mean there are more of those things out here?" Naruto exclaimed as his eyes began looking around for anymore snakes as if creatures that large could just sneak up on them.

"He must have been so busy fighting those things that he used all his chakra up." Peter noted as he hefted the boy up. "Which way is your team?" He questioned, Sai pointed along a path that was close to the way that they had just come. "Great, we got to go back that way." Peter grumbled.

"What could do this to him though," Sakura asked worriedly, "and do you think Sasuke-kun is alright?"

"Looks like we'll find out soon enough." Naruto told the girl, as they headed back the way they came. A few minutes later they saw the other two members of the team lying on the ground unconscious.

"It looks like they've been through hell and back, or at least the Bronx." Peter noted, as they began checking the other members of the rival team over.