We focus in on Sasuke, having kicked himself back in the game after getting tossed around by Snake Person. He's mad, and breaks out the Sharingan, and it'll be interesting to see what this does against the fake Grass Villager. Sasuke's not going to let anybody stop him from killing his brother, not even Snakey. He puts a kunai in his mouth, which is this show's callsign for badass, and flips into the air, raining down Shuriken on Snakey. He flips right to Snakey, and there's a lot hits landed on both sides, but no solid connects. We get some Snake Speed Force, but the Sharingan keeps him out of her reach. He tries to toast her with the Fire Ball, but there's the burrowing trick again for a better position to take a swipe at him and they finally pause. Whew
Anko's making her way into the Forest o' Death, trying to find 'That guy' before sundown. More awesome fighting with Sasuke and Snakey, as he bounces around like mad to avoid another wind-blast, before Spider-Manning it upside down on a branch and grabbing his opponent for a ride. Is that...? He hits a for-real piledriver on Snakey, cracking the branch they land on!!! Mah gawd! Mah gawd! That half-snake thing has a family! (I apologize for the one-percenter.) Hey, that's a SUBSTITUTION for Snakey! This time with goo. Sasuke ducks a rain of kunai, using a garrote to slow his fall, and that's awesome. Snakey catches him out and lands a solid combination to put Sasuke down, but as she moves in, the sneaky little Genin's planted fireworks on her. The fireworks going off distracts Sasuke's opponent long enough for him to leap away and throw out this wicked shuriken-garrotte combo, leaving her tied up to the tree, and Sasuke looks like he finishes her with some Fire Dragon Jutsu. Gah DAMN.
Sakura leaps down to check on Sasuke, whose Chakra-meter's probably on 'E.' Toasted Snakey pulls free of the tree, and also the gender-nonspecific disguise. He, apparently a Sound Ninja, comments on Sasuke's ability with Sharingan, saying he's got more skill than Sasuke's brother Itachi. Snakey's name is Orochimaru, and if Sasuke wants another crack at him, he's got to take out the Sound Villagers under his control. To emphasize his point, he does a satanic Reed Richards bit and stretches his neck to bite Sasuke in the neck, vanishing, leaving Sasuke with venom and a tattoo. And not the happy kind of venom either, but the kind that makes him cry out and collapse into Sakura's lap. She cries out for Naruto (still unconscious and pinned to a tree), and Squad Seven is currently at what we might call an ebb.
Elsewhere, Orochimaru slowly reforms himself out a tree, with Anko closing in. I just realize this means that Orochimaru pulled that poor Grass Villager's face off, and yikes. He sinks into the tree, for some sort of healing trance I might assume, but Anko wakes him out of it. She's going to end him if costs her life, her responsibility as his former pupil. Holy crap! More fighting, all while Orochimaru's half stuck in a tree. She ducks his demon tongue, and launches some snakes out of her arm to rip Orochimaru out from the tree, and pins his left hand to the bark through her own hand. She uses his free hand to complete a ninja sign, which cool to see, and goes for something called Twin Snakes Sacrifice. SUBSTITUTION! Orochimaru dismissively catches her thrown kunai, and puts a paralysis whammy on Anko. Orochimaru explains to Anko he came a-recruiting, and we see Anko has the same Curse Mark as Sasuke just got. The kid's got chops Anko apparently didn't, and Orochimaru uses words like 'vessel' and 'heir.' With that, he vanishes, with a warning for Anko to keep the test going or he'll end the village.
Cutting over to Lee's team, they've focused a bit on surviving, and Neji's suggests splitting up to scout for the other teams. Sakura's standing watch over Sasuke, who's better but still not what we call in the trade good, and Naruto's just out of it. It's up to Sakura. Over to Anko, she wraps her injured hand and starts to head off to inform the Hokage, but is stopped by a trio of tigers, and her Curse Mark starts acting up. Not Anko-sensei's day. They get hit with the paralysis Jutsu, and a pair of Anbu Black Ops show up in the nick of time. They know right off what the Cure Mark means, and want to take her to the Hokage, but she wants to go to the tower. Sakura's still keeping watch over the boys, and the Sound Ninja flunkies have found them, but they have orders to wait for daybreak. Daybreak! Sakura wakes up, but she's the only one who does.
Next Episode: ROCK LEE vs. Sound Shinobi!
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