The same of course could be said for that foolish woman Mei Terumi, the Mizukage, he didn't know what the woman was playing at by sending Pain here but she was an idiot if she thought she could refuse Lord Orochimaru.
Under his guise of the Otokage he had approached her and laid out the basics of his plan, she had agreed, that was all there was to it, she would stick by her agreement or she would die.
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Speaking of Kabuto's master, he had not spoken to him since before the Chunin Exams had started. Yes even so he knew he was here in the forest, after all the young Uchiha boy, Sasuke, was here in the forest and Orochimaru wanted him.
Sasuke had the Sharingan after all, a bloodline that Orochimaru was most interested in possessing. It was the reason why he had infiltrated the forest, so he could track the boy down and give him a little gift, something that would ensure the idiot boy would come to him.
Still though Kabuto didn't know where Orochimaru was, no doubt his master had kept his distance in case Kabuto was being watched.
After all Kabuto had made a bigger spectacle of himself than he had planned, he had revealed Grimm's identity hoping to scupper any plans the Mizukage had, after all Orochimaru already had a strategy for the invasion of Konoha, all Mei Terumi had to do is what she was told and then Konoha would fall.
Shifting uncomfortably again Kabuto looked around at the surrounding forest, his eyes narrowed as he tried to sense anyone.
"Come on you two hurry up. We need to grab a heaven scroll and get to the tower as soon as possible." Kabuto said as he glanced at his two accomplices.
"Aww is Kabuto getting nervous?" Yoroi Akado mocked, the boy was in his early twenties and had a real chip on his shoulder. His attitude annoyed Kabuto, but at the same time he knew he had to deal with it for the moment.
Kabuto's glasses flashed as he looked over at his companion, "Don't annoy me Yoroi."
"Or what you'll tell your master on us?" Misumi Tsurugi, Kabuto's other teammate said a she joined in, like Yoroi, Misumi was in his early twenties and had a really bad attitude about stilling being a genin.
"You need to grow up Kabuto and stop running to your master liked an obedient little puppy."
Kabuto's once again had to hold back his annoyance, before he could retort though his sharp hearing picked up a sudden creaking sound like a wooden branch straining very slightly.
It was very faint, so faint in fact Kabuto was sure he would have missed it if he hadn't been paying attention. "Shut up you two, I think there is someone here." Kabuto whispered harshly.
"Good, it is about time I get to spill a little blood." Yoroi replied a sharp grin on his face as he looked around at the surrounding trees.
"I hear tha- " Misumi made to reply, before he was cut off a black shadowed blur shot from one of the trees, a gleaming silver arc following after.
Misumi never had a chance to finish his comment as a few seconds after opening his mouth his decapitated head fell onto the floor of the forest, the head's flesh already looking grey as is desiccated before Kabuto's eyes.
"Misumi!" Yoroi shouted as he spun around to face the blur, both of his hands covered up in a blue glow as he used his technique, one which was based around draining another Shinobi's chakra and reusing the stolen power for himself.
Kabuto didn't even bother to warn the man as he saw their attacker lunge forward, a greyish, barbed chakra chain exploding from their assailant's bare right shoulder and shooting towards the surprised genin.
Yoroi shouted out in shock and fear as he tried to dodge the rapid chakra chain as it speared towards him, his hands desperately extended in front of him as if he hoped to siphon off the chakra from the chain.
He didn't even have the chance to scream as the chakra chain impaled him through the chest and slammed into a tree three feet behind where Yoroi's now dead body was standing.
As Kabuto watched on he could see Yoroi's flesh and clothing rotting, along with the tree behind him. It was as if time had been fast forwarded on anything that grey chakra touched, Kabuto could only liken it to rapid decomposition.
It was as if the chakra devoured life itself, Kabuto could only watch on in morbid fascination as their attack ripped the chakra chain out of Yoroi's dead body, allow it to collapse to the ground.
Glancing around at the surrounding trees, Kabuto immediately decided running away was not an option. His attacker was the Grimm after all, an experienced Hunter-nin who had apparently never failed to track down and kill his target.
In comparison Kabuto was first and foremost a medic-nin, sure he was very talented with the other Shinobi arts but even he couldn't hope to beat an experienced Hunter-nin in that they specialized in.
"You must be feeling like a big man. A Jounin attacking a group of genin, and why because a genin hurt your feelings?" Kabuto said, drawing on his own chakra as he prepared to fight.
He may specialize as a medic-nin but he still deemed himself as one of Orochimaru's strongest, probably stronger than Kakashi ever was.
"That would be true, if you were a genin." Pain said as he rolled his shoulders and took a few practice swings with his axe, his feet firmly rooted to the ground, from initial observation it looked like he was prepared to spring forward at any moment.
Kabuto took all this in, in a moment as he bent his knees, prepared to spring back the moment Pain made a move. "And what makes you think I am not a genin?"
Pain cocked his head to the side in response, two grey chakra chains slowly protruding from his shoulders, hovering over him like snakes about to strike.
Seeing them Kabuto tensed his eyes sharpened, and his hands flaring up with chakra as he activated his chakra scalpels. A medic-nin technique that can be used in combat to sever muscles and destroy internal organs with ease.
Kabuto was very skilled at using this technique in combat. Kabuto then shifted his posture, his hands held up and ready for anything, this fight was going to be no joke, it was going to be hard and deadly, and he couldn't make a single mistake.
Pain's chakra chains twitch, and his body then lowered to the ground, his grip on his axe tightening, he was about to strike, and he did. Though not in the way Kabuto was expecting, his attention had been so focused on Pain and what he was doing that he had neglected to pay attention to anything else.
Which is why he was so surprised when a pair of chakra chains exploded from the ground at his feet, the chains instantly binding onto Kabuto's legs, the attached barbs digging into his flesh.
Kabuto let out a loud shout of pain as he felt the chains clasp onto him. At firs the attempted to escape, either by using a Shunshin or by using a Body Replacement Technique, but he soon found he couldn't. Pain's chakra wasn't just eating through his flesh it was also devouring his chakra.
Looking up Kabuto's eyes widened as he saw the ground between him and Pain exploded as the rest of the chains erupted forth, revealing that they had initially come from the soles of Pain's feet and had burrowed their way through the ground before striking at him whilst the was distracted by what Pain was visibly doing.
Letting out another shout of pain, Kabuto looked down and saw that the chains had already eaten through the flesh and muscle on his legs and more than that they had entwined themselves around the rest of his lower body.
Widening his eyes as he saw this Kabuto quickly began to try and heal the damage, using his own prodigious skill as a medic-nin to repair the damage. It was for naught though, Pain's chakra was eating through Kabuto's flesh faster than Kabuto could heal it, more than that though was the fact that Pain's chakra was also destroying Kabuto's chakra.
Looking up Kabuto was just in time to see Pain appear in front to of him, the chains around Kabuto's legs dispersing for a moment, before the chains protruding from Pain's shoulder ensnared him again, the chains lifting him off the ground as they cruelly and agonizingly wrapped around his upper body.
The last thing Kabuto ever saw was Pain's burning scarlet eyes.