"Something's wrong..."
"Look over here!"
Near the Forest of Death, assistant examiners Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki discovered several murdered Grass Ninja whose faces had been completely melted away by a Forbidden Technique.
When chief examiner Mitaraishi Anko arrived after receiving the news, she immediately identified it as Orochimaru's jutsu.
She immediately ordered Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki to hurry and notify the ANBU, while she went alone to search for Orochimaru!
"I hope there's still time."
Anko spoke grimly, then sprang into action.
As she moved, she used chakra to stimulate the Cursed Seal of Heaven on her body.
Once Orochimaru's disciple, Anko had been abandoned by him because of her personality, and many of her memories relating to him had been erased.
But the cursed seal on her body had remained intact. It had simply been sealed with a sealing jutsu by Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, which was why it had caused no trouble all this time.
Anko was the first bearer of the Cursed Seal of Heaven to survive successfully, but because the cursed seal had still been immature at the time, it had no ability to transform her. She could only sense Orochimaru's location through constant pain.
Even Anko herself had never imagined that one day she would willingly do this.
Following the cursed seal's sensations, Anko kept picking up speed and finally found Orochimaru, whose human-skin mask had just been clawed open!
Seeing two Konoha examinees already lying nearby, their lives uncertain, and a third in danger, she immediately rushed out while swiftly unleashing a ninjutsu.
Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!
For the first time, Anko used this ninjutsu she had learned from Orochimaru against her teacher.
Facing his former disciple and the vicious venomous snakes lunging to bite him, Orochimaru smiled delightedly and struck back with