A/N: This is my first fanfiction on this site. It's between Sasuke and my oc, Kaui. Enjoy! =3
Raindrops on Roses ch. 1
I sat there in the dark room wondering what he had in store for me next. He'd just gotten back from Konaha and I knew he'd be planning for me. I huddled in the corner with my knees to my chest. I wasn't in the mood for any shit and I wished more than anything that I could disappear. Their footsteps grew closer.
"Damn that Sarutobi. He's completely destroyed these arms of mine." They came to a stop at my door.
'Why me...?'
"Kaui, I hope you didn't miss me too much while I was gone..." The door slowly opened. A stream of light slowly stretched through the room, growing enough to show the silhouette of a man- a man I hated more than anything else in the world.
"Orochimaru-sama," I said darkly. How I wish looks could kill. He slowly walked into the room, his yellow eyes visible in the low light of the room.
"See this?" He looked down at his arms and then looked back at me, "The Hokage in Konaha did this to me. If only you were more cooperative with the experiments, I wouldn't be in this pain." His voice was dark, angry as if his arms were partially my fault.
"No matter though," Orochimaru took another step closer to me, "when we're done with you, you will be the perfect shinobi- invincible in every way. Then things like this won't happen to me anymore." I tried backing up farther than I was but I was against the wall the farthest I could go.
"But then again," he managed to move one of his arms. The bruised, rough skin of his nearly paralyzed hand stroked my cheek and I cringed. "You could make it better right now, Kaui-chan."
My eyes closed. I shivered a little, but that's all I could do. It's not like I could fight back.
"Take her to the lab." Orochimaru said with a smirk.
"No!" My eyes grew and I tried to run, but three men had already come in the room, ready to drag me out.
"You can't do this to me, Orochimaru! I just came back from there! You can't make me go back!" I franticly tried to escape the men's grasp, but I couldn't. I was not strong enough now to release myself since he last experiment left me with not even half of my usual strength. Just then I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and I grasped it. The pain started to spread through my body. I fell to the ground, unable to move.
"Come now, Kaui-chan. I've had to use the curse mark on you." Orochimaru said and walked toward my now trembling body. "Don't you want to help me?" The curse mark had paralyzed my body.
I was carried through the dark, cold hallways to the lab I was just in an hour ago. Kabuto strapped me to a stretcher and placed electrical wires on my body.
"Please, Kabuto. I was just here..." I begged. Kabuto simply ignored me and injected a black liquid into my arm with a syringe. Seconds later, I felt lightheaded.
"Don't be a jerk, Kabuto. I'm too weak to go through this right now and you know it." I watched Kabuto walk to the other side of the room to the generator I was connected to. "How much more do you think I can take? I could be killed." I tried my best to get out of the experiment, but it was no use.
"Killed? You know that's impossible." Kabuto placed his hand on the switch to turn the power on. He smirked and chuckled.
"You're indestructible." and he hit the switch.
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I woke up in my room. My head was still spinning. It took me a while to recall what had happened but soon it came back to me- the electric current pulsing trough my body, the searing pain that accompanied it, Orochimaru's commands to put the electricity higher- everything made me want to strangle something.
'What I wouldn't give to be crushing Orochimaru's skull right now…' My thoughts were interrupted by voices outside my door.
"She's been out for a day now. Maybe we put too much strain on her." I heard Kabuto's voice coming from outside the door.
"Nonsense, this has just made her stronger, no doubt." Orochimaru answered. Their footsteps indicated they were leaving.
"Kaui," I heard from behind me. I gasped and sat up to see the reassuring face of my snake, Kyo.
"Thank God you're alright. I thought they finally put you through too much." Kyo slithered onto my bed, his pale yellow scales gleaming in the light of the one candle in the room.
"I can't take it here anymore." I said half to myself and stroked Kyo's head softly.
"You're just now seeing what has been happening here? What happened to your talk bout how this was for power and it being good for you?"
"I'm tired of the endless training. I'm tired of the torture I have to put myself through for that son of a bitch, Orochimaru." I tried to stand up, but I tried too quickly and fell back onto my bed.
"I want to actually have fun for once and be outside for more than just the purpose of killing! I don't want to be some toy for that disgusting man! And that night he forced me to go to his room..." I trailed off. I didn't want to think about it anymore. My angry rant just helped me make my decision. I was close to simply running to the wall and punching a hole through it, but then I saw the door slowly creak open.
"Kaui?" Tayuya's head popped out of the door, "Great, you're awake. It kills me when I have to be with the guys for an hour, but for five days?! I'm surprised I didn't go insane."
"Hi Tayuya," I said quietly, wondering if she heard any of what I was saying.
"I missed you, Bitch," she laughed and sat next to me. I only smiled back. Tayuya was my best friend, but she never knew half of the pain I'd been through. I told her very little about what happened to me behind lab doors. I didn't want her to get in trouble for standing up for me.
"Is there something wrong?" she asked. Usually I would have cursed at her back or joked around too, but there was too much on my mind. I had to get out of Orochimaru's base, but I didn't want to tell my friend.
"Tayuya, I've been thinking about something," I started. Kyo crawled beside me and put his head on my hand to comfort and encourage me. "I really have to get out of here."
"Oh," Tayuya shook her head and smirked, "of course I'm game for some training. I've wanted to fight with someone my level for what seems like forever."
"That's not what I meant…" I stroked Kyo's head, "I have to leave the Sound." I looked back up at Tayuya for a reaction and saw her shocked face.
"What are you saying? Are you sure you're not going crazy from all those volts of electricity?" She tried to act tough like she usually does, but I heard the concern she tried to conseal. She cared about me like a sister and I knew she wouldn't want me leaving. I sighed, stood up, and walked towards the wall to the left of my bed.
"It's not worth it anymore, Tayuya. I can't keep living like this. All I do is train my ass off and what do I get in return? I get tourture and abuse all day long," I shook my head. "I don't want to have to go through this. It's not worth the power that just makes me monster. I've lived like this my entire life, but it's tiring. I want a real life, Taya."
Tayuya was silent for a bit. I guessed she was trying to take in what I was saying, but knew it couldn't really sink in. Even though she cared about me, she would do anything for Orochimaru, just like the others. She would even sacrifice herself for him.
"I'll tell Orochimaru what you're planning," Tayuya said after the silence, "He'll be able to stop you."
"Too late," I wispered and punched the wall with all the strength I had, leaving a pile of rubble and a beautiful view of the night sky. I looked down at my knuckles on the hand I punched the wall with. They looked broken and disfigured, but started to move around under the skin. The bones crawled and morphed leaving the knuckles looking normal.
"Kaui-" my friend tried to say something, but I cut her off.
"Someone has probably heard the smashing somewhere- maybe even Orochimaru. Someone might come to check things out, and I don't want you around when that happens. You might get blamed for letting me loose," I didn't look away from the opening I created. She didn't say anything to argue. She must have realized this was what I needed. I heard Tayuya stand up and start walking to the door.
"I'll miss you, Bitch," she said sadly. I smiled and looked over my shoulder.
"You too, Hoe," I jumped out the window and didn't look back.
I started running, knowing that Orochimaru would find me eventually. I didn't want to deal with him at all at that moment, especially since I wasn't to my full power. I was getting some of my strength back, but it wouldn't be enough. I was never enough to defeat Orochimaru.
"Well, well, well." I stopped to look at who was in front of me. I glared at the man who just smirked back.
"Orochimaru, I'm not going back and you can't make me."
"Kaui-chan, I don't plan on forcing you to come back with me." His voice was calm, but had the usual sinister undertone. He started to circle me slowly.
"You'll come back on your own." Orochimaru chuckled quietly.
"I'm not going back. I'm tired of being your bitch."
"Now Kaui, you've lived with me your entire life." He grabbed my arm.
"Orochimaru. Let. Me. Go." I didn't want to start a fight with him, knowing very well that he could kill me. He was the only one who knew how.
"You're a killer." He took out a kunai and slowly sliced my arm with it. I watched my blood seep from the cut. The glossy, dark crimson liquid was hypnotizing to me. I was brought out of my trance by Orochimaru.
"You're infatuated with blood." I glanced up to see the amused look on his face. I snatched back my arm and felt the skin begin to heal itself.
"Hn. You've killed thousands of people without guilt," Orochimaru pinned me to a tree with a kunai to my neck, "yet you're afraid of your own death."
"Orochimaru," I glared daggers at Orochimaru, "you wouldn't kill me. Then all your hard work would be thrown out the window."
"Exactly. That's why I'll give you some time to come around, until my patients runs out, that is. That's when I'll have to drag you back, myself. But until then..." he swiped the kunai across my neck and let me fall to the ground.
I gasped for air and reached for my neck, feeling the blood spurt from the wound. It oozed onto my hands and onto my clothes, soaking into them. I was becoming dizzy.
"I hope you enjoy my parting gift." Orochimaru hissed. The last thing I saw before closing my eyes is him walking away.