Disclaimer: *pulls on black gloves* If you think I own Naruto you're an idiot. Naruto can't be owned, he's as free as the wind, baby! Dattebayo!

Empty Faith

Prologue

In the end, all they had was empty faith. Sakon and Ukon had gone MIA and fatso and spider-boy were KIA. They had all felt their master's betrayal as the curse mark burned away leaving only an inked shadow behind. And they knew what they had always felt deep within themselves; that Orochimaru had never cared, and never would.

Tayuya's and Kimimaro's first family had failed them.