Aki here: Hello all! Hope you enjoy this, it was hard to write at some points because I felt horribly repettitive for some reason... Anyway, enjoy Snake's Bite!
The profuse sweating from his intense training had his long bangs sticking to the sides of his face. Heaving his chest up and down rapidly Sasuke quickly regained breath and raised his arm, kunai pointing out. "Again!"
"Sasuke-kun, you have a thing for trying to hard." Orochimaru said quickly putting his snake like dagger away. His voice cackled over the stillness of the room, Sasuke was not amused. He stood their waiting, Kunai completely still.
"I said again!" Sasuke threw his arm out spinning the kunai around inwards and rushed at Orochimaru who had a split second to vault out of the way and summon snakes around the young shinobi's body to hold him still.
Orochimaru jumped down and released the snakes. "Your beyond your exhaustion point, training now would have no positive impact. Well continue tomorrow. I'll send Kabuto to get you when dinner's ready."
"I'll show up when I get hungry." Sasuke argued and began walking away into the complex, the walls overgrown with mosses and vines. Sasuke hated this base. It was too close to Konoha, it could be discovered too easily.
As he navigated he passed countless corridors and hallways, both types filled with doors of varying sizes. After three minutes Sasuke arrived at a small wooden door, no different from the others and opened it to reveal a small bed and a simple table with a pen and paper on it.
Sitting on the bed Sasuke leaned over and began to write something simple. 'Gone out. Bored.' He folded the paper and turned over in his bed. Sasuke decided to rest first before going out as he normally did. He took in a few small breaths of air before his eyes closed and he drifted off.
Two hours later Kabuto was walking down the hallway humming. He always hummed so Sasuke wouldn't wake up to him knocking and destroy the door injuring him greatly. Kabuto knew how cranky he was when he wasn't gradually woken up.
Inside his room Sasuke was still asleep but lightly wakening to the annoying sound of a happy melody. His eyes finally opened the second before Kabuto knocked and craned his head up while lifting pinched fingers to his mouth. "Katon…"
The giant fireball erupted through the flimsy wooden door knocking the opening out and Kabuto away. Standing a few feet away from the blazing wood chips Kabuto wearily began to heal himself, impact areas first. Sasuke emerged from the room, his robe on over his pants with his sword in it's holster.
"Sasuke-kun… Dinner's done." Kabuto said upset but not angry. He had learned to accept the things Sasuke did as fact and unchangeable. "Also, Orochimaru-sama…"
"…Can shove it. I'm heading out." Sasuke said quickly. Kabuto took a step forward and was met at the neck by Sasuke's sword. "You can wait here until I'm gone. If you find me before I want to be found…"
Sasuke's face smirked as he thought hideous thoughts. "If you find me before then, Kabuto, I'll kill you." Sasuke retracted the blade sheathing it and took off down the hall, his wooden Geta hitting the floor softly making a clapping noise that echoed through the physically disturbed hallway.
His form disappeared and Kabuto continued to wait, knowing all to well Orochimaru probably knew already.
Sasuke enjoyed freedom. Freedom to go where he pleased, do what he wanted and live how he wanted. He escaped the corridors and Hallways every now and then into the thick forests of wherever they were that day. Sasuke rising from the underground entrance walked slowly over a mossy path to a somewhat familiar place.
He had been through the area when he was a Genin several times. He had raced through it trying to escape Konoha. Sasuke made a home half way up a tree on a large branch and pulled a scroll out. Opening it he began reading on how to summon weapons from seals placed on a specific place around you.
Sasuke rolled down his sleeves; he had begun drawing the seals on both wrists and had already sealed away an arsenal he knew Orochimaru would never miss. He copied down the final marks from the pen hidden away in the secret compartment of the scroll and dotted the last symbol. It dried instantly and he stood up held a hand on top and a hand on bottom ready to tap the symbols. Upon doing so shuriken appeared in his hands. He smiled. "What a good present…"
He dropped off the tree and landed gracefully on his feet. His Geta led him to a near by stream. Slowly one by one he tossed the shuriken; they cut the droplets apart leaving nothing behind. A few seconds passed and the fish he had hit finally died a little up stream of where he stood. Running onto the water he turned and rushed up upon the fish and gathered each up by the weapon embedded in it.
"He left, Orochimaru-sama…" Kabuto tried to explain whilst pushing his glass up and back into their respective place. "He also left this note."
Taking the note Orochimaru read it carefully over and over again, the anger building up. His hand made a fist and the note crumpled and was dissolved by a quick flash of fire. Orochimaru slithering over to his chair in his 'special trophy' room threw the current body down and stared, eyes piercing, at his subordinate. "He injured my base as well?"
Kabuto nodded. The white fist of the snake like human was thrown down and Orochimaru sat forward upset at the developments. "That boy's begetting uncontrollable. There's got to be a way to tame his… wild nature."
Suddenly a chime went off above them with a small yellow tag that read 'entrance'. Sans speaking at all Kabuto instinctively raced out of the room and towards the entrance. He stopped short of Sasuke who was walking back slowly; sword out hosting six fish speared on it. Sasuke tossed the sword at Kabuto. "Where's Orochimaru?"
"I'm here." Orochimaru said walking slowly over. He took the sword and looked at the fish. "Did you stab each one individually, on the side I see pierce markings."
"Hai. I'm cooking them for dinner." Sasuke said. He turned to Kabuto and held a stern face. "Kabuto, follow me. I'm hungry."
"But Orochimaru-sama…"
Orochimaru interjected. "Do it Kabuto!" Kabuto nodded and carried the sword of dripping fish behind Sasuke. Orochimaru slid up next to his young apprentice and stared ahead as he began talking. "If you wanted fish, I could have sent Kabuto. There was no need…"
"I got bored. Plus, Kabuto was busy telling you of how I launched a fireball at him. Correct?" Sasuke said, his head turned slightly. "There's no need to worry about me out there. I can go a few hundred feet away and be safe. I'm free to go and come as I please anyway, remember?"
"That was in our own territory. This is enemy territory, we never know who's lurking around." Orochimaru tried to explain as they reach the main dining room. There set up was a royal feast. Sasuke stopped and looked at it dazed. "What? You think I forgot?"
"You messed it up the last two years." Sasuke said happily, a smile gracing his face. "Kabuto, put those in the freezer and clean my sword."
"Sasuke-kun, I'm not a man servant." Kabuto defended before a snarling glare from Orochimaru. "But, I'll do it anyway. Happy Birthday, Sasuke-kun."
Kabuto tried to be happy about it as he walked away with the reeking fish. Sasuke ignored the sarcasm in his voice and sat down happily at his seat and looked over his meal. "Thank you."
"You're welcome, just be a little more respectful of my buildings, alright?" Orochimaru asked taking his seat at the other end of the long table. Sasuke began grabbing food and shoveling it onto his plate. He stopped before eating and said a small prayer and then took a mouth full of the food before him. "Happy fifteenth birthday, Sasuke-kun."