"Excellent" Orochimaru hissed, "Excellent, there coming along beautifully!"

In the room before him, along the side wall, were several human-sized, orange sacs, that were cemented to each other, and the wall, by more orange ooze. Orochimaru began to count the large sacs, "3...4...5...6..." he counted a total of twenty-three. "Excellent" he said again. At that moment, Orochimaru's faithful apprentice, Kabuto, walked in. "Orochimaru-sama, I have retrieved the information-" he stopped when he saw what his master was looking at, "What the…are they…Orochi-" he stammered, Orochimaru chuckled, "This, Kabuto, is my latest experiment, artificial life."

Kabuto stared at the large, orange, ooze-filled sacs, there was something in them.

He took a step closer, "They're not going to bite you, Kabuto…at least, not yet." he added darkly. Kabuto gave a start, Not yet? he repeated silently, he came closer to the wall, and peered closely at the nearest sac, he gasped. Inside the orange sacs, eyes closed, curled up, were small humans, or human-like creatures, one in each sac, cemented to the wall.

"O-Orochimaru-sama!" Rokuro exclaimed, "Th-These are people!" he spat out. "Of course," Orochimaru replied, "And every one of them female." he added. "Twenty-three, beautiful, yet perfectly deadly kunoichi. There's more to come, after these hatch" he went on, clearly pleased with himself. He let out a dark chuckle, "Which should be any minute now."

No sooner had the words left his mouth, one of the sacs began to move. The creature inside, snapped open it's eyes, and started to claw at the film. Orochimaru looked enthralled, Kabuto looked concerned, yet curious, What's going to happen next? he wondered. The creature clawed at the sac a few more times, before the film tore, and the orange fluid spilled out onto the floor, followed by, what looked to be a young girl.

Kabuto's mouth fell open, this thing…whatever it was, looked no older than he was. And Orochimaru had said it was…a kunoichi? This thing was supposed to be a ninja? It couldn't even move.