Whispers in the dark
please note i do not lay claims to naruto or any of the characters withen the story...i only lay claim to the madness i call my imagination :3
chapter 0: the pool of memories
Naruto,sakura and sai had made thier way on a long journey to gather further evidence against the late danzos harsh experiments and crimes against the villiage. lady tsunade requested that they find any and all articles pertaining to any ninja to have ever associated with him. After several days they found themselves high in the mountains and no more than 50 miles away from the sacred mountains of the frog sages stood a cottage. It was old and overgrown nobody had ben there in decades.
sakura moved to open the door but found herself flung into the air and into a bizzare trap that suspended her off the ground by one ankle and her arms were bound in the old vines as the squeeking of the old trap as it moved pulled her into the air. 'get me down from here!" she screamed shrilly as sai noodded and sprang up getting caught himself in a seccond trap.'who...what kind of trap is this..." naruto was franticly searching for a way to deactivate the trap as he watched in horror his team mates being pullied through a series of lines and finaly over what appeared to be boiling acid,the trap making a loud clang as it began to lower its prey. Naruto screamed and concentrated his chakra 'RASENGAN!" he shouted the ball of energy cutting the lines and then springing up to catch them,the green liquid sloshing at his feet and then he recognized that smell and untied his freinds. sakura was still in shock from the odd ordeal.'what kind of bastard makes an acid trap!" sai simply opened the scroll,his eyes beccoming narrow."according to this i can only say a true evil dweled here...i have to say this was a dwelling of orochimaru..." naruto hated that man for all he had done,he had taken away sauske from him and caused so much pain and misery.
sakura growled and stomped foward only to slip on the moss that covered the majority of the floor, screaming as her hand touched the green liquid...after a moment nothing happened which caused confusion amungst the team and as sakura was about to give her theory her hand began to turn into the flipper of a frog. she screamed shrilly and naruto pushed her away."i knew it! its toad oil..." he quickly bonked sakura on the head to stop the change.'whoever made that knew what it could do..." sakura whimpered rubbing her head as they reapproached the house,finding a secret door that blended into the bricks seamlessly they made thier way inside expecting some twisted evil lab but only finding an old house..there were two of everything with the exception of the bed. two blankets..two chairs two coffee mugs that were coated in dust from years of neglect.. said approached one and blew the dust off revealing a silly frog pattern on one and a panda bear on the other. as they looked around for clues naruto was frozen staring at a single framed picture.. it was a picture of his dearly departed master lovingly hugging orochimaru.
he wasent sure what to make of this picture..they looked so happy together it saddened him to know of the betrayal orochimaru had done to jiariya but upon looking at the picture it looked like the two were more than friends. sai walked in from one of the other rooms with a large journal,the writing inside was the same of the fallen toad ninjas. they all sat down on the old carpet as naruto opened the journal and took a deap breath as he began to read aloud.