Nightmare

by Hinata

A little girl with bright purple eyes looks up at the sun on a nice Monday morning. It's a new day, she thought as she went to find her sensei. He wasn't in his room this morning. It was weird, he usually was sleeping when she got up to make breakfast every morning. Still wondering where he could be, she went into the forest to look for him. "Orochimaru-sama!" she called out, but to no avail. She walked farther into the forest. She wasn't supposed to be there this early without him, and he would yell at her if he found out. But she wanted to tell him that breakfast was ready, and she wanted to make sure he was okay.

Just then, a voice behind her said, "Good morning, Anko." It was Orochimaru for sure.She knew his voice.

Turning quickly, she replied, "I'm sorry for going into the forest at this time, but I wanted to make sure you were okay, Orochimaru-sama."

"You know better." he said calmly as he looked down at her. Then without another word they both left for the house.

After breakfast he took her to their favorite training field to train. She practiced all of the jutsus she knew on her sensei. Then, after training, he took her for a walk, just to talk. As they are walking, they pass a mansion that had the sign of a fan on it. "That must be the Uchiha Mansion, right sensei?" she asked as if she knew everything. "Correct." he said as he patted her on the head. She smiled up at him as if he was her own father. Then as they walk farther on, they pass the hokage's tower. "Wait here Anko," he said as he walked up to the mansion. "I have some business to take care of." After that she nodded as he opened the door and walked inside.

As she waited, she noticed a young boy with a mask over his mouth passing by. He had a sleepy expression on his face. He noticed her and asked, "What are you doing?"

She looked at him and quikly, but in a mean way replied back. "What does it look like I'm doing?" she asked with a tone in her voice that made her look suspicious.

"It looks like your standing there for no apparent reason." he said back. the same sleepy look on his face.

She then looked down at her feet, too embarressed to look up and said quietly, "I'm acually waiting for my sensei, Orochimaru." He looked at her, with a kind of shocked expression more than the usual look on his face.

"I wouldn't trust him if I were you." he said as he walked off. She looked back at him, wanting to ask why but just when she was about to shout back to him, Orochimaru came out of the tower.

"Ready to go, Anko?" Orochimaru asked when he came up to her. She seen he had a small piece of paper in his hand. When he realized what she was looking at, he then crumpled up the sheet and stuffed it in his pocket of his Jounin jacket, and started to walk off. She didn't go, but she stood in a daze wondering what the piece of paper said on it. "Are you coming?" he asked as he turned around to look back at her.

She quickly shook her head out of the daze and replied quickly so she wouldn't get yelled at, "Yes, sorry Orochimaru-sama." Then she walked off up to him and they both walked off back to their house.

That night, Anko couldn't sleep at all. She could not get her mind off that piece of parchment that Orochimaru stuffed in his Jounin jacket. Letting her couriosity get the best of her, she quickly but quietly got out of bed and tip toed into Orochimaru's room. She needed to find his jacket and get that paper to see what was on it.

When she stepped in, she looked over at his bed and he was fast asleep. Then she looked over at a chair and saw his jacket on it. Anko quickly but quietly went over to get the paper, when something grabbed her hand.

"What are you doing in my room Anko!" Orochimaru yelled, clutching her wrist, tightly. She looked up with a fearful expression on her face. Anko never seen her sensei this angry before, and she couldn't help but admit, she was scared.

"I'm s-sorry." she stuttered while fear filled her whole body. He stepped closer to her and without knowing what she was doing, she punched him in the stomach as hard as she could and he flew back. She grabbed the jacket and ran out as fast as she could. Before she knew it, she was in her room, with the door locked, on her bed and crying.

In the distance she heard Orochimaru pounding on the door, telling her he would break it down if she didn't open it. She went to open it but was hesitating about it. Anko thought about what Orochimaru would do to her if she opened the door.

She quickly unlocked the door and ran back onto her bed. "Its open!" she yelled with tears down her face. He walked in at that and looked at her with an angry expression but it soon turned into a smile.

"Anko," he said calmly. "Tomorrow, I have somewhere to take you tomorrow and you have to come." She looked at him with tearfilled eyes.

"I don't want to go anywhere with you again!" she shouted. "Get out of my room!" She knew he was going to kill her for yelling at her but she still didn't care. His smile faded and he was mad again.

"Never speak to your sensei like that again." he shot back. Then he punched her in the face so hard she almost flew though her wall by her bed. He took his jacket and said before walking out, "Your coming no matter what." Then he left and shut the door behind him.

She put her hand up to where he hit her and cried herself to sleep. The next day, when she woke up, she seen Orochimaru in her room. "Good," he said as she got out of bed. "Your awake. Now get ready and meet me outside." He then left, closing the door behind him. She got ready quickly, she was starting to think that he was giving her a second chance.

She ran outside with her pack on, and ready to go. "I'm ready, sensei." she said excitedly, she was starting to think that that whole night was a dream. Then they both headed out, a whole different direction that they usually went in. "Where are we going?" she asked after a while from curiousity almost killing her.

"You'll see when we get there." he replied back, looking down at her. She knew where he was looking. He was looking at her cheek. For some reason, it had been hurting for a while now. Anko brought her hand up to it and pressed down, now she was sure that it was a bruise, a big one at that.

Anko then thought to her self. Did last night really happen? Did i really get punched for talking back to my sensei? "You can put ice on it when we get back." Orochimaru said, breaking the silence.

She nodded, trying to forget last night. Then she realized they reached these locked gates. "Sensei!" she then shouted. "We aren't going into the Forest of Death, are we? We can't. If we do, we might get caught." He then clasped his hand over her mouth to make her shut up.

"We won't get caught if you don't tell." he whispered in her ear. "After all, I have a key into here so it will be easy." he said as he pulled his hand away and grabbed a key out of his pocket. He walked up to the gate and unlocked it and the lock fell to the ground along with the chains. Orochimaru pushed open the gates and started to walk in. Anko hesitated but followed, hoping he was right about not being caught.

As they walked deeper into the woods, she got so scared of it that she started to cling to Orochimaru's arm, hoping he would keep her safe. He looked down at her and smiled. "There's nothing to worry about." he said. She wasn't sure of whether to believe him or not, but she let go and kept walking but close to him.

Then, after a while, they reached a cave. The cave glowed a light green from inside. "Here we are." Orochimaru said. She didn't know what they were going to do in a cave but she followed him inside. When they went in, it didn't even seem that they were in a cave at all.

They were in this room. It looked like and experiment room. "This," Orochimaru exclaimed. "This is where i conduct my experiments with making new and forbiden jutsus."

"Isn't that illegal?" Anko asked, thinking about what the hokage might say about this."I mean, if the hokage found out, then you could go to jail."

"Thats why," he said. "You aren't going to tell anyone. I trust you enough Anko to keep this secret." He then touched her bruised cheek lightly with his hand. It was then when she finally knew what to do. She was to go to the hokage's office with out Orochimaru knowing and tell the 3rd hokage all about what Orochimaru was hiding here.

As they walked out of the cave, something dropped out of Orochimaru's pocket. It was the paper. Anko swiftly picked it up and stored it in her pocket for now.

That night she went into her room and shut the door. She jumped onto her bed and pulled the paper out. Anko couldn't believe what it said.

Dear Orochimaru,
When do you want to kill the 3rd Hokage. We don't have much time left. If we don't soon, he might find out all of our plans. Hurry up and think of when we will. We should also kill that Anko girl. She knows too much.

Sincerely,
Amachi

She looked at the letter in shock. Did Orochimaru really want to do this? Did he really want to kill her? Just then, someone knocked on her door. She stuffed the note under her pillow and opened the door to find Orochimaru standing there.

(end of chapter 1)