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I am dying.

I, Orochimaru, one of the three sannin, am now dying due to the secondary effects of my own jutsu. I have long desired eternal life, and as a result, overlooked one crucial error - Kabuto's betrayal.

I have found out that Kabuto has been a spy for my former organization, Akatsuki, for quite awhile now. He has been gathering information on my whereabouts, my experiments, and my techniques. A month ago, my formerly loyal servant staged a coup in my newly established village of sound and along with his new master, Sasori, managed to kill my personally trained guards, the sound four in a series of brutal assassinations that occurred within 10 minutes of each other.

Arguably the most powerful person in the village, Kimimaro, had fought valiantly by my side. However, this enemy - Akatsuki, I severely underestimated. My excessive pride was my downfall.

Kabuto had placed a chakra seal on me since nearly a year ago, he said. As me and my last loyal servant fought the enemies within our ranks, the seal drained me of my ability to use any of the thousands of jutsu I mastered for the duration of one month . Kabuto timed this attack well, for I have switched bodies approximately 2 years and 11 months before his betrayal - I now only have 1 month before I leave behind my legacy to an ambitious ninja who wants to further his or her training in the ninja arts.

Perhaps I can call these events a blessing, for they have opened my eyes. The saying that you don't know what you have until it is taken away from you is true. My petty death is nothing compared to what you, the reader, will have to burden.

The Akatsuki never told me their plan, but I know this - Their leader is certainly not who he seems like - He has devised a complete and sinister plan that I can only dream of thinking - He wants to subjugate the entire world to his whims.

Therefore it is with my last bit of honor and my sense of a final duty to the world that I write this book; inside this book contains a list of every useful technique that I believe you will find useful against this impending apocalypse, what I know about the members of the Akatsuki organization, locations of items and, I now regretfully say, people that I have experimented on, and the location of my sword Kusanagi.

I only hope that this book will fall into the right hands. Jiraiya always said that he knows of a destined child who will save the world.

If you manage to find this book, I deem you the title of the destined child. Use this book wisely.

I now hope that kami will forgive me for my past transgressions against humanity, and that this book will be the source of my salvation.

- Orochimaru

The other chapters will obviously be much longer than this one as this is just the story's prologue. I will have the first real chapter up in about a week.

For those of you who read my other story, I am sad to say that I am discontinuing it due to a lack of ideas for the later chapters.

I plan on using a diary format for parts of the story - Inspired by the book Day by Day Armageddon; I hope that this will be a welcome break from the dull narratives some stories unfortunately have.