"Looks like he knew we were coming," Sasori comments as he and Itachi walk through the vacant torch lit hallways of Orochimaru's hideout. As they walk they come across the weak and barely breathing body of what must be one of Orochimaru's failed experiments. "He couldn't even be bothered to put his failures out of their misery," Sasori says as in a monotone voice as he stabs said body with his puppet, Hiruko's, tail.
"Let's just focus on the mission. We're just here to get whatever information he may have left behind, remember?" Itachi asks as the two continue to walk down the hall.
"I know why we're here," Sasori says as they come to a fork in the hallway.
Itachi looks to Sasori to make the decision seeing as he's been here before and should have some idea of where things are.
Sasori looks at the two different hallways before heading down the right one. "This way," he says and Itachi follows him down the hall. Eventually they come across a large door. Both of them pause in front of it and then look at each other. "You feel that right?" Sasori asks him.
Itachi nods. "Yes, I do…" He then looks at the door and activates his Sharingan in preparation for what may await them on the other side of that door.
Sasori readies his puppets tail as Itachi reaches for the door knob. He gives Sasori a nod and then throws the door open. They both quickly enter the darkened room ready to attack whatever may be in there. However, they're caught off guard when they find themselves face to face with a girl who could be no more than five, wielding a sword made of bone and looking at them with the Mangekyo Sharingan. Sasori gets ready to go in for the kill anyways, however, Itachi stops him.
"Wait a minute," he says and slowly moves toward the girl who tenses up and takes a step back upon seeing him move. "I'm not going to hurt you," he says quietly as he looks at the girl. It's hard to make out her features in this lighting, but her hair, which is all knotted and tangled, appears to be a reddish orange color. All she has on for clothing is a torn and dirtied dress that's made from a bunch of different rags sewn together. She also appears to be rather thin and Itachi notices that she's shaking. Then his eyes are drawn to her left arm with dangles at her side but it's so torn up and broken that you can barely tell it's an arm. He can vaguely see that she's still bleeding from all the wounds on her arm. That's when he also notices that even though she's standing her ground she's utterly terrified. Both Sasori and Itachi look at the girl, amazed that she's still standing.
"Wh-where's the man with the snake eyes?" she asks him, wavering a little. "And the one with the glasses?"
"They're not here anymore. What are you doing here?" he asks her.
She continues to shake and her eyes begin to bleed from the use of the Mangekyo Sharingan. "Snake eyes helped us. Experiments. Needles. Blood. D-death," she says, trembling as she remembers all the things that have been done to her and the things she's seen.
Itachi kneels down in front of the girl and places his hand on her left hand and pushes down on it gently so she lowers her sword. "Relax we're not going to hurt you. Why don't you stop using your Sharingan. Your eyes must hurt," he says softly.
The girl just looks at him. "Don't know how," she says. "Just happens on its own."
Itachi frowns and then looks into her eyes and says, "Sleep little one."
Sasori watches curiously as the girl goes limp and begin to fall to the floor. However Itachi catches her before she hits the ground. "Genjutsu? Aren't we supposed to be focusing on the mission? This girl is of no use to us. We should just kill her now," he says, watching the Uchiha stand up straight, holding the small girl in his arms. She looks rather peaceful now with a soft smile on her face.
"This is an exception. I don't have time to explain right now," Itachi says and begins to walk towards the doorway. "I'm going back to the hideout, you'll be ok on your own I assume?" he asks the ex-sand ninja.
Sasori watches the other. If he could actually be seen there would be a frown on his face. "Of course I'll be fine, Pain isn't going to be happy though."
"I'll deal with that later right now I need to deal with this," Itachi says and then vanishes in a burst of crows.
Sasori sighs and then gets out of Hiruko so he can look through the scattered papers and examine all the different vials in the room. "Whoever that girl is. She's going to be trouble," he mumbles to himself and then gets to work on the task at hand.
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