Running through the forest were two girls. Sisters. They weren't blured at the moment. "Can you sense it anymore," the one on the right says. "Sister, I havn't felt her enlightening presence for a while now," the other one says slowing down more. Soon they were standing in the midst of the trees which waved in the slight wind, promising colder weather. For once the two 'super twins' were exhausted. Since they both left the clearing, they hadn't stopped running. In states of intense panic, they raced faster once Pay's power seemed to deminish into nothing. Almost like she had slowly vanished.
"Maybe someone's covering it up," the red-pupiled girl stated resting her hands above her head, slowing her breath down.
"Dear Isza, how could anyone cover her sweet signature up," asked the purple-pupiled girl.
Isza shook her head. They stood in silence for a moment before Isza spoke again. "Tsukiko, where had they been keeping you?" Tsukiko turns and looks Isza in the eye, like she suspected something behind the question, a hidden meaning to her sister asking a question. All Tsukiko found was curiousity and worry. Seeing it safe, Tsukiko responded.
"Those men kept me in the back of the lab, hooked up to their pathetic attempts to play God with expiriments. Over and over our...dummies, if you will, fed off of my power and strength...HE came to taunt me everyday. Why sister? Why didn't you ever do anything?"
Isza looked stricken by Tsukiko's harsh words. "They're not all bad men, Tsukiko. Trust me, if i would have known about any of you...i would have helped in some way."
"What are you talking about, dear?"
"I was under some kind of genjutsu..." at this Tsukiko made a confused face and Isza remembered something: Tsukiko's mindset was of that simular to those of Old English, so she wouldn't know these terms. "...or spell cast on me from Madara. It wasn't until recently that I remembered all of it...how did you come back?"
Tsukiko smiled happily, almost dreamily. "When i felt Pay's pleasant aura in our world again, I seemed to awaken from a curse." she giggled. "I watched over her as she did her best to survive with THEM. She.."
"Did...did he...do...anything," Isza interuppted, a little nervous of the answer, glad that someone was protected Pay through it.
Tsukiko looked away for a moment in thought. Her face turned into one of intense anger as she spat out, "Nothing worse than turn her head...Uchiha..." That was enough for Isza to know that Madara didn't get farther than her neck before Itachi arrived. Isza breathed a sigh of slight relief. She knew that they weren't in the clear yet, not until they were all together. After a few minutes, Tsukiko continues.
"She started to learn the truths through the puppet and Mouths," Isza couldn't help but smirk at Deidara's nickname given to him in spite. "So her magic started to come through, as did I."
Isza nodded. "Lets get going again. I don't want them to catch up to us."
They nodded at each other and turned before becoming blurs and all but blending into the forest scenery.
Two men sat in an office-like room. One had his head placed in his hands in a frustrated manner. The other was sitting against the wall staring forward, almost like he was sleeping with his eyes open. His eyes shone red with anger, sadness, and confusion in them. The man at the desk sighed and looked up at the other. His eyes glinted, as well as his piercings, in the dim light and one could see the rings that resided in them. They stared at each other for a minute before he spoke.
"Itachi...have you remembered seeing anything?"
Itachi stares for another minute before he closed his eyes and relpied, "I have gone over everything. I'm sorry Leader, i think we might have to start over." He was now standing up and didn't even stretch, though they had been there for over three hours and both looked pretty tense. Itachi nodds to the leader before turning to exit the medium sized room.
"No...we can't."
Itachi stops indicating that he was listening. Pein sighs and stands up. "When you came back, Madara lied to you. He told you that Tsukiko was simply sealed away. The truth was that she is what kept the whole project going. Without her, we can't start any of this over. As soon as the subjects leave the tubes, they'll shrivel up and die." Itachi stared at him for a few moments before sighing.
"So what do you prupose we do?"
There was nothing but silence. The carved out office became quiet as Pein contemplated this expected question. He knew the obvious answer was to forget about things but...
"Call for a meeting...NOW!"
I think i might need to find a word for this situation. For some reason though i can't think of one. You know what? I really don't know if that's even a priority now! I'm sitting in front of Michael Jackson look-alike and Super Nerd at the moment. The most i can do is stare. Hey, you have to admit that it's perfectly ok to do!
Also, for some reason i figure that staying as completly still as i can, will help me disappear. Well i must think so because i havn't changed positions for over thirty minutes it seems. I feel so stiff right now that i bet i'm hard...haha funny...get it?
Michael Jackson look-alike has been smirking this whole time...and it's creeping me out! Wait...i thought that he only liked little boys? Hey wait a second! No one can prove that happened! Only he can tell the truth! So why do people continue to do that? I just don't understand why they can't leave celebrities alone and...
Sorry got a bit side tracked...
Finally he decides to speak, "It's rude to stare, dear."
I decide to speak as well, "I could say the same to you...er well...without the dear part...oh! It's rude to stare hun! HA! Score one for me!"
Both men start to chuckle. How good am i? I can make two creepy men laugh when i could be the one about to die! Well you know what they say: always leave them laughing.
"Nice to know you have a sense of humor," Michael Jackson look-alike tells me with a more creepier look. I think he needs to tell me his name now. I feel too lazy to keep referring to him as that...though that will probably be something that might slip...
He steps forward until he is right in front of me. Why must everyone be tall? Oh yeah...i'm sitting down. Well either way, i knew that he is going to stand at least 4 or 5 inches taller than me. With this thought, i stand up in the chair and was content to find that he was the one that looking up at me. I glance between both of them again and i see that they're both giving me questioning looks. I quickly sit back down (i'de like to note now how HUGE the chair is) and crossed my arms childishly, making Super Nerd chuckle.
"Shut up...i wanted to feel tall in the giant world of men..." i say, probably sounding as childish as i looked at the moment. In front of me he speaks again, "Again, I'm glad that you have a sense of humor...I'm Orochimaru. That's Kabuto behind me." YES! i have names now! It makes things a WHOLE lot easier. Kabuto nods at me and i shrug.
"So...What do you want," I ask looking up at him. Ok you know how i noted how huge the chair was? well i think i need to tell you just how huge. It was wide enough that i could sit with my legs curled up in it and tall enough that, even though Orochimaru stood taller than me, the chair's back was still taller than him and the seat of it came to his knees. And i just have to say that i'm glad it does because i don't want to look up and find myself staring at...well i think you get the picture.
"You don't know?" I choose not to answer that because i only had an idea of why but i still didn't say anything but just shrug. "There must be some reason the Akatsuki made such an effort to keep you with them...and that is that almight power that you withhold in you now..." He reaches forward to place a hand on my cheek and i do the first thing that comes to mind. I throw up my arms, blocking him from touching me and say, more likely yell, "Don't touch me there!"
His hand stops and his smirk turns into a frown. So maybe i just pissed him off but at the moment i don't care. I'm sick and tired of them touching me...I think i might just turn lesbian and see what happens...or at least tell them that i turned that way. But i won't due to the fact that i don't want girls to start hitting on me...
Orochimaru drops his hand and instead leans in until his face is near mine and hisses "I don't care how you act, but your power will be mine." He suddenly picks me up by my wrist and all but throws me to Kabuto who does, thankfully, catch me. He throws me over his shoulder and exits the room. Me, not liking the current position i'm in, with my butt near his face and his hand near it, start to struggle. Kabuto gave an annoyed sound and touseled me on his shoulder making me yelp slightly. "Be still, we're almost there."
He was true to his word as we soon came to a door. He opened it and pushes me inside. He closes it but i don't hear him lock it. How stupid could they be? I could just walk right back out and start running. You know what? That's what i'm going to do!
I go to open the door but a hand stops it from opening. I frown and turn to see, in the dim candlelight,who this person was that prevented me to be a nuisance. To my dismay i come eye to eye with red contacts, similar to Itachi's and Madara's. But for some odd reason i could tell that these were in fact different. I start to back up but only meet the wall, since i didn't realize that the door was positioned close to the wall. The person steps forward and i could see him better now. He looks an awful lot like Itachi. He has an inch on me by the way.
"Tell me all you know about Itachi," he commands me, stepping closer to tower over me.
Before i couldn't think of a word to descirbe this situation but now i have to perfect one...
'Crap!'
So here is the start of Otogakure...What? i will continue putting this up a little while later but soon.
Gaara-Rulezzz (Ie. Payton)
