THE GIRL OF THE SOUND
PART 1, start
Chapter 1 – Capture
Tsuchi Kin didn't remember how long it had been.
After the preliminaries for the Chuunin Exam's third phase, her teammate Dosu had told Kin and her other teammate, Zaku, that he wanted to prove to Orochimaru that his trust in him was not misplaced. The things Dosu said and the way he said them made it seem like he was implying that Zaku and Kin were now useless in Orochimaru's plan to lay siege on Konoha, and thus were in danger.
Zaku didn't buy it. Kin herself thought that Orochimaru had been acting a little differently, but she didn't agree with him, either. Maybe it was because of the blow to her pride after getting beaten so easily by that lazy bum of a Genin in the preliminaries. She didn't know why, exactly. However, she would later wish she had listened to Dosu…
Eventually, Orochimaru approached Kin and Zaku, saying he was going to need their help for an important technique, and that he was going to explain what they had to do. Such a spur of the moment event when the plan was so close to going into action was certainly strange, but he was their leader, after all, so they went along with it.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, things didn't go exactly like Orochimaru had predicted. He sent Kin out on a random errand late one afternoon, and killed Zaku while she was away. When Kin returned, he was going to kill her, too. He had obviously omitted to the two the fact that their part in the plan was now that of sacrifices.
But Kin returned from the wild goose chase before expected. When she approached the place where they were staying, she heard screams of agony. Though low and muffled, she immediately recognized them as her teammate Zaku's. Things seemed to snap into place for her.
For a moment, perplexed and shocked, she didn't move. Then, when she snapped out of it and the danger that she was in was realized, she turned around and started to run away. She hadn't taken ten steps, however, when she heard the door creak open behind her and a dark form suddenly appeared in her path.
She stopped dead in her tracks, looking up at Orochimaru with complete and utter fear. He, in turn, looked back at her with a smirk on his face and a sadistic look in his eyes. He stood still, as if expecting a reaction.
Kin took a few steps back, almost tripping. Her breathing was quick and her heart felt like it was going to burst out of her chest. Her mind was clouded with fear. Out of desperation, she grabbed some things out of her pouches, and threw them at Orochimaru, bolting around and running. She didn't even know what she had thrown, and she didn't know where she could run to. She just knew she had to get away; that was all her mind, her instincts, were telling her.
Orochimaru seemed amused with her reaction. He easily sidestepped the clumsily thrown weapons, and started after Kin. It took him no more than three seconds to reach her, knock her down and pin her to the ground, twisting her arm painfully behind her back.
"Help!" Kin screamed at the top of her lungs, hoping to at least attract some suspicion to the place. Some suspected that Orochimaru was in Konoha, so maybe this could make things harder for him. There was no one around in this out of the way place, though; Orochimaru had picked this spot for a reason.
Orochimaru was quick. He covered her mouth, muffling her scream a split second after its start. He leaned in close to her ear and whispered, with his raspy voice: "You're going to regret doing that."
He lifted her up, her mouth still covered and her arm still twisted behind her back, and led her back into their building. As soon as they entered, the smell of blood penetrated Kin's nostrils. Zaku's body was slumped in one of the corners of the room. It seemed he had suffered a solitary blow to the heart, and that had been it. He now lay unmoving.
In the moments Kin had examined Zaku's body, Orochimaru had closed and locked the door. He then threw Kin violently to the floor. She crawled backwards until her back touched the wall on the other side of the room. Her heart was in her throat; it was beating so fast she thought it was going to explode.
Calm as ever, Orochimaru continued to stare down at her, with a cruel smile on his pale face.
"O-Orochimaru-sama," Kin began desperately, "please, I-I…"
He started taking steps towards her. When he was standing over her, tears were coming out of her eyes. "Please, don't-I…"
Orochimaru seemed to be almost laughing as he spoke, louder now, "You could have had a quick death like his," he said, obviously referring to Zaku, "but…" Before Kin could do anything else, his hand came down upon her, and all was black.
