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Prologue
A History
They were dark days, in the years when great demons ran free and fought each other over territories, hoping to be crowned the ultimate. In those times there were two demons which stood out greater from the rest both in strength and influence. In the lands to the eastern lands a great mantis demon by the name of Amitajinko ruled by fear and power, wielding the accursed blade of hell, Sounga. His only rival was the great dog demon to the west. It was he who was the only one to challenge him. Their battle raged for days before the great dog was brought to his knees, at the mercy of the Dark Mantis, Amitajinko. Over confidant in his victory, Amitajinko began to taunt the great dog when something unexpected happened. The son of the great demon, Sesshoumaru, joined the battle, fighting his father's enemy with all his might. The dog seeing his opportunity gathered all his strength for one final attack. Tearing out his own fang he lunged at Amitajinko, piercing him through his heart, sealing the dark mantis away, Imprisoned inside his body forever. In his victory, the demon took forth the Sounga as his own, and set the east lands free from terrine.
This was the passage read by the ninja Orochimaru. It was this chronicle which prompted his invasion into the past. It can only be guessed what his true intention is, but it has most likely to do with Amitajinko and his great powers.
Chapter One
The Awakening
The sun was low in the sky as it burned toward the horizon. The stars began to glimmer in the sky and the once blue heavens became dark. The moon had shown a piercing ray of silver light off its face down to the earth below, making the ground and water below glimmer. The landscape bathed in moonlight was serene except for a horrid image in the fields. A great demon, standing 80 feet tall, loomed over his surroundings. With eight protruding claw-like arms and a large coiling tail wrapped around itself. Its snarling face looked twisted and evil in the moon light. It stood hunched over itself, grasping a large fang that had been pierced through its heart, sealing it inside its own body so that it may never move again. The demon towered in defeat with a look of malice and hatred in its eyes.
It was there that the man appeared. He was a tall, lanky man wearing black clothes, with a black vest over them. His long black hair drooped over his face leaving only enough room for his dark eyes to be seen peering through it. His long face looked up at the demon and he curled a thin smile. He stood leering up at the demon for one moment and in the next, he was standing on the demon and held a short knife in his hand. He made a small incision on his hand not holding the blade and then formed seals with his hands. When he finished making the shapes with his hands he cried into the night: "AWAKEN!" He thrust the bloody hand onto the fang that protruded from the demons body and it melted away.
The demon began to glow a faint red. The man quickly jumped off the monster as it started to move. In a sharp piercing voice the demon cried out to the darkness a sound of triumph. The seal was broken. The man yelled up to the demon: "Isn't it a grand feeling? The wind, the air, the ground, it must feel wonderful after being sealed for so long." The man looked calm and composed in the great shadow of the monster.
"And who are you to ask me such a question human?! Me! The great lord Amitajinko." The demon roared in fury. The dark figure formed a wicked smile at the towering menace before him.
"I am the one who released you from your prison inside yourself, something you could not do of your own power." At these words the demon's eyes flashed, but he stood his ground, content merely to look angrily at the small man in front of him. "But" the man continued "if you wish to call me something, my name is Orochimaru, and I am please to make your acquaintance, lord Amitajinko." He bowed low to the demon lord.
"And what is it that you want from me Orochimaru?" Amitajinko looked inquiringly down at him; both intrigue and suspicion overwhelmed him. He surveyed Orochimaru with a curious gaze.
"Your power." Orochimaru said shortly.
"Indeed?" Amitajinko's voice had a slight growl when he spoke. "And why would I lend my power to the likes of you?" the demon took his first step in three hundred years, toward Orochimaru.
Orochimaru was surprisingly calm for a man being advanced on by a mammoth that towered over him. He merely smiled at the demon and ran his fingers through his long black hair to place it behind his ear and said "Sesshoumaru" in little more than a whisper. At that name the great demon Amitajinko stopped dead in his tracks, mere inches from crushing Orochimaru where he stood, unmoving.
"SESSHOUMARU!!!" Amitajinko roared into the night sky. Seven of his arms flailing wildly in the air, the eighth shielding the portion of his chest where the fang was once lodged before Orochimaru removed it. "THAT BASTARD SON OF THE DEMON WHO SEALED ME! I WILL KILL HIM!" The demons face was contorted with blind rage. After a few minutes of the demon flailing, he calmed slightly and whispered "and his father as well."
"That is unnecessary." Spoke Orochimaru so that the demon could hear. "The father is dead."
Amitajinko snapped his head to look at him, his red eyes fixated on Orochimaru. "What did you say?" he growled. "WHO KILLED HIM!?"
"A demon named Ryucotsei was the one history clams mortally wounded the great dog demon, eventually causing his downfall." Orochimaru's words seemed to slither out of him. "All I am offering is a chance to kill the son of the man who sealed you away."
"And who says I need you!" Amitajinko's teeth were bared and his eyes glinted with malice. Orochimaru was still calm. He merely bowed again before the demon lord.
"I know you do not need me, but I can make your search go very smoothly, you see." The demon was glued to every word Orochimaru was saying. "I know the future and know where he will be in four days. You can set up an ambush and he would never see it coming." He flashed another smile at the demon. "All I ask in return for my information is that you let me borrow your strength for a battle that I am planning. Your power would be a key factor in my victory." Amitajinko contemplated the offer for a while. Yet in the end, his eyes revealed that his desire to kill the son of his enemy was greater than his desire to kill Orochimaru.
"Very well. I will aide you in your fight if you deliver me Sesshoumaru as promised." Orochimaru smiled darkly.
"Then we have an agreement, I will find you when we need your strength. Until then, gather your power." Orochimaru formed more seals with his hands once more and vanished in a burst of smoke.
Amitajinko sat down and closed his red eyes. In a few moments, a silver aura surrounded him and he disappeared into the light. The aura hardened into a silver shell. Amitajinko had begun to gather his strength.
Orochimaru was now walking down a path just outside a brush of trees when he stopped suddenly. "Did you find him?" he spoke to the darkness.
"I had no luck my lord." A voice rang out from the night, and a young man appeared. He had white hair was tied back by a bandana with a metal plate on it, a musical note inscribed in the center. He wore a white shirt with blue pants and a blue vest. His blue eyes framed behind a pair of glasses. He bowed very low to Orochimaru, as if he was afraid of being harmed. "I am sorry my lord."
"Do not worry Kabuto." Orochimaru looked both soothing and menacing. His yellow eyes fixed on Kabuto. "I believe he has already been intrigued by our appearance, and came looking for us."
Kabuto looked up to see Orochimaru looking into the forest. He turned to see a large bee, its yellow and black body hovering at the edge of the woods. Its red eyes fixed on the two men in front of it. Orochimaru formed an evil grin.