Insanity rise: Here is another story because I can never be happy with just a few! I really hope you like this story because I've had the idea for a very long time but I haven't bothered to write it until now! I am going to write a lot on this story because I just realized how much I like it, and I hope you like it to! Please at least give it a chance, seems like no one likes what I write nowadays… Anyway, I gave a summary but I'm pretty sure I gave to much information so just bear with me please! I would really like o know what you think of this story and if I should keep going! Here you are, please enjoy and I ensure you it will get MUCH MORE exciting! YAY!

Rating: T for vairous reasons...

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto...darn it!

Dedication: Anniepopokios, the dedicated fan of Kabuto who hugs him to death and smacks my Dosu with a squeaky banana...whoa

SUMMARY(I think I gave too much info)

The sound five (and Kabuto) are devastated when with the taking of one of their members, a strange sickness is found. Apparently, the disease targets only those who are possessed by Orochimaru's cursed seal, putting them all in the line of danger. If they cannot find some way to rid themselves of the seal quickly, they will be struck down by the killing sickness. Their first idea is to go and see Tsunade, but Orochimaru doesn't exactly agree with that thought. He says they have a choice to either go or stay, but if they leave they will never be allowed to return. Kabuto confronts him, saying this is unfair, and Orochimaru cruelly places a level 2 seal on his once trustworthy apprentice, saying he is to die with the rest. Having no other hopes they begin the long journey, but what if Tsunade turns them down? Will they be able to save themselves before the hands of death seize them, or will they be doomed to pain, living lives that slowly begin slipping from their hands…?

Chapter 1

The seal backfires: a dreadful sickness

Kabuto's Medical Log

Cursed Seal Backfire: incurable sickness

I've discovered something that even Orochimaru couldn't have predicted. The cursed seal seems to have somehow backfired; meaning anyone who possesses it is in the line of danger. There is already a noted causality, meaning this thing is more serious than some common disease. The disease itself can take from one day to twenty before actually killing the holder, but each day is worse than the last. Signs of the disease are as follows, first off the victim simply feels dizzy, weak, or tired, feeling they're beginning to slip from reality. This goes on for a short amount of time (a few days) then develops into things that are much more noticeable and serious. The actual form of the sickness is similar to an infection, spreading throughout the holder's body and shutting down internal systems, causing the holder to cough up blood and bleed internally. The "Infection" spreads throughout the body, slowly pushing the holder into their cursed seal form without their consent. During this stage the sickness grows to its worst, plaguing the body with immense pain until it seems unbearable. As the holder is pushed into their cursed seal form there becomes no hope of stopping the sickness, for at this point it is at its strongest. The disease completely devours the holder's chakra and begins breaking the holder down until movement is impossible, forcing them to await their own death. By this state the infection has nearly completed its damage, beginning to devour the holder's mind and sending them into a confused state of shock. Memories and thoughts are destroyed as the holder's mind is filled with nothing but pain, their body being bewildered at a dangerous point. The mind begins to literally shut down, screaming out commands the user's body has no way of executing, the holder's entire body breaking down in a sweep of mental instability. Lastly, the infection completely devours the mind, the user choking up blood as their body becomes completely failing, their vision blurs, their hearing becomes disoriented and everything is nothing but darkness and pain. Then, in a final attempt to save the holder, the body goes into a deadly trauma and the cursed seal is activated to an impossible extent, the body quickly and completely eaten away. The user then dies, engulfed by the pain and loss from the inside out….

Cure: none

Victims: anyone holding a cursed seal of any level

Kabuto Yakushi

"GOTCHA!" Tayuya exclaimed, whipping out of the trees and lunging at her unsuspecting opponent. She smirked, telling herself this was too easy as she jumped her opponent. However, even in something as simple as a training seminar, he wasn't letting down his guard. Just as Tayuya raised a kunai knife she felt it being slapped out of her hands, meeting the cruel eyes of her opponent. She tried to tear away, but his grip on her wrists was tight, causing him to chuckle with amusement.

"You still think you can get me with simple techniques don't you," the boy laughed harshly, tightening his grip. Tayuya winced with pain, her tightly wound cap slipping of her head to reveal her long red hair, her face twisted with pure anger.

"Let me go," she demanded, thrashing about and prying herself from the laughing boy's grasp, causing him to jump back in alarm.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Tayuya screamed, taking a handful of shuriken from her pocket and hurling them at her opponent. He dodged out of the way, sending back a few kunai of his own. Tayuya shrieked as she felt the cold metal graze her shoulder, alarmed that he had managed to strike her so easily.

"That's enough," both teens gave their master a startled look. Orochimaru sat nearby, watching them train, growing bored with the little action. He'd grown tired of watching them through stars at each other, but asking for anything having to do with the cursed seal would be pushing it, he knew.

"Tayuya," he barked sternly at the whimpering girl, "never allow your guard to fall so easily or it will cost you dearly."

"Yes Orochimaru sir," Tayuya winced, causing her opponent to smirk cruelly.

"And Sakon," Orochimaru growled, wiping the grin from the boy's face, "this may only be training but I don't like you harming other members, it could damage the orderliness of this little establishment, I suggest you think smarter next time."

"Yes sir," Sakon nodded dumbly, already knowing he would say something like that.

"Other than that your performance was fairly regular," Orochimaru commented, still feeling bored, "I suggest you try a little harder next time."

Sakon sneered as Orochimaru stood up and left, his apprentice Kabuto chasing after him. He was getting tired of the way that man pushed them around, they were in fact his bodyguards, but still he wondered how Orochimaru would feel with someone barking ridiculous orders at him. He glanced around at the training arena, seeing shuriken and kunai knives laying scattered everywhere. Perhaps Orochimaru had been right, their duel had seemed rather dull today.

"What a waste of time," Tayuya exclaimed, startling the boy from his thoughts, "it's not as if this training ever helps anything."

"I think Orochimaru just wants to make it look like he has something for us to do," Sakon shrugged, an agitated looked crossing his face, "after all he would look pretty stupid if he let us sit around all day."

"He sure doesn't look too smart now," Tayuya scowled, clutching her shoulder, blood beginning to slip through her fingers, "do you have to be so rough anyway?"

"It's supposed to be like actual combat you know," Sakon smirked, walking off in the opposite direction, "there's no fun in a completely mock battle."

"No pain in it either, " Tayuya muttered under her breath, wondering what she should do now. It was only mid-afternoon, and she didn't much like the idea of sitting around and doing nothing. She could always go and train alone, but that was just what Orochimaru wanted her to do, and she'd had enough of tossing shurikens in fake battles. Sighing, she strolled up to the door to their base and stepped inside, walking now here in particular. As she walked, she thought of the events of the last few days, a slight shudder whipping through her body. She remembered what Kabuto had told them only yesterday, about some strange sickness having to do with the cursed seal that had been after Jirobou had died. She could still remember it, how every thing had broken out in confusion when one of Orochimaru's elite body guards had been killed, and not even in battle either. As usual to all casualties, Kabuto had taken the body to try and figure out what had gone wrong, saying people don't just drop down dead on normal occasion. He must have kept himself locked in his lab for days, not even coming out to eat, too determined to find out what had destroyed one of the five strongest ninja in their country. Finally, after a few long days, he'd come out, and he'd barely been able to calm himself as he'd handed Orochimaru his medical report he took on every sickness he encountered. Orochimaru had read over the paper briefly, and then tossed it aside, saying his apprentice had spent hours chasing after lies. But Kimimaru had found that paper, and he'd read it aloud to the remaining sound, and it had scared her more than she'd ever encountered before. Would she really just die from some stupid disease, if so then why didn't Orochimaru seem to even care? There were just too many questions that she knew no one could answer.

Gasping suddenly and snapping out of her world of thoughts, Tayuya stared at the destination her feet had taken her too. She stood directly outside of Kabuto's medical "lab." Shaking her head, she wondered why her body had brought her here, maybe because her thoughts had dwelled upon this very place. Whatever the reason, she wasn't sticking around. Taking a final look at the dark door, knowing few who entered it ever returned, she took off down the hallway, never in her wildest dreams daring to go anywhere nearer to the place that surely held her death bed…

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