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Chapter 2: I Can't Think of a Name
It's been almost a month now since Orochimaru arrived, he took down his barrier 2 days ago, realizing that Sakura and Naruto were not going to kill him because he was finding them a way back home. They hate to admit it, but they need him, and he needs them.
I sighed and rubbed my temples, the stress that these people been giving me has been causing a major headache. I checked the news almost a week ago and wasn't really surprised at what I saw on it.
BREAKING NEWS! I read off the news screen as I flipped on the TV to see what was on. My eyes grew big as I looked at the outer part of my house, surrounded by a purple force field. "We still have not been able to find out if anyone is inside this unknown barrier. And the search of this teenage girl is still at large. If you have seen her, please contact the police and her family immediately." The news woman said as a recent picture of me was plastered onto the TV. My heart dropped. By the sound of the TV, I drew the crowd of Orochimaru henchmen, and the two leaf ninja. I looked up, met their eyes, and then looked back to the now black screen. I decided that it was time to go on facebook.
I slid my laptop onto my lap and turned it on. I quickly clicked on my facebook link, and signed in at record speed. The first thing I saw was the notification button, with 100+ in a red bubble above it, and the exact same on the message bar. I sighed in annoyance and quickly scanned through the notifications, and then went to the messages. Most of them were from concerned classmates, and from ex's. I quickly went to my status bar. "I'm safe in the space where my house is at, inside the barrier almost all of you have heard about on TV. Please give me the homework so I don't get behind in school. And when are finals?" I sighed in annoyance again and posted the status probably everyone was waiting on. And were going to comment on.
I turned on my vacant phone yesterday and tried to calm my best friend, who was nearly having a heart attack, because I went missing. And people have been trying to flood into my house, but I refused to let them in. And I knew my mom was going to be coming back to find me very soon. I turned to look at Naruto.
"Do you know if he found a way back yet?" I asked, looking at the blond. He frowned and nodded his head yes. I looked down with sad eyes. "I didn't even get to take my finals." I pouted to myself as I looked up to the sky now. We were in my backyard. I looked towards the approaching Orochimaru, Sasuke by his side. I could since Naruto tense up, but restrained himself from making any harsh comments.
"Do I at least get to say goodbye. To my friends and family?" I asked, tears welling into my eyes. Orochimaru smirked, but shook his head yes, and motioned Sasuke to me.
"He's going with you to make sure you don't back up on your promise. It's you or them." He hissed, an evil tone hinted in it. I shivered, but nodded, knowing I wasn't going to run.
The first place I went to was my best friends, she answered on the first knock. I was quickly pulled into a hug. I held back tears. "I have to leave this world, I'm leaving today. I'm here to say goodbye, and that I love you. You're the sister that I never had, and your boyfriend and you will live happily for the rest of your lives together…" I paused to calm the tears that were now falling. "And I will never forget you. I left a letter on my laptop for you, they are both yours, I won't need them where I'm going." I finished, she hugged me tightly, tears streaming down her face. I couldn't tell her everything; she hates anime, and would think I was lying if I told the truth.
"Do what you need to do." She said, hiding her tear covered face, as she went into her house and shut the door. I looked back at an on looking Uchiha.
"Just let me make a couple calls and then we can go back." I stated, rubbing away the tears and pulling out my phone. I quickly called another close friend, I got the message box, so I left a quick goodbye message, and then went on to the next. I got to the final person I was going to call. I breathed in deeply, and then pressed the call button.
He picked up on the second ring. "Sup." "Hey Rob? It's Sarah. I have to tell you something." Silence on the other line. "What's that?" I had his full attention now. "I like you, a lot. I haven't been able to tell you, but I wanted you to know." Silence again. "Really? I didn't know you did. We could of-" "Well we can't. I have to leave, and I wanted to get that off my chest. And I hope life treats you well." I finished, quickly hanging up, holding back the stinging tears, and walking back towards the Uchiha.
"Let's go." I said, walking past him and towards my house. The walk was mostly silent, except for my occasional sniffles, or sighs of frustration. The Uchiha didn't even grunt a reply to me when I said something to him. Soon the silence started to kill me, and then we passed middle school. I pointed towards it.
"I got enrolled there when I was 12. It was an okay place until I was followed home and tormented by upperclassmen. I also was having issues with my father at the same time too. Now I get pushed into things like lockers and get called a bitch." I turned onto my corner, and walked down the street.
"When I was little, my dad starved me for almost a week because a scraped a door on my brothers foot. Even though he was the one pulling the door open. And I had something thrown at my head because I threw a pillow at another one of my brothers. Life is great here!" I said sarcastically, we finally reached my block.
"And the reason I talk loud, is because no one listens. They never do. I can say that I was going to die tomorrow and they wouldn't be listening. Sometimes, it makes me want to just stop talking, go all emo, and close myself to the world." I looked up at the sky.
"See, I wouldn't be able to do that. But I know you are capable. You closed up to everyone, kept the feelings only towards yourself. Because you felt that it was your fault that everything happened as it did, but it wasn't. Your father should have appreciated you more. And the burden shouldn't have rested on your shoulders. But Orochimaru is using you; I know he is, because I've watched it happen. I know your probably hate me with a dying passion, and that you wish you could just kill me right now." I paused, and side glanced at him, he was looking ahead, with a smirk, but I knew he was listening. "But I want you to know, you deserve respect, so I'll give you it. But only if you return the favor. Oh yeah, and try to enhance your powers outside of the curse mark, you don't want to always have to rely on it." I finished, just in time too, because we reached my drive way.
I walked up ahead and then into the back, where Orochimaru was patiently waiting with the others.
"I finished my business." I stated, as I walked up to the small group. "And I will keep the promise with my blood. Mine for theirs. The world needs them more than they need me." I stated, with a weak smile. The snake hissed in amusement.
"My promises are sealed with a mark. Now give me your neck." Replied the snake. I growled, but reluctantly revealed the side of my neck.
After that deed was done, I grimaced as pain shot through me, but I dared not to show it. "You owe me you guys." I winced to Sakura and Naruto, who were staring in shock. They're faces became firm as they nodded to me. I gave a weak smile, but dropped it quickly as the ninja worked on the jutsu that Orochimaru learned how to do.
When they finished a huge white portal appeared before us, Naruto and Sakura were the first to rush into it, and then Orochimaru motioned to Sasuke. "Carry her. She won't be able to move on her own for a while; I'm surprised she is still awake." Orochimaru stated, Sasuke walked over to me and picked me up from where I was standing bridal style. I looked towards the portal, moving my head in slow motion. We stepped in.
My eyes became wide as I saw the white light around us turn to more colors, and then finally into a forest, where a set of stairs were leading into the ground. As we stepped to the stairs, my eyes were becoming heavy, but I struggled them to stay open, refusing myself to let the mark win. Orochimaru turned and looked down at me. He chuckled.
"She's a fighter. Perfect. The mark will give you chakra, so if you didn't have any, you have it now and we will train you." Orochimaru hissed, I was trying to reply, but words wouldn't come out of my mouth. He chuckled again and then walked to his room. Sasuke stood there for a moment, confused, until he realized what was going on.
"Perfect." He growled in a low voice, as he started to walk in the other direction. I tried to look up at him, but my eyes were not moving. We stopped at a door; he adjusted me in his hands and opened it. He stepped into a small home like room and slowly placed me on the bed in there, I seemed to be his room. He sighed in annoyance as he took off his shirt and stripped into his boxers.
He muttered quietly as he went into the bed and decided to lay farthest away from me, I was unable to close my eyes, my movement was cut off, and so I lay stiff until the sun started to rise. I heard movement from the other side of the bed, the pain finally shot through my numb shell that parallelized me from any motion and winced. I curled into a ball and squeezed my eyes shut. When the pain started to get even worse, I sprang quickly to my feet off the bed. This startled Sasuke awake. I turned and looked at him, and then back to the door. I started walking towards it when I was suddenly pushed to the wall and pinned there. Sasuke was smirking.
"Bathroom." I whispered hoarsely as I looked at him, he nodded, threw on some clothes and showed me to the bathroom. I nodded and ran in, minutes later, sighing in relief, but then wincing at the jolt of forgotten pain. The Uchiha noticed, but said nothing.
"Clothes." I muttered to him. He nodded again and led me to a closet. Inside was a whole bunch of Orochimaru henchmen clothes. I grimaced in disgust at the horrible style but grabbed a tanish shirt, tanish shirt, black pants, black ninja shoes, and purple rope. I walked to his room, already remembering when it was and closing the door on him so I could change. When I opened it when I was finished, I looked at his annoyed face, which then didn't change much when he noticed how I styled how I wore the clothes. He did smirk slightly though. The shirt was long enough so I didn't wear the skirt and the rope I made them smaller and smaller and then used the string of them to make purple fish nets what went over my black pants. I learned how to make fishnets the year before, and have been obsessed with them since. And like hell am I going to read a giant ugly rope.
I walked behind Sasuke after he grunted for me to follow him; we reached the room that Orochimaru walked in. And he opened the door, we trekked inside.
"Well I see that you are up and moving. When you really shouldn't be." Orochimaru chuckled, looking up and down at what I did to his 'uniforms'. "And what did you do to my uniform?" He asked me, with slight anger and amusement in his voice.
"Well I thought since I'm more of a prisoner and not a member I should have a different style, and honestly, before I did this, let's just say… the clothes looked like shit. And I don't wear a giant rope, which is just beyond stupid if you ask me." I muttered, plopping into a chair and putting my feet up, wincing once in a while at a random jolt of pain.
"Seems like your mouth works now too." He hisses, glaring at me and then at Sasuke. I smirked, knowing that he won't make me change how I created my outfit.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter is kind of boring, but I felt bad for not updating sooner so I panicked and then decided to go straight to the funish stuff for future chapters. So this can be what some people call a filler. I would of wrote more but I have my finals for school tomorrow! MWAH! R&R please!