The dungeon was my least favorite place in the hide out it was dark and gloomy and reeked of decay. I covered my nose as I passed the prisoners cells each of them glaring at me with absolute hatred in their soulless black eyes. Some of them would make threats as I walked by and even though I ignored them and remained stoic, inside my heart was racing and fear would creep its way up into my being. A shudder or a sign of fear however never made it to my expression.
"I hope they let me out to fight you today" a man with deep red hair fair skin and yellow beast like eyes slammed his body against the cell bars and I jumped slightly. He noticed. "Not so brave when your grandfather isn't around are you, just you wait little girl when I get my hands on you you'll know who is in charge here." He gave me a wicked smile and then retreated back to his cot whistling a demonic tune as he did so.
My grandfather was standing in the middle of an arena like structure just below talking to a scientist, probably going over data of his recent experiments. I ignored that. It's not that I didn't approve of what he did it's that I did have some semblance of a conscience and I felt sorry for some of the people he gave the curse mark to. However there were quite a few who deserved it and I was more than happy to test their abilities especially since I knew I would be the one killing them. Like that red haired man, I hoped he was let out to test his abilities today I wanted to rip his heart out of his chest and then eat it. My mind went wild with the rush of bloodlust that swept through me.
"Katana, my faithful student" a calm low voice and a father like grip on my shoulder snapped me out of my transe and I looked up to see my favorite person in the entire world staring at me intently with his cool black eyes and a small smile on his face.
"Kabuto-sensei !!!" I hugged him tightly around the middle and he smiled ruffling my dark hair gently
"Are you studying like you are supposed to?" He asked sounding stern but I knew it was just a farce, he already knew the answer to his question. I was a perfect student
"Duh!" I exclaim. "Watch this kabuto sensei" I pull out a kun ai and make a cut on my wrist. He looked concerned for a moment but then relaxed. Green chakra flowed from my palm and I placed it on my cut, after a few seconds the wound vanished. "Seeeeee." He smiles proudly and my heart swelled. I loved impressing sensei, he was one of the best medics around and I got the honor of being his student
"You're coming a long way Katana-chan, self healing is very difficult it took me a long time to be able to do it." The proud smile returned to his face. "Maybe one day you will surpass me as a medical ninja" my eyes widened in admiration and I was about to say something back, but a new set of foot steps caused me to turn my head around. There he was in all of his handsome, brooding, fuck the world glory. Sasuke Uchiha. My breath hitches for a second but I quickly regain my composure and put on my best resting bitch face.
"You're late Uchiha." I scold "Lord Orochimaru doesn't do well with tardiness."
He rolled his eyes. "Maybe if someone hadn't taken forever to get out of the shower I would have been on time, my apologies princess" he said the words with a sneer and it took everything I had not to sock him in the face. A low chuckle came from across the arena and sasuke and I both saw Orochimaru finish his business with the scientist and then make his way over to us. If you have never seen my grandfather you do not know how terrifying his presence is. I cannot count how many times I have felt like prey being stalked by an apex predator. He is terrifying, and when he is angry someone is bound to die. Like I said Thank God it hasn't happened me, but I have a feeling one day my luck might run out.
"Settle down now children" he said darkly. "You two will be working as a team, understood so whatever petty differences you have you'll set them aside now or i will be forced to intervene" the collected and calm voice he spoke in sent a shiver down my spine and i turned away. Sasuke however let out a contemptuous "hnn." Orochimaru smiled
"Good now your objective is simple you two will fight the prisoners who are in these cells. Many will die upon activating it but others will be able to successfully activate it. You are to not kill them, you are merely to test their powers and capabilities." Sasuke and I nod in understanding and prepare for him to release the prisoners. "Don't get in my way." Sasuke Saïd selecting a long sword from the weaponry that was in the arena. I smirk and grab a kun ai from my pouch.
"Funny I was just about to say the same thing." I sneered "Just remember to have my back if I need you."
He nodded and made a quick movement so that we were standing back to back facing the cell walls that were about to open, I'd never call him out on it but I felt his body tremble in terror for a brief second. The doors to the cells swung open and suddenly sasuke and I were met with real life monsters who's sole mission was to kill the both of us.
"Scatter!" I yelled and sasuke and I separated from each other in an instant. Two very large barrel chested men came running at me full speed their eyes full of blood lust and anger, their muscles flexing expectantly
"You're gonna get what's coming to you little girl!" One of the men said, the all to familiar black pattern spread across his body and I watched as his body began to transform. Unfortunately for him something went wrong in the process. In two seconds flat the man that had tried to transform infront of me exploded into a hundred pieces and I was showered with blood and guts this type of reaction to the curse mark was new to me and I was absolutely disgusted as I stood there dripping in red ooze. The other man, however, had successfully transformed into his curse mark mode and he continued to charge at me. I quickly dodged and sent him to the floor as I changed my hand into a dragon claw and slashed his torso open. He fell to the floor and bled out in less than a minute.
"KATANA!!!" Came the angry yell of my grandfather "DO NOT KILL THEM UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO!!!"
I waved to symbolize an apology and he nodded in understanding. I looked over and saw that Sasuke was living up to his namesake. One, two, three, four guys laid at his feet unconscious, while the ones who had failed to transform laid dead by his feet. I don't know what made me more angry the fact that he knocked out four guys at once or the fact that he didn't have a single scratch on him. Regardless I was fuckin pissed, no way in hell was i going to let some Uchiha get the better of me. So I was going to show him what I was capable of.
Cliff hanger guys! I'm sorry! I hit a writers block and it's 1 am and instead of Studying like a good paramedic student I'm writing this. I'll have he next chapter up this weekend!! Read and review! Be kind though I'll get better with writing!