Chapter 2
I left the Hospital, unsure if Sakura believed what I had told her or if she left to go find out. Either way, she wasn't going to find me, I would be gone by the time she found out. I finally reached my house, packed my bag full of food, and left. I was at the Leaf's Gate right now. The two ninja at the desk right next to me looked at me in astonishment. One asked," You have yet another mission to do!?" I nodded and said," Yeah, sort of." I started my journey to Orochimaru's lair. After a few hours I was surprised to still be walking without a fight. The clouds in the sky started to turn dark grey; it was going to rain soon. I could smell the humidity in the air. I decided to set up camp. I sat up in a tall tree where the leaves were able to give me enough cover. I waited until the raining ended. When it did, I hopped down and I sighed since there was nothing interesting was going on. I continued my walk, bored to death. Suddenly, I felt breathing on the back of my neck. I turned around swiftly. It was the Debiru again. It stood there, not even phased to my fast reflexes. It didn't growl, try to bite me, or even walk for that matter. It just stared at me, what was up with this thing? A ninja would have acted by now, and I can see now why so many of them were killed by us, because they didn't move!
This thing never even blinked, we had to of been sitting there for about five-ten minutes. I looked behind us; maybe it was stalking something and not realizing I was there. That was my mistake; it clamped its jaws into my right shoulder. It was excruciated pain and I could see a lot of blood just gushing out of it. It brought up its claws and dug them into my back, while trying to rip my shoulder off! Its weight made me collapse, but it never lost hold of me. It growled as I squirmed to get away. I started to feel light headed; I've lost too much blood. It felt like I was swimming in it. At last, I thought of something I could do. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" A clone appeared; he immediately tried to get it off of me. But sadly failed, the Debiru grabbed him with its tail and squeezed him tightly until he disappeared. "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" A group of twenty of me rushed up towards it and started yanking it off. They were just helping it! It was trying to rip my arm off in the first place, and now it was going to succeed! Then one of my clones came right up to its face and punched it, which made it let go of me and bite his head off! I screamed to the sight of my own death, even though it wasn't me.
There were too many clones for it to battle at one time so it extracted its claws from my back and took off. My clones picked me up and sat me up against a tree. I was already healing, but it was still sore. I had to wait it out for an entire day before I could even get back up on my feet again. After a few more hours, I picked up my bag and started walking. I had only one clone with me to help me walk, the Debiru hit my vital spots, and nearly paralyzed me with those claws. Luckily, I was healing faster than expected. Eventually I didn't need my clone anymore, it had only been a couple of days since the attack, and I'm very behind schedule. I should be close to the hideout by now, but thanks to that thing, I'm two days behind. I have to give it credit though, it doesn't give up easily. I had to rest, so I sat near a cliff. After a few minutes I realized, I was at the hideout right now. I recognize that hole in the ground from last time we were here and Sai woke up Sasuke and he got pissed off.
I stood up, out of breath. Suddenly, the Debiru landed right in front of my face. Won't this thing just leave me alone? It took a few steps forward; I backed up against the rock wall. It brought its head to mine, although, it wasn't growling like it usually did. It opened its mouth slightly and I shut my eyes. I could feel its teeth against my forehead, but not biting me. It ripped off my headband! My eyes shot open. It backed up and leaped down the huge hole and trotted down the hallway. Was it toying with me, or was it playing? Either way, I have to follow it, it has my headband. I dropped my bag and jumped down the hole and followed it in the hallway. I could hear its footsteps down the hall on my right. I ran that way, trying to catch up with it. When I turned the corner, I ran right into it. I fell back to the ground, I lifted my head and the metal part of my headband was in its' mouth. Maybe when it was staring at me, it was actually staring at my headband, but why? I stood and grabbed one end of the headband and tugged it, but its mouth wouldn't budge.
It started growling at me when I tried to pry open its mouth. It looks like this thing really thought of me as an enemy. I grabbed both ends of my headband, clutching it in my fists. I put my left foot on its face, and yanked at it. Then I ripped the material and my head clashed into the wall. I started to lift myself off of the floor and stared at the threads from my headband in my hands. Suddenly, I could hear a chewing sound. Like something was eating…"My headband!" I screeched. I glared at it and shouted, "You're eating my headband you monster! Don't you know not to eat things that aren't yours!?" It swallowed my chewed up headband and gave me an evil smile. Then, it crouched down, and jumped up, creating an enormous hole in the ceiling. And then it flew away in a flash. I searched every room for Sasuke, and nothing. I was nearly positive that Sasuke was here, but I was wrong. I had to of spent at least an hour trying to find my way out of the abandoned lair. Thankfully, when I did exit the lair my bag was right where I left it. I picked it up and continued my search.
