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Ages: Kagome, Sasuke, Suigetsu, Karin: 15, Juugo: 16
Pairing: Kagome/Sasuke, maybe some Itachi/Kagome
"And you're going to be a member of Team Hebi from now on…"
Kagome looked at him with bleary blue eyes, blinking a bit. 'Team…Hebi…?' She thought dreamily, the drugs in her system were trying to overpower her, but she pushed the fatigue back down. She could sleep later; she wanted to know what was going on and who these people were.
But most importantly, she wanted to know where Orochimaru was, and why he was letting her see these people. 'Team Hebi…' She thought again, the thought much more clearly. Who would honestly name their team after a snake?
"What're you talking about? What's…going on?" Kagome asked, pulling back a bit so she wasn't in Uchiha Sasuke's grip anymore. She was glad to hear that her words weren't slurred. Her eyes flickered over to the girl as she seemed to snort at her question, and Kagome glared at the red-head.
Sasuke merely closed his black eyes and smirked, seemingly amused at her question. She didn't see what was so funny. "Kagome…Orochimaru is dead. You don't need to worry about him anymore." He said smoothly, not really answering her question at all.
"Dead?!" Kagome gasped, was this a joke? Was Sasuke kidding her? The damn snake had made her life a living hell; it would be great if he was dead…she really did hate being treated as a science experiment.
Karin snorted again, crossing her arms over her chest irritated. "Get with the program already! Orochimaru is dead and Sasuke wants to drag you along with the rest of us!" She said loudly with annoyance, already disliking this girl. Why Sasuke wanted to bring this girl was beyond her. Her red eyes twitched a bit, remembering the one time she had actually did see the girl…
"Karin." Sasuke said simply, making the girl shut up instantly. Karin merely looked away, not wanting to anger Sasuke.
The Uchiha looked back to Kagome, smirking yet again. He had saved her from a life of hell, a life of being Orochimaru's experiment and bitch. The least she could do was follow and obey him…
"You're serious." Kagome said blankly, looking at the Uchiha with narrowed blue eyes. She didn't really know what to think, it was all really sudden. She leaned back on the couch, sighing a bit.
"Come with us, and help me achieve my goal." Sasuke said, Kagome opening her eyes tiredly. She glanced at him for a moment, thinking over his offer. It's not like she had anywhere to go, and he did save her from a life of misery…
"Fine." Kagome said, holding her head and covering her eyes. Her head pounded painfully, and she winced. What she needed was some pain relievers right now…
"Then are we leaving now?" Suigetsu asked impatiently, standing from his leaning position from the wall, gripping the hilt of his new sword.
"Yeah." Sasuke answered, standing from his own position. He glanced over a bit, raising a brow as Kagome slowly stood, wobbling on her feet a little. He watched silently as she slowly moved towards the door, then finally speaking up. "Where are you going?" He asked.
Kagome looked back at him with slightly blank eyes, grabbing the clothing he had brought for her. "I'm going to find a shower." Kagome answered simply, knowing that she hadn't bathed in a while. She felt dirty, unclean and disgusting. She wanted to be clean if she was leaving Orochimaru's hideout.
"Alright…but don't take long." Sasuke warned, leaning back and ignoring Karin's and Suigetsu's complaints of them wanting to leave now. The Uchiha would allow her to bathe; Karin could track her chakra if she did try to leave anyhow.
Kagome walked out the door, heading towards the shower facilities in the hideout. She reached it a few moments later, stripping of her clothing and sighing in contentment as the warm water washed over her tired body.
Sasuke sat back down on the couch, picking up the report on Kagome to read to pass time and for his own amusement.
Report
Test Subject 556: Higurashi Kagome
Gender: Female
Weight: 102 lbs
Height: 5'1
Experimental notes: Injected with Uchiha Madara's DNA. Subject was able to activate the Sharingan a week after, also with an additional stage of the Sharingan. Curse mark was also applied. Subject lived through the initial night, though her body failed twice, Kabuto was able to revive her.
Side notes: I was unable to find out her country of origin. Subject does not appear to be a shinobi, however, I have found out about her special abilities as a miko through hypnotism. The injections did make her thrash for a bit after administration, making me believe it may be her miko chakra at work trying to destroy Uchiha Madara's DNA.
Important note: The curse mark seemed to have altered or is manipulating the subject's personality.
Sasuke did not bother to read the rest, merely glancing over the paper again. He went over the details, narrowing his eyes at some points.
Uchiha Madara, it was that name again. He vaguely remembered the Kyuubi comparing him to that Uchiha when he had encountered Naruto. He didn't know who Madara was and really didn't care. Now however…he may just have to research on this particular Uchiha.
He also noticed another particular detail; the additional stage of Sharingan must've been that…
He glanced up, narrowing his eyes and wondering if Kagome could actually use the Mangekyou Sharingan.
He looked at the last detail that caught his attention. Her personality being altered because of the Curse Mark? He raised his brow, it must have been an important detail otherwise it wouldn't have been circled in red ink.
The door opened and Kagome walked in again, looking a hell of a lot better than she did previously again. She was dressed in the clothes that he had brought for her consisting of a black tank-top like shirt, a fishnet shirt underneath that, a white skirt with black tight shorts, black arm-guards that went up to her upper arms and exact match to his own arm-guards, and black open-toed boots. She seemed to have added a red cloth-like scarf that she had tied around her neck.
Sasuke almost stood up after glancing up to her face, seeing the crimson present and the blue gone. He smirked darkly, so it was true, Kagome could really activate the Sharingan…and that was perfect for his now altered plans.
"Are we leaving now?" Suigetsu asked again, getting up from his position and looking at Kagome's now crimson eyes with interest. So it really was a success…
Karin glanced up, freezing as her own red eyes caught Kagome's. She shook in slight fear, remembering her first and only time seeing the girl…
Orochimaru, Kabuto, and Karin all stood up on the upper balcony of the room, looking down at the arena-like floor. Karin frowned, wondering why she had to be present for such a thing.
Orochimaru laughed with dark and cold amusement, his sickly yellow eyes glinting as he prepared himself for the amusement he was about to be provided with. He turned to his medic. "Kabuto, you may release her." He purred in his dark voice, Kabuto nodding with an equally sick smirk.
"As you wish, Orochimaru-sama." He replied, pushing a button on the wall. A door in the lower floor opened and Orochimaru's test subject stepped out, her long black bangs covering her eyes.
The arena was very large, more than capable of holding over one hundred men. It was about that number that stood in the arena, all of them wondering what this was about. Orochimaru's minions all looked warily at the motionless girl, were they all to fight her or something?
"Go at it." The Sannin simply ordered, and the Sound-nin all tensed, readying their weapons for battle. It didn't matter if their opponent was a female, if their lord ordered them to fight, then they would kill without hesitation.
"What is this? That girl is already finished." Karin stated, watching with emotionless eyes. It's not like she cared if that girl died or not, but she really had no desire to witness that girl being ripped apart.
"Just watch, Karin. You may just be surprised." Orochimaru smirked, licking his lips at the sight. He knew what exactly would happen.
"Tch…" Karin snorted, not seeing what her master obviously did. She turned her head to observe anyway, wanting to know what was so special about that girl.
The dark-haired girl suddenly hunched over, scratching at her neck in the process. She didn't make the slightest sound as she did this, even as she scratched herself hard enough to draw blood.
The girl abruptly stopped, standing straight upwards with her long bangs hiding her face and expression. Some of the Oto-nin rushed the girl, kunai and shuriken in hand. Everyone immediately stopped and observed the girl as a sound echoed in the room.
A chuckle.
A dark, almost evil-like chuckle bounced of the walls and effectively produced shivers to travel down everyone's spine, excluding Orochimaru and Kabuto of course.
The snake merely licked his lips again, watching the scene with intent eyes.
The girl suddenly looked up, her evil crimson eyes instantly paralyzing all the Sound-nin to their spot. Her grin was insane, crazy with bloodlust. Her maniac smile did not disappear or falter, not even when the marking on her shoulder blazed a crimson-orange.
The glowing continued as the curse markings slowly spread themselves over the girl, stopping as they effectively covered the girl's entire right side. The glow disappeared, leaving ugly black markings.
Both Orochimaru and Kabuto frowned a bit, finding something definitely odd about the situation. Why did the girl's curse markings completely resemble Sasuke-kun's? It was common knowledge that the curse markings were unique for an individual; this just shouldn't be possible…
The Sound-nin were all still paralyzed, staring into the eyes of a demon. Her eyes were cold, cruel, murderous, yet gleeful at the same time, as if she found the thought of butchering the ninja like pigs amusing.
The Sound-nin had all heard of such a thing, almost everyone in the shinobi world had heard of the legendary Uchiha clan and their famous Sharingan. The majority of them had all encountered such the doujutsu sometime in their lives, but this was just different…
Her eyes were completely different, the shape of it was all wrong. The Sharingan was obvious with the crimson and tomoe markings, but this was something resembling a pinwheel and a windmill. Her pupils were all wrong, cat slit-like when they should've been a human round.
Blood suddenly painted the walls, screams reflected off the arena as over a quarter of the shinobi were swiftly ripped apart, the top half cut from their bodies. Limbs and appendages hit the ground with a sickly thud, red crimson liquid spilling over the floor in a scarlet river.
The remaining shinobi could not move, watching as their comrades were dismembered and beheaded in an instant. They all glanced up as best they could from their paralyzed position. The whip of blue light immediately travelled over the distance as the girl flicked her wrist, effectively cutting into more shinobi.
Screams
Shrieks
Howls
All of them bounced off the room, amplified by the room's walls. Over half their numbers were dead and dying in a painful way. The smell of blood, guts, and urine filled the room quickly, but everyone simply ignored it.
The remaining shinobi all against the wall, begging and hoping their lord would save them. Their hopes were crushed as he merely smirked, clearly amused at the sight of such gore and blood.
The girl merely stood there, a psychopathic grin upon her pretty, demonic face as she observed the wretched scene. The markings burned with that crimson-orange light, slowly spreading across the other side of her face. Her entire body was now covered in the ugly tainted tattoos, giving her a more frenzied look.
Karin could only shake in horror and fear as she watched the Sound-minions being slaughtered like pigs, all of them just lining up for their death as they uselessly tried to rush and ambush the insane girl.
It didn't work, the girl merely chanted something under her breath and raised her hand up, a glittering blue light streaking from her palms and completely obliterating the Sound-nin.
The smell of burning flesh and hair quickly added to the blood and guts scent, making the small number of remaining shinobi lose their lunch, vomit adding to the mix on the dirty floor.
In a matter of moments, all the shinobi were either dead or dying. The girl only smirked insanely, slowly walking back to her previous position, not even stopping as she stepped on someone's arm, a loud cracking and scream filling the air as she broke his arm.
"Excellent." Orochimaru purred darkly, licking his pale lips as the girl slowly upturned her demonic red eyes up to them, the second stage of her Sharingan obviously activated.
Kabuto also smirked sickly, clearly amused as well. "It seemed the experiment was a success, Orochimaru-sama." He murmured; glad to have such an unstable monster under their control. Kami only knew how much damage they could deal to the other shinobi nations with Kagome under their control.
Karin could only shake in complete and absolute fear as the girl turned her cold and murderous eyes to her, their red orbs meeting.
Karin could no longer hold herself up with her shaking and weak legs as the girl smirked, looking like she was the girl's next prey…
"Karin?" Sasuke raised a brow, immediately noticing with his shinobi skills that Karin froze as Kagome glanced in her direction. He didn't care for Karin's wellbeing at all, only needing her for her tracking skills.
Karin gasped, snapping out of her daze as Sasuke called her name and when Suigetsu roughly shook her form. "What?!" She snapped, angry at herself as she couldn't stop the cold sweat and shaking.
"We're leaving now." Suigetsu answered with annoyance, resisting the urge to behead the irritating girl with his new sword. He knew he would have to use all his patience to be able to even deal with the girl.
"Whatever." Karin mumbled, glad to have the girl's demonic eyes off her form. Her teeth clenched in annoyance as Kagome seemed to completely ignore her, as if she had never seen her before.
But then again, the girl was such in bloodlust mood at the time that Karin didn't even blame Kagome for not remembering her, in fact she was glad that the test subject didn't remember her…
The group walked out the room, Juugo finally moving from his spot to join the newly formed team. All of them walked out of the hideout, following Sasuke's leading form.
Sasuke turned to his new subordinates, his obsidian eyes narrowed as he glanced to all of them. "Gathering the four of you completes my platoon, and the first stage of my plan." Sasuke said, everyone paying complete attention.
"It's time I explained my purpose to you." Sasuke said, his dark eyes lighting with hatred. "I'm going to kill Uchiha Itachi of Akatsuki. And I want you all to help me."
"I knew it." Suigetsu commented, everyone else staying silent.
'Kill Uchiha Itachi…?' Kagome thought, narrowing her (unknowing to her) crimson eyes, wondering vaguely where she heard that name before. Maybe Orochimaru mentioned it before? Something about how her 'eyes' could potentially be more powerful than his…and how she would be able to help him take over Itachi's body rather than Sasuke's.
She winced slightly as her mark pounded painfully as she thought of that damn snake, and she grabbed at her neck to try and make the pain go away. It did after a few seconds of sending her miko ki through it…
"Kagome." Said girl immediately looked up, breaking away from her thoughts to glance at the Uchiha rather blankly. She blinked as he gripped her chin again, forcing her to stare in his unusual red eyes. They weren't that colour before…
Everyone already seemed to be walking ahead, obviously on Sasuke's orders. She frowned slightly, not liking how the Uchiha handled her so familiarly…
"What is it?" She asked, turning her head to the slight left to try and get out of his grip. It didn't work…
She leaned back uncomfortably as Sasuke leaned forward, his warm breath hot on her face. "We're going." He said simply, releasing her as if he was never invading her personal space in the first place.
"Whatever." Kagome mumbled, already not liking Sasuke. He was too forward for her own tastes, but she did owe him for killing Orochimaru, so she would follow him until he achieved his goal of killing Uchiha Itachi…
Sasuke watched as Kagome walked ahead of him, following in the other's path. He smirked suddenly, his eyes darkening at his thought.
She could use the Sharingan, she would be extremely useful to him.
He didn't plan to let her go.
Ever.