And now, let us curse the name of Uchiha! -wink-
Sasuke: I heard that!
Kazuma: I think that was the point, Sas.
"Damn that Sasuke Uchiha!" Hotaru snapped as she overturned a table. Her Otokage cloak fanned out around her as she angrily paced around her office. Her black hair fell around her shoulders in a cascade of dark silk. "I will not let him get away with disrespecting me!"
"Lady Otokage, please calm down. Your vocal cords can't take the strain." Kimimaru Kaguya replied. Hotaru turned on him, getting in his face.
"Do not make me regret saving your ass, Kaguya." She hissed at the white haired male. Kimimaru was glad that she had saved him after his fight with Rock Lee and Gaara of the Desert. He had been a mess but somehow Hotaru had saved his life and for that-he would follow her into Hell and back.
"I take it the meeting didn't go well?" He posed it as a question, being careful of what he said.
"No, the meeting went fine but that's not the point." Hotaru flopped into the chair behind her desk. "But that damn Uchiha is going to get it the next time I see him."
Kimimaru sighed as his Lady plotted in sulking silence. "My Lady Otokage, must I remind you that you come from Sacred Blood? You have too much power to just be thinking up childish revenge schemes."
Hotaru's legs draped over the arm of the chair and she crossed her arms. "I don't need to be reminded of the tainted blood I come from. It's still the foul taste on my tongue that I can never get rid of. Uchiha did me a favor, getting rid of Orochimaru. At least now I can sleep at night and not worry about waking up to being experimented on in the middle of the night."
Her nightmares were made real by Orochimaru and her memories of the experiments he preformed on her haunted her-even now, years later. One of her eyes twinged painfully, making her hand fly to it. That was one of the Snake Sanin's experiments. He wanted to know why she ended up with such a pure amethyst color with no pupil. The bastard had actually dissected her eye while it was in the socket without anesthetic. Hotaru forced herself to pull her hand away. Blood on her palm…fantastic. It wasn't going to heal with her specialty jutsu now. She had grown a tolerance to her own chakra.
"Shall I get the doctor?" Kimimaru had come to her side while she was distracted. His hand was a warm weight on her shoulder.
"I'll just heal it again. I'll be fine." Hotaru disregarded. Kaguya sighed and reached for the phone. He picked up the receiver and dialed a number.
"Hisara, bring the doctor to the Otokage's office. Her eye is bleeding again." Kimimaru earned an one-eyed glare as Hotaru kept her right eye covered. She got out of her seat but Kimimaru pushed her back down and with a hand firmly on her stomach, he kept her down.
The doctor came a few moments later and Kimimaru pulled her hand away from her eye. The medical ninja looked at the bleeding eye and tsked the Otokage under his breath. "This isn't good, my Lady. I'll look for a suitable replacement-"
"No! I will not have an organ chop shop in my Village!" Hotaru got to her feet, pushing Kimimaru back from her. The doctor cowered on the spot as the 16-year-old towered over him. "I am not Orochimaru! I will not allow you to go around like he did and harvest whatever from whoever! I am Otokage! And Otokure is MY Village!"
Her hand flew to her mouth and she started coughing harshly. It turned into a wet cough, blood seeping between her fingers. She braced herself against the desk edge but the force of her coughing and the lack of oxygen was getting to her. Kimimaru caught her as she collapsed. The former leader of the Sound Four raised his hand, his palm facing the doctor. A bone spike pierced the center of the doctor's head, killing him instantly. The white haired male scooped her up like a bride and headed for the door.
"Come, Lady Otokage. The hospital will have those who know how to treat your wounds. I'll come back to clean up this mess once you're seen to."
Kaz: DC! This isn't what I helped you write!
Damn straight! It's MY story, not yours!
Kaz: ...help me with my DHN/SM crosses?
Sure, what are friends for?
