Lou-pie: awww, I didn't get as many reviews for my last chapter like I did with the first two, how sad. Oh well! There's still more to come and lots of stuffs are gonna happen in the story… I hope… anyways! Read on and review to let me know if I should continue on. A lot of you seem to be enjoying it though!

Rating: PG-NC17

Pairing: SasuNaru, more to come

Disclaimer: don't own, only the plot… sadly.


Chapter 3

To be awakened at the crack of dawn was not something Naruto had in mind. He had just fallen asleep a couple of hours ago before someone was shaking him awake again, groaning and rolling away from the hands. However, the person who was trying to wake him suddenly whipped him in the ass rather sharply which had the blond jumping up and rubbing his sore ass, now fully awake. He glared at whoever had hit him before his eyes widened at the redhead snake before him until he remembered who the creature was.

"What do you want? I'm tired since I didn't get much sleep last night," Naruto groused, yawning widely as he stretched.

Gaara snorted. "I have to take you to see Madara," he mumbled back unhappily. He looked away and gritted his teeth at the wide eyed look the blond was giving him. "I'm guessing your father has told you about him."

Naruto nodded while looking down, gulping loudly. "Are we going now, or can I get something to cover my loins with?" He looked up with a blush while he stood, covering his privates with his hands. He rolled his eyes when Gaara only tilted his head in confusion. "My penis, do you have something I can cover it up with?" Naruto was blushing a pretty red by the time Gaara seemed to understand.

Realization dawned on the snake before he shook his head, looking down where the blond was covering himself. "Doesn't your penis retract?"

"Huh?" Now it was Naruto's turn to be confused. "Retract?"

"Yeah, like mine." Gaara took two of his fingers and slid it inside a slit in front where his penis might have been if he were human. "When I'm excited, my penis gets hard and comes out through here. When I'm not, it stays inside so it isn't in the way. Doesn't yours do that?"

The blond's head almost exploded at the mental image the explanation had brought up, he was so embarrassed. "No sadly. Human's dicks just hang there." So embarrassed, Naruto removed his hands from his crotch to cover his face, unknowingly giving the redhead a full view of his dick.

"So that's what a human's penis looks like, and you also call it dicks? How fascinating. I didn't get a good look at it while I was carrying you to my home." The snake examined it from where he… stood? Sat? and was tempted to reach out and feel it. "It's so different from ours."

Naruto squeaked and covered himself up again, glaring at the redhead. "There's no need to stare; it's embarrassing! Now can you please get me something to cover myself up?" The blond thought he was going to pass out from how much blood was flowing through his head now.

Gaara smirked at the human's reaction and picked up the sheet that the blond was using and threw it at him. "Are you always this… apprehensive?" The redhead chuckled when Naruto tried to figure out a way to tie the sheet made out of fine hair around his waist.

The blond lifted an eyebrow and gave another glare at the snake; sure the redhead knew what apprehensive meant, but didn't know what loins were? "No, not usually. But look at the situation I'm in! How could I not be anxious, or terrified, or easily surprised? Jesus! I don't even know your name!"

"It's Gaara," the snake replied calmly. "And yours?"

"… Naruto…"

"Interesting name. Now if you're done, shall we go?" The redhead motioned the blond to follow him and began to slither out of the opening.

Naruto followed and was about to take a step out until he noticed how high he was and jumped back before inching his way forward again. He looked down to see Gaara curling around the tree trunk, slithering down until he reached a bridge made out of vines. Naruto looked for a way down himself, but there were no branches to climb down and Gaara was already too far away to hear him. What, does the snake think he could do the same thing he could?

Letting out a shaky sigh and seeing how high up he was, Naruto contemplated on jumping for the vine bridge since Gaara was most likely not coming back for him. Taking a deep breath, Naruto jumped, aiming for the vines; arms and legs spread out to slow down his fall. His eyes pin pointed on where he was supposed to grab and aimed for it as best as he could, smirking when his hands came in contact with one of the vines, but his fingers didn't wrap around it fast enough and the rest of his falling body pulled him down and away from the vine.

"Shit!" he cried out as his body lost control and began spinning widely as he fell. However, he did not expect for something to wrap around him and stop his fall. Looking up, he sighed in relief when he saw it was Ino, who was curled around the tree, looking down at him like he was crazy. "Oh god, thank you."

"What the hell were you doing? You could have died you idiot!" Ino yelled while lifting him up so she could whap him on top of the head. "I was just on my way to come get you while Gaara went ahead to give the heads up to Madara. Were you trying to escape, or what?" Ino lifted the blond man onto her back and had Naruto hang on while she slithered down the tree and across the bridge.

"Gaara sent you to get me?" Well he certainly felt stupid, especially when the snake nodded. "Oh… I thought Gaara was expecting me to follow him down. He didn't say anything about getting you to come for me." He frowned as he leaned against the female snake, listening to her heartbeat.

Ino sighed. "Sounds something like that stupid coral snake would do." She began to hum after several moment of silence before something popped up into her mind that she had forgotten to ask. "Hey, what's your name? I haven't had the chance to ask yet."

"Naruto. Yours?" The blond man held the snake tighter when he noticed all the curious glares and questioning stares from the other snake folk that were crawling about, slithering from one tree to the next, only stopping to have a closer look at the stranger that was on Ino's back.

"Ino." She glared at the others, hissing at them to get lost and go about their business. "I can tell that you are rather frightened. I would be too if I was in your situation." The blond snake reached behind and patted Naruto's sheet clothed thigh. "But your land, what's it like?"

Naruto shrugged. "We don't live in trees for one thing and our bridges are made out of metal, wood, or stones, not vines… maybe in some places, but they're being replaced with new modern technology. Our homes are also made out of wood or bricks, sometimes metal if they're large buildings, like the factory my father used to work at before he got fired."

"Fired? Was your father burned to death?" Ino asked after she gasped, her wide eyes staring back at the human, making Naruto chuckle.

"No, no. Fired is a term we use when our bosses no longer need us or want us, so they tell us to leave and never come back by telling us we're fired. My dad's boss fired him because he no longer needed him when he got what he wanted, too bad dad didn't make him suffer when he killed him." A scowl grew on Naruto's face as remembering the bastard Gatou guy who only used Minato's talents for his own use. That guy Haku was long gone when that happened and most likely not a part of it, hopefully; the girlish man was rather nice.

"Minato killed someone? Really? I never knew he could do such a thing… What did his boss do to make him so mad?"

"The guy used my dad for his own use and when he got what he wanted, he tossed my dad aside like he was nothing, which wasn't good since we hardly had any money saved up because of the low pay Gatou paid after he promised how much my dad was supposed to be making. Good riddance to that bastard." The scowl grew and was holding onto the snake rather harshly, but the female blond didn't mind since she could feel the anguish the human was feeling.

"Wow, good thing Minato killed him then. I read about this thing you humans call money in one of the many books that has washed up on our beaches that hadn't been destroyed by the water and that stuff seems to make a person do horrible things, like it controls them. It's sad really." Ino began to slither down a tree and onto the ground, gliding across the ground a lot faster towards their destination. "But power is what makes people crazy here more so than it does with humans, or as I read from your human's history and my people's history."

The human only hummed, nervousness welling up in his stomach, creating large butterflies to fly around hazardly in his belly. He was terrified of meeting the snake peoples' king and after the stories he heard from his father didn't help. He knew they were close as well as the trees began to get larger and more polished and furnished and just about a mile up ahead was the so called palace that was set in the largest tree. When they got there (still on the ground), a couple of guards were sitting in front of the floor entrance, their tales a sort of different colors that Naruto had recognized but couldn't remember the name of the snakes.

The guards gave the blond man a hard glare, but knew that the human was to be brought forth to the king to see what fait had in store for him. A servant was called and the small male snake led them up several tunnels and floors until they reached the main floor. Inside the tree really did look like a palace, only made out of wood, but it was hard to tell since the wood was sanded down and polished, making the wood shine. Several torches hung from the ceilings to light the hallways and rooms, giving the place an eerie, yet homey, feeling.

"His lordship is right through this door," the manservant said as he began to open the door, holding it open for Ino and Naruto. Once they were through, the manservant left and the door swung closed again.

The throne room (what Naruto calls it) was much bigger than the one before and a long rug made out of silky fur ran along the floor in front of them, stopping just underneath a large, male, black snake. Naruto gulped as red eyes much like Itachi's glared down at him, long black hair framing his face. In many ways, this half snake, half human looked so much like Itachi; the same eyes, hair (almost), and skin, and fangs. The snake beside the dark hair creature was male as well and red with red hair, pale skin, thin body, and light lilac eyes. This snake looked much nicer, especially since it appeared he didn't have any fangs.

"Is this the human you were talking about, Gaara?" the black snake asked the coral snake who stood a few feet in front of him. When Gaara nodded, the red eyed creature motioned the two forward.

Ino gently set Naruto down onto the ground and pushed him forward towards the black snake, a hand sitting gently on the small of his back. Once in front of the black snake, most likely their lord, with Gaara and Ino on either side of him, the king ran his eyes over the human's body, an eyebrow lifting at the white sheet around the blond man's waist. After checking the human over, the black haired snake motioned for the female snake and coral snake to leave. The two did so after a few hesitations, giving Naruto a few backward glances before closing the door behind them.

With the two snakes gone, Naruto felt rather uncomfortable and tried not to let himself shake visibly in front of the king and his most likely mate. Both the blond and redhead were looking at the black snake, waiting for him to say something.

"I am Lord Madara and this is my mate Nagato. Who are you?" the king finally asked, a look of remembrance in his eyes as he continued to gaze down at the human.

"N-Naruto," the blond replied, cursing mentally at his stutter.

"You look oddly like a man that has been here before you. Do you know him? His name is Minato."

Naruto's eyes widened at this and he looked away, fear welling up inside him at the possibilities that the snake could do to him. It seemed Gaara hadn't told the king yet and left it upon the blond to do it himself. "Yes, actually. He was my… father." He wished he had said something else once it had left his mouth.

Red eyes widened in shock before turning into twin glares while Nagato gasped, eyes wide as well. Madara suddenly left his spot beside his mate and began gliding across the floor towards the blond, who backed away from the malice that dripped off the snake's form. Madara only followed him until Naruto tripped over his own foot and fell onto his ass, the black creature leaning over him with hostility glowing in his eyes.

"So you're the thing that was born from those two." He curled around the blond loosely, surrounding Naruto with his tail to make sure he wouldn't get away if he chose to escape. Madara smirked at the terrified human. "Hn, you don't look like much. I didn't have anything to be afraid of; you're nothing compared to what I had in mind. You're weak, I can smell it. I should kill you right here, right now." The black haired snake hissed and opened his mouth widely, making Naruto freeze in terror.

Before Madara could do anything, Nagato had crawled hurriedly to his mate and wrapped his arms around his lover to stop him, holding the king back. "Wait! Don't kill him! He hasn't done anything! What Minato and Kushina did were their mistakes, not his!"

Madara pushed the redhead off of him and glared at his mate for stopping him. "Why shouldn't I kill him when he was a born mistake?" Nagato winced at his mate's words and frowned unhappily while Madara turned back to the blond. "Tell me, boy, where is Minato and Kushina?"

Naruto was too stunned to answer and continued to stare at the snake in terror, eyes wide in fear.

"Answer me!"

The blond flinched away, closing his eyes as he turned away. Madara was about to hit the human when Nagato intervened again and unwrapped his mate from the human's body, bring the blond close to him while glaring angrily at the red eyed snake, feeling a little upset when he felt the blond shake in his arms.

"Stop it Madara. The boy is terrified and is too scared to answer your question," Nagato hissed, surprising his mate. Usually, the redhead was gentle and submissive with him, agreeing or disagreeing gently to everything he said. But now, one simple little human brought out a new Nagato that Madara had only seen once and it was directed towards him.

"As he should be. He doesn't know what powers I hold," Madara murmured back, letting his mate have his way… for now, uncurling himself completely so he could sit a few feet away from them.

Nagato did his best to calm the human, rubbing his back soothingly and whispered that everything will be ok in the blond's ear. Naruto slowly came out of his shock and began to relax, his breathing slowing down a little while his body stopped shaking. Once the blond had calmed down enough that Nagato knew he would reply, the redhead set the blond down back onto the floor.

"Can you tell me what happened to Kushina and Minato?" the red snake asked, holding Naruto's gaze.

Naruto swallowed several times, trying to find his voice again and finally answered after several tries. "T-they're… dead." He bit his bottom lip as Nagato gasped quietly, the redhead's face dropping in despair at the human's loss.

"How and when did this happen?"

"My mom died five years ago by some disease and my dad died by getting run… over by a carriage not long afterwards." Oh god, the pain of losing his parents came back like a slap to the face. Naruto tried his best to live on and he was able to do so by staying out at sea for months and working hard so he didn't have to remember. Now… he had to tell these… creatures what had happened and somehow it made him feel even worse. But he did not cry, though his eye sight was becoming blurry from unshed tears.

Nagato felt the blond's pain and hugged him tightly, feeling teary eyed himself. From the corner of his eye, he could see Madara smirk when he heard that Kushina was dead, but that soon turned into a disturbed frown upon hearing Minato's death. "You poor child," the red snake whispered. "I feel your pain; Minato and Kushina were great friends of mine and I loved them very dearly, especially Minato. I'm still angry at Madara for what he tried to do all those years ago." He glared at his mate with his red puffy eyes and flushed cheeks.

The larger snake only rolled his eyes and slithered back to his spot where he was before, sitting down on his coiled up snake self with an unhappy frown, a distant look in his eye. The redhead stopped glaring when he saw how much the death of the human's father was eating him up inside, wanting to go and be there for him, but they had to decide what they were going to do with the blond.

"Madara…" Nagato called softly, gathering his mate's attention. "What are we going to do with him? We surely can't kick him out of the village; the rogue snakes or snakes from other villages would eat him for sure."

"Well I certainly don't want him here! Looking at his face, which is so similar to his, brings back so many memories that I thought I had forgotten…" The black snake glared at his mate, but it held no bite to it and it quickly softened at the look Nagato was giving him, one that held love and admiration.

"Please, don't kick him out. I highly doubt he'll be a nuisance." An idea suddenly sprung up and he gave a small, with a hint of worry, to his mate. "Didn't you say once that your niece has been bothering you and others because he's become sexually frustrated?"

Madara gave the other an odd look and crossed his arms. "Sasuke? Yeah I did, but I highly doubt this human would want to have sex with my niece any more than Sasuke would like to mate with him. Sasuke is picky." The larger snake didn't like the look on Nagato's face and wasn't sure if he wanted to know what he was thinking, but he listened anyways.

"I know Sasuke is picky, stubborn too, but we can make this boy into Sasuke's concubine. And Sasuke did say never to bring another female, or another snake for that matter, to him ever again. Look, he's not a snake and he's not a female, and from what I'm smelling, this boy has been with several other male humans." What Nagato didn't know that the many smells of other males was not because Naruto had sex with them, but because the blond has been around them for so long. "One in particular smells stronger than the others."

Confused, Naruto watched the two snakes converse with each other in that native tongue that sounded rather beautiful to the ears, wondering what was going to happen to them. However, when Nagato got this devilish look on his face, Naruto didn't want to know what they were talking about.

Madara thought over what his mate said. It sounded like a good idea and the human certainly was a looker, he'd give him that, but he didn't want to think about what would happen to the blond if his niece didn't want the human. Deciding to take the chance of getting rid of the boy from his sight, he finally agreed to his mate's suggestion. "Fine, but you owe me."

"Of course, I'll be by tonight. Get everything ready for me while I escort Naruto to Sasuke's room," Nagato gave a small hiss of excitement and began to leave the room with Naruto still in his arms, missing the suggestive look Madara was giving his scaly behind, but he could feel it.

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After traveling down many tunnel like hallways and passing by many rooms, Nagato finally stopped in front of two large doors and put Naruto back down onto his feet, knocking a couple of times. When no one answered, he tried again, this time receiving an answering hiss.

"If that's you Madara bringing me another female, fuck off!" was the hissed answer, making the blond grimace from the anger even though he didn't understand what the person on the other was saying.

"It's me, Nagato, and I haven't brought any females with me," the red snake answered calmly, smiling gently when the door opened to reveal another clone of Itachi, only this one much younger and with shorter hair that reminded Naruto of a duck's butt, but he still had those red eyes much like Itachi's and Madara's.

The dark haired snake gazed at Nagato questioningly before his gaze fell upon Naruto and his eyes widened at what he was seeing. The black snake looked so astonished at seeing the blond that he couldn't even utter a single word, only opening and closing his mouth as he searched for something to say. However, he did slide aside for the others to come in, never taking his eyes off the human that was now standing in his room. All the while, Nagato had a strange smirk on his face while he kept close to the blond.

"Sasuke, this is Naruto, he'll be your concubine for the time being since we couldn't figure out what else to do with him," the redhead explained, snapping the black snake out of his shock. "Be nice, he's been through some dramatic events and is confused of what's happening."

The black snake that was almost as large as Madara and yet bigger than Nagato didn't answer, but he did raise an eyebrow towards the redhead's way in questioning. He nodded and motioned for his uncle's mate to get on out of here before looking towards the blond again with an unreadable expression, eyeing the sheet wrapped around Naruto's waste oddly. Nagato left silently after giving the blond one last comforting look and one last warning look to Sasuke.

Naruto looked around the room while he stood there with his hands clasped behind him, wondering why he was here with this snake. "So," the blond began, gathering Sasuke's full attention who seemed to be rather engrossed in Naruto's legs. "Do you have any idea why I'm here with you-what are you doing?" he asked when the large snake drew close to his legs, touching them with curiosity in his eyes.

When Naruto moved his legs away, Sasuke glanced up before standing (sitting?) up straight again with a look of embarrassment. "Nagato said that you were to be my concubine, but I'm not interested in mating with anyone, especially with something that I don't know might have a disease." The black snake turned and slithered away towards an opening that was in the shape of a door and began to go out.

The blond flushed in anger and followed the snake out, stepping out into a balcony similar to the one's back home and stepped in front of him without any fear. "Now look here, I don't want to have sex with you either because I too am not interested with having sex with anyone except for one person." A sad and longing look suddenly replaced Naruto's anger as he thought about Kiba and then Kakashi, looking away as he thought about them. "I hope they're alright…"

Sasuke tilted his head to the side a little and asked, "Who is they?"

Naruto looked back up, remembering why he was out here in the first place. "Uh, no one! As I was saying before, I don't want to have sex with you either! And since we both agree on the same thing, I'll be going now." The blond made to pass Sasuke, but the snake slid in his way, doing so each time whenever the human try to pass him. "Get out of my way."

"Listen," Sasuke began while rubbing the bridge of his nose tiredly, "the only reason why you're here is because my uncle and his mate didn't know what to do with you, so they decided to make you my concubine as a reason for you to stay with me." He sighed and went back inside, murmuring to himself. "And Nagato probably complained that I was annoying every one because I'm 'sexually frustrated,'" he mumbled, doing his best voice to mimic Nagato's. "If they want to help, they should bring something I would actually like, not some female snake that's a total idiot."

"You're not into women either?" Naruto asked after following the snake back in and catching the last phrase the other said.

"We don't call them women here, but yes. I find them rather annoying and clingy." Sasuke shivered and made a look of disgust at a sudden memory. "Now, since I do love Nagato, I will do as he asks and look after you, even though he didn't really say that, but I know that's what he meant." He began to glide away from the blond and back out to the balcony, motioning for him to follow. "But I would like to ask you to stay close by since there has been talk about rogue snakes getting too close to our village's border and there are other snakes here that wouldn't hesitate to eat you."

Naruto gulped at the thought of being eaten whole and followed Sasuke back outside. "Well I certainly don't want to be eaten, that's for sure," the blond said with a nervous laugh. "But all this is just too much to take in! I can't believe all those stories my dad used to tell me are actually true! Now I know why mom was upset every time I ask them to tell me about this place…" He almost tripped over the sleek tail in front of him and stumbled into the raven haired male, who was giving him an odd and questioning glance.

"Who exactly are your parents?"

Here we go again. "Minato and Kushina," was Naruto's quick reply, waiting for the other to become angry and inflict some sort of pain, but what he did get instead was a wide eyed, shocked look that only lasted for a moment before Sasuke grabbed the blond's shoulders and was giving a 'don't fuck with me' look. "I'm serious! Geez, can I go at least saying that once without someone becoming mad at me?" Naruto raised an eyebrow when the snake let him go and began to pace around the room, or that's what the blond thought he was doing, slithering around in circles. "What, did you know my parents too?"

"Of course I did!" Sasuke hissed with a glare, stopping his pacing. "Minato was best friends with my father and was there for my birth before he left several years later. That's when I knew that you were the cause of their troubles." The snake was expecting for the other to look hurt, but apparently, the blond had heard it all before and looked unimpressed at the black haired creature.

"Trust me, you're not the only one who thinks that," Naruto snapped, turned his back to the raven and almost fell down a slide like thing that was supposedly the snake's 'stairs,' deciding to go down it and get away from the snake. He did not expect, though, for Sasuke to follow after him with a strange look on his face. "What do you want?" the blond asked without stopping, wondering when the winding down steps would stop.

"… You are the first creature who has ever talked back to me without fear," Sasuke replied a little harshly, making Naruto stop and spin around.

"Well excuse me Mr.-"

"I like it."

Naruto did a double take, the most outrageous look on his face that Sasuke had ever seen and thought it looked adorable on the blond now that he was seeing him in a new light. The human's face turned from shock to confusion then to horror at the husky look in the red eyes that were staring down the blond's body. Naruto tried to back away from the snake only to trip on the end of Sasuke's tail again and fall against another piece of Sasuke's snake half, realizing that the black creature had curled around him just enough to trap him.

"Oooook, I see that you are suddenly infatuated me, but I'm not the type that sleeps with strangers, so I'm going to go now." Naruto made to climb over the black scaly wall, but Sasuke lifted the part where Naruto was climbing lightly, making the blond fall back into the circle. "Listen, I know you said that you have to take care of me, but seriously, I can take care of myself just fine."

The black snake's face suddenly became surious, giving a small snort. "I'd love to see you struggle on your own here for one day before I swoop, or rather, slither in to save you from eating something poisonous, or stop you from being eaten." Sasuke rolled his eyes before shaking his head. "You don't know this place well enough to know about the dangers that lie here, and you're small; an easy target to hungry predators such as myself."

The blond huffed from where he still sat and turned away from the black haired snake, crossing his arms over his chest while he thought of what to do next. "Why does life hate me?" he whispered to himself when he thought back to all the things that had happened the last few days. "First we were attacked by pirates, then I was almost raped by one, but luckily some crazed whale attacked our ship and I was saved only to be dumped into the ocean and be washed up onto this god forsaken island full of these creatures. And not only that, I was separated by my friends… I wonder what they're up to." Unknowingly to him, Naruto's voice had gotten louder with each sentence, letting the black snake hear what had happened to him in the past few days.

Sasuke was pissed when he heard that this interesting and delightful blond was almost raped by "pirates", but almost laughed at the whale part; he would have if he wasn't hung up on the rape part, but decided not to ask about it. "I don't think it was a crazed whale, as you said it was, that attacked your ship, whatever that is."

A blond brow lifted as Naruto looked back over his shoulder to glance at Sasuke in confusion. "What do you mean it wasn't whale? I'm pretty sure it was by the looks of it."

"Ok then, what did it look like?" Sasuke waited with his arms crossed and an amused look as he watched the blond try to answer back.

"It was, ah, it had… um… ok, so it was too dark to see, but I'm sure it was a whale."

The snake chuckled while shaking his head slowly. Sasuke had never met anyone that made him act this way in such a long time. The blond was adorable and actually talked back instead of cowering in fear like all the others do. "You're cute, but I'm positive it wasn't a whale."

"Ok, oh so high and mighty snake, what do you think it was?"

"I know it had to be Leviathan."

"…"

"…"

Naruto blinked once or twice before he burst out laughing, but stopped when he saw that Sasuke was being serious. "You can't be serious… there's no such thing as Leviathan!" He then blushed at the other thing the snake said. "And I'm not cute!"

"You thought the same about us, but, well, her I am," Sasuke answered with a smirk, finding the blond's facial expressions highly amusing. "And no, you're not cute… you're adorable and pleasing to the eye." The leathery coil around the blond tightened the circle around him just a little more as the black haired creature pressed in closer to take in Naruto's scent by flicking his snake like tongue out, making Naruto gulp and forget all about their conversation about Leviathan.

"Great," the human groaned as he tried his best to curl away from the snake.

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Kiba groaned while his head pounded against his skull, feeling like he was going to puke any second now. He slowly sat up while blinking his eyes open so they could become used to the bright fire that was burning a couple feet in front of him. Thinking that Kakashi or Neji might have done it while he was asleep, he stood, only to bump his head against the ceiling of the cave. The brunette cursed and sqwuated back down while rubbing his sore head, wishing he had something to dull the pain.

His prayers were answered when a hand holding a cup made out of what looked like to be a small mellon with some kind of dark liquid in it and a deep voice suddenl said "drink." Kiba took it without question and drank it all in one go before the taste finally hit his tongue and made his lips curle in comically before he gagged. However, his headache was slowly ebbing away. Sighing in relief, but still cringing at the taste, Kiba turned to thank Kakashi, or Neji, for the drink, but his words got stuck in his throat at the creature that was curled up before him with a worried expression.

"Are you alright? You had me worried when I found you three passed out on the ground after eating all those balelas," the creature said as it smiled a little at seeing that the brunette was alright. "They may seem good to eat, but their toxins can make even the strongest snake fall asleep and wake up with a killer headache. I'm Itachi by the way."

Kiba was frozen from where he sat with a wide eyed expression, jaw slack. The black haired snake waited for an answer, but all he received was the human falling backwards in a dead faint.

"Oh dear, the blond one didn't act like this when I met him, but he couldn't see my whole body." The snake shrugged before making sure there was enough wood on the fire to make a few more cups of his brew for the other two whenever they woke up.


Lou-pie: omg, I'm so sorry it took so long, but I had to get a new computer and I was gone on vacation to see my relatives and old friends. The old computer I had I had borrowed it from a home school system, and when I said I wanted to buy it from them, they wanted 900 bucks for it! For a used computer. I got a complete new on for only 498 and it's an HP, way better than a dell. Anyways, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and review!