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Chapter 3 --- Orochimaru
The sun shone brightly on a pond at a Sunday morning. Four children sat there, under the shade of the trees, simply relaxing and enjoying nature.
"Too many people had died already." Kaiyal read aloud, her eyes focused on the 'Mysterious Circumstances' book in her hands. "Ruth Thow…Thornb-bird had to tell someone the tw-truth about what was going on. She'd come to dis hellhow—"
"This hellhole." Itachi corrected, leaning on a tree beside her, keeping an eye on the two babies nearby. They were playing, crawling, and drooling all over the place. Remind him who possessed him to babysit his little brother again? Oh yeah, it was Kaiyal. Three months had passed since they first found this pond by a bunch of cherry blossom trees. And as promised, Itachi often took Kaiyal there for pronouncing lessons. Itachi and Kaiyal were now six and five years old respectively and Sasuke and Sakura were one-year-olds.
"Chi-chi, stop glawing—" Kaiyal started with a hand on her hip.
"Glaring." Itachi corrected.
"Glaring at the imucent—"
"Innocent." Itachi corrected again.
"Innocent little babies." Kaiyal finished with a frustrated sigh.
"They're drooling." Itachi said with a pout.
"So?" Kaiyal raised her eyebrow.
"Let me rephrase that sentence. They're DROOLING. You know, the disgusting liquid that comes out of your mouth? Worse is, they seem to enjoy it." Itachi scowled.
"Obviously. That's what they do, Chi-chi. They cry, they coo, they giggle, and they drool. What did you expect?" Kaiyal said, rolling her big green eyes.
"I expect them to grow up." Itachi retorted.
"Well, they did grow up. Didn't you notice that they can crawl now?" Kaiyal replied stubbornly.
"Remind me why did we volunteer to babysit them again?" Itachi muttered.
"Well, let's see, your parents are out on a mission and my parents are too. They had no time to find a babysitter and we, being the responsible older siblings we have to be, kindly volunteered. Now if you excuse me, I'd like to get my mind back in my lesson now, thank you." Kaiyal replied, her head tilted up in stubbornness.
"Hn." Itachi grunted.
"…this hellhole of a place hoping to help eka…eradikit dizis…and—" Kaiyal continued, her eyes focused once more on the book in her hands, her eyes straining as she struggled to make out the confusing words.
"Eradicate disease." Itachi corrected with a sigh.
"Eradi…Erardic…Eradicake—Eradicate Diz—Disease." Kaiyal said, clutching her brown locks in frustration. "This is just too hard!" she yelled.
"You think it's frustrating learning how to pronounce? Step in my shoes for a bit and try teaching someone like you." Itachi muttered. "I don't get why your mother didn't teach you herself." Itachi went on.
"I'm sorry, but my mother never got around to doing it since Sakura was born. And your shoes are a bit too big for me." She harrumphed, crossing her arms stubbornly.
"That's because your feet are just too small." Itachi retorted with the same amount of stubbornness.
"Are not."
"Are too."
"Are not."
"Are too.
"Are not."
"Are too."
"Tche."
"Whhatever."
"Continue reading."
"-sigh- Hai…erad…eradicate diz—disease and had deboted—" Kaiyal said in concentration.
"Devoted." Itachi corrected.
"…devoted her everyday and night to the proujik—"
"Project." Itachi corrected once again. This was going to be a looong day.
"Project—umf." Kaiyal repeated before being pushed down by a black haired baby. "Oh hey, Sasu-chan. Do you wanna play?" she misinterpreted Sasuke pouncing on her as an invite to a game. But when she lifted Sasuke and put him back down, she saw the fear in Sasuke's face as he stared at something…something…wait, where was Sakura? She looked around quickly in panic to see the source of Sasuke's fear. There Sakura was, crawling on the head of a scary looking ninja who seemed eerily familiar. He had long black hair, and a really white face with snake-like eyes. A powerful aura surrounded him and almost seemed to be visible. And seeing his forehead protector, Kaiyal ran to her sister's aid.
"Eskuse my sister, mister. She doesn't really do that a lot." Kaiyal said, lifting Sakura out of his head.
"You have an interesting sister there, little girl." The weird guy chuckled, walking away. "Most people are smart enough to stay away…" he muttered with amusement when he was already out of sight and hearing range.
"Kaiyal! Are you okay?" Itachi ran to her, looking worried.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Why wouldn't I be?" Kaiyal replied. She still couldn't get over the feeling of fear when she was near him. It felt abnormally weird.
"Didn't you recognize him? One of our village's Three Legendary Sannin, Orochimaru." Itachi replied with a raised eyebrow.
"No wonder he was so familiar! I've never seen him personally before." Kaiyal exclaimed, her hold on Sakura tightening.
"Don't you dare go near that creep again! You could've been killed! There are rumors about him!" Kaiyal scolded the toddler. Yeah, right, as if she could understand. Sakura just giggled up at her, completely unaware of what just happened.
Done! I just wanted to get this out. Next chapter will be up in the following two weeks!
Ja ne!
M.A.