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Chapter 6

Sakura looked around in a panic, darkness surrounded her. A drop of nervous sweat fell down her temple. Suddenly she had the impulse to run, run as fast as she could. As her feet hit the floor the echo could be heard all around her. She couldn't see in front of her, she didn't know where she was going, all she wanted to do is get away. Tripping she fell to the floor. Looking up two blank emotionless cold eyes started at her.

Sakura felt something on her arm. She looked down and blood was everywhere. It ran down her arm into a giant pool beneath her. She tried to back away from the eyes but she found she couldn't move. She struggled with but with no avail. Slowly the blood surrounded her, consuming her.

Shutting her eyes she whispered, "No, no, leave me alone." She shook her head trying to rid her mind of the thoughts, of the images.

Sakura awoke in an unfamiliar room. A horrified expression fell over her face as she realized there was a foot almost in her mouth. She followed to foot to the ankle to the calf to the thigh to the Ino-pig who was snoring, a small puddle of drool beneath her face.

Memories flooded back to Sakura. After her encounter with Gaara-insomniac-pants she found her way back to the rest of the group. They spent the rest of the night partying, finally crashing at some unknown hour.

Sakura's head throbbed slightly, probably the effects of a slight hangover. Pushing the Ino-pig off of her she continued to get off the couch. She made her way into kitchen where she opened up the refrigerator. Grabbing a carton of orange juice she took a swig.

"You could at least get a glass," came Sasuke's voice from a corner. Sakura nearly choked on the drink. Whipping her mouth she glared at him.

"You-cough-cough-scared me," she gasped. Suddenly he appeared in front of her.

"Sorry," he mumbled smirking and taking the carton from her and taking a drink himself. Sakura glared again. She pushed him in the shoulder during mid swallow. Sasuke choked.

"I the great Sasuke never choke," Sakura said imitating his voice in a horrific manner. Then she pretended to choke and fall on the ground and 'die' in a rather dramatic fashion. Sasuke's reaction, a rising of the eyebrow.

"Morning Sakura-chan morning Sasuke-kun," came Ino's sleepy voice from the door way.

"Morning," Sakura greeted smiling warmly at her friend. "You know Gaara was here last night," Sakura said randomly.

"I know," Sasuke replied.

"You did?" Sakura asked confused.

"He's still here," Sasuke told her smirking at her fallen face.

"Bye everyone!" yelled Temari.

"Wait what?" Sakura said confused. "Temari-chan! Where are you going?" Sakura yelled in response.

"Lessons with Orochimaru-sensei," Temari replied closing the door behind her.

"She must be really bad in that class to have lessons on the weekend," Ino said thoughtfully.

"It's Temari-chan," Sakura stated it as if it where obvious.

"Well if you put it that way," Ino replied smiling.

Temari showed up at her assigned meeting place. Orochimaru stepped out of the shadows. Temari tensed as she felt another presence. A girl no doubt the same age as her jumped from the limbs of a near by tree where he had been hiding. The girl had piercing blue eyes and flaming red hair.

"This is Rukka," (AN: she is just someone I made up she's not Tayuya) Orochimaru told Temari. "She is to be your opponent to test how far you have come, and to test your abilities," he explained. Temari nodded in understanding.

Temari shifted into her fighting stance her hand moving to the large fan on her back. Temari focused in on the girl. A second later she was gone. Temari blinked. She was fast, really fast.

She felt the cold of metal pressing into her neck then the warmth of a drop of blood trickle down her throat.

"You're pretty good," Temari told her. Rukka smirked pressing the kunai further into Temari's skin. Moving quick Temari grabbed the kunai and tried to elbow the girl in the stomach.

The area behind her was empty. The girl was gone once again. Temari's eyes widened in shock. Turing to look in front of her and sure enough the girls face was inches from hers.

Temari felt a fist being slammed into her solar plexus. She flew back wards hitting the tree behind her with a tremendous force. Suddenly the girl was in front of her again. Her fists faster than anything Temari had ever seen where being thruster into her. After the torturous beating the girl hopped back. Temari fell to the base of the tree. She coughed up blood.

Temari looked up angrily at the girl, blood dripping from her mouth. Standing up she spit the remainder of the blood at Rukka's feet and she whipped the blood from her lip onto her sleeve. Pulling out her fan she looked at the girl. "Time to get serious."

"This could be fun," Rukka replied.

Temari swung her fan the gust of wind flew at her opponent, but before Temari had even swung the girl was gone.

'Behind me,' Temari thought mid way through her attack. Using her free hand she pulled out a kunai and flicked it behind her. She felt the girls presence move before the weapon had even left her hand. Above. Temari swung upwards, then throwing a kunai to her hypothesized next location. The girl went the opposite way which caused her to get a slight scratch.

Rukka landed gracefully on the ground. 'The girl is fast but this is crazy,' Temari thought.

"In case you haven't figured it out yet I can read you movements even before they occur," the red head told her smugly. "I can read you muscles, there fore predicted the outcome of your attack,' she explained.

"You'll regret telling me that," Temari replied.

"The outcome of this battle if evident," Rukka told her, her blue eyes flashing.

"You're right, there is no doubt about it, I will win," Temari replied determined.

Temari thrashed her fan, as she predicted the girl moved. Temari swung it in all directions so that her wind blades went everywhere. She held her fan close as she swung it. Rukka seemed to be dancing upon the blades as she dodged them. Temari stopped swinging her fan.

"It won't work your movements are too big and obvious," Rukka told her arrogantly.

"Shut up," Temari yelled swinging it once more. She threw her kunai at the girl and studied her movements as she dodged them. There was still no use the girl was too fast.

"Try this," Temari said biting her thumb and rubbing the blood across her fan summoning Kamatari. As her summoning attacked the girl Temari swung her fan and kunai's. This seem to make things a little more difficult but not impossible for Rukka.

'Damn,' Temari thought. Temari stopped to catch her breath. This only spread Rukka's smirk. Temari closed her eyes and breathed slowly relaxing her muscles. She tried to concentrate so she could control her every move, aver muscle. With a sudden burst of undetected speed Temari flung wind at Rukka who jumped to avoid it.

Temari threw a kunai at the girl missing her and hitting the tree branch behind her. Suddenly at least twenty kunai flew from the three at the girl who was in their path. When Rukka dodged Temari's first kunai she moved into the perfect position for Temari's secret attack.

'She's going to have to do better than that,' Rukka thought dodging it. Suddenly kunai came from every surrounding tree.

"Damn," Rukka whispered using her chakra to boots herself higher into the air. Looking up Rukka was shocked to see Kamatari shooting down at her. Rukka had no where to go. Pulling out a kunai she blocked the ferret's blade. There was a puff of smoke and Temari appeared.

Temari swung a kick hitting the girl in the side. The force threw the girl to the ground. Temari threw another kunai into a tree. Multiple kunai where thrown out pinning the girl to the ground. Temari landed on the helpless girl her foot pressing into the girls stomach.

"How?" Rukka asked.

"When I was swinging my fan around holding it close I threw kunai into the trees. The purpose of my fan is that I moved the branches so that they where tied and they held the kunai so when struck they would release them. And I replaced Kamatari with myself," Temari explained smugly.

Orochimaru approached them. "Now kill her," he ordered Temari. Her eyes widened in shock as well as Rukka's.

"No," Temari refused.

"Are you disobeying me?" Orochimaru asked his tongue flickering out of his mouth.

Temari didn't answer. "Answer me girl," he hissed.

"I won't kill her," Temari told him. Orochimaru kick her and she flew back into a tree. Temari cried out in pain. The tree was left with an extremely deep dent.

Suddenly Orochimaru was beside her his lips pressed up against her ear. "Lesson number one, Temari-chan," Orochimaru whisper putting extra emphasis on chan, "never defy me, lesson number two, never cry out in pain." Opening his mouth he traced his snake like teeth across her delicate neck. Her skin split apart and Temari gasped.

"Now, I'll tell you again, kill Rukka," Orochimaru whispered into her ear. A shiver ran down her spine.

Closing her eyes in fear she replied, "no."

FLASH BACK

A young Orochimaru sat in a field watching the clouds pass over his head. A butterfly flew gracefully over his head and landed on his nose. Orochimaru looked at it thoughtfully.

"What are you doing?" hissed Orochimaru's father.

"N-nothing," Orochimaru stuttered sitting up the butterfly still upon his nose.

"Why aren't you training!" he yelled as Orochimaru flinched.

"I was watching the clouds," he relied. The large purple snake lifted his tail and cut the defenseless butterfly in half. Orochimaru cried out in shock.

"Do not waste your life upon such trivial thing," the snake ordered.

"Y- Yes father," Orochimaru replied bowing.

"Manda-kun," said a beautiful woman with black hair.

"Mother," Orochimaru said surprised.

"He's only a boy, forgive him," asked Orochimaru's mother.

"Silence! I will not allow you to tell me how to raise my son," Manda yelled.

"But-," the woman protested.

Manda raise his tail and slapped her across the face. She cried out in pain holding her cheek.

"Mother!" Orochimaru cried running to her. Orochimaru was stopped by his father who threw him against a rock.

"Orochimaru-kun," his mother cried running to him. The little boy watched as his mother ran to him. "Are you okay?" she asked pulling him into her chest.

"I'm fine mom," Orochimaru replied. He reached up and touched her face. She grabbed his hand and kissed it.

"Don't worry about me," she whispered. "Manda-kun please don't hurt him," she cried turning to the snake.

"Wife, you are in no place to tell me what to do," Manda hissed.

"Hit me instead, but please let him go," she begged. Orochimaru's eyes opened wide.

"…Mother," he said weekly. She raised her hand above her head to block the blow.

"Out of my way," the snake ordered knocking her aside.

Orochimaru flinched as he watch his fathers tail rise for a strike. He waited for the stinging pain but it never came. Opening his eyes fearfully he saw his mothers green eyes staring into his. She had used her body as a shield.

"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you before…Orochi-kun," she managed to whisper as she fell to the ground. The boy looked up at his cruel father.

"Why…" he whispered. "WHY!" he screamed.

"Maybe you'll learn from this," spat the snake.

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Orochimaru's mother was washing the cuts on his face. "You're training and trying so hard to please your father," she said almost to herself.

"I just don't want him to hurt you anymore," he told her. The woman smiled sadly at him.

"I love you, Orochimaru-kun, always remember that," she whispered hugging him.

"I love you too mommy," he replied.

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"Kill it now," his father ordered.

"I don't want to kill the bird!" Orochimaru yelled at him. "It never did anything to me!"

"If you are going to be a warrior you have to be able to kill," his father told him.

"No," the boy protested.

"Why you little," his father started.

"He's not going to change his mind," came a smooth voice of a young man. He stepped from the shadows to reveal long beautiful sliver hair and golden eyes. Unlike Orochimaru this boy did not resemble a snake.

"Gorinkaru!" said Manda surprised.

"Brother…" Orochimaru whispered looking up.

"Hello Orochi-kun," greeted his brother. "Father let him be," asked Gorinkaru.

"Hn," the snake replied turning to slither away.

Orochimaru's brother approached him, his movement silky and smooth. "Are you okay?" he asked helping his younger sibling up.

"You're finally back," Orochimaru whispered in a daze.

"Yep," he replied smiling warmly back at him. Crouching down into a squatting position so that they would be eye level Gorinkaru stoked the little boys face. Tracing the purple scars below his eyes a said "I don't remember these being here."

"I want to let everyone know I'm done with crying," Orochimaru told him crossing his arms stubbornly. His brother looked at him sadly and pulled him into a hug.

"You know, it's okay to cry sometimes." A tear slipped from the older boys eyes.

Okay done with this chapter! Aw don't you love it! Tell me what you think about it! PLEASE REVIEW!! I need something to make me happy! Right now I'm feeling kind of down!