Author's Note~ From here on out, we get into the nitty gritty of things. The battle scenes, the rape scenes, the sex scenes, and junk. Hope you all can enjoy it and please, out of respect for the train of thought process it takes to create a fiction, don't pass judgment on the fiction until it is completed. Hehe, (evil laugh) you never know when something might surprise you. Oh, and….Someone's dead in this chapter HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE! **FUCKING BITCH**


Chapter 7
Snakes and Liars

"Survival of the fittest is the law of nature.
We decieve or we are decieved.
Thus, we flourish or perish.
Nothing good ever happened to me when I trusted others.
That is the lesson."

~Faye Valentine - Cowboy Bebop


~Sasuke Uchiha Age: 20


~"Where is that damn bitch!" He screamed to his shadowed companion, his temper seemed to spike at the worst times now and without warning. There was something on his mind, something weighing heavy, but none of his comrades dared ask for fear of losing limbs. In the past few months, their fearless leader had been honing and perfecting his incredible skills, to what end except to murder his brother, they weren't sure. What they did know was that he was becoming less and less tolerant of Karin's advances and her constant inability to follow a seemingly simple mission outline. She was two days late in returning with a forbidden scroll from the Village Hidden in the Mist, it seemed stupid that he would have to go out to search for her, but it appeared as if the black haired Shinobi would have to do just that.

~He muttered viciously under his breath as he left the two remaining men of his team behind in their camp, "I will be back."

~There were times when Juugo was the voice of reason, and sometimes when Juugo said nothing there was always Suigetsu's interesting brand of humor to annihilate any chance of getting through to their normally silent, emotionless boss.

~Juugo merely nodded today and said nothing, he had no interest in stopping Sasuke's rampage and hardly thought anything of it when Suigetsu opened his mouth with a toothy grin, "hope the bitch likes it rough."

~Sasuke glared hard at the shark, his dark irises piercing holes through his thick skull, "I hope you can learn to shut up, it would really be a bad day for you if I suddenly decided I no longer cared for your company."

~The water nin darted his gaze back to his grub before Sasuke decided blood was necessary to end his berating humor. He was the first to become part of Taka, but for some reason held a lower standing than even the insane Juugo in his leader's eyes. Every now and again that thought would cross his mind, although once he thought it he let it go, holding onto such thoughts made some ninjas dead.

~"I'm sorry," he muttered and was clapped hard on the back by his dinner companion, as if to say he did good, even though he didn't feel any better.

~Sasuke was gone in a flash, leaving the two men staring down at their bowls of stewed meat and vegetables, a staple it seemed for their team. "You notice how edgy he's been lately?" Suigetsu complained.

~"Yes."

~"Not one for talking tonight, huh?" The silver haired ninja poured his remaining meal back into the pot, leaving it untouched as it had been the night before, in all honestly he was worried about Karin. It felt odd to actually feel some kind of worry over the damn loud mouthed, obnoxious, insanely jealous broad, but Suigetsu couldn't shake this horrible feeling that she wasn't coming back, that she was gone… for good…

~Sasuke portaled ahead a few miles, catching his breath in between each jump, he wanted to conserve strength to pommel the stupid fan girl, her dim-witted antics had gone far enough this time. He'd put up with her fondling, her voice, and her advances and in fits of sheer stupidity and need for release, the nin was irritated to admit he'd used Karin as a tension releaser, but enough was enough. She was wasting his time and everyone knew how precious his time was to him, especially her. She was going to pay dearly for his lateness when he got a hold of her and if something hadn't all ready seriously injured her, he sure would.


Sakura Haruno Age: 19


~She stood over a corpse, flies scattered when she drew close, their cloud almost engulfing her. It was filthy and disgusting and if she guessed right the body had been there more than a week, a wonder with the village so close that no one had found it yet. From the looks of the scene before her, the ninja once had red hair, almost the color of Gaara's if not only a little lighter, but with the amount of blood coating the souless flesh sack, she couldn't have been really sure of much.

~"He wants me to take the scroll from…this thing?..." She pulled out a handkerchief and held it over her nose, shooing away the buzzing insects with her free hand. The ensuing cloud bubbled up and brought down raining stings upon her uncovered skin and she fought through until she made it to the body. Her nose puckered as the wafting scent filled her nostrils and made her gag, "where the fuck is it?" Everything in her mind was screaming as she dug around in the oozing corpse's pockets and under the dead weight. Nothing. There was no scroll here, absolutely nothing even resembling a scroll, whatever this thing had been holding onto was long since gone, probably by whoever killed it.

~She started to pull away when she noticed a small strip of puffed and rotting flesh still intact even this long after death and there was a tiny cut with a tattoo encircling, almost like a glyph from some kind of ninjutsu spell. Her fingers reached out haltingly and pressed gingerly on the marking and felt something hard underneath.

~"You've got to be kidding me," she murmured and smacked away more buzzing flies as they voiced their anger at having been disturbed from their delicious meal.

~Taking out a kunai, Sakura took a deep breath, choking on the putrid smell of decaying body stench and used both her hands to dig out the hard object just beneath the surface of the fallen foe. A few moments of tugging and pulling and finally the golden canister broke free of its confines, sending her sprawling out on the ground not too far away. When her eyes caught sight of what she'd freed, she gasped and swiftly drew out another knife.

~An eyeball stared at her from its resting place on the ground, a living eye that blinked and peered around as if taking in its surroundings. It was fitted like a jewel, adorning the golden scroll like canister and unnerved the pinkette to say the least.

~Bone and sinew and muscle still clung to the cylindrical container, as if it had just been another part of the ninja's body and now being ripped from its confines, the tissues seemed to rot and melt away in an instant. The sight gagged the female nin, but she held in the rising bile in her throat, this was something she'd never seen before and didn't know how to handle it. All of her inner senses were screaming for her to leave, to get away from this disgusting thing, but Sasuke's words continued echoing in her mind, "I will kill everyone in Konoha. Everyone… except you."

~"You have to," she told herself and reached out for the thing, it eyed her eerily, watching her every move and didn't seem the least bit perturbed when Sakura stuffed it into a pouch. As the frightening monster was put away she struggled to put the sight out of her mind, but it clung to her, digging deeper and deeper until she was sure it was in her soul, turning it over and infecting it.

~She inhaled deeply and bounded off into the trees, her hair tie coming undone from her ponytail and letting the rosette colored locks break free of their up done confines. The curls cascaded down her back and shoulders beautifully, almost inhaling the sun's glittering light and making it its own sparkling character.

~Sakura didn't see the shadowed figure watching her from the dense forest edge. She didn't notice even when she stepped on the same branch as him and bounded passed, coming almost within inches of his face. He caught the faint scent of roses as she leapt to the next tree, a black ribbon floated on a soft breeze towards the ground and a wave of memories washed over him.

~"Don't go!" She was saying, "don't go alone. I'll come with you, I can help." Everything about her was frail and pathetic, the path he was taking was no place for the weak.

~"I know I'm not much, but I can become stronger, I promise you I can," she wanted to be with him, the need in her voice was plain to hear, yet he couldn't oblige his teammate, there were things she needed to do here, to accomplish without him. It didn't make him feel any better about the situation, whether he cared to admit it or not, this girl meant something to him.

~"No," he said shortly, moving around her to stand at her back. Her hair was still trying to grow out from when she'd cut it some time ago, although he liked it long , for some reason it didn't matter that it was short. He reached out and touched a pink tress, relishing in the soft feel. All he wanted to do was run his fingers through it, feel her against him and enjoying his touch.

~"I could scream," she threatened, but it was an empty warning, there was no way she'd do it.

~"You won't."

~"Please… Sasuke… I love you…"

~He smiled, glad she couldn't see it, "…you're annoying."

~She felt tears stinging the back of her eyes, after finally confessing to him her feelings and he'd shot her down, kicking her in the process. Everything within her wept, begging to for the dark nin to see reason, this pathway would likely lead to his death, least of all a lifetime in prison.

~"I could never love someone who looks like you," he whispered into her ear, hating the words but knowing they needed to be said. She couldn't be allowed to follow him, not this time, he couldn't be saved. This soul had a time limit on it and the clock was quickly running out.

~Sakura fell to her knees, face in her hands, "how can you be so cruel? What's wrong with you?"

~The youngest Uchiha stood tall and cold, a frigid cold that couldn't be melted, "Sakura. I cannot be saved, not me. I am all ready condemned and all I'm doing now is running on borrowed time. So I'll do what I need to do while I'm still breathing."

~"Then what! You kill Itachi and what then? Where will you go?"

~"I suppose then I'll go find a place to die."

~She gasped and looked up at him through a veil of tears, but she was unable to say anything. He just touched her head tenderly and made ready to leave when a hand snatched up his. "I'll come find you," she hissed out, though not unkindly.

~Sighing heavily, he grabbed the back of her collar and flung her into a standing position, bringing a kunai to her neck and touching the razor sharp blade to her throat to prove he was very serious, "if you come and find me, I will kill you." He brought the edge of his fist on the nerve of her neck and her eyes grow wide in shock as consciousness slipped from her grasp. His strong arms caught the falling pinkette, lifting her up before turning towards the bench behind them and setting her down gently.

~"Don't follow," he whispered into her ear and pulled something from his pocket, a small, satin ribbon the color of obsidian and left it in her hand.

~Sasuke shook his head of the memories and darted after the medical nin, if she'd come all the way out here after this long, there was a reason for it, especially if she was digging through corpses to find scrolls he was sure no one but the Mist Village and his group knew about. Something was up and he didn't want to reveal himself yet in the plot of things before the proverbial play decided to get good. He bounded silently through the trees, keeping his distance and masking his chakra. There was a moment where he wondered if he should have left Karin's body by that old oak to rot away, but decided against letting Sakura get away, the red head deserved her fate anyway if she could die to this little slip of a ninja with hardly any power to begin with.

~Sakura continued her breakneck pace as she darted from branch to branch, something kept telling her to turn around, the prickling hairs on the back of her neck stood on end and she wondered if someone was following her. When she paused long enough to look, she wasn't surprised that there wasn't a soul around, not even the tiniest hint of a chakra signature. For all her worrying and wondering, it only served to irritate her and she at length finally found herself at the Whisper Cave, aptly named for the trickling sound of water coursing through its underground and sounding more like murmuring souls than water.

~"Sasuke?" She called out, perplexing her follower, but he continued wordlessly behind. "Hello?" The whispering sound was soft here at the entrance and the farther in she went the louder it became. Every sense in her body was on fire, looking around for any movement, ready for anything should it come barreling her way. There was no way to see an attack, the cave walls dripped with slime and water from thousands of years of moisture, the darkness continued to descend upon her the deeper in she went, and still that annoying whispering.

~"I brought what you asked for. Should I just-"

~"Bring it here…" The masculine voice hoarsely ordered, startling the medical nin. She glanced around everywhere, fighting to pinpoint the direction of the shadow's physical body, but that damn water murmuring was digging into her brain like a rabid termite. It was driving her crazy, causing some kind of pain to course behind her eyes.

~"Where are you? I can't see you…"

~A spectre appeared on the cave wall a few meters away to Sakura's left and she walked towards it, a hopeful kind of anxiety washed over her suddenly. It had been three years since she'd seen him, three years was a long time to someone who had spent those years abusing herself and hurting her body to make up for her lacking when he left. Her breath accelerated and her fingers shook as she reached for the canister in her pack, the hard, polished surface was smooth to the tips and cool to the touch.

~"Just bring it here, Sakura-chan," the lulling voice called her softly, entrancing her to move even as her mind screamed not to.

~"Wait… He's never called me, "chan"," she froze up and hugged the golden tube to her chest, fear crawled up her spine and snuffed out any kind of courage she could have possibly mustered. Inside her, the Anbu skills jumped forward and her incredible senses heightened.

~"Who are you?" Her eyes narrowed viciously, her lip curling into a snarl, the fear still remained inside, a heavy burden to bear, but she pushed it away and let her inner take over.

~"You know me, Sakura. It's me-"

~"Cut the shit, who the fuck are you? Why the hell have you dragged me from Konoha for this stupid piece trash?"

~Laughter echoed off the walls of the cave, drowning out the sounds of the whispering water, "because you're weaker than your comrades," the shadow morphed into the shape of slithering snake and the medical nin gasped.

~"You're dead! We saw your body!" She back flipped onto a stalagmite when a snake-like tail came crashing towards her, rubble tumbled from the ceiling then and created a cloud of ancient dust.

~A pair of golden eyes shown through the darkness and pierced her to her very soul, "sometimes playing dead is the only way to survive. Time to be absorbed!" The monster flung himself forward and was finally seen in the light, Orochimaru had made the first move.

~Sakura forced chakra into her right fist and punched the snake head back, "get away from me, you disgusting piece of slime." Her words were pursed through clenched teeth and a rising growl caught in her throat, low and husky.

~"You think you can defeat me? Even in this weakened state, you're still no match for my power."

~"Let's test this theory of yours," she pulled out a kunai and tanto, moving her feet into a defensive stance, as of yet, in the past three years of training, nothing had gotten passed her defenses.

~Orochimaru chuckled low, amused by her defiance, it would make the fight all the more interesting, but he only wanted to have this done and over with. His energy was fading fast, but he had enough to finish her off and absorb her body to make it his own, he couldn't believe he hadn't tried to use her before, with her standing in Konoha her body would be a good substitute until he found the strength to take over Sasuke's.

~He swung his tail low and fast, aiming for her knees, yet was stopped when the pinkette stabbed her tonto into the ground and let the Sannin hit it. She was taking the head on approach, no fancy tricks to avoid attacks, at least not yet. She took each one in succession, her body oozed defensive chakra and the more Orochimaru hit, the harder her defense became.

~"I've heard about your training with Tsunade," he whispered, charging forward with his head and moving sideways to try to jab her with his tail, but the young woman caught both attacks and swung her blade in a wide arc, forcing him to slither back before her attack hit home.

~She said nothing, concentrating on keeping her chakra levels as hidden as possible, it wasn't time to kill her enemy yet. He didn't need to know what she could do.

~"Oh, come on, Sakura Haruno. Say something, it makes the fight more interesting."

~"Shut up." She dug around in her pouch and yanked out a scroll, flipping it open to do a few jutsu hand motions. Out from the paper poured a herd of inked monsters she had gotten from her teammate. The time she'd spent training to become a better ninja had served her well, her ability to copy others attacks had increased tenfold since she was a child.

~Monsters, large and small charged at the Sannin, but he only smiled and opened his mouth wide, enveloping them and swallowing the attacks whole. He assumed the girl would be surprised by his blatant disregard for her attack, and when his eyes caught her gaze again, he knew he was right.

~Her eyes grew wide as he charged her again, mouth gaping and charka pouring out as he went to consume her body. She had no time to run or move, only stand there as Orochimaru's sharp fangs came down on her body and snapped her in half. Suddenly, her body dissipated into a puff of smoke and all the remained was a wooden stump.

~A confounded Sannin hissed angrily, chomping down on his fibrous meal and flinging the pieces against the wall, "very nice, little girl. Now come out and just die quietly-" He froze when his tongue sensed her energy and looked up a second too late, the Anbu Medical Nin came flying from the ceiling and jammed her kunai and tonto into the vile snake's head, dragging him to the ground and tossing him into the wall. Brain matter flew in all directions, Orochimaru tossed himself in a fit as he began to die. His mind faded and his eyes searched her out in the hazy darkness engulfing his vision.

~"H-how… did you kill… me?" If he was at full strength, he could have easily taken this blow and put himself back together, even now he could've, but a strange burning sensation was taking over his body and mind, turning his almost inside out.

~"Poison," she murmured shortly, running her gloved hand over the tonto's edge without cutting herself and wiping away the dripping essence before she sheathed her blade. "If I can't win through strength, I'll win through guile." She smiled narcissistically as Orochimaru's existence began to fade, only this time she was sure he'd stay gone.

~The ensuing few moments after her kill were spent in silence , wiping off the blade and trying to figure out where to go from here. She debated returning to the village, but all that seemed to be waiting there for her was a sex crazed Naruto, a probably pissed sand Kazakage, and the requirement of answering questions that she personally didn't really feel like lying about.

~She sheathed her weapons and reached into her pouch to pull out the golden canister, the eyeball didn't seem so frightening now. It almost had an expression of perplexing confusion as he looked around, finally resting its red iris on the pinkette shinobi.

~"What are you?" She whispered and turned it over, there didn't appear to be any way to open it, no lid or seal. Turning it over from end to end, she look at all the trappings and took note of the intricate designs adorning the side in what appeared to be blood… coursing blood, like through veins. Every few seconds, it would slightly constrict, a movement almost too small to see unless someone was really looking.

~It looked at her without much change in its expression, but when she spoke to it, the eye widened. She knew the thing had heard her, but without ears she wasn't sure how it had.

~An evil thought crossed her mind and she smiled dangerously, pulling out her kunai and aiming to poke the pupil. Though, as her blade lingered millimeters from its organ, the optic canister suddenly began to shriek like a banshee and Sakura immediately dropped the case. It rolled across the ground and hit a rock, a second later and the sound was cut off when the eye blinked and found it was no longer in danger.

"Are you kidding me?" She yelled at it, rubbing her almost bleeding ears. The blade was put away to prevent further unbearable noises and she reached out for it again in agitation, feeling the living thing try to shy away, but without appendages to move there was nowhere for it to go.

~"What do you do?" Another question she assumed would go unanswered, but the canister began to wiggle, trying to edge itself closer to her body. That's when she remembered having had to yank this thing out of that body not more than a couple hours ago and whether this was what killed her or not, she wasn't taking her chances and shoved it into her pouch. "Not gonna happen," she muttered and rose to her feet, her eyes looking towards the exit. That's when she froze, eyes struggling to absorb information that her mind was struggling to push away.

~"No… Not you, not right now."

~"Give me the scroll," Sasuke ordered, his eyes red with the Sharingan. He was going to take the container by force if necessary. There were no feelings between them now, not after this long and he needed what was inside the living scroll his old teammate was suddenly clutching.

~"Now, Sakura."

~A sudden rush of rage boiled up inside the medical nin, "fuck you, Sasuke!" She threw a bladed ninja star at disappeared, taking off into the cover of the forest foliage.


Author's Note ~ Omigawd…. You'd think I could write a frigging fight scene… -.- Sorry dealing with home life drama, thought I could write it out and feel better, but this chapter suffered due to my horrible wanting to murder my ex husband's ex girlfriend, the bitch won't find someone else to stalk… Seriously? I mean really… FIND A LIFE BITCH! Will be working on the next chapter tonight, it might take longer to put up because I write better when I'm hand writing things out, I'll do that this time instead. Review please… Thank you for listening to me bitch…