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Episode 8 – DOUBLE CROSSED
"Say again, my lord?"
Orochimaru was still focused on the fight down below. Kaiya now had Sasuke completely immobilized with her ability to control water with her chakra.
"And now, the end is near," Kaiya mocked sadly. She maneuvered her hands and fingers in the air and Sasuke's body obeyed.
"Not… yet... it's not!" Sasuke choked out.
Kaiya smirked triumphantly. "Guess again, Sasuke. Take a look at where you are."
Sasuke, confused, lowered his gaze to the floor and gasped.
She had planned this all along!
Sasuke was right dead center of the summoning circle he was chained to earlier. His heart began to race and he started to sweat profusely.
"This is it!" Kabuto stuttered. "She's… she's done it!"
Orochimaru was still eerily fixated and excited on the battle.
Kaiya slowly walked over to Sasuke, only one hand clenched at waist height; the one controlling Sasuke. The other was conjuring up complicated hand signs.
I've never seen fingers bend that way before…
She raised her hand slowly until it came to rest a few inches above Sasuke's forehead. Sasuke's eyes were wide with horror. His sharingan had faded and were replaced with desperate, onyx eyes.
"Relinquishing Jutsu…!" she whispered just loud enough for Sasuke to hear.
Kabuto's eyes widened in shock.
"This is it, my lord!" he whispered triumphantly.
Orochimaru ignored him. Kabuto turned to face him.
"My lor—" Kabuto cut short as he saw Orochimaru muttering to himself, his eyes unblinking, and his hands moving quickly.
Hand signs?
A howl of pain and defeat rose from below. Kabuto looked down and saw Sasuke's chakra rising up like an aura from his forehead and into Kaiya's hand. Sasuke's eyes were wide and glazed over, his midnight black hair suspended in mid-air, his arms still and feeble by his sides, his mouth agape and howling. The sickening howl sent shivers up and down Kabuto's spine.
"It's all over…" Kabuto muttered.
Finally, Orochimaru spoke. "Hn, not quite…" he muttered, his eyes now calm with a hint of triumph.
Sasuke was going in and out of consciousness. All he could see was the beautiful girl he met fade in and out, much like his love for her. Then, everything goes black, the last thing he sees are her emerald eyes, glinting in the light of his stolen chakra.
Suddenly, a bloodcurdling shriek of pain pierces the air. Sasuke feels the titanium grip of her jutsu vanish in an instant. He sways and falls onto the concrete floor, drained and confused.
Sasuke tried to focus his eyes, but it is not all that easy. When they come to focus, he saw Kaiya writhing in tremendous agony on the floor beside him, clutching the side of her neck, her eyes squeezed shut, shrieking over and over.
Sasuke made no effort to get up, but just to watch her writhe in pain. It sparked hatred within him to see her in so much pain, but from what she had recently done to him, he had no idea what to do.
He slowly moved his eyes around the room to see what had caused her so much pain.
Orochimaru was standing a few feet away from her, his index and middle finger raised to his lips.
Kabuto joined him and clicked his fingers. His clones appeared and apprehended Sasuke, pulling him to his feet with ease as he made no attempt to fight them off. He was too weak.
She drained a lot of my chakra… I'm so weak… But it looks like she didn't get all of it…
"Calm down, my dear," Orochimaru hissed.
Kaiya continued to writhe in pain on the floor. Suddenly, black tattoo marks, much like Sasuke's, swarmed over her skin and covered her entire body.
Sasuke suddenly realized what Orochimaru was doing.
He… He's controlling her through the curse-mark!
Kabuto, being confused, had now figured it all out too.
After a few moments, Kaiya had stopped writhing in pain and stumbled to her feet, one hand still clamped over her curse-mark. Her shiny black hair was tangled and wild about her bruised and scratched face.
"W-what did you… do… to me…?" she choked out, still breathing heavily from the pain and shrieking.
Orochimaru's malicious laugh echoed off the stone walls before he finally narrowed his eyes at Kaiya.
"I have something else in mind for you, child," he said, lowering his fingers from his face.
Kaiya was still heaving. Sasuke struggled to keep his eyes open and focused.
"W-what do you m-mean?" she breathed.
"We are going to destroy the Hidden Leaf village!" he rasped maliciously.
Sasuke's mouth gaped open, as did Kaiya's. Desperate, she bolted and made a run for the door. Orochimaru again raised his two fingers to his lips and cried, "Obey!" as Kabuto's clones swarmed around Kaiya.
Her body stopped right in its path. Not on her own accord, but by Orochimaru's. The clones approached her and apprehended her.
"You double crossed me!" she screamed, the anger alive in her eyes.
"No, child. You see, you are quite powerful. And a powerful ninja like you will never come my way ever again, so I sought to seize the moment and make it my own," he explained.
"You bastard!"
"Now now, there's no need for that," he condescended. "I control all the chakra in your body now. You can't escape me." Another laughed escaped his skinny lips.
Orochimaru's gaze moved to Sasuke.
"Chain him up," he ordered coldly. Sasuke tried to writhe in anger; not by the fact that he was going to chain him to a wall, but the fact that Orochimaru was about to toss Sasuke aside, without so much as a goodbye.
But he was way too weak to break the grip of the clones as they chained him to the far wall.
When Sasuke looked up, Orochimaru was conjuring hand signs. Kaiya had again dropped to the floor, writhing in pain and screaming, when suddenly, she stopped. She rose to her feet. Her eyes were now fully red; no pupil, no iris, just a burning red.
"Let us go," Orochimaru said, heading for the door. The clones disappeared as the three of them headed to the exit.
MWUAHAHAHA!
ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER!
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