When Ayame awoke her whole world was moving, up and down and side to side.
"Ugh...Not this again..." she thought.
She opened her eyes and looked up to ask Kabuto to slow down, but it wasn't Kabuto carrying her! It was an Anbu Black Op! She was saved! She then say what was lying ahead of them.
"No!" she screamed.
"I see you're awake." the Anbu said turning back into Kabuto, "Just in time too. We're home Ayame."
"No! Put me down! I wont go back there! I wont!" she screamed struggling against him, only to cause the binding around her hand and feet to get tighter.
"Ow..."
Kabuto carried Ayame into the building dug into the ground.
"A snake hole..." she thought.
They then entered an area of the building Ayame had never been too. The hall way was lined with cells filled with prisoners. He tossed her into an empty cell and cut the binding on her hands and wrists.
"Orochimaru will see you soon." he said leaving the cell locking it behind him. As he walked away Ayame noticed the large red scroll on his back.
"No! But how?!" she wondered.
She looked around taking in her surroundings. She noticed most of the prisoners were men, who were mutated in some way or form. The men noticed her.
"Hey look guys! It's a little girl! Hey little girl! What are you doing here?" one guy said laughing.
"You're scaring her! Hey sweetie! Why don't you give us a show? We haven't had a girl here for a long time!"
"And you said I was scaring her."
Ayame clutched her knees close covering her eyes with her hair, trying to hide her tears from the other prisoners. All of a sudden the guys stopped talking. Ayame tensed up.
"It must be Orochimaru!" she thought.
"Ayame?" a familiar voice questioned.
She looked up and brushed the hair out of her face.
"Sasuke-kun?"
"What are you doing in there, Ayame? Why did you leave?"
"What do you think?! I ran away! I wasn't going to just sit here and let Orochimaru use me!" she shouted.
"Use you? What do mean? What's going on?" he demanded.
She crawled over to the bars and clutched them.
"Don't you know? I thought you were all a part of Orochimaru's elaborate scheme!"
"Orochimaru's affairs don't concern me. All I am here for is to get stronger so I can kill my brother. I have nothing to do with what ever he has planned for you."
"He killed my family!" she sobbed, "All for personal gain and now he needs to use me to gain more power. I don't know why he kept me alive... I can't even read the stupid scroll! I never got a chance to learn how to read or write the invisible messages...When he finds out the truth... I'll never see Rai again."
Sasuke was just about to say something when Orochimaru approached them.
"Sasuke, what did I say about conversing with the prisoners?"
Sasuke said nothing looking away from Ayame and Orochimaru.
"Welcome back Ayame. I missed you so much." he said in an eerie tone.
Ayame let go of the bars and glared at him staring to shake as he approached the bars. He held onto the bars and looked directly into her eyes.
"Now that you're here, let's get down to business. You are going to read the scroll for me or else."
Ayame tried to stop her body from shaking by rubbing her arms up and down. She gathered every last ounce of courage she had and said, "No."
"What did you say?!"
"I said no! I won't read the scroll to you."
His eyes widened in anger. His long serpent like tongue shot out of his mouth and wrapped around Ayame's throat causing her air way to be crushed. She couldn't breath!
She reached her hands up trying to pull the tongue off choking and rasping for air. She could feel herself getting light headed, but before she could pass out Orochimaru removed his tongue causing Ayame to gasp for air, trying to get as much air as possible into her lungs. She rubbed her throat.
"I'm not afraid of you anymore, Orochimaru-sama." She gasped filling her voice with hatred.
She said that, but the truth was she was afraid. Orochimaru terrified her now and would always terrify her. After all these years she still shook in fear when he was around.
"Stop lying to yourself. You are still afraid of me." he said laughing, "Just look at yourself, you're trembling like a lost helpless kitten. But don't worry it'll all be over soon, all you have to do is read the scroll."
"I wont read it. What are you going to do to me? Kill me? As much as it might pain you to say, you need me. You cannot access that jutsu without me."
"Oh, my dear Ayame, there are many things that one can endure without dying."
Then Kabuto approached them.
"Lord Orochimaru."
"What is it?! Can't you see I'm busy?"
"It's just that we have a visitor."
He glared at Kabuto.
"Fine."
He turned back to Ayame and said in a low eerie voice, "Think about it."
He turned from the cell and glanced over at Sasuke.
"Let's go Sasuke. We need to get rid of this pest."
Sasuke hesitated for a minute, glancing back at Ayame, then followed Orochimaru and Kabuto out of the hall.
