Cure Me
This was a challenge a friend of mine wanted me to do. The challenge was to do an AnkoxKabuto pairing since barely any exist whatsoever. I'm going to try my hardest to make this work so bare with me.
Thank you again for the reviews I really appreciate them. This chapter I had fun writing. R&R
I don't own Naruto...unfortunately
Chp. 9
Cold chills consume Kabuto and his heart skips from the sudden surprise of them being already at the door. Being a skilled spy he easily keeps his nerves calmed.
"There you are. We both have been looking for you all morning. Where have you been?" Orochimaru says cutting the silence. Sasuke just stares, no emotion in his coal black eyes.
"I have been doing what you've assigned me to do, Lord Orochimaru, which is taking care of Anko, right?" Kabuto replies calmly with a bit of sarcasm to his tone. He pushes up his glasses for reassurance. Orochimaru's smile slightly twists from the sarcastic remark. Sasuke lets out a soft but rude grunt and Kabuto glares at him from the corner of his eyes slightly.
"Hm…I'm guessing she has given you another hard time, you're covered in sweat boy." Orochimaru waits for his respond.
"Well she is a former student of yours, I'm sure you know she can be a bit feisty at times" this makes Orochimaru frown a bit and his tone deepens.
"Your sarcasm never ceases to entertain me, Kabuto."
"Well I was just saying…"
"That's beside the point. I've come to ask you about the state of the seal." He asks in a hurry.
"Ah the seal…she's come close to fully reach level one; however it just merely recedes before it can completely spread across her body. So right now, if it can't even reach one level, extracting it would be a failure. There's a chance of her dying and or the extraction will become unstable and fall apart causing reverse effects." He says pushing up his glasses again (a bad habit) and casually wiping the sweat from his forehead. Orochimaru pauses for a second staring at the door to her room. He glances at Sasuke, who is paying no mind but making Kabuto uncomfortable.
"I see…she's the same as I left her. She still has the lack of craving for power and hate. I would think leaving her, would have her develop a strong enough hate towards me to take her to the next level…" A large serpentine smile stretches across his pale face. Kabuto's face grows concerned.
"Well, if this is the problem, then I guess I will have to take matters into my own hands…" he says with a little hiss to his chilling voice. Kabuto's eyes shift quickly to Orochimaru moving his hand to the door.
"What plan is this may I ask?" He asks quickly, a little worry in his voice. Orochimaru slowly turns his head facing Kabuto with a blank stare.
"Hm?"
"I mean…she's not fully recovered at this moment, anymore stress to her tattered body will affect the seal…" He replies quickly trying to correct what he said earlier.
Orochimaru pulls back his hand from the door and moves closer to Kabuto. The distance between them is barely an inch apart. Kabuto tries to keep himself from backing away. His confidence is slightly worn away.
"You seem readily concern for her all of a sudden…" His face was dangerously close to his. "…Just a day ago you seemed very bitter towards her…" Orochimaru grabs at his chin with some applied pressure and makes sure his assistant has a good look into his yellow slit eyes. "If it's rest that she needs in concern for the extraction of the seal…then I guess I'll let her be for the day…" Kabuto feels slightly paralyzed looking into the eyes of his leader. He wonders if he has found out that he has healed her against his order. If that were the case, consequences would be served.
Sasuke let's out a rude impatient sound. Orochimaru narrows his eyes from his student's rude noises.
"Hm…I will meet up with you later around 9 pm then. There are some things I will need for you to do for the night while she … hmph … recovers …" the last word he said sounded like the flicker of a snake's tongue.
Orochimaru lets go of Kabuto's chin and not with out leaving a slight bit of bruising. He walks off into the corridor; Sasuke follows but stops before he is completely out of Kabuto's sight.
"Heh, you're such a servant boy…" Sasuke lets out with a soft chuckle. Kabuto jerks his head up to the insult with a slightly aggravated look upon his face.
"What was that!?"
"I do not need to repeat myself, and I'd watch that mouth of yours."
"I don't have to listen to you…"
"I think you do, you know clearly that I am much stronger than you will ever be, and I'm sure Orochimaru would love to hear about your performance last night involving that woman." Kabuto's provoked eyes turn concerned.
"Wait…what…?"
"Yeah you heard me," Sasuke's eyes turn from his typical black coals to the crimson red of the sharingan. Kabuto gets a bit intimidated.
"I saw everything, from last night and this morning. So if you don't want to be under the wrath of your master, servant boy, you'd keep that mouth of yours under control around me." Sasuke says with no signs of real emotion. He waits for Kabuto to attempt a witty reply, but only sees him looking away with a sign of inner frustration. Sasuke simply turns around and walks off slowly into the corridor.
"Hmph…you have no voice. One more suggestion…" Kabuto just looks back to him with out responding. "You should pay more close attention to your articles…as well as your captives…" he disappears around a corner.
The words of Sasuke have thrown Kabuto into a world of frustration. 'What the hell is he talking about, pay attention to my…' he goes into his pockets while thinking and finds them to be empty. '…The KEYS!' He turns to the door and darts in. Anko is gone again. He runs to check into the small bathroom and fails to find her there too. He runs back into the room and searches again.
A faint squeaking noise, similar to the sound of old rusted metal rubbing against each other, is heard above him. His head shoots up. The cover of the vent was unlocked and swung opened. Kabuto almost slaps his forehead when he realizes what she has been doing all along.
"Dammit, Anko..." He yells aloud but not too loud that anyone outside could hear. '…I…heh…I cannot believe she seduced me to get my keys…and it worked…' he walks to where he is directly underneath the vent. '…She has taken advantage of the fact I have accidentally screwed with the cells that control hormone levels in the body and used it against me.' Instead of getting mad and ranting about it he just bursts out laughing. 'She's not as dumb as I thought…' He hurries out of the room and looks in different directions to guess where she may have gone. '…And…I think I had just let her take advantage…of me…' he takes off running down the halls.
Elsewhere, in a different perspective…
"Curse this damned gown!" Anko mumbles to herself while crawling through the cramped vents and trying to tug her gown (the crappy gowns they have people wear in hospital) down. The keys dangle and clang on the sides of the vents while Anko desperately tries to see in the almost pure blackness. She almost throws a fit for not being able to see or fully turn around in such a tight space. She starts panting again once she stops to break.
"I…don't know what the hell he did to me…but my muscles still feel like rubber. Not to mention the strange sensation I had over my body…" she ponders staring into the darkness. 'Ah well, it just made it easier for me to get close enough for though keys…though…he never did answer why he kept helping me…' her mind tries to find all the possible reasons but she shrugs it off and continues forward.
A small ray of light hits the left side of her face and she quickly turns her head towards it like a moth to a flame.
"Light finally! Must be another…door!" She crawls towards it; slowly and silently she unlocks the vent and lifts the door. She pokes her head through it. Regardless of the morning sun shining through the tiny bars, the room was also exceptionally dark. She was about to fully stick her body out of the vent when she hears someone talking.
"Why…not just eat the next human I see? Isn't that what these snakes here do?"
Upon hearing this Anko withdraws back a little into the vent, a little worried.
"Ooh, I know, I'll eat the free roaming snakes that try to come in here yeah!"
Anko's face is in awe at the random craziness of this conversation this person is having.
"Maybe he's sleep talking and I can drop down here and sneak out…" Anko says silently to her self. She sends out one small shadow snake, and dangles it down just in front of the talking person. There is no sound. Anko assumes that the person really was asleep, and starts to retract the snake so she can climb out.
There is a bit of tension when she tries to retrieve the snake.
"Snake…SNAKE!!!!!SNAKE!!!!" The person screams, who sounds like a man, at Anko's snake. Apparently he has taken grip of the and he was not letting go. Anko tries to bring it back to keep him from yelling some more, but her body is still limp from performance Kabuto did on her body.
'Shit, let GO!' she screams in her mind. 'Dammit, I'll just have to…" she takes the keys and finds one that is sharp. She starts slicing away at the poor snake. It lets out a painful hiss and the man squeezes at it harder.
"SNAKE!!! HE'S HERE HE'S HERE!!! SNAKE!!!"
'Shut up! Arrrg, cut damn you!' Anko, in her final might, slices through the snake, releasing it. Blood flies everywhere, and the snake finally falls limp and dies. She quickly pulls up the vent door and scurries away to find another exit in the dark vents. She can still hear the man screaming about the snake.
"Dammit, I can't make another mistake like that again! One more mess up and I'll surely be found!" She tries to calm her self down to keep her elbows and knees from hitting the metal as hard.
Upon, rushing through the hallways, Kabuto here's a prisoner screaming in one of the rooms. He rushes towards the room and places his ear on the door to hear what he is yelling about. 'Snake?'
He bangs on the large door, for he cannot unlock it.
"Hey, what's going on in there?!" He yells out to the man.
"A snake! It came from above my head!! It's come to take me away!!"
"Calm down! I'm sure it was just a wandering snake, nothing more. It's not going to bother you…" He says slowly walking away from the door thinking to his self. 'Anko must've attempted to escape through there. I better go get spare keys before she messes up and runs into the wrong room.' He darts off.
"Hey…uh, can I get some food, it's almost noon and no one has came by to give me my food yet…hello? You still there?..." The man in the room says, not realizing he's only talking to no one.
"I got to find Karin, she has the keys and can sense chakra fast and easy…" Kabuto says aloud to his self.
He heads to her room. 'I'm losing my touch…Both her and Sasuke has turned the tables on me at the same time…I'm starting to turn back to a nobody, especially if I let such a ninja like Anko get away that easy. There is no way I can let a kunoichi out smart me again!' He finds her room and knocks on it. There is no answer. He knocks harder, still no answer.
"Dammit Karin! I know you are in here! I know your schedule, so you are in here…" He yells, but there is no use, there is no answer. "Maybe she's not in there. Damn, how am I…"
He calms his nerves and starts thinking to his self. 'Okay, she couldn't have gotten too far, especially with her muscles relaxed like that. If I was a prisoner weakened, and desperately trying to escape where would I go…' after a few moments of thinking, his eyes shoot open. A sign of a plan can be seen through his eyes and he runs off to a different location.
Anko continues through the dark vents, skipping past the ones that lead into other prisoner rooms. She doesn't want to mess up and get into any unnecessary quarrels drawing attention to her. 'I will have to find one that leads out the building itself' she says to herself, almost slapping herself for not making it her first choice. She sees another light, this time it's a lot brighter, with a scent of fresh pine and the air fills thick from humidity. She crawls to the vent that, instead of laying horizontal with the floor of the vent, lays vertical in front of her. She peers out of it and she is overly excited.
"Is it?...Is it really the exit to the outside?" She pants from excitement, for her body is still weak. She quickly tries every key till one of them fit into the slot, she troubles with the lock, due to excitement, and finally opens it. She leaps out and silently lands onto the ground outside the building she has been kept prisoner in.
The morning sun that shines through the thick forest is quick to hit her face and eyes almost blinding her. She's been in the dark, depressing rooms for far too long. She takes a while to breathe in the moisture thick air, filled with the scent of pine that the large trees give off. It almost makes her dizzy, as a slight breeze whips against her warm skin, which is covered with sweat and dirt. Even the sand and grass between her toes feels comforting compared to the cold hard floor she was almost accustomed to in the room she was kept in.
"Enjoying the weather as I see?" says another voice over the chirping birds and breeze.
To be continued...