Sorry this is so late. My laptop screen was broken for months.
I do not own Naruto!
Orochimaru and Jiraiya stood in the doorway of Kabuto's bedroom. Watching as Tsunade pulled the blankets up over his prone form.
"How is he?" Orochimaru questioned quietly looking quizzically at his fellow sannin. Tsunade looked up and smiled a little.
"He'll be fine with a little rest. He should be up and about tomorrow." she said as she tucked the blankets around Kabuto. Orochimaru gave a relieved smile and sat down on the edge of the bed. Tsunade and Jiraiya shared a look and then looked to Orochimaru.
"Well Orochimaru if I didn't know any better I'd say that you're worried about him." Tsunade said in an almost playful voice. Orochimaru stiffened and glared at them.
"I am not! He's my medic and right hand man I wouldn't be able to run the village with out him that's all." Orochimaru snapped not meeting either of their gazes. Jiraiya frowned a little and moved towards the upset man.
"You know Orochimaru there's nothing wrong with caring for him." he said quietly gesturing towards Kabuto.
"I'm perfectly aware of that but I cannot afford it right now." Orochimaru snapped again obviously stressed and upset. Jiraiya nodded and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"It'll be okay. We'll find out whats going on and fix all of this." He said shocking the other two with his rare moment of sensitivity. Orochimaru smiled slightly and then got up and moved towards the door to the room.
"Thank you. I'm going to go to bed." he said softly giving Jiraiya and odd look as he left the room and made his way towards his own room.
Orochimaru flinched as yet another black figure darted across the hall in front of him. The nervous sannin closed his eyes as he shut the bedroom door behind him.
'It's all just in your head.' he thought to himself as he pulled the blanket up over his legs and laid down quickly falling into an uneasy sleep.
"Orochimaru- sama are you sure you feel up to this?" Kabuto whispered softly as they made their way into the woods surrounding the village. Orochimaru looked at Kabuto and frowned a little.
"We need to find out what attacked you and kill it before it tries to hurt any other villagers." the sannin replied quietly glancing over Kabuto worriedly.
"How are you feeling?" Orochimaru continued glancing over at the medic curiously. Kabuto smiled slightly at him.
"I'm just a little sore Orochimaru- sama but I'm okay." he replied softly taking in the sannin's exhausted appearance.
"Are you okay?" he then said looking at the older man worriedly. Orochimaru narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I'm fine Kabuto-kun. I just didn't sleep very well last night. He replied softly smiling slightly at Kabuto as they made their way to the cliff where Kabuto was attacked. As they went off in separated ways around the cliff searching for clues Orochimaru glanced back towards the woods and stopped.
"Sora?" he whispered to himself moving a few steps closer to the woods. Orochimaru glanced back towards Kabuto and then back at Sora.
"If I call out to him she'll heard me. I'd better go alone and she what she's up to. And then I have got to stop talking to myself." he whispered again with a slightly disturbed look.
Orochimaru silently shadowed Sora as she walked though the woods to a secluded clearing. Orochimaru frowned slightly and quietly adjusted his body on the branch.
'What are you up too...?" Orochimaru thought. Sora smirked as a person hidden in shadows moved though the clearing towards her. Orochimaru let out an inaudible gasp as he saw them shadowed person.
'Thais the same person I saw her with the first time with Jiraiya.' he thought shocked. He frowned again as the thought about the implications of this meeting.
'I bet that person is the same one I keep seeing in the house.' Orochimaru thought then his eyes widened slightly.
'What if the creature is connected to Sora as well. And her coming her was simply a rouse to get to me or the others.' he thought Tsunadae, Jiraiya, and Kabuto's faces flashing before his eyes.
'I've got to warn them.' he thought frantically as he launched off the branch. He was so absorbed in his frantic worry that he didn't even notice when Sora preformed several hand signs in quick succession and several bright blue bugs came shooting out from her sleeves.
Orochimaru was several trees away when he heard the buzzing. Flinging a concerned glance over his shoulder he gasped speeding up a little.
"What are those...?" he gasped as he leaped to another branch. Orochimaru glanced back again and gasped a little as he noticed how much closer they had gotten.
"My cover's defiantly blown." He whispered softly to himself. Taking a gasping breath he screamed for Kabuto just as the blue bugs over took him.
'I'm not finding anythings so far just a few hairs.' Kabuto thought to himself disgruntled.
"Maybe Orochimaru-sama fared better." Kabuto said tho himself and he looked over his shoulder for the sannin spinning around when he didn't see him.
"Orohimaru-sama?" Kabuto called worriedly looking around. 'Maybe he went to look in the woods?' Kabuto questioned himself as he made his way worriedly o the woods. The moment he steeped thought the trees he heard his name being screamed. Kabuto's eyes widened.
"Orochimaru-sama!"
Once again sorry it took so long for me to update. I'll be updating every Wednesday from now on. Please review!