Surane: Well, it may have been a few months but I finally have a stinking life…
Muffn: Finally! Oh yeah, baby! (playing mindless video game and not listening to Surane)
Surane: Ahem…
Muffn: What?
Gaara: Apparently, she wants you to listen…
Muffn: Make me…
Surane: Okay…Muffn, you are fired.
Muffn: What!?! You can't fire me!
Surane: Apparently, I can…take her away!
Muffn: No! No! Noooooooooooooo!
(they literary take her away)
Surane: Um I was kidding…heh
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Claimer: We do own Surane and Shita.
ok, readers, srry about the drastically long wait, i know i have been distracted and, no it has not been a year since i last updated, finally i have a journal to help organize my story ideas and im completely crazy
Is everyone happy now?
Even though Sasuke's mission was to separate the girl from Itachi, he could help but hesitate. Maybe this was a good chance to take the jump on Itachi…
Suddenly, a kunai appeared at his neck and a familiar voice loomed over him.
"I don't think so…"
Now:
"Kabuto…this is my mission. Leave me alone." Sasuke spat in Kabuto's face.
"Well, Orochimaru recently gave explicit instructions for you to go in front of the main entrance to make sure that neither of those two escapes."
"Great, he gave his new host a century duty. Nice…"
"I would be nice if I were you." Kabuto remarked.
Sasuke did a 180 and faced him. "What are you talking about? I am nice to him; when I want to be."
"I meant me dumb butt. Just go already!"
"Fine, you're snappier than usual." Sasuke retaliated.
Doing so, the raven-haired teen walked briskly to the head of the base and sulkily took watch. The surrounding forest had a dense green aura floating about. As usual the birds and the occasional rabbit were not flying or hopping around, thanks to Orochimaru's pet snakes that roamed the grounds. Sasuke sighed at the thought of this boring normal position.
"Wait a second! This is supposed to be Kabuto's shift!"
Kabuto came out of his hole in the ground and looked up at him. "It is. What are you doing up there?"
Ignoring the real Kabuto, Sasuke cursed to himself, "Itachi…."
"You know, I shouldn't do any of your dirty work for you. It's not my job." Surane contradicted.
She had just produced a nearly perfect clone of Kabuto and without reference too. Difficult, yes, but nonetheless it was a special skill of Uchihas, forging fakes.
"Your job is to listen to me; no questions, no problem unless you're dying that is. That's how I picture an apprentice." Itachi said plainly.
Surane continued looking throughout the walls of Orochimaru's lair, searching for the gay snake himself. Despite this task proving difficult, her Mangekyou was wearing down on her stamina. Yawning from her lack of sleep, she aimed her Sharingan outside to see the sun was almost above the horizon.
"Darn, I so freakin' tired…it seem that we have gone in circles. Maybe, we should have listened to Itachi-sensei and waited until dawn…"
"Shut up, Shiriki…Proving yourself to your sensei is a must for anyone…"
"Whatever…"
"Jeez, you're grumpy this morning…"
"Oh and watch out for the sound trio heading our way…"
"WHAT!?!"
As if on queue, three random sound ninja came up to them, weapons ready and all. Surane whipped her braided hair around and immediately had two demon wind shurikens in her hands. Surprisingly, her 2-foot long braid had whipped into a face of the closest sound-ninja which was about to stab Itachi in the back. He fell weakly.
Itachi kill his enemy in a matter of seconds, without Mangekyou.
"Hmph" he grinned.
Surane had a bit of trouble with her foe. He was a swift dodger as well as ninjutsu. The youngest Uchiha had her faulty moments with this one. As she backed away from him, the shinobi on the ground was slowly recovering and was getting ready to strike Surane in the leg. Fortunately, Itachi slit his throat in the nick of time.
"Why didn't you give a warning?" His question sounded more like a demand.
Surane finally delivered a fatal blow to his head, after tripping him backwards. Blood had filled the long hallway and a small river formed and flowed down.
"Um, I had a small blank moment back there-Hey lets follow the blood!"
He gave a look of question then disapproval to her suggestion. Doing so, he walked the opposite way, the way they just came.
Surane glared at him and watched his retreating back in the candlelight. Looking the other way, she ran into the darkness away from her sensei and her only protection.
The middle Uchiha ran back inside past Kabuto. His Sharingan eyes flared wildly with every step he took. Orochimaru could sense his power thickening and growing on the inside.
"Heh, my little protégé has found an enticing prey." Orochimaru grinned. "I should introduce myself before this will get out of hand."
He continued slithering through the hallways of his supposedly 'secret' base and made his way to the grand audience chamber.
Along the way a fellow shinobi came up to him.
"Sir, we have affirmed that both Akatsuki members are in the building. One of which is Uchiha scent and the other is…"
"Spit it out, man. I haven't got all day…" The head snake scoffed.
"Its Sasori's cloak but it's not Sasori himself."
"Hmph…it's that girl I tried to kill earlier. Same orders apply: bring this girl to my lair, now!"
Sasuke ran through the hallways aimlessly, until he sensed a Sharingan presence that had just passed by. He glanced down and saw bloody footprints followed by a small river of ruby red blood with a stench of murder.
"Itachi's work no doubt…" Sasuke mused.
He rushed down the hallway, following the footprints. After a few minutes, he arrived to one of the many entrances to the audience chamber. The doors were cracked open a slight bit, shedding very little light into the dark hallway.
To his surprise he found…
Surane cautiously inched her way through the audience chamber. With every step, Shiriki was going berserk! If anything was worse, there was the underlying feeling that someone was watching her…maybe two some ones…
"Ok, let's get the heck out of here please!"
"No, I've worked too hard to get this far to turn around."
"Not that, I meant let's get back to Sensei. He's gonna be so ticked when he sees that you are not behind him."
"I have followed that man for nearly 3 years. I'm not going back to his side again. There's a plan involved here…"
"What are you saying?"
"I paid a small visit to Tsunade a while back. You must have been sleeping, while she and I devised a small plan to get a certain person back to the Hidden Leaf Village."
Tsunade shuffled her endless paperwork around, not really paying attention to what was written but listening to a 16-year old girl in her office. Afterwards, the girl sat down in the chair in front of her desk. The Hokage put the papers down and stood in silence for a few seconds.
"So, you're saying if we do that, then we could acquire our two Uchihas back and out of the hands of our enemies. But, Surane-"
Surane stood back up. "Lady Hokage, I'm sacrificing myself for the greater good and better future of this village by being a temporary double agent for you. The prize will be a former shinobi of this village."
"I figured we would have two shinobi back considering yourself as an equivalent." the blonde mused.
"I am still a shinobi of this village. I never joined the Akatsuki under my own self-being...it was Sasuke who left." Surane countered.
Tsunade thought to herself, while thumbing through more paperwork.
"You seriously think this will work, huh Surane?"
"I am most positively sure it will…as long as that backup will be waiting for my signal, it will work."
Surane's deep ebony eyes shone with the light in the room, showing a promise of commitment to Tsunade. This in turn gave Tsunade a new hope for the village's future.
Lady Hokage deeply sighed and said, "I have all faith in you that this will work."
"Thank you, ma'am."
The young Uchiha bowed graciously and turned to leave the Hokage office. Just reaching the door, Tsunade grinned at her.
"Surane, it was very nice to see you again, and you are becoming a strong young woman like I predicted."
Surane nodded her head, to herself in happiness. Someone was finally proud of her.
After a small flashback, Surane continued her inching away towards the center of the room. She slowly crept her way past the pillars of candles. Her katana was brandished and ready for more action. She moved along the lights from the pillars.
Silent shadows slithered past her own; voices could be heard echoing from wall to pillar and back to wall. Every single glance that was taken could be the last or another chance to move your eyes before dying. Rarely, anyone was able to escape the lair much less this particular room.
Finally, footsteps were heard coming from the door Surane had entered through. The massive doors slammed shut and sounded as if they bolted shut.
"So much for an exit…" Shiriki whispered in Surane's head.
"No, there should be more doors around here. Especially if this is the audience chamber, there is at least one trap door and another formal entrance." Surane had thought all of this through.
Suddenly, another door bolted tight with a loud bang, like a shotgun.
"There goes that 'formal' exit…"
Surane had just then felt scared. She didn't have Itachi to protect her now, because she wanted to be an individual away from the Akatsuki. Now, her life was on the line even greater than when she entered this room. Her fate was sealed after the first step inside.
Voices bounced off the walls again and they came to her just a few mere seconds after being said.
"Find the intruder…"
"Bring its' head to Orochimaru and he will pay handsomely."
Surane leaned farther into the pillar, on the verge of crying her heart out for Sensei. If this was to be the end, alone and forgotten, then it would be done. No one had cared for her or loved her as a sister anymore, not even Itachi.
The answers to her life, that she sought most, could not be found.
Suddenly, an older male teen jumped in front of her and held a kunai to her throat. She let a small tear fall on her cheek and drop to the ground. The teen wiped the stripe of wetness off her face and whispered in her ear.
"You need to get out of here…now"
suspense...oh you all can live until then...