Chapter 10 - No Place To Run
As Sora left the village, she decides to camp out at a grass area while she realizes that its too dark to see anything. The following morning she gets up and walks to the forest where the sun was shining brightly. Sora saw a bunch of rabbits getting close to her as they wanted to get some food.
"Aww look at the cute bunnies. Here you can have some of my bread if you'd like".
Sora continues to walk until she feels a rough, cold wind brushing her face. She then hears a screechy laugh circling the trees. All the animals, especially the squirrels ran fast.
"Hello. Who is there?"
Suddenly, leaves start to circle themselves and a dark figure appears in front of Sora.
"I know who you are. You are Orochimaru. Please tell me where Sasuke is".
Orochimaru speaks. "Well what do we have here. A lost little girl wanting dear Sasuke. I'll tell you where he is if you fight me".
Sora throws a bunch of kunai, but Orochimaru dodges it and tries to stretch his way to Sora. Sora quickly dodges and uses a hand sign. Orochimaru throws a hit, but Sora uses a substitution jutsu to distract him. She then uses fireball jutsu on Orochimaru, but since Orochimaru is one of the legendary Sanin, he quickly dodges it and leaps in the air. Sora falls to the ground tired from fighting, but once Orochimaru tries to get another hit, she uses chidori. It hits Orochimaru's stomach, but he was able to get away from it. Sora then breathes heavily.
"Hahaha. You learn so fast from Sasuke. You are strong, but not at Sasuke's level".
Then, Orochimaru stretches his head and Sora tries to dodge it, but is in fear until Orochimaru bites the back of her neck. Sora is in great pain that she realized that Orochimaru has placed a curse mark on her neck.
"Ooowww. This pain is awful. Why did you do this?"
"I only wanted to test your strength. The hideout isn't far from here, just go straight that way if you can. If you survive all the way, I'll let you be one of my trainees. So long, Sora. Hahahaha".
Sora falls to the ground in pain from the curse mark that Orochimaru had given her. It was burning from her skin, that she could not stop yelling. At this point she wanted to give up, but she could not think straight with the burn that consumed her chakra. The animals saw Sora on the ground and tried to get her up. She thought about her purpose and realized that she needed to go after Sasuke, so Sora gets up, grabs her kunai, and crawls her way to Orochimaru's hideout with the pain still burning in her neck.
Meanwhile at Orochimaru's hideout, Sasuke finishes his training and goes outside to get some air. He sits on a rock and pulls out a picture of Sora, smiling and feeling sad that she was not here. He decides to go back inside and sleep, but Sasuke isn't able to sleep without Sora by her side. He misses her and wants to feel her soft skin on his hands. At the other room, Kabuto senses a person coming to the hideout and checks to see who it is.
As he goes outside, Kabuto sees a girl crawling her way to the hideout with not much energy left. She falls to the ground and with some energy left she says something.
"Please…help me. I…need help. I need…to find him".
She passes out. Kabuto checks her pulse and as he does, he sees that Orochimaru has placed a curse mark like Sasuke's on the back of her neck.
"What did Lord Orochimaru do to this girl. No matter, I have to check and heal her".
Kabuto felt this strange feeling with this girl in his hands, but he could not help but find her innocent when seeing her. He heals her and is shocked that she was able to survive the curse mark just as Sasuke and Anko did. This girl looks like an Uchiha. Could it be one of Orochimaru's failed experiments he was talking about? Kabuto finishes healing her and she wakes up, opening her eyes slowly.
"Where am I? Am I in Orochimaru's hideout?"
"Yes you are. What dragged you over here to get to this place?"
"I was…looking for my friend. Have you seen him? His… name is…Sasuke. I'm still tired I have…to…"
"Don't worry he's here. Just get some rest okay".
Sora goes back to sleep and Kabuto leaves in order to inform Sasuke that Sora had been looking for him. He enters Sasuke's room and tries to talk to him smoothly since Sasuke can be stubborn to talk too.
"Did you get any rest Sasuke? I didn't mean to wake you up, but something came up".
"Whatever it is, it can wait. I haven't been able to sleep since I came here. What do you want huh!"
"There's a girl with raven, black, long hair with a blue blouse on the other room looking for you. She's very beat up and exhausted".
"No! Can it be! Where is she?"
"She's at the other room Sasuke. I just told you. She's sleeping so its best not to wake her up. It took her a lot of chakra to come here".
Sasuke gets up and runs to the room where Sora might be in. He sees Sora lying on a bed with her eyes closed. He gets a chair and sits by her bedside. Sasuke puts his hand on her cheek and begins to smile a little until he sees black marks at the back of her neck. Sasuke gets a closer look to see that Sora has the same curse mark as he does and starts to get very angry inside. Sasuke was about to leave until Sora opens her eyes again to see who was touching her.
"Hmm. Sasuke is that you? It is!" She hugs him with excitement. "I missed you so much. I'm glad I made it".
"Its good to see you again. How did you get here?"
"I don't remember, but I walked here and that's all I can remember. I'm tired and hurt everywhere. I think I'll sleep a little longer".
"All right".
Sasuke leaves Sora's room and heads to Orochimaru and as he enters, Sasuke activates his Sharingan.
"Sasuke. What brings you here?"
"I want you to answer me. What the hell were you thinking about giving Sora that curse mark in her body? She could have died. You better answer me or else I'll kill you".
That's it for this chapter. The next chapters might go fast, but it is a genjutsu after all. Thanks for reading.