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Chapter 13
Bonds and Dying
Written by Dancer of the Shadows

"Don't worry child, your friend will be fine. I just need to discuss the situation that just happened," he said walking again. I stared after him for a few seconds before sucking up my pride and beginning to walk after him. I didn't want to be alone with this creep nor did I want Alicia to be alone with Kabuto. I didn't trust him at all and there was nothing that would make me trust him, and I would under no circumstances ever trust Orochimaru. But that didn't mean I could act like I did. We walked in silence for what seemed like forever which may be a possibility. These hallways were ridiculously long and they didn't have to be, I hardly believe that more than 200 people live here, please 50 would be more accurate. I didn't even try to memorize these halls it was useless, I knew that for sure. I would probably be stuck here for the rest of my life, I closed my eyes, and I really want to go home. And that dream I had only made my homesickness increase ten-fold.

We had finally reached the room that he was leading me too, he opened the door and signaled for me to go inside. I once again hesitated but this time for only a second because I didn't want to seem rude so I walked inside. When we were both inside he turned to me and told me to sit down, which I complied to. Normally I wouldn't be so obedient but I wanted to play off that we trusted them. It might work in our favor if we do, I just hope Alli has the same idea, although that does seem unlikely she's seems to be just a little more trusting than me. At times she seems to be an 'act first, ask questions later' kind of person. I probably should inform her of my plan before she goes and blows it but we're dealing with Orochimaru here, he could have a doppelganger pretend to be her, and that would not be good.

I snapped out of my thoughts as I heard a soft grunt which caused me to look over at Orochimaru who was currently checking me out. Ew, that's kind of nasty. I suddenly began to feel very self-conscious, I was half-naked in a room with a pedophile, who I quite personally thought was gay but judging by the way he's looking at me I don't think so anymore.

"Hmm, the man who just claimed your friend's name is Haru Kujakani." He said it strangely; I bit my lip why would he try to help me when he knows I would make an attempt at killing this 'Haru' guy. He wasn't that cruel as to practically sentence his own men to death, but then again didn't he use those sound guys as a sacrifice when he was fighting the Sandaime.

"…Claimed?" I whispered more to myself than him, but he decided to elaborate for my sake.

"The chakra you and your friend—"

"Alicia."

"Alicia possess is different than regular chakra. It has strange properties, these properties have many flaws and thus when ever you are to have physical contact with another man you would become instantly bonded." I tried to take all of what he was talking about in, and then it hit me.

"They can't be separated."

"Exactly, and if they are they will both die. However Haru already knows this and that's why he decided to bond with her, because once you are bonded they one you are bonded with will gain all of you powers."

"And if one of the bonded were to die?" I asked even though I probably already knew the answer.

"I can only assume the other would die as well."

Dammit, this news had only pissed me off. This wasn't good; I could only guess that in order to counteract the bond you'd have to bond with someone else, but it'd probably have to be more special. But that only pressed onto one other more important point, why would he tell me. I know Orochimaru wouldn't have told me this without an ulterior motive. I narrowed my eyes which only caused a smirk to erupt on his pale face. I bet he could practically see the wheels in my head turning and then the light bulb went off. He wasn't trying to get us to trust him, not at all, he just wanted to get close enough to us and separate us. That's what this was about it was never about trust, it was always about us. He knew our chakra was special and because of that he wanted it all to himself, but he needed to stop us from being able to leave. That's what Kabuto was for he wasn't there to guard us, like we could have found our way out anyway. He was there to make an attempt at bonding with one of us.

I stood up abruptly and tried to run however he was in front of me before I was able to even take one step. I stared up at him in shock; I hadn't realized how fast ninja's truly were. I began to hate that smirk even more now than I ever had before. His pretty golden eyes were staring down at me with a mixture of malice and bloodlust. He didn't even care about me or anything that had happened to me all he wanted was power. I tried to push past him and run out of the room but he just used his arm and pushed me back into the chair. However that didn't stop me from rolling over the side of it and trying to run to the door once more. The only thing that did stop me was when a boa constrictor looking snake wrapped its way around my leg and pushed me to the ground. I fell to the ground with a giant bang and an 'oof'. I suddenly began to slid back wards and as I turned to see what was dragging me backwards I realized it was the snake and it was trying to bring me back to Orochimaru, who had an amused grin on his face however he was only looking one place. I instantly regretted my clothing choice, because the snake was pulling me back the skirt was moving up. I bit my lip and tried to reach forward and scratched at the stone floor trying to get away from him. I took my right leg which was free from the snake's grip and I began to use it to slow down my pace as soon as I completely stopped moving I turned myself and sat up trying to get the snake off. Although Orochimaru just began to close the few feet between us and then reached down and grabbed my arm pulling me upright. Which incidentally caused the snake to slide off my leg and slither off somewhere.

"You will be mine, little Caity-chan."

"I belong to no one."

My voice was full of rage and hate as I glared down at the sick pedophile that older than my own parents. However that wasn't what got me, what got me was him trying to claim me. No one tells me what to do, I was amazingly stubborn in that aspect, I never obeyed anyone unless it worked into my own agenda or was my parents. No one else ever got to tell me what to do; no one forced me to do anything I didn't want to do either. An example would be when my teachers tried to make me dissect something, it wasn't gonna happen*. I was never going to kill a living thing no matter what, unless they threatened my life of my family's life.

"We'll see."

"I guess we will."

He then pushed me up against the wall and began trying to kiss me; he forced my lips open and then stuck his nasty long tongue in my mouth. I reflexively bit down hard, and he pulled away from me causing my to fall to the ground. I stared up at him as blood began to pool out of his mouth; he glared down at me and then kicked me in the gut. My back slammed into the wall and it cracked under the pressure. I gasped an blood flew out of mouth as well and I felt a numbing pain race through my stomach. I then felt a blood begin to run down my legs and onto the floor in massive amounts.

"You are lucky you are useful to me, if your friend wasn't already bonded, you'd be dead right now." He warned me while walking away, Suddenly Kabuto's arms wrapped around me and then before I knew it I was laying down on a hard stone bed in what I could only guess was the infirmary. The blood didn't stop however and soon my own blood was pooling off the table and dripping onto the floor.

"She's going into shock!"

Was that a man's voice I couldn't tell, I think there was more than one person around me. I began to shake wildly as more blood continued to gush out of me, I was beginning to see black around the edges of my vision and I tried to take in more breath as I found it hard to breathe now. My body began to slow down from my shaking and it was getting harder and harder to breathe and I was beginning to lose feeling in my whole body.

"She's losing too much blood, she's gonna die!"

…There voices, there so far away. It doesn't hurt anymore, am I falling asleep?

Dying?

Is this what dying feels like? Should I be scared, should this hurt?

I continued to ask myself questions as everything began to merge together and all sound seemed to escape my ears except for one.

"She's going into cardiac arrest!"

And then nothing.

*Frogs are still alive when people dissect them, they are just in a dormant state, meaning they are basically asleep.

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Closing statements

Caitlynn: I just died

Alicia: That sucks

Caitlynn: I guess I'm not in the story anymore or something

Alicia: Yeah...

Caitlynn: Great job on being more sympathetic