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The skies were grey. The clouds were grey. The lightning was grey. The Hidden Rock Village was a depressing sight.
By the way, the rocks were grey and the house were grey and the dust was grey.
It was basically, grey as hell.
Hidan, now fully healed, and wearing a Akatsuki robe by his own choice (and to differentiate himself from the other cultists), wasn't very sure of all this ritual thing. I mean, he entered Jashin so he could slaughter as many people as he could, not for some god to do this for him.
He hit his own head as he realized he was doubting Jashin.
No, he was doubting Orochimaru. The son of a bitch was really scaring him. Somehow. It was the whole "turn into a woman" thing? Or this was really the fact now there was a bunch of people praying along Hidan and that was Orochimaru's fault?
Maybe I'm afraid of crowds.
Orochimaru looked at the Rock Village from the top of a cliff and said.
"What a beautiful Cūn!"
And promptly chewed on a piece of white bread, while Hidan looked at him, confused, along all the Jashin followers behind them.
The Hidden Rock was very similar in appearance to the Hidden Stone, being surrounded by cliffs and located on a valley, on purpose. Those who defected from Onoki's rule wanted to replicate their home, except for that little part where Onoki ordered them to fight his wars.
During the Second Ninja War, the territory around the village became a battlefield and Onoki pretended to annex the village. The third Kazekage, however, wished for a buffer state between the nations of Wind and Earth, and in a act that was seen as reproachable for other villages, said no rogue ninja would be persecuted as once he entered the area between the Land of the Wind and The Land of the Earth.
Soon enough, as the Kazekage predicted, rogue ninjas filled the country and fought for its independence.
And that way, "Outlaw Country" was founded.
The leader of the village determined a few rules, as only allowing rogue ninjas and Rock ninjas inside the country, and only crimes committed against Hidden Rock's citizens would be judged, but aside of that the country was a free-for-all redoubt for rebels, prostitutes, and drug dealers.
The country was a semi-anarchy and only was that way their inhabitants accepted it should be.
Gaara and Onoki were discussing in putting this situation finally to an end, but the dispersion of criminals it would cause certainly don't should be small, and measuring the strength of the country at a given time was impossible. The Hidden Rock could prove to be even more dangerous than the Akatsuki if invaded.
"And that's why we don't should go to Outlaw Country!" said Kiba as Sakura finished her explanation.
"You surely know a lot about things that a normal ninja wouldn't care to know of." said Hanabi, praising Sakura.
"Call me a database, hehe!" answered the pink ninja.
"We just need to keep ourselves low and, in the case anyone asks, we have defected from the Leaf." said Sasuke
"Ha, that will surely be easy to you." said Kiba, angrily, but Sasuke showed no reaction.
"I'm curious." said Hanabi.
"Ahn, about what Hanabi-chan?" said Sakura.
"What we will actually do when we reach that place?"
"We wait." said Sasuke, bluntly.
Kiba didn't understand.
"We're gonna wait? Wait for what? For Orochimaru to announce out loud for the whole world he have an army of crazy berserkers?"
"No, we're gonna wait for Hidan. He surely will be with Orochimaru and, unlike Orochimaru, he will not be using a transformation jutsu. Also, the simple fact he's alive will be news, whether he wants to or not. That is the moment we must attack."
Naruto raised his hand.
"Yes?" said Sasuke.
"Ahn, and how we survive the Rock ninjas and rogue ninjas that will surely freak out and attack us when you splatter blood all over their territory?"
Sasuke gritted his teeth nervously. Stealth kills wasn't something he trained for, and they surely would be outnumbered.
He looked to everyone else but Naruto. Their lives would be at risk in a battle.
"Then we and you will fight and the rest will alert the rest of the world to attack that goddamn village and raze it to the ground if we don't return in three days."
"Sasuke, my god, have you lost your mind? You're thinking too far ahead! Look, the fact is that, whatever Orochimaru is planning to do what he plans to do, it will be the moment that the Rock ninjas we ignore us and focus on...whatever Orochimaru is gonna do. If he really will summon whatever abomination lurks in some alternate hellish dimension using human sacrifices, then everyone who will not be a worshipper will fight for their own survival, because certainly anything involving Jashin will involve mass murder and, surely, it will not be of the painless kind." said Sakura, so quickly that she breathed quickly trying to recuperate her air after that.
Everyone stared at Sakura, surprised that she talked so much.
"I agree with her." said Hanabi,
Akamaru barked in agreement.
"So, basically, we wait...more. Only so we can avoid receiving attacks from two sides." said Kiba.
"Any better ideas?" said Sasuke, shrugging his shoulders.
Three days later...
Kiba, Sasuke and Naruto were on the rooftop of one of the Hidden Rock's buildings, watching as the colossal procession of red robes walked around the village.
Five years later, Sasuke asked yourself how he got himself in a plan elaborated by Sakura that involved allowing the villain to execute his plan so he, Sasuke Uchiha, an elite ninja that once defeated hundred of ninjas in a fight, don't would risk a possible death against a bunch of ninjas that took refuge in some god-forsaken place to run away from ninja hunters.
In a resume, that cute face and pink hair and all those words that she said convinced him, not really a well-planned, well-thought, plan.
Kiba, by his side, never thought if the plan was really stupid or not, because he knew Naruto and Sasuke would take care of everything regardless. Honestly, he should have asked to go back once Gaara informed them that he have captured Hinata, but giving up, whatever was that he would be giving up at that moment, was simply not his style. That was also why he came along instead of staying behind to warn the whole world about a possible serious threat like Hanabi and Sakura decided to do.
Naruto, by his side, was afraid, very afraid. He didn't have concrete, solid fact to base his fear on that, but he feared anyway Orochimaru could make him go crazy again. And if wasn't him, it should be Jashin.
Sasuke, however, showed no worry when Naruto talked to him about this. Naruto wasn't sure of the why.
The truth is that Sasuke didn't have any faith Naruto could be cured. If he went crazy, he should kill him. Sakura would certainly cry, but he didn't care. Not when a giant nine-tailed monster in a frenzy rage attacks him.
If you're asking why he brought Naruto anyway, it was because deep inside his unconscious he thought he was no match for the Jashin cultists. Orochimaru shouldn't have done this if he wasn't sure he could win, that was what he feared. But it was unconscious. From Sasuke's point of view, it was just dumb to bring Naruto along, but he did it anyway.
Akamaru remained focused. He wasn't so sure that "dark blue hair" and "blonde hair" were going to take care of everything. He was more attentive to the fact that everything smelled bad, very bad, and something with a smell even worse seemed to want to come off through that small grey house from some place whose location he couldn't determine that smelled like blood all around, and something that smelled like a snake was going towards it, along a bunch of people that smelled like a sick dog.
The skies were red. The clouds were red. The lightning was red. There was a bunch of people in red robes praying in some obscure language and just in that moment the ninjas and other inhabitants of the Hidden Rock realized this wasn't just a stupid mass. It was a black mass.
From the top of a cliff around the village, Sakura and Hanabi watched as hell broke loose.
"What a beautiful Cūn!" said Sakura.
And she promptly chewed on a piece of black bread, while Hanabi looked at her, confused.
Author's Note:I maybe be suffering a breakdown.