"W-who are you!"

"My name is...

...Doctor Orochimaru"


Chapter 27: What you don't expect, comes fast


Doctor Orochimaru.

It's a name I had never forgotten.
The name that I had read awhile ago which the passage I recall clearly...

...But regardless of the forbidden laws, a researcher named Dr. Orochimaru apparently secretly continued on the research, using many sacrifices to obtain results for his researches...

...From the years of research and finding no cure for this symptom, the Uchiha blood became a lethal weapon and was used for assassination by the ones who opposed the 4th leader Hokage of the village...

...Not knowing about the affects of the lethal gene that was known to only a handful of people working for Orochimaru in the first place, the 4th Hokage, Namikaze Minato had created an F1 generation for the Kyuubi's curse for the first time in scientific history.
So presently, the very first example of an F1 generation of the curse exists. The son of Namikaze Minato and Kushina Uzumaki...

Dr Orochimaru was the soul criminal who victimised Naruto!

Boiling rage builds up from the pit of my stomach right up to each nerve in my body that makes me shake in furiously deep anger.
My mind fills every inch with murderous red and nothing else.
No room for any coherent thoughts.

I don't even hear Naruto's shaky voice calling my name.
Letting just fury and hatred drive my body, I let that emotion become full in control of my body.

Lunging towards the person in front of me, I aim a punch at the source of voice as my instincts of creating an image covering for my lack of sights.
My fist collides in contact with what presumably is the jaw along with a crack or the bone breaking.

Clearly confident in knowing precisely where he stands now, I give him no chance to think or recover as I land a kick to his stomach with all the strength that I could muster at that point.
I hear a body crash the wall of the bathroom several metres away and I really hope that he had earned critical damage.

I take a step forward when strong hands grab a hold of my leg, stopping my movement and bringing back part of my senses.

"S-Stop, Sasuke! What are you doing!" I hear Naruto scream.
His voice is shaky and I realise that I had made him cry.
As if to confirm my assumption, I next hear a quiet sob.

But this won't calm my feelings.

"'What am I doing?' I'm trying to kill him!" I snarl as I strongly grit my teeth with an effort not to lose control and lash out at Naruto, "he's the one to blame for everything! He's screws people's lives! He doesn't deserve to f-cking live!"

That guy is all to blame for Naruto's misery and pain that he had to endure throughout his whole life!

But then...-

"...Y-you're not Sasuke."

-...Naruto's words make my heart freeze.

"Sasuke doesn't resort to violence... Sasuke isn't a person to kill someone... Sasuke doesn't swear... Sasuke... Sasuke..."

That's right... He doesn't know who he is... what he's done... to youI think but then mentally shake my head.

No... even if he found out, he still wouldn't blame him for where he stands right now... that's how Naruto is...

I sigh, and turn around to crouch down in front him.
Not knowing what to do, an apology comes out of my mouth before anything and I go over an extreme suppression of my emotions just for Naruto's sake as I wait for Naruto control his fear as well.

I reach out to ruffle Naruto's hair and I give him a small smile to show him that I'm okay now.

Sasuke isn't a person to kill someone... Sasuke doesn't swear..." he says. I guess it's because he doesn't know me... -no, doesn't know the other side of me...

The reason why he doesn't know isn't something too twistingly hard.
It's an easy answer for me to figure...

It's because I had changed becauseof Naruto...

"Well it looks like you've calmed down a bit..."
My spine runs a cold chill as I hear a calm, creepy voice right behind me. A calm voice as if the episode a few minutes back hadn't happened at all.
And once again, this guy had come right behind me without pick up his presence at all.

"...But too bad. It seems like we have run out of time to hold a further conversation, Sasuke-kun," he continues as I hear footsteps clacking noisily towards this way, "so I shall see you again soon."

The footsteps become louder and a barking voice that belongs to the old hag asks what's wrong and what happened and such.
By the way she talks; I figure that that Orochimaru bastard had escaped however he had accomplished in doing so.

"I shall see you again soon"? What did he want with me?

What is he planning to do?


A few days later, Naruto and I return to how we usually spend our days, although I often find myself drifting away from Naruto's conversation to Orochimaru.

"-ey, hey, Sasuke! Are you listening?" I suddenly tune in Naruto's voice and I realise that I had done it again.
It's nearly time for us to go to bed and we sit on our own beds, chatting until drowsiness knocks us to sleep.

"Ah, sorry... I'm going to the bathroom for a sec."
I excuse myself and run away from the decreasing mood in the atmosphere.

I know that Naruto is worried about my action from last time, and that he's trying to lighten up the mood as much as he can...
But too many unanswered question floats in my mind that I can't concentrate on anything.

I really need to forget that mad, creepy voice...

I decide to wash my face and refresh myself, promising to forget the encounter with Orochimaru and concentrate more on Naruto as usual.
My hands slide along the doors and walls for direction until I find myself reaching the bathroom.

There I'm supposed to go to the sink when I hear a hissing-like voice behind me.

"I was waiting for you, Sasuke-kun..."


Sasuke doesn't seem alright at all.
Ever since the day the creepy long-haired man who had named himself Doctor All-O-Chillyman, I think he's called, appeared in front of Sasuke and I, Sasuke always seems to be spaced out as in not paying attention to me at all.
He even ignores Doctor Tsunade even with her death threats.

Something's really wrong...

I don't want to see Sasuke like how he had been when I felt his fury.
The moment the doctor had said his name, my eyes had felt burning hot and I somehow knew that Sasuke was furious back then.

The reason I don't know, but I'm too afraid to ask either.
His aura had been a dangerous, murderous one and I had thought then that if I don't stop him, he might even attempt to seriously kill that doctor.

I can't let that creepy doctor come and see Sasuke ever again! I need to protect Sasuke!

I grit my teeth and feel a familiar hotness in my eyes as I strongly grit my teeth and ball my fists so hard that I before I realise it, my nails dig into my palms.
A strong feeling starts to boil from the pit of my stomach.

An emotion I shouldn't familiarise myself with...
A dangerous aura I shouldn't get used to...
The emotion named...-

"Naruto?"

The emotion sweeps away in a flash as if a bucket of water splashes at my face, distinguishing my flame before it lost control.
When I look towards the doorway, I see Sasuke furrowing his brows.

"Huh? What's wrong, Sasuke?" I ask in confusion.

"...I smell blood," Sasuke states unsurely and I then notice the smell too.
I look down to see my bloodied hands and then realise what I had done.

"Oh, whoops. It seems I was balling my fists too tightly..." I laugh it off to make sure Sasuke gets that it's just an accident.
Gratefully, Sasuke asks no further and walks over towards me.

"H-hey...!" I cry as Sasuke comes right over to my bed and gets under the same blanket.

"S-Sasuke! This is my bed! Yours is over there!" I shout and try to shove him out while I feel not my eyes, but this time, my whole face growing hot.
It's really not a familiar feeling to have someone this close and embarrassment over-fills my capacity of the jar called emotion.

"Just for today, Naruto."

These words make my hands freeze on Sasuke's arm and shoulder.
I don't know what's going on.
As if the said emotion over-fills my jar by the double, my head starts to spin and I suddenly become real tired.
I sigh and give up, turning away from him.

"And you're gonna tell me the reason why?" I grumble, perking my ears for an answer.
But it happens to be a reply that freeze-locks my heart.
It's not a reply I had ever wanted to hear.

"Today is the last day I'll be with you, Naruto."