Sorry for such a long wait (not that anyone was really waiting.) and sorry in advance for such a boring chapter...


Anko stood on the branch next to Kabuto and the unconscious Orochimaru she looked to Kabuto, Orochimaru and then down at (fake) Tsunade and the two (fake) members of the Elder Council.

"NOW!" she cried.

Shiore, Gen'yumaru and Orochiko in the controlled bodies jumped up at the tree, preparing to capture Orochimaru since Anko was so stupid to believe they were actually who they were pretending to be and betray the Sound to get back into the Leaf.

Or so they thought…

Because, when Anko gave the word 'now', Kabuto also jumped into action, capturing the incoming phonies in some sort of suspended animation, medical light jutsu, level to the branch he and Anko stood on (and Orochimaru lay on).

"So, it's them, right?" Anko asked and Kabuto nodded, confirming.

"What…but how?" Shiore exclaimed, in shock.

Anko smiled at the false Tsunade, "I'm just magical." She answered.

"Now, to extract the souls and put them back into Orochimaru thus healing him." Kabuto declared.

"No!!" Gen'yumaru cried, "I won't go back! I just got out! No!"

"You don't have a choice." Anko stated, "You think you and the others can just go on masquerading as Konoha's leader's without being realized?"

"That was the plan…" Orochiko stated.

"Who are these people anyway?" Anko asked, turning to Kabuto.

"The one in Tsunade is Shiore you saw her during the Chunin exams when that Naruto kid was causing another disruption." Kabuto said, pointing at who he was talking about.

"I'm glad I quit that job…" Anko muttered, forgetting that she had been suspended and was quite angry about just a few months ago.

"The one in the Elder Council man body is Gen'yumaru who killed a group of people and then Orochimaru took him over." Kabuto continued, not explaining the entire situation clearly.

"Well he deserved it then." Anko huffed.

She still wasn't past the point where one didn't need a reason, but she was almost there.

"And that last one we like to call Orochiko." Kabuto finished, "A failed clone of Orochimaru put to good use."

"It's so demeaning having them discuss us like we can't hear them!" Orochiko complained.

"Why does she care anyway who we are?" Gen'yumaru wondered.

"I was just wondering." Anko shrugged.

"You know you shouldn't care so much or you'll become attached." Shiore warned sarcastically.

"Wouldn't that be beneficial to you?" Anko asked, then looked at Kabuto, "Do it now!"

"I don't remember you being the boss of me." Kabuto challenged, "What if I don't want to bring Orochimaru back? I've got a great situation now; it wouldn't help me at all to have Orochimaru ordering me around like before."

"Then why did you get me to get them if you weren't going to do it!" Anko asked angrily, "I can see why Orochimaru got tired of your games!"

Anko then pulled out a kunai and aimed it in Kabuto's direction, "If you don't put them back into Orochimaru, I'll stab you."

"You threatening me?!" Kabuto laughed, "You can't be serious."

"Dead serious." Anko stated, unmoving.

"You can't possibly defeat me…" Kabuto started and then remembered she had the Six Tails' chakra in her.

"Exactly." Anko said, "So just do it."

"Okay, on one condition." Kabuto agreed, "Orochimaru can't know about my new Sound Village. If he finds out, I'll find a way to get you for that."

"Fine." Anko complied.

Kabuto used his medical powers to move the souls, screaming and begging to be let free, into Orochimaru and then ran away.

"Remember!" he shouted back as he ran, "Don't tell him!"

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Sasuke and Karin both entered the kitchen through different doors at the same time to see a very interesting sight.

"Who are these people and why did you let them in?" Karin demanded, shouting at Suigetsu.

"Where's Itachi?!" Sasuke shouted, seeing that there were three members of the Akatsuki in the room, one of them being Kisame.

"He's not here." Kisame answered.

"Okay then." Sasuke said, "I'm giving you one minute to leave and never come back here."

The three Akatsuki members stood up, and pushed in there chairs.

"We only fucking came here to fucking kill that motherfucker Orochimaru." Hidan explained.

"If he's not here, then we can't kill him and we won't get the money." Kakuzu continued.

"And Suigetsu already told us he wasn't here." Kisame finished.

"Sasuke!" Karin screamed, running over to her crush, "What's going on here? Who are these people."

"Shut up." He muttered, "I'm trying to do some negotiations."

Suigetsu stood up, turned into water and slid along to floor until he reformed back into himself in front of Sasuke.

"Kisame's my big cousin." He stated, "You can't make him leave!"

"Yes he can, you're just an experiment here." Karin reminded, sticking out her tongue, "I'm in control here and I say Sasuke's in charge."

"And I say they have to leave." Sasuke said.

"Yay!" Karin exclaimed, hugging Sasuke, "We worked as a team!"

Sasuke just rolled his eyes, "And another thing. You can't kill Orochimaru, I still need him and also, if you see Itachi tell him his days are numbered."

"We're not going to fucking take any fucking orders from you, you fucking little Uchiha brat!" Hidan declared, "We can stay in this shithole as long as we damn well please and no little piece of crap is gonna tell us when to leave or what asshole to pass any messages on to. Fuck."

Everyone was quiet for an entire minute, just looking at Hidan after his little outburst.

"There's no reason for us to stay anyway." Kakuzu said

"Bye for now, Little Cousin!" Kisame waved.

The three Akatsuki members started towards the door.

"Wait." Suigetsu called, causing the three to turn around, "I said I didn't want you guys to leave yet."

Sasuke and Karin looked at Suigetsu questioningly, as did Kisame, Hidan and Kakuzu.

"Not until I get that sword of yours…" Suigetsu smiled evilly, "Now hand it over…unless you want to fight your sweet little cousin."

"Oh my gosh!" Kisame cried, "How can you do this, Sui? After all we've been through! All the good times and the fun we had! Little Cousin!"

Kisame dropped to the ground and began to sob, while Hidan and Kakuzu just shook their heads muttering and finally agreeing that this freaky-fish-guy was a loser.

"Just kidding!" Suigetsu laughed, "Boy, I sure made you cry!"

Kisame stood up, and recollected himself. "So it was a joke? …I knew that!"

"Sure you did…just like old times!" Suigetsu grinned.

"Just like old times…" Kisame said, shuddering and remembering.

With that the Akatsuki quickly left the building.

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Jiraya was walking away from the North Base, discouraged when he heard some commotion over by another entrance and ran over to see.

"He wasn't in there!" Kurenai screeched, stomping out of the door followed by Asuma and Kakashi, "Get it through your thick skull!"

"I'm just saying that MAYBE we should have another look!" Asuma shouted back, "There's nothing wrong with being thorough!"

"But there is something wrong with being stupid!" Kurenai exclaimed.

"Are you trying to call me stupid?!" Asuma asked angrily.

"If you weren't stupid, you'd figure that out!" Kurenai shot back.

"You're the one who's stupid!" Asuma retorted, "Orochimaru could be in there and we leave because you didn't want to check again!"

"I know he's not!" Kurenai yelled, "We looked every where, there's no where he could be hiding and he wouldn't be hiding!"

"Oh you you're some sort of Orochimaru expert now?" Asuma boomed, "It was MY father that got killed by him!"

"Guys calm down!" Kakashi begged.

"STAY OUT OF IT!" They both shouted in his face.

Jiraya walked over after viewing this scene to Kakashi and stood next to him.

"What are they broken up or something?" he asked.

"Yes…" Kakashi sighed.

"Well then!" Jiraya exclaimed perverted-ly, "Kurenai is…"

"It's my fault…" Kakashi cut whatever dirty thing Jiraya was going to say off, "I thought they'd work better if they weren't fawning over each other all day, but it's worse now!"

Jiraya shook his head, "Kakashi, Kakashi, Kakashi…as an avid reader of my book series you of all people should know never to mess with romance. You have to make this right, you know what you have to do."

Kakashi gulped and then spoke up, "Attention, Asuma and Kurenai. I have a confession to make!"

"WHAT!?" they shouted, pausing their argument.

"It's my fault you all are fighting, I pretended to be each of you to break you up but now I see I was wrong. Can you forgive each other…and me?"

"Oh my love!" the lovers exclaimed, suddenly becoming happy and hugging each other, "I knew it couldn't be true!"

But their happiness only existed for a short while, because after their make-up they turned on Kakashi.


Sorry for the borningnness, review anyway.