Author's Notes

Hiyaz!

Ah, it feels good getting back to my old habit of ending chapters with cliffhangers XP

So, thanks to all my reviewers so far!

Just letting you know, when this book ends, I might start a new one, depending on how many reviews I get.

So keep up with the reviews!

Anyway, enough of my blabbering, let chapter 36... begin!

Chapter 36 - Allies Of 'The Snake'

Zeotora didn't know much about the youngest of the Uchihas, but she did know that he wasn't here for a tea party, or a friendly hello.

Zeotora noticed Itachi reaction, to seeing his younger brother.

Sasuke wasn't on the Akatsuki's side, he wasn't a good guy either. Zeotora had heard of Sasuke being the only survivor from the Uchiha massacre.

With Sasuke were two other Shinobi and one Kunoichi. One of the males was fairly tall, he had white hair, with a light blue tint, purple eyes, a matching purple sleeveless top, grey pants and a belt, holding water bottles and a large decapitating carving knife. His build was quite lean. The other Shinobi was extremely tall, he wore a black shirt, tan pants and a blue cloak. He had spiky orange hair and orange eyes, and bracket shapes on both palms. The Kunoichi had red eyes, her hair was the same colour and it was short, pointy and unkempt on the right side, while it was long, straight and combed on the left side. She wore brown glasses and a lavender top, along with short tan shorts with a pair of thigh high stockings with shoes.

All four of them stood, looking down at the Akatsuki members. "So, you must be Zeotora." The girl with red hair called out.

"What do you want?" Zeotora replied without thinking, her voice held a slight growl.

"Well, aren't you grumpy. We just came to invite you to come with us." The girl was obviously trying to get on Zeotora's nerves.

"Karin, don't mess around." Sasuke said calmly.

"Well, are you gonna come with us, or do we have to use force?" The boy with orange hair asked.

"You work for Orochimaru, right?" Zeotora asked.

They all nodded slowly, "Then...NO!"

"Force it is." The Shinobi with white hair and purple eyes, put his hand on his sword. He looked to Sasuke, "May I?"

"Knock yourself out." Sasuke said, still watching Zeotora.

The boy smirked then he lunged forward, he drew his sword and swung it at Zeotora. She jumped out of the way, making the sword dig into the ground, the impact made the ground rumble, causing Zeotora to lose her balance. Hidan caught her before she hit the ground.

Zeotora quickly jumped away from Hidan, they were after her, she wouldn't let Hidan get hurt because of her.

Just as Zeotora looked up, the sword came crashing down, she dodged the blade and jumped directly in front of the Shinobi. Zeotora took hold of his shoulders, and looked into his eyes, freezing him almost instantly.

The Akatsuki, especially Deidara, knew that the boy wouldn't be able to escape Zeotora's paralysing eyes. But then a grey axe was brought down on Zeotora, she was able to avoid being killed, the axe sliced through the side of her trousers, she looked down, seeing the big slit in he rnew clothes. Zeotora saw the axe was a mutated fist, that belong to the orange haired boy.

"What th-" Zeotora started.

"Juugo! I wanted to get her!" The sword wielding Shinobi shouted. So, his name is Juugo.

"Well, you looked like she was beating you." Juugo replied.

After the two had settled their argument, they returned to capture Zeotora. Juugo came from one side, while the other boy came from the other, Zeotora only had one way to go, but that lead straight to Sasuke, so she decided on her personal favourite jutsu.

Zeotora made a few hand signs then she shouted, "Reflection-jutsu!"

Just as the two comrades came within a certain distance from Zeotora, they bounced off of nothing and were sent flying backwards.

"That's my girl!" Hidan shouted.

The battle went on for some time, Sasuke got fed up of waiting so he sent the girl, that went by the name Karin, in to the fight. Zeotora found it quite easy fighting the three of them. Wow, Orochimaru seriously needs to get better ninja, Zeotora thought to herself.

Juugo suddenly transformed his fist into a hammer and knocked Zeotora straight into the wall, blood fell from her mouth and the white/blue haired boy swung his sword at her, she ducked. Zeotora then received a punch in her jaw, from Karin. Zeotora's head smacked straight into the wall. Zeotora wasn't about to give up, she wasn't going to lose, she was older than them.

Zeotora brought herself forward as she charged at Juugo, Zeotora threw a number of kunai and shuriken at the boy, and just as the white head came at her, she dug a kunai into his upper leg. He collapsed and sighed in relief that he still had his 'pride and jewels'.

But, her vision became blurry and her head started to hurt. Sasuke then jumped down and preformed his own hand signs. Zeotora then saw fire coming towards her, Oh great. Zeotora thought sarcastically, before falling to her knees, and then soon fell unconscious.

Zeotora woke up some time later, she felt herself being carried. Her eyes fluttered open, and she saw orange hair. Zeotora was being carried on Juugo's back. Then she heard voices.

"I could've taken her on my own!" Zeotora recognised the voice as, the white haired Shinobi.

"Sure you could've, Suigetsu." Juugo replied sarcasm laced his voice.

"Will you two shut up." Sasuke said, his tone was bored and annoyed.

"Sorry, Sasuke" Both Juugo and Suigetsu said, they really hated being told what to do.

There was a moment of silence, Zeotora couldn't help but fall asleep again. She woke suddenly when she was dropped to the floor. Zeotora's eyes shot open and she rubbed her head. "Hey!" She didn't actually know what was happening, but she knew it wasn't good.

"Ah, so nice to see you again, Zeotora."

Zeotora's eyes widened and she turned quickly, Orochimaru!

*~To be continued~*

A/N

Yeah, I know, this one is really short.

But it is just running up to a huge part of the story.

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