Kiki sat up dizzy. She looked at her hands, her body. She seemed fine. She tried to stand and found she could easily. She tried to leave her room but decided to sit back down after hearing someone in front of the door. Orochimaru came in with Kimimaro at his side. "Orochimaru-san! I'm actually glad you're here! The oddest thing happened to me and I'm not sure-" Kimimaro headed to the bookshelf, fingering each title slowly. "You know, you don't have to be completely silent when I talk. It makes me feel like you're ignoring me."

"Orochimaru-sama, I found the books I was telling you about. This one is the demon and spirits one and this one is the exorcism and sutras. Which would you like to look at?" Kimimaro held both in one hand, eyeing the mirror rather than Orochimaru or me. I think he could tell to some degree something wasn't normal with it.

"Better be both. Damn her. Didn't stay in her room like I told her to. Should have figured. Come now. We need to resolve this quickly." Orochimaru gave a quick wave and left with Kimimaro trailing behind. The door shut quietly with only the soft click of the handle heard. What the hell! Ignoring me like I'm such a minority! And taking my stuff without permission! I feel sick enough as it is but- Kiki's thoughts wee cut off as she noticed her activated chain around her wrist. The purple glow absent. That's strange. . .

Needless to say, Kiki made the split second decision to follow it. It should have been activated and it seemed odd that no one acted like they noticed it. She passed by so many people, but they just tended to their own business. In a way that was a relief, considering how she didn't want to stop for chit-chat or be told someone was looking for her and she had a mission. The task at hand was first a priority. Mostly because of her intuition. Deep inside her a voice screamed, 'Somethings wrong! Why can't you see what's wrong!?' The light-headedness came back briefly. It felt as though she was still trapped in the mirror getting her energy taken away.

Holding her head, she came to the end of the trail and stopped dead. Literally. She was staring at herself, up and walking around a medical lab, conversing with Kabuto. Mimiko and Li-Li were watching her intently, like she was a prisoner ready to make the life-altering dash. Oh Kami-sama! I'm dead, aren't I? Both of her summons looked up at her in a questioning manner. They solemnly shook their heads. Not yet.

That's not me is it? It can't be! I'm here! "Kabuto-san, I was wondering how the experiment with altering a patient's blood flow to see how it altered chakra flow went." Kabuto stopped organizing his work space and looked up momentarily confused at me (or the me that wasn't me). He passed the manner off as trivial and continued his tinkering.

"That experiment, ne? I suppose you were told to look through the old files. I never thought Orochimaru-sama would actually trust you enough to let you mess around with his experiments. I want you to understand, he takes these things very serious, so don't mess around, okay?" He accepted an overly happy nod as an answer. "Well that theory didn't go so well, for the patient anyway. Reversing the blood flow slowed down the rate at which chakra was summoned. At some point, the chakra began reversing itself and backed up the chakra points, did a little internal damage, and eventually the patient died. Orochimaru-sama was able to transform it into a very useful jutsu."

"That's woderful! How so exactly?" How so did this happen!? Li-Li answered. You chanted the spell, looked into the mirror, and your soul was absorbed. Someone else took over your body and is posing as you. You managed to escape the mirror before it devoured you completely. That chain is all that's connecting you to your body now. You're surviving off of the little spirit energy you have left. If you don't get inside your body soon you're going to die. I'll give you four, maybe five days tops. We might be able to extend the deadline a tad bit if we give you some of our energy, but there is a possibility your form could reject it. Let's wait and see.

How am I going to fix this? "Oddly enough patients didn't seem to be able to feel the problems taking place. So in battle, exerting more energy and forcing chakra to go against the newly established flow, will have them kill themselves. Even if an opponent realized something was wrong, they wouldn't know what or how to fix it. Not to mention how the heart isn't meant to absorb blood. There are valves that prevent that so the heart starts moving slower, hindering most of their moves." Kabuto smiled as he remembered that experiment. "Good times. . . That was when I worked with my lab assisstant Akana. You met her already. She was the one who gave birth in the dungeons."

I stared at Kabuto. Is Akana the one who's possessed my body? They always said nice gals finished last. "Yes. That's right. What happened to her baby afterwards. I seemed to have forgotten." She dug her own grave there. Seeing how I was the only one (besides Orochimaru) who knew what happened to her and everyone knowing it, there was incriminating evidence pointing to her not being me! "Oh and I can't remember what the name was." I named her. Kabuto was definately there when I did, I think. Or was it Orochimaru? Well he might have been told I named her. Also, Akana probably doesn't know if it's a boy or girl.

"You tell me. From what I heard you named her yourself and hid it somewhere because you were scared Orochimaru might do something bad to it. That's why you're here right? As a punishment for that?" Akana shook her head. "What? You honestly, sincerely came here of your own free will because you wanted to? My, my Orochimaru has finally made you see things his way!" She smiled and chuckled softly continuing with a new topic. All the while I help but think she was saying 'Dear God this woman was one hell of an annoying goodie two shoes' over and over in her head.

I slumped to the floor defeated. I was like a ghost right now, couldn't talk, couldn't touch, couldn't be seen. Wait, Li-, No. I know what you're thinking, but we can't. We agreed to be your summons so now people can only see us if you summon us. She can't summon us. You're cut off from your chakra so you can't summon us either. Gomen. I retreated back to my mind, praying for a miracle. I wanted to do something, but there was nothing to do. Part of me wanted to go investigate the mirror, but I know if I got trapped inside again I might not be able to get back out.

Kimimaro's POV:

I could tell this wouldn't be easy. The books we borrowed from Kiki's room had no index or glossary so we couldn't find much easily. We were looking for a section on spirit possession. The exorcism book had many different types of things to try but we needed a specific answer, which we didn't have. A small piece of me was saying I had to look else where. That mirror. It wasn't. . . It made me feel uneasy. It had part of Kiki's chakra signature, along with part of Akana's, but there was another one that I could reconize. I felt as though I should bring it up but I didn't. And he could tell. Out of the corner of his eye he stared at me suspiciously. Finally he spoke up.

"Kimimaro-kun, I can't help but notice how on edge you seem. Are you feeling ill. I know you wouldn't hide anything from me, but I'm curious. . . If something's on your mind I would likefor you to speak up." I stayed silent. "Very well then." He went back to reading and I felt a intense aching in my chest as I betrayed my master. I don't know why, but something was holding me back from sharing my thoughts. It may have been the mirror itself. That third chakra signature had been strong and dark. I couldn't see how Orochimaru missed it. Maybe it was because it was only calling to me? It was only reaching out to me. Why? I searched through my book, these thoughts in mind.

"Orochimaru-sama. I think I found something useful! I'm not sure though." My voice perhaps showed too much eagerness but I wanted to prove my loyalty and worth. "What if we use this sutra to draw out Kaji? If Akana-san took Kiki's place that means Kaji might still be there. She wouldn't have known about her. Kaji is usually dormant, but wakes up whenever. If Akana-san is suppressing her without knowing it we could do it."

"How could she supress Kaji without knowing? That doesn't make much sense." Kimimaro stayed silent, thinking of an answer his master would approve of. It took him a while because he had to go through all that he knew about Kaji and Kiki in his head. Truth be told, he didn't know much, meaning he wasn't given much to go on. There were tidbits he learned from Kiki and comments made by Orochimaru or Kaji herself.

"If Kiki is part of Kaji and she is being supressed and overtaken that must be weakening her. It is worth a try. We won't lose much if we don't gain anything." Kimimaro sighed in relief as Orochimaru smiled after considering his thoughts.

"You're absolutely right Kimimaro-kun. At least we'll learn one plus two doesn't equal four. May I see that book?" I nodded and handed it over pointing out the part of the page where it explained how to draw another soul forward. He began skimmimg through, furrowing his eyebrows at hard to understand parts and twisting his lips into a smirk at the simplest ones. "Let's start preparing."

Quick update. Short chapter. Sorry. Sick and staying home from school. Review please. If by now you don't understand what's going on in the fanfic, I'm crying.