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Under the tree where Anko stood lay Tsunade and two members of the Elder Council, still unconscious from being taken over by Orochimaru's souls that had now been returned to his body. She knew as well as anyone that if Tsunade woke up and saw her with Orochimaru, they'd both be in big trouble. So using super ninja-six-tailed strength she lifted the sleeping Orochimaru, still lacking an arm for some reason, and carried him to another tree far away.

"He better wake up…" she muttered under her breath, "if Kabuto messed up, I'll get him for this. And why doesn't he get the arm back? What's going on?"

"Are you talking to me?" Orochimaru asked.

Anko looked up and saw that Orochimaru had awakened and was now standing in front of her.

"Um…no…" she answered.

Then, Orochimaru remembered passing out and looked down and saw his arm was missing.

"What happened?!" He demanded, then glared at Anko, "Did you do this to me?!"

"No!" Anko replied, jumping back, "I swear to God, I didn't!"

"Who did this then? Why did I pass out and how did I get here?" Orochimaru asked, still glaring and wondering if somehow Anko decided to take revenge on him.

"Well…I…uh…Tsunade and The Elder Council they…an operation…well you see…I…they…um…" Anko fumbled for words as she searched her mind for how to explain what happened.

"What a disappointment…" Orochimaru shook his head, "A student of mine should be more articulate."

Oh, Anko almost rolled her eyes. Now she was his student when he wanted answers. But it still reminded her of the good old days, and so she decided to just tell the whole story whether Kabuto like or not. What did she owe him anyway?

"Well what happened was…" And so Anko explained that Orochimaru had fallen unconscious and Tsunade had tried to operate him but she and Kabuto created a distraction and broke him out where upon they had to find the three souls that had escaped from his body and put them back in him and he woke up.

"So Tsunade and the Elder Council are still sleeping there?" Orochimaru stated, "I could have killed them! You or Kabuto could have!"

"You wanna go back?" Anko asked, shrugging never having even thought of killing them while they lied sleeping and not having much of desire to.

"Why?" Orochimaru asked, which shocked Anko.

"Why? What do you mean why?!" Anko exclaimed, "How about cause you're evil?!"

"I would kill you for saying that but…." Orochimaru said.

"But it's true." Anko finished for him, then continued what she started before, "The reason why is cause you want to take over Konoha and then the world, don't tell me you bumped your head and got amnesia?"

"No, I remember it all." Orochimaru stated, "The problem is, I just don't see why. For along time I've been trying to take over, live forever, get all the jutsus and whatever but now I just can't seem to find a reason. So what if I become immortal and live as king of the Naruto World, in the end I fail to see a point in this all."

"This is really weird." Anko said allowed, though it really should have remained inside her mind.

Questioning himself just wasn't what Orochimaru usually did.

She had two options now.

A, try to figure it out what was wrong with Orochimaru this time and then figure out what to do.

Or B, get Kabuto to do it.

I wonder which she'll pick…. ;)

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Tsunade woke to find herself slumped on the forest floor leaning against a tree next to two members of the Elder Council. Standing up, she asked herself "what happened here?" . The last thing she remembered was walking into her office to find bodies on the floor and the Elder Council in there.

Seeing the two old people on the ground beginning to stand up, she shouted, "What did you do?!"

"What are you talking about you whippersnapper?" the old woman asked, "Why did you capture us and bring up to the forest?"

"I did no such thing." Tsunade stated.

"Yes you did." The old man said, "We were napping in the Nursing Home and then we wake up here. Obviously you kidnapped us."

"And where is the third one?" the old woman cried, "What did you do to him?"

"Nothing!" Tsunade shouted, "You all had taken over my office and piled bodies in there!"

"No we never did that!" the two elderly people responded, "I want to know what's going on here."

"Wait a minute." Tsunade said, "Orochimaru went missing. Bodies in the office. Waking up in the forest. Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Orochimaru is responsible for this." Tsunade, Elder Council One and Two all said together.

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"So Orochimaru isn't in there? For sure?" Jiraya asked.

"Yeah." Asuma, Kurenai and Kakashi all nodded.

Jiraya and the team Tsunade had sent were all standing outside the North Base in a circle, discussing what to do.

"So who's in there, then?" Jiraya asked, "I tried to enter but some girl blocked the door. Too young to be hot…yet."

"Sasuke was in there." Kakashi stated, "He told me Orochimaru has been missing for months."

Kakashi was bruised black and blue, his one visible eye swollen.

"We searched the place and only some prisoners were there, other than Sasuke and two other teenagers." Asuma reported.

"Also the Akatsuki are there." Kurenai declared.

That caused her three male companions to shout, "WHAT?!".

"Right there." She pointed to a door where Hidan, Kakuzu and Kisame were walking out.

"Time to fight!" Jiraya exclaimed, striking a battle-ready pose.

Kakuzu, Kisame and Hidan took one look at Jiraya then disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Jiraya slouched to the ground, disappointed.

"What now?" Kakashi asked, "Should we go back in there and ask what the Akatsuki members wanted? Should we try to free the prisoners."

"Negative." Jiraya replied, "They wouldn't tell us and any prisoner of Orochimaru is bound to be a dangerous experiment therefore releasing them in bulk could result in mass chaos."

"Should we bring Sasuke and the others into custody?" Kurenai asked. (Get it? Custody? Cause they're kids. lol.)

"We could…" Jiraya answered, "But that would seriously damage the plot line…so no."

"Then what should we do?" Asuma asked.

"Go home." Jiraya stated.

And so the four leaf ninjas turned towards Konoha, satisfied that they had done their jobs.

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"Why don't we go pay your good friend Kabuto a visit?" Anko suggested, you knew she wouldn't try to solve a problem all by herself.

"Good friend?" Orochimaru scoffed, "Don't start playing games like him, I had you replace him because I thought you wouldn't act like him."

"Actually, I'm sure you'd be interested to know what Kabuto's been up to these days." Anko explained, "Remember that old run down town where you blew up a base…"

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