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The Entrepreneur jumped up from his pile of money and rushed behind the stack of small papers to hide when he saw Orochimaru coming towards him.
Orochimaru stopped at the money stack, did a couple hand signs, and pretty soon the money was up in flames.
"My money!" the ex-prisoner cried, jumping back from the fire, "How could you?!"
"I traced the Six Tailed Chakra to this small town and find that it is everywhere in everyone." Orochimaru stated, "It will soon ware off on everyone who has it, depending how fast they use it so they're of no threat to me. But, it made me wonder: how did all these people get the chakra? So then when I happened to read the newspaper I found some very interesting information that someone was selling the chakra for 25$."
The seller, backed up, gulping. And Orochimaru got closer with intent to kill.
"Whoa—Orochimaru!" the Entrepreneur shouted, "Back up! Don't kill me!"
"You make demands?" Orochimaru asked sarcastically, "Let me give you a demand of my own. I want to know where you got the Six Tailed Chakra and where all the others prisoners are and where Anko is."
"I—I." the ex-prisoner stuttered, then exclaimed "I'd never sell out the other prisoners! We're friends and been through a lot under your capture and made it through together! I'm not telling you anything."
"I'll let you live…" Orochimaru smiled evilly.
Without even thinking about it, the seller squealed, "Most of them are in the town's Inn. But the one who has Anko, who extracted the chakra is in the woods."
"Very good." Orochimaru praised, and then grabbed his prisoner, "You're coming with me to woods, just to make sure you've told me the truth."
Orochimaru dragged the poor man away towards the woods in the mountains.
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Anko was running, about to enter the gates of Tourist Shop Town when two people poofed out of nowhere in front of her. They were Akatsuki, Anko decided when she saw their cloaks.
"It shouldn't be taking this long!" Pein complained.
"Well that's because you didn't want to ask for directions." Konan reminded, "If you had just stopped to ask someone…"
"And make me look weak!" Pein shouted, "No way! I am going to rule this world! I should know where everything is!"
"Then maybe you should read the map!" Konan suggested.
"Maybe you should shut up." Pein replied, "Or I'll give you a piercing somewhere you won't like it."
Konan shut up.
In any normal situation when faced with the Akatsuki, Anko would prepare for battle. But in any normal situation, Anko would have weapons and chakra and this was no normal situation.
"Hey you guys." Anko said.
"Who the hell are you?" Pein asked when he saw Anko randomly talk to them.
"Maybe she knows where we are." Konan commented.
"It doesn't matter whether she does or doesn't." Pein declared, "I know where we are."
"You're in Tourist Shop Town." Anko told them.
"Exactly!" Pein said, "Now, let's go."
Pein and Konan began walking into the town. Anko ran after them and then in front of them, blocking their way.
"No!" she exclaimed, "You can't go in there!"
"Why?" Konan asked.
"Because…uh…" Anko fumbled for words. All she knew is that if two Akatsuki members were in Tourist Shop Town, something bad was gonna happen and since the North Base was so close and everyone seemed to know where it was (not knowing it moved) their presence could signal that the Akatsuki has come to challenge Orochimaru.
"Tell us!" Pein demanded.
Pein and Konan began to advance upon Anko, like they were going to get the information out of her. Any way possible.
"Uh…well…you see…." Anko stuttered, backing away and feeling weak without her weapons and chakra.
"Because this is my territory."
Anko felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Orochimaru. Just in time. He was pulling one of the prisoners by a chakra-rope.
When they saw Orochimaru, the two Akatsuki members assumed battle positions, ready to fight.
"You're Akatsuki." Orochimaru stated, "What are you doing so far from home? Everyone knows this is Sound Territory."
"I'm going to rule the world one day." Pein announced, "Then there will be no such thing as Sound Territory. Only my territory."
"You stupid kids…"Orochimaru shook his head, "I recognize you. You are two of Jiraya's little street-rats he found in the rain. All grown up now, but where's the third? Did he die?"
"Wouldn't you like to know." Konan snapped.
"Actually I couldn't care less." Orochimaru shrugged, "I was just making conversation."
"We're not here to talk." Pein said, "Please step out of our way. The only reason we are here is to…check something."
"You mean the Six Tailed Chakra?" Orochimaru asked, "I already know all about that and have taken care of the matter."
Orochimaru lifted his prisoner into view.
"This little insect from my bug collection escaped." Orochimaru explained, "Hey started selling the chakra. You want it back? Go ask every single person in this town. They each have a little piece of it inside them. The only way to get that miniscule amount out would be to kill them all. Now I have no doubt that you are stupid enough to murder an entire town, but would you be stupid enough to risk the attention that would bring to you and your pitiful organization? A quick call to the Leaf Village and…"
"Whatever." Pein gave up, "Let's go, Konan."
Pein and Konan quickly poofed away.
"Phew!" Anko wiped the sweat collection on her forehead, "That was close. You saved my life there, Orochimaru. I have no chakra, it was all sucked out."
"Really?" Orochimaru said, "That's very unfortunate because you no longer have the Six Tailed Chakra inside you, so you no longer have that in you're defense. That chakra could have been very useful to me…What do you have to say for yourself, Anko? What happened?"
Anko knew if she told the truth, Orochimaru would kill her or even fire her from her job! So she decided to lie and do what she always did.
Blame it on Kabuto.
Anko walked until she had a lot of space around her, took a deep breath and began her story.
"It all started when me and Kabuto were with the prisoners in the desert." Anko said, "Kabuto said we should split up and race to the New North Base, but I didn't know where it was. Kabuto took his prisoners and ditched me in the desert with no food, no water. But that wasn't the worst thing! Kabuto said he wanted to have his job back so much that then he used some sort of medical move to knock me out and leave me stranded. He must have told my prisoners to attack and capture me because when I woke up I was in the mountains, tied up and chakra-less."
Orochimaru's expression changed from angry to surprised and then back to angry. He turned to his tied-up prisoner and asked, "Is that true?!"
The prisoner only shook in fear, looking at Anko for direction because he had no one else to look to. Anko nodded her head showing that she wanted him to back up her story.
"It-it's true!" the prisoner reciprocated.
"Alright then." Orochimaru decided, "I guess we're going to have to have a conversation with Kabuto. But first, it's time to capture all of your little friends."
Anko followed Orochimaru and his prisoner towards the Tourist Shop Town Inn to recapture all the prisoners there.
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Kabuto was enjoying his power, once again, by playing a hearty game of Kabuto Says with Team Hebi.
"Punch yourselves in the face!" Kabuto shouted.
"This is so stupid!" Sasuke complained.
"I know!" Karin agreed.
"Hey, this is kind of fun!" Suigetsu disagreed.
All three punched themselves in the face, Sasuke so hard that he knocked himself to the ground.
"Hahaha!" Kabuto laughed, "I didn't say Kabuto Says, that means you guys punched yourselves in the face for nothing!"
Sasuke, Karin and Suigetsu growled, glaring at Kabuto.
"I'm so slick." Kabuto stated, pushing up his glasses.
Sasuke, Karin and Suigetsu began walking, slowly, towards Kabuto. Like an animal stalking its prey.
"Hey—wait guys"! Kabuto exclaimed, backing up but finding himself against a wall, "What are you doing."
Sasuke, Karin and Suigetsu surrounded Kabuto.
"Now guys…oh no!" Kabuto shouted in fear, "I didn't say Kabuto says attack Kabuto, now did I, did I?! Oh no! Not the glasses! Not the glasses!"
Sasuke, Karin and Suigetsu were about to attack when a man ran into the room from the front door. They all turned around to see who it was.
"Orochimaru!" the ex-prisoner called, "I demand to see Orochimaru."
"He's not here." Kabuto stated, walking out to greet the prisoner, "I'm in control around here, the name's Kabuto, nice to meet you."
"Yeah. Whatever." The ex-prisoner replied, "I have that woman Anko captured and I'm holding her for a ransom of…."
Upon hearing that the ex-prisoner had Anko for ransom, Kabuto simply just slammed the door shut in the man's face. Kabuto hated Anko enough; he wasn't going to pay his hard earned money to get her back. This was his lucky day.
"What a crazy guy…" Kabuto laughed, walking back over to Team Hebi.
"Hey, wait a minute." Karin screeched, "You can't do that! I, for one, want Anko back so you should go back and open the door so we can pay and get her back."
"No way!" Kabuto exclaimed.
"That man was a prisoner." Sasuke stated, "You should recapture him for Orochimaru's experiments."
"And you know if Orochimaru finds out you slammed the door on a guy who has Anko captive." Suigetsu started, "That he wouldn't be too pleased."
"Yeah…fine…" Kabuto conceded and re-opened the door.
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