I feel sick...
Wow...50 chapters. Halfway to 100...I wonder how long it is going to be. (shouldn't I know that?) apparently no.
Okay so I know that Naruto doesn't go all 4th tail until after the bridge but it worked better this way for me. So pretend that he went all crazy 4 tailed blood dripping off of him while still on the bridge and then accidentally destroyed it.
Orochimaru's Lair
"So we are supposed to sit here like good ninjas and hide while waiting for Sasori's contact to come?" I questioned making sure I had all the information correct.
"Yes." Yamato answered.
"And this contact is supposed to lead us to Sasuke, how?" I questioned knowing that Naruto wanted to ask but was too afraid of receiving Yamato's scary face.
"The contact should be someone who is spying on Orochimaru. That means they should know where Orochimaru's base is."
"I prefer lair, sounds much cooler and eviler. So this plan should work unless the contact fails at being a ninja and doesn't know where the lair is?" I questioned.
"Or if they don't fail at being a ninja and notice that we are all hiding here and Yamato is in Sasori's puppet." Sakura added.
"So the person needs to be a moderately good ninja." I decided.
"I just need you three to be quiet until you are ready to jump whoever the contact is." Yamato said before stepping into Sasori's puppet.
"Oh look it's Kabuto, I would have thought he would be more loyal to Orochimaru. He did try to kill Sasuke that one time, and then there were Zombies..." I whispered to myself.
"Zombies?" Sakura questioned and I just waved away her concern.
"Um, what were we supposed to do if Orochimaru kills our contact?" I questioned as Orochimaru suddenly started to attack Kabuto.
"Ummm." Sakura answered.
"You four can come out now." Orochimaru called looking right where we were hiding. Yamato gave us the signal that we can come out and help him with the not-dieing.
"Why are meeting places always on a bridge?" I questioned once I stood with my team on the bridge in front of Orochimaru and Kabuto who were there to kill Sasori.
"Ah, Taki-san welcome." Orochimaru said with his creepy pedophile smile.
"Welcome where? To this bridge? Thanks?" I said confused.
"I have heard a bit about you from Sasuke-kun." Orochimaru said smiling evilly.
"Don't talk about him." Naruto yelled unleashing some of his Kyuubi power.
I watched as Orochimaru continued to insult Naruto and the Kyuubi's power grew and grew. Kabuto began to attack Naruto until one of Naruto's tails flung him away. Unfortunately for Sakura, Kabuto was flung directly into her knocking her out. I really would have helped her if it wasn't for the fact that Naruto with four tails drips blood.
As soon as Naruto's blood began dripping out I began breathing heavy trying to keep my power under control. I blinked and my eyes were suddenly blue. I stood there concentrating on anything but Naruto's blood. Kabuto's blood, Orochimaru's blood, Sai's ink, anything but Naruto's blood.
"So it is true that if a Taki's comrade is bleeding they loose control." Orochimaru said enraging Naruto some more.
I almost had it under control when the bridge collapsed from underneath us. I am guessing that Naruto destroyed it. I felt the bridge crumble but made no move to stop my fall. There's water at the bottom right? I allowed myself to fall, to be submerged in the rushing water. So that I could be surrounded by the water that was calling out to me. Maybe it could allow me to forget about his blood.
I didn't hit the water, it surrounded me. It brought me right under. It didn't care if I had enough oxygen in my lungs to survive, it didn't care if I could swim. It just pulled me under. I had never lost control while in a body of water before. I soon began to run out of oxygen as I was pulled both by the tide but also under by the water. For a while I was safe in the water. The water pulled any oxygen bubbles trapped within it to me so I could survive. I was underneath the water for quite a while before I began to become light headed due to lack of oxygen.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" I screamed out while summoning all my power. I can only hope that any of my allies are far away from where the bridge was destroyed by now. I made the water send me up and out but I had very little control over where. I was flung out of the water on a stream of the water that wanted to keep me alive. The water that brought me the oxygen.
I didn't realize it but I flew right past Sakura as she went to talk to Naruto in his mini nine tail state. I did feel the raw power of Naruto as I hit him. The water around me was instantly evaporated by Naruto's power. I rolled away from him and coughed up the remaining water that was trapped in my throat. I struggled just to breathe, the water in my hair and on my clothes swirled wildly around me.
"Did you know that before the Taki family was locked up and hunted the most common death for them was drowning." Orochimaru commented before he knocked me out.
3rd person pov...
Orochimaru nonchalantly picked Nami's passed out form up and began to walk away but was stopped by Sai. He would have been stopped by Yamato but he had to stop Kyuubi/Naruto so he was busy. Sakura was similarly busy with trying to heal Naruto's wounds. Sadly Sai wasn't really there to help the poor passed out Nami, he was there to give Orochimaru a message from Danzo. Orochimaru promptly killed Sai by poking him in the stomach with his sword. It turns out that it was a clone of Sai and so Sai, Orochimaru, and Kabuto all skipped merrily through the woods to Orochimaru's lair.
"Sakura was injured by you, Naruto." Yamato told Naruto bluntly. Way to break the news to him buddy.
"Where's Nami-chan?" Naruto questioned as he worried about almost killing Sakura. He was very worried about Nami not being their if his tailed form was injuring people.
"She was knocked out and taken by Orochimaru. Now we are not only on a Sasuke retrieval mission but also a Nami rescue mission."
"How did he capture her?"
"When you went all four tailed on us, you began to bleed. You know how Nami is with blood, especially of her comrades. So when you went all 4 tails she went all hyperventilation and concentrating on not killing us all. She was almost in control when you accidentally destroyed the bridge from underneath our feet. Nami fell down into the water and nearly drowned. She must have recovered enough control to fling herself out. Sadly she was still not under control so Orochimaru easily knocked her out and took her." Yamato explained without taking a breath, impressive.
"So definitely avoid using Kyuubi's chakra around Nami-chan." Naruto decided.
"Probably best to avoid it period, but yes definitely not when Nami is around." Yamato agreed.
"Kabuto can't you wait until we get back to the base to clean your scalpels?" Orochimaru questioned sitting on a rock with Nami still passed out lying beside him.
"No, if I leave them like this their ability to cut will disappear just like that."
"I don't think we should have the Taki so close to water while she is passed out." Orochimaru pointed out.
"I am sure she will be fine."
"What's wrong Sai?"
"Nothing."
"Can I have a dead 16 year old boy when we get back to the base?"
"Don't you have enough dead bodies?"
"Yes, but I am missing that one."
"Well I want to hurry up and get to the base to give Sasuke his present." Orochimaru explained his want of getting to the base quickly.
"Lair, Zombie, Lord of the Zombies." Nami whispered in her sleep causing the three dangerous males to look at her confusedly.
"You're late." the Sasuke completely in the shadows said opening his sharingan blazing eyes.
"I brought you a present." Orochimaru said bringing Nami into Sasuke's line of sight.
"Nami-chan..." Sasuke said trailing off while staring at the passed out girl.
"She reacted badly to the blood of the Kyuubi." Kabuto explained.
"Then she fell into a river." Orochimaru continued when he was glared at by Sasuke. Better Orochimaru get glared at then the poor inanimate object, in this case a random pillar, which was getting glared at earlier.
"Bring Nami over here." Sasuke ordered Kabuto who had the joy of carrying her.
"Ordering me around..." Kabuto complained.
"Bring her to him she is his present after all." Orochimaru ordered.
"Who is that?"
"This is a ninja from Konoha like you, I thought you could exchange nostalgic stories with him."
"How do you do, I am Sai. You must be Sasuke Uchiha--
"Get lost." Sasuke said making sure Nami was comfortably resting on his leg.
"It seems people won't like me even if I put on a smile. In fact Naruto has expressed his hate for me rather frequently."
Sasuke merely looked at Sai an trapped him in his sharingan for a second causing Sai to hallucinate and feel fear. Orochimaru and Kabuto looked interestedly at Nami as a small black and white snake slithered out of her shirt and up Sasuke's arm.
"It's probably not in our best interests to joke with Sasuke, even though we did give him a present."
"I don't care about that guy." Sasuke said referring to Naruto. "Weren't you going to train me, Orochimaru?" Sasuke questioned slowly getting up with Nami in his hands.
"I heard about you from Naruto. He's been looking for you for the past three years."
"There was a boy like that..."
"Sakura says Naruto thinks about you like his brother."
"I only have one brother, the man I mean to kill." Sasuke said right before he disappeared with Nami.
Preview from next chapter: We Meet Again
"It's been a while, Naruto." Sasuke said jumping down and hugging Naruto with one arm.
"Sasuke." Naruto said shocked. Sasuke slowly, or quickly and it just looked slow to us ninjas, drew his sword to plunge it into the shocked Naruto's back.
"Did you think I would let you kill Naruto?"
