DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN Naruto or any of its characters and I do not make any profit off of this. This is only for my pure enjoyment and those who wish to read.
CLAIMER: I OWN my original character Yami Uchiha.
WARNING: This is a MALE X MALE / SLASH fan-fiction. If you DO NOT like same-sex relationships, then this story may not be for you. This will be slightly AU.
BETA READER: There is no beta reader for this fan-fiction, so there will be mistakes that I have missed.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Oh sweet Kami what direction has this story gone?! I'm so lost. Please don't hurt me.
Chapter Seventy-Four
Mature Content Ahead
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"I don't like this damp, dismal place. Could we not go somewhere warm and lit?" Yami whispered from his place beside Orochimaru.
The duvet was pooled around their waists as they lay there; Yami on his stomach facing the ebony haired male and Orochimaru on his side. Hooded golden orbs glanced almost lazily into pitch as Orochimaru's arm draped over Yami's waist.
"What brought this on?" Orochimaru asked quietly, half-heartedly tugging at the hem of Yami's sage green night shirt.
"It's cold. Azukiiro agrees," Yami sighed tiredly, pitch orbs slowly drawing to a close.
'If I can convince him to relocate us, there might be a chance to escape,' Yami thought silently, exhaling softly.
Warm lips pressed against Yami's cheek, brushing the corner of the raven's mouth. Nimble fingers drew languid circles along Yami's side, the hand having moved underneath the raven's night shirt.
"Mmm, stop. I'm not in the mood," Yami murmured, turning his head away and burying it in his pillow.
"I want to touch you," Orochimaru whispered against Yami's ear, his wandering hand beginning to trail downward.
Fingers teased the edge of Yami's matching night pants and the raven started to shift away only for that wandering hand to cup his hip and pull Yami back.
"You relentless snake," Yami groaned as that hand went back to fondling him.
Orochimaru chuckled and took hold of Yami's nearest hand. Placing Yami's palm on his chest, Orochimaru slowly guided the raven's hand downward and inside his own dark gray night pants. Yami turned his head and watched as the hebi Sannin used the raven's hand to touch himself. Pitch orbs grew wide as Orochimaru used Yami's hand to cup himself.
"I want you to touch me," Orochimaru practically moaned the words, giving his hardened length a few firm strokes with Yami's hand.
"Yo-you…," Yami stuttered as a deep scarlet hue bloomed on the raven's entire face, feeling how Orochimaru's member twitched in his grasp.
"Touch me, Yami-koi," Orochimaru practically growled with carnal desire, giving Yami's bottom lip a suck. "And I'll think about finding us a new place to live."
'The hentai is using sex as leverage.'
Yami tightened his grip around the hebi Sannin's member and leaned in until he was hovering over Orochimaru. Gripping long ebony tresses with his other hand, Yami glared into darkening gold.
"No thinking about it. Say that you will find us a better place and soon," Yami hissed, thinking nothing more than about the possibility of escape.
"Are you threatening me?" Orochimaru questioned, his breath rushing from his lungs as Yami gave the hardened flesh a firm squeeze bordering between painful and pleasurable.
"Of course I am, Otto-sama," Yami admitted, pitch orbs gleaming mischievously as he gave Orochimaru's chin chaste kiss.
Taking advantage of his position, Orochimaru dipped both hands passed the waistband of Yami's night pants and cupped warm globes. He gave the round flesh a squeeze mirroring the one Yami gave him.
"Threaten me some more and we'll leave tomorrow," Orochimaru assured the raven, his voice growing husky.
"Mou, why is my husband such a hentai?" Yami questioned playfully, shifting a leg over the hebi Sannin and straddling his waist.
Those hands grasping him twitched at Yami's words and the raven slowly removed his night shirt and let it drop to the stone floor below them. A soft knock thudded against the chamber door just a Yami slanted his mouth over Orochimaru's, the sound going unnoticed by the two as the kiss deepened. Light crept into the room as the door was opened, this action causing the two of them to slowly break away. Yami straightened up, but remained straddling Orochimaru. His pitch gaze narrowed at the interruption much like Orochimaru's molten gold orbs burning into the one standing in the doorway.
"I would have waited until morning if this was not important," Kabuto spoke from where he stood, his dark gaze taking in the sight before him with a blank expression.
"Hn," Yami sounded, moving off of the ebony haired male and pulling the duvet up until only the crown of his head was visible.
The bed shifted as Orochimaru got up. Silence followed shortly after the door closed behind the two.
"Azukiiro," Yami called out in a whisper, his voice muffled by the duvet.
Seconds passed before the opal scaled viper slithered up onto the bed and underneath the duvet.
"What has happened?" Yami questioned softly as the viper curled up against his chest.
"The ssstorm from earlier hasss worsssened. Water isss filling the hallsss," Azukiiro hissed.
Yami sat up at that and the opal scaled viper hissed in displeasure at being disturbed. Getting up from the bed, Yami changed into a pair of black pants and a matching long sleeve cheongsam top with red silk ties. Stepping into a pair of black sandals, Yami scooped Azukiiro up and placed the opal scaled viper around his neck where it curled around him securely. Just as Yami stepped out of the chamber, a loud rumble shook the base and cracks began to form in the stone walls. The sound of rushing water could be heard and the raven turned in the direction the sound emanated from. Slamming into the wall at the end of the hall was a wave of water. Twisting on his heel, Yami ran in the opposite direction as fast as he could without chakra to enhance his speed.
'The courtyard!'
The thought ran through Yami's mind over and over again as he ran through the flooding passages, the wall of water closing in from behind him. Going up a flight of stairs that would lead to the hall where the courtyard was, Yami was slammed into by a force of raging water. The current knocked Yami off of his feet. He grappled for a hold of anything, the water forcing him under every time he managed to draw a breath of air. Catching a latch, Yami struggled to pull himself against the torrent before it forced his grip to release. Pain shocked through his system as his side collided with the corner of a passage splitting off. Ribs bent before cracking at the hard impact and Yami shouted in pain, what little air he had being replaced by the engulfing water.
Azukiiro's coils began to loosen and for a split second Yami thought the opal scaled viper was dead. It then began to grow at a rapid rate until the heavy torrent was blocked off by a now giant viper that proceeded to wrap around Yami enough to block out the water and provided the injured raven something to lean against. Yami's breathing came in ragged pants, the raven wanting nothing more than to press green chakra to his shattered side and be able to actually breathe. He felt as if he were suffocating underneath the water still, unable to properly catch his breath no matter how much he focused.
"Sssnakelet, you're injured," Azukiiro hissed, its enormous head buried inside its coils.
Ribs shattered. Can't breathe. Yami signed to the opal scaled viper that quickly nodded as if in understanding.
"I will ssswallow you and get you to sssafety," Azukiiro hissed and proceeded to do just that before Yami could wince.
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Powerful jutsus took out the masses of Orochimaru's underlings that fled the flooding underwater base. The targets were easy, none of them expecting the attack as they tried to escape drowning. Sakura and Kakashi used more doton jutsu to bring the base to the brink of collapse while Sasuke and Naruto combined futon and katon jutsu. A large opal scaled viper shot out of the frenzied waters, streaking into the surrounding land without a single attack landing a blow.
"OROCHIMARU!" Kakashi yelled, seeing the escaping summons.
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Hearing his name being yelled over the raging storm, Orochimaru wanted to curse. He did not have time to play; he had to find Yami before the base finished collapsing.
"Orochimaru-sama, it is too dangerous. The pathways have either caved in or have become flooded," Kabuto stated, urging his master to leave.
"I sealed away Yami's chakra. He may have become trapped in our chambers," Orochimaru hissed, forcing the water back with a futon jutsu and then diverting the flow with doton.
"If Azukiiro was with Yami-sama, then the viper would have gotten Yami-sama to safety," Kabuto explained, the last of the reinforcements beginning to fail. "Orochimaru-sama, please."
Golden orbs reflected sharp blades as Orochimaru glared at his apprentice. Only for the fact that knowing the medic's words to be true did the ebony haired male make his escape. Pushing through the earth at a secret back entrance, Kabuto checked the area before climbing out completely. Orochimaru followed. At their emergence, a large form entered the small clearing and proceeded to regurgitate a body.
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Jolts of chakra zapped Yami's entire body as soon as he was swallowed by the opal scaled viper. He could feel the rapid healing of his ribs even as his lungs continued to burn from the lack of oxygen. What seemed like minutes were only a few seconds spent inside the viper before he was being expelled out onto dry land. Landing on his hands and knees, Yami coughed up the water lodged in his lungs and took a shaky breath of much needed air.
"Yami."
His name was said with heavy relief as a pair of hands grabbed him and pulled him up against someone's chest. The scent of citrus and earthy tones let Yami know that it was Orochimaru holding him. Pitch orbs squeezed shut, the raven taking in slow deep breaths. Finally looking up, he watched as both Orochimaru's golden orbs and Kabuto's dark gaze widened at whatever they were staring at. One of Orochimaru's palms cupped Yami's left cheek where his scar started, the rest hidden behind his cheongsam top.
"It's gone," Kabuto murmured and raven brows furrowed in confusion.
"It seems that Azukiiro's fluids healed you completely while you were inside," Orochimaru stated, explaining their surprised looks.
Pitch orbs brightened and Yami pulled the hem of his cheongsam up enough to reveal the right side of his abdomen where his large scar should have ended, only to see smooth unblemished skin.
'If this scar was healed…them maybe the chakra seals—.' Yami's thoughts were cut off as four new arrivals appeared and Azukiiro curled protectively around the raven.
This action had pushed Orochimaru away from Yami, the opal scaled viper's only priority being to protect his snakelet as was the order given to it when Orochimaru gifted the viper to the raven.
"SHANNARO!"
The feminine shout was followed up by large crevices being forced into the earth and Azukiiro scooped its precious cargo into its jaws and took off, leaving Orochimaru and Kabuto to either follow or deal with the threat. Right before the viper disappeared into the surrounding landscape, pitch orbs locked onto a charcoal and blazing red orb that widened at the sight of him.
"YAMI!"
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Kusanagi's poisonous blade sung through the air as Orochimaru slashed at the biggest threat to what was his. Kakashi blocked the sharp blade with a kunai, the steel breaking with ease under the attack. Dodging, Kakashi leaped backwards only for Sasuke to take his place. Sasuke's Tsūretsu Kaminari (Biting Lightning) flickered with static charged from the male's raiton chakra surging through the rapier blade. Quicker than the eyes could follow, Sasuke attacked using his blade's special ability. Orochimaru barely blocked, hissing at the sting when the rapier's blade nicked his skin. He had underestimated the youngest Uchiha. Orochimaru vowed to never again.
Kabuto's left shoulder was steaming, his accelerated healing kicking in from taking one of Naruto's rasengans. The gray haired medic blocked Sakura's chakra scalpel with one of his own and he lengthened his chakra blade enough that it overpowered the kunoichi's. Cursing in pain, Sakura backed off to heal her limp hand and Kabuto immediately dodge her blonde teammate's axe kick. It did not look as though anyone would be going after Azukiiro and Yami any time soon. Clenching his teeth in annoyance, Orochimaru began to build up his chakra.
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"Azukiiro, put me down," Yami demanded once he could no longer feel the oppressive chakra coming from battle.
The opal scaled viper did so and immediately shrunk back to its original size. Yami scooped the viper up and brought Azukiiro up to eye level. Pitch met maroon.
"You have healing properties," Yami stated rhetorically and the viper nodded its head up and down.
"I wasss desssigned with your protection in mind; whether to protect you againssst threatsss or to heal you when injured," Azukiiro hissed before stretching out to curl around Yami's neck.
Yami signed, glancing back in the direction they had come from. The tremors in the earth were faint. Biting the corner of his lip, Yami cupped his left wrist. Closing his eyes, he exhaled. He then pulled up the sleeve of his cheongsam to show off his bare wrist. Chakra thrummed within his system, his pools filling up from the lack of use and being held back.
"Why were you made for me if you were able to remove my chakra seals?" Yami asked in a breathy whisper.
A forked tongue flicked out and tickled Yami's neck.
"Oro-sssama wanted you to be able to protect yourssself if he could not. I wasss only to ussse my ability of healing if it were life or death," Azukiiro hissed softly. "Oro-sssama did not know the full extent of my healing, but he sssupected."
"He would have allowed me to have full reign of my chakra?" Yami questioned, his fists tightening as he stared in the direction of the intense battle although he could not see it.
"Of courssse. Oro-sssama lovesss you, Sssnakelet," Azukiiro hissed, humor dancing along its tone.
Azukiiro nuzzled Yami's neck, the area a favorite of Orochimaru's to mark. Yami's chest tightened. Now was his chance to escape and help Team Seven destroy the one who had caused so much grief in his life…but why was he so hesitant?
