Demons live inside every single one of us. But it is the people who act on those demons that are monsters.
Aria was tired. She'd spent all day dealing with people, and she was tired. But then she had to go home and deal with him.
She was so not in the mood for his bullshit.
Opening the door she looked around, at first spotting nothing, setting her keys on the counter and kicking off her shoes, tossing her purse onto the coffee table.
"Orochimaru-san? You here?" She called out. No response. I swear if that asshole has decided to play some messed up game of hide and scare the shit out of Aria….
"Welcome home, Aria-Chan."
Aria jumped at the voice directly behind her, turning to find the Sannin standing by the door, arms crossed looking at her in amusement. He was up to something, she decided. She narrowed her eyes at the Sannin who smiled innocently.
"How was work? You never did tell me what you did for a living." He commented. Aria turned away from him, but still kept an eye on him. "Why do you ask?" Aria questioned as she took off her coat, hanging up in the closet in the hall, glancing away from the Sannin for a moment. "Oh, I want to get to know you Aria-Chan, you're job, you strengths… weaknesses…" He drawled, taking steps towards the red head. She turned around to face him, and that when she noticed an object in his hands and her eyes widened.
It was a sword, her sword. Her sword that she kept hidden in her room under the floorboards... now in this monster's hands.
"Where did you get that?" Aria demanded, glaring at the Sannin, who smirked at her not responding. She whirled around pushing the door open to her room to find it the floorboard under pulled up, and exposed everything she kept hidden. "You bastard! You went through my room." Anger bubble up in her chest as she met his gaze. She wanted to strangle the smug faced bastard, he likes the fact that he pissed her off!
Orochimaru shrugged, looking at her in amusement. "Why, I don't know whatever you mean..." He said 'innocently'.
Aria took several steps towards him. "Why? Why go through my things?" She demanded, very tempted to try and grab that sword… but she's seen him fight, there is no way she'd be able to remove that sword from him.
"Why isn't it obvious? You know things, Aria-Chan, things about me, so I took it upon myself to know things about you." He held up the sword, looking at it. "Sadly, you're room held nothing about, nothing of which I could read." He hissed, before looking back at her. "However, then I discovered your little hiding place… my, my, Aria-Chan you have quite the little stash under the floorboards. I wonder why?" He hummed, walking around her. She stood, frozen, not sure exactly what the snake was about to do next as he circled her like hungry wolf.
"Tell me Aria-Chan, who exactly are you… and what exactly is it do you know?" He hissed into her ear causing her to flinch at how he was invading her personal bubble. "I already told you-" He cut me off. "I did not ask of your name, child, I am asking who you are." She held her breath, feeling the blade against her back.
"I… I work at a bar. I'm a bartender, just a bartender." She explained to him, trying to get him to back off. "And what need would a bartender have, for such weaponry?"
"Let's just say my family is less that conventional." She admitted. Orochimaru blinked. "Oh? And what of your family, I would so very much like to meet them." His tone made her glare harden.
"I would never let the likes of you anywhere near them!" She hissed at the man. Orochimaru chuckled at that. "So protective.."
"What do you want anyways? Surely it wasn't for me to talk about my family?" Aria questioned, changing the topic. Orochimaru nodded. "I suppose that is correct… what exactly do you know of me?" He questioned. She looked at him, carefully weighing her options.
I didn't know when he was from, before I tell him anything I should find out that much. With any luck he's from a time after the plot, or at the very least near the end. The preferable time would be right before or better yet after Sasuke kills him, that way I don't have to watch my mouth as much. Aria carefully considered the possibilities before responding.
"Who is the current Hokage?" She asked, crossing her arms trying to hide her unease. Orochimaru let a grin slide across his face, pleased with the red head's cooperation. "Hiruzen Sarutobi." Aria felt her stomach dropped at the news.
This is Orochimaru before the Sasuke capture, which means if I screw up… real peoples lives are on the line now.
Of course he could be lying to test me... but still, if he is telling the truth then I should act accordingly and only tell him things that don't really effect the plot... well, things that would damage the plot. I should also probably pretend not to know as much as I do about the future, since he'll probably be more than interested in that.
"So the Fourth is dead then, how long since the Nine-tails attack?" She asked playing innocent, taking a seat on the chair. "11 years." Orochimaru said, narrowing his eyes.
Well then, time to look like a crazy stalker. With that in mind, she began her speech.
"Born October 27, orphan, graduated at age 6, Shinobi registration number 002300, former student of Hiruzen Sarutobi, classification missing nin S-rank, Sannin. You're one of Konohakure's legendary Sannin along with Tsunade and Jiraiya." Aria took breath but didn't stop, closing her eyes as she ran through his information.
"You were caught red-handed performing unethical experiments on citizens for the sake of this immortality, you defected from Konoha rather than be persecuted for your ambitions, and for many years sought the village's destruction in order to take revenge and demonstrate what you had learned." Aria opened her eyes and stared him in the face as his grin widened.
"You are the founder of the Sound village. You're a former member of the Akatsuki. You're after the Sharingan, specifically an Uchiha body." She finally summarized.
She may have brushed up on her Naruto facts last night, and in the car. Listening to various YouTube videos and wiki.
Of course this did not help my fears, reading that Orochimaru's kick is strong enough to knock down a fucking tree does not help. Though knowing that he doesn't have excess to Ninjutsu was at least comforting, though not as much as I'd wish. Aria thought in dismay.
Orochimaru was silent for a moment, staring at me for a couple of seconds before responding. "Admirable knowledge." He admitted before continuing, "if you hold this much information on myself then how much on others, I might wonder?" He questioned, and licked his lips, the sight of his abnormally large tongue a shudder of disgust rip through Aria's body.
"I know pretty much everything about the Akatsuki, actually that would have to be the thing that I know the most about." She replied.
Honestly she didn't care if Orochimaru found out about secrets of the Akatsuki, better rat out the Akatsuki than team seven, than Naruto.
"Oh?" Orochimaru. "Do tell, I would love to here about the Akatsuki and there plans." She looked at him blankly. "Ok… but you might want to sit down. If you truly want to know everything this is gonna take a while to explain." She told him.
She was gonna leave out the part about Obito, she knew that much. She wasn't in that world, and telling Orochimaru… well it wouldn't be as bad as telling him about Naruto and Sasuke's little secret. Plus she could warn him about the Ootsutsuki, or at the very least Kaguya. Orochimaru fought in the Fourth Shinobi War, so she know he doesn't want the world to end.
I'll leave out some parts, that's for sure.
We both sat, measuring each other, Orochimaru on the chair, and herself on a couch nearby. "Where to start… I suppose the beginning would be appropriate. But then of course were all of this started is also complicated… alright. The story of the Akatsuki as an organization starts just after Jiraiya left three orphans in the rain village, after training them. Nagato, Yahiko and Konan. Yahiko took the role of the groups ring leader, he was loud with strong beliefs, belief that he could bring about peace to the Shinobi world. Nagato was timid, shy, and a very kind boy and he shared his friends beliefs. Konan was there support a good friend, and to one, a lover. Nagato, however possessed the rinnegan, although he didn't use it very often." Aria shifted, crossing her legs.
"They formed the group and called it the Akatsuki, now it wasn't the Akatsuki you joined, this one was hell bent on piece, even when attacked they did not attack. Yahiko was excellent at negotiating peace, they got more and more of a following, however one day Hanzo became convinced that the Akatsuki were mobilizing for an attack against him, to kill him and remove him from leadership. This was false. They weren't going to kill him, and they didn't want a war, even if they did I doubt Yahiko would have allowed any bloodshed. That's when Konan was kidnapped by Hanzo, and she was used to lure Yahiko and Nagato into a trap. Hanzo gave Nagato was given a choice, either Konan or Yahiko could live. Yahiko loved Konan, so he killed himself, impaling onto Nagato's kunai. After that it was made obvious that Hanzo definitely didn't plan on any of them surviving, which made Yahiko's sacrifice for nothing." Aria paused in recalling the events, but only for a moment.
"That was enough to set Nagato off, and he used the rinnegan to quickly wipe out Hanzo's forced, nearly killing the man himself. Meanwhile, the Akatsuki members were massacred by a man who had approached them earlier, with an offer of power that they had declined. Nagato was approached again by this man, and Zetsu. Nagato used Yahiko's body as a tool now, turning it into Pain. With this new power, Pain killed Hanzo and took control of the rain village, and reformed the Akatsuki with a new purpose. Nagato decided to take the man up on his offer, and they went on with his plan to first collect a total of ten members, before moving onto capturing the tailed beasts." She explained the Akatsuki's entire backstory, not taking her eyes from his, watching his reaction.
Orochimaru crossed his arms leaning back. "I knew most of that already." He drawled.
Aria sighed, knowing that she was now getting to the sensitive part. "When the Hidden Leaf Village was first formed, shortly after there was a battle between Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju. Do you know why?" She asked.
"Madara had gone mad, he wanted to destroy that village after being denied the right to be Kage." Orochimaru said. "But judging by your mentioning of it I take it there is more to the story?" She nodded.
"Madara did want the village destroyed, that's true, but exactly because of the fact that Hashirama was chosen in favor of him. But more because, Tobirama had earlier killed Izuna, Madara's little brother, a brother whom he had pledged to protect since he was a small boy. Dead. Madara wanted Tobirama's life in exchange, a battle was fought and in the end, Hashirama offered his life in exchange for peace. Madara was touched, and ended the war, but everyone still hated him, children crying whenever he was near them and his own clan hated him. I do believe it sent him over the edge." She explained.
"What does Madara Uchiha have to do with the Akatsuki?" Orochimaru asked curiously.
Aria took a deep breath ready to drop the bombshell."Because in the battle, between Hashirama and Madara, Madara did not actually die. He survived, unbeknownst to Hashirama, Madara possessed a piece of the Sharingan known as Izanagi, a genjutsu so strong it can alter reality to the user's desire. Died in battle? No problem, just set Izanagi to bring you back to life on the event of death, waiting 24 hours of course in order for the enemy to buy it. Madara Uchiha returned to life and left a clone in his stead, he then hid his presence over the years, before making an offer to a certain little group in a war torn land, becoming the leader of said group."
Orochimaru's eyes widened at the information.
"Kukuku... interesting, so not only is Madara Uchiha still alive, but he is the true leader behind the Akatsuki." He let a smirk cross his lips.
She nodded. "Not only that, but he means to place the world you call home, in an eternal Genjutsu, an infinate Tsukiyomi. That's why the Akatsuki require tailed beasts, you need all the tailed beast inside the geto statue, summoned by the Rinnegan user, before it turns into the Ten-Tails and the Tsukiyomi is cast. Once it's cast you can't escape it." Orochimaru frowned at all this, she got up, going to the kitchen and she placed the kettle on the pot, and looked back at Orochimaru.
Maybe telling him all this was a bad idea, but ultimately, it didn't effect her. There were ways this could backfire. But… it's not her world. Not her problem. Plus it's not like she even got to the other bits. There was still information she left out.
All the important stuff, she only told him about the Akatsuki and added Madara as a little bonus. Of course with his paranoia he was probably still suspicious. She could then tell him if he pressed further about Zetsu, and Kaguya. Aria wasn't saying squat about Obito, because that would lead to the Kamui, which would put Kakashi in danger. While this wasn't her world, Kakashi didn't deserve to die.
"Anyway, that's what I know about the Akatsuki." Aria fixed herself a cup of tea, and walked off to her bedroom, glancing back at the Sannin as she did. "Now I'll be taking a shower, so you'll have to wait if you want to know anything else, and I can't promise a straight answer, I do only have so much information, and it does have gaps, so take that into account." The red head told him before slipping into her room and retrieving her things for the shower ducking into the bathroom, closing and locking the door, and turning the water on.
Aria leaned against the wall and let out a sigh of relief. Dear lord, that man is making my life so freaking stressful. Everything I just said is real… all those people.. if I screwed up, I.. might cause so much damage to so many people's lives.
That thought... it terrified her.
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