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Chapter 2: It's Definitely Her

Two shadows were moving down a long, dark, narrow tunnel. Endless was the only word to describe it. It seemed to go on forever. However, only one of the moving figures knew where it led. Bright torches provided light in the otherwise dark hallway. At least it was some comfort, knowing that they weren't in complete darkness unlike before.

The first shadow belonged to the kunoichi. She seemed to hold her right side desperately as she walked. Her face was completely devoid of any emotion.

The second was Kabuto, Orochimaru's second-in-command. He was now smirking while watching her suffer as they walked. The girl coughed, and immediately some blood shot out. Still, she continued walking. She had no choice.

What did they want her for? She was now a prisoner, trapped. The place was so isolated. There was no sign of any other form of life living there. She didn't even know if they were still above ground.

'Probably not' she thought grimly.

Where was he taking her? All she could do was obey their orders. She felt like a slave, forced to do whatever she was told. If she had to fight him, or anyone else for that matter, she would lose miserably, or worse. She would die.

She was already injured from the last battle she had with them (Kabuto to be more precise), and was having and extremely hard time breathing. There was also a deep wound in her side, courtesy of the medic ninja himself. Poison was flowing through her body slowly at the moment, taking its time.

The girl knew this, knowing a little bit about poisons and antidotes herself. She knew that the only way to dilute the poison from her body was to create a certain formula. Seeing as she neither had the time nor ingredients, she couldn't do anything so she was more worried about where they were going. It took most of her strength just to walk. That's why she didn't put up a fight when he ordered her to come down here. She could hardly move without experiencing excruciating pain.

That's also probably why he didn't do anything to hurt her, well, not yet anyways. There was no need to. Still, he didn't take any chances. He walked right behind her, holding another deadly kunai in his right hand, prepared to use it if necessary.

She couldn't run, fight, or try to escape without getting into an even worse situation. Even though he wasn't going to kill her (he had strict orders not to from… guess who?), he wasn't going to stand there and let her do as she pleased. He had a mission, and he indented to complete it. The girl was basically helpless in her current state.

They were now passing several doors, all locked firmly. "Stop." the voice commanded from behind her. She obeyed him, still clutching her side and breathing rapidly. Her eyes were glued to the ground in a fierce stare, so she didn't notice the strange nature of the door. Unusual symbols were engraved down each side of the door, and elaborate designs were etched into the walls surrounding it.

The medic ninja walked in front of her and reached into his pocket. He took out a rusty silver key and removed the lock. The door opened by itself, as if inviting them in. However, all that could be seen was darkness.

"This will be you room for now. Please stay in here quietly until we need you." He handed her a silver flask filled with a blue kind of liquid. "Drink this or you'll bleed to death." he said.

'Didn't give much choice now did you?' she thought bitterly.

The girl took the flask, and recognizing its purpose, drank it all. After she was done, she handed it back to him, muttering a "thanks' and said nothing further, so he continued talking.

"I'll come back in a few hours. It'll take time for the medicine to take affect, so until then, you are to stay her. Don't even think about escaping." Kabuto warned, even thought he knew it wasn't possible in her condition.

"It will be most troublesome if you try..." He finished talking as the girl entered the room reluctantly. Kabuto walked in right behind her, and shut the door. Light suddenly flooded the room, casting ominous shadows everywhere.

The girl sighed quietly to herself as she looked at her surroundings. There wasn't much. A bed was placed against a wall, towards the back of the tiny room. There was a small table in one corner, accompanied with a rusty old chair. The four walls that seemed to cave in the higher they got. A few candles were placed randomly across the room. Other than that, the place was empty.

"This is your new home, for now anyways." The girl turned to look at him. The medic ninja looked at her and smiled.

"I know this might be a bit confusing to you right now. You're actually quite lucky. Orochimaru-sama seems to be interested in you. You'll understand soon enough." He walked passed her towards the door, opened it, and paused.

"It is necessary that I lock you in. Please try to understand. After all, we don't want you to escape. At any rate, you'll be a lot safer here than if you were to go out there own your own."

He nodded passed the door into the hallway.

"I probably shouldn't be saying anything, but we're going to move to a new base in two days. Your team-mates had better come by then, or you probably won't be seeing them for a while. I doubt that they'll locate the base in two days though, so it seems you will be staying with us for quite some time. When you meet our Sasuke-kun, you are to treat him with the utmost respect. Needless to say, you should do the same to Orochimaru-sama. If you don't, you could easily find yourself dead."

"Wai--" she started to run towards the door, but before she got there, he had slammed it shut. A faint click was heard outside, followed by footsteps echoing in the distance.

She grabbed the door and pulled at it with all the strength she had left. It didn't budge one centimetre, but something did happen. The door started to glow an intensely bright shade of red

The girl screamed in pain as she was suddenly thrown backwards. Shockwaves and sparks ran through her body as she slammed to the floor with a groan. The door kept glowing dangerously for a couple more seconds before it returned back to its normal colour. The girl cringed as she forced herself to stand up. Unbearable pain flowed through her arms and side. She stared down at her arms, almost expecting something bad to happen.

There were two huge slashes, one on each arm. Blood was swiftly spewing out. The wound in her side had reopened as well, and blood gushed out of it. She fell back down, as she felt her last bit of energy drain out of her.

Reaching over, and ignoring the stabs of pain in the process, she grabbed a roll of cloth from one of her pockets and tried to bandage her arms as best as she could. Then she moved on to her side.

Once she was done wrapping her arms, she looked at the door. There was a seal at the top, securing that the door was locked form the inside. She glared at the door, as if willing it to burst in flames. How come she didn't see it before? She was getting careless, and that was something she really couldn't afford to do. She scowled and gazed at the ground.

Blood was splattered everywhere, and most of the floor was now covered in the red fluid. She sighed, resting her head against the wall. What could she do? Her arms were now useless as well, so there was no point in trying to escape. She couldn't even use her chakra, or it would be drained in an instant. She would just get caught, and next time, she would not be as lucky as she was now. The girl yawned as a wave of exhaustion washed over her.

Suddenly the doorknob began to turn. The kunoichi looked up in surprise. Only a few minutes had gone by since the man, Kabuto was it, had left. Who was it now? So far, she only knew three people that were here, wherever here was: Orochimaru, Kabuto, and "Sasuke-kun", as Kabuto put it.

Uchiha Sasuke. The reason they were on the mission in the first place. To bring him back to Konoha. He had left the village a few years ago, and had joined Orochimaru, or so she had been told. She, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Hatake Kakashi were in search of him.

Why? Well, it turned out that Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura were all on the same team when they had first become Genins, and over time, they had bonded and become close. When Sasuke had betrayed the village, Naruto and Sakura had made it their life's mission to locate him and bring him back.

Right now, the kunoichi really disliked Sasuke. Even though technically, this wasn't his fault. She had wanted to come on this assignment of her own free will, heck; she had begged Tsunade- sama to be a part of this mission. However, even though she didn't know Sasuke personally, she couldn't help feeling some resentment towards him. Who would leave their own village from which they grew up in, including all their friends and people that cared about them? Why would someone leave everything they had known for so long? Simple… Revenge.

The reason Sasuke left Konoha was to go train with Orochimaru, King of all that was twisted and evil, well… that's what she had heard anyways. Even thinking about his name made her furious.

Orochimaru. Now that was a completely different story. Whatever bitterness (however slight it was) that she felt towards Sasuke was nothing, and I mean nothing compared to the hatred that she had towards Orochimaru. She absolutely positively despised that rotten excuse for a human being.

He was the reason she got sent away from her village. He was the reason that she had to leave all of her friends, and family, and everything she cared about. HE was the reason that her parents had died.

She had become angrier and angrier by the second. She couldn't even remember her past, before she had left the village. It was like she had never existed before that day, 8 years ago, when she was taken away from everything and everyone that meant something to her.

Except for that one memory. She had only one single recollection of her past life as a shinobi. The memory of her parent's death. When she was only eight years old, she had seen her parents die, right before her eyes. It was him. That creep killed her mother and father right before her very eyes, and would have killed her too, if help hadn't arrived.All she remembered was seeing her parents lying on the floor. Dead.

The kunoichi had completely zoned out, so she didn't notice that someone had already entered the room. The person walked a few steps forward, and then stopped.

"Who are you?" he asked.

The girl looked at him. There he was. Uchiha Sasuke. In the flesh. Well, he certainly lived up to her expectations. He seemed every bit just like Naruto and Sakura had said.

"I could ask you the same question." Was her reply. She didn't feel much like introducing herself.

He looked at her for a moment, and then in the blink of an eye, his eyes changed. He had activated the legendary Sharingan. If she was who he thought she was, then her advanced bloodline would be revealed as well.

As soon as the girl saw his eyes, it was like she had been struck by lightning. Then as if by instinct, she closed her eyes. When she re-opened them a split second later, they had changed as well. She had activated her bloodline limit too.

Sasuke smirked. It was just as he has thought. He turned around and walked back out the door, and the door flew shut, sealing itself again.

The kunoichi groaned. Everything was terrible. She had no idea of her past, she was captured by the murderer of her parents, and the boy she was supposedly trying to bring back to Konoha had just walked in and tried to use his Sharingan on her.

She started to realise that something weird was going on. Orochimaru wanted her for something, but what exactly? When the Uchiha activated his Sharingan, it looked like he was expecting her to defend herself. Which she did.

Speaking of which, how did she know how activate her bloodline. She couldn't even remember anything from the past, yet she was able to do that without even trying. It was almost as if it was done instinctively.

Suddenly an image raced through her mind. It was of someone in the shadows, looking at a much smaller version of her with the same eyes that the Uchiha had. It was just like that memory of her parents. She must have only been around seven or eight at the time, but when that person had looked at her with the Sharingan, she was able to resist it, by using her bloodline.

The kunoichi sighed, overcome by even more fatigue. She needed to get some sleep. She would think about everything in the morning, and hopefully she would remember more of her strange past then.

"Naruto…Sakura...please…come soon." she whispered, not noticing that the candles in the room suddenly flickered a few times, then went out, leaving her in complete and total darkness.

"For now," she thought. "All I have to do is stay alive...how hard could it possibly be..." were her last words as she fell into a deep, restless sleep.

Sasuke frowned as he exited her room. His suspicions had been right. Orochimaru was telling the truth.

She was from his village.

She had an advanced bloodline just like him.

And she still looked so much like the girl he used to know.

As much as he didn't want to believe it, he knew it was true.

'It's definitely her.'

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