Authors Note: Ok So I've gotten some reviews and I'm really happy about that, so don't stop ok? Otherwise I just might never get the motivation to finish this story… Mwahaha. cough cough anyways, so I got a review from someone saying how Anko joined Orochimaru before he created Sound. Well I didn't know that so I guess that shall be one detail I changed of the story line. Ok? Keep Reviewing
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the song Angels by Within Temptations or anything like that.
Chapter 2:
"Don't worry about them Child, they wont touch you." Orochimaru said in a soothing tone as he and Anko walked through the entrance to Sound that was guarded by two huge snakes. Anko was almost clinging to Orochimaru's arm as they walked, but he didn't seem to mind. As they walked they saw very few other people simply walking around. There were people running around though, from building to building as if there lives depended on getting a paper to someone or a video tape to someone else or whatever it was they were doing.
"Orochimaru-sama?" Anko said in a curious tone as they walked. "Yes Child?" He replied looking down at her. "Why are all these people running around? What is the emergency?" She asked as her gaze followed the many people they passed. "Ah, they run because they must hurry. War is fast approaching these many lands, and if one does not run, then war could catch up before we are ready. So they run."
"But why is there war? What has happened to start this?" Anko asked as she starred up into the green eyes of her savior.
"That is a very good question Anko. And sometimes I don't even known the complete answer myself. All I know is Konoha and many other nations are at our borders killing our shinobi. That is war and it is soon upon us. What have we done to deserve this? I do not know. But in order not to let the world fall into chaos, we must fight back. And besides, isn't that what being a shinobi's all about, Child? War and fighting?" Orochimaru said as they stopped in front of a large one story building that looked like a Japanese mansion.
"I suppose your right Orochimaru-sama… You know so much Orochimaru-sama, I wish I could be as informed as you are…" Anko said as she looked down at the ground. Orochimaru sunk to one knee and tilted her chin up with a finger
"Do not worry Child, you will know just as much as I do before to long. Now come, this is your new home." He said before he stood up again and led her through the huge doors with their snake like handles and into the huge mansion. He led her through the stone halls of the mansion showing her the rooms she was allowed in and the doors she was never to touch. But near the end of their tour Orochimaru passed by a staircase leading down into darkness without a word. Anko stopped and said pointing at the stairs. "Orochimaru-sama, what's down these stairs?"
Orochimaru froze and then turned with a smile on his face and said, "There is nothing down those stairs. But you must NEVER go down them. If there is one place in the entire world you must never go, that is the place. Alright?"
Anko paused for a moment and looked at the staircase with a puzzled look. She then looked back at Orochimaru, nodded and hurried to catch up to him. They then paused at a door and Orochimaru said, "This is where you will most likely find me during the day should you need me." He opened the door to reveal a huge stone chamber with a high ceiling. There was a chair in the middle of the room, which looked much like a throne, in front of a wooden desk. Along the far wall there was a line of monitors and computers with a couple people sitting at them. But as soon as Orochimaru took a couple steps that echoed throughout the hall and cleared his throat, the many people shut off the monitors immediately. "This is what you might call… My office. Now I have some work to do, what is it you'd like to do child?" Orochimaru said as he walked over to the desk and chair and sat down.
"Um… May I go to the library and do some research?" Anko asked taking a few cautious steps towards the desk. "Yes you may Child. But please return here at 4 o'clock and I will teach you a Jutsu." Orochimaru replied as he picked up a stack of paperwork and began riffling through it.
Anko smiled brightly and ran out of the room. She ran down the halls till she reached a large pair of wooden doors. She opened them to reveal a huge library with hundreds of rows of books, scrolls and binders full of information and just about every subject in the world. She ran to the first row and grabbed a stack of book and brought them over to a table, sat down and started to read. 'I must become like Orochimaru-sama… I'll read everything in this library and then I'll be informed like he is. And with Orochimaru-sama teaching me jutsus, I'll become strong just like him.' She thought as she read the books.
"This jutsu is known as the Souja Sousai no Jutsu. It is a assassination jutsu and is very powerful. If you were to use this jutsu it would kill you as well as your target." Orochimaru said to Anko as they stood in the large stone room that was his office.
"Why would I need to use a jutsu that would kill me?" Anko asked looking up at her savior.
"In case you absolutely must kill your enemy and there is no other way. But there is a secret to this jutsu, a way to use it and not be killed. It is this…" And so that is how the days progressed. Anko would wake up in her small room and head to the kitchens and grab some breakfast. She'd then head to the library and read till 4 o'clock where she would go to Orochimaru's office and learn a jutsu or practice the one he'd taught her the previous day. Soon she grew out of the childish girl she had been the day her teammates and her had set out on the mission to deliver the package to the small village. She was now a young woman who could fight well and knew much about the land around her. But she began to feel doubts about her savior. There were times where she'd pass someone in the hall and catch a whisper of sacrifices. And she remembered her teachings in Konoha telling of sacrifices only coming from forbidden jutsus.
And more then one time did she see two Jounin walk through the halls with a covered body on a stretcher, and they had come from the staircase that she was told never to descend. And it was one night when she was lying in her bed that she suddenly remembered something. The Bingo Book. It had been a book her Sensei had shown her back in Konoha of all the wanted S-class missing-nin. IT showed who they were and what they did to get them in the book. And Orochimaru had been in that book, for using child sacrifices in forbidden jutsus.
She lay in her bed with her eyes open wide as she came to this realisation. That she could be his next sacrifice.
I see the angels,
I'll lead them to your door.
There's no escape now,
No mercy no more.
No remorse cause I still remember
-Souja Sousai no Jutsu is also referred to as Twin Snake Double Assassination Technique