"A DAY AT THE SNAKE'S"
Written by: riyuna16
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. And I salute Kishimoto!
Summary: See how Sasuke endures his first day in Orochimaru's secret lair. We just know how this guy left a cursed seal after delightfully sinking his fangs into Sasuke's neck so perhaps they're going to do more than training... (NOT an OroSasu fic)
A/N: (sighs) That was... WHEW! But I am SO happy that I finally finished writing and uploading the next chap! YAY! Thank you VERY much to Nehxaa16andTaNGKaD for reviewing! I really really appreciate all reviews---especially the good ones...Haha. Again, thank you SO much. And without wasting more of your precious time, here's chapter three. Enjoy... :D!
"A Day at the Snake's"
Written by: riyuna16
Chapter Three: Let's Play
10:20 am.
It was not a good thing. The breeze that made his jet-black hair wave in front of his virile face embolded him to think of what the atrocious man beside him had said. What he had to offer.
"You just need to enhance the gift," the sannin proclaimed with a mischievous smile. "And the highest, utmost form of immeasurable power is forever yours."
His lifeless face remained unbothered. He was deep in thoughts. Will he truly put his trust unto this man? To be able to acquire that immeasurable power? And without hesitation, he knew the answer.
10:45 am.
The avaricious sannin walked along the hushed forest with the young Uchiha. The young shinobi's hands were still buried inside his pockets as Orochimaru was strolling silently, thinking of how to spark a conversation. He slapped his forehead mentally.
"THINK, you imprudent!" he cried in his mind. "Think of something that would make Sasuke-kun speak up! He SURELY doesn't want to smell your STENCH if you don't open your MOUTH! Argh! You know what I MEAN! It's the..."
"The power."
Orochimaru cocked an eyebrow as he looked down at the shinobi by his side. "You said something, Sasuke-kun?"
"Tell me." he demanded, stopping to gaze at the man's dusky eyes. "How can I enhance the gift?"
The snake-summoner remained frozen for a while, slightly astounded. Then he broke into a loud, hearty laugh"Can't we leave the gift thing for just a MINUTE?" he asked with parody. "We have three years, my dear Sasuke-kun! Three WHOLE years," he explained to him. "We need not rush."
"Hn." came the Sharingan heir with a scowl. "How long do we have to walk?" he asked impatiently. "Can't we just leap to the branches and do the ninja stuff like we always do?" he asked in a as-a-matter-of-fact tone. "It's faster that way."
"Hmm... a long way to go, indeed." The ghastly man observed as he looked around him. "But we CAN'T just leap to the branches and do the ninja stuff we always do... like you say." he told him.
"Why so?" Sasuke snapped with a frown. "After all, we are shinobis."
"Because I SAID so, Sasuke-kun," answered Orochimaru firmly. "I am the rule here."
"Hmph. Sure, and I'm the house." mumbled the raven wonder as he looked away.
"Take it as a challenge!" replied the sannin with such vigor. "Walking instead of leaping trees! Relaxing instead of working those muscles! This is our teacher-student bond, Sasuke-kun! We'll remember this path forever!"
The Uchiha stared at him with wide eyes. Then shook his head. Sometimes, he wondered how he let this guy get the better of him back in Konohakagure. "Fine. Let's just walk." he stated with a groan.
"Well, if it wasn't for you, my special boy, we could be home right now." answered Orochimaru as he continued strolling, which is more like stalling. "You trained too far. You could have waited for me! So that we could train together..." he stated with a cunning sneer.
Sasuke didn't say anything. He didn't mind him. He was bored. He was bored of toddling the same path and bored of stepping the same leaves. And he's tired. Tired of working those feet for more than a mile and tired of the hearing Orochimaru utter "Sasuke-kun" after each sentence like Sakura. In fact, he wasn't just bored. He was BORED TO DEATH!When will this man teach him how to enhance that GIFT? He just CAN'T waste his time here! But he didn't DARE protest, clearly knowing that all decisions are made by the legendary sannin. And there was absolutely nothing he can do about it. He owed him a thing or two. And so he sighed, a puff of air blowing a strand of black-blue hair in front of his enticing face.
"Bored stiff, aren't you, Sasuke-kun?" the snake-summoner guessed with a smile as his senseless stalling, I mean strolling, came into a halt. Sasuke didn't say a word. The sannin was CERTAIN the Uchiha was eager to enhance the gift. But these things take time. Three years is a long time. And there's plenty of time right now.
"I know!" declared Orochimaru quite excitedly. "Let's play a game."
"I want to go back and train." answered Sasuke tediously. "I don't have time to play."
"Is that so?" inquired Orochimaru. "Oh, but Sasuke-kun, we'll just kill the time while walking," explained the sannin reassuringly. "You'll just open your mouth and use your arms to play the game" he spoke mischievously. "It is VERYeasy
Sasuke remained silent for a moment. He just said he DOESN'Thave the time to play!He's a MAN and he won't break his word! But Orochimaru said it's VERY easy. No big deal. Maybe just a simple game. And it'll kill the time. Yeah, that'll end all his boredom. And so he said...
"...All right."
"GOOD! Very good," commended Orochimaru as he broke into a sly grin. "Do you have any idea of the game I have in mind?" he answered as they reached the river.
"No." answered Sasuke emphatically. But he was quite enthusiastic about it. "What's he planning to play anyway? Hunt for the snakes?"
"We're going to play..." the sannin's voice trailed off as he looked to the blue sky.Then his pale face brightened as he grinned wider than ever...
11:30 am.
Kabuto looked over some paperworks in some room in the secret lair. He shook his head at every page and sighed. "No more five-man team..." Then he went through the kitchen-like room of the lair and started to reach for pans and casseroles for cooking. "It's almost twelve," he uttered. "Lunch time. Master Orochimaru and Sasuke must be on their way home," he thought aloud. "But I wonder what's taking them so long..."
11:45 am.
Sasuke tensed... Orochimaru was happy. Clearly, he was excited about something. And him excited over something was bad. Then the Uchiha realized it was worse. Worse because he was part of it.
"Strip off." finished the snake-summoner. "We are going to have a good time playing THAT one."
"S-strip off...?" he thought incredulously. The young Uchiha almost tripped his own feet. "That's like... UNDRESSING... right?"
"What's the matter?" asked Orochimaru with a face that seems ready to laugh. "Cat got your tongue?"
"Uh, n-no..." the young Uchiha stuttered, trembling slightly. He coughed. "It's just that... I haven't heard of the game before." he said and swallowed hard. "H-how's it played...?"
Orochimaru laughed. "It is just a matter of question and answer, my special student." he explained with a leer. "If one doesn't get the right answer, he gets a punishment!"
"P-PUNISHMENT!" he bellowed in his mind in disbelief. "Is this some kind of TEST!"
"Still want to play?" asked the sannin, invading his thoughts with an impish smirk, walking steadily. "You don't look so good, Sasuke-kun," the man pointed out as he peeked at the young shinobi's face. "Are you ill?"
"N-no..." answered the raven wonder timidly. "What's the punishment...?" asked the raven wonder, not abandoning the subject, his head bowed down. That was then that he remembered the name of the game. That made his skin shiver and tremble at the thought.
Strip. Off.
"DAMMIT!" he screamed. "If I don't get it right, don't tell me I have to..."
"It's a SURPRISE!" replied Orochimaru, chuckling. "There's no fun if there's no surprise..." he said, laughing so hard this time, gasping for breath. "OH! Oh... so, are we going to enjoy ourselves and have fun, my dear Sasuke-kun
The young Uchiha ran his delicate fingers along his raven hair. "Look underneath the underneath, Uchiha Sasuke." he whispered to himself, reminiscing Kakashi-sensei's somnolent face, in which 'somnolent' in this fic means 'half asleep and half awake'. He looked at himself. "You're the best." he thought, accidentally forgetting the blonde. "You can DO this."
"Fine, let's do this." he declared as he his hands trembled slightly underneath his pockets. "Who's first?" he asked, walking constantly, trying to act untroubled. And he even kind of meant it.
"Hmm... I think I'LL go first!" announced Orochimaru with a witty smile, thinking it is better to give the boy a little practice. "Don't you worry, Sasuke-kun. I'll make it easy for you."
"Hn, wrong move." he replied sarcastically, but raven boy's full lips twitched into an insolent smile. He had to admit that he doesn't really want to get PUNISHED.
The sannin grinned slyly. "My question is..."
Sasuke listened carefully, his forehead creased. He MUST answer this one. He should take no risks. Because 'risks' spell 'trouble'.
"Who is The Legendary Sucker?" asked Orochimaru.
The young Uchiha held his head in frustration. "I know that!" he screamed in thoughts. "I've heard of this!"
"Well...?" the obnoxious man asked his student impatiently. "Who is The Legendary Sucker?"
The endearing lad with piercing jet-black eyes sparkled into bliss. "Hn, it's Tsunade."
Orochimaru's brows raised in admiration for a moment or two. "Hmm... You are good." he enthused him with a smile. "You are correct, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke smirked. YES! He did it. He was just saved from punishment. Now it was the sannin's turn. "You're next." declared Sasuke. "My question is..."
The raven wonder pondered. "Must get a difficult question. A trivia," he thought. Something only HE had known. Only known by Uchiha Sasuke. Not by Naruto, Kakashi, Tsunade or some villagers. A question that is VERY difficult to answer. But... WAIT! He just thought of something. You see, if he threw his MOST COMPLICATED question first, Orochimaru might NOT be able to answer it right! And if he didn't get the answer right, the sannin's going to get the punishment! And if Sasuke was really right about the PUNISHMENT, then Orochimaru's going to have to...
"For the love of Kami-sama..." Sasuke prayed silently as he closed his eyes. We just KNOW the horror, don't we? We just don't want that to happen, because it would be VERY difficult to depict.
Well ANYWAY...
The young Uchiha decided to go on the EASY round. "Ask the questions he'll SURELY get right," he thought. "That way, we'll get NO naughty stuff..."
"I'm waiting..." uttered Orochimaru as he interrupted Sasuke's thoughts. "Don't think so much, my dear boy."
"Okay, I've got the question." snapped Sasuke. "Here it is," he said. "What is..."
Orochimaru listened carefully. "An identification question," the sannin thought. "I must identify what is being described."
"...2 + 3?"
(Silence. Some bird chirping in the distance.)
"THAT WAS IT?" asked the sannin incredulously as he looked at Sasuke straight in the face. "THAT was YOUR QUESTION?"
"What?" asked the young shinobi gullibly as he looked away. "Yeah, that was my question. Now answer it."
The snake-summoner sighed loudly. "And I've ALWAYS thought he was a genius." he thought. "The answer is 6."
"WHAT?" he yelled for it was Sasuke's turn to shout. "Since when did TWO plus THREE equalled to SIX?"
"Oh, THREE!" exclaimed the sannin with a bright face. "I thought you said four."
"FOUR?" shouted Sasuke in astonishment as he flung his arms. "I didn't say any FOUR, you moron!"
"How DARE you call me a MORON, you UNGRATEFUL HUMAN!" screamed Orochimaru with an evil glare. "You are NOT worthy of the PRECIOUS GIFT!"
"Yes, I AM." answered the raven wonder with a smirk. "I just can't take the your deafness and your smell... your stench."
"STENCH?" asked the sannin with wide eyes. But beneath his confused pale face, "noooooooo!"
"Yeah, you snake." replied Sasuke with a scoff. "Your stench smells like... death ITSELF."
"YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND!" snapped Orochimaru in his loud, scratchy voice. "I CANNOT SMELL like DEATH for I am IMMORTAL!"
"Oh right," he said. "Well, the MORE you smell like death... in the INSIDE, I mean."
"ENOUGH! You have pissed me TOO much," cried the sannin angrily. "You're NOT getting gifts. You're not going to get ANYTHING anymore..." he declared with a grin and muttered an evil "hehehe..."
"Fine. I'll seek power somewhere else," answered the raven wonder as he jumped to the nearest tree branch. "You're going to regret this because you need me, Orochimaru." he told him. "I know that." and he went on his way.
The man watched him disappear right before his very eyes. "Now what?" he asked himself, scratching his head. Then it struck him. "NO!"he screamed."He cannot leave me for HE is the reason of my existence!" he exclaimed. "For without him, my role is..." he thought. "...NOTHING!" And so, Orochimaru followed his boy toy in the thick of the forest, with the use of his brisk feet while his inept arms dangled on his sides.
12:30 nn.
"Damn. Now what is taking them EXTREMELY long?" uttered Kabuto as he stared out in their secret lair. "It is past lunch time... they SHOULD be home."
12:31 nn.
"Stupid game," mumbled Sasuke as he bounced along the tree branches. "No, STUPID Orochimaru." he corrected himself. "Now what am I gonna do?" He shook his head and sighed. He shouldn't had left the man. He shouldn't had insulted him so much. Maybe it's HIM who's going to regret this. If only he can turn back time... he sniggered. "That's never gonna happen," he told himself. "It's not like the guy's gonna say 'Sasuke, WAIT!' "
"Sasuke-kun! WAIT!"
The young Uchiha halted in his tracks. "Woah," He turned around. "Orochimaru."
"Forgive me, Sasuke-kun. It was MY mistake," he apologized to him. "Come, let us go home." he said as nodded at him, since he can't extend a hand because they're both numb. Unfortunately.
Sasuke stared at him, long and hard. "So you think I am worthy of the gift?" he asked smugly, cross-chested.
The snake-summoner nodded. "Yes, yes, my precious student," he stated. "You are FAR more than WORTHY of my gift."
"Hn, fair enough." the raven wonder muttered as he went to the sannin's place. "One thing though..." he said slowly.
"What?" asked Orochimaru anxiously as they both faced each other. "What is it...?"
Sasuke flashed him an unusual smirk. "Let's leap home and do it the ninja way."