Take it Like a Man

Chapter 8: Bonding

By: Vampire Toy

Disclaimer: Me no own (sadness)

"Talking"

(Inner Sakura)

:Sound Effect:

A/N: I narrowed it down to the three with the leading votes X3

Votes so far;

Orochimaru: 11

Anko: 7

Tenten: 12

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Sakura felt a pressure on her right arm and strained to wake herself. Soon she heard voices and she felt the pressure moving down her arm, then to her other one.

"So far she seems in good condition; her arms and legs are unharmed."

"Good, good, can't have her broken, now can we?"

She vaguely recognized the first voice but the second voice she knew and loathed. Sakura kept still for a moment, pretending to be asleep and hoping she'd be able to gather any information that Orochimaru wouldn't tell her if she were conscious.

"Is the check up done?"

"Well I don't know….here why don't you let me check something?"

"Yes Orochimaru-san."

Sakura heard the figure step aside and felt Orochimaru looming over her body. She resisted the urge to shiver and kept still as the snake-man made his observations. She felt a cool, rough hand feeling her arms again.

(Ew, his hands feel nasty!)

He moved his hands again, this time to her legs and felt his way up her body, giving no sign that he was going to stop.

(He wouldn't-)

His hands slid up her thighs and were making their way to her groin when she yelped and sat up, pulling her legs up to her chest defensively.

"Pervert!" she shrieked.

Orochimaru smirked and began to laugh and Kabuto let out a small chuckle as well, making Sakura's entire body blush in humiliation.

"I see your up then." Orochimaru gave another grin at the pink haired boy.

"Y…you knew I was awake!" Sakura cried.

"Did I?" he asked with a mock oblivious expression.

Sakura snarled and hugged her legs tighter.

"Well, in any case, its good to see the medication worked on you." The black haired man said, a playful tone still lingering in his voice.

"I'm also glad you are functioning properly." Kabuto told her with a nod.

"W-what do you mean?" Sakura asked, not enjoying the thought of Orochimaru doping her up on drugs.

"You don't remember?" Orochimaru asked, continuing to smile and look her over.

(Remember…remember….)

"The tubing! The waterfall….Are my friends ok!" she cried immediately, almost falling off of the table-like structure she was on.

"They should be fine, you all washed up nicely on shore." Orochimaru said fingering a strand of her hair.

She smacked his hand away with a disgusted face and turned to Kabuto instead. He looked at her for a moment, seeming to debate whether or not to acknowledge her presence. Finally he let out a sigh and adjusted his glasses.

"They are all well, we left them as they were on the bank, you on the other hand, came near death." He said calmly.

"What! How's that possible? I'm the only one who almost died? What about Tenten!" Sakura asked frantically remembering the terrified brunette who was also on the tube with her.

"Tenten?" Orochimaru asked.

"She was on the tube with me!" Sakura snapped.

"The brunette." Kabuto told Orochimaru, who nodded when he recalled seeing her among the others washed up on the riverbank.

"Is she ok!" Sakura asked again.

"She's fine." Kabuto told her.

"But…but how did I almost die?" she asked suspiciously.

"Tenten flew off of the tube once you went over the side; there were rocks at the bottom and you happened to be falling in their direction. Pure bad luck, my dear." Orochimaru had moved to her other side, once again fiddling with her hair.

"So how did I magically not hit the rocks?" she asked slowly as she tried to slap Orochimaru's advances away once again.

"Who said you didn't hit the rocks?" Kabuto asked, a tinge of bitterness and annoyance in his voice.

"I-I…" Sakura stuttered, unable to detect his sarcasm.

"He's joking, you didn't hit the rocks, Kabuto caught you. You simply passed out before you went over the side." Orochimaru told her before turning to Kabuto with a serious face, "You need to work on your sense humor."

Kabuto made a shocked face, which was quickly replaced by a brooding and submissive expression.

"He was there! I never sensed him!" Sakura said in her own shock.

"You never pay attention to details, do you my dear?" Orochimaru chuckled and took her face into a pale hand, forcing her to look at him; "Sasuke, the one who pushed you off course… that was Kabuto."

Sakura's face went pale and she could almost feel her eyes roll into the back of her head.

(How did I not sense something wrong! Why couldn't I tell it wasn't Sasuke?)

The pink haired boy's eyes twitched awkwardly and Orochimaru watched with amusement as Sakura's face twisted into different expressions.

Sakura tried to focus on her current situation while she inwardly apologized to Sasuke for anything mean she could have shouted at him out loud or in her head.

"I must say, the fact that you didn't notice bothers me as well." Orochimaru rubbed his chin thoughtfully with his long fingers, "Your clans abilities are arising rather slowly, much slower than I'd thought…"

"W…what exactly are my clans abilities?" Sakura asked, her eyes wandering around the room to find a possible escape.

"Many things, they have a lot to do with your hands." Orochimaru said taking both her hands in his own and patting them affectionately.

(Great, Neji and Sasuke get cool eyes and I get freaky hands)

"Don't be so distraught." Orochimaru grinned, seeing her irritated pout, "I think of all the clans, yours has the most useful power."

"What would that be again?" Sakura asked thinking back to Neji's hair.

"You can heal any wound or disease."

"That power sucks, that's what medical nins are for." Sakura grit her teeth.

"You don't understand, let me explain, Kabuto! Get the charts."

(Charts?)

A moment later there were charts hanging all around her and Kabuto and Orochimaru stood on either side of the diagram in front of her.

"What the-"

"Hush!" Kabuto smacked her arm with a wooden pointer.

"Ow!"

"Listen," Kabuto told her, swinging the pointer to the chart, "See this? Pretend this is you; now, your clans' bodies work something like this." The blue haired man gestured to the drawing of a human body with various symbols and writing everywhere.

"When you heal someone from a disease, it goes into your bodies memory bank. This means that your practically immune to any disease you've ever healed or had, but it also means that you can recreate the disease." Kabuto spun Sakura around to the next chart; "As shown here, if you are in a fight and decide you want to give your opponent some devastating disease, then you use your chakara to pull the DNA code from your bodies memory bank, then, once you touch the person, the disease will enter their body. The way you heal a person is by taking their ailments onto yourself, only then can your body heal it and, in the case of a disease, store it."

(Hey that's actually pretty cool…)

"But…what if it's a really deadly disease that I got? Wouldn't I die before I could store it?" Sakura asked.

He spun her again to another chart and swung the pointer at the pictures.

"No! Your immune system is more highly advanced than anyone else's! No disease will harm you."

"Poisons also have only a short affect on you." Orochimaru added, "A highly experienced person from your clan can store codes from poisons in their memory banks as well and use those against opponents."

"But if I take the disease onto myself won't it hurt me?"

"Yes, of course, but only because it's new and your system is testing it."

"Oh…"

"As for physical wounds," Kabuto whirled her around to another diagram, "Those will heal quickly. Those are some of the few things that do not go into your memory bank, but if you happen to cut your finger, and you quickly touch someone else, they will get the cut in the same place you had it and you won't have it anymore. Vice versa with healing physical wounds, you get their injury in the same place they had it then your body gets rid of it."

"To transfer your physical wounds onto someone else, you need speed, which is what you have; another perk of your clan." Orochimaru smiled trailing his fingers over her legs.

(Ewwwww!)

"But speed is also your weakness." Kabuto told her, twirling her to face the final chart.

"If someone, from your clan or otherwise, decides to attack you over and over again using a great speed and force, then your body might shut down or go into a coma state where it thinks its died. When your body doesn't get time to heal, it becomes overwhelmed and sort of…gives up."

"If you become skilled enough, however, your body might just go into shock for a few days, but essentially, if you can master this, you're unstoppable." Orochimaru said, a sly grin spreading over his face.

Sakura stared, her mouth hanging slightly open with bewilderment.

(No way! That would mean I'd never die! That can't be right!)

"I….I don't believe you!" she stuttered. Kabuto gave an annoyed sigh but Orochimaru simply slid over to her side and pet her head.

"You wouldn't be immortal if that's what you're thinking my dear, that's only for the incredibly gifted of your clan. Fighting age is a different level of your abilities."

"H…Has anyone ever…?" Sakura asked meekly.

"Achieved immortality? One, but he died with the rest of your clan."

"I don't understand…how could my clan have lost to the Hyuuga's and Uchiha's? Their powers definitely couldn't kill them if what your saying is true!" Sakura cried.

She heard Kabuto let out another annoyed sigh and more charts shot down from the ceiling.

"Look here," he smacked her arm with his pointer again, "This is you, pretend this is Sasuke and this is Neji, compare the functions of your bodies." Kabuto said referring to the three figures of the different clan members.

"Let's see what advantages they might have over you," Kabuto's pointer moved first to Neji.

"Hyuuga's, as you know, have the ability to see through things, and the ability to use Byakugan, an ability that, when used with their eyes, lets them disable parts of your body. Sometimes they stop functions in your arm or leg or wherever they decide to strike. Though this IS a physical wound, its not like a cut or a stab wound and it would take your body a lot longer to fix it, not to mention they could easily see through your speed."

"Oh…" Sakura didn't like the idea of Neji having the upper hand against her.

"Though if he tries to come close again, you could easily deal his attacks right back at him." Orochimaru said.

"Ok…"

(Ok, he can't COMPLETELY control me….)

"Now, Sasuke, as an Uchiha, has his Sharingan; I'm sure you're very familiar with this." Kabuto said, a hint of taunting sarcasm in his voice. Sakura ignored it and waited instead for him to continue.

"His Sharingan allows him to copy any jitsu and various other things, depending on how skilled the user is." Kabuto said.

"An example would be Itachi." Orochimaru added, though Sakura could've figured that on her own.

"As I told you earlier, you have a great speed, which happens to be the Sharingan's weakness, but say now that a Hyuga disables you temporarily," Kabuto pointed back at Neji then back at Sasuke, "Then Uchiha over here could easily mimic any ability you used to try defend yourself and in turn, he can use it against you. This will confuse your body, therefore you would, in a way, die by your own hand." Kabuto said, making the charts disappear with a 'poof'.

Sakura sat taking in all the information that just hit her.

(I can't believe that makes sense)

"Er…well…it explains why the Uchiha's and Hyuuga's would work together." Sakura said mostly to herself.

"Yes, you're catching on, good job." Orochimaru told her, "Any other questions?"

"Uhh…I…er…I cut Neji's hair with my hand by accident…" Sakura said slowly.

"I remember that, but that still falls under speed; incredibly fast motion can also cause excessive friction which cut Neji's hair." Orochimaru grinned.

"Oh….."

(This…is too much…this is….really fucked up! How is this possible!)

Sakura bit her lip anxiously; she had more than enough information about herself and her family but she still wasn't sure what Orochimaru wanted in return. Although the thought of being useful for once was exhilarating, especially considering how possibly powerful she could become, she still was afraid that it would all be for Orochimaru's use eventually.

(He said extreme experts can even keep from aging, isn't that what he wants? He wants to be immortal!)

"Well now that you know more about your abilities, you can train for your specific needs. I will help you since still I know a lot more about your abilities than you do." Orochimaru stroked her hair with a smile.

"Uh…" Sakura looked around and hoped off the table away from Orochimaru, "Umm, your making me pretty powerful." She said as casually as she could.

"Yes."

"So umm….how can I thank you?"

The snake man gave a larger grin at her question and slithered to her side, putting an arm around her shoulders and pulling her closer to him, "Just keep growing, I believe you'll be able to do great things."

Sakura shivered and heard Kabuto clearing his throat behind them.

"Master, should I take her back?"

(Back? Back home! YES! TAKE ME BACK!)

"Not yet, I think Sakura…I mean, Seeu and I should spend some quality time together."

(I don't want to! Get your icky hands off of me!)

"I would really like to go home and check on my friends."

"Please let me take her home master." Kabuto said, his voice almost raising a few octaves into a whine.

"No."

…

Kakashi, Kurenai, Gai, Asuma, and a frantic Anko stood disapprovingly above five wet students wrapped in blankets.

"Why did you go into a different river again?" Kakashi asked.

"We thought it'd be fun." Naruto muttered, "But we weren't gonna go at first! Really, we just talked about it! Seeu didn't want us to go anymore but SASUKE, mister high-and-mighty, pushed us in!"

"Idiot, how many times do I have to tell you I didn't push you into the damn current?"

"Yeah right!" Naruto growled but Hinata put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

"So, you were pushed in, we know that much right?" Kurenai said calmly.

"Dumbass never told us the bet was off, we weren't pushed." Neji glared over at Naruto.

"I thought you'd figure it out if we went past it." The blonde shrugged.

"It doesn't matter, just retrace your little trip again." Asuma said crossing his arms and biting his cigarette agitatedly.

"We already told you a million times." Tenten said in a low voice, "I fell off the tube, I heard a poof and then I fell in the water. No one else saw anything because they came after the poof."

"Hnn, I can't believe this." Sasuke muttered angrily at Tenten.

"Shut up it's your fault!" Tenten cried despite the fact that she knew by now that the Sasuke who'd pushed them was someone else.

"Children!" Gai held up his hands, "Calm down! If his body didn't wash up on shore covered in blood then he's ok, we just don't know where he is."

"He was KIDNAPPED!" Anko wailed mournfully, "I should have been on the tube with him! I can't believe this!"

"What's she going on about?" Ino muttered to Kiba, who shrugged and turned to ask Akamaru.

"Alright, everyone go home; the teachers and I will go look for Seeu."

"I want to help!" Tenten cried.

"Me too!" Ino yelled immediately.

"I'll come." Sasuke said eyeing the girls with an irritated glance.

"We'll help." Hinata smiled.

"We will? I mean…yeah! We'll help." Naruto gave a thumbs up.

"I could help." Shino shrugged.

"We'll help too!" Lee stood up in a determined pose.

"What do you mean 'we'?" Neji asked.

"I guess since everyone's doing it, I'm in." Choji nod.

"Hmmph, this is troublesome." Shikamaru sighed looking up at the sky.

"God I hate peer pressure." Kiba muttered.

"So that means everyone's helping?" Kakashi asked.

"No! This is my fault, I'll do this by myself!" Anko declared.

"The more help the better." Kurenai told her.

"Arg….fine, but you go where I tell you to ok?"

…

"Your powers are developing a little slowly, but your body is coming along nicely wouldn't you say?" Orochimaru asked sitting back on a plush green couch next to Sakura.

"I'd say it's more of a downgrade." She muttered.

"Don't be like that, your actually a lot more endowed as a man than a woman." He pointed out casually fingering her hair once again.

"What do you mean 'more endowed'!" Sakura crossed her arms and squirmed into the farthest corner of the couch.

"Exactly what I'm saying."

"How would you know!" she asked her cheeks beginning to heat up.

"Oh well, you know you were soaked when we brought you here," Orochimaru shrugged coolly, "I didn't want you to get sick."

Sakura's heart stopped and her pupils dilated, she slowly looked down to find she was wearing an Orochimaru-style outfit without the purple bow.

(He…he….I was unconscious…and….naked…and…. he was…Oh God)

She heard Orochimaru laugh and she immediately curled into a small ball and tried to ignore him, believing he might disappear.

"Oh come now, nothing to be embarrassed about, we're both men after all."

"Pedophile!"

"No, just think of me as a….very affectionate father." He grabbed her and pulled her back to his side of the couch.

"Don't touch me!"

"Hush, hush, say, why don't we watch a movie?"

"What!"

"A movie, you like movies don't you?"

"Uh…."

(Anticlimactic…..)

"Alright then! We'll watch a movie, it will be a good bonding for us."

(Somehow I disagree)

"What do you kids watch these days anyhow?" he asked absentmindedly.

"I want to go home….please?"

"No."

"Why!"

"Movie, if you don't pick one I'll pick one." He grabbed Sakura's hand and pulled her to the door, where he opened it and hung slightly into the hall without letting go of her hand.

"Kabuto!"

"Master." The blue-haired nin replied, appearing instantly in front of him.

"Go get us a movie will you?"

"Uh…a movie…sir?"

"Yes! A movie."

"What movie master?"

Orochimaru turned back to Sakura again with a playful smirk, "Last chance, anything you want to see?"

"No…I want to go ho-"

"Just pick something that I would like," Orochimaru said to Kabuto, cutting off Sakura's plea, "Be quick."

Sakura watched Kabuto's face twist into exasperated awe; apparently Orochimaru didn't act like this a majority of the time.

(If he's acting all weird is that good or bad? What's normal for him anyway? Orochimaru doesn't really 'have' a personality…..I think…..er…I'd ask Kabuto but….)

Sakura tried to make eye contact with the obviously annoyed Sound nin but he grit his teeth and spun around, disappearing quickly with a 'poof'.

"Alright then…I haven't watched a movie in a while, tell me, are they any good?"

"I dunno…" Sakura shrugged, "I'm a ninja too, I don't watch movies much."

"Ahh, you mean you don't go out much?" Orochimaru smirked when Sakura's face fell into a half-pout, then added, "No boyfriend or girlfriend?"

"None of your business." She hissed.

(He's making fun of me!)

"Come now, there must be someone…was it they left when they saw you like this? Or maybe…you just never had anyone?"

"If you're asking if have I ever been in love, then yes." Sakura huffed, crossing her arms over her flat chest and marching back to the couch.

"No, that's not what I'm asking."

Sakura curled in the corner of the couch and glared angrily at Orochimaru as he slithered in front of her and loomed darkly over her.

(Maybe sitting down was a bad idea….I was suppose to try escape! Damn it…)

The pink haired boy shifted uneasily when Orochimaru didn't move away. The snake-like man gave a deranged grin and placed his pale, partially bandaged hands on either side of Sakura and leaned his face down close to hers.

"You can have anyone you want now; you will become so powerful that nothing can stop you and you can take whatever you wish with ease."

"T-that's not right!" Sakura shrunk into the cushions and watched meekly as Orochimaru followed her.

"Yes! I know what you want, it's Sasuke isn't it? You can have him, I will give him to you….what do you say?"

"He……He's not yours to give!" Sakura wailed shoving him away and falling off the couch in a scuttle for the door.

"Yes he is!" Orochimaru grabbed her arm before she could make it too far and he threw her back onto the couch, pinning her down with his hands and legs.

"He belongs to me, you know it, you saw it, that seal means that he belongs to me!"

"No! No he doesn't!" Sakura cried, fear beginning to elevate throughout her body.

"Its almost as if I've written my name all over him, you know that, I know you do, you're a smart little girl."

"Get off me!"

"You will belong to me too." He said slowly, baring his fangs in a large grin.

"Uh….master….your….umm ….movie."

Sakura looked up, her eyes sparkling happily when she saw Kabuto standing awkwardly in the doorway.

(My hero!)

"The movie!" Orochimaru said happily, his earlier air of terror forgotten.

(FREAK!)

"Well what did you get for us?" Orochimaru said slithering over to Kabuto as Sakura recovered behind him.

"A movie you would like master." Kabuto said holding up the movie for his leader's inspection.

"Ahh yes, this will be fun…."

Sakura's attention quickly turned to the movie when she heard Orochimaru's voice turn somewhat seductive.

(I hope he doesn't watch dominatrix movies or something….)

HE DOES! I know he does….

(No way….)

'You will belong to me too'

(I'm not listening…)

"Thank you Kabuto, you may leave." Orochimaru waved his hand dismissive and shut the door in his servant's face, "Alright then Sakura, my dear, I do hope you will enjoy this movie as much as I will." Orochimaru grinned, by her side again.

"Oh er….what's the movie called?" she asked in a tiny voice.

"It's a surprise."

…

A/N: WOOOTNESSSS Yet another chapter complete, more explanation of Sakura's clan for you guys and more Orochimaruness like I promised. Hahah he sounds like the old man he is when he's talking about the movies neh? Hahaha sorry if I made him kinda weird, I dunno if they have movies or TV's but hey, if you have power lines they have to be for SOMETHING right? (Yes they do have power lines, I saw them at one point….but they might be gone now because it's a conspiracy) er…yeah anyway, if you can't tell, its really late and I'm not all here.

Now, for anyone who's reading 'Birthdays Past' please be patient with me, I had a new chapter but I hate it so I'm rewriting it, I don't want to give you guys crap.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed that chapter, I had fun with it, R & R and flames welcome!