Chapter IV: Who's Who?
When SG1 arrived in Kohona, they could tell something was different…very different.
"Yo, Tsunade, why's everyone on edge?" Cameron asked.
"Yes, I too wish to know why your village is preparing for battle." Teal'c said, intrigued at the weapons and armament being readied.
"Well…Cameron-san, Teal'c-san, we basically have been looking for someone that was recently kidnapped. The person in question has returned, but she brought an interesting group of people with her. According to reports of our advance party, she was being referred to as 'Baal' or 'bull' or something like that." Tsunade said, not noticing the four shocked faces behind her.
"Is this 'Baal' about six foot, big chip on his shoulder, grey hair, and likes to mess with your head by making clones of himself, Tsunade-sama?" Daniel asked.
Tsunade stopped and said, "No, she's about five feet with black hair and lavender-ish white eyes. It's only recently that she had started to refer to herself as 'Baal' and not her actual name."
"What was her actual name, ma'am?" Sam asked.
"Hinata Hyuuga," Tsunade said.
"Hokage-sama, Hokage-sama, Team 7 has captured Miss Hyuuga. But there's something off." An ANBU guard reported.
"What's the problem?" Tsunade asked.
"Orochimaru is traveling with them," The guard started.
"WHAT!" Tsunade shouted.
Before the angered Tsunade could charge and rub Orochimaru's face into the dirt with a kunai in its path, the guard continued, "Ma'am, the weird part is that Orochimaru is not attacking. In fact, if nothing else, he's helping in caring for Hinata-kun."
"Boy, are the Hyuuga's gonna flip at this…ok, take them straight to the tower. I will interrogate them as soon as I make our guests comfortable." Tsunade said before returning to the group.
"So, bad day at the office?" Cameron asked sarcastically.
"No, an old enemy we thought dead is back. However, he's helping the group I sent to capture Hinata." Tsunade said with confusion and worry evident on her face and voice.
"Let me guess, this old enemy is doing a complete changeover with personality?" Sam asked.
"Yes, how did you know?" Tsunade asked.
"Let's just say that we've seen weird before and took a guess." Daniel said.
"Well, anyway, they will be at the tower shortly and I was wondering if you would like to observe the interrogations of Miss Hyuuga and Orochimaru? I mean, if you experts, you should know about things like this, right?" Tsunade asked.
The group discussed it amongst themselves for a brief moment before agreeing.
"Sure, anything off, we'll spot it." Cameron said.
They ran the rest of the way to the tower so they could observe what was going on.
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Kyuubi was stirring in Naruto's mind, the worry and confusion evident in not only his host but in his host's friends as well.
'At least Onza had silenced Baal before more damage could be done. For millennia I've been stuck on this world. I had to get stuck in the Kyuubi before being stuck in this human. Anise is not going to be happy…if I tell her.' Kyuubi thought.
It could sense that Naruto was talking to someone so it decided to rejoin the living world to see what the problem was.
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"NARUTO!" Sakura shouted.
"Huh? What?" Naruto asked.
"Dobe, Sakura's been wanting to know what you meant when you said, 'What took you so long?' to Orochimaru." Sasuke said.
"I…uh…I meant that it supposed to be you that heard that…not Orochimaru…heh?" Naruto said with a nervous laugh.
"Is that the story you're going to stick with?" Kakashi asked.
"Working on a better one." Naruto answered.
"Uh-huh." Kakashi said before returning to his current dirty magazine.
Before Team 7 could argue anymore, Tsunade had walked in with four strangers. The odd part was that Naruto could sense two of them. He felt something odd about their chakra, almost like something else's chakra wanted to control theirs.
'Odd, it's almost like…' Naruto thought before he was introduced by Kakashi.
"Dobe, come back to the living world now." Sasuke whispered to get Naruto's attention.
"Huh? Oh, sorry…My name's Naruto, my likes are-" Naruto began before he was interrupted by Hinata's deep laugh.
"And the person in the first cage is Hinata Hyuuga." Tsunade said.
"But, as I'm sure you've been told, it's Baal…Oh, goody, it's SG1 to see what the results were. My, I'm surprised." Baal/Hinata said before stepping out of the shadows.
It was all Cameron, Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c could do not to laugh at the sight before them.
"Go ahead and laugh, I'll be out of here soon. Then I'll rip out your throats with the weaponry on this world." Baal/Hinata said before sitting near the bars of his/her cell.
"In cell two is the one that I was telling you about, Orochimaru." Tsunade said, showing the group who was in cell two.
Orochimaru felt a presence and looked up to see the group walk up to his cell door. He instantly felt the presence of his first friend.
"Jolinar?" Orochimaru asked.
He then felt that the presence was like an echo, not the actual persona.
Sam was also assaulted with Jolinar's memories for a brief moment.
"Onza, what in Mother's name are you doing?" Jolinar asked.
"Well, I met someone that swept me off my feet." Onza said with a girlish giggle.
"Look, Onza, I love you like a sister…"Jolinar began.
"I am your sister, your older sister, but your sister." Onza said.
"Quiet you, anyway, dating a System Lord is akin to putting a Zat'nik'tel to your head and pulling the trigger three times in rapid succession!" Jolinar said with slight panic in her voice.
"Look, Baal might be a System Lord but he's as equal as anyone here." Onza said.
"Sam, yo Sam…" Cameron said.
"Huh?" Sam began.
"Did Jolinar meet this Orochimaru from someplace?" Daniel asked.
"Well…it's hard to describe…" Sam said as she stepped into the cell.
She walked up to Orochimaru, studying him as she walked up.
"Didn't you used to be a woman?" Sam asked cautiously.
Orochimaru shook his head with joy as he said, "Yeah, although I didn't know that Jolinar had you as a host?"
"She did, before she died." Sam said not wanting to recall the pain with those memories.
"Oh…" Orochimaru said with disappointment in his voice.
Everyone still outside was staring on in shock before Naruto said, "Just wait until she finds out she attacked her husband."
Everyone turned to stare at him.
"What? Can't her other friend…oops." Naruto said before catching his mistake.
"HAH! I knew it, I knew it! I knew that I thought I was fighting Kaito!" Baal/Hinata said from his/her cell.
"Would the three of you like to explain what's going on?" Tsunade said.
Orochimaru stood up and said, "Kaito? I thought you died in the explosion!"
"Hey, for all intents and purposes, I did. But, I just happened to get stuck inside the Kyuubi as a baby." Naruto/Kaito said.
"Why don't we all go to my office and find out what's going on?" Tsunade suggested.
After everyone agreed, they went to her office.