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Chapter four
They both went inside the cave. Even from where they were it looked, as it would be quite big. A place perfect for getting lost or maybe dieing. Anko shivered though she didn't know whether it was because of that thought or only because it was so damn cold there. And as if this wasn't enough her seal had been throbbing for the whole time but ever since she had entered the cave the pain slightly increased with every step she took. But even so they went deeper and deeper down into the darkness. Their torch was barely enough to illuminate their path. Maybe this had been the reason why Pakkun hadn't came here first place. Thinking of that dog Anko noticed that Kakashi ad stopped and was now sniffing in the air. But before Anko could ask him what exactly he was doing he handed her the torch and started searching on left wall for something saying "A strong chemical smell is coming from here. It looks like here could be some kind of a hidden entrance." He found a suspicious groove and started hitting it with a kunai. Suddenly there was a click and a part of the wall right in front of the two jounins. They had just opened the door to another secret part of the cave. Kakashi stopped in the doorframe so that Anko couldn't see what was ahead.
"Kakashi, why do you suddenly stop? Don't you want to go inside? Or have you forgotten that we still have to find Akuma?" She asked impatiently.
"No not at all, it's just that there's something – er – you'd better not see."
Anko ignored him and slipped into the room. Maybe a mistake. Anko's eyes widened in utter horror at the sight in front of her. The room was filled with aquariums and preservation-jars. The aquariums were still illuminated with a pale green light. Of course nobody would be afraid of aquariums and Anko wasn't either. What shocked her were the - the things inside the aquariums and jars: they were filled with dead bodies of humans and animals and something she couldn't tell what it was. But that was only half of it. Anko felt like she had to throw up, her stomach seemed to be spinning; the most disturbing thing was that she knew that place! Knew it from her time as Orochimaru's subordinate. Her seal immediately reacted with new pain. Searching for support she leaned against the wall.
"Anko, are you okay?" Kakashi asked sounding somehow worried.
"Yeah, yeah. It's nothing." She lied. "Let's get moving!" With that she moved away from the wall and went ahead. Behind her Kakashi sighed audibly. From where they were now a tunnel was leading deeper down into the cave. And they followed that tunnel. Anko just wondered whether her seal was hurting because of the place or because Orochimaru was near. She just hoped he wasn't.
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Deeper down in the cave there was a large hall with many big rocks lying around lit only by a few torches. There weren't enough of them to light up the room but enough to make the shadows look darker. The lit torches meant that someone was here. But even without the torches their instincts had already told them that they weren't alone. Now they had just to find out where he was hiding.
Anko had an idea. "Kakashi, you have a nose almost as good as a dog's one, can you smell him?"
The copy-ninja shook his head. "No, the chemical smell is too strong I can't even smell you when you're standing next to me." The moment Anko opened her mouth to make another suggestion a tall figure appeared at the other end of the hall. A figure that looked suspiciously like Akuma.
"My, my. I didn't expect visitors down here." Akuma said with a fake-smile.
Kakashi uncovered his Sharingan. "I'm sorry but your life is going to end here, Akuma." The ninja with the mismatched eyes said calmly.
"Don't you mean your lives are going to end here!" He gave back in a dangerous low voice. Without a warning he performed seals, making stone –kunais fly towards them. Immediately Anko jumped behind one of the rocks. Kakashi meanwhile had copied the jutsu so that stone-kunai hit stone-kunai and they fell useless to the ground. From behind the rock Anko performed the gokakyu-no-jutsu and a giant fireball flew towards the Iwa. He dodged it using a doton and disappearing into the ground. When he came out again Kakashi threw kunais at him but Akuma dodged them and performed a jutsu that created a dust-cloud over the battlefield. Anko although being outside the dust-cloud saw neither Kakashi nor Akuma.
Then when the dust-cloud slowly disappeared she saw Kakashi again but heard at the same time something from above and looked up. What she saw made her heart skip a beat: two Iwa-nins were hiding up there and they had performed a jutsu that suddenly made rocks fell from the ceiling and they were aiming for Kakashi who still had no idea of the danger he was in because of the dust. It took Anko only a split of a second to realize it and she saw only one way to save him. She ran towards the copy-ninja, pushed him out of the way and performed with a speed only a jounin could have a replacement-technique so that she wouldn't be crushed to death by the stones but even so one hit her really hard in the right side.
She fell down on the ground and stayed there. She couldn't breathe at all. Unable to breathe panic rose in her chest though it was quite useless. She counted to ten as calmly as she could in such a situation and was finally able to take in at least a bit air. Her whole body felt numb but judging from her difficulties to breathe the stone must have broken one or more of her ribs. A comforting darkness wrapped itself around her telling her to sleep a simply little. She wanted to sleep so badly, wanted to forget about all the pain and sorrows but another part of her consciousness reminded her that she still had a mission to complete and she couldn't just leave it all to Kakashi. Shaking the numbing darkness off she became more aware of her surroundings. They were surrounded by three Iwa-nins. Kakashi held her in his arms.
One of the Iwa-nins, the oldest, spoke. "You're the White Fang!"
The other interfered. "It can't be, I heard he died quite a while ago!"
"But he looks like him." While the two were arguing Kakashi used the opportunity, lit a smoke bomb and with the enemies surprised he ran off carrying the wounded Anko. Once they were outside the numbness left her body but was replaced with pain. That much pain within only a few hours was too much for Anko to bear and she passed out. Before fainting the last thing she wondered about was why the one Iwa had called Kakashi 'The White Fang'.
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Anko found herself lying inside a big dark room. Staring at her tiny hands she noticed that she was almost two decades back in time, when she still was a little child in both body and heart. It was typical for shinobi that they stopped being children in their hearts when they still looked like they were. However at least this time she knew that she was only dreaming. And this dark room was her room. Somehow she felt thirsty out of the sudden and since she had nothing to drink inside her room she went outside to look for something. Anko silently climbed out of the bed and tiptoed to the door where she had almost to jump in order to open it. Then she sneaked down the floor. When she passed an open door through which light came out of the room a voice caught her attention. Silently she stopped eavesdropping to the conservation. This wasn't just a mere dream it was a memory. One voice belonged to Orochimaru. The other man she didn't know. Maybe if she saw his face she could remember… Carefully, really carefully she peeked around the corner but still she couldn't see anybody. Orochimaru spoke. "I see, so the White Fang committed suicide. The people of Konoha are really a nice family – practically forcing their own comrades to commit suicide." The two men started laughing. The way they were laughing was disturbing, it wasn't like someone would laugh when something had happened, it was just plain terrifying. Trembling a little Anko sneaked back to her room hoping that she hadn't been noticed. For the rest of the night she held her pillow over her ears trying to forget about what had happened.
TBC
A/N: So another chappy is done. Please leave a review if you don't mind:D
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