A/N: Hey I'm back!

I guess you're angry because I let you wait so long? (sees readers with various pointy objects) I'll take this as a 'yes'. But I have an excuse: school started again and now I don't have the time to write (hey I'm working almost as long as my parents do!). Sorry :D

Chapter nine

The two shinobi were inside the dark cave again. Anko had led them to the supposed dead end. Up to this point Anko had been rather confident about what she was doing but now there was this doubtful voice in the back of her mind. What if she was mistaken? What if it really had been nothing but a dream? And though Kakashi hadn't questioned her once ever since they had left Konoha she was worried about his reaction. He had become someone she trusted and in exchange he trusted her so she didn't want to let him down. She didn't want to tell him that she had been wrong. Usually she acted (over)confident but usually she didn't feel like that inside. Another reason why she kept a certain distance to other people. However there was only one way to find out whether she had been right or wrong.

She knelt down searching on the left side for a switch or something similar. It would've been useful to know what exactly she was looking for. The dim light and the dull pain coming from her juin didn't help either. But at least Kakashi was kneeling besides her and standing behind just looking over her shoulder – people standing behind always made Anko feel nervous.

After only some minutes of searching she found what she had been more or less looking for: a button. Once she had pressed it the wall parted. Smiling triumphantly Anko went ahead, Kakashi right behind her. But then she had to stop as the pain caused by her juin suddenly increased. Clenching her teeth she ignored it and stepped aside letting the copy-ninja in. He shot her a questioning look but she ignored that too and looked around in the room instead. It was a huge laboratory but opposite to the rooms where they were before this one looked like it was still being used.

Kakashi scanned the big room. Putting the equipment and other things they've seen before aside there wasn't anything interesting here – except for the stairs. Though it might be wrong to call them 'stairs' because it looked more like here and there parts of the rock were coincidentally missing. However. Kakashi made a silent gesture towards fore mentioned stairs, Anko immediately understood and so the two jounins went downstairs where they came into a big hall. It looked almost exactly like the hall where they had encountered Akuma: dark, with many useless rocks and some torches and water flowing down the walls. Whoever had built this wicked place was definitely lacking fantasy. Besides someone's lack of creativity Kakashi quickly remembered that they had still more important things waiting as Anko whispered

"We have to let Hokage-sama know about this." The copy-ninja had already opened his mouth when someone answered in his place.

"I'm sorry but that I can't allow that." He didn't sound sorry at all. Almost out of reflex the two leaf-nins turned to face the intruder.

Kakashi knew the owner of this voice very well and so did Anko.

"Orochimaru." Anko whispered.

If the situation would've been different Kakashi might have wondered if this really had been Anko's voice. It sounded so venomous that anyone with a bit sanity left would've backed away. But besides her voice Kakashi could swear that Anko was trembling – then again maybe it was just his imagination. The sannin stepped closer and the expression on his face reminded of a snake looking at two rabbits. From the corner of his eye Kakashi saw Anko holding her neck breathing unsteady. 'Must be the cursed seal' he thought.

Unfortunately the traitor had noticed the same. "My, my is the juin still hurting?" Orochimaru asked mockingly. As if the bastard didn't know. "Too bad I don't have the time to play with you – someone else will make sure you don't leave my little cave alive." With that he laughed and disappeared. Something in the back of his mind informed Kakashi that Anko just had fallen down on her knees when suddenly a huge noise arose. It sounded like stone grinding against stone. The echo made it impossible to detect where exactly the sound came from and because of the damn chemical stench here he still couldn't smell anything so he removed his forehead-protector, uncovering his Sharingan, and glanced around slightly nervous. And just on cue there was a rockfall right above them – to say that he disliked rockfalls would be the understatement of the year.

However his body was faster than his brain so he immediately jumped to the side, grabbed the kneeling Anko and leaped away just in time because if he had reacted only a moment later the two of them would've been squashed to death. But as the result of the attack they had now a new problem – actually two. First the exit was blocked and second there was at least one enemy waiting for his opportunity to kill them.

So as the situation was they would've to take care of the enemy first. Why did they always end up stuck in a life-or-death situation? This was supposed to be easy! Well at least he wasn't alone. So the copy-ninja stood up, pulled Anko to her feet and scanned the whole area. He detected the enemy with ease: another Iwa-nin with short black hair; he looked somehow like a bulldog.

Not wasting any time Kakashi took out three kunais and threw them all at once at the enemy but the Iwa didn't make the slightest effort to dodge them and soon the copy-ninja found out why: he had transformed his body into stone. Obviously a bloodline limit.

Suddenly there was a giant darting flame next to Kakashi was the intention of roasting the Iwa. 'Looks like Anko has joined the action' he thought with a smirk. But then his smirk disappeared as he noticed that the Iwa was gone as well. The attack didn't hit. Out of nowhere his instincts yelled at him to get the hell away and before he even realized it he had leaped away. Turning his head he saw the Iwa hitting the ground where just a moment ago two leaf-nins had been standing. The enemy growled frustrated. Now that made Kakashi's smirk return.

But still they had the problem of how defeating someone who was able to transform his skin into stone if he wanted to. They could only hit him if he didn't expect the attack. A plan came to his mind. He didn't really like it but it could work. Jumping over to Anko he told her of his plan. At first she looked at him as if he had lost his mind – and maybe he had – because after all he wasn't the one with the big problem should the plan fail. But then she agreed trusting him and his abilities.

With a last nod to Anko the copy-ninja jumped to right the corner where he used a Suiton causing a giant wave. As the result the hall was now pitch black because all the torches had gone out. Kakashi closed his Sharingan because in the darkness it was only wasting Chakra. "Hey Kakashi are you stupid! Now we can't see anything!" Good Anko remembered the plan. He could hear her breathing so he knew where she was and as long as she didn't move the plan would work because eventually the Iwa would fall for their trap and when he tried to attack Anko Kakashi make his move. Since Kakashi was a former ANBU it was easy for him to move without making any noise.

Soon he heard the faint sound of footsteps on the wet ground. It was about time. The Iwa was moving and not suspecting that Kakashi was already lurking on a rock near Anko – it was obvious that the Iwa assumed that Kakashi was still in the right corner. Kakashi just hoped that he had memorized the surroundings correctly - though he was pretty sure of that - and if he had the Iwa was almost certainly dead. The copy-ninja held his breath, felt the weird sensation that always appeared before killing and with a kunai in his hand and every muscle inside his body tense he leaped forwards.

A warm liquid running over hands as well a gurgling, surprised scream as proof that he had succeeded. He had hit the Iwa who was currently heading for the light at the end of the tunnel. "Okay." He more breathed than said. When the weird sensation was gone he always felt empty inside. Still Anko had heard because she lit a torch. Just for sure Kakashi felt the Iwa's pulse and he was definitely dead.

"Alright, I guess we can leave now." The copy-ninja said. Anko nodded.

"Oh Kakashi!"

"Hn?"

"Don't ask me to play the decoy ever again!" Anko said grinning before she smacked him playfully on the head. Kakashi silently chuckled.

TBC

A/N: So I know I said that this would be the last chapter but instead of writing one long I decided to write two short chappies. But don't worry I'll update the last chapter in only a few hours.

So again thanks to ViolinRiddle, Emi Kaisaken, DancingPickle101, random gaara fan, kitsune.ayame, AlwayzBored, samurikirby, JBL, zoielark and fire.elve for reviewing.

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