Here's the 13th chapter!

Has the storyline been slow lately? Sorry... . I'm trying to come up with new ideas.

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"Kikyo...you are sure about this, correct?" Kabuto smirked nastily.

Kikyo didn't even flinch. "Lord Orochimaru is my lord now. Konoha is merely a disturbance."

Kabuto shrugged and quickened the pace. They were halfway back to Orochimaru's, and jumping from tree to tree was getting tiring. Meanwhile, wrapped inside the floating cacoon, Sasuke heard Kikyo's calm reply. Against his will, he felt a sharp pang in his heart.

"Sasuke...I love you..."

The memory of that day flashed in his mind. Shutting his eyes tightly, Sasuke tried to push the memory away.

Kikyo...I...I still love you.

"Look! Fresh footprints...they've been through here before." Naruto exclaimed.

Sakura nodded. Turning around, she looked back at Konoha one last time. Then getting ready to go, she suddenly noticed a green liquid on the gournd. Memory stuck her.

Kikyo's weird blood when she got hurt during the fight with Krad!

"Naruto!" Sakura bent down and examined the liquid.

"What is that?" Naruto knelt down next to her.

Sakura felt a thud in her chest. "It's Kikyo's blood...she's hurt."

"Ow..." Kikyo bit her lip.

"Something wrong?" Kabuto asked smoothly.

Kikyo shook her head quickly. The truth was, she was not one of Orochimaru's warriors any longer. The mark of her slavery on her arm was gone. The night before, Kikyo had ripped her skin off and healed it. Today, the wound still had not completely healed. For now, she would have to trick Kabuto until she though of a plan to save Sasuke.

Suddenly, she froze. "Kabuto!"

He looked at her. "What?"

"We've got company...they're not very near us, but they're still tracking..." Kikyo tried to see who they were with her abilities.

"Who are they?" Kabuto drew his kunai.

"Put that away...we won't need it. They're far behind. I can't tell who they are..." Kikyo lied and increased her speed. Inwardly, her thoughts raced around her mind rapidly.

Sakura and Naruto! What are they thinking? They could get killed!

Meanwhile, inside the cacoon, Sasuke's thoughts were also racing. Followers? Who...?

"Naruto...are you sure where we're going?" Sakura asked nervously.

"Yes." Naruto answered, focusing on tracking Kikyo and Kabuto's traces. Still, his thoughts were restless.

He hadn't been as close to Kikyo as Sasuke and Sakura, but Kikyo was the only one who had ever actually really listened to him. Out of his trio of teammates, Kikyo was the only one who had the patience to answer his questions and not call him "stupid". And yet, she ended up as a traitor to Konoha and her friends.

To him, this was something he could barely comprehend.

"We're here." Kabuto slowed down.

Kikyo's heart thudded quickly as she tried hard to remain calm. The crescent moon was coming; that was her last chance to trap Orochimaru and Kikyo. She couldn't kill them; she had taken the shot. After trapping them, she would probably just transport Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke to Konoha. She would live in the forest near Orochimaru's, making sure he remained trapped forever. Quietly debating about her pathetic plan, a sudden thought startled her.

Sasuke wouldn't be with her. He would be gone. Forever...

She cursed inwardly for even thinking such a thought, and followed Kabuto into the building.

The long narrow hallway was dimly lit, and the darkness looked empty. Still, Kikyo knew that it was chock-full of traps and poisons-she had placed them there herself.

"Kikyo...Kabuto. I've waited a long time." Orochimaru's voice slid coldy through the darkness.

Kikyo and Kabuto immediately kneeled.

"Get up." Orochimaru stepped out, smiling silkily. He walked to the levitating ball that was Sasuke, and stroked it fondly. "Thank you."

Kikyo was about to hand Sasuke to him when the dark clouds outside parted.

The crescent moon...

"Naruto! Hurry up! We're almost there!" Sakura yelled breathlessly as she avoided the hanging branches of the trees above.

Naruto panted heavily as they raced toward the building where Orochimaru, Kabuto, and Kikyo were.

A transforming Kikyo...

"Unh!" Kikyo groaned as she fell to the ground.

What's happening? My transformation isn't supposed to hurt because I had taken a shot...

Unless the shot didn't work!

"AGH!" Kikyo screamed as she was picked up by an invisible force and thrown outside into the moonlight.

Orochimaru's eyes widened in disbelief. "What? She's already taken the shot! What's going on?" he demanded angrily. Kabuto backed away from Kikyo, his eyes riveted on the sight.

Kikyo rose into the air, two wings blooming from her back that showered everyone with black and red feathers. Her shriek pierced the air as her fangs lengthened and her claws grew longer.

"Lord Orochimaru!" Kabuto quickly said, looking to him for further orders. Orochimaru had to retreat...in her uncontrollable demon form, Kikyo was nothing but a blood-thirsty killing machine.

Orochimaru's eyes narrowed. What was happening? Kikyo had been given a shot...the shot was supposed to work every time...

Maybe the shot was just malfunctioning...

"Stay here." Orochimaru commanded, placing his faith on the shot.

In the air, Kikyo struggled to control herself as she cursed inwardly. She had forgotten that the shot needed Orochimaru's mark of slavery to work! She had ripped it off the day before...the only thing she could do now was to hope that she would be able to control herself...

"Naruto! Do you hear that? That scream...it sounded like Kikyo!" Sakura paused.

Naruto's heart quickened as another shriek pierced the air

What was going on?

Kikyo felt herself weakening; the demon side was taking over. Convulsing, she fell to the ground. Once she gave up, she would kill everyone in sight.

"Sasuke..." she gasped. She could at least set him free and let him run...maybe he could escape her range.

Weakly raising a hand, Kikyo pointd to Sasuke. Flicking her finger, the threads that bound Sasuke tightly together unraveled. Sasuke stared at Kikyo in disbelief.

"Go...please." Kikyo choked out, her eyes quickly turning from brown to red. Screaming as she finally relinquished herself to her curse, she threw back her head into the sky.

KILL...

And so Kikyo's true form is revealed!

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