'Seeing my sister's gravestone couldn't hold back what I tried to suppress. I tried not to listen but I could hear what others have said. Many feared that I could change into Kakashi's past. My attack on the Hokage was just simply my reaction just like how Kakashi killed all in his path. But this death, it wasn't like I didn't see it in the past.'

Orochimaru sealed the door behind him. The pitch black room lit up with a circle of flames around the stone platform. The black engraving on the platform glowed purple. Sean's first stage Tozoto filled both of Miri's and Amari's sight.

"Trial thirteen." Orochimaru's voice filled the room. He sighed. "I feel as though I've been easy on all of you. And Kabuto feels the same. None of you are ready for the Curse Mark."

Two snakes slithered from opened holes in the wall and bit down on Sean's neck. The sisters stepped back from the unseen attack. "Don't get involved." Sean struggled to say.

"A name hasn't been made for the injections but this test will see how well the effects are."

Sean's veins pulsed blue. Sean gripped down on the snake's head and pried them off. Blood dripped down from his neck. He crushed the animal's head and pulled their heads from their bodies. Long steel blades emerged out from the split carcasses. Sean spun the blades in his hands while he kept eye contact with his sisters.

Miri stepped forward and weakly performed her hand signs. "Sp-spirit style; zombie arms." She pressed her hands on the ground. A pair of hands popped from the ground and grabbed hold of Sean's ankles.

Sean remained his eye contact and slashed off the arms from him.

Orochimaru chuckled. "Increased chakra, strength, perception. Practice for a mode I hope all of you will gain. But without your kekkei genkai, it's hopeless."

Sean darted forward and slashed right away at Miri. Amari slammed her palms on both sides of the blade and pushed the blade up. Amari followed up with a punch towards Sean's abdomen but Sean blocked it with his other sword. He flew back from both of them.

"Wind style; wind hand cannon." He tossed his swords up and launched a palm size ball at them both. He grabbed both swords and tossed them both at his sister's outside shoulders.

Amari defended Miri and took the attack head on. Her thick forearms absorbed some of the attack but still blasted her back into the wall. She cracked the wall behind her and dropped rubble into the fire. Sean didn't let up and rushed back into both of them. He grabbed Amari's throat and lifted her up into the air. He held his other hand inches from her forehead. He held a dark look in his eye and raised part of his lip.

"Wind style" he saw in the corner of his eye that Miri ran for him with a sword in hand. He swung his hand from Amari to Miri. "Wind style"

Amari kicked at Sean's arm and freed herself from his hold. "Body extension!" Miri's arm thickened to the size of a bodybuilder and punched Sean's face and launched back to the other side of the platform. Sean's left eye was swollen shut. He attempted to touch his wound but flinched at the pain.

"This isn't going to work! This isn't how Sean gained his eyes!" Miri screamed.

Sean ran back into them. He was able to dodge Miri's first strike with the sword and knocked the weapon out of her hand. Sean thrusted his hand into Miri's chest. "Wind style; Air palm!" The compressed air smashed through Miri's chest. She was lifted in the air and Sean followed up to keep the attack and shoved her straight down into the ground. Sean flipped back to the grounded sword. Amari was behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck. She continued to strengthen her arms and suppressed his windpipe.

Miri's shaky hand pulled her forward to them. Amari wrapped her legs around him and strengthened her legs as well.

Sean stumbled down on his knees and fell on his face. He arched his arms out and pushed up to curl up his knees to his chest. His one eye locked on with the limped Miri. He looked right down as she got closer to him. She went through her hand signs and struggled to keep her arm up.

"Spirit style; spirit ball." A small purple ball formed in her finger and propelled it into Sean's open ribs.

Miri's attack exploded both of them and separated the two. Sean immediately regrouped to his feet while he gasped for air. He walked over to the other sword in the wall and pried it out. He ran his fingers through his hair and flicked the sweat to the ground. Amari got back on her feet. She locked eyes with her brother and wiped the blood off her lip.

"Wind style; wind connection." Strands of wind surrounded his hand and the end of the sword. Sean tossed the sword into the ceiling and flung himself into the air. "Tighten." The lose strands of wind solidified and dropped him into a straight line into Amari. He yanked the sword out of the ceiling and aimed it toward Amari. The blade flew down faster than Sean. Amari stepped to the side for it to land into the ground. "Loosen." The solid strands of wind and rolled around Amari. "Tighten." The wind strands tightened around Amari and pinned down her arms and legs. He pulled out his sword from the ground and thrust it into her back. He held his hand up right after his attack.

"Wi" Sean's eyes rolled up and dropped him to the ground.

Miri looked down at her arm, she saw a small white snake pinned down on her arm. She slowly lost control of her vision. She looked at Sean's body and saw the white snake smoothly move away from his neck.

"Test thirteen is a failure. Even closer to death they didn't activate their genkai." Orochimaru opened the doors. Four young shinobi walked past Orochimaru and too the siblings.

Sakon grumbled. "Maybe if their relationship was exposed they'd be able to open their gifts." He grabbed Amari and lifted her under his arm.

Tayuya grabbed Sean and lifted him over her shoulders. "That will just give them useless hope."

"You just want Sean to feel as though he sees you as the strongest female." Kidomaru laughed as he helped Sakon.

Jirobo laughed. "Tayuya got a boyfriend!"

"Shut up fatso! Miri won't ever feel the same way." Tayuya barked back.

Jirobo glared at Tayuya before he picked up the last of the trio.

Miri's eyes opened up and sprang up from her bed. All she could see was Jirobo and Sakon watch them. She relaxed and crawled back into her bed.

"This is never going to work." Miri sighed.

"You should be lucky Orochimaru doesn't take both of your lives." Sakon snarled. "If it was one of us, he'd have us die with all these failures."

"You don't possess an ultra rare ability." Miri huffed. "You do, but one day I'll take it."

Amari groaned and sat up from her bed. She felt her eye and sighed right after. "I didn't get it. What about you?"

"No. Until Sean can remember how his eyes opened up, we won't ever get it."

Sakon got up from his chair. "I'm going to let Lord Orochimaru know about they're awake."

Jirobo watched Sakon open the door. "But we don't know if Sean's awake."

"He's with Tayuya. He's awake." Sakon slammed the door behind him.

"Lord Orochimaru is going to kill you once you gain those eyes." Jirobo warned them.

Miri crawled back out of her bed and walked over to the sitting large man. Miri leaned in and kissed his forehead. "Thank you. We already knew that. But Sean has a plan for us to escape." Miri crunched down her fingers into a fist. "Once we activate the Tozoto, Orochimaru won't have a chance."

Jirobo frowned. "He won't give you a chance to do that. You won't live for five minutes once you commence the change."

"Then why does he keep Sean alive?" Miri asked.

The door flung open. "Stop talking fatso!" Tayuya yelled. "Lord Orochimaru has a mission for us." She stared down Miri. "He'll be in soon."

Miri and Amari couldn't move their eyes away from the door. The turn of the handle and the creaks of the wood focused on them more. The White Snake walked through the door. He pointed at the two and walked back out of the room. They hesitated to follow him but eventually did walked out. Nobody exchanged a word as the three of them walked down the hall.

Orochimaru stopped at a door and pushed it open. Just like the rest of the base, the room was poorly lit. Even so they could see Sean tied up on the wall and a table with a pair of jars next to him. It didn't take long for them to quickly notice what was in the jars. They both tipped backwards at the sight. Orochimaru laughed and pushed them forward to Sean.

"Since you decided not to activate your dojutsu. Sean lost his." Orochimaru grabbed the jars and handed Miri and Amari one. "Maybe if I rip out one of your eyes and place in a Tozoto, yours will awaken."

"We'll never allow you to do that." Amari growled. "Sean is a brother of the Tozoto, we'll never steal from him."

"It's beautiful that you think you have power here." Orochimaru leaned into Amari's ear. "I'll kill you both if one of you dare betray me. Or should I have Sean do it?"