Anko's eyes slowly opened, she looked around in a daze. She was still in the building but was heavily damaged. Holes in the walls, glass was spread on the floor, it was destroyed. He looked down at herself, Sean's arms clenched tightly around her body. She looked at Sean's face. His special eye was activated to a Sharingan and was heavily swollen. Blood dripped from his forehead and many other spots of his body.

"Sean." She broke free of his grip and faced him. "Sean are you okay?" She swung her arm and slapped him across his face.

Sean groaned. "Glad to see your okay." Anko wrapped her arms around him but quickly drawn away. "Its okay, felt good with the pain."

"What happened? I saw Kabuto and he attacked."

"Oh did he attack. I somehow managed to place a genjutsu on him with the Sharingan. Made him think we ran and he escaped.

"Where's the rest of the team? They must be around to stop him."

"They helped." Sean coughed. "But I wouldn't look out that hole." Sean grabbed the sword from his gut and pulled it out. "Oh God. Help me out here." Sean offered his arm.

Anko pulled him up and carried him up from under his shoulder. "We'll report this to Lady Hokage. And get you to the medical unit."

Sean held onto his side and clenched down. "We'll need to recover the bodies. I don't know how's it possible, but I think Kabuto is becoming Orochimaru."

"Come on, lets return home." Anko's voice lowered in sorrow, and Sean took notice.

Sean and Anko arrived back to Konohagakure shortly after. Medical units immediately took Sean and a small recovery party was sent back to the village to recover the bodies. Tsunade wasted no time and visited Sean in his hospital room, along with Anko.

"I expected a successful mission yet I'm farther from that. Two Shinobi dead and an escaped suspect. I want answers."

"The assailant was Kabuto. But he wasn't normal. I suspect he managed to get Orochimaru's DNA and combine it with his own."

"I see. If Kabuto holds the strength of Orochimaru, you guys wouldn't have had the chance. But with four people, it doesn't seem possible."

"I could see something weird with my Byakugan. He holds more than one chakra flow. But I don't quite understand it. He's not the same Kabuto, he's a monster."

"How's the Sharingan?"

"It's not as strong as my Byakugan, but it got me out."

"I expect a full report by tonight."

Tsunade left the room and left Anko and Sean inside. Both of them pointed their head to the ground. Anko felt the pain that she thought she created. Sean felt the pain that she felt, but he didn't share the same feelings of it. He felt it, and wanted to use it.

"After our first sparring match back then, I asked Tsunade about you. She said we shared the connection of Orochimaru."

"I was a center of many of Orochimaru's experiments." Anko twisted her head around and pulled down her tan trench coat. She bared a curse mark on her neck. "I was the beginning of his deeds."

"The curse mark." Sean chuckled. He turned to him and lifted up the lip of his hair. He showed the tube in his neck. "I carry a variation of that. But you shouldn't feel bad. As my years with him, I can tell you he's done a lot worse than what you've done."

"I started to where he is now, I helped him create his dream of immortality. His robbery of life and all of his test subjects." Her finger clenched into the night stand. "If I haven't sur"

Sean snatched her hand. "If you haven't survived, I wouldn't have been here. We share a connection Anko. Even if we died, he would take another till he got what he wanted. I need your help Anko, my dream to kill Orochimaru was snatched from me. But he created someone much worse than him, and now, he's already surpassing him."

"Sean."

"I need your assistance. I need your strength, only you have what I need." Sean grabbed his headband and switched over to show his Tozoto. "Kabuto will come for this and release much worse than him, I need you to help defend it."

The door to their room slid open. Sakura rounded the corner with a scroll in hand. "Sean I came as" her eyes met with Anko's. "I'm sorry, I didn't know anyone was still here."

Anko laughed. "Oh no, I was about to leave. I just needed Sean's side of the mission to give to Lady Hokage."

"You'll think everything over right? Hate for any details to drop out and bring failure."

Anko stood at the doorway. "Yes of course. I'll meet with you again to discuss how we proceed."

"I owe you some glazed sweets!" Sean spun around and dangled his feet above the floor. "Want to help me out here Sakura? Hard to walk on my own."

"Sure thing." Sakura grabbed Sean's side and helped him up. "I also got that scroll you wanted after you left. I looked it over but have no idea how it will help you."

"It takes a keen eye. The power here could get the resolution I need." His ending words spoke louder than the others. He made sure Anko heard everything before she left.

Sean chuckled.'I got her'.