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"That's brilliant!" The very human looking, happy to be free snake, Cleopatra exclaimed. Autumn had just revealed to her, her escape plan for the next night. The night of the long awaited full moon.

"Thanks, but there are a few, well... 'complications',"

"As in?"

"Well... If I'm right you have to choose between two options. You can either 'A' release your chakra through me and break the seals right away, I'm pretty sure that I remember enough of the jutsu to get us back, but I'm not sure. Then there's option 'B'. You could transport us yourself, and worry about the seals later. Unfortunately for us, both plans conclude with you severely drained of your chakra which might cause you to die, or be immobilized for years. And I don't think I could handle losing you too."

"Don't worry about my safety, just do your part, and I'll do mine." Autumn nodded to her friend, and it was set. The next night, just before midnight, they would do it.

For the rest of the night, Autumn and Cleo caught up and talked as not to think about their situation. Kabuto who had been walking to his room across the hall from Autumn's stopped. He heard the girls talk and laugh. He was glad to see her happy. She deserved to be happy, even if it was for only a little while.

The next day, one quarter to midnight...

"Are we done?" Cleo asked as the time drew near.

"No, I want them!" The two had been arguing over something that Autumn had seen. Two doors down, there was a library. That was where Kabuto had gotten the summing scroll from for Cleo. The room held books, and some scrolls too. Autumn wanted to get them, but Cleo kept avoiding the subject.

"I already said 'no' how much more do I need to say?"

"You're not the boss of me! I'll do whatever I want! Just get the jutsu ready. Right after you release the seals on my arms, I'll run down the hall and get the scrolls. Kabuto is in the middle of something on the other side of the base, he won't notice until it's too late,"

"But it's dangerous, I don't remember agreeing to this in the first place!"

"You don't have to. My decision is final, now lets go," Cleo glared at Autumn, but couldn't help but smile. This girl was so strong.

"Fine, but on one condition. You have to promise that we will live through this okay?"

"Whatev, now lets go!" There were only ten minutes left before midnight.

"Brace yourself, this may hurt a little," Autumn backed up into the furthest corner and allowed Cleo to place her hands on the seals and quickly as well as painfully force all of her stored up chakra into her. Autumn resisted the incredibly powerful urge to scream her lungs out. It hurt more than when Kabuto put them on! The seals on her arms and neck all lit up. It seemed as if they were fighting back. The seal on Autumn's neck started to burn, and smoke and steam started to emanate from it as well as the ones on her arms. Autumn bit her tongue. After what seemed to be an eternity, the pain started to subside, and Cleo collapsed to the floor.

"Cleo?" Autumn didn't want to move her body felt tired, and her eyes were on the verge of closing.

"I'm... fine," Cleo faintly assured her, Autumn nodded, and did her best to disregard her current state, and make it out of her room.

"My, my, my..." Autumn froze, this wasn't going to end well.

"I don't believe that was meant to happen, now was it Aki-chan?" Kabuto walked over to where Autumn was standing and examined her arms.

"Shut up," She bit out, backing away.

"Why Autumn, I thought that we were friends,"

'Resist, Resist!' "Get out of my face before I decide to mess yours up,"

"I don't think that, that would be possible at this point," Kabuto said, slowly making handseals. Autumn activated her sharingan and ran down the hallway. Kabuto hurried after her, but all of his moves seemed to be in slow motion. Quickly dodging his attacks, Autumn ran into the library, and slammed the door.

"Well, that woke me up," Autumn said to herself, grabbing a few of the scrolls that were in plain sight. Apparently Oro-baka had been in there earlier. Now came the hard part, actually escaping the room without getting caught. Autumn looked toward the only door that could get her out of there, and then started to weigh her options. She could always try the vents, but that probably wouldn't work.

"AUTUMN!" said girl gasped, that was Cleo's voice! Not again! Thinking quickly, Autumn sadly dismissed her summon for her own safety, and grabbed the rest of the scrolls. Checking the watch that she had been given back earlier, apparently Kabuto had stolen it from her room, she had less than a minute to midnight. Autumn scanned the room, she couldn't grab all of these scrolls! Or could she? Autumn focused her chakra, and made strings that soon encased the entire room.

"Here we go," she whispered under her breath. In a series of extremely quick motions, Autumn made the room explode with her chakra. Soon all went white.

On the other side of the door, Kabuto and the numerous sound nin that had accumulated within the five minutes, including Orochimaru, all watched in awe as a bright light came from under the door. Being accustomed to this happening, Kabuto and Orochimaru held their ground as a huge blast erupted from the room. When all was silent once again, Kabuto spoke,

"This is a problem, isn't it?"

yeah... if this doesn't make sense, let me know cuz i'm typing this from memory basically so.

the next chapter takes place like a few months after this because I'm being lazy and nothing much happens in that amount of time

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