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Chapter 5: Orochimaru

Two days had passed and it was finally the weekend (Friday afternoon, it starts to count after you turn ten) Autumn continued to go to school, from the motel. And she had gotten a new skateboard, she had found her old one, but it was broken in half! Her clothes were okay, although with further inspection some were torn, but she knew how to fix them. The money and other things her parents had saved were kept in a safe in the basement. The safe was extremely dented, but that only made it easier to open. May had found Autumn's old mountain bike, broken beyond all repair. Her two pairs of skates (one for ice, and one pair of rollerblades) were in good condition. She used these to go to school for the rest of the week, since she was going to use the weekend to break in her skateboard.

Although they were excited for the dance coming up in the following two weeks, Autumn and her friends' main priority was to find her a house. David had found a house within the first day, but that one was a bit of a hazard (it was built on a very small rock, not an island, a rock. The whole house took up most of the island.) May found one, but it was a little small (One story, one room, no basement... Not a house, a shack!) Mandy found a nice one, but... let's just it was in a bad neighborhood. (The area was known for sexual offenders, drug dealers, and alcoholics) As Autumn found out later Mandy had lived there until the second grade, she'd rather shoot herself than go back. ('Tis the truth). Lyn didn't bother helping with actually looking for a house, she and some of Autumn's other friends worked on different projects. Lyn worked on scanning for good neighborhoods that were in the school district. Janet, one of Autumn's older friends, had been getting people do donate money which she used to buy Autumn some food while she was living in the motel.

Autumn was busy working on trying on opening her parents' old safe. Even though it was dented and beaten, as well as shot at (courtesy of Autumn herself) it wouldn't open.

"Stupid safe..." Autumn muttered glaring at the safe. She'd been at it for hours.

"Need help?" Someone asked from behind her.

"Ahhhh!" Autumn jumped three feet into the air,

"Gee Fall I didn't think you'd get scared this easily." Autumn turned around and saw the person who had spoken. It was David, and he had some tools with him.

"Shut up! You know very well that your ex-girlfriend scares me almost every day!" Dave threw a screwdriver at her head.

"Not funny."

"Fine, here's something funny: A guy walked into a bar, ouch!" David glared at her. "I know I need to work on my jokes as well as my attitude, but that was no reason to chuck a screwdriver at my head!"

"It's plenty of reason..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"So need help?" Dave asked, breaking the long silence.

"Sure, if you have a welding torch in that box," David reached into his toolbox and pulled out just what she had asked for.

"Wow..."

Eventually they had gotten the safe open. (With a little help from a few homemade bombs, and the Authoress's awesome powers.)

"What's so important in here that we had to blow it up?" David asked, glaring at the safe that was potentially undamaged, but open.

"My parents traveled a lot, and collected a lot of what to us would be junk, but that junk could well be worth something." Autumn explained looking in the safe. As soon as she did, she took out a piece of paper and closed it.

"What was in there?"

"I'll tell you after I find a house." Autumn spun the dial on the safe to lock it.

"WHAT!? WE JUST SPENT WHO KNOWS HOW LONG TRYING TO OPEN THAT!!" David yelled.

"Shhhhhhh!! My parents were such smart people, they put the combination inside the safe, to keep it safe." She said, walking over to a table.

"All you need to worry your pretty little head about is whether or not your girlfriend will approve of you being over here this late." She was right, it was past midnight. David rolled his eyes and walked out, but as soon as he opened the door he got run over by a hyperactive squirrel/person by the name of May.

"I found one! I found one! I found one! I found one!" She chattered. Autumn laughed as David was forced to peel himself off the floor.

"What did you find?" Autumn asked trying to avoid David's glare.

"I found the perfect house!" She said, grabbing her hand.

"And you're going to show me now? At 1am?"

"Yes! The owner has a skin condition! Let's go!" Autumn rolled her eyes; sometimes it paid to be an insomniac.

Turns out the house May found wasn't a house at all. It was a MANSION!

"May, how do you expect me to pay for this?" Autumn asked, as she and her friend approached the house.

"Don't worry I talked to the owner, he wanted to meet you first, he said that he would just give it to you for free if he liked you!" Autumn glared at her. May wasn't right in the head.

"Have you ever considered the thought that this guy could be a pedophile, or a mass murderer, or a vampire?"

"Yep!"

"And?"

"I disregarded every thought!"

"..."

"..."

"If I die I blame you,"

"Ditto." Autumn walked up to the door, but before she could even knock some dude opened the door and ushered her inside.

Autumn was lead into a room, she gasped, the inside was beautiful! A wide chandelier hung from the ceiling, but the most amazing thing was the man in front of her.

"Are you the girl, Autumn?" He asked, in a soft angelic voice. Autumn nodded, even though he was hotter than the sun, she had immunity to the effects of men, and so she really didn't care, as long as she got the house.

"My you have grown. When was the last time I saw you? I can't seem to remember quite that well." He spoke, looking her over.

'Get lost, I'm jailbait Mister!'

"Excuse me? I don't think I know you..." Autumn trailed off as she looked into his eyes, it seemed as if they had changed color.

"Really, because I remember you quite well."

"Ummm... I'm just here, for-"

"The house, I know. And I will give you the house, as well as all of its contents, as soon as I explain." Autumn had a really bad feeling by this time.

"Who are you?"

"I am a friend of your parents..."

"'Was'."

"No, 'am' I see no point is referring to them as if they were dead."

"But, they-!"

"If only they were around to watch you grow up... I guess it's too late, they aren't coming back."

"What are you talking about?"

"You've grown into such a pretty little girl." For a moment time seemed to freeze for Autumn, as she heard those same two words, no matter what language, she could still feel the pain of hearing them being used to refer to her.

"WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP AND TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!" The man was startled at her raising her voice, but as he regained his composure, he spoke.

"You should know me, I was there on that day..."

Hours later…

Autumn was trying her very best to be patient, calm, cool, and collected, but this guy was about to get on her last good nerve. She was extremely sure now that this weirdo was, a rapist, a murderer, a vampire, or a pedophile, or something! She had been sitting in the same place for hours! He wouldn't let her leave! About an hour ago she had officially announced to herself that she was being held against her will. She had tried to run out, but this guy was incredibly fast! Since then they had been sitting in the same place, the man was still watching her.

"You know, people say that it is really impolite to stare..." Autumn said, trying to avoid eye contact.

"Hmm… People also say that it is somewhat impolite to try and run away from someone who so graciously invited you into their home, and offered to give it all to you for little to no cost." He snapped.

"I'm sure that it may not be so impolite, if that person is being held against their will." Autumn said, in a singsong voice. He glared at her,

"Well if that person weren't such an insolent brat who should be dead by know if the other someone hadn't been so merciful so many years ago, not to mention, that someone should at least deserve a 'thank you'."

"Well that someone would get a 'thank you' if the person weren't still being held against their will, and had more of an idea of WHO THE HECK YOU ARE!!" The guy smirked,

"I win." He said, simply. He got up, and Autumn followed after him.

"Where the heck do you think you're going?" She asked having to run to keep up with him.

"You know for such a little girl you have a very big mouth, and an even bigger attitude."

"Will you shut up! I haven't even said that much, you've been doing all the talking, going on and on about how you knew my parents! Just tell me who you are already!" The dude stopped causing Autumn to bump into him.

"My name is none of your business, but if you insist you can call me 'Genyuumaru'."

"... Riiiiight now are ya gonna tell me why I can't leave?"

"..."

"How about 'how you know my parents?'"

"..."

"How about…"

"'How about' you keep your mouth shut for the next hour before I lose my patience, and kill you on the spot?"

"…I don't know why, but I hate you..."

"Good," was his sole reply.

After a few more hours 'Genyuumaru' finally answered Autumn's questions, but of course the answers came at a price, he wanted Autumn's chakra.

"You're kidding..." Autumn said staring at him.

"Just give me your chakra, and you can have everything." He said, giving her a creepy smirk. Autumn had to think about this long and hard,

"ALL of it?" He nodded.

"AW HECK NAW! I want to live, see ya!" Autumn walked toward the door, she knew what she was leaving, but she didn't care, she was happy thinking her parents were dead, it made life easier. 'Genyuumaru' blocked her and Autumn used her chakra to push him out of the way.

"See ya later OrochI-baka!" She said, walking away.

"How did you-"

"I read... a lot, I'd rather live my life, instead of being your little experiment!" Autumn walked away, leaving a gaping snake man behind her, as the henge Orochimaru was using wore off. She didn't get far though, because his, ever helpful, silver haired assistant caught her first.

"What the hell do you want?"

"I see spending too much time with the Akatsuki has affected you. Too bad, you were such a nice girl two years ago."

"..." Autumn didn't really care for what he had said; she was wondering if now was a good time to try out her abilities. Truthfully in her time with the Akatsuki she had only learned the basics. Henge, bunshin, and kai, that was it, she could control her chakra, and walk on walls, or walk on water, but that was just about it. Pein didn't want Autumn to be taught anything that she could use against him; so most ninjutsu was off limits. Her training sessions with Sasori were mainly taijutsu, Aka: Puppets vs. Autumn, guess who usually won? Autumn's specialty was evasion, she soon found this out after her first spar with Itachi, also her high chakra levels healed her wounds almost automatically. She was already used as a test subject; she didn't want it to happen again. As Kabuto went on about something that she had lost track about over an hour ago she was actually thinking about the chances of escape. Who knew this guy was so long winded?

"Will you please stop talking! It's really hard to think when you're talking about peanut butter." Autumn snapped. Kabuto looked at her in surprise, she didn't dare talk to him like that!

"My, a bit impatient are we?" She knew he was just stalling time, so Orochimaru could get his butt out there, and give her some stupid cursed seal. Sadly he knew she knew, so he just kept talking.

"Shut it Point Dexter, if you don't mind I'll be going now." Autumn started to walk around him, only to be stopped as he tripped her. (A bit anticlimactic, but, hey. It works.)

"You wouldn't want to leave without your friend would you?" Kabuto adjusted his glasses and signaled for some of Orochimaru's other lackeys to bring out their prisoner.

"Why of all people did you have to kidnap May?" She sighed. "She'll nag me into a coma after this!" May was brought out bound and gagged. Why did she ever have to get into this mess?

"MMPHHS!!" May (how do I say this?) mphsed, as she saw Autumn on the ground.

"You wouldn't want to leave your best friend would you?" Kabuto asked, allowing Autumn to pick herself up.

"Oh someone shoot me... You people have issues ya know that!" She muttered. Just then Orochimaru walked out, wearing his old outfit, butt bow and all.

"So have you decided?" He asked, smirking.

"And you! Do you know that you die twice in the series! TWICE!! WHY CANT YOU DIE AND STAY DEAD!?" Everyone looked at her like she had grown two heads, except May who was used to it.

"Mmpht, mow munf suma miv mu miv niff mivvnivv?" (Autumn, how much sugar did you have this morning?) She asked, although no one seemed to understand her.

"Shut up." Autumn replied, rolling her eyes, she was getting ready to go on a rant.

"First you go hunting for little boys, and almost kill Sasuke by giving him that stupid curse mark, do you know how worried Sakura was!? If it weren't for you then Sasuke would have done the sane thing and never abandoned his village, but nuuuuuuu! You just had to give him the stupid seal any way! I guess it really was his brother's fault, because he really should have killed him, and forgotten about the stupid eyes in the first place, so Sasuke should be dead... Anyway if Itachi had killed Sasuke, you'd still probably be in the Akatsuki, and Sasori most likely wouldn't have died, then again I don't think Tobi of Deidara would be there either, but what ever... No you still would have quit, actually you would have tried to quit, but everyone else would have killed you like they were supposed to, and you would be turned into a puppet, and I wouldn't be in this mess in the first place!" Autumn stopped to think for a while. Orochimaru took advantage of her distraction, and mad a hand seal. His neck stretched out, and his head flew toward Autumn.

"MMMMPHFTT!!" May yelled but it was too late, Orochimaru retracted his neck and smirked, wiping the blood from his mouth. Autumn screamed in pain, she was on the ground grasping her neck. She knew what was coming next, and before darkness had a chance to take over, Autumn made a last ditch effort to do something useful. (Meaning she actually put up a fight) Autumn first retracted her chakra's signature into her body, and then released it all at once. Before all got dark, Autumn heard May scream.