Hoshiko stopped when she felt a familiar charka. 'Kabuto.' She thought trying to spot him and his team. 'There.' Hoshiko thought jumping on a few more branches. She kept her charka in check so they would not spot her. She watched from a distance as they separated. She followed Kabuto for a while till finally she had, had enough. 'I have to find Orochimaru.' Hoshiko turned her coarse away from Kabuto and went farther into the wood. A kunai knife embedded itself within the silver haired girl's shirt forcing to the tree truck she was passing. She let out growl as she took the knife from her shirt. A ninja stood in front of the girl with a frown on their face.
"You are not to be in here! Leave now!" Called Izumo with a glare. The girl laughed softly throwing back the kunai knife with precision.
"I'll leave when I'm done." She stated with a deadly-undertone. Izumo watched as the weapon embedded itself into the tree behind him. "And if you dare to get in my way, then… I would hate to have to kill you. Your such a good chuinin." She stated walking closer to the older man with a cruel smile working itself onto her face. In all reality she was not looking to kill the man, just scare him a little, after all the Hokage's warning was still fresh in her head. Izumo took a step back, there was something about the girl he did not like.
"I'm sorry but I can not let you stay in here. You will interrupt the Chuinin exam." He stated his voice not all the convincing. A smirk was now on Hoshiko's face. She let a small amount of charka into the tree limb they were standing on. Vines started to move behind the chuinin with out him noticing. Hoshiko still advanced slowly on the man with him taking a step back. Soon Izumo's back was to the trunk vines slowly wrapped around his body. Izumo's body tensed then he started to struggle against the vines that were now wrapping around his chest and waist.
"Keep struggling and they will move faster. You see I placed some of my charka into the living greenery around here, they listen to me as they grow." Izumo stilled as she explained. "I'll tell them to let you go by sunset but if anyone messes with them they will keep you there until they want to let you go." Hoshiko jumped from the branch leaving Izumo to think over the information she had just given him.
The 16 year old girl ran through the forest trying to find any trace of her master. 'Stupid men. Someone should knock some since into them once in a while, everyone knows they could use it.' She let a smirk come to her face. 'With a few exceptions that is.' The young girl stopped short hearing her voice being called. 'Orochimaru.' She thought looking around for the man. Her eyes found him walking from the shadows only moments after.
"What are you doing here little dove? You have a mission to do." His eyes narrowed at her making the girl tense at the sight.
"I have failed my mission. The Hokage found out who I was, he told me to leave but I would not, so he aloud me to stay as long as I did not hurt or kill any of his ninjas." She bowed slightly. "I will leave when you do master. I'm sorry that I failed my mission." Hoshiko stated softly her eyes closing as she felt her master move closer to her. Orochimaru raised a brow at the young assassin. Placing his hand under her chin he brought her eyes up to look at him.
"Since this is the first assassination you have failed I'll go easy on you but your punishment will not take place till we are back in the Sound Village. Come with me. We will wait for these exams to be over." The dark ninja stated removing his hand from under her chin but then back handing her, this was just the beginning of her punishment. The short girl nodded following after Orochimaru not really doing anything to the fact that he had back handed her at the moment.
Hoshiko stated at Orochimaru's side till the day when the preliminary round for the third test were to take place. Hoshiko stood in the shadows watching as Kabuto, who gave up his chance in the third round, came to speak with their master after the preliminaries were over. 'He still does not know I am here.' Shiko thought watching the silver haired boy's every movement. Orochimaru smirked slightly.
"The prelims have ended and they will begin the finals." Kabuto stated kneeling down in front of Orochimaru. Their master looked down at him the smirk leaving his face.
"By the way… It's become so serene… No… It's really became accustomed to peace… In a time when it's said that the other countries are busy strengthening their forces." Orochimaru stated watching a few birds by the railing that he was standing by. 'He is right though. They do not know what is to come. Either that or they are doing a very good job of hiding that they know.' The silver haired girl crossed her arms over her chest listening to their conversation.
"Could we take them now?" Kabuto asked watching his master and leader. The dark ninja smirked again.
"Well, yeah… Though I'm not sure there will be much fun in taking the head of that geezer.." Kabuto smirked at that.
"Is that so?" He asked. Hoshiko joined in the with the smirking. She herself could have killed the Hokage when he had come to her house but she had choose not to. The Kabuto added something. "It seems to me that you still are hesitant to acted." That caught the girl off guard, since when did anyone talk to Orochimaru like that? Orochimaru listened to the boy as he continued.
"From now on, the Hidden Villages will fight against each other in a long and intense battle. Hidden Sound is also one of them. You intend to become the trigger to all of this." Kabuto stopped for a moment to readjust his glasses. "And he's the bullet for that purpose. Isn't he?" Hoshiko tilted her head slightly. "Uchiha Saskue. Was it?" A smirk made it's way to Orochimaru's lips as he let out a small laugh.
"You're so intuitive that it's scary. But you did miss something." Kabuto smirked back but was also wondering what he missed. "Your friend is here and you did not even notice it." The boy looked confused for a moment, then his eyes widened under his glasses. "You may come out little dove." Orochimaru called behind him to the darkness. Hoshiko shook her head slightly walking into the sun light. Kabuto gasped slightly but quickly gained back his composure. Hoshiko walked up to Orochimaru's side letting them finish their conversation.
"Not really. I didn't know about Dosu, Kin, and Zaku either after all." Kabuto stated taking glances at the silver haired girl. "As part of my assignment to gather information on Sasuke, I wanted to know the powers of the three sound nins. I acted foolishly and purposefully took on their attacks. You speak too highly of me." Kabuto explained. "I haven't gained your full trust yet it seems." He finished letting Orochimaru talk now.
"Was there a necessity to even tell you, my right hand man, about something as insignificant as those three? That is the proof of my trust." The dark haired nin stated his snake like eyes watching Kabuto. He was not too sure of this though, Hoshiko noticed his stance change slightly. "And that's why I may ask you to take care of Sasuke for me." Hoshiko raised her eyebrow slightly, Kabuto did not know what to say at the moment so Orochimaru continued. "It seems that the curse mark that I implanted on him was sealed up by Kakashi. Well, not that it will have any affect of course. As long as the 'darkness' in his heart does not disappear." Their master stated. Hoshiko turned stiff at his side, she had seen him put the curse mark onto others and they did not make it, suffering a very painful death. "I want you to kidnap him right now." The snake like ninja added.
"It's so unlike you…" Kabuto leaned on the wall behind him. "You seem anxious." Hoshiko wanted to move away from her master but she knew she could not, he would make her life even more like hell if she did anything during this conversation.
"There was something that bothered me a little." Orochimaru turned his head to look at the ground not really caring about keeping eye contact. Kabuto grinned.
"Is it Uzumaki Naruto?" Kabuto asked knowing full well that it was. 'Such a clever child.' Orochimaru thought with a grin of his own.
"Sasuke who lives for the sole purpose of Killing his brother, Itachi, in revenge. He's a child who will never die until he achieves that goal…" Orochimaru looked over at Kabuto. "But when he fought me… He came at me without fear of death even though he knew he wouldn't be able to defeat me. I didn't think he was a child who rushed to die like that…" Orochimaru took out one of Kabuto's infamous cards of data. "According to your data, it looks as if his contact with the nine tails boy is changing Sasuke's goals and heart… He's a child who has that much of an influence on Sasuke… So the faster we tear them apart the better…" Orochimaru licked his lips making Hoshiko quiver slightly. "I must dye him in my colors soon."
Kabuto looked uneasy Hoshiko notice like something was tearing at him. He turned and started to walk away. "Well then.." Kabuto stated going to do what was asked of him.
"Kabuto… You…" The silver haired male ninja stopped in his tracks. "If you want to stop me…" Kabuto looked shocked as Orochimaru continued. "You'll have to kill Sasuke right now." Kabuto looked even more socked turning his head around to look at his master. Hoshiko did the same. 'What is he doing?' She wondered watching closely. "You likely can't kill me.. You're strong… But only about the same level as Kakashi." Kabuto looked unsettled wondering if Orochimaru was serious or not. The older gave a laugh and a smile. "I'm only joking. All right then, go on now. I have faith in you." Kabuto gave a nervous smile then went on his way.
"That face I wonder what he is thinking…." Orochimaru looked over at the girl assassin. "You can go and catch up with him if you want. I'm sure you want to talk to him for a bit." Orochimaru disappeared and Hoshiko followed after Kabuto. 'I have to talk to him.' She thought a worried look crossing her face for a brief moment.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get this out.