Within Otogakure, two people, walking side by side, one taller than the other, and wearing long cloaks that concealed their whole bodies from head to ankles, entered a building. When they entered, there was just one big room that was lit by candles. In the Center of the room stood a tall man that was extremely muscular. The tall cloaked person dropped a large bag of gold coins, and the other stepped forward.
The tall man chuckled, "so this puny punk is going to be my opponent." He got into battle stance, "So Orochimaru, let me get this straight, if I beat this little rat, I will get the money?" The cloaked man that dropped the bag of gold coins earlier had taken off his hood, and revealed himself as the feared Orochimaru.
"Correct..." the lord of sound answered. "And if you lose, I will take you prisoner and do experiments on you, and believe me when I tell you this, the experiments will be painful, quite painful..."
"Risking freedom for money..." He thought about it for about half a second, "Yea, I'll do it" He smiled in confidence, "It'll be like taking candy from a genin." The other cloaked person began taking off his cloak. "What's the point of even taking it off, you're just gonna lose in the end anyway?" The man teased.
The cloak was taken off and revealed a boy with white hair that extended all the way to his neck, hazel eyes, and an irregular marking around his right eye.
The boy looked at the man and said, "You're a complete idiot. Only a retard will bet their soul to someone for something as common as money."
The man became angry, "Do you know who I am pip-squeak?"
"Who cares?" Replied the boy in a soft tone, "Names wouldn't matter once you're dead."
"I am Yoku Simmuri of the hidden cloud village! I held first place in the shinobi games for four years straight, and the only cloud village ninja to have defeated three whole gangs simultaneously without weapons!" The man, or Yoku, informed. "So you better pays respects to me!"
"It doesn't matter what you did in the past. All that wouldn't matter once you're a Ginny pig getting tested on." The boy replied.
"Shut up you little runt!" Tension had built up inside Yoku, "I'm going to kill you punk, but before that, I'm going to break every bone in your body! You should know not to disrespect your superiors!"
"Whatever..." He turned as if he was going to leave, and had put his hands in his pockets, "Just go... I'll let you leave with your freedom. Go on, and don't ever come back." The boy optioned.
"What? You think I'm actually scared of you? Your nothing compared to me!" The man shouted.
The boy threw the coat aside and said, "Have it your way. I gave you your last chance to keep your life..."
"Shut up and die!" Yoku charged at the boy at an amazing speed, and then ran circles around him. "Now I'm going to make you regret disrespecting me!" He jump and shouted, "Death crane style: Crushing Kick of death!"
"Really?" The boy mocked, "I never even heard of that taijutsu art; 'Death crane style', must be an Academy student rank style." Yoku, even though at his speed was inhuman, had missed to his amazement.
"Ha...How could this be? I...I missed..."
The boy, who was still looking away from his opponents, answered, "You're too slow, and I know a fat-ass who can move faster than you." He turned to face Yoku, "Now it's time to 'REGRET' ever playing for your life." The boy raised his arm.
Yoku felt something moving on his legs. When he inspected, he saw something that appeared to be a black quilt coming from under him. "What is this?"
"Isn't it obvious?" The boy walked over to his cloak, "Its chakra and you were right," He closed his eyes, and "There was no point in taking off my cloak. You weren't even practice." A black rhombus appeared in his raised arm's palm. "Meiton: Setsudan no kakebuton!" The chakra quilt began to spin around Yoku's legs.
Yoku tried to stand up, but couldn't. The black chakra constricted him to the floor. "I can't get up! What type of jutsu is this? I...I never seen anything like this!" He began punching the chakra with all his might, "You never put up any hand signs!"
The boy buttoned his cloak till only his head and neck was revealed. "This isn't your average element, only very few can use it. Meiton is the power over darkness. This is me, my power." He turned to Orochimaru and asked, "Lord Orochimaru is it okay if I take his legs with me, it's not like he as much use for them anymore?"
The sound lord had an evil smile on his face and answered, "You may take them..."
"Wait, what?" Yoku screamed.
The boy turned to the scared whimpering man. "You should have never come and gambled your life away to someone like lord Orochimaru. You had the chance to leave safely, but out of greed, you stayed. Now for that, I will put you threw enormous amount of pain..." He put his palm in from of his face, and then slammed it shut and shouted, "Amputate!" The black chakra started to spin around Yoku's legs at a fast pace.
Yoku became full of fear and begged, "Please, stop it! What are you doing? No, please don't! No...No...No...Noooo!" In one quick second, blood was everywhere, and Yoku's legs were no longer part of his body. "Argggghhhhggg!" His eyes became full of tears with his endless screams.
The boy walked over to the screaming man, picked up Yoku's two legs, and walked to the corner of the room. Once there, he revealed a long bag. The boy opened the bag and placed the two legs inside it.
"It's quite strange," Orochimaru began, "every time you defeat a future experiment, you always asks to take a body part. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of slaves that can be used for that."
The boy quickly replied, "Lord Orochimaru, if I use the slaves then there will be less movable targets for the other ninja of this village to practice on." He walked out the door, and then made a stop, "I'm going to meet up with Suruya and have something to eat. I haven't eaten since the morning." He put on his hood and jumped away from the area.
Orochimaru's smile turned into a grin as he walked over to the half dead man and analyzed his wounds, `He's becoming way to powerful with his Dark elemental ninjutsus. He can be a match for most jounins. And maybe even my dear old sensei…` Kabuto arrived at the site. Orochimaru continued in his head, `He might become a threat one day. Only time will tell...`
"Impressive job my lord." Kabuto faked to deceive the other ninjas, "I guess you want to take him to the lab..." Orochimaru raised his hand, giving the three ninjas, excluding Kabuto, to take Yoku. They picked him up and began to leave.
"No please! I don't want to go! Please, I'll do whatever you want!" Yoku begged in a crying tone. He tried to struggle free, but in the end, all his attempts were futile.
"Mezuki's becoming quite a ninja, isn't he?" Kabuto asked as he walked up to Orochimaru, "If I'm not mistaken, I could say he could be as powerful as you." Kabuto took out a document, and gave it to Orochimaru.
Orochimaru took the document, placed it in his pocket, "Don't be such a fool Kabuto," He lectured, "He is not powerful as me, not yet anyway..." Kabuto's eyes widened. Orochimaru continued, "He learns too quickly. His lightning and wind jutsus exceeds beyond that of any jounin in this village. His chakra multiplies its power. And if that's not enough, he has an enormous amount of chakra beyond I can obtain in this body."
"So why do you want that Uchiha kid's body?" Kabuto asked, "Mezuki obviously has more potential than Kimimaru and Sasuke combined."
Orochimaru closed his eyes for a moment and opened them. "His strength is not in his body, it's in his spirit. Even if I take his body, Mezuki's unique chakra will go with him. And I doubt his will is that weak."
Kabuto smiled easily, "And there is four more like him out there?"
"I believe so, and that's what I want you to do..."
"What do you mean?" Kabuto asked.
"I was given reports of someone with a similar mark around their eye like Mezuki's. He is in the outskirts of the bird country. I will send you with the jounin that has the exact country." Orochimaru answered.
"And what do you want me to do with him when I find him?"
"Persuade him to fight Mezuki. I want to see if he will unlock any latent power within their fight." Orochimaru answered, "And don't allow him to know anything about his origin. Mezuki still doesn't know anything about his mother or the experiments, and I plan on leaving it that way." Orochimaru began to leave, before the sound lord left, he ordered, "Before you leave, tell a shinobi to bring back team shade."
"Yes lord Orochimaru," Kabuto answered in a military way, "They should be almost done with their training. I wonder how much stronger they gotten."
Orochimaru left.
`Two demon ninjas going at it, this could be interesting…` Kabuto said to himself.
Later that day, Mezuki entered another house, this time; it looked like a regular two story house. A couple of windows, a kitchen, a bathroom, a dining room with flowers in the middle of the table, a sink, and two rooms with a single bed in each room.
Mezuki quickly sat down in the dining room and shouted, "Suruya, are you here? It's me Mezuki!"
An old lady came out from the kitchen with a plate of food. She placed it in front of Mezuki. She then went back into the kitchen and came out with a cup of juice, and once again, placed it in front of Mezuki.
"Thanks Suruya," smiled Mezuki, "It smells delicious." He took out the bag with Yoku's legs and said, "Here are the legs that the hospital needed."
Suruya smiled back, "Your welcome for the food." She took the bag, "Let us hope these are the right size legs that the patient at the hospital needs. And how did you get them, young man?"
Mezuki became a little serious and answered, "I took them from some Yoku guy. He deserved it, he was betting his freedom for some gold."
"Did you ask him if he was sure about it?"
"Well, not really..." Mezuki began to eat. He swallowed his food, drank some juice, and continued, "He seemed really sure that he wanted to do it. I even gave him the chance to leave unharmed, but he refused my offer. So I took his legs..." Mezuki drunk some more. "It's not like he was going to use them again in his life. Let someone else use them that need them."
Suruya sat down, "Besides that, how are your wind ninjutsu coming along?"
Mezuki smiled happily and rubbed the back of his head, "Quite good I think. I was able to increase the length of my wind tunnel three times the original size." He exhaled loudly, "Too bad I don't have anyone to practice on besides Kimimaro, but he is always on missions, and lord Orochimaru is always too busy to fight with." He finished eating all of his food, "Boy was that good, and I don't know what I'll eat without you."
Suruya took the plate and cup and placed it in the sink. "Go get some rest before you leave tomorrow, you will need it."
Mezuki walked up to Suruya, "Yea, but why don't you go get some rest. You've been cooking all day," He turned on the foreside, "I'll do the dishes, then I'll sleep."
"Good that you have manners after all the time you spend with Orochimaru. And remember that the plates get lined up and placed down like you usually do." Suruya walked in the bedroom and closed the door.
A few minutes later, when he was done with the dishes, Mezuki dried his hands and walked into his room upstairs. Once inside, he went to his dresser and pulled out a dog tag. He then lay on his bed and began to toy with it. Suddenly, he stopped and began reading it. "D.P. Mezuki. Time of Birth, 5:57 morning." He closed his eyes, "What does D.P. stand for? Not even lord Orochimaru knows. He started to yawn, "I wonder if it has something to do with my parents..." He fell asleep, "Mother..."
