Chapter 9: Retrieval and Disappearance

Sasuke POV: This is it. I'm going back to Orochimaru's base. No, I said that, not the Orochimaru controlled me. I'm serious, dead serious. Ino and Sakura keep on jumping on me and Amye… I hate her! Jumping on me like, ten (10) times per minute. And Naruto, being an idiot as always. I also have a feeling that Orochimaru is smiling evilly, waiting for me to go back to his base. Guess what? He's lucky and I will. That is my final solution. (Sasuke didn't know this, but at Orochimaru's base, he was smiling evilly waiting for Sasuke to come.) Bye Konoha. Long time no see and then in a week, goodbye again. How sad… heh. I smirked and ran towards the direction out of the village. It is 10:00 PM, so no one should be up and trying to stop me like Sakura did last time when I went at 8:25 PM. So I run. And soon enough, I reach Orochimaru's base. Ah… it sure feels good to see this place. I found it actually not bad. I follow Orochimaru down the hall again and this time, we go to a different place. I'm guessing that it is a training ground. Well, the ground was rock and it was outside.

Third Person POV: Back at Konoha, some shinobi were searching for Sasuke. It took a while, but in the end, the Hokage figured out that Sasuke has left the village again. And so she announced to the whole village, " Sasuke Uchiha has yet again, left the village!" She decided to send two ANBU to travel and figure out where he was. Apparently, they came back and reported that Sasuke was back at Orochimaru's base. She frowned, deep in thought about what she could do.

' Sasuke…' she thought. 'Sure you might want to leave, but Orochimaru out of all people? Bad choice… well, guess like he wouldn't care.'