Chapter 1 – Von's P.O.V. - 'Speak of the Devil' Addition

All my body was capable of doing after hearing what Kurenai told me was my jaw dropping in shock. This made me completely unaware of the situation I was in before they came up to us and told us what had occurred. Orochimaru was back, perhaps. I looked over at Kakashi to see if his reaction was just as spooked as mine, but when I looked at him, all he did was sigh and slump his shoulders. My eyebrow twitched at this action, looking at the fact that he seemed completely not phased by the whole situation. I think I was more shocked to see his reaction than to hear the actual news, but even the news could seem so unrealistic.

"Von? You alright over there?" Kakashi stared at my confused face in amusement.

"I don't know... did Asuma tell you what Kurenai told me?"

"I'm supposing we were told the same information, that Orochimaru has been spotted near the back gates."

"Yep. What are we going to do?"

"All we can really do is keep high security and check things out around the forest near us. We can't force an attack unless we ourselves are forced to or told to."

Kakashi's explanation was hope crushing as I really had an intent to capture him and kill him. My mind was playing imagery and sounds of the bones crushing in Orochimaru's body. I never understood this side of me; I was usually a good person, but like everyone else, I had anger and hate in me that caused a quench for torture. I hated thinking that way though, I hated knowing that my soul had a demonic side to it, I hated knowing that one day I might lose control to my anger and reveal my hatred physically. I could end up regretting whatever I did – which is most likely what would happen.

Ignoring my heart's ache to hunt, Kakashi and I started walking to the gates. Kakashi asked me to check on the Hokage as we passed the temple. I did as told and knocked on the door. I heard a thud, footsteps and a window open, then it all went silent. I broke open the locked door, hoping it wouldn't piss the Hokage off, then I saw a dead Hokage on the floor. The window was left open and I knew who did this, and he was not going to leave without a fight. Looking out the window, all that was left behind was a long black hair on the window sill.

"Thanks for the DNA." I giggled as I jumped out the window and searched for Orochimaru.

All I found throughout my whole search was a snakes shedding. It began to seem more like a trap. I looked up and sure enough on a roof top stood Konoha's biggest criminal, Orochimaru. As quickly as my eager feet would let me, I jumped up next to him on the roof and was too fast for him to block my lunge at him and my fist hit his cheek so hard he flew, hurling backwards. But he was able to flip back and stand up and somehow show up behind me, attempting to put me in a headlock and lodge a kunai at my throat. I knew each of his plans before they happened, and I made the hostage he had a sand clone and hid in a tree behind him as he slit the throat of my sand clone and I used my Mikotani Jutsu to take blood from his open cuts and form it into a spear so I could use his own personalized jutsu's against him. My throat felt like it was being pinched as my sand clone collapsed into a pile of sand and Orochimaru fell to the ground in pain from his blood being dragged out.

"You... you wretched child!" He hissed as he looked back at me forming the spear of blood. "You're blood line should be extinct! I made sure of it!" He yelled after me.

"You... killed... my... parents?" Anger flooded my veins and my eyes sharpened into a hazel color. "Well you obviously fail at your missions, and I win this battle so give up you wailing vermin!"

His eyes widened as he watched my eye color change so quickly and my spear sharpened with desire to pin him and stab him. My body could not control itself, I stomped the staff side of the scythe-like spear on the ground and a small waterfall of blood trailed over to where he was and wrapped around his ankles and wrists, pulling him flat on his back and stretched out on the roof top. Slowly walking over with my new collectable spear, I tossed my hand with the spear in the air and jabbed the scythe-like side into his heart, but to be on the safe side, I beheaded him. Just then, the body I had beheaded and stabbed turned into several venomous snakes that just slithered away with ease.

The sky cleared from dark clouds to a clear sky and I stood there in shock as my eyes changed back to a dark brown. However, they weren't the same sincere brown they usually were, they were cold and hateful brown eyes. Had the best rivalry fight of my life just happen and turn out to be a fake?

"Von?" A voice said from behind me.

My eyes dimmed to a dull brown color and I fell to my knees.

"Are you okay, Von?" It became obvious that it was Kakashi's voice.

"Does it look like I am okay? Would you be okay if the man who killed your family, you finally got to kill and his dead body turned into living snakes that just escaped your grasp? It's so unjustified! Why can't there just be peace?" I yelled.

Kakashi kneeled down next to me, resting a hand on my shoulder. "That's the trouble of being a ninja. There will never be peace, there will always be love and as long as there is love, there is hate. My friend Jaraiya once told me this, but he believes that there is another way to find peace. Perhaps that's what you might want to look into! Find a substitute pathway to peace."

These words stunned me, like a lightening bolt through my body. I didn't know how to reply, but it was irrelevant, because he helped me even more.

"I know where you can search for it." He said, causing me to look up at him in curiosity. "Naruto is the prophecy child, but you are probably the most powerful person I know, and you would be the ultimate teacher for him. You and Naruto, we believe, can find peace."

I noticed a smile on his face. "Naruto, huh?" Now a smile grew on my face as well, maybe I could find peace with Naruto. Was that his objective too?