All In The Name Of A One-Sided Love
A/N: Gah, because of the content of this chapter, I had to change the rating to M. If you are too young to read about slightly sexual (I don't go into detail, for those of you who are wanting a lemon, don't expect it in this chapter) material, I suggest you skip it, or something along those lines. There is also some rape in it. Oh, and just because I had to change the rating, doesn't mean there is going to be a lemon later on. Sorry—I am not a good lemon-writer. You all really should thank me for that.
"Quickly!" Takara called to Sakura and Ino. It was just barely dawn, and the group of shinobi were about to leave for Konohagakure.
Ino and Sakura quickly checked to make sure each other's backpacks were strapped tightly, and they glanced at Kabuto. The two of them had changed dramatically in the months they had stayed in the lair—they were gaunter than they had been when they first came, and also, they were also many shades paler. After ignoring physical changed, Ino had mastered many mind techniques, and Sakura had learned to make many benevolent medicines. Ino had started thinking more seriously about her life as a shinobi, and Sakura had… well, Sakura no longer had two personalities, and was a mentally stable person. Somewhat.
"Coming!" Ino called back, a smile adorning her face. They were finally leaving the dreaded place, and she was finally getting to go back to Konoha, back to her fiancée, back to her life. Sakura wished she could share Ino's enthusiasm for returning back to Konoha, but really, all that she wanted to 'come back to' was already here with her—Kabuto, Ino, and work. Of course, she would never admit it to either Kabuto or Ino.
"Yeah, yeah!" Sakura called back, noticing the edge to Takara's voice. Why was she so edgy all of a sudden? This was supposed to be a happy moment! Of course, well, it wasn't as happy for Sakura as it should have been for everyone else, but still!
"Sakura, Ino… We have some news," Kabuto began nervously, glancing back to Takara for support. Takara sighed, and seemed to mutter some sort of insult towards Kabuto under her breath, before continuing for him.
"We are leaving for Konoha tomorrow. Get packed. Kabuto and I will try to live in Konoha as well, but really, it won't be a surprise if we didn't get to stay, especially Kabuto. If that happens, we'll have to hide away, but… You girls are going home," Takara finished with a smirk.
At first, Sakura and Ino hadn't known what to say. After all, it could be a trick. It could be a lie. Hell, it could be a dream! But after Sakura and Ino thought it over for a moment, overcame the initial shock, Ino jumped up and cheered before hugging both Kabuto and Takara at once. Sakura smiled slightly at her friend's reaction, but otherwise, was oddly unaffected. In fact, the thing that she was thinking about had nothing to do with herself—she was wondering if Kabuto would ever be able to stay at Konoha, even if Sakura herself begged Tsunade for it.
"Let's go, go, go!" Takara called out. Kabuto was just reaching for the keypad when the door swung wide open.
"Oh, Kabuto. And I see Takara is here as well. And, hmm, Sakura and Ino have bags…? My, my… It almost seems as if you are attempting to escape… Sasuke, please," Orochimaru observed, shaking his head slowly. Sasuke moved forward, and, having taken them all by surprise, coupled with the fact that their hands were full, he was able to capture them in a quick wired shuriken movement.
The group of girls and one man were tied together, stuck in Orochimaru's territory. Orochimaru slowly shook his head and clicked his tongue, his long hair wrapping around his face as he did so. "Sheesh, Takara… I would have thought you'd have given up by now… Now I have to erase his memory all over again, plus the memory of these lovely ladies! Not to mention, I have to fabricate memories and all for them… Do you know how much trouble that is? Oh, well, no matter… At least I have the source of the problem in tow…" Orochimaru pointed out, seemingly thinking out loud.
"What… are you talking about?" Kabuto growled out, his voice low and husky in anger. If Orochimaru was telling the truth, then that meant…
"Oh? Of course, I have to go through the talk again… Well, you see, my dear Kabuto, every time I leave you alone in the lair, our dear friend Takara comes over and attempts to liberate you. She used to be a prisoner of mine, but… The first time I let you be by yourself, she convinced you to set her free, and tried taking you with her. I, luckily, was able to intervene before you escaped, but well, I couldn't stop her. After that, I was determined to get her as one of my minions. So, I allowed you to keep memories of her visits—but not her liberating you—so that she'd keep coming, and attempt to free you again, so that I might have a chance to try capturing her once again.
And now, I have you both. I simply have to erase and alter your memories a bit, so that you think you've always wanted to be loyal to me," Orochimaru finished his monologue with a lopsided smirk, his eyes flashing in interest. "Hmm… I think that that will be the last thing I do with this body. I think it is a worthy 'funeral' for it, don't you think, Kabuto?"
"What do you mean… that I wasn't loyal to you? You mean, you tricked me into being loyal?" Kabuto yelled. Sakura was shocked—she had never seen him so unhinged, so angry. As she inspected him more closely, the whites of his eyes were beginning to turn red.
"Well, of course I did," Orochimaru replied, faking being taken aback, "After all, how else could I keep someone such as you, someone who had switched between three masters in only the course of one year? From that medic nin in the village… to Sasori… and, then, finally, to me. You are special, Kabuto. And you will remain mine until I decide that I have had enough of you—and then, I shall send you to your death, like I have done thousands of others—for a respectable reason, however, of course," Orochimaru finished, adding the last statement as an afterthought.
"You… bastard," Kabuto choked out. Sakura could feel him shaking him—she could see Takara silently crying beside Ino, and she could feel Ino's shaky sobs. She was both angry and upset at the turn of events, but she was the one who was the least affected, other than the fact that Kabuto's memories of her would be erased, or worse, altered.
"I'm the bastard? You are the one who can't trace your lineage back even a single generation, my dear Kabuto. After all, you were simply found in Kikyo Pass…" Orochimaru pointed out, a smirk adorning his face as he noticed Kabuto reacting. "But, anyways, Sasuke, I believe you should sedate them… That way, we can erase their memories…"
Sasuke grunted in response, before opening a bottle, and holding it under each person's nose. Soon, all four of them were sleeping, and Sasuke capped the bottle, careful not to breathe in the fumes.
"Soon, Sasuke, your body will be mine," Orochimaru commented offhandedly, as if reminding Sasuke of his fate.
"I know, Orochimaru," Sasuke muttered. "My major goal for my life has been met, anyways, and my minor goal is about to become accomplished," Sasuke explained, obviously not caring that his life would be coming to an end soon.
"Huh. You actually think like that…" Orochimaru muttered to himself with a small smirk, before motioning at the unconscious people. Sasuke grabbed Ino and Sakura, while Orochimaru picked up Kabuto and Takara. "And now, perhaps, this problem has been fixed, as well. Seems like everything is falling into place… Oh, and the last thing you get to do before I take over your body is to impregnate Sakura and Ino," Orochimaru added.
"I thought that Ino was Kabuto's?" Sasuke asked, somewhat shocked.
"Having a child from you is more important than having a child from him, anyways. Besides, he may meet his end soon…" Orochimaru mused aloud to Sasuke. "But, I'm sure Kabuto has already made the medicine to help women conceive almost one hundred percent of the time, anyways," Orochimaru shrugged. "Three Sharingans are better than one, ne?"
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Kabuto awakened groggily in his bedroom, his head feeling like it had been split open. "What happened…?" he asked himself, rubbing his temples and staring ahead. "Oh, yeah… I nearly died in that fight… I must have healed myself with my remaining chakra," he said, as he examined the areas that were supposed to be scarred, lacerated, bruised, or even simply scraped. He glanced at his digital clock and sighed. It read 10:32, which meant he wouldn't get much sleep that following night, which meant his sleep schedule was thrown off of it's norm.
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"Sasuke… Aren't you going to use protection?" Sakura asked her boyfriend, Sasuke, as he positioned himself on top of her.
"Don't worry—people who've done this more than we have unprotected didn't get pregnant. You'll be fine," Sasuke assured.
"O… Okay…" Sakura agreed.
Sakura awoke with a start and sighed. She had finally had sex with Sasuke—but it was unprotected. She would have to pay attention to her periods.
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Takara was running, running, running through the woods. She could hear the clamoring of the Mist soldiers behind her, all wanting her blood. She had just escaped an imprisonment camp for those with bloodline abilities, and she was finally free—almost.
She cursed herself as she fell down, having tripped on a tree root. She scrambled to get to her feet, but soon realized that her foot was, at the very least, sprained. She heard shuffling to her right, and was almost positive that she was about to die.
Suddenly, someone who couldn't possibly be from the Mist stood in front of her.
"Don't worry… I'll protect you," the snake-like man hissed. Takara fainted from fatigue.
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The man, who had refused to even mention his own name, or ask hers, had violated her in so many ways. Some nights, he would just beat her with random things he could find in order to keep her bound to the cave. Other nights, he did much worse—he would force himself inside of her. The first night he did so, he took her virginity, which meant she was not pure for the man she wanted to be with, and it was also taken from her. She felt so much pain, she'd either cry herself to sleep, or she'd pass out from the great magnitude of the suffering she had undergone.
And then, one day, when the man came in, another two followed. One of the men looked as if he was that man's younger brother, and he was giving his older brother death glares. Suddenly, he lunged forward with a knife in his hand, and slit the man's throat. She could feel the blood pouring across her arms, but she was extremely happy because of this, though still scared of the other two men. She passed out.
Ino woke up with a start and glanced around the room. Her wounds had been dressed, and she had been (probably forcibly) given painkillers. She curled up on her bed and cried to herself, wondering what would happen to her next, and also crying because of joy, and yet sadness of what she had gone through.
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"So, Sakura and I are lovers; Ino was raped by my older brother, who we then killed; Kabuto is waking up from a fight; and Takara ran away from the Mist, and we saved her…" Sasuke replied, parroting Orochimaru.
"Correct. Do not mix up the stories between others—that would make everything fall apart," Orochimaru explained, though Sasuke had already figured at least that much out.
"So, what now?" Sasuke asked with a sigh.
"We have Kabuto perform the ceremony, and we put Ino and Sakura under extreme care—and in nine months, the two of them will have two identical-looking babies. And soon, we'll send Kabuto off to a suicidal mission, and Takara will still be one of our leading minions, until such a time comes as she betrays us," Orochimaru explained out, obviously having planned it all out from the beginning.
"You expected this to happen," Sasuke accused gently, not really caring if he had planned it out or not. It didn't matter to him, after all—soon, he'd be as good as dead.
"Of course I did—I know my underlings, whether they are my underlings by choice or not," Orochimaru replied with a small chuckle.
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'Damn it, that bastard altered our memories!' Saku called out, her anger evident in every word.
'Saku, relax,' Ra said gently, trying to calm her other half down. 'I know. I'm mad, too. But, we have to think clearly about what we can do. We have to think about how we can get Sakura's real feelings to surface.'
'That bastard Sasuke, I swear, when Sakura gets her memories back, I am going to personally help her kill the both of them! I want to fustigate Orochimaru into a bloody pulp, and I want to sever all of his limbs…' Saku began a rant, describing in length what she would do to both Orochimaru and Sasuke.
'Saku! Saku!' Ra called, throwing Saku off of her rant.
'Okay. I'm centered. I'm calm,' Saku replied, taking a few deep breaths.
'I have an idea. We force Sakura and Kabuto to spend a lot of time together—and since we somehow remember everything, while Sakura doesn't, it won't take too much to force her to remember!' Ra exclaimed.
'… And then we can torture those two?'
'And then we escape, come back with reinforcements, and then yes, we can murder those two,' Ra agreed.
Saku squealed in excitement.