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Chapter 8: Kabuto's Crush

While they had all glared at her moments ago, with Kabuto in her presence, everyone in the Sound Village shied away. Sumiko looked around at the sight. Damn, does Orochimaru rule by brute force or pure fear?

Kabuto ignored Sumiko's glances at the villagers as he was busy with his own personal battle. She is so beautiful, but something tells me that she has some sort of motive… People like her don't just show up. Kabuto stopped in front of Orochimaru's building. "We are going in here. Please stay close by."

Sumiko grumbled under her breath. Kabuto was being way too cautious for someone so close to Orochimaru. "Oh Kabuto-kun," she purred. At this, Kabuto stopped leading around Sumiko and looked away just as his face began to turn red. "If we hurry and see Orochimaru-sama, I can spend so much time with you," As she was talking, she put her hands on his shoulders and began to massage them.

"Yes, of course." Kabuto wiped the nosebleed that had began and continued on a little faster. Sumiko rolled her eyes. Pervert… at this rate, I'll have the ring by nightfall.

Kabuto led Sumiko through many halls until they came to a closed door. Sumiko raised her eyebrow as Kabuto began to knock. "Orochimaru-sama, I have someone who could be of interest to us."

"Let us see this 'specimen' of yours…" Sumiko stiffened at the voice. No doubt, it is him alright… Sumiko was unceremoniously pushed into Orochimaru's room and Kabuto shut the door. Torches started to light up all of a sudden and Sumiko's eyes narrowed upon seeing the pale faced Sannin.

"What is your name child?" Orochimaru sat upon his throne and watched her with marked interest. Sumiko's eyes caught on something that shone that lantern light.

Sumiko bowed, but her eyes was still focused on the shiny object. "Yasu. I don't have a last name." The ring… there it is. If I could distract him for just a moment…

Orochimaru laughed and it sent chills down Sumiko's spine. "You think you can fool me Sumiko of the Red Dress? I am curious as to why the Kazekage's number one spy is at my humble abode?"

Sumiko allowed her face to slip into a look of confusion. "I don't know what you are talking about Orochimaru-sama." Just a little longer and this room will be filled with my chakra strings.

Orochimaru smirked. "I used to be partnered with Sasori-san. You two look alike; that is expected of twins after all." In an instant, he was behind her. "I have fought him so what makes you think that you honestly stand a chance against a Sannin?"

Sumiko smiled. "My techniques are different than Sasori's." With that, she barely twitched her fingertips when chakra strings wrapped around Orochimaru and tied him to a pillar. With the flick of another finger, the Akatsuki membership ring flew into her grasp. "I have no further business with you." Sumiko walked away, but she barely left the room when she sensed the presence of two more people.

Sumiko tilted her head around to look at the two. One was Kabuto, but the other was a young man who looked an awful lot like Itachi Uchiha. Sumiko smiled and they scowled. "Yasu-san, what is the meaning of this?"

"Merely business Kabuto. Out of my way, I would prefer not to cause excess casualties." Kabuto's face hardened, but his eyes still reflected emotional pain. The Uchiha looked towards her with an apathetic face.

"If you were able to steal that Akatsuki ring without dying from Orochimaru-sama's attacks, fighting you will be a true test of my abilities." In a blur, he began the hand signs to Chidori, but before he could complete the jutsu, his hands were forced apart. He looked at her with wonder. What the hell… strings? The chakra strings wrapped around him and Kabuto and seconds later, they were bound to each other.

Sumiko glanced at him. "You are related to Itachi Uchiha are you not?" She smirked as the young man reacted violently to hearing Itachi's name. "So you are Sasuke Uchiha? As curious as I am about you, I have other priorities to attend to." She turned away, but someone's voice caught her attention.

"What do you mean you are curious about me?" Sumiko turned to see confusion in Sasuke's eyes.

"Simple. You are the perfect experiment. You have a genius brother that left you all alone while killing the rest of your clan. His actions put you through unimaginable pain, both physical and emotional, but you still do not understand everything. I do not know Itachi's thinking patterns, but thank him for making you a strong shinobi." Sasuke was now immensely confused and Sumiko vanished in a puff of smoke that was carried away by the wind.


Deidara and Daisuke were quiet. They had only one thing in their head: Sumiko… A gust of wind later and she appeared in front of them in a puff of smoke, Daisuke jumped and Deidara sprang forward towards Sumiko with a smile.

Sumiko smirked and held a ring. "Mission accomplished. Am I in now?" Deidara smiled and Daisuke could not help but looked pleased.

"Well, we have to talk to Leader, un." With that, he looked at his ring made a hand sign. A holographic image of Pain appeared. At first, Pain was going to admonish Deidara for how long the mission was taking until he saw the ring.

"The mission was a success I assume Sumiko-san?" Sumiko nodded.

"Do we head back to the base Leader-sama?" Sumiko inquired as she bowed.

"Yes. Come back as soon as safely possible and we will have an official initiation ceremony." Pain paused a sound seemed to come from Deidara's ring or more accurately, from Pain's location. Pain spoke again, a little hurried. "I must go; your brother is worried for you and chances are Deidara, he will kill you." Deidara gulped and Pain's hologram vanished.

"Sasori-danna is seriously going to not just kill me, but murder me, un." Deidara whined but before he could say something else, Sumiko hugged him.

"It is nice seeing you again Deidara. That Kabuto guy was a closet perv or something."

A flurry of chakra erupted around Daisuke and Sumiko turned towards him. The fox met her eyes. "I will kill that bastard."

Sumiko laughed and pulled his tail to stop him from going towards the Sound Village. "You heard our orders. Let us take our leave." Sumiko grabbed Deidara's hand as they headed towards the giant clay bird that they had rode earlier.


It was an unusual sight for the Sand Village to see the famous Sand Siblings on a mission and with some pretty popular faces from the Leaf Village on top of everything. They rushed out to the gates and Gaara was almost happy to leave. His look did not go unnoticed by Naruto.

"Needed to get out of here? Get away from the paperwork eh, Kazekage-sama?"

Gaara rolled his eyes. "Feels nice to go on a mission. Besides, I am still not used to those Kazekage robes. You can drop the Kazekage formality by the way." Their group had passed a bunch of girls and a few squeals followed were caught on their ears. "The only problem not wearing the robes is that the fan girls go crazier than usual."

The whole team laughed at hearing this and his siblings looked at him. He had never made a joke like that before. Gaara's eyes displayed a twinge of guilt. Sumiko-san… I found people that I can make laugh and joke with like I used to with you. I hope you are safe…