Chapter 14: Funeral and Final Preparations

Disclaimer: I don' own Naruto or the characters of Naruto except for the OCs, which are mine by creational right.

No one had anything to say as the funeral for Orochimaru was greeted by rain just as the Sandaime's funeral had. Pupil leaving in the same manner as the teacher he killed, a thing that no one could understand was how events had come to this. Even with the treaty and the help from oto, most people didn't trust Orochimaru, often thinking that it would be better to attack oto and be done with the whole matter. Now there was a mixed feeling and most felt that it would only be proper, seeing as the manner he left was fitting of a Hokage, to bury all of his wicked deeds with him, letting the good that he did out live him. Leading the remains to their final resting place was Renji, who was covered in mostly bandages, but a person could still see his eyes that had taken on the appearance of Orochimaru's snake eyes. When the time came for words to be said, Renji was the reluctant speaker of the dead, chosen because he was the son who Orochimaru had given his life up for.

"My father," began Renji, "spent most of his life in mourning for a loss of parents, experiencing death at such an early age can make a person afraid of death, but even the bravest can be afraid to die sometimes. He was a talented pupil, learning all he could while using his wits to outshine all the others of his group, who would become the Legendary Sanin. Of course we all know he gradually strayed from the path of safety in to forbidden jutsu that had very sinister intentions, but never did we think that he could have done some of the things he did. For what he did he was banished and joined the Akatsuki, but quit soon, becoming on the run from both the Akatsuki and Konoha.

"He waited for his time and while he waited he formed the oto village, which became one of the great five and has remained as the youngest village. There he continued his experiments resulting in the creation of me. He loved my mother, though people would only remember him as being cruel and cold to most people. She had died in child birth and the child she had looked so normal, unlike most of the other experiments of this type. It was because I appeared normal that he left me out into the real world and not one of the test tubes. I had always wanted to know why it was that I hungered for blood, but it was only one of the side effects of the experiments. When he first told me that he was my father, I didn't hear his apology, I guess because a part of me still wanted him to be some unapologetic bastard, but he did apologize to me. I used to hate him more than I hated any other man, but in the end he gave his life for me, like a father does for a son. Now I don't know what to think about him, but I know one thing, he was my father."

Most of the people in the funeral were coming up to Renji to give their respects, all except Naruto and another man who wore an oto headband. The man introduced himself as Shirotobi, a confident of Orochimaru's who carried Orochimaru's will and the biggest shock of Renji's life. Orochimaru had left everything he had to the oto village and had nominated Renji to lead the Oto village.

"Surely you must be joking," exclaimed Renji at hearing the words of the messenger.

"I'm not joking and don't call me Shirley," replied Shirotobi. An awkward silence descended on the group as Renji tried to figure out how to get out of this thing, but he still owed his father and couldn't help, but feel like he should respect his last wish.

"What is the counsel's take on the whole matter," asked Renji wanting to see if he had a shot at actually being the kage of oto village.

"They have approved Orochimaru-sama's selection," replied Shirotobi, the man was completely humorless.

"Tell the counsel that there's something I must finish, but keep my appointment a secret," said Renji as he went off to find Marie.

Marie was helping herself to a glass of wine when she felt Renji's hand on her arm pull her off somewhere. She was used to him doing this, but something told her that this was big or at least bigger than what had been going on lately. Ever since the two had admitted feelings for each other things had been a bit awkward between them, but they had managed to plan the funeral and the wedding at the same time together. Their relationship had been kicked to new heights, but Marie wasn't ready top sleep with anyone just yet.

"So what do you have to tell me," asked Marie as she stared at Renji. "You already told me you love me, but I'm not ready for marriage."

"I've just been named as the new kage for the sound village," said Renji quickly and nervously.

"What?!"

"I know it is all of a sudden and I just got my jutsus, but I've decided to honor my father's last wish."

"So you're leaving me," said Marie in a soft sad voice, showing her hurt.

"No, Marie, I want you to come with me."

"You want me to come with you to the oto village?"

"I just want you to think about it and if you don't want to than I won't be the kage of the oto village," replied Renji. "For now we have a more pressing matter right now."

"Which is," asked Marie looking confused since she had all the bases covered in her mind.

"What are they going to wear," replied Renji. "We forgot to get the tuxedos and the fireworks display."

The tuxedos were custom tailored for all except for Lee and Gai, who opted for the bright, purple, and sparkly tuxedos that they had warn for Keiji's wedding. The fireworks display was being worked by Sagat's team and their new member, Tia. Unfortunately Tia was a bit clumsy, making Renji a bit worried about the fireworks display.

"Don't worry," assured Sagat. "Tia's a natural at this."

As soon as he said that, a huge explosion of fireworks caused the two men to duck and cover. As always, it was Tia who had accidently put his cigarette out to close to one of the fireworks fuse.

"A natural fucking idiot," shouted Renji as he stormed off to dress in a new black long sleeve shirt.

Temari and Ino were on their way to put away some plates when they saw a familiar face lying on the grass playing the guitar. Anger rose in their hearts as they saw their lazy author sitting on the grass. He was supposed to be writing the story not goofing off, especially after he hadn't depicted them in lemons yet o the two were sexually unsatisfied. As they marched over to me I was blissfully unaware of my inevitable doom that would be brought upon by these two women and their jealous rage.

"You lazy son of a bitch," shouted Temari as she took out her fan and swung it at me, but luckily, I ducked.

"We're going to send you to hell you perverted bastard," shouted Ino as she punched me in the face.

"Why am I perverted," I asked.

"That pervy bastard Renji is based off of your pervyness," replied Temari.

"So this is for women everywhere," said Ino as she brought a big mallet up.

"Hey he's loosely based on me," I shouted. "He's the farthest from than any other original character!"

"Okay just write some stories with us okay," said Ino.

"Will do, after I finish this story when I get back from Orlando," I cheerfully replied.

"You're going where," asked the two girls with dangerous looks in their eyes. I gulped and ran for my life. "YOU LAZY BASTARD, GET BACK HERE!"

Author's note: I am going to Orlando for tomorrow and will be back when...ah hell I don't know they got week passes to Universal Studios, but I'll be working on my fan fics. Expect an Inuyasha fan fic when i come back.