Mika stared down at Orochimaru who's face was nearing her pelvis slowly, his golden eyes glued to her brown as it seemed he ignored her look of relative disgust. His eyes left hers as everything seemed to slow down, his lips pouted delicately as Mika's hands twitched nervously, wondering whether she should try and stop him but finding that she didn't really want to. Suddenly the young girl felt the older man's soft lips tenderly brush her pelvis' bone on the right hand side, just above the hem of her skirt, making her muscles clench of their own accord and the tiny hairs just above her belly button stand on end deliciously.
'Is that it?' she asked incredulously as he got back to his feet in front of her, smiling contentedly while she frowned back up at him. 'A kiss?' she glanced at Kabuto who was now watching her with a small curious smile.
'Just a kiss.' answered the pale man, still smiling mysteriously as Mika glanced from one man to the other uncomprehending. 'That's all.' Just as Mika was beginning to concede that it might just have been a kiss to see how far she would let him go, when an agonisingly vivid stabbing pain jabbed into the area where he had placed his lips delicately. Mika screwed up her face against the pain and pressed against the place with both her hands, hoping to ease it with pressure but failing as she sank to the ground crying out in frustrated pain.
'You said it was just a kiss!!!' she bellowed furiously, her face still screwed up against the pain; she heard the sound of the older man's chuckle and opened her watering eyes to see his feet shuffling in front of her, she glanced down at her stomach and saw that her skin had turned a chalky white colour. She pulled her hands away from the agonising area and saw a small rose pattern in vivid black, the same vivid black which Sasuke's mark had been making the girl close her eyes again and press her hands back on the painful area; she also noticed that her previously red skirt was now black and where the fabric had been golden it was now a deep golden red… the same colour as the main part had been. 'It's a curse mark!' she screamed, thinking for a moment that the pain had eased but finding that it was just wishful thinking.
'No it's not.' he contradicted her quietly, pleasure sounding in his smooth voice. 'It's not quite a curse mark, it's a curse marks understudy.' She heard his and Kabuto laugh a little while she continued to writhe on the earthy ground. 'Prepare yourself, Mika Tikaake, for the initiation test.'
'What the-' she began, looking up through her watering eyes only to see Kabuto airborne and heading towards her with two kunai knives in his hands and a shuriken in his mouth. She squealed out in terror and rolled over, just making it out of his path only to find him still rushing at her menacingly; she pulled her hand away from her throbbing pelvis and clenched her fist, making a large wall of water appear between her and the silver haired young man but she closed her eyes again against the hammering pain only to open them again and find Orochimaru's surprisingly large leg coming down at her with painful speed and strength.
Mika threw her hand out again, keeping the other hand still firmly pressed against her belly, and watched a spike of earth stab up between her and the man, making him leap backwards. She got to her feet shakily, trying desperately to keep her balance while the waterfall continued to shield her from the two men, and after a couple of failed attempts was able to stand on her two wobbly feet. A gap appeared in the water revealing Orochimaru's face smiling at her menacingly while she watched his hands moving swiftly in a complicated jutsu, Mika squealed again and leapt out of the way as a group of large green snakes chased her, snapping at her while she continued to spring out of the way. She growled and threw her hand up quickly followed by several large root which snaked swiftly up, fighting the summoned snakes viciously, ignoring the clearly poisonous bites and stabbing through the soft flesh of the reptiles which fell one after the other. The burning pain on her pelvis seemed to have lessened slightly and she was able to stand up straight, a ferocious expression on her young face as she picked up her left hand in a cupping position before seeing a large tongue of earth rise up in the blink of an eye and wrap around Kabuto, imprisoning him in it's muddy strength. She turned her attention to Orochimaru who was staring at Kabuto in disbelief as his silvery head flailed miserably; she took her chance and was about to do the same to him when she felt something poking into the middle of her spine.
'You're too gullible.' came a whisper in the girl's ear making the mark on her pelvis throb uncomfortably. She hiccoughed as the blade pierced her skin and a thin liquid passed through the wound, making Orochimaru smile from his position behind her.
'You're too confident.' came her voice from behind him, making him gasp and look over his shoulder only to see the girl glaring at him tenaciously. Now he was able to take in her new image, the mark hadn't changed much of her appearance other than her outfit which had gone black, and her skin had become chalky white… the same as his, and the tear streaks on her cheeks had now become vibrant black.
He leapt forwards and threw his leg out at her and watched as she dodged it messily, her arms flailing sloppily as she tried to regain balance but she was denied the opportunity by another kick from the man, aimed at her head. She blocked the attack with her arms as her teeth gritted together uncomfortably, his fist snuck through her protective barrier and hit her powerfully squarely above her navel making her bend over forwards as a splattering of blood leaked from her mouth. He gave her a moment to move backwards before he went for her again with renewed viciousness, thumping her hard in the upper arm as she tried to dodge his blow. He wondered vaguely why this was so easy when something hit him in the small of his back, making him take a step forward towards Mika who swung her left leg at him violently hitting his arm as he blocked. He watched her reach down to her right thigh and find that she didn't have her shuriken holster on her, looking back up with an apprehensive expression.
'You don't need weapons.' he said quietly, hoping that he would goad her into showing him the full extent of her power. Her expression was endearing, scared and yet defiant in the face of such an overwhelming opponent. He watched as her eyes darted over to where Kabuto was still trapped, making sure she wasn't about to be ambushed, before she gazed back over at Orochimaru silently still with her uncertain expression, her hands twitching. He ducked as he felt a fierce heat on his back, missing a huge ball of fire by inches as it sped over his head, he glanced at the girls hand and noticed that the fire was following the movement her fingers were directing. 'You're discreet.' he told her as he got to his feet again, dodging another attack from the scorching fire. 'But not discreet enough.'
She screamed as something pulled her downwards into the solid earth below her feet, thick snakes coiling around her torso and neck as she sank into the ground as her apprehensive face contorted in disgust. She growled again and lifted back out of the ground, the snakes being dragged under by slithers of root until they were completely out of sight and the girl was standing tall again on the top of a large spire of rock and looking down at Orochimaru's happy face. She flung her hands around her as a strong gust of wind flicked her long hair around her face before dropping down to the man's level and knocking him over, whipping at his entire body with agonising speed and strength making him cower for a moment. When he was finally able to get back to his feet a clap of lightning smashed to the ground in front of him and forcing him backwards, following him for a moment as he leapt backwards out of the electricity's way before it sizzled vaguely and disappeared. But a large pylon of water crashed down on the soft ground a yard or so to his left, crushing the ground it was falling onto as it launched itself at him and driving him to move.
Up on the top of her mini tower of stone, Mika controlled the movement of the elements with a small smile on her face… the same smile she had worn when she had beaten that chuunin, with the same feeling inside of perverted pleasure. Watching as Orochimaru strove to keep one step ahead of her attacks, his fast movements avoiding direct contact, but the different shapes of the elements still moving just a few inches behind him. He hesitated for a fraction of a second and was hit in the face by a thick branch which was snaking out of the ground a few yards away from him, throwing him onto the ground about three meters away from where he had been standing. He jumped to his feet in time to block a vicious attack from another piece of wood as it rushed towards him, smacking against his crossed arms and pushing him back a foot or so.
As he was battling the piece of wood he felt the ground beneath his feet tremble slightly, so gently that had he not been concentrating on it he wouldn't have noticed but he had and he was able to leap backwards as a tongue of earth leapt up in the same fashion as what had imprisoned Kabuto, and missed Orochimaru by inches. He landed messily and took a few hasty steps backwards before feeling the cold stone of the wall press against his sweaty back, his eyes darted from the root he had been battling against which was twitching ominously where he had left it, to the tongue of earth which had almost caught him and was now sort of waving aimlessly in the air before sinking back into it's original position. He was grinning to himself as he watched the girl descend on her rocky pylon, edging closer to him with the power of all these elements at her fingertips.
'You don't think.' she told him from about five yards away, a small yet haughty smile creeping onto her young lips as the man panted silently, wondering apprehensively what she was talking about.
Suddenly he realised and snapped his head down to see roots slinking silently out of the wall and sneaking around his waist and legs delicately, making sure they didn't touch him. He made a move to escape and the plant-like things tightened their strong grip, pinning him to the cold rock behind him which he could feel gently reverberating. He struggled against the things binding him as he watched thin grey slips of rock slide around him, pulling him into the wall until only his face was exposed. He made a few desperate moves to escape but found that both his hands were pressed down on either side of his body, making it impossible to make any hand signs and therefore making it virtually impossible for him to escape. He could have used one of the many forbidden jutsus he knew, but he decided that he had seen enough.
'Happy now?' she asked walking seductively towards him with a provocative and yet smug expression on her pretty young face. Orochimaru was infuriated that she had defeated him with such ease and yet delighted that she had such control over all her powers at such a young age. 'Now take back that thing you put on my stomach.' she commanded him firmly, twitching her left hand and making the stone which had enveloped him release him a little, allowing him to breathe freely. Orochimaru chuckled as he felt the things binding him let go progressively.
'I wasn't lying when I told you it was a gift.' he replied quietly in his familiar silky voice, taking a step towards her as the roots released him. She glared at him incredulously, her deep hazel eyes wide in shock as she began to understand. 'It will stay with you forever and enhance your energy into a stronger kind of power.' he noticed Kabuto still straining against his earthy prison which was still standing like a strange and slightly deformed termite hill; his face suddenly became firm. 'Release Kabuto.' he ordered decisively as the girl looked down at the ground down heartedly, her expression that of comprehensive downfall as though she was just realising that she was stuck… which she was. She closed her eyes in moderate despair and the ground incarcerating the silver haired young man fell away, setting him free to bend over and pick his glasses up before placing them on the bridge of his nose.
'That was impressive.' he said quietly as he walked over to them, rearranging him purple shirt as he did so and trying to get rid of the soil which had snuck down it. 'I didn't even have time to create a clone.' he pushed the glasses higher up his nose as he gazed from Orochimaru who's face was still hard, to the young girl who was looking defeated. She sighed.
'It was messy.' said the pale man harshly, his usually smooth and silky voice suddenly hard and unyielding. 'Had I wanted to I could have escaped from that last move.' he continued austerely as he continued to watch her steadily, waiting for a reaction but she continued to gaze down at the ground. 'Your family would be embarrassed.' he added, trying to goad her into answering. She raised her eyes to his face briefly, her face rebellious and defiant before lowering her eyes again to gaze unhappily at the earth between her feet and the two men's feet.
'If they were embarrassed then that would mean that they were alive.' she answered quietly, a definite chill in her soft voice. 'And that would mean that I wouldn't have all their powers along with mine.' There was a long pause. Kabuto glanced between Orochimaru and Mika uncertainly, wondering what the pale man beside him had planned for the powerful girl. Suddenly she looked up at the man who had been so comforting to her previously and had become so cold. 'And you have no right to speak of them that way.' she declared firmly, her face suddenly defensive and resilient as her deep hazel eyes bore into his. 'You never knew them so who are you to judge whether they would be ashamed of me or not?'
'Or maybe…' started the older man regaining his silky voice again and his usual malicious smile as she glowered at him and he smiled back down at her. 'Sasuke would be ashamed of you?' he suggested quietly, knowing perfectly well what this last statement would do to the girl. He watched her bristle in silence, her hands balling into fists in fury as she gritted her teeth at him before growling out loud in frustration and flinging her left hand out. Kabuto jumped in fear as large chunks of rock fell out of a particular area of the wall she had pointed to and fell crashing to the floor, making the ground tremble ominously but Orochimaru didn't flinch.
'He'd only be ashamed because I'm with you!' she bellowed when she looked away from the large expanse of wall which was now scattered around the ground just beneath it. 'You are the embarrassment!' The man strode forwards assertively, stopping when his face was about a foot away from hers and looked deep into her defiantly hazel eyes and watched the strange sort of fire burning deep down in her young soul. She continued to glare up at him as his hand slowly inched it's way up her right arm, reminding her agonisingly of the time Itachi had done exactly the same thing, his expression warm as he smiled down at her. 'You tricked me into coming.' she whispered in what she hoped was a menacing voice.
'The menacing voice only works if you're not enjoying what's going on around you.' answered the older man as his right hand slipped around her small waist and pulled her closer, the strange hypnotising sensation passing over her again and making her eyelids heavy again. He lowered his face so that his nose was brushing hers delicately and pushed his lips over across her left cheek so that his left cheek was brushing against her soft nose gently before he whispered in her ear. 'You came by choice.'
She hated him with a bitter loathing, she wished she could just pull away and hit him, make him hurt. She despised him because he was right.
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