Escape
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Chapter Five (Part One): Telepathy?
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A few hours later...
"Damn it... we can't find her... ANYWHERE!" Naruto shouted, skidding to a stop on a tree branch.
"Calm down, Naruto. We'll find her soon enough." Kiba spoke coolly. Akamaru barked twice.
"Shut the hell up! You can't even GET a girlfriend!" Naruto retorted.
"Don't take this out on us, Naruto. We all love Trisha just as much as you do." Shikamaru said, surprisingly. "And we'll find her."
"What if she's dea-" Kiba started.
"DON'T EVEN SAY THAT!" Naruto shouted, about to punch Kiba, but was held back by Sai and Shikamaru. Hinata and Sakura stayed quiet. Naruto's eyes glowed red in anger.
"Calm down. We're going to do everything we can to find her." Sai said. Naruto, teeth clenched and fists balled, broke out of their grasp and ran off. Sakura and Hinata were about to run off after him, but Kakashi spoke.
"I think he just needs some time alone."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
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"Are feeling any better?" Sasuke asked. "We have training to do today."
"Do I look any better?" She asked calmly, standing in front of the mirror, staring at her reflection. Sasuke shrugged. "I mean, I just puked and all, but..."
"I'm no one to judge." Sasuke said, leaning against the wall.
Trisha rolled her eyes, muttering, "That helps." to him. She grabbed her toothbrush and quickly brushed her teeth, getting the awful taste out of her mouth.
"Hurry up. I'm sure your hungry by now." Trisha slowly turned her head to him, glaring. 'Oh, you so seem to care that I just puked. JERK!' She couldn't really say much to him... he was what, the closest thing she had to a friend here? And no, don't DARE count Four Eyes. Plus with Orochimaru being all sneaky and stuff, well, she just didn't like that, so yeah. She considered Sasuke a friend.
Ooh, scary.
Trisha put her toothbrush back in the container and walked out of the bathroom. It was now 7:30. She had been up about... an hour? She woke up around 6:30 after the the dream.
Well, if "woke up" meant screaming for your boyfriend to come back and help you escape, then yes, she "woke up".
"Hey, um, Sasuke?" He looked up at her. "Can I go see," She gulped. "Orochimaru?"
"May I ask why?"
"What-ever he's not telling me... well, it's bugging the heck outta me. I have to see what he's being all secretive about. And it's about me, so I kinda think I should know..." She ended it with a nervous chuckle and a light blush appearing on her face. "The quicker I can get out of here back to Naruto-kun... the better, right?"
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Sasuke noticed the blush on her face. It was a first since she had been there, so it was odd. She had a similar smile and laugh, that reminded him so much of Sakura, except with out the obsessive fan girl stuff. Thank god Trisha wasn't one of them.
But... it was just that... she reminds him of his old life in Konoha, which he had been trying so hard to forget, which took him at least two years to do. But, now she comes back and-
"Sasuke?" Trisha asked, snapping him out of his trance. "Why are your staring at me?"
"Right. I'll take you to Orochimaru." He said, turning away quickly and heading for the door, his face slightly burning.
'Just remember Orochimaru does NOT allow relationships... they just get in the way...' Sasuke thought, walking down the hall.
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Orochimaru's voice echoed in his head.
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'Was he, wait... WHAT?!" Trisha mentally shouted, not following him, but staring at him strangely as he walked down the hall. 'Was he just blushing at me? The all-mighty Uchiha... BLUSHED! Good story to tell when and if I get back in Konoha.' She thought it over for a minute. 'Wait... he was blushing at me... oh damn it...'
'Oh, don't think anything of it... everyone blushes at your hotness!' Her bad half said, flipping her long black-silver hair batting her eyelashes.
'I have to agree with you on that one!' The good half said, doing the same thing as her bad half.
Trisha muttered, "Idiots..." out loud.
'HEY! WE HEARD THAT!' They shouted. Trisha shrugged, sighing.
'Naruto-kun... I miss you...' She thought sadly.
I miss you too Trisha-chan...
'Wait, what?!'
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A few minutes earlier...
Naruto sat at a lakeside, violently tossing rocks into the water.
Yeah... he was really depressed, to put it lightly. He hated being with out Trisha so much... she was the closest friend he ever had, plus the only girlfriend he ever had. It may have only been a little more than a week and a half that she was gone, but it felt like an eternity to him. He had deeply and unconditionally loved Trisha, there was no way to get around that, but the fact that being separated from who he believed was his soul mate made him feel like he had been stabbed in the heart so many times that he had lost track of the number sometime after a trillion.
Naruto-kun... I miss you...
'I miss you too Trisha-chan...' He thought.
Wait, what?!
'Trisha, am I really talking to you?' Naruto beamed. 'Like, telepathy?!'
Am I losing my mind, or... ohmygod what's wrong with me?!
'Trisha, Trisha, calm down. I think we're just... our bond is... oh who cares, I'm talking to you!'
I'd hug you, but, I can't exactly see you right now... I'm like... staring into darkness, but the last thing I remember was- She paused.
'What?'
-Was Sasuke blushing at me... he started staring at me like he was really deep in thought, then when I asked him why he was staring at me, he ignored the question, started blushing, and walked away.
'Okay... strange... but you're safe, right?'
Naruto-kun, it's only been about an hour since you last talked to me, but I'm fine. Thank-you for the concern.
'You welcome. I still love you, you know.'
So do I, and I always will. Naruto smiled, even though she couldn't see him. It was so nice to hear her say that...
'We're still having problems finding you... I'm sorry, but it might take a few days.'
That's okay, so long as I'll get to be with you again soon. I can't stand being here.
'I know, I know. Is there anyway you can get outside and see where you are? A window or something? It might give us a clue as to where you-' Trisha cut him off.
Yeah!!!Sasuke said I have to train today, and we go outside for training, so maybe I can get out!
'NO! Trisha, don't try to escape on your own! You'll get hurt! Please, just lay low for a while, stay calm, and the next time we talk tell me exactly everything you see when you're outside.'
Fine, but hurry, please. Good, she didn't sound angry. I love you.
'I love you too.' Naruto said. 'Oh, and your birthday is in two weeks, and so is mine.'
Right, the same October tenth birthday. I remember.
'Good.'
Wait... I have to tell you something I-
"Naruto, NARUTO! Snap out of it!" Kiba shouted.
"Naruto, are you okay?" Sakura asked.
"N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata said.
"H-huh?" Naruto said, rubbing his eyes. He didn't just fall asleep, that's for sure, but... He did just talk to Trisha, right? "Yeah, I'm okay. What do you want?"
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'Naruto... Naruto? Are you there? Hello?' She thought, with no response. She sighed. She sounded like she was just on a phone call with someone and lost the connection. Haha.
"Trisha, are you coming?" Sasuke asked, his face no longer a bright pink.
"What?" She asked, completely clueless.
"You wanted to go to Orochimaru."
"Oh, y-yeah. Sorry." She said, rushing out of the room.
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Chapter Five (Part Two): A Secret Revealed
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"It's me." Sasuke said, not even knocking on the door.
"Why, Sasuke-kun. Come in." Orochimaru said. The 'kun' thing was kind of awkward, if you asked Trisha. She shrugged off the thought.
Sasuke opened the door to reveal Orochimaru's bedroom... and words could not describe how it looked. Seriously (A/N: So I'm going to skip describing it). Kabuto wasn't in the room, and Trisha was thankful for that. Plus, that would've been really weird with him staring at her when she was trying to talk to the 'Lord'.
Trisha just shuffled in behind Sasuke, avoiding all eye contact with Orochimaru, but stared ahead.
"Hi... um... Lord Orochimaru. I... um..." Trisha stuttered.
"Yes, my dear?"
"I-I was wondering... About the whole 'me being here thing'... why? Why am I here?" Oro quickly glared at Sasuke, who closed his eyes and leaned against the wall. Not odd at all.
"You'll find our soon enough, my dear." Orochimaru said slyly. Trisha lost her cool and pounded her left fist into the stone table beside her, surely scraping the heck out of her knuckles. She could feel her hand heating up from the pain, but she didn't feel as much pain as she thought she would.
"I want to go back to Konohagakure! I want to be with my friends, and with my boyfriend! God dang it tell me why you want me here so I can go back to living my normal life!" She exploded. Sasuke stared wide-eyed at her, as did Orochimaru.
"My my, you are still feisty. I'd calm down if you wish to please your master." Oro said with a smirk. "You should know by now, Sasuke-kun is the calm, quiet type."
"Please my... master?" Trisha said. "No, I don't think so. I have a boyfriend in case you didn't hear me. Tell me why I'm freaking here!" She sounded like one of those stuck-up cheerleaders everyone hates, but she wasn't exactly trying to sound like that.
Sasuke just stared at her.
"I assume you're well aware of your birthday being in two weeks, right? I'm sure the Kyuubi child mentioned it to you as you were communicating just before you showed up here." Trisha gulped.
'How the hell did he find out about that?!' Trisha good half shouted. He bad half took a pitchfork and jabbed her good half in the back.
'You dipstick. He obviously knows something about us that's important. Now shut up!' Her bad half crossed her arms.
"Um... yeah... he told me." Trisha mumbled, grabbing her left hand trying to stop the bleeding. Now both of her hands hurt. Her right from getting stabbed with the kunai, and her left from slamming her fist into a stone table. Yeah, she's not too bright, is she now?
"And you're turning 18 in two weeks, correct?" Trisha nodded. "If your parents were still alive, they would've told you about this when you turned 17 to give you time to prepare. On a Hikunara child's 18th birthday, they turn into... a vampyre." Trisha's heart skipped a beat. Sasuke stood there, emotionless and dumbfounded.
"A... w-what?" She stuttered.
"A vampyre, my dear. I've been doing research on them, up until you were 12, when the Akatsuki destroyed them. All of fully changed vampyres... destroyed... and many going through the change... it's a shame. That's why I need you. I need to continue studying these vampyres. I need to figure out how to clone them by chemical means, which means I need YOU. But until then, once you are fully changed, if you survive, that is, you-"
"I-If I survive...?"
"Have you had older relatives that have been 17, about to turn 18, then have died suddenly?"
Trisha thought for a moment. Her cousin, Ryuuga, had suddenly died when he was about to turn 18. Trisha was only 10, and she didn't understand... but now things were making sense.
She slowly nodded.
"As I thought. Now, until I figure out how to clone vampyres, I guess I'll have to settle with the other way."
"You expect me to-" Sasuke sounded P-I-S-S-E-D! Eep.
"Yes, Sasuke-kun. I do." Orochimaru smirked.
'WAHOO!!! BABY TRISHA'S AND SASUKE'S RUNNING AMUCK!!!' Her good half shouted.
Trisha started beating the life out of her good half.
'Actually, I pictured baby Naruto's instead of Sasuke's, but, that's beside the point.' Trisha glared at her bad half.
Trisha, feeling like she was about to faint, walked next to Sasuke. "Can we worry less about the fact that we have to... ahem...-" She paused to cough, but pulled away so she didn't cough on him "-and more about that I'm going to turn into a vampyre in two weeks?!"
"Might." He clarified.
"Oh gee, thanks for that. Yeah, I might die in two weeks. Of course you don't care though." Trisha rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"Whoever said I didn't?"
"Say what?" Trisha asked.
"Whoever said I didn't care if you died?" Trisha's mind was completely paralyzed after that.
HE CARES?!?!?!?!
"If you two are done talking, I must continue." Trisha rolled her eyes again, and took a huge step away from Sasuke, still holding her bloody hand. She was pretty shocked at what he just said. She sighed. 'The next week will NOT be kind to me.' "Normally you would have to through a year's worth of preparation before changing, but we are going to fit it all into two weeks."
"Okay, I don't care about that, tell me what's going to happen when I change." Trisha demanded.
"Very well then. The change will happen the second you were born 18 years ago. What time were you born?"
"8:32 at night."
"Okay. At 8:31, you are going to feel as normal as ever. At 8:32, you are going to feel a striking pain run through your whole body, and you'll be able to feel your body changing. A filled-in crescent moon marking will appear on your forehead of a certain color, representing your element. Red would be fire, blue would be water, and so on." Trisha nodded. "But only if you make it through the change."
"All of the adults vampyres in your clan had to wear concealer on their mark, so children wouldn't discover vampyres until they were of age." Trisha nodded again.
"Okay. Okay. I get it. I'm basically going to change into a monster in two weeks." Trisha said, clutching her hand a bit tighter.
"To tell you about the preparations for it... You have to get used to the taste of blood."
"Oh no. No no no no no! I'm NOT drinking blood!" Trisha said, clutching her hand even tighter than before. "Definitely not my own, either!!!"
"I never said you had to drink your own." Orochimaru smirked and nodded his head towards Sasuke. Trisha's eyes went wide.
"I have to... drink... his blood?!" Trisha stuttered.
"No. But if you'd rather from Kabuto or I, I suppose we could-"
"Um... never mind..." She glanced over at Sasuke, who was staring at her the whole time. She mouthed the words, 'Are you okay with this...?' To him, and he shrugged. "Not now, right? I don't have to drink blood now, right?"
"Not until you change. Like I said, you just have to get used to the taste. If you're choosing Sasuke as your blood donor, we'll have to draw blood from him every few days or so. We shall put it in wine, and you'll have to drink that instead of anything else." Orochimaru turned his attention toward Sasuke. "I'm sure you have no problems with this, correct?"
"And if I do?" He replied.
"Let us just see that there are NO problems with this. Go off to see Kabuto and have him prepare a few glasses of wine for Trisha-chan." Trisha winced as he added the 'chan'. ONLY Naruto was allowed to call her that. "I must talk to her alone."
Sasuke took a deep breath and nodded, silently walking out of the room and shutting the door. Trisha turned and glared at Orochimaru.
"Don't EVER call me Trisha-chan." She growled.
"Very well. So, are you okay with the blood in the wine?" Trisha shook her head yes.
"It makes me uneasy, but I can live with it."
"What about the blood being from Sasuke?" Trisha clutched onto her stomach, getting blood on her shirt. "I'm sure he tasted good when you bit his wrist when you first came here."
"You knew I did that?"
"Of course, my dear. I know about everything that goes on around here." Trisha nodded.
"Okay. So that includes me talking to Naruto?" Orochimaru smirked.
"Yes." He said. "Onto another subject. I want you to forget about the Kyuubi child. You'll be with Sasuke from now on." Trisha's eyes narrowed.
"Forget... about Naruto?" She said quietly. "No. You can't force people into relationships. I won't be with Sasuke. I won't."
"On the contrary, I can. If you drink from Sasuke directly than from his blood in the wine, there's a good chance the two of you will imprint. But if you refuse the blood from him, you could always end up imprinting with Kabuto or I, if you drink from us. Would you rather that?"
"I'd rather imprint with Naruto, thank-you! He's the one I love right now, and the one that I care about! I'm not drinking from Sasuke, and mark my words, I'll escape from here the second I get a chance to." Trisha turned to walk out of the door, opening it and taking a step out.
"But before you go, you might want to know something else."
"What?!" She growled.
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"Sasuke is falling in love with you."
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Trisha's eyes widened, and she turned around fainting, but being caught by none other than the Uchiha.
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(A/N): O_O I'm so happy with this chapter!!! If you think I left something out or if I did something wrong, please tell me. I was so giddy as I was writing part two. Yay for this!!! Enjoy everyone! Please review!!! =^_^=
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