Kabuto put his last test tub away. He was finally finished with his work for that day and was about to turn in for the night. Or so he thought.
"Kabuto," Orochimaru said from the door. "Have you seen Sasuke, he disappeared after training and he's not in any of the rooms."
"Did you check the cameras?"
Orochimaru glared at him sourly "Have you see, him or not!"
"Sorry." He apologized "Uh yes, he came in here earlier with a fractured jaw. I thought at first maybe it was from sparing but-"
"A fractured jaw!"
"Yes…I…thought it was from you but then…Lord Orochimaru are you alright?" Kabuto asked when he saw Orochimaru's' eyes.
Orochimaru looked up at Kabuto with a worried and slightly angry expression. He turned his back to him, ready to leave. "Check all the rooms; I'm going to re- check the surveillance-"
There was loud buzzing sound echoed throughout the room and beyond, once it stopped, the room was engulfed in complete darkness.
Orochimaru heard Kabuto curse and then the sound of glass clanking together; he almost blinded him with the flashlight he pulled out.
"The storm," Kabuto said "It probably knocked out a fuse. The backup generators should cut on any minute now."
Orochimaru looked down the murky hallways. He had a different theory.
He snatched the flashlight out from Kabuto's hands "Go see what happened, I'm going to try and locate Sasuke and Anko. When you're done join me in the search."
Kabuto tried to protest but Orochimaru was already gone. Kabuto gritted his teeth in distress; this was going to be a long night.
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Now that some of the lights were back on, it was easier for Orochimaru to see around the base, but he still kept the flashlight on. First he went to re-check the surveillance cameras to see if something different had showed up. Sadly though, he discovered when he got there that the backup generators weren't strong enough to power the cameras; Orochimaru would have to search the entire base by foot.
As he did so, his mind kept flashing to Sasuke and Anko. Sasuke was injured and he hadn't caused it. Either it was self-inflicted or he had gotten into another spare with Anko; both seemed possible.
Where was he?
Orochimaru laughed slightly 'After what Anko did last time, it wouldn't be so surprising if-"
Orochimaru shot around as the sound of a loud crash fell on his ears. He heard the sound of footsteps fleeing down the hallway after the crash and he sped after them.
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"I can't believe this." Kabuto grumbled as he made his way out of the warm, dry hideout to check out the fuse box. The weather was wet and miserable, not something anyone would want to be out in. No wonder Kabuto was bitching so much.
"This is fucking ridiculous, every single damn bit of it?" He opened the fuse box and positioned his flashlight at the wiring "I'm going to beat the Hell out of…"
Kabuto's senses started buzzing as he studied the wiring, they had been completely demolished.
'The lighting didn't do this," Kabuto said to himself 'a knife of some sort did! Someone knocked out our electricity, but whom?
The medical nin felt the sudden presents behind him but didn't have even a second to react before he was knocked cold on the soggy, muddy ground.
The person behind him dropped the bloodied kunai beside Kabuto's head and sped back to the hideout.
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Orochimaru ran as fast as he could after the figure. He kept trying to shine the flashlight on it but the person kept dodging to beam; it was like one moving shadow in the darkness.
"Stop!" Orochimaru called out to it.
The creature rounded a corner and stopped to make sure Orochimaru was still chasing him. As he began running again, Orochimaru stopped and held up his free arm, long black snakes charged at the intruder and wrapped themselves around his body. He smiled sickly "Would you like to tell me how you would like to die?" He shined the flashlight at the persons' face and stared at him a gasped. "Sasuke?"
The young Uchiha curled up in a ball of pain as the snakes resided. Dried blood colored the corners of his mouth, head, and clothes. He looked up at Orochimaru with pitiful eyes "Please….help me." After he said those words he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Orochimaru, wide eyed and confused, stared down at the spot where his student's apparent doppelganger once lied. "What the Hell is going on here."
His eyes absently trailed to the flashlight beam and onwards, straight to the large metal door in front of him.
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'Is this what dying feels like?' Sasuke asked himself as he stared from his place on his back at the still unopened door. He was paralyzed but had had enough strength to create a clone to go find help, but that had been well over half an hour ago.
'I never imagined I'd die like this; brought down by a female maniac, practically drowning in a pool of my own blood…. I think some of this is hers though.'
He laughed dryly 'Well Itachi, I guess you won this one.'
He felt like crying when this last thought came into his head. 'I really wanted to see mom and dad, but all I have to look forward to is an eternity with you… Mom… Dad… don't wait for me anymore….'
A white light blinded him and he heard a husky voice hiss his name. 'I guess I'm going to get that fight with you after all Itachi. An eternity of just fighting with you big brother, forever….'
Orochimaru dropped the flash light hurriedly and picked up Sasuke's limp, bloody body. "Damnit!" Orochimaru cursed out loud. He stared at Sasuke's closed eyes and tried to figure out what needed to be done "He needs a blood transfusion right away, his jaw could use some attention as well, it looks like it has heal improperly." he stood and sprinted up the staires.He quickly sped to his room and locked the door to attend to Sasuke.
Since, Sasuke was completely out cold, Orochimaru used the opportunity to re-break his jaw and set it back in place. He used his bed sheets to act as a tourniquet for his bleeding head and to catch the blood running from his mouth. He would have to do the blood transfusion later when things were safer.
Completing his work, he stepped back and examined Sasuke. It was hard to believe that this piece of bloodied pulp was to be his new body in two more years.
There was a loud crash outside Orochimaru's door; he quickly blew out the candle beside the bed and covered up Sasuke. He exited his room and locked the door to keep the intruder[s] out. Some of the lights were back on in the hallway, giving the base an even more eerie appearance than it already was. Speaking of eerie….
Orochimaru released the doorknob and was about to head to the noise but stopped when he saw the strange figure hidden by the shadows. He saw enough of the persons' frame to know it was Anko.
"Anko." He called to her. She didn't budge.
He stared at her questionable and made the risky decision of walking forward. The closer he got, the stronger the stench of blood became.
"What's going on?" He demanded. They were mere inched apart now, both covered in shadow but revealed by the small amount of light.
Her head was cast down; the sleeves of her trench coat were soaked in blood: blood that came from two different people.
Orochimaru reached out and tried to touch her but she jumped back like a wounded animal. He watched her intensely as she slumped down, her arms wrapped around her shoulders, sobbing inconceivable words that made no sense at all.
He crept up to her once again, squatting down to her level. She growled and spewed like a pained cat.
"Anko."
She dug her nails into the rocky ground under her hands, her teeth grinding together making a sound similar to the one her nails were making on the floor.
"Anko, look at me." He was ordering her now. But Anko remained the same, denying him as she always tried to do.
Losing his patience, Orochimaru reached for her chin "Anko I-"
Anko screamed and drove him back with strength that shouldn't have belonged to her. He stumbled backwards and managed to catch himself on the wall.
"What the Hell has-"
Orochimaru was suddenly lost in her eyes as she ran up to him and lunged something sharp and painful into his stomach. She was completely steady with the object unlike her previous shaking episode just a moment ago; he however was starting to shake viscously. Orochimaru's disturbed eyes traveled down to the bloodied, scared hand holding the syringe in his stomach slowly distributing a green liquid in his body. His eyes widened and shot back to hers.
Those eyes…..they weren't they ones he was used to seeing on Anko, her unbroken fear stricken eyes. These were those of someone hardcore and cold, someone who wanted him dead. He could have sworn that there were three swirly marks hidden in her brown orbs.
There was only one person he knew who had eyes like that. "Itachi?"
Anko let him slip to the floor before Orochimaru's question could be answered. She began shaking again and the syringe dropped from her head and rolled next to Orochimaru's head. She stared down at his quivering, bloody, broken form and she smiled. She smiled like a cannibal after a huge kill. She couldn't deny that seeing him like this wasn't the most beautiful thing she had seen.
Sweat formed over his chills as Orochimaru began fading. But as he did so, he got one last look at Anko's bloodied, slouched form. He heard slight sobs escaping her and he was sorry that he couldn't get up and make them stop.
Itachi walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, slowing down her sobs and shakes. He looked down at Orochimaru and smirked, he had a hold on Anko that could never be broken.
She would never be free of these monsters.
Kabuto woke with great chills running down his body and the taste of blood and muddy water in his mouth. He stood up groggily and tried to make sense of the happenings of earlier.
Right, some idiotic and soon to be dead soul had knocked him out and left him to die in the rain. That fool was going to get it.
His head spun uncontrollable which caused him to fall back into the mud before getting into a proper stance. He groaned and limped back into the hideout, too zoned out to sense another source following him in.
Upon reaching the medical ward, Kabuto took out a bottle of Ibuprofen and took out three pills. He washed them down with a glass of water and closed the cabinet. There was an extra reflection in the mirror.
Kisame smirked at the fear on the medical nin's face "Miserable weather we're having huh?"