OMG, I'm so sorry for not updating you guys! It's just that I've been really busy whenever I want to upload this, and I just plain forgot too sometimes.
"Lord Orochimaru, someone has...blown a hole in our hideout," Kabuto said, unsure of how on earth he should phase the last part. His master's eyes flickered in the candlelight, never blinking, never showing emotion.
Just like a snake.
"Who is it?" Orochimaru asked. Kabuto frowned. "Judging by the explosions, paper flying around and downright weirdness going on outside, I would presume it's the Akatsuki," he said. Orochimaru smiled evilly.
"Is it indeed? Seems they do care about their comrades, they came to rescue them. How sweet. Now what to do..."
"Shall I dispatch the Sound Five sir?" Kabuto suggested. Orochimaru waved it aside.
"No, even they would barely be able to take out one of the Akatsuki if the group in question was all together. They could pick off two pairs if they took them by surprise probably. But even I can't beat all of them at once, even one on one would be too much. What to do...alright, Kabuto, go with your plan, dispatch the Sound Five. I'll join the fight sooner or later."
Kabuto nodded and left the room. Orochimaru lay back in his throne like chair. He was in trouble, and he knew it. It had taken a lot to get hold of the information about Hidan and actually catch both him and Kakuzu. It would be annoying if they left now, he had barely started researching Kakuzu. And he would lose a majority of his Sound ninja at this base, with only a few surviving. Hopefully Kabuto and the Sound Five would survive. He of course would survive, but he would be badly injured.
Going back to the scene that involved the Akatsuki ten minutes ago...
"This is kind of freaky un," Deidara whispered. "I mean, the corridors are barely lit, you can hear snakes and feel them staring at you, but you can't see them, and you know you are going to be attacked, you just have no idea when un."
"Soon, if you don't shut up," Pein muttered. "Where are they anyway?"
"Maybe Deidara should blow another hole in the wall," Sasori suggested. "It worked last time."
"No," Pein said, in a "that should be obvious" voice.
"Pein," Konan, who was at the back, said. "You're aware of the ten or so Sound nin following us right?"
"Yes," Pein said. "Alright guys, our cover is blown, so do whatever the hell you want to do until you find Hidan and Kakuzu!"
"We never had any cover to be blown!" Deidara yelled as he sprinted off with Sasori.
"We'll deal with the problem down this end," Kisame said, gesturing to himself and Itachi. "We'll catch up with you guys."
"Thanks!" Tobi yelled as he, Zetsu, Pein and Konan sprinted in the same general direction as Deidara and Sasori, only to veer off as an explosion echoed throughout the cave/hideout/secret laboratory. Kisame started to shed the poor Sound nin with Samehada and Itachi proceeded to ignite them with a fireball. They were done in less than a minute, and decided to start actually looking for Hidan and Kakuzu by yelling their names, something that everyone else had appeared to forget to do, despite the fact their presence had been so obviously announced it was pointless to be quiet.
"Hidan, you awake?" Kakuzu asked. A large coughing fit answered him. That was a yes. "You hear that?" Kakuzu asked. "You hear all that noise?"
"...yeah..." Hidan crocked out. "Is it the others?"
"Maybe, maybe not. I can't think how they would figure out that we're here."
Hidan groaned in annoyance. His coughing fits had been getting worse, and Kakuzu was worried. Hidan might be immortal, and he might enjoy inflicting pain on himself, but he did have limits, and he had defiantly found his. But Kakuzu was barely keeping himself from screaming in pain. Less than a second after he had been bitten waves of pain had shot through his body. He had barely kept himself from crying out. But knowing that Hidan was worried enough as it was, and he just refused to show that he was in pain in front of Orochimaru, Kakuzu had kept quiet. It was still an effect though.
"Hidan!"
"Kakuzu!"
"Itachi? Kisame?" Hidan said. "No way...WE'RE HERE!" he bellowed. The effect proved a bit too much and he collapsed, coughing up blood.
"We go down that corridor obviously un!"
"No! It came from over there idiot!"
"I thought it came from there!"
"Can Deidara just blow in a hole in the wall again?"
"Sure un!"
BOOM!
"That wasn't what we had in mind," Kakuzu muttered as Itachi, Kisame, Sasori and Deidara appeared, covered in dust and blood.
"And it works again!" Deidara yelled. "I hate to admit it, but that was a good idea Itachi!"
"I think I just lost an eardrum," Kisame muttered darkly.
"Can you help us?" Kakuzu finally said. "Save the conversation for later!"
"Sure un," Deidara said as he walked over. Itachi followed and started picking the lock on Kakuzu's cell. Deidara went over to Hidan and gulped loudly.
"Does anyone here know any medical jutsu?" he asked. "Cause I think Hidan needs it bad."
"What happened to him?" Sasori asked as he walked over, then took a few steps back. "Oh God..." he mumbled. Hidan was in clear view now, lying on his side with his organs kept inside of him by the two stitches that held the flaps of skin together loosely. If Hidan had rolled on to his stomach and been lifted up you would be able to see everything trying to get out. Already one side of his stomach bulged slightly. Blood had seeped out and Hidan was lying in a massive pool of the stuff, which Deidara realised he was kneeling in. He hurriedly shuffled backwards, showing a clear trail as to where he was.
"Shit," Sasori muttered, trying to avoid the ever-growing pool of blood and pick the lock. "Is it even possible for a human to have this much blood?"
"Obviously so," Kisame said, coming over. "I'll get him." He walked into the now unlocked cage and rolled Hidan over so he was on his back, not his side. There was a sickening noise that couldn't quite be described as the organs shifted. The shark man lifted Hidan up, getting his hands and arms even more covered in blood and causing several splatters as blood ran off Hidan's back. "At least it wasn't his brain," Kisame said busily. "I can easily deal with stuff coming from the stomach, but I hate getting covered in brain matter, it sticks to you,"
"You seem use to this," Deidara said shakily. Kisame nodded. "Back in Kiri there was a lake where they use to dump dead bodies without cleaning them. The water was bright red and they would take us they so we learnt how to walk on water. You were walking on blood, and when you fell in you where swimming in blood. You would come home, covered in this bright red stuff and stinking of blood and decomposing bodies. If you didn't start getting it after a while, they would throw you in and you would sink enough to hit one of the bodies. That generally taught you a whole lot faster."
"Lovely," Deidara said, turning towards Itachi and Kakuzu, the latter having fallen unconscious for some unknown reason. Itachi was busy attempting to unlock Kakuzu's chains, but failing. Deidara walked in and examined the chains.
"Aren't those the ones that absorb your chakra and only unlock if you destroy the thing that takes in all the chakra?" he asked. Itachi examined the chains again.
"You're right," he said sullenly. Deidara smiled. "So now what un?" he asked.
"Blow a tiny hold in the wall, the receiver will be behind there," Itachi said. "But don't get Kakuzu."
Deidara smiled slightly as he formed a bomb and set it on the wall. "Katsu," he whispered. Itachi barely heard the explosion that followed. Deidara dug out the first brick and Itachi did the second. Soon they had a large gap in the wall next to Kakuzu.
"So that's it un," Deidara said, staring at the pulsing green orb in front of them.
"Yeah," Itachi said. "Hurry up and destroy it."
"Got it un," Deidara said, forming a large clay spider and setting it down. "Katsu."
Itachi defiantly heard the explosion that followed that one. He turned and started breaking Kakuzu's chains, which were like paper now that they weren't draining any chakra. Then he stopped. "How are we meant to carry him? The only one taller than him is Kisame, it will take both of us to carry him."
"I'll carry him," Kisame said, ducking as he entered the cell. He placed Hidan on the ground and found some bandages, which he started to tightly tie around Hidan's chest.
"I've seem blind men do better," Sasori said. Kisame rolled his eyes. "I'm a Village of the Mist missing ninja, not a Village of people who are all bloody doctors missing ninja. I know how to kill, I don't know how the fix a wound like this without a needle and thread, which nobody has," he said, taking his clock off to reveal the sleeveless black shirt underneath. He almost cocooned Hidan in it before lifting him up. Then he grabbed Kakuzu and heaved him over his shoulder. "Let's go," he said.