Chapter three

My dear Eden

Eden walked out of the bathroom wrapping the faded but still noticeable cuts on her arm. She wasn't looking where she was going and bumped head on into Orochimaru.

"My apologizes, father, I wasn't paying attention."

She flinched when Orochimaru gently grabbed her bandaged wrist. She looked at the ground.

"My dear Eden, have you hurt yourself again? Do you need to re-learn your lesson?" Eden's head swung up to look at him. "No! I mean, of course not, once was enough. I don't need it again."

Orochimaru smirked at the fear he felt radiate from her.

"Your so frightened my dear, what is the matter?" he asked knowing full well what was bothering her.

She breathed deeply. "It's nothing master. I have to go now." She turned to leave.

Orochimaru placed a hand on her shoulder. "A few of Kabuto's journals have gone missing, it would be wise of you to meet with him later so you can work towards finding the thief." He smiled amusedly. "Goodbye for now Eden." He told her as he strode off.

Eden's heart rate slowed down as she watched Orochimaru walk off. She quietly made her way to the bathhouse.

Sakura was waiting for her.

"What took you so long?"

Eden looked at the opposite wall. "I ran into my father literally a minute ago. He knows I stole the journals, so he told me I have to meet with Kabuto to help find the thief." She sank blissfully into the warm water. "Have you been studying them? The journals I mean." Eden asked the young kunoichi.

She just shrugged. "Yeah I have but none of that stuff I'll be able to use, at least the stuff from his journals. His are mostly just about the experiments."

Eden popped her neck. "I feel pissed off. I want to strangle that bitch Karin, and possibly castrate Kabuto at the same time."

Sakura shook her head. "Karin needs to get castrated too. She wants to get laid as much as fat kids want to eat cake… and that's a LOT!"

The other girl got a far off look in her eyes. She smiled suddenly. " I wish that just once before I die, I could, you know feel what it would be like for a guy to hold me, not touch me but just hold me. That would be the greatest thing in the world." She smiled wistfully then returned to her usual frown. "But that wont ever happen."

Sakura looked at her sadly. Her friend had been through so much, she had always been forced, the thought of someone holding her to just hold her must be the only thing keeping her sane.

"Maybe you will when we escape."

Eden did a double take, "Whoa! Did you just say we?!" Sakura nodded

"Yes I said we. I found out some interesting stuff in Kabuto's journals. It would seem he and Orochimaru keep some sedatives in a locked a case in Orochimaru's room, and we're not talking regular sedatives either. This stuff could kill you its that potent. The up side is it would knock them out for at least a couple of days."

Eden was thinking of how to get into Orochimaru's room. She blanched as an idea formed but she quickly cast it aside. Sakura looked at her disapprovingly.

"Come on Eden! Don't hold back on me! I know you have an idea." Sakura said.

"No, I cant use it, the whole point of you escaping is so you don't have go through that." Eden paused. "Dad is going to be leaving on a mission in a few days, the reason we haven't seen so much of him is because he's preparing. He cant leave Kabuto here without some confidence that things will be fine here."

Sakura was thinking about something. She knew there was something important missing from their plan.

"My father seems to know everything I do, he'll probably end up using the sedatives on me." Eden said, voicing Sakura's concern. "We have to build a temporary hideout not far from here. I'll cover for you tonite and you sneak out and make one." She told Sakura.

She looked at Eden like she was crazy. "Why me?!"

Eden rolled her eyes. "If I'm sedated we wouldn't be able to get very far, and If I make the hideout you wouldn't be able to find without my help and I'll be loopy and that's definitely not helpful."

Eden stood and stepped out of the pool.

"Well I'm going to grab the journals and go talk to Kabuto." She told Sakura as she slipped her shirt over her head and finished dressing.

Eden went her and Sakura's room and grabbed Kabuto's journals. She was leaving when she noticed a note on her side table.

She wasn't too surprised to find that it was hatemail from Karin. "God! Doesn't she have anything better to do than make my life hell?! Fucking bitch! Aaargh!" she screeched as she stalked from the room.

Kabuto was working at his desk when Eden walked in. She was glaring at him like usual and he just smirked back.

"Need something?" he asked. Eden rolled her eyes as she strode over to his desk. She dropped his journals on top of the pile of his papers.

"I found your journals."

Kabuto raised an eyebrow. "Where were they?" he asked as he stood up. Eden shrugged.

"I found them in the library, you should really think about keeping them put away, someone could have stolen them."

Kabuto leaned against the front of his desk. "Is that so? How did they get into the library, Eden."

Her breathing hitched, she had seen him look at her like that before. She backed towards the door.

"I'll be going now." She turned and ran out the door.

She was holding her head in her hand as she walked back to her room. She sat on her bed and sighed.

"This so bites! I want out of here!" She growled as she flung herself onto her bed.

She grabbed the book she'd been reading before she ran into Orochimaru.

Sakura was walking back to the bathhouse to grab some stuff she left behind. She quickly hid when she saw Kabuto whispering to Karin.

She sneaked closer so she could hear better.

"I don't care if you hate them, just keep an eye on them." She heard Kabuto tell Karin. Sakura rolled her eyes when she heard the young man sigh at Karins whining.

"But they are soo gross! They can't even dress right!" she was saying. Kabuto was getting slightly pissed off now.

"You dress like a fucking whore Karin, they don't want the attention you ask for on a daily basis. Just do as I tell you or you'll really regret it." He threatened as he walked away.

Sakura held her breath until Kabuto left the bathhouse.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Karin said as Sakura grabbed her clothes bag. Sakura rolled her eyes and showed her the bag.

"I left my bag here earlier dumb ass. I just came back to grab it." Sakura hoisted the bag over her shoulder and walked back to her and Eden's room.

"I hate that stupid bitch! And Karin too. Kabuto and her both, they should crawl in a hole and die!" Eden said when Sakura told her story. "Does he really think she'll be able to get info from us? She's so blonde."

Sakura laughed at Eden. No matter how bad things got, Eden always made life seem easy.

"Its so cool to watch your hair react with your mood." Whenever she was in a good mood her bangs changed to electric yellow. A very bright and vibrant yellow, she was learning to control the colors so she could lie about how she felt without Orochimaru being able to tell the difference.

"Well I got you a map while you were back at the bathhouse. Remember the only thing you have to worry about is Kabuto, and he cant do anything to you even if he does catch you. If he does, just say you were sleep walking." Eden smiled. "We just might be able to pull this off."

A/N:

Well how am I doing so far? If im doing good let me know, if im not… I still want to know.

I appreciate the reviews and suggestions. I still need help deciding on the Sasuke bit. And I was hoping for someone to couple Eden with.

While you contemplate those things, please keep this important question in mind,

If a fat chick falls in the forest and no one is there to see it, do the trees still laugh? If you don't feel like reviewing, just tell me what you think would happen in that situation.

Later homies!!!

Thnx!!! :]