Apologies for the 3 day lateness, but I was just spending time with my Suigetsu as well as other friends. After all, I do have a life, lol
Suigetsu: So you say...
Me: *hits with frying pan*
Suigetsu: *on the ground in pain* DX
Anyway, i'm adding my first OC character in this chapter. After all, we can't have the couple just search for Itachi and thats it, right? There has to be more than one conflict. Or so my english teacher says...o.o
Now, to make up for lateness, as well as to celebrate New Years, I present this awsome chapter which is longer than my other chapters! :D Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Naruto not mine, is use for fun stuff, yes yes :0
In the shade of darkness, only a few scattered torch lights shed light on the thin aisles. A tall, pale man strolled down it, chuckled softly and licking his lips with his abnormally long tongue. In fact, everything about him was abnormal. Ranging from his snake eyes, to his purple eyeshadowish birthmark, to his creepy figure, to his obsession with little boys. Well, even though the last part had no sexual intention, it was still creepy nontheless.
As his footsteps echoed throughout the underground complex, he came up to a closed wooden door. It was white, and it had a single black kanji for 'lost' at the top. He approached the door and opened it with a creak, peering inside to see a single teenager with straight black hair sitting on his bed and facing the wall.
"Dorei-kun, it's time to go." he hissed in his seductive-like tone.
Dorei sat unconsciously in bed, using his black paintbrush to write on the wall. The man at the door waited patiently for a few minutes until the teen awoke to find that he had drawn on the wall while asleep. When he got a good view of it he saw it was a painting of his sister. The dark and bold strokes outlined her face, which was very detailed, right down to her barely visable dimples on her caring smile.
He sighed at the sight, "Again, huh?" Looking at the picture only make his heart feel as if it was being stabbed by a million small spikes, and he didn't need that today.
The man at the door decided to make himself known again, this time opening the door completely. "Dorei-kun, it's time to go." he repeated.
"Yes, Orochimaru-sama." Dorei replied monotoneously. He slipped off his bed and walked straight to his master. He didn't need to change, because the master had only given him one pair of clothes; a faded lavender kimono, a sleeveless black shirt and a pair of grey pants with a belt that held various equipment. It had paintbrushes, exploding tags, kunai, and for some reason that Dorei couldn't understand, two small viles with strange, light blue liquid in it. Orochimaru had said that it's intended for his mission that he was going to carry out today.
"Come, Dorei-kun. We have to begin before our target gets out of reach. Kukuku." the teen followed the eerie man through the brick aisles, looking around. He had been locked up in that room ever since the one fateful day, the day he was seperated from his sister and recruited into the pale sannin's secret army...
It had always been a habit of Dorei to draw whatever was pressing in his mind. It was the only real freedom Orochimaru had given him, since the older man constantly provided him with ink and paper. He actually hated this habit though, because the only thing he could really draw were things that reminded him on the past.
They walked up a set of steps into the blinding light above. Dorei shut his purple eyes and then opened them again, letting them adjust. Orochimaru simple smirked and took out a scroll, which he set on the ground. After making a few hand seals, the scroll burst into smoke, leaving behind a medium-sized katana in a decorated sheath.
"Dorei-kun, your target used to be my own subject. He is skilled, very skilled. However, he will be no match for you. After all, eight years of molding you into how you are now shouldn't be going to waste." the snake ninja licked his lips again and cackled. Dorei had been taken away from his sister when he was only eight. Now, at the age of sixteen, he was a tool of a madman. No matter how much Orochimaru tried, he just couldn't squeeze out Dorei's longing emotions. However, it apparently didn't matter much.
The pale man picked up the katana in its sheath and handed it to the teen. The sword itself was very simple, but the sheath was decoraded with images of black flowers and grey flames. Dorei took it in his hands and put it at his side on his belt. He looked into the snake's eyes, and then looked away at the forest around them. The man's glare was too evil to look at directly. Orochimaru chuckled.
"Dorei-kun, I have made you everything you need to be. I have trained you to be my greatest apprentice, rivaling Kimimaro in strength. I gave you such beautiful features, your sharp teeth, your silkly black hair, your healthy body, and your undeniable amount of shear power. Now that I let you go on your life's purpose, remember that if you ever betray me, I will snap you in half like a twig. It will pity me to do so, so please, know your place."
The last sentence was covered in Orochimaru's seductive voice, whic only made the teen want to puke. Everything the snake man said was a simple play on the name he had been given. His real name wasn't 'Dorei'. What person in there right mind would name there child 'slave'? But it was suitable for Orochimaru, so he was injected with a serum to make him forget his own name and birthplace, so that when this day finally came, Dorei wouldn't beable to reconcile with his past.
"I understand, Orochimaru-sama." he muttered. The teen walked off into the forest, and the creepy old man just cackled, poisoning the once clear air with his evil scent and breath. Dorei only had one goal in life now. It was no longer to just stay in a room and cry about the past. It was no longer to try to get revenge on the sannin for ruining his life. His only goal now was to capture Sasuke Uchiha and bring him to his master.
"..."
A bored Suigetsu watched grains of sand race with eachother on the desert floor. It was the only form of entertainment he could get, considering they had been moving for so long and still Suna was nowhere in sight.
"Are you sure we're going the right way?" he asked, boredom written all over his face. The dark brown grain of sand had beaten the grey one to the camel's hoof. Woop-de-fricken-do.
"If you keep asking me that I might just decided to kill you already." Sasuke muttered, anger obvious in his tone. When they first set out on the journey, he had tolerated the teen. After all, he did save his life in the river. So, the Uchiha showed him a little bit of compassion and opened up to him a little bit to make Suigetsu comfortable. However, now he was just plain annoying.
"Hmph!" Suigetsu pouted, crossing his arms and looked out at the horizon. The sun was going to set in a few hours. While it would be nice since he wouldn't be drying out in the heat anymore, they might not beable to get to the Akatsuki in time, making their entire trip pointless. If only they could've defeated the two bastards when they had a chance. But no, Sasuke decided to play the princess for once in his 'badass avenger' life, leaving Suigetsu to do the saving. Now they were racing to get to Akatsuki's target before them, on a goddamn camel. I mean, camels are faster than giant, flying pieces of clay shit, right?
"We're almost there." Sasuke stated to his annoyed partner.
"How can you tell? Everything has looked the same ever since we cross the river!"
"There's caravan paths, baka. If you've been paying attention instead of staring at the ground, you would've seen the desert markers around us." Suigetsu looked around, trying to find what Sasuke was talking about. It took him a full five minutes to finally spot a palm tree log stuck on top of a sand hill with a red cloth tied to it up ahead. Apparently, Sasuke was right. They were going the right way.
"...Whatever." Suigetsu went back to pouting and watched as his grains of sand continued racing. However, they were abruptly stopped by a desert scorpion popping out of the ground, scattering the grains all over the place. The scorpion looked around only for a second before being stomped back into the sand by the camel's moving hoof. Suigetsu groaned, the damn scorpion had to mess up his fun.
"We're here." Sasuke stated. Suigetsu jumped at the words and looked over Sasuke's shoulder, seeing a faint outline of a what appeared to be a gigantic, maroon rock that was hidden by a light cloud of sand. Sunagakure seemed to fit it's name pretty well.
"Fucking finally!" Suigetsu shouted happily, grinning and punching the air in excitement. The camel grunted at Suigetsu's sudden movement on his back, so it then stopped in its tracks and sat down, causing the mist nin to slide off and flip backward, his face meeting the sandy ground in an instant.
"Calm down, usuratonkachi." Suigetsu scambled up and spat a mouthful of sand on the ground.
"Goddamn camel!" he attempted to kick the animal, but it got up and he missed. The teen lost his footing from the force of the kick and fell on his back in a cloud of dust.
"Get back up. We need to get into the city before nightfall." Suigetsu made a grunt of annoyance and slowly got on top of the camel, patting it and sarcastically saying sorry.
They approached the massive form until it became clearer. The gigantic rock was actually a wall that encircled the entire city, and it was incredibly tall. It confused Suigetsu since there was no sigh of any kind of entrance at all.
"Sasuke, how are we gonna get in?" he asked, puzzled. Sasuke stopped the camel by a tall mound of sand, taking out a scroll and sealing the water jugs and supplies in it.
"We're sneaking in. I would think you would've assumed that by now." Suigetsu made a confused face and decided to just watch instead of asking questions. He followed the Uchiha around the waterless moat that surrounded the wall until they were able to see guards standing on top of the wall, looking around.
Sasuke held his hand out in front of him, electricity gathering in his palm. He swiftly swept his hand, causing several senbon-shaped shards of electricity to zoom out at the guards. They were killed instantly, and Sasuke then yanked his chidori-filled hand backward, causing the electricity to stream from the senbon back to his fingers, forming threads of chakra.
"Hold onto me." Sasuke commanded. "I'm going to pulled us up to the wall by using our enemies' chakra as a grapple on their body." Suigetsu looked at Sasuke, who was waiting for him to move. The mist-nin blushed and then wrapped his arms around Sasuke's waist, holding tight.
"G-Go on." Suigetsu whispered, uncosciously snuggling his chin into Sasuke's shoulder. The Uchiha sighed and then send a wave of chakra through the strings, pulling them both off the ground and onto the wall in an instant, leaving only the screech of a chidori where they once were.
Suigetsu was grasping on tightly to Sasuke's waist, his eyes shut and not yet realizing they were on the wall already. Sasuke looked at him, a vein popping in his forehead.
"...Suigetsu?"
"Yes, Sasuke?"
"You can let go of me now." the teen blushed furiously and let go of the warm Uchiha. That was the second time Sasuke had to tell him that. It was embarassing.
"O-Ok then...What now?" both teens looked at the gigantic village below them. People were walking around the streets, vendors were selling goods, and people were doing all sorts of tasks. Desert sand blew up in the breeze, and sent hot air past Suigetsu's face. He bit his lip and look at Sasuke, who was staring at the large, round building in the center of the city. It was obvious the mansion of the Kage.
"Let's go." the Uchiha said demandingly, quickly descending down the steps of the wall. Suigetsu followed, and they were able to get to the streets below without encountering any guards. Sasuke stopped Suigetsu before they took any further steps, raising his cloth on his head to hid his face below his eyes.
"We need to hide our identities." he said calmly. Suigetsu nodded and did the same, making the only skin that was in clear sight to be their feet, hands, and eyes. Everything else was covered up by the brown and white clothes. They walked through the streets, Suigetsu looking around in awe like an interested child, while Sasuke was intent on reaching the Kazekage Mansion.
"Mommy! Wahh!" a small child fell on the ground, getting a bruise on his exposed knee and crying. His mothing hurried over to him, concern on her face, and she helped him get up.
"It's ok, don't cry. I'm here, Kagerou-kun. Everything will be alright." she whispered words of comfort into the boys ears, letting him lay back in her arms while his sobs gradually went away, turning into simple sniffles. Suigetsu watched them, still biting his lip. He felt his eyes begin to water, and swiftly turned away to catch up to Sasuke.
The male had never know his parents. His mother supposedly died when she gave birth to him, and his father died in battle. The jounin said he should be proud, since his mother had given her life to give the village a powerful shinobi, and that his father died a patriot. Suigetsu never questioned their barks of self-pride disguised as comfort. Mangetsu had told him the truth a few years before he himself died; that his parents were seperated from them when they were very young and executed. The reason was something that made Suigetsu shiver in anger every time he thought about it. They were killed for refusing to cut down one of their children, to keep with the law of one child per family. They gave their own lives instead of one of their childrens' lives.
The two teens reached the door to the mansion, which was guarded by two jounin. They eyed the two suspiciously before saying something.
"You two, what is your business?" Sasuke stepped forward.
"We are here to speak with the Kazekage." One of the jounin raised an eyebrow.
"Oh really? What is your purpose to speak with him?"
"Personal matters."
"Then i'm afraid you cannot see him."
"What makes you think you can stop us from doing so?" the jounin's eyes widened and he reached for a kunai.
"What did you say?" In a blurringly fast move, both jounin were on the floor in a puddle of blood, dead from chest wounds. The doors were already flung open, and the two teens were nowhere in sight.
"Nice." Suigetsu complimented the Uchiha as they ran through the halls of the building and up the stairs, killing anyone in their path. Suigetsu burst into one of the rooms, where a surprised jounin was sitting at his desk sorting papers.
"W-Wha? Who are you?" Suigetsu jumped over to him and kicked him across the face in mid-jump. The kick's force snapped the man's neck, and he slumped to the floor, dead. A naked longsword was leaning on his desk, and Suigetsu's eyes sparkled with eagerness. He snatched the blade away and scurried out the door, following Sasuke, who had just impaled an anbu with his chidori.
"Where did you get that?" he asked.
"I jacked it from a sand shinobi!" Suigetsu grinned widely. Sasuke frowned.
"Be careful. I don't need you going crazy again." Suigetsu laughed heartily.
"Oh don't worry Sasuke. This time, i'm gonna be controlling how much pleasure I get from killing!' Suigetsu heaving up the heavy steel sword and hacked down two charging sand ninja, cleaving them in half. Suigetsu cackled as the blood splattered in drops on his face, making him look like he was crying the liquid in joy. Sasuke sighed and turned away from him, drawing his own katana. They were side by side as they sprinted up the spiral staircase, slicing up anyone who stood in their way.
Finally, they reached the door of the top floor room. Kicking a few dead body away, Suigetsu laughed and cut open the door with his sword. The heaves of wood fell helplessly on the floor, revealing the office of the Kazekage...except the seat was empty.
"What the hell?" Suigetsu exclaimed, running over to the desk and seeing that the leader of the village had seemed to calmly have left his office. Sasuke walked in calmly and sheathed his sword, scanning the room with his eyes.
"Suigetsu." Sasuke stated. The hyper male spun to look at him. "Look." Suigetsu glanced at what Sasuke was looking at to see a set of steps leading to the roof of the building. Sasuke was just beginning to walk up them before Suigetsu charged past him and through the door.
"Kazekage!" the eager teen shouted as he felt the cooled desert air enter his lungs. It was night now, and before him were two men. One of them was a pale teen with brick red, spikey hair. He wore full-length dark trousers with a pair of laces on each leg, a long-sleeved dark red shirt, a purplish grey vest held in place by a single strap over his shoulder by two buckled belts, as well as another pair of belts around his waist. Strangely enough, the straps held onto a big and sandy gourd on his back.
The other had blonde hair and was looking at him with a surprised look on his face. Suigetsu grinded his teeth as he recognized the male as none other than Deidara, the Akatsuki member they were fighting before.
"Who are you?" the redhead asked softly, turning his head to Suigetsu. As if it couldn't get any wierder, the guy didn't have any eyebrows, and he had deep black rings around his eyes. Suigetsu frowned.
"Are you the Kazekage?" he asked impatiently, holding up the longsword.
"Yes. I am Gaara of the Desert, Kazekage of Sunagakure." Suigetsu's eyes again sparkled in excitement.
"That's all I need to know!" he pounced towards Gaara, smiling in bloodlust and preparing to take a swing with the sword-
"Suigetsu. Stop." the silver-haired teen looked behind him just when his sword met a sudden wall of sand. Sasuke ascended from the steps, looking at the two of them with indifferent eyes.
"We aren't here to fight Gaara. We're here for the Akatsuki." the Kazekage seemed to recognize Sasuke, and when his wall of sand pushed Suigetsu away, causing the sword to roll out of his hands onto the floor, Gaara spoke.
"Uchiha Sasuke. I didn't think I would see you here." Sasuke faced him, sharingan activated.
"We're not here to fight you. We're here for the Akatsuki member." he pointed at Deidara, who hadn't moved and was watching them the whole time. He grunted in surprise when the Uchiha pointed at him, but then he smirked, his hands in his pouches on his belt.
"Looks like we all know eachother, un." The three teens faced the Akatsuki member, Suigetsu having gotten up and picked up his sword. Deidara stood up and chuckled. The Kazekage looked over at Sasuke.
"Did you kill anyone on your way up here?"
"We had to, they wouldn't let us see you." Suigetsu laughed nervously, scratching his head. Gaara sighed.
"As the Kazekage, I can't necessarily let this go...However, if you're willing to help me with this Akatsuki member then I can't say much about it right now." He looked back at Deidara, who looked a bit uneasy behind his smile.
"Now then..." the blonde muttered. "Should we begin, un?"
:O An awsome 3-on-1 battle! Yesh! Happy New Year to all the readers and reviewers! I hope you liked!