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The Mission, Creepy Snake Dude, and Discoveries.
They stood waiting in the trees. Sai was scoping the area with quickly drawn up mice. The mice began to come back and once more joined the paper on his scroll.
"I don't sense the presence of anyone around the Tenchi Bridge...," he said, after closing the scroll.
I guess that means there won't be any Akatsuki ambush, huh...?" Yamato murmured. "All right! Then let's proceed as planned."
"Right!" Naruto said. Yamato then proceeded to take something out of the pocket of his vest. He pulled out a piece of paper.
"Naruto. Could you take this and hold it towards me?" he said, handing the paper to Naruto. Sayomi looked over his shoulder to see a picture of whom she assumed was Sasori.
"All right, that's good. Hold it towards me." Naruto did so and Yamato began doing hand seals. "Wood style: Transformation!" he yelled. Suddenly he was surrounded by wood. A puff of smoke appeared. When it was cleared, there stood in Yamato's place... The man from the photo. Short and hunched over. Wearing a hat and a large cloak of black with blood red clouds boardered by white. He also wore a mask that hid everything of his face except his tiny, penetrating eyes. The sight made Sayomi shiver, but she was impressed.
"So? Did it turn out okay?" Sounded Yamato's voice from the creature. Hearing his voice come from such an oddity was, well... odd.
"Yes, it did! You look like Sasori's puppet Hiruko in every way." She said a slight awe in her eye.
"So this isn't what the real Sasori looked like... This is the puppet he used." Sayomi thought.
"Now I want to adjust the voice. Let me know when it sounds right."
"Yes sir!" Sakura said. Yamato then proceeded through a series of noises that became lower and scrathchier as he went. Some of them sent Naruto into fits of laughter; he was ignored…
"Oh! That's it. That's the voice." Sakura said.
"Then we're going to start the operation now, okay?"
"Your tone is too polite. You need to sound more violent or surly or something..." She tried to explain.
"Oh... that's right. I'm irritable and hate waiting and being kept waiting... Okay, we're starting the operation!" the deep, scratchy voice commanded.
"Right, right! That's what he was like!" said Naruto in his usual energetic tone.
Sayomi was practically jumping for joy. "The mission is finally starting!"
"Okay, our opponent should be on alert. We'll split up now! Observe teamwork at all times! Especially you, Naruto!" Yamato said. Naruto looked a little surprised by the last statement. "Don't be jumping out before I give the signal." Naruto nodded, a determined look plastered on his usually grinning face.
"Let's go!" Yamato yelled and they separated. Yamato jumped on the trail while the three chunnin and Sai hid behind a large rock giving a perfect view of Tenchi Bridge. They sat there for awhile. Sayomi noted it was getting close to noon and returned her gaze to the wide bridge.
"Is that him?" she heard Sai ask and immediately looked at the opposite side of the bridge. A person in a dark blue cloak approached. The hood covered their face but judging the physique, it was a male. Slowly he made his way to the bridge and across to the center where he stopped and looked over the edge. Yamato slowly made his way across as well. The man moved so his face was fully in the light, to reveal a boy, of about 16 or 17, with silver hair and glasses. Judging from the murmurs between Naruto and Sakura, his name was Kabuto. The wind made it impossible to hear the conversation but without it, they would not be able to go undetected in that spot.
Suddenly, Yamato pulled a kunai, seemingly as defense against the snake-like man who arrived; but in truth, it had been to capture Kabuto. Sayomi knew all of this with just a glance. Yamato couldn't have sensed the new man... no one could.
"Orochimaru!" Naruto said.
"That's the one who has Sasuke!?" Sayomi thought. "I might be able to meet him after all..."
"What do we do?!" Naruto asked, a little panicked.
"We just have to stand by until Captain gives us instructions," Sakura answered solemnly. They all turned back to watching, only to see Kabuto attack Yamato. Yamato flew through the air before Orochimaru's snakes entangled him. Yamato was replaced with a wooden dummy while he landed safely, somewhat away from Orochimaru and Kabuto. Sayomi noted he was clutching his arm. They continued to talk. Then Yamato gave the signal. Sayomi knew that Orochimaru had known of them. She had secretly been using her Sharingan to read their lips. They all jumped out. Sai, Naruto, and Sakura in front of Yamato while Sayomi stayed behind him.
"Let's see who's gotten stronger, you or Sasuke?" Orochimaru said. Sayomi could feel Naruto's chakra getting out of control, but was too pissed to try and stop it. She didn't like the way Sasuke's name sounded on the snake man's tongue.
"Give Sasuke...back...!" Naruto said, pure venom dripping from his tone. A red cloud of some sort began leaking from his body. The snake man looked on with mild interest. The way he looked at Naruto was almost unnatural, and it was certainly creepy.
"Sasuke came to us because he wanted to. For a man, you're too obsessed... about the past. You need to restrain yourself," Kabuto said smartly. No one seemed to take his annoying advice.
"Shut up, four-eyes!" Sakura yelled. "You don't even know how Naruto feels... Stop acting so cold about everything!" (AN: OK. All the dialog in this chapter is from the episode I copied it from (yes I know, perfectionist) but anyway, what kinda insult if four-eyes!? And of course he acts cold about everything! He's a fucking villain!)
"If you want to know about Sasuke, try forcing it out of me... If you can, that is...," Orochimaru said, an evil smirk in play. Naruto then jumped at him, breaking the wood he had stood on. He appeared in front of Orochimaru and, WHAM!!! Orochimaru went flying, breaking through trees along the way. The cloud of red had formed into what appeared to be a fox, cloaking Naruto. Sayomi activated her Sharingan and gasped.
"A cloak of pure chakra..." she murmured. Naruto glared at Kabuto.
"Naruto... You've grown considerably as a Jinchuriki Host."
"Jinchuriki!? A holder of a tailed beast...? That explains a lot," Sayomi thought.
Ten minutes of staring at Kabuto. Sayomi saw Orochimaru's chakra signature through her Sharingan. He was just next to the bridge and was slowly walking back. He came back into the open, on the other side of the bridge. He had his head down and his arms laying loosely at his sides. Sayomi nearly gasped at the sight of his face when he looked up. The face they had seen earlier was now torn to reveal the face of another ninja. The real face had pale skin and white hair could be seen. He still had Orochimaru's eyes though... Meaning Orochimaru had taken his body for himself. The thought scared Sayomi a little, but not much.
"You're starting to become more like a Jinchuriki Host, aren't you?" Orochimaru said, continuing his approach towards Naruto. "I get it... So that's why you were chosen to keep watch over him, huh?" he asked Yamato. "So my experiment turned out to be somewhat useful..."
"Experiment?" ran through both Sakura and Sayomi's minds. They both looked at Yamato.
"The Leaf should be thanking me a little more for this... Don't you agree, my adorable little test subject...?" Yamato glared at Orochimaru.
"Test subject?" Kabuto asked. It seemed as though they'd forgotten about Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Sayomi... "Who the hell is this person?" Orochimaru covered his face with his hand, repairing it.
"It happened... a long time ago, when I was still in the Hidden Leaf Village... I wanted the power of the 1st Hokage, the only one among all Shinobi who could use the Wood Style Ninjutsu and control the Tailed Beasts at will. I once conducted an experiment where I took some DNA information from the remains of the 1st Hokage and implanted genetic components from that DNA into the cells of sixty children. But their bodies violently rejected it, and they died while kicking and struggling... Around the time when I was about to give up, I ended up being tracked by another one of my experiments and had to leave the village, leaving my laboratory just as it was. I thought all the test subjects had died, but I never thought one of them would still be alive." Sayomi was now so mad she was seeing red; she was even shaking.
"Who could do that without feeling an ounce of guilt!?" She screamed in her head.
"I see... So it looks like we'll be now be able to obtain a sample from a product of old research." Kabuto said, a sly smirk on his lips.
"More important than that... I'd like to test out how strong my Sasuke has become by having him fight against Naruto." Sayomi's vision was blurred with red spots now. She was trying extremely hard not to charge the snake Sannin. She even dug her nails into the palms of her hands, causing them to bleed. The pain was a light comfort.
"He doesn't... He doesn't belong to you...!" Naruto said in a struggling voice. The cloak of red chakra began to move faster. The fire of it becoming more intense. "Don't talk about Sasuke in front of me... like he belongs to you!"
Even as the fire intensified and the wind began to sting, Orochimaru's devious smile never left his face. Sayomi didn't care about the sting of the wind, the pain in her hands, or the massive evil chakra emanating from Naruto; no, she wanted to personally smack that grin off of the creepy snake man's face.
"How dare you talk of my brother like he is your... your... your toy!" Sayomi yelled at the top of her lungs. Upon hearing the word 'brother,' Orochimaru looked at her, a twinkle in his eye that made her want to cringe. The look didn't last long, for he looked back into Naruto's eyes. The boy exploded with more chakra. The wind blew even harder and began to sound like a woman... screaming...
WHOO!!!! Not the longest chapter ever but it's almost 2,000 words... XD I hope you liked this chapter... It's kinda more of a filler. Anyways, PLEASE REVIEW!!! Reviews make me oh so happy and they encourage me to write more! And of course, moonlit917 receives credit for beta reading! THANK YOU!!! XD XD XD