Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves…except for me. I didn't eat anything because well I had a feeling the mission wasn't really going to go well.

My cell phone rang during Shutter, a movie we were watching. Akiko glared at me. She hates it when people interrupt her movie watching time.

"Sorry…" I whispered. I walked over to the kitchen and answered it.

"What?" I asked

"Naruto! It's Tsunde! Orochimaru is at his hide out! We need to leave now!"

"Right…I'm on my way. Have my team outside and ready."

I sighed. How am I going to explain this one? Akiko is going to be so angry and Sasuke will be suspicious….this was not going to go down well.

I played with my fingers as I walked back into the living room. Well here goes nothing. "Hey guys….I need to go to the Hokage's mansion. Some files need to be organized and I have to do that because apparently Tsunde had too much sake…and well let's just say she isn't herself."

Kakashi just shrugged. Sakura didn't care….Sasuke looked at me like he knew I was lying and just as I expected Akiko got angry.

I ignored her glare of doom and went into my room to change into my uniform. She followed me in there and I was prepared for her hour long lecture.

"Naruto Uzamaki! Do you actually think I would let you go on this mission?"

"Yes I do."

She huffed. "Naruto…your only fourteen. How can you put yourself through that torture?"

I sighed as I put on my ANBU pants and shirt. "I don't know…the same way you deal with your life everyday…it just goes on. I don't like what I see and sometimes I can be depressed for many days, but then I tell myself that I have to move on. Look I have to go…if I don't come back after they leave you know something bad has happened."

She walked over to me and gave me a small hug before kissing my forehead. "I can never figure you out Naruto. Be careful you hear me?" I gave her my best foxy grin. "Loud and clear."

When I reached the mansion my team was all ready out there waiting for me. I gave my team a little pep talk before heading out to our mission. "Our mission may not be lovely, but what missions are? Let's just get this mission done with and we won't have to deal with it anymore. "

I talked with Naraku on the way there. It's always fun talking with him. "So have you told Sasuke about your secret?"

"Pshht…No. I made him a deal though. I would give him a present if he figured it out." He laughed. "Playing hard to get eh?" I laughed with him, but as we got closer to the hide out I smelled something foul. Blood? No couldn't be…could it?

"Hey Naruto do you smell that?" Naraku asked. So I wasn't the only one who smelled it…blood doesn't have that much stink to it…unless there was a lot of it. "Does it smell like blood Naraku?"

"Yes…It does."

Blood. Great. I hesitated on going in the hide out, but knew if I didn't go in, Orochimaru wouldn't die any faster. "I want some guys to go around back and some of you to stay in the front. If he tries to escape we'll catch him for sure."

"Hai!"

I took a deep breath and walked into the front door slowly. The smell of the blood was making my stomach a bit queasy.

My eyes widened as I looked inside of the hide out. Blood was everywhere…It was on the ceiling, the windows, even the roof, but the horror a waits me in the next room.

The next room was dead bodies. The bodies were just left there to rot into the ground and Orochimaru didn't even care.

As I looked at the bodies more closely I noticed that they were tortured to death. Some had limbs taken out and put into jars; others had their skin cut off. The expressions on all the faces were scared.

"These bodies were his experiments?"

I heard a chuckle from behind and knew Orochimaru had been watching me from the beginning. "Correct Naruto. They were my tiny experiments."

"Tiny!? You call that tiny? That is plan torture. You…You are the definition of a mad man!" I growled. Orochimaru seemed to think about that for a minute. "Hmm…I guess I am the definition of a mad man."

My eyes turned to crimson red. "You…You don't even care what you did to these innocent people do you?!" he chuckled. "No…I don't. They were quite useless anyways. Always screaming to stop….never once complied with my wishes."

I couldn't take anymore of his talk. He launched at him with a knife ready to kill him. "Kabuto! Now!" Another kunai knife came crashing into my arm.

I winced at the pain. Shit…I'm screwed if he has Kabuto with him. I had no other choice but to let them go. "Fine. I'll let you go for now, but the next time we meet you are going to be a dead man." I left as quickly as I could.

When I got back to the village I dismissed everyone and told them to get a good night's sleep. I always keep a bag of clothes with me, so when I get back from the mission I can get changed immediately.

I was about to slip my ANBU shirt off when I heard rustling in the trees. "Who's there?" I asked cautiously. "It's me dobe…and I just figured out your secret."

I froze up. The only could get out of my mouth was "Shit!"