"Suigetsu-san, Can I have a ride?!" Mayumi pouted, rushing over to him.
Suigetsu looked her over briefly then pushed her away, "No way, you've been touched."
The blue haired female's eyes went wide and she looked around herself, "I-I swear I- Ohhhh bunny!" Mayumi ran towards a large fluffy white thing that in fact, wasn't even a rabbit, but a wild, now pissed off, cat.
Suigetsu sighed loudly and shook his head, if only she could be even a little bit more serious. He got along with her sure, but she was still annoying as shit.
"How much more walking?!" He whined, looking towards the leading Uchiha.
Karin gave him a frustrated look and sighed, "You know… If we go to the North Hideout we'll be dead the second we go in."
"I've only seen it on maps, is it really that dangerous?" He questioned, looking at her as they came to a halt.
"The North hideout's no ordinary place…" She spoke, Sasuke looked over at her as she murmured, "That place… Was the main site for human experimentation. It's nothing but a nest of horrible unnatural monsters."
Mayumi made a face, "You're just trying to scare us!"
"I wish I was! Seriously that place is no good at all. As much as I want you dead, I really think it's a bad idea to go there…"
Sasuke sighed loudly, "We're going there, end of story."
"Oh! I have an idea!" Mayumi jumped up eagerly and grinned. "How about we just go to Konoha and-"
Her thought was interrupted by her current teammates walking away. She sighed loudly and followed after them. So far Sasuke had been simply ignoring her. To be honest, it was rather annoying. She'd been down for a couple days, unhappy, but now she just forced herself to be happy and normal, just in hopes of him acting normal himself. So much for that.
"Aren't you guys tired?" Suigetsu whined, sipping from his bottle of wonderful…whatever the hell was in it. "Let's take a break."
"You're so lazy!" Karin yelled at him. "The north hideout's still a long ways away!"
"I thought you were headed somewhere else? Why don't you just leave, I've got enough crap to deal with," He said, pulling his bottle down.
Mayumi looked at him a pouted, "Can I have a drink of the mystery juice?"
He glared at her.
"I…Just remembered I have business there too!" Karin snapped at him, "I need to stop by there first!"
Mayumi sat down on the ground and pouted, "No one loves me."
Suigetsu sat down on a ledge and placed his sword next to him then proceeded to pat the blue haired female's back lightly. Sasuke took a seat on the other side of Suigetsu and sighed.
"Why are you with Sasuke, Suigetsu?" Karin questioned, crossing her arms and pushing her hip out.
"I could as you the same question, but if you really wanna know… I have plans of my own, and I need Sasuke's help."
"I don't know what you two are trying to accomplish, but apparently you need Juugo to do it?" The redhead frowned, shifting her weight to the other side.
"Kinda," Suigetsu smiled. "I had to fight him a while back. He's got some cool abilities and he's really strong. I don't really like him, though. I could never tell what he was thinking," he pushed the straw on from his bottle to his lips. "I heard that he came to Orochimaru of his own will, which says a lot about how crazy he was."
Sasuke glanced over at the other male, but remained quiet.
"Well, think about it. Why would he have come to Orochimaru on his own?" Karin inquired.
"I dunno. Because, he's retarded?" Suigetsu sipped from his bottle then looked over. His face didn't change with the fact that everyone was staring at him, besides Mayumi, who was still busy pouting. "What?"
"He wanted a cure," Karin spoke, glaring at him.
"…A cure?" He gave her a funny look, one eye bigger than the other.
"Yeah… He looked at Orochimaru's hideout and saw a clinic."
"Sooo, from what I'm gathering…" Mayumi murmured, finally speaking. "This Juugo guy… Wanted to go to Orochimaru?"
Suigetsu gave her a funny look then looked back at Karin, "So Juugo wanted to go into rehab?"
"He was just like a junkie, totally unable to beat the problem by himself," Karin told him, well, more of them then him. "He wanted to stop his wild urges to kill."
Suigetsu gave her a surprised look then shook his head, "Heh… So he was a nut job who got off on killing people."
"No… Most of the time those desires remained bottled up inside him. But eventually he'd snap, forget who he was, and turn into a murderous, raging demon," Karin carried on.
"Wow, really? He didn't do anything like that when we fought."
"Juugo's "ability" caught Orochimaru's eye. Orochimaru used his blood to culture a special enzyme that would induce normal shinobi to enter a similar state. Do you what I'm talking about yet? It's the cursed seal!"
Mayumi gasped, "Heeeey! Sasuke has one of those! Right Sasuke- Okay never mind!" She went back to pouting after noticing his glare.
Karin held back the smirk that she longed to show, "Juugo is its origin…its source."
"Dun dun duuuuuunn!" Mayumi shouted in a deep voice as she jumped up to her feet.
"Whew…Time for a break," Suigetsu said awhile later, plopping down onto the ground.
"Get UP, you slacker! We're practically there!" Karin yelled at him. "It's that katana! It's too heavy! Just drop the damn thing so we can go!"
"Noooo!" Mayumi screamed. "It's making up for what he lacks!"
"Guys…" Sasuke finally spoke.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over at him. In front of the Uchiha, about ten feet, was man laying in the dirt.
"He came from the North hideout… He's still alive," Karin informed the group.
"What happened?" Sasuke questioned.
"U…Uchiha Sasuke…?" The man spoke. "Please…Save us…"
"What happened to you?" Suigetsu asked, staring down at him.
"It started… As soon as we heard Orochimaru was dead… Our captives started a riot… At this rate…uhg!" The man fell silent, and his head fell to the side.
"Ahh crap, he died," Suigetsu said, putting his hand on his hip.
Mayumi frowned and turned her head swiftly as big beast like thing jumped in front of them and smashed the ground around him. Horns protruded from his forehead and cheeks. He had wing-like things that spiked up from his arms along with a long tail.
He glared towards the group of four and a dead body, "You… You're…"
"What the hell is that thing?" Suigetsu asked, turning to face, his face twisted with disgust.
"A level two curse seal. He's already completed his transformation!" Karin spoke, starting to stand.
Sasuke stood to his feet and looked towards the man. Before anyone could say anything Sasuke was standing several feet ahead of the group and past the horned man. He swung his sword behind him, blood flying off the blade in the process. The man looked back at the Uchiha with an angry look in his eyes as his blood fell. However, his eyes grew wide and he gasped, his seal leaving him. Within seconds the man had fallen face first into the dirt.
"Huh? Who is this guy?" Suigetsu questioned, walking up the body.
Sasuke, who was apparently avoiding the question, sheathed his katana, "That's the North Hideout up there. Hurry up and help me find Juugo."
"So demanding," Mayumi grumbled. "Not a single please."
Okay, I am sooooo sorry about how this took! I honest to god did not intend to take this long with my update but I've had a lot of stuff happy to me between now and the last time I updated and I lost a lot of my inspiration to write. I know there's really no way to make it up to any of you, but to say that I'm going to try to update far more often, though once again, I remind my inspiration is lacking. So to those of you that are still reading, I hope you stick with me and liked this chapter enough to read to the next one. Please review! Feed back is lovely.