My my, I sure am taking a while to write! I'm really sorry readers, but as I said in a previous chapter, I'm really busy at the moment. Still I haven't forgotten my story so don't you worry!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS. THIS IS JUST A FAN-MADE STORY!
The copper coloured walls shone eerily in the spooky light of the melting candles, their wax dripping sickeningly onto the dusty floor in a caky mixture of filth. The swirling patterns on the walls and floors were lined with black dirt, atop which shadows twitched as though in agony, silently screaming for the mercy they were never meant to receive.
The sound of footsteps echoed along the corridor in a deathly silence that enveloped the entire place. The young man pushed his glasses up his sweaty nose and made his way to the room his master had once used. Even now, as he pushed open the cracked wooden door with a deafening creek, he could feel his poisonous presence slithering around him, hissing out his name. He could feel it inside him. Ever since he had implanted the cells of the white snake within him, he had absorbed the very powers that had once named his master a legend.
"Even though you are gone, I can still feel you, inside of me. Live again, breathe through me, I will be the vessel you never considered, never so much as spared a thought for. Your precious Sasuke murdered you himself and now I, your loyal servant became your body. I will put your powers to good use. I have already gotten a taste of them, and I must say I have taken a liking to them."
He knew he could hear him, knew he was listening to his every word. He could feel a silent heart beating next to his own, could feel a foreign blood sharing his veins. He was there, exploring his mind, his thoughts, his emotions. He was there inside him.
And he always would be, until the day he married his demise.
"I found a pawn of yours today. Remember Suigetsu? The youngest of the Hozuki brothers of the Hidden Mist? Sasuke had helped him escape from our clutches, and now he has formed an alliance with him. Not only him, but also Karin, your supposed servant, the guard of one of your hideouts. She is proving a nuisance already. He has also taken Jugo of the Scales with him, the first subjected to your curse mark. I used your powers to disrupt Suigetsu's chakra flow, using it to suffocate him, but Karin sensed me and I had to leave. Shame, I was having fun following in your footsteps. It gives me great satisfaction."
The man stepped over to the oval mirror on the wall, swiped off the dust with his hand and pushed back his hood with the other.
One part of his face was normal, a young face with white bangs framing his forehead and a round black eye like a rotten cherry. The other part of his face was disgusting to look at, one that would give you nightmares. It's skin had a deathly white pallor that glistened in a sickly shade of green in the candlelight. It's texture was coarse and flaky with dead cells and the eye was a golden yellow, the pupil slit like a snake's. He was half human half snake.
Half Kabuto Yakushi, half Orochimaru.
"Lord Orochimaru," he said: "I'll bring him back, I promise. I know he was your favourite, and I can feel your anger running through my veins. I know you want revenge. I will kill all of them, all four of them! And then I shall kill the Akatsuki, and finally Konoha! All of them will fall! And the best thing is, I will do it with your powers, so that you will have a share in their demise!"
A maniacal chuckle escaped through his twisted lips as he stroked the white part of his face: "Once you have taken over my physique completely, I shall truly have become your reincarnation! I will have become you my lord, you and only you!"