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Warnings: Child-speech, angst, bits-o-swearing, etc.

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Naruto

Omake 2 Beta-ed by the amazing MadameGuillotineTheSeraph, second one unbeta-ed due to my springing this as a surprise

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Omake 2:

Orochi:

Orochimaru is smart. His kaa-chan says so, his nee-chan says so, and so did his oba-san before she went to sleep in a glass egg. Maybe if she wakes up, Hikaru-nii wouldn't be so sad anymore?

Then every-one can play together and be happy and they can all learn together and race and Orochi can judge if his nee-chan or if his nii-san (who isn't really his nii-san but family is always family) is the fastest, the snakey nee-chan and now oji-san (be-cau-se Kuroryuu-nii is also gone with oba-san) play fighting. Of course, his nee-chan is always the fastest, the times when Hikaru-nii wins doesn't count.

Manda said that means Orochi is bi-ased, or some-thing, it doesn't sound nice.

What he really wants to know is why his nee-chan can play the pi-a-no so well when kaa-chan had said it's the first of its kind. Sometimes he can hear the older Kinme's calling her a musically in-clined genius, or pro-di-gy, whatever that means. Nee-chan is very smart, so why do they call her things that Orochimaru can't understand?

Everyone says that he's smart too, but the few times he tried to push the buttons (nee-chan in-sists that they are called keys, but then why don't they open doors?) together, it sounds like...like...Sugiryuu choking on a mouse-tail again.

Orochi doesn't like it when Sugiryuu sounds like he's choking, so he helps by patting Sugiryuu on the back or taking him to nee-chan so she can make him better. Sugiryuu says nee-chan gives very good belly rubs.

Maybe he should leave the pia-no to his nee-chan, but she some-times makes it sound so nice… but also sad. Yeah, she makes the piano sound sad. She looks sad when she's playing the pia-no too, and when kaa-chan isn't home, she says it brings back memories.

When he asked Manda how the piano could bring back memories, Manda was confused and silent before he twitched his head, like he was shrugging. Snakes don't have shoulders, so maybe he just tries? It's true though, nee-chan looks sad and he wants to know why, because no one is allowed to make her sad. So one day he decided to ask (kind of).

"Suija-nee, why does playing the piano bring back memories?" Has Orochi ever mentioned how much he loves Sugiryuu when he helps to ask the questions that Orochi is too shy to ask?

He remembers nee-chan looking a bit – kaa-chan said that the word vague-ly works well here – shocked, even more sad, and amused. Nee-chan likes that word, she uses "amused" or its siblings a lot. Like, a lot. But really, Orochi didn't really expect her to answer, not even close to thinking that her answer would be that she is living again.

Maybe she's like the spirits and ghosts in her stories? Like she's looking for a reason to be able to finally rest in peace or some-thing? But she's his nee-chan, she needs to live, not rest in peace, or pieces like she sometimes jokes about.

(Orochi had heard that Yasu-obasan rested in pieces, like she was missing things when she finally went to sleep. They said she was missing a finger, or two, and that's why Ume-baasan can't speak anymore be-cau-se she's missing a tongue. Will she be resting in pieces too?)

Nee-chan only jokes like that usually around when she starts giving him cho-co-late and sweet stuff for no real reason, and tries to stab orange looking foods. She should stay with him forever and ever, just like kaa-chan and Manda and Sugiryuu and Hikaru-nii, because they're my family.

But her answer was weird (she liked that word too) be-cause she said that this was her second time living and that in her past life the pia-no was very important to her. How can a music maker be so important when she used to have a complete family? She also said not to tell anyone else, be-cause it's a secret, a big secret, that he can't tell any-one, not even Hikaru-nii or kaa-chan or Manda or Sugiryuu, like when kaa-chan shows him the presents she got for nee-chan for her birthday, Orochi wasn't supposed to tell anyone even though she was gonna know anyway.

(He feels a little sad and blue and...and… something that he doesn't like when she talks about her family in her other life and looks so happy and sad at the same time and be-cause she's his nee-chan, he isn't going to share, no matter who his maybe-half-sister is in another life. Maybe if he meets his not-really sister, he might share his real sister.)

He feels a bit tired now, kaa-chan always said that the little ones should sleep before the lights are not bright any-more, but he wanted to hear the rest of nee-chan's answer so bad. When she doesn't want to answer, she just finds stuff to do that she might have forgotten, like pro-cras-inate (She also says that cur-ios-ity will kill a cat, but doesn't nee-chan like cats? She says she pro-cras-inates a lot too.)

Maybe she can sing him a sleep song instead, but humming not singing, be-cau-se she says she sings bad when she doesn't know words for the song.

(He hears her sing words some-times though, under her breath while making things sharper for others, it's when she thinks he's sleeping, he thinks).

Yeah, her sleep songs are awesome! And diff-er-ent from the songs that every-one else sings, or hums.

Sugiryuu likes them too, and he hums with Dōsukēru like what the older twin snakes that are partners of someone else does some-times at lunch. A duel? Dote? Duet? Yes, a snake duet.

Then he can sleep, until everything is too lonely with no kaa-chan and Orochi goes over to nee-chan's sleeping fuuton because it feels nice to be with people who care. Even if Hikaru-nii snores and nee-chan drools.

They say that he steals the blan-ket but there's always an extra later on when they wake up so I guess it doesn't matter any-more?

Family is family, even if they sleep weird, it's ok as long as they wake up. Orochi doesn't know what he would do if one of his family didn't wake up, especially if they're in a glass egg…

Maybe he'll just wait, if he waits long enough, they should come back...

Right?

Omake 3 Part One

Soulmarks AU:

Where there are timers around one's forearms that denotes when one meets their soulmate(s), aka the one(s) that will impact them the most.

I died.

Because of a goddamn elevator.

Maybe I was never meant to have a soulmate in my life, what with twin bands of infinities wrapped around my forearms. Would've been better too, as they wouldn't have to cope with the death of one that they will never meet.

(Or maybe I wasn't 'real' enough to deserve a soulmate.)

My mom had quite a few timers, while my dad only had three, and she had said they all ticked down to zero when her life was going to be changed a "heck lot", such as her meeting with my dad, and the birth of my sister and I. Apparently the fact that soon-to-be new parents automatically develope a soul-bond to their unborn children means that hospitals know when to track down pregnant women? They weren't often reciprocated by their children though, which was a shame.

Whatever, as if that helps me, a dead girl falling. (I know I'm dead, I just haven't hit rock bottom yet.)

But then again, if dying doesn't count as a "heck lot", what will?

Surprise, surprise, even in my last seconds the timers of infinity didn't change, and I could only die with eyes glued to proof of what souliologists called an unmended soul. And overdue books, if my room doesn't get combed over for too much random junk, there's enough stuff there to fill an entire closet or two..

And then I woke up, which felt decidedly bitter.

(What will people say about the teenager who found her soulmate in a coma? Nothing nice, even if the words are.)

The bitterness didn't go away after I discovered that I couldn't ever interact with the outside world despite the energy that I could feel thrumming beneath my skin. Even the blue lighting seemed dim as to mock my inability to see the marks (chains) around my own two wrists.

Soulmates my ass, all they're getting will be a husk.

Then shit (aka the goddamn blue walls) went down with a well-placed elbow (ouch) and I could see and hear and smell and the light is beautiful breathing is wonderful hearing is a godsend.

Above all? When I woke up again to see my wrists with (imperfect blurry) vision, not even the smudged quality of my newly alien eyes could prevent me from seeing the figures, once still, inanimate, mocking bands of infinity, slowly reforming into blobs that reformed once again into other-shaped blobs. Time was ticking, I was living.

My heart kicked up a notch and I felt my sinuses burn. For the first time since I understood soulmarks, I felt human.

(Later, the pair of new parents and Manda would swear that their first child's first teared cry was of joy.)

AN: Merry christmas, Hanukah, and others that I unfortunately don't know the name of and don't want to get wrong. So, to sum it up, basically happy holidays everyone!

On another note, I got art! From my Amazing Beta who posted a drawing of Suijami and Dōsukēru on her profile (ChelseaWrabbit) in deviantart, I was screaming a lot everywhere (she can probably vouch, lol)

Reached a lot of reviews/favs/follows so here you are, 1.? of a few omakes! (sorry if they're a bit short, but ehh, whatever) The next chapter has a bit over 500 hundred words atm, but should come out sometime around new years.

(I never seem to recall what I want to say in Ans, oops, but tell me what to do better and I will try)

Anyways, reviews are love and motivation, leave one on the way out please!

~Cadriona Morningwing

Uploaded: December 24, 2016