Surprisingly, before Daiki could reply to the Snake Sannin, Kakashi stepped in front of him, cutting the mans vision from him, glaring at Orochimaru.
"So not only Sasuke, but Daiki has your interest as well, huh?" Kakashi huffed, "Tell me Orochimaru, what do you plan to gain from all this? Why go after Sasuke?"
Daiki felt the urge to roll his eyes. There was only one thing Sasuke had that Orochimaru wanted. It was obvious, hell he'd already told the Hokage and the like what he wanted.
He supposed Kakashi didn't get the memo.
That, or he was fishing for more information.
"Oh you know how it is, two guys have it already and this third one just has to have it kuku," Orochimaru laughed lightly, "Three I suppose if you're counted, and all things considered, it hasn't been all that long since you were given it by your dearly departed little friend."
"So that's it then." Kakashi replied, voice monotone.
"Indeed, it's the Sharingan!" Orochimaru revealed, spreading his arms wide, grandiosely, "But pardon my rudeness, I have no interest in you Kakashi-kun, unlike Sasuke-kun, you're useless to me I'm afraid, I have no need of an imperfect sharingan user."
"Well obviously," Daiki scoffed, "If it was just about implanting the Sharingan like Kakashi, you could have raided the corpses of the Uchiha ages ago and got it like that, you want the natural ability to use it like an actual Uchiha, and for that you need to have the body of an Uchiha."
Orochimaru's eyes lit up, "Indeed! So intelligent aren't you Daiki-kun?" he hissed, seeming very pleased by his words, "Unfortunately, all the Uchiha are now dead, beyond Itachi and Sasuke-kun, and I'm sure you understand why I'd target Sasuke-kun."
"Because you're too scared to face Itachi?" Daiki taunted.
He was looking for a rise out of the man, to break that amused facade and see about making him sloppy by attacking his pride.
Orochimaru just chuckled, "Well, you're still but a young lad Daiki-kun, all that talent and power doesn't change that," he replied in amusement, "Subduing Itachi and taking his body, is much more of a challenge than taking young Sasuke-kun from the Leaf Village, it's just that simple, and I'm quite the pragmatic man you see."
His taunt washed over him like a pitiful stream against a mountain and was turned aside.
Daiki clicked his tongue, taunting was useless, what about insults then? "So you're just a coward then looking for easy prey," he shrugged, "But this isn't an orphanage Pedomaru, so I suggest you walk away before I my break my foot off in your scrawny ass."
"Could have fooled me, what with all the orphans in here and all, kuku," Orochimaru laughed his words off, "But do feel free to continue, the feeble banter point of battles are ever so amusing sometimes, I'm sure your mind is twisting and turning desperately trying to come up with options to combat me or escape."
Damn, that was cold.
His insults and taunting were completely ineffective here.
But then, he understood it. What were the words of some little weakling when you towered so high above them like a lion over an ant.
Or at least that was probably how Orochimaru saw the current situation.
"Shows what you know, I could escape from you instantly and you couldn't do a thing about it," Daiki scoffed at him, "If it wasn't for Sasuke being vulnerable, I'd be beating your ass like you owed me money right now."
Literally, he could escape to Isobu's personal dimension at anytime. He was just reluctant to show it off in front of Orochimaru unless he was forced to.
"Well, you're welcome to try my interesting little friend," Orochimaru smiled widely, spreading his arms out invitingly, daring him to come at the man, "Though I should add, that if you feel brave because Kakashi-kun is here, he wouldn't make a difference I'm afraid, I'm sure he remembers how our last encounter went."
"I was barely a man at that time," Kakashi refuted, "This won't go like that time, I'm far stronger than I was then."
In response, Orochimaru chuckled derisively, "No, no you are not," he replied, denying his words, "In fact, I dare say you're weaker, you've lost that edge you had back then Kakashi-kun, and let all that potential you had go to waste. Jonin at a mere thirteen years of age and with potential to rival our dearly departed Minato-kun, or at least near his own, but look at you now, you're older now than Minato-kun was when he died, and yet you don't even come close to his strength, what a disappointment you turned out to be."
'He's gonna need a fragment of Gelel for that one.' Daiki resisted the urge to wince. That was a real burn right there.
He had to resist the urge to clap.
He was impressed.
Surprisingly, Kakashi didn't react much at all to the insult, and kept his cool, "Feel free to think so, true I may be weaker physically, rusty from the peace we've enjoyed, but I've learned much along the way," the copy ninja replied, "There may be a gap between us Orochimaru, a substantial one, but don't think for a moment I don't have ways to cross it."
"Hmm, is that so?" Orochimaru hummed thoughtfully, "That is interesting, I wonder, how exactly you would do that though? The mangekyou perhaps? Did all that grief you went through in your younger years unlock it? Or mayhaps you've learned how to use the gates from Gai-kun, I remember you were quite close to him were you not?"
Kakashi stilled, only for a very brief second. But, neither Daiki nor Orochimaru missed it, "Oh, so the eight gates then?" Orochimaru mused, "Interesting, so the Sharingan even allows you to copy that method?"
'Wait, it does?' Daiki had to resist the urge to let his own eyes widen at that information. He had no idea how he would get Gai to teach him to open the gates.
And here the solution dropped right into his lap. Once he had Shisui's Sharingan, he could just copy the method.
"Perceptive as always, aren't you Orochimaru? I suppose you weren't called one of the greatest prodigies to ever come from Konoha without reason," Kakashi all but admitted he was right, "But you guessing it doesn't change anything, I'm known as the master of a thousand jutsu for a reason, do you feel confident enough to take on all that jutsu amplified by the Eight Gates?"
'Now this is interesting.' Daiki eyed Kakashi thoughtfully. This had went completely off script.
Originally, Kakashi would have been stunned into inaction by Orochimaru, the gulf in their strength that massive.
But here, Kakashi was ready to fight him and even had a plan to beat him? The eight gates would fuck him up for sure, but it was still quite the hand to play.
Even Orochimaru couldn't take that lightly.
Especially not with Daiki here. He already knew one little mistake would be all it took for Daiki to fire off the same jutsu he had in the Forest of Death, and if he couldn't escape it in time, like he had before, he would die.
"Well, that would be troublesome for sure," Orochimaru tapped his chin, "Of course I would still beat you Kakashi-kun, but it would become a bit of an exercise in doing so, and of course all that commotion would have reinforcements come running."
Then he smirked, "A good threat Kakashi, how about I return the favour?" he replied, and ever so casually, went through a few hand seals, before reaching down and pressing his hands against the ground, maintaining eye contact with Kakashi and Daiki and almost daring them to act.
Daiki's eyes widened.
He recognised those hand seals!
The ground ripple and from it, a wooden coffin emerged from the ground. Oddly though, it wasn't as he was expecting. The coffin was open still, and there was no formidable shinobi within it.
But rather, a girl, a girl he recognised, wrapped to the chin in bandages, her black eyes was wild with panic and terror, "Orochimaru-sama, please, I'm sorry we failed you, please have mercy!" Kin Tsuchi begged him.
"…What is this?!" Kakashi growled at him, and it was the first how of pure emotion he'd given since Orochimaru appeared.
The state of Kin actually enflamed his temper.
Orochimaru opened his mouth, but Daiki cut him off before he could, "It's Edo Tensei, the Nidaime Hokage's jutsu," he explained, "Using a living sacrifice it lets you summon someone that's already dead back to the world of the living as a puppet to fight under your orders as long as you have their dna."
Orochimaru's eyes actually widened, "You know of it Daiki-kun? My interest in you grows ever more," he hissed out, almost moaning in happiness, befor he turned his attention back to Kakashi, "Indeed, this is the Edo Tensei jutsu, you showed me your hand, I thought why not show you mine? And as kind as I am, I thought, why not let you have a reunion with your dear departed and beloved teacher, Minato-kun."
Kakashi's eyes widened in absolutely horror.
'Minato can't be summoned, his soul is in the Shinigami's stomach.' Daiki's mind raced. This could be a real problem.
But nothing stopped Orochimaru from changing who he summoned. And if he summoned Hashirama Senju, then they were absolutely fucked.
Even with him being weakened from the non improved Edo Tensei that Kabuto would perfect later, he was still a kage level shinobi, beyond anyone currently in this room.
And with the Mokuton, he could suppress the power of a Bijuu. which would totally invalidate Daiki's trump card!
"Or perhaps I could let you meet you dearly departed little friends? I wonder what Obito-kun or Rin-chan's reactions would be to Kakashi-kun all grown u-"
He was cut off by two swords appearing in the air besides Daiki, crackling with lightning chakra.
Twin streams of lightning shot towards Orochimaru, forcing the man to quickly evade, and Daiki didn't waste the surprise attack.
He thrust his free hand out behind him, firing off the a blast of pure force, jettisoning him forward at the same time he rushed towards Orochimaru.
A split moment later, his foot smashed into the wooden coffin, right behind Kin's head and shattered it, and as he landed, he grabbed up Kin in his free hand and launched himself backwards, landing beside Kakashi.
It was such a sudden attack, neither Kakashi or Orochimaru spoke for a moment.
It only lasted a moment though.
Orochimaru chuckled once more, "How ruthless Daiki-kun, and we were having such a pleasant conversation too," he shook his head, "And here I was being kind, not only offering Kakashi-kun the chance to meet with those he misses so dearly, but even offering up one of the three that tormented his precious genin in the forest not long ago."
Kin on his shoulder whimpered, but didn't speak, "I'm not interested in sappy shit like that," Daiki shrugged, even with balancing both Kin and Sasuke on his shoulder, "Honestly, this has dragged on way too long, I'm a busy guy you see, so I cut that crap off at the head, or well I will after I rip yours off if you don't piss off already."
"Ah Daiki-kun, do you think little Kin is the only sacrifice I've prepared, I have dozens just waiting," Orochimaru tutted, "And now you have even more baggage and made yourself a target, how do you plan to fight if you have to carry around Sasuke-kun and this useless little girl."
In response, a jet of lightning shot from one of the Kiba blades hovering by his side and Orochimaru tilted his head to the side, easily avoiding the attack.
"I think I'll manage." he replied drily.
"Well, if you want her Daiki-kun, feel free to keep her, she's very much disposable, not like you and Sasuke-kun," Orochimaru shrugged the attack off nonchalantly, "Say Daiki-kun, it may be a bit abrupt, but why don't you cut your ties with the leaf village and join me? Konoha has squandered your talent for sure, not a single person to teach you. With my teachings, you could very well surpass the Hokage of the past."
Kakashi growled again, and eyed Daiki from the corner of his eyes. "I'm good," Daiki snorted, "I don't need your help."
"Now now, let's not be too short sighted here, talent only goes so far my young friend," Orochimaru waggled his finger reproachfully, "And this village will soon be a thing of the past, it won't be long before I raze it to the ground."
"No you won't." Daiki denied flatly, instantly.
The flat denying and so quickly, actually caused Orochimaru to blinked in surprise, "Oh, and how can you be so sure?" he replied, "You haven't even seen a glimpse of my true strength yet my young friend, and the Village Hidden in the Sound, I created it, they are all my loyal subordinates, do you think Konoha can stand up to myself with a village at my back?"
"I just got done fixing up my house and my buddies pond, you destroying the village, means you'll destroy my house, where I live, keep my shit and relax, not to mention, this village has tons of hot girls," Daiki deadpanned, before narrowing his eyes, "If you try it, I'll kill you and raze your village to the ground instead."
"Hmm, well that is a pity," Orochimaru shrugged, unconcerned, "Well, I'm sure your answer will change in the future when you see what's in store for Konoha, I can wait, and am unbothered by the arrogance of a child who doesn't understand the situation."
Casually, the pale man stuffed his hands into his pockets and turned, walking away, "And I've seen all I needed to know," he looked over his shoulder at them both and grinned, "Sasuke-kun desires power above all else, since you cannot get rid of my Cursed Seal, the day will come when he seeks me out for that power."
"If my hands weren't full, I'd be sticking the middle finger up at you," Daiki replied with a snort, "Please imagine I'm doing so."
"Very well, I'll do that." Orochimaru nodded and casually walked away, disappearing behind the pillars out of sight, his presence vanishing.
For Kakashi and any normal person at least.
Daiki stared through the pillars and watched him go, sinking into the ground with a single hand seal and making a straight forward path out of the building into the forest.
Kakashi sighed, relaxing, "…Well that was fun." the man commented idly, a bead of sweat trailing down the side of his face.
"Meh, that guy's a clown," Daiki scoffed, "He's all big talk, I could take him." he'd have been in for a fight shock if he really tried to fight.
Daiki would have dumped Kin and Sasuke's asses in Isobu's dimension, went full three tailed cloak and unleashed all of his clones currently training in there while he was at it.
"Saying he's all big talk is quite funny from you, it's like your favourite pass time," Kakashi snorted, "You might have your big turtle trump card, but if a single one of them going up against him was enough to bring him down, he wouldn't have reached this point."
Double speak, why was he-
Oh right, Kin Tscuhi was currently privy to everything they were talking about. Sure, she seemed too terrified to even move in his grasp right now, but her ears were still working.
"Not true, my favourite pass time is getting laid, unlike you Virginkashi," Daiki snorted fight back, "And how many of my kind has he actually fought, never mind a perfect one like myself. Unless he ever fought Killer Bee or Yagura, then I doubt he's at all prepared to face me."
"You'd kill everyone in this tower by accident if you tried to go full power," Kakashi shook his head, "Without it, he'd be privy to your secret, know what's going and flee before you could kill him, and he'd come up with multiple plans to deal with you. Orochimaru is not someone we can ever underestimate."
"Ugh, I hate it when you're right," Daiki clicked his tongue, before shaking his head, "So what will we do about this girl then? Kin Tsuchi is her name from what I remember from when I was scoping out the first exam. Can I keep her? She's cute enough and I've been looking to get some maids for my place."
He'd show Sasuke he could get hot maids!
"Yeah, no," Kakashi rolled his eyes and replied flatly, "She's a foreign kunoichi and former subordinate of Orochimaru, what is wrong with you kid?"
"A foreign subordinate he was going to kill, whom I saved the life of, and I'm stronger than Orochimaru, I'm totally badass," Daiki replied, trailing off in a tangent before getting back on track, "I doubt she's going to betray anything to the guy who'd snap her neck for a laugh."
He felt the girl on his shoulder stiffen and swallow heavily.
"Still, not going to happen," Kakashi shook his head, "We need to have her interrogated and learn all we can about Orochimaru and this Sound Village."
"Well obviously," Daiki rolled his eyes, "But beyond being a foreign kunoichi she hasn't exactly committed any crimes against us, and she won't be allowed to go freely, so she can be my maid after that."
"She tormented Sakura and tried to kill her and the rest of my team." Kakashi deadpanned.
"It's the chunin exams, do you know how many people I killed in the forest?" Daiki scoffed, hell he planned on murdering the sensei of one of the teams he killed while he was at it, brutally so, "Besides, Sakura kicked her ass, she's lucky Sakura isn't built to use my jutsu or she'd be dead in fact."
"You know I'm actually not in a position to grant any of that anyway right?" Kakashi rolled his eyes right back at him, "If you want to have her as a maid instead of her being kept in a cell or killed, take it up with the Hokage."
"Fine." Daiki shrugged.
"Good." Kakashi shrugged.
"By the way, get bent Kakashi." Daiki replied.
"Control your raging hormones brat." Kakashi replied.
"Fuck you." Daiki retorted.
"No thank you." Kakashi retorted.
And they bickered right up until they left the underground basement, where they parted ways, Daiki taking Sasuke to the infirmary and to keep an eye on him until he woke up.
And Kakashi taking Kin to be interrogated.
Daiki being the ever generous, ever dutiful good buddy he was, carried Sasuke like a sack of potatoes over his shoulder to the infirmary.
The two chunin guarding the door of it, gave him odd looks, but didn't stop him, in fact, they gave him respectful bows of their heads. Probably because the pair of them were present when he was mouthing off at Danzo with the full support of old man third.
Finally some respect around this joint!
Once he closed the door behind him, totally not banging Sauske's head on the door frame as he entered, honest, he noticed that the place was empty.
The med nin on staff was out for whatever reason.
"Well, whatever," Daiki shrugged, picking out the nearest bed and walking over to it, "Sleep tight princess." he unceremoniously dropped the Uchiha onto the bed, his body almost bouncing right off the bed, before pulling the curtains around the bed around and hiding him from view.
Then he plopped down on the chair beside the bed and kicked his feet up on the infirmary bed, crossing his arms behind his head and relaxed.
He sat there relaxing for all of a half hour, before the boredom really seriously fucking got to him.
"…This is mind numbing." he groaned, head lolling back over the chair and looking up at the ceiling.
He couldn't even train in this place.
There was hardly any space with all the medical equipment, beds and shit around. Even making sure Sasuke was comfortable and covered up in the bed after dropping him on it for a laugh didn't do anything.
And he couldn't even leave this place, since he was guarding Sasuke, "I really need to get my hands on a gaming console or something." he groaned aloud.
Looking into it, he had found that indeed game consoles did exist in this world. Not ones that measured up quite to the ones in his memories, but he had found a few portable ones, the most up to date one being reminiscent of a game boy.
The problem was, they were pretty new in release, made by a company at the Crescent Moon Islands.
And they didn't sell them outside of there.
…So he would need to get a mission to head there to buy one. Which was a trip and a half for sure.
And beyond that, there wasn't even anything really interesting going on at the Crescent Moon Islands for him to pick up. The Crescent Moon Islands events that Naruto, Sakura, Lee and Kakashi all got involved in, didn't involve any particularly powerful object or chakra source.
It was just one dude using a team of ninja trying to take over the kingdom after killing the royal family.
'That might not be a bad idea on of itself to take care of though.' he mused with a sigh.
If he put a stop to it and got the gratitude of the royal family in place of Naruto, he could see about getting funding and shit from them for the village if him having to take over came to pass.
…Though if shit did go down like the other time line and old man third died in the invasion, he wouldn't exactly be able to leave the village himself to take care of it.
'Well, a clone could do it I suppose.' he shrugged, or a team of them hyped up by Isobu's chakra.
They should be capable of taking care of that nonsense.
…And then he could get trade open with the Crescent Moon Islands….and get game consoles sent over here.
"A good plan, but not really anything that eases my boredom right now." Daiki sighed, sitting up straight in the chair.
He cast a look at the Uchiha peacefully snoozing away in the bed beside him, and his expression turned deadpan, "Having a good rest I see." he drummed his fingers on his thighs.
If he was awake, at least they could banter to pass the time.
And neither of the two chunin outside garnered much interest from him. Now, if one or both of them were females, that might have changed, but such was life.
His eyes stayed focused on Sasuke. And with how bright the room was in the infirmary, he noticed just how pale the body was.
"Bro, you need a tan, we should hit up the beach or something for a vacation." he pointed out.
Seriously, the dude was as pale as a ghost, if he got any paler, he'd look like chalk white and ever Sai-like.
Honestly, his skin looked like a blank canvas.
…Wait.
A grin spread across Daiki's face and he held his hand out, with a thought, summoning his seal brush from his Dimension Force Seal.
He stood up and leaned over the sleeping Uchiha, "This is your own fault for falling asleep around your best buddy, I mean, it's tradition as well." he excused his future actions.
He gently swiped the paint brush over the other teenagers face. First, around the eyes, with a pair of black ink circles, connected by a lignn over the bridge of the nose.
Then, he went downwards, to just above his mouth. And drew a nice big long and curly moustache and curled around so much his full cheeks were black ringed.
"Heh, classic." Daiki laughed to himself.
Something was missing though…
"Oh right!" Daiki's eyes lit up, his forehead was empty.
He brought the brush up to his forehead and drew a nice, big long and thick inky cock, with a few little droplets of what looked like liquid shooting through the top and raining down over his eyes.
"Hahahaha!" Daiki erupted into pure amused laughter.
He couldn't wait to see his face when he looked in a mirror, or even better, if someone pointed it out to him.
…It would be way funnier if his fangirls that always squealed about how cool he was saw him like this.
But if he saw it in the mirror, he'd definitely clean it off with a Uchiha style pout before anyone could have a laugh at him.
And there was a mirror right at the entrance of this room.
Which meant his plan was doomed to fail.
"Guess there's no helping it then." Daiki shook his head, concentrating chakra into his palm.
He pressed his palm against Sasuke's head and focused, before pulling back a good thirty seconds later.
Now, there were a pair of lines connecting together and forming an arrow pointing down at the cock on his forehead. But it was mostly hidden by his hair and bangs.
Just another condensed seal matrix, though this was a mere combination of the Storage Seal and the Storage Return Seal.
With but a thought, he could make the ink go into the Storage Seal, and then make it come back out.
"This way I can hide it until we pass all the mirror then bring it out later!" Daiki mentally pat himself on the back.
He was such a genius.
And this was gonna be a riot!
'Your immaturity knows no bounds.' Isobu commented, deadpan.
'I'm bored, what do you expect?' Daiki shrugged, sitting back down on his chair.
'…And this is the boy in line to be the next Hokage, I fear for the future of this world.' the huge bijuu shook his head in dismay.
'If I become Hokage, let me tell you, mini skirts, booty shorts, cleavage bearing tops and compulsory Hokage lap dances are become mandatory.' he replied.
'….Exactly.' Isobu groaned, 'You know, I know you're playing it up, but I can feel how tempted you are to actually go through with that.'
Hey man, Hokage sounded like such a shit job after the initial benefits. He'd have to get some good fun out of it somehow.
And if he couldn't use the authority of it for someone like that for a laugh, then what was the point of it all?
Too much responsibility for little in return after the initial benefits, did not at all sound like a good time.
Of course there was the bet he had with Tenten going on…
He'd become Hokage just for that.
Unfortunately, despite the brief amusement his doodling of Sasuke's face gave him, it wasn't long before he was back deep within the pitch black ebony pits of boredom.
Damn Orochimaru, if it weren't for him, Daiki would be free to grind away right now and pass the time in muscle burning training. But no, already he'd wasted three hours just sitting guarding Sasuke.
The funny thing was, that besides Kakashi or the Hokage himself, Daiki really was the best choice to guard Sasuke. If it came down to it, he was one of the very few capable of either beating Orochimaru or getting away from him.
So he couldn't even fault the logic of Kakashi leaving him to guard Sasuke.
Though he could sure as hell gripe about it to Isobu, to the huge turtles/tortoise's dismay.
It was a good chance to grind up his whining ability Daiki supposed.
Thankfully, something that could through the gloom of boredom broke him from his thoughts.
A groan escaped Sasuke's lips, the Uchiha shifting noticeably in the infirmary bed, before slowly, his eyes blinked open, clearing his exhaustion.
Thank fuck.
He released a silent yawn, before pushing himself up in his bed and rubbing his eyes.
Then his gaze shifted and fell on Daiki himself.
Sasuke blinked, before rousing fully, "…Daiki?" he mouthed, confused.
"Sup sleepin' beauty," he greeted the boy with a wave, "Have a good sleep?"
Sasuke gave him an odd look, "Why the hell am I waking up besides you of all people?"
"Cuz somebody needed to guard your sissy ass while you were out like a light." Daiki shrugged, grinning.
He blinked once more, before narrowing his eyes, "Since when am I a sissy, and why would I need your loser ass to guard me?" he challenged.
"Since you passed out, again by the way," Daiki shot back, "Well, as far as being a sissy goes at least. The reason I'm guarding you is because Pedomaru tried to come yoink you while you were out like a light so he could sliver up your ass and go all oonga boonga in your body."
Sasuke grimaced in disgust, "…That explains why I'm being guarded, not why you're doing it," he replied, "And do you need to be so disgustingly crude?"
"Yes," he shrugged, unashamed, grinning all the way, "And you already know why I'm guarding you as well, cuz' I'm one of the few people strong enough to beat his ass if he tries anything."
"Bullshit," Sasuke deadpanned, denying his statement, "You're strong for sure, but not that strong."
…Well, he wasn't wrong.
"I am if I use the full power of my Bijuu." Daiki shrugged again.
Sasuke's gaze became drier, "That's not you being strong enough, that's your bijuu you clown," he huffed, "And while we're on the subject, who the hell are you calling a weakling like you did earlier? The only reason you managed to do anything about the seal on your neck is because of your bijuu, relying on another, yet you were trying to say I'd be a weakling loser for relying on Orochimaru's power, which I won't, just saying, you're such a hypocrite Daiki."
"Do as I say, not as I do?" Daiki replied. The Uchiha merely raised an eyebrow at him, "The only hypocrite I like is myself."
"…Utterly shameless," Sasuke scoffed, before smirking at him, "After all that tough talk earlier, you're just as big a loser as you tried to make out I would be if I relied on Orochimaru."
Daiki blinked slowly for a moment, organizing his thoughts, before countering, "At least a snake man doesn't want to anally probe me like he does you."
"And you can never just let anyone get the last word in except for you," Sasuke rolled his eyes, before releasing a deep breath and sobering, his eyes locking with Daiki's own, "Still, thanks. For sticking around and trying to help, even if you can't do anything, it means a lot."
"That's fine, but I never really meant that," Daiki shrugged, "I just knew Orochimaru was listening in and didn't want him to know I actually could fuck that seal up just like I did mine and make it fine for you to use."
"…Oh." Sasuke uttered blankly, before sighing again, his gaze turning dry, "I really hate you sometimes."
"Nah bro, you love me," Daiki smirked, "Obviously I'm gonna do what I can to make sure old pedosnakeymaru doesn't get his slimy hands on you. I can't have him messing up our bromance."
"Another word I have no idea what the meaning of is," Sasuke replied blankly, "Do you just love talking gibberish or something?"
Silly Sasuke.
Daiki shook his head, but instead of explaining, he stood up to his feet and took a deep breath, before-
"You ma' homie! Yea ya' know me!" he broke out into song and sat down on the bed beside Sasuke, wrapping an arm around his shoulder and pulling him into a bro hug, before gesturing out widely with one arm, "And if you ever need a wingman, I'd let any girl blow me~!"
"I understood none of that except for the last part," Sasuke deadpanned, pulling out of Daiki's grip, "And considering you showed an interest in Sakura and Yamanaka, I don't think your standards can get any lower, so that's not really much of a sacrifice on your part."
"Yeah," Daiki nodded, accepting his words, "Well, you're a dickhead." literally. It was hard to take him seriously with the ink glasses, moustache and big ink dick over his forehead spurting ink jizz over his eyes.
Now he was going to laugh even more at Sasuke for his cheek. Who denied a bromance?
He deserved the doodles now.
And here we are back again, this time with the big three to the two, thirty fo fo four!
And so the confrontation with Orochimaru ends and Daiki learns how boring guard duty truly is. Will he learn to sympathise with Izumo and Kotetsu from this? Who knows. Find out next time on Chunin Exams Z! But, in other news, with this chapter we wrap up this portion of things and come the next we'll be moving on to the prelims in full. Which have all been randomized and have some surprising fights. Some might surprise you, some might not, some might even make you pity the poor fools. But, as far as how far ahead things are? Well, I just wrapped up the prelims in full earlier with my last update on Pa-atreon. Had a bit of writers blocks and a cold holding me back so was a bit slowed down this week. But, finally, the prelims, the biggest killer of any Naruto fanfic, have been surpassed! I'll be moving on to Chapter 41 and possible 42 tomorrow if I can shake this cold by then.
Anyway, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.