Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction ❯ Seeking Peace ❯ This Is The Part Where I Freak Out ( Chapter 3 )

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"Naruto!!" Sakura called out joyfully as he grinned smugly down at us."Ne, Naruto," I grinned back up at him, "are you just gonna stand up there and look cool, or are you gunna come down and help us kick this creep's ass?""Forget it Aneka, Naruto, this guy's on a whole other level!" Sasuke shouted at us.I glared back at him, "What do you suggest then, oh wise leader?? I think we already established that running away isn't going to work!"He glared hard at me with those glinty red eyes of his, then they suddenly went back to normal. He pulled a scroll with the kanji symbol '?' for heaven on it, and held it out."This is what you want, isn't it?" He addressed the snake-like ninja, "Take it and leave us alone."I gave him a bizarre look, "Huh?"Sakura made a similar sound of disbelief and Naruto's jaw dropped in astonishment and anger."Sasuke, you bastard, what the hell!? Why would you give the scroll to an enemy??" He shouted, enraged."I see...Very smart..." The snake pulled himself upright, leering at us, "The only way for prey to escape is to give the predator a different meal..."I gritted my teeth at that, "Would youquitwith all the stupid animal analogies, for god's sake!?! You make me sick! Cut it out already!""Someone's got a temper...Aneka-chan, was it?" The snake man grinned at me."Say my name like that one more time, and I will personally become the one who cuts your tongue out." I growled at him darkly.He just laughed at me some more, making me even more angry. I don't think I ever met someone more infuriating in my life."Go. Leave us in peace." Sasuke tossed the scroll over my head toward the enemy with an apathetic look on his face. Naruto looked horrified however.He used some of that crazy speed I had seen these guys dish out to catch the twirling scroll in mid air. I smiled in relief."You idiot! What are you doing??" Sasuke rounded on him, "Do you understand what kind of situation we're in?"Naruto punched him fiercely, hard enough to send him sprawling backwards."What the hell are you doing??" Sasuke yelled at him,affronted."Naruto..." Sakura murmured his name wearily at the look on his face. It was fierce and animalistic."I forgot the pass word, so i can't test it..." He glowered at Sasuke, "But you're not the real Sasuke, are you?!""There's no way, such a stupid coward like you is the Sasuke I know! I don't know how strong this guy is, but there's no way to grantee he'd let us go once he got the scroll! You're the one who doesn't understand the situation!" He growled at him savagely.I Put a hand on Naruto's shoulder, looked at him meaningfully, and murmured into his ear, "Fear does things to people...That guy isn't natural, Naruto...We're gunna need a lot of fire power to take him down...Sasuke's freaked, that's all. It happens to the best of us...good thing you caught the scroll."He smirked humorlessly at me, "I've lost respect for any fire power Sasuke's got..."The snake guy laughed at us conspiring together, elongating that nasty tongue to lick the side of his face "You're exactly right Naruto-kun...Since I can just as easily kill you and take the scroll after..."I gripped my dad's switch blade and rushed at the guy furiously, "I've heard enough of your bull shit!!"It was almost comical the speed in which he incapacitated me, and he held me by the throat in seconds. He gripped my wrist with his other hand like a vice, almost crushing it, and I cried out in pain, nearly dropping my knife.There were choruses of my name from my allies, aghast at my actions.The snake wrested my blade from me anyhow, holding it infront of my face tauntingly, asking me in a sickly sweet voice, "Is this something important to you...?""Give it back—bastard!" I managed to choke out furiously as I kicked at him from where my legs dangled off the ground, reaching for the knife he kept just out of my range with all my might with the hand that wasn't trying to keep his own from crushing my throat.He grinned at me with pointed incisors, "I see...So if I were to do something like this..."He held the knife up into my view and snapped it. Just like that. As easily as snapping a twig.I stopped struggling as I felt shock overwhelm my system. I wasn't really quite aware of what happened after that.When I was little, my mom used to enroll me in a soccer camp, and there was this other little girl that used to make me angrier than anything. One time, she tripped me right before I was about to make the winning goal. The next thing I was conscious of was being pulled off of a mangled little girl...psychologists said I had reverted to something called the 'reptilian psyche'. It's a state of mind where one relinquishes control of their actions to their most primitive instincts. I had been so angry that I attacked the little girl like an animalistic human being.This was like that time.The next thing I was conscious of, was Sasuke trying to shake me awake, "It's okay, he's dead now. I got him."I looked to see the guy burnt half alive tied up to a tree with wire. I looked back and forth between Sasuke and the thing tied to the tree several times, uncomprehending at first. I then pounced on him with a cheer of laughter, hugging him in celebration."You did it! I can't believe it!""Yeah!" Sakura cheered as well.At that point I looked around us confused, "Where's Naruto?""You mean you don't remember?" Sakura asked, confused as well.I shook my head and looked to Sasuke, and realized I was still hugging him. I let go quickly, apologizing."You went nuts as soon as he broke your knife..." he told me, "So did Naruto...The two of you were going berserk on the guy, until he finally incapacitated Naruto somehow...after that you kept trying to put the knife back together and went kind of useless..."I finally realized I was holding the remnants of my dad's switch blade in my hands. The thing had served me faithfully for almost five years...I stared down at it morosely...Suddenly, we all jerked our heads to look around at a snapping noise...The snake man broke through the wires wrapped around him like they were threads, "To have such mastery of the Sharingan at such young an age...you truly are the one with the Uchiha blood...And you..."He looked at me with half of his face peeling off to reveal another one completely with dead white skin and a yellow slit eye peering out at me, "...I don't know what you are...""I had fun testing your powers..." He wiped away something on his shiny head band to reveal a music note where there had once been only jagged lines, and Sasuke and Sakura went slack again with the fear he seemed to inflict on people. To me it was only an odd buzzing nose, and I glared at him, standing up tall...well, as tall as I could..."You really are his brother..." He addressed Sasuke, leeringly, "I sense powers in your eyes that surpass even Itachi...such potential..""Who the hell are you!?" Sasuke spat at him, angrily."My name is Orochimaru..." He held up the heaven scroll somehow and it caught fire in his hand."No!" I took a couple steps forward, gritting my teeth in anger, "Why??"He laughed, "Maybe we'll see each other again if you get through these exams alive, of course, defeating my men on the way...""What the hell are you talking about??!" Sakura exclaimed, "We never want to see your face again!""Heh! Well I know I will. Because that'll be the day I finish what we started, you bastard!" I shouted at him.He laughed at my words for what seemed like the hundredth time, then suddenly, after making a hand sign, extended his neck like a real snake with fangs flying and everything. I realized with a sick jolt that he was headed right toward Sasuke... who was still under paralysis effects...It seemed to me almost as if it happened in slow motion. So far, this guy had done whatever he wanted to us, and gotten away with it. My knife...Naruto was actually pinned to a tree...and now Sasuke...I wouldn't let him. Not this time.I felt a strange energy well up inside me, and I channeled whatever I could to the muscles in my legs, rushing out in front of Sasuke, my arms outstretched. I had just gotten my hand between them fast enough to connect with Orochimaru's face...well his fangs actually. They went right through my hand and slammed into Sasuke's neck then afterwards...I screamed in anguish. It was unnatural."What is this pain!?" Sasuke cursed as the fangs disconnected tortuously, leaving a mark behind on both his neck and my hand."Not exactly what I had in mind...But it'll work out the way I want in the end..." Orochimaru grinned exactly like a snake as he began to sink into the wood of the tree."What'd you do to them??" Sakura shouted in confusion as the marks on both mine and Sasuke's bodies throbbed with a simultaneous pang of vicious, burning agony. Our screams almost drowned her out."I gave them a going away present." He grinned as his head began to finally sink away, "Soon they'll seek me out...seeking power..."I felt my vision go red with anger as I stared at his disappearing form with hatred. I suddenly felt another pang of that strange energy at my core and I used all of it to charge at him. He stared at me in something like shock as I tackled him, both of us sinking into the tree like quick sand.I heard Sakura call out after me with distress, but that was the last thing I heard before I was enveloped by blackness...`~*~`Anko flew through the woods, jumping from branch to branch as fast as she could. The sun was on the horizon making a beautiful sunset over the forest of death, however she didn't have time to enjoy it. She had heard her old teacher was back in town...'It's almost night fall...' she thought to herself, dismayed, 'I have to find him before it becomes completely dark...otherwise I'll be at another disadvantage...''But why...' She narrowed her sharp eyes suspiciously, 'Why is he here at a time like this...?'She shook her head as she dropped down a couple levels in the tree tops, talking to herself, frustrated, "It makes no difference.""If you've come back to the village then we'll settle things now..." She hopped from one branch and settled down on another in a crouch, "I'll stop you even if it costs me my life...""I was one of your own..." She stood, straight, facing away from the trunk dramatically, "Thus, it comes down to me...right Orochimaru?"It was as if he was a part of the tree itself. He grinned evilly at Anko, "What you're talking about is impossible..."Anko whipped some senbon needles out of her trench coat sleeve and jumped in the air in preparation to fire them at him. However, his tongue wrapped around her wrist tightly, causing her to drop all three of them.She grabbed onto it then, though, using her snake shadow hands the sanin had taught her, "You won't get away!"She dragged him out of the tree with her snakes, and pined both of their hands to the tree with a kunai."Heh," she laughed, her face inches from his own burned mask, "looks like I caught you.""I'll borrow your left hand, Orochimaru," She made a sign with both of their hands, "and use the double snake assassin Jutsu you taught me...""Hehe..Planning to commit suicide?" A voice from above laughed.The real Orochimaru sat in the upper branches with an unconscious girl nestled at his side, watching his clone and former student below."You're a special Jounin of this village, are you not?" He pulled the remains of his burnt disguise of his face as his clone disappeared, "You shouldn't be using all the forbidden Jutsu I taught you then...What would your precious Hokage say?"Anko sunk to her knees with a groan as she removed her kunai and her mark burned, "Why are you here...?""We haven’t seen each other in so long..." He grinned at her, his real face revealed, "Yet you're so cold to me...Anko-chan."She scoffed at him and tried answering her own question, "Have you come here to assassinate Hokage-sama?""Oh, no," He denied, casually waving the suggestion away, "I don't nearly enough men for that yet...I thought I'd go recruiting for some outstanding ones from the village first..."Anko double over in pain from the curse mark, groaning at the proximity to its owner."You know, I just gave a couple of kids that very same curse mark earlier..." He held up the girl by her long cherry red hair, "Isn't she cute? She reminds me of you.""How selfish..." Anko panted, "That kid's going to die.""You didn't." He smirked, "Even though the chance of actually surviving is one out of ten...""Heh...you must really like this kid..." She gritted through her teeth.The girl sweated with fever and flinched away from Orochimaru even though she was unconscious."She makes me laugh..." Orochimaru grinned, tilting her chin up and holding her like a marionette, then he inquired "Are you jealous...? Or are you still upset that I threw you away?""Unlike you," He continued as Anko gritted her teeth in pain once again, "The other one is very talented...a kid who carries the Uchiha blood. They're both very beautiful, perfect vessels to be my successor...although I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one...""What do you mean?" Anko scoffed through her pain."Her powers are volatile and unpredictable..." He answered, "She landed several blows on me when I was testing her, and it seems that she's not even a ninja of this village, or any other...She simply appeared here in the middle of the exams..."He grinned, "It's going to be fun figuring out how she ticks if she survives...The boy will make it even more interesting...You know she flung herself in front of me to try and save him? Haha I hadn't even intended to give her the cursed mark as well, but it went straight through her, and to the intended target...she's opened up a whole new world for me to question and figure out...""You always did like doing experiments..." She commented, then doubled over again.He stood then, and dropped the girl in front of Anko unceremoniously, "I'll leave you in charge of Aneka-chan, then. I trust you'll take good care of her for me? Oh, and please don't think of ending the exams prematurely. I'm going to enjoy this...and if you try anything that might end it for me, I'll finish the leaf village, once and for all...That's all."With that, he was gone in a flash, leaving Anko and Aneka alone. Anko panted as the pain slowly ebbed away and looked up at the feverish girl. She checked her neck briefly for the seal, finding it bare, but then her eyes wandered to her wrist, finding two puncture wounds on her hand and the mark to show for it."Poor kid..." Anko gathered up the girl in her arms, brushing the hair away from her face. It was heart shaped, with a small mouth and eyes with long lashes. Her cheeks were heated up with fever so hot that it almost burned Anko when she touched her."Let's get you out of here."

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