Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ My Naruto Work of Fanfiction ❯ Of power boxes and snake eyes ( Chapter 8 )

Disclaimer: Look at the previous chapters; I'm tired of typing this.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you see a person's stats, you don't have to read them, I'll try to incorporate everything into the story, but I can't promise anything.

 

“Blah” = Talking.

`Blah' = Thinking.

$$ = Separation/Start/End etc.

$$$ = Go to someone else.

 

Hakke Kusho (Eight Trigrams Empty Palm)

 

Fukumi Hari (Hidden Needles)

 

$Story Start$

 

Stars danced in front of his eyes, well, eye. His blood circulation being cut off by the iron-grip the screaming girl hand on him.

 

Ears pounding with the shrill sound, Kakashi tried to pull her off; what a vain attempt it was.

 

Orochimaru glared at them, not liking the fact that Aoi was touching Kakashi so.

 

Leaning down, he wrapped his long, pale fingers around her ankles and pulled; that failed as well.

 

The only thing it did was make them look stupid; two guys and one girl, one guys face slowly turning purple, the screaming girls' arms around his neck, and the other guy pulling on her ankles.

 

Suffice to say, this was a very laughable situation.

 

“Aoi,” Kakashi moaned, his air depleting fast, “Can't . . . breath.”

 

Immediately she let go; stopped screaming; and flew back into Orochimaru's torso, knocking him over.

 

She blinked, looking down at Orochimaru's legs, then up at Kakashi, “What happened? Wait!” Her head spun around franticly, “Why is it so dark?!”

 

“The power was knocked off.” Came a voice from behind her.

 

Looking over her shoulder, Aoi sweat dropped.

 

“Not that I don't mind you sitting on me, but could you get off?” He smirked, hand sliding up her calf.

 

“Ew!” She shrieked, scrambling off of him and grabbing Kakashi's arm tightly to her, hiding behind it.

 

Orochimaru got up and dusted himself off, annoyed that she would find him `eww-able'.

 

After coughing for a moment, Kakashi finally regained his senses, “We should try to get the power back on.”

 

“Yes please!” Aoi put in, tightening her grip slightly.

 

“Lets split up, Dolly will come with me.” Orochimaru made a grab for her, but stopped and looked around, nose twitching slightly.

 

Letting his tongue slide out from between pale lips, Orochimaru tasted the air, “Oh good, they're here.”

 

“Who are?”

 

Instead of answering her, he disappeared, leaving to put his plans into motions.

 

“Peculiar.” Kakashi mumbled, then started walking, Aoi right next to him, “Guess we'll get the power back on ourselves.”

 

“For real?! I love technology!! I can't wait to try!” Aoi giggled, quickening her pace.

 

`Odd. It would be fixing the thing of her fears that made her happy.'

 

$$$

 

“Hey!! Jigoku-chan!” Narashi called, running up beside the shorter girl, “You guys don't mind me here do you? The other two were . . . are, crazy.”

 

“No problem! Just watch out for Genma, he's a grade A pervert.”

 

“I am not!”

 

“Fine, A+ then.”

 

“That's better!”

 

`Maybe I was better off with the other two.' Narashi thought, watching Genma try to cop a feel.

 

She took a step away and continued to talk to Jigoku, ignoring the two men.

 

“You can see right? I mean, with your Byakugen, you should be able to see.” Genma commented, looking at Neji.

 

“Yes, I can see, but not as well as I would have liked too. The Byakugen doesn't give me night vision, though it does help”

 

“Great.” Sighing, Genma looked ahead, the uneasy feeling he was getting; it was almost tangible.

 

$$$

 

“Do you feel that?” Neji asked, eyes sliding across the walls, floor and ceiling.

 

“Feel what?” Jigoku asked, turning to him.

 

“Nothing.” He answered after a long pause, “It's gone now-” the whole hall shook, knocking its passengers to the ground in a disheveled heap.

 

“That.” Came the dry tone of Neji, under three other people.

 

“Oh.” They said in unison.

 

A crash came from up ahead, followed by a strange, loud hiss.

 

Everyone looked at each other, wondering in the heck that could possibly be.

 

Once Neji stood up from the floor, he commented offhandedly, “Doesn't Orochimaru summon snakes?”

 

Another hiss floated down the corridor, followed by more shaking, almost ending up with everyone in another dog pile.

 

Quickly getting into stance, they waited for the inevitable.

 

$$$

 

“The snakes have been deployed, my lord.”

 

“Good work, Kiookami.”

 

“Thank you, my lord.”

 

Orochimaru turned from the monitors, leaving the room as Kiookami continued to work on the computers.

 

`I suppose that back-up computer generator came in handy after all.' Was the snake-man's thought as he ventured across the gray-and-white marble floor.

 

“Now to find what has happened to Hatake and my little dolly.”

 

$$$

 

Prying open a small, metal door, Kakashi took a peek inside. “This is it,” he said, “The power room.”

 

It was dark, but his eye had adjusted enough that he could make a few this-and-that's.

 

“Great! Let me through!”

 

Moving away, he allowed Aoi into the room before clambering in after her.

 

“Oh my.” Her eyes were wide, staring at all the technology in the room that, judging by the door would have been a cramped place to stay in.

 

You could fit all of Kirigukure into this room!

 

“I suppose you must like technology.” Kakashi half-interestedly said, swiping a finger across one of the panels and pulling back thick dust.

 

“Like? I'm obsessed with it. It's my life.” She breathed out, awed by it's site, “Better get to work.”

 

Kneeling down in front of the main generator, which she hoped she was correct about, Aoi opened the hatch and took a look inside, “Lets see. . .”

 

As her hand drifted to the motherboard, Kakashi peered at the labels written over various machinery.

 

`This technology . . . it's over thirty years old. How was it still operating? Why wasn't it replaced?' And those were just a few of the questions zooming around the silver-haired man's head, buzzing in annoyance that he didn't know the answer to them.

 

“Ah ha!” The victorious, muffled cry came from the girl that had crawled into the hole, only her lower half visible.

 

“What is it?” He asked, walking over and crouching beside her.

 

“I found the problem,” pulling herself out, Aoi held up a rather large mental cube, wires of various colors protruding from one end, and a grill, from what he could tell, from the other.

 

Raising his eyebrow in question, Kakashi silently asked what that was.

 

“This, my fine-haired friend, is a power box, it sucks and blows power to all the components. This one's pretty powerful too, plus eight minus eight and plus sixteen minus sixteen watts. And see this?”

 

She held up three ends of the wires, that had small connected box-like plugs on them, “Twenty-four pins, I've never seen one this big before, but I have heard of them, and with three?! This is some of the most advanced technology I've ever seen, you could put three motherboards onto this thing, though six and twelve watts certainly wouldn't be enough for that many.”

 

Kakashi had absolutely no idea what she was talking about, she could be saying `You smell, you're horrible and ugly,' and he wouldn't know!

 

“Lets pretend I didn't study advanced Science for geniuses.”

 

Chuckling, Aoi tried to elaborate it into a way that he would understand, “Basically, this technology is so highly developed, that it could control this whole building without anyone's help. In fact, it's to highly developed, this crap shouldn't even exist.”

 

“Well, obviously it does.”

 

“Really, I hadn't noticed,” she replied sarcastically, studying the power box a bit more, “oh right! The problem! This power box blew, all he has to do it get another, but. . . It couldn't just have been that it blew, it's to new for that to have happened without it being defective, something hit it, something electrical.”

 

Thinking for a moment, Kakashi went through everything that had happened, `I don't remember any electrical currents.'

 

“Died too.”

 

Blinking, Kakashi tried to figure what she had said when he was lost in thought.

 

Alas, he couldn't: “What?”

 

Sighing, Aoi repeated herself, “I said, `And since the power box went, the motherboard most likely died too.'”

 

“Oh.”

 

“Yes, and it would probably be to hard to replace the motherboard, as well. The one in there is, at least, three times bigger then this small door,

 

“Is that it?”

 

“I'm afraid so, I don't have any power boxes and you can't just fix them like that,” Aoi snapped her fingers when she said `that', “Guess we should go then.”

 

“Right,” jumping through the small door, Kakashi helped Aoi out, noticing that she still carried the huge power box.

 

$$$

 

“What I don't get though,” Aoi started suddenly while the two were walking, “is, why is this power box so big? I mean, just because it's big, doesn't mean more energy, this thing is like, five times the normal size of a power box!”

 

She had to hold the power box with both arms, instead of in one hand.

 

“Maybe a male put it in there. You know how big our ego's can be.”

 

“That's for sure.”

 

“What do you plan on doing with that thing anyway?” Kakashi asked, looking down at the metal cube.

 

“I'm gonna dissect it!” She smiled up at Kakashi, features practically glowing.

 

`Strange.'

 

$$$

 

A wide, greenish yellow eye peered around the corner, followed by a brown head and body.

 

It hissed menacingly at them before charging, slithering it's way down the hall.

 

“Everyone, move!” Neji cried, concentrating chakra to his hands.

 

As the rest of the shinobi jumped out of the way, Neji did `Hakke Kusho', pushing the snake back quite a bit.

 

Hissing angrly, the shake smashed the wall next to Neji with it's tail, rocks and debris flying everywhere.

 

Neji stood still, smirking at the snake. `This is going to be fun.'

 

$$$

 

Jigoku watched Neji call his attack, sending the snake back, and almost yelled at him to move when the snake hit the wall, but when the snake opened it's mouth and dove at Neji, she couldn't stand it.

 

“Fukumi Hari!”

 

Thousands upon thousands of senbon shot from her mouth, hitting the snake in a random pattern.

 

Most of them were deflected from it's purplish, scaly body; hit the walls, ceiling or floor; but a few of them managed to lodge their sharp points into the beady, purple eye.

 

Emitting a loud hiss, the snake banged it's head against the senbon covered walls, trying to shake away the senbon from it's eye.

 

The poor creature only ended up worsening the situation by stabbing itself with the senbon that riddled the hall.

 

“Lets go!” Neji called; the three shinobi ran after him, heading down the way Sasuke and Sota had went.

 

$$$

 

Pulling back from the passionate kiss, Sasuke's ears picked up a faint voice, “Do you hear that?”

 

“Hear what?”

 

“Listen.”

 

“Sasuke! Sota!”

 

“It's the rest of the group!” Sota cried, shoving Sasuke off of her and running around the overly decorated room, the gold and red colors not shining as brightly as they do in the darkness.

 

Sasuke picked up the black, lacy bra and smirked, holding it in front of his face.

 

“Have you seen my bra?” Sota asked, holding the rest of her clothes. Turning to him, she blushed, “Oh.” She quickly took it from him and got dressed, glaring when Sota noticed that he had already gotten his clothes and was heading for the door before she was done.

 

Suddenly, Sasuke's mood turned sour.

 

Now that there was no more fun to be had, he could be mad that they were interrupted at such a crucial moment.

 

The two left the room, ready to yell at the morons who stopped them, when four bodies crashed into theirs, sending them all to the floor in a giant heap.

 

Swearing under his breath, Sasuke pushed them off of himself and held a hand out to Sota.

 

After taking his hand, and being helped up, Sota turned to the others, who were looking down the hall with wide eyes, “What's wrong?”

 

“Coming. Snake. Huge!” Jigoku panted.

 

“What's so bad about a snake?” She asked.

 

The purple snake slithered after them, smashing the walls along the way,

 

“That's what!!” Narashi said, “Move!” Pushing the girl, the six shinobi ran.

 

“We can beat that thing! It's just a snake!” Sasuke put in.

 

“Not in such a small area.” Neji said back.

 

“It's huge!!” Jigoku added.

 

“And not alone.” Genma's calm voice came.

 

The others looked back and saw that another snake, this one a yucky brownish-yellow in color, had appeared next to the purple one.

 

“That's just great!” Narashi started, “Now theres two of them!”

 

“Three.” Genma said.

 

“What?!” They looed at him before looking back again; still only two.

 

Five out of six shinobi crashed into the wall in front of them, Genma aving stopped in enough time.

 

Narashi looked up and noticed a yellow eye staring at her, “Oh crap.”

 

“Looks like we found the third one.” Jigoku mumbled.

 

$$$

 

Aoi gasped and looked around, eyes widen in fright.

 

“Are you ok?” Kakashi asked, concernedly.

 

“It's dark in here!!”

 

Stopping himself from face-faulting, Kakashi said, “It's been dark for the past hour, how did you not notice?”

 

“I was looking at this power box!” She smiled.

 

“Of course.”

 

The two walked for a few minutes before Aoi gasped again.

 

“What is it now?”

 

“We're in the dark!!”

 

This time, Kakashi couldn't stop the face-fault, he even added a sweat drop for good messure.

 

“Oh no! We can't leave yet! How could I have forgotten about Zabu-kun?!”

 

“Who?” He asked, getting up and dusting his clothes off.

 

“Zabu-kun! My baby!!” She shrieked, head turning widely, “Which way do we go?!”

 

Kakashi's visible eye widened, `Baby?! She has a child?!' “H-How?”

 

“How what?” She asked, opening a door and looking in, `I can't see a thing! Darn it!'

 

“How do you have a baby?”

 

“My sensei gave him to me.” She explained, poking her hand through the boards of a box she found.

 

“Your SENSEI?!” Kakashi was almost blown away by this news, `A sensei and their student?!'

 

Aoi looked at Kakashi weirdly, well, looked in the general direction of him anyway, “Yeah, what's wrong with that?”

 

“You had a child with your sensei!!”

 

“No I didn't!” She laughed, grinning, “When I said Baby I meant my sword!”

 

Kakashi slapped his forehead, “Right, of course! I always mean my sword when I say `baby'.”

 

“You too?!”

 

A flat look was her response, though I doubt she saw it anyway.

 

“We've got to find him! I will not leave without my baby!”

 

“Him?” Kakashi ran after the pratically hysterical girl, wondering if the torture took what little sanity she had.

 

$$$

 

“Lord Orochimaru! Lord Orochimaru!”

 

“Yes, Kiookami, what is it?”

 

“The backup generator failed, all the computers are down.”

 

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes in thought, while Kiookami waited for her Lord's verdict.

 

“Is that all Kiookami?”

 

“Well . . .”

 

“Tell me at once.”

 

Kiookami fixed the opaque obi around her white yukata before looking up at Orochimaru, green eyes glittering in slight fear. Whispering, she answered him, “The castle is flooding.”

 

Shock momentarily appeared on Orochimaru face before dissoving away, “Flooding? How bad is it?”

 

“The first two floors are completely under.”

 

He vanished from sight with only one thought, `I left my prisoners on the second floor.'

 

$Chapter End$