The Tale Of Flowering Fortunes
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Category:
Naruto AU/AR › General
Rating:
Adult
Chapters:
16
Views:
1,259
Reviews:
8
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own Naruto, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
The Toad Princess
Murasaki awoke bound and gagged on a cold stone floor. The room was dark save for a small table with a few candles on it. She tested her bonds slightly, but they wouldn’t budge and had been infused with chakra.
“I see you’re awake…” She heard Orochimaru’s voice call out of the shadows. Murasaki twisted around painfully in her bonds and glared into the shadows. She managed to maneuver the gag so that she could speak around it.
“What do you want with me? Where’s Hatake and Maito?”
“Tisk, tisk, so many questions…Hatake is dead, you saw it with your own eyes…”
Murasaki thought back to the fight in the forest. It hadn’t seemed real…it just…happened….She bit back tears, refusing to give the snake lord the pleasure of seeing her sorrow. As much as Kakashi had pissed her off…she had never wanted this…maybe she should have just let him be captain…
Orochimaru knelt down by her face.
“You look nothing like your father, you know…” He said, running a thumb along one of the red lines. Murasaki turned her head away, vomiting slightly into her mouth. Orochimaru smiled, standing up.
“You should still feel the effects of the poison…you limbs are still numb…quite frankly, I’m surprised you have this much strength…” He sighed. “Oh, well…much more and you would have died…and then I would have lost my bargaining tool…” He said with a shrug. He opened a door on the far end of the room and called for two men to come in.
“Take care of the Toad Princess for me…show her a good time…” He said with a casual air, before shutting the door behind them. Murasaki struggled to look at the men.
“What are you going to do?” She hissed.
One of the men smiled.
“Show you a good time…”
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Kakashi rubbed his head, looking up at the night sky. Orochimaru had managed to get one of his shadow clones, but flying debris from the second explosion had managed to knock him unconscious. He got up, stumbling slightly and began to look for Gai and Murasaki. He didn’t dare call their names, but he used the sharingan to search for chakra signatures in the forest.
About 500 feet ahead of him, he located Gai, who was pinned beneath a fallen log. He nimbly picked his way amongst the fallen branches and logs, making his way to Gai’s spot and uttering a silent prayer that the bundle of green energy hadn’t done a repeat performance of Obito.
Gai was unconscious, but otherwise, undamaged. Kakashi woke him up and together they managed to lift the log off the taijutsu masters body.
“Where’s Murasaki-san?” Kakashi said, scanning the forest.
“That long haired man and his team took her…” Gai said, massaging aching muscles. “They headed off east about five hours ago…”
Kakashi swore under his breath, carefully analyzing the situation.
“We have to get her back, Gai…”
“Oh course, what are we waiting for?” Gai cried, springing up as if nothing had happened.
Kakashi nodded and together they took off through the trees.
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It didn’t take them long to locate Orochimaru’s hideout, but it was heavily guarded, as expected…
They silently made their way inside, bypassing the guards with relative ease and stealing quietly along the dark passages.
“We have to find out where she is…” Kakashi said, listening closely for any sound of movements.
Gai was looking around almost like he expected to see Murasaki out in the open.
“This way…” Kakashi whispered, motioning for Gai to follow. They crept silently through the eerie the shadows, pausing and listening for any signs of life.
“I see chakra flaring up ahead….” Kakashi said, pulling out a kunai. Gai followed suit, creeping as quietly as possible.
Kakashi thought the whole situation felt eerily familiar…
They kept to the shadows along the passage, watching as two young shinobi, barely into their teens, passed them without a second glance. Gai raised an eyebrow at Kakashi, who nodded in turn.
Faster than lightning, Kakashi reached out, grabbing one of the boys and holding a kunai to the teens throat. Gai did the same with the other boy, who squirmed and squawked in the dark-haired man’s arms.
“Tell us where the prisoner is…” Kakashi hissed darkly, pushing the kunai slowly into the soft flesh, but never breaking the skin. The boy he was holding laughed audibly.
“So you’re the great Hatake Kakashi, eh? Idiot…you grabbed the wrong person…” The boy said darkly as a strange tattoo began to spread across his pale flesh. With his sharingan, he saw that the boy’s chakra was beginning to behave strangely, mixing with a darker power that seemed to be held within. Kakashi’s heart began to race and instinctively he slashed the teens throat, not giving the boy a chance to try anything.
The other one began to panic as his own curse seal began to spread across pale flesh like a living flame.
“No! Please! Just let me go!” He begged.
“Where is she!” Kakashi hissed, stepping over the lifeless body of the other one and pressing his kunai to the teens throat.
“I…I don’t know! Just…just kill me, please do it! I don’t want to be a monster anymore!” He cried, tears rolling down his face. It was now Kakashi noticed that this boy wasn’t as old as previously calculated. He was just…big for his age…tall…
“Hmm…now now, Juugo…you don’t mean that, do you?” Purred a familiar voice. Both Kakashi and Gai froze, turning.
“Hebeko…”
“Oh…hello, Kakashi-kun…” She said with a soft smile. Kakashi stiffened visibly. It had been almost seven years since the Third had ordered him to follow her, to keep an eye on her. Hebeko had assumed the idea that Kakashi had, at the time, been her boyfriend.
“Long time no see…” She cooed, taking slow, graceful steps towards the two.
“Don’t come any closer…” Gai snapped, holding his kunai tighter. Kakashi relaxed his muscles, nodding at Gai to communicate that he could handle the situation.
Hebeko smiled.
“Oh, now, do you really think that you are an any position to negotiate with me? I mean, you come into my home, kill one of my father’s pets, hold another hostage…”
“These aren’t pet’s…they’re human beings!” Gai snapped, throwing the young boy behind him into Kakashi’s arms.
“Gai!”
“That didn’t stop you from killing one, now did it?” She said lazily. The boy, Juugo, was now positively freaking out in Kakashi’s arms. He was beginning to go into convulsions.
“Moment’s from now, that boy will go into a fit of un controllable rage that only my father and I can control…I would hate for Konoha to lose such fine young shinobi in such a tragedy…” She said stepping closer. “Especially you, Kakashi-kun…you held my interest in particular…” She cooed coolly.
Gai glanced back for a moment before he fell to the ground. Kakashi’s heart raced as he watched a small white snake come silently towards him. Another unwound itself from around Gai’s upper thigh. Juugo was shaking so violently by now that Kakashi was forced to let go as Hebeko stepped gracefully towards him.
“I did nothing wrong…you two came here into our house…” She said quietly. “Murasaki came as a personal guest of my father…you were not invited…though I can’t say I’m disappointed you stopped by…”
“Where is Murasaki-dono?’ Kakashi said, staring at the white snake. Something was wrong here…he just couldn’t figure out what…
“I see you’re awake…” She heard Orochimaru’s voice call out of the shadows. Murasaki twisted around painfully in her bonds and glared into the shadows. She managed to maneuver the gag so that she could speak around it.
“What do you want with me? Where’s Hatake and Maito?”
“Tisk, tisk, so many questions…Hatake is dead, you saw it with your own eyes…”
Murasaki thought back to the fight in the forest. It hadn’t seemed real…it just…happened….She bit back tears, refusing to give the snake lord the pleasure of seeing her sorrow. As much as Kakashi had pissed her off…she had never wanted this…maybe she should have just let him be captain…
Orochimaru knelt down by her face.
“You look nothing like your father, you know…” He said, running a thumb along one of the red lines. Murasaki turned her head away, vomiting slightly into her mouth. Orochimaru smiled, standing up.
“You should still feel the effects of the poison…you limbs are still numb…quite frankly, I’m surprised you have this much strength…” He sighed. “Oh, well…much more and you would have died…and then I would have lost my bargaining tool…” He said with a shrug. He opened a door on the far end of the room and called for two men to come in.
“Take care of the Toad Princess for me…show her a good time…” He said with a casual air, before shutting the door behind them. Murasaki struggled to look at the men.
“What are you going to do?” She hissed.
One of the men smiled.
“Show you a good time…”
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Kakashi rubbed his head, looking up at the night sky. Orochimaru had managed to get one of his shadow clones, but flying debris from the second explosion had managed to knock him unconscious. He got up, stumbling slightly and began to look for Gai and Murasaki. He didn’t dare call their names, but he used the sharingan to search for chakra signatures in the forest.
About 500 feet ahead of him, he located Gai, who was pinned beneath a fallen log. He nimbly picked his way amongst the fallen branches and logs, making his way to Gai’s spot and uttering a silent prayer that the bundle of green energy hadn’t done a repeat performance of Obito.
Gai was unconscious, but otherwise, undamaged. Kakashi woke him up and together they managed to lift the log off the taijutsu masters body.
“Where’s Murasaki-san?” Kakashi said, scanning the forest.
“That long haired man and his team took her…” Gai said, massaging aching muscles. “They headed off east about five hours ago…”
Kakashi swore under his breath, carefully analyzing the situation.
“We have to get her back, Gai…”
“Oh course, what are we waiting for?” Gai cried, springing up as if nothing had happened.
Kakashi nodded and together they took off through the trees.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
It didn’t take them long to locate Orochimaru’s hideout, but it was heavily guarded, as expected…
They silently made their way inside, bypassing the guards with relative ease and stealing quietly along the dark passages.
“We have to find out where she is…” Kakashi said, listening closely for any sound of movements.
Gai was looking around almost like he expected to see Murasaki out in the open.
“This way…” Kakashi whispered, motioning for Gai to follow. They crept silently through the eerie the shadows, pausing and listening for any signs of life.
“I see chakra flaring up ahead….” Kakashi said, pulling out a kunai. Gai followed suit, creeping as quietly as possible.
Kakashi thought the whole situation felt eerily familiar…
They kept to the shadows along the passage, watching as two young shinobi, barely into their teens, passed them without a second glance. Gai raised an eyebrow at Kakashi, who nodded in turn.
Faster than lightning, Kakashi reached out, grabbing one of the boys and holding a kunai to the teens throat. Gai did the same with the other boy, who squirmed and squawked in the dark-haired man’s arms.
“Tell us where the prisoner is…” Kakashi hissed darkly, pushing the kunai slowly into the soft flesh, but never breaking the skin. The boy he was holding laughed audibly.
“So you’re the great Hatake Kakashi, eh? Idiot…you grabbed the wrong person…” The boy said darkly as a strange tattoo began to spread across his pale flesh. With his sharingan, he saw that the boy’s chakra was beginning to behave strangely, mixing with a darker power that seemed to be held within. Kakashi’s heart began to race and instinctively he slashed the teens throat, not giving the boy a chance to try anything.
The other one began to panic as his own curse seal began to spread across pale flesh like a living flame.
“No! Please! Just let me go!” He begged.
“Where is she!” Kakashi hissed, stepping over the lifeless body of the other one and pressing his kunai to the teens throat.
“I…I don’t know! Just…just kill me, please do it! I don’t want to be a monster anymore!” He cried, tears rolling down his face. It was now Kakashi noticed that this boy wasn’t as old as previously calculated. He was just…big for his age…tall…
“Hmm…now now, Juugo…you don’t mean that, do you?” Purred a familiar voice. Both Kakashi and Gai froze, turning.
“Hebeko…”
“Oh…hello, Kakashi-kun…” She said with a soft smile. Kakashi stiffened visibly. It had been almost seven years since the Third had ordered him to follow her, to keep an eye on her. Hebeko had assumed the idea that Kakashi had, at the time, been her boyfriend.
“Long time no see…” She cooed, taking slow, graceful steps towards the two.
“Don’t come any closer…” Gai snapped, holding his kunai tighter. Kakashi relaxed his muscles, nodding at Gai to communicate that he could handle the situation.
Hebeko smiled.
“Oh, now, do you really think that you are an any position to negotiate with me? I mean, you come into my home, kill one of my father’s pets, hold another hostage…”
“These aren’t pet’s…they’re human beings!” Gai snapped, throwing the young boy behind him into Kakashi’s arms.
“Gai!”
“That didn’t stop you from killing one, now did it?” She said lazily. The boy, Juugo, was now positively freaking out in Kakashi’s arms. He was beginning to go into convulsions.
“Moment’s from now, that boy will go into a fit of un controllable rage that only my father and I can control…I would hate for Konoha to lose such fine young shinobi in such a tragedy…” She said stepping closer. “Especially you, Kakashi-kun…you held my interest in particular…” She cooed coolly.
Gai glanced back for a moment before he fell to the ground. Kakashi’s heart raced as he watched a small white snake come silently towards him. Another unwound itself from around Gai’s upper thigh. Juugo was shaking so violently by now that Kakashi was forced to let go as Hebeko stepped gracefully towards him.
“I did nothing wrong…you two came here into our house…” She said quietly. “Murasaki came as a personal guest of my father…you were not invited…though I can’t say I’m disappointed you stopped by…”
“Where is Murasaki-dono?’ Kakashi said, staring at the white snake. Something was wrong here…he just couldn’t figure out what…