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Mend Me	By : AccioLucius Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 4140 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 14
Orochimaru had a vice-like grip on Saya's hand as they quickly ran through the forest. Tetsuya was bundled in her arms, clinging to her for dear life and stifling cries in her ear. The boy and his mother were soaked in drying blood.
Saya uttered a gasp when a branch snapped from somewhere in the trees behind them.
"This way," Orochimaru huffed as he jerked them to the left and down a hill.
The three of them all but slid and stumbled into a small cave made by boulders. Orochimaru pushed and followed Saya inside until they couldn't see.
Tetsuya bit his lip to silence his cries, but Saya was holding him tight enough to muffle any sound the boy might make. Saya turned to Orochimaru, but the man was already heading back to the entrance of the cave.
"Don't," she begged as she clawed at his clothes.
Saya felt him cup her face in the dark.
"I have to take care of his, Saya." His grip on her cheeks tightened as he roughly pressed his lips to her lifeless face. "Stay here and be silent, both of you. Do not come out until I come back for you."
Saya clung to the man tighter and shook her head in protest, but before she could speak he quickly vanished out of thin air.
Eyes flying open, Saya woke. Her heart pounded at first, but she quickly realized that it was just another one of her dreams. Along with having erotic dreams of Orochimaru, she also had nightmares. But lately the nightmares had also been including Tetsuya and Akira.
As much as they shook her up, she had learned to come to terms with them.
She slowly got out of bed and made her way up to Tetsuya's room. As predicted, the boy was sleeping soundly. In fact, most of the compound's residents seemed to still be asleep. Although, as hunger forced Saya to the kitchen area, she found that she was not the only one awake.
Sasuke and Kabuto sat quietly at opposite ends of a small dining table.
"Oh," Saya started as the two of them looked up at her. "I thought everyone was still asleep."
Kabuto fought the urge to smirk wildly. It was so obvious how uncomfortable his presence made her. He grinned warmly instead "It's quite alright, Saya. Why don't you join us?"
Eyebrow raised, Saya sat down between the two men. She didn't want to be practically alone with Kabuto, but she didn't want to argue with him either. "Are you two usually up this early?"
There was no right way to break the ice or conjure up small talk with Kabuto. Saya nervously fidgeted with her hands under the table as a knot began to grow in her stomach.
"Orochimaru usually gets us up earlier than this," Sasuke half-complained. "I'm surprised he's still asleep."
"Well, Sasuke, I'm sure your mind would need extra rest if a woman dropped in on you bearing a lovechild." Kabuto cocked his head towards Saya. His eyes never met her face, but the smirk he failed to contain was all she needed.
"Stop it," Saya instantly spat back. She tried to keep her voice calm, all the while asserting that she wasn't going to tolerate his overbearing self once again. "This isn't easy for me either, and I'm not interested in fighting with you again, Kabuto. I just want us all to get along for once."
Sasuke's eyebrows rose at her words. "Fight again?" he asked with a laugh. "You don't look like a shinobi."
"I'm not," Saya corrected. She stared straight at the silver-haired medical ninja. Daring to be brave, she grinned and shook her head. "But that didn't stop a protective Kabuto from trying to kill me when his lord and I got too heated with each other."
Kabuto eyed her carefully; her tone was hard to read. As much as he hated to admit it to himself, he knew Saya got to him. He also knew that she knew it. With Orochimaru now being the protective one, he would have to learn to learn to constrain himself. His actions while he was ill and injured were rash and unchecked, but that did not mean he still didn't want to repeat those actions.
Sasuke, however, gave Saya his full attention.
"And you still came back here? You're either really brave or really stupid."
Saya shot a look of annoyance toward the young man. Not knowing him, she couldn't tell if he was joking around or truly insulting her.
"Now Sasuke, don't be so rude," Kabuto lightly interrupted. "I doubt Saya's decision to come back was all on her own." He smirked at his fellow shinobi as he readjusted his glasses. "Why don't you tell Saya about how and why you came to Lord Orochimaru?"
Teasing and condescending attitude fading, Sasuke's face grew dark at the thought. His black eyes were sharp enough to cut steel, yet they managed to retain that lifeless look that out Saya on edge. "I don't think she should be…bothered with the details," he mumbled in response.
Kabuto full on smiled then. "Oh, but it's fine. In fact, that one specific detail is something you two share in common."
Sasuke's eyes widened as he looked at a confused Saya, who sat looking back and forth between the two men. When she didn't say anything, he turned to Kabuto. "Why?" he asked him.
"Only he knows," Kabuto shrugged. "I honestly have no idea why he did such a thing."
Sasuke glanced at Saya once again, only this time he looked at her with a hint of disgust. "What about his son?" he asked as his eyes turned slowly back to Kabuto. "Could he be affected in any way?"
"Excuse me?" Saya crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at both of them.
Kabuto shrugged once again, but this time ignoring Saya. He truly had no idea of the nature or side-effects of whatever curse Orochimaru placed on her, let alone if any of those affects had been transferred through the womb. It was an interesting notion, though.
"Could you please tell me what you two are talking about?" Saya pressed again. She didn't bother trying to hide the frustration in her strained voice.
Sasuke turned in his chair towards Saya. His face was emotionless. "He cursed you as well, didn't he?"
Saya sat up straight in her chair. Did he just say as well? Her mind was instantly flooded of images of Orochimaru biting the neck of this boy, and then flashed back to the memories of her own terrifying moment with him. She shuddered involuntarily. "H-he bit you?" she asked him with shaking hands.
As the two of them locked eyes, Kabuto smirked from his end of the table. His first hook was sunk. Even though he gave in to Orochimaru, Sasuke was still angry about what had befallen him. Learning that there was another innocent person who was reluctant to bow to Orochimaru for him to reach out to would be a great way to spark an unlikely friendship between them. Saya would see with her own eyes and hear with her own ears the true horrors that surrounded his lord.
Sasuke nodded his head. "Just a few months ago. Orochimaru's interested in an ability that runs through my family, so-"
"So he…convinced Sasuke to become his apprentice so they can learn from each other," Kabuto finished for him.
Sasuke eyed Kabuto with a hard stare, but he caught the reason behind man's cover up. Naturally, there was no way this kind natured woman and innocent child would return if they knew what a monster Orochimaru was.
"But, you're just a child," Saya looked sympathetically at him. Her heart was pounding again, but her voice was small and weak.
Sasuke nodded once again. "There are others, too; a special band of fighters. But why would he curse someone who isn't a shinobi? What use does he have with you?"
Again, Saya couldn't read Sasuke's attitude. Was he truly upset that because an innocent person had been cursed, or was he offended that his "gift" they shared had been used on someone that appeared unimportant and useless to Orochimaru? "You really don't know?" Saya solemnly asked Kabuto.
For the first time since they met, Saya and Kabuto shared a calm, honest moment. The med ninja sighed. "I sincerely don't know, Saya. I've asked him several times, but he just won't tell me."
Saya slumped in her chair. She had her theories as to why Orochimaru had cursed her, ranging from her being his pet, it being an accident caused by his anger, or something much more. She knew Orochimaru was smart, so the back of her mind sometimes suggested that she was involved in much more than being his pretty pet.
She sighed, but quickly composed herself when she heard footsteps approaching. She failed to acknowledge Orochimaru as he entered the room.
"I hope you three are managing to behave civilly," he said almost to himself.
"Saya and I are on a road to it, yes," Kabuto lied happily. He even forced a wink in the woman's direction. "What shall our plans for today be?"
Orochimaru only had eyes for his long ago nurse as he replied. "There are none. I'm spending today with my family."
Eyes bulging, Kabuto instantly choked on his drink, almost spitting it from his mouth. Despite the disturbed feeling the previous discussion left her with, Saya laughed loudly at him.
Orochimaru smirked at her, all the while ticking away inside his head. It was easy for him to bring a smile to her face, even though he knew the countless headaches and tortures he had bestowed upon her should have left her joyless.
"Since you enjoyed our time outside yesterday, Saya, I thought we would dedicate more time to it today."
It was what they both wanted – to bond. To each his own reason, however.
Saya wiped a tear from her eye as her laughing came to a slow. She finally turned her attention to Orochimaru. The man looked uncharacteristically calm. He wasn't smirking or sneering, but looking pleasantly at her.
She felt a warm feeling in her chest at his sudden change of behavior. Sure, he had been nice to her before, but that was only to get her into bed with him. She halfway cocked her head at him, silently asking him if that was his game.
The man did smirk at her then. He knew exactly what she was thinking, and for that Saya smiled and turned away from him. Orochimaru had to clench his jaw to prevent one of his common sadistic sneers. Liar, was all he could think. No matter how many times she stressed that their physical relationship was over, he knew she thought and felt otherwise, even if Saya hadn't fully comes to terms with it herself.
But there would be time to act on it later. For now Orochimaru would play the role of changed man who's heart quickly softened with the arrival of his son. But of course, harmless flirting was something he could not pass up.
"That sounds lovely," Saya told him as she stood from her chair, mocking his choice word from the day before. She stepped closer to him. "What did you have in mind?"
"I believe Tetsuya would enjoy a hike through the forest. It will give him more opportunity to learn more and keep him entertained." He softened his voice then, almost to a loving whisper. "And on our way back there is something I would like to show you."
"He would like that very much." Saya smirked up at him. It was time for her to play games now. "And when we come back, what then?"
Orochimaru's pupils dilated at the question, both from excitement and humor. Kabuto and Sasuke were exchanging awkward glances behind them. He then started to smirk, but quickly transformed it into a grin. It would seem as though all of Saya's sass had not vanished after all. That pleased him very much.
Instead of answering her, he began to rummage around the kitchen to prepare his breakfast. With his back to them, he sneered when he could hear Saya sighing on cue from his lack of an answer.
"You really know how to make this feel like old times," she told him as she too started to be on her way.
"Saya, if you want me to take you to bed, just say so," Orochimaru suddenly called. "There's no reason to play games anymore."
"Ok," Kabuto sighed angrily as he began to gather up the rest of his breakfast so he could leave them. His way was however blocked as the woman backtracked into the room. Sasuke simply looked up at his new lord in a mix of horror and disbelief.
Blushing angrily, Saya stared open-mouthed at Orochimaru until she noticed his eyes. There was a glint in them she had never seen before. What used to be malice and narcissism was now replaced with genuine humor. Hands on hips, she smiled and huffed at him. "Orochimaru, are you actually joking around with me?"
The man's only reply was a sip from his cup.
Saya grinned warmly at him, albeit a hint of deviousness. "I'm glad to see this side of you."
And she was. What's done was done between them, but Saya truly did want to establish a good relationship with the father of her son. To see Orochimaru in this light this quickly was more than she could ask for.
She just hoped his sudden change of heart was true.
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