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"Yea., lunch." Suigetsu sounded as he bit into a hot dog. The call of 'yea' lunch echo thrice which made them stop to turn to Sasuke who was once again skipping his class. He had tacked himself on the end of the group with no one noticing. "Great, I have one more person to mooch off of."

"Yep, that's why I came, Suigetsu, just so you can mooch off me." Sasuke said sticking a fry from his plate into his mouth. Suigetsu just shrugged and ignored his tray eating off of Karin's. For once she didn't mind and just switched their trays while he wasn't paying attention. "Oh, Hey Hinata."

The shy Hyuuga was noticed approaching them and sat down in front of Naruto and Sasuke. She waved and then put her hands in her lap nervously. "I was talking with the teacher, you're going to get detention for skipping Naruto."

"Really? Damn…" Naruto said hanging his head. He muttered something about it being so unfair under his breath. Sasuke patted him on the shoulder fondly, "You owe me a detention, you know that Sasuke."

"I'll have Deidara contact the offices. Let see how they hold up against a law student." Sasuke smiled happily. "So, how's Neji holding up with the paper, I heard there was a ton of submissions this morning?"

"Well… Um… Luckily the Valentine's issue is Friday so they won't have any student work like that, but, it's becoming pressing on him… He hasn't even made it to lunch yet. He got about a five inch stack this morning." She said quietly scratching the back of her head.

"I got an idea… Sasuke should write a letter to all the haters telling them to shut up." Karin said. Suigetsu laughed and smiled knowing what it would say. "'Dear Piss-Ants, Fuck you. Sincerely I'm rich bitch.' That's about it, isn't it, Sasuke?"

"Yea, pretty much. I'm more of a 'Dear stupid-ass pigs, you don't know jack shit. Maybe if you weren't so busy looking up porn online because you can't get any, you'd have a better head on you shoulders. Fuck you all.' That's more my style." Sasuke said and than saw Hinata pull out a piece of paper.

He took it and looked at it for a second. Hinata put her hands together and than sighed, "I wasn't sure if you heard about it or not, but, Neji brought it in and I took it…"

"I haven't… Thank you." Sasuke than looked at the Black Birds who were starring. "It's about Madara, some inmate smashed his face into a toilet obliterating it completely. I guess they won't put up with his antics there."

"Hi." Shikamaru said coming over joining Hinata, following behind him was Ino and Sai. Sasuke looked over them and sighed scooting over to there was room. Every filled in the little corner, the group doubling in size. "I've got some good news and some bad news."

"Okay than…" Naruto said sitting foreword to give him more attention. He braced himself for a second and decided he couldn't handle whatever the bad news was. "What's the good news?"

"Well, if anyone does anything to you guys on school grounds you can have them arrested for a hate crime. The bad news is that most of the school thinks you're a whore and only sticking with Sasuke because he has money." Shikamaru said flatly. "But another good news is that you should be receiving a phone call from Chouji issuing an apology."

"I got to him. Nothing can defeat a woman's initiative." Ino smiled happily. Karin gave her a 'Hell yes!' and they high-fived. "Anyway, all I had to do was point out that he was fat and he gave."

"Anyway, um…" Hinata said mashing her fingers together. "Kiba's trying to get to Shino and Sakura to get some sense through their heads, but they're not budging very much. According to Neji, this morning they filed to set up a club for Christians, so it looks like their trying to rally… or something…" Hinata blushed in a slight bit of confused and faded out.

They all looked at her for a second realizing she wasn't coming back for a while. Naruto smiled and got an idea into his head, "Clubs have to be open to anyone unless privately funded by an accepted organization which means they can't go private for a couple of weeks. Ino, go and cause Hell. Lots and lots of Hell."

"Oh, I am planning on it. You want to come, it'll be fun?" Ino asked Karin. They instantly agreed and all the guys just saw an alliance of scary women starting to form.

Sai shook his head. "I think we shouldn't be opposing them in this way. It will just give them ammunition. The ultimate goal should be something without transgression, not insulting the other and starting a huge fight."

"I agree, we don't need a huge homosexual fight going on into town when we still have Madara to deal with. As long as he has henchmen we still have things to worry about." Sasuke informed the black birds. "Karin, I forbid it. Annihilating an immediate threat is one thing but fanning a fire is another. Neutrality, remember."

"Understood." She said acknowledging the ruling. Ino looked at him but Sasuke ignored her. He nudged Naruto and pointed towards the door. The both got up excusing themselves and walked away into the boy's bathroom. Ino looked at Karin. "What?"

"You're going to let him do something like that?" Ino asked angrily. "You're a woman, stick up for yourself. This is a violation of your rights as a human; you can do what you want! You don't have to let him tell you if you can or can't."

"But he's right, after what's happened in the past while… You getting all burned up," She said looked back at Suigetsu. They grabbed hands and smiled. "And what happened yesterday to Itachi…"

Ino was going to ask but Shikamaru slapped a hand over her mouth. He shook his head quickly. "You don't want to know, it'll just cause you trouble."

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"No." Naruto said out flatly and Sasuke was a little stunned. Naruto had gained some ground in where he felt he was in the relationship, and he was showing it. "That bastard is dangerous and you're just going to walk into his house and seriously expect nothings going to happen?"

"Naruto, just listen to me. Orochimaru knows something, he knows something about why my parents had to die, there's more than a drug bust here and I want to know what it is. You've never had parents, you've never had to lose them, you don't know what it's like waking up expecting to see your mom and remember she's been buried six feet under for years…" Sasuke said nearly yelling. He put on a face of sadden honesty and sighed, "I just want to take out who really did it."

Naruto stepped forward and hugged him tightly. Sasuke hugged back and than heard Naruto whisper. "If you're not home when I get home, I will tell Itachi and we will drag your ass home."

Naruto let go of the Uchiha and walked out of the bathroom. Sasuke stood their in silence for a second before realizing he only had an hour and a half. He quickly bailed out of the bathroom and ran out the back door of the school and kept running.

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"Oh, you looked pissed off, what happened?" Karin noted as Naruto joined back with the group. He kept standing and asked if he could talk to Shikamaru, alone. Shikamaru sighed and stood up. As they walked out Karin made another observation. "Where's Sasuke? Oy, Naruto!"

Naruto ignored the question and walked out into the hall and began freaking and spitting out information so fast his head began to hurt. Shikamaru had to stop him and take a second. All he heard was Sasuke, stupid and vengeance. "Wait, what did you say? You jammed it into one sentence there."

"Sasuke…" Shikamaru nodded. "He's going to an evil scientist because he thinks he has information about what really happened to his parents." Shikamaru nodded again. "That same evil scientist has vowed vengeance against Sasuke's brother Itachi and Madara who attempted to kill him. Shikamaru nodded again. "Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? He running into a trap, I'm sure he knows it."

"Is he already gone?" Naruto nodded this time. "Why didn't you stop him? If you're boyfriends running to his death you nail him to the ground and knock him unconscious! You've got to get the police in on this."

"I can't call the police, they'll find out we we're there yesterday and Itachi, Kisame, Sasori and Deidara will all be hauled off to jail. Than we're completely fucked over because we're entirely venerable." Naruto muttered and began pacing. "I need some assurance, obviously if he wanted Sasuke dead he would have done it yesterday, so he wants Sasuke alive. Why does he want Sasuke?"

"Well, why is he pissed at Itachi? I'm pretty sure that's probably something big to do with it." Shikamaru said and watched as Naruto stopped. "What?"

"He's… He's going to genetically modify him to become something like the incredible hulk or something. All the scientists, they're completely crazy like that." Naruto muttered and began pacing again. Shikamaru kept trying to talk him through it, though the worst part was all of this being seen from the cafeteria by the group.

"I don't think I want to know." Suigetsu said and held Karin's head close to him as they explained a few things about the Black Birds to Ino, Sai and a now conscious Hinata. The first was that they were each other's families as nobody except Sasuke had anyone. The second was that Sasuke was the unquestioned leader, having brought and kept them all together. Third was that there was a lot of shit going down right now, far beyond what the media shows. "There are some way worse things going on than Naruto and Sasuke in bed together, which is why we try to ignore that."

"That must suck, I couldn't imagine not having a family." Ino said feeling guilty about what she has. She gazed over at Suigetsu and Karin who were cuddling and smiled. "Still you have each other, it's better than being alone."

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Sasuke was downtown alone, the streets empty. Everyone was off at College Row eating lunch, that is, everyone but the workers of the tattoo parlor. Sasuke saw it coming up ahead and looked at it. He remembered his tattooed shoulder and held it through his sweater. Jugo had bet on his tattoo, he figured he mind as well stop by while nothing's happening and let him win.

Sasuke walked up and opened the door finding them head banging to the radio in a reckless manner. Sasuke let out a loud 'Ahem' and got the attention of the shop. "Sorry to interrupt. Is Jugo here?"

"JUGO! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!" Sakon yelled from his chair and than swiveled back to watch Sasuke. Sasuke just looked away for a second triggering a memory flash in Sakon's head. "Hey aren't you that kid on the news with the genocidal uncle?"

"Yea, that'd be me, I was in here yesterday, my brother had a bullet in his leg and we did impromptu surgery." Sasuke said reminding him like it was nothing. Sakon just nodded slowly and mouthed 'riiight…' Jugo came out and looked over at Sasuke. "Hey."

"Hey, are you skipping again?" Sasuke nodded and Jugo sat down in his chair. Jugo shook his head in disappointment. "You really need to stop skipping. Your brother's going to be pissed."

"He's always pissed. Anyway, first, please tell me you have some cigarettes. I need one so badly it's not funny." Sasuke said and was relieved when Jugo dug in his pockets and produced a pack and shoved a lighter inside. Sasuke took them and shoved them away. "Secondly, I remembered you said you had that bet."

"The bet! Yea, Jugo said he did a huge ass hawk, I called bullshit, five hundred dollars on the line." Ukon said loudly getting the rest of the shop around. Sasuke smiled the slipped his arm out of one sleeve and freed his shoulder from the sweater. Sasuke turned showing them Jugo's work and Ukon slammed his fists on his chair. "You're lucky you won because that's way more than five hundred worth of work."

"I paid him fifteen hundred for it." Sasuke said and slipped his sweater back on as Ukon forked over the money. Jugo smiled happily as he shoved the money away and looked at Tayuya. "Now that I have cash for it, do you want to go out for dinner?"

"Sure…SHUT UP OR I'LL RIP OUT YOUR TONGUES!" She screamed as Sakon and Ukon began laughing. She went over and grabbed both of them by the collar shaking them senseless.

Kidoumaru shook his head and told Jugo that he better be thankful he's twice her size, he has a chance to take her on par. Jugo just shook his head and sighed. He looked to the door but found that it was closing, Sasuke disappearing outside somewhere. Sasuke actually had just gone a foot to the right of Jugo's vision and was on a pay phone pulling out a white card with a phone number on it and an address. He sighed and dialed it. After a second he heard a voice, "I want to talk to Orochimaru… This is Sasuke. You put him on the phone or I'll go and tell Madara."

"That's not a nice threat…" Orochimaru's voice slithered on. Sasuke for a minute wanted to back off and threw the phone away for a minute cringing only to bring it back to his ear to her him again. "So, you're interested in what I have to say?"

"Possibly… Before I come, I want to know what exactly went on between you and Itachi. And I'm not talking we never got along excuses either." Sasuke said and heard a little bit of silence.

"Itachi… was an experiment, but after a while he decided to back out by having Madara try to kill me. That's what went on in short… Now, can I expect you soon, I'll have Kabuto put tea on." He said with a slight amusement.

"Yea, I'll be there in a few minutes." Sasuke hung the phone on the hook and pulled out the cigarettes lighting one. Every step he took towards Orochimaru he wanted to call himself stupid and foolish. He just kept walking inhaling the toxin trying to keep steady.

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"Kabuto, go put the kettle on, we're expecting company." Orochimaru said happily from his chair. He caressed the white leather with a few fingers and smiled. "You know, it's been so long since we've had company. Last people were those girl scouts last week. Say do we have any of their cookies left?"

"We only bought forty boxes… Yeah, which ones do you want?" Kabuto asked self-correcting his attitude as he headed into the kitchen. He stopped in the doorway however and waited to hear.

"The Somoas of course." He said like it was natural. He waited for a second before getting up. Orochimaru grabbed his drink and casually threw his orders towards the kitchen. "Bring them to the lab; I'm going to prep for my new little mouse."

"Yes sir." Came back at him and Orochimaru walked down the hall and turned into a pair of white doors opening to a large sterile lab. He went over to the table and looked at it for a second before lowering it nearly to the floor. "Why's it down there?"

"I have a feeling he's not going to let me bring him in here willingly. Make sure the gas is ready with a mask." Orochimaru said and began getting out various tools. "Oh, I'm so excited for fresh blood. I told you we should have taken those girl scouts…"

"But than they won't come back and give us more cookies, Orochimaru." Kabuto said simply. Orochimaru smiled agreeing. "How long is this procedure going to take, we wouldn't want any uninvited guests showing up."

"Not more than a few minutes, anyway, I'm not going to make this easy for them. I want to watch Itachi's face as he suffer." Orochimaru voice darkened. He carefully glared at the syringe in his hand and smiled at the thoughts that were coming to him. "I want him to watch what's most important to him crash and burn as did my career and my work."

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"Yea., lunch." Suigetsu sounded as he bit into a hot dog. The call of 'yea' lunch echo thrice which made them stop to turn to Sasuke who was once again skipping his class. He had tacked himself on the end of the group with no one noticing. "Great, I have one more person to mooch off of."

"Yep, that's why I came, Suigetsu, just so you can mooch off me." Sasuke said sticking a fry from his plate into his mouth. Suigetsu just shrugged and ignored his tray eating off of Karin's. For once she didn't mind and just switched their trays while he wasn't paying attention. "Oh, Hey Hinata."

The shy Hyuuga was noticed approaching them and sat down in front of Naruto and Sasuke. She waved and then put her hands in her lap nervously. "I was talking with the teacher, you're going to get detention for skipping Naruto."

"Really? Damn…" Naruto said hanging his head. He muttered something about it being so unfair under his breath. Sasuke patted him on the shoulder fondly, "You owe me a detention, you know that Sasuke."

"I'll have Deidara contact the offices. Let see how they hold up against a law student." Sasuke smiled happily. "So, how's Neji holding up with the paper, I heard there was a ton of submissions this morning?"

"Well… Um… Luckily the Valentine's issue is Friday so they won't have any student work like that, but, it's becoming pressing on him… He hasn't even made it to lunch yet. He got about a five inch stack this morning." She said quietly scratching the back of her head.

"I got an idea… Sasuke should write a letter to all the haters telling them to shut up." Karin said. Suigetsu laughed and smiled knowing what it would say. "'Dear Piss-Ants, Fuck you. Sincerely I'm rich bitch.' That's about it, isn't it, Sasuke?"

"Yea, pretty much. I'm more of a 'Dear stupid-ass pigs, you don't know jack shit. Maybe if you weren't so busy looking up porn online because you can't get any, you'd have a better head on you shoulders. Fuck you all.' That's more my style." Sasuke said and than saw Hinata pull out a piece of paper.

He took it and looked at it for a second. Hinata put her hands together and than sighed, "I wasn't sure if you heard about it or not, but, Neji brought it in and I took it…"

"I haven't… Thank you." Sasuke than looked at the Black Birds who were starring. "It's about Madara, some inmate smashed his face into a toilet obliterating it completely. I guess they won't put up with his antics there."

"Hi." Shikamaru said coming over joining Hinata, following behind him was Ino and Sai. Sasuke looked over them and sighed scooting over to there was room. Every filled in the little corner, the group doubling in size. "I've got some good news and some bad news."

"Okay than…" Naruto said sitting foreword to give him more attention. He braced himself for a second and decided he couldn't handle whatever the bad news was. "What's the good news?"

"Well, if anyone does anything to you guys on school grounds you can have them arrested for a hate crime. The bad news is that most of the school thinks you're a whore and only sticking with Sasuke because he has money." Shikamaru said flatly. "But another good news is that you should be receiving a phone call from Chouji issuing an apology."

"I got to him. Nothing can defeat a woman's initiative." Ino smiled happily. Karin gave her a 'Hell yes!' and they high-fived. "Anyway, all I had to do was point out that he was fat and he gave."

"Anyway, um…" Hinata said mashing her fingers together. "Kiba's trying to get to Shino and Sakura to get some sense through their heads, but they're not budging very much. According to Neji, this morning they filed to set up a club for Christians, so it looks like their trying to rally… or something…" Hinata blushed in a slight bit of confused and faded out.

They all looked at her for a second realizing she wasn't coming back for a while. Naruto smiled and got an idea into his head, "Clubs have to be open to anyone unless privately funded by an accepted organization which means they can't go private for a couple of weeks. Ino, go and cause Hell. Lots and lots of Hell."

"Oh, I am planning on it. You want to come, it'll be fun?" Ino asked Karin. They instantly agreed and all the guys just saw an alliance of scary women starting to form.

Sai shook his head. "I think we shouldn't be opposing them in this way. It will just give them ammunition. The ultimate goal should be something without transgression, not insulting the other and starting a huge fight."

"I agree, we don't need a huge homosexual fight going on into town when we still have Madara to deal with. As long as he has henchmen we still have things to worry about." Sasuke informed the black birds. "Karin, I forbid it. Annihilating an immediate threat is one thing but fanning a fire is another. Neutrality, remember."

"Understood." She said acknowledging the ruling. Ino looked at him but Sasuke ignored her. He nudged Naruto and pointed towards the door. The both got up excusing themselves and walked away into the boy's bathroom. Ino looked at Karin. "What?"

"You're going to let him do something like that?" Ino asked angrily. "You're a woman, stick up for yourself. This is a violation of your rights as a human; you can do what you want! You don't have to let him tell you if you can or can't."

"But he's right, after what's happened in the past while… You getting all burned up," She said looked back at Suigetsu. They grabbed hands and smiled. "And what happened yesterday to Itachi…"

Ino was going to ask but Shikamaru slapped a hand over her mouth. He shook his head quickly. "You don't want to know, it'll just cause you trouble."

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"No." Naruto said out flatly and Sasuke was a little stunned. Naruto had gained some ground in where he felt he was in the relationship, and he was showing it. "That bastard is dangerous and you're just going to walk into his house and seriously expect nothings going to happen?"

"Naruto, just listen to me. Orochimaru knows something, he knows something about why my parents had to die, there's more than a drug bust here and I want to know what it is. You've never had parents, you've never had to lose them, you don't know what it's like waking up expecting to see your mom and remember she's been buried six feet under for years…" Sasuke said nearly yelling. He put on a face of sadden honesty and sighed, "I just want to take out who really did it."

Naruto stepped forward and hugged him tightly. Sasuke hugged back and than heard Naruto whisper. "If you're not home when I get home, I will tell Itachi and we will drag your ass home."

Naruto let go of the Uchiha and walked out of the bathroom. Sasuke stood their in silence for a second before realizing he only had an hour and a half. He quickly bailed out of the bathroom and ran out the back door of the school and kept running.

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"Oh, you looked pissed off, what happened?" Karin noted as Naruto joined back with the group. He kept standing and asked if he could talk to Shikamaru, alone. Shikamaru sighed and stood up. As they walked out Karin made another observation. "Where's Sasuke? Oy, Naruto!"

Naruto ignored the question and walked out into the hall and began freaking and spitting out information so fast his head began to hurt. Shikamaru had to stop him and take a second. All he heard was Sasuke, stupid and vengeance. "Wait, what did you say? You jammed it into one sentence there."

"Sasuke…" Shikamaru nodded. "He's going to an evil scientist because he thinks he has information about what really happened to his parents." Shikamaru nodded again. "That same evil scientist has vowed vengeance against Sasuke's brother Itachi and Madara who attempted to kill him. Shikamaru nodded again. "Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? He running into a trap, I'm sure he knows it."

"Is he already gone?" Naruto nodded this time. "Why didn't you stop him? If you're boyfriends running to his death you nail him to the ground and knock him unconscious! You've got to get the police in on this."

"I can't call the police, they'll find out we we're there yesterday and Itachi, Kisame, Sasori and Deidara will all be hauled off to jail. Than we're completely fucked over because we're entirely venerable." Naruto muttered and began pacing. "I need some assurance, obviously if he wanted Sasuke dead he would have done it yesterday, so he wants Sasuke alive. Why does he want Sasuke?"

"Well, why is he pissed at Itachi? I'm pretty sure that's probably something big to do with it." Shikamaru said and watched as Naruto stopped. "What?"

"He's… He's going to genetically modify him to become something like the incredible hulk or something. All the scientists, they're completely crazy like that." Naruto muttered and began pacing again. Shikamaru kept trying to talk him through it, though the worst part was all of this being seen from the cafeteria by the group.

"I don't think I want to know." Suigetsu said and held Karin's head close to him as they explained a few things about the Black Birds to Ino, Sai and a now conscious Hinata. The first was that they were each other's families as nobody except Sasuke had anyone. The second was that Sasuke was the unquestioned leader, having brought and kept them all together. Third was that there was a lot of shit going down right now, far beyond what the media shows. "There are some way worse things going on than Naruto and Sasuke in bed together, which is why we try to ignore that."

"That must suck, I couldn't imagine not having a family." Ino said feeling guilty about what she has. She gazed over at Suigetsu and Karin who were cuddling and smiled. "Still you have each other, it's better than being alone."

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Sasuke was downtown alone, the streets empty. Everyone was off at College Row eating lunch, that is, everyone but the workers of the tattoo parlor. Sasuke saw it coming up ahead and looked at it. He remembered his tattooed shoulder and held it through his sweater. Jugo had bet on his tattoo, he figured he mind as well stop by while nothing's happening and let him win.

Sasuke walked up and opened the door finding them head banging to the radio in a reckless manner. Sasuke let out a loud 'Ahem' and got the attention of the shop. "Sorry to interrupt. Is Jugo here?"

"JUGO! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!" Sakon yelled from his chair and than swiveled back to watch Sasuke. Sasuke just looked away for a second triggering a memory flash in Sakon's head. "Hey aren't you that kid on the news with the genocidal uncle?"

"Yea, that'd be me, I was in here yesterday, my brother had a bullet in his leg and we did impromptu surgery." Sasuke said reminding him like it was nothing. Sakon just nodded slowly and mouthed 'riiight…' Jugo came out and looked over at Sasuke. "Hey."

"Hey, are you skipping again?" Sasuke nodded and Jugo sat down in his chair. Jugo shook his head in disappointment. "You really need to stop skipping. Your brother's going to be pissed."

"He's always pissed. Anyway, first, please tell me you have some cigarettes. I need one so badly it's not funny." Sasuke said and was relieved when Jugo dug in his pockets and produced a pack and shoved a lighter inside. Sasuke took them and shoved them away. "Secondly, I remembered you said you had that bet."

"The bet! Yea, Jugo said he did a huge ass hawk, I called bullshit, five hundred dollars on the line." Ukon said loudly getting the rest of the shop around. Sasuke smiled the slipped his arm out of one sleeve and freed his shoulder from the sweater. Sasuke turned showing them Jugo's work and Ukon slammed his fists on his chair. "You're lucky you won because that's way more than five hundred worth of work."

"I paid him fifteen hundred for it." Sasuke said and slipped his sweater back on as Ukon forked over the money. Jugo smiled happily as he shoved the money away and looked at Tayuya. "Now that I have cash for it, do you want to go out for dinner?"

"Sure…SHUT UP OR I'LL RIP OUT YOUR TONGUES!" She screamed as Sakon and Ukon began laughing. She went over and grabbed both of them by the collar shaking them senseless.

Kidoumaru shook his head and told Jugo that he better be thankful he's twice her size, he has a chance to take her on par. Jugo just shook his head and sighed. He looked to the door but found that it was closing, Sasuke disappearing outside somewhere. Sasuke actually had just gone a foot to the right of Jugo's vision and was on a pay phone pulling out a white card with a phone number on it and an address. He sighed and dialed it. After a second he heard a voice, "I want to talk to Orochimaru… This is Sasuke. You put him on the phone or I'll go and tell Madara."

"That's not a nice threat…" Orochimaru's voice slithered on. Sasuke for a minute wanted to back off and threw the phone away for a minute cringing only to bring it back to his ear to her him again. "So, you're interested in what I have to say?"

"Possibly… Before I come, I want to know what exactly went on between you and Itachi. And I'm not talking we never got along excuses either." Sasuke said and heard a little bit of silence.

"Itachi… was an experiment, but after a while he decided to back out by having Madara try to kill me. That's what went on in short… Now, can I expect you soon, I'll have Kabuto put tea on." He said with a slight amusement.

"Yea, I'll be there in a few minutes." Sasuke hung the phone on the hook and pulled out the cigarettes lighting one. Every step he took towards Orochimaru he wanted to call himself stupid and foolish. He just kept walking inhaling the toxin trying to keep steady.

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"Kabuto, go put the kettle on, we're expecting company." Orochimaru said happily from his chair. He caressed the white leather with a few fingers and smiled. "You know, it's been so long since we've had company. Last people were those girl scouts last week. Say do we have any of their cookies left?"

"We only bought forty boxes… Yeah, which ones do you want?" Kabuto asked self-correcting his attitude as he headed into the kitchen. He stopped in the doorway however and waited to hear.

"The Somoas of course." He said like it was natural. He waited for a second before getting up. Orochimaru grabbed his drink and casually threw his orders towards the kitchen. "Bring them to the lab; I'm going to prep for my new little mouse."

"Yes sir." Came back at him and Orochimaru walked down the hall and turned into a pair of white doors opening to a large sterile lab. He went over to the table and looked at it for a second before lowering it nearly to the floor. "Why's it down there?"

"I have a feeling he's not going to let me bring him in here willingly. Make sure the gas is ready with a mask." Orochimaru said and began getting out various tools. "Oh, I'm so excited for fresh blood. I told you we should have taken those girl scouts…"

"But than they won't come back and give us more cookies, Orochimaru." Kabuto said simply. Orochimaru smiled agreeing. "How long is this procedure going to take, we wouldn't want any uninvited guests showing up."

"Not more than a few minutes, anyway, I'm not going to make this easy for them. I want to watch Itachi's face as he suffer." Orochimaru voice darkened. He carefully glared at the syringe in his hand and smiled at the thoughts that were coming to him. "I want him to watch what's most important to him crash and burn as did my career and my work."