Naruto : Venom

"You sick bastard don't you dare!" I roar at the lunatic. 

"You know exactly what you did! You eradicated the soul of a barely formed fetus just to see if you could and I happened to get sucked up into the space left behind! I will kill you before I let that happen to someone else! You don't even know if you can choose who goes in! I was picked at random!"

...

Tsunade's face is deathly pale. "Is that true?"

"Yes, it is. That's how I brought Alvarcus back on accident. I've refined my technique since then, it was thirteen years ago."

"You haven't done shit with it sense then, don't lie to her." Malice is laced into my tone. "Despite all of your Edo Tensi research you considered me a failure until we met in the Chunin Exams. You haven't done any research to see if you can or can't do it again. You haven't had the time."

Tsunade is still deathly pale. "No. Not that. Alvarcus you've died before?"

"Why the fuck is that what you care about?!" What is wrong with her? "He's talking about sacrificing unborn children to maybe bring back someone who maybe will be one of your loved ones!"

"You didn't answer my question." Tsunade barely whispers out.

"And I'm not going to!"

"This is not how I imagined our conversation would go Alvarcus." Orochimaru casually cuts in. "I wanted to see if you've thought about my offer at all, but it is obvious you're not ready to accept it. Oh well, I at least got something out of this. I know my stasis seal works."

"No shit I'm not going with you." I venomously spit out. With his arms out of commission the odds of me being brutally murdered are drastically lowered. "And just as an added fuck you, your seal didn't work. If I didn't have your other 'gift' I would have died."

"Pity. I thought I finally had a way to transport live specimens without all the screaming. It's a tedious process the whole thing."

"Tsunade let's kill him." I draw a kunai in my right hand and slide into a battle stance. Honestly I should have attacked the moment I was out of the seal and knew he was before me. I've lost the only chance for surprise I had. "He's injured. He can't use jutsu. He's alone. We can take him."

Tsunade doesn't respond.

"Tsunade? Are we going to kill this asshole or not? Cuz if I have to I'll go through you too." I know exactly how I'll do it and everything. She won't be able to stop me.

"Tsunade, darling teammate, could you put him back in the seal for me?" Orochimaru says unconcerned.

"Pfft like Tsunade is going to take your side in all of thi-"

SMACK

CRACK

THUD

"Ow." That really hurt. What the hell was that? "Tsunade what the fuck? Did you just backhanded me through a tree and into a boulder?" I peel myself off of said boulder. There's a body sized indent in it. That was one hell of a hit.

"You can still move?" She casually asks while she is walking towards me. "Consider me impressed. Grown men have died to lighter blows than that."

"So we're not teaming up to kill Orochimaru." Wonderful. I don't know if I can do it alone. Well, now is my best shot at it. He's limited and I'm not. I just have to go through Tsunade first. "Never thought I'd fight two Sannin back to back ever."

"You want to fight me still?" Tsunade rolls up her sleeves. "You've got spirit. Konoha must be very glad you're one of her shinobi, you bring her honor."

"Yeah and you bring her disappointment." I sneer at her. "Beside, I'm not going to fight you. I'm going to win." I rake my kunai across my left hand. "You have a terrible case of hemophobia! You become paralyzed when you see blood!"

Tsunade freezes. Her eyes go wide and she recoils back half a step. Then she does something she shouldn't be able to do. She relaxes her whole body.

"Well you're not wrong about that." She resumes walking towards me. "Good try, better luck next time."

What the fuck? She should be riveted to the spot in fear!

~Host, we just talked about this. We don't have any blood.~

"Fuck me sideways." I really fucked that up. There's no way I can beat a Sannin without a serious handicap like the one Orochimaru has. I only have one more shot at this. "Jiongu hurry up and make me some blood!"

~Working on it!~

Tsunade lunges forward in a crazy burst of speed and stops right before me. "Not going to happen squirt." She reaches out and grasps my neck. She lifts me off my feet and pulls me close to her face.

This could be my chance! I really hate myself for doing this, I can't believe I'm about to say this. "Jiongu push whatever blood you made out of my eyes!"

~I'll try! It might not make it in time!~

"Oh hell no!" Tsunade slams her free hand into my chest and I hear paper crinkle.

It didn't make it. I failed again.

She leans down next to my ear and whispers, "Don't hate me Alvarcus. Please. It's an act. It's all an act. I will kill Orochimaru but I have to earn his trust first. This is how I will. I'm so sorry."

I'm sucked back into the seal.

"Well done Tsunade!" Orochimaru happily calls out from his spectators spot. "Now shall we heal my arms?"

Tsunade straightens up. "We can't yet. We have to wait until noon tomorrow."

"Why?" Orochimaru says in pure fury.

"You're arms weren't just hurt, they were damaged on a cellular level by The Shinigami, The God of Death. If you want them back we need to heal them when Life's power is at it's peak, when the sun is highest in the sky. Hence noon tomorrow."

"So be it. We will wait." Orochimaru moves over to the tree Alvarcus was thrown through and sits down on its fallen trunk. "The seal. I want it back."

Tsunade tenses. "You don't care about the seal. You want what's in it, who is in it. You want Alvarcus."

"Yes. Once he sees what I am truly offering him in person he will be mine. And why wouldn't he? I'm offering him everything." Orochimaru gazes off into the distance with a smile on his face. "He's exactly how I imagined my child would be. Creative, cunning, versatile, resourceful, manipulative, insightful, yet not afraid to speak his mind to me. I simply must have him!"

"We'll see." Tsunade growls out. "After my loved ones are back."

Orochimaru narrows his eyes. "Agreed."

Unbeknownst to Orochimaru, a slug wriggles away with a suspicious piece of paper stuck on it's back.

...

It's eerily quiet in the seal. Not a noise is being made. Nothing is going on to break up the endless black abyss.

~Host?~

"Yes?"

~You're not screaming.~

"No. No I am not."

~You should be. I can feel your rage. Your anger. You feel betrayed by her.~

"I don't feel betrayed by her, I was betrayed by her." I hiss out through clenched teeth. "But I know where she's coming from. I hate myself for saying this, but I understand why she is doing what she is."

~You should have used me. We could have stalled for more time until the blood was ready. We could have won. Why didn't you?~

"I saw her eyes." I say in a soft voice. "They were so full of pain and sorrow. You don't understand what Orochimaru offered her. It was something she knew she could never have again. He spit and pissed on something sacred to her, something she remembers every day of her life. Her precious people. He belittled them, said he could bring them back. He used them as a bargaining chip."

"She's the world's best medic nin, of all the people in the world she is the one most familiar with Death. She's rescued hundreds, thousands, from his clutches. But how many more has she lost to him? How many patients has she been trying to save when Death comes and takes them? How many times has she tried to help someone cheat Death and lost? It's uncountable."

"She knows that there is no way back from Death. I can promise you she's already tried everything she could think of to get her precious people back. I bet she's lost countless nights sleep trying to think of crazier and crazier ideas."

"It's human nature to want what you don't have. Sometimes you walk past a nice house and you say to yourself I want that. Sometimes you see someone who is an absolute monster on the battlefield and you say I want to be S-rank. Sometimes you see a mom and a dad happily eating ice cream with their child. I want that."

"So I know where she's coming from. Orochimaru did something he should never have, he promised her something she knows he can't deliver. And she's going to kill him. That's the price for his mistake. I only wish I could watch it. Of course that's assuming she actually can kill him."

~You humans are so strange.~

"Yeah, we really are."

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