Orochimaru Has A Secret In Common With Konoha

[Haruka]

Haruka listened to Rikka's explanation about which clan she belonged to, and chuckled softly as he let out a small yawn. Neko clan, eh...? Never even heard of that at all... He thought to himself as he examined the female somewhat, focusing more on the rest of her rather than just her ears, like some people would. It was abnormal, yes, but it wasn't like it was completely new to him, after all. He made a small glance over towards Naruto, then shrugged his shoulders lightly as he focused his gaze back towards the newcomer...well, new to his eyes, anyways. All the times he had been to Konohagakure, though, he never did see her around if she used to live there...of course, he didn't know that she did, either.

He then listened in on her comment about Kako being a shortie, and he laughed towards it. She was, in his eyes, quite short...well, she was shorter than him, anyways. He looked towards Rikka with interest once more, seeing that she was indeed a Jounin, and laughed slightly. She was a higher rank than himself? He should spar with her sometime, he though, to see if she could live up to the Jounin name. Upon thinking about her being a Jounin, he chuckled softly. Being that rank meant that you had to be able to use at least 2 different elemental chakras. He himself could use almost all chakra types, with the exception of Shadow and Light, as well as even some Ice. Even though he had knowledge of how to use the Ice, when he used it, it would only stay solid ice for about 1 minute, seeing as how that belonged to a bloodline trait.

Through the rest of the two female's conversation, he didn't really pay attention since he felt a presence nearby. He readied a jutsu and looked around, looking for some hint as to where the being could be. Deciphering the location, he aimed the jutsu towards the sound that he had heard from something. "Katon! Housenka no Jutsu!(Fire Style! Pheonix Flower Jutsu!)" He called out, blowing the large embers towards the sound, then relaxing. He blinked slightly when he saw a puppy, and shrugged his shoulders lightly, focusing back towards the group that was formed between the original Quintet.

[kurureenu]

Kurureenu glanced at the others for a moment, trying to see what all they were doing until she noticed Kako waving her hand and walking away from the corner of her eye. She turned and sped up a bit to catch up with the two. "So you two are practically like siblings," she stated toward Rikka with a small smile. "I think that's awesome."

Kazi watched as Rikka ruffled Kako's hair and called her a shortie. He chuckled lightly. He knew how if felt to do that to someone. Kurureenu was shorter than him, especially when they first met. Then Kurureenu threatened to nuder him again and he stopped. He watched as Kurureenu ran forward to catch up with the two, who were now moving and blinked. He glanced at the other two, completely ignoring Haruka's jutsu that he just did easily, and ran to catch up with Kurureenu.

The blonde turned around to watch Haruka use one of his fire jutsus and raised a brow as she glanced toward where he was aiming it, spotting a wolf pup. "Aw... How cute. A puppy," she murmured with a soft smile.

[Kako]

Kako was about to question her Ane-chan why she suddenly seemed a bit sad when she heard Haruka suddenly cast a jutsu. She blinked at the puppy that appeared after the shrubbery around it had been burn up and she immediately ran over and kneeled beside the pup. "Awww guys look it`s a little wolfy!" she shouted and began to pet the baby wolf gently. When she heard Reenu mutter practically the same thing as she did she glanced over at her friend and smiled.

Rikka had been thinking about how angry she was at that old man hokage for not telling Kako like he said he would about her past. But she soon remembered that she heard during the recent attack by Orochimaru that the old man had died. Well...the new hokage would know to wouldn`t they? I mean there is a file on Kako after all telling about her connection with Orochimaru. The snow ninja`s thoughts were broken when she suddenly heard the younger girl yell something about a pup. She walked over to Kako and glanced down at the small wolf. "Hm...looks more like a mutt to me....come on this is a waste of time. Let`s keep moving...we`re in Sound ninja territory anyway" Rikka said before continuing to walk.

Kako blinked at the cat eared girl`s words and took the pup into her arms before standing up and cuddling. "Aww it`s ok little guy. You`re not a mutt, Ane-chan just doesn`t show her sensitive side as much as she should." she cooed and started walking along with her friends before she remembered Reenu`s question from earlier about Rikka and her being practically siblings and turned to look at Reenu. "Oh! Yah Reenu-chan I guess we are kinda like sisters. Thats what I think anyway. Rikka-chan moved to the leaf village when she was five. I was only three at the time and didn`t really have any friends. I hadn`t even met Sasuke-kun or Naruto-kun yet then. I guess you could say she was my first friend..." the girl explained as she pet the pup in her arms. Her thoughts of when the two had first me were interrupted by a yell from Rikka who had already walked quite a way aways. "You guys comin or not?" "Oh! C...Comin Ane-chan!" Kako replied about to run off but looked back at her friends before doing so. "Oh...by the way the cat ears are fake in case you were wondering" she said with a giggle before running up to catch up with Rikka and apparently she had decided to take the pup with her as well.

Once Kako had caught up she started thinking about what Rikka said about being in Sound ninja territory earlier and it made her slightly confused. "Hey Ane-chan if we`re in Sound ninja territory then why don`t we just attack? Or why aren`t they attacking us?" "Because they just attacked earlier before you guys arrived. They`re probley tending to wounds or getting supplies or something. And the reason we`re not attacking is cause we don`t have a plan. A random ambush isn`t gonna be any help so unless they decide to attack we`re not making a move. Which is why we don`t need to waste our time on mutts..." Rikka explained, ending her explanation with a small glare toward the pup Kako still carried with her. "Ane-chan! The pup can understand what you`re saying. Besides pups don`t normally go far away from their parents so that means something musta happen to this little guy`s parents. It only makes sense to take care of him" Kako said and looked up at Rikka with the cutest look she could muster. There was a long silence between the two and finally Rikka just sighed and looked away stubbornly. "Fine...he doesn`t look like a wolf from this area anyway. Just stop making that face...." Rikka admitted stubbornly. "Yay!!!" Kako cheered happily and cuddled the puppy.

[altair]

Altair nearly had a heart attack when a fireball came at him out of no where, so thank god none of them had actually hit him... when suddenly he felt someone pet him and nearly jumped, but was then pciked up and found himslef moving with a girl. The demon laughed, You get scared so easily... Altair was listening in on the conversation they were having, feeling extremely, weird, he wasn't much one for contact, but the inner puppy was loving it, so he let the puppy has its fun, until he heard that he got called a mutt by the snow vilage ninja. HE didn't like her at all. he heard the girl defending them, but then realized where they were heading... the snow village, but they were gonna pass by his cave in only a little while, and he absoultely did not want his cave to be found out. but he had to think how... but then the puppy mind took over again, and he just began to think!!! He snuggled up against the girl, because he jsut didn't want to look at the hateful girl...

[Haruka]

He sighed slightly as he looked over towards Kako, who was currently holding the wolf pup. He shrugged his shoulders lightly towards her, murmuring, "It's just a damned pup...just more luggage to carry...oh well." He stuffed his hands into his pockets, already bored with just walking, but he continued on forward, soon zoning out from any talking and just focusing in on his own thoughts about certain aspects.

Naruto blinked slightly as he watched the Elemental Ninja cast his fire jutsu, revealing a puppy. Though he somewhat felt the same way that Haruka did, he decided not to voice his opinion to the others. He had known Kako for quite a while, but he felt that he didn't know everything there was to know about her. He knew about the mark that she had on her neck, but that was about it. Her life was pretty much a dark shroud to him. Of course, he was still her friend, and he continued to walk forward.

Haruka was taken out of his thoughts, however, when he heard Rikka say something about them being in the Sound territory, and he blinked his eyes slightly as he looked around. Since when did the Sound nin have a base in the Snow Country? He had never heard anything about that. He sighed slightly and started to tune in more on the surroundings, being on a watch for any Sound ninja. If they were here, then that meant that there was a very high percent chance that Orochimaru was here as well...He grinned slightly, mainly to himself, thinking about how he would make that damned cold-hearted snake pay for what he did to his clan...
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Flashback...
'Hey, Haruka-kun!' Called out a female voice from the background, a small breeze drifting over the area. She was about 8 years of age. He looked back towards her and gave her a small smile. 'Hai, Hana-chan?' He replied. She giggled slightly towards him as a few other kids, part of the Raikou clan, walked over towards him. 'You said you had a new jutsu? Can you show us?! Pleaaaaaaase?' She asked pleadingly. Haruka laughed slightly. 'Okay, okay...it's a fire jutsu. You ready?' He inquired.

'Hai!' The other four cried out in unison. Haruka nodded towards them, then performed the necessary hand seals for the jutsu and looked towards the glistening waters that they were standing by. 'Katon! Housenka no Jutsu!' He called out, blowing the fire out over the sea. They watched him in awe of the jutsu he had cast. It was amazing! Haruka panted slightly and looked towards them, smiling lightly. 'Heh heh...how was that, ne?' He asked them with a small laugh. 'Wow...!' Hana called out with a small giggle. 'You are the most advanced out of our clan...how do you do it?' One of the other boys asked. Haruka shrugged his shoulders lightly towards them. 'I just...train...' He said with a somewhat forced laugh, looking away from them. 'You still thinking about how everyone else looks down you you, Haru-san?' Another boy asked. Haruka laughed slightly. 'Don't be ridiculous! I could care less!' Haruka replied.

'The Elemental Jinchuuriki, and Raikou clan member, Raikou Haruka? Pleasure to meet you...' Hissed a voice. Haruka looked around and noticed a male with a leaf headband on his forehead, a cut through the leaf symbol. 'A rogue nin from Konohagakure? What are you doing here?' He asked, then continued, 'and how do you know me?' 'The Akatsuki know all about you, little boy...now come with me, little boy...' Orochimaru said with a grin. Haruka took a step back, gulping slightly. He was young, but even he could sense some sinister aura about him. Orochimaru chuckled menacingly and grabbed a boy by the throat with a snake, slamming him into a tree. Haruka's eyes widened. 'Leave them alone!' He cried out.

In just five minutes, only he and Hana were left. A kunai flew straight towards him, and he felt paralyzed. His only friends were gone...and he was going to die? Hana suddenly jumped in front of him, getting stabbed in the chest. She looked back at him and smiled weakly. 'Gomenasai, Haruka-kun...I was too weak...' She whispered, then fell over, dead. Haruka's eyes widened before he looked towards Orochimaru; a black, red, and yellow chakra enveloping his body. He suddenly muttered out, 'Ketatamashii Denkou Metsuki!' Lightning enveloped his eyes as he activated his bloodline. He vanished and slammed a fist into Orochimaru's jaw, sending him through many trees. Orochimaru laughed as he stood up. 'Ah...angry, are we? I'll be back later in life...live on, little boy...' and vanished.

"Orochimaru..." Came Haruka's voice from a whisper. "I'll kill you...you will die!!!!" He yelled out, a small surge of demon chakra enveloping his body. Naruto's eyes widened a bit at the sight, and yelled out, "Haruka?!!"

[kurureenu]

Kazi was standing next to Kako and Rikka, wanting to pet the wolf pup. "Ooh! Puppy. Lemme pet the puppy," he cooed as he reached a hand over to pet the creature. Kazi was quite the animal lover. Kurureenu was too, but she didn't think that the pup should even be around the group at the moment. They did have work to do after all.

Kurureenu hung out near the other two, Haruka and Naruto as she watched Kazi pet the pup. The lovable geek. she thought. The blonde heard a shout from Haruka and glanced over just as Naruto shouted. "Haruka..." she muttered, blinking as her mind try to process momentarily. "Haruka!"

Kazi glanced back to see Haruka and stopped trying to coo over the pup as he watched the jinchuuriki start to go berserk. "Haruka!" he shouted. "Calm down!"

[Kako]

Kako and Rikka had just continued talking over things. Kako was wondering why Rikka asked so many questions about her mark but she stopped wondering when a voice pierced through her thoughts. It was Haruka`s. Kako stopped in her tracks and ran back toward the lightning clan member with Rikka soon joining her. "Haru-kun? Haru-kun whats wrong?!" she said extremely worried for her friend. Haruka was normally calm. It wasn`t like him to suddenly freak out like this. She wondered what could possibly be wrong.

Rikka looked at the Raikou very confused and since Kako seemed to care about the boy she supposed she should be worried to. She was focusing on the problem at hand when suddenly she heard what sounded like feet running through snow. It sounded like two...no....maybe three or more teams of sound ninja and when she looked up her suspicions were confirmed. She sighed at the annoyance and quickly took out her kunai ready to strike. "Looks like we got company..." she stated.

Kako blinked at Rikka`s words and looked around to see they were surrounded by sound ninja. The black haired girl smirked as she stood up ready to cast a jutsu "They better back off! Ok Ane-chan I`ll take care of fi-" but she was cut off when suddenly the mark on her neck suddenly felt like it was on fire. She winced in pain as she went down on her knees gripping at the mark. "Ane-chan...it hurts really....bad" she managed to utter.

Rikka blinked in confusion when her friend suddenly went down. She kneeled beside Kako and pried the girl`s hand away from her neck to look at the mark. She was shocked to see it glowing like fire and it even looked like it was spreading. "Kako-chan! Did you use up alot of chakra earlier?!" the cat eared girl asked urgently. "No...just a summoning jutsu and...the few jutsus from earlier. That wouldn`t use up all my chakra...." Kako said as the pain increased, causing tears to start to form in her eyes.

Rikka clenched her fists in anger. "Well...the only other thing that would cause it to react this badly is...." Rikka glared at the sound ninja and stood up. "Where`s Orochimaru?! I know he`s here!!!" the girl said angrily.

Kako just gripped her neck tighter with each passing moment that the mark just seemed to get stronger. She just barely was able to make out Rikka`s words through the pain. "Oro...chimaru-sama?" she asked not understanding the connection but couldn`t form words to ask anything else.

(Eh...I was planning on having Orochimaru show up later but...oh well. ^.^ Hope ya don`t mind playing him Haruka )

[altair]

Altair watched as the girl keeled over and the puppy felt concerned, it wouldn't stop screaming in his head!!! "HELP HER U BASTARD, U CAN HELP HER, WHY WONT YOU?" Altair finally screamed back, "FINE, IF U WILL SHUTUP ALREADY!!!!" Altair finally took his human form, fastly growing and heard his bones rearranging, and then he was finally complete. only now he noticed the sound ninja, but he knew that the other jinchurikki could obviously handle it. Right now he just had to shutup the stupid wolf, and he could take the demons voice down with it. He appeared behind the girl, shoving the other girl to the side and nealt beside her, he whispered to her, "i'm sorry i have to do this..." and he felt his teeth begin to sharpen... "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT"

HE knew this wasn't not going to end well, but he had to do it, at least it would stop the pain. He sank his teeth into the girls neck, and made a hand sign, and then the first worm came out. He began to drain out the pain, using darkness to replace it. The worm opened up its mouth, and a small black ball began to form, as the assault was prepared. Most of the pain should be gone now, but he. When he was finished, he removed hiself, apologizing to the girl, and then placing the black ball inside a gem. He could use that later, but that was a lot more pain than hed thought, so he could make a pretty decent explosice out of that. he had to be careful with it though...... he fell to his knees, because that took a lot out of him, and it wasn't night, so he couldn't draw any more chakra from the demon just yet. It was burning him, so the worm went back inside him, and he nearly collapsed. The demon began to laugh at how patheitc he was, and altair didn't know how much longer he could remain concious during the day...

[Haruka]

Haruka's demon-hazed eyes glanced around the surroundings, noticing how many sound ninja had just arrived. He grinned deviously and did quick handseals, black electricity swirling around his hands as he vanished from his spot. Strike after strike, holes appeared in various sound nin's throats; blood pouring out of their bodies from the new holes that they received. He grinned slightly.

Naruto's eyes widened in shock. Haruka had 2 tails out, of the 7 tails that he actually had. This could get bad! "H-Haruka, Calm down!!" He yelled out. "You don't want to hur-"

"Oh, I think he does, Fox Brat..." Hissed a voice, which was soon followed by an appearance in a tree nearby. Pale skin, long black hair, and a grin on his face. He chuckled softly. "Haruka-kun....it's been awhile..." He said with a sinister smirk following his comment. He then looked over towards Kako and chuckled. "Ah, Kako...How have you been..?" He asked.

Naruto's eyes widened. "Orochimaru...you put that mark on Sasuke...and you tried to kill Granny Tsunade!!" He yelled out, putting his hands into a familiar hand seal. "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" He called out, creating hundreds of clones around the area. Orochimaru chuckled at the action. "Ah, such skill....for a Genin..." "Ah, Naruto-kun... "came another voice, and soon Kabuto stood beside Orochimaru. "I haven't forgiven you for hitting me with that Rasengan, you know..." Kabuto muttered with a chuckle. Orochimaru held out an arm and Kabuto bit his thumb, running blood along it. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He called out, slamming his hand on the ground and making a large snake, taking himself and Orochimaru off the ground.

Naruto growled and bit his thumb, readying hand seals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He called out, slamming his hand on the ground as well. Soon enough, Gamakichi stood in front of him, and he sweatdropped. "Yo! What's up?" "What do you mean?!! I was trying to summon Gamabunta, 'ttebayo!!"

"Like I said before, once a failure, always a failure." Kabuto muttered. The snake flicked it's tail and slapped over half of Naruto's clones. Haruka growled darkly. Just seeing Orochimaru made his blood boil more, but he was still able to keep a little bit of control. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu..." He muttered and was soon in the air on a Giant Elemental Bird, even bigger than the one he had summoned on the bird.

"Oh? Kabuto-san, this could be...fun." Orochimaru said with a wide grin plastered upon his face. He looked towards Kako and Kurureenu, putting influence on their cursed marks.

[kurureenu]

Kurureenu felt the area where her own curse mark resided start to flare up. The girl squeezed her eyes shut and gripped the area tightly. She muttered a curse word aimed at Orochimaru under her breath as she done so, not caring if he heard or not.

Kazi glanced over toward Kurureenu and noticed the girl in pain. "Ku?" he called slightly as he approached the girl a bit. "Are you okay?" He moved her hand over so he could look in the spot that seemed to be paining her and found the mark. "You have one too?" he asked in shock as his eyes widened.

"Just shut up," Kurureenu growled angrily through her clenced teeth.

Kazi nodded obediantly and glared up toward Orochimaru angrily, just like Kurureenu would have if she wasn't in pain.

[Kako]

Kako stayed crouched on the ground holding her curse mark. She had been in so much pain that she hadn`t even put thought into why the little puppy she had been fawning over had suddenly become a person and was taking away her pain. For a moment her pain had subsided and she panted as she sat up and gradually the mark went back to normal. Unfortunately her comfort didn`t last long. Once Orochimaru came in her sights it went back to before and now ten times stronger since the snake lord was so close. When she heard the man address her all she could do was glance toward him as she whimpered in pain.

Rikka was definitely shocked when suddenly Haruka took care of practically all the sound ninja but knew things weren`t good when she saw two tails behind the boy. A jinchuuriki?! Great not only do we have to deal with the doings of the snake bastard but now we got a demon on our hands. the cat eared girl thought. This was all becoming to troublesome. She glanced toward the hurt Kako then glared at Orochimaru, knowing this was all his fault. She decided it might actually be good that Orochimaru summoned a snake in the land of snow seeing as reptiles have a slight disadvantage in cold areas. At least she hoped it was the case. She ran over in front of the large snake and bit her thumb before performing some hand signs "Summoning Jutsu!" she said before slamming her hand on the ground and a large Snow leopard appeared as well as a large staff appeared in her hand. The cat eared girl smirked as she did a new set of hand signs before shouting "Koori Tsume no Jutsu!" she slashed the blade of her staff and the snow leopard beside her slashed it`s claws at the large snake as large ice crystals came from the blade and claws of the cat and flew to stab into the summoned snake.

Kako panted as she watched her Ane-chan attempt to attack the snake bastard and glanced over toward Reenu who seemed to be in the same predicament as her. Kako`s curse mark had already spread over half her body. The fact that the painful black marks had moved over half of her face and over one arm made this fact known. She let out a frustrated sigh as her clenched fist punched the ground angrily. Kako felt so weak and useless right now. That wasn`t like her. Kako hated being useless and she decided to put a stop to it even if her body felt like it was on fire every time she moved. She let out a deep breath and pushed against the ground to push herself up on her legs. She felt herself almost fall back down but kept herself up on her own will power. She felt her lip bleeding from having bitten it so hard to keep from yelling in pain when she made the move to stand. She panted and glanced over at Kazi weakly. "Kazi-kun....There`s nothing you can do to help Reenu-chan.....this mark won`t stop till Orochimaru-sama leaves. G...Go try to calm Haru-kun down....him going demon isn`t gonna help us at all....but be careful....just try to stall him. A...As for Orochimaru-sama and Kabuto-san....let Rikka-chan and Naru-kun take care of them for the moment. I...I`ll go after Orochimaru-sama...okay?" Kako explained to the boy, not really sure if she could fulfill the last part of the statement. It took all her strength just to stand but she wasn`t gonna just stand to the side like this.

[altair]

Altair began to see all of the people around him falling. Then the memories began to come back... The demon began to speak, "Release me, and we can help ur friends, i can turn their pain into the enemies demise. Let me help you, and u know what u have to do... Let the bloodlust consume you..." Altair hit his knees, screaming.... and he knew he couldn't hold out any longer... He pulled out the scroll that the demon had given him. His made the hand signs, then said the incantation, And slammed his palms on the scroll, using the last of his strength. Dark clouds gathered, and they began to gather right over the sun. So the sun was blocked out, so his demon could finally kick in. The demon laughed, "LET THE FUN BEGIN!!!" Two worms shot out of his shoulder blades, and his skin began to charcoa and turn black, and began to fall off in chucnks. Underneath the skin was pure black chakra The first worm shot at the girl that he had helped before, and laughed before sinking its teeth into her neck, and began to drain her of her pain, and transferring it straight to altairs body. While the other one did the same, except with the girl apparently named reenu. He began to use the mass of pain, and a HUGE black ball of pain and chakra from the demon began to combine. and electricity ran throughout the ball, And Altairs tail began to wrap around the ball, shrinking it. He continued to take away their pain, and started to make more balls perparing hs ultimate attack, while the worms continued to draw away their pain. He had around 20 balls made so far, because their pain just didn't seem to stop... but the demon was laughing, because he knew he would get to get his reward for helping them later.........

[Haruka]

Kabuto chuckled slightly when the snow girl decided to summon a snow leopard to attack the giant snake. "Good thinking to attack a snake when they are weak, since they are cold-blooded animals, but...you have to also remember, these aren't normal snakes..." Kabuto stated in his know-it-all attitude as he signaled towards the snake. The snake nodded and breathed a very hot dose of fire and melted the snow, heating up the land enough to actually create a small fire in the spot. It was also enough to at least block the claw attack, since it was ice-based. "I can heat up the atmosphere with the snake to a point where snow leopards will have their own weakness...of course, it isn't normal, either."

Haruka growled darkly as he got into a crouching position on the bird, growling in anger and a little bit of pain as well. Naruto's eyes widened at the sight of it. 'I felt that before...when I was fighting that Haku guy...when I thought Sasuke-teme was dead...' Naruto thought to himself as he looked towards Kabuto and growled slightly. "Hey kid...what's goin' on?" Gamakichi asked the blonde-haired boy. Naruto sighed. "Just don't get yourself killed..." Haruka readied a few hand signs, muttering, "Boutai Keta no Jutsu!" He and the bird opened their mouths before a very large beam of energy shot directly towards Orochimaru.

Orochimaru chuckled slightly and jumped out of the way, grabbing Haruka's ankles with his tongue. Haruka looked at him with bloodlust and grabbed the tongue, another tail starting to form - which would mean that he was losing control of his mind. He yanked the tongue harshly and Orochimaru came flying towards him, and he slammed his fist into the Snake Lord, sending him through many trees. Haruka then got on his knees and panted, his body experiencing a great deal of stress, and he let out a loud roar. The roar causing very harsh and rough winds to run through the land, causing something that was ideal to a blizzard.

Naruto put his hands in front of himself as the terrifying winds threw him into a tree and he coughed roughly. "Kuso..." he muttered as he stood up. He was going to be defeated by his own teammate at this rate! Gamakichi too flew through the air, but Naruto managed to catch him. He shuddered slightly. "Eh, kid...this weather ain't really suited for me...I'ma get out of here. see ya!" He called out, vanishing in a cloud of smoke.

Kabuto used his chakra control on the snake to stay aboard it, but the snake itself shuddered violently. It wasn't all that safe in this type of weather. Kabuto sighed. He should have summoned the three-headed snake. It would survive better, and could supply a more hearty portion of fire to heat up the land. Kabuto growled. He would need to end this quickly, but with a Jinchuuriki going out of control, that would definitely not be easy...He couldn't stand up to one of them. He could just count his blessings that it was only the 7-tails, and not the 9...

[kurureenu]

Kazi nodded toward Kako's words and turned around toward Haruka just as the jinchuuriki roared, bringing up the blizzard-like winds. The pale boy kneeled down close to the ground to keep on his feet as best he can, though it wasn't too easy at all. He glared up toward Haruka for a moment, getting knocked over by the wind a second afterward.

"Haruka! Calm down!" he shouted up to the boy-going-demon. His gaze was ripped away from Haruka up on hearing a shout that said 'let the fun begin' and toward the stranger from before. His eyes widened slightly as he noticed the 'worm' that had just sunk its teeth into the flesh on his comrades' necks. What is he doing?! Kazi shouted in his mind. The boy shook his head and glared back toward Haruka. He had to get him to calm down first and foremost.

Kurureenu was obviously in pain and didn't even notice the worm attach to her. She didn't feel any difference either as it started to 'suck the pain from her'. Because of Orochimaru's precense, the pain wouldn't go away. There was one thing for sure though, she wanted to fight back. Orochimaru killed her sensei and she wasn't going to let that go at all.

[Kako]

Kako tried her best to move closer to Orochimaru but all for naught. Every time she tried to take a step she would just fall back down on her knees in pain. She clutched the ground hard when she suddenly felt an extremely strong wind come from Haruka`s roar. When she looked up she saw that her goal had just been sent farther away and sighed in frustration. As if she wasn`t annoyed enough she suddenly felt some kind of worm thing bite into her neck. She glared toward the man who seemed to be controlling them and grabbed the worm tight before yanking it out and throwing it toward him. "Baka!!! No matter what you do it`s not gonna help. As long as Orochimaru-sama is here we`ll still be in pain! If you wanna be any help go attack him idiot!!!" the girl said angrily. She was ticked off enough as it was and this just made it worse.

Meanwhile Rikka was cursing the damned giant snake in her head as it blew fire to reflect her attack. She had figured this wasn`t any ordinary snake but she was hoping maybe there would be alittle luck on her side. No such luck. She valued the fact that her summoning animal wasn`t normal either and quickly jumped on the snow leopard`s back as it jumped in the air and began to fly. Unfortunately she was soon met from behind by a strong wind and her and the leopard was flung into a tree. After looking up she determined the wind came from Haruka. She was starting to get worried. If Haruka kept becoming more demon like this who knew what could happen? But right now she was focused on defeating Orochimaru. She wanted the snake lord out of here quickly, before Kako could get near him and allow the snake bastard to tell her more than Kako needed to know. She made the leopard fly her in front of the snake and smirked. "Fine you wanna play with fire? Let`s play..." the cat eared girl threatened before doing some hand signs. "Enkou Chidori!" she shouted as a large amount of fire based chakra gathered around her left hand. This was one of the many different jutsus that she had learn in her training. It was alot like the original Chidori but instead of lightning based chakra being used she used fire this time but she had learned how to use chidori in alot of different elements. She jumped off her flying leopard and punched the chidori into the snake as hard as possible.

Kako sighed as she tried to come up with an idea to move when she suddenly thought of something. She knew it might hurt to use chakra in this state but was already in pain so she didn`t care. She performed some hand signs before biting her thumb and and slamming her hand on the ground. "Summoning jutsu!" she shouted and soon Hebi was standing before her. The snake gave her a curious look as it observed that his master was suffering from the curse mark. "Sssssomething wrong Kako-chan?" the snake asked and Kako nodded her head as she panted. After performing the normally simple jutsu her mark had spread even more so this made things even more difficult. "Oro...Orochimaru-sama is here....take me over to him..." She ordered. "Are you sssssure?" "Yes....I`ve...got some...questions for him" Kako assured and the snake nodded his head as he helped Kako on his back and began to slither toward it`s master`s destination. The snake tried to slither a distance away from the fighting, knowing he`d probley get in trouble if he allowed the girl to get hurt.