Meanwhile, with Orochimaru
"Karin." Orochimaru quietly says so that Alvarcus and Sasuke don't hear him. "Come here. I have a task for you."
The only kunoichi here with red hair confidently steps forward. "Yes, Orochimaru-sama? Whatever it is that you have in store for me I will gladly accept."
"Sweet child, it's nothing that difficult." Orochimaru smiles down with sinister sweetness at one of his more successful test subjects. Then he subtly points towards his students. "Tell me how they feel to you."
"Of course." Karin pushes her glasses back up her nose and turns to look at Sasuke and Alvarcus. "They both have a shockingly large amount of chakra for someone our age. Actually in general really, I've seen jonin with less chakra than either of them. But the one on the right dwarfs everyone else here. I think he has even more at his disposal than you do. I've never felt anyone who has that much chakra before."
"Yes, Alvarcus does have simply outstanding reserves at his command. But compared to some of the foes I've defeated he has only a drop of chakra. Remember, skill can triumph over brute force." Orochimaru smiles to himself. He's happy that his child is receiving praise. "Yet that is not what I asked. I asked how they feel to you. You have a unique ability to get a feeling of who someone is as a person just by their chakra. So, how do they feel?"
"Of course." Karin looks at the other shinobi first. "The one on the left -"
"His name is Sasuke." Orochimaru supplies.
"Sasuke, he feels..." Karin's eyes widen slightly as she focuses more intently on the unsuspecting shinobi. "He feels confident. I've never seen anyone who is so sure of themselves. He's proud of all that he's done and accomplished both on the battlefield and off of it. But underneath that there's a burning anger waiting to spread into an inferno of hate and rage. There's also a strong sense of loyalty and protectiveness toward Alvarcus, he truly cares about him as if they're family. He's... beautiful. I've never seen anyone like him before. I want him! He is going to be mine! Oh yes, I'm going to make him mine no matter how long it takes! In the end it'll be so worth it."
"And Alvarcus?" Orochimaru prompts the almost drooling Karin.
"Ah. Yes." Karin tears her eyes off of her new boy-toy to look at the other shinobi. "He feels... sad? That's new. On the surface he's unshakable. He feels like someone who has waded through the depths of Hell itself and conquered every demon that tried to kill him. He's someone who will never yield, never surrender. He will go on until the end, until he has achieved victory at any cost. But that's just the surface. At first he felt so strong, yet underneath all that strength and bravado he feels lonely. I get this feeling of deep and all encompassing sadness. He feels that he's committed horrendous crimes against himself and everyone he's ever known. I think that he regrets almost all of his actions. It's like he thinks he doesn't belong. Not just here, but anywhere. It's like he doesn't think he deserves to be... alive?"
"Really?" Orochimaru turns to look at Alvarcus who is currently elaborately and zealously explaining something in great detail to Sasuke who would rather be doing anything else. "He's sad, he feels alone?"
"That's not all of it, just some of the bigger parts of him." Karin says as she continues to analyze Alvarcus. "He has a brilliant streak of playfulness in him too and a strongly rooted sense of loyalty. He's really quite the interesting specimen but what stands out about him is that he just feels alone. It makes me want to protect him."
"How interesting." Orochimaru muses to himself. "I suppose I did have a hand in that, Edo Tensi is such an unique jutsu and I went and changed it further. Oh well, it's nice to know that my child is loyal to me."
"Orochimaru-sama!" Karin happily clasps her hands together! "How lovely! I had no idea you had a child! Oh I bet he's spectacular!"
"Would you like to meet him?" Orochimaru gently lays a hand on her shoulder.
"Can I? Are you sure that I'm worthy of such honor? To meet your son? And that... mmmm... hunk of a man?" Karin lecherously looks at Sasuke.
Orochimaru quirks an eyebrow at Karin's unusual behavior, then shrugs to himself. It's not like whether or not she beds Sasuke will effect his plans for the Uchiha at all. "Of course. I'm appointing you to be their personal healer, it's only natural that you meet them."
"Yay!" Karin's eyes go wide and she giddily shakes in happiness.
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With Sasuke and Alvarcus
"And that, my dear friend Sasuke, is what I was going to do with a rake, two watermelons, a lot of plastic sheets, precisely 13.75 meters of rope, a rubber ball and a wheelbarrow. And matches! Why do I keep forgetting about the matches? They're what started me down the path of a pyromaniac, they are very important!"
"I hate you." Sasuke forces out through clenched teeth. "I hate you so much right now. That's not what you're supposed to use any of those things for."
"Says who?" I playfully ask.
"Society as a whole!" Sasuke snarls at me.
"Pfft who cares about what they think! It's a completely viable use of a rake to -"
"Alvarcus, Sasuke, I want you to meet someone." Orochimaru's voice cuts me off, much to the relief of Sasuke and everyone else in hearing range. I've scared a whole bunch of people. It's awesome.
Okay I acknowledge that I have a problem but I'm not going to fix it. It's too much fun!
Orochimaru is gently steering a kunoichi towards us by her shoulder. She's around our age, give or take a year at the most. She has a pair of shockingly crimson eyes that are behind a pair of glasses. Yet neither her eyes or her glasses are her most stunning feature, that award goes to her vibrant red hair. It cascades past her shoulders and frames her face nicely with one side laying flat and the other spiking outwards. She's wearing a muted long sleeved lavender shirt, a very small pair of shorts and... black thigh high stockings?
Well whatever, it's not like I haven't seen stranger outfits. Just look at Orochimaru and the Sound Three, they have giant rope belts. That's really weird no matter where you come from.
"Alvarcus, Sasuke, meet Karin. Karin, meet Alvarcus and Sasuke." Orochimaru introduces us to the previously unnamed kunoichi, even though I knew exactly who she was the moment I saw her.
"It's nice to meet you Karin." I warmly smile at her. She sends me back a smile of her own.
"Hn." Sasuke grunts out.
"Oh great now that's back." I mutter under my breath to myself. "I thought I broke him out of that. This calls for extreme actions."
"H-hello!" Karin squeaks out to Sasuke as her cheeks gain a pink hue to them. "I'm Karin, it's a pleasure to meet you!"
To anyone else, Sasuke doesn't react to Karin's obvious attraction to him. But I am not just anyone, I've been on his team since day one. I know Sasuke better than anyone, that includes his tells. No one else noticed it, but there was a tiny twitch of his left pinky finger. That was him restraining himself from running away.
Sasuke has found another fan-girl. Or should I say another fan-girl has found Sasuke?
"Glad to see that the three of you get along." Orochimaru cheerfully says. "Unfortunately I had to send Kabuto away on a mission so he is no longer here to fix the both of you after training or your own stupidity."
Orochimaru makes sure to look at me.
"What?" I calmly say. "I don't usually do that. It's a rare occasion. Well except for... a lot of times. Okay you've got a point. Eh whatever not like they leave any lasting damage. They're purely aesthetic and as long as my face stays scar free then I think I'll be alright."
Orochimaru sighs. "I don't even know why I bother. Since Kabuto is gone Karin here will be his replacement. Go to her should you need healing. She's very talented at it."
"Cool." I turn back to her. "We're going to be seeing a lot of each other, I get messed up a lot!"
"Don't worry I'll make sure to patch you up." Karin does a once over on me. "Though we will have to schedule a physical so I can get acquainted with how your specific body is supposed to be." Then she turns to Sasuke and stars form in her eyes as she imagines something scandalous. "You too. Strictly for my job of course."
Sasuke fails to suppress a full body shiver.
I've got to fuck with him!
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