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After Sasuke entered the cave, he saw Zabuza standing in front of a mountain of debris sweating and pushing everything to the side.
"I was told that we can see the other side of the tunnel now." Sasuke said as he looked at the small hole from where light was coming from.
Zabuza took a heavy breath and said "Y...Yess...this is it right here. I am just clearing everything around it right now. So that we don't get ambushed when we try to go in."
"Pull out your favorite sword Zabuza...Yami's orders. And stand to the side, I will show you how to make way." Sasuke said as he started running and the next second Zabuza heard a familiar sound.
CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP
Sasuke's hand started glowing and instead of a ball of lightning being formed it was more like a cone.
'The one that Kakashi used was different...this seems more powerful.' Zabuza thought and the very next moment, Sasuke stabbed the Chidori in the hole practically blowing everything around him up. The big explosion caused the dust to spread out of the cave which reduced Zabuza's visibility. When the dust settled, Sasuke was standing on the other side of the tunnel and now the hole had become big enough for 2 people to go through at the same time.
Zabuza saw that there were lamps and rooms on the other side where Sasuke was standing. Sasuke looked back and said "You coming or not?" This brought a grin on the man's face as he took out a scroll from his jacket and pulled out a big strong from inside it. This sword was the executioner's blade. It had the ability to regenerate from the iron inside the blood.
Zabuza looked at the sword, caressed it with his hand and whispered "I can't tell you how much I missed you. I won't lock you up like that ever again even if that tyrant orders me to."
He didn't have the luxury of time to keep talking to his blade so he just attached it to back and followed Sasuke. While Sasuke and Zabuza had made entry inside the tunnels and would face Orochimaru's underlings any minute now, Yami was now headed toward where his bat had spotted unusual activity. On the way there, he had picked up Haku as well. Although he was a little unwilling due to the amount of blood baths happening in Yami's presence, he had little to no choice.
After running on the roofs of the house for a while, they had now entered the jungle and their speed was slowing down as they reached near.
"How are you going to handle this Yami?" Haku asked hesitantly. Confused by this question Yami looked back and asked "What do you mean by that? Do you doubt if Orochimaru and his subordinates are our enemy or not?"
"No..no...no...I just want to know if you are just going to kill everyone the moment we reach there or if are we going to follow them for a while and wait for the night." Haku asked waving both his hands denying what Yami had just complied.
"I do not have the time to follow them and Orochimaru will catch onto it quickly so the only option I've got is to attack him." Yami said but Haku wasn't done with his questions.
"After completely ignoring him for so many years, why have you suddenly thought of poking the bear? or the snake as you like to call him."
Yami kept looking at the people loading the carriages and said "Because he won't mess up things during the Kage meeting if he is running to find a new hideout."
"Wow attacking on the Legendary Sanin just as a precaution. You sure are someone I can never understand. So what do you want me to do?"
"Oh, I have just the perfect job for you. Which will keep you away from the bloodbath and also make you useful in the fight. Come here." Yami said as he whispered something into Haku's ear.
By the time Yami and Haku were conspiring, a few more people had come out of the cave with a lot of luggage. Some started carefully placing the luggage in the carriage while the others were getting ready to take the reins of the carriage into their own hands.
As one of the carriage drivers walked forward to sit in the front and take the reigns, he heard some sound in the nearby bushes. Just as he went a little closer and parted the bushes aside with his own hands, he felt a red light blast in his face.
The man closed his eyes and took a few steps back instinctively, he heard his friend's voice "Sol, What are you doing there? Get on your carriage right now. Orochimaru sama will be coming any second now and we need to be ready to leave at a moment's notice."
"Yea yea...I thought I saw something here. Did you see the flash of light?" Sol asked his friend to which the friend replied "What are you talking about? It must be because you have stepped out into the sun after a long time. I told you gathering resources from the nearby villages was a better option but you had become a chore boy in the tunnels."
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO CHATTING ABOUT? SHUT UP AND GET READY." a brown boy with 4 arms said. His name was Kidomaru and he is one of the Sound Four. In the anime, it would have been sound five since Sasuke was also one of them. Every member of the sound five had the curse seal.
Orochimaru had made it sound like a holy blessing and so the shinobis of the hidden sound village were trying their best to gain the snake's acknowledgment".
"What are you two weasels up to?" Kidomaru asked to which Sol's friend replied "I am already ready Kidomaru sama but where are we going now?"
"For now we need to get out of Land of Hot Water…Orochimaru sama will tell us where to go next." Kidomaru said and a few seconds later a group of shinobis walked out of the tunnel with Orochimaru and Tayuya in the middle.
Sol and his friend who were sitting in the front of the carriage immediately became quiet and looked in the front. They didn't even want to get noticed by Orochimaru.
Yami who was watching all this from the side didn't even set his eyes directly toward Orochimaru. He knew that Orochimaru's perception was extremely sensitive and even a gaze or a lingering sensation of blood lust from Yami could alarm Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru-sama will the two of them be enough? I think we should send Jirobo as well." Tayuya said hesitantly.
"For getting rid of a handful of border guard shinobis and a village of non-shinobis, Sakon and Ukon are more than enough. I have given them strict instructions to not let anyone in that village live." Orochimaru said as he started checking a few containers that were stored in the carriage.
'I wouldn't have left in such a hurry if it wasn't a critical stage of my experiment. The time to make Kimimaro's body mine is near. I should have pounced on the chance when I had those Uchiha brats in front of me. Although they wouldn't have been as good as Itachi, they would be pretty strong and healthy. Now I don't even have to fear the Akatsuki since one of their members is dependent on me.' Orochimaru thought. It was embarrassing for him to sneak out of a small place like this but this wasn't the time to attract attention. He needed to settle in a new base and that too quickly.
"Have everyone remove the Hidden sound Headbands and wear attire suitable to merchant guards. You all also suppress your chakra…to make yourself look weak. Make sure to use the money to get through and avoid any kind of fight. The containers must not be damaged." Orochimaru said to which Tayuya and Kidomaru both nodded.
After a few minutes, the carriage started. Even though they were moving slowly and Yami had plenty of openings to attack, he couldn't because Zabuza and Sasuke hadn't crossed through all the tunnels yet. Seeing that the distance between the tunnel exit and the carriages increasing, Yami decided to send a bat inside the tunnel to see what's the holdup.
It didn't take long for him to realize what the holdup was. Just as he had heard, Orochimaru had left two of his henchmen Sakon and Ukon inside the tunnel and right now these two were fighting with Sasuke and Zabuza.
Although Yami thought that the fight would be one-sided with Sasuke and Zabuza emerging victorious, the coordination shown by Sakon and Ukon was commendable.
They would merge with one another and even separate at will. Just when Sasuke and Zabuza gained a little upper hand using mist techniques and Chidori, the two sound Shinobis activated their trump card.
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