I don't know how the strain of keeping that summon here indefinitely would be.
A Nest Egg is nothing, but keeping someone like Arachne here for days is too much even for me.
...
"Done." I reel in my fire heart and set down my brush. "So what did you want?"
"You're lucky it wasn't time sensitive." Kidomaru yawns. "I came here three hours ago."
"Oh. No shit?" It took that long to apply all of those seals? No wonder it's rare to see someone create a seal during combat. Sure I went extra slow since it's my first time but damn! Three hours!
"Yeah. Three hours of watching you paint hearts." Kidomaru drones out. "Now come on, there's something you should see."
"Oookay?" I put all my clothes back on and follow Kidomaru out of my lab. "So where are we going?"
"A specific place." Kidomaru is intentionally being vague. "It's something that Sakon, Ukon, Jirobo, Sasuke and I all worked on. Like our own little secret."
"And you're bringing me in on it?" This is new. I wonder what it could possibly be?
"Something like that yeah."
...
Kidomaru and I stroll casually through numerous hallways until we come to one that has Sakon, a sleeping Ukon, Jirobo and Sasuke standing at the end of it. They're all impatient and every single one of them lights up when the see us.
"About damn time!" Sasuke shouts down the hallway. "Three hours! Three! What kept you so long?"
"He was painting hearts." Kidomaru laughs at his own words. "He insisted that he had to finish before coming."
"... Really?" Sakon asks me with a confused look. "What color?"
"I applied a seal to each of my five hearts. That's what he meant to say." I growl out. I will not have my reputation tarnished because of some idiotic joker! "And if he knows what's good for him he'll never bring it up again. So Kidomaru, do you know what's good for you?"
"Probably not." Kidomaru grins.
"At least you're honest." I sigh.
"I like to think it's one of my better qualities." Kidomaru slows down walking, letting me take the lead.
"You've got -" I cut off mid step. Something is wrong. Something is very wrong. It's not that I'm feeling killing intent. It's not even that I feel like there's someone out to hurt me. It's everyone else's grinning faces and the feeling of my foot breaking a string. "FUCK YOU ALL!"
It's too late to dodge. The falling bucket has already spilled its contents and said contents are barely thirty centimeters away from me. I have no hope to dodge, I wasn't ready. My guard was down.
SPLASH
The sound of a metal bucket clonking to the ground is accompanied outrageous laughter. Every single one of them is laughing like no tomorrow, like they have no care in the world. I don't blame them, if our spots were reversed I would be laughing hysterically right along with them.
Okay I lied, I do blame them.
"Really?" I try to wipe the substance off of my face. "Pink paint? That's what you picked?"
"HAHAHA! YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR FACE!" Kidomaru is rolling on the floor laughing while holding his sides with all six of his arms.
"Priceless." Sakon says between hearty chuckles.
"I think he looks better this way!" Jirobo wipes a tear from his eye.
"I told you, didn't I? Revenge would be sweet." Sasuke laughs evilly.
"Yeah yeah well done you've got me." I flick my hands and some pink paint splatters onto the wall. "So obviously Kidomaru made the tripwire, if it was normal shinobi wire I would have seen it. I'm going to guess Sakon had the paint, you seem like an artsy type. Jirobo just helped set everything up. That leaves the mastermind, Sasuke."
"You got it!" Jirobo flashes me a thumbs up.
"Mmm... sweet, sweet revenge." Sasuke says in superiority.
"Are you enjoying yourselves?" I try to strain some of the bright paint out of my hair. It just made it worse.
"Yes. Yes I am." Sasuke's eyes flash crimson.
"I accept." I cockily smirk at him.
"Accept? Accept what?" Sasuke's proud face morphs into one of confusion.
"Your declaration of war." My gravelly voice harshly resonates down the silent hallway.
"Fuck me." Sasuke whispers out in fear.
"Not my type." I smirk. "Better start running."
"SCATTER!" Sakon orders as everyone else flees down different hallways.
Four black monstrosities rip themselves out of my back and kneel before me.
~You're going to let me play with them?~
My black eyes stare at my loyal minions of destruction. "Fetch them for me."
"FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
"WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO!"
"WHY DID I AGREE TO THIS!"
"SHUT UP AND RUN YOU FOOLS!"
...
Orochimaru is sitting at his desk, writing away like there is no tomorrow. He's already completed a mountain of paperwork, the bane of all Kages. He's almost done then he gets to go play with some of the prisoners. Strictly for science, his own personal enjoyment is an added bonus.
Yet his paperwork is different from the normal Kages. While their paperwork has things to do with running a village, Orochimaru's has to do with his future plans. Most of them are ideas that he wishes to test, a few are orders for acquiring more test subjects, and there's even a detailed schedule for Alvarcus's and Sasuke's respective training programs.
For obvious reasons Alvarcus's is much more thorough and detailed than Sasuke's.
"Dump paint on me." A faint voice wafts through the air.
"MMMM!" A muffled scream follows the faint voice.
"You all should have known better." The voice speaks again.
"Mmm!"
"MMM!"
"MMMMM!"
'There's four distinct muffled voices. Just what is going on?' Orochimaru muses to himself.
"I'll teach you better."
'Is that Alvarcus?' Orochimaru rises up, paperwork forgotten unfinished on the desk, and flings open his office door.
"What?" None other than Alvarcus snarls at Orochimaru.
Orochimaru can't quite process exactly what is happening just outside his door. For starters Alvarcus is covered head to toe in bright pink paint. Not one bit of him isn't the obnoxious color. With each step that he takes he leaves behind a trail of footprints. With every twitch of his hands paint flies off him to stain the walls pink. Everything he touches joins in his unfortunate condition.
But what's really interesting is not what's happened to Alvarcus but what he's doing.
He's currently dragging four things behind him. At first glance they look like nothing more than just a heaping mound of white, nothing too strange especially by Orochimaru's standards. But then all four of the mounds wiggle in unison, there's someone inside of them. Alvarcus has used one of his many summons to bind four people. The mound farthest on the left has what looks like two heads, the middle left one is a hulking man, the middle right looks like someone bound six individual arms then bound all of them to his chest, while the farthest right has a faint tinge of crimson escaping where the person's eyes should be. Alvarcus has caught and bound the Sound Three and Sasuke and he's is currently dragging them to... wherever he's going.
"Nothing. Carry on." Orochimaru steps back into his office and shuts the door to the muffled screams of the four captives. They thought they were saved. Instead they're ignored and left to their fate.
"You're right." Orochimaru hears Alvarcus address one of the captives. "There isn't enough bumps in this hallway. Let me fix that."
A pitiful whine escapes from each captive as a loud stomp echoes down the hall.
"There. That's much better." Alvarcus drags his captives down the hallway and around a corner.
"Well that was eventful." Orochimaru sits back down at his desk and resumes filling out paperwork like nothing ever happened. "I wonder what I'll have for dinner?"
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