Naruto : Venom

One Week Since Entering the Pit

"Alvarcus something is wrong." Sasuke's voice rouses me from my sleep.

I push myself up from my rocky mattress. I miss my bed. Hell I miss a bed, the ground is very unforgiving. At this point I'd be happy with straw. "What's wrong? Is there another dumbass at our door? Cuz I definitely remember killing the last one to do that."

"No, it's not that. Gina isn't here." Sasuke's tone is deadly serious.

Warning flags pop up in my mind. Gina never goes off on her own. She usually sticks around me, and if she isn't by me she's close to Sasuke. The entire time we've been down here she's never once gone off by herself. I don't blame her either, out of all three of us she's the one that the rest of the things down here stare at. They see her as the weak link, the vulnerable one.

They're not wrong. She can't defend herself anywhere near as well as we can.

"Let's go find her." I grimly say as I stride out of our cave. "And if she isn't perfectly fine, we're going to have a little slaughter."

"Good. I could always go for a slaughter." Sasuke falls in step beside me.

"Jiongu, do you sense her?"

~No. There are too many affinities down here, I'm not familiar enough with hers to pick it out of all of them.~

"Fuck. I don't see her. Do you?" I ask my friend.

"No." He darkly says.

"GINA!" I roar into the pit. I strain my Jiongu enhanced hearing to it's limit.

Very faintly I hear something I hoped I wouldn't. "Alv-"

"Shut it whore. You should know better than to talk."

"I know where she is." I take off towards her faint voice. "Someone has her. They die today."

"Agreed." Fury is laced in Sasuke's tone.

We run in a heated silence for twenty seconds before we see her.

She's tied to rock pillar with what looks like rope made from someone's entrails. Surrounding her are eight different experiments while a ninth is holding a razor sharp claw to her throat. I vaguely recognize each one of them, Sasuke and I beat all of them on our first day down here. Each of them has a wicked gleam in their eyes. They think they have power over us now.

They couldn't be more wrong.

"Hello, SSSasssuke and Alvarcusss." Apodora, the snake man that attacked us in the first moments we landed in this hell hole slithers out. Guess I was wrong on my count, there's ten of them.

"Apodora, I never wanted to see your ugly face again." I spit in his direction. "What kind of a person hides behind a hostage?"

"Only cowards." Sasuke growls out.

"Only the sssmart." Apodora hisses out. "I am not an idiot, I know that even with the help of the othersss here you ssstill are a threat, I know that you could beat all of usss." He smiles a eerily familiar grin, it reminds me of Orochimaru. "But, with her here, you won't fight back. You value her, you want to protect her." Apodora slithers over to Gina and tenderly runs a scaled finger down her face.

She whimpers under his touch.

"I underssstand it, ssshe'sss quite the ssspecimen. Sssimply beautiful, and ssshe usssed to be mine." He turns a glare onto Sasuke and me. "You two took her from me. Not only that, you two humiliated me. Neither of you sssaw fit to kill me, like I wasssn't a challenge. Like I wasssn't worth your time."

He rears up to his full height. "Tell me now! Am I worthy of your time now!"

"You? Never. But she is." I growl out through clenched teeth. He's dying today. He's dying violently today and I think I'm going to enjoy every moment of it. "You wanted our attention. You certainly have it now."

"You certainly do. In fact, you're reminding me of someone we've met before. An Aoi. You do remember Aoi, don't you Alvarcus?" Sasuke pointedly says to me. Oh you brilliant boy! That's a wonderful idea. I even have the right amount too.

"Thisss Aoi sssoundsss like a sssmart perssson." Apodora preens under what he thinks is praise. "Now, I'm a reasonable man. I only have a few requessstsss."

"And they would be?" I force myself to ask. I need to stall for a little if I want Sasuke's plan to work.

"Firssst, ssshe'sss mine." Apodora lovingly pats Gina on the head. "You two will leave her alone, ssshe isss no longer your concern. Sssecond, you will not harm anyone here. Third, you will come to our aid if we asssk you too." He grins in victory. He thinks he has won. Even his minions are more relaxed. They all think they've beaten us.

They couldn't be more wrong.

"Yeah, there's a few problems with that." I sassily say. "For the first one, Gina isn't anyone's. She chooses what to do for herself. For the third, there's no way in hell I'm going to defend someone like you. Really? This is your grand plan? To kidnap Gina and try to blackmail us into helping you? That's really stupid."

"And as for the second." Sasuke takes up talking. "I can agree to that one. We're not going to hurt you. No, we're going to kill you. Alvarcus, pull."

I yank my two hands away from Apodora and his goons. Nine heads topple to the ground, quickly followed by the dull thuds of nine bodies. I did exactly what I did to Aoi, I wrapped a chakra string around each of their necks. Then I made them into windblades and did as Sasuke ordered, I pulled.

It's a very messy way to go. The pure amount of blood that leaves the body from a beheading is remarkable, and here I just did it to nine people. It's horrendously beautiful.

"But- but how!" Apodora recoils away from Sasuke and I. "I watched you! Neither of you did anything! How did you kill them?"

"He's just that good." Sasuke grins his own evil grin. He stalks froward to the terrified snake man. "Now, you get to see how good I am."

Apodora quickly slithers over to Gina and bares his fangs against her throat. "SSStop! If you value her life you will leave!"

Sasuke stills. "Look me in the eyes and tell me that."

Apodora meets Sasuke's crimson gaze. "If you value her life you will- when did your eyesss turn red? What isss that! What did you do-" Apodora chokes on his words and screams like an animal being skinned alive.

"What isss that? No! Stay away from me! Keep it away! Call it off! Call it off!" He slithers away from the bound Gina with terror emblazoned on his face. "I sssaid call it off! Oh Kami no it'sss inssside me! It'sss inssside me!"

Apodora does the unthinkable, he starts clawing at his own tail. He's shredding through his scales and tearing into his own flesh. Soon his blood mixes with the rest of his minions, but he doesn't stop at his tail. He's screaming his head off about something crawling in him, about something inside him. He's slowly clawing up all of his own body, he's moved up to his stomach.

"No! Take it out! Take it out!" He screams in pure fear. He digs deeper into his own gut and soon he's spilling out his own organs. "I sssaid... take it... out..."

With a wet slap Apodora falls over into a pool of his own blood and entrails. He killed himself.

"Sasuke, not that I don't approve, but what the hell was that?" I ask as I sprint over to Gina and start untying her.

Sasuke is beside me and helping untie her in moments. "A genjutsu that I've never actually used before. Honestly I'm surprised it worked so well, the only downside is I have to constantly keep reapplying it since the target causes themselves a lot of pain. It's something I came up with on my own." He gives up on a stubborn knot and picks up a sharp rock from the ground and starts cutting through the remaining makeshift rope. "Well, I sort of came up with it on my own. You helped."

"How did I possibly help with that?" What is he talking about? I've never done that kind of damage to anyone. Well, there was the Suna nin but he wasn't there to see that.

"I based it off of what I saw when you got the Jiongu." He quietly says. "You two even reacted the same way."

"Uh... pretty sure I didn't claw myself to death." How many times did they wrap this rope around Gina? This is overkill to the extreme.

"No, but that's not for lack of trying." Sasuke sounds sad. He's remembering it. "You were too exhausted to do any actual damage. But that wasn't the only similarity. You both kept repeating 'take it out' over and over."

"I... I never knew that." I look at Sasuke. He's bitter right now, and I don't think most of it is because we had to save Gina. "If that genjutsu bothers you, you don't have to use it. I know that I don't want to remember that day."

"Depends. I won't ignore a tool just because it makes me squeamish." He cuts away the last of the rope. "Finally."

Instantly we're tackled to the ground in a firm hug. "Thank you! Thank you so much!" I can feel wetness on my shoulder. Gina's crying. "Gina thought she had to go back. Gina never wants to go back."

"Don't worry Gina, you don't have to." Sasuke calmly says.

"Yeah, you have us to look out for you." I merrily add. "Although, next time don't tackle hug us into a puddle of blood, alright? It's gross."

She let's out a small laugh. "Gina promises nothing!"

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