Chapter 71 - New Member

Ren looked at the excited Karin and then said "Wait, wait, wait, calm down a second, so first yes I remember you, second my name is Haruno Ren, nice to meet you, and I asked how long did you work for Orochimaru" and Karin hearing Ren's question once again says "Not much 7 months more or less, Orochimaru-sama invited me to Oto after my village was burned down, but then he and his four eyed assistant, studied my healing abilities and then took me to some experiment with a white haired sick guy and a bipolar freak, then 7 month ago he sent me here to be in charge of the Southern Hideout".

Then Ren asked "And how many hideout like this do you know the position?" but Karin then ask "And what will you do with this information, and why are you against Orochimaru-sama?" and he replies with "Well first Orochimaru is one of the most evil person that I know of, with only 3 others are worse than him, and of course we will attack those Facilities and free the test subject or prisoner, like what we will do here, and if you want you can join us,the Baransa a group of people from various village whose only objective is to make this world a better place by taking out the worst of the worst, and also defending it from various monster, so what do you think?"

Karin thought about it for a long time then she said "Ok, I'm and I only know of another base, in the north to be more precise in the Land of Earth, where Orochimaru studies the cursed seal, and where it's origin is kept, he call it the Northern Hideout", then she move closer to Ren, as Peri in the meantime freed her and said "by the way you still didn't answer me are you single? and even if you aren't, it isn't a problem we can know each other better, if you know what I mean?"

Embarrassed Ren tries to move away, when all of sudden a flash of light came from Peri's camera, 'I reap, what I sow, now Peri to love to take good blackm....memories photos' the he turn to Haku while Karin keeps clinging to his arm, and says "Haku can you make a small ice island so that we can transport all the prisoners?" and Haku replies with a nods and move toward the sea.

Then Ren turn to Zabuza and Dosu and says "You two go to the left and right mountain and free the prisoner then move them here" then once again to Karin as he give her a black cloak and a ANBU mask and give it to her while saying "Please put this on, the prisoners won't be calm if they saw their former jailer among us" after he gave Karin her disguise he went to the central mountain, and freed all the prisoner while making sure, that they kept calm.

Soon they reached their destination, and what greeted their sight, was a big ice platform floating on the sea, with already Haku, Dosu, Peri, Karin, Zabuza and the other prisoner on it waiting for them.

And Ren led the remaining prisoners on the platform, and after making sure that he didn't forget anyone, he jumped on top of the platform and said to Haku "Let's move toward the nearest port in the Land of Wave.

As they were getting further away from the island ,Ren keep checking the distance as if he was calculating something, and curious Karin asked "What is it? Why do you keep looking at the Island?" and Ren looks at Karin and answer "I do not want to leave such an asset to Orochimaru so I'm calculating how much further we have to get to be safe, and even get a little boost on speed, now it is good enough"

Then Ren turn to the others and says "Haku hold all the non ninja with your Ice a wave is coming!", then he raise his arm forward and outstretched, using his free hand to grip the firing arm for extra support, with the palm facing flat toward the target, the rocky island and after chanting he says "Hadō #88. Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō(Flying Dragon-Striking Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon)", and fires a gigantic beam of electrical energy and Chakra, which creates an enormous explosion upon impact, and raising a huge wave that soon reached the ice platform and boosted its speed.

Meanwhile the rocky island is completely destroyed, and nothing is left in its place. Seeing the result of Ren's attack, Karin screamed, "What the hell was that?!" but she received no reply, and then after an hour, they finally reached the nearest port, then Ren gave some money to the prisoners to start over, money taken by the various syndicate they attacked, and then teleported everyone to the HQ in the Land of Whirlpool, and said "Now let's rest for today, we did a good job" then he turn to the still stunned by the teleportation Karin and say "Now you can take off that cloak and mask, you are safe here, let me show you the place"

And so Ren showed Karin all the place of the HQ while asking if she needed medical attention, but she only said that she needed a bath, so Ren led her there, but once outside the door of the bathroom she asked in an enticing tone "So... do you want to join me?" and Ren did what every man would do in that situation, he stood there, not knowing what to say then he mechanically turns around and went away while saying "I'm f-flattered b-but I-I think it isn't right we have just met" while Karin let out a small laugh and went to the bathroom to finally bath.

Meanwhile Ren went to his room to cool off 'Dear Kaguya, I almost accepted the offer but while yes she is beautiful, and I'm still single, it is really too soon'.

While Ren was almost regretting his decision, somewhere else in the Land of Grass, near Kusagakure, in one of Orochimaru's Hideout, Kabuto was quickly moving towards Orochimaru's room, once there he knocked on the door and waited, then he heard Orochimaru's voice "Come in...", once inside he saw the figure of Orochimaru on the bed as this body is starting to fail as well and says "Orochimaru-sama a report came from the Land of Wave, our hideout there was destroyed and all te prisoner freed, it seem that it was done by a group of 6 people dressed in black kimono, what should we do? hunt them down?", but contrary of what expected Orochimaru says "That doesn't matter, they were only test subject and sacrifices we can always catch more of them, more important how is Sasuke?" and Kabuto "He is almost strong enough to become your vessel, you have to wait at least another 6 months" and Orochimaru "Good, I will finally have the perfect body, before you go how is the experiment with that strange creature going?" and Kabuto took out a research paper and said "It's going well, that is quite the peculiar creature, it is apparently made up of a strange blend of natural energy and chakra, it has some regeneration capacity, and its chakra is somewhat corrosive in nature, i tried to inject this creature chakra on various test subject in the Eastern Hideout, and all but one died, meanwhile the one that survived became kinda like the creature itself and lost all reason" hearing that Orochimaru said "Good, keep observing that test subject and the creature, now you can leave".

Then Kabuto leave Orochimaru's room and move towards his lab while thinking 'First Danzo with his ROOT, then Orochimaru,, in the end for them I'm only a tool to be used and then discarded when no longer useful, in the end, who am I? Even my Name Kabuto was chosen by others for convenience, not love, how can I find my identity?".

Meanwhile, Ren just had dinner with everyone and while he was trying to ignore Karin's advances, he told everyone his plan to attack also the Northern Hideout, and to free everyone from the cursed seal, telling them the fact that Orochimaru leaves a small trace of his soul in those as a back up in case he dies, something that shocked everyone, especially Dosu who wanted to kill Orochimaru the most.

Then after dinner everyone went in their room to sleep, but just as Ren was preparing to go sleep, someone knocked on his door, and when he opened the door what greeted him was the sight of Karin in a yukata, who entered in his room without waiting for him to invite her.

Confused Ren ask "Karin what are you doing here? Are you alright? Do you need something?" then Karin says "I still didn't thank you for saving my life during the chunin exam, and now you saved me from Orochimaru clutches..." the she opened the yukata and blushing showed her naked form, Ren was like struck by a bolt then thought 'Screw it...' and raised a sound proof barrier and moved closer to Karin...the rest will be omitted.