ch -4 (part - 2)

Opening my eyes, I stared blankly at the ceiling. The ceiling wasn't that impressive compared to the one inside my mind.

'That snake-looking man is not here, seeing that, I felt relief wash over me.

The snake man wasn't kind with the experiments he did, but he was gentle while handling my tortured body.

'I guess he didn't want me to break.'

I don't know whether to be thankful or not.

'Either way, it's still bad.'

After the man painted on my tongue, the ink suddenly burned and fell off on its own.

Seeing that, the snake man tied me into the metallic slab in the middle of the room, before drawing symbols on my body.

Just like before, the ink would burn my skin, and agonizing pain followed.

'He was muttering something about cursed marks not working... Was he trying to curse me?'

Aren't I cursed enough?

After trying and failing to draw the "curse mark" on my body, the snake man gave up.

Then he left the room, only to return after a few minutes. He was with someone else that time, but I couldn't recognize them thanks to the blank mask on their face.

The snake man told the man to "keep me alive," and that's what the man did.

He kept me alive, while the snake man's hand glowed blue, before cutting into my body using his bare hands.

I was awake during the procedure.

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1.1.1.

"How was it?"

A man hidden in the shadow spoke, his voice was stern as though commanding the other person.

"Danzo," the other person, who Naruto referred to as "snake man", narrowed his eyes. "Watch your tone."

"Orochimaru, I won't repeat myself."

"Tsk," annoyed, Orochimaru furrowed his brow. "I tried opening his body to put the cursed mark on his organs," Orochimaru licked his lips.

"And you failed," Danzo said, his tone full of mockery.

Orochimaru shrugged, "I did. But at least, I learned something new."

"What is that?" Danzo demanded the answer, but Orochimaru replied with a chuckle.

"Danzo," Orochimaru laughed, then his body began melting into thousands of small white snakes.

"You don't know what kind of being you're messing with," after saying those words, Orochimaru, now turned into countless snakes, scurried away.

Meanwhile, Danzo's shut eyes slowly opened, his gaze piercing into the spot where Orochimaru was last at.

"Hmph, what do you know, damned snake?"

Danzo turned around, walking further into the darkness, when all of the sudden!

BOOOM!

From above the secret hideout, a man in his late years burned with unimaginable rage, his eyes bloodshot as he held an adamantine staff.

"Danzo, how dare you..."

The old man growled, raising his staff and slamming it down on the ground.

BOOOM!

From above the secret hideout, a man in his late years burned with unimaginable rage, his eyes bloodshot as he held an adamantine staff.

"Danzo, how dare you..."

The old man growled, raising his staff and slamming it down on the ground.

BOOOM!

In an instant, the ground split, and the roof of the hideout crumbled open.