Stuck Between Slugs and Toads

A reincarnated soul finds itself stuck between a short-tempered Senju princess and a perverted Dead Last—all while stuck in the mind of the series's infamous, sociopathic snake. Foreknowledge barely means anything when the pieces of the plot have yet to begun. Reborn!OC

twenty-nine: explanation

orochimaru: six years

years to second war: eighteen years

"Orochimaru, before you leave..."

Sarutobi-sensei beckons me to sit down next to him. Tsunade stays put, watching.

"Now, I have a file about your strengths and capabilities. What you showed me today wasn't it all."

I nod.

"It says here you've taken an interest on herbs and poisons. I didn't see any of that today."

Well, duh. Poisons are a stealth technique. He was sitting in the open with all of the advantages. Plus... I'd rather not poison my very own leader.

"Do you understand that you performed two nature transformations today?"

I saw this coming and I still wince.

"Sarutobi-sensei, you really are old!" Tsunade laughs and interrupts. "All Orochi knows is two fire techniques. That was just scrolls."

"Scrolls?" He strokes his chin, replaying the events.

The first technique Jiraiya learned was Enclose Technique.

"Part of the trap was that Jiraiya had sealed up different elements in seals. Orochi's clone told him when to release the element from the scroll." Tsunade pauses. "I mean... my brother only held up the scroll while we all saw something different. That was the first part of the trap."

"You thought of all this? Are we sure Hazuo is your father?" He adds a forced laugh which annoys Tsunade.

"They came up with ideas, too, Sensei. I put them together. But part two of the trap was to seal up one of your techniques and use it against you. We thought the shock would've been huge! Then I'd sneak the bells."

"It was one big illusion," Sarutobi-sensei summarizes. "You really tricked me. And here I thought no illusion could ever hurt me again."

end

I reread the last chapter and I realized I left out this explanation, too.

I feel so stupid, like I'm pretty sure you read the last chapter and were like what the heck is this author on? And I apologize for that, I was way too excited to update.

So similarly to how Kakashi can do earth techniques before nine, Orochimaru has a fire affinity. He absolutely cannot use other transformations at six. That's unbelievably overpowered. Broken. I hinted to this explanation being how Orochimaru does not mention his chakra changing as he does for fire. It's all a big show to distract and redirect Hiruzens attention from the main prize.

I'll combine this chapter with the previous chapter, but I just wanted to alert you all.