Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. There I said it! (starts pouting on the side) LoL

Summary: What if the roles were switch? Naruto went to Orochimaru but what were his reasons? and what if Sasuke tried desperately to get his friend back home only to fail. But what happens if this time there is a solution that the hidden leaf must find before Naruto is offered up to Orochimaru as a sacrifice.

Sorry for the wait everyone, its just that I haven't been given much inspiration, but don't worry I don't ever give up on a story once I start but I would take some time before I finish, and once I get my groove back (lol) then I will be writing like there's no tomorrow ;)

Chapter 4

The voice

Naruto woke up feeling quite empty, he was starting to get aware of his surroundings, it has never happened before he was usually in a drunken state of mind, just moving along unknowingly. He was actually seeing everything clearly for once, but he knew it wouldn't last, he would remember why he was there and why he could never return home ever again. He walked to his desk that was the only other thing that decorated his empty room, he wrote down what ever was on his mind at the moment before his original drive took him back to the way he was before.

The voice that tore him down had ceased to talk when he first arrived, he couldn't remember what the thing was saying, just that he had to get away, and he remembered that there was a lot of emotional pain when he listened to that cursed voice. At that moment he was wondering what he was doing with his life, what was the point of going to Orochimaru when he could accomplish his goal without him by his side getting him stronger for the inevitable, he knew it was an impossible to avoid, but maybe it would reassure him once he reached the end of the path he started on, only time could tell.

But he knew it was too late... but for what, he didn't remember.

Kabuto was walking through his secret lab as he was working on a new serum that will help Naruto forget all about his own free will permanently , and just be tool at Orochimaru's dispense for him to dispose of at any given moment he finds his pawns of no further use to him. The seal on his neck was powerful, but it never hurt to be prepared for the day when the seal breaks unexpectedly, when he was finished he looked at his own personal science equipment that he used to help Orochimaru with his experiments and to further his own medical jutsu with poisons he concocted himself to use on the battlefield when the time came, he watched with a look in his eye like all the sanity had escaped from his mind, leaving behind a shell of insanity released on the world.

Orochimaru watched from afar, he knew to always be careful even with the ones who would sacrifice their own lives for him, those people were especially dangerous as they were unpredictable. He had planned so far ahead about how he was going to take the blond boy, but if this boy were to experiment on him to make him behave better or any where near that train of thought, it would ruin the purpose of all his planning. If the boy were obedient it would be counterproductive to his plans and he wouldn't ruin them for another mindless slave.

There was no fun in that.

Naruto got up from his chair, after finishing his writing for the day he seemed to be at peace for the moment, like his life had another purpose. He had to kill that feeling before it grew, he would not go against his agreement, it was a long agreement that would in the end would claim his life when the time came, he knew he was sacrificing a lot when he gave the snake his word, during his time with the man, he was slowly making sure that agreement would stand even if he was to die before his time, he would create something, anything to make sure that the snake didn't go against his word.

The walk to the training room was uneventful, everything was quiet in the darkened hallway. His mind was filled with memories haunting his every step as he imagined the brick streets, walking down the streets of 'The Hidden Leaf Village', everything he saw were the sights of the lush and green tree's where he spent his days training, honing his skills, and his every breath, he smelt the fresh dew on the morning grass, the cold chill in the morning to the smell of the flowers deep in the forest and the warmth of the afternoon.

As he reached the large grey doors, that held his teacher, and master who he would obey for as long as his own body was his to own. Naruto looked down at his own hand as he thought about all the lives he would take while under this man's rule, and the worse thing was that he felt the guilt of what hadn't happen yet, he really needed to kill himself, on the inside, all these feelings that were bombarding his very life were going to drive him crazy, he needed to forget his own personal emotions as well it seemed.

He needed to find the road to a life full of emptiness, he needed to forget the world as he knew it, it had to disappear until he could kill and not remember all that he was taught as a citizen of Konoha, and one of it's soldier's, but as a cold heart killer he would pass the test set for himself.

"I'm running out of time." He whispered to himself as he walked through the large grey doors, the inside was just as dark as the light wavered in every direction as the flame did. The blond boy stood at the center of the room, there were no audience this time as he raised his arms, preparing for a move that was as unstable as the power he housed deep within himself. As the large doors slowly closed, but before the doors shut a bright red light flashed through the doors before the darkness resumed in the hallways, where Kabuto was watching the blond apprentice enter the room alone, his serum in his hand prepared and ready.

Kabuto was ready to enter that room, regardless if the prisoners were there to witness what he had done or not, he couldn't allow the blond the chance to run away. Kabuto looked at the grey doors obsessively as he imagined holding the blonds throat, injecting the green liquid inside of the struggling boy, it was so alluring to experiment on a subject who could heal through every injury, a lot faster than normal people, so many experiments could be performed at a shorter time span than that of the usual test subjects. And the fact that he was off limits was just too tempting to go in and just take him regardless of the consequences, except for Orochimaru there was no second chance.

Walking away, he kept his experiment for another time, for another subject he knew better now that he was awakened from his little daydream, if that is what he would call it when he wanted to experiment so badly.

"I need more control, Lord Orochimaru has no need for those who don't know how stay in control of themselves." Orochimaru left his hiding place in the shadows, watching Kabuto's retreating back leave the area, and towards the dungeons to try again with the captured experiments just waiting to be used. Then he turned his gaze towards the training room doors, he felt the excitement soaring through his body as he had witnessed the power behind that attack.

"So very close, just a little longer." He whispered,

He felt restless, he should have known better than to conceal them for a whole year and a half in one location, he usually never stayed for more than a few months, now that they found them, he would have to use the boy, it was time to unleash his greatest design. He would utilize him once they broke through, they would never suspect that he was going to attack them, and they were deluded to even think he would return to that cursed village Hidden in the Leaf.

Then he would have to open that door.

"If only we had the resources to break into the cave, you checked all possible exit ways that they could use,

"That's affirmative, there are no exits they could use to escape, the only way in or out is through that boulder, but it's on a timed system, which will open whenever the seal breaks, or restarts." Said the ANBU, as he inspected the dirt, and their current surroundings.

"Can't we just break through? That would save us the trouble of bringing in countless of specialist shin-obi?" The Hyuga asked as he inspected the boulder they had found filled with many different symbols and seals.

"No it appears that would be counter productive, this is the kind of seal we use in the ANBU, it requires a specific amount of chakra to open it, if you put a different amount, then the area would collapse and take destroy everything inside." Higure said as he stood up to stretch his legs, he ran his hand through the seals, looking for a loop hole, or anything, but he was realistic he knew that Orochimaru wouldn't use half ass techniques.

"Damn it, just when we were about to get somewhere!" Growled Takamaru, their head ANBU in charge of the mission to the capture of the s-classed criminal Orochimaru, and the rescue retrieval of the nine tailed jinchiriki. He only had Tenzou to rely on, because none of his comrades made it inside past the barriers, and the dirt in the ground without being detected.

Takamaru was an older shin-obi who has known the shin-obi world for a long time, he just had his fortieth birthday which was rare among their ranks, the highest being seventy-four, and counting with the Hokage advisers still alive and kicking. His hair was greying, as it was a crew cut to help keep it out of his way, unlike the younger generations who depended on skills and fashion. His black eye's stared straight ahead as he started to think about the next course of action, he knew what he had to do but he wanted to see if there was another way he may have missed with two younger eye's by his side to see a different solution than the one forming in his mind.

"What else can we do?" He finally asked after a few moments of tense silence, he knew they wouldn't be able to continue without losing the most precious amount of time, and he knew how limited their chances of success was.

"I don't have the answer for that, I don't even know what else we can do at this point, but wait. We have the Village of the leaf's most wanted criminal, and our most wanted weapon, and comrade here, we can't make hasty decisions, that would ruin all of our planning."

"I understand that, but waiting is not a luxury we have at the moment, we need to use all the time we have quickly, the longer we wait the lower the chances of success is. Go and retrieve the boy immediately so far you are the only one able to go in and out of there alive and undetected."

"All due respect sir, but that's impossible to achieve-"

"You're in ANBU now boy, you don't question, or go back on orders." He stared down at the young adult ANBU before him, his decision unwavering, he knew he was harsh but that was the life of all ANBU, it was either follow orders or die, simple as that. The young ANBU backed down, he knew the man before him was right about everything he said, and he had more experience he wasn't naive to think that everyone would get out of this unscathed, he knew exactly what the consequences of what they were about to do would occur.

'It was wrong of me to question his order, I would be lucky if he didn't report me.' Tenzou just did as asked as he went back to where he had found the young boy, when he approached the group that was marking the exact area where the Hyuga jounin said the distortion was the strongest, and now they knew why, the boy was creating the misty vision for the Hyuga's.

As Tenzou began to descend into the ground, he signaled the waiting jounin, and ANBU team to be in their attack position, cause he didn't know what would happen when he would bring the child above the ground.

Naruto retired to his room once his strength left his body once again, it was getting suspicious to the young boy, but he knew better than to allow his curiosity to rise, as he beat down his self conscious thinking once again, he was getting too aware of his surroundings once again.

As he rested his head once again on the pillow of his bed, he was out like a light. He didn't sense the approaching chakra signatures, or the fact that the seal on the 'only' door was slowly being decoded.

Tenzou had finally reached the boys room, when he descended to the ground he noticed that the room was dim-lit. Inspecting his surroundings, searching for any security systems, but he sensed none, that didn't put him at ease though just made his raise his guard. Tenzou created a clone out of the dirt walls and ordered it to carry the boy to the surface, as he searched the room for anything of use. But the room was bare, except for the desk that had a single piece of parchment paper on top of it, and words scribbled down. When Tenzou approached the desk, and tried to read the paper, his eyes widened as he stuffed the paper into his overcoat pocket, and went to follow his clone.

Upon reaching the surface Tenzou arrived at the scene where his supervising captain was injecting a needle into the sleeping boys neck. Takamaru knew the real Tenzou finally reached the surface, and he knew what kind of expression the young adult would be wearing when he would arrive at the scene, it was mere confusion.

"Its a sleeping sedative, just for precautionary measures."

"Isn't that a bit much?"

"Boy, when you finally reach my age, you'll learn it's never too much. And you seem to have a habit for questioning your superiors orders."

"I understand sir, sorry for questioning you."

"You will be properly dealt with when we return to the village."

"I understand." Tenzou bowed respectively, as he waited for his next set of orders.

"Team move out immediately, Orochimaru may already know we have been knocking on his door for the last few days, I want to be home before dinner." Takamaru lifted the young blond over his shoulder, as he took off in the direction of the Hidden leaf Village, with two ANBU by his side, as the rest of the team sealed away all of their equipment, supplies, and tents, then take off after him.

The Village:

Decoding the scroll

Jiraiya sat in his chair and desk which were given to him by the Decoders division, who specialize in decoding many varieties of coded text, seals, and pictographs, basically anything. As he started working on understanding his old teammates rushed handwriting, which he was so used to the complete perfection he used to witness when he was a child in the academy.

But it was nearly genius to write that messily, it provided the writer a chance to read their own writing, and make it difficult for any one to understand their supposed gibberish. Jiraiya finally made it through the first paragraph, that's when a member of the ANBU Black ops division appeared behind him.

"What do you want?" Jiraiya asked distractedly, as he wrote down the words he had already deciphered on the note pad beside him.

"The retrieval of an Naruto Uzumaki has been a success, the Hokage wants your immediate audience." The ANBU stated, as he disappeared just as swiftly as he appeared. Jiraiya's eye's widened as he Shushined into the Hokage's office, facing Tsunade as she regarded him with a simple glance as she returned to her paper work.

"Is it true?" He asked, his voice was void of any emotion, considering the seriousness of the situation, he couldn't play around at all.

"Yes it is, I have just received word that they got him, but left Orochimaru in his lair, it was nearly impenetrable, it was rather fortunate that I place that special ANBU on that team."

"Special?"

"Yes, one of Orochimaru's gifts."

"Oh that young man, yes what a fortunate gift indeed."

Naruto's mind-scape:

The blond floated, lost within the dark abyss of his mind. His surroundings slowly clearing up, making him more aware then he would have liked.

'They have no need for you, they only need him alive.'

That voice returned, just as cold and cunning as before.

'As soon as you dispose of him, they will all disappear.'

It feels like an icy arm wrapping itself around his body, never letting him leave, keeping him in place.

'It will be as it once was, once again. You must see the master, it is the only way.'

Never to be free, always trapped. It was a never-ending cycle, one that Naruto will stay on for eternity.

'Your promise still has yet to be fulfilled.'

It will always remind him of what he had to do, what was left to do.

'Your vow will be enforced very soon, its almost time.'

His job, his mission, his very existence was made for this day. That's what he believed, after all, no one else can finish this other than him.

'He awaits you.'

His promise will soon be fulfilled, and all will be right once again.

There I finished this chapter as well, man I'm on a roll these last few days.

Well here's proof to say that I never give up on my stories, I may take forever to update, but I always will.

:D

Hope you enjoyed this little development.

also for those who noticed I edited this