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endless_scrolls) wrote2010-01-01 10:46 am
endless_scrolls) wrote2010-01-01 10:46 am
Experiment Gone Right
Title: Experiment Gone Right
Type: Drabble
Fandom: Naruto
Theme: Wrong Place, Wrong Time [ Wordcount: 508 ]
Character(s): Tenten, Yakushi Kabuto; brief mentions of Temari, Orochimaru, Uchiha Sasuke
Pairing(s): None.
Warning(s): None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but these words.
Note: Based on a plot idea originally made for the RP community of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
circleobetrayal that eventually inspired the fic 'Inheritance of Betrayal.' Theme borrowed from 30_tortures
Dedicated to:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
its_game_time
"Why me?"
It had always been a question in the back of her mind. Even now when the reasons and logic behind such a decision did not matter as much as the end results. Because there had never been any rationality or cause behind the act of capturing her that night. No previous indication that her capture and imprisonment would be of any benefit to the Village of Sound. Not for getting too close to the borders of Ta. Because there had been no show of potential. There could not have been. After all, the first time he had seen Tenten was during the Chuunin Exams. Where she had been easily defeated by Temari of Suna. And that had been nearly three years ago. Without any contact or opportunity for him to see her progress through her training. There was no way he could have known...
Although, it was no secret that Orochimaru had spies posted everywhere in the known shinobi world. And the kunoichi was a lot stronger than she used to be.
"Well?" she pressed on, the crease in her brow deepening just a fraction more. To which the shinobi only paused in his study to peer up at her with a steady gaze. One that she had seen several times before.
Tenten never liked it when Kabuto looked at her like that. It made her feel as if she were one of his corpses too, spayed out across the examination table for him to poke and prod at while he gathered his information. That he was giving her the exact same sort of attention to detail as he did to those failed experiments. And it was that thought that usually had the kunoichi meeting the good doctor's steady gaze with a hard stare of her own.
She was not a failed experiment.
"No reason in particular."
Narrowing her eyes, Tenten stepped around the counter and leaned in to almost table level to catch the medic's attention. "And what is that supposed to mean?"
"I needed bodies, and you were within distance," he finally said, touching his middle finger to the frame to push the glasses further up along the bridge of his nose, "It was a decision made on a whim."
Familiar words, she realized. And could only straighten her stance in disbelief at the concept. At the idea that there was no rationality behind her capture. No logic or thought behind the choice to do so. She had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Certainly, none of them had expected things to turn out like this, with her as a subordinate to one of the most feared men in the shinobi world. Or that she would be allied with the traitorous Uchiha in order to bring such a man and his empire to ruin. "So... you made the order to bring me in?"
"I suppose so," Kabuto mused, "Although... in the end, it seems we got more than we bargained for, hm?"
Truly, indeed. She was not a failed experiment.
Type: Drabble
Fandom: Naruto
Theme: Wrong Place, Wrong Time [ Wordcount: 508 ]
Character(s): Tenten, Yakushi Kabuto; brief mentions of Temari, Orochimaru, Uchiha Sasuke
Pairing(s): None.
Warning(s): None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but these words.
Note: Based on a plot idea originally made for the RP community of
circleobetrayal that eventually inspired the fic 'Inheritance of Betrayal.' Theme borrowed from 30_torturesDedicated to:
its_game_time"Why me?"
It had always been a question in the back of her mind. Even now when the reasons and logic behind such a decision did not matter as much as the end results. Because there had never been any rationality or cause behind the act of capturing her that night. No previous indication that her capture and imprisonment would be of any benefit to the Village of Sound. Not for getting too close to the borders of Ta. Because there had been no show of potential. There could not have been. After all, the first time he had seen Tenten was during the Chuunin Exams. Where she had been easily defeated by Temari of Suna. And that had been nearly three years ago. Without any contact or opportunity for him to see her progress through her training. There was no way he could have known...
Although, it was no secret that Orochimaru had spies posted everywhere in the known shinobi world. And the kunoichi was a lot stronger than she used to be.
"Well?" she pressed on, the crease in her brow deepening just a fraction more. To which the shinobi only paused in his study to peer up at her with a steady gaze. One that she had seen several times before.
Tenten never liked it when Kabuto looked at her like that. It made her feel as if she were one of his corpses too, spayed out across the examination table for him to poke and prod at while he gathered his information. That he was giving her the exact same sort of attention to detail as he did to those failed experiments. And it was that thought that usually had the kunoichi meeting the good doctor's steady gaze with a hard stare of her own.
She was not a failed experiment.
"No reason in particular."
Narrowing her eyes, Tenten stepped around the counter and leaned in to almost table level to catch the medic's attention. "And what is that supposed to mean?"
"I needed bodies, and you were within distance," he finally said, touching his middle finger to the frame to push the glasses further up along the bridge of his nose, "It was a decision made on a whim."
Familiar words, she realized. And could only straighten her stance in disbelief at the concept. At the idea that there was no rationality behind her capture. No logic or thought behind the choice to do so. She had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Certainly, none of them had expected things to turn out like this, with her as a subordinate to one of the most feared men in the shinobi world. Or that she would be allied with the traitorous Uchiha in order to bring such a man and his empire to ruin. "So... you made the order to bring me in?"
"I suppose so," Kabuto mused, "Although... in the end, it seems we got more than we bargained for, hm?"
Truly, indeed. She was not a failed experiment.