More for myself than anything.
I think it was intended to be Orochimaru/Jiraiya. Hard to tell, so short.
There was nothing between them but that which neither of them could touch.
“I like to see things in motion,” Orochimaru said, something by way of explanation.
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past!fic, Orochimaru/Anko, training sessions and snakes
“She is…acceptable,” the snake said, flicking her forked tongue rapidly in the spaces between her words. She cocked her head to one side as she slowly lifted her front half up into the air to examine the girl again with one round, unblinking eye, before she twisted around sharply to meet Orochimaru’s gaze. “She may enter into the contract, should she choose… Knowing what is required on her behalf.”
“I know,” Anko said. “I understand the requirements. Blood for blood.”
Orochimaru merely smiled, lips curling back off his white teeth. Anko spoke simply, though he’d explained it to her in greater detail than that; the bargain meant nothing if she did not comprehend that to which she willingly submitted.
“I understand, Shesha-san,” Anko repeated, and the snake half-turned again and dipped her head in a graceful bow. The motley pattern of the brown and grey scales rippled mesmerizingly with the movement.
“Very well. Then we shall meet again,” the snake said before she vanished in a puff of smoke.
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