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I lifted up Ayame's body from the trash heap of bodies in the back of the mansion; I slowly made my way out of Otogakure in fear that Orochimaru might spot me. When far enough away from the village I laid Ayame down and removed a small jar from my pocket. I opened the jar and lifted her heart from inside it and laid it into her chest. I formed chakra strings to reconnect the heart to her body then proceeded to gently sew her chest closed. I remembered the last words she said to me about finding the puppet and her father, and quickly made a few simple hand signs to send a small burst of electricity to her heart to revive her long enough for them to save her. I lifted her into my arms began running to the Akatsuki base. I opened the door using the code I had learned from Orochimaru and quietly made my way in. The Akatsuki was gathered around mourning as I approached them.

"I have a message for Hidan and Sasori." They all turned to me at once and gasped when they saw the body in my arms. Hidan was the first one to take her from me and I looked up at him as he stared down at his daughter in pain.

"I've jump started her heart long enough for you guys to save her. I gave her that information for her to escape, and never come back to Orochimaru, but she insisted that I do what I was told by Orochimaru. I didn't want to Hidan, I saved her only to have to kill her!" I sobbed quietly, "Her last words were to find you and Sasori. I believe she knew that you could save her. And I want you to use my soul to save her. I want to give back what I had taken." I was holding the blade end of a kunai in my fist and blood was starting to drip from my hands. The Akatsuki looked at me in a mixture of shock and awe as I offered to give myself to save the one I cared deeply for.

"Are you sure about this Kabuto?" Sasori asked me as if he thought I was joking.

"Yes I am sure. You can save her using me right?" Sasori nodded.

"Then yes, I'm one-hundred percent sure I want to give back to her."

"We'll need the help of everyone to save her. Neither Hidan nor I have the amount of Chakra to save her, even with the addition of Kabuto's chakra." Obito volunteered to my surprise, as well as Kisame, and Itachi. With the six of us we should have enough combined chakra to save her life. They'll need my body to transfer my organs to her in order to truly save her though.

I followed Obitio, Itachi, and Kisame as we walked into a dark room with Sasori and Hidan. I had never been this far in the base so I looked around as we walked. You couldn't see much other than the cold stone walls. When we finally entered the room I noticed a small metal table in the center of the room where Ayame was gently placed. Hidan pulled what looked like an operating table out from the darkest part of the room.

"Kabuto, pour your chakra into Ayame. We've gotta make sure she's completely alive for this portion. If you don't mind cutting your chakra strings so we can open her back up as we heal her insides. We're going to try to erase the memories of Orochimaru, but we'll leave you as her big brother. She won't remember any of the horrible things Orochimaru forced you to do to her and she'll live a more peaceful life." I nodded. It was exactly what I wanted. I took out a pair of small scissors from my pocket and gently snipped the stitches on her torso. I opened up her chest and made a few hand signs. My chakra began pouring out of my body and into Ayame's, I became unable to stand as my chakra slowly left my body and that was when Hidan helped me onto the operating table.

"I'm gonna make this quick Kabuto, thank you for saving her." I closed my eyes as Sasori took out a long kunai and stabbed it immediately into my chest and slid it down to cut off my clothing and open up my chest. I coughed up blood and gasped in pain but I kept my eyes on Ayame. This pain that I was feeling is exactly what I put her through in her final moments, and I deserved every ounce of this pain. Sasori quickly began cutting out my organs and transplanting them into her body, he used dissolvable stitches to stitch the organs into place until the chakra from the others would heal her completely. As Sasori got to my lungs I couldn't even keep my eyes open.

"Thank you Kabuto." Those were the last words I would ever hear and I'm okay with that. I saved her and made up for every bad thing I've ever done to her. I felt the swift pain of the kunai and blacked out on the table.


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