Sky Base.
Kabuto Yakushi looked up at the ceiling.
"Left?"
"Yeah."
White Snake Sage No. 18 coiled its tail around its pipe, shook off the accumulated ash, then put it back in its mouth. Tilting its chin slightly, it tapped the television with a scalpel and said, "See? I told you this thing would be useful."
"Whenever someone is around Lin Qing, if he tries to spy on us, he'll draw strange looks and be forced to stop using that wonderful little vine."
Kabuto Yakushi thought for a moment and asked, "What if no one's around him?"
"No one? Heh heh."
White Snake Sage No. 18 sneered. "Lin Qing is a young man in the prime of his life. If no one's really around him, what do you think he'd be doing?"
Kabuto Yakushi froze for half a second, then exchanged a look with White Snake Sage No. 18. One man and one snake wore matching lecherous grins.
But as he laughed, Kabuto Yakushi realized something was wrong.
"Wait, that's not right."
He looked down at his lower body.
"I'm also a young man in the prime of my life. How come I've been watching for so long without any reaction at all?"
White Snake Sage No. 18 exhaled a puff of smoke. "You... I figured that since you're going to become a sage anyway, I'd remove your 'lust reactor.'"
"What?!!"
"That isn't important."
White Snake Sage No. 18 waved its scalpel and narrowed its eyes toward the east.
"I can feel it. Another me has already awakened. I'm very curious what choice it will make—"
Kabuto Yakushi grabbed the bottle labeled "Orochimaru" and hurled it over. With a DUANG, it smashed into White Snake Sage No. 18's head.
"Choice my ass! Put my 'reactor' back already!"
Lin Qing