Chapter one
Disclaimer: I'm only going to say this once I DON'T OWN ANYTHING THAT I WRITE ABOUGHT. There that's it that's all I'm going to say on this applies to all the chapters.
"Why did I agree to this again?" the figure clad in black asked in a monotone voice.
"Because their offering almost twice what we usually charge." The smaller of the two answered back in her soft almost angelic voice.
"That is a good reason. But I still don't think this is a good idea."
"Well it's a moot point now we already agreed to meet the Hokage, and it won't look good if we back out now."
"Perhaps, but I still don't like it." The black clad figure responded ending the conversation.
Sautobi was having an unpleasant week. First the council decides that they need to go over the year's budget. Not only did this mean hours of having to listen to 56 council men bicker and argue for well over 6 hours but they also spotted the earmark he had made for his itch itch purchases, now he was going to have buy them himself. Then he hears his old student orochimaru was up to something and with the chunin exams so close he couldn't take any chances. This had lead to his current headache. With Konaha as shorthanded as it was he couldn't afford to cut back on missions during the exams, or else look weak in the eyes of the other villages, leavening their defences undermanned. This had lead to him contacting two of the best mercenaries for hire. Unfortunately he had to offer almost twice there going rate, nearly 90,000 ryu a week. The council had almost fainted when he had told them but in the end everyone begrudgingly emitted that it would be worth it in the long run if someone did try to start something.
Turning to the files he had collected on the two Sautobi flipped through them for the tenth time that morning. The first was on who appeared to be the leader
Name: Vergil
Village of origin: unknown
Appearance: 5'6, blond hair, eye color unknown. Age 15 – 20.
Dress: black combat boots, black shnobi pants, no shirt, black leather trench coat, black hunter-nin mask, black fingerless gloves, black forehead protector.
Tijutsu: unknown
Ninjutsu: unknown
Genjutsu: unknown
Additional information: reportedly responsible for the massacre at kiri last year, 25 jounin, 123 chunin, 32 genin, 345 civilian casualties, as well as a number of high profile assassinations. Has been nicknamed the Black Death, the shinigami's hand, death for hire among others. No confirmed defeats in combat.
Saritobi sighed after flipping through the painfully thin file he had on this Vergil character. Other than apparently he was a bloody (both figuratively and literally) psychopath.
Turning to the file on his partner he flipped through knowing that there was even less known a bought her.
Name: unknown
Village of origin: unknown
Appearance:5'4, black hair, eye color unknown. Age 15 – 20.
Dress: white battle kimono, white hunter-nin mask, simple shinobi sandals.
Ninjutsu: unknown
Genjutsu: unknown
Tijutsu: unknown
Additional information: vary little is known on this person. It seems that she is a long distance fighter though this has not been confirmed. Has never been seen without partner. No known aliases.
Rubbing his temples and wondering for the 45th time if this was a good idea, he contemplated if he was making a mistake. He may not know much about his partner but he could know this Vergil fellow could be trouble. Hell from what he had read he sounded like a full blown psychopath. Knowing it was too late to change his mind now he simple reached for his pipe and started to puff away hoping that everything would be alright.
They had been walking for almost three days now; luckily they were passing close by when they had received the summons from the Hokage. Over the past three days Vergil had been growing increasingly agitated. This had not gone unnoticed by his partner and she knew that nothing good could came from him being in this state and planed to try and fix it before they reached Konaha. 'The last time he was like this was while they were traveling through kiri, and that incident got them plastered on the front page of kiri's bingo book with a 23 million ryu bounty on their head and she had no desire to end up in konahas bingo book as well' she thought to herself.
As night fell they set up camp in the forest outside of Konaha. Vergil simply found a clear patch of ground and lied down staring at the stars over head. He didn't know what it was but the night sky
always seemed to calm him. Just as he was a bought to drift off to sleep he heard his partner in crime approach.
"How are you felling?" she asked as she sat down beside the man clad in black.
"The same as always." was his emotionless response.
"I know that's a lie, I can always tell when you're lying. Now are you going to tell me or do I just have to start guessing?" she asked hoping that just this once he would tell her.
"... Sigh, this shouldn't bother me as much as it does. If I can wipe an entire village from the map without a care should I care what happened to me almost ten years ago?"
She cringed at his mention of wiping out a village; she had seen him do it more than once and knew that he wasn't lying when he said that it didn't bother him. "Maybe because this is the only place that has ever been able to hurt you?" she responded remembering the first time they had meet and the cold empty look in his eye.
"maybe." With that he closed his eyes signalling the end of the conversation. Although his thoughts were still disturbed he found that like always these little talks seemed to help him get them under some kind of control even if it was only for a short amount of time. He knew that he owed what little amount of sanity he had to her and for that he was grateful. He found sleep came easer that night than it had since they had first started out for Konaha.
Morning came quickly for the two and after a quick breakfast the set out on the last leg of their trip. After almost two hours of walking they had finally come in sight of their destination.
Stopping suddenly the figure dressed in white turned to the one in black
"Are you sure you ready for this, Naruto."
"Yes, I think so. So long as you're nearby I should be fine Haku.
A/N well there you go the first chapter of my new story I hope you like it. Pleas review I want to know what you think, comments, suggestions and questions are more than welcome, hell even flames are ok.
Now just a few comments.
One: Naruto is around 14 or 15 not twelve. Everyone else is the same age. (I think Haku's something like 15 or 16)
Two: I'll be dealing with their past in flashbacks later on so if you're wondering it'll come later.
Lastly as I'm sure some of you can tell I'm in need of a Bata so any volunteers let me know. E-mail is on my home page or just let me know in your review
Anyway that it fore know I hope you like it and for the love of god leave a review. You know what if I don't get at least 10 reviews by the time chapter two I done I'll shoot a puppy, that's right a cute one too.