Chapter 1: Introduction
The mid-day sun shone off a pond in the forest making it look like glistening glass. The glass surface of the pond was then broken by the emerging of a young female with raven hair with pale blue tips. Another woman with dark blue hair arose from the depths of the pond. One noticeably older than the other, yet both held a certain resemblance to the other. "I beat you again, youngin'. Just can't beat the master." The older woman shouted holding up colorfully decorated stone.
"You cheated!" The other yelled, turquoise eyes wide.
"No I did not!" The woman smirked and swam away from her friend.
"You don't call kicking me in the face cheating?" The girl retorted with a frown and following her counterpart.
"I call it fair game." The woman said upon reaching the shore.
The two continued to argue while they gathered their clothes from the shoreline. The younger female suddenly stopped and began to look around. "Someone is coming." She whispered.
The older woman drew a katana from its sheath, while the girl drew two kunai from her pouch. Suddenly a blonde haired man jumped down from a nearby tree. "Hey Ruka, fancy seeing you here." He said with a wink.
"Shut up Katsuo, what the hell do you want?" The older woman known as Ruka responded.
"Tsunade wanted to see about some mission she had for you." He said, and Ruka nodded as a response. Before leaving Katsuo turned around and said with a smirk, "Hey after you're done talking to Tsunade want to come over to my place and have some fun?"
Ruka threw a kunai at the retreating man before shouting, "Only in your dreams you pig!"
Ruka's silver eye twitched from encountering her former lover, Mirau Katsuo. It seemed like she could never get rid of him. Ever since that one drunken night where she had made that one drunken mistake Katsuo has been relentless about getting into bed with her. The two females grab their stuff and their bags and headed back toward the village.
The village was bustling with people like always; there were enough people in the Leaf village clearly. After pushing through many bodies they both made it to the Hokage's tower. They went swiftly up the stairs and into her office. "Sayuri and Ruka, I have called you both here to assign you a mission. Your mission will be to escort Mr. Yamasaka back to his village." The blonde haired woman stated.
Both females nodded and returned to their household to get ready. "Ugh…I hate getting stuck with these boring missions." Ruka complained as she entered the shower.
"I know, I feel what you're saying." Sayuri sighed.
After an hour both females exited their home with their full ninja attire. Sayuri wore orange pants that bunched together at the knees, with a black colored tank top. Bandages wrapped up her arms all the way to the elbow. Ruka wasn't as concealed with a black sleeveless hooded shirt that revealed her midriff, along with her emerald pants that bunched at her ankles. Both women also wore some sort of masks. Ruka wore a black clothed face mask that covered her mouth and she had pulled her hood over her face; so that her face was shadowed and only her eyes were gleaming through. Sayuri on the other hand wore a full face mask; it was black and white with eye holes. The mask was simple just a blank face outlined in black and the rest was white.
They both set off to the Kohana gate to meet with Mr. Yamasaka. When they reached the gate they saw a young gentleman with bright red hair and an all-black kimono on. Ruka and Sayuri bowed upon reaching Mr. Yamasaka. "Hello Mr. Yamasaka, we will be your escorts for this journey. My name is Ruka and this is my partner Sayuri." Ruka stated politely.
Mr. Yamasaka just nodded at the statement and turned toward the gate. Ruka sighed to Sayuri, "Looks like we got a silent one here."
They had been traveling by foot for two days and were less than a day away from the village Mr. Yamasaka had proclaimed to be from. For most of the trek he hadn't spoken a single word, except for 'we need to stop'. Other than that all his 'words' were grunts, and it was really starting to bug Ruka. "He doesn't say anything Yuri!" Ruka whispered harshly to her companion.
"He's just a quiet guy, nothing's wrong with that." Sayuri responded with a simple answer.
Ruka sighed and continued to trudge along the boring journey with this boring man.
Meanwhile…
"Why the hell are we out in the middle of fucking nowhere Kakuzu?" A silver hair man shouted.
"Because Hidan Leader told us to find these two people that can apparently be of use to the Akatsuki." The stitched man named Kakuzu replied.
"And how is that?" Hidan questioned.
"I don't know moron, now can you just shut the hell up I hear someone." Kakuzu whispered.
The Girls
"Ruka there are people near." Sayuri whispered.
Ruka and her stopped and glanced around. "How many can you feel?" Ruka questioned.
"Just two but they are very powerful for just being two." Sayuri responded.
Ruka mentally sighed. Shit. "Mr. Yamasaka it appears to my misfortune that we have encountered some rogue ninja, so if you can just sit tight for a few that'd be appreciated." Ruka said.
She then pulled out two twin katana blades from their sheaths. Sayuri stood by Mr. Yamasaka and pulled out a few kunai, just in case. "I know you're there, so why don't you just come out cowards!" Ruka hollered in to the seemingly empty trees.
Suddenly two cloaked figures appeared from the brush, both wearing black cloaks with red clouds. "What do you want?" Ruka glared.
"What's up with your stupid masks?" Hidan questioned obnoxiously.
"Answer our question first." Sayuri ignored Hidan.
"Both of you." Kakuzu stated darkly.
"Well you can't have us." Ruka spat.
"It wasn't a fucking question bitch!" Hidan laughed.
"Well I'm not leaving without a fight." Ruka stood her ground and ready herself for one hell of a fight.
"Suit yourself." Kakuzu blandly stated.
Kakuzu withdrew his tentacles from his cloak and shot them toward Ruka, while Hidan pulled his scythe off of his back and glanced toward Sayuri's direction. The silver hair man charged toward the girl he threw out his scythe in an attempt to hit her. Unfortunately Sayuri was faster and swiftly moved out of the way with Mr. Yamasaka being dragged along. Sayuri kept dodging Hidan's scythe, and this was much to Hidan's annoyance. "Come and fight me you stupid little bitch!" Hidan shouted the profanities while he swung his scythe toward Sayuri.
Sayuri ducked barely missing the blades; she couldn't keep this up much longer. She turned her gaze over to Ruka who was fighting Kakuzu and his many tentacles at the moment. Ruka glanced over at Sayuri with exhaustion written across her face. She couldn't even get close enough to him to lay a mark on him. "Wind style: Twin Bladed Breeze!" Ruka cross her blades in and an x-form and pushed them down. A gust wind shaped as an x passed through the air and toward Kakuzu, but he simply dodged it and it hit a tree behind him cutting it down completely. "Shit." Ruka sighed.
Sayuri was growing tired of just dodging Hidan but there was not much else she could do she had to stay by Mr. Yamasaka's side. As she was thinking Hidan swung his scythe and missed her but hit Mr. Yamasaka creating a huge gash in his stomach. "Finally some fucking blood!" Hidan hollered.
Sayuri kneeled next to the fallen man preparing to heal him. Hidan smirked at her defenseless state at the moment; he then swung his scythe toward her. Sayuri quickly made hand signs and pressed her hand toward the ground. A silver field engulfed her and Mr. Yamasaka. Her hands began to glow as she began to heal him. "Not too fast bitch." Hidan smirked while wagging his tale as in scolding her.
Her eyes grew wide as she noticed he transformed into someone else, a skeletal man. He then took his scythe and stabbed it through his leg. Mr. Yamasaka screamed in pain grabbing his leg. Sayuri then cringed her face twisted in pain. Hidan removed the scythe and stabbed it into where his heart should be. Mr. Yamasaka coughed as blood poured out of his mouth. Sayuri bent over and began to pant until she blacked out. "Sayuri!" Ruka screamed as she ran to the passed out girl.
She was abruptly stopped when tentacles wrapped around her arms, legs, and neck. "Either you join us or we kill you." Kakuzu stated in a cold tone.
Ruka gasped for air as the tentacle around her neck grew tighter. She finally managed to gasp out, "Fine!"
Kakuzu let her go and turned away. "Follow me, and Hidan carry the other girl." He commanded.
"Why the hell do I have to get her!" Hidan whined.
"Because I said so moron now let's go." Kakuzu kept on walking while Hidan grumbled to himself about having to carry this girl.