In the dark room I awoke, I sat up with a start. The alarm was ringing and filling the whole room with a nasty din. I stretched my arm out to whack it and encountered another hand doing the same. In the dark our fingertips brushed and I felt electrified. My skin pale, hers deeply tanned. This highest room of the tallest tower was bursting with memories like this. My momentary feelings of lust, my heart jumping in my chest. Her turning those dark heavy lidded eyes on me, so innocent yet I swear she knew.
"We should get started", her slightly accented voice tore me from my thoughts and pulled me back to the present. The mission that awaited us. We were a two-man team with the job of carrying out precision missions, we worked well together but her constant presence was grating my frayed nerves. To be in such close proximity to the one I so desired, and yet I was able to do nothing. Any move I made would compromise our missions, plus I knew she didn't swing that way. With a sigh I rose from my bed and searched for my clothes. My long pale hair covered my breasts as I wandered about wearing only some black boxers.
An hour later we were flying through the snow topped gullies side by side, our destination many miles ahead. It was our mission to find the organisation known as Akatsuki and stop them from entering our land and fining the rokubi – the 6-tails. According to our spies they hadn't crossed the mountains yet. I was about to open my mouth and suggest a break when I felt an enormous chakra presence up ahead, it was too great to be one person or even three. It was as strong as a group of our Jounin, but I knew they were all back at the city guarding the king. Then this couldn't be...
"Akatsuki..." my companion Lizze breathed,
"Hide" I whispered. We crouched behind a snow capped boulder and disguised our chakra signatures. The figures were just ahead. Seconds later and they'd have seen us. Why weren't they concealing their chakra as well? Because they were proud, I answered myself. And thinking on that for a moment I could understand it, my own brother was one of the ones they were hunting and yet I regarded the band of murderers with jealousy. To be so free, doing what they wished day in day out. Fulfilling every dark desire with passion and sin.
They rounded the corner and pushed past a large fir tree. There were 8 of them in total. How had they got here so fast?
I looked at Lizze with questioning eyes, what were we to do?
Fight. I read in her eyes, fight to the death.
We sprang out from behind the boulder, our purple cloaks whipping about us, the black ties slipping undone and revealing our weapons tied underneath. Raising a pike I yelled,
"Stop, heathens, you may not enter the land of ice"
"Eh?" A tall, silver haired man laughed, "Did she just call ME a fucking heathen?" he began to smile, so I launched the pike at him. It hit him square in the chest and he choked, his eyes widened with pain but still he laughed, "Already?"He cried, and as he opened his mouth blood trickled out.
Then the battle really began. I knew we had no hope of winning, but death would await us back at the village if we let them through. The village leaders were cruel people who I had little respect for. I wanted to leave but it wasn't allowed.
They had no battle cry, they were silent in coming. One second we were meters apart then the next they were upon us. As we fought there in that freezing clearing, with bombs, weapons and poison flying in all directions I still had a burning desire to join them instead of fight. I had a feeling we were stronger and one by one they dropped. Their woman went first, then a blonde, then his friend the redhead when his puppets froze up in the sub zero temperatures. Still I kept on with my lightning techniques. Lizze pounded them with her thunder-style jutsu. The battle raged on until the light started to drain from the pale sky. Our attacks became weaker as theirs did. Soon it was little more than a tired facade. They didn't want to continue any more than we did. My true wishes must have been clear on my face for hours now, but Lizze was never any good at reading my thoughts. How else could I have kept my secret from her for this many years? Throwing one last chidori bolt at Akatsuki's leader, which he only just managed to dodge, I collapsed down on the frozen soil.
It wasn't surrender. I was just tired of pretending.
"Take me!" I called.
"What??" hissed Lizze from behind me, she was barely conscious, and lying on the snow covered ground. Her hair was wet with the sweat from fighting and it lay around her head in attractive black locks. I pondered her natural beauty. Rising to my knees I shuffled closer to the others where they sat panting or leaning against the trees. The silver haired guy from earlier seemed to be twisting the pike inside his chest pushing it deeper and gasping, he was fully clothed yet the action seemed to be as indecent as masturbation. Watching him made my heart race as I'd never known before. I dragged my eyes away to the one in front of me. His orange hair was matted with someone's blood and he was clutching a deep wound in his side, his eyes were half closed.
"I said take me!" I repeated with the breath rasping in my throat. The taste of betrayal was sweet and made my pulse quicken. I waited for an answer.
"One...One condition" the man choked,
"Anything...Anything" I moaned in anticipation
"Ro...Rokubi...need to...capture..." he replied.
Ah. Difficult. Though my foggy senses were dulled from the endless fighting I realized they wanted my brother. Betray my village, sell out my brother. Hm.
I turned to examine Lizze, she had passed out from exhaustion and hadn't caught the rest of our conversation. A plan was forming in my mind.
"If you need the Rokubi, you need to come to the village to get him. And if you come to the village you need to be disguised." My plan had reason and I could see he knew that. "You're also not fit to make the journey back with him to wherever it is you came from."
"What do you suggest?" He growled
