The woman, aged about eighteen, ducked just as the sword whipped past her, nicking off a strand of brown hair. She turned and glared at her pale-skinned opponent. Her eyes were dark brown at the center and lighter brown towards the end with cat-like pupils, giving her glare that extra "I'm-going-to-kill-you-look." She pulled back her lips and snarled, revealing pointed teeth, particularly her canines. And when she shut her mouth, her teeth poked out and rested on her bottom lip.
Sprawled on the ground on all fours, she leapt back and latched his limbs to the nearest tree, asking the same question for the umpteenth time.
"Why are you attacking me?"
Her opponent snickered and brushed back his raven hair. His olive eyes glinted with malice.
"I wouldn't be attacking you if you had come quietly dear. All I want is your body," he replied with a silky smooth voice. Her eyebrow began to twitch.
The woman let out another snarl and leapt from the tree, flying towards her opponent. As she pulled back her arm to release a punch, fire-like chakra began forming around her fist. Gradually, it transformed to a giant bear fist, and she swung it around, slashing the man across the face.
He cried out as three fine lines of blood appeared. The woman charged her chakra and slashed his arms. Soon, she was just plain punching him with her fists.
"Who are you!?" She growled, grabbing him by the collar. Her opponent smirked despite his conditions. "Orochimaru." He told her. Suddenly, his body melted in her hands and turned to hissing white snakes and fell to the ground and slithered away.
The woman snorted. "What a creep." She shivered and adjusted her messy brown hair, pulling it back to its usual ponytail. Suddenly, something shiny caught her eye, as she bent down to pick it up, a voice called her name.
"Arashi! Are you done yet?"
The woman, now known as Arashi, rolled her eyes. "Yes! Kawauso! You don't always need to hide when I'm in a battle." She stared at the object, it was a ring. "Ew. I'm beginning to wonder if that really was a guy."
At that moment, a figure appeared from the trees. It was a blue otter with gold stripes on its ears, tail, and arms and golden eyes. Strapped to his back was a large battleaxe. He absentmindedly scratched his ear.
"What's that, Arashi?"
Arashi shrugged and placed the ring on her right pinky. "A ring. It looks good on me; I think I'll keep it." At that moment, a small bird landed on Arashi's shoulder. She blinked and scratched its chin. "What kind of bird are you? I've never seen you before… And you're all mushy…" Arashi proceeded to poke the odd bird until it exploded.
Arashi shrieked and jumped back, rubbing her burnt face. Grumbling to herself, she channeled her own chakra and slowly began to heal her wound while Kawauso grabbed his battleaxe in his paws.
"A medic, hmm? That could be useful."
Two men walked or slid out of the bushes. One was taller than the other with long blonde hair tied up in a half ponytail that covered his left eye. His visible eye was a light blue. The other man was much shorter with a mask that covered his chin and a white scorpion tail hovering over his head. Each wore the same outfit- a black cloak with red clouds.
Arashi snorted and removed her hand now that her wound was fully healed. "Okay guys, trust me. I've had enough gay people come bother me today."
Kawauso squinted his eyes. "No, Arashi. One of them is a girl." He pointed to the blonde. Arashi blinked. "No way, Kawauso. That's a guy."
"Girl."
"Guy."
"Girl."
"Guy."
Kawauso sighed. "Arashi. I know a woman when I see one and that's a woman for- OH CRAP." He narrowly rolled his way away from a punch from said "woman."
"I'm a guy, hmm!" He stated. Arashi glanced at Kawauso, giving him the "I-told-you-so" look. The otter groaned.
"Sasori-danna, stand back, I'll take care of these bitches, hmm." The blonde said.
The other man, Sasori, nodded and slid back. "Just don't keep me waiting, Deidara."
Deidara rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. I know." His hand traveled down to his waist. Pushing his cloak aside, he unzipped a bag and stuck his hand in it. "You know, you could always just give me the ring and you'd get away unharmed, hmm."
Arashi grinned. "Like that would happen." She motioned Kawauso to stay back as she stepped forward. Deidara grinned back. "Didn't think so."
He snapped his hand out of his pack and tossed some small clay spiders that began to crawl towards Arashi. Now it's not like she doesn't like spiders, but she had the strange feeling that she need to dodge them. Arashi jumped out of the way just as one exploded at her feet. She continued to dance around, dodging explosion after explosion until the ground below her erupted. Before she could move, a centipede had wrapped itself around her body.
Deidara smirked. "I gotta say, hmm…" He brought his fingers into a hand sign and held it before his face. "That was a tad easy. KA-"
His trademark word was cut off by a force crushing his torso, squeezing the air from his lungs as he was constricted. He winced as he noticed his clay centipede was sliced in half, probably by that damned otter. He moved his eyes to see a large purple snake with gleaming green slitting eyes staring back at him. As its tongue flicked out, Deidara noticed that it actually had two slender purple tongues.
The snake raised its head and nodded to Kawauso. The otter grinned at it and turned to face Sasori. With his battleaxe above his head, he charged and slashed. His attack was flawlessly blocked by Sasori's scorpion tail. Snarling, Kawauso swung his weapon again and again. The snake turned its attention back to its captive. "Now then… I suggest we settle this without fighting. I hate killing people like this." It hissed S's coming out like long hisses. Deidara frowned. This was probably that girl… Arashi? It was probably her summon animal, like that otter.
All thoughts were erased from his mind as he felt sword like objects dig into his side. Wincing, he looked down and noticed that the snake's tail had a band with quills. And said quills were sticking out and into his side. The snake narrowed its piecing eyes. "Sorry about this but-"It froze and slowly turned to Sasori. Kawauso was wrapped inside of the scorpion tail. He waved, "Hi Arashi!"
Deidara's eyes widened. Arashi? This… thing… Was Arashi? "I suggest you release him," Sasori ordered. Snake Arashi hissed and withdrew her quills, releasing her grip and slithering off of Deidara. The two men watched as Snake Arashi's scales melted into flesh and legs grew. Without even a puff of smoke, the brunette woman transformed back.
"Now I want you to answer questions." Sasori lengthened his tail so that he could put the tip to Arashi's throat while still holding Kawauso. "How did you do that?"
Arashi smirked, "It's my special ability. I take the DNA of animals, store it, and use my chakra to enhance the animal with abilities. I have five transformations, not including my human form."
Sasori nodded, "What are the five?" Arashi shut her brown eyes. "The Snake, what you just saw. The Weasel, the Phoenix, the Lion, and the Giraffe." Sasori pressed the tip closer to her throat. "And what can they do?" Arashi opened her eyes to roll them. "Geez. You ask a lot of questions. Okay, the Snake stores poison and uses them for various purposes. It can also absorb any poison, making it immune. The Weasel, a personal favorite, is an escape artist and it can turn invisible… And I happen to steal stuff often in that form… For… no reason. But anyway, the Phoenix is… a phoenix that breathes fire and what not. You know a phoenix. The Lion can absorb electricity into its mane and… electrocute stuff. And the Giraffe has mirrors that reflect attacks."
Kawauso sighed. Arashi shot him a glare but looked away. She really shouldn't have told them all that but they did have the upper hand. Sasori closed his eyes. "And you're also a medic. Do you know any certain jutsus?"
"No." Kawauso answered. "She can't do anything. She was born and raised by animals in a forest so no one taught her how to do anything. Trust me, man. She sucks at everything." Arashi kicked him, silencing him from any more leaked information.
Deidara walked towards them, holding his side. "So I guess you don't have a village, hmm?" Arashi glared at Kawauso before shaking his head. "One last question." Sasori stared at Kawauso. "What is that?"
Kawauso beamed, glad to have some attention. "I'm Kawauso, Arashi's partner and-"Arashi cut in, "I rescued him when he was an ordinary otter and used my ability to give him water controlling powers. I was originally going to use a form like Kawauso's, but I figured he needed it more than me. Oh and I bought him that axe."
"Stole it." Kawauso corrected.
Arashi glared. "Bought it."
"Stole it."
"Bought it."
"Stole it."
"KAWAUSO."
"… Bought it…"
Arashi sighed. "That's better. Now then- ACK." With one swift movement, Deidara blindfolded Arashi as well as Kawauso and tied their hands up. Sasori nodded and Deidara began to tie the two together. Kawauso protested, "What in hell's name are you doing?" Deidara rolled his eyes, "Sasori-danna, should we gag them, hmm?"
"No." He replied. "Just tie them up and let's go. This is taking too long." Deidara smirked and reached into his clay bag. Moments later, he formed a clay swan and tossed it forward, creating a bigger replica. As Sasori made his way on top of the swan, Deidara tied Arashi and Kawauso to the bird's stomach. He leapt on top of the bird and soared into the air.
"Oh God, Arashi." Kawauso whispered.
"What now?" She hissed.
"They're going to rape us."
This, of course, freaked Arashi out. She began squirming around. "Let us go!"
Deidara smirked and glanced down at her. "You'll fall off if you keep doing that, hmm."
Now it was Kawauso who freaked out. "FALL OFF OF WHAT? ARE WE FLYING!? I HATE HEIGHTS."
"KAWAUSO YOU MORON WE'VE FLOWN BEFORE." Arashi yelled.
"WELL I'VE ALWAYS HATED IT."
Arashi sighed, "Just find a way to calm yourself." Kawauso was silent, thinking. Suddenly, and idea popped into his head. "Oh! I know. A travel song! You guys know any- MMF."
Sasori gagged Kawauso with his tail.
