I do not own any of the Naruto characters. Though I own Mikuru.
& Let's Burn This Filthy Town &
Chapter one
Mikuru walked, looking at the crimson stain on her hand. Everything had went wrong. For one reason or another. She of course had killed the wrong person. How she did, she had know clue. Mikuru had been hired by some unknown guy, to kill a certain man, named Kyon. But of course, some idiot had to get in her way, and she ended up killing him with her bare hand.
So the guy that should have been dead ran and got some ANBU. Thus making Mikuru her self get chased. With a small snap of her fingers, she had disappeared out of the village. That must have been one of the good points of being a Watanabe. Last of her own clan. Heh, that was funny. Seeing as she had led them to there doom, whether she meant to or not.
It was funny. Well in her mind of course. She had provoked a certain person in the clan. The one who held demon powers. All she had to do was provoke the little kid that had stolen her title, and he had went off. Had started killing the clan. She of course made sure to leave the moment it started happening. She felt no guilt about it. Part of her mind had wanted it to happen. The other part, was ignored.
This had been her life for about two years, maybe not even two. But it was close enough. She had gone from place to place, getting paid to kill. She did nothing fancy to get noticed. She didn't use her energy. It was simple, she used her speed and agility to kill. Along with her bare hands. Rarely did she use jutsu's, or even her chakra. She never used it up, why waist what you might need later?
She hadn't even used it to get away from the people. She used a trick she had learned at the age of five. That was one of the best things about being the prodigy of the Watanabe clan. Well, the old one. Her title had been taken away by a little brat. Just because he held demon powers, he had been praised by the rest of the clan. Mikuru balled her hand into a fist and glared down at it, before letting it turn back into a flat out hand.
In her mind, that had been her revenge. And it spread through the rest of her village. Someone had even saw her smirk while provoking the person. So they had known she had been the one to cause it. And she took that credit. Mikuru didn't care if she wasn't really the one who had killed them, as long as she had part of it, she didn't mind at all.
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Mikuru walked on the same trail she had been for a little over a hour. She had stopped looking at her hand, in stead she was watching where she was walking, and who could be coming the same way. She need wanted to make sure that some one didn't see her and run back and possibly tell ANBU in the village she was heading. That would ruin everything.
Seeing as she needed to get there, so she could get money, for food and other tings. Her clothing needed to be changed as well. It had rips all in it. Her clothing would one day give her away, that's what she thought. Her hair would be the give away as well. It was orange for heavens sake!
Mikuru stopped on a dime. She felt as though she where being tracked, being watched. She had good scenes, she didn't always need her eyes to tell her things. She had the scenes, she could tell that someone was near. And the fact that she could sense chakra coming her way. She didn't feel the need to fight right now. Fearing, that maybe while she was thinking about the past someone had caught her and told. Her choices were,
a) to hide.
If she hid, that meant she would have to lower her chakra, hide it so she wouldn't be caught. Hiding didn't always work out for the honey colored eyed girl. She always seemed to be bad at hiding her chakra. So she was the main target for some because her power seemed to come off of her with out much of her mind knowing. She wasn't able to control it.
b) Go around them.
If she did that, she could be caught. She could try and maintain her chakra, but that was no guarantee. Or she could hop from tree to tree and hopefully not be noticed. That was also the same thing. Either way, she could be noticed. She had one last option though.
c) Run, run the other way.
Of course, she never took c. She hated it, she hated running away. Not knowing what would have happened if she took a or b. So her mind, had already pushed that one out of it choice making. She decided for choice a. Maybe, just maybe it would succeed.
Mikuru took a breath and started to lower the feed of her chakra, the one that was coming her way was on the ground, not in the trees. She let her honey orbs look around the area. So, there where two trees that where really bushy, alright a bit of advantage. She jumped into the tallest tree, and stood against it, making sure she had her chakra hidden as good as she could get it, and that one could not see her from down below.
Her breath became shallow as she felt the chakra stop just below the tree she was in. She seemed to cling to the bark of the tree, trying not to make a noise, a russell of the leaves. Not a sound. That's what she was hoping. And that her chakra level was low, so the couldn't detect it.
Mikuru watched through a small whole in the leaves, wasn't a big one, and she was thankful for that. But it was just big enough for her to see through. She watched the two people. One was tall and slim, and the other one was short and fat. They both wore the same things. A straw hat that covered there head so she couldn't see them, though the taller one's hair could be seen between a little crack in the cloak and the hat. And they both wore the same black cloaks with red clouds. Strange, with those outfits, who wouldn't notice you?
Mikuru started to analyze them. They seemed to just be standing there.. doing nothing but looking around. Who or what where they looking for? Wait.. Did the sense her?! She had seemed to grip the tree bark even more. She really didn't feel in the mood to be caught by some weird guys. Mikuru continued to analyze the two, the fat one had something coming from his back, it looked to be a tail... and it seemed to disappear behind the tree she stood.
Her eyes widened to at least a bit bigger than they had been. So, they had known she was there the whole time. She could hear, what she assumed to be the tail, on the left side of her, going around the tree bark. Coming at her. She did what her brain seemed to tell her. She did a back flip out of the tree and landed in fornt of the people. She got ready to run the same way she had been walking for about an hour, which meant she would be heading back into the village.
"You're not to good at hiding, un" The blond spoke up, Mikuru replied with a simple, "hn" before she turned around and started to run. She was not going to be caught. That Quickly. And not with out a fight. As she ran, she could feel them following her.