Chapter 1: The First Encounter
Author's Note: Updated and Re-written! Please review and enjoy!
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Kage opened her eyes slowly; the familiar 'pat' of water gathering by the entrance of the cave woke her. She lifted herself off of her thick bed of leaf and made her way to the mouth of the cave. Her sleep-filled eyes scanned the forest for a moment before a blast of thick smoke blew into her now-alert and dilated orbs. She coughed in vain to extinguish the pain that the black smog caused in her lungs. Kage ran into her makeshift home to grab her holster and, after snapping it loosely around her waist, left the smoke-filling cavern to the flame-engulfed forest.
Smoke billowed out of fallen trees that would soon be burned to ash. The girl blindly ran east; her senses of smell, hearing and taste were overridden with smoke and the cries of innocent, unsuspecting animals along with large falling trees.
'Jump!' The beast inside of her commanded. She complied without hesitation; sending chakra to her legs and jumping high into the air and almost crashing into a fiery treetop. As she looked down for the reason to jump, a swift ball of raging fire dashed across the earth and left a scorching path in its wake. The ball exploded on impact with a large boulder and melted it to lava-conditions.
"Hm." She heard a male's voice. "Looks like she dodged it, Un."
"Why did Leader send us all out here to capture a girl again?" Another male asked, annoyance clear in his voice.
Kage landed on her feet and looked back at the direction the men's voices were coming from. "I don't fucking know. Why don't you walk your fat ass into his damn office and fucking ask him instead of giving us all your whiney bullshit?"
"Shaddup already! I see her, get her! Remember to keep her alive, Yeah!"
The girl ran at a full sprint dodging fire balls, explosives, a scythe, sharp needles of water, threads and even what seemed to look like a wooden tail. All while she ran she could hear someone chanting and cheering for her. "Go, go, go! Better run fast or we're gonna catch you!"
She made it to a small spring untouched by the fire. Kage performed a few quick hand signs. "Fire Style : Ember." Her hand lashed the air over the spring's water. Fire neatly stretched over the cool waters in a thin sheet for a moment; the particles of the water began to rise in a thick steam from the sudden heat. "Demon Two Jutsu!" A puff of smoke engulfed her form and from it jumped out a very small, silver cat that matched the color of the stone. The feline hid between a few rocks and waited.
"Where'd it go? Tobi is so confused!" A child-like pout was heard.
"Shut the hell up and look for the bitch!"
The cat perked it's ears and waited a moment before popping it's head from the rock. Kage let out a victorious mew and stepped out of her hiding place. 'Hah! Those idiots!'
'It was smart to mask your chakra with a regular feline's.' The demon sealed within her praised.
'Thanks Tami-' She took a single step forward before being gripped harshly by the scruff of her neck. "HIIISS!" She clawed, trying to get away. Out of reaction, Kage pushed Tamiko to the deepest part of her being and encased him with natural feline-like chakra.
"What about this fucking fur ball Itatchi? We know for a fucking fact the bitch we're looking for has fucking cat fetish." The cat was shoved into said man's face. He scanned the hissing creature with his Sharingan. "It has a large amount of chakra in it's stomach, to which I believe was just a prey animal the feline devoured. Other than that, it's just another cat Hidan."
'I don't have a cat fetish you idiot!'The disguised girl roared in her mind. 'It's a Jutsu I use!'
"Damn. Fucking!- Where did that little bitch go!?" Hidan screamed. He flung his arm toward the spring to throw the cat into it, but it's claws dug into his skin. The Jashinist batted at the cat and shook his arm for release desperately, but the furry little creature scratched it's way up the appendage roughly and to his head. Where it dug all of it's claws firmly into his scalp.
'Annoying isn't it? Well I'm going to keep annoying you as payment for all of the damages you've caused!'
By this time the others had gathered around and were all laughing at the immortal. Kisame and Deidara especially. "Get this mother fucking, over-sized rat off of me!" Hidan yelled.
"It's to funny Yeah!" Deidara clutched his sides and cackled uncontrollably.
Itatchi started back on the path with Kakuzu and Sasori following. "Let's go. We should report this to Leader."