"The way I sees it, we gotta drop our load here and now if we ever hope to get back home. We've gotta make this barter or head cap'n will have our throats!"
"Aye, that is if we even make it back alive, the sea is cold and unforgiving. She'll make dead of all of us."
"Alright then we agree." The pirates had been arguing for sometime until they came to an agreement, its never easy to bargain with suspicious strangers. The night was
cold and dark, the ground soaked from the rain. The storm has stirred the ocean making travel very dangerous, if the shipment is not traded then it will most likely be
lost at sea. "Ye drive a hard bargain stranger, tell me what do ya plan to do with all this wool?"
"So we have a deal than?" Three very mysterious men in long black cloaks, impatience became them.
"but ye not answer my question? Wool does not seem like the type'o thing people brave stormy nights to buy, at a time like this, a time of poverty. Why are ya out here,
what is it really that yer after?" A question with an answer that the pirates might not find to their liking.
"…blood" was the last word the pirates would ever hear from those mysterious three. As sudden as a whip of lightning the three revealed themselves, armed and ready
as ever for the coming onslaught of blood and final breaths from the tricked and now ill-fated pirates. "ninja!!" was all the pirate could say before one of the strangers
katana removed the upper half of his head. "Kill them! Gut them like the sneaky serpents they are!" the captain shouted as he fled back to the ship. He slammed the
door and barred it as if it could possibly lock the shinobi out. The screams and crys for help seemed to be endless until a crack of thunder brought silence. A business
man who had ventured with the pirates to see the deal through, revealed himself to the captain. "are they gone, do you think the crew is alright?" the captain said
nothing "what is wrong, your pirates aren't you, what would you have to fear from a couple of ninja?" "everything." the captain finally spoke "we are simple pirates, we
are not benders." Shocked and a little horried the man responded "what?! I thought all pirates were benders!" the captain rose to the door and unlocked it, what he
saw next would have haunted his dreams for the rest of his life, if the three ninja had allowed his life to continue. The scene that followed the creaking of the old
wooden doors was a mass of blood and gore the likes of which this pirate had never seen. The ground now soaked red, limbs and body parts strewn about. Some killed
quickly, others strung up by their intestines. The men that did this, had a true hatred for the 'scallywag way'. "Fuck! Shit! Jesus!" was all the business man could say,
never had he witnessed such carnage and lack of mercy. The three shinobi now perched on a lighthouse overseeing the sea. "There's two left. Hey itachi, let them go out with a bang."
One said to the other. The legendary eyes of the uchiha fixed on the captain and his associate. "KATON: GOUKAKYUU NO JUTSU" the uchiha shouted as he
leaped into the air, followed by a deep breath and an enormous fire ball that exploded out of his mouth like a canon raining down on the helpless two, that gazed up in
horror at the single ball of fire that would soon end their lives. In only a few seconds the ship went from good shape to burning mass of wood and metal that was quickly
swallowed up by the ruthlessness of the sea. "well, all in all I think we did a good job today. What about you scarecrow?" "Damnit jintai will you stop calling me
scarecrow." the other shinobi replied "but that's what your name implies kakashi-kun" jintai said in a mocking voice. "enough of your quarrelling, its time to return to
konoha. I have a feeling if we stay out any longer hokage-sama might just enlist us as missing-nin." Itachi almost snapped in a rather plain tone. "Well than we don't
want that to happen now do we?" jintai said as he wiped the blood from his katana. "we're still pretty far from the border, should we take anymore precautions in case
of traps?" kakashi was a little worried, for there trip over had not been so subtle. "haha, I'm more worried about finding food in this god-forsaken place than running
into anybody that could even remotely pose a threat." Jintai laughed. "its time to go, I have a bad feeling…somethings wrong." Itachi said "whats the matter? You scared
of pirates too?" jintai replied. itachi only stared out into the distance. "your serious" jintai now concerned "is it near?" "no, its konoha. I fear we might not have a home
to go to soon." Itachi still staring as if waiting for something to come over the horizon along with the sun. "That doesn't sound good at all." Kakashi now concerned as
well. "well we better hurry back, lets just hope your wrong." The three finally leaving the retched lands that had not treated them too kindly, though they were soon to
find out that there return would not be so different.