I sighed leaning against the wall of the bathroom as I waited for Koro. 'I have such a freaking headache right now.' I thought, blocking the thoughts with a wall so Koro couldn't hear them. I smirked. 'Heh, it's getting scary how I'm the only one who can keep my thoughts from her unless I want her to hear them. Neh, oh well.' The door opened and Koro walked out, a really demonic grin on her face. I sighed.
"Do I even want to know what you're thinking about?" I asked in monotone as we began walking through the small village we were in. Everyone was casting us weird glances every now and then. We didn't pay attention to them, we were used to it.
Koro smirked and rubbed the back of her neck uncomfortably. "Eh, no." she finally answered, "Unless you want to have nightmares of me trying to kill people."
I rolled my eyes and continued on our way. "So, where do we want to go?" I asked, trying to distract her from whatever morbid thing she was thinking.
She froze in the middle of the street, a look of confusion on her face. I sighed and pulled her to the side, out of the way of others. I crouched down next to her, staring at her face. A full two minutes passed and I groaned.
"Reader, this isn't funny." I whined, standing and waving my hand in front of her face, "Come on. Wake up. I don't want to have to drag you around like a statue. Reader…"
"Is something wrong?" a female voice asked from behind me. I yelped and fell forward, onto my friend. She snapped out of her daze.
"Neh, what?" she asked, startled, looking around wildly. I smirked and sat Indian-style on her stomach.
"Heh." I grunted, smiling like an idiot, "Well, that's one way to get you to stop. Honestly, Reader, you're almost as bad as…huh, I have nothing to compare you to."
She glared at me. I smirked and glanced over my shoulder, to see Tenten standing there, the rest of her team a few steps behind her. I stood, getting off Koro's stomach and helping her up. I smiled at Tenten.
"Hi. We're fine, thanks for asking." I said.
"I go by Reader, she goes by Jumper." Koro continued, messing with her glasses.
Neji raised an eyebrow. "Those aren't your names?" he asked suspiciously. We smirked.
"No. They aren't." I said, leaning against the wall again.
"Sorry but we don't know you well enough to tell you our real names." Koro continued, crouching into a sitting position.
I sighed. "Hey, Reader." I said, completely ignoring Neji, "You never answered my question. Where are we gonna go?"
Koro glanced at me then got a look of concentration on her face. "Um…Konoha might work…" she answered uncertainly.
I blinked. "The Akatsuki would probably look there first." I stated. Gai's entire team stared at me.
"You are being targeted by the Akatsuki?" Lee asked, looking at both of us. I blinked.
"Who are you people and how do you know about them?" I growled, tensing. I knew that already, of course, but they didn't have to know that. Koro noticed and placed a hand on my arm, calming me.
"Jumper…" she cautioned. I clenched my jaw and nodded, my expression emotionless.
"Answer." I said in monotone.
Tenten stepped forward. "Well, I'm Tenten." she said, placing a hand on her chest, "That is Lee." pointed at Lee, "That is Neji." pointed at Neji, "And that is Gai-sensei." pointed at the jumpsuit idiot.
I nodded. Koro's hand tightened on my arm and I glanced at her. She was Reading. I turned back to the ninja. "How do you know of the Akatsuki?" I asked in monotone.
"We are helping the Toad Sage, Jiraya, gather info on them." Neji answered, staring at Koro. I stepped in front of her, blocking his view.
"Jumper." Koro said suddenly, I turned my head to show her I was listening, "Jump left about three feet."
I smirked, Jumping with her to the area she told me to. Ten seconds later Jiraya was face down on the ground where we had been. I smirked. "I know of him." I said, patting Koro's head the way she likes, "Though, I know of him as Pervy Sage."
The old sage pouted from his place on the ground and crossed his arms. I raised an eyebrow at him. "You sound like Naruto." he grumbled.
I put on yet another look of fake confusion. "Na-ru-to?" I sounded out.
They all stared at me, and Neji had his eyes narrowed slightly in mistrust
"Jumper, we need to go." Koro said, grabbing my arm. I nodded.
"Tell me where, Reader." I said, hooking my arm around her waist.
"The forest, two meters in." Koro replied, looping her arm over my shoulder.
"Well, we'd love to stay and chat but…" I said, backing up a step, "We need to leave."
"Bye-bye!" Koro said in a childlike voice, waving at them stupidly.
I Jumped, arriving in a clearing about two meters in, like Koro said. I turned to face my friend. "Now, mind telling me why we had to leave?" I asked her. She frowned, a look of confusion coming over her face.
"I-I don't know…" she mumbled, placing a hand to her forehead, "I…just Read that we had to be here for something."
"Fuck!" we jumped as we heard a familiar voice yelling cuss words, "Damn forest, why the hell does there have to be so many fucking trees!"
"Was that…?" I started, looking in the direction the voice came from.
"Uh-huh." Koro answered.
"Is he heading this way?" I asked, turning to glance at my friend.
"Yup." she replied, looking at me.
"We are so fucking screwed." we both stated at the same time.
"Is this two or three times?" Koro asked, glancing back at the woods.
"Twice." I answered, rubbing my forehead in an effort to rid myself of my growing headache.
"Jumper, duck!" Koro yelled suddenly, jumping to the ground. I Jumped into the trees behind us. A set of kunai buried themselves into the tree's trunk. Koro yelped.
"Reader!" I yelled, jumping down to her side, "Are you alright?"
"Fine…just a scratch." she told me, wiping away the trail of blood trickling down the slash mark on her cheek.
"That 'scratch' smells like poison." I told her, growling.
"I'm fine, Jumper!" Koro insisted, getting to her knees, "But we won't be if those two catch us!"
"And why is that?" I asked, the expression on my face one of 'Who say wha-?'.
"Scorpion told Pein, Pein told all of them that we had to be captured." Koro explained, adjusting her glasses.
"And it looks like we got lucky!" Hidan yelled, coming into the clearing. Kakuzu followed soon after.
"Aw shi-talkin' monkey-feathers." I mumbled, taking a step back and slipping into a defensive stance, "Reader, think you can still fight?"
"You know me better than that, Jumper." Koro replied, jumping up and back-flipping away from them and landing a solid upper-kick to Hidan's jaw, "After all your sparring sessions? Puh-lease! I'm used to pain! As long as the poison doesn't paralyze me, I'll be fine!"
"Says the girl who got her butt kicked by moi on multiple occasions!" I yelled back, bringing Sasori's old kunai up to block Kakuzu's threads.
"That's different." Koro yelled, dodging Hidan's blade and blocking with two kunai she pulled from the tree.
"How?" I called out, Jumping away from the trap Kakuzu had tried to put me in.
"You've had to fight to live for your entire life!" she yelled back, dancing backwards as Hidan slashed her arm. She maneuvered so she was back to back with me.
"How do we get out of this, Reader?" I asked her, blocking two more kunai with my one.
"Can you Jump?" Koro asked, glancing over her shoulder at me as she held her limp arm to her side.
"Not by much." I answered, "They'd catch us easily."
"Then we're screwed!" Koro chirped cheerfully.
"And you're insane." I growled at her, "You can give up if you want, Reader, but I'm still fighting."
"Who said anything about quitting?" Koro asked, knocking Hidan's scythe away from herself, "I merely said we were screwed."
"Same thing." I told her as we jumped apart to avoid Kakuzu's threads.
"Hold still." Kakuzu growled.
"Thanks, but no." I told him, landing just behind him, "I think I'll keep dodging."
Koro stiffened. "Jumper, behind you!"
I spun, blocking a set of threads Kakuzu had sent my way. A blow to the back of my head had me plummeting into darkness as Koro yelled.
"Jumper!"
Neko: Hola, I was bored and had a brain block with Broken in Half(which you all should read, by the by) and decided to be nice and post this chapter.
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