Chapter 2

*Previous*

"So . . . " Thea stared at Itachi.

*Present*

"You wanna tell me about this world now?" she questioned, making Itachi and Kisame fall anime-style because the question she asked was totally different from the one they thought she would ask (which was "Why did you feel the need to murder your entire clan?"). Itachi shot a look at Kisame, and the latter nodded.

"Sure. This world is a world full of shinobi. I don't know what you use to call your . . . family here, but we use chakra—" Kisame was cut off.

"So my magic is what you call chakra?" Thea asked, curious.

A vein popped at being so rudely interrupted. "Yes, I suppose. Now, as I was saying—We ninjas use chakra to cast jutsu—or spells—to attack, defend, escape, or charge. If one has no chakra, one cannot live. As for the time in this world, we just finished a shinobi war," Kisame finished.

Thea looked at the ground and mumbled, "No magic=no chakra, no chakra=no magic, no magic/chakra=no life."

Itachi and Kisame heard her and nodded—well, Itachi did. Kisame snapped, "What's up with your logic? And what's magic?"

Her head whipped up and glared at the shark-man. "My logic is perfectly sane. Magic is . . . well, what people from my world use to cast spells—or jutsu. And the rule for magic is the same from where I came from. If one has no magic, one cannot live." Thea paused. "Show me your jutsus, please. I want to see if they're different from my spells, and how much they differ."

The Uchiha simply nodded while Kisame grinned a feral grin.

Itachi went first. "Fire style! Fireball Technique!" (I haven't read/watched Naruto in such a long time, I forgot the attacks. Gomen!) The jutsu burned the targeted tree and many others. Thea arched an eyebrow at the sight of fire coming from his mouth, surprised. She was also wondering if she could eat the fire.

Kisame said, "You wanna experience Samehada firsthand?" Thea cocked her head and answered, "Depends. I'm guessing that your Samehada isn't that huge and wrapped up for nothing. What exactly can it do?"

The shark-man laughed. "Correct. It's wrapped up for a reason. That reason is because of its ability to drain the chakra from whomever it touches."

Thea perked up hearing his explanation of the ability of his sword. "Cut me and see if it works." Kisame was amused. Not only did the Queen have spunk, she wasn't afraid of Samehada like most shinobi were.

Shrugging, he unwrapped the sword, and swung it violently at Thea, who dodged, but let a single spike scratch her right cheek. She winced, feeling the immediate effects of her magic being drained nearly half capacity by Samehada. "Fuck it all," Thea snarled. She pressed a hand to the wound, and focused on healing it properly, bringing her magic down even more. When the cut was healed, she staggered to her feet, almost falling, but got caught by Leo, who had forced his gate open when he sensed Thea's sudden loss of magic.

"Princess? Princess?! Did anything happen to you while I was away? Did these two beasts harm you in any way?" Leo was panicking, while Itachi and Kisame were watching in amusement. The lion raised his voice even more, but was cut off by a hoarse voice.

"Shut your goddamned mouth, you fucking lion!" Thea snapped angrily, although the Akatsuki members could clearly see that she cared for Leo and appreciated his concern. "I suggest you leave and let me calm down before Katarina takes over in my weakened state." While she spoke, her silver eye was flickering to an emerald green, the same color as the left eye. "Ngggh!" Thea clutched her head in agony and began screaming bloody murder.

Leo, seeing his mistress' sorry state, immediately yelled to the audience, "Knock her out! By the Celestial King, knock her out!" Kisame smirked, and was about to slam Samehada into the poor girl, before a fist covered in light magic slammed him into a tree.

"What the fuck?!" Kisame bellowed in anger and confusion. "No! You were the one that caused Katarina to have a chance to take over! Let the other one do it!" Leo growled. "You, sir. Please, knock out my master without hurting her." Seeing Itachi's confused look, he added, "Injuring her would only cause her more pain and anger, thus allowing the Sinister Blade (who is Katarina if you haven't figured it out yet. I do not own League of Legends or Naruto or Fairy Tail) to win the fight even faster."

Itachi nodded once, strolled over to the screaming Queen, took her face and made her look in his Sharingan, allowing him to put Katarina and Thea into a deep sleep. Turning back to the Lion, he stated, "You need to tell us about her split personalities."

Leo nodded. "Oh, well. You would've found out anyways. Long story short, Thea was the one assassinating the officer. At that time, Katarina didn't yet exist. When her father and mother were killed in front of her because she was still too weak from the cut over her eye and the fight that the traitor put up, Thea changed completely. She picked up a katana that was fallen and freed herself. She somehow picked up all of her daggers, flash-stepped between the three thieves that had killed her parents, and cast the Death Lotus, a spell that allowed her to spin at an impossibly fast speed, letting her throw her knives with deadly accuracy, landing each hit precisely. Before her parents were murdered, her eyes were the same as now—one silver and one green. However, after the murder, the silver eye became an impossibly beautiful but hard green, like her green eye. Thea took on more missions, named herself Katarina, because the name Thea reminded her of her parents, who treated her like a goddess and trained her to be like one. On her missions, she was ruthless, assassinating everyone the missions required her to. She never failed, and always left a dagger impaled in the target's heart, thus earning her the name Katarina the Sinister Blade.

One day, in Hargeon, she heard about the famous Salamander—a mage that was supposedly from the guild Fairy Tail—and went to investigate. Salamander had Charmed the girls around him to be attracted to him, and planned on inviting them to his boat later on under the guise of a party—but his true intentions were to make the girls his slaves. While studying Salamander, she saw a pink-haired boy and a talking, flying blue cat get trashed by the fangirls not once, but twice for dissing the famous mage. After the disgusting Salamander left, a busty blonde girl approached the hurt boy, and struck up a conversation that ended in her feeding both the cat and the pink-haired boy.

Katarina was amazed at the blonde's enthusiasm, so she followed the girl to make sure the Salamander—who was really Bora Prominence—didn't get make her his slave. The Sinister Blade watched cautiously as Bora approached the girl, obviously lying when he said he was Fairy Tail's Salamander, and invited her to the party on the ship. Katarina saw through his puny Pseudo magic, and snorted at how easily the blonde—Lucy Heartifilia—had fallen for it, only to realize it when he was gone.

Flashback

Katarina followed Lucy secretively with her dragon's sense of smell, and wrinkled her nose in disgust when she smelled the drugs in the air surrounding the ship that was housing the party. She pinched her nose close and continued stalking the girl. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the pink-haired boy and his cat—Natsu Dragneel and Happy—following Lucy too. So, those two are also keeping an eye on her? Fuck, that just makes the job harder—protect the girl, and make sure that dragon-slayer and his idiotic Exceed doesn't catch wind of me, she thought, annoyed.

She was shaken from her thoughts when she heard Lucy say, "That was a sleeping drug, wasn't it?" Katarina was deciding whether she should attack now when the deck of the ship was broken. In dropped Natsu and Happy. The ship was cruising along slowly, but it was still moving and Natsu immediately fell down in a bout of motion sickness. Everyone's jaw fell when the dragon-slayer that had just threatened to eliminate them rolled around on the ground, his face green, trying not to puke. Katarina sighed. Foolish little dragon-slayer, guess I'll have to show myself now, she thought. She let a feral laugh echo throughout the room. Everyone froze in fear.

Katarina flash-stepped behind the thug holding Lucy and stabbed a knife through his heart and shunpo-ed back to the shadows, letting the dead body fall to the floor. The criminals took a single look at the knife in their fallen comrade's chest and paled. One man forced out, "B—Bora! This knife! This is definitely the work of Katarina the Sinister Blade . . . "

Meanwhile, Lucy blinked in surprise. Katarina the Sinister Blade? Why would she be here? Is she possibly . . . protecting me? . . . Nah, that can't be it. She's said to have no one to care for and no one cares for her. She's just an assassin carrying out her job, she thought. But I have to say that she's not alone. I heard that her parents were killed in front of her. Katarina's the same as me, if not worse.

She was jolted out of her thoughts when Happy grabbed her and flew off through the hole in the deck, saying, "If the Sinister Blade is here, then no need to worry. She'll handle this." He dropped her off on the shore and headed back for the ship, yelling, "Stay there! I'm getting Natsu off that hellhole!"

Once there, the cat was in for the shock of his life. Katarina had the sick boy on her back, and was climbing out onto the deck. She looked up and pierced Happy with her emerald green eyes. "You want to get back to safe ground, yes? Grab onto me." Her voice was quiet but deadly soft. Happy shook with fear and tentatively grabbed onto her shoulder. Laughter erupted into the air. "Chill, I won't kill either of you."

With the Exceed on her shoulder, and the dragon-slayer on her back, she lightly jumped onto the edge of the ship, even with the heavy Natsu. Katarina found the port of Hargeon, and instantly flash-stepped onto the harbor, rippling into appearance in front of Lucy, effectively giving her a heart attack.

Katarina dropped her load, turned around and was about to take off when Lucy hugged her. She immediately stiffened and tried to shake the mage off, but Lucy refused to let go. When the blonde spoke, her voice was shaky and soft, "You don't have to hide, you know? I've been through what you've gone through. I know how it feels, to be alone. You don't have to, though. You have me."

With those words, her right eye reverted back to the original silver eyes. Katarina stayed silent for a moment and then said, "Thea. My true name is Thea Nightcross. Katarina is the name of my other side."

Present

" . . . And now, whenever Thea's magic is low, or she's super duper pissed, it's become a sign from her to Katarina that Thea needs help, even when she really doesn't," Leo ended his story.

Kisame frowned. "Poor girl." He flicked a glance at Itachi. "Looks like she went through more than you did, Itachi-san." The said man scowled and asked Leo, "How long has she been living as an assassin?"

Leo thought about it. "Thea was just 9 when Katarina emerged, and she was 16 when she met Lucy, so about 7 years. She's currently—" He was cut off by a pebble smacking the back of his head and a groan.

"Ow~!" Leo yelped.

"Fuck it, stupid lion, you didn't have to tell them my life story for me. Well, now that you did, don't go telling my age to them too, because I fucking know that you don't have a clue to how old I am now." Thea scowled, pissed off. The magic radiating off her was immense and caused the Akatsuki members to shiver. She noticed and tamed her anger. "Idiotic stubborn lion, go back to the Celestial World. You can't stay in the human world for long. Lucy nearly gave up her life to save you; don't go wasting her life now," Thea snapped.

Leo smiled sheepishly. "Hai, hai, Hime." With that, he kissed Thea's hand and disappeared in a poof of golden smoke.