"Good bye...Hokage-sama"

Were my last words before reaching back and ran him through with my Choridi. Blood ran from his chest momentarily before the extreme heat of my Jutsu immediately cauterized it. I slid my arm out from his chest and dropped him to the ground with a thud. He lay lifeless, where his heart laid now was nothing but a giant burnt hole in his chest. My target lay dead at my feet…

Such a lovely sight…

Chapter 3

I moved through the rainy night for hours with Konoha's Anbu close on my heals. We moved tree to tree in the dark forest, If all I wanted to simply flee I easily could have escaped the country and been on my way but I couldn't leave the Land of Fire just yet still needing to be paid for my services..

I slowed down not wanting to get too far ahead of these hunters just far enough to lead them further from the village and closer to their fate. I felt a lone Anbu closing in; he was faster than the others it was impressive how fast moved...

To his death.

As he got directly behind me he reached for his blade, but he wouldn't get the chance as I landed on the next branch I spun around stopping dead as my hand reached out grabbing his throat. He gagged his hands grabbing my wrist to try and remove my hand from his throat. I started to increase the pressure feeling him struggle for breath before with a simple twist of my wrist his neck snapped leaving his body dangling limply in my hand. I released him letting his body fall to the forest floor leaving him for whatever god forsaken creature that wanted to scavenge off his body.

I lifted my eyes up as the rest of the Anbu team came into view "I took too much time" silently scolded myself. There were five of them the Anbu team moving quickly, I knew I could run but really why.

Two of them drew their blades charging forward ahead of the pact as the two others stayed back already putting their hands together readying a jutsu of some kind and the fifth simply jumped up disappearing into the leaves of trees.

The first two swung their blades one aiming to take my head off as the other tried aiming his blade in a slanted position towards my waist. I turned my back to the one aiming for my waist his blade clinging off the black coated steal of my sheath as my left hand reached forward grabbing the others wrist stopping the blade inches from my throat as my right hand shot out to my side charging quickly with the electrical current letting the last words he hears to be" Choridi!" as I swiped my hand up from his left hip all the way to his right shoulder leaving him spilt in half. I used my momentum pulling the hand all the way around in an attempt to come down directly on top of the second Anbu's head only for him to hop back leaving me striking air.

The other two Anbu must of finished their hand seals as they both yelled in unison" Katon: Karyū Endan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet)" they yelled as the two Anbu each spat out large flames that formed into fierce looking dragons barreling right towards me.

I jumped off the branch just as the two fiery dragons tore through the tree. As I fell I twisted my body facing up my hand reaching into my cloak before I threw out a single kunai directly in front on the Anbu on the left the foolish man actually thinking I missed, I didn't need to hit him just needed it close. When the Anbu actually got a chance to look at the Kunai he realized it wasn't alone, tied to the handle two explosion tags. He tried to move but it was too late for him as he heard me yell.

"Kai!"

With that it exploded in a huge blast the fires of the explosion engulfing the one Anbu and still had enough force to knock the other Anbu a few feet away till he hit hard into one of the thick tree trunks before falling to the ground knocked out.

My eyes turned back over my shoulder as the Anbu who attacked me before reappeared his blade poised to strike swinging it down leaving me little time turning to face him my left hand reaching down using my thick leather gauntlets to take the force of the blade as it stuck deep enough through the thick leather to my forearm slicing a inch deep making me hiss momentarily in pain.

I hate pain

My right hand shot forward towards his jugular grabbing it with my index finger and thumb letting the digits tear into his skin before ripping it straight out his throat in a scene of bloody gore before planting my foot on his chest still free falling and pushed off allowing me to jump over to the next branch letting his corpse fall to the ground.

I stood on the branch looking down to the four Anbu I've already taken out laying on the ground before it hit me, There was one more.

My eyes scanned around the area I saw nothing, did he leave I wondered. My question soon answered as I looked down to my feet feeling myself sinking, The branch was swallowing my as if it were made of quick sand vines shot up out of the trees wrapping around my body, wrists, legs ,arms my throat. I let my eyes trail back as I watch the Anbu I had looked for seem to melt out of the tree a kunai in hand as she was ready to strike for the kill, my eyes turned to hers seeing she wasn't going to hesitate and her eyes turned to mine…

That was her mistake.

Before she knew what happened we switched places she was sunk half way down into the tree the vines choking her body of movement and I standing before her kunai in hand as I shoved in forward into her abdomen twisting it and ripping up to open her up, The vines the tree all would disappear revealing the illusion. She would bleed out momentarily from the wound but before she did she looked at me shaking behind her mask her trembling voice asked.

"How...I had you in my genjutsu..?"

A stupid question for when you're about to die but I indulged her as I leaned into her ear and whispered" No matter what the illusion girl, before the eyes of a demon...their useless" I responded before feeling her fall against my shoulder as she fell dead.

2 Hours later...

I had made my way far out of searching range for Konoha and barely an hour from the meeting point with the Daimyo to retrieve my payment. As I traveled I saw a clearing that seemed a good spot to wait seeing I still had 8 hours before our meeting would take place.

After checking the area finding no signs of life other then the random large bug once in a while I removed my mask dropping it on the ground and moved to a small lake by the side of the clearing. I kneeled down by the banks cupping my hands together as I dipping them into the water and pulled it back up to take a drink.

After a moment I look down into the water seeing the young pale face man looking back, sometimes I found this face strange almost more use to the mask I wear then my actual face.

I removed my cloak as along with the rest of my clothes deciding to take a bath being too long since the last time I had one.

I might be a demon but cleanliness is next to godliness.

I stepped into the cool waters sinking waist deep as I began soaking my muscles, my eyes fell to the sting of my forearm seeing the deep gash that would most likely be another scar to add to my many others on my body.

After I soaked for about five minutes I stepped out of the lake and began drying off before something caught my attention. A presence moving closer, was it another Anbu? I wondered, No I took them out my trail to well covered. Yet either way something approached and fast I reach down taking the hand of my blade in hand waiting before the presence shot out of the bushes clumsily falling to the ground in front of me.

I looked down upon this person realizing it was nothing but a young girl.

She was rubbing her head her eyes wincing from the pain of landing face first upon her inept entrance, She seemed to be close to my age maybe a year or two younger, she had long black hair that fell down to her waist which ended in blond bangs, she wore a poor dress dirty one shoulder of it ripped and her skirt on the other side also torn, she had no shoes and was sweating profusely showing how long she had been running.

When she finally gained her composer her eyes trailed up looking at me with a somewhat confused look as if she didn't know where she was before quickly her expression changed to wide eyed and her cheeks blushing hard, guess she wasn't to use to seeing naked men.

She lowered her head bowing respectively as she apologies " I'm so so sorry I didn't mean to" When she was cut off as three men holding club like sticks .One looked down to the girl smiling like as if he found a toy that he was looking for."There you are girl...let's finish this" he said his tone foreign to me but with so many different tribes around dialect had changed often. Their eyes had all then turned to me giving me the same confused look at first as the girl.

"Who the fuck you...why dun you get going stranger or you'll just get what she's getting boy" One yelled out as if I was supposed to be intimidated by this, I knew I could easily kill all of them without breaking a sweat but again the same question that often comes to mind came.

Why?

Nothing was in it for me and truly I had no reason to help, I turned my back to them walking over to my clothes as I take a seat on a log to the side ignoring them. While I took this as best way to tell them this wasn't my problem, these idiots took it as showing disrespect ignoring them really probably was I always found respect was earned.

One of the fools walked over to me" you stupid boy?" he yelled at me before placing the tip of his club against my shoulder. I hate being touched and I truly hated fools, as he pushed a little hard my left hand grabbed the club a little above his hand and squeezed breaking it before standing up and in one motion shoving the end of the club right through his face . I trail my eyes over to the other two men who were frozen.

" Boo"

I said as they turned quickly running through the forest they came from.

I simply shook my head continuing to put my clothes on

Out of the corner of my eyes I saw the girl still laying in the same spot her eyes wide as she stared down upon the dead boy who been chasing her blooding running from the now large hole in his head.

After a few seconds she stood up brushing herself off before approaching me."Um...sir?" he meek voice said looking up to me as I had my back turned to her placing my coat on before turning around.

She bowed low " Thank you so much" She said softly before raising up her hand extending out" My names Migoto Isis." She said with a smile.

I looked back at this girl slightly caught off guard from her friendly demeanor, I've not had too many situations as such, usually getting fear terror or they end up like the man on the ground a few feet from where we stood.

I sighed blowing her off not really needing the attention as I picked my things up placing my mask on my waist before walking off leaving the girl to pout in her spot as I went to go handle the final business I needed to before getting out of this god forsaken country.