Neko-chan: Hey everyone! I hope you guys haven't lost interest in my story since I haven't written much on this. This being that life has kicked me in my imagine nuts and I have started college again so I have to try to do my work this year to get into Uni. But let's get on with the story.
Chapter 4: Leaving the village
Cecilia's pov
Waking up a bit earlier then dawn, I started to do my daily routine. As I exited the apartment, I started to do my stretches, and warming up before going on my jog around the village. On my third lap I felt the ground shake and I could smell dust being kicked up. "Hello my youthful friend! I see that you are doing your daily laps! Your flames of youth are burning brightly!" I used some charka to help protect my hearing from Gai's shouting. I would have thought I'd have got used to it by now, after meeting him every day since I started my routine. From what I heard from other Jounin I was lucky since I can't see his good guy pose, where his teeth shines…
"Morning Gai-san I'd enjoy continuing our jog together, but I have to get going since I have my first C-rank mission" I made a quick exit as I ran off towards the market to by some food, for the mission. As I finished buying my food and sealed them away, I entered the apartment and was surprised that I saw Naruto was awake and eating some cereal. "Nee-san, where did you go?" he looked up from the comic book that he was reading.
I smiled at him and felt Never land on my shoulder, stoking his feathers I replied to my brother, "I went to get some food for this mission. Did you check your pack if you had everything?" I asked him as I picked up an apple and sliced it up with a couple of other fruit, carefully placing a grape in Never's mouth. "Yeah I have!" I looked at him as I ate my fruit salad. "Have you packed extra underwear?" I questioned, seeing him shudder and blush from an image that Never shown me. "Nee-san!" he yelled at me. I smiled at him as I finished off my salad and took my pills.
"Just checking I know you, so come on let's gets going" I ruffled his hair as I went into my room to pick up my sealed scrolls and some empty ones just in case. Clicking my tongue once more to check that everything was where they were meant to be, I locked my room after departing. Hearing that, Naruto was at the door tapping his foot smiling. I picked up my extra medicine placing them in between my chest bandages, then I shooed Naruto out the door. I locked it and placed a protection seal on the apartment and repeated the process with the building and the area around it.
Ever since we moved into it, the apartment building had been deemed unfit to live in and the landlord tried to sell it off. Really I think that no one wanted to live in it since Naruto and I moved in, so I simply brought the place using the money that was left to me. I rent out the rooms and some Jounin and Anbu don't seem to mind living in it, being that there is an indoor gym and I'm working on building a hot spring, but the civilians avoid the area like the plague.
"Are you ready to go now Naruto?" I looked at him as I felt Nicky curl around my neck and Never fly above us, and then started to run towards the north gates.
At the gate
As we skidded to a stop to the gates, Naruto saw that only their client and Sakura arrived. Naruto looked up at me and asked, "Nee-san where are the others?" Stomping my foot to echo-locate the others, I smiled and then pulled out a small black book and answered, "They will be coming along shortly. Sasuke-san is about 10 minutes away and Hekate-san is well… I don't know." as I ran my hand over my book. Frowning I sighed, "What is wrong Nee-san?" I looked over at Naruto and pointed to my book, he looked at me in confusion trying to figure out what was wrong. "You see one of the tenants has not paid their rent yet. I have to chase them down for the money now." He nodded at me, knowing that I am the landlord and handywoman of our apartment block.
"Rent? Why would they be paying you? Won't they be paying the landlord?" Sakura butted in as Sasuke turned up with Hekate-san, looking at the girl I answered her, "That's because I am the landlord. Hekate-san, if you see Towa-san before me tell him that he needs to pay his rent or I'm cutting off his power, so he won't be able to play any of his games." Knowing that he would see that Anbu before me. Hekate-san looked at me in confusion, before figuring out who I was talking about and nodding.
"Alright guys let's get going!" he said as he marched forward having Tazuna lead us, Naruto and Sasuke at his sides, and Sakura following Sasuke. I stood at the back with Hekate-san, while I tapped the ground softly to know where to go.
30 minutes down the road, 3rdpov
As the group walked down the road, with the younger ninjas asking questions to Tazuna, Cecilia sensed something. Two Chakra auras that she never encountered before. Clicking her tongue to Never, she got an image of a puddle in the middle of the road and frowned at the poor effort of trying to hide their presence. She spoke softly to Kakashi "There are a couple of ninjas ahead of us about 50 yards hiding in a puddle" he nodded at her, "Alright, we need to know if they are aiming for one of us or our client,"
Cecilia nodded and continued to a bit more ahead then Kakashi, as they passed the puddle with the last ninja walked pass. Chains shot out and wrapped tightly around Kakashi before ripping him apart, the young ninja was shocked till they heard Cecilia's voice. "Guys wake up! We have people to fight and Tazuna to protect! Now!" her voice reached two of her teammates but failed to get to the one that she held dearest to. As she scanned her enemies she had an image sent to her showing that it was the demon brothers 'Gozu and Meizu, they are at least high chunin, if I remember clearly from the bingo book they use poison claws and chains'
Her thoughts were cut off when she heard Naruto getting attacked. "Naruto!" she shouted out as she threw her staff in a twisting motion. It shoot towards one of the brothers ,the staff releasing a flurry of chains, wrapping him up tightly as the staff planted itself on the ground. The ninja nicked Naruto on the hand before the chains fully tightened on him. Cecilia then suddenly felt something about to rush at her, till Never shot forward from the sky and attacked with his sharp talons. "Damn bird!" Cecilia moved quickly as the ninja she identified her attacker, Gozu, was distracted. She got out a length wire and dashed behind him, having the wire loop around his neck. She quickly jumped on top of a branch, without him noticing and harshly jumped down, pulling up the now frantic chunin that was desperately clawing at his neck to get the wires off as she heard Meizu shout to his brother.
"Great job everyone. Sakura and Sasuke, you two protected the client well and you, Cecilia, quickly disarmed them… Naruto" Kakashi popped out just as Cecilia pulled a different wire that made her staff fly back to her with the other brother still attached, then proceeded to tie him up with some chain at the base of the tree. "Hetake-san, is it alright if I interrogate one of them. I learnt a bit from Ibiki." Cecilia questions him, after getting a nod.
She turned to the brother that was tied up against the tree "You better listen and answer my questions if you want your brother to live." she pulled on the wires to show that she was not joking "I dare you blind bitch!" he said and tried to spit in her face, but she quickly moved out the way and harshly pulled on the wires causing Gozu to gag out loudly and claw at the wires. She looked at Meizu and slapped him loudly, making his neck snap to the side from the power behind the blow. "That is the wrong answer; now give me the right one! Who are you after and who sent you?!" she loosened the wires a tiny bit as she had Never stare into his eyes and grabbed the scuff of his neck. She could sense that he was nervous about his brother, till he heard his brother shout at him "Don't say or answer anything Meizu!" Cecilia looked up and snarled in an animalistic way and pulled hard on the wires to shut him up. "Shut up you have no reason to talk" as she pulled the wire even harder.
"Stop it please! I will tell you just stop" Cecilia glared at him, "Fine but if I find that you are lying to me..." her eyes flashed red under her blindfold as she didn't continue. The brother nodded and proceeded to tell her everything from who hired them to their mother's maiden name. Cecilia nodded at the information that she got and made sure that Kakashi heard, but didn't notice that the demon brother skipped over one part. "Is that all you know? What about Gato's army? Surely he doesn't just have you and your comrades" she glared at him, he shook his head saying that they were hired separately.
Cecilia looked over her shoulder and she got a nod from Kakashi, "Well I guess that's all I need you from you... Goodbye" she let goes of him and then manifested a long crimson katana. With a quick action she sliced his head off, as the blade glowed red the blood from the corpse shoot out and was spiralling around the blade as is was getting adsorbed into the blade. "You bitch you killed him! You said you wouldn't kill him" the remaining brother struggled to get the wires loose "I didn't say anything like that. But don't worry you'll be joining him soon" with that said Cecilia sharply jerked her arm back and the wires sliced into his throat, as she let the man down she heard him getting drowned in his own blood. She brought down her katana lazily cutting off his head as she let it drink her victim's blood, pulling out a pair of scrolls and sealed up the heads to collect the bounty later as well as their claws.
She waved off her katana and turned around to her team, seeing that everyone except Kakashi was shocked in what she did. "W-why did you do that? He gave us what we needed!" Sakura asked shakily at her, and Cecilia returned the gesture with an eyebrow raised. "This is what we do; we get what we need and then kill the enemy. If you can't take it then go home, or did you think that missions never involved things like this? The enemy don't care who they are facing as long as they get their job done. You are lucky that these two underestimated us, or you would be in their place or worse" Cecilia grunted as she turned to look at her brother, the sense of the blood disappeared like the wound has sealed up but you never can be too sure.
"Naruto, why did you freeze? I taught you over and over again that I won't be here to protect you all the time." Cecilia sighed as she looked at his hand that was wrapped up. She looked at the group as she petted Naruto's head; Naruto flinched away from his sister's touch feeling like he has failed a bit to her. "So what now? We know that ninja's are now targeting Tazuna" she questioned Kakashi; he looked thoughtful for a moment.
"Well the rest said that they want to continue, but this is still a group decision." Cecilia thought if they went they have a high chance in dying, since something didn't seem right with the information that was given to her. Though if they didn't this would be their first C-rank mission they failed. "I go with the group, but I just hope nothing will go wrong after this" the group nodded as Tazuna thanked them and continued to lead the group to Wave, happy to be able to build his bridge.
Neko-chan: Oh poor Cecilia, you never say those words you know that something will happen if you do that. Well I hope you have enjoyed this story I know it's a bit short but I have been doing a lot more work in college and it has been taken a lot out of me.
