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Chapter Four: Kieto's Flight
"You've come a long way Kieto," Itachi announced; it was no lie, the young, helpless girl he started with had been replaced by an obedient, merciless killing machine. It had taken a relatively short amount of time, a year and a half, perhaps two.
"Thank you, Master," I replied while kneeling on one knee in front of him.
"It is time for your first solo mission, are you ready Kieto?" he asked although he knew the answer. "
Yes Master, always," I replied as I looked up with deceptively innocent violet eyes.
I knew my mission. It was simple really; I was to track down one of the more troublesome feudal lords of the land of tea, retrieve a scroll then kill the witnesses. I hopped from tree to tree silently searching the surrounding clearings for signs of motion.
After several hours of tracking I came across the palace of this illustrious lord. It was ridiculously large and gaudily decorated with statues of the somewhat overweight man. I whispered a transformation jutsu and was surrounded by a cloud of black feathers and out of those feathers flew a small song bird. I flew straight to the feudal lord's bedroom window and perched on the sill. It was late at night and I was shocked to find that he was still awake; not only still awake but not alone. I flittered in the window and perched on the headboard of his bed and chirped to take his attention away from the two women he was engaged with.
"What a beautiful little blackbird," one of them cooed as she reached over the lord and tried to stroke my wing. I flittered away slightly but landed back on the headboard.
"Oh and look at its eyes, aren't they just gorgeous," the other one said as she sat up with the blanket wrapped around her body.
"Yes, yes the little bird is thoroughly charming. I will be sure to inform a servant to catch two of the little creatures for you but right now," he said as he swatted at me with his free hand, then grinned at the two ladies, "it is simply in the way."
I flittered over and landed on the window sill again as the lord and his mistresses resumed their prior activities. I then released the jutsu silently and was once again human, eyes closed, perched on the window sill menacingly in my black pants, purple corset, black, net, long sleeved shirt, and floor length black cloak. I purposely knocked the sill slightly as I removed three senbon from my weapon's pouch on my leg. All three looked up at stared at me in utter horror. I tilted my head to the side innocently then opened my violet eyes and smiled at them.
"Who are you?" the lord stuttered as he sat up.
"The death of scum like you or Kieto if you prefer," I answered as I glided off the window sill and onto the carpeted floor.
"What do you want?" he demanded once he saw how small and unthreatening I looked.
"The scroll, the scroll containing the information you gathered about the Akatsuki," I replied as I stepped toward them with senbon drawn back to throw.
"So you're with them; I'll report you, I have evidence," the lord threatened.
"Dead men tell no tales," I countered with a smirk.
"You think your silly needles frighten me? They can't be worth anything," he said with a pompous chuckle.
"Maybe I should demonstrate their efficacy for you then," I returned coolly as I threw the three senbon at the thin blonde on his left. One struck her square in the throat, the second imbedded itself at the base of her neck and the third sank deep into her heart. She sputtered and vomited blood while writhing violently; this went on for only a moment before she sunk down dead into the blood soaked sheets. "Perhaps you still need convincing?" I said as I drew another senbon and in a blink of an eye it was imbedded in a nerve in his shoulder.
"No please! Take it! Take it! It's in the safe behind that picture!" he exclaimed in fear as he pointed a shaking finger at the picture across the room.
"The combination?" I asked.
"0, 3, 42, 9," he answered in fear. I walked over and unlocked the safe and retrieved the scroll, checked it for traps, tracking devices and the like; then once satisfied I turned back to the lord and his remaining mistress.
"Now all that remains is to keep your mouths shut," I said as I walked toward them.
"We will tell no one, we swear," the lord sputtered as looked up at me pleadingly.
"Hm… that's not good enough. I need to be sure," I said as I summoned two katanas behind my back.
"You may be absolutely sure, neither of us will ever breathe a word of this," the lord tried to assure me when he saw the glint off the two blades behind my back.
"How right you are," I answered as I pulled the two blades out from behind my back. It was over in one fluid stroke, the head of the lord rolled off to one side and the head of his mistress to the other. I held my bloody blades out in front of me and allowed them to disappear in cloud of black feathers. I then rigged their bodies with a special trap before screeching at the top of my lungs then climbing out the window and waiting in bird form for the guards to enter the room. And enter they did; eight guards immediately went to searching the bodies. As soon as the head of the lord was touched all of the bodies exploded in a mass of senbon fire and I flittered off with the scroll in triumph.
I flittered over the Akatsuki hideout and almost immediately spotted Itachi. He was standing with his hand out expectantly. I dropped the scroll into his hand; he put it into his cloak then extended his index finger which I landed on gracefully.
"You did well," Itachi said as he looked at me. I chirped and cocked my head at him before flittering off his finger and hovering next to him for a few moments before releasing the jutsu and appearing in human form in a puff of black feathers, "Survivors?"
"None, Master," I answered with a curt bow before allowing a wide smile to spread across my face.
"I'm proud of you, Kieto. You saved the Akatsuki from certain discovery," Itachi said with a nod of approval.
"I do my best for you, Master," I answered with a childish grin. The grin I gave forced a smile to tug at the side of his stoic expression.
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