Dang, sorry It's been a bit of a wait for an update, but I have a legitimate reason... I was uh abducted by aliens, ya it was certainly that and not me being lazy. Heh I promise in this chapter that there will be violence yay! Also more awkwardness, a tiny bit of cuteness, and wow drama... Oh yea, and that clothes shopping I promised a couple of chapters back is finally here with ::chuckle:: interesting results. Please keep reviewing they always brighten my boring day, and keep an eye on Sakana-chan for me, I still fear her morphing into a Mary-Sue... ::gulp:: Oi, and remember constructive criticism is good but flames will face the wrath of Tomberry-kun my evil plushie of doom!
Disclaimer: No I don't own Naruto. if I did I wouldn't be here, and also a male... O.o I also don't own any other Anime's mentioned in this story, although I do own the people cosplaying from them, and of course cute lil Sakana-Chan.
Meanwhile... Back At ChibiAngelCon... The female Edward Elric and the cosplaying Kurogane were joined by a tall Winry cosplayer, and another girl who wasn't cosplaying anything at all, who wore an odd assortment of items she got from the dealer room. Including, a cathat, rainbow colored sock-like gloves, butterfly wings, a KON T-shirt, a frilly almost gothic Lolita like skirt, aqua-blue flip flops, and carried a huge bag full of more random cra-er-stuff. Each person looking extremely worried as they all stood in front of the entrance, talking.
"So what did the police say?" the Winry asked. "Basically, they told us they can't do anything yet, informed us to notify her family, and laughed when we showed them pictures of who we believed were the prime suspects." The Kurogane replied.
"All, we had were some manga images, since those two went in and out without anybody able to get a picture of them." The female Ed grumbled in disgust.
"Oh! I got to see them... how could they not take you seriously...did you tell them what I told you? About the Itachi Cosplayer being a hypnotist?" The fangirl stated with a frown. "Like they would believe that! I can't even believe it, you must have been drugged or something..." the Kurogane growled rolling his eyes. The other two nodded in agreement.
"No, I swear I'm not making this up, a bunch of other girls saw the same thing I did! I looked into his eyes and then everything exploded with bugs! It was terrible, I'm going to have nightmares about this tonight, two of the girls fainted and had to go to the hospital..." She stated twirling a finger in her hair and biting her bottom lip in distress. The Ed rolled her eyes, " like he said before...sounds like a drug thing to me."
"I asked Mary, and some guy that's ether Vash or Vincent to help with the search. They're recruiting some more Con-goers... and her disappearance has been announced on the speaker quite a few times... damn this was her first Con too..." The Winry started before breaking down in tears. " We should have kept a close eye on her..." She got a few sympathetic pats on the shoulder from a nervous Kurogane.
"Don't talk like that, for all we know, she could have just gotten lost, and will find her way back tomorrow...come on, let's go in and get some sleep... Who knows... she might be back in the morning..." The Ed stated and stomped back inside to her room. The others' followed looking downhearted.
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Chapter. 4
The rest of the night went by without any trouble, and Kisame woke a grouchy Itachi up for his shift. Itachi was to tired to notice his partner's odd mood, and spent most of his shift grumbling ( Itachi is no morning person...) about it. Kisame slept a troubled sleep, dreaming about those freaks at that Con place.They swarmed them, girls grabbing Itachi down into something like a mosh pit... and the awkward questions about his skin, eyes, hair, teeth, and the most disturbing of all... if he was Itachi's boyfriend... and then in the background a chant began in a low rumble but became louder and louder of one word...YAOI... over and over again.
Kisame woke up with a gasp, and then screamed as Zetsu's creepy face was looming down on him. As though he was just waiting for him to wake. "Never do that again!" He shouted and backed up, his hand over his racing heart. Sakana and Itachi looked over at the two for a second before continuing to break up camp and get breakfast ready. "What are you doing back here Zetsu-san?"
"We are to inform you that once you get back to base, you and that girl are to see the leader immediately..." The white side stated, " Pein-Sama is very angry with you Kisame-saaaan." The black side said, and Zetsu gave him a not-so-friendly grin. "Your mission didn't go well... you lost a box of pocky..." started the white side, "And came back plus one groupie..." finished the black half.
"You told?" Gasped Kisame. Zetsu rolled his eyes, "Of course we told, we are the Akatsuki's eyes and ears..." He growled back, " it's our duty to let our leader know about these kinds of things, otherwise we'll be the ones in trouble."
"And we don't want that Kisame-san, even if we do like the girl." the black side finished and stared at Kisame, making him frown. "Now Pein-sama has a few question he wants to ask the girl about and that's that. Oh, and Itachi-san we need to talk with you later in private..." The white side finished glancing over at Itachi. He glanced up cooking some eggs and nodded with his usual serious look. And, before Kisame could yell at Zetsu some more, he melted back into the earth.
"Damn plant man... what a tattle tail..." Kisame pouted, Itachi rolled his eyes and Sakana shyly approached him. "Weren't you going to tell the leader about her anyway?" Itachi asked boredly.
"Ya, but I wanted him to know on my terms...damn Zetsu..." he grumbled and nearly jumped out of his skin when Sakana gently tugged on his sleeve.
"Uh K-kisame-sama, about l-last night..." She began, a deep blush on her face. Kisame froze, his stomach suddenly felt heavy and his face flushed suddenly remembering what happened last night. How did she find out what happened? Did Itachi see it and tell her about it while they let me sleep in? He thought to himself in a panic. "I'm so s-sorry I fell asleep during guard duty last n-night..." she finished, her face beet red. Kisame was so glad that she didn't know that he forgot he was supposed to be a little angry.
"Oh! It's okay this time, you must have been exhausted by the whole thing. Though I expect you stay up next time." Kisame replied quickly, and excused himself to use the 'restroom.' Sakana blinked, blushing, and quickly walked over to Itachi to see if he needed help with anything.
Kisame leaned his back against a tree a few yards away from their camp to try and clear his head. Damn, I feel so awkward about the whole thing... so embarrassing...I don't think I should be alone with her for a while...that incident keeps replaying in my head when I look at her...and..ugh, bad Kisame... He thought shaking his head with a sigh. Just try not to think about it anymore, and eventually it will stop, ya that outta work. He gave himself a confidant toothy grin before heading back to the camp.
The three ate their breakfast quietly, Kisame calmly commenting that last night's dinner was better than these runny eggs, and Itachi threatening harm to the shark man while Sakana watched on with a frown and silently agreeing with Kisame. After they finished and erased all signs that they were there, they started off again. Only to be stopped by Zetsu a few yards up ahead.
"Itachi-san... we need to talk with you. You two can go on ahead, knowing Itachi he'll be able to catch up with you shortly." Zetsu said, no one noticing the slightly panicked look on Kisame's face. "Fine." Stated the monotone Uchiha and walked over to Zetsu, leaving Kisame alone to escort Sakana to the village.
The two walked along in silence, Kisame avoiding looking at Sakana, and Sakana biting her lower lip, a frown on her face. "K-kisame-sama?" She called looking over at him, and fidgeting with her Kisame plushie. Looking ahead, Kisame grunted to acknowledge her presence. Sakana bit her lower lip, looking away. "I know your still mad at me, and I'm so very sorry. I'll never let you down and fall asleep on duty again. " She stated loudly, causing Kisame to freeze.
He frowned down at her, and noticed that she was crying, which made Kisame feel uncomfortable. The sharkman rubbed the back of his neck, sure he's seen people cry in front of him before, but he usually made them cry on purpose. This was different, and he couldn't help but feel terrible, and helpless in this type of situation. He quickly patted her gently on the head, hoping that was what he's supposed to do. "Uh, there...there...Sakana-chan. I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at all...I've just got a lot on my mind..."
She sniffled and rubbed her eyes with the back of her arm trying to control herself. "I-is it because of the s-situation I've put you in with your boss?" Sakana asked her eyes still starting to look pink and puffy. Kisame quickly put his hands in front of him, in a defensive position, "nononono, not at all. Besides, it was my decision to bring you along, so don't worry about it." He replied with his usual toothy grin. She stared up at him, blinking and turning red in the face, before nodding.
"What's the hold up you two?" Itachi asked coming up with an annoyed look on his face. "Nothing!" They both stated with similar deer caught in the headlight expressions on their faces. The Uchiha frowned at them, but shrugged and grumbled, "whatever...idiots. Oh, before I forget, Zetsu wanted me to tell you to stop with the training, until you get the go ahead from the leader." Kisame pouted at this. "That's not fair... I was going to train her on some neat ninjutsu, like escape jutsus... "
"And that's why you can't teach her anything, just be thankful Pein-sama didn't order us to kill her. He just has a few questions of his own to ask..." monotone Itachi stated and continued on. Kisame stared at his partner with his mouth hanging open like a...fish. Sakana paled, though a tiny part of her wanted to do a happy dance at the discovery of the Akasuki Leader's name (A/N: well... she is a fangirl, and poor thing missed that update) though most of her wondered if talking to a guy named 'pain' was going to be as unpleasant as it sounded. The three continued their merry way to the village. Kisame even managed to try and cheer her up with horrif-heroic tales of his past.
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Kisame was surrounded in enemy territory. Everywhere he looked there was no escape from the horror his pale fish eyes beheld. To his right were rows and rows of cutesy sweaters with icons of fuzzy animals like bears and kittens, to his left were women's underwear (some of which were not meant to be concealed), behind him where the exit was located were jeans and skirts ether sexy or very filly, up ahead next to a mannequin dressed up in "slut wear" were many tank tops and t-shirts and a few of them were disgustingly cute as well. The thing that annoyed him the most about this place though, besides the heavily perfumed smell, was the fact that his partner Itachi managed to weasel out of coming with them (something to do with running an errand that couldn't wait) .
"..." heh Itachi...Weasel, god that's rich. He thought to himself with a small smile... and then returning to gloom. He quickly edged away from the underwear section, due to a few odd looks from the female customers. This was the only store that sold women's clothing in this small village, and since she had to be watched, at least one of them had to stay with her. Kisame shifted his feet, feeling more and more uncomfortable with this whole place, the gossiping women sure as hell didn't help.
"Um...I'm done Kisame-sama..." Sakana called out holding a small pile of clothes and startling the sharkman out of his uneasy daze. Oh thank god! He thought to himself and smiled a little. "Ah, good. Let's um get these paid for then and get the hell out of here." Kisame replied and escorted Sakana over to the counter to pay. Just need to pay and leave...quickly... he thought to himself as they approached the checkout counter. The clerk glanced up at them with a bored almost tired expression on her wrinkled old face, though her eyes did twitch a bit when she saw Kisame's face.
"This all then?" She drawled, Sakana nodded her head quickly and Kisame stared at the ceiling with an intense look on his face. The old clerk sighed and started scanning the items silently. Everything was going along easily, when while scanning a small package, the clerk froze and swore. "Damn scanner," the old woman growled and tried to scan it again. Sakana's face turned beet red when she noticed what was in the package, Kisame glanced down to see what the hold up was and also blushed, which I guess would look plum purple on someone with blue skin. "Uh I can go over and grab a new one ma'am if you-" The girl started as the lady grabbed a speaker and spoke into it.
"PRICE CHECK ON WOMEN'S COTTON UNDERWEAR. PRICE CHECK!" she boomed over the loud speaker making the two look redder and purpler (if that was even possible) than before. A young teenager walked up swearing under her breath, yelped at the sight of Kisame and looked over to the object. "Mom, you really should retire...unable to scan a simple barcode..." the teen grumbled and quickly fixed the problem as the older woman yelled at her for lack of respect. The two stared on in shock, getting over the embarrassment only by wondering how it was possible such an elderly lady became a mother to a teenager? (A/N: Honestly, the woman looked like she was in her 80's or something O.o0 )
Kisame quickly paid for the items, Sakana grabbed the bags and hurried after the shark man who looked like he was running for his life. Upon exiting the shop the missing nin took a deep breath of the fresh air and let out a nervous laugh. "Let's not speak of this again, deal?" Kisame asked his fangirl who nodded her head blushing under his toothy grin. "Oi! I almost forgot...I need to hold onto that doll for you." He said and held out a hand, Sakana began digging around in her stuff, unconscious of the fact that a small slip of paper fell from some pocket or something on her.
"Eh?" Kisame muttered leaving her to continue her search as he bent down and picked it up. Frowning he opened it to discover a picture. The subject of it, was a little chubby baby girl in a pink dress standing in the surf with an extremely happy look on her face, in fact she looked like she was squealing with joy. Her black hair was waving in a breeze, and her light brown eyes sparkled with the childhood joy of ones first trip to the ocean. Her pudgy hands were held by some older man's who's body, besides his hands and legs, were not in the picture; Kisame guessed he might be the girl's father. He smirked and turned over the picture to read a caption written in a neat elegant hand: First beach trip Age: 2.
"Uh Kisame-sama what do you have there?" A quiet voice spoke, breaking his train of thought. He looked down to her puzzled face, her things were rumbled up in her bags but she found the plushie.
He sighed and showed her the picture and frowned at the concerned look on her face. "This...is mine?" She asked quietly and slowly took the picture, exchanging it with the doll. Her eyes started to get misty, and Kisame sweat dropped and wondered if he had unintentionally made her cry again. He relaxed slightly when she rubbed her eyes, glanced at the back and pocketed it, all with a sad thoughtful look on her face. What was that all about? The clueless wonder pondered to himself. Sakana picked up her bags, Kisame pocketed the plushie, and they continued on in silence.
They met Itachi at one of the village entrances, "Ready?" He asked quietly. "Yup! Next stop, the nearby hideout." Kisame answered with a grin, Sakana still had that same thoughtful expression on her face but nodded along. Itachi rolled his eyes, "alright then." And they heading off once more, and quickly left the beaten path.
"We'll probably reach the hideout in a couple of days at this speed, besides the fact we'll have to back track and such so we'll be harder to track... and then as we approach closer to home we'll have to move more slowly to avoid our own traps..." Kisame explained to Sakana. Itachi's face twitched and he glared over at Kisame, "Stop blabbing about the fact we're heading to our hideout you blue Idiot! Do you want to cause unnecessary trouble!? Moron..." shouted the normally calm and collect Uchiha. Kisame frowned, "aww, don't be like that Itachi-san...I don't make fun of your eyesight damage do I?" Itachi's eye twitched and he turned to Kisame, "You JUST DID!" He screamed. Their argument was interrupted by Sakana as she burst into a laughing fit. "What's so funny?" growled the Uchiha, Kisame just raised a brow in question.
"I-I'm Sorry Itachi-sama...but you just look funny when you snapped like that...hahaha!" She however stopped laughing as soon as she saw the expression on Itachi's face. "Ye Gods I can't stand ether of you right now!" He growled and started forward at a quicker pace, "I'm going to scout ahead, I'll see you both at the camp tonight, no fires for the rest of the trip back..." and with that hurried away. Kisame frowned after him, "Aw...I forgot to ask him what Zetsu wanted, and what was that errand he ran." He grumbled as they started off again.
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They rested a few hours later and Kisame finally voiced to Sakana his concern about her recent withdrawn state in a nice polite manner. "Yo, Sakana-Chan what's wrong? You look like you found out the milk you just drank was past it's expiration date or something." Sakana raised a brow at his expression, then sighed. " I'm just anxious about meeting your leader..." She replied quietly staring at her knees. "Ah, well just answer his questions honestly and I'm sure you'll do fine..." Hopefully... he added silently. She frowned, "That's the problem...I don't know if I'll even be able to answer his questions..." Kisame raised his brows at this, "what I mean to say is my memory of my past feels like it's getting worse! I didn't even recognize that little girl in that picture I didn't even know I carried!" She added her voice raising in her panicked state.
"Calm down Sakana-chan...perhaps you can talk to Pein-sama about this, he's the one who gave us the cross dimensional scroll to use... He might share some answers." He replied calmly, patting her on the shoulder gently. She gulped down her fear and nodded slowly, blushing a little.
Kisame sighed and stared up at the treetops, "I bet now you won't be able to tell me why you admire me so much...I mean your some innocent girl, and I'm well...a bloodthirsty monster." He brooded with a frown, Sakana however leaped to her feet at that and frowned at him, her hands on her hips. "What are you talking about? Your not a monster, and ya you kill people but there is more to you than that! I like your sense of humor, your honesty, and even your spirit! Besides, I'm attracted more to guys like you than pretty boys like Itachi!" She replied heatedly, then froze as her brain realized what came out of her mouth and for the third time that day the coloring on her face was as red as a tomato. Kisame also froze and stared up at her from his seated position with a shocked look on his face. Guys like me?
"Um...p-perhaps I should um change my clothes...I didn't really get the chance earlier..." She stated, changing the subject and going over to her bags. "Uh...good idea, just...just don't go to far. And I guess if your not back in ten minutes I'll come looking for you..." He replied, scratching the back of his head. She nodded and walked off, leaving Kisame alone with his thoughts. What the hell, that girl confuses me sometimes... he thought in an understatement.
"Gah, how long does it take to change-" His irritated grumble was cut off by a rather loud scream that seemed oddly familiar. Kisame leaped to his feet, his face pale, Sakana-chan! "SHIT!" He cried and raced towards the sound skidding to a halt at the sight before him.
Sakana was surrounded by three men, her new tank top was halfway on and her feet were bare and muddied. One was holding a gushing broken nose with one hand, the arm hung limply at his side, broken. The other man was slouching holding his groin in agony. Two of the men were slowly getting up and the third grabbed Sakana-chan from behind.
And then, before he could help, Sakana neatly threw the third and final man over her shoulder, causing the guy to land on his back. She slammed one heel on the man's right wrist,( his left one was in at an angle that suggested it was broken) causing him to drop the knife in his hand, and then placed her other foot under the man's chin, producing pressure on his neck. All this took place in under three seconds, which was about the same amount of time it took Kisame to draw a kunai from his robe and throw it at the one bleeding, catching him in his exposed throat. The Akatsuki member then broke the neck of the other guy before approaching Sakana slowly and cautiously.
"Sakana, I need you to remove your foot, I have some questions I need to ask this piece of shit." Kisame said his voice devoid of emotion. She gulped, and he could see she was shivering, her eyes were dark and full of anger and fear. "Kisame-sama th-these men...they tried..." she choked out.
"Shh...calm down kid... don't worry, your okay now. Just release your foot, I need some answers, and he can't give them to me, if he's passed out, or dead." He placed a hand on her shoulder, and she nodded glints of tears in her eyes. There certainly is more to you than meets the eye kid, he thought as she moved back. Quick as a blue flash Kisame grabbed the man from ground by front of his shirt and slammed him against a tree. He flashed a dangerous toothy grin, and had a mad gleam in his eye as he placed his face inches from the man's and let out a low, dangerous chuckle.
"I really hate scum like you... now your going to answer some questions before I kill you," The shark man said darkly. "D-don't you mean or I'll kill you?" The man managed to choke out. With a sadistic grin on his face, Kisame broke the man's other arm, making him howl in pain. "No... I'll kill you ether way, but if you answer my questions I promise it'll be quicker than the slow painful death I really want to give you. Now I want to know if you know anything about the people I'm with, if you were hired to come out here, if so, who are your employers, and finally if you three are it?" He answered.
"You won't have to do that Kisame-san, I already found out the answers to those and to the other questions..." The quiet voice of Itachi spoke up. "You missed your mark with your kunai there, I used the Tsukuyomi on him before he eventually died. They didn't know we were even here, these three rob, and kill travelers...and rape females." The Uchiha added spitting on the dead man with extreme dislike. Kisame narrowed his eyes, "is that so? Well now that we know that, we're done here."
"Does that mean you'll let me live?" The highwayman asked hopefully. Kisame chuckled lowly, "No." He stated his face returning to stone as he broke the man's neck before he could scream.
The two S-classed criminals turned to look at their charge. Sakana was sitting not to far away, her shirt fixed but her eyes were wide and staring into space in terror, and tears continued to stream down her face. So much for thinking that she was entirely helpless...Itachi thought to himself with a frown. Kisame however slowly approached her and placed a hand on her shoulder, she flinched back startled. Damn, does she fear me now? He thought sadly, when she look looked up her face slowly seemed to register who he was.
"K-kisame?" She whispered, and then launched herself at him, clinging to the sharkman and sobbing into his robe, completely startling him and Itachi. Kisame awkwardly patted her back, "It's alright Sakana, those men can't harm anyone ever again." he told her quietly. She looked up, her eyes puffy and tears still streaming out. "It's not that Kisame. I don't even know who I am anymore." She choked, before dissolving into sobs again..
Itachi was looking away from the whole scene with a look of boredom on his face. Looks like I'll have to have another chat with Kisame about this later... The ex-leaf nin thought and then observed the battle scene cooly, noting the injuries not caused by Kisame on the bandits. I wonder, if Kisame didn't arrive, would she have been able to hold off on her own and kill these idiots herself, I'll have to tell Pein-sama about this for sure if Kisame doesn't. He sighed and crossed his arms and stared up at the treetops as the crying slowly stopped.
TBC
Well that's Chapter 4, It'll be a while before Chapter. 5 is done, because I'm going to a Con next month and I have to finish my mask (I'm going to be an ANBU, which is funny since I'm writing about criminals.) but the next chapter is going to be interesting I hope. As they will finally reach the hideout and Sakana meets more Akatsuki members. This will be a bit of a problem for me since one of them will be the most foul mouthed member of them all... and since I like this being rated T for teen I implanted a nice little device on him that will bleep out every F-bomb this person utters, that I want! MWAHAHAHA! Which I hope will be as amusing to you as it is to me, heh revenge is sweet...
Hidan: You did what to who? That's -bleep-ing funny... wait what the -bleep- ? It was me!? You damn dirty heathen slut!
Um... well that concludes this message... please remember to Review and also to spay and neuter your Jashin fanboys...eh? eek::Gets chased off by a swearing Hidan::