Hello I'm sorry it's taken so long to update. I've finished chapters 5 and 6 by now so they should be up in a few moments.
Blood Bonds
Chapter 4
Team 7 watched as the two girls tried to make and exit, one with her arm in an odd position so as to hold a VERY noticeable knife, failing to hide it effectively, as the other one stumbled every other step or so.
"...pursuit?" the pink haired girl asked. Two males looked at the other one as the obvious leader stated
"Yeah...I think so." Naruto yelled at this statement. "Why does Sasuke get to decide? The man smirked at him snidely "because I am the team leader for this mission." he remarked as Naruto was then subjected to a pounding, courtesy of Sakura.
The team of ninjas followed silently after them.
"They're still following us." Megumi mouthed to Minako, after several minutes of walking around in odd circles.
"I know, calm down." Minako replied grimly to the tensed Megumi beside her. Without warning Minako slipped out of view the wind softly carrying the remains of her message to Megumi, "It's been too long...It's time."
Megumi hesitated before slowly drawing Minako's knife out, frowning deeply.
"This sucks." she said out loud as she moved to undo the bandages on her left arm to reveal 1 or 2 shallow cut marks that would disappear in a few days at most. She sighed as she moved the knife toward the vein in her arm.
Team 7 stood in bewilderment as one of the girls moved swiftly out of sight, as though receiving little but intensive training. They waited to assess this though, as the other girl swiftly pulled out the knife from earlier and began to move it towards her arm with the intent to cut herself with the knife.
Sakura, the medical-nin of the team, quickly moved to stop the girl from damaging herself. Not being able to stand by and watch someone die in front of her.
None of the three others had a chance to stop her as she darted out to the girl. Naruto's eyes widened at the sight, not noticing as the other girl swiftly and silently jumped down from a tree branch beside him.
Sasuke immediately noticed the prescience and quickly moved to alert the still unmoving Naruto. "Hello there" Minako said softly, her voice containing a soft tone of huskiness, before Sasuke could start a sentence. Naruto quickly whipped around. He jumped back a few feet into a fighting position, a kunai in his hand.
His eyes locked with hers.
Big mistake, Minako thought as she stood in a relaxed position, staring straight at him. Sai watched calmly from a distance and Sasuke stood in a fighting pose not far off from Naruto.
"After I snap my fingers, you will at my voice command of 'ENEMIE' and my voice's command alone, you will now see your comrades as the enemy instead of me." Minako said to the blonde in the same tone of voice as before, indicating the two teammates with a tilt of her head, careful not to break eye-contact.
A slow smirk spread across her face as she slowly snapped her fingers. The blonde and his teammates still too confused to react.
Megumi quickly cut herself as a pink haired person came flying out at her, in a state of panic she quickly performed the first jutsu that came to mind. "First movement Art- Shaking Leaf!" Moving so fast that Sakura almost stumbled with shock, Megumi appeared next to Minako and grabbed her waist before drawing more blood with Minako's blade before she said quietly this time, "Second movement Art- Moth's Shadow." with that the two disappeared and reappeared a short distance away.
"I got it, time to go" Minako whispered "Damn straight." Megumi replied, neither even bothering to ask about each other's newfound skills... at the moment at least. They quickly disappeared into the shadows
Four desperate people watched disorientated as 2 young girls disappeared into the shadows, almost all collapsing onto their knees or onto all fours from the strength the chakra that remained after their departure.
Two young girls collapsed into a heap about 3 miles away a half-hour later in a different clearing surrounded loosely by medium sized trees. "Let me wrap you up" one girl whispered to the other quietly, a soft warm smile playing on her lips.
Holding her arm out, Megumi offered her arm to Minako who gently took it; she merely held it examining the cut marks on Megumi's arm. Realizing the reason for Minako's stalling Megumi dug in her bag and wordlessly handed Minako a roll of bandages.
Minako quietly said, almost whispered, "Thanks." Minako began to wrap Megumi's arm in silence.
Megumi quickly grew bored of the silence and started a conversation with Minako, "So…" Pausing for a moment she resumed, "What happened with you?"
"Well you know, got taken to the sound base met Orochimaru and got some training from him." Minako responded almost uninterestingly, quite the opposite of Megumi who perked up and opened her mouth to ask something when Minako cut in, "He looked like some kind of trashy, drag-whore."
At Minako's observation Megumi burst out laughing and had to cover her mouth with her hands to muffle the sound, when she calmed down Megumi smiled and stated affectionately, "God, Minako, you're so harsh."
Lightly smiling at her friend's comment Minako raised Megumi's arm and questioned her, "And what caused this?"
"Apparently I got some special mutation of my chakra system that won't let me use my chakra unless I draw blood." Megumi responded gazing sadly at her cut up arm.
"I'm guessing that someone told you this and taught you how to use it." Minako concluded.
"Uh, yea, Aoi-sensei, she taught me how to use jutsu with the mutation." Megumi confirmed
When Minako finished bandaging Megumi's arm they settled against the trunks of two of the trees that surrounded the small clearing they were in.
By now it was dark and the moon could be seen in the sky, stretching her limbs like a cat, Megumi yawned tiredly and said, "Minako, I think we should get some sleep and consider our options in the morning."
"But I'm not tired, and it can't be later than 9 o'clock!" Minako protested.
Megumi responded, "Too bad, we're going to need our rest in case something happens, like earlier with team 7… If you don't go to sleep than I'll make you…" Megumi threatened at the end.
"Fine!" Minako huffed not knowing whether Megumi had the power to force her to sleep or not but didn't want to test it, and settled against the tree but began to shiver from the cold. Unaffected by the coolness of the night Megumi cast a glance at the shivering Minako before she grabbed a small blanket from her bag and throwing it over Minako who wrapped it over herself and laid down to sleep.
Also settling down against the tree to sleep, Megumi lay on her side and listened as her companion slowly drifted off to a fidgety slumber.
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