Tobi is Tobi
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The forest was eerily silent and gloomy as it always was, with the trees towering over everything, making those who ventured into the forest feel insignificant, and tiny. The trucks of the dark brown trees themselves were thick and wide. The leaves, mixes between yellow and a light green; were still and noiseless even when a silent breeze would flow through the thick forestry. The branches were long and almost as broad as the trunks themselves, they caused shadows within the darkness to loom obscurely, over everything below them. No light, except for from the bright moon shown through the rare spaces between the leaves and branches, but the light did not reach the forest floor. No light had ever hit the forest floor, the trees were too tall, their leaves too thick. The ninjas that would pass preferred the highest branches, for this reason, though some would go lower to obscure themselves in the shadowy depths to attack an enemy with surprise on their side.
The forest floor was not touched often, no one could even see their hand in front of their face; The ninjas couldn't tell what was up, down, sideways or where anything was. This easily caused those who ventured too far down into the forest to be lost, and insanity following close behind, the forest floor was mostly occupied by the skeletons of the dead, not even most animals risked going below.
A nearly silent bird's whistle echoed through the forest disturbing the silence from a figure crouched low on a branch which was close to the never ending darkness below, but was still able to see in the dimness. The figure was cloaked, revealing nothing of the figure's identity or gender. After a moment of nothing happening, the figure, impatient, blew a series of bird whistles again, but a bit louder.
Finally, after another moment of silence, another cloaked figure appeared beside the first. Though this figure was most definitely male, with his cloak open, and showing off his broad, pale colored muscles, with his hair was slicked back, that was colored a shocking white that complimented his pale skin nicely, and purple, almost pink, eyes were narrowed in annoyance. A large three bladed scythe was lazily gripped in his right hand, while he gave the almost fully cloaked figure a bored look.
"Finally," The white haired male hissed under his breath. "I was starting to think you got the wrong creepy ass forest, Money Grubber."
Said Money Grubber merely gave the pale, white haired man a dry look. The only thing visible was his oddly colored eyes. The pupil was a strange green color, and was surrounded by a bloody red. "I am never wrong with my bounty's location, Hidan," His voice, was deep, almost to a soothing level, but there was a dark tint to it, that sent chills up one's spine.
The white haired man, now labeled as Hidan, rolled his eyes, "Fucking heathen! So, when is this bastard coming?" Hidan scratched the side of his face, right below his cheek, with a bored expression.
The other man sighed in annoyance, before muttering something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like, 'Annoying bastard.' "Hidan," he hissed, "You're an S-Class missing-nin."
Hidan gave him a frustrated look, "Your point?"
Another sigh was heard, "Search with you chakra you imbecile."
Hidan glared at him, "I don't know why you can't just tell me Kakuzu-asshole."
The now-named, completely cloaked figure, Kakuzu, gritted his teeth. Rage, a very familiar feeling, filled his being, causing him to clench and unclench his fists, and the hair that resided inside his body to twitch for the other immortal's blood. Calm down, he told himself, I need this bounty, I can kill him later. Another few minutes of irritated silence passed before he spoke again, "He'll be here in a few moments."
Hidan grinned widely, his perfectly straight, white teeth gleaming and feeling an edge of crazed excitement crawl over his skin, causing him to feel just a bit giddy to be able to sacrifice for his Jashin-sama. Hidan licked his dry lips, grin still in place. He swung his scythe around testingly, almost cutting Kakuzu, who merely side-stepped it with annoyance clearing shining from his bright green pupils that were surrounded by a bloody red.
"Hidan," Kakuzu hissed with a scowl, "You cut me, and I'll kill you."
Hidan snorted, and dodged a kunai that had been aimed at his neck. "Watch it, bitch," he growled lowly, which would have terrified most, but Kakuzu was no where even close to being intimidated.
Before either Hidan could call Kakuzu another foul name; or for Kakuzu to aim another kunai, a sound vibrated against the tree they were on, a couple of feet above them. It was the sound of a ninja's light feet tapping softly against a branch. Hidan grinned, while Kakuzu was looking into his bingo book, which he had gotten out as soon as he felt the vibration, before they both disappeared after their target, too fast for most ninja to even see.
The ninja they were after was an A-class missing-nin, from the village of Kuragakure, The Village Hidden in the Grass. He had killed many, like most ninja, and had a variety of powerful jutsu, but it was nothing for the two S-class missing-nin known as the Zombie Twins.
Before the A-class missing-nin could even make it any further, he was kicked forcefully into a tree truck behind him, knocking the air out of his lungs, before he quickly propelled himself away and onto another branch, just as a kunai landed where his heart was previously located. He looked toward his attackers, expecting ANBU hunter-nin, or Jounin, instead finding two Akatsuki members.
A cold wash of fear gripped onto the A-class missing-nin's body, chilling his skin, while his lungs begged for air that he wasn't providing. He knew who those two were, of course. Every missing-nin knew who they were, especially the green-eyed one, the bounty-hunter. He needed to escape, but he knew it was impossible. No one ever escaped those two. He tried to swallow the thickness in his throat, but his mouth was impossibly dry.
The white haired missing-nin, Hidan, he remembered, had a demented grin that seemed as if it would split the top of his head from his lower jaw. The other one, Kakuzu, seemed to be indifferent, but he noticed the nearly excited gleam in the immortal's eyes. In near panic, the A-class missing-nin, jumped to the left quickly as possible, to get away. He completed a series of quick handsigns, before unleashing a multitude of kunai that would explode on impact without an exploding tag, and continuing to jump to the next branch.
A small bit of relief eased over his skin when he heard the explosion, and a great deal of loud cursing, as he sped away. Before he could get much further though, without him even noticing, Hidan was beside him in a blink of an eye, swinging his three bladed scythe into the missing-nin's stomach, causing him to nearly cry out in pain. Because of how fast they were going, when the A-class missing-nin was slammed into the scythe, painfully, his legs and upper body were propelled forward while his middle stayed where it was penetrated.
The missing-nin coughed out blood violently, and wheezed painfully, he felt his blood gushing out of his wound at an alarming speed, and he briefly wondered how he had so much. He squeezed his eyes shut tightly as his body spasmed from the pain. He dragged a trembling hand onto a part of the scythe that wasn't embedded into his flesh, hoping to get away. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end, a chill consumed him, and he shivered violently, He was going to die... Before he could even attempt to pull the scythe out, he felt a blow to the back of his head and to his utter horror, he blacked out.
Hidan grunted in annoyance as he slipped his scythe from the still bleeding, unconscious missing-nin's body, where it landed on a branch harshly. "Wasn't even a fucking challenge!"
Kakuzu gave him an amused look, "He was from the Grass Country. I don't know why you expected so much."
Hidan glared at him and opened his opened his mouth to start what probably would be a very long argument, if they both hadn't tensed as two chakra signatures suddenly appearing to the right of where they were.
"Tobi is here!" Said orange masked annoying shinobi appeared on a branch that was higher up from where the Zombie Twins were and ignoring the body of the A-class missing-nin.
Another ninja landed lightly beside Tobi, who also ignored the body, his long blonde hair quickly identified him as the bombing terrorist, Deidara. Deidara, who appeared to be gritting his teeth, slapped a hand to the back of his partner's head harshly, causing Tobi to flail his arms around from the force, to keep balance supposedly. "Tobi," he hissed, "I told you that we were going the wrong way."
Tobi, giggled, making the other three Akatsuki members cringe lightly. "Tobi knows, Deidara-senpai!"
Deidara's eyebrow twitched, "Then why, prey-tell, were you going this way?" Deidara was this close to just blowing the irritating, child-like man up, and be done with it.
"Tobi wanted to say 'hi' to Hidan-senpai and Kakuzu-senpai!" Tobi clapped his hands together excitedly as he told Deidara, who nearly fell off the branch he was on for Tobi's reasoning. "Hi, Kakuzu-senpai! Hi, Hidan-senpai!"
Kakuzu slapped a hand to his masked face, Wasn't it bad enough that he had to deal with Hidan?
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