A DIFFERENT GENEALOGY: DECISIONS & DOGMAS
ACT II: SCENE X
~BI-POLAR'S NORTHERN SHINDIGS~
Ino felt like murdering something as they crossed the sea towards Orochimaru's island experiment lab, and not in the sense of plain irritation. She really wanted to kill something: images of tearing into throats and other grotesque images flooded her mind, and the closer they got to the hidden prison, the stronger they became.
Itachi kept giving her a concerned glance when he thought she wasn't looking – technically she wasn't, but she was still picking up the concern from him. It was a lot clearer now though; before it had been barley present, covered and muddled by other thoughts. She didn't know what to make of this development - just because he was concerned didn't necessarily mean...
His concern could easily be to do with the success of the mission and if her strange behaviour for the past few days would impede their progress. He was probably a little worried, but she always had trouble reading him. He was one of the few people she couldn't figure out with a few prods of chakra - the others were her father, Naruto, and the Hokage. She'd have a problem with an ANBU, but she'd be able to pick up something.
Just not with Itachi; that was why communication was so important with him. She had no idea what he was thinking; she could anticipate based on what she knew of him personally, but it wasn't the same as having the security her probing usually provided her with. There was no other option but to talk things out with him, but neither of them were doing particularly well with that action.
The sight of the island loomed eerily on the horizon; even the rocks looked gloomy and evil. She'd bet Tsunade's sake that the towering pillars of rock would collapse just to spite them when they arrived. Pushing more chakra into her feet she sped on after Naruto – she had taken off the moment the mountain came into sight, completely ignoring Itachi's protests once again.
Thankfully they both had better sense than to go in all guns blazing this time; the first disastrous mission to grass country, and the experience in the bunker in Sunagakure, had left them both more experienced and wary. They stopped in one of the ravines near the entrance to the hideout, waiting for their companions to catch up.
Hinata was the first to arrive, and her Byakugan was shown to be active by the distended veins either side of her face; she glanced around searching their surroundings as Itachi arrived with Sai, Shino and Kiba.
"It's quiet... I-I don't think there are that many Oto ninjas... wait..."
Hinata frowned in concentration as Naruto peered around the edge of the ravine back towards the entrance; it didn't look like one but any common ninja would have been able to pick up on it – the seal on one of the rocks was an obvious clue, but the beaten indents in the rock nearby were a sign of human activity.
"There are more down below the ground... They're in cages – I think they're Orochimaru's experiments. There are more actual ninja too but... There's something funny about their chakra pathways... They look darker, like they're d-diseased or..."
"Contaminated?" Naruto suggested with a grim face.
Hinata nodded with a shudder; Ino presumed it was a reaction similar to the one she was having, except Hinata could see the horrible presence she was receiving directly into her mind. She wished she could turn her sensing off like Hinata, but she had grown up using it so much that deactivating it was... She didn't even know if she could.
At least she knew what all the negative emotion was coming from now; so many cursed seals in one place was bound to have a negative effect. Any sensory ninja who picked up on it would probably avoid something as sickening as this place, and Ino wouldn't blame them.
There was something else though – something far more prominent than the other negativity that surrounded her. She felt like she was millimetres away from remembering something important but... what? Before Ino could concentrate on the mystery any further, she was slammed to the ground by Itachi – there was a weird orange glowing... thing surrounding the both of them as a hail of boulders rained down from the heavens.
She'd known there'd be a rock slide! Itachi remained crouched over the top of her, and gave her such a strong glare she let out a small squeak of fear; the hail of boulders faded, and the orange thing surrounding the both of them disappeared. Itachi pulled her up, maintaining the glare.
Glancing around she was stunned to find herself in the middle of an all out battle – Naruto was throwing her flame-smothered shuriken around like a mad thing, charging a few Rasengans for variety every now and again, Kakashi hurled kunai and shuriken all over the place, Shino's bugs we swarming all over the place, there was a large two headed Akamaru charging around, Sai slashed his short-sword through their flesh, and Hinata was blasting thin blades of chakra from her palms as a huge influx of curse riddled ninja came down upon them.
"Ino, what's wrong with you? You've been out of it for days! You were almost crushed because you weren't paying attention! If this is because of me then-"
Ino's eyes widened as Itachi yelled, and hurried to rectify the explanation he was suggesting; sure, it was a little distracting, but she would hardly let something like that get in the way of her job.
"No! No! It's not that! I just..."
Ino wasn't certain on how to explain what she was picking up without getting him even more worked up – she really should have said something before, but she didn't want to risk being sent back as she knew would have been suggested.
"I can feel all those cursed seals and... it's hard to keep them from having an influence..." she grumbled sheepishly, lodging a chakra-infused punch to the face of a man trying to creep up behind her.
Itachi glared again, but said nothing and turned back to the mass of ninjas that had attacked them; Ino felt a little worried then. Itachi was going to rip her a new one later on for withholding information like that. Then again, he probably would have sent her back to the village after that episode with Kiba, so she was glad she hadn't said anything.
She kicked another man in the gut, sending him crashing into one of the rock faces surrounding them; someone had to make sure Naruto didn't tear her self to bits physically here, and Kiba wasn't brilliant in the field – he panicked over the differences in lab and field techniques too much. They needed a decent combat medic, and while Kiba could transplant kidneys in an operating lab quite easily, combat situations were a different thing.
Her fears were justified when the skin of the Otogakure ninjas turned grey; keeping them off was suddenly a much greater task. She punched one, kicked another, but still had to doge the fireball sent by a third; things had been a bit more simple before hand. Medically she really found the cursed seals fascinating, but they were still disgusting.
Had Sasuke turned into something like one of these people when Naruto had been manipulated into fighting him? She couldn't tell; all she could sense from Naruto was anger. Lots of anger, and there were several things that it could be directed at. She swung a man with a reptilian tail into several of his companions by the gross appendage as Naruto let out a loud yell.
"Wind Release; Rasenshuriken!"
The almighty blast that followed was dizzying, blowing her from her feet and back towards the cliffs; she could see a similar reaction occurring to Hinata and Shino – Kiba was able to dig his Akamaru-combo claws into the earth, much to her irritation. Instead of the sharp impact she had expected, she crashed into something a bit softer instead.
Glancing out of the corner of her eye she started at the sight of Naruto's brother wincing at the impact she had had on him; how the hell did he move so fast? And why was he...? She would have been fine from a hit like that – a bit disoriented maybe but otherwise all right.
"What are you-?"
She was cut off by the press of his lips against her own; it was short, and quick, but it was there all the same. What? What did that mean? She couldn't tell! Was that like Sasuke's stupid confession to Naruto, or was it just a fling-sort-of-thing? She stared at him wide eyed in confusion. Damn it, why couldn't the man make two minuets of conversation?
"Don't think you're off the hook; I'm still mad at you for keeping quiet about the cursed seals," he informed her pointedly, movement prompting her to pull her way back to her feet.
This was confusing; this was very confusing! She was about to ask him what was going through his stupid impregnable head when a loud call from Kiba distracted her; turning to the direction the call had come from, she caught sight of Hinata helping him attend to Naruto completely busted arm.
Naruto, of course, had a smug grin on her face; Ino seriously considered strangling her team-mate and she stomped over to help Kiba begin the healing process, muttering curses all the while. Itachi followed her with another frown on his face, this time directed at Naruto.
"You shouldn't have rushed in like that Naruto; you know that technique isn't finished yet!" he admonished with a gentle whack to the back of her head.
He received a glare from the two blonde and the brunette boy, much to Kakashi's amusements.
"Dude, you've got to stop making more injuries!" Kiba complained, shooing Itachi away to create a little more room to work on the top of Naruto's forearm.
Ino was pointedly ignoring him – still muttering muffled curses under her breath – and focused on Naruto's hand and wrist. The damage that stupid technique had caused was beyond belief; if she had kept hold of it any longer she would have been up shit creek. To put it in perspective, her wrist and hand bone had been shattered almost completely beyond repair.
"If I hadn't used the Rasenshuriken we'd have been swamped by all those grey skinned creeps!" Naruto retorted hotly.
Ino finished knitting the bones in her hand back together enough to start wrapping her arm up in bandages as Kiba pulled out a sling from his own med-pack. Once her war wounds had been bundled up in bandages, Naruto hopped back onto her feet as fiat was a mere scratch, and marched towards the entrance.
Itachi looked to Ino and Kiba for help; they both glared at him and followed Naruto. Itachi began muttering curses of his own as he followed them, accompanied by the four quieter members of the two teams. Why was everyone mad at him?
"How do you control it?" Sasuke asked the girl in the cell opposite his own.
Fuu sat up on her bed and raised an eyebrow, just visible through the bars of her cage.
"Control it? You mean the Beetle?" she asked.
Sasuke nodded.
"I can't – it'll help me out in tough spots, let me use its wings when I need to run away and things, but it always tries to take over when it does. I know the fourth Mizukage could control his, but I heard he went kind of crazy during his reign, so maybe not...`I heard that the guy who keeps the Hachibi chained up can though - they're actually supposed to get along really well…"
Sasuke frowned; Fuu had told him she could use the wings of her demon – albeit on a smaller scale – so he had assumed that she could control her demon. He had been hoping to get some of idea to help Naruto when he was finally released. He knew they had met before, but his mind worked more analytically than Naruto's did; he might have been able to pick up something she could not.
It was at least better than sitting around moping because he felt useless.
"But you must have some control over it to be able to do that much-"
"What do you mean you couldn't catch him? He is made of water! Just throw a few fireballs at him! He was part of a vital experimental procedure! If you can't find him before Orochimaru-sama arrives then you'll be taking his place!"
Sasuke couldn't help the smug grin that spread across his face as he heard one of the senior lackeys yelling at one of the underlings – there was no mistaking who they were talking about. Suigetsu had played his part with perfect timing. Orochimaru would be so distracted by the mess at his primary experimental base in wind country that he wouldn't notice any chaos at the one across the border in the middle of the water country ocean.
"What did you do? Why are you grinning like that? You're freaking me out!" Fuu demanded moving closer the bars of her cell looking both intrigued and alarmed.
"Suigetsu is what happened, not me; weren't you listening?" he replied calmly, but still grinning to himself.
"Don't bullshit me! You planned this! I know it!" she yelled in frustration, glaring through the bars.
"Do you want to get out of here?" he asked.
"Of course I do! Being sucked dry isn't my idea of fun!" she yelled, irritation amplifying by his ambiguity.
"Then relax – with any luck, Naruto will be breaking into the wind base right now; after they find Juugo it'll only be a matter of time before we can get out of this hell hole."
Fuu let out a howl of frustration and Sasuke continued to smirk.
"All right, remember to keep y our communicators turned on" Itachi reminded.
The three members of team eight nodded, and headed off down their own junction and down another corridor. Naruto, Ino, Kakashi, Sai, and Itachi took off down the remaining corridor on silent but swift feet. Ino made a face as they turned one of the disgustingly familiar corners; now that they were actually inside the building and past the protective seals, she was picking up a much stronger presence.
One that actually seemed to be giving of the most of the malignancy in the air; it came and went though, it wasn't at all permanent. It was definitely strong but oddly it wasn't as grotesque as the other cursed seals in the buildings. Ino shook the thought from her head when they turned down another corridor.
It really was like being back in grass country; Orochimaru didn't have a very imaginative decorator. Turning down another corridor, she decided to try concentrating on it – probably not one of her better ideas, but she would get a better impression of it that way. Ino stopped the blocks keeping it from fully entering her mind, and let the waves soak in.
It was completely overwhelming; the sheer scale of the blood lust was enough to make her grasp at the wall for support. She'd never felt so much rage or such a strong desire for blood from anyone but Naruto – and only when she was using the Kyuubi chakra. Were these really the thoughts of a human?
She knew that picking them up would be impossible if they didn't originate from a human, but for one person to have such clear barbarity in the most menial thoughts wasn't something she had come across before. She could barley hear Itachi and Naruto talking to her-
It was gone as quickly as it had appeared – she looked around to find worried glances being sent in her direction; Itachi looked like he was going to strangle her once they got out of this place.
"I'm fine; I just didn't expect it to be so strong when I concentrated... It keeps coming and going!"
Naruto stared at her blankly, then with irritation.
"You mean as if the source of it is bi-polar?"
Ino felt like bashing her already achy head with a stick; she had been picking up on Juugo's thoughts all this time and she hadn't realised? Some clan heir she was! Her father would have her studying everything from the ground up again if he heard about this! She should have realised this sooner!
"Which way do we go?" Kakashi asked, jerking her from her self-depreciating thoughts.
Ino closed her eyes and concentrated again – it had been so overwhelming; she hadn't been given the chance to actually consider which direction the raging echoes in her mind had come from. He wasn't close by – that much she could tell immediately - but she wasn't sure of the exact location... His chakra must have been sealed, or in some sort of restraining cell like those the interrogation department used. For a general direction though...
"We need to go west; that's all I can pick up direction-wise"
Naruto glanced in the direction Ino had specified – there were two more corridors, each heading in the direction Ino had pointed out. She could send a few clones down them first, but the Rasenshuriken had taken a large chunk of chakra from her; she didn't know how many she could make without accidentally tapping into the Kyuubi's chakra. In any case, they didn't have enough time to wait for that; someone was bound to have had the common sense to go alert Orochimaru by now (where ever he was).
"Ino, Kakashi, take the right hand fork; Naruto, Sai, and I will take the right hand path; if the communicators go out of range, Sai or Ino can contact the others" Itachi instructed.
Naruto shot him a suspicious glance; had Ino been giving him mind-reading tips? She knew she had tried before, but her explanation had made little sense to him. Not that she could claim otherwise but...
Ino and Kakashi nodded, quickly darting down their own path; with no room for further discussion, Naruto took off after her brother down their own designated hallway, Sai closely following.
Ino carefully peered around another doorway; once again, there was nothing in the room behind it. Frustration welled up inside her and she slammed it closed. This was the third corridor she and Kakashi had searched since splitting away from Naruto and Itachi, and they were still no closer than before to Juugo.
She didn't dare let herself examine his mind in such detail again – she didn't know what would happen. The sheer numbers of cursed seals had been bothering her before she even realised she was also picking up things from Juugo; that had been before crossing the border, and it had already had her lashing out at Kiba.
At the same time however, they needed to find Juugo before someone could come and seriously try to stop them; they would be running blind for hours if she didn't try to find his exact location. Hoping she wouldn't regret it, she took a moment to pause in the hallway. Concentrating her chakra onto her telepathy she pushed it outwards.
Naruto and Itachi – seemingly arguing - Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Sai... she felt the sharp rugged and ferocious presence of Juugo's mind; bracing for any probable blasts of the malicious thoughts, she did her best to put his location into something she could aim for. All she could pick up was that he was still further west – she and Kakashi were closest at the moment.
Picking up the pace again, she made a gesture for Kakashi to follow her as she dashed down another hallway; she didn't really know what she was looking for, but she was certain they were making more progress than they had been beforehand. Feeling nothing in the rooms lining the hall, she took another turn down a duplicate hallway.
There was nothing till the end of the hallway – the guard at the doorway lunged towards them, and was immediately taken care of by Ino's fist. His head wasn't too badly damaged... at least she didn't think it was.
The doorway led to a flight of stairs, descending deeper into the earth; Ino palmed her face. Really, she should have expected this from a man with as little imagination in building design as Orochimaru. She pressed a switch on her communicator to open a frequency, but heard nothing but static.
She cursed; they were out of range. She could try linking up with Naruto, but if the communicators were out of range then there was no chance she would be able top by herself; she'd managed to do so with Itachi in the grass country base, but that one was smaller than this one.
After discussing and deciding that they could send a message some other way if they found something of note, she took to the steps three at a time, Kakashi following closely behind her. It was almost endless, but eventually they emerged in a series of very dimly lit hallways.
They were considerably creepier than the ones above – the doors had so many bolts and seals on them that Ino was reluctant to look inside them for fear of what they could possibly contain. Taking a deep breath, she opened her mind by a mere fraction; the force that rushed into her mind dragged her too her knees -cradling her head between her hands - screaming as it seared through her mind.
Naruto whirled around as the faint sound reached her ears; Itachi too stopped at the noise. There was no doubt that it had been Ino screaming, and the reaction was instantaneous – Itachi and Naruto both turned around and headed in the direction they had just come from.
It was safe to assume that, either Ino and Kakashi had found something and were in trouble, or were just in trouble. The communicators had gone out of range at least half an hour ago, and they had yet to find anything amongst the tunnels they had been searching.
Naruto was adamant that they needed to go deeper underground, but Itachi was reluctant to go anywhere near the lower floors; Naruto had snorted at this, certain that Orochimaru was going to be unimaginative enough to have the more dangerous and important experiments underground, but Itachi refused to budge.
Naruto couldn't help but be a little smug that Ino's voice had been muted; apparently Ino and Kakashi had reached the same conclusion she had. They came to a dead end, or to Itachi at least; the door in front of them led to the lower floors. Itachi took one glance at it, before turning around and heading for another corridor.
"Itachi! What if Ino's down there?" Naruto protested, chasing after him with Sai snapping at her heels.
"I don't think Ino's in any danger; she's been reacting to the number of cursed seals here for days. If she really was in trouble, she wouldn't scream like that – it's more likely she concentrated on finding Juugo too much-"
"That's even worse!" Naruto interrupted.
She sometimes wondered if the god who had screwed brains into place had been feeling a little under the weather when he screwed down Itachi's; she didn't understand his logic at all! How was possible brain damage or craziness not worse than a couple of cuts and bruises?
"Only if she can't handle it, and if she's put up with it this long, I don't think a few hours will make any difference; we should keep searching up here."
Naruto flexed her fingers as she resisted the urge to strangle some sense into him; apparently Sai was just as frustrated if the awkward pat on the shoulder was anything to go by. With a howl of frustration as she tore at her bunches, she picked up the pace and followed him down another cloned hallway.
The door slammed open to emptiness. Ino gave the room a quick once over with her eyes, not daring to try looking for the boys consciousness after her last disastrous attempt. Seeing it was truly empty, she whiled from the doorway growling in frustration. On the other side of the dark corridor, Kakashi was busy searching an identical room.
"He's not in there!" she informed the grey haired Jonin behind her as she darted further down the corridor.
"Nor this one" he replied despondently from the other side of the hallway.
The door was slammed shut and footsteps echoed down the dark hallways at a rapid pace. They were so close now! So close, he was somewhere in this underground labyrinth, Ino had confirmed. All that was left to find him. God, if this was another dead end she didn't know what she was going to do with Naruto…
Ino growled and skidded to a halt in front of another door.
Down another hallway another blonde slammed open another door: a glance with swirling red eyes that no one with an iota of chakra was inside it. Naruto swore and hastened down the halls once again, searching for the next door. Sai and Itachi mimicked her actions as they ran behind her.
"Where the hell is he?" she growled.
"Naruto calm down; we'll find him. Orochimaru wouldn't let the source wander around by his own free will," Itachi soothed, though the noticeable grit of his teeth showed his own frustration.
"Itachi-Sempai, I think we should consider going to search in the cells and labs for Orochimaru's experiments - we aren't getting anywhere up here; Kakashi-Sempai and Ino can't search all of the lower levels by themselves – we should try to contact team ten too" Sai stated in a business manner.
"Not until were certain Sai; those cells are… going through Orochimaru's criminal file back in Konoha was one of the few times I've been chilled to the bone. Some of the things we're likely to find there are nothing short of monstrous; we should make sure he's not up here before subjecting ourselves to..." he shuddered.
"You think I care about a little mutilation Itachi? If you do, I can show you some of the things I did when we were searching the grass base for Sasuke! Go ahead! You can use Tsukiyomi right now!" Naruto hissed, skidding to a halt.
The corridor veered in two different directions. Itachi turned his gaze onto Naruto with his Sharingan spinning angrily. Sai, having only recently even broached the real of psychology called emotion, was somewhat uncomfortable with the expressions on their faces.
"I'll just… go this way…" he informed them warily, taking off and dashing down the hallways at full speed.
Sai breathed a sigh of relief as he got away from his two disgruntled companions; though somewhat emotionally retarded, he knew better than to get in between a sibling fight; he'd had a few with shin, and he knew from that experience at least that getting involved would be most unwise.
Frankly, he thought Naruto was making a decent point about the whole mess, but once again, he didn't want to get involved. Taking care to keep to the shadows, he waited for two sound ninjas to dart down one of the hallways forming a crossroads with his own. Once their footsteps had disappeared, he quickly slipped down one of the other hallways.
He had doubled back to the stairwell they had discovered earlier; descending them, he emerged in a much darker set of corridors. The heavy reinforcements on the doors confirmed his suspicions that Naruto had been thinking more logically than her brother had. If he concentrated, he could hear the sound of doors opening and closing echoing through the halls.
That had to be Ino and Kakashi; he would contact them once they were back in range. After checking the rooms nearby, he turned down another corridor. He repeated the action again and again until he came to another set. He could hear crashes emerging from one of the cells at the end of the hallway.
He supposed it was the best lead he had at the moment, and pulled his short sword from its sheath ad he headed towards the sealed, heavy, reinforced steel door.
Naruto glared at her brother after slamming open yet another empty door.
"This is getting us nowhere and you know it!" she growled.
"Naruto, we need to cover all the bases here-"
"Screw it! You know damn well that Juugo is down below us! Even Hinata had a suspicion he would be, and that was before we even got here! Stop being such a damn pacifist about this!"
The roared protest left her a little breathless, and she could feel her nails lengthening as her hold on the Kyuubi chakra waned a little. She did her best to hold it in check, but unless she vented on a wall or something soon, she'd have a job on keeping it under control.
"Naruto, you need to calm-"
"What I need is to wring your damned neck! Why the hell are you being so adamant about this? You know that Juugo is underground! What the heck is wrong with you?"
Itachi stopped and turned around, his eyes flashing red. Had Naruto not been in a less than genial demeanour herself, she probably would have stumbled under the gaze he sent her, but she just glared right back instead.
"I am being adamant because I don't know what Juugo is like; Kiba had a point when he said Sasuke didn't give us much information! Orochimaru isn't known for being particularly discreet with his experiments, and when you can't even handle your own memories, you can't blame me for avoiding the addition of another potential nightmare to the list!" he snapped.
Naruto stared at him; she was no longer glaring, but she didn't give the impression she was going to back down either. She kept an unwavering gaze on him for a few moments before deliberately walking past him.
"Did you forget what I told you Itachi? I. Don't. Care!"
She moved quickly down the corridor; opening one door, she was greeted with a flight of stairs. Before he could protests, the sound of her footsteps rose from the dark depths below. Regaining his wits, he quickly followed her down the dark twisting decent, feet slapping on the wet stone steps carved into the rock.
Naruto was already scribbling away on one door with an ink brush, trying to remove the seals – the style of writing was completely different to the ones she had been tearing her hair out over recently. No matter which way she tried decoding and de-keying the scrolls found by Ino in Sunagakure, she couldn't decipher the things.
Before he could strike up the discussion again, the blast of an explosion echoed with loud resonation through the darkened halls.
There was an explosion, and it echoed and rumbled throughout the entire underground maze. Ino froze as the hallway they had just entered was filled with dust and mortar.
Sai was thrown from the room, landing in a battered heap on the new piles of debris. In barley moments, she had closed the distanced and pulled him out of the way, her hands already using the green glow surrounding them to mend the fracture in his ribs.
"What the hell is going on?" she demanded, moving to a bleeding gash on his arm.
"He's up there!" Sai pointed in the direction he was facing.
Turning to see for herself, Ino could clearly see the pile of rubble that had fallen from the roof - the light came from a small hole in the roof where the rubble had originated. Sitting atop the rubble was the boy they had spent the last two months crashing through Orochimaru's bases in search of.
Giving a tentative push from her frontal lobe with her chakra she tried to get a shot glimpse of his consciousness. The pain that it sent through her forehead was reminiscent of her prototype brain boost juice - it was like listening to the static on a coms-device, only amplifies and in the form of rampant thoughts instead of crackling fuzzy sound.
In another hallway the interaction had not gone unnoticed by the second Jonin; he didn't even bother to restrain the girl beside him and ran with just as much speed, though with a comparatively less vocal demeanour.
Their gaze followed that of their squad-mates (as five people could hardly be considered a three-man-team) and dozens of responses flooded their expressions, the younger of the two the more expressive than any of her squad-mates so far.
"Thank god for that! We finally got the right place!"
Naruto jumped up and down eagerly at the sight of the orange haired boy. Ino gave the half human, half grey monstrous-looking boy a wary glance.
"He fits the description" Sai said in what he hoped was a placating tone; to Ino, it sounded more patronizing, and he received an elbow to the gut for his attempt.
"I know it's Juugo Sai! I was just expressing the shock! I mean - the dude is grey! Grey!" she raged at her team-mate.
"All right, now that we've found him, there only one thing left to-"
Naruto was cut off by a swipe by the boy's malformed monstrous arm as it swung to towards her. She ducked to avoid the blow and pulled out one of her kunai knives. Ino reacted by slamming her fist into the already vandalised ground, causing the boy to loose his footing.
"Oi, carrot-head, you listen to a girl when she's talking! Didn't your mother teach you manners?" Ino growled, waving her chakra infused fists for emphasis, barley missing the faces of Yamato and Sai.
"Ino, stop waving your hands around!" Itachi warned with an exasperated sigh before Juugo lunged towards them once again.
I've been having the strange thought recently that Adam Lambert looks kind of like a human Sasuke; I thought so when I watched the 'Whattaya Want From Me' video (yes, I know its been out for forever and a day - I don't really get out much). I loooove the album! I love 'Time for Miracles' and 'If I Had You' and 'Voodoo'. I like Lady Gag-gag too. :P
Before you all freak out, I mean when he wears normal-people clothes, like in the video; Who cried at the last naruto chapter? I personally smell NaruSaku from Kushina, since Naruto called Hinata weird before (I like Hinata, but not with Naruto). Sakura just has a freakish temper - like Kushina, no?
Also, One Manga is shutting down! That sucks ass! I can't press one of the arrow keys to change page on Manga Fox! Really, I found that out after talking to my dad (Le Gasp! He contacted Earth!), and my day was just completely shot after that... I ended up talking to a sparrow like a shrink (not actually joking here).
Hope you liked the chapter, and please, please, please, please, pleeeeeaaaase review!
Nat.
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