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Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto characters, or anything in the series of Naruto, and nor will I ever.
Claimer: I do own Hina, Ami, Chieko, and the looks of Sassy, along with the plot of this story!^^
Chapter 14: The test, part 3
Sasori POV
Chieko and Sasori stopped outside a very, very big house. It could be defined as a huge mansion.
Sasori turned and looked up at her. "You have to enter. I cannot. She doesn't like me after I got a bit impatient," he said in his low, grumbling voice.
He was of course in his other form, as Hiruko.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Chieko asked silently, and smiled softly down at him. Sasori found Chieko rather intriguing. She seemed so kind, and friendly. None in the Akatsuki were kind and friendly. "But I have to go in there, alone?" she asked and looked insecurely at the mansion.
"She is rather nice. I just wasn't," Sasori said, and found himself trying to comfort the tall woman with shoulder-length hair and intriguing brown eyes.
"Heh, I don't doubt it. Okay, wish me luck!" Chieko said and left without an answer.
Sasori looked at her as she reached the door and opened it. "Good luck," he said silently, then shook his head out of the annoyance of whishing her so.
Chieko POV
"Come in here, my dear," a sugar-sweet voice said to Chieko from another room. Something about it was just so … suspicious.
Chieko had already figured the things out. She had never thought that she was going in there alone to retrieve information from the woman. Not on her first mission. If Sasori had come too, it would've been different. Now, it was just too suspicious.
She knew this was a set-up to get information from her, that the woman would give to the Akatsuki. Chieko smiled, knowing that Ami or Hina wouldn't have figured it out before it was too late. She almost laughed at the thought of her friends, always calling her Smartass.
Chieko walked into the living-room by the other side of the hall. A woman in a very long, red dress sat in a big chair. Her eyes were black, and seemed extremely friendly for some reason. Her looks were very different from her voice. She was young, and fair. But she seemed rather sad.
"Chieko, was it?" she asked. Now Chieko was absolutely sure that this was a test.
"Yes, it is," she said nonetheless to forge a sly alliance.
"What are you here for?" the woman asked.
"May I ask your name for starters?" Chieko asked, and the woman smiled.
"You may," she said.
"What is your name, m'lady?" Chieko asked.
"My name is Sassy," the woman said, and Chieko smiled.
"It's nice to meet you, Sassy," she said.
"Right," Sassy snorted.
"Good point. I don't know yet. You've not been funny yet," Chieko joked and Sassy smiled.
"Well, now I dare say it's a pleasure to meet you, Chieko," Sassy said, and Chieko chuckled.
"But about the information," Chieko said seriously.
"You want to go down to business?" Sassy asked, a bit surprised.
"No, I want to tell you that I know I'm not the one trying to gather information," Chieko said.
Sassy opened her eyes wide. "You already know? I mean, we make it painfully obvious in the end, but no one usually knows before they enter," she said.
"Well, not many would find it weird. It's too obvious," Chieko shrugged.
"Good point," Sassy said.
"But I always dig into every single thing," Chieko said with a careful smile.
"Well, then. Why won't you tell me your real name?" Sassy asked.
"Oh, my real name is Chieko," Chieko said.
"Really? I thought you were impostors," Sassy said, "And don't try to deny it."
"Whatever we're doing has nothing to do with the Akatsuki. We're not after information on them. But we are looking for information on a certain person. This I cannot tell you, as I don't even know the person," Chieko explained.
Sassy looked at her with a small frown. "What would it take for you to spill the truth?" she asked.
Chieko's mind drifted to pancakes. She just loved pancakes. She snapped out of it as soon as she had gotten into it, though.
"Nothing. You'd have to kill me. But I promise you it has nothing to do with information on the Akatsuki," Chieko said in all serenity.
"I find it weird, but something about you just makes me believe in you," Sassy said and looked Chieko up and down. She was a strange being, that one. But she kept to the loyalty of her friends.
"But will you tell me who it is who's trying to figure out of the different things?" Sassy asked.
Chieko smiled. "You may ask, but I will not tell. You'll just have to make due to the fact that it isn't me," she said.
Sassy smiled. "You're excused. I believe you," she said.
"Thanks," Chieko said.
"But are you sure you wanna be a tracker? It is rather demanding to girls," Sassy said.
"Anything boys can do, I can do better," Chieko said with a smile.
"Okay, if you say so," Sassy said, "Sayonara."
"Ja ne," Chieko said. The girl left.
"No, we won't see each other later in this form," Sassy mumbled to herself as she took the form of Konan and smiled as she looked down on the girl skipping down to Sasori.
Chieko skipped out of the house. She had known all along that Sassy wasn't a real person. She knew it from the moment she heard the voice. She knew it had been Konan. She could sense it. Not just because she could hear the voice's weird tone, but because she could feel it. She had a seventh sent in that matter.
Sasori was standing down at the gates waiting for her.
"I thought you hated waiting," Chieko said as she reached him.
Sasori huffed, and they then walked away from the mansion.
WOHOOO! New chap! And thanks to:
Kuro Shinen Akuma For reviewing so quickly on the chap, and
Chocoholic93 For blackmailing me to give out another chapter even though I haven't gotten a third reviewer. I'm getting soft…
But it's my sister's birthday, so I will upload another tomorrow, just because I love uploading! And not because she reads the stories (she doesn't. I won't let her), but because I just feel generally happy after a birthday! ^^
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