Chapter 21

Poisoned Tongue

"Father please…don't," Kousetsu cried. "FATHER?!" Kiba shouted from the Itachi's grip. Tears pored out of her eyes. Itachi released Kiba and glared at him then at Kousetsu. "Finally…I'll be able to use you as I had originally planned" he said to nobody in particular. "Let me ask you something, Itachi…" Kiba said, gently massaging his bruised throat. "Why Ak…Kousetsu?" he quickly corrected himself. "Why her? Of all the people why here?"

Itachi bend down at an angle and stared Kiba in the eye. "Because Kousetsu is the ultimate weapon. She has something that nobody else has!" "And what's that?" Neji asked grimacing. Deidara grinned. "That little brat's got unlimited chakra! She has the ultimate defense and offence packed into one, she can manipulate air!" Kousetsu shot a glare at the blond Akatsuki member.

"Not just air…But anything that has air in it. On a large scale, you think the basics: water, soil, fire, air itself. But on a much smaller scale, she can manipulate anything." Neji stopped. "She can do exactly what I do. She destroys her opponent from the inside out." "Correct…" Sasori said, shocking everyone. "She can stop the blood flow in your body, using the same principle you use your byakugan. Poking points in your body, only she can send sound wave through it, destroying your organs to kill you slowly. She can manipulate blood as well…freeze it and stop blood flow completely or block blood from a certain part of the body."

Naruto's jaw dropped. "And since she can manipulate air and anything with air in it, she's unstoppable!" Itachi grinned. To everyone's surprise Kousetsu rose on her knees and held her arms out infront of her, palms up. It hit Kiba, she's sacrificing herself, for us, for our wellbeing…

"Take me…please, just don't hurt my friends." Kisame's eyes burst with panic. He looked from Kou to Itachi who had a smirk across his face. He's going to kill her! I have to do something! He was frozen with fear. "You really think it's gonna be that easy? Ima make things complicated." He closed his eyes. It looked as if he were dreaming. Kousetsu cocked her head in confusion then her eyes went wide. She knew what he was going to do. "Poisoned Tongue Jutsu!"

He thrust his fingers at the front of her neck. Her mouth opened on its own. A white gas like substance flowed from his finger tips and enveloped her neck and mouth. Her eyes darted around the room. She saw Lee try to make a run to 

stop the jutsu but was stopped by Sasori. Her eyes then fell on Kiba, who watched, his jaw on the floor. She was released from the jutsu. She looked up at her father for a slip second before her eyes went wide and she puked onto the floor.

Red liquid that Kiba recognized as blood fell from Kousetsu mouth. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, she clutched her head in her hands. "MAKE IT STOP!! MAKE IT STOP PLEASE!" She puked again. Her throat burned. Her body felt as if it were being crushed. The pain was hard to describe or pinpoint, but that was the effect of poisoned tongue.

She clutched her body and rolled around the cave floor, trying desperately to make the pain stop. Blood began to ooze from her nose and eyes. She crawled over to Itachi. "Dad, please make it stop!" She gripped the end of his cloak. It's soft silk was straining in her fingers. Itachi smiled at her. She sobbed harder. "DADDY! DADDY PLEASE STOP IT!! SAVE ME DADDY! SAVE ME!!" Kiba felt tears coming. The sight was more than anything he'd ever seen.

Kousetsu dropped her father's cloak and switched to Kisame's. "Uncle…Uncle Kisa…please make it stop!! It hurts! It hurts everywhere!! Please Uncle Kisa!" Kisame realized that he was too crying. Kou…I'm sorry. He knelt down and cupped her cheek in his blue clammy hand and looked into her bright green eyes. "There's nothing I can do, I'm sorry." She looked around wildly. "Uncle Deidara? Puppet Uncle? Daddy?...Kiba? "SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOP!!"

She fell to the floor in a pile. Itachi grinned. "Itachi! What have you done?!" Kisame asked outraged. "Don't fool anyone Kisame, you stood there and did nothing to save your said favorite niece." Kou slowly opened her eyes. Kiba looked into them. They were filled with pain. Blood slowly stopped flowing out of her eyes and nose. Her eyes began to lighten. They changed from bright green to blinding white. "Aki? Er…Kousetsu? Are you alright?" he asked. Her hair also began to change. From the roots, her hair changed from black to blinding white to match her eyes.

Deidara poked Itachi's shoulder panicking. "The spider! Itachi, you woke up Hatori!" Itachi got a look of panic in his eyes as well as Kisame and Sasori. "Sasori! Grab one of your puppets, the rest of you, get ready for a fight" Itachi said, his voice shaky. Kiba didn't know why, but whoever this Hatori person was, she was greatly feared by these members of the Akatsuki, he was sure that that meant they should be scared too…