A/N: Hello! Chapter 28 coming right up!
Loads of thanks to anyone who reviewed or added this story to his/her favorites/alerts! I really appreciate it!
Disclaimer: I do own: Mizuiro, the plot and the other Oc's. I don't own Naruto, it belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Warning: Contains lots of weirdness, randomness, an trap-obsessed old lady and a certain Uchiha with a ponytail being able to understand birds.
An Akatsuki Story... Chapter 28
"Were are we going?" I yelled.
Both Weasel and Fish sticks were too fast for me, and they didn't even reply.
I tried to chase the boredom away by looking around me. You see, I'm absolutely NOT patient. I can't be bored for 5 minutes without beginning to plot something others won't approve. I was counting all sort of animals I saw when I noticed Itachi and Kisame had stopped.
I landed on the branch behind them and asked what it was. The Uchiha only said I had to shut up…
Under us, an old lady was carrying a huge amount of wood.
I frowned and jumped down, leaving my bag on the branch. "Need some help?"
The lady looked thankful. "That would be nice. My house is that way," she answered, pointing at the big dark trees. "Okay! Lets go!" I took all of the wood -yes, all. I'm a ninja, yeah!- and began to sort of race down to the direction the lady had pointed. She smiled.
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Some time later, in the old lady's little house:
I sat on a chair, close to the fire, with a cup of tea in my hands. The old lady was searching something in the bookcase next to the door. She turned around, in her hands was a map. She came over to me and handed me the map. I put my tea away and took it.
I frowned.
"What is this?" The old lady only smiled and said "It's a present for helping me. I hope it will help you in the future."
I nodded and thanked her. When I left the house, I finally remembered that I was on a mission… with two others, who aren't going to be happy when I'm so late. Which I am. Kami, I'm dead. I began to sprint to the place were I left them. I took a glance at the map and stopped.
That map wasn't ordinary… it showed the forest I was in now. I saw a square that for the baa-chan's house, plenty of little rounds for the trees.
I grinned. On the map were also quite some red triangles. Apparently they represented traps.
My grin became even more wide after I activated one of those traps and noticed they were awesome. Just awesome.
They weren't like those crappy traps a genin could take down in less of a second, no. they were traps that could take S-rank criminals down in less than a second if they have no idea this forest is habited by a trap-obsessed old lady. Heh heh. Thinkin' what I'm thinking? This is getting more and more interesting!
I was at the place I left Weasel and Shark. But no one was there. Panic came up.
They didn't left me here, did they? Because then, I'm screwed if Pain finds out!
.
.
Only my bag and coat were still there. I got on the branch, put the map into my bag and put the cloak on. Just when I was about to take of, I saw something and froze.
In front of me were Itachi and Kisame.
Hanging in a tree.
Tied up.
I broke down laughing my ass of. "Hahaha! You two look like total idiots! Bwuahahaha! Looks like baa-chan caught a weasel and a shark, both at once!"
Kisame looked like he really wanted to come down there and punch me in the face, but Itachi was loads more fun.
His expression didn't even changed when he hung upside down, tied up, with me laughing at him.
CRACK.
I stopped laughing immediately.
"Crack? Wh-aaah!"
"Hahaha! Who's the idiot now?," Kisame said.
"…" was Itachi's reaction.
I just said "Fudge."
And with that we were three to hang in the trees. As we were all tied up, our hands too, with special shinobi-cord (shouldn't I say 'anti-shinobi-cord'?), there was a little problem. For now, it was just me glaring and thinking, Kisame laughing and Itachi remaining silent.
Then, I remember something. "Hey, Kisame-san?" He looked suspiciously at me. Intelligent guy.
"Doesn't your sword eat chakra? Can't he eat the chakra from the ropes?" He frowned. "What are we getting at? You think that I haven't tried that yet? Doesn't work."
"Oh." There I thought I had a good idea.
Silence.
A few birds came along. They flew around me, chirping. I was thinking, hard.
Bad points: we're stuck upside down in trees, can't move and are wearing Akatsuki's suspicious cloaks.
Good points: … it isn't raining?
The birds began chirping harder. "Quiet, please. I need to think."
Itachi blinked and said: "Mizuiro, I think they're trying to tell you something."
"Oh. Didn't know that. Wait, there's a little problem… I can't understand them!"
"They seem to understand you."
"Huh? Really?" I looked at the birds. "Kami, this is scary! They've like almost the same eyes as the old lady!"
"Come to think of it, why did you ran away so suddenly?," Sushi asked sharply. I shrugged, not loosing the weird birds out of my sight.
"She didn't seem to be able to carry all of that."
"You made us loose time."
"You were the ones who got trapped in the first place!"
"Hn."
I turned back to the birds. Their eyes were shining.
"Uh. So, hm. D-do you know how to get me out?"
Silence. But I did get the idea that they heard me.
"Will you please release me?" a cough was heard from Kisame.
"Oh, yes. And Itachi? The black-haired one, too, please?" another cough.
"Oh fine! Birds, will you please release me and my two companions from this trap?"
One moment nothing happened, then we all fell down on the branches. The birds and the cords were gone. "Well, that was weird," I mumbled. I took my map out of my bag and we continued our way as quickly as possible, avoiding the traps as well as we could. Finally, when we were out of the forest, it was already dark.
"That forest sure was like you would call 'creepy"," I declared, shivering.
Then, I saw the tree birds again. "Huh? What? I-I didn't meant to be disrespectful-" "I think they want you to hand over the map," Itachi said. I looked from the birds to the map in my hands. "You want this?" The bird that was the closest to me tilted his head. "Um. Okay. Here," and I gave them the map. Immediately, they flew off with the piece of paper in their becks.
A/N: The end. Of this chapter.
Starwatcher-shadow over and... out.
