Sigh I can't believe that just when I was starting to write chapters the internet gets disconected. Oh well now I have internet again. yaaay. so here's the next long chapter I promised. ENJOY! =3
"Sensei!"
"Oh, Enama. What brings you here?" Hade asks as Enama and her other students stop at the entrance of the ramen shop where her and Toshiru were having lunch. All three of them had tired expressions on their faces and sweating as if they had run from far away just to find them.
"We…we…." Enama panted, trying to catch her breath.
"Ok just catch your breath first Enama I don't want you to pass out."
Enama closed her eyes and breathed deeply, after a few seconds she calms down and speaks in a hurry.
"Guy sensei told us to tell you that he needs you at the river that leads to the shrine as fast as possible."
"He said something about a message you send our uncle a while ago." Kenta says and both twins look at each other with worry.
"Do you think something may have happened?"
"If Kakashi wasn't able to handle them he may be in trouble."
They quickly stand up and turn to the gennin.
"I want you three to head home and not tell anyone about what you just told us…understood?"
"Yes sensei." They say and both Hade and Toshiru jump into the roofs and run at full speed. They follow them with their eyes until they're no longer visible and look at each other in confusion.
"What was that about?"
"I don't know but it looks like it's something extremely important and dangerous according to the looks they exchanged."
"Do you think they were talking about another possible invasion?"
"Kano don't think like that!"
"What? I'm just trying to figure out what they were so freaked out about Enama."
"Well if it was something like that I'm sure we'll hear about it sooner or later."
Kenta shrugs and they go into the ramen shop and order their ramen.
The twins arrive just in time to see the two cloaked figures they had seen at their shop except they had taken their large straw hats off. They were standing on the river a few feet away from a small group that as they got closer saw that it was Asuma, Guy, and Kurenai holding up a very beat up Kakashi. They get out their kunai as they get closer and when they're within throwing range they throw their weapons at the enemy.
Sensing the kunais both cloaked men block the incoming kunai and look in the direction of the throw. Hade stops at the railing while Toshiru stops next to Asuma and his eyes narrow in anger.
"You!" he growls at Itachi who's not looking at him but at Hade who's eyes are as wide as a tennis ball.
"It's been a long time…Hade, Toshiru." He says, still not looking at Toshiru.
"If we had known it was you back at the shop we would have fought there!" Toshiru hisses. Itachi's eyes finally move from Hade to her twin and his eyes show no emotion.
"Then you would have been no match for me and Kisame."
"Are these more of your friends Itachi?" the shark man chuckles as his eyes roam Hade with a predatory look.
"If we were ever his 'friends' he would of never left or killed his clan." Hade says as she finally composes herself and glares at Itachi. In one swift move she jumps over the rail and stands next to Kurenai who's holding Kakashi.
"What did you do to Kakashi?"
"Nothing he could handle." Was his response and Hade knew he had used the same jutsu he had done on Sasuke when he had killed his clan.
"Well I would really love to have a fight with you two and rip you to shreds." Kisame said as his grip tightened on his sword and a wicked grin spread on his face.
"No Kisame, I'm sure more shinobi are on their way and we can't afford to waste any time now." He looks at his partner calmly and the shark man sighs in defeat.
"You all don't know how lucky you are." The shark man says as him and Itachi turn to leave.
"Itachi, I swear I'm going to hunt you down." Hade said and Itachi looks back at her, his eyes completely empty. "And when I do I'm going to kill you with my bare hands!"
"Then I'll look forward to that encounter."
With that they disappear and Hade quickly turns to Kurenai.
"What did Itachi do to Kakashi?"
"We don't know we had to close our eyes to not get caught in his genjutsu."
Hade places her hands on Kakashi's shoulder and gives it a slight squeeze.
"Kakashi…Kakashi can you hear me?"
He stirs and struggles to nod.
"Hade…I…"
"Don't talk, we'll take you home."
"Not the Hospital?" asks Asuma.
"Not yet, let's just get him out of here."
A few minutes later they're in Kakashi's apartment. Kenta, Kano and Enama freaked out when they walked in with a barely conscious Kakashi.
"What happened to our uncle?"
"Who did it?"
"Listen to me, don't tell anyone about this and don't let anyone inside unless they're jonnin or anbu…got it?"
They nod as the other jonnin take Kakashi to his bedroom.
"Do you think they have already found Naruto?"
"It's a possibility, Itachi knows this village well and Naruto's habits are pretty simple."
"I just hope Jariya is with him," says Hade as her hands glow green and hovers them over Kakashi's body, searching for any damage. "They'll have a hard time getting Naruto if a sannin is with him."
"Shh" Guy puts a finger to his lips and everyone stops talking just as the door knob turns and Sasuke walks in.
"Kakashi there's-what happened?" his widen in shock. "What are you all doing here? Why is Kakashi bedridden?"
"Sasuke…we-"
"Hey is it true that Itachi's back and he's after Naruto?" says a jonnin that had just arrived. "Oh..."
"Idiot."
Sasuke's eyes flash red for a moment before running out the door.
"Damn it why does this always have to happen!" Guy says as he runs after Sasuke. Hade looks from the door to Kakashi and back to the door and bites her lip.
"Hade…go after them…its fine we'll take Kakashi to the hospital don't worry." Asuma says with a small frown. "I'm sure Kakashi would've gone after him too."
She nods before running out the door. She was in the streets in seconds and headed to the ramen shop.
"Old man did Sasuke come here asking for information on Naruto?"
"Yes I told him Naruto went with Jaraiya to a town not far from here."
She thanks him before taking to the streets again and leaves the village. It took her a few minutes but she eventually got to the town cursed. There were inns all over the place and it would certainly take her hours to find the inn where Naruto and Jaraiya were staying in. She bit her thumb and did a few hand signs; Akane appeared and gave Hade a glare.
"I know I know I shouldn't have put you in an animal contract but it was the only way. Konoha is not a place for tigers…except for the forbidden forest."
After a few days people had gotten a bit terrified to have a tiger on the streets and the elders had told her to either get rid of Akane or put him in an animal summoning scroll.
"I need you to find Sasuke he's in trouble."
Akane huffs at her but starts smelling the air and gives a growl before leading the way through the roofs. They arrive at a large inn and sees a big hole were a window should have been. As they got closer she realizes that the whole hadn't been punch or kicked through, but burned. Once she's in front of it she sees two things, Guy talking to Jaraiya and Naruto. The second was Sasuke sitting on the floor with his back against the wall; his head slumped forward as if unconscious.
"Sasuke!"
The three ninja snap their head in her direction as she and Akane run to Sasuke. Hade goes on her knees and gently lifts Sasuke's head up and gives a small gasp. His eyes were just as blank and fogged like Kakashi's after being hit with Itachi's sharingan jutsu.
"How did this happen?"
"Sasuke arrived just after Itachi had found me." Naruto began his eyes full of anger. "Sasuke attacked with the chidori but his brother blocked it and broke his wrist."
Sure enough Hade looked at Sasuke's left wrist and saw it red and swollen.
"Pervy Sage arrived just after that, but Sasuke stood up and told us not to interfere-"
"And you didn't!" she yelled looking at Jaraiya who looked at her apologetically.
"I wanted to respect his wishes…but it turns out he wasn't strong enough, he grabbed Sasuke and did some genjutsu on him."
"He wasn't dying so you should have not let him…despite Sasuke being a prodigy he was no match for Itachi yet!" She looks back at Sasuke and strokes his hair gently. "You stupid, stupid boy…idiot!" Of course he couldn't hear her but she said it anyway.
"Jaraiya-sama was thinking of looking for Tsunade and brings her to Konoha to heal Sasuke and Kakashi."
"That's a good idea, if you can even find her."
"I'm sure we'll find her, I'm taking Naruto with me."
A bit later they're all out side the small village with Guy carrying Sasuke on his back. Jaraiya asked Hade if she wanted to come, but she refused; saying she would work on tracking down Itachi and learn more about the group called Akatsuki. Jaraiya had told her about it and that there was a big possibility they were after the nine-tailed fox inside Naruto.
"Are you sure? I mean, there could be a high possibility you could convince her to come."
"I'm sure she will come either way, especially if you take Naruto." She smiles. "He is quite a good influence."
Naruto looks at her confused but Jaraiya looks at her with a smirk, letting her know that indeed it was the reason he was taking him. Soon they said good-bye, but not before Guy gave Naruto the same outfit he and Lee wore making the other's face fall.
Guy and Hade got back to the village with Sasuke still on Guy's back and Akane walking next to Hade. At the front gates the guards let them in with a worried look upon seeing a very beat up Uchiha. They took him to the hospital were Hade attended to him since she also worked there. She healed his wrist and broken ribs as well as the concussion on his head. Just as she was finishing the door banged open and Sakura ran in.
"SASUKE!"
"Who let you in?" A nurse ran in and apologized.
"I'm sorry Kihari-sama I tried to stop her."
"What happened to him!"
"He fought his brother…that's all I'm telling you."
"Will he be alright?"
"Physically yes…but not mentally." She looks at Sakura and sees tears in her eyes. "Jaraiya and Naruto left the village to look for a woman named Tsunade; she's a very skilled medic and will be able to heal Sasuke and Kakashi."
"Kakashi-sensei is hurt too!" The tears start to flow and Hade looks away to Sasuke.
"In the same state as Sasuke, they'll be in a coma until Jaraiya can find Tsunade and brings her to Konoha."
Hade tries to reassure her but that she has to come tomorrow. Sakura wanted to protest but Hade didn't let her and had the nurse escort her out. Sorry Sakura but you have to calm down and I need to fix him.
She gave Sasuke another check over before writing it on a medical clipboard and headed to Kakashi and did the same for him. When she was done she left the hospital and found her brother waiting for her outside.
"Guy told me what happened to Sasuke."
"Why did he have to act the avenger and go after Itachi he could've gotten killed."
"It was that bad huh?"
"Yeah…Manna won't be very happy…he's like another son to her."
"He also told me that the group Itachi is in is called Akatsuki."
"I have to find out everything I can about that organization…and I know just the place to start looking."
"Land of Midari?"
"Land of Midari." She said with a contempt smile.
"You are soooo not going there by yourself!" Manna said as she picked up the plates from the table. Toshiru and Hade had arrived at the compound and told Manna about Itachi being in the village and about Sasuke and Kakashi being in the hospital.
"Manna I'm not going there by myself Toshiru's going with me."
"That's not enough you need at least a platoon of anbu with you." She sits back down and serves them a cup of tea. "That town is where all the rouge and bingo book shinobi go and hide!"
"I've been there plenty of times before so there's no danger in me going."
"How long will you be gone?"
"A week…maybe two." Hade said. Manna sighed and looked at her tea, watching as the steam rose and swirled until it disappeared.
"Just promise me you'll be careful Hade."
"You know I'm always careful, what could go wrong?"
"That's what worries me."
The next day Hade and Toshiru were all packed up and ready to go. Manna and Souma accompanied them to the gates of Konoha and wished them luck. With a smile and a wave they left, once they were a mile from the gates they jumped to the trees and headed to the Land of Midori.
Hade had only been there four times. Three of those times had been with Itachi during their anbu days and the last time had been with Kakashi and Asuma. It would take two days to get to the Land of Midari when the sun began to set in the horizon both shinobi stopped at a clearing next to a river and began to set up camp. As Hade started the fire Toshiru got the sleeping bags out and set them on the floor.
"How are we going to get information on Itachi in Midari?" he asked, he'd never been there before so he had no idea how they would get info on an S-class criminal. The land was home to rouge shinobi and anyone that lives there would be very discreet at hiding a fugitive's whereabouts.
"Well it's very easy." She said as the wood started to glow before finally crackling with fire. "You need to have a few contacts. I am happy to say I have such contact in that place"
"Who?"
"You'll see when we get there." The smile that played on her lips was one of secrecy and Toshiru was sure that whoever this person was…he was not going to like it. They headed out again when the sun began to rise and took to the trees again. Six hours later they were standing at the entrance of a large cave, big enough to fit a third of the village.
"Uh…why are we here?" Toshiru asked, thinking that his twin had forgotten how to get to the village. Hade looked around as if waiting for someone.
"We are waiting for someone to invite us in.?"
"Invite us in? Do we need an invitation or something?"
"No, it's just that if we try to go in we could get killed."
Not a moment had she said that four figures came out of the cave. One was tall, about six feet; dark skinned and a scar going from his lip to his collar bone, he was wearing only dark brown pants and a large sword strapped on his back and short brown hair with light brown eyes. Another was slightly shorter, jet black hair with dark brown eyes wearing a dark grey muscle shirt and black pants with a speared sword in his hand. The other two had dirty blond hair though one had green eyes and had light skin while the other had long hair and blue eyes and a slightly darker skinned. Both were wearing anbu like clothes except they were missing the guards and had double edge swords in their hands.
All four stopped a few feet from both Konoha nin and their eyes went to their headbands.
"Are you two rouge shinobi?" the blond one with green eyes asked.
"No."
"Then get out of here you have no business here."
"We came for information on a shinobi."
"What makes you think we would give you information on fellow rouge?" the tall dark skinned man said. In response she lifted her hand to the collar of her shirt and revealed her left shoulder to show part of her dragon shaped birthmark. Three of them stared at her questioningly but the tall one broke in a smile and laughed. Hade smiled back and took out her sword. In the blink of an eye the man moves and attacks her with his sword. She dodges and strikes back. He blocks an attack to his throat and chest; he takes a step back and jabs at Hade's shoulder but misses. Hade jumps over him and takes his sword in the progress. When he turns his own sword is at his throat while Hade's sword is at his chest, just infront of his heart. He looked at the swords and then at Hade...then he burst out in laughing. Hade smirked at him and lowered the swords. The moment she did he wrapped his arms around her and lifted her up in a big and suficating bear hug. Toshiru looked with his mouth wide open.
"Hade I knew it was you!"
"Han...can't...breath!"
"Oh, sorry."
He lets her go and she breaths in deeply, trying to get air back in her lungs. Her brother is at her side in an instant, kunai at the ready. But Hade places her hand on his forearm and he lowers it.
"It's ok Toshiru they won't harm us."
"But you just-"
"It was just to see if it really was the Hade Kihari...and she is." Hade winks and returns Han his sword which he straps on his back again. Han turns on the others and they nod, heading back into the cave. "Now if you would just follow us we'll get you inside."
The twins follow right behind Han into the cave. Toshiru expected the cave to be humid and cold, but inside it was warm and a cool breeze was blowing. Next to him Hade talked with Han.
"You've grown since the last time I saw you Kihari."
"Yeah, it's been a while."
"I remember the last time you where here you came looking for information on Itachi with your teammates," Hade eyes flicker to her brother and back at Han. "So what brings you here this time?"
"The same thing as last time...Itachi appeared at my village looking for something."
"What?"
"It's classified, but I can tell you that he was ordered to by an organization."
"An organization?" The cave was getting smaller, an orange glow was at the end of the tunnel as they neared it. Hade nods and looks at the pubs and motels, people passing through the small stores and rouge shinobi strolling by as if they had all the time in the world; not hidding or runnin from anbu and other shinobi after their heads.
"They call themselves...The Akatsuki."
Han stops abruptly as well as his companions ahead of him when they sensed he had stopped. He stares at her in the eyes long and hard, looking for a sign that she was pulling his leg. But when he found no such thing he sighs and looks at the up as if hoping for a revelation before looking at her again.
"I'm sorry to say this lassie but it's going to be very hard to get information on your ex..."
"And why's that?"
"Because if anyone knows and gives you the information you need the will be hunted down by the organization itself...and executed."
Woooow this was long. hope you enjoyed it! ^_^ Please review, no flames, any questions and what not feel free to message me. another long chapter coming soon, THANK YOU! XD
