New Lives
Chapter 54
"Hiashi-Sama must be getting senile, letting his daughter date you, Demon Brat!"
Naruto growled at the man, "Take that back!"
The man responded with a punch, only to find his fist caught in a crushing grip.
"You heard the man, apologize."
Kidoumaru caught the man's other hand, then a foot in mid-kick. "Freak! Let go of me!"
Kidoumaru smiled, "Sure."
He flung the bully backwards about fifty feet, sending him crashing into a wall.
"Kidoumaru, I am a ninja, I can take care of myself, dattebayo."
Kidoumaru stalked over to his opponent, "Yeah, but you won't, you're too nice to put these trash characters down." He glared down at the man he'd just thrown, "You trash really make me sick. Treating good people like filth because they're different than you. You've tortured this kid his whole life because he had the bad luck of being jiinkuurichi. He saved your whole village and all of your worthless lives and you spit in his face!" He leaned over, "It ends now. Naruto may be too nice to kick your worthless tails, but I'm a whole different game. Tell all your bigot friends, leave the kid alone, or I'll show you how we deal with your kind of useless trash in Otogakure." He straightened up and smiled, "Well, that takes care of the trash." He walked over to where Sakura was waiting.
"Not that I'm ungrateful, but, why do you keep doing that? I'm used to these creeps."
"Well I'm not. As far as I'm concerned, they can all go to Hell. You deserve better. Besides, I hate trash like that."
"You'll just get yourself in trouble."
He wrapped an arm around Sakura, "I'm always in trouble, right, Babe?"
"No, you're sweet."
"I thought you said I was a delinquent."
She snuggled closer to him, "You are, but you're a sweet delinquent."
Naruto gagged, "Get a room you two! You're as bad as Hana and Kankurou, dattebayo!" He looked over at the man lying in the dirt, "Thanks, Kidoumaru, but I'd rather handle it my way. I want them to respect me, not to fear me."
Kidoumaru smiled, "We better go, say hi to Hinata for me." He turned to Sakura, "Lets go to The Barbecue Rack and get some meat!"
...
That was too easy, for an S-Class criminal, this guy's a wimp. Tsunade smiled as Deidara left, a few threats and a small display of her power had convinced him to shut up and listen to her proposals. The council probably wouldn't like it, but, then again, since when did the council like anything beyond their paychecks and pet projects? Of course, not everyone on the council was self-righteous, twisted, bigoted fiend like Danzo, Shikato was too lazy to be a problem and was generally good-hearted, Inoichi thought much like Tsunade herself, and some of the others had broad minds. Since Danzo's stroke, the gentler members of the council were in the majority. Still, they would be wary of an alliance with Iwagakure, at least while Deidara was in charge. But they'd approved relations with Amegakure, even though Konan was a former Akatsuki member as well.
Kankurou was leaning against a tree, waiting for Deidara as the Artist-Nin exited the Hokage tower.
"About time. I've been waiting for you, jan."
Deidara glared at the boy, "You want to make trouble, Puppet-Boy, un?"
Kankurou stuck his hands in his pockets and strolled over, "Yes, but I won't. I'm not going to risk war by killing you, but I can't forgive you for what you did to Gaara, jan."
Deidara gave his manic smile, "That's good, I'd hate to have to kill you, the last thing I need is the Inuzuka clan on my tail, un." He started to walk away, then turned, "Oh, that reminds me. We sealed up the area around the Sealing Statue, Shukaku is doubly trapped. No one wants that thing lose. I figured your brother would want to know that thing won't be coming back, un."
Shukaku, imprisoned forever? No, not forever, eventually he'll either escape or maybe he'll even die somehow, but that should be long after we're gone. I hope it's in torment for what it did to Gaara, to all of us.
He nodded slightly, "Thanks."
Deidara looked at him in surprise, "Er, sure. Don't mention it, un."
...
"More to table twelve." A waiter walked into the kitchen.
"More what?"
"More of everything. It's the Akimichi boy and Jirobou."
The cook shuddered, it was going to be a long day...
Chouji and Jirobou sat in a back corner of the Barbecue Rack, out of sight of any jerks who might criticize their eating habits.
"Hey, Kido and Sakura just walked in." Chouji sucked down a plate of beef, "I wonder what they're gonna' eat?"
Jirobou grabbed a whole chicken and started tearing the meat from the bones. "I dunno', after this next course, let's get dessert!"
The couple didn't see the boys in back, and sat down at a table near the front.
"Let's see, I think I'll have a large pork and beef platter, no vegetables!" Kidoumaru laughed, "What about you, Babe?"
Sakura looked over the menu, "I think I'll have a salad."
Kidoumaru shook his head, "I'm with Kankurou-San on that one, vegetables are for rabbits! Give me meat!"
Sakura laughed, "Does that make me a cute little bunny?"
"Naw, that makes you a nice, sexy bunny."
He looked up and saw a waiter wheeling out a tray piled high with food, "I see Jirobou and Chouji are here..."
...
In The Forest of Death, a pair of unwanted visitors sat around a small campsite. The men both bore the symbol of Kirigakure, scratched through, on their headbands.
"I'm bored, I want to kill something!" One man said, "I haven't killed anyone in days."
The other man smiled, revealing rotten teeth, "Well, those brats'll probably be back tomorrow, we can kill them. The teacher looks tough though, and he's Oto."
The first man pulled out a blade, "You are a coward, Takada, afraid of a Chuunin."
Takada shook his head, "I'm not afraid, I'm cautious, Goro, we need to take him down first, then we can have fun."
To be continued...
