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It's getting colder, the tips of my fingers are nearly numb. There's something a bit suspicious wafting through the air tonight. Maybe my mind just can't rest until *84 gets back from the bathroom, its been two minutes and about 45 seconds now.. it takes 48 seconds to get to the bathroom door from here, maybe another 30 to piss, then 45 again. Either he's procrastinating or dead. Protocol for this is to stay at your post until the 5 minute mark, and then to call HQ.
It's 1:16 AM now, I suppose i'll wait until 1:20 and then investigate. Just hoping he's not waiting for me to come shake it for him, his hairdo speaks volumes on his other night time activities.
The nights are growing colder, winter is coming.
A breeze pushes Itachi's hair back, showing his blushed over cheek bones in the dim torch light hanging from the partially built left side of the wall.
I wonder how that drink with Kazekage is going for Ino.. Wonder if she'll get as drunk as she did that night with me.
Her ponytail drunkenly swings with each step she takes, her usual purple crop top looking dark and dull in the moonlight, but her hair shines a shade of grey that puts Kakashi's to shame.
She slows down and stumbles to my pace, throwing her arm around my own.
"Tachikunn the breeze sure feels great doesn't it? When summer ends things will be so boring! Can't you use your eyes on me and send me into some forever summer world just the two of us?"
The word us vibrates my bones.. Us..forever? I wonder if you think about it as much as I do..
"What an adorable thought, my Tsukuyomi used for something other than torture.. unless of course summer with me forever is torture"
I can hear the pitter patter of our shoes fumbling down walkways, crossing sidewalks all the way until all of the sudden the streetblock starts to smell like she does, and we turn the corner and the flower shop is in front of our face and her red ears and drunken smile tell me I can come in, but maybe not through the front door..
The tall blond jumped from the 30 foot under developed wall and landed gently next to Itachi
Fuck she must have fucked him. She smells different tonight.. there is a more of a curl in her ponytail then earlier, and I can see her stockings have been taken off and put back on, the ripped diamond threading on the left is now on the right side of her thigh.
Gaara? Really?
I can feel extreme amounts of anger welling up inside me.
Why I am so extremely upset? Why do I even care? I should leave though. I must be so turning green at this point.
"Did you find our quarters ok within the walls?"
When I ask her this, her blue eyes squint a bit and her eyelashes do an annoyed flutter
" Obviously I did or I wouldn't be changed right now"
Ah.. maybe she just changed into new clothes, and smells different after a slut shower. I feel relief wash over me., even if its not warranted.
"So tachikun, we haven't talked much since uh.. that one time... I mean we just stopped going to the same restaurant I guess and I wanted to maybe ask you how you've been and what you've-"
"Let's not pretend you didn't just do something unsavory on your way to your room...How much longer are we going to pretend that night never happened with us?"
I mean how am I really supposed to answer that Ino, you see me every other day, you come to my house at least once a week with Sakura, avoiding eye contact and slyly sneaking to other tables when you see me at our favorite restaurant..The hair on the back of my neck stands up, a presence not far from us.
She grabs her kunai and throws it towards my hand, a crow catches it and flies towards her, my eyes turn red with fire and I trap her in a scene.
I have her wake up in the middle of the old cobble stone street, it was Tainu Lane and 18th Street North.
I am hiding in the old artist studio above watching from the window, focusing on the outside, I'd hate to have that intruder show up while i'm fucking my team mates mind.
"Oh fuck YOU Itachi, you put me in time out?" Ino aimlessly yells into the empty street, as she turns around she sees our past selves walking through-
Here you little psycho, something to distract you while I figure out who's watching us at the wall.
"Tachikunn summer forever with you isn't torture, I'm so bummed we couldn't train together this entire time, but my mission just took soooo long! Hey... are you listening you big idiot?"
There's the flower shop...
Tears started flowing in her eyes, he remembered every detail down to the smell of the air mixed with the flower shop, she watched her previous self give him a shit faced grin and gesture for him to come up through the window, as she let herself in through the flower shop.
Someone is watching us.
Itachi transported Ino to her orignial station to the North of his post, then flashed back to his as if nothing had happened, leaving her to her thoughts.
A black shadow sat atop the wall just 20 meters from Itachi's bored stance and intimidating demeanor. The shadow glared off into the distance to the east, you can just barely see a few lights coming from the bank separating the hidden sand and hidden river villages. One of the lights flickered, once, twice, then held for a bit before blinking once more.
Was that morse code? Or just a light that's running low? ..- That's a U..
.- - - .- -.-. -.-
Attack? U attack?
Someone is watching me..
*84 might be dead, if I leave my post I might leave an opening, i'll send a shadow clone to-
WHAT IN TSUNADE'S TITTIES IS THAT
A hull the size of a tailed beast, made of wood, and metal armory running along the edges of the port side. A giant sky boat flying towards the sand village at a speed faster then kamui could catch. Itachi stared in amazement, as did the figure in the woods.
The strange shadow craned his neck to see the enormous ship through the sandy hole in the wall. Suddenly when the mystery ninja looked down to his right, a crow landed next to him, on his satchel.
Suddenly the boat appeared to melt into the sky, the village drowning in black flames, crows surrounding the stranger while the ground below him seemingly began to shift just under his feet. The stranger blinked once more. He was tied to the wall, the boat back to normal, looking to his right, the most terrifying man, red and black eyes and a black cloak. His eyes widen, this man is an Uchiha.
I'll send him to intel later. The attack signal could mean my supervisor is already dead. That flashing coded light.. U attack. Giant.. boat... bateau attack. That has to be it. I can set the vessel on fire, but it will still crash into the bridge. I have about 3 minutes until it encroaches on the atmospheric change line of the upper and lower air pockets of the dessert. The likeliness that giant boat will catch on fire is high.
Something then bellowed through every mind on the town, the scream heard round the village
"ITACH-hu.." Then an ear blistering scream to follow.
She always did have a flair for the dramatic. I do hope she didn't awaken the entire town just to tell me there's a giant bateau in the fucking sky.
At the kazekage's, all but 30 meters away Gaara wakes up startled;
Gaara was jerked awake by an overwhelming abhorrence.
Dear god she's invaded my dreams. What an unpleasant imagination i have sometimes..
Gaara...
Shukaku, I do so apologize if my unsavory dreams have awoken you.
Gaara, that was not a figment of your unpleasant dream, i'm afraid it's time for us both to awaken. Something is stirring just outside the village. I can sense a great power coming from above.
Let us be on our way then..
Staring at the south end of the wall, Itachi watched bedroom light after bedroom light flash on, people shooting out of bed and opening their windows, asking spouses if they had heard the same scream.
Civilians all beginning to feel the same fear that Ino felt just outside the city limits.
Her kunai hitting every target within visual distance. Her jutsu's being overwhelmed by seven of arguably the most persistent men in existence. Her face growing red, her weapons beginning to run low.
Did he hear her call? Her facial expression was drifting from confidence to concern.
The men were paid swords. No affiliation, working for some rich man with hidden agendas.
One with a hammer type fire sword, shooting flames the size of her wingspan every 56 seconds or so. She was counting, they could tell.
Through an exchange of glances, on the third strike, as her counting restarted, a white haired little rebel threw a water dragon at her, full force. As her body turns to the weight of gravity, something holds her up.
Dear god woman you were about to get yourself killed or kidnapped right here and now, I could slap you for your negligence.
"Itachi, oh thank the stars, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN I CALLED AND YOU-"
"stay here"
Black spots 40 meters south, the tree with black spots.. ok..
"Itachi wait!"
His black cloak lands gently on the same exact spot he had rescued Ino from, he would never admit it, but being the center of attention in mid battle was not only his strong suit, but his motivational stance.
"Sharingan"
The seven men of the night froze, all of them seeing nothing but blackness, crows, empty streets full of men Itachi had killed in this very jutsu.
He released them the second they dropped to the ground. One of them with eyes wide open in fear.
Something is wrong, it isn't possible that he would still be awake
Itachi entered the nightmares of the man with white hair once more.
Out of the corner of his eye, a building shifted in the man's subconscious. Someone else is in here. Someone is watching us play.
Itachi proceeded to do horrible unspeakable things in the light of the white haired mans nightmares, a type of torture only ANBU is permitted to use.
The man's subconscious began crumbling, his will completely collapsed within a matter of seconds, the mysterious spectator disappeared left without a trace.
What a weak man. I can't help but be curious as to who was just in that man's mind other then myself.
Black spotted tree. Ok 40 meters...fuck. west? south? It was one of those. Now would be the time to do that obnoxious bird shriek from earlier idiot woman. She's lucky she's beautiful or i'd just leave her in that damn tree.
A city wide alarm began blaring, originally the bomb alarm, now a giant boat alarm. Temari's voice through every speaker in the city
"Citizens of Suna, we are under attack, please follow all emergency evacuation procedure's and remain on high alert."
Well now I definitely can't leave her in the tree. Where are you common...
Oh! I can see her. Her shirt is tattered, with rips across the sides and front, the front of her shoe looks split, what is that on her leg?
"Thank god you came back for me, let's get to the village"
Ino's left knee has all the bandages from her right leg. I can smell the panic in her actions, she is trembling almost too much to stand. I slide my hand from her knee to her hip and use it to pull her up and towards me. She smells, like dirt and cactus flowers. I want to ask her how her shift went as a joke, but she seems shook down to her bones. Not an opportune time to be aroused by her body. I'm ashamed that I find her so enticing with her clothing almost completely ripped to shreds.
Once she is on her feet he licks his thumb and slowly run it across her collarbone.
Another man's blood doesn't suit her look. Her collarbone is soft, I wonder if I think back on this moment tomorrow, if i'll regret not kissing her.
Itachi's hand slid from her collarbone to her neck, slowly teasing his favorite part of her body. She turned to him in silence with a pained smile on her face. Her hands rested on his chest and she leaned in to enjoy this moment. He ran his hand from the back of her neck slowly down her back, passing over ruined clothing and bruises surely turning purple. His bright red and black eyes locked onto hers. Time stood still, just for the moment.
"Get on my back Ino, I apologize for having you wait. I didn't see you were injured." The moment ended and the search for remedy began.
"Took you long enough Tachikun, I was beginning to wonder if they had busted your knee too!" Ino weakly chuckled out.
Itachi jumped from tree top to tree top, to the bridge, then building roof after building roof, the kazekage's office was closer then the hospital, as they approached Ino began to get increasingly hesitant, asking Itachi to just leave her on a rooftop, not the office for everyone to see her injured.
Ino is lying, I can tell because she has no shame, and yet here she is, pretending to be too shy or prideful to step inside with an injury. Ahh but I love to catch the lies. I wonder what it could be.. Maybe something to do with the reason she smells more like dirt and cactus plants then her usual flowers?
I can't help my curiosity.
My imagination tells me she stole some flowers from Gaara's office and doesn't want to go back and face him. My instincts tell me she fucked another man.
She stole my mothers roses once, and refused to go back to my house for nearly a year.
At least that's what Sasuke insinuated. She never did tell me why she quit stopping by all those years ago. I think now I am more curious than ever. Or maybe just turned on by my little flower thief.. Unless she didn't steal anyone's flowers and she's just out here spreadin it for anyone who will jump in. I squirm at the thought of Sasuke touching Ino even on the hand.
He slid to a stop on one of the taller rooftops and pointed at the giant vessel, as it changed air zones, it began to catch on fire, the atmospheric change shifting it's very structure, bending the front end of the hull, denting the metal patchwork along the port side.
Ino gasped and pointed almost directly under his finger.
"Kazekage is truly a force.. leave me here and run to his aid, I'm sure there is more hell to be seen waiting in that boat"
A giant figure of Shukaku made of sand, slowly moving, gathering up enormous chunks of the desert, entire lakes of sand slowly being lifted, forming Shukaku's arms, increasing in size by the second, the figure of sand grabbed the flaming boat from the air and pulled it down into the desert's emptiest space. Slamming it to the sand and then covering it, suffocating any who may be inside.
As Itachi grew closer, he could see one man, posing at the vantage point of his sunken ship, all else dead and drowned in the snowy dirts controlled by Gaara and his monster.
Bright Green eyes reflected the moon's sympathetic lighting. Red where white should be, and black where skin should be. Two skulls where shoulders appear to rest.
There is only one man who has red for whites, and bright green eyes with no pupils.
Let alone a man with enough balls to take on the sand village with a vessel almost the size of the monster in the sand.
Kakuzu of the hidden waterfall.
Coincidentally one of my buddies from our rebellious highschool days, so I'm gonna turn around, get Ino and Yamato and make my report. Then hightail the hell home and not cause an international war conflict between the waterfall, sand AND leaf.