Hidan seemed to be stunned that I had made the first move for a moment before he wrapped his arms around me and was kissing me back with an equal amount of passion.
He broke our mouths apart to press chaste kisses down my neck, his hands wandering down my sides.
I caught his mouth again, biting at his lip. He gripped my hips, pulling me onto him as he leaned against his bed frame. I moaned into the kiss, running my hand down his lean abdomen. Feeling him start to arouse through his pants, I pulled my hand away, only for it to be caught and returned back to its previous position.
I shuddered, pulling back. I'm not ready for this. Standing up and stepping back, I felt warmth spread across my face.
"Cocktease," Hidan scowled, crossing his arms in a huff. I stepped backwards again, bumping into the door.
"Sorry- I- uh... I'm going to bed," I sputtered, before leaving the room quickly. "Goodnight, Hidan."
"Goodnight, bitch." Hidan replied as I shut the door. I made sure it was locked from my side, in case he got any ideas.
Once I was in the confines of my own room, I plopped onto my bed and buried my face in my pillow. Flashes of anxiety at the thought of being forced to do something I didn't want to do made me nauseous, and I didn't bother blowing out the candles and closed my eyes.
After what seemed like forever, the room darkened, and I finally allowed myself to slip into sleep.
Flashes of lightning lit the room, illuminating the man writhing on top of a bloodied girl. Tear tracks ran down the length of her face, cutting a stark line across the blood matted to her cheeks.
"Please," she whimpered out, as he raised the knife to her once more. "Please."
But please him she could not. He sliced her skin open one last time, revelling in the pained scream she let out, finally achieving his intended state of bliss in a mostly-silent shudder.
Third Person
Sakana sat up in a cold sweat, the images of her nightmare replaying in her brain.
She needed something to distract her brain, so she gathered a change of clothes and crept quietly out of her room and into the bathroom across the hall.
The shower was hot and soothing, easing her mind and relaxing her tense muscles. She absently traced her fingers over the scars littering her thighs and stomach, the largest stretching across her stomach in a jagged diagonal line. Bile rose at the memory and she sank to the ground, curling herself into a ball beneath the spray.
She hadn't meant to doze off, but there was something comforting about a hot shower. She didn't stir when a certain zealot grew tired of waiting for the bathroom and barged in; and she certainly didn't wake when said zealot turned the now-cool water off and covered her with a towel before carrying her back to her bed.
This time, she slept comfortably and peacefully.
First Person- Suki
I woke up early to Kisame poking me. "Suki~." He called gently, as my eyes fluttered open. I got to take in his muscled form for a minute, snuggling into his warm chest.
"Not right now, Kisa-bae." I groaned, internally cursing light for existing.
"My love, you've said that ten times already. We have a mission today, remember?"
I rolled over and sighed, sitting up. I pouted for a second before grumbling. I'm supposed to go with them, right. "Okay, okay. I'll get up. But-" I looked at him and smirked, "You're gonna have to dress me."
My big blue shark chuckled, and my inner fangirl almost died. "Deal."
Did I forget to mention that I have a tendency to sleep in the nude? Kisame definitely didn't seem to mind.
He did a pretty decent job of gathering clothes for me, and even offered to put my long white-blonde hair up as I dressed. I ended up doing it myself, opting to pull it into a ponytail at the crown of my head. I grinned at him and he kissed my forehead before quietly murmuring about how beautiful I was. I preened at the attention and let him drape my plain-black cloak over my shoulders before we left his room to meet up with Itachi.
He was in the kitchen, finishing a cup of tea before we left on our week-long journey.
I found Kira in the living room, reading a book out of Itachi's collection. "Hey," I said softly, sitting down next to my sister. "Pein is sending me with Kisame and Itachi. We'll be back in a week," I informed her, and she nodded quietly.
"Please be safe," she said, taking my hand in hers. "I'll kill everybody and then myself if anything happens to you." I giggled and kissed her hand.
"I'll only be going with them to look for landmarks that may or may not be Orochimaru's hideout," I said. "Pein wants Sasuke, especially now that he knows how strong his potential is."
Kira looked at me, slightly amused. "Do you think that we may have just fucked up this whole world's structure by giving the Akatsuki any information?"
I shrugged, "Meh. As long as I get my shark, I'm cool."
Kira closed her eyes and squeezed my hand. "I'll see you in a week."
I kissed her cheek and stood up, letting go of her hand. "If Sasori doesn't make sure you take care if yourself while I'm gone, I'll kill him faster than he can say Pinnochio."
She chuckled, then waved at me.
I turned to leave, before remembering that I had something to tell Sakana. I promised Kisame that I'd only be a minute, and walked to her bedroom. I knocked three times and waited a moment before entering.
She was passed out, sprawled across her bed. Seeing as she was only covered by a towel, I smirked but silently left the room. I could wait a week to tell her.
Sakana
I blinked a few times to clear my eyes, having awoken sometime during midday. I immediately realized I was naked, and had a mini panic attack, quickly dressing and storming into Hidan's room for an explanation.
He grumbled something about me falling asleep in the shower, and he just carried me to bed.
He then reminded me that he had already seen me naked, and my temper died down a little.
I was about to leave when he held out one of his arms to me and demanded, "C'mere."
I hesitantly leaned closer to him, and he pulled me down onto the bed next to him, immediately curling around me.
"Hidan." I said, stilling.
"Shut up, I heard you crying in your sleep last night."
He was trying to comfort me? "Why are you doing this?" I asked cautiously.
Hidan grunted, and I basked in his smell for a moment, forgetting that I was trying not to get too close to the immortal. "You didn't sleep much, just shut up and close your eyes."
Seeing no escape from the madman's grip, I tried to relax my posture, hoping to melt into the floor like Zetsu. When it didn't happen, I closed my eyes and tried breathing deeply.
After a few moments of laying in Hidan's arms, I actually felt the tug of sleep. Unfortunately, before I could drift off, Hidan shifted and I found myself cursing at him and slapping his arm. He chuckled sleepily and pressed a soft kiss to the back of my head. "You're kinda cute when you're sleepy, bitch." I felt my heart jump, but I ignored it.
"Mmm, shut the fuck up." I replied, snuggling deeper into his arm.
I awoke sometime later, legs wrapped in Hidan's, my head laying on his chest.
"Mornin', bitch," he lazily muttered, and as I looked up I noticed he was playing with his rosary. I flushed and attempted to untangle myself.
I gave up in my efforts, and let him expertly retract his legs. "Hey," I called as he looked at me. "Why?"
"Just thought you'd sleep better if you weren't alone," he replied. "I always do."
"Ugh. Pig." I groaned, catching his meaning and sitting up.
"Don't get dirty, bitch. I mean that I tend to sleep better if I know I'm not completely alone."
i rolled my eyes, "Right."
He chuckled again, and I felt that pang in my heart again. Oh my Jashin he's so fucking hot.
"When you said you talked to Jashin, were you fucking with me?"
I turned toward him and tucked my left foot under my right leg. "No, he actually talked to me. He told me why we're all here, and what we're supposed to do." I explained, having no reason to lie. "See, you're supposed to die. Kind of."
"Bitch I'm im-"
"Immortal, yes. But if someone were to say... cut you into a million pieces and bury you..." I began.
"Malnourishment," he concluded. "That's a shitty death."
"Mhm." I agreed. "For some reason, you're important to Jashin, and he wants me to save you. Somehow."
Hidan was speechless. "...Okay."
I shrugged. "See, this person kills you because you killed someone who was important to them for a bounty."
"That's so stupid." Hidan finally said. "If anything, I'd kill 'em for Jashin."
Hidan didn't want to hear more about his death, which was understandable. I guess I just have to make sure Kakuzu and Hidan don't go after Asuma.
"So, do you want to talk about this soul mate busniness?" I finally asked.
I felt him shrug. "What's there to talk about?" He asked.
"I don't know," I confessed. "I'm not ready to jump into a relationship."
Again, he shrugged. "Doesn't have to be," he agreed. "Unless you want it to."
A sigh escaped. "To be honest, I don't know." He patted my head, and shifted in the small bed. Hidan was actually nice, if you didn't belittle his religion. He was so sexy, funny, and surprisingly a good conversationalist. He also wasn't a sex-crazed pervert, which was an added plus.
"I had some.. shit happen to me," I said. "And that left me pretty fucked up. I don't want to rush into fucking you right after I met you."
"As much fun as that would be," Hidan sighed, "Don't force yourself."
"Thanks, Hidan."
He had his arms crossed behind his head, and cracked an eye open at me. "Don't mention it. Now get out before people start getting ideas."
I shrugged, "Not yet." And I laid back down on his arm, curling into his warmth. "I want more warmth from my Jashinist."
After about 10 minutes, Hidan grumbled about having to piss and left to go take care of business. I retreated back to my room, feeling sufficiently comforted.
"Sakana, leader requests our presence." Kakuzu's deep voice startled me. "Seeing as you don't have a ring, he asked me to bring you. Though seeing as you were already with Hidan, he could have just as easily taken you."
"Phrasing," I said, following him out of the room and down the hallway. "We were talking, by the way."
"I'm sure," Kakuzu grunted. "By the way of you continue crying in your sleep, I won't hesitate to remove your tear ducts."
Ah, the joys of living with psychopaths.
"Can't really help it," I yawned. "Like how you can't help but love money."
I could almost feel his motley eyes roll.
"Shut up," he retorted as we reach Pein's office.
Inside, Hidan was waiting with the pierced leader of Akatsuki.
"There are three high-ranking bounties meeting in Yugakure. You will kill all three, collect the bounties, and return in no more than two weeks. Sakana you will join them. Go prepare." He dismissed me, giving the two immortals information on their targets. I left the room grumbling about stupid ninjas and them calling you halfway across the hideout only to say one sentence and shoo you away.
I headed back to my room and busied myself with grabbing my meager supply of items to take on the trip and stuffing them into the pouches Kakuzu had bought for me. By the time I had finished filling it and attaching them to my belt, Hidan and Kakuzu appeared in my doorway, waiting for me to finish.
It seems they were already prepared to leave.
"You will behave on this trip," he began, making me feel like a kid on their way to Disneyland. "You are only accompanying us because the others have conflicting missons."
"I'm not a child, Kakuzu. I don't need a babysitter." I was a little bit bitter about that.
"Ah, but you are our ward and Leader demanded it, so you are going with us."
I just shrugged and dropped it, slipping my cloak over my shoulders. "I guess I'm ready now. Let's go."
We exited the base and Hidan stopped to let me climb onto his back. He carried me for a few hours, then traded me off to Kakuzu, who scoffed at how light I was and made a comment about Hidan being weak, which triggered the zealot's ire.
The rhythmic falls of Kakuzu's steps lulled me into a light sleep, with the occasional odd step of slight pause stirring me and waking me from whatever random daydream had been playing in my mind.
There were a few snippets of conversation, though each bout of talking didn't last long.
"No, we go that way," the white ferret said, pointing one way at a crossroad.
The brown octopus next to him shook his head and pointed the other way, where a sign indicated something I couldn't clearly read.
The walking resumed for a while, but an odd conversation caught my attention.
"You've grown fond of the cat," one deep voice said.
"She's not a heathen like the rest of you," another voice replied. "She has potential to be great."
There was a snort, and call of, "Fuck you," from the higher pitched voice.
"Leader-sama will extract all of the information from each of the girls, and then they will be disposed of."
My eyes snapped open, but the conversation continued.
"Maa, that's pretty lame." Hidan said, "I wanted to convert Sakana."
"What, and make the girl become a murderer? Good luck." Kakuzu was kind of a dick.
"She's very interested in the word of Jashin."
"Leader has other plans. Take the girl, we'll be stopping soon for the night."
I quickly feigned sleep, and stirred a little as Kakuzu handed me off to Hidan.
"Hey," I breathed sleepily into his neck, relishing his scent. "What time is it?"
"Nearly sunset. We are stopping for the night in a village in the border between the land of Rivers and the land of Fire." Hidan exaplained to me. "Yugakure is pretty much a straight fuckin' shot from here, but Konohagakure is right in the way."
"This adds three days to our trip avoiding such a large village." Kakuzu grumbled. "We could go north, but I don't want to have to buy the brat snow boots."
"South it is," Hidan concluded.
We arrived at the village about an hour after the sun had set, and Kakuzu quickly procured us a room at a cheap inn in the shady part of the village.
It was a double twin-sized room, and when I complained about the obvious shortage of beds, he left the room and returned with a tatami mat, which he graciously threw at me feet. "Shut up."
I sighed and situated the hard bed roll, placing it between the two bed frames. My back is going to hate me for this.
Kakuzu mumbled something about being quiet, and promptly rolled over and fell asleep on his bed.
Hidan sat up from his lounged position on the other bed, and his stomach grumbled loudly. "You hungry too, bitch?" I nodded, and he stood up.
"Let's go get a bite." He said, stretching. "I know a good ramen place around here."
We left the sketchy motel and Hidan led me through back alleys until we reached the main road cutting through the small village. Following it into thebheart of the town, we found the little ramen stand and I sat down at one of the tables further away from the road and waited for Hidan to retrieve the delicious noodles.
He returned a few minutes later with two bowls of ramen. "Watch out, it's fuckin' hot."
I nodded in appreciation and took to playing with a noodle while it cooled. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it."
I nodded again and ate the noodle I was toying with.
We ate in relative silence, save for some obnoxious slurping. When our food was gone, Hidan returned the ceramic bowls to the stand and led me back to the inn.
"I'm not really tired," I sighed, now laying on the mat, enjoying the feeling of a full belly.
Hidan snorted, "Yeah, you just kind of slept while we carried you." He was lounging on his bed again, this time his head was propped in his hand.
I rolled my eyes.
After a few minutes if silence, I was bored. "Can we talk outside?" I asked, not wanting to bother Kakuzu with our idle conversation. I hadn't been expecting him to agree, but we left the room and sat outside the door.
We sat shoulder to shoulder, our backs against the door.
"What did you want to talk about?" Hidan asked. "I'm getting fucking tired."
I apologized, drawing my knees to my chest. "I want to be a ninja." I admitted. "But I want it to mean something."
"Does world peace not fit your idea?" He asked, his gaze suddenly piercing me.
I scoffed. "Akatsuki wanted to kill you until they found out you weren't one of Orochimaru's reanimations. Pein has no use for us."
"Yeah, you are pretty useless as you are," he agreed, chuckling at the scornful look I shot him.
"Gee, thanks." I commented dryly. "I'm amazed at the sheer amount of faith you have in me."
Hidan laughed, and I was drawn in by his hotness for a moment. "Convert," he suddenly said, completely serious. "Then you'll be immortal and you'll have a use."
"I'm not a murderer." I retorted, hating how it sounded.
His eyes steeled. "And there's something wrong with sacrificing those unworthy of Him?"
"There's something wrong with killing innocent people!"
He sighed. "They don't have to be innocent."
I ribbed my nose. "You're worse than the Jehovah's Witnesses."
"Is that another mercenary group?" Hidan asked, confused.
"No, they're a- you know what? Nevermind."
"Whatever you say, bitch. Anyways, please consider converting. I'd hate to have a heathen 'soul mate'."
I only nodded, copying him as he stood up.
"I need to pray." Hidan suddenly muttered, "Go inside and I'll be back soon."
"Okay." I replied, silently opening the door and retreating inside.
Sure enough, Hidan returned twenty minutes later, stumbling over the threshold of the door and and flopping into his bed. This earned him an angry grunt from Kakuzu.
I finally fell into a restless sleep, with a zealot snoring in one of my ears, and a miser shifting uncomfortably on a squeaky bedframe in my other.
So, a lot different than the original Chapter 4, I hope you enjoyed! Thank you for reading, as always. ~Mistress-chan.