Heyyyyy! Sorry this took a while, I am going as fast as I can, even though it's not that fast. Well here is wonderful chapter ten. Please review you guys! Kawaiii
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Blood splattered on the floor, its source, Aki. Aki was on her knees coughing up blood when she had woken up. Her legs were fractured, her arm, broken and her ankles were sore. She couldn't do anything. So when Itatchi and Deidara and them came back to greet her soul that had returned to her body, she couldn't stop them from smashing her head into the wall or kicking her until she coughed up blood.
She held her stomach, trying to prevent herself from coughing. When her coughs died down enough, Itatchi said a few words, "Okay, Aki. We're finished, sorry for hurting you." Aki looked up at him, glaring a bit, and blood dripping from her mouth, like a vampire. "Hey, hey, I told you, it is for your own good." Itatchi went up to Aki and caught her face in her hands, making her look at him, eye to eye. Itatchi smiled, and then he took chakra and forced it on Aki. The result was Aki flying in to the opposite wall.
Aki's back cracked as she hit the stone wall. "Uh!" She sat there shaking. She coughed a bit more. Trying to raise her hands to fight back, a small force tugged them back down. Her hands thumped onto the dungeon floor, unable to move again. Isolated in the corner, she closed her eyes, hearing the small 'swishes and pocks' of hand signs made her ill. Eyes opening a crack, she saw a small barrier being formed around her, it was tinged pink and shimmered in the dark. Aki coughed again.
"There, this is a barrier that prevents you from using your powers."
Something burned against her cheek, Aki felt something dripping down. She tried to conjure up a water mirror to see, but found that her hands were unable to move. A dark triangular mark had appeared under her eye again, it was like an upside down triangle that ran down her cheek to her bottom lip. The right side of her face ached as the symbol started to appear. All she could hear was the slight buzzing of the barrier around her. The buzzing stopped, but the barrier was still around her.
"Okay Aki. I think it is time I told you something." Itatchi conjured up a chair from thin air and sat down in front of her. Aki still sat on the floor, back against the corner's walls and legs sprawled out in front of her in odd angles.
"I will tell you about the Bijū and the Jinchūriki." Itatchi sighed and then took a deep breath as if he were to tell a tale that would last a long time, "The Bijū are some of the most legendary creatures of the world. There are nine Bijū in all, but in an old legend or prophecy you can say, a tenth bearer, a tenth Jinchūriki would come when the nine Biju are collected." Itatchi cleared his throat, "This tenth Bijū is supposed to have white eyes and born with another, a twin in other words." Itatchi then stood up and crouched in front of Aki's magic cage, "That's why we have been targeting you and your brother."
Aki managed to gasp out some words, "You know my brother?"
"Yes, we do. He's… let's say, nearby. Anyway, each Bijū is around 13 years old, like you and your brother, and there are two in each large country. The fire country has 2 Bijū, one of them we have found. The Wind country also has 2 Bijū, we also found one of them. The Land of Earth, has only 1, we have not found him. The Land of Thunder has 2, none are known. The Land of Rain and Grass have only one, and The Land of Sound has 1. In all, 2 in fire, 2 in wind, 1 in Earth, 2 in Thunder, Land and Grass has 1, and there is 1 in Sound. In all, there are nine."
"We will begin our capture of all these Jinchūriki soon. We caught you when you were four, we were supposed to have your brother too, but unfortunately, our agent that was sent out to get him was defeated by your father." Itatchi made a face that expressed sadness, "You guys were supposed to train together and grow up together. Well, Aki, at least I have some good news, you're now a Jōnin. You have defeated one of us, you defeated Kisame back there, in the temple, he was the shield before your fire." Itatchi glared at her with his sharingan eyes; silently he said "You'll pay for that later." He waved his hand as he exited the cell.
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"A-Okay. Team," Gai-sensai slammed his hands down on the table, a sheet of paper appeared under them in a puff of smoke, "This is our wonderful, youth-fire filled mission!" Lee looked anxiously at his sensei.
"Sensei, we haven't healed yet." Lee swung his broken arm a bit, in front of Maito Gai's face, "Neji is still in the hospital getting rehabilitation, and Tenten is not.. She's not…" Lee leant in the say this in a fast sort of whispering mumble, "she isn't ready." (Tenten is on fire in the background)
"Shut up Lee." Neji trudged up behind him and hit him on his head, "We'll take the mission sensei." Neji accepted the mission scroll from Gai and went off with his team mates to read it.
"Neji!" Tenten yelped in happiness, "I thought you were in rehab." Neji ignored this remark and read the scroll.
"We're sort of supposed to spy on people." Neji spoke out.
"WHAT!" Lee shouted, "Spy? We're not that low."
"Mission Rank: B. Assignment: Keep a close watch of the gates of Konoha. You are to make sure that no one unauthorized will gain entrance to the village and that no one you don't know personally should see you. Be sure to keep a close watch on anyone approaching the gates, and if that person is to see you, report to the Hokage immediately. Assignment was given by: Anonymous." Tenten finished triumphantly.
"What are we supposed to do?" Neji asked, he crossed his arms and sat on a rock.
"Keep guard?"
"Okay, let's go."
The gate of Konoha was unusually colorful. There were splashes of blue, and dots of red, and strokes of yellow. The door was a deep green and was made of metal. When the team got there, other teams were also unpacking their belongings. Team 7, which consisted of Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke, was assigned to look out of the tower. Team 10, Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino, was assigned to walk back and forth the village's walls and keep lookout.
Tenten took the scroll from Neji to obtain their assignment. Since they were older than the other teams and more experienced, they had to patrol the grounds outside the walls. "Okay, we have to keep lookout outside the village." Tenten came back to say, "Come one, let's go." The big green gates slowly opened. A huge forest surrounded the Hidden Leaf Village. Tenten, Neji and Lee jumped into separate trees.
"Meet back here later." Neji threw a kunai blade and it hit the ground beside the west wall of the gates.
"Oh wait!" Tenten rummaged inside her pack and brought out 3 wooden flutes, "When you find something or you're in trouble, blow into this. Only we can hear it, I put my chakra into them. Put yours too." Neji and Lee extended a hand to put some of their chakra into the flutes. Tenten handed each of them one and then they were on their way.
Lee jumped onto the ground and traveled by foot around the village again and again. Gai sensei will be so proud of me when he hears that during the mission I trained by myself, running around the town like this. Lee smiled to himself and started on his second lap around the town.
Tenten and Neji were on the trees and patrolling from the skies. Every once in a while they had seen movement in the corner of their eye, but it ended up being a squirrel or something of that sort.
"Tenten," Neji spoke up as they were flying through more trees, he looked at her, "Let's split up. I want to see something by myself." I think this way, it'll be safer. We're headed right for a group of people; my Byakuugan cannot even locate their exact location. It's like their chakra is performing a shield.
"Are you sure Neji? Isn't it better if we stick together?" Tenten looked at him with much concern.
"No." Neji jumped ahead, and before he was gone motioned to Tenten to go to the left, the opposite side of where this mass of people were.
"What's biting his ass?" Tenten remarked softly to himself, "Oh well, better just look. He's smarter than me anyway." Sighing, she jumped on forward.
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"Smart boy, not smart enough I'm very afraid to say." Deidara chuckled, "Come on Itatchi, stop doing your hair!" Deidara ranted. Itatchi faced her.
"I'm not doing my hair." Itatchi took his Konoha forehead-protector and tightened it. "I'm ready; did our clones do the trick?"
"Of course, Kage Bunshin did the trick. They're supposed to be real right. The boy is going towards the clones; he made his partner go towards us." Deidara smiled, "What are we supposed to do anyway? I don't know exactly, but I hope it's fun, we've been doing boring things for the past few years. Training that girl, finding these stupid tailed creatures.. yadiyadiyada…" Deidara made a sad, sobbing sort of face, "I want some action!" She/he erupted into a pitiful sob.
"Deidara shut your mouth." Itatchi spoke quietly, "The girl is coming I believe."
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Jumping from tree to tree wasn't hard for a shinobi, Tenten glided gracefully from tree to tree. Neji was already far behind her. Maybe he had sensed something! Tenten smiled, thanks Neji! As she jumped from tree to tree, voices were heard. Tenten's attention was suddenly acute and focused on the voices. She reached for her kunai pouch; ready to attack, just in case. The voices were of two different people. Tenten listened closely to hear that they were both men, which put her in a bit of disadvantage (not to be sexist or anything, I am a girl myself. HEY! Aki IS stronger than NEJI who is a guy!).
Tenten leapt into a tree to watch the two men approach.
"Itatchi!" Deidara ran towards her team mate, she leaned close to him to whisper something. Deidara was clad in a dark shirt and a sort of mail skirt. His dark shirt had many red swirling designs in the shape of a cloud. He/she also wore a long black cape with a large collar; the collar almost covered up the tips of his ears. The cloak also had the red cloud, or blood cloud. Deidara's hair was a grayish-blue and his eyes were dark.
When Tenten had looked at Deidara, it filled her with a dark malevolence, when she looked at the other, Itatchi, his fierce red eyes dug into her very mind and lay embedded there. Uchiha Itatchi had pale skin and dark hair like his younger brother, but his eyes, they were different. His eyes were bloodshot; Tenten could see little specks of black through the red sometimes. Tenten shivered at the sight. It felt like he could see everything, not Neji-like everything, but everything-everything. Besides, Neji's eyes weren't evil, neither were any of the other Hyuugas. The older Uchiha wore the same attire as his partner, but he carried his outfit with more pride and sense. Deidara, on the other hand, slouched and grumbled at everything, but when it came to action, they were both at hand, ready to fight.
Unfortunately, that was the stance they were in, a fighting one. Tenten peeked out from her tree. A senbon acupuncture needle whizzed by and barely scratched her cheek. Tenten gasped and then breathed a sigh of relief. She felt a slight thump on her back, it took her a while to realize that she was leaning forwards, and another minute to realize she was only on a tree branch. She fell in a sort-of slow motion like state. Landing on her belly, she clambered up and faced her opponents.
"Oopsie!" Deidara grinned, "I didn't see you there. I thought you were the tree, that's why I leaned on you!" Deidara jumped from the tree and landed squarely on her feet, he used one hand to stabilize, but that was all.
"Oh, you aren't the other one, the one with huge eyebrows." Itatchi smirked, "It's fine, you'll work too." Standing there, smirking, he looked even more menacing then when he was walking or talking with his friends.
The fight had begun, Tenten versus Itatchi.
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Identical beings marched back and forth in front of him. They were freakishly the same, they blinked at exactly the same time, stepped on the same foot etcetera, and their chests even rose and fell at the same time. It was utterly amazing – and freaky. Neji stood on a low cliff, his hair rising and falling each time the people below him had passed him by.
They're all clones? Neji cocked an eyebrow, a word meaning here; to tilt or raise something, often as a way of expressing that you are full of confidence or in good humor. Neji stayed there for a while, the clones didn't talked, see or hear anything. Their only job was to trick him and his byakuugan. Neji stared at them again for a second, then he was gone in a whirl of leaves.
Crud, I may have led Tenten straight into something. It was too late though, the Akatsuki had already placed a ribbon jutsu, (I made this up) this made Neji go around and around over and over again, until the jutsu was removed. Too bad, I guess.
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A tree slowly fell down from the forest of Konoha. It was a large one, an oak. The force applied to the tree was strong enough to knock it down, so it did. The force: Itatchi's missed attack. Tenten ran about, like a mouse running from a vulture. And a vulture Itatchi was. Everywhere Tenten tried to run, somehow he had gotten there before her. Once, Tenten was so shocked by his speed, she had froze long enough for a taste of his sharingan magic.
Senbon needles flew through the air and pinned Tenten to the fallen tree. Itatchi came by, meandering along like it was a walk in the park. "Sorry little girl, I need to do this." Itatchi activated his sharingan.
There were waterfalls in the background adding to the slight buzz of the insects. Tenten looked about her surroundings, they were unnaturally beautiful, as if it were all synthetic, all fake. And maybe it was. Butterflies flew into flowers which closed shut on them. Bees came by, stinging wild horses. Tenten stood up, "what an unnatural world," she thought to herself. Yet everything was like she wanted it to be, peaceful. It flashed for a second, so everything was frozen. She could see the butterflies in flying, their wings not flapping. She could see a frog or toad leap into the air, then stop about halfway. Tenten tried to flex her fingers, but soon she discovered that she too was frozen. She could not move she couldn't even blink. Slowly, her surrounding began to fade. Everything turned red and black, except for herself. There was a crucifix, and she was tied to it. She still couldn't move, but she was aware of the skulls that lay at her feet. The air around her started revolving, forming an image, an image of an eye, a red eye. She could see that it was Itatchi's, recognizing the little dark dots. The eye spoke, "Welcome to your demise." The eye then dissolved into nothingness. Tenten rolled her eyeballs to try and see where she was. There was nothing but red around her and black skulls at her feet. A sharp pain came across her body, yet she couldn't do anything about it. Looking down, Tenten saw that her feet were slowly turning into a mass of flesh colored goo. Tenten screamed. Her whole body was slowly dissolving and melting. Flashes of what was coming next came to her mind. She saw a heap of bones at her feet, her bones. She could see Neji, stabbed to death with her very own kunai from Aki, she saw Lee, dying from a broken back, legs and skull, her throwing ribbons embedded in each ones. They had killed her, it was her fault.
Tenten screamed.
Itatchi released the ribbon jutsu.
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