Here's part two of the short arc about Hooguro and Armin/Annie, which will transition into the next part of the major overlining story arc.
Author's notes won't be included due to time restraints, just know that I remember reading that 'What If' story you wrote and genuinely look forward to hearing back from you everyone I release a new chapter.
Without further adieu, please enjoy!
Oh, and Happy Halloween!
Unlike most of his family who had stuck to traditional Konoha apparel, Sasuke Uchiha had lately developed a liking toward the more modern style of fashion that was more commonly found in villages such as Amegakure and Sunagakure. Thanks to the influence of Karin, who always had a fascination with the progressive technology and culture of the more advanced villages, Sasuke had taken a liking toward wearing dress shirts, slacks, and other pop-culture clothing choices that the rest of his family never understood the appeal of.
Having just spent an hour rifling through whatever imported tech that caught his attention while perusing through the new electronics store that opened up, Sasuke had been asked several times by those who didn't recognize him in the white collared dress-shirt and black-formal vest he had on. It was a minor annoyance after getting interrupted so many times, but it wasn't anything that would have ruined Sasuke's day.
It had taken him longer to wait in line than the time it took waiting for an employee to search in the back rooms for it, but he finally was able to get the latest 'iPod' on the market within his grasp. Even though Sasuke wasn't particularly a fan of digital music files, and actually preferred vinyl records when it came down to listening to his favorite songs, he knew that Karin had been wanting her own iPod for a while. Due to her being twenty-two years old, and Minato not wanting to have her be financially too dependent on him and his wife, Karin really wasn't making enough money with her part-time job to splurge on anything considered a luxury.
Walking down the village's downtown sidewalks while horse-drawn carriages pulled the weight of both domestic and international shipments to the various shops who needed to resupply their products, Sasuke stared down at the white box within his grasp, before looking back down at his outfit which was attracting the attention of the passing women who walked by him.
'Time's are changing more now than they ever have… It's almost too sudden,' Sasuke thought to himself, as he continued to watch where he was walking while flipping the white package in his hand to read the back of it. 'It'd be hypocritical of me to denounce such changes… But even so, sometimes I wonder if Konoha will end up being just like how people say Amegakure and all those other villages are… But then again, it's to be expected…'
'… Despite my concerns of what will become of our culture, I suppose worrying about it is useless. Besides, if this makes Karin happy then so be it. Poor girl, I can't help but to see her as the 'black sheep' of her already controversial family… It still upsets me that her family acted out like that— they should have known better to save that yelling for when she's not around,' Saskuke thought to himself, while still feeling somewhat bitter towards Minato and Kushina for being the reason behind Karin almost having a panic attack the other night.
'I can't solve her family's issues, but maybe one day I'll be able to maybe… Give her a better life? She deserves it, after what she and her aunt had to go through… I can't imagine what it would be like if all of my clan died like that,' Sasuke thought grimly to himself, while thinking back to the story of how the other villages formed a militia to wipe out the Uzumaki compound, over two decades ago. '… An iPod might not make up for the repressed nightmares she has, but… It might make her smile, if not for just a brief moment.'
Imagining the look of joy on Karin's face when he delivered the gift to her, Sasuke couldn't help but to smile with a warm feeling building up in his chest— a moment of joy that the young man felt which was interrupted the moment he spotted what looked to be two blond women walking nervously on the other side of the street. Still holding the iPod in his hand, Sasuke frowned a bit and squinted his eyelids while staring suspiciously toward their direction.
After having been made a fool of themselves at the downtown prescient, Annie and Armin were wandering the streets feeling stressed after being unsure whether or not they had actually been followed. Several tests were conducted by the most perceptive police-nin to sense their surroundings for anything out of the ordinary within an immediate vicinity, with many of the chakra-sensitive ninjas who were assigned to assist the two blondes having experience dealing with servants and all types of known genjutsu.
Nothing came of it, and after being questioned about what she saw that had led her into believing that she and Armin were being stalked, Annie couldn't help but to feel crazy by the end of her explanation. Still, even with the setbacks and her case being dismissed as sheer paranoia, Annie continued to stay on high alert as led Armin from behind toward a series of alleyways— trying her best to lose whoever was or wasn't still hot on their trail.
Using every trick at their disposal, including creating shadow clones of themselves in combination of Armin's expertise knowledge of genjutsu, it took Annie about three hours of using all of her jujutsu tricks and knowledge of the village's layout before she decided that it was safe enough for her to apply the blindfold back around Armin's eyes. Spinning him around to disorient him, Annie quickly shoved him into the nearest dressing room within the clothing store that she had ducked into.
Fueled by paranoia and a sense of urgency, Annie reached into her backpack and pulled out a scroll parchment paper with the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' sealed inside of it. Just as she was about to break the seal so she and Armin could teleport to where she wanted to take him, Annie's eyes became widened as she felt an agonizing white-hot pain coursing through her right forearm.
Looking down as the world around her faded away and revealed that she and Armin were not actually in a department store, but rather were out in the middle of a forest outside of Konoha. By the time it hit her that she and Armin had been led on the entire time, it was far too late for Annie to break the seal of the bloodied scroll that was ripped out of her fingerless hand— a grizzly injury that Annie only noticed after seeing all the deep incisions that had cut every tendon in her arm.
Confused and in a state of panik after he heard Annie letting out a cry of pain while stumbling onto her knee, Armin gritted his teeth and tried to take the blindfold off of his head, but instead was immediately pinned up against what felt to him like the base of a redwood tree. Struggling, Armin was no match for the technique and strength that Hooguro possed, as he tied the blond femboy's wrists over his head, before forcing his arms to stay up and against the trunk of the redwood tree by stabbing a kunai through the bindings.
"Wh-What the hell is going on?!" Armin demanded with visible fear on his blindfolded face, as he struggled within his restraints and to keep his legs closed while Hooguro forcibly spread his thighs open with one knee before reaching down to grab a hold of the femboy's small genitals— eliciting a high-pitch scream from Armin, who immediately felt violated and in danger. "G-GET THE FUCK OFF ME!!!"
Amused by Armin's screams of fear and desperation, Hooguro smiled sinisterly at the femboy before turning around to see the look of hatred Annie was giving him as she rose to her feet. Holding the scroll he had taken from her in his left hand, Hooguro dangled it infront of her like a carrot tied to a stick, while saying, "I recognize that symbol from anywhere… That's an Uzumaki seal, isn't it? A stupid little bitch like you must have some real connections, don't ya?"
"Let him the fuck go, or—?!" Before Annie could finish threatening Hooguro, she recoiled and immediately took a step back the moment she saw a four-foot tall child with pale stitched-skin emerging from the thin-air— an empty and hollow look on her ghostly face as she stared back at Annie with yellow-green eyes.
Wordlessly, Jack the Ripper immediately became enveloped in a dark aura that made her frame completely pitch-black— save for her eyes and the blades of her dual-wielded knives that glew a menacingly deep-shade of magenta. "… Yeah, we're going to murder to you," Jack the Ripper said, while referring to herself as 'we', as she smiled sinisterly at the fear-strucken kunochi.
"… L-Like hell you are!" Annie shouted back defiantly, as she quickly performed a series of hand movements to activate her kekkei genkai jujutsu— sprouting two glowing ice-blue wings made up of crystals from her upper back, which she used to launch a volley of carefully aimed crystal projectiles directly at back Jack the Ripper, and the cocky assassin who unveiled his own kekkei genkai. A task that wasn't easy by any means, due to Annie's right arm being mutilated the way that it was.
Growing a similar black-crystal appendage from his right shoulder blade, Hooguro's entire right was enveloped in a nearly indestructible sharp blade that extended past his wrist, while a large dark angel-wing grew out of his upper back. Curling his large wing over his body while transparent and glowing-red feathers remained suspended in the air even as Annie's crystal-projectiles bounced off of his shield, Hooguro activated his red feathers' true ability.
"You're over your head, you stupid little whore— what chances do you have against someone like ME!?!" Hooguro taunted with a look of superiority in his exposed eye, as his feathers transformed into glowing red orbs that shot out toward Annie like ethereal missiles.
Caught off guard with how fast Hoogru's chakra missiles were heading towards her direction, especially after she had lost sight of Jack the Ripper after the white-haired child-like amalgamation disappeared into a black cloud before her projectiles could pierce through her, Annie had to react fast. Using the body flicker technique, Annie was able to dodge the missiles while using her two hardened crystal wings to block a volley of black-scalpels that had been thrown in her direction.
Not only did she lose track of Jack the Ripper, but Annie couldn't help but to take immediate notice of an unusual amount of mist enveloping the forest floor around her— making it practically impossible to see more than a meter past her nose, which was all the distance she had to work with when she saw the same glowing red orbs following behind her.
Having produced more feather missiles, Annie was having to constantly use her indestructible wings to tank the damage of their chakra-draining explosions— making it harder for her to maintain her kekkei genkai with each barrage she took. Fighting a completely uphill battle, it didn't take long for Annie to finally get hit with a volley of black scalpels that tore through the thick mist and straight into her right thigh— causing her even more pain and blood loss, while hindering her mobility.
Once grounded after blocking another blast of feather missiles, Annie was almost immediately ganged up on by Jack the Ripper and Hooguro— both proving to be more than a match for her and her injuries. Unable to take both on at the same time, and with her limp and injured right arm, all Annie could do was to get low and curl her knees into her chests, as she used her two wings to create a shield around herself that was the only thing keeping her safe from the wrath of the assassins.
Panicked and trying to formulate a plan of escape, Annie, even in her state of fear and desperation, was able to realize almost immediately that something was wrong when she noticed that neither of them were attacking her. Thinking that they had given up and were waiting for her to lower her guard, it was only when Annie noticed through her semi-transparent wings that the mist outside was becoming pitch-black, and the vague silhouette of Jack the Ripper standing outside of her makeshift defenses was once again glowing a menacing shade of magenta.
"Hell is starting… We are flames, rain, power… Let there be a slaughter," Jack the Ripper sang out with an nerving amount of childhood innocence in her chanting words, as she gripped the handles of her knives even tighter while marking her target of where she was going to cut. "… MARIA THE RIPPER!!!"
Clenching her teeth, Annie was expecting for the servant to somehow shatter her wings with whatever attack she was charging up while singing those unholy words aloud. Opening her eyes, Annie looked through her wings and found that the mist had returned to its regular shade of gray, but the fact that it was still present as a result of Jack the Ripper still being there with her didn't make the young blond woman feel any better about being a sitting duck.
Trying to put together what Jack the Ripper had done, it didn't take long for Annie to notice the pool of blood forming underneath her. Turning as pale as a ghost, Annie used her shaking hands, or what was left of them anyway, to hold her innerards in and to keep them from falling out of the large gash that Jack the Ripper had made horizontally along her abdomen.
"H-How…? How did s-she…?" Annie muttered in a hollow and confused tone, as her crystal wings finally shattered into a fine dust that was swept away into the mist around her. Unable to move, all Annie could do was kneel down while holding her insides in, as she gazed up in horror at the stitched-skin girl standing over her with an unnerving grin on her childish face.
Knowing what Jack the Ripper had in mind for Annie, Hooguro dispersed his own kekkei genkai from around his arm and shoulder while staring down at his servant with a look of sinister approval on his grinning face. "… She's all yours," Hooguro said, while finally allowing Jack the Ripper to have access to whatever she wanted to do with Annie's body.
Turning around the moment he saw Jack the Ripper pouncing on top of Annie, Hooguro smiled while hearing the cries of pain and fear in the blond woman's voice, as she struggled to keep the servant's small hands away from her gaping wound. Leaving Annie to her gruesome fate, Hooguro adjusted his white formal blazer and readjusted his black-and-white tie as he went back to where Armin was still trying to free himself.
"I-I'm gonna kill you…! I-I'll fucking kill you!" Arima shouted hatefully through sobs of heartache and anger, after having to imagine what was going on while listening to Annie's screams of despair not too far from where he was pinned to the tree.
"Yeah, sure you will," Hooguro chuckled sarcastically, while positioning himself behind Armin, before reaching down to hook his thumbs within the waistband of the femboy's jeans and underwear.
Freezing up the moment his bare ass was exposed to the misty air around them, Armin felt his heart drop and his tears intensify as he heard what sounded to be Hooguro unbuckling his own pants. "L-Leave her alone! Let her go, a-and I'll do whatever you want! I-I want to put up a fight or scream— j-just don't kill her…!" Armin begged tears seeping through his blindfold, and let out a high-pitched wail the moment he felt Hooguro's erected cock flopping down between his cheeks.
"And miss out on hearing you beg for mercy…? Now what kind of fun would that be…?" Hooguro cooed with a perversed tone in his voice, as he stepped closer to Armin while beginning to grind his cock up-and-down between the femboy's massive cheeks. "You got a nice fat-ass down there, you little queer… I bet this isn't the first rodeo, huh…?"
Feeling Hooguro's hands reaching up his exposed sides and underneath his white-crop where he began fondling his chest, Armin struggled and thrashed around like there was no tomorrow as he felt the tip of Hooguro's cock pressing up against his tight rim. Beginning to have a panic attack as he felt an excruciating amount of burning pain as the white suit gangster started to forcibly penetrate his hole, Armin whipped his head back and screamed out into the forest, "E-EREN!!! EREN, H-HELP ME!!! HEEEEAAHHHHH, AHHHHH!!!"
Getting turned on even more by Armin begging for his best friend to be there to save him like how he always did, Hooguro slid his cock slowly out of the uncontrollable-sobbing boy's asshole and took a gander at how much Armin was bleeding out of his stretched-out hole. Chuckling to himself, Hooguro forced his blood-covered shaft back inside of the hyperventilating boy's violated hole, and proceeded to fuck him from behind— his pelvis smacking against Armin's sweaty and voluptuous ass each time Hooguro went balls-deep back inside of him.
After ten minutes of pounding Armin's asshole with his cock, Hooguro decided to spice things up since he was feeling himself reaching his climax. Seeing how Armin was now silently whimpering and unable to support his own weight, Hooguro pulled his kunai out of his inner suit pocket and reached around Armin's wide hips to place the edge of the blade up against the femboy's small erected cock.
Realizing that Armin had been getting sexual satisfaction from getting anally probed with his cock, Hooguro felt somewhat proud of himself as he leaned up against the femboy's sweaty back to whisper into his ear, "I knew you were a little fag— bet you take dick up that little boy pussy of yours all the tim— I…" With his chest pressed up against Armin's back the way that it was, Hooguro couldn't for a moment see the blade of Sasuke's single straight-blade sword, as it pierced him from behind and straight through his heart.
Watching as Armin's shadow clone, which he had enhanced with genjutsu to make Hooguro believe that he was actually raping him, disappear into a cloud of smoke, Sasuke narrowed his eyes with a look of disgust in his gaze as he pull his chokuto sword out from the would-be rapist's back— watching as Hooguro turned around before falling down on the dirt below.
Looking up at Sasuke while his chest was filling up with blood that had nowhere else to go in his mortally wounded body, Hooguro immediately recognized who the well-dressed shinobi was. Caught with his pants literally down around his ankles, Hooguro couldn't help but to laugh weakily as he smiled amusingly at Sasuke. "Hehehe… Guessed I should have known that something was amiss… Jack the Ripper's mist cleared up…"
Not willing to give Hooguro the time of day to dignify his dying words with any respectful words, Sasuke, without hesitation, used his sword to castrate the rapist by slashing his groin open— speeding up the rate of his death while making sure that his final moments would be filled with humiliation and agony. Once Hooguro stopped breathing and his body went limp, Sasuke made sure to cut the man's head off just to be sure that he was truly dead, before making his way back to the closest road, where he had left Armin and Annie after rescuing them.
Having reclaimed the scroll from Hooguro's literal cold-dead hands, Sasuke made sure that Annie and Armin were making contact with him and each other, before breaking the seal and teleporting all three of them safely to the secret bunker basement underneath Konoha's General Hospital— just like how Annie told Sasuke it would do.
Trying his best to maintain a level-headed approach to everything around him, Sasuke immediately took a step back and had to quickly explain himself and what he was doing with Annie, who in turn was busy telling who Sasuke figured to be her allies about what had happened to them— emphasizing that Sasuke had saved them, and that Armin was the newest potential recruit she wanted to have join their ranks, even as she was being stabilized for the medical-nins to begin healing her wounds.
Overwhelmed with the vivid memories from his shadow clone getting sexually assaulted while Armin did what he could to buy time until his prayers were answered by Sasuke, the blond femboy felt light headed and panicked as the young adults who were Annie's allies surrounded him bombarded him with question-after-question. Swallowing back the lump in his throat as his vision started to fade, Armin's eyes rolled into the back of his sockets as he finally fainted and fell backwards and into none other than Tsunade's arms— after she had finally been notified that one of her agents had returned from her recruitment mission.
Standing stall amongst the young adults and teenagers who saw her as their leader, Tsunade stared down at Armin's tear-soaked cheek with a heavy heart, and quietly sighed as she handed him off to her most trusted agent, Sakura, who in turn immediately recognized Armin from the other day. And there, underneath the dim light of the ceiling's gentle bulbs, Tsunade and Sakura stared wordlessly with looks of guilt on their face, as Sasuke stared back at them with a bewildered gaze in his dark eyes.
"What… What exactly is this operation, and why are you two involved in it?" Sasuke asked in his usually stoic-sounding voice, despite the fact that it was obvious to everyone still in the room that he was perplexed about why there was what looked to be a make-shift war-room beneath Konoha's largest hospital.
Dismissing Sakura and instructing her to conduct an evaluation on Armin, while the rest of her agents went back to their usual business as Annie slowly got back up to be escorted into the recovery room, Tsunade gazed solemnly into Sasuke's eyes once again, before taking in a deep breath and letting out an uneasy sigh.
"… I believe now would be the time to come clean, Uchiha… My only regret is that you had to find out about all of this in such dire circumstances," Tsunade said with an apologetic tone in her voice, before slowly raising her arm out to extend her hand out for Sasuke to grab a hold onto. "Come, I… I'll tell you everything that you should know, Sasuke. We have much to discuss."