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Shana is just as cool as Kitara, but she's younger and has a lot of obvious character flaws. Her hair is usually in a braided ponytail, Lara Croft style, because it stays out of her way.

Just a reminder, when a person asks for Suchi, Kitara answers because that's the alias she goes by.

Hey, this is my longest chapter yet!! Woot!! Party with streamers everywhere!!

Without further ado, Chapter 8:

The Forbidden Village

"So, remind me again. Where exactly are we going?" Kirimaru asked Shana for the tenth time, while the team was hopping from tree branch to tree branch.

"I'll tell you when we get there," Shana replied through gritted teeth, getting very annoyed at him.

"You can't even tell us the name of the place?" Akane asked.

"No."

"Why not?" Aoi inquired.

"If I told you, then at least one of you would refuse the mission."

Suddenly Kitara stopped in her tracks. Akane was the first to notice, so she signaled to the others to stop too.

"-No,-" Kitara simply stated.

"-Oh, come on, Suchi!! I asked for you on purpose!!-" Shana actually started to beg.

"-I don't care what the mission is, I'm not going back there. You know what will happen if I'm, or any of us, were caught!!-"

"-You'll be in disguises!! You still wear a rider's outfit everywhere anyways, so you won't look out of place!! I have hitai-ates for you and everything!!-"

"Uh… sorry to break up the discussion, but some of us still have no clue what's going on. Could you fill us in, Shana?" Aoi asked the fighting cousins.

"-The village I was born in, and the village I was also banished from because of Shana here,-" Kitara answered, "-Kagegakure. The home of the Urufu Keishu.-"

"Please come!! I really need your help!!" Shana begged.

"-No. The answer is final. I can't go back there, and even if I could I wouldn't,-" Kitara replied, turning to jump to the previous branch.

"Wait, Suchi!! Where are you going?" Akane asked.

"Back to Konoha, where else?"

"-But I haven't told you what the mission is!! You want to get revenge on Yuri, don't you?-" That statement froze Kitara in her tracks.

"-What… what did you say?-" she managed to ask the now smug looking girl.

"-You heard me. You, and I suppose Aoi here, want to get revenge on Yuri for killing Kitara, right?-"

"What's going on?" Aoi asked the girls, "What the hell are you two saying?"

"-But… I can't go back… I've sworn off of everything to do with that village…-" Kitara sputtered.

"-And yet you still speak the language.-"

Kitara didn't realize she was speaking Unari, the language of wolves, until that point. That was why the others couldn't understand her. She did speak to Jitache that way, so she never lost knowledge of the language.

"Fine," she said, reverting back to Japanese, "we'll go. But from here on in, all of us are in disguises, and we have a couple of wolves with us. Summon Ookami, Shana."

Shana bit her thumb and summoned Ookami, her blood-bonded wolf, while the others changed and put different hitai-ates on. These hitai-ates had a wolf's paw print as the symbol, instead of the Konoha leaf. Kitara, who was already in a rider's outfit and only had to put the hitai-ate on, then summoned Jitache.

"-So, you're still alive Jitache?-" Shana asked rhetorically, wide-eyed at seeing the supposedly dead wolf.

"-Alive and well. Do we really have to help her, Kit… Suchi?-" Jitache asked. It pained her to call Kitara Suchi, but she knew it was necessary for survival so she did. Kitara silently thanked her.

"-Unfortunately, yes,-" Kitara replied to her partner, "-We have to go back to Kagegakure to kill Yuri, and avenge Suchi's murder.-"

"-Alright, finally!!-" Jitache replied.

When the others were dressed, they set off to the forbidden village.