Author's Note:
Hi, hi!
This chapter was written entirely from a different perspective and yes — this will occasionally happen as the story progresses.
Chapter 5 — Female
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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It had been a day ago when the dark haired young man felt something in the air, a disturbance of sorts to be honest. Which in itself was a peculiar thing but he brushed it off to the weather – there had been a lot of storms lately for that time of the year. He found it strange how the weather could be so variable even when its patterns could be predicted for the last couple of decades... or so he had read in the almanac.
Nonetheless, the storms had been bothersome and it certainly looked like rain was coming for the sixth time. This summer will certainly be one to remember.
He couldn't had been more than a mile away from the village when he felt the signal in the east side of the forest; were it not that a second road was located in that side that merged with the one that lead to the village, he would not had bothered to check it out. But as was his duty for today, he had to investigate.
Running across the forest floor, he zeroed in on the direction the signal was coming from and while he couldn't recognized to whom it belonged to, he knew by the strength alone that it belonged to a shinobi and not that of a civilian. Even so, the young man could tell through the subtle vibration that was resonating from the direction that a confrontation was a foot. What slightly perplexed the young man was that he couldn't sensed the second person in the fight.
While not out of the norm, it was something that pushed him forward and without a second thought, he leapt into one of the nearby trees
As he neared this second road, the source of the signal quickly vanished.
Well, not quite.
It was actually moving away from where he last sensed it.
'Running away,' he thought as he stopped atop a broad tree branch. 'They knew I was com-' His thoughts instantly came to an abrupt halt when he noticed the one on the road.
There, in the middle, stood a female Akatsuki member.
'This must be the second person the first was confronting.' He thought to himself as he knelt down on the branch so as to better hide himself. 'If so, why would the first disappear?'
From the Intel gathered on this criminal organization, the characteristic of the female did not match that with the sole known female of the group. 'She must be a new recruit,' he thought to himself as he took note of her to report. The female appeared to be in her late teens; if the cloak was any indication, it appeared to him she was of the small and delicate physique – which was not unheard of when it came to some kunoichi. Her dark shoulder length hair was clearly disheveled while her dark colored eyes quickly turned to his direction. Quickly, the young man hid himself behind the tree's trunk. Despite her not looking physically dangerous, he knew not to underestimate the female considering the Akatsuki comprised of mostly S-rank missing-nin's.
'Base on the fact that she was not exuding any form of chakra signal she must have way above excellent chakra control,' he thoughts to himself as he pulled out his special custom scroll. He glanced around the trunk in time to see her running into the forest. 'As the saying goes, surely there's more to her than meets the eye.' He laid the scroll out in front of him and took hold of his ink brush. Quickly, he formed his fingers into a seal and after uttering his familiar words and with a couple of swift flicks of his wrist, he watched the five drawn snakes jump out of his scroll and down to the forest floor as alive as those they mimicked.
Well, he didn't know what to think.
He expected for a fight – had been looking forward to one, actually – but this was different. He already sent word for the others through the use of his birds not so long ago as he waited patiently by the bound unconscious female.
As far as he knew the female should had been dead but her strong pulse said otherwise. Rendering someone unconscious – be it through self-harm as was the case – should ceased their ninjutsu hold and in turn should had left them vulnerable for attacks, which should had been the opposite case for the female. Rendered unconscious, her chakra signature should be exposed considering she couldn't be holding it back.
Yet, there was none.
A sudden gust of wind shook the tree's leaves above him, causing a couple to loosen their hold on their branch and slowly drift onto the unconscious female.
The skies were darkening with rain again.
It was another bad storm if the heavy rain and wind was any indication.
By the time the first drops of rain appeared, the team's leader had already created a temporary shelter to both house themselves and keep the female prisoner out of the elements.
"It's certainly a bad one – you should see how it is out there," his female teammate commented as she walked into the small room where they kept the female. As was the suggestion of their team leader, they decided to keep her separate from themselves. Even while unconscious, they had no idea what else the female was capable of doing considering what happened not so long ago.
"Once it stops, we'll send word for the others to meet up with us," the leader stated as he walked towards the door. "Sakura, Sai," he turned to look both at the dark haired young man and the pink haired kunoichi. "In the meantime, I'll put a temporary seal on the door to keep her within. Even while bound, we can't be too careful even in the state that she's in." He then pointedly looked to Sakura, "I suggest you don't overextend yourself for the next hour no matter the situation– after your attempt at a transfusion, we don't want another repeat of what happened earlier."
Sakura nodded, "right."
With that – team leader, Sakura and Sai stepped out of the room before he placed the aforementioned seal on the door, which embedded itself into the wooden texture.
Author's Note:
I'm writing two stories roughly at the same time - this one and my other Naruto fic Red String. So I do apologize in advance for being a tad slow with the updates. But no worries — this story is still my main!
Now my response to last chapter's question:
[What two films would you like to combine into one?]
I want to say a movie dealing with zombies and superheroes but... really, the movie would had ended too quickly for obvious reasons. So how about a Marvel film and Harry Potter? How about it being a versus?! OOOOOH! I'm in it for the action x)
Now for this chapter's question:
[What's the most annoying animal you've encountered?]
Until next time, thanks for reading!
