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"Took you long enough," A tall man asked her when she walked towards the two men who captured her brother.
"Find anyone?" The shorter one asked.
"Found the brat's sister," Karan said.
"Where is she?" The short one asked.
"Hit her over the head and threw her down a waterfall." Karan said mimicking the same attitude Lia had shown when they were fighting.
"No! Karan. What did you do to my sister?" Kaien screamed out.
"I thought we told you to bring back whoever you found." The skinny one said angrily.
"Little brat made me mad, she was more trouble than she was worth. We already have the one brat, we don't need another one." Karan said looking at Kaien and trying to see if he had any injuries.
"That wasn't for you to decide." The tall one said walking over to her.
"Then go look for her yourself." Karan said glaring at him. He didn't take his eyes off of her.
"Did you find anyone else?" the shorter one said interrupting their stare off.
"No, the girl was alone." Karan answered.
"Fine, let's call it a night. Lia since you lost the girl, you get first watch." The short one said.
"Okay." Karan said.
"Really?" The taller one said a bit surprised.
"Yeah what of it?" Karan responded.
The two men exchanged looks but shrugged it off. They went to their sleeping mats and fell asleep. Once Karan saw they were deep enough in sleep she undid the transformation jutsu and untied Kaien who had fallen asleep as well.
"Kai, wake up. Kaien." Karan shook him awake. He looked startled. When he saw his sister he was shocked and tackled her in a hug.
"I thought you were dead." He whispered.
"Sorry had to make them buy it." Karan whispered. "Come on lets go before they wake up." She helped her brother up and they jumped up a tree and started jumping from branch to branch.
They didn't get very far before they were attacked.
"I knew something was wrong. Lia never accepts any of my plans without a fight." The tall one, Shiro as Kaien remembered what his name, said.
"Where is Lia? Can't believe she was beat by a snot nosed brat." Cato said.
"I'm not a brat, my name is Karan. I did what I had to to get by brother. Your teammate is tied up somewhere. I'll tell you where she is if you let us go." Karan tried to bargain.
They turned to look at each other before Cato attacked them with senbon. Karan and Kaien managed to deflect them with kunai before Shiro came at them.
"We don't need Lia. If she was bested by a kid less than half her age she's not worth having around." Shiro said.
"She's your friend." Kaien snarled in disbelief that they would turn their backs on her so easily.
"We're rogue ninjas kid. Its every man for himself out there." Cato said throwing more senbon at Kaien. He was hit by a few but they were shallow hits.
Shiro went after Karan on the ground, with Earth style ninjutsu. "Doton: Mudslide jutsu."
Karan managed to jump up just before the mudslide knocked down the tree she was on. In mid air she reacted quickly. "Katon: Giant Fireball Jutsu." Shiro slipped in the mud he created and was hit by the attack. Karan landed on one of the branches of a tree. She looked down but just saw fire.
'Now's my chance, I need to get Kai and get out of here.' She thought.
She turned around felt something kick her hard and send her flying through the air. She crashed against a tree and felt it crack against her.
"Thought you had me didn't you" Shiro said. "I'm not Lia. A trick like that won't take me down."
"She said the same thing before I knocked her out." Karan said with a smirk. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Kaien fight with Cato. Her brother was obviously exhausted. She saw he had more cuts than before and a few needles sticking out of his arm. They were both fighting with taijutsu. Kaien and Cato were evenly matched the only advantage Cato had were the few cuts Kaien had.
Karan was so distracted she barely managed to duck in time to avoid Shiro's kick.
"You're brother isn't going to win girl, Cato was part of black ops for Kirigakure under the fourth Mizukage." He said pulling out a kunai.
"We'll see." Was all Karan said, Blocking his attack and going on the offensive.
Meanwhile Kaien was having a hard time keeping up with the ninja in front of him. He got hit by a few needles and was having a hard time keeping his arm up/
"I see the paralyzing agent is kicking in." Cato said.
'Paralyzing agent, Shit' Kaien thought.
"Just means I have to hurry up and take you down." Kaien said going forward for an attack but just as he was about to land a hit his opponent disappeared.
Karan was matching Shiro hit for hit. Her taijutsu skills had improved with Itachi's training and it was showing. She was about to use another jutsu when she saw her brother stop moving. He was just standing still, as Cato was about to throw more senbon at him.
"Kaien move!" Karan screamed at him but he didn't listen and he was hit. Karan moved as fast as she could to catch her brother as he started to fall. She caught him in mid air and rolled when they landed. She started checking her brother's wounds. The senbon had hit close to his heart and in his neck but that wasn't what scared her. Kaien wasn't breathing.
"Kai, come on wake up. Seriously, Kaien get up please." She said sobbing. She checked his pulse and didn't feel anything. "No!" She cried out. The two rogue ninja went down to try and finish her off.
"One down, one more to go." Cato said.
"I told you girl, your brother was not match for Cato. Give up now and we'll make it quick."
Karan looked up and them. She could see Cato pull out more senbon and start to move to throw them. She moved out of the way before any of them landed on her or her brother. She pulled out her kunai.
"Katon: Pheonix Flower Justu." She said releasing her attack. They easily dodged the attack like she predicted and she appeared behind them throwing shuriken at Shiro and kicking Cato in the ribs, sending him into a tree.
Karan went toward Cato and through more shuriken at him. He started making handsigns that Karan read easily and she mimicked them faster than her opponent could form them. "Doton: Earth Dragon Jutsu!" the dragon formed from the ground and tackled into Cato, crushing him against the tree he was leaning on.
She saw something move out of the cornier of her eye. She stuck out her arm with a kunai in that direction stabbing Shiro in the shoulder. He was not expecting that.
"Y-your eyes, they're different." He stuttered out.
Karan was confused why he would say that. She started walking toward him but on the second step she fell down.
'Crap, I over did it again. I still hadn't fully recovered all the chakra from fighting Lia and the transformation' Karan thought.
"Not much use to you without chakra though is it?" Shiro said standing up. "May as well put you out of your misery." He said pulling out a kunai.
He took three steps before something kicked him away. "Stay away from my sister." Kaien said panting. Karan looked up at him and couldn't believe her eyes. They were red with two tomoe around the pupil.
"Kaien." Karan called out to him.
"Kar, you alright." He said looking her over. "Your eyes, they're red." He whispered.
"So are yours." She said.
"Lets deal with that later, first, we have to deal with him." Kaien said.
"Right, I think I have enough for one last one." Karan said standing up.
"Let's make it fast." Kaien said. 'The paralyzing agent hasn't worn off completely' he thought.
Before Shiro could even move the twins were hitting him from every direction, they were so fast. They could read any move he made. He couldn't even reach for a weapon before the stabbed his arm again and then the leg. He couldn't move.
The last thing he saw was both siblings making handsigns so fast he couldn't tell what they were.
'Katon: Dragon Flame Jutsu' They yelled out at the same time before the flames consumed him.
By the time they were done, the surrounding forest was set ablaze. The twins were exhausted and just sat next to each other leaning against the tree. The forest was coming down around them but they were too tired to move.
Itachi saw the start of the fire from the cliff. He had had enough of Madara's interference. The fire was a tipping point. He had to go check on Karan and Kaien. As he got closer the fire had gotten bigger.
There were no threats that he could sense. At the center of it where the flames were the most intense he found the twins leaning against each other. They turned to look at him and he was shocked at what he saw. Both of them had activated their sharingan. As soon as they saw it was Itachi they deactivated it.
"Took you long enough" Kaien coughed out.
"We need to move" Karan said but didn't move. Itachi looked over them. It wasn't that they didn't want to move, they couldn't. They were each suffering from severe chakra exhaustion. He moved towards them and picked them up. He moved away from the fire and started walking towards the camp. The twins passed out before he was half way there and before Madara appeared.
"They're still alive I see." He said with his arm crossed.
"Yes they also defeated the ninja in the forest." Itachi said.
"Don't bother heading back, I'll teleport you to the hideout." Madara said absorbing him to the other dimension and then to the hideout.
"Was it worth it?" Itachi asked.
"They proved themselves, even if they didn't awaken their sharingan I saw their potential." Madara said. Then a woman with blue hair and an origami rose in her hair appeared.
"Konan." Madara said nodding to her.
"I see you bring guests," She said walking over to Itachi. She took Karan and Kaien from him and looked them over. "What happened to them?"
"There were ninja in the forest. I wanted to test their abilities so I did." Madara answered simply.
"How could you? They're children. How injured are they?" Konan said glaring at Madara. Itachi could tell she genuinely cared about the siblings.
"They're assets, they're mine to do with as I please. As for their injuries I don't know, Itachi?" Madara said.
"They don't have any serious injuries, some minor cuts and bruises. Its mostly just chakra exhaustion." Itachi told her.
"I'll take them to rest in a guest room." She said carrying them down the hallway.
Once she was gone, "Follow me, It's time you met the leader of the Akatsuki." Madara said.
'Leader?' Itachi thought to himself as he followed Madara.