Trekking through dense foliage i pouted. Even after four days i hadn't found my target. The shinigami man couldn't even find him. I would've had him dead already if i could just find him! I doubled back already to, and packaged up the inortal to eat.
Needless to say he's dead and will never be put back together no that i've eaten him. I found the scythe to! If only i would be lucky enough to find my next target. It's quite boring wandering around aimlessly when you can think of millions better things to be doing. Perhaps he was dead?
"Ketsuki?" i turned around surprised. Why was Gai here? Wasn't he on his way to Kahona. "Kahona asks for you youthful help!" he struck a pose and i turned away from him, planing to walk away before he noticed.
"Wait! Ketsuki! You're Youthfulness is needed! The youth in Kahona is not strong enough! A youthful woman is attacking us, and she's asking for you!"
I paused for a second trying to figure out how Gai knew where i was and who the lady was. It must be Kohan. She's the only one i can think of who would be able to take on a village. She's mad at me too.
"Is it Kohan? It must be because i killed her boyfriend." i grinned widely as i turned to face him, the scythe still on my back. "Alright. I'll go to Kahona with you, but i'm not killing her unless my boss says i can."
"Great! We are in dire need of your Youthfulness!"
I can't understand why you'd ever agree to go anywhere with this guy. He's so weird. I'm sure you already knew but you can't kill the woman. She's not undying like her partner was.
I turned to Gai and gave him a small smile, "You think Kahona would give me new clothes if i went to them? I'll get her out of Kahona for you if they can."
He nodded furiously eyes sparkling unnaturally. "This is perfect! Kahona will be greatly aided with your abundance of youthful energy!" Gai crouched down and turned around allowing me to get on his back so he could carry me. I turned down his offer without a single thought, and walked past him.
"Well we're wasting time standing here."
I never saw his response to that but we were soon running, him leading the way as i tried to keep up and not run into anything this time around. "So gai. How are your genin students? That is what they're called right?"
"They are the most youthful genin! Though Neji is now a chunin!" i nodded, and detangled the scythe from my shirt, and swung it in front of me. It would feel so nice to make the lady suffer by using the weapon i had stolen from one of her teammates. It can be called that right? Or is there another word for it that sounds better.
"Gai, how old were you when you first killed somebody?" he was silent for a few minutes and i thought he wasn't going to answer.
"I was nine. It was a time of war and there were already kids younger than me out there fighting." a moment of silence followed, before i answered the question.
"I think i was six. Mama had just killed Papa, and i was beginning to wonder what it was like. It was fun. Mama's screams were funny. She'd kept screaming for me to stop and calling out for Papa to come save her, but she had already killed him so it was no use."
Gai was sending me a horrified look even as he was running and i couldn't help but be annoyed with how easy he found this.
"Did the lady say why she wanted me?"
"Er, well she said something about you killing 'Pain', but i must have heard her wrong. Nobody names their kid that."
"Ah! So it really is her! She's trying to get revenge on me for killing the guy!"
I thought you figured that earlier.
"Oh. i did, i just wasn't sure if it was really the lady.
"Ketsuki, who are you talking to?"
"Hu? Oh you mean the voice in my head?"
"Is that it? You must be very youthful to have such a strong subconscious!" there's the Gai i know. He was being oddly serious just a moment ago.
Probably because you were asking him about killing people as a child as if it was an normal thing.
"Isn't it?" i cast a sideways glance at Gai and wondered if that could really be it. I didn't think there was anything wrong with asking, i was just trying to make conversation with him.
"You're talking to the voice again?" i nodded to Gai and he mutter something about being in tune with my 'youthfulness'.
It's not normal. Typical conversation is about things like how your day went, plans for the rest of your life or about something the two of you have in common. I'm don't believe he has the same views of death as you do.
I turned to Gain a look of confusion flashing across my face as we ran towards his village, "Gai, what are your views of death?"
He stumbled momentarily as if i had taken him by surprise, ut quickly straightened and continued running smoothly, "it is not always youthful. If you pass of natural causes i suppose it is, but when you are killed by another man that is not youthful." he did not look at me for the rest of our trip it was silent.
I found it sorta nice. I had never been anywhere with Gai when he was giving the silent treatment, and i found it refreshing knowing that i would not get the headache that always threatened we when i was near him.
It was several hours before i saw the walls off in the distance, and the large ball of paper that floated above the village. "It looks like she's madder at me than i thought she would be."
Gai sent me a glance with a raised eyebrow but once he saw the grin that was stretching across my face he looked away. Perhaps he forgot i my own views of death.
"I… I wish you luck Ketsuki. I hope your youthfulness aids you in this battle."
"Eh? I don't plan on fighting her."
Gai gave me a strange look and led me to the Hokages tower where the distressed woman greeted me urgently. The entire village looked like a ghost town now.
"Ketsuki?"
"Yup. That's me." i twirled in a circle arms spread wide to present myself. She eyed the scythe warily, but cast a glance to a slightly pale Ibiki in the corner who nodded to assure her it was me.
"I will be taking my leave now." Gai was out of the room in a flash and i smiled at the two people before me. It was a tense moment before i broke the silence.
"So… where is she?"