Chapter 5: The Truth behind the Puppet
Team Sasori returned to their hindout a day ago, and since then Asun spent all of his time in his work shop that Sasori gave him trying to build a new puppet. But every time he get close to finishing his puppet,
A feeling of failure swept over his very soul, and all the work that he put into building his puppet all seem pointless now, and in a fit of rage he threw his work on the floor, destroying it.
This happened many times, again and again the feeling of failure never seemed to go away, and all of his work seemed to end up on the floor below his very feet in pieces.
"Why can't I do this?" Asun said to himself as he clenched his fist's in anger
This raged filled his mind with anger and hatred, enough to where he hit the table in front of him with his own fist. "Why is this happening? It was so easy before, what have changed?!" said Asun trying to figure out what was happening to him, more importantly his mind
That is when he pictured his master in his mind, Asun figured Sasori a much older puppet master would help him with this problem that he was facing, since he probably delt with this before.
Nothing else to do, and no other plans to try Asun exit his work shop and held over to his master room. Once he got there Asun knocked on the door three times no more no less, before his said to who's ever in there, "Master Sasori are you in there?" he asked wondering if Sasori was even in there.
But nobody answered, so he tried again but the end result was still the same no answer. Figured their was nobody in the room at the time, Asun turned left and decided to come back later when Sasori was in his room.
Right before he turned to leave the hallway that his master room was on, he heard his master voice say to him, "You may come in now" said Sasori
Asun turned around and walk back to Sasori room once he heard his master voice. Asun stepped into his master room and closed the door behind him with his right hand.
Once he was in his master room, Asun raised his head and stared at his master. Sasori stared back at him as he said to him student "What do you want, I'm very busy?" said Sasori
"Yes master, I'm very sorry to have bothered you, but I have come over a problem that I cannot solve on my own" said Asun as he bowed to his master
Sasori wondered what is bothering his student, but at the same time he had other things to do that need his attention.
Sasori said to his student "What is it? and remember I am busy so I don't have time to deal with you boy!"
Asun stood up and stared at his master, as he said to him "I will make this quick than, the problem that I am dealing with is, I cannot make puppets"
Once he said that Sasori got a surprised expression on his face as Asun continued to say to him, "Every time I try this weird sensation of failure sweeps over me, and I just smashed the puppet's that I' was working on and I don't know why. I just can't bring myself to build a puppet" said Asun in a confused panic tone of voice
"Calm down, I've two had that kind of problem long ago" said Sasori
"You did" said Asun as he started to calm down
"Yes it was long ago, when I still lived in the sand village. This story is long so I'm only going to tell you a short part of it, before I have to go." said Sasori
Feeling a sense of joy came over Asun, as he thanked his master for taking time out of his busy schedule, to tell him a story of his pasted.
"I lived in the sand viliage, for all of my childhood and I was a great puppet master. People in my village was amazed by my work, but I grew sick of it. It was almost like the puppet's I created was sucking the joy and happiness from my life. Until the day came where I found away passed it!"
Sasori remembered the day where it all happened in his mind, as he told the story to his student.
Sasori is sitting at a table in a restaurant staring blankly out a window that was next to him, even when his food came and was placed in front of him, Sasori continued to stare out the same window into the bright blue sky above.
As Sasori was staring out the window he thought to himself, "I'm so bored here"
Sasori could than sense that someone was watching him in the restaurant, not knowing who it could be he turned his head left and stared at the plate of food in front of him. As he was eating his food Sasori thought to himself "So they here. I better get going than".
Once he finished his food Sasori stood up from the table and exit the restaurant that he was in. Sasori began walking through the village knowing that someone was following in behind him.
Once he had enough with the chase, Sasori turned into a ally way to confront who's ever was following him. Sasori look forward and he said out loud "You can come out now?"
When he said that the Anbu-black-op wearing a cat mask appeared behind him, and she said to him "Don't turn around! said the anbu-black-op
"Huh what is it now, can't you tell I was busy" said Sasori as he closed his eyes and smiled
"The third kazekage have a mission for the rising puppet master of the sand" said the anbu
"Is that what people calling me now, how childish really wouldn't you say" said Sasori as he opened his eyes
"Your mission is to go to a village not to far from the sand, and capture a man named Hiruko. Once he captured Hiruko, bring him to the location in this scroll" said the Anbu as she flipped the scroll into Sasori hands
"One more thing. Do not open the scroll, until you captured Hiruko!" once the Anbu gave all the detail of the mission to Sasori, she disappeared from the sand all together.
Sasori stared at the scroll in his hand as he said to himself "The Kazekage?".
Sasori turned around and walked all the way to his house, to retrieve a special item. Once he was in his house, he quickly went up to his room and pulled a box from underneath his bed.
"There it is" said Sasori as he opened the box and grab the scroll that was inside. Once he obtain his scroll, Sasori quickly closed the box back and pushed it back underneath his bed, before anybody saw what he did.
For safety reasons he put the scroll that he got from the box in his pocket, as he stood up left the room.
Sasori exit out of his house through the front door where he came in. He turned around and closed the door behind him, making sure it was locked. That is when he heard his grandmother voice say to him "Sasori?"
Sasori turned around and look forward, and he see his grandmother standing in front of him. "Lady Chiyo what are you doing here?" said Sasori to his grandmother in a surprise tone of voice
"I wish you call me grandmother like you use to Sasori. Oh are you going some where?" said Chiyo
"Yeah it's a mission that the third kazekage gave me. I'm leaving right now to do it!" said Sasori
"Well I'm glad you helping your village" said Chiyo so proud of her grandson
"Hey I have to go" said Sasori as he took off to complete his mission.
As her grandson was walking off, Chiyo turned around and stared at him as he left the village."Be safe Sasori" said Chiyo hoping that nothing happen to her grandson
After a long walk through the desert sand Sasori final made it to the village, that the Anbu black op said Hiruko was at, but before he entered the village he thought to himself,
"I wonder why the kazekage need me to capture a man anyway. It don't really make sense what would capturing one man do for are village in the first place" Sasori thought to himself questioning the third Kazekage wishes.
But even though he questioned the mission that he was on, Sasori still planned to complete the mission that he was on, for the third kazekage and for his village.
Sasori entered the village, and since he didn't know where he could find Hiruko, he decided to get a drink from a local pub to quench his thirst from walking through the desert for so long.
Sasori entered a local pub and sit down at the bar in one of the chairs there. Once he ordered his drink he over heard a couple of people talking on the other side of the pub quite loudly.
"I can't believe Hiruko took out those people from the rain with only one kunai, and to top that he didn't even ask for are help" said a man talking to his buddies
"I know, I'm glad Hiruko is on are side. I don't wanna fight him" replied one of the man buddies.
After those loud-mouths finish their drinks, their waitress came over there with a whole other round of drinks for them.
"Here you go boys, another round" said the waitress as she put the round of drinks on the table in front of the guys
Those men pick the drinks up from the plate that they was on, and they raised their glasses up high, as they cheered for their man "Hiruko"and his victory against the rain shinobi.
As they was celebrating their victory on the other side of the pub Sasori was smiling as he thought of a plan on how he was going to find Hiruko."What fools" said Sasori as he took a sip of his drink.
Many hours passed since Sasori entered the pub, and as Sasori sit at the bar in his chair, he realize that the planned that he made to get close to Hiruko hours ago wasn't going to work, so he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Sasori stood up from his sit and walked over to the partying drunks, Sasori politely asked the drunks to "Shut up!".
One of the drunks decided that he was going to be a tough guy, so he stood up from his seat and he stared into Sasori eyes as he said to him, "Or what?"
"I was hoping you ask!" said Sasori as he smiled, and in a slit second Sasori sweep kick the man off of his feet and pushed him back into his chair with his hand.
Once he got the drunks attention Sasori turned his head left, and he said to all of them "I believe I've got your attention now, and if not!" Sasori stab a kunai deep with in the table as a sign that he mean business.
"Now one of you going to take me to this Hiruko you was talking about earlier!" said Sasori in a murderous tone of voice
"What are you?!" said the man nearest to Sasori in a cried tone
Sasori stared at the man that spoke to him, "Just for that, you will take me to Hiruko. Or I will kill you where you sit. Do you want that?" said Sasori
The man was to terrified to speak, so he just shook his head "no".
Sasori pulled the drunk from right out of his chair, and he pushed him through the pub doors, right on the ground outside.
The others wanted to see if their buddy was okay, but when they tried to get up from their chairs Sasori said to them "No please stay, sit. Have another drink it's on you".
Once he said that all of the drunks sit back down, to afraid of Sasroi to move.
Once that was settled Sasori stepped outside, to speak to the man on the ground. "Get up" said Sasori
The man slowly stood up off the ground on his own two feet just like Sasori ask, Sasori spin the man around and pushed him forward, telling the drunk to take him to Hiruko. The man did just as Sasori told him, and he took him to Hiruko.
The man finally started to recover from his drunken spree at the pub just hours ago, and he took Sasori to the warehouse right outside of the village, where he said Hiruko was in.
Sasori stared at the doors to the warehouse with content, and as he stared at the doors the man that he took from the pub stand by hoping that he would release him from his watch.
"Thank you. You may go if you wish? It doesn't really matter" said Sasori to the man on his right as he prepared to held into the warehouse to confront Hiruko.
"Thank you, thank you! Bloody thank you!" said the man as he ran back to the pub so appreciative that Sasori spared his life.
When the man left him, Sasori got his scrolls ready for battle as he entered the warehouse.
Sasori looked around and he see that there's a lot of explosive barrels in the warehouse. "Hmmmm" said Sasori as he heard a click behind him, it was almost like something was being raised.
Sasori turned around only to find a dozen of guns pointed at his head. Sasori was quite surprise of the events that was taken place in front of him.
The leader took a couple of steps forward from his group so he could get a better look at Sasor, the leader said to the pesky man in front of him
"You probably wondering why is this happening to you, why not anybody else you might think. But think again! We are not going to let them nor you get anywhere near are business. And unfortunate for you, I don't want any prisoners at the moment. Maybe in another life, you may be so lucky but not this once. Fire!" said the man as he ordered his troops to fire at the pest
The leader troops fired their weapons at the barrels all around Sasori, the barrels detonate and blew the whole warehouse to ash in a blind of an eye the second their bullets collide with the barrels.
The group was sure that pest perished in the explosion. The second officer in command look to the leader and said to him "I believe that pest is dead".
The leader of the small group looked upon the ashed of the warehouse, and he said to his troop "This is a small price to pay, for destroying one of their uh..may I say rats?. Destroy one to day, fight the rest tomorrow I like to say. Now let's move out!" said the leader to his troops as they left the village all together.
A gust of wind came from the north region and blew the ashes away, revealing Sasori lying on top of burnt wood bloody and in bad shape. But even with his many injuries and blood dripping from his body, Sasori manage to stand on his own two feet up on the ashes of which he stand.
He could bare opened his eyes, or even walk for that matter. But somehow he crossed the desert and made it back inside the sand village, right before he collapsed on the ground in front of the hospital from the lack of blood in his body.
Mardon day Sasori stared at his student as he saw that Asun was really interested in the story in the story that he was being told. "That is enough for now, I have other matters to attend to!" said Sasori as he left his room to do other things?
But thanks to Sasori story Asun final gotten passed what was stopping him before, and he got a new idea for a puppet.
The Idea was to make a puppet that can handle being in wars, so with the idea still fresh in his mind he went back to his work shop and started working on his new puppet.
Many hours passed since Asun started building his new puppet, he put special battle ready weapons, gases, bombs, and a lot of other things inside of his puppet to help it in battle.
After a while of long hard work, Asun finally finish building his new puppet, he put cloths on its outer body, and machinery plus weapons in its inner body. Now all it need is a name, but Asun had no clue what to call his new creation.
Minutes passed as Asun tried to think of a name for his puppet, but to him it felt like hours. Right when he was about to give up his partner walked into the room that he was in,
"Get out" yelled Asun in a pissed off tone of voice, but Millianna refused to leave when she saw her friend in so much pain.
"What's wrong? Do you need anything, can I help?" Millianna said in a soft caring tone as she moved closer to Asun.
"No, not unless you can figure out a name fore this puppet" said in a disappointed tone of voice as Asun put his puppet on the work bench was which it was made.
Asun turned around and began to walk to the door, as he walked to leave the room Millianna put her finger up against her mouth as she said to herself, "Name?" she continued "What about Thief?" said Millianna referring to his puppet as she turned around and stared at Asun
Once she said that, something clicked in the young puppet master mind and in an instant Asun turned around and rushed to his partner, and he gave her a big huge filled with happiness.
As Asun was hugging her, Millianna cheeks began to turn bright red, almost like a fresh tomato just been pick from the garden. She felt so warm and loving from Asun hug like she was hugging a very soft pillow.
It was so good she felt like if she continued she might do something she would regret, so before that happen she pushed Asun away from her with both of her hands as she said to him "Okay that's enough" said Millianna is a really embarrassed tone
Asun didn't know why she pushed him away, but he decided not to look into it and just let it slide because she was his friend. Millianna cheeks turned back to their normal native american color as Asun walked over and pick his puppet up from off the bench with both of his hands.
"Thief is a perfect name. I can't believe I didn't think of it before!" said Asun as he stared at his puppet. Asun continued to say "You know what, I was think of a different name...but your's is much better. Thief?" he said to Millianna
"What was your name?" Millianna said to her partner as she turned around and stared into his eyes,
"It doesn't matter now" said Asun quickly interupped by the Millianna
"No! I want to hear your Idea?!" said Millianna eagered to know what name Asun was going to give his puppet
"Well if you must know, but I don't know why. I was going to name this puppet the Merchant! Stupid huh!" said Asun downing himself
"No! I like it much better than Thief anyway" said Millianna in such an emotion tone of voice, tired of Asun downing himself so.
"I know what you trying to do, you trying to cheer me up and thank you for thank. But Thief is much better, it works so well" said Asun as he cheered up a little.
Millianna put her hand against her chest as she was happy to see that Asun was feeling better. "Asun I want to tell you something" said Millianna feeling a bit shy as Asun turned to see what she was going to say,
"What is it?" said Asun wondering what she was going to say to him
"Can I test your puppet out?" said Millianna still a little shay to ask him, once she said that Asun was shocked to her those words coming out of her mouth, so he replied to her
"But you not a puppet master" said Asun in a confused tone of voice
"Not like that silly, I mean can I train with you?" said Millianna as she got over being shyness
"Oh but of course, let go" said Asun as they both stepped out of his workshop and head over to the training ground to train
A few hours past for the genins to travel, but that finally made it to the trying grounds. As they was there Asun and Millianna as circling each other not taking their eyes off of one another. As they was scanning each other to create a battle planned
Millianna saw Asun Thief puppet looks like a thirty year old man wearing a dark purple turtleneck sweater on his upper body all the way to it covered the its mouth and nose, a gray jacket above the sweater zipped all the way up to the point.
The second jacket that the puppet was wearing was black with a silver zipper wrapped around its chest, as the hood covered the back of the puppet head. The puppet eyes are completely white as it wear a black cape on its head underneath the hood.
The puppet is also wearing two brown hawk gloves on both of its hands, on the puppet lower waist down to its feet there is a black pair of pant with chains wrapped around where the belt should be. Shoes as black as night itself on its it's very feet.
Once they both figured out what they was going to do to win, they both stopped circling each other and prepared for battle. Before the battle start Millianna stared at Asun and said to him "Hey I want you to now before we start, I like what you made"
"And I to you, what you can do on the battlefield is just amazing. Truly perfect if I do say so myself, I'm glad I can face you in battle even if this just a sparing match it's still an honor" said Asun just so pumped to face his fellow team-mate in battle for the fist time
"You should know flattery won't make me go easy on you. But thanks though" Millianna said in a happy peaceful tone as she smiled at Asun,
Once she opened her eyes all the happiness and joy that was in her heart suddenly vanish into thin air as intensity and seriousness consumed her very soul, and bloodthirsty eyes replaced her own, turning her into a cold bloodthirsty murderer ready to fight anything or anyone.
When Asun saw those eyes, a big grin appeared on his face as he attached his chakra strings to his puppet and pulled it closer to him.
Once everything was in place Asun said his partner hoping that she could hear him "Yes that's what I want to see, Millianna the instant killer. Well let's not waste this moment shall me, who knows when we might get it again" said Asun in a cold beast-like tone of voice
They both charged at each other, both willing to kill each other for the sake of winning the match. Once they collide Asun puppet pulled out a gold bladed axe and swung it at Millianna aiming for her head,
But she stopped the blade from harming her face by grabbing it with her own hand, she hold onto the blade as hard as she could not worrying about the blood that was coming out of her hand, all she cared about at that point was defeating Asun and winning.
She used the axe to lift her entire body off the ground up into the air, so she could kick the puppet in its face, the force of the kick pushed both the puppet and the user back severely almost knocking Asun off of his feet. Almost!
Once Asun got his footing back he raised his head up and stared at his opponent with demon like eyes, as she drop back to the ground from her attack.
As he stared into her eyes with his, a weird sensation to kill her swept over his mind, again and again this happen to Asun until that all he could think about.
Knowing what he had to do to win, Asun smiled like a true demon as he launched his Thief puppet forward toward Millianna, and right before it collide with the enemy Asun opened the puppet left arm, as two swords came oiut of the arm the puppet quickly grab the handles of the swords and started to swing it at Millianna.
But thanks to her speed she easy dodge the puppet swords, it was almost funny to her. When Asun saw attacking Millianna was pointless at least for the moment, he decided to go with plan B.
The young but welling puppet master used both of his hands to make the puppet move a lot faster,but still that didn't change the fact that Millianna could still dodge its attacks, it just made it a little bit difficult.
Once Millianna saw her opportunity as arrived she took it, she quickly slide underneath her opponent puppet and became to dash at high-speed toward her enemy.
Once that accord Asun smiled as his puppet slipped around and shot missiles out of its arms directly at Millianna. As the missiles began to gain speed and started to catch up with the girl,
She thought to herself once she had a look at what she was up against, "Missiles, I have to say he's getting better that" said Millianna as she dashed to the right but the missiles stayed on her tail.
Just no matter how fast she moved or how many times to jumped around, the missiles stayed directly behind her, it was almost like the missiles had a mind of their own.
Know that she couldn't out run the missiles, she decided to do a head on approach and attack them head on, she knocked the missiles down to the ground watching them exploded but with out a second notice Asun puppet rushed over to her and back-handed her to the ground.
With her sharp flexibility she had no problem landing on her feet, but the matters still stand she have to get ride of that puppet is she ever want to win against Asun. So she stood up off the ground ready to face the puppet on a head on head fist fight.
Seeing that what Millianna what Asun made the puppet put down its weapons and hold ouut its fist. Once they started to fist right the fight lasted about 3 minutes before someone came on top
The puppet spin avoiding his opponent attack as it used its hidden blade to cut Millianna neck, sure it was just a tiny cut but it made its mark.
When the cut was made Millianna felt a boost of energy, and she used her extra energy to attack the puppet in front of her, she rapidly attack the puppet with her fists without giving her opponent a chance to counter her movements she jumped up into the air and started kicking the puppet in its chest repeatedly.
The puppet soon gave into her attacks and got launched backwards, but even with that Millianna still wasn't satisfied so she rushed over and rammed the puppet to the ground.
Immediately after her amazing show of skill, Asun began to laugh repeatedly. His laughter was like knifes stabbing inside of her back, the laughter was driving her insane until she turned her head and told Asun to shut up!.
"I guess you could say that, it's appropriate seeing I just injected you with poison" said Asun in a devilish tone of voice toward his opponent
"What did you just say?" said Millianna with a shock expression on her face wondering what she thought she heard came out of Asun mouth was true
He smiled as he continued to say to his soon to be defeated fowl "Yes you heard correctly I said poison. As we speak a poison that I mix together just hours ago is coursing through your veins, slowly stopping your organs from functioning.
But at last the poison is not yet complete and have away to avoid its side effects. The person that has been injected with this can avoid the effects of the poison by simply move, if they continue to move without stopping
The person heart will start to pump the blood even faster than it was before, causing the blood to heat up which sad to say stopped the poison from moving through the body and when this poison stopped moving for it will soon burn itself out becoming nutrients for the body."
Once he was finish explaining what and how to stopped the poison, quickly began to move as fast as she could around the training grounds.
As she was doing so Asun pulled his puppet from off the ground back on its feet ready to fight again. Asun looked around to see where his opponent could have gone, but her light speed running was just to fast for him to see,
All he could see was his own puppet getting brutally knocked around and attacked by his opponent, it was happening far to fast for him to counter or even block the attacks that Millianna was giving his puppet.
Asun knew it was only a matter of time before his puppet body start to crack from the pressure of the many blows that Millianna was given it.
So to stop this from continuing he shot out all of the swords from inside of his puppet hoping that would stop his opponent from attack it, and it works but none of the swords actually hit Millianna all it did was get stuck in the ground.
As the training ground got silent Asun thought to himself wondering where Millianna could be, as he looked over the grounds it just hit him like a running train, he knew where Millianna exit strike was going to come,
So to avoid that tragic fate he began to pull the swords from out of the ground with his chakra strings to form a shield to protect his puppet. But right when the shield was completed Millianna came out of nowhere and broke through the shield that he made and attacked his puppet once again knocking it to the ground.
Asun was shocked to see the shield broken so easily, it was almost heart crushing to face the fact that he couldn't beat one of his team-mates, but in his heart he knew that he had to last just a little bit longer in the fight.
So Asun picked himself up and pulled his puppet back on its feet with his chakra strings. Once Thief was on its feet it bind down and grab two from out the ground with its hands.
Thief then started attacking Millianna, with each passing second it seem that the puppet was getting closer and closer to hitting Millianna.
Millianna tried to avoid the puppet blades as while as she could, but it seem that it was getting harder and harder to do even that. So she decided to go on the defensive as flee away from the puppet,
But for her Asun couldn't allow that to happen, he launched his puppet into the air to go after his opponent with both swords in hand. Millianna couldn't figure out why but Asun puppet catch up with her and pulled her to the ground below.
Millianna got a pretty good distance from her and her opponent"s puppet, so she could think about what is happening to her. "My body it starting to become stiff and heavy, but I've got to continue" thought Millianna as she clenched her fist with determination
It was tough for her to clench her hand, but somehow she manage to do that and stand up from off the ground and face her opponent once more.
"Do you really think you could possible beat me, you know who I am I mean you said it yourself did you not?" said Millianna in such a serious tone of voice
"That I did. But I have to try, not everybody can be like you" replied Asun as he stared into Millianna cold eyes.
Millianna shuck her head saying "she understood what he was saying."
Even with her own body weighing her down, she still manage to dash over to Asun kicking him in his gut and in his face with only the bottom on her foot with amazing speed. As he was about to fall Millianna grab onto his arm pulling him back towards her so she could inflict even more damage onto his body, before knocking him to the ground below.
As he was lying there on the ground in tremendous pain, Millianna bind down preparing to grab his neck and choke him, once she reached her arm out to grab his neck that is when these wires as thin and as sharp a razer-blades barely vision to the naked eye appeared all around Millianna body stopping her from making another move.
With the wires around her body there, she still reached her arm out and began to choke Asun ignoring the fact that the wires was cutting her arm to stresses.
Her blood was dripping from her body onto Asun clothes staining them with the blood of his enemy.
With the final breath of air leaving his lungs and all hope seem lost to this young puppet master, the wires that he placed tightly wrapped around Millianna body pulling her back away from him, giving the puppet master an opportunity to breath again.
When Asun throat was released Asun quick began taking rapid breaths of air trying to regulate airflow to his body, as Millianna slowly was pulling herself closer to him,
It was stuff to do for Millianna do to the fact that her body was being weighed down by poison and also with this wires digging into her skin, every step she took was simply agonizing, her body was being torn to pieces trying to win this fight.
Once the airflow to Asun body was working perfectly again, he stood up on his feet and walked over to Millianna only to say to her, "It's funny you came into this battle surely thinking that you could walk away with a victory,
But after being injected with poison and being cut by wires, you must face the facts the you lost" said Asun
But when Millianna heard those words escape Asun mouth, she snapped. She just began to pull her body forward toward Asun with a pure sense of hatred towards him.
The wires was cutting into Millianna body like they was doing in the past, but it seem like now they wasn't even effecting her at all, Millianna just kept moving her body forward until the wires that was containing her broke freeing her to do what she must.
Immediately Millianna grabbed Asun throat and tossed him into a giant rock, a good distance in front of her.
The rock soon shattered like glass once Asun body collide with it. Asun dropped to the ground getting bared by the rocks once he hit the ground.
Once the dust settled and the air was cleared, Millianna the young girl could no longer hear her opponent voice coming from the rocks, as blood began to drip from the rocks surface onto the ground itself.
As she stared at the blood coming from the rocks, a part of her want to see if Asun was okay, the other wanted to see her opponent's dead body for her very eyes.
"Do you surrender the fight to me?" said Millianna wanting for a response
"Sure you win" said Asun under so much pain because of the rocks crushing his body from above.
She was so relieve to her Asun voice again, hearing his voice snapped her out of her strange mood that she was under. Once she was out of the mood that she was in, Millianna quickly rushed over to Asun and started pulling the rocks from off of his body with the little strength she had left.
Once his body was free and the pressure of the rocks was lifted from his soul, Asun quickly opened his eyes to see what was blocking his light. When he opened his eyes and could see Millianna standing over him,
Asun smiled at Millianna as he stared at her face, "What are you smiling for anyway?" said Millianna wondering why Asun was smiling at her.
"Look like I have to get a lot stronger to face you and Night in battle again huh!" said Asun
"Yeah but you will get there is you member to train every day. That's how everybody get stronger even me" said Millianna as she pulled Asun up off the ground and wrapped his arm around her neck so he could stand.
They turned around and started walking forward toward the training ground door. As they was walking forward Millianna said to Asun with a smile on her face "You should be more careful, I mean you could have been severely hurt"
"And what would to call the state that I am in now, you wouldn't call this severely injured!" replied Asun as he started coughing up blood from out of his mouth onto the ground right below his feet.
"Yes I would, but you could have been..." said Millianna as she started getting really dizzy and her mind became consumed in fog, she could barely finds the strength to stand let alone walk as her vision started to get blurry, it got to the point where she could even see.
Millianna tried her best to continue walking forward even in the state that she was in, but there was no use the second she took a step forward her whole body became numb as she and Asun both collapse to the ground right in front of the doorway.
Right before the poison in her body cause her to passed out, she heard her partner voice say to her "Millianna, Millianna are you okay?!" but it couldn't be helped she passed out right then and there.
In time thanks to the condition that he was in Asun to passed out on the ground ever leaving the training ground.
As their unconscious bodies lay there on the ground, Asun dreamt of being in a dark place all alone with nobody for miles, he tried pinching himself awake but no matter how many times he pinched his arm he stayed in this dark area.
Seeing pinching himself wasn't doing a got damn thing, Asun decided to walk around this strange area that he was in, hoping he would find away out of the darkness but sadly he found no way out of the darkness.
It seem to Asun that he was trapped in the darkness forever alone. Until he saw a person deep in the darkness staring back at him, Asun stood up on his feet so he could get a better look at the person,
As he stared at the person in the dark, he slowly walk away from him without saying a word, feeling that he or his might be the own one that came help him, Asun rushed after the person as fast as he could.
But even with Asun chasing after the person that he saw in the dark. The person that he was chasing for miles seem to faded into the darkness and disappeared with out a trace to be seen.
When Asun lost the person that he was chasing, he didn't stop walked or speaking into the darkness not for the second even if it doesn't respond back to him.
As time past in the darkness Asun feel even more awake than when he first got there, when Asun feel like giving up and just lying there, a person walk up behind him and stab a kunai right through his spine and exiting his chest.
As the blade stayed in his chest Asun turned his head to look back to see who could have done this to him, but when he turned his head it was completely dark nothing was there.
"What?" said Asun as he dropped to the ground on his knee.
"This can't be happening!" thought Asun as he slowly dying from the kunai in his body.
As he was in intense pain Asun slowly raised his arms and put his hands on the blade that was sticking on of his chest, getting his own hands covered in his blood.
As he was taking his last breath he looked up and he could have sworn he saw a glimpse of sun light with in the darkness that he was in, but he couldn't enjoy it under the circumstances that he was in
"Millianna, Night...I'm sorry! Sa..." said Asun couldn't even finish his final words before he closed his eyes and died in the darkness
Asun opened his eyes and he found that he was lying in Millianna bedroom on her bed, once he figure out where he was he quickly got up out of bed and stand up on the floor of the room, but before he could do anything his head was hurting him severely
It was almost like someone thrust a blade right through his brain cutting it in two, he couldn't bare the pain any longer but the pain made him remember why! and what happened to him up until now. And those memories that he had made him angry.
He clenched his fists in angry and that is when he remembered about his Thief puppet. Asun looked on his person and he saw that his puppet nor it scroll was with him.
He heard a formerly voice say to him "You up!" Asun turned his head right and he caught what Millianna toss at him
Asun put his puppet scroll back in his pocket as Millianna continued to say to him, "Now you got your puppet back, we need to leave."
"A mission? said Asun to Millianna as they both left the room and started walking down the hallway
"Yes, but lord Sasori won't be coming with us." said Millianna
"Than who will be coming with us, beside master Sasori. Master Deidara?" replied Asun
"No lord Zetsu" said Millianna
"Ah what do Night think about these changes?" said Asun
"He don't really care about the changes" replied Millianna
"Of course, but before we meet up Night and master Zetsu, can I change my clothes to something that fit better." said Asun as he stopped moving and stared at Millianna
"Sure?" said Millianna don't know why he need to change his clothes.
"Good I have something for you to wear as well!" said Asun and they both walk over and entered his bedroom.
Asun pulled a bag from under his bed and toss it over to Millianna as he said to her, "Wear these!" said Asun as Millianna caught the bag that he toss at her
Asun stood up and walked over to his dresser and he pulled some clothes out of one of the drawer, and he said to Millianna as he walked into his room bathroom with the clothes in hand, "I will change in the bathroom, you can change out here. Tell me when it safe to come out?"
"Okay" replied Millianna to Asun right before he closed the bathroom door.
Once Asun put his new clothes on his body, and when it safe to come out of the bathroom Asun stepped out of the bathroom and looked forward and he saw that Millianna is wearing the clothes that he gave her.
Asun saw that she is wearing a black hood like veil that cover the back of her head, her upper back and neck, this part of the outfit that goes to the middle of the back, on the front it stops at the end of the neck where it splits off,
She have a tight dark blue upper body suit like shirt with black on the edges of the shirt that covers her upper body, but not her arms.
She have tight black shorts on her lower waist that goes half-way down her legs, she have a light brown satchel around her waist, and the shoes that she is wearing is light brown boots/high-heel to match the satchel
Once Asun at a gaze about Millianna he was just stunned on how beautiful she look, but he didn't know how to express what he wanted to say so he just said this, "How you look stunning!"
"Well so do you in that outfit of yours. So dashing!" said Millianna as she staring at the outfit that Asun is wearing.
Millianna stared at the outfit that Asun is wearing, and she see that Asun is wearing a red shirt with the symbol of loyalty on the center where his chest is, a slick light blue jacket with a symbol of death of the back over the shirt that goes all the way down to the middle of his legs.
Two pieces of brown armor on both of his arms over the jacket, three small pouches wrapped around his waist to hold his scrolls.
Grayish brown pants on his lower waist down, and there are ankle blade holders tightly wrapped around both of his ankle with two hand blades in them.
And he also has two wooden sandals on his feet.
Once they both saw each other outfit that they had on, they exited Asun room and head to the location where they was supposed to meet Night and Master Zetsu.
When the two arrived at the location they walked over and reunite with their team-mate Night, and they both greet one of the many members of the Akatsuki Zetsu.
"So you're the protege that Sasori been taking about, the one that following in his footsteps?" said Black Zetsu toward Asun
Flattered by Zetsu words, Asun said to Zetsu "I'm flattered by your words really I am, but may we get down to business already. Millianna said you have a mission for us!" said Asun
"The mission is about one of Sasori subordinates that have gone rogue and starting leaking intel about our matters" said Black Zetsu
"Do you mean the Akatsuki?" said Millianna
"Exactly" said Black Zetsu
"That is why we sending you guys to go and stop this man" said White Zetsu
"More exactly we need you to find the one that is leaking this intelligence and kill him for us" said Black Zetsu
"Wait you not coming with us master Zetsu?" said Asun
"No this is your mission, not ours. If it's true that you all want to be members of the Akatsuki, you must first prove your loyalty to the cause. And this loyalty we require must be made in blood, do you all understand us!?" said Black Zetsu
The three genin shuck the heads saying "yes they understand" to Zetsu.
"Good the rogue subordinate is said to be in a village just entering that land of Lightning " said White Zetsu
"Here the coordinates, leave admittedly" said Black Zetsu as they handed the scroll with the coordinates to the rogue subordinate inside to Night
Once they had the coordinates to Night, he said to them "We will take are leave now" said Night as he along with his team-mates exit the hideout and began their journey to the land of Lightning.
To be continued!