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"I want the record to show I don't look forward to this mission." Naruto said as he layed back in his seat on the plane that had just gotten on, he and Xenovia both were being sent to find a nun that had been kicked out of the church for attempting to steal and seal the Excalibur Rapidly to a group of Fallen Angels that had been looking for rare swords, for whatever reason. The sword had been kept safe, but the nun had to flee from the scene, and her last known location was one of the most crime filled cities in the world, where they were headed towards right at this moment by plane that would be crossing over and entire ocean.
The Sister Angela, a young woman who had grown sick of the life of a nun, had been hoping to make a life for herself by selling a powerful weapon to a high paying bidder, before escaping to a lesser known city and living out her days in luxury... before she had been caught in the act and forced to flee while carrying a while stock of Light Swords, artificial Holy Swords with far less power than a real Holy Sword. She had been spotted and reported to the Vatican by one of the local Priests in the church at the target location, before the two of them were being sent... after a large failure with the death of another team that had been sent, an entire team of ten Exorcists that were going on there first mission had been completely wiped out, and their heads sent back to the Vatican as a warning against sending anyone else after the ex-Nun, who shamed herself in the face of the Lord in naruto's opinion.
"Noted and ignored." Xenovia commented as she started rest her arm against the window, they were taking a plane filled with people that knew who they were, so nobody was sending them off looks for their style of dress, or calling them bondage freaks, that insult got old very quick. Xenovia was not nervous about this mission, well she was, but not because of the city they were going to. They were going to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the tenth most dangerous city in the world with one of the highest crime rates in the world. She was worried over the fact that single nun had murdered ten fully trained, if a bit new, Exorcists. Granted, these guys weren't trained to the level of Naruto or herself, but they had swords and guns on them, yet they were slaughtered without mercy.
Angela had not been known as a fighter, she had been a spy for the church that went into devil controlled areas and saw if they were planning anything against the church without getting caught. She had almost no battle prowers, using the guards that were sent with her under the guise of Priets to defend her while she gathered the info needed and got out.
Now normally when you were sent severed heads as a warning to stay out of somebodies business, a person would listen and back off... well not in this case, because when in doubt, send two powerful people that lacked the common sense to realize that walking into an obvious trap was a bad thing, a very bad thing. The two of them were the best people to send, since they worked well together and had plenty of experience getting themselves out of traps and other messes with their lifes intact, and only a few injuries. They were also in no way green behind the ears beginners that just finished their training, they had a few years of missions under their belts to help them out.
If anyone should be walking into traps, which nobody should, then it was two people that had walked into traps a dozen times before now and lived to tell about it.
"... Wanna annoy the people around us to pass the time?" Naruto asked with a small smile on his face, knowing that he had the perfect way to get under everyone's skin. Of course, it would all be in good fun and he would stop before it went to far, but he still needed to pass the time in some way before they truly started their mission. Xenovia sighed, before she looked at Naruto with a neutral, forced neutral, gaze that spoke volumes for her. Naruto looked away after a moment, before he started to whistle a song again. Naruto felt Xenovia start to tap her fingers on her seat in sync with his whistling. Naruto looked at her with a grin, before he decided just how he wore get Xenovia involved... he knew her weaknesses after all. "When there's trouble you know who to caaaaaall... Team Awesome. From their Churches they can see it aaaaallll... Team Awesome!" Naruto started to sing their own parode to the old TV show song that they watched together when they were a few years younger... Teen Titans or something like that.
"When there'e devils on the attack, you can rest and know we got your back. Because when the world needs Exorcists killing straaaaays... Team Awesome." Xenovia sang lowly, remembering the good old days when she and Naruto would relax and watch the small TV that the church had, before they would sing their little song. Naruto grinned, knowing that he got her to have a little fun.
"With their Holy Swords drawn they uniiiite... Team Awesome! Never met a devil that they liiiked... Team Awesome!" Naruto said, before Xenovia smiled a bit wider and turned towards him, while some of the other people on the plane wre chuckling when they saw the Father and Sister actually acting around their age, teenagers that were infact a little goofy when they wanted to be.
"They've got the devils on the run, they never stop till the job is done. 'Cause when the world is fading in their faaaaaith... Team Awesome GO!" Naruto and Xenovia sang as a pair, before they sat back with a wide grin and a small smile, the grin on Naruto and the small smile on Xenovia. Sometimes they just had to act their age a little, instead of being super mature when they were surrounded by people. Naruto heard Xenovia start to whistle, and he grinned when she got into it. Naruto started to clap his hands together, and then out of nowhere they started to both clap their hands against each others hands in a strange and complicated pattern, a secret handshake. The handshake ended with them pressing their thumbs together, before he stopped the noise and just layed back so that they could relax.
"Can I interest you in some peanuts Father, Sister?" The flight attendent asked, while Nartuo and Xenovia looked at each other, before they sent the flight attendent the same look, clearly remembering the bad peanuts, and the flight attendent chuckled, before moving onto other guests to the plane. Naruto snorted, while Xenovia silently cursed herself for falling for his plow to get her to have some fun while on an official mission, that she asked for even though they were having a day off today, okay, she was able to see why Naruto was a little goofy, he was still in his day off mode. She hoped that he would be in mission mode by the end of the flight, because singing childish songs at people didn't bring victory.
"Okay, that was amusing, but I think we should get serious now. What do you think could have severed the heads, and don't say something sharp sarcastically." Xenovia asked, before commenting in a slightly demanding, but low whisper. Naruto took up a thinking position, before he tried to remember the state the heads were in.
"The heads were severed, but the cuts weren't clean... it wasn't a blade that beheaded them." Naruto ventured a guess, and Xenovia sighed. It was rather hard for them to guess anything when the literal only clue was her location, which doesn't help, and the fact that the heads weren't cut cleanly. They were both told that the only reason they knew the location hadn't changed recently was that a letter came for the Church from the location, the same location as the return address for the box that had the heads inside of it... how that box passed the security checks for overseas packages they would never know, just that somebody they had gotten it passed the checks.
"So you have no clue do you?" Xenovia asked, just to make sure that she got all of her information out of him that she could, when he nodded she sighed and grabbed the bridge of her nose. The two of them didn't say anything for awhile after that, both of them thinking about their own things while the plane started to move, Xenovia looked out of the window as the plane started to go up into the sky. Naruto leaned and closed his eyes with his head resting on Xenovia's shoulder, knowing that she would wake him up when they got there, or rather, if anything interesting happened. She reached into her bag, before she pulled out a book and started to read it to pass the time.
They both looked irritated when a baby instantly started to cry when the plane started to go up, but they ignored it for awhile. Naruto sat back up though, knowing that with a baby crying he wouldn't be able to sleep like he wanted to. When the flight attendent told everyone that they would be able to stand now, Naruto got up and went towards the parents that had the crying infant sitting between them in a special seat. They seemed surprised that he was there, but they still recognized him as one of the priests in the church they went to.
"Father, is there anything we can do for you?" The father of the baby asked, and Naruto looked at the crying child for a moment. Naruto reached down and used a trick he had heard to get a child's ears to pop when on a plane, before he lightly pinched the nose of the child and pinched his mouth shut for a second. The parents seemed surprised, before when Naruto took his fingers from the baby, he infant seemed to be MUCH calmer. All Naruto did was block the nose and mouth so that the ears would pop, and the baby would stop feeling uncomfy, so with a gentle wave he made his way back to his seat, getting thankful looks from the people he passed by. When he was back in his seat he crossed his arms and leaned against Xenovia again.
"You know how to get crying children to pop there ears?" Xenovia questioned with a raised eyerbrow, before she saw that Naruto was already in a dazed state. He could fall asleep rather quickly if he wanted to, and he obviously wanted to. It was going to be a long flight, so she couldn't blame him for spending his time resting up... something she might want to do as well, so putting her book away, she decided to rest up for the mission by leaning backj against Naruto and slowly falling asleep as well.
The flight passed by in the blink of an eye when the two of them were awoken by the flight attendent, and went through the security checks a second time as they got out of the terminal and left the airport with a sense of confidence that they would be succeeding this mission, even without... the two of them started to look around when they realized that they had no idea where anything was in this entire city, meaning that they would have to ask for directions. Naruto and his partner walked out towards the street, before turning when they saw somebody that they could ask. The man was a middle aged looking male with a slightly dirt covered appearance, dark hair and light brown skin, with the appearance of a native of Mexico.
"Sir, could you please tell us where we can find this person?" Naruto said as he pulled out a picture of Angela, the man looked at the picture, before he looked at the two of them with narrowed eyes... Naruto sweat dropped when he thought that this man might not be able to speak english. Naruto figured that not everyone could speak as many languages as he could, Naruto could speak Italian, Japanese, English (the language he used most), Chinese, Latin, Russian, and Greek... sadly Spanish was NOT one of the languages that he had knowledge of.
"Sir, we are searching for the woman in this picture, have you seen her?" Xenovia asked in Spanish, while Naruto sighed in relief. Xenovia learned to speak most of the same languages as him, though while she didn't know Japanese, she DID know how to speak fluent Spanish. Naruto and Xenovia were world travellers because their missions would sent them to many parts of the world, so they had been forced to study up on the more common languages, and the languages that would come up if they needed to find clues to something important. They were both primary English speakers, despite the fact that they were both Italian... Naruto looked Italian, was raised for most of his life in Italy, so despite his first language being Japanese, nobody would believe he was Japanese, so he just told people he was Italian, much easier. Xenovia was actually born and raised in Italy.
"Fuck off bondage freaks, I haven't seen anyone like that." The man said crudely, while Xenovia twitched in annoyance, before she resisted the urge to punch this guy.
"What did he say?" Naruto asked, and Xenovia grabbed his shoulder, before she started to lead him away from the rude man. There was no point in asking anymore questions, even though she was suspicious of the man. Naruto and Xenovia could look around the town, and though the buildings seemed sort of clean, the town was... well it was kind of like a ghost town. People that they could see seemed to be avoiding being seen, and the people that were in sight were not the kind of people that they would like to talk to, nothing against them, but the way they were holding guns in plain view did not isnpire confidence that they would be forthcoming with information.
"I can see why she chose this town, the people here... they aren't the most friendly." Xenovia said, and while the town itself was good looking, she could remember that this place was listed in list of the most crime filled places for a reason. They looked very out of place here, and had been the only people that had actually left the airport, with the other people boarding other planes, this stop only being a mid-way point for them. As they walked, they began to see more people, until it looked relativally normal when they entered an area with people selling items, calling out to them to come and buy their wears.
"Not everyone in thsi town should be judged as criminals though, I am sure that there are some good people out there. See, this town even has police." Naruto said as he gestured to the police headed in their direction, before Naruto blinked when the cops stopped in front of them with serious looks on their faces.
"I am going to have to ask the two of you to come with us... I am go-ing to have to ASK you to come with us." The man said first in Spanish, before he repeat what he said with extra mocking in his voice when he said it in English the second time. Before either of them knew it, they were sitting in the back of a cop car with their hands cuffed behind their backs riding along towards who knows where. Naruto could FEEL Xenovia's suspicious look towards the cops, finding it weird that out of everyone around them in the city, they had been arrested when they hadn't even done anything this time, and the evidence of all the other times they did stuff had been erased.
"So... this is happening." Naruto started with Xenovia, and she nodded. This was happening, but they didn't know why this was happening. They had their swords safely stored awya out of view, Xenovia had both of hers inside of a sealed dimension so that she could call on them when she needed to, while Naruto had his Durandal in a sealed dimension, with Excalibur Mimic taking the form of his sunglasses. As the rode in the back of the car, Naruto could see that they were heading towarda a bridge that had something hanging from the side of it... ten somethings actually. He nudged Xenovia in the side and gestured to the bridge, while she narrowed her eyes.
When they actually got onto the bridge, the cops, a portly male with dark skin and bleach blond hair, and a skinny man with similar skin but a bald head, stopped the car and parked it at the side of the bridge. They seemed to grin at each other, before they got out of the car and opened up the door, before pulling the two of them out of the car rather roughly. Naruto tried to break the cuffs, before he saw that they were made of some strong stuff, but he knew that his wrists would damaged in his broke them from this position.
"Walking around in clothes like those, you two kids are just asking to get it aren't you? I hope the two of you are better than the other people that followed the Boss here." The portly person said as he pulled out gun from it's holster and pointed it at Naruto, while sending a lusty look towards Xenovia, who had her eyes widened when she saw the gun being pointed at her partner. She was about to summon Excalibur Destrucion and break the cuffs, before she was kicked in the leg by Naruto lightly, looking to the side, she saw him looking towards the cops, or possible fake cops, with a challenging look.
"Boss, I didn't know that cops could be ordered around so easily." Naruto said, fishing for information, while the skinny one came forward and sucker punched Naruto in the gut. Naruto doubled over, even though it didn't hurt, and coughed lightly. Hurt or not, that had bronze knuckles on his fist, and the fist had winded him a little, but he would suffer no real damage from it.
"The Boss hired us to find anyone dressed like a Priest, Nun, or wearing weird clothes and kill them. Don't normally listen to a woman, but she payed good money with the promise of more money. A man's has to eat and fuck, she said that as long as we killed you wierdos that we could get paid to fuck any dumb bitches that got in our way." The skinny one explained, before he was knocked from his feet when Naruto jolted up and slammed the top of his head into the man's nose, knocking him from his feet and to the ground with a bleeding nose. The fatter one started to open fire at Naruto, but the attack never landed when a sword blocked the bullet before it could hit Naruto.
Xenovia had summoned forth her Excalibur Destruction and freed herself just in time, even though Naruto would have been fine, he was glad that Xenovia had bought him time to think. Jumping up and curling his legs to his chest, he brought his hands in front of his body, before he reached up and grabbed his sunglasses, before he turned them into a sword and cut thimself free. The large man got out of his stunned state, while his partner picked himself off of the ground, and now that they were free both Naruto and Xenovia put their swords away, before they rushed the two men and punched them in the stomachs.
The two men were knocked into the air, before they hit the ground and rolled before coming to a stop, showing that they had been knocked out cold by the punches. Naruto transformed Mimic into a smaller sword, before he completely cu the cuffs off of himself and Xenovia, before turning them back into sunglasses and putting them on.
"Compared to Stray Devils, these guys are nothing special. Guns or not, we have been trained to predict and block, or dodge bullets. What do you think we should do with them?" Naruto asked Xenovia, who shrugged.
"They have some more cuffs, lets just cuff them before leaving this bridge. We don't have the time to waste on them." Xenovia suggested, not even being shaken by the fact somebody had threatened her with rape moments before. She had been in zero danger, even cuffed she could have kicked their asses with ease, the same with Naruto. These people were just little dogs with big barks but no teeth to back them up. This hadn't been the first time somebody had attempted to murder and or rape her or Naruto, and this would most likely not be the last time either. Most of the people they were after were violent monsters that would rather eat you than rape you, but on occasion they were sent after somebody that was clearly insane.
"Already ahead of you." Naruto said, showing he had swiped their cuffs, and he went over to cuff them, before cuffing them cuffs together so that they were forced to back to back. With that done the two of them went on their way without losing any of their confidence, knowing that it was only a matter of time before they found their target. Naruto blinked and looked down at the river, before he noticed that their was a shack under the bridge. He pointed it out to his partner, and the two of them figured that it wouldn't hurt to check it out. With that in mind, they walked down towards the shack without falling into the water at the edge of the river.
They had enough of water with their last mission to last them for awhile.
The shack was a small thing, only big enough to house a single person, with it being more the size of a tool shed than a real house. It was made of new wood, but the whole thing was poorly built, shown that the builder wasn't very talented at building anything, so they knocked on the door and waited for an answer. Naruto and Xenovia both jumped out of the way, landing in the river, when bullets started to burst through the wood towards where they had been.
Today was not there lucky day, and that was proven even more ture when they broke the surface of the water to see Angela looking down at them with guns pointed at their faces. It was obvious that she wasn't going to come with them quietly, that much was for sure, and they had been told to take her out should she prove to be a big problem. She had the defences to the Excalibur fragments memorized, with that information alone she could, and most likely had, made a ton of money selling it to somebody that could actually use that information.
"Duck!" Xenvoia shouted as they two of them ducked under the water and started to swim down so that they weren't hit by the bullets that pierced through the water with ease. Naruto grabbed Xenovia and pulled her in close, before he grabbed his sunglasses and turned them into a light short sword and deflected the bullets, stopping Xenovia from bringing out her swords, which would weigh them down in the water. He kept his sword in the short state, and they waited until the bullets stopped before they started to have trouble breathing and needed to swim up and take a breath.
Angela was trying to hurry and reload her gun, before she started to run away when Naruto and Xenovia got out of the water with very frustrated looks on their faces. She did NOT get very far before Naruto and Xenovia caught up to her and hit her in the back of the neck, she fell to the ground, while Naruto picked her up and tossed her over his shoulder. Now all they had to do was go to the Church and have her memory wiped clean of all information involving the Excalibur fragments, then they would let her go. Beyond that, they didn't care what happened to her, or what she did with her life.
The day may have sucked, but the mission had been completed.
Chapter End!
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