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Chapter 2
I moved my eyes back and forth between the two people, I couldn't move my head otherwise I'll get slashed. Both had this weird headband thing on their forehead that had a metal piece attached to it with a weird design on it. One, the one on my left, was a guy who had black hair and brown eyes, has four vertical slashes, while the other; a blond haired blue eyed… man? I don't know, he did have feminine features, but looked flat-chested, so it could go either way. Well, it had most of its hair covering the metal piece, but from what I could see it looked like a box-like shape with a giant slash through it.
"Deidara, what is taking so long?" A low, cruel voice said as a short, fat figure came out from the shadows.
"Sorry Sasori-danna, but this strange girl just suddenly appeared out of no where, yeah" Blondie, Deidara said as the short figure, Sasori, said as he looked at me up and down, I knew this because his head had to go up to look at my upper body.
"Aki-sensei, what are we going to do about the girl?" The guy on my left said to the person I had noticed before that was behind him.
"He do not know if she is with them or against them, so kill her as well" Aki said as my eyes widened in shock. That was before my body went into 'rage mode' I guess you can call it. It is a 'mode' where my body gets itself ready for battle and my heart pumps to an silent, yet ever present, song and thus giving my muscles more 'evolved' cells, which in the end give the muscles more oxygen. It is kind of like a sugar high, I get hyper and jumpy. The boy on my left retracted his kunai as he made a move to stab me in the chest.
To bad it didn't hit me there.
Let me explain…
When he moved the kunai I had summoned the metal running through my veins to come up to the surface and thus creating a shield. Yes, I used my own arm to block the oncoming attack from the boy.
And I started to laugh.
The look on his face was priceless.
"Nice try, to bad you can't hurt me." I said with an evil low voice with a smirk on my face as I grabbed the kunai still against my now metal skin with my other hand, I grabbed the kunai in-between two fingers as I summoned the metal to create the claws I invented myself to surface. Once my claws were in place I 'turned on the heat' I guess you could say as I began to heat up the metal weapon he was holding. A loud yelp came from the boy as he let go of the kunai in his hand to nurse the burn he just got from the red-hot (quite literally) kunai. I let an evil chuckle escape my lips as I watched the look of shock on the two boys faces as I melted the kunai in-between my two fingers, my index and my thumb, begin to melt and run down my fingers until it reached my palm and formed a ball.
One of my favorite things to watch is the shock and terror in someone's face just before you lay the finishing blow and kill them mercilessly. This is mainly because I imagine my parent's faces on the victim(s).
I smirked evilly as once again my parent's faces appeared on the two boys faces. I dug my claws into the melted ball of metal and made a string, which floated in the air which I was confused about but would deal with that later, of kunai, tiny, thin kunai. The terror on my parent's faces was classic (I think I drank to much mercury) and I watched as my father (Aki-sensei) told my mother (the boy) that they should retreat. My evil smirk turned into a malicious grin as I commanded the kunai to fly towards my victims, and my mind fluttered in confusion when the kunai practically did what I commanded. The kunai were all aimed for the head of both the unlucky, and stupid, victims. I started to laugh once more until I was hit on the head from behind and was knocked unconscious into a world of darkness and promptly fell into someone's arms.
I don't know how long I was unconscious but I did know one thing, I needed my syringes full of nutrients for my body. I looked up and saw my arms were chained above my head and both my wrists were within a pair of shackles.
This is the part of the story where a normal teenage girl would start to freak out
To bad I am not a normal teenage girl anymore
So what did I do?
I chuckled lightly to myself at my captor's stupidity before I stood up and summoned my claws to come forth to melt the metal shackles. Once that task was done I went to the door and turned the knob, and wasn't surprised when I found it to be locked. I chuckled once again as I used my claws to melt the metal and so I could do a desperate search for my bag that held the syringes I desperately needed. Once the door handle was melted I pushed the door with my finger and walked out into the hallway. I heard noises down the hallway and decided to go down that way (when I don't have my daily 'meals' I loose my common sense, and often act against my better judgment). With my enhanced hearing…
Ah yes, I haven't told you about my body enhancements… after the 'operation' I had noticed that some of my senses intensified…. Like my hearing, sight, and touch. However, the senses that stayed the same were my sense of taste and smell… which both went down the drain after a while. Let me explain… as you know, metal tastes nasty, and having the same tasting metal in my mouth I eventually lost my sense of taste. My sense of smell was from smelling the metal. The metal I drink is usually poisonous or radio-active… so my sense of smell left quickly after my 'operation'.
Yet another reason to plan revenge on your parents ne?
Anyway… With my enhanced hearing I heard a conversation that slightly peaked my interest.
"I'm telling you, yeah, the girl can melt metal with her hand, un, she can get out of the shackles." A familiar voice sounded
"For the last time Deidara, if she didn't use a jutsu, and did no hand seals, and her eyes did not change color, there is no logical way that she can melt metal" Another, unfamiliar voice sounded. I stupidly made myself known with a rather loud yawn. Two people looked at me, Blondie, and someone I never met before. This guy was blue and looked like he had gills under his beady yellow eyes.
"Blondie," I said bluntly to the blonde "Where is my bag" He pointed in the direction I was originally headed in.
"In there, yeah, and my name is Deidara, not Blondie, and he is Kisame. And" he turned to the blue dude "Told ya so, un"
I walked away as the two began to bicker and walked into what looked like a living room, two couches surrounded a TV and a table was off to the side that had eight chairs. The kitchen was added on to the north of the table and two people, or a person and a wooden puppet thing were sitting and reading on the couches. Once I entered the room I caught both of the guy's attention.
"Bag?" I asked, I felt like I was about ready to throw up, and feint and I was about to get a dizzy spell. The puppet man pointed to the floor space in-between the two couches and I dragged myself over there to unzip the bag and dig through my 'necessities' to find my syringes.
I smiled lightly to myself as I found what I was looking for and carefully unzipped the outer layer of the bag box thing. After unzipping the nylon lining I opened the box to find that none of the syringes were broken. I took out two and set them gingerly on the ground as I put the nylon lining back over the box and zipped it back up and put it back in my bag. I took off the plastic safety thing off the needle part of syringe and squeezed out the air and lifted my sleeve and pushed the needle into the vein. I squeezed the mixture into my blood stream and slowly started to feel better. I took the other syringe and repeated the process on my other arm. I felt like the cloud over my brain lifted and I was able to think clearly once again.
"Where am I?"
"Akatski headquarters" The person sitting on the couch said as he went back to his book. I looked him over and observed his long blackish-blue-purple hair, his red eyes with comma shaped pupils, his long red cloak with red clouds outlined in white and his sandals which I noticed that everyone except puppet man was wearing. I also noticed everyone wore the cloak except me.
"Are the cloaks a sign of your organization?" I asked this question which made his head lift from his book and look at me.
"Yes"
"Who are you?"
"Uchiha Itachi"
"Why am I here?"
"To join Akatski"
"Why?"
"Because you obviously have talent"
"What if I don't want to?"
"You have no choice"
"You are not my master"
"I am your superior and you will do what I say"
"You cannot control me"
"I think otherwise"
"No one asked you"
"Enough flirting you two" Puppet man said as he got off the couch "Girl, leader-sama wishes to speak with you"
"My name is Cobalt"
I guess I should explain my name. My mother was a Geologist major in college before she joined the organization. My name is not by chance, and no I not named after the color, I am named after the mineral, the metal. My mother was, and still is, fascinated by metal, for it is what dominates the periodic table. My mother decided to name me after the metal she was experimenting with when she had me.
I HATE my name
But it kind of fits me now…
"Follow me." Puppet man said and I hurriedly picked up the used syringes and put them back in my bag and stood to catch up with the wooden man. We walked down the hallway I came down a while ago and turned a little after we passed the room I woke up in and knocked on the door at the end of the hallway we turned down on. A low husky voice answered the knock with an "enter". Puppet man opened the door and we walked in. There was a desk in the middle of the small room with two chairs on one side and a figure on the other that was completely covered in shadows.
"Leader-sama, the girl you requested to see" Wooden man said as he pushed me inside slightly with his tail.
"Thank you Sasori" 'Leader-sama' said and I looked back in slight shock that that man was the 'Sasori-Danna' that I met not to long ago.
Sasori bowed and closed the door. I put my attention back on 'Leader-sama'.
"You are allowed to sit, girl"
"The name is Cobalt" I said as I obediently sat down. This guy was leader here for a reason, and if everyone here respected him, than I would show him some respect.
"I understand that you were knocked out and shackled in our little prison." I nodded "And I am terribly sorry for that" I looked at him with a bit of shock, this guy just apologized, something I hadn't heard in a long time "I hope that that specific incident does not hinder your decision to join our organization" He said.
I have to say, this guy has my respect.
"What does your organization do?" I asked. There was a minute of silence before Leader-sama spoke again
"We… wish to take over the world with the help of the tailed demons…"
"There are demons in this world?!" I said as I stood up and put my hands on the desk "That is SO cool" My reaction made Leader-sama chuckle. I calmed myself down and sat down once more.
"You make it sound as if you don't come from this world."
"I… don't" I said cautiously
"You don't" Leader-sama said ass he folded his hand on the desk and leaned forward so his head on his hands "How did you get here?"
"A dimensional/ time travel machine I helped create"
"You are an inventor"
"Yes"
"Interesting"
I left the office of Leader-sama after accepting the offer of being a part of Akatski. Sasori was waiting at the end of the hall.
"Your answer?" He asked
"I accepted"
"I'll show you to your room." He said as he led me back into the living room and we turned to go past the table and down the hallway I had not noticed before where there were doors on both sides. We headed further down the hallway till we came to the fourth door on the right where he opened it up and allowed me to enter. I looked around. It wasn't much. A bed was in a corner with black sheets with red clouds and white lining around the clouds. A little nightstand was beside the bed with a little lamp on top of it. On the other side of the room was a small wooden wardrobe and a door that led to a small bathroom. "The cloak is in the wardrobe" Sasori said. I walked over to the wardrobe and took out the cloak and shrugged it on and zipped it up and walked over to the bed. Sasori made his way over to the door and I took a glance at his tail.
"Hey Sasori" I started. He stopped at the door and turned towards me.
"Yes"
"What connects the wooden pieces of your body?"
"Metal"
"Can I see?" I asked and he brought his tail over to me. I looked at the metal in disgust. "This is a very horrid metal, couldn't you find anything better?" I asked he scowled at me. "I can replace it with a metal that is three times as strong and just as flexible as this cruddy metal"
"Really?!" I nodded and told him to sit down as I began the transfer of metals.
Later that day I was in the living room with Sasori and Itachi. Itachi was reading a book on new ways to kill someone, while Sasori was teaching me how to carve a puppet successfully. After the transfer, Sasori and I began a very close friendship. He was now out of his scorpion puppet and I got the pleasure of replacing the metal wiring and seeing him in his semi-normal-human form. I still highly disliked Itachi with a passion, and Deidara and Kisame were highly annoying. So in return I annoyed them. Kisame was shark-bait, and Deidara was Blonde-chick (I had found out from Sasori that he was a guy, and it gave him a good laugh that I thought that Deidara was a girl), for nicknames they hate are a great way of annoying someone. I had long ago put my bag in my room and was completely content with carving a little puppet when Kisame and Deidara ran into the room with a familiar looking box. I froze. I needed those. I watched as Kisame and Deidara were throwing them between each other and I stood up and walked over before trying to get the box back. The game went from catch to monkey-in-the middle. Kisame was the one who missed the box and I watched in horror as the box fell do the ground, the top came off, and all my syringes fell out of the box, a couple broke. At this point Itachi and Sasori stopped what they were doing to watch the show. I made a fist and brought it to my other hand as I began to pop knuckles before repeating the process on my other hand.
"Ever seen a pissed metal girl before?" I asked. Kisame shook his head no. I went into 'rage mode' and the song that basically popped into my head was 'getting away with murder'. I didn't even have to summon the metal in my blood to surface over my skin; it did it by itself, which I will deal with later. "Now you can say you have.." I jumped at him and attempted to claw him but he dodged the attack. Deidara wisely sat on the couch next to Itachi and began to read his book (he took it from Itachi's hand).
After watching me attempt to maim the shark boy Itachi got bored and did some hand seals before a bolt of lightning came out of no where and I jumped back in complete and utter terror. I basically flew under the couch as more lightning came from no where. Deidara and Kisame were laughing their heads off while I planned a new attack.
"If only I could control metal with my mind" I whispered in a whiney voice. I huffed and focused on a metal bowl and shrieked when it started to float. My shriek stopped the lightning, and the laughing. I focused on crashing it over the Uchiha's head, and was pleasantly surprised when I heard a loud thwang. I leapt out from under the couch, collected my box and syringes, and ran into my bedroom and slammed the door. After placing the box carefully on my bed I went into the bathroom and tried this new weird power once again. I focused on a syringe and stared in shock as it floated eye-level in front of me. I looked past the syringe and gasped in shock at my weird eye-color. My normal blue eyes were a deep purple hue and I grabbed the syringe from the air and ran into my room once again and grabbed my bag. Grabbing a bunch of metal I went outside and turned toward the wall that was closest to my room and ripped out a rectangle piece of wall out and began my latest work of 'art', a high-end safety lock for my room. I went back into my bag for more wires and hooked up the number pad for the door lock mechanism for my room. I ripped out the doorknob and began more safety measures for my room. I placed wires here and there in the little hole in the wall meant for the door and also in the door itself. Once finished I decided to try it out. Using what I called my 'first victim'.
"Deidara" I said while rubbing my hands diabolically with an evil smile on my face. Revenge was sweet.
"What un"
"Open the door to my room please"
"Okay, un" he said and I was satisfied with a yelp. Kisame, Itachi, and Sasori popped in to investigate.
"I present to you my newest piece of work, the safety lock mechanism. You need this key," I showed them the card key I used in the organization "And special combinations in order to get into my room, if you just turn the knob than this will happen to you, Deidara, show them your hand please." Deidara showed them his hand and I smiled happily as blisters were forming around the mouth in his palm.
"Oh please, all you need to do is just push random numbers on this pad and push this enter button and turn the knob" Which he did and screamed bloody murder as he nursed his poor (notice the sarcasm) hand. I smirked
"The punishment for the wrong number entered is even worse than just turning the door knob, Kisame, your hand please" I said and showed the onlookers the palm of Kisame's hand and we all got a good laugh. On his hand were two characters which translated into, Cobalt's B.itch. I looked at Kisame and Deidara evilly and said "Don't EVER under-estimate an evil genius again!" I said as I quickly entered in numbers and slid the card "Oh, and even if you do find out the right number and get a hold of my card key, the doorknob will still leave a mark like Kisame's, so don't try it" I said and slammed the door in the boy's faces while I gave a maniacal laugh. I stopped and decided to find out what was wrong with my body. I grabbed different metals and got to work.
After three days of not going out of my room and focusing on my latest project I realized I was getting low on syringes. I had already been giving my body barely enough to survive, and soon I would have nothing. I groaned as I stopped the project I was working on and focused on another. I knew that in this time period, the only way I would survive is if I made some more upgrades on myself. Different types of metal were difficult to find since this time period only used a couple, so I had to come up with a different approach. I began work on my mouth, and placed the same technology I had in my hands in my tongue so I would be able to melt metal with my tongue, I also had to make my tongue susceptible to such extreme heat. My next upgrade was for my teeth, which wasn't that hard due to all the work on my teeth when I was younger. I have fillings that are either titanium or platinum, in every single tooth in my mouth, add this to my new found power, well I can control the metal to my will. I tested my new upgrade by stealing one of Kisame's kunai; I bit into it and was very happy when I not only had left a definite bite mark, but I felt no pain at all, from my teeth, or my throat when the melted metal ran down it. I happily placed the bitten kunai back into his kunai pouch without him even knowing, again, and went back into my room to finish my first project. I took several breaks to snatch kunai from my unsuspecting victims to snack on so my body could get used to the new way of 'eating'. I took a swig of pure mercury and went back to work on my new and improved CAT scan machine. Which was getting on my nerves because it was taking to long to finish.
I growled at my CAT scan machine, and angrily left my room to find food. I stomped into the living room which caught the attention of the four criminals in there. I lifted an eyebrow at the frightened look at the people there, well two out of four.
"What?"
"Are you PMSing?" Deidara said cautiously. I growled and jumped him, leaving him screaming his head off. "I didn't mean it I swear!" He said and I smirked.
"Good" I said as I snatched his kunai pouch and took it with me as I got off of him and started to walk away.
"Hey, that's mine." He said as he got up and dusted himself off. I turned with a kunai in my hand with a clearly-distinct bite mark on the side. The looks of shock were very entertaining. I offered the bitten kunai to him
"Want a bite?" I said slyly
"No you can have it" He said
"Thanks" I said happily and walked back in my room.
"One problem down, one more to go" I said as I looked at my CAT scan machine. I had finished it hours ago, but I haven't been able to get the d.amn thing to work.
I began to look over it as I leaned on my bead and ate my 'yummy' kunai (notice the sarcasm). It was then I noticed to wires sticking out of the machine. I put the kunai on the bed and went closer to investigate. I smirked and soldered the two loose wires together and tried to turn the thing on once again. I clapped my hands happily as the machine went on. I laid myself down and got my head in the opening of the machine and started the process of it analyzing my brain.
Hours later I was looking at my diagnosis once again cursing my mother's brains out.
Somehow metal had gathered in my brain and there was no chance of getting it out. However, the consequences were not at all disastrous; I had gained complete control over metal.
