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Chapter 15: Returning
Kisame looked up from the book he was reading when Temeki came through the teleportation wall. His eyes widened as he looked over her appearance. Sand covered most of her body and her clothes were torn in some pretty interesting places. She dragged a well-worn backpack behind her and her hair was a mess. Bruises and scrapes marred her pretty skin and bandages covered most of her neck.
"What the fuck have you been doing?" he asked.
Before she could answer, Itachi came into the living room from his bedroom. He frowned at his cousin's form and barked out, "Where the hell have you been?"
"Fighting for my life," she answered, heading for her room. Her voice was hoarse and cracked when she spoke, as if she went several days without water or was choked very recently.
"You've been gone for a week, Temeki," Itachi glowered.
"Trapped in Suna." She just waved her hand behind her. "Tell you later," she said. "Shower first."
The door slammed on the two Akatsuki members and they turned to each other and frowned.
"This isn't going to happen every time she gets her period is it?" Kisame asked.
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When the bedroom door opened again, a cleaner, happier Temeki walked through the portal. She held two scrolls in her hands and looked around the living room.
"Where's nii-san?" she asked.
Kisame didn't look up from the book he was reading. "Leader sent him out somewhere," he answered.
Temeki leaned over the back of the couch to see what was so interesting and frowned when she saw the familiar orange of an Icha Icha book. "That stuff rots your brain, y'know," she smirked.
"And makes hair grow on the palms of my hands, I know," Kisame finished the second part of the old joke since Itachi wasn't around to say it himself.
"Oh well," she said, falling onto one of the recliners next to the couch. "Guess I'll have to give you your present first."
At the mention of a present, Kisame sat up and looked at the woman. His eyes followed the scroll she twirled on the tip of her finger and wondered what it could be.
She smiled at the man and looked him over. "You know who Naruto's sensei is, right?" she asked.
"Jiraiya," he answered.
"And what does Jiraiya do when he's not being a legendary Sannin?"
"Write…"
"Write what?"
The shark-like man looked down at the book in his lap. His head snapped up as what she was saying got through to him.
"You mean…"
"Uh-huh."
"That's…"
"You guessed it."
"Can I have it?"
Temeki laughed at the eager look in his eyes. "When's Itachi gonna be home?" she asked. "He'll ruin all of my electronic equipment if he finds out I've been feeding your habit."
"Won't be for a while," he answered, hungry for the newest installment of his favorite series. "Leader sent him after Sasori and Deidara. They've been gone for too long."
He didn't notice that Temeki's eyes narrowed dangerously at his admission. He only had eyes for the scroll that was flying through the air in his direction.
"Just don't read it in front of me," she said, standing. "Actually, I'm going to train a bit. Don't open that until I'm gone."
Kisame nodded and barely acknowledged when the Suna nin left the room. His hand shook as he opened the scroll. Blank paper glowed up at him and he frowned. Unraveling the scroll further, he finally came to some black script.
But it wasn't the new Icha Icha book.
Smoke billowed around the man and scroll as he dropped it and sprang up. He was completely unprepared for the woman who appeared, but when he recognized her pink hair, anger surged through him.
"You're dead!" he yelled.
"Not yet," she smirked. Sakura brought her arm up and pulled the trigger on the tiny crossbow on her gauntlet. Kisame blocked the dart from hitting his neck, but it imbedded itself into his shoulder instead.
He felt his muscles start to freeze and looked on in shock as two more people appeared next to Sakura. With his last burst of strength, he gathered his chakra and whispered a justu.
"Suiton: Suikodan no Jutsu!" (Water Release: Water Shark Bullet Technique)
Pipes burst through the walls as Kisame's jutsu took water from the nearest available source. The three shinobi would have been hit with the high pressure water bullets if it hadn't been for the wall of sand that came up and blocked them. The water mixed with the sand to create harmless mudballs at the trio's feet.
Shit, Kisame thought. Naruto must have sold her a summoning scroll instead.
His sword was in his room and the apartment was shielded so none of the other Akastuki members knew that there were intruders in their base—if any Akatsuki members were even home at the moment. The Leader expected them to take care of their own security. They were Akatsuki, they should be able to protect their own homes.
Even as the rest of his muscles began to stiffen, he never suspected Temeki of betrayal.
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Temeki pressed her hand to the stone door of Ana's cell and waited for it to open. Once it did, she ran through the doorway and shook the sleeping girl awake.
"Come on!" she whispered. "We've got to get you to my room."
Ana's eye widened and she wasted no time in following the woman. They darted up corridors that she'd never seen before, but she trusted in the Uchiha. When they entered a living room decorated in green and brown, her heart almost stopped beating when she saw three figures standing around Kisame.
Gaara, Sakura, and Naruto turned to the two women and stared.
"We need to keep to the plan," Gaara said. "It was too easy to beat this guy. No way is he that stupid."
"Don't underestimate the alluring power of hentai," Naruto warned. "It turns the strongest men into adolescent pricks."
Sakura looked over the frozen Kisame and noticed that his chakra was steadily building. "Gaara, we need to do something about him now," she said. "He won't stay incapacitated for long."
The redhead nodded and formed several seals.
"Suna no Shuriken!" (Sand Shuriken)
The shuriken flew at the man and he smirked. The sand wouldn't harm him at all. Then he heard another voice.
"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" (Fire Element: Fire Dragon Flame Blast)
His eyes widened when the flames didn't head for the Kazekage as he expected. Instead, they cut across the path of Gaara's shuriken. The heat from the flames instantly melted the sand and turned the once harmless sand into shuriken made of the sharpest glass. Kisame couldn't dodge as the still searingly hot projectiles flew at him and stabbed him ruthlessly. The force threw him against the fireplace and he coughed up blood as his back hit the stone mantle.
He felt a presence to his right and saw the serious face of the kyuubi brat. Naruto smiled and plunged the senbon he held into Kisame's neck. Sakura told him exactly where to place the needle and his smile widened as the taller man slumped to the ground.
Sakura crouched in front of him and sighed. "He just paralyzed the motor neurons in your entire body south of your neck. You can't move anything, but you'll feel everything. In the next five minutes, you'll feel every single nerve ending in your body dying," she explained. She grabbed his hand and took the ring from his finger. "You won't need this anymore."
"B-bitch," he whispered.
Temeki turned to Ana and handed her a kunai. "Do you want the honors?" she asked. A smile graced her features and the quartet couldn't help but notice how similar it was to the bloodthirsty grin of the fifth member of their group.
She took the kunai and straddled the man on the floor. "This is what you wanted, right?" she asked in a husky voice. His eyes widened as he heard the woman speak in his language. She wasn't supposed to know their language!
She leaned in close and dragged her breasts across his chest. "You wanted me on top of you writhing in ecstasy right?" she asked again.
She stabbed Kisame in the side, right below his ribcage and into his kidney, getting part of the liver as well. She dragged the kunai up in a rough movement and grinned as his internal organs began to slip out of the large hole she created.
"Well, I'm on top of you," she whispered into the deadening eyes of the missing nin. "And I'm extremely ecstatic."
Naruto and Sakura turned away from the sight. Gaara and Temeki just stared. Temeki, used to the way Kina handled her kills, nodded and held out a hand to help Ana up.
"You're a lot like your cousin, you know that?" she asked. "That's Kina's favorite way to kill someone. Without the straddling, of course." Temeki gave the woman a scroll and smiled.
"It's a gift from Kina," she explained. "She can't be here physically since she just gave birth to twins, but she said that it would help you beat Itachi."
"Don't you want to kill him?" Ana asked, looking at the Uchiha from the corner of her eye.
"No," she answered, honestly. "Killing him won't bring my clan back. Living my life and raising my children will."
"Glad you realized that," she smiled.
Ana nodded and slammed her hand into Temeki's forehead, gripping the younger woman's head in her talon-like palm. Purple-black chakra poured from Ana's hand and into Temeki as the Uchiha screamed in pain. Sakura and Naruto rushed forward to help their friend, but stopped when she turned a glowing purple eye at them.
"Don't interfere," she growled. Her voice held the sound of two women and they recognized the presence of Ana's demon. "This is for the Uchiha's own good."
When she removed her hand, said Uchiha fell to the floor. However, it wasn't in the female form of Temeki. Instead, Sasuke lay on the ground. Sakura ran to him and checked his vital signs.
"He's alive," she said. "But we need to get him to a hospital."
Naruto nodded and he and Gaara picked the unconscious man up. Their exit was stopped by the arrival of Uchiha Itachi.
"Sasori and Deidara are dead," he said, not looking up from whatever he was holding in his hands. "And the eagle bitch had her kid. Temeki, Kisame, we have to go to Suna and—"
He stopped his uncharacteristically excited monologue and looked up when he felt the presence of five chakras that were most certainly not supposed to be there. His eyes narrowed as he recognized his brother in the arms of two of the demon vessels he wanted to capture. He turned to the bloodstained Ana and his eyes looked over the body of Kisame.
In an instant, he was in front of the female demon vessel. His anger clouded his judgement as he gripped the side of her head and ripped the bandage off of her face. He stared into her mismatched eyes—one dark purple and the other so pure black, even the whites of her eyes were black—and growled.
"Tsukuyomi." (Moon Reader)
The others looked on in horror as Itachi took Ana into his world of torture and hell.
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Ana opened her eyes to the familiar red and black of Itachi's illusion. She was spread-eagled on her back tied to a large bed of white satin. She craned her neck and saw that the man controlling the illusion held a whip in his hands. He was naked.
It was a state that they both shared at the moment.
"I thought rape was above Akatsuki members," she spat at the man.
Itachi tilted his head at the sentence. "Why ask that question now, Ana-chan?" he drawled. If he was surprised by her sudden command of his language, he didn't show it. He ran the handle of the whip across her bare body. "We both know that this is my favorite illusion for you."
It was true. Whenever he used his Tsukuyomi on her, he put her in this situation. He always spent the three days taking and torturing her body in whatever way he deemed fit. And she always ached for days afterward.
The day he showed the technique to Temeki, he was especially brutal. If it hadn't been for her demon, Tsubakikan, Ana would have gone insane long before now.
Her hands tightened into fists as she glared at Itachi and waited for the first blow. She felt something in her right hand and looked at it. The scroll Kina told Temeki to give her was clasped in her hand. She didn't know how, but the scroll was in the illusion with her.
She closed her eyes and felt energy enter her body from the scroll. She heard her cousin's voice speak to her and knew what to do.
Itachi frowned at the woman on the bed. Normally, she was stiff as a board by this point. He saw chakra begin to envelope the woman and took a step back.
"What the hell?" he wondered.
Ana opened her eyes and stared at the blood red moon above her. Kina explained everything to her.
She knew what to do.
"Magen: Kyoten Chiten!"
A/N:
Hahahahaha! Cliffy! Not gonna tell you what the last jutsu was…you have to wait until the next chapter to find out!
Lalalalalalalalalala!
Again, fight sequences aren't my thing so I kept Kisame's short. I'll tell you what is my thing though…torture sequences…hint, hint
/rubs hands together in glee/