Sorry for Lack of updates for like...two weeks. There was piles of homework and family came over last weekend which meant family time. UGH

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For a week or so Zetsu wandered through the forest not really knowing where he was of where he was going. Just in case he was being targeted he hid in the bushes from any ninja he saw or heard. Eventually he made it to the outskirts of Iwa, dehydrated and tired. Since no one there knew his chakra signature he used a simple henge no jutsu to disguise himself. One day as he was getting some infected wounds he had received in the woods treated he sensed some very familiar chakra signatures. The doctor was still treating him and he couldn't just jump out the window to escape, he'd have to come up with an excuse.

"Um... can I use the bathroom?"

"I'll be done in a five minutes, you can hold it." She said without looking up. She certainly wasn't the nicest of medical nin.

"Hurry up or we'll be caught by your old buddies!" Aku hissed in his head.

He struggled to come up with a plan as the enemies chakra flared and shouts were heard; they had felt it.

"What's with all the commotion out there?!" the nurse shouted. She turned around and looked opened the door looking into the hallway.

"Hey you two! There are injured here so shut the hel-" She was cut of as the two jonin pushed her out of the way and burst into the room.

"I'm absolutely sure I felt his chakra coming from in here!" shouted an aggravated jonin

"Me too, he must of escaped while the lady's back was turned. Check the surrounding area, I'll call for backup."

"Excuse me sirs but what are you talking about?" The nurse asked politely.

"You haven't heard? A ninja from our village recently killed three shinobi and his father then fled the village, he's a monster inside and out."

"That was really close, we'd better find another village and get healed there." Zetsu said aloud.

"No duh! I can't believe those shit heads were there! Of all the fuckin' places it had to be in Iwa!"

Ignoring his body buddie's remark he turned around and started down the trail. After a long period of silence Zetsu decided to ask Aku something that had been bugging him for a while.

"Hey, how come you know so much? I mean, seeing as you came from my conscience you should only know what I know. So why do you know so much about chakra and medicine?"

It was silent for a moment before he replied, the voice echoing through his mind.

"Well, my earliest memory is from when you were seven years old. I could see but I had no physical appearance yet and I wasn't exactly bound to your mind as I am now. I also couldn't talk to you so it got pretty dull up there. But I figured out after about a month how to leave your mind and enter others, looking through their memories and archives. After you met Atsumaru and decided you wanted to be a shinobi I made it my duty to learn as much as I could to help you when I could speak to you. So I wandered from shinobi to shinobi, picking up tactics and jutsu along the way."

He walked on silent absorbing the information then replied,

"So you studied for years to help me become a shinobi?" he asked.

"Yeah, I didn't want to share a body with a wimp, and you also created me as a friend, so I automatically want you to be as happy as possible."

"You...really are my friend? You want me to be happy?" He stuttered. It seemed almost unbelievable.

"Y..yeah I do but I'm also in this for myself, don't forget that. Besides, even though it seems like everything got worse, can you say life was any better before I came along?"

He contemplated this. True, getting the new appearance was far from fun and killing those closest to him was painful...but. Before Aku had come along, he had been all alone, no one even looked at him. But after Aku had appeared, he had a friend. They would sometimes roleplay in their free time and Aku would sometimes create an entire landscape within his own mind. He was like an older brother or second father to him, coaching him on how to do techniques and sometimes they even just talked. Despite the downsides he didn't mind being a missing nin, it meant that every day was a new challenge . Who would he kill today? Will he be attacked by people he knows?

"You're right, I actually really like it this way."

After a month or so of wandering and running from shinobi, Zetsu was approached by a mysterious man in a black cloak. (He had more appeared than approached). He had piercings all up the bridge of his nose, below his lip, and around his ears and his orange hair was spiked to perfection. As soon Zetsu as got in battle position he felt the immense chakra surround him, it was stifling and seemingly endless. He sat back down in knowing this man was more than he could handle, and distinctly in his mind he was sure he heard Aku whisper

"Holy shit-monkeys..."

"Hello, gentleman, I'm known as Pein. Nice evening isn't it?" He said smiling as he sat down across from him.

"H-hello... Wait, you said gentleman which is plural. Do you know about Aku?"

"Oh so you've named the conscience!" Pein said amused.

"Hey!" Aku snapped out loud. "I resent that!"

"He has a temper doesn't he?"

"Quite. If I may be bold sir what do you want with us?"

Pein's face immediately changed from joking to seriousness.

"I heard about you in my travels and was impressed at some of the rumors of your techniques. And after much contemplation I've decided to ask you to join my organization."


Due to lack of inspiration I'm stopping there. Yeah sorry, my stepbrother kicked me off while I was in mid-writing so I lost my inspiration. I'll try and update soon! Oh yeah, review please!