Me: Dudes, it's October!!!
Katie: Yeah, so?
Me: Time to get ready for...another mission!!!!
Everyone except Lee and TenTen: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: I want to thank Kishiko-chan for reviewing. (Sorry it took me so long to get your name in here!!)
Chapter Sixteen
"YAY!!!! I can get off my ass and kick some other peoples' asses now!!!" "Emily-chan, shut up!!" The Kimochi cousins were assembled in Tsunade's office: Kenisha was looking out the window, Emily and Katie were yelling, and Tsunade was taking a Tylenol to relieve her migraine.
"God dammit, if you don't shut up--" Tsunade was about to throttle Emily and Katie when TenTen walked in. "Tsunade-sama, you called me here?"
Tsunade sighed. "Yes, I did. I want you to join these three idiots on a mission to their hometown: Soragakure. They need to excavate and loot everything that is left. It's--" "What the hell do you think you're trying to do?! We can't loot our own home, that's just--"
"Shut up. You have to take everything that survived the massacre away from there and report back ASAP. There are many evil people after the power of the Kimochi clan, and any of the artifacts found at the scene will be confiscated and used by them to reek havoc all over the map. You got me?" Kenisha nodded reluctantly, while Emily's eyes lost their light, and Katie cast her head down. TenTen tried to heal everything.
"Don't you see? This could benefit you guys too!! You could each have a momento to remember your clan by, to look back on every once in a while. That's what I did."
She held up a kunai with Chinese and Japanese on it, along with a picture of a fire red dragon. "See this? This was my mother's kunai. It was passed down from kunoichi to kunoichi; mother to daughter. She gave it to me right before the mission that lead to her and Dad's deaths. These give you closure and self assurance. If you don't believe me, don't look up." The girls looked up for a minute and nodded. Tsunade was a little shocked, rubbing her forehead.
"That did nothing to help my migraine, but I guess you got through to them. Thank you, TenTen. You may go with them now, and as team leader I expect nothing less than success. Understand?" "Understood, Tsunade-sama. Come on, you three." TenTen had to drag them out of the office and kicked the door closed with a 'thud'. Tsunade chuckled.
"Those three...I'm gonna have my work cut out for me, right Shizune?" A small gasp came from the ceiling and Shizune landed in front of Tsunade's desk. "How did you know I was up there," she asked, rubbing some wrinkles from her clothes. "No duh, you're always in here when I'm doing mission breifings. It's what you do."
Shizune smiled and turned to the door. "Do you think they'll be alright?" They heard a crash and a yell of, "OH MY GOD, WHAT THE HELL?! THAT HURT!!!! OWWWWW!!!!!!!" (Me: You can only guess who that was.) Tsunade sweatdropped. "I hope so."
"How far away did you say you lived?" "It's just through this forest here and then we'll reach our village, right Katie?" "Yeah." The little group was almost to the Village Hidden in the Sky, and Kenisha was getting anxious.
"I want to be there now!!!!!" Emily hit her in the head. "Well we aren't there yet, so shut up and walk."
Walk they did, for about two minutes before Kenisha complained again. "I'm running if I don't see Soragakure, and you won't be able to keep up with me!!" Emily and Katie sent panicstricken looks to eachother. "Oh. My. God. DON'T DO IT, KENISHA-CHAN!!!!!" "To late," Kenisha said and ran away, leaving dust in her wake. "God dammit!!"
TenTen ran after her. "Kenisha, get back here. At least wait a little bit!! Kenisha!!" "Ah damn," the twins said and walked after them.
47 minutes later
"You could've waited after you went past the forest, you know." "It doesn't matter now, we're here." TenTen had finally caught up to Kenisha when they reached their destination: the partially destroyed/burned to the ground Village Hidden in the Sky. The village itself was surrounded by forest, but a vast portion of it was set into the sky, shrouded by clouds. Kenisha pointed at the clouds. "That's where we lived, before..." She put her head down.
"Nostalgic, isn't it?" Kenisha turned to face her red in the face cousins, Emily and Katie. "It is, and I don't want to leave. So many memories..." Kenisha looked up at the clouds and jumped toward them, landing inside them. TenTen's eyes followed her, but her body didn't move. "She just doesn't want you to see her cry," Emily said, putting a hand on TenTen's shoulder.
"Let's follow her. I have books up there," Katie said before jumping up as well. "You heard the girl," Emily said and she and TenTen jumped together into the clouds, landing on hardwood floor paneling. "Take your shoes off," Emily said, taking off her own and placing them next to her sister's. TenTen followed her around the empty mansion until they reached the water user's section. They both heard a faint wimpering down the hall.
"Either they didn't kill my puppy or Kenisha's really sad right now," Emily said, moving toward the noise. TenTen followed, cautiously looking from side to side. Emily opened door after door until she reached the door with whimpering behind it. It was Kenisha's parent's bedroom. Kenisha was lying on their bed, holding a small picture in her hands, crying her heart out. Emily gave her a sympathetic look.
"Aww, come on, Kenisha-chan. Get up..." Emily was trying to pull Kenisha off the bed, but Kenisha focused her Chakra into the bed covers and didn't move. So Emily took the picture in Kenisha's hands, which she tried to swipe back, but Emily moved her hand out of the way. "Hey TenTen, look at this."
TenTen walked out of the doorway and took the picture from Emily's hands. It was a picture of Kenisha with her parents as a child (Me: When I was 3 foot 4! I was short, okay? Everyone: You still are!! Me: Cuz all you guys are giants!!). She was on her father's shoulders, laughing as her mother tickled her. Looking more closely, TenTen noticed that another person was in the picture: a tall boy with dark eyes and tan skin like Kenisha. His hair was short and curly like his father's and had muscular arms. The boy had an arm over his mother's shoulders, laughing with the others. Emily saw her staring at it.
"That was Kenisha's older brother, James. He was never as wild as Kenisha; really quiet but strong and smart too. The only time he got loud was around Kenisha and all of us. He was able to use wind and water techniques, like his parents. Kenisha just never got that good and worked on improving her water jutsu. But it didn't help...he died trying to get her out of here along with other villagers."
She looked at her cousin, who was still crying. "Katie shouldn't have said it was nostalgic; it's painful coming back here. But then again, Katie doesn't know how to cry," Emily said, putting a hand on Kenisha's shoulder. TenTen nodded. "This is the same way I felt when I came back to my house for the first time since my parents' deaths. Too many memories were in there, around there. I had to live with Hinata for a few weeks just to stop crying and running away from the house. It's heartbreaking to lose someone: there's a place inside of your soul that will never heal."
Katie walked in, holding what seemed to be millions of books with a couple pictures mounted on precauriosly on top. "Come on, you need to find everything of value or importance and bring it with you. That's what the mission is." She saw Kenisha crying and groaned. "Kenisha Daibakufu Kimochi, if you don't get out of that bed, I'm smashing all your pictures!!!" That did it: Kenisha was up and in Katie's face in the blink of an eye.
"You're not smashing anything, you hear me? This is all I have left of them besides you and the others, and right now I'm wishing that you died too. You'd be more appreciated if you did." (Me: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will devastate my inner child forever! Katie and Hermione: You got problems...) Kenisha walked past Katie and went out the door not before shoving her, knocking all her books to the floor. Emily and TenTen gave Katie a disgusted look and followed Kenisha out the door.
"When you need it done right, do it yourself," said the Tsuchikage as he slinked through the charred streets of Soragakure. He chuckled as he remembered the night: so much fear, so much power... But there was one thing he didn't notice or acknowledge.
"I didn't get the compound: that must be where they are." He jumped into the air and landed on...nothing. He fell to the ground. "Damn, must be concealed. I'll come back later." With that he walked back into the shadows and disappeared.
"Hermione-chan, is this where you lived?" Itachi was looking at the charred and broken village that Hemrione had taken him to. He pictured it as depressing and hard to live in. "Yeah, and it was the best place in the world before it burned to the ground. But now I need to kill that bastard for taking it all away." Her fists were shaking, and Itachi put a hand on one of them.
"Don't worry: together we can exact our revenge. Promise." Hermione nodded and grabbed his hand, jumping in the air. Sandals connected with hardwood floor and they took them off. "This is the compound we lived in: the Kimochi clan and the near extinct Mesaigakure clan, who helped conceal the village. They liked the ground better than the air: couldn't take the high altitudes. So they controlled trade and most medical facilities in the village, along with regular shops and restuarants. It was what they did, because they loved it. Just like we loved being ninja..." Hermione perked up when she heard yelling. "I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!" Itachi smirked,
"That's your little cousin, Kenisha-chibi, correct?" Hemrione nodded. "Seems we weren't the only ones going on a trip to memory lane. Let's do some more recon." Itachi pouted. "I don't wanna!!!" "Your baby voice won't work on me this time. Now come with me," Hermione said, pulling Itachi by the sleeve of his cloak.
"I wanted to apologize--" "I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE, YOU HEARTLESS BITCH--" "Now that is no way to talk to your elder cousin--" "YOU'RE ONLY TWO YEARS OLDER THAN ME, AND YOU'VE ALWAYS REGARDED ME AS AN EQUAL, SO SHOVE IT UP YOURS--" "If you would just shut up and listen to me for a f--king second, then I can apologize--" "WHAT YOU SAID IN THERE IS WAY PAST NEEDING AN APOLOGY: YOU NEED TO FIND SOME F--KING WAY TO HEAL OUR RELATIONSHIP NOW BECAUSE YOU INSULTED MY FEELINGS AND MY FAMILY!!"
TenTen and Emily were watching the argument from the safety of a tree. "I have never heard Kenisha this pissed off, and I've lived through her time of the month," Emily said, staring at the waterfall where Kenisha sat. (Ino and Sakura: How the hell do you have a waterfall in midair? Me: It's like that because the compound was a part of the ground below once, attached to a small rock formation. I like it: it helps me think)
Katie could tell this wasn't going anywhere good anytime soon. "Okay, Kenisha-chan, I know I screwed up--" "DAMN RIGHT, YOU BITCH--" "But I want to say sorry, because I never really knew any of them--" "NO, YOU DIDN'T, BUT THAT GIVES YOU NO RIGHT--" "But that doesn't mean I didn't care. It's just that they don't affect me as much as the others did--" "SO MY SIDE OF THE FAMILY MATTERS LESS THAN THE OTHERS, HUH? WELL--" "That's not what I meant! I mean that they weren't always around me, I didn't know them, and all of us dealt with a major loss that day!! So when I say "smash all your pictures", I mean that I'm going to take them away for a few days and put them where you will find them later on. So I'm not going to smash them!! Promise!!"
Kenisha opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She thought it over. 'She apologized...Katie never does that, but I'm still angry...she had no right to say that...it's all I have left...but she's part of it...' Kenisha sighed and got out of the waterfall and gave Katie a hug. "Sorry for yelling, Katie-chan. I'm just bitchy, aren't I? Know what, don't answer that. But then again, I'm always bitchy: I'm the wild one!!"
Emily and TenTen shared a sigh of relief. "Thank you God she didn't use any water justu!! She could've killed us!!" TenTen looked at her quizically. "Hurt us, yes, but kill us? Isn't that a little too mad?" Emily shook her head. "That's not it' it doesn't matter how mad she is: if she used the Great Waterfall jutsu, she could've killed us. In the Kimochi clan, when you use the jutsu that represents your middle name, it's more powerful than normal. And considering Kenisha's Chakra levels when she's pissed..." TenTen's eyes widened and she hid behind a rock. "Holy shit!!"
"I think its time to get the stuff for the leader," Itachi slyly. "Right. Let's go," Hermione said, dragging Itachi out of the kitchen and outside in the training grounds. It took the cousins and TenTen a minute to recognize them. "HOLY SHIT!!! You guys again!!" Hermione smirked. "A little slow on the uptake, aren't we? I'll cut to the chase: We want the artifacts, and you're going to give them to us. If not, my fingers just might slip into handsigns and kick your ass; right Kenisha-chibi?" Kenisha's hands shook in rage.
"Listen bitch, and you listen good: even though you nearly killed me, I still regard you as family. So before I seriously open a canister of whoop ass on you, I advise you to leave us alone. And in case you haven't noticed, there's a waterfall right behind me." Hermione backed up, but Itachi obviously hasn't been eavesdropping on their segments, so he took a step forward. (Me: Dumbass, you didn't tell him? Hermione: Don't blame me, blame his Sharingan sexiness. Me: 'eye twitch' ...Ok...)
"What's so scary about a waterfall? It's over there, we're over here. I know about you water jutsu, but you can't seriously make me believe you can move that waterfall and kill us. It's just not done, Kenisha-chibi. Now, I'm going to take all of this, including family portraits, and use them against you." Emily was quickly getting surrounded by fire as she stared at Itachi.
"You heartless bastard!! You plan on taking everything we have besides each other and not expect a fight? Hermione, your boyfriend is a dumbass. Katie, you ready?" Katie smiled. "Yeah: Earth Style: Barrage of Sediment!!" Meteorite looking rocks were falling fromthe air and Emily did some handsigns. "Fire Style: Sedimaentary Bonfire!!" She blew fire from her hands and lit the rocks, making them burn red. "Oh shit!!" Itachi lost his smirk and ran out of the way. The meteors barely missed the two and set them in a prison of rock and fire.
Emily and Katie high-fived each other. "Hell yeah, that combination never fails to kick ass!!" "Damn right: Kenisha-chan, could you cool them off?" Kenisha smirked. "Hang on to something: Water Style: Waterfall of Heaven!!" The water from the waterfall behind Kenisha stopped falling and joined the water from the clouds in casading down on top of Hermione and Itachi. (Emily and Me: Kicking ass is what we do: so don't get us pissed!! Sasuke and Lee: I will keep note of that...'eye twitch with blue anime lines')
TenTen was cheering them on. "Yeah, guys kick major ass!! You owned those bitches!!!" Kenisha and Emily were taking bows, saying "Thank you, thank you: we'll be here for the rest of the mission!!" Katie just opened one of her many books and began to read. "Do you ever stop reading?" They got a no.
The Tsuchikage had heard the battle from below and waited until it was over to jump into the compound. This time, he landed. "It seems I was correct," he said, and not bothering to take off his shoes, he followed the noises to the training grounds. "Oh girls, I'm coming back for you..."
The sake bottle in Tsunade's hands broke, getting alcohol all over herself and her paperwork. "SHIT, I WAS GOING TO GET TO THAT PAPERWORK AT ONE POINT!!" "AT ONE POINT?! YOU SHOULD'VE BEEN FINISHED BY NOW!!!" Shizune sighed. "I'll go get some more copies, don't move!" "I won't," Tsunade said with a groan. 'I was hoping to drink sake and not do that shitty paperwork,' she thought as she wiped the sake off her shirt. "Get started," Shizune said from behind the tower of papers.
"Good sake gone to waste, a bad omen," Tsunade said as she got out a pen. "When will you stop believing in these superstitions and myths, Lady Tsunade?" "Are you doubting my decisions based on superstitions and myths?" Shizune put her hands up. "No, no, no, I have faith in your decisions: so what do you think is happening to them now?"
Tsunade sighed. "They are about to enter a battle with a powerful force. With the one who tried to kill them before." Shizune gasped. "We should send backup immediately!! Who is left?" Tsunade took out some cards with her ninja's faces on them. Most of them are sick or on other missions: that leaves Lee and Neji, cause I don't trust Jiraiya with four young girls."
Shizune nodded. "That pervert...I'll go get them as soon as possible!!" "No need: we heard through the door." Lee and Neji entered the office, dragging Jiraiya by the ear. "Oh God, this can't be good," Tsunade said, pinching the bridge of her nose. "He was caught looking at Hinata as she was taking a bath for her sickness," Neji said in disgust and twisted Jiraiya's ear. He cried in pain. "And he was looking through Kenisha's diary: if she found out..." Lee shivered at the thought and smacked Jiraiya in the back of his head.
Jiraiya was thrust in front of Tsunade and she kneeled to him. "Explain." "I was just doing some--" "If you say "research", I'm going to beat the living shit out of you," Tsunade said in his face. Jiraiya smiled pervertedly and replied, "Well..." He didn't finish, Neji threw him by his ear into the wall. (Me: God Neji, even for a perv, that was harsh. Neji: Damn him.. TenTen: Yeah, Ice-man, don't be mean!!)
"So, I want you two--" "We already know, and we accept. YOSH!!!!" "Right!!" "Then go!!" Go they did...right out of the office window. "HEY, GET BACK HERE AND FIX THIS, YOU LITTLE DUMBASSES!!!!" "Calm down, Lady Tsunade!!"
"Who invited you, bastard?!" "I'm about to send this waterfall at you via Water Style on you, you son of a bitch!!!" "Which of his limbs should I crush first?" "Do you know where this kunai is going, bitch?!!" "Ladies, ladies, don't be rash--"
"Too late for that, asshole!!!!" The Tsuchikage was completely surrounded by the girls, who were brandishing weapons and hands. "Ready, everyone," Kenisha yelled. "Hell yeah," everyone exclaimed back and charged at the Tsuchikage. (Me and Emily: Blackies, Whities, Crackers: WONDER TWIN POWERS, ACTIVATE!!) "I guess I have to use force," he said and took out a kunai with an exploding tag on it. "Not this time!! Fire Style: Flame of the Dragon!!" Emily shot flames shaped like a dragon at the Tsuchikage, which he tried to dodge, but they came back and burned his back 540 degrees over it's usual temperature. Then the Tsuchikage disappeared and turned into a burned log.
"Behind you," TenTen said and threw a chain scythe behind Kenisha at the Tsuchikage, which hit in his left hand. "Water Style: Trident of Atlantis!!" The Tsuchikage turned around to get struck through with the trident of water and hardened Chakra. "Got you, bitch!!" "Did you?" The Tsuchikage was behind her, kunai at her neck. "Son of a bit--" "Do you want to finish that?" He pressed the kunai into her neck and warm blood trickled down.
"Kenisha!!" They headed toward her but the kunai went deeper as they did so and Kenisha cried out. "Go any closer, she loses her smart mouth and everything attached to it. I'm taking this kid with me, she needs to die for she is my weakness. But not after I take the water jutsu of the Kimochi clan from her!!" Katie gasped. "You can't!!" "I can't? Who--" "No, I mean you really can't!! She doesn't know all of them!! Kimochi clan jutsu are revealed by her soul over time; she needs to train more for any more to be learned!!"
The Tsuchikage put a hand to his chin in mock thoughtfullness. "No, I guess I can't get her to talk them out...I might as well poke and prod her soul until I find what I need!!" He laughed maniacally into the open air. "NOOO!!!!"
Lee and Neji had arrived at the village in an 23 minutes and were searching for the source of the screaming. "Kenisha??!! Where are you?!" "She's up there," Neji pointed in the clouds where the compound was located. "But that is just a bunch of--" "There's a compound hidden in their depths. Let's go!!" "Yosh!!" They jumped into the compound and ran to the screaming. They arrived when the Tsuchikage pushed the kunai deeper into Kenisha's neck. " YOU SON OF A BITCH, LET HER GO," Lee exclaimed.
"No, I don't think I will: I need her soul to achieve my goal. So--" "No goal is worth achieving if you have to hurt my Kenisha-chan in the process, you f--king bitch!!" 'I already know what that is like,' he thought. He ran at the Tsuchikage and yelled, "Leaf Hurricane!" He kicked the Tsuchikage in the neck and he let go of Kenisha and grabbed his neck. "Lee...-kun..." Lee caught her before she fell and raised her head up. "TenTen, how did this happen?"
"This guy just came up, I don't even know how he was able to negate her attack, but he got behind her and put this kunai to her neck then he said that she was his weakness and that he was going to kill her after he found out the secrets of the water jutsu of the Kimohci clan," TenTen said quickly and summoned another chain scythe. "You get Kenisha to a hospital and we'll deal with this spineless bastard!" Lee nodded and inserted a food pill into Kenisha's neck and began to take off his weights.
With the others closing in on him, the Tsuchikage was backed into the side of the waterfall. "You're on our turf now, bitch, so prepare for the worst f--king ass kicking of your life," Emily cursed at him. "What you did to Kenisha was unforgivable, what you did to all of them!! I'm going to puncture you with every metal thing in my scroll," TenTen said, opening her scroll. "I'm going to crush the 300+ bones in your body, one for every villager you killed in the village below. Then I'll crush the brain that devised the plot. You're going to die by your own element," Katie said, her hands moving closer and closer together. "Ready," TenTen asked everyone. They all nodded. "For Kenisha-chan," Emily and Katie screamed and chrged at him, TenTen bringing up the rear with her chain wind scythe.
Lee: That son of a bitch!! He hurt my Kenisha-chan!!
TenTen: We know, we're going to kick his ass because of it! Now get Kenisha to the a hospital!!
Emily and Katie: SHUT UP AND HELP!!!
TenTEn: Hurry up!!
Me: I'm dying down here!!
Everyone: Go back to dying then!!
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