WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Two chappies in one night…er…hour..sorry…hehehe….

Anywho, I'm tired, so this is probably going to be REALLY crappy, but oh well…

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For those who have no clue:

Talking, regular text

Thinking, dreaming, emphasis, reading text

Two people saying something at the same time

YELLING, EXAGERATION, KEY WORDS!!!!!!

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"Ari…su…" the woman's hand fell from the girl's cheek to the floor with a dull thud. There was blood everywhere, the walls, the floor, even the ceiling. It drenched everything, including the two women on the floor. One lay, her abdomen ripped open, several ribs visible, shattered bone fragments mixing with the blood and guts surrounding her. The other, younger by far, was wearing an Anbu uniform. Her mask lay, forgotten in the entry-way, along with the present she had dropped in her hurry to reach the other woman.

"Tori-san! Tori-san! No…nononononononononono…NO!!!…Okaa-san!!!" the girl's voice rose with panic, terror, grief, and anger as she pulled the crumpled body to her, clutching the other woman as she cried, the tears mixing with the blood coating her body like a second skin.

Arisu shot straight up in bed, gasping for breath, sweat coating her body, making her clothes stick to her uncomfortably. Panting, she dragged herself from her bed to the bathroom, where she proceeded to hurl into the toilet. Rinsing her mouth in the sink, she looked at herself in the mirror.

Black hair with red ends. Black, slanted eyes. Pale skin. She didn't look so different from that day. Since she died. Stumbling slightly, her hand found the wall, which she slid down, until she was sitting on the floor. Once there, she began to sob, unable to hold back the tsunami of tears threatening to burst the floodgates.

She hated this. Crying herself to sleep every night, and waking only a few hours later, from a fitful sleep, from horrifying nightmares that seemed as real as though she were experiencing it…all over again. She hadn't gotten a good night's sleep for over three years.

"Arisu?" Ita appeared in the doorway, concern crossing her furry face. The girl looked up, tears streaming down her cheeks. Gathering the ferret like creature to her chest, Arisu squeezed her gently.

"I miss her, Ita…I miss mom." She sobbed into the little creatures fur.

"I know, Arisu. I know." Ita soothed.

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"Ibiki-sempai?" asked the girl from the doorway. Morino Ibiki looked up, and almost fell out of his chair. For a second, he had thought that he was looking at Uchiha Itachi, and, for that same moment, his mind had nearly panic. That was, of course, until he realized the person addressing him was a girl.

"Oh…uh…yes?" he asked, coughing, trying to regain his composure.

"I was told that you would be able to help me find a file on a missing nin?" she said, head tilted slightly to the side.

"Ah, yes. Who are you looking for?" Ibiki asked, standing and coming to the door, before beckoning for the girl to follow him down the hall. She fell into step easily with him, despite their stride difference.

"Hoshigaki. Hoshigaki Kisame." Came the reply. Ibiki started slightly, turning to look at her slightly, before he realized, for the first time, that she was wearing a Mist headband.

"Are you a tracker nin?" he asked, doubting it highly. She looked much too young.

"Ah, no. I'm looking into his movements, current location, etc. I also need background information on him. As much as I can get." She said with a small laugh.

"May I ask why?" Ibiki began cautiously, glancing at her out of the corner of his eye.

"Oh, nothing really." She said, easily avoiding his bait question. He nodded, stopping at a door.

"The file cabinets are listed alphabetically, so look for "H"." he said, unlocking the door for her.

"Arigatou, Ibiki-sempai." She said, smiling and bowing to him before disappearing into the darkened file-room.

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"Jackpot." She hissed under her breath, holding up a rather large scroll.

Ita looked up from the manuscript she was perusing to glance at the girl.

"Find it?"

"Oh yeah."

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"Says here that he left when he was real young. That explains why I never met him personally. Wow, Tori-san's description actually looks like the sketch." Arisu mused aloud, perusing the scroll, determined not to miss a single detail.

"Is he everything you thought he would be?" asked Ita sarcastically from her perch on the back of Arisu's chair.

"Pardon?"

"Nothing, I just didn't know you went for 6' 6" bulky dudes with blue skin." Said the rodent, with an overly innocent look on her face. Arisu spluttered in indignation, turning a strange shade of red.

"What?!"

"You don't get it? Man, Arisu, think about it. He's a really big, blue shark dude. Seriously, he's like a walking sushi buffet table."

"Ew." Said Arisu, wrinkling her nose.

"I wonder if he smells like fish." Mused the ferret absently, still reading over Arisu's shoulder.

"Can you NOT try to ruin my appetite for once in your life?"

"But it's my job."

"Well, I'm changing it."

"You can't, it's in my contract."

"What? Harassment?"

"No, but the annoyance factor was calculated into my pay cut."

"No it wasn't."

"I know, but I can dream, can't I?"

"Maybe."

"Now who's being difficult?"

"Haha. You're so funny, I forgot to laugh." Said Arisu sarcastically, turning from the ferret to continue reading the scroll.

Suddenly, she paused.

"What?" asked Ita excitedly, catching the look on the girl's face.

"It…it says here that recently, Kisame's joined an organization known as the Akatsuki." She began, her voice slightly strained.

"So?" asked Ita. "That has nothing to do with finding the guy, unless they give us an address."

Wordlessly, Arisu tilted the scroll so that Ita could see the second sketch in the scroll, next to the first, done in blue, of Kisame Hoshigaki. The second picture stared up at them with an emotionless, almost dead expression.

Itachi Uchiha. Read the postscript.

"Look familiar?" Arisu asked.

Ita nodded, all humor gone from her face.

"Looks like we have another scroll to check out." Said Arisu absently.

"Actually, make that two, he has a younger brother, also MIA."

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I'm sorry it's so short…but I am SO going to bed…

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