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Chapter Fourteen! The Blue Thing
xXxColette's POVxXx
"Colette!" I heard Italy cry. "Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette! Colette!"
Good Jashin-sama. I sighed and looked up from the daily news. I had this strange feeling something important was going on. Italy was generally the calmer one. "What?" I called back.
She skidded to a halt in Sasori's and my room. She gasped for breath. "There was the fire and the rug and the cup of water and the- the- the- the- JUST COME WITH ME!"
She yanked me from my cozy chair. "Whoa! I'm coming!"
I followed her frantic gait to the kitchen. I wasn't really going her same speed, however. "Colette! Get your ass over here! I'm not waiting for you!"
"Geez! Take a chill pill!" I rolled my eyes but sped up anyway. "I mean, seriously, what's the rush, anyway?"
"Oh, you'll figure it out once we get to the window!" We zipped to the kitchen. I glared against the sun to see what she was so frantic about. I could only see out the winter-washed country side.
"What are you so worried about?" Italy simply pointed at a pair of black blotches I took for woodland creatures. "Oh, they're coming back."
Kakuzu would freak out if he saw how screwed up the rug was-
Was that a portal?
"Ack! They're going to be here soon!"
I looked around, frantic as Italy now. Italy's eyes were wide, dirty blonde curls and rapidly flickering florescent eyes giving her an insane look. "Um. Um. Um."
I grabbed the nearest thing I could reach and threw it on the rug. Of course, the first thing I grabbed was an open milk jug. I threw the jug onto the swirling violet patch, missing almost completely. Italy paused to gape at me, hands paused mid-comb through hair. "What the fuck?"
I shrugged and looked back out the window. Bad choice! I saw that Sasori and Kakuzu were nearly on top of the base. But somehow, a little bit of the milk started disappearing like a tiny invisible drain had magically appeared underneath it.
xXxJashin-sama Knows WherexXx
"Ah! serenity at last!" hummed a little blue heron-bull-lion-fox-demon-thing. It sank into its chair in perfect bliss, oblivious to the surroundings. Suddenly, a thin trickle of some white liquid streamed from the ceiling. "What?" It jumped from its seat. "A rift?" It snarled, "Oh, damn it! A just fixed the last one!" It sat fell into a ready crouch heavily, ten tails flickering irritably, eyes morphing into a molten red. "I'm gonna kill the bitches who did that."
xXxChez Base AgainxXx
I sat on the kitchen stool, head in hands. "Oh, Jashin-sama! What are we going to do?"
Sasori and Kakuzu were in the base; I could feel their chakra signature approaching steadily, almost at the kitchen. Italy abandoned me to face the problem alone even though she knows I'm fucking AFRAID OF KAKUZU!
I looked over at the milk splattered over the floor and the violet swirling in the rug. "Oh, damn it all!"
A few minutes of me regaining my awesome nonchalant 'tude later, enter Kakuzu. He stumbled into the kitchen, irked as always. "Colette."
"Kakuzu-san!" I gave him a wide smile while scrambling to cover the rug. "Hi! Hi! Hi! How'd your mission go?"
"Fine."
"Oh, good! Good!" I continued. Yeah, I know, I was totally blowing my cover. "D'you kill the guy?"
"Yes."
"Hooray! Good job!" I smiled nervously."
"Hn. What's with-"
"NOTHING! NOTHING is with ANYTHING!" I laughed nervously.
"-the weather…" Kakuzu gave me an odd glance. I could feel his chakra flaring in suspicion.
He stood up, abandoning his tea. "Might there be something behind you, Colette?"
Oh, shit! He used my name! This is not looking good. "N-no, no! Nothing! Nothing at all! There might be nothing behind me! Hehehehehehe!"
Kakuzu simply pushed me back somewhat roughly. Yes, right into the portal. Or what I assumed was the portal. I was 68% sure that it was one. It looked like all the video game portals: covered in swirly light.
He raised an eyebrow. "Milk? You were trying to hide milk? The phrase 'don't cry over spilled milk' can also be applied to panicking over it, as well." He grabbed my arm, making me flinch. "Just clean it up."
I could feel some of my chakra seeping into the floor. Okay, now I was 98% sure that this thing was a portal. Kakuzu gave me yet another odd look. "Colette, what are you doing?"
"I'm not doing anything. What are you talking about?"
"My chakra! I can feel it draining!"
An enter Zetsu!
"What's going on?" "I felt a disturbance in the chakra here." "Hey! I felt that!" He hissed to himself, "Now's not the time!"
I was going to look at Zetsu, but I found that I couldn't bring myself to move. In fact, my vision was drifting, and Kakuzu's cold grip was becoming less and less noticeable. I could barely make out someone brushing my leg and calling out my name.
Then it was darkness, blackness, warp speed with tiny pixels of color shooting past me like stars. I could feel myself moving away from my body and to my distant chakra. I could sense Kakuzu and Zetsu doing the same.
I suddenly jerked back into HD vision, gasping for the oxygen I had been deprived of. I jumped up, instinct having been somewhat engrained in me by Phoebe.
I was alone in this peculiar piece of land. It seemed to be made of a rainbow of candy crystals. There wasn't one plant, animal, being anywhere within my sights.
This place, it not only looked out of the ordinary, but it felt, well, off. I can't describe it, but do you know that empty feeling you get in your back, right under your shoulder blades when you're, like, scared or something? Well, that's how it was, just off.
I heard a sharp intake of breath behind me. I whipped around to see Kakuzu. "Oh Jashin-sama!" I yipped. "It's- Oh, it's just you."
Kakuzu simply glared at me. I reached on my back for Nancy, but… nothing! Oh, shit! I'm screwed!
Zetsu appeared, gasping heavily for breath. "Where the hell are we?"
"Um." I said helpfully.
Kakuzu just shrugged.
"Yeah," I agreed with Kakuzu.
"Don't you sort of want to know where we are?" said Zetsu.
"Uh, sure. Do you know?"
"…No! I just asked you that!"
"Well, in that case, let's just figure it out, then."
"That seems-" "Like a splendid idea! Lead the way, Colette!" "-reasonable…"
"This way, then!" I started walking in some random direction. Sure, I was rather concerned about our position, but random portals taking you to a rainbow world just happen sometimes. Sometimes.
xXxWith That Irked, Unnamed ThingxXx
The little blue heron-bull-lion-fox-demon-thing floated through the air without disrupting even a bit of air. It watched the three with precise vision. Just three humans, it mused. Nothing at all!
It searched them all. Rather soiled, though. Lawyers, perhaps? The demon scrutinized the lot. No, they have an unusual amount of energy to have such an unphysical job. Soldiers? Warriors? Gang members?
The odd being flickered its eyes to a soft, sunshine yellow, zooming in on the image before him… it… whatever! It saw the core of the trio. Ah, chakra! It curled its lips into a wicked smile, showing off its collection of teeth, all taken from various animals. They must be ninjas.
The being let its eyes fade back to their regular doe brown. The blonde one and the peculiar one with the green casing over his head turned to look at the flying demon thing. It shifted its flight a bit, due north. They might mistake me for a migrating bird, it thought. But… It felt two tendrils of charka probe its body. Ah, sensors, now are we?
This is getting interesting…
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