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This chapter will be in Itachi's POV. I don't believe I will do any more chapters with just one persons POV after this. It will switch back and forth between people's POV's after this chapter.
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Chapter Two: The girl who screamed at a marble
Itachi P.O.V.
We were coming back from a successful mission when it started to sprinkle rain. Sighing mentally, I continued on. I just wanted to get back to the base and sleep for at least a day. Kisame was talking about how easy the last mission was, and I was tuning him out with years of experience.
Why couldn't I have been paired with one of the less noisy members? Why must Kisame insist on talking about pointless things? What did I do to deserve this punishment? Nothing I could have done deserves this. Really.
When Kisame started to complain about his feet, I stopped walking. "We will rest here for a while before moving on," I told him.
I walked over to a tree and sat down. Resting my head against the bark, I closed my eyes. My eyes have been slowly loosing their sight. Every time I have to use them my vision gets worse. Not that I would tell anyone, but it scares me. I will either have to find a way to heal my eyes soon or I'll go blind.
I was snapped from my musing when I felt an extremely large amount of power. Listening closely to hear any attackers, I heard someone murmuring; then, it got quiet. Suddenly, I heard a 'thump' like someone had tripped.
I heard someone, sounded like a female, start talking about the view. Standing up to see who it was, I followed the noise into the trees. Walking into a clearing, I noticed a girl with her back turned towards me. She was about a foot shorter than I was, with slightly blue-tinted black hair that reached her mid-back. She was wearing tan cargo pants and a black top. Besides a sword at her hip, she didn't look to be carrying any weapons in plain view.
I paid attention to what she was saying when I heard her say, "Watch me!" and she jumped down the well that she was standing by. Seeing a pink light come from the well, I wait to see what would happen.
"You put a bloody BARRIER on the WELL! You TAKE IT OFF right now! You hear me? RIGHT NOW!" I hear her scream from inside the well. Her head popped over the edge of the well as she climbed out. I waited for her to notice me but she went back to yelling at her invisible companion.
"That's IT! I've had it with you!" she exclaimed. I look around for who she was talking to, but saw no one. Checking for chakara, I found that we were the only ones in the clearing, unless her companion was concealing their chakara.
"FIRST," she lifted one of her fingers. "You make me fall down a well that brings me FIVE HUNDRED YEARS into the past. You bring back a naked demon to life just so that he can RIP YOU FROM MY BODY, and that left a very nasty scar that still hurts when I poke it!
But that wasn't ENOUGH for you, WAS IT? NO!
You had to go and SHATTER INTO A MILLION PIECES when I try to save you from being stolen by something that tried eating you.
Then you make me spend three years, THREE bloody and gory YEARS being kidnapped, impailed, shot at, and almost being made into some PSYCHOPATHIC midget's wife! While trying to stop some world-hating half-demon with a superiority complex from finishing you first to rule the world! Just like in some CRAPPY VIDEO GAME!
All the while, getting compared to my cold-hearted, prettier, better at everything I do incarnation! And this, THIS is the thanks I get? You send me to some unknown place without indoor plumbing! Then, when I try to get home, you put a BARRIER ON THE WELL!
That's it! I've HAD IT! I REFUSE to be your guardian any more; you can SHATTER into A MILLION PIECES again for all I care! GO and bother SOMEONE ELSE's life, because you screwed up MINE enough! You want to be here? YOU stay, but LET ME GO HOME!"
She tried to pull a necklace from her neck, only to have it flash each time and stay on. "Get OFF, you stupid Jewel! I DON'T WANT YOU!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.
She paused for a minute, as if listening to someone talk. Then she started screaming again. "What the heck do you mean I 'have a job to do here', YOU SADISIC MARBLE! I don't WANT it! Give it to some other poor loser who karma doesn't like, but LEAVE ME OUT OF IT." She tried pulling the necklace off again without any results.
Having been ignored long enough I decided to get her attention. "Would you please stop screeching?" I stated more than asked.
Her form instantly froze. Slowly, she turned to face us. She looked me over first, before dismissing me and turning to her attention to Kisame. She didn't look as shocked as most are when she first saw him. She blinked once. I felt what could be explained as a slight static charge in the air for a minute before her face took a look of understanding. Then, she turned to me as if coming to some decision.
"Um, who are you?" she asked us. Neither of us answered. I was waiting for her to make a move. While she may not be after us, she could pose a threat, she was carrying a sword and the way she held herself showed she knew how to use it on some level.
"Okay, I'm sorry if my screaming bothered you. I know it must have hurt your enhanced hearing," she said before she dismissed us both, turning her attention back to the well.
I stood in shock for a moment. No one had ever dismissed me in such a way. Especially not a female. For some reason, it ticked me off.
"Who were you talking to?" my partner demanded.
Her shoulders slumped. Turning around, she smiled brightly at us. I didn't like that smile; it seemed too forced.
"To myself, of course," she replied.
I keep staring at her. For all I knew, she could truly be insane. There wasn't anyone else in the clearing I could sense. And for some reason, I felt uneasy around this woman. Not the uneasy 'someone will attack you the second your back is turned', but the unease of being stuck in a closet with a crazy person who has just been given a bag of raw sugar.
Kisame stepped forward, grabbing the hilt of his sword. "Answer the question truthfully, girl. Where are your comrades?" he demanded.
She blinked once. "You don't seem to get it do you?" she stated, looking at him like an idiot. "I have finally cracked under the pressure. I was talking to my stupid piece of junk marble." I'm starting to lean to the 'her being insane' side.
Suddenly, the round pink jewel she was wearing glowed a deep purple and shocked her. I raised my brow. Maybe she was telling the truth about her talking to her jewel, and not in the insane way.
"Ow! Stupid piece of Junk!" she exclaimed, before pulling out a dagger from her cargo pocket. She made a sound of triumph. Kisame and I got ready, in case she decided to attack. Instead, she completely ignored us in favor of trying to cut the jewel from her necklace. But each time she tried, the necklace, glowing a soft pink, would fix itself before she could pull it off.
Suddenly, the jewel glowed deep purple again and shocked her. Only this time, it lasted for almost twenty seconds before it stopped. She clutched the side of the well for support. I turn my head when I hear Kisame laughing his head off.
"Shut up. Let's see you have an evil necklace attack you!" the girl snapped at Kisame.
"Ha! You couldn't lay a finger on me, wench," Kisame mocked the girl.
The girl seemed to tense, and her face started to turn red, before she exploded at him. "That's the last straw!" She dropped her backpack and seemed to disappear into it. She apparently found what she was looking for when she gave a shout of triumph.
Pulling out a blue beaded necklace with fangs every so often, she wrapped it around her fingers before bringing her hands together. Her feet were shoulder width apart, as if ready for an attack.
Expecting an attack, I put my hand to my kunai pouch. I was taken off guard when instead of doing a jutsu she started chanting. Once again, I felt the static charge in the air.
The beads lifted off her fingers and went flying towards Kisame. He tried to dodge them, but they followed him until they were all firmly attached around his neck. Kisame stopped running and tried pulling the beads off, but had the same result as the girl did earlier.
"Shock!" the small girl shouted. The beads glowed a deep blue for a second before Kisame was being electrocuted.
Immediately, I pinned the girl to the ground, holding her arms with my kneecap in her back. "Remove the Jutsu," I demanded.
"Jutsu? What the crap is a Jutsu?" she asked, sounding confused and angry.
I tightened my grip on her arm. "Don't play dumb with me, girl," I warned her.
"I really don't know what the crap you're talking about. That was a level one spell, moron." I narrowed my eyes. "Jeez, with your demon blood, I would think that you would at least know what I did," she mumbled, thinking I wouldn't hear.
I stiffened. How would she know about the demon blood running in the Uchiha clan? It was a well-kept secret that only selective members of the clan knew.
"What did you say?" I demanded coldly, as I turned her over and placed a kunai to her throat.
Finally getting a good look at the girl, the first thing I noticed was the girl's amazing blue eyes. She had a nice straight nose, and full pink lips. Overall, she was very pretty. Oddly, she was wearing a black shirt that had a list that said 'My Many Moods; angry, mad, suspiciously pleased."
"Nothing of importance," she said. She looked past me to see an enraged Kisame. "Shock." As soon as she said it, Kisame was again being electrocuted. "It won't kill him. It'll only shock him for a few seconds," she explained. "Now will you please kindly get off before you collapse my lungs?" I glared at her. She still hadn't answered my question.
"Answer the question, girl." Now that I knew Kisame wasn't in danger, I could fully focus on the girl in front of me.
"What question?" she asked, trying to look innocent.
"What did you say about demon blood?"
"Oh, you didn't know. I probable shouldn't have told you then," she said, as if I wasn't there. Shrugging, she looked back at me. "Well, the cat's out of the bag now, so might as well tell you so you don't kill me." Smart girl.
"You have a very small amount of demon blood, focused in your eyes, and your friend over there, shock, is one forth demon. Meaning one of his parents was a half-breed. Okay, now that I've told you what you want to know, can you get off?" she asked while trying to free her hands.
"How do you know this wench?" I demanded.
She glared coldly at me. I could feel her rage through her tense muscles. "Get. Off. Now." She grounded out.
"Answer the question, wench." I looked down at the last second to see her shoot a beam of light pink at my chest from her captured hands.
All of the air was knocked out of my lungs the second the beam hit me. Flying though the air, I hit the first tree and heard it snap at the force of my body hitting it. Expecting to stop, I was taken by surprise when I went through another tree to roughly hit the third and stop. I could feel that at least two of my ribs were broken. But I guess I'm lucky nothing else broke with the force she threw me.
The young woman started screaming at me. "My name is KAGOME! KA-GO-ME! Not girl, WENCH, woman, or any other names you STUPID males come up with! Now, leave me alone!" Once she finished screaming at me, she turned back to the well and kicked it.
She threw me through two trees because I didn't call her by her name? I thought angrily. She dared to constantly dismiss me as a threat in favor of giving a stupid dried-up well her attention! I don't know why this made me so mad, but it did.
I got up and appeared behind her. She was going to pay for dismissing me like that!
She finished electrocuting Kisame and turned around to come face to face with me. She looked shocked that I was there, and, before she could do anything else, I quickly knocked her out by hitting the back of her neck. I let her fall to the ground before checking on Kisame. Though the girl claimed that the necklace couldn't kill him, it appeared that it could knock him unconscious.
Sighing, I picked the girl up. I went to pick up her bag, and almost toppled over form the unexpected weight. How could such a small girl carry that heavy of a bag? Was it even possible? Shrugging it off, I brought her and her bag back to where Kisame and I were resting earlier. Dropping her on the ground, I turned around and went to fetch Kisame.
Kisame became a slight problem. I couldn't touch him without being electrocuted as well since he had so much electrical buildup. Sighing, I decided to just kick him it the head to wake him up. It worked.
"What the crap was THAT for, Itachi?" he hollered.
"You let a girl defeat you with a single word. You're pathetic," I stated before turning back around, heading back to where I left the girl.
"Hey, Itachi, where's the girl?" Kisame asked after he caught up with me.
"Over there. I knocked her out easily."
"Don't act like she didn't do any damage to you either. I saw her shoot you through those trees. What the crap was that, anyway? It wasn't any type of chakara I've every seen before."
I thought it over. He was right. That wasn't normal chakara. But it didn't feel like a demon vessel's chakara either. In fact, it felt like the exact opposite.
"We will question her about it when she awakes," I decided. "Come on. We have a lot of ground to cover before nightfall, and we've wasted enough time here."
When I saw Kisame throw the girl over his shoulder, I turned around and started walking the way we were before the break. Hearing a Kisame let out a sound of surprise, I knew he had found the bag, and mentally smirked.
A couple of hours later:
"Let's break camp here." I left no room for argument, though I doubt Kisame would complain about stopping.
"Why do I have to carry the girl and her bag?" Kisame complained. "The girl is light, but I think her bag weighs at least twice as much as my sword!"
"If that girl could carry it, you should be fully capable of carrying it for a couple of hours," I taunted him knowing full well that the thing weighed a ton.
"Yeah, well let's see you carry it! What does she carry in here, bricks?!" Kisame exclaimed as he dropped the bag to the ground.
"Hn. We will find out; tie the girl over there." I pointed to one of the trees at the edge of the clearing.
While Kisame was tying the girl up, I decided that this would be a good time to go through her bag to check for anything that might give us clues to her strange chakara.
Picking up the bag, I carried it over to the middle of the camp, making it look light just to tick Kisame off. Opening the bag, the first thing I noticed was instant ramen. A lot of ramen. Pulling it all out, I looked at what else was in the bag.
Seeing a lot of shirts and pants and other clothing, I concluded that she was planning on staying somewhere for a while. Setting those on the ground, I continued to look for anything that would give us information about the strange girl. Pulling out different things, I could find almost nothing out of the ordinary that you wouldn't find in the bag of someone going on a camping trip.
But I did find some strange items. She had some pieces of paper that had strange symbols on them. Two more of the strange necklaces that she had placed on Kisame. Enough first aid to supply an army. A small black book, which had a lock on it. A couple of scrolls that I couldn't open. A photo album, which I simply set aside without looking at. A strange small glass and metal box that was only two centimeters thick and had some type of earphones that was attached to it. A sketching pad and pencils that I decided to look at later. A dog-training book with dog treats. Coloring books. Then, the most surprising thing, weights. Yes, weights; she had at least sixty pounds of weights at the bottom of her bag.
Kisame, who had been going through the stuff with me, started to twitch when I pulled out the weights. He jumped up and pointed a finger at the bag.
"She had bloody WEIGHTS in there! What the crap?!" Kisame cried. "What type of PSYCHO wench carries WEIGHTS in her bag?!"
I smirked at Kisame's misfortune. The girl's bag may have very well weighed twice as much as Kisame's sword with all that was in there and the weights.
Placing the girl's things back in her bag, I left out two cups of ramen. Might as well take advantage of the food here. Preparing the instant noodles, I thought over everything we knew about the girl. I had decided to take her with us after I felt the strange chakara coming from her. She may be of some use to the Akastuki, since she seemed to be able to sense demon blood. Looking over at the girl tied to a tree, I stood and walked over to her to check her over for weapons.
Crouching down to where I could see eye to eye with her if she was awake, I studied her face. While she was quite pretty, she still had a face that had to finish maturing before she could be beautiful. She would be very beautiful when she was mature, though. Looking her over I take note that while she does have muscle, she wasn't a ninja.
Taking her sword from its sheathe to examine her blade, I saw that while you could tell the blade had clearly been used, it had been taken extremely good care of. I tried to decipher what it was made of. The hilt was made of some sort of bone, but the blade was a mystery.
Placing the blade aside, I checked to see what her pockets held. Pulling out the dagger she had used earlier to try and cut her necklace off, I saw that it was just a plain dagger whose blade was made of the same type of bone the hilt of her sword was. I checked the sturdiness of the blade by comparing it to one of my kunai. If it came to which blade was better, the girl's dagger would win without trouble.
Placing the girl's dagger by her sword, I continued my search. She had some gum in her pocket, with a list of first names and a small rock shaped kind of like a person, with a blank piece of paper wrapped around it. Seeing the objects harmless, I returned them back to her pocket, before checking her other pockets to find nothing else.
Looking at her necklaces, I checked the one that looked like a rose first. Seeing that it had a clasp, I opened it to find a bright red powder. Dismissing it, I closed it back up and looked at her choker. It was nothing special. Looking at the last necklace, the one she had been talking to, I felt a strange power coming from it, but it wasn't chakara. Frowning, I reached over to touch it. I quick pulled my hand back when it glowed a light blue, and a beam of light and shot into my arm.
I watched as my whole body glowed a light blue for a second, before the light shot back into the jewel. It felt as if the jewel was checking to see if I was a threat, but then dismissed me and went back into a dormant state. It left me with an uneasy feeling.
Checking the rest of her, I noticed that she had a bracelet that gave off a chakara much like that of a demon vessel. Storing all this knowledge, I ended my search. Picking up her sword and dagger, I placed them by her bag, and sat down to eat my now ready ramen.
Looking over at the girl, I estimated that she should be knocked out until morning. I looked over at Kisame. He was just glaring at the girl.
"Kisame. You take first watch, and don't kill the girl." Kisame looked put out. He probably would very much like to kill the girl. Knowing that he wouldn't until we got our answers out of her, I went to sleep.
The next morning:
"Hey, Itachi." It had been raining all night, and I wasn't in the mood to talk much. The worst part was, it was still raining.
"Hn."
"So, what are we going to do with the girl?"
"After we question her we'll decide what would be the best move. Her energy felt like the exact opposite as a demon vessel's. If she can be of any help to the Akatsuki, then we'll take her to Leader."
Kisame finished cooking the rabbit he had caught earlier, and handed me a piece. I took it, and gave a nod of thanks. He nodded back.
"Yeah, but what if she can't be of any use to the Akatsuki? Then what?" Kisame inquired.
"We kill her. She could leak information about our whereabouts."
Kisame grinned at the news. He really didn't like the girl. But I'm not that fond of her either. Having an electrical collar on and being thrown through two trees for not calling her by her name could make people not like her.
I heard the girl stirring, and looked over at her. She was soaked to the bone, and would probable catch a cold from having no protection from the rain all night. Starting to open her eyes, she rested her head against the bark of the tree, trying to get the crick out of her neck. I turned my attention back to the conversation. After discussing what would be the best route back to base, Kisame and I heard the girl's stomach growl.
We both turned and looked at her. Kisame smirked and took a bite out of his roasted rabbit, obviously enjoying her hunger pain. We went back to discussing traveling for a minute until the girl made her presence better known.
"Shark boy!" We turned to look at her again. She smirked at Kisame. "Feed me, unless you want to become a crispy fish stick," she threatened. Kisame glared at her.
"Take it off," he demanded.
She gave a look that said he was a moron, which I had to agree with. "Do I look stupid to you? Wait, don't answer that. But that's my safety," she said slowly, as if talking to a small child who didn't understand. "I say one word, and you get zapped. It's not so funny when you're the one wearing a evil necklace, now is it?" She smirked at him, getting him back for his comment yesterday.
Kisame clenched his fist. "Take it off, wench!" he shouted.
She glared coldly at him. "SHOCK! My name is Kagome! Ka-Go-Me! Do I have to spell it out for you?!" she demanded.
Kisame was electrocuted for a couple of seconds. He grabbed the hilt of his sword, and got ready to kill the girl.
"Kisame, cease this foolishness," I demanded of him. He looked ready to protest, but I shot him down with my glare.
"Gir-" I started.
"Kagome," she interrupted.
I jumped in front of her. "I will call you what I see fit," I growled. What was it with this girl that could get under my skin so easily?
"Fine then, I'm going to start calling you pin-wheel."
My eye twitched. 'Pin-wheel?' She was making fun of my eyes. The same eyes that many would kill for, she was insulting. I tried to burn a hole through her with my glare alone.
"Do not push me, girl," I warned.
"What do you want, pin-wheel?" Again with the insult. "There must be some reason that I am currently tied to a tree in the middle of a rainstorm. Tell me what you want, so I can get out of here. You out of my life makes me happy, and me out of your lives would make both of you happy, especially fish stick over there. So, what do you say?" she said.
"Fine," I agreed. I set my eyes so I could tell if she lied to me. "I'll ask questions; you answer. Got it?" I left no room for argument.
"Fine, but I asked questions afterwards. Then it'll be a fair trade," she bargained. It didn't matter to me; if she was of no use to the Akatsuki, then she would be killed; if she was of any use, then she would gain the information anyway.
"Agreed." I accepted and started the questioning. "Who are you?"
"Kagome Higurashi," was her instant reply.
"What are you?"
"Human." Strange answer.
"What type of chakara do you use?"
"What's chakara?" she asked. I checked her for lies but found none. She should at least know what chakara was. Even civilians know what it is.
"Your power source," I explained.
"I'm a miko, if that's what you mean."
"What is a miko?" I had never heard of one.
"Shrine maiden, priestess, but what we do is purify demons, heal the sick and wounded and give advise when asked." I smirked mentally at my find when I heard 'purify demons'. Yes, she would be of use to the Akatsuki.
"Where are you from?"
"Tokyo, Japan."
"Where is it?"
"Far, far away." She was dodging the question, but I would let it go for now. I would get all the answers I needed later tonight.
"I am done, you may ask your questions."
She nodded. "Who are you?" she asked the standard first question.
"Itachi Uchiha." I waited for her to show a reaction. She should know the name. It made grown men quiver in fear. She showed no recognition at the name.
"Who's sparky?" she asked directing, her gaze to Kisame.
"Kisame Hoshigaki."
"What are you guys?"
"Ninja."
"Very funny, now really, what are you?" she asked, smiling like it was some type of joke. She didn't believe we were ninja? Come to think of it, she didn't know a lot of things that were common knowledge around here. Perhaps she was a foreigner?
"Ninja," I answered again. She looked at me with shock clearly written on her face.
"Where's my bag?" She changed the subject. I motioned with my head to where her bag was.
"Which direction is the well you found me by?" I pointed my finger to the direction we found her at.
"Oh, okay," she said. She gathered that pink energy to one of her fingers and shot it at the ropes. The ropes were cut through like hot butter, and she pushed the rest off herself, before standing up and stretching.
"Oh, and one more question. Where the heck am I?" she questioned.
She didn't even know what country she was at? "Fire country," I answered her.
"Weird name, you would think people could come up with something more original. Okay, that's all I needed to know." She walked over to her bag and gathered up her stuff. Putting her weapons back in place, she got her bag. When the bag was fully settled on her back, (I couldn't believe that she picked it up with such ease, for a girl her size) she started off in the direction I had pointed just seconds ago.
"Bye pin-wheel, bye fish stick. You can keep the necklace to remember me by." She lifted a hand as her dismissal but didn't turn around to face us as she left.
I stood up and appeared in front of the girl. "Where do you think your going?" It was a rhetorical question but she answered anyway.
Pointing in the direction I had pointed earlier she said, "That way," and started walking again.
I smirked at her smart-allelic response. It was refreshing to have a woman not fall to the ground and worship the ground I walk upon, once I started to get used to it.
I let her get a couple more steps in before I swept her over my shoulder, and turned back to camp. She was quiet for a second while her mind processed what had just happened.
"Hey! What's the big idea? Put me down!" she demanded. I decided to ignore her. "We had a deal! We ask each other questions, I go free! It was a very easy plan to follow!" she exclaimed, screaming at me.
"We've had a change of plans," I informed her. "Kisame, clear up camp, and catch up to me. We're going back to the base."
"Looks like you're coming with us, princess," Kisame mocked the girl.
"Shock. Shock. Shock." I could feel her amusement rolling off her as she watched Kisame become a virtual lighting rod.
She turned her attention back to me.
"Hey! I never agreed to go with you! Put me down!" she started to beat my back. It didn't even hurt which showed me she wasn't really a fighter.
"Let me go! Let me go, or else you'll regret it!" She had a warning tone in her voice. I stopped and set her on her feet. "Thank yo-" she started before I once again knocked her out.
I caught her before she fell this time, and pulled her bag off her shoulders. As I picked her back up, I noticed how light she was.
"Kisame, grab her bag and let's go."
"What! Why don't you carry the bag?" he demanded.
I wasn't stupid. "You have better endurance than me. I would slow down faster than you, and it would take longer to get back to base. We still have two more days before we arrive." He grumbled about it, but picked it up anyway.
"Can't we just leave it here?" he begged.
"No. Leader might want to see its contents. Think of it as endurance training." Not completely a lie, but the real reason was that the girl might be more willing to cooperate if she has her belongings, though we would have to take away all of her weapons before she awoke.
Grumbling about psychopathic women and weights, Kisame started trailing after me. It would be an interesting two days.
End chapter
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