A/N: Soo... it's been a while, eh? Sorry about that... I really don't have an excuse for not updating other than, I was too lazy to finish most of this chapter... until now. Well, as per usual, absolutely nothing of importance happens in this chapter!

"Here we are, New Glasgow." Erosame said, stepping out onto the deck of the ship and waving his arms in a rather flamboyant manner.

"What the hell is this?" The expression on Mangetsu's face was nothing short of complete and utter disgust. The entirity of his relationship with Canada had been based off of pictures he had seen of Whistler and Quebec, but this... this was something else.

"It's Canada, your girlfriend."

"Well she has let herself go..."

"So, are you going to break up with her or what?" Raiga asked, as it happened, he had done absolutely no research on what exactly the age of consent was in Canada, and was eager to return home where he could safely maintain his 'ultimate pedofile' status.

"Shh," Mangetsu pressed a finger against Raiga's abnormally large lips, completely ignoring the 'I'm going to murder you' look that the older man was giving him "these sort of things need to be done right, I need some time to talk to Canada alone..."

"Maybe I should stay with him," Tatsuya gazed sympathetically over at Mangetsu "you know, so he doesn't do anything far too drastic..." his tone was almost sincere enough to be convincing.

"Shut up Tatsuya and get on the boat." Kisame said, grabbing the back of Tatsuya's shirt and yanking him back onto the boat... probably for the best, if they had actually let him go only two things could have happened. One, Mangetsu would end up being raped by Tatsuya... or two, Tatsuya would get lost and be bound to forever wander the streets of Canada, crying out for Frank. "My dad says the ultimate treasure isn't far from here..."

"You are so lazy Choujuurou, we have travelled across the world and you have done the grand total of one thing! How can you contribute so little? What do you even have to say for yourself?"

"I tried to speak earlier... b-but you punched me... and I was unconscious for awhi-"

".Choujuurou. Why is it that you never stop talking? I am sick and tired of your voice being the only thing I can ever hear!"

"...What was the point of that?" Raiga narrowed his eyes at the green-haired girl, it was times like these that reminded him of how there was absolutely no question as to who in the organisation she was related to.

"I hadn't heard his voice for awhile... I thought if he didn't speak soon I'd end up forgetting why I hated him... then I might have actually tolerated him."

"Well... We've reached the island. My dad says we have to go help him look for the cave of secrets..." Kisame's voice was completely flat, he swore that if they were there any longer he would just have to commit suicide.

"This is by far the worst god damn treasure hunt I have ever been on."

In the end, it didn't even take much looking, all the jungles and deserts which Erosame had warned them of during their journey were nothing more than a miniture zen garden and a brief walk through a park. And there went their chances of even trying to convince the Mizukage that they had been on a mission the whole time.

"At last I've found it. The most precious treasure. The ultimate porn!" Erosame held the DVD case high above his head, as if it were the Holy Grail.

"...How much would you piss yourself laughing if it was empty?" Raiga muttered under his breath to Kyouki, who merely nodded in return.

"Don't be silly, no one would be careless enough to misplace such an important DVD" There was a moment of silence as Erosame opened the case... followed by a rather nervous laugh on his part... and then an extremely loud and uncontrollable laugh on Raiga's. "...Where the hell is it? Seriously, has one of you guys taken it? Okay, jokes over, give it back..."

"Relax, I have that one back at the base..." Zabuza inspected the front of the case as if it were something you would find in a dark alley rather than an ultimate and all powerful treasure.

"...Really?"

"Yeah, yeah... it's like... in the amateur section or something like that..."

"I fucking told you so!"

"Can we please just go pick up Mangetsu and go home... I just want to go home..." Kisame grumbled to himself, finding it hard to believe that it was actually possible for him to long for blood-stained and deeply depressing streets of the Mist Village.

An hour later, and they had returned to the shore where the left Mangetsu. Who, by the looks of it, hadn't moved an inch since they departed.

"Where have you guys been? You left me here... all alone with no one to talk to!"

"I wanted to stay with you!" Tatsuya yelled, immediately rushing to be by Mangetsu's side. "Clearly I am your only true friend." He folded his arms, and stared down at his feet, rather like a sulking four year old.

"Shut up and get on the boat." Kisame sighed, even if this time it was Mangetsu's turn to suffer, he really didn't want to put up with all of Tatsuya's ridiculous babbling. "I want this over with as fast as possible."

"Well, if you're going to be so rude about it -"

"I don't care, Tatsuya. Just get on the boat."

"No, I am sick of you and your attitude." Tatsuya snapped, his eyes welling up with tears."It pains me to say it, but I am breaking up with you. Lately you've been acting way too grumpy, and it's just... it's too much for me to cope with. I'm sorry, don't try to get me back, I've made up my mind, it's for the best."

The next few minutes were filled with Tatsuya glaring at a rather blank looking Kisame, they were both so silent that you could have heard a pin drop. However, it didn't take long for that blissful, albeit brief silence to be broken by Kisame's manical laughter.

"...Well that just turned my day around, I feel like having a party."

Only a few more minutes into the journey, and Mangetsu heard the door to his room creek open and even though he was from what was possibly the most notoriously violent village ever known, he couldn't help but feel a horrible shiver pass down his spine.

"...Mangetsu?"

"Is something wrong Tatsuya?" Mangetsu asked, somewhat suspicious that after several months of ignoring eachother's existence, Tatsuya had actually decided to speak to him. "Are you still upset about Kisame because really I doubt it would have worked out..."

"No, no... I just came to see how you were."

A sudden feeling of fear washed over Mangetsu, after many years around Tatsuya he had learnt to be immediately suspicious of any attempt at 'being friendly' from the older man. Yet, not wishing to cause any further problems, Mangetsu decided that rather than telling Tatsuya to just get out and thus, promoting the mother of all rants, it was probably best just to give him a brief answer, in the hope that he'd get bored and run off on a new conquest. "I...I'm fine, couldn't be better."

"Oh okay, I also just came to say that, I love you and I want you to go out with me."

It honestly didn't surprise Mangetsu. From the minute Tatsuya had opened the door he had seen this moment coming. It's not like Tatsuya didn't go through a phase of 'being in love with' just about every member of the Seven Swordsmen. When Kyouki had first joined, he had somehow manage to completely ignore the fact that she was blatantly a girl, stalk her for two days and then attempt to marry her. Afterwards claiming that he had thought she was a man all along and the skirt 'just made him a bit of a character'. Yet there was one thing which really did baffle Mangetsu about Tatsuya's infatuation with him. "Uhh... You... you're aware that we're cousins right?"

"What?"Tatsuya's eyes widened, "Don't be silly, I would never hit on my cousin. We can't be related... How could I not know this? I mean, surely your family would have come over to visit like the woman's did. That's it, this is all her fault, she's always doing this! She wants to take everyone away from me so that I'll be all alone. Well, at least she won't be able to do it for much longer."

"...What?" Mangetsu arched an eyebrow, he had thought that Tatsuya would have at least asked for an explaination of how the two of them were related, or if it was a particularly good day, just take his word for it and leave. "That makes absolutely no sense... won't be able to do it for much longer... are you what? Intending to kill her?"

"No, I've kind of been beaten to that..." Tatsuya muttered, looking up to see that Mangetsu still had a completely bewildered expression plastered across his face. "Oh? You don't know? I thought she would have told you. She has cancer, I heard her and Raiga talking about it."

"What...?"

"Yep she has cancer, and I hope it's aggressive. Well, I'll see you later. Don't tell anyone about this by the way, I wouldn't want my perfect reputation ruined by people thinking that I hit on my cousin."

And with that, Tatsuya left, slamming the door behind him, eager to forget that he had been rejected... again. And just praying that elsewhere on the ship, everyone else was having an equally bad time. Which, unbeknownst to him, they were.

"So... Mangetsu's single now?" Zabuza said to Kyouki, who glared back at him. "You should make your move."

"Shut up, Zabuza."

"But if you don't do it now then someone else will, I'm just looking out for you...or some shit like that..."

Kyouki bit down on her lip, trying to weigh up the options of just outright punching Zabuza in the face, or simply screaming at him until she passed out from lack of oxygen. Although, being as lazy as she was, she didn't really feel up to doing either of them, and settled for her favourite method; changing the subject entirely. "Why are you even hanging out here? Isn't this Kisame's room? Were you waiting to talk to him? You should just go in, I mean, I'm sure he loves spending time with you, Zabuza..."

"What? I don't-"

"Don't be silly, here let me help you." She then shoved Zabuza a little more violently than she had intended, causing him to crash through Kisame's door, and land on the floor... staring up at Kisame... who just so happened to be shirtless.

"..."

"..."

"Aren't you glad you came in Zabuza?" Kyouki said, smiling in the most patronizing manner she could manage. "I mean, look at those abs, you could grate cheese off of them... Well, I guess I'll just leave you two love birds alone."

Although she instantly regretted leaving Zabuza and Kisame behind when, upon turning the corner, she was greeted with a loud and ear-splitting shriek.

"KYOUKI!" Mangetsu yelled, grabbing her by the shoulders with such a force that it could have knocked her soul straight out of her body... if it were possible for Mist ninja to have such a thing. "You have cancer? Why didn't you tell me?"

"I...have...cancer?" She replied, with what she thought was apparent uncertainty.

"So it's true! Why would you tell Raiga and not me?"

"Oh...that..." She sighed, honestly thinking Mangetsu would have more sense than this... although that was a bit of an unrealistic expectation. "No, I don't have cancer. I am a cancer."

"...what?" Mangetsu now looked more confused that ever before. "what... what kind of cancer are you?"

"...the crab." She replied, moving her hands about to look like claws, as if Mangetsu was a child who needed to learn the word crab for the first time. Still, he looked incredibly confused. "...I was born in July, my star sign is Cancer... Cancer is a crab."

"Oh..." he loosened his grip on her shoulders, sighing heavily as he did so "I'm sorry... it's just a very difficult time for me, I feel like... like I can't trust anyone."

No sooner had he finished his sentence than Mangetsu felt an arm slink around his shoulders "You can trust-"

"Tatsuya, we're cousins. Go away."

"Oh yeah, Zabuza~"

Needless to say, the journy home was like a living hell for quite a few of the members, filled with much screaming and crying... and Choujuurou. Although within a few days of returning to the Mist Village, some of them would have happily returned to Canada...