Chapter 8: Y U So Annoying?!

Damn... Sasori... so now he's criticizing me again.

"Gee... Thanks..." Shadow said staring down the balcony looking for the clip again. "I... Am so dead. I don't even have any replacements..." she muttered.

Sasori watched from his balcony, a smirk tugging his lips slowly. "You'll have to look for them both tomorrow Miss. Butter Fingers," he said. He smiled in his own charming way, a smile that was half a smirk of amusement and half a "Is that so?" smirk, as his puppet waved cheekily. Shadow groaned as she dipped her head and ignored him.

"So, how was your date with Mister Playboy?" he asked, a full smirk on his face now.

Shadow glared. "It wasn't a date."

"You went out with him though. That counts as a date."

"Yeah I went outside. Not out on a date and just for the record... It kind of... Well... It sucked... The guy is more arrogant than you. But then again, I suppose no one could be more arrogant than you. I'm sure that if I hadn't told him I was tired, he would've continued on until who knows when."

"Well, it serves you right..." Sasori said. He stared at the moon and without looking away he continued, "Anyways, I heard you mention the Record Halls. I'm going too so I'll make sure to wait for you or something. I know how much you love to sleep in."

"Why?" Shadow sighed deeply because it had taken her most of her willpower not to shoot back another insult.

"Because I have a job to do of course."

"Since when? As far as I know, you've never done anything to overexert yourself, and that's speaking from hanging around you for over two weeks."

"Exactly. I have missions too you know. I have to survive somehow and apparently money is the way to go." He spoke to Shadow in his infamous "what-are-you-stupid-or-something?" kind of tone and she twitched.

"Heeh? And who is it that you're working under?"

"A person."

"And that person is?"

"A shinobi of course."

Shadow sighed deeply as she pressed the tips of her fingers to her temples. "Whatever, seeing as you don't want to speak in full sentences I'll just be going now."

"You do that."

She left him still staring at the moon muttering, "Is he a lunatic or something? He sure likes to look at the moon enough."

"I'm not any more crazy than you are," he replied lazily, his way of saying, "I-heard-that-and-I'm-not-letting-you-get-away-it". "Actually I think anyone could be saner than you. As far as I know, you could even beat Granny at her own games, I'm sure." He grinned lazily catching the kunai that she had thrown at him. "Too slow, now put that away, or you'll be caught. A proper young lady such as yourself should not be seen carrying or throwing weapons with such small and dainty hands." He smirked at the last sentence; then he went back to playing with a puppet as Shadow went into her room closing the doors.

"Stupid, stupid IDIOT!" Shadow yelled at the door.

Why does it feel as if he was only born to piss me off? She thought annoyed as she climbed into bed and went to sleep.

Sasori smirked to himself, "You've only brought this on yourself," he said to an imaginary Shadow.

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The next morning, as soon as she woke up, Shadow had to create a Shadow Clone. "Right, so," she began. "I need to go to the Record Halls today so I need you to take my place, 'kay?" The clone nodded as she studied her nails.

"Okay then there really isn't anything you have to worry about other than Li. I have a feeling that he won't be able to keep his hands to himself today." She shuddered and the clone nodded, not glancing away from her oh-so-important subject. "You know what he looks like, right?"

The other thought for a little then said, "He's that cute red haired guy with the brown eyes and beautiful-"

"No!" Shadow snapped quickly blushing furiously. Great, now my own clones are disagreeing with me. That's just great. Weren't clones supposed to be, like, synchronized with the original body?

"No, that's Sasori. Li has a bronze tan, golden eyes and golden hair. Err... Okay, I guess that may be a slight exaggeration, but you get the point I assume. You'll know if you see him, but make sure he doesn't see you. Oh, and you might have to wear this all day. I'll tie it for you so Yura doesn't suffocate you like she did to me." She winced at the memory and held up a blue obi. By early morning they were both ready to go.

Shadow wore a plain blue shirt with sleeves ending at her elbows and black pants with a plain buckle. She pulled on shoes that her toes poked out and reached to her ankles; finally she adjusted the straps to her bag and pulled it around her waist, then buckled it. She shoved in a hair pin in her hair to keep it out of her face.

She started out the balcony as her double left through the door and looked towards Sasori's balcony to see if he was there or not and sure enough he was sitting on the railing. Playing puppets. Again. She thought lamely.

"Do you ever do anything besides play with puppets?" She asked annoyed. "I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of seeing you actually work for something."

"You just don't look at the right times." He said not looking up until the puppet he had been playing with was thrown up into the air by an unseen force. Shadow had used a bit of her power to throw the puppet up into the air and guided it into her hand. "Come on," She said as she threw it back to him.

"Alright, whatever." He caught it, and shoved it into some unseen bag hidden under his Jonin vest.

They got to the corner right before the Record Halls when Sasori stopped Shadow. "You should probably use a masking jutsu considering these guards may recognize you later."

"Right. Henge no Jutsu." She turned into another red headed girl with high pigtails and she strangely looked similar Sasori if he were to be a girl. Or, she thought smirking inwardly, If he learned Naruto's Sexy no Jutsu... Now that would be entertaining. She laughed inwardly.

Sasori smirked, "I think I look beautiful," he said sarcastically noticing the resemblance.

Shadow blushed saying, "You're an idiot..." Damn... Him...

"Thank you." He replied.

They got to the top of the stairs and greeted the guards outside the doorway calmly. There was nothing suspicious about a pair of siblings going to the library. None at all. The guard on the right grunted; he was probably disappointed he wouldn't get to use his mean looking spear on someone. This job was just so boring!

Although Li had overreacted a bit when Shadow had made her observation, the Records Hall was really nothing more than a large public library, just like he said. Of course, there were restricted areas for special people with permission slips, but it was heavily secured and all other areas were hidden from visibility. When the two were out of earshot Shadow undid the jutsu and the two went their separate ways. Shadow immediately began searching for more records on the Grass village and Sasori left to do... Whatever it was he was supposed to do.

Shadow wandered around bored, and none of the scrolls or books was catching her attention until she met a full, almost exploding shelf of books. She began to pull the books out of the shelf; one after another. What are they hiding behind this shelf? There's gotta be something pretty damn important to be stuffing a perfectly good bookshelf to the brim and almost to bursting.

When she finished pulling the large encyclopedias out, a pretty large empty hallway appeared behind it. She looked around to make sure no one else was around, and then swung the shelf slightly outward.

"What? A hallway, huh? Well, isn't that suspicious." she murmured and slipping carefully past the shelf. She walked down for what seemed like forever, but stopped when she came to a door that looked old and as if it hadn't been opened in years, maybe even hundreds of years.

She tried opening but it was locked. She thought to leave it but when she felt strange vibrations she decided to try and get in. She took out her fans out from her bag which she had tied to her waist; just in case something is there. She thought. She began to kick the door several times before it gave up and fell off its hinges.

What she was met by amazed her entirely. The room was full of clay models of ninjas who resembled greatly of the kages. The only one missing was the current Kazekage, Gaara. Surrounding them was an entire army of statues. Each one held a different expression and from what she could see none of them shared the same expression. It looked a bit creepy really; she felt as if they were all staring at her, even though none of them had pupils. But still... She couldn't shake the odd feeling of paranoia.

Well I suppose these statues explain those spies from earlier... But what the heck is this? Is it a war room of some sort? Not only were there the statues but there were also monitors of what seemed to be of everyone in the whole village. Tabs of important people perhaps? Shadow thought, looking up onto one of the screens and seeing a young man and woman in the park kissing. Okay... Not something that important to keep tabs on. She stuck her tongue out and then continued on.

She looked on to another screen that showed what looked to be like prisoners working on breaking coal. She looked on. On another screen it showed Sasori in his part of the massive library.

He looked like he was reading a scroll but from another angled camera it showed that he was looking off into space. A blank look on his face, as usual. Idiot. And I thought I was slacking a bit much by not finding anything. She walked away from the screens to file cabinets that were, of course, all locked. Let's see what they're keeping in here.

She walked to the bottom cabinet and thought for a second, wondering how to break the lock without it being obvious. She smiled as she remembered the hair pin she had put in her hair, and then picked the lock using her hairpin. After it was open she took out a file by random. She looked at it, not really expecting to read anything important, when the big print at the top caught her eye. Eyari, Yura. Eyari... That's Yura's last name! And that's Yura's photo!

There was a picture clipped on with a picture of Yura, including all the information about her. Jobs, birthday, specials, blood type, marriages, children, travel documents, height... Basically information based on everything about her. Shadow skimmed some of them then scurried to put it back searching for the Y section. Y for Yamoto. To her dread, she found what she was looking for. She found her own file.

Edited: August 7, 2012