Shikamaru stood in front of the three criminals, his legs spread apart and his arms crossed in front of his chest. His eyes showed deep thinking, as if he was looking for the words to say to them. Mitsuko trembled and almost collapsed at Hidan's feet as he nudged her in front of him to face her father.
Her father sighed and lit a cigarette to relieve his stress. Mitsuko now wondered for the first time in her life how many cigarettes he had smoked.
"Do you know what you just did, Mitsuko?" Shikamaru started, a hint of anger and disappointment in his voice. Mitsuko flinched, he had never talked to her that way before. "Do you know the amount of trouble you are in?"
"No, papa," Mitsuko replied, letting go of Hidan's clothes. There was no need to lean on him.
"First off, you have proven the Black Ops suspicions that you were somehow behind the last two murders. Secondly, you performed the forbidden jutsu of necromancy! Mitsuko, what have I told you over and over again about forbidden jutsus?! Third, you revived a criminal and aided two of them in crime. Do you see now, the amount of trouble you are in?" Shikamaru stood in front of her now within arm's reach.
She nodded, not wanting to say a word or else, she thought she would cry.
"Maybe I was not hard enough on you," Shikamaru sat down on the coffee table. "Maybe because your mother died, I felt that sometimes, I had to play that role of security and comfort instead of strict rules all of the time. Maybe that's why you aren't as disciplined as your brother?" He seemed to be talking out loud but Mitsuko held it all back by biting her tongue.
"Now that you guys are wanted criminals, you need to flee from here. Hidan, I want you to take care of Mitsuko. I'll pack some supplies but you have to go quickly."
"Well, it'll be slower traveling with these two kids so I'm heading out now," Kakuzu said, heading for the back door, still in a white bed sheet.
"Kakuzu, wait!" Hidan shouted after him, "You have to come with us, you can make the money."
"I thought you hated money," Kakuzu sneered.
"Yeah but, it's inevitable. You need money to get by anymore. I just hate having to kill for that reason," Hidan explained.
Mitsuko fell face first in the couch, wishing she was somewhere else at the moment as someone else and not a criminal. It had all happened so fast, she didn't think once about what she was doing.