The One And Only Ninja Mafia

Thin, slivers of light penetrated my fragile eyes that had become so used to the dark caused by the wall of my eyelids. I grunted as I felt the soreness all over my body. I tried to move my arms to stretch, but they wouldn't budge. I opened my eyes wider to see a dark cave with only one torch lit to my right hanging on the cavern wall. I looked over my shoulder and saw my hand in chains, locked to a pillar of rock. I looked over to my left to see Jin, unconcious as well, and also tied up to a rock pillar. A more thorough search revealed no other living within sensing range, so I made a loud, "Psst!" to try and wake Jin. After kicking him with my legs, he finally opened his eyes, and then complained loudly at me.

"Shssssshh!" I whispered rasply. "They'll know we're awake!"

Jin realized the situation and then shut himself up. "Where are we?"

"I don't know, but apparantely we've been captured."

"Where's Hinako?"

That was a good question. Where was she? Ever since the sudden blast of water-which was most likely caused by an enemy ninja-Hinako was no where in sight. Did she manage to escape? "Maybe she can go get help," I whispered hopefully to Jin.

"Hinako? I don't think s-" He was cut off by the sound of footsteps, so we quickly let our heads fall and pretended to be asleep. As the footsteps grew louder, so did the beatings of my heart. They became so loud, that I thought whoever was coming would be able to hear it. When the footsteps finally stopped, I heard the soft breathing of a man.

"Huh. Looks like they're still asleep," the stranger said with a gruff voice. "Those two must be really weak to get captured by these bafoons."

I clenched my teeth to try and quench my rising anger.

"And one of them's a woman! She doesn't look like she could harm a fly."

I clamped my fists. This guy was getting my nerves.

"What's the deal with women lately? Thinkin' they can do a man's job. Heh. Women were meant to support the man, not work beside him. I should put her in her place."

"OKAY, THAT'S IT!!" I formed hand seals with my chained up hands as fast as lightening and then looked up at the man and opened my mouth. "MOON BEAM!" An eminse blast of light burst out of my mouth and collided with the astonished gaurd. He was blown back into the cave wall as it shook the entire cavern. Little bits of rock fell down and eventually stopped as the cave stood still with the gaurd lying deathly still a good twenty meters away.

"Oh, great," Jin whined. "Now look what you did. The whole cave knows we're awake now."

"Oh well," I sighed, forming more hand seals. "Kuchiyose no jutsu!(Summoning Technique) They would've figured out we were faking anyway." As the smoke that appeared from my jutsu weared off, my little dragon friend, Gonko, appeared. Without me even having to tell him, he slithered over towards the gaurd. He came back with a shiny pair of keys in his mouth, and unlocked Jin's and my chains. Since we were at the end of the cave tunnel, we had no choice, but to go down the tunnel, to where the dead gaurd was. I threw his body behind some rock pillars, hoping it would throw some people off our trail.

We continued down the tunnel, seeing no one in sight, but hearing the echoing noise of trampling feet. It sounded like they were coming from everywhere. We continued down the cave as stealthily as we could. Soon, the cavern walls became flatter, and smoother as we went along, until we found ourselves in what seemed to look like a building. Curious, we continued on our way, and then the path split into three pathways.

"Oh, great," Jin sighed. "Now what are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know, but you don't have much time," Gonko said squeakily. "I hear people coming from the middle passage. You need to choose one quickly."

"Well, lets go right," I pulled Jin's arm along. "Right is always right!"

"Oh, great, we're going to die," Jin retorted as he followed along.

I ignored his comment and pressed on. My hunches were always correct! Gonko slithered on ahead, to warn us of any traps or oncoming enemies. We continued down for about half an hour, before crowds of people caused us to have to go under the influence of my Invisibility Jutsu. We snuck along the ceiling, forming the chakra to our hands, to avoid bumping into people accidentally. We found ourselves in an enourmous chamber fool of people rushing about, but one really skinny guy was sitting upon a chair. He wore a black suit with a black rose and his black hair was slicked back, across his head. He had a thin, black mustache across his upper lip. He had his head in his hands and he was quite frustrated.

"HURRY UP AND FIND THEM, YOU MAGGOTS!" He shouted across the roar of the room, which only made the people run around more hurridly.

"Umm, sir," a slightly plump man standing next to the sitting leader. "Maggots is more of a term used for ship's captains, you're looking for 'infidels'."

"Yes, right, HURRY UP AND FIND THEM, YOU INFIDELS!!" he yelled, and then sighed, "I never knew being a mafia leader would be this much work!"

M-Mafia?! I nearly fell down from the ceiling from my surprise. "What the hell's a mafia leader doing around here?" I whispered to Jin.

"How the heck am I supposed to know?" Jin whispered back.

"Let's get a closer look at this 'mafia leader'," I said as I crawled closer to him. Once near, I could tell that he was much younger than he appeared. It was like looking at a black Jin. Unfortunately, however, he was as smart as Jin, and noticed we were there. He threw a kunai up at us, and just barely missed my head. In my shock, I actually did fall down this time, and right in front of the mafia leader. "Eheh." I smiled warily as he smiled triumphantly at me.

"It seems one of them has come to us, capture her!"

A swarm of men threw themselves upon me, but Gonko came down and squealed so loudly that it hurt their ears, and they staggered for a bit. I took this chance and formed a series of handseals to create three other clones of my self and we knocked down the first wave of them. Then we each in term, made more clones so that we were equal to the number of people attacking us. Eventually, I beat them all up, and there was only the leader and the plump guy left. All of my clones turned and glared at him.

He looked a bit flustered and then screamed, standing up. "I-I will never give in to the likes of you!" But then Jin jumped down and kicked him in the shins and he was rolling across the floor crying. It was pathetic. When he finally got over his pain, he knelt humbly before Jin and proclaimed. "We give in! P-Please tell us the name of our successor!"

I was about to call out my name, when Jin spoke first. "My name is Jin. Jin of the Nakagawa Clan."

"Oh, Lord Nakagawa, we submit to your power, please be our leader!"

"What about me?!" I screamed. "I took out all of your men!"

The mafia leader stood up and looked at me with disgust. "M'lord, why do you have such a filthy woman as your subordinate?"

I wanted to pound their heads in. "AAAARRRGGHH!! YOU SEXIST IDIOTS!!"

"Shut up, woman!" he said. "How dare you speak to Lord Nakagawa that way!"

I kneed him in between the legs. "I'm talking to you that way, punk!" He rolled across the ground, this time, bawling.

"Wakudera, I see you're in pain as usual," a familiar voice called out. I flipped around to see. . .

"HINAKO?!" I gasped in surprise.

"What? Is it so surprising to see me here?" Hinako walked over to the crying little boy and then walked away from him.

"YES!! Where the hell were you?!"

"Well, I was roaming around the city. Is that wrong?"

My mouth fell open. "Wha-?! What about when we were captured? Why didn't you help us?"

Hinako stared at me blankly. "Why should I help you?"

The words were piercing, but, me being my moody self, quickly recovered. "So, how come no one stopped you from getting in here?"

"Because I'm their sponsor."

I stared at her blankly. "Huh?"

"You don't know anything, do you?" Sarafu picked up the now recovered boy. "This is Shita Wakudera, leader of the one and only ninja mafia, made completely out of missing nins. Of course, they're nothing compared to Akatsuki. And I'm their one and only sponsor, so they treat me with respect. However, no other woman will be treated the same. That includes you."

After hearing the explanation, I was too tired to care. "Well, Jin, it now looks like you're the new leader, please try to run your mafia well."

"Of course, I've already got plans!" Jin exclaimed. "Wakudera, go fetch me some coffee!"

"Yes, m'lord!"

...to be continued.