Chapter 6

Its morning at Suna, time for Awaii and Kankuro to head towards Kohona. Red walked both of them to the gates, Gaara forbid her from going with them her guess; it was his way of punishing her for keeping contact with the enemy.

"Please be careful…both of you" Red said, hint of concern in her tired voice.

Awaii walked over to Red and put her arms around Red, embracing her in a friendly hug, "We'll be fine, just make sure you stay out of trouble" She then whispered to Red, "I have a bad feeling, we still might be fighting" She then pulled away from her red haired witch friend.

Then Kankuro and Awaii headed towards the Leaf village. They wanted to get there as fast as they could. Normally the travel would take 3 days, but they wanted to cut it down to one day. Meaning they would have to sacrifice much of there resting time.

The first half of the trip was just running. Once out of the sandy deserts, they took a short break.

Both very hot and tired from the long run. Awaii sat on a large rock, while Kankuro sat on the grass under a tree.

"Captain"

Awaii glared a very tired glare at Kankuro, "now that you know your not from Alabasta, you don't have to call me Captain anymore….I'm not the one in charge here. You heard the Kazakage, I'm only here to explain the situation to the Hokage" She explained to him

Kankuro shook his head, "Even though I'm not from Alabasta, I still want to show my respect. You did save my life, and we still are comrades, no matter what village we are from." he pointed out

She sighed, "Fine, but for now could you please just call me by my name. I only want to be called Captain while in an action mission, not a peaceful one."

"Okay….then Awaii, do you need more rest?" he asked seeming as though there was more that what he just asked.

Awaii looked a bit annoyed now, "If there is something else you want to ask them just ask….don't act like some shy guy, because I know that's not who you are"

"Your right….okay, if this war isn't stopped, and our villages have to fight, I want you to either leave Alabasta, or resign as Captain" Kankuro stated. He seemed extremely serious about this, he didn't want to have to fight her.

Awaii shook her head, "I cant do either of them Kankuro, for one, if we still go to war and I'm in enemies territory, I wont be fighting I'll be captured and tortured, and second, if I wasn't captured or tortured, I would have to fight, I cant just abandon my village in time of need. It would be a disgrace to everything I have worked for" She looked Kankuro in the eyes, "It's not fair to ask me to do something like that, I have a village to protect, that would be like me asking you to abandon your family" She explained, "That's just the kind of person I am, I don't back down, no matter what"

"What if you have to fight Red, or Hissori…" He looked down, "Or me" he then looked back up, "Would yo still fight us till the end?"

Awaii stood up, "We should keep going if we want to get there by tonight" She didn't want to answer that question, not until it was the right time, and this was definitely not that time.

The two of them then traveled in silence, Kankuro trying to remember something, and Awaii hoping that this would make it so she never had to find the answer to the question Kankuro asked her.

"What do we have here" A males voice called from the trees.

Kankuro and Awaii quickly stopped, breathing slightly heavy from running. They looked around trying to locate the enemy.

"What do you think brother, can they fight?" A different males voice asked from the trees.

'So there are two of them…and two of--' Kankuros thoughts were suddenly interrupted when a sudden pain came through his head. His knees went weak and he fell to the ground, now completely blacked out.

"Damn it Kankuro, now's not the time to be remembering something" Awaii grabbed for both her daggers, and placed then in front of her body, she didn't want to transform they yet. She wanted to see what skills the enemy had, and who they were.

One of the men began to laugh, "Looks like we scared one of them so bad he fainted" The man they jumped down, landing right behind Awaii, he quickly wrapped his arm around her waist, and whispered in her ear, "Wanna play…girlie"

The man reeked of Saki, meaning he was drunk. Awaii knew that some people were at there best when drunk. She struggled to get loose from his death grip….sadly failing. This guy had to be one of those men.

Another jumped down in front of Awaii. This man had long purple hair, covering half his face, and dark brown eyes, "Isn't this something" he walked over to Kankuro, whom was still on the ground, and kicked him in the gut.

"STOP IT!" Awaii shouted, now thrashing around to get free. She no longer cared as to whom these bastards were, she had to stop them.

Awaii quickly transformed her daggers into Katanas, and sliced the man holding on to her arms off. Causing his blood to squirt out, and the man drop to the ground. Awaii couldn't hear him screaming, she guessed that he had blacked out.

She then glared up at the man who kicked Kankuro. Her face covered in the other mans blood, she began walking towards him. Her blade scraping on the dirt on the ground, "Who the hell are you?" she asked her voice and face both emotionless.

The man laughed, "So your strong enough to escape Kadjs drunken grip" he laughed, "But you see, you've only pissed him off now" he pointed behind him.

Awaii turned and saw Kadjs arms growing back. Suddenly the other man appeared behind Awaii and whispered, "Lets make a deal"

Awaii quickly jumped away from both guys, and landed beside Kankuro, "I don't make deals with the enemy" She placed both daggers in front of her, "Now tell me who the hell you are, and what you want!"

"Feisty little girl aren't you" Kadjs smirked, "Le me play with her first Kien"

"Wait…I've heard that name before" Awaii looked down at Kankuro, "That's the name of the guy who tried to kill Kankuro" She looked back at the brothers, "Let me guess Kadj went to Kohona, pretended to be a shinobi there, while Kien stayed at Suna. Then you both killed everyone meaning" Awaiis eyes widened, "You both work from the leader of Sound"

"You mean Lord Orochimaru" Kien clapped his hands together, "Smart girl, but you forgot one thing" He lifted his hand, and 20 more Sound Ninja jumped down from the tree, "We never travel alone"

'This is bad….no bad is the understatement of the century….I'm in deem shit! Come on Kankuro, wake your lazy ass up….I could use the damn help' Awaii thought to herself

She sighed, and wiped Kadjs blood off of her face, and prepared herself to fight. She knew she would have no problem with the 20 pawns, she only needed to get to the two queens, or in this case kings.

Kien kept his hand in the air, signaling the Sound Ninja not to attack just yet, "Now would you like to hear my offer" Awaii just glared at him, "I'll take that as a yes, alright then if you can kill all of these men without getting even one scratch on you, my brother and I will tell you everything you want to know, and then allow you to kill us" he continued, "But if you get even one scratch on your soft skin, you and my old friend Kankuro will be ours, meaning you do anything we want you do to" he smirked, "Do we have a deal?"

'I could really use some help right now, even that dog boy Hissori allowed to follow her, he seemed pretty good look--I mean strong' she sighed, 'either way I go, I have to fight all these guys, and if I win then Kadj and Kien will give up, hopefully, but if I lose…there's no telling what these creeps would do'

She looked at the men, "If I lose, you have to leave Kankuro alone…just take me as your prisoner"

The men nodded, "deal"

Then Awaii got prepared to fight, she had to take this fight even more serious than any other fight she had ever fought.

Just then the 20 sound Ninja all went to attack Awaii at once, she exhaled, and began attacking, while dodging Kunai and Shurkien. Awaii was killing Sound Ninja after Sound ninja. Before she knew it half of the men were dead. Her and her blade were full of there blood. Luckily none of it was her blood.

The remaining 10 ninja stood back forming a circle around the exhausted female Samurai. Each one of them grabbing a different weapon of choice. All Awaii could do was watch them for the time being, she was too tired to attack, she never thought that fighting all those Sound Ninjas would be as hard as it was.

Just before the Sound Ninjas threw their weapons, there was a loud bang, and two of the Sound Ninja feel, small circular holes in there heads. Needless to say, they were dead.

Awaii let out a sigh of relief, she knew who that person was…or at least she hoped she did. She couldn't relax completely yet, not until all of the men were dead.

She got ready to fight again, but she was suddenly grabbed by someone behind her. As she was being pulled away from the circle of Sound Ninja, she could hear more loud bangs, and following behind men falling, and screaming in pain.

"Heh, looks like we came just in time" Hissori said standing on a tree branch, her hand gun pointing at the men, as she picked them off one by one. She only needed to shot them once for them to die, she never missed her target. She hit them in the head, and they fell on the ground.

After all the men were dead, Hissori jumped down from the tree branch and looked over at Kadj and Kien, then looked over and saw Kankuro, she walked over to Kankuro, ignoring the two brothers, and bent down, "You okay?" She poked him

Kankuro began to wake up grabbing for his head, "Ugh…what the hell happened?" He asked

"LET ME GO!!!" Awaii shouted as she was being carried to were Kankuro, Hissori, and the two brothers were at.

Hissori looked up at Kiba, whom was holding Awaii, and shook her head, "What happened to you…lost your touch already….must be the age"

Awaii glared at her blue haired friend, "I'm not much older than you are" She looked at Kiba, "Now make him let me go!"

While Awaii and Hissori were talking, Kadj and Kien decided to take this time and attack them while they weren't watching, they tried to move, but there bodies seemed to be frozen.

"Where is your manners, cant you see they are talking" Shikamaru sighed behind them.

Awaii looked over and saw Shikamaru holding the two men with the same Jutsu he caught her in yesterday, "What are you guys doing here?" She asked as Kiba finally let her go.

"I figured we could help, Red sent me a letter telling me that you two were heading this way, and that she wanted us to look our for you" Hissori shrugged, "Don't see why she didn't just come with you guys, but I don't mind a work out"

Awaii looked at Kankuro, "What did you remember this time?"

Kankuro looked down, "Everything….who I am, where I'm from, and what I do….I know all of it now, its like I never forgot"

Awaii then looked at Kadj and Kien, and walked over towards them, "now you both owe me some information"

"We owe you nothing, you didn't fight them on your own, you had help" Kien smirked., "meaning you lost"

Awaii shook her head, "You said that I had to kill the men without getting a scratch, you never said I had to do it alone" She smirked back at them, she loved finding loop holes in deals that were made.

-End of Chapter, okay the next chapter will be them in Kohona, I know I said that last time but I mean it this time, sorry if this chapter sucks, and sorry Red that you weren't it in very much, I will try to put you in the next one, and don't worry both of you, I'm not the only one who will be fighting in this story, the only reason I had Kankuro have a black out during this fight, was cause I didn't want to write him in this fighting scene…ANYWAYS, next chapter will be put up tomorrow….hopefully-