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Belonging

Chapter 4

By: turtelchick

"My lord, I trust you have been informed of this… group?" The man bowed to his superior.

"I have. We need to eliminate them as soon as possible." The other man's voice, was dark. It could have easily put fear into the hearts of many, and probably already has.

"Would you like me to deal with them?" He sounded almost…too eager.

There had been a lot of talk about this new group of demon hunters. Apparently they had been traveling north defeating any demons that crossed their path. So far no demon had even been close to stopping them. Word had already gotten to the big wigs of the demon world.

"Yes. We must not allow them to gain any new members to their group."

"Understood, Lord Orochimaru." With that the other man was off to deal with the 'group.'

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Tenten;

"Let's eat!" Naruto and I exclaimed in unison. Right now the five of us were in a small restaurant in a tiny town we just happened to be passing by. We hadn't gotten to stop and eat in like…forever, so this was really nice.

Naruto and I dug in at the same time. It was strange how alike were. It was almost like we were long lost siblings or something. The thought made me laugh.

When we finally looked up from our bowl, the rest stared at us like we had a third eye or something.

"What?!" I cried. "Is there something on my face!?" Hinata covered her mouth and giggled. It was so weird that we were so different, but yet we got along so well. Neji just rolled his eyes and went back to his meal. Jerk.

Sakura laughed. "Yeah like all over!" She wailed. I quickly wiped my face and stuck out my tongue at her. Now Naruto was laughing. I elbowed him in the ribs to make him shut up, he did.

I just realized how many people were staring at us. It wasn't a happy stare like, "Wow they are so cool!." More like a, "Geez get out of our town before we kill you." It was then that I realized that were only staring at Neji and the girls were staring at him lovingly. What was wrong with this town?

Suddenly one of the men, who had been giving Neji death glares since we sat down, stood up forcefully. "Hey you! Stop making eyes at my girl!" This guy was crazy.

Neji didn't move a muscle, he didn't even take his eyes off of his food. "I wasn't looking at your woman. Now I'd appreciate it if you left me alone." The rest of us were silent. I had seen Neji in action and as much as I don't want to admit it, he's good. This guy didn't want to mess with him.

"Yeah right! Come with me outside!" Neji said nothing. The man came over to the table and knocked Neji's bowl off of the table onto the ground. Next to me Naruto was trying to hold in his laughter. He knew this guy was in way over his head. Neji stood up abruptly and walked calmly outside. The whole restaurant followed.

Outside the other man and Neji stood across from each other.

"I'll make you pay for looking at my girl!" The man screamed and lunged himself at Neji. He easily dodged again and again as the man threw himself at Neji. The man grew discouraged until he drew a small dagger from his pocket and came at Neji with it. This guy was so stupid it was funny. Neji quickly grabbed the man's wrist after he missed and twisted it so his face was in the dirt.

"For the last time. I wasn't looking at your woman. She's ugly anyway." I couldn't help but laugh. Neji dropped the dagger and left the man in the dirt.

"Do you think something is funny?" One of the woman snapped at me.

"Yeah I do. You stupid girls were drooling over Neji ever since we got here and he just called you ugly!" I doubled over in a fit of laughter. I felt Sakura's presence come up next to me. I opened my eyes and saw that bitch had almost slapped me in the face. Sakura had stopped her hand from making contact with my face.

"We're sorry for the intrusion. We'll be going now." Sakura said.

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Sakura;

Down the road it was quiet until I broke the silence. "I'm serious. We can't take you two anywhere!" I said. I was getting really fed up with getting kicked out of everywhere we went because those two couldn't hold their tongue.

"Me?! You mean we can't take her/him anywhere!" Neji and Tenten both yelled.

I sighed, they were both so hard headed. "You two are like some old married couple."

"I would never marry her/him!" The glared at each other and started walking again. Naruto and Hinata both laughed at them.

"So Sakura, how long is it till we get to the next town in need?" Hinata asked quietly.

"It's actually pretty close." I said.

"I just hope we don't get kicked out of their too." Naruto burst out laughing. Tenten swiftly smacked him on the head.

We came across a small cluster of buildings on the road to the next town. There was no one around, it was like a ghost town. All that was there was a tan boy in the middle of the town. He was dark skinned and wore his hair on the top of his head in a ponytail. It was almost like we was waiting for us, but what on earth for?

It seemed that at that very moment, we knew what was coming, a fight. There was something about this boy, something that just wasn't quite right. As we approached him closer it was easy to tell, that he was in fact, a demon. Tenten and I had heard stories of demons that posed as humans so that they could be discrete with their actions, but before today, neither of us had seen one. Only pretty strong demons could change their shape.

We finally got to him, and stopped, because he was in our way.

"Step aside, and there will be no bloodshed." Neji commanded.

The tan boy just laughed. "You talk pretty tough. Tell me, are you the group of demon hunters that has been traveling around taking down demons without fail?"

"And so what if we are?" Tenten said. I guess we were getting some publicity over our bouts with a few demons. Why did this guy care?

He laughed again. "Then you've saved me some time, looking for you all."

"Is that so?" I said.

"Now, it's time to get rid of all of you." Tenten put a hand on her bow, Neji stepped closer to Hinata while Naruto readied his stance.

In the time it took me to look at the others, the boy had run at us and was right in front of Tenten. She drew he bow while elbowing him in the face. Tenten jumped back and put some distance between them. She pulled back and let an arrow fly. He easily dodged it and came running at her again. She didn't have time to move, but I did.

I quickly ran at him and landed a punch in his side. He only slightly scooted away. I was surprised, that punch should have sent him flying but yet it only moved him a few inches.

Naruto quickly jumped into the fight and hit the boy right in the face, still he barely moved. He was like a rock and our attacks were only a slight breeze. Who was this demon?

"It's time to stop playing around and finish you all off." What was he planning now? He chewed a bit in his mouth and then spit something at Tenten. That something was a web. The white sticky material shot out of his moth and caught Tenten, making her fly backwards and into a wall. She was stuck, the web was keeping her on the wall.

He then did the same to Naruto, even Neji wasn't a match for his stupid web. I knew I was next and eventually I had the same fate as the others, stuck, helplessly to a nearby wall.

I struggled with the web, but it was no use, it was too sticky. Every time I moved another part of my body was caught. It was useless. I could hear the boy laugh.

"This was almost too easy. I thought you all were supposed to be this horribly strong bunch of demon hunters. Ha! You make me laugh."

My sense went crazy as I felt another strong demon presence approach us. Was he in cahoots with the bastard? Probably, all those stupid demons were in it for the same thing; killing innocent humans and taking over. Before I could even blink, I felt my arms fall free. The webs fell to the ground and we were all let go. What just happened?

I looked back to the boy and in front of him was another boy. He had dark hair and pale skin. He held a katana in his hands. So he was the one who freed us? Then I felt my hair stand up on my arms, he was the demon I had sensed before.

"Sasuke!? What are you doing here!? I thought you had left. Why would you help the things that hunt you!?" The boy was pretty ticked.

I looked to the others, they all were pretty shocked too that we had gotten saved by another demon. It was certainly something that didn't happen everyday.

"I guess I had a change of heart." The black haired boy said.

"Well this changes our plans." He disappeared from sight. The other demon turned to us.

"Hey that was pretty good." Tenten praised. What was she saying? Didn't she sense that he was a demon?

"Yeah that was awesome!" Naruto punched his fist into the air.

"Are you guys alright?" He asked.

"What are you guys saying? Can't you see he's just like the others!? He's a demon!" Tenten closed her eyes.

"I guess he is." She concluded.

"What? Are you just going to do nothing?!" I said loudly.

"Well Sakura he just saved us from that guy. He didn't exactly do anything to make us attack him." What was she saying? "I'm Tenten."

"Sasuke." He replied.

He made me sick. Acting like he had done nothing wrong. He was just another demon, another killer, that's all. I couldn't believe the others were being so forgiving.

"Who was that guy? You seemed to know each other." Neji said finally contributing to the conversation.

"That was Kidoumaru, a servant of Orochimaru's." He said.

"Orochimaru?" Hinata asked.

"A pretty influential demon. The toughest there is actually. He's responsible for most attacks nowadays. He controls a lot of the demon population."

"Like yourself?" I snapped.

"Sakura!" Tenten yelled.

"Tenten, I can't believe you acting all buddy buddy with a demon! He's a demon." I said.

"Sakura, he's done nothing to us." She said back.

"This is ridiculous." I scoffed.

"So where are you all headed next?" The demon asked.

"Well I guess we're headed for this Orochimaru guy. We just can't let this go unpunished." Tenten said. "Hey you should tag along. We could really use your skills." I couldn't believe what Tenten had just said. A demon destroyed our village and now she was asking one to come with us.

"I see no problem with it, but I'm not sure your friend over there want's me to tag along." He looked at me.

"Oh don't worry about Sakura, she'll get over it." I glared at Tenten. I most certainly would not, 'get over it.'

"Come on let's go." Tenten said and just like that we were gone again. I started walking again, but that demon waited for me to catch up with him.

"I promise you that I'm nothing like Orochimaru." He said, but it just made me angrier.

"I don't care, you're still a demon and I… hate demons. End of story."

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