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Chapter 4

Shiru went into pein's office, expecting the worst. "Shiru, are you alright? You haven't been yourself lately." Konan asked.

Shiru's eyes darted to the woman beside pein's desk. "Im fine. Thanks for asking." She said but in reality she was curious. 'That much power is in the hands of our enemy and yet they want to kill them? I wonder why. ' she thought.

"You know that we have lost itachi, right?" he asked. Shiru nodded, wondering where this conversation was going.

"Well you and hinata are going to show the new members around the base." He said and shiru narrowed her eyes slightly.

"May I ask who the newbs are?" she asked, not wanting to think of who it could be. A dark chuckle and her eyes narrowed more. " you can't be serious…" she whined.

"Oh. Im quite serious, Suigetsu hozuki, juugo, Karin, and uchiha Sasuke are the new members. Play nice. Now go say hello." He said amusement in his voice, much to shiru's dismay.

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Shiru slumped over as she walked down the hallway. For a 21 year old she was acting like a pouting child who just got told no. deidara and hinata stifled their laughter when she walked into the room.

'At least she isn't stuttering anymore.' Deidara thought with a chuckle. She shoved open the door and deidara's happy aura ended instantly.

"Another uchiha…" he growled, hinata placed her hand on his shoulder slow so he wouldn't try to blow up the younger male.

"ONEE-CHAN!YOURE OK!" a male voice yelled and shiru hit the floor. She shoved the person off of her and stood up.

She dusted herself off, her blue eyes narrowing. "Of course im alright. Why wouldn't I be?" she asked and the white haired teen frowned.

"I can see the stitches around your throat. You aren't fooling anyone." He said in a serious tone. She grit her teeth and glared at her brother.

"So what! Would you like to see the rest of my scars and stitches too? Would you also like to know that my eyes and mouth were sewn shut? Look what they did to me!"She said and removed her akatsuki cloak, revealing the stitches below her ribcage and going up her hip.

She held up her wrists and showed him the ones on her wrists. She removed her leg warmers and revealed the ones on her ankles.

Suigetsu turned away from his sister and walked out. He couldn't stand to see what they had done to her.

Hinata frowned and touched her friends shoulder, snapping her out of her 'back out of my business' session. Shiru sighed and looked at the redhead and the orange haired male.

"I just saw you and I don't like you already." She said, glaring at the redhead, whose jaw dropped and Sasuke smirked."Suigetsu was right. Everyone hates you." Sasuke said and she glomped him.

Sasori walked in and whispered something into her ear. Her eyes narrowed and she rubbed her temples. "alright. I will try." She sighed and he nodded.

As he was walking out she stuck her tongue out at him. Hinata giggled, she really was in a childish mood today. Hinata shook her head; at least she wasn't sadistic though.

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Shiru walked into sasori's room and her jaw dropped. There were puppets everywhere. She placed her fingertips on the forehead of one and traced its facial features.

The details were in incredible, its eyes snapped open and she jumped back in surprise. "Sugoi…" she said and ran her hand through the puppet's long raven hair.

Her eyes closed and reopened. "You're so realistic... it's amazing." Shiru said and the puppet's eyes closed and it slumped over.

She walked over to a box that looked similar to a coffin and she opened it. She gasped at how realistic this one looked. She had reddish orange hair. Shiru smiled. She looked like one of her favorite anime characters.

"fou." Shiru said and traced the odd purple markings on the puppet and smiled. She touched the puppet's odd hands; well they weren't really hands, more like arms with paddle like hands…

She moved to close it and she saw the arms turn to blades and they were at her neck in an instant, her eyes went wide and the puppet fell back into place. Her eyes narrowed and she looked behind her.

Sasori is the puppet master, he controls his puppets. They never move on their own accord. He was messing with her.

She looked around but didn't see him anywhere. She had a secret up her sleeve and she was gonna use it to her advantage. She put her hand in front of her face and whispered "mimic." And her eyes turned a pale blue that was almost white.

She walked over to another puppet as if nothing had happened. She was amazed by the detail on this one too. She touched its white hair and it was soft. She tapped on its clawed hand and then began to turn away, when it grabbed for her.

She saw the chakra strings and she inwardly smirked. "got you!" she murmured and grabbed the normally invisible and untouchable strings. One sudden and strong jerk and he came flying from the corner from inside hiruko. Apparently she didn't think it through well enough.

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A loud 'CRASH ' was heard and hinata and deidara went running to sasori's room, fearing that tobi had gone in there again and was breaking sasori's puppets again.

Hinata tried to open the door but it was locked. Deidara moved her out of the way and he kicked it down. "TOBI! IF YOU'RE IN HERE-"deidara started but burst out laughing when he saw who it was.

Hinata walked in and began to giggled and held a hand over her mouth to try and stifle it. Shiru was blushing like crazy because sasori had landed on her.

What made this even more awkward was that he had his hands on either side of her head, his knees on either side of her hips, he was practically laying on her, and his face was centimeters away from hers.

He looked at them and sighed. "this is not what it looks like. I swear…" he said, and stood up. He offered her a hand and she took it and he helped her up.

"Sure sasori-danna. Sure, I won't tell." Deidara taunted him. "Im sure you and hinata have done much worse than what happened between me and sasori. It was my fault. Well technically our fault. I will explain later." Shiru said and hinata giggled.

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Suigetsu and sasori were involved in an intense glaring match. "Stay away from shiru." Suigetsu growled. Sasori's eye twitched in annoyance.

"Sister complex little brat." Sasori said, not really caring. Shiru walked in and drug Suigetsu out of the living room.

"Leader-sama wants you and the rest of your ragtag group." She said and shoved Suigetsu down the hallway. He frowned and walked away to go find Sasuke and the others…and the thing…he didn't wanna see the thing today…Karin was a monster… he sighed shuddering.

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Shiru sat on the couch and sighed. She propped her head up on her hand and closed her eyes. She smelt the familiar metallic scent of blood and her eyes snapped open.

She walked to the entrance of the base and stepped outside. 'I smell it…a lot of it. so now I have to figure out what its coming from. Then I dispose of it. The scent of blood almost got me killed in the first place… 'she thought with a sneer.

Her eyes turned pale blue again and she looked around with her enhanced sight. she looked around and couldn't find anyone or anything that was bleeding.

She narrowed her eyes and turned to go back to the base. she ran as fast as she could while dodging trees and leaving craters as she hit the ground.

" shiru! Watch out!" she heard Suigetsu yell before a dragon of ice tried to engulf her. "jutsu mimic!" she said and she shot huge fireballs at the dragon melting it.

"is that all you do hozuki? Mimic other people's jutsu?" kakashi asked, his sharingan eye exposed. Shiru landed on the ground in a crater she created when she landed due to the speed she had been running at.

She looked at the silver haired copy ninja, and sneered. "you reek of blood." She spat and Suigetsu blinked.

"of course I do. I knew it would draw you out. Im pretty smart you know…" he sighed and shiru sniffed arrogantly.

"but you are stupid all at the same time. You are at the one place you could never leave alive." She snapped and charged for him but blood trickled from between her lips. She looked down, her eyes wide and shaking.

She saw the blood coated metal and she screamed and fell to her knees as theblade was ripped from her abdomen. "y-you bastard! How dare you turn on a teammate and your teammates older sister!" shiru yelled and a dark chakra engulfed her body.

Sasuke scoffed and kicked her to the ground and kicked her again, sending her rolling away from him. "your fight is with me kakashi, not the mind fucked bitch." Sasuke said and charged at kakashi.

Shiru held her stomach as sasori and the others came out to see what was going on. She struggled too her knees and the chakra began to look like the reaper's cloak, it shrouded her face and her exposed skin turned to bone.

She held out a hand and a scythe materialized within it. The scythe handle was long and black with a small skull on the bottom. At the top it had a large blade that looked like two scythe blades combined and it spiked out the back of the handle a bit. There were two skulls at the top of the handle around the smaller side of the blade.

Hinata gasped and covered her mouth and stepped away from her friend in fear. Deidara placed his hand on her shoulder. She looked at him and he was staring at shiru.

"this is what she was brought here for. This is her kekkei genkai… it's her curse. Only the female hozuki clan members can carry it. She was screwed since she was born. The more she uses it, the more it kills her." He said and hinata's eyes widened.

She watched as shiru spun the scythe and then jumped for Sasuke, the scythe blade went through his shoulder and out his side.

No blood erupted from where the blade had gone through, there was no marks or anything but Sasuke fell to the ground in pain. He yelled in pain and shiru's sadistic laughter echoed everywhere.

"that's for all the mental trauma those damn cursed eyes have put me through over the years." Shiru said, but her voice wasn't normal. It was haunting and demonic.

He head tilted to the side and she laughed, you couldn't see her face, but you could see the demonic red eyes from the shadows of the cloak.

Pein and konan had already started preparing the seals for the explosion of the base when juugo and Karin grabbed Sasuke and took off running.

"you have one of those damnable cursed eyes too, kakashi… you and danzo both. I must exterminate those eyes" she hissed and lunged for kakashi but sasori's puppets grabbed her and pulled her back.

"we have to go shiru. We cant stay much longer the base is going to implode and suck anything nearby into it." He said from beside her.

Her piercing red eyes bore into his own rustic red ones. "then leave me." She said and seeped through the hands of the puppets.

She went straight for kakashi, who blocked each swing of her scythe with a kunai while jumping backwards. Deidara and hinata had taken off on their clay bird.

Kakuzu and hidan followed pein and konan while kisame and tobi tried to get sasori to come with them. He glanced at shiru then followed them.

"now its just you and me now. Just how I like to fight. One on one." Shiru laughed darkly and she solidified her scythe and then she spun around kakashi and the tip of the blade drug around his stomach and it began to bleed profusely.

" kakashi-sensei!" a woman yelled and two figures emerged from the dark and landed near kakashi. One was a blonde and the other was a pink haired girl.

Shiru tilted her head and her red eyes brightened, and her demonically sharp teeth glimmered in the light her eyes created.

"what are you!" the blonde yelled as the pink haired girl healed their supposed sensei. " a demon named Shiru hozuki." She said and the blonde snarled at her.

"well, Demon against demon. Lets see how this will end." He said and red chakra seeped out of his skin. Shiru laughed and ran at him. "shall we see who is stronger?" she asked and the blonde grinned.

"we don't have long… its about to implode so I have to kill you quick." Shiru sighed and the blonde laughed. "what makes you think I will die easily?" he asked.

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Sasori, hinata, and deidara looked behind them when they heard it. It sounded like someone had created strong tornado then reversed and sucked up an atomic explosion.

"SHIRU!" hinata screamed in anguish, tears in her eyes as she turned around and saw what appeared to be a black hole dying down.

Sasori shook his head and looked down as he ran, why didn't she just listen? Deidara frowned and hugged hinata to him while on the large bird.

"she's gone…but I still have to prove im strong… when me and her went on missions together, we were unstoppable. But she's gone… and im on my own." Hinata whimpered as tears streaked down her face.

Deidara wanted to cry too. Shiru was his best friend after all, even though she was a damn piranha. He looked at hinata who was trying to console herself.

" now you have another reason to prove your strength. You can avenge shiru. And believe me. I will help you. They will regret what they have done." He growled and she nodded.