Sooo... Everyone reading the manga? Do you know the tailed beasts have actual names? How shocked was I when I found out? Anyway, here's the next chappie for 'The Flaw of Mine'. Enjoy!
BlackCat: Hida-kun~? -butters eyelashes and speaks too sweetly-
Hidan: Hm? -looks over with creased eyebrows, knowing something's up-
BlackCat: Could you please do the disclaimer? -snuggles up close and butters eyelashes-
Amaya: -growls- Keep away from my man!
BlackCat: -glares- Make me, when I could just kill everyone off.
Amaya: -glares but stays silent and does nothing-
BlackCat: -smirks then looks back to Hidan- So, can you?
Hidan: Um... Okay. Sure. I don't want to die, so... Definately... BlackCat-san does not own any of the rights to Naruto or Shippuden or the manga or any of the actual charactors. She only has rights to the merchandise she owns. That includes the Shippuden DVD's that she got for christmas but forgot to tell you...
BlackCat: See, was that so hard? -Kara giggling in background-
Hidan: Yes. Yes it was. I feel like I just died a little on the inside...
BlackCat: Oh well. Enjoy and on with the show!
I woke up slowly, hearing the sound of the wind through the trees. Someone was carrying me, and for that I was thankful. Kara looked over to me and smirked lightly, sending me an "At last. You're finally awake after being out of it for nearly a day..." telepathically. Well, that itself told me that, unlike usually, Kara wasn't carrying me.
I sighed lightly and rubbed my head further into my carriers back, by his shoulder, and recieved a chuckle. His body rumbled beneath me and his hair tickled my nose as I turned.
My eyes closed as I scrunched up my nose, but I opened them and saw silver. That confirmed who was carrying me, I guess. Seeing as he'd been blown up and buried, it wasn't surprising that the main scents coming from him were sulfer, blood and soil, but I faintly picked up the underlying scents of magnolia and vanilla. That must be his natural scent. It was the beautiful blend of magnolia and vanilla that were slowly lulling me back to my dreamscape.
Before I went back to my dreams, I saw Sasori move across in front of us to be by Kara, sending Hidan and I a small smirk as he went. I don't know which one of us it was meant for and with Hidan's natural scent lulling me back to sleep, I didn't really care.
I closed my eyes and rested my head on Hidan's shoulder, leaning slightly on his head, and finally drifted off as the sound of rain began pattering on the world below the sky.
Dreams are funny things, and mine are no different. I was in a dark room with nothing but a sliver of light from under the door to show where I was. My back felt like it was on fire, so I wondered backwards untill my back was pressed against the wall. That was when the whispering started.
"My Lord. Are we going after that Konoha-mutt-girl soon?" I recognised that voice, but I couldn't think where. It was from a time ago, years, and I simply couldn't place a face or name to the voice. The laugh that followed that statement was chilling. That voice, that laugh, I did know. That meant that the first voice was... and the memory was gone. I didn't know who they were again, but I knew who they were talking about.
"Soon, Kabuto. But we must keep Sasuke-kun's training up. He needs to be stronger, and he still has yet to kill." My eyes grew wide. It WAS Orochimaru-teme. And evedently Kabuto was with him. They continued to talk, not knowing I could hear their plan. "We must be careful, however. Sasuke-kun can not be distracted. Especially not by Her..." Orochimaru-teme continued.
I looked down with eyebrows drawn together in confusion. My mind was fuzzy but it made no difference. I leaned my head back against the wall with closed eyes and a pained expression and slid down the wall to a sitting position. I opened my eyes and could strangely see everything. It wasn't clear like light spilling through out the room, but it was still reasonably clear. I knew that either my shraingan had flared to help my see, or my Inuzuka sences were kicking in.
I looked over to the left expecting to see nothing, only to find a bed. Someone was in it. I didn't know who it was but whenever Orochimaru-teme said "Sasuke-kun", they flinched. I looked closer and saw hair coloured the same as mine but in the style of what I would say looked like a ducks butt. I blinked in realisation and gasped as I fell backwards and flew a hand to my mouth. It was my dear little cousin, Sasuke.
I tried to move back further till I hit the wall I'd forgotten was behind me and fell. Fell through shadows. Through the damned wall, the floor. All I knew was it was black again. And I didn't like it.
I gasped lightly back to reality on Hidan's back but otherwise fained sleep. The silver hair carrying me peeked at me over his shoulder to make sure I was okay but didn't look to long as he had to avoid a tree. I looked up slightly and sighed openly. I was drenched. At least I'd also grabbed my bathroom supplies before we'd left, as I'd have to have a shower now. I sighed again and replayed the dream. It had felt so real and yet so wrong. Hikari had once told me that she always had dreams like that, and that they weren't dreams at all. More like visions. But this one had felt like it was happening now, not in the future and definately not the past.
I needed to calm down so I began to breathe deeply, breathing in all the scents of the world then letting them go. I smelt magnolias and vanilla (Hidan's natural scent) mixing easily with blueberries (me), sawdust and cinnamon mixing nicely together which I took to be Sasori's natural scent, rain, grass, blood, soil, sulfer, poison (also Sasori), and a distinct smell of paper. I didn't know where that was coming from, and I wasn't sure I was ready to find out. To bad for me that we were only a mile from Amegakure and the trees were beginning to thin out already. Everyone dropped to the floor (Hidan was still carrying me) and started running. Fast. The wind whipped by us, making it incredibly hard to breathe properly, untill I found a sheild in Hidan. I saw his head shake and guessed that he'd rolled his eyes as well.
When we were but a few metres away from the gates of the grand city, we paused. Hidan set me down gently and made sure I could walk. I turned my head slightly and avoided his eyes as a light blush sprinkled my cheeks. "Can you walk?" He asked me gently, head bent slightly so he was closer to my height (he's 5'8", I'm 5'5"). I nodded but didn't say anything. As Hidan and the others started walking again, I lightly tugged on Hidan's arm while kara kept walking with the others. I looked down as my blush darkened.
"Uh...Um...Thanks." I said finally. He looked confused before a Naruto-like grin broke out across his face.
"Hey, you're welcome, Bitch." He told me. Then blinked and continued. "But what was it for?" I could have facepalmed. The fact that I only twitched a little showed how good my self control was getting. When I suddenly realised what he'd called me, I growled low in my throat. He blinked again a stepped back as a dark look crossed my features.
"Um, Amaya? What's wrong?" He asked, inching backwards. I let an uncharacteristic sound rip through me before glareing daggers. If looks could kill, well he'd still be alive, but if he wasn't immortal...
"Don't. Call. Me. Bitch." I barked out, teeth getting longer and sharper by the second. 'And there goes that wolfish blood of mine again...' I thought bitterly. He blinked and backed up and I chose that moment to pounce. Litterally. He took one step back and I jumped at him, growling as I flew. I barreled into him and pinned him, teeth bared and claws digging into his flesh. There seemed to be a spark that flickered into an inferno in his eyes as a demonic grin spread across his face. I faltered and lifted back slightly, only to be held in place.
The growling didn't subside but it was definately rumbling through me, and his eyes seemed to be on fire. He moved his hands from my wrists up my shoulders, rakeing his nails down my back untill pinning me to him by my hips. I was straddling him and he seemed to like it that way, but the rakeing did nothing good for me. I gasped and threw my head back to let a shuddery breath out, before groaning slightly in pleasure as I felt the way our bodies fit, even like this. I could feel his arousel and it spurred my own onwards. This was not good. But yet it was so brilliantly good at the same time.
He raked his nails down my back again, and my arms gave out, letting us lay chest to chest. I glared lightly and raked my claws down his arms, his sides and after I'd sat up again, across his chest and down his abdomin. By now he was quivering. Evrytime I lightly dragged my nails over his torso, there was a groan of pleasure and then quivering. The rain that was landing on us was not helping matters and I was finding my resolve, my reasoning, slipping more and more. Slowly I leaned back and clawed lightly up his legs before rubbing his bulging manhood lightly, teasingly. He groaned, weather from pleasure or longing, I didn't know. A cough behind us and a set of wolfish snickers brought me back to reality. I blushed deeply, sending my face scarlet, before jumping up and moving away by about five foot.
Kara came up beside me and set a knowing, amused, look on her face. "Blackmail." I heared echo through my mind before tuning and looking the other way. Hidan got up and kept looking over my way, I kept my eyes down, and Kara was between us. I made to look at Kara, but the large bulge in the front of Hidans pants made me falter in my step and blush even deeper, if it was even possible. I looked ahead and Sasori joined me. He had such a sly grin on his face, I couldn't help but think that he looked much like 'the cat that got the cream', as the saying goes. I gulped and looked ahead.
"So," started Sasori. "I am Akasuna no Sasori, but I believe you already know this." I nodded. "The big guy back there is Kakuzu, and the one you were molesting is Hidan." I blushed deeper at his choice of words. Well, this was going to be a fun. I shuffled about slightly and looked over my shoulder but through my hair at the silver hair behind us. He, too, had a light sprinkling of a blush across his cheeks. I spun my head back round to see the front when Sasori tapped my shoulder. I suddenly felt scared, though I knew I needn't be, I knew that Itachi would protect me if I needed it, but right now, I just wanted my brotherly cousins back home with me.
I looked to the red head beside me and qwerked an eyebrow. "Did you want something, Sasori-san?" I asked quietly, dillibrately. He blinked but said nothing. Suddenly he stopped and pulled me over slightly.
"What I wanted, Gaki(1), was your name." He growled lightly in my ear, sending shivers down my spine. I moaned lightly but failed at covering it. When he looked at me, I was expecting to see a deadly glare, instead I meet slightly shocked, yet still bored looking, eyes. The smirk stretching across his face proved he didn't mind the reaction, more like he reveled in it. He pulled me round behind a tree, pulled me closer to his height, maybe lower, pushed me against the tree, opened my kimono slightly and started sucking away at the flesh of right brest. I tried to conceil my moans but I must have a least let a few gasps loose, as Sasori was looking up at my face with stormy eyes. Damn. I had to stop doing this.
The sucking stopped only to replaced by light bites. That I really did have trouble keeping quiet about. I closed my mouth and bit my lip, bit it so hard it started bleeding and sent my eyes rolling. I knew I was slightly masochistic but really? I didn't think I was this bad. Seconds later, the assult on my breast stopped, I looked down and gasped, glared and blushed all in one. He gave me a hickey. Fucker. He was gonna go down, 'cause this meant war. I stood up again, with my legs like jello, and righted my kimono before moving out from behind the tree again. I blinked at the sight before me. Kakuzu and Hidan were knocked out. I looked back at Sasori and lifted an eyebrow when I saw him rearanging his pants. Really? Damn.
Kara was laughing like a hyena untill I growled dangerously to "Shut the fuck up or I'll come over there and make you. Painfully." There was a glint in my eyes as I said that, but it worked none the less. I sighed and looked back at Sasori. "Sasori-san." He looked up and wondered over. My eyes never left him. "My name is Uchiha Amaya. Or Nara-Inuzuka Amaya. The wolf is Kara and she's my best weapon." He nodded and Kara grinned evilly as I said the last bit. I shook my head and wondered over to Hidan. When I reached him, I saw a small bruise forming on the back of his neck. I focused my chakra to my hands and prayed to all the gods that he'd wake up when I'd healed him.
Seconds later, after the bruise had vanished, he shot awake and bolt upright. I sighed. "Hidan-san, you're okay. There's no-one here." I spoke gently. He shook his head a second before his eyes landed on Kara and flashed vehemently. He jumped up and rushed to attack my most faithful friend but I jumped before her and growled dangerously while Kara whined and hid behind me.
"Move, Meinu(2). That fuckin' mutt attacked us and knocked us out!" He growled just as dangerously. I shook my head and stood my ground, and bared my elongating teeth at him. He moved to put a hand over my shoulder to push me away but I snapped at him, eyes flashing dangerously. I was on my haunches. A suffocating chakra started to form around the area but it had no effect on me. Shadows writhed before trees under my will and my eyes began bleeding red into black as my dÅjutsu flew to life. The tomoe swirled and the silver hair crumbled, clutching his arms as if to keep himself together as his memories of near death began to swim in the forefront of his mind.
Torture was what I was good at. There was a reason I was placed alongside Mitarashi Anko. We both were blood thirsty and what she couldn't get out of prisoners, I could.
Sasori's eyes widened in slight horror and Kakuzu was now awake and trying to move. It wasn't untill Kara bit my leg lightly that I came back to me. The evil chakra subsided and I returned mostly to normal, leaving only my sharingan awake. My arms fell to my sides and I fell to the floor. My tears soon started but the rain had started again, washing them away as quickly as they came, as if promising that no-one would see me cry.
Kara picked me up and made me sit on her back, using her as a form of transportation. She continued on towards Ame and towards Itachi-ani. My hair was flat again by now, making me look more washed out then I already was. Kara paused for all of a second before continuing. I was looking down the entire time, tears mingling with the rain to fall into Kara's fur.
"Amaya-sama." She said quietly, "I'm sorry. He was telling the truth. I did knock them out. I used a fallen branch. But I did it because I didn't want them to think ill of you." she looked away from the path, not quite meeting my eyes, not quite seeing me, yet seeing so much more to me then anyone ever had. I nodded numbly signalling that I knew that and she continued at a faster pace. "They are following, you know." She told me, hopeing to make me hear her.
"I heard you, Inazuma(3). Keep going." I mumbled numbly. How could I have done that? I didn't want to do that, but Kara is my packmate. The other two were gone. Daiki was still an ANBU but Hikari was dead. I could feel that all getting on top of me. I lifted my head slightly to look at the walls surrounding the city. I was shocked. I looked back to the guys who were keeping a fair distance away and couldn't help but feel guilty again. Hidan still looked... Scared, for lack of a better word. Though his hatred for Kakuzu made him ever complaining, this time... He was quiet. Kakuzu had ofered him a hand to steady him, help him walk, and Hidan had accepted without hesitaion or complaint. Sasori walked a little ways ahead of them but still behind me.
We reached the wall with the guys hesitating slightly behind me. "Pass and reason for being here?" A guard asked. I hadn't realised there were guards. Sasori stepped forwards and the man before me dropped his awaiting hand. "What is your reason for being here?" he asked again, I picked up a scent of fear that made me really look at him. He was scared of the men behind me and scared for me.
Sasori smirked. "You know why we're here. We've come to see 'God' and she's with us. The Akatsuki." He told him boredly, putting quotation marks around 'God'. Whoever this 'God' was, he was held in high regard. The man went to step away from us, trying to appear strong, but his feet got caught up a little and he tripped, catching himself before he hit the ground. I looked at him and pity welled within me. "You needn't pity him." Karasu whispered in my mind. I blinked and looked away, still with pity in my heart. I was pathetic for a ninja. Ninja aren't supposed to have emotions. They're supposed to be concieled. Hidden. Otherwise the mission is in jepardy. That lesson was drilled into us when we were in ANBU.
"You are not pathetic. Far from it. You're strong and skilled. One of the best kunoichi I've seen in a long time." Karasu comforted. He'd put emphasis on the word 'long', drawing it out, showing that he truely is old and wise. "Not that old, and obviously not that wise if I was captured and sealed between two clans." He stated blandly. I smiled slightly and the pity dropped, instead being replaced by a sort of loathing. Fuck only knows what I was loathing. Kara cracked a small smirk and my own smile brightened.
The guard came back over to us and handed us all some slips. I read over them and found 'V.I.P.' written on them. "You can enter Amegakure now. Kami no Tenshi will come by to welcome you." He told us with a wavering voice that stuck in his throat when he saw Hidan glareing at him. Someone wanted to sacrifice something but he wasn't allowed, yet.
We filed through the gate and found that the rain was coming to a halt. I looked up, letting my bangs fall from my face, and saw white. I sniffed the air and found wetness. I tried harder until I located the smells of paper and perfume. Voilet scented perfume, if I wasn't mistaken. When I looked around, I saw a woman flying towards us. She truely did look like an angel. Her wings of paper flapped in a light rhythm, barely seeming to beat at all. Then she reached us and I took in her appearance fully.
Amber eyes stood out amongst cream skin, and peaked out under purple-blue hair. She had a small paper rose tucked into her hair, seeming to keep her bun in place. she had a narrow nose and a drawn smile, the smile further caught attention by showing of her labret, below her lip. She was, of course, wearing the standerd Akatsuki cloak. She saw the guys and shock radiated through her. So, they must have found out they died. When this woman turned to me, she gasped. She leaned forward slightly and whispered a single name that made me shudder.
"Madara?" she questioned. The guys looked so very confused, save for Kakuzu who suddenly also saw the resemblence to the Uchiha traiter. I turned off my sharingan and shook my head.
"My name is Amaya. I am from the Uchiha, Nara and Inuzuka clans of Konoha. I saved these members from death, if not, brought them back from him." I told her. She nodded numbly and wandered in front of me. I take it she was leading us to the Akatsuki leader. Kara trotted up next to her and rolled her eyes at me.
"My name is Konan." She supplied. She looked at Kara and back at me. "Who is this?" she asked lightly.
"Oh. This is Kara, my companion. Are you taking us to see this 'God' person?" I asked. She looked at me and smirked lightly.
"Wait and see." She told me. I was thankul that she was leading us, because these streets were more hectic then Konoha on the busiest days, in the markets, of the year. Slowly, as we got to a large crowd, the people surrounding us parted like a sea. The whole city was further industrialized than all the other hidden villages put together. Towers and pipelines accumulated and turned corners together. Where we were going, everyone was on their knees, showing their respect for the underlings of their so-called 'God'.
The tower we were approaching was anong the tallest buildings of Ame, probably the tallest. As we got under the cover of an over laying ledge above the door, the rain began to pour again. Konan sighed, muttering something about hating sundays because 'it always rains'. I bit my lip to stop from laughing and looked straight ahead at the large iron doors before us.
Konan, Hidan, Kakuzu, and Sasori all raised a hand and made the ram seal. I blinked and dropped my jaw as the heavy doors shuddered open. The Akatsuki members filed in past me, only Hidan stopping to look back at me. He looked straight at me, expression blank. "You might want to walk on your own feet from now on." He told me. I nodded and hopped off of Kara, an appology rising in my throat. He walked forwards a little and took my hand. "I know your sorry, and I am too. I shouldn't have reacted like that. But," a small smirk grew on his face. "Welcome to the Akatsuki's main base. Now you just gotta join properly."
I nodded and took my hitai-ate off, shaking my hair slightly as I did so, to make sure there were no knots, and looked at it pleadingly. Everything I held dear to me had been in Konoha, only to be taken and moved elsewhere. I blinked back a small amount of tears before retching for a kunai from my pouch. I had two head bands and an ANBU mask. My mask and the other hitai-ate were sealed in a scroll. That head band I was never going to defile, mainly because it was my first one, when our squad was first formed.
A smile tugged at my lips. Hikari had told me that should she die, I was to have her hitai-ate. I told her okay but left it with my most prized possesions. Back home. I gently placed the kunai on the left side of the metal plate, just off the leaf, before striking through it and holding the newest sign that I was a traitor too. Hidan took the kunai from me and went to put it back in my pouch, resting a warming hand on my arm as he was drawing back. I expected him to retract his arm but he never did it. I looked up at him and saw him nodding slightly.
I gulped down my fear, anxiety, excitement and disappointment and tied my hitai-ate back round my head, almost proudly diplaying that I was now a nuke-nin(4). I looked at the kunai in his hand and took it again, bending to Kara and grabbing her hitai-ate in my free hand. She too had her old one sealed away, not caring what happened to this one. I struck through that too. Now we were both nuke-nin. I stood back up, putting my kunai back in my pouch and looked back at a grinning Hidan.
"Welcome the Akatsuki, Bitches." I sighed at him but couldn't help the grin that broke across my face. I was going to see Itachi-ani again. My heart raced as we stepped foot into the building, walking lightly till our footsteps were masked by the sound of the great doors shutting behind us. 'No going back, I suppose...' I thought, not really caring. My grin got brighter as we were finally there. Here. This, this could be home.
Hello, pretty's! Thanks for reading. Umm... Okay can I has reviews pwease?
Translations:
(1) Gaki - Brat. This is usually what Sasori calls Deidara.
(2) Meinu - Bitch. What Hidan calls everyone...
(3) Inazuma - Lightning. A nickname that will be explained later in the story...
(4) Nuke-nin - Missing nin. Basically what all the Akatsuki are... And Sasuke, and Orochimaru-teme, and Kabuto... Those are the only ones I can think of at the minute off the top of my head...
Umm... My brother needs to have a minor op on his toes cause they're being weird... That's actually like the only exciting thing that's happening soon... Aside from my interview to get into collage on friday... I'm shitting my self...
So... Anyway please REVIEW! You get cookies if you do... :3