Recap:
"No, I think you're right. Come next sun fall...We're going to get back at them. I am going to kill one of their men." Galaxina gasped at Pein, and he stared hard at her. "I can't let this go by unnoticed! Theykilled my little brother! I will go tomorrow night." He rose and went back to his tent, muttering her was going to bed. Every was silent for a while, staring at the fire. Through out the 3 hours, one by one, people started heading off to their tents, Sakura and me being the last ones to go.
What have we gotten into?
In the darkness, a large shadowy figure appeared to be floating over the river and into enemies lands. His friends were on their original side, yelling at the figure to come back, but he ignored them. He was doing what he believed was right, and that was revenge. 'If you're going to kill my little brother...I'm going to slaughter your girlfriend..." The man thought as he landed without a sound on the other side of the river. His friends falling silent the moment they cannot see him any more through the bushes.
Focusing his chakra to the bottom of his feet, he walked up the tree quickly, and croutched on a large branch, staring down into the little clearing where Juugo, Karin, Sasuke, and Suigetsu were all sitting in around a fire.
"Sasuke-kun!" Karin started squeeling, "You are sooo awesome! You got that guy good!"
Ignoring her, Sasuke turned to Juugo and Suigetsu, "Keep your eyes open. Someone will most likely come after us for revenge."
"Why would they be so angry? That stupid mutt had it coming to him, anyways." Suigetsu scoffed, looking over at Juugo with a cocky smile playing on his pale lips.
"Just do as I say." Sasuke growled and he walked away, Karin shouting at him.
"Eh? Sasuke-kun! Where are you going?"
"To take a bath."
She took off her glasses, and tried to look sexy, standing up, "Would you like me to wash your back, Sasuke-kun?"
"No." And with that he disappeared into the darkness and Suigetsu immediately started to laugh at her.
"Shut up!" She screamed at him, but it only made him laugh more.
Then the large man named Juugo stood up, going in the opposite direction of Sasuke, "I'm going to get more fire wood."
"I'll come with you. I'm bored as hell." Suigetsu and Juugo walked away together, and Karin was alone. She was about to sit back down, but then she scowled at the dirty ground and slid out her sleeping bag. After she had it neatly on the ground, horizontally in front of the fire, she sat down and tried to warm herself up. Every now and then she'd give an occasional glance towards the forest, in fear of something jumping out of the darkness at her.
"Knock it off Karin...Nothing's there. Besides! This is my territory!" She muttered to herself, trying to calm her fears. She layed down, facing the fire, still glancing behind her shoulder, and she tried to force herself asleep.
The dark shadow jumped from the tree branch the moment her eyes were closed, but her eyes opened when his shadow fell on her. She stared in horror, but before she could scream, his hand was in her mouth and he tore out her tongue. She cried out, but it wasn't loud enough for anyone to hear, for Pein was now gagging her, forcing it down her throat. Her hands wandered around behind her back as he made many cuts on her. Tears streaking her cheeks, screams muffled, she tried her best to text, or call someone on her cell phone. This was a bad idea. Pein's eyes flickered to the cell phone, and before she could send anything, he took, and looked it over. He flipped it closed, held it inbetween his thumb and index finger in front of her face and said with an insane, evil smirk, "I was never able to understand this things. I hate cell phones."
He took the gag out of her mouth and forced the cell phone into her mouth. She tried screaming again, but they were once again blocked and muffled. Once it was in her mouth, Pein held his large hand over her mouth to keep it from coming back out. When he saw it wasn't going any where, he removed his hand, slipped it into her mouth, and started to slowly push the cell phone down her throat. He got up and walked away after looking at her neck to see the large bulge in it where the cell phone was. He disappeared into the night and went home to get some sleep.
Karin, by this point, had fallen to the hard ground, dead. Blood was pouring out of the corners of her mouth, eyes wide and rolled back, and her throat was red. After a couple hours, Suigetsu and Juugo came back, staring at Karin. At first they thought it was a prank, but when they got closer, they saw it was real.
"Fuck!" Suigetsu yelled. "Go get Sasuke!"
When Sasuke came he just shrugged off Karin's death. "She was useless anyways."
"Who do you think did it?" Juugoe asked while turning Karin onto her back.
"It could've been Sakura...But I don't think she'd do something this gruesome. She's too soft. It could've been Pein...If so, he went easy on her."
"What about that new girl of theirs?"
"Rogue...Hmm...She could be a threat to us. We either need her out of the way, or on our side. Our next priority, is to capture her. If she doesn't cooperate, then we'll kill her. If she does, then she will join. Of course, she'll need someone to watch her. We'll look for her in the morning. For now...Go through Karin's body in the river or something. I don't want to sleep next to a dead body tonight." Sasuke layed on his own sleeping bag, turning his back on the fire as Juugo drags Karin's body away towards the river.
Next Morning
Rogue's POV
When I woke up, Sakura was gone, like usual. I crawled out of the tent and stood once outside, and saw that the sun wasn't fully up yet. The sky was orange and pink and I could just barely see the sun of a large mountain. A pregnant woman, whose stomach was large and round, walked by and I gently layed my gloved hand on her shoulder and asking, "Have you seen Sakura? Or Galaxina?"
The woman nodded, "Galaxina is some where off with Pein, and Sakura in town. She just left, so you might be able to catch her at the gates of town."
"Thank you! Uh...Um...Is this your first child?" The young woman smiled, and nodded and she hurried off to her boyfriend.
Once I saw the gates to town, I saw Sakura starting to walk in and ran after her, "Sakura! Hey! Wait up!" She stopped and turned to face me.
"Anna! What're you doing here?" Sakura's ears perked up and her tail began to wag with excitment, and I could only plush at her cuteness. Man, I'm stupid!
"I was just wondering if you'd need any help? Or would like some company?"
"Yeah! I'd love some company!" As we started walking again, Sakura continued to talk, "Nobody ever wants to come to town with me...Mainly because they all hate being stared at."
"Doesn't it bother you?" We stopped in front of a small shack and Sakura asked for a couple of fruits.
"Huh? Oh no, I'm used to it. I come into town so much that I don't even really notice the stares, and I enjoy it when little kids think I'm a full dog and always want to pet the "puppy" " She giggles and I nodded.
We then walked into a small bar. Inside there was a flight of stairs to the left of the door that lead upstairs where I can see different rooms. Beside the stairs was a small opening for the bartender and a counter went around in a round square. Across from it was a couple steps up, still pretty low to the ground, where there were tables and a pool table. Most of the servers were woman, and most the drinkers here were men. I looked at Sakura curiously, "What are we doing here? Do you drink?"
"Of course not! Disgusting things, those drinks. But a lot of the pack members do, and it's almost Midori's birthday so the boys need some exciting way to celebrate! And I like to watch the drunkest of men try to play poker." I laughed at her answer and once we got some very expensive drinks, mostly a strong strawberry wine for Midori, we went up the few steps and watched some men play poker.
In the middle of the game one of the guys, awfully fat guy, asked us if we wanted to play strip poker with them. After that, Sakura and I scurried away before the man could lose his short temper. "Alrighty then...Awkwardness...One more place left!" Sakura muttered looking down at her list that had many things crossed out in green pen.
"What's that?" I looked around at the small stores.
"To the vegetables! I need some herbs." We walked into another small building. Inside there were plants on both the left and right sides of the doors and walls in their rightful pots, each having different labels. About a yard away from the farthest wall was a small rectangle counter where the cash register and clerk was.
"Good morning, Sakura!" The clerk called and Sakura said her greetings back before he was busied with a customer.
"Anna, can you please go over there and grab a Wild Ginger herb please? It says it on the tag. I need to get these Watercresses." She was busy digging her hands into the dirt to get out the plant, so I nodded and walked over to where she pointed. I was carefully copying her and by the time I had most of it out, I looked up to see if she would come over here and help me. She was reaching into a cabinet for something and a man, about in his mid-twenties, walks by and while he does and reaches down and grabs her ass. I watched as Sakura's body froze and tensed up, then she whirled around and glared at the man.
He had almost shoulder length hair that looked to be slicked back under his hat. He was wearing a dark purple button up shirt, black pants, dark brown boots that hid under his pants, and a long black leather cloak. He had a cocky smirk on his face, his stuble shining in the sunlight from the windows. I quickly walked over to Sakura before she murdered everyone in the shop. I was tugging on her arm, encouraging her that we'd get the herbs some other time, but she wouldn't listen.
"Excuse me!" Sakura screeched at him and the guy leaned against the counter, his eyes still hidden, and he smiled at Sakura.
"Yer excused, ma'am." His voice was deep and he had a thick southern accent. I stared shaking my head at him, hoping he'd have enough sense to leave this quiet girl alone.
"That is sexual harrassment!" She point a pale finger at him.
"You from 'round 'ere?" Sakura just ignored him.
"How dare you go around touching women!"
" 'Women'? Actually,yer tha only woman I've touched." She narrowed her eyes at him, and eventually I was dragging her out the door. She came with me, but she kept glaring over her shoulder at the stranger. As we left I heard the clerk said, "Her brothers are going to kill you!" And then the man laughed.
After a couple hours of sitting around with Sakura, Ren and Pein showed up with a stranger walking behind them, but we couldn't see him.
"Sakura, Rogue, we have a new member now. He's a mutant too, and he just needs a safe place to stay for a while." Ren spoke in his usual calm voice.
Pein chuckled after he spoke, "You're getting soft, Ren!" Ren glared at him, but he couldn't help but smile himself. Sakura and I stood up and stared at the two curiously, wanting to see the new member.
Then the man behind them looked up and smiled when he saw us. He stepped around Pein and Ren again, "Evenin'!" Sakura was immediately fuming! Her tail puffed up and her ears went back defensively. "Fiesty!" He chuckled.
Ren just glanced back and forth between the two, and then he looked at me, "Long story...Tell ya later." With that he nodded.
"Well, this is my youngest sibling, Sakura and her friend Rogue."
"Or Anna." I added and Ren nodded.
"Ya'll can call me Gambit." He smiled at Sakura and she crossed her arms.
"I ain't callin you NOTHING!" This made him laugh again. "Where's it sleeping?" Sakura asked looking up at her big brother.
"Oh...You know...Here, there..." Then he whispers as he starts to walk away, "Your tent..." Sakura screamed as Ren and Pein disappeared, both laughing.
"So where's yer tent, cheri?" Gambit smirked, and she only glared at him, crossing her arms.
"You are sleeping out here! Anna and I are my tent!" She walks away and I follow, snickering to myself as I thought about the scene that just went down. Oh joy.