I DO NOT OWN NARUTO

Ch2

The rain had slowed however the storm looked as though it was far from over. The dark overcast made the early morning appear as if it were still night outside. Her footfalls fell silent as she moved with the wind at her back, the occasional lightning flashes illuminated her body as thunder boomed in her ears and the sky lit up with a brilliant light show.

She walked silently down the wet dirt road although Mist was not always misty today the area was certainly living up to it's name. She took a silent breath and went over the information in her head the only information on Akatsuki she was given was that they were south so she was set south. It was convenient living in the end of town that she did, not having to go through the city cut time and made it very easy to get to the forested mountains.

Tall trees towered over the short woman's head as she started her journey through the tree covered mountains that the warm island was so famous for. Soon the small woman reached the peak of a mountain and looked over her shoulder at the village below in the distant valley, mist danced around the taller cylindrical buildings, like the fingers of a giant ghost. After a few moments of silences her mind turned back to the mission at hand. She continued deeper into the forest lightning still flashing above the trees as they swayed and groaned in the breeze.

The small woman moved in silence, the mountainous forest encompassing her in lush foliage as she moved with the grace and speed of a tiger. The leaves rustled in the howling wind. She pushed off of the ground with a flex of her leg muscles taking to the trees her ears tuned in listening to the sounds around her. The sound of water droplets falling from the trees as the leaves shook in the wind made a gentle SHH her silent observance carried as she went where she felt herself guided.

A familiar scent carried in the air as she leaped from branch to branch and even through the mask she could smell it. The scent in question was blood this was nothing new to her the country always smelled like blood and tasted like death.

Hours later

The darkness of the forest soon completely encompassed Akatenchii; she stopped on a branch her eyes scanning the area. She had been going for about five hours and was not getting a good view of the area she was in. There had been no change in the scents around her and she could not feel any chakra signatures around her, the only sounds were naturally what one expects to hear in a forest. The area she was in had about 10 square miles of mountainous woods that one could get lost in without knowledge of how to navigate the terrain. The land here was far from flat the high mountain peaks and low valleys were covered to the extreme by foliage. Looking up at the rays of sunlight coming through the canopy she blinked and yawned softly. She made her way to the top of the canopy squinting as her eyes were flooded with sun she bowed her head; she was truly in a sea of green. The wind blew her hair ruffling it as she looked around; the sky was blue grey clouds wafting lazily in the distance. Well, I will just keep south till I come out on the other side. Her eyes still scanning her sky till her gaze fell on a shape in the distance. She stared at it for several seconds before she could make out the faint shape of a bird in the distance. That has to be a big ass bird for me to see it from here.

Staring for a few more moments she watched the bird swoop down into the tree line disappearing from her sight. "Hmm." Was the only sound that escaped her mouth.
She journeyed back down through the branches and continued to go on her way, the forest was filled with the sounds of birds and the wind it was peaceful. BOOM The peace was shattered by the faint sound of an explosion in the distance; she paused for a moment her attention focused direction of the explosion she could feel the unmistakable field of energy known as charka. "Akatsuki?" she muttered out loud questioning the explosion with one word. She kicked off again, this time with better direction.

A plant on the tree the Anbu kicked off of opened revealing a face that was half black and half white; the man like creature chuckled to himself once the Anbu is out of hearing range, "Akatsuki, does this Anbu truly understand that which he seeks?" The white half spoke his voice deep a hint of curious amusement played in his tones. "No one ever does." The black half replied. "Let's follow him and keep tabs." The white half muttered. "We might be able to finish this early."

Somewhere in the forest.

"I can't believe that Leader-sama sent us on a mission with you hmm." A blonde figure muttered his annoyance apparent.

"You make it sound like you are complaining Deidara sempai." A man stated a with orange and black swirls adorned his face his attention was currently on Deidara.

"Tobi un mind you own damn business yeah." Deidara growled.
"Sempai is complaining" Tobi muttered.

"Tobi un! Shut the fuck up." Deidara warned his patience was reaching an end with his partner.

"But Sempai you've been complaining like a bitch." Tobi stated
Deidara's eyes narrowed into deadly slits he had had it with Tobi, he reached into his bag and pulled a little bit of clay letting the mouths on his hands chew hand form it, the mouth on his hand spit out a bird, the bird flew at Tobi "Katsu!" He growled watching his partner as he shrieked and was blown back by the bird.

"Yes, very good Deidara, if there is anyone in the woods tracking us they just heard that." A tall man growled his hitai-ate adorned the mark of water fall, his face was partly covered by a mask. All of the people in the group were morons and he was doing his best not to kill them but his restraint was not fairing well as their orders were simple. Collect the person who was known as the Deshi Akatenchii and return to leader with him alive, that is why Deidara and Tobi were with him. He and Hidan had very low success when it came to alive missions.

"That stupid bastard deserved it yeah." Deidara was calm now.
"That may be so but you just gave our position away." Kakuzu stated in a growl, his eyebrows furrowed as he looked down at his shorter group members.

"Is that really a bad thing Kakuzu?" Hidan called, he was ahead of the group and was starting to get annoyed by their stopping, his slicked back hair was a dark brownish grey from the rain.

Kakuzu blinked and looked at his overly religious partner. "What do you mean is it a bad thing; we aren't here to start a war right now, so it is potentially a very bad thing."

Deidara looked at Hidan, then at Tobi who was sitting on the ground in a daze "I'm sorry Tobi un." He muttered watching the younger man get up and palm the dust from his cloak.

"Think you old bastard if they know we are here they will send out Anbu, they only send out Deshii Akatenchii when things are about to go to hell for their village right?" Hidan was standing next to Kakuzu now.

"Yes they only send him out when things go to hell Hidan but what is your point because you're starting to get on my nerves." Kakuzu growled.

"This is perfect they send in the Anbu and we kill them, then they send us Deshii Akatenchii." Hidan stated.

Kakuzu blinked "I suppose that is a good point, for once you actually thought about something that doesn't involve your god."

"Shut the hell up you old mother fucker." Hidan yelled showing his annoyance for the last comment.

"Kakuzu senpai, Hidan sama, you are both missing something in that line of thought." Tobi stated getting up. His black gloved hands wiping at the mud on his pants.

"What could they miss that an idiot like you caught on to." Deidara asked watching his partner straighten out his cloak.

"The simple fact that our target is an Anbu so the village may just send the target, and they also forgot that the Anbu we are after has a special mask." Tobi stated
Hidan blinked "Tobi, when did you grow a brain?"

"Tobi is a good boy, I read the targets files and also interrogated a few people that the target rescued." He stated pride seeping into his voice.
Deidara blinked "And what did the people you interrogated have to say hmm?" he inquired.

"The person I talked to was a weapons master from the Hidden Mist, the master said that there was speculation that the Anbu was female and that the Anbu always shows up when things are about to go terribly wrong, in some cases she is sent in to eradicate problems." Tobi stated yawning slightly.

"Tobi kun when were you going to tell us this?" Kakuzu asked he was rather irritated.

"Tobi was going to tell you, but between Deidara sempai's complaining and you and Hidan sama's fighting I didn't have time." Tobi stated.

"Tobi you are an idiot." Hidan stated walking off his back turned to his companions as he reached up and ran his fingers through his hair.

"It is starting to get dark we will go a little further and stop." Kakuzu stated walking with Hidan.