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I'm sorry my updates have been far spread I try to update as often as possible but there are things that are very much out of my control. I have also been working on a original story called Of Dark Despair if you want to read it you will have to go to .com and look it up I alternate between updating this and that. Thank you to the people who review, it makes it easier as a writer to know what my readers think.
What I am Ch 21 (woo we're legal)
Kakuzu stood in silence beneath the stone face, his agitation steadily growing with the tardiness of Hidan and Akatenchii. His eyes scanned the darkness settling on a figure that moved towards him. Akatenchii yawned slightly as the shadows revealed her to Kakuzu.
"You are late." Kakuzu growled. "You were supposed to be here five minutes ago."
"She's here so what difference does it make?" Okami's ruff voice drew Kakuzu's attention to her.
"I did not say to bring your stowaway." Kakuzu's voice held agitation.
"I do not need your permission to travel with Aka-Ten-Ba, she is the whole reason I am here and I am not going to stay stashed away here while she has all the fun." Okami's voice was to the point.
"Fun?" Akatenchii made the word a question. "You clearly have not been around them very long."
"No you just don't know how to have fun." Okami teased.
"Whatever, you are fine as long as you stay out of my way." Kakuzu growled. Akatenchii shook her head as Hidan walked out of the shadows and stood next to Kakuzu.
"You're late." Kakuzu growled turning his attention to Hidan.
"And?" Hidan shrugged as he spoke.
"Nothing lets go." Kakuzu muttered his annoyance was heavy in his voice.
Several hours later.
The group moved in relative silence through the dusk filled forest.
"Where exactly are we going?" Okami's voice broke the silence.
Akatenchii shrugged. "I don't know."
"Well you're just full of information." Okami muttered.
"We are going to a small village outside of Kumo to look for a man with a relatively high price on his corpse." Kakuzu answered in hopes of silencing the women.
"Greedy fucker, this shit is why we are always fucking late." Hidan groaned.
"Money is important you can't do anything without money Hidan." Kakuzu's voice fell as a growl.
"All you think about is money, money aint that fucking important." Hidan's voice was slowly rising.
"Money is very important; the world runs on money without it everything in the man made world ceases to exist." Kakuzu's voice was steady.
"Money is still the wrong thing to motivate you to fight the world does not revolve exclusively around money you greedy bastard." Hidan yelled.
"Are they always like this?" Okami looked at Akatenchii.
"From what I have heard yes." Akatenchii muttered watching the chaos in front of her.
At least you aren't alone with them. The voice had a point
That would be kinda bad.
And at least it seems they are more interested in directing their anger at each other than you and Okami.
Very true but how long will that last?
Your guess is as good as mine; take the peace while you can.
For once you're actually being useful… Why?
Because I am apart of you and the pain you feel I feel and everything I have said has been useful. It may have been sarcastic but it has been useful all the same.
Right... and you telling me that I was on the verge of making out with a garden gnome was helpful how?
Well you didn't know what you were doing so it was gentle guidance.
Oh yes and it's gentle guidance when you enjoy the bad things that happen?
Here is a secret if I enjoy it you enjoy it because I am a part of you, the part that you locked away to protect yourself.
"Aka-Ten-Ba… Aka-Ten-Ba!" Okami growled hitting her spaced out counter part in the head.
"What?" Akatenchii whispered looking at Okami.
"You were doing that twilight zone shit where your eyes become white and you don't respond to anyone till they either yell or hit you." Okami muttered.
"Ok what do you want?" Akatenchii murmured.
"The moron twins have decided that we are going to stop when it gets completely dark." Okami stated.
"Ok." Akatenchii looked around the scenery was shadowy in the twilight. "Well then that should be relatively soon."
They continued on in silence. Kakuzu stopped. "We'll stop here." He muttered looking at Hidan. "If you want a fire then you get wood." He muttered glancing at the two women that stared at him in silence. "Don't let them wander too far."
"Right I'll baby sit and you'll count whatever money you have." Hidan muttered walking away from Kakuzu.
Akatenchii looked at Okami. "The brainless one is approaching, speak slowly it confuses him when you speak fast and use complex words."
"I'm not deaf or stupid." Hidan muttered looking down at the two women before him.
Okami snickered. "Ok you ladies do whatever you like I'm going to find the nearest town and sake stand."
"No you're not." Hidan stated turning his attention to the white hair woman. "You're staying here."
"Oh really you don't get to decide what I do." Okami's voice held slight annoyance as she looked at Hidan.
"I am a full member and you are a subordinate you have to listen to me." Hidan growled his voice starting to rise.
"I aint a subordinate I am here because Aka-Ten-Ba is here so I am not bound by whatever rules you are trying to hold her to." Okami's voice was full of annoyance. "When Aka-Ten-Ba decides she is done with your lame asses then we are both out of here and there won't be a damn thing you can do to stop us."
Hidan's eyes narrowed as Okami dashed off. He moved to run after her but collided with Akatenchii. "Get the fuck out of my way."
"Go fuck yourself." Akatenchii muttered kicking Hidan in the knee watching him collapse to the side giving her room to back away from him and jump into a tree.
"You fucking cunt that hurt." Hidan yelled standing slowly. "You're going to regret that." He growled jumping up into the trees.
Akatenchii was silent as she stared around a tree at Hidan as he searched the darkness for her.
"The longer you hide the more you make me want to kill you." Hidan yelled casting his scythe out and pulling it back towards him using it like a hook to try and locate Akatenchii.
Akatenchii climbed down the tree being careful not to make noise to alert Hidan to her location. She moved to sit next to Kakuzu who shot a semi amused look at her.
"You do realize he is going to be very pissed off when he realizes you are not up there." Kakuzu muttered.
"Yeah I know." She muttered wrapping her arms around her knees and pulling them to her chest to where she sat in a tight ball. "But that should keep him occupied for a few minutes."
Kakuzu snickered and leaned back against a tree. Akatenchii looked at him, his mask and hood was off so she could actually see his face. The stitching up the side of his mouth made him look sort of like a rag doll; his hair was about neck length.
Wow even for a creepy angry zombie looking rag doll he is hot. The voice chimed in making her shake her head a little.
We are not having this conversation. Akatenchii tried to silence the voice; she laid her head against her knees.
What is it with this organization and having hot men?
Akatenchii shrugged and looked up as she heard rustling watched as a very angry looking Hidan dropped from the trees.
"Well there goes the quiet." Kakuzu muttered.
"You were down here with the greedy bastard the entire time?" Hidan's voice was a yell as he looked at Akatenchii.
"Not the entire time; just most of the time." She muttered looking into Hidan's angry purple eyes. "You're really not that hard to evade."
"You lousy cunt, you've made me angry and then walked away from a fight." Hidan yelled.
"I suppose that sounds about right what are you going to do about it?" Akatenchii murmured.
Hidan looked confused. "Why are you so calm?"
"Well I have come to the conclusion that you aren't going to kill me; if you were going to you would have done so already and you would rather try to cause me misery then give me release and peace." Akatenchii muttered looking at Hidan's seemingly dumb struck face.
Hidan closed his eyes and breathed out then he opened his eyes and looked at Akatenchii. Despite how much he wanted to teach her a lesson for what she had just done he couldn't, her calmness started to take his anger. "Don't get in my way again." He muttered turning and walking off into the woods.
Kakuzu looked at Akatenchii and smirked. "Well that is a first." He muttered.
"What's a first?" She asked looking at Kakuzu.
"That's the first time that I have seen him walk away from something that heated and not bitched about the strict dogma and rules of his religion." He muttered. "I don't know why but since you showed up he has been acting very strange."
"Oh, sorry." Akatenchii muttered.
"Don't be he is strange in a less annoying way." Kakuzu muttered. "He is probably going to vent so it is best that you stay out of his way."
Akatenchii leaned against the tree and closed her eyes letting sleep take her.