Chapter 3

Furui lowered her Tanto and took a few steps back. "Maji?" she said in a low tone. Majime stared at Furui, she wondered why this girl had said her name, it was such familiar nick name, very few people ever called her that, some she missed, some she hated. This girl, she was ready to kill her, yet she hesitated as Majime stated who she was.

"Maji, Sonki Maji, sister of Kigai Sonki?" Furui said

Majime's eyes widened as Furui said this, how could she possibly know who her sister was? No one knew who her sister was except one person around here. "Who, who are you?" Majime said.

"Maji." Furui laughed a bit, her stern face turned into a gentle one, "it's Furui, Nanakusa Furui."

"Uh, your, your Furui Nanakusa, daughter of Akisame Hoshigaki and niece of Kisame Hoshigaki?" Maji almost shouted.

"Yeah, um," Furui turned to the side to see what Suigetsu was doing, she then turned back to Maji. This time Furui really examined Maji's face, her left eye was a bit swollen, her lip was purple and bleeding at the center of the wound. "Maji, what happened to you?" she asked with care this time.

Majime looked down and clenched her fists, the whole situation was now sinking into her. Maji wondered why she was here, she wondered why she was ready to kill her so easily. And now that she thought of it, if she had not said the name "Majime" she would have been dead in an instant. Furui has changed since their last visit together, it's been a long time, and from looking at Furui's face, there was no way she could play with her. Even if Majime wanted to, she knew she wouldn't even last a second against Furui because she didn't when she was little, and she was damn near sure there would be any chance now. Furui pulled out a handkerchief.

"If you don't want to tell me, then at least clean yourself." she said with her gentle face, Majime looked at her with her deep red eyes.

She took it then held it too her chest, "thank you," she said and wiped her cheek with it. She looked back up, "um, why are you here?"

"I take it you don't know who lives in that wooden house do you?" she asked setting her hands on her hip, she sighed thinking there was no hope in finding Awamori.

"Yes, Ren lives there, you remember."

Furui shot a look at her, "are you serious?"

"Yes, I don't know where he is now, but he lives there. He left when some beat up old guy came saying someone was looking for him, thats why I had to leave."

Furui was still looking to the side, her eyes began to scan the area. "Great—Suigetsu, we're in for it now."

"Wait?" Majime almost shouted taking a step forward, "Suigetsu's with you? Hozuki Suigetsu?"

Suigetsu felt the chakra flow throughout the air, there was no tension, no nothing, it was calm. And the only thing he felt was the joy the ran in his body, Awamori was in his bed sound asleep most likely in a drunken state like he was known to aways be in. He felt there was no need to pull out his Hocho, he only pulled out his kunai and casually spun it around in one finger as he opened the door. He walked towards the bed to see the same face Furui and he would look at ever time they wanted to play-fight with his sword. With one more spin and with a smile on he held the kunai firmly with one hand.

"A drunk like you should've never been a Swordsmen, you only made us look bad." Suigetsu said as he slammed his fist down to stab Awamori.

Out of no where two finger stopped the kunai, bloodshot eye shot open. The black pearl eyes shot to Suigetsu, a horrible and disgusted look appeared on Awamori's, tan, scruffy, and unshaven stubble face as it grew angry seeing that Suigetsu was looking down at him.

"What would you know about being a swordsmen?" his deep horse voice said, he jumped out of bed and was behind Suigetsu, he turned around to face Ren. "Swordsmen fight face to face, not when someones asleep." his long black sword appeared in his hand, "you best of us all should know that, Hozuki Suigetsu."

"Hm, I guess I'll need to use the Hocho then." Suigetsu said with a smile setting a hand on the handle of his sword.

Majime and Furui turned as they heard a giant crash, the earth shook that knocked Majime off balance to the ground. Furui stared at the area the sound had come from.

"Suigetsu..." she said to herself and turned back to Maji, "um, I guess our little convo will have to wait."

"No, wait!" Maji said trying to get up just as fast, but by the time she was on her feet Furui was no where to be seen.

Suigetsu looked at the split earth, the house was destroyed and it seemed that he had woken Awamori when he was under the pain of a hangover. The mean he was extra cranky then he would have normally been. He saw Furui appear by his side.

"What'd you do now?" she asked almost yelling.

"We're a little delayed." he said with a casual smile.

"Delayed?" she looked out into the scene and saw the split earth, this was in fact Awamori's great earth jutsu's he specialized back in the Hidden Mist. "You didn't kill him?"

"I said we were delayed."

"Delayed! Awamori could kill us both!" she shouted.

"Shut up, he cant do anything but drink!"

"Funny, you used to defend him back when we were kids!" she shouted angrily once again.

"Just as you two used to be, loud and annoying."

Suigetsu and Furui looked up and saw Awamori say this while he was on the ruble of the broken home. His face seemed tired and older since they had last seen him, most likely caused from all the drinking he had done since his departure from the Hidden Mist.

Ren Awamori, he had a reputation as always getting drunk ever since he had become a Legendary Swordsmen. Awamori thought his name 'Ren' was too girl-like, so everyone in the Hidden Mist called him Awamori. Though his name didn't matter since he was normally referred as "The towns drunk". He would spend all the money he received from missions on alcohol, always drinking it to the point he could not go to his other mission. Suigetsu remembered going to missions with Zabuza and him, he would take all the money and booze he found when they were on missions, constantly stopping to take a piss because his over drinking. Furui and Suigetsu would never speak to him face to face, but they were always called, "loud and annoying brats" by Awamori. He specializes in Earth Jutsu, not a very common technique in the Hidden Mist, but one that was able to become part of the Legendary Seven Swordsmen at the young age of 16. Awamori was the oldest out of them all, but also the most careless.

"Who are you calling loud and annoying?!" Furui shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Furui Nanakusa, Suigetsu Hozuki, man oh man, I never would have thought you two would ever team up." Awamori said to them.

"Well you thought wrong." Furui then said normally.

"Why are you two here anyways?"

"Do you really want to know?" Suigetsu said in a witty tone, he then pointed to Awamori's sword, "thats why."

"My Kirikata?" Awamori said a bit confused.

"Yeah, I want it and I'll do whatever it takes to get it." said Suigetsu seriously.

Awamori began to laugh hysterically, "your telling me you want this?"

"I just said that!" Suigetsu was annoyed.

Awamori stopped himself from laughing, "that'll never happen."

"Don't be so sure." Furui said boldly, "you don't know what we're capable of."

"Yes I do, you two are capable of..." Awamori smiled, "absolutely nothing."

Suigetsu and Awamori charged at each other, their swords clashed and they jumped away from each other. Majime ran up to Furui, she seemed a bit week but was surprised the two shinobi were fighting.

"What's going on?" Majime asked Furui.

"Suigetsu and Awamori are fighting, isn't that obvious?" she responded without looking at all.

Majime shot a look at her, "n—no, they cant!"

"They are."

"No!"

Suigetsu made him arm that was holding the Hocho bigger to try and slice Awamori with it. But every time Awamori was able to dodge it and jump away to another spot for Suigetsu to find him at. Suigetsu began to feel irritated, the same way he felt when he was fighting Kisame back near the Rain Village.

Furui slowly turned to Majime, "lower your tone."

"No! If Suigetsu kills Awamori—then—then—" Awamori shot a look at Majime as she was speaking, Suigetsu was able to kick him in the face at this point. Awamori then disappeared from Suigetsu's sight. "Then..." Majime shut her eyes as if she were about to cry.

Furui's eyes widened, Awamori was right behind her, he swung his sword to try and slice Furui but she managed to jump away only with a bit of her trimmed off. Suigetsu appeared at her side, "are you ok?" he asked.

"Yeah..." she said wondering why he even asked, Suigetsu didn't seem like the type that eve cared what happened to his teammates, since he left HEBI with no hesitation or concern of the others who were in the team.

Majime stared at Awamori for a second, he was glaring back at her, "you don't know how to keep your mouth shut, do you?" he asked, Majime didn't respond, "I asked you a question!" he slapped her across the face.

"Who's that?" Suigetsu asked Furui.

She stood up, "Maji, the snitch, remember?" she said looking at him.

"The one who told on us all the time!?" he shouted.

Majime was on the ground holding her cheek, she looked up at Awamori, "I didn't say anything, I swear."

Majime noticed that gloomy look in her eyes, she was so familiar with it she could even sense it even when she wasn't looking. Awamori, was wasted. He raised his sword, "I guess even you loose your touch after all this time."

"Huh? What do you mean?" she said looking at his sword.

"You were nice while it lasted, Maji." he said in a cold tone.

"Suigetsu, he's going to kill her!" Furui shouted.

"This is our chance!" Suigetsu said as both began to run towards him. Suigetsu with his Hocho and Furui with her Tanto.

Awamori gripped his sword, Majime stared at it lowered towards her face. The image of someone popped in her mind. 'You promised...' she thought and closed her eyes.

A small drop of blood dropped on Majime's face. She opened her eyes and said a Hocho and Tanto pierce his chest. Awamori had clenched teeth and looked down at the two weapons that stuck out of him. "Your not going to hurt her." Furui said in a serious tone.

"It sucks you were drunk, I really thought you were going to be a challenge." Suigetsu said, both Furui and him pulled out their swords at the same time and Awamori fell to the ground face forward. Majime stared at his body lay motionless on the ground, she stared in silence and looked up at Furui and Suigetsu. "Yeah! I did it!" he said in a happy tone.

"Hey! My Tanto did just as much damage, you cant take all the credit!" she shouted back at him.

"You didn't do anything, I could have done it all by myself." he snickered at her.

"Fine, how about I walk away right now, lets see how you do without a partner." she folded her arms.

"Fine."

"Fine!" she was red and was ready to walk away, Majime clenched her fists, she shut her eyes and stood up.

"What have you done!?" she shouted with sealed eyes.

Furui and Suigetsu turned to her both shocked with her initial reaction. "Hey, we just saved your life." Suigetsu said to her.

"I don't care! Awamori promised, he promised that he would take me to her! He promised he would let me see her again!" she shouted, tears began to roll down her cheeks. Suigetsu stared at her while he was leaning on his Hocho, he closed his eyes. Furui stared at her with a blank face, "he promised I would be able to see her again, but you ruined it, you killed him and now he could never take me to her!" Furui put on a wicked face from anger towards the words she was saying, "because of you two—because of you two, all hope—you two ruined everything."

The piercing sound of a slap echoed throughout the area, Suigetsu looked at Furui as her arm was extended. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she said in a deep tone to Majime, she slowly turned to them with a bright pink cheek. "That man was ready to kill you and you know it."

"But—"

"But nothing! How could someone show so much anger towards two people who are the reason your still alive? How could someone cry over such a great moment in life?"

"But—"

"But nothing! You know Maji, I think it would be better if both Suigetsu and I let him kill you then us kill him, then maybe Suigetsu and I would be feeling a little better about ourselves right about now." Furui was angry but sighed. "Suigetsu, do you have to scroll?" she asked him.

"Yeah." he tossed it to her and picked up the Kirikata that was Awamori's sword that put him in the category of being one of the Legendary Seven Swordsmen. Majime dropped to her knees and looked down at Awamori's dead body. Suigetsu and Furui walked away from her with his sword, as if they had completely forgot about the whole event. "Man, I hope it's not going to rain when we leave." he said leaning against a tree watching Furui seal the sword in a scroll.

In a puff of smoke the sword was gone and the scroll was sealed, Furui set it in her yukata and smiled at him, "three out of seven, we're almost half way there!" she said standing up. Majime was still looking down.

"If you count Raiga's as two then we're half way there." he said walking away.

"I guess." she began to walk away, "hey, lets look in his house, maybe there's something there we can take."

"You an good, thats all you think of don't you?"

"The more the better, you know that." she walking towards the destroyed house. "Too bad we weren't able see Awamori's full potential in fighting, we always saw him on the ground or hitting us."

"Yeah, oh well." Suigetsu said and glanced at Majime still on her knees, tears were still running down her cheeks, he looked away.

"Why did you two do it anyway?" Majime called out to them, but didn't look at them.

Suigetsu and Furui looked at each other, "because Suigetsu wanted his Kirikata." Furui said to her.

"All for a sword?"

"All for a sword that belonged to a Legendary Swordsmen." Suigetsu corrected.

A tear dropped to her knee, "he promised to take me to my sister, Kigai Sonki." Majime said, "he promised!" she shouted.

"He's dead now, his words mean nothing now." Suigetsu said.

"Why would you want to see her anyways, she left you when she tried to overthrow the Hidden Mist." Furui said.

"She's my sister." Majime said in a cracked voice, "why wouldn't I want to see her?" both Suigetsu an Furui stared at her in silence, "I loved her more then anything."

"I have a brother and I could care less about him." Suigetsu said.

"And I want my uncle dead." said Furui.

Majime opened her red eyes and looked at them, "I just want to know why she left me, she promised she would never leave me." It seemed it wasn't the first time Majime had a promise broken to her. "So when I ran into Awamori, he said he would take me to her."

"Under what circumstances?" Furui asked seriously.

"If I gave him everything..." she hugged herself, "everything." she closed her eyes in shame.

Furui's eyes widened, "you mean..." she took a step back.

"'you were nice while is lasted'" Suigetsu repeated to Furui, "he really was a sick man." Majime began to cry.

"How could he?" Furui said, "she's younger then us."

"He was into small girls, remember he never really hit you when we got in trouble, I remember him saying, 'I should punish you another way' now I know what he meant."

Majime was still crying, Furui ran up to her an wrapped her arms around Majime. "He said he would take you to Kigai if you gave him something in return." she said to Majime, her eyes were wide and her arms were still with shock that Furui showed so much affection. "Maji, he lied to you, he just said anything to you to get what he wanted." Majime's eyes began to water again, she hugged Furui back and began to cry.

"But he promised...he promised." she said crying.

After the attempt to overthrow the Hidden Mist, Kigai Sonki left without notice, she was Majime Sonki older sister. Majime was saddened at this and didn't leave her home for a short time.

"C'mon snitch, we have to train." Suigetsu banged on the door at Majime's small home.

"Lets go, I don't think she's there." Furui said, both walked away complaining about her laziness.

It was one event that changed Majime's life when she was using the last of her money to buy food, she saw Awamori. She saw him and did a small bow and began to walk away, if she would have kept walking she wondered how her life would have been. She turned back around to Awamori.

"Awamori-sama, do you know where Kigai-chan is?" she asked in her small voice.

He turned around to her, "no." he said in a flat tone. At this very moment Awamori had a idea he would only benefit himself until he felt satisfied. "But I can find out." he said a moment later.

"What do you mean?" she asked, he set a hand on her shoulder and kneeled down.

"I can look for her, but for a price." he said to her.

"A price?"

"I promise I can take you to her, but you have to give me something in return."

"Really? You promise! Then anything, I'll give you anything!"

He put on a wicked smile, "alright them, we have a deal."

For a few years from the ager seven to eleven she only dreamed of seeing her sister. She was around Awamori's home in the Land of Waves. Every time she asked about her sister to Awamori he would always responded 'I'm working on it' or 'no luck so far'. She always had hope, even when weeks at a time he would train and drink and not even seem like he wanted to try and find out where Kigai Sonki was. Finally at the age 11, even though still had the hope of seeing her sister, knew what Awamori Ren wanted the whole time.

He held her down, she was looking up at the ceiling, it was cold, and she didn't like what she was feeling. "Don't worry, it'll get better." he whispered in her ear. It never did.

The wind blew threw all their hair, all were sitting in the broken house. "This is where he had all his money, Awamori went on his own private missions to control this village, he even was the reason why the Great Naruto Bridge wasn't built." Majime said to them.

"Really?" Furui said.

"Yes, I remember he met up with this guy named Gato or something, Awamori told him about some guy who was the only thing that was holding up the village, then Gato had that man killed of course. Then Awamori informed him about a man named Tazuna who was the only man able to build the bridge, Awamori even found out what Zabuza Momochi was up to and gave his name to Gato so he could higher him. The whole Naruto Bridge was thought to be under Gato's control, but it was really under Awamori because Gato wasn't happy with Zabuza so Awamori gave the name of a lot of shinobi who would help kill Zabuza, they succeeded." Majime said handing Furui a bag full of coins.

"I know that part, I have Zabuza's sword." Suigetsu said setting his hand on the handle.

"True, but I witnessed it, Awamori and I watched from a hill top while Zabuza and some boy, um, Haku I think it was, were fighting, it was all done really fast. Awamori was drinking and laughing the whole time."

"You don't have to worry about Awamori anymore, Majime, with us you'll really be able to see your sister." Furui said.

"Yeah, you could ask her anything before we take her sword." Suigetsu said.

"Thank you, I just want to ask one thing from her, after that I don't care what happens to her." Majime said with a smile.

"Then we're on the same level then." Suigetsu said with a smile, "too bad Furui wasn't laid back like you are Maji."

"Hey!" Furui shouted at him.

"It's true, you're stingy." he said with a wicked smile.

"If I'm so stingy then why would I even bother helping you!?"

"I don't know." he laughed.

"I cant stand you." she hissed.

"Whatever." he muttered. Majime smiled as they were playfully arguing.

"Whatever—whatever! I hate you!"

"I hate you too!"

"Then I guess we hate each other!" she shouted waving her arms around.

It was dark now and clouds began to fill they sky blocking even the light of the moon to shine. A boy with silver hair was laying on the grass looking up at it, "hey, what was it you wanted to tell me earlier?" he asked.

A girl his age sat down and sighed, "Awamori's dead." she said.

He looked at her for a moment, "who killed him?" he looked back at the moon.

"The two brats." she said, the boy knew exactly who she was talking about.

They walked on a boat to leave the Land of Waves, it had been two weeks of training and searching for their next target. There was Kisame Hoshigaki, Mangetsu Hozuki, Kigai Sonki, and Takashi Yabai were left on their list to hunt down. On the journey to find them were Suigetsu Hozuki, brother of Mangetsu; Furui Nanakusa, niece of Kisame; and Majime Sonki 'Maji' for short, sister of Kigai. As hey board the ship Majime looked down at the water, Suigetsu dug his knuckle on the top of her head.

"Ow!" she complained stepping away from him.

"Thats for telling on Furui and I when we were kids." he said to her.

"Your still mad about that?" she said with red cheeks.

"Calm down kids." Furui said walking away from the two.

"Hey Suigetsu, do you really like Furui, I thought you two hated each other when we were little." she said.

Suigetsu looked at the full moon, "time's change don't they?" he began to walk away.

"Change? Wait, what do you mean?" she called out to him, he was gone though leaving her wondering what he had meant. "Man, Furui and Suigetsu are so strange." she muttered still rubbing her head from his knuckle sandwich.

Suigetsu was laying on the ground and Furui was sitting, Majime was sleeping from the long journey they were in, all back in the Hidden Mist. There were four pictures laying out in front of them and the two shinobi were wondering who to target next.

"Konoha is hunting down Kisame-senpai, we could track down him with their help." Suigetsu said.

Furui flipped over his picture and set it aside, "no, we're saving him for last." she said.

"Fine, what about Kigai or Mangetsu?"

"There's no history of them anywhere, we're going to have to find Takashi and ask him questions, I think thats our only option." she said.

"Your right." he sat up and stretched, he looked at Majime sleeping, "you sure she wont hold us back?"

"She's kinda strong, but no, I'm not sure at all." Furui sighed, "I cant believe Awamori was that sick."

"Yeah, but he's dead now."

"And now you have his sword, I'm actually excited now, if we get Takashi's sword the others will really be worried that someone's after them." she giggled to herself.

Majime sat up and yawned, "is it morning already?" she asked rubbing her eyes.

"It's passed noon." said Furui putting the pictures away, "Takashi, thats who we're going to find first." she said looking at Suigetsu.

"Then it's settled." Suigetsu got up, "I'm going to train now."

"I'll make something, you two don't want to train on an empty belly." she said getting up, "it'll be done in a bit." she walked out of the room.

"I guess there is a use for her." Suigetsu said.

Furui smiled, she picked up the file of Takashi, "while we wait for her, we're going to have to refresh out mind on the bastard who beat us all the time." she said in a witty tone.

Takashi Yabai, the man who always had a smile on no matter what. He has dark blue hair and a some what pale complexion, but that was the last thing Furui and Suigetsu cared about him. Because Majime had a sister who would kill anyone who would touch her, she would never get beat by Takashi. But in Furui's and Suigetsu's case, their family members did not care about them, a very common trait in most Hidden Mist families.

"What did you do to them?" Kigai asked Takashi.

Furui was whimpering and Suigetsu was knocked out, "so I got carried away." he said with a sort laugh.

"Poor kids, get out of here." she said to them.

Furui tried her best to make Suigetsu walk so they could go back to their bunks. Takashi was in charge to discipline all the students who were training with the Seven Swordsmen, but for some reason he tried extra hard to get Furui and Suigetsu in trouble the most. A reason they didn't know and if had the chance to find out, they wouldn't want to know either. He has the legendary golden sword called the Sundan, a very strong sword used with the help of wind. He managed to take the title of a Seven Swordsmen by never failing a mission and killing his own twin brother in a Dojo.

To Furui and Suigetsu, he's nothing but a man they'd rather see dead.

"Wow! I'm glad we found you Maji!" Suigetsu said eating the sweet dumplings she had made for them.

"Thank you." she said.

"Yeah Maji, these are really good." Furui was eating them as well.

Furui and Suigetsu looked down to see one dumpling left, they glared at each other. Both of their sticks grabbed onto it at the same time, "give it up Furui, it's mine."

"No way, your a pig, it's mine!" she said, both pulled onto it at the same time, it flew out the window. "Great, look what you did!" she snapped at him.

"I did? You pulled on it, you could have just given it to me!" he said back to her.

Majime was looking down, "...I didn't even have one, why are you two complaining." she said in a pitiful tone.

"I cant stand you Suigetsu!" she snapped her sticks in half.

"Your short temper really doesn't help you." he smiled.

"Leave my temper out of this!" she yelled.

Majime began to laugh, Furui and Suigetsu shot a look at her but was unnoticed, she kept on laughing. Furui laughed and bit as well, then Suigetsu smiled. "Whatever." he muttered to himself.

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