Chapter 7.
Kisame folded his arms and looked at Madara, "I didn't think you would be able to get through with Sasuke."
"He just needed to know the truth." Madara responded without looking.
Kisame did a short cackle, "so Hawk eh? Thats a nice name for a group."
"I can care less of it, anyhow, you should keep up to date with your little hunters."
"Hm, who?"
"I mean the kid Suigetsu, he's causing problems with a small girl named Majime and your niece."
"Is he now? My, I didn't think he'd take me seriously when I told him to find a partner," he laughed again, "I'll deal with them, in time."
"Well, we have work to do, plus Pain thinks we're still under his command, lets go."
"Yes, yes." both began to walk away to their 'leader'.
It had been two days since Majime was in Tsunade's office and five days since she was at the Hidden Mist coastline where the ship had exploded. She was in a small room sitting on a chair. Her head was on the desk looking out the window waiting for something. Majime had promised she would not spy on anyone, but she couldn't help but send out seals on paper that billowed in the air picking up people conversations. She raised her head as three slips of paper had flew in and landed in front of her. Majime looked at one and just sighed. "I'll check later." she said to herself and stuffed the slips of paper in her pocket. She got up and picked up a backpack, she would be leaving to live in the city now.
And with a painful truth she didn't want to accept: she would never see her sister and she would never see her friends. So she left the room with a lowered head and hopelessness piercing her heart.
Suigetsu was leaning against the wall looking out the window. He was still a little weak, but was no where near a state like Furui. She was sleeping quietly, and she hasn't waken for five days. The door opened and Katana walked in with a platter of medical supplies. She kneeled down began to extend Furui's arm, it had healed very well over the past few days and looked as if it was only a little rash on her. He stared as Katana's hands began to glow green as her medical jutsu was restoring the skin cells on Furui's arms and leg. She had to restore it everyday since Furui's immune system was useless and not healing at all. Her fever was the worst part of all, at times Suigetsu would be scared as she breathed heavily, and he could only watch.
"She's going to be better, don't worry, Furui's had a fever more then once in her life." Katana said breaking the silence.
"Are you sure?" Suigetsu stood up.
"Yes. She used to train while it rained and collapsed in the mud, we found her in the morning with a fever and on the verge of hypothermia, she was just like this. Well, minus the burns."
"I didn't mean for this to happen, it's my fault she suffering."
"Yes, your right, but it wasn't intended. So it doesn't matter."
"Is there anything I could do for her now?" he asked and kneeled down next to Furui.
"No, just watch her, there's nothing you could do." Katana said and raised ready to walk out. "When she wakes up, don't encourage to move. She needs her rest."she walked out and closed the door behind her.
There's nothing you could do. Those words rang trough Suigetsu's mind, he stared at her and her pale face. If only she would wake up, if only she would open her eyes so she could see him, to see how he felt and how sorry he was. But it was no use when he thought this, there was no use when he wanted it to happen. Things didn't happen that way. He lowered his head, "sorry, Furui."
As she opened her eyes she saw a blur in front of her, on more like above her. She saw the pale teal hair as it hung down Suigetsu's face. "Suigetsu." she said in a low tone.
Suigetsu seemed to snap out of his mind and looked wide eye at Furui, she was looking at him with a black face. "Furui." he then said.
She slowly raised and smiled, her eyes went into a witty, playful, glare. "Aw, Suigetsu, did you just apologize to me?"
"What? No!" he said leaning away from her. Furui laughed and stopped as her arm stung with pain. "Hey, hey, calm down Katana said not to move when you wake up." Suigetsu insisted to her.
Furui smiled and paused for a moment, her smile faded as she thought of someone. Tears began to fill her eyes. "Majime."
"Uh..." Suigetsu turned away and leaned against the wall. He didn't know what to say or how to even say it.
Furui calmed her nerves and did a small sigh, "I'm already missing her."
"Katana said all the bodies were found, we can go look for her if you want. We can go claim it as our sister or something."
"You're right, we should go right now!" Furui was about to stand up.
The sliding door slammed open. Katana with her blazing eyes and deep purple hair glared at Furui and Suigetsu. Furui seemed to loose all courage to do so and quickly sat back down. Suigetsu shot a look at Furui as she did this, he wondered why she yielded to Katana so easily while Furui never backed down when it came to him telling her to do anything. Who was this Katana to Furui? Suigetsu wanted to know.
"You just never learn do you?" Katana said in an angry tone.
Furui smiled and waved her hand, "oh calm down you old hag."
"DONT CALL ME AN OLD HAG!" Katana shouted at the top of her lungs. Furui gulped and leaned back to act as if she were asleep. Katana walked up to her and kneeled down.
"What's going on?" Suigetsu said shocked at their relationship.
"Your such an idiot." Katana leaned her head on Furui's chest. "I thought I would never see you again."
Furui set a hand on Katana's head and smiled with her eyes still closed. "You know I would never leave this place forever, the Hidden Mist is my home. The Theater is my home."
"Tsk—you two are freaks." Suigetsu snickered.
"What did you say!?" Furui and Katana shot up to tower over Suigetsu.
He stared at them with side eyes. 'Furui's way more terrifying standing next to Katana...whoa...' he thought.
"Is it true!" the door slammed open again.
Furui and Katana turned around to see two blond pig tails waving. "Kana?" Furui said.
"Furui-chan!" Kana threw herself to Furui causing her to slam on her back.
"Kana you're crushing Furui!" Katana tried to pull Kana off Furui.
"No, no, no! I won't let her leave this time!" Kana said holding on tighter then expected.
"This girl." Katana hissed under her breath.
Furui was slowly losing breath. "Ah!!" She shouted and pushed both Kana and Katana off her. "You were crushing me!" she shouted ready to punch Kana in the face.
"Nice to see you''re back."
The four in the room turned to the door and saw Kano with her bright red hair standing at the door way.
"Kano." Furui said with a still face. Furui looked down, seeing all these people was a little more overwhelming then she would think. She left the place truly thinking Suigetsu and her would be away for a very long time. But now it hardly seemed the case.
"Last time I heard you were dead." Kano said.
Furui clenched her teeth. "Nice to see you too, Kano."
"Oh Kano! Isn't it so great to see Furui back?" Kana jumped back on Furui. "And you'll never leave right?"
"Kana—your crushing my ribs..." Furui said turning blue.
"Kana." Kano sighed and easily pulled off Kana from her.
"How did you manage to do that?" Katana asked.
Kano was holding a sad looking Kana by the back of her collar. "I'm her official dance partner, I deal with her 24/7, so I'm used to this kind of behavior."
"Kano's mean!" Kana began to whine.
"You're such a baby." Furui said sitting next to Suigetsu.
"Seriously." Katana then added.
Suigetsu stared at them all. He noticed Kana's sweetness, he noticed the mellow attitude of Kano, and then he noticed Katana's fierceness. All traits of Furui. His face didn't have any emotion while he was thinking this and felt bad he ever took Furui away from this place. Furui had been here longer then she was ever with him, it grew to be her home, it became a part of her. Suigetsu still blamed everything on himself.
"Sorry Suigetsu." Furui turned to him, he looked at her. She held out a hand, "This is Katana, Kano, and Kana, they're what you call the 'Founding Fathers' of the Theater, well, them and me." she laughed a bit.
"Hello Suigetsu-kun." Kana said with a smile.
"Hi." Kano said.
"We already met." Katana said.
Suigetsu stared at them for a moment, "yeah...I'm Suigetsu." Furui stared at him for a moment with a concerned look and a raised eyebrow. Furui was wondering why he was acting odd all of a sudden.
Furui was looking at Suigetsu as he sat across the table, both were drinking tea. She watched as he sat still with no sudden movements. He began to annoy her. Furui gripped her cup and glared at her so called partner. Out of no where Suigetsu felt hot tea splash on his face.
"What the Hell?!" he shouted jumping on the table and grabbing her collar.
"About time you show some emotion."
"Tsk—shut up." Suigetsu let go of her and fat back down and leaned back on wall. "I'm just tiered, it's been a long couple of days."
Furui stared at him as he still didn't react to anything. "Suigetsu, whats wrong?" she asked trying to sound as friendly as possible. He looked up at her. "You're quiet."
"It's nothing." he said. He then looked around at the empty room. "How long have you been with them?" he asked her.
"Who? Oh, you mean the other's, well, hmm..." Furui put a finger to her lip. "I have to say, maybe a month after the coup d'etat."
"Really?" he asked.
"Yeah, all their families were killed during the incident and we all decided to stick together. We all kind of found each other and decided to create the theater. We figured the Hidden Mist needed some lightening up so we all worked really hard to open it up." Furui sighed and thought about the time that seemed so long ago.
Furui was sitting and dangling her feet while looking at Kano and Kana crying. They were holding each other trying to comfort the other. She sighed and looked down.
"They're such babies aren't they?"
Furui looked up and saw an older girl standing next to her. "I guess." Furui said.
"I've seen you around, you're that Hoshigaki kid right?"
Furui thought her deep purple hair was a nice and romantic color. "No, my name is Nanakusa Furui, the man you're thinking of is my uncle, hardly my family."
"I see, so you're a shinobi?"
"Yep!" Furui said with a smile, "what about you?"
"My name is Kaze Katana, I'm a dancer."
"Wow!" Furui stood up. "Really?"
"Yeah." Katana said with no enthusiasm. "Poor girls, they lost their whole family while the coup d'etat."
Furui stared as the girls kept on crying. Her eyes narrowed and she looked down with a sorrowful face. "It's not like they're the only ones who lost someone..." she said and turned her head to not face them. Katana stared at her for a moment and then looked back at the girls.
"It doesn't matter if people die all the time, it doesn't matter if it's a common thing that occurs, it's still sad, and thats all that matters." Katana said and began to walk towards them.
Suigetsu stared at Furui as she was fiddling her thumbs with each other. She didn't seem to have that much of a reaction when it came to thinking of her childhood.
"I met them a day after you left." Furui said.
"A day?" Suigetsu remembered the day he was taken away by Orochimaru. "I remember that day, we were suppose to train together right?"
"Yeah." she said and wrapped her arms around her knees. "You...said we needed to train to get stronger, but you never showed up."
"Well don't blame it on me."
"I'm not! I'm just saying." Furui said a bit louder then she meant.
Suigetsu smiled. "Hm, you thought I left on purpose didn't you?"
"What was I suppose to think?"
Suigetsu's eyes quickly shifted towards her. "What do you mean?"
"I thought you just left because you didn't like me, because you didn't want me as your partner...I hated you."
Suigetsu closed his eyes. "I wouldn't of left you if it was my choice."
"I even looked for Majime, but I didn't find her either..." Furui buried her head in her knees. "Majime."
Suigetsu looked at her and turned away, he stood up and began to walk to the door. "Lets go claim her body, before they throw it in the furnace."
Furui gulped and nodded. She got up to fallow him and the door closed behind them. A small thump was heard and Katana appeared in the room as if she were there the whole time. She scanned the room and looked around to see if Furui or Suigetsu left anything behind. Kano then appeared and stood on the table.
"You shouldn't spy, it's not nice." Kano said and flipped her red hair. "I heard it's a bad characteristic in a person."
"And where did you hear that?" Katana asked and lifted the cup Furui drank from.
"I don't remember." Kano stepped to the ground and scanned the area as well. "What are we looking for again?"
"We were hired to see if Suigetsu Hozuki is really here."
Kano picked up a plate, "Well we just heard them now talk about a girl named Majime, I thin that should be enough." she saw a few crumbs left on it. "Whoever this Mangetsu guy is really didn't mind offering a pretty penny for this job, I wonder who these guys are to him."
"I want to know why Furui is walking around with a wanted kid anyways, I still never asked what her motives were."
"It must be family problems, you know how it is these days, brothers go against brothers now. Before you know it husband will go against wife." Kano laughed at herself, "Or so I've heard."
Majime stared around the main street in the city while holding a bag of fruit she had just bought. Her bright red eyes scanned the city life of people playing, shopping, and plain old living. It was just like it was when she was with Awamori, when she just stood and stared at things, unable to do anything but look, she hated it, and she was living it all over again. Running around with Furui and Suigetsu was too good to be true, but deep in her heart she thought she was going to see her sister again.
"What do I do now?" she thought.
A nurse with brown hair tied in a bun walked in a room. She adjusted her glasses and looked behind her. Suigetsu and Furui dressed in gray yukata's, the same color as Majime's when she died were standing in the door way.
"So you said it was a young girl?" the nurse asked.
"Yeah," Suigetsu said, "she was just a patrol-man in the boat."
"Well we count that as a casualty, she must be in this room." The nurse walked up to a wall that looked as if it were file cabinets on it. "There was only three citizens considered casualties found. All girls, all with brown hair. You're free to look, if she's in here then come back to me with the tag tied around with toe for the death certificate." The lady walked out and closed the door behind her.
Furui sighed and looked at Suigetsu. "Well, at least we can bury her."
Suigetsu didn't say anything and walked to the first cabinet and pulled it open. The cold mist of the freezer came out like smoke. He pulled the plastic off the face and saw it was an older women then a girl. Furui went to the second cabinet and opened it just as Suigetsu did. She pulled the plastic off and saw that it was an eight-year-old girl, Furui quickly looked away and closed it very quickly. Suigetsu and her looked at each other for a moment before opening the last and only cabinet that could have had Majime in it. Furui did the honors in opening it and took another breath, Suigetsu then pulled the plastic off the face of the girl. Her face was still, motionless, and yet looked as if the girl was just asleep. Suigetsu closed his eyes and turned away.
"It's not her." Furui said in a cracked voice, she covered the face of the girl who looked similar to Majime, but was obviously not. She closed the cabinet.
"Let's leave." Suigetsu said and walked towards the door.
It opened and the woman from before was standing there with a concerned look. "Which one was she?" she asked assuming that Furui and Suigetsu claimed a body.
"She wasn't in there." Suigetsu said.
"Oh dear." The lady said. "If you'd like, I can send you to the authorities, they can send a search party to find the girl in the waters, I doubt she's in the forest still, it was throughly scanned and search."
"Fine." Suigetsu said with and unenthusiastic tone. He looked at Furui. "C'mon, lets go." Furui only nodded and fallowed him as he walked out the door.
One again Furui and Suigetsu were sitting on a tree as they were a while back when they first began to travel together. Furui was dangling her feet over the tree trunk and scanned the whole village. Suigetsu had a slouched posture and had his large Hocho on his back.
"I thought we were going to see if a search party could find Majime." Furui finally said.
"Yeah right, they're gonna ask for all sorts of information and once they find out your Furui and I'm Suigetsu then they'll send up to prison in a second. And you know how jail is here."
"We could lie."
"Forget it.
"But what about—"
"I said forget it!" Suigetsu snapped, Furui's eyes were wide.
Her face then went into a glare. "Forget you." Suigetsu watched as she jumped to the ground.
"And where do you think you're going?" Suigetsu jumped to the ground as well.
"What do you think?" she said sternly. "I'm going to find Majime's body!"
"How?"
"By myself."
"And then what?"
"Then I'm going to bury her!"
"If she's in the water then she's probably been fish food by now!" Furui used all her strength the slap him, a big splash was made from the impact. Suigetsu then glared at her.
She had on a wicked face. "Stop talking like that." And then it turned to one as if her whole body were acing with pain. "Why do you have to be so cruel?" Tears began to fall down her cheeks and she took a few steps back.
Suigetsu's sword slammed to the ground, he quickly took a few steps forward and wrapped her arms around her. He held her so tightly but Furui wasn't hugging back. "Furui..." he said.
"What are we doing?" she asked, her whole body was stiff. "What are we doing, Suigetsu? We're just running around killing people and we stopped the plans of Akatsuki! What are we doing?" She pushed him and backed away.
"I didn't mean for Majime to die." Suigetsu said.
"But she did, thats just it Suigetsu, she did!" Furui shook her head from side to side. "All for stupid swords, all for our ambitions we had when we were kids...kids are suppose to grow up. And look at us now—we're so stupid—I'm so stupid, maybe if I just stayed put nothing bad would never happen."
Suigetsu's face looked hurt, her words effected him deeply. His eyes met here, "then leave."
"Huh?" Furui looked.
"Then why did you fallow me?" he asked angry.
She stared at his angry face. "Suigetsu, I didn't mean it."
"If you didn't come with me and if I just did everything on my own then Majime would still be in Hell!"
"What are—"
"You think I'm selfish?" he shouted at her. "Listen to yourself, if we never killed Awamori then Majime would still be with him! Remember what it was like for her there?"
Furui looked down. "I didn't mean it like that."
"If you're so mad, if you're so unhappy, then just leave, you don't have to be here. Just get out of my sight!" he shouted grabbing his sword and began to walk away.
Furui watched him go further and further away. "Suigetsu!" she held onto him, she buried her face on his back. His face was shadowed by his bangs. "Why are you so mean?" she asked him.
Suigetsu let go if his sword, turned around and hugged her. Both were in each other's arms. "You can leave or you can stay with me, choose."
Furui closed her eyes. "I'll stay."
Suigetsu ran his hand over her hair, "we'll avenge her death, somehow."
Majime sat up and stretched her arms, it was a warm day and there was nothing else to do but find a place to get some food. She turned around and did a short scream as a boy on one knee appeared in front of her. He raised up and looked around the place. "Who—who are you?" she asked wondering why the boy was there.
"Sai." was all he said and turned his abnormally deathly pale face towards her.
Danzo said she was going to be a small girl who would look as if she could do nothing wrong and had no talent. He was right on that. Majime's bright red eyes were wide, she had her small fist by her mouth and he watched as she took a step back. He set a hand on his small sword on his back.
"What are you doing?" Majime shouted waving her hands and backing away into a desk.
Sai stood up straight. "You really aren't a threat.
"Huh?" Majime was confused. "A threat?"
"I'm part of—"
"ROOT." Majime finished for him.
'How did she know?' Sai thought.
"Sorry, I guess Tsunade still thought I would be spying around. I'm not, but I do remember your picture when I looked through the files, don't worry, I didn't read it but I did see your picture. Right under you're name I saw the word ROOT."
Sai stared at her for a moment. "I see, I was sent here to check on you." Sai very well knew why he was here. "Tsunade sent me here to escort you if you leave for any reason."
"I was doing fine myself the last week, why does she want to check on me now?"
"Hokage's orders." Was all Sai could say so she wouldn't ask anymore questions.
"This is stupid." She said walking out and holding the door open. "Well, I'm leaving now." she said to Sai, he walked out and the door closed behind them.
Her spiked hair blew in every direction the wind was going. Her head piece with the symbol of the Hidden Mist still looked clean from the very first day she put it on. Her life long partner was leaning against the wall for quite some time because the annoyance of the wind. He hated the wind, it was a bother. While she found it soothing.
"Isn't the wind lovely?" she asked in her feminine voice.
"No." he said rather harshly, he looked to the side as if he were waiting for someone to arrive.
And just then two people appeared and did a short bow. It was none other then Katana and Kano.
"We're at your service." Katana said while standing up straight again.
"So what did you find out?" the spiky haired girl said. Her bright red eyes were intimidating for the two dancers.
"Well, I think they're looking for someone." Kano said first. "They keep talking about a girl named Majime Sonki, do you know her?"
"Yes I do." the girl responded.
Katana stared at the two Shinobi that stood before her. Both had the Hidden Mist head pieces and both wore the vests. It was amazing how beautiful the girl was which contrasted with her fierce eyes and boyish hair. The boy behind her had such a nice teal color to his hair, it seemed soft, he looked nice, there was nothing threatening to him when he just stood there.
"Oh, well..." Kano said. "I think the girls dead."
"No shes not." the girl said.
"C'mon, Kigai, we don't have all day." the boy said in an angry tone.
The girl whose name was Kigai nodded her head and turned around revealing the thin silver sword strapped to her back. "Can you relax, Mangetsu?" she said, he only turned around and began to walk away. Kigai turned back to Katana and Kano. "Anything else?"
"No, they just keep talking about her, and if they're not talking about her then they're just talking...about anything just to pass time." Kano said, Katana glared at Kigai and the walking away Mangetsu.
"I see, well." Kigai walked up to them and handed the money she and Mangetsu promised. "Here you go, don't spend it all on a pair of shoes." she said and began to walk away. She stopped and turned her head to say something. "Oh, and about this little confrontation, if I find out you told them. Then I'll destroy your little drama house and kill everyone who inhabits it. Got it?" Katana and Kano were silent. "Good." Mangetsu and Kigai disappeared.
"Man." Kano said. "They're so strong."
"Kigai, Mangetsu, those names seem so familiar." Katana said.
Mangetsu and Kigai were standing of the roof of a hospital. Both looking over the village they both grew up in.
"This place was heaven to me when I left the Rain Village." she said.
"You don't ask for too much do you?" Mangetsu said. "I hated this place."
"Well compared to a place that was going to kill Majime and I, this place was kinda welcoming, especially with Madara. I almost miss him."
"He was alright."
"He was the reason why we were so strong, don't say his name in vein."
"He's not God, get over yourself, just because he couldn't catch us doesn't mean he couldn't kill us. Besides, no one could catch us, him not being able to makes him no different then anyone else."
"You're an incredible man, and don't take that as a compliment."
"Too late, I already did."
"Hm." Kigai folded her arms. "I think it's about time to show yourself to your little brother, and time to put that stupid Hoshigaki in her place."
"Are you sure? Kisame wont be too happy if we lay a finger on her."
"As if he'd know, he left her alone meaning he doesn't care about her."
"You're sick." Mangetsu said and stepped on the ledge to jump away, his golden sword strapped to his back blazed in the gray light of the Hidden Mist. "I'm hungry, lets get something to eat, I'm paying."
"You better, I have for the last year." Kigai said, both jumped away in a blink of an eye.
Kigai Sonki and Mangetsu Hozuki, two of the most deadly shinobi of the Hidden Mist. Both have been partners since their early days in training. When Kigai arrived at age 11 in the Hidden Mist, the Mizukage saw the talent she portrayed and had her partner up with Mangetsu, mainly because the small details they both had that made them relate to each other. They had younger siblings and had such an incredible speed they were able to pass some of the most elite missions the Mizukage had sent them on. Within no time they became part of the Seven Shinobi Swordsmen. As the two worked and grew together they met some of the most strongest shinobi the five largest nations inhabited. And every time they ran into an 'invincible' shinobi, Mangetsu and Kigai always said:
"If you can catch us, then you could kill us, if you can't, then you have no right." Thats just how it was for them. And they carried on this title of incredibly fast shinobi. They were even recognized by the Forth Hokage, who, ironically took the nickname "Yellow Flash". This recognition they developed helped them become two of the most prestigious shinobi the Hidden Mist raised. Though both wanted their siblings to have nothing near the life they had. They're intentions are very hard to make out, but will be revealed soon.
Furui was sleeping against a tree and dreamed about anything her mind brought her too. Suigetsu was looking up the sky wondering why the wind was acting up so hastily, and at the same time he was wondering why he cared about it so much. He glared up, but knew he could do nothing about the hair billowing winds. "Someones out to get us." Suigetsu whispered to himself.
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