Hello again! My editor Sarre's away there are going to be a few punctuation mistakes in the next few chapters, but she's coming back on the 20th, so that's good, I keep getting emails say all of these different people are following Gold Eyes, my crap story, so please leave a review, it makes me write faster! And a massive thanks to all those who are now following my story!
Ari leapt forward, and the ninja swung his katana, it curved through the air in a graceful arc. But he had swung too early and it only lightly brushed Ari, leaving a tiny scratch that barely bled. Ari continued to rocket forwards into the ninja, knocking him over. The two skidded along the ground, before coming to a stop, dust rose into the sky at the force of Ari's jump. Raising her wings Ari held a kunai to the ninja's through the sharp blade pressing into his Adam's apple. Tue ninja's eyes boggled as he saw Ari's wings for the first time, and with the dust rising she looked like an...
"Archangel" breathed the ninja in awe,
"What?" Ari spat, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.
"y-you are an angel! No an Archangel" he exclaimed his mouth hanging open.
Ari glared at him,
"Teaches you not to mess with an angel, huh." Air retorted,
"Call off your men... Or what remains of them before I decide to send you all to hell" Ari called taking off into the sky with a flap of her golden wings.
Ari spiralled through the sky, up to Deidara and Sasori, who were quite puzzled about why the rain of kunai, shuriken and other projectiles had stopped.
"That took care of that" Ari called out happily as she landed on the bird like creature. Deidara grinned at her, despite the fact she was covered in blood, dirty and her hair looked like a bird's nest.
"What did you do?" grunted Sasori,
"Well apparently I am an Archangel now" Ari replied sitting down.
"Archangel? Why un?" asked Deidara, confused
"Well one of the ninja's I fought saw my wings and thought I was an Archangel, turns out he was the leader of the group, so he called off the attack" Ari explained. Deidara nodded in understanding. Sasori on the other hand was not impressed.
"Ari that was extremely reckless of you, how many years has it been since you have been a proper shinobi?" Sasori scolded, sounding like an angry parent.
"Sorry Sasori" Ari replied with a sigh.
Although Ari loved Sasori, as a brother, he could still be really overprotective, not that Ari minded, it was nice to have someone that cared.
As the day passed by the group got closer to their destination, the Akatsuki base. The place that would serve as Ari's home for the rest of her life.
The giant clay bird hovered mere meters above the ground it's giant wings outstretched as it descended down to the grass covered ground. There was a mountain reaching up steeply, a clearing of the forest surrounded it, the edges of the clearing were lined with dark green trees, there was a small river running through it, the grass was tall and wavered in the wind. Ari was snapped from her thoughts as the clay bird touched down onto the soft ground with a jolt.
"We're here Ari, brat" Sasori called leaping off the bird and onto the ground, a seemingly impossible move for the giant puppet that Sasori dwelled within.
"Nice, so this is the Akatsuki, a rock" Ari stated sarcastically,
Sasori sighed walking, or shuffling whichever you prefer, to the edge of the mountain. Ari hadn't noticed it before, but there were five bits of paper attached to one part of the mountain, a seal! But what for? Air wondered to herself.
"Ari! Come on, this way un!" Deidara laughed, he himself had made the same mistake Ari had. Ari walked over to the part of the mountain with the seal on it, Sasori stood in front of it, two wooden arms outstretched, his fingers making complex hand seals, finally he pressed his hand into the rock, knuckles first a ring of some kind was on one of his fingers, with a ripple, not unlike water, and the boulder moved! Rumbling and grinding it moved to the side, revealing an entrance.
Deidara elbowed Ari in the side
"Scared un?" He whispered, concealing silent laughter
"Who? Me? Pfffffft as if Blondie!" Ari laughed walking in behind Sasori.
"Ari" Sasori grunted,
"Yes" Ari replied,
"You're going to meet our leader, be respectful and refer to him as leader-sama or sir, nothing else, got it?" Sasori explained gruffly,
"Sure, Why?" Ari asked as the group walked down the stone hallways.
"Because Ari, he's going to explain the rules and goals of our organization to you Ari"
"Huh? Why can't you do it?" Ari asked,
"I don't know he just does, now shut up we're here finally" Sasori retorted, just as the reached a wooden door, it gave off a sense of foreboding.
Sasori reached out and knocked on the door stepping back as it swung open to reveal darkness.
"Enter" a dark, cruel voice called, Sasori pushed Ari into the dark void. The door shut firmly behind her.
"Ari, do you know why you are here" a voice called from the darkness, two grey eyes were all that could be seen of the mysterious leader-sama, his eyes hade six black rings throughout them, that looked like ripples, but his eyes held sadness and pain.
"Well?" he called from the darkness,
Suddenly Ari found herself unable to talk whoever he was he gave off a feeling of power. Regaining her ability to speak Ari replied
"No sir" Ari replied tripping over words,
"We want you for our organization, your abilities would prove useful in our quest for the tailed beasts, which we need control over. We wish to obtain peace, with a weapon that can start and end wars at a moment's notice" he explained his cold voice flowing over Ari like water
"But in order to be able to make this weapon we need tailed beasts, and hunting for them is by no means cheap, so we do missions, like a village of sorts, in order to obtain money so me make bring peace to out hate ridden world" he finished, Ari nodded, not sure if he could see her or not.
But Ari was terrified, this man's prescribe was overpowering and heavy, her natural instincts told her to fly far away, but she also wanted to stay, what he offered was a chance to end war, to end needless suffering, to end pain.
"When you become a member of this organization you will be required to wear this cloak and ring" he said, interrupting Ari from her thoughts, a folded cloak with a ring and bottle of deep purple nail polish seemed to float among the darkness, until Ari realized that it had been placed on a desk right in front of her. Ari picked the bundle up and placed it in her lap, at some point she had ended up sitting down on a chair of some kind.
"Konan!" he called, and at that a kinochi appeared, emerging from the shadows, she had blue hair and golden eyes, her nose was pierced. And in essence she was beautiful, with a strange elegant predatory kind of beauty.
"Yes Pein" she answered her lips barley moving,
"Take Ari down to the village, get her some weapons and... Proper clothing" he commanded, Konan nodded once again and looked to Ari
"This way Ari" she announced, walking out the massive door.
Ari and Konan walked through the twisting hallways down to yet another door; it was brown like the halls, making it hard to see. On it was another matter; a feather was attached to it. Ari stared at it for a few seconds.
"That feather means it's our room, Ari" Konan stated as she saw Ari staring at the feather.
"Our room?" asked Ari confusedly,
"Yes, we don't have enough rooms, so partners share rooms, but since we're the only girls we get to share" Konan responded smiling, Ari smiled in return, feeling accepted by Konan.
Konan walked into the room and Ari followed, the walls were painted a soft blue, there were two beds both with white sheets, one had butterflies carved into the headboard the other had gentle feathers. Konan sat down on the one with butterflies. There were two cupboards one white one blue, the blue one was filled with Konan's clothes the other one was empty.
"Ari I advise you have a bath, it's through there" Konan announced pointing to a door on one of the walls.
"Thanks Konan-San" Ari said, smiling as she walked through the door and into a massive bathroom. The water steamed as it filled the bathtub. Ari removed what remained of her clothes, they were blood encrusted, ripped and barley looked like clothes anymore. Ari sat in the bath the water well past her stomach. She extended her wings and cleaned them, each lower feather was already being replaced by a newer stronger one, so she pulled the old one out. Where her wings met her flesh the feathers melded into skin part of her lower back also had a few feathers growing, when she had been caged, all her feathers stopped growing, it was nice for Ari to have some new ones. The door creaked open as Konan walked in, Ari's hands flew up to her chest, attempting to cover what was there.
"Don't worry sweetie, we're both women" Konan laughed putting Ari's now cloak and ring on the counter. Ari lowered her hands slowly
"How did you get your wings?" Konan asked,
"I don't know they just grew when I was five" Ari responded splashing around in the water childishly.