Part 11 Hell's Child
After I had gone through the whole contents of my closet (there were a lot of clubbing clothes), I had pulled on a black cloak and gone out for a 'stroll' which meant I ended up in once again a pub.
I walked down the street with the hood up; no-one had seen me come out of the Kazekage manor apart from a few guards, but who gives a fuck about them? I don't know why I was sneaking about to tell you the truth, I mean I wasn't trying to impress Gaara or anything I mean why would you think that? I got a few strange looks from the villagers but who are they to say I look strange? I mean they got used to Kankuro in his cat suit. The wind of the desert was blowing my cloak so it flared out behind me making me look like some demented bat like creature. I looked up at the sky, strong winds sometimes meant storms but the sky was a clear light blue with not a cloud in sight, some would say it was a sign of trouble but I don't believe in superstitions, it's all just made up by some bored old hags. I heard music and laughter; I looked down to the next street, well might as well see what's happening. I sighed as I strode down the ally, this would seriously cut in to my drinking time. At the end of it I found bright paper colours, laughing and some dragons which I could see feet under but they were all different colours, black and white, red with yellow markings. I got tired of standing around; I seemed to have been lacking chakra a lot recently. I looked around the crowded street and spotted an open pub, niiiiiice, I grinned to myself. I sidled in, still keeping my hood up and sat down on the roughly carved stools at the bar,
"May I help you?" no you can piss off and go burn in the deepest darkest depths of hell what did she think?
"Warm sake please," I said in a low voice, the pub was occupied by some drunken red faced, well I suppose you could call them men, I heard another person make their way into the bar as the barmaid set the sake down in front of me. I took a few sips and glanced around the dimly light pub, then drained it in one, I ran my middle finger around the edge of bottle, deciding whether to order another one or not. What the hey, I'll do what I bloody well like! I motioned over the drained looking barmaid, "More sake please," she sighed and placed a drink down in front of the other person who was sat at the bar, suddenly I heard a lot of shouting and I raised my head to the sound of the commotion. The man I could only assume was the manager came storming over to me looking angry, meh, I'd seen angrier he didn't scare me. He stood in front me glaring down, I raised an eyebrow,
"We refuse to serve you," he said bluntly crossing his arms, all I had to do was play it cool, I hadn't done anything to this guy, not that I was aware of anyway,
"Why?" I asked calmly, he sighed and was his look pity or exhaustion?
"Because," he began, "Under direct order from Kazekage-sama, I am not allowed to serve you an alcoholic beverage of any sort," the scheming bastard, oh no he couldn't have told me this could he? Oh no he just had to 'save' me from myself, I mean come on I wasn't doing any harm and since when did he give a fuck about my health?
"Tch, that bastard, he always ruins my fun," I said angrily as I took my hood off letting my red hair roll neatly down my back, I sighed and scowled.
"Keitii-san?" a familiar voice said that I had not heard since I was young, I threw one last glare at the manager before looking at the person who had said my name. The person who I had been sat a few seats across from on the bar had said it, she was a silver haired neko girl with red eyes and a very nice kimono,
"Do I know you?" I said looking at her suspiciously, I had been almost sure it had been- , the girl swiftly moved till she was right next to me, she smiled then winked, I was so confused. Then she changed into a demon I hadn't seen in years, I had been right. She switched back quickly; I gave a huge grin at the demon in 'disguise' that sat before me, who was none other than my best friend Makaiko! She looked at me,
"I thought you were dead…." She let her voice trail off shed gone back to Hoshigakure?
"Says you! I went to Iwagakure but they'd said you'd left ages ago," I said indignantly,
"Why did you make your tracks so hard to follow? I was looking for ages," oh I did it so that my loving father could come and find me,
"Sorry," I grinned, "Want me to show you around Suna?" I only felt it polite; mind you I wondered if she'd really be bothered anyway.
"Lead the way," she grinned cheekily, I saw she hadn't changed a bit in her sarcastic ways as she did a mock bow, she followed me out of the bar and as we walked down the street each of us told ac other about what had happened since we last met. I led her around Suna pointing things of interest out to her like the training academy. She told me bluntly that she wasn't interested, which was great I mean I didn't want to walk around Suna all day either,
"Good, that means I don't have to keep showing you around, let's go back to the Kazekage manor," I started to walk in the direction she caught up with me and whistled,
"First the Hoshikage manor now the Sunagakure manor, you sure do like the finer things in life," well that's all I had known my whole life so wasn't complaining, and in any case she was being totally hypocritical,
"Says you, that kimono must have cost a fortune," I said admiring the falling snow pattern,
"It's an advantage of being a shape shifter, my dear friend," oh of course lucky sod. We drew closer to the Kazekage manor so I pointed it out, to outsiders it could look like a giant sand ball, which it kind of was; as we got right up to it Makaiko strained her neck back to look at it fully, "How much room do you need?" she said weakly, I frowned, I had been used to living in a big place all of my life so didn't find it unusual,
"Well, it's also where everyone goes for missions and the running of Suna is decided in there," which I knew far too much about already, Makaiko seemed to be a bit freaked out by all the ninja patrolling the Kazekage manor,
"…Oh," she breathed still looking upwards, for once she was completely silent which had to be a first, I couldn't be arsed walking up the stairs and did not have any energy to fly up there with chakra, but Makaiko could shape shift after all,
"Well let's see if you've got any better," last time she had tried to fly me anywhere we got about three metres then fell,
"Eh?" she said, lights were on but nobody seemed to be home,
"Last time you tried to fly me somewhere we got about three metres before you crashed to the ground holding your back," not that I was fat or anything but I suppose birds just aren't meant to carry humans,
"Oh yeah," she remembered it I could tell by the look on her face, "Where are we flying to," she said with a tone of impending doom,
"My room," which also happened to be very high up,
"Which is?" I pointed and her jaw dropped at the height she was expected to fly, come on this could be called training for her, she looked up a slight crease appearing between her eyebrows
"That one, the one with the bird jumping off the window?"
"Yeah…" bird!? "WHAT?!" I yelled in alarm as my little baby Kotaro plummeted to the ground gathering speed as he went, what should I do?! "What are you doing?! Save him!" I yelled at her as I watched Kotaro in horror,
"What? It's a bird," she said as though I'd lost my marbles,
"So?!" I said exasperatedly,
"It can fly," and she flapped her arms hopefully,
"No he can't!" I wailed, Gaara would kill me if I killed the sacred bird of Suna! I turned to her with an idea, "But you can!"
"Huh? Hey!" she yelled as I hit her across the head, god she was slow, "What was that for?" she said indignantly,
"Save him," I yelled furiously,
"But-" she protested,
"Now!" I commanded, she soon had transformed in to a beautiful bird a flew slowly, that was my baby hurtling towards the ground, to his death and all she did was fly up at a leisurely pace! I pulled some kunai out of my waistband and hurled them with accuracy so that they just missed her, to make her realise I'd kill her if she let this bird die. She sped up and followed Kotaro down and she plucked him out of the air with her claws. Kotaro chirped happily, she dropped him two metres from the ground, was she insane? I flung myself on the ground to catch him and I checked him all over to make sure that he wasn't harmed, I cradled him in my arms, he chirped happily, Makaiko cleared her throat a couple of time but I was just glad that my neck- I meant Kotaro, yeah, Kotaro was safe.
"OI!" she screamed at me,
"What?" I looked at her glaring at me, but I was the queen of glares so she couldn't get to me that easily,
"What should you say?" I was very confused to what she meant,
"Oh! Oh yeah, that was the right window so can you fly us up now," I grinned,
"I meant thank you," she sighed exasperatedly, I was being taught manners by a demon who had absolutely no manners what so ever,
"Thank you for what?"" I tilted my head, she was not making any sense,
"Never mind," she sighed,
"Fly us up then," she transformed in to the beautiful bird again, a fully matured phoenix, her feathers gleamed in the sun, she cawed just to show off, it didn't really impress me, Kotaro fell off my head and rolled down the slope where Makaiko was she sweat dropped, but I couldn't careless my baby was rolling away,
"Kotaro come back!" I ran off down the slope after the fat fluffy Kotaro. Kotaro slowed down to a stop and chirped, he really was a weird ancient bird, as I put him on my head I spotted an ice-cream shop and ran in to it with Kotaro swaying dangerously on my head. I looked at the man at the counter who looked surprised at the sight of a woman with a bird perched on top of her head, "Can I have a rum ice-cream please?"
"Sure you can missy," I handed him some money and strode out licking the ice-cream and smirking to myself, well it had some alcohol in true it wasn't much but at least it was something. I looked up at Kotaro and he had his mission impossible glasses on, I grinned. As I approached the Kazekage manor I found a disgruntled phoenix glaring at me,
"Take your time why don't you?" she snapped angrily,
"Aw, I'm sorry Makaiko, I really am," she sniffed and turned her feathered tail on me, "Don't be like that Makaiko-chan!" I whined, she still didn't answer, "Talk to me!"
"This demon ain't talking," I knew she wouldn't stay mad at me because she never could,
"You just did," I pointed out, she seemed to bite back a retort which surprised me because she is a real chatter box, "You're such a spoil sport," I teased childishly so the phoenix blew a loud raspberry at me, she was so immature. She turned around to glare at me, which fazed neither me nor Kotaro 'cause no-one can throw death glares like I can, Kotaro again fell off me head so I just popped him back on again, she gave in,
"Fine," see I told you she couldn't stay mad at me, "Grab on," I grinned,
"Thanks," first I tucked Kotaro into my pocket, didn't want him falling again. I grabbed on to her tail feathers, she wavered a bit as she took off but got better as we got steadily higher and closer to the open window. Suddenly she jerked and flung Kotaro and I into the room, obviously still angry. She swooped in as the room stopped swaying like the deck of a ship in a hurricane and she landed on Kotaro's golden perch, I looked down Kotaro was swaying and his feathers (or should I say fluff) were ruffled, "My baby! You hurt my baby!"
"Eh?!" she said in alarm an swivelled round, I cradled Kotaro, trying to figure out why she was spluttering about Kotaro.
CRASH
She's flown into Kotaro's perch and lay dazed on the floor then pulled herself to her feet,
"Ma-Makaiko-chan, don't act rashly now, hehe," I laughed nervously, she fixed me with a steely gaze,
"Keitii-chan, I-OH HELL!" she was still a phoenix, which took a menacing step towards me, the- "Oh, oh! That's gross!" she trod in Kotaro's bird droppings and looked down in disgust, (she put her foot in the whole situation you could say). I rolled on the floor clutching my sides as my eyes watered with laughter, she just attracted weird situations Makaiko did. Suddenly I looked up and Makaiko hurled me out of the window, I screamed, I was going to die I knew it. Plunging into the gutters was how I would spend my final moments. I closed my eyes, but my life didn't flash before them because I landed on a giant fluff ball. I bounced off of it and continued down the hill, "I… Am…. Going… to… fucking… kill...that…bloody… demon," I cursed all the way to the bottom of the hill. I landed face down in a pile of mud, this was not a good look or a new fashion to be copied let me tell you. I felt a weight on my back and a force on my head.
I automatically lifted my head up but I'd get some air and a hand would push it back down I kept doing this to breathe, why did Makaiko have to always go way over the top?
"I was getting worried then," I was doing my utmost to keep my head out of the dirt,
"I thought you were actually going to let me die," I laughed,
"I was," I stopped laughing, typical demon! She got off of me, so I raised my dirt spattered (the biggest understatement of the entire millennium!) I looked at her, she walked for steps then a speeding ball of fluff knocked her to the ground.