Arashi grunted as she felt a needle prick her snake snout. Her mind was still foggy, but the fog seemed to lift after the needle prick. A few more pricks, and she was aware of her surroundings.
Arashi was still in her snake form. Immediately, she was relieved. If she had turned back to a human, she would have died instantly from all the chemicals she had absorbed. Another prick. Arashi sighed as the world stopped spinning.
"Nice, Arashi," someone said. "You go and get yourself drunk with chemicals. Can't I leave you alone long enough without you getting in trouble?" Arashi lifted her head and hissed at the someone. Another needle into her chin. She stared as a yellow chemical flowed through the needle and into a vial.
A young man, a bit older than Arashi, examined the vial. He had brown spiked hair- the same color as Arashi's- and mint green eyes. He wore a forest green jacket over a fishnet shirt and black pants. His teeth poked out of him mouth a little, but a lot less noticeable than Arashi's.
His green eyes narrowed, "… Is this pee?" Arashi snarled and transformed back to her human form. Most of the dangerous chemicals were gone from her body. "It's not, you idiot!" Arashi snapped at the boy.
He raised an eyebrow, "Oh really." He sniffed the vial and set it in a bag, along with more vials of liquids. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was… Now then…" He leaned closer to Arashi, a smirk on his face, "Who is that boy that Kashira found?" All anger erased from Arashi's face, "… Only one boy?" She whispered. Had they lost someone? The man nodded, "Yeah, Kawauso, some silver haired dude, and a real ugly chick."
Arashi stared at him and burst out laughing, "Yeah, that was my first impression to. He's a guy, Iji." Iji stared at her, "WHAT? No way, NO WAY! That thing is a girl." Arashi smirked, "It's a guy, and he's my boy-"She clamped a hand over her mouth. Iji blinked and broke out in a wide grin. He helped his sister to her feet, "No way."
Arashi blushed and her tattoo glowed pink, "… Well he's one of my boyfriends." Iji stared, "You're a whore?" Arashi narrowed his eyes and punched her brother in the forehead. He fell to the ground. "Shut up," she hissed, "And where are they, anyway?" Iji grunted and rubbed his sore forehead, "With Kashira, not to far away from here."
Arashi's brother was far better at changing animals than she was. His two transformations were a little simpler than some of Arashi's but Kashira was beyond simple.
At first, he was a regular deer. You would only know that if someone told you. Now Kashira was covered in green spikes. He didn't have antlers, but two green goat horns. He had leg like a deer would, but also two spiky arms. A deer to a centaur. But his spikes, horns, and three pairs of limbs was not the strangest feature of Kashira. His heads were.
He had one, sitting on his neck like a normal head would. And his face always looked annoyed. And on his sides were six more heads. Three on each side. Each head also had the lower half of their body and arms, but no legs. And yet, that was only the beginning.
Each head had a different brain, and a different personality. Head One sat on Kashira's left shoulder. He was the bossy and serious type who sometimes took over Kashira's role as the boss. Head Two was behind him. He was extremely lazy and had absolutely no motivation. He just liked to sleep. When he was awake, he complained constantly. Number Three was on Kashira's hindquarters. This head liked to keep quiet, but he was afraid of his own shadow.
On the right side shoulder was Head Four. He was short tempered, arrogant, and overall mean. He and Head One as well as Kashira himself always got in fights. Head Five, the relaxed laid back one. The peacemaker and fun loving one of the group. He fails at keeping the heads together though. And finally, Head Six. Clueless. Stupid. This head has absolutely no idea what's going on.
So with seven heads, the old term 'two heads are better than one comes up'. Okay, maybe two or three, but when you hit seven heads, everything goes downhill. When Arashi asked Iji why he gave Kashira so many heads, he said that he thought it would be a good way to handle being outnumbered. Eyes on all sides. The bad news; no head could get along with the other. So every five minutes, a fight would break out.
And Kashira and Kawauso… never got along either.
"Kashira. What kind of gay girly name is that?" Kawauso growled. Serious Head rolled his eyes, "Kawauso, do we really need any of your crap?" Angry Head snarled back at Serious, "Do I need any of your crap?" Serious glared at him.
"Well, man, Kashira's a pretty, name." Relaxed Head pointed out. Clueless Head cheered, "Yay! I like pretty!" Lazy Head yawned, "I hate all of you. I hate everything."
"And before you insult us, talk to crossdresser over there. What's his name, Deidre?" Angry snapped. Deidara narrowed his eyes, "Deidara." He corrected. Clueless stared, "Deidre? OMG HIIIII!" Deidara didn't answer this.
"DEIDARA. HIDAN." Both Akatsuki turned around at the mention of their names. Arashi jumped out of the bushes and tackled them both to the ground while embracing them in a giant hug. "I thought you died!" she cried while nuzzling each of them.
"Arashi, hmm… We can't… breathe…" Deidara gasped. Arashi blinked and jumped off of them. "Heh, sorry." Hidan embraced her this time, "NEVER F-CKING DO THAT AGAIN, YOU ASSHOLE." The kunoichi sighed as Deidara pried her away from the masochist and hugged her.
Kawauso stared at the man-catfight that followed. Something clicked, "Uh, aren't we forgetting something?"
Iji scratched his head, "Like what?"
"Pudding?" Clueless asked. Kashira stared at the head. "I dunno," Kawauso continued, "But it was something… Important. Very important. And it started with a-"
"SHIT! GIANT SNAKE THING!"
"Yeah, that. Thanks Hidan." Kawauso said, "Oh, wait. OH GOD." He was nearly hit by a pair of giant fangs. A huge snake erupted from the ground, and on its head was none other than the rapist. Or Orochimaru, if that's what you wanna call him.
"Aw, come on!" Arashi yelled and dragged her boyfriends into the nearest tree. "Oh, silly girl, you didn't really think that I would leave you, did you?" Orochimaru chuckled. Her eye twitched and she threw a twig at him. She missed.
Kawauso screamed and began running around in circles. Kashira stared at him. He sighed, "Iji, do we have to?"
"Well, duh," a plump purple badger replied. His entire appearance seemed cartoonish and there was a wing tattoo on his left arm. Kashira sighed again and pulled out a spike from his shoulder, molding it into a bow. Pulling out another spike, he notched this into his spike-bow. "I assume you want us to take on the snake?" The serious head asked. The badger nodded, "And don't mess up, either." Angry snorted, "Like we ever do that."
Serious stared back at the head, "Really?"
Before a head fight could break out, Kashira charged. He pulled back the string in his bow and fired the arrow. The tip curled into a pointed hook and stuck onto the tip of the snake's snout. It hissed in pain, and Kashira charged forward, two spikes in his hands. He raked them down the serpent's sides with the help of his heads, who had extended their spikes so that they became six spiky balls.
Iji, meanwhile, was facing Orochimaru. The pedophile glared at the badger. His neck stretched and lurched forward, huge snakelike fangs extending from his mouth. Kashira paused his onslaught of arrows at his opponent and dashed into a nearby bush.
Orochimaru's teeth sank into Iji's shoulder. The badger stared at him, "You really, really shouldn't have done this." And he exploded. The blast knocked Orochimaru backwards and ripped numerous trees, including the one Arashi was on, out of the ground. Arashi, Deidara, and Hidan toppled to the ground. Kawauso flew into them.
Bits of purple began flying back to the spot Iji had once stood. Slowly, more badger pieces came together and soon Iji was standing in his badger form, looking very proud of himself. He transformed back to his human form and yawned, "That was actually pretty boring." Kashira peeked from the bushes and nodded his agreement.
"Oh really?" Orochimaru appeared behind Arashi. She froze and slowly turned around to meet those sadistic eyes, "Pft. Typical." She snorted. Hidan, Kawauso and Deidara immediately reached for their weapons and Arashi channeled chakra to her fists, forming bear claws.
Orochimaru grinned, turned around, and ran. Arashi stared after him for a moment, and then hissed, "Hey! Coward, get back here!" She roared and raced after him, on four legs.
"Arashi! Wait, hmm." Deidara called after her. Kawauso groaned, "Iji, he ran away and now Arashi's gone after him."
Iji appeared behind them, Kashira next to him, "Really? Man…" Angry head burst into fits of laughter, "Ha! Arashi's gonna die!" Shy head burst into tears, and Serious glared at the head. Clueless clapped his hands together, "Oh! You know what this calls for?"
"What?" Everyone asked. "A spontaneous music number!" Clueless replied, "Ready? And a one, and a-"
Everyone groaned.
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Arashi channeled more of her chakra to her feet, picking up her pace. The snake man was just in sight, but whenever she got the least bit closer, he slipped from her wrath. And this frustrated the kunoichi even more than before.
Orochimaru turned to his pursuer and chuckled, "Hey, are you going to catch me or what?" Arashi snarled and leaped at him. Yet again, he dodged just in time. This time, however, there was no ground to meet her. Arashi began to plummet down off of a cliff that just had to be there.
"Gotcha, hmm." Deidara announced triumphantly. Arashi stared in his eyes. He was on top of a clay owl, and she was lying in her arms. She sighed, "Deidara, I was about to fly, you know." She flapped her chakra eagle wings to emphasize her point.
Deidara grinned, "Doesn't matter, hmm. I just wanted to be away from Hidan with you." Arashi raised an eyebrow, "Why?" Deidara held her chin in his hands, his palm-mouths tickling her, "To do this, hmm." He pressed his lips against hers. Arashi intertwined her fingers in his blonde hair and returned the kiss.
Without them breaking away, Deidara commanded the owl to start flying upwards. They broke apart just before anyone, especially Hidan, could see them.
It was a good thing too; the others were at the edge of the cliff. They were also surrounding Orochimaru.
The owl disappeared in a puff of smoke. Deidara and Arashi landed side by side behind Hidan.
To their surprise, Orochimaru burst into fits of giggles. Hidan glared, "Either you're seriously on f-cking drugs are you're f-cking insane. Why are you f-cking laughing?"
Orochimaru smiled, "Oh, it's because you just fell into my trap."
Hidan blinked and looked down just to see a bomb seal light up, "Ah, shit." The cliff exploded and took the Akatsuki as well as Iji and Kashira down with it.
Each of them jumped from rock to rock, narrowly escaping being crushed by a huge boulder every second.
Arashi glanced upwards long enough to see a huge boulder hurtling towards Hidan. "Hidan!" She screeched and leaped over to him. He glanced at her, and she pushed him out of the way at the last second.
She landed on top of him at the bottom of the cliff. Turns out, it wasn't as far of a drop as they had expected. Arashi clung onto Hidan. He grunted, "Arashi. You're crushing me… Again."
Arashi peeled her eyes opened and jumped off of Hidan, "Are you hurt?" The Jashinist sat up and groaned, "Think I broke a f-cking rib… Ow…" Arashi sighed and asked him where. He pointed to a spot on his chest. She moved her hand over the spot and began channeling chakra into his wound.
Then she realized it wasn't really a wound, "Hidan. It's not broken." Hidan grinned, "I know." And he pulled her into a kiss. Arashi pulled Hidan onto his feet, wrapping her arms around his neck. Suddenly she broke away from him, "Oh my god, I am so dirty." She hissed to herself as the others landed a few feet away.
She just made out with Hidan about five minutes after she made out with Deidara.
Orochimaru giggled and landed behind them. Everyone groaned. "What, am I annoying you?"
"Yes." Hidan growled. Deidara tossed a clay centipede at Orochimaru. It curled around him, and Deidara exploded it.
When the smoke cleared, Orochimaru's charred body flopped to the ground. Kawauso sighed, "Thank God that's over."
"Uh… Think again." Kashira said. Orochimaru's mouth snapped open. To their alarm, and disgust, a hand began to reach out of Orochimaru's corpse.
Slowly, the hand became and arm. Then a shoulder. And then another hand. Finally, Orochimaru crawled out. He was dripping with green slime.
Kawauso threw up.
Arashi's eye twitched, "Come on!" she hissed. Arashi began to survey her surroundings, devising a plan.
Hidan groaned, "Ugh, how much f-cking longer do we have to put up with your shit?" Orochimaru cackled, "Until all of you are dead."
"You know, Orochimaru. It's kinda ironic how you picked this cliff," Arashi stated. He turned to her, "Oh really? Why?" Arashi met his eyes and broke out in a wide grin, "'Cause it's full of poisonous snakes."
And on cue, a snake burst out of the ground. Its fangs were dripping with poison and its eyes were dripping with malice. Another one followed it. And another. "And that's our cue to get the hell out of here," Arashi told the others as she dashed for the side of the cliff.
Charging chakra into her fists, she clambered upwards using bear claws. Iji climbed effortlessly past her, followed by Kashira. Arashi growled and glanced downward to see Kawauso clinging onto Hidan's leg as he ran up the cliff.
When they were finally on top, Arashi shot her partner a glare. "What was that about?" Kawauso shrugged, "Meh. Guess I'm lazy." Iji chuckled, "Probably got it from you."
She tackled her brother to the ground, "You are such an asshole!" She growled. Iji grinned, "You know, 'Rashi…" Her eye twitched at the hated nickname. Iji continued, "I've been dying to tell you this. Your transformations are way too showy. Sure, they're all sparkly and nice, but when it comes to battle, they suck. And they get clouded by emotions from the animal you took their DNA from and-"
"SHUT UP!" Arashi ordered, her tattoo glowing intense silver. She began to pummel him with her fists.
"Yay! Family reunion!" Clueless cheered. Kashira sighed, "Ah well, what did you expect from us?"
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Yeah, sorry it's short. But it was taking a long time to finish. Thought I'd just get it over with and put this up.