Chapter 7- Spiders and Shadow Masters
Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto.
"ITA...ITACHI."
All three men froze in disbelief, and Shisui choked a little. "I KNEW IT. That dog."
But then they heard something that made their blood run cold.
"HELP. SOMEBODY."
Shisui tried to break down the wall, but Genma held him back and dragged him through the door, and Neji knocked on the door to Itachi and Sakura's room.
Itachi opened the door and sighed. Shisui pushed past him to look for Sakura. "I'll protect your virtue Saku-"
Shisui stopped in his tracks at what he saw. Sakura was standing on the bed, screeching something about monsters and ugly creatures. And on the floor, right in front of him was...
A *huntsman spider.
Shisui let out a bloodcurdling scream and jumped and landed on the bed with Sakura, and they both held onto each other in fear and disgust.
Itachi and Neji sighed, while Genma took his senbon out carefully before laughing.
"Itachiiii. Kill it. Pleeeeaaase," Sakura begged. Itachi felt a rush of manly pride go through him. She asked him to kill the spider, not anyone else. 'Get a hold of yourself. It's just a spider.'
"Yes, please kill it before it kills us all," Shisui said in a freaked out voice.
"Man Shisui, stop acting like a girl," Genma drawled lazily.
"I'm not acting like a girl! Do you even know what that kind of a spider can do?"
"Do you know what it can or cannot do?" Itachi asked, smirking.
"IT HAS EIGHT EYES."
Suddenly, the spider made its move. It stared moving at a fast pace, towards the bed.
"Oh my god, Shisui it thinks you're ugly and it's going to kill us all because of it," Sakura wailed, trying to push him off the bed. "You must sacrifice yourself for your comrades!"
"The hell I must! It's eyes must be affected because of your bright pink hair!" Shisui yelled back.
Itachi looked at Sakura as she screeched on and on in fear, before he threw a kunai at the spider, impaling it against the floor. But it wasn't dead yet. Neji, having a contract with birds, summoned a stocky black bird with short tails and sharp eyes.
"Which bird is that?" Sakura asks curiously.
"It's called a European starling." The birds eyes zeroed in on the spider and it flew towards it, removing the kunai easily and made a move to eat it.
"Not here, Charles. Outside," Neji scolded it. The bird bowed its small head and grabbed the spider with its beak, and flew out the window Itachi had opened for it.
"Charles? Who names a bird Charles?" Shisui asked as he got off the bed. Itachi offered a hand to Sakura, who smiled at him as he helped her get off gracefully.
"It's better than Sushi." Neji replied bluntly.
As Shisui flushed, Sakura looked to Itachi for an explanation. "He had a goldfish called sushi," Itachi said.
Sakura burst out laughing as Shisui pouted. "At least I'm not in love with-"
Shisui was interrupted as someone punched him in the face. To everyone's surprise, it was Sakura. "What was that for?" Shisui whined angrily.
"I'm sleepy. Get out," Sakura said calmly. 'I don't want to hear it. I can't."
'But what if it's YOU?'
'I highly doubt that.'
Itachi frowned at Sakura's depressed look. As he closed the door after the three guys went back to their room, Sakura slowly went and lay down, looking sad.
Itachi got in behind her, and slowly starting rubbing her back, kneading it gently in places.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked breathlessly. 'Awesome. A massage. I really needed this.'
"Making it up to you. Sleep."
'This is the best night of my life. Yours too. Our lives.'
'Shut it and let me enjoy.'
At dawn.
"Oh god. I can't open my eyes. It's like they're stuck."
"Shisui, I told you to wash your face before leaving," Sakura snapped at him.
"No matter how hard you try, he will always be a brute, Sakura," Itachi told her in his silky voice.
"Well, we all can't be perfect little mommy's boys, can we?" Shisui retorted.
"I think it's sweet," Sakura said nonchalantly. Itachi felt a warmth creep up his neck as he started at Sakura, eyes all soft. Shisui gagged and turned his head away.
He felt, rather than saw, Itachi's glare trying to burn a hole in his head. He gulped but started whistling nervously. Sakura gave him a weird look but passed it off as Shisui being Shisui.
Soon, they arrived at the Shadow Masters' hideout.
"HEY. Anybody there?" Shisui yelled into the cave, as they stood at the entrance.
"How come these people live in a cave? How come all bandits live in a cave?" Sakura wondered out loud.
"It's become a trend. It helps define our identity," replied a slick voice.
Five ninja walked out of the darkness, one restraining a struggling teenage version of Ryuu, his son Koji. "Well well, what do we have here? Four pretty boys and a princess." said the man with the slick voice.
"Okay, first of all, we aren't just pretty boys, we're pretty boys who can kick your asses with our eyes closed. And this princess is actually a pink-haired demon," Shisui said. "And second, your group's name is..pretty lame."
"Who are you to say that? Just wait. We'll defeat you guys and sell your pretty asses in the black market." said the leader with the slick voice, his gang members nodding in agreement.
'Damn it, I hate it when people underestimate me because of my looks!'
'Show them what you're made of!'
'Gladly.'
Fifteen minutes later.
All five shadow masters' members were lying on the ground, defeated. The Konoha shinobi had escaped with only a scratch or two on each of them. Well, except for Itachi. He didn't have even one.
Koji looked at them in awe. He kept glancing at Sakura discreetly and blushing, and Itachi didn't like it at all.
Shisui nudged Itachi when he glared at the kid too long. "He's just a kid with a small crush. Let it go," he whispered.
"He's seventeen. She's eighteen. Not much difference," Itachi seethed quietly.
"Scared someone's going to steal your woman? He isn't that bad looking," Shisui grinned.
"Why don't you ask him out then?"
Meanwhile, at the Kenpachi manor
Ryuu was going through his old family scrolls, looking for that particular scroll.
'Wait-I think this is the one.'
"What are you doing?" Sayuri asked as she entered the room. She frowned when all Ryuu did was gasp. "What?"
"Sayu...look at this."
Sayuri stepped forward and peered over his shoulder at the old scroll. "What are you-"
She stopped as soon as she saw what he was looking at. It was a small portrait of a young girl.
A girl with long pink hair and bright, kind green eyes.
I didn't get into the battle scene since the Shadow Masters aren't that important.
*a huntsman spider is huge, with lots of legs and eight eyes and its brown and hairy and ugly. I don't blame Shisui and Sakura for being scared.
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