Here it is, the rest of the chapter! There's more singing too, yay! Also, if anyone is interested, I also draw, and have uploaded a few pictures that go along with this story on my deviantart account. I go by BrandNewOrange on there as well, so I should be easy for you to all find :) Thanks to everyone for the support, here's chapter nine part two!
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Sasuke whistled to himself as he took in the destruction. This woman he'd got himself stuck with was damn strong. No wonder she was in the akatsuki. He'd given up trying to talk properly to the blue haired one; however, it seemed she couldn't understand his enthusiastic little chirps.
The fight had been, interesting to say the least. It had started when somebody had thrown something at the female. She was fuming, and when the captain handed her the discs she lost it. From his place on her shoulder he'd watched as she sent out reams of what appeared to be paper from her sleeves. Each piece folded itself into sharp little shuriken, flying at the men with deadly speed and accuracy. As for the arrow, she'd merely leapt to the top of the pole, heavy discs in one hand, and pulled out the offending weapon with the other. It was then aimed back at the captain, as she threw it again, before jumping down and stalking off.
That had been several hours ago. Since then, Sasuke had found himself on a long, quiet journey with the kunoichi. He was somewhat glad, the calm made a change from the noise he usually had to put up with from his own team.
Konan strolled along the pathway whistling to herself. The road was shaded from the sun by splendorous willow trees either side of it, but the sun still kept the atmosphere warm. In one of her hands, she still had one of the stones from the army camp. She figured she'd give it to pain as a gift when she finally ran into him. She was swinging it leisurely on its rope.
The cricket on her shoulder hadn't made much of a noise since she left the camp either. Not that Konan minded, it was a welcome change to the arguments' of the men she usually dealt with. She didn't want to admit it, but she did miss them all. Even if they were idiots and extremely irritating, not to mention childish. She'd never known criminals like her boys. Still, it stood to reason that if she kept moving she'd eventually run into one of them.
Konan couldn't help wondering if the cricket on her shoulder was also a person from her own world, when she'd asked it, it had buzzed loudly and excitedly so she supposed it might be.
Sasuke was delighted when she'd asked, and tried to reply to her. The blue haired woman simply nodded her head in recognition of something. He hopped across to her other shoulder, and spotted something in the distance. Realising it was another group of people he began tugging on a strand of blue hair.
Konan turned to see what the bug was pointing out, ah! More travellers and these ones didn't look like they were part of the army. She stopped and rested by the side of the road. Perhaps they had seen her friends, and she was going to wait there and find out.
Suigetsu had acquired a pole from somewhere. Originally they had hung Karin's new bowl off the end of it. Suigetsu on the other hand, had different ideas and began to brandish it like his long lost executioner's blade. He was currently swiping it around himself with excited little yelps. Karin, luckily, had been removed, her bowl now dangling from one of the prongs on Kisame's trident.
"Hey, there's someone up ahead," the white haired boy spoke. Kisame and Itachi both looked up to where he was pointing. They could make out a figure sat on top of the little hill, just by the roadside.
"Oh, that looks like someone I know!" Kisame beamed, there was only one person he knew (besides himself of course) with hair of such a hue. Itachi felt a weight in his stomach melt away. If that was Konan, she'd probably be able to realise it was him!
"Konan!" yelled Kisame, waving to the female. She stood up and waved back. Jogging down the hill to meet them.
"Good day Kisame, I trust you are well?" the kunoichi greeted the shark like man. She radiated calm and elegance, and Suigetsu suddenly felt stupid for wearing the seashell bra.
"It's good to see you Konan, we've been searching ages to find someone else," Kisame informed her, "so far it's just been me, Suigetsu and Karin, we did make friends with Elliot here too. What about you?" Suigetsu scuffed his feet on the floor and offered a brief "hello," and Karin emerged over the edge of her bowl to wave a claw at the newcomer. Konan nodded her head at them and turned back to Kisame.
"No, the only other person I've run into is this little cricket, hmm that's odd, he seems to have gone," Konan looked on both her shoulders for the cricket before spotting what was happening between the little jumping bug and the dragon.
Everyone gawped at the spectacle before them. The tiny cricket appeared to be attacking the huge dragon, bouncing right at its eyes. Elliot/Itachi swatted at the nuisance, keeping it away from his face. He was however growing irritated, smoke flaring from his nostrils. There was a flash, and Kisame stepped between them, handing the cricket to Konan, and turning to scold his own companion.
"Now you two better stop this, we have to work together and find our friends. Elliot I'm surprised at you!"
Itachi sighed inwardly. Couldn't Kisame see that the insect was his foolish little brother? What was Konan doing teaming up with the nuisance? Sasuke buzzed angrily, he'd kill Itachi! How dare Suigetsu and Karin travel with him like this and do nothing! The pair off them buzzed and huffed indignantly, their sole existence was to fight each other, couldn't the others see that?
With the distraction of the fight, they all failed to notice Suigetsu had successfully stolen Kisame's trident, and was waving it aloft.
"Ha-ha! Samehada is mine!" the boy whooped with joy. Karin hid at the bottom of her bowl while the others moaned in irritation. Kisame frowned, the boy's idiocy never ceased to amaze him. At first he'd found it adorable, but now it was just irritating. He picked up the discarded pole Suigetsu had been carrying and bopped the younger mist nin on the head with it,
"Bad puppy, down!" he growled. Suigetsu didn't answer, he was unconscious.
Sometime later the two Uchiha looked at their group incredulously. It appeared Suigetsu's bad habits had spread to the other members of their group, as Karin and Konan were currently leading their march with a song of their own.
"what do we want?
a guy worth fighting for!" the two females sang loudly. Karin continued with the verse
"my guy will be so smart and cool
with pretty bright red eyes"
"I'd like a sword instead," sang Suigetsu interrupting her,
"I really do miss mine"
"no!" sang back the two kunoichi, and Konan took up the song
"I'll admit it's nice to have nine men always around me
but then they crush my origami," she frowned, folding a new flower for her hair as Kisame stepped on the one she had originally. The swordsman began to join the song himself at that point
"I've a girl at home who's unlike any other," he proclaimed.
"yeah, the only girl who'd love him is his mother," Suigetsu muttered to Konan slyly. Kisame heard him and frowned dejected. The two girls ignored them both and carried on singing.
"we only know stupid boys, who play with toys, the kind that we abhor
what do we want?"
"I want Kisame's sword," answered Suigetsu
"wish that we had,
a guy worth fighting for!
a guy worth..."
The whole team was brought to a halt as Itachi stood still in front of them. What the hell was this? In front of them was a square shaped opening that shimmered slightly. Sasuke hopped around it, there was nothing behind it but more road. However this iridescent doorway appeared to lead somewhere else. Like to another world.
Kisame peered through it.
"What do you think?" he asked Konan. She flicked a paper shuriken at it. The shuriken hit the opening and vanished.
"Do you think it's safe?" Karin asked, using a claw to push her glasses up her face.
"Well there's one way to find out," Kisame smirked mischievously.
He pushed Suigetsu through it.
