Ok, here is chapter 5.
I do not, nor will I ever, own Naruto
It would have been a lie to say that Hidan and Kakuzu were not impressed by Leara and her daughter… Her attitude was somewhat rude, and she spoke what was on her mind therefore being very upfront. Yet from what they had both seen, she had a softer side, she cared for the one's she loved. But they couldn't deny, that they had no idea on how Leara was going to escape, they where at least still 50 stories from the ground floor and, Hidan and Kakuzu were pretty sure that they never taught you: how to escape from an elevator 101 ,at the academy.
So they were pretty startled when Leara dropped her bag, with a loud thunk and made her way over again to where the floor buttons where, bent down to where a small metal outline of a box was, pulled back her hand and punched in the frame.
Kakuzu went up behind her, to see what impression she had left on the frame and saw a hole, right through the middle of it. Hidan and Kirinai walked over, just as Leara pulled out her hand from the inside. Besides Leara's hand being a little red I was completely undamaged. It wasn't surprising though seeing as so many ninja's relied on strength as their main power source.
"Karinai" Leara softly said, moving a little to the side, and motioning for her daughter to kneel down beside her. Her Daughter did. "I want you to look though the hole that I just made." Karinai did. "Do you see those 2 blue and green wires?" Karinai nodded and said yes. "Those are the 2 main power cords. I want you to reach inside and unplug them, so that the elevator or, any of the elevators, for that matter won't be able to move at all."
Leara got up from kneeling, so Karinai could get a better view of the wires. While Karinai was unplugging the wires, Leara walked over to her bag which she had dropped in the opposite corner and opened it. Hidan turned to see what she was doing, directing his attention away from Karinai. After a few minutes of digging through the bag, Leara pulled out a pair of, what appeared to be, a pair of pants and a top.
"Do you always carry around an extra pair of clothes?" Hidan asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Only when I need to." Leara responded in a smooth tone, getting up and closing her bag.
Karinai walked over with Kakuzu. "I unplugged the wires mommy… Are you going to get changed?" She asked.
Hidan who hadn't been paying attention suddenly became fully aware and alert. His attention went from Karinai straight to Leara who was holding the clothes in hand.
Leara sighed deeply before saying: "Well, I really don't want to have to escape and climb wearing a dress, so, yup, I'm going to get changed. But not here" she quickly said, after seeing Hidan's expression.
Kakuzu gave a confused expression. Leara pointed to the ceiling of the elevator. "I'm going to get changed on top of the elevator."
She said before picking up her daughter. She told her daughter to kick hard. Karinai kicked the ceiling only once before one of it's shingles popped off. Karinai removed it, before being put down by her mother, and handed it to Leara, who took it along with her clothes before jumping through the hole to the top of the elevator.
Hidan walked under it, to see if he could see anything. He was greeted by Leara's face which had a look of: "Nice try" before she brought down the shingle and put it back in place.
« Dum-di-dada-dum-di-da » came the chime of a cell phone. The chime continued as Karinai went over to her mother's bag, opened it and dug inside of it, until she found a small portable phone. Leara yelled down from the roof to answer it, Karinai did.
"Hello" She said in a cute childish voice. The person said something, and, Karinai's voice changed back to normal. "Oh, hi Cam!" she said with excitement, before yelling to her mother who was on the other phone. To which her mother responded with; "Tell him I'll be there in a few minutes."
Karinai said okay to her mother, before going back to talking on the phone. "Sorry Cam, where in an elevator, and mommy's getting changed. She said she'll be with you in a moment." The person said something else, and Karinai walked over to beneath the shingle.
"Mommy, Cam says he wants to be put on speaker phone."
"OK, angel, you can put it on speaker phone." Came Leara's reply.
"But I don't know how." Karinai said, with a touch if a whine.
"Just press the blue button with the wavy things on it!" Leara responded, this time her voice sounding a little frustrated.
"I can't find it." Karinai said in a whiny voice.
All of a sudden an arm shot down from the roof. Hidan and Kakuzu realized that it was bare. "Karinai give me the phone"
"Are you done getting changed already?" the child asked surprised.
"No. Now give me the phone." The arm made a snapping gesture.
"But then…"
"Karinai, just give me the phone" Leara said in a strict tone. The whole conversation sounded like it was happening between to sisters, not a mother and daughter.
Karinai handed the phone over to her mother, who took it pressed a button and tossed it back to her daughter, before saying: "hey Cam"
"Hello Leara" responded the voice. It was a smooth tone; not to deep, but not to high.
"You're on speaker phone so watch what you say." Karinai said, innocently.
"I always watch what I say."
A little laugh was heard from above Hidan and Kakuzu, followed by a head popping out from the roof of the elevator. "Rrrrrriiiigggghhhht!" Leara said with a smirk on her lips and a sparkle in her eye.
"Oh will you shut up." Cam said from the phone, which, of coarse, every-one heard.
"Watch it there is a child in the room." Leara said warningly, still hanging upside down.
"I not a child!" protested Karinai, walking, so she was just the side and underneath of her mother. The little girl opened her mouth to say more but, before she could even open up her mouth, a red, spaghetti strap, sundress landed on top of her head. "Hey!" she said from beneath the dress.
Leara burst out in tiny silent giggles. A hand came out to cover her mouth, so her daughter couldn't hear… it didn't work.
"Oops! Sorry sweetheart." She said, while trying to withhold her giggling.
At the same time her daughter took the dress off form her head to show a very dirt look to her mother, well, as dirty a look as a 4 year old can give, but it was still quite frightening and, although no one noticed, a flash of red flickered through her eyes before returning to their normal shade of blue.
Cam, though no-one appeared to be listening to him was trying to figure out what the hell had happened. Leara told him she would tell the story later and, then asked her daughter if she could move just a little bit away.
Kakuzu and Hidan looked at each other. Both wondering what was going on and, were about to break the silence, when Leara flung herself from the roof, did a summersault in the air before landing on the ground.
She was wearing black Capri pants, sport like, with a red Chinese design on the hem of the legs. The top was a kimono like top, again black with red design on the hem, which covered the top of the Capri pants to about high thigh. Her hair was now tied up with a red ribbon into a pony tail. All together, if you would have seen her, you wouldn't have believed that she was about to escape from an elevator. She just looked like she was going to go out on a day of shopping.
"Oooh, mommy you look really pretty." Karinai said walking over to feel her mother's top, it felt like smooth silk on the child's hands.
"What are you wearing?" Cam asked. But not in a normal tone, Kakuzu noticed, it had a very affectionate tone with a hint of curiosity. Kakuzu knew this tone all to well, since he was partnered with Hidan who always had that tone on when he was thinking something perverted.
Leara must of heard the tone too, because she rolled her eyes and said "Clothes!"
"What type of clothes" he said in the same tone as before. This time Hidan noticed it too.
Leara let out a small exasperated sigh. "Use your imagination." She said folding her arms.
A small chuckle was heard from the speaker phone "Oh so you're wearing a French maid costume, with a very short skirt, along with fish net tights. While standing in my door way…"
"Mommy why are you covering my ears?!" interrupted Karinai, in a rather loud tone.
Kakuzu and Hidan turned away from the phone, towards Karinai, to see that Leara had put her 2 hands over her daughter's ears.
"And why are you blushing?" Karinai said again in a loud tone.
Hidan looked up at Leara's face and saw a light shade of pink showing on her cheeks, filling them with colour.
Laughter came from the phone, and Kakuzu couldn't help but think: "Is it just me or does this guy sound exactly like the idiot standing right beside me…meaning Hidan."
"Didn't I just say that there is a child here." Leara stated, more like a fact then a question.
"No actually you just said for me to imagine what you were wearing." Cam said in a, play full, smart ass tone.
Kakuzu shook his head in non-belief. He had to look over to make sure that Hidan was indeed standing beside him, rather than being on the phone and having this conversation.
"But…" Cam said, continuing. "I guess if you don't want your daughter to understand…"
Leara released her hands off of her daughter's ears.
"Then I can just speak in Jashin." Cam concluded, as both Hidan and Kakuzu did a double take towards the phone.
"NO!" Leara shouted.
"What? Karinai can't be that good at understanding the Jashin language already."
"It's not because of that." Leara said grabbing the phone from her daughter's hands "It's because that standing right across from me is another Jashinist." She said through clenched teeth. "And although I'm sure he wants to hear what you have to say about me, and what you think you know about me, I don't feel like having another person like you who knows me."
"To late for that." Kakuzu blurted out. Turning his gaze from Leara and her daughter to Hidan.
Hidan took this as an offensive statement, turned to his partner, and gave him a rather rude gesture.
"Boys…Guys…Men… Whatever you consider yourselves to be, both of you stop it!" Karinai stated, walking over to the 2 men and slapping them both on the wrists. Leara looked very shocked for a moment that her daughter would do that, but then again he used to be bold like that to.
Giggling was again heard from the phone "Ooh, so there's 2 guys in the elevator with you…" a clicking noise followed, like the clicking of a tongue. "I am surprised at you. You have a daughter now, you can't be doing things like that with one person but two… I am shocked!" Again he had that play-full smartass tone.
Leara again started to turn pink, again, while Karinai turned and said "what does that mean?" although no-one took notice. Hidan and Kakuzu, who had been arguing silently in the corner stopped and turned.
"How did you know that we were trapped in an elevator?" Hidan asked, this time in his smartass tone.
It was Leara's turn to speak up, "Cam works for the ANBU, but don't worry, he's kept me a secret for over 4 and ½ years. So your safe, he won't expose you… But still how did you know that we were trapped in an elevator?"
"First of all I know your whereabouts due to the fact that all, or most, of the ANBU have been notified that you are back in Konoha and have been ordered to go and capture you for your arrest at your work. They've even just started posting your pictures on the t.v and started announcing the warrant for your arrest over the radio. I was even one of the one's they asked to go and capture you, but I was able to get out of it by saying that it was a religious holiday."
"And secondly what do you mean by: 'you're safe, he won't expose you' ?" Cam said in a curious tone.
"Because, presently, I'm sharing an elevator with 2 members from the Akatsuki, and I think, tell me if I'm mistaken" Leara turned towards Hidan and Kakuzu. " that you are Hidan and Kakuzu… am I right?"
Both of the men nodded.
"Umm I don't mean to pry, but shouldn't we be escaping now?" Karinai asked
"Ya, right, Leara what do you need me to do." Cam said.
"Let me think." Leara said, closing her eyes.
Kakuzu looked impatient. "We don't have time to think!" he said in a very annoyed tone. "If you haven't noticed we're presently trapped in an elevator, which can't move, surrounded by only GOD knows how many ANBU members."
"JASHIN" Hidan and Cam both said in unison to correct Kakuzu.
Kakuzu rolled his eyes "Who cares?"
And before anyone could say, or do anything else, a battle of violent words came thrashing out from the 2 Jashinist's and Kakuzu. Karinai tried to break up the verbal argument, but did not succeed.
Leara sat down against the far elevator wall and closed her eyes, trying to close out the world around her, trying to forget about the pressure on her, trying to forget about the arguing between her team when she was back on the ANBU… "NO! You promised not to think about your team a long time ago. You promised. Not only to yourself, but to him, you promised never to look back when you left. That was the agreement you both had, and made! So STOP IT!"
"You're right." whispered Leara, just barley audible.
All at once all the arguing stopped, and everything went silent. Hidan, Kakuzu and Karinai turned to face Leara, while Cam remained silent over the phone… so much for being non-audible…
Leara got up, "I know what we need to do." she said grabbing her bag. She quickly made her way over to where the hole in the roof was, again jumped through, was gone for about a minute before coming down. She flung her bag over her shoulder, so that her hands were free, before starting to create hand signals. A puff of smoke went beside her. As the smoke cleared it reviled an exact replica of herself.
"Mommy why are you using Bunshin no Jutsu? Are we going to have to use the technique also?" Karinai asked.
"Yes…" Leara turned towards Hidan and Kakuzu "…and so are you"
Karinai went first, creating a full replica too. Kakuzu was stunned that a 4 year old could do this, but dismissed it from his mind and created his clone as well. Hidan was the last to do so.
Now the elevator was covered in doubles, and was starting to get crowded.
"Will someone tell me what the hell is going on?" Hidan asked, walking away from his clone towards the real Leara.
"It's quite simple really…" Leara began "There is an elevator just a hop away from ours. The ANBU is expecting us to try and exit from this elevator, so there will be the most security around this elevator. You see the problem with the ANBU is that they are always predictable to cover the most obvious place to escape, they don't stop and think that, maybe, we might escape from another exit, and although there will be security, there won't be that much…"
"Oh, haven't you forgot one little detail.." hidan cut in "You unplugged the elevator so IT CAN'T MOVE!" he boomed, looming over Leara. He was at least 7 inches taller then her, and was looking rather intimidatting. His scarlet eyes blazing full of hate and anger.
"If you would let me finish…" Leara said, looking directly into his eyes with just as much power. "…That's what our doppelgänger's are for. Once we are safely in the other elevator they will re-attach the wires, so the elevators will be in working order. Then they will press the down button when we will. therefore.."
"Therefore creating a distraction, and making the ANBU think that you're coming down in that elevator." finished Cam.
"Right." Leara said, still looking into Hidan's gaze.
Hidan could feel the power in her gaze, percing his soul like daggers. The only difference between these 'mental' daggers was that he could actually feel pain as each one of them peirced his skin. And though he wasn't sure of it, he though he saw the young woman's eyes flicker a bloodly colour of red. "Forgive me." He said breaking the eye connection and turning quickly, so that his cloak rippled along the bottom, lightly touching Leara's skin.
The cloth felt smooth and soft to the young woman's touch, and a mental image came to her of that cloak surrounding her and shielding her from the outside world of anger and tourture. But before she could explore her thoughts and memories further a voice inside of her pushed the memories to the back of her mind, into a palce where the darkest of thoughts laid.
Hidan made his way over towards a surprised looking Kakuzu. Never had he heard Hidan actually apologize to anyone besides his god: Jashin.
"Do you want me to meet you." Cam asked through the phone.
"If you can, meet us at the back entrance near the back alley. No-one should be around there." Leara said turning her attention to the phone.
"Until then…"
"Cam?"
"Yeah?"
"Why did you call me up anyways?" Leara asked taking the phone from her daughter.
"Oh, simple, I needed to ask you where, on your body, the appendix was."
"Why?" Leara asked though the tone in her voice sounded like it already knew the answer.
"Because I was in the middle of a ritual, and my head completely went blank on where it was located."
" You mean th-that you called me right in the middle of you stabbing yourself?"
"Yup. why" Cam said as if nothing was wrong.
"Nothing… I'll meet you when we get out."
"Okay. bye"
A click was heard and the phone went dead. Leara persed her lips together and closed her eyes, looking like she had just swallowed a lemon. She opened her eyes as her face fell back to it's normal position of grace. She Put the phone into her bag, and walked over towards her 2 identical daughters. "Karinai, where are those two wires that you unplugged?"
1 of the girls looked up. "I gave them to him." She said pointing to the Kakuzus'. She walked across the room and held out her hand.
Kakuzu looked confused. "What the hell dose she want?" Hidan nudged him. He turned towards his partner "What?!"
Hidan rolled his eyes at the stupidness of his partner. "She wants the cords you dumb-ass."
"Ohhh" Kakuzu reached inside of his cloak, grabbed the 2 wires, and dropped them into the little girl's hand.
Karinai walked back over to her mother and her doppelgänger and handed the 2 wires over to her replica, who took it and walked over to the hole in the wall and kneeled, waiting for further instruction.
Leara turned to face the 2 Akatsuki members, "Your job is to tell herwhen to put the wires in. She will know how to do it, but seeing as she is only a child, she will need guidence. You will be able to send thoughts between your 2 selves so that's how we will communicate."
The two repplica's of the crimminals both nodded.
"Is every-one ready?" Leara asked looking at all the faces in the room. They all nodded. "Good, lets go."
One by one each of them went through the hole in the roof; first went Leara, then Hidan picked up Karinai and handed her to her mother, next went Hidan, and finally Kakuzu. The top of the elevator was even cramped then the elevator itself. Everyone was cramped together so no-one would fall, and if any-one liked their personal bubble too bad, everyone got to know each other very personally being cramped up close to one another. Karinai, being the smallest, got the shingle and replaced it in its spot.
"So…" Hidan said re-arranging himself, so that he was righ up against Leara. "Where is this elevator?" stroking her arm ever so slightly, the skin felt smooth like silk.
Leara pretended not to take notice. "Right across there." She said pointing with the oppisite arm Hidan was caressing.
Kakuzu squinted in the direction which Leara had pointed, and finally spotted it. "Just a 'hop' huh? He said looking towards her.
…The word 'hop' usually means a short distance, and to use the term 'hop' to discribe the distance between the elevator which they were standing on presantly, and the elevator which they needed to go to would not be the greatest word. The word that would have been best suited would have been the word : Meters, as in " there is an elevator a few meters away", because the elevator was not a 'hop' away but more like 9 meters away…
"Yup" Leara said moving away from Hidan, towards her daughter. She picked up Karinai and, without saying another word, jumped over in the direction of where the elevator was.
Hidan went next without saying a word, and only the jungle of his rosary was heard.
Finally Kakuzu went and all he thought was: "I'm getting to old for this shit!" When Kakuzu landed on the next elevator, he found that there was a hole in the roof. He clambered down to find that he was in an exact looking elevator like the one he had just been in moments before.
Leara stood next to her daughter beside the floor buttons. Before Kakuzu could say anything the lights flickered and a creaking sound filled the area. Leara nodded towards hidan who closed his eyes for a moment then re-opened them. From a far they could hear the creak of an elevator move. Leara pressed the button for the ground floor, and stood back.
All was silent up until they passed the marking for the 20th floor. Leara stood in front of the door looking foreward. "When these doors open expect about 10 to 20 ANBU members… Don't be afraid to kill them or damage them." She side looked at the Akatsuki members. "Just follow me once I start running. Kariani I'm gonna grab you and run with you in my arms. If you get scared at what you see close your eyes. And fight anyone who tries to grab you other then anyone in this elevator."
Karinai nodded, and stood behind her mother holding onto her mother's kimono like top , running it through her hands to calm her nerves.
Hidan pulled out his sieth, which no-one had really noticed, from his back and held it ready to attack. While Kakuzu had a rather bored expression on his face, but, regardless he got ready to attack. Leara just stood waiting for the 'ding' and the opening of the doors.
The 'ding' was headr and the doors opened to revile 12 or so ANBU members.
"HEY, THEY'RE…" A masked man began, but was silenced by a kunai, which struck him in the head.
Hidan and Kakuzu looked over to see that it was Leara who had thrown it. "Wow, she's quick" they both thought.
2 ANBU members looked at the dead man, then at Leara. "Khanoy, Leara you are under arrest for the crime of murder, treason, and association with criminals that are wanted throughout…" Another kunai was thrown at the man speaking, but he dodged it.
Leara gave an evil smirk, that didn't look like it could have been formed on her face. "Don't tell me what I've done and all that other bull-shit. Just shut up and fight." She said her voice full of attitude. And although the 3 passengers couldn't see it, and only the ANBU could, Leara's eyes turned a bright crimson colour of red with black design that slowly wove its way into her eyes. It wove itself to become the sharingan.
Some members of the ANBU drew in a little breath at the sight, but prepared for attack. Leara moved her hands at a face pace in to the symbols: Rat, Tiger, Dog, Ox, Rabbit, and Tiger; Housenka no Jutsu. Droplets of fire, the size of soccer balls, flew out directly at the opponents. Once she was done a path could be seen where the ANBU had cleared out.
Leara grabbed her child and bolted down the center. Hidan and Kakuzu closely followed, killing or attacking anyone who came in close range. Leara turned a sharp corner, so did they. Hidan caught up close to Leara and shouted over all the voices yealling and shouting around them: "How did you learn that fire technique?" Leara didn't respond. Hidan tried again " Hey, are you listening? Only a few select people can use that technique. How did you learn it? Did you learn it from a Uchiha?"
Leara didn't respond, but Hidan noticed that she flinched at the name 'Uchiha'. He turned to fully look her in the eyes, and did a double take. Her eyes were the same design of one of his commrades: Uchiha, Itachi.
Leara stopped so suddenly, her daughter almost flew out of her arms. Kakuzu nearly ran into Hidan who had also stopped suddenly. Surrounding them was ANBU soldiers all ready to fight until the death.
"Every-one get really close to me!" Leara shouted.
Hidan and Kakuzu closed in on Leara so the air around them became stuffy and warm. Leara handed her daughter over to Hidan. He tried to look at Leara's eyes again, to see if he had seen correctly, but couldn't get a good enough look.
Leara once again preformed her hand symbols. This time no-one could tell what she was doing, she was that fast. It wasn't until that a barrier of fire encircled the 2 Akatsuki members as well as her-self, that people realized that it was Ryuuka no Jutsu.
But Leara wasn't done yet. This time she did her hand signs more slowly, as if remembering how they were done: Boar, Dragon, Serpent, Monkey, Ram, Serpent…
…If this Jutsu had ever been perfomed, no-one that was there knew what the hell it was. First the red and orange flames surounding the 4 of them spread out and turned a dark, black, purple colour. It spread throughtout the entire room like weeds, creeping in and out of the floor's marble design, until the only floor which could be seen was the circle surrounding the 4 of them and a cricle surrounding the ANBU.
Slowly the Black flame circling Leara and her group started changing into a sickly emerald green, which then started taking shape. A thin line of fames started to do the same, connecting the 2 circles together. A shape or a serpent started taking effect. It's long coiling body connecting the 2 circles. Its neack and head took shape around Leara's circle, while the lower belly and tail encircled the ANBU.
Leara closed her eyes, and talked. What she said, no-one knew, for to human ears it sounded like a bunck of hissing and spat sounds. But whatever she said the snake seemed to understand, for it opened an ugly yellow eye and moved it's head, so that it was in the air. It slowly becan to move away from Leara and coil it's way around the ANBU soldiers.
Leara took back her child from an amused Hidan, and began running on the once again white marble floor. Hidan and Kakuzu again followed. Leara let out one last hiss before exiting the building. The last thing that they all heard were screams of pain and terror.
They ran out into the fresh sun-lit day. Karinai looked around and pointed to a bronze coloured van. She got down and ran to it.
Leara grabbed onto Hidan's, and Kakuzu's hand and dragged them over to the van, before shoving them into the back seats, along with her daughter. Leara clambered into the front seat. In the drivers seat was Cam. He looked about in his late twenties early thirties, silver hair with a hint of blonde. And had very angular cheeks. His eyes were a soft colour of pale green.
Cam turned around to face Leara. "Any place particular?"
Leara let out a deep sigh "Nope, Just drive." She said befor leaning her head back and closing her eyes.
Cam smiled, and stepped his foot to the gas petal…