I do not own Naruto but I DO own all of the OCs and this fanfiction.
Chapter 43: Witch Fuji's Reckless Ambition
Erena had always thought pumpkins were a real pain. In order to cook them, you have to gouge out all the disgusting goo on the inside, if you cook them wrong they're quite nasty, and the smell of a raw pumpkin made her want to gag. Because of her dislike of pumpkins, all her pumpkin related dishes turned out horrible leading her to hate them even more. Of course, now she had an even deeper hate of pumpkins, considering a pumpkin headed butler named Jack, was trying to stab her with a knife and spill her guts at this exact moment.
Jack was extremely fast, and she let out a little shriek as Jack pinned her apron to the floor. She knew the solution to this problem was undesirable but easy, so she simply ripped her apron and jumped out of Jack's way.
Witch Fuji was standing nearby, but, oddly enough, she wasn't moving at all. She was just watching. Kakuzu was keeping an eye on her as was Fuji keeping an eye on her opponents. Meanwhile, Taemi was using the situation to her advantage, pulling a long knife with an extremely sharp blade out of her pocket, and made a move at Jack. At the same time, Erena fired her gun. Jack was somehow able to dodge both of the assualts, with extreme accuracy.
Erena preceeded by calling Jack a synonym for a donkey.
Hidan stifled a laugh.
Jack gave a look of exasperation. "Could you be any more vulgar?"
"With a name like Jack, you were asking for it," Erena smirked.
"Are you interested in turning up the heat?"
"Hm?"
Jack snapped his fingers and his gloved hands caught on fire yet, he nor his gloves were burning. Jack came back at Erena, who jumped over his head.
"That's it!" Erena growled. "Time to pull out the big gun! Literally!"
With this she pulled out a gigantic gun. It was an elaborate bazooka capable of shooting air, water, fire, explosives and acid.
"I know I shouldn't be getting these illegal guns," she confessed. "Frankly, I can't help it. And I am so glad for that fact."
With this she released a gigantic shot of explosives, that blew Jack to pieces. His detached limbs rained down like snow.
Witch Fuji glared at Erena, picking up one of Jack's arms. "That was awfully cruel."
Erena smiled, satisfied with her victory.
Suddenly, Jack's pieces started to rattle. In a split second they began to float and reassemble themselves until, once again, Jack was standing right in front of them as a whole being.
Hidan shook his head. "I think we attract immortals, Kakuzu."
"It seems so," Kakuzu sighed.
"If you have any idea how to, stop attracting them please!" Erena said, still a bit flustered.
Witch Fuji handed Jack his right arm.
"Thank you, Miss Fuji," he said, as he reattached his arm.
"Let's switch it up," Fuji suggested.
"Ah? Very well then." With this, Witch Fuji and Jack came at Erena and Taemi.
Erena was about to shoot but Fuji possessed an incredible amount of speed. She was able to grab Erena's arm easily and diverted the shot of water. The mere force of it's impact on the reenforced walls reverbrated in a way that made it feel like the foundation shook. Jack jumped over Erena and Taemi's heads and went straight for Hidan. Genmaru pulled out a crowbar and blocked Jack.
"I've always wanted to use a crowbar on someone," Genmaru grinned.
"I've always wanted to use a grenade on a pumpkin-headed butler," Katamaru joked as he threw a grenade at Jack causing him to fall back.
Now Sasori opened a new scroll Hidan had never seen before and in a poof of smoke two puppets appeared.
Everyone stopped short. The two puppets were two witches. Fuji recognized them to be Misaki and Akemi. The two witches who had recently died of suffocation before they could starve to death after being trapped in bottles.
"Sasori, what are those?" Hidan questioned.
"Remember when Fuyumi-chan and Izuno-kun told us about fighting those two witches? Well, I simply looked into the matter. It turns out witches' corpses are great for making puppets."
The Misaki puppet shot poison darts out of its mouth at Jack while the Akemi puppet blocked any of Jack's blows with its forcefield abilites.
At this moment, Taemi pinned Fuji to the floor and stabbed her. "You should pay more attention."
Fuji smiled. "If you're immortal, you don't need to."
With this Fuji released an unreal gust of wind.
Taemi and Erena were blown back fiercely; Kakuzu caught the two of them.
In the huge blast of air, many things were destroyed, including a vase nearby on a table. It crashed to the floor. Fuji's eyes widened in horror and Jack gave a look of slight despair.
Everyone was confused. Witch Fuji had only knocked over a simple vase but she and Jack looked as if the end of the world was coming.
Suddenly snakes, spiders and millions of other disgusting creatures began to appear.
Witch Fuji and Jack stopped short. A look of surprise mixed with slight wariness passed over Fuji's face. At this moment, a small vortex of darkness opened in the room, next to Witch Fuji. Fuji's gasped.
"What the heck is going on?" she yelled, as it slowly sucked her in.
"You just made quite the mistake, Fuji," a dark voice boomed.
Fuji cursed. "That was a mistake! Isn't the priority to-"
"Silence you fool! You are at my mercy."
Fuji's body slowly got sucked in the dark portal. Jack grabbed his mistress' arm.
"Jack, what're you doing?" Fuji snapped. "At this rate-!"
"I will go wherever my mistress goes," Jack returned, smiling. "Always."
With this they were both sucked into the portal and it closed behind them.
That was it. Witch Fuji and Jack were gone. Seemingly, for good.
"Now, come face your doom, all of you," the dark voice cackled. "I'll be waiting."
Going farther into the huge house, they came to what seemed like last part of the house. It was obviously the living quarters due to the large amount of bedrooms. At the end of the hall was a spiral staircase (of doom). They presumed it led up to this "Mistress" everyone kept mentioning. Suddenly, Kakuzu's phone rang again. He answered it.
"Where are you?" Hareta blurted from the other end.
"Seemingly near this 'Mistress' person," Kakuzu answered. "We seem to have reached the only part of the house we haven't explored yet. Upstairs, on the northern side."
"Listen to me. Apparently, the hole we fell down led to the basement. And it's like a labyrinth! There's alot of stuff down here. There's even a library full of spell books and whatnot! I'm texting you all some info right now. We'll try to help out by sending you info as we go. We'll try to find you guys after this."
"That's fine with me. We'll most likely be done before you find us."
"You cocky idiots." Hareta chuckled and then hung up.
Kakuzu turned to the others. "Erena-chan, Taemi-chan, you two guard the hallway. With all these creatures crawling around we need defenses."
"Understood," Erena said firmly.
Taemi nodded.
"Hidan, Genmaru-kun and Katamaru, you three stay here," Kakuzu continued. "Sasori, you're with me."
Suddenly, a look of fear crossed Katamaru's face, "Kakuzu, look out!"
No one had noticed the clawed half-cat-half-lion creature behind Kakuzu. Kakuzu didn't have a second to even turn around; the creature's claws were right at his neck. At that moment, a gunshot was heard and the cat-like creature fell to the ground and dispersed into smoke.
That was when Kakuzu realized Hidan had shot the creature. With a gun.
Kakuzu's eyes widened. There was silence for a moment.
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes at Hidan. "Who gave you the gun?"
Yup, that's about right. Erena sighed mentally.
Katamaru facepalmed, laughing. "Oh wow, really Kakuzu?"
Hidan grinned, feeling proud of himself.
"Never mind," Kakuzu sighed. "We'll deal with this gun business after this is over. Katamaru, keep Hidan out of trouble."
"That was aimed specifically at me?" Katamaru asked, astonished.
"No, but Genmaru already knows I trust him."
With this Sasori and Kakuzu turned and started their way up the staircase. To either their victory of their death.
A/N: I tried to make a point in this chapter to emphasize the standing relationships of the characters (Hidan and Kakuzu's friendship, Erena and Jack's loyalty to their 'masters,' Kakuzu's growing acceptance of Katamaru, ect.) as the relationships make a difference here. I hope I did well, I was on a tight schedule. ^-^; About the vase, you'll learn about that soon. Also, I have once again updated the character picture database on my profile so check it out. Thanks for reading! ;D