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"He lashed out at me, "I don't need your stupid pathetic apologies. Try not to make yourself a bother during the mission." he glared at me for the last part, then shoved passed me to make his point more clear.
Maybe I was safer when I was kidnapped."
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Leader-sama said that he'd give us till noon by today to leave and start on our mission. Seeing how Sasori-san is so impatient, I decided for us to leave at 6 a.m. Sasori-san happily agreed to this, well, as happily as he can be...So I headed to my room to pack up some necessities for a mission. I didn't need to shower, eat, or drink; so I just packed some weapons: kunai, shuriken, poisonous senbon, and some of my favorites: windmill shuriken, and Vigoorian Flail (1).
I decided to tie my hair up in a ponytail, can't have it hanging in my face during a battle. That's a major no-no. I wore a loose black blouse-like shirt that had a v-neck. Underneath was a fishnet shirt that covered up the space left from the blouse shirt. Then for pants I wore tight black cropped pants that was just below my knee. As usual I just wore the kunoichi sandals. My hands were bandaged with elastic bandages all the way to near my elbow.
I think I'm ready now, and perfect timing too!
"C'mon Hoshi. I'm tired of waiting." Sasori-san grumbled.
"Hai hai..." I rolled my eyes.
As I ran towards the doorway to where Sasori was, he was standing there in Hiruko yet again, reading the scroll. I stood impatiently beside him, waiting for him to finish the scroll. Did I ever mention that I'm impatient too? Though I don't lash out at people like a certain puppet master. As if he read my mind, he finished the scroll and began walking to where the mission was assigned.
"Looks like we have to retrieve some secret scrolls. From your old village too, ain't this a coincidence? It's hidden in some sacred cave of some sort where only ANBUs have access. You should remember." he said.
Indeed I did remember, though the memory was faint. Nonetheless it will do. And knowing my village, they'd have probably rebuilt the whole village by now. My village had quite the handy construction workers. Hmm...a pity to destroy it again if they cause us any more trouble than necessary.
The walk there though was complete awkward silence with Sasori-san. I wonder what I could say to clear up that "incident". Though he'd probably lash out at me and cut off my head and give my body to Hidan for sacrificing. Yeesh, not a good picture. Why was Sasori-san so sensitive about that subject anyway? Could it be that he lost his precious loved ones? Maybe a girlfriend. Nah, Sasori-san doesn't seem like the type to have one. Then why does the thought bother me and nag me?
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"We're here," Sasori-san announced, "And they've already rebuilt the village. I'll give 'em credit for that."
We were in a clearing, a meadow just outside of my village hidden by some evergreen trees in the far distance. The cave was somewhere in the mountains, where my "accident" had happened. Perhaps...that's why Leader-sama had showed up. To retrieve the scroll he now wanted us to get.
"Remove your cloak," Sasori demanded, "The cave must be heavily guarded if the scroll is that important. You could transform into Misaki Suzu. Then you can grab the scrolls and do a Teleportation Jutsu. If they find the scrolls missing, it'll all be blamed on Misaki Suzu and that'll be her downfall."
I felt kinda sorry for Misaki. She was the only one who was nice to me. Though it was pity. It might even be fun to see Lil' Miss Perfect being hated and exiled and isolated from society. Maybe then will she learn my pain through all these years. I guess I should do what Sasori-san saids before he gets angered again. So I unbuttoned my cloak, took off my straw hat, and handed them to him. He wrapped his tail around them and backed away.
I made a hand sign and transformed into Misaki Suzu. With my emerald green eyes, I examined my body as I turned around. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Even after years of going without ninjutsu and genjutsu, I'm still good. I grinned and headed towards way to the cave. I could hear the slight thunk against Hiruko while Hiruko was moving, sliding and smashing some rocks in the process as he followed me.
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Soon the cave came into view. It was like the entrance to those Egyptian pyramids. It had a gateway of some sort made of sand. There were pillars on the side to hold up the column on top. The cave must've been here for thousands of years, these pillars and column looked Greek if I'm not mistaken. There were two guards at opposite sides of the entrance though. The right side yawned, it'll be easy to take those two out. Sasori-san slipped behind some rocks, hiding from view. I sauntered up to those two guards, stopping right in front of them.
"Hey boys, mind if I take a look inside?" I asked with a grin.
"O-oh! Of course Misaki-san!" they stuttered.
I leisurely walked past the two guards. What blundering fools. Inside the cave was different though. And it was immensely humongous. There was a hole above the cave, not gigantic but enough for me to fit. Perfect, an escape route! The cave was unusually bright due to this, since the sunlight was shining beams of light into the cave. The brightest of sunlight was...hitting a bright ray on the marble podium that held the scrolls in a glass containment! I walked over to the scroll, smiling at how easy this was. Before I could reach my destination however, a group of ninja jumped out from the hole. An ambush or trap maybe? No matter, this'll be fun and easy.
The ninja turned out to be mostly ANBU, some chuunin mixed in the group. They looked startled when they saw me, most likely from my form. I smiled and waved at them. Obviously they didn't like this, for they backed up and yelled, "Imposter!".
"Well that was rude," I remarked, sardonic in sounding hurt, "I take it you guys don't like my form?"
Since they've already figured out I was a fake, I decided to ditch this annoying form. As I released my Jutsu, they looked even more shocked. Their faces looked priceless, I should do this more often. Though there was one that had his entire face and body covered. Sad, I couldn't see his reaction. The others made up for it though.
"Wh- Ho- How'd you g-get back your arm?" a voice stuttered from the group.
I smirked, "Magic." and whipped out my poison senbon, throwing them with precise aim at a few members in the back.
"You bastard!" the leader yelled out, voice muffled from the mask he wore.
A few others lunged at me. I twirled out my shuriken and once again, hitting my targets. I stood in a Kamae position, then moved to a Shuto uke (2)with a "Come on" gesture. This provoked them, which was what I was aiming for. They charged forward. 5 against 1. Bad odds. For them. As one charged and did a karate kick in midair, before he could land a hit on me I grabbed his ankle, turned around with great force, and slammed him into the rock hard wall. With my back turned, another hoped to catch me off guard and punch me. I grabbed her wrist with both hands without turning back. Then I pulled her forward with strong might, slamming her onto the wall and then the boy whose skull I cracked. 2 down, 3 to go.
They didn't put up much more of a fight. One charged at me with her sais, one in each hand. I whipped out a kunai and when she got close enough, shoved my kunai in both sides of her sai, turned it, and swung it upwards, leaving her with one other sai, which I kicked out of her hand momentarily. I took the advantage that she was stunned and kicked her ankle, knocking her down. I grabbed both her ankles and swung with all my might. When the other two stopped, I took the chance and let her go. She went flying faster than a hummingbird's wings. After I heard the satisfying BANG that indicated her crashing the other two against the wall on the opposite side of the cave, I turned to their supposed leader.
"I'm ashamed to say that I was once a part of this weak village." I spat.
"You...despicable MONSTER!" he roared.
"Why don't you prove me wrong? Then I'll take back what I said." I stared idly at my kunai, which I was trying to balance the sharp point on my index finger as I leaned back on the wall.
He growled at me toying with him. He lunged at me. I smirked and threw my kunai in the air, catching it on its handle and charged at him. Our weapons met, my kunai with his Dragon sword. Finally, someone who could last at least 10 seconds. Maybe this match'll even be fun. We both jumped back, anticipating for the other to strike. Now, since I'm a lil' rusty with chakra, I think the best choice for me is just to use Taijutsu and my beloved weapons. He seemed to be nervous though, I could see his slight trembling and shaking. My smirk grew, fear is your best weapon!
I sprang forward, kunai in hand, aiming for his neck. Sadly he knew what I was aiming for and jumped away, putting some distance between us. Again I tried, again he jumped back. A coward now, eh? Well if he's just going to run, I don't have all day. This guy's wearing my patience. And here I was, hoping to look for some fun. I threw my kunai at him. If he's that debilitated, then he'd get stabbed in the neck. Turns out he isn't that weak after all. He deflected my kunai with his sword, but he failed to see.
My smirk was dripping of malice, my face inches away from his. Before I could swing one of my mini-scythe through his neck, he missed his death by 1 cm. The kunai I threw was just a diversion so I could get up close to slice his poor little head off. He must've gotten the wake up call that screamed "You're going to get your neck sliced off if you just keep running away!" since he did some hand seals. Ox. Horse. Ram."Water Release: Ice Darts Technique!" Sharp darts made of ice emerged from his mouth and were aiming at me.
I hurriedly deflected them with my Vigoorian Flail, one of the mini-scythe like blades in my hand as a handle and the other dangling on a chain off my hand. The darts all headed towards the left of me, planting themselves in the ground instead. The darts tore the mouth part of the mask he was wearing. He growled. I spun the chain on my hand, when I was satisfied with the speed and power, I hurled it at the man with full force. The blade shot forward faster than any bullet can. The man did a teleportation jutsu towards my left. I yanked the chain, directing it towards to man. He jumped up, fingers barely on the edge of the hole. Didn't he ever learn? I pulled the chain upwards, and it followed my orders. He let go of the edge, then jumped on the side of the wall to my right.
I death glared at him, if only looks could kill. He made hand signs yet again. Boar. Dog. Horse. Tiger."Water Release: Water Drowning Technique!" and instantly a large spiraling stream of water shot towards me. My eyes widened and I immediately jumped towards the wall. Before I could get out of the water though, I heard him yell the dreaded words. "Lightning Release: Lightning Cutter!" A small short scream escapes from my throat as I slowly get electrocuted. Jashin damn that asshole! All the water disappeared and I fell down to the ground. A stream of smoke emits from my mouth. Pain. That's what coursed through my veins and body this instant. I laid there on the now wet ground.
As the guy came closer to examine if I'm really dead, he drew a kunai from his weapon pouch. He slowly walked, careful if I would ambush him. A smirk from my now bleeding lips formed. He tried to run away, too late. I stood up and threw one half of my Vigoorian Flail around him, wrapping him in my chain. My sadistic smirk grew and grew.
"Any last words?" I asked, not really caring either way.
He took at least 5 seconds struggling, I took that as a no. So right then and there, I chopped off his head. Blood spewed everywhere. It stained my clothes, weapon, face, his clothes, the ground. It was everywhere. It was beautiful. A real piece of art. Nature's masterpiece. Nothing could be more soothing than this. I licked the dripping blood off my blades, savoring every moment. As I looked back at the chopped off head, I paused for a minute, then walked over there. As I completely unraveled the mask, it kind of shocked me to see such a familiar face.
The unfeeling, dead green eyes stared back at me. The blonde hair was soaked with blood. Misaki Suzu. My cold, angry eyes stared at her lifeless ones. Shame to see her die in a place like this. A more shame that she put up such a poor fight. And here I was, thinking that she was more powerful and greater than me. Such a disappointment actually. Oh well, she's no use to me. She never was. I threw her head in the air, and when it came down, I kicked it. It bounced off the walls and rolled towards the rest of her dead companions.
Sasori-san must've been getting extremely impatient, so I headed towards the scrolls. The glass case shimmered in the sunlight. Shoving it aside, and hearing the crack as it fell to its demise and shattered into a million pieces, I grabbed the scrolls and headed back towards Sasori-san, killing the guards in the process.
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"Hokage-sama, we've searched through their memories, it seems that Arai Hoshi is responsible for their deaths and the missing scrolls." a Chuunin reported.
"Report this to every village. From here on out, Arai Hoshi is officially a Missing Nin, an S-Rank criminal. If anyone sees her, they are permitted to kill her on the spot." Tsunade's furious voice rang as she slammed her palms on the desk in fury.
(1) - Message me if you want to see the type of weapons Hoshi brought, the link isn't cooperating with this site.
(2) -Same thing as above if you want to see what positions I was talking about.
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