"All over a sudden we're going to the Yorthar? Do you have any bloody idea how far that is? And how old those lands are?" asked Tagor as he stared at the couple before him in disbelief.
Thanerah told him everything and she kind of expected that kind of reaction from him. She asked him with a huff, "Look, father told me this and we need it as soon as possible. Are you coming or not? It's your choice." She crossed her arms on her chest while looking into her brother's eyes.
Tagor was softly debating with himself mentally and he glanced at Hidan to have an advice, which he might have regret of it later. Hidan shook his head, "Don't look at me, pup. Bringing Thunder is troublesome enough. I don't want to bring another pup on this."
Tagor glared and growled at him inhumanly, "You're so damn lucky that my sister cares for you so damn much…"
He only smirked widely and wrapped an arm around his wife's shoulders, "What the fuck can you do? I'm damn charming."
Tagor rolled his eyes to the ceiling, "Oh Zevrah, save me…" he muttered under his breath.
Thanerah's mind clicked again and she asked him, "Say…do you know the werewolf culture?"
Her brother looked at her and said, "Of course I know!"
She glared at him from his tone, "Don't need to get so macho on me, brother! I was just asking!"
Hidan couldn't help to snicker but he tried to stop it by covering his mouth with his hand. Tagor glared at him then returned his gaze to his little sister. "Okay, sorry about that. But are you sure it's best to go to Yorthar without bringing any more companions to ease up the numbers?"
She shrugged her shoulders with a confident smirk, "What's the worst that could happen?"
He let out a small laugh, "I was afraid you might say that, sister…" Then he looked at her solemnly, "And I'm definitely coming. I'm not going to let my baby sister to venture into dangerous lands."
Hidan joined in the conversation, "And you think I want her to go there? I fucking begged her to stay and let me handle this but she was being stubborn."
She felt incredibly annoyed since she felt like a ghost to them, "And you know that she's standing right here?" she asked with a growl.
Both men looked at her, "Sorry babe." Her husband apologized to her before planting a quick kiss on her cheek. She couldn't help to blush furiously and she looked away from him.
"Hi-Hidan…!" she tried to scowl him but it was impossible while her heart was racing rapidly in her chest with her stomach filled with countless butterflies.
He smirked down at her then turned his gaze back to his brother-in-law, "Well? What the fuck are you waiting for? Go pack your stuff already or we're leaving without you!"
After Tagor left but not without giving Hidan a hard glare, Hidan turned his attention to Thanerah. "Are you fucking sure that we should bring your brother along? Thunder is as bad enough as it is."
Thunder growled and bitten Hidan's leg.
"Fuck!" he screamed in pain and he glared down at Thunder. "Why you little…" he growled as he glared at Thunder.
Thanerah quickly said to them, "Can you two just get a long already? It's nearly been a year so just get it over with!"
Days later…
"Okay, this is…not really a nice place, is it?" asked Tagor as he looked at his surroundings. The area they were in looked like a desert with very little vegetation and right ahead was a camp with wooden spikes as their walls; surrounding the camp.
Thanerah asked her husband as he was looking at the wooden spike wall. "Do you think it's in there?"
"It better. If it isn't, I'll be pissed off and I'll sacrifice every each of them to Lord Jashin."
Thanerah breathed in softly to calm herself because she was quite nervous to face the mercenaries that have the Key. She asked the two men, "First things first: getting inside. Got any brilliant ideas?"
"Why can't we just barge in and asked them nicely?" Tagor sarcastically suggested.
"You're not helping," said Thanerah in annoyance as she glared at him.
Hidan smirked, "Fuck, why not use that? It's not like we can die if they shoot their weapons at us? We're Jashinists after all."
"Yeah but I would like to enter without ruining my clothes, thank you very much."
Suddenly they heard a faint shout from ahead, "Intruders! Sound the alert!"
Suddenly cages that were unnoticed before was opened and two medium size rhinos with parts of its armor made out of metal. "You got to be kidding me…" Thanerah muttered under her breath as she summoned her Krystol.
Hidan brought his scythe out but he looked confident as he stared at the charging mammals. "Let me handle this."
Tagor intrude, "Oh no, no, no. I'm not going to stand by so idly." He phased into a werewolf.
Hidan arched a brow down at Tagor, "Sure that's wise? Their armor is rougher than you think." He quickly wrapped an arm around his wife's waist and jumped out of the rhino's attack.
When they landed, Thanerah said to him, "Hidan, haven't we talk about this yesterday!"
He grinned down at her sheepishly, "I'm sorry, Tha but I can't fucking help it. I'm your husband after all." He looked past her and his eyes widen, "Shit!"
He quickly pushed Thanerah away in an instant when he saw the rhino charging at him at the last minute. It hit Hidan in the gut and stopped. Hidan rolled on the dirt and groaned deeply.
"Hidan!" cried out Thanerah and she quickly got to his side as Tagor suddenly got on the rhino's back and bite its neck while Thunder was fighting with the other rhino.
Hidan groaned deeply, opened his eyes and glared at the rhino that Tagor was attacking. "Fuck…I should have seen that coming."
Thanerah couldn't help from smirking at him, "Aren't Jashinists supposed to like the pain?"
"True but still…" He flexed his shoulders and they heard a bone crack. "Fuck!"
The two rhinos finally fell dead and Tagor phased back into human with the rhino's blood around his mouth. He spat at the ground on his side and wiped the blood off with the back of his hand. "Shit, it's nastier than I thought…"
He looked at the direction where the voice was coming from. "We should hurry. I bet their getting reinforcements…"
"Terrific…" Thanerah muttered sarcastically and blew some of her hair away from her face. She helped Hidan up from the ground and he pulled away so he could crack his neck.
"Shit, that really fucking hurt…" he complained as he rubbed the back of his neck.
Tagor rolled his eyes to the sky, "You're husband is quite a wimp, sis. Are you sure he's a General?"
Hidan glared at him hard with a deadly sneer, "What the fuck was that, pup?" he growled nearly inhumanly.
Thanerah glanced at Thunder and asked, "A little help, please?"
Thunder nodded, charged up and sparked the two men. They both yelped in pain and jumped a bit in shock. They turned their heads to glare at Thunder but he quickly nodded towards Thanerah so their glared at her.
"What that really necessary!" they both asked in unison with scowled expressions.
"Yes," she said to them flatly with her arms crossed on her chest.
Tagor kept looking at his surroundings as they were walking towards the camp where the Key is. Everything was hot, dirty, barely any plants, animals but there were a lot of bones from different kinds of species. Tagor complained loudly, "Damn! It's so damn hot! Next time, can we go to somewhere cold or someplace nice! My feet are killing me!"
Thanerah glanced at her husband, "This is how you were like back in the Shinobi world."
"Fuck, was I really like that?" He glanced over his shoulder to Tagor, "Now I know why Kakuzu wanted to stitch my mouth shut…I knew that I was annoying but not that fucking much…"
Tagor arched a brow at them, "Who the hell is Kakuzu?"
Thanerah answered him, "Just an old friend of ours from the Shinobi world."
"Really? How did you two meet?"
"Our paths just came across and we became friends. That's all." She glanced at Hidan to see that he was in deep thought, probably thinking of his time back in the Akatsuki.
Suddenly Hidan stopped which made the rest to stop as well. "Now what?" asked Tagor and he looked ahead of Hidan to see a man wearing rough clothes while wearing wolf skin.
The sight of it made Tagor and Thanerah to shiver coldly as they stared at their dead-skin cousins. The hairy man said, "Who are you and why are you in our territory!"
"Since when was this your fucking territory?" asked Hidan with an arched brow.
"Does it matter! This land belonged to no one when we came here but now it belongs to use so we have our rights! Now leave before I regret of sparing your lives!"
Tagor scoffed, "It's obvious that you don't know who we are, do you?"
"And why the hell should I care! You have one last chance before I kill you!"
Hidan smirked, "Not before you!" He was going to charge at him with his scythe but suddenly the wolf man's forehead was hit by a throwing knife from behind the group.
Hidan stopped midway in surprise as the wolf man fell to the floor. Everyone turned their heads and was surprised to see who it was.
"Shade…?" asked Thanerah in surprise.