It was raining heavily tonight with a large house at an edge of a cliff. There was nothing else with it and Thanerah wondered how a keeper of the helmet could live like this in such solitude. Thanerah had her head resting on Hidan's chest as she was sitting in front of him on Steel's back.
Tagor was beside them in his wolf form. He ran a head of them and sniffed the air towards the direction of the house. He winced and snuffed something out from its nose. He phased back into his human form and rubbed his nose as if he was trying to get something horrible out of his nose.
Thanerah asked him "What's wrong?"
Tagor pointed an accusing hand at the house and exclaimed "That place is full of heavy weed! And it stinks like shit to my nose!" He rubbed his nose harder and blew harder as well.
Thanerah chuckled and Hidan rolled his eyes. She shivered and Hidan rubbed his hand on her arm to try to give her some heat. He whispered in her ear "You okay?"
She smiled up at him and cupped his face "I'm fine, love. Let's just get this over with." She nodded towards the house. Hidan nodded and quickly pecked her lips. After they pulled away, Hidan clicked his tongue to mention Steel to go forward.
Hidan banged on the door hard while Steel was waiting outside and was scanning the area. The three didn't get an answered which made them curious. Tagor suggested "Should we come back another time?"
Suddenly Hidan kicked the door down and entered the house.
"Or not," Tagor said as he shrugged his shoulders to Thanerah who giggled. She entered the house to see that it was surprisingly cleaned. Hidan was walking through the rooms while shouting if anyone's home. But so far they didn't get any response.
Hidan returned to the living room where Thanerah and Tagor were in and said to them "Well, so far I don't see anyone. Nor have I heard a f**king sound." Suddenly Hidan had to turn around to catch a bat with his hand and used his free hand to bring his scythe out to be held near his attacker's neck.
"Ah!" the attacker yelped when Hidan's scythe was slightly touching his neck. Thanerah realized that he was just a normal civilian who was afraid.
Hidan let out a sigh of relief and glared at the guy who should be the keeper for the helmet. "Be f**king thankful that you're not f**king dead." He released the bat and pulled his scythe away from the man's neck.
The man stuttered as he stared at them "Wh-Who the hell are you people!? I told my lawyer that I'll pay the taxes next week!"
Hidan rubbed his brow to mentally tell himself to keep his temper down. He growled as he answered the man "We're not here for that, f**ktard! We're here for the f**king helmet."
"Wh-What helmet?"
"Don't bullshit me, you f**king bastard! I'm not in the f**king mood to play games!" He was going to reach up to strangle the man in the neck, but Thanerah quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him back who was using the bat as a shield.
Tagor stepped forward with a polite smile and said to the man "I'm sorry for my brother-in-law's behaviour. He's just really, really cranky for the moment." He sent Hidan a glare. "But it's true that we're here for the helmet. We know you found it and kept it somewhere here in your house. And we really, really need that helmet really badly. The fate of the world depends on it."
The man huffed and crossed his arms with his chin up high "Well, I'm sorry to inform you that I still don't know what the hell you're talking about. Now, get out of my house!"
Thanerah stepped forward with a pleaded look "Please, sir. We really, really need it." The man suddenly looked at her surprisingly before he grinned widely with his cheeks flushed.
He suddenly collected Thanerah's hand and kissed the back of it "My, greetings Milady. The name's Eddy Spencer. Happy to make your acquaintance." Thanerah felt surprised of his sudden change of mood, until she was suddenly taken back by Hidan with his arms wrapped around her tightly and possessively.
Hidan growled at the man dangerously "That's my f**king wife you're talking to! Now back the f**k off before I f**king sacrifice you!"
The man yelped and hid behind Tagor. Tagor glared at the man from the corner of his eyes and asked him "Unless you want to be killed by him, you better tell us where the damn helmet is."
Eddy quickly went to a book case that had pillars of small statue dragons on them. He pulled one of them down by the tail and the bookcase suddenly opened. Thanerah had to cover her eyes from the bright golden light. She pulled her hand away and beamed with a wide grin "Jack pot!"
The helmet was shining in its glory in gold and it had some similar markings on it like the shield. Thanerah asked Eddy "Where did you find this?"
"I can't tell you where I found it, but I could tell you that it's really old. Figured it was ancient history." Said Eddy with a proud grin on his face.
Hidan sent him a dangerous warning look along with Tagor while Thanerah was still looking at the helmet in awe. She hesitated but she grabbed the helmet to examine it more closely.
"It's beautiful..." she complimented it.
"We should head back now," said Hidan.
Thanerah nodded "Rig-!" She was cut off when she suddenly saw something dark flashed across the room from behind them. She quickly turned around with her gun out while shoving the helmet with her free hand into Eddy's. "Get down!"
She already hit two in the head but then she had to dodge when bullets were shooting at her. Tagor quickly phased into his wolf form and quickly attacked the nearby Natoku volunteers as much as possible.
Hidan seemed to be enjoying himself as he was slaughtering through the lot with his large scythe. Eddy was hiding at the corner while wearing the helmet to protect his head. Thanerah quickly jumped behind a sofa while she was being shot at.
Hidan saw it and quickly shouted as he charged towards the men who were trying to shoot her down. "How dare you try to f**king shoot at my wife!?" he shouted as he slaughtered the men quickly.
Afterwards he came around the sofa and he was embraced by Thanerah. "You okay?" he asked as he whispered in her ear and she nodded in response. Suddenly she saw something that made her to gasp and she pushed Hidan away to the side.
She quickly caught the blade between her hands but the point of the sword was slightly touching her chest. Hidan tumbled down on the floor in surprise, but when he looked up he realized what she had saved him from.
Koruko looked entirely different now. He was wearing full black with many different weapons on him like small knives, small bombs, and poisons like he's an assassin. Perhaps he is. His hair had grown longer and darker plus he had two small scars across his cheek.
He turned to glare at Hidan "Hello, big brother." He suddenly pushed the sword harder which pierced through Thanerah's chest.
She screamed in pain and tried to push the blade out but Koruko was preventing it by pushing back. "No!" Hidan screamed and then suddenly looked at Koruko with such rage. He quickly grabbed his scythe and charged at Koruko.
Koruko quickly pulled his sword out from Thanerah and she gasped in pain as she fell to the ground in a limp while gasping for air. Koruko blocked Hidan's attack with his sword but he was being pushed back strongly by Hidan.
Tagor quickly got to Thanerah's side and cupped her face. "Keep your eyes on me, Thanerah! Don't close your eyes! Fight back!" He screamed at her desperately.
Hidan locked his weapon with his brother again and he was sneering at the smirking Koruko. Suddenly Koruko pushed Hidan back strongly so Hidan stumbled a bit backwards but he quickly composed his balance.
Koruko pulled out some small green bombs with a confident smirk. Hidan somehow knew what he was trying to do and shouted as he spread his Krystol across his arm "I'm not F**king done with you!"
"But I'm done with you," replied Koruko coldly before he threw the smoke bomb to the ground. Hidan charged and brought his scythe down but he hit a ground instead.
"Damn it!" he cursed loudly before looking around frantically for his little brother.
Eddy was still hiding at the corner with the helmet until the helmet was suddenly taken away from him. "Hey!" cried out Eddy and Koruko just looked down at him with a bored expression.
He quickly exited the house and pulled out a bomb. Hidan found him at the doorway and was going to chase him but he stopped when he saw Koruko pulling out a real bomb fire. Koruko smirked at Hidan's direction before he threw it and quickly exited the house.
Hidan quickly launched himself forward and caught the bomb in his hand. Then he quickly threw it out of the window just as it set off. Hidan sighed in relief but he quickly rushed out of the house.
He brought his scythe out as he was expecting a large group to attack him with Koruko but there were none and nor was his little brother. He also noticed Steel – his Ukrah – has been strapped to the ground by some strong mechanism to make his legs and arms to bend down.
Hidan quickly went to Steel and dispatched the mechanism to set him free. Steel stretched himself and growled towards a direction. Hidan placed a hand on Steel's head to pet him "We'll get him, boy..."
He suddenly heard loud scream and he quickly turned his head to the house. "Tha!" he cried out in panic and he quickly returned inside the house. He quickly rushed to Thanerah's side that was already making a puddle of blood.
He kneeled by her side and cupped her face with his hands "Tha! Tha, stay with me! We're going to get you out of this! Just hold on."
Thanerah tried to say something but instead she coughed out some blood. Tagor shouted at Hidan "Don't just stand there! Take her back to Hanatul to be healed! We have no time for this!"
Hidan nodded and quickly gathered Thanerah in his arms. He rushed outside and carefully mounted on Steel with Thanerah resting in his arms. Tagor shouted from the house "I'll take care from here. You guys head back to Hanatul as soon as possible!"
Hidan nodded before he signalled Steel to run to Hanatul. Hidan gripped around Thanerah tightly and he whispered to her desperately "Hold on, love. I am not losing you again..."