A/N: Hello there! Warning, slight profanity! Arigato!
I do not own Naruto hehe
Oh and I dedicate this to you, yeah you know who you are!
Quiet.
'What is going on' I thought to myself as I slowly crept my fingers into my pocket, barely skimming the top of my shuriken.
"Ah Ah Ah" the calm voice said in a melodic tone.
"It would be wise of you to keep your partner under control. We wouldn't want to make a mess." I could hear him laughing to himself behind the brush. Sick.
"You're right." My brother spoke in the same twisted manner. "What would your leader say if you didn't come back home? Hmm?"
I started to tremble. 'What is my brother doing? Trying to get us killed?'
"Enough of this!" the raspy voice spat back to us. "Stop fucking around! What is it that you really want?"
"Akatsuki. We want in." my brother crossed his arms as he spoke.
I stepped back. 'What!' I began screaming in my head. 'Akatsuki!' the words were ringing over and over again in my head.
The dark voice began to laugh uncontrollably. It seemed to get louder and louder, and then finally, it had stopped. Silence. For what seemed like hours, we stood there in silence. And then, a dark hand appeared around my brother's ankle. He quickly looked down and we both jumped high into the air. Looking down onto the ground, I could see an arm emerge from the ground. The arm was black and long. Then more of the man began to emerge.
"W-what is this?" I looked at my brother through my mask, pleading for some sort of explanation.
"Don't speak." My brother said to me with a serious tone. "Stay hidden."
We landed a few feet from the emerging person and I sprinted to the forest.
My brother withdrew his sword and took his stance. Waiting.
"W-what is that?" I spoke aloud unable to contain my thoughts.
It was a plant? A plant that could speak. Then slowly, the giant Venus trap like leaves began to open. Black and white emerging from in-between them. The black and white man smiled at my brother and then slowly turned in my direction.
'He can see me?' I gasped, clutching the branch that I stood on.
My brother took note of the direction the man was looking in and quickly shouted in his direction. "I'm not a patient man." The plant like man looked back in my brother's direction and smiled.
"Neither are we." He spoke mockingly.
Splitting.
The man began to split right down the middle. An indescribable noise was filling the air.
I looked at my brother who was staring the man in front of him down, while I watched in horror. 'This person. What is going on?'
The two parts stood in front of each other and looked at my brother.
"Now, let's begin." The white half said with a small smile, and with that, both halves lunged at my brother.
He jumped forward and headed straight towards the two halves and raised his sword only to connect it with the white halves black cloak. He had jumped right above my brother's head and landed inches behind him. Quickly, my brother ducked and swung his leg underneath himself, attempting to knock the being behind him onto the ground. The man jumped twisting his body and landing a few more feet behind my brother.
"Enough of this foolish child's play." My brother spat back at the man in front of him.
He formed a series of hand signs holding his hand to his mouth, taking in a deep breath, and blowing a huge amount of flames towards the man. In a flash, the man sunk beneath the earth and waited.
After my brother's attack had ceased he allowed his head to poke out above the ground. Chuckling, "Now where did you learn such a technique hmm?"
I saw one of the clones that my brother had also summoned amidst their battle; he had hidden them everywhere waiting for his opportunity to use them. It crouched down near the man's head that was protruding from the ground. The man was completely oblivious. I saw it bend down and place its hands around the white man's neck and began to pull upwards.
"Just what do you think you are doing hiding back here?" a raspy dark voice spoke from behind me.
I turned instantly and looked at the black half of a man sitting quietly behind me on an opposite tree limb.
He found my neck and slammed me against the tree that I was sitting on. Breathing. I couldn't. I grasped at the man's arm and desperately pulled. He laughed, bringing his face closer to mine. Feeling his warm breath hit my face made me shudder.
"What? Aren't you going to start screaming? Beg for your life." The dark man demanded.
I quickly let go of the man's arm and dropped my hands to my sides and began to form a few signs. My body slowly began to back into the tree. The man's face began to twist in uncertainty and he took another step forward, squeezing his hand in order to get a better hold of my neck. I brought my hand up to knock his arm away from my neck, making contact, he took a step back and I could feel his eye glaring at my vanishing body. I focused my chakra and guided my body down through the trunk of the tree and through the ground beneath it. I attempt to sense the man's chakra behind me and realized that I had put substantial distance between the two of us.
Raising my head just enough to hear the man shout in my direction "I enjoy a good chase." And with that, I ducked my head and tried to put the most distance between myself and the dark man as I could.
Trembling.
'Why was this happening? Why?' I cursed myself for so many things. Weak. Hopeless. I was starting to pity myself.
'I'm no ninja. I never wanted this. I can't…' I was crying now.
Unable to contain the tears and my trembling, I pushed my body out of the ground and began to sprint as fast as I could. After a long while of wading deep in the forest, I bounded to the top of a tree and gasped. 'Night?' The sky was dark and sprinkled with billions of stars. The moon was shining so bright that I used my hand to shield my eyes. I gathered up enough courage to stop and try to locate my attacker. Nothing. No one was here. Where was I? I looked around the tops of the trees and decided that it was safe to descend to the ground below. Searching for any sign of life other than my own, I wondered to a tree nearby and took a seat. Leaning my head back for the briefest of moments and letting out a sigh seemed to help my nerves.
Snap!
Springing to my feet made my head spin, but I quickly regain my composure and searched for the man who was chasing me. No one.
Snap!
My hands started to shake. I was losing it.
"It's me." The tears began to swell up into my eyes. My brother. He was alright.
He emerged through the forest and I ran up to him, placing a hand on his chest and signing in relief.
"I-I-I" I tried to speak but the shaking made it difficult.
He shushed me and put a finger over his mouth.
More rustling came from the forest and two bodies emerged.
One body was very familiar. With his plant like appearance, I suddenly jerked my head to look up at my brother who was staring at the other body that had appeared in front of us. This body was much more 'normal'. Tall, with dark hair peeking out from behind the bright orange mask that he wore, he waved in my direction, moving closer to where I stood, bowing and introduced himself.
"Tobi."