II
"Don't make any rash decisions, girl." The center one growled at me as the blonde stayed bent over on his knees, slowly raising his head to glare at me, blood dribbling from his mouth.
"I'll ask you again, what do you want? Tell me or the pyrotechnic dies." I warned as I pulled my fist down to my side, causing the blonde to now cough up blood violently and slightly tremble from the intense pain he was feeling.
"We can't have her killing him," the man on the right spoke still in a monotone voice. He hadn't removed his hat, and with the high collar of the cloak, I couldn't even slightly see his face. By the tone of his voice, he sounded rather young, but I still couldn't tell for sure.
The center one darted his eyes from the man on the right to me, "The Akatsuki wants you… now are you going to be an obedient girl and come with us, or are you going to fight…?" he didn't ask, it was more like he ordered, as if I really didn't have a choice in the matter.
I raised my eyebrow, "Akatsuki? Who's this "Akatsuki?" I snapped completely clueless on what he was talking about, but trying not to sound vulnerable by asking a question.
"Dull as ever. Just come with us and you won't get hurt." The center one continued to speak in an aggressive tone.
I just looked at the three for a few moments, hoping that it would give me more time to allow the backup to get here. "Get hurt? Let's remember whose accomplice is currently on the ground internally bleeding and could be killed any second." I snapped at them.
"Little… bitch…" the blonde coughed, barely having enough strength to speak.
"Be quite, Deidara… She will kill you." The one on the right warned, still not showing much emotion in his voice.
So the blonde's name was Deidara. I felt as if I had seen the name before, most likely in one of the bingo books Kane kept around. I could only vaguely remember the name, but still if he was in a bingo book, then he was lethal. I continued to look at the three ninja as I tried to think of a plan that would work against these three. If the blonde was the kid from the bingo book and if the center one is really Sasori of the Red Sand… who was the one of the right? More importantly, what could they all do?
"So, you expect me to abandon my village, which has treated me well and I am loyal to, and to go with you three rogues into this "Akatsuki?" I questioned them. All three just stared at me as if I didn't even have a say in this, and I was just wasting their time by talking. I sighed, "Now tell me, would that make much sense?"
"Fine. We'll just force you then," Sasori growled as the tail came darting toward me. I quickly dodged the tail, but missed it by only a few centimeters, which was much too close for comfort. As my feet slid through the sand, I tried to keep my attention on the blonde, because if I focused everything on the so called Sasori, then I'd lose my control over the blonde. "Quick little thing you are…" Sasori muttered as the tail came at me again.
This time I sprinted forward toward him, grabbing a small vial of one of my deadliest poisons out the thick belt that I had wrapped tightly around my waist. I quickly pull the cork out and threw it at Sasori, "Wind Release: Poison Death Cloud," I commanded. In an instance the poison that was in mid-air was formed into a rather large cloud that raced toward Sasori.
The one on the right swiftly jumped back away from the cloud while the one called Deidara was still on the ground, gaining a bit of strength back since I was now more focused on the current battle. I stayed where I was and waited for the cloud to die out. It soon started to disintegrate, and I watched to see if he had passed out from the lack of oxygen like he should have, because once that poison was into your lungs, it digested all of the oxygen and started to clog the lining of the lungs, so that none could get in once the cloud was gone, and you'd die from lack of breathing.
I heard a chuckle come from the quickly disappearing cloud. "That's an interesting little toxin you have there…" he snickered as the cloud evaporated completely. My eyes went wide; the poison had never failed throughout the 3 years since I had created it. How did he survive through that? It had taken me 2 years to become immune to it…
I bit my lip, I could always try to get a drop of his blood and control him like I did with the blonde, but if I did that I'd have to give up my power over the blonde, yet again did this Sasori even have blood since the poison did affect him? And of course there was always the third one, who hadn't even done anything yet. I quickly ran multiple fighting options through my mind, but none of them seemed too solid, because I hadn't had any real idea of that these guys were capable.
I then heard something overhead, I quickly looked up to see another one of those clay creatures taking a nose dive right toward me. Shit. I must have paid too much attention to Sasori, which gave the blonde enough control over himself to create that bird. Right as the blonde put his hand together for the seal that made it explode, I raced to get my own hand seals done, "Wind Release: Dome of Protection," I yelled. Quickly a sphere of wind rushed around me, shielding me from the flying creature that burst into a fiery blast.
As the smoke from the blast subsided, Sasori's metal tail came at me again. The shield was still up, so I didn't jump out of the way, yet the tail seemed to power its way right through the dome that surrounded me. The point of it came and hit me directly in the lower part of my ribs. It easily slashed through the vest, belt, dress, and fishnets that were all covering my ribcage and violently hit the bone. I could easily hear the scorpion like tail loudly scratching against my bones and shattering at least 6 of my ribs.
I fell to one knee and gripped my side. The tail went from the side of my ribcage and shot up, cutting the cloth tie that held my forehead protector in my hair, somewhat like a headband, and giving me a deep gash on both my collarbone and cheek. I felt the metal plate fall from my light blonde hair, and I just watched as the little plate with Suna's symbol engraved into it fall into the sand. That unnecessary move right there was their way of saying that this fight was theirs now, and I had no chance.
I soon felt the poison from the tail infiltrate into my bloodstream. I clutched my open wound tighter and bit down my lip. I knew it wouldn't kill me, I had become immune to most poisons like that, but a few still caused a lot of pain. "Are you going to come with us now?" Sasori asked me again.
"…It's going to take a lot more to kill me than a poison like that," I scoffed at him as I stood back up, a bit shaky from all of the almost unbearable pain that the poison blazing through my veins was causing. I slowly twisted my arm that wasn't putting pressure on my wound and caused the blonde to grip the left side of his chest and gasp in pain, "Like how it feels? Remember I'm still in control here," I snapped as I let him feel what I felt.
The one on the right gave a final sigh, "I'll take this fight over," he announced still with not even a hint of emotion in his voice. He slowly took of his hat and dropped it into the sand carelessly. Black center-parted bangs framed his rather serious, yet young looking face as intense charcoal eyes accompanied by pronounced tear troughs set gaze upon me.
I stared at him for a second trying to figure what he'd do, but then his once dark slate eyes changed into bright red orbs with little black circles inside all connected on one thin circle. I quickly took a step back, because I knew if it was anything like me, I was in serious danger.
I stayed still as he continued to gaze at me, yet soon the sky was filled with crows. Black crows flew everywhere as the sand and setting around us seemed to melt and was replaced with nothing but darkness. He walked closer to me and was now only about 3 feet away. "Stop before you get hurt anymore." He advised in a rather brotherly way.
I continued to glare at him, "Why would you care if I got harmed, you all just want to take me into this "Akatsuki" or whatever." I snapped at him, realizing that he had me trapped in some type of genjutsu, which was, by far, my weakest point as a ninja.
"…They're coming soon. I suggest you just give up now, best to let your teammate and the child survive…" he spoke in a deep, but non-threatening voice.
My eyes went wide, "What? How?" I questioned him.
His expression nor tone ever changed as he began again, "When your teammate cut Deidara to get you the blood sample, Deidara had a clay sculpture attach on to his sleeve. If you want him and the girl to survive, you'll come with us."
"Why?" I questioned him, now getting more defensive that both Hiro and the child's life was on the line as well as mine, "Why do want me?"
He sighed, "You're Kekkei Genkai, how with just a drop of blood you can control and kill a person with almost no effort. We could have taken your brother too, we considered it, but you are also one of the highest and most skilled medical nin known, and that's what we needed, so we chose you. You are useful to us." He finished.
I stayed there still crutching my side, "So, if I don't go with you, you will kill me, my teammate and the little girl and then you'll go and get my brother to use out power for your own needs?" I questioned him.
All he did was nod. I bit my lip and glared at the nonexistent ground as I tried to think all of this through. If I tried to fight back and stall them until backup gets here, I'd get killed, Hiro would get killed, the child would get killed, and most likely the backup would get killed also. On top of all of that, Kane would get pulled into this mess too. On the other hand, if I gave in, I'd have to deal with these mostly likely S-ranked criminals and probably never seen Suna or anybody I loved again, yet Hiro, the child and Kane would all be saved.
I lifted my eyes and stared up at the man. I sighed and wiped the blonde's blood off of my arm, which took away all of control I have over him. I felt my eyes go from there demonic looking state, which consisted of the white part turning onyx and the iris becoming a dark blood red, to their normal, calm and gently looking light green. "Fine…" I muttered. Giving in and saving the others was more important than saving myself.
The endless desert view soon reappeared as the darkness subsided, yet all I did was look at the ground. I saw my forehead protector out of the corner of my eye, and I felt a sadness come over me, but that sadness was interrupted by a loud and obnoxious, "Katsu!"