Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Kale's POV
"What are you trying to pull!" Hidan snapped as Shikamaru stood up and stepped to the side.
"Shikamaru?"
"We have to drag him out of the circle, then the curse will wear off." He hissed slowly stepping to the side.
"So it is a curse, I've never heard of one like this though, a curse that ties you to your opponent." I sighed "But I suppose this is a curse that could only work for an immortal like that guy."
"He curses you if he ingests your blood, before when he licked the scythe I thought he was just being creepy but it was part of his plan. In addition he has to be in the blood diagram for it to work."
"You punk!" Hidan yelled.
"You know…" Shikamaru groaned "You talk too much."
"I'll spill your blood next!" the Akatsuki yelled.
"There is no next." Shikamaru said forcing Hidan out of the circle "He'd clear!"
"Let's check!" Asuma said slashing Hidan's ear.
We all waited, but nothing happened.
"The curse is broken!" I yelled.
Shikamaru quickly used his shadow to impale Hidan in place.
"You!"
"That's the limit." Shikamaru panted "Hurry!"
"Kakuzu help me!" Hidan yelled as Asuma charged up his chakra blade "HELP ME DAMMIT!"
"I told you to keep your guard up." Kakuzu shrugged as Asuma dashed passed and sliced Hidan's head clean off.
"It's done…" I sighed.
"One down." Fu looked at Kakuzu "One to go."
"Hmmm…" Kakuzu hummed "I've been looking for you for a long time girl, Number Seven belongs to the Waterfall, who'd it end up in the Leaf?"
"Fu forged her own path." The girl explained "And that meant leaving Takigakure…Just as you did."
"Hmm…" Kakuzu nodded "I haven't been there in a long time…Hidan if you wanted my help you should have said so sooner."
"You shut up!" a voice yelled "You did it on purpose!"
"No way…" Fu gasped.
"He's…still alive?!" I yelled.
What the hell is this guy?!
"You told me not to interfere." His partner shrugged "You're making a fool of yourself by yelling."
"I don't feel like yelling." Hidan said "Just get over here and help me dammit. Bring my body would ya?"
The masked man walked over and picked up the talking head "This is lighter."
"I said my body you dumbass!" Hidan snapped "And stop pulling my hair!"
"Start complaining about you neck pain first." Kakuzu told him.
"I know, this isn't a typical wound, I'm gonna be sore for days." Hidan told him.
"Days?" I wondered.
"How do we deal with this?" Fu asked.
"Without his body he can't use Jutsu." Shikamaru said trying to catch his breath "Immortal or not a head can't do much on its own. We just have to deal with the other one."
Asuma is wounded and Shikamaru is barely conscious…
"Fu, follow my leads." I told her.
"Right." She nodded.
"You better not get relaxed!" Kakuzu said kicking Asuma away.
He dropped Hidan's head onto his body and sowed the man back together with strange black rope.
"Damn are you sure it's on right?" Hidan asked cracking his neck.
"Stop moving so much or it'll fall off." Kakuzu warned.
"They reattached it." Fu gasped.
"You speeches and rituals always get in the way." Kakuzu berated his partner "You take care of the bounty I'll deal with the Jinchuriki."
"Fu!"
"Right!" she said making hand signs.
"Five Staves: Pentagram Formation!" I threw all five of my staves into the air and they floated around me.
"Let's go!" I ran forward "Shepherd!"
I grabbed the crook staff and the tip charged with light.
"Water Style Bug Jutsu!" Fu put her hand to her mouth and started throwing up yellow goo "Honey Swamp!"
Kakuzu stepped into the honey and got trapped on the ground.
"Illuminate!" I fired off a blast of pure light at him, somehow his arms unstitched and flew off grabbing my staff and redirecting the blast before grabbing Fu and I.
"GAH!" I screamed as I was choked and my other staves stopped floating and fell to the ground.
"HELP!" Fu cried as she was dragged over to Kakuzu.
"FU!" I yelled reaching out for her hand.
No…I won't let them take her.
"Asuma!" Shikamaru yelled as Hidan jumped backwards and pulled his Scythe to himself.
Asuma ducked under the scythe, which was the last thing he should have done. The crude metal weapon flew through the air and slammed into Hidan's chest.
"BAH!" the man coughed up blood "Ha…ha…HAHAHAHA! You idiot!"
Asuma!
"This is it, the ultimate pain!" Hidan yelled "The one that kills you!"
"NOOO!"
"It's over." Kakuzu warned.
"HYA!" Hidan grabbed his spike and jammed it through his own heart.
"BLEH!" Asuma coughed up a mouthful of blood.
DAMMIT!
"Oh yeah…that's the stuff." Hidan moaned.
"ASUMA!" Shikamaru cried.
"I'm done." Hidan said as his skin turned back to normal.
"I'll be done in a second." Kakuzu said.
"You Bastard!" Shikamaru tried to get involved but Kakuzu only threw me into him.
"GAH!" we both ground as we collided.
"I won't…give up!" Fu yelled as her chakra started to spike and her eyes changed again.
"FU!" I yelled.
"CAW!"
The air was suddenly filled with black feathers and crows.
"I can't see a damn thing!" Hidan yelled.
A man appeared from the crows and slashed Kakuzu, forcing him to drop Fu.
"Shikamaru we're here to help you." Ino said.
"Fu!" I grabbed the girl and pulled her back "Are you alright."
"Yeah…" she panted "I'll be fine."
We almost lost here…this is getting out of hand.
"Ino get Fu and Shikamaru to safety." I said summoning my staves "I'll protect you guys."
The crows cleared out and I stared Kakuzu and Hidan down.
"I won't let you take Fu." I told them pulling out a kunai.
I'll summon a big one if I have to.
"You're not getting away!" Kakuzu said trying to go after the dying Asuma.
"You'll all be my sacrifices!" Hidan yelled.
Suddenly the two stopped.
"What?" Hidan hissed "But we're getting to the good part!"
"What about Seven?" Kakuzu asked.
They're talking to someone?
"Just give us a little time." Hidan begged.
"We're leaving." Kakuzu said "But we'll be back for the girl soon…"
The two used a smoke bomb and vanished.
"Another…total failure."
This is becoming a pattern…I don't like it.
I looked at Fu as the sky opened up and the rain poured down.
I can't hide her any more…for her own sake.
I gave Shikamaru, Ino and Choji their privacy with Asuma.
"I'm second in command…I'll get started on the report." I told Fu.
Later
"I see…" Tsunade said as I finished my report with Fu and Shikamaru.
"What are we going to do?" I asked.
"Shikamaru, Kale notify everyone you can find." She said "I'll tell Kurenari."
"No." Shikamaru spoke up "I'll do it…I have a message for her from Asuma-Sensei."
"Okay…you two are dismissed." She said "Fu you stay."
I looked at Fu as I left, I hadn't told her I was telling Tsunade the truth in my report…I could feel the bertaryl in her eyes.
"How…how could you." She mumbled.
I left the room and Shikamaru and I went our separate ways, the first place I went was to where Naruto was training. I wasn't sure how to tell people someone died, I figured maybe Kakashi-Sensei could give me some advice.
When I got to the training field Naruto was working on some kind of Rasengan, Captain Yamato was sitting farther back regulating the Nine Tails.
"You're back." He said as I walked up and leaned on a pillar "How'd it go."
I was silent for a moment "Sensei!"
"Hmm?" Kakashi-Sensei looked my way before he and Naruto walked over to me "What's up?"
"Training's done for the day." I told them "You gotta come back to the village."
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"…" I sighed "Asuma is dead…I told Tsunade about Fu's secret…it's all gone to shit."
Fu's POV
"I…I don't even know what to say." Lady Hokage sighed as I stood before her with my head down.
"I-."
"Don't!" she cut me off "I' doing the talking understand?"
"Yes Ma'am." I nodded.
"Fu are you really the Seven Tails Jinchuriki?" she asked.
"…yes." I sighed.
"Dammit." She mumbled "Do you understand the position this puts me in? The Tailed Beasts are scattered to balance power, if people find out one moved to the Leaf Village things could get messy."
So I'm just some chip to play with.
"I'm disappointed in you." Tsunade frowned "You lied to me! You had other's lie to cover for you! If Takigakure finds out…I don't know what will happen! In your stupidity you nearly walked right into Akatsuki's hands! We practically gave them a gift! Not to mention now I'll have the advisement council on my neck about you and Naruto!"
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry to…" she hissed "It takes a lot to earn my trust, and you've lost any I had in you, it's going to take a lot to get it back. Until further notice you're suspended form all mission duty and confined to the village."
"Fu understands." I frowned.
"You can go." She said.
I turned to leave.
"And Fu…for the record." Tsunade spoke up "If you had told me the truth from the start, I still would have let you stay."
"Thank you." I whimpered.
I went outside and found a seat on a rood to cry alone. This was it, everyone was going to know the truth…and they'd hate me for it.
"What are you doing up here?"
I turned around and saw Ino was there.
"What's wrong, why are you crying?" she asked "Are you upset about Asuma-Sensei, listen it's not your fault if that's what you're thinking."
"No that's not it." I sniffled "Why are you talking to Fu, don't you think she's a freak…a monster?"
"Not at all." She said sitting next to me "If this is about that whole you being the host for the Seven Tails trusts me you're overthinking it."
"This will be just like the Village behind the Waterfalls." I cried "Everyone will come to hate Fu cause of what she is."
"No they won't." Ino smiled "You have friends here they don't care who you are or what's inside you…to us you're still Fu and nothing has changed."
"You…mean that?" I asked.
"You're still my friend." Ino hugged me "Now stop crying, I'd like to cry with you but I'm all out of tears today, so if you don't stop I'll steal your tears to cry with."
I nodded happily "Fu is happy to have finally made friends like she always dreamed of."
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