DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...
(A/N): What up guys!? Who's ready for a bit of time from Cole's POV? It's been a while since he was in the spotlight.
TO THE STORY!
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Chapter 88: Movement
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"Welcome to the family, Akari, Akira..."
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For the first time in Cole's life he felt like Naruto had it better off then he did. Sure, he loved his family. There were his everything. But honestly...having newborn's sucks! It had been a little over a week since Akira and Akari we brought into the world, and so far, Cole had gotten a collective eight hours of sleep. Anko wasn't in much better shape either. She was exhausted from child birth, only to be awake at all hours trying to help Cole with two hungry and crying twins.
Speaking of twins, they were currently sleeping. On top of Cole's chest...on the couch...and it was noon...he tried to close his eyes and get some long deserved sleep when Anko walked over to him and plopped down on the couch and curled up against his lap. "Sleep~ how I missed you~" she purred as she quickly fell asleep. Cole smiled and quickly followed. Only for Akari to start crying twenty minutes later, inadvertently waking up Akira and causing him to cry. Anko and Cole groaned loudly as they began to get up.
"Why don't you go make me some lunch...I'll need it after these two get their fill..." Anko grumbled as she took the twins from Cole. He nodded to his tired wife. "On it." he said as he made his way over to the kitchen.
This cycle lasted for about another three weeks before the twins started to calm down and sleep more for longer periods of time, MUCH to Anko and Cole's pleasure. Naruto would swing by every now and then and visit and play with his little siblings. The two took a real shine to their older brother and whenever he was over Cole and Anko were finally able to get some real sleep while he watched the two living alarm clocks.
A month in a half has passed since the twins were born and Cole was walking out of the bedroom with two babbling twins in his arms. He look exhausted while wearing a pair of black sweat pants and a white shirt. He also had his long hair tide back into a low pony tail to keep his hair out of his eyes while he watched the kids. And strangely enough, from what he could see, neither of them had inherited the Rinnegan. Maybe it needed to be unlock? He didn't know, but at least the kids were calming down a lot and letting him and Anko sleep for once.
He yawned loudly and blinked a few times when he saw a figure in a black cloak in his house. He yawned one more time before smirking at the cloaked figure. "So Itachi, I know something is important, but could you seriously give me a little heads up before you just appear in my house?" he said to his double agent. Itachi smirked back at him and sheepishly laughed a bit. "S-sorry about that, but I've got some news I think you'd like to hear." he said with a little less monotone to his normal voice.
Cole sighed and created a shadow clone to take the kids. Itachi looked at the two with a suppressed smile. "So what's their names?" he asked his old friend. Cole smiled a bit and had his clone show them off. "The girl is Akari, and her brother there is Akira." he said to the Uchiha. Itachi looked at the two infants for a second, putting faces with names. The girl, Akari, had now growing light magenta hair and green eyes. While her brother had black hair with a tint of purple and black eyes. The two infants looked at him curiously before Akari smiled and babbled at him, waving a arm towards him. Akira looked to his sister and back to the Uchiha with a bashfully shy look. "Akari is sure the lively one...huh?" Itachi said to his friend. Cole deflated a bit. "Yeah, I can already see the twin dynamic they are going to have. Akira is going to be the shy one while Akari is going to take more after Anko. I swear for a couple of one n' a half month old's they can sure be a lively pair." Cole droned as he sunk into the couch.
His look got serious as he looked into Itachi's eyes. "So...what do you have for me?" he asked the Uchiha. Itachi sat down across from him and pulled out a few files. "These two are known as the Immortal's. Kakuzu and Hidan. They'll be on the move soon to capture their first target, Nii Yugito, the Nibi. The last time we met Kakuzu said he was going to go after her in about a month...that was two weeks ago. I think you should do something before then. I can't blow my cover yer, and frankly, if I did I doubt I'd get out of there alive." he said to the Oracle. Cole nodded along with them as he skimmed through the files he was given. They had the location of where the Nibi would be before the attack and when they were going to do it. "Alright, I understand. Right now, I think either me or Naruto are the only ones who can take on Pein without too much fear in dying. I can handle him easily, and Naruto shouldn't have too much trouble with him once he gets back from his training mission." Cole said to the Uchiha. He looked to Itachi and grimaced slightly. "And...I'm sorry about Sasuke...I never thought Madara would play his hand this early...I wasn't able to foresee that..." he apologized.
Itachi sighed and scratched the back of his head. "Don't worry about it...Do you have any idea where Madara's base could be? I think if I went myself...then I could at least separate the two of them before any lasting damage could be done to Sasuke..." he asked sheepishly. Cole thought about this for a moment before letting out a long sigh. He pulled out a map of the Elemental Nations and pointed to a northern region of Tetsu no Kuni. "I believe he is based in this area of Tetsu no Kuni. I don't know where exactly, but look for a large graveyard. If you see an area covered in large bones...you're in the right place." he explained to the Uchiha.
Itachi nodded and made to leave after giving a quick thanks. But was stopped by Cole. "Itachi...I don't know if you are powerful enough to stop this false Madara...Just...be careful old friend." he said as he held out his hand to the Uchiha. Itachi smiled and nodded. He grabbed Cole by his forearm. "Until we meet again Oracle-sama. I'll see you around." he said as he burst into a murder of crows that dissipated into the air.
Cole sighed as he went over to the twins. "Anko is not going to like this..." he grumbled as he took the two from the clone.
"Anko's not going to like what?" Anko asked in a sickly sweet tone from behind Cole. He started to sweat profusely and slowly turned around to see the startlingly happy smile on Anko's face, as Killing Intent slowly leaked out from her. He gulped and chuckled sheepishly. "I'm so dead..."
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And she didn't like Cole's news. His ruptured ear drums were evidence enough for it. Though, he still had a job to do and stopping the Akatsuki from getting their hands on Yugito was apart of it. He was determined to have all the Jinchuriki live through this, and he would not accept failure. He got permission from Tsunade to go on a week long mission in order to make sure Yugito was safe.
He left as soon as he got the authority and was currently flying over Kaminari no Kuni, looking for where Yugito would be in about two days. He flew over location and noticed something flash not to far away. He narrowed his eyes towards the light before his eyes widened. "Shit!" he cursed as the light got closer and turned out to be a fireball. His summons Roc turned its body so Cole could absorb the attack before it caught the giant bird.
He looked to where the fireball came from and smirked. "Heh, fine then. You guys wanna be the first ones to attack. So be it." he says to himself as Roc flies towards the attackers. When he flies over their location Cole hops off and lightly lands before the two that attacked him. "Ah, just the two I've been looking for." he said as he hefted Tekihocho onto his shoulder. "The Immortals, Kakuzu and Hidan." he growled as he looked at the two Akatsuki members. Kakauzu, a tall tan skinned man with Green eyes that had blood shot whites, chuckled evilly at him. "Well, looks like my guess was right. You are Konoha's 'Watcher' correct? You have quite the bounty on your head. I believe it was 500,000,000 million Ryo too. I could use that kind of money." the man said in a deep and evil voice. Cole quirk an eyebrow from behind his mask at the moniker he was apparently know by. but shrugged it off. He pointed his cleaver at the two of them and snorted. "So, which one of you wants to test your immortality against me? How about you tall dark and gruesome?" he said to Kakuzu.
Hidan started laughing and pointing at Cole. "Like some heathen like you could kill us! We're immortal ass wipe! Come on Kakuzu, I want to sacrifice this guy already!" Hidan cackled as he readied his three bladed scythe. Kakuzu grunted and sat down on a nearby rock. "Just make sure you make him recognizable. We don't get paid if they can't tell who he is." he growled at his chuckling partner.
"Don't worry. I'll kill this fucktard nice and good. Jashin-sama will be getting a worthy sacrifice today." he said darkly as he smiled psychotically. Cole smirked from behind his mask and motioned Hidan with his left. "Well come on then. I want to see how many pieces I can cut you into before you actually die."
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(A/N): To be continued...
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