Itasuske, the actual begining.

[Chronos]

Azami and the others were falling, still. It was exciting and terrifying and all that for the first 5 minutes, but this was ridiculous! Both Relic and Takashi seemed to think the same thing, for they looked bored, at least what she could see of them. It was pretty dark in the chute. Relic suddenly said, “brace for impact!” they all started making hand signs, besides Azami. She started rearranging her genetic structure, and her bones turned to a jelly-like substance. All her inner organs then got encased in a very hard skeleton that was harder than diamond, so that she wouldn’t die when she hit whatever it was. Relic had set it up so that he had a bubble surrounding him. Takashi looked as though he had done nothing. “Takashi, what are you doing?” Azami yelled. “You’ll see.” He yelled back. She could see the floor now, and it was coming up quite quick. She hit the floor, and her whole body took the impact, but nothing broke, so she reestablished her regular composition, and walked up to see Relic was still fine. She looked all around, but could not find Takashi. “Where is he?” she asked. “I have no clue.” Relic said. “SUP BIATCHES!!!!!” Takashi called as he landed on the floor with a bit of a “thud”. “What did you do?” Azami asked. Takashi pulled something off of his back “This, lady’s and………old guy, Is a state-of-the-art, most advanced repelling system available. It comes it two settings: grapple, and oh my god, I’m about to die. It sells retail at about 900,000 yen, but thanks to the expert in sales, especially the five-finger kind, I got it free.” Azami and Relic had both started walking away by the time he had finished. After he saw that they were uninterested, He put the winch back on, and caught up with the others.

Azami noticed that this place had a similar layout to the last base that they were at. As they were walking, they came to a crossroads. It seemed that there were three different paths to follow. “Let’s split up, but keep on your guard. Remember that Orochimaru built this place.” Relic nodded, and Takashi grunted. Azami took the far right, while Relic and Takashi took the center and far right, respectfully. Azami, along her path, arrived at a door that would have looked the same as the one she used to be in most of the time. She walked in, and she experienced something like deja-vu. The room was filled with incubation chambers, but only one of them was active. Inside, she looked and saw a sight which almost made her throw up. It was a machine body, but it had blood pumping throughout it’s body, which meant that somewhere, something inside that thing was living, and needed blood. She was about to give it a closer look, but as soon as she got close, the thing crushed the glass. It tackled her, but did not really hurt her. “What, who am I?” It asked. Azami, amazed at this new creature’s abilities, tried to level and make as much sense out of this predicament as the creature. “I really cannot tell you what you are, but I think the name should come from yourself, don’t you?” The creature, realizing what it had done, got off of Azami, and sat down. “How long have I been in there?” the thing pointed to the chamber. It then saw it’s own hand, and recoiled in fear. It started feeling all around it’s body, and felt all the steel that had, apparently replaced it’s actual body parts. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!?!??!!!?” The thing screamed, and held Azami up against the wall. She, in return made it so her body weighed 20 times more than her actual weight, but it still held her up. Amazing strength, she considered to herself. This thing would give Might Guy a run for his money. “It wasn’t me! But I do know who did this to you. What is your last memory?” The thing, in response, started to loosen it’s grip on her. “I remember…..fire….a great fire. I was…….trying to get someone. Trying…..running…….trying to get….GRAHHHHH!!!!” It suddenly let go of Azami, and started gripping it’s head. Azami couldn’t tell, but it looked like it was getting it’s memories back. When it was finished clutching it’s head, Azami made another approach. She laid a hand on the thing and rolled it over. It opened it’s eyes, and said, “My name is Hajime. A man named………Orochimaru did this to me. I will destroy him for destroying my life.” He started walking away. Azami went up to him. “Wait, I’m trying to find the same man. I also want him for my own reasons. Will you join me and my team?” Hajime looked her once over. “Since I have no clue of the lay of the land, I guess having people who know the area won’t be a bad idea. Fine, but we must get to work.” Azami had a small smile on her face. If she played her cards right, she could have this little creation instead of Itasuske, or Itasuske could still be a viable option should this thing turn against her.

Relic was walking around, and caught a feeling of great power nearby. He tread carefully, for who knew what horrors lied inside Orochimaru’s lair that went unused? So, as he was walking, he noticed a ladder that went straight up, and he also felt that the power was right above his head, for it was almost dizzying how powerful it felt. He made a quick clone, and sent it up the ladder. As it got up, nothing happened. So, seeing it was safe to proceed, he climbed the ladder as well. When he got it up, he noticed that the room was completely empty except for one item. It was a kunai, and it seemed to pulsate with a power. It looked normal, though, except that it was pure black. He didn’t want to touch it, but his clone was still there, so he had the clone touch it. After the clone touched it, the clone vanished. Not like it was destroyed or anything, but like it wasn’t there. He sent a mental message to the clone, who sent a message back that it was at a different place. Hmmm, Relic thought to himself. He had heard of these types of things. It was one of the ninja tools used in the Ninja Civil War, though if you found one, you had to find the other before it would teleport anyone anywhere. He got on the radio. “Azami, Takashi, I’m sending out my homing signal. Come to my position.” He pressed a button on his radio, and he sent out a homing signal that would get louder as a person got closer, and softer as a person went farther away. 20 minutes later, Takashi showed up. “What’s up, old man?” Relic stared at Takashi. “I have found something as old or older than I. A teleportation ninja tool. If you touch it, you get pulled to a different location.” Takashi, not listening, went over to the kunai. “ohhh, pretty.” Relic quickly got up and hit Takashi over the head. “Not yet. Wait until Azami gets here.” 17 minutes later, she showed up with Hajime behind her. “What’s wrong? You found something?” Azami asked. Before she could take one look around the room, Relic had a arrow pointed directly at Hajime. “Relic, what are you doing? Is that the way you treat a ally?” Azami asked. Relic made a quick glance at Azami, then slowly lowered his bow. “I guess……not.” He went over to the kunai, and called all the others over. “Now, if we all touch it at the same time, we should all land in the same general area. I don’t really know how this works, so start your homing beacons as soon as you land.” he explained. Azami handed a radio off to Hajime, and took her position. “Ready?,” Relic asked. All of them nodded, and they all touched the kunai at the same time.

[xravenx]

another cliffhanger! i will forever keep complaining!
The beginning was funny. Takashi is funny!
Where did they go of to now! so many questions!

[dragonjinchuuriki3]

lol
wow.... I need to mess around with Takashi a little.... or not! XD *picutes drawing if Takashi doing actions from part* ZOMG!!!

[Chronos]

Itasuske had never experienced this before. His father was training him, but it was completely different from when Kabuto trained him. He actually thought that he was going to die, at one point. His father had pinned him down, and pulled a sword out of his mouth. If He hadn’t thought fast at that point, he would have died from a sword cut! Itasuske was lying, hidden from everything, but waiting for his chance to strike. Of course Orochimaru would have chosen a enclosed location for training. “Where are you, young Itasuske? I know that you’re here. Come out so we can end this little training session.” Itasuske knew exactly what he meant by “end”, and didn’t particularly want that right now. But how was he, barely a genin in strength, supposed to beat his master, which he came to learn was sanin strength? He pulled out what he had left from the previous battle before he went into hiding. Some string, invisible type, 4 kunai, and a can of his special gas. Itasuske, who knew he was pressed for time before he was going to be discovered, started forming a hasty plan. All his life, nothing had come close to this challenging. If it worked in the way he was thinking, then his plan was going to work. It had to work, or else he would be dead in the water.

Orochimaru saw Itasuske leap down from wherever he had hidden. “Very good. A ninja should always be a expert of stealth and hiding. I’m surprised that I didn’t find you, though. You must be exceptional at that particular aspect of being a ninja. Now, let’s see how you are at combat!” Orochi started walking toward Itasuske, sword drawn and pointed directly at Itasuske. Itasuske stood there, apparently holding his ground, and pulled out a kunai. Itasuske then started rushing Orochimaru. Orochi made a slash at Itasuske, which he dodged and started bouncing all around Orochimaru, making good use of his youthful energy, and made random slashes with his kunai at Orochimaru, which he parried and finally caught Itasuske in his hand. “Well, aren’t we the energetic one? Well, unfortunately, all youth will give way to experience.” Then, the Itasuske in his hand disappeared. “What? A clone?” Orochimaru was surprised that Itasuske would be so audacious as to send a mere clone to face him. He was also a bit surprised that the close was so powerful, for what it was. The real Itasuske dropped from his real hiding spot, and held out his hand. “So, are you going to surrender? That’s a shame, it was just getting entertaining.” Orochimaru said. Itasuske remained silent, but pulled his hand back quickly. Orochimaru felt a binding sensation, and found that he was bound by invisible type string. “Hmmmm, clever. Using the clone to distract me from the real purpose, which would be binding me in string. But what are you going to do now? You need your strength to keep me bound, and you can’t just walk over here.” Orochi smirked. Indeed, Itasuske showed a amazing aptitude for strategy and actual ninja skills. He seemed to be everything that Orochimaru was expecting of him. “Well, that would be a problem, if that were really me.” Itasuske said from behind Orochimaru. Orochimaru quickly turned his head, and saw (the real?) Itasuske behind him. “So that is…..” Orochi started. “Yep, another clone. Plus, if you had gotten out of this one, I had another clone ready. But I must say, creating clones becomes tiring, somewhat.” Orochi started laughing. “What the? Why are you laughing? You’re caught in my trap.” Itasuske said. “Trap? I let myself be caught so you would be lured into revealing yourself!” Orochimaru quickly released a chakra burst from his body, which broke the string, and made a slash at the Itasuske behind him. Orochi made contact, and hit something that crunched like bone. Then spewed right into Orochimaru’s face. The Itasuske he slashed disappeared. Another blasted clone! And on the tip of his sword a punctured can of some sort. Then, a overwhelming sense of nausea filled his body, plus his eyes started watering, and his sinuses were filled with snot. “What…..what is this? I feel like throwing up! Itasuske!!!” Orochimaru left the room. Itasuske sighed. He had escaped, but barely. His arm was bleeding profusely, and knew that if he hadn’t substituted with his other clone quickly, it would have been a lot more ugly. He got out of his crawlspace and started making his way toward his room, with his hand over his wound, trying to apply pressure on his wound before he bled out. He crawled into a corner, and started a transformation jutsu. Just as he finished, he fainted.

“Are you sure about this, Nutmuncher?” Nakita asked her snake. “Almost positive! Besides, I know if I lie to you, I get seriously hurt!” Nakita considered these words. It was true, she would hurt the little snake if he provided false information. Nutmuncher had said that he saw someone, a boy, about her age passed this way, but there was no trace of such a person in the area that she could see. She was on the complete opposite side of the base, so this place was unfamiliar to her. Whenever she wanted to go exploring, she always went off the base, wondering what the rest of the world was like. She never thought she could get lost in her own garden, but here she was, not having a clue on where to go next. Nutmuncher was little better off, but at least he was a little bit of help. “It was…..to the right, I think….” So Nakita started heading right. She started looking around, and noticed something. There was the faintest hint of blood on the floor. “Nutmuncher, can you…” Nakita asked. “Way ahead of you, sister.” He had already slithered down her leg, and tried catching the scent of the blood. He went back, and on Nakita’s shoulder, he said. “I got it. Keep heading down this hallway.” So Nakita, now a bit more reassured, started jogging down the corridor. Once they reached the wall, Nutmuncher seemed a bit baffled. “I just had it, where did that….” Nakita suddenly grabbed Nutmuncher and shook him a little. “Do you mean to tell me that you lost the scent? You seemed so sure of yourself a second ago!” Nutmuncher, confused and his head spinning, was slow to respond. “He could have done any number of things! Considering he’s just a kid, like you, he probably did a transformation jutsu. The blood scent would be different if he did that!” Nakita held the snake up to her face. “Where is the strongest old scent coming from?” The snake pointed his head at a little hole in the wall not 4 feet away from their current position. She went over to the hole, and found something slumped over and looked like it was holding something. Nakita grabbed the thing, and tried to pull it out of the hole, but it was heavy! Once she pulled it out, she found out it was indeed a person. She also saw that there was a very bad stab wound on his shoulder. Oh well, if this person died, she couldn’t get any information out of him. She started a palm healing jutsu on his wound, and examined him while she was doing that. He was a bit on the thin side, but did not look malnourished. He had his orange hair in a ponytail in the back, and had a strange grayish tunic on. She didn’t know where this kid came from, but she intended to as soon as he regained consciousness. She also realized that this was also probably a illusion, and it was amazing that the boy could keep it up, even though his body was damaged. She healed the wound enough so he wouldn’t die, and waited for mother nature to take her course. About 3 hours later, the boy woke up, and without warning, jumped up and bolted to a different location. Nakita sighed, and realized that in her contemplations, she forgot to tie him down. She ran after him, mentally slapping herself the whole way. She rounded a corner she saw him go around, and couldn’t find a trace of him. Then, unfortunately for her, Kabuto came around the corner. “NAKITA!!! What are you doing here?!?!” He quickly grabbed her up, and with much kicking and yelling, He retuned her to her room. She sat at the windowsill, idly twirling a kunai around in her fingers. Who was that boy? What was he doing here? All questions to ponder while she was stuck here.

[xravenx]

hm....i dont know which part of the story i wanna read more now....

[dragonjinchuuriki3]

what do you mean? Azami and company or Itasuske and Nakita? lol yeah I know what you mean. Again, wOOt, wOOt. X3

[Chronos]

Thanks guys. be sure to keep it up as best as I can.

[Chronos]

wow, it's been a long time. sorry, but here's a new part!

When Azami landed, she looked around, and didn’t see any of her teammates. She turned on her radio, and started walking around. One beep was Relic, two Takashi, three was herself, and Hajime didn’t have one, so he would have to find them. As she started walking around, she heard a faint two beeps. She started in one direction, but noticed that the sound got even weaker, so she headed in the opposite direction. Soon, she noticed that the beeps were getting louder at a exponential rate. That meant that Takashi was running to get to her. Interesting, seeing as how Takashi almost never ran anywhere. This almost disturbed her, except for the fact that she also was a bit panicked as well. So she started jogging toward the beeps, and before too long, she saw Takashi in the distance. When he got closer, she could also see that he was running in a very frantic looking fashion. As he got to Azami, he fell over and quickly got up. “Azami……” he was very tired and panting from all the effort he had put forth. “When we landed…..he….oh my god……Azami……” She walked up to him, and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Takashi, calm down.” She said, excreting a mild depressant from her fingertips into his skin. Not enough to knock him out, but enough for him to calm down. “Now, tell me, what happened?” She asked him. Takashi took a deep breath, and shuddered. “Well, when we touched that Kunai, well, the place I landed, it was right next to Hajime.” He started explaining. “Don’t tell me that Hajime is dead?” Azami asked out of horror. “No, but I wish he was……what he did……” Takashi got a frightened look on his face. “We ran into guards. I, thinking we were outnumbered, started running. But Hajime….he just stood there. I told him to run, but he wouldn’t listen. So, I stayed, you know, to back him up. So He takes one look at me, and he snorted. He was actually disgusted that I was there. Then, the guards showed up.” Azami interrupted him. “Takashi, take me to where you were. I want to see for myself.” Takashi got up, and, with slight hesitation, started running as fast as he could back in the direction he came.

Relic had almost expected this. He knew, since the kunai was ancient, it would probably destabilize. As he got up from where he had landed, he rubbed the back of his neck. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m getting way to old for this.” He said to no one in particular. He started walking toward a faint two beeps that was on his radio. But once he got closer, the beeping faded fast. Relic got his bow out, expecting the worst. He then rounded a corner where they should have been, and only found Hajime and two decapitated guards. Both of them looked at least Jonin level, but it looked like Hajime took them both out without regret, remorse, or probably thinking about it. He stayed back, and decided to observe Hajime while he was doing whatever he wanted to.

When they got near the site, they saw Relic. Azami called out to him, and he didn’t respond. As they got closer, they could see why. On one of the trees, a thing (one of the guards?) was splayed across the branches, and blood soaked the ground. Azami stared in amazement. What could do such a thing? Then she saw something worse. On the direct opposite tree, another thing (the other guard?) was spiked at the very top of the tree. She jumped up for a closer inspection, only to find that it had it’s eyes and tongue pecked out by birds long ago. She went up to touch it (knowing that it was definitely one of Orochimaru’s guards), but before she could, it cried out in pain. In shock that this thing was still alive, Azami started to fall. In mid fall, though, Hajime seemed to come out of nowhere and grabbed her. Once they landed, Hajime let her go. Seeing the carnage all around her, Azami only had one thing in her mind. “Did you do this, Hajime?” she asked in a very cool, as calm as she could voice. “Yes, I did. It was fun, as well.” Azami stood, horrified that something could inflict this much pain. Surely it took a long, painful time to have a tree split a man into pieces, let alone have a bunch of birds peck out a man’s eyes, stuck to a tree. And this thing, Hajime, enjoyed seeing the pain from these people. “Why……..why did you do this?” She asked, rage going through her body. Sure, she had killed things, people before, but not like this. Whenever she had to kill. She made sure it was quick and painless. She knew that her teammates were both the same. Though Relic was a bit, for he liked to hunt, so he baited and taunted the enemy for a while, but in the matter of killing, he was always precise. Hajime quirked his head to the side, and shot a quizzical look at her. “Because they tried to kill me.” Azami, hearing this, was positively furious. “YOU DON”T TORTURE SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO KILL YOU!!!! YOU KILL THEM, OR EXTRACT INFORMATION!!!!!” She was red-faced after she yelled, but she still felt vindictive. Hajime shrugged. “maybe for you, but I like the was I do things, and I will continue to do this. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a base to find.” He walked off. Azami and the others held a conference. “He is powerful, no doubt about that, but if he turns…..” Takashi said. “He will know the lay of the land better, since he is a robot, he has sensors, we don’t. I say as soon as we find Orochimaru, we dump him.” relic, the practical one, said. Indeed, it did sound like the best solution to their current problem. Azami agreed to Relic’s plan. Takashi sighed, and agreed with both of them.

[xravenx]

wow...that was good...poor guards though....really...

[dragonjinchuuriki3]

oO ......... remind me to never get Hajime......
Wow nice part! again I really don't want to get Hajime mad..... poor Nakita....
Nakita: what about me?
Me: Nothing! ^_^"

[Chronos]

Itasuske was hiding. It was ops normal to him now, but he was also playing a game. If he could get the slip on this new person, the person who healed him, then maybe he could get to know who that person was. He was on top of the tallest tower, and from here he had the best view of the entire surrounding area. There was only one problem, though. He didn’t really know what this person looked like! All he could remember was long, black hair, like his father’s. Oh well, no time to think about it right now. But, he considered, he should probably have a disguise if he was to look for this person, so he did a quick transformation jutsu, and then he resembled a common guard. “Now, time to find this person!” he said to himself, and left to scour the surrounding area.

Nakita was walking around, curious about the boy she had healed. Now that they had seen each other, he would probably be as curios as she was, so he would probably be searching for her. So, let him come! She said to herself. But first, maybe a disguise would be a bit appropriate. She did a quick transformation, and she looked like one of the servants that dotted the landscape. If he knows who I am, what fun is that? She asked herself. And maybe……a cat and mouse game! She set off, wanting to find the mysterious boy whom she had saved. She leaped off and decided to take a stroll around the base.

Itasuske was walking to his normal training spot and then heard the shuffle of feet, but it was very soft. He decided to opt as belonging here, for he was disguised as a guard after all. He turned to where the noise was coming from, and saw a small, rather cute-looking maid. “May I help you, miss?” he asked out of politeness, then slapped himself mentally. The guards around here were gruff and didn’t talk at all, and he just talked to a complete stranger! His cover was probably blown, but he decided to try to rectify the mistake. The maid smiled, and replied, “No, thank you.” and continued to walk along. That was odd, though. Usually the maids didn’t say anything, either. “Did you just speak, maid?” Itasuske asked contemptuously. “So what if I did?” she fired back. Itasuske didn’t want to blow it even more than he already had, but it felt like this is what a guard would do, right? Plus he didn’t want to make this maid mad, she was pretty cute. “Nothing. Carry on.” He moved on, or seemed to.

Nakita, after she had transformed, decided to go to the general area into which she first saw that boy. She was walking about the grounds, and saw a guard up ahead. She decided to be cool and start playing the maid role as best as she could. She tried to sneak past him, just like she would slip past Kabuto from time to time. But just as she thought she was in the clear, the guard turned. “may I help you, miss?” the guard asked. Hmmm, Nakita thought to herself, I guess father’s standards are getting a bit lax. But that was a issue to take care of later. “No, thank you.” she said in her sweetest voice she could. The guard seemed to come out of his lack of discipline right there. “Did you just speak, maid?” the guard said in a very gruff voice that was supposed to be manly, she guessed. She mustered her inner hate for these guards, who thought they were so high and mighty because Orochimaru had picked them. In reality, Orochi just hired at random, and never stopped. Just pawns in his grand game of chess. “So what if I did? She said vehemently. That seemed to make the guard think twice, for he said “Nothing. Carry on.” right after word. She decided that she had lingered here for far too long, and the boy had probably moved by now, she decided to go to her favorite look out spot.

Itasuske was traveling along the forest, but this was unfamiliar territory. It had a perfect view of the base, and the surrounding area, for that matter. This would service as a excellent lookout place, Itasuske thought to himself. He climbed a tree, and reverted back to his original form. He then saw a person coming up the path. It was that same maid! He couldn’t let himself get caught, but he also wanted to keep watching this girl. (Mind you, this is the first woman that Itasuske has seen in his lifetime, and he is about 13-14 at this part. Think about it.) He went a little further up the tree, and tried to be a stealthy as he could. He saw the woman pass by, and then realized that the branch supporting him was getting weaker and weaker by the second, so he opted to retreat while he was not getting caught.

Nakita was walking along the path to find her view spot, and she contemplated on what had just happened. A guard who talked? They were supposed to be silent, like, well, ninjas. It was extremely odd, but that guard also kinda looked like that boy that she saved. Maybe his son? Well, these were things to ponder while she kept lookout. She turned to her favorite tree, and heard a small cracking noise. She looked up, just in time to see a small figure, it looked like a squirrel, jump from the tree from a falling branch. “Ohh, small fuzzy animal!” She cried out, and started chasing after it. It was a fast little sucker, because it was almost out running her. She decided that the chase was up, an stopped in the middle of the forest. Then she realized that she was in a part of the forest she had never seen before. She started to turn around, only to find someone behind her. “Well, hello there, little girl,” a woman said. “Who….who are you?” Nakita asked. “Someone…..who needs you.” the woman said. Then, before she knew it, Nakita blacked out.

[dragonjinchuuriki3]

Nakita: O $^@#........
me: lol wOOt hurry along with the next part!

[xravenx]

That was funny, can't wait for the next part!

[Chronos]

wow, reeeeeeeeealy long time, no post. But here is another instalment. Hope ya'll like it!

Nakita woke back up, to discover that she was bound and gagged. It seemed she was in the same forest that she remembered being in, except it was pitch black. Even though she knew she was in a bad situation, she still couldn’t help but think that her dad was going to kill her when she came back home. Then she heard whispers coming from a distant fire. She sneaked up, and listened in to what they were saying. “We must be close,” a woman with red hair said., “That is his daughter, and…” she was interrupted by a man with sunglasses on. “Whoa, hold on! Orochimaru has a DAUGHTER?!?!?!?” The woman sighed, and continued on. “Anyway, the base he’s staying at is probably close by.” A old, skeletal looking man flashed a set of deadly pointed teeth. “Then we must pick up the pace!” he stated. “Orochimaru is a stealthy one, and will probably know ahead of time if we are here or not.” The man with shades on put his hands up in surrender, giving in to outward pressure. Suddenly, Nakita was picked up. She tried to squirm out, but the person who picked her up was really strong! She was put on the ground, about 3 ft from the fire. “I caught her listening in on your conversation,” a boy about her age said. He didn’t look anything special, but those cold, grey steel eyes put her on edge. She could tell that, given a few years time, this boy would probably be more physically powerful than even her father. “Well done, Hajime,” the lady said to him. Then she turned her attention to Nakita. “Well, well, what a pretty little thing we have here,” she put a finger underneath Nakita’s chin. Nakita turned away, and bit her gag away. “When my father finds out about this….” she was left trailing, because her throat felt swollen to a point where she could barely breathe. “Now, that enough out of you for now,” the woman said. Nakita wondered what the heck had happened to her. The woman looked like she held back a smile. “You are wondering why you can’t talk? It’s my specialty. I can make a human body morph to my will, as long as I can have a fairly good line of sight on them. Now listen. You are being held for one reason. You are bait for your father to come look for.” the woman turned, and went to her tent that she pitched. That other kid….. He was just staring at her. It seemed that the woman had fallen asleep, for Nakita’s throat relaxed. “what do you want?” she asked the other boy. The boy, who before looked so cold, shifted his eyes. “Do you……..” the boy started, but didn’t finish. “Do I what?” Nakita fired back, annoyed that this kid couldn’t spit out his words. “Do you….. Like me?” the boy asked. Nakita felt incredulous. “What do you mean ’do I like you’? You pick me up, drop me none too gently, and act all gruff and cold. Of course I don’t like you!” She said that last part without thinking. The boy immediately got up, and stormed off, but with no facial expression. Nakita hoped she wouldn’t pay for this later. Off in the distance, she heard what sounded like trees breaking in the distance. “Oh, that is so not good,” she thought to herself.

Itasuske was roaming about the woods, but it was getting late, and there was no sign of that girl! He was frustrated with himself, but then noticed in the distance another kid, who looked just about to be his age. He dropped from the trees, and addressed the other boy. “Hey, have you seen anyone else around these woods?” The boy answered with a glare and a “back off.” Now, that ticked Itasuske off. “Hey, buddy. I just wanted information, jeez! You know….” but before he finished that sentence, the other boy took a swing at him. It was all he could do to dodge the punch, which went clean through the tree right next to him. Itasuske, surprised by this boy’s strength, looked just before another punch came his way. Again, Itasuske barely dodged the punch, which seemed to cut the wind. This kid was not only strong, he was fast! Itasuske quickly jumped back to have some ground, but the other kid caught up to him and delivered a straight punch to his midsection. That not only knocked the wind out of Itasuske, but he could also swear that he heard a rib or two crack. Itasuske went flying, and it was all he could do not to run into a tree. He got up, and saw that the other kid had a smirk on his face. Itasuske quickly leaped up into the trees, and moved into another random tree. God, his chest hurt! “So,” Itasuske mocked, “What are you going to do now? Start knocking down trees?” He then winced in pain. He took a quick inventory of what he had. A few spools of his special wire, and a few Kunai. He quickly devised a plan. He skipped from tree to tree, laying down wire that was invisible to normal eyes. As the other kid moved, Itasuske could also see that he, indeed, was knocking down trees, He then realized that after this, Itasuske had to make a quick escape. He was probably bleeding very bad internally. The trap was set….now….to get that kid into the trap…… Itasuske quickly skipped to his last tree. “Come on, you couldn’t find me even if….” but before he could finish that sentence, his tree came crumbling down. The Other kid gripped Itasuske by his tunic. “Before you kill me, what is your name?” Itasuske asked. “Hajime,” the other kid said with a sadistic pleasure. Then, he punched Itasuske. A sickening crack filled the air….then all Hajime saw was a broken piece of wood, with string attached to it. All of a sudden, Hajime was tied up in what seemed like unbreakable wire. Itasuske then stepped out from a brush. “Steel razor wire. One of my own inventions. Don’t bother struggling, it’s tough enough to hold down a Bull elephant and will start cutting you up as soon as you start struggling. Have fun… by the way, my name is Itasuske.” He said as he started hobbling towards the camp.

Hajime, several hours later, returned to the camp. Nakita saw that he was all cut up, and asked, “Aww, did the trees fight back?” Hajime, with much restraint, knocked Nakita out. That Itasuske would pay, Hajime then determined. One way or another, that other kid would pay.

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Finally. lol I had to go back and reread haha Good part!^^