~Chapter 23~

READ THE AUTHORS NOTE! I'LL KEEL YEW IF YA DON'T D:< Uuuuh....please? xP

“What’s the mission again?” Tenki asked. He was the one I had the least problems with. He was unconscious while his dumbass teammates did what they did.

“Here.” I grumbled, tossing him the mission scroll from where I rode on Chi’s back. He caught it easily, skimming through it.

All we had to do was infiltrate some gang and kill the leader and his top subordinates. Pretty simple, I’d say.

As Tenki relayed the mission to the two bastards, the bitch let out a screech. “That’s disgusting! We have to join a gang?!”

“What’s wrong with a gang.” Tenki deadpanned, throwing the scroll back to me. I put it into my weapons pouch, barely listening as she whined about how filthy and disgusting the men in a gang would be. And about how she’d probably get raped.

I snickered.

She glared at me as she heard my laughter.

“You got something to say, freak?” She sneered. I simply smirked.

“It’s just that you practically invite rape with your clothing. But your personality and whinny little voice drives every man away so you’d probably be safe.” I shrugged as the other two snickered, shutting up when they shot her a glare.

“You bitch! You can’t-”

“Shut up, stupid.” I ordered, interrupting her. She grew a vein, her eyes blazing as she started yelling at me. All I heard was blah, blah, blah and blah. Stupid chick.

I rolled my eyes, yawning. I was bored, I hated having to travel places. I liked using the transportation jutsu a lot more.

“Chi, how ‘bout you go scout?” I questioned. He nodded as I stood up on his back as he continued running and hopped onto a tree branch, easily keeping along with everyone’s pace.

“How will he scout? He’s going the same speed as us.” Nikko asked, furrowing his eyebrows.

I rolled my eyes as Chi thought of the hand signs before two huge bat wings shot out of his back. He quickly jumped into the air, flapping strongly as the others gaped.

“What the hell?!” Nikko yelled. I shrugged, picking up the speed.

“Let’s go. We can be half-way through Lightning Country by nightfall.” I said. The boy’s shrugged while Tsuki glared at me.

“Why do you insist on acting like you’re in charge! I’m more powerful than you.” She huffed, brushing back her hair. My eyes narrowed.

“Must I remind you who had you choking in the air a few hours ago? Plus I’m more senior than you in ranking, you little brat.” I snapped.

Her eyes widened in disbelief. “You are not. I became a Jonin when I was-”

“Yeah, ten. I know. You know what I was doing when I was ten? Slaughtering two hundred Rock ninja in one night. Now shut the fuck up and pick up the pace.” I growled, my temper snapping. Now all of them looked shocked and slightly scared. I let out a growl before picking it up to my top speed.

“Hey! Wait for us!” Nikko shouted as I gained ten yards of a distance between us in a few seconds.

I snorted, venting out my anger by increasing my speed.

By the time nightfall hit we did make it half-way through Lightning Country. The other’s were exhausted and I admit I felt a little fatigued but at least I wasn’t about to fall over like them.

When it came to speed, my stamina was amazing.

“Come on, idiots.” I sighed, walking over to a cave that we were just about to pass. The weather had changed a long time ago and a blizzard was currently ripping through the mountainous terrain.

The three shivering bastards went to follow me when Tsuki suddenly screeched to a stop. Literally, she was screeching.

“I’m not going in there! There might be a bear!”

My eyes narrowed and I growled. “You’re a ninja! If there is just kill the damn thing!”

I stomped into the cave, my nose twitching at the musty smell. There wasn’t any bear or wolf scents in the cave so that was a good thing. I sighed, coming to a halt at the back of the cave a hundred feet in.

Chi stopped beside me and I grabbed the three sleeping bags off his back, unzipping two and leaving one zipped for me. I spread out one on the floor and Chi immediately laid down on it as I took off his backpack. After I done that I covered him with the other sleeping bag and put mine underneath it as well for double the warmth.

This was done in the time span it took the bastards to finally get to where I was.

“We are not sleeping out here.” Tsuki mumbled. I glared at her before dumping my backpack beside Chi’s shoulder and heading over to a tree that had somehow been able to grow inside the cave. Probably to get away from the snow.

I broke off a few huge branches with a few chakra-infused punches and then cut the pieces up with my katana. I carried the pieces of wood over to where the others were still standing and staring at me and dropped it.

I grabbed about ten pieces before putting it in a separate pile and blowing a small sized fireball jutsu on to it.

“She’s so much more productive then you are.” Nikko commented, looking at Tsuki. Tsuki glared at him and started yelling while I rolled my eyes and sat down next to Chi. I grabbed my backpack, pulling out two packets of beef jerky and a jar of peanut butter. I twisted off the cap and opened the bags before dipping a piece of jerky in the peanut butter and tossing it to Chi.

He snapped it out of the air hungrily, giving me a dog-like grin. “My favorite.”

I chuckled, nodded before eating one myself. We both continued eating like this until the peanut butter was gone. This entire time, the bastards were arguing about something stupid.

I shook my head with a sigh, throwing my trash into the fire. We had only gone through one bag of jerky completely while the other was only half full.

I put the jerky back into my bag before putting both mine and Chi’s between us. I slipped into my sleeping bag, adjusting the one covering Chi before we both fell asleep, the bastards bantering fading into a background noise.

My eyes snapped open as soon as sun started peeking through the cave. I glanced around seeing Chi starting to wake up as well while the bastards were still asleep, all of their teeth chattering.

I rolled my eyes at the fire, seeing that they had probably put the rest of the wood in all at once. I also noticed they had trash from food they had eaten strewn around their sleeping bags.

I sighed, wondering how they’ve survived this long as ninja. With how much they argue and not hiding any evidence of them being there, it was kinda sad.

I started putting away my stuff, pulling on the cloak I had folded and used as a pillow last night. Chi yawned as I clipped on his backpack and stretched before getting off the sleeping bag he was laying on and allowing me to fasten it onto his backpack with the other two. I pulled on my bag as well before kicking Nikko and Tenki in the balls and Tsuki upside the head.

Instantly they all bolted up, grabbing their kicked areas.

“What the fuck….?” Nikko groaned, glaring at me. He blinked in surprise when he saw that was I was completely packed up and sitting on Chi’s back cross-legged.

“How come you’re all packed?”

“Because it’s time to go. So clean up.” I ordered. They all grumbled complaints as they quickly and sloppily cleaned up the campsite. I sighed, shaking my head.

“These bastards are so stupid.” Chi mumbled. I nodded in agreement.

“Exactly my thoughts.”

He smirked in that dog-like way of his before we headed out seeing as they were finally ready.

It took us until eleven AM to get to the place the gang headquarters was reported to be. When we did get near, all of us used a transformation jutsu to transform into a few gang members we had killed when they had discovered us. Chi meanwhile just turned into a puppy like when I first found him and I stuffed him inside my jacket.

“What are we gonna do?” Tenki murmured. I scowled, ruffling my now short black hair. There were three guys and one girl that we had knocked out and Tsuki refused to be a guy.

“Find them, kill them. Simple.” I shrugged and they all nodded.

There was apparently a meeting going on since all the gang members were converging on one spot within the abandoned building that was their ‘headquarters’. All of us kept silent, walking into the large room and I smirked.

This mission was gonna be a lot easier than I thought.

The seven people we were ordered (though the mission scroll said if we could wipe everyone out that was okay) to kill was up on a stage.

“Quiet!” The leader, Neito Shimonzu, ordered. Instantly everyone shut up. The forty-looking year old man smirked, obviously enjoying the fact he was in charge.

“You’re all probably wondering why I called this meeting, considering we had our monthly one a week ago. Well, you see, apparently there’s been a bounty placed on my head.” That caused everyone to chuckle and Neito smirked evilly.

“But will those retarded ninja ever find us?”

“Hell no!” Everyone shouted. We joined in just so it wouldn’t look suspicious.

“Exactly! Those dumbass Leaf ninja don’t even have the courage to kill us! They’re all ‘peace’ and ‘tranquility’.” Neito scoffed and I scowled along with the others as everyone in the gang laughed and called out insults to the Leaf.

The others glanced at me and I narrowed my eyes, looking at the seven on stage. They didn’t look armed at all but they were most likely hiding weapons somewhere in their baggy clothing.

I turned my attention back to the others and nodded. “Neito’s mine.”

They nodded in acknowledgement, even Tsuki. She knew this was a time to be serious.

We all disappeared, appearing on the stage in our normal forms with Chi standing beside me, snarling. The gang all gasped as Neito, who I was standing in front of, gasped with his eyes wide.

“H-how?!”

“Peace and tranquility, eh? I’ll show you peace.” I smirked, ripping off my eye patch.

“D-demon!” He shouted, looking frightened. I scoffed, lunging forward and sliding my extending nails into his chest, tearing out his heart.

“Demon my ass. I’m a fucking ninja. And you’re dead.” I grinned, turning towards the gang members who were staring in shock as their leaders body fell to the floor of the stage.

I looked at his heart I held gripped in my hand before throwing it to one of the scantily dressed girls. It landed between her boobs, causing her to screech in disgust and horror.

I snickered before looking over at Chi and nodded. “Let’s take care of the rest.”

He nodded and started tearing at any person he got his jaws one while I did a sequence of hand signs. “Fire Style: Multi-Dragon Savaging.”

With that, I blew out a large cloud of flames. Dragons immediately formed from the fire, spreading among the crowd rapidly and killing violently.

While screams rang out, three of the gang members jumped up onto the stage, engaging me in a taijutsu battle. I scowled, doing a few back handsprings and formed rapid hand signs.

“Fire Style: Crow Scavenging.” I said, blowing out flames like with my dragon jutsu which was still in effect. Instead of dragons forming though, crows did. They launched themselves on the three gang members, knocking them to the ground as they started picking at their eyes and burning them with a single touch. The men screamed before the crows pulled out their brains, eating them.

My nose wrinkled and I turned away, looking out at the room. It was littered with dead bodies, the only living ones being Chi, myself and the bastards. I dispelled my two jutsu’s, nodding over at the bastards.

“Let’s go to town. We’ll stay at a hotel then return to Konoha tomorrow.” They all nodded and we proceeded to leave the building, me having Chi fly up and use the Double Flame: Dirt Tornado Whirlwind jutsu by himself and catch the building on fire.

It should just be a pile of ashes within the half hour.

“Ma’am, we have a no smoking policy.” I glared over at the maid. I had been walking done the halls of the hotel, keeping away from the room since the bastards had all gotten theirs on the same floor of mine. So, I went all the way up to the top floor and I’ve been walking around it for awhile with a large bag of dango in my hand and a cigarette trapped between my lips. I had been remembering Itachi for some reason so I had found the closest dango shop and bought about a hundred sticks. The owner was certainly happy, to say the least.

“Why?” I grumbled, blowing out a puff of smoke. Her eyes narrowed.

“Because some people may be allergic or asthmatic.” I rolled my eyes and scuffed it out with my shoe, dropping it in her hand.

“There. Happy?” I continued walking down the hall as she growled in anger. I rolled my eyes, turning a corner before stopping abruptly, my nose half an inch from hitting someone’s chest.

I looked up, my eyes widening in surprise. “Sharky?”

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Authors Note

MWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Cliffhanger xP
Ello all! Please, tell me your opinion. You think it was lame? Probably. That’d qualify more as a C-rank, I’d say. Then again, they did slaughter like five hundred members o.o….I should’ve added that in there >.>
What’s your guy’s opinion on her relationship with Itachi-chan? Honestly?
And which relationship of hers do you like better? The one with Itachi or the one with Kakashi?
Please answer those questions. Peace!
~Mew