Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 12 Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks part 1 ( Chapter 12 )
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Chapter 12: Conspiracy in Akatsuki’s ranks part 1
“Not once, but twice!” Konohamaru shouted, still trying to pry Kisame’s grip off his neck. “How did you two get me again?!”
“Shut up already.” Kisame yelled, pressing his arm against Konohamaru’s neck even harder. Konohamaru’s back pressed against Kisame’s chest, making the boy hit the large wound on his chest and him flinch in pain. It started to bleed again, forcing blood seep out of the robe Kisame wore and on to Konohamaru.
He finally noticed it when it rolled down the side of his face. “Hey…Your bleeding.” Konohamaru said in a strained voice, he couldn’t stand blood, and to have someone else’s blood on him was just too much.
Kisame was forced to let go of Konohamaru. “Itachi, take the kid.” He pushed him towards Itachi, who immediately had a firm grip on Konohamaru’s hand before he could think of getting away. Kisame took off the robe, having a pair of black pants on underneath with no shirt, it had been burned off for the most part. A large gash was spread diagonally across his chest, starting just under his shoulder and spreading in-between his nipples to his side.
Kisame’s whole chest was covered in blood, running down his pants and turning most of the top down to the knees a dark red color. Just the sight of it made Konohamaru wince, it was no wonder why Kisame was slower then before, it was a miracle he was still standing. Konohamaru had to take notice of how tough he was, and he would be sure to take that in account when he tried to escape.
“So where are you taking me?” Konohamaru asked, Itachi notice that he was less afraid then last time.
“Village of the wind.” Itachi said plainly, they had a long way to go and he didn’t want to knock him out, the Sharingan was to much trouble for a simple matter, and he could take a considerable amount of annoyment. Konohamaru wasn’t annoying him yet, he might as well answer a few questions. “We were to abduct you, Those were the orders given to us by the higher Echelons of our organization.”
Konohamaru wiped away a drop of water that fell from his hair. “Organization?…It must be the one Sasuke told me about, Akatsuki right?”
“Yes.”
“Why do you need me?”
“Remember that technique you did in the forest, tell me how you did it.”
Now Konohamaru was confused. “You took me just to find that out? That’s something I came up with off the top of my head when…All of that Chakra came out of nowhere…” Now he was starting to get it, why else would they want him. “You want the Chakra.”
“Your smarter then you look.” Kisame said, wrapping the robe around his body again and catching up with Itachi.
Konohamaru looked back at him, “Hey!”
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After an hour or so, Konohamaru started to notice that the passage was getting hotter. It was no surprise since they had been going down hill the whole time, which was most likely faster then just going strait. It started to get to him, he’d strained himself too much in one day with a still open head wound.
His vision started to blur, and he couldn’t get anything intelligible out of his mouth because his throat was unbelievably dry. Much dryer then the heat could have possibly caused in such a short amount of time.
Itachi looked back at him when he felt the boy stop, his eyes were wonton and dazed, his grip on Itachi’s hand was lose. Finally Konohamaru just collapsed, silently falling to the ground and losing consciousness.
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Konohamaru awoke in completely different conditions. Instead of the dry, hot air and the strong smell and feel of heat from the passage. There was a cool breeze and a warm 70 degrees causing the sent of vanilla to rise to his nose. He opened his eyes and saw a ground completely different from the rock floors he‘d last seen.
With a small groan Konohamaru lifted his head and looked around, finding that he was over Itachi’s shoulder and that vanilla like scent was coming from him. “What happened?”
“You passed out.” Itachi said in a low voice. Konohamaru instinctively lifted his hand to the wound and found that his goggles had been removed from over his bandages.
“We must be here then…” Konohamaru said to himself as Itachi lifted him from over his shoulder and set him down. Konohamaru looked around the Wind village, he could easily tell that it was larger then Konoha…was. ‘Whoa.’ He suddenly wanted to look around, he wanted to see everything.
Though he knew he wouldn’t be able to, he couldn’t stop the excitement from building, it showed on his face when he kept looking from side to side and amazement of the prosperous village. Kisame looked at him and sighed, “ Calm down, don’t make me cut something off.”
Konohamaru sent a glare back at him, only getting an amused laughed from Kisame.
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Konohamaru got to see a small part of the city, but it left him completely unsatisfied and anxious to see more.
He was so busy looking around he almost didn’t notice that Itachi and Kisame had lead him someplace specific. He was now standing in front of a house and Itachi was unlocking the front door. Kisame placed his hand on Konohamaru’s shoulder and pushed him lightly inside.
Konohamaru looked around finding nothing like he was expecting. He figured with someone like Kisame staying here it’d be messy at the lest. He steeped into the living room and looked around finding that it was the complete opposite. The floors were hardwood so shiny that he could see himself in them, white walls and studio lights hanging from the ceiling.
Konohamaru found himself standing under a balcony that served as a hallway for the second floor with a spiral staircase on the wall to the left of him. The living room was finished by a black leather couch with two matching chairs on each side, in-between each chair and the couch was a glass table. All surrounding an oak coffee table.
The living room broke off into the kitchen and Konohamaru could see two refrigerators (…..?), and everything was black, but other then that nothing out of the ordinary. “This place is so cool!” Konohamaru shouted.
But the next thing he knew, he was tied up on the couch. “Hey!” He shouted, but the two ignored him.
“You were carrying the money, order something to eat.” Itachi said, taking off his robe and laying it neatly on the chair. He was wearing an outfit similar to Sasuke’s black one, only the collar wasn’t so wide and there was a white vest over it. Which he promptly unzipped and laid next to his robe.
“Uh…well when that lighting hit me…” Kisame reached into his pocket and pulled out a black piece of paper that used to be money. The burnt paper crumbled when Kisame gave it a small blow, showing his point better then he could describe.
Itachi smirked, “Looks like your cooking.” He said, getting an annoyed look from Kisame before walking awake. Kisame sighed and shook his head.
“Where’s that towel…” He looked at the bloody wound on his chest and then around the room for a white towel he knew he saw when he walked in to the door.
Konohamaru looked at the coffee table, seeing what he was looking for was under it. “It’s under the table.” He said plainly, letting is head fall back on couch and closing his eye. Kisame looked at him for a second, then reached under the table and picked up the table.
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Konohamaru was awakened by something that smelt absolutely delicious. He felt his mouth watering, forcing him to awaken before he started drooling. He tilted his head toward the kitchen, and saw Kisame standing in front of the stove. “I must be hallucinating….I can’t be seeing this.” Konohamaru contemplated the thought it wasn’t really Kisame, but he saw that he was bandaged and had changed clothes.
Konohamaru closed his eyes, feeling his stomach rumbling. He hadn’t eaten anything for a long while, around a day and a half. If he didn’t get any of that food soon he was going to lose his mind. He almost lost it now when he smelt the delicious smell coming closer. It was right. Under. His. Noise
He opened eyes and saw a plate of curry and a bowl of ramen hanging in his face. He reached out and tried to bite it, or grab the plate with his teeth, but it was quickly snatched away. Followed by a laugh from Kisame who was holding the food in front of him. “Man I love messing with this kid.”
Konohamaru tried to grab the plate again when he was of guard, but Kisame raised it above his head and laughed harder. “Not funny.” Konohamaru said with a glare, getting one last chuckle out of Kisame before he put down the food and untied the boy.
“Your untying me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll run?” Konohamaru asked, stretching his arms a little.
Kisame smirked impishly, “If you try I’ll cut you legs off.”
Konohamaru looked at him, he knew Kisame was serous, but he wasn’t exactly worried about the threat. This was the same person that had just cooked this…amazing smelling food that was sitting in front of him.
Itachi came from upstairs, sitting in the chair opposite Kisame. “Smells good.” He looked over at Konohamaru who was practically in-haling the food. He could only smile in small amusement and look over at Kisame, who was watching the boy with a raised eye brow and a slightly open mouth. “I think he likes it.”
Konohamaru nearly slammed the empty bowl on the table. “More!”
Kisame looked at him and at the bowl. “Alright, let’s see how much you can eat.”
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Itachi sat back in the chair with his arms folded, a lazy gaze on Konohamaru who was digging through bowl number 10 of his Raman and bowl number 4 of his curry. It seemed Kisame really wanted to see how much Konohamaru could eat
“More!”
Kisame growled and set a pot down in front of him that was almost as large as the boy himself. “Go for it.”
Konohamaru lifted the pot and began spooning the Raman in to his mouth. “It’s better then Ichiraku’s!” He said halfway through.
Kisame knelt down next to Konohamaru and poked his stomach, “You just ate your body weight in Raman…Is that even possible?” Kisame looked up at Konohamaru who set the pot down on the table, only this time he didn’t ask for more.
On closer look they could see he had fallen asleep just that quickly.
“Done playing with him?” Itachi asked, getting out of his seat and walking toward the stairway.
“Too bad what we have to do to him tomorrow, He was fun to mess with.” Kisame smiled happily as he followed Itachi, wrapping his arms around his waist giving him a small kiss on the neck.
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Sasuke was the first to emerge from the passage way, finding himself in an open field full of rolling hills. He turned around to see that he was over looking the Village of the Wind, one untouched by the storm.
Kiba lifted Neji to the top though the other boy protested it, then jumped up himself. “Whoa, we’ll never find them in there.” Kiba said, getting a glare from Sasuke.
“If we ask enough people.” Neji dusted himself off and yawned, he was ready to rest after 2 strait hours of walking, half of that being uphill.
“What do we do now?” Kiba asked.
“We find Konohamaru, I’m sure someone saw them.” Sasuke sat down and looked over the large village… they had a lot of ground to cover…
“Should we go now or rest here first?” Kiba asked, trying to figure out how long he’d been on his feet. From when they went to search in the forest for Konohamaru until now, it had to be 12 hours at the lest.
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“Not once, but twice!” Konohamaru shouted, still trying to pry Kisame’s grip off his neck. “How did you two get me again?!”
“Shut up already.” Kisame yelled, pressing his arm against Konohamaru’s neck even harder. Konohamaru’s back pressed against Kisame’s chest, making the boy hit the large wound on his chest and him flinch in pain. It started to bleed again, forcing blood seep out of the robe Kisame wore and on to Konohamaru.
He finally noticed it when it rolled down the side of his face. “Hey…Your bleeding.” Konohamaru said in a strained voice, he couldn’t stand blood, and to have someone else’s blood on him was just too much.
Kisame was forced to let go of Konohamaru. “Itachi, take the kid.” He pushed him towards Itachi, who immediately had a firm grip on Konohamaru’s hand before he could think of getting away. Kisame took off the robe, having a pair of black pants on underneath with no shirt, it had been burned off for the most part. A large gash was spread diagonally across his chest, starting just under his shoulder and spreading in-between his nipples to his side.
Kisame’s whole chest was covered in blood, running down his pants and turning most of the top down to the knees a dark red color. Just the sight of it made Konohamaru wince, it was no wonder why Kisame was slower then before, it was a miracle he was still standing. Konohamaru had to take notice of how tough he was, and he would be sure to take that in account when he tried to escape.
“So where are you taking me?” Konohamaru asked, Itachi notice that he was less afraid then last time.
“Village of the wind.” Itachi said plainly, they had a long way to go and he didn’t want to knock him out, the Sharingan was to much trouble for a simple matter, and he could take a considerable amount of annoyment. Konohamaru wasn’t annoying him yet, he might as well answer a few questions. “We were to abduct you, Those were the orders given to us by the higher Echelons of our organization.”
Konohamaru wiped away a drop of water that fell from his hair. “Organization?…It must be the one Sasuke told me about, Akatsuki right?”
“Yes.”
“Why do you need me?”
“Remember that technique you did in the forest, tell me how you did it.”
Now Konohamaru was confused. “You took me just to find that out? That’s something I came up with off the top of my head when…All of that Chakra came out of nowhere…” Now he was starting to get it, why else would they want him. “You want the Chakra.”
“Your smarter then you look.” Kisame said, wrapping the robe around his body again and catching up with Itachi.
Konohamaru looked back at him, “Hey!”
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After an hour or so, Konohamaru started to notice that the passage was getting hotter. It was no surprise since they had been going down hill the whole time, which was most likely faster then just going strait. It started to get to him, he’d strained himself too much in one day with a still open head wound.
His vision started to blur, and he couldn’t get anything intelligible out of his mouth because his throat was unbelievably dry. Much dryer then the heat could have possibly caused in such a short amount of time.
Itachi looked back at him when he felt the boy stop, his eyes were wonton and dazed, his grip on Itachi’s hand was lose. Finally Konohamaru just collapsed, silently falling to the ground and losing consciousness.
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Konohamaru awoke in completely different conditions. Instead of the dry, hot air and the strong smell and feel of heat from the passage. There was a cool breeze and a warm 70 degrees causing the sent of vanilla to rise to his nose. He opened his eyes and saw a ground completely different from the rock floors he‘d last seen.
With a small groan Konohamaru lifted his head and looked around, finding that he was over Itachi’s shoulder and that vanilla like scent was coming from him. “What happened?”
“You passed out.” Itachi said in a low voice. Konohamaru instinctively lifted his hand to the wound and found that his goggles had been removed from over his bandages.
“We must be here then…” Konohamaru said to himself as Itachi lifted him from over his shoulder and set him down. Konohamaru looked around the Wind village, he could easily tell that it was larger then Konoha…was. ‘Whoa.’ He suddenly wanted to look around, he wanted to see everything.
Though he knew he wouldn’t be able to, he couldn’t stop the excitement from building, it showed on his face when he kept looking from side to side and amazement of the prosperous village. Kisame looked at him and sighed, “ Calm down, don’t make me cut something off.”
Konohamaru sent a glare back at him, only getting an amused laughed from Kisame.
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Konohamaru got to see a small part of the city, but it left him completely unsatisfied and anxious to see more.
He was so busy looking around he almost didn’t notice that Itachi and Kisame had lead him someplace specific. He was now standing in front of a house and Itachi was unlocking the front door. Kisame placed his hand on Konohamaru’s shoulder and pushed him lightly inside.
Konohamaru looked around finding nothing like he was expecting. He figured with someone like Kisame staying here it’d be messy at the lest. He steeped into the living room and looked around finding that it was the complete opposite. The floors were hardwood so shiny that he could see himself in them, white walls and studio lights hanging from the ceiling.
Konohamaru found himself standing under a balcony that served as a hallway for the second floor with a spiral staircase on the wall to the left of him. The living room was finished by a black leather couch with two matching chairs on each side, in-between each chair and the couch was a glass table. All surrounding an oak coffee table.
The living room broke off into the kitchen and Konohamaru could see two refrigerators (…..?), and everything was black, but other then that nothing out of the ordinary. “This place is so cool!” Konohamaru shouted.
But the next thing he knew, he was tied up on the couch. “Hey!” He shouted, but the two ignored him.
“You were carrying the money, order something to eat.” Itachi said, taking off his robe and laying it neatly on the chair. He was wearing an outfit similar to Sasuke’s black one, only the collar wasn’t so wide and there was a white vest over it. Which he promptly unzipped and laid next to his robe.
“Uh…well when that lighting hit me…” Kisame reached into his pocket and pulled out a black piece of paper that used to be money. The burnt paper crumbled when Kisame gave it a small blow, showing his point better then he could describe.
Itachi smirked, “Looks like your cooking.” He said, getting an annoyed look from Kisame before walking awake. Kisame sighed and shook his head.
“Where’s that towel…” He looked at the bloody wound on his chest and then around the room for a white towel he knew he saw when he walked in to the door.
Konohamaru looked at the coffee table, seeing what he was looking for was under it. “It’s under the table.” He said plainly, letting is head fall back on couch and closing his eye. Kisame looked at him for a second, then reached under the table and picked up the table.
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Konohamaru was awakened by something that smelt absolutely delicious. He felt his mouth watering, forcing him to awaken before he started drooling. He tilted his head toward the kitchen, and saw Kisame standing in front of the stove. “I must be hallucinating….I can’t be seeing this.” Konohamaru contemplated the thought it wasn’t really Kisame, but he saw that he was bandaged and had changed clothes.
Konohamaru closed his eyes, feeling his stomach rumbling. He hadn’t eaten anything for a long while, around a day and a half. If he didn’t get any of that food soon he was going to lose his mind. He almost lost it now when he smelt the delicious smell coming closer. It was right. Under. His. Noise
He opened eyes and saw a plate of curry and a bowl of ramen hanging in his face. He reached out and tried to bite it, or grab the plate with his teeth, but it was quickly snatched away. Followed by a laugh from Kisame who was holding the food in front of him. “Man I love messing with this kid.”
Konohamaru tried to grab the plate again when he was of guard, but Kisame raised it above his head and laughed harder. “Not funny.” Konohamaru said with a glare, getting one last chuckle out of Kisame before he put down the food and untied the boy.
“Your untying me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll run?” Konohamaru asked, stretching his arms a little.
Kisame smirked impishly, “If you try I’ll cut you legs off.”
Konohamaru looked at him, he knew Kisame was serous, but he wasn’t exactly worried about the threat. This was the same person that had just cooked this…amazing smelling food that was sitting in front of him.
Itachi came from upstairs, sitting in the chair opposite Kisame. “Smells good.” He looked over at Konohamaru who was practically in-haling the food. He could only smile in small amusement and look over at Kisame, who was watching the boy with a raised eye brow and a slightly open mouth. “I think he likes it.”
Konohamaru nearly slammed the empty bowl on the table. “More!”
Kisame looked at him and at the bowl. “Alright, let’s see how much you can eat.”
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Itachi sat back in the chair with his arms folded, a lazy gaze on Konohamaru who was digging through bowl number 10 of his Raman and bowl number 4 of his curry. It seemed Kisame really wanted to see how much Konohamaru could eat
“More!”
Kisame growled and set a pot down in front of him that was almost as large as the boy himself. “Go for it.”
Konohamaru lifted the pot and began spooning the Raman in to his mouth. “It’s better then Ichiraku’s!” He said halfway through.
Kisame knelt down next to Konohamaru and poked his stomach, “You just ate your body weight in Raman…Is that even possible?” Kisame looked up at Konohamaru who set the pot down on the table, only this time he didn’t ask for more.
On closer look they could see he had fallen asleep just that quickly.
“Done playing with him?” Itachi asked, getting out of his seat and walking toward the stairway.
“Too bad what we have to do to him tomorrow, He was fun to mess with.” Kisame smiled happily as he followed Itachi, wrapping his arms around his waist giving him a small kiss on the neck.
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Sasuke was the first to emerge from the passage way, finding himself in an open field full of rolling hills. He turned around to see that he was over looking the Village of the Wind, one untouched by the storm.
Kiba lifted Neji to the top though the other boy protested it, then jumped up himself. “Whoa, we’ll never find them in there.” Kiba said, getting a glare from Sasuke.
“If we ask enough people.” Neji dusted himself off and yawned, he was ready to rest after 2 strait hours of walking, half of that being uphill.
“What do we do now?” Kiba asked.
“We find Konohamaru, I’m sure someone saw them.” Sasuke sat down and looked over the large village… they had a lot of ground to cover…
“Should we go now or rest here first?” Kiba asked, trying to figure out how long he’d been on his feet. From when they went to search in the forest for Konohamaru until now, it had to be 12 hours at the lest.
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