NOVEL WEB Chapter 20: Chapter 20
A/N- There was an error with the previous update of Chapter 20. Sorry for that. I have alot files that need organising asap T-T
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What? Are you crazy?! If what you said is true, they want you as well, you know!" She harshly shoved him, unable to contain her spike of anger.
"Don't worry about it; I have a plan."
"So… how is it, coming back to your oh-so-loved village and not being able to lay waste to it?" Hidan had a malicious smirk on his face, already knowing just how it annoyed his partner to hear that, especially coming from him.
"Shut up." Kakuzu wouldn't be so easily manipulated, however, not to the amusement of Hidan, the stupidest member of their organization, to his growing frustration. "I don't care about this shit. Let's get the job done and leave."
"Oh, plueeeese. I know how much you hate it; I heard about your story already from the others, you knooooow…" Hidan singsonged. "How you became so heartbroken after they punishe-!"
In the middle of his sentence, a diamond-hard knuckle speared towards him from the man in front, coming towards his neck. In a quick, practiced movement, he stopped the attack with his scythe. His smirk widened, the crazy glint and mirth in his eyes shining with the grumpy man's reaction.
"Shut up, Hidan." As if nothing had happened, Kakuzu turned back and began to walk again towards the small, shabby house they could see some meters in front. "We have work to d-... Well, well, what is this?"
Surprising both of them, someone they weren't expecting walked out of the house. As their mission was to capture the Seven-Tails jinchuuriki, they were pretty familiar with her appearance, and it certainly wasn't a blond young shinobi. In fact, as one of the most important information gatherers for the Akatsuki outside of Zetsu, Kakuzu was pretty certain this was another of their targets, someone they had been looking for quite a long time.
"So… Konoha is sticking their nose where they don't belong again, is it?" Kakuzu calmly spoke, still walking without breaking stride. "What a surprise."
"What? What? A sacrificial token to Jashin, the mightiest?!" Still unaware of the blond's identity, Hidan stepped up in front of Kakuzu, his three-bladed scythe already spinning menacingly in his hand. "It's too bad I can't kill the girl, but this is divine providence! Jashin has asked for your soul to be liberated from the fear of death, to be sacrificed!"
"Humph," Naruto snorted, walking a couple of meters away from the house behind him and fixing his kimono's collar around his neck. "I have no fear of death, and you couldn't take me."
"HAHAHAHA!" Uncharacteristically of him, Kakuzu released a full-blown laugh at the red-faced Hidan. He was personally offended by the kid in front of them and also had the one thing he cared about, his god Jashin, indirectly offended by the boy's statement. "Hear that, fool? He doesn't fear death. How can Jashin free him from death like that? HAHAHA!"
"SHUT UP! Everyone fears death; Jashin is the only one able to free one from death by our hands killing!" His conflicting words didn't even register in his mind at this point, the crazy Jashinist Hidan already devoted to that flawed thinking. "You, boy, I'll kill you and make you see…!"
"Shut up, Hidan." Already, this was possibly the nth time someone told anyone to shut up since those two came up to this house, except this time it was Naruto. He flared his chakra, the flaps of his kimono waving with the pressure of his strong energy. "I don't care what you fools have to say. I'll just say this once: you're not enough."
The pressure was reaching all the way towards the two Akatsuki, who by this time had stopped walking and were standing side by side some meters away from their opponent. The strong chakra presence the young man was releasing wasn't restricted to his immense chakra alone. There was something more, a bloodlust with the sharp eyes of a predator that had nothing to do with the fox inside him.
Even Hidan, forever the simple-minded fellow, could feel it. No matter what, he was a superb shinobi warrior, so instinctively he knew this Konoha ninja wasn't as innocent as he initially appeared. Gripping the scythe more firmly, he dared to slide his foot forward on the ground, still not cowed, even if cautious, by Naruto's present aura. Kakuzu had the same attitude.
The sharper mind of the old man was thinking up all the possibilities. If a Konoha shinobi was here, that meant there were others, even if he couldn't feel anyone aside from their possible target in the vicinity. Especially so if the shinobi from Konoha was their jinchuuriki. Not only that, but to fight, defeat, and capture without killing one jinchuuriki was hard enough, but two? Nearly impossible; maybe only their leader could pull something like this off, and not without substantial help.
"Hidan, we'd better retreat." Surprisingly to Naruto, he placed a hand on his partner's shoulder to pull him back, warily looking the blond's way. "Two tailed beasts are impossible for us. And there must be help coming their way."
"What?! Kakuzu, are you retarded? There's only one that came out; this could mean the other one can't fight!" Hidan pulled his shoulder from the other's grasp, shouting indignantly. "We can capture this one, maybe even the Seven-Tails, and go a long way towards our objective."
"Stupid Hidan, this doesn't mean the girl isn't going to fight; it could be a trap!"
"So what?! We are immortal; Jashin is on my side!" Hidan stubbornly screamed.
Right at this moment, when they were fighting amongst themselves, Naruto sprang into action. Instead of running towards them to engage in combat, however, he ran away, back to the house. Hidan, thinking his movements were a sign of him being right and Naruto's weaknesses showing, immediately gave chase.
"Fuck!" Kakuzu shouted angrily, though he didn't go after Hidan. If he wanted to get fucked, that was his problem; maybe then he could finally get rid of this insufferable idiot. Instead, he circled around to get a better understanding of their situation, going through several hand seals before spitting a gust of wind towards the house Hidan had just entered, which blew all the windows and doors open, increasing his visibility.
Before he could formulate a plan based on the circumstances inside, however, two shadows jumped out from a hole in the ceiling directly to the surface of the huge tree's trunk, and right after, an earthquake thundered the ground he was standing on. Then came the explosion, and then the house's ceiling and internal walls went down. Not only that, but with the collapse inside the house, a set of sealing marks glowed even through the surrounding walls of the house, even through the wooden surface as if burning through the material, proving to Kakuzu that this was not any small trap.
"Fuck!" He cursed at the top of his lungs, going through a set of several seals as fast as he could, eyeing the pair of people on the tree trunk and already aware Hidan was indeed the one left inside.
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