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Bird Cloth ::Chapter 3::

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Chapter 3: Year 1





No matter how many times she had reassured herself, the first day of school still looked intimidating. There were so many kids of her age but with attitude totally diverse from the society she grew up amongst. Unlike the people in her village where she was mostly a mere bacteria to the people's eyes (until she robbed something), here she was the grand beacon made of gold, singing melodiously operatic with lyrics saying, "Look at me!"

She didn't know and couldn't stop thinking: what had she done wrong this time? She had bathed right; she followed what Kakuzu did to her few days ago. She also had her clothing right. In fact, her clothing was all but flamboyant. It was just a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, no middle-fingering symbol (or any other inappropriate insignia) on the front or the back—just good and plain. Even her sandals looked too normal as she noticed a few dozens of kids wearing the same sandals as she. Don't even start talking about sandals when the girls who were supposed to be in the same class as she wore something that their teenaged older sisters would wear!

Or…

…was it because Nagayoshi came to the opening ceremony with a tall, well-built, very handsome, intellectual young man?

That could possibly be it. And more to her dismay, she and Kakuzu had a lot of physical similarities. They were both tanned; they both have black hair; they both have a tall body proportion. The only thing that was different was the eyes.

Indeed, Nagayoshi was taller than most of the kids. Since Nagayoshi was a girl, she would probably grow even more until it eventually slows down dramatically in her teenage years.

As for Kakuzu, he thought if he was going to attend to the opening ceremony and being Nagayoshi's supervisor, he better disguise himself as his younger self—him in his early twenties and without stitches whatsoever. When he saw himself in the bathroom, something switched on his old, rusty and dusty narcissistic self. Maybe Nagayoshi was right; he wasn't at all bad!

Mentally, he smirked as people stared at him and his newly adopted sister with amazement, disbelief or jealousy. His smirk grew when Nagayoshi looked at him once in a while uncomfortably and he would just pat her head. The patting was meant to say 'Don't worry' but Nagayoshi failed to grasp the meaning.

The prospective students were aligned in no particular order. Parents and relatives stood on other end of the school yard. Before the head of school stood in front of the new first year students, many kids looked at their relatives with eyes saying mostly of shyness. That included Nagayoshi. Kakuzu stared at her calmly and nodded reassuringly. This time, the message was successfully grasped by the girl. Trying to find another source of comfort, she looked around to see any familiar faces.

A hand waved at her. She felt like she knew whose hand that was, but since the student line was covering the face of the person, Nagayoshi had to wait until they were dismissed. Although…she felt like she had seen that hand before.


|-oOo-|




It was obvious that the opening ceremony was the worst thing happened to Nagayoshi so far. She knew what it feels like waiting for something to finally wrap the hell up, but she never imagined that waiting for a ceremony to finish was three times worse than waiting for authorities to get out of her stealing range. And what was worse was that she couldn't move a single muscle. For some reason, standing stiffly straight for too long made her want to throw up. She swore that her face had gone green at the quarter end of the ceremony.

The first thing she did after the ceremony was to squat down and took her breath. She heard footsteps and saw someone squatting beside from the corner of her eyes. Since the figure was large, she thought it would be her new adoptive brother. And she was right.

"You look sick there, kiddo." Kakuzu stated.

"Duh…" Nagayoshi replied blandly. "I'm glad this is over."

"Come on, you have to get into class. Have fun inside." Kakuzu grabbed her upper arm, helping her stand as she continued to hang her head low for she still felt sick.

"Nagayoshi-chan!" Someone called her. Nagayoshi haven't really recorded the voice to remember who the speaker was. Not until she turned to all directions and finally found a familiar face waving at her vivaciously did her huge smile returned and her arms gesticulating in the air.

"Akito-chan!" Nagayoshi hollered. She ran towards the brunette and when she was close enough, Akito slung her arms around her neck, hugging Nagayoshi tightly. Kakuzu's eyes distended; amazed that Nagayoshi already got a friendly hug on her first day of school. Moreover, he hadn't seen this girl before.

"This is so exciting! We get to be in the same class together!" Akito chirped, holding Nagayoshi's hands together. She glanced over her shoulder and saw Kakuzu standing casually, staring at the two girls. "Is that your brother?"

Nagayoshi nodded. "Yup. He's my brother! His name is Kakuzu!"

Akito released Nagayoshi's hands and bowed courteously before the tanned young man before her. "It's nice to meet you, Kakuzu-san."

Kakuzu only nodded, "Likewise."

"Let's get inside! We don't want to be late, do we?"

"Right! Bye, Niisan!!" Nagayoshi waved at Kakuzu and rushed inside the school building. She missed to see Kakuzu raising his hand lazily and waved back. The man in disguise strolled out, sighing.

He stared up at the sky. His face turned blank as he contemplated at every action he had been taking lately. He had taken Nagayoshi this far. Only this far, and he had this epic pessimism going in him. He wasn't too sure; Nagayoshi might have been raised in a harsh environment, but she was still very young and her perspective on the world will change gradually. She might rebel against him later and he—

Kakuzu slapped his own forehead. So what if she wants to rebel against him later? That means he'll just have to get rid of her.

Slap again. Stupid old man. All that money you've wasted for her will go for nothing! Kakuzu mentally kicked himself on the rear. He shook his head slowly, telling himself to calm down and stop thinking too radically. He gazed at the blue sky again, where a raven soared in circles above him. Let the kid live… he concluded and vanished in a billow of smoke.


|-oOo-|




"I'm home! Wow, the first day of school sure is—eh?" Nagayoshi's announcement stuck in the middle of the road. She stared blankly at the man in front of him, who was leaning against the slide door and staring at the sun.

"What?" Kakuzu asked. He had taken off his mask, but it shouldn't have freaked her out.
Nagayoshi kept staring at him with large eyes that eventually annoyed Kakuzu. He growled and stood up, "Just what the hell's your problem? Say something so I know you're human!"

"What about you? Are you human?" Nagayoshi asked pointing at the older man.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Kakuzu asked heatedly.

"You're not Kakuzu-niisan." Nagayoshi said, backing away a little.

Kakuzu's eyebrows skewed. He ran his fingers through his black hair. "Alright, this is not the real me. This is an Earth clone of me. The 'real me' is going on a mission from Akatsuki and probably will be back a week later if I don't procrastinate by taking side-bounty hunting. Don't worry. It's not like I'm any different." He explained.

"Ooh! That's cool! Can I learn how to make a bunshin too?" Nagayoshi demanded hopefully.

"No. You'll learn about it eventually. For now, you need the basics first." Kakuzu was about to walk somewhere but when his mind hit on something; he stopped and turned back to Nagayoshi. "Oh, how did you know that this is not the 'real me'?" he asked.

"Uh…I'm not sure. You just...smell different."

Kakuzu glanced at his sister for a moment, eyes squinting at her, before he finally left her alone to take out a bottle of milk from a plastic bag which Kakuzu missed to see when she arrived home.

Wait a minute! A bottle of milk?!

Before Nagayoshi had the chance to open the lid, Kakuzu snatched the bottle from her hands in a speed so fast it looked like he had the control over the time and space continuum. Nagayoshi shouted in anguish at the loss of her new favorite beverage. "Give it back to me!!!" she hollered and tried to snatch it back. Unfortunately, being much smaller than Kakuzu, the man easily held off her head.

"This milk is expensive! Where on Earth did you get the money to buy this thing?" Kakuzu interrogated brusquely. If it were a police story, Kakuzu would have spotlighted Nagayoshi with a flashlight.

"Why should I tell you?" Nagayoshi pouted and crossed her arms. Kakuzu was not impressed with the answer.

Kakuzu inhaled deeply, suppressing the censored vocabularies deeply till they were completely absorbed by his vocal chords. Sure, he realized he had used the word 'hell' and 'fuck' in front of her when he was terminating his targets during their four-day journey before arriving in Kumogakure, but that wasn't meant for her—except the word 'hell' on some occasions. And it was not like he cared whether or not she is going to grow into a potty-mouth. It is to be expected from a kid who grew up with him.

"I can be curious, now, can't I?" Kakuzu finally spoke. He really wanted to squeeze the girl's head with both of his fists when she narrowed her eyes disbelievingly. As the result of restraining, his right eye twitched severely.

"The guy in the exchange counter gave me two hundred while you're not looking." Nagayoshi answered coldly. At which point Kakuzu blamed himself for not wearing his mask because he just gaped the widest in his life.

"He did what…?" Kakuzu pressed his voice on 'what' and if Nagayoshi didn't snatch back her bottle of milk and used it as a shield, her face would have been crushed by Kakuzu's bigger one.

"You heard me." she replied.

"Oh my God!" Kakuzu exclaimed, throwing his head back in terror. "You're too young to hold that much money! Give the rest to me!" he commanded sharply.

"No way! It's mine!" Nagayoshi retorted. "Get away from me!"

"Aha! I got it." Kakuzu said in satisfaction. He whistled while abandoning Nagayoshi in a flabbergasted state. She checked her pockets and, indeed, her money was gone.

"You cheater!!" she shrieked angrily. "And again, how did you—when did you?"

"I'm a ninja, remember? You gotta be at least Chuunin to outsmart me." Kakuzu stated arrogantly, equipping a smug smirk across his face. Nagayoshi's scowl deepened and she lolled her tongue at him who chuckled and flapped half of Nagayoshi's money in front of the rightful owner. "Okay, okay… I give half of it back."

"Only half?" Nagayoshi asked.

"Like I said, you're too young to have this much money. I'm taking them."

"Well, then you better teach me something." Nagayoshi held Kakuzu's red-clouded cloak, confusing the man with her slight change of color. Kakuzu waited; he noticed her feet fidgeting. She seemed pretty nervous or, according to the look in her eyes, embarrassed.

"What is it?"

"Teach me how to read." Nagayoshi croaked. She purposely made her voice as low as possible but, unfortunately, Kakuzu's ears were sharp enough to hear her mumbling.

Kakuzu couldn't help himself but cackle. His cackling caused Nagayoshi's scowl to return to her face. He ruffled her head, trying to domesticate his laughter. "Sorry, I got carried away. We can start now if you want to."

"Really? Yeah!" Nagayoshi cheered.


|-oOo-|




So for the next few weeks, after school, Kakuzu would teach Nagayoshi how to read. It was rather a simple task. Since Nagayoshi understood most of the words, all he needed to do was to instruct Nagayoshi to memorize the words. Within two weeks, Nagayoshi could already read at least most of magazines available in the bookstore (however, Kakuzu forbid her to buy anything, even children's books. Again with the money and selfishness problems).

Kakuzu continuously assigned his Earth clone to take care of his sister while the 'real him' went to missions given by the criminal organization Akatsuki. He accepted less missions than usual and didn't take as many side-hunting like he used to because he had to replace his Earth clone whose chakra was limited and may run out after a certain amount of day.

One day, when the real Kakuzu got back from his mission, he saw the Earth-chakra version of himself sitting side-by-side on the rented house's terrace. It tickled him somehow, seeing how close his clone had gotten with Nagayoshi. It even sent more tickling sensation when his clone dissipated. His memories merged with the clone as if it was his real self who spent times with Nagayoshi. Those reading lessons…those times where he had to scold Nagayoshi for spending money for a carton of milk (Nagayoshi figured that if Kakuzu thought that bottled milks are expensive, then carton milks might not. Unfortunately, it was just the same)…and of course, seeing her sleep. Being a clone, the Earth-chakra version of Kakuzu couldn't feel fatigue or hunger.

Pein granted him with a short holiday. It was just about time where he could hear and see for himself the things his clone and Nagayoshi do together. But now that Nagayoshi's reading lessons were completed, Kakuzu had nothing in particular to do. Well, except for answering Nagayoshi's questions.

"So what did you do this week?" she asked.

"Nah, the usual. The things I always do." Kakuzu answered casually.

Nagayoshi lied on her belly, staring at the green short grass on the backyard. She asked again, "Hey, Oniisan? What's Akatsuki?"

"It's just some organization I work in. No more questions about it. I'll take you to the hideout when you're bigger."

"Seriously? When?"

"I told you when you're bigger." Kakuzu repeated exasperatedly.

"I know! But when exactly?"

Kakuzu shrugged, "As soon as you have become a ninja, which is when you're about twelve. Now…what did you do at school today?"

"Nothing special. We've been studying on chakra lately. It's kind of boring. I want to do the real ninja action." Nagayoshi complained, rolling her body so she would lie down on her back. Her legs crossed and she stared at the ceiling.

"Like what?"

"Throwing shuriken and kunai, making clones, making hand seals."

"Okay, I get the idea already." Kakuzu cut her speech before she started rambling unnecessarily. "Has your class taught you about chakra control?"

"Um…yeah, but we just started. We are supposed to train our focus on gathering chakra at our feet first and then walk on a tree. The real thing should start next Monday. I can't wait for it!" Nagayoshi sat up. Kakuzu had been watching her move; she surely had problems with keeping still, but it was only because she was bored. He did notice that when she was deep in thought or in her sleep, Nagayoshi barely moved a bit.

Kakuzu stood and beckoned Nagayoshi to follow him. Nagayoshi raised an eyebrow but follow her brother nonetheless. Kakuzu grabbed his mask, wear it, then took his ninja sandals out of the shoe rack and kneel down to open the straps and fit them to his feet. Nagayoshi's confusion grew and she squatted before him.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Taking you out. Now wear your sandals."

Nagayoshi nodded and did what she was told. She saw him standing up, making a short and simple hand seal and transformed into his disguise mode. It stunned Nagayoshi to see how fast Kakuzu was when he created the hand seal. And again, it was just a normal Henge No Jutsu seal. The simplest jutsu ever made. She jumped onto her feet once she had sandals firmly strapped to her feet. As Kakuzu nodded, the adoptive siblings exited their house.

He brought her to the training grounds. There were dummies with target boards on it and currently it was empty; probably due to the fact that today was Saturday and students tend to have a break with their family rather than training. But it wasn't to the dummies Kakuzu brought her to; it was to the woods behind the shooting range. The trees in that area were tall and big enough to sustain even the heaviest humans. He stopped before a particularly big tree with a trunk as fat as a panda.
"This looks good." he muttered as his tanned hands rubbed the tree. He turned to Nagayoshi who was eagerly clenching her fists in front of her. "Alright, I'm going to teach you on how to focus your chakra to your feet and walk on this tree. Like so…" Kakuzu untransformed himself and immediately proceeded to gathering a certain amount of chakra to his feet. Without an effort, he walked on the tree up to the first branch and hang upside down. "Now give it a try."

"Okay!" Nagayoshi imitated Kakuzu and gathered her chakra to her feet. From what it looked like, Nagayoshi was quite successful in gathering the enough amount of chakra to help her sustain her body to remain sticking to the tree. She carefully placed her foot on the gigantic plant. It stick to it; so far so good. She placed her other foot, thrilled already because she could feel herself levitated and—crack! The tree crunched and surprised by the outcome, Nagayoshi's focus on the chakra blurred and she fell to her back. "Yow!"

"You put too much on that foot." Kakuzu told her patiently, still clinging to the tree upside down. "Measure it carefully. If the chakra is too weak, you won't stick at all. But if you put too much, the tree will be damaged and messed up with your chakra adhering."

"I never thought climbing a tree ninja style would be this hard." Nagayoshi mumbled, rubbing her head. She stood up again, gathered her chakra carefully and retried her tree-climbing attempt. She walked slowly and she was pretty successful. Kakuzu nodded at her fast improvement but still mentally criticizing her hard-on focus to her feet. Though he understood perfectly that Nagayoshi was not ready yet to get used with flowing chakra.

"Hurray!" Nagayoshi cheered when she arrived to the spot nearby Kakuzu. Her focus seemed to have relaxed a bit due to her satisfaction. It surprised Kakuzu that she still sticks to the tree despite that she was now doing her victory dance upside down.

"Humph, smug enough, aren't you? Don't you realize that you're now upside down?" Kakuzu asked her, testing whether or not she will fall down after she realized her position right now. Much to his fascination, she didn't.

Nagayoshi grinned, "I know! That's why I'm so excited! I get this faster than I thought!"

Under his mask, Kakuzu smirked. So…my sensei was right. The chakra flow moves like the person's personality. Nagayoshi is quite open-minded, so that's why she gets used to it easily. Although…her chakra is strangely abundant when she first apply them on her feet. Kakuzu shrugged, Looks like she's one those ninja who has a massive supply of chakra.

"Now that I master it, what can I do next?" Nagayoshi asked Kakuzu eagerly.

Kakuzu scoffed at her optimism. Master it? You gotta be kidding. "We start from the beginning." he said, small taunting slipped from his mouth.

"Huh? But I can climb already!"

"Not quite." Kakuzu let go of the chakra from his feet, letting himself freefall to the ground, freaking Nagayoshi out. In mid-air, he made a 180 degrees spin and landed unharmed on the grass. He absolutely had astounded Nagayoshi as she clapped her hands and whooped at him. "We'll try again from down here. Now, get down." As Nagayoshi traced back her way down the tree, Kakuzu stopped her, "Ah—by jumping down like I did."

"Seriously?!"

"Yes, seriously. I'll tell you when to turn, don't you worry. Now, jump!"

Crossing her fingers, Nagayoshi dislodged her chakra and let herself freefall. She waited for Kakuzu's signal; wind swiped her face and hair as she continued to fall. She heard Kakuzu shouted, "Now!" and with a lot of effort, she turned around 180 degrees. She landed safely but her knees and legs throbbed due to the impact and she fell to her knees as soon as her feet touched the ground. She grunted as her face met the earth. The first thing she saw when the world had stopped spinning was Kakuzu's tanned and dark-blue-coated toes.

"You need to work on your landing. Your enemies won't wait for you to stand up." Kakuzu commented coldly.

"I'll work on it. Now…what is it again you want me to do?"

"The same thing. But this time, you have to put speed in it. It should be easy for you. Usually, ninjas with lightning chakra tend to run faster or he/she is basically natural with Shunshin No Jutsu, since lightning runs in speed of light. I want you to race against me to the top of this tree." Kakuzu pointed skywards. He smirked seeing Nagayoshi gaped so wide.

"You have GOT to be kidding me!" Nagayoshi snapped. But she was ignored by him and Kakuzu had already set his chakra on his feet. Quickly, Nagayoshi did the same thing.

"I'll buy you an apple if you succeed." Kakuzu bribed her. This one, he was positive he was not going to lose against her.

"Alright, if you said so!"

"Ready…set…GO!" Kakuzu zapped to the tree, running rapidly as if he was running on flat grounds. He looked back once in a while and saw that Nagayoshi had a little difficulty following him with her unstable chakra control. He did this on purpose; by forcing her to race against him despite that her chakra control was still bad, it will make her getting used to it and, therefore, controlling chakra normally would be a piece of cake. That was how Kakuzu was taught. He barely knew the basics of chakra control, but he knew how to have it done easily without overloading one's brain with useless theories.

He was, in reality, still soft on the girl. As the progress goes, he will add obstacles to slow her down and make an almost realistic combat scenario (he was actually thinking of dropping tree logs at her, later when he thought she was good and controlled enough.) He looked back again; proved that his theory was right. Nagayoshi was natural with speed. In fact, he was pretty sure she was born for it. She was a thief, after all. However, she was still too slow for he reached the top of the tree first.

"Aaah! My apple!" Nagayoshi shrieked. Kakuzu flicked her forehead, "Ow! Stop doing that!"

"That's your punishment. You're still too slow. It's unbelievable, especially that you were raised as a thief whose number one ability is to run. Let's do it again." Kakuzu was about to jump down but Nagayoshi's amazed wowing made him pause.

"Look at the whole village, Oniisan! It's a great view up here!" Nagayoshi exclaimed frivolously.

"We can sightsee later. Come on!" Kakuzu commanded before jumping down, spinning and swinging from branch to branch before landing on the ground gracefully. Meanwhile, Nagayoshi took a safer approach.


|-oOo-|




"Halt! I need a break!" Nagayoshi demanded loudly. They had been racing five times and Nagayoshi failed to win any of those. However, there were improvements in every race as well as downfalls. Nagayoshi never had been this exhausted. Never. Not even as tired as when she was running from angry mobs. It was worth it, though. She finally can control her chakra out of instinct which was exactly the way Kakuzu wanted. That was why the man approved her demand.

Nagayoshi leaned against the tree trunk while panting and viewing the scenery of Kumogakure. The sun was setting and the red tint gave the village in the clouds a painting-like touch. Kakuzu sat on a tree branch near her, taking his breath as well.

"You still need to trigger your lightning affinity to your chakra when you're running. That way, you can outrun anybody. We'll do this again tomorrow and I will find a way to make you use that lightning chakra of yours. Note this to yourself—" Kakuzu stopped his sentence midway. The girl had fallen asleep. It seemed like that Kakuzu had worn her out completely. He sighed, "Guess I have to explain everything tomorrow." He stood up, transformed to his disguise mode, and carried the girl on his back.

She squirmed on his back and Kakuzu had to stay still so she wouldn't accidentally fell off. She subconsciously snuggled his back and dozed deeper. "Umh…I…win…" she mumbled.

Kakuzu chuckled lightly. She was dreaming that she had beaten him in the race. Carefully this time, he jumped down from the top of the tree down to the ground, successfully without waking her up. This experience brought Kakuzu to a strange yet melancholic nostalgia. Kakuzu closed his eyes; not wanting to remember those dark days—or the days before the dark days.

Those days…

Want it or not, this event reminded him of them. Come to think of it, it was probably because Kakuzu used to have a little a sister did he accepted Nagayoshi's existence easily. She and his late sister might be different in any ways available, but at the same time, they also have a lot of similarities. For example, their cheerfulness was exactly the same. That, and also the fact that their early childhood wasn't bright at all.

Kakuzu looked over his shoulder. He shuddered slightly at the tickling breath that touched the nape of his neck. She snored faintly and she kept saying small, discontinued words which Kakuzu couldn't grasp the meaning. He chuckled, mainly at himself. For someone so old, he sure has this bizarre bonding with children. If it wasn't because of his bloodlust and short fuse, he would have been working as a teacher. But…he just didn't understand what was going on. He and Nagayoshi's sibling status were just a bogus, after all. And again…

He enjoyed it.


|-oOo-|




Nagayoshi couldn't stop moaning or groaning and it annoyed Kakuzu to no end. Due to her intense training yesterday, her legs ached really badly that she could barely stand. She lay on the futon awkwardly, continue to groan in pain. Kakuzu grabbed an ice pack and threw it Nagayoshi so she could ease the pain on her own.

"Ow…ow…ow…" Nagayoshi whimpered.

"Enough whining." Kakuzu snapped. "Now all my explanations are a waste. I can't even take you to the training grounds again while you still have a lot to improve."

"Sorry…" Nagayoshi apologized meekly. She rubbed the ice pack on her legs and shivered to the chillness. "Looks like I'm going to be a terrible ninja." she said doubtingly.

Kakuzu huffed coldly, "So much for Miss I-can-do-everything. In the end, you're just like any other whiny kid."

"Meany…" Nagayoshi growled. "Now I'm going to get bored to death without anything to do!" Kakuzu was right; she was a whiny kid in the end.

He rolled his eyes when Nagayoshi began to rant furiously, swinging her arms fiercely to the air to emphasize more of her obvious anguish. For five minutes or so, the girl's mood hadn't gone better and if this remained, Kakuzu might have lost his head due to overloaded stress level. He quickly tried to find a solution for (mostly) his good and Nagayoshi's. It happened that said solution was attached to his thigh.

Bump!

Nagayoshi's ranting stopped and she diverted her eyes to a shuriken pouch that landed somewhere near her. She silently stared at Kakuzu who, by the time she landed her eyes upon, was sighing in relief and was thanking the gods. "What's with the shuriken pouch, Oniisan?"

"Don't you want to learn how to throw them? I didn't really intend to teach you this because it's a thing that your school should have teach you. But…since your chakra controlling lesson is stalled due to your whiny legs, I guess I can teach you this earlier. Anyway, because it's simple, no chakra needed."

Nagayoshi reached out for the shuriken pouch and rummaged the insides. "Not a bad idea. But where are we going to—whoa! Hey! Let go of me!" Nagayoshi struggled when Kakuzu pulled her on the collar to the backyard. Kakuzu was being lazy to lift her on his shoulder.

"We're practicing on the backyard. There happened to be a target board. Looks like we're not the first nomadic ninja to live here." Kakuzu said as he dragged his sister to the backyard. He released her collar and Nagayoshi adjusted her sitting position so she could throw the shuriken with ease and without triggering the pain. "Do I need to explain anything?" Kakuzu asked.

"Uh…I don't think so. I just have to throw it, right?"

Kakuzu rolled his eyes and Nagayoshi interjected, "Alright, alright!" The girl mumbled a few words before she made her first shot—which failed miserably, since it was inches away from the outer line. The siblings stared at each other both blankly and awkwardly. "Er…oops?"

"Damn, you suck…"
There's a little significant change in the the story, regarding on looks. I finally get myself to experiment with the HTML codes. They're fantastic -- why didn't I do this earlier?

Kakuzu is a little OOC here. Well, there are a lot of comical humor in the early chapters, but starting from somewhere, it would gradually decreases. Decrease, but still there. And i hate it when people say that Kakuzu can't act any softer and he will always be a hartless killing machine. Well, you know what I think? No matter how mean someone is, there is good inside them. We just don't know what triggers it. Don't worry, Kakuzu is still a badass ninja. ;)




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Kakuzu and all Naruto-related contents (c) Masashi Kishimoto
Nagayoshi and all OCs (c) Me aka ~Nagabonar-an
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I have been waiting a while for this one. And I have to say, I'm not impressed.

Nah, just kidding. Well worth the wait.