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Chapter 58 - Blood on water

[Takigakure]

"Oi-Kakazu!"

Swing

Splash

Bang!

Splatter

"What do you want?!" Kakuzu snapped at Hidan.

Hidan held his three-bladed scythe over a Takigakure nin, bleeding out in the Waterfall.

Kakuzu extended his black tendrils from his stitched-up, tan-skinned body

The former Takigakure nin shoots out the tendrils to impale his fellow Village-mates.

The Akatsuki's 'Zombie Duo' is a force to be reckoned with. Hidan, the Jashinist mass murderer, is a sadistic ninja who thrives in the pain of his enemies.

Swing

"Huck–"

Hidan butchers another Takigakure ninja with his scythe.

"Lick~" Hidan tastes the blood on his lip; his light violet eyes are oddly lively at the sight of blood splatter.

"Water style: water bullet jutsu!" A barrage of bullet-shaped water fires at Hidan.

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch-damn it!" Hidan curses as the water jutsu pierces his skin, leaving bullet holes in his flesh.

Even the colour of his blood is a dead crimson instead of a rich scarlet to signify his mortality.

Snap

Kakuzu snapped the neck of one Jonin while simultaneously slamming the sole of his foot in a blindside attack.

Crack

Boom

The ninja's ribcage fractured into pieces under the force of Kakuzu's kick; the ninja's eyes went pupilless before the last bit of oxygen violently left his lungs.

"Kakuzu!"

"Don't–!"

Hidan grabbed the neck of a shinobi trying to decapitate him with a kunai between his trachea.

With blood squirting out of his windpipe and the ligaments holding the neck as thin as paper.

Hidan was still smiling in a deadly situation.

"J-Jaa-shi..in-saaa..ma." Hidan powers through and stabs the man with his scythe.

"Uhk!"

"Jozu–wait!" A kunoichi comes out from the top of a tree, hands flickering in hand signs, aiming at Hidan.

"Water style: Great current of–"

"Enough of this." Kakuzu spat out. "Come out. "

Rip!

Whoosh

Black tendrils protrude out of his spine, an endless bundle of black tendrils taking the shape of a four-legged creature with thin wings and wearing a white mask.

"Wind release: pressure damage."

WHOOOSSHH

The creature shot out a high-pressure wind attack at the ambush.

"You're a careless bastard." Kakuzu grumbles at Hidan's arrogance in battle.

"Huh–?"

Splatt

Her water jutsu broke down the moment the wind attack went through her chest.

"Hime!" Jozu, the Takigakure Jonin screams out in terror with what breath Hidan's choke hold allows.

Swing

CRACK

Hidan swung the body between his 3 blades at the descending kunoichi. A sickening sound of bodies colliding, ring out across the waterfall.

A loud splash follows as the two Shinobi sink into the waterfall's surface.

"H-helpppp–"

"Hold still!" Kakuzu orders as his retracted his Wind Mask to his spine.

Around the two immortals, blood paints the cherished waterfall of Takigakure.

The clear blue water that once danced under the moonlight is now infested with iron and dead bodies of the very same ninja that cherished the Waterfall.

Hidan and Kakuzu continue their massacre of Takigakure. All ninja met the same gruesome fate of either Hidan's scythe or curse. Kakuzu's tendrils puppeteering bodies like props and the occasional reluctant teamwork from both of them, to Kakuzu's annoyance.

Not long after pleasing Jashin's commandments with the slaughter of the civilians of the village and painting his skin in the blood of children.

"Jashin will cherish your souls." Hidan prays in his Voodoo form.

"Disgusting. Kakuzu rolls his eyes at the occult activities.

The second half of the Zombie Duo has Shibuku pinned to a wall of his home.

"Tell us where the Jinchūriki is," Kakuzu demands, squeezing the man's throat a bit.

"You have no shame, Kakuzu. " Shibuku chokes out. The village head kept his own against the two monsters who had slaughtered his people and ruined the sacred waterfall in blood.

"Talk," Kakuzu warns him with cold, bleach-green eyes.

"Let me have a turn with him, Kakuzu ~" Hidan purrs.

"Shut up!" Kakuzu snaps at his partner. " I don't have to for your nonsense, Shibuku. I could easily sell all your people's organs at the black market." Kakuzu reveals.

The other half of the Zombie Duo was not a sadist. Kakuzu is hedonistic and lives life to expand his lifespan and make money through the harvesting of his fallen enemies' hearts and the trafficking of bodies.

"I could probably make a few million Ryō from all of you." Kakuzu chuckles greedily.

"You two are demons." Shibuku spits in utter disgust. "Do you feel no remorse for your victims? How many of your comrades did you slaughter for meaningless coin?"

"Enough to make me satisfied, old fuck."

"Ohh–that's cold, Kakuzu." Hidan whistles.

Kakuzu rolls his eyes at Hidan's comment.

Rip.

Two black tendrils escape from his stitches, pointing at Shibuku's shoulders.

"I'll ask you one last time. Either you tell me where the Jinchūriki is, or I'll let you experience the pain of every fucker that tried to play with my money. "

Hidan sat on one of Shifuku's chairs, humming a tune while Kakuzu was about to torture the old man.

"While you do that, did I ever tell you the story of why I left my Village?"

"I don't care." Kakuzu harshly responds.

"It was a warm day in Yugakure ( Land of Hot Water) "

Stab

"Aaaahhhh!" Shibuku howls in pain as Kakuzu's tendrils pierce his shoulders.

"I was strolling down the Valley of Hell, when a strong smell of sulphur assaulted my nostrils..."

"Argghh–"

"Talk."

"I found a clan of people drinking from bloody water, Kakuzu! Bloody water!' Hidan exaggerates.

"I don't care about your acid trips, Hidan!" Kakuzu hisses in anger.

"I was not high that day! I swear to the All-mighty Jashin. The land water was made of blood and reeking of corpses." Hidan continues his tale.

Shibuku bites down on his bottom lip to distract his mind from the pain.

'Fū. Please stay safe.'

---

[ Nadeshiki Village]

Hidden in 3 massive and steep hills with two bridges across them, the Village is tucked in the lush trees of the mountainous area near the Land of Water.

Nadeshiki is an independent village with a population of only women. The Village is governed by the Yamato Nadeshiki, the Matriarch of the Village and also the strongest Kunoichi. The current Yamato Nadeshiki is a pristine woman, in her late 40s. The pale-skinned woman with deep charcoal eyes and a neat bun sat on her knees in a fine silk kimono in her study.

"Shizuka. "

"Yes, my Lady." Shizuka bowed her head.

The Nadeshiki kunoichi is a fairly tall woman with fair skin, black hair reaching her lower back, piercing green eyes and wearing a navy blue body suit, hugging her athletic figure with body armour on her right shoulder and waist.

"I wish for you to protect the Seven-tailed Jinchūriki, Fū." Yamato Nadeshiki spoke.

Shizuka's eyes widened slightly, but she remained quiet.

"Takigakure is under pressure with the ever-active rogue nin group, known as the Akatsuki, still hunting down Jinchūriki. "

"I am aware, my lady." Shizuka softly responded.

"The young girl is on her way to our village as we speak. Her Leader, Shibuku has entrusted her to us. I wish for you and your sisters to welcome her with open arms. Regardless of her status as a Jinchūriki, she is a woman first."

"I promise to defend her with my life, my lady." Shizuka pledges.

"Thank you, Shizuka." Yamato Nadeshiki approved of her kunoichi's loyalty.

...

"Are we there yet?" Fū whines.

The Seven-tailed Jinchūriki walks up the path to Nadeshiki in an oversized grey cloak, keeping her warm and blending in with the thin mist.

"Not too far, Fū." A brown-headed Nadeshiki kunoichi responds.

"I'm tired of walking. " Fū pouts at her answer.

"You really don't know when to shut up, huh?" A feminine voice chuckles.

"Hey!" Fū rounds up on the woman, "Why is she even with us!?" Fū barks out.

"Fū-sama–"

"Don't interfere, Orihime. Let me educate the brat~"

Swingx2

"Kiba."

"Lady Ringo, please– "

Fū removes her cloak, sprouting insect wings from her back.

"Insect style: damningcocoon. " Fū's cheeks puff out.

Bzzzzt.

Lightning crackles around Ameyuri Ringo; the former Mist Swordswoman smirks at the brash girl.

"You're just like that boy, Taiju."

End.

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