The Red Crimson Bride

It was almost afternoon, the sun was shining bright and the wind was blowing rather hard. She jumped higher and higher, reaching the top branches of a tall pine tree. Concealing her chakra she removed some of the leaves and her eyes fell on the building in front of her. A smirk crossed her lips as she realised that she finally found it. The only problem was if they were expecting her. She looked around and soon noticed the grey-haired man which was sitting on the steps of the building. 'He went inside already. Good.' she thought and disappeared from her spot.

Inside the filthy building, a tall man with a mask covering his lower face made his way through the rooms until he reached a bathroom. Seeing that there was no one around he went to a wall and knocked three times. He made a pause then knocked two more times. Right then the door slid off revealing a dark room.

"I got the Twelfth Elite Guardian." he said. "Where's the bounty?" he added. Soon, from the dark room a figure emerged from it. He saw a short fat guy with a moustache and baldness.

"Ah, Kakuzu, my faithful bounty hunter." he said. "It's right here." he said and rose a suitcase smirking.

Kakuzu took it quickly and gave the bald man a loincloth with the fire symbol and the sign of number twelve.

"Are you sure it's everything?" he asked.

"Very sure, no more no less than 50.000 yen." he grinned and stared at the cloth in his hand. "Be sure to come again, Kakuzu." he said.

"As long that it's about money, I will." he said and went directly to a sink and put the suitcase on it. The bald man smirked and threw the cloth at his back then walked towards the masked man. Kakuzu opened the suitcase and for his surprise, it was empty. "Hey, what are you trying to pull? The suitcase is empty." he said and turned around. The man in front of him started to chuckle and the disguise started to fade. Kakuzu stared with surprise at the woman in front of him.

"You, you're dead!" he said. Naruki shook her head smiling.

"Am not." she said and rose her right hand. "If I were you I would be careful around things like those." she said and motioned him to look at the suitcase. He turned around and saw the suitcase being filled with many tags. "KAI!" she yelled.

Outside, Hidan was staring blankly at the forest in front of him. Letting out a curse that his partner was late, he took his bible and started to read from it. Only his belief in Jashin-sama would make him feel better now.

Sensing someone approaching him, he rose his head and saw a little girl passing by. He stared at her curious. The blonde girl turned her head towards him and giggled. He rose an eyebrow.

"What's so fucking funny?" he blurted out. The girl didn't seem offended by his foul language but continued to smile.

"You." she giggled. Hidan frowned, since when he was someone to be laugh at? He would show her right now what this funny man can do. He smirked, a sacrifice for Jashin-sama. That would be perfect.

He took his scythe in his hand as the girl stared at him. She didn't make a move but continued to smile at him. He saw that. 'What's with her? She doesn't seem scared.' he thought and got up. For his surprise the girl made a few steps towards him smirking.

"What's wrong? Hesitating to hit a girl who laughed at you?" she said in a different voice and gave him a cold glare. Hidan blinked.

"That voice! You're..." he started, but he couldn't continue as the building behind him exploded. He had been sent many meters away and hit many trees ripping them off from the ground. He landed with a loud thud and felt pain coming from each part of his body. He didn't mind it, he was used to pain, but hell, his back had been burnt and his skin turned to a black one. "Fuck!" he yelled and took his scythe. "You, bitch!" he yelled and turned around. His eyes fell on the destroyed building in front of him and whose parts were burning hard. "Shit. Kakuzu you better have not died in that low explosion." he murmured and straightened up. He looked around for any trace of Naruki, but with no success. Cursing again, he started to walk towards the large fire in front of him.

Kakuzu didn't have time to react and the only thing he knew was the fire which surrounded him. The building exploded and he had been sent out from it flying. Being caught on fire, he did't realise the woman which was coming straight at him until she pierced him in his back. Letting out a sound of pain, he twisted and caught her by the head.

"You should have stayed dead!" he yelled and his tentacles pierced through her body. She yelled and Kakuzu tightened his grip in order to smash her skull. For his surprise, she punched him in his jaw and soon disappeared in a puff of smoke. Realising that he was still in air, he sent his tentacles and attached them of some tree to lessen the fall. Right when he was about to hit the ground, his tentacles tightened and he stopped right above it.

He got up on his feet quite fast and searched the area for his enemy. He ignored the hole in his chest, it wasn't something to bother with. He made a few steps still looking for her.

"Aren't you going to show yourself?" he said. A laugh echoed around the forest.

"You want to see me so bad?" the voice said. "If that's what you want then, why not?" she said and Kakuzu turned around. His eyes fell in the woman in front of him. She waved smiling. "Hello."

"You always have time to joke around." Kakuzu said and made a few steps towards her. Her smile turned to a smirk and red eyes blocked on his.

"You know how I am, Kakuzu." she said, her grip arond the katanas tightening. Kakuzu took of his mask and Naruki could see the bottom of his face better, mostly his sewed mouth. Also he took off the cloak. She made a step back taking a battle stance.

"Like I told you before, you should have stayed dead." he said. Naruki smiled at his words.

"But where's the pleasure in killing all of you?" she grinned and lunged at him.

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Hidan walked towards the building and looked around for Naruki. She had to be somewhere, she couldn't disappear. Sensing her chakra signal he turned around and saw her against a tree smiling.

"Long time no see, Hidan." she said.

"You fucking bitch, don't long-time-no-see with me!" he yelled. She chuckled.

"You have the same old foul language." she said and made a few steps towards him. Hidan calmed himself down, if he wanted to defeat her he had to do it calmly.

"How in the hell are you still allive?" he asked.

"Dunno myself." she said. "But maybe it has to do with you ten." she added. Still staring at her, Hidan maade a symbol on the ground. Naruki knew what he was going to do, now the most important thing was that under no circumstances she must get herself cut by his scythe. She took a battle stance. "Let's begin." she said. Hidan made a smirk.

"Eagerly to die." he said. "Jashin-sama will be pleased for a sacrifice such as yourself." he said and lunged at her with his scythe forward.

Naruki drew her katanas and ran straight at him.

They clashed in very fast fight. He sent countless attacks but she dodged or blocked them quickly not letting him cut her. As they hit again, Naruki pushed harder and jumped back. After they broke apart, Hidan stared surprised at his scythe.

"No blood?" he said and turned his gaze at Naruki who was smirking. She waved with her katanas.

"Still alright." she said. Hidan made a smirk.

"Hm. You've gotten better." he said and lunged at her again doubling his attacks. Naruki dodged them with great speed and made a few kage bunshin of her. All of them surrounded him and Hidan twisted his scythe and hit each one making them disappear in a puff of smoke. He went towards the last one and tried to hit her but she blocked him fast. She jumped in air and succeded in landing a kick in his shoulder. Ignoring it he continued his fight. She jumped backwards as he was coming with his scythe forward in order to plant a cut.

"Kawara Shuriken (Tile Shuriken)!" she made a few hand signs and yelled. Suddenly, pieces of barks from the trees or even rocks detatched themselves and turned into tiny sharp pieces of shuriken. She guided with her hand and all of them have been sent towards him. He saw them coming at dodged each one with his scythe twisting in air or jumping at his right or left. He caught some of them betweeh his fingers and sent them back at her.

Seeing them coming, she made a sign and wind started to blow making them stop. Hidan, not being impressed saw an opening and ran quickly at her with his scythe forward. Indeed, she wasn't paying attention to him and she turned around too late. Grinning he knocked into her making her fall on the ground a few meters away. He smirked and stared at his bleeding scythe then appeared in the center of his symbol which he drew earlier.

"Apparently you're still not that good enough." he said. Naruki shivered and climbed up on her feet shakily. As she did that she let out a sound of pain and her hand gripped her right arm. It was bleeding. She rose her gaze and stared at Hidan as he licked the blood from the scythe. She watched how his body turned black with white markings of his skeleton. Grinning he rose his scythe and pointed at her. "Repent!" he said and cut his left arm.

Naruki put her hand quickly at her left arm and yelled in pain. Grinning even more he cut his leg as well. Naruki fell on the ground yelling in even more pain and holding her leg. Was this really her end? She scowled and tried to heal herself. Hidan saw the purple chakra surrounding her and rose his scythe at his heart.

"You're not fast enough. Any lost words?" he said and pushed his scythe.