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Starvation March
Chapter 32: Family Matters

Chapter 32: Family Matters

[Alysha's Pov]

I felt my whole body be sucked away and then reconstructed somewhere else. I looked around and found myself in a town. It was night, and nobody was around. 

I flew up to check on the situation, and I then slowly began to search around. I think I can recognize this village by the flag it wears... it's the Leaf village, of course. I hear some faint screams with my enhanced hearing, and immediately understand the timeframe I landed in. 

I head over to the screams, but before I arrive I utilize my extra-special ability I saved for this very moment~. I turn myself into a cat. No, not a human catgirl, a full on cat. With wings. And four tails. And red eyes. Yup, totally a normal cat~, not suspicious at all~.

I follow the screams, ignoring the dead people on the streets, and soon enough find a wild Itachi on the loose. He was killing everyone around him, which unless something in this universe changed, should be his family. I don't approve of that, but I guess he is doing it for his little brother, so I guess he's pardoned...

I follow him from the shadows, I witness as he kills everyone in the uchiha clan, and also looked interested as he casted a wierd genjutsu on his little brother Sasuke. If I remember correctly, it should replay in his mind the death of his parents multiple times, but don't quote me on that...

As Itachi leaves behind a crying and beaten up Sasuke, I walk up to the two corpses of his parents and carve out their eyes. I'm curious to see if I can actually gain their sharingan from this...

I eat their eyes, and don't feel any changes. Shame. I probably need to eat more of them, but that's not essential right now, so it doesn't really matter~. I can always go and hunt down Danzo and eat him and his... lots of eyes? He's almost as much as a creep as the snake guy... 

I enter a lunar pocket and follow Itachi through it. If I remember correctly he should go and inform Danzo about the success of the mission, threaten him to divulge information on Konoha to other villages should he harm his brother, then go and tell the third Hokage to look after his brother, and then finally abandon the village. What a brother-con... 

He indeed does as I thought he would, and after he finally leaves Konoha I exit the spatial pocket from on top of a tree. He was walking leasurely, but even I could sense the remorse in him. Too bad I'm a heartless little bitch though, so too bad for him~.

I keep following him through the trees, until he suddently throws a kunai at me with no warning. I let it hit me and fall down, still in my cat form.

He looks at me as I get back up, with a kunai sticking out of my head. I use my tails to get it out of my head, as it kinda~ hurts. The wound quickly goes away, and I face an Itachi who had a serious look on his face.

"That's mean~. I'm an adorable cat, can't you be a bit nicer, you bro-con crow addict? Seriously, didn't you just massacre your entire clan? Still want blood? Well, I always like blood, so I can't judge you~. Wait!! Don't attack me please~! I'm friendly! I swear! I'm sorry I mocked your actions!! I know it was for your little bro!!" I immediately shout as I notice that he was about to throw another kunai at me. I make puppy eyes whilst looking at him and say "Can you please bring me to the Akatsuki guys~? I know you wanted to join them as a double-agent, and I'm interested in joining them since it sounds fun~!"

[Itachi's Pov]

After reporting to the Hokage the success of the mission and getting him to swear to protect my brother, I left Konoha to head towards the Rain country. As I was walking, I suddently feel a colossal chakra source appear next to a tree. It simply follows me, without concealing it's chakra and not really doing anything.

I walk for 10 or so minutes before suddently turning around and throwing a chakra-enhanced kunai. The thing doesn't dodge at all, and gets hit straight in the face.

It falls off of the tree, and I could get a better view of it. It was a small cat with four wings and four tails. I don't see a henge, so I suspect it must be a summon of someone. 

The cat casually got back up, with a kunai sticking out of it's face and removed it with one of it's tails. It then spoke words that made me cringe. "That's mean~. I'm an adorable cat, can't you be a bit nicer, you bro-con crow addict? Seriously, didn't you just massacre your entire clan? Still want blood? Well, I always like blood, so I can't judge you~."

As soon as it finished saying that, I immediately prepare for a fight, but it speaks out again the moment it notices me getting ready. "Wait!! Don't attack me please~! I'm friendly! I swear! I'm sorry I mocked your actions!! I know it was for your little bro!!"

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I was bewildered. How does it know so much? I never felt anyone stalking me, and I didn't tell anybody of my intentions. I lower my stance, as to show I'm waiting for it to speak. It suddently enlarges it's eyes, and I thought for a second that it was trying to do a genjutsu, but quickly discard the idea as I can't see any chakra in it's eyes.

"Can you please bring me to the Akatsuki guys~? I know you wanted to join them as a double-agent, and I'm interested in joining them since it sounds fun~!" My eyes were wide open. How does this thing know so much? Who and what really is it!?

"Yes, you are correct. I was planning on doing so, and can I guess that you also want to work as a double agent on them?" I try to prod for information, but the thing answers "Eh? Me? A double-agent? But I just got here... Ah, you probably don't know that. Nevermind~. Nah, being a spy or having affiliations is waaaay~ too much trouble. I'd much rather just go around eating snacks then having to do paperwork~."

As it was talking, it approached me and jumped at me, I immediately jump away but it then screams out "Hey! Let me get on your shoulder~! I want your shoulder! Hey! Don't give me the cold shoulder! Heh, puns..." I keep dodging the thing easily. It's sort of strange how... weird this thing is. Shouldn't it be horrified at me having killed my entire clan?

"First, tell me who and what you are, then I will answer you." I say in a cold voice, the thing begins to sulk and mutters "Uh, I'm Alysha Bloodseeker, I got many nicknames, I'm a human/cat/dragon mix, 69 years old, I like meat and... Uh... what else do I like? Ah, yes! I like killing people and I like visiting weird places and doing crazy things~. Oh, I'm also a sadistic and insane mass-murdered who has killed hundreds of thousands~." 

As soon as it finished speaking, the thing suddently began to grow, and turned into a girl. She had ruby eyes, a pair of silver cat ears and silver hair, two large pairs of wings on her back and four tails swishing behind her. I couldn't help but turn my head away with slightly red cheeks. I mean, she's god damn naked! 

"Hm? Why did you turn away? Ah... I'm naked. Ops... Hehe, enjoyed the view~? You can turn back now, I'm already dressed." I looked at her, and she indeed was dressed. Well, that was fast, how did she do that?

"Well, bro-con, will you help me get into the Akatsuki? In exchange, I can help you with deterring them from attacking your lil' bro and Konoha. Cmon, accept~." She says and begins to poke my arm. I get slightly irritated and move away and say "Fine. But the moment you hurt my brother..." 

She didn't let me finish as she slapped me. I couldn't react to the speed at all, even with my sharingan active. It hurt, but it looked more like a joke then an actual attack, which is even scarier...

"Eeeh, shut up. I get it, I won't hurt little Sasuke. Now, onwards towards... uh... where are we going again?" I facepalm. Who is this weirdo and how does she know so much...? I can't afford to let her go knowing so much though. Then again, she did say she'd help me and seeing how easily she slapped me, I don't think it'd be a good idea to refuse here.

"... We're going to the Rain country, as Pain told me to go meet them there. I don't know if they will accept you." I say and she waves her hand and says "Eh~. The Obito guy should understand I'm useful and will try to either kill me or use me, probably the second since I'm hard to kill~. Now, where is the Rain country?"

We spend the next few days walking and tree-skipping. It's quite annoying to see her smug face as she flies above me, her expression shouting 'Sucks not to have wings~'. We talk quite a bit, and I can essentially sum up her personality like this.

She loves to crack jokes, sometimes they're really funny and other times they don't make any sense. She also never talks about her past, no matter how much I try to get her to do it. She doesn't look like she's hiding anything, but more like trying to forget it, so I stopped probing her about it after a while. She's also extremely moody, and can go from really happy to really angry for the dumbest of reasons. 

She also has a fetish for shiny things. I discovered this when we were passing through a cave, and there was something inside. It was a strange and shining rock, which I think is infused with chakra. When she saw it, she yelled "Shinyyyy!!" and jumped at it. 

And she somehow knows almost all of my past, but doesn't seem to really care about it, meaning she never once threatened me to reveal anything and often makes jokes about it. 

After another week of traveling togheter, we finally reach the Rain country. As the name implies, it's always raining here. The girl, Alysha, as she said she's called, was using her wings in an umbrella-like manner. It was quite funny seeing how afraid she is of water sometimes, but seems to utterly enjoy it other times. I've been somewhat opening up to her, and I have to say, she really does not resemble anyone I've seen before. She blatantly insults me sometimes saying that I'm a horrible brother, and other times says she's moved by how much I care about Sasuke. 

She also seems to really, but really like to call people weird nicknames. I asked her at least a hundred times to not call me bro-con, but she laughed at me each time and said that it's the most appropriate nickname she could find. 

I've also seen her darker sides though. Once, whilst we were walking, a group of bounty hunters found us and attacked us. She blocked the kunais they threw at us with her bare hands, and then ripped them all apart in brutal ways. I tried to tell her to be more merciful, but she ignored me completely.

As we walked through the Rain village, we could see destroyed houses and the occasional homeless child. It was quite the awful sight, but neither of us really made a big deal about it, as this is how life in the ninja world is. Only the strong get to survive, whilst the weak suffer. What a terrible world...

We enter the Akatsuki hideout, where we will be introduced and the teams will be formed. I wonder who I'll be patnered up with...