Naruto - The New Members

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Haruka was beyond bored now. She sent Itachi another annoyed glare as she had no clue why the guy just did that earlier!? Itachi remained calm as he kept his eyes closed despite all the bickering heard from the girl and guy that they fought with earlier. Haruka let out another hmph before looking elsewhere. The two were taken a while ago and they were now bounded up against each other with their hands being connected with some odd wire that just wouldn't break. She glanced over at the girl and decided that damned puppeteer was in charge of these odd wires.

--Back to the Fight--

Haruka grinned as the girl seemed to have taken her little provocation while the guy, Zen, looked straight over at Itachi. "I'll deal with this guy...you deal with the girl, Shiina." Shiina rolled her eyes but nodded her head as she sent a multitude of wooden puppets straight towards Haruka. Haruka grinned as she began to dodge the puppets, now this was more like it! Though she soon regretted it as she saw one of the puppets veer off path and head straight towards Itachi.

She usually wouldn't mind, but seeing as how Itachi was a bit busy dealing with that Zen guy...Haruka let out an annoyed tsk before rushing in to block the attack for Itachi. She used her feet to kick the puppet to pieces before wincing slightly in pain. She fell to the ground slowly as her leg felt numb. Glancing down she noticed the smallest cut on her thigh and let out a sigh, great..."poison..." she murmured out. Itachi glanced over at Haruka and then looked over at the two.

Zen smirked as Shiina spoke, "aw, poor girl, if she doesn't get any help, she'll die within the hour...so how about you two just come with us quietly and I'll give the girl the antidote?" Shiina smirked a bit. Haruka glared at the girl, as if Itachi will, "alright." Wait what!? Haruka glanced over at Itachi in surprise, did he just agree to surrendering?!

--- Back to the Present---

And that was how they ended up in this position. Haruka let out a sigh as her leg still felt numb, but at least she won't be dying just yet. Just what were they going to do now?

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Another hour had passed before Kaito spurred into action. Even though it looked like he hadn't been doing much of anything before, he actually was. The last hour had consisted of Kaito spamming jutsu after jutsu, but what had happened instead was a draining feeling that made Kaito feel extremely light headed. It didn't take Kaito too long to realize that the wires were the root of his problem. They had some kind of chakra binding property, and Kaito couldn't figure out what. Usually when a weapon was altered or augmented, there would always be seals marked on them. That's how the weapon got its power. But for some reason, Kaito couldn't see any of the seals on the weapon. Unless.....

Kaito's eyes flickered into the sharigan. He had used his clans doujutsu so much it took little to no chakra to use. The feeble stream of chakra he sent to his eyes were too insignificant for the chakra binds to detect.

The chakra wires were glowing with seals wrapped all around it. Seals for chakra and seal and bind were immediately noticed. Kaito deactivated his sharingan quickly, seeing all he needed to.

With his left hand he reached into his pocket and roamed around for what he needed. Something of a paper quality brushed his fingers, and Kaito smirked. Just like his sharingan it took little chakra for Kaito to use paper bombs. Luckily, he had some packed for the mission.
With Uchiha percision, the paper bomb was suddenly plastered across the suna-nins wired kunai. The bounty hunter, being a trained shinobi and all, noticed the small piece of paper and immediately flung his kunai-like weapon away. The bomb exploded seconds later, as smoke clouded the air.

The split second the diversion caused was enough for Kaito to slice the ninja wire off his person, and free Kisame.

"About time." Kisame grumbled, wincing a little as he rubbed at his wrists where the where the wire had dug into his skin. "I would've went insane if I had the girl complain another second."

Kaito gave Kisame a blank look.

"Baka!!!" Came the voice of the suna girl. "If you hadn't been so busy staring off, you could've noticed that our hostages were trying to escaped!!"

The suna man grumbled sheepishly. "Could you stop pointing figures and help me get them back instead."

The man rushed Kaito spinning into a low kick, Kaito even without his sharingan activated could see the move as if it was in slow mo. Obviously, taijutsu was not his go to. Kaito avoided the kick and was about to attack when the girl appeared out of nowhere and uppercutted him into the air.

Kisame growled, swinging his sword across the air in an attempt to cleave the girl in half. Her teammate however weaved past the slash and sent a brutal kick towarda Kisames jaw. This attack sent Kisame reeling backwards.

Kaito took note. If the suna nins kicks could send Kisame, a borderline tank, backwards, Kaito had to avoid them.

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[AiAi]

Haruka was nearly falling asleep when she felt Itachi tense up slightly. That was she looked over at Itachi, over her shoulder to be precise, "what? You finally decide to breathe?" She rolled her eyes slightly annoyed that they were stuck in this position for who knows how long now. Itachi merely smirked at her answer as he simply replied back with a "hn."

Just then the girl, Shiina, spoke up annoyed, "hey, just how long do we have to keep them here for? Didn't they already get that scroll already or not?!" Zen grunted slightly before saying, "be patient, they have to get rid of those Suna nins guarding the temple first...oh look..." just then a small bird came flying overhead and landing on Zen's arm with a letter wrapped around his leg.

Zen took the letter and read it, sending Shiina a grin, "looks like they go through the Suna nins...now we just need to get into the temple somehow..." Shiina looked confused as she said, "what? Can't they just get inside?" Zen shook his head as he explained, "no, they need a dojutsu user...and we have just the thing." The two then turned their gaze to Itachi who remained rather calm for the entire duration while Haruka was looking back and forth between the three. Huh? So they were captured for a reason?

Itachi smirked as he said, "now is the time, Haru." Haruka blinked a few times but soon grinned. She didn't need any explanations for that. Shiina rolled her eyes as she said, "and what can you two do in that situation? Either way you two can't get away."

Oh how wrong she was.

At that moment, Itachi stood up and ran at lightning speed straight towards the pair with Zen pushing Shiina aside as he took the blunt of Haruka's kick. Haruka spun on Itachi's back to send a kick straight towards them, pushing Zen back quite a bit. She grinned as she answered Shiina's question, "it's really easy you see...we just kill you two."

Haruka nearly fell off Itachi's back if he didn't spin around and pick her up in time. He just cut the wires binding the two before picking Haruka up. She sent him a glare while he merely dropped her off to the ground. Haruka mumbled under her breath before her eyes flickered purple. She faced Shiina once more as she told Itachi, "back off of her...she's mine." Shiina remained rooted to the spot as her body suddenly felt heavy. Her eyes were wide as her breathing became erratic, just what was going on!? Haruka smirked as she lifted up several shurikens in her hand, "ready?"

Meanwhile Itachi began his little fight with Zen. His red eye was spinning lazily as he eyed his opponent who was wielding a katana. "Hn..." was all Itachi said, though there was definitely a bit of annoyance evident in his tone.

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For a while, the fight stopped, and everyone started to stare each other down. Kaito glanced at the two suna nin who were now standing by each other with sneers on their faces.

"Don't underestimate us, Uchiha." The male suna stated darkly. "Just coz you've got stupid red eyes, and come from an old clan doesn't mean you're any better then us."

Kaito stayed silent, giving the man a blank look. This seemed to drive the man insane, as his face turned a dangerous red, and he bore his teeth. If it weren't for his female partner it seemed he would've charged right then and there.

"Baka!! Are you that dumb to fall for such a simple trick. He's just trying to get under your skin!!!" The female suna nin put a petite hand on her partners shoulder calming him down.

"Besides if you kill him, how are we going to get into the temple? Finding a doujutsu user like him is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. You must not allow him to get you riled up like that, Tottori."

It seemed like that little dialogue seemed to do the trick because the man took two deep breaths, and smiled shakily. "You're right, Sakyuu. We will achieve our goal!"

Kaito raised an eyebrow. "What are you going on about. Why do you need a doujutsu user to get in?"

Sakyuu glared at Kaito. "The only way one can go inside the temple is with the perception skills of a doujutsu. Common knowledge."

Kaito scrunched his brows. That means...

"You hear that bastard. The others probably have your friends and are making their way into the temple as we speak. Come with us peacefully and we won't kill you as painfully after." Tottori quipped.

Kisame who had been uncharacteristically quiet the whole time, grinned devilishly.

"How bout we do this the other way around. Take us to the temple and tell us everything you know about this 'Time scroll' and we won't kill you."

Tottori snarled. "Over my dead body!!"

Kaito's pitch black eyes closed before they opened again and showed an ominous red. Three tomoe formed and quickly spun around like a pinwheel.

"That can be arranged."

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Blood slowly dripped onto the ground as Haruka's eyes were wide in surprise. Silence fell upon the area as Zen stood in front of Haruka. Itachi's tomoe was spinning wildly while Shiina's eyes were wide in surprise, "Zen..." Shiina whispered out in a small voice. Haruka stared down at her now bloody hands not really processing what happened.

She was fighting Shiina and was just playing around with the other girl as she held the girl down with her dojutsu, but then before she could even toss the final kunai to Shiina's forehead...he appeared.

Zen slowly fell to the ground with a thud. She blinked a few times as she looked over at his possibly dead body. Shiina glared over at Haruka while yelling out, "you killed him!" Haruka blinked for a moment as she shook her head, "no! It's not my fault he ran into it!" She frowned slightly, not really meaning to do that.

Itachi stepped forward as he said, "take us to the temple and we will save his life. Deal?" Shiina looked between Itachi and the fallen Zen, she asked in a hopeful voice, "y-you can do that?" Itachi nodded his head as he glanced over at Haruka, "yes, he isn't dead yet..."

Haruka stared back at Itachi but with a slight sigh she knelt down besides Zen and begins to heal the man. She left him unconscious as she said to Shiina, "there, he'll live, now you come with us or else we'll kill him now." She stared down at Shiina who shook slightly under Haruka's purple gaze.

Itachi began to head out as he slung Zen's body over his body, "let's go." Shiina began to lead the way to the temple.

The group soon arrived at the foot of the temple where Itachi knocked both Shiina and Zen out with his Mangekyou. He turned to Haruka and said, "we'll wait here for Kisame and Kaito." Haruka nodded her head as she sat down on the ground and leaned against the wall. If anyone stumbled upon the two, it looked as if Haruka was injured from how Zen's blood was covering most of her shirt.

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(sorry for delay~!)

 

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The fight did not take long. Although Sakyuu and Tottori were capable shinobi, they were still unable to lay a hand on the Akatsuki members. The difference in speed and power was just way too much.

As Kaito tied down Sakyuu's arms she grit her teeth and glaringly said, "Just what are you going to do with us?!"

Kaito stayed silent, continuing to bind the girl instead. When he finished, he stepped back and admired his handiwork.

"Normally, I would've knocked both of you out, and left. But right now I'm afraid that's not an option." He explained. "We need you guys to tell us what to expect, so like my friend here said. Lead us to the temple and help us out and we'll let you go."

Tottori fought against Kisame strong hands and snarled. "Kill me, bastards!! But leave her the hell alone!!"

Sakyuu turned her neck to face her partner, her eyes glimmering with unshed tears. "Tottori..." She whispered.

Kisame looked annoyed by Tottori's display. "Can't we just kill this one? He doesn't want to comprise, and besides we still have the girl. She most likely knows everything the guy does."

"No!!!" Sakyuu cried at the suggestion. "No..." Between shuddering breaths, she looked between Kaito and Kisame. "No, please don't. I can't lose him. I'll tell you everything.. Do anything. But please don't kill my brother!"

Kaito looked at between Tottori and his crying sister evenly, unfazed by her emotional outburst. "Fine. Withhold any vital information, and we will kill him slowly in front of you."

The girl nodded, her face red with tears.

"We should get going, the rest are probably waiting for us at the temple." Kaito said, not worried at all about Itachi and Haruka. They were both just as capable as he was.

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Just as he had guessed team Itachi was already at the temple. As the team approached, Kaito noticed the blood stains on Harukas shirt.The way she was slumped on the floor? His eyes widened a little in shock. Taking his eyes off Haruka he glanced over at Itachi who was standing next to her with his stoic face.

Suddenly flashbacks started circulating through his head, and Kaito couldn't stop his hands from shaking.

"You..." His eyes flickered into the mangekyou, and a bareboned susanoo started materializing around him.

In Kaito eyes this looked just like what happened in the clan massacre. Everyone he loved brutally killed, and Itachi standing over them as if nothing happened.

Indescribable rage, made his heart tremble and pulsate with fire. He couldn't just let him kill his loved ones again without doing anything. To hell with his plans. To hell with evolving his sharingan. To hell with everything.

Itachi was going down, even if Kaito had to go down with him.

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Haruka was falling asleep by the time Kaito and Kisame arrived. She was dozing off and so her head was slumped forward making her look knocked out or even worse. Itachi stood besides Haruka, not really bothering to wake up the girl, she can rest for now was his thoughts.

Itachi's sharingan slowly swirled as he spotted two familiar chakra signatures and watched with a calm expression as Kaito and Kisame arrived. He was about to speak up, but stopped when he saw Kaito's aura change suddenly. He lifted an eyebrow, wondering what was wrong.

Seeing Kaito turn his attention onto Itachi, Itachi can only stare back at him only to realize that Kaito had his Mangekyou and also the Susanoo around him. Itachi decided to finally speak up, "what do you think you're doing Kaito?" He wasn't about to waste time fighting his supposed teammates when they can be going into the temple and finishing this mission already.

Haruka was dozing off still, much to Itachi's dismay, who finally decided to wake her up as his eyes moved away from Kaito for a split second to glance over at Haruka.

He kicked a pebble straight at Haruka and hit her straight on the forehead, luckily he didn't use a kunai to wake her up like he originally planned. Looks like she was still to sleepy to even properly catch something.

As the pebble hit Haruka on the forehead, she let out a small groan as she raised a hand up to rub her forehead. Ouch...what was that? She lifted her head up and blinked, huh? Why was Kaito using his Susanoo and looking like he's about to kill Itachi? What did she miss?

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Kisame stared at the two Uchiha, with an amused look on his face. It would be fun to see who the stronger of the two were. However, if Itachi or Kaito was close to dying or seriously injured he would step in.

Kaito took slow steps forward, his black and red eyes glued to Itachi's. It didn't matter what happened. Today Itachi would die. He was about to take another step when he saw movement to the side of Itachi. Two shinobi knocked out and tied were now starting to arise. His eyes slowly trailed to Haruka who was stirring from a nap. A nap?!

His eyes flickered to her bloody shirt, and to the prisoners. One of them had the same blood on the front of their shirt, and looked to be moaning with pain. It took Kaito only a split second, to realize what had happened.
When he finally came to the conclusion, he froze and turned his MS off, the susanoo fading away with it. Never did all of his 17 years of life did he feel like a bigger fool.
Turning around, he clicked his tongue, before making his way to the far corner of the room and sitting down.

Kisame looked as if someone dropped his ice cream on purpose and stepped on it.

"Dammit. I thought you two were going to fight it." He whined. "Its not fair to raise peoples expectations like that you know."

Kaito stayed quiet, and closed his eyes. His body going through the side effects of his use of the MS. His face was blank and tight, so no one could see what he actually was going through.

Kisame scrunched his face at being ignored, before remembering he was dealing with an Uchiha. A clan that ignored everyone.

"Anyway. What's with them? Were they here before or what? And why's that one bleeding. You too Haruka.. You're bleeding too." Kisame questioned, shifting the weight of Samehada on his back.

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Itachi stared over at Kaito, tensing slightly as he expected the younger Uchiha to suddenly strike...but it never happened. He blinked for a moment as he glanced over at Haruka to see the girl stir from her sleep before he faced Kaito once more. Was he? Itachi shook his head slightly as Kaito's eyes went back to black and watched him walk off to the side.

Haruka was looking at the three in complete confusion. What did she miss?! Itachi looked more tense than usual and then there was Kaito who seemed a bit...mad? And then there was Kisame who looked utterly disappointed.

She stood up after a moment before hearing Kisame's question. She blinked for a moment before glancing down at her shirt, "ah you mean this?" She lifted her shirt a bit at the bloody spot before pointing at the guy behind her, "well really, it isn't my fault when he comes running into my kunai you know?" She shrugged slightly as Itachi can only close his eyes, trying not to sigh aloud.

Ignoring the fact that Kaito just tried to kill him simply because of Haruka, Itachi began to explain everything, "I assume that you two had some pair similar to these two...anyways, we will continue to the temple, Kaito and I will lead the front this time around as it needs a dojutsu user to see through things...Kisame and Haruka will be in the back, understand?"

Haruka nodded her head, standing up and looking curiously over at Kaito. He was being awfully quiet, concerned, she approached him and spoke up to him, "hey, you alright?...want me to check your eyes?" She added the last part in a whisper so that only Kaito can hear her.

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Kaito heard Haruka approaching and scoffed, turning head to the other side. She offered healing him, but he turned her down. The Uchiha couldn't believe he almost lost his cool because of a girl he only met a few months ago.

Kisame raised an eyebrow wondering what was happening with his recent partner. After a few seconds of going through all the scenarios, he gave up, opting to go see what was up with Itachi.

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Haruka blinked a bit as Kaito turned his head to the side and ignored her offer. She frowned slightly and was about to insist on healing him when Itachi called for her. She glanced over at him and saw that ever familiar gleam of Itachi's sharingan and knowing what that meant, Haruka let out a huff and turned back to head up to the temple. She gave Kaito one last glance before heading to the stairs.

Itachi noticed something was up between Kaito and Haruka, but seeing as the girl wasn't about to give up, he called out for her, "Haru...we're going now." He then looked over at Kisame with his blank gaze, "what?" He asked his former partner.

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Kaito grit his teeth when she left, feeling somewhat jealous and betrayed. Before Itachi, whenever Haruka had offered him something, he'd always refuse until she insisted countless times. This time, she asked once, looked at Itachi and left. The Uchiha teen closed his fists, fighting through the pain. It didn't matter what happened, he would still complete his goal.

This just showed how quick people switched up, Kaito thought.

Kisame came over to Kaito, pulling him up, and Kaito let himself be pulled. He looked at the Hoshigaki clan member in his way of saying thank you, and he just smiled. Kisame had gotten used to Uchiha etiquette.

They supported each other as they climbed up the stairs to follow the other two.

 

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Haruka was frowning as they began their ascent up the stairs. Why did Itachi stop her and more importantly he was threatening her with his sharingan if she didn't listen. Shuddering at the memories from her past, Haruka kept her gaze straight until Itachi spoke up as he was walking besides her, "let Kaito be, why do you insist on helping him so much?" His eyes narrowed slightly as suspicion rose in his mind.

Haruka ignored his statement as she continued walking up. Sooner or later, she knew she'll have to tell Kaito of her relation with Itachi but that also meant her past relation with the Uchiha clan in general...sigh.

As they reached the top of the first set of stairs, Itachi stopped the group as he looked over at Kaito, "you and I will lead from here on...Haruka you go help Kisame out." Haruka blinked then frowned, "if you're saying to treat him, then I should be allowed to treat Kaito too..." she looked off to the side, pouting ever so slightly as she found it unfair that she can treat Kisame but not Kaito.

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Kaito stared blankly when they stopped at the top of the first step of stairs. As Itachi gave out orders, Kaito leaned against a railing and gave Kisame a once over. What was wrong with Kisame that Haruka had to go heal. He looked fine, and most of the scrapes and bruise he had accrued during the fight had already started to heal. Itachi was designated leader, however, so he stayed silent.

Kisame however didn't, giving Itachi a curious look. "I'm fine. I've dealt with worse, I don't need to be healed."

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Itachi gave a blank stare at the three of them before saying, "I didn't mean healing Haruka...I meant you will stay in the back line with Kisame while Kaito and I will be the front. Now let's go." He turned back around and activating his sharingan, he looked around for the real entrance. He didn't glance at Kaito but asked him, "do you see the entrance?"

Haruka blinked for a moment before sighing. Shrugging her shoulders, she went to stand besides Kisame while glancing up at the tall blue skinned male with a look of confusion. She whispered over to Kisame, "why are all Uchiha's so difficult?"

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Kisame glanced at Haruka and burst out laughing, giving her a look that adult gave to children when they asked them a question they couldn't answer. "That my dear, is one of the mysteries of life."

Itachi had always been an enigma to him. He had viewed the youngster as a prodigy, and he was sure everyone else that had met the boy shared his views. But Kisame had soon found out that the Uchiha wasn't a prodigy. No. That was a disservice. Itachi was a certified genius.

A once in a millennium, grade A, genius. Their were many shinobi that could completely dominate you in a fight physically. Itachi could do it both physically and mentally, leaving you utterly helpless.

How many eleven-twelve year old boys could wipe out a whole clan of born killers?

Kaito stared at Itachi dully, before activating his sharingan. A quick scan later found nothing out of the ordinary, so Kaito quickly deactivated it and shook his head.

 

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Haruka blinked a bit up at Kisame and merely pouted in response to his answer. She watched as the two Uchiha's began to look for the real entrance. She had a dojutsu as well but it worked differently so it would be of no help.

Itachi observed Kaito to see if the younger Uchiha can find it before he looked for it himself. Hearing Kaito's answer, Itachi activated his Sharingan and began to look around.

The first sweep there seemed to be nothing but Itachi looked once more and stopped as he spotted the smallest rift in a space. He walked over to an empty wall on the side of the steps leading to the temple and did the release symbol where it revealed a large entrance.

He glanced at the other three as he said, "let's go. Kisame you'll be in the back, Haruka you'll stay with Kaito in the center and I'll lead." Haruka stared in amazement and was quick to go inside.

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Kaito moved forward a bit disgruntled that Itachi found the rift while he couldn't. He sighed. This just proved just how bad he needed another sharingan.

Kaito followed Haruka inside and activated his sharingan again.

 

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Haruka looked around as she entered the path to the temple. It was rather dark inside as if it was hardly used. Itachi was ahead of her and Kaito while she could feel Kisame's looming presence from behind her. She kept an ear out for anything out of the ordinary, but she was more distracted.

Itachi kept an eye out with his Sharingan as he spoke up in a hushed tone, "be careful not to touch anythin-...." he stopped when he heard Haruka mutter out a small "oh..." and turned just in time to see her hand on the wall where it was currently indented right where her hand is. He held back a sigh and spoke up, "prepare yourself for whatever may come..."

Though he didn't expect for the entire place to shake and then the ground underneath Haruka and Kaito to open up suddenly.

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Kaito followed along quietly, his sharingan activated and glowing crimson red. The path was dark, but the keen ocular perception of his doujutsu allowed him to see as if it was still day.

As they moved farther into the path, Kaito could hear Itachi say something, but couldn't quite make it out. As he opened his lips to ask him to repeat, the ground from beneath gave way, and sent the Uchiha and Haruka tumbling fast to whatever lay underneath

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Haruka cursed under her breath as she felt the ground beneath her disappear. The last thing she remembered seeing was Itachi's red glowing eyes and then it was pitch black. Who knew there would be such a trap waiting for them? It was just a simple temple!?

Haruka felt herself flying in the air for a moment before she uprighted herself mid-air. It seems like they were falling for quite some time. Haruk turned to look for Kaito hut before she can even open her mouth to ask him where they may be going, she fell right into water. Well...that was unexpected. Her head emerged from the water as she looked around to see that they were in an underground sort of cave. She looked around, trying to find Kaito, "Kaito? Hey you alright?"

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Kaito did not expect the fall to be that long. It was so long, he couldn't stop the gasp of shock that escaped his lips when he was sent crashing into the cold war below. It took a while for him to resurface--he wasn't much of a swimmer. When he did resurface, he noticed that it was so dark he couldn't make out where they fell from. He heard Haruka's voice calling to him, so he scanned around for her. Luckily, after a few seconds of searching he found the familiar shock of orange hair floating aimlessly.

"I'm right here." he said quietly, softly grabbing her shoulder. "Stay close to me, and whisper. We don't know whats out here."

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Haruka's eyes were squinting slightly as she tried to see through the pitch darkness that they have fallen into somehow. All she did was place a hand on the wall! She heard Kaito's voice and felt his hand grab hold of her shoulder. She closed shut her mouth as she mutely nodded her head. At times like these, it was a smart idea to listen to Kaito, he usually knew what to do in such situations.

She stayed close to him, placing her hand on his shoulder for support as she whispered near his ear, "hey, where on earth are we? I doubt we can make it back up to where we were originally...should we try to find another way?"

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