Kapitel 155: Ch155. Pakura 1

Pakura was slowly and leisurely walking towards Kiri, sent on a diplomatic mission by Rasa. All around her were mist-filled forests and her senses were flaring at her, telling her she was being followed but she already expected that. The Kazekage himself told her it would happen and she shouldn't be too worked over it. She accepted it. After all, Kirigakure would not just leave a foreign ninja roaming free on their land.

Nevertheless, Pakura was still cautious and kept her guard up. She was almost half-way on her way towards the village through the Land of Water when her senses flared into high heavens and she only managed to whip out a kunai into each of her hands as her eyes widened. She nimbly started to deflect the flurry of projectiles flying her way while acrobatically jumping from side to side, weaving through the trees and using their trunks as temporary shields.

Pakura deflected the last projectile and glared into the mist as she could feel her body getting numb from a small cut on her thigh.

'I am poisoned!' She thought in panic and tried to counter the poison with her chakra only for her stomach to sink when she found out it was impossible. 'Chakra Poisoning and partial paralysis!? How? This is a poison only Sunagakure can produ-' Her mind completely halted.

"What's the meaning of this!?" Pakura screamed only for laughter to come out of the mist as ten figures appeared. They were all clad in Iwa shinobi attire but what made her widen her eyes was that she recognized them! They were quite famous Kiri Hunter Ninjas!

"Why?" She asked as her mind was swirling with possibilities.

One shinobi smirked at her provocatively, his eyes clearly condescending as he twirled his chokuto in his hand. "Well, Suna scum, wouldn't you like to know... Now, be a good girl and let us kill you." He smiled widely and Pakura's eyes steeled. There was no walking away from here, it seemed. She would have to fight.

Pakura wasn't just standing while they talked, her chakra was ready and the second he finished his monologue, she pushed it to create three Scorch Release Orbs and combined them in a blink of an eye into one big flaming orb several times as high as she was. She held it with her chakra above her head and with a snarl, she threw it onto the Kiri Shinobi while jumping backward.

White vapor exploded as the orb hit the ground and vaporized everything in its range. The vapor quickly spread and engulfed the entire battlefield, thickening the mist around even more.

Pakura was in the process of conjuring more of her flaming orbs while panting from exertion due to pushing her chakra through the poison effects when she could feel her thigh to be pierced, forcing her to drop onto her knee and grit her teeth in pain.

"You bitch! You killed Akio!" Another man shrieked, giving away his position.

As she heard him from the mist, she raised her kunai, just in time to block a sword about to decapitate her.

'Shit! They are all masters at Silent Killing and moving through the mist!' Pakura thought in despair as she could barely see three meters in front of her.

The sword stopped, and Pakura could feel yet another senbon aimed at her other leg, and with a great deal of effort, she twisted her body into a roll, making the senbon hit the ground. She sprang up and put her entire weight on her uninjured leg as she protectively held her two kunai at the ready while secretly kneading her chakra for her Scorch Release as she started deflecting more and more senbon flying her way while her back faced a tree.

She was fucked and she knew it. The initial flurry poisoned her and her body was getting number and number by the second. She could only move due to her extraordinarily strong chakra coursing through her body and somewhat forcedly mitigating the poison. A normal Suna jonin would already be a completely paralyzed lump of flesh lying on the ground.

Also, she was an agility-based shinobi. One of her legs useless basically meant game over for her. She steeled herself and decided to take as many of them down together with her.

It was then that a raiton coated sword pierced the tree she was leaning on from behind and her lower abdomen with it, making blood spurt from her mouth. She looked at the piece of sharp steel in her and lashed out with her orb, vaporizing the man behind the tree.

With a painful groan, Pakura pushed the sword out of her body as she dropped on all four, coughing blood while panting. She could feel the poison spreading through her body more and more as she slowly grew weaker and started to lose even the remaining control over her chakra.

The remaining Kiri men appeared in front of her, smiling in amusement.

"Just give it up. You won-"

That was as far as the man got before Pakura's kunai embedded itself into his forehead. This however alerted the others and her follow-up scorch orbs missed.

Pakura cursed and stood up. "Well... If I am to die, you are coming with me." She brokenly smiled, her eyes the picture of exhaustion as she was pressing on the wound on her bleeding abdomen.

Three flaming orbs appeared around her and the bloody clash in the mist-covered forest continued.

...

Pakura sat beaten, leaning her back onto the tree as her right hand was raised upward, pierced through the palm with kunai to the tree. One of her legs, the one that was previously hit by a senbon, was completely numb while the other was broken at the knee, twisted at an unnatural angle. That was not as worrying as the fact it was lying in front of her unattached to her body. Her other arm... was full of cuts and senbons pierced it in many places as she used it to shield herself in desperation while the men laughed and jeered as they used her as a target for throwing practice. They were actually surprised she could still move it after the fiftieth senbon pierced it. They clearly didn't aim for anything vital but instead focused on the painful spots.

The men stopped throwing and quiet ensued in the clearing. Pakura raised her head to see them approaching her and took a shuddering breath as she coughed blood, making the trail of blood flowing from the sides of her mouth even redder.

How she would like to vaporize these men! But whatever poison they used, it was specifically engineered against her... She was unable to control her chakra fluidly. Well, she could but not enough to throw her bloodline around anymore. Her best bet was taijutsu and kunai but her body was already a wreck. No... this was game over and she knew it as tears trailed down her cheeks. She only wanted to know one thing.

"Why?" She rasped out as she looked at the three men. She managed to kill seven of them. All of them elite jonin level. That was what earned her the current torture they were putting her through. If she didn't kill them, her head would roll and it would at least be painless.

One of the men scowled at her question and sighed as he crouched down in front of her and grabbed her hair, yanking her head up to look at him.

"Why?" He smirked condescendingly. "Suna offered you in exchange for peace... Hero of the Suna." He mocked, gleefully enjoying Pakura's shaking eyes at the revelation that this was not a coincidence. "This was your last mission from the start, bitch." He slapped her cheek, a large bruise appearing on it.

"Rensatsu," A man next to him started but was cut off with the scoff from Rensatsu.

Pakura still couldn't believe she was sold to Kiri. She sacrificed her entire life for the village. Academy, Training, War, More Training, Training Disciple... She had never had time for herself. She gave herself to Sunagakure and this was how she was repaid?

With wide eyes, she stared in horror at the three men as her throat went dry. It was so unfair.

"I know, Akabo." Rensatsu, the man crouching in front of Pakura said in annoyance. "I won't hit her again."

"Good." Akabo grinned as his hand went to his pants. "I was really looking forward to this." He eyed Pakura's broken and bloody body with a want in his eyes, making her shudder. She knew what would follow. Hours upon hours of being their sex toy. She stared at them in despair, unable to move...

'This is it?' Tears streamed down her cheeks with even bigger intensity as she watched two men unbuckle their pants, leering at her, while the third went away in annoyance, clearly disgusted but uncaring to her plight.

She shakily stuck her tongue slightly out, between her teeth. She would prefer a swift and painful end rather than a miserable and... humiliating one. She was about to bite her tongue off as her eyes closed.

Her mind was hazy and afraid, confused due to the revelation she was sold out by her own, no less. She was shaken enough to let out the only thing, the first thing that came to her mind.

'Help, please. I don't want to die, yet...' She sobbed but it was obvious no help would come. She was here to be slaughtered, set up by her own Kage. Her thoughts suddenly shifted into a desperate wail as a mad determination showed in her exhausted eyes. 'Sunagakure, Rasa, I curse you to hell!'

Pakura forcefully bit down on her tongue.

(Cliff-kun, yahooo!)

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Kapitel 156: Ch156. Pakura 2

Pakura's teeth jerkily touched her tongue in full force about to bit it off while she tightly closed her eyes. Ninja or not, death is death and humans fear it like the plague. Pakura was simply no different. While she might not exactly fear it in the height of combat, suicide was still a big mental pressure for her.

As her teeth went through the first layer of flesh on her tongue though... her entire body froze, completely paralyzed. No matter how she tried, she was unable to twitch even a singular muscle.

"Holy shit, I was almost late! Damn, Tsunade really knows how to hold onto somebody!" Suddenly a disgruntled loud voice resounded right in front of her, causing Pakura to widen her eyes as a young man in the process of hastily pulling on his shirt just popped into existence there, kicking the two approaching Kiri ninjas away. Unfortunately for them, their pants were half-down so there was not really much resistance they could offer.

For better or worse, Rei didn't really pay attention to where his foot flew. One received a nice kicker into the crotch, sending him flying a few meters back while the other got himself a nice one right into the noggin.

"Oh!" Rei realized he kicked somebody only after feeling the impact, "Sorr-" He was about to apologize when he saw Pakura and he finally understood why his 'alarms' went off. Honestly, he actually forgot he had her marked... "On the other hand, I am not sorry at all." Rei scowled, bending down to pick up Pakura's cut-off leg.

Paralyzed or not, Pakura was inwardly gaping in complete disbelief. At least, the three remaining attackers of hers were also as surprised as her. One was rolling on the ground, holding his crotch while the other was wailing, holding his face. Lying on the ground, Pakura idly wondered how strong that kick had to be to disable two highly trained Hunter Ninjas.

Rei didn't like the state he found Pakura in. She was the only user of Scorch Release, meaning valuable. Even if Rei didn't take her bloodline into consideration, the woman could still fight one of the Seven Swordsmen of Kiri with only kunais. She had the potential to become someone really incredible and Rei wanted to see her work for his future village.

'So I was a bit too late, huh?' Rei sighed as he crouched down next to Pakura's paralyzed form... only to find out the woman fainted a few seconds ago. He frowned as he realized the woman would most certainly die if he didn't get her to a medic asap, 'I better take her to Tsunade. A chance to get S-rank ninja for free is not something I am gonna pass up on.'

Rei heaved her up on his right shoulder while holding her unattached leg in his left hand. He was about to teleport away when he stopped and slowly turned towards the two groaning men on the ground... his lips twisted into a feral grin as two shadow clones popped up next to him, both eager to try out reactions of the human body to new mixtures of chakra with nature energy.

Needless to say, when the third man who left when he saw his companions wanted to have their fun with Pakura finally came back, the only thing waiting for him was a bloodied tree bark and underneath, a puddle of Pakura's blood.

A chill went up the man's spine when he realized both Pakura and his two companions just disappeared... At first, he quickly put his guard up, waiting for some kind of ambush but even after a few minutes, nothing happened. He then thought about what could be the reason for neither of the three to be present. Heck, the woman was literally nailed to the tree so her disappearing was really disgruntling.

And after he went through various scenarios, the man finally came to the crux of the situation.

"Shit! I will have to report this to Mizukage! I am so dead!"

Needless to say, the Suicide Squad almost gained a new member that day.

...

Rei sat next to Pakura's bed, leisurely reading Icha Icha Paradise. Naturally, he read it because of the plot, not the smut. He had enough smut going on at home, after all... Right?

'God, if only it was not so boring, sitting here and waiting for her to wake up!' He mentally whined.

Honestly, Pakura was a bit too close to death by the time Rei managed to get her to Tsunade. The woman already lost an almost lethal amount of blood, and if she wasn't a ninja, she would be six feet under half an hour before Rei got to her. For example, it took even Tsunade hours to reattach the leg properly.

Today was the third day Pakura lied in the newly established hospital in Uzushio. Sure, it might have been Rei's fault that he forgot about her but in his defense, Pakura should have been sent to Kirigakure only after Yagura became the Mizukage, and yet... here she was.

'Looks like the butterfly effect is really a thing,' Rei inwardly sighed, 'How... troublesome.' He thought, turning the page in his book. Only with the corner of his eye did he notice Pakura subtly stirring.

She slowly fluttered her eyes open and Rei praisingly noted she had her guard up even before she did so. With her eyes finally open, Pakura quickly took in the room in which she found herself...

"I will commend you for being careful. I am Rei and I saved you... well, you should be able to remember that part." Rei drawled before the woman could come to some misguided kind of her own conclusion.

Pakura shifted, finding her upper body bare, only covered in bandages, and quickly pulled the sheet up, causing Rei to smile at how shy the supposedly toughest woman of the Sunagakure's younger generation was.

"Where am I?" Pakura asked, her tone low and measured, guarded even.

'Oho~, she is definitely mentally probing her body and muscles while looking for escape routes.' Rei smiled at how her eyes almost unnoticeably flickered from side to side at times.

"Uzushio... that's not important." Rei dismissively waved the Icha Icha book at her in a silly manner, making her relax while distracting her, "What is important is that I have an offer for you since Suna betrayed you which gives you only two choices. You can either die as Sunagakure and the Kazekage wish or you can go rogue. In case you decide to go rogue, we, Yozora, could possibly find a spot for you. If you choose the first option, please, at least kill yourself somewhere far away from the bedsheets."

Pakura could only dumbly nod at him. She... was really speechless for a moment.

"Uh..." She coherently summed her feelings up before shaking her head to get out of the daze, "So... er, I... you are offering me," She pointed at herself in bewilderment, "a chance to join Yozora? The same Yozora that completely enraged four out of five major ninja villages? The same Yozora that could infiltrate any village they wished? Yozora... the rogue ninja organization which has three SS-ranks?" The more she talked, the more weirded out Rei's gaze became.

"Hm... didn't know we are so famous. In a nutshell? Yeah, you can join." Rei had an urge to pat her head due to how cute her disbelieving expression looked but he held himself back. Kunoichi and all that funk... who knows if he would not lose his hand if he tried to touch her head without warning her first. "Honestly, I had my eyes on you for some time now," Rei said, causing Pakura to narrow her eyes slightly and shuffle back a bit. Especially since she saw the Icha Icha Book in his hands. "and no, I did not orchestrate this nor am I some kind of closet pervert." He uncaringly shrugged, "Anyway, I had you marked with a Locator Seal. The only reason why I was late to save you was how unexpected the situation was."

'I can't really tell her I was late because Tsunade wouldn't let me leave the bed, right? Meh... it was unexpected for her to get sent to Kirigakure so early. Half-truths for the win!' Rei inwardly cheered. 'Now… let's hope she never asks for the entire description of the Locator Seal functions. She did get completely paralyzed before fainting so maybe? Nah… I am not going to open that can of worms.'

"I have so many questions I have no idea where to even start." Pakura started, completely lost. She had no idea what to do in this situation.

'Uh, oh...' Rei, as if instinctively, threw the book he was holding at her, making her catch it on reflex.

"Read it. The plot is fine, the smut is second-rate and I think I am being generous, and at the complete end of the book, I wrote basic info about Yozora and what I would want from you if you join and what I am offering you in return." Rei explained, not even giving her the chance to ask her questions, before standing up from his chair. "Tomorrow we will talk about it. Make sure to think it through."

And with that, Rei walked out of the room, leaving the flabbergasted woman to her own devices. He called this move an ultimate tactical retreat.

The door closed after Rei left the room and Pakura's shoulders instantly sagged, the bedsheet edge slipped out of Pakura's hands, exposing her bandaged body while tears started to stream down her cheeks as her hand subconsciously rubbed the place where her leg was severed as if to confirm this was really happening. Pakura let her body fall back onto the soft bed, sobs escaping her lips while her free hand worked hard on wiping the rivers of happy tears when her brain finally registered how close she was to…

"I am still alive." Pakura's face bloomed into a beautiful smile, her eyes turning towards the closed door with sincere gratitude in them, "Thank you so much!"

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