Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 12, 2008 22:02:08 GMT -5
Kaida grinned slightly when she caught sight of Deidara beckoning her to where he was sitting on the roof. He had found the vent.
She glided over to him lightly, careful to keep the sounds of her footsteps concealed from the people in the buliding down below. Once she had reached him, she lay on her stomach and proped her chin up on her hands, listening for any conversation that held some importance to their mission. From what she could hear, it was just meer chatter about jobs, recent missions, families...small talk, mostly. But one voice reached Kaida's ears and held her attention.
"So, have you heard about that kidnapping in Konoha?" came the voice of a male. A second male voice followed the first. "Yes. I haven't heard much about it though..." "Well, they snuck into the village, right under their noses, and took a kunoichi. Heard they even nabbed one of their elite Jounin, too." "An elite? These guys mean business. Who do you think did it?" "I've been told it was the Akatsuki," the first man confesses, his voice dropping even lower than it had started as he did. "Really?" The man sounded a bit unnerved. "Who told you?" "Just somebody I know..." was the simple reply from the tattle-tale.
A wide smirk crossed Kaida's face as she turned to look at Deidara as a satisfied purple filled her eyes. One knowing thought crossed her mind.
Bingo.
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Post by Deidara on Jul 12, 2008 22:30:41 GMT -5
Deidara listened to the voices speaking about the Akatsuki, still leaned forward, his upper body weight supported by his hands below him. A grin that matched Kaida's spread across his face.
"I was afraid that they'd be smart enough to figure it out, hn. They shouldn't make these Iwagakure shinobi so damn intelligent, hn..." He looked at Kaida, his dark smirk turned into a silly grin.
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 12, 2008 22:46:26 GMT -5
She looked at him and rolled her eyes, as the purple of her irises was washed away by an amused orange. "They could have done a little more work on you, huh, Dei-kun?" she said sarcastically while teasingly pinching his cheek.
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Post by Deidara on Jul 12, 2008 23:02:45 GMT -5
"Ehhh," Deidara complained jokingly, sitting up straight and swatting away her hand. He leaned back on his hands and resumed a semi-serious expression.
"So we should follow that man then, right, hn? Find out who this 'somebody' he knows is. If only I could match the voice to a face, hn..." Deidara squinted his visible eye, trying to remember who the voice belonged to.
"Listen to see if he's leaving, yeah..."
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 12, 2008 23:23:48 GMT -5
Kaida stuck her tounge out at him briefly when he pushed her hand away. She smirked as she watched him trying to make a match from the man's voice. "Don't hurt yourself," she commented quietly, sarcastic as usual.
She pushed herself up, so that she was kneeling above the vent when Deidara told her to listen for the man's departure. She listened for any sign that the man was leaving. She didn't have to listen very long, for moments later she heard- "Well, I'm off. Got loads to do before the days out." This farewell was followed by the scraping of a chair against the floor. Kaida jumped up, and dashed across the rooftop soundlessly to the edge of the front of the building, where she crouched down and glanced, hidden, over the rim of the roof. She watched as the man exited and headed in the direction of the village gates. She raised an eyebrow, curious as to where he was going.
She signaled Deidara to come watch.
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Post by Deidara on Jul 13, 2008 0:02:16 GMT -5
Deidara opened his eye fully, no longer squinting, once Kaida hurried to the side of the building to watch her. She motioned him over and he silently obeyed, moving to croutch next to her.
He watched the man walk torwards the gates skeptically. "Hmm..." He murmered, waiting for the man to exit the village before he followed, to avoid being seen. He wondered to himself if he knew that man, but he tryed not to dwell on it.
Once he exited the main gates, Deidara contemplated trailing him with a signature giant clay bird for a few moments, but decided against it and jumped off to the side of the building, then sprinted up the stone village wall.
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 13, 2008 16:12:45 GMT -5
Kaida took a final glance at the man making his way out of the village before she silently followed behind Deidara. She found herself at the stone wall once again, and streamed up the side besides Deidara in a murky outline, who was running up the rocky barrier.
When they reached the top, she cautiously obsereved the man inching away from the village's edges. Her now dark brown, serious eyes, darted about the scenery, looking for anybody he could be meeting.
"What are you up to...?" she questioned, lowly, out loud.
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Post by Deidara on Jul 14, 2008 17:35:45 GMT -5
"Well we can strike out the posibility of the head of the village giving out information, hn. That other guy seemed clueless about us," As he spoke, Deidara pushed the hair off of the side of his face, to reveal a mechanical-looking device over his eye, which in reality was a scope. His black nail polished fingers adjusted it to try and get a better look at the man.
He continued thinking out loud, "So, either Konoha is telling other villages about the Akatsuki and none of the Kage's are telling any of the villagers, or..." Deidara's sentence trailed off as he got a better look at the man. It turns out that he did know that guy. Before Deidara became a bomber for hire, they both used to be friends. It pained him to realize his friend had taken a wrong turn, like he had. But he refused to let anyone know, including Kaida.
"Or none of the Kage's know anything, hm..."
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 14, 2008 18:10:19 GMT -5
Kaida's features scruched up into a slight frown, as she thought about the possibilities.
"I know Konoha- they would definately tell other villages about this. Especially the ones who they know have a could have Jinchuuriki in their midst. So the Kages have to know something..." she let out a small sigh. "But suppose they don't know anything; that doesn't explain where this guy is getting his facts..." She continued observing the man down below their perch on the stone wall. "Or why it matters so much to him to remember them..."
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Post by Deidara on Jul 14, 2008 18:35:38 GMT -5
Deidara let go of the scope over his eye and let his hair fall in front of it. The air around them was quiet for a few moments as they both watched the Iwagakure shinobi. Deidara knew why knowing the news about the Akatsuki was so important to him, but he avoided telling her why.
"Don't worry, we'll find out sooner or later where he's getting his info, hn. It's obvious he's meeting someone out here, don't you think?"
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 14, 2008 19:01:19 GMT -5
Kaida smirked and nodded. "Just waiting for 'em to show up," she replied cooly, still keeping an eye out across the landscape for the individual to arrive on the scene. As if on que, a ninja appeared and crossed the terrain to where the Iwagakure stood, waiting. Kaida's senses perked at the newcomers arrival, and her eyes flashed to orange. "Right on time. Heh." she commented. "Can you tell who it is?"
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Post by Deidara on Jul 14, 2008 19:27:27 GMT -5
Deidara used his scope again to inspect the unknown ninja. He noticed the leaf symbol engraved into the metal on his forehead protector.
"He's a Leaf shinobi, hn. I'm not surprised. Someone must have seen Itachi making his exit out of Konoha, and they must be telling everyone they know, hm."
He let go of his scope and watched them both normally. "If only we could get closer to hear what they were saying, without being noticed, hn.. I'm curious to know who saw Itachi-san leave..."
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 14, 2008 20:02:28 GMT -5
Kaida smirked knowingly, already fully expecting the new shinobi to be from Konoha. She turned to Deidara as he pondered a way to get closer to the 2 shinobi. "Well lets find out," she settled the matter, a small grin taking over her smirk. She grabbed one of his wrists as her eyes darkened to a maroon as she concentrated on her chakra. "Don't say anything once we get down there," she instructed. "And don't try to move; just leave it to me." In a moments time, smoke was rising from in between the fingers of the hand that was placed over Deidara's arm. It began spiraling up his arm, and from his shoulder, it spread over the rest of his body. His mass gave into the smoke, as Kaida's had did many times before. She, all the while, had been disappearing gradually as he was. She pushed her hazy being off of the wall, dragging Deidara with her by a smoky bond, heading towards the 2 united ninja.
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Post by Deidara on Jul 14, 2008 20:16:52 GMT -5
Deidara's eye widened slightly at the sight of the smoke flowing from between Kaida's fingers, but he didn't pull away. He watched the gray cover his arm, then consume his whole body, and within moments the next thing he could see was a boulder, the two ninja standing diagonally ahead of it. They were hidden behind the rock.
He first looked at Kaida, wanting to say something but knowing better than to do something to get them noticed. He blinked a couple times, then glanced past the boulder and watched the two shinobi, listening closely to what they were saying.
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Kaida Hinote
Genin
Go ahead- keep your hand in the fire. Sooner or later, you're gonna get what you're asking for...
Posts: 76
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Post by Kaida Hinote on Jul 14, 2008 21:00:14 GMT -5
Kaida could feel Deidara shift slightly next to her while she watched the 2 ninja from behind the rock.
"What's the news?" questioned the shinobi from Iwagakure. "It's Hatake Kakashi. They've found him. He was pretty beat up when they recovered him, and he's in critical condition at Konoha's Hospital at the moment. There were no traces of the Akatsuki around the area where Kakshi was found, so we have no idea where they are now," the Konohagakure ninja announced. The other shinobi groaned in frustration. "Any news on Natsuko Tikani?" "No, they still have her." The Iwagakure nin glared at the ground as his hands clenched into fists. "But there is another thing..." the Leaf ninja confessed. The other directed his attention back to him. "I've gotten wind that some strange men had entered Sunagakure about 2 days ago. They haven't confirmed if it was in fact the Akatsuki, but they're forces are looking into it."
Kaida's eyes widened slightly. She remembered that Hidan and Kakuzu were just getting back from a mission when she and Deidara were leaving. She wondered if they had been sent to Suna, and if they had been the strange men. A subtle pang of concern stirred a few butterflies in her stomach; could the Sand ninja find the location of the hideout?
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