Control

The Hard Way

"Oh. It's you."

Your eyebrow twitched at his greeting. That was all he had to say to you after what he did during your preliminary battle?! The nerve of this guy! Seeming to sense your thoughts, Saito tilted his head with a taunting smirk.

"Something wrong?"

You scoffed at Saito's words. You wish you could fight him again just so you could smack that smug look off his face. All you wanted was a water. Not a conversation with your childhood bully.

"What do you want? I'm just trying to get a drink." You snapped, glaring at Saito as he turned around to face you.

You had a quick temper but you normally wouldn't get this snappy so quickly with someone. However, Saito was a different story. He wasn't just someone, he was your closest thing to an enemy.

"No need to be so hostile." Saito raised his hands in surrender but he still had a smirk on his face.

"I don't want to fight...although I do want to talk."

You raised your eyebrow at his words. Skepticism was written all over your face as you stared at the male before you. Saito wanted to talk? Was this some sick prank of his? The last "talk" the two of you had involved him trying to turn everyone against you during the preliminaries.

"Yeah well, I don't want to talk." You frowned, turning to leave, only to be stopped as Saito took a quick step forward and you suddenly felt a sharp pain in your hand.

"Ow! What the heck was that for?!" You hissed, yanking your now throbbing hand away from Saito's hand. He had cut the palm of your hand with a kunai when he tried to stop you from leaving. He was so fast that you barely saw the glint of the weapon as he swiftly tucked it away in his weapons pouch.

"Stop whining, you're drawing attention. I'm just testing a theory." He murmured, revealing his hand that had a small cut like yours.

'This guy is crazy.' You thought as you watched the blood trickle from the wound on his palm. He must have cut his palm while he was putting his kunai away. Saito then took a step towards you, briefly grabbing your wounded hand before you yanked it out of his grip. It hurt but you didn't care. You had no idea what this weirdo was doing.

Saito shook his head in annoyance at your reaction but held up his unwounded hand to reveal your blood on his fingertips. He then dragged his blooded fingertips across the wound on his palm. As he did this, his cut began to slightly steam and it was briefly obscured from your sight. Once the steam dissipated, the cut on Saito's palm was gone. You stared in shock at his hand. It reminded you of what happened at the end of your preliminary battle with him.

~Flashback~

As you watched the smoke you moved your hand away from your wound, accidentally causing some blood to fall onto a cut on Saito's arm. You and Saito flinched at this, watching as your blood faintly steamed upon contact with the wound. Once the small amount of steam disappeared there was no mark left on his skin. In fact, the cut was completely gone.

~End of Flashback~

"What is this..." You murmured in confusion as Saito hummed in thought while rubbing his palm. There wasn't even a scar or any blood left. Meanwhile, your palm was still bleeding from the small cut on it.

"Mind if I try it again?" Saito asked, not even waiting for a response as he reached his hand into his ninja pouch. You assumed he was taking the kunai out to cut his palm again but when he revealed his hand he already cut it. The cut was on the tip of his pointer finger this time.

Saito then reached towards your wounded palm once more but you stepped back. Saito rolled his eyes a your reaction.

"I want to do it...just to make sure." You stated, as you reached a finger with your blood on it out to Saito's wounded finger and touched it. The wound slightly steamed like the last one and once the steam dissipated the cut on Saito's finger was gone.