"Alright. Now that the all time best team ever has been assembled, I'll send you all back before I have to go home. Thank you all for being kind enough to help me. I greatly appreciate this." Shizi smiled at the three she recruited for her team: Avarae the Elven Archer, Yinhua the Yokai, and Minsk the Great Reaper. Shizi reverse summoned her friends and turned to Jingxiao when they were gone.
"I'll see you at home, Shizi-chan." He smiled and dissipated into smoke. Shizi sighed tiredly and checked the time before deciding to head home for dinner. She got about halfway when a hand wrapped around her throat and slammed the girl to a wall hard enough to knock her breath away from her lungs.
"End of the line, freak." That voice... Shizi cracked open an eye to see the leader of the three boys who attacked her when she first arrived. She couldn't help but smile deviously.
"Back for more?" The boy growled and tightened his grip on her throat.
"I'm not scared of a freak like you. Your little trick you pulled last time won't frighten me this time." Shizi closed her eyes and laughed an airy, devilish laugh. When she opened her eyes, it was blacked out and eerily green.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never attack. If your smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have plans about ever seeing the light of another day, there's one thing you never, ever attack." She summoned her weapon and kicked the boy away hard enough to crush him into the wall behind him. She landed in her usual battle position whilst smiling like a toothy maniac. She looked up at the boy with a bloodlust gleam in her eyes.
"Me." The attacker drew a Kunai in defense but his grip was shaky. The smell of fear reached her nose and it caused her to smile wider in amusement.
"And I thought you weren't scared of my so-called tricks." He gulped and ran at Shizi, weapon pointed out for the kill. She twisted away at the last second, letting the boy slam straight into the wall behind her.
"I really don't want to bother with you, so I'll make this quick." She swung her reaper at the boy, using the space between the spine-like back of her weapon to pin him by his throat to the wall. In his shock, the boy dropped his Kunai to the concrete.
"Next time I won't be as merciful, I'll cleave your wretched soul from your pitiful body and send it straight to hell. Got it?" He nodded fearfully and she pulled the bade from the wall, the attacker running for dear life. She released her summon and dropped to her knees breathlessly. Avarae had restored a small enough portion of her Chakra to help her regain consciousness but summoning Jingxiao had depleted the piece she had left.
Sensing his master losing consciousness, Jingxiao summoned himself in his human form to catch her once again. He lightly chuckled at the brunette and hefted her onto his back so he could piggyback Shizi to her shared home. He pushed open the door with his foot and stepped into the apartment, causing Kakashi to poke his head around the wall to the kitchen. The Jonin's visible eye widened when he spotted his roommate on the boy's back.
"Is Shizi alright?" The boy nodded as he slipped off her sandals and placed them in the wood beside the man's. When the cold air touched her feet, Shizi's eyes fluttered open and she looked around the room in confusion.
"Where am I?" At her voice, Jingxiao gently set her on the floor and kept a watchful eye on her for signs of falter.
"You passed out so I brought you home, Shizi-chan." She smiled at the boy and turned to her concerned guardian. He reached out and placed his hand on her head, a smile shifting under his mask.
"Are you feeling okay, Shizi?" She nodded and subconsciously leaned into his hand, which had a will of it's own and was now rubbing her ear. The silver man looked over at Jingxiao standing behind them, keeping his brown eyes trained on the cat-eared girl.
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Beautiful Monsters
Fanfiction"The true measure of a Shinobi is not how he lives, but how he dies..." Shizi Yemao's pretty smile hides her secrets and her pretty eyes have cried too many tears. It's scary what her smile has come to hide, and she has gotten better at hiding the...
