Entice [Naruto Fanfic]

Chapter 10 - Healing

Chapter 10 – Healing

Hitori was laying in her own bed, dreading the next few days. She had about an hour until she had to leave for Sozoku with this chuunin named Hideki. She'd never met him before, but he would be briefed on the situation which would make her life so much easier.

This Sunday was Jinoichi's brother's birthday, and he lived in a village about three hours away, owned and run by the Tora, and he usually always went up and visited. So, that meant that on Sunday, it would only be Aisa and Hitori in the building. She had made a big plan to go and snoop for ledgers around the warehouse and if worse came to worse, she would break into his office and look around.

Basically, she was so sick to death of this mission, that she was ready to blow her cover, put a knife to the fat man's throat and make him tell her whatever she wanted to know, or just to scour the entire city until she found proof not caring about who was chasing her. She'd raze the whole city to the ground for evidence.

Gradually, she got up, had some toast and went through her normal routine, but at a much slower pace. She barely made it to the gates by dawn and she saw the guy who must be Hideki already waiting for her. Before she got closer, she took a few deep breaths to mentally prepare herself.

Hideki smiled at her and said good morning. He would probably only be about 19 or 20 years old, but he seemed polite and nice so far, so she responded with a polite greeting and said that they should set out to get to Sozoku on time.

On the way, she told him about her mission and what she was doing so he knew not to get in her way, and just to try and keep up the bodyguard act once they got into the city. She informed him of her plan, to strike this weekend while Jinoichi was away, and he said that if she needed any help to let him know, to which she politely declined, thinking quickly enough to say that she wanted Aisa protected if anything should go wrong, which she did.

She would do the shows and act normal over today and tomorrow, but then on Sunday, it would be all business. If she didn't find anything, she would have to clean up whatever mess she made and make sure that Jinoichi didn't suspect her role in all of it.

They stopped at the dango stall, where Hitori and Hideki made some simple small talk, just about normal shinobi, like who was your sensei, what sort of jutsu do you use etc, and she quickly realised that he was really, really funny. It seemed that he had this amazing ability to find humour in everything. Even though she tried to act fairly distant and uninterested, he was actually starting to make her laugh, which was shocking.

It didn't take long for them to be back on the road, and soon enough they arrived at Sozoku, where Hitori made fun of the city, by walking past everything building and saying it was either a strip club or brothel, even if there was signs out the front that clearly stated otherwise, and Hideki was laughing at her joke. They got to the club and Hitori let him in, making sure to remind him to call her Misaki from now on.

Aisa was behind the bar and grinned happily, but her smile faded into a look of utter confusion when she noticed an unfamiliar face walking in with Misaki, not Kiba and the ninken which would usually be galloping towards her happily. She came out from behind the bar, giving Misaki a look that said that she would be talking to her about this later, and introduced herself to Hideki and he stared at her, immediately infatuated with the stunning blonde before snapping out of it and introducing himself in return.

They went upstairs as Aisa went back behind a bar and poured the usual for herself and Misaki. Misaki decided to stay in Aisa's room and let Hideki have the other room to himself, since last time sharing a room with her 'bodyguard' didn't end well. He was shocked to see where he was staying and hugged Hitori in happiness, making her chuckle since she knew what he was so happy about.