Bounty Thief

Chapter 4

"Come on lets move" I tugged the rope and started to walk forward but was almost yanked backwards from the rope losing its slack. "I'm not a dog."

I glared over my shoulder and huffed "look either come with me or ill tie you to the tree and leave you for the anbu. Sure it'll be a waste, but i'd rather not deal with trying to explain why I turned on my friends." I stared at him till he finally made up his mind and started moving. The goal was to try the nearest bounty center, and hand him in. In and out, get it over with quickly so I could go back home and get my dad from that swine...

The walk was extremely quiet, he didn't even try to start up a conversation, or ask why I was doing this. Not that I didn't mind the peace, its just that all these events had put me on edge, I could use the distraction.

"Care to explain yourself now?" He asked raising the binds and an eyebrow. It caught me off guard that he actually spoke to me.

"Going to cash you in" he didn't need to know the whole story.

"Hehehe...bounty hunter?, why didn't you just kill me when you had the chance then?"

"Cause you're worth more to me alive, I need all the money I can get, besides, there is no way am I lugging your heavy ass all the way there myself" the one who posted the bounty was specific about this detail, and I liked the zeros behind it.

"Hm..."he grunted in response

"Some asshole has been taking all my targets, you've been my first catch in over a month." I mumbled, we were almost to the outpost now as the trees became more clustered. Something wasn't right though, it was awfully quiet, not even sounds of birds or anything.

'Whoosh! Thump' a kuni whizzed right by my head and struck the tree beside me.

"What the fuck..." anbu appeared above us, their creepy masks always freaked me out.

"Shikamaru was right, he did show up." The one closer to me jumped down from the branch and pointed at me.

"Hand over the Akatsuki member and step away" I glanced back at Kakuzu, and I swore he was smirking just to spite me. He even raised up his arms and jiggled the cord mockingly.

"Looks like we are both caught now." He mocked, obviously unfazed by the current situation.

I bit my bottom lip and thought of any possible way to get out of this, but I didn't get the chance "times up!" The anbu agent rushed at me kuni at the ready. I quickly side stepped the stab at the last second, and used the extra cord to wrap it around the anbu's neck. I disarmed him and spun him around in front of my body as a shield, the rope still tightly around his neck.

"Let us leave or i'll kill him!" They all just stared at me from the trees, who was I kidding? They were trained for this, and knew better than to give into threats.

"You're in over your head kid" my prisoner had a point, I didn't stand a chance... unless...

I took out a paper much like the ones used for paper bombs and stuck it to the back of my meat shield. "Get ready to run" I hissed back at Kakuzu. I prayed to the heavens above that he actually listened. I undid the rope around the anbu's neck and kicked him forward. As he stumbled forward I made a kanji sign "sweet dreams darlings" the paper exploded making the man scream in shock.

Only it wasn't a bomb, it was a new creation of mine. It released a smoke, a very potent tear gas. "Now!" I took off away from the scene as fast as my legs could move. The anbu covered their eyes and gagged loudly behind us.

Luckily kakuzu was right behind me, if not i'd of been stuck there with his dead weight. "Where did you learn to make all these things? You don't know about moderation either" he must of been talking about the tranquilizer, I had gone over board when making that. I couldn't predicted how resistant he would of been.