Scouting for potential

Getting past the guards at the main gate had taken alot of work but it had paid off, Akki was back in Kirigakure after a very long time, she knew being here was a major risk, if she was found out she was in deep trouble. Akki was dressed in her black gothic dress but covered up with her Black cloak embroided with silver keys, her hood was up covering her face. She was here for one reason, she was hunting from a young ninja with some potential to be great. The Abhorsen clan the one in which Akki was born into was known to usually have two members at a time, the old master and younger student but since her fathers death many years ago Akki was a lone wolf with no cub now she was looking for someone to release the bonds of their clan and village and join her in her ways.

The city as usual was quite busy many occupants were going about their daily routine, down below young Shinobi were training hard and thats why Akki had chosen this very spot, from here she could mingle with the crowd and keep watch as well. A few time she had to hide or cover her face as several Jounin and a person who might have been the Mizukage walked past but she felt she was fairly safe and if push came to shove she had her bell bandoleer around her chest, the bells were the way her clan cast their powerful genjutsu using sound but that wasn't all about the Abhorsen clan no they had a sense and touch of death able to walk in and out of death at will this was their real power and finding someone who could learn this wasn't going to be easy, for now she would watch and wait, keeping her head and staying unseen until she spotted someone with the potential to become as powerful as her.

It was Vindice's first time in Krikagure. He didn't have any problem getting in, as the Jounin at the front gate were to flattered by his kind nature to ask his identity. Vindice rather liked this village, as he had always taken a liking to mist. After walking around the town for a while, he sat down at a dango shop, ordered some dumplings, and a lemonade. Sitting eating a dumpling, he noticed a figure walking around, obviously suspicious. Well, to him at least. She was probably a criminal just like him, or even a spy. He sat and watched her while eating his dumplings, the girl was dressed him a gothic black dress. Really pretty actually. Actually she herself was rather cute too. Vindice smiled and called out to her, waving his dumpling. "Hey Komiko-chan! There you are! Come have some dumplings with me." He knew her name wasn't Komiko, and neither did the villagers around them. They would simply think she was another ordinary villager on a date. Now she would be able to stop walking around looking suspicious.

Akki spun at the sound of someone shouting in her direction, she saw a guy waving a dumpling at her, she looked around rather startled hoping no one was looking at her in any way fortunatly no one was, she cautiously made her way over and sat down opposite him, as she sat her hood fell down showing her long silver hair and young face, she quickly replaced the hood and shot the guy a look.

"what's the idea of just shouting at me like that and who the hell is this girl you think I am" she hissed at him, then her face settled into a less angry one. "Sorry I didn't mean that, it isn't a great idea for me to have attention drawn to me sinceit could be quite dangerous for anyone close by, the names Akki, Abhorsen" she held her hand out for the guy to shake, he would easily notice how pale her skin was, she didn't spend any time in the sun so she had the same hugh as a corpse. She smiled at him a genuine smile, it had been a long time since she had been around anyone she wasn't having to slaughter and the socialisation was quite nice.

"So is there something I can do for you or do you shout on any girl who happens to be passing" she grinned at him.

Vindice took hold of her hand gently and shook it, then motioned some of his dumplings towards her. Akki Abhorsen eh? So she WAS a criminal. Her name had been tossed around a bit in Kumogakure while he was still a Chunin. Akki the soul enslaver they called her. Vindice smiled back at her warmly. She couldn't be that bad. She seemed gentle and kind except for the angry hissing. "I'm Vindice of the Kuran clan, the most mocked and frowned upon clan imaginable." He noticed how pale she was when she shook hands with his tan self. It seemed pretty odd, but in no way took away from her good looks. When asked if he just shouted to any girl who passed him, he laughed and scratched his head. "You may not notice but you kind of stand out with your beauty. Actually, I wouldn't have been surprised if some Jounin stopped to identify you. So that's why I called you over here...and besides...I ordered too many dumplings for one person." he said with a smile.

Akki chuckled at his remark about the dumplings,but her face was serious, the last thing she needed was a jounin to recognise her, also the Name Vindice was familiar she was sure she had heard it before. Akki picked up a dumpling and took a bite it was still warm and soft she hadn't noticed how hungry she was until she tasted the Dumpling.

"Well I guess thanks for helping, mind if I ask what someone from Kumo is doing in kiri it's a long way from your home. There is also something bothering me your name I've heard it some where before but I cant quite figure it out, have you done something that I should know about?" she cocked an eyebrow as one of her hands seemed to linger around her bell bandoleer she also noticed that she had just given out her real name, for all she knew this guy was a Kiri spy and she had just dumped herself in a lot of trouble. Akki looked around the street, no one was paying any attention so if push came to shove she could try and slip away or if it really came to it battle her way out.

Akki picked up another dumpling and popped it in her mouth.

Vindice noticed that she was now suspicious of him. More importantly, she had heard of him. He didn't really think his name would have reached such a strong shinobi. "I'm the missing nin Vindice Kuran, murderer." he said with a hint of sadness. He did kill his parents but...he didn't like to aknowledge the fact. He looked over to another table and manipulated a metal knife, stabbing it into a napkin, and brought it over to himself. He pulled the napkin off the knife and used it to wipe his mouth. "All criminals have their reasons one way or another for their crimes...I just figured we should watch out for eachother." Vindice got up and payed the bill, then sat back down again. "So Miss Soul Enslaver, what brings you to Kiri? Homesick? I'm here because I heard they have amazing food." Hopefully she was a bit more comfortable with him and wouldn't use whatever weapon she was thinking about using just now.

A sigh escaped Akki's lips and her shoulder slumped releasing all the tension in them, he was also a known criminal, it the klicked where she had heard the name she had wandered the land from long enough to pick up bits of information. "The running bull right, i knew your name was familiar I was in Kumo a few years ago there was some talk I didn't hear what but I did hear your name" Akki paused for a second something just dawned on her "You just called me Soul enslaver not a name i've heard before,as for what brings me here, im on a hunt you could say, this village is normally full of young potential, ripe for the picking and molding but I have to admit I havent seen anyone worth the effort, doubt i'll be in town for much longer and yeah the food around her is good, although it has been a very very long time since I last tasted it. Whats your plans I mean coming here for food is one thing but being a known criminal and wanted dead on sight is somthing far more serious" she grinned at him.

Akki had to admit to herself she quite liked him, he seemed like very good company and he seemed to know of her she thought the only people who had heard her name were the children of her victims or the Hunter nin who were constantly sent to dispatch her, and that name Soul enslaver it was new and fresh her victims and anyone who coul recognise her would know her as the reaper of the mist, in a way she supposed enslaving souls and being a reaper was one in the same. Akki sighed again and looked straight at Vindice and grinned a rather evil grin.

"I have a proposal mr running bull, how about we have some fun, i'll be honest with you I have a little bit of a blood lust I like to see it flow and I'm growing bored with this town, I need's a little livening up, I think we might make an Interesting team, what do you say?" she grinned again, she seemed like a different person, she was the true Reaper now.

Akki Abhorsen. It was like something inside her clicked and made her act like a completely different person. Pretty hot. Vindice smiled with her. A team huh? People who used to know Vindice knew him as a peaceful kind person but that wasn't true. He was whatever killed his boredom. And right now she seemed like a lot of fun. "That sounds great. What do you have in mind?" Running Bull wasn't a nickname he liked too much. It was actually a title given to him by Kumogakure, calling him a coward and still failing to aknowledge his strength. Thats all he really wanted. To have people know he was strong and not just a pathetic Kuran.  

Akki grinned a twinkle in her eye, she then stood up and whistled, a small white cat with a red collar padded up to her and sat down in front of her, it looked up at her and smiled.

"Found a friend I see Abhorsen a rare occurance indeed,The running bull I see, you make friends with a coward very interesting" mewed the cat,

Akki shot in a dirty glance and turned to Vandice "This thing here is Mogget a soul of sorts brought into service to the Abhorsen clan by one of my ancestors, he is a pain in the back side at times but deadly powerful" she then looked down at mogget

"It's time to blow this dead beat city Mogget and you know what that means time for some fun." Akki grinned an evil grin madness was obvious in her eyes it was the look of the insanse, She opened her cloak revealing a bandoleer of bells from it she drew to bells and they were beautiful things solid silver with mahogany handles. She then started to ring the bells in an intracate manor. Something happened a great coldness swept through the streets, everyone around the little cafe started to shiver with grace she replaced the bell and drew another one ringing this one up and down, everyone froze in place unable to move, this was the power of the Abhorsen, powerful Genjutsu using the sound of her bells. In her next move she replaced the bell and crouched down and reached a hand towards Mogget and unclasped his collar.

There was a blinding flash and a ghostly Cackle

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I AM FREE AT LAST NOW ABHORSEN YOU TIME HAS COME YOU SILLY SILLY GIRL,BUT NO NOT YET TO MUCH LIFE TO MUCH BLOOD MUST FLOW FIRST" Standing before Akki where a white cat once stood was now a thing of pure energy, it looked like a being made from pure lightning. The thing known was Yeral shot off through the crowd attacking the people frozen by Akki's just, their blood flowed like water on the ground and Akki cackled and grinned through it all. In the blink of an eye corpses littered the ground. Yeral shot back to Akki and started to rant and rave about ending it's enslavement to the Abhorsen. Akki just yawned a small ring on her finger was growing in size she slipped it over Yerals head. Another blinding flash and Mogget was standing before Akki once again.

"I shouldn't be long Running bull and there will be more people to have fun with, I'd love to see what you and that fantastic magnetic power can do" she cackled again and grinned at Vandice beckoning for him to show his stuff.

Vindice watched in awe as the cat flew around, killing all the people in the area with ease. And to think he was about to pick it up and call it adorable. Akki's technique was interesting. Luring people into Genjutsu while Mogget did the dirty work. As Mogget was leashed once more, Akki asked Vindice to show what he could do. It wasn't anything he really wanted to do...but she had showed him her power so it would be rude for him not to do the same. Vindice went to the front counter and jumped over it, getting some more lemonade. He then reached into his pocket and started to dig for something. "Time for the horns..." He finally pulled out two small metal horns, but instead of attaching it to his head as usual, he used his magnetic power to send one above a group of Chunin coming to check the situation. The other horn floated in between him and the first horn. Vindice raised his hand towards the middle horn. "Electrico Stream..." A current of electricity shot from his hand to the middle horn, from the metal horn to the last horn, and from that horn into the Chunin. He shocked them really hard but not enough to kill them. As they fell to the ground, Vindice sat down and began drinking more lemonade. "Electrico Stream doesn't have the greatest range so in order to extend it I use metal objects. Magnets and electricity go hand in hand after all." He smiled and retrieved his horns, putting them back in his pocket.

Akki chuckled as the electric attack shocked the Chuunin, she was impressed his manipulation of both magnatism and electricity was quite something, She quickly threw a few kunai at the downed chuunin, after all the last thing she needed was survivors able to tell the tale. Akki then sighed and turned to Vindice.

"Well I think it may be time to vanish it won't take very long for far stronger opponents to appear and I can't be bothered to take them on i'm growing bored with this town" from her robes she drew a small silver bell the size of a coin and handed it to Vindice "We will meet again Running bull, hmm running bull i don't like that name think i'm going to call you the static attraction from now on, or I'm going to make sure thats the name everyone hears, as for that bell I just gave you, if you ever need to contact me ring it once, it shall send a sound through death itself and i shall hear it, locating the spirit of someone with that bell is easy for me." she grinned the madness in her eyes diminishing.

"Come on mogget time to make tracks and Vindice remember we are a team, i'll lok out for you the same as you looked out for me this very day I promise this and I always keep my promises" she smiled to Vindice and bowed low, then turned away and started towards the exit to the town she would have to find another way out and probably slaughter the guards but she could manage with ease.

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Static Attraction? Vindice laughed and took the bell from her, putting it in the same pocket as his horns. It felt nice to have a companion again, someone to talk to and laugh with...even if that person was homicidal. From the direction Akki was heading, Vindice could tell she was leaving the village. He wondered how she would get to him when he rang the bell. Teleportation maybe? He had never met anyone who could do so though. As for himself, he planned to stay in Kiri for a bit longer. Besides the good food, he wanted to find someone really strong who he could compete with. Someone to inspire him to get stronger. Vindice finished his lemonade and left the dango shop, leaving some money on the counter next to a dead waitress.

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