Second Attack [Audio]

[shearing_shark]

It's cold. Anyone strong enough to provide me enough of a challenge to warm me up?

Comments

[purevermillion]

It has been quite a long time, I suppose.

[shearing_shark]

You got that right. Before I arrived, I was just about to fight one of your brother's team mates, and I've been itching to fight ever since I've been here. You know how I get.

[purevermillion]

I do. However, your taste for acquiring target's has changed.

Picking on children, and here I thought we agreed on standards.

[shearing_shark]

Yeah yeah. I'll watch it. It's just been a long time and any fight suits me right now. But I'll keep my jaws away from your stupid brother.

[purevermillion]

[A small change over takes his face. That comment didn't settle so well with him.]

What do you mean by that.

[shearing_shark]

I have no interest in killing your brother. My appearance is the motif for the day, apparently. What I mean is you don't need to worry about him. And if it comes to him attacking me? I'll just knock him out or get away somehow.

[purevermillion]

What, exactly, makes you think I would care about the child? It's your own faltering reputation I was concerned with.

[shearing_shark]

Well, it seems to me, Itachi, that your brother has given up on killing you altogether. But family business isn't my business. At any rate, I don't have to be liked around here, do I?

[purevermillion]

[Now you made him think he was being too harsh.]

Considering our position, Kisame, neither of us should care much about good impressions. Partners are partners, after all. You're stuck with me.

[shearing_shark]

Heh. You're right there. It's a good thing we get along. I'd hate to be stuck like Kakuzu and Hidan--or Sasori and Deidara. We're all we've got here, more or less.

[purevermillion]

Fate has been kind to us. To me.

[And to think, you met him as a bratty thirteen year-old. Hasn't he grown up? Aren't you proud?]

[shearing_shark]

[There's a smile in his voice.]

Yeah. I'd say so. This weather's a bitch, but it's nice to have my partner around.

[purevermillion]

All I can offer is my room and a bonfire. You know I dislike the cold as much as you do.

[shearing_shark]

Heh. Thought I was gonna have to keep fishing for that one. Where're you now? Base or somewhere else?

[purevermillion]

Base.

All you need is but to ask, Kisame-san.