Heathen

"Aaah. Everything fucking hurts." Hidan laments the pain all over his freshly stitched body.

"Stop your yapping already. They should have just let you scattered in that forest. Fitting end for a moron like you, and I had my peace of mind."

"There's no peace of mind for the likes of us. Much less for a godless heathen like you."

"Some useful god you've got, letting you die like that to one small fry. If he's not Sasori, then you're as godless as I am."

"BLASPHEMY! Take it back immediately."

"Good grief. Is it always like this with you two ?" Kisame breaks his silence.

"Unfortunately. He never shuts up. I'm going to kill him someday."

"Like I said. I wish you could, but it doesn't work that way. I am literally immortal."

"Sashimi priest."

"Be careful, Sashimi-kun. Sharks are carnivorous. " Kisame throws in his grain of salt.

"Not you too..." Hidan is hurt and disappointed that Kisame joined on the fun. The latter then points out :

"This is certainly a change from patnering with Itachi."

"What kind of guy is he ?" Hidan asks.

"Well... he's the type you would never know what's in his mind. Mostly silent. But he's rather on the wiser side and carries on his missions efficiently, if not flawlessly."

"Sounds boring."

"It would be interesting to pair you with him. I doubt anything changes, though. I bet you wouldn't be able to cheer up that edgelord before he gets annoyed and kills you."

"Huh ? Kill me ? You're underestimating me here, and I'm immortal."

"Oh no. He certainly can, immortal or not. Trust me. What about you, Kakuzu? Think you would get along with him well ?"

"We only interacted once, and I wanted to kill him for it." Kakuzu

"That was before Kisame joined. Kakuzu had just killed his former partner, and we were looking to match Itachi with someone." Black Zetsu appears and provides insights.

"Oh, yes. Back then, Kakuzu said he was fine with pairing up with Itachi as long as he doesn't irritate him and Itachi said he doesn't like the way he speaks." Then White Zetsu adds cheerfully, before being interrupted by Black Zetsu to announce what they came for.

"Enough. The Jashin worshippers are straight ahead from here. Ideally, we'd like to recruit them without any troubles but ..."

"If they're following the same Jashin degeneracy like Hidan, I doubt they'll just join us without a fight." Kakuzu gets ready for the fight.

"Well then. Let's meet them." Kisame readies himself by putting his hand on Samehada's handle.

"I wonder who made it. The experiments are pretty brutal." Hidan wonders.

One step, ten steps, a hundred steps further...

"There they are." Kisame declared.

Two figures, a man of giant stature and a covered face only showing his pink hollow eyes, wearing a long white robe with the Jashin symbol marked in black; and a woman with long dark purple hair and kind, melancholic eyes with Golden irises wearing a long black robe with the Jashin symbol marked in white. Both with bandages around their stomachs.

"Woah. Narikyo and Ryume." To Hidan's surprise, he meets two familiar.

"Woah, Hidan. Look, Narikyo. It's Hidan." Ryume gets excited and tugs

"Any info about them ?" Kisame asks warily.

"None. We were normal before the experiments. And when I was the only successful one when I got out." Hidan answers the question without as much as a shadow of doubt in his former colleagues. Ryume approaches Hidan and starts touching his scars.

"This is horrible. What happened to you ? " Visibly worried about the stitches all over his body.

"Ah... Nothing, just a little fight." Hidan answers, embarassed. He can hear Kakuzu and Kisame laughing at him from behind, which attracts the lady's attention.

"Hello, gentlemen. Since you're all wearing the same outfit as Hidan I assume you're his allies."

"Correct, madam." Kisame answers her just as politely before asking her again :

"And I take it that you two are fellow Jashin worshippers, is that right ?"

"Yes. Praise Lord Jashin." She confirms.

"Praise Lord Jashin." Hidan follows.

"Hmmm. Praise Lord Jashin." The goliath Narikyo does the same after a deeply resonant Hmmm in his low-pitched voice.

"Here Hidan let me help ." Ryume puts her hand on one of Hidan's many stiches and visibly starts to heal it. Then another one. Then another.

"All done. Here you go, as good as new."

"Oh, thanks a bunch." Hidan feels relief from his previously painful injuries. Yet can't help but think :

"Lord Jashin is a god of death and utter destruction. So what is the healing power for ?"

Just after being done healing, and as Hidan was thinking about the whole situation, Ryume's skin turns black with white markings over her body just like Hidan in his Death Controlling Possessed Blood. She then touches Hidan again, and splits him into pieces again.

[Curse Technique : Reaper's Sown Blessing]

"Ryume, you bitch... !" Hidan throws his triple bladed scythe at her.

"ACCEPT LORD JASHIN INTO YOUR HEART! YOU, WHO HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH LIFE... SHALL TAKE IT AND GIVE BACK TWICE AS MUCH DEATH." Ryume's eyes fully open, all smiles in a psychotic way, preaches her god with one measure of healing and two measures of violence.

"Good grief. I knew the healing thing was fishy... Are you okay, Hidan ?" Kisame unsheates his Samehada and gets in the way of Hidan and Ryume.

"Shit. So that's her contract, huh. Instead of taking blood, she wounds whoever she heals." Hidan checks his scars and concludes :

"Okay, good things I still have Kakuzu's stitches, they're still holding me together. But I think .... Urghh ... Yeah, they're deeper than earlier. " Hidan tries to stand up and his leg splits in two from his shin.

"Huh ?" Then trips and falls.

"So not just deeper wounds, but also more numerous than what was previously in." Kakuzu deduces nonchalantly.

"A real poisoned gift." Kisame is slightly amused at the current events, but still wary of the giant, who has been mostly silent and didn't move.

"Ah... I'm pissed now." Hidan licks his scythe's blade, and turns black and white. He hit Ryume earlier and took a drop of her blood.

[Curse Technique : Death Controlling Possessed Blood]

"I offer this kill to you, Lord Jashin." Hidan stabs himself in the heart, mirroring his damage into Ryume, before looking at her again :

"What are you gonna do now ? Heal yourself ? Go ahead."

The ability is simple, if she doesn't heal herself, she will inevitably die to Hidan's cursed technique. But if she does heal herself, she'll take more damage than what was previously taken and still die.

"Ah... Lord Jashin. Look into your devoted follower. Look how her heart is filled with benevolence."

She heals herself. But nothing happens to her. She turns black and white and heads towards Narikyo, then touches him.

"Oh... So she can transfer the healing consequences to someone else." Kakuzu concludes.

"That just means she hurt Hidan out of spite, doesn't it."

"I share her feelings. But what about the other guy. Why did nothing happen to him after that ?"

Just as he said this, Narikyo's body turns black and white with reaper resemblance. His eye expression turns into a severe frown and says one singular but ominous word, loudly, in a very aggravated tone :

"Heathen."