Her unique ability allowed her to feed off of another's life energy, all she needed was to touch you and she would suck you dry, and not in the fun way.
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This was how she maintained her youthful appearance; she was a parasite who fed off of others. The stolen life force also healed her of any damage she might receive, which made her pretty much immortal. Her other Shinobi abilities and fighting skills were no better than a chunins, but that did not really matter considering she only needed one touch to drain someone of their life.
"Oh you, you sure do know how to be charming don't you Pain." Mina replied coyly a slight flush on her cheeks as she looked shyly away. It was all an act of course, an act to make people let down their guards or underestimate her.
But for Naruto who had seen what she was capable of, it would never work, she may be sweet and innocent on the outside, but on the inside she was a monster.
"Your little friends are all by the bar, go have a drink, on the house." Mina replied as she gestured across the crowded room and towards the bar.
"Thanks Mina" Naruto replied with a wink as he walked past the table she was sat at, a number of laughing and drinking men around her, men who were probably going to wake up tomorrow unable to move after having most of the life drained from them. Like he said, she was a bitch.
"Anytime honey!" Mina called back before looking away, her eyes wide and glistening as she innocently looked up at the big men around her. "So can any of you help me find my mummy?" Was the last thing Naruto heard her say before he was swallowed up by the crowd.
Walking through the bar Naruto couldn't help but grin as he saw how people got out of his way. Some out of respect, his contributions in the war having not been kept a secret, even if his methods of interrogation and spying were left to speculation. Others however got out of his way because they were scared, embarrassing as being scared of a fourteen year old maybe it was not unwarranted.
This was due to what Naruto's current job was. Naruto was one of Kiri's Hunter-nins, a Shinobi who hunts down and kills other rogue Shinobi.
It was a job that Naruto did alongside two others, Clementine and Victor. Together they made up one of Kiri's most feared Hunting teams, the Ghouls. A team perfectly equipped for hunting down and butchering rogue Shinobi and then completely disposing of the remains.
This was helped by all of their individual abilities; Clementine's bloodline gave her enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, durability and senses. This along with her regeneration and her unique chakra made her the perfect hunter.
The downside of her bloodline though, was that the changes to her body meant she had to use more energy which meant she had to eat more than a normal person would. This alone would not be a downside, but that wasn't all, due to her altered body she was unable to eat normal food, in fact doing so made her sick.
The only thing Clementine could eat without throwing up was flesh, and not just any but human flesh. Her bloodline had made her the perfect predator, unfortunately though it had made humans her perfect prey.
This downside of her bloodline was what had led to her and her Clan being excluded from the Shinobi Villages; it had also led to many of her kind being hunted down and killed. This was mostly their own faults for giving into their hunger and feasting on humans without restraint.
Clementine though was smarter than that, she restricted her prey to those outside of her Village, taking on the position of being a Hunter-nin as it fit well with her natural skills of hunting and killing humans and also gave her an endless supply of fresh meat.
Victor too was also uniquely adapted to being a Hunter-nin. With the threads he used as his weapon he had become a master of traps, able to turn any environment into a deadly maze. He to, like Clementine also benefited from the number of dead bodies they create doing their job, with him having an endless supply of body parts and organs that he could use.
Of course he did have to fight Clementine off sometimes in order to stop her from eating his prize.
Then finally there was Naruto's contribution. Like his teammates he benefitted from the dead bodies of the Shinobi both local and foreign that they hunt, though unlike them he doesn't have to fight over the choice scraps. No, he gets the souls all to himself. Plus the fact that his abilities were ideal focused on death was useful to.
His chakra devoured life, rotting and decaying anything that it touched, be it flesh wood or anything living really, it even devoured chakra. But more than that his chakra didn't just damage a person's body it could also damaged their souls if he wanted.
As unlike with the primary nature of his chakra, which was to rot and decay anything it touched something he could not turn off, his ability to touch, eat and damage souls was something he had absolute control over.
Of course more than once he had gotten in trouble with his teammates for going over the top with his abilities when on the hunt.
Neither of them after all could make use of a rotted corpse, this meant that most of the time he only used his chakra internally when hunting individual targets, using it to enhance his speed, strength and durability, which when wielded in conjunction with his axe made him a true fiend on the battlefield even without his most deadly abilities.
Suffice to say, the ghoulish nature of their team had become something of a legend to the people of Kirigakure and a nightmare to their enemies and rogue Shinobi. Already each of them had a high bounty on their heads from the some of the other Villages, as although there were no current wars, there were constant skirmishes with other Villages.
Skirmishes that more often than not ended with all the enemies of Kiri dead, the skirmishes were a regular thing for all Hunter-nins as they did not just go after rogue Shinobi from their own Village, but those from other ones to, this led to a lot of competition in the field.
Luckily for Naruto and his team though the fact that they wore masks when in the field meant that there were no pictures of them to put on the bounty sheets. So although their abilities and code names were well known and feared, their names and appearances were completely unknown.
Well to those outside of Kiri, there were many in Kiri who did know them or at least know of them, but they were smart enough to know that if they blabbed Kiri's secrets to enemies they would not last long. This was common across every Shinobi Village in the Elemental Nations.
"Oi Pain get over here!" Naruto heard as he reached the bar, looking up with a sight grin he soon found himself looking at Clementine, or Lady Clementine as she still liked to be called. In the last three years Clementine like him had grown up, she still had her shoulder length, golden blond hair and her pink eyes.
But now she looked older and more mature no longer as innocent or childlike as she had. A point she made by what she chose to wear.
As she stood by the bar Naruto could help but let his eyes wander up and down her lithe form. Currently she was wearing very revealing silver armour, that included spiked gauntlets, and armoured greaves. The rest of her armour though was pretty much an armoured bikini, made from the head guards of Shinobi she had slain.
Her light armour a patchwork of symbols from different Shinobi Vilages
Walking up to her Naruto leaned on the bar, making eye contact with the bartender as he did so. "I'll have bourbon neat. Been told it is on the house"
Nodding the bartender turned to the shelves of spirits behind the bar, reaching for a clear bottle full of amber coloured liquor. Grabbing it he then grabbed a small glass from under the bar and began to pour the precious liquid out.
"Make it a double." Naruto commented absently as he kept his attention on Clementine.
"So trouble, been awhile." Naruto said a slight grin on his face. "Done anything I wouldn't do?"
"Not really just cleaning up after our last job." Clementine replied with a shrug. "Tying up loose ends you know."
"Loose ends?" Naruto asked with a slight frown, barely acknowledging the bartender as he handed him his drink.
"Yeah apparently Subaru that ugly fucker from Otogakure had a son." Clementine replied with irritation. "Had to check to make sure he didn't see anything he shouldn't."
"Did he?" Naruto asked as he took a sip of his drink.
"Yeah, apparently he saw me rip his daddy's throat out with my teeth." Clementine said with a feral grin showing off her pearly white teeth as she did so.
From behind them they heard the sound out shattering glass.
Looking round Naruto saw the bartender staring at them in horror, a glass having fallen out of his shaking hand.
'Hn must be a newbie.' Naruto thought to himself after all the denizens of this bar were all Hunter-nins, ANBU and former Outcasts, they talked about some pretty brutal shit. "So did you kill the kid?" Naruto replied curiously.
"Nah, little shit never saw my face so don't see any harm in letting him live. If anything it will help to spread our infamy." Clementine replied once again shrugging as she lifted a cup of cheap red wine to her lips before draining it, grimacing slightly at the nasty taste.
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