Chapter 1 - The Predator and the Prey

Zaku...the name echoed around in Dosu Kinuta's head. He shook his head hard, trying to clear his mind. He wasn't
supposed to be thinking about the person he was about to track down and/or kill. He was a tracker now...so was Kin.
And Zaku would've been one too, if only he hadn't broken away from Sound. Now all the trackers from Sound were
after Zaku. He sighed slowly. He had a flashback.

Dosu: You don't have to leave just yet. Stay a little longer.
Zaku: I can't. I don't want to stay in this baka backwater country any longer.
Dosu: No wait!!!! Don't leave!!! Stay a little more!!!!

End Flashback

Zaku had walked right off without saying a word, not even a word of farewell. But Dosu switched his focus back to the
task at hand. Zaku was a missing nin now. There was no changing that. And he was the tracker. Dosu was the predator,
and Zaku was the prey. As Dosu leapt through the overgrown forest, he found signs of a struggle. Maybe the other
trackers had found Zaku already! But no. As he stopped to rest on an ash tree branch, his sensitive hearing heard a
commotion a few yards away. He leapt to the source, but as soon as he got there, the commotion had stopped. He had
heard right. The commotion was the trackers from Sound and Zaku. They had obviously battled. And by the looks of it,
Zaku had put up a good fight. But the trackers outnumbered him 12 to 1. There was no way Zaku could've fought that
many people at once.

Dosu surveyed the sad scene from his perch in the tree. There was a lot of blood. But it wasn't the trackers' blood. It
was Zaku's. He leapt down from the tree onto the ground, as light as a feather. As he walked into the next clearing
where the trees weren't so thick, he came upon the triumphant trackers. They had tied Zaku to a tree stump in the
middle of the clearing, where he was sitting with his head down. They had also tied his hands behind his back because
they were scared of the Zankuha he possessed. When the trackers saw Dosu, they all backed away politely. Dosu was
the head tracker, and no one wanted to cross him. Dosu ordered that on all missions he would be the one to kill, and that
the others would go back to the village. The other trackers always followed his law, but not tonight. They wanted to
watch what would happen between the tracker and his "friend". But Dosu barked, "Get out of here, you worthless
scum. I'm the one who kills." And with that order, they all ran off back to Sound to report the mission successful. Dosu
gazed at Zaku's slouched body. He said, in a tone which betrayed neither love or hatred,

"Well Zaku, now it's just you and me."

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