Kazuya looked down at him. Am I afriad of death....? Kazuya held himself back from laughing and just gave a light grin instead. "No, I'm not afraid of death." The truth was, some days more than others, he welcomed it. But this wasn't one of those days fortunately. "Why do you ask?"

Bat looked at him. "Because I wanted to make sure you were worth fighting." He said. "If you don't fear death then you fight without worrying about it. When it's on your mind then you become weak and clumsy making the fight less interesting," he said.

Kazuya couldn't help but laugh this time. He was starting to like this kid. "You're not gonna have to worry about that when you fight me. I fight with everything I have regardless of whether I fear death or not."

"Hmph, we'll see about that when the time comes," he said. He looked at the sky and sighed. "I should be getting back to the Hideout," he said. He didn't feel like going back there at the moment, but things didn't always work in his favor. He grinned.

"Yeah, I guess we will, won't we?" Kazuya smiled and nodded a little. "Yeah, I heard the leader can be real rough if you're not there sometimes." He shrugged. "Word gets around."

Bat grinned. "He doesn't scare me, I could take him anytime," he said in a kiddish voice that met his age for the first time. He smirked. "Deidara's a pain but i respect him because he has the will to live and he's strong. He doesn't fear anything. Most of the Akatsuki are like that but he's different, that's why I joined in the first place," he said. That and to get away from him...

Kazuya gave a small grin. "Well, I hope the next time he plans an attack somewhere I might get a chance to fight him. It sounds to me like he might be a challenge," he said with a small shrug.

Bat grinned. "There's no might be in that," he said. He put his hand on is head. "Deidara will be a challenge, just make sure you don't get in the way of his explosives," he said. Bat sighed. "I'm going to get in some major trouble for fooling around with you." He shrugged. "Guess I'll just have to take it, it's too bad it's going to add onto my headache."

Kazuya looked at the kid. "Hm, you're probably right. All I can say is good luck, kid. I look forward to fighting you in the future," he said, holding his hand out to Bat (handshake?).

Bat gave a small grunt. "Please, 'good luck'," he said mockingly. "I'm not like the others, I'm not going to sit around get slapped about like his rag doll," he said his voice was cold but it quickly faded. He shook Kazuya's hand. "Same here," he said as he faded away with a final grin.

Kazuya gave a small grin, but it quickly faded when he realized he was still in the middle of a massacred town. He gave a small shudder and started walking out of it. One single thought was passing through his head as he was leaving. I'm not fit to live in a village with innocent people in it...