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It's Going to Be a Long Night

Summary: The Akatsuki gang is the most feared ninja gang in the city, and they are on the city bus at night, like they are every night. And, like always, everyone always gets off at the next bus stop as fast as possible, just like they do every night… Except, what happens when the new girl in town doesn't get off?(Rated T for some minor and implied coarse language,as well as some implied adult themes.)


The Bus driver refused to look at the gang as they got on his bus. Yes he was scared! Hell, he was sweating in fear! And he had every right to! The last bus driver that refused to bend to their will had "mysteriously" gone MIA, and all evidence had been destroyed…so in the end no one believed the gang had had anything to do with it…and now he was the poor bus driver that was forced to deal with them…

"You are Youji-san, correct?" A calm but deadly voice broke through the bus driver's attempts at being invisible. He slowly turned to look at who had spoken…it was the feared Itachi Uchiha… you DID NOT mess with him! Unless, of course, you had a death wish…then all you had to do was speak to him without initially being spoken to…

"H-hai…Uchiha-sama…" he looked nervously up into the fearsome younger adults blazing red eyes. Those demonic eyes only stared back expressionlessly. His Akatsuki gang cloak, with the dark red lined clouds over the black fabric, swished as the others' cloaks swished along behind him.

"So you have heard of us then?" Youji couldn't see his mouth move due to the wide rim of the fabric, but he knew the words came from him.

"Hai, Uchiha-sama... I have heard of you… I will not give you trouble." Youji half –bowed from where he was sitting, being restrained by the seatbelt.

"Very good, Youji-san, we will not… cause you any trouble." Itachi inclined his head and then led all the others to the back of the bus. All at once the other bus riders became silent and then all pulled the bus string at the same time. The Akatsuki gang all smirked inwardly at themselves. Once the bus stopped all of the bus riders crammed themselves off the bus, they didn't want to be on their gangs bad side… no indeed.

Seconds after they all got off the driver gasped. A girl with bright pink hair got on slowly, staring after the escaping mob. She was surprised and frowned slightly. She handed the bus driver bus pass to be inspected. He slowly took it and then looked at her.

"Are you sure you are on the right bus, miss?" the driver asked her. She looked at him pointedly.

"Does this bus go by the hospital?"

"Yes, but-"

"Then I am on the Right bus." She gently took back her bus pass, and then walked down the aisle. She glanced up at the gang, looked at their faces and cloaks, and then sat down in the middle of the bus. Since they were in the very back, that left only a few rows of seats in between them. Itachi wasn't the only one who had noticed her get on, but he was the only one who had noticed her slight look of recognition at seeing their cloaks, but she hadn't been too worried about it. It was as if she had only heard of them and had not actually known who they were…

His thoughts were interrupted by Hidan's loud argumentative cursing, like it usually was…

"…and then that damn bastard actually had the shi-*ding* nerve to lie sh-*ding* to me! So naturally I had to enforce Lord Jashin's wrath and kill the damn ba-*ding*! It was all I could do to not laugh my f-*ding* a-*ding* off…"

'ding? What was that?' Itachi silently looked at the girl who had her hand on the rope beside her, unnoticed by Hidan and the others. Intrigued, Itachi watched the girls back intently, and listened to Hidan's words at the same time.

"…So then I f-*ding* went to the old b-*ding* house. It was a shame I had to kill the wh-*ding*'s husband. She was such a *ding* hot lookin' *ding*. So I forced myself into her *ding* house and then I *ding* *ding* her onto the *ding* bed and then I *ding*ding*ding*ding*ding* her and then I felt so *ding* bad about it that I had to *ding*ding*ding* kill her , and then I *ding*ding*ding*ding*ding**ding*ding*ding*ding*ding**ding*ding*ding*ding*ding**ding*ding*ding*ding*ding**ding*ding*ding*ding*ding*- WHO THE BLOODY HELL IS F*ding* DOING THAT!!!!!!"

Itachi was so amused by this new girls antics that he hadn't noticed that Hidan had actually noticed himself. He looked away from the pink haired mischievous girl, and looked at Hidan who was now glaring daggers at the girl. She slowly stood up and then turned around with her eyes closed. Now all the Akatsuki were staring at her. When she opened her eyes everyone was taken aback…her eyes were a luminous pale jade green, which sparkled with a sarcastic mischief. She had an amused smirk on her lips as well.

"You do you want me to f-*ding* kill you- Will you CUT THAT OUT!!" he yelled at her. This time the bus stopped and the driver nervously looked back behind them, shifting his gaze from the confrontational Hidan, and the obviously naïve newcomer.

"How about I stop, when you stop swearing?" she smiled sweetly and tilted her head to the side a bit. The way she smiled and said it didn't sound or look quite right. She was smiling sweetly, but had a bit of a threatening tone to her words. Everyone was silent as they watched Hidan's reaction.

The Akatsuki member in question only blinked a few moments in astonished silence as he registered what she said, and then he burst out laughing.

"You would actually threaten me!? Are you f-*ding* insane!? I TOLD YOU TO QUIT IT!!!!!" He screeched. The girl straightened her head and then looked so coldly that he actually stopped mid-rant. She stared up at him with such a cold expression in fact, that all of the Akatsuki members were frozen silent looking at her in amazement. Amazement that a young female like her would stand up to the older males (all of whom were in there low 20's), they could quite easily overtake her. Her charisma and courage actually impressed Itachi…

"Miss! Don't you know who they are! You shouldn't be confronting them! You could be killed!" the bus driver panicked rushing up behind her. She waved away his valiant effort with a back-handed wave of her hand.

She stared all of them in the eyes. Something no one had ever been able to do, without being engulfed in fear.

"I know exactly who they are. And I know what they can do to me. Honestly the nicest thing they could do to me is kill me…and not even my parents were able to do that…so I'm not afraid." The look in her eyes went colder, and Itachi was sure that if the bus driver could see it he would have suddenly started to call her a princess and bowed to her the same way he did to the Akatsuki.

Hidan was the first to snap out of her spell binding unfearful gaze. There had been people who thought they didn't fear them, but in the end that notion had been proven wrong. But now, there was actually someone who honestly wasn't afraid of them. She had said that the nicest thing they would do to her was kill her. She obviously knew that by keeping her alive they could do much worse, and yet she still wasn't afraid.

"What is your name b-iscuit?" The girl snorted at his failed attempt not to swear.

"Biscuit? I wasn't aware that I looked like a biscuit…" she smirked at him.

"Just answer the damn question!" he became a bit frustrated, which greatly amused Itachi. The girl just smirked a bit more.

"My name is Sakura Haruno, Hidan of the Akatsuki." She waited for him to reply. He was surprised momentarily that she had known who he was.

"Become a follower of my Lord Jashin, and I will spare you." Sakura snorted inside, but managed to get away with an eyebrow quirk on the outside.

'Get a load of this guy! What a nut cracker! He's not really all there is he? I could have a lot of fun at toying with his mind!' she thought inwardly.

"Really?" she asked him, she actually seemed to be genuinely interested to the shock of the Akatsuki, and Hidan rushed to her side in a dramatic flair and put an arm around her shoulder. He started to wave the other in the air and was an overall drama queen in the flesh. Sakura didn't move, she just crossed her arms and rolled her eyes and looked up at Itachi.

"Are you interested? You could become his second apostle!"

"I don't think he'd like me that much…would he?" she looked up all too innocently at his face and he grinned nightmarishly back at her.

"yes, of course he would." She looked thoughtfully away from him.

"Hmmm…I don't know…it sounds nice…what would happen if I did?" it actually seemed like she was considering it, except Itachi knew that she wasn't , based from the look she had given him. Hidan in the meantime was rambling…

"..You would become powerful! You would be saved from danger and protected, by him of course, and if you remain faithful and pledge yourself only to him you could become immortal!" he said it all with a wave of grandeur. Sakura, however, fidgeted and moved away from him.

"What's the matter?" Hidan asked surprised

"I don't know about the whole pledging my life to him thing…I mean I have faith issues as it is…it all sounds bogus to me really…" she looked away from him. Hidan, however, was now dumbstruck.

"…faith…issues…?" he asked curiously.

'Perfect! He totally took the bait! Oh, this is gonna be too good!' Sakura snickered inside.

"Well I don't trust what I can't see. So how could I trust Lord Jashin?"

"But he truly does exist! If you just trust in me, he will be made known to you in time!" he grabbed her shoulders in a reassuring way, also forcing her to look at him. Itachi already knew where this conversation was headed…

"…"

"What?"

"Have you EVER seen Lord Jashin?"

"No but-"

"So how do you know that he even exists?"

"He speaks to me through-"

"Have you ever recorded his voice?"

Hidan let go of her and took a step back. He was faltering.

"…uh…no, no I haven't…"

"Then how do you know it was actually his voice? How do you know it wasn't just your own voice in your head?"

For the first time that any of the Akatsuki had ever seen, Hidan was speechless. And it greatly impressed the other Akatuski members.

"Haruno-san…" Itachi spoke up. Sakura looked at him.

"Do you realize what you've just done?" Kisame asked her quickly.

"Yes, I believe I just did us all a favor…" she chuckled.

"Umm…miss?" the bus driver tapped her shoulder. She turned her head to look at him.

"We have arrived to your destination…"

"Thank you.", she turned back to the gang, and the still shocked speechless Hidan.

"See you around." And with that she walked off the bus and away from the gang. She acted as if it was nothing... to just walk away from them. Itachi, Kisame, Zetsu, Deidra, Sasori, and Kakuzu all looked at each other and nodded in a silent, mutual agreement.

"There is no way we are letting that girl get away from us. Anyone with that great of a level of deceit and obvious intelligence is going to slip out of our grasp." Itachi stated.

"And what if she cannot fight?" Kakuzu growled out

"Then we teach her how." Itachi said pointedly.

They all got off the bus quickly, dragging a still phased Hidan behind them, and started to track her from the bus stop. The odd thing was though…even though she had asked to get off at the hospital, that's not where she was headed. Curious the Akatsuki followed her, even more determined to make her join them.

'She has a strong personality indeed…' thought Itachi, as he silently followed after the girl. Yes, they were going to see just how strong she really was…

They had no idea how strong Sakura just really was…

They were in for a shocker…

And it was going to be a long night…


Okay! So that's done! Review and let me know how it was! I was thinking I would only make it a one shot, but if you guys like it that much, I can continue it (based on how many reviews I get!) Seriously though? Good or bad reviews, let me know what you thought of it! (just don't be too harsh, or too mean! Lol)

~Tsuki Dream