A/N: Hello! This is a story that I started to write a while ago. I wanted to write a story in which a new member joins the Akatsuki. So this is it. I do not own the characters of Naruto. None of them unfortuntely. I hope that you enjoy this though. The prolgue is to give some background information of the OC that the story focuses on.

Prologue

Shinjuko Mitsu was born in Konoha, but her and her parents really lived outside of the village. Her parents often left her with just the dog to protect her while they went away on missions for the Hokage.

When she was only age four, her parents went on a mission... she was expecting them back at the end of the day... but they never returned. She later got news that they were killed...

She was taken into the village, but no one wanted her. So she ran away. For a four year old girl, she could use her chakra quite well and so she went to Kirigakure, the Village Hidden in the Mist. It took her three years to get there, she took her time on the way there.

When she arrived, she was adopted by the Mizukage. However, Mitsu didn't like him much.

Mitsu would always run off and hide in the village.

This is how she came to meet Hoshigaki Kisame. She literally ran into him one day while she was in the village. The first time she met him, she was frightened by his looks. After all, he did look like a shark.

But she came to realize that he was a good person. She realized a lot of people were afraid of they first met she was eight and he was ten. She soon became very close to him.

And so, it was inevitable that when he left the village and went rogue, she got very depressed.

She dealt with the depression for about three years, then could no longer handle it. She ran away once again. She ran away from Kirigakure and the Mizukage.

When she ran away, she was twenty-seven, she is now twenty-eight and has now been looking for a year.