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The rain stilled in the moonlight, giving the field an eerie silence after the heavy storm that previously had ravished, the usually peaceful clearing. Amethyst rings stared at the rain clouds that were now dissipating in the sky, they reminded the man of home, a dark yet pleasant sight. Any other person would be disappointed with the weather at the moment, but the orange-haired ninja, simply sat on his branch, admiring the beauty of the rain.

"It's almost like we're at home, isn't it?" a voice chimed in quietly, the owner of it instantly recognized to be an old friend. He turned to see blue hair falling gracefully onto her shoulders, a white origami rose in her hair.

"Have you finished your mission already, Konan?" his voice emotionless as he asked his long time comrade, still staring at the stars beginning to appear in the darkness of the night. The woman in question scoffed at her old friend's blatant forwardness, then jumped onto the branch he was lying on, to sit down next to him.

"He ended up not wanting to talk to me, so I had to… use other methods." Konan smirked, as she turned towards her stoic friend.

Immediately the male ninja knew that he wasn't going to get the chance to talk to the man Konan was supposed to retrieve and interrogate, he had apparently gathered important information on the leaf village. Oh well, he can't control his friend. More likely, she would be the one who would end up influencing him, if it ever came down to it.

"It's not like I was going to let him get away, Pein." the blue-haired angel said as she looked at his calm face. Pein decided to not pursue the matter any further, it's not like he could change it anyway. The fiery-haired man moved to sit up when a spark lit in the back of his mind. He felt Konan tense up beside him, seemingly also aware. There was someone else here.

Sakura POV:

She didn't know how long she had been sitting there, but by now it was definitely time to leave. Sakura had been watching a peculiar looking man, as he looked up at the rain that had now become non-existent. The man seemed unaware of her presence when she had first landed near the field, thank the heavens for her good chakra control, otherwise he would have most definitely killed her. She noticed that he wore an odd looking cloak, which was open at the chest, revealing a very muscular and toned body, from what she could see.

She wasn't expecting another person to appear, a woman with blue hair, but when the woman arrived, the man's attitude changed, ever so slightly. She could tell they were friends, never mind how long, but Sakura felt it might be time to leave them alone. That was when she fucked up.

The pink-haired ninja hadn't noticed when one of her chakra scrolls fell out of its placement when she shifted to get up, causing a small amount of chakra from the scroll to slip out. She inwardly cursed herself and picked it up, just in time to look back towards the man and woman he had seen, to find they were gone.

'Great, now I've scared them off.' she thought to herself, moving to get up, she scanned the area for chakra signatures, only to find one- no two? Behind her. Sakura quickly spun around to find the two she had previously been watching, standing watching her. Yeah, that's not creepy at all. Emerald met amethyst, while orange flickered between the two. Sakura's eyes were suddenly irked at the sight of the two shinobi, wearing a sign of danger to all but themselves.

The blossom of Konoha darted quickly to the side as three daggers of metal made their way towards her. The kunai had just barely missed her arm and torso, so Sakura decided it best not to fight alone, and instead focused on channelling chakra to her powerful legs, then she sped away. Unluckily for her, the two shinobi had decided to pursue her, at an alarming speed too. Sakura hadn't even recognised two of the most wanted shinobi in the world, and members of the Akatsuki at that. She felt ashamed and disheartened that even though she had memorised the bingo book, she hadn't seen his face in there, she should have recognised Konan, with her blue hair and lip piercing.

Sakura didn't even notice the branch she was about to land on, breaking from a small explosion. She lost her footing and almost plunged fully down to the forest floor, luckily though, she had held onto a smaller branch at the last minute. In the midst of the flailing, Sakura didn't sense the woman behind her, who then proceeded to turn into many, many little origami butterflies, surrounding Sakura.

'Well, there goes the escape plan.' Though she hadn't actually thought of a full one yet, now there was no chance whatsoever. The orange-haired ninja she had seen, waded through the many butterflies towards her, metal pipes in hand. 'Interesting choice of weapon.' she wondered almost curiously, as she watched him carefully, from as far away as the dome of butterflies would let her. If she went near one, it would zap her with a large amount of electricity.

Pein POV:

She was watching like a hawk, watching his every move. It was like a sort of dance, he moved to the left one step, she moved to the right one step. Pein put his pipe away, just to see how she would react, he knew Konan would be silently reproaching him for this move, but he ignored the unseen judgement. The pink-haired kunoichi, didn't move, she instead kept watching him, seemingly unfazed that he needn't used a weapon against her, maybe she was as strong as she pretended to be.

He again moved towards her, and she again moved away. She seemed to recognise that he was dangerous enough to hurt her without a weapon. 'Smart girl.' He inwardly chuckled to himself as he steadied his gaze and focused on her stance. It was rigid, she hadn't relaxed at all when he had put his weapon away. Pein continued to stare at her with his Rinnegan, anger suddenly flaring inside him as he lunged towards the girl and attacked. She merely disappeared into smoke.