Yes, another new story! I've wanted to write this one for a long time!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that Masashi Kishimoto created. Dana, Preston, and Shannon belong to me, as well as the plot of this story.
Normal POV
It was a quiet afternoon and a Chunin and three Jonin were sitting on the side of a river just outside of their old village, Soul Village. Shannon, Jackie, Dana, and Preston left the village because of their pasts. Shannon was abused by her entire family, but remained loyal and loved them. She did everything she could to protect them, but in the end they were all killed off. Preston's father beat him and his mother died on an S-Rank mission. His father did also. Dana's parents were killed in action as well as Jackie's.
"Come on, no use staying around this place…let's go," Preston said while standing up and dusting his pants off.
He glanced at his friends, who were also his teammates. He felt complied to take the lead because he was the oldest. Preston is 18 years old; he's thin and pale, but strong and smart. His hair is jet black with a crimson red stripe in it. He has snakebites (lip piercings on the right and left side) and his ears are pierced all the way from the cartilage to the very bottom of his lobe (all of the "outer rim"). He has on black skinny jeans, a plain fitting black shirt, black converse with white lace, and black and white checkered fingerless gloves (people have labeled him emo). He wears black sunglasses so no one will see his eyes, but he still wears eyeliner and his nails are painted black.
"Yeah…how long has it been since we left?" Dana said glancing back at the old village, her mind overflowing with memories.
Dana has brown hair and green eyes. Her normal outfit is jeans with a white shirt that has a dark green corset over it. Her shoes were black and white converse. She's 17 years old and a Jonin. In her lobes she wears a pair of silver studs that belonged to her mother.
"Quite a while…" Shannon replied.
Shannon was only 15 years old and still a Chunin. Her hair was originally champagne blonde, but was dyed dark red. She had seventeen piercings, most of which were in her ears (four on each lobe and three on each cartilage), two lip piercings (one on the right side and one on the left side), and one nose piercing. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of blue. Her bangs were slanted, the shortest part was at the top of her left eye and the longest part was at the tip of her cheekbone on the right side, covering her eye. The rest of her hair came down to the small of her back. Her normal outfit is a fitting black shirt, black pants, and black Converse High top Chuck Taylors.
"I'm going to miss this place…" Jackie said quietly.
Jackie was 17 years old and a Jonin. Her hair was onyx black and fell to the bottom of her shoulder blades. Her eyes were a beautiful brown. She wore a white t-shirt with a fitting baby blue long sleeved v-necked sweater, jeans, and white converse. She was a shy girl.
"Well then, let's get going," Preston said. He started off, the girls following. Around midnight they stopped in the forest for the night.
Elsewhere
"Hidan, Kakuzu, I want you to capture this girl," Pein said handing Hidan and Kakuzu a picture of a red haired girl along with a file that included surprisingly little information about her..
"Leader-sama, it says she's only 15 and still a Chunin, what use could we have for her?" Kakuzu asked incredulously.
"She's the last member of her family and she has some special techniques that…interest me," Pein stated while lifting another file up.
"Hai, Leader-sama," Kakuzu bowed.
"Tch, whatever," Hidan muttered, crossing his arms moodily.
"Deidara, Sasori," Pein said while passing over a file, "I want you two to capture this girl."
"She's that other girl's teammate…and a Jonin un," Deidara read with a curious expression.
"Itachi, Kisame, I want you two to capture this boy," Pein said handing, yet again, another file over to his members.
"He's also their teammate and another Jonin, eh? This oughta be a breeze," Kisame laughed.
"Zetsu, Tobi, I want you two to capture this girl, and before you say anything, she is a Jonin on their team as well," Pein said, "Go."
With that, the members went to pack their things. Once they departed, Hidan growled in annoyance and swung his scythe at a near-by tree.
"Damn leader may as well have said 'I want you all to go out and catch these four children' not just give us each a specific child!" Hidan snarled.
"Hidan, take this seriously! I won't have you messing up our mission," Kakuzu snapped.
"Yeah, yeah, she's just a fucking Chunin! She's not going to be tough to catch!" Hidan reasoned angrily.
"Hidan, take this seriously baka! Leader-sama really wants these children for some unknown reason. You had better not mess up on this mission or he'll have all of our heads!" Zetsu said.
"Hmph," Hidan muttered childishly and crossed his arms, glaring ahead.
"Tobi thinks we can reason with each girl-chan and the boy-kun," Tobi said.
"Baka un!" Deidara snapped, forming a clay bird, " Hey, do you mind coming with us S-Rank criminals yeah? Our leader sent us on a mission to capture you so if you could just comply and come along that would be fantastic un! Thank you for your time un! That won't work un!"
"Tobi, if Leader-sama thought that would work he wouldn't of sent all of us," Kisame said with a sigh, "At least we might have a bit of fun, eh Itachi? You guys have got girls, we've got the only boy! Everyone knows girls can't fight as well."
"Remember when Konan-sama got mad because we made Tobi eat her pills un?" Deidara reminded in the form of a question.
"…Don't remind us…" almost everyone mumbled.
Depression lines formed over their heads. That day was a horrifying one, much blood was shed and many items were broken. The only good thing was that the guys learned a new lesson: Never take Konan's pills; she needs them to remain happy. Deidara sweat-dropped and sighed.
"What have I done yeah?" Deidara muttered massaging his temples.
The next day
"You know I don't approve of this," Shannon stated while following Preston who was carrying a comatose man.
"Eh, what's the big deal? He tried to kill us so I almost killed him," Preston replied.
"I know he tried to kill us, but I don't exactly believe violence is the answer. Besides, it's wrong, in my opinion, to turn him in as a bounty," Shannon explained.
"Serves him right for trying to murder us! What, would you rather have a nice funeral with flowers and sad people? You know sad people tend to make me sad too," Dana teased.
Jackie softly laughed at Dana's comment and turned to Shannon who had an emotionless expression on her face. Despite that, she knew Shannon wasn't happy.
"In life he has been an awful man. Though I do feel bad about prospering from his…well, basically death, he knew it was coming. In his death, he's doing one good thing. Giving four teenagers who don't have a stable income money," Jackie said quietly.
"We have plenty of money," Shannon argued stoically.
"You're too young to understand this stuff, but don't worry, you'll learn," Preston said reassuringly.
Shannon wanted to tell him she wasn't too young, but that she had her own opinion and it was different from theirs. Everyone always told her she was too young or too weak for one thing or another. She was 15 years old, damn old enough to make some of her own decisions, especially no. No one was the boss of her, but they certainly acted like it.
"Excuse me if I'm to young to state my thoughts and opinions," Shannon thought bitterly.
They arrived at the bounty exchange point and Preston paused, glancing in Shannon's direction. He softly smiled at her, as if pitying her.
"Maybe you should wait out here…I think going inside would upset you. I don't think you're old enough nor equipped to understand this kind of thing," Preston said.
"Fine," Shannon said with a shrug.
"Calm down," Jackie said soothingly, yet again able to tell Shannon wasn't happy, "We'll be right back."
With that, Jackie, Dana, and Preston all headed inside, leaving Shannon outside, alone.
"Why do they always act like I'm to young to understand something? Do they not know what I've seen?" Shannon questioned herself, not noticing the group of people clad in black robes adorned with red clouds approaching.
"There she is! HEY BITCH!" Hidan yelled racing over to the girl.
"Who are you?" Shannon asked slightly stepping back so she could get a better view of the personal space invading man.
"Hidan. Hey, do you mind coming with us S-Rank criminals? Our leader sent us on a mission to capture you so if you could just comply and come along that would be fantastic! Thank you for your time!" Hidan said with an obviously forced smile.
"What does he want with me?" Shannon asked, slightly taken aback by the polite manner of asking.
"He will tell you that once we arrive at the base that is, if you're willing to comply," Kakuzu said in a businesslike manner as he walked over to join the duo.
"Will you come with us?" Hidan asked politely, that forced smile still present.
Shannon glanced back at the building behind her, and then turned to face Hidan.
"My friends…" she gestured behind her.
"Are all welcome to come as well," Kakuzu said in his business like manner.
Thanks for reading and please review! I know the Akatsuki are OOC, if you don't like it, don't read it.
I'm attempting to write the attitudes of Dana, Jackie, and Preston in a different form than I normally write, but I'm not sure if I'll keep them that way or not; I'm not used to writing my characters' attitudes as that, so I'm just trying something new here!