Welcome again! Here's another chapter, I did my best and updated as quick as I could, and I dare to say it was quite fast :P. There's no Sasuke in this chapter because the whole Akatsuki and Konan thing took me longer than I thought. Now I will just shut up and let you read the chapter ;.


„What are you going to do about Pain??" asked Zetsu. "Obviously our goals aren't the same, and I don't see how we'll be able to come to a compromise here."

He looked at Madara waiting for an answer.

"Oi! Are you even listening to me??" said the annoyed plant-man.

"Yes, I am. At this point we can use him. He'll capture the Kyuubi and Sasuke is currently hunting the Hachibi, (Author's note: it's the Eight Tails from japanese, please keep in mind that I might sometimes use that name or other terms from japanese instead of the english ones) after Pain will do what we want from him, we can kill him. We can't have any complications in our plan now." Said the masked man known as Tobi.

"Good, I never really liked that guy…..but what about Konan??"

"Currently I'm going to send her to help Sasuke out."

"Oooh! That's interesting! I thought the kid's powerfull enough to take care of the Hachibi?"said Zetsu.

Madara chuckled at those words "Yes, he is. His power is far above what is needed to capture the Jinchuuriki, actually he even surpassed my expectations, he didn't take Itachi's eyes but still his Mangekyou Sharingan power is far greater than his brother's was, even Pain might have not been able to beat him now."

"Hahaha! That's really interesting isn't it??" laughed Zetsu.

Few hours later in the Akatsuki hideout.

Konan was waiting for Madara at the meeting room, she was quite surprised that he requested a meeting with her. Everytime they met he only talked with Pain, he never really given a direct order to her. 'Well, seems that the only way to find out what he wants is to simply wait for him' thought the only woman in Akatsuki.

The door opened and the true leader of the organization came in. "Ah, Konan, I see you're here, you must be surprised that I wanted to talk to you but I have a favor I would like you to do for me" even though Madara called it 'favor' the woman perfectly knew it was an order, she had to obey.

"As you probably know, Sasuke was send to capture the Hachibi, but since the data I gave him about his location was not completely accurate because of my informators fault- Konan already knew what probably happened to the informator for his 'mistake'- I would like you to go and catch up with Sasuke to help him out with his mission" finished Madara

"Wha-AT?!" asked shocked Konan. " You said yourself that he can handle it, I should go with Pain to help him capture the Kyuubi!"continued the blue-haired woman "Can't you send someone else??"

"No, I can't. As you are aware we are currently low on members, Sasuke went only by himself, even if we have Team Taka now I had to send them to make other arrangements, that is to find and secure a place where we will be able to extract the Bijuu" said Uchiha "I do not understand why are you protesting or are you implying that your help is needed because Pain won't be able to capture Kyuubi by himself?"

"Pain is unbeatable."

"Exactly, I don't think that you'll have to get yourself involved in the fight, Sasuke doesn't need such help, however he doesn't have precise information about the location of the Jinchuuriki, I know that he probably could figure that out himself, however I don't want him to cause to much of a commotion and make the shinobi in the Cloud Vilage aware that Akatsuki is on the move." Explained Madara.

"I understand" said Konan finally understanding his reasons.

"Good, then you will leave tommorow morning" continued Madara " Sasuke left two days ago, so I'm guessing he found out yesterday that the information I gave him wasn't correct, it's just my guess but I think that he headed to the north of the Lightning country to find someone who knows about the Eight-Tails, if you go to this location - Madara pulled out a map and showed her the place he was talking about- you should probably find him. The Jinchuuriki will be here- he showed her another location- in the Cloud's village Lightning Gorge"

"Okay, if you can excuse me, I have to get ready for tommorow's departure."

"Go and good luck" Madara finished the converstation.

"I don't need luck, my abilities are sufficient." Said Konan and started to walk away.

"Ah! Konan, one more thing, since you never seen Sasuke, here are some files about him including his pictures, it should be enough to recognize him when you found him"

"Thank you, and farewell." And she walked away.

It was getting dark and she figured that if she want to leave early tommorow she will have to go to sleep soon, so she started to pack her equipment. When she was done, before sleeping she thought that it will be the best to study his files before tommorow's leave. She didn't really knew anything about him. Only that he is Itachi's brother, he was Orochimaru's student and his clan was slaughtered by Itachi himself.

First she looked at his pictures, he knew he was Itachi's brother and he had to be similar but he was even more handsome than him 'Quite a cutie you're huh?' when Itachi's face and his Sharingan made him look even more like a ruthless murderer, Sasuke's onyx eyes were deep and calm, however you could still see in them the pain, loneliness and sadness – feelings known very well to Konan. After she was done looking at the pictures she read the acts.

What she read didn't shock her but still surprised her, she knew he was young but his parents were murdered when he was only 8. 'That's the same age I lost my mother and father to war.' She thought sadly. She closed the files and went to sleep. 'Seems like we've got something in common Uchiha Sasuke? Hmm?'

Soon she fell asleep ready for what tommorow's brings.


Done! Probably in the 3rd chapter they're going to meet. So be sure to check it out. I have no idea how fast I will be able to update it but I will do what I can. Thanks for reading. Until we'll meet in the next chapter. Bye!