Second chapter is up too, cause I just feel like it. :P I'd appreciate it if you pointed out any grammar or other mistakes you noticed that might have slipped through my eyes. Other than that, do enjoy.

Giggling madly I walked through the forest. I had absolutely no idea where I was going, but I had decided the forest could not go on forever, could it? I had a bag of money and a super-power to stop the time if needed, though, actually, it was already stopped. I decided I should travel a bit further away from Itachi and the blue skinned guy I remembered to be called Kirame or Kisame or maybe Kisage or whatever his name was. I didn't want them to find me. Wouldn't be a pretty sight, would it? Thus, I was now walking through the forest in some completely random direction. I had also started to wonder about my weird power to stop time... Like, for example, how long it lasted, or how to allow the time to flow again... Though, I pretty much had an idea on how to unfreeze time, but still, there were many things I didn't know about it. But that was not the biggest problem I had. What was really making I me nervous was how to get back HOME. Still, I decided to first find some village or something, or maybe I was gonna walk out into the city, who knew. I could still hardly believe I was dragged away into Naruto world. It just seemed so fantastic to me. Simply unreal.

As I walked through the woods, I suddenly felt a gust of wind brush my face. I stopped and turned around. There was no wind before. Is the time moving again? I looked up at the trees, noticing their tops swing in the air. Yet, on the side of the forest I came out of, the treetops were still. I bent down and took a random rock. Then, I tossed it in the air and watched it fly up, then come down. But it never did. It stopped in midair. I quickly figured my time-stopping power had a territorial limit. So, on that side of the forest, time was frozen, yet, this side of the forest was normal. I shook my head. At least now I knew something more about my strange powers.

"Okay then, let's try to unfreeze the time," I smiled as I breathed in and breathed out slowly. I was feeling a bit funny as I whispered, "Play."

The rock that was stuck in the middle of the air immediately fell down to the ground with a heavy thump. I sighed – my theory about the remote control was correct after all. Then, I turned around and continued on walking, wandering whether I was right to let the time flow again. Would Itachi and his sidekick Ki-something catch up to me? I sighed once again, as I pronounced the word "Stop" again. Just in case they were heading this way too. If they did, they'd freeze the moment they entered this zone. I figured my power stopped time around me in a shape of a circle. It was a pity I didn't know the diameter... Then, I smiled. At least, I could find it out. And thus, I started counting steps as I walked forward.

* 2 hours later *

I felt completely exhausted as I sat down by the bar, putting my head down on the bar table. I heard someone chuckle as a man asked if I cared for a drink.

I nodded. "Do you have some orange juice?"

"Wha..? Orange juice?! Bwahahahahh!.." The barmen started laughing. "This is a bar, girlie!"

I sighed: "Fine, fine. Beer then."

"Right away, missy," the barmen laughed and left for the beer.

He came back in a few minutes. I took my beer and went to a table in a corner of the room. I sighed once again as I just remembered my little adventures in the forest. Well, more like a seemingly never-ending journey through the forest with an incredibly amusing activity of counting my steps.

I had a sip of my beer as I reminiscent of how I lost track of it by the 642nd step... or was it 646th?.. I then tried taking the time of my travel; so that I could determine the amount of kilometers I walked from the time. Well, to cut it short, my guess was that the diameter of my power reached up to about 1 kilometer. I decided it was quite much and for now it was enough for me to stay alive if something happened.

I took another sip of my beer, which I found to be utterly disgusting. Still, after a few hours of walking I wanted to sit down for a bit. I thought maybe I could find some hotel later on and get a well deserved rest before figuring out what exactly to do. In the meantime, I hugged the mug with my beer and watched the locals happily drinking their money away. Then, my attention was drawn by a creak of doors and with horror I recognized the two men who walked in. Right now I really wanted to simply sink into the wooden chair I was sitting on as I watched the two make their way towards the bar. 'What rotten luck...' I cursed in my mind as I lifted my mug trying to somehow hide behind it, which was, of course, futile. 'Please, God, or whoever there is in the Heavens high above, please, just don't let them see me...' I carefully peeked at the pair, still trying to hold the mug in front of my face and praying this corner was dim enough. Yet, Miss Luck was not on my side today. I suddenly flinched and my heart skipped a beat, when some huge hand landed right in front of me on the table and a hoarse voice shouted so loud it was clearly audible even in the noise of a customer-full bar.

"Looky here! What a nice lady we have! Bwahahah! You're a nice lady, eh?"

With horror I looked up at some drunkard, who decided I would do nicely for his new prey. He looked me up and down as if evaluating and then grinned, revealing his mouth lacking some teeth.

'Gross...' I sighed mentally.

"Nice figure we have here, eh?.."

I managed to form a smile on my lips as I mentally sent him to a place of no return. With such a ruckus those two will certainly notice me. I lowered my mug and took a quick peek at the pair only to have my eyes meet with a cold stare of dark black eyes.

Itachi's POV:

After getting rid of the flowers on Kisame's sword, we made our way to the nearest village. Though we fulfilled our mission, now we had another trouble – a girl, who saw us murder the leader of the Hogi clan and even managed to get away alive. There was no way we could trace her following her chakra as she quite masterfully hid it. Still, I figured she'd go for the nearest village, so we headed full-speed towards it. There was no other choice than to check all of the villages around. Half of the way to the village Kisame cursed the poor girl for tricking him and the other half he thought of different ways of killing her. Really, he must have had quite a shock being called a sidekick of mine. I chuckled lightly remembering my partner's face when he heard it. That girl really was something to make even someone like me laugh. Still, I had some things to ask her too.

At the gates of the village we split up and searched for the girl around the village. We met up after half an hour, having found nothing. No one saw her and as we didn't even know a thing about her, it made our search even harder. I was about to leave for another village, but Kisame decided to go for a quick drink first. We went into some random bar and headed towards the bartender.

Then, there was a loud bang and I heard someone shout: "Looky here! What a nice lady we have! Bwahahah! You're a nice lady, eh?"

Tch, some drunkard, apparently. Kisame was buying the drinks with some money he still had left. It seems like our little thief only stole from me and the Hogi clan leader. For some reason, Kisame still had a few coins left. Really now, if I ever catch her, and I know I WILL, I'll make sure she pays for stealing from me...

"Nice figure we have here, eh?.."

I heard the drunkard shout again and turned my head to look at whom he was shouting. Quite surprisingly my eyes met up with another pair of eyes of a deep violet color. I saw them widen in somewhat I'd even call fear and only then did I recognize the face of a girl I was staring at. The very same one we were looking for. I grinned slightly as I started making my way towards her. The girl shot up and tried walking away, but the drunkard caught her by her arm, "HEH?! Where are you going, girly?.."

"Let go, you pig!" The girl shouted and tried pulling her arm away.

I saw the drunkard squeeze her arm in anger and the girl winced in pain. By that time I was already near them. "Would you mind letting her go?"

"Heh?! Is she your woman or what?" The drunk man turned to me, still not letting go of the girl's arm.

I raised a brow, contemplating on what he said, while the girl practically screamed her heart out, "WHAT?! No, no, no way! Not even if he was the last living man on the whole Earth! Are you a pervert or something?! Jeez!!! And let go already!"

She suddenly kicked the drunken man where the sun doesn't shine and he let go of her in surprise, cursing under his breath.

I smiled slightly as I watched the girl look at her arm in disgust. "Damn, that's gonna be one huge bruise..."

"Oh, I'll make it disappear!" I heard Kisame growl as he started taking out his sword, apparently, finally having noticed her.

The girl looked at him fearfully as she tried smiling at him. "H-hi..."

"Not now, Kisame," I said, at the same time noticing the drunken man get up.

As he raised his head, his eyes jotting around crazily, I moved towards him in a flash and punched hard in the stomach. He fell down unconscious.

"Wow! Awesome..." I heard the girl say as I turned around.

Kisame was sulking behind her, knowing well not to go against my words.

I stepped towards the girl. "We need to talk."

"Oh. What about?"

She was putting on an innocent act. I grinned a bit. She was quite brave, I must say. "Let's go out first."

I took her by her arm, dragging her outside. There were too many people here. Yet, at that time I still had no idea who I was dealing with.

Itachi started to drag me out by my arm and I frantically tried to think of a plan to get away. Then, I remembered I could stop the time. 'Really, why didn't I think of it before?.. I just need to get him to let go of my arm.' I looked at Itachi's emotionless face, as the two of us with Kisame tailing behind exited the bar.

"Umm... Can you let go of my arm?" I asked.

Silence. He was still dragging me across the street.

"Hello?!"

No response.

"HEY!" I shouted.

"Shut up, girl, before you regret it," I heard him coldly hiss at me and Kisame chuckled, apparently content with the current situation.

Now I got really angry as a new plan was born in my head. I looked around and grinned seeing the background was perfect. The street was full of people – young and elderly men, elderly women and middle-aged mothers with their small children, walking around. Simply PERFECT.

I suddenly halted with all my might and screamed at the top of my lungs: "Noooooo! My poor BABY!"

I especially emphasized the word 'baby', noticing I got the attention of the villagers as most of them stopped and looked at me. Itachi also stopped, surprised at my sudden scream. He still didn't realize what was going on. Taking the chance, I flopped down on the ground, and hugged Itachi's leg with my left hand as my right one was still in his grip. Itachi stood there shocked, watching me scream again, hugging his leg.

"Don't leave me and my baby! Please! Pleaaaase..."