A/N: Thank you AgaruTomo, Zomibe and kitty1994 for reviewing, you guys made my day and probably week, glad to know this wasn't a waste of time to write out.

Mako: Kisame, Deidara, and Tobi plushies to both of you! May you live a good life!

Runt: …..Geeks.

A/N: Well no shit Sherlock.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the animes mentioned in this, I do not own the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, The Greater Columbus Convention Center (What happened to the 'great Columbus convention center anyways?) My friends, their looks, I probably do own their cosplay props seeing as Kris and I would make them and face paints though, for I do love to decorate the face…

Chapter 1

Arrival

There was always something content in the silence that was between Brandin, Kris, and I, it was never uncomfortable and for the most part, pensive, it always made it easy to think, not to mention if I got stuck on a thought I could bounce it off one of the two of them and they would tell me what they thought, and if anything help me further the idea or get it started in the physical process. This often helped when I, like many other people who read an anime, researched it down to memorization, wrote a story on it, and claimed the plot line to it theirs but everything else someone else. Kris and Brandin were often my 'testers' to these little stories called 'fanfiction.'

But sadly, this silence that was between the three of us as we walked down the hall of the 20th floor of the Hyatt was not comfortable, it was tense, tense and stirring with electricity, maybe it was just me, it wouldn't be a first that my paranoia of something bad happening got in the way of my senses, but I didn't think so. Looking over my shoulder, I stared at Kris and Brandin's expressions.

Brandin's was one of great concentration, he was staring at the floor with a glazed look and a small frown, his glasses shined lightly back the reflection of the ceiling lights that was walked under so casually, past the other doors and finally stopping in front of the four elevator doors that were two by two across from each other. We stood in between these four doors, the silence starting to get almost crushing to me before I looked at Kris.

Kris's expression was lax, her eyes were half lidded and her arms were crossed over her chest as she leaned on her right foot, her eyes turned to me and opened slightly, I stared back through my own black rimmed glasses and an understand seemed to go through us, I was still worried, she could sense it. Slowly she nodded, and stated, "Don't worry Cassi. It'll be fine." I exhaled a shaky breath and stuffed my hands into my jean pockets, I hoped she was right, but then again, Kris, the tree hugging Wiccan, was hardly ever wrong when it came to these sorts of things.

I was about to plunge myself back into my worried thoughts of what could and would go wrong, due to that fantastic little 'Murphy's Law,' when the two dingings signifying an elevator was arriving went through the air. Quickly I looked around for the lit up 'up' arrows next to each one only to find the one behind me to my left to be flicking off. I watched the doors open and blinked as an old man stepped out, a suit case behind him as he turned the corner and started heading right down the hall way. My eyes narrowed for a moment before my mind snarled, You Bloody Bastard! How Dare You Tease Me!

Slowly, I looked away from where the man came from, my feet carrying me over towards the window that was just outside the sectioned off area for the soda machine, ice machine, and vending machine that Brandin and I had walked to earlier, and stared up at the clouds. They were several shades darker than they had been minutes ago, I frowned for a moment and glanced at Kris over my shoulder, she noticed my gaze and walked to the window silently.

Kris, as a Wiccan, also claimed to be a tempest, and while I, an atheist, did not believe in such things really, I was always willing to entertain and listen to the ideas of the Wicca art. I did not mind, in fact, I found religion while also interesting to an extreme, something very knowledgeable to keep in the back of my brain. I had been hated, shunned, and bullied because of my non-belief since I was the age of seven, when I had become an Atheist, people in this country who would befriend me for being what I was, were very slim, but they were the ones that stood by my side with out a doubt. Not to mention, any discussion we got into about religion was very interesting. Many of my friends were Wiccan, several were Christian for that matter, and few, were Atheists such as myself. Daniel and Brandin were two of the few that were in the same boat as me.

So anyways, the reason I had looked at Kris, was because she had a tendency as a Tempest, to be able to sense, and 'control' to a degree, storms, she claimed to play with storms, I didn't know whether this was true or not, but I guess anything was possible really in this day and age.

"-Bad one, probably lots of thunder tonight and lightening… probably won't get a lot of sleep." Her voice broke me out of my trance, I didn't realize I had zoned out to staring out the window at the churning clouds, "Yeah?" I inquired, she nodded, slowly I reached up sighing and moved my hand to the center of the top of my head, I gripped one of the shortened hairs and pulled, then brought it to my eye level and stared at the hair follicle at the end. Silently, I slipped it into my mouth and scraped it off with my teeth before dropping the hair uselessly to the floor, before swallowing the follicle after rolling it on my tongue, "Great. Just what we need before Ohayocon, a huge storm to keep us up."

Ever since the fifth grade, I had a condition that no one could figure out what it was, the condition was called Trichotillomania, for a year, my parents and I had no clue as to what was wrong with me or why I was pulling my hair out and more scarily, eating the follicles, we had seen a dermatologist, that bastard turned my scalp green with some fucked up shampoo, it had smelt bad to, and it was only until our seventh visit to the doctor, we finally figured out that I had some weird condition that was a branch of OCD, (Or CDO, alphabetical, like it's supposed to be.) and that I really couldn't help what I was doing. It was a 'hair pulling' habit, and it wouldn't ever go away. It also had different switches, being worried wasn't one of them, having nothing to do, white tiles in a science room, or having to think a lot was.

Go figure, the chick whose mind won't shut up gets a habit to go along with it. All through out fifth grade I had to get special permission from my principal to wear a bandana to school, I had eventually been able to grow my hair back out from the three bald spots that had formed from continuous pulling, and by the time I was 13, I had it figured out, I had a way to get myself to stop pulling, I would wear a hat, one where my hair couldn't poke through, and then I wouldn't pull, it had worked quite well. But there was a huge down side to it.

I was afraid to go into hair salons, because of the hair dressers asking questions to me, and I would have to badger myself and then chicken out at the end, it was a phobia that could only compete to that of my fear of bears, but I had over come it slightly, it was only recently, my waist length brown hair got cut. On the bright side though, when ever someone said 'ow' or 'that hurt' when a hair or something got pulled, or the brush was to rough, I got to laugh at them. My scalp had long ago become 'less tender' than usual.

Thankfully though, my 'condition' didn't get involved with my friendships, they didn't care, half of my friends were as screwed up, or more so, than I was, so my condition was nothing really to them, and I didn't let it control my life any more, I could go into a hair dresser if I wanted and not have any issues… as long as they didn't say anything, and usually, they didn't, they asked me questions about other things, school and such.

I was torn out of my thoughts by the hotel elevator dinging again and didn't bother to turn around this time. I instead glanced at the reflection of the area behind me in the window, watching as the door opened. This time, a group of my friends did come out.

First there was Will McFarland, he was a tall blonde with a speech impediment, he had blue eyes and he stood exactly at 6' 4" and a half, he was to play our 'Kisame'. Glancing over my shoulder, I noticed he had the signature blade of the shark man off Naruto that Kris and I worked hard on putting together in hand. He glanced at us and smiled stating, "Hey, there you three are."

"Oh shit! Look out! He's gonna beat us with the tampon blade!" Brandin stated, I chuckled and looked at him nodding; Will was a simple guy from what I knew of him, he helped me in Chemistry some what by letting me copy his work. I'd pay attention in class and get the process of knowing the problem later. He towered over my 5' 6" form, but I didn't really care, tall guys were kind of something I liked, I hated that I was taller than some girls, and that I was often eye level with some boys as well, staring up was a thing I liked to have to do with my guy. Luckily I have a strict 'don't date friends' thing, it was just to risky to one's friend ship. A funny thing about Will was even though he was a big guy, he was only 16. Like me.

The second that came out was a surprise to me, my eyes narrowed slightly at the short girl that stood at 5' 4" and had long blonde hair with a duffle bag underneath her arm, she had hazel eyes and a smile on her face, I glanced at Kris for a moment before she sighed and stated, "Ashlee wanted to come with, so she bought a weekend pass in the pre-registration and paid for a hotel room, we've got four now." I rose an eyebrow then chuckled, muttering, "You wait now to tell me?"

"Well I didn't really think it'd be a matter; it's her room." Kris mumbled shrugging, "She's just tagging along, and she's our Naruto."

This brought a good bout of laughter about me, Ashlee spotted me and moved over quickly, I wrapped an arm over her white long sleeve clad shoulders and stated, "So you're our Naruto eh Ashlee?" She nodded stating, "I guess, don't worry about the cosplay, I have it and everything." I nodded again grinning, Kris, Brandin, and I, after we got back from the first Ohayocon we went to, had bounced around the idea to include a Naruto with us at this Ohayocon, but we had decided against the idea due to the fact it was Akatsuki, but the whole reason we would have one with us, was to just say we caught the little bastard.

But I guess Ashlee decided to veto our denial of our idea, I how ever, didn't really mind at all, Ashlee Rickett was a cool girl like that. She also was 15, and loved to talk, loudly and excitedly, just like the little blonde fox boy. My eyes wandered up for a moment and I stared at the next person that came out, before letting go of Ashlee and tackling the 5' 4" boy around the neck in a full on 'hug.'

"Rape!" Kris called out, causing a bit of laughter to leave myself, Will, and Ashlee, the boy in my grasp let out a soft scream and struggled before stating, "Rape! Rape! Let go!" I let go of him and backed away, my eyes holding amusement as I replied, "Awww Cody, You know you like it!"

Cody Valentine stared at me with his brown eyes shaking his head lightly, his shoulder length black-brown hair swishing side to side as he did so before he muttered with a dull voice, "Stop doing that." He crossed his arms over his black 'Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow' T-shirt and muttered, "You know I don't like it."

Cody was a stick really, he was only bone, and muscle, and even then, he could probably be stuffed in a locker. We had met as Chemistry partners in class and he, like Kris was a band geek. He played the Sousaphone, Kris played drums. Will and Ashlee, along with Kris, were all in choir, I on the other hand, was not in choir, but used to be in band, but that was a long time ago. But another thing about Cody, was that he was really smart, and he was only 15. As I said, he was the perfect candidate for Itachi, but I did not think Itachi would ever be caught dead playing a Sousaphone.

"She only does it cause you don't like it idiot." Brandin stated simply, he did not know Cody, nor did he know Ashlee, or Will, so this would be an entertaining and education experience for him, I also hoped how ever he would keep his attitude away from this situation, I didn't want, like I had said before, any arguments to break out.

Rubbing my forehead for a moment I glanced at the elevator as a third male exited, there were two more people in there and they followed him out immediately before the door shut, I smiled lightly at the male and he walked over before wrapping an arm around my shoulder and pulling me to my side stating, "Hey Cassi!" Then giving me a hard noogie over the head.

"ACK! DANIEL!" I cried before elbowing him hard in the stomach. This was my infamous 'beat up' or as I called him 'Pumble' buddy, Daniel Wright, he stood at about 6 feet tall, had green eyes and black hair, he wore a black 'Metallica' hoodie, he had baggy denim jeans on right now and a grin on his face that if you didn't know him, might make you want to hide in fear of what he was planning. He was also my greatest rival, we had met in gym last year when we were in the same class for the most part, he was why I got into shape that year, any sport we played, we'd either be working together, or against each other, several times I got hurt, but not majorly, while playing him, he wasn't gentle with me, but he wasn't as rough as he wanted to be either, he kept it low tone, and most of the time, I sent it back to him.

He was one of my best and first friends when I had moved to my new home in Kentucky, he had my back to hell and back and if anyone messed with me, they had to answer to him, Brandin, and Kris, and then finally, me, it was the same way with if anyone messed with Daniel, they had to mess with me before they could even touch him, providing he didn't shove me out of the way to strangle them first.

"It's not even Friday and you two already are getting the party started." The second person who had moved out of the door stated, I glanced up to see my lesbian friend Danielle Faller, she was an awesome friend, and was in the same boat as me when it came to Naruto, we loved the anime so much, we had immersed ourselves in any knowledge that we could get our hands on as well as any thing about the characters we could as well. She stood at 5' 3" and had short red hair with blonde highlites, by tomorrow morning though, with the three day wash dye Kris and I had bought on our 'must get supplies for Ohayocon' mall shopping spree, she would be Sasori for the three days. She also had blue eyes and was 17 years old.

"What can we say?" I stated as I struggled myself out of Daniel's grasp, he let me go free this time, usually he wouldn't' hold on for very long, "We like to party." Daniel poked my forehead so I shoved him away, he in turn shoved me to the floor making me start to snicker, he reached a hand down and grabbed my own before yanking me to my feet, our friend ship was based directly on claiming the right to attack each other and no one else held that right over each other except us.

"You hug everyone, but me?" The third person drew my attention and I stared over at the 5'3" and a half girl, she stared back at me with her arms crossed, her light brown shoulder length hair slightly in front of her face as she stared at me with blue-green eyes. I smiled at her how ever despite her peeved look and moved over before wrapping an arm around her shoulders and standing up straight before whispering in her ear, "I'm saving the love making for later baby." She busted into a fit of laughter, I grinned at her, this was Heather Jungling, she was the equivalence to that of a little sister to me, I loved her to death and would often keep an eye out for any jerks that asked her out.

She used to not listen to me, back when we had first met when she was a freshmen and I was a sophomore, but after she figured it out for herself she listened quite intently now, she was also what I called my 'prodigy.' It was when I hit the middle of first semester my junior year I had discovered something, a wish to leave any knowledge I knew about sex, and all it's perversities, yes, I was a well known pervert amongst my friends and acquaintances, with one person. Heather, having met her a year before, and having been 'trained' by my own mentor, Kendra Frye, who had taken me under her wing when I was sitting alone at a lunch table, was the perfect candidate.

So when any one asked what Heather was to me, I told them, my prodigy, and she had accepted the title, she was also a fast learner, this I was thankful for. It was a messed up thing, but we didn't really care, we had fun with it anyways and I would crack jokes that would make her bust into hysterical laughter, the only time I never made her laugh, was when she made me angry with her, and that was because she told me to stop with my jokes at lunch, sadly, this was not doable, with out my jokes, I felt horribly normal and down right stupid.

It was good to be a pervert as well when one was a virgin, they got to trick so many people, but also got to keep their decency about them in a way to… well not really, but that was never the point.

"So where's Gavin, Cheryll, and your mom." I asked turning to Kris, she shrugged only for Danielle to reply, "Cheryll is arguing with Gavin, Gavin is arguing with Cheryll, and Mary is scolding them both." I turned to Danielle and blinked before Danielle sighed and muttered, "It's one of those 'Cheryll' things." I frowned and nodded, really, when I thought about it, I knew I could get along fine with Gavin, he was a cool guy, Cheryll, I felt I had to be a little careful around, she was sort of like me, wanted to be in charge and her way, but Cheryll demanded from what stories Kris, Gavin, Ashlee, and Danielle told me, I attempted to ask for it that way, or gave it off to the better man.

I hoped silently to myself that Cheryll did not become a problem, but I suppose I had no issues with sending her home, she could drive. I opened my mouth to ask if she indeed did drive her car here to Kris when another elevator went off, I blinked and shut my mouth waiting for the upper right elevator from where I stood to open.

As it did, I froze.

Two blazing eyes stared into my own as Gavin stepped out. Gavin was one of the true people I felt alright to be cautious around, yet at the same time, comfortable around, he was a something don in ninjutsu, (our version, not the Naruto version, just to clear up confusion.) and he was very skilled. He stood at about 5' 10" and had the bluest eyes I had ever seen that didn't involve contacts. His hair was short and dyed platinum blonde and he was dare I say, very good looking. He wore a long sleeves dress shirt and a pair of tight jeans. On his feet he wore... I couldn't' tell what type of shoes he wore. Slowly how ever he looked at Kris and nodded, "Hey Kris." He looked at me, "Hey Cass." I nodded and replied, "Hey Gavin."

For some reason, Gavin's presence to me, demanded respect, I knew better than to hug him with out permission or to go as far as to tackle him, he could hand my ass on a silver platter to me and make me eat it if he wanted to, but Gavin was cool like that, so I ignored the demand to a degree, as he earned it. He wasn't really the type you'd expect from a hair dresser, really I thought he'd more of a home owners society guy, selling things, but no, he was my gay friend and one helluva hair dresser. He wasn't as close to me as Kris, Daniel, Brandin, or Heather though. But I knew Gavin wasn't going to cause me damage enough to trust him.

The second person that followed out was a girl with short hair in an 'emo' style. Her hair was brown and so were her eyes, she held a scowl on her face behind her glasses as she glared at Gavin, her suit case rolling behind her as she stopped away from us all. This was Cheryll Castle, and though I had never witnessed myself, I had heard from Gavin, Kris, and Danielle, it was like that of the wrath of hellfire and brimstone, and though she had never shown me such a temper, Cheryll would have to learn just like everyone else, I never put up with someone yelling at me, not even if they were my own superior, I wouldn't yell back, as that was childish and I was 16, considering myself above such a thing, but I would act like I didn't give a damn.

Really I'd be smart mouthing them off inside, planning revenge, venting, then finishing and letting it go, I didn't like people yelling at me, and that went far back to when I was a child and my father would scold me every other day for stupid things, things parents do…

"You two need to knock your shit off." The voice of Mary snapped me out of my thoughts, I looked over at the tall slightly heavy woman and smiled, Mary was a wonderful lady, she was willing to listen to my thoughts and send her own back, telling me what she thought, and often she would tell me about Kris, I never asked Kris much about her past, it was a thing I just never did, only when someone was willing to talk about it, did I bother to ask questions, it sort of made things subtle, if they wanted to tell me, they would, if they didn't, I wouldn't prod, but would wait till another time.

Often, I called my way of getting information out of someone that I didn't even want to know, my Wiccan power, I doubted it, but I considered it an option of explanation, I often did 'truth seeking', gaining peoples pasts with ease and some times I hated it, other times I thanked it, it helped me understand someone better.

"Stop Dazing Cass!" I grunted as Brandin flicked me over the head, my eyes moving to my group, my troops, my comrades. I smiled gently at the thought and stated, "SO, how was the ride here?"

Murmurs of 'fine' and 'can't complain' went around them, some like Daniel or Danielle just shrugged, I was quiet for a moment and slowly nodded, and moved and handed Mary her hotel key card stating, "My mom is already in the room, she's all unpacked." Mary nodded and stated, "Thanks kiddo."

"Yeah, you're in room '234.'" I replied. She nodded and started wandering off immediately, stating, "Cheryll, don't cause any more trouble." Cheryll let out a huff of anger, I glanced at her for a moment and looked at Gavin and Kris, Kris already knowing my concerns before shaking her head, I'd leave it alone for now as she instructed. We all stood silently for a moment before I shut my eyes and sighed, gaining the attention of the others, I opened my eyes and smiled clasping my hands behind my back stating, "Alright… well, we got our two rooms, and sleeping arrangements are going to be a bit tight… but I think we'll mana-" I was cut off by Ashlee.

"You know, some of you guys can sleep in my room if you want." I glanced at her for a moment and nodded, that would work, we'd split it three ways then, I glanced over my shoulder at the clouds again, my eyes narrowing, they were starting to turn a slight tint of green, usually signifying a tornado warning was going to be roaring soon enough. I glanced at Ashlee for a moment before stating, "Alright… then… Hmm."

"I'll sleep in Ashlee's room." Gavin volunteered, I nodded, Heather moved closer to me and I placed a hand on her shoulder, glancing at Kris with a slight look, Heather barely knew anyone here besides Brandin, Danielle, Daniel, Kris, and I, not to mention she was my 'partner' in the Akatsuki, so she would be sticking close to my side. Kris immediately nodded stating, "I will as well." I blinked and looked at her, part of me knowing why she wanted to, there would be less people in that room, and more room for her and the three of them, I looked at Heather, Cheryll, and Danielle for a moment then stated, "Looks like it's us four then, cool, no one is going with out a bed then."

"We are." Brandin muttered, I looked at him and snickered, stating, "Or you four could just share, they all glared at me with a deathly look, but Brandin then muttered, "Not a chance Fire."

"No no…of course not…" I stated giggling while shaking my head, shrugging, I muttered, "Ask my mom to order you guys some bed rolls, that way you aren't sleeping on the hard floor."

"Aye Sir." Brandin stated nodding, I didn't bother looking at him with a disapproving look, I enjoyed it when he obeyed me in a way, I smirked and nodded, pulling out two sets of keys I threw them over to the guys, "Those four are yours, I have one incase I need to get one of you." They looked at me in slight surprise before I smiled, "What, I have to make sure everyone's alright."

"Alright then…" Cody stated glancing away from me with a slight look, I chuckled shaking my head again then looking at the four girls handing them four more cards each, "Those are ours." They nodded, I smiled, so far, no problems.

"What about us? We only have two card?" Ashlee stated simply, I stared for a moment before stating, "Give one to Kris, and you hold the other one, Kris and Gavin are paired together as Akatsuki partners as it is, and you guys share the same room, so it really doesn't matter who the keys go to, except for the fact you'll probably be switching groups here and there." She nodded to this and slipped Kris a card, I sighed and glanced back at the girls before stating, "We're in 236, I've already got my stuff set up on the right, so which ever one of you is bunking with me, go ahead and set up." Danielle, and Cheryll nodded while Heather stayed by my side while the two walked off.

I placed an arm over her shoulder comfortingly before glancing at the other two groups, "Welp, this is a good arrangement then."

"Why's that?" Will asked, I glanced at him and smiled, stating, "You've got on experienced conventioneer in each room then." He nodded, "Kelevra."

"Aye?" Brandin looked at me again, I brought my arm from Heather's shoulder and saluted stating, "Take e'm to your guy's room." He nodded and beckoned Will, Cody, and Daniel stating, "Okay, let's go." The other three picked up their abandoned bags in the hall way and shouldered them, following Brandin down the hall and around the corner, out of sight, I could still hear them though.

Silently, I relaxed, my shoulders and head slumping as I leaned them against Heather's shoulder, muttering, "And the worst is over." Heather glanced at me silently, I blinked and smiled moving away from her stating, "So how ya doin' honey?" She smiled at me and stated, "Fine… the car ride up was…. Interesting." I chuckled and rested a hand on her shoulder, swirling my card between my fingers I looked over my shoulder, casting one finally look at the sky, the clouds pitch black now, I spotted a bit of lightening in the distance, I gained a half lidded look.

"Hey Cassi, are you alright?" She asked, breaking my gaze as I looked back at her quickly, I was quiet for a moment before smiling, replying, "Sure babe, sure, everything's fine." I slung my arm over her shoulder and ruffled her hair, she yelped and quickly put it back into place, "Now let's get you to that room."

If only I had a clue as to what was really going on.

Reg POV:

There was a blue glow lighting up the features of the 10 that stood in the cave on the giant pair of hands now, their eyes each on the ball of blue energy, or chakra, that was in the center of the heels of the hand in the air, they all remained quiet as they continued to concentrate, mixing energy and trying to stabilize the giant ball. Slowly, the man who had been named Kisame, stood up from his crouched position on the left ring finger, and shut his blue eyelids, a layer of light blue chakra shot over the ball, entrapping them, then finally, the layer stopped, stilling, before solidifying into a single crystal layer.

The group stopped their concentration, panting from the exertion of energy they had just had to bring forth and looked at the man on the right thumb, the ball lighting up his balls of his piercings on his nose, lips, and ears, giving a dim light to his blazing orange red hair before he looked over at the man who had just acted.

"That is about 80 percent of your chakra Kisame, and 50 percent of our own." He replied, the man nodded, his light blue skin lit from the glow, he then grinned, his shark teeth glowing in the light widely as he stated, "But… it should be worth it no?" Pein nodded, before moving from his spot on right thumb, walking across the finger and to the ball, he reached up and began to bite his finger, blood coming from it as he did and started to write symbols about the solidified chakra ball. The energy inside it swirling wildly as he did, the blood slowly lighting up with each character he put and the energy starting to seep through, shooting out like a heat vent, but in a steady flow.

After placing the last character, he stepped back, bringing his bloodied hands together, the process had taken a bit of blood and a half an hour of their time, giving the other nine some time to recuperate, he let out a sigh as he shut his eyes and concentrated his own energy into his hands, flicking them into seals.

Rooster – Dragon – Snake – Ram – Horse – Dog – Dragon – Snake – Rooster- Boar

His hands came apart and slammed into the ball, breaking it as he snarled lowly, "Unseal."

The effect was immediate, the ball began to crack, a loud ringing moved through the air making the 10 fall to the ground, shrieking as the pain of the ring moved into their brains and wracked their bodies, the man known as Pein rolled on the ground as the cracks began to fall piece by piece, each particle hitting the crack of the heels in between the hand began to liquefy, slowly causing a vortex to form on the heels. This continued till all bits of the sphere had fallen, the ringing stopped, the vortex began to suck in immediately and immensely, taking the many still stunned shinobi by surprise as they were lifted from the ground drug in.

They felt the sense of suffocation flow in as they began to spin in the vortex, the man with the mask had remained quiet this entire time, his red eye with comma's around the pupil stared out his single eye hole as they watched the hole they were sucked into disappear from sight before they floated in darkness, suffocating darkness that was slowly killing them.

And then…. Air. An opening formed underneath them, a lighter shade of black showing before they were thrown in, their bodies chucked out of what was the spinning vertex only to be freefalling through the sky. Quickly, they pulled themselves out of their shocked states and moved immediately. The man with the shark teeth and eyes, gill marks under his eyes and light blue skin thrust a good bit of his chakra into his feet, slowing his fall till he watched the clouds they were in move away, he fell towards the ground and spotted a roof close to him, he kicked out in front of him and sent the last bit of his chakra out of his foot, propelling him back till he hit and rolled across the roof. He stared up silently as the others fell.

A woman with blue hair and a black cloak with red clouds and a white outline, matching to his own, fell, he watched as she flipped and landed gracefully on a roof across from him on a building that seemed to be made of glass. Her blue eyes turned up towards the sky as she watched the man with orange hair, Pein, twist and land beside her, breathing heavily and sweat drenched.

A man with blonde hair did not bother to land on a roof, in fact by the time he had moved into the vortex, he was digging his hand into his side pack on his hip, his single blue eye narrowed as he fell before he pulled his hand out and opened it, staring at the mouth that was on his hand as it chewed and molded the clay that it had devoured seconds ago. Thrusting a bit of his chakra into his clay, he watched the mouth spit up a bird which he immediately threw out in front of him and watched a small explosion followed, a much larger bird appeared in it's place and he was grabbed by it's talons, expertly he climbed onto it's head and stood.

The man with black hair and the mask with an black and orange swirl pattern plummeted down towards the ground, the blonde was immediate in action, his eye narrowing as his bird swooped, catching the male on it's back before the man moved to his feet unsteadily before sitting Indian style. His own black cloak that they all wore moving around him as he panted for breath.

Another black haired male fell towards the sky, his eyes half lidded with what seemed like slight boredom before he glanced to the side as he moved head first through the air towards the man with blue skin, he disappeared from sight with a mere twitch of his hand only to appear next to the man, crouched down next to him with a hand on his shoulder and a slightly annoyed look. Quietly, he looked at the pair falling towards them.

The first was a man with purple hewed eyes, his cloak was open and his chest bare, on his back he carried a three bladed white and red scythe with chains connecting to each scythe, his hair was a slicked back white and his mouth was open as he called out in frantic fury every curse word in the book and some that were even unknown to the book.

The second man that was beside him was telling him simply to shut up, his black pupils and brown irises narrowing at him as his mask covered his mouth as did his robe's neck band and his head was covered by hat, the first man yelled at him angrily before the second man punched him subtly in the face making him fly towards the bird which caught him with it's talons around his waist and the second man appeared standing beside Pein in a slight crouch muttering dull insults.

They all looked up how ever at the final falling member, a man with a large Venus fly trap falling towards the ground below, his arms hanging by his sides of his cloak as he felt the air ruffling his hair and clothing, his face and body was painted half white and half black vertically down it, his eyes were a light yellow, almost pollen crusted one may say, and his hair was a light shade of green.

Opening his mouth, the robotic voice of before stated something, before the male voice of before as well answered, he nodded lightly before turning his body and shoving his chakra into his feet, propelling him near the blue man and his black haired comrade. Subtly, he landed on the roof and moved over, his eyes half lidded as he stared down at the two before the robotic white side of his voice stated, "Not going to die on us are you Kisame?" Only for the black male side to continue in it's normal voice, "We'd have to eat you, you know."

Kisame stared up at him, his eyes in a hardened glare before he lifted his weak hand, his blade that was falling alone out of the vortex shot towards him and slid into his hand easily before he swung at the plant man who easily dodged, Kisame laid his arm back, his eyes moving to his partner who continued to watch him, the annoyance on his face, before he looked back up at the sky, his eyes going into a glaze as he felt unconsciousness take him.

It only took minutes for Pein, his female partner Konan, and male underling Kakuzu, to get to the roof Hoshigaki, Kisame, the plant man Zetsu, and the black haired Uchiha, Itachi were stationed on. Staring for a moment at the shark man, Pein glanced at Kakuzu and nodded, the man moved forward and picked up the younger male, throwing him onto his shoulder before the large clay bird landed. The blonde man known as Deidara hopped off and his partner, the man in the mask, Tobi, followed, the white haired man trapped under the birds talon let out a snarl, "HEY!" Deidara glanced over his shoulder before waving a hand, releasing the man known as Hidan.

The 10 silent for a moment before Pein glanced around, the smell of pollution heavy in the air as he glanced around, his eyes narrowed on the ground below at the people walking about, and the odd metal contraptions racing down the paved road between the buildings. Slowly, he glanced into the sky as he head the roar of thunder, a flash of lightening following. He couldn't see the vortex that spat them out any where. He felt something hit his nose and glanced up, his eyes narrowed, before it began to rain.

"Terrific, un." Deidara stated. The others growled or grunted their agreement, before the bird dissipated into mud, he cursed and stamped his foot, "Just great un!" The group was silent again as he fumed and glanced over his shoulder at the unconscious man, he sighed, "We need to get some where dry un…"

"Obviously, you dolt." Pein hissed, his eyes narrowed before he glanced around, his eyes landing on the building that they had just come from, he stared silently at the windows of the building, so huge the building itself looked of glass, he nodded, yes, that would due. That would due just fine.