The next day Ino woke up in an unfamiliar room. Slowly she remembered what happened, she fought the urgency to cry and she got up and washed her face. Maybe she should ask if could go to town and buy some clothes, yeah right like these assholes would let her. She ran to the kitchen and looked around, she was stunned, these people had a nice house, a lot of land, and no food.

"Unbelievable." She hissed. I guess I'll have to cook with whatever I find. Yeah well she only found two eggs less than a ¼ of rice, and half of an apple. She fought the urge to scream and pull every Akatsuki member by the hair and ask why they had nothing in their fridge.

Suddenly a man with gray hair walked in whispering things. He sat in the nearest chair and looked at her from top to bottom. "Hey woman! When is breakfast gonna be ready?" He said putting his feet on top of the table.

Okay, so she could put up with this moron doing that to the table, but no one calls her that, it was disrespectful and annoying. "Listen Buddy, you and this disgusting team don't have food, so if you all want to eat something other than dirt today, one of you better go into town and bring some food other than these disgusting leftovers." She put the food she found on the table and walked away leaving a very shocked and angry Hidan behind.

She almost kicked the door of her bedroom open and entered shutting it louder than she needed to. Fucking morons!You just watch I'll escape and . Her mind was screaming that because she knew better than saying that out loud. How was she supposed to do anything she was brought here for when there was nothing in the kitchen other than stupid leftovers? She had a window in her room, but she had to think of another way to escape, she looked out the window and saw that there were all kinds of herbs in the fields, and by that she meant poisonous herbs too.

A knock was heard and she turned her attention to the door and a man with reddish hair came in, he wasn't that bad looking, another one stood behind him this one… looked like her…

"Hey, un, when is breakfast going to be ready?" The blonde one asked. She looked at him ready to give him a piece of her mind.

"Leader has brought something for you to cook." The other one said, he sounded like he was getting impatient.

"Leader?" She asked. The blonde man stepped forward and almost pulled her arm out dragging her to the kitchen where everything was filled with food.

"Yeah, yeah un. Make some food; we haven't eaten anything since Konan died, well at least anything decent." The blonde guy who didn't look much older than her was trying to get her to hurry.

"Okay, umm…" She didn't know his name so she looked at him and put some things away.

"Deidara, this is my partner Sasori." He said pointing a finger at the redhead next to him. Zetzu walked in looking at the meat Ino had in the pan.

"Hello, I'm Ino Yamanaka." She smiled and handed Deidara a plate with his breakfast. She also handed one to Sasori but he held his hand out to tell her he didn't want any. She looked around for Zetzu but he wasn't around, at that moment Itachi came in, she remembered him from the bingo book.

"…." Ino handed him a plate and he took it to his room, she noticed Deidara and Sasori were not around anymore.

"Hello Ino-chan!" An extremely cheerful voice yelled from behind her.

"Hey there." She said, this guy is really loud; she thought for a second and gave him his breakfast.

"Ino-chan this is delicious!" He said.

"Thanks you…" She didn't know his name so she didn't know what to call him.

"Oh right…haha… my name is Tobi!" He said, oh yeah this moron kidnapped her although most of the work was done by Zetzu. He immediately turned to leave.

"Hey Tobi, doesn't anyone eat here?" She asked.

"No, no one eats here because most of the members don't find a point in that." He said and turned to leave.

"Okay, then, that's okay." She said calmly, this gave her a plan, it was the perfect escape. After she finished making the rest of the plates for that idiot Hidan, Kakuzu, Kisame, that guy that attacked her yesterday in his office, and leader. Zetzu walked in and served himself a glass of water.

"Ugh, Ino you eat a lot." He said pointing at the two plates in front of her.

"Oh no this is for the guy that showed me to my room yesterday and this one is for the leader." She said pointing at each plate.

"What?" He said raising an eyebrow the white part at least. "Umm… girl the guy that showed you to your room and leader are the same guy…"

"What?!" She blinked a few times, so that guy was the leader! She had to admit that this guy was cute. No Ino No! This guy will be toasted as soon as you get back to Konoha. Just then He walked in.

"Morning leader." Zetzu said respectfully and walked out leaving the blonde beauty and the Akatsuki leader alone.

"Uh, I guess this is yours." She said and handed him the food.

"…Okay…" He said looking at the food she made for them. "I suppose you're going to clean after you finish right?"

"Yeah… you wish." She whispered unaware he had a perfect ear.

"Hehehe… you have quite the guts to be able to talk to me like that little girl. Do you realize every attempt you make to try to hurt me will only end up coming back to bite you in the ass?"

Something she really didn't want have happening right now was the eye contact they made that seemed to draw him closer than he already was.

She broke the eye contact… "I see you guys have food herbs outside, I need some for lunch."

"Didn't I bring some?" He said not lifting his gaze from her.

"No, not any of the ones I need." She breathed. He finally took his eyes away from her and walked out.

"I'll ask Deidara to take you." He said and left, leaving her scared at what she just felt when their eyes made contact.

What in the name of God is wrong with this guy? That was the only thought. She was shocked and on top of that anxious.

After a long hour of cleaning and dusting, she wondered if they expected her to clean their rooms too. Oh no, no, no, I would never ever clean a guy's room not even if my life was hanging from a string. With that she retreated to her room where not long after Deidara knocked.

"Hey un, leader asked me to take to pick those… uh things." He said not sure of what exactly he was supposed to do.

"Yeah, okay, let's go." She said and almost ran outside.

Once she was done with the food herbs she moved on to the poisonous ones, of course these guys had nothing that would kill them. However, they had a good amount of sleeping plants that will give her a window of about two hours to escape.

"Un, are you done?" Deidara asked tierd of playing with his clay.

"Yeah, I'll go make some lunch." She smiled and stood up.

"Alright!" He smiled as well and they both headed inside.

Ino was very careful when handling these herbs, for example too much will obviously kill them; on the other hand she really didn't see a problem with that. Lunch was almost ready and she made sure the herbs were no visible. You just watch, they might not drop dead but I will definitely have more than enough time to search and leave. And if they do die, then that's not my problem, not like anyone will miss them.

"What are you making?" A male voice asked from behind her. She turned around scared almost screaming, it was Sasori just standing there looking at her.

"Miso soup…" She said in an almost whisper. That's right, this guy doesn't eat, that means I'll have sneak out of here without him knowing. "Are you going to eat?" She asked hoping this guy could at least have a drink of the tea she made, which by the way contained some sleeping herbs too.

"I can but I don't have to." He answered simply. "Why?" Now there was a question she really hoped he wouldn't ask.

"Because you didn't eat in the morning. I guess I was just wondering if you didn't like my cooking." She answered him hoping he would buy it. He did.

"No, I'm a puppet, which means I don't need most of the things you humans do." That made sense, except no she was even more concerned. Even if this guy eats or drinks anything I made it won't work. Damn, I really didn't wanted to fight.

"I see." She thought of a way to make this guy direct his attention to something else that wasn't her, this guy could really spoil her plans.

"Ino. Do you want to go home?" He asked looking straight into her eyes; something about those eyes spoke the opposite from the fact that he wasn't human anymore.

"Yeah, I miss my mom and dad, I even miss some of my friends, but I also have something to do before I could go back." She said remembering a conversation she overheard, her father and Lady Hokage were talking about how they didn't wanted her to find out about the contents of a scroll in the Sacred Lands.

Flashback:

Ino was about to knock on Tsunade's door when she heard the voice of her father.

"I'm worried about her, The Sacred Lands have forbidden her entrance there and that's a relief, but if she finds out about that scroll then even if she stays on the good side if anyone gets a hold of her then it will be if she wants to know what's in there?" Inoichi sounded scared but more than anything worried.

"I know, listen we're trying to keep her at a level just like the ninjas her age like a normal female ninja, and you know that The Sacred Lands are not only far away but near impossible to find. Ino will be fine." Tsunade assure Inoichi.

A normal female ninja. What's going on? Ino kept as quiet as she could.

"I just hope she never attracts any attention, especially any unwanted attention. Like for example, the Akatsuki or the enemy lands, this gift is meant to be cherished not feared, still we try so hard to convince her that she is as strong as she should be." With those words Ino became confused and walked away before anyone saw her.

End Flashback

"What do you need to do?" Sasori asked looking at her blank expression.

"Umm… I need to visit a few relatives." She lied, but she couldn't just tell him she had something her own father feared. Zetzu walked in not paying attention to any of them.

"So, where's my lunch." He asked not looking at them.

"Oh, I can give you some right now; it has some meat in there too, so it will be really good." She walked to the boiling pot in the stove.

"I don't eat that." The black half of Zetzu hissed.

"Oh okay, you're a vegetarian, I'll make you something right now." She said reaching for some vegetables.

"Zetzu, the bodies are in the back." Sasori said and Ino's eyes almost popped out.

So they were not kidding when they told her Zetzu eats people. Well anyway lunch was ready. Sasori exited the kitchen and went to his room, not that she knew exactly where he went. The plants should make them sleep instantly. She served the first plate and set it on the table. Just then Leader walked in and stared at the food on the table.

"Did you eat already?" He asked.

"No, I'm not hungry." Her back was facing him so she gulped, but to her disadvantage he saw that. This girl was clearly hiding something.

"Okay then, I want you to taste it." He wanted her to do what!?

"I'm really not hungry." She said, why didn't she think of this?

"Then should I make you eat it by force?" He took out a long black blade and pointed it at her. Ugh! Why can't I push anything past this guy?

"Okay, I'll do it." She could pretend to swallow it right? WRONG! Just touching it with her lips made her weak and putting the spoon in her mouth made no difference to eating it.

"I knew it." He said, as she was about to hit the floor she crashed against something soft. His chest? She thought he was going to let her hit the floor but he stopped her, just before everything went black she heard him whisper. "Stupid child, Strike Two, one more and you're out."

Something inside her made her think she really didn't want to find out what will happen if she ever got to strike three.

Leaf Village:

Sakura hadn't heard from Ino in a while, she didn't live with her parents anymore so they didn't know where she was either. Just then she saw Tsunade in a hurry to Ino's apartment as well.

"Lady Tsunade what's wrong?" Sakura asked.

"Ino has gone missing. We must alert everyone and hopefully I'm wrong." Tsunade fought to stay calm, but if she was right then that will mean someone found out about Ino and scroll that made her the strongest ninja in history.