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Chapter 2: The hospital

When I woke up by head was throbbing and there was an annoying beeping coming from my left.

"I think she's awake un!"

"Stop shouting!" my voice came out all raspy, it hurt to talk so I shut my mouth to avoid further pain. I blinked a few times letting my eyes adjust to the fluorescent lights above. "What the hell did you idiots do? What happened…"

I felt a hand on mine. I looked down, the hand was blue. "The medi-nin said you had three broken ribs and a sprained wrist, a broken nose, and possible whiplash. Are you ok?" His voice was laced with concern and I felt a flutter of happiness.

"No whiplash my neck is fine." my voice was weaker then it was a little bit ago... or wait, just how long ago had I been asleep? "What happened though? I don't remember a thing. You all look fine since your all standing and screaming again."

"Officers came about an hour after the collision. A really big… um…"

"It was a semi I know that much."

"Right, a semi crashed into us and you were the only one injured."

I sighed, this was just great. "How long was I out for?"

"Three days I think."

And these guys waited here for me? After I had screamed at them and possibly killed them all in a car crash? "Oh, and some guy with white hair came and gave you flowers in a vase, he was crying loudly and clinging to another man."

I rolled my eyes. "Hn, that was Vinny my boss and his husband Steven. Those two are sweet really but a bit overzealous."

"Neko-sempai! Your ok!" The Tobi cosplayer screeched and he took the hand Kisame had been holding and rubbed his face against it.

"Tobi, I'm not a cat. And stop doing that, your mask is cold, why are you still wearing that thing? Aren't you done cosplaying?"

"But Tobi doesn't know your name and you remind Tobi of cat!"

I twisted up my face, "I hate cats Tobi. They're cute but far to lazy for me. I'm more of a dog person, or fish, actually anything but cats. And my name is Kisu by the way. What's yours?"

Tobi looked up at me, "you already know it sempai! You just said it."

"Huh? Oh no I mean you real name I was just referring you to Tobi since that's your character."

"But it really is Tobi's name! It is!" That's pretty Ironic. Tobi's name is really Tobi. Maybe he spells it differently or something.

"Ok… then what's the rest of your names?" I wanted to call them by their real names not their cosplay names.

"You seem to already know." Pein said.

"what? No I… wait are you series? Man you guys really must love Naruto."

"Naruto? The Kyuubi. If he is here tell me where -"

"Whoa… Calm down Pein, that's the title of the show I mentioned earlier."

Pein looked at me and then he turned away and walked into the hall, Konan fallowed.

"Whatever a cosplayer is I'm pretty sure were not doing it." I looked at Kisame.

I blinked a few times, letting the information sink in. "Ok haha good joke. You guys can say what you want but there's no way you can actually prove your really any of the Akatsuki. Your all just a bunch of diluted psychos."

"Want proof? All right." Kakuzu, unzipped his cloak and I stared at his stitching. They looked really good. But I frowned as an arm detached itself and flew to the bed I was laying on.

With Kisame's help I sat up. Getting over my initial shock I realized what kind of hoax this could be. "Hn, just a fake arm and a spring, I've seen it once before during a skit, the cosplayers were reenacting the battle between Hidan, Kakuzu and team ten."

Everyone deadpanned. "Try this then," Zetsu literally split himself in half. I yawned.

"Two people, also seen during a skit. Their were two people in one outfit and they split in two to make it look like he was sending a clone out somewhere."

Kisame looked at me, "you're a tough one aren't you?"

I smirked, "I'm to stubborn to be convinced easily, I've been lied far too much in this world."

"Itachi, you know what to do, but don't kill her." Kisame said, looking over to Itachi.

When I met his eyes I couldn't believe my own. Here I sat, in the spirit world of Tsukuyomi.

"Nani?"

"Welcome, Kisu, to the world of Tsukuyomi." Looking over to Itachi I knew that there was no way in hell this could be fake. I considered myself a pretty smart person that couldn't be easily tricked but I knew, this was really real. Oh dear Kami what the hell have I gotten myself into?

Seventy-two hours later, I found myself sitting in the hospital bed.

"Impossible." Was all I said, because I couldn't think of anything else. A thought came to my mind and I wondered, doesn't Itachi's eyes usually bleed after using that Jutsu or whatever? And if he really is Itachi he should be saving that kind of power for serious things, not wasting it on non-believers like me.

"Were real."

"shimatta!" I was seriously going to lose my mind what with the object of my desires sitting right in front of me, waiting.

"Why? How? Huh?"

"There was a Jutsu, that copy ninja hit all of us with it. Not at the same time but… at some point the got us all and sent us here."

I gulped, "How long have you all been here."

"Thirty-two days. We have a general idea of how things work here and we've met a lot of people but so far only you prove to be the most interesting and open-minded."

I smiled a bit. "Well, you can blame yourselves for that, I loved the Akatsuki as a kid and I guess I adapted to your beliefs and morphing them to fit myself."

By this time Pein and Konan had reentered the room and were listening to what Zetsu and Kisame had to say.

"Yes, your view on the world is unlike any of the ones we have met. Some spoke of natural peace, others wanted to kill every living soul. Others were so full hate they were blinded by it."

"Yeah, I don't know a single person who's truly happy in this world."

I looked at all the people sitting in this room right now. Everything just seemed so surreal right now I couldn't quite grasp it all with one hand. I placed a hand on my ribcage to try and locate the broken ones and was surprised to find nothing.

"Tobi healed you Kisu-san! Are you all better now?" All I felt was a heavy ache.

"Yes, Tobi. Thank you. I feel better much, much better then any person with three broken ribs, nose, and a sprained wrist should be feeling." I ripped the IV drip from my arm, along with the heart monitor and the thing started beeping like crazy, signaling that I was either dead or that it could no longer detect a heart beat.

"let's get out of here, I hate hospitals."

I stood up and walked right out the door.

"M-miss Tatsushiru! You have to go back to your room! M-miss Tatsushiru-!"

I ignored the nurse frantically trying to wave me down. "I'm fine! Let me sign my documents and go home, not like you need a freak like me around anyway." I continued to walk barefoot down the disinfectant laced halls.

"Miss Tatsushiru I know you hate hospitals but we've had this kind of problem since you were young, you just up and leave not even bothering to tell anyone your going, please just-"

"I'm fine!" I screamed in her face and shoved her back a bit. I knew her name by heart since she was always the nurse that got assigned to me. "I just want to go home is that to much to ask for? You damned nurses always act like you care so much for my health and wellbeing when really you want to pry me open and see what makes me tick, you want to see just what I'm made of and how I'm still alive after twenty-eight of having a dangerous chemical embedded in my DNA!"

Today was not my most amazing day, well, actually three days ago was not my perfect day. Everything turned to mush and I was sad to find the spell had finally broke. Somehow though, I knew it would. Nothing lasts forever.

When I walked away I deadpanned realizing I had no car or form of transportation whatsoever. Maybe I could take the train. I live about a block away from a train station, normally I would walk but I live about ten miles from this hospital because I hate them so much. First though I went back inside and demanded my items, the stuff the police guys always manage to find, back. They handed me a baggy with my iPod (thank god it's my life), a small Kisame plushie, a few other trinkets like my necklace I always wear, my purse, and my Akatsuki umbrella all folded up. I took my items and exited.

"What is that?" Hidan asked, and before I could stop him he had taken the bag out of my hands and was studying my plushie.

"Hey! That's mine it was twenty dollars at the convention and it was the last one." I said, snatching it out of his hands.

"You paid twenty dollars for a miniature me?" I blushed, realizing that this was the real Kisame and not some epic cosplayer.

I breathed out an embarrassed sigh, "yeah I did. Um I really wanted one and you know I really didn't expect the real thing to pop up in front of me anytime soon..."

I led the Akatsuki to the train station and bought ten tickets with my remaining money. I had just enough.

When we got to my stop we all exited and when we started walking Hidan began complaining, "aw man why don't we just take your moving whatever it was!"

"Because you broke it! And anyway it's called a car dumb ass."

"Oh you little bitch!"

"Hidan!" Kakuzu held him back and I smirked, however the smirk disappeared as I felt something sharp pinch into my foot. When I lifted it to look at it, I saw broken bits of glass on the sidewalk and wedged into my now profusely bleeding foot.

"Kuso!"

"Hold still" Kisame said, while steadying me and Tobi examined it. "Gah! Let me go my apartment is right over there I can fix it up there I have a first aid kit. Believe it or not but I step on glass a lot so I have the supplies."

I moved to step down and start walking when I was literally swept off my feet, "No way. Where is it? I'll carry you."

"Wha- huh um…." I sighed, "The beige apartment, room 22B." we got there and I took my keys out of my purse and opened the door. The room was quiet but homey looking. Kisame put me on my couch. "The kit is under my kitchen sink since that's where I always seem to get hurt."

He brought it back to me and I, after removing the glass and disposing of it properly, wrapped up my foot and gently stood up to go change out of the ungodly outfit I was forced to wear by the hospital. I entered my room and I deadpanned completely.

The Akatsuki were in my room, more importantly, Kisame was in my room.

Damn.

"Why are you all in here? Get out! I need to change clothes, Deidara stop staring at my comforter! Sasori, stop touching my pillows, and Tobi stop hugging your plushie self!"

Everyone stared at me and I shooed them out. Quickly changing to my pajamas since it was nearing nighttime. Maybe I should've changed into something else but I really didn't have much of a choice since pretty much all of my pajamas were similar. I was wearing a black camisole tee and shark PJ bottoms. Damn. Just now did I realize how obsessed I've gotten with the Akatsuki and Naruto in general. I looked up at my walls and pulled down the posters that hung shamelessly there.

They were not of the Akatsuki they were of another one of my secret pleasures: Yaoi. Posters of guys kissing were not considered normal at my age and I didn't feel like facing the Akatsuki if they had already seen them. I kept the one with a shirtless Kisame up because well, it wasn't a poster, it was painted to my wall. To hide it I put up one of my old Linken Park band posters, it just barely covered the drawing, but was enough for the time being.

"Can we come back in sempai?" Tobi asked innocently while sticking his head inside the door. Something clicked inside my mind… this was not Tobi it was… oh dear god… just act oblivious Kisu, just act normal…

"NO!" They came in anyway…

"Your room is so... Blue" Kisame said. Sure it was an innocent comment but I was going nuts at the fact the Akatsuki were right here right now. I remember when I was little I dreamed of the Akatsuki coming to me and I'd lock them away where no one could ever take them away and they were mine forever.

My walls were painted like the ocean and on the wall opposite my bed there was a large sunset and fish were swimming about in the water. I had a shark and a dolphin floating around and there was a small mermaid swaying in the current.

"I painted it myself."

"Even that?" Hidan said, pointing to the other Kisame I had drawn. Really now, that's just not fair universe. Not fair...

"Um... aw fuck it yeah I did."

"really?" Deidara got all up in my face and so did Sasori.

"Yeah. Sunsets are beautiful but they don't last forever, so you have to savor the moment. This is my own type of beauty that will last forever but the true beauty lasts in the real thing."

"You understand!" they both shrieked at the same time and tackled me in a bear hug.

"Uh... sure yeah..." I really didn't know what to say, it was true after all. Pretty things can last forever but true beauty is in the moment. Pictures and drawings can never capture the real thing.

"Get off her." Kakuzu said while pulled them both off me.

I sighed, realizing the time and wondered how all of this would work out. "ok we need to figure out sleeping arrangements. Um since I have a three bedroom apartment there can be three in the room down the hall, three in the room next to it, three in the living room, and one in here with me."

"I call being the one in here." I turned my head to Kisame and I would've blown up from all the blood rushing to my head if this were a show.

"Uh..."

"Fine by me." Pein said, leaving to go configure the rest of the sleeping arrangements with everyone else. I was left alone with Kisame.

I stole a glance at the clock. It read 12:44. Damn it was late, where did the time go? It was at least nine when I left the hospital. Even though I hadn't eaten, I was full from the IV they had been feeding me from but I had no idea about the others. "Are you hungry?"

"no, thank you though. There was food at the hospital so we ate there."

I nodded. I pointed to my window sill where there was a large ledge. Sometimes when I was reading I'd sit there and eventually doze off. "You can sleep there, It's plenty comfortable because I fall asleep there all the time." I yawned, "goodnight Kisame."

I turned off the lights. "Goodnight, Kisu-kun." I felt a shiver travel up my spine and down to my toes.

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Any questions so far? I want whoever is reading this to know I've pretty much beaten my self unconscious to get into my brain that I HAVE to finish this, so I want this story (and my other KakaIru) to be done in no more then 2 months. So I have until January first to finish them both, wish me luck!