I got my wounds patched by a member named 'Kakuzu'. "How did you manage to get yourself hurt so badly?! Deidara's not even that strong."
"Strong enough, apparently. He almost killed me." I said glaring at him. "Who's that Hidan person?"
Kakuzu looked to the side, looking annoyed. "The most annoying Idiot in the world."
"Don't like him, eh?"
I was slightly smiling as I talked. "You sound like my…" I searched my memory trying to think of friends, family or anybody that I could compare them to.
Nothing came up. "Like you're….?" Kakuzu was sounding annoyed now.
I shook myself out of my thinking. "Sorry. Spaced out. Like my…um…brothers?"
Kakuzu still looked annoyed. "You don't remember anything, do you?"
I shook my head. "Not a thing. All I remember is waking up in the forest with my headband in my hands."
"So why'd you put a mark through it?"
"I thought my village betrayed me. I still think that. What kind of village leaves a resident in the middle of the forest?!" I yelled at him.
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes. "Look, kid. I don't give a damn about all that. I just asked a question."
I put my hands up, pretending to surrender. "Sorry, sorry. I'm a little pissed at my village."
Kakuzu finished patching my wounds. "I had no idea." He said sarcastically.
I glared at him again. "You're just like that Hidan guy."
"I'm nothing like that arrogant bastard!" he yelled.
I smiled at him. "Just like him." The leader, who had introduced himself as Pein, dropped a cloak in my lap. "Shione, I want you to tell me what style jutsu you use."
I stared at the cloak in my lap. "I don't know. I don't remember anything but 3 hours ago…"
Deidara walked by me and grabbed my hair, tugging it hard. "How do we know you're not lying, un?"
I grabbed his wrist and glared at him. "Let go of my hair." I sent a small bolt of lightning into his wrist making him let go of me.
I shook my hair back into where it was. "Lightning style, I see." Pein said.
One with a black ponytail walked up to Pein. "we could have her battle me. To see if she's a powerful ninja. Lighting cancels out earth, which explains Deidara."
I put up my fists. "are you sure I'm not just really strong?"
Deidara crossed his arm. "she used Lightning style and water style in our battle, Itachi." He said sarcastically.
He looked at Pein. "Mostly water but when she attacked me with a chidori I was surprised."
I stared at him. "Chi…dori…? I've never heard of such a thing."
Kakuzu glared at Itachi and Deidara. "I just patched her up. Nobody's doing any fighting. Leader, you owe me 500 ryo."
I looked up at him. "but you didn't do a lot."
He glared at me. "you had a broken leg, 3 broken ribs, a broken wrist and a heck of a lot more."
I stared at myself. "did I?"
"you sure damn did. It's a surprise you didn't die from all the injuries." He said, still glaring.
I put my hands up again, in another pretend surrender. "Alright, I owe you."
He held out his hand, like he was expecting something to be put in it. "How about 300 ryo?"
I sighed and searched my back pouch for money. "I only have 100. That good?"
I held it out for him and he snatched it from me. "Hm. Not as much as I'd like, but I'll take it. You still owe me 200 ryo."
I groaned and pretended to fall backwards. I got back up. "He's never gonna let me hear the end of that, is he?"
Deidara grinned and shook his head. "Nope, un. And I sure will enjoy watching you get tormented to hell by it, un."
I narrowed my eyes at him and got up quickly. I held my ribs that were stinging violently and sat back down. "I hate you."
Deidara's grin was still on his face. "Don't I know it, un."
I looked up at Pein, smiling nervously. He had been watching the whole time, eyebrows raised. I laughed timidly before he sighed and pointed to a door, and then walked away.
