Haddy: Chapter TWO! Btw, some offensive language (mainly Hidan and probably Luxord) rated T!

TO THE HOSTS!

Sora: Yes, the wonderful hosts.

Sakura: Indeed.

Naruto: BELIEVE IT!

Sakura: Can we replace him?

Riku: Dunno.

Sora: TO THE SET!

To The Set!

Take Two: The Challenge.

Akatsuki

"How the fuck can we compete with them," he screeched inside the team huddle, "they move like wolves!" Hidan was having the most trouble calming down since the arrival of the enemies. Kakuzu wasn't helping him though. He often mumbled under his breath, which made Hidan scream at him. Tobi offered to pray to Joshin with Hidan, but he even refused that.

"If we work together, and stop arguing," Pain growled and shot a glance at Hidan and Kakuzu, "we could stand a chance and survive another round." Pain had seen the leader of the Organization XIII, actually at a Comic Con, once before and he knew how orderly he was. He wouldn't let his team step out of line, very much at the least.

Tobi wasn't included in the team huddle. Right now, his Madara intelligence had deserted him, leaving his mind to wander and his eye to spot shiny things. His nemeses, shiny and sparkly things, like Edward Cullen, were his main distraction. No matter what his intelligence level was, they always caught his attention and held it until they disappeared. Or until Pain smashed it. Tobi glanced around and came face-to-face with one of the rival team's member. "Oh," Tobi said in surprise, "hi there!"

Roxas, of the Organization, simply stared, tracing the swirls of Tobi's mask with his eyes.

Tobi slumped his shoulders, ready to be insulted, when Roxas smiled a little and said, "I like the orange in it, it gives it an artistic feel." Tobi widened his eye in shock and clapped.

"Art?" he asked, remember one of Sasori and Deidra's art conversations, "my mask is art?"

Roxas nodded, "at least, I like it." Roxas offered his hand out, a handshake. Tobi shook his hand goofily and jumped up and down, almost radiating his happiness.

Konan took that moment to glance behind the huddle to find Tobi and the enemy. She tapped Pain's should to tell him, but he turned to her in that expectant expression that looked like he wanted a kiss. She pointed behind her at Tobi, without turning from the huddle and without glancing up at him. She wouldn't pleasure him in hearing her voice, not today.

"Madara," Pain yelled, "huddle!"

Tobi waved bye to Roxas and sprinted to the huddle, without realizing Pain had called Madara. Pain looked at him expectantly, like he was supposed to be a butterfly. Tobi giggled at that image of a butterfly with his swirly mask. The whole team stared at Tobi, awaiting Madara's excellent plans and ideas. Tobi finally met their gazes. More butterflies with masks, he chuckled more.

"Will you just shut the fuck up and do your alternate personality shit and be smart for us today dipshit?" Hidan growled.

Instantly, Tobi remembered what he was supposed to be. Deidara rolled his eyes, how stupid could they both be, un?

"Madara," Pain insisted, "not Tobi."

Madara took over Tobi easily, though he was prepared in case something shiny got into his line of vision. Seconds passed but none of them weren't filled with plans and ideas to bring the team together and beat the enemy.

A Bell rang, signaling a challenge as Pain had read in the instructions. Pain ran an inspection's look over his huddled team and nodded as they began to walk to the back of the room which held the Challenge Chambers.

Organization XIII

"But I still don't get why Roxas complimented that swirly guy," Demyx repeated in a stage whisper to Zexion and Larxene.

Zexion had put away his oversized books for the challenge that they were walking to for once. He waved off Demyx and said, "Can't you see, are you blind? He's creating a sense of trust, Madara and Tobi can't resist. When the time comes, they couldn't be able to stab Roxas in the back. Roxas is the most innocent looking person of the organization."

Larxene puffed, "I'm innocent looking, and I'm the only girl."

"I wonder," Zexion scratched his chin in one of his deep thought sessions.

Demyx saw his opportunity to point something out to Larxene, "hey, they only have one girl too, I vote 'catfight'." He giggled and made sure it didn't insult her. Instead, it made her look confused. He stopped laughing and acted serious, "what?"

"But if the blue-haired is the girl, then is that blonde person a guy? The one with the ponytail and he's clinging to that red-haired guy," she rudely pointed them out with her fingers.

Demyx frowned and looked close at the blonde kid. He was definitely a guy, after closer examination. He burst out laughing. Larxene looked at him questioningly. He held up a finger, bent at first, then he straightened it out, as if he were pointing to the ceiling. Larxene got the notion and joined him in hysterical laughter.

"Keep moving," Saix grumbled up ahead. He seemed to be the only one who wasn't excited. Entering the giant room didn't make him jittery, like the other members. He simply took a seat on the seats marked with an O and faced forward, focusing on the four hosts.

Hosts

Naruto: annnnd the challenge shall be…

Sora: a simple task to start.

Sakura: are you kidding me? A race? Is that all we have?

Riku: it's just to start, calm down, Sakura.

Sora: yeah seriously…

Creator

Haddy: And so that's Episode 2. The Challenge will be in Episode 3. Elimination in Episode 4. REVIEW! I don't Own any!