She laughed as she looked down at the bodies of her friends, of her teammates, surrounded in pools of their own blood. She made their deaths painful and slow, showing them the pain she had kept bottled up inside for far too long. She had finally gotten her revenge on all the people she despised. None of them were expecting this to happen, for her to do this. They all thought she was miss-goodie-two-shoes.

But of course, that's what she wanted them to think. They all let their guard down from the beginning, never once suspecting her of anything.

"Fools. This is why you can never trust anybody." She stated as she drove her sword through another's heart, ending their life. Once again her menacing laughter rung through the now still, silent night as she looked over all the bloodied bodies of her friends. She smirked as she heard whimpering, indicating someone was still alive. She saw a young child huddled up in a corner, afraid of the person who stood before them.

She only smirked again as she rose her blade up in front of the child's heart. The last thing that could be heard before everything fell silent, was the child's last scream, their last breath of life before their life ended in front of her eyes...

"Nooo!!" Hinata yelled as she sat up, wide awake from the nightmare that haunted her dreams. She sat there panting, not believing what she saw. Herself...massacring...her entire village. Blood was everywhere, on the ground, on the lifeless bodies of her friends, even on her hands which did the horrible deed.

"Ah, you're awake." Someone said to her. She looked over to where the voice came from, seeing only someones outline.

"Who are you? Where am I?" She asked, puzzled as to where she was and how she got here. She looked around noticing she was in a room with medical supplies. The room itself looked as though it was made out of rock, or stone. Hinata had no idea where she was until the voice in the corner told her.

"You're in the Akatsuki base, of course." They said as they stepped forward so she could see them. Their skin was tinted blue, like water. She noticed they had what looked like gills on their face, three on each side. As they smiled she could she their teeth were like fangs, the weapon which was on their back was wrapped in bandages, hiding what it truly looked like. The headband which was on their forehead held the symbol of the Village Hidden in the Mist, but it had a scratch through it, severing all ties with their village forever. The cloak they were wearing was black with red clouds on it.

Red clouds? That's an Akatsuki cloak! I've seen this man from somewhere, but where? Hinata thought when she noticed it. "Who are you?" She asked, a little frightened.

He smirked.

"Kisame Hoshigaki. Pleased to meet you."

I knew it! The Bingo Book! That's where I've seen him before. He's an S-ranked criminal.

"Why am I here?"

"Me and Itachi-san brought you here. We found you in the forest with blood all over you, asleep against a tree." Kisame explained to her.

"Itachi?"

Kisame only nodded, he knew Itachi was coming to meet her now anyways. After a few minutes, he walked into the room. Hinata looked up when she noticed a different chakra signature. Her breath got caught in her throat at the site of him, he was absolutely gorgeous.

He had long midnight black hair that was tied back in a ponytail, except for his bangs which fell down and framed his face perfectly. His eyes were the darkest black she ever saw, frightening her but captivating her at the same time, she couldn't look away from them. His cloak was halfway open, revealing nicely toned muscles underneath his mesh shirt.

"So, she's awake." His voice was like velvet, silk almost. It was smooth yet dark enough to make you fall in love with it immediately. Hinata could only nod in response to him.

"Well Hinata, mind telling us what happened to you? You must've done something pretty bad to have that many ANBU following you." Kisame asked.

"I...I..."

"You, what?"

"Killed my clan..." She mumbled, barely loud enough for them to hear her.

"Oi Itachi-san, maybe we should add her into Akatsuki. She's pretty strong to have killed her clan by herself. And then run from all those ANBU. What do you say Itachi-san? Itachi-san...?" Kisame had whispered to Itachi, nudging him with his elbow. As Kisame looked over at him, he could see that Itachi was nodding slowly.

"That would work Kisame, but we would have to get Leader-sama's permission first. Kisame, you go ask Leader, I'll lead Hinata-san to a room she can stay in for now." Kisame nodded, vanishing. Itachi motioned for Hinata to follow him, and she got up off the medical bed she was on and stood up. As Itachi started to walk out of the room she caught up to him, following close behind, she didn't want to get lost.

While the two of them were walking, Itachi never once looked back to make sure she was following him, she figured he could tell anyways. After all, she wouldn't try to escape, she had nowhere else to go, and if they accepted her here, that was fine with her.

She kept looking around, trying to remember which way they went to get to her room, but there were too many turns so she gave up, she'd learn sooner or later. When they had finally entered a hallway with some rooms in it, she heard a loud, obnoxious voice, one that sounded like it was from a child, not from someone in the Akatsuki.

"ITACHI-SAN!!" Hinata looked up and saw Itachi wince.

"Oh god." He looked back at her. "Prepare yourself." She gave a confused look.

"Prepare myself for wha-...?"

"Itachi-san!! Kisame-san told Tobi that we have a new member! Where is she? Tobi wants to meet her!!" Now Hinata knew what Itachi meant. This, Tobi, person was scaring her. She didn't expect someone like him to be in the Akatsuki. Hinata didn't realize it, but she had grabbed onto Itachi's arm, squeezing it tightly. Itachi just smirked and looked down at her.

"Hinata-san. You can let go, it's just Tobi." Hinata blushed and let go, looking up at Tobi. She saw he had an orange mask on his face, covering everything except for his right eye.

"So you're the new member! Tobi is glad to meet you! What's your name?" Tobi asked her, a little too cheerful for her liking.

"Hinata. Glad to meet you, Tobi." Hinata said. Itachi started walking again, indicating that he wanted her to follow him again. As she started to follow him, Tobi started to follow her.

"Looks like he likes you, Hinata-san." Itachi whispered to her, making her scoot closer to him. That only made him smirk as he put his arm around her shoulders, leading Hinata off into another hallway as she said her good-byes to Tobi. "He won't bother you much, Hinata-san. He's like that whenever he hears good news."

Hinata just nodded. Itachi looked down at her noticing she was getting tired, probably still worn out from running. He looked back up to see her room at the end of the hallway on the right.

"Hinata-san, this is your room. You can go and rearrange it however you like. And I noticed you're getting tired."

Hinata nodded. "Just a little. I'm still worn out from escaping from ANBU."

"Then go ahead and take a nap. I'll send Kisame to get you for dinner." Itachi said to her as her patted her head, pushing her inside. Hinata shut the door and turned around, looking at the room she would be staying it.

It had a small window straight ahead of her. There was a bed to the left of the window and a dresser to the right. She noticed a door next to the dresser, so she decided to see what was behind it. When she opened the door, she saw a plain bathroom. A small shower and sink were inside, the sink had a mirror above it and a medicine cabinet to the right of it.

She walked back out of the bathroom into the bedroom to see what was inside the dresser. As she opened it she saw it had plenty of clothes that she could wear, she even noticed an Akatsuki cloak and hat were hung up for her. She closed the closet and decided to go to sleep now, she didn't care about changing out of her clothes right now, she was too tired.

As she lied down on the bed and started to drift off to sleep, she wondered if she could get along with everyone here. Maybe this could be her new home, somewhere where she was accepted for who she really was, where she wouldn't have to put up a fake personality to fool everyone. She would think about it more once Kisame came to get her for dinner. Until then, she would have a nice, peaceful nap, or so she thought. She never once noticed the figure lurking in the shadows of her room...