"Join or die now?" Puzzled the girl looked at the speaker. „I'm being hunted as a nuke-nin for quite some time now. Did you really think I would be afraid of death?" she said calm, with an icy tone in her voice. "Everybody clings to life, if you want to admit it or not." replied the blue sharkman grinning, showing his white sharp teeth. "Get to the point. I may not look like it but I actually have a lot of things to do, so… I do not want to join your little group of crazy killers but I would prefer to avoid bloodshed. Bonus question: How many possibilities do I have?" she asked sarcastically. "None. Just decide or we're going to do that for you." said the black haired, who hadn't made any noises yet, cold. Her gold-brown eyes sent a poisonous glare to the Akatsukis. Then she turned away and stared into the wide blue sky. "I'll go with you" she said after a short silence. "But do not dare to touch me in any way!" Her voice was determined. "So, where are we going?" she asked smiling while turning back to the two men.
"Join or die?" The girl rolled her eyes in extreme annoyance. „Didn't your parents teach you anything else to say? Seriously! I'm surrounded by a herd of idiots!" The last part she said more to herself than to the others. "If I didn't plan to join, I wouldn't have come here in the first place!" she continued a little louder. Before the Leader had the chance of answering, a loud voice emerged from the door. "What the fuck! Why the hell did I have to get up this fucking early? I hope you assholes have prepared a victim and have a fucking good reason for making me get up at this time of the day! Because if not… then Jashin may be gracious… or actually… no he may not!" A blond, feminine looking guy turned to welcome the newcomer. "Ah Hidan, finally awake, too. How's your headache?" he asked grinning. The man, whose name seemed to be Hidan, shot him a deadly glance. He didn't notice though the little something, Blondie had sent rolling towards him. In the very same moment Hidan turned muttering away from the group, this little something exploded right next to him. The impact of the explosion sent him flying against the wall.
"Wuhaaaaaa, Deidara-senpai, why did you do that? Hidan-senpai will be very angry now." said a guy, with the voice of a little child and an orange mask covering his whole face. While he was talking, Hidan straightened up, swearing like Natsuki had never ever heard like before. But she also wasn't very pleased by the action of the blond. She had an annoying headache anyway and the loud noise would definitely not help her! Simply she abandoned her escort and walked straight to the blond, who was still laughing at his own prank. A single directed hit to his neck and the blond lost consciousness, having less than a moment time to widen his eyes, expressing his complete surprise. "Where am I? In a day care?" Natsuki mumbled to herself, shaking her head. „Since you already took out your original opponent, you'll fight against Kisame now, Natsuki." meant the Leader annoyed. Everybody could see how hard it was for him to keep ignoring Hidan's swearing. That one, however, finally stopped swearing after having kicked the defenseless blond for a few times. Now he turned to face the Leader: "Ey, why did I have to get up in the first place if I don't even get to fight this bitch?" If he had expected a reaction from her side, he was to be disappointed. Something like that, said by someone she didn't even know wouldn't provoke her. Bored she stepped forward and waited for the blue Sushi to get ready. Still nagging Hidan went to the tribune. The others followed, Sasori dragging Deidara with him, which caused him to be in a very bad mood. When everybody had settled Pain opened the fight. Already after the first attacks, she was sure Kisame wouldn't be a danger to her. He obviously had his specialty in Nin- and Taijutsus and those wouldn't have any effect on her, simply bouncing of the barrier. Natsuki didn't move, instead she sat down crossed legged in the lotus and began to meditate. He also seemed to notice that something was odd. Again he placed a fatal hit with Samehada but about two feet from her body, Samehada encountered an unvisible barrier. The power of his own fatal blow turned against him and made him stagger a bit until he regained his balance. In a matter of seconds he formed the signs for Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu. The water dragon moved with great speed and power towards her but again he encountered the invisible barrier two feet before her body and bounced off towards the ceiling.
After two hours Pain finally grew bored and declared the fight for ended. Out of breath Kisame stared unbelieving at Natsuki, who was still sitting put on the ground in the lotus. "Hey bitch, the fight's over. You can get up now and move your fucking ass up here!" shouted Hidan impatiently. She, however, still didn't move. Only when Pain said she should come up to get her cloak, her eyes opened. With grace she straightened up and suddenly stood beside Pain. Smiling he gave her the cloak. He leaned closer to her and whispered: "You'll get a ring as soon as we were able to decide which sign would suite you best." He paused, then added even quieter. "Wait for me in the hallway." She nodded without showing any emotions. She turned and stepped through the door, leading to the living quarters. After a reassuring nod from him she closed the door behind herself. Pain turned to the other members. "For today everything's done. Tomorrow morning I want to see Sasori and Deidara in my office." He trusted Sasori to inform his still unconscious partner later. Then he left the room.
When Hidan, like always swearing to himself, walked the hallway to his room, he suddenly noticed Pain and Natsuki, standing in front of the Leader's office. Immediately he stopped and watched the two of them curiously, not that he ever would have admitted it. He couldn't believe what he saw: Pain was giving Natsuki a gentle kiss on the forehead. And both were smiling! Though he had never seen Pain smiling before, he wasn't really interested if the Big Boss was happy anyway… But with Natsuki that was a whole different story. She was hot anyway and he felt little Hidan twitching each time he saw her. But when she was smiling it wasn't only little Hidan, who was acting up. She was simply stunningly beautiful when she was truly smiling… and cute… As Hidan noticed what he was thinking, he sweared loudly and ran to his room. He had to pray. May Jashin assist him… but it was still bugging him. What the hell could possibly connect Pain and Natsuki? Never mind! He really had to sacrifice somebody…It's been quite some time anyway since the last sacrifice.