The group waited outside Tsunade's office. Sai had regained consciousness. Kankuro had too but after Temari hit him in the nose he was out cold again.
"Why did you hit him again?" Katana asked,
"Because Kankuro is a stress reliever. He feels stressed, I feel relieved." Temari smirked. Katana nodded, not quite understanding. She went to check if Sai was awake.
"Are you okay?" she asked softly. He muttered he was fine and turned away. She shrugged it off. Sai wasn't exactly Mr Emotional. Suddenly a man with an Akatsuki cloak walked into the room. He looked at them and then at Tsunade.
"These are the ones?" he asked. Tsunade nodded. He acknowledged this and walked over to the group of "What are your names?" he asked
"What's yours?" asked Gaara leaning against the wall
the man smirked. "I'm Pein. And you are?"
"I am Gaara of the Desert; these are my siblings Temari and Kankuro."
"You're the Blades protectors?" Pein asked. Gaara nodded. Pein turned to the Blades
"Now, your names?" he raised an eyebrow
"I am Sai and this is my sister Katana." Sai said
"Good, okay to get to the Akatsuki hideout we'll have to shadow flicker and I'm guessing that none of you know how, so I'll just have to bring all of you at once. Okay grab hold of the cloak." He held out his arm. They all held on to the cloak and gasped as the world rushed into darkness.

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Sai felt his feet hit solid ground and was relieved. His stomach lurched but he managed to refrain himself from vomiting. Kankuro hadn't been so lucky.
Sai looked around at his surroundings. The Akatsuki hideout was a mansion. A huge mansion. It looked like it was in a forest, probably hidden by an illusion jutsu. Kankuro had finished vomiting and stood up straight.
"That it?" he asked groggily pointing at the mansion. Pein nodded and started walking off towards it the group of Chunins following.

The door opened to reveal a huge interior.
'At least the Akatsuki live in style.' Temari thought to herself as she looked around the lavishly decorated room.
"Umm.." Temari tapped Pein on the shoulder unable what to call him.
"You can call me Pein." he said. She nodded
'Okay Pein, umm where are the other members of the Akatsuki?" she asked
"They'll be back soon." he smirked seeing the worried look on her face 'Don't worry, they've been told not to harm you."
Temari nodded feeling reassured and decided even though they were S-class criminals at least the leader was nice.

Pein lead them into the lounge room. He motioned for them to sit on the couch.
"If you don't mind me asking why are you doing this? Helping us out?" Sai asked boldly. Pein looked at him in shock. He's been told that as soon as the boy had been told he was coming to the hideout he'd feinted.
"We helped because we're not at cruel as people think we are and we saw this as our chance of redemption."
The group stared at him
"Really?" Kankuro asked
"Yeah, only some of the Akatsuki are here for mindless violence, most of us just hold a grudge against someone." Pein shrugged. Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of splintering wood.
"KISAME! YOU FUCKING IDIOT PEIN MIGHT HAVE HEARD THAT!" a voice yelled drunkenly. Pein rolled his eyes. Only Hidan used the word fuck so much. Pein got up and walked into the hallway already knowing what the two had done. Gone out on the piss. He heard Kisame hiccup. Yep, he thought, they're drunk.
"I told you guys to stay sober." he growled angrily
"I am completely sober Pein." Kisame slurred pointing at Gaara.
"Kisame. I'm over here." Pein said. Kisame looked over at him.
"Wow you're so fast it looks like you're over there too!" he grinned lopsidedly and fell on the ground. Pein rolled his eyes.
'Kisame get up, and Hidan what are you doing?" Pein asked as he saw Hidan start chanting a raise a knife.
"Crap." Pein spun around to make sure all the Chunins were still where he left them. They were. Then what was Hidan about to sacrifice. To make matters weirder he saw Hidan grab a bottle of tomato sauce.
"Umm Hidan." Pein asked. Hidan looked at him.
"What?"
"What the fuck are you doing?" he asked. Hidan held up one of Sasori's smaller puppets and the tomato sauce. "Sacrificing'." he slurred before collapsing into a heap on the ground.
"Jesus!" Pein dragged Hidan into the lounge room and dropped him on the couch.

"It's ok, you can just call me Hidan." The Jashin believer answered to Pein's curse. Pein rolled his eyes and called to Kisame.
"Kisame get up off the floor. Now, none of you touch these Chunins." he warned pointing to the Chunins on the couch "If you harm one of them, you deal with me." he glared at both of them. Even in their drunken state they knew a threat when they heard it. With that Pein stormed off to find the rest of the Akatsuki.

The Chunins watched Pein leave with a slight sense of dread, even if he was the leader of an S-class criminal group at least he was sober and hadn't sacrificed a puppet. Kisame groaned and staggered off to vomit in the sink. Hidan glared at the doorway and then turned to the Chunins.
"So why the fuck are you doing here?" he slurred groggily
'Why do you care?" Gaara asked coldly, he was sick of the drunken idiot already.
"I care because this is MY HOUSE he yelled raising his arms and staggering slightly.
"I thought it was the Akatsuki's house?" Sai raised an eyebrow
"Say that again." Hidan threatened. Sai got up and glared at him. Kisame staggered into the room looking a bit green around the gills (no pun intended).
"Just leave it Hidan." he managed to say before rushing off to throw up again.
"Fine." Hidan muttered sitting back down. He looked at Katana who was staring out the window looking spaced.
"What's up with her? Is she retarded?" he smirked. Sai suddenly felt himself get very angry. He had used to be like that, insulting. He remembered when he's said something like that to Sakura and she'd started crying. He glared at him
"Take that back!" he yelled at Hidan
"How about you fucking make me?" Hidan smirked. He knew the boy wouldn't do anything; he was too small and weak. That's probably why Hidan looked so shocked when 'small and weak' Sai tackled him to the ground and began beating him senseless. After Hidan had recovered from shock he threw Sai over his head into the wall. The Sand Siblings jumped in-between Hidan and Sai before the Jashin believer could do anymore damage. Hidan leant with one hand on the table. Kankuro and Temari stared at his hand?
"What the fuck are you looking at?" he followed their gaze to his hand which now had a kunai stabbed dangerously close to it. He glance at Gaara who was now leaning against the wall
"Oi, sand freak, is this some idea of a sick fucking joke?" he asked. Gaara shrugged.
"Then who the fuck could have... Oh yeah, the retard." he turned to face Katana but instead of seeing her looking out the window she was looking at the floor. She slowly raised her head to meet his gaze, her eyes glowing blood red.
"No-one hurts my brother." she said in a demonic voice that was not her own. She grinned manically as she slammed her hand down fast onto his fist. He screamed as he felt all the bones in his hand shatter. Katana grabbed his arm and twisted until the bone snapped sticking out of his arm. He fell to the ground unconscious. Then she walked over to Sai and prodded him with her foot, she turned and looked at the Sand Siblings. She blinked a few times, her eyes turning from red to her bright green.
"What happened?" she asked as she fell to the ground unconscious.