If you haven't read Naruto chapter 637 then this has *SPOILERS* near the end!I don't own Naruto. I own Willow and my friend owns Dominique. Info at the bottom.
"What do you mean?" She replied back after a few seconds, "I thought you were kidding, there's no way you actually have the Akatsuki in your house right now, right?" I didn't even bother to respond to the message. There was no point arguing and I shouldn't keep the Akatsuki waiting. I quickly pulled on a pair of jean shorts and a red tank top. There was no need to be formal, especially since they wouldn't be expecting anything special from me besides information. 'I could run away right now...' I glanced at my window before shaking my head, 'They'd kill me within a second.'
Folding up my laptop, I walked out of my room to see the Akatsuki sitting on the couches. They seemed like they were having a meeting of some kind. As soon as I walked in they all stared at me. "What do you need me to-" I was cut off by the Kunai that flew by my head. When I had turned around, the kunai was stuck into the wall. I gulped and stood still. "Don't talk unless spoken to." Pein said making me nod and silently say, "Yes sir."
"We will first need to know our basic surroundings. If you will show us, Willow." Pein said motioning for me to walk forward. I could feel myself tremble as I opened my laptop. I quickly opened another tab when I saw Dominique had messaged, "THEY AREN'T IN YOUR HOUSE, RIGHT!?" I quickly opened Google earth and typed in my address making the surrounding area show up. I could see everything from the pool in my backyard, to the park, to my school, to the mall, and to the grocery story. Pein slowly scanned the map like he was taking a mental picture.
"Now, we will need to know any other important information about this world." He said looking up from the screen. I slowly pulled up an image that had all the dollar bills and coins in the US. "This is the currency here in this country." I said as I zoomed out. The zoom out was a little shaky due to me still being terrified. I showed them the US then the money again.
"Each of them is worth a certain amount of money." After explaining the money system I waited for them to tell me to do something else. "What is the general attire for this world." I opened images again and searched clothing. They nodded and it was obvious that most of them didn't care as to what was happening now. 'They probably just want to kill me for making their lives this boring' The thought made me shiver and my hands were trembling.
"I will need to retrieve clothing for you all today, I can provide Konan with clothing so that she can accompany me while I go out shopping." I said looking down not wanting to make eye contact with anyone. "Very well. Is there any other important information we need to know?" He was obviously irritated that I didn't state everything at once.
"You are not allowed to kill unless you leave no trace, do not lead anyone back to this house. Killing is illegal if they find out you did it. When certain members are to walk outside, they will need to cover their eyes so that people don't get suspicious." I stopped to breathe a little not sure if I would get punished for talking again. "Spit it out girl!" He said making me jump and continue talking.
"Deidara will have to wear gloves and Kakuzu will have to cover his stitches. I don't think Zetsu can come unless there is some way to hide his... plant. Kakuzu can wear a bandana to cover the stitches on his face. Whatever you do, if you get caught by the police, dodge the bullets they shoot at you because if one were to hit your head, you would be dead in an instant." I said as I fiddled with my thumbs, "Bombs are illegal and so are knives so when we are out in public, think of everyone as citizens who are not and will never be ninjas and are not to be killed."
"Konan, you are to escort Willow to her destination and back." Pein said making Konan nod. "Everyone must write their sizes onto this sheet of paper. You will only have two outfits after this one trip." Pein dismissed the Akatsuki, which then began to wander the house. Konan followed me into my room and I looked for something that would fit her. I found a simple blue tank top and with Jean capris. I handed them to her and turned around as she changed. "I'm done." She stated and we walked out of my room.
I slowly made my way to the stairs, I was trembling for such a long time and I wasn't sure how to stop. As we walked upstairs, I received many stares from the other Akatsuki. I shivered at each of the pairs of eyes I felt on my back. I felt as if all they wanted to do was kill my for summoning them to an unfamiliar world. I quickly grabbed my purse and stuck the piece of paper and my debit card inside. I also grabbed my phone along with pepper spray just in case.
"We will be back within the hour." I said as Konan and I began to walk to the mall. I continued to look around feeling as if Zetsu was watching me from the trees. The silence was unbearable but I couldn't do anything stupid or else I could be killed any moment. After a couple minutes of walking in silence, Konan decided to speak out loud to me which surprised me.
"You don't have to be too tense... you seem to understand the dangers of the Akatsuki but there is no need to fear them. Know your place and stand up tall and do what is asked of you. If you need any help, just ask me. I may not be able to understand the situation you're in but I'm smart enough to know how to help." I looked blankly at her for a second trying to figure out if this was a test or not... I couldn't slip yet, not when the Akatsuki had finally decided not to kill me.
'Why is she even bothering herself with talking to me? She doesn't need to waste her breath.' I thought showing no emotion on my face. My shivering was still obvious. I just needed to wait for night, then I would be able to faint into sleep. "Look, I know you're scared and you can't fully trust me seeing as I'm a criminal... but if you need a friend... I'm there." She said with a smile offering me her hand. I hesitantly shook it and smiled at her. "You always seemed like a nice person Konan... I never expected to even have a friend after today." In all honesty I was quite shocked at Konan. I had never expected even one of the Akatsuki to even care for my well being.
"Knowing that all of the men in the Akatsuki don't know that they are literally scaring you to death, I'll be there to make sure that you feel a little better. They didn't understand your discomfort when you saw your parents look like they had been murdered." She said . I didn't know how to react. 'Was this because I knew about her past and Yahiko?' "You don't have to treat me like this out of pity... really it's ok..." I said trying to find a reason for her kindness.
"I'm being this way because to some extent, you understand what had happened in my past, you understood my pain. Not many people can understand that." She said with a slight frown. "Even if you weren't there to experience it. You knew what happened and you understand the reason for the Akatsuki." I stared at her for a long moment before responding to her "The reason to want to fight for peace to this extent is amazing... it all started back then didn't it? It must've been hard being an orphan... You're lucky to have had friends like Nagato and Yahiko." The expression on my face was a mock expression of happiness. "I wouldn't know how it feels to have friends as close as that. My friends here are never really around..."
She looked at me and nodded. "No matter what Nagato may threaten, I won't let him kill you. I can't let him kill someone who isn't even a ninja and I can't let him kill someone who knows as much as you. In your eyes it must seem like you've known me your whole entire life. You even saw something similar to what Nagato saw. You're parents on the ground... in that state... People hurting his parents when he was younger...This manga or Anime of yours that you have spoken about. Does it really tell that much about the Akatsuki?" Konan asked making me nod. We were almost to the mall.
"In the series, the Akatsuki were the bad guys. I'd always look at you guys and think, they had a purpose for what they're doing. When I had found out about the goal of the Akatsuki I smiled to myself. It was a perfect goal, to find peace in the world. From that moment I knew that the Akatsuki were really the good guys and not the bad guys." I said smiling. 'I'm not shivering as much anymore.' "I can see you feel better now. You will be able to follow Pein's orders without fear now, knowing that I am there to help."
I nodded as we entered the mall, I quickly walked over to one of the men's store. "Can you please find these for me, I'm not too comfortable being in this store." I stated with a nervous smile. She nodded and took the list from me. I assumed that clothing sizes would be the same in both worlds. Within a couple minutes she had many different shirts and pants in her hand. We both walked over to the cashier.
"Are you buying clothes for your father sweetie?" The cashier asked me making me nod. "Yeah! Daddy is busy today so I thought I'd help him with his shopping." I let my voice ring a little higher then normal. "What a nice daughter. Have a nice day." Konan helped by carrying some of the bags as we walked out of the store. "Is that all?" She asked making me nod.
"Hopefully they didn't want anything gothic styled. Konan, thank you for even considering being nice to me... it's nice to know I have a friend when I could be killed any moment." I said making he smile again. "Like I said. Not many people understand my feelings. You saw your parents in a terrible state like that, you shouldn't have to see that." The rest of the walk back was silent. She had commented a few times to herself saying little things such as, "This world is strange," and "Nagato will have to hear about this." I smiled contently to myself as we walked closer and closer to my house.
Fear slowly began to crawl on me as I took a step closer and closer to my door. I balanced a couple bags on my other arm as I took out the key. My shivers were coming back and I dropped my key. The door opened swiftly and a kunai was pointed at my head. I nearly fainted at the sight of the knife. Itachi moved the blade away and let Konan and I walk through the door. "It's ok." Konan said briefly as she put the bags down and started laying the clothes down into piles.
"Thank you, Konan." I said with a smile as I began to help her. The Akatsuki men seemed to notice the change in my emotions. They rolled their eyes and continued what they had been doing. Itachi had taken some books from my shelves and began reading them. Kakuzu, Sasori, and Pein had a similar idea of reading said books. The rest of the group had been sitting around in the living room doing nothing.
"WILLOW! Willow is back!" Tobi yelled as he jumped to hug me. I widened my eyes in fear as I looked at the Uchiha. 'What am I supposed to do...? Should I pretend or should I just smile?' I slowly let a smile work it's way onto my face. "Hi Tobi." I said quietly and waited for him to let me go. "Tobi, stop scaring the girl, un." Deidara rolled his eyes at Tobi. "But Sempai! All Tobi did was hug her!" Tobi said making me smile nervously and back away.
"Why don't you give them members their new clothes?" Konan said with a smile. She handed me two piles and said, "This is Sasori's, that's Deidara's." I nodded slowly as I grabbed the piles from her. I nervously walked over to Sasori and stood in front of him for a moment holding out the clothes. he looked up from his book and grabbed the clothes. He didn't even mutter a word of thanks. I walked over to Deidara and did the same to get the same reaction. It was the same reaction for the rest of the Akatsuki... except for Tobi.
"THANK YOU WILLOW!" He yelled crushing me in a hug. 'Now that I think back. Tobi isn't even part of the Akatsuki yet... no wonder I didn't see his Akatsuki cloak.' "You're welcome Tobi." I said as he let go. "Willow," I froze and slowly looked over to Pein. "you are dismissed for now, the Akatsuki are to have a meeting, please bring Tobi with you." Pein said making me nod and head off to my room.
Tobi happily followed me as we made my way to my bedroom. "If Willow knows a lot about the Akatsuki, what does Willow know about Tobi?" Tobi asked making me smile at him. 'What do I say?' "I don't know anything about you, your are mysterious and they never really said much about you." I said 'It was a half lie... was it?' Tobi looked at me for a while and said nothing. At the most he would walk around and look at my poster. My heart continuously beated out of fear that he would turn into Obito and try to get information out of me. I took out my laptop and responded to Dominique's PMs. "I'm not kidding."
*SPOILERS start*
I looked up to see what I thought was Tobi's Sharingan. My eyes widened and as soon as I was about to say something Tobi looked away and continued to look around my room. Suddenly, a little beeping noise when off on my computer and Tobi jumped. I knew exactly what that alarm meant. 'Naruto 637...' I looked up at Tobi and smiled nervously. He just tilted his head and continued to look around the room. I looked up and around me to make sure no one was in site.
My heart pounded as I opened my email up, the chapter before had given me a total heart break at the end. 'I can't let the other Akatsuki see this, is it even smart to read this now?' My choice was to quickly skim through the chapter and read it later. Throughout the chapter, I continuously looked up at Tobi to make sure he wasn't anywhere near me. It was a good thing that I didn't let him see it too. 'He looks like Zetsu!' I thought as I looked at the page. My eyebrows were pulled together every moment I saw Obito's flashback. His hair began to turn white. 'What's happening?!'
'Ok he's having a good talk with his Sensei... OH! I got it! Minato will come save him!' I thought quickly smiling as I read it. I glaced up again to see Tobi looking at my plushies. 'That Tobi act must be hard to keep all the time.' I continued to look at the page not wanting to turn it. I wasn't sure why but something was preventing me from turning the page. I looked up one more time before turning the page.
"We'll become Hokage," I smiled at that one panel but when I looked to the side I almost screamed. I quickly covered my mouth with my hand to prevent myself from screaming. 'SHIT! OH MY GOD!' I quickly turned the page so I could recover fast. 'Sen...sei' Obito said making Minato stare at him with wide eyes as he slashed him. 'It was you?' Minato said making me nod unintentionally when he realized that it was Obito he hit that night when the Nine-tails attacked.
"While you were alive, you wanted to become Hokage." Minato said. 'He died!?' I questioned myself still reading. Skipping a couple panels my eyes widened. "Are you sure that'll be enough to bring an end to this war?... My fellow Judas." 'He didn't die... oh my god... I almost had a heart attack. One of the last Akatsuki...' I could feel myself shiver at the thought of the Akatsuki dying completely, even if Tobi wasn't exactly Akatsuki anymore
"That's because this has been his desire all along... to become... THE JINCHUURIKI OF THE TEN-TAILS!" My head completely spun in circles as the door to my room opened. I quickly closed the browser and looked up. 'What a plot twist...' Tobi and Pein both stared at me. "Do you know of Tobi's secret?" Pein asked making me raise an eyebrow. "What secret?" I asked trying my best to look confused. 'If you're talking about being Obito, then yes.'
Pein nodded and left the room. I kept the confused look on my face for a couple seconds before sitting completely still in my spot. Tobi looked around my room and found a stack of my manga. I began to panic when he picked up Naruto. "No don't read that!" I said as I grabbed all the books and put them under my pillow.
"Why not?" Tobi asked making me smile nervously. "Those are personal!" I said trying to come up with something. "Why do they have that blonde kid on it?" Tobi asked making me shrug my shoulders. I looked around my room for any other books and hid them under my pillow. 'Obito is probably raging right now.' I could see the Sharingan again in his eyes. I was about to run for cover until I heard a knock at them door.
"Yes? Come in." I said blankly as Konan walked in. I immediately smiled as she walked in. She smiled back at me and looked at Tobi, "Tobi, Pein needs you." She stated making me raise an eyebrow, 'Is it possible that he going to discuss plans with Obito, yes.' I thought answering my own question. "You look as white as a ghost, what happened?" I shrugged my shoulders to her question. She shook her head but smiled.
"Nagato has agreed... not to be too harsh to you, as long as you stay cooperative and listen to orders. There wasn't much I could do but at least you are safer." She said making me widen my eyes. "Konan, you didn't have to do that! I could have managed without the help." She emitted a small laugh making me join her for a bit.
"If we're going to be in this house with you, it would be smart if you were more comfortable around us. I convinced Pain that you would never try to run away if we did." She said making me smile. "Even if I did run, that wouldn't be very smart, especially since you guys could kill me in a blink of an eye." I said. 'I'm glad that I don't have to be silent all the time now, I can talk with Konan.'
Someone opened the door. "Pein also wants to know if you're hiding anything from us." She said with a blank look on her face as Itachi walked in to call Konan. "Pein wants you now." Konan stood up and Itachi stopped her, "He also wants to see Willow." I gulped and stood up.
'What am I going to say, I'm practically hiding everything from them!' I though as I began to tremble again
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