I've actually had a few nice reviews for this! I also put Miyomi through the Mary Sue litmus test. Believe it or not, she actually came out a negative score. That's pretty sweet. She will have a few interesting things happen, but there would be no plot and no interaction if it didn't, so hopefully it's forgivable.
Well this just sucked. She had really hoped to get a good night's rest, and here this emo bastard captured her in the middle of the night and she was in the clutches of the Akatsuki. There were moments when she considered escaping, but she was too tired and too apathetic to bother making the attempt. In the end, she gave up before she even started, and was led to the interrogation room running on only four hours of sleep.
"Who are you and what do you want with the Akatsuki?" The gray eyed man- their leader, she had heard whispered in the hallway- had taken her to a room with a table and just the two chairs, keeping himself on the dark half, shadowing himself. Okay, so this guy was pretending to be mysterious. And asking her the same stupid question she had been getting all day.
"Miyomi, I don't want anything to do with Akatsuki."
His eyes observed her casually. "You're a missing nin, yet you want nothing to do with other missing nin?"
This sounded an awful lot what Sasuke had said to her. "You heard me, didn't you? I have no interest in what Akatsuki does or dealing with other missing nin. I'm no threat to you, as I'm sure you figured out. I just want to be on my way and I won't say another word about this ever again."
"I don't think so. You are formerly from the land of bears, an area we are still very unfamiliar with. You know more than we do, and you're not going anywhere. The land of bears is on our list for world domination, and we will get the information from you by force if necessary."
World domination? Oh good lord. This guy wasn't just an emo bastard. He was an emo bastard who wanted to take over the world. Lovely. "I suppose you expected me to fight you and refuse to give any information." At his subtle nod, she continued. "I'm not loyal to that place anymore, I'll tell you whatever you want if you let me go when I'm done. Shit... you didn't even have to capture me, you could have just asked me on the street."
That certainly wasn't expected. Some missing nin gave up information fast enough, under the proper kinds of torture, but hardly any just blurted it out. She was utterly selfish. "Fine. Tell us all you can and we will release you."
"Do I have to do it right now? I'm still half asleep, you know. I can't even think."
He waved his hand dismissively. "The longer you take, the longer you stay. If you're eager to leave as soon as possible, tell me now, but if you can tolerate us a little longer than that, you may stay."
She was really tempted to just blurt everything out and leave, but the speech itself would take at least a few hours of explanation, and she just wasn't mentally ready for it. "Nah, I can barely put together a coherent sentence. Let me guess, that Uchiha guy told you about me?"
He nodded. "As well as Kisame. I thought you might room with them tonight since you know them already. I can make sure there's enough room."
It would be interesting to see the only sane person here she had met so far. "Yeah, sounds interesting, I'll take you up on that." She paused, not knowing how to respond after such a weird conversation and just left it at that, shrugging and going back into the hallway. As long as she didn't bring up the subject of Itachi's brother, she was sure his silence would continue. Hopefully. When she entered the hallway, she was completely lost. Nobody deigned to show her around the place, and she had been left to her own devices. It was then that she suddenly ran head first into a silver haired man.
"HEY! You little fucker, watch where you're going!" He stopped in his tracks, not recognizing her at all. "Hey, who the fuck are you?"
She was a bit thrown back by his love of the word fuck, but shrugged calmly. Two could play that game. "Well, who the fuck are you?"
His eyebrow raised curiously. "Hidan."
She caught on to his straightforward tone quickly. Well, she didn't want to fuck around either. "Miyomi."
He glanced at her hitai-ate. "Star village."
She made her own cursory glance at his. "You?"
"Land of River."
"What the fuck is that?" She pointed down at his necklace.
"Rosary."
"Who do you worship?"
"Jashin."
"Yeah. So where's Kisame? I need to find him." He merely pointed down a hallway and she nodded to him briefly. So this Hidan person was more or less all business. Well, and a bit of temper, if one took too much of his time. She made a mental note to keep it strictly business just in case he too felt like sharing anything further. Fortunately he didn't seem to want to bother with anything that didn't directly concern him and she was left to find the appropriate room in silence. Finally, the right door. A small sign was labeled with the names of both Itachi and Kisame who shared a room just like the other Akatsuki partners did.
She knocked and- thank the lord- Kisame was the one to answer the door. His partner was already in bed and probably asleep, and she saw that they had set a sleeping bag on the couch nearby in their small suite. The shark nin seemed just as irritated as she was at being disturbed from their sleep thanks to the leader, and both made a silent pact to leave things the way they were. He would go back to sleep and she would mind her own business. Then tomorrow, she would spill her information and get the heck out of here.
As soon as morning arrived, Miyomi was eager to just get this over with and headed in the direction of where she remembered the leader's office being. She was nearly run over (seemed this happens a lot around here) by a blue haired kunoichi. Blue hair? Oh lord. Not again. Not the blue hair again! The woman was running frantically down the hall and only stopped long enough to apologize.
"Excuse me." Her look turned angry as she yelled down the hall. "HEY! WHICH ONE OF YOU BASTARDS STOLE MY FLOWER?" She stood in the hallway and fumed. It couldn't have been Pein, he slept the entire night. Not Kisame, he was out like a drunk after waking up in the middle of the night. Hidan and Kakuzu had left that night for a mission. Deidara and Tobi were expected later today, and Zetsu was off scouting as usual. That only left... "DAMN IT ITACHI YOU'RE GOING TO PAY!" She paced and huffed. "Darn that man, geez..." She exploded into another tirade. "DAMMIT I'VE BEEN DEFLOWERED, AND ITACHI DID IT!"
Pein appeared in the hallway instantly, his eyes wide. "What... What did you say?"
She instantly understood the second implied meaning of her outburst. "Oh! No no, it's uh... not like that. See?" Her finger pointed to where her paper flower usually lay. "It's gone. I think Itachi took it."
He cracked his knuckles noisily, muttering to himself. "Itachi the sleeve rapist strikes again..." His shadowy form disappeared down the hall where Itachi's room was, and the two women winced when a muffled punch sounded soon after.
Konan sighed audibly. "Getting carried away again."
Miyomi had been watching the entire exchange with a look between disgust and astonishment, not sure whether to burst out laughing or walk away shaking her head slowly. This was way too much to deal with mentally. She rose slowly, nodding to Konan. "Yeah. Just a little."
Pein walked back into the dark hallway holding her large paper rose. "Here." He reached out and pinned it in her hair, a fond gaze on his face for only a moment.
As usual, Miyomi went straight to business, ruining the moment. "Hey, so what all do you want to know about Hoshigakure?"
He turned to her abruptly, beckoning her back to his office. "Everything."
She followed him back to the dark office, seating herself just like before, leaning back in preparation for a long explanation. He sat across from her, preparing for just the same. He really wasn't that bad if she forgot about the whole global domination thing. "Where do you want me to start?"
"How about getting around the poisonous fog that covers so much of the area?"
"Ah, that. Funny story, really. Turns out there is a very thin mountain range in the south. That's how I managed to get out of the village, and your shinobi could use it to get in. Nobody goes there. After that, it's simple. It may be a hidden village, but I don't think your men could miss the only enormous crater in the middle of nowhere."
His mouth quirked into a tiny grin. "No, I bet not. And what of their shinobi? What kinds of attacks are they capable of?"
She tried to remember for a moment. "The only thing you should worry about is their intense chakra control. They would use the peacock technique to intensify their control and could even use their chakra like an impenetrable shield. Not a whole lot of people can do that technique, and most of the ones who could died soon after learning it. Even so, they have great control over their chakra even without it."
"And what about the village itself? How well armed are they? How big of a threat could they become in the event of Akatsuki attacking?"
"Hmm... From what I've seen of your group, I wouldn't go in there with just two of them. It would be better to attack in a larger group if you want to get anything done."
"Any natural hazards? Large deposits of soil or unusual rocks around the village?"
Her eyebrow raised slightly. He was taking the terrain into account? "The crater itself is little more than fine dust and there are large deposits of the same dust on the higher ground around the village. Why?"
There went that tiny smirk again. "Just curious. That could easily turn the tide... And what about the financial status of the village? How much business does it get?"
Good grief. He really was analyzing his advantages from every angle. "Hoshigakure is a self sufficient village when it needs to be, but the constant warring has led to a small amount of prosperity for those in our country. Last I saw, they weren't poor but they weren't rich either. I suppose you could label it middle class."
"I see... so there is a low demand for shinobi, but enough to keep up the small amount they have." His eyes closed in concentration. "Well, I think we've covered everything. The geographical aspect, the economical aspect, and of course compensation for human presence. You may leave."
Finally. "Yeah, alright." She waved absently on her way out, glad it was finally over. With a yawn, she headed towards what she hoped was the exit. Konan was still in the hallway and was kind enough to point a finger in the right direction. It was interesting that they didn't insist on clearing her memory, but then again she wasn't exactly going to give away the location of their base. She was a traitor to her old village, but she didn't really give a darn about what Akatsuki was doing and they probably knew it.
Outside, she was glad to find herself not too far from the village where the onsen had been. No wonder they had been so quick at finding her again. Oh lord, please don't let that pink haired girl be there. She really needed a break, just ONE time in her life. She gazed pleadingly at the sky, praying that today would be normal. Just ONE normal day, surely it wasn't too much to ask.
She must have gotten on some deity's bad side at some point. Just outside the village gates was that darn pink haired girl again with a weird kid dressed in orange. What kind of idiot ninja wears orange? Did he WANT to die? Heck, why had he lived even this long? That pink haired one was wearing red... That was definitely a death wish. Oh lord. Why did her life have to be like this?
A/N: It's because we care, Miyomi! Not really. You don't care either and you know it! Itachi the sleeve rapist strikes again! Oh I almost forgot! I posted a pic of Miyomi on Deviant Art! You know about that yes? secretsheik is my username on there... look me up!