Chapter 4

I was just looking sat my last few entry's – never realised how long and kind of depressing my past is. Oh well like I care, so what if your past is fucked messed up it's your present that matters. Sorry about the language Deidara, Itachi and Kisame reckon I picked it up from Hidan but I've been cutting down. Oh and it was Deidara stealing all my hair ties that cheeky bastard.

I've been on quite a few missions recently most of them for bounty's. We still need a lot of money before Akatsuki can launch phase two of the plan. So I've been collecting people for bounty's and rewards nothing to difficult but it's efficient, I can't wait until I get some real action again.

Yesterday was about the closest to a real fight I've had in a week or two. I was sent to the sound village to gather information on Orochimaru's new forces. From what I found I think they have four new bases: north, south, east and west. I'm not sure how long it is all going to last though, I met the other Uchiha. Sasuke Uchiha what a dick, how can him and Itachi even come from the same clan let alone be brothers. As soon as he noticed me he was all chidori and Sharingan he didn't even listen when I said I was just browsing.

Then I met her. Karin, she noticed me way before I was even close and I swear I had masked my chakra perfectly. She has some amazing abilities but her Tai jutsu isn't exactly the best. She was working in the north base I think, she's one of Orochimaru's experimenters and dresses like a whore to put it nicely.

I was just about done looking around the sound when Pain sent me another message to go back home. I had just got home where I casually greeted them all. "Ita, Kisa, Tobi, Dei, Kaku and Hidan. Wait Kaku and Hidan, I ran and jumped straight onto Hidan where I received some lovely language and a shove onto the floor. It's been weeks since I've seen Kaku and Hidan – I've missed Hidan I used to pray with him a lot or watch, I was totally intrigued by his religion.

Tobi hugged me afterwards, I love Tobi he was the first Akatsuki member to truly accept me. Ita and Kisa were talking on the sofa so I went and sat with them, greeted by a toothy smirk from Kisa and a Smile from Ita. Ita doesn't smile often so when he does you savour it. Dei was just going into town, usually one of the tedious chores I'm sent on. He asked every one and if they wanted anything, Ita and Kisa asked for dango, Tobi, Kaku and Hidan weren't bothered and I asked him to get me some new fishnets and hair ties since someone had been nicking off with mine. He stuck out all three of his tongues and made his way out.

I had just dumped my stuff on the floor before and after watching Tobi trip over it for the third time I decided it was time to move it to the bedrooms. In the different bases we have we haven't got enough space for a different bedroom for everyone so we all share. I dumped my stuff on my bed and changed out of my mission clothes dropping them onto the floor and into some slouchy stuff. I was wearing one of Dei's old t-shirts and some shorts (that you couldn't really see but they were there I promise ;), like I said we don't have loads of money for stuff like clothes so most of my stuff is fashioned from old Akatsuki stuff. I'm not bothered, I've learnt to tweak cut and sew them to make them individual for me so it's all good.

Ita walked in as I was changing no privacy here, but no one's bothered – except for Hidan when he's praying or doing a ritual. He started talking to me about my mission; I reckon he was only interested because it involved his little brother. After a few minutes of explaining everything I gave up and collapsed on the bed, I was shattered Ita said goodnight and left me in my peaceful slumber.

I woke up a couple hours later Dei was back, I walked in and he threw a bag of fishnets and hair ties at me – I noticed the packet he had put in his cloak as well so no excuse for stealing mine. I had just barely sat down when I heard Kaku mention something about my lack of training recently; I could have killed the guy (if that was possible).

The rest of the guys looked at me and I saw that glint of evil in Kisa's eye. I was still half asleep and didn't even bother to move when he came up behind me, next thing I knew I was upside down being held up by my ankles.

"Looks like we're going to test your chakra control again Tsukiko".

That only meant one thing; I was carried outside and around the back of the cave where the waterfall stood. Across from the waterfall were many small holes – god (or as Hidan would say beep Jashin beep) knows how they got there. Kisa dangled me over one of the holes like he used to when I was a little kid and started counting backwards.

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Shit, he dropped me I rapidly gathered enough chakra in my hands plus my feet and began scaling the walls back up the whole. Before even reaching the top I could hear their laughter and... yeah that was definitely Tobi's whine and Dei's shout, it's kind of funny when you know people so well you can kind of tell what coming next. Finally I reached the top, Kisa stopped, and he knew what was coming next – a good punch in the gut. He took it but then again I didn't do it hard. Just like old times.

I wandered back around to the front of the cave where I disarmed the barrier jutsu and set it back up once I was inside. Dei had already come back in and was refilling his clay bag he had another mission. I ran up and jumped on his back, apart from me Dei was the youngest in the group and one of the people I was most close to. He called for Tobi and turned back to me giving me a quick hug, telling me to get training and he would finish of teaching me that jutsu when he got back. With that I watched him and Tobi leave the cave.

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