Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the Akatsuki or any of the OCs except Kyo.

A/N:: Because I haven't been on recently and haven't posted this chapter up when I said I would, I will be giving you three chapters today. That's right, I said three. But it's not like it's for any of my readers who have been oh so kind enough to review and tell me what you think, but rather for my only reviewer Rosebud130. Thanks a lot for your feedback and ideas! You're great ^_^.

Thanks again to Rosebud 130 for the creation of two more oc's Kiyoshi and Hirota.

Thanks so much!

Chapter Four: Sweet Friendships and Sour Altercations~Part 1

Kiyoshi's pov

Walking down the dimly lit corridors of the Akatsuki base, Kiyoshi couldn't help but feel happy to be home.

He glanced over at the source of the other pair of footsteps next to him. Hirota, despite his placid appearance, was just as happy to be at home too from their two week long mission.

As he got closer into the main hall, he heard voices chatting and figured it must be the rest of the Akatsuki planning something out or maybe Illia and Shouta were there just talking.

With the kids somewhere at Akatsuki base

Karin grumbled softly and frowned, a vein bulged against her forehead as her fists clenched. "Alright kid…I'm gonna ask you once more…what. is. your. NAME?" she said taking her time to pronounce each word of the previous question carefully and clearly.

The girl dressed in all white just looked up at her from her book, gave off a nonchalant shrug, and went back to reading.

"Why you little-" Kyo stood grabbing the back of her sister's shirt and tugged at it, keeping a good distance between her flailing arms and the girl reading.

"Calm down Karin…that's enough."

"But…but…" Karin looked back to face her twin then sighed seeing the hard set on her blank face and nodded. "Fine…" she grumbled twisting free and slumped on the sofa.

Kyo sighed. After talking with their fathers last night, they stayed up spending time in the lounge room of the base "getting to know the others" as the leader, Pein, called it, but that was hardly happening. So far everyone knew everybody's name but the little one dressed in all white.

Kyo had to admit it bugged her a little as well, but she wouldn't be rash about it. Looking over to her fuming sister she sighed once more and shook her head, What am I going to do with you? She thought.

Karin smirked at this. Tie me up and throw me in some cute boy's closet.

Kyo rolled her eyes. The closet part can be arranged but I don't know about the guy.

Karin smirked and simply shrugged earning an eye roll from her twin and a shake of her head.

Illia sighed, going back to her reading, rather happy to say the least that Karin had stopped pestering her about what her name was. Why was that important? Illia didn't see the need to say, whether asked or not. And honestly she would prefer to keep it that way, wouldn't want her being bothered by constantly hearing her name called now did she?

The sound of footsteps as the door opened called everyone's attention to the door and Illia was the first to break the silence. "Kiyo-nii!" she yelled as she stood, swiftly running over, to jump and attach herself around the tall guy's neck.

Karin and Kyo glanced at one another, Kyo…nii?, they thought with a tilt of their heads.

Kyo looked at the boy up and down, taking in what she could see that wasn't blocked by the girl around his neck. He was about 6'5" easy with blonde hair and orange eyes that matched Illia's. He wore the same cloak that Kyo's father and the other men in this house, the Akatsuki cove, wore.

Kiyoshi's pov

Once he opened the door, Kiyoshi heard the nickname given to him by only one person in the entire world. Within the blink of an eye, he was being glomped by his younger sister. A warm smile spread across his face as he hugged her back. "Hey there Illia."

"Illia?" other voices in the room echoed. Kiyoshi picked his head up, finally registering that there were other people in the room and quickly put together the pieces of everyone's face as they eyed his younger sibling as she slid from around his neck and stood before him.

Hirota seemed to notice the others at the same time as Kiyoshi, but he merely shrugged and disappeared off to his room quietly.

"Illia…what did I tell you about having good manners?"

Illia frowned and looked to her feet. "Always introduce yourself when asked or when it's appropriate like meeting someone new…"

"Right." Kiyoshi said with a nod and patted her head. "Here I got you something." He reached into his back pack and pulled out a brown hardback book.

Illia's eyes widened and she let out a tiny gasp. "Thank you thank you thank youuuu!" she sang taking the book from her big brother and ran off to her room.

Kiyoshi looked at the others in the room whose eyes were still on his sister's retreating form. "Excuse her please, she has a hard time trusting people so meeting new people doesn't always work out well with her." He explained with a smile. "I'm Kiyoshi by the way."

The two raven haired girls looked at him. "Kyo." The one with blue green eyes said then pointed to the one next to her that looked exactly like her but with onyx eyes, twins no doubt, "Karin."

"Sora." A little girl with blonde hair introduced herself.

"Scarlett." A rather chipper teen said with her hair in pigtails.

Kiyoshi smiled nodding. "Pleasure to meet you all."

Everyone mumbled a likewise except for the onyx eyed twin, Karin. She was too busy gawking at Kiyoshi to say anything. "Yes?" he asked wondering what was causing that expression.

"A book…not a treat, or a toy…but a book. How weird!"

"Karin," Kyo said warningly, "everyone who likes books aren't weird…remember that." She muttered and sat back against the sofa cushion behind her and Kiyoshi shrugged looking at Karin.

"That's just how my sister is. I don't know if you would understand it very well, but getting a new book to her is like getting the latest toy to other children. She has a whole collection of them that takes up nearly the entire span of her room."

Karin seemed to be humbled a bit by his words and smiled closing her eyes. "Well Kiyoshi, I understand it a lot more than you think." She opened her eyes to look at her twin next to her scribbling down something in a wire-binded tablet.

Kiyoshi understood immediately. "Kyo-chan…may I call you that?" he paused looking to the shorter of the twins. Her colorful orbs found him and she nodded. "I'm sure Illia wouldn't mind if you borrowed a book from her now and then. Her room's the furthest down the hall with a white door, you can't miss it."

Kyo nodded. "Thank you."

"Anytime." He said with a wink.

Kyo sat there blinking at him as her face flushed slowly and she turned her head away quickly before her twin would have to notice, whipping her hair in her face to cover her burning cheeks. Kiyoshi smiled, the gesture was rather cute.

Illia soon ran into the room "I forgot something!" she yelled running to her brother to give him a thank you kiss on the cheek. As she pulled away, she noticed things were a tad bit awkward. "What'd I miss?"

Kiyoshi smiled looking at her and shook his head. "Nothing dear sister…but would you be so kind as to show Kyo-chan your book collection;"

Illia nodded and walked over to stand before Kyo who looked up at her slowly. "Do you want to see my books?"

Kyo's mouth twitched a bit, as if she wanted to smile, and she nodded. "I would love to." She stood with Illia leading her down the hall and to her room.

Kiyoshi smiled watching them leave. He hoped they would hit it off as friends; Illia could really use a girl friend around the base.

As he came back to his whereabouts, he noticed the other children were gone and Karin was standing right in front of him with a dangerous look in her eyes. No, dangerous didn't quite fit here. Her stare was one more of the lustful type. Kiyoshi sighed inwardly, here we go again.

Karin smirked."Since everyone is gone now, how about we get a little more acquainted?" her voice purred out softly and flirtatiously.

"My apologies but I'm not interested." Kiyoshi hoped that it would be enough to make her back down, but usually with girls like her, with that much fire in their eyes, it's not.

Karin just stood there for a moment then shrugged turning away. "Ehh well, I tried." She plopped back down on the sofa and leaned her head back with her eyes closed.

Well that was easy… Kiyoshi thought going to make his report to the boss then was going to head to his room.

Kyo's pov

"There's quite a lot, but I make good use in organizing them well." Illia said as she opened her room door.

Kyo's jaw nearly dropped as she looked around at the bookshelves that covered three out of the four walls of her room. They were filled minus three shelves on the last bookshelf. The books, Kyo could tell right off the back, were organized by author and series. She'd been invited to heaven.

"Take whichever you like, but just know that I don't handle my books lightly. I treat them with care, and if you don't…I'll have your head." Illia plopped down on her bed reading the new book her brother had just given her. It shocked Kyo how much Illia was talking to her and with such ease. Maybe finding out they had a common like broke down one of her guarded walls.

Kyo shook her head. "No need. I know the value of a good book." She drifted over to the largest shelf on the back wall of her room and plucked a book down. She smiled reading the print across binding. "House of Night Series…you have impeccably good taste."

((A/N:: For my sake people, let's pretend that they have access to the same type of books that we do.))

Illia smiled a tiny grin and peered over her book. "Heard of it?"

Kyo smiled, feeling more at ease with the young girl."Heard of it, I've read every book." She looked back to the bookshelf and plucked the last one. "They were my inspiration to start writing."

Illia raised a golden eyebrow. "You write?"

Kyo nodded. "When I get the chance. I would like to have them published some day, but I haven't had anyone to really read my work and give me proper feedback on it." She frowned thinking of Karin. "Well my sister has read snippets, but she's never patient enough to actually finish the entire piece."

"I see…" Illia said. "Well, let's strike a deal here, promise me your work isn't complete and total crap and I'll become your personal editor."

Kyo smiled a bit more and nodded. "Deal." She could tell this would be the beginning of a great friendship.