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CHAPTER FOUR

My sleep was dreamless, the best kind of sleep in my opinion. I don't know where I was when i woke up, I only barely remembered what happened before I passed out. I could feel dirt on my hands and face. I had no idea what to expect after I opened my eyes. I could feel my head pounding, my limbs were sore, my back hurt. I tried to clear my head and listen to anything around me. I heard leaves rustling in the wind, felt grass underneath me. After not finding a reason not to open my eyes I relented and revealed them. What I saw was relatively normal I guess. There was grass and trees and bushes all around. The thing that wasn't normal was the two S-ranked criminals that sat at another small fire, the moon above was full and bright between the break in the trees.

The next thing I noticed was the fact that my wrists and ankles were tied and what looked like an exploding tags were attached to the ropes. I instantly still all movements. I don't know what would set the tags off and I really didn't want to be exploded even if it did mean freedom from this place. I watched the two criminals closely as possible with my head throbbing. They were eating something, I think it was fruit, apples maybe. My head gave a rather harsh jolt of pain at the attempt to focus on something. I gave an involuntary whimper at the pain, my eyes closed.

I heard the shifting of fabric before there was a strong hand on my chin, forcing me to look up. My eyes opened in shock and I was staring into the blue face of Kisame. He dropped my chin and pulled the tags off the ropes that held me. He shoved an apple into my hands before walking away with the tags and tossing them into a near by bush. There was no explosion. I looked at the apple in my hands before glancing at the shark like man who was once again sitting by the fire. I really needed to get away, and fast.

I pushed past the pain in my head and focused on a place that was quiet, away from Itachi and Kisame. The jerking was slow in coming but it happened so I can't really complain.

When the sensation stopped I was sitting and a rather blank field. There were few trees; it was more like grassland or prairie land. The grass was tall; it completely covered me in my sitting position. I let my head start pounding again while I tried to weasel out of the ropes on my wrists, my apple gone. Everything was indeed quiet here, for which I was glad.

After minutes of struggling with the ropes I brought them up to my mouth and started chewing on them. I had a bad habit of chew on things that shouldn't be chewed on. The rope was thick and scratchy on my skin but it was easy for my teeth to find purchase in as I gnawed on the twisted threads. I took a moment to think about what rope was made of, I found no answer in my mind and continued chewing. I don't know how long I sat in the dark field and chewed on the rope before it actually got thin enough for me to rip apart. After being freed from my wrist bindings I began fiddling with the rope that tied my ankles together. It was significantly easier to free my ankles with the use of my hands.

After being freed I laid back in the grass and stared up at the stars that shown bright in the sky. It was calming and my mind eventually stopped hurting as I let myself relax in the tall grass, the night air was warm, if not a bit humid. I let my mind wander away from my sore limbs and probably bruised back. There was no longer the emanate threat of death hovering above my head. Thoughts of home filled me but it didn't depress me as much as I thought it would have, I was happy to think about my father and brother. I wonder what had 'happened' to me. If I was just gone or if I was dead, that saddened me a bit more. I was too awake to sleep again but that did not mean I couldn't just rest.

So I lay there, in the grass for some time, deciding that when I woke up with Itachi and Kisame that the sun must have just gone down. The sky was pretty, the stars weren't visible at home; there were too many city lights. My mind was completely relaxed and the only worry I had was of getting home but even that wasn't a prominent thought for some reason.

Alas, my life is not to be that simple apparently. It was a mumble and passing sound at first. Not a big deal, until it got louder. It was talking, perhaps arguing. I rolled onto my stomach and stilled again to listen. I was always paranoid, now was no different. I lifted up a bit to peak above the tall grass slowly. The field was dark, lit only by the bright moon above. Granted it was pretty bright out. I saw two figures before I ducked back down quickly.

One was yelling, the other sounded angry but kept his voice low. I parted the grass and peaked up again before falling back onto my stomach. I had seen the black cloaks with the red clouds. I found my heart beating like a jackhammer again. I didn't get a chance to see who specifically they were. That is until I heard a very tell tale thing.

"Jashin damn you, you godless heathen!" The words made me freeze. Hidan would kill me without a second though, so would Kakuzu.

"Silence, Hidan, you are being too loud." The other voice spoke angrily. There was a pause before Hidan yelled his reply.

"There is no one around for miles, bastard!" I tensed at this, they couldn't sense my presence. Maybe it had something to do with what Itachi had said. I had no Chakra, which kept me off their radar. I prayed that I would no be found in the high grass. I doubt they would be as interested as the Uchiha in my lack of Chakra. I heard the footsteps grow closer.

Shit!

I felt pain shoot up my arm from my hand, which had been slightly in front of and away from me. I looked at the foot that was now hovering above my hand. I followed the foot to the leg, up to the torso, then finally to the shocked face that was now staring down at me with wide pinkish violet eyes.

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