A/N: Next chapter!
Chapter four: Failed escape
The door led into a long hallway with doors crowded on both sides. I didn't dare open one while I walked past. The end of the hallway led to a right turn into another hallway, this time with no doors on the sides. At the end of this hallway, it opened up into what looked to be a recreational area. No one was there. Looking around I saw two other doorways. Randomly selecting one, I eased over to it and started down.
"Hmm… This man's bounty is bigger but he's farther away than this one…"
I froze. This voice, I recognized it. It was one of the men that had been in my dorm room. One of the men that had kidnapped me! I started to back up slowly, planning on taking the route through the other door, when I bumped into something hard. No. Not something. Someone! I whirled around and nearly lost my balance from the dizziness that followed. My eyes studied the person uneasily. He was wearing a black cloak with red clouds and his skin was… blue?
'What the hell?!' I panicked. He grinned, revealing his sharp, pointed teeth. His eyes were dark like a shark's as he returned my stare.
"What do we have here?" His voice shook me. I opened my mouth to scream but was too frightened to make a noise. Then a much smaller figure, dressed in the same attire, poked his head out from behind the blue man. He wore an orange mask with a swirl-like design.
"Oh?! Kisame-senpai who's his? I've never seen them before. Oh! And it's a girl, how pretty! But she's not as pretty as Deidara-senp—!"
"Tsk." Annoyance in the blue man's voice. "Would you shut up you idiot?!" He bashed the other man's head with his fist.
"Waaahaa! Kisame-senpai's so mean!"
As they argued, I made a decision and ran away from them, towards the voice of the other man.
'If I'm lucky, there will be a door from there that I can quickly run out of!' I rationalized in my head as I ran.
"Bah! She's getting away Kisame-senpai! Want me to get her?"
"Go for it. I don't care."
I sped up after hearing that and felt certain that he couldn't catch up to me before I got to the other room. Making a turn, I saw brighter lights in the next turn ahead.
'There! It must be there!'
Glancing back, I sighed in relief, seeing no one behind me.
"Gotcha!"
I jumped surprised and looked forward. It was the masked man.
"But…How?!" I said more to myself. He opened his arms to grab me and I tried to stop but was going too fast.
"Eh… Oh, OH NO! Woah slow down, ah-AAAHH!" He yelled as I crashed into him. We went tumbling down the hallway and crashed into the wall where the turn opened up into an office-like room.
"Hmm?" The man at the desk looked up annoyed.
I shook the dizziness from my head, got up and tried to run again, but a hand caught the neck of my shirt and lifted me up like I weighed no more than a feather. My shirt lifted up too high for comfort and I grabbed at the end, pushing it down blushing, trying to keep it from rising any higher.
The masked man sat up rubbing his head.
"Aaaah…Oh! Kisame-senpai! I caught her—Ow!"
My capture had his foot planted on the masked man's head.
"Idiot!"
"Ahem!" An aggravated voice. "It's rude to be so noisy this early in the morning. You're being very counterproductive to my work… It's pissing me off." The man's deadly glare silenced the other two. I looked at him. Same cloak. He wore a mask around his mouth and nose and some sort of head covering along with a head band. When my eyes met his I shuddered and my body felt like ice. His green eyes were piercing.
"Eheh, calm down Kakuzu." The blue man named Kisame said uneasily. "We didn't mean to bother you. We just caught this little snake slithering around." He was referring to me. The green eyed Kakuzu glanced at me then looked back down at his work.
"Oh her. Take her to Deidara. He will tell you what he wants for her. She's not my problem and is a waste of my time and money." He muttered to himself, still obviously annoyed but keeping himself calm.
"Right." Kisame threw me over his shoulder effortlessly, still holding tightly to keep me from struggling and then grabbed the collar on the cloak of the masked man, dragging him behind us. "Come on Tobi. You don't want to piss Kakuzu off like that. You'd be killed in no time." Then he muttered to himself. "Although that'd be no scales off my gills. You're a waste of space."
Tobi eventually struggled free of Kisame's grasp, but continued to follow us, never failing to talk his mouth off every opportunity he got. Each time annoying Kisame enough to make him stop and smack, kick, or punch him. I stayed silent and tried to memorize the route that we were taking, but we took so many twists and turns that I lost track and eventually gave up, closing my eyes to ease my turning stomach instead. Tobi tried conversing with me a few times but I either pretended to sleep or ignored him. I didn't feel like talking. What was the point?
After what seemed an eternity of turns and swaying side to side, Kisame finally stopped at a door and knocked.
"Come in." A voice chimed. I recognized this voice as well and my body shook, anticipating the worst. Kisame opened the door and walked inside, followed by Tobi.
A/N: Finally, the Akatsuki actually show up! XD Meh, kinda. Hope you liked it.