Chapter 4! FINALLY! Thanks to the first three reviews, remember a minimum of 3 review for a new chapter! Any one got suggestions for pair-ups? Some I already have in mind but I can change things up if you want ;)

The first thing I realised when I opened my eyes was that a random person seemed to be on top of me. And they were fucking heavy.

I shoved the silver-haired Jashinist off me as best as I could (he seriously could lose a few pounds of muscle!) and blushed slightly, ignoring his smirk.

I looked at him and realised he was animated. I dared to glance down at myself.

My spiky purple hair had been accentuated as had my physique and fashion. I was wearing my favourite gothic black clothes that had been modified to a more ninja-style, and jewellery along with a pouch on my left leg equipped with kunai and shuriken. Hm..the clothes I might need to re-adjust but other than that…I looked good.

I stood up. I also had a long slightly curved sword strapped to my back…sweet, I thought.

I whipped it out of its sheath and grinned at Hidan.

"You're not fucking thinking of…?"

I swiped it at him, unfortunately he dodged.

"I am not your fucking practice dummy, bitch! Being immortal still hurts dammit!"

"Aww fine," I grizzled at the silver-haired criminal. I noticed the silver Jashinist necklace that hung from his neck.

What if I was wearing mine! I had made a gold one for a cosplay once and now it was one of my favourites, I always kept it hidden under my clothes though.

Hidan watched as I brought a hand to my neck and found the gold chain that slithered under my top, next to my black choker necklace that I cherished. I smiled and Hidan looked at me slightly suspiciously.

The others picked themselves off the ground from their own awkward squashed positions and I admired the anime version of each of them, we looked awesome.

…Ashleigh's POV…

Picking myself up off the ground I narrowed my eyes in suspicion. Things were different than they had been in whatever strange in-between world we had landed ourselves in last time. Daring to glance around I noted Zoe's extremely spiky, vivid purple hair and random outfit change. In fact it didn't seem as though I was wearing my school uniform anymore either.

"Well this is different…" I commented drily as I examined myself. My usual reddish-brown hair that went half way down my back was now remarkably more… red. The good thing about the strange animated type look was that my hair was completely straight, as opposed to how it normally was. Reaching up to my neck I found that I was still wearing my necklace with the Celtic cross on it, which caused me to breathe a sigh of relief since it was my favourite piece of jewellery that I happened to own.

I was less happy about my new outfit. I was wearing my favourite pair of shoes, a pair of combat boots, but they had been rather, well, ninjafied, much to my disgust. Funnily enough I was wearing the t-shirt I had gotten from SeaWorld, but the sleeves had been ripped off to be replaced with long mesh sleeves that went down to my wrists. I was also wearing skin-tight black shorts that went down to just above my knees, which was the worst part of my new attire.

"Hey Zo-" I quickly dismissed my question as I saw her facing off with Hidan. There was no way that I was going to get in the middle of that in case he decided to take out his annoyance on me for being trapped in my body, even if it had only been for a short time.

"Hey Macin…doe…" I had to resist the urge to burst out laughing at the sight of my other friends in their newly acquired ninja attire. Turning around they all seemed to be in varying states of shock, or disgust. They didn't all seem to like their new clothes, but I couldn't blame them.

"Hey Ash how come your clothes are actually cool?" I spun to face Amber, confusion written across my face, but it disappeared when I saw her. She had been cursed with a rather Sakura-ish outfit; that is to say, she was the only one of us who was wearing a dress.

"Never mind that." I muttered, reaching behind me to straighten my hair. Instead my hand slammed into something. Grabbing it I found that I had a scroll strapped to my back, and I found myself wishing for a cool weapon like Zoe.

"Well, I guess now we've found Aimee-Leigh?" Brooksey spoke up, causing me to glance at her over my shoulder. Kisame was standing next to her; now thankfully back in his Akatsuki clothes.

"If only it were that easy." I reminded her as I began pacing, only to walk into someone and fall over. Not one of my best moments. Lifting my gaze I saw Sasori looking down at me, an amused expression on his face. I cringed and quickly climbed back to my feet.

Normal POV:

I laughed as Ashleigh awkwardly got back to her feet, to be honest Sasori looked like he was enjoying her embarrassment. I chuckled.

"What are you fucking laughing at, uhn?" Deidara, now cloaked in his Akatsuki wear, same as the other guys, had spotted me from his place next to Amber.

"Haha, none of your fucking business Blondy!" He glared at me. Heh I kinda felt bad for him, I had always tossed and turned over whether I liked Dei or Hidan better, but it was just so much fun to pick on the bomber.

Pein brushed himself off and leapt into the trees, signalling for us to follow. My friends and I groaned, physical exercise was never my thing but the Akatsuki guys did it on a daily basis. We were going to lag behind and slow them down. I hated being a nuisance.

And just to our luck, Baxter, after her first attempt at jumping into a massively tall tree, fell and bruised her ankle. We all stared as White Zetsu came up from the ground beside her and quickly helped her. I internally let out a fan girl scream; it was sooo cute to see Zetsu being kind!

"Heh, lucky," I muttered. Ash nodded in agreement. We kept going. Zetsu now carrying Baxter who was feeling embarrassed about having to need help from the plant man.

Amber took to the trees easily and was following Black Zetsu, while looking down at the branches passing under her. She kinda looked a bit down. I wanted to go ask her what was up but it seemed pointless to do so while travelling like this so I decided I would ask later.

Emma had taken on a very similar role to Pein I had noticed and she hadn't left his side since the came through the portal. The gingas' have gotta stick together as well I guessed.

Kakuzu and Macindoe/Macin were at the back near White Zetsu and seemed to be talking about something interesting. They kinda fitted nicely I thought, even if Macin had such a crazy imagination.

Brooksey had been given her own Shredding sword when she had been animated; it was gold though and matched her streaming, wavy hair. I once again swore that Kisame blushed while watching her. If anything Brooksey getting such a similar weapon to Kisame had to have meant something…

I glanced at the other girls. Amber's mid-length, straight hair was cropped into a dark blonde ponytail that extended from the base of her skull. Her weapon seemed to be a large ninja star shaped thing on her back.

Ashleigh only seemed to have a scroll…I wondered what animals she could summon?

Emma's long orange hair fell half way to her back and circled in a sharp cut line around her shoulders and her large amber eyes had been brightened. She matched Pein well.

Itachi and Ty were traveling alongside them. Ty's ultra-short black hair was sharpened into a jagged side fringe and spiked at the back with a long, thin, black stream of hair protruded from the centre of the spikes. Her obsidian eyes were large, as is anime style.

Macin had curly, beige hair that piled in a rough bun and stringed down in rivers from the top. Her eyes were strangely yellow and had dark highlights in them.

Baxter's long brown hair was twice as long and hung to her ankles, or Zetsu's knees currently. She had a tight bun filled with flowers at the top of her head and vines that trailed down and entwined with her straight, wood-brown hair.

Mel was in the centre of the group with Tobi. I hadn't noticed them before. Mel's hair was out and hung naturally at her shoulders, it was brown at the top and lightened to blonde at the tips.

She was wearing short-cut camo pants and long netted mesh covered her arms and neck, all the way up to her jawline. A black, sleeveless cameo sweater covered her torso. I smiled at her and she smiled back sarcastically and with a quick look at Tobi, went back to staring ahead.

Tobi hadn't left her side since he had gotten his body back, and literally seemed to have his shoulder glued to Mel's. He was being nice though, if not annoyingly so.

"Hn, we will have to discuss our plan of action at the base" Pein looked at Itachi knowingly.

"We can't let them see the location of the base yet, they are not entirely trustworthy and could be easily captured and interrogated."

Pein glanced at Emma and then a slight smile played his lips.

Itachi looked at him seriously, "I gather you have an idea leader-sama?"

Pein grinned, "Yes. I do."

We sat down at the clearing, Itachi had made a fire for us. It was nearing night-time and we were getting close to the base, but Baxter's ankle needed tending to and the rest of us were dead tired. We don't exercise this much in a day, ever!

Pein had been acting strange, going around and whispering to each of the guys.

Only the guys and not us. He even told Emma to stop following him.

Emma was pouting behind a log now.

Every time I watched him go around, he would whisper in the ear of them cunningly and then they would smile…well not so much smile as grin evilly.

I was very much afraid.

He was currently whispering into Hidan's ear.

Hidan nodded a couple of times before a mischievous smile danced across his lips.

He nodded again and looked at me. I quickly looked away, blushing from being caught spying.

I heard his voice, raised slightly, "Hm sounds like fun." With a wink, Pein moved on to Kisame and Sasori.

What the hell was going on here?!

Ash POV:

The scroll had been bugging me all day, and no matter how exhausted I was from the horrendous amount of exercise we had just done I was still going to find out what it contained. If it didn't have anything useful then I was going to be a deadweight when it came to long range fighting.

Still, I wasn't too keen on anyone else seeing what was inside the scroll at the current time, so it was rather convenient that the guys chose now to be involved in their own secretive conversations. Sitting cross legged on the grass with my back to the fire I carefully unravelled the scroll, expecting it to be for something stupid.

Breathing out slowly I fully unravelled the scroll, eyes swiftly travelling across the page. My green eyes widened in curiosity as I examined its contents, but I quickly rolled up the scroll once more when I heard footsteps approaching me. No-one else needed to know what it said just yet, although I was going to have to find somewhere private to instigate the summoning contracts…

Normal POV

Sneakily getting up, I avoided Hidan's stare and went and sat next to Ashleigh.

"Um…is it just me or are the guys seeming more and more crazy every second?"

She nodded.

"Pein is up to something…they all are."

"Hm."

"Let's just forget about it and hope it doesn't involve us?" Ash looked at me.

"It definitely involves us." I gulped.

Itachi started walking around with bread and milk for each of us "Here, hn." It was yummy, the milk was warm and frothy and the bread was surprisingly fresh and moist. I finished it off, along with everyone else.

Pein nodded to Emma.

"Night guys, time to sleep, we have an early start tomorrow," She yawned and fell asleep under the thin blankets Kakuzu had provided. They had cost us $9.99. I scowled and rejected the offer.

I slept closer to the fire to stay warm. I smiled, looking at Ty and Itachi. They were sleeping next to each, back to back. How cute, I thought.

Pein settled down next to Emma and Kakuzu for the night. Ashleigh and Sasori had already fallen asleep next to me. I grinned.

I was the only one awake, Kisame was snoring loudly.

Tobi was hugging Mel's back as she slept. Yikes.

Macin was with Amber on the other side of the campfire. Next to them were the two Zestsu's and Baxter.

I tossed and turned. I knew something sinister was afoot, but I just couldn't tell what.

One thing I was pretty sure of…it was going to end badly for us girls.

And then I fell asleep.