Grim groaned loudly as she came to. A bright light blinded her momentarily, and for a few minutes all she could see were shapes of figures, seven to be exact. She jolted upright as she realized where she was.

"What happened?" She demanded.

"You died. We brought you back here to tell you what we plan to do." Innocentia spoke up. It seemed like she would be the speaker today.

At this, Grim's eyebrow rose in questioning. The pink haired beauty simply gave her a reassuring smile.

"You'll probably enjoy the plan." Teariden spat in disgust and anger.

"Why? You'll get your balls chopped off?" She asked cheekily.

"No, we're banishing him to his home realm." Innocentia answered.

"Oh, I see. So what's this plan then?" A cruel grin placed itself on her lips.

"Where did she go?" Itachi asked, completely puzzled.

One moment, Grim was breathing deeply on a table in the medical wing and the next she was gone. No trace of her existence at all.

"Probably meeting with the fates." Konan answered, staring hard at the table.

"So she fucking left us?" Hidan cried in anger.

"No, the Grim Reaper cannot decide when they will go to a meeting. They are bound by the fates. Their word is law." Sasori rolled his eyes at Hidan's confused expression.

Everyone stood silent for a moment before turning to Madara, who was staring out of the window with a stern expression.

"So we wait?" He asked silently after several minutes of silence.

"Yes." Grim appeared by his side and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Unfortunately, no one will like how this turns out." Her expression was grim and her eyes held pain.

The others stared at her for a moment, before turning to look out of the window at the "small" building.

Just what was going to happen?

Pein coughed a few times before he woke up, his side was killing him. With a few blinks he managed to clear up some of the fog that had built up. However, it was only to realize that he had been chained to a wall, and that his side had been stitched closed. That wound was huge!

"Don't worry," Kabuto's voice floated towards him from the shadows. "You won't die from infection, Orochimaru specifically asked for me to keep you alive and well. We wouldn't want your little mate to have a panic attack." He spoke with a sickening tone as he revealed himself.

Pein bared his teeth and growled at him, which only granted him a smile.

"Do you want to see Kiyuno?" Kabuto asked suddenly.

Pein only stared at him. Taking that as a "yes" Kabuto switched the lights on, unveiling a large computer system connected to a wall just opposite of the orange-haired vampire.

Kabuto strode over to the computer screen calmly, completely at ease, and turned the computer on. It made a quite whirling sound as it came to life. He quickly entered a few passwords and entered some pieces of data before the screen showed Kiyuno standing there, bindings re-wrapped and clothes completely clean and dry.

"System check mode: Activated." A computer-like voice echoed throughout the white room. "Checking; Speed." Without warning the walls started collapsing and re-arranging themselves and the floor began to fall apart.

Kiyuno made quick moves, bouncing off walls, climbing what she could, and dashing across moving floors.

She made it look like a walk in the park.

After several minutes of the room awkwardly changing its shape, the room returned to its original state.

"Speed; 220%." The voice echoed again before continuing. "Checking; Accuracy."

Again, without warning, two square pillars shot up, both on either side of the small girl and targets of various sizes and shapes broke from the walls, ceiling, and floor. With closer inspection, one could see that the pillars were filled with small black daggers.

"Checking; Accuracy. Timed. Begin." As soon as the sentence had ended a timer had started and at the very same time Kiyuno began launching each and every dagger at each and every target at an alarming speed, becoming nothing but a blur. "Accuracy check; Ended. Time; 2.03 seconds. Accuracy; 223%"

The room seemed to clean itself as the tiles with debris on them flipped over and the two pillars retreated back into the ground.

"Checking; Stamina." Lightning suddenly shot around the room, blinding anyone who dared look at it. This lasted for several minutes before the lightning dissipated, leaving Kiyuno's clothes only slightly frazzled. "Stamina; 200%."

"Checking; Health." A small robotic arm appeared next to Kiyuno and stuck her arm with a needle. "Health; Blood Pressure: normal. White Cells: normal. Red Cells: normal. Heart Rate: normal. DNA: Warning, there has been a slight change in the DNA sequence. Injecting Serum 13BFZ65."

Kiyuno made no move as a clear substance moved through a thin tube and into her arm.

"Checking; Health. Completed." The robotic arm detached itself from the girl's arm and retreated back into the floor, like the pillars had done before.

As the screen turned off Pein couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Kiyuno was fine... or at least she wasn't hurt... physically...

"Well, I'm not aloud to do any tests on you so I'll have to be cutting our meeting short. Good bye." Kabuto called as he turned the lights out and shut the door.

Pein waited patiently as the hours passed, using his ears to try and tell where Kiyuno was at and if it was safe to try and communicate with her. He knew very well that she, too, had excellent hearing, probably even better than his.

Finally he heard Kabuto saying "Good night." to Kiyuno with a sadistic laugh and a metal door clank shut.

Kiyuno didn't know what was going on, or where she was. All she knew was that everything felt heavy, and that she was suspended up in the air. Her eyes simply refused to open, too exhausted to move.

"Kiyuno..." She hear a faint whisper. Her body shook slightly, and she felt herself sway from side to side for a moment. "Kiyuno..." Again the voice whispered, a tad bit louder than before.

"Ngh..."

"Kiyuno... wake up..." The voice sounded slightly urgent, but if it was, why would it be so quite? "Please, I need you to wake up!" The voice yelled instead of whispered.

But still, Kiyuno couldn't bring herself to move, everything ached and felt heavy. Why couldn't she move? What was making her so tired? What had she even done?

"Kiyuno!" The voice screamed, but it only seemed to keep fading away, quieter with each yell.

A sudden pain had her jerking her head up and opening her eyes. The scent of familiar blood flew through her senses, making her growl in anger. The feeling of losing something important tugged at her heart. But still the heavy feeling dragged her under! She struggled momentarily before she felt a prick in her neck and heard a man laugh near by her.

Orochimaru turned away from Pein and went over to the large computer system, completely satisfied with his work. Pein's face was now dripping in blood from many wounds, and so was his torso. Now all Orochimaru had to do was insert the blood he obtained into the computer and then there would be no need to worry about Kiyuno breaking loose because her mate was killed.

Well... That was the original idea, the only thing that was in the way were the alarms screaming in his ears.

"Warning. Warning. There has been a breach in sector ZH674. Warning. Warning. There has been a breach in sector XH834." Orochimaru grit his teeth in anger.

The first sector was Kiyuno's room and surrounding area, the next was the hallway leading to this room.

With a flash of anger in his eyes, he quickly pulled up the data from the security camera's and checked Kiyuno's room. The sight he saw made him growl dangerously.

There, hanging by the very chains that held Kiyuno up, was Kabuto... only... He was practically dead.

When I say practically, I mean that he had a needle sticking in his neck, the same needle they used to sedate Kiyuno. It was the only thing keeping him alive.

Kabuto had a hook going through his neck, the end of it curling into his mouth. Three additional chains had been viciously thrown at him and tore through his stomach and spine, launching into the wall, holding him up.

With a few finger twitches, Orochimaru turned the camera to survey the rest of the room, which had been completely demolished. The computer system that was in her room was completely eradicated, the only sign of it being electrical were the dangerous sparks of electricity flying out every now and then.

Orochimaru cursed silently before he began typing erratically into the computer.

"System Defense: Enabled. Code: Red. Locking Doors Z, X, J, F92, J2l,..." The computer-like voice sounded.

There was a distinct sound of metal smashing into metal as the security doors closed. With a smug look, Orochimaru turned on all of the security camera's that accompanied the doors. At door K3F was where the pale man had found the demon.

She had changed completely, her skin now black and leathery, elongated limbs, horns growing from her head, no hair, little to no muscle or fat visible, and tail. She had changed into the Demon of Black Blood. Kiyuno was currently stuck between the doors, thrashing around wildly, growling and whining all the while.

"Security Defenses: Enabled." The sound seemed to make her pause, looking directly at the camera with bright glowing blue eyes.

In fact, the eyes seemed to be the only thing on the creature's face, there was no mouth nor nose; but there were spaces for them.

Suddenly, a large rocket-like machine folded itself away from the wall and aimed directly at the demon. However, faster than you could blink, the demon had managed to twist itself to get a better aim at the machine. A thin line of purple tainted it's skin, creating the line for a mouth, teeth included. The purple color spread wider until skin detached from skin as a frightening mouth shaped itself. The mouth opened impossibly wide and a small black orb formed for a fraction of a second before forming into a blast of energy and smashing through the machine and the walls behind it.

Orochimaru ground his teeth together in aggravation as he watched the demon thrash around again, eventually tearing through the constricting door-way and barreling straight into the already closed doors just a few feet away.

The demon made something akin to a whine as it continuously threw itself at the doors, making the pale man chuckle. Eventually it stopped, closed it's mouth so that it no longer existed on it's face and the purple coloration was gone. It's eyes narrowed and a dark purple began mixing with the blue glow as purple tainted just under the ridge of what was supposedly a nose, and again at the demon's sides -creating three continuously moving openings on either side- and began to sniff around. It crawled onto the door, the nose taking in scents and the openings on it's sides pushing out puffs of red and black smoke.

It moved onto the ceiling and paused for just a second before tearing through the metal and crawling into the newly created opening, obviously having the perfect path in mind.

"I think you're plan might not work." Pein murmured, attempting a smirk directed at Orochimaru.

"Quiet!" The man hissed before he began typing once more.

"System Defense Mode: Delta F3A63VF." The computer voiced to the room.

After the voice faded away more machines folded out from the walls and the ceiling. They were needle-like guns filled with unicorn's blood. All in all, Orochimaru just set up a trap.

There was a scraping sound the echoed all over the room, making both men glance around. Scratching sounds accompanied these sounds, along with long whines and angry growls.

After what seemed like hours, it stopped, leaving only the sounds of the machines changing their positions every now and then. Both men blinked, why had she stopped?

Out of no where, the doors were forced from their positions, smashing into several of the machines, leaving only four to fire at the demon. However, they all seemed to jerk uncontrollably as sparks flew from their joints.

"What the hell?" Orochimaru cursed, all of the machines were now let obsolete, and yet the demon made no appearance.

Cautiously, the pale man made his way over to his captive, glancing in every direction. Behind his back, he held the last bit of unicorns blood, just enough to render the demon useless.

"Come on out." He cooed.

A growl sounded from one of the corners, but when he whipped his head to it's destination, there was nothing. He was abruptly thrown into the wall, breaking his left arm as he crashed into it. He stood up, letting his useless arm fall to his side as the other one clutched at the syringe.

A growl came from his right, but he ignored it. That was a mistake, because a large wolf-like creature came crashing at him, biting into the arm that held the syringe.

Orochimaru screamed in pain, but managed to aim at a main artery and plunged the needle into the wolf's skin – it had no fur – making it cry out in pain. The creature dropped its shape every few seconds as it shook and backed away.

Panting from pain and blood-loss, Orochimaru did his best to put some space between himself and the demon, which was made increasingly hard with the destruction of both his arms. Said limbs were now strewn across the room.

An inhuman, low and dangerous growl had him panicking. The unicorn's blood wasn't working!

No sound left the man as the demon pounced to quickly and crushed his neck between it's jaws and threw him into the large computer. Orochimaru's body slid but stopped on the keys, trapped in the broken screen and on top of bent and dented metal of the 'keyboard'.

The creature whimpered before it's skin began melting away. It crawled to Pein, whimpering the whole was as snowy white flesh was revealed.

Kiyuno was finally free of the black goop that was flesh, laying naked covered in scars and bruises, dried and fresh blood, cuts and wounds here and there. She was breathing deeply, one arm reaching to Pein and the other digging into the metallic floor below her.

"Kiyuno..." He called softly.

She said nothing as a black wisp of air stretched from her finger tips to the chains that held Pein up, they broke a minute later, allowing him to crumbled to the floor, lying next to her.

He listened to her uneven and gasping breaths as he pulled her towards him. They were both covered in blood, but neither of them cared, nor did they care that Kiyuno had broken into tears and clutched at Pein.

"Shhh, it's all over. Everything is fine." He hugged her and brushed his fingers through her long black hair.

He cooed to her gently as her cries softened into small whimpers.

"I'm so sorry." He murmured as he kissed her forehead. Kiyuno shook her head against his chest, being mindful of his cuts. "I'm so sorry." Pein hugged her tighter and buried his face in her neck.

He breathed in her scent as she did the same to him. For the longest time they lied there, enjoying the others presence.

"Don't ever leave." He whispered, cradling her head in his hands as he pulled back to stare into her eyes.

They were dark brown, with hints of blue that were fading away.

"Never." She promised.

He pulled her to him again, kissing her with a passion like no other.

However, they were interrupted.

I'm evil, aren't I? Being gone for so long and then giving you little to nothing ALONG WITH A CLIFFHANGER! I can't tell you when I'll get the next chapter out, just know that shit hits the fan once again, as it always seems to do in this story...

Anyway, a heads up:

There might be just one more chapter, depending on if I want to drag it out just a bit more. I have a clear view of what the story will end on, and it has the opportunity to have miniature chapters added to it! ^_^ Depending on if you would want to see what happens next, it's all on you guys, but wait until the next chapter for that!

Thanks to all who reviewed! You're all wonderful! 3 I apologize for taking so long! Thank you for being patient! And check out my home page for a link to a picture I drew of the Demon of Black Blood!