When Ami woke up her head pounded and her mouth had the consistency of cotton and if she were honest, tasted pretty gross too. She hadn't had a chance to ask where they kept the extra toothbrushes for visitors. Ami rolled her eyes, psychopaths like these wouldn't put hospitality at the top of their priorities, she could just imagine them making her brush the floor with her toothbrush anyway, those smug bastards.

She rolled herself across the bed and sank dramatically off of it, and hitting her elbow on the floor. "UHHHHHHH I hate this place," she moaned "why couldn't I die and go somewhere else, like Hogwarts." She rolled until she was in arms reach of her clothes "You hear that God? Do you? Because if you can you'd better hope I wake up in Harry Potter World or I'll kick your omnipotent ass seven days from Sunday." She half-heartedly yelled as she dressed.

Once that task was over and done with she got up and made her bed. "See this?" Ami said to no one in particular. "I'm such a good guest, the best guest, even. And how do you award your perfect guest? With bad company and the threat of death!"

With the bed folded absolutely pristinely, she wandered into the hall.

For some reason, she felt like she hadn't see this hallway in about two years, how bizarre.

Putting that thought away, she poked her head around corners until she came across the staircase leading up to the habitable portion of the residence.

"Up, up, up, up the stairs we go. And then we come out of the tunnel." She gave the door at the top a good push and it sailed open to reveal a very large and angry man.

"Hey looks who's back" she yelled, "Ferret boy!" She flew some finger guns his way and ended them with a drawn-out 'Ayy.'

Just then the biggest vein popped out on his forehead, and his face actually became coloured, granted it was more of a dusty rose pink than red, but you gotta award accomplishments when they're deserved. As Ami once again failed to realize how close to death she was dancing, the clam, cool, and collected Itachi came around and stopped the large man from shredding her into pieces.

"Hidan, Leader-sama was very clear, the girl is not to be killed." The rage in Hidan's face remained.

"Or in maimed" continued Itachi.

The death intent continued to linger.

"Hidan, why don't you consider this girl proper of Leader-sama." Hidan snarled and without saying a word stomped down the staircase and out of sight.

An awkward silence hung in the air, Ami looked at Itachi for a good second. "You know I really have to object to being Leader-samas property. "

If it was normal for Itachi to openly display his emotions he might have done a number of things, notably, sigh heavily, facepalm, rub his temple, or just put his head through a window out of pure exasperation. But instead, he rolled his eyes so quickly it couldn't be detected with the human eye. "Ami-san," He paused in the hope she would be able to internalize the next information, "the only thing keeping your head on your shoulders is the fact that Leader-Sama wants you to be."

Ami pondered this, and Itachi took the silence for a good sign and continued "In fact, and you shouldn't be surprised by this, but most of the people you have met already want you dead."

"And that's not an accomplishment" He quickly added after seeing a glint in her eye at mentioning that.

Ami sighed a little and started twirling a strand of her hair "I guess so, but how do you know that I don't secretly harbour a death wish? Or maybe that I'm actually in a coma, as far as I know, this place holds no consequences for me." Itatchi gently grabbed her shoulder and began to silently lead her out the door.

As they walked Ami thought long and hard about how she really did feel. She certainly felt confused about the situation, nothing here ever really added up. What was it about this magic people could do and how lifelike their costumes were.

They walked onwards, through the kitchen, and past the sitting lounge and into a room she hadn't seen before. It was basically a coat room, a large amount of equipment was scattered around and hung on hooks, there was probably every kind of weapon and armour you could imagine.

But Itatchi continued to guide her, then they went out the door. She expected to see the great outdoors but was instead greeted by an underground tunnel.

"Ok Itatchi, this isn't helping my theory about being stuck in some wonked out wonderland." Itatchi surpassed showing his exasperation and continued to gently guide her.

Ami didn't hide her annoyance and huffed. But her reservation went away when they turned the corner, she saw a sliver of blue sky and her heart beat faster, and so did her stride.

When she got to the mouth of the cave the fresh summer wind twisted through her hair and around her fingers. She took a deep breath and savoured the smell of summer air. The view was amazing, they were high on a cliff face that overlooked winding grasslands.

There was a small flat area where the cave opened up, but other wise Ami couldn't fathom any way to get up where they stood. In the moment she was filled with wonder and the beauty of it all, at least until Itachi gave a strong shove and Ami toppled over the edged and began to fall towards her demise.

A/N: CAn you believe it's been over two years? I can't! ... Man, I'm a different person now, I mean different than I was two years ago, and by that I mean I've gotten even sassyer, and less PG 13, being 20 will do that to a person. I'm getting to old for this, which is perfetly iliustrated by the fact that I forgot I wrote in an older chapter that there were spare tooth brushes under the sink... I'm too lazy to fix any mistakes, jsut consider it as branching off paralle universes every time theres a continuity error. *finger guns* Aayyyyyy cool