The shinobi filed out of the room after having made sure that Akira was safely and securely tied to a chair and unable to move. Akira swore at them loudly and violently before slumping back in her seat, or at least acting like she had, and sighing as the door slammed shut behind them. At least they hadn't bothered to gag her, she would have considered killing them for that, but as it is, she was in a mood to put them all in the hospital.

Akira smiled and jerked her shoulder popping it back into place. They had been careless when securing her, not noticing that she had popped her shoulder out of its joint in order to make them tie a little looser with out realizing. Sure it had hurt, but she would have been ashamed if she hadn't done everything she could have to get free. She turned to the side and grimaced as she twisted her arms behind her pressing the chairs edges into her muscles. She was barely able to grip the knots, smiling slightly she undid the knots and sighed with happiness as the rope slinked to her feet. She then bent over and untied the ropes binding her legs to the chair and stood up. It wasn't the fastest she had ever gotten free from ropes, but it wasn't the slowest either so she was happy. "No one can keep the Akatsuki's most beautiful member!" she joked quietly as she stretched out her tired body. Being kept in one position for a few hours certainly knots up your muscles. "Now, where are those dumb asses that tried to kidnap me," Akira said with spite. She had never heard of someone trying this before, but she tried it anyways; adjusting the chakra to around and inside her eyes she tried to look through the walls to see where her captors were. Almost automatically she felt a shift in her eyes slightly different then when she activated the sharingan. She opened her eyes and saw EVERYTHING around her, including the other room. She was awed by how much she saw and how clearly she did that she didn't notice the one man entering the room.

"How did you get free?" asked a man with long hair and whitish eyes as he stood in the doorway. Akira spun to look at him, and he froze. "Are you a Hyuga?" he asked staring straight into her eyes.

"No, I'm of no clan," she replied. "What makes you think I would be?"

"You posses the byakugan, its activated in your eyes right now," the man continued to sound strange.

Akira was confused as she stared at the man. "Who are you anyways?" she said.

"Neji of the Hyuga clan, one of the top shinobi in the village," Neji said with pride.

"Well, you really suck at being a ninja, you just let your hostage go while you were boasting about yourself," Akira said as her body disappeared in a puff of smoke. Neji went wide eyed at looked around; Akira was smirking at him from behind as she set the edge of her kunai against his throat. "Wow, you're really dumb to have let your opponent get behind you."

Neji froze as the coldness of the blade sent the knowledge that a child had just bested him without him even realizing what had happened to his brain. "So, why don't you help me to get free of here, and I'll let you live?" Akira whispered in his ear before spinning and kicking at a girl who entered the room. She was hit in the side of the head and dropped to the ground, Akira spun both she and Neji around as more ninjas entered the room. "Let me go or the idiot dies," she yelled at them allowing the tip of her kunai to draw a small line of blood across Neji's neck. Naruto snickered at the Neji being called an idiot before Sasuke nudged him. He glanced at Sasuke and shut up as he took a fighting stance. Neji craned his neck away from the blade only to have the blade follow his movements. Obviously she had done negotiation like this before. "I said to let me go," Akira repeated. No one moved an inch. Impatient Akira hit Neji at the base of his neck with the butt of her kunai and let him drop to the ground unconscious. Everyone was stunned that he had been beaten so easily and some of the younger shinobi stepped back. Akira withdrew a second kunai and stood still one arm draped out of her cloak. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and charged followed closely by Naruto and one other shinobi. Sakura, Kakashi and the others stayed back.

Akira spun and cut Sasuke across the cheek before turning and kicking Naruto in the stomach. She then flipped over and kicked the other ninja in the jaw causing him to drop. "Well, the shinobi here aren't that much fun to face," she said as she kicked behind her hitting Sasuke in the shoulder. She stood still and looked around her as her byakugan faded. Sighing she raised her hand and twitched her fingers inviting the other shinobi to come at her. They all did. She dropped many of them to the ground in one hit leaving only a few of the higher leveled ninja standing. Kakashi attacked her and she swept his feet out from under him. The others stayed back as she knelt down next to him. Chakra surrounded her hands in such a high concentration that everyone could see it. Everyone stared in anticipation to see if she was going to finish him off. She closed her eyes and placed her hands on his chest gently as chakra spread to cover his body. Then it hit them, she wasn't trying to kill him, she was checking to see if he had healed since their last fight! "You idiot, your body still hasn't recovered and yet your still trying to fight me," she said softly as she grabbed his hand and pulled him to his feet. "If you want to get yourself killed, go jump off a bridge, but I won't attack an injured man. Off to bed, now!" she pointed at the door and every laughed as Kakashi looked at the little girl ordering him around. "I said to go rest, I won't fight you until you're fully healed, so unless you want me to knock you out and carry you to a bed myself I would get moving," Akira said in a commanding and caring voice. Kakashi just shrugged and walked out of the room with his hands in his pockets. "Shall we continue?" Akira said with a smile. Everyone just shrugged and the battle continued. Akira kicked a shinobi aside only to be caught in the back with a kick from Sasuke. She twisted as she fell and threw her kunai at a ninja coming up on her side. It stuck in his arm and his eyes rolled up into his head as he dropped.

Sakura ran over to him, "What happened to him?" she asked Akira.

"I hit a pressure point… putting him a near death state, he'll be fine in about half an hour," Akira said as she kicked Naruto's ankle causing him to drop to the ground and slid. She jumped back as Sasuke charged her and ran straight into Hinata who hit her in the back. Akira fell to the ground gasping for air. She grabbed Hinata's ankle and pulled causing her to fall backwards as well. Sasuke grabbed her wrist and pressed a pressure point causing her to let go of her kunai. Akira snarled and punched him in the face. He fell backwards. Akira slumped back on the ground exhausted. She scissored her legs tripping Naruto as he ran towards Sasuke. Thinking that she wouldn't be able to fight much longer Akira grabbed her kunai off the ground a prepared to jump up and attack the remaining ninja when the door burst open and a female shinobi fell to the ground. Itachi stepped in behind Kisame and scanned the room. His eyes settled on Akira and he walked over to her not caring if he stepped on anyone's body parts. He carefully picked her up and removed the kunai from her hand before turning and nodded to Kisame as he began to walk out of the room. Everyone, Sasuke in particular, watched as he walked calmly past them. He was almost out the door when Sasuke stood up, "Hey Itachi!"

Itachi didn't even bother to look at Sasuke, "Leave me be, our feud will be put aside for today so I can care for Akira," he said without stopping. Sasuke was completely astounded.

"Since when have you ever cared about anyone but yourself?" he screamed as he started to run after his older brother. Kisame stopped him.

"Don't talk about what you don't understand," Kisame said softly, "Akira is one of the only good things in his life, don't mess that up or he might just kill you. Never question him when it's about Akira, she's reached him in a way that even you or I couldn't comprehend and he's very protective of the bond between them," he said. Sasuke glared at him and attempted to push past him. Kisame pushed him back in the room forcefully. Sasuke tripped over a person laying on the ground and fell backwards, Naruto caught him and they both looked up at Kisame. "I hope for your sakes that you don't try something like this again," he said. Then with a nod he left the room. Sasuke and Naruto stared after them.

Sasuke stood up again and ran outside to try and find them, but they were gone and had left no trace behind them.

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"Itachi?" Akira whispered looking up at the man carrying her. Itachi glanced down at her. "How did you find me?"

Itachi just smirked, "Those beads you made have a small string of chakra connecting them to the other beads, and why it hasn't deteriorated is beyond me though. It was pretty easy to find you because of it." Akira nodded slightly before closing her eyes and snuggling closer to Itachi's chest before falling into a deep sleep. Itachi looked slightly stunned at being snuggled before he shook his head and continued to the base. Kisame followed with a slight smile.