New chapter ppz! I know it's short, and I apologize…

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Chapter 9: Fish-boy and Raven-dude's scheme

The next day, Hina was going on the mission with Kisame and Itachi. She wasn't really looking forward to it; if Itachi found out what jutsu it was, he would know who she was. She didn't want that. Not yet. She needed to know the truth now, before it was too late, and she needed to talk to him, something she hadn't even begun to do.

She took on the black cloak with red clouds and walked down to the two guys standing there, talking to Pein.

"Leader-sama," Hina said as she reached them and bowed her head ever so slightly.

"Lucia," Pein said and nodded to her.

"So, you ready to go, Lu?" Kisame asked, and Hina raised an eyebrow.

"Lu?" she asked.

"Well, Lucia is just too long to say when you can have two nicknames; Lu and Lucy," he explained, and Hina snickered.

"You're one weird guy, fish-boy," she said, and Kisame narrowed his eyes playfully.


Itachi looked at the new girl. She reminded him of Hina in some crazy, absurd way.

"Fish-boy?" Kisame asked.

"Okay, your pick; fish-boy or shark-boy?" Lucia laughed.

"Shark-boy," Kisame said with a grin.

"And fish-boy it is," Lucia said and skipped outside, leaving Itachi and Kisame to sweat-drop. "Well, are yah coming?" she asked, and Kisame laughed and the two men followed the redhead.


They had been running for three hours when Hina stopped abruptly. Kisame and Itachi stopped on the next branch.

"What is it, Lu?" Kisame asked.

"Come back here," she said, and the two of them did so. "We're being watched by something or someone," she said.

Kisame looked around, but Itachi looked at her. "How did you know?" he asked.

Hina raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean; how did I know?" she asked.

"Kisame, relax. It's just Zetsu," Itachi said, and Hina narrowed her eyes.

"Why were we being followed by him? Is it the fact that I'm new? That you wanted to see if I was reliable or not? Is there even a mission?" she asked with small eyes.

"You sure as hell ain't stupid," Kisame said.

"There is a mission, but it's not to kill the Mizukage. We're sent to the village of rain to give the kage a report from leader," Itachi said, dropping the games to Hina's pleasure.

"Good," she said.


Itachi looked at her as they started running again. He didn't feel like she wasn't reliable. He felt more that she was very trustworthy. She was a weird girl, that Lucia. And something about her just made him want to know more.


They reached the village by nightfall and decided to take in on a motel. They only took one room as to not draw attention to themselves, but only after Hina persuaded them to do so. They wanted to give her privacy.

"I want to be on the planning, got it?" she had snapped at them, and then they gave up.

"We have to find the Mizukage without the guards noticing, which will be hard. She knows we're coming. Maybe she'll meet us near the river. If so, we're at an advantage, since both of you steer the water," Itachi said, and Kisame nodded.

Hina didn't do anything. She didn't like the fact that they were already relying on her water-powers when she would do whatever she could to hide those powers from Itachi.


"But we won't kill her, right?" Lucia asked, and Itachi looked up at her.

"Not if necessary," he said calmly.

"Fine," Lucia said. Itachi noticed that she seemed rather concerned about the mission.

"We'll do great! She is our ally, and therefore, she will give us the information we seek, even though it's us who comes for it," Kisame said cheerfully.

Lucia smiled to him. "Sure," she said, "but I'm going to bed."

They both nodded and she jumped into the double bed and crawled under the sheets.


Okay, so now I have to tell you something very important that makes no sense in this structure, but whenever the texts says 'Lucia' or 'Mai' it means that it's from one of the Akatsuki's POV or something like that. When it says 'Hina' or 'Ami' it means that it's from either Hina, Ami or Chieko's POV, unless it's a flashback in Itachi's past, of course ^^ And I use those horizontal rulers to seperate the different POV's... I hope it made sense. If not, review or PM me.

I hope you like it, and I know it was short, and maybe even a bit weird. Anyways, if you give me some pointers I'd be very happy ^^

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