"So this is the notorious Anko Mitarashi of Konaha." Deidara stated amused.

"She doesn't look like too much of a fighter but she's hot-"

"Deidara," Pain started firmly "She's your superior now so show some respect."

"Hmph." Was his response

The Akatsuki leader returned his attention back to the woman in the observation center. Her injuries were only minor now thanks to Konan's medical skills. Speaking of her injuries…

"Kisame, I hardly believe Orochimaru would give Anko these injuries considering how important she was to his plans."

Kisame scratched his head "You know that's exactly what I was thinking-"

"Save it, Deidara already told us how you got drunk and tried to rape her-"

"That is NOT what happened ZETSU." Kisame said defensively.

"You dropped on top on her and began biteing-"

"I WAS DRUNK!"

"I know but you-"

"Why don't you just admit you're both perverts." Deidara cut in.

Zetsu and Kisame turned to him. Kisame began pulling out his sword and a vine began growing out of Zetsu's cloak.

" That's enough." Pain shouted. Every one stopped but the bloodlust was still fresh in the air.

"Kisame, go check on Itachi, he's not completely healed from his journey."

"Hmph." Kisame growled and then disappeared

"Zetsu, you and Deidara go locate the others, including Tobi, I'm calling a meeting."

"…Right. Well, come along Deidara." He said sinisterly

"…Uhh…cant I go find Sasori on my own-"

"Go."

"…Yeah…" he obliged but kept a safe distance from Zetsu.

Konan came out a few moments later. These were one of the rare moments that she didn't have on her Akatsuki cloak, which gave Pain a nice look of her femine body.

"How is she." He tried to keep to keep his eyes on her face instead of…elsewhere.

"Kisame did quite a number on her." She began while trying to put her cloak. No

"But that surgeon Itachi mentioned did a good job patching her up." She begun struggling a little with the heavy obstacle until Pain helped her.

"Thanks. Anyway what's the meeting about?"

"I need to think on that. I just need to get everyone out of here."

"Pain, you shouldn't get them worked up like that, they-" she was silenced with his lips

Within a few seconds she was returning his kisses with some of her own, unbeknownst to them that they were being watched by the barley conscious Anko.

FLASHBACK

"I've become a thorn into everyone's side I guess…either that or just a complete failure, a waste of life. A broken puppet no more use to the child that grew tired of it…just to keep it as a collector's item…" Kabuto still doesn't even respond. Anko's feelings fall even deeper into the darkness of her tortured heart. She grabs at his hand and places it at her throat.

"Just do it already…" she says with emotionless eyes. Kabuto turns around baffled at her actions.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me. Just do it already. Use your chakra scalpels to sever my arteries so I can bleed to death on the inside. It'll be doing you and everyone else a favor. It'll be like…healing me…yeah since you like to do that for me…or or maybe it is some sick fetish of mine…yeah you're right it is!" she starts laughing a very crazed laugh as the tears roll down the previous path they took earlier down her round face. They sparkle as they fall to the ground. Her eyes are still emotionless as she continues laughing. Kabuto looks at her, watching her go mad from the torture she goes through daily.

"Anko…"

"What are you waiting for? Come on you know you want to do it. You enjoy ripping and mutilating bodies. Messing with the nerves in their brains to see how the body responds to it then disposing the bodies for later uses and sacrifices for Snake bastard so he can use jutsus. Just look at me as one of those poor hapless souls, I'm no different …or if you do care think of me as one of your pets that has an incurable disease and you have to put me to sleep…cure me from this pain…"

"Anko…stop…"

"Come on. Don't be a jerk…cure me already…" her eyes swell up more and her laugh fade to sobbing again. Her eyes stop holding back her hurt emotion and everything spills out.

"Just FUCK'N CURE ME!!"

Anko starts crying loudly as if someone close to her died; at this point that something that died is her spirit, hopes, and dreams. Kabuto muffles her sobbing by crashing his lips on hers with no sign of pulling back. From this she releases his hand and tries to push him away from her. She finally realizes that he has no intention of moving; her pushing hands stop and cling onto his shirt lightly. She returns him the kiss; their lips locked tightly.

"Why…?" she whispers in between. Her breathing begins to pick up slowly, face flushing red.

"I…don't know…" he whispers back. Her eyes become very heavy and her body lowers a bit. Her grip on his shirt loosens and finally releases. She falls back a little; her back resting on his arm that was holding her against him.

"You…slick…bastard." She smirks with very sleepy eyes "you…used it…again…" she finally shuts her eyes and falls into a deep sleep into his arms; her head falls into his chest…

END FLASHBACK

She touched her lips as sadness plagued her heart. She couldn't remember what his lips felt like and she hated it. She hated that he had left her like that. Alive. Unwilling to feel. Angry. Scared.

She was unsure of her fate here but something in her sad excuse for a mind told her it wasn't worth living for. How idiot aortic of Konan to have left her operating tools out…

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"Pain…"

He kissed down her neck ignoring her pleas.

"Pain…AHH…I think she's… awake…"

"Hm hmm." Poor response

"Pain…" but she began to fall back into the feeling of his lips on her neck.

That is until the sound of a heart monitor going off caught their attention.

"…I think she's going to be your new partner." Zetsu inquired

"She, I never thought I'd Orochimaru would take a girl on as a prodigal[???] ."

"Try woman, even I think she's good looking."

"You mean good enough to eat." The companion joked

They laughed lightly at the personal joke. There laughing stopped though when an annoying beeping plagued the air.

"What is that?"

Zetsu's eyes widened I think it's her." He began running

"Who?'

"THE GIRL! Shit I don't know her name!"

They both ran to the source of the noise. Pain and Konan were trying to stop the mess going on.

"What happened?" Zetsu asked nervously [the smell of blood was too tempting.]

"She cut her heart monitor. Pain help me apply pressure to her - Dammit!"

Anko began turning blue and she wasn't moving at all.

"Get me another oxygen tube NOW!"

"Anko!"

Orochimaru sat up studying his surroundings. He was back at his hideout, Kabuto was asleep in a chair on the side of the bed.

"Kabuto…" the baka had betrayed him.

Kabuto was wakened abruptly by having his collar almost pulled off his shirt.

"Kabuto…please tell me Anko is here so that I don't have to kill you."

Kabuto was quiet, staring into the Snake Sannin's eyes. He smirked

"She's here, but I'm only saying that so that you won't "kill'' me."

Orochimaru threw him back. "You bastard-"

"It wasn't my doing, they broke in, they stole her, they released the prisoners, they-"

"THEY WHAT?!"

(Damit Kabuto you just told on yourself)

"Uhh, yes well…shit…when you were all knocked out…and I was fixing up Karin, someone open the prison cell and let the Prisoners out-"

SSSSSMMMMAAAAACCCCKKKKK

Kabuto flew against the wall, his nose bleeding. Orochimaru picked him up and leveled Kabuto with him.

"You little worm." He growled between his teeth. "You let all of this happened, you let her live, you allowed the prisoners to escape, you fucked her, you-"

Orochimaru was shoved back before he could finish

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"

Silence lifted the tension in the room. Orochimaru was thinking how glorious the sound of his neck breaking would sound.

"Then you're saying, that this little incident is…my fault?"

Kabuto wiped the dried blood off his mouth "Yes."

Orochimaru flinched. The slits in his eyes became smaller as the killing intention took over. Kabuto made a cautious step back. He stood up straight reading himself for Orochimarus wrath.

For some reason the Snake Sannin began chuckling. Then it grew and grew until he was howling.

"I suppose your right Kabuto, I let the little bitch live all those years ago so I'm responsible for this dominium." He laughing died down as he calmed. "I suppose the only thing I can do is wait."

He reached over and…ruffeled his hair [WTF?]

After the shock wore off "What so you mean wait?"

Orochimaru turned to him with a calm expression "In two days, you and I will make a trip to Konah, if she's not there, the obviously the Akatsuki still has her, but that won't be a problem…"

His voice trailed off as he exited to the hallway. Kabuto was behind his not long after.

"Why? Why won't it be a problem?"

He smiled "Because, my little lamb is already unstable. Even if she's in Konah or with a group of S-class missing nin she can't be helped. Either she'll lose control and kill herself or, if we're lucky, an Akatsuki."

That was all he said on the subject.


"So my new partner is suicidal…COOL!"

Zetsu attempted not to role his eyes "Let's hope not, we do not need a handicap."

"Oh come on Zetsu, it'll be interesting to see how she reacts to betraying her home-whoa, Konans got nice boobs"

At the same time Konan noticed them watching so she pulled the shade down.

"…Disappointment."

"Tobi." Zetsu warned

"Yeah yeah okay, but even you got to admit she's got a nice package going on."

'Pain please get in here.'

A high force was watching out for him that day. Pain walked out, Konan not far behind him.

Tobi whistled, causing Konan [and Pain] to glare.

"well, is she going to pull through?"

"Yes, but we'll have to keep her under close observation until it's apparent we can trust her."

"Sounds good…WELL , I want to meet her-"

"Tobi that's not a good idea…"

But he was already in the room closing the door.

Anko was pale again and strapped down to the table. Her eyes were dead as she looked up at him.

"Hey there." Tobi greeted

"…Hi." She replied weakly "Are these really necessary?" referring to the restraints

"Konan insisted."

"Is Konan the flower child or metal mouth?"

Tobi laughed, he liked her already "Flower child."

They sat in silence, not taking their eyes off each other. Time to break it up. 'there's something about him…'

"My names Tobi, I'm your new partner."

Anko looked at him confused "Partner?"

"Oh, I guess Metal mouth didn't give you all the details-"

"Partner for WHAT?" she was getting angry

"Calm down beautiful, my Partner for-"

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU PEOPLE WANT WITH ME? WHAY THE HELL CAN'T EVERYONE LEAVE ME ALONE-"

Tobi put a hand over her mouth "Hush or I'll call Orochimaru in here to knock you out."

The fear in her eyes…that what he was looking for.

"LET ME GO!" She began struggling, but her body was too weak to anything.

Tobi watched her with interest. His new partner had fire in her. Awesome.

He put his hands on her shoulders trying to calm her down. "Look, I'm not here to hurt you, nor is anyone else-"

"ARE YOU INSANE, HE'S CRAZY AND HE WILL KILL ME-"

"Shhh, no he won't, I said that to get you to calm down…to no avail… we want to help you, to help you control this power inside you."

Her breathing calmed and she glared at him "don't mess with me like that."

"Ok." He responded eagerly

"…If you're not going to kill me, then what do you want?"

Tobi was silent again, trying to find the words to describe this problem. "You see, Orochimaru was a member of our organization a while back, and I'm his replacement…but…since everyone has to have a partner, we did a little research and discovered that Orochimaru had a prodigal, a good one, so we thought that it would kind of like having him back."

Anko clenched her hands tightly "So, I'm just a replacement for that bastard."

Great, even with criminals she still was Orochimarus pawn.

"No, I'M the replacement , you're the partner of the replacement."

Anko turned to him. He seemed so sincere and caring, but he was Akatsuki so he couldn't be.

"But what about Konah, they must be looking for me, even if they hate me."

Tobi sighed "Hate to tell you this, but they stopped searching for you about a week ago."

Tears sprung to her eyes "What! Why?"

He shrugged his shoulders "I guess they figured you joined Orochimaru after the invasion of something."

Anko was paralyzed with disbelief. 'But…I'm right here.' There's no way she would have ever joined that evil man. It would do to much to her.

A tear crept down her cheek. She struggled to get her hands free so that she could remove it, but that flower child had her restraints on tight.

"Allow me." Tobi wiped the tear away .

"Thanks."

He didn't answer. Instead he began to undo the boundings on her wrists and ankles.

Anko was a little surprised by this action. After all, she barley knew this man. Why did he trust her so suddenly.

"What are you doing?" she asked as he helped her sit up. Their faces were close but with Tobi's mask on she couldn't feel his breath.

"Earning your trust

[I don't know if Konan has medical skills but it seemed fitting for this part of the fic]

I am a total screw up