Sasuke was absolutely disgusted with himself. He blamed this weak girl in his arms whose lame eyes searched everywhere for him. Could she not feel his presence at all? His chakra? He was right there, holding her up so she didn't fall on the sharp rocks under them.

"You're useless," he stated turning around.

"Well excuse me for not wanting to be cut up and violated by Super Nerd," she said in response. His grip tightened.

"Don't go near him anymore then," he walked back to his room where he placed her on the bed once again.

"You're the one that got me there in the first place," she slurred out, the drug taking effect in her immobile state.

He opened her eye and was surprised to see that some of the color was returning. "Can you see me?"

She seemed to try and focus her eyes and blinked a few times. "Yes…it's still blurry."

He sighed. Now what was he going to do? He knew that once she regained her ability to see, he would have to continue her training. Looking down at her weak pathetic body he felt almost like that would be the most terrible thing to do to her. She had only been running for a little while and she looked completely exhausted. The shirt he had loaned her when she had first come here was lying limp off her shoulders and…

"Take off your shirt," he commanded.

He found it completely amusing as the color on her cheeks got darker and she started stuttering her complaints of the matter.

"If you won't I will. I'm not going to do anything. He may have done something to you while you were unconscious," he stated.

"…at least give me something to cover it…," she pleaded.

He huffed in an annoyed manner. "Don't be so difficult." He reached and grabbed the edges. Her hands gripped his wrists. "Please…."

He glared at her, his Sharingan flashing angrily. He would like nothing more at this moment then to send her so deep into a genjustu. Instead her grabbed a small towel and thrust it on her. Once she covered herself to her liking, she allowed him to pull the shirt off.

He grit his teeth. Damn that Orochimaru! His finger landed on her neck making her jump.

"Don't move," he said with so much anger that she seemed to back down.

He circled the bite marks on her neck then followed a path down the middle of her chest, over the towel, to the black mark that stuck out. The towel was covering the rest of it so he couldn't be sure. Slowly he started lifting the towel. She let out a gasp and grabbed his hand. He pinned it back and lifted it up enough to keep her covered…if it wasn't for the fact that the curse mark was right under her right breast. He hissed and put it back down and felt his rage come back in the form of punching the wall.

"What?" Pay was now sitting up her shirt pulled back up. She squinted until she found him in the blur.

"He gave you a curse mark," he growled out. He had no clue as to why this bothered him so much.

Tsukiko was too weak from her previous uncontrolled state. Isza knew from experience that she couldn't take him down on her own. He had nearly killed her last time. Still, she summoned her twin swords once more, getting into a ready position, one that allowed her to flee or attack, depending on the situation.

The man before them still had his mask on. That scared her because then she wouldn't know who he was here as. If it was Tobi then he would play the fool trying to get the two girls to return. If it was Madara….She didn't even want to think of it.

Team Kakashi, luckily, jumped down around them. Each one of them had serious looks on their faces. Isza could feel the masked nin's anger and disappointment. He was forced to be Tobi for the mean time.

"Oh look more friends," he cried out, clapping his hands.

"Tobi, good job," a voice stated.

Tsukiko audibly growled as Pein's group popped out beside Tobi. Isza could see the glares that he and Madara shared before their attention back to the others in front of them. Sakura and Naruto immediately glared at Itachi, Naruto's eyes turned to slits and he audibly growled.

"Naruto," Sai warned, knowing the seriousness of it.

Yamato stepped up in front of everyone. "You can't have Naruto," he stated with a bit of authority.

"While we have been over that before, we aren't after the Kyuubi at the moment. We want the girls," Pein stated his eyes turning to the said people.

"Like hell," Tsukiko stated, out of character in his presence. Isza glanced back seeing her sister bristle like a cat about to pounce. She stood her ground though, not moving.

"Why," Yamato asked a bit held back in his questioning as if he didn't want to know the answer.

"They belong to us the-," Pein was cut off as Naruto shouted at him.

"They're not going anywhere! They aren't toys that you can claim! Just because…." Sai cut him off.

"Now's not the time for a long speech, dickless," he stated his face going into his fake smile that only proved to work as Naruto's attention was no longer on the Akatsuki members before him.

"We created them from scratch, so yes we have say in them," Pein ground out. Tobi had made his way back to his other teammates.

The team got around the two girls, making things so much more difficult. "As of now they are in affiliation with the Leaf Village so you will have to go through us first."

All four of them sighed, earning questioning stares from their enemies.

"Keep watch of yourselves," Pein warned before the group disappeared from sight.

"What…."

Once everyone was settled around the small fire, Sasori began to recap the story of the original girl. He took a small bit of time. He didn't know where to start. The only thing that he would have to worry about was if Pein found out about it. He figured that even if he did, it wouldn't matter because they were already this close to finding out.

"Her name was Payton. That's where Pay gets her name because out of all of the clones, Pay is the only one that looked so much like the original," He paused, not knowing what they wanted to know and what was unimportant to them.

"Sasori-Danna, just tell us the whole thing…don't leave anything out…"

"Well I guess I'll start with her connection with Akatsuki…"

"Hurry up! You're so slow," Sasori griped again at the small girl.

"I'm sorry….," she came into view and was wheezing slightly, gripping her chest. She was dirty and her long hair was raggedy, just as he had found her in the village that he had just destroyed. He hadn't seen a reason to kill such a young polite child. No, he had plans to train her, to make her his slave of sorts.

He had to remember though…she was a child and by the looks of it sick as well. "Get on," he ordered, stopping his movement. The girl's brown eyes went wide not in surprise but as if she was afraid.

"NOW!" he yelled louder.

She flinched into herself and climbed onto the back of Hiruko. He started moving, thinking the girl would be able to hold on. She kept falling off though, no chakra hold and not enough strength to do it. She hit the ground and whimpered.

"I'm sorry….," she didn't look up at the puppet, which seemed to scare her anyways. Suddenly she felt a pair of hands lifted her up. She looked up at him from his lap. His bored looking face was staring back. He felt her small hand touch his fake then recoil slightly when she felt wood, not skin.

His finger twitched and they were enclosed in darkness except for the two holes of light where the eyes were so he could steer. She curled up in his lap, resting her head on his chest softly.

After a long while, he figured her should know about his new accomplice.

"What is your name, girl," he asked. There was no answer. He listened for her breathing, thinking she had died. Instead he found that she was asleep. He breathing was slow and even but raspy. She was definantly sick.

"So…you found her as a kid," Kakuzu inquired. "What happened from there?"

"Well you see…."

CLIFFHANGER! HA!

The next chapter, as a heads up, will be mostly flashbacks of the story Sasori is telling so yeah…deal with it lol

Oh and yes I realize that I use Payton a lot in my stories but that's because she's my universal character…she works with the story how I see fit.

Gaara-Rulezzz (ie Payton)