I walked down the street a good distance before following Mai's rapists sents. I didn't know weather my ears and tail had popped out yet, I was definatley pissed off. Their sent lead me to a split off, which ment they went to different bases. Fine. They want to play it that way. I shifted into a panther. I'll just improvise.

I followed two scents that went the same direction. I ended up in a part of the neighborhood that I hadn't gotten to explore yet. My trail lead to a white house. I charged at the building and jumped through the glass. There were startled cries as I jumped in the living room clawing at anyone who got in my way of my target.

I heard gun shots, but if they hit me I didn't feel it. I merely swipped at their heads leaving bloody claw marks. I could smell him. He's so close. I turned to the source of the sent. A man with short cropped black hair, brown eyes, a pink bandana around his sweaty forehead. He was my first target.

I lunged at him, knocking him to the floor sending his gun flying. I roared in his face and ripped his head off. Dropping it I turned to find the next target. This time I didn't even look for the face, I went purely by sent.

I ripped his throat out.

My job here was finished, now I needed to find the other three sents. I ran back to the living room and jumpped through the window. Leaving no time wasted I ran. Going back to the forked sent path I went to the next target.

I came upon another house. Scratched the door this time. An idiot opened it and cried out as I lunged at him. Leaving bloody claw marks digging into his chest I lept past him in search of the next one. The sent was somewhere down stairs. Injuring everyone who dared to try to stop me I raced to some stairs.

I raced down the steps, gun shots met me at the bottom. I pointed out which one of the shooters was the guy I was after. Dodging as many bullets as I could, I lunged for him. I slammed his head into the concrete with my paw, splattering blood and brains everywhere.

With my job done there I fled up stairs and out the kitchen window. They continued to shoot at me, but even so I didn't feel it over my anger and hatred. I followed straight to the next person, whom just happened to be pulling up to the house I just broke into. I lunged straight through the windsheild, causing glass to go flying everywhere. My mouth went around his throat, I bit down hard crushing his windpipe, along with a terrible wound in the arteries of his neck.

I backed up and ran to the last person. The last murder I had to commit today.

I ran. I ran to that last sent. It lead me to a forest. The entrance was almost tomb-like. I walked in causiously. I don't like being under ground. Never have.

I walked farther into the fire-lit tunnel. Following my nose I navigated through the tunnels. Of course I didn't go unnoticed. The people who came across my path I simply killed. I felt no sort of remorse for killing those people either. I finally accept that killing them will bring at least a small amount of peace to the world.

By now I must have been covered in blood. I could tell from the drops of blood that fell from my chin. I came to a door. I knew he was behind it. I shifted back into human form, and opened the door. The man snapped his head in my direction, raised a gun to me, and shot me.

I looked down at my chest, where the bullet had gone through. I reached in it and dug it out. Once I had it out I held it up so he could see. He paled. I dropped it, and ran at him. He tried to fire again, but I simply tilted my head to avoid it. I grabbed him by the throat and dug my claws into his skin.

"This is the price you pay for hurting my family." I said in a low growl.

I ripped out his throat. With a look of shock frozen on his face, he fell limply to the floor. I dropped the bloodied meat in my hand, and walked out of the tunnels. Just as I reached the exit I was aware of the pair of snake-like eyes that watched me leave. I payed them no mind. The killing was done today. I was threw.

What ever was watching me let me leave with no battle, I was almost grateful for that. With my mind focused on that only task I haddn't realized how far the day had gone. It was night now.

Now that I thought about it, I would be in huge trouble. All well. Not like they didn't see it coming anyways.

I followed my still strong nose home, I changed back into a panther to make the trip faster. Honestly changing to and from a cat into a human wasn't as hard as I thought. I just had to visualize myself as a human, or vice versa.

In around an hour I arrived at home. Funny. I never thought I'd call this place home. Once I was on the porch I shifted into a human and walked in. All of the Akatsuki turned their heads to me. All of thier eyes widened at my blood covered sight.

"Hey." I said casually.

"Kitsune." Pein growled.

Yeah... I'm dead meat.

"Where in the hell have you been?"

"... Killing Mai's raipers. Mission was a success." I said easily. How on earth am I acting so confident?

"With out MY orders! You do NOT do anything without consulting me first. Kitsune you didn't wait for my orders therefore you shall be punished."

"Okay." I shrugged. Okay!? What the hell is wrong with me!? How the hell am I not like crying right now? Fuck Pein is fucking scary.

"Yes. You'll say it so casually now, but wait untill after it happenes." He said darkly.

That sent a cold shiver down my spine. I'm sooooo dead!

I swallowed and put my chin out. "I'll take anything you have to throw at me." All of the members, even Kakuzu stared at me wide eyed.

"Itachi." he said. "Use your sharingan. 3 days."

"Sharingan?" I looked at Itachi, which was my mistake. I saw a flash of red, and suddenly I was nailed to a post in some field, and everything was a redish negative.

"Wha-? What the hell!?"

"Hell." Itachi's voice echoed. He was suddenly in front of me. "You could call it that. It is very much like hell. I'm afraid for the next three days you'll be here."

"Itachi what the hell's happening?"

"Just keep this in mind. I didn't want to do this. I'm following an order, which if you would have done the same you wouldn't be in this situation."

He walked up to me so we were face to face. He put a single finger to my forehead and images flooded my head. My mother and brother burning, Mai getting raped, the thing that made it worse was that I felt it. I felt the fire searing off my skin. I felt the torture they put Mai through. All I could do was scream.

"STOP!" I screamed. "PLEASE ITACHI. STOP!"

The pain was suddenly gone. I opened my eyes. I was in my bedroom. My body was so sore it felt like all of it really happened to me. I groaned. Someone gripped my hand.

Mai came into view. She had tears in her eyes, and she began stroking my sweat soaked hair. "Hey kit." She sniffed. "You're finally awake."

I didn't have the strength to speak. I only stared at her. She went on. "Kitsune. You shouldn't have gone out to kill those men. I- I mean look at you now you're covered in wounds from bullets, and- and-"

"Sh... Worth it... You... Worth it." I rasped. So that explains the pain in my body.

Another face came into view. Sasori. "So how was the punishment?"

I glared at him. "Fuck... You."

He smirked. "That's what you get for not following orders. You actually got off lucky. The punishment should have been so much worse."

I gave him a wide eye'd look. "That was fucking hell! How could it have gotten worse!?"

He glanced at me then went back to a needle filled with clear liquid. "What's that?"

"Pain killers for your wounds. Whatever the hell you did you should have died. You wounds are healing quickly, but you're still losing a lot of blood. I'm guessing you were in some sort of shock when you went on your little hunt. Even Itachi would have backed down at those numbers."

He flicked the needle and straightened out my arm. I winced and whimpered in pain. "Relax it'll all go away in a few minutes. This pain killer will make you drowsy, but you won't feel anything afterwards."

"Thank you."

We held a stare for a moment, then he dropped his gaze. "It's my job. If any member falls sick or gets injured I'm the one to take care of it."

I tried for a smile, but I couldn't hold it for long. Within minutes or even seconds I was out of it. Everything went fuzzy when I looked around. Like the colors and outlines of things were being swiped with a paint brush.

Sasori came in every once in a while. I could only tell by the bright red hair. His voice sounded distant... I didn't like this... I think I'd rather feel the pain than this. I don't like not being able to think straight.

I drifted in and out of sleep... I think. There were times where everything would go black for a moment, but in a few seconds I'd be awake, but it would be a little later in the day. I'm not sure what time it was, but I finally came to full consiousness, late in the day. The sky was dark and stars had begun coming out.

I stifly sat up and padded down stairs. I met Mai halfway down the hall. She held chicken soup. "Hey baby girl. Brought you food incase you woke up yet. Hungry?"

I glanced at the bowl. "I'm sorry... I don't have an appitite right now... Did you make it yourself?"

"Well it's just cambell chicken soup. Not hard."

She was wearing a longsleeved shirt, though I could slightly see where her wrists were red and bruised... Why haddn't I noticed before?

I caught her arm before she could step away and pushed her sleeve up. Her gaze averted to the floor immeadiatly. "This wasn't here 3 days ago... How did you get it?"

She didn't answer me. I studied it further and rounded it out who's hand print it fit... Itachi's. I could smell his faint sent on that particular spot. I felt my pupils dialate.

I dropped her hand and walked to the living room. I stood calmly in front of Itachi. "What the hell did you think you were doing?"

He stared up at me with a blank expression. "Giving you your punishment. You-"

"Not that. As far as I knew MY punishment didn't include my family being injured. Your sent is on her, the print matches, You bruised her wrist. Why. I thought the agreement was that she wasn't to be hurt."

He sighed. "Kit... It was nothing." Mai stood there looking feirce.

Itachi turned to Mai. "Why didn't you inform me you were injured?" Even in his monotoned voice I could detect the slightest bit of curiosity. He haddn't even realized he'd hurt her.

Mai absently put a hand over her bruised wrist. "It- it just didn't matter... It still doesn't matter."

"How did it happen anyways?"

Itachi turned back to me. "After I knocked you unconsious with my sharingan Mai became furious. I had to hold her down to keep from her uselessly pounding on my chest. I didn't realize I had gripped her wrists so hard... My apologies Mai."

"I already said it didn't matter... I was angry and acted out of rage... It was reckless, if anything it's reminded me to keep in check with my emotions... So it's fine really."

"It's fine? IT'S FINE!? Mai was it fine when Chad beat you? Was it fine when he shoved you mercelisly down the stairs when you were pregnant? WAS IT FINE THAT HE BEAT YOU UP SO BADLY YOU LOST HER!?" The rage was uncontrolable now.

I could feel my claws retracting. I needed out. I needed out now!

I turned and ran out the door shifting as soon as I was out. I let instincts take over. I ran to the trees, and eventyally broke out of the end of the forest to a grassy plain. I finally slowed to a stop when I found a stream.

I was heaving for air, and my lungs burned. I lapped up the river water. You'd think it'd taste bad because of the dirt, but it honestly tasted fine at that moment.

"Have a nice run?"

I jumpped at the voice behind me. I whiped around to face the intruder. A man with long black hair, snake yellow eyes with a purple shade around them. His skin was like the definition of vampire pale. Though I stayed on guard I cocked my head.

He chuckled. "My my... What an exotic creature in an open pasture." The look in his eyes told me he knew what I really was. That. Frightened me.

I didn't like feeling threatened. There was a deep rumbling sound in my chest.

He only took a step closer. "You broke into my bases and mercilessly killed my men... All of which I sent to do a specific job." He tossed photos on the ground at my feet. "Why don't you take a look?"

I couldn't help myself. I glanced down at the photos and regreted it immeadiatly. It was Mai. She was bloodied and beaten, and there was a picture showing them branding her with an 'A'. Rage burned inside me again.

My harsh glare reverted back to him. It only seemed to amuse him further. "Does that make you angry? I love that murderous look in your eyes. You're becoming quite the specemine Kitsune Hashimata."

I was shocked by his words. He knew my name. How did he know my name? Duh he reasearched you dumbass.

We held stares for a long moment, then he began to walk away. "We'll meet again Kitsune. Next time" he stopped to look back at me "you'll be mine."

That sent major chills down my spine. I stared him down until he was out of sight. I waited a whole 30 minutes before I ran back to the house. That was really scary and I pray never to repeat that. Ever.