Hello again kiddies! I apologize if anyone was confused by my last chapter I had to scramble to get it uploaded because I'm out in the middle I'm nowhere and get like five minutes of internet access every few days or so. Btw I went with your pairing XAutumn BottomX, Any way enjoy!

Chapter 9

Previously:

"I have decided who you will be accompanying"

Pein spoke as he glanced at me from the corner of his ringed eye. An eerie silence filled the room. Amanda swallowed as the sound of her heartbeat raced frantically through her ears and a thick, suffocating blanket of quiet dread enveloped the lone girl standing in the corner. The sound of Pein's cloak rustling penetrated the heavy stillness as he turned slightly towards the shocked, pale, teenager that had backed herself into a corner. On the opposite side of the room Amanda could feel a shiver run down her spine at the unfathomable cold, unfeeling grey eyes bordering back into her nervous hazel ones. The girl visibly paled as Pein addressed her and backed against the corner some more. Then again, not having seen the sun for as long as she had the teenager's fair skin was already turning a ghostly shade from lack of sunlight. One could hardly tell the difference between the now paling, flushed face and the sickening ashen color of her fingertips that barely peaked out from the cloaks long sleeves. She frowned, grimacing slightly when the simple gesture caused a fat trickle of blood to run down from her obliviously broken and blood smeared nose when she quickly scrunched up her face.

"Do I really need a babysitter?" she mumbled not so discretely under her breath. Pein paid no heed to the fuming girl's blatant use of sarcasm as he watched the running steam of blood as it grew wider and silently regarded her broken nose for a moment. Looking away from the unwavering stare Amanda glanced to the ground as she felt fatigue began to weigh down on her body and close her eyes of their own accord.

'Damn, I'm so tired…'

She regarded the ground with misty eyes as she became lost in her thought. Feeling suddenly subconscious she closed her eyes and she wiped away the thick trickle of blood from her nose as she sighed out loud in defeat. The other members watched Amanda, then their leader, waiting for his decision; and secretly hoping its wasn't them to be chosen for the task.

"You are in need of treatment for your injuries." Pein droned out in an uncaring manner as he looked over the small, obliviously fatigued body before him once again.

"Kakuzu. Hidan. This girl will accompany you two on your various missions; this will last until the last day of the first week of the next month then she will be handed off to another pair of members." All was silent as Pein's authoritive order rung around the room while the leader in question started me down; daring me to voice my opinion. Slowly I opened my eyes to glance up at Pein in confusion and opened my mouth for a moment in blatant disbelieve before shutting it quickly once I caught the look in his eyes that seemed to make his cold impassive face all the more terrifying. Suddenly the whole floor vibrated beneath my feet and I winced as a familiar, loud, angry voice began to yell violently.

"Screw you leader! She's not coming with us!" Hidan shouted before lifting his triple bladed scythe from concrete he split open upon impact. He started bellowing out insults and random swears as he swung his scythe around in a ridicules temper tantrum.

'It's a cool weapon' I mused as I cocked my head to the side and watched Hidan act stupidly, as he almost decapitated the other members who snickered at his misfortune, for a moment before my attention was diverted when I noticed Kakuzu step forward into the fray from the corner of my eye. Black tentacle-like threads shot out from Kakuzu's sleeves and wrapped around Hidan's torso and arms before they threw him up into the air and held him there off the ground; this caused even more whining and swearing from the pissed off jahsinist dangling in the air. Like in the animes, I could feel my emotions from into a massive sweat drop that slid down the back of my head as I watched the scene before me unfold.

'Now if only it wasn't in the hands of a psychopathic ninja who swings it around like a monkey on crack!'

The sweat drop became bigger with each one of hidan's swears. "That's something I definitely never counted on seeing in my life" I chuckled under my breath as I watched Hidan's ear twitch when he heard my chuckling and began thrashing around more violently in rage. Ignoring Hidan being suspended in mid air above everyone Pein glanced at Kakuzu as he spoke distantly.

"Make sure she stays unharmed" he looked coldly up at Hidan and narrowed his eyes as he finished his sentence.

"And that she stays alive"

Pein ordered monotonously, but the threat underlying his words rang out loud and clear. Kakuzu nodded once and they both turned their gazes upwards for Hidan's response. Hanging like one of Sasori's puppets in mid air from strings, Kakuzu let his partner dangle there while hidan glared down ferociously at the them for a couple of moments before he nodded his head rather reluctantly with a scowl plastered on his features. The moment of reluctant complacency or as I would have liked to call it 'Kakuzu making Hidan his bitch moment' was interrupted as someone cleared their throat and a different member other than Tobi voiced a question.

"We aren't going to interrogate her any more leader-sama?" I narrowed my eyes.

'Cause me more grief why don't you fish?' I mentally snarled.

Kisame's scratchy voice floated over to my ears as I turned to frown at him and then gritted my teeth when I noticed he had a look of slight disappointment on his face.

'Maybe because I got paired with the zombie duo he won't get to cut off my limbs any time in the next month' I noted dryly with my right eye twitching slightly.

"No kisame. We will obtain whatever useful information she holds when there is a need for it." Frowning even more Kisame's beady black eyes roamed the room until he noticed me leaning against the far corner, trying to distant myself as far away from him as possible; He smirked a toothy grin at me, giving me a clear view of all his sharp, pearly, shark-like teeth.

"Hai leader sama". Turning fully in my direction his smirk widened.

"Just wait till next month shrimp."

I bared my teeth at him like an angry cat as I tried to glare up at him even from across the room.

'Shut up fish!'

I closed my eyes and began to massage my temples as I willed my jumbled thoughts to stop so I could think of something to say before I was sent to my death with psycho and Christmas zombie. Pein glanced from the smirking kisame and then at the still fuming Hidan, who was no longer hanging as Kakuzu's had released him in mid air on the cold, damp, ground below, before he turned to the rest of the Akatsuki and then he nodded once to signal the meeting was over. As the Pein turned to leave the girl finally found the insanity to voice her opinion.

" What if I refuse to tell you anything? Then what"?

The girl asked lightheartedly with no underlying emotion in her voice.

"Will I die then?" she deadpanned as she cocked her head to the side with a bored expression yet her eyes seemed to be misty and emotionless. The sight was unsettling everyone to say the least. Everything went dead silent and the air turned icy as even Hidan stopped cursing to anyone in a ten foot radius. Pein turned around slowly with a murderous and powerful aura emanating from his form and some of the members stepped back. I leveled my glare with glazed irises that I knew were mixed with all the feelings of anger, confusion, disbelief and fear that had been swirling in the core of my being like a violent storm ever since I awoke to this damn forsaken world. Most of all that I felt was a sudden burning raw defiance that had burst forward within me and was ripping at my chest as they talked about what information I would give them so casually; as if they were only discussing the weather instead of integrating me for answers later. The feeling of white hot coals never left the pit of my gut as I kept my emotionless façade and for once in my life stared someone down. My eyes begun to blur as I fought to blink and my body felt as stiff as a wooden board while me and Pein openly glared at each other.

'Never…I'll never tell…' I chanted to myself. Suddenly a picture from what I remember of the AMV cropped up into my brain. A young Naruto, who couldn't have been older than five, sat alone on the dirt road piteously crying as he was being shunned so cruelly by the villagers; the crying child then transformed into Garra and then into Sasuke and back again. My fists tighten angrily under the cloak; I knew now what I was going to protect now as those visions danced across my mind. My knuckles turned chalky white and my fingernails broke into my skin as my shaking hands grew warmer.

'I-I…I won't mess this up on my life so help me damn it!'

After what felt like eons when in fact were only a few moments some strange unreadable emotion flickered across his eyes and suddenly he broke off the stare. As he tore his gaze away from the girl before him he calmly lifted his head and turned to the door without another word. Konan followed him but not before turning to give me an emotionless glance; without breaking her stride she glided wordlessly after Pein and softly shut the door behind her. The silence after the door clicked shut was uncomfortable as it was eerily; but it didn't remain that way for long.

"What was that about, uh?" Deidara asked from across the room as he leaned against the wall, watching the girl with one visibly raised eyebrow.

"Do you have a death wish or something girl, hm?"

Subconsciously I could feel many gazes fall onto my back and I could distinctly hear someone bickering in the background. I did not move a muscle as I tuned out the world around me complete. My face, I could tell was vacant of any expression and my eyes held no spark they just had as I passively stared at the metal door before me. My mental barriers were burning and crumbling to dust all around me as my mind began being crushed under the impossibilities of the previous event that have happened as soon as I had opened my eyes to this deranged world. Sporadic twitches began dancing up back and down my arms and suddenly I felt very grateful for the over sized cloak. I had long since given up staring at the door and I let my head drop, my hair fell around me framing my face and hiding my eyes as I let my whirlwind of thoughts take me away.

'He didn't say anything, so what does that mean? I die? I don't? Torture?' the list went on and on in my mind. 'No. I already know the answer to that.' My eyes widened under the dark shadows my hair cast along my face and my body went numbingly still as the cold hard truth swept through me.

'I'm going to die… I'm going to die… I'm going to die…

'…then why am I not afraid?'

Suddenly something whizzed by my face and bit into my check; the burning cut and a loud hyper voice broke me from drowning thoughts and out of my trance.

"Hidan sama that wasn't nice!" Tobi scolded playfully while pretending to look shocked the best he could with his mask on. Hidan turned to glare at Tobi menacing.

"Shut the hell up Tobi!" he snarled; guess he was still mad about Kakuzu hog tying him in front of everyone. I tried not to sigh in relieve as I was broken from my train wreck of thoughts by the stinging gash on my cheek and the migraine slowly begun fading from my mind. As Hidan kept cursing up a blue streak at the masked ninja I turned around to observe the chaos behind me. I tried wiping the blood from my face as I watched Tobi flip gracefully out of harm's way just as Hidan's three bladed scythe came crashing down where Tobi's head was a split second ago. Tobi giggled childishly from under is mask before running behind Zetsu.

"Don't think you can hide behind the plant fucker!" Hidan yelled as he charged at Zetsu and Tobi. I briefly averted my gaze to Zetsu's face and noticed as his two half's began bickering about something before the meaner, black half of Zetsu garbed Tobi, who was crouched behind them and promptly shoved him out in front of himself as he sunk into the floor reappeared in the wall across the room. "You're on your own kid" Zetsu's black half called out as Hidan lunged at Tobi again. Tobi dodged the attack and darted around the room trying to the use the other members as shields against the all too happily raving lunatic that is Hidan. I was thus completely taken by surprise when strong hands clamped onto my shoulders and promptly shoved me before themselves as they crouched next to the wall behind me.

"Ah! Please don't tell on Tobi girl chan" Tobi whispered very loudly next to my ear. I froze in mid breath as my brain tried to register that the infamous yet psychopathic Madara Uchiha was crouched behind me and WAY too close for comfort. Yes people I had read that far into the manga and I sorely wished I hadn't! My body went rigid and I chocked on my spit as I glanced slowly behind me at the mentally unstable ninja.

"What?" Before he could answer a rough chuckle broke through our semi conversation and I snapped my head back up to see Kisame smirking at us.

'What for Ma-Tobi'? I wondered in puzzlement until I followed some of the others members gazes to the center of the room where Hidan was practically snorting steam as he glared dagger at me, or more so at who was trying to hide behind me.

"Get out from behind the bitch Tobi so I can sacrifice your hyper ass to Jashin!" he growled as he tightened his grip on his weapon. Tobi faked a squeak before peeping over my shoulder again. My brain was melting now in a full panic as I frantically tried comprehending the murderous ninjas behind and now in front of me, and then Tobi said the most stupid thing to possibly say at the very moment.

"But Hidan sama I thought your god was fake"? He questioned while feigning innocence as he tightened his bone crushing grip on my arms and stood up while lifting me off the ground as a literal human shield. I stopped struggling briefly as my eyes widened in horror.

' No, no, no, Tobi you MORON!'

Hidan's face twitched for a moment before his feature contorted themselves into absolute fury and with an inhuman snarl he lifted his scythe and begun running towards us at full speed.

"I'll slaughter both of you heathens!" he thundered

Tobi yelled comically as he shoved me farther in front of him.

"Wwwaa! Girl chan save us us!" Tobi pleaded. I yelled and fought like a cat against Madara's iron grip as I started screaming at him.

"Put my down Tobi, Put me down, and Put me the FUCK down Tobi!" I howled as I flailing my legs around like a bucking horse as I attempted to at least wiggle out of his grasp somewhat so I could try to recreate the same move I had used on Deidara earlier. A glint of sliver caught my eye and I slowly looked up to see Hidan looming over me with hi s scythe poised and a wicked smirk grew over his face as he took in my petrified expression.

"Even better, two birds with one stone!" he laughed as he swung his scythe down over me and Tobi.

"WWWAAAHHH!" we both screamed and I shut eyes just as Hidan's scythe was about come crashing down on my skull. A loud barrage of sounds and wind abruptly rushing past face assured me I wasn't dead and after a few seconds I hesitantly cracked open one eye to see what had happened. I crossed my eyes as I only saw a red dot after a few seconds I adjusted my eyes to see the metallic red tip of the giant scythe glinting in the bright light only an inch or two from my forehead. My iris shrank to pinpoints and I swear I couldn't feel my heartbeat for a few seconds. Slowly my eyes adjusted of their own accord and I slowly took in the scene behind the blade before me. Hidan again was suspended in mid air by Kakuzu stitches; but this time Tobi was being held in mid air as well by one of Sasori's undead puppets and small white spider bomb were littered all over them like glitter. I numbly turned my head back to the scythe and found Deidara holding the handle on the other side of the triple blades. He was smirking at my terrified expression while holding up one of his hands in his signature jutsu and balancing the heavy scythe in the other. He chuckled darkly as he pulled the scythe away and threw it at the flailing Hidan, earning a hard sucking sound as the blades sunk into the immortal's chest.

"GAH! I'll maim you all, you damn heathens!" Hidan howled in rage and pain.

"Hidan I don't want you to mess up my cloak you bastard, hmm!" Hidan I and scowled at the blond bomber for a moment before hidan began twisting and turning around angrily in Kakuzu's grip.

"Shut the hell up you little blond bit…muph!"He was cut off as one of Kakuzu's threads quickly warped around Hidan's big mouth, effectively shutting up the immortal.

"Brat" Sasori deadpanned as he let his blue chakra strings disappear from his fingertips as he released Tobi and his puppet in a heap on the ground. "Take the girl to Konan I'm assuming she's wearing your clothes for a reason" it took all but five total seconds for just about everyone in the room to stop what they were doing and glance from Sasori's emotionless face which give away nothing then to my flabbergasted face that had turned an interestingly similar shade to the puppet master's hair. "Tech" Deidara grumbled something underneath his breath against Sasori as he roughly garbed my shoulder and began dragging me towards the metal door. I blinked slowly as I was dragged away but was too flustered to say anything and I couldn't muster any strength other than to stand and ignore his none too gentle grip on my upper arm. My arms begun to feel leaded and my eyes begun to water and I fought the sudden overwhelming urge to breakdown and cry as I was dragged into the dark, torch lit hallway.

'What did you expect these guys are hardly gentlemen' my mind taunted me as I felt him release my arm once we were father down the hall and began to walk briskly down the corridor without a second glance back. 'You are in a whole new world now honey, deal with it.' I let sigh as I looked up trying to find Deidara's shadow in the gloom. Before I could even take another step towards where I last heard faint footsteps something huge struck me in the back and with a sudden scream and a loud gut clenching crack I hit the cold, hard ground head on. I gasped as white hot needles surged through my head and the world begun to fade to pitch black as it twirled violently; my chest begun to be constricted as something warped itself around me and I choked and gasped when air couldn't fill my lungs anymore and my ribs screamed in agony.

"H-Help" I choked out as I could feel my eyes start to bulge and after a moment I could feel hot blood spurt from my nostril and as it mingled with my cold sweat, a hand gripped by hair while a deep haunting chuckle sounded in my ear.

"You do know more then you let on"

Sssooo...Who is it this time?

Yes i know this chapter was either too short or the wait for the update was way too long and for that i'm horifically sorry for i had no computer or time but if i get one review i'll post another chapter by the endvof that day!. So this is were i had attempted to discribe the characthers personalitlies... how did i do? Please reviews if lost! - please dont hate me.