Hullo all! I know it's been a while since I last updated. It's been a busy year. Deaths in December, Christmas and then, promotion at work. Been so tired, working off one-off day a week for like a month and a half.

But here I am, ready to continue.

I do not own Naruto or it's characters, expect for my OC's.

This chapter has some graphic violence and sexual situations.

Enjoy!

"Hey...is Dus stil seeing that jackass?" Lindkai's brows knit together in thought.

"You talkin' 'bout Jess?" a head of brown pops into the kitchen, where the blonde is sitting at the table. Expenses all around her. Kakuzu is with her and they are doing the monthly bills. He must be in heaven.

"Dus-chan is being courted?" Konans head cocks.

Both non-ninjas pause at the term. Courting. Is that what it's considered in their world? It seems so...old world but at the same time, fit. "I guess it can be called courting." Kyliex heads cocks now. It makes the bluette curious. "It hasn't be called 'courting' for some time."

"Then what's it fucking called?" Hidan pops into the conversation.

"Datin'." they say together. "It's sorta like courting but not as definite."

"So, Dus-chan will not be marrying this Jesse?" Konan asks, just to be clear.

"God no. he's not real boyfriend material, much less husband." noses wrinkle at the thought. "His bestie, Sir Douchesalot, wants me to go out with him. So Jess talked Dus into a doubledate...with me as the other partner."

The blonde grimaces, already knowing where the conversation was going. They don't realize they have an audience listening to them. "Didn't end well, hm?"

"Uh, if by not end well you mean I flat out told him to sit on the pointy end of a spear, then yah." her deadpan look makes Lindkai and Konan giggle. For a moment, the other nine males are struck by how at ease their only female member is. But then they actually think about it. The three 'sisters'. Time spent with them is nice, giving them a much needed break. No worry of enemy ninja. No attacks. Then there's all the help they've given to try and find a way back home for them. The library runs. Endless nights of looking up stuff on the internet. In the end, Kyliex, Lindkai, Dustica's loyalty and devotion to the group is what made them able to relax. To feel relaxed and trusting.

Hearing the squeal of tires outside the house, Kyliex steps into the dinning room and Lindkai stands. Both move toward the double doors and peer out. A cab is beside the big red truck. A pissed off Dustica gets out the back, nods at the driver-having already paid-and started for the house. Something was wrong, she had been with Jesse. As the cab leaves, a familiar car pulls up. This one belonging to douche of the hour. He's calling out to her but the sisters can't hear what's being said. However his tone and body language says it's not good. Especially when he skirts around the car and grabbing her arms.

Both girls eyes narrow but before they can move, Itachi is standing beside her. "I believe Dustica said to let her go." he tells Jesse calmly, removing the hand from the native's arm. She looks at him, in surprise before masking it.

"Mind your own business, chink!"(sorry!) the dirty blonde growls, shoving him back.

Not knowing the word is an insult but knowing he was insulted, Itachi's eyes narrow. "Don't talk to him like that." Dustica snarls, shoving Jesse back. "You don't get to come to my home, insulting my friends because you're a little prick...with a even smaller prick!"

Okay, that was heard. "Oooooo, (FUCKING)burn(,yea!)." Kyliex, Hidan, Deidara, Lindkai, and Kisame cringe. One by one, the rest of the Akatsuki come up behind them to see what exactly is happening.

"You uppity little bitch!"

As soon as Kyliex seen his hand raise, she made to go outside but an arm wraps her waist and stops her. Regardless to the fact the raven haired man grabbed his arm. "Let Itachi handle it." is whispered in a low, husky voice.

She twitches. "That's my sistah. I've claimed Itachi as my little brother. I have to protect my family."

The arm tightens, pressing her against Obitio's chest."It's okay to let someone else protect your family. Even other family." grunting, she stops trying to get free and just leans into him.

"Dustica, go back to the house." Itachi tells her calmly. She's reluctant to leave but the look on his face, she nods. Slowly, she turns and starts the walk. She can see the others at the door and is momentarily surprised the brunette isn't outside yet. Then she sees the arm keeping her in place.

"Dustica! Don't you walk away form me!" Jess shouts. "You're making a mistake!"

Huffing, she spins on a heel and glares back at him. "My mistake was agreeing to ever go out with you! I should have listened to Kyli. She said you were no good. I am tired of you and bullshit! Your little snide remarks about my friends, or my style, or the things I like. Your pressure. You're an asshole and your friends are assholes! Don't ever show your face around here again." turning on her heel, she clears the distance to the door. Kyliex has it open and the native woman goes straight to her arms. Mothering nature kicking in.

They can't hear what Itachi's staying, as least the three non-ninja's but it's making Jesse pale.

"Kyli." Dustica whispers and the brunette walks away from the group to speak lowly. The ninja cannot hear what is being said but know by the now the tensing of shoulders isn't a good thing. Lindkai was called over and added to the conversation. Then Konan, to the males surprise. She and the blonde take Dustica to her room after a moment.

Gritting her teeth, Kyliex weaves through the group and goes outside. Marching over to Itachi, who's still facing off with Jesse. "Ita-toto." stopping at his side, her voice drops. "Do sistah's and I a favor?" he raises a brow. "Jesse tried to force Dus into a three-way, with a friend of his." his entire body tenses. "Make him pay? I'd do it but she needs me more."

"Hn." she grins at his agreement, she would accept nothing less. The look in his eyes promises some pain. He glances toward the house, pass the group. Looking for Dustica.

"She's in her room with Konan and Kai. He...might have smacked her around." she explains and his eyes narrow.

"Kisame, Sasori, Hidan, Kakuzu." the mentioned four comes toward us. "Go back to the house, Kyli-ane."

Though calm and serious on the outside, inside she is giddy. Jumping for joy. He called her ane! Finally! "You guys be careful." she looks over the five, nodding, then goes back inside.

"What the fuck." Jesse murmurs, seeing all five's differences.

As soon as the doors closed, the five, plus Jesse disappear. Kyliex goes to Dustica's room. Konan and Kyliex and healing her in separate places. The brunette moves toward the bed and slips herself under the raven head's...well head. Letting her younger sister use her as a pillow. A hand combing through the dark strands. Relaxing the tense girl. A look at the bruises covering her stomach, she has to calm herself. Specially when tears leak from the corner of the fire benders eyes.

Dustica is one of the strongest, calmest, most level headed people she knows. To see her so hurt and crying, it fills the two sisters with such a rage. Not only at Jesse and the other friend but at themselves. They're suppose to protect family and they couldn't even protect their sister.

Eventually, she told them what happened. How Jesse took her to his place, to 'hang'. Brice was there. They watched a movie, Jesse playing with her hair. Brice sitting himself beside her. She didn't think anything of it...until he scoots closer. Placed a hand on her knee and tried to drag it up her inner thigh. Things escalated quickly after that. Fighting, the two ganging up on her to pin her down. Hands all over. Diving under clothes. Groping. Pulling. She had finally gotten away, punching the hell out of Brice and kicking Jesse in the nuts.

After telling the story, it took her nearly two hour, Dustica finally falls asleep. Kyliex had gotten one of her sleeping pills to help. Lifting her head, she slides from under her and motion for Konan and Lindkai to follow. Stepping outside the room, the door closes lightly and they move down the hall. The five that had gone off with Jesse are back, sitting with the others in the living room. They look up when the trio enters.

"How is she, yeah?" Deidara asks.

"Asleep." Lindkai answers.

"We're going out." Kyliex announces and she looks at Konan. "When she wakes, take her some warm tea and buttered toast?"

"Of course, Kyli-chan." she bows her head.

"Thank you, Konan."

"Where's Kyli-chan going?" Obitio hops over to us.

"Well...Ita-toto dealt with one asshole. We're going to deal with the other." she pauses a moment, thinking something over. "Zetsu...would you like to come?"

"What do we have to do?/Will we be eating someone?" both sides ask.

"Nothing and yes."

"Hold the fuck on!" Hidan jumps to his feet. "You're going to fucking kill someone?" he knows murderous vibes when feel feeling them...considering what he is and does.

"...I choose not to answer that. Plausible deniability." Hidan frowns at the unfamiliar words. "Means you can't get in trouble for something you have no account of." it's strange and amusing when the big-bad ninja's haven't heard of something as simple as 'Plausible deniability' in their line of work. Some phrases said are completely foreign to them and it's left up to the trio to explain the meaning behind it. It's like teaching kids, almost.

"I don't give a fuck about plaus-ibe-what the fuck ever! If your going to fucking kill someone, I want in." he's giving them a very hard look.

"Anyone else want in?" Kyliex asks, sarcastically.

"Me(,yeah)!" and that would be Deidara and Obitio.

"I don't got anything better to do." Kisame shrugs, standing.

"I'll loot the body." Kakuzu puts away the cash he's counting. No one knows where he got it, it's not the sisters, and no one asks.

"Maybe I can use some parts, for my creations." Sasori nods to himself.

The sisters deadpan. Really?! They glance to Itachi but he shakes his head. "I wish to stay here."

"I'll stay as well." Pein voices.

"I...wish to accompany you." Konan surprises everyone, well not the sisters. They seen her adverse reaction to Dustica's treatment. The balling of her fist. Jaw clinched. She was just as mad.

"Of course." Kyliex agrees and turns to look at Itachi. "Make sure she's comfortable." he nods. "Alright, lets go."

Everyone files out, preparing to run. Lindkai crawls on Kisame's back, after he offers and Kyliex is swung on Obitio's. With their directions, they lead the eight ninja's across town. Brice wasn't home but it didn't deter them. The sisters know his local haunts. It was a matter of weeding out the choices. Each place they went, one of the ninja let a clone, just incase he came there. Eventually, they found him. Abandoned warehouse outside of town. Of course. How cliche. Couple of mattresses thrown in there. A sofa or two. Chairs and a table.

When they reached it, it was easily noted Brice wasn't alone. At least a dozen energy signatures Obitio told her. Peeking in, they see six males around a table. Joking. Drinking. Smoking. On the mattresses set aside, two girls are tied up. A third is tied down to the mattress. Crying. Nude. Covered in semen. Face red from repeatedly being slapped. Blood between her legs. She had been a virgin. From their spot, she and the other two, look about twelve.

Knowing what they did to that girl, what Jesse and Brice tried to do to Dustica...the elemental benders see red. Pulling a fist back, Kyliex punches the brick and cemented wall. With air swirling, it shatters like glass. All six guys whip around to see people pouring through the hole in the wall. It all went down from that point. Someone got the girls out, Lindkai healing them after they were knocked unconscious. Inside the warehouse, all hell has broken loose. Akatsuki members are all over the place, slaughtering the guys.

Brice was left to the sisters and once again stunned, the ninja's watched as they tortured him. Not even using their abilities at first. They did things that the ninja's took into consideration of doing themselves. Having no idea the trio, before having the jobs they did at that moment, they were apart of an army integration group. They were seeing a side of the sisters they didn't know they were capable of.

A cup of warm tea is set in front of Dustica. She looks up at Itachi, who's standing beside her, and smiles in thanks. Hands wrap the ceramic mug, the warmth making her hands feel as if their not ice cubs. She's having a hard time getting a handle on her fire control, since everything nearly a week ago. Kyliex and Lindkai aren't to worried about it, assuring it will come to her, when she needs it most. It's happened to them both, already. A traumatic experience. "Thanks Itachi."

"Your welcome." he takes the spot beside her. "How are you...feeling."

Gazing down into the cup, she sighs. "Stupid."

'You are only human. You cannot see everything." he tells her.

"But...this was so big." a frown mars her face.

"Some people are good at concealing their true selves." slowly, his hand moves across the table to cover both hers. Still holding the mug. For a moment, she stares down at their hands then looks up to meet his stare. There's some emotion there. "Just because you...dated this Jesse, doesn't mean you would have known."

"Kyli says you can't really know someone completely. There are always sides of them that aren't shown." she whispers.

"She is right...but that doesn't make their significant others responsible for their actions." he reasons.

"But they were kids, just babies." her eyes gleam with unshed tears. "They shouldn't have to face that sort of evil so young."

"We'd lock away all the evil in the world, if we could."

"If only it were that simple." dark eyes close as she attempts to collect herself. It helps that Itachi's thumbs are sweeping back and forth over the tops of her hands. "There's always going to be someone that wants it all. No matter what you do. And there will always be war, because their always going to be power struggles." there's a secondary meaning behind that, one that he picks up on.

"But the idea is nice." he murmurs.

"Ideas are just that, Ita-toto. Ideas. In reality, peace is nothing but an illusion." Kyliex walks into the room, ruffling his hair-which he hates!-and dropping a kiss to Dustica's head.

"Do you really think that, Kyli-chan?" Konan comes in after her.

"Undoubtedly." opening the fridge, she grabs a couple beers. "Evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance." closing the door, she turns to the bluette and Itachi...and a couple others. "And good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding." she passes the bottles out, popping the lid of her own and taking a swig. Shrugging her shoulders, she turns and leaves the room. "Deidara?!"

"No, yeah!"

"That's confusing! It's earlier yah or nah!" a grunt of frustration leaves the blonde. "...just say yah!"

"No, yeah!"

Dustica looks to Itachi, brow cocking to why her sister's being a spas. "She's trying to make him call her ane, as well."

Sighing, her head drops and shakes. "You created a monster, Itachi." her voice is light, lips turned up in the corners.

"I suppose it's nice to have a big sister." he shrugs.

"Don't let her hear you say that." she teases, smiling softly. Slowly, she stands and winches. Though the bruises are gone, there are phantom pains. She peeks into the living room, letting out a laugh when seeing Kyliex sitting ontop of Deidara's back.

"Say it."

"Never!" hey, he didn't say yeah.

"Fine, have it your way...the hard way." smirking, she sticks a finger in her mouth.

"Kyli, you're going to traumatize the poor kid." Dustica calls out.

"Should have agreed then." she sings out, once she pulls the finger free. In a quick move, she shoves it in his ear. Not hard or deep enough to hurt. Deidara freaks out.

Humming, I take the stairs two at a time, coming down. Quiet a feat, especially since I'm not lying at the base, groaning in agony. I'm a clumsy woman, sometimes, so sue me! However, that's not what's on my mind. I told Dustica I'd take a peek under her hood...of the car. Fix the air conditioner. Need to grab the toolbox.' and if all else fails, take it to the shop to get a better handle. With that thought in mind, I strayed from the 'nicer' clothes, donning a pair of sweats and a black wife beater. Sports bra included.

Hearing me, Lindkai lifts her eyes from the tv, glancing me over. "Whatcha doing?"

"Told Dus I'd glance her car over." opening the closest, I reach for the tool belt and snap it around my waist.

"AC still not working?" I snort at the question, making the blonde cock a brow. "She needs a new car." is then muttered.

"Hear-hear...but you know as well as I do, it won't happen. Not until that thing completely dies on her." both of us glanced out the living room window, where they could see the Honda.

"Perhaps we should takes crowbar to it?" she suggest, almost hopefully.

"What are we attacking?" Deidara pops into the room.

I sweatdrop. Why is it when destruction is mentioned one of the ninja's pop in? "Nothing."

"We need to destroy Dus's piece of crap car." Lindkai announces with a sober face. The blonde bomber perks.

"No, you can't blow it up." eyes roll at his pout. "Dus come home and have a heart attack seeing it like that. So, as fun as that would be, haveta decline." winking at the two blonds.

"Tobi will go along, protect Kyli-chan from the big bad monsters from under the bed!" Obitio skips into the room, swinging me onto his back.

"My hero!" Deidara and Lindkai both roll their eyes. They are ignored. "Forward on, Tobi-kun!" we take off outside, toward the garage that is holding the silverish-green Honda. Out of sight of the others. Letting me off by the bumper of the car, I lean forward to place a quick kiss to the spot under his left ear. "Thanks!" then move around to open the door and pop the hood. Smiling to myself, I hum lightly and lift the hood. I've been doing these little kisses since the day after the club night. Wondering how long I can continue until he snaps. Preferably by kissing me back.

Pulling my cell out, I bring up my music player and hit play. New Thang, by Redfoo starts and I bob side to side. Sliding over to the table, I set it in the docking station. The beat drifts from all the speakers and the bobbing turns more into dancing. On a particular spin, I find myself face to masked face with Obitio. I can feel him staring at me. One of his hands comes up to gaze my jaw and my own raises to cover his. Flatten it to cup a cheek and let my eyes flutter close. Gawd, he smells good!, I take a deep breath, he's so close. He smells of warmth, smoke, metal, a calm undertone of musk.

"Kyliex." hearing my full name, both eyes open and I peer up at him. "This shouldn't go past a friendship level."

Smiling sadly, I turn my face away and his hand falls to his side. "I know, Obitio. Sistah's and I hold no illusions. Everyone will go back to their world. It's where you belong, no matter how much we wish otherwise." taking a step closer, I lift a hand toward his face. Slowly, so he can stop me if he wants. He doesn't and I slip the mask from his face. His handsome, handsome face. Eyes searching his features over, again memorizing the sight. "But I want you to know that someone thinks your handsome. Someone is attracted to you." standing on my toes and closing the distance between us, I pause a hairs breath from his own lips. "That someone wants you." finally, I press my lips to his.

Obitio tenses but it's only a moment. His arms move to wrap my waist, pulling me flush against him. Smashing chest to chest. His head tilts, the kiss deepening. My arms go up, around his neck and fist the back of his hair. Holding him in place, should he try to pull away. He doesn't. If anything, my reactions spurns him on. Hands coming around to grab my bum and lift. Legs automatically wrap his waist. Turning us, he moves toward the table with the docking station and sets me on the edge. Finally breaking the kiss. "We shouldn't, Kyliex."

Tightening my legs, I force him closer. I can feel the evidence of what I'm doing to him, pressed to me. "No, we shouldn't." I agree, before claiming his lips for another kiss. Hands tug at his pants, finding the button and zipper.

"This is a bad idea." he murmurs, pulling way lightly.

"...I never liked being the good girl." his pants fall away, his erection springing up. Reaching between us, my hands closes around the girth, a slow stroking motion that has him letting out a low hiss. "And I think it's time Tobi was a very bad boy."

The response, his mouth slanting over my mine and practically shredding the clothes I'm wearing.