"Well, the scroll is full," May flipped it in the air before putting her scroll away, "Elle is not going to like the things on here."

Abi laughed lightly, watching the eavesdropping Kage out of the corner of her eye, "It's such a shame, she liked it here so much."

"Well maybe we could come back some day."

"Not with the trip costing so much, it would have to be for a pretty damn good reason for it to happen."

"Morning guys," Elle bounced in and looked over Abi's shoulder, "What's everyone talking about?"

May patted her head and pushed her towards the table, "Nothing important, what do you want to do today?"

"I'm pretty much up for anything, do you have plans?"

"I was hoping we could all spend the day together, we haven't been able to much since everyone trying to pin this Akatsuki shit on us."

"What?" Elle's head snapped around and looked at May, "What do you mean?"

"Ah…."

"May?"

Kankuro started to chuckle, "What's wrong? Trouble in paradise, Akatsuki?"

"You had better watch your mouth," May snapped at the man, they had this planned out to the last detail, they needed everyone occupied in this room, "You have caused us nothing but grief ever since the day we arrived, you stupid, loud mouthed, son of a-"

"Do not speak to my brother like that," Temari defensively walked up and poked a finger into May's face, "You ungrateful little tart."

Abi pushed the sand ninja back, "No touch May."

"Stay out of this blondey."

"Make me."

The commotion slowly got louder, insults and accusations flying free and fast. The Konoha ninja came in to find the four screaming, just about in the fight, Elle yelling at her friends to stop and Gaara just about to do the same. Sasuke looked calmly to Kakashi, "Notice how one is missing."

"Look again Sasuke," Kakashi pointed towards Elle, she was being held back by Tay who had run into the room at the same time they did, "Seems like the powder keg has finally been set alight."

"How do you suggest we do that Sensei?"

"First let's separate the two groups and then deal with the situation."

Sakura nodded and moved forwards, "Okay break time…"

May's clone watched from around the corner, it waited until the guard had left before moving forwards, she wasn't going to be caught this time. She had depicted her clone as 'the Akatsuki man who attacked her', if anyone was watching they would see him, and he was going to get Zetsu right now.

The clone slid along the shadows, they were definitely being followed to day, she had to be faster than she had ever been before. She found the dot on the wall, she slid her hand a metre along and pressed, the door swung open easily and her stalker moved quickly. She dived in and chucked Zetsu the package, "You know who I am, don't attack my friends."

Kunai flew clean through the air and into the clone, smoke evaporated and the clone vanished, he Anbu swore under his breath then moved in for the next attack, "Don't even think about it…"

Zetsu laughed, crunching back the many food pills that were packed in for him, "I'm free now, and I am rather peckish."

The Anbu dived forwards into the black room, a hand latched onto him when he didn't realise it, Zetsu began to feast on the flesh of the screaming man. He knew everyone could hear him, he didn't care, he was free. Zetsu threw a few exploding kunai at the wall, his escape was inevitable now, however he was still hungry. Zetsu began to multiply slowly, "Now, I think I owe the Kazekage and his siblings a visit. I hope they remember me."

Kakashi stood between the two sides, negotiating 'peaceful' talks between the two. It was all going well in his mind. Only problem, reality didn't reflect that…

"I will not stand idly by and have some cross dresser accuse my friends and I of pure nonsense."

"Who are you calling a cross dresser?"

"The only person in this room covered in make-up."

"Say that to my face."

"What do you think I'm doing right now?"

Kakashi put a hand out to each party and smiled softly, "Now no one actually means any of this, everyone is just on edge."

"On edge? You were accusing us of the same thing the other day," May continued to yell, since her friends couldn't really speak Japanese she had to translate for them. Tay glared at the man and May translated, "You're a paedophile who assumes the worst in everyone."

Sakura's face turned bright red in rage, "Don't you talk to Kakashi Sensei like that, he's only trying to help."

"We don't need his help."

"You need a lot of help," Kankuro started laughing but it was as cold as ice, "May I suggest you leave immediately and return to your own homes."

Abi curled up her bottom lip at the man, "Coward…"

Kankuro stormed forwards, anger blazing on his face, he had to be held back by Sasuke and Naruto so he wouldn't hit her, "You're lucky that these guys are here or I would kick your ass."

"Try it."

"I don't hit girls anyway," he spat and broke out of the vice grip holding him back. Abi growled and slapped his face before he could turn away completely. Kankuro grabbed his red check and charged forwards, "You bitch."

Naruto tried to stop Kankuro but the angry puppeteer's fury was too great, he dived at Abi and raised his fist, she kicked him hard in the chest before he could make contact with her. He quickly recovered and tried again, Tay drew out her sword and held it at him, sand flew between the fighters and an angry monotone rang clear, "Enough of this, Kankuro calm down."

"They're asking for it Gaara, I've held it back long enough."

"CALM DOWN," Gaara pushed everyone to different areas in the room with his sand, he stood in the middle glaring at anyone who dare look him in the eyes, "This mess has dragged out for too long, it's time everyone just got over it."

Elle looked over at May, "What's he saying?"

"We're getting growled at," May spoke quietly, she was definitely not expecting a reaction like that from him, "I don't think that it's aimed too much at you though, mainly the ones who were fighting."

"What about you?"

"I may be getting growled at as well."

"I didn't want this."

"I know Elle, I know," May looked at Gaara but avoided directly looking into his eyes, "Can we at least take Elle out of here, she hasn't done anything."

"She's the one who started this whole mess," Temari pointed accusingly at her, her voice slightly rising, "If she never came here then none of this would have happened."

"It's not like had choice in coming," Abi's anger was becoming so much she was blurting out things she shouldn't have, "Never want to."

May took a quick breath in and glared at her friend, "Abi, shut your mouth right now."

"Why? Oh, sorry."

"Shit girl," May turned back to the glaring sister and was about to speak when she noticed something, the shadow behind her was moving. Shadows don't move, "I think th-"

"We don't care what you think," Temari interrupted May's warning and continued grow her voice in volume, "You lot are nothing but trouble so do us all a favour and just leave."

Elle noticed the shadow moving too, she did the best she could, "Gaara, something's behind Temari."

"Temari," he called quickly, then everything happened at once. Temari dived forwards as Zetsu appeared out of the shadows behind her, Kankuro managed to punch Abi before jumping out of the way for Temari, Team Kakashi prepared themselves for battle against the Akatsuki creature, May caught the falling Abi, Tay jumped protectively in front of Elle, Elle's eyes grew wide as she watched more shadows turn into the multi-coloured man, and Gaara watched all of this calmly.

"Well Kazekage-sama," all of the Zetsu's smirked and spoke in unison, "I thought I was never going to see daylight again? Why hello," he looked around and noticed the full room, his eyes picking out the ones that were going to be his new 'comrades', "Who do we have here?"

Gaara threw the door open and cleared a path, "May, get out of here. Go to my office and lock the door, he can't get in there."

"Right," May began to push Abi out the door, Tay and Elle following close behind, "We're going to Gaara's office…"

Zetsu smiled to himself, the Kazekage has made himself friends with the enemy, now was time to have a little revenge.

Kakashi noticed how one of the many Zetsu's were eyeing up the retreating girls, he looked sideways at the only kunoichi in his team, "Sakura go with them, they may need a medic ninja if they run into anymore of him."

"Yes Sensei."

The cherry blossom left quickly without a need for any second bidding, Zetsu just started laughing at the concern on Kakashi's face, "They're going to need an undertaker more than a medic ninja when I've finished with them, it's obvious that they're not ninja."

"They have nothing to do with this," Sasuke sliced through one of the Zetsu's that was about to leave the room, "Your fight is with us Zetsu, I'm surprised that you didn't immediately leave actually."

"I've already gone, these clones are merely here to thank the people of Suna for being oh so generous with their hospitality."

Naruto was completely confused, "If they were so generous, why are you hurting people?"

"He was being sarcastic Dobe."

"Shut up Teme."

"Now that's out of the way," Kakashi sighed at the idiocy of his students, or more specifically student, "Should we get rid of these clones and then find the rest?"

"Sounds like a plan," sand darted in and out around the room, destroy every clone it came across until the room was completely empty, "These clones need to be destroyed, everyone, divide and concur."

"Right."

"In here," May ran in and checked for the fourth time that the door was locked once everyone was inside, they weren't in any danger from Zetsu but Sakura was right behind them so they couldn't let up the act, "Is everyone okay?"

Tay leaned against the desk, she was extremely confused, "Why do we need to run? Are we seriously in danger?"

"Not from Zetsu, just the others," May put her ear against the door listening for oncoming people, she heard Sakura retreating but nothing else, "Hopefully suspicion will drop after this and we can get around scot free."

Abi looked out the window, ninja were flying everywhere protecting the village and attacking the many Zetsu's that were all over the village, "So we just wait here until Gaara gets us?"

"That's the plan."

"Man we have to wait around this hole for three more days? This sucks," Tay sighed and tried to read some of the papers that were lying about, problem being she couldn't read Japanese, "Hey May can you read this stuff?"

"No way, I can read tiny segments but Japanese is super hard to read with all the different Kanjis."

"Man I'm so bored, wait a minute," Tay turned and looked curiously at her smallest friend, "Elle you haven't said anything at all, are you feeling okay?"

Elle fidgeted with her fingers, looking incredibly guilty, "Well…it's just…I guess I'm kinda feeling guilty about all of this…I mean, we set a bad guy and everything…what if people get hurt?"

"Now it comes out," May sighed, she was scared this would happen, she took too long breaking Zetsu out, "Elle we have to do this, if we don't Tobi is bound to kill us off. It's either we set a non-combat ninja free in a village full of very capable ninja or lose our lives completely."

"When you put it like that it sounds so reasonable."

"We don't have a choice Elle, let's just get this over with so we can get back to the hideout."

"Okay May."

Kankuro groaned as he flung his puppets at several Zetsu's at once, "We starved him, how did he regenerate so much chakra?"

"Just kill him and stop complaining," Temari swung her fan, annihilating the same amount as her brother, "We'll sort that out later."

"Whatever you say Onee-chan, at least we know who's behind this whole mess."

Gaara turned his head in question, this was an answer he wanted, "Well?"

"The Akatsuki."

"You're a genius Kankuro," Temari rolled her eyes and calmly destroyed the Zetsu's in her way, "A complete fucking genius. Man this guy is annoying."

"Agreed," Gaara made several hand signs and planted his palms on the ground, "Gokusa Maisō," the ground ate up twice as many Zetsu's as his two siblings had destroyed added together, "There is an uncountable amount but thankfully they're weak."

"Insanely weak."

"I think I counted about over fifty dead here, so should we move to a different area or stick around here Gaara?"

"Let's get further into the village," Gaara jumped back and sent more sand flying as more Zetsu's appeared, "The Konoha ninja are watching this place, we should have everything cleaned up in about twenty minutes."

Temari smirked, "Let's make it ten."

Kankuro jumped beside his siblings as they began to run, "We do it in five and I'll shout everyone drinks."

"Man Gaara-kun gets all the fun," Naruto sighed and sulked with his teammates as they walked through the now empty halls of the mansion, "Why do we have to stay here and look after the 'guests'?"

Sasuke smirked at his loud mouthed friend, "Because it's not our village Dobe, if the orders are to watch some girls we go and watch some girls."

"You sounded like a real pervert just then Teme."

"Shut up."

Kakashi laughed lightly and looked vaguely around a corner, "Is the office this way?"

"Kakashi Sensei," Sakura sighed deeply, was she the only person in this team with a brain? "This way, they're probably waiting for someone to get them out already."

"It's not like they have a lot to worry about, Gaara-sama did says that no one can get into his room while the door is locked, so unless Zetsu was in there to begin with they'll be fine."

"You're so careless Sensei."

Kakashi smiled and pointed at the door they stopped at, "Is this the one?"

"Yah."

"So this is where they decided to hide the pretty little darlings, tell me girls are you scared?"

Kakashi froze for a mere second, that was Zetsu's voice. Naruto grabbed the door handle and began to pull violently at the door handle, "How the hell did he get in there?"

Kakashi pushed Naruto back and began to pound at the door, "May open the door, let us in."

"Kakashi-san," she called from the doorway, her voice sounded panicked, "Help us."

May picked at her finger nails as she called back to the ninja outside the door, "Please, we're so scared."

"What the hell do we do now?" Tay's voice was shaky but loud as she broke multiple items around the room, "We need to open the door and let them save us."

Zetsu shook the hand of each girl in greeting, he laughed lightly, "Come on girlys, this won't hurt much."

Elle was standing by the window, they were pretending to be terrified as Zetsu 'attacked' them, she looked calmly out of it. It looked like they got rid of all the Zetsu's in town, guess time was up. She looked back to see Zetsu holding out his hand to her, she turned her head away in denial, no way was she going to accept the fact that she was part of the Akatsuki. He frowned at first but smirked after a moment and picked Elle up by the waist, "Why don't we have a little fun?"

Elle tried to squirm but he grasp was too strong, "May, what is he doing?"

"Let her go," May finally ran to the door so she could unlock it, she got a bad feeling something really bad was about to happen, "Put her down you asshole."

Zetsu laughed lightly as May finally unlocked the door, "Ever want to learn how to fly?" He calmly threw her through the window as Kakashi sliced him with a kunai. The clone vanished and the remaining three girls ran to the window each worried completely.

Tay shook her head at first and then jumped out after her falling friend, May and Abi gasped in shock, "TAY."

Elle was too shocked to even scream, Tay was falling towards her at the same rate she was towards the ground. Finally she found her voice, "Are you fucking crazy?"

"Hold on I'll catch you."

"I really don't think that's the problem here Tay."

"Why not?"

"WE'RE FALLING TOWARDS THE GROUND."

"I didn't think this through very well did I?"

"You think?"

Tay managed to grab Elle's hand and pulled her up so they were at the same level. Elle groaned and closed her eyes, hugging Tay as they fell, "What I wouldn't give for wings right now…"

Tay laughed lightly, she was starting to see how wrong this decision was, but at least she was going to go down at the same time as her friend. She gripped Elle tighter and cried, "To infinity and beyond…"

"You're such a dick Tay."

"Do you really want those to be the last words you ever say to me."

"No, I want them to be potatoes love me."

"Well you got your wish."

The duo laughed once more as the ground drew closer, if someone was going to save them they should've done so by now. Tay looked around for someone to help them but everything was just starting to look like a mass blur of colours. She and Elle were the only shapes she could properly make out, she finally realised just how small Elle really was, and just how fragile she looked when she was scared. Elle noticed that Tay would always be stronger than her, mentally and physically, she really needed to thank her for being her friend but she wasn't given the chance as she and Tay were encased in darkness.

There was a sight bump and the two stopped, they could still feel themselves breathing so they couldn't be dead, maybe they were in between worlds…

May's voice rang clear through the dead space, "Tay what the hell were you thinking?"

Scratching noises surfaced followed by the blinding light of day, May pushed through with Abi. Abi smack Tay on the head and growled deeply, "You do realise that you could've been killed right?"

"I'm not dead?" Tay began to pat her body down to make sure there were no missing parts, "Then what the hell happened?"

"Kankuro got his puppets to catch you two before you hit the ground, you were so close it was scary."

Elle stumbled out of the puppet and smiled shakily, "I just got thrown out a several story window and lived."

"Congratulations," May rolled her eyes and put the slightly shaken girl on her back with some help form Abi, "To celebrate you can go to bed, okay?"

"Yes May."

The sand siblings caught up to the leaving duo except one, he was looking incredibly guilty. He walked over to Tay and scratched the back of his head vaguely, "Sorry."

Tay looked at Abi, "Is he apologizing?"

"Looks like it."

"I've been a real jerk but you obviously care about your friends just as much as I do about my family," he smiled shyly and held his hand out to her, "Can we just start over?"

Tay looked from his face to his face then back to his face, eventually she smiled and took his hand in her, "Okay."