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Hidan: It's Jashin! JASHIN, why doesn't anyone get it!

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Anyways, 39 reviews! OMJ so fair it's the highest I've gotten for a story. But the highest I've gotten for 'a pairing per chapter' story is 42. OMJ, I might get 100 reviews for this one. THAT IS SO AMAZING. I'd be like, fainting and crying with happiness. I hope you guy could help me get there. That'd be great.

And now for the sad part...I am sorry for not updating, very very sorry. Something huge recently happened that put me in a 'state of shock'. At least that's what my friend told me it was.

What is state of shock actually? You're like O.O or what? Anyways, also, exams are starting. And and uhm what else are my excuses. HW OMJ, I hate hw. I mean homework. Our teacher is like, shoving a big amount all at once.

"Read this and do the paper works"

"Pay attention there will be a unit test on this"

BUT HEY~ i've got good news. For me that is. I just have to tell you all. I have three field trips. IMAX, Library, and some place. SOOO GREAT. I'm looking forward to it.

Anyways, wish me all luck on my exams next month. Wish me all with reviews, and help me reach my dreams, with high reviews. Ty, ty.

Looks Can Be Deceiving

Alex POV.

I can't believe Konan is gone, I can't believe how she acted. She wasn't like this in the anime, or manga. Nothing alike at all. She was supposed to be nice, and protective. But she was nothing like that. I know what Pain and she went through, I do. Unless...since some things are new or different from the manga, maybe I really don't know what happened to them. I mean, it can be something different; like that they were siblings or, something completely different. Maybe it wasn't a war that killed their parents, maybe a murder. I'm willing to believe lots of things. After all, there are many things I don't know here.

I mean, Kisame and Zetsu suck blood, I understand Zetsu since he's taste blood when he eats the dead to dispose of them that is, if there was blood still in them. And I suppose he's grown to like the taste of blood. But Kisame? No. Well, he is like a shark I suppose. And he smelling my blood is for sure, what sharks are like. But that doesn't mean he suck blood, like vampires.

And if they are both different, what about the others? Is Sasori really a puppet here? Did his parents really die? Or did he just leave?

And does Deidara really hate Itachi, was Itachi, Kisame and Sasori the ones that joined him in the Akatsuki?

Plus, Pain could really be Pain, his name could be Pain, and that could be his true body, and there was no such person named Yahiko. But...these are 'what if's' and questions. I can't be certain with any of them. For all I know, they could be the good guys and Naruto and the others are the bad.

I shook my head, confused now with all the questions and thinking. I don't know anything anymore. I don't know what to think.

I turned to stare at purple eyes that stared back. Hidan's eyes. They looked at me with questioning.

And Hidan...he had saved me more than once. He had helped me too, and watched me over the night to make sure no one attacked me; he even listened through my story of my life. He helped me a lot, also when Kisame attached me when Konan cut me up with blood; Kisame smelled the blood. He was nearby, he knew what would happen, so he quickly carried me, and Deidara lifted us up, so that Kisame wouldn't reach us.

Also when Konan came to hit me, or should I say kill me, Hidan was first through the door to stop her, she was kicked out of the organization by Pain, who came afterward. And, I think Hidan had even saved me from Orochimaru too, before.

"What?" Hidan asked, his eyes narrowing down, irritated.

"Uh...I didn't thank you. You've helped me a few times now. Thanks"

"Kakuzu would rip me apart if I was in the scene and did nothing, even though I'm immortal, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt" he was about to say more when the door opened, and Pain walked in with Kakuzu.

"No one came?" Kakuzu asked Hidan, making sure Konan or Orochimaru didn't have anything up their sleeves on that same day.

"Yeah, yeah, she was safe the whole time old prick." Hidan got up and left the room yawning. He was up all night, making sure I wasn't attack. I owe him; I owe many things to the Akatsuki. I'm only in their way; I'm only getting in between their work, just like what Konan said. I'm only a bother.

"Alex, you are no longer safe here, at least, not the way you are now" Kakuzu started to do check up on me as Pain talked. "Training you, to being an excellent ninja will be our own jobs. After all, you can't stay here inside the hideout forever. Is that understood?" I nodded.

"Don't move" Kakuzu growled out. I froze. Pain left, and everything went silence. The sound of bandages moving, and the clock ticking was the only things heard. I didn't like this kind of silent; this one always gave me the creeps. Though it's silent, it seems to scream danger, or creepiness. I sent shivers up and down my spine.

"Kakuzu..." I whispered quietly. I was scared, scared Konan would appear out of nowhere and kill me, scared that once I'm out of these stone walls, and outside on a mission. I'd die, scared that, if I don't get any better I'd be disposed off. I've had enough of this world. It's nothing of what I wanted, what I expected. I don't want to be here anymore. I don't want to stay. I'm scared.

Kakuzu looked up from the injury he was checking and at me. My head was hung down low, I was trembling, my eyes widen in fear. "I...I want to go home..." I hung my head lower, letting my hair cover my face. "I...Don't want to stay here...anymore...take me back...take me back home..." I pled. I've been through a lot already, if I stay here any longer, I might get killed too early. I don't want to take such risk. I want to return back, where I'm safe, and there won't be a scary women out there, wanting to kill me.

Where, I don't have to worry about being disposed off, where ninja's don't exists.

Kakuzu stared at me, examining me. My expression, and my body language.

"I'll talk with Leader" he stood up and left. His voice was empty; I didn't know what he was thinking. I hugged myself, despite the pain from my arm. I didn't belong here, I didn't have chakra for a reason, I wasn't meant to be a ninja. Not meant to be here. To fight in battles where my life was on the line. Where things could easily crush me. I'm scared...My chest aches of fear. Besides, if I was out of their way, they'd be fine, right? I mean I've already prevented some of their deaths, now they have an upper hand at some battles.

The door burst open in rage.

"Oi, you're planning to leave!" I didn't need to look up to know who it was. It was Hidan, his yelling and voice made it clear. "We brought you here, Deidara and Sasori went on a mission to get the scroll to get you chakra, we even kicked that bitch out of here for you and NOW YOU LEAVE?" It was true. They did a lot for me. Kakuzu helped me a lot, so did Hidan. Even the creepy and evil Madara did something for me. He tried making Konan nice to me.

Tobi came running in.

"No, you can't leave Alex-Chan, Tobi will be very lonely, and sad, no Tobi doesn't want Alex-chan to leave!" I was running away from the problem instead of taking it on like any other person would do. I kept silent, and then calm footsteps walked in. I looked up to see the leader, Pain, looking down at me.

"You wish to return?" He asked, I nodded. "Even after the past time you've stayed with us?" I nodded again. "I wish to know your reasons" He ordered. I didn't replay. I knew if I did, I'd cry, or stutter, or show weakness. And I was sure the Akatsuki hated such weakness. So I kept quiet. "Are you homesick?" I took the question as my way out and nodded. Tobi grabbed Pain's arm. He was on his knees looking up at Pain.

"Noooo sempai~ Alex-chan can't go" He pleads. Hidan kept quiet, having a pissed of look on his face, Kakuzu kept his blank face.

"As you wish" Pain's hands rose up together above his head, and then came down toward me. A light engulfed me and no one was in site. A few minutes later and I began to fall, and I fell softly on a bed. My bed. I looked around. It was my room in my house, back home. I went on the computer to check the date.

March 10th Thursday 10:58

Three months...I was there for three months...

I took a deep breath. I was safe now, nothing to worry about, I'll just sleep and rest let my injuries heal and then hang out with my friends and return to school. Yeah...I can do that. It'd be like nothing ever happened for three months, like...like I was dreaming.

I pulled the bed sheet covers, slipped under it and pulled it over me, and slept.

When I woke up next, it was 8:30 the next day. I stretched and yawned, took a shower and went down to eat breakfast. The house was empty like always. Sister was probably in some club passed out from too much drinking and mom...no idea.

Suddenly, I started to make more food for others, and then I froze.

"That's right...I don't have to make food for 'them' anymore...such a waste..." I thought out loud. I called my school afterward, telling them I got hit by a car, and now was healing; I was fine, and wish to return to school soon. Closing the phone down.

I...Felt so lonely...so empty. I mean, yeah, it's always like this before I got captured by the Akatsuki's but. Now...it feels...empty. I shook that off. I just need to see my friends. So I'll sleep lots, because it's when your sleeping is when you heal best.

So I went back to sleep again, and I did that a few times till I was much better and began going to school. I walked down the streets, the snow was still there, but the weather was much better than when I was last outside here.

"ALEX!" All three of my friends called out, running to me. Jamie, Sherry and Adrianna.

"Are you alright? We heard from the office what happened, how's your arm? Any bone broken?" The questions when on long, until I stopped them.

"I'm fine" I did tell the office I got hit by a car and was healing now for the past three months. I didn't think they'd tell my friends about it. "Really"

"How'd it feel?" Sherry asked.

"Uhm...unreal? Fake...like in a story or movie." It did feel like it, like all that happened in the ninja world was just a story I read about a girl that was a lot like me, who gets into the Naruto world. And so we talked, it was like the main topic, we'd always bring it up and in the afternoon classes, our teacher planed for us to read outside, on the big hill pass the parking lot. She told us not to walk in the parking lot but around.

She didn't want anyone to get hit by a car. And all this, reminded my friends about me getting hit. I sighed inward.

Life was boring and cruel. Nothing ever happens, and it was always the same thing every day. Something...was missing. It felt like I was missing something from the world, something big. Something not boring something, exciting. Something I hadn't experienced before.

Narrator.

Someone watched from afar at Alex, smirking. This, 'someone' was Konan, it was time to get her revenge, and no Akatsuki or human was going to stop her. She was going to take her revenge first and take her to Orochimaru, after all. Orochimaru didn't request her to bring Alex unharmed. He only asked to bring her to him alive.

Her smirk grew, she was going to enjoy this revenge sweetly, and she was going to take it slow and torture her, and make her cry. She was going to make her feel true pain, unbearable and hurtful. And she was going to watch, watch as Alex would squirm, scream, cry and struggle. She was going to enjoy how her face looked like when she tortured her. After all, it was her fault. If Alex had listened to Konan, she wouldn't be in such a mess.

She would have been safe, and fine, she wouldn't have made Konan her enemy, if only she had listened and ran away from the Akatsuki. But no, she had to cling to them. Had to. And she was going to pay for her misjudgement, her wrong choice.

Konan's eyes narrowed, as he smirk rose higher, as her orange eyes, and smooth, soundless moving, followed that wounded girl, who felt she was safe here.

Little did she know, little did she know.

"You will pay greatly for the wrong and interference you've made, greatly."

Sorry for the shortness, but I wanted a cliffer like thing. I don't normally do those, but I wanted to do something sort of like that.

So review, and maybe wish me luck on everything and, uhm predict what will happen. I like those, it's always fun to read, and once again sorry for the shortness, and lateness. I don't intend to leave this story, after all the reviews I've gotten. I wouldn't do that.

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