"Find my daughter! Search every crevice of every building in this blasted village!" Boomed the deep voice of the head of the Hitomi clan. His aged face scrunched in anger and frustration as police ninja questioned him and searched around the area.

"Sir we are trying, please inform us of what your daughter did the day she went missing." Spoke the black haired man, a slight cry was heard near them as mistress Hitomi sat on the wooden porch of their home and held her aged face in her trembling hands.

"She is missing!" She yelled in despair at the unknown location of her blind daughter. Master Hitomi sighed and began recalling the events that day.

"The previous night we went to a dinner at the Hyuuga residence. Afterwards a child of the Chinatsu clan asked to take my daughter the next day for fun. That next day there was her, Michiko Chinatsu and some other girl that I do not know of. They took my daughter for the whole day and didn't return that night even though I strictly informed them to have Kazuki back by dark. The next day we asked the head of the Chinatsu clan and she had not heard anything from her daughter. We waited assuming it was a teenage prank but after awhile we gave up and called for you all." The ninja before him nodded in understanding before speaking,

"ANBU are on their way to help search as are our men. We can assure you, your daughter will be found." The confident voice spoke before walking away to a smaller group of searching men and informing. Suddenly a group of darkly clothed figures jumped into the residence and before the head of the Hitomi clan with a light tap. Differently crafted masks placed over their eyes and for those whose shoulders were visible, the typical ANBU tattoo could be seen.

"Father." Spoke a familiar voice, the beloved son of the honorable clan. His cat like mask glistening with the high sun, its white porcelain frame commented with three symmetrical red painted whiskers on either side of the cheeks with one vertical atop the forehead. "You requested us, what is happening?"

The head sighed while closing his blue eyes. "Son…Kazuki has gone missing." He solemnly spoke and could almost see the shock on his sons face through the mask.

"How? How can she go missing? She is blind, she can't go that far!" The boy shouted as he questioned his father, worry coated in each of his words.

"Souta, we know this. She went missing when she went out with that Chinatsu daughter. You now think her making more friends is a good idea?" The irritated man took his frustration into words at his son he stepped back, but clenched his fists in return

"Are you blaming this on me?"

"Well who else? You were the one whom insisted letting her go out with them."

"And YOU father are the one to not have faith in her, to not have taught her anything until the age she is at more. Maybe if you had a lick of faith in her, she would be stronger and more outgoing. But no, she is scared and afraid of what you might do if she does something wrong and therefore you doubt her!" the masked man shouted to his now taken back father, his mother too stood watching wide-eyed. A hand was placed on Souta's shoulder causing him to snap out of his frustrated daze and turn to one of his masked comrades.

"We will learn information." He quietly spoke and therefore the group jumped off and over the many buildings of Konoha. They ran, the wind sweeping passed them quickly and the citizens down below barely able to notice their quickness.

How the hell do you lose a blind child? I hope she is okay. Only if father had just trained and made her stronger ever before she turned 14. I don't think he is even the father I thought he was. Why would you wait four days and then look for your youngest child when there are so many possibilities that could have happened by now. He has never been there for me, much less Kazuki, all he is concerned about is having great children to show off against the other clans and be the star idol of Konoha. What if Kazuki didn't even want to come home? What if she ran away?

Souta was brought from his thoughts as they neared their destination and hopped onto the light dirt road. The head of the Chinatsu family was already out and talking to someone whom looked as though he hadn't slept in five days. Beside him another man. The ANBU squad walked up to the seemingly frantic woman whom shifted her attention to the group and gasped at seeing them.

"ANBU have you found my daughter yet?" She frantically yelled but to no avail as Souta gloomily replied a 'no' before shifting his attention to the irritated looking man the head had previously talked to. His dark brown hair topped with a navy forehead bandana imprinted with the Konoha symbol on its metal slate. His dark eyes tiredly looked at the group of men and fingering a kunai in his palm. A dark blue haired man rested a hand on the man's shoulder with sympathy over his face. The woman's eyes widened and took the kunai from Izumo's palm and showed it to the ANBU men. "This, this was found!" Souta took it and sent a hidden but curious stare to the lady.

"Thank you for informing me but what does this have to do about the missings?" Asked Souta confused, little did he know his comrades thought the same thought.

"Izumo here found it where the girls usually go to." She shoved Izumo in front of the 20 year old man and Izumo looked down at the man for he resided maybe an inch or two taller.

"You did?"

Izumo nodded "My sister and Michiko usually go there a lot, that's why I was telling Masa here about it." He said gesturing to the Chinatsu woman.

"Who is your sister? Was she with Kazuki?"

"Mei Kamizuki. And who?"

"My sister, her and Michiko and apparently another girl went out 4 days ago and have yet to return." Izumo stiffened as his breath was swallowed in his throat.

"Is she blind? Black hair?" Souta frantically nodded "Yes, my sister was with her and Michiko. They went to a pond just out of town, where I found that." He said gesturing to the kunai in Souta's palm "It was stuck in the bark of a tree." He spoke frantically. Souta quickly turned to his silent group and whispered instructions before turning back to Izumo and his friend Kotetsu.

"Can you show us the location?" With a quick nod he and Izumo jumped into the air followed by Kotetsu and the rest of the ANBU. Izumo quickly ran out of the bustling village with Souta not far behind along with the rest of the fairly large group, and down the dirt road to where he knew the pond would be located. Soon a slight shuffling was heard next to him and he turned to see the cat masked Souta next to him at the same pace. "You know…you're not alone."

"What?" Asked the dark eyed Izumo whom never took his eyes off his path,

"Kazuki, she is my sister. Mei is your sister. Both are younger than us so we are protective over them. You're not alone, missing someone you care about." Spoke a sympathetic Souta, trying to sound confident in himself and comfort Izumo. Izumo merely held an emotionless, tired face while speaking

"I missed her for the last 19 years of my life." With that Izumo sped up as the location neared.

~Meanwhile~

Large gasping breaths left the blind, dormant girl's mouth as she rested against a nearby wall close to Mei and Michiko. A dark, shadowed copy of herself stood away and held its mouth open as if gasping for breath but no sound came out. Around her and her blonde opponent stood hidden shadows waiting to abide by her command. The blonde bomber smirked, they had been fighting for about five minutes and Kazuki was lacking out of pressure. A lot of the moves she had learned to attain were absent in her mind as the bomber continuously came at her with mere physical hits in which she jumped away from.

"Kazuki, focus!"Yelled a stern voice in which Kazuki recognized immediately. Turning she saw her two friends restrained against the floor, Mei's blindfolded gaze looking towards her as Michiko's blue gaze looked as well, a light square shape across her mouth. Suddenly feet taps were heard and she saw Deidara running towards her motionless body against the dark stone wall. Kazuki's mind went blank as she saw him stand beside it and smirk.

"What are you gonna do? Just stand there?" He taunted at her, his smirk growing wider as he placed a hand on the girls ebony haired head.

"Get away from my body!" Yelled the dormant Kazuki, her and the shadow's mouth moving fastly. Deidara tipped his head back some in a slight laugh,

"I don't wanna. Besides, what will you do? All you've done so far is run and dodge. Not once have you attempted in a hit, what make this any different from when I was trying to bomb you? You weak, useless to this organization and I don't know why Leader has his eyes on your capabilities. You're a blind rat who doesn't know her place. Get over that." He harshly spoke, eyes narrowing at the young stunned girl while smiling during every bit. All around did the cave go silent as Pein watched to see if his taunting had triggered something, little beknownst by him was Mei curious of the same thing. Everyone watched the silent shadow of a girl as no expression could be held neither on her face nor on the dormant child. With a stifle of a laugh Deidara placed a hand in his pocket, only to bring out a stainless kunai and observe it before gripping its handle tight and about to cut the cheek of the hibernated Kazuki. The grip on the kunai soon lost as it flew upon the ground with a loud clatter and Deidara was shoved into the air. His face faced the ceiling as a strong, bony object struck underneath his chin forcing him upwards and stumbles to catch his balance upon the ground. He held his hand against the newly reddening as the loud smack of the incident started fading throughout the room and glared an unhidden eye to the culprit. Standing, wobbly on two feet, arms down by her side, one hand knuckles starting to redden. Her head faced the floor and her black ebony hair draped over her shoulders. Her mouth began to move with her words,

"You can underestimate me, you can judge me, and you can pity me. But I am done with being weak. You get over THAT." Her soft voice coated in seriousness and frustration as her blind eyes looked to the man and a shadowed body walked next to her.

"How can you still be controlling those?" Asked a confused Deidara whom regained his composure and stood straight, his gray eye widened in shock and confusion but to those who saw her from behind knew what was happening. A shadow had found its way behind her and lodged itself onto her, controlling her limbs as she could still speak and see from her shadowed body. "Well, damn you." With that Deidara let his palm open quickly to her and something flew from it fastly as if it were a spitball heading towards an innocent student. Knowing what it was the shadow controlling her and three others covered her up, slightly dropping her to a crouch as the one her sight controlled ran away and curved to begin a run towards the blonde terrorist. With a flick of the hand sign, the white clay bird exploded abruptly, letting the shielding shadows and the dormant body of the blind girl tumble away with little harm and the shadow herself to jump high in the air and disappear in the shadows of the cave. Deidara looked up to look for her but in the meantime nearly got struck with a dark nearly transparent fist heading to his throat but dodged just in time. All at once did the four shadows attack him from all directions; with cunning speed and agility he dodge out of the way and managed to release spider like clay structures onto the shadows in which exploded upon his command. As the smoke passed in a large cloud he noticed no shadows in front of him and silently made his way over to the motionless flesh body of Kazuki whom rested against the ground. The blonde man jumped to reach her but to no avail as something collided into his jaw sending him back in an instant. The man quickly regained himself by sliding his feet against the floor to help balance himself as he watched the dark Kazuki silhouette land in front of her body. Shock covered his eyes as he watched four pools of darkness crawl and rise up like water before forming similar silhouettes not far from their master.

"You can't kill a shadow." The voice of Kazuki spoke, strong and confident as a smirk feel to the flesh of the human body. Deidara's jaw clenched tightly before tossing out small barely noticeable clay balls that rolled just in between the group. The guarding foursome just waited for a reaction but found none as the small objects just sat there.

"You forgot one thing." Spoke Deidara with a smirk, earning a curious thought from Kazuki. "There can be no shadows, with just light." With the words spoken, the bombs exploded far larger than any of the previous attacks, the bright light, illustrated like a painting of whites, yellows, blues, reds and oranges as the explosion nearly reached the top of the dome. The four shadows scurried back into puddles and whipped away to find a source of darkness as the shadow of Kazuki disappeared fastly as if being torn apart with the rays of light. The motionless body of the young Hitomi daughter was vulnerable and Deidara seized the opportunity as he charged through the puff of smoke his bombs left and found his prized body. Kneeling down he quickly picked her up and nearly dragged her from the smoke before dropping her on the ground and smirked thinking the fight was over. Michiko's covered mouth could have been wide open if it weren't for her restraint and Mei's mouth barely cracked an inch as she took the scene in but sensed something as did most Akatsuki members while some were as shocked as Michiko: The fight wasn't fully over. "There you go Leader. Done." Spoke Deidara, eyes drifting to his Leader up above on the statue. Pain didn't say anything but kept his still, serious face on the motionless girl, confusing the blonde bomber. "Leader?" Suddenly something grasped his ankle and his blue eyes flashed down to see a dark hand reaching from the shadow of where Kazuki's body lay. Deidara's eyes grew wide as he tried to jump away from the creature, only to be pulled back and nearly smacked into the ground harshly. The shadow moved further out to reveal a body whose hand now grasped his other ankle while more shadows appeared from all around. One resembling goo and dripping onto the man's fine blonde hair and nearly covering his whole head, slowly crawling towards his face. Another coming from his left, winding its way up his arm as another symmetrical shadow did to his other arm. Lastly a shadowed body seemed to jump against his back as if asking for a piggy-back ride or hugging him as if it's life depended on it before the shadows arms and legs stretched out to cover most of his body as the on coming from the ground engulfed his legs. Soon Deidara was nearly covered in the black almost transparent mist like substance as his face being the only colored part of him, however that too was being engulfed, the goo like shadow reaching the sides of his face, framing it, before slowly stretching to cover just a bit more. Suddenly as if a creature rested inside his stomach, it began to move against the black shadow, stretching it out and wiggling before curving up and perfecting itself to resemble the upper half of a woman; Kazuki. The mouth of the creature moved as Kazuki, still by the dark Deidara's side spoke.

"There are always shadows, whether near or far. They are there and they can move faster than you can blink." Its voice spoke just like the normal Kazuki would but with a more haunting chill as its face inched closer and closer to the shocked Deidara. The inhabitants of the dame stood in shock; even Pein himself couldn't help but be alarmed. All these girls hide something that could kill someone in an instant. Mei's sight and chakra strings, Michiko's flowers and buds, and Kazuki's shadows. All at a disadvantage in some form but all holding a bigger advantage to combat. This really is too great to let away in death.

The pierced man thought to himself as he watched Deidara's body, uncovered, be launched from the shadowy hold and smack into he far wall with great force, his body hitting the ground with a 'thud' as he lay motionless upon the floor. Madara too stood in wonder and amazement as he watched the scene unfold and slowly end. We doubted her and her little friends. Not so little in the inside, looks like Kazuki's rage just had to be awakened. And it has. Nagato was right, death can't consume these powers. Madara thought as he watched the shadows slowly disperse in many slash like patterns as if someone were tearing the creatures apart; all forming into Kazuki while the last body, Kazuki's shadow body too went into her master and a gasp was heard from the young girl whom laid against the floor. Soon a small smile found its way onto her lips before her cloudy eyes slowly closed and she fell into a much needed slumber.

"Looks like that much power deserves a rest when just awakened." Spoke the deep voiced Pein as he watched the girl sleep and sensed his partner nod slowly. With a flick of the hand he informed Konan to release the girls to help her friend and she abided his command for she agreed. The paper patches began to unfold and peel off each other and float into the now quiet air before folding into small butterflies and flying to their master up ahead. As the paper-like-rope left their bodies and the small square of paper ran off Michiko's mouth, her and her good friend ran across the stone floor to their slumbersome companion. Their bare feet making subtle 'taps' across the floor and the fading stench of clay running into their noses but didn't stop them, reaching their friend they kneeled down and checked for wounds but to find none and took a heavy sigh and relax. Only Michiko, Mei kept her guard up as more taps were heard not far from them. Turning her blindfolded head she spotted her god and his angel looking down at them, his piercings shining with the subtle moving water.

"As we thought, she has great potential." Konan spoke quietly, her soft voice in contrast with her partners deep one. Michiko moved her eyes from Kazuki's sleeping form to the pair with a gasp

"'great potential'? She just kicked your dude's ass! That is great skill, her potential is already here and shown." Shouted Michiko to the woman, whom merely sent her a small slash of an expression.

"Michiko, quiet. No need to shout." Konan's slash turned into a gentle smirk as the silver haired being spoke, looking down once more to her friend.

"But you two as well hold great power. The Akatsuki are going with the previous plan, whether you agree or not. You three are new members of the Akatsuki." The leader spoke sternly. He remembered the past for days and the past three escape attempts but merely pushed them aside knowing their abilities in full blown, also having yet to see the blindfolded one's eyes. Knowing these facts put him and the rest of the Akatsuki on high alert and therefore to be their most ruthless.

"No! We will never join you fools organization!" Yelled Michiko, however unknown to her; Mei sensed people she had not felt in awhile. Safety. Her brother being one of them, not far from their own location, and other unknown members besides another familiar man, Kotetsu. A small barely made its way to her face before she let it fall for cover and she slowly put her arms under the back of Kazuki's knees and the upper portion of her back. Mei let her legs run into a criss-cross position on the floor and continued to hold Kazuki as she set her in her lap whilst calling Michiko's name. Michiko's blue eyes watched Mei confused but Mei made a slight nudge of a small and a twitch of her head towards the big boulder blocking them from the outside world. Michiko's face grew to a large smile and she jumped high into the air to everyone's confusion all except Mei's. With a twirl, resembling a ballerina's graceful moves she made hand signs in top speed before flicking her hands upward; controlling the vines she had just made sprout. Mei knew what had happened and what she had just subtly made her friend realize. Help is not far. Michiko knowing this will jump with joy, but knowing something else will make the help easier to find us. There is a giant boulder blocking us from the outside world, and no light even able to seep through. However, this pool of water here cannot have such a deep end and cover such a vast area without help. There must be a bigger pond outside, connecting the two together. This being done, there must be at least a crevice of nature's air under the water. With even the smallest of space to the world outside, Michiko can tap into the nature and make some sort of attempt to help signal the help. Michiko landed gracefully on the ground before running over to the Leader and Konan themselves. A happy smile on her face,

"Never mind, I don't feel like being beaten and battered if we are caught with another escape attempt like we were just planning, so we will stay." She spoke fastly, her eyes and mouth showing fake glee but hidden underneath the act was true joy of receiving help and being found. A slight chuckle came from Mei,

"Dear Michiko, such an odd child." She spoke with a smile causing Michiko to laugh. The rest of the Akatsuki members stood in confusion but merely shrugged it off as Pein and Konan wearily stood o their guard at the sudden change of heart. Mei sensed the proximity of her brother and his comrades and stood smoothly, while turning to her god and his angel. "Goodbye Lord Pein, Lady Konan." As the last letter left her mouth, a sudden gust of wind and rubble flew into the dome. Large sheets of rock fell everywhere, letting Michiko and Mei holding her companion Kazuki jumps up and off the many pieces into the large cloud of smoke both with smiles upon their faces. Before the smoke and rock had a chance to disperse, Leader had called upon some team members along with Konan and too jumped into the rubble.


My back hurts so bad! Sitting on a backless chair for this long isnt the greatest feeling in the world. But here ya go, i had to add that last sentence so ya'll wouldn't think the series just like ended. Nope, more to come. .-. bye bye.