LOVE, LIFE, DREAM

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A/N: before people start telling me that Tobi came and entered the Akatsuki after Sasori died and Deidara didn't join till later on in the year(s) I'll tell you this is my world and there will be some changes in orders so technically it is a bit AU. But not that much. THANK YOU

Meeting the Akatsuki...?

"Welcome to the Akatsuki" Kisame said.

"thanks?" I said looking around.

"who's the girl?" a voice asked. I looked around the corner and saw a silver haired man walking with his three bladed scythe swung over his shoulder.

"New recruit" Itachi answered before leaving.

"she's the Iryo-girl from Konoha" Kisame said. "That is Hidan from the village of hotsprings" Kisame told me.

"Nice to meet you Hidan. Oh and Fishsticks? My name is Ken Misaki." I growled.

"Whatever doesn't matter." Kisame yawned.

"Fine. What do I do now?" I asked standing around awkwardly.

"First we go to leader-sama. Itachi probably already went there." Kisame said leading me away. I followed with no hesitation. We walked down some halls and took a few turns before we got to a large set of heavy Oak doors. Kisame knocked and walked in. Itachi was already there as Kisame expected and in the shadows were two figures.

"Leader-sama, this is the one" Kisame said shoving me in front of him. I stood with my back straight and waited for one of them to speak.

"the one who hold the key to the barrier hm?" the one sitting asked.

"Yes" Itachi answered.

"Will she undo the barrier now?" the one standing asked Itachi though looked towards me.

"I will" I said staring at the two I knew to be Pein and Konan.

"Well than do so now" Pein demanded throwing me the group of scrolls.

"let me first get the conditions of this deal straight. One I join Akatsuki, two I undo the barrier. That is my part, you part is wait at the least 2 years for the Kyuubi and since I'm doing two things you also have to wait for the Shukaku" I said

"and if we say no to one of those?" Pein asked.

"I kill myself and the scrolls will explode meaning some people die" I said looking at Kisame, Itachi and Konan.

"how do we know you won't betray us?" Pein asked.

"I swear on my eyes and on the name of the Ken family that will stay loyal to the Akatsuki for two years" I said.

"Only two years?" Pein asked.

"you're postponing the Kyuubi and Ichibi for only two years so why not?" I asked.

"Fair enough"

"Now how do I know you won't betray me?" I asked.

"You have the word of the Rain village's leader and the Akatsuki" Pein said.

"Not the Akatsuki but the rain village is fine….since I know who is probably behind the mask" I smiled on the outside playfully though Pein, Konan and Itachi knew whom I was talking about. Kisame was the only one who didn't fully understand.

"Fine." Pein agreed and nodded to me to continue to undo the barrier.

I nodded back and brought out my kunai. Everyone stiffened though I rolled my eyes and stabbed my hand; blood cascaded down my hand and fell on the scrolls creating a crimson sphere around the scrolls. I wrote on my other hand in blood the kanji for release. After activating chakra to my blood I pressed my hand on the barrier and the crimson walls shattered.

The wounded hand healed immediately and I wiped the blood on my towel I carried in my medical bag.

"closing the wound quickly and efficiently, no wonder you are called the Leaf's medical genius" Pein said looking at my hand.

"Well here is the scroll and here are my papers. I won't hide anything while I'm here so you can trust me" I said giving Konan my information papers.

"hn….Itachi show her to the room" Pein ordered.

"Hn" he grunted the Uchiha trademark and motioned me to follow.

We went down halls and corridors till we got to a large hall with doors on both sides of the hallway.

"Your room is down there across from mine" he said walking me down to the very end of the hallway, the left one being mine and the right one his. He also opened the large double doors at the end of the hall to show a small treatment room.

"Nice, I can keep my things in here" I smiled and unpacked several things from my scrolls.

"Brunch or lunch is at 12 o'clock. Don't miss it." Itachi said stoically before leaving me alone in the treatment room so I could get used to the surroundings. Everything was lit with electricity and the treatment room reminded me of Konoha's general hospital.

"Hey! Stop it!" I heard a loud voice yell though the hall and two men entered the treatment room.

"It's you…..the Misaki bitch" Hidan yelled before the tanned man hit him with a fist.

"Hello" I smiled though stopped myself from punching him.

"I heard you were the Iryo-nin Itachi and Kisame brought in." the tanned man I knew as Kakuzu said.

"I am. My name is Ken Misaki pleased to meet you Kakuzu-san" I bowed to the tanned man.

"You know who I am?" he asked with a raised brow.

"Yes." I said and went back to my work. I was organizing things on my desk. I placed all my things in a small cupboard and straightened things up when I noticed that the two were still here.

"Can I help you with something?" I asked.

"yea. I need you to sew back my fingers since Kakuzu wants me to fucking pay him." Hidan said rudely.

"I'm here to observe" Kakuzu stated simply. I shrugged and nodded motioning Hidan to a chair. He sat down rather obediently and showed me two of his fingers hanging by a bit of skin.

"What happened?" I asked while cleaning the wound.

"I told Konan she was a terrible cook" he growled while wincing when I rubbed a bit of alcohol on his wound.

"Is she a bad cook?" I questioned again taking his mind off his fingers.

"Terrible, it's not even fit to be called garbage! Sasori is lucky that he doesn't eat" Hidan laughed slightly then went back to watching me work.

"Hidan" I stopped sewing and looked up at him.

"yea?"

"How about I cook instead?" I asked.

"Can you cook?" Hidan checked.

"Sure….and also don't you think you should get that rip fixed?" I nodded to the rather large rip in his cloak.

"Konan did that….and Kakuzu won't let me get another one" scowled Hidan and Kakuzu hmphed.

"It was your fault" Kakuzu scowled "I don't get why you should use the Akatsuki's fund for your stupidity"

"What did you say you Fucking bastard!" Hidan yelled turning towards Kakuzu.

"Hidan! Stop moving. I'll stab you if you keep moving!" I threatened.

After several minutes of awkward silence I was done. Hidan wiggled his fingers and looked at his two fingers.

"How come there isn't any thread?" Hidan asked amazed.

"I used chakra strings and my chakra heals you from the inside out so there shouldn't be a visible thread" I explained before I put everything back into their appropriate drawers.

"Make us lunch now!" Hidan whined like a child.

"after I fix your cloak." I said pulling out a sewing kit from my ninja pouch.

"Hurry" Hidan said pulling off his cloak. I flinched slightly as he roughly pushed his cloak in my face. I was going to say tell him to wait a bit but I quickly looked down and away from his shirtless figure.

"What? Do I have some sort of wound?" he asked.

"N-no" I started

"What's wrong with her Kakuzu?" Hidan asked.

"I don't know" I could feel them staring at me.

"Go…." I whispered.

"Go? Go where?" Hidan asked curious.

"GO wear a shirt you Argh!" I yelled throwing a bleached sheet at him.

"you're bothered by that?" he asked looking confused.

"I am!" I yelled feeling a blush creep up my neck and to my cheeks.

"You are so fucking strange you know that?" Hidan told me before leaving the room with Kakuzu. With a sigh I started to stitch up the large rip with red and black thread cutting the string with my teeth. I also noticed some blood stains and decided to wash it too. It wasn't long before I had the garment clean, dry and with a embroidered H so I started to leave the dormitory hall when I realized I had no idea where anything was.

With another sigh I opted to ask Itachi and hope he could help me.

I knocked on his door and was met by silence. "Hello? Itachi-san?" I called in. Again there was silence until there was coughing and a crash on the other side of the door. Alarmed when the thought of his sickness I opened the door and saw Itachi standing in a puddle of water and glass shards on the floor. It also took me a while to notice he was in a towel…just a towel.

"W-what happened?" I asked ignoring the fact that he was in a Towel.

"the Mist was too heavy and I didn't see my water jug on my table" Itachi growled as he shuffled around the glass shards.

"You'll get hurt of you move around like that" I warned him but it seemed like he didn't hear me.

"Misaki can you move a bit?" Itachi said looking at the glass covered floor.

"Sure" I said moving out of the door way. There was a slight breeze as Itachi leaped out of his room and landed beside me. Itachi started to walk away when I stopped him.

"Excuse me Itachi-san. Where is the kitchen?" I asked.

"down the right hallway you take the first left then the second right" was all Itachi said before disappearing behind some doors. Happily I started to walk out of the dorm hall when there was a yell of frustration from behind the doors where Itachi had just disappeared behind. With a sigh I went over and opened the door to be greeted with a mountain of dirty clothing.

I guess this is the laundry room I thought when I heard a very familiar voice yelling loudly.

"That is mine un, Sasori no danna!" Deidara yelled holding up a black and red cloak.

"Deidara, give it back. NOW" a calm but deadly voice came from underneath a pile of clothes. A voice what belonged only to Sasori.

"I thought this was the laundry room" I muttered to myself "not a play pen"

"This is the Laundry Room….or was" I heard Kakuzu say coming up behind me.

"Why is it such a mess?" I asked looking over and poking a pile of clothes only for it to move and have bugs crawl out. "Disgusting"

"think about it. There are eight men living here, a plant, and one woman who doesn't do chores cause she's too busy and can't cook" Kakuzu told me.

"should have though so" I growled thinking about how much a mess other parts of the base would be. "Everyone out!" I yelled. Deidara and Sasori looked my way with glares. Itachi now wearing clothes looked over a pile of dirty clothing, his own clothes clean and neat in a pile in his arms.

"Please so I can clean" I tried not to show disgust as a cockroach flew out of a pile of clothes.

"Fine" there was slight grumbling as Itachi, Sasori, Deidara, and Kisame came out of the room.

"Bitch! I need food!" Hidan yelled.

"Starve Bastard!" I yelled at him before I entered the room and closed the door with a loud bang. Once I was inside I made a couple dozen shadow clones. We all first picked up clothes into small baskets and took out clothes one by one and shook them over a garbage bag to get rid of bugs, and other things I would rather not mention. After sorting the colors and type I started to wash them in the machine while the others washed the floors and etc.

We were done in about an hour and a half when Hidan was banging on the door for lunch and grumbles could be heard from the other Akatsuki members.

"I'm done! Just wit a sec" I yelled when I finished loading the other colored clothes into the washing machine and put some of the other clothes into the dryer. The door opened with a loud slam and a couple of them came in with slightly angry looks till they looked at the clean laundry room.

"we had washing machines in here?" Kisame asked.

"Yeah, it is a laundry room" Kakuzu shrugged.

"over there are some baskets with your names on them. You find your clothes put them into the basket and then put them in your rooms... and give me your cloaks so I can put your names on them" I growled.

"this is why I don't like staying in the same room as females." Kakuzu hissed "Damn pushy they are"

"Sorry!" I muttered angrily.

"The Hell is going on here?" an angry voice called from the door of the laundry room.

"Pain-sama!" we all exclaimed shocked.

"the laundry room is cleaned up..." Konan said with mild surprise.

"I need to speak with Misaki...Now" Pein glared with cold eyes towards me. I gulped nervously before following Pein and Konan, Hidan was still yelling about his lunch and about how hungry he was though no-one was really listening.

Once we were back into Pein's office I saw a small parcel on his desk that was not there the last time I was in here. Pein walked back to his desk and Konan handed me the parcel.

"That is your cloak, and other Akatsuki issued items. You do not have to use them other than the cloak, you must use the cloak." Pein said before taking out a small box from a drawer.

"You should be given a ring but since Orochimaru took his or now rightfully yours we were forced to make another one." Pein handed the box to Konan who gave it to me. I cocked my head to the side and opened the box. Inside was a stone ring, on it was Sky with a slate blue background.

"It is supposed to go on your left pinky." Konan explained to me.

"Ok...thanks" I placed the ring on my left ring finger, I could have not taken it but I took it.

"I doubt you will let me live will you?" I asked trying on the cloak at Konan's demand.

"I don't understand" Pein said creasing his brows.

"I mean you don't intend to let me live and leave the Akatsuki with all the secrets. I mean that would be stupid...really." I chuckled as Konan and Pein nodded in agreement.

"yes but we don't have to think about that now" Pein nodded again with approval at the cloak since it fit me perfectly.

"Well I guess lunch it out of the question" Konan looked at the wall clock in Pein's office.

"I can make dinner...would hamburger steak, rice, other things yatta yatta be ok?" I asked.

"Sure, knock yourself out" Konan handed me a cookbook "You can borrow this if you want" she added

"thanks but I have my own recipe for my foods" I grinned leaving the office and running into Sasori.

"Sorry Sasori-sensei" I bowed and started off towards the dorm hall to drop off my things when Sasori stopped me with a question.

"Do you have time Iryo-san?" Sasori asked in his usually bored voice.

"Yes I do...and my name is Ken Misaki." I said. I was getting annoyed by just being called Iryo-this and Iryo-that.

"Then come with me" Sasori led the way, I followed without a word. We came to a large door, with a lock, and stopped. Slowly I started to get worried, what was the lock there for? Was it to keep something in? Or people out? Either way it probably wasn't something good.

Sasori produced a key from inside his cloak and opened the lock and the door.

I blinked and stared for a couple minutes I was sure when the door opened into an outdoor green house. I followed Sasori in looking around the large greenhouse that could easily fit one of Konoha's apartments, maybe two. There was a large pond with koi fish and other marine plants, butterflies and bees came and went though small vents that led outside and trees and other plants dotted the grassy field.

"Are you done staring?" Sasori asked with a smirk. Nodding my head slowly I turned my attention back to Sasori.

"Ok you have to help me pick out the plants I list, Zetsu usually helps but since he is away" he looked at me "And since you are an Iryo-nin I can trust you know your plants"

"Yes...What do I have to find?" I asked slipping on my disposable surgery gloves.

"Oleander, water hemlock roots, deadly night shade just those for now. I'll go get some poison from the scorpions and snakes over there" Sasori pointed towards a small shed like building.

"How much of each?" I asked.

"What ever you think is necessary." Sasori shrugged.

I stared off in the other direction and towards the pond for water hemlock. I remembered that the Water Hemlock looked like radishes or turnip... something like that. It wasn't long before I was able to dig up a large hunk of white root, placing that in the basket what Sasori had handed me I went off in search of some Deadly Nightshade. After the Deadly nightshade I had found some Oleander in between some rocks. I went to Sasori to show him the plant parts I had found.

"Saki..." Sasori started. "This isn't Deadly nightshade" he said examining the small twigs of the plant I thought was deadly nightshade.

"What is it then?" I asked wondering what it was since it looked similar to what I was looking for.

"I don't know...I could ask Zetsu..." Sasori mumbled examining the berries. "You go on ahead" he said shooing me off as he was deeply fascinated with this new plant that appeared.

I left with a shrug and followed down the long corridor. After some turns I realized I was utterly lost...

A/N: Great! Misaki's lost...in the Akatsuki base. What will happen now?

Sorry it took so long, I guess I started to write then I got shock from learning that Tobi is not Madara (not that there was any proof and that the characters just called him Madara) and so for the sake of my story Tobi will still be Madara...sorry!

There is also a poll up until the 5th of January, this will probably determine what I will be doing in the New Years. (!If you have time please check it out, it only takes less than a minute!)