Akari woke up and stumbled over to us. hoshi just walked out of the room and into the living room, i followed her. Kirei ran over to Hoshi and jumped into her arms. Hidan was right behind her, she huddled into a little ball and shiverd. "Don't hurt my mkitty!!" Hoshi yelled at Hidan.

"That damn cat scrached me!! I want to kill it now!!" Yelled Hidan.

"If you want the cat, you'll have to go through me." Said Hoshi. She started to form somthing in her hand but i couldn't see it...She through the thing at Hidan and her went flying into the wall. He puked up some blood as he cluched his stomach.

"What the hell was that?!?!" He yelled.

"That was my chakra sphear jutsu. I use my chakra as a phisical wepon and throw it at my aponent. It varies what the shock waves do, they could make you puke blood, lose your hearing for a period of time, lose your sight for a period of time or drain most of your chakra." Said Hoshi. She stormed off with Kirei in her hands.

Akari's P.O.V.

Hoshi walked away and went into her room. I hadn't seen Hoshi act like that since she had to go on a date with Sasuke...

After 2 minutes of standing, Hajime ditched me for Itachi and Kisame. Since Hajime and Hoshi ditched me, I went outside to be bored for a while unitl I die of boredum and they find my rotting corps! I'm not exagerating! O.k., maybe I am but that doesn't matter.

I went to a small lake. It was pretty; there were small blue flowers everywhere and the trees were huge! I climbed up one of the large tree's and looked around. We were far away from Konoha. "Hi Akari." Said someone behind me, I screamed and turned around to see who scared me. It was Sasori.

"Don't scare me like that! I almost fell out of the tree and into the water!" I yelled.

"Sorry." He said. I went back to stairing at the distance.

"What's on your mind?" asked Sasori knowing something was bothering me.

"My village." I said.

"You miss it?" he asked.

"Not the village but the people in it." I said leaning against the tree.

"You gave up living in the village and left your friends so you could join the Akatsuki?" he asked leaning on the tree beside me.

"I didn't leave all my friends. Hoshi and Hajime are here with me but it was Hoshi that urged us to come here. There was someone she couldn't stand being around anymore but I'm not telling you who it is." I said crossing my arms.

Sasori sighed. "You have a strange personality."

"You should see me when I'm hyper." I mumbled.

"Did you have anyone special back home?" asked Sasori totally changing the subject.

"Like a boyfriend? No. Why do you ask?" I asked a little suspitious.

Sasori turned a little pink. "N-no reason." He got up and walked away. I stood there on the tree, shocked and confused at what just happened.

"The Akatsuki may seem like a bunch of S-rank criminals but deep down, they're a bunch of softies." I said to myself jumping down from the tree.

When I woke up the next morning, Hoshi and Hajime were already awake. Hoshi and Tobi were making breakfast for everyone. "Hey Akari! what do you want for breakfast?" asked Hoshi.

"What are you making?" I asked.

"All kinds of stuff, crepes, omelets, pancakes, eggs, and bacon." She said.

"I'll have some pancakes." I said.

"What kind?"

"Marshmallow chocolate chip!" I said with a smile.

Hoshi laughed. "Come'n right up!" Deidara and Itachi came in and sat down with the rest of us.

"Deidara, what do you want for breakfast?" asked Hoshi.

"An omelet sounds good, un." replied Deidara.

"How about you Itachi?"

"Just coffee." He said. Hoshi got to work on the breakfasts while I talked with Hajime, Itachi, and Deidara.

"You're not having anything, Hajime?" I asked.

"I already had 7 pancakes and some bacon, you just take too long to get up." She said. I stuck my tongue out at her.

"So how long have you three known each other, un?" asked Deidara.

"About 5 years now." I said.

"How did you become so powerful?" asked Itachi.

"We trained like hell!" said Hajime.

"Where did Hoshi learn that jutsu she used on me yesterday?" asked Hidan butting into the conversation.

"She made it up. She taught herself with help from Hajime and I. We have some jutsu's of our own as well but you'll have to wait to see them." I said.

Hoshi came to the table with mine and Deidara's breakfast and Itachi's coffee. "I'm going to go to my room for a while, see you guys later." Said Hoshi stealing one of my marshmallow chocolate chip pancakes and walking to her room.

"She stole my pancake..." I mumbled.

Hajime's P.O.V.

Since it's almost Christmas, I decided to make this place a little more Christmasy, with the help of Akari and Hoshi of course. "I'll go get the tree!" yelled Akari grabbing Sasori's arm and dragging him with her.

"Look! I made snowflakes out of paper!" said Hoshi with millions of them in her hands.

I smirked. "So that's what you've been doing in your room." I helped Hoshi put strings on the snowflakes and hang them on the ceiling. In about 1 hour, we had all the snowflakes dangling from the ceiling, Christmasy stuff on the walls, and one of those little Christmas villages on one of the coffee tables.

Pein came in and staired at all the stuff we did. "What's all this?!" he asked.

"It's Christmas, we're putting up Christmas decorations." I said. Just then Akari and Sasori came in with a Christmas tree.

"Do you want to help us decorate the tree, Leader-sama?" asked Hoshi.

"No, I have other things to do." He said as he walked away. Deidara, Kisame, Itachi, and Tobi came in and said they'd help with the tree.

Once Akari and Sasori were done setting up the tree, we all started to put the decorations on it. Hidan and Kakuzu joined in as well. We put beads, colourful balls, colourful lights, and little ornaments. I got the star out of a seperate box. "Who's going to put the star on the top?" I asked.

Itachi picked me up and put me on his shoulders. "You are." He said. I was a little freaked out. First reason is 'cause I'm on someone's shoulders. Second reason is how Itachi just picked me up and placed me on his shoulders as if we've known each other for a long time. Itachi walked closer to the tree so I could put the star on the top.

Once I put it on, Akari went to the plug and said: "Let there be light!!" and plugged it in. The tree lit up and everyone was amazed. I saw Sasori reaching for Akari's hand. She tuned a little red and scootched away a bit, probably feeling nervous.

I finally noticed that I was still on Itachi's shoulders. "Itachi?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"Can you put me down now?"

"Yeah sure." He said putting me down. I walked over to Akari. She smirked. "I think he likes you."

"You're one to talk, look at who tried to hold your hand." I said pointing to Sasori. Akari turned red.

"Where's Hoshi?" I asked.

"Over there flirting with Deidara." Said Akari pointing to where Hoshi was.

Tobi started saying stuff about doing a secret Santa thing for Christmas so we all had to pick name out of a hat. I got Sasori.


Ok that jutsu Hoshi used, i made it up so dont go off saying 'what the hell?!? that's not a real jutsu!!' just go with it!! i think its cool!!^.^