"What you and Hidan aren't buddy buddy." Sakura rolled her eyes with sarcasm lacing her voice.

"He's an interesting guy." Kisame retorted.

"No he's an annoying, immature sore loser thats what he is," Sakura said with a laugh.

"Yeah exactly." Kisame started doing the signs for his teleportation jutsu as Sakura walked closer to him. Sakura braced herself for the void of air that she was about to encounter. Sure the teleportation was the best way to get around, however that didn't mean she liked using it. Hence the reason she walked or ran as much as she could. The air around her disappeared and she was soon enveloped in darkness. After a second or two the darkness faded putting them in the middle of a muddy path. It was pouring down rain and the wind savagely whipped across the trees and people that had been unfortunate enough not to be inside. Sakura looked around and realized they were now in Ame. Sakura felt the rain soak her hood and let s ghost of a smile appear on her face. She flipped the hood off of her head and let the rain soak her pink locks. Sighing in content as the liquid ran down her hair and face,

"I love the rain," Sakura said quietly to herself. Kisame glanced at her with a small blush on his face. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, Konan was a close second. "I wonder how old she even is?" Kisame wondered to himself his gaze lingering on her a moment more.

"Alright kid the base is this way." Kisame walked toward the big building in the center of town.

"I am pretty sure we already went over this fish face, stop calling me kid I have a name." Sakura glared at him.

"I call anyone who is younger than me kid, well except for Itachi he would probably slice my throat in my sleep if I did," Kisame said with a nervous laugh.

"I wouldn't doubt it, but how old are you?" Sakura asked curiously. Kisame looked at her and then looked up to the sky in thought letting the rain hit his cheeks. He looked back at Sakura with a sheepish grin on his face.

"I'd say thirty eight." Kisame looked back toward their destination and waited for Sakura to reply.

"Hmm then if we are going with technicalities you are not that much older than me." Sakura calculated in her head about what age she was, which technically if she added the age she died in her timeline which was twentyfour. As well as the age she was now which was, lets say thirteen than she would be about thirty seven.

"You are one year older than me." Sakura smiled at him putting her hand behind her back. Inside kisame was grateful that she wasn't the age he'd thought she was, if she was that would make the thoughts he had about her pedofilic.

"Hmm interesting, you seem to be younger." Kisame commented.

"Thats because most people seem not to look past appearances, even if they are ninja that were taught to not take anyone lightly." Sakura glanced at Kisame with a thoughtful look. "Even so I'm sure you've had enough of the people that judge based on appearance, now don't take this the wrong way but I'm sure you have had a lot of people run away at the sight of you because of your appearance, I mean you look like a big terrifying muscled fish man. The Akatsuki cloak adding onto it doesn't do anything in your favor either," Sakura said looking him up and down.

"Gee thanks, that makes me feel great squirt," Kisame said sarcastically.

"Hey if it makes you feel any better I think your pretty hot." Sakura grinned at him. Kisame turned his head to hide the purple blush that made it's way to his face. They both looked forward at the double doors that stood in front of them.

"Well I hope you're ready to meet the most insane people you will probably even encounter," Kisame said with a smile.

"Oh you'd be surprised what insane people I've encountered," Sakura said her mind going back to Akuma. Kisame opened the doors and led Sakura into the Kage's building. In the front there was a desk with a secretary sitting behind. Now that Sakura did a double take the secretary looked rather familiar. Sakura glanced at the name plate and her jaw dropped. The women looked up from what she was doing to greet whoever came in and her eyes widened and she dropped the papers she was holding. Her and Sakura's eyes met and they stared at eachother before both running toward each other.

"Mana, you never told me you worked for Akatsuki," Sakura said with a wide grin as her hand clapped on Mana's shoulder.

"And you never told me you knew Kisame." Mana looked from Kisame to Sakura once and smiled at Sakura. Mana brought Sakura into a hug and Sakura returned the embrace with a wide grin on her face.

"How do you guy's know each other?" Kisame asked interrupting their embrace.

"Oh Mana and I go way back, we met last year actually so not as far back as I was thinking but it feels like I've known her my whole life," Sakura said with a smile and then thought back to the time they met. "We met on one of my mission's a while back when I was in... I think it was Suna. Though it was a simple A-class mission so it only took me a day to complete so I stayed in a hotel at Suna, a hotel that Mana just happened to work at. Though now that I think about I am pretty sure your boss just sent her to spy on me for a while, I did meet her about a week or so after I met you boss." Sakura explained. Mana chuckled and gave a sheepish grin.

"Guilty as charged, though we still became pretty good friends." Mana smiled down at Sakura who was a bit shorter than her.

"Yeah and speaking of we have to go shopping tomorrow or something because I will be staying here for about a week or so." Sakura got her wallet out and started to count some money. "oh and Kisame here is your cut for the mission we just completed." Sakura held out half the money she had gotten from the mission to Kisame.

"I can't take that I didn't even do anything," Kisame said shaking his head.

"Just take it, you bought me lunch and kept me company." Sakura grabbed his hand and put the cash into his hand. "Anyway we have to go Mana, Kisame was going to show me around and introduce me to the rest of the group." Sakura waved goodbye to Mana and grabbed Kisame's hand leading him to the first hallway Sakura saw. Kisame blushed and let himself be dragged along by the pink haired beauty. Sakura stopped about five minutes into her walk with Kisame. She turned around with an embarrassed blush and a sheepish grin on her face as she let go of Kisame's hand.

"I suppose you should probably be leading the way since you actually know where to go," Sakura said. Kisame looked down at her with a shark like grin on his face.

"Yeah I guess that would be a good idea since we've been going the wrong way for the last five minutes." Kisame replied. Sakura's face went a darker shade of red and she crossed her arms over her chest.

"If you knew we were going the wrong way then why didn't you tell me!" Sakura shouted angrily at him.

"It's not like I could say anything you were just dragging me down the hall with a grip like Iron." Kisame crossed his arms over his chest with a smirk on his face.

"S-shut up, you could have just told me we were going the wrong way." Sakura turned around with a 'hmph'.

"You were so set on dragging me forcefully down the hall how could I," Kisame said jokingly.

"Whatever just show me which way it is." Sakura let her hands drop to her sides as she turned around to face Kisame. A blush traveled to her face as her hand was grabbed and she was gently tugged the way Kisame was starting to walk. Kisame smiled at her warmly as he led her down the hall toward the Akatsuki's main living area.

"Right this way miss," He said with a wink. Which in turn made Sakura's face grow a deeper shade of red. She turned her face to try and hide the blush that clearly shown on her porcelain face. Ten minutes into their walk they turned sharply down an open door that led into another hallway.

"This place is like a maze." Sakura commented as she remembered the three endless hallway's they had just come from.

"It's meant to be like that, otherwise anyone would be able to find there way around our base, and if that happened some high level ninja could just waltz in and try to assassinate us in our sleep." Kisame turned a corner again and slapped his hand on a wall making a seal appear and part of the wall disappear acting like a doorway.

"What goes that way?" Sakura asked in confusion pointing toward the hallway they were just in.

"Oh thats just a bunch of dead ends and a genjutsu unless you have a special seal on the enables you to walk through, it's for people that work here. However only akatsuki members have the chakra to come through this doorway. As in the seal reacts to our chakra and only our chakra. So even if anyone else knew where the doorway was, they wouldn't be able to get in." Kisame explained with an excited smile. "Hmm who knew sharky was into that stuff." Sakura thought with amusement.

"Sounds interesting, I have a couple seals I have been developing that I could show you if you are so into that sort of thing." Sakura trailed along the last hallway and Kisame stopped causing her to bump into him. She looked up to see him looking down at her with his shark like grin showing.

"That'd be great squirt," kisame said ruffling her hair affectionately. "Anyway here we are." Kisame opened the door that lay in front of them Revealing a brightly lit room. It appeared to be a living room of sorts, there were a couple recliners set up in different places as well as two couches. Two coffee tables stood near the couches and the two recliners that were on either side of each of the couches. A fire place was on the left side of the room facing the chairs and couches. A couple lamps stood in each corner of the room which were the main source of light in the room. To the right of the living area and down two steps went into a large kitchen. The kitchen had two ovens and a large double door fridge as well as a marble island in the middle of the kitchen. On the far right wall of the kitchen was the sink and counters as well as the stove. In the far right corner near the fridge was a medium size walk in bamboo pantry. Sakura walked into the living area and explored the kitchen a bit.

"Wow, this place is bigger than my house," Sakura said with awe as she looked at the size of everything.

"You should see the rest of the base."

"I would be glad to." Sakura turned to Kisame with a grin on her face that was only noticeable because of her eyes creasing.

"And I would be glad to give you the tour." Kisame grinned at her and started walking toward a door near the back of the living room. Said door burst open to reveal a silver haired shirtless man. Sakura stopped in her tracks and hid slightly beside Kisame not really content on seeing the person in front of them. Hidan looked at Kisame and noticed the small figure slightly hiding behind him.

"Oi Kisame, who's the kid?" Hidan asked as he vaulted over the couch and plopped down over the soft cushions. Kisame looked behind him at Sakura who was hiding and slightly hanging on his cloak.

"Hey I thought you said you'd be happy to see him again?" Kisame questioned with slight amusement.

"No what I said was I haven't seen him a while I never said I would be happy to see him." Sakura continued hiding behind Kisame.