Payton has been jumpy all day. It was the day after Deidara told Ava everything...and it freaked her the hell out! She tried to evade the members, only an eighth of the time succeeding. She would even barely talk to them. At lunch when she had first with Stacey, the two would move to where there wasn't anywhere for 'Kelly', 'Steve', or 'Ned' to sit by them but they were still able to sit near them.

Pein didn't like the girls' apparent evasion plans of them. The only luck they have gotten for them speaking was from almost force with Payton. She had been careful to not say anything about her party when she was around them. She would whisper details to the chosen friends as quietly as she should. Luckily for them, Hidan was pissed about and cornered her in a vacant hallway about it.

Payton shivered as she thought about it. She was never one to like close contact with the opposite sex. And she cursed herself for letting the Akatsuki know of that weakness because Hidan slightly used it against her. She looked up to see Deidara waiting for her and Ava to gather their things so they can go to their second period together.

Ava caught eye contact with Payton. She glanced past Payton's shoulder to catch Deidara looking at her. Ava shuddered, and hoped that Deidara didn't see it. She couldn't look him in the eye anymore, knowing what she did. She didn't want to hurt him since she sort of did have feelings for him but it was just creepy knowing what they wanted her and her two friends for.

Flashback to Tuesday

Deidara caught Ava in the hall alone before school. "Ava...I've been given permission to tell you our plans." Ava did a mental yes in her mind at the small victory but was still a little worried about what it was. "Go get Payton and Stacey...it'd be easier if..."

"Already done!" Deidara and Ava looked up to see Hidan pushing Payton in front of him slightly. Payton looked all sorts of tense and Ava immediately wondered what had happened. Pein was walking with Stacey by him. Stacey had noticed Payton's tension but said nothing as Pein and Hidan left them with Deidara and Ava. Payton visibly let the tension go from her body even though it was obvious she was still disturbed.

Deidara wondered what they had done to her. Instead of asking he went on with the three girls looking at him. "You three have an unknown power that the Akatsuki wants for ourselves. No it's not the demon theory that you had Payton, but it's almost as close as if it was. You three already know about the machine. Well since we can't force you through because it'll kill you, then you three have to choose, willingly, to go with us."

The girls looked at each other then back at Deidara for him to go on. "Payton your party is the deadline of your choices, since that is the calculated last day. I mean if we stay here much longer we'll have to stay because our changes will be complete... If you choose not to go with us then...we might have to kill you." "What?!" the girls all but yelled. Deidara put up his hand to silence them. "We have to. Either way we'll be taking you with us. We figured that even if you three disappear they wouldn't be able to put two and two together at all with us."

The bell rang and that day the girls were showing animals at the elementary so the three headed back to the science wing of the school to gather their animals. The Akatsuki weren't going with them for some odd reason, probably to give them some space.

Payton shook her head slightly at what had happened only moments before that, the reason why she was with Hidan in the first place.

Yet another Flashback...

Payton walked towards the door with her rabbit cage in hand. She noticed Hidan from a little ways off and cocked her head slightly as to why he was looking at her...and why he looked so pissed. She set the cage down when she arrived in front of him. "What is it?" she asked looking up at him. Hidan growled and pushed her into the nearby corner where he had made sure that no one would see them. He placed his hands on the wall on either side of her head. Payton's eyes went wide at this gesture.

"Wh.." "No you freaking listen to me! I'm pissed off to no extent that you've been so freaking secretive about the party information. Now you will tell me everything now, or else." He was so close to her that Payton couldn't conjure up anything to say. She was silently wishing that he would just go away since she was never one to like close contact with the opposite sex. Then she cursed herself for letting the Akatsuki know about this weakness.

Hidan smirked at her pitiful reaction. He decided to take it a bit further, or as far as he could go with it at the moment. He snake one arm around her waist and brought her close to his chest, eliminating the small gap between them. He cupped her cheek and smiled evilly. "Now are you going to tell me...or will i have to…take this farther?"

Payton's breathing came out in short breaths and her heart pounded as her adrenaline started to kick in, as his hand on her back began to rub up and down and his thumb stroked her cheek. She couldn't break the forced eye contact with him as he stared into her own eyes.

Hidan chuckled evilly and said, "I see. So you want to play that way." He leaned in closer and Payton finally moved, turning her head away from him. He smiled bigger at this move but only went to her ear as he whispered to her, "Just keep it down then, I don't want to draw attention." His hand went up the back of her shirt and her continued rubbing her back.

Payton flinched away from his touch, only sending herself closer to Hidan's chest. "S..stop." she said in a small voice. "Why?" Hidan said, threatening to move his hand further up her shirt, under her bra. "I'll...t..tell you." She said looking up at him. "Then tell me." He whispered back, his hand going out of her shirt only to cup her butt and rub it slightly. His other hand had been rubbing her thigh bringing it to where it was hiked up around his own hip and now it was letting her leg down and made it's way back to the wall as he looked into her eyes, his full of victory and some relief that he didn't have to take it any further.

Payton shakily told him all the information trying ignore his other hands actions. Once she was done, Hidan stopped and Payton closed her eyes, happy that it was now over. Then she felt a pair of lips on hers and a tongue that forced itself into her mouth. Her eyes flew open and she tried to push away but couldn't match Hidan's strength as his free hand ran through her hair keeping her there.

When he pulled away he was smiling. Payton glared at him hatefully and fearfully at the same time. "Thanks for your assistance." he said. Then he stopped for a minute and then looked at the watch on his wrist. "We have to go." he said squeezing her butt one more time before pulling away. He walked over and grabbed the rabbit's cage, then walked back and grabbed her wrist. "You tell anyone, you'll regret it."

Ava looked at Payton with concern since she had that creeped out look in her eyes yet again. Deidara seemed to notice it too and Ava saw him ball up his fist. 'What the crap happened?' Ava thought irritatedly.

Third period

Tobi looked at the timid Payton, who he allowed to walk ahead of him most of the time. This time she was walking by him and every time he strayed a bit away from her she walked closer that way. Then Hidan came into view walking their way since his next class was the opposite of theirs. Payton noticed him and she got close to Tobi pressing herself into him so that she was slightly behind him. Hidan walked by pretending not to notice. Once he was out of view he smirked in the same victorious way.

Tobi pushed Payton away from him and looked down at her. "What was that about?" he asked. "Nothing." Payton said too quickly shaking her head. Tobi knew better and decided to push things further. "Yeah right, tell me." he demanded.

Payton suddenly looked up at him with hatred in her eyes. "As if you don't know! If you were going to kill me then you could have at least gone without making that another plan! Well you might as well kill me now because there's no way I'm going with you!" she said and she took off running up the hill to the building that held their next class. Tobi hurried to catch up and glanced back slightly to see that Hidan was just going into his needed building. 'What the crap did he do?!' he thought as he caught up with Payton easily but they were now at the classroom and so the conversation was over.

"Hidan what the crap!!!" Konan yelled in his face. He had just gotten through telling them what had happened, all with a smirk on his face. Konan grabbed him by the throat and brought him up out of the seat. "How could you do that!?" She was about to kick his butt when Itachi stopped her and pulled her away from him. She scowled but went to sit by Pein, who didn't have a happy expression on his face at all.

Hidan coughed and got up slowly. 'Darn mortal body.' he thought rubbing his throat. He couldn't enjoy pain much anymore since he was now in danger of dying from too much of it. "I got her to tell me, so what's the problem?" Itachi was glaring at him, wishing at the moment that he still had his Sharingan. "The problem is that you gave her a reason to just except death and not any other choice to go back with us. Hell, we're lucky that she hasn't told the other two." Tobi spoke up. His childish act was gone because of their prolonged stay here so it wasn't odd to hear it anymore.

"Thanks to me!" Hidan said smirking bigger. Itachi lost his control and punched Hidan in the face full force. Hidan went flying back into his chair flipping it backwards. He rolled out of it and stood up again, wiping the blood from his face. "Enough! As much as i'de like to beat Hidan as well, we can't do this at the moment." Pein said standing up. "Hidan, you're going to play sick for the last days of the week and only go back for the ten minutes next week. Maybe not seeing you there will calm her down enough so that we can reason with her."

Tobi shook his head. "She seems to blame us for it. She acted like it was a part of our plan or something." Pein groaned at hearing this. "Hidan i told you not to." Kakuzu said to his partner. "I told you just to continuously ask her, but no you had to be stubborn about it!"

Hidan rolled his eyes. "don't give me that crap! None of you, excluding Konan, can look me in the eyes and truthfully tell me that you haven't thought about them." The room went quiet, pointing out that what he had said was true. Hidan went on, "Deidara already has his girl and it's obvious that Sasori wants a piece too. Pein you won't go two feet from the short one, like Kakuzu won't either with Ava or her. And it's obvious who wants the tall one." he said the last part with a smirk and looked at Itachi and Tobi. "Me? I'm happy with any of them."

The room got quiet and the tension was high. "Even if that's the case, you shouldn't have done anything!" Sasori said. "Yes it's true that we all might have developed some feelings for the girls after this time here I guess you could say that they have become friends but that doesn't give you an excuse to go and do that to Payton."

Sasori looked at Deidara, "It's true that Deidara is going out with Ava but he hasn't so much as hold hands with her. As for Pein, he hasn't done anything to Stacey. Now why doesn't it surprise me that the stupid, stubborn, and impatient Hidan goes and does what he pleases with Payton?"

Pein put up his hand to stop the bickering. "Who, at this point, isn't Payton avoiding?" Kakuzu raised his hand slightly. "She avoids me less for some reason, I guess because she's mad at Tobi, afraid of Hidan and won't talk to anyone else. I have given her no reason to be evasive of me at all since i keep a fair distance between me and her at all times." He turned to Hidan, "The smart thing to do."

"Good. Then it's your job to make sure that she feels safer by the end of the week." Pein said ending the meeting.