Hey again! Gosh, I'm so sorry for the lack with up-dates but my summer work really takes a lot of my time so I haven't had the time to write so much plus I've gotten some serious writer block. Hopefully I will find my inspiration again soon. Anyway, here is the next chapter of Love is just a lie. I know there has been a big lack with action in this story but I promise all of you that the action will come sooner than you think. You will be sitting on the edge of you're chairs the next couple of chapters, that I can almost promise you already!

Well, enough talking let's get this show rolling!! And please don't forget to review in the end!! Now…ENJOY!!!!

Chapter 34: Hard training and Shocking news

Oh great Lord have mercy on my poor soul 'cause this time I'm certain…I'M GONNA DIE!!!!!

I felt how my poor soul left my body when I saw the giant fireball tower up above me and I quickly jumped aside in order to not get barbecued by it and ended up with landing on my already sore shoulder when I hit the ground. When the fireball had passed I glanced up and shrank when I stared right into a pair of red eyes, and they didn't look all that happy with me.

"How many times do I have to tell you to stand you're ground and direct the flames away from you by using you're powers? You're weaker than I thought!" I snarled at my "sensei" and got up from my embarrassing position on the ground. Itachi was still looking at me when I dusted off my clothes and rubbed my sore arm in order to ease the pain.

"I can't help it! That fireball you spited out at me was humongous!" I growled at him and tried to ignore my invited public disappointed faces.

As you probably remembered Kisame was going to help me control water better, Zetsu was going to help me with earth, Kakuzu with my wind techniques and finally Sasori who was gonna help me with my dodging and defence training. Therefore they were all now sitting a bit away from us and watched my training with Itachi.

I had trained with Itachi for almost three weeks now and it didn't go well. In other words, I suck at this! No matter how much Itachi pushed me, I still couldn't control my fear for that damn fireball of his. I had managed to somewhat control my ability to manipulate fire and do some tricks but when it came to this task I was just as cowardly as an elephant when it spots a mouse. I just couldn't do it! And it has really started to piss Itachi off. As well as myself, I might add. Itachi's eyes narrowed and I knew I had pushed him a bit too far this time.

When I saw that he did some handsigns I knew it was time for me to get ready.

"Katon, Housenka no jutsu!"

At least ten fireballs in the seize of myself came towards me in a rapid speed. I quickly dodge the first one by doing a volt to the side. I then had to jump high up in the air and do a back flip in order to get away from the second fireball. The fireballs that had missed me hit the forest behind the training ground with a massive force and the ground shock when the three fireballs exploded and destroyed the threes that had once been standing there.

When I landed I quickly took a fighting stance and when the last eight fireballs came at me I moved to the side gracefully while moving my hands in gentle movements. I smirked when I saw how the fireballs changed direction and spun around on the lace when they were next to me. The fireballs seemed to mimic me when they flow around me and with as much force I could muster I throw them back the way they came from. In other words right back at Itachi!

Itachi dodge the fire balls without any trouble at all but when they had exploded in the forest behind him he did another set of handsigns. My eyes narrowed when a bad feeling suddenly filled my chest. What was going on?

"Katon, Goenkyuu no jutsu!" Itachi leaned forward and blew the biggest fireball I had ever seen…Oh shit and Mother fucking hell! He's going to kill me!!

There was no way in hell that I would be able to dodge that thing so what should I do now? Kakuzu's attack back at the island had been nothing compared to this! I couldn't diverge it and I obviously couldn't dodge it or outrun it.

My eyes narrowed further and a crazy thought hit me. What if I fought fire with fire this time? The humongous fireball was closing in fast so I had no more time left to think. Without really knowing what I was doing I put one foot in front of me and breathed in deeply. I just had to remember what Itachi had thought me and I would be just fine, I really hope!

Flashback

It was my first training pass with Itachi and he was right now explaining to me how I would be able to create fire without having any chakra.

"Remember that the fire is located inside you, in your stomach to be more precisely." He explained and I nodded uncertainly.

Since I originally was from a world were this Hocus Poucus didn't exist it was kind of hard for me to understand any of this AND actually believe in it. Itachi must had noticed my uncertainty because he suddenly grabbed my hand and before I could ask what the hell he thought he was doing, he placed my hand on top of my stomach and smiled at my chocked expression.

"The fire lies inside of you, believe it or not. All you have to do is make it come up from the depths and fully erupt like a powerful volcano and fill you with the power that you rightfully deserve. All you have to do is breath deeply and let it all explode, your anger, your happiness, your sadness, every single one of your emotions and let them show themselves as the powerful and unmerciful fire."

End of flashback

A deep breath and let all my emotions come up from my stomach, eh? Well, that didn't sound too hard and I had actually tried it during my training with Itachi, and it had went kind of well…Who am I kidding, I had sucked! Time to show that emotionless bastard what this Fate-changer can do!

I breathed in deeply while closing my eyes and tried to ignore that the atmosphere around me had become hotter than hottest, thanks to the damn fireball, and I let all my frustration, fear and anger build up inside of me. Suddenly I could feel the familiar feeling of the flames and when my eyes shot open I saw to my great satisfaction that I was covered in blue flames.

With a confidant smirk I took a fighting stance and when the fireball was so close that I could see the red flames inside of it and how they seemed to dance around with each other I put my arms forward and with a high cry I let all my emotions burst inside of me and flame up like the mightiest tornado. My arms were suddenly covered in more flames and like a volcano the blue fire erupted and shot right forward like a missile. Two big and powerful beams hit Itachi's fireball and my eyes widen when the fire ball stopped and the red flames was suddenly defeated and thereafter covered with my blue flames. In front of me was no longer a humongous red fire ball instead I had a blue humongous fireball! I was standing still for a moment in complete chock and surprise but soon I snapped out of it and like the beams had been ropes I grabbed hold of them and started to spin around.

Soon it looked like I was spinning around with the biggest sledgehammer ever. After a short while when I had gotten some serious speed I slowed down while relishing the beams and the fireball then flow in the air in a awesome fast speed right towards Itachi. Itachi had closed his eyes and when he opened them again a small black hole appeared and sucked my blue fireball inside of it….Damn, why did he had to be so damn cool?! Couldn't he at least act like I just had thrown a giant blue fireball at him and not like it was the most natural thing in the world!

The tiredness suddenly hit my body with its full force and I fell to my knees while panting heavily. Great Lord, that had really taken a tool on me! But my exhaustion was short livid when suddenly Itachi appeared in front of me and kneeled down beside me. I looked up and actually stumbled backwards so that I landed on my poor sore butt when I saw the tiniest smile on his face. Hell, I'll never get used to him smiling like this almost all the time after that little kiss incident between him and me. It almost makes me think that we did more than just kissing! Oh God, now I've given myself some very embarrassing and perverted thoughts to play for my mind later on! Thanks a lot Honda! You stupid ass!

"What?!" I snarled at him and got up from my sitting position on the ground while trying once again to regain my rightful face colour. Itachi was now smirking at me (That lousy son of a bitch!) but got up too before replying.

"Much better. I see you're strength comes forward when someone really piss you off." He said. My eyes narrowed and my jaw became painfully clenched.

'"It was you who told me that the fire was set free when I let my emotions burst free like a volcano eruption! I just did what you told me so stop mocking me!" I growled and walked past him towards the place were I had put down the bucket with water, which I figured could be more than useful since I would be dealing with fire.

When I arrived at the same bucket I grabbed it and started to drink eagerly. That fire stuff really made me thirsty. I completely ignored Itachi as he walked up beside me and I handed him the bucket with water without saying a word. From the corner of my eyes I saw that the rest of my "trainers" were heading towards us. Kisame was the first one to break the tense silence between me and Itachi.

"It's starting to look good, kid. Give it another week and you might master the fire. Then you can start working with you're water skills." He said and gave me one of his usual toothy grins.

"Hn." I plainly answered and missed when the others sweatdropped.

"I think you've been spending too much time with Itachi." Sasori said with a tired look. Itachi didn't even spare him a glance but we all could tell that Sasori better watch his back for the next couple of months.

I groaned as the muscles in my neck popped when I turned my head to look at my current trainer. Itachi couldn't help to smile when he heard the loud pop of my neck. My eyes narrowed as I was reminded why he was in the Akatsuki. You lousy torturer! Even if I badly wanted to beat the living daylight out of him (even if I would most likely end up dead in a corner somewhere) I bowed my head deeply and waited for his next lesson. The one thing that Itachi had been very strict about was that I showed him the rightful respect a pupil would show his/her master. Even if this was embarrassing, not to mention disgraceful, I had agreed since it would spare me and Itachi a lot of arguing time.

Itachi was watching me, even if I couldn't see it I could still feel it and I felt the anger boil in my chest once again. Even if I liked Itachi he sure could get on my nerves surprisingly fast. When he finally decided to speak up I released a deep breath. God, it was painful for my sore neck to be standing in this position for too long.

"I have taught you everything you need to know about fire techniques. You can start you're training with Kisame immediately." My head shot up from my previous bowing and I just stared wide eyed at Itachi.

"Are you serious?" I asked him, still not believing what I just had heard. When he nodded I could feel two different feeling build up in my chest.

One was happiness since this meant that I was one step closer to completely master my power. The second one, however, was fear. Did Itachi just say that my lessons with Kisame would start right away? Well, Kisame would surely be a much nicer teacher than Itachi right?

"Hey, kid! Think fast!"

I turned around and my eyes nearly popped out from their eye sockets when I saw the biggest and most terrifying tidal wave coming towards me in a rapid speed. I spotted Kisame on top of the wave but I had no time to think more about that…I NEED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE BEFORE I DROWN!!!

I had never run so fast in my whole life before as when I tried to outrun Kisame's first real lesson with me…I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THAT LOUSY FISHSTICK FOR THIS!!

"Better get ready, kid, 'cause this is the start of you're biggest nightmare!" Kisame yelled from his spot on top of the wave…I'm already missing Itachi!

I was once again for the billionth time during these six weeks that I had been trained with Kisame forcefully pushed to the ground by another of his damn water-sharks. God, didn't this man ever grew tired of tormenting me?! Sure, I had grown one hell of a lot better with controlling the water but damn it was a lot harder to control his damn sharks when he filled them with his charka. Not only did Kisame's harsh training occupied me, Kakuzu, Sasori and Zetsu had grown tired of waiting for me to get finished with my water training so they had agreed with Kisame to train me at the same time. Water, Wind, Earth mixed with dodging and defence training during one and the same training pass…Isn't life just truly fucking greeeeat?!!?

"Keep you stance even of the impact surely will damaged you. If you can't dodge the attack by jumping aside, hide yourself in the ground, jump high up in the air or direct the attack away from you by using a counterattack then it's better to take the pain like a ninja and bear with it." I heard Sasori say behind me as I got up from my position from the ground.

I gritted my teeth as an enormous pain filled my ribs and threatened to bring me down to my knees. Yet at the same time the pain felt good, cause it was a proof that I was still alive. So instead of feeling ashamed of being beaten once again by Kisame I smirked and got into a fighting position as Kakuzu unleashed one of his black monsters (the one that controlled wind I might add) at me.

Under Sasori's watchful eye I dodge the windballs that were being thrown at me in a rapid speed before I managed to get hold of one of them. I landed on the ground after doing a set of volts in the air and with a technique as I called "The Bowling- technique" I throw back the big wind ball at the monster who didn't had the chance to dodge it since I had added more speed to it, and the monster flew many meters backwards before it collided with a big tree. In contras to Earth, Fire and Water, Wind was the easiest part of my training that I had come to master during just three weeks of harsh training. Earth however was still far from mastered so when Zetsu throw big rocks at me I stood no chance.

My arm felt like it snapped when I was hit by one of the rocks that I had failed to dodge properly and I fell to the ground with a yelp of pain. I tossed myself back in forth when the pain didn't seemed to ease and tears of anger filled my eyes. Why the hell couldn't I dodge properly? Damn it all to hell!!

I heard quick footsteps coming towards me and soon a shadow was over me. I turned over so that I was lying on my back so that I could see who it was. My eyes widen when I stared into an orange mask.

"Lin-chan!! Are you alright!?" I flinched when Tobi's high voice made it ring in my ears and the pain in my arm to double. How did he manage to create damage without touching his victim?! Great God, this hurt like hell!!

"Tobi, can you get the hell out of here? The training ground is only temporarily opened for Hay-Lin and her trainers. I need to pull her arm in place before it gets useless." I heard Kakuzu come over and kneel beside me as Tobi while muttering walked away. When I felt Kakuzu's hands on my damaged arm I glanced up at him with wide worried eyes.

"Just stay still and take a deep breath." Kakuzu instructed me and when I did as he said his grip around my arm got firm and then he made a quick pull and my arm suddenly snapped again.

"Oh…My…JESUS!!!" I let out a shriek in pain and my eyes water when dark spots appeared on my irises from the pain in my arm. Then, as fast as it came, the pain suddenly disappeared and I felt a familiar warm and tingling feeling spread in my arm.

I opened my eyes, which I had apparently closed when my arm snapped back in its rightful place, and saw that Kakuzu was currently trying to heal it with medical jutsu. Well, this experience had truly sucked!

With a heavy groan I sat up and watched as Kakuzu continued to heal my arm. I noticed the dark look I received from Zetsu and I lowered my head in shame. He had every right to be angry at me. In order to master the wind techniques along with improving my dodging and defending practice as fast as I could I had totally forgotten to practise on my earth techniques. This had resulted in me falling behind in Zetsu's teaching. Now…I'm really screwed!

"Hay-Lin…What the hell was that?! Do you call that you're power to control the earth? Don't make me laugh!" I lowered my head in shame as Zetsu's black side continued his ranting on how useless I was and how ungrateful I was for his hard efforts to teach me on how to control the earth.

The worst part was that he was right! I was useless for not putting enough effort in my training and I was ungrateful when I simply ignored Zetsu's teaching. Great, now I'm feeling damn guilty too! Zetsu had paused in his lecture to see if I was listening and his yellow eyes narrowed when he saw my gloomy expression.

"If you think that that type of expression would work on me, you thought wrong!" he simply said and turned around and started to walk away.

My head snapped up and I watched with wide eyes how he just walked away from me and the others. Shit, now I've done it! I must do something or he will stop teaching me earth control. I quickly got up, despite Kakuzu's order to stay put so that he could heal my arm properly, and quickly took a fighting stance that I remembered Zetsu had taught me.

"Zetsu-sensei!" I shouted out. To my great satisfaction I saw the same man stiffen and turn around. With a confident smirk I stomped hard in the ground and when I did that the ground started to shake. Suddenly a large boulder came up from the ground and when it floated above the ground I spun around and kicked it with all my strength, making it fly towards a shocked Zetsu in a massive speed.

"Think fast!!" I yelled and watched with great interest how Zetsu would be able to dodge my little surprise attack.

You could just imagine my surprise when he didn't dodge it, instead he was hit and was thrown backwards a couple of meters by the big boulder. When the boulder hit the ground with Zetsu with a loud boom, me and the others were staring with shocked faces at the little crater that had been created afterwards.

"Oh…my…GOD! I'VE KILLED ZETSU!" I screamed and quickly rushed towards the crater, ignoring the throbbing pain in my arm. Suddenly the ground started to shake and I halted abruptly.

My eyes widen further when Zetsu suddenly appeared before me and I felt my heart stopped when I saw that his hands were joined in a, for me, unknown handsign.

"Doton, Doryuudan!" he shouted.

"Shit!" I hissed when I saw streams of mud coming up from the ground. The mud then suddenly formed a head, more precisely the head of a dragon. The same dragon opened its mouth and started to shoot bullets of mud towards me.

Without thinking what the hell I was doing I quickly moved m arms out to my sides and made some rocks that was laying beside me float up in the air. I then brought my arms tightly to my sides and the rocks quickly covered my whole body, creating something that looked like a rock-armour. With determination burning in my eyes I brought my arms forward and to my great surprise I started to move fast forward. It was just like riding roller-skates or something weird like that.

The mudbullets were closing in on me and I noticed to my horror that I was moving straight at them! Then something inside me, deep down in my consciousness told me to relax and think about this as another one of Sasori's dodging lessons. With that in mind I speeded up and was now closing in on the first mudball. I jumped over it in a perfect volt and headed straight towards the next one.

I went down in a split and the mudball passed over my head…Wait, A SPLIT?! The pain in my thighs confirmed the fact that I had unconsciously went deep down in a split. Oh, boy would I have a hard time getting up from my bed tomorrow or what?!

The third mudball was closing in fast and so was the fourth one. I jumped up in the air and twisted my body to the side and dodge the third mudball gracefully and when the fourth mudball came at me, I leaned deep backwards and I swear I heard my poor innocent back crack.

There weren't so many mudballs left and now I was really getting the hang of this. I jumped over the fifth like an elite runner would have done with a hurdle. The sixth and seventh was easy to overcome. I just brought my both arms back and with as much strength as I could muster I brought them forward and smashed the two insignificant obstacles into nothing more than dust. It was only five more mud-thingys to go but here is the catch. I was getting tired…FAST!

I needed to get rid of them all in just one blow but the question is how? Then it suddenly hit me! Mud+Water= Water beats Mud since it makes the mud dissolve. Satisfied with my idea I quickly moved my arms in some of the movements that me and Kisame had worked on and before I could even blink the water was already in front of me, creating a giant and thick wall with water. I grinned when the mudballs that hit my wall of water turned into ordinary mud and when I was certain I had gotten every single one, I lowered the wall to the ground and continued straight forward towards Zetsu.

When I was only a couple of meters from him I jumped high up in the air and with a battle cry I brought my left foot down so it hit the ground with a hard impact. The ground cracked and seemed to explode around me. The impact mixed with my earth-control had been too much for the poor ground so now the result (rocks and boulders) was heading straight towards Zetsu. I looked up and saw to my great irritation that Zetsu had jumped up in the air and thereby escaped my attack. I quickly got up form my kneeling position on the ground and rushed as fast as I could towards him in order to get to him before he landed on the ground again.

When I was just a meter from him I spun around and stomped hard in the ground again, this time making a sharp pillar with tightly pressed rocks come up from the ground. When Zetsu landed he found himself looking straight at the sharp object with me standing beside it with a victorious look in my eyes. Sure I was panting and I was completely exhausted but hey, I FUCKING GOT HIM! BOYA, BABY!! Who's the most fucking awesome person in the entire world who just kicked the plantman's ass?! IT'S THE FUCKING AWESOME ME, HAY-LIN HONDA!!

Zetsu noticed that I was mentally celebrating and when he gave me a toothy grin I literally felt how my smirked died like a pig on Christmas. What the hell is he smirking about?

"Not bad, but not good enough." He simply said and glanced upwards. My brows furrowed and I followed his glance and the sight that meet my eyes made my knees bend and I landed on my butt with a loud thud. The roc- armour fell off as I lost my concentration and my shocked and terrified face was shown for the world. How in the hell did he do that?!

You see, above me, floating just a meter over my head was the largest boulder I had ever seen Zetsu call forth with a jutsu. I looked at him again with a gapping mouth.

"H-how? W-When d-did y-y-you…" I managed to choke out. Then it hit me. When I created the pillar I had looked down at the ground for three seconds. That had given Zetsu the time he needed to make a jutsu. I had been utterly defeated by him.

Zetsu moved the boulder away from us with a simple movement with his hand and then he kneeled down infront of me. Still embarrassed by the fact that I hadn't noticed a friggin boulder that was as big as a frigging mountain floating over my head I refused to look at him.

"I take back what I said before, you have been paying attention to us, but you still lack some technique." He said. I couldn't help myself when I smiled slightly at his words.

Even if he said that I still lacked in my earth-control it was still better than the words he had said before. I noticed that the others had joined me and Zetsu. Zetsu got up and looked down at me with his arms crossed. No one said anything for a while but then Kisame broke the silence.

"Ya know, I think she's ready." My head shot up and I grimaced when the sudden movement made my neck crack but that's unimportant right now. Did he say that he thought that I was ready? Ready for what I might add.

"I agree. She dodge those mudballs Zetsu throw at her perfectly. Of course she still lacks some training but I think she can learn the necessary in a real battlefield." said Sasori. When I heard the word "battle field" I had to fight back the shiver that threatened to flow through my body. What have I gotten myself into really?

"Hn." Said Itachi, meaning he also agreed. Still, couldn't he say a simple yes at least? Kakuzu just simply nooded (Hello, a YES, please! Is it really that fucking hard to pronounce?!)

Everyone's attention then turned to Zetsu and I felt myself grow smaller by each agonizing second. Great God, I haven't been this nervous since my mother told me that I needed to go to the dentist when I was a kid. After a loooong while Zetsu sighed and grimaced.

"Even if she needs more training, I think she's ready for her first mission to become a member." First I was just gapping at him but then I flew up with a happy victory cry.

I preformed a little victory dance infront of my amused trainers before I remembered my manners and most importantly my dignity, and I spun around and bowed to show them my gratitude and thanks.

"Stop with being weird and doing weird stuff and follow me. You'll have to meet the Leader and tell him you're down with you're training." muttered Sasori and walked towards the door that lead out from the training room.

Since I was so happy that I was finally ready for my first mission I simply ignored his comment and happily skipped after him. Sigh, why am I so damn weird? Oh, well…I'm going on a mission, I'm going on a mission, I'm going on a mission, Lala~lala!! Damn, I'm so creepy that I even scare myself.

I followed Sasori through the corridor that lead to Pein's office. On the way I spotted Hidan, Deidara, Konan and Tobi. When Tobi spotted me he squealed and before I could even blink I was being crushed against a male chest. My arm that I had previously damaged in battle and that Kakuzu had not completely healed yet, cracked and my face paled. Oh Sweet Lord, the paaaaain!!!

"T-Tobi…M-m-my arm…" I said through clenched teeth and almost kissed Hidan in utter gratitude when he forcefully removed the love hugging criminal from me.

"Back off, shitface! Seriously, can't you see that she is fucking damaged? Geez, you fucking moron!" he snarled at the now sulking Tobi. Deidara shot Hidan a glare but then he turned and smiled widely at me.

"I see they've put you through a lot,un." He said and his smile widens when he heard my deep sigh.

"Yeah, it's been pretty tuff but now I'm finally ready for my first mission." I said and a grin broke out on my face. Since I noticed Sasoris impatient face I quickly hurried past my friends and continued to follow him, but not before I had told them something I had dearly wanted to say for a couple of weeks now.

"You guys better watch out 'cause soon you will get you're asses kicked by me, the newest and the most fucking awesome member of the Akatsuki!" In return they all just chuckled and shock their heads.

"We'll see about that, rookie!" Konan shouted after us. I waved at them as me and Sasori entered Pein's office. Okay, folks! Let's get this fucking party started!!

Pein's office looked the same as always…it was pitch dark in the room. I narrowed my eyes in order to try to locate at least his desk but found it soon to be impossible. Suddenly a light was switch on on the same desk and I could for the first time in weeks stare into the scary eyes of the Rinnegan user. I could have lived a happy life if I never had to look into those eyes again but noooo…The bastard the very same eyes belonged to was the person who was going to assign me my very first mission in order to become a full fledge member. Isn't life just truly fucking greeeeat sometimes?

"What is it, Sasori?" Pein asked and looked back and forth between me and the puppet-master. I couldn't help myself when I shivered. I mean, come on! Those eyes are truly scary as hell!

"Hay-Lin has finished her training, Leader-sama, and is ready for her first mission." Sasori calmly said. I envied his ability to look so emotionless infront of Pein. He looked like he was looking at the most boring person in the entire universe, although Pein IS pretty boring, but you get the point.

"I see…Can you please tell Deidara, Itachi and Hidan that I wish to speak to them this instant?" Pein said and leaned back in his chair. Sasori bowed his head and walked towards the door.

I felt how I froze in place. Wait, Sasori-sensei! Don't leave me alone with this jutsu-spitting bastard!! Come back here, you son of a…a…PUPPET!! Sadly, Sasori couldn't here my frantic pleas and walked out through the door and started to look after the three men. When the door shut closed I felt how sweat broke up on my forehead. Alone with Pein…Why can't I just die now?! Oh wait, if I died then that means I would never be able to become a member…ARGH!!!

"So…um…how's it going?" I asked him in order to break the tense atmosphere. Pein raised an eyebrow at this and then he narrowed his eyes.

"If you want to become a member then you should know when it's best to just shut you're mouth and be quiet." He spoke in a dark tone. I gluped and saluted him.

"Sir, yes, sir!" I said and once again the room grew silent as a tomb. Luckily my three saviours arrived shortly afterwards.

I wanted to kiss their feet's (Author: EW!) but I contained myself with just giving them a wide smile. Hidan and Deidara walked up to me and stood beside me while Itachi remained hidden in the shadows behind us, creeeeepy!

"What the fuck do you want now, Leader?" Hidan growled. He never liked when he was summoned like a dog by its owner. Pein ignored his choice of words and got up from his chair. He walked around his desk so that he was standing infront of us. I must say that I reeeally didn't like that small smirk he had on his face.

"As you three probably already know, Hay-Lin has finished her training and is ready for her first mission so that she can become a member and earn an Akatsuki cloak." He calmly spoke. I couldn't help but sweatdrop by his words. I had to earn that friggin cloak? Seriously?!

"I have been thinking about what kind of mission she would get and I'm quite satisfied with my choice in this matter." Pein turned his gaze and looked straight at me. I felt how a cold feeling crept through my body and I was once again reminded how absolutely powerful the guy infront of me truly was.

"Hay-Lin Honda, for you're first mission I want you to bring back something that was stolen from the organisation a long time ago, a retrieve-mission in other words. I send Itachi, Hidan and Deidara to accompany you and supervise you're actions during this assignment in order to see if you're fit to become a member or not." He calmly said and waited for my reaction.

My eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He wanted me to bring back something that had been stolen from the Akatsuki? Well, that doesn't sound too hard. Plus I would have Hidan, Deidara and Itachi as my "guardians" during the whole mission too. This doesn't sound bad at all actually. I thought he would give me something much worse.

"So what am I going to bring back?" I asked Pein, this time with a confident voice. Sadly, my confident dropt like a stone when I saw Pein's grind widen into a smirk and there was a very uncomfortable silence in the room.

"I want you to retrieve the ring that Orochimaru stole when he abandoned the Akatsuki." Pein said in a deadly calm voice. Silence temporarily filled the room once again before a high pitch shriek could be heard from the soon to be most fucking awesome Akatsuki member.

"W H A T?!?!"

ME: Dun dun dun duuuun!! So now you finally know. Hay-Lin's first mission is retrieving Orochimaru's Akatsuki ring. Oh the horror! Now she will have to face that creepy snake once again AND his even more creepy and perverted apprentice! "LE GASP!!"

I hope you liked the battle scenes in this chapter. I'm not so good at writing battle scenes but I think I managed to create some action this time. Once again I just want to say I'm so terrible sorry for the long wait for this chapter. My writing block was bigger then I first believed, but fear not! I will be back and as they say "The show must go on!" So until next time I want you to give me tons of reviews because that makes me motivated and it gives me inspiration for this story.

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