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Chapter 36

Note: Pity is something that will keep you alive.

~Laura's POV

"Owie!" I yell loudly while falling out of bed for maybe the 3rd time now. I rub the back of my head while sitting up from the floor as Konan walks through the door. Her eyes widen as she quickly walks over, picks me up and puts me back into bed, pulling the covers over me.

"Are you alright?" she asks while moving her hand to my forehead, she makes a serious face before pulling her hand away from my forehead. "You're burning up," she says before exiting the room, leaving a glass of water and some small white pills beside the bed.

I eye the pills curiously… thought we were out of cold medicine.

"What the heck?" I ask softly while picking up one of the small pills. I give it a small sniff and pull away, staring at the pill with wide eyes.

It smells like some drug they brought into class, the one the policeman showed to the class.

"I see you're awake," I hear a voice at my door and lift my head to see Sasori, standing beside the door with a blank expression upon his face. I stiffen up a little as he takes a step in, my throat closing up as he does.

I give him a small sad look to look like I'm sad about being ill. But I'm more upset and afraid then I am sad.

Afraid since Kahlan isn't home and Konan has left the room… and well Sasori is in the room and we… well our relationship hasn't changed since he got here and upset since my two friends aren't here. Konan and Kahlan are not here.

His blank expression doesn't change as he walks over towards the bed and picks up the small white pills.

"Clonazepam?" Sasori says while giving it the look over before giving it a quick smell. "Konan is giving you this to help with your sleeping problems?" he says before giving a small simple sigh.

I move away from him slowly in my bed, clinging onto the Sasori and Hidan plushies for dear life as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a long syringe, some purple liquid dripping from the end.

"This should knock you right out," he says with a serious tone while flicking the end of the needle as the dripping stops. My throat clenches as he looks to me with a blank look which slowly turns into a smirk.

"K-K-K-Konan!" I yell as loud as I can in my wounded voice which only comes out just above a whisper. My hands start to sweat and my body starts to shake as he takes a step towards me with the needle in his right hand.

"Hey, Danna you in here, yeah?" I hear Deidara call as he opens my door and steps into the room. I look to him with a desperate look as I try my best to yell his name which only comes just above a whisper again. He looks to me then Sasori who turns to see Deidara, his smirk disappearing.

"What the hell Danna, un?!" Deidara yells while sprinting across my room and successfully tackling Sasori to the ground, knocking the needle out of his hand and across the room as it bounces onto the floor, not breaking or cracking at all.

"Brat get off of me before I turn you into everlasting art!" Sasori yells, clearly pissed off by Deidara interrupting him TRYING TO KILL ME! Deidara glares at Sasori while pinning him to the floor, glaring.

"Your excuse for art sucks, yeah! What the hell do you think you're doing trying to kill Laura, yeah!? Konan and Leader will kill us both if you do that, yeah!" Deidara yells as Sasori kneels Deidara where you do NOT want to be kneeled.

After a couple of seconds, Deidara's brain registers what just happens, lets go of Sasori and goes to the floor, holding his wounded area.

Moments after Sasori gets up from the ground and picks up his syringe, Konan walks into the room with Pein who both look into the room with… well bored expressions.

"Sasori… out, now, you too Deidara," Pein orders, glaring at the two as Deidara slowly gets up from the ground, still holding his wounded before glaring at Sasori and staggering out of the room with a slightly pissed off Sasori with him.

I release the breath I was holding in and cling to Sasori and Hidan, burying my face into their fluffy hair. I hear footsteps walk towards me and freeze, unsure if its Pein or Konan. I soon feel a hand tapping my head which reassures me that the person tapping my head is Konan.

I look up slowly from my plushies' head and glaze to her as she offers me a small smile. She feels my forehead with her hand and scowls angrily which makes me panic a little bit, sweating a little bit and I start to tremble more.

Once she pulls her hand away I turn into a strong coughing fit, covering my mouth as I hear Konan and Pein talking to each other.

"Her fever seems to have gotten worse since I exited the room, no less then five minutes ago," Konan says with her scowl while looking to Pein who sighs a tiny bit, pinching his nose with his fingers.

"Excuse me," he says, calmly, before exiting the room and no longer then five minutes later I can hear Deidara scream loudly before I hear a loud crash along with glass breaking.

I hear Pein yelling and I also hear Sasori apologizing as well as Deidara apologizing through gritted teeth.

Konan sighs a little before picking up the small pills from the desk she places them on, picks up the glass of water and brings it over to me, "these will hopefully, make you sleep for an hour, you need your rest," she says with a sweet motherly smile while handing me the horrible smelling pills and water. I nod slowly and quickly shallow the pills as I screw my face up at them, they are horrible!

I feel slightly drowsy as Konan gives me a small smile and lowers me down onto my bed, taking the glass from my hand and puts it onto my desk.

"I'll see you in an hour, okay," she says with her small smile as I nod to her a little before closing my eyes, sleep taking over once again.

It seems like hours till I wake up and stretch out in my bed as I hear shouting from outside of my room, probably in the living room.

I slowly stand up, unsteadily at first before gaining my footing. I tighten my yukata round my waist and slowly stumble out of my room, heading for the living room while running my hands through my hair, undoing some of the knots in it.

"You escaped the nine tails and ran off from Itachi!?" Pein yells as I look into the living room, he seems to be yelling at Kahlan who is looking him in the eyes, clearly a little scared but she is firmly standing her ground.

"I wouldn't stay where I was, I could have been killed if I stayed there any longer, there was like forty of him," Kahlan says while looking Pein in the eyes as he pinches his nose, glaring at the wall before closing his eyes in thought.

I shallow softly while listening in, hoping that none of the ninjas know I'm here but I doubt they don't know, they probably know right now but are not saying anything.

"Kisame, go search for Itachi, bring him back without being followed, that's an order," Pein orders Kisame as Kisame nods with a serious expression before running out of the room, passing me while flashing me a sharky grin before running out of the front door and slamming it close behind him.

I grip my hands together before leaning my back against the wall beside the door. Itachi hasn't come back it seems. Hopefully he doesn't hurt Naruto and Naruto doesn't hurt Itachi.

"Kahlan, you are to stay home, Laura will be making the trips out of the house until these ninjas leave," Pein says as I glance skillfully into the room, Kahlan glares at Pein hatefully while he grips her hands, making her knuckles turn white in his force.

"You can't do that!" Kahlan yells angrily as Pein glares back but it seems Kahlan isn't backing down just yet. "I don't want to be a prisoner in my own home," she says as Pein's glare lessens slightly before increasing again. Pein doesn't seem at all happy right now. Pein is NOT a happy leader… nope not a happy leader AT ALL.

"Too bad, remember that we can kill you whenever we want here," Pein says while pulling his kunai out… from nowhere as Kahlan glare downs a little but doesn't go away completely.

I grit my teeth and run into the room, latching onto Kahlan, not letting go no matter what, "Leave Kahlan alone!" I yell in my weak voice, protecting my friend from Pein's wrath. "I don't wanna be a prisoner either it's not fair!" I yell with a small sob into her shoulder while faking my trembling. I really don't want to be a prisoner either but… I won't cry over it. I just know that some of the ninjas here DO have feelings so pity is one of the feelings I'll have to rely on right now.

"Laura…" Kahlan says softly while hugging me back, I can feel the stares of everyone's eyes on me and it makes me feel uneasy.

"Laura-chaaan!" I hear Tobi yell with a sob and feel someone hug me from behind. I quickly freeze up and I'm sure both 'Tobi' and Kahlan felt me freeze. "Don't be soo mean leader-san! Don't make Laura-chan cry!" he yells in his childish voice as I notice the small tone change in it which makes me freeze up like a doll. That… was just scary.

I hear Pein sigh just as I hear the front door open, "We're back!" I hear Kisame yell loudly and Tobi quickly lets go of me and I slowly relax in Kahlan's arms. I'm sure she felt all of that… 'Tobi' will forever scare me to heck. He really does scare me its so unreal that I freeze up whenever I'm remotely near him.

"Itachi, what happened, were you followed, what happened to the nine tails," Pein asks, his scary tone now gone from his voice. I slowly unbury myself from Kahlan as she whips my 'tears' off of my cheeks as I pull screw my face up at that. Yuck my cheeks are wet!

"I escaped," he says as I slowly look over to him, the clothes we brought him are all ripped with cuts all over his arms and chest. "I made sure I was not followed and Kisame helped me escape as the 'nine tails' ran into… someone… which detracted him long enough for us to get away," Itachi says while looking over the cuts he obtained.

I bet five sky cookies that the 'someone' is Sasuke but I have no idea how Sasuke didn't see Itachi and didn't go ape crazy on him… maybe that's how he got all of those cuts while Kisame looks as clean as a daisy! How did Kisame do that if he helped Itachi escape?!

I sneeze as Pein talks, "good," Pein says while nodding his head to them before turning to us, Kahlan quickly latches onto me as my cold hits me hard, my throat clenching up again and my stomach turning, I latch onto Kahlan for dear life as my vision starts to go, my feeling in my legs fading as well as I fall into another sleep.

"I blame those weird tasting pills," I murmur softly while leaning into Kahlan, letting sleep take over me once again.

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Guess what everyone….I have internet back. I am so freaking happy. Updates will be going back on schedule once we've reached chapter 52 and for that to happen there will be updates every day, some days will have two updates. Now time to talk about the pairings.

1zara-uchiha1 and I have decided to leave the pairings up to you readers. Laura and Kahlan both have three choices but if you don't like the candidates we have picked you can chose someone else and give a reason why. 1zara-uchiha1 and I will discuss it with one another and decide if we agree with your reason or not.

For Laura here are the three candidates to choose from:

Pein

Hidan

Deidara

For Kahlan the three candidates to choose from are:

Pein

Sasori

Itachi

The choice is up to you readers up to the very end of this story. Please submit you choice in either a review or a PM. Thank you readers very much.

Anyways, we both hope you're enjoying this story. Thanks to all who have review and add to favorite/alerts. Please stay tuned for the next update and review. Once again thank you until next time. ^.^