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It was dark when Autumn woke up. She yawned, and made a grab for the scroll she had been using as a makeshift pillow, but what she grabbed wasn't the scroll, it was an actual pillow!

"Huh?" Autumn looked about in the darkness, until she finally figured out that she wasn't on the couch anymore, she was back in her room. The reason why it was so dark was that all of the blinds were still closed from when her eyes were still sensitive. The only blind that wasn't closed was the one on the far side of the room that Orochimaru had supposedly opened the other day, from that she could tell that it was night time.

"So you're awake," a strangely calm voice said, a light came on in the room, illuminating a figure on the other side of the bed. Seeing who it was that spoke, Autumn was immediately alarmed. Silver hair. There are very few people that Autumn had dealt with that had silver hair, there was Hidan, there was Kakashi, and then there was Kabuto.

"Yakushi, Kabuto... What are you doing here?" she hissed, her voice clearly showing her distaste.

"Truthfully I have no idea, but it certainly not of my own free will," he said coming toward her,

"Where's Itachi?"

"I believe Itachi-kun left to become more acquainted with his new surroundings," Autumn got out of bed, and grabbed one of the kunai that she kept hidden under her pillow. Kabuto just smirked, and kept advancing on her,

"Please, I'm not here to fight, Itachi-san seemed to trust me enough to temporarily leave you in my care. Besides, you don't honestly think that you could hurt me with that thing, do you?" Now it was Autumn's turn to smirk as the clone she had secretly made came up behind Kabuto with a shuriken.

"How naive," he turned around, and killed her clone, but Autumn had a plan, as he was dealing with the clone, she stabbed him with the kunai she was holding.

"Now, what were you saying?" she asked, twirling another kunai. Kabuto pulled the first kunai out of his arm, and let it drop to the ground.

"I see you've improved," he said healing himself. Autumn reached under her pillow, and fished out her gun,

"Yeah, sure I can do that, but I can do so much more with this," she aimed at his chest,

"Ya wanna see?"

"I'd rather not,"

"Your loss!" Autumn skipped (yes I said skipped) past Kabuto, and down the stairs, today might actually be fun!

With May...

May hadn't seen any of her friends in days, she was still in her little depression. She went to school as usual, and she even dropped Autumn's homework off at her house, but every time there would be some strange man there, telling her that Autumn was asleep. She went to her house every day too, no one could sleep that much. Looking over at the digital clock that sat on her dresser, it was around 7 am. You couldn't tell though, with the clouds over head, and the fact that winter was on it's way, it was way to dark outside. May didn't mind the weather though, it suited her mood. Recently, although no one seemed to notice it, the emo cloud above her head had started to grow, and to make matters worse, the cloud had started to rain on her head!

"Autumn... Where are you?"

With the Happy-Skippy Girl, the Weasel MAN, and the Evil Assistant to the Micheal Jackson Wannabe...

Itachi had come back to find an unusually happy Autumn, and a some what disturbed Kabuto.

"Where've you been!?" Autumn yelled ambushing him.

"Out..."

"How could you leave me with one of my worst nightmares!?" she yelled dramatically, pretending to faint. Itachi looked at her, then looked to Kabuto who was standing there loading a dart gun.

"What do you think you're doing?" Itachi asked, going past Autumn and over to Kabuto, taking the dart gun.

"It was for an emergency, just in case..." Itachi took out the dart, and used it to stab Kabuto's previously wounded shoulder.

"Was that really necessary?" Autumn asked, poking Kabuto's body, as she did, he fell over unconscious. Itachi Ignored her question,

"Are you ready?" he asked looking serious.

"For what?"

"Tonight is the night of the new moon," he said gesturing to the door. Autumn froze up, so he was serious! Gulping, she replied,

"I will be..." He gave her a questioning look,

"There are some things I need to do... Pack, say goodbye..."

"And?"

"That should be it!" She said excitedly, walking toward the front door.

"Later!" she left... Itachi counted down in his head,

'3'

'2'

'1'

"Wait a sec!" Autumn yelled coming back in the house,

"You still need to tell me how to get rid of the sharingan! I can't go out in public like this!" She came up to him,

"Well?" Itachi sighed, she was going to be such a handful.

"Close your eyes," She did as she was told,

"Now shut off the excess chakra flowing to your eyes," Autumn seemed to have a bit more trouble with this, but did so eventually. Opening her eyes again, she thanked Itachi, and ran off. First stop, May's house!

With the newly Emo-fied Girl...

May was in her room, she seemed to be in a trance though. Earlier she had fallen asleep, but shen she woke up she found a brand new razor in her hand. She wasn't crazy though, she wasn't about to start cutting herself!! She felt alive, just depressed. As she was looking at the shiney new razor in her hand, the doorbell rang.

"MAY! YOUR FRIEND IS HERE!" her mom yelled from downstairs. Instead of being excited and rushing to the door as she would have done about a week ago, she just sat on her bed, and stared at the door expectantly.

"Hey," Autumn said opening the door. May just sat there emotionlessly.

"May?" any person could tell that there was something wrong with the small girl on the bed.

"What's wrong?" Closing the door, she walked over to her old friend. Finally registering what she saw, tears started leaking from May's eyes. As if she had broken out of her trance, she spoke the first real words anyone had heard from her in over a week.

"Autumn... Help..." Autumn looked around the room until her eyes came to rest on the empty corner in the room. Running over to hug her friend, she muttered her apologies. May didn't say anything, but instead, she broke out in tears. And just like that, for about three hours the two of them sat like that. That's when Autumn noticed the dark cloud hanging above their heads, raining on them. She didn't say anything though. She wanted to, but according to the authoress it would ruin the moment.

Within another hour, and several chocolate bars found around the house, May was back to her normal self. All she needed was a friend to talk to. This made Autumn sad, knowing that she was leaving all this behind.

Unknown to them they were being watched...

Heh, sorry for the wait. Then again, it wasn't THAT long, compared to some other authors. I'm still being attacked by writer's block, and school, but good news is, my concert was awesome! I felt embarrassed, though, I was sitting next to these highschoolers, who could play really well, while I was sitting there barely able to play the songs. It was still awesome.

Before I forget, my story is still far from over, and something big WILL happen before the end.

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