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This chapter brought to you by: Food...I wish I had some.
Once again, the plot!
"Akira did you punch Pein in the face, again?" Kisame asked as the three of us were eating breakfast.
"Yes." I answered simply and a bit smugly with a small smirk. Smirks must be contagious or something.
"You never cease to amaze me." Kisame said while shaking his head. I am not quite sure if that was an insult or a compliment but I like compliments better so I will be treating it as such.
"Thank you, I try. No actually I don't." I answered back as Itachi continued eating, not even glaring. I guess this is Itachi's happy face, he is smirking at nothing.
"Is Itachi acting weird to you?" Kisame whispered to me after he noticed Itachi's smirk randomly switch to a grin and then back to a smirk for no apparent reason.
"Yes, but I know why." I answered taunting Kisame a bit with the fact I know something he does not know.
"Why?" Kisame asked.
"I'm not telling." I sang out.
"Why don't you tell him Akira?" Itachi asked picking on me, meanie.
"You know what, I'd rather not." I answered simply.
"What? What happened?" Kisame asked suddenly more interested in that then has pancakes.
"Nothing." I answered blushing.
"What happened, you can tell me." Kisame asked and Itachi looked like he was going to tell him. It was time to take drastic measures. I then did something that no one should ever do to another person, I stole Kisame's pancakes. "Hey! Those are mine."
"Not anymore." I said simply about to eat one.
"No!" Kisame said before taking the pancake's back stuffing them into his mouth. Conversation avoided, go me. "I almost forgot, Pein wants to see you in his office."
"Me?" I asked confused as to why he would want to be punched in the face again.
"Yeah, something about a deal." Kisame offered when Itachi glared at him.
"Okay, I guess I should go there."
You know what is creepy and really sad at the same time? Going to Sasori's room when he is dead. I, stupidly, went to Pein's office by myself and found myself at Sasori's room like usual. I would have been fine with that, Sasori's not that bad when you get over the evil puppets and the death, except for the fact that Sasori was dead. I found myself at his door unsure what to do. I decided it would be best not to go in and that I should just find Pein's office.
"Akira!" I heard Tobi shout out from behind me as I stared at Sasori's room thinking.
"Hello, Tobi." I greeted him trying to remember what Itachi told me to do if approached by Tobi when I was alone. What was it?
"Tobi is a good boy, Tobi bring Akira to the leader." Tobi said grabbing my arm in an unbreakable ninja grip. Oh I remember, now that I can't get away, he told me to run. Well I fail at following his directions.
"Okay, I guess." I agreed not really sure how to deal with Tobi.
"Tobi is a good boy." Tobi responded before we ninja poofed right into Pein's office.
"Thank you Tobi." Pein said keeping his distance from me.
"You wanted to see me?" I asked after Tobi gave me a random hug and poofed away. I didn't even have Sasuke to use as a human shield against him.
"Yes, I have noticed that you do not seem to want to be in the Akatsuki." Pein stated.
"Really, what gave it away?" I asked sarcastically, seriously he was asking for it.
"You are a part of Akatsuki whether you like it or not, we do not allow people to quit and live." Pein reminded me.
"What about Orochimaru?" I questioned.
"He is not a people." Pein answered.
"True." I agreed.
"I want you to join Itachi and Kisame in capturing the nine-tails." Pein stated.
"But?"
"I am unsure if you would actually help them and not hinder them."
"Well, look at it this way—how much harm could I do?"
"Before I would have sent you without a thought but after..." Pein trailed off unwilling to voice his thought.
"After I punched you in the face."
"Twice." Zetsu said but then went back into the wall.
"Did you know he was there?" I asked Pein confused at Zetsu's prescene.
"No, Zetsu why are you spying on us?" Pein asked confused.
"The past two times she has hit you I have missed it, I don't want to chance missing the third." Zetsu answered clearly amused with Pein's pain.
"That seems like a good reason to me." I offered enjoying making Pein pissed off. Hehe, I still hate him.
"Anyways, I want to make a deal with you."
"What type of deal?" I questioned Pein.
"If you help Itachi and Kisame capture the nine-tales then I will let you leave the Akatsuki." Pein offered.
"And be alone?" I questioned startling Pein.
"Well...umm...if you would be lonely leaving the Akatsuki then why would you want to leave in the first place?" Pein asked confused.
"Who said I wanted to leave?"
"The punch I receive to my face."
"That was because you killed someone I liked."
"Who?"
"Not telling!"
"Why not?"
"Because I don't want to." I said in a childish voice, because the rest of this conversation was so intelligent and mature.
"Fine, but what do you want?"
"You not to capture and kill the nine-tales?" I stated-asked the confused and unsure intonation.
"Other than that."
"You to learn how to bring people back to life?"
"No."
"I don't know then."
"How am I supposed to make a deal with you if you don't even know what you want?"
"You're not." I answered simply.
"What if I give you your own, clean, room?" Pein offered thinking about everything I have ever asked for, the list was oddly short.
"Nah, I like my Itachi pillow and Itachi might just kill you for it."
"How about you help capture the nine-tales and then come back and demand something?" Pein asked.
"What if it is something you don't want to give me?" I questioned.
"Then we will figure something out."
"Until then, how will I know that you are not just going to steal the Kyuubi from me?"
"I suppose you don't."
"That's not helping your case."
"Just trust me."
"That isn't helping your case either."
"Why are you being so difficult?"
"Because I hate you?"
"How about this," Pein began suddenly turning sinister instead of joking or annoyed like he was before, "You help Itachi and Kisame capture the nine-tales or you and Itachi die."
"Wait, what's with the 'and Itachi' part?" I asked glaring at the man.
"You seem attached to him. I want to make sure that you won't sacrifice yourself for the nine-tales, after all according to reports you were attached to him. So what is more important your life and Itachi's or the nine-tailed brat's life?" Pein asked.
"I really hate you." I hissed out glaring at him before my chakra, once again, flared and I attacked. Pein was ready for a punch to the face which is why I kicked his shin flipped over him and then before touching the ground behind him kicked him in the back of his head causing him to hit a conveniently located table. 'Take that!' I thought before running out of the office.
I didn't even know I could still move like that! I remember that when I was younger and had chakra I could move like that but you would think that I would be out of practice. Sadly my shock about my abilities ruined the chakra flair. Seriously I need to learn to keep my hatred for more than a minute. I will work on that right after I figure out how to keep myself focused on one topic for more than one minute.
Preview from next chapter: Missions
"Pein wants to see all of us in his office." Kisame informed Itachi and me.
"Do I get to punch him in the face again?" I asked.
"No, Itachi it is your job to make sure that Akira does not attack him, no matter how fun that would be to see." Kisame said zoning off a bit to visualize that.
"Very well." Itachi said lifting me up onto his shoulder like he used to do.
"This brings back memories..." I stated trailing off as I stared at Itachi's butt. I forgot that I get to stare at that while I am like this. Luckily I think that Kisame and Itachi assumed I trailed off because I was thinking about the past, if Itachi knew I'm sure that I would be jumped.