Lauren's POV

The next morning I woke to the birds chirping outside our hotel. I turned, smiling slightly at the sun which shone bright through the window, before rolling over to glance at Itachi and Kisame's bed. Said shark lay on the bed facing the ceiling with his eyes closed and arms behind his head.

Frowning at Itachi's absence, I picked up my pillow and chucked it at Kisame. He didn't even flinch as it landed perfectly on top of his head.

"Yes?" He questioned, eyebrow raised, as he plucked the pillow from his face.

"Where's Itachi?" I replied, catching my pillow when he threw it back.

"He went to go and get breakfast a little while ago…probably'll be back pretty soon."

I nodded and rolled back over, looking out the window. Something shinny suddenly caught my eye and I squinted, eyes widening a second later once I saw what it was.

"Kisame!" I shouted, jumping off the bed onto the floor. "Get down!"

The shark had just enough time to join me in ducking for cover in the isle way between the beds before a kunai crashed through the window, its exploding tag going off above us.

"You okay, squirt?" Kisame questioned as the smoke began to clear.

"Yeah," I responded as we both stood, readying our weapons for the oncoming attack.

Kakashi suddenly jumped through the window, flashing past me with a Raikiri in his hand. Kisame had just enough time to block with Samehada before the lightning impacted. The sword moved, sucking away Kakashi's chakra, making the attack in his palm disappear.

The copy nin hopped back, seeming to contemplate his next move.

Well, that's what I thought until his foot lashed back, hitting me square in the chest and sending me into the wall.

I staggered up, not even getting a foot before the wooden floor came to life, wrapping itself around me.

"Yamato," I addressed angrily as he appeared in the window. He only glanced at me.

"Senpai, I can assume you will handle everything here."

Kakashi nodded. "Yes, now go."

Yamato turned to me, his hand glowing blue as he placed it on my forehead. I couldn't do anything as the darkness took over.

Normal POV

Yamato grabbed Lauren as his wood morphed back into the floor stopping the brunette from falling, and hopped back out the window, Lauren flung over his shoulder.

Kisame cursed, flying through at set of hand signs, when he suddenly couldn't move.

"Shadow Possession Jutsu complete."

"Good job, Shikamaru," Kakashi complimented, looking at the brown haired male who was standing in the doorway.

"Yeah thanks, but this is such a drag, we should just finish him now, not take him to Ibiki for interrogation…"

"It's lady Tsunade's orders," Kakashi replied.

Shikamaru sighed, "Alright, I better get going," and ran out the door, Kisame unwillingly trailing behind him.

"Gai!"

"Kakashi, my eternal rival!" Said spandex wearer shouted appearing in the window.

Kakashi glanced at him. "Hurry and do the transformation, we don't have much time."

Both males held up their fingers, puffs of smoke surrounding them.

Clones of Kisame and Lauren appeared. They both turned, nodding towards each other, and walking back to their respectful beds. Itachi was expected back soon.

Lauren's POV

I came out of my daze with a smack.

No, seriously, with a smack. I got punched. In the face.

"Fuck," I cursed, as my body tumbled to the ground.

Above me someone laughed, and I squirmed to get up, only to find my hand and feet bound.

An arm reached down, grabbing me by the hair and dragging me up, sitting me roughly into the chair which sat a little ways away.

"Ibiki," I growled, recognizing the scarred man who stood in front of me. He smirked at me bitterly. "Where the hell is Kisame?"

Ibiki chuckled. "He's here, watching actually." My eyes followed him as he traveled over to a table on the other side of the room. "And if I've heard correctly and you've joined the Akatsuki I've no choice but to interrogate you as I would them…"

A kunai suddenly flew past my head, creating a shallow cut on my cheek. I glared as he started rummaging through the instruments on the table.

"However, seeing that you have no ring or cloak, I have no proof that you are…which means I have room to test another theory of mine: whether they care or not."

My eyes narrowed further. "What?"

"You know, to see if that shark you were traveling with cares for your well being or not. To see if the Akatsuki are using you or have actually accepted you as part of the organization."

He was suddenly behind me again, pushing me from the chair back onto the hard floor. I gasped as his foot suddenly smashed into my ribs, sending me tumbling into the wall.

He frowned, grabbing my hair and hefting me up again. His fist connected with my gut and I coughed, wincing slightly.

"Hmm, it seems you have a strong tolerance of pain," he commented seeing that I wasn't acting too hurt. "I guess I'll just have to batter you around some more…"

He placed his foot in the center of my back, pushing me onto my knees and grabbing my arm one of my arms which he had freed from the binds, twisting it backwards. My jaw clenched as he began to pull. Seeing my pain he began to pull harder. I finally cried out when I felt a 'pop' followed by pain.

Ibiki had just picked me up again when he froze glancing towards the wall on the other side of the room.

"It seems that were beginning to send your friend over the edge…"

I glanced over at the wall when something sharp suddenly impaled my knee, making me crumble back to the ground. Looking down I plucked the bloody shurikin from my leg, sending it back at Ibiki which he dodged skillfully.

"Nice try," he commented, when the wall beside us was suddenly knocked down.

I sighed gratefully when Kisame appeared, free of his bonds.

He jumped over to Ibiki, smacking his fist into the guys face, making him fall to the ground cold, before walking over to me, cutting the ties around my ankles and carefully helping me up.

"You okay, squirt?" He questioned looking over my injuries.

"Yeah," I replied, pulling a roll of gauze from my hip pound and beginning to wrap my bloody knee, "but how did you escape?"

Kisame smirked. "They're smart to bind our wrists, but if you can still make hand signs anything is possible."

I smirked back at him, "Nice," before remembering something. "Shit Kisame, we need to go find Itachi."

He nodded and we both took off through the building, trying to find the goddamn exit…

It took a few minutes, but yes, we did find the exit, and were currently speeding over roof tops to go and find Itachi.

"His chakra's flaring," Kisame said as we neared the hotel, "he's probably battling some ninja."

"Well then, let's go and help him," I replied and pulled an exploding kunai from my pouch, flinging it at the hotel wall.

A second later it went off and Kisame and I burst into the hotel room where Itachi was fighting Kakashi and Gai.

Itachi seemed surprised to see us but narrowed his eyes and nodded at the both of us, sharing a message that we were all thinking.

We need to get out. NOW.

Itachi suddenly began to fly through hand signs and a purple smoke enveloped the room. Magically maneuvering past Kakashi and Gai, the three of us hopped away from the hotel, speed towards the gates.

"Create clones," Itachi said, as we made it to the forest, "it will hopefully lead them off our tracks."

Kisame and I both nodded, forming clones of ourselves to go with the one Itachi had already formed, and they split off from the group, going in a different direction.

The three of us didn't stop running until we had exited the leaf village completely, and, of course, when we did stop, it was at a dango stand.

Itachi and Kisame both ordered while I declined, getting out more gauze from my pouch to re-wrap my leg and replace the bloodied bandage.

"Imouto," Itachi said, finally getting a chance to actually look over me. "What happened? Who hurt you?"

"Ibiki," I replied, eyeing the gash in my knee, "but it's nothing I can handle it, just a few cuts and bruises…"

"Then how come you aren't using your one arm," he shot back, glaring at the arm which Ibiki had damaged.

Apparently I didn't reply quickly enough because Kisame replied for me.

"The dude dislocated her shoulder."

Itachi's eyes narrowed dangerously, looking over at the shark. "How do you know this?"

"They made him watch," I sighed. "Ibiki wanted to see if Kisame would react when he began to beat me up, to prove if you guys are using us or actually care."

"I'll kill him," Itachi threatened his Sharingan spinning.

"I'm sure you will," I mumbled back. "Now come over here."

He sighed, scooting closer to me. He looked me in the eye, grabbing my bad arm. "Are you ready?"

I nodded painfully, groaning as he popped it back into place.

Itachi suddenly grabbed the bandages as I was about to put them away and started to wrap my shoulder.

"It should help with the soreness," he answered seeing my questionable stare. I nodded in understanding and a second later the lady came out with their dango. I thanked her as she walked past since Itachi and Kisame were too busy stuffing their mouths to do so.

"Soooo," I stated as we started walking down the road again. "What happens now?"

"Well I suppose we should just start heading towards where we're going to meet up with Hidan and Kakuzu tomorrow…," Kisame replied.

"Wait does that mean I'm going with them next?"

Itachi nodded, "yes and we will be with Taylor."

I turned, looking them both over. "You better not let her get even a scratch."

Itachi chuckled, patting my head. "We won't."

"Good," I smiled and walked over to Kisame jumping onto his back. Surprised, he stumbled forward slightly.

I smirked. "You owe me for just sitting there and not rescuing me earlier when Ibiki was being a bully."

He laughed and wrapped his arms around my legs to keep me up. "Fine, squirt."

The three of us continued to walk down the road in a comfortable silence and let me tell you, Kisame makes a really good pillow. Fo sho.

Oh god, another day.

Today, me and my friends Saumya had the weirdest and most awesome conversation over Facebook. I ranted to her about the spelling in this fanfiction I was reading and how they misspelled beast and accidently wrote breast…

She went along with it because she's awesome like that. Plus, I convinced her to start watching Fairy Tail again, so every time something cool happened we had to debate it.

Plus, we tricked this one friend of mine into thinking that he account was just a second account that I made because I was a loner and needed someone to talk to. I know he wasn't really fooled but it was amusing. We somehow ended up singing Bohemian Rhapsody in the conversation.

And at the end of it all, we somehow ended up adding Hikaru and Kaoru to the end of our names. XD I'm Hikaru and she's Kaoru X3

That's from OHSHC (Ouran Highschool Host Club) for any of you who didn't know. They're mischievous twins.

Well, I'm gonna go.

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