What was this feeling? It felt like she was floating but not exactly like how it felt when she was floating before. More like her mind was floating, pulling and tugging her in different directions. To where? She did not know.

It felt strange how everything felt like it were moving but she physically didn't move in a single direction. Out of the darkness appeared a small light that blinked. She stared at the blinking light not sure if she should go in that direction or not.

There was no need to make a choice in the end because the light became blindingly bright making the shadows flee away.

Kimmy shielded her eyes from it. When she had opened them again she could only describe what she was feeling with one word from what she saw; stupefied, she felt stupefied.

She was seeing herself lying on the ground in the park (forest?) and watched as the replica jumped up into a sprint.

It was like watching everything she had just experienced the day before in a life-like movie. The encounter she had with Deidara and Sasori, her being thrown to unconsciousness after one of Deidara's bombs exploded behind her, and so on. It even went so far as to show her how she had escaped the room she was locked in. Her thoughts and her dream had been brought out too.

It continued up until she had that encounter with the scary pierced man and only then had everything vanish.

Once again, everything went dark. There was no more light. It was all a pitch black.

"...The weirdest yet most detailed flashback I've ever experienced..."

"But, how..?"

She heard a voice echo in the darkness. Surprised, Kimmy searched for the person that spoke but couldn't see anything in the dark.

Just when she was about to head in a direction where she assumed the voice most likely came from she immediately felt something like a force push her backwards.

"Ah!"

A bright light broke through the darkness up above.

She stared up amazed at the sight.

"..An... Angel..?"

Did I die somehow? Is this heaven?

So beautiful... Yet so familiar... There was something odd about the angel.

Kimmy assumed the stereotype for angels; the halo, white robes, and blonde hair. This particular 'angel' had a black garment on and blue hair...

"Huaaaaa!" She raised her hands up defensively when she realized the 'angel' was actually Konan as the woman drew closer to her.

Kimmy paled visibly holding her hands out in mercy.

"I am so sorry for accusing you to be a Satanist earlier... I didn't realize..! I mean- If I had known-" She didn't know what to say to the woman.

Her rambling was cut off when Konan held a hand out, stopping her.

"I am not an angel either."

"What the hell care you then?!"

Kimmys' hands dropped down to her sides her eyes wide as saucer plates.

She realized the blue hair woman's wings actually looked like it were made out of paper.

"I am a shinobi. Surely this should be obvious to you by now."

But shinobi's don't exist anymore.

Albeit in deeper parts of Japan but they were nowhere near that country!

"Though your recent activity does make me question this."

Recent activity? Do you mean to say that Konan had seen the flashback as well? How can shinobi's see that!? Was this lady some kind of mad scientist and actually had Kimmy attached to some kind of super computer of some sort?

Shinobi means ninja. Last time Kimmy checked, ninjas, no matter how awesome they are, cannot see into a persons' mind! Nobody could! They shouldn't be able to appear in one's mind either and yet there she was.

Some crazy kind of technology for sure…

Suddenly, everything cleared up and she was back in the room she was in earlier with Konan.

But she wasn't attached to a crazy super computer strapped down to a gurney.

Noticing absentmindedly she was still being held captive by hundreds of sheets of paper. She stared at Konan, eyes wide eyebrows narrowed, noticing her 'wings' were nowhere in sight.

She opened her mouth but nothing came out.

What could she say?

It was okay though because Konan took care of the silence.

"I couldn't see further than yesterday's' events... You said your name was Sanchez, Kimmy correct?"

The brunette slowly nodded her head closing her mouth.

"I have never heard such an unusual name before... There was something I would like to ask you Kimmy San."

The blunette watched her company chew on her lower lip a perplexed look on her sweet face.

"Go on..."

"You had a dream about one of the jinchuurikis'. Namely Uzumaki, Naruto last night. You were gathering information about him when you were younger. Pein Sama would most greatly like to know of the information you acquired about him and question you of certain other topics as well as to how you were able to acquire that information."

Silence filled the room

Kimmy couldn't help but stare at Konan baffled at what she had just said.

She had tried so hard not to but she was again stupefied.

"...May I ask why he cannot look the information up himself?"

I mean really, anyone can look it up online. Her eyebrow twitched slightly when Konan stared blankly at her.

"...I believe Pein would be most intrigued to know more about you as well Kimmy San."

You mean the scary man full of piercings? With them freaky contacts on that radiates death? Yeah, how about no?

"Well I would like to know as well why I was kidnapped."

She was determined to figure out her situation. In fact, who cares if she was surrounded by psychotic killers? Nope, no care in the world! Maybe she really was losing her mind but she had every right to know about her situation.

And then there was the fact she was still tied up by Konan's "jutsu."

"What Sasori and Deidara do on their free time is completely up to them but you seem to hold some value."

"How am I of any value to any of you? Just prior to yesterday none of you knew who I was. I believe you have the wrong person as well. You mentioned earlier that I was this 'Suki' person."

She stared at the woman pleadingly. "Please, if you let me go I promise I won't speak of this to anyone." Her chances were slim but she would take any chances she got just so she could leave.

"It doesn't work like that. Come, we shall go see Pein Sama."

Like I have a choice, Kimmy thought grimly watching as she floated behind Konan following her out the room and once again down the hall.

"Ah!"

Papers covered her eyes.

Oh great, so she had noticed I was observing everything. Perfect.

Minutes passed by until she heard a door opening and closing after she passed through.

Was it just her or did it feel like it just dropped a few degrees in here? It didn't feel like an air conditioner type of cold but an eerie coldness that entered your bones.

She gave herself the benefit of doubt and decided it was the A/C instead and not a certain scary man.

The papers came off allowing her to finally see everything again.

Wide green eyes met intimidating lavender ones.

Kimmy bit down on her tongue so hard she could feel blood pooling in her mouth. She winced at the pain but didn't dare to spit the blood out.

Konan had stepped next to Pein speaking privy of what she had recently found out.

Kimmy watched with uncertainty as Pein's face never wavered from impassivity. His focus was solely on her as Konan finished relaying everything.

She counted the silence by heartbeats.

"I'd like to make this very clear to you once and once only. I have questions that you may have answers to. Refusing to answer will result in your untimely death. If you lie I will find out and you will sorely regret your choice in lying to me. Understand?"

A cold shiver went down Kimmy's back gulping the blood in her mouth as she nodded.

Not a moment to lose Pein placed his hand upon Kimmy's head. She literally felt her heart stopped to beat for three whole seconds before it resumed thumping in her chest again.

Not knowing where else to look her eyes locked in with Pein's eyes.

"How do you know of Uzumaki, Naruto?"

"It wasn't intentional, I had to do a report about the Japanese culture some years ago and one of my friends wanted to include Naruto as well so I had to gather information on it; that's all." Kimmy really didn't want to set this guy off. He meant what he said. She figured it better if she just answered whatever questions he had.

That caught his attention.

"Who is your friend?"

She seriously hoped this didn't get her friend killed later on.

"Erick Guerrero,"

"Why would he want to gather information on the jinchuuriki?"

This Pein guy spoke as though Naruto were an actual person. In fact, the way he spoke of him made Kimmy to think it could buy him a way one ticket to the asylum.

"He said it was popular and had gained world recognition. So to him it made perfect sense to include Naruto with my report."

"How exactly was the jinchuuriki relevant to your report?"

"I don't know," Kimmy gave him a desperate look. "I-I don't know. I didn't want to include it but one part of my group insisted that manga was a huge deal going on in Japan and the most popular one out there was Naruto and the due date to turn in the report was near. We couldn't exactly argue more about it. We just wanted to get it finished with as little complication in the group as possible." And how is my World History project of any importance to him?!

Pein stared at her questioningly.

"I would ask what manga was but I'd like to know; how long did it take your group to gather Intel on the jinchuuriki?"

She scrunched her face trying to remember. "I don't remember that was like seven years ago. I guess around two to three hours at most."

Both Pein and Konan had the same reaction. One raised his eyebrow while the other felt her eyes widen a fraction of a centimeter.

How was that even possible? Gathering even decent Intel took days. Pein didn't feel the female lying to him but that didn't sit right him. Seven years ago though meant the jinchuuriki was, at that time, a child. What was so important to know about at that age?

"What do you know about him? His strengths, weaknesses. Had he been able to tap into his hosts' true power at that time?"

The hell I'm supposed to know?! Wikipedia doesn't give you a fucking play by play! She really wanted to scream that at him but she did value her life.

Pein caught the flash of anger in her eyes.

She noticed his hand that was unoccupied move. A second later a lead pipe was underneath her chin.

"If you're not Suki I have no loss in killing you."

Her eyes hardened.

"I'm sorry I just don't see why knowing about a fictional character from a fucking children's book is so damn important," She said evenly.

And she was getting royally pissed off that he could still hold that damn poker face!

Pein on the other hand was contemplating on killing her or not.

She had to be lying. She just stated the jinchuuriki was a fictional character for a child's enjoyment to read about. The jinchuuriki was anything but that.

Yet he was sensing she was speaking the truth.

Someone must have done something with her mind to make her sprout such nonsense believing it to be true. Konan couldn't see anything further in her mind other than from yesterday's events.

She may be a holder of S-class Intel so important that someone may have placed seals in her mind to keep others, including herself, away from whatever truth she may possess.

But why keep her alive if she had such important Intel? Pein wondered.

It's time to find out more about this woman then.

"Where are you from?" He decided to ignore her earlier outburst. Truly a rarity if only to gain something he thought may be of value.

He watched her face as she contemplated on telling him or not.

"...Los Angeles,"

It didn't surprise him that she came from a foreign land. The way she was dressed, her name, everything about her seemed different.

"Where is that and why were you on the border of the Fire Country?"

She started to gape at him in surprise.

"How the- but it's one of the most famous cities-! And Fire Country?! There is no country named Fire! What are you trying to pull? Is this some type of prank-! ..."

She became silent, her eyes lighting up with some unknown answer.

Pein watched as her eyes became ablaze, green eyes sparking wildly.

"DEREEEEEEK! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!"

In a different dimension was a young man lying on the beach sand at Hawaii soaking up the sun's rays before he shivered and sat up.

He knew that feeling all too well.

Someone somewhere was giving off a KI aura and felt it was directed right at him.

He scanned the beach but didn't find anyone he could think of giving off such a strong aura against him.

He decided to head back to the hotel he was currently staying at.

He may be a ninja but if someone where aiming a long range gun at him it would be seriously hard to dodge all of the bullets without using the shunshin technique.

Yes, getting out of the lime of light sounded like a good idea to him.

Strangely enough, it almost felt like the KI aura he was feeling came from a certain green eyed brunette he knew all too well.

Derek pondered on it for a moment.

"Could it really be her..?"

Then shrugged it off.

"Nahhhh, under all that bickering she always loved me!"

With that in mind Derek grinned maniacally his brain possibly unhinged as he headed back to the hotel.

All of it was a prank! How could I have not realized sooner?! The continuous mention of some stupid manga book over and over just proves his so-called lesson he's trying to teach me! I'll burn the fuckers' internal organs with acid!

Kimmy was, in short words, pissed.

Partially relieved but pissed nonetheless.

There were still some very questionable things she had witnessed but she was willing to forget all of that and write it all under 'Derek's the Explanation,' in her mind stacked, filed, and neatly put away.

"Woman, do you think I'm here to amuse you?"

Her eyes focused again on Pein, her mind finally focusing on the situation at hand.

"You have to be. There's no other explanation why I'd be stuck in this mess with a guy asking about a book he could so clearly buy or look up online. Personally I wouldn't waste my money I'd just look it up. So then, where's Derek hiding?" She turned her head this way and that searching for the annoying blonde who was behind all of this.

An irk mark popped on her forehead. "Show yourself you asshole! I'm going to shove my manicured nails down your throat and make you pay for my manicurists' bill afterwards!"

She was expecting a response. A nervous laugh accompanied with a 'hey you caught me,' type of thing with the annoying blonde stepping out of the shadows.

But it never came.

She really wanted to believe the man before her was an actor or at least one of Derek's strange friends and this were all just a big fat joke.

The pain in her side confirmed the tiny voice in the back of her mind that this wasn't a joke and that she was in real danger.

Kimmy grunted in pain her eyes trailing down to the lead pipe that was shoved deeply into her lower right side.

"I am not here to amuse anyone. Clearly you do not understand the situation you are in. Let me clarify it to you," Kimmy felt him near toward her his mouth hovering over her ear.

"You are a prisoner to a group of S ranked ninjas all of them having defected from their home village branded as traitors. We are the Akatsuki seeking peace by ending all war with one Great War. No more suffering, no more losses," he grabbed her chin tilting her face up to look straight into each other's eyes.

"To achieve this goal the world will know Pain first. I, the leader of the Akatsuki, will bring this goal and turn it into a reality."

She stared at him in horror, frightened of this new knowledge.

A war to end all wars..?

Just what was I dragged into?

"I-It's just.. It's j-just a book though..."

"Konan, summon Itachi."

"Hai"

She disappeared in thin air to Kimmy's astonishment. Another moment and she felt a sickening movement as Pein pulled the lead pipe out of her. Kimmy whimpered as the pain increased. She pressed her hands against the wound feeling her clothes and the paper dampen by the blood as well.

I don't want to die. Oh God I don't want to die.

He hadn't hit any vital areas but she could clearly see just how twisted fate was throwing her into this situation. He could kill her without a blink of an eye. She wasn't anyone important, he just stated that. I'm screwed. He wants information on a book that I searched up years ago. Am I missing something here?

As much as Kimmy wanted to mull it over more her thoughts were interrupted by the presence of two. Konan and another man who Kimmy presumed to be Itachi.

Wait a minute

Kimmy openly stared at him. "You look, you look familiar." She flinched when Konan stepped by her as she examined her wound.

Something clicked then

No

She wouldn't believe it. She refused to believe it.

His eyes flashed red. There were tomoes surrounding both of his pupils.

Unknowingly she fisted her hand in Konan's cloak.

Oh fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck! The fucker terrified her.

"Care to explain?"

Kimmy bit her lip looking anywhere but him. She didn't even want to think about where she saw him from. It's crazy, it's not possible. He'll think I'm insane.

Even so, she felt her mind tugging at her, pulling her toward somewhere.

She lifted her arms up above her head shielding her eyes from the intense light shining onto her face. Where did that come from? She faced her head down slowly opening her eyes to see asphalt. Kimmy stared seeing pieces of blackened gum stuck to the sidewalk.

No. Way.

So much logic was being thrown out of Kimmy's head as she lifted her head up staring wide eyed at the sunny sight of Eastern Los Angeles.

There goes the Universal Law of Gravitation, accompanied by Newton's Law and the Law of Thermodynamics.

"Am I really back..?" She stared before laughing fully. "Ohhh… I'm must be going crazy!" Not wishing to stay still, she had to prove it to herself first. Kimmy raced in a direction she knew all too well by heart. It was amazing, not even her side was hurting anymore. Kimmy passed the Mexican merchants selling street food, running passed some of the fanciest restaurants she's dined at before turning a corner and began running at full speed through her neighborhood.

There it was

She wanted to weep for joy at the sight of her house.

Slowing down to a walk she made her way to the door. It was locked. Hastily grabbing her keys she quickly unlocked the door and stepped in. Everything was left just the way she had last left it. The house was in one piece. She didn't even bother to shut the door as she ran to the couch jumping on it screaming happily.

"Haha, I'm home! I'm really home!"

Unbeknownst to her the dark silhouette that followed her to her home went walking down the hall staring at everything in silent amazement. Everything seemed so advanced here. Just where did this young woman come from? Itachi thought to himself. He had been to all of the countries and yet none of them came to mind from what he was seeing.

He noticed the intricately designed doors on both sides of the hallway deciding to open the first door. He looked in. Not even the daimyo's bathroom look this impressive. He closed the door moving onto the next one. He stepped in believing this room to belong to the young woman. The bedroom itself screamed unordinary.

He searched the room but didn't find anything of importance or that could give him a clue to anything. He exited the room before entering another room down the hall. It was also another bedroom but it seemed to belong to someone else entirely. The complete opposite of her, he thought to himself if the other bedroom were any indication staring at the walls plastered with different sized posters. Some looked far stranger than others. What bothered him more was that he couldn't read what some of the posters said. One of the posters kanjis' read Kurshitsuji and Inuyasha but others he couldn't. One of them that he couldn't read was a group of pirates and at the front was a boy with a straw hat grinning widely in the poster.

He moved around the room moving towards the wall built in book shelf with all the colorful books. He grabbed one book after another sighing thankfully they were all in the language he could read.

Bleach, Fairy Tail, Vampire Kisses, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Fruits Basket, MARS, One Piece, oh that was the poster he couldn't read earlier. Itachi glanced at the poster then at the book skimming through it quickly before looking through the other books again.

He continued his search until one particular book caught his eye. He stared hard at the cover. Naruto and the six Peins were present.

He flipped the book open but soon became frustrated. The book was completely bank. Not a single picture or word in sight. He grabbed another book that had Naruto at the front. He opened that one but it was the same thing. He pulled another book out and stared. A trained ninja would have seen the surprised look on his face from his eyes widening a fraction, his pupils slightly dilating.

It was him and a younger Sasuke.

He stared and opened the book not surprised at all as he drew up blank again.

Itachi searched the room and found a small rectangular case with Naruto and some Konoha nins standing around him on the front cover. He opened the case and again saw Naruto's picture but this time on a disk.

He wasn't at all sure what it was for but he believed he found enough.

Leaving the room he headed back to where Kimmy was at. He watched her focused solely on a rectangular object hanging from the wall. A footage of a young man was playing.

"-as developed a stronger military weapon seeing as Russia and Cuba have been having frequent shipments go through. One of our sources have confirmed the ships were loaded with gunpowder, and by the looks of it, thousands of military weapons. This just in, the President of the United States has declared we should follow in the footsteps of President Eisenhower and use the atomic bomb should it become necessary and far more hostile between the great nations. The United Nations will be regrouping soon in New York to try and sett-"

Kimmy switched the TV off covering her eyes. "That's the last thing we all need." A rerun on last weeks' news is the last thing I want to hear about.

"Tell me,"

Her reaction was immediate. Kimmy sat up quickly staring at the man standing in her living room. A sinking feeling filled the pit of her stomach. It was too good to be true…

"Why is this here?"

She stared as he held a book up. It was one of Derek's manga books. She couldn't read the front cover but she did recognize the picture. It was him and his younger brother. That much she could remember from her study of the book.

She really wished at that moment the book would burn up and that he would disappear so she could forget everything that turned her world upside down so far.

Kimmy shook her head at a loss for words.

"I don't know, I'm so confused. Are you telling me... That, that-"

"I'm real?"

She stared at him now really wishing none of this were real. "That's just not possible. You're supposed to be fictional! You can't just go jumping out of your book deciding you want to actually live! Are all of you part of that book?"

He didn't answer her but she didn't need one.

It explained the unusual events, the impossible becoming possible, the insanely bizarre looks, everything, it all made sense now.

But she still couldn't get over how a bunch of characters came out of a book. Unless…

Kimmy bit her lower lip focusing her gaze on him.

"We're not in my world... Are we?"

He locked his gaze on hers unwavering as he spoke.

"No,"

She watched as everything faded away. Her home was gone and she was back in the presence of three very dangerous and very real ninja.