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Chapter 12

Deidara stood at the door, impatience filled his face. He tapped his foot slightly, "Let's go, hmm…"

Sasori grabbed his pack, and flung it over his back, "You need to learn patience."

"And you need to learn to go faster."

Kisame appeared at the door as well, Itachi closely followed him.

"Ready," Kisame said.

"Where's Zetsu…?" Deidara whined, "ZET--" Sasori kicked him, cutting off his yell.

"Shut up."

Zetsu appeared at the door a moment later.

Itachi nodded. He was ready as well.

"Alright," Sasori said, "You know the mission, let's get going."

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"I can't believe this…we already have a mission," Aikyo sighed while rubbing her eyes. "I'm not even awake yet…"

Arashi shook his head slowly, "But it's Nine o'clock, we were supposed to leave an hour ago."

"That's not my fault," she stated stubbornly.

I laughed, "Is too! You're the one that forgot something every time we tried to leave!"

"I did not!" Aikyo yelled in defense.

"Your whole bag…" Arashi started.

"Your coat," I added.

"Your kunai set."

"Your bracelet."

"Your room ke--"

"Okay okay! It was my fault!" Aikyo shouted in frustration.

Arashi nodded, "She admitted it. We're getting somewhere now."

She glared at him. "Anyways, where are we going exactly? What was the mission again…? I must not have paying attention while Orochimaru-sama explain it…"

"Obviously," I said slowly. "Anyways, we were never exactly told what the mission was, just that we have to meet Kabuto at the edge of the boarder and he'll tell us."

"That's nice, we don't even know what we have to do yet…it could be something that would get us killed or something," Aikyo covered her mouth.

"You wimp," Arashi said, slapping her hands down.

Aikyo pushed him, surprisingly, and he ran into me and I fell down with a "clung". I sat up and nervously rubbed the back of my head. They laughed…they always do.

Aikyo offered a hand, and I grabbing it and came to a standing position. I glared at Aikyo and then began to walk off. Both of them followed me, but had to jog to catch up since they had both just stared at me for a few minutes before they started after me.

When they were right behind me, I stopped abruptly, and they waved on their feet slightly. Seizing the moment, I spun around and poked them both in the forehead the way Itachi always did to me, and they both fell. Now, it was my turn to laugh.

I helped them both up, smiling, "Okay, now we're even."

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Finally, after what seemed like forever of walking we found Kabuto. Man, did I hate this guy. He was so annoying and now I have to take a mission from him. Fun. Oh so fun.

He looked up at us. He was sitting under a tree. It seemed really unlike him if you ask me, but Aikyo and Arashi knew him better and rushed up to him. I took caution though, and he eyed me suspiciously.

"I don't trust you," I spat. My two companions stared at him in bewilderment. I slowly pulled a kunai from it's pouch.

"Good choice," a voice said from above. I looked up and saw Kabuto in the tree, he jumped down, and I threw the kunai at the clone. It made a popping noise and disappeared.

I still eyed Kabuto, "How do I still know I can trust you?"

He nodded slowly, "That's the thing though, you don't. But of course, you've never trusted me, so what difference would it make anyways?"

"Obviously not much," I replied, lowing my stance. "I wouldn't have trusted you if you had told me something about Orochimaru's hideout or such. I mean, you're such a wimp anyone could have beaten that out of you, but if you weren't really Kabuto, I don't think you would have said 'Yeah, and that Moeru Kirei girl, she doesn't trust me.' So I guess, I believe you. Somewhat."

"That's good to hear," he said, "Now, I have your mission."

"And what might it be?" I asked. Annoyance touched my voice.

He handed my a scroll, "We expect you back in no less than five days." Instantly he dashed into the forest back to where the Headquarters were located.

Did I dare open this scroll in the read the mission…? Did I want to? No, in all truth I had a terrible feeling about it.

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"Orochimaru-sama…" Kabuto started, "Do you really think it's a good idea to give Kirei this mission? She probably will just leave with them."

"It'll prove her loyalty," he stated.

"But she isn't loyal to you, and you know it."

"She will stay because Sasuke-kun is here, and she won't leave him here by himself," Orochimaru told him crossly. "Now go, they'll be leaving anytime now."

"As you wish," Kabuto said, leaving to meet up with Kirei's group to give them their mission.

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"Kirei, just open it!" Arashi said, angrily. "You don't know how long the mission will take, and you're wasting time."

I nodded slowly, they were right. This could be a really hard mission that could take up to two weeks and we only had five days to complete it. I couldn't stall…actually I didn't know why I was stalling in the first place.

I pulled the scroll open and began to read. After a few moments, I threw the scroll with all my might. I turned around and then kicked the tree, and then slid down it, my back against it. My hands surrounded my head. This couldn't be happening…

Aikyo ran off to pick up the scroll and walked back to Arashi, they read it together, and it resulted in Aikyo shaking her head.

"This is cruel…" she said, looking at me and back at the scroll.

"I can't believe that he's making us meet up with the Akatsuki…just so we can tell them about Orochimaru having Sasuke, that's the only reason. He knows that I want to go back there…but what would I do about Sasuke? Seeing me here and not trying to get back, they probably wouldn't care anyways…" I shook my head in anger. "And even if I got away and got to go back with them…you two would be severely punished. What would I do if that happened?"

Aikyo closed her eyes, I could see in her face that she didn't know either. "We'll figure something out, maybe you can spend some time with them…"

"If they don't kill me, that is," I finished for her.

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We waited at the meeting spot for exactly a day, I don't know what Orochimaru was thinking since it only took us about four hours to walk to the meeting spot. He had requested Akatsuki to meet us, and in all truth I didn't know if they were coming either. All we could really do was wait, and waiting isn't fun.

They would be coming anytime now, and I knew they would just "appear" they would do something to make sure that we couldn't hurt them. Knowing Akatsuki they would probably set up something special--like a wall of chakra or something…

Hold on, that would be perfect. If we had a chakra wall around us, they wouldn't be able to harm us, then thing is that the wall would need to be strong, and we wouldn't be able to hold it up forever…

I told Aikyo and Arashi my plan, they agreed, and we decided we would set up a weak wall that required a very little amount of chakra and then after the first hit against it, it would strengthen itself.

"Well, who's going to hold up the wall?" I asked suddenly.

"You can't," Aikyo said suddenly, "Because you're going to do the talking." She paused for a moment, and grinned at Arashi. "You have more chakra than me, you're doing it."

"You're kidding me…" his voice was solemn.

We both shook our heads.

"Damn, that's not fair."

I showed him the hand seals, and he finally got up a weak wall, and we sat there for a while. Eventually, we had been sitting there for like…two hours, so Aikyo put up a wall to give him a rest.

We continued to sit there…and after another two hours, I took a turn holding up the chakra wall. Arashi offered to hold it back up again, but I didn't think it was fair if I didn't.

The moment I put the chakra wall up, a kunai rebounded off of it. I felt the wall gather strength and steal chakra. Why me?

"Were they just waiting for you to put up the wall…?" Aikyo whispered under her breathe.

"Looks that way," Arashi said through gritted teeth. "They know that it'll be easiest to get her to let the chakra wall down. Unlike us, she'll be easily influenced by them."

I turned around and glared at him slightly, it wasn't a true glare though. "You're all too right. But, I'm not going to let this shield down and have you two get hurt."

Aikyo smiled at me like I was a hero or something, yet she looked relieved too. Had she not trusted me? Did she think that I was just going to hand her to them to kill or make her go back to Orochimaru and get killed?

Out of the brush stepped out five people wearing long black coats covered in red clouds. My eyes found their way to Itachi…I felt my lips move to his name in a whisper.

Natsumi: I hope I see you back next time!

Ansem: I doubt they're commin' back. You're story sucks.

Aion: Well youeth knows zwhat? Youz suck!

Mizuki: Quit being such a suck-up. And your lisp is annoying the hell outta me.

Natsumi: What's with you guys and the word 'suck'? You know what, nevermind. I'm sure we've already freaked out whatever readers I happen to have...((By the way...sorry it was short...))