The days passed in slow motion for Hidan. His stolen book was thrown to the floor after losing interest more than a week ago, so he settled for watching the light filter and move across the sheets of his bed.

"I gotta get the fuck out of this place," Hidan let his head fall back against the wall, and the door creak open.

A large blueish skinned man with matching hair opened his door, "Hey kiddo time for lunch."

"Go fuck yourself. I'm not moving from this spot until I talk to my lawyer."

"How many times are we gonna do this, bud?"

"I'm not a fucking crazy person! I don't belong here!"

"I thought you'd be over the newbie jitters by now," the blue man gave a smile and Hidan saw rows of sharpened teeth.

"Get away from me, freak."

"I'll give you three seconds to get up and start moving down to the mess hall. One… two... two and a half, last chance,"

Hidan didn't budge.

"Three. Alright here we go."

Hidan shouted profanities as he was promptly draped over the larger man's shoulder. "You piece of shark-toothed shit!"

"Yeah yeah… stop squirming."

When the two arrived at the cafeteria Tobi all but sprinted over.

"Kisame! And… Hidan! Almost didn't see you," he said excitedly.

"Hi, Tobi. How are you?" Kisame said.

"I'm good. They have leftover potatoes from yesterday for lunch today so you could say I'm having "laktas" fun!"

Kisame shook his head, "That's good to hear. Go get some food," he let Hidan down, "Same goes for you."

"Don't ever touch me again or I'll kill you."

"Noted. Just don't make me come get you for dinner too. Okay, Hidan?"

Hidan fumed as Kisame walked out the white double doors, but he was hungry and hated to skip meals unless he was fasting for a religious cause. Hidan grabbed a food tray and pushed through to the front of the crowd. The entire line groaned in displeasure.

"Oh! Shut your goddamn mouths, ya heathens!"

After getting food he sat down at a mostly empty table. Tobi scooted beside him, but this time he wasn't alone.

"Hey there. Good to see ya. I want to introduce you to some people. This right here is Suigetsu, Hugo, and I think you already know Karin."

"Did you really kill all those people for no reason?" Suigetsu asked.

Hidan threw a look of disgust to the group and made to leave, but Tobi grabbed his arm.

"Oh come on! Stay with us please," he turned his attention forward, "Hey! Hey Itachi come sit with us! Over here!" The man with the low ponytail nodded towards the group and walked over.

"Hello. You must be Hidan," Itachi said as he sat down.

"Yeah. Everyone knows that. I'm not supposed to be here with you freaks. I'm supposed to be on death row."

"You know how long that takes? To be finally killed on death row? It could take years!" Karin said, "You have a better chance just pissing someone off and hoping they beat you to death."

"I would say the best one to get in a pissing match would be Itachi. He killed his whole family," Tobi said.

"It wasn't my fault…" Itachi said, "I needed to… they weren't going to let anyone live…"

"Let's change the subject," Hugo said.

"But I just love hearing this story, and remember it's not all bad. You're little brother is still alive," Tobi leaned onto his elbows.

"Dr. Senju said I'm making progress with my BPD." Hugo said.

"Hugo! Now that's really something! If that old bag Tsunade says it... it must be true!" Suigetsu said, giving his friend an encouraging slap on the back, "Tell us all about it."

"She said I could have another cat to take care of if I could go a whole month without any… problems. And as long as I promise it doesn't end up like the last one..."

"Awww… Hugo don't get hung up on yourself about it. The past is the past! Just move forward. Soon you'll get outta here and have all the little kitty cats you want!" Suigetsu said, "And if you accidentally bash one of their heads in no one will punish you for it!"

"What the heck is BPD?" Hidan asked.

"Borderline personality disorder. Suigetsu was diagnosed with it too," Hugo replied.

"So you two have a made up disorder, he's a murderer, and I can already tell Tobi is just a fucking retard no one wanted to take care of so they stuck him here, but what the fuck is wrong with her?"

"She's a nymphomaniac," Suigetsu said, "Hey Karin you want to say something?"

"No. I don't talk to murderers," she said.

"You fucking ran out of the mess hall and jumped on him last week. Were you trying to make your fuck buddies jealous or something?" He turned back to Hidan, "She fucked half the residents and the guards too."

"Shut the hell up, Suigetsu. Are you angry because I won't fuck you too?"

"We did fuck you dumb bitch! Last week! In the janitorial closet! It wasn't even good!"

"You're a liar!" Karin stood up and shouted. A guard turned her head and gave a warning glance.

"Liar," Karin hissed and left the table.

"She used to see Dr. Taki, but she tried to make a move on him so she was transferred to Dr. Haruno, but I think she made a move on her too so now they're trying to figure out what to do next."

"She used to see Dr. Taki? Yeah, they told me this morning not to be late for my session, but I don't plan on attending." Hidan said.

"Good luck getting out of that," Itachi said.

"Kakuzu is fucking insane. He'll find you and fucking drag you to his office if you skip sessions," Suigetsu said, "Better just to go."

"I figured he's got a stick up his ass."

"Hidan," Tobi leaned in close, "why don't you come with me tonight and we'll get out of this place?"

"Tobi what are you going on about?" Hugo asked, "Is it more about your "escape" plans. Last time you tried you were caught and put in iso for two weeks. When you came out you couldn't even speak."

"I almost made it, but someone ratted on me. Someone I shouldn't have trusted."

"Who?" Hidan asked.

"Over there. Do you see her? The girl with the long blond hair. Her name is Ino and she sucks up to the guards. Everyone says she's gonna be the one to get released from this place. If I didn't tell her I would have made it."

"Tell me," Hidan said, "how do you get out of this place without anyone noticing."

"There's a door in the kitchen that leads down into the basement. Once we get there we can take a tunnel that leads up to the ground level. Then we just jump the gate, head for the woods, and run."

'I'll be able to contact Konan,' Hidan thought. "I'm in," he said.

"Perfect because…" Tobi reached into his pants and gave a jingle, "I already have the keys."

"Dismissal! Lunch is over!" A guard announced.

"Dinner is at 18:30 so meet me in the hall and the end of the cafeteria at 18:00. The guards always let me in early, and the kitchen staff have a pre-shift meeting on Mondays for the weekly meal schedule."

"Hidan don't do this," Itachi said, "It's not worth it. Tobi doesn't know what he's doing."

"Well you're not going to rat us out are you?"

"No… I'm not," Itachi said.

"Then mind your own business," he turned to Tobi, "I'll see you at 18:00."

There was no clock anywhere near the resident's rooms so Hidan decided to wait in the common room. He wasn't that anxious about the plan. If Tobi got in the way he decided to just ditch him maybe use him as a scapegoat if he needed.

About an hour after lunch ended Karin had pulled him to the side of the hallway to tell him she didn't sleep with Suigetsu.

"Like I give a shit about who you fuck," he told her.

"I overheard you have Dr. Kakuzu Taki as your psychologist."

"If you don't have anything important to share you can leave me the fuck alone.."

She grabbed his arm violently, "I wanted to tell you that I think you and Dr. Taki are going to get along nicely because you're both pieces of shit."

"I'm not going to see him. Not tonight. Not ever. I'm getting out of here before I even have to meet with him."

Karin's demeanor changed instantly, "Why are you telling me this? Do you want me to come with you?" Her hand moved lower down Hidan's shirt.

He grabbed her wrist and forced it away, "If you ever touch me again I'll break your hands."

"If you leave tonight I guarantee you'll get caught, and then the guards will really get to know you."

"Well if they catch me I'll know who blabbed about it and I'll find you and fuck you up so bad you won't be able to recognize yourself."

Karin looked up at the hand holding her wrist, "Why don't you just slam me over a table and fuck me up right now instead?"

He shoved her away, "You're fucking disgusting."

That was the end of the encounter after Karin tried to maul his eyes out before she was taken away by one of the guards. He didn't think she would tattle, and if she did he was candid in keeping his promise.

People came and went from the common room. They stopped to watch one of the 13 channels of television, talk to imaginary people in their heads, or to read an old book or magazine. Some even tried to engage him to which he violently snarled them away. By the time the small round clock between the two windows read 16:45 the traffic in the room started to diminish. Hidan found out by listening to other residents that every night at 17:00 there was an activity in the main hall. Tonight was apparently bingo. There were only two other people in the room with him now. A boy with a spiked up ponytail and small hoop earrings, and the blond girl Tobi blamed for his failed escape attempt. Hidan could tell the boy wasn't a resident because of his lack of uniform and the fact that he wore sneakers. The girl tapped him on the shoulder.

"Why don't you come with us to bingo?" she asked him.

"Why don't you fuck off?"

The boy stepped forward, "Don't speak to my friend like that. I told you not to engage him, Ino. He's a murderer after all. He's dangerous. He shouldn't even be here. He should've been shot in the head three years ago when the police raided that filthy shack in the woods."

"I just wanted to be nice," Ino said.

"Don't bother, you little rat. I heard you got Tobi in trouble or some shit for telling him that he planned to escape. What the hell is wrong with you? He was just trying to get out of this shit hole."

"Wha- What? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Ino let's get out of here. Your nurse told me they have some really cool prizes this week, and Choji said he was coming to visit you too."

Hidan watched the two walk out of the room. He took a steadying breath. Time to move. He made his way through the winding halls back to the cafeteria where, not soon after, Tobi arrived.

"Hidan there's a problem."

"Are you fucking kidding me? What is it?"

"There is one more person that needs to come with us. My friend Rin."

"Fine. As long as she doesn't slow me down. Where is she?"

"In her room. I'm going to go get her now. Here are the keys," Tobi dropped them into Hidan's hand, "Just leave the door open. Once you get to the basement the tunnel is behind the old barn door. I'll distract the guard for you. Kisame should be easy enough to get rid of for a bit. Just go now."

Hidan hid behind the hallway until Tobi made a fit, and Kisame moved into the opposite hallway. Quickly, he crept into the mess hall and, like Tobi said, no one was there. He jumped the barrier and made his way to the kitchen where he unlocked the door and scampered down the stairs. The basement was damp, void of almost all light, and smelled like dirt. Hidan felt the walls for something that could help until his finger was painfully splintered by a wood door. As quietly as he could he made his way through the dark tunnel until he saw a sliver of grey light on the ground. The doors to the grounds were rusted, but Hidan's muscular build was enough to force them open. The moon was the only light source on the grounds, and the cold winter air made him shiver. His feet were already wet from the rain, but it didn't stop him from running to the gate.

"There he is! He's climbing the gate!" A shout sounded from somewhere on the grounds. Hidan saw shadows running toward him and hurried up the gate.

Hidan ignored the sharp edges of the tall gate against his skin, and was about to jump over when he felt someone grab his ankle. The breath was knocked out of him as he was slammed to the ground.

He looked up at his assailant, "Fuck," was the only word he could get out through his hyperventilations.

Kakuzu looked down at him and screamed, "What the hell do you think you're doing?" The darker skinned man grabbed Hidan's arm and slammed him up against the stone wall, "Like I told you. You're not going anywhere. This is your home now."

The guards arrived out of breath with Kisame leading them in front, "You caught up to him fast," Kisame rested his hands on his knees and looked at Hidan, "Holy shit, kid. You must really do want to die if you're trying to get back out there," he straightened himself up, "If it wasn't for your friend we wouldn't have even known you were gone until dinner."

"That…redheaded...slut…Karin…I'm going to...kill her."

"She's not the one who told us," Kakuzu tightened his grip on Hidan's arms and moved closer until they were eye to eye, "it was the boy. Tobi. He sprinted into my office while I was with a patient and told us you stole the keys. We didn't believe him at first because the boy lies about everything. It wasn't until Kisame confirmed the basement door was unlocked that we came out on the grounds."

"Bas...tard…"

Kakuzu loosened his grip but his tone was still a low growl, "I'll give you a choice. You can go to take your medicine, then have Kisame take you to me and we can talk about everything that happened tonight, or we have a nice little cell in solitary confinement for you.

"Eat a dick," Hidan spat directly into Kakuzu's face and was slammed to the ground. Kakuzu kicked him in the gut hard which made Kisame wince.

"Kakuzu… relax," Kisame warned, "he's just a kid."

"Shut up, Kisame. I'll put him in iso myself. Give me your cuffs."

"Fuck… you…" Hidan muttered as Kakuzu roughly clicked the handcuffs on. Hidan went in and out of cousinsness as he was forcefully dragged arcoss the grounds and back into the asylum.

As the two men made their way to the other side of the institute Hidan saw how different the west wing was from the east. It was older, and the architecture definitely screamed insane asylum unlike the east wing which was modern and hospital-like. The west wing's floor rugged unlike the linoleum in his room, and the place smelled muggy. He could even hear a dripping noise echoing through the halls.

"Walk on your own. I'm not carrying you down the stairs."

Hidan wrenched himself out of Kakuzu's grip. He'd been wanting to walk on his own but the bastard wouldn't detach the fingernails digging into his arm until now.

"You beat me to a pulp and expect me to walk down stairs?"

"I expect you to follow the rules. Now go."

Hidan started to limp forward, but stopped, "And what if I don't?"

"I'll push you."

"I dare you."

"Don't test me."

"Coward."

"Shut up and move."

Hidan snarled. If the bastard wanted to play games he could play too. The hallway they walked down was lit with small yellow electric lights.

"Are you this hospitable to everyone, or I am just special?

No answer.

"Are you going to say something or should I just assume you're not as smart as everyone thinks you are? Or maybe you're just scared that I'll murder you like I murdered all those people."

Kakuzu ignored him, and opened a heavy steel door with a small rectangular opening at the top, "Get in."

When the two were both inside the windowless room Kakuzu closed the door and crossed his arms.

"What the hell? I thought this was called isolation? You wanna have a fucking slumber party or something, scumbag?"

"We have a session tonight and, because of the circumstances, we'll have it right here."

"Honestly, I'd rather be alone," Hidan shot him a grin that said, 'eat shit.'

"Oh don't worry. You will be after our session."

Hidan frowned in contempt.

"Hidan, I'm trying to help you."

"Oh, shut up. You don't give a shit about anyone in this joint. Besides I heard Karin tried to fuck you. You couldn't help her one bit, could you?"

Kakuzu's lip twitched, "Why did you try to escape?"

"What do you mean why did I try to escape? Are you fucking kidding me!? This place is a total hellhole! Just look at where we are! There are fucking tallies scrapped into the wall! It smells like death and shit! The people here are murderers, rapists, and schizos! How can you not want to leave?"

"How did you get the keys?"

"The fucker who ratted me out gave me the keys. The whole thing was his idea. He should be in this room. Not me."

"Why didn't he go with you?"

"Because he obviously went to go tell you! I was set up!"

"So why didn't you stop him? Kisame said he saw you two in the hallway."

"Listen. He told me he was going to go get his friend, Rin, and I believed him. Whoever that chick is she should be in trouble too. They probably conspired against me for shits and giggles or something. I just want to talk to my fucking lawyer."

"I'll arrange phone privileges if it makes you feel more content here."

"Oh, fuck you! Why are you even trying! You can't fucking help me! Unless you feel like killing me! But honestly though, as much as I want to die, I don't want a tight ass fuck like you to be the one to do it."

Kakuzu stood up and moved centimeters away from Hidan's face. His face was filled with rage, and in the dim light the shadows on his face made his scars look like stitches, "You have no idea how badly I want to feel my hands around your throat." Hidan swore he felt pure rage radiating from Kakuzu. He could practically smell the violence that steamed from the man, but also something else. Something felt wrong.

"What the hell happened to you?" Hidan whispered.

Kakuzu turned away and reopened the door. When he closed it the lock mechanism echoed down the empty hallways, "And by the way. You're better off not listening to a word Tobi says. Rin died three years ago and he's never been the same." Kakuzu's footsteps faded and Hidan was finally alone.

Hidan banged and screamed on the metal door even after the doctor made his leave. Hidan hated how he got so close, which forced him to look into his eyes, and although his face was engulfed in anger, his eyes were sad. Hidan moved to the corner of the room. There was no telling how long he would be sitting there, and he hated himself for admitting it, but he was scared. The only thing that could comfort him now were his prayers.