"I'm here, what do you want?" Hikari asked looking him in the eyes. His eyes were... disturbing. Yes most definitely disturbing. They were ringlets after ringlets and his orange hair didn't help either, the weird ass piercings were driving her insane too.

"Heiki Hikari, welcome to the Akatsuki." His voice sent chills down her spine, it was calm but an angry kind of calm. Not that she was scared or anything but...

"Hold on! I never said I'll join! I have my conditions." Hikari glared at him.

"By all means, state them." His eyes narrowed at her.

"I- I don't want to be an official member. You'll only send me on missions if it's absolutely necessary. That's my condition."

"That can be arranged," he said.

That easy? Just okay? No, no there had to be a catch.

"However-" ah there it was. "- when I do call you, you have no right to refuse the mission, no matter what it is," he said. The was fair actually, but she had to make sure Yukine and Mitsuki would be safe.

"As long as it doesn't involve my friends and family then I have no reason to." Hikari shrugged.

"Then we have a deal, Heiki Hikari."

Hikari didn't why but she didn't feel so good. She felt like she had just made a deal with the devil, and somehow, she knew that devil was not Pain.

It was someone else.

"Where have you been? You've been gone for too long." Yukine crossed his arms and stood in the doorway.

"I already told you Yukine. I'm leaving." She dragged a suitcase behind her and began stuffing her things inside of it.

"What the fuck do you mean leaving? Are you going back to Kiri?"

"No."

"Hikari?!"

"Look I'm sorry, if I told you, you wouldn't approve so please just let me go and we'll both feel so much better."

"Better? How is this better? You Better not be thinking about what Yagura told you two years ago before you came here!" Yukine was, not only furious but confused. Why did she want to leave anyway? She always did this but she never packed away all her stuff! Even the weaponry's gone.

"Are you in trouble?" he asked and she shook her head.

"No." She stood up from her position in front of her closet and dragged the suitcase behind her.

"Wai- where are you going?!"

"Away."

"Hikari?!" he followed her until they were at the door.

She reached for the doorknob only to be interrupted by Yukine's vice grip on her wrist.

He spun her and slammed her back against the door. He didn't falter when he heard the loud bang nor when he saw the pained expression on her face. He put both his hands on her shoulders and looked her in the eyes.

"You, there's something wrong with you." His grip tightened around her shoulders making her wince. "Hikari, what happened?"

She simply didn't answer. If her tears didn't say anything then her eyes most certainly did. She bit her lip and waited for him to let her go.

He didn't, of course he wouldn't! She reached for his waist and hugged him. "I'm sorry."

"Just tell me what happened."

"I can't. I just... I just need you to trust me, please."

"I- I can do that." He nodded.

"I promise, I'll come back sooner or later." She smiled up at him.

"I hope it's sooner rather than later," he grumbled and kissed her forehead.

"Yukine?"

"Hm?"

"Arigatou."

"What made you change your mind?" Kisame asked leading her to their hideout.

"You won't believe me so I won't bother telling you."

Kisame looked at her then shrugged. "You can have all the weaponry to yourself. Basically no one uses it. You have your own room too."

"I know that."

"And your robe?"

"Not wearing it. Actually, Kisame can you tell them all not to disturb me? I heard you're the quite eccentric bunch?"

Kisame? She never called him that, but he let it go. It's not like he actually expected her to call him Hoshigaki -san.

"Ah you mean Deidara?"

"Don't care," she muttered.

"Hmm, I think you'd get along with him well, he likes explosions."

Hikari gave him a side glance but stayed quiet.

"You two really need to stop doing that, I'm older than either of you." Kisame shook his head.

Hikari didn't know what to expect, but it certainly wasn't that.

This was casual, way too casual. It really looked like her house with Yukine.

She sweat dropped as she saw a blond shoving twirly swirly masked Uchiha away with his foot while holding a cereal box out of his reach.

He sounded really squeaky. Maybe this was a different twirly swirly masked person?

Itachi had a half eaten dango stick sticking out of his mouth while he read a book in the far corner of the room taking a couch all to himself.

Selfish bastard.

Konan stood in the kitchen sipping on a cup of tea and weird ass red haired, kinda cute but creepy guy stared at her.

She gulped and turned away from him.

Scare crow person was indeed scary so she didn't even bother.

And sadistic ass pink eyed pale weirdo was polishing a death scythe.

Hikari turned to Kisame abruptly with her mouth agape. "Wha-?"

Kisame laughed at her expression. "What did you expect?"

"Nothing like this." She had her eyebrows raised and her jaw slack in shock.

"Close that mouth, bitch you might catch a fly."

She clenched her jaw before staring the pink eyed freak in the eye. "If I remember correctly, this was the one who doesn't die right?" Hikari asked Kisame not taking her eye off the weirdo in front of her.

"Yes."

Hikari smirked before she raised a bazooka out of nowhere.

"Good now I can test this!" She aimed at him before letting it loose.

Kisame sweat dropped when she muttered a small 'boom' a split second before it hit him.

His blood sprayed and his body was torn to pieces.

Hikari pulled out a small scroll and started writing.

"Bz1 test one, more explosive power than anticipated. Flame damage, more than needed. Explosion sound? Relatively low. Chakra consumption? Might have to work on that," she muttered before letting out a little whistle. "Hmm better than I expected."

"Hey that was like so cool!" Blondie ran up to her and held her hands stars in his eyes? Eye?

"What is that? Hm? How did you do this hm?"

She looked at Kisame with pleading eyes. 'Help?'

He shook his head with a smirk. 'On your own, kid.'

She never felt more betrayed.

Itachi was startled out of his reading at the sound of an explosion. Lucky for him everyone was paying attention to the source of it and no one noticed.

It wasn't Deidara, that much he knew. They had warned him many times not to explode things and not to have any explosives around when they were sitting in the living room.

He blinked then he found Hikari, standing with a huge weapon, he was sure he'd seen it when she pulled out her weapons three weeks ago.

She blew up Hidan. About time someone made him shut up.

Itachi smirked softly, shook his head and continued reading. Yeah, this'll be interesting.

Hikari huffed as the blond, Deidara, kept asking about any other exploding weapons she had around.

"Fine! Fine! Oh my god shut up!" She pulled his hand and he sent creepy kinda cute red head a triumphant smile and a thumbs up.

Creepy, kinda cute redhead only stared back at him showing no emotion what so ever.

"Ooohhh! This is amazing!"

Hikari never, never, ever had someone appreciate her weaponry like this. Ever.

Not even Yukine appreciated it this much. Understandably he was a Heiki himself but he was more into organic weapons.

Hikari shuddered at the thought of plagues and diseases spreading because of his weird passion.

He never did anything bad with them though. Just experimenting to find cures for other diseases or the diseases he created himself.

Yeah they're both weird.

"So what does it all do?" Deidara cocked his head to the side in question.

He was gesturing to the explosives section in the weaponry, obviously not interested in the other traditional weapons.

"Boom." She answered simply and he let out an excited squeal.

A squeal. Well fuck, this is going to take a while.

He picked up a grenade and asked. "What is this?"

"A grenade, you take this ring off-" she pulled the ring out. "-wait a few seconds and it goes boom," she answered simply.

"Oh that's great! Hm." He inspected it. "Why isn't it exploding?"

"You want it to?"

"Yes." It exploded in his face.

Deidara coughed, his face covered with black soot and stared at her.

"That wasn't as great as I expected."

"It explodes on a larger scale than this, but I'm only showing you prototypes. Can't have you blowing everything up can I? Especially my weaponry."

"Huh, guess not. That'd be a waste!"

Hikari sighed. Well at least someone liked her weapons.

Kisame walked in on Hikari in her room. He deadpanned at her when he saw her hanging upside down on a bar with one leg reading a book.

"What are you doing?"

"Improving my flexibility." She replied not taking her eyes off her book.

"How long have you been hanging like this?"

"Thirty minutes or so." She released the bar from her bent leg and landed gracefully on her feet. "What do you want?"

Kisame raised a hand to massage his temple. Right, he forgot how much of a handful Hikari actually is.

"Are you hungry?"

"Yes."

"Dinner's ready."

Hikari eyed him silently and swallowed. "I want daifuku for dessert."

Kisame sighed. "Of course you do, take Itachi after dinner and go he went out of dango this morning."

Hikari grinned. Yeah she could get used to annoying Kisame again.

"Well that's a surprise." Hikari stared at the pale sadistic ass that sat on one of the couches. He had reformed rather quickly. Quicker than she anticipated. She really hoped she would be free of him for the night.

"Tell me about it," Deidara huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. She had left him alone earlier in the weaponry and he certainly wasn't at all blond at the moment.

"Not you, you blubbering idiot." Hikari scowled and Cute kinda creepy red head snorted. His name was Sasori she believed.

Kisame whistled. "You got a reaction out of Sasori, good job." He clapped mockingly.

"Why is this bitch still here?" Hidan pointed at her with a scowl on his face.

"You wanna go sadistic freak?" Hikari cocked a brow.

Hidan laughed and suddenly leaped over the coffee table. "Show me what you got, chibi!" He laughed again the stopped abruptly.

Chibi? he fucking called her chibi?!

She threw a poisoned bullet in his mouth. She didn't want to fire it through her 9mm. because that would affect everyone in a two meters radius and she was right in front of him.

Hikari looked beyond bored as his eyes bled.

Hikari stared at the body falling backward completely impressed at her work. Maybe this one needed a few tweaks. She could make the poision a bit stronger. This took two and a half seconds before he 'died'. Yeah she'd rather have it react in one second or on contact.

Of course this wouldn't affect her as long as it wasn't fired from her pistol.

She can control her weapons by her own will but not the fucking air.

Needles to say, Sasori was impressed.

"How annoying." She walked to the now unoccupied couch and sat down. Now she needed to redo the formula all over again. She was no poison expert and this would take ages.

If only someone could help.

The seventeen year old was waiting for Itachi to wake up. The sooner he was here, the sooner she could get daifuku. The sooner she got daifuku the sooner she can eat, the sooner she can get away from scary scare crow guy who was really having his fun staring at her.

The sooner she could gouge his eyes out if she was allowed to, but she knew Pain wouldn't take kindly to that.

Who names their kids Pain anyway. What kind of twisted parents did the poor guy have? Look how that affected him. Hiring rogues from different villages and having them work with him. Yeah he wasn't right in the head that much was obvious.

Shaking her head at her own thoughts Hikari waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And got frustrated.

"Hey Scare Crow person! Take a ducking picture it will last so much fucking longer you creepy ass prick!" She pointed Mangetsu at him still in it's sheath.

"Oi, oi, don't point me at him, I don't have a death wish like you do!"

"Shut up you're already dead!"

Hikari was beyond agitated. So far she killed the same person twice in the same day and as fascinating it was she was so bored and so hungry and missed Yukine. And her newest weapon didn't work as efficiently as she wanted it to. This day was just so great!

Did she mention she was bored? Because she was. She hasn't had a mission in days after she contacted Yagura and told him of what was going on. He told her to soy on them give him everything she could but he sounded off. At least Mangetsu thought he sounded off. She knew better than to put off Mangetsu's instincts.

Honestly? She was itching for a fight.

She put Mangetsu back on it's hoist on her hip and huffed.

Maybe she wasn't that hungry after all. She pulled herself off the couch and made her way to her own room.

"Where are you going?" Kisame asked between mouthfuls.

"Bed."

"It's seven O'clock!"

"Don't care." She waved him off and trotted up the stairs.

Itachi woke up from his nap, he was getting more tired than usual.

He yawned and rubbed at his eyes. Dinner should be ready by now. He rubbed his face to rid himself of sleep and got up.

As he was descending the stairs he found the newest member going up.

She stopped mid-step glared at him and continued her way upstairs.

Itachi stared at her back and blinked. What did he do? As far as he was concerned he only slept and this was their first interaction of the day.

He shook his head and rolled his eyes. Yeah Izumi used to do that too. He scoffed. Girls.

The confused fifteen year old continued his descent. Oh yeah, he needed to get dango.

If he remembered correctly, she had an unhealthy addiction to daifuku. Just like him with dango. Itachi just knew that he didn't want to get on her bad side. He can't imagine being blown up was fun.

He chuckled at his train of thought.

Yeah he'll get her some daifuku with him. She could never have too much, and he could use that to apologize for whatever he did to make her angry. A win win really.

Itachi eyed Hidan's bloody body on his way out.

Yeah he really, really didn't want to get on her bad side.

Nope, never ever.