Summary of Events: The Akatsuki have split ways. Hannah, Zetsu, Kakuzu, Itachi, and Tobi are staying in Suna. Leader, Kisame, Kate, Hidan, and Konan are going to Konoha. Dessie, Deidara, Suigetsu, Sakura, and Gai arrived in Wargonia. In Suna, Kakuzu and Hannah try and get revenge on Itachi for stealing their titles as Master of the Night.

Chapter Eighty-Four: Revenge of the Night

Rule Number Eighty-Four: Zetsu tends to be a bit over protective of his wifey.

Hannah

"Alright," I said. "Are you ready to execute the plan?"

Kakuzu nodded grimly. "The plan is ready. I prepared the explosives above the entrance of the Wargonians."

"It will create a hole in the wall…" I muttered.

"Gaara can repair it," said Kakuzu. "What's more important is that we destroy the Wargonians – and regain our title as Masters of the Night from Itachi." Kakuzu scowled (as much as he can scowl behind his mask). "I hate those Uchiha."

I nodded. "One's a mute and the other is an obsessive, moody child."

"Don't forget, Madara," added Kakuzu.

I rolled my eyes. "Don't even get me started on him. He gas a split personality where he's a psychopathic, innocent, child-like criminal who had a collected of nunus. I mean really? Do you see how messed up these Uchihas are!"

"Unfortunately," said Kakuzu. "Itachi is the sanest of the Uchihas."

"Don't say it," I commanded. "I refuse to let you say it. He is an insane Uchiha – and he is going down."

"Agreed."

We were crouching to the side of the pathway on the second level. Suna shinobi sprinted around us, trying to defend the wall against the Wargonians as they prepared to breech the second-level yet again. A few of the passers-by shot Kakuzu and me odd looks, but no one stopped to ask what we were doing. By now, most of them were used to the bizarre meeting sessions of the Akatsuki.

"You know," I said. "I haven't seen Tobi or Zetsu in forever."

Kakuzu shrugged. "They're working on the other side of the wall. Thank god… If I have to hear Tobi shout 'Hannah-Nunu' one more time, I am going to throttle someone."

"Now you know how I feel," I said. "Every, single day…"

"I pity you…"

"I pity myself."

Right about then a cry rose up amongst the troops. The Wargonians have broken through again.

"Alright," said Kakuzu, getting to his feet. "You know what to do."

"Yep. I'll spread the word to retreat and you tell Gaara to send out the signal." I started walking towards the break though. "Set off the explosive tag… And try not to get in your way."

"Be a good bait!" called out Kakuzu.

"Yeah, yeah."

And with that, we parted ways.

I made my way through the rushing shinobi. They all wielded their weapons and bustled forward, trying to get a stab at the Wargonians who were invading. At first, the crowd was sparse enough that I could fit through them. Then, the crowd go so tight that I couldn't move an inch in either direction.

With a sigh, I gripped the handle of my frying pan. Dessie was betting in situations like this. But, oh well. I tipped my head back and, over the sound of the fighting and the shouts of the shinobi and the cries of the Wargonians, I screamed, "RETREAT! GAARA HAS GIVEN THE ORDER TO RETREAT! RETREAT!"

It took a minute for the shinobi to respond. Still trying to battle the Wargonians, a great hush fell over the shinobi. The words register in their minds and – a minute later – they turned on their heels and sprinted back up the wall. I was almost trampled over from the stampede of shinobi, but, somehow, I crawled through the hoards of shinobi and managed to flatten myself against the side of the pathway and watch as the shinobi went racing by.

And then, one 'helpful' guy decided to stop and come to my aid.

"Quick!" he cried. "We need to get out of here!"

Mutely, I shook my head.

"The Wargonians are coming!" he cried. "The Wargonians are coming! If you stay, you'll be killed!"

Again, I shook my head in blatant refusal.

"Ittetsu! We need to go!"

The shinobi gritted his teeth and, with a quick, regretful look in my direction, he hurried away into the crowd of shinobi, leaving me behind.

Within minutes, almost the entire crowd of shinobi was gone and what faced me, on the other side of the pathway, was hoards and hoards of gray-skinned Wargonians. I pushed off the wall and staggered to my feet. Slowly, I made my way to the middle of the pathway and turned to regard the masses of the Wargonians.

"Dear god, Kakuzu," I muttered. "You'd better not be a second late."

The Wargonians were staring at me, trying to figure out why I stood alone to face them.

"Hannah!"

My heart skipped a beat and, slowly, I turned to stare at the figure standing behind me. A black-and-white face, a gigantic Venus flytrap… I swallowed once and managed to choke the words out, "Zetsu… What are you doing here?"

"Hannah!" cried Zetsu. "You need to get out of here! The Wargonians! We've come to save you!"

"No," I cried, shaking my head wildly. "I'm meant to be here!'

"It's dangerous," said Zetsu and, before I knew what was going on, he grabbed a hold of me and began sinking back into the ground to transport someone where. Right before my head could sink below the surface, I let out one final scream of, "But Kakuzu and I have a plan!"

And then there was darkness.

Rule Number Eighty-Four: Zetsu tends to be a bit too protective of his wifey – even if it ends up destroying her plans to mass destroy Wargonians. (I will kill Zetsu for this…)

When Zetsu and I resurfaced, we were on the third level (the last place I wanted to be) and Kakuzu was standing several feet away from us, looking ready to murder someone – or something.

"Hannah!" he cried. "What are you doing up here! Shouldn't you be down there! The explosive tag!"

"I would be down there!' I screamed. "If this idiot hadn't taken it upon himself to save me!" I pointed wildly at Zetsu and then turned back to Kakuzu. "Now what do we do!"

The Wargonians had begun to run along the wall, ready to conquer the second level all over again.

"Shit!" said Kakuzu. "I have the explosive tag on the other side, but not this one!" He rounded on Zetsu, his eyes flashing dangerously. "Shit! Zetsu! You just screwed us all over! Not just the plan, but the entire army! We're going to lose the second level!"

With a moan of despair and confusing, Zetsu sunk back into the ground and went into hiding, leaving Kakuzu and I standing alone on the pathway, looking over the Wargonian hoards.

"Kakuzu!" I cried. "You just lost us our help! He might have been able to put the explosive tag back!"

Kakuzu groaned and smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand. "Now what do we do?"

I gritted my teeth. "Go put down the explosive tag. There's bound to be one shinobi around here who can light explosive tags…"

"Fine," said Kakuzu. He gestured towards a cluster of three explosive tags that rested on the ground to his right. "The middle one if the trigger. If you set off that one, it will lead to a chain reaction."

"Alright," I said, handing him the explosive tag.

And then Kakuzu was gone. He leapt off the side of the pathway and plummeted down towards the level below. However, his black tentacles reached out and buried themselves into the section of the wall beside him, stopping Kakuzu before he could fall onto the heads of the Wargonians. His tentacles moved him along the wall at record speed, until, finally, he reached ahead of the Wargonian hoards. There, his tentacles deposited him and he began sprinted along the ground until he was far enough ahead to slam the explosive tag onto the ground and wave at me to signal that the task was done.

"What's going on here?" asked Gaara angrily. "Why did everyone abandon their posts?"

"I don't know," said Baki. "Apparently they heard someone yelling that you gave the order to retreat."

"Hn."

I turned around to see Baki, Gaara, and Itachi hurrying along the wall towards the Wargonians forces. They're expressions were serious and they were too absorbed in their own matters to notice me, standing on the edge of the pathway.

"Wait!" I called out.

They stopped and turned to regard me.

"Hannah?" asked Gaara. "What is it?"

"The explosive tags!" I cried. "Set off the middle one! Please! Set it off!"

Gaara and Baki exchanged puzzled glances before turning back to me and asking, "Why?"

"Now!" I cried. "Quickly! Please!"

And then a sudden flame sparked up in the first explosive tag and, like a chain reaction, the other too caught fire. Suddenly, the flames spread along the edges of the cliff, all the way to the explosive tag where Kakuzu stood and the explosive tag on the other side of the Wargonian army. For a split second, the entire side of the wall was ablaze. And then –

BOOM!

The force and the light was so deafening and so blinding that I was thrown backwards. My head slammed against the ground. The world went dark for a second, and then came back into focus. The wall was burning. Screams rose up from below me and I felt the ground trembling beneath me as the bits and pieces of the wall began to give way and come crashing down on the Wargonians below.

"Hannah!"

I sat up, blinking rapidly and trying to regain my vision.

"Hannah!"

Over to my right, Baki was calling my name. His expression was panicked. Slowly, I turned to see what had him so worried. The third level, where I sat, was starting to crumble too under the power of the explosion. The ground ahead of me and in front of me was starting to fall away, crashing down and down onto the head of the Wargonians.

"Help!" I screamed.

"Hannah!"

A white hand stuck out from above me and I looked up to see Zetsu, sticking sideways out of the wall which I was leaning against.

"Zetsu!" I cried. "Help me!"

"Hannah! Take my hand!"

I did. I grabbed hold of his hand and, as the ground crumbled beneath my feet, Zetsu and I sunk into the wall and, once again, the world was enveloped in darkness…

"Well," said Gaara. "While you did destroy the Wargonian threat from the second level… You destroyed a chunk of the wall in the process."

"You can fix it, can't you?" said Kakuzu.

"Yes, but do you know how much chakra that would take?"

We were standing on the top of the wall, looking down at the massive section of the wall, which Kakuzu and I had just destroyed. Zetsu, Itachi, and I stood a little to the side, watching as Kakuzu and Gaara argued over the wall.

"You should be glad that you have the ability to repair your wall with chakra," said Kakuzu. "Think of all the money it saves you."

I was leaning against Zetsu for support since my legs were too weak to hold me up on their own (Zetsu seemed quite happy thought to have me leaning against him and I doubted he was going to tell me to get off of him any time soon). Itachi looked faintly amused by the whole ordeal and didn't bother to say anything.

With a sigh, Gaara gave up on trying to convince Kakuzu – and the rest of the Akatsuki – that mass destruction was not the way to go. I didn't blame Gaara. It is nearly impossible to convince the Akatsuki of anything. Best to quit while you're ahead. Gaara walked away to deal with the wall he now had to repair and, seconds after Gaara had left, a familiar orange-masked figure came sprinting towards us.

"Hannah-Nunu! Hannah-Nunu!" wailed Tobi. "Is Hannah-Nunu okay? Tobi heard bad things happened and Hannah-Nunu almost died!"

"I'm fine Tobi."

Tobi came sprinting over, preparing to throw his arms around my neck, but, kindly enough, Itachi stopped Tobi.

"I don't think Hannah's in good enough condition to survive one of your hugs," added Kakuzu helpfully. "You might kill her."

Tobi looked traumatized by the thought. "Okay then, Hannah-Nunu, Tobi won't hug you."

"Tobi is a good boy," I said.

"Itachi-senpai," said Tobi thoughtfully. "Tobi heard you name while he was running along the wall."

"Hn."

"How did you hear Itachi's name?" I asked.

"The soldiers are calling Itachi the Master of the Night again," explained Tobi. "See, Hannah-Nunu and Kakuzu-senpai, Tobi said that Itachi is the coolest. Hannah-Nunu and Kakuzu cannot compete with Itachi on levels of coolness."

I twitched. "Tobi…"

"Don't strain yourself, Hannah," said Kakuzu. "I'll gladly kill Tobi for you."

"Oh good."

A/N: REIVEW! Or Itachi will drop you into a horde of angry Wargonians and Zetsu won't bother to save YOU (you're not Hannah).