I'm back in my natural rhythm for now! Yay me! Oh, next chapter will have a big development for one particular couple. Well, this chapter dose to in a way.

Enjoy

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Inside the headmaster office of beckon academy were currently a total of six humans and one human soul inside of a machine waiting for this important meeting to start. Sasori impatiently tapped his finder in a steady rhythm against his leg while keeping his eyes shut. Finally he had enough of it. "I hate it when people make me wait."

The other two Akatsuki members knew that this was the signal for the puppet master that he was fed up with waiting. Nagato tried to calm him down. "They should arrive shortly Sasori, just stay calm."

"Stay calm? I was calm the entire time but now i sick of it." Sasori said in a rather natural voice. To anybody els it would seem that Nagato and Konan overreacting but they didn't know Sasori like these two did. He seemed only calm but it's those barely visible twitches in his face and hands.

Minerva lowered herself down to there Sasori's level. "Can't you please wait for just a little bit more? I would like to know what's so important."

He took a deep breath and rolled his eyes over to Minerva. "Fine."

Konan whispered into Nagato's ear. "Dose he have a soft spot for her because he made her or because he likes her?"

"Are you two done with your gossiping?" Sasori asked the Akatsuki couple more annoyed then before. Minerva could only giggle how flustered Sasori got.

General ironwood who was also present turned to Ozpin. "Why are these kids here? If anything I should arrest that one for taking one of the Paladins and creating his own version."

Glynda only rolled her eyes. "We didn't want to bring them into this situation but they have proven themselves helpful. Still, we don't completely trust them. I have the feeling they are playing there own game."

In that moment the door to the elevator opened and the two people entered the room. Ozpin, ironwood and Glynda were shocked that both Qrow and Winter were both covered in blood. Sasori shrugged. "It seems we know what kept us waiting.

"Winter! What in the he'll happen?" Ironwood screamed as he saw his second in command like this. Winter didn't seem to be completely sure herself what happened and didn't even respond.

Qrow meanwhile took another hit from his flask. "I'm going to need every single drop."

Konan shook her head. "I know that look. You people just decapitated a boy with silver hair and then his head started to curse right?"

By the look of them it was clear that Konan was spot on. Sasori sighed in frustration. "Convincing Kakuzu to stick that idiot back together is going to be so annoying."

"Who are you people?" General Ironwood asked suspiciously.

Nagato felt that he should brag a bit and crossed his arms. "Didn't you see the match? We are the Akatsuki and our abilities go beyond your understanding."

The general turned to Winter. "You are dismissed for the rest of the day. Clean yourself and try to process what you just saw, I will talk to you tomorrow."

Winter seemed to have understood the general and saluted before leaving through the elevator. Minerva moved over to Qrow and slightly lowered herself so she could see his face better. "I remember you. You were there at day before I fell asleep."

Qrow looked confused at Minerva and then turned to Ironwood. "What is this shit James? A sentient version of your junk soldiers?"

Sasori immediately walked up to Qrow with pure fury in his eyes. "Minerva is nothing but perfection captured in a vessel that makes the inventions of men pale in comparison. Keep talking and I'll start a collection dedicated to people like you."

Before a fight could break out Ozpin decided to introduce everyone with the Akatsuki. "These kids are part of a group of students with unique abilities called the Akatsuki. The reason why thay are here is in this very room. The machine you see before you is actually the soul of the fall maiden, Ember."

Minerva just smiled. "I know this is a lot to take in but I forgive you if you don't believe me. If I were in your situation I would probably be skeptic."

"I'm not skeptic, I'm calling you out on this bullshit. Ozpin, who the hell are those kids and what gives them there rights for such a tasteless joke?" Qrow said angrily while pointing at them.

The General sided with Qrow. "I agree, this is a human life we are talking about and they seem to be treating it like some child game."

Ozpin tried to calm them down the best he could. "I know this sounds all very strange but I can assure you that these kids are telling the truth. I whiteness how they pulled out Amber's soul an placed it into that puppet as Sasori calls it."

The two just started at the Akatsuki as Nagato stood there with a little smug smile. "It's obvious that there much that even you don't know."

"And much they never will." Sasori added.

General ironwood turned to Ozpin again. "I still don't trust them and I won't allow them to be part of this meeting."

Before anyone could say anything else Sasori was already making his way to the elevator. "Next time you wast my time I will restart my collection."

As he and the other two Akatsuki members left with the elevator the drunk hunter turned to Glynda. "What is this collection he's talking about?"

"I believe he said something about not being able to expand his collection of human puppets. Whatever that is." She simply answered.

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"Maybe you should consider stopping the entire gambling business and stay with thievery." Kakuzu said as he laid back in a chair in his room.

He and Emerald were playing poker for huge amounts of money, well Orochimaru's and Mercury's money at least but she lost it all. In a last attempt to win it all back she offered her body to Kakuzu, clearly expecting to win. That sadly failed and now she was currently sucking his genitals.

The Akatsuki members simply watched her as she was pleasuring him. He noticed that she was blushing, probably a naturally reflex in this situation."Who offers her own body in a card game? Your lucky that this is all I am taking, somebody els would have probably taken more if you'd offer them your body."

The thief stopped her work and glared at Kakuzu. "I get it, I should have been more careful and stopped after I lost the money so stop lecturing me and finish already."

"Yes, yes." Kakuzu said as he relax. Couple of moments later he finished in Emerald's mouth. Almost like a reflex she stared to swallow.

She wiped her mouth and looked back up to Kakuzu. "Why didn't you take advantage of the situation?"

Kakuzu raised an eyebrow. "That almost sounded like you wanted me to take advantage of you."

Emerald immediately shot up and looked away with a burning blush on her cheeks. "No I don't!"

Before Kakuzu could answer she immediately stormed out of the room. The Akatsuki member simply remained in his chair and sighed. It was strange but it definitely felt good, a blowjob from a nice looking girl who works for the enemy and two full wallets. He should probably pull his pants back up before other Akatsuki members returned.

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"And that's how I saved Kakuzu for the millionth time." Hidan declared at the end of his made up story as his head rested on Ruby's lap while she sat on a bench outside in the courtyard. The body of the immortal was close by as people passed it by. At first they thought of murder but after they saw Hidan's talking head on her lap they simply assumed that this was a some sort of performance.

The girl with the silver eyes smiled and even laughed at Hidan's story but soon her smile slightly faded. She had a good time with talking to a decapitated head of the immortal but there was a question that bothered her. "Hidan. I have a question, a personal one."

Hidan looked up to Ruby. "I know what you're going to ask and i can already tell you the answer. I have no idea how I'm able to talk with you without being attached to my lungs. If you ignore the fact that I'm immortal I'd still be saying Fuck you to everyone kind of logic."

"No, I mean that's also interesting but i meant something els. You are a very nice guy and I'm sure the others are very nice too but. How are you guys able to, you know, killing people." Ruby said while struggling with the words.

Hidan remained quiet for the longest time. He had to think about it but couldn't finde the right word, so he tried to think about what the others would say. "It's about which side you are on."

Naturally Ruby was confused at this answer that wasn't really any kind of answer. She picked up Hidan's head so she could look him directly into his eyes. "Explain."

"Well, you just said that we are nice people. That's because you are on our side, other people believe that we are the cause of everything wrong. As a matter of fact we're we come from we were basically the villains." Hidan tried to explain.

"That still didn't answer my question." Ruby said with a little smile. She wouldn't let this topic and this question slide.

Hidan tried to counter this question with another question. "You are not okay with killing Grimm. How are you able to do that?"

The silver eyed girl tilted her head. "I kill them because they simply exist to kill humans and bring the world into a land of darkness. Are you comparing a life with that of a Grimm?"

Hidan tried to shake his head but failed since he was missing some vital parts to do that. "That mentality is the mentality of soldiers or warriors. They are the enemy, they are not us so they need to die. Your empathy and sense of guilt will prevent you from bringing that mentality to a fight against people, mine dose not. That doesn't mean that I don't have these emotions, they are simply weaker and won't prevent me from hurting or killing people that I see as the enemy."

Ruby tough about what Hidan said and but his head back onto her lap. "Still, comparing a human with a Grimm is just strange."

"Not that strange actually. I listen to Sasori and Nagato talking during there studies on Grimm. They said that that some grimm scream in pain when they get hurt of run away in fear if they feel like they are getting overwhelmed, also they get fucking smart with age. Intelligence, fear and pain? I don't know but that doesn't sound like something a soulless beast should be connected with." Hidan said while he was thinking.

Ruby had to giggle a bit. "That was the first bad word you used for a while now.

Hidan thought about that for a moment and realized he wasn't swearing that much while talking with Ruby. Why was that? Is he feeling safe with Ruby? Is he losing a reason to swear while being alone with Ruby?

"Still headless I see." A voice called.

Ruby turned to see Deidara and weiss walking over to them. Hidan saw Deidara in the corner of his eye and immediately growled. "Were the fuck were you you asshole and were is my money!?"

Weiss smiled. "Oh, we had a lovely conversation about art and the beauty of the world. You know, grown up stuff."

Before anyone could say anything more the blonde artist strew Hidan's body over his shoulder and grabbed Hidan's head with his free hand. "Come on, I think it's time you see Kakuzu. Sorry Ruby that you had to babysit him."

"No problem." Ruby simply replied as the artist left with Hidan. Even from afar she could still Hidan curs.

"Ow! Ow! Hey Deidara! Your pulling my fuckin hair here do you mind?!" The artist didn't even seem to hear the complaints of the immortal. He was definitely doing that on purpose.

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The next day continued as any other day would go. The double matches were finally taken place early in the morning and in the afternoon the single matches.

Some fights were interesting for the Akatsuki but now it would be definitely interesting since Itachi and Kisame would step into the arena. There opponents Sun and Neptune.

The arena was randomized and came to a stop with half of the arena turning into a flat grass land and the other into a mountainside. With a bang the match began but the Fanus decided to first talkt with the uchiha.

"Hey you. You are Itachi, the guy who likes Blake right?" He said in a mocking tone.

Itachi knew that the audience couldn't hear hear what they were saying so he answered. "We have met before Sun, you don't need to talk like we are strangers."

"Dude, that was really not cool." Neptun said as he put his hand on his friends shoulder.

"Whatever, my question is do you like Blake?" Sun asked again.

Kisame chuckled. "I think he is threatened by your looks."

Sun pointed at his well formed body that he is clearly showing off. "Do you need any more prof that I have the better looks?"

"Itachi? Want to do the thing?" Kisame asked with a wide smile.

"Whatever." The uchiha walked into the middle of the field and removed his shirt so he showed his naked upper body. In that moment Kisame summoned to water sharks that clashed together above Itachi, completely covering him in water.

His the water dripped down from his hair and onto his face while also rolling down his muscles. He slightly opened his eyes and looked directly into a camera. Finally he showed one little smile.

Immediately every female and male who wanted a pice of that uchiha body squealed in complete delight, in the arena and those at home who watched from there tv all across the four kingdoms.

Sun slowly nodded. "Fair point but this is a match of fists and not of looks."

Kisame grind at the Fanus. "Maybe you didn't notice but your partner completely froze up the moment he realized he was fighting agains me, a guy who literally summons water out of nothing. So it's two on one."

Neptune was basically already waving the white flag at this point and Sun had to swallow his pride. The match was over before it even began.

This was naturally a huge punch in the gut for the monkey Fanus who actually hoped to be able to beat the uchiha in a fight while Blake was watching. Now it's nothing but a huge embarrassment. He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder. As he looked up he realized it was Itachi's hand.

"Listen Sun, I would be lying if I said that I hadn't had anything for Blake because I certainly had. However I realized that she wasn't interested in me like I was in her, she likes you. In some strange way to seem to connect with her, better then I do." Itachi explained.

Sun looked up to Itachi and smiled. "You know Itachi, you and your friends might be killers but man you truly are some nice people."

Itachi turned his head to his partner. "I doubt that."

Kisame was currently having water flow around him while he chased poor Neptune. "Buggy buggy buggy! I'm the water buggy man!"