A new chapter that is slowly moving forward in the plot just like the season that it's currently in. Fitting if you think about it.

Enjoy

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Sunshine's on her face woke Konan up from her wonderful sleep. She tried to ignore the light that was coming from the hole in the ceiling. After many attempts to ignore the light she opened her eyes. As expected Nagato was sleeping next to her.

She remembered what happened yesterday evening. The people of this little village evacuated while she and Nagato remained there to fight against the grim. The fight took most of the night and the village was badly damaged but they did already pay for this room so they went back to sleep. It felt almost ridiculous how much power they have compared to the rest of this world.

Nagato slowly opened his eyes and smiled at Konan who naturally smiled back. "Good my Angel."

The paper Angel gave Nagato a kiss and started to get out of bed. Unlike Nagato she was a morning person. She noticed that they both still wore there dirty clothes from the fight last night, they were probably exhausted from the whole fighting that they didn't even change clothes. "Nagato, we need a shower."

Nagato rolled over in the bed and murmured. "There must be at least one functional shower somewhere around here."

Konan light shook her lover. Come on Nagato, we should look around if someone left something like food around here. I'm starving."

Again Nagato rolled away. "Give me five more minutes."

She put her hands on her hips and sighed while smiling and shaking her head. "What am I going to do with you."

Finally she decided to give him the five minutes and walked out of the room. She went through the hallway and went down a nice wooden set of stairs to the ground level. This little Inn had a big dining area with many well crafted wooden tables. Sadly most of them were already broken and a huge hole was in the wall.

She remembered launching a Grimm through a wall last night. It's a shame for the tables but there was one still completely intact and big enough to host the entire group of Akatsuki.

Her smile disappeared as she remembered something. The entire Akatsuki would never be able to sit at at a table again, not without him.

Konan shook her head and concentrated at the task ahead. She spotted a door at the end of the room and went through. To her delightful surprise it was a mostly untouched kitchen. Most of the food was already gone, probably taken during the evacuation but there is enough to cook something.

She looked around a bit more and found a extremely clean sky blue apron. As she inspected the apron a little smile creeped on her face, together with a little idea. Sure there situation was quite dark and there mission was important, but how could she pass up this opportunity?

She took the apron and changed into it, and only it. The rest of her clothing was now folded on a nearby chair. With the few ingredients left in the kitchen she started cooking something up. It wasn't really a specific dish it was more like 'let's see what tastes good together'. The food should just fill there stomachs, the naked apron she was wearing should surprise her lover. Who wouldn't appreciate that?

She continued to concentrate on her cooking and imagination how Nagato would react when he sees her. Will he be unable to speak? Will he try not so stare so much? He might just forget his senses and just follow his instincts. She smiled and giggled to herself with a little blush.

It felt unnatural for her to act this way but she felt just so unbelievably happy. Every worry, every problem simply disappears when she sees him looking at her. As she continued cooking she heard the kitchen door behind her opening. She immediately thought that it must have been Nagato. "Finally waken up my love? Food will be ready soon."

No answer. He must be so surprised to see her like this. Then she remembered that the apron was only covering her frontside, he must be starting at her ass right about now. She giggled and slightly shook her backside. "Seeing something interesting?"

Again no response, just a audible sound of someone swallowing. She laughed and turned around. "You know, you could appreciate me more by coming close-."

She completely froze as she noticed that this wasn't Nagato in the doorframe watching her. It was a blonde boy she knew from beacon academy. His armor was different and he wore a red sash around his hips but that boy was definitely Jaune. He was completely froze just like she was, probably because Konan wearing nothing but a apron was the last thing he'd thought he'd find in this destroyed place.

"Jaune? Jaune have you found any survivors...". Now Ruby also entered the kitchen and was just as shocked and frozen like the young warrior was.

"Guys? What is going on over he-. WO HO HO HELLO!" Nora said out loud as she also entered the room with a big smile on her face. Konan was getting more embarrassed by the minute.

"Oh my." Finally Ren entered the room. Finally snapping out of it Konan slowly formed her paper wings and wrapped them around herself. She looked away embarrassed and completely humiliated.

A very awkward silence followed were no one really knew what to say. As the prolonged silence continued the paper Angel thought os something she could do in this situation. She looked around frantically with her eyes but found nothing to help her now. However she did spot something very peculiar dangling around Ruby's neck. It was Hidan's prized amulet of Jashin.

Suddenly someone was breaking the silence by clearing there throat loudly. The group turned around and saw Nagato standing there still in his clothes looking quite agitated. His arms were crossed and his finger was tapping against his arm impatiently. "That Angel over there belongs to me, I advise you to not stare at her."

Jaune snapped back to reality and started to wave around with his hands. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to stare I was just so surprised to see her and then she started to shake her- I mean!"

Nagato took a deep breath while Konan's face started to burn up more and more. "Jaune, I like you. That's why I'm giving you a five minutes head start."

The blond warrior stated to pale. "W-what?"

"You are going to need it, I'm very fast when I'm angry." Nagato simply said.

Ren tried to defuse this situation. A fight right now is not what they need. "All problems can be solved, I'm sure we can also solve this misunderstanding."

Nagato couldn't think of anything that could calm him down in this situation. However in that moment he looked over to Konan, naturally the sight of his angel would calm him but this time it was different. She tried to hide herself, she was embarrassed, she tried not to look anyone in the eyes. It's actually kind of hot.

Nagato simply went to the kitchen and turned to the group. "We will talk about this later. Right now I would appreciate it if you gave us a minute."

With that he closed the door leaving Ruby and the rest completely dumbfounded. The silver eyed girl looked over to her team. "Are they going to?"

"Yes, yes they are." Nora giggled

Ren started to take a few steps back. "I think we should give them that... quality time."

Jaune released his breath he didn't even know he was holding. He was completely sure that Nagato would have killed him if anything els happened. He regretted that he probably has a somewhat bad relationship with Nagato and Konan, however he didn't regret seeing what he saw. Who could blame him it was a natural reaction.

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"This is actually quite nice." The Uchiha said as he looked at the ocean. His ship had departed for a couple of hours but he spend most of his time at the front of the ship.

He wasn't entirely sure what brought him here. Maybe it was the sun, maybe the smell of the ocean, maybe the wind or maybe the simple quiet humming of the ship engines in the background.

Sure he was on a errand to simply tell a informant that a deal has been sealed but right now he couldn't do anything to speed the process up. Might as well enjoy this little ride since the luxury of this ship is quite nice with showers, fresh beds and nice food. Just one day were he could spoil himself.

"I hope everything is in order?" A voice said from behind.

Itachi turned his head and saw the captain of this ship with a warm smile. An older man but with with nice clothes indicating that he took pride from his position. Itachi simply nodded. "I'm very happy with this ship, thank you."

The captain laughed. "Well son, I can see that you were in dire need of some luxurious things in life."

Itachi looked at himself and noticed that he was still wearing these old and ragged clothes. He was probably stinky too. "Well, What can I say."

"It's obvious from how you talk that you know your manners but you're clothes indicate that you are quite poor. I wonder, are you simply pretending to be poor?" The captain asked with a smile.

Itachi tilted his head. "What do you mean?"

The captain shrugged his shoulders. "Well I mean, if you are really poor then you probably couldn't afford this ship. Unless someone payed for you but why would someone pay such a long voyage for a kid in rags? Unless of course the one who payed the ticket gave you something with them, something that makes it worth there while."

Itachi eyes narrowed a bit. Did that old man already figure out that he was a smuggler? He was probably a captain for many years now, learning all the tricks of smugglers on his ship.

The captain started laughing again. "Calm yourself boy, I was messing around. You have your reasons and I'm in no position to judge you. Just enjoy yourself and spoil yourself, you are a guest after all."

Itachi sighed in relief and nodded. "Alright, I will do that."

The captain smiled and started walking away. Just before he cut the corner he turned around again. "If you become tired of being a smuggler you can always come to me. My ship has room for another sailor."

Itachi looked back at the ocean again. Living a sailors life? It has a nice ring to it. Going around the world, meeting interesting people and culture, visiting sights many people only talk about or see pictures. The more he thinks about it this might be a something he could spend his life with.

He laughed at himself. "Yeah right."

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Nighttime has arrived and made it impossible for anyone to see in the dark forest. Everywhere you'd go you would stumble across a Corpse of a white fang deserter or a human who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Those kills was the work of a hunting party led by non other then Kisame. After there successfully extermination missing they celebrate right in the forest.

A makeshift campfire was prepared and the white fang members enjoyed there rations they brought with them for the mission. Normally the mission should've taken at least two days but they managed it thanks to Kisame in one. That means there is enough food and drinks for everyone.

They all enjoyed themselves however there leader didn't. Kisame was sitting on the ground while leaning against a tree farther away from the festivities. He looked up at the stars and thought about what he did today.

Sure it was his mission to infiltrate the white fang and earn there trust, but did he really be so good at it? He already killed countless of white fang enemies and robbed so much dust in such sort of time. When will he be able to stop living this lie? When will he be able to fight against those white fang weaklings?

His attention was drawn away from his thoughts and the stars as he noticed someone approaching. It was the spider Fanus Trifa who approached with wobbly steps and a little grin on her face. "Caaaptn, why won't you come over to the party? Everyone is having a great timmme."

Kisame couldn't smell even a hint of alcohol in her breath even after she came uncomfortably close to his face. It was clear however that she was absolutely drunk. How? He had no idea. "Listen Trifa, I enjoy solitude over company in some situations. This is one of those situations."

Normally a firm no from kisame would always be enough to get rid of all of those pesky little weaklings but of course that girl was way to drunk to even remotely understand a word. Without any kind of fear or even care she grabbed Kisames arm and tried to pull him of the ground. "Come one captain! Help a little bit."

The shark sighed and got up from the ground as the girl pulled him to the campfire with the other members sitting there. There was no point in trying to protest as the spider Fanus made him sit by the fire with the company of the others. She immediately sat down next to him and giggled a bit in her drunken state.

Kisame looked around at the other white fang members as they all smiled weakly. "Explain why she is so extremely drunk. We had some alcohol but not enough to make anyone loose it so much."

"W-we'll you see captain, one of the deserters has some coffee beans in his backpack so we putt them into a pan and made some coffee. It tasted awful since we barely had anything els to make the coffee but then we had an idea." One of the white fang members answered.

Trifa was going through Kisames hair with her hand. She seemed surprised how it felt for some reason. Even sharkskin was completely perplexed by the spider Fanus behavior, normally she was all serious and straight to the point. "Get the the point."

"Right. You see there is this rumor that says that giving spiders coffee makes them go completely loopy. As you can see it appeared to be correct since she drank a bit of the coffee." The white fang member answered while the others were laughing at Trifa who was currently attempting to climb on top of Kisames head.

Kisame sighed. He looked around again and noticed that his second commander was missing. "Were is Yuma?"

One of the white fang members jumped a bit as he remembered something. "Oh right! I forgot, we received a message. Yuma is supposed to meet with another branch of the white fang while you and Trifa are supposed to return to the white fang headquarters while we secure this position."

"Yaaaay! Me and captain aaaaaaalle alone!" Trifa exclaimed as she wrapped her arms around Kisame. The shark tried to get rid of her but she wouldn't bugged. He noticed how she held herself extremely close to him and appeared to have finally fallen asleep.

"My my captain, you aren't even trying to get her to like her and she's already all over you. I mean she has been the entire day." One of the white fang members remarked which caused the others to snicker.

Kisame has given up on getting rid of Trifa. "What do you mean?"

One of the white fang members groaned in frustration. "Seriously, they never noticed these kinds of things do they? She was permanently trying to act tough and professional but ever time you looked away she had those extrem sparkle in her eyes. You must have noticed how her zipper on her vest always got a little bit lower every time you spoke to her."

"Stop speaking such nonsense. Why would she do such a thing? I don't see her as the type to sleep herself up a promotion." Kisame answered completely oblivious to her motivations. The other white fang members groaned again in frustration but Kisame didn't give them any more attention.

He concentrates on the spider Fanus that was sleeping peacefully while not letting go of kisame no matter what. It would seem that this night he is forced to be a makeshift pillow.

Whatever, just let her sleep. This is the least he could give her for bringing him closer to the warmth of the campfire. Sure she was drunk but it is the thought that counts.

Having this in his head will probably make it harder to kill her when the time comes.