ALL RIGHT!!! 2 updates in a row! Your reviews inspire me! BTW: Asa? How did you do on your test? I'm happy because I got the highest score in my class!!!! THANK YOU WEASEL BOI!!!!

Anyway, before I get too hyper, thank you to all who review! And... I forgot. Oh well

Disclaimer: I don't own the akatsuki from naruto

The week flew by quickly for Autumn. Since that day, she had started her real training, like at an academy. So far, she had been taught to control her chakra, and was currently learning her first jutsu. Henge (Transformation). Itachi had become her main teacher, and was helping her. Much to Autumn's dismay, this was as bad as going to school all over again. Just because Itachi was her main teacher, didn't mean that she didn't have to train with the rest of the akatsuki too. For practice, Pein insrtucted that she trained with Sasori, fighting his puppets in her spare time. Because it was the weekend, Autumn, in Pein's opinion of course, had plenty of spare time on her hands, and Sasori had recently made a new puppet that he wanted to try out. Knowing this, Autumn had tried to occupy her free time with excess studying, not just ninja training, but her actual class work. From pre-algebra, to scrolls, Autumn was desperately looking for, something... anything, that would keep her from having to spend time with Sasori. Currently, Autumn was doing extra-credit homework for her Literature class.

"Autumn," Itachi called to her, snapping her out of her trance-like state.

"Yes, Sempai?" Autumn responded looking up from her book. After Autumn had realized that she was living in a house full of murderers, half of which already had a grudge against her, she had finally given in. She became what adults usually called "The Perfect Child". Pein had instructed her not to get on anyone elses nerves, especially his, and because technically everyone was her superior, she was to refer to them as such. This had made Hidan, Kisame, Deidara, and Tobi, all very happy. Hidan because she had shot him twice, Kisame because of the goldfish comment, and Deidara, and Tobi, because neither of them were commonly referred to as a superior.

"Leader-sama would like to see you," he said disappearing as quickly as he appeared. Autumn nodded sadly to the air, and walked down the stairs, only pauseing by her parents' old room, and then continuing again. Autumn's parents' room had been abandoned, after the 'accident' she had locked the room and thrown away the key, Pein respected her enough to make sure that room stayed the way it was, empty, and forgotten.

Walking toward her living room Autumn could already see Pein hunched over his makeshift desk, Sasori standing sitting on one side, and Konan on the other. They were waiting. Autumn took a deep breath, and walked foreward, making sure to keep her head down, as not to look in the eyes of her captors.

"You called? Your highness?" Autumn whispered the last part under her breath, knowing full well that with their skilled ninja hearing, they could hear every word.

"Yes, I did," Pein responded apparently ignoring her previous comment. "You seem to be just sitting in your room all day. it's been a long time since your last training session with Sasori, ans he has requseted for you to train with him." Autumn turned to glare at Sasori, who was getting up, sure that his request was granted. Thinking about the situation Autumn smirked,

"As much as I would just love to train with Sasori-sama, I have homework to do." Autumn's smirk grew into a smile, as Pein nodded and allowed her to leave. Autumn tried to hide her happiness, and had to stop herself from skipping up the stairs. Autumn continued up the stairs, but when she got to he second flight of stairs, out of Pein's view, she found she couldn't move. Autumn found her head moving to her left, and to her surprise, she saw... Sasori.

It was Sasori who had stopped her movement with his chakra strings, now he was controlling her like a puppet, forcing her to turn and face him.

"Where do you think you're going, Shoujo?" Autumn cringed as he called her that name. She wasn't a Little Girl as she was called oh so often, she had to take care of herself for two years she wasn't little.

"I was goin to go do my homework, like I said until someone decided to stop me," she replied, glaring at him.

(Is that all they do? Glare at each other?)

"Oh, really? It looked to me that you were going to exicute my request, and prepare for your training session,"

"Then you must be blind, if you see that," Autumn smirked, she was only like this, because she knew how to kill him, even if he was controlling her, she knew. Sasori was controlling her with one hand, and with his free hand, he grabbed her neck,

"I'm sure that there is nothing wrong with my sight."

"You shouldn't lie," she said smirking again, "Or else your nose will grow." Sasori, disconnected his chakra strings, and threw her into a wall. Autumn braced herself for impact, but instead something caught her.

"Stop, Sasori," Autumn looked up at the face of her rescuer, it was Itachi.

"That girl should learn to respect her elders," he said turning, to walk away. "I've proposed the idea of turning her into a puppet, to Leader-sama," he turned his head and eyed Autumn over his shoulder, "He said, that if keeping the girl shows no merit, then he will grant my request." Autumn gasped as Sasori left. How could this happen? She still had so much to live for! Autumn, still in Itachi's arms, covered her face. She didn't want him to see her cry, it's time to be a big girl now, and big girls don't cry. (hehe, Fergie)

Itachi carried Autumn to her room and set her down on her bed, she didn't notice, but he watched her, he watched her cry. When she was done she dried her tears and looked up suprised to see that he was still there.

"What have I done to deserve this?" She whispered to herself.

"Nothing," Itachi responded, she knew he had heard her, but she wasn't expecting for him to actually respond.

"I must have done something then, because everything has gone wrong!" She yelled, tears falling down her cheeks. She couldn't take it anymore, she needed someone, and the closest person was Itachi. Autumn let out a sob, and Itachi put a hand on her shoulder. Autumn tensed up, but relaxed, she threw herself at him, and hugged his waist, still crying.

"Mom, Dad! Even my brothers! They're all gone! I've been alone for two years!" Itachi, having some experince from his brother, returned her embrace.

"And the rest of your family?" He whispered, as she let out a choked sob.

"They abandoned me, with my parents gone I was seen as an annoying little pest, they left me." she said sniffing. Itachi was shocked, although he didn't show it. He had seen hundreds of orphans, the jinchuuriki, and S-class criminals, but none of them had this kind of story.

"I'm sorry," he said, looking down at her.

"It's okay, there's nothing you can do about it. It's just that, I've been through all of that, and now this? Either Fate really hates me, or Eris loves me." (I say that a lot) Itachi was confused, but didn't say anything, he just offered her a tissue, and allowed her to dry her tears. "I don't want to become one of Pinocchio's little toys, I have enough to worry about." She said smiling sadly at her joke.

"Do you want me to help?" Itachi asked, he knew what he could do to help her, but it would inflict great pain on her, he wanted her permission first.

"I don't think you can help me, the best you can do is just promise me something," Itachi nodded, "Don't leave me... Aniki." Itachi sat there silently and nodded, remembering his little brother. Autumn smiled and laughed, as if she had heard something funny. Itachi raised an eyebrow.

"I just thought of something, I've been alone for 2 years, and I still haven't gone totally emo, like my 'friends' thought I would." She let out a giggle. Itachi didn't bother trying to figure out what she had meant.

Autumn let out a sigh,

"I guess being a puppet won't be so bad, and long as you're with me during the process," Itachi paused a second before speaking,

"As I asked earlier, would you like me to help?" Autumn looked at him curiously, them nodded,

"Yes, but first I want you to help me with something else," Itachi nodded, " I want you to create, a jutsu that can get you back to your world," It was this that caught Itachi's full attention. "I don't know how you got here, but none of you belong," her face grew serious, "I really have been thinking about this for the last week. It must have taken a lot of chakra to bring you all here, but what was the cause? What could have brought you all back, Hidan, Kakuzu, Deidara, and Sasori are all supposed to be dead, what could have been strong enought to raise the dead?" Itachi, thought about it, and let his anwser accedently slip through his lips

"You," Autumn gasped, that was unexpected.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing," before Autumn could say anything else, Itachi had walked out the door.

"Well that was odd," She said going back to her homework.

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