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Autumn was in her room thinking. According to her calender, the new moon was tomorrow. Even though she was still so unsure, she had pretty much no choice but to agree to it. Either way, there was a high chance of her dying. If she didn't do it Sasori had Pein's permission to kill her, and turn her dead body into a puppet for the chakra. If she did do it, as Itachi said, her chakra had to be re-routed, so that more of it flowed into her eyes. If she made a single move during this process, then she'd die. No point in saying "no" if she was going to die anyway. Tomorrow.

Autumn looked out of the window. You could still see a thin silver whisp in the night... There was a knock at the door. Itachi. She knew that it was him because he was the only one who ever bothered to actually make the trip up to her room.

"Come in!" Autumn called. He was just going to open the door anyway, why not be polite?

"Autumn." He called out to her. She was reverting back to her old self again. She was turning back into the angsty emo girl that she had been for the past two years. Itachi came over to her.

"Have you decided?" Autumn nodded,

"I'll go through with it."

"Do you know what you might be giving up?"

"I'll give up even more if I don't. There's at least a two percent chance that I'll survive right?" Itachi shook his head,

"For most it would be two percent, but you seem to have a very complex chakra system because your body deals with stronger chakra."

"So?"

"Point zero six percent." Autumn twitched. So there was still a very small chance of her living, joy.

"There is also a chance of you going blind, in which case Leader will have you killed immediately." Itachi took a step toward Autumn at the window.

"That limits your chances to point zero three percent." Autumn sniffed as a single tear fell from her eye, and started to roll down her cheek.

"Onii-sama, I appreciate your honesty, but some things are better left unsaid." Autumn said trying to be polite, but what she really was saying was for him to shut up. Itachi took another step forward.

"In the rare event that you do live, Leader-sama requested that you join the akatsuki." And that was where Autumn cracked. Quickly six clones appeared, each one of them was holding two kunai. They tried to attack Itachi, but they ran into walls, or got hit, and died. Autumn cringed, that was the really bad thing about shadow clones. She had their memories, and she really didn't like the feeling of dying, repeatedly.

"You'll get used to it," Itachi said reading her mind.

"Why?"

"I was normal at birth!" Autumn turned to face Itachi, "I was normal from grades k-5! Until the accident I was normal, now all of this is happening..." Itachi put his hand on Autumn's shoulder.

"According to what we've observed, you were never normal, you were born with this."

"What do you mean?"

"Your bloodline limit includes both chakra control, and your body's ability to produce, and reproduce chakra rapidly. You were born with this ability, it is your bloodline trait, it's your kekkei genkai." After Itachi's little explanation, Autumn just stood in front of him shocked. How did he know more about her than she did?

"How do you know?"

"I've been watching you for a reason." Autumn glared at him.

"What is wrong with you people!" She tried her best to punch him, but he blocked her attack, and restrained her just like Kakashi did to Naruto. (Episode 4)

"You shouldn't be angry with me. Do you know why this has happened to you?" Itachi let her go, and dropped her on her bed. Autumn sat up,

"Two years ago my parents were supposed to have been in an accident. They're bodies were supposedly never found." Autumn stood back up. "Two weeks ago I was invited to this house by Orochimaru. He said that he was there that day. He said that he knew what really happened to my parents, he said that whey weren't dead!" Autumn started to cry hysterically.

Itachi looked at her, but listened intently.

"Orochimaru, never told me what really happened, or where they were. He wouldn't even give me a real answer to my questions,"

The next day...

Autumn had just come back from school, today was the day. She had made her choice, and now it was time to reap what she had sewn. As she walked into the house, she was promptly attacked and dragged into the basement by one of the members. The basement was dark, only lit by a few candles. In the light, Autumn saw that it was Hidan who had carried her down. Itachi was standing next to Pein and Sasori with a scroll in his hand.

"Are you sure that you want to do this?" Zetsu asked from behind her. Autumn didn't turn around, but she still nodded.

"Your funeral,"

"Glad to see that you would give me a funeral, when I'm supposed to be turned into a puppet." She said sarcastically. Pein signaled for Autumn to come forward.

"If you have truly chosen, then let us begin." He said, Itachi stepped forward. The other members scattered themselves around the room, no one made a sound. Autumn watched as Itachi started to make rapid hand signs. When she was sure that he was half way done, that was when the pain came. Autumn fell to her knees, and tried to breathe. It felt as if her eyes were going to explode. She grasped her head in pain, and tried to focus her eyes on Itachi, but pretty soon she saw nothing but darkness. After that, all went black once again.

ZOMG! If you paid any attention to that last paragraph, Autumn went blind. Just clearing that up.

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