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"This isn't working…" Autumn stated, sitting at a table in her library. The evil residents of her home had captured her, and dumped her on the third floor. Across from her sat Pein, and on either side of them were Itachi and Konan. Pein had told her of a way to bring May back through one of the scrolls, but they needed a sacrifice. Of course she knew this already, so she was arguing against it,

"HOLD YOUR TONGUE!"

"NO! I AM NOT HAVING ANOTHER PERSON KILLED FOR MY SAKE!!"

"...It would do you well to listen to your superiors, shoujo," he stated glaring at her.

"Why do you care so much? My happiness has nothing to do with this,"

"If your 'happiness' weren't affecting the world outside, then I wouldn't."

"What do you mean?" Pein motioned Zetsu forward. He had been standing in the corner waiting for Leader to allow him to show her. He took off the henge that had been on him. Autumn gasped, his leaves and his hair had both turned brown, and except for the rest of his body being two different colors, he looked, well... normal.

"What happened, are you okay!?" since when did she care? These people were murderers for Pete's sake!

"Your mood. Due to how you feel, you body emits a negative chakra, effecting everything within a twenty-five mile radius." Wow... that was a lot.

"Twenty... Five... miles?" Pein motioned to the window. Zetsu opened the blinds, and stood to the side as Autumn got up from the chair, and looked out. Due to the continuous rain, and the fact that she lived on what used to be farm land, the area was flooding.

"There's water in the basement too," Zetsu added.

"If you really want me to be happy... then, just leave," she said, addressing everyone in the room. Just then, Tobi burst into the room.

"Tobi is a good boy! Tobi got the mail!" he yelled, holding up what looked to be a letter. That was weird, normally, because of the jutsu that was set up on the mail box, Orochi-baka revived all of the mail. Autumn looked at Pein suspiciously,

"Allow me to explain, a few months ago, we infiltrated Orochimaru's lair, looking for you. When we did, we revealed the fact that we lived with you part time, and he 'handed over' the deed to the house, and undid the jutsu on the mail system. Therefore, I am the owner of this house, and I'm the one paying the bills."

"Then what is that?" she asked, pointing to what Tobi was holding. Pein took it, and opened it. His eyes scanned the paper briefly before he put it down.

"These are your adoption papers,"

"..."

"..."

"...WHAT!?"

"After running away from the government for two years, you didn't expect it to finally catch you?" Sasori asked, walking into the room. Autumn glared at him.

"How would they know?"

"Your parents are still MIA, and the school system has been taking notes apparently," Pein answered, he handed her the paper.

"While you were on your mission, I took the liberty of contacting social services. You should thank me, they were planning on picking you up next Thursday,"

"...I think I could've taken my chances," She said, walking out of the room.

"What should we do?" Konan asked,

"We might as well give her time to think. We'll leave on the next new moon,"

Autumn quietly cried her way up the stairs. This wasn't fair! He had no right to adopt her without her permission! She looked over the papers in her hands. They were real alright. If this was their weird way of apologizing, then they seriously had issues. Before she got all the way up to her room, Autumn was stopped by Hidan, who was standing in front of her door.

"...what are you doing?"

"Waiting," he said, resisting the urge to be an idiot.

"For?"

"Leader's orders,"

"Well could you wait somewhere else?"

"Nope," At that moment, Tobi ran up the stairs, followed closely by Deidara.

"Aki-chan!!" Tobi jumped on her, and Deidara tripped on a stair, and fell on his face.

"What's the matter now?"

"Tobi thought that because Kisame-san was good at using water jutsus, he could get rid of the water, but instead all he did was make it worse!!"

"...eh?"

"Come with Tobi! Tobi will show you!" Tobi grabbed Autumn's arm, and dragged her down the stairs. In his rush, he trampled Deidara, who was attempting to remove his face from the floor, only to get it shoved back, creating a hole in the stairs.

"...Wow," That was all Autumn could say as she gazed at the newly formed lake that used to be the first floor of her home.

"What happened?" Itachi asked, walking down the stairs, only to stop at the second floor, where he had a wonderful view of the lake.

"Your partner. Has anyone seen Kakuzu lately?"

"He was in the basement,"

"...oh... so who wants to tell Pein? Since he's the one paying for the damage,"

"Tell me what?" Pein asked, walking down the stairs, he didn't notice the water until after he made it to the platform between the first and second floors. As soon as he realized, he turned to Autumn,

"You have three seconds to explain why I'm standing waist deep in water..."

"..."

"... Kisame," Itachi answered for her. "And apparently Kakuzu is still down there," Pein sighed, and walked back up the stairs.

"We are having shark fin soup for dinner," he announced, and left.

"... well I'm not going down there." Autumn said. Tobi had already left before Itachi had come down, and Kisame was hiding from the awaiting wrath of the rest of the akatsuki.

"You shouldn't be so angry with him," Itachi said, out of nowhere.

"What do you mean?"

"You should be honored, you were the only child to be adopted into the akatsuki by more than one member,"

"Why? I don't feel very honored,"

"Leader-sama adopted you for your own good,"

"I could've handled social services by my self!" Autumn snapped.

"Maybe, but what would they have said when they found a bunch of random guys living in your house?"

"...touche,"

"You should be grateful,"

"That's not what I'm mad about,"

"So you admit it. If it's about May, we could always sacrifice Hidan," Autumn smiled at his joke.

"That's not it. It's just... well, I left for months, and living alone, I was finally getting used to being alone again. I had a normal life, normal friends, just... normal. But then you guys come back, throw all of this into my face, force me to kill my best friend FLOOD MY HOUSE! and expect me to not care about anything," she shouted that one part, hoping Kisame heard her.

"Aa, you blame us for ruining your 'normal' life,"

"Basically,"

"But, it can't be helped. It's more than just your life at stake here. Remember, all of us are doing our best to make you the best kunoichi in both of our worlds,"

"Oh really? I thought you guys just enjoyed watching me suffer."

"Some of us do,"

"Not helping,"

"Not supposed to. I'm not here for your comfort, I'm here to tell you the truth,"

"Don't you know that the truth isn't always the best?"

"I know, but as I said, I'm here to tell you the truth,"

"So, who's going to get Kakuzu?" Autumn asked, changing the subject.

"No one,"

"Aa."

"...Hn,"

"I don't know why, but I suddenly want to go for a swim..."

"Have fun," Itachi turned around, and went back upstairs to tell Hidan that his partner was going to die. Autumn slowly walked down the stairs until the water was up to her neck.

'I have a bad feeling about this,' she thought to herself, and she held her breath, and kept walking. The water was surprisingly clean, and clear, except for all of the debris from what had been down there in the first place. She kept forcing her body down into the water until she could no longer. She was far enough that she could see the front door, but that was it. She swam down further until she saw that basement door. Suddenly there was a large shadow behind her. She turned, but there was nothing there.

'Must've been my imagination,' she thought, swimming toward the door. She could see that it was moving as if someone were trying to move it. Confirming that Kakuzu was really going to die, she turned around, and swam back up. As she reached the surface, she heard someone playing the 'Jaws' theme, which was kinda of weird. She looked toward the stairs, and found that everyone except Kisame, and Kakuzu had all gathered in that area. Autumn shrugged, and dove back under. She swam back to the door, and waited there for a second, thinking.

'Should I, or should I not?' She grabbed the handle, and shoved as hard as she could. It didn't work. She tried again, only with chakra. This time it worked. As the door opened, she was immediately sucked in.

The basement was cool and dry, despite the state of the floor above it.

"What just happened?" Autumn asked, looking around. Kakuzu and Kisame were sitting across from her in two seperate corners.

"This idiot here, decided to flood the first floor instead of the basement, causing thousands of dollars worth of damages." Kakuzu explained, glaring a Kisame.

"I said I was sorry!" he whined.

"... So how do we get out of here?"

"We don't until Kisame reverses the jutsu," They both looked to Kisame,

"I can only create water, not take it back,"

"We can't go out the window, since there's still more flooding out there, and we can't use the as you've just seen."

"So basically we just wait here until we sufficate?"

"Yep,"

"Uh-huh,"

"That sucks,"

"Agreed,"

"Ditto, kid,"

"Will you stop calling me that?"

"...no,"

"...F you,"

"If you keep this up, you going to end up just like Hidan," Kakuzu groaned.

"I only said the letter, I didn't say the word,"

"First step,"

"You sound just like him!"

"I can't help it if it's the truth,"

With the Rest of the Akatsuki...

"Shouldn't we be worried, un?"

"She's the one that decided to go for a swim, it's her fuckin problem," Hidan said, amused.

"Leader?"

"She doesn't want, nor does she need our help," he stated, obviously not caring.

"You make a bad father, un. No wonder she hates you," he shot a glare a Deidara, and walked back upstairs to prepair for their departure.

"What are you doing, un?" Deidara asked Itachi as he took his cloak off, and stepped into the water.

"I'm going to open a window," he said, and with that, he dove under.

By the next day, the water was gone, and Autumn was in a better mood. She was still sad, but it was hard to stay depressed when all of the people around her were getting the crap beat out of them, and she had a front row seat! First it was Tobi, for no reason. Then there was Kisame, for flooding the first level. (which was being restored) And to make things better, Hidan! Man, life was good!

The water had gone down thanks to Autumn's slowly improving mood. And the house was being cleaned by Tobi, Deidara, Kisame, and Hidan. So until school started again, there was nothing to do.

Pein had announced that they were going to leave again earlier that morning. Autumn didn't mind. Just because she was in a better mood didn't mean that all was forgiven. She was still pretty sore at Pein and Sasori. Itachi was never really in trouble, though.

In three days, the new moon would rise, and she could go back to normal... she couldn't wait.

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