This is where the beginning of the Edited Version of But, Why Me, starts.

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Chapter 1: The Appearance

It was 7:00AM, or so the sleek, black, digital clock had said.

'Only a bit longer…' Came the thoughts of the room's sole occupant. A young girl who went by the name of "Autumn". Autumn was a thin, yet tall girl, around the age of 13; she was enrolled in the seventh grade at the local junior high school. In this town, in this one house, she had spent most of her life. She had lived there for as long as she was able to remember. Her town paid village taxes, which were fairly affordable, and the school systems were supported by the businesses that were all around town. There was the mall, which spanned a little more than three miles across from end to end, the amusement park, the normal fast food places, and restaurants, and there were rumors of a water park that was in the making.

Autumn was lying in bed, even though she was already fully dressed. She had gotten dressed around 5:00AM due to her insomnia. The poor unfortunate child had been like this for about 2 years now. The previous night was the first time that she had gotten any sleep at all within that time period. In the time she was awake, she usually just sat and thought about her parents. About whether or not they would have been happier without her, or what would have happened if she had never existed at all. Would things have been better? Would things still have taken a turn for the worse? She spent her mornings pondering these questions as she lied in her bed, listening to the entrancing sound of the grandfather clock in the family room, ticking away at the seconds…

'Tick'

'Tock'

'Tick'

'…'

At that moment, time seemed to freeze, as all was still right before a loud noise erupted from the first floor.

'BOOM!!'

In less than a split second, Autumn jumped out of bed and onto the floor, as well as ultimately falling flat on her butt due to the unexpected fact that the same noise repeated itself eight more times.

Autumn sat completely still for 10 seconds, waiting for it to happen again, but much to her relief it didn't. Autumn carefully crawled over to her bed and reached under it and revealed the pistol that she hidden under it. Her parents had given it to her as a gift on her 10th birthday, as well as lessons on how to use it. Autumn's parents had always been protective of their daughter. Even so, they already knew they couldn't keep her in a cage. Instead, her parents had her take every type of martial arts available, and master them all before they were satisfied enough to even let her out of the house by herself.

Autumn took her pistol, and silently walked to her door. After listening against it and hearing nothing, only then did she open her door and sneak out into the hallway. Autumn silently crept past her parents' room and tiptoed over to the stairs as she peaked over the banister.

"Itai!! Sempai!!"

"Urusei, baka!"

"SHHHHH!!"

'What the heck is going on down there? I can't see a thing!' She thought silently to herself. Deciding that it was too risky to try and get a better view, Autumn chose the only sane option. Commence Operation: "Find a Way Out".

Sadly, her future escape was not to be so, for as soon as she turned to go out the back, she was met face to face with…

Some weirdo blonde with a goofy grin on their face. Joy. Isn't the world just full of freaks these days?

"Ohayo, shoujo (Good morning, little girl)."

Right about now Autumn's survival skills were supposedly supposed to be kicking in about now, but apparently they were on break at the moment.

'OMG! That's a GUY!?' (Wow, nice observation genius)

Okay, NOW Autumn's survival skills were kicking in since after that thought she successfully ran around the mysterious person (whom we all now know is a guy) and towards the door leading to the deck. Sadly for her, the stick her parents had kept in the door to keep it closed (the lock was broken) was still there.

"Goshinpainaku, shoujo (Don't worry, little girl)…" The man advanced on her.

"Oh screw this!!" She yelled, and opened the door as far as it would go (1 inch) which was far enough to set off the alarm.

'BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP!!'

A shrill cry of 'dotabata' was heard from downstairs, as well as several crashes and the sound of glass breaking.

'Not good…' Autumn thought to her self. The man, who was momentarily forgotten by the banister, walked up behind Autumn, picked her up, and dropped her over the rail.

After falling for 5 seconds and dropping about eight feet, Autumn surprisingly was caught by another stranger, the only difference was that this one was wearing a mask.

Autumn breathed a relieved sigh. At least she was safe right? It was then that she, unfortunately for her, snapped back into reality.

1. It was dark.

2. She was just dropped about eight feet by a stranger.

3. Who was in her house.

4. Another stranger caught her…

5. And he was once again in her house.

6. The alarm was going off.

And oh, joy; she was now hanging upside down with a knife to her throat could today get any better? (Of course it can! Just wait)

Autumn reached over to the wall and felt for a light switch.

"Who are you!?" She yelled, flicking the lights on. When her eyes adjusted to the sudden change, Autumn looked up at the person who was holding her.

"Oh. My. God." She looked around, and screamed. When she had looked up, she was met face to face with the most feared criminal masterminds she ever met in her dreams. She was met with the all to familiar faces (and masks) of to whom every narutard in world knew as the Akatsuki. (See I told you ;-p) Autumn was dropped on her head as Tobi who had been holding her covered his ears.

"Dotabata!!" He yelled not enjoying the noise. Their leader whom we all know as Pein walked forth, and glared at poor Autumn.

"Sutopuu za souon, shoujo (Stop the noise)." He commanded pointing at the alarm's keypad. Autumn rubbed her head as Pein grabbed her and hauled her to her feet and pushed her toward it.

"Oh, I get it." Don't get her wrong Autumn was both freaked out and pissed off, but she was also completely under the impression that she was actually sleeping, so she didn't want to ruin it. Autumn turned off the alarm. She then turned around and looked to Pein for acknowledgment. He nodded to her, and looked toward the couch, motioning for her to go sit. Instead of doing as she was 'told' Autumn reached into her pocket and fingered her gun, which had been long since forgotten.

Pein glared at her again and signaled for Deidara, who had jumped down after he dropped Autumn, to use force. (A bit impatient are we?) As Deidara headed toward her Autumn smiled and pulled out a box of "pop-its" that had been sitting on top of the TV to her left. She took one out of the box and threw it toward Deidara. He jumped out of the way as it hit the ground with a loud 'SNAP' as well as a spark on the linoleum floor. Deidara looked at it and smirked, he put his hand into a satchel on his waist, but before he could pull it out again, he stopped, and backed down.

Unknown to Autumn, Itachi had walked up behind her and stared Deidara down. Autumn paled and was about to look behind her, just as Itachi grabbed her collar and dragged her to the couch and forced her to sit down.

"Izuko kono?" He demanded (A/N: this actually means "where, this" but I ask you to excuse my grammar.)

Autumn had picked up some Japanese when she was going through her martial arts training. Keyword: some. At the moment, as well as through this whole experience she had absolutely no idea what these people were saying.

Instead of saying anything, Autumn just looked up at him, which was until Kisame drew Samhada, and Hidan started yelling at her, bringing out his triple bladed scythe, scaring the heck out of her.

"America!" She blurted out, not wanting to be shaved/sacrificed.

Pein looked at her puzzled.

"Izuko?"

"Huh?" Pein was getting impatient (See!), and repeated himself again.

"Listen, I sincerely have absolutely no idea what you are saying, so if you don't mind I would like you to... SPEAK ENGLISH DAMN IT!!" That seemed to trigger something, because within under 2 seconds flat, Autumn was pinned against a wall with a kunai against her neck, and a very pissed off Akatsuki leader glaring down at her.

"If you wish to live to see tomorrow, I suggest you watch your tongue!" He hissed, in what is this? PERFECT ENGLISH!? Autumn stared at him in complete shock before yelling: "YOU CAN TALK!?" and promptly fainting…