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Chapter 2: Interrogation
'Ma-ia-hii
Ma-ia-huu
Ma-ia-hoo
Ma-ia-haha'
Autumn woke up to the sound of Dragostea Din Tei (A/N: the original version of the numa numa song) playing in her ear.
'One of these days I'll get around to changing that…' It was her alarm; it signaled that it was finally 7:30, time for her to go to school. Though when she tried to bring her hand up to turn it off she found, she couldn't move. Autumn opened her eyes and looked around, only to find that SHE WAS TIED TO HER BED!!
"You're awake." She heard a voice coming from next to her, opposite of the alarm. She turned her head to see the owner of the voice. It was the one and only Itachi Uchiha. He was sitting to her left boring a hole through her head with his sharingan.
'Oh, so it wasn't a dream after all.' Once again Autumn was seemingly calm until it hit her, harder than it did the first time.
'I'M GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!!' (…Umm, no.) Autumn turned her head, and looked up at Itachi, who hadn't moved an inch.
"Why the heck am I tied up?" 'I've always wondered what those age lines would look like in real life…'
"…"
"Right. I kinda need to leave so ca-" he cut her off, as Pein entered the room.
"You're here for interrogation."
"In MY house?"
"Yes," Kisame, who had been looking at a little mermaid figurine on the shelf, answered.
"In MY room?"
"…"
"Fine but why do I have to be TIED to MY bed?"
"So you don't escape, who knows what abilities you have." Pein stated, glaring at her alarm clock.
'Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei,
Nu ma, nu ma iei, nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei.
Chipul tau si dragostea din tei,
Mi-amintesc de ochii tai.'
"If you untie me I can turn it off," Autumn said, hopefully. 'And escape, with enough time to buy breakfast before school starts.'
"Or I can just smash it." Kisame said, looking in their direction.
"I'd rather you not. That thing was expensi-PUT THE WEAPON DOWN!" She shouted the last part, as Itachi took out a shuriken, and aimed at the clock.
"Fine, you answer our questions and Itachi won't break your noisemaker."
"Will you unite me?"
"…"
"Do you seriously think I'll run away, when you people have infested MY house?"
"I do not enjoy repeating myself, but in case… Unless you want to die an early and painful death, I insist that you HOLD YOUR TONGUE." He said sternly. That instantly shut her up.
"I will untie you." He stated as the ropes dissipated. Autumn quickly turned off her alarm and drew her attention back to Pein.
"Now for the first question: Where are we?"
"My house,"
"What Village are we in?"
"Gurnee,"
"Fine, What country are we in?"
"U.S.A,"
"That stands for?"
"United States of America."
"…"
"Is that all?"
"Maybe you don't understand the question. When I say "country", I mean which elemental country are we in?"
"None."
"What do you mean?"
"They don't exist." Wrong answer. With that, Autumn once again found herself painfully slammed against a wall, with a kunai pressed to her neck.
"This is no time to be joking, shoujo."
"I-I-I…" she stuttered as he pressed the kunai further onto her throat, drawing blood. "I'M NOT JOKING IT'S A REAL COUNTRY I EVEN HAVE A MAP TO PROVE IT!" He dropped her back on the bed.
"Show me this map of yours." Autumn got up and walked over to another room, with Itachi's eyes following her every move.
This room was occupied by large desk with a laptop on top, a couch, a big screen TV, and three Akatsuki members. Konan was standing by the door staring at its contents. Tobi was 'ooohing' and 'ahhing' at everything he saw, and Deidara was staring up at the TV. Autumn walked past Tobi who was poking her laptop and toward one of the cabinets at the desk. Opening it she pulled out a world atlas and walked back to her room.
"Here." She said handing Pein the atlas. "It's a book that has maps of the whole entire world." He opened it. "If you open it to page 11, you'll find a map of the U.S." he did and nodded. "If you open it to page115 you'll find a map of Illinois" she picked up her backpack.
"What is it?" He asked, as she was just about to walk downstairs.
"What's what?"
"This Illinois place."
"It's a state."
"…"
"It's like a mini country." Autumn responded, as she continued to walk downstairs. As she got close to the door, she was stopped by Pein, who had thought it was a good idea to just appear in front of her.
"Eep! Could you please not do that! You nearly gave me a freakin heart attack!"
Ignoring her, he got straight to the point.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"School." Just then, Tobi came behind her, laughing his head off.
"You still go to an Academy? I thought you were older than that!" Autumn ignored him as Pein stepped aside allowing her access to the garage where she got her skateboard and walked out to the driveway.
"Don't touch anything until I get back! Or I will get angry." An empty threat, but they nodded all the same. And with that Autumn took off down the street.
She skated to the speedway near her house and bought a doughnut, and a frapachino, and headed off to school. When she arrived she met her friend David, standing next to the door as usual.
"Hey Dave!" She shouted to him, as he came into view. David was a tall, thin boy who looked to be about 16, when really he was only 13. He was so thin he could hide behind a pole and completely disappear.
"Oh, HEY FALL!!" Get it? Since her name was Autumn, so her friends would call her Fall. David waved to her ecstatically.
"I thought you'd never show! You're usually here early!" And that too was the truth, because Autumn never had anything better to do in the morning she was always there too early.
"Well congratulations, the apocalypse is coming, I'M LATE!!" Autumn shouted the last part to his face as she rushed into the building. Now I suppose you're wondering, why is Autumn late, and David isn't? Well that's simple, no; they don't go to different schools. It's because Autumn had band rehearsal before school, and this goes a little into school too. Because of band she had no homeroom, but she was on the whole other half of the school building and had to get to first period on time, or risk public humiliation.
Little did she know that the whole way to school she was being watched.
"HELP!" Autumn yelled. It was the second half of 4th period, and that could only mean one thing. Recess.
Autumn was currently being chased by most, if not all of her guy friends. They did this a lot, but today was different. Today they were being serious. Two of her friends had asked her out, causing the group to separate into two halves. One half supporting a boy named Chris. The other, Tom. After wasting the first five minutes, fighting about it, the boys eventually agreed to let Fall decide. She had said that she didn't like either of them, so they created a different way to decide. Whoever could catch her first, won. Lucky for her, Autumn was on the track team as, well as cross country, but when you have half the boys in your grade chasing after you. Things get a little harder.
"I said, HELP!" Sadly for her, she was ignored. In fact people were making bets on who would win instead. Fall ran around to the back of the building. Big Mistake. Chris, and his supporters went around one side and Tom, and his group went the around the other, cornering her. As they closed in, Fall ran into a small crevice in the school building and hopped on a ladder near the end, pulling the ladder up as she went. She stood on the roof and looked into the woods next to the school. Scanning the woods she stopped cold when she saw something odd. Red eyes.
'Joy, more stalkers,' Still standing on the roof, she stared straight into the eyes and whispered,
"What the hell are you doing here?" The eyes disappeared and reappeared next to her along with their owner.
"..."
"Is everyone else here too?" She asked, crossing her arms.
"No, it's only me." He said, looking down at the groups of boys.
"Riiiiiiiiiiiight." Fall jumped onto the roof above the entrance, which was lower than the one she was on.
"Leader-sama wants to make sure you don't reveal our whereabouts to anyone."
"Well you made sure so, bye-bye!" Fall walked on the roof until she reached the gutters and used that to slide down.
"Ouch." Fall said out loud to herself. It was 7th period and time for Fall's favorite time of day. Gym class. Since it was Friday, they were playing a group game, which was for added fun, Dodge Ball.
'TWEEEEEET!!' The teacher blew his whistle. This was going to be fun. Autumn, who was on the opposite side of her friends, stayed in the back as everyone ran to the dividing line to grab a ball. Stupid idea. On both sides people got out within the first five seconds of the game. As soon as they went for the balls, someone got there first and hit them. Itachi gave a silent chuckle. He had followed Autumn inside, and hid in the rafters. This game was good for training. Very soon there were only four people left on Autumn's side, and the other side had about half of its people left.
"Why does this always happen?" She asked one of her teammates, Carrah.
"I don't know, but this is getting ridiculous. Look! They have all of the balls!" It was true. The other team refused to throw any of the balls until the game was over, which it would be soon if no one did anything.
"Duck!" another one of Autumn's remaining teammates, Jean, yelled. The girls did as they were told, and saw what had happened. Apparently one of the balls that had gotten stuck in the ceiling had just fallen. Carrah caught it, and tossed it to Autumn.
"Here, I can't throw very well." Autumn nodded, and threw the ball as far as she could, attempting to hit the basketball hoop in the back so that her team would get a jailbreak.
'TWEEEET!!!' Yes! She had made it! Autumn smiled as all of the kids on her team came back.
In the end, Autumn's team lost because they didn't win two out of the three games.
Fall was about to get on the bus when Itachi came up behind her.
"What do you want?"
"Nothing, let's go."
"I am."
"..."
"I'm taking the bus."
"..." Without a real response, Itachi grabbed Fall, and threw her over his shoulder. With that, he jumped off.
As the unfortunate duo landed at Fall's humble abode, Fall resumed her previous kicking and screaming, as well as a new attempt at begging and threatening.
"Put. Me. Down. NOW!!" she yelled as she was carried inside. Though unfortunately for her, (but also to her relief,) Itachi happily obliged. This girl had one set of lungs. Unknown to her, all of Autumn's previous cries of help had been heard, however, not by the right party. Autumn's cries had gotten the attention of all of the Akatsuki members in the house, as well as drawn them toward the front room, where Autumn was currently lying on the soft, carpeted floor, groaning from pain, and nausea (probably more from nausea than anything else.) Itachi sharingan-glared at her, but to no effect. Since one of her best friends was the 'Queen of Glares' Autumn had learned to ignore it, and instead, she just sat there and whimpered in pain and agony.
Warning: Here comes Hidan's mouth.
"DAMN IT YOU FUCKING BITCH, SHUT THE FUCKING HELL UP!!" Hidan yelled, (coughcoughscreamedcough) appearing at the top of the stairs. Autumn stopped what she was doing to turn her head and glare at him.
'One of these days I am so going to shoot him.' Autumn was a serious narutard, not just that, she used to be a complete anime freak! She had always loved most of the NARUTO characters, except Hidan, and some other choice people. She liked him a little, but HE KILLED ASUMA! (Which brings us to the to the up and coming question, HOW/WHY ARE HALF OF THESE PEOPLE ALIVE! And the answer to that will be brought up later, AKA: whenever I feel like telling you.) Autumn had read the manga, she was sure more than half these people were either dead, or in Hidan's case MIA, and if all of these people were alive, where was Sasori?
"Shoujo," Came a voice above her, snapping her out of her reverie. "Get up." (Polite, no?) It was Pein, who had happened to wander down stairs due to someone's yelling and screaming. Autumn did as she was told and was just about to walk away, until Pein grabbed her collar and redirected her toward the couch.
"What now?" She asked, exhausted from the whole trip there.
"Our interrogation this morning was interrupted." He responded, his voice, monotone.
'Joy,' Autumn walked over to the couch and sat down leaning to one side. Itachi put her stuff down, which he had been carrying, and joined Autumn on the couch.
"Do you know who we are?" It was then that Itachi gave Autumn his complete attention; Hidan had walked down stairs, and was currently smirking. Zetsu had been standing in a corner of the room unnoticed, Deidara was down there too, and currently glaring daggers at Tobi, who had taken Autumn's laptop, and was hugging it like a teddy bear. Kisame wasn't paying much attention, but was looking at a book about mermaids he had found in Autumn's room. Kakuzu was trying to estimate the worth of everything in the house, and Konan, being polite, gave both Pein and Autumn her full attention.
"Answer the question, Shoujo," Pein repeated, getting rather impatient. Autumn just nodded in response, earning concerned looks from everyone (not including Hidan who had already gotten his scythe out, and Kisame who still wasn't paying attention.) The next question surprised Autumn because she had expected Pein to just end it right then and there, and let the extremely eager Hidan kill her already.
"How?" He asked.
"Excuse me?" Autumn blinked in surprise.
"I asked how you knew who we were, you said the elemental countries didn't exist here, so we shouldn't exist here either." Pein responded growing an anime vein. Autumn stiffened noticeably and looked down. Everyone, (except Kisame) stared at her intently.
"Well?" Everyone wanted to hear the answer to that question, and they had more on their minds. "Why were they there", or even more importantly, "How did they get there?", that was the real question. All Pein remembered was:
Flashback: The Previous Day…
Pein was holding a meeting with the Akatsuki members because he had heard of a very strong chakra signature near by while Zetsu was on patrol. Later he sent everyone to search for the source. Zetsu found it coming from a... tree? This was definitely unusual. Circling the tree he had planned on releasing the chakra, but as soon as he had gathered everyone and tried, he ended up in the dark.
End Flashback…
Autumn reached into her pocket and found that what she was looking for was missing, her gun was gone. (You just now figure that out?) Even when she went to school, she would always keep her trusty pistol with her, it was her favorite gun after all.
"Looking for this?" she heard Pein ask, Autumn brought her head up and looked at the object being held in front of her face, it was her pistol, but how did he get this? Pein dropped the gun in her lap and explained.
"It fell while Itachi was carrying you upstairs this morning." Autumn nodded understanding, and then she got up and walked over to the closet by the garage door. Turning to stare at the Akatsuki Autumn signaled them to follow as she entered the depths of the closet. Reaching a certain point, she stopped. Instead of a wall, there was a locked door in the back. The keyhole looked old fashioned (Basically a circle with a little rectangle on the bottom) the only thing was, this keyhole didn't use a key. Autumn took her gun and stuck the barrel upside down into the hole, and turned it to the right, unlocking it. (There was a reason why that was her favorite gun.)
Stepping in the room, Autumn sighed, not enjoying the thought of being cramped in there with nine other people. It was quite spacious really. In the middle of the room there was a large water bed, a table in the corner, and shelves with books lining the walls. As everyone walked in, they were somewhat relieved that it was normal enough, not filled with weird technology, or weird weapons, it was a simple library. WRONG. Autumn pressed a button on a wall and one of the walls moved into the ceiling, revealing another room. Only this time, instead of being filled with books, it was filled with DVDs and one wall had a huge plasma screen TV. Autumn silently picked a DVD off the wall and pushed it into the DVD player. Autumn turned around and sweat dropped. When she turned she saw that Tobi, still holding the laptop, hanging off the top of one of the shelves.
"Look at me Sempai!" Autumn's sweat drop turned into an anime vein. Kisame was looking at a DVD of 'The Little Mermaid' both one and two. Deidara was looking at the cover of 'Fantasia 2000'. Zetsu's black half was eyeing her hungrily. Hidan was glaring at her. Kakuzu was gazing at the TV. Leaving only Itachi, Konan, and Pein at full attention. Autumn just sighed and chose an episode and let it play. She clapped and the lights went off as the episode started. Naruto episode #247, (Naruto Shippuden episode #27) everyone immediately looked at the screen, Itachi came up behind Autumn and held onto her.
'Probably making sure I don't leave, Stalker.' She thought to herself. After the episode was over Autumn turned the lights back on and waited quietly looking down at the floor.
"OOOh, that's what happened," Tobi said. Autumn kept looking down, hearing no other comments; she took that as her cue to explain.
"You are all in this show, called NARUTO"
"..." No one said anything after that until Hidan recovered enough to talk.
"Can I fucking kill the fucking bitch now?" Autumn's head shot up. Pein didn't say anything, sadly for Autumn, Hidan took that as the go ahead sign and charged at her. It was then Autumn's true survival skills kicked because she quickly aimed her gun and shot, but Itachi was still holding her throwing her aim off. Instead of shooting Hidan through the heart, she hit him elsewhere. Everyone in the room looked down Hidan who had doubled over in pain on the floor and there was more silence. Then they all looked at Autumn, who started giggling.
"Can't say he didn't deserve it…" she said shrugging in between giggles. And with that, Hidan broke out in a long string of curses, and Tobi, Deidara, and Kisame all broke out laughing.
"That would be quite enough," Pein stated calmly after he had regained his composure. He was going to make a mental note later to try to avoid that little girl's weapon at all costs. "And, you say that everyone here has seen this?" he asked Autumn, trying to avoid eye contact.
"I never said that." Autumn was in a very good mood after she had shot Hidan, and when she's happy, she goes out of her way to be as annoying as possible.
"What I meant was 'has everyone here seen this?" Pein was resisting the urge to glare at her.
"Well of course they have, you should know since you were just here I thought that as the Leader of the akatsuki the most feared criminal organization in all of the elemental countries, you would at least know whether all of your members just saw that, especially when it could be vital information that could lead to the reason why you're here in my house in the first place, and whether or not anyone would recognize you, if you went out on the streets." At the end of that (very long) sentence, Autumn was panting. Pein grew an anime vein (That rhymes!) and was just about to speak again, when Hidan cut him off.
"I AM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU FOR THAT, BITCH!"
"WHY ARE YOU YELLING?" Autumn replied, this was just getting stupid, but for her it was the most fun she's had in a lifetime.
"BECAUSE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"WHY?"
"BECAUSE YOU HIT ME WITH WHATEVER THAT WAS!"
"SO?"
"SO? SO I AM GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU FUCKING BITCH!"
"WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO DIE?"
"WELL THAT'S TO BAD! I'M GOING TO SACRIFICE YOU TO JASHIN-SAMA BITCH!"
"WHO'S HE?"
"WHAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF JASHIN-SAMA? WHAT DO THEY TELL YOU PEOPLE AROUND HERE?"
"WHY ARE WE STILL YELLING?"
"BECAUSE I'M STILL GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"WELL IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP I'M GOING TO EAT YOU BOTH AND LEADER-SAMA WILL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW MEMBER TO BE KAKUZU'S PARTNER, AND THERE WILL BE ONE LESS SHOUJO IN THIS WORLD!" That shut them both up, Zetsu who had been standing silently in the corner had finally cracked, and that was a sincere threat.
After that little outburst Hidan was brooding in a corner, and Autumn had run and hid behind Itachi of all people, though you can't blame her, he's partially sane at least. (That just gave me a flashback to one part of FF VII Advent children… If you don't know what I'm talking about, I suggest you watch the movie again and again until you get it.)
"I will ask you one more time, has every one in your world seen this?" Pein asked, silently thanking Zetsu.
"N-n-noo," Autumn managed still hiding behind Itachi, said weasel raised an eyebrow, but thought nothing of it.
"So you're the only one?" He calmed down a bit more.
"No"
"..." And he went through the roof again.
"Only some people, whoever watches these online, or reads the manga." Pein nodded, he had no idea what she had just said, but he was sure it meant that not everyone knew them that well.
"Is this all?"
"No, there's a lot more, the fact that in the next two or three episodes, Deidara appears to have committed suicide, but didn't," 'sadly' she added under her breath. "There's the part where Deidara attempts to strangle Tobi with his legs, after his arms are blown off." With that everyone looked over at Deidara,
"But, Deidara-sempai didn't kill Tobi, because Tobi is a good boy!" Tobi added earning a glare from Deidara himself.
"It seems that you already know who we all are, shoujo so I-" She cut him off,
"My name isn't shoujo, my name is Autumn" he glared at her and Autumn just twirled her gun a few times causing Pein to pale considerably.
"Well Autumn, we will apparently be staying with you for awhile," the tone in his voice stated that, that wasn't up for discussion, so Autumn just nodded in return.
"Fine, but if you're going to live in my house, you have to follow my rules (1)."
The next week (Saturday) 3:04pm …
Autumn was finished with her homework, and was sitting in front of the TV with her laptop in her room when there was a knock at the door.
"Come in," it was Itachi. "You're not supposed to bother me remember?"
"You're not busy." It was true, she was bored beyond all reason, and hence the fact that she was playing pong on her computer.
"Your point?"
"..." Autumn just sighed closed her laptop and got up. Stopping right behind Itachi not looking up, she briefly spoke,
"I'm leaving." And with that, she walked over to the glass sliding door, opened it and left.
Autumn didn't make it two blocks when Itachi appeared in front of her and grabbed her arm leaving with only a silent 'poof' in the night.
Itachi had taken Autumn back to her house, and they had appeared in the living room, surrounded by the other members. Itachi took his place in the circle while Autumn looked to Pein to explain.
"After you hurt Hidan last week your chakra signature reached a very high level," he started," Though from what Itachi told me from when he was following you this morning there no shinobi in this world, therefore you are not taught to control of release that chakra."
"Now what does that have to do with me?" She asked as he continued,
"Because you were never taught to control your chakra, it sealed itself inside you until it eventually becomes part of your normal chakra flow rendering it useless." (Talk about complicated.) "Apart from where we come from the process seems to happen almost immediately after birth here, rendering your chakra useless at about the age of 5."
"And you figured this out within a week?"
"What else would we do all day while you're at school, un." Deidara said. Autumn glanced at Itachi who had been stalking her all week, but said nothing.
"Your chakra is unlike any other I've seen, that includes in our world, but to be able to harness it, it must be unsealed." and with that he and the others started making hand seals causing Autumn to get dizzy,
"KATSU!!" suddenly Autumn felt a strong and painful sensation take over her body and she screamed. After about a minute she drifted into darkness, sweet darkness.
(1) Autumn's Rules:
Don't bother me when I'm busy
Don't touch my gun
Don't break anything
NEVER go in my parent's room
Don't attempt to kill me
Don't touch me
Do as I say, when I say
NO explosions
Don't get any blood on the carpet
Don't go outside without me
Don't touch my stuff
Don't kill anyone
Don't use any type of jutsu without my permission