Hello, man I love this story, I love making the twists and turns in the plot. Making the Akatsuki boys suffer is amazing fun, and if you have any suggestions on how to make them suffer, by all means, give me them by reviews, I love adding them in, and changing the story ever so slightly just to add them in.

Khan: Thank you so much. I hope you like this chapter as well.

last-blue mage: Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Enjoy the chapter!

charmunclefleeblix-san: Thanx, I like Cobalt too!

Gaara's Pyro RACCOON: Ha! As you already know, I used that one already.. somewhere.. Can't wait for your next idea!

Tsuki Kagami: My, my, my, you do know that this story is after the time skip right? You'll find out about the ritual soon (like after all the reviews) k?

Devil-Speaker: I know wasn't it? I LOVE Cobalt! Best thing about it is.. SHE'S THE ONLY ONE I OWN MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ahem excuse me for that… had to get it out of my system

Crystalline Dream: Thanks for the idea, unfortunately, Cobalt doesn't see Sasori alive after this… so sad tear anyway, I will fit your other suggestion when she gets back to the Akatsuki lair

This chapter is quite boring, since I had to explain the ritual and such, anyway..

BTW… I don't own anything!!! Except for Cobalt and the outside world she came from…

Enjoy!

-Otakucraze

Chapter 6

(A/N: I have problems with the ritual because I don't want to ruin it for the people who do not watch the episode of Naruto in Japanese (you blasphemers!) and are not up to speed with the Shippuuden arc, but I will do the ritual anyway, and all you people who watch the dub (a.k.a you dirty little sinners) WATCH THE JAPANESE VERSION!)

Zetsu and I arrived at a statue in what I supposed was a cave. We both ended up on different fingertips. The leader was beside the body of a boy with red hair. He seemed to be unconscious. He disappeared and reappeared on one of the empty fingertips. He too made a hand seal and the statue opened its mouth and a scroll like thing came out mouth.

"This is going to take us three days and three nights." The leader said "Everyone be careful with the body. I also want Zetsu to keep watch on the area outside. Use your longest range."

"I know" Zetsu said

"Three days" Kisame said "Shouldn't we give it more time, since Orochimaru is no longer here?"

"If that is how you feel, then start working on it already" The leader replied

"That's right" Itachi said as he too made the seal that the leader was doing and closed his eyes.

"Fair enough" Kisame said as he took Itachi's example and did the seal himself and closed his eyes as well.

"Let's do it" Deidara said, already doing the hand seal and closing his eyes

At Deidara's statement everyone else did the seal and closed their eyes and bowed their heads.

The leader's fingertip began to glow around the fingernail part and the character for zero appeared in the light. Deidara's was next to appear, his character said blue. Mine glowed next with the character of white showing up in the fingernail area. Itachi's glowed next and his character said crimson

'Appropriate' I thought to myself as I peeked at the character. 'Crimson is the color of his blood red eyes'

Zetsu's character appeared on his fingernail area of the fingertip he was standing on next, his character said boar. Kisame's glowed next and the character for South appeared. Kakuzu's character appeared next, his character was north. Hidan's character appeared next, the character read three. The character for orb appeared which was none other than Sasori's, who was once again in his scorpion puppet.

Something blue started to appear out of the mouth of the statue.

"Fuuin no Jutsu, Genryuu Kyuufuujin" The leader said.

At the sound of the Jutsus name the blue.. thing transformed into long, thin dragon heads with very narrow bodies that went straight for the body below us. All of them at once crashed into the body of the unconscious boy, causing the ground to break up beneath him and throwing him slightly into the air. The blast caused dust and debris to rise, and swallow everything in the cave with it. I fought the urge to cough, and I am sure I wasn't the only one. When the debris cleared I saw the boy, who had flown in the air due to the impact of the dragons, was completely surrounded and enclosed in the blue substance. Something red started coming out of the boy's eyes and mouth. The boy started moaning in pain. More and more of the red substance came out of the boy. The red substance that was coming from the boy went into the mouth of the statue, and slowly one of the eyes, the one on the left side on the bottom, closest to the middle eye, cracked open just a tad. The moaning from the boy had become louder as the red substance was taken from him, and slowly but surely, more and more eyes from the statue began to crack open. When all of the eyes from the statue had cracked open, Zetsu had very interesting news for those of us doing the ritual.

"There are enemies closing in on the base"

"Enemies?" Deidara said, slightly shocked

"And they seem to be fairly powerful" Zetsu added, as if an afterthought. "One of them is called Maito Gai. Who's that?"

"A skilled Konoha Jounin who uses Taijutsu, don't take him lightly" Itachi answered

"That wild animal again, eh?" Kisame said, I almost snorted as the thought of him coming from Canada came to my head. "We'll use that technique" Kisame added

"All right then let me go, I've had a hell of a time finding my Jinchuuriki and it's starting to piss me off" Hidan said

"No, I'll go" Kisame said "I've got a bit of a score to settle with him"

"That's fine" Hidan said,

'Aw, look, the Akatsuki members are getting along!' I thought, smirking to myself evilly.

"The technique suits you better anyway, considering you have the greatest amount of chakra in Akatsuki, Kisame" Hidan added to his previous comment

"Indeed" Kisame said

"Even so, I'll need about a third of your chakra" The leader added

"My, my, it looks like I can finally get even with him for kicking me" Kisame said. Kisame seemed to go into a flashback and I was tempted to throw something at him, but because of the fact that leader-sama would get mad for disrupting the ritual I behaved.

"There are more coming" Zetsu said

"It's been a bit crazier this time around, Deidara" Leader-dono said

"Well, this Jinchuuriki was stronger than the other two" Deidara said, shocked that he was getting the blame for this

"I tried to tell you, your techniques aren't good for stealth missions" Sasori said

"Call me crazy, but I remember your traps being pretty excessive too, master" Deidara said, getting slightly pissed off and acting like his arrogant self

"What did you say?!" Sasori said, anger clearly in his voice

"Shut up, the both of you!" Leader-dono said "Just focus on the technique. Who else is going?" He added

"Can I go this time?" Hidan asked

"It's more Konoha shinobi" Zetsu said

"Tch" Hidan said angrily

"It's decided, then" Leader-sama said as he looked at Itachi

Meanwhile the ritual was still going and the eyes of the statue, all nine of them were opening up faster every second. I started to get excited. I wanted to know what would happen next.

The boy was still moaning and groaning because of pain as the red substance was taken from him and gobbled up by the statue with the nine eyes

"Itachi has made contact with the enemy" Leader-dono said "Kisame is already fighting"

The ritual went on a while longer, until finally all nine eyes of the statue had opened

"The technique has ended?" Rei-sama said "We've bought enough time for now. That's good enough. Well done Kisame, Itachi."

"How about a little gratitude, considering the bodies you sacrificed were my subordinates!" Sasori said, clearly pissed off

"Hmp, you should be thanking me" Rei-dono said "Thanks to my shape-shifting technique they were able to become full Akatsuki members, if only for a short time" Rei-dono looked at the Jinchuuriki then said "Almost done"

The red substance was still being extracted from the boy's body when Rei-dono talked once more.

"Zetsu, clean up those two we used for the shape-shifting technique"

"Roger" My partner said

"Itachi, brief us on the numbers and any special abilities they have." Rei-dono said

"They are moving in a four-man cell, consisting of Konoha's Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura, the kyuubi Jinchuuriki Uzumaki Naruto, and the Sand's senior counselor Chiyo" Itachi said, at the name of Kakashi I shivered.

With my excellent hearing I could hear Sasori mumble "Did he say Granny Chiyo?"

Hours past before Rei-dono talked once more

"We're about to enter the final stage" I felt like cheering when I heard that, I was beyond exhausted. I had spent three days using the little chakra I had. It wasn't fair. That's all I had to say. It. Wasn't. Fair.

"What should we do about those annoying flies?" Kisame asked

"They were faster then I thought" Zetsu said

"Not a problem, we've delayed them enough" Rei-dono said "That, and we have a back-up plan"

"Meaning the two of us will have to finish them off" Deidara said, as he looked at Sasori

"Let's hurry and get this done Deidara" Sasori said "We've got some guests on the way. And we've got to make sure we are ready for them"

"That's right, we need to prepare a good welcome" Deidara said

"They are rather annoying, aren't they?" Kisame said, directing the question towards Itachi

"Tch, man, we haven't even found our Jinchuuriki yet.." Hidan said

"Settle down. We'll complete our mission soon enough" Kisame said to his partner

"Enough of the idle chatter, focus" Rei-dono said "I won't forgive any screw-ups from now on"

I looked at the statue and saw that though the eyes of the statue were now open, only two had irises, the other seven were completely white, and creeped me out a little. Slowly another iris appeared in one of the eyes of the statue

"Almost there" Rei-dono said

At last the blue stuff took the last of the red substance from the boy

"Its finished" Rei-dono said. I didn't understand not all the eyes on the statue had irises, and the middle eye didn't have an iris!

And the boy fell

"Whew" Sasori said

"It ended up taking three days and three nights" Deidara said

"It's exhausting every time we do it, isn't it?" Kisame said I felt better knowing that I wasn't the only one exhausted beyond belief

"Seriously, that took forever!" Hidan said as the rotated his shoulder

"Good job, everyone" Rei-dono said

At that last word, everyone left.

Zetsu had "come back" to his body (remember during the ritual he had "spread himself" so that he could see if any enemies were coming) and we proceeded to walk to the hideout.

I collapsed on the ground and took deep breaths. I took the flower from my hair and began to play with it, and I noticed that the petals were sharp. I smirked, Sasori had not given me a decoration, he gave me a weapon . I smiled and got up to help Zetsu who was fixing up my tent. After my tent was up I got in and curled up in my sleeping bag and went to sleep, Zetsu liked to sleep on the ground I had found out. Of course, if I decided to use common sense, he was a plant after all.

I was awoken by noise in the middle of the night coming from outside my tent. I grabbed my can of pepper-spray and went outside and sprayed it at the first thing that moved. The person screamed and turned around, it was then I noticed that it was Zetsu I sprayed, he was talking to some plants, secondly I didn't spray him with pepper-spray, I sprayed him with weed-killer.

"WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE THAT WITH YOU?!" He screamed at me. I shrugged

"Is there something wrong with being prepared?"

"YOU SPRAYED ME WITH WEED KILLER!!"

"Well, you woke me up. Besides, I thought I grabbed the pepper-spray.." I said as I crawled back inside my tent, once more snuggling into my sleeping bag "AND IF YOU WAKE ME UP AGAIN, NOT ONLY WILL I SPRAY YOU WITH WEED KILLER AGAIN, I'LL SPRAY YOUR CHILDREN TOO!!" I yelled as an afterthought.

I slept very nicely that night.