"Speak" Zetsu speaking.

Words like this are thoughts

"normal speech"

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The Dark Chapter 2: Barrier

It has been a few days and Deidara was close to the hideout when Pain decided to contact everyone through their rings. Once everyone stood on around looking somewhat like a hologram he began.

"She will be arriving soon, prepare yourselves we don't know what she's capable of" Pain after his announcement glanced at Zetsu as if to hint for him to explain the rest, before vanishing with Konan.

"Allow me to explain, recently a girl went missing from the Rain village, and rumors has it that she has an ability but no one seems to know anything abo-"

"Sounds like a good puppet for my collections" Sasori interrupted.

"Interesting" Kisame said amusingly.

"Can we continue now?" Zetsu's darker side angrily asked. Once silence fell again Zetsu's white side continued "Orchimaru has decided to take a liking to this girl and taken her in for further testing."

"Then when she comes here, better check her eyes" Kisame chuckled.

"Anyways, because we know Orchimaru's motives we've decided to take in this girl for our own benefits." With that everyone disappeared to return to their own tasks.

...

Deidara landed his clay bird by the hideout entrance and jumped off, followed by the girl next to him. He made a hand symbol and the entrance slide open. Once it fully was open he gestured her to follow into the dark cave. He noticed how expressionless the girl was, she reminded him of that dam Uchiha, he hoped she wasn't an Uchiha as well. As he led her through the dark cave, but not too dark, he opened a well lit room that looked rather plain. The walls were black, the bed was in the middle of the room, a small plain bed, with red sheets, and the only other thing in the room was a closet in the far corner.

"Wait here, hm" Deidara ordered while throwing the bag of food on the bed for her. "Finish it" and with that he left while closing the door behind him.

Akumi glanced at the bag and instantly her stomach growled, she glanced at the door, then back at the bag. Walking slowly over to the bed, she sat on it, and opened it taking once again a few spoonfuls, and putting it away, she placed the rest next to the bed on the ground as she sat waiting.

After what felt like an hour, there was a knock on the door, Akumi stared, wondering if it's the man with sun colored hair again, but still she didn't reply.

"I'm coming in" Surprisingly, it was woman's voice. The door clicked open, Akumi watched as a female walked in. She was tall this women, tall and thin, though the cloak made it hard to tell. She had washed out blue hair, with orange eyes, and a piercing under her bottom lip. Her expression met Akumi's, blank.

"Hello, my name is Konan, I am a member of the organization called Akatsuki. You were brought here from order by our leader. We took you away from a man named Orchimaru, he is known for his traitor's behaviour and his disregard for humanity." Konan explained. "Our group spy, who you have already met, discovered your absences and as a group we decided to take you away from Orchimaru's selfish uses" Akumi simply stared thinking to herself that perhaps they too know about her ability and they too probably want her for that alone.

"Kindly follow me as I introduce you to the others" As always Akumi listened and did as she was ordered. They walked out of the room towards the opposite way she had come from, into a open area, there stood eight men, all wearing the same cloak. They didn't seem to notice Konan's and Akumi's arrival, a white haired man was arguing with a masked man, and the blond man was arguing with a shorter, old looking man with a scorpion like tail. From this distance Akumi couldn't make out what they were arguing about.

"Silence!" The leader demanded, and all obliged, noticing the girl next to Konan in front of them.

"I guess I'll start, I'm Hoshigaki Kisame of the seven swordsmen" the man was blue, if anything he resembles a shark with spiky blue hair. Akumi noticed his crossed of headband of the mist village, then she noticed they all had crossed off headbands from their village.

"And I'm fucking Hidan, praise Jashin-sama" The man next to him nearly yelled it, while holding his necklace, which was a circle with a triangle in the middle.

"Settle down you oaf, no one cares about your religion,-" The masked man this time spoke, he had red and greens eyes, the only thing that showed on his face. You couldn't even see his nose.

"What'd you say you old prick!" Hidan yelled back. "I'll sacrifice you to Jashin-"

"SILENCE!" Pain demanded again, and Hidan tched.

"I'm Kakuzu" Akumi looked at each one as they introduced themselves but she kept going back at the shark looking man, Kisame.

"I'm Sasori of the red sand" the short man said with the tail.

"You've already met me, hm, I'm Deidara" His smile was on his lip, as always.

"As well as I. I'm Zetsu" Said the plant man.

"Uchiha Itachi" out of all of them he looked and seemed quite normal. Lastly Akumi turned her head to the last one, the one she assumed is the leader.

"..." He didn't say anything he simply glared.

...AKUMI POV...

Kisame, he seems really strong, well I mean he has a lot of Charka, and it's all over him, I couldn't help but stare at him, and what a strang sword, it's wrapped up. The leader seems strong too, I've never seen eyes like his, and I wonder what they are. My eyes stared at his headband. He's from the rain village, like me. Or at least his was, he has it crossed out, I wonder why he left. I wonder why they all left.

"Konan, escort her back to the room. Itachi you will try to get into her mind with your sharigan soon after" The leader instructed. Sharigan? My mind? So they were after my ability.

Konan walked me back to the room, along the way there was silence, she didn't speak, nor did I.

"Please wait here" Once again I was left in the room. They haven't even asked for my name. I walked over at the closet and opened it. It was empty, but on the inside there was a mirror. I stared at myself. I stared at the scratches and dirt all over my face and legs and arms, I stared at all the rips and holes in my once white dress. I stared at my hollow cheeks and my ripped lips. I can't remember the last time I saw myself, so this is how I look. My hair had gotten long and heavy from how dirty and oily it was. I was short, short and thin; Konan was probably thicker than me. I looked like a board. But my eyes. For a moment I started to not believe my eyes were mismatched colors. I was told it was, but I had no memory of seeing them myself. The right one was bright green, a little on the emerald side. While the other one was silver.

There was another knock, and my head turned to the door.

"I'm coming in" It was hollow male this time. I closed the closet door and turned completely to face the door as Itachi walked in and closed the door. "Come stand in front of me" And again I followed. I could feel my feet aching, I could feel the pain, but once again I couldn't register it in my head. Itachi's eyes were closed, as if preparing something. Itachi eventually opened his eyes, they were red this time, they were pitch black but red. He stared at me, as I stared back up at him. I felt something, something in my mind, something invisible trying to go through my mind, searching. I couldn't move. I was forced in place. So this was the sharigan he was speaking about, his eyes were bleeding, his teeth was clenched tight, he seemed to be struggling. He was shaking now, it been awhile, he still hasn't gotten through, but I felt something else, I felt a strong feeling. It felt heavy this feeling, on my chest, it felt thick, as if someone was suffocating you. But I wasn't suffocating, no one was covering my nose or mouth, no one had blocked my airway. Was this how something Itachi has felt? How sad. However, I was frozen, forced to simply look at him struggle and I feel such a dislikeable feeling, but eventually I felt the force weaken as well as the feeling subsiding and he stopped, he closed his eyes, and kept them closed. I hadn't noticed the tear falling down my right cheek, and drip offs my chin. I couldn't understand what was wrong. I feel nothing, and yet I can't help it.

Did I hurt him? Why were his eyes bleeding? Should I ask if he's okay?

"Does it hurt?" I wasn't sure if I was asking about his eyes, or about what I felt from him, and when we locked eyes, I was sure he was questioning what I meant by that. My voice was raspy, weak and quiet; I hadn't used my voice in years, in the end maybe he didn't hear my voice, maybe it was so quiet, and raspy he couldn't make out what I had said. It didn't matter anyways, it was none of my business. He grabbed his bleeding eye, and walked towards the door without a word, he glanced back at me one more time before opening the metal door, and closing it shut, with a click, and a creek.

...Narrator POV...

Itachi walked back into the meeting room, where Pain, Konan, and Zetsu waited, they turned once he walked in, his hand where he held his eye was dripping blood.

"I couldn't manage to break through into her head" Itachi admitted.

"..."

"What should we do Leader-sama?" Zetsu turned to his leader, as well as Konan, waiting for Pain to reply.

"For now, keep an eye on her, report any changes or anything out of the ordinary, and notify the others" Pain vanished with Konan after this command.

...

Itachi sat on the ledge by a lake staring out as the wind blew through his hair. It was place where he had first met Kisame. He thought about the event earlier that day, with that girl, and what she had asked after. The memory of that moment flashed through his head, and her words at the end, he was almost sure she had asked if it hurt. Her face was expressionless, and yet he wondered why she had a tear down her face. His shargian method he had used wasn't supposed to hurt the victim; he specifically made sure of it. So, why?

Footsteps approached Itachi from behind, and he already knew who it was. His partner. Just like when they first met in the same place.

"I heard what happened" As always his voice was amused. "It seems you're losing your touch" He continued. Itachi closed his eyes and remained silent.

...AKUMI POV...

I was left alone for rest of the evening and night, no one came, and no one bothered to stay. Once again I took some spoonfuls of the food before lying back in bed. I thought about what had happened in a span of a week, I was kidnapped, by a man named Orchimaru for testing, I had slept there for who longs how long and I was taken away by this organization when I awoke, and now I was in another bed. This time though, there wasn't a machine by me, there wasn't any needles poking at me, there wasn't any other substance. It was just a room for me to stay in, to sleep in.

A week ago I'd be on the streets, starving once more, my clothes wet, in the middle of the Rain village as everyone rushed pass in the rain getting to their homes after a day of work. No one would look; no one would even pretend to care. Everyone was busy in their own world and their own lives. The rain village was destroyed from the war, when the war ended many years later though, something inside me ended too. Time to time I'd see children playing with their parents, jumping in puddles and laughing in the rain village and I'd stare from the corner from afar. I'd wonder what it would be like to be reborn again in a different life. I wonder what it'd be like to be able experience all kinds of things.

Today, today I felt something though, something I've never felt before, but it wasn't my feelings, it was Itachi's. Despite his expressions and how hollow he seems, he too has felt things, as horrible as it felt. In the end, it really isn't my business.

I kept replaying the week in my head, until I could feel my eyes lids getting heavier as my head was sunken into the soft pillow. And eventually, my eyes closed and I drifted back into the dark.

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