An arm wrapped around her waist as she slowly opened her eyes. The wall was staring at her as she tried to move. The more she moved, the more the arm tightened around her. She was sure a bruise would be made. Shaking her head, she attempted to move once more. It was then it struck her.

She was not in her bed.

Oh no.

She was in someone else's bed and it wasn't a girl. A s the realization hit her, a shriek nearly left her soft lips. Koko was far from pleased. She struggled even harder, but the male just ended up moving on top of her. Her crushed lung fought for air. The body was too heavy to be her brother and besides… she couldn't feel the cold metal of the piercings.

"'et off!" she said softly, as she pushed against him. He held on to her tighter, mumbling a name.

"ri…" was heard.

"Oi, Itachi, wake the fuck up!" she smacked his head, leaving a bruise in the shape of her hand. "Goddamnit! I am not going to sleep with you or on you! So get the fuck off me you rapist!"

The door opened and someone stepped inside. "Well, my darling!" a woman's voice started. "What happened to, 'you're the only woman I'll ever be with'? You unfaithful creep!"

Itachi jumped, off of Koko and stared at the woman, she looked just like him. "Tori!" he started, he got up. "Where were you?"

"On a mission, unlike somebody I know!" the woman, now identified as Tori, screamed. "Been a little busy in here have you? You planning to sleep with her? What about the 'binding vows' we took! You moron!"

"Tori-"

"Oi! I refuse to sleep with a minor! And where the bloody do you get to tell off that I'm his bloody whore! I have more bloody fucking dignity then that! And what the hell do you mean by binding vows?!" she glared at Tori once more before turning to Itachi. Grapping him by the collar, she snarled in his face. "Why the fuck are you in my-" She looked around. "… room? This isn't my room, is it? " She looked at Koko.

"No, it isn't Koko."

"Let me just say this," Tori started. "He's entitled, usually, to sleep in the same bed."

Koko looked at Itachi. "So, you're married. Bah, what a waste of good looks. I mean, seriously. Tori is so too beautiful for the likes of you," Koko nodded to herself as her arm came around his neck. "Why the hell didn't you tell me you were married?!"

"I don't know you," he replied.

"Bitch."

"KOKO!" Pien's voice echoed around her. He had come up from behind Tori. "Get over here… NOW!" The girl crossed her arms and stood behind Itachi, sticking her tongue out. "Queenie!"

"Koko, I won't say it again."

"Crybaby. Bedwetter. Girlyboy!" she said once more, acting like a little kid. Pien just cocked an eyebrow. So strange, his sister was. So weird, she was, but he couldn't help but feel a twinge of envy. She could be so lively and free. She could act like a young kid.

He nearly put a hand to his earrings. They served as reminders for all the times he had hurt his s- no, not his. Not anymore. The time of remembering was over. Now, he had to take control of the situation, or Koko would continue to disrespect everything around him. This was her test to him, to see if he still had had the guts to act like a leader.

"Koko!" he put all force into that one word. She looked him in the eyes. It said she had all she needed to know.

"Alright," she said and pushed Itachi out of her way, as she made her way to Pien. "Sweetheart. I won't break them up… unless… well, I can't make promises I can't keep, can I? But perhaps… if you… well, no, nevermind then, dear."

"Koko, I am warning you!"

"Go ahead and warn me, my little god. Go ahead and scare me. I'm craving it!" she said implying many things, though none of it was correct. "I'm waiting for your pretty little eyes to hurt me. I'm waiting for them to turn on me once more. After all, it all comes so easily for you. " Old scars were bleeding. Old hate, returning into that exact showing eye. His little goddess.

"Koko-"

"No, it's family matter and we will discuss it more when we are…. By ourselves. You know where to meet me, my little slave." With that, she was gone. Eyes looked at him. He shrugged and went into the other direction, transporting within moments.

Tori and Itachi looked at each other in confusion. What the hell had just taken place/!

Xxxxx

Koko took upon a rock, her eyes closed. The wind seemed to glide across her skin, making her look as though she was floating in the air. Her mouth was partly open, her hair now, somehow longer. Her outfit was still the same, laced up perfectly.

Pien had always thought she pretty. Now, he though she was beautiful. Standing there for a moment, he looked as though he was meeting a secret lover. He almost laughed at that. Koko and him? It was a thought was too disgusting but you had to laugh. As far as he knew, they couldn't even last one second in a room without insulting each other. He had done some much to hurt her and she always came back. Whether it was for him or for more pain, she didn't know for sure. She had always been a little… strange.

"So, you really would do it again, wouldn't you, my little dove?" he asked softly. "You'd really kill them if you had too."

She opened her eyes to stare at him. He got a clear view of them both. And both equally different. And yet, they compliment her. Neither one nor the other, always the outcast, always being blamed, because she was different. So much like those jinikuri. It pained him sometime. It was way, he never really looked at those poor souls. And at the same time, he was trying to do them a favor.

"I'd kill all of you children," she replied. "Just so you'd feel a twinge of guilt. And I would bathe in their blood and play their betraying screams of mercy… just for you. I am the blood but you, you are the prized jewel. Once they seized the jewel, the blood would all but soon fade away with all the memories of those who helped."

"Koiishi…"

"No, don't call me that," she said. "I'm no Koiishi you knew. The one you knew, has long since grown up. Know this though, the next time, you won't get away scott free. I'm make sure that your pretty little whore is dead." Her voice said she was not joking. Her eyes promised. And her body… shook. He didn't know with what.

Koko knew time was running out. After all, if that task wasn't completed soon, she knew that it would turn on her. Yet… she couldn't.

"Koko?"

"Don't say anything, you little bastard. You left me for dead back then! You made me loose everything I ever wanted! I gave up everything for you and you couldn't let me have this one little piece of happiness!" she moved away from him, hysterial. She always had bad mood swings. "I scarificed almost everything I was, to protect you. But the two times I ever happy with someone else, you had to take them away from me!"

"Koko, what do you mean?! He was going to kill you! He was using you… even abusing you! I was trying to protect you!"

"No, you weren't. you were trying to protect yourself. I knew he was trying to break me, to kill me. I'm not that dumb. I chose to stay with him, Natago. I chose, just this once, to let myself smile for someone other than you!" They both heard footsteps. When they looked at each other, their masks were back on.

"YOU PIG!"

Kakazu showed himself, looking at both redheads.

"Leader," he said. "Koko."

"Zombie man!"

When they both looked to Pien, he was gone. Koko smirked at his empty place. For now, she had won the war. But many more battles were to come. And she made sure she would win. Pain was something you could deal with. But revenge, as they say is bittersweet. For her, it was the sweetest thing she had ever known. And Natago's death would be the sweetest of them all.

"Koko, come on now," he said darkly. "You've had enough time to threaten him. It's times to go."

"Alright then. But don't forget about the bargain we made. You better be doing your half."

"I always am, leader."

"That's more like it."

"Uh… Koko?"

"Hmm?"

"Don't get in over your head."

Not a word was said after that.