"Easy." He walked past Rix and ruffled her hair, she bit her bottom lip to keep from making the same mistake. A small stream of blood streaked down her chin. Hidan snorted from suppressed laughter and Rix glared daggers at him in return. She saw a napkin being held out to her. She looked over to the person, it was Sasori. Weird, he just tried to kill her yesterday and now he's showing some sort of kindness.

"Thanks." She took the napkin and wiped away the blood and held it to the puncture that her tooth made in her lip. Kisame and Itachi sat at the table and Itachi noticed that she was holding the napkin to her lip. He didn't even have to ask, the look on his face asked the question. "I bit it." He just nodded. Rix felt the warm liquid seep through the napkin a bit.

"How much fucking blood do I have in my lip?" Rix quickly rushed to her bedroom, leaving the other people in the kitchen a little confused. She ran into the bathroom, leaving the door open, it didn't matter because she was just trying to stop the bleeding. She eventually did get it to stop and sighed, looking at the bloodied napkin. Damn, I have a lot of blood, apparently.

"You've got training." Rix turned around and found Kakuzu in the doorway. Rix nodded her head.

"Do you know with who?"

"Sasori's puppet." Kakuzu shrugged. "Technically Sasori." Rix sighed and exited the room with Kakuzu. Rix was mentally preparing for the training while following Kakuzu to the training grounds. They walked out to a big field with the whole Akatsuki, save for Leader and his partner, off to the side. Rix walked out to the middle of the field, directly opposite of Sasori and his summoned puppet.

"All you have to do is land a hit." That's all he said before commanding his puppet to attack Rix. The puppet went for a direct blow to the stomach but Rix jumped to the side, just out of it's way. She tried for a kick to it's face but it grabbed her by the ankle and threw her to the side. She hit the ground on her back then tumbled with the rest of the force. She ran at the puppet and ended up just blocking punches and kicks. It didn't let her have enough time to even try to gain the advantage.

She dodged for hours, her energy depleting. She had to get time to catch some of her breath, and she knew it. She finally was able to jump away and summon her own taka. She jumped onto him and flies into the air, contemplating what to do next. She finally caught her breath and dived down then jumped from the bird, releasing the summon. She landed onto her feet and popped a few food pills.

Okay, Hagane, I need some of that power. Rix quickly started to feel new energy and power rush into her body. Two steel cat ears emerged from her head and a long tail appeared. Both being made out of plates of steel. Her canines grew noticeably in size and she dropped to all fours. She raced towards the puppet at immense speed and threw a low kick to try to knock it's legs from underneath it. That failed so she jumped backwards.

She told Hagane that she need the next level of power and he willingly gave it to her. Her whole body was covered in steel plates and she had paws and claws, the whole deal. She turned into a tiger, she looked like a miniature form of Hagane. She ran at it again, swiping sharp claws at the puppet. That wasn't any help. More hours of intense training and brutal beating from his puppet was taking a huge toll on her body. She let go of Hagane's power hours ago and was just about to collapse. She mustered up some more energy and went for another hit.

She was about five centimeters away from a good blow but the puppet was too fast. The puppet kicked her away and actually went for a weapons attack. The puppet shot out senbon. Sasori was hoping that she would dodge because they were poisoned. He didn't mean to trigger that mechanism but his finger's joints were needing to be oiled after this.

Rix's body couldn't take anymore and began to give into unconscious. She noticed the senbon and tried to move but her body wouldn't move. Move! Move, dammit, MOVE! The moment the senbon slid nicely into her flesh she passed out and fell backwards. Deidara knew that those needles were poisoned and ran over to Rix, her breathing was struggled and heavy. He put his ear to her chest and listened to her lungs around the senbon.

"Danna! You punctured her lungs!" Deidara yelled to Sasori with a hint of anger but mostly just worry and urgency. The others ran up to the unconscious girl at the alarm in Deidara's voice. Sasori was one of the first to get to her after Deidara's yell. The blow she took was cheap, but not something to be taken lightly. He checked her pulse, and it was like small twitches, fleeting movements but no real energy. She was barely hanging on. Sasori checked her breathing and listened to her lungs around the senbon, and he could hear the punctures in her lungs wheezing.

"Damn…" Sasori whispered to himself.

"Oi! What was that for? This is training, not all-out battle, fucker! Leader will be pissed if she dies." Sasori felt rage build up inside of him.

"SHUT UP!" Sasori roared. Everybody was stunned, Sasori never lost his cool, ever but this is the girl he raised for Christ's sake. He was the only one to raise her, since her parents couldn't care less. How do you think Sasori would feel if she died, how would he feel if she died and it was because of him?

Sasori picked her up, careful of the needles and carried her to the medical wing of the hideout. Most of the members have never even been in there, they never needed to be. Sasori had actually been in there many times because of Deidara when he first was a member and even now, Deidara screws up and gets hurt. Sasori laid Rix down on a bed gingerly. He started to carefully remove the senbon with some of Itachi's help. He unzipped the plain black zip-up hoodie that Rix wouldn't give up for anything.

"Itachi, I need the scissors." Itachi handed Sasori the scissors and he cut Rix's shirt open, right down the middle. Sasori cleaned and disinfected the punctures. Rix started to have a coughing fit and they quickly sit her up straight. Blood started to come with every cough and she was awake now. Her breathing was struggled and slow. Rix quickly passed out again and they continued their work. Sasori didn't have an antidote to this poison because it was one that he stopped using and thought he had cleaned all of it off of his weapons but he hadn't with these.

"She'll be fine…" I hope… Kakuzu, Kisame and Itachi left the room, with talk on what just happened. Sasori, Hidan, and Deidara stayed with her and sat in the chairs in the room. Rix was partially awake when Sasori had finished and she finally gathered the strength to sit herself up on her elbows. They all looked over to her with worry on their faces.

"Of course I'll be fine…" Rix smirked.