A/N: ahem! Next chappy :3

Warning: uhh...I'm kinda just playing it by ear...cat ears..

Pein: I hate you...

Erun: x3

BEGIN! CHAPPY 4

Itachi sat in a corner of the locked bathroom, crying while the other boy, Kisame, swam around in the large bathtub.

"Itachi, was it?" Kisame asked, leaning on the edge of a tub.

Itachi nodded silently.

"What animal are you?" Kisame asked, frowning. "I can't tell..."

Itachi growled. "I'm human!"

"Oh..." Kisame said. "...What's the outside world like?"

Itachi stopped crying, surprised. "W-what?"

"Well, nobody but Dei, Pein, Konan, and Nagato have been there." Kisame sighed unhappily. "I wanna go..."

Itachi blinked. "It's not that great...it's mean and cold to you.."

Kisane shrugged. "Better then here. Many of us were raised here. This is all I know."

Itachi frowned. "What are you? What is this place?"

Kisame got out, wrapping himself in a towel. "This is called the Akatsuki. It's a secret government foundation. Madara is the leader and the main scientist. Only the lucky get operated on by him. I'm not..." Kisame looked generally crestfallen. "I mean, he's nice to me and all. But-"

"No! What does he want with us?!"

Kisame raised an eyebrow. "You better learn some manners...anyway, the outside world is building a huge army of hybrids. I'm one of them. I'm a shark, or specimen 4. Pein, that ginger kid who's in here all the time, is 1."

Itachi gasped. "There's more?!"

Kisame nodded. "Deidara is 6, Sasori 7, Nagato 3, Konan 2, Zetsu 8, Hidan 9, and Kakuzu 10."

Itachi unwound his arms from his knees. "What about 5?"

"Oh. She died." Kisame shrugged.

"Oh...wait, there were fails, Madara said.."

"Yep. Hundreds of 'em. They're still useful, but the only true successful products were us 9." Kisame grinned. "Pein's a cat-"

"Oh yeah. What's wrong with him?" Itachi asked. "He can't talk right, and his hands are all wierd."

"He pissed Madara-sama off. Madara-sama is currently making us perfect, though. Pein's getting paws and claws (rhyme!). Madara-sama needs to figure out how to make the back legs right, though. Pein can't walk anymore, Madara-sama messed up his knees or something so he could get used to crawling." Kisame stated. "As for his speech, I already said. He made Madara-sama mad so he got some of his vocal chords taken out. He can only really say things that have a sound similar to 'meow', 'mew', or 'nya'."

Itachi nodded, feeling extreme pity for the kitty. (god, I'm full of rhymes today.)

"Konan is a bird or dove. Or whatever. She's perfect, she just needed the wings and talons. Nagato...I've never seen the kid but apparently he's real powerful. I'm obviously a shark, Dei's a bear, he isn't done either. Sasori's somethin' wooden. I dunno what yet. He isn't in my cell or training group. Hidan's a wolf, and I've never met Kakuzu."

Itachi let him ramble, getting terrified of what he was going to end up being. "A rat? Or a dog like he said? Or...a weasel would be too ironic." he thought.

"And I would stay away from Konan. Pein's pretty protective. They're like siblings."

That word made Itachi breakdown. "Otuoto...where...or what...are you?!"

A/N: haha weasel...

Itachi: Erun, don't you dare.

Hidan: FUCK YEAH! DO IT!

Erun: :3 I might...

Pein: Erun1 doesn't own Naruto.

K-Pein: R..RF-RF-RFF...

Erun: -.-" this was a filler chappy btw...