Payton put on her clothing, knowing that the whole school uniform thing was going to be a problem when she keeps coming to school with normal clothing. She told the Principal Tsunade about how money was an issue about it when she had seen her yesterday and she had said that it would be fine as long as Payton didn't flaunt the fact. Payton had no intention of doing so, after all this was only until he was caught.

Sakura and Itachi waited for Payton at the front of the school. "Do you see her yet?" "You know you've been asking me that every five seconds," Itachi said, getting slightly annoyed. Sakura shrugged. "She could come any five seconds of the day. Why not?" Itachi sighed and rolled his eyes. Payton was already in her first class. She had gone in the back way and decided to go ahead and sit there. She laid her head on the desk and sighed. Soon she felt someone poke her on her head. Payton looked up and saw Pein looking down at her. "Aren't you supposed to be upholding the law," she asked not rising up.

"Not today. We alternate," Pein explained sitting down beside her. The bell rang and Itachi sat in front of her. "Sakura and I waited for you outside." "I care why," Payton nearly snapped. Itachi and Pein looked at each other then at the girl with concern. "Are you ok," Pein asked laying a hand on her shoulder. Payton cringed and pulled away. Both men frowned but couldn't say anything as Mr. Orochimaru began the Anatomy and Physiology class.

During the entire class, Payton did nothing but stare at her pencil as wagged back in forth, sketching a small picture of a certain burning red cloud. Pein watched it turn into that, which had made him frown greatly. What made her so resistant? Why had she flinched so badly? Itachi glanced behind him, catching her eye, which made her flip him off.

"Ah…Miss Payton certainly knows a certain appendage pretty well….," the teacher said, a small hiss in his voice. The class chuckled and giggled, all glancing back to see that Payton didn't put down her finger. Instead she smiled sweetly, catching him off guard. "I'm sorry I usually get my targets, stand still." She moved her hand so that he was in the line of fire of her birdie.

His eyes narrowed immensely. "I'm afraid…," his face smoothed out into a sly smile, "that just earned you a stay after school today in my classroom, writing just what that means…" The class erupted into laughter. Payton merely shrugged at him, putting her hand down. "Ok, I guess you wouldn't be the first teacher to be taken to jail for molesting a student." She emphasized the last, proving her point. The class laughed out again. "Just bring a pen and some paper and I'll make sure that hand will be too tired to do that again."

She gave a 'fearful' look, going to say something else when Pein put a hand in front of her face. He was NOT happy with her right now. "She will be there Mr. Orochimaru." Payton snapped and stood up abruptly, her chair and desk tumbling to the ground, the class growing deathly quiet in shock. She fisted her hand and Pein and Itachi stood up immediately, knowing that she was going to attempt to hit Pein. Instead she punched out one of the windows and ran from the room, knocking Pein and Itachi over other students' desk in a surprising show of sudden strength.

They had broken her it seems. Itachi and Pein slowly got back up, the entire class looks shook up by it, even the normal cold Orochimaru was looking paler…if that was possible. "Please…do what you must." He ordered going back to the lesson to distract everyone.

The two men exited the room. "Something is up with that girl and I'm sick of being nice. We will find her and force her to talk. We aren't going to be nice this time." Itachi shook his head at his order, "If I may sir….I would like to take the first day with her…."

"What will you do?" Pein knew he could at least trust Itachi, knowing if the prodigy had a plan then it would more than likely work. This was enough to calm his anger spike for the time being. He just did not need to see a certain tiny brunette for a little while.

"I will work on her turf. Her house. Maybe if she's in her own surroundings she will be more vulnerable to opening up." At his leaders ok to ditch school to research homes, Itachi walked out the back of the school.

Surprisingly, that's where he spotted a small girl who was leaning against one of the many trees behind the school, smart enough to know that it wouldn't be a great idea to flee school property during hours. She had her chest clenched slightly and her face was relatively pale. The older Uchiha brother slowly made his way over to her, quiet as a mouse.

"You know," he noticed how she jumped; her brown eyes popping open in surprise. "If you really wanted to ditch school, you should have kept running." He leaned against the tree, crossing his arms over his chest

"Where's carrot top?" she question briskly, a small mad pout on her face, catching Itachi off guard at how it changed her face to adorable. His calm composure nearly broke as his more teenage male hormonal side began taking over, his onyx eyes just now noticing her body.

"I can give you a picture you know," she said, looking quite annoyed.

He cleared his throat looking in a different direction. "If you wore the school uniform then I wouldn't be looking."

She made a small laugh, the first one she had made since she had been there. "That's a load of BS! Those skirts are so skimpy I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up walking behind me half the time."

He chuckled, the sound low and soft. She closed her eyes. She was letting herself get sucked in by his infamous Uchiha charm. She had heard from Sakura, who had warned her jokingly during lunch. One thing she couldn't do was get attached in case she did have to go away again. It's less painful that way. With that in mind, she turned and stared out over the woods again.

Itachi stood beside her, his eyes never leaving her face. Normally he could read people quite, easily. She was different though. She didn't follow the normal rules of normalcy for a teenage girl. What he was used to was girls that looked like her would fawn over the Akatsuki and they would always have picks on who they would date because, even though the girls knew they were being thrown away like trash, they would wait their turns with anticipation. He had gotten so bored with it that he would only do it for the kicks now. To make matters more confusing, Payton looked just like those type of girls. That's what he was used to.

What he wasn't used to was a woman being crude but still holding the title of a lady by his standards. She hadn't even looked at any of the guys here as such since she had gotten there. She wasn't afraid to not hold her tongue. She was more than likely a transfer student, most likely America if that was the case. He would have to hope that he could break her harder shell so he could get them closer to leaving her alone.

He was brought out of his musings when he noticed she was staring right back at him, a questioning glare hinted in her off-brown eyes that were held in by dark rings around them. That was something he hasn't seen since his mother and that pink-haired freshman.

"Where do you live?" He placed a friendly hand on her head, "I'll drive you there." He offered a small rise on his lips, in what he hoped looked like a friendly smile.

She tensed immediately. "The last thing I want is for you to know where I live." She pushed his hand off harshly.

"And why is that…." He questioned, raising an elegant black eyebrow.

She twitched. "Don't do that again."

"Just answer my question…"

She assessed him for a moment before rolling her eyes. "Because I would never get rid of any of you then."

It was a smooth lie, one the others might of fallen for. But he was an Uchiha, taught in these kinds of matters from birth it seemed. He didn't make any signs that he knew something was up, though.

"Then we can go to my estate. You're stuck with me today."

Before she could stop him, he had something snapped around her neck. He held up a mirror, sensing her confusion. The brunette glanced into the mirror to find a black collar with a bell on it. A cat's collar with a matching leash that landed in the older man's hand.

"What the fuck!"

He tugged on the collar. "Tsk. No cursing. While I have you, you will act like a proper young lady."

"In other words…." She didn't finish her sentence, only looking down quietly.

He slowly, without thinking, lifted her chin with his fingers as he always did with his female companions. She bit his finger to the bone it felt like. He growled and looked around before slamming her into the tree, pinning her small wrists back with his one strong hand.

He grabbed her chin again, running his thumb over her quivering lips. He stared into her eyes, now showing signs of fear and pain as she looked back into his fierce angry ones that now tinted red.

"You look….like you're asking for it….tell me…have you been kissed before?"

"Please….don't resort to this…." She whimpered slightly. So…he had found a weakness on her part. This wasn't something he wanted to resort to, but it seemed the only way to get through to her.

"Oh so you haven't….well then…." He got closer, grazing his lips against her surprisingly soft ones as he talked, his voice getting lower. "I'm honored…"

At that point, all her heard was her ear-splitting scream echoing in his ears. He backed away as she fought with air, a crowd starting to form at the windows and doors, teachers and gaurds trying to get through to get to the girl.

"Stop It! Stop! It's all your fault!" she scream, not making much sense at all. She scream out, as if in extreme pain and ran into the dense trees, out of sight and direction before anyone had a chance to grab at her. He could still hear the faint sound of the bell on her collar but for some reason it stopped abruptly.

"Geeeeeez….What you do, rape the bitch," Hidan stated crudely as he and the rest of his classmates walked up to him.

"….Note to self, Hidan can't be alone with her…."

"I didn't do anything. I was taking control of the situation and that's how she reacted." He stated simply, smooth as silk in his alibi. As expected, they believed him.

Search parties were sent out into the woods and the Akatsuki stayed back to help in any way, since they did take some…ahem….all the blame for this. So far, nothing but the collar had been found from the girl.

As they finally were sent home, no one was ready to sleep. Where had the girl escaped to? She had no records showing a place that she lived, so if she went back there then they wouldn't know where 'there' is.