A/N: Hey guys! There are going to be more background stories later, but for now, I'm going to continue with the main plot part. Enjoy!

I don't own Naruto

Are You Worthy?

Third Person POV:

Dinner started out with Hidan getting beat up by Itachi for being late. Unfortunately, they got blood on the home-cooked meal (Hidan: it was severely burnt anyway!) that Konan had prepared for everyone. She went on a semi-rampage, beating up Hidan, until Pein was finally able to calm her down and move her to the other side of the table. After an argument with Kakuzu, everyone (only the Akatsuki members) decided to order take out from a nearby village.

Meanwhile, all of the girls that the members had brought back were locked in the living room by chakra seal tags to make sure no one misbehaved. Each of them was given a bowl of some sort of soup and a piece of toast to eat while the Akatsuki members held a dinner meeting in the dining room, next door. Their weapons were confiscated by Kisame prior to dinner.

The Akatsuki members were now all sitting around the dinner table eating delicious take out food straight out of the cartons. Since everyone was settled down, Pein took the opportunity to tell them what was going to happen the next day. Or rather, what Madara had told him what was going to happen.

"Now that all of your 'cough' potential wives are gathered here, it's time to discuss how we'll evaluate them to make sure they're worthy of 'ehem' carrying your children," Pein blushed a slight pink as he snuck a quick peek at Konan.

"Tomorrow, each girl will pull a number out of a hat, at random, and fight the Akatsuki member who also chooses that same number. The only rule is: the member that brought the girl can't be the one to fight her. This should prevent you from holding back your true strength. You will fight until either you kill her, or she makes you bleed. Any questions?"

"Yeah," Deidara raised his hand. "What happens if we're no good at dodging?" Some of the other members snickered as they remembered the time that Deidara had come back from a mission without arms. Deidara regretted asking his question as soon as he heard the quiet laughter and flushed.

"Well then, I hope you learn how to dodge attacks within 12 hours. I expect all of you to report to training section #7 tomorrow morning at 9 with your 'cough' potential wives. Now, I'll pass this hat around and all of you need to draw a number." Pein passed the hat to Tobi, who was sitting in the chair to his left. The hat was passed around the table as each member took a folded piece of paper. It eventually made its way back to Pein who, to the surprise of a few members, didn't draw a number.

Everyone looked at him expectantly as an awkward silence filled the room. A few awkward moments later, someone finally asked the unspoken question:

"TOBI WANTS TO KNOW WHY LEADER DIDN'T PICK A NUMBER," Tobi jumped out of his seat, wiggling a little bit in excitement of having his question answered.

"There aren't any papers left," Pein answered calmly, turning the hat upside down. With that, the meeting ended and Pein started to eat his dinner again. The other members took that as a signal to continue eating as well and the room was soon filled with light hearted chatter.

In the girl room, most everyone had finished their meal and were starting to talk amongst themselves to try to figure out what they were doing there.

"Maybe we're here to be questioned and tortured…?" Meme thought out loud, her eyes widening in fear of her own question. Other girls started to look a little worried as well.

"I don't know… Why would they want to question us? I mean, we're not exactly the best people to ask in terms of connections with the kages and jinjuriki," Sayuri reassured them.

"Maybe we're hostages?" Yuzuki guessed.

"For what? They don't honestly think that they can trade us for bijuu, do they?" Amaya said coldly.

"I know why we're here…" Everyone looked at Koukyo, who shrunk a little under their stares. "We're here to breed with them."

"Did they tell you that? I'm not sure that's correct. Why would they want to-" Shouki was cut off when Konan opened the door rather loudly.

"You all need to pick a number," said the blue-haired woman with no emotion in her voice, holding out a hat. Everyone just stared at her for a while before Cina skipped over to her and pulled a number out of the hat. Everyone followed and took numbers of their own.

"What the hell are these for?" Kanari asked, waving her piece of paper in the air.

"Each of you are going to be fighting an Akatsuki member to make sure you're worthy," Konan left it as that and left the room to go find Pein. The girls stared at the door she had just exited through, all severely confused. A few silent minutes later, Kisame came into the room and drained their chakra for the second time that day before dismissing them each to the room of the member that had abducted them.

The next morning, all of the Akatsuki members and their captives met at training section 7 after a small breakfast and a lot of explaining of what was going to happen in the next 12 hours.

"All right. Who has number 1?" Pein asked the Akatsuki. Kisame grinned and stepped forwards, his large sword slung over his shoulder.

"Oh crap! I hope I don't have to fight this guy!" Meme whispered to no one in particular.

"Who has number 1 over here?" Pein turned around, asking the girls. Kanari smiled sadistically and raised her hand.

Konan gave Kanari her weapons back and led her and Kisame to the enclosed fighting area as the others watched from stands encircling the arena.

"Begin!" Kisame and Kanari both took fighting stances as they waited for the other to make the first move.