Chapter 16:

Switching

"What?" Sasuke asked.

I sat up. "Now things are getting interesting," I said in amusement.

Reiya had finally made her way to Sasori and was well…suffocating him. As you can imagine Sasori was extremely pissed about this. "IM FREE!" Kankuro yelled.

Why I just typed that unimportant stuff I'll never know, but anywho, we were pretty confused…especially Sasuke.

"I was going to get kicked out?!" Sasuke repeated.

The Akatsuki leader sighed. "Since Orochimaru has basically blurted out our entire plan"-

"Not all of it!" Tobi yelled and got an evil glare from Deidara.

"How did I get stuck with you un?"

"As I was saying," Leader continued, "We had planned to kick you out once we gained all the tailed beasts and taken over the place. We would've gotten rid of Tobi too but he has a big mouth and would tell every person on the street."

Tobi crossed his arms. "I wouldn't tell everyone."

"Yes you would un," Deidara corrected.

"I'm still confused," Sasuke said walking toward the leader. "Why me?"

"We were just using you to help us gain control. Sort of like a…puppet I guess."

Sasori shot him a look.

"Let me rephrase that."

"No need to," Sasori assured, "We have enough to right now already," Reiya was still suffocating him.

"You're right," Leader said making his way toward the cages. He stopped in front of the one Naruto was in. "Lots of things to do."

"But first don't we need to go to that Bleach House or something?" Tobi asked.

"It's White House not Bleach House un. I swear you've been doing laundry way too long," Deidara corrected.

That scared me a little…but I could picture Tobi doing the laundry. "Tobi, get you and Deidara out of that cage and help us take them to the airport," Leader ordered.

At that moment, I could have sworn a giant question mark appeared above my head because everyone looked at me funny. Even Reiya stopped and looked at me like they were. (and that's saying something) Then I got it. "We're going to Washington D.C aren't we?"

Sasuke whirled around and looked at Orochimaru. "YOU NEVER TOLD ME WERE GOING TO GO THERE!!"

"You were supposed to tell him that Orochimaru," Sasori scolded ignoring Reiya's suffocating hugs. "When did you plan on telling him? When we got to the airport?!"

"Actually yes," Orochimaru said, fiddling with a piece of rubble that fell from Kankuro's fall. Sasuke was banging his head against the wall again.

Leader sighed. "The things I do for power."

Tobi looked at the clock on the wall (which I did not know was there until just now). "We better go or we'll be late!!"

So we finally got out of the cages, went outside, got in a very very long car, and started to drive…well, three feet into it we had to go back because apparently we forgot about Sakura. Even Naruto forgot about her…sad Tobi was the one who reminded us.

After 3 hours of what had to be hell (you're crammed in a car with the Akatsuki+Tobi you do the math)…

We had finally gotten to the airport and Tobi stopped what had to have been singing…it was hard to tell he was screeching so loud. American Idol would have eaten him alive.

So I was stuck walking through the airport with people dressed in robes that had clouds on them, and a 15-year-old who has an open shirt!! If my face was any redder, I would qualify as a tomato! Yes it was that bad. Then Zetsu's fat plant head couldn't get through the door that connects to the airplane, so the flight was delayed 30 minutes. And the whole time Sasuke was banging his head against the wall…and I did too, can't blame me though.

The plane had FINALLY taken off after we squeezed Zetsu through the door. Reiya and I sat together and Sasori and Deidara sat behind us (they were in for a bad flight). I hadn't relized that (sadly) Orochimaru and Sasuke "just happened" to be sitting in front of us.

"Leader told me to make you promise that once you're kicked of, you can't turn against us," Orochimaru said.

Reiya and I were close enough to hear and make it look like we weren't listening…ok we looked like we were eavesdropping but who cares?!

"I promise," Sasuke answered but I knew he didn't because I saw something Orochimaru didn't…Sasuke's fingers were crossed.

Okay. You guys are probably wondering what having his fingers crossed has to do with anything. If you have your fingers crossed, that means the promise was never made so otherwise, Sasuke is coming back…and I spoiled half the story…crap.