Ugh. I'm sorry I haven't been updating as often as I should .

I've had the biggest writer's block ever DX and school... it sucks...

Well anyway, the moment you've all been waiting for! ONWARD!

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The dark tinge of blood painted the floors of a very dark and dank room. In an especially bloody corner was a triangle in a circle painted on the floor in blood. And in the middle of this symbol was a silver haired man with a long metal pike stuck in his heart.

Hidan had started his ritual just moments ago and was, as Kakuzu referred to as, 'ruining another good carpet'.

After about a dozen ruined carpets, and hundreds of dollars in dry cleaning, they had decided to just cut the carpet in half so Kakuzu's side of the room had carpet, while, to Hidan's swearing and whining, his side was cold, dank cement. The other half of the carpet? Well, since everyone already had carpet, they just gave it to whoever, in this case Tobi, wanted it. He had nailed it on his wall, yes his wall, in an attempt to show how creative he could be to his sempai. Deidara, in all honesty, thought he was freaking crazy.

But now he had hit a, what should've been, vital artery and had very much stained Kakuzu's half of the semi-carpeted room.

Shit. He mentally smacked himself for not hitting something of less importance and with less blood, like his lungs or something stupid like that.

His masked partner was going to have his head. Literally.

After pondering for a few more moments how Kakuzu was going to attempt to murder him, a small shaggy ball of fur was bouncing in.

In moments he was inches away from Hidan's face, tongue lolling out and panting.

Hidan made a face.

"Get the fuck away from me."

Dog continued to stare at him. It was, in all manners, pretty damn creepy.

The staring contest continued for what seemed like an eternity, that is until Dog climbed up on top of the bleeding man, ignoring Hidan's cursing as his rather sharp claws dug into his skin to get a foothold (or a paw hold) and curled up in a ball on his exposed stomach. He slowly lowered his head to rest on the man's chest.

Oh fuck no...

The canine's eyes slowly began to shut.

"Don't you fucking dare..."

His eyes were still lidding shut.

"I swear to Jashin! DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE!!"

His eyes were now shut and began to softly snore.

" FUCK! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL YOU LITTLE SON OF A BITCH MUTT!? DON'T YOU DARE FALL ASLEEP! DO YOU HEAR ME!?!? WAKE UP GODDAMMIT!"

Now, in these kind of situations, it would probably be best to simply get up instead of swearing every word known to man and several known to monkey at a small dog. That is any normal person would. Hidan was not exactly your normal person. He had been in his ritual for about five minutes when Dog came in, and the rituals tended to go for at least two hours. In Jashinism, it was a terrible, terrible sin to not finish a ritual once it started, so obviously, Hidan could only lay bleeding while this clump of fur was beginning to drool on him.

He attempted to shove the mutt off of him, cursing at the top of his lungs all the while, but couldn't quite get him to budge. Either Dog was getting fat, or he was still a little weak from losing about three pints of blood. No, it was probably the first one...

(Now he was just making excuses.)

A loud pounding was heard coming up the stairs and down the hall until a very pissed Kakuzu was standing in the doorway.

" What's with all the screaming?" He was using every ounce of will to hold back from slamming his partner's scythe through his throat and ripping out his vocal cords.

"Get this fucking mutt off me!"

"Ugh..." he was getting too old for this kind of stuff. Kakuzu firmly place both hands on either side of the snoozing dog and began to pull him up.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARHG! FUCK STOP IT!"

Dog was clawing into Hidan desperately in order to not loose his new sleeping spot. With every time Kakuzu pulled the dog a little, he sunk his claws deeper, and made Hidan curse louder.

"Looks like he likes you." The masked man had the smuggest look on his face watching the dog cuddle up close to his partner's face.

"Shut. The. Fuck. Up."

"Well looks like he's your problem now." With that he turned around and started walking out the door to get some lunch.

"Wait! Don't you just fucking leave me here with it! GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW! KAKUZU YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!"

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12:30, Pein had been looking around for his partner for about two hours now.

Where the hell could she have gone?

After walking around aimlessly in the hideout, he was tired, he was confused, but most of all, he was really hungry. He had missed breakfast and was ready to give up his search labeling her disappearance as going to do some kind of 'chick thing' and headed down to the kitchen to get a sandwich.

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Kisame was still getting ready for the day ahead. He was out late on a mission and tried to sleep in, that is until he was woken up by Hidan cursing so loud he could make a deaf person cover their ears. His partner, Itachi was nearly ready for a mission he was being sent on.

As the blue man walked out to take a shower and grab something to eat, he could've sworn that out of the corner of his eye, he saw the leader with a little yellow clump prancing behind him.

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Pein was walking down to the kitchen. He was perfectly aware of his little stalker with him. He stopped and turned.

"Stop following me."

After talking only four steps, he turned again to Dog.

"I command you to stop following me."

No matter how many times he reprimanded this dog, it was still following him.

Why is he so interested in me?

He brushed off the annoying presence and continued down to the kitchen.

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The leader looked down at Dog from where he was sitting at the table.

They were having lunch and Dog had been eyeing his sandwich for the last ten minutes. Pein had tried to ignore it, but it was very annoying.

Seated at the table were Tobi, Deidara, and Kakuzu, who was rather reading the stock market section of the paper than eating. Though even with all these people here, the leader wondered why Dog had decided to beg at him.

He set down his sandwich, leaned in close, and gave Dog one of his feared glares.

This was returned by a lick to his face.

"Pleh!" he wiped his face with a napkin.

Some were snickering, but after giving them an equally deadly glare, they shut up.

Pein decided to finish off his lunch and get away from Dog as soon as possible. As he was about to finish a few more bites, he turned to Dog one more time. This made him stop in his tracks.

While our pin-faced leader may have the most deadly glare known to shinobi, our little canine friend had something more powerful. Something only a few very skilled dogs could master. Something absolutely undefeatable.

The puppy eyes.

Pein continued to stare into those large brown eyes and, after much grumbling, gave him the last bit of his sandwich, which was happily accepted.

Now that Dog had finished his lunch for him, a thought occurred to him.

"Has anyone fed the dog?"

He was received by blank stares. Hidan came thumping in, pike still impaled from his recent ritual, and took a seat at the table. Pein turned to him.

"Have you fed Dog?"

Silence.

"We have to feed it?" Hidan stared.

The ginger haired man rubbed his temples.

"That's it. Everyone come with me, we're going to the pet store."

Tobi cheered, Hidan cursed, and Deidara and Kakuzu grumbled.

The blonde ran off to drag Sasori with them. No way in hell he was suffering this alone.

"Can we take Dog too?" Tobi asked.

The leader stated, "No."

"But then how will we know what to get him?"

He had a point.

"Fine."

Tobi ran off and grabbed Dog from Pein's feet.

A few moments later, everyone met at the front door. Tobi had Dog in his arms, Hidan had pulled out his pike and was mumbling some curses near his partner for making him go. Deidara came thumping down the stairs dragging a very pissed Sasori with him.

After scribbling a quick note stating where they were, Pein motioned for everyone to head out.