xxx The Beginning xxx

It was the last day of school at Sunset Hill High, so that meant, going off to college, vacations, and most importantly partying.

Ring!

"Alright class, school is finally over and have a safe summer." Said Mr. Sebastian.

The students rushed out of the school, got in their cars, or either hung out with their friends.

Unlike everyone else, Yuki was standing there in the hallway, leaning on the lockers, waiting for her friend. She sighed.

How long does this girl want me to wait! I wanna get ready for the party! She kept thinking.

"Sorry did you wait long?" Yuki jumped. She looked at the girl with long black hair and grey eyes. She had always snuck up on people without meaning to, but it couldn't be helped.

"Ready?" She said with her usual calm/happy face. "Yeah let's go." She said already walking.

They walked into the parking lot, before they could get into her car someone called her name.

"Misaki! Yo! Misaki!"

"Misaki I think someone's calling you." "Hm?" Misaki turned around and saw watched a blonde hair girl named Isabel.

"You guys going to Kevin's party today?" "Yes." Misaki answered. "You goin too?" Yuki asked. "Duh everyone's gonna be there! Shawn, Chester, Sherwin, Hina, Ta-Leah, Bruce L, Nate, even Sascha's going to be there!" "Really?"

(If you didn't notice those were naruto name-a likes: ino, kiba, sasuke at the end etc.)

"He usually doesn't come to these things I know! I hope Sakari doesn't try to make a move on my man, she's too ugly to do that!"

They all giggled.

"Alright, we'll we're about to go to our house and get ready." "What are you guys gonna wear?" Asked Isabel. "Something we always wear." "What, no girl! You gotta wear something that will make all the guys look at you!" "Trust me, everyone looks at Misaki either way." Yuki complimented. "I wouldn't say that, trust me there are a lot of guys looking at you too." Misaki said giving a warm smile.

"Isabel!" A girl with a brown hair in a bun, said running to her. "Hey Taleah! Sorry guys I gotta go!" "See you at the party!"

They got into their car and drive off to their separate homes. (Which is right next to each other)

~ Time Skip; hours later ~

Ding Dong

Yuki opened the door, "oh wow we're kinda matching."

Misaki was wearing a tight red jacket slightly zipped, with a black tank top underneath, black shorts, and to top it off with her usual red gemstone ring on her middle finger. She also kept her black hair down as usual.

Meanwhile, Yuki was wearing her tight blue jacket, (also slightly zipped up) with a with a white tank top underneath, white shorts, and only her silver chain to her necklace was showing. You can't see the pendent. Her hair was always the same, still had her thick bang and her long reddish/brown hair up into a ponytail.

"Ready to go?" "Wait a sec, i'm not done watching Naruto yet." "You didn't finish it yet? What were you doing these past hours?" She said calmly.

Yuki walked over and sat down on the sofa, put her laptop on her thighs, and unpaused their favorite anime show.

Misaki walked over and sat down next to her and watched, even though she already watched it earlier. "The war is almost over-" "Please don't give me any spoilers!"

"Fine, fine." Misaki said waving her hand around.

Madara and the reanimated second tsuchikage is on top of a cliff.

"It seems the nine tails hasn't been captured yet." Madara realizes. "That's the purpose of this war, the nine tails is sealed in a jinchuriki, for now..see..he's right over there. That boy is the nine tails jinchuriki, his name is Naruto Uzumaki." Kabuto said in controlling Mu's body.

"Uzumaki, of Mito's clan eh. He's the brat who attacked me earlier." Madara said remembering from before.

"But he's actually quite something, capturing him is fine, but that one in front of us is a clone. Shall we go now to get the real one?"

"No. There's a jutsu i'd like to try out. I think it will make a prettier picture if I do it where there are people around." Madara holds up a sign.

The few people who are still alive notice Madara. "It's them! At four o'clock!" They look at Madara and the second tsuchikage on top of a cliff.

Humongous trees start to form up around them.

"Wood style: deep forest emergence!" The wood/trees start to go forward quickly to Naruto's direction. "I guess this is it for us." Says one of the guys.

"Damn it! I have no more chakra left!" Naruto yells in his head.

Naruto ending theme song

"Oh my gosh! What happens next?" Yuki yells. "Didn't you read it in the manga?" "Yeah but I don't remember what they do to stop it!"

"Well Naruto-" "Don't tell me! I wanna be surprised when I watch the episode." "That's true, it's pointless to watch something if you already know what's going to happen next."

"Anyway, alright i'm ready to get DRUNK!" "I think you shouldn't yell that in your house.." Misaki muttered. "Don't worry, my grandma is gone! She went to Florida to see someone."

"Now you decide to tell me that?"

They leave and go to the house where the party is, and there are teenagers everywhere, inside and out. They walk in and say hey to a lot of people.

"Misaki! Yuki! Glad you guys can make it!" "Ruff Ruff!" Suddenly a dog jumped up to them. "Akki good boy." Misaki said in her usual calm tone. The white dog started to jump on her and run all around.

An hour passes of them having fun, even touched a couple of beer cans.

"Yo-'hiccup'-oo!" Yuki called while hiccuping. "Yuuki!" Called a boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. "Where's Misaki!?" He yelled, even more drunk than Yuki. "AHH! MAYBE SHE'S MISSING! Pshhh nahhh! J.K! She's over there!" She said drunkenly pointing to Misaki with a group of guys and girls, who are also drunk.

"So then I tell him..BANG! Wait no- I said..ah who cares! Ha ha ha!" Misaki said playfully hitting one of the guys, making actually making him fall.

"ARE YOU THE HULK! I bet you could SMASH A WALL!" He said trying to get up. "You know who can smash a wall?..." Everyone waited to see what she would say next.

"CARTOONS!" Everyone jumped when she yelled that. "RIGHT!" They all said. "I mean they always fall on a banana, but no one ever has a bad back or some nonsense!" 'Hiccup'

"Why is there always bananas on the ground also!" Yuki said piling on top of Misaki, while Misaki pushed her off.

"Hey you know what I was watching today!?" "A cartoon!" "I think it's called anime! But it was NARUTO!" "Naruto!?" "Yeah!" Misaki said replying.

"It's soooo cool! They have like..POWERS!" "No wayyy! Naruto-" "Yes way!" Yuki said cutting her off while she was gonna add on to it.

"Surre!" A girl said sarcastically. "But! Wait!" She said adding on. "That one with the grey hair looks sooo good!" "KAKASHI!" Yuki and Misaki yelled together.

"Yeahhh! So freakin HOT!" "You know who's hot!?" Yuki said while looking around like it's a secret. "Deidara!" "Yeahhh!" "I think he's funny!" One of the other drunk guy said.

"But Deidara...mmm! I'd keep him in my room, in my closet!" "That's weird!" "No you know who looks good!?" A girl started.

"Pein, Deidara, Hidan, Tobi-" Misaki said before she was cut off. "What! You can't even see his FACE!"

They all laughed.

"Still he's soo cute! The way he acts! mmm! I'd keep him in my doghouse!" "Whattt! That's weirder than what I said!" Yuki said aiming to punch her arm.

Misaki dodged, (in a drunk way) and pushed her arm away.

"That's soo cool how did you do that?!" Everyone said dramatically surprised. "I-" "AHUM!" "We! Weeeeee!-" "We what!?" Yuki said getting kid angry. "We are so good! Wait no..I wanted to say something else...OHHH! We do a lot of SPORTS! So we're good at EVERYTHING!" "EVERYTHING!" Everyone said.

They all laughed for some reason. One of the girls walked over to a near cooler, and took out a couple of beer cans and threw it at Misaki and Yuki. Easily they caught it.

"Wow!" They all said. "Man they're both smart, talented, pretty-" "OHHH!" Everyone said. Misaki and Yuki opened the beer and continued to drink. "You know who's smart, good looking, and basically a prodigy?" Misaki said. Everyone pointed at her. "No! Itachi! I'd definitely do some stuff with him;)" Yuki and Misaki once again started to drink.

"Shug shug shug!" They boy started laughing, and almost started to choke.

~ The Next Morning ~

Yuki

"Ah my head.." Yuki lifted her head and held it in her hands, she was somehow on a bed, she thought Misaki probably put her there. The lights were off, but the window curtains was opened letting the light from the moon come in.

Wait, when did I have window curtains..I'm pretty sure I always had blinds.

"Some party though-" "Who are you!?" "Ahh!" She lifted her whole body and placed her hand next to his head. "W-Where am I?" She looked around and the room didn't look like anything that she'd seen before, it was very different.

Beneath her was a blonde haired boy and blue eyes.

"What is it now?" A red hair boy said in a bed next to them on the other side of the room, he mumbled something then stopped worrying about it. He turned on the light and stared, until:

"Who's that!? What did you do yesterday!" "I don't even know who she is!" "Where am I?" She said with her voice softer than usual. Her head was killing her, and her stomach was also.

"How did you get in here?" He said with his voice a little more calmer. "I don't even know, if you mind, can you lower your voice?"

"What's your name?" "Yuki, what about you?" "Dei-actually I don't think I have to tell you that. You're in our hideout, my bedroom, you're even on me!" "Huh oh sorry.." She moved her leg to get off but she slipped. Easily she did a backflip, slowly came up when she was doing a handstand.

I'm more flexible than I was before. She thought.

She looked at the two and saw them staring at her. "You look familiar." She started. They looked just like the characters in the Naruto. Now that she thought about it, she remembered talking about Naruto to some people at the party. Maybe Misaki was with her somewhere in this building.

She walked to the door casually, but then was stopped by the blonde haired boy gripping her wrist, not hard enough to hurt, but strong enough to keep.

"Where do you think you're going?" "To see if my friend is here." "No." The red hair boy said. "W-Why not?" She asked innocently. "Yuki, if that's your real name. You could be a spy, do you even know who we are?" "Well if I knew do you think I would ask what his name is couple minutes ago?!" She said stating the obvious.

"Hmp! Don't get smart with me!"

Weirdly her wrist started to get wet, almost slimy. "Oh eww! What the world?!" "What!?"

She pulled out of his grip and rubbed her wrist. "What's on your hands!?" "What are you talking about?" "Why is your hands wet?!"

"Hmm?" He looked at his palms. "Oh." He said with a 'it's not my fault' face. He turned his palm to face her. On it, was a mouth that was grinning ear to.. well pinky to thumb.

A tongue slithered out. "Oh what the world!-" She yelled, but then she stopped and started to think.

She didn't know how, but she knew those two were Deidara, and Sasori..from Naruto Shippuden.

"This can't be happening.." She said under her breath. "How?" She continued.

"Well it's actually a-" "Not that..this whole thing..how did I get here?"

Sasori got out of his bed and walked over to the two.

"Yuki, we're taking you to our leader. He decides what we're going to do with you."

~ Misaki ~

Ugh. She thought in her head, she had a bad hangover from the party. She felt around and realized she was in a bed. She opened an eye lid and the room was dark so she could barely see, and weirdly it was midnight.

Did Yuki put me here?

She stretched out her arms and realized that there was a person in the bed with her. "Yuki?"

Out came mumbles, but it was not Yuki, it definitely came from a man!

Suddenly the other person jumped out the bed, making her jump and stand up on the bed.

My reflexes seem to be better than usual.. He turned on the light.

She could finally see, she flipped her bang, and in front of her was a man with medium, straight black hair, maybe a couple years older than her..holding a kunai.

"Who are you?" He said very dull. "Misaki Sora. Who are you?" "I really don't think you're inclined to ask that." "I suppose." "What are you doing here? How did you find us?"

"I'll tell you the truth, it may seem crazy but..I don't know." She said flatly, she kept her stance like she was going to attack. But, she relaxed her body to show him that she was peaceful.

He slowly lowered his kunai.

"Hn."

Misaki looked at him with her warm, but still blank expression, and slowly got off the bed. They stood in front of each other.

"C'mon." He said lifted her up and threw her across his shoulder. "Ah. Gentle, I have a hangover." He looked over his shoulder with the same face, and looked forward. When he opened the door to the hallway, out came two other people..that he knew.

"Misaki?" Yuki said. Misaki lifted her head and saw her best friend standing there. "You're here too?" "Yeah, do you get what's going on?" "Now that I see those two, I do." Misaki said pointing to the black and blonde haired boys.

"Wait a minute. Why is it that you're carrying me, when they're not?" Misaki asked to him. "Because, you almost seem like a threat, from the way you moved." "The way she moved?" Yuki asked. "It was just reflex, nothing more." Misaki explained. "Yeah." Yuki agreed.

"Oh hey, this one too!" The blonde one yelled. "She did a backflip!"

"Not really that hard." Misaki and Yuki said at the same time. "Who are you?" He said turning his body towards Yuki.

"I'm Yuki, if you didn't know, that's Misaki." She said pointing to her. "Hn. Are you guys planning on taking her to Pain?" He asked to them. "Yeah." The red one answered.

"Since you're here Itachi, you can keep Sasori company." Deidara said going back to his room. "You shouldn't have said his name." Misaki and Yuki said together.

He stopped instantly. "Yeah? Why not?"

"If we were enemies or spies or what ever, then we would know who you all were. But, that's just my opinion." Misaki said.

"Huh oh..." He said, while Sasori gave him the look. "But don't worry, it's fine." Misaki said giving them all a warm smile.

"Besides we already know everyone here-" "Then why did you ask us for our names!?" He yelled again. "I wanted to see if what I thought was true. Oh, and I didn't ask for Itachi's name."

Itachi set her down.

"Wh-" "I don't think they're a threat. But still, we have to take them to Pein. He'll handle this."

Misaki flipped her bang, then her and Yuki slowly walked over to each other, but was stopped when Itachi and Deidara grabbed their shoulders.

"You two can't talk to each other. You might give some information." Sasori said. Misaki turned around and faced Itachi giving him compete eye contact with him alone, while the rest were to her back.

"Yuki, you know who these are guys are right?" "Of course." "This must be in the past-" "-Before they all di-" "-Don't say stuff like that, it'll make us look suspicious. That's the last thing I want in front of Pain." "Right." Yuki agreed.

"Now, please take us to Pein." Misaki said. Itachi seemed curious but intrigued in what she did, turned around and led the way.

~ Peins office ~

Sasori, Yuki, and Misaki were in Pein's office waiting for Itachi to get him from his room. While, Deidara went back to his room. Apparently this is no fun for him.

"Itachi why did you wake me u-" Pein stopped when he saw Misaki and Yuki. "Who are you?" He held out his hand and almost used his ninjutsu on them. But they stopped him before he could.

"Wait!" Yuki yelled. "There's no need in using that. We somehow ended up here..we don't even know how, when, why..and so on."

"Do you have any skills?" "Their reflex and agility seem pretty good-" "But could be worked on." Itachi and Sasori said with a blank face.

"We are okay at Taijutsu I guess, we don't know if..well the ninjutsu part." Yuki tried to explain. "Do you think we can do it?" Misaki asked Yuki. "I really don't know if it's the same." "We could try." "How would we even know where to start-" "Um Pein..is it okay if I try to store up my chakra to my feet?"

"Why?"

"Oh uh, to see if I can at least do that properly still.." "It could be a trap." Itachi said. "Us being here could be a trap." Misaki said with her same monotone voice.

"Uhh Misaki don't say things like that..." Yuki said waving her hands, and giving her smile. "Fine." Pein said. They all looked at him surprised.

Yuki tried first, she held up two fingers and tried to do what they did on the show. They both had a hangover, so it was hard for her to focus.

She fell to the ground with one hand on her stomach, and the other on the ground.

"What's wrong? No chakra?" Sasori said almost in an evil tone. "I'm sorry, we kinda have a hangover." "A hangover? How old are you?"

Misaki glanced at Yuki with her giving a goofy grin back.

"18." They said innocently. "Hey that's almost Deidara's age. And you too Itachi." "I suppose." Misaki answered.

"There's a remedy for that." Itachi said. "Yeah, but do you have the ingredients?"

He didn't answer and they had a stare off for some reason.

-/_\-

-_\/

"Yes!" Sasori yelled getting sick of tired of them.

Couple minutes later, they were all in the kitchen, with a whole bunch of different things on the eating table: Juice, water, ice in a bag, tomatoes, ginger, bananas, and pain relief pills.

Unexpectedly, Deidara walks in.

"Uhh..so are we feeding them now?" "No." "It's our hangover." Yuki said sinking her head to the table. Misaki picked up a banana and starts eating it.

"Oh, can I have one!" Misaki naturally flips her bang, and takes a piece of her banana and hands it to Deidara. "You shouldn't give your medicine away." Itachi says. "I don't think a single piece will make any difference in healing or making my hangover worse. So I gave it to him."

-/_\-

"Ohh! She told you Itachi!" Deidara yells, then starts laughing. "Deidara." Pein says. Immediately it's quiet.

"Watch these two, while I talk to Itachi and Sasori. Make sure they don't get away, don't underestimate them, even though they're young and your age."

"No way!" Deidara says excitedly.

Pein, Itachi, and Sasori walk out.

He sits down next to Yuki and starts looking/touching all the home remedies. "So you're Yuki, and you're Misaki right?" "Right." "Yeah." Misaki says swatting his hand, while drinking a water bottle.

"Hmp. So what kind of skills do you two have?"

They both looked at each other, then looked back at him.

"W-Well..that's kinda hard to a-answer.." Yuki said not really sure how to explain. "What how!?" "We excel at certain things, but we wouldn't say we have skills. But, i'm not saying we're incompetent though." Misaki said.

"Ugh that's really hard to understand y'know!" Deidara yelled. "She means, we're good at things, but we wouldn't really call them skills." "O-Okay, well what are you guys good at?"

"Tennis, soccer-" "Gymnastics, skating-" "Ping pong, and most of all archery-" "Woa woa! I don't even know what any of that is!" Deidara yelled while holding his head in his hands.

"Right, I forgot this is a whole different world." Yuki whispered to Misaki. She nodded and said, "Basically we're good at..hitting precisely, balance, hand eye coordination.." "And aim!" Yuki finished. "Hmm. That's it?" Deidara said unimpressed.

"Oh Misaki is way better than that! I mean she was known as a prodigy!"

Suddenly Misaki choked on her water.

She wiped off the water on her face and cleared her throat as if she wasn't choking in the first place. "She hates to be called that." Yuki said giving a mischievous grin. Misaki continued drinking her water. "You know..you remind me of Itachi."

Once again she choked on her water.

"How?" "I mean you guys are apparently good at everything.." He said trailing off in an evil tone, "oh and you guys say smart ass things." Unexpectedly, Misaki chuckled. "Oh at least you can laugh, let alone smile. I mean Itachi doesn't do anything near that."

"What do you mean," Misaki said lightening up. "He does." "Hm. Well how would you know?" "Uh..I mean everyone smiles or laughs." "Yeah well not Itachi." Soon Yuki made a face at Misaki, telling her to stop being suspicious.

"Anyway, where are you guys from?" Yuki and Misaki looked at each other unsure what to say. "We're from a real small, uncharted island."

Nice save.

"An island huh. Hows your hangover doing?" "Much better." Yuki said back to her energetic self. Misaki closed her eyes and put down her water bottle. Concentrating she held up her fingers like they do in the show and closed her eyes.

Couple minutes pass and her feet started to feel differently. She opened her eyes from shock. "Wait did you.." "Kind of." "No way!" Yuki did the same thing, but this time it took her a couple minutes. Misaki stood up and focused her chakra into her hand.

Apparently i'm supposed to release it at a certain amount.

She swung her hand back in a fist. Deidara and Yuki were curious what she was going to do. Finally she swung her fist forward and hit the ground, making it to shatter.

"What are you doing!" "Hm."

So we can do the same things they can, we're like a new character in their story. Misaki and Yuki exchanged looks.

I wonder which element I am. Yuki thought.

Not too long Pain, Sasori, and Itachi barged in with their kunais. She scratched her chin and had a sweatdrop on the side of her head. "Wow we can do that too!" Yuki exclaimed. Everyone now had their eyes on her, which made her do the same thing.

"Not too bad." Pain said noticing the ground. "Oh sorry. I'd pay you but, we don't have any money." "Alright then, you can work it off."

"Work it off?" Said Misaki, Deidara, and Yuki. "Yes. We can't allow you to leave with knowing where our hideout is-"

Trust me we don't even know where anything is. Yuki thought to herself.

"-And you two seem..not just any other kids. You say you come from a small island, but yet you have reflexes like a cheetah-"

"Oh I assume you heard that part then."

"-Yes. Anyway when I say work it off, I mean you will become apprentices, and work for us..the Akatsuki."

The three gasped.

"Alright, you will be staying here from now on. And if you refuse-" "We don't, we accept your offer." "Misaki-" She glared her a look. "It'll be fine." Misaki said giving a warm smile again to her. Making Deidara blush from seeing her.

"I will make the training schedule today and announce it tomorrow, it'll take me a while to figure it out. You two will sleep in the open room next to Itachi, and Kisame room. That is all, I suggest you to go to sleep." Pain heavily implied. They nodded, Yuki got up and stood next to Pain.

"Itachi please take them to their rooms, Deidara, Sasori you also go to sleep." They nodded and did what their leader said. Pain left first, then Deidara and Sasori.

"Are you still feeling sick?" "We'll be alright. We probably need some rest." "I'll show you to your rooms." Itachi went on ahead with Yuki, and Misaki behind.

They went outside the kitchen into the living room, then down a hallway. A couple doors later then pass Itachi's room, then their room.

It was a small ordinary room with two beds and a couple of dressers, and a small window in the middle of the room. "There's a bathroom on your right." Itachi said, leaving with that. Misaki closed the door and sighed.

"What are you going on sighing about! C'mon this will be fun!" "How do you expect us to get home?" "Mmm..I really don't know. Why did you accept their offer!? You're fine with us being in the Akatsuki?" "Look, I have my reasons." "There you go again saying that. C'mon tell me, is it because they're all cute." Yuki said winking and giving a grin. Misaki sighed again. "It's because it's a temporary place to stay, they probably have food to eat, and being around them means no one's going to attack us. Anyway you should get some sleep." "Hmm. Ah! That's genius!" Misaki smiled. "I do feel bad though on imposing." "Ah that's Misaki alright." Yuki said mostly to herself. She jumped on the bed closest to the door and went under the covers.

"Aren't you going to sleep?" Yuki said in her innocent voice. "I will, i'm gonna just splash some water on my face." Misaki walked over to the door, then suddenly tripped.

"Misaki! You okay?" "I'm alright." "You know it makes no sense how you have strong reflexes yet you trip 24/7." Misaki naturally flipped her bang and felt her forehead then took off her jacket and threw it on her bed.

Once again she walked over to the door, but when she opened it another door on the inside opened too. And out came Itachi. With no shirt.

"Oh sorry." They both said simultaneously in a monotone voice.

"No go ahead."

...

"I can use it after you."

-/_\-

-_\/

At the same time they both took a step inside.

"I just wanted to wash my face." They once again said at the same time.

...

They both closed the door behind them and took another step in. Together they sighed and leaned on the wall. "Itachi. Please go first." "Alright then."

Itachi walked over to the sink and washed his face. Then he took out his tooth brush and put toothpaste on it, and began brushing his teeth.

"Eh! I thought you just wanted to wash your face." He spit in the sink, then looked at her and moved out the way. "You can use the sink, while I brush my teeth."

"Alright. It won't take long." She walked over and turned on the water. Staring at the mirror, she finally saw how she looked in this world. She flipped her bang and saw her big grey eyes.

How long are we gonna be in this world?

She snapped out of her thoughts when Itachi stopped brushing his teeth.

She cupped her hands and filled them with water to wash her face. Her hair started to fall into the sink. She pulled back her hair with one hand and continuing washing her face with the other. Unfortunately the water started to splash on her tank top.

"Do you n-need some help?" Itachi tried to say. "I'm okay. Sorry." Itachi handed her a towel. He started at the water that was dripping on her chest but looked back up at her. She stepped aside and he spit in the sink again.

He finished brushing his teeth and used the towel she had in her hand to wipe off his face. "You don't mind do you?" He said looking up. Her face was still expressionless but her face started to blush a tiny bit. "It's fine. It's your towel anyway, actually you can take it." She handed it to him and walked to the door.

"Next time you use the bathroom, please lock both doors so no one accidentally comes in." Itachi warned. She smiled. He slightly gasped.

"Sure thing. Oh, Pain said he'll be making a schedule for training right?" "Hm. Yes?" "Oh, I feel somewhat bad, for making him stay up to figure it out. "You seem like a kind person." She smiled again. "That's very nice of you, Itachi."

She left with that, leaving him standing there, and walked into her room. Yuki was already fast asleep, so she turned off the light.

I could see if he needs some help.

She walked out the room without a second thought and walked down to his office, trying to remember the trail from when she was first there.

It was dark mostly everywhere, but Pain's office light was dimming through the hallway. She knocked on the door lightly.

"Come in." Pain said inside shufflin thru papers. "Misaki? Shouldn't you be sleeping?" "I'm fine. I had plenty of rest. Are you working on the schedule?" "Yes I am. Why else would I be up this early?" She chuckled at that, which made him surprised.

"Would you like some help?" She said taking a seat in front of his desk. "Tell me, what element are you?"

Hmm. If the element I got from the quiz Yuki made for me is true, then I must be:

"Fire.."

"You don't seem so sure." "I actually don't know." Pain grunted and pulled out a chakra paper out from his desk and handed it to her.

"This is a-" "I'm aware."yuki

Focusing real hard, Misaki tried to do the same thing Naruto did for his wind shuriken rasengan jutsu practice.

That's a mouthful :P

Suddenly the paper caught on fire and died in ashes. "I guess you were right." Pain said writing something down.

She slightly looked down, and smiled.

Nice job, Yuki.

Pain looked up and gasped. Out of no where she gasped and looked up. "Isn't-...what's wrong?" He closed his mouth and returned to his work. "Nothing. What were you about to say?" "Oh. What would we be doing, as an apprentice?" "First you two will have to train, then you'll go on missions, or do anything the Akatsuki wants." "Alright. What's the schedule you're working on for?" "It's for who is able to train you two, things like that." "What have you got so far?"

"Itachi will be training you and Yuki only on ninjutsu. Kenjutsu from Kisame, and Taijutsu from Hidan." "Hidan? Why him?" "He has high taijutsu, and stamina level." "Wait, but don't the other Akatsuki members have the same level as him?" "Yes, Kisame is one of them actually, but I don't want him to do two things." "Hmm. It makes sense to have Sasori instead." "Sasori?"

Remembering from the Naruto databook, Sasori has 4.5 taijutsu, 5 in stamina, and 4.5 in speed.

"I forgot to consider him. That's not a bad idea." Pain scribbled off what he wrote before, and changed it to Sasori.

"What element is Yuki?" Misaki started to think.

Since Yuki's test was accurate for me, there's a possibility that it's the same for her.

"Most likely..water." "Hmm. What do you think I should do for this. Keep Itachi for teaching both of you water and fire, or have Kisame teach her water. And not have him teach you two kenjutsu?" "No, we need an option that has us learning, water, fire, and kenjutsu." She put her finger on her chin and laid back in her chair.

We don't need a lot of training for kenjutsu, because tennis teaches us to have good accuracy and reflexes on our opponent. We both were in the kendo team in junior high, so that's also a good thing. But, since we're in a new world it might not be the same.

"Okay. Itachi should teach us fire and water jutsu, and Kisame with kenjutsu, and Sasori with taijutsu as planned. But Kisame should only be temporarily teach us kenjutsu, it won't take us long to master it, since we already know how to wield a weapon. So after he's done teaching us kenjutsu he'll teach Yuki water style."

Pain sat back in his chair and smirked. "Not a bad idea. You know, you might be useful." He sat properly and finalized the schedule. "Why did you decide to come to me in the first place?" She gave a small smirk and walked over to the door, when she opened it she looked over her shoulder. "Just wanted to help out."

With that she left the room and closed the door behind her.

Pain smirked.

~ The next morning ~

Some of the akatsuki members sat down on the sofa in the living room, and waited until their leader got there. Yuki opened the door to their room and looked out. Misaki popped her head up from looking out the small window.

"The schedule announcement will be held in the living room." Itachi said coming out of his room. "You can go outside." "You trust us two that much?" "Not exactly. But, we have a training field. It's next to Sasori, and Deidara room." "Alright, let's go hear the announcement Misaki!" "You go on ahead." "Don't you wanna hear it?" "I already know the schedule." "Huh! But how?!"

"I assume you went to Pain to help him make the schedule, didn't you?" She stared at him and looked back at the window. "Yeah."

"Ah Misaki, I would've came too! Ah..alright Itachi. Let's go!" Yuki said ecstatic pointing down the hallway. "It's that way." Itachi said pointing the other way. "Right." Yuki held up a fist and began to walk. Itachi glanced back at Misaki, and continued to walk with Yuki.

~ Yuki ~

"Has she always acted like that?" "Hm? Oh Misaki? Well, not really. When she was younger, she had a little sister. But, there was an 'accident'..and she died."

Itachi's eyes widened.

"Before the accident, Misaki always smiled-as in all the time. Especially around her sister. But now, she seems more unemotional. It's kinda true, but she's still the same nice person she always was. She does smile, but she smiles here and there. But i've never seen her cry since, even at the funeral. The last time she did was when..the accident happened..." "..Hm." Yuki said with her voice getting softer at then end, but then started to grin ear to ear.

They finally reached the living room and inside was: Hidan, Zetsu, Kakuzu, and Kisame. First Yuki plopped down on the sofa, then Itachi sat down.

The Akatsuki members turned their heads and stared at Yuki. She smiled like there was nothing suspicious of her.

"Um.." Hidan tried to say something, but didn't know how. She smiled even bigger. "Good morning!" She said in her happy innocent voice. Skipping and singing in a man with an orange mask stopped in his tracked when he saw Yuki.

"Umm...Itachi." "Yes Tobi?" "Who's that girl next to you?" "Pain will explain-" Yuki shot out of the sofa and eagerly shook hands with Tobi.

"Hi i'm Yuki. You must be Ob-..uh-Tobi. He he. Sorry i'm not good with names." That was way too close.

"Hm.." "What's the matter Tobi?" Kakuzu mocked, "afraid of girls?" "Tobi thinks she looks like someone. But..Tobi can't..figure.." She gasped.

Does he think I look like..

"Ah Tobi don't worry about it!" She patted him on the shoulder and grinned. A couple seconds later of silence and finally Tobi jumped around. "Tobi's a good boy!"

"That's random.."

"What's all the yelling for?" Deidara sluggishly walked in itching his hair. He stopped when he saw Yuki. "Oh yeah. I forgot about you."

She sighed and sat back down where she sat before.

~ Misaki ~

The sky looks so different here. Itachi said there's a practice field next to Deidara's room.

Misaki walked out her room and walked the way opposite from the living room. She walked down the hallway and took a left. Unexpectedly she bumped into something.

She started to fall but before she did she reached out her hands and did a backflip. Then suddenly something near her hand swooped to it. She jumped up on her hand and decided to jump on it, but she saw something drip from it. She decided to use her other hand and do a cartwheel away from it.

"So close." He said. She slowly got up and still had her expressionless face. She flipped her bang. "What was that for, Sasori?" "I wanted to see what kind of skills you had. Bumping into you was a coincidence-..how could you tell it was me? When we first met I wasn't wearing this shell..." "It's..hard to explain. It just makes it simpler to say I know a lot of things."

She walked passed him and took the left she tried to take before. Ahead was a glass slide door that led to the outside.

"Where are you going?" "Outside."

Sliding the door open, the breeze brushed thru her long jet black hair. She took off her shoes and walked along the grass. The sun shined down on her face, she closed her eyes gently and continued to walk. She thought of the scenery when she first saw the field, so she knew exactly where everything was, so she walked until she thought she reached the first tree she saw. Finally she stopped and opened her eyes.

In front of her was that exact tree.

She concentrated and tree to master the tree walking exercise. It didn't take long for her feet to glow with green chakra.

She took a couple steps, then more at a time. Not too long she had the hang of it. The sun simmered thru the tree and lit her face.

Suddenly she had a flashback, and immediately the tree crushed and she fell off the tree. Easily she landed on her feet. When she stood up straight, she looked down at the ground.

"What happened?" "Sun got in my eye," she turned around, "shouldn't you listen to Pain's announcement?" "Don't worry about me, Pain's always late-" "-You must hate that." "..I do." "Sasori." "What?" "Why are you here? Eh..actually that's rude of me to say. In any rate, you might become my new taijutsu trainer." "Huh? Why me?" "Well, you're fast, have a lot of stamina, and well you seem to be good at taijutsu. You should give yourself more credit if you think you aren't." "Hm. Yeah well.."

Misaki finally turned around and walked inside. "C'mon, let's go."

~ The announcement ~

The two walked into the living room with all eyes on them.

"Oh yeah, there are two of you." Deidara said still half-asleep.

"Who are you!?" Hidan yelled jumping up and pointing at her. "Who are you?" She said pointing at him, but with the same blank face.

Yuki smacked her forehead. "You were gone awhile, ohhhh what were you doing with Sasori? Hmm." She said stroking her invisible beard. "Yeah what were you two doing?" Kisame said adding on. Misaki sat down next to Itachi, who continued to glare at her.

"We didn't do anything." Misaki claimed. Sasori sat down next to Misaki and sighed.

"Itachi?" Tobi said once again. "Hmm?" "Who's that girl next to Sasori?" Misaki got up walked over to Tobi and held out her hand. "It's nice to meet you Tobi. My name is Misaki Sora." He jumped up and down and hugged her. "It's nice to meet you Misaki Sora." "Oh, please just call me Misaki." "Alright, Misaki!"

"Jeez Misaki, did you really have to introduce yourself so formally?" Yuki lectured.

"Oh so you're Misaki." Konan said walking in.

Continuing to jump up and down Tobi trip on his shoe and made Misaki fall.

She felt her body began to fall, but suddenly she felt someones arms and hands around her. Her eyes widened and looked around, then saw Tobi trying to catch her hands, Itachi behind the left side of her, and unexpectedly behind her was, Deidara catching the right side of her.

First it was quiet, until (of course) Tobi gripped her hands. "Is Misaki okay?"

She smiled him. "Yeah." Then she turned around to look at the two continuing to smile. First they were all speechless, even Deidara was blushing, until he started to mutter things.

"Yeah well be careful.." Deidara looked away and sat down looking down with his hair covering his face.

She glanced at Itachi and noticed he was still staring at her. He gently pushed her body and helped her stand on her two feet properly.

"Are you hurt?"

She tilted her head and smiled a little bit bigger.

"I'm fine Itachi." She giggled at the end, and took a seat. But she was back to the original Misaki.

Itachi glared at her for a couple more seconds and sat back down next to her.

"I swear i've never seen Itachi talk so much in public." Pain walked in holding something behind his back. "I apologize for the tardiness, I was figuring out somethings for the future, also I was getting something-I see you've met the two. Now let me explain."

"Oh thank Jashin it's only two." Hidan said under his breath.

"These two will be the Akatsuki's apprentices. This is Misaki Sora, and that is Yuki." He said pointing at the two.

"Are you serious Pain!" Hidan said jumping up. Pain gave him a death glare, which made him go dead silent and sit down.

Pain walked over and handed Misaki and Yuki what he was holding in his hand. The two stood up and gratefully took it.

Yuki and Misaki folded it out and realized it was an akatsuki jacket that was the same shape, size, and tightness as their original ones.

"Wow an Akatsuki jacket!" Yuki yelled already taking off her jacket and putting on the new one. "Hmm." "What's wrong? You don't like it?" Misaki said slowly unzipping her jacket. "It just..doesn't seem to suit me..I mean your colors are black and red, mine are blue and white.." She said pulling out her blue crystal necklace and Misaki's red gemstone ring. "Black and red are the Akatsuki colors." "I know, I know. Anyway it's fine!"

Misaki stared at her for a couple of seconds then finally took off her jacket.

"Hey Deidara look!" Kisame said. "What!" He looked up excitedly at Kisame then turned his head, and saw Yuki putting on her new jacket, and Misaki without a jacket.

...

"Eh what's the big idea! Do you have change right here!?" Deidara yelled jumping out his chair. Some of the Akatsuki members snickered in the background.

"I'm only changing my jacket." Misaki put her other jacket on her arm and put on the new one. "Oh wow Misaki! You look so pretty! You know, even though it looks just like your other jacket but with flowers on it.." "It's not flowers!" "Sorry, clouds." She said smiling, looking naive as usual.

"Do I have to be here?!" Deidara's face still red. "Yes. You can leave now. Actually the only people I need now is Kisame, Sasori, and Itachi.

Everyone got up and left besides: Kisame, Sasori, Itachi, Pain, Konan, Yuki, and Misaki.

"Alright here is the schedule for teaching the apprentice, also known as Misaki, and Yuki. Itachi will teach the two fire and water jutsu-" "Wait but-" "Yuki it's alright, I know for sure i'm a fire style, just like your test said." "Mmm, fine. Continue Pain, hehe sorry."

"..Kisame will teach the two kenjutsu, and Sasori will teach taijutsu."

So she was right. He thought.

"Kisame will only temporarily teach kenjutsu, and Itachi will also temporarily teach water jutsu. Once they have learned kenjutsu at a certain level, Kisame will switch over and teach Yuki water jutsu, and Itachi will teach Misaki fire jutsu. Their training will start right now, Sasori you'll teach them first."

Later everyone was dismissed and Sasori, Misaki, and Yuki walked to the practice field. Right when she reached for the handle of the door, Misaki slipped and banged her forehead on the door. "Misaki!" Yuki rushed over to help her up. All she did was yawn and continue opening the door. "Sorry Yuki."

"You should've gone to bed earlier!" "I'm okay Yuki." "Gosh! You always stay up too late!" Misaki had a little grin and continued to walk out.

The two dropped their old jackets on the ground and took their fighting stance to Sasori. "Take off your jackets."

They were taken back a bit by the sudden demand, but they did what he said and then continued their stance.

Sasori stood there calmly and summed out two simple puppets. They charged to the two girls, they easily jumped out the way.

That's when their practice began.

~ Time skip; three hours later: 10:00am ~

They finally finished finished. Panting, Yuki had wounds and scratches all over her body, while Misaki had scrapes all over.

"Misaki you did exceptionally well, besides when you kept tripping and falling. You need to work on that. Yuki, you seem to know what you are doing, but your body doesn't add up with it."

"Right." "Alright that's enough training with me today, take a break first, then go to your next training session."

"Alright let's go!" Yuki yelled holding her thumbs up. The two walked to the door to go inside.

"Make sure you take of your wounds also." Sasori warned.

The two held their thumbs up in the air, one more half-heartedly than the other though. He sighed and they walked back inside.

Once again Misaki slipped and fell, but while she was falling the door on the left opened and hit her forehead.

"Hm?-Ah! Misaki! I what the hell are you doing being in front of my door!?" He rushed down and scooped down and grabbed her in his arms.

"I was just walking to heal my wound, and I tripped, and then Deidara you banged your door on my forehead." "Oh sorry! You must be sore from your practice! Here i'll help you take care of them." Deidara helped Misaki up and stopped when he saw Yuki. He started to blush, then he looked at Misaki and looked away.

"Why are you guys dressed like that." "We're only wearing a tank top and shorts."

Deidara looked over and glanced at Misaki's chest. "Eh, that's right..Yuki can you get our normal jackets please? They should be with our Akatsuki jackets." "Sure thing Misaki! I'll get them while you go fix up yourself!" Yuki said already running.

"Where do you keep your medical supplies?" "Huh? Oh in the kitchen!" Deidara said grabbing her hand and rushing to the kitchen.

"Can you take it easy?" She said holding her arm in pain. "Oh sorry!" He said rubbing the back of his neck. Slowly her vision started to fade.

"Misaki? Ah man! Hey wake up!"

~ Middle of the day ~

She her eyelids opened and she gave out a yawn.

Where am I? Why am I on a bed?

She moved her head and saw Deidara sleeping sitting criss cross as if he was watching over her. Did he put me here?

Misaki looked to make sure she was still wearing her ring, then heaved herself up and looked under his head to make sure he was sleeping. She put her hand on his cheek and tried waking him up.

"Deidara.."

Slowly his eyes half opened and stared at Misaki.

"Oh what d-did you come have..some fun?" He said half-asleep. "Deidara?"

He put his hand on top of hers and leaned closer. "D-Deidara.." Misaki tried to say, but inevitably leaned in also.

Soon his eyes started to blink faster and then he finally, fully woke up.

"Eh..MISAKI!?"

Quickly they blushed turned their heads.

"What are you doing?!" "I tried to wake you up. And when I did, you tried to kiss me." She still said in her monotone voice.

"Eh.."

She turned her head to look at him."An-Anyway..are you the one who put me here?" "Oh yeah!" He said looking her straight in the eye. "What's up with that, eh!? You passed out, out of nowhere." "Why didn't you take me to my room?" "IT'S NOT LIKE THAT OR ANYTHING! I mean like, my room was the closest one so I just carried you in here." He said rubbing the back of his neck.

She giggled.

He blushed. "W-What?! You better not be making fun of me!" "I'm not, i'm happy you would do something like this-wait where's Yuki!?" Misaki said surprisingly panicking.

"Hey don't worry she's fine." He said grabbing her shoulder. She sighed in relief. "Actually from what I heard from Sasori, she's been practicing non-stop. Oh yeah I remember she did stop by-" "She did?" "Yeah she wanted to see how you were doing really badly, but you were sleeping. So she left, and-... I don't know what she's doing now though." "Yuki? Wait what time is it?" "Almost 2." "She's been practicing for four hours?" "Hey you're pretty good with math."

She streaked thru her bang and got off his bed. "Well I should see how Yuki's doing.." She turned back around and smiled. "Thanks, Deidara."

His face flushed and she walked out the room.

While she was walking out the room she bumped into someone.

"Are you feeling better?" She looked up and stared at Itachi's face. "How did you know-" "-You missed training so I went to go look for you." "I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble."

She walked passed him, while Itachi decided to follow her.

"Actually do you know where Yuki is?" She said stopping, making him stop also. "I'm not sure." "I heard she's been training a lot."

"She has." "Do you know why?" "I don't. There could be any reason to why."

~ Flashback ~

The two stood outside, with Yuki panting, and scratches/marks all over her body.

"Let's take a break-" "-No! I mean like..not yet..I c-can make it, a little l-longer..I want to g-get better." She said out of breath.

~ End of Flashback ~

"All I know for sure is that she wants to improve herself."

They kept on walking down the hall until they reached Misaki's room. She peaked inside and only saw their jackets on her bed.

She sighed.

Four hours.. She thought.

She turned around and looked Itachi straight in his dull black eyes.

"Is it alright if we have our training practice now?"