Document Opened: 08/24/2009, 03:55am.

Authors Note:
Okay, this chapter is eight years in the past.

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He tuned out the mindless chatter going on behind him from the girls and some of the guys. He didn't care about them and they didn't care about him. All he was focused on was getting a couple of things out of his locker and getting out of there and head back to his apartment for a bit before going to the park.

Task done, he shut and locked his locker for the day and headed for the semi-large double doors that served as the schools entrance and exit. Without a glance behind him he left for the day.

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He had just stepped off the bottom step when he heard the silver haired teen call to him. "Hey! Blondie! Are you gonna fight me today or f*cking not!?" The blond cast an annoyed glance to the left to see a smirking silver haired teen, Hidan, look at him while waiting on his answer. "No, un." He told him flat out and somewhat blankly.

He had no idea why they seemed to get kicks from tormenting him. Almost everyday one or two of them kept trying to fight him. He didn't know why and no matter what he did they would not leave him alone. Without another word he turned to walk away.

"Look you little freak! Get back here and fight me!" Hidan huffed and crossed his arms as the blue eyed teen continued to walk away ignoring him completely. 'Dammit. This is getting to be harder then Pein said it would be.' Hidan thought while turning to go see the others.

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It had taken him a little longer then normal to get back to his apartment since he took his time. He found no reason to hurry, it's not as if there was someone waiting for his return.
More often then not he was wary to enter his place since he had no idea if or when they would find him.

The thought brought a bitter frown to his face as he dropped his backpack near the entrance of the door and headed to the kitchen for a drink.

A couple of minutes later he had got himself a glass of orange juice and went to go sit in the living room.

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Plopping on the couch, he flicked on the tv to the news in time to get the weather. He watched bored with nothing on his mind.

"And we wll be seeing showers possibly starting tonight and scattered through the weekend. So enjoy what's left of the day. Back to you Tai." He flicked off the television as the screen switched from the bubbly blond woman to a man with semi-dark brown hair.

He leaned back and stared at the ceiling blankly while drinking. It was moments like this that were dull for him and to not be able to go outside without worry. He'd have to stay inside since he couldn't use his abilities when wet. Annoying, yes. But it had never been a huge issue before.

"Guess I'd better go ahead and go if I want to get any sketching done today, un." He thought out loud. A moment later he only rolled his visible eye at himself for even speaking out loud like that.

After getting up and putting the empty glass into the sink, he headed out the door after snatching his sketchpad and a couple of pencils.

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An hour later he had found a semi-secluded spot and had been working on sketching a group of trees for practice- but even with the peaceful scenery, something was bothering him.

He couldn't put his finger on it but something had him on edge. Somehing that wasn't good, he knew that much at least. 'Maybe I'm being paranoid, un.' The blond thought while making a few lines on the paper.

"We've finally found you." A female voice spoke.

He jerked his head up at the sound of the voice, it sounded strangely familiar yet different. 'Guess not, un.' He mused quickly while standing up and looking behind him.

His visible blue eye widened in surprise for a moment upon seeing the two people standing in front of him. He knew them yet they looked so different. A man with spiky, ginger colored hair was standing along with a woman with vibrant blue hair and part of it was done up in a bun on the side. He knew the two as Pein and Konan but these two looked like them only....taller, older.

His eye narrowed at the pair. "Who are you, un?" While waiting for their reply, he set about to sense anymore people or possible traps. It puzzled him as they were not exactly putting out a threatening aura. Cautious but not threatening.

"I think you know who we are." The older Pein spoke and his answer only annoyed the blond.

"I have no interest in your stupid mind games, un." He replied as calm as he could but some annoyance seeped it's way into his tone.

"We're only here to talk. Not fight." The older Konan spoke in a calm voice. "We do not have much time but we came back to warn you of something that happens on this day in one month." She was quiet after that so Pein could speak.

"We know about the Alpha-project and it's consequences." Pein could sense the controlled anger coming from the teen they had not spoken to in so long.

"How? How could you possibly know about that, un?" How could they know about the thing he had escaped from barely two years ago?

"As you can see we are the older versions of our current selves. The 'us' of this time-line cannot see the 'us' of ourselves from the future or it would be dire."

"Make sense, dammit, un." He wanted answers, not science fiction.

"There was a battle on the date Konan mentioned. One that has suffering for many people. Ourselves and you included." The fight, he remembered was a difficult one. Both physically and emotionally.

Suffering, that was not new to him. It was a bitter and sarcastic thought. "Are you saying it's my fault whatever happened, un?"

"Not exactly. Overall it was primarily our fault for not seeing what our actions were doing." Older Pein crossed his arms and frowned.

Konan quickly noticed that they were slowly starting to fade. Their powers were great but time-travel was a strong thing to even mess with. "Since we do not have much time, I'll tell you this. Do not merge with the Alpha entity. We had our reasons for what we are doing now."

"Given we could have gone a different way." Pein added in agreement. Noticing the slight transparency they had.

Many different emotions were running through him along with all kinds of thoughts. What made the three of them all look to the side was the onset of familiar voices talking in the distance but nearing.

Before the blond knew what was happening he felt a hand grab his arm and before he could react he heard older Pein say "Abort." And the next thing he knew, they were gone from there with only a couple of slowly falling blue sparks to hit the ground.

The next thing he could see was that they were in a metallic, empty room. He jerked his head around trying to decipher what had just happened. "Welcome to the future." He heard older Pein speak.

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Back in the past a certain red head had just walked into where the trio was before since he heard voices, they needed the meeting to be secret and couldn't risk anyone from a rival gang spying on them.

However, the only thing he found was an abandoned sketchpad with an almost finished work on it. 'Not bad.' He thought while checking to see if it had someones name on it.

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Authors Note:
This chapter was going to be longer but then it would have made the story a little rushed.
It's probably going to be under ten chapters.

Finished: 08/30/2009, 03:23am.