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Anyways! Here's chapter two

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Itachi POV:

"The girls are all still asleep?" Konan asked in a monotonous voice, we all nodded in return. "Alright, now you all know today is the final day for seeing if the girls can be trained, so far they've passed our 'exams', but today will not only determine if they can keep up, but if they can at least show they can be trained to be ninja," Pein said very quietly, his hands gripping the worn arms of the recliner.

"Do you all know the village you'll be taking your apprentice to?" Pein continued after we'd all nodded and a silence had begun, each of us off in our own thoughts of what today would be like. I looked to Kisame, I hadn't thought much on where to take Ashley once the two days had passed, I'd be so focused on the troublesome feelings surfacing whenever she was around I had totally lost sense of most things I had to be doing. Hidan huffed, still annoyed with his apprentice as he spoke up,"I suppose I'll be taking mine to my old village."

We all stared at him in awe, and finally he got annoyed and asked,"What?" "You didn't say one swear word in that whole sentence!" Deidara blurted out, causing all of us to chuckle a little bit, me least of all. Hidan blinked,"Fuckers." "That's our Hidan-sama!" Tobi said cheerfully as he bounced into the room, clapping. I still wanted to chew his head off. Very. Badly.

Zetsu finally spoke up,"I believe we'll be taking Raylin to the Hidden Mist village." "Oooh that's a good one Zetsu-sama!" Tobi squealed in glee. I swear, the next time Pein wants us to recruit someone, I want him to pick better, another Tobi... I can't even think it. "I'll be taking Catie and Alice to the Hidden Sand," Sasori said dryly as he looked around calmly. Kisame still regarded me, silently asking where I'd like to take Ashley.

I stated ,"We'll be taking Ashley-" Deidara began at the same time as me"I'll take Kamiah-" we both stated at the same time,"to the Hidden Leaf." Deidara flashed me a glare, but otherwise kept quiet. Pein nodded after a few minutes of consideration, then called over to Kakuzu,"Go with Hidan, just in case he decides to kill his apprentice." Kakuzu shook his head and grumbled back,"You should've seen him last night, he was about ready to sacrifice her to Jashin." "You know you wanted to too you little Fucker!" Hidan spat. I almost grinned.

"Alright, you may leave as soon as your apprentice is awake, and take caution in not getting caught, you're still Akatsuki," Konan stated, and then everything went silent except for the sounds coming from the Tv.

Time Skip!

(toooooo... on the way to the village 0.o)

Ashley POV:

I walked as quietly as I could next to Itachi, which was really hard since I wasn't a trained ninja, yet at least... I still badly hoped they wouldn't decide to dispose of us, so I was trying my best to keep up with the ninjaness and be a silent walker like Itachi and Kisame. (lol silent walked... LUKE SKY WALKER.... dear lord.... NOOOOO...) This morning when I woke upItachi hadn't been there, which wasn't beginning to surprise me because he woke up so damn early allllll the time, with the others. But I guess that was normal when you were a ninja, especially a rogue one that had been exiled...

I ended up glancing up at Itachi every few minutes, silently asking where we were going, but all he had told me through the translator was that we were spending the day in a village, letting me get to know part of the terrain better. I peeked up at him shyly for the some-teenth time and blushed when I caught him staring at me from the corner of his eyes, red from his sharingan was just brewing on the edges of the deep black, and I quickly glanced down so as not to get caught in it.

Deidara and Kamiah were about 10 feet ahead of us walking quietly, Miah had on a pair of gray capris and a black tank-top since it was a nice day out, I was dressed a little similar, only with jean capris and the white tank-top I'd worn the first day I was there. My hair fell loosely over my shoulders, while Miah's was held up in a pony-tail for today. I could see her shy glances back at me and then to Deidara every other couple of minutes, she was nervous.

We both had a right to be, we didn't know where we were going other than to a village, we didn't know what we were supposed to do beside study the terrain, and we were both epicly concerned for the others. I especially for Ray, I didn't trust Zetsu, and Tobi... well, yeah. Kisame slowed a little, immediately after we left the base and went through another passageway that was off to the right of the door and away from the massive statue, Kisame and Itachi had flanked me, Itachi on my left, Kisame on my right. We had been one of the first to leave, Deidara came after us with Kamiah, so wherever we were going, they were too.

I didn't feel unsafe at all really, just really... prisoner like, I was being escorted to somewhere I didn't know of, and I admit it more or less made me on edge. For most of the beginning of the journey we had walked on a path through the woods, my new hightened senses picking up on lots of little details, bugs for instance, I could see all kinds on the trees and in the bushes all around me. My ears could pick up on the tiniest traces of a stream flowing westward, away from us, I had once looked up at Itachi to tell him about it, when I realized he could probably already hear everything, too, and much better than I could.

After a couple of miles, we entered into the trees, me and Kamiah racing eachother for a while until Itachi and Kisame swarmed me and we were put back on the ground, we alternated like that for a while, at least until Miah's stomach growled, which caused a semi chain reaction and made mine growl at me, too. I'd brought along the small backpack full of food we'd bought on our way here, just in case, I had told Miah to wait a little longer until we found a rest stop, then we'd eat, it wouldn't do us any good to make the other three wait on us, and they might even go on ahead and we'd get lost... so yeah.

Miah had pouted and I sighed too, but here we were walking on a worn path, the village was close, Itachi-kun had told me a little while ago. Surprisingly enough, we hadn't been intercepted by local ninja of the village we were going to, and for that I was grateful, I didn't want to be forced into fighting when I barely knew anything except what I had seen on the Tv show. I knew I wouldn't last two seconds against trained elite ninja, neither would Miah.

Speaking of Miah, my train of thought was interrupted when I heard her squeal, and then I felt Itachi's arm shoot across my middle in a protective stance, Kisame grabbing the end of his sword and checking it to make sure it was at the ready, Deidara's hands were already reaching back to grab at his clay when Miah shook her head and pointed. "ASH! THERE'S THE REST STOP! FINALLY!" she screamed back at me as she hopped from foot to foot, and then I caught site of it.

It was run down, built with rickety boards and looking like it would fall over from the tiniest gust of wind, but other than that it looked alright, Itachi relaxed his position and Kisame sighed, shaking his head and muttering something to Itachi I couldn't understand, Deidara frowned over at Kamiah and then shook his head as well and started walking towards it. I caught site of Itachi lowering his woven straw hat over his face.

Being curious and more than a little concerned, I waited until Kisame was a little bit ahead and then leaned over to look up at Itachi's face, I blinked. Two blood read pools with deep black comma's stared back at me silently, many emotions swirling in them that I could not decipher on my own, he was such a... closed book. I tugged on his arm and he slowly took out his translator, mumbling a curt, "what?" into it.

"You alright?" I asked gently, though through the translator it came out in an odd tone of voice. A very faint trace of a smile touched his lips and he nodded, motioning for me to keep walking.

A couple minutes later I was seated next to Kamiah on the bench at the rest stop, an elderly woman with gray hair tied back in a bun and wrinkles from many years of age sprinkled across her face and deep brown eyes had come and asked Itachi, Kisame, and Deidara what they'd like. A few more minutes later and they all three had some sort of meat, three balls, on a stick, they each got two, and it smelled vaguely sweet and delicious.

Miah and I were sharing a bag of jerky, and as we nommed I watched the other three eating quietly, occasionally mumbling something or other to each other and then growing more silent. After a while of my mouth watering and my curious mood getting the better of me, I tugged on Itachi's arm. He took out his translator and I asked,"May I try?" I gestured to the other stick he wasn't currently working on, and I caught the faintest look of surprise flash in his eyes, which had now returned to black, but then he nodded.

With delicate fingers, as pale as mine, he picked up the stick and handed it to me, I took it and held it between my thumb and index finger, sniffing the first ball of meat intriguingly. I took a small bite and was bombarded with a mixture of flavor, from sweet to spicy to meaty and different. I loved it immediately.

Showing my appreciation I smiled up at him and took another bite, and then an idea struck me. I reached over and grabbed a medium sized piece of jerky from Kamiah and I's bag and held it up to Itachi. "Now you try," I said into the translator. He was hesitant at first, probably debating whether or not it'd be poisonous since we were from a different world all together, but since I had been fine tasting his food I guess he decided he'd be fine tasting mine, for he slowly took the piece of jerky and took a bite, ripping it off in a small chunk with pearl white teeth.

After a bit of chewing-i'd guess it was hard eating something so chewy and not as soft as the meat he had given me-he gave me one of his rare smiles, I scooted a little closer to him and ate the rest of the strange food on a stick, completely at ease now. Kamiah looked just as happy sitting on my right, with Deidara to her right, Itachi on my left and Kisame on his left. I bet to someone walking past we looked like quite the odd scene, considering we were with the Akatsuki. Actually, I'm quite surprised the old woman hadn't sent for village ninja as soon as she saw us.

After a bit longer of us just lounging we set off again, and soon I saw a massive arch of white stone coming up ahead, it was a huge barrier, meant to protect a village, I could even just vaguely make out the sentry posts along it's top edge, now was the fun part, trying to make it in without getting caught, but I think Itachi-kun would help us with that. I backed up and stood next to Miah as Kisame and Itachi took the lead in front of us, Deidara behind us, for protection reasons.

As we came closer I finally figured out which village we were going to, and I watched Itachi's back, wondering what he must feel like, returning to his birth village. The Leaf village was probably one of the largest, along with the Sand I believe, if I was right. I gave Miah a couple of glances, to try and calm both of us and to keep us from bolting, we were on edge again. Deidara, Kisame, and Itachi all lowered their straw hats over their faces, the wind billowed out their black capes with red clouds, making them look a bit menacing, Kisame especially with his big ass sword.

Soon enough, we neared the entrance to the Leaf Village, well, one entrance, there were probably many more to this village, some hidden, some in plain view, if I ever get the chance I'll have to come back here some day and look for them all. Up ahead, about three ninja were waiting, two sitting in a small outpost, used for checking in tourists new to the village or ninja back from missions I presumed, the other was probably one just as that, some ninja back from a mission.

My heartbeat sped up as we walked through the huge arch in the wall, I felt like a tiny ant entering under a boulder as we passed, and I absentmindedly moved closer to Miah. Deidara whispered very quietly in his translator,"Stay calm, stay quiet, we're almost through." I took a small deep breath and let it out slowly, Kasmiah doing the same, and we both visibly relaxed.

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how to post the second chappie

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