-Itachi-
The sun was barely starting to set and it had been a full day since Kisame and I saved the siblings' asses from being captured by the Wind and Leaf shinobi. Samuru had woken as soon as we made camp but the girl was still unconscious.
"You went to far this time Itachi," Kisame muttered as Samuru started to heal Chii. "Even if you do hate her, Leader would be mad of you had killed her."
"Our job was to make them look like they were dead and take away corpses. Zetsu knew that I wouldn't hold back."
(A/N: referencing the senbon into the neck if you don't understand, Haku did the same to Zabuza at the end of episode 9)
"We shut off their chakra flow and shot senbon in their neck as soon as they were beat up enough to temporarily stop their heart but you drove a fuckin kunai into her rib cage!" Kisame snapped.
"Ugh... Too loud Kisame..." Chii whined as she opened her eyes. "Thank you for getting us."
"You shouldn't have messed up," I snapped.
"It was our first mission! Usually you have some veteran Akatsuki tag along a team when their new to missions but nooo, you had to have every single face of the current Akatsuki known!" Chii snapped before she started coughing. "Damn, I think you hit a lung..."
"Stop talking and let me finish healing you," Samuru snapped and she giggled slightly before closing her eyes.
"You're such a foolish child," I muttered and she opened one eye to look at me. "We'll leave before dawn to get back to the hideout so rest up."
"I didn't know that you cared," Chii whispered as she smirked.
-No POV-
"Bitch," Itachi muttered.
"Weasel," Chii taunted and he growled and drew a kunai. he was about to lunge at her but he found himself trapped in ice from the shoulders down. "It's not nice to hurt people when their already injured."
"If you insult me again, bitch then I'll give you over to those shinobi who were hunting you down."
"And what would our corpse of a leader have to say if you handed a fellow Akatsuki member over to the enemy who held many secrets," Chii frowned as she released Itachi from his ice shell.
"I'd watch your back if I were you," Itachi spoke evenly as he sat down against a tree.
"Hey Samuru, was it me or did you fancy that pale eyed girl?" Chii whispered to her brother as he finished healing her.
"What are you talking about Chii? They are the enemy..."
"If you really think about it, we are," Chii muttered. "I mean it's just a little under a dozen rough shinobi who are trying to take over the world through the use of the tailed bijuus. If we had never joined Akatsuki, where do you think we would be right now?"
"Don't let Pein hear you talking like that," Kisame spoke as he came over. "He'd kill you on the spot for even thinking things like that."
"But it's true. Akatsuki is made up of criminals who think that they were mistreated by their own people and villages so they joined with others that acted the same and wanted to create some war so they could take over," Chii snapped as she sat up. "We only joined because we were about to starve to death!"
"Then maybe you should have starved," Itachi snapped. "If you didn't know what you were going to get into then why the hell did you join a bunch of criminals on the run?"
"We had no where else to go and Zetsu offered a place to stay," Chii sighed and looked at her hands. "I never liked being a bad person not even during the Blaze War. Guess we acted out of desperation two years ago."
"Maybe you should talk to Pein and see how he acts when you tell him all this," Itachi smirked and closed his eyes.
"I'd rather do that then let Hidan sacrifice me to his god Jashin," Chii snorted as she laid back down.
Samuru stayed up for guard duty and sat next to his younger sister and stared out at the lake where the moon was days from being full. He had never thought of why they really went and stayed with the Akatsuki and let the nations think that they were KIA or the reason why they had dealt with hanging around the Akatsuki to begin with. If they had just told people that they were alive... No, they would probably have put them in jail because of their interference during the Blaze War and killing shinobi in both the Wind and the Leaf ranks.
-In the Hokage Tower-
"The Abare Ice Siblings, you say?" Tsunade rose a brow in surprise. "It was announced that they had been killed but no one really found their bodies. There had been rumors that they disappeared after the older lost control and killed most of the Blaze Shinobi and the younger had been whipped fatally by Ibiki and several of his men."
"Whipped?" Temari gasped. "Gaara do you think that's why Chii had those scars on her back?"
"I do not know, nor do I care Temari," Gaara snapped. "What would Akatsuki want with them?"
"No clue, the shinobi who had the Ice Element were catorized as unstable. Several years back before Orochimaru went bad, there was a Leaf Shinobi who specialized in research and he experimented on Ice Users. Their ability could never be taken because as soon as the genes were pulled out of the User's body, it died. Hinata, are you sure they were dead?"
"H-hai, there was too much blood for either to have survived..."
"I noticed something strange before those Akatsuki left with them," Sai spoke nonchalantly. "Two Senbon needles were in each of their necks, right along their main neck artery."
"Temporary Death?" Sakura asked. "Haku had done that to Zabuza when Naruto and I were genin."
"I remember that. That boy..." Naruto trailed off in thought.
"It had taken a week for Zabuza to recover from the technique."
"Are they affiliated with Akatsuki if they let the nations believe they were KIA?"
"If they were then the Akatsuki would have had two faces that they could send out and no one would be able to know who they were and they'd be able to get inside jobs done that took time," Tsunade spoke as she sipped her tea. "Gaara, what do you think about all of this?"
"Those Siblings blood is in my sand, I'd be able to track them," Gaara smirked. "My siblings and myself will take care of it and we'll send you a mesage when we find where they are at and if they are Akatsuki."
"Sounds reasonable, but I'd take Hinata and Neji with you and have their Byakugan when needed so your not blind," Tsunade spoke and Gaara bowed. "Hinata find your cousin and the five of you meet at the gates in ten minutes to head out."
"H-hai," Hinata stuttered and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Let's go," Gaara growled to his siblings and they walked out of the office.