(A/N: Not one of my longest chapters but there will be more that follows.)
Chii stood on top of one of the tall buildings and smiled slightly seeing Hinata dragging Samuru with her down the street. In truth, Chii had run into her after she stormed off and asked her to watch Samuru and get his mind off the Akatsuki and the past. Her plan went a lot better than she had even expected. Soon as her thoughts went back to herself and how she was doing, her smile disappeared. Gaara had too many things on his plate right now and like she had heard earlier, it sounded like he didn't plan for what he felt to come of anything. Well at least she got Samuru to start coming out of his ice shell and start understanding that he needed to look towards the future.
Chii sighed and ran across the roofs to the cliffs and sat away from where the guards stood and stared out at the empty desert. There had been so much that had happened in the past four years and it was hard to keep up the happiness that she had. If she had acted like Samuru, neither of them would have lasted this long, no matter what choices they made. It was her that kept them moving forward...
Several Months After Joining the Akatsuki:
It was one of those times Samuru and Chii were actually allowed to wander and they found a natural spring within the depths of the Akatsuki Cave. Chii instantly stripped down to her tank top and shorts and jumped in while Samuru sat on a rock nearby.
"What are we doing here?" Chii whispered as she stood in the middle of the spring, her back to her older brother. Her emotions kept fluctuating the past few weeks.
"What do you mean Chii?" Samuru looked over to her and saw her arms wrap around herself.
"We were doing fine before Zetsu showed up at the lake, Samuru then at the first chance someone offers us somewhere to stay we take it. Was that really a smart idea? I wish we could have just stayed in the forest..."
"Its not you to act like this, is something wrong?" Samuru frowned. Chii turned slightly and despite the water from the spring running down her body, he saw tears fall. "Chii...?"
"Why couldn't things be like they used to before the war?" Chii looked at him and he saw pain in her eyes that she almost always had hidden. It was enough to effect him mentally and made him think that she had more pain than him. "Why does the world revolve around all this hurt and pain?"
"That's something we'll have to fix now, won't we?"
"How?"
"How does anyone fix something?" Chii gave a blank stare as she shrugged. "They have to start it, so if you want to change the way the world revolves around hurt and pain then you have to start acting the opposite."
"So your saying I have to act all happy and excited? Isn't that lying though?"
"Act a certain way long enough, it becomes truth, does it not?"
"True," Chii looked down at the water and frowned. "Alright, I'll do it! I'll start changing the world!"
'Man I was so naive then,' Chii thought as she thought back to that day when she had been wanting to just give up. Her had came up inside the jacket Samuru had let her use and touched the mostly healed wounds that she had gotten while fighting the four Akatsuki. 'The scythe... Where did the shinobi put that triple bladed scythe?'
Chii got to her feet and ran over to one of the shinobi who were on watch.
"May I help you?" the man narrowed his eyes as he looked at her.
"The triple bladed scythe that I used to finish off the four Akatsuki that showed up... where is it?" Chii asked.
"Lord Kazekage took all weapons from the Akatsuki away. Why are you asking for it?"
"Nevermind, I'll go ask Gaara," Chii turned and and found herself surrounded by sand shinobi. "Is something wrong?"
"Are you still Akatsuki?" one snapped.
"What...?" Chii frowned. "Why would I want to be Akatsuki? I just saved your asses from them..."
"You didn't..."
"Oh really?" Chii growled as she kept looking at the four men surrounding her. "When I finally broke that seal and got to the surface, it looked like you weren't winning. Looked like the Akatsuji were."
"Why you...?!" One snapped before lunging towards her but she just jumped into the air and summoned her ice wings and hovered in the air.
"Ignorant shinobi, you do not know the meaning of pain or loyalty," Chii whispered sadly as she heard the village alarms going off. "I'll prove to you all who are ignorant still."
Then she flew towards the Kazekage tower where she felt the faint power of the triple bladed scythe. What other alarms would there be if she had already set of the main alarms? She would take her new weapon and prove them all wrong; that she wasn't one of those filthy Akatsuki.