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"Look little girl, we know you've been pretending to be asleep for the last half hour. But you see, as far as I still remember we're all ninjas and we can tell the difference between someone sleeping and faking." Kisame muttered, rather obnoxiously.
Marie sighed inwardly. His action didn't surprise her. They had been silently watching her for over a half hour. They must have become bored with it. She had just been pretending so she could think, and they wouldn't bug her with threats, questions, or any kind of abuse. There were three things that had been on her mind the whole time. One, how was her little brother doing? Sure he was a genius, so if the Naruto universe was a math test he would come out of it alive and well. But it wasn't, it was a world full of fighting, and murdering, and war, and despair, and then here and there you had some nice people. But what if Orochimaru noticed the changes in the time-space continuum and started hunting Isaac down? What would he do to him? Kill him immediately? Experiment on him? Or use his genius mind to create another device and try to take over the world as she knew it? Two, what was going to happen to the world, the galaxy, the universe she knew? That small rip in the time-space continuum might have caused a chain reaction that was yet to come. She was too worried, and her head was too full of thoughts to even think rationally about it and come up with a mathematical formula. And third, her chances of survival. She was now in a room with four S-rank criminal ninja's, if they wouldn't have been ninjas her chances of survival would have gone up at least 45%. Even if they were different ninjas her chances of survival also would have gone up. Until Kisame interrupted her she was busy calculating her chance of survival over and over. She tried almost everything, different formulas and different variables. But no calculation came out with a survival chance higher than 51%.
Marie slowly opened her eyes and observed her surroundings. She noticed she was still in her basement; the only thing that was different was that she and the four people standing right in front of her had moved to another spot in the room. A less bloody one.
Marie lay on her back, her hands tied behind her. She tried to get up, so she could try and have some kind of a normal conversation with them, but she failed. It was kind of hard for her to get up with her hands tied behind her back; after all she wasn't a ninja or even an athletic person, for that matter. But luckily for her, Itachi supported her back a little with his foot so she could sit straight.
"Who the fuck are you?" Hidan asked with a grouchy undertone in his voice. He must be irritated, having to wait for a half hour. Marie took a deep breath and started thinking about whether she should answer or not, but unfortunately they didn't give our mathematical genius enough time to do the math. Because both Kakuzu and Hidan started to get impatient, and that is a dangerous thing.
"Just answer the fucking question!" Hidan said.
"Marie Milevá Harris." She muttered, helpless, not knowing what to do. Her mind was completely blank. Sure, she could threaten them with the government and their army and nuclear weapons, and say that the men with white coats would come and do experiments on them, but that wouldn't help her nor Isaac. It would only get her dead.
"That's a stupid name. Do you three also have such shitty names?" Hidan asked his companions, causing Marie to take a sudden interest in the silver haired man's behavior.
"What do you mean? Are you saying you don't know their names either?" She suddenly spat out, not sounding so helpless and fearful anymore. Marie had this thing going on, whenever something interested her or intrigued her she became slightly obsessed and started acting impulsive and fearless. The opposite of her normal behavior. Isaac always called it the Marie-Variable.
"No, I don't know them." Hidan replied. Being completely clueless about the fact that they were wearing the same cloaks and all had a scratch through their village symbols.
"Strange . . . " Marie muttered absently. She immediately went into thinking mode, closing herself off from the outside.
"What do you . . . Hey bitch I'm talkin' to you!" Hidan roared, already standing in a position to hit the poor girl.
"I'd be helpful if you wouldn't kill this woman either, she might hold valuable information." Itachi suddenly spoke, in his usual calm voice.
"He's right, haven't you noticed that the girl seemed confused when you told her that you didn't know our names? And besides that, we are wearing the same cloaks, we all have a scratch through our head bands, and we are all wearing similar rings. So we must be connected to each other somehow." Kakuzu added.
Both Hidan and Kisame took a very quick look at each other and shut their mouths. Both might have been feeling a tiny bit embarrassed as they hadn't noticed anything while the other two immediately had. Kisame coughed silently and sat down a few meters from the girl, giving her his most intense stare. She looked like she was muttering to herself, her lips moved rapidly but no sound came out.
"You're all suffering from Lacunar amnesia!" She suddenly screamed a little bit too eagerly. She looked like some wacko scientist that had just made a Nobel Prize worthy discovery. When she finally noticed that she had screamed it out a bit too loud, and saw confused faces staring at her, she explained everything that had just happened.
"You four are S-rank ninjas in a criminal organization called Akatsuki. That's why you are wearing same cloaks and all that. Four of you are divided in two teams, Hidan and Kakuzu are one team and Kisame and Itachi are another. You are from another universe. You see I have a little genius brother that made a device that created a hole in the space-time continuum, causing a portal to open in your universe and this one. And so you and my brother got sucked in, and since you came out in this universe, I assume my little brother also got spit out in your universe. That's the reason you're here! And the reason why you can't remember joining Akatsuki is because I think that you guys being sucked into the hole caused some kind of disturbance in the hippocampus." Why she left out certain things, like them being some Japanese cartoon in this universe, she didn't know. She had done it unconsciously.
She got confused looks again. "It's that thingy in your brain that is in control of your memory's and stuff."
"What was Lacunar Amnesia again?" Hidan asked, awed. He actually looked quite adorable, like he wasn't a villainously cruel killer but that one cute guy without any psycho religious habits that nervously tried to talk to you while waiting for the train to depart.
"Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event. It is a type of amnesia that leaves a gap in the record of memory." Marie ranted.
All four criminals looked at each other and seemed to have decided the same thing. Her story sounded crazy, but in this certain situation it was acceptable and maybe even quite believable. Marie felt confident that she would survive, none of them had tried to make any kind of threat in either a physical or mental way. But Marie lacked one thing, common female intuition. And like always, her intuition was wrong and she was about to find out.
"So . . . now that we have the information . . ." Hidan paused for a second, giving the fragile girl his finest grimace. "Can I kill her?" He sounded almost like a five year old asking his mother for candy. Sure their memories were lost, but their personality's hadn't really changed. That was something that she would love to experiment with, if she survived, of course.
Marie's eyes widened and she looked anxiously at the other three people. Her life, her fate lied in their hands right now. And that wasn't really comforting.
Marie's begging look stopped at Itachi and she hoped that he would be the one that would make sure Hidan spared her. Itachi noticed her doe-like eyes staring intensely at him and was about to speak up.
So first I'd like to thank MizukiXSuzumiya , and Ichigo1508 for reviewing ! And of course blackcatgirl for reviewing and chancing my horrible grammar mistakes.
I'd appreciate it , if you reviewd and told me exactly what you thought about this chapter , about my OC and akatsuki.
And yes , the others will be in the story soon ! You people just wait !