Chapter 7:

Threat

Previously:

"Yes, your welcome, Kami." She said with a smile, before opening the door. But she didn't walk through. "I think I should tell you, that I was asked by someone who seemed very concerned about you, to check on you. I would have done so anyways tomorrow, for my own sake. But this person seemed pretty persistent that I check on you now."

"Who? I asked.

"Hidan."

"Hidan?...Hidan! Of all people, why him? And why was he so "concerned." Reading the manga, he never seemed like the type to be bothered by another person's well being, other than his own. So why was he starting now, with me? Especially since a few hours ago he was sexually harassing me on the floor.

*Knock,knock,knock.

I looked up to see the door enter and Tobi walk in. What's with these people not waiting for me to let them in? What if I was naked or something?

I wasn't particularly keen to see Tobi, since I knew who he was. He silently walked over to the side of my bed and sat down on the edge keeping his feet on the floor and his back facing me.

"If your here to check on me, you don't have to. Konan was just here, she talked to me and I'm all good now." I said calmly, I just wanted him out of my room as fast as possible.

He didn't reply. He just sat there silently. I started to panic mentally, What if he knows that I know his secret? I looked at my door. I'm fast, very fast... but not ninja fast. Hidan already demonstrated that to me earlier. We where alone in the room, and he was so close. Seated only a few inches a part, I could easily reach out and touch him if I wanted to.

"You know who I am." He finally spoke in a voice much lower than the usual Tobi voice. The way he stated it wasn't a question. It was a fact.

I made the conscious decision to be honest with him. He already spoke to me in his real voice, so he must have already come to the answer that I knew.

"Yes, I know your Obito... Obito Uchiha." My voice cracked at the end showing my fear about the current situation. Quicky, before I could realize what had happened I was pinned on my stomach with a blade at my throat. He had somehow managed to flip me so I lie facedown, climb on my back, and pull a kunai. "How did you know I knew?" my voice sound muffled as my face was pushed into the covers of my bed.

"Well, before when we had first met, your eyes... they seem to look at me as if you could see right through me. It felt as if my mask had hid nothing from you, I thought of it as just my mere imagination. When Pein informed me about your knowledge of us, I was still skeptical until..." he trailed off.

"Until, what?" I asked, becoming more uncomfortable as the weight of his boding increasingly made it harder to breath.

"Until dinner, when you made that comment about my acting skills."

Shit.

He lowered his body closer to me, touching my neck with the cold metal.

"You will not tell a soul, or I will kill everyone you care about...friends, family. And leave you alive, and alone in this world." I could feel his breath on my neck as he spoke, so I assumed his mask was off. He spoke each word with a lethal promise lased into it. "Do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand... I won't tell anybody,ouch." He added more pressure to the blade and I felt a sharp pain where the metal steal pressed on my neck.

"Good." And then he vanished. I looked around the room to make sure I was alone before I hurried to the bathroom to look at my wound. When I looked in the mirror I saw a single line of blood trialing out. It wasn't deep, just slightly thicker than a paper cut. After putting a towel to my neck and applying pressure to stop the light bleeding, I went back to my bed and lied down. This is too much to handle. I thought closing my eyes.

"DOGGIE!" Tobi squealed loudly from downstairs. I shot out of bed and ran down the stairs.

Pooches! Crap, how could I have forgotten about my baby. Even with all that's happened today, I'm a bad bad mother, a horrible mother. Oh no, he hasn't eaten all day, none the less been let outside. He probably left me something to clean in his play room. Usually Pooches sleeps with me, curled up on the pillow next to me, but he was howling all night last night and wouldn't stop. So I put him in his play room with his toys, and forgot about him.

When I hit the last step of the stairs I could hear Tobi still cooing over the dog, that really pissed me of and scared me at the same time, I didn't want him anywhere near Pooches. I followed the voice to the E-Room. I quickly pushed open the door and to see Poochies in the arms of Tobi.

"Tobi wants to know what your name is?"

I ran over and snatched Poochies, from the masked man. "Don't touch him!" I yelled.

"But, Tobi just wanted to play with him." He spoke with a very depressing tone in his voice. As if he was a child denied a new toy. His acting skills are amazing. Its like he was a whole different person. Too bad I wasn't falling for it.

"No." I said angrily.

"Oh, come on, yeah. Poor guy just wanted to play with him,un." Deidara said, surprisingly defending his future partner.

Then I remembered I needed to act as if I didn't know his real identity.

"Right,um... it's just that. With all that's happened today, I kinda forgot to take care of him. So I'm gonna do that now." I looked around the room, all ten members of the Akatsuki were present, including Hidan. We made eye contact for a moment before I turned my head and glanced at the clock. "So it's ah,... pretty late now. Would you like me to show you guys to your rooms before I go take care of this little guy?"

"Yes, that would be nice." Konan said as she rose from her seat, with a small smile.

With Pooches in hand and eight of the members following, we made our way up stairs to the bedrooms and telling them that all of the rooms on the floor were available, pointing to the exceptions being my room and and my parents.

"Each room has its own personal bathroom and there are two other separate bathrooms on the floor as well. If you need them they're on the East and West wings." They nodded in understanding.

"Tobi wants the bed!" he said before running down the hall.

"Oh no you don't,un!" Deidara spoke as he chased him.

I didn't wait to see who went into which room. I was to tired, and too overwhelmed about the events that took place today. After placing Pooches outside and cleaning up his mess due to my neglect, I gave him three cans of food which he gobbled down quickly. I lifted him up, walked to my room, I placed him on the pillow next to me and went straight to bed.

Damn, I thought as I drifted to sleep,this has been one hell of a day.

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