Hi! Couldn't update yesterday unfortunately… it got too late in the night. I also had some difficulty on deciding how I wanted to word certain things but I finally did come up with it! JEnjoy!

"Follow your schedule with him Itachi; when he is ready, guide him to the fields. For your sake I hope he survives."

Frederick watched as the forest around him burned from the sheer power of the flames he had casted. He was tired; if he had to practice anymore today he could potentially suffer from chakra exhaustion.

He walked slowly towards the trio conversing, until he saw something peculiar occurring to the fire of the forest. The flames from the trees began to rise and take shapes; the largest and most central shape blocking Frederick's path to the trio of ninja that had been talking.

Frederick looked at the fire as it burned brightly in the sky.

"Another genjustu…hasn't Itachi had enough yet?"

Frederick clapped his hands together but the flames did not dissipate.

Frederick then made a hand sign; "Genjustu Release!"

Frederick had been sure that any genjustu would have been disbanded… he didn't understand what was going on.

Sure enough, neither did the Itachi trio as they began scanning the forest for anyone who could be potentially controlling the flames; Itachi's crimson eyes shining.

The tiny flames then took on the appearance of small birds…no…not birds, phoenixes.

Frederick watched as they were seemingly just flying over his head and around him; as if they didn't want anyone to interfere.

Finally the largest flame took the appearance of a bigger Phoenix than the others. It was bigger than any other phoenix Frederick had ever seen in his life, and he had seen pictures of some nicely sized phoenixes.

"Fire Wielder of the unknown world; enter into the field of flames at your own risk. If you survive you will receive eternal glory in the eyes of the phoenix and the eyes of all shinobi. Come and find me at the entrance to the field if you dare to perfect the art of fire."

The bird raised its wings as the fire it gave off blew out; leaving only ashes. The other phoenixes died in the same way, their fires turning into piles of ashes until no fire remained.

Frederick had never heard of phoenixes in the Naruto world minus the phoenix flower justu. He had heard of snakes, toads and slugs but not phoenixes.

Itachi quickly appeared next to him after several moments of pondering by Frederick.

"What did it say to you?"

"Something about fields of fire," was the best thing Frederick could say while attempting to piece things together in his mind.

"Hn," Itachi looked over to Pein with a reassured look on his face as Pein nodded.

"That's enough training for tonight…let's return to the base."

As the four of them walked off to the base, not too far away two anbu members were investigating the sound of a large blast.

That was when Shin heard the noise.*

At first it didn't sound like anything too impressive until Shin felt the ground moving. Ami woke with a start and shared a look with Shin. The noise was far from their location but they could feel the pure power behind whatever had caused the tremors.

They were both up in minutes as they leaned against trees. Shin placed his hand on the ground, feeling the vibrations to no avail; he was not a specialist in ground tracking.

Ami quickly climbed a tree and was shocked at what she saw. Great smoke was rising from the distance.

"Shin! This way, quickly!"

The duo quickly went off towards the smoke; the tremors of the earth had died off however the smoke had not yet vanished.

As Ami and Shin got closer to the smoke, they noticed the devastation that the land had faced; the sight was horrifying to them.

The trees were seared and the land scorched; the grasses burnt and the area full of smoke.

"What could have caused such a thing?"

Shin merely shook his head; he had no clue as to what did this to the land or what had put the fires to rest.

Ami observed the trees, placing a hand against one softly.

"There's no trace…this is strange. I've never known any forest fire that's gone out on its own, or any ninja that was capable of creating flames like this while putting them out so quickly as well."

Shin paused; "You don't think it could be the boy we're looking for…could it?"

"At the very least it might me him or one of the akatsuki…I don't know why but I guess that's what we have to find out."

Shin nodded his head as they began walking through the terrorized land.*

When Frederick got back to the base, he noticed candles were lit; he was now able to see where he was walking while moving throughout the corridor. As he walked through the hallway, Frederick noticed that the walls had an earthy texture, similar to the valley he had crossed. They were brown, dirt walls with the occasional rock every few feet. Frederick began thinking about the structural flaw of such a hallway; some water and this land would be flooded and uninhabitable…but Zetsu probably was capable of sustaining the land somehow.

Finally they arrived to a neat room; Frederick knew that some places in the Naruto world did have electricity and lights and such but he didn't expect it in the akatsuki base. Pein explained to him how by clicking the little lever the lights on the inside of the base would turn on; they just didn't put any near the entrance or hallways in case any unwanted visitors appeared. The room looked to Frederick as he would think a suburban home would look…well besides the dirt floor of course. They had a long table in the middle of the room, as well as a refrigerator, some cabinets for storage probably, and some minor furniture.

Frederick looked around the room cautiously. It had a home like feel to it but it wasn't anything too out of the ordinary; had this been the room they had held the meeting this morning?

Itachi then pointed to one of the three hallways that this room gave off to.

"That hallway is where your room is."

Itachi then pointed to the next hallway.

"That is where the rest of us stay…you are not permitted to go there if you value your life."

Itachi then pointed to the hallway we had walked in from.

"That is the exit… you must not try to escape; you will fail."

Frederick nodded.

"Food is in there if you are hungry; don't keep Kisame waiting tomorrow morning if you know what's good for you."

With that, Pein and Kakuzu left as Itachi pointed towards the fridge.

Frederick walked toward the fridge and opened it. Inside of it were basic food items for cooking as well as some rice balls. Frederick took a pair of rice balls and ate them quietly as Hidan walked into the room.

"Dude! Stop eating balls in the middle of the fucking conference room!"

Frederick glared at his poorly crafted reference but didn't say anything. He finished eating the rice and went to his room; he was really tired.

So because I feel bad for not updating I'll try and get up another chapter tonight; thanks for reading!