Second chapter! I'd love reviews guys ^^ I promise :)

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Unanimous

Chapter 2

The next morning, she woke up to a toilet flush and light shining directly into her face. Kaiya grabbed the pillow in distain – she liked the dark – and she put it over the back of her head, digging her face into the mattress in an attempt to shield her face from the light. At the sound of the bathroom door opening, she shot her hand out from under the covers and pointed at the raven-haired man as he trudged sleepily back across the room, without lifted the pillow or her face. "Put the lid down," she groaned into the mattress. She knew he hadn't. Living with a bunch of men didn't really require it. He sighed, rolled his dark eyes and slid silently back into the bathroom. The next sound was the clang of the toilet seat as it fell back down. "You should get up," he said, sitting back down in the chair where he had spent all night, have awake and half asleep. But, nobody else was up yet. She could tell. "It's too bright," she whined from underneath the soft pillow. "I like the dark better." But nonetheless, she got up and stretched a bit before poking her head out of the door frame. She had been wrong about nobody else being up. The blue-haired woman – Konan, was it? – was walking at the other end of the hallway. Kaiay's outstretched arms blocked the doorway because she was gripping the frame and leaning out. She felt a tap on her shoulder. "Some of us are hungry, you know," the Uchiha said curtly. He got irritable when he was hungry, and she hadn't eaten anything for a long time, but she could go for days without food. Longer than most. She removed her arms and stepped out into the hallway. Itachi brushed past her, heading towards the kitchen. Kaiya childishly stuck her tongue out at his back and followed him down the hall. And when she entered the kitchen… well…

Sasori and Deidara were the first to hear the scream.

"Looks like somebody went into the kitchen, un," Deidara said. And the whole of Akatsuki was outside of the kitchen door in a second. Itachi was wide-eyed and frozen, and Konan just stood there with a hand over her face shaking her head. "How do you people live like this!" she asked, gesturing to the entire kitchen. It was like Hell's tornado had swept through there. I mean, her room back in Konoha wasn't exactly the cleanliest place on Earth, but it wasn't this bad. Piled up dished that looked like they hadn't been washed in a month or more, a coffee pot… don't even get her started on that. She wasn't sure it was a coffee pot anymore. And when she opened the fridge, she was hit with the rankest smell she had ever encountered. She picked up a container with a blue lid and had no trouble in identifying whose it was. "And just how old is this?" she asked, sticking the container in Kisame's face. Without waiting for an answer, she asked, "What is it anyway?" He rubbed the back of his head and gave an innocent toothy grin. "Ehe… my guess is… um… fish?" She bristled. "That's it! Out! Out! Out!" she shouted, grabbing Itachi by the sleeve and pushing him out of the doorframe with the rest of the group. Konan was the only one who stayed. "How do you live with eight men in one place?" she asked. Konan shook her head. "I have no idea, but they don't make it easy on me." Kaiya started the water in the overcrowded sink. "Clearly." Konan rummaged through what she dared to touch and pulled out a broken plate with mold growing on it. She sighed. "This is why we can't have nice things…" Kaiya only giggled.

Outside, things weren't going so well.

"Hey! You know we're all starving out here, un!" Deidara shouted to no avail. "I hate being kept waiting," his partner mumbled. The black-haired shape shifter unlocked the door and poked her head out. "You wanna clean it up?" No answer. "Thought not," she said and drew her head back in, slamming and locking the door behind her. She returned to cleaning out the fridge, where Konan practically had to dawn a radiation suit to clean. The Akatsuki members waited outside of the door for nearly an hour and a half. Zetsu was hungriest of all. "My fertilizer is in there," his white half whined. "Idiot! Shut up," the black half snapped, which started an amusing and slightly creepy fight. "I'm starting to think that we should just go out to eat, un" Deidara said, sitting on the floor with his knees pulled up to his chest and his head resting on his folded arms. They had just started to get up to go with Deidara's opinion when the door opened. The smell of hot coffee bubbled out of the door, and Kaiya had to move aside before she was trampled in the biggest caffeine rush she had ever seen. That coffee pot was the first thing they hit. She and Konan had worked a miracle with throwing their breakfast together. The fact that the kitchen looked brand new was another miracle all in itself. The guys were impressed. They could actually see the inside of the sink. When was the last time that had happened?

"Yeah. Kaiya and I make a pretty good team," Konan said, giving the other a quick high-five as she caught Pain's quick glance around the kitchen. Maybe he should hire her as a maid as well as the newest Akatsuki member? Yes, he'd put some serious thought into her offer. But, being from Konoha, he was still suspicious of her. Could she be sending messages? They'd been watching the birds all through the day yesterday and not one had had any paper attached to them. He didn't even know where she would have gotten paper anyway. And she couldn't have gotten out by herself and had been back by that evening. Impossible. "Oh, and don't worry Zetsu. Your fertilizer is in the pantry," Kaiya said, pointing toward the door that held most of the non-perishable food items. Fertilizer counted as a non-perishable… right? Let's see… what had she made breakfast out of anyway? She had had a difficult time finding anything that was fit to eat. But she had found a few eggs that could be considered "healthy". Luckily, she and Konan had enough for everybody. "Looks like somebody needs to go shopping~," she said in a sing-song voice. About six of the men sitting at the table cringed. Sure, they had enough money, but just the mention of the word "s-h-o-p-p-i-n-g" was irritating. They had to disguise themselves, especially around shinobi. But, if there were no shinobi around… they just didn't like it. "Don't worry about it," Kaiya said, her animal senses catching the air of discomfort in the room. "I'll go since nobody else has the balls to." Hidan grimaced/smirked, both pissed and pleased about the statement. He liked her enough not to kill her, and he liked her plenty enough to the point of sleeping with her, whether she wanted to or not. Kaiya caught the weird vibe from Hidan and wasn't really sure what to think about it. She immediately became wary of it however, for she could tell that it was destructive and somewhat carnal. After throwing a nasty glance at the white-haired death-bringer, she marched out the door and Konan followed.

"I'm going with you," she said. "What for?" Kaiya asked as she walked down the hall. "I'm perfectly capable of going shopping by myself." Konan shook her head. "It's not that I think you're not capable," she said with a smile. Kaiya could tell that she was about to be blunt. "But, one:," Konan said, making a list, "I have access to Akatsuki's money. Two: Pain doesn't trust you and wants you watched; but you probably already knew that. Three: this may be the last day either of us get out of here by free-will to a town that doesn't involve work or imprisonment. Trust me, you'll find yourself wanting another girl's-day-out in a week." Kaiya nodded and smiled. It really was too bad that Konan didn't have anybody to "hang out" with because of the number of men Akatsuki had. And that brought up another question. Living with all those men must have been unsettling. They were already on the road and laughing when Kaiya asked Konan that question. "Oh," she answered, "Anybody tries to touch me and they die. Pain-sama makes sure of that." Kaiya snapped her fingers. "Aha! So that thing does have human emotions!" she exclaimed. Konan knew what she was talking about. Pain wasn't just one person, and any one of his bodies had no emotions whatsoever. But Konan knew he cared for her. He kind of always had. By the time they reached the nearest little village it was already noon. There were not and had never really been any shinobi in the little village, so she really didn't have to disguise herself. All she had to do was leave her Akatsuki cloak behind and dress normally. She already had. Anybody could come and go from the village without a single question asked. "So, what's first?" Kaiya asked. She exchanged one look with Konan and knew immediately. They hit the nearest baths they could find. Kaiya hadn't had one for a few days, and she hadn't really thought about it, but, to her surprise, she didn't look too bad. But both women thoroughly enjoyed themselves throughout the day while they shopped for food. They even picked up a few clothes for Kaiya. She couldn't just waltz around in the same outfit for a month, could she? "Well that should last about a month or so," Kaiya said as she pulled the bags behind her rather comically. Once they got out of the busy village, Kaiya dropped everything. "Okay, this isn't going to work all the way back," she said as she made only one hand symbol and then Konan watched her disappear into a cloud of dark smoke. Kaiya tossed her head to clear the last remnants of the haze. "This is better right?" she asked the blue-haired woman. "I could carry them all back this way." And what looked like a smile graced her maw.

Pain tapped a finger on his desk, which, believe it or not, had paperwork on it. Yes, Akatsuki had paperwork, and it was a pain in the leader's ass. You'd think that secret organizations wouldn't have anything weighing them down. Wrong. But, back to the matter at hand. Women took too long! It was already late, and they weren't even back yet. He was close to sending Zetsu after them. "Argh… this is irritating." Pain was as patient as possible with Konan, but Kaiya could very well tear Akatsuki apart. And then he heard the boulder rise. He was at the cavern opening in an instant and watched the slab slide back as Konan and a large, black mare with bags slung over its sides trotted into the chamber. Konan unloaded the bags from its back and Kaiya stretched her muscles as she changed back into a human. "And do you have any idea how late it is?" Kaiya snapped her head sideways and Konan flinched. "Where have you been?" Pain asked, eyeing Kaiya suspiciously. What was he? Their mother? All Kaiya knew was that it wasm't prom night. She didn't say anything though as Pain gave them a "serious" tongue-lashing. Hidan had been out sacrificing someone to Jashin and had arrived seconds later to Kaiya, Konan, and Pain, plus a lot of bags of food. "…out! Hidan!" Pain yelled. Hidan only caught the last part of the sentence before his name. He stopped, glancing over at Pain. "You're on watch tonight." Kaiya grimaced. She didn't like Hidan much, especially with her animalistic senses. She thought about asking Pain for somebody else. Sasori was out of the question. He had to work on his puppets, or at least that's what Kaiya heard him doing down on of the hallways that led off of the main chamber. Deidara was young, slightly talkative and smart-mouthed. Kaiya would never get to sleep. Kakuzu freaked her out slightly. Zetsu might eat her. Kisame, whose shoulder still hadn't improved much, held a grudge. And Itachi had watcher her the night before. He hadn't gotten much decent sleep since she had encountered him. Hidan would be the only choice right now. Kaiya helped Konan put things away. Her blue-haired friend looked dejected. "He was just worried about you, you know," she told her, putting a few Instant Ramen cups in a cupboard. "Yeah, I know he is. He doesn't yell often. I guess I just hate to see him angry," she replied. "Yeah…" She thought about the Uchiha, who she hadn't spoken to much. 'He doesn't yell much either,' she thought, thinking of the one time he had snapped at Kisame for only wanting to drop her. She chuckled aloud and Konan glanced at her. Kaiya shrugged innocently back and disappeared through the doorway after she finished putting away groceries. And guess who was waiting for her. Yup, Hidan.

And he followed closely behind her the entire way back to her room. He didn't even offer to help her with any of the bags she held, which contained the articles of clothing that she had bought. Kaiya passed Itachi and Kisame's room silently. She noticed Hidan still had his scythe and she pulled a little farther ahead and entered her room, leaving the door open so that Hidan could enter, even though she didn't want him to. She heard the door close. She went over to the bedside table and rummaged through it a bit while turning on the lamp. She pulled a thick book out of one of the bags that she sat down on the bed. She didn't even get the chance to shut the drawer. She was slammed up against the wall, the shaft of Hidan's scythe held against her throat none too gently. She punched and kicked at him in any way possible, but to no avail. He had already lifted her arms and pinned them above her head. "Damn it! Put me down!" she shouted at his face, which was only inches from hers. An unsettling look crossed his features before his lips were at her neck. Her slitted pupils dilated in horror. She didn't enjoy this whatsoever. "Hey, calm down," he breathed into her neck. His breath brushed her soft skin, and a shiver of utter disgust shot down her spine. "I'll be gentle… though I really didn't plan on that," he snickered, pushing against the scythe harder, and bringing himself closer to her. Either he was trying to strangle her, keep her in place, or both. His tongue brushed her neck, and he had already positioned himself to where she was forced to straddle one of his legs. Kaiya growled and her eyes dilated abnormally in the light. But he had made one fatal mistake in his choice of position. She now had perfect range. She kicked, and he went down.

A loud thud echoed through the walls all the way to Itachi and Kisame's room. Kisame had just taken a shower and was wrapped in a towel from the waist down. Itachi's cloak hung on his bed post and he had his face buried in a book. They decided to ignore the sound… until they heard breaking porcelain and lunged out the doorway. They had barely reached Kaiya's door when it flew off its hinges along with a flash of black, red, and white. Hidan lay on the ground, holding the back of his bleeding head with one hand. The other was between his legs. Kaiya poked her head out and threw Hidan's three-pronged weapon at him. By the time the dust settled, the rest of Akatsuki was there. Deidara in his graphic t-shirt, Sasori in a red tee, Kakuzu in his cloak, Konan in an apron and Pain in a pair of sweat pants and that was it. Kisame's hair was still wet and he still had only a towel draped around his waist. Itachi's long-sleeved black shirt and jeans were slightly rumpled. The force of the door hitting the wall had basically sent a shockwave down the hall. Kakuzu rolled his eyes. His partner was in idiot. Kaiya's face was that of pure hatred and rage, and her beautiful features twisted into something terrifying. Her blue cat-like eyes still dilated strangely. "Touch me again," she said through clenched teeth, "And I'll make sure that there's nothing left for Kakuzu to sew back on." She threw a threatening glance at the hand clamped to his crotch. She shook her head and the look was gone. Though she felt no pity for the injured Akatsuki member, her eyes filled with shock and sadness and she disappeared into the depths of her now lamp-less and dark room. "Crazy bitch!" Hidan whined. A wooden dresser flew out of the door and smashed into the wall just above Hidan's head. He noticed that he had managed to catch Kaiya's arm on his scythe, and he could really do a number on her now. "I'll teach her to fuck with me," Hidan muttered, pulling the scythe to his lips and licking off the blood. In a matter of seconds, he was poised to kill and he pointed a black blade to his heart. He chuckled, and was just about to impale himself when the Uchiha stepped in, yanking the blade away from Hidan and smacking him across the back of his already bleeding head. He tossed the item aside without a word and entered the dark room alone, without a sound. The usually passive Uchiha had just become aggressive. Deidara muttered. "So… wait… he was just trying to teach her to do something she wouldn't do with him in the first place, un?" Sasori palmed himself on the forehead. His partner was so stupid too…

Kakuzu dragged his younger partner away to stitch up his head. By the way he was walking Kakuzu could tell that Kaiya had done some damage to him in more ways than one. The older man smiled beneath the fabric of his mask. Oh well, Hidan had had that one coming for a long, long time. The others, except for Pain quietly dispersed, muttering to themselves. Some gave Kaiya silent congratulations. Kaiya sat alone on her bed, looking up at the darkening sky. When she showed that side of herself, she wished she were dead. But she wasn't. She gripped her right shoulder, which was still bleeding. Even though she knew it would soon stop, it still hurt like hell. She healed fast. She would be fine. She didn't look back as she heard the footsteps after she heard hidan being dragged away. Itachi eyes her cautiously. Would she snap? Would she stay still? Should he say anything at all? "What do you want?" the woman asked tiredly from her position on the bed. She rested her head against the wall. He said nothing, but crossed in front of her and crouched down to her level to look at her shoulder. His warm hand tapped her's as a sign for her to remove her own. "Kakuzu is a bit preoccupied at the moment," he said. It would have been better for him if he had had a brighter light than the moon, but the lamp now lay on the floor in multiple pieces. "Enjoy the show?" she asked him. She hated for people, in general, to see her like that. Silence greeted her question. "Thought so," she sighed. "Ow!" She growled at him, and it was extremely animalistic. He had accidentally applied too much pressure on the wrong spot. She pulled away like a beaten dog and bristled like a cornered one. He held his hands up in surrender. "I'm sorry," he said quietly and calmly. Pain stood just outside the door, listening in on the conversation. If Itachi became hostile, which was abnormal for him, something was going on. And he had just the idea of what it was.

Itachi finally did manage to bandage her arm, much to her protesting. "Seriously, I'm fine." Having him in a room with her seemed to calm her down a bit because of how alike their ideals were. "You're still going to keep that bandage on," he told her. What? Was he going to use his Sharingan on her? His eyes changed and she closed hers. She laughed. "And you're going to make sure that I keep it on, right?" she asked with a smile. Her eyes were still closed. Kaiya felt a hand on each side of her face, just below her temples and resting on her cheeks softly. She opened her eyes. "If necessary," he said. A long moment of silence followed Itachi's eyes were no longer in their Sharingan state, but were black as coal again. Kaiya reached up and slowly touched the age line below his right eye. There was an identical one under his left eye as well. Stress maybe? She had no idea. Genetic? Possibly. But once again, she had no idea. A shiver ran down her spine. But it wasn't like the one that Hidan's touch had given her. This one was different. She heard an exhale from neither of them just outside the door and she knew that Pain had stayed behind. She looked down, dropping her hand, and the Uchiha removed his hands from her face. She shook her head and then smiled, gesturing that she had heard that somebody was there. He blinked – a long one – as a sign that he knew. Kaiya watched him leave the room. When he stepped through the threshold, she felt like the stars fell. Every. Single. Star. They had exchanged a lot with just that look, and Kaiya realized again that he wasn't the same demonic, insane, blood-thirsty killer that Konoha "knew" about. Itachi told Pain that Kaiya was undamaged; speaking of her as an item made him seem cruder than he felt. "Hm…," Pain said, giving a certain glance to the raven-haired man. The Akatsuki leader left the hallway, branching off to his room. Itachi turned back into Kaiya's room for a moment, which didn't have a door anymore. They would have to get that fixed. She had fallen asleep while watching Itachi's shadowy form in the doorway. He smiled, which he didn't do often. He silently moved down to the end of the hallway where Kisame asked him where he had gone. He didn't answer.

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