Chapter 7: The Elements

Back at the headquarters

"That's all that had happened." Kisame had just finished reporting all that had happened at the shoe shop to Pain when the three siblings had walked in.

"Welcome back safely, I'm very impressed by what you all had done today." Pein praised.

"Er...Thanks!" Jonathan shouted and ran over to hug Pein. Regina and Rebecca looked at Jonathan and murmured, "That's so... Jonathan."

Pein stared at him like he had just met an alien. "Get off me!" Pein shouted at Jonathan.

Jonathan immediately let him off and apologised. Pein breathed out loudly in exasperation, "You should all take a short rest and have lunch first. We'll continue training after lunch." Pein instructed.

"What's for lunch..?" Rebecca asked cautiously looking at Deidara then back to the rest.

"Ramen and dumplings for reward." Sasori answered.

"Oh thank goodness." Regina mumbled with relief.

After lunch

Pein and the Akatsuki members brought the three siblings out to the training grounds and held out three pieces of paper.

"Now, channel your chakara into this paper each one of you." Pein instructed.

"What type of paper is this?" Jonathan asked fascinatingly.

"You do not need to know just do it." Pein commanded.

"Okay, then how do we channel our chakara again?" Jonathan asked frantically.

"Just remember what Itachi had taught you the previous weeks and channel it into the paper." Pein explained.

Rebecca went first and channelled her chakara into the paper. The paper was immediately soaked and Pein announced that she had the element of water.

Jonathan went next and the paper split into two. Pein had then announced his element is wind.

Lastly, Regina's element turned out to be fire which was obvious since her paper had caught fire and turned into ash.

"Alright, now that that's over, you'll be training individually with each of the respective members of Akatsuki that are the same of your element. Kisame will teach Rebecca, Itachi will teach Regina and Kakuzu will teach Jonathan." Pein gave instructions and they went to train with their respective sensei.

Night time after dinner

Regina, Jonathan and Rebecca were sitting on their bed getting ready to sleep when Rebecca had asked Regina of her experience today training with their elements.

"How was training today?" Rebecca asked.

"Hmm... Fine, but Itachi is really cold. He doesn't talk much and only gave instructions with only some demonstrations." Regina answered. "How 'bout you Jon?"

"Oh today's quite fun but Kakuzu was just complaining that this was a waste of his time and money and was grumbling all the way only occasionally correcting me." Jon replied. "How 'bout you Rebecca?"

"Oh don't ever talk about it today wasn't nice at all. That Kisame was so scary. He looked so... fishy and just scary. He always looked like he wants to kill me..." Rebecca shuddered at the thought of Kisame.

"Oh... Well I'm sure he's not all that bad... Maybe you just need to spend more time with him to know him better." Regina encouraged her.

"Yea, maybe." Rebecca replied tiredly.

"Let's rest for the night. We'll have a long day tomorrow training again." Jonathan yawned and they said their goodnights and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the Akatsuki members were discussing about today's happenings. "What do you think about the three kids' performance?" Pein asked for the member's opinions.

"I think the kids have great potential to become top ninjas in future if they are trained properly. To have only trained for weeks from the beginner stage, they've really performed much more than I had expected." Sasori voiced out.

"They work exceptionally hard when it comes to something that's an all new experience to them." Kisame said.

"I'm sure it must have been my cooking that had made them work so hard un!" Deidara was laughing his head off but stopped soon enough because the others were ignoring him.

"Is that all?" Pein probed on for more opinions.

"..." Nobody replied and all of them were just looking at Pein.

"Alright then, you may all go now." Pein dismissed them.