10 Years Later

"Hey," shouted Hizashi as some guy pushed past her," Watch it, jerk." She was on her way home from her latest assassinaton 16 years old, she was quite a formidable kunoichi. Her eyes were still the same, one blue, one red, and she had cut her black hair into a short boyish style. She wore what appeared to be a modified Konoha ANBU uniform, minus the vest and hatai-ate. The top cut off just above her belly button and the gloves were fingerless. Her katana, with its pure white hilt and guard and its pitch black blade, was slung across her back while her pants were the same and in place of a hatai-ate was a black head band. She had filled out very well, in fact she was always stared at when she walked into town, much to Pain's annoyance.

She stood there watching the guy run into a nearby shop. It was almost Christmas, so she decided to be nice and let him live. She continued walking getting her usual stares until she was out of the town. When she was about a mile out of town she heard the screams. It was awful. It sounded like she had imagined hell would. She immediately turned around and ran back to town to see what the problem was and if she could help. Pain always scolded her because she was "too nice" just because she could not stand by while innocent people were hurt. She saw the problem the second she was back in town. It looked and smelled like a corpse, but it was moving, Its tattered skin was a sickening shade of gray while there was darkness where the eyes should have been. It turned towards her and charged. Her instincts immediately took control as she hopped over it and cut off its head. It immediately turned to dust. She thought she was safe until she heard the sounds behind her and turned to discover many more. From the looks of it the whole town had been turned into the monsters. Hizashi was outnumbered by far. She knew she should retreat, but a few had gone behind her and cut off her retreat. The only option was to fight her way out, even thought the possibility of her surviving was extrememly slim. She drew her katana, if nothing else, the Akatsuki had taught her to always go down with a fight.

Suddenly she heard a loud bang and turned to see most of the monsters behind her disintegrate. She could see a blonde-haired girl in a khaki shirt and skirt with what appeard to be a cannon. Beside her was a man dressed in a black suit, red coat, and red hat holding two pistols. The girl fired another shot while the man fired two more rounds, thus eliminating the remaining monsters blocking her escape.

"Go!" shouted the girl, and Hizashi took off past them, once again on her way to the Akatsuki base. She didn't stop running until she arrived back at the base.

When she arrived back at the base, she slammed the door behind her and collapsed on the couch. Deidara, who was just walking into the living room from the kitchen, walked over to her .

"What did you do? Run the whole way back, un," asked the blonde when he heard that she was out of breath.

She glared up at him as she snapped," Yes, actually."

"Why?"

So she recounted her tale of what happened in town. When she was done she looked at Deidara, who just stared at her like she had lost her mind. She was about to yell at him when Zetsu appeared, apparently high. Again. Since they had taken her in she had always know there was something wrong with Zetsu besides the obvious fact that he was a plant-man. Konan had only let her in on everything else 8 years ago when she finished her shinobi training and started going on missions by herself. After that she started to help Zetsu just find his way around the house whenever he got like this. Sighing, she got up from the couch and went to bed.

The Next Morning

Apparently between the time she went to sleep and the time she woke up Deidara had told her story to everyone else because when she went down to breakfast everyone silently stared at her like she was insane.

Tobi was the first to speak." Hizashi, are you okay?"

She took her normal seat and stared at him." Perfectly fine." After a moment of consideration she just decided to face the problem." Why do you ask?"

Hidan was the one who answered." Deidara told us your story about last night. It isn't like you to make up something like that, so..."

Hizashi slammed her fist on the table and stood up."'So' what? That story wasn't made up!" she shouted. She wasn't going to tolerate anyone questioning her sanity or thinking that this was a cry for help.

"We're not implying that it was." said Konan, obviously trying to calm her down." We were just going to ask if maybe Zetsu had something to do with it."

She stared at Konan. She was prepared for pretty much anything else, but getting into Zetsu's stash? She steered clear of the stuff fearing that she might become like Zetsu. Hizashi let out a frustrate scream and stormed off to her room, slamming the door behind her.

"Guess that's a 'no.'" said Pain.

Thanks once again to powerdown( who now has an account on here, same name too.). He came up with Zetsu being on drugs. Thanks to anyone who has read this far. Hopefully you will continue to read it.