Title-A Race Against Time

Rating-PG For mild language, fighting, and some romantic stuff

Disclaimer-Naruto does not belong to me

Summary-Kaido (OC) used to be best friends with Uchiha Itachi when they were younger. But one day her suddenly moves away with her father without saying goodbye to Itachi. Twelve years later the Uchiha finds her looking for him. But where has she been for the past twelve years and what is she really hiding?

AN-Yes. Another story with an OC of mine. If you don't like it... TOO BAD! ^.^ Anywho... before you read you should probably know that Hidan is not a swearing machine and Tobi is not Madara but just sweet innocent Tobi. Also I know some things aren't true or whatever but I've altered it to fit with my story. So hope you like it and please R&R!

^/-\^ A Race Against Time ^/-\^
What The Hell?

"Hey. Where's Kaido?" Itachi asked the guys who were all sitting in the living room watching TV. It was now afternoon yet nobody had really forgotten what happened during breakfast with Itachi's little riding incident.

Kakazu shook his head. "The last time we saw her is when she asked where the bathroom was. That was about half an hour ago."

"What can a girl do for half an hour in the bathroom?" Deidara asked.

"Says the man who spends an hour in the bathroom fixing his hair," Sasori scoffed.

Itachi walked away from the living room and towards the bathroom. When he reached the bathroom he saw the tip of Kaido's foot just outside of the bathroom door. Slightly concerned he rushed over to the bathroom and saw Kaido sprawled out on the floor sweat beading on her forehead. "Kaido!" he shouted.

Everyone heard him and rushed over to the bathroom. "Kaido? What's wrong?" Tobi asked trying to peer over everyone who had blocked his view.

Itachi was now bent down next to her with his hand on her forehead. "She's burning up. Someone get me a cold towel."

Without hesitation Kisame grabbed a small hand towel from a rack and wet it with cold water before handing it to the Uchiha. "What happened? How long has she been here?"

The sharingan user placed the towel on Kaido's forehead. "I don't know. When I came here she was passed out on the floor," he answered. He activated his sharingan and saw that her chakra was all out of whack.

Then Pein came and made his way to the door of the bathroom. "Bring her to a room," he ordered.

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"What in the world just happened?" Itachi questioned with a slight hint of anger in his voice.

Pein sighed. Kaido had been brought to Itachi's room and she was sleeping peacefully with a high fever. "I don't think I should tell you. Kaido should be the one to tell you about her sickness," he answered.

"What sickness!" Itachi paced back and forth in front of his room.

"Just calm down, Itachi," Kisame sighed leaning up against a wall. The rest of Akatsuki, except for Konan who had gone out for sake, gathered around just outside of both Kisame's and Itachi's room. "Her fever is going down so she should be waking up soon."

Itachi didn't stop pacing. "I can't just calm down. The girl I'd die for has some sickness that's killing her!"

"So you finally admit you love her?" Hidan smirked.

The Uchiha glared at the Jashinist though didn't deny it because he even knew the truth. He loved Kaido ever since he was a kid living with his deceased parents. The way she cared for other's rather than herself. The way her emerald eyes sparkled when she was happy. He even loved her when she was mad at him because he knew that it wouldn't last forever.

"Ugh," Kaido groaned from inside the room. Everyone immediately rushed into the room and crowded around her.

Itachi grabbed her hand, which was still a little hot. "Kaido? Are you okay?"

She slowly blinked her eyes opened. "Itachi?" she whispered.

He smiled at her. "I'm here."

Kaido sat up in bed and looked around to see everyone smiling at her and she couldn't help but feel as though she had a family again. But of course the good mood couldn't last for forever. "What happened, Kaido? Why did you faint? You were perfectly fine at breakfast."

She sighed. "Um… Bad eggs?" Itachi glared at her, not happy with her humorous attitude. Again she sighed. "Remember when my Father moved us to the Land of Rice Patties?" He nodded his head. "That was because he had the necessary tools to perform an… operation."

"Operation? For what?" Sasori now asked.

"My Father was obsessed with creating a human being made up of chakra. The perfect shinobi who would have an unlimited amount of chakra. Similar to a biiju for they had made up of raw chakra," Kaido explained. "First he tried doing it with my mother and brother."

"But they both died," Itachi whispered as he remembered when Kaido had told him about the two deaths when they were kids.

Kaido nodded. "When my Father tried to replace their blood with chakra they became sick because their bodies couldn't operate correctly without the necessary amount of blood. So when he used me he replaced my blood with chakra every once and awhile and used a medicine to try and keep me going.

"But the medicine was too weak and the chakra in my body soon started to destroy my blood cells. Because of his failure he became crazed and would not stop until he found a way to successfully replace blood with chakra. I knew that he wouldn't be able to do it unless he killed many more people so I… I…"

Tears formed in her green eyes as she remembered her father's dead body on the floor in a pool of blood that also covered her hands. Itachi squeezed her hand a little before she let out a deep breath and continued. "I killed him. But because he had never written the ingredients to the medicine I needed, the chakra in me began to destroy my blood cells even faster."

"So what'll happen once you have no more blood cells?" Zetsu asked.

She turned to him with a small smile on her face. "My body will deteriorate and I'll turn into nothing more but a mass of chakra that'll disappear into thin air."

Itachi squeezed her hand even tighter now. "I'm not going to let that happen. I know someone who might be able to create a medicine to help you."

Sasori looked at him. "Do you mean Tsunade? The greatest medicalnin? The Hokage of Konohagakure?"

"Do you really think she'll help us? S-ranked criminals?" Hidan scoffed.

Itachi shook his head. "It's the only way. She's the only one who can help us."

"Yeah! Help you get killed!" Kaido scoffed. "I'm not going to let you put all of your lives in jeopardy just for me. I've already accepted my fate."

"But I haven't. We'll leave today. Pack nothing but essentials," Itachi ordered. He turned to Pein. "Please let me do this."

Pein looked at the Uchiha, Kaido, and then back before he let out a sigh. "Kaido should only have about one day left. You'll need to hurry. Tell Tsunade that if she does this the Akatsuki will no longer hunt down Naruto. That it will be a sort of peace offering."

Kaido scoffed. "You can't do this! Like she'll ever accept a peace offering from Akatsuki! I know her. She won't listen."

"Exactly. She knows you," Itachi said. "You're a Konohagakure shinobi. She won't let you die."

Kaido tried to come up with a combat yet couldn't think of anything. Before leaving for Akatsuki she had asked Tsunade for permission so she hadn't betrayed the village or anything. He was right. She was very close to Tsunade and she doubted that Tsunade would just let her die if there was a way to help her. Even if the Akatsuki was with her.

There you go. Two chapters like I promised. We're getting close to where all the action gets started. But just know that there is not a lot (if any) big fighting scenes and this story will be closing up soon. So I hope you guys like it!

EmIkO-cHaN ^/-\^ (/.0)