The anbu plopped the girl onto the hard bathroom tiles after tearing off the binds and sneered, "What a pitiful attempt to escape; such stupidity on your part."

The other chuckled, "True, but we should feel sorry for you. Our lord is very angry from your tedious actions."

Pissed off from their taunts the woman snorted, "Look who's talking about being stupid! If you were real anbu you would've noticed I was gone much sooner! Besides, I don't fucking care about that bastard! You would try to escape too if you were kidnapped!"

For a second she really wished she kept her mouth shut because one of them almost struck her across the face when the other caught his wrist.

"Remember, she is not to be harmed unless you want to end up like Kenji."

"Tch, fine. Maybe the lord will give her a good lashing himself to make up for her foul mouth."

"Maybe, but a piece of advice girl, I wouldn't talk to him the way you just did us, he's not a patient man and will punish you severely if not careful. No matter how valuable you are to him."

"Yes, women should be seen not heard." "Shut the fuck up you pricks and leave me alone!"

Once again the other had to restrain the short tempered one, both disappearing in a puff of smoke before an accident happened.

Olivia buried her face in her knees, trying to calm down and cursed herself for not holding her tongue.

"Damn you Hidan, you've rubbed off on me in a bad way."

*The priest sneezed, glancing at his partner who merely stared back. "I believe someone is talking about you." "Fucking has to be, I didn't even feel a sneeze coming on."

"Maybe it was Olivia?" "I fucking hope so…..I fucking miss her." The miser sighed, "So do I."

"Well, I can't find anything at all important." "The only thing we noticed is that his death was done sloppily. It was an execution by someone else judging from all the footprints left behind."

Hidan snorted in annoyance as Tobi frowned, "An anbu wouldn't have left any evidence behind but these other assassinators were at least clever to remove any other trace of tracking."

Kakuzu had observed as well, agreeing with the situation. There were only a few footprints at the scene but there wasn't any more in the area.

Zetsu's face suddenly beamed up with an idea, "I got it! I know how we can track her!" "Let's return post haste."

*Upon arrival, the others jumped when the bipolar man burst in grinning like a madman, grabbing Sasori and leading him back to his apartment.

Kisame, who at present was keeping an eye on Lexy to make sure she wouldn't do anything foolish as to go blindly after her, asked, "I take it the execution site went well?"

Kakuzu shook his head, "Not exactly, there was no trace of anything valuable we could use." "But Zetsu got a fucking idea and says he knows how to track her. I don't fucking get how though."

"Don't worry Hidan, my Zetsu knows what he's doing." The teen growled, "That's good because when you guys find this bastard I'm ready to kill him."

Itachi frowned and murmured, "No Lexy." She arched a brow at him but softened her expression at how serious he meant it, "I understand."

He was looking out for her best interest and didn't want her to sully her hands with something like that, not to mention he knew Kakuzu and Hidan would be the ones to do him in without a doubt.

*She didn't intend to start yelling, but the sorry older head-servant/maid was being a total ass to her. Lecturing the woman like a child for escaping through the window for starters; now she set the water for the bath to boiling hot and trying to push her in.

"It's too hot I'm telling you!"

Shoving her closer the elder snorted, "I assure you its fine miss, now stop being difficult! You've already caused enough stress for the lord today and I'm responsible for you to be cleaned and dressed upon his arrival."

"I don't care what he wants! He doesn't own me and just put your hand in the water if you don't believe me!"

The elder refused and gasped, "Look at what you've done to your feet! It's ghastly! How to do you expect to be in his audience with injured feet?"

Olivia sighed and rubbed her temples, "As I've said, I don't care about what he thinks of me. He kidnapped me so why should I?"

The servant fixed her gray streaked hair and whispered, "For your best interest I assure you miss. You have a big event to attend in two days."

Furrowing her brows the woman asked, "Event? What event?"

As if saying too much the elder dumped a bucket of warm water over her and proceeded to wash her. Olivia found this awkward to say the least but it was a duty for a maid from what she read in books, still, she took the cloth away to clean her own private areas.

At least the scolding water in the tub would simmer down to a tolerable heat now.

What's with all this secrecy? It's like everyone knows why I'm here except me, but too afraid to let me know? It must be for this event she mentioned but what is it and why?

*Zetsu proudly held up the scent/camera/plant and announced, "With a few tweaks we turned this camera/plant into a tracking device." "It was simple to set up and made enough for everyone to use."

"What's it fucking do now?"

Sasori explained, "As we told you before, these inventions are scent sensitive to trigger the cameras, however, we've made some modifications to turn them in to tracking devices as Zetsu said."

The bipolar man nodded, "We set them to solely pick up Olivia's scent and nothing else. Then when the aroma is in the air, it'll make a small beep and the bud will turn towards the direction where the smell came from."

Tobi jumped up from his seat, "That's an ingenious plan Zetsu! We should be able to find Olivee much faster now!"

Lexy beamed, "It's like a little radar isn't it? It'll make more frequent beeps the closer it gets."

"Exactly, now everyone take one and spread out throughout the area from where she was last seen."

Hidan and Kakuzu were the first to snatch one up and burst out the door, maybe now they'll find and get their lover back.

Lexy frowned when they were all gone and asked, "Where's mine?"

Kisame patted her head, "Sorry kitten, but you can't come along with us. You can't travel and cover as much ground as fast as we can."

She was about to protest but Itachi shushed her, "Stay here for the off chance she returns. Besides, what would we do if something happened to you?"

Sighing in defeat, the teen sucked it up and just wished them the best of luck.

*Olivia looked at herself in the mirror with a scowl, now that she was clean/dressed and her feet bandaged, thus why she wore bedroom slippers under the dress.

"Why dress me up so nice? Something simple would've been better."

It was a fitted dark blue dress with long sleeves and the top was an open neck and ended right at the tip of her shoulders, not completely off but not quite over them.

It looked really good on her but it was just too much, especially the flashy jewelry that was set out for her, but she didn't put them on.

I'm just going to talk with that bastard who took me so why fix up for him?

Her questions may be answered when he walked in silently with a rather unyielding expression, obvious he was angry with her for trying to escape but merely approached with an uncanny smile.

TBC: