Anii opened her eyes, she was laying in a bed, she saw dank, dirty walls, and Sasuke sleeping on a couch on the far wall. She had a pounding headache, and her face was wet, "... Where am I?"
Sasuke twitched and opened an eye, "We're in a motel."
Anii laid back down, "How'd we get here?"
Sasuke looked up at her again, "You don't remember?"
Anii gave him a strange look, "Remember what?"
Sasuke sat up, "You don't remember any of it?"
Anii shook her head, "No... What happened?"
Sasuke moved over to the edge of the bed, "Anii, do you remember when the man blew up?" he whispered, the walls were paper thin, and the last thing he wanted was someone listening in.
Anii nodded, "But after that, it's just black."
Sasuke sighed, "After he died, you started to cower on the ground, shaking, sobbing, screaming out things..."
Anii looked at him, "Like what? Maybe it was something to do with my family!"
Sasuke nodded, "You said you had seen tactics like that before, and you went on to screaming incoherent things, and at one stage..."
"Sasuke! What did I say?" Anii said, Sasuke's vagueness was starting to annoy her.
"You said you were sorry... To Konan." Sasuke said, watching Anii's eyes open wide.
Anii remained silent, she's mentioned Konan's name, she was now believing that Konan was indeed from her past. But with the same speed it lit up, she frowned and her half smile turned to sadness.
"Anii? Aren't you happy? You know Konan." Sasuke said, watching her closely.
She shook her head, "No... I mentioned her name, but I could have just been putting her name there in hope..."
"I don't think so." Sasuke said moving back to the couch, "Under the circumstances, I think you would have called out your sisters name, and not a name that I may have mentioned to you beforehand."
"You think so?" Anii asked watching Sasuke closely.
Sasuke nodded his head, "I do. Now catch some sleep, we've got a long day ahead of us."
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- Not so far away in the Hidden Rain Village -
"Konan... Something is close." Nagato coughed out.
"What do you mean? You've been saying it for some time now." Konan said back. She looked at the thin man next to her. He'd been spluttering out the same words for the past few days, and she still didn't know what he meant.
"Something is close." Nagato repeated, "Power. Similar powers to your own..."
Konan paused and looked at Nagato shocked, "What do you mean similar powers?"
Nagato looked at Konan, "I sense... A small power. I've been picking it up for some time now. It's been giving off the same readings as your chakra does."
Konan shook her head, "It can't be..." She whispered.
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Sasuke and Anii stepped outside their dingy hotel, to come face to face with a very overcast day.
"I see the sky is preparing us!" Anii called out jokingly.
Sasuke turned and looked at her, "How can you be so lighthearted?"
"I've been keeping my mind open... Just incase she's not my sister." Anii said taking some steps towards the end of the boarder town.
Today they would step out of the Fire Country and into Amegakure, or at least they hoped. The boarders of Amegakure were heavily guarded, and the last thing she wanted to happen was to be rejected entry into the country. If that happened, she would try and sneak in, using her powers. But in doing so, she'd be leaving Sasuke behind.
The two walked quietly out of the boarder village, Anii spied the Amegakure soldiers standing by what she assumed must have been the border.
"Sasuke, if we can't get in..." Anii started, Sasuke looked up at her.
"If we can't get in?" He asked, not sure what Anii was getting at.
"I was thinking, I could turn into different paper things and try and get through, but I'd have to leave you behind..." Anii said, she saw the look of concentration on Sasuke's face, he was thinking of other ways to get in, she was sure of it.
There was a pause before Sasuke replied, "Okay. I can wait for you."
Anii nodded, "You don't have to wait. I could get back by myself."
Sasuke nodded, "I know. But if you ran into trouble all by yourself, it might by easier if their are two of us."
Anii smiled, "Thanks Sasuke."
The two of them were stopped by a Amegakure guard, he looked them over and laughed.
"What do you want?" He asked.
"We'd like to get into Amegakure." Anii said sternly.
"Why?" He snarled back, the last thing he wanted was to look after two small brats.
"We need to get to the Hidden Rain Village, I have a meeting there." Anii said, her tone was hard and harsh.
"Who with?" He replied in the same tone Anii had used.
Anii looked towards Sasuke, he nodded her on, "Konan."
The guard looked at them again, and let out a little laugh, "How long?"
"As long as it takes." Anii said looking past the guard.
The guard shook his head, "No. You may not enter."
Anii sighed and looked at Sasuke, "Guess we're not getting in."
"Correction. I'm not getting in." Sasuke said looking back at the guard.
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"We have two little birdies down by the boarder entrance off the Fire Country." Nagato said with a laugh.
"What?" Konan asked, her full attention was now on Negato.
"Oh, just a tip off from one of the guards, that there are two young ninja. One saying she has a meeting with you." Nagato replied, his calm nature was slowly turning into something more fierce.
"I don't have any meetings. Especially none with young ninjas." Konan said, she was now starting to get irritated with what Nagato was saying. She knew he knew something that she didn't, and she had a fair idea what it was as well.
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"Sasuke, are you sure?" Anii asked, she had her eyes on the guard.
"Go. I'll distract him." Sasuke whispered back, running off to distract the guard.
Anii turned herself into a small paper butterfly, she could see Sasuke distracting the guard, she could see that the guard was unbelievably annoyed and she could see that he was about to snap. But there was no time to stop him, she needed to get past the boarder and into Amegakure.
The guard looked up at her, she didn't know if he had seen her transform or not. But Anii still felt a little worried that maybe she wouldn't be able to pull it off. He shrugged off the butterfly and turned his full attention back at Sasuke.
Anii flew on until she was sure that she was out of sight, she found a small shrub and turned back into herself. She saw the guard throw a punch at Sasuke, he winked and ran back towards the boarder village.
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Nagato smilled to himself, he knew that she had crossed the border.
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- Back in Konoha -
"Narutooo! Where do you think they are now?" Sakura cried.
Naruto shrugged and looked at her, "If I had to guess, Amegakure."
"But that's almost a two week journey away! They've only been gone for a little over a week!" Sakura shrieked.
"Yeah, but this is Sasuke and Anii we're talking about. I doubt they rested once along the way." Naruto said with a laugh, "They're machines, they just don't stop."
"I hope Sasuke is okay..." Sakura sighed, her mind was full of Sasuke.
"And Anii, why not care about her as well?" Naruto added in.
"Because she lies." Sakura spat back, she was still believing Kakashi and Iruka.
Naruto shook her head at Sakura, he couldn't believe it, "We've been through this. She's not lying."
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