Arashi didn't really know what to do, so she just started walking to her new room. Kawauso shrugged and waddled beside her. They made their way passed the rooms they were just introduced to. And the rooms they were going to be stuck in for… ever I guess.

They made their way to the living room and bumped into an overly pierced man.

"Oh, there you are," Pein said, "I forgot to give you your uniforms."

Leaders shouldn't forget things. Arashi though. Pein handed Arashi a black cloak with red clouds exactly like the other members. Beneath the cloak was a pair of pants, sandals, and a fishnet shirt. Pein then reached in his pocket and handed her a bottle of… A bottle… of…

Purple nail polish. He set it on top of the clothing. "Oh and, Kawauso can wear this." Pein tossed the otter a bandana decorated with the same pattern as the Akatsuki cloak. Arashi stared at the leader. Pein met her gaze and raised a brow. "What?"

"Aren't most of the members guys?"

"So?"

"And we have nail polish because?"

"JUST GET CHANGED."

"Okay, okay, geez." Arashi carried her clothes down to her new room to be shared with a blue otter.

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Arashi stared at the blank and lifeless room. Not like it had a life to begin with, but still. It was so dull.

"Well this sucks." Kawauso began exploring their room a bit more. "Konan says dinner's in an hour. So what do we do till then?"

"Decorate." Arashi answered. Well that was stupid. It's not like they had any belongings beside some clothes. Arashi quickly stored her clothes in the wardrobe. She emptied her weapons in the desk's drawers and looked at the time.

Fifty five minutes to go. She sighed. "I am so bored." Kawauso flopped onto the bed. Arashi glared at him. "You do know that you are sleeping on a pillow on the floor, right?"

The otter sighed, "There are no windows in this entire … base."

Arashi looked around the room, and her eye caught something. She walked over to a wall and felt around. She touched curtains, opening them instantly. A window appeared.

Kawauso sat up, "Who the hell uses matching curtains?!"

Arashi noticed that the curtains weren't in good condition. She glanced at her partner. "Kakuzu." They said together. Arashi opened the window to let in fresh air and poked her head outside.

Wind whipped her brown hair around. Stunned, Arashi looked down to see that the base was on a towering mountain. Smoke spiraled from the very top, and birds cawed, flying all around.

The genjutsu was what was making this mountain invisible to the naked eye. But why had she seen smoke? Staring at the birds, Arashi assumed that it was her animal-like attributes. Glancing downwards, she noted the forest that surrounded the mountain, and the lake in the distance.

She pulled her head back inside, allowing Kawauso to look.

"I'm going to fix up the medicine cabinets." Arashi told him before walking into the infirmary.

She opened the cabinets and emptied all its contents. Grabbing the medicine bag around her waist, she unzipped it and emptied her herbs.

… Well that's not good. Arashi had forgotten she was running out of supplies.

"Oh well," she said and walked to the wall of the infirmary, finding and opening the curtains. Sliding the window open, Arashi stuck her head outside, brought her fingers to her lips and whistled.

The sound was carried into the wind. Moments later, the birds that had been circling the mountain began to file inside of the infirmary.

"Alright. I need you to go and gather some herbs for me, if you don't mind." Arashi told them.

Who gave you the right to boss us around? One bird demanded.

Arashi, being able to understand their language, sighed. She handed some bird seed to them. "Only if you agree to help me."

GOOD LORD. The birds began devouring the food. Fair enough… er…

"Arashi."

Fair enough, Arashi. You got yourself a deal.

Arashi smiled and read off a list of the needed plants. The birds flew out through the window. She'd have to get to know all the animals in the area. Arashi settled down into a chair and began sorting the medicines until the first bird flew in. It dropped the plants without a chirp before flapping to retrieve some more.

Arashi soon had to work faster as more and more herbs began piling up. She lost complete track of time when Kawauso bounded into the infirmary and yelled in her ear. Arashi froze up and flopped to the ground.

"… Uh… Dinner."

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Arashi and Kawauso were the last two to come to dinner, everyone was already seated. … And everyone was staring at them. Her eye twitching, Arashi sat next to Konan and across from Deidara.

"I'm scared." She whispered.

"You get used to it." Konan told her. Arashi was beginning to doubt she would.

The food arrived, and Arashi stared at the plate that was slammed in front of her. She looked next to her. Not surprisingly, Kawauso was devouring his food no problem. And so was everyone else.

Her eye twitched. Before her was steak. Fresh, steaming steak. Arashi felt sick looking at it. And even sicker seeing Kawauso eat it. Without even thinking… Augh.

Hidan suddenly stopped eating to stare at Arashi. "What the hell's your problem? It's not poison or some shit like that."

Arashi glared at him. Kawauso stopped shoveling in food and cleared his throat.

"Arashi's a big vegetarian. And tree hugger. She won't eat meat and crap, no matter how hard I try." Arashi shot Kawauso a glare. "Yeah, I timed her. She talked about animal abuse and what not for three hours and forty nine minutes."

Arashi groaned. "Do you have any… salad or something?"

The rest of the Akatsuki members fell silent, aside from Tobi. He was trying to eat but he kept on forgetting to move his mask.

And then the entire table- aside from Itachi, who had no sense of humor, and Tobi, who had no idea what was going on- erupted into laughter.

"Oh my god, hmm!" Deidara managed to get out. Arashi's eye started twitching more. "That is the stupidest thing I've ev-"Deidara couldn't finish his sentence before Arashi slugged him in the face, knocking him off the chair and crashing into the nearest wall.

Arashi stood up and grabbed a head of lettuce out of the fridge. She sat back down in her seat and began tearing at that.

Deidara grunted and sat back up, rubbing the blood off of the corner of his mouth. "Damn, she's worse than Konan, hmm."

Arashi shot him another warning glare.

"Well, I think she'll fit in just fine." Konan said.