I'm so sorry if this took so long. Oh, BTW, no rhymes intended in the chapter name. Just thought to let you know guys. :3

Anyway.. Enjoy~

Disclaimer: I don't own Narutoo! BANZAAII!

Midori's POV

I slowly fluttered my eyes and open took a look around. I found myself lying in an unfamiliar bed, and inside an unfamiliar room decorated in different shades of blue. None of them are too elaborate though. A blue closet, a blue bed, blue origami- wait, origami? Is this-

"oh, so you're finally awake." That voice. I quickly searched where the direction of the voice is coming from and in the corner of the room is an old woman with pale blue hair. I stared at her blankly. For some reason, she looks oddly like...

"Konan?" I asked warily. The old lady smiled.

"It's been so long, Midori. But, I have great news." I looked at her, eyebrows raised.

"Itachi's dead?" I asked rather hopefully. 'Konan' looked at me eyebrows raised.

"Uhhh. NO. My grandchild graduated the academy! Yay!"

"How? Your not even married!"

She snorted. "Yes. But I am now."

I gulped. Is this some kind of sick joke? There's no way that I slept that long right?

"Konan-san?... How long.. have I.. been out?" Konan just looked at me sadly and turned away.

She mumbled her answer. "Fifty years..." Fifty what?!

"WHAT?!" A horrified look crossed my face.

I quickly ran to a nearby miror and gazed at my reflection to see... My old face. No wrinkles, no aging. In fact, I looked like my good old young self. Then suddenly, laughter erupted from somewhere behind me. I turned around to see Konan's old face returning to it's fair form. She just laughed at me, clearly having a good time enjoying herself. But I'm not. I glared at her.

"What the f*** does that f****** mean?!" She just laughed harder.

"Ne ne, Obaa-chan. It's not.. good..to curse! Now look.. what you've done... you're now a sinner!" Konan said gasping for air.

I don't actually get why she called me obaa-chan when she's the one that looks like one a while ago.

"Not good to- Oh for Kami's sake Konan, we're S-class criminals. We're.. Murderers! And you find cursing a sin. Seriously." I looked at her, eyes still twitching and I fought the urge to roll my eyes. I never knew she could laugh like... like that. I mean, who can laugh like, for 10 effing minutes?! Every time she tried to stop, she'll look at me and laugh again! Ugh... Once she finally calmed down, I growled at her.

"Konan.."

She raised her hands in surrender, still giggling very... childishly. "Okay, OKAY. You caught me.." She apologized between giggles, snorting, and snickering.

I groaned. "How long have I been really out?" I stared at her intensely.

"One day." She said simply, standing up. I let out a relieved sigh. But, I still raised my hands to my face, making sure no wrinkles had formed.

"Look," Konan said while smirking. "If your really worried about your 'wrinkles' I have some cream that you can use." I groaned and she threw a bottle of cream towards me. I catched it effortlessly with my hand. Well, duh.. Unless you have a knack for catching things with your feet...

I smiled at her, but not before I retorted. "So, you admit you have it." Wrinkles, heh.

Konan looked at me confused. "Huh? What-"

"Nothing. By the way, where am I?" I cut her off crossing my fingers hoping she won't catch on my retort.

"Ah. My room." She replied while fixing her bed. My mouth formed a small 'o'.

"Why?"

"Chakra exhaustion."

"By whom?"

"Ita-"

"On second thought.. I don't care." She grinned at me and threw a towel and a bunch of civilian clothings, including SHOES at MY FACE.

"Ouch!" I said as a pair of shoes smacked me in the forehead. "What the hell was that for?!"

"Take a bath and put that on." She said while pointing at the bathroom with her back to me. I grumbled a string of curses and picked up the clothes littered on the floor. I trudged myself to the bathroom and closed the door.

"Uhh.. Konan-san?" I called out from the bathroom.

It took her a while to reply. "Hm?"

"Why do I have to take a bath?"

She snorted. "So you won't stink."

I rolled my eyes. Well, DUH. "No no, besides that."

"Oh. Pein told me to accompany you to shop for new clothes and ninja equipments. After that, he wants to see you in his office."

I didn't reply and continued taking my bath. Then after a moment of silence..

"Okay! I volunteered alright! I just thought that we can get to buy dresses later."

I smirked. "Sounds like a plan."

Not too long after, Konan and I left the hideout and we are now walking through the shopping streets of Iwa. Konan is wearing a blue dress with a white ribbon on the waist, and black leggings underneath. I in turn, am wearing black pants and a pretty blue top Konan lent me. Both of us are not wearing our respective Hitai-ate and Konan left her cloak at the base.

We walked side by side looking for a particular shop when we saw a clothing store, people are crowding around it, so we figured it as one of the popular ones.

"Ah! Let's go there later Midori!" Konan said enthusiastically and pointed at the shop.

I sighed. "Are you always this enthusiastic Konan-senpai?"

She looked at me and snorted. "Oh, so it's senpai now huh?"

"Well, I'm a member now, and your here way longer than I am, soooo."

She let out an annoyed sigh. "Just.. call me Konan will you? I can't take another person calling me senpai."

"Why?" I asked her totally confused and wondered if I said something wrong. She said one word. A word that explains all.

"Tobi."

I sweat dropped. "H-hai."

She nodded approvingly. "Good. And to answer you, no. No I am not. I'm just overwhelmed with excitement of the thought of having another girl in that organization." She massaged her temples as if having a headache.

I laughed slightly. "So do I."

She looked at me and made a face. "I hate the feeling being the only girl in that organization. It's like.. I'm... I'm..."

"Left out?" I looked at her and suggested innocently.

Konan looked at me with a 'Wha?' face.

"Err... yea.. I guess.."

I laughed slightly. "I know the feel, danna."

She smiled and rolled her eyes. "Oh please, not that- Oh! There's the shop you're looking for! Let's hurry!" She grabbed my hand and ran towards the shop.

I chuckled slightly as we entered the shop. Konan quickly let go of my hand.

"Here you go."

"Thanks." I said, smiling warmly.

"Nah, take your time."

I nodded and quickly looked around and grabbed a basket in the corner. The shop is fairly big, and it have weapons like kunais, shurikens, sickles, you name it! There is also a couple of sealing scrolls and tags. They even have food pills, smoke bombs, and technique scrolls all put neatly in shelves.

My eyes sparkled and I quickly grabbed all the stuff I need. 2 whole crates of kunais, senbons and shurikens of the best quality, a bunch of other weapons, twin katanas, a thick wad of sealing tags and scrolls, smoke bombs, poisons, and all other random stuff. When I'm sure I got all I need, I dumped all the items on the counter.

Konan raised her eyebrows at me. "And how in the world, do you plan to carry that?"

I smirked at her. "Oh,you'll see."

The person on the counter smile flirtatiously at me and began checking out the items and putting them in a bag. Really slowly.

"You sure do buy a lot of weapons my fair lady." He winked at me and blew me a kiss. Oh Kami, I almost gagged. "I wonder why such a pretty lady like you needs this, when you can stay by my side forever and-"

I slammed my fists on the counter and smiled coldly at him.

"That's none of your fretty business." I whispered harshly at him.

"And I would rather be caught by Konoha elites, than to spend forever with you." I said as I picked up a kunai from the counter and twirled it around my fingers.

The clerk stared at me, eyes widening slightly. "Y-yes. o-of c-course"

I smirked as I pressed the kunai to his neck. "W-why a-are you s-s-s-stuttering?"

"Midori." Konan said, her voice threatening.

I sighed in defeat.

"Tsk. Fine." I grumbled as I retreated away from him.

The clerk looked at Konan gratefully. "T-thank you my dearest lady."

Konan merely glanced at the clerk. "Don't thank me. If you continue to disturb us, or get in our way, or call us... things again. I will not hesitate, and I will definitely kill you."

The terrified clerk trembled in fear and refused to move or anything.

I glared at him. "Hurry up."

He gulped and continued packing the items, putting them in bags, and giving them to me. I snatched the bags from him one by one and put them down the floor. And being the idiotic creature he is, decided to ask me.

"Miss, what are you-"

I threw a kunai at his direction, barely missing him by a few inches.

"Shut up." I growled at the poor terrified clerk as I took a small sealing tag from my pocket.

I shook my head in pity. Some people don't just ever learn.

I did a few hand seals, and with a poof of smoke, all the items I bought were sealed inside the piece of paper. I pent down and picked it up from the floor.

When I turned around, Konan is smirking at me.

"What?" I asked, curious to what she finds amusing.

"Nothing. Just give that to me, I'll keep it."

I shook my head. "Nah, I'll manage. I'll keep it"

She chuckled as we exited the shop, leaving a trembling clerk inside.

"Well, I can keep it much more safely than you."

I raised my eyebrows at her. "You don't even have pockets."

She sighed. "Just give it to me. You won't die if you hand it over, right?"

I shrugged. "I suppose so." I handed her the piece of paper.

She took the tag with a smirk plastered on her face. "Watch."

She raised a finger and placed the paper against her skin. I watched closely at it slowly melded with her arm.

I watched in awe. "Nice. But.. I still get to have it back, right?"

She scoffed. "Of course you will."

We spotted a shinobi gear store and we entered it together. Konan said she'll look for something and I quickly browsed the clothes and stuff I want and need. I grabbed a couple new holsters, a bunch of fingerless metal plated gloves, new sandals, wrappings, and fishnet shirts and leggings.

Then out of the corner of my eye, I found an outfit that caught my interest.

It's a black yukata ending 5 inches above my knees, with a split at one side to move more freely. It has a red sash and red edges on the sleeves. The yukata have intricate brown branches and dark green leaves embroidered on it's delicate cloth. Perfect.

I got the outfit and grabbed a couple of other spares. I also bought ninja shorts that will go well with it. I also grabbed a few pair of ninja pants and a couple of black tops. I smiled brightly as I skipped all the way through the counter to pay for my goods.

Konan looked at me eyebrows raised. "So what outfit did you pick?"

"You'll see." I smirked as I sealed the bags to another sealing tag and passed it to Konan. She just shrugged.

"So, you're done?" She asked slowly.

I nodded happily. "Yup. So... shopping it is?"

She smiled really big and grabbed my hand as we dashed way back where we found the shop earlier, I kind of remembered the way because of the huge motel beside it.

"Of course!" Konan yelled.

We entered the shop and I stared in awe at how big it is. The clothes are all amazing, from formal to casual, and from civilian clothes to shinobi ones. We looked at each other and grinned.

We both grabbed a shopping basket and filled it with all the clothes we like. Soon, we had, like, two baskets each towering with clothes.

Konan and I were both inside the fitting room. She grabbed the purse containing our money and opened it. A fly came out, flying aimlessly. The purse is empty, well, almost empty, that is.

"Kakuzu's going to kill us." Konan sighed.

"Kaku-who?" I asked, clearly not knowing who he or she is.

"Oh, he's the organization's treasurer. And a money hogger." Konan grumbled.

Oh, so he's a he. Wait, of course he's a he! I mean Konan is the only girl before!

I cleared my throat. "Uuuh.. Konan, you do realize we don't have enough money to pay right?"

She smirked at me. "Who says we're paying."

I smirked at her catching up, and pulled a couple of sealing tags and waved it in the air.

"All it takes is a little bit of this."

...

I looked at my reflection in the mirror and tugged at my yukata slightly. I'm wearing the yukata I have bought earlier, a pair of shorts and fishnet leggings underneath, ninja shoes going halfway to my knees and metal plated fingerless gloves. The twin katanas strapped securely on my back. I sighed as I tied my hitai-ate on my forehead.

I put my foot on the desk in front of me and tied the wrappings around my thigh securely. I'm inside my room which Konan showed me earlier that day. It's simple, but a lot bigger than the previous rooms I have stayed in though. The walls are painted purple, there is a brown closet, where I put all the stuff I 'bought' a green bed, and some other furniture.

I have already sealed the weapons I bought inside separate tags. Each including a dozen poisoned kunais, shurikens and senbons. I combed my hair and pulled it up in a neat ponytail. Then, I heard a knock on the door. I walked over to open it.

"Hey Konan." I smiled.

"Hey, Midori. Are you ready?"

I nodded as I walked out of my room.

"Midori, you.. look amazing!" Konan gushed.

I rubbed the back of my neck awkwardly. "Uhh.. thanks? Though that's not my intention at all."

Konan stuck her nose in the air. "Nonsense. You look great."

We walked in silence towards Pein's office.

"So, remember... ummm... earlier? Makes me shudder at the thought." Konan said, voice cracking slightly.

I grimaced. "Y-yea... I've been scarred for life."

Flashback...

She smirked at me. "Who says we're paying?"

I smirked at her catching up, and pulled a couple of sealing tags and waved it in the air.

"All it takes is a little bit of this."

We both grinned from ear to ear, and I began sealing the clothes inside the tags and simply melded it with Konan's skin. On our way out, the cashier stared at us all evil-like.

'What?' Konan and I both said innocently.

'You shtole shomthing didn't you?!' She hissed. (Please, you're free to use your imagination and imagine her appearance any way you can. ^^ tnx)

Her words sounds kinda distorted because of the lollipop she's sucking.

'Stole?' I asked, feigning a gasp, and filled my face with mock hurt.

The cashier growled and jumped up the counter. I jumped back in surprise.

'Shuddup BISHES! I knew you guysh shtole shomthing! I'm a fushing kunoishi too!' She roared, flailing her arms in the air. She was so loud that all the other customers ran out in alarm and panic.

Konan and I faked a smile. 'What are you talking about?'

As much as I want to bury this girl alive, I can't. Leader told us to avoid trouble as much as possible. So, I have to keep my cool and all.

But, I will definitely come back for her someday.

'Liarsh! Exshplain!' She roared, flailing her arms like a deranged chicken.

'We don't know what-'

'Shuddup! I dun wanna hear your exshplanation!'

'Fine!'

'Good! Jusht shaddap!'

My eyes twitched, but luckily for her, we shut our mouth.

She narrowed her eyes. 'Shpeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkk! What are you?! MUTE?!'

I can't take it anymore, so I threw my hand in the air. 'Oh, for the love of the shinobi Gods, WHAT the hell is wrong with you?! You son of a-'

Then she kicked me, hard. And it sent me flying towards the wall, breaking it. The wall broke on impact. And I quickly made my way out of the rubble after recovering for a short while. Well, there's good news and bad news.

The good news is, Konan and I are safe, no ninjas came to check out the commotion AND most importantly, the crazy cashier got knocked out after Konan knocked her out with a metal pipe. Dunno where she got that.

But, bad news is, there's someone, rather, TWO someones on the other side of the broken wall. A boy. A girl. Naked. Same bed. 'Nuff said. I know you get the picture already.

I covered my eyes instantly. 'Aaaaaaaagh!'

'Aaaagh!' Konan said covering her eyes as well.

'Aaaaaaaah!' The couple screamed, covering their bodies.

'Aaaaaahgggsshh!' Someone else shouted, and when I turned to look, it's the deranged cashier, I snapped.

'Yooooou! It's YOUR fault we have to see... THIS!' I dashed towards her and stabbed her with a kunai several times. Screams erupted behind me as the couple stared in horror. Konan, aware of this, attacked them both with her Paper shurikens.

'Uuuh.. Konan'

"Oh. Ooops.'

And thus, everyone died in that room. Except us. In that petty little shop, AND the petty little room, AND blamed it on the psychotic cashier's pet hamster. I know, but the hamster is as crazy as it's owner that it kept running around, so when I tried to pick it up, it bit me. HARD.

'Shiiiii*! Katon: Kaen no Jutsu!' (Great fireball)

Thus, we fled as the famous shop burned to ashes.

End of Flashback...

I still shuddered at the thought. But, at that time, we're already in front of Pein's ofice. Konan ushered me in and I immediately plastered on an emotionless expression.

"You may seat." Pein said, gesturing to the seat in front of him. I sat in silence as Pein stared at me so intently that I'm getting goosebumps all over my skin.

"I hope you know what we do here."

"Yes, Leader-sama."

"I expect you to obey your every order. Understood?"

"Yes, Leader-sama."

"Do not reveal our hideout at all costs, and no killing other members. " Pein said, in an ordering tone.

"Hai."

(An hour later.. yea, time skip!)

"Now, do you know why we created this organization?" He asked, while resting his chin on his hands.

"P-peace?" I asked hesitantly.

I thought I got wrong, but the Leader nodded. And so, Leader-sama talked all about peace and whatnot. (Sorry, I'm such an ass to write about it.)

Once he finished talking, he stood up and grabbed a box from the back of the room and handed it to me. I opened it to find a cloak and the Akatsuki ring inside.

"I expect you to wear the ring and cloak at all times since you're a member now. Though you can remove the cloak occasionally here inside the hideout if you like." Pein said in a monotone.

I nodded. "Hai, Leader-sama"

I put on the ring on my ring finger, and put on the cloak as to how Konan wears them.

"You are dismissed." Pein said, continuing his paperworks.

I stood up, bowed, and left the room.

I stepped outside and Konan smiled at me. "Let's get the tour started!"

And so, Konan showed me the way to the rooms, the baths, the lab, greenhouse , the training grounds, and other facilities, while I'm busy adjusting my twin katanas so it's strapped on my cloak instead of my yukata. Now, I only have to meet the other members.

"Let's go." Konan said, immediately putting an emotion less mask, I did the same. When we stepped inside the room, all the other members began to stare at us.

Konan cleared her throat. "As you can see, we have a new member, Hayashi Midori." All the members looked at me.

"Midori," Konan continued and pointed at the other members one by one.

"That's Hidan," *le; points at foul mouthed santa*

"Kakuzu," *Le; points at green eyes voodoo doll*

"Tobi," *Le; points at basketball head that's yelling, 'I'm a good boy! I'm a good boy!'*

"Sasori," *Le; points at Pinocchio*

"Kisame," *Le; points at sushi-san*

"and Itachi." *Le;points at Weasel.*

"Treat her nicely guys, I have something to do." And with that, Konan disappeared in a flurry of papers. I panicked slightly knowing I'm now alone but kept a straight face.

I walked up to Kisame with a face as calm as Sasori's.

"Hey look, I'm sorry about your sword. It's a fight and I-"

"It's okay, no need to apologize." He said and gave me a sharky grin. I nodded and walked towards Hidan.

"I'm sorry about your head." I said rather bluntly, and I can hear Kisame chuckle lightly.

Then out of nowhere, Kakuzu spoke up. "Flirt."

My eyes twitched. "Fu** of f****r."

Hidan laughed. "I f*****g like you already! And no s**t, serves you right scrooge!"

I just shrugged and walked towards Sasori.

"I-"

He glared at me. "Don't apologize."

I just shrugged it off. "Ok, but, nice art."

He looked shocked to hear that. "What?"

"I said 'nice art.' It's puppets right?" I asked calmly.

Sasori scoffed smugly. "Of course my art is nice. Art is eternal after all. And I don't use ordinary puppets. I use human puppets."

"Can you teach me?"

He just glanced at me. "Why? From what I've seen, you can't even use chakra strings."

I nodded. "True, but I would like to turn someone into one."

"Why? Do you want to see them forever?" Sasori asked me.

I chuckled darkly. "No, But I would take great pleasure to pull out Itachi's organs."

Sasori is about to speak when a voice was heard from the kitchen. A voice I'm familiar with.

"Killing Itachi by turning him into a puppet? Unacceptable, un!"

Th-that voice...

"He should die by my art. Because art is a bang after all, yea." He said while waving his arms in the air to emphasize his point. "BOOM!"

Sasori sighed and closed his eyes. "Deidara, please."

I looked at him uncertainly. "D-deidara?"

He just noticed me now, but when he looked at me, he yelled.

"Chibi-chan!" He ran towards me and held me in a friendly embrace.

"D-dei... kun... breath"

He released me and rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Sorry, un. I missed you!"

I nodded and smiled. "Me too."

"Uwaah. Deidara-sempai have a girlfriend!" Tobi yelled in the background.

"She is not my girlfriend, yea! Katsu!"

And so, Tobi went flying out of the room, yelling. "Senpaaaaiiii!"

I looked at Itachi who is still as stoic as ever. But in his eyes are... jealousy? Impossible.

Sasori cleared his throat, interrupting my thoughts. "Care to explain?"

I am about to talk when Hidan butted in. "What the f*** is going on b*****s?!"

I glared at him. "I'm getting to that."

Hidan raised his hands in defeat and I cleared my throat.

"As I was saying. Deidara and I met once at a joint mission years ago and became quick friends. I believe you're aware of this Itachi?"

"Hn." The other members wondered how he could have known. Well, Itachi's my best friend at that time.

"Okay, so, every time I have a mission at Iwa, I visit him. And when he have one in Konoha, he visits me."

"She's right, un." Deidara agreed. But Hidan butted in again.

"Woah, Deidara, I never f*****g knew you have a girlfriend."

Deidara threw a pillow at him. "Shut up Hidan, yea! I don't think of her that way!"

Hidan smirked. "Oh, so you like bo-" (boys)

"No! Go f**k your a** somewhere else, yea!" Deidara yelled back at him.

"B*****d." Hidan shot back.

I sighed as the two exchanged insults at each other. "You're still hot-headed Dei-kun."

(TIME SKIP~)

So, after dinner, I walked up to Itachi and smiled.

"Hey, remember what I said? That I'm willing to start over with you?"

I held out my hand. "I'm willing to start now."

Itachi looked at me blankly. "After you've said you want to take out my organs?"

I scoffed. "Oh please, can't take a joke?"

We just stood there. After a while Itachi spoke up.

"What do you want?"

I slapped my forehead. "I already said my intention a while back, Ita-chan."

He looked at my hand and sighed. "Fine, friends." He said, while shaking my hand.

I smiled. "Great! See you later!"

I ran out of the place in a playful manner, but once I got inside my room, I chuckled darkly.

Step one : Accomplished.

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Author's note:

I'm sooooooo sorry if it took me sooooo long to update. Well, last,last week is exam week. And last week, our connection is acting funny! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?! Any way, I hope you like this chapter. and if there's any spelling or grammar errors, let me know! R&R!

KUKUKUKUKU! ~~~~