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"Who's the girl, un?" a low voice called from across the room. It wasn't the first time she had woken up somewhere unknown.

She could feel people looking at her, but she didn't open her eyes. She tried to recall what had led her there. Suddenly she felt something touch her hip bone, out of instinct she pulled out a kunai and held it on to the intruder's neck.

"Watch your hands or lose them"

"Tobi didn't mean to scare you. Tobi is a good boy"

She looked around. It really was a freak show. There was a blue guy that looked like a shark, one who was part white, part black and part plant, a blonde… person with a really weird hairdo and a single blue eye playing with clay and the one who had just touched her, he was wearing a wooden mask. She closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. "Please, oh please, tell me I've done too much acid and have gone mad" she thought opening her eyes. Nope, they were all real.

"Leader-sama wants a word with you"

A familiar voice broke the silence and everyone directed their eyes up to him. He was the one who brought her here.

Deidara smiled at her as she walked by, noticing how her eyes fell upon his hands, "Wait did his hand just smirk at me? Did it? Oh shit!" he grined all three smiles as she crashed into the wall, she had been definitely checking him out

She prayed nobody had noticed, but all of them did and as soon as she entered into the office they all broke into laughter.

They were in the room for little over an hour. Tobi had his left ear almost stuck to the door trying to listen, without much luck.

"Shh… I think I hear something" he whispered trying to get his head closer to the door if that was possible.

"A girl with nothing to lose has everything to gain" he heard her say, then he fell with a deaf sound on the floor as the door swung open hitting him hard.

"Ok..." she said walking past Tobi and raising her left eyebrow.

The Akatsuki's headquarters was enormous; she went past the living room and turned where she'd been instructed to by Pein. To her surprise the place was pretty bright and… cozy? She entered the third room on the left.

A black cloak and a ring were waiting for her on the bed. She put them on and looked at herself on the mirror sheepishly. Someone knocked at her door and it opened slowly.

That was the first time they ever spoke. But it felt right, she couldn't be more out of her element there, but it didn't matter.