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Chapter 6: The new threat

A woman with long brown hair and vibrant green eyes sat meditating under the statue of Amegakure's founder, Valencia Verdandi. She was slowly but surely restoring her chakra. She smirked at remembrance of her fight against the "leader" of Akatsuki. She didn't believe it though. She knew who the true leader was. She did love him after all. Her smile was replaced by fury.

"That dastard." She hissed with loathing. She could never forgive him. Not after what he did to her. No, the pits of heck will freeze over before the thought of forgiving him would ever enter her mind. She sighed and tried to find her inner peace again. She couldn't loss control now, not near her forgotten statue, neglected as it is. She lost the will to keep cleaning it about 5 decades ago.

Her chakra was almost fully restored. Her body relaxed. Her mind shifted to a more pleasant thought. Like her last battle. Of course he was no match for her. She had hundreds of years experience. She could heal any wound she received and completely restore any body part she may lose. Even when he realized this for himself he kept battling.

'Though he wouldn't be battling any more after those wounds I gave him.' She thought wryly. 'Such a shame too, I would have liked to play wit him again.'

Her green eyes scanned the high sky stretching endlessly above her.

"I hope Tsunade is doing alright. She's such a cute kid. I kinda miss her. Well I just really hope that she's not following in her master's foot steps and repeating my mistakes. No... She's a good kid. She wouldn't get involved with the Akatsuki. She's better than that."

"There." Tsunade panted. She was dead tired from healing Pein's wounds. Konan watched silently from the corner of the room. Worry written all over her face.

"Will he be alright?" She asked quickly. With a smile Tsunade nodded.

"Yes, but he needs plenty of rest. No moving for at least a week."

Konan looked at her sleeping partners face. A soft smile on her lips. "Thank you, for helping him." Tsunade nodded gravely.

"It was my duty as a doctor." She said simply. Konan sat down next to the bed. She placed a warm hand over Pein's. Tsunade decided to give her some privacy and quietly left the room. Outside she saw Kakuzu walking down the hallway.

"Well?" He asked. His voice neutral to all emotion.

"He'll be fine, as long as he rests and not move for about a week." Kakuzu coughed.

"Yeah right, he'll be out of that bed the moment he wakes."

"If he dose I'll break every bone in his leg and force him to stay."

"Tech, you have guts I'll give you that.' Tsunade nodded weakly. Her age and fatigue was catching up to her. She put a hand on the wall to steady herself. Kakuzu stared at her.

"You should rest; I doubt healing those wounds was a walk in the park." As if in response Tsunade's legs gave away. She was too tired to get up or even speak for that matter. Kakuzu wordlessly slung her arm over his shoulder and half carried half dragged her back to his room and laid her down on his bed. Tsunade fell asleep instantly. Kakuzu sighed and sat down at his desk. Again being near Tsunade was causing his insides to act up.

"What the heck is wrong with me." He mumbled. He watched her sleep, he couldn't help it. There was something about Tsunade…

"I feel like a perverted old man." He sighed. His eyes strayed to his ring. He followed leader's orders and called everyone together for a live meeting. Something that has never been done before. There was reasons why no one meet each other in real life. The main one being that they'd kill each other. It's a plain simple fact.

"Shizune… Ton ton." Tsunade mumbled in her sleep. Kakuzu examined her. Her delicate eyes brows were furrowed together. Her mouth twitched from a small smile to a scowl and back again. Her left hand rested on her stomach while her right lay next to her.

"Brother… Dan…"

Kakuzu listened with a strange fascination as Tsunade talked in her sleep. She didn't really talk sentenced, more like said names or places. She did this for a while. Her expression always different from one name to another. When she mentioned Dan her face was soft and warm, when she mentioned Shizune her face looked proud, and when she said Jiraiya's name she looked like she was about to commit murder.

"Pervert" Her lips formed a soundless growl. "I'm gonna maul you…"

Kakuzu remembers Jiraiya. He wondered at what their relationship could have been.

"Kakuzu…"

The ex-falls nin's eyes widened. He blinked twice, not sure if he had imagined it or not.

Did she just say my name? No she couldn't have had. I must be going senile or something.

"Kakuzu" Tsunade mumbled in her sleep once again. Kakuzu defiantly heard her that time. His head was feeling numb. He couldn't comprehend how her saying his name affected him. He did know one thing though. He… he liked it. He didn't understand how but he did.

"I see that woman in your future."

That dang fortune teller. Kakuzu cursed. This had to be her fault, somehow. Maybe she put some curse or something on him so that he'll feel this way. Yes that had to be it. Kakuzu buried his emotions, denying their true nature, what they really meant. He cursed under his breath again. He had gone for so long denying himself these feelings that didn't want to face them when they confronted him for the firs time in years.

"This is…" Before he could finish his sentence, loud screaming, yelling and curseing filled the base. "Oh heck."

"You wanna say that to my face you piece of (beep!)" Deidara pinned Hidan to the ground, strangling him.

"Like that's going to kill me!" Hidan yelled. He didn't even try to stop Deidara from suffocating him. Deidara reached into a bag hooked onto his belt and pulled out a lump of clay.

"Then how 'bout I blow you up instead, hmm?" The blonde smirked evilly as his hand mouth swallowed the clay and chewed it. Hidan's eyes widened slightly.

"You wouldn't" He hissed.

"Oh I would" Deidara grinned.

Kakuzu walked into the room seeing Deidara on top of Hidan. "Oy go make love else where" he yelled rather loudly. Deidara's face fell as he realized the position they were in and jumped up and stood next to Sasori who hadn't moved a muscle. He was just sorta there.

"Figured you guys would be here first." Kakuzu sighed. Ignoring the looks of murder Hidan was glaring at him.

"I don't like to keep people waiting." Sasori said tonelessly. Deidara rolled his eyes. He heard that almost everyday.

"So where's leader?" Deidara asked casually.

"Recovering." Deidara looked at him curiously. He had caught Sasori's attention as well.

"Recovering?" Deidara repeated like a parrot. Hidan 'tisch'ed.

"Yeah he got beat up bad by some person." Deidara's jaw dropped.

"Leader? Leader got beat up?" He looked to Kakuzu, who nodded. "Wow, who was it?"

"We don't know, he passed out after he told me to gather everyone."

"He's probably going to send us after that person." Hidan beeyoched. "What a pain, seriously."

"Well, well so we weren't first ones here eh Itachi-san?" Kisame followed by Itachi walked into the room. The atmosphere instantly changed. Deidara glared slow, violent, painful death at Itachi, who was expressionless as usual and Kisame was well Kisame.

"Well looks like were all here. The first live meeting." Zetsu came up through the floor right next to where Hidan was sitting. The male swore like a sailor at the plant.

"Shut up before I eat you." Hidan stopped mid word and cringed. Zetsu said it like he meant it.

"Heh, I didn't expect you all to get here soon." Leader walked into the room with the help of Konan. His face contorted from pain. "Listen, I'm giving you all a top priority mission. You all are to work as a team to bring down the target. Do not, I repeat do not take on the target alone. You'll die before you knew what hit you." He had their unwavering attention now. Many looked disbelievingly at him.

"What the heck happened?" Kisame suddenly spoke up. "We're searching for our biju when we suddenly get a message from Kakuzu to come to the base. Why the heck happened to you leader-sama?"

Leader told them everything that happened up to his battle against the woman. The other listened intently.

"This woman's skills are ungodly. She can move faster than the eye could ever hope to track. Not even Sharingan could keep up." He said with a nod at Itachi. "And the sheer power of her attacks. Just a single tap could shatter solid rocks."

"You just fight her long range then right, un?" Deidara interrupted. "I bet one good explosion to the face will end her-"

"No Deidara," Leader grimaced. "To put it bluntly she's more immortal than Hidan." The silence that followed was beyond unnerving. The others' brains' fried at the though of someone being even more immortal than immortality itself.

"That's impossible." Hidan said. His voice unusually flat. "I'm as immortal as you can get." Leader shook his head.

"She can completely regenerate her body. Once during the battle I had cut her arm off, she just stood there smiling and right before my eyes her arm rebuilt itself. She can heal all wounds she receives no matter how small or fatal in seconds."

"That's impossible."

Everyone's head turned to the new comer. People were coming by the second it seemed. Tsunade stood in the door way glaring at Pein. "You should be in bed." She said in a deadly low tone.

Pein managed a small smirk. "Like I'm the kind of person that stays in bed waiting to get better." His face turned serious. "Do you know about this healing ability?"

"I know that it's impossible" Tsunade remarked. She looked quickly at all of the gathered Akatsuki. All of them, minus Hidan and Kakuzu, looked at her with shock or surprise. Tsunade ignored them and talked to leader directly.

"The cells in the human body can split and heal so many times. Thus the more you split them the shorter your life gets. If you spilt the cells to fast they can't heal properly, thus shortening your life even more. To heal herself like that would be shortening her life by decades. For her to heal that fast she has to be creating completely new cells and destroying the old ones. But to create even one new cell uses an impossible amount of energy. She would have to have an unimaginable amount of Chakra to pull it off."

Leader nodded his head, understanding everything. "Yes I see… Hm that would explain why she doesn't use Ninjutsu or genjutsu, to use those techniques along with healing would spend up all of her chakra five minuets into the battle. I noticed that during the battle she was especially susceptible to ninjutsu and genjutsu. It did more damage to her than it would have done to any other. For beating her, my best bet would be to injury her beyond regeneration."

Everyone nodded their heads, first the first time they felt anxiety. They knew that they were in for the toughest battle of their lives. Leader cleared his throat.

"My spies will tell you her current location. Remember… work together and don't die…"

The Akatsuki all nodded their heads. And they speed of to Amegakure where the spy waits for them; all of them were mentally preparing themselves for the fight.

"Are you sure they will prevail?" Konan asked. She set Pein down on the ground. Tsunade had started to heal him some more. She eased his pain a little.

"I hope they will be. As long as they work together they will be alright. And I swear if they die I'll drag their carcasses out from heck and kill them."

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