Hello everyone!

Argh! please have mercy! i'm so sorry for being away for so long, and really i don't have any excuse, but i bring you a new chapter and beg for your forgiveness. I know its been ages since i last updated but trust me, i haven't forgotten about you all, and i tried to make this chapter nice and long :)

well there's not much else to say except that the next chapter is going to be huge! and also i have exams in two weeks time :(, but never fear, once they're over the summer holidays start!

i don't own anything except my two OCs.

Oh and there may be a slight spolier for those of you who haven't read the latest chapters of naruto, but its not that huge :)

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"Sometimes I wonder why we're still alive."

I looked over at Emily in surprise, "You're wondering that now?" I asked in amazement.

She looked at me, "Why, when did you start thinking about it?"

"When we first met Tobi out in the middle of the paddock." I said thinking about when we first met, wow that seemed like a really long time ago.

"Are you serious? That was ages ago." She said, echoing my thoughts. We were both sitting in the lounge room relaxing as the sun slowly rose into the sky. The rest of the Akatsuki were somewhere around the house and Kisame? Well, no one had seen him since he had to make a run to the loo earlier. The thought still bought a smile to my lips.

"Oh I wonder if the Epic Meal Time people wrote back…" Emily said jumping up off the couch and grabbing the computer before resuming her place beside me. "I really hope they're coming," she said, crossing her fingers as the computer started to light up.

"Hope who's coming?" a voice said from behind us.

We both jumped slightly and looked around to see Kisame leaning on the back of the sofa. Normally his presence wouldn't have bothered me, but considering the current situation and his evil smirk as he saw my eyes widen in shock, I knew he wasn't here to say hello.

"Hey, do you need some more air freshener for your toilet?" I asked, trying extremely hard not to smile, Emily not helping at all. "I can go get some for you," I stood up, "I'm sure you'd need some more."

"You're not going anywhere," he growled, blocking my path between the wall and the couch, I don't think he liked my attempt at humour.

"Hey I'm just trying to be nice, I mean it sucks to have a stinky toilet," I said not smiling, ok I lied, so maybe I smiled but only a little bit.

"That mouth of yours is going to get yourself killed," he growled, uh oh. "And today might be your lucky day." He started walking slowly forwards.

"Hey, Kisame what are you doing," Emily said standing up infront of him.

"Em don't-" I began.

"Get out of my way," Kisame growled and pushed her aside. Emily gasped as she hit the floor.

Ok, so there's one thing I hate more than annoying butt heads of Akatsuki members. One thing I hate more than bogans or questioning police men. And that thing is watching my family being hurt, especially when it's an annoying butt head of an Akatsuki member doing it.

My smile disappeared, my fists clenched and the logical thought of Kisame being stronger than me totally disappeared.

"Crissy don't, I'm fine," Emily said, pulling herself up off the floor.

I didn't answer her, my mind was going over every little weakness that Kisame had, looking for any advantage that I would have fighting him. Emily knew what I was like, perhaps that's why she didn't interfere anymore, just turned and run outside.

"Oh? Did I hit a nerve?" Kisame asked mockingly, his smile growing wider.

"Just you wait fish boy, I'll wipe that smile off your face." I growled at him.

"Oh is that so?" he asked, and suddenly he lunged at me.

I dodged his punch to my face, but his other fist caught my stomach, winding me. I gasped but didn't waste anytime and went for his face then stomach, both were blocked but my kick caught his ribs. He let out a growl as I jumped back, avoiding his fists.

Thank god he didn't have his sword with him, otherwise I would have been helpless, he must have left it upstairs. The thought barely crossed my mind before Kisame came at me again. I jumped to the side to dodge and aimed a kick, catching his back. I jumped to the side again so I was now behind him, and wondering at the surge of familiarly that flowed through my body, making my punches and kicks flow together. I had been in a few fights during my school years, not all of them had I come out victorious. Somehow this felt different, as though it was natural somehow, although I knew I was no match for Kisame and that unless this ended soon I was dead meat.

Kisame swung around to face me, face alight with anger and frustration. I backed away slowly, waiting for him to strike. "You'll never escape now," he growled at me, his smile was gone, replaced by straight lipped determination.

I didn't have time to respond as he jumped towards me, fits flying. I barley had time to defend myself, let alone try to land a punch of my own, his speed was amazing, faster than any other opponent I had ever had. I knew I was losing that I was about to be pummelled, already he was getting past me defences, a punch to my face, two more to my stomach. I couldn't last much longer, I was surprised I was able to keep up with him this long, and yet I knew he wasn't going all out, and that's what was most humiliating.

Suddenly a rush of anger and frustration pulsed through my body, how dare he go easy on me like this. I threw caution to the wind and threw myself forward, straight towards him. He hesitated for a moment, surprised that I was actually that stupid.

It was the chance I needed, my fists laded on his face, stomach and ribs. He growled in anger but I jumped back, just missing his foot as it swung out towards me. I retreated further back so there was a considerable distance between us.

"So, the cub has teeth after all," he jeered.

"Shut up, and fight me properly." I almost yelled at him. I knew it was stupid, I knew I wouldn't last a minute, but unfortunately my pride overruled my sense in fights, and that was probably my worst downfall.

"You want me to go all out?" an incredulous look came over his face.

"Yes," I said, my set face not wavering.

He let out a short bark of a laugh, "You're more stupid than you look, but I admire you courage, cub," he said, using what seemed like my new pet name. "I hope you said good bye to your cousin."

The silence seemed to press in as I started moving forward, mirroring Kisame's movement. We both raised our fits at the same time, putting all our energy into this once punch, it was make or brake, but that didn't seem to matter as the gap between us closed.

Our fists were mere inches away from the others face when everything stopped, literally. I couldn't move, and neither it seemed could Kisame, our fists were still raised, I couldn't even drop mine. Our eyes met briefly in confusion before I felt a huge force nock me back. I met the wall behind me with an incredible force as I flew across the room, Kisame crashed into the wall opposite. The wind rushed out of me as I hit the wall, and pain exploded through my body, the crash of Kisame's lading still rung in my ears as I slid down the wall and crumpled to the floor.

I couldn't see, hear or feel anything, only the pain which chorused though my body kept me conscious, letting me know I was still alive. First it was sound which returned, then as my eyes opened slightly, light returned, followed by the touch of hands on me, sitting me up against the wall.

"What the hell were you thinking!" someone screamed. I made out the face of Emily kneeling beside me and realised it was she who had screamed, but it seemed she wasn't yelling at me. "I asked you to stop it, not kill them!"

I looked over to the person she was yelling at. Pein was standing infront of us, slightly to the side, he dropped his arm which was held up to where Kisame and I were just moments ago. Understanding flooded though me.

"I did what had to be done," was Pein's only reply.

A groan rang out from the other side of the lounge room, Kisame was coming around also. My eyes trailed over to where he lay, a trail of destruction lead to where he had fallen. Unlike my undisturbed path, Kisame had several obstacles, most of which he had gone straight through. The couch had been knocked over, the coffee table was lying on the rug broken in half and the TV had a Kisame sized hole right in the middle of it, wires and all poking out.

I stared at it for a few seconds as others started to run into the room, wondering at what the noise was. Silently I looked up to see my own sized dent in the wall, mirroring the Kisame sized dent directly opposite, behind where the TV sat.

My head felt like it was spinning and my ears rang as Kisame rolled out from behind the TV and sat up, confusion and pain crossed his face.

'What the hell-" Konan started as she, Itachi and Hidan came into the room. Suddenly they seemed to put two and two together as they looked from Kisame to me to Pein. I didn't look at their faces, but concentrated on not fainting.

"You stupid, stupid, stupid girl!" Konan's voice filled my ears, and I knew she was glaring down at me.

I tried to smile to tell her it was worth it, but the pain was too great and unwillingly I slumped forward into the world of unconsciousness.


The light streaming in from my bedroom window was the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes. It blinded me for a few seconds, the heat searing the inside of my eye lids. Slowly images of this morning's events came floating through my mind, my smile grew wide, that was until the pain came rushing back. I gasped as I tried to sit up, my stomach protesting heavily as pain stabbed at it.

"Dam," I muttered as I tried to get out of bed. It wasn't just my stomach, but my head felt like it was about to explode and the old injury in my shoulder started to play up again. I'm never going to get hurt again, I promised myself, although I knew that promise wasn't going to be kept.

"Crissy!" the high pitched yell echoed around my bedroom and the door opened to reveal Emily and Tobi. This surprise unfortunately startled me, and instead of getting out of bed I fell out of bed, landing on my face.

"Ah, are you ok?" they both yelled as they came over to see if I was alright.

"I'm fine," I growled as I pushed myself up and sat on the edge of the bed. I looked up into Emily's face, it was a mixture of concern and extreme happiness.

"Hey guess what, guess what?" Emily asked me, almost bouncing up and down in excitement. Oh god, here we go again with the guessing games.

"Is Santa here a day earlier?" I asked, pretending to be excited.

"What! Santa's here? Where?" Tobi almost screamed, running out the room and thundering down stairs, his broken and cracked mask seemed like an orange blur.

"No," Emily said, "but thanks for getting rid of Tobi, cause guess what? Epic Meal Time is coming!" she yelled out, even though I was sitting right in front of her.

Now I knew what she was so excited about, "What! That's great, when are they coming?" I asked.

"They're getting here tonight, about ten." She said.

"Tonight!" I yelled and then wish I didn't when my head started pounding again.

"Well yeah, I mean Christmas is tomorrow," she said matter of factly.

"Yeah I do know that, but even so, that seems really soon, how are we suppose to get Tobi to bed by then?" I asked.

"Well, I'm not really sure, but maybe one of the others has an idea." She suggested.

So, taking Emily's advice, we went around and asked all of the other Akatsuki members.

"Hey Konan, any ideas on how to make Tobi fall asleep tonight so that he's not awake for when we start making his cake?"

"Hm, you could try tiring him out, but I doubt if that will work, it is Christmas after all."

"Yeah good point, thanks anyway."


"Hey Pein, any ideas on how to make Tobi fall asleep?"

"No, now leave me alone, I have more important things to do than answer your questions."

"What, like read the paper?"

"Yes, now leave me alone." Wow what a grumpy bum.

"Fine."


"Hey Kakuzu, any ideas on how to make Tobi fall asleep?"

"No, why are you asking me such things?"

"Because you always have such good ideas."

"We both know you're lying."

"Haha ok, thanks anyway."


"Hey Zetsu, any- what are you eating?"

"…Nothing…"

"That better not be a person."

"Would I go against your rules and eat one of your fellow human beings?"

"I'm not going to answer that."

"Good idea…"


"Hidan, where did all that blood come from?"

"Go away, I'm performing a ritual."

"Hang on, don't your rituals need a sacrifice?"

"So what if they do?"

"What did you do with the bo- oh right Zetsu…"

"Wow, you are actually kind of smart."

"Hey!"

"Haha. Now fuck off, you're interrupting my prayers."


"Hey what are you guys playing?"

"Poker, and I'm going to win, hm

"Right, because you're so good at card games," Kisame said, snickering at Deidara.

"Hey shut up, hm!" Deidara yelled back.

"Guys stop fighting, Kisame its your turn," Sasori told them.

"Hmph, fine." Kisame grumbled.

"So any idea-" I began and then stopped when a brilliant plan jumped into my mid. "You!" I yelled, pointing at Itachi.

"What?" he asked as everyone else stared at me in surprise.

"I just thought of a brilliant plan!" I continued to yell, ok so maybe I was just a little over excited.

Emily gasped, "What is it?"

"You," I said still pointing at Itachi, "can make Tobi fall asleep using your sharingan, then we won't have to worry about him waking up and discovering his cake!"

Everyone else looked excited by the idea except Itachi, "uh, I'm not sure if that would work…" he said, frowning slightly.

"Why not, its perfect!" Emily yelled from beside me as the realisation that Tobi was really Madara (or someone else!) and also had the sharingan hit me.

But then again, if a mastermind criminal who was extremely powerful went along with the pretence that he believed Christmas was real, I'm sure he'd play along with falling asleep, wouldn't he?

"Go on, it's worth a try," I said, giving Itachi a big grin.

He sighed, "Fine I'll try."

"Yay!" both Emily and I yelled.

"So now that we've got that sorted, what are we going to do now?" Emily asked.

I shrugged, "Might as well join in," I said and sat down beside Itachi.

Emily smiled and sat down beside Deidara as Sasori dealt us in.

"So now that the cub has finally emerged, how's your head feeling?" Kisame jeered as he turned towards me.

"Its fine," I said, trying not grimace at the pounding in my head, and the rest of my body for that matter.

"Sure sure, hey you up for some more sparing later, cause you know, we didn't get to finish our last fight." An evil grin spread across his face.

"Kisame," Itachi warned, giving him a sidewards glance.

"Crissy," Emily warned me at the same time, knowing I would say something back.

I sighed, "Fine. Why are you guys playing cards anyway, you haven't touched them since you got here."

"Well seeing as how our number one source of entertainment has been broken, we needed to find something else to do, hm." Deidara answered.

"Yeah good point…" I said thinking.

"Hey don't we have a spare TV in the shed?" Emily asked.

"You do? Thank god," Sasori said, "I really don't want to be living in the same house as Tobi if he were to find out that he couldn't watch Sesame Street."

Everyone else echoed an agreement. "Is it even on during Christmas morning?" Emily asked.

"Uh I'm not sure," I said.

"Lets hope it is on, otherwise tomorrow isn't going to be a very good day, hm," Deidara said, frowning at the prospect.

"Well everything better work out tomorrow after all this crap we've been put through," I muttered, thinking of all our recent adventures.

"Lets not worry about that now, just hurry up, its your turn," Sasori said, getting back to the game.


The sky was streaked with orange and red as Emily, Itachi and I crept into our positions, the cool evening air helping to calm my excitement.

"Ok, we're in position." I whispered into my walkie talkie.

"I'm good to go as well," Emily confirmed, talking into her own walkie talkie.

"Ok, on my signal, one, two-"

"This is ridiculous," Itachi stated, standing up from his position beside me and walking around the corner.

"Wait, what about the plan?" I asked, grabbing a hold of his arm, "You can't forfeit the plan!"

"What 'plan' it was just something you and Emily insisted on doing." He stated, looking down at me with a slight frown.

"Oh come on, if Emily and I are going to be awesome ninjas like you guys we need to improve our stealth skills," I said, smiling up at him.

"Who said you going to become ninjas?"

"I did, just then."

"Exactly, this whole thing is ridiculous." He said, breaking free of my grip and continued to walk around the side of the house.

"Itachi, you have no tact," I yelled out to him.

He didn't turn around although I could tell he was rolling his eyes.

"What happened?" Emily asked, running up to me.

"Itachi ruined the plan," I said, pointing to where he was now walking across the lawn to where Tobi was jumping on the trampoline.

"Hmph, party pooper," Emily mumbled.

"Tobi, come here," Itachi said as he reached the trampoline.

"Ok!" Tobi happily answered and bounced over to where Itachi was standing, jumping off the edge and landing on the ground.

There was a second when nothing happened, and then suddenly Tobi's body went limp, falling to the ground.

"You could have at least caught him," I yelled at Itachi as Emily and I run over to where Tobi had hit the ground.

Itachi just shrugged and walked away, back to the house.

"Gee, he's so emotionless," Emily remarked.

"You're telling me," I said, grabbing Tobi's front end while Emily grabbed Tobi's legs.

"He's so heavy," I groaned as we made our way up the front steps into the house.

"You're telling me," Emily said, "I think he needs to go on a diet."

I laughed, "you're definitely right about that."

We managed to get him up the stairs and into his room. "Oh my god, this place looks like a pig sty." Emily remarked as we dumped Tobi on the bed.

"In the morning he's cleaning this place up," I said as I looked around at all the clothes, books and assorted bits and pieces lying on the floor.

"Right, lets go and make sure everything is ready," Emily said as we made our way down stairs.

It was eight thirty already, which meant we only had an hour and a half to get the house cleaned up ready for the appearance of Epic Meal Time.

The lounge had already been cleared of all the broken furniture and the new TV had been put in place, although it looked a little bear with the coffee table and the bigger, now broken, TV. The dinning room was right to go, but the kitchen was a mess. It took Emily and I a whole hour to wash the dishes, clean the benches, stove and appliances and make sure everything needed was in place.

"Wow, look at this place," Hidan said as he came downstairs, "it looks like new."

"Yeah, no thanks to you," I told him, a frown on my face.

"What are all you guys doing anyway?" Emily asked.

Hidan shrugged, "Fucked if I know, they're all staying out of your way I guess."

"Hm, they're smarter than they seem." I said.

"Haha, you've got that right," he said laughing.

"So what do you want anyway?" Emily asked.

"I'm hungry, I need food." He said bluntly.

"I'll second that, hm." Deidara said as he came down the stairs.

"Well you're just going to have to hang out and wait for Epic Meal Time, I'm sure they'll whip something good up for you." I told them, blocking their way into the kitchen.

"Aw come on," Hidan complained.

"Do what she tells you," Konan said, coming to my rescue as she came down the stairs.

"Haha, that's right," I smirked at Hidan.

"Hmph, stupid bitch," he growled.

"Hey!"

"Haha, come on then," he said, a grin forming on his face.

"Both of you stop it," Konan told us, "I don't want another fight today."

"Fine," we both sighed.

The other Akatsuki members started to make their way into the main part of the house and soon the clock started ticking down until there was only five minutes left until the much awaited Epic Meal Time people were supposed to turn up.

"Okay, so here is how we'll do it," Pein began, "we will all take in turns on keeping an eye on the situation while the others get some rest for tomorrow. Once they are here and settled in we will head off to our stations, Kisame will take the first watch."

"You're making it sound like some top secret mission," I noted.

Pein looked at me, "You never know, it might turn into one."

"What? That makes no sense." I said, trying to think about what he had just said.

He sighed, "I wouldn't expect it to make sense to one such as yourself."

My draw dropped, "Hey!"

"Ok, that's it, Crissy, you really need to stop picking fights," Konan told me sternly.

"I wasn't picking a fight," I said frowning.

"Yes you were, now I don't want to hear anymore about it," she said crossly.

"No wonder you're always getting yourself into trouble," Itachi muttered.

I glared at him and then spun around to face the window as I heard tires crunching on the gravel.

"Here they come," Emily said, excitement building up in her voice.

"Okay, everyone stick to the plan, lets make sure everything goes smoothly," Pein reminded everyone as the sound of boots could be heard coming closer to the house.

I started to make out rough voices that sounded familiar, the footsteps turned heavy as they reached the steps the lead onto the porch.

This was it, the moment we had been waiting for. Suddenly it didn't seem like such a good idea, but it never was to begin with. I closed my eyes for a moment and took a deep breath, whatever happened next we would get through it, we would somehow survive, well that's what I hoped for anyway.

My eyes flew open as the heavy knocking on the door echoed around the room, well, here goes nothing…


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