Hi, everyone. I was in such a good mood that I decided to update sooner than expected! This chapter contained mainly fights and bloods so, You have been warned!

I was just trying my hand on writing battles, because I love to see the shinobis fight, especially if they are using taijutsu!

Enough babbling, let's head out to chapter 13!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

'Sasori, Pein, Kisame, Itachi, Deidara, Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu, Tobi, watch me!' Pein looked up when he heard her voice faintly. After spending years together, he and Konan had developed some sort of bond between them. Pein got up from his bed and walked to his work desk. His hand reached for a golden frame on top of the desk and brought it closer to his Rinnegan eyes.

It was the picture of him and Konan at the top of his residential tower in Amegakure. She actually smiled sweetly in the picture, while he just maintained his calm demeanour. Taking photos was not his cup of tea, but it was her idea all along. And that idea also resulted in another picture they took with the rest of the Akatsuki member. Apart from that, Pein knew she kept the picture of every two man teams in their organization in her room.

"Konan, please be safe," he put down the frame and closed his eyes.

With Konan

'Konan, please be safe,' she heard Pein's whisper in the coming wind. She gained her confidence and launched a punch at Sakura. Their fists met and both were driven back. But Konan smiled in delight. Sakura was puzzled by her gesture, but then realized something. The kunais! She was too late when the kunais flew by and grazed her skin. One of them even sliced open her right arm.

Konan tugged on the strings again, and the kunais soared towards her. Sakura jumped out of the way this time, all in the while healing the wound on her arm. 'This shinobi is someone I must be really careful. She always had a trick up her sleeves,' Sakura thought, trying to predict her opponent's movement. She had to find her weakness and quick.

"Tell me Sakura. How did Sasori died?" she gasped inaudibly when she felt Konan's icy fingers on her neck, kunai grazing her skin. "His death was a payment for his sins!" Konan gritted her teeth and slashed Sakura's shoulder. "Wrong answer!" she snarled and kicked the girl hard. She stood firm in the place, waiting for Sakura to get up.

"Why are you doing this? I'm not a Jinchuuriki. What do you want from me?" Sakura gathered herself and got up.

"Let's just say, I have been waiting for this for quite a long time," Konan held up one of the kunais and dipped her finger in Sakura's blood. She kept away that particular kunai, for another technique later on. Hopefully she wouldn't have to use that technique just to face Sakura.

"Yes, but why?" Sakura threw a handful of kunais at her.

"To satisfy myself. Don't get it wrong though," Konan jumped back. Her eyes then spotted an explosive tag among the kunais. "Great," the tag went off, and Konan was blinded by the thick smokes.

In the middle of the commotion, she heard Sakura was coming at her in full speed.

Konan put her arms in front of her and blocked Sakura's chakra powered punch by forcing chakra to her arms. Sakura then attacked her with numerous punches and kicks, which she easily dodged. Sometimes, training with the Akatsuki members did have benefits. They were unexceptionally fast attackers, even Hidan himself. Plus, she had undergone too many battles while on missions that she can easily read the pink haired medic ninja's movements. "Eat this!" finally Sakura successfully landed a blow on her chest. Konan hissed and quickly clutched her wrist and kneed her in the chest. Both jumped away, holding their hurting chests. From the corner of her eyes, Konan saw that Sakura pulled out a kunai with another explosion tag attached and threw it at her direction. Konan let the kunai fall in front of her, her hands fast forming hand seals. The explosion tag went off, and again the area was surrounded in smokes.

Sakura looked around her. "Did it get her?" she said to herself, trying to be calm.

She shrieked when a hand came out from the earth and pulled her down hard, that she was buried in the ground waist down. Konan jumped out from the ground and swept her right feet. Sakura blocked it and she twisted and punched Sakura's injured shoulder.

Konan was about to deliver a chakra enforced kick to finish the Konoha ninja when a fast moving blur pulled Sakura out of the way. The Akatsuki's foot met contact with the earth and a large crater was formed on the ground. Konan jumped away from the collapsing rocks can crush her.

Some distance away, Sakura was holding her injured shoulder while being supported by someone. Konan's icy eyes widened slightly before she narrowed it in anger. "You!" she glared him hard. "I'd tell you before. We'll meet again, though I was intending it to be just the two of us," he replied as cool as ever, which just irritated her more.

"Stay out of this, Hatake! This fight is between me and her!" Konan pointed a finger at an exhausted looking Sakura. Kakashi stepped forward between both of the kunoichis. "I will not let someone like you harm my comrades!" he said sternly, clenching his fists. Konan tightened her clasp around her kunai. "And I will not let someone like her goes free after she killed one of my comrades!" Konan moved quickly to his back and straight for Sakura who was alerted by her actions.

"No, you're not, Miwako!" he formed some hand seals and a large flow of water sprang out from the ground in front of Sakura. Konan changed course and went for him instead, but he was ready for her attacks. Kunais clashed and both of them jumped away, Konan was panting lightly. Now with the infamous Copy-Cat Ninja interfering in the battle, her chance to kill Haruno Sakura had grown thinner.

Konan did some seals in a fast speed, difficult for Sakura or Kakashi to see. A large crater suddenly formed around the spot Sakura was standing. "Earth Release: Crater Trap attack!" the crater suddenly closed itself with Sakura inside it. A second later, Sakura punched her way out, covered with slimy substance. Kakashi looked at Konan in mild shock. 'When did she use the jutsu? I never thought I would have to use this, but…,' he pulled up his hitai-ate, revealing his Sharingan.

"Finally, your true strength. That means I don't have to hold back, am I?" Konan held up a hand, and paper butterflies gathered in her palm, forming a blue coloured scroll with Konoha's symbol on it. It was the scroll she took after defeating the Konoha Team that day. To her expectation, it did contained useful information.

"Recognize this, Hatake?" both his eyes were focused on the Konoha symbol.

"How did you obtain that?" she smirked and threw it to his feet.

"I took it from one of your comrades. I've learned many things from it, alright," she leapt into the air and began forming some more seals. Kakashi began copying it with his Sharingan. "Too slow!" she called out to him and her genjutsu attack hit Sakura.

"Let's see if you can wriggle out of this," Konan said, more to her ears only.

"That was a good move, Konan-chan," she was startled by a silver haired young man who suddenly appeared behind her. She jumped again, away from both Kakashi and the silver haired young man. "Yakushi Kabuto!" Konan breathed out the name with anger.

"Good to see you still remember me, Konan-chan. I came just as I promised. So how's the deal?" he was clearly a straight forward man.

"Will you shut about the deal? Can't you see I'm busy right here?" she blocked a punch from Kakashi and flipped over him. "Get lost, Kabuto and tell your master I'm not interested in involving with his world domination project," she dodged a series of punches from Kakashi and swept his feet.

"Your Leader is also interested in world domination," Kabuto was also very persistent. That one she had learned from the previous two encounters.

"You don't know a single thing about Pein so just shut up!" she threw her kunais at both Kakashi and Kabuto, landing at a safe distance somewhere ahead.

Her eyes travelled to Sakura who was clearly trapped in her genjutsu, unable to release it so easily. She disappeared from her spot and reappeared next to Sakura, brandishing a kunai. Konan was about to stab the kunai through her heart, when suddenly she felt a pain in her stomach. She lost her aim and stabbed Sakura in the abdomen instead. That awakened her from the genjutsu.

Konan bent over in pain. 'What is happening? I felt numb,' she thought as she went down to her knees, the pain was unbearable. Kakashi who raced to Sakura's side looked at Konan in confusion. One minute she was all agile and quick and now she was hardly able to move.

"Damn you, Kabuto! What did you do?" Konan was now on all fours, his hands clawing the grounds out of pain. Kabuto calmly pushed his spectacles up the bridge of his nose and stepped closer to her. In his hand was a chunk of her hair, with his chakra around them. "Just letting you know, Konan-chan. I always get what I want. Including this baby!" he grasped the hair harder, making her shaking uncontrollably.

"It seems that I have to use force," he chuckled lowly and took out a glass container. "By now surely that lovely baby of yours had formed, right? That will make my work easier," He was now by her side, doing a certain hand seal that she recognized quickly as a medic ninja. "No, Kabuto! Please don't," he smiled sadistically and put his hand over her hurting stomach. "I love hearing you beg. But sorry Konan-chan, I really need your baby. Pein's baby to be exact," he whispered in her ear.

Konan tried to push him away, but the pain shot through her body again. "Please don't, Kabuto," her voice was hoarse as she clawed the ground again. Konan felt her energy became gradually losing. "Kisame, Pein, anyone, please stop him," she whispered as her hands grew weak, she fell limp on the ground.

With Pein

'Kisame, Pein, anyone, please stop him,' Pein shot up from his light slumber after hearing Konan's faint whispers again. He jumped out and dashed to his desk, gathering up his things. Accidentally, he pushed the golden frame off the table and it was smashed into pieces.

Pein didn't was more time, he put on his cloak and at his top speed raced down to the direction he had been hearing her whisper. His angel needed him right now, and he wouldn't afford to lose her any time sooner. "Konan, hang on!" he tried to increase his speed.

With Konan

Konan closed her eyes, trying to keep holding on. The pain stopped when she heard someone hit Kabuto hard in the face. She felt grateful for the move, and tried to stand up. Her feet were shaking but she mustered up herself. 'I'm not a shinobi for nothing!' she said over and over again.

When she had succeeded standing, her feet were shaking violently. Though she had no visible injuries, but Konan knew she had a lot of internal injuries from Kabuto's jutsu just now. She tried to step ahead, but her body was in her original position. She then spotted her shadow, connected to a long thin shadow that attached to the shadow of one of the Konoha ninjas she fought before.

"Pein, I'm sorry," It wasn't too long before she passed out, still standing.

With Pein

'Pein, I'm sorry,' that voice rang again through the trees. He went frantic. 'Don't tell me she's finished for,' he never once stopped in his running. Time passed as he began to draw nearer to the place he felt that Konan was in. His bond with Konan was strong that he sensed that she was somewhere near the border of Fire country.

Hours later, he arrived in a large ground covered area, with signs of battle ongoing on it. Unsurprisingly, Itachi and Kisame were already there, both with unreadable expressions. Pein approached them and Itachi was the first to answer. "A battle broke out between her with Haruno Sakura and Hatake Kakashi. And then, Yakushi Kabuto came and attacked her," Pein spotted a pool of blood near the three of them.

He knelt down near the blood and dipped her finger in the blood. "It's her blood. This is Konan's blood," Pein turned to face Itachi and Kisame. The Uchiha sighed heavily and looked away from his leader. "Kabuto tried to force the baby out of her. And he was successful with it," Kisame handed the Leader a small thing wrapped up in Itachi's cloak.

Pein was plainly shocked by the news and accepted the thing with shaking hands. His child did not make it. And now he was on the verge of losing his angel. "Why did you let them go? Where is she?" he growled, trying to cope up with the swirl of emotions building up in him. Kisame was clearly unable to speak; he appeared to be distracted by the whole event. "It is better for her to be taken back to Konoha, they have better medical facilities and they have Tsunade, the best medic ninja ever was. Furthermore, Konoha is closer and Konan was dying from blood loss. We had to let her go," Itachi said calmly. Pein looked at his child and turned around towards their hideout. "Your mission ended here Kisame, Itachi. For a while, let's go home," the sharingan wielder and the former Mist Ninja followed without objections.

Well, how is it? Please let me know so that I can do better for the next chapters. Thank you very much to all of you!

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