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Kiba: another one of your repeatitions…

At the Akatsuki base [general POV]

"I have grave news," Pain said to his fellow Akatsuki members. "Itachi has decided to leave us once and for all."

There were murmurs among the crowd (A/N:well, not really a crowd, ya get what I mean).

"Which also means Kisame will be out of a partner," Pain continued. "I'm giving you all a mission, whether you decide to accept it or not, that is your choice. Your mission is to recruit as many people into the Akatsuki as possible."

Deidara raised his hand. "But, uh, why as many as possible, hmm?" he asked.

"As Itachi is one of the strongest Akatsuki member here, it would be very difficult to replace him," Pain replied. "Dismissed."

As they walked away, Kisame was having mixed feelings about Itachi (A/N: NO YAOI, OK? DON'T ASK!). Sure, they were partners (emphasize on 'were'), and they had their good times (A/N: as FRIENDS). Kisame didn't know whether he should be angry, sad, felt betrayed or whatever. He decided to go with nothing. Oh well, still, poor you Kisame, losing your partner. Good luck finding one.

Meanwhile, in Konoha [Kaitlyn's POV]

"HELP ME!"

Carol was doing the walk on water exercise. Just as she was getting used to the changing depth of the water, Kakashi started throwing rocks at her. Not pebbles. She also had a history of exaggerating, so that's the reason why she was saying that (the 'help me' part).

She was also waving her arms around frantically; she found out that that made it easier to balance. "Alright, you pass." Those were the words she wanted to hear all along.

Carol made her way to dry land. Then Kakashi threw yet another stone "AH HELP!" she dodged the stone, then ran towards Vrin. When she reached Vrin, she hugged her. "Carol! You're so damn big, you're crushing me!"

"You can't blame me! Your sensei's scary!" Carol complained.

"Get her off me!"

I sighed as a pulled Carol away from Vrin. "STOP exaggerating. Or, I shall call a certain someone to make you stop." I meant Itachi. After the fight, Carol somehow got an 'itaphobia', meaning Itachi phobia. I know right, oh my gawd.

"I… I… THERE! HELP ME! ITACHI GONNA KILL ME!" she started running around again. I was gonna comment on how dumb she was and that she was hallucinating, but then I saw him for myself.

"OMG HE'S HAUNTING US! HELP" Carol was still going around saying stuff like that.

Kakashi sighed. "Vrinda, please do not scare your friend like that."

"Aw, you're no fun, Kakashi-sensei!" Vrin cancelled out her genjutsu.

"So you've been practicing… just to scare Carol?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, well, we do that to each other a lot. Last time, Carol made a GIANT-" she stretched her arms, emphasizing on the point "- cockroach chase me all around Konoha, while everyone else looked at me like I was crazy as it was just a genjutsu and no one else could see it."

"Carlie, your turn!" Kakashi faced Carlie. Yup, getting bored of saying the sensei. But I do address him I'll add the sensei, no worries guys.

Carlie made her way to the lake. She didn't have any problems with it. "Throw some rocks, Kakashi-sensei!" she said. After a while, Kakashi still didn't do anything. Carlie turned her back. Then Kakashi threw rocks at her. She jumped over one, dodged the other in mid-air and landed perfectly on both her feet. Kakashi threw about 10 rocks this time. She dodged them easily.

"Alright, you pass. Who wants to go next?"

I raised my hand. "Oh goodie, then I'll go after you." Vrin said.

"Yeah, sure, whatever," I replied.

I focused my chakra on the balls of my feet. I cautiously stepped into the water, or rather onto, as I successfully walked on the water. Get it? No? Oh well. I started walking, slowly at first then I managed to keep up with the changing depth of the water. I was also reading Kakashi's mind to figure out when he was gonna throw something at me. He did. I dodged every one of them, making sure not to lose grip of my chakra. "You pass too," Kakashi said. "Your turn, Vrinda."

"Alrighty!"

It was really easy for Vrin. She just walked onto the water as if it was solid ground, then dodged every projectile Kakashi threw at her. Including shurikens. Wow, I wish I could be that good.

That's when the day started getting better and better. Ok, well, that was said sarcastically, if you didn't know.

A ninja about 25 came running here. "Tsunade-sama calls for you, Kakashi. Bring along Kaitlyn, Carol and Vrinda too, she said." He said.

"Very well, tell her I'll see her in about five minutes."

I wondered what Tsunade has in store for us?

"AAAAH HELP ME I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

We were now trying to get Carol from jumping out the window. The only person who didn't help was Itachi. He was trying to help at first; but that made it worse. "PLEASE, GET HIM AWAY FROM ME! I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DIE! NOOOOO!"

We finally managed to get Carol away from the window. This time, Tsunade held her in place. "I will break your legs if you try to escape again," Tsunade said to Carol.

Carol was silent after that.

"I decided to call you four because Kakashi, I want you to keep an eye out for Itachi, and you three-" she turned to us. "- I want to know your opinion of letting him stay."

"As long as he doesn't kill anyone." I said.

"NO!" Carol screamed.

"Huh, whatever's fine with me." Vrin said.

"So he's staying." Tsunade concluded.

"Carol, why are you so hysterical?" I asked her. Vrin tried to muffle her laughter. Carol was outraged.

"See that girl there? The laughing one? Well, she dared me to do it, and if I didn't I had to either choose to do the penalty of washing the dishes for a YEAR or… I tell Neji, "Fate is as stupid as hell." I didn't want to wash the dishes for a year, nor say that to Neji. He is a good friend of mine. Dare's off, Vrin."

Vrin stopped laughing. "You can't call the dare off. Only me or someone else can."

"Dare's off," I said, freeing Carol from her dare. "Thanks!" she replied.

"Oh great, the dare's off." Vrin was annoyed.

And all this time we were in the Hokage's Office.

"You all are quite funny. Dismissed." Lady Tsunade said (sticking to lady, not sama anymore…)

We all returned to the training field. "Tag! You're gonna have to train with your own team-mates." Ino said. Want to know why? It's like a tag team [training]. We can tag anyone we want to change places with. Apparently Ino wanted join in Kakashi's training. I made way to my team-mates. "We're doing some light sparring. You're up against Hinata. No jutsus allowed. Understood?" Kurenai-sensei said to me. I nodded.

The day went by so fast. Carol, Vrin, Carlie and I were exhausted. Did I tell you guys that the friendship war is over? Yup, I won. After we defeated Itachi, Carol considered that Carlie was pretty ok. So yeah. Carlie didn't really have a house, so she was staying with us.

"Hello there."

I almost jumped outta my skin because I recognized the voice. "Hey, what brings you here?" I asked the elder Uchiha.

"Nothing, just walking around the village. Tsunade doesn't trust me enough to carry weapons so… just exploring."

"Don't you know how the village is like?" Carol asked.

"Of course I do. Just… it's different now, since I left five years ago. Until then…" Itachi disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Weirdo," Vrin said.

We all headed home and nothing else occurred then.

Yeah, it's kinda short... cant wait till the chunin exams part... yup, as the author, i do enjoy writing. :D please leave a review! XD