Have you figured out Hoshi's stalker yet? Well if you have, that's good! Let's see if you were right. If you haven't, that's okay too. Find out in this chapter just who was her stalker.

"I start to look around, scanning for anything to give me a sign of the stalker, person...thingy...But after a few minutes of scanning around, nothing seemed to be out of order. So that's the first sign that I'm going paranoid! Yippie!

Maybe I am going insane..."

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As I reached the living room, no one's in sight. "Guess I'm by myself." I thought to myself. I sat on the sofa and reached for the remote on the small table in front of the sofa. Flipping through the channels, none of them peaked my interest. I tried to search for some horror movies. Have you ever watched a horror movie that was so scary it nearly gave you a heart attack? Well, that was just what happened to me. Except I wish it was due to a movie.

"Who are you?" asked a slick voice behind me.

He was so close I could feel his warm breath on my neck. I quickly whipped my head back to where I heard the voice. No one there. You know, I should seriously call up a doctor. "Hello doctor, I have a suspicion that I might be going insane after joining the Akatsuki. Oh the symptoms you ask? I have this crazy feeling of a stalker following me and some voices behind me when there's no one actually there! You'll be here ASAP? Okay, thanks doc!" ...Okay now I'm seriously going crazy. I smacked my head with my hand, sighing and shaking my head.

"Answer the damn question, idiot." a dark and rough voice demanded.

My head shot to right of me, and surprisingly, there actually seems to be a person there. Well, if you could call it a person (1). He had mossy green hair with yellow eyes. If you thought that was the most surprising thing, you've seen nothing yet. His whole body was like two people meshed into one. One side of him was black and the other white. Hmm...a yin-yang combo? Nice. I quite like yin-yang, it reminds me of how one side needs the other in order for there to be two. But I digress, back to the topic. The left side was black and the right was white. Hey that rhymes! Sorry, enough digressing. The oddest thing of all though was a...Venus flytrap attached to his neck? To be honest, I resisted the urge to poke it. I think he would be mad at me staring, so my azure eyes drift back to his face. Too late, he was already mad. Well, the black side was. So I decided to answer the question before he could get any more furious at me. Getting him outraged wasn't a plan that screamed, "GOOD IDEA!"

"A-Arai Hoshi. And you are...?"

"Zetsu. It's nice to meet you.Bullshit." Zetsu replied.

Was that two voices? Before I could ask, Zetsu seemed to have read my mind.

"Forgive me for my other side. He is quite rude...Nonsense, the white side is just a pansy." Zetsu intervened with himself.

"Oh it's okay, I'm used to rude people. I mean, look at Hidan." I rolled my eyes.

Both of Zetsu's sides seemed to laugh at that. "Maybe you're not so bad after all."

I grinned, "I think I'll take that as a compliment."

"So, did Hidan and Deidara's mission fail?" Zetsu stated disapprovingly.

"Hm, I guess. They were suppose to kidnap my friend Suzu Misaki. But Leader-sama seems to enjoy toying with my life, so I guess it wasn't really a fail since he decided to keep me." I growled at the last part.

Then I just realized something, "Ne Zetsu-san, are you the one who's been watching me in the hallways?"

"Hn, smart girl.Excuse us if you thought that was rude. Yes it was us." he answered.

"Oh, how'd you do that?" I asked, amazed that I couldn't see him at all.

"We blended in with the walls.It's one of our abilities.We also blended in with the sofa. That's how we seemed to appear out of nowhere." he answered.

"Really? That's cool. What else can you do?" I found this fascinating, seeing as how I always wanted that ability as a little kid.

Before he could quench my curiosity though, we were interrupted. By none other than...two random old strangers I don't know...they both looked quite old though. They both had masks that covered everything but their eyes, except this other one that even covered his hair! His eyes were Christmas-colored, the iris being green with no pupil and sclera being red. He seemed to be quite tall, the tallest of all the Akatsuki is my guess. From what I could tell, he had dark tan skin, same as the other one. The other one was way shorter, he was about half the size of the first, and he had normal looking eyes. Well...as normal as frightening and bone-chilling could get. His strands of black hair stood up and gave him an intimidating and controlling aura (2), if his eyes already hadn't.

"Konbanwa(3)Sasori-san, Kakuzu-san." Zetsu greeted the two elders.

"Konbanwa Zetsu-san." greeted the taller of the two. The shorter just grunted in acknowledgement. A silent type?

"Who's the girl?" came the raspy, rough voice of the shorter one. Maybe not?

"Arai Hoshi. New member. Deidara and Hidan failed." huffed the dark side of Zetsu.

"Figures. That idiot partner can't do anything right without me." the two said in unison.

"Partners? So those two are your partners?" I questioned. This seemed odd, trading partners I mean.

"Yes. Ah yes, allow me to do the introductions. This is Kakuzu, and I am Akasuna no Sasori. Those two blundering idiots can't do anything right." he sighed, seems like the stoic members liked to use the word 'idiot' alot, "The damn fool Deidara is my partner while Hidan's Kakuzu."

"Heh, I'm willing to allow a trade. Who would want that stupid immortal bastard ranting about Jashin anyway?" Kakuzu scowled.

They got in a heated conversation about what 'fools' and 'annoying young bastards' their partners were. After hearing some information [that was excellent for blackmail] I decided it was late and that I should go sleep. I said good night to the three and left for my room. Luckily Pein gave me an official Akatsuki cloak with a few spares in my closet. On my bed was some clothes and a note. The note read:

Dear Hoshi,

Tomorrow you and I will be disguised as regular town folk so we can go
and buy some new clothes for your wardrobe.

I gave you an old pair of pants and shirt of mine for you to wear
in the mean time. Hope you have a pleasant sleep so we can head out tomorrow.

-Konan

"Well that was nice of her." I thought aloud. "Might as well take a shower now."

After the warm refreshed shower, I went straight to bed. While I laid in my bed, I looked at the bedroom. It had no windows, since we were basically in a cave. There was a desk with a lamp on it, the cabinet and wardrobe, a door leading to the bathroom, a door leading to the thousands of hallways that make up the maze they call "Akatsuki base", a nightstand with a lamp to my left and an alarm clock.

"I'll buy some stuff to make this place feel like home tomorrow." I yawned.

I turned off the lamp and just like the lamp, I was out like a light; and dreamland washed over me.

(1) -Sorry Zetsu for that. But alas I had to do it for descriptive detail. (Same reason as Kisame)

(2) -For all of you who're confused, Sasori is INSIDE Hiruko. I always want to stay in character and Sasori doesn't come out of Hiruko much. So that's the reason for that. And the "controlling" aura was a pun -kinda- because Sasori is the master puppet master, so therefore he's in control of his puppets.

(3) - Good Evening means "Konbanwa" in Japanese

Hmm...wonder what Hoshi dreams about. Well, that's in the next chapter too! Have fun guessin' for the mean time.