Note from Author: Here is another chapter for Clashing Personalities.

Rating: G (as in General)


Clashing Personalities

Twenty-One


The days slowly passed, one dragging into the next. Sakura found her thoughts overrun with the mystery that serves as the Akatsuki. Bound around the desire to know more, to understand.

She wasn't expecting the letter on Monday. She wasn't expecting it to be signed, signed with a large cursive P on the end. The handwriting is much neater than any girls' she has ever seen.

Neater than hers.

She had not expected to find a classroom empty of students – minus ten.

She had not expected a certain blond to clamp his arm around her shoulder.

She had not expected to see a certain red-head to nod to her, a ghost of a smile mirroring an elder Uchiha's own quirked lips.

She had expected Tobi to slam into her, arms wrapping around her. She did not welcome it, but she expected it.

Now she sits before a man, a man with odd eyes and piercings covering his face. He is intimidating but his expression radiates calm and power. She takes it he holds the most authority in this group.

"Haruno, Sakura – new student. It seems you have caught my subordinates' attention. And now you have caught mine." He smirks.

Tobi, arms still strapped around her, buries his masked face against the juncture of neck and shoulder with a happy squeal.

"It would seem so."

He eyes gleam with the hint of a challenge.

"Tell me, Haruno-san, what would you think of…connecting with us?"


Here is the new chapter - hopefully none of you screamed when you saw it updated and scared your family (I've had many tell me it has happened. It always makes me feel warm inside...if not a bit guilty...) badly. I tend to update by dates (as in...the ones that have not been updated the longest go first.), so, yeah, it keeps everything going in a smooth, orderly way...and I like order.

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