Bre's POV

I froze in place as the bear began sniffing around the first row of trees around our small fire. Of course my luck would be this bad. It just had to happen didn't it? It's what I get for joking about it before... I saw something move quickly to my left and fear shot into my chest before I noticed that what I'd seen was Hidan lunging at the bear.

"God damnit Hidan! At least waist until Bre is out of the way, she's not immortal like us you dumbass!" Before I could do anything about it Kakuzu had an arm wrapped around my waist and was pulling me up onto my feet. I scrambled back as he started to pull me away from the trees where Hidan was now grappling with the large beast. He was letting out a slew of curses and threats that I'd learnt were very specific to Jashin. "Go hide behind those trees. I'll come get you when it's over."

I nodded once and stepped behind the trees, only peeking around to watch them and make sure I was staying out of their way. I watched as Kakuzu kept Hidan and the bear from ruining the food he'd been cooking. I looked up to watch the struggle, I could tell Hidan was playing with the bear, torturing it instead of just killing it and I was starting to feel sick. I wanted him to stop, to just kill it already or leave the poor thing alone.

Without thinking I ran forward and stepped between them. Rage flared up in me and I heard Kakuzu yell out but before he could even do anything Hidan had already grabbed me and spun us around, putting his back between me and the bear. I let out a small gasp and my eyes widened as the bear lunged forward, biting into Hidan's shoulder. He grunted slightly at what was probably incredible pain and looked down at me.

"You idiot. He told you to hide, what the hell were you thinking?" He voice was slightly strained as her spoke and it filled me with grief.

Something in me burst open, like a floodgate of chakra I didn't know I'd had, I could feel it filling me up. Looking up I saw Hidan's eyes widen as he looked at me but my focus wasn't on him. I knew I wanted the bear off of him, it's all I was sure of in that moment, and as I stared at it with a ferocity I rarely showed it suddenly let go of Hidan and started to rear back. It let out a panicked roar and began swiping at it's eyes with it's paws.

My vision started to blur and darken but just before I passed out I managed to see Kakuzu kill the bear and rush over to us. Why's he running? There's no way he's worried about Hidan. My head feels light... I'm just going to rest for a second... I closed my eyes and could feel Hidan holding me up, he was warm and I was sure he was bleeding on me but I was too tired to care, I was even too tired to listen to their bickering.

It didn't feel like very long before I was waking back up. I opened my eyes slowly, my vision dark at first before gradually getting brighter. I could see Hidan fussing over me as Kakuzu expertly stitched up his shoulder. His mouth was moving but I couldn't hear him. It took a bit longer before my hearing finally came back, and just as my sight it was slow. "Bre? Bre! What's wrong? Can you hear me?"

"Stop being so loud Hidan... I'm fine. I think I just used too much chakra too fast. Was I out long?" I knew better than to try and sit up and just started to try and gently lift up my arms. Once I was sure I wasn't going to pass out I slowly pushed myself up onto my elbows.

"It's only been a few minutes. Bre... what did you do to that bear?" I looked up at Kakuzu as Hidan helped me up the rest of the way. "And your eyes... they were..."

"I'm not sure... I just... I want to talk about it with Leader first. But I'm sure it has something to do with what I used on Hidan before." They both nodded and started to relax. Not long after Kakuzu turned around and started to prepare food for us before passing it over. "Thank you. I'm sorry I caused so much trouble. I should have listened. But... I just couldn't let you keep torturing that poor animal." I adverted my eyes and picked at the bread I was handed.

Hidan mumbled something under his breath and I glanced up at him. He looks so sad... did he apologize? I frowned slightly and looked back at my hands, pulling my bread and meat into smaller chunks. I made him feel bad, I should have just kept my mouth shut. I quickly ate, hoping that if I didn't speak I wouldn't be able to mess anything else up.

"Well, as long as you're feeling better then we'll leave when we're done eating, just as planned." I could tell Kakuzu was trying to lift some of the tension and I nodded slightly. This tension and this delay were my fault, so the least I could do was not hold us up anymore than I had to.

The next few hours were filled with so much silent tension that it felt like I was going to suffocate. Maybe keeping my mouth shut was a bad idea. Or what if they hate me now or think I'm some kind of freak?! I quickly thought over the whole scene with the bear, remembering Hidan's face as my chakra surged. Pein did discuss Cass and my powers with all of the members, when they were actually around, so it wasn't like he didn't know I had some. So then why did he look like he was actually almost scared? Or... maybe I'm just over thinking all of this and he really was just surprised.

With a small groan I tugged at my bangs, pulling them over my eyes so they hid my face. Glancing up from the ground I caught Hidan staring at me and for a second my heart started to race. I quickly adverted my eyes, trying to play it cool, only to look up again as he slowed down to walk beside me. "Kakuzu says were almost to our destination. There's a small tea shop up ahead, will you be ok there until we're done with the shit we've gotta do?"

"Yes, but I don't have any money."

"Don't worry about that. I can buy you something if you want. And I guess I can leave you with a little money too in case we take too long."

"O-oh... I mean... If you want to." He glanced over at me with an almost embarrassed expression and I gave him a small smile. "How long do you think you'll be?"

"Hopefully not too fucking long but you never know with some of these things. Why? You gonna miss me?"

Heat rose to my cheeks and I quickly looked down. "No, I just wanted an idea of how long I would be waiting." Hidan chuckled slightly and I pouted up at him from under my hair. He stared at me for a little bit before reaching out and brushing my hair out of my eyes.

"You shouldn't hide your face... it, uh, could make it harder for you to spot enemies..." I nodded at him, clearly shocked by such a gentle action and started to mess with my hands to resist moving my hair back.

"If you two are done," Kakuzu's voice was harsh and it quickly snapped me back to what was happening. "we're at the tea house. Bre, if we're not back before it starts getting dark set up a camp, we'll find you."

"A-alright." I nodded slightly as he set his bag down next to the shop and handed me what looked to be money. "What's this for?"

"In case we don't show up before tomorrow morning. Use it to get yourself something to eat before heading back. And take off your cloak, since you'll be alone it wouldn't exactly be good if one of our enemies tried to attack you." I quickly did as I was told, putting the money in the pocket of my pants before taking off my cloak, turning it inside out, folding it and putting it away in my pack. He nodded and started to walk off, leaving Hidan behind as he gave me more money.

"Just uh... be careful. I know you two can't exactly die but..."

"Hehe, with words like that someone might think you have feelings for me."

"Shut up. Go on before he leaves you here." Hidan snickered at me as he set his own bag down and headed off as well.