I want to apologize in advance. I know this is picking up slowly. But during the next chapter there will be plenty more that happens. Also! There is a possible trigger in here for those that have been in the military. I apologize. And Semper Fi

Ansay's emerald green eyes were trained on the stairs as she was lost in thought, the sound of ritualistic soft chanting brought her out of it. She looked to see what room she was passing and banged her fist in the door. "Hidan! If you get blood everywhere I will kick your ass!!"

This earned her an irritated grunt in return, but the chanting stopped for a second.

After waiting by the door for a few seconds, she walked down the stairs. Making her way into the living room she walked to the couch and gently put her hand on Konan's shoulder, seeing that Spud was still in her lap. Konan looked up and barely smiled, playing softly with the the sleeping puppy's ears. "Yes?" Her amber eyes showed curiosity and trust, her body being fully relaxed despite barely knowing Ansay.

With a gentle smile, the crimson haired woman sat down beside her, her hand resting on Spud. "I have rooms for the rest of you whenever you are all ready to go." Itachi looked up at her and nodded slightly, going back to looking through a book beside himself. Ansay assessed the others, leaning back as she did so. Sasori was to the other side of her, looking around to learn his surroundings.

"So. You're alone, right?" The blue haired woman asked, truly curious about one small woman having. Well basically a mansion.

This earned her a slow nod from the woman being spoken to. "Sort of. Conner lives with me sometimes. So does Artsy and our two other friends." Konan slowly nodded as this processed in her mind, "How old are you?"

Ansay looked at her for a second, petting spud slowly as she did so. "I'm twenty-one. Why do you ask?" She looked Konan over for a second, pausing to look at her lips before trailing her eyes down to memorize the rest of her body.

"How can you afford this if you're so young?" The amber eyes showed real confusion, and by this point the rest in the room were listening.

"I was in the military. For three years. Marines to be exact." Her sentences were slow as she spoke, almost like it was a hard subject to talk about.

"What happened?" Sasori was the next to speak up, looking at her and watching her body language.

"I was deployed to another country. While I was there my comrades and I were sent to check out a possible terror base. We went in." Her voice started to shake as the images played in her head, the screams of her teammates. The yelling, gunfire, explosions, the blasts of light, spray of blood. It all flooded back, causing her muscles to tense as this happened. "We heard talking from the back of the place. Myself as the head, I went in first. Stag was behind me. Then there was Copper, Trigger, and Crypt." Her jaw clenched more, breathing uneven as her eyes started to sting from tears wanting to come out. "I was the first in. Then I heard Crypt yell from the back 'Ambush!!' But it was too late. There were fifteen of the guys there. The room in front of me suddenly exploded, followed by screams from inside the room. They killed their own men to kill five of us." She shifted in her seat, waking Spud who immediately turned to lay in her owner's lap. Nuzzling her hands and licking softly, gentle whines escaping her. "I turned in time to see three of the enemy take down Copper, he went hard though. He wasn't about to let them have him without taking them. I saw another few come out. I shot two of them but then I got shot in the shoulder. Crypt was grabbed, one of them put him to his knees, going to basically execute him. Stag saw this and was close enough that he tackled the man, so our brother only got scratched by the bullet." Konan gently rested her hand on Ansay's arm, rubbing softly to try and comfort in some way. She could see the effect that re-telling this was having on the younger woman. She had heard how bad war was and had even been in it. But hadn't seen someone react this way, not with so much anger and hate towards their enemy.

"To sum it up.. Copper got killed first. Shot. Took three with him. Trigger was taken second. Had killed four of them when he got killed. Stag was the final to die.. He took out two more that were after Crypt. I would have died.. Crypt was new. He was the youngest. He hadn't seen war yet. So he froze. He only killed one. I killed the last four, standing between them and Crypt." At this point she stood, pulling her shirt off. What appeared to be burned holes showed on her abdomen; one through her left rib which came out beside the right side of her spine. The next was her shoulder, like she said, it went straight through her right shoulder blade if it had been on the left it would have gone through her heart. She then pulled her jeans down slightly to show a large gash scar that went from one hip to another. "Being a woman in the military is hard because you get taken much faster for information."

She sat back down, pulling her shirt back on, resting her hand on Spud again. Konan was slowly nodding then quickly wrapped her arms around Ansay, hugging her. "I'm sorry that your friends died." The other woman didn't respond, instead she just held onto the blue haired female and breathed in.

Pein was watching the young crimson haired woman, hearing all the words she just said over and over. "How can you afford this house?" He spoke softly, watching her reactions. "I got the Purple Heart. I was wounded in battle and protected my last man with my life. So the military basically pays for all of this." She smiled slightly and looked down at a bracelet they hadn't seen before. It was a small, silver chain that had a pendant hanging from it. The pendant was about the size of a dime, had a pistol across it and the devil dog as well. "It's from my team. We each had one before we deployed. They got Buried with theirs." She sighed softly and got up, looking them over "well. Who wants to see their rooms?"

All but Sasori stood up, so she took them upstairs and brought them to their rooms, having to bring three of them to the main floor and show them their rooms.

She arrived back in the living room and sat beside the red haired puppet master. He looked over at her, slowly running his eyes over her body. "You're not a puppet anymore?" Ansay spoke in a soft voice, motioning with her head to the lack of hinge lines. A small smirk made its way to the puppet-master's lips as he nodded. "That's true."

He leaned close to her, noticing how she did not move away or flinch. She looked into his eyes, seeming to tense as she listened to the others in their rooms.