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Chapter 22

Note: The silent treatment annoys the hell out of ninjas.

~Laura's POV

I watch as Kahlan walks into her room and soon comes out with her guitar and music folder, she gives me a small smile as I force one back.

I seriously can't get over what they said! They may be criminals but by heck I am feeding the kitty! I love kitties they are my favorite animals, tabbies are my favorite of all cats as well.

"It's fine," Kahlan says while pulling me and my wrist over to my room, probably the only place in OUR apartment that we can be alone, Konan is nice and she doesn't count as the Akatsuki, she's too nice to be one. "We'll be feeding Sargent in secret then," she says with a sly smile as she opens my door and walks in, pulling me in too.

I nod my head agreeing as she sits near my bed, just below it and start looking over her sheets.

"Not so long ago, I saw you standing by my window; I asked if everything was okaay,

You said it was fine, and that he could play today, yet I knew there was no waay,

So let's time skip to now, and I found out your foul, and you're just too proud,

All my 'friends' just said wow, how I couldn't find out, till just right now," Kahlan sings while plucking a few cords before writing that all down in her music folder.

Soon after I take a seat at my desk, putting my head down in depression, I hear my door open and also hear someone walk in.

"Hey Konan…" Kahlan says as I hear said Konan's footsteps walk in further and shut the door behind her.

I listen as her footsteps stop for a second or two before walking towards me, stopping right beside me. I bite down on my bottom lip as tears almost fall, the kitty isn't dying I won't let him.

"Laura, look at me," she says as I rapidly shake my head before wrapping my arms round my head, hiding. I hear a sigh from above as I soon feel hot breath on my right ear.

"If you want to feed the cat in secret I won't tell," she whispers and like that my head is up, looking at her with tears in my eyes… she wouldn't even tell Pein? Her childhood friend?

"Leader once had a stray puppy too; even if he was starving he would share the food he found with him no matter what," she says with a small smile as I glance to Kahlan, who is always watching with interest in her eyes and also has a slight look of disbelief on her face.

I nod slightly as I already know that. It was Tiny, a puppy who didn't leave Nagato even when he was just as hungry as Pein/Nagato was. I pout a little more with a huge nod.

"So I can feed the kitty?" I ask, making sure I didn't hear her wrong at all.

She smiles softly, making the smile almost invisible, and nods her head softly.

"I can almost insure you that if you don't he will," she says which makes me laugh a tiny bit, she makes it sound like Pein has a thing for animals… which he probably does knowing his puppy.

"Well we are going to have to be super careful then," Kahlan says while tuning her guitar a little, I watch her curiously, what does she mean by that? "These people are demon ninjas, so if we get found out we'll be in big trouble," she says while Konan nods her head. That's very true and I don't want Konan getting in trouble with Pein just because she was helping us feed Sargent.

"Your correct," Konan says while standing beside her bed, "we might have to distract the others while one of you do that," she says then turns her head to me, uh oh, "seeing as they now expect Kahlan to feed him, Laura will have to now while Kahlan and I distract them," she says as Kahlan opens her music folder, still looking at us.

"I have no problem with Laura feeding Sargent, he doesn't mind her that much, and she's fed him before," Kahlan says while picking at her guitar a little.

"Yeah but you were sick with a cold and even he knew that," I say while shaking my head a little, the kitty scares me a little and I think he knows I'm also scared of him. I don't know how but he knew and just sat there as I filled the food bowl with food and drink bowl with milk and water.

"Yes but I highly doubt he will hurt you or me, seeing as we feed him every day," she says while walking over to Konan and I and taps my shoulder, reassuringly. "Don't worry he won't hurt you, the others yes but not you, they do say 'don't fight the hand that feeds you' so I don't think he will" she says with a smile, I hope to Kami that he doesn't attack me.

I nod softly as Konan places her hand on my other shoulder, "we also have that saying where we live," she says while nodding her head. I shake my head at her slightly seeing as when she was a kid she ALWAYS fought the hand that fed her, seeing as she stole the food with the two guys and fought the guy who was selling the food.

"I'll be making more music if you need me," Kahlan says while walking over to her guitar and starts strumming a few cords.

Konan nods to Kahlan as I think for a second; the guys are going to pay for that… how… the only way that doesn't involve me doing ANYTHING… the silent treatment.

"Well I'm going to punish the guys without doing anything," I say cheerfully as both of their heads turn to me with a confused look on their faces. I know what I said didn't make much sense.

"Excuse me?" Konan asks while sitting down on her bed.

"I mean I'll be giving them the silent treatment," I say while tapping my lips before pretending to zip them up. Kahlan laughs slightly while shaking her head; she knows I won't say a single sound seeing as I gave Luke the silent treatment last month and I pretended like he wasn't even there, even when he was yelling my name from the other side of the café.

I quickly walk out the room and to the living room. I look round and no one is talking, not even Hidan or Tobi. I shrug softly and leave the whole Akatsuki group in there and walk into the kitchen.

I quickly dig through the kitchen and grab a small container to put the food in since I don't wanna come down here again. I think for a moment, look round the kitchen to see no one looking in and put up some of the remaining leftover fish, I won't eat it and I doubt Kisame will, and walk to the backdoor, this is Sargent's treat from me.

Maybe he'll warm up to me a little for the treat and hopefully won't attack me when I feed him tomorrow.

I open the door slowly and see Sargent sitting near the forest, relaxing I think. When I open the door a little more, his eye snaps to me and I freeze. I feel like a little child getting caught while sneaking cookies.

He stares at me for a second as his tail sways slightly, since I don't know what that means, I slowly adventure towards his food bowl and see everything has been eaten.

I cast him a small smile and place the few small fish bits into the bowl. I see him walking over and I rush to the door, only to bash into the leader of the Akatsuki, Pein.

"Owwwwwwwwieeeeeeeeee," I whine as my behind meets the floor and I rub my now sore nose. Freak that hurt! His body is made of metal or something!

I freeze slightly and slowly look back to Sargent; he is glaring but not at me, I think he is glaring at Pein.

I slowly look up to Pein; he is glaring, not at Sargent but at me. I gulp a little at his glare and pray to all things mighty that Konan was right about the animal loving bit.

"Just what were you doing," Pein asks while crossing his arms, still glaring. I open my mouth to answer but close it quickly, the silent treatment started like 5 minutes ago; I'm not giving up just yet.

Pein narrows his eyes more before grabbing my arm, pulls me up, and also pulls me inside and into the kitchen. If I die doing the silent treatment all my stuff goes to Kahlan.

"Answer me," he commands while I pull at his arm, I make my eyes water a little before pulling a little again. Acting is one of my specialties, seeing as I have to act cheerful at work and sometimes we have themes so I have to act along with the theme.

Continuing my act, I look up to him with tears in my eyes which doesn't seem to work as he continues to glare, only loosening his grip a little but not enough to get loose.

After seeing that my teary eye trick failed I look towards the living room, almost hoping that someone walks in… which doesn't happen. Damn those ninjas.

"Laura," Pein says with a icy tune in his voice, I flinch and look at him, he's really scary right now, like he was when he got into a fight with Hidan… wait no more scary then that, "speak, I'm warning you right now," I can't help but shudder at his tone… he sounds very, very, VERY pissed off right now.

I look to the door again as footsteps enter and out comes Kisame, he looks to us both, looking very confused but soon notices Pein's aura and his eyes widen a bit. I'm guessing Pein doesn't get this pissed that easily.

"Is everything okay in here," Kisame asks while looking between us two. Pein's grip loosens a lot and I take that chance to run out the room, passing Kisame as real tears skim down my cheeks. I'm never scared and just then I've never felt that scared in my life.

I bash into someone while running and both of my shoulders are held, stopping me from running.

I look up and see Itachi, he's eyes are blank and show no emotion though I know he is hiding something in those blank eyes of his.

"What the fuck was that fucking about?!" Hidan yells from his spot on the sofa, jumping to his feet. I hear footsteps walk behind me and hot breath against my ear, the same thing like when Konan whispered something to me.

"Follow me, we're continuing this conversation, that's an order," I hear Pein whisper, low enough so the others can't hear but I can tell in his voice that he is very, VERY pissed off.

I close my eyes, clenching them shut till his breath is gone and footsteps walk out of the room. I open my eyes a little as I watch his back walk into Kahlan's room and watch as it slams shut.

My heart is racing and my palms are sweating… I'm scared… I can finally say that without acting.

I look to the doorway again and see Kahlan glaring to the door that was slammed and Konan shakes her head, sighing.

Itachi lets go of my shoulders slowly before whispering, "Stay on your guard," before walking back to the sofa and sitting down. I take a deep breath before forcing a smile. This can't be good.

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