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Chapter 59

Note: Training with the Akatsuki is brutal.

~Kahlan's POV

For two days Leader made us clean the house and yard. Not that I'm complaining because both needed some serious cleaning. Does Leader give us a break after cleaning for two straight days? The answer is no.

"Now that everyone is here," Leader says as Deidara walks into the living room. "We can talk about training. Every day except Sunday we will be training. It will begin after breakfast end for a short lunch break, continue again until dinner. Everyone will be participating, and you will be switching partners throughout training."

"What does this have to do with me and Laura," I ask leaning back in my seat.

"We can't have the two of you be a liability, so the two of you will be training as well," Leader replies.

"Leader-sama," Konan says. "They're only civilians. It will take time before they can even match up to the level of any ninjas."

"I know that," Leader replies. "That is why after dinner their training will continue for another two hours."

"Cool ninja training," Laura says grinning.

"Whoa," I say jumping up to my feet. "We…no…we can't…." my voice trails off as I try to find the words I want to say.

"The both of you will partake in training and that is final," Leader says.

"But the training leads to…and I don't want us to have any part of that," I reply crossing my arms.

"Get over it," Leader commands. "Everyone outside now; training is about to begin."

Laura jumps to her feet, seeming to be happy about the whole idea of ninja training. Sighing, I follow after her and the rest of the members to the backyard. If Laura gets hurt then I am not to blame when something happens to anyone who hurts her.

"Kahlan," Leader says pulling out some scrolls and handing them to Konan. "Do you know how to use these?"

He points towards the scrolls he handed to Konan. She does something causing a puff of smoke to appear. After a couple of seconds all of my weapons (with the exception of the ones in the hidden safes back at the apartment) appear.

"I kind of have a general idea on how to use some of them," I reply, not taking my eyes away from them. "But in all honesty I really don't know how. I collect them not use them."

"Very well then," Leader replies and I look back at him, "Kakuzu and Hidan, you two are to take the weapons and learn how to use them. Once you're done with that you will teach the rest of us."

"Fucking great," Hidan replies with a smirk. "Weapons to fucking play with."

"Don't break any of them," I say worried about my precious weapons.

"They won't get broken," Kakuzu says, probably thinking about the time when I mentioned they are worth a lot of money.

"Itachi and Kisame you'll be helping to train Laura," Leader continues as Kakuzu and Hidan grabs my weapons and walks away with them.

"I don't mind training the squirt," Kisame says with a grin.

Laura glares at him and says, "I'm not a squirt."

"Don't make fun of her height," I say with a slight glare.

"Kahlan," Leader says in a sort of scary tone. "You will be training with Deidara and Sasori."

"Whatever," I mumble crossing my arms.

"In one hour everyone is switching around," he continues. "I'll call out when and who everyone will be switching with. Training begins…now!"

"This way," Itachi says and starts walking off in a northeast direction.

Kisame follows beside him and Laura runs to catch up with them. Tobi runs off to who knows where with Zetsu. Leader and Konan go in a west direction. Meanwhile Sasori-Danna starts walking in a north direction.

"We better not keep Danna waiting, hmm," Deidara says then follows after Sasori-Danna. I really need to ask Sasori-Danna which one is his real name.

"This sucks," I mumble following after the two.

We walk for about five minutes then come to a stop. Looking around I see everyone is about six hundred feet away from each other. So that means two hundred yards apart. With a nod I look back at Deidara and Sasori-Danna.

"So…what exactly are we going to do?"

"Can you fight," Sasori-Danna asks.

"I guess," I reply with a shrug.

"Then you'll be fighting against Deidara," Sasori-Danna continues. "I will analyze the fight starting…now."

Without any warning Deidara is aiming a punch at me. Quickly, I bring up my arm to block the fist only be kneed in the abdomen. The breath gets knocked out of me as I slightly bend forward. Deidara throws me away from him to the side. I hold out my hands and do a backwards flip to land on my feet. Thank you short year of gymnastics for the skills you have made me learn.

Staying in one spot doesn't last for long. Deidara is once again attacking me. Twisting to the side, I reach out to grab his arm to yank him forward. The plan is to make him stumble and fall on his face. Important factor I left out of the plan is that he is a ninja and my plan immediately crumbles.

Instead what happens is I get kicked in my ribs…hard and I go flying a few feet away. My back hits the ground hard as adrenaline starts rushing through my veins. Quickly, I jump to my feet only to be knocked down again.

As a fist comes flying to my face, I quickly grab hold of it. I kick out my feet, but Deidara yanks away and takes a jump back. Rolling onto my stomach I quickly push myself off the ground and turn to face Deidara. My eyes slightly narrow as I spread my feet just a bit; bring my arms up ready to protect and attack, and I slightly bend my knees ready to make any quick movements.

Not wanting to wait on whatever attack Deidara might throw my way, I charge at him. I bring one leg up looking like I'm going to kick, only to jump off the ground with my other foot into the air. Once in the air I twist my body in 360 degrees to kick him with the foot I jump off. Just like before my plan crumbles as he dodges, grabs hold of my foot and pulls me to the awaiting ground with the help of gravity.

I hold out my arms keeping my face from meeting the dirt. Except, a foot connect with my back and my face meets the ground anyways. Growling, I try to get away but the foot applies more pressure.

"That is enough," Sasori-Danna says and then like that the pressure is gone. I quickly sit up and shoot a glare at Deidara who only smirks. Evil bastard, I'll get him eventually.

"You'll need a lot of work on fighting and style," Sasori-Danna continues and I look back at him.

"I know that," I reply. "I don't fight because I don't have a reason to." Unless the fight deals with protecting Laura or anyone else I might care about, but I'm not telling them that.

"If you want to survive you better find a reason," Sasori-Danna replies.

"So what's the plan Danna, yeah?"

"For the next twenty minutes, we will teach her moves and different styles. Then after that she'll have to put them to use…on the both of us."

"Peachy," I reply getting up. Damn, I shouldn't have said that because now I want a peach and we don't have any.

Just like Sasori-Danna says the both of them shows me different moves and styles. If I'm in a wrong position or do something wrong, Deidara has a miniature bomb go off next to me. When Deidara first did that it shocked me, but then after the next few times it started pissing me off. The entire time I kept my anger in check even when he would laugh with that stupid smirk on his face that I just wanted to tear off.

Does Leader even care what happens? No…well he did asked what Deidara was doing the first time. Deidara told him. Leader's reply to him was 'don't kill her'. Instead of complaining though, I put everything I have got into the training. I'll push myself to my limits and farther if I have to. In the long run this can all become handy with protecting Laura.

Twenty minutes later without warning, Deidara and Sasori-Danna starts attacking me. I know it is twenty minutes later because Sasori-Danna did say something like this would happen. Except he never said there wouldn't be any warning. Thanks to the fact of not being warned, I go flying a few feet.

Now that I have to fight the both of them I know I must be quick. So, I quickly jump to my feet to see a kick flying towards me. My body quickly drops to the ground and I roll away to end up facing Sasori-Danna. Without thinking, I bring up my fist to connect with his face.

Yeah, what happens is he catches my fist and lifts me up over his shoulders. Grinding my teeth together, I place my free hand onto his shoulder. Twisting my body, I'm able to successfully land on my feet. I take this chance to try and swipe Sasori-Danna's feet from under him, but he quickly moves away.

Sensing someone coming up from behind me, I quickly run one of the moves they taught me through my head. Dropping to the ground, I push myself back up to jump in the air. I then do a back-flip to land behind Deidara. When I land, I bite down on my lower lip and quickly push away the sudden pain in my ankle.

Instead what I do is grab hold of Deidara's hair and yank on it…hard. I hear him hiss slightly in pain and I'm unable to remove the satisfied smile on my face. Except that satisfied smile is short lived as I try to use Deidara as a human shield from Sasori-Danna's on coming attack.

This goes on until the hour is over with. During that time I hit only Deidara once, but it seemed to have hurt me more than it hurt him. I'm the one who ends up getting hit the most, no matter how much or how many times I have dodged in that time. I still end up getting punched, kicked, and thrown or a combination of all three. No doubt bruises are starting to form, but for the time being I ignore all pain.

"Switch," Leader calls out. "Laura goes with Konan and Deidara! Kahlan comes with me and Itachi! Sasori and Kisame will now train with each other!"

Picking myself up from the ground, I dust off the dirt. I grumble a few times while rubbing my cheek. Everyone moves around going to their new training partners like Leader had called out. This really sucks, but if I complain I feel like the training will become worse than it already is, so I'm just going to keep my mouth shut.

"Ready," Leader asks as I finally make it over to him and Itachi.

Taking a deep breath I reply with, "Sure;" and the brutal training continues. I hope it's going easy for Laura.

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