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P.S. We will be hosting a fan-art competition. More can be read about it at the end of this chapter.

Chapter 63

Note: Weapons are all fun and cool until someone gets hurt.

~Kahlan's POV

With a small sigh I get into my fighting stance. Really, I don't want to do this. There's no reason to fight her. Even if she was to become evil, which I doubt would happen; she's still my best friend. So I just got to push those thoughts to the side. If we don't do this I have no idea what type of punishment Leader would give and I don't want to take the chances of finding out.

"Good luck," I say.

"Thank you," she replies with a grin. "You too."

Taking a deep breath, I continue pushing the thoughts of not doing this away. I'm serious; I want to just pull out a white flag. However, I'll deal with it and try not to hurt her too badly.

Sensing that Sasori-Danna and Leader are not liking that we haven't started yet, I quickly think up of a plan. Laura is pretty much going to be the long range fighter, from what little I know of her training. I on the other hand am more of a close range fighter. So, I need to find a way to get close enough to her to actually do something.

With a nod, I charge towards Laura. I go to punch Laura, not really putting a lot of force into it. She blocks pushing my hand away and goes to attack. I block her punch and aim for her shoulder. Mentally I just imagine myself in a corner screaming I quit and that I don't want to do this anymore. Okay inner evil self, go away you're not helping nor are you needed.

I come back crashing to reality when I get hit in the face. Jumping back, I bring my hand up to my nose checking to see if it's broke. Satisfied I look at Laura shocked. She smiles and I just sigh.

"You're supposed to be paying attention not daydream," she says with a chuckle.

"Yeah," I reply removing my hands from my nose. "I just…don't think I can do this."

"Hmm…well instead of thinking of it as training and being watched, let's pretend it's a game," she replies cheerfully.

"Okay," I reply with a small chuckle. "If we do that, then what does the winner get?"

"How about we make it a surprise," she says happily.

"Okay," I reply smiling. "Then we'll pretend this is a game."

"Yay," Laura cheers.

"And the game begins…now."

We both run at each other. I go throw a punch she blocks and goes to throw a punch at me. I dodge and go to kick. She moves out of the way and goes to run behind me. Knowing it's never good to have your back against the enemy, I spin around keeping her in my sights. Her fist comes aiming for my face. I grab her arm and pull her forward, poke her in the forehead then jump back chuckling at her expression.

I run at her getting ready to attack. She quickly moves, running to find a place to hide in the cluster of small trees. I stay away from the trees wondering what Laura's plan is. She could stay there and attack me or she's waiting for me to follow and then pounce on me. Whichever one it is, I'll have to be able to counter it.

Keeping my eyes trained on the trees searching the shadows, I slowly make my way towards them. Taking a deep breath, I jump into the small cluster. My eyes roam around quickly as I take cautious step forward. I stop when I feel my feet pulling on something taunt. I bend down and touch what it is to find that its trip wire.

With a grin, I take a huge step over just in case. The moment my foot hits the ground and I put weight on it, my foot slightly slips into the ground. This causes me to loose balance and wave my arms wildly in the air trying not to fall. Though I try not to hit the trip wire I do. The next second I know is that I'm in the air in a net. Where in the world did the net come from?

"I actually caught you," Laura says coming out from hiding with a grin.

"Yeah," I reply with a smile. "Now if you don't mind, please get me down from here."

"Does this mean I win," she asks.

"No," I reply crossing my arms.

Grinning she replies, "then you're stuck up there."

With a laugh Laura skips out of the trees. I blink a few times processing what just happen. My best friend seriously just left me hanging. How could she do that to me? Oh…there is no way I'll let her get away for that.

"Laura," I yell louder than I ever had before. "When I get down from here, and I promise you I will, I'm going to make you wear pink!"

"No," I hear her yell back in horror.

I smile in reply. The only problem with that statement is that I don't think there is anything pink in the house. I'll have to go on a hunting party…possibly by myself to find any pink. But first, I must get down from here.

I hold my hand up as far as they can go and grasp onto some of the net. Carefully, I pull myself up to my feet. This takes time and keeping my small amount of freaking out happening on the inside. The net is constantly swinging and every time I move it only makes it worse. I have to fight back the small fear of the rope breaking and plummeting to the ground.

Not that I'm up that high. I just don't want to get hurt and…well sometimes I fear heights like during this moment. I can only go so far off the ground and then I'll start freaking out; of course it will only be in my head unless I end up on a plane. Last time I was on a plane, I freaked out so bad…let's just say that I'm pretty sure that I made a few people deaf.

Looking up, I look for the source that is keeping the net held suspended. It was tied to a branch. Okay, the branch sort of looks sturdy. Well, pushing aside the panic and what not, I decided to jump as best as I can. The net sways and twirls dangerously, but I just continue clingy to it with my eyes close as I jump. Eventually the branch will break.

I stop jumping soon though from getting dizzy. Sighing, come up with a new plan. I'll just rock back and forth until I'm able to get to one of the nearest branches. From there I'll pull myself to the branch holding this net and undo it. With a nod I put the plan into action.

After about swinging in the air for possibly ten minutes, I finally grab hold of a branch. Holding onto it like a life line, I try climbing up to the branch I want. It's a very difficult climb thanks to the net, so I make sure to be careful. Once reaching my goal I glare at the branch. I throw my entire body weight on it with as much force as I could muster, hoping it would break the branch, but no luck what so ever. Sighing, I get work untying it at least.

It doesn't take long to untie it. Happy, I take a deep breath and let myself plummet down, ignoring my fear for a moment. A grunt of pain escapes me as I hit the ground, but push it to the side as I struggle to remove myself from the confines of the net. Thankfully it doesn't take long and I stand up happy.

Dusting myself off, I rush out to the opening taking the net with me. Laura sees me and takes off running. I grin and run after her. When I get close enough I go to throw the net at her. She quickly moves out of the way in the nick of time. I spend precious seconds picking the net back up to use against her.

During that time she attacks by kicking me. Forgetting about the net, I grab hold of her leg and knock her off her balance. She doesn't stay on the ground for long, and is soon back on her feet.

For me, I'm ignoring the fact we're being watch. It has just become a fun game of who will win. Both of us attack each other, a flurry of movement from hitting one another (sometimes) or dodging. Sometimes Laura gets the upper hand, and other times I get the upper hand.

"That is enough," Leader says.

"But we're not done," Laura says with a pout.

"Yeah," I reply. "We haven't reached a winner yet."

"It doesn't matter that is enough," Leader replies. "We have seen what we needed to see and discuss about it already while you two were busy. Now it must come to an end, you'll both get an individual report later so you can learn what needs to be worked on."

"Fine," I say with a sigh then turn to Laura. "We'll finish this another time."

"Yeah," Laura replies smiling.

"Now, Kakuzu and Hidan have figured out how to use the weapons," Leader says.

"Cool," Laura says with a grin.

"Nice," I reply with a small nod.

The three of us go to where the rest of the Akatsuki are at. My weapons are spread out and lying on the ground. Hidan seems to be enjoying swinging around a double ended scythe. Kakuzu is mumbling something and shaking his head. The rest seem to be walking around looking at the weapons.

"Hey," Laura says with a wave.

Kisame looks up and grins, "Hey kiddo."

Laura sticks her tongue at him slightly glaring. I bite down on my lower lip holding back a chuckle. The rest of the members with the exception of Hidan move away from the weapons and look to Leader.

"Hidan, put that down," Leader orders.

"This is fucking awesome," Hidan replies.

"Put it down," Leader orders narrowing his eyes. "Or I will use it to remove your family jewels."

"Fucking fine," Hidan says dropping the weapon to the ground.

"We'll begin now," Leader says.

Kakuzu nods and takes a step forward. He grabs one of the war hammers I have, and says how it can crush bone and the small spike on the other side is good for placing holes in people. Okay he didn't say holes in people, but you get my drift. Kakuzu shows how to hold and use the weapon then hands it to Leader.

I watch has Leader seems to weigh the weapon in his hand. He then swings it around, maneuvering it with ease. Pein hands it to Konan and one by one each member does the same that Leader did.

When I get the weapon, I didn't bother weighing it since I already know how heavy it is. Instead I try copying the same thing the members did and I swear it felt like I was doing it wrong and clumsily. I'm sure with more practice though it will become easy. I am careful handing the weapon to Laura. At first she seems slightly surprised by the weight but quickly adjust to it.

The next weapon to get shown is a bullwhip or just plain whip. What is different about this whip is that there are metal spikes on it, so getting hit by it will be twice as painful. As proof, Kakuzu used it on Hidan and it look like he takes some of Hidan's flesh. This causes an argument to break out between the two.

Once again the weapon gets passed around. The moment the whip gets in Deidara's hands he starts smirking. Turning to Tobi, he goes to use the whip on said person. Tobi seems to catch on and starts screaming running away.

"No! Deidara-sempai don't hurt Tobi," he yells while running away. "Tobi didn't do anything wrong!"

"You were standing too close to me, yeah," Deidara yells in reply as he tries hitting Tobi with the whip.

"Stop," Leader yells out bringing both members to a halt. "You can play with the weapons later."

"They are weapons not toys," I mumble but apparently Leader hears me.

Looking at me he replies, "They will be training with the weapons and if they end up hurt then that is their own fault."

I don't say anything and watch as the weapon gets passed around. The next one was the chain mace and it went through the same procedure. This happens with most of the weapons, seeing as they must already know how to use the majority of them. The last weapon to get passed around is a chainsaw. I blink forgetting I even had that and grin. Okay, so there is one weapon I do know how to use.

"I have no fucking idea what this fucking is," Hidan says holding the chainsaw up with a sinister smirk. "But it is fucking awesome."

Leader looks over at me, probably wanting to be filled in on the name. With a nod I reply, "It's a chainsaw. I got it after watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is probably somewhere in my room."

"Well this is fucking awesome," Hidan says and shows them how to work it and like all other weapons it went around to all the members.

"Alright," Leader says. "You can look around at the weapons. Start learning to use them and then later you will be assigned a weapon that you feel comfortable with."

"I think we should wait," I say to Laura as the members move to the weapons.

"I want a sword," Laura says with a grin. "I still want to be a samurai lady."

"Hmm…I should have a samurai sword in the mess."

"Yay," she replies giving a hug.

"You can even keep it," I say with a smile, returning the hug.

"Really," she asks looking happy.

"Consider it an early gift," I reply chuckling.

"What the hell Tobi, hmm!"

Pulling away from each other we look over to see the commotion. Deidara is holding the back of his head glaring at Tobi. In Tobi's hands is the chain mace except he is holding the mace and swinging the chain around. Well he was swinging it around but has stop now. Meanwhile Hidan start laughing.

"Tobi is sorry Sempai! Tobi didn't mean to! Tobi is a good boy!"

"You are not a good boy, yeah," Deidara yells picking up the whip.

Tobi screams and takes off running while Deidara chases him. Deidara also shoves his hands into his pocket probably pulling out clay to also try and blow Tobi up. Hidan starts laughing but then gets hit with a hatchet in his back thrown by Kakuzu.

"What the fuck," Hidan yells yanking it out. "That fucking hurt!"

"My bad," Kakuzu says sounding like he doesn't care. "It slipped from my hands."

"Fucking liar," Hidan yells and throws the hatchet at Kakuzu.

Kakuzu easily dodges the thrown weapon. Getting pissed off, Hidan uses the chainsaw to go and attack Kakuzu. Meanwhile, the others all seem to be oblivious to what is happening as they have a spar with one another using the weapons…or they just don't care.

Sighing, I turn to Laura and say, "Somehow I get the feeling Deidara and Hidan are the ones that are going to hurt themselves the most."

"Same here," she replies.

I nod and take a seat in the grass. Now that I think about it I think it'll be funny to see Hidan somehow end up cutting off his own head. Yawning, I place my elbow on my knee and my chin in the palm of my hand trying to stay awake. Not even the screams of pain seem to help me keep my eyes open.

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Okay guys, starting from this chapter we are hosting a fan-art competition. The deadline will be chapter 90 and the winner will be decided and announced in chapter 91 (yes that's a lot of chapters). The deadline can be extended if necessary.

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