Chapter 6

The Chuunin exam preliminaries were over. Each person who passed the preliminaries was given a month to prepare and train for the final event. I carried all the files with me to my apartment building. My arms were so full, I couldn't even open the door.

"Here, let me get that for you," I heard Kakashi's voice.

I nearly jumped out of my shoes and came close to sending my papers everywhere. "Fuck! Kakashi! Don't scare me like that! But thank you," I said, stepping through the door.

"Sorry…force of habit," Kakashi said, rubbing the back of his head. "Let me carry those files to make up for it."

I dumped all the papers into Kakashi's open arms, then marched up the stairs.

"Just put them on my bed," I told Kakashi once we were inside my apartment.

"Nice bedroom," Kakashi smirked when he came back out.

I rolled my eyes. "Want something to eat? Or drink?"

"Nah, I'm gonna get going, it is late you know," he pointed toward my window.

It was pitch black outside. "Oh. Okay then. Good night Kakashi! I'll see you soon?"

He nodded, then gave me a hug. "Soon I promise."

With that, he left. I closed my door and locked it. I proceeded to lock my windows as well. With that, I fell into bed in my underwear. I stayed up thinking about the night Zina was taken; the sound of Itachi's cold voice, the looks that Zina and Kisame shared and the pain that I went through.

I fell into a sleep plagued with nightmares about red eyes, a dead Zina, and blue sushi.

'Knock knock.'

Urgh. Who the hell would be knocking on my window this early?

'Knock knock.'

They were more urgent this time. I swung out of bed and shuffled to the window grumbling. I looked outside and saw Anko smiling and waving to me. I opened the window and gave her the evilest look I could muster.

"Why, pray tell, are you waking me up this early in the morning?" I said groggily.

"Early morning? Dude, it's three o'clock in the afternoon," Anko said slowly.

My eyes grew wide.

"Lord Hokage wants to see you," Anko said, stifling a laugh.

"What's so funny?!" I shot her way.

"Nice underwear," she started laughing.

I threw a shuriken star in her direction, but she just disappeared. I grumbled some more and closed the windows. I took a quick shower, ate a quick breakfast, and went to the Hokage's office. I knocked on his office's door.

"Enter," I heard Hokage's voice.

"You wanted to see me Lord Hokage?" I said, bowing respectfully.

He cleared his throat, "It's about your friend Zina."

I froze.

"Kakashi told me," Hokage said quietly. "He's worried about you."

I didn't say anything.

"Why did this…Akatsuki…want with her?" he asked me.

"How the hell should I know? Maybe they want a personal whore or maybe they're cannibals," I said icily.

Hokage just tilted his head to the side and stared at me with those kind eyes of his. "Saiya, what are you not telling me?"

"I'm not hiding anything," I said, slightly annoyed.

"Saiya, tell us the truth," I heard a different voice this time.

I turned to find Kakashi leaning in the doorway.

"Fine! It was my fault she was kidnapped! I couldn't stop them!" I yelled, and tears threatened to spill down my face; I held them back. "They took her and told me that I have to join Akatsuki by the end of the Chuunin Exams. If I don't join, they'll kill her!"

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