I heard voices. Why would people be in my room? Then it all came back to me. Shit, how the hell did this happen? Whoever it was that had kidnapped me had blindfolded and drugged me, and now I had no idea where the hell I was. I listened harder, and the voices sounded angry, as if they were arguing. There were two of them, a man and a woman.

I felt that the fabric of the blindfold wasn't on my eyes anymore. I tried to open my eyes, but quickly shut them when the bright light hit me. I shifted ever so slightly, and the arguing came to an abrupt stop. Shit. I tried to open my eyes again, slowly this time, so as to not have to close them again. When my vision came into focus, I saw that the woman had short blue hair with a bit of it pulled into a small bun in the back, blue eyes, a white paper flower in her hair, and a stud in the middle of her lower lip. All I could see of what she was wearing was a long high-collared black coat with red clouds outlined in white on it and a red border. Hm, unusual appearance. I looked around for the man, but when I saw him, I could only barely see the outline of him, with the exception of his eyes, which were completely purple with multiple black rings around the small pupils. The rinnegan. They were both looking at me, so in turn, I stared back at them, emotionless.

"Finally, you're awake," I heard a deep voice come from the direction the man was in, so I assumed it to be his. "I still don't like the idea," The blue haired woman said while looking back at the man, narrowing her eyes slightly. In response, the man said, "I understand that. But there's still a huge possibility that he has it," He replied, looking back at her as well with his eyes emotionless.

She sighed and said, "Fine, so be it." She then walked to the door, slowly opened it just barely enough to let her through, and closed it gently.

I looked around the room to get my bearings. I was on a small makeshift bed, there was a bright lamp on a side table right beside me, and the rest of the room was just plain white. I looked back over to the man to see that he had come out of the shadows. He had short orange spiky hair, a rain village headband on his forehead with the village symbol scratched out with one line, a spike piercing on either side of his lower lip, multiple piercings on his ears, and he adorned the same coat the woman had.

"So, Gaara," He paused, "Would you care to know the reason as to why we have captured you?" I stared at him for a moment and though, How does he know my name?, before coldly replying, "Actually, yes, I would."

He took a moment before he said, "We think that you might have the rinnegan, as I do, in which case you'll have to be staying with us either by being prisoner or joining us."

It took me a few seconds to process that. How the hell could I have the rinnegan? I'm not exactly sure how often it comes around, but I do know that it's at least after the person who last had it dies, so how could I have it if he does?

Thinking it best to know all of the options, I asked him, "And if I don't?"

"Then we'll either take you back or kill you, it's still being debated," He answered. "And what might your opinion on the matter be?" His eyes narrowed and he sternly replied, "That is nothing for you to know. You can call me Pein."

I contemplated our conversation for a moment, than asked, "Say I do have it and decide to join you, what happens then?" His face looked a tiny bit releaved, probably because I've just assured him that I'll join him, and he said, "I will assign a team for you to go with until either we can trust you to go out on your own or we get a new member, in that case I'll assign you two as a team."

"Hm, exactly what is this organization and what is its goal?" I asked the question that would most likely decide if I would stay with them. "We are the Akatsuki, and our main goal is to get all of the jinchuuriki and take the demons out of them, although, every individual has his or her own intentions by joining us."

Well, that should give me an immediate no. "What happens to the jinchuurikis after the demons are taken out of them?" I asked after hesitating quite a bit, the tension in my voice fairly obvious. "I know what you're thinking, but no, we have a method that will not lead to your death. You will be unconscious for at least three weeks afterwards, and will be in terrible shape when you finally awake, but you will eventually be fine. I realize that you do not have the abilities of us here, but you will see to your own training, unless someone else involved in completely necessary for your skill to heighten. And if you truly do have the rinnegan, then I will personally see your training in that, but only that," he finished.

Ok, so not an immediate no. "Ok then, when and how are you going to see if I have the rinnegan?" I wondered. He gave it a thought, probably more so as to how than when, and said, "When? Preferably as soon as possible. How? Follow me and you'll see." He signaled for me to get up and started walking towards the door. I got up, and, although feeling incredibly stiff and still a bit tired due to not being used to sleeping, started walking with him. Best to cooperate for the moment, since I'm obviously going anyways even if I refuse.

He opened the door and went through it, followed closely by me, and I closed the door. As we went down a long hallway, I asked him, "Who was that woman in there with us?" He answered, "Her name is Konan, and she is my partner." "So, I'm guessing you're the leader of the Akatsuki," I stated. "Correct," He affirmed.

As we past two close doors, probably connected rooms, I heard a male yell, "JASHIN DAMN IT KAKUZU, I DON'T FUCKING GIVE A SHIT IF I LOST SOME OF YOUR JASHIN DAMNED FUCKING MONEY! A- OW, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR, DICKFACE!" I winced at the loudness of the voice that was going 'rainbow' on someone, and in turn, Pein advised, "Pay no mind to Hidan. It'll do you no good to have something nagging at the back of your mind while I'm trying to see if you have the rinnegan."

I turned my attention back to looking in front of me to see that we were nearly at the end of the hallway, and there was a door. Pein opened it wide and motioned for me to come in, so I did. We were now outside, but all I could see was a moderately sized clearing, a tiny clear lake and the entrance to a forest, but besides that, there wasn't much else that I could see beyond the trees.

"Ready to find out if you have the rinnegan?" I heard him say from behind me.

I turned around, and when I saw him, I replied with a hint of a smirk on my face, "Sure."