Itachi looked over to his side where his beautiful lover lay sleeping. He knew they would have to return to the base soon, but he wanted to enjoy the rest of the morning with Freya. He watched Freya roll over so she was now facing him still asleep. Itachi smiled at her sleeping figure. Strands of her long white hair were dropped over her shoulder.

Itachi went to move the strands of hair when her eyes opened slowly. She smiled softly at him. Freya felt sore her muscles ached from their love making. "Hey." She said to him, Itachi smiled at her "Hey. How did you sleep?" He asked her.

Freya smiled at him, "I slept like a baby." She told him. Itachi chuckled "I did too the best I've slept for a while now." He told her. Both of them laid there in a comfortable silence before she spoke once again. "Itachi, would you still love me when I'm old and wrinkly?"

Itachi looked at her before laughing. He knew she was serious but still he wasn't expecting that question. "Of course I would." He told her. Freya blinked at him "Good answer!" She told him before turning away from him. Itachi just stared at her. Was she just testing him? Itachi chuckled before sitting up. "We should probably get back and get cleaned up. I'm sure they are wondering where we are." He told her.

Freya nodded "agreed. At least we don't have to worry about putting on an act now."She said sitting up. Itachi nodded before he grabbed his clothes and got dressed. Freya grabbed her clothes as well and got dressed.

Once they were ready they left using the transporter and headed back to the base. It was still dark when they made it back. They quietly opened the gate and closed it behind them. Both of them tried not to giggle as they dismounted and walked into the base.

When they thought they weren't going to get caught a light turned on and there stood Kisame with his eyebrow raised at both of them like a parent expecting an explanation. "Where were you two?" He asked.

Freya and Itachi looked at him not really knowing what to say. "We went exploring and saw it was getting late so we camped out." Itachi said. Kisame still had his eyebrow arched at them not believing it. He knew what had happened he wasn't stupid. He could see hickies on Freya and her hair was completely wild.

"Uh huh. You might want to cover those hickies and get cleaned up before the others wake up." He said. Freya froze like a deer in the headlights. He knew. "G-getting right on that." She stammered before running to her and Itachi's room.

She quickly grabbed a change of clothes and hurried to the bathhouse. The water was cold and almost took her breath away. This made her move fast to get cleaned up. When she got out she dried herself off and got dressed before walking out.

She brushed her hair out and decided to leave it down. And let the strands drop over her shoulders to hide the hickies. She came back outside where Itachi and Kisame were waiting. "So uhh what did we miss?" She asked. Kisame sighed "well I finished the greenhouse for you, it's now operational. The fab shop is done and operational. The hatchery is done also. Hidan and Kakuzu said something about looking for the artifacts and trying to get out of this place but we need to tame some new dinos to get to one." He said.

Freya looked down "Thank you I'm sorry I put all that on your shoulders." Kisame shrugged "it was no big deal really. I just want to see things get done so we can get out of this damn place." He said. Freya nodded in agreement. "I agree but what if it's another place we get sent to?" Itachi asked.

He had a feeling even if they managed to leave this place there was another waiting for them. The three of them decided to work on getting things ready to get the artifacts. They know nothing about the caves or this and unfortunately they had to rely on Hidan and Kakuzu to guide them.

They decided to go in groups to get materials they need to make everything. Freya got the mounts ready to go. "Hey Kakuzu, what can we expect out of the caves?" She asked. Kakuzu looked at her "the one on this level has electric eels, giant centipedes, the karkinos, electric jellyfish, piranha, ravagers, carnos, raptors, giant scorpions, dragonflies, and glowtails, and it's very dangerous to go in there." Kakuzu said.

Freya swallowed hard. Maybe she ought to let the boys handle the caves. She didn't want to deal with another fiasco like the poison cave on the island. "Since there are more of us, we should be able to go through it no problem. We have been through one and got the artifact already that was the one in the radiation zone. So we just need 2 more." Hidan added.

Freya nodded. At least that one was taken care of. "Ok I think we are ready." Itachi spoke. Freya nodded before the got on their mounts letting Hidan and Kakuzu lead the way to one of the caves.