Kruno pulled on the sharks hand, pulling him closer and closer to town, giggling the entire way. She was far too excited to be in a town again, considering that she never gets to go by herself, so when Kisame asked, she'd be stupid to turn down the offer.

They finally arrived at the town that they were closest to, and Kruno began to look around in awe as she patted her pocket that she kept her money in, the money that Kakuzu didn't know about because if he did, he would scold her about spending it. Kruno ran towards a shop the sold mostly ninja equipment, and Kisame rolled his eyes slightly.

"Really, Kruno? Do you need more ninja equipment after your last fight?" He said, and Kruno stuck her nose up in the air and made her way into the shop, ignoring the sharks comment all together.

When she stepped inside, she began to run around the shop, picking up random things that she might need. Paper bombs, smoke bombs, kunai, shurikens, scrolls, a new pair of ninja shoes because hers were completely messed up, a new fishnet shirt and some bandages. She smiled slightly as she checked out, and walked back out to the shark before throwing the bags at him (which he barely caught.) and continued onto the next store. Inside this store were more every day objects, and Kruno glanced around the store until her eyes landed on a camera. She squealed slightly and checked the price on it, fist pumping as she realized that she had just enough. She grabbed it and went up the front of the store, paying for the camera.

She walked out to the front with a skip in her step, before she smiled at Kisame, a smile that said 'I-just-spent-a-lot-of-money-on-something-I-don't-need.'

"What did you blow your money on, this time?" Kisame asked, a slight amusement in his voice.

Kruno held up her new camera, and Kisame raised his eyebrow slightly. "I bought a camera! So that way we can all have pictures with each other, and you'll never forget me!" She said, nodding her head with a triumphant grin.

"As if I could ever forget your annoying little ass." He said, placing his arm on her head as they walked, and Kruno sighed softly, before she pointed at the grocery carts.

"We've been pretty low lately, do you have any money on you?" She asked, and Kisame nodded slightly before they turned into towards the carts and began to buy things that they would need at home. It took them nearly 5 hours, because they continued to argue with each other on what they needed.

"Tobi has cereal at home, Kisame!" She shouted, and Kisame shook his head.

"No, he finished it off yesterday!" He shouted back.

"No, he always tells me, in these exact words 'KRU-SEMPAI I'M OUT OF CEREAL!' and then he flails around like this!" She began to flail her arms around in air, spinning around in a circle before she stopped and looked at Kisame. "Do not argue with me about things I know."

Kisame sighed in defeat, before they finished up shopping and Kisame paid for everything, only having very little money when he was done. Kruno glanced down the street as they walked, and saw a Dango shop. She turned towards Kisame, and extended her hand to him. He raised his eyebrow, looking down at the short girl.

"What do you want, kid?" He asked, and Kruno just pointed towards the Dango shop. "Dango?"

"I want to get Itachi some, I feel bad for bugging him earlier. Now, money." She said, and Kisame handed his wallet to the teenager who skipped towards the shop, placing his hand on his head, rubbing his temple slightly. 'that girl is a handful...' He thought to himself with a smile on his face.

She went into the shop, and bought two orders of Itachi's favorite, one for her and one for him before she skipped out of the shop, and back to Kisame. Once she was there, both of them made their way back to the house.

Kruno was playing with her camera as they walked, and she turned it towards Kisame and snapped a picture of him. The camera developed the picture and Kruno gave a slightly giggle as she took the picture for the camera, and looked at it, with Kisame leaning over her shoulder.

"Did you really just take a picture of me?" He asked, and she nodded quickly.

"Memories." She said, placing her fingers against his lips before walking into the base, swaying her hips with as much attitude as she could muster up. Kisame just rubbed his temples again before he walked inside after her.

"Itachi!" Kruno screamed out, and the lanky raven haired man walked into the room with an eyebrow raised, until his eyes landed on the Dango. He walked to her, and took one of the sticks of Dango. As Itachi went to take a bite, Kruno held her camera up over both of them, and took a picture of them with their Dango.

Itachi watched as they girl grabbed the newly developed picture from her camera of the two of them, and he gave a stifled chuckle. He had his mouth wide open about to stick the Dango stick in his mouth, and Kruno was leaning against him with her mouth in a wide smile, both of her eyes closed. Itachi was glancing over at Kruno, and he looked slightly crossed eyed.

"So you bought a camera?" Itachi asked, and Kruno nodded her head quickly, smiling.

"To make memories!" She said smiling, and Itachi just gave a slight chuckle before nodding his head and walking towards his room, eating his Dango. Kruno sat down on the couch, and noticed that she was the only one in the living room. She shrugged to herself, got off the couch and went to her room. Once she was in her room, she laid down on her bed and began to hum a tune to the song 'Decode.' that she had made up one day. (A/N: all songs Kruno "makes up are Paramore songs, because I can't write songs for her, so apologizes for that baby dolls xx)

"How can I decide what's right
When you're clouding up my mind?
I can't win your losing fight all the time
Nor can I ever own what's mine
When you're always taking sides
But you won't take away my pride
No not this time
Not this time.." She trailed off for moment, tapping her fingers on her thighs before she continued.

"How did we get here?
Well, I used to know you so well
How did we get here?
Well, I think I know

The truth is hiding in your eyes
And it's hanging on your tongue
Just boiling in my blood
But you think that I can't see
What kind of man that you are
If you're a man at all
Well, I will figure this one out
On my own
(I'm screaming, "I love you so!")
On my own
(My thoughts you can't decode)" She trailed off again, squeezing her hand into a fist.

"How did we get here?
Well, I used to know you so well, yeah
How did we get here?
Well, I think I know

Do you see what we've done?
We've gone and made such fools of ourselves
Do you see what we've done?
We've gone and made such fools of ourselves.." Kruno's eyes wondered up to the ceiling, giving a slight sigh, tapping her fingers along her thigh as he unclenched her fist.

"Yeah...!

How did we get here?
Well, I used to know you so well, yeah, yeah
How did we get here?
Why won't you show yourself?

I think I know
I think I know

Ooh, there is something
I see in you
It might kill me
I want it to be true.."

When she finished the song, she had alright tears forming in her eyes because of who the song was for. It was a song she wrote about Shikamaru when everything first happened. She wiped her eyes slightly.

She wasn't going to lie and say she didn't miss him, because it was very obvious that she did. But he didn't care about her anymore, he didn't love her. She didn't know how to love anymore.

It was a time that they could just make fools of themselves.

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It had been nearly two hours since Kruno disappeared into her room, and she started to hear loud banging on the door.

"Yo, slut! Open the damn door!" Hidan screamed from the other side, and Kruno rolled her eyes as she got out of bed, and walked over to the door. She opened it, and looking up at Hidan.

"What, fuck face?" Kruno said tiredly, and Hidan gave her a crooked grin.

"You're going on a mission with Kakuzu and I, Pein's orders. Get ready." He said, and Kruno rolled her eyes and pouted, before she threw her head back with an extremely loud sigh, throwing her arms behind her. She walked over to her closet, still pouring as she got dressed in a pair of short shorts, that barely reached the middle of her thighs, with bandages on either of her thighs and a pouch placed carefully on them. She slid on a fishnet shirt with sleeves that ended at her elbows, and a shirt that exposed a lot of her stomach. She placed her sword on her back, and began to shove a lot of clothes into a bag. She slid her cloak on over top of her outfit, sliding on her ninja shoes before she walked out of the room, searching for the two she would be spending time with.

She found them in the living room, and she smiled at them. "So, what is this mission about?" Kruno asked, and Kakuzu looked over at her.

"Kill a guy in the bingo book, and collect the bounty on his head." He said, and she nodded.

"Sounds easy enough." She said, and they all nodded slightly as they went to leave the room, but then Kruno turned around and ran down the hallway. She bursted into Itachi and Kisame's room, throwing her arms around the over grown shark.

"Bye, Kisame. I love you." She said, and he chuckled, hugging her back and telling her that he also loved her and to be safe before the teenager ran out of the room and back to her partners, who rolled their eyes at her.

The three walked out of the base, and began to journey to a town where they would take cover for the night, before moving onto the next village. Kruno sighed heavily, kicking a rock in front of her foot, because as on most missions she was bored out of her mind right now. She wanted to fight, to kill someone even. Yet all she was going to do was stand by and be the "good." girl that she was supposed to be.

They were about twenty minutes from the village that they would take shelter in for the first night, when Hidan found a 'perfect sacrifice for Jashin.' and he began to do his business while Kruno and Kakuzu stood off to the side in silence. Kruno gave a small sigh as she glanced at the glowing green eyes of Kakuzu, who was staring back at her.

"Why did you come back?" Kakuzu asked, and Kruno looked at him before down at the ground, with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Because I'm cared for with you guys, and the people in the leaf are liars." She said, and Kakuzu raised his eyebrow slightly.

"What's the real reason, Kruno?"

She gave a sigh, and began to play with her fingers slightly, the sounds of the screams that the girl Hidan was sacrificing cutting through her ears, but she looked up at the larger, stitched up man. "My heart was broken, Kakuzu. I gave him everything I had, loved him with all of my heart, anything he wanted, I did for him. And I thought he loved me, until he told me it was all a lie. And since then, I haven't had any intent on ever going back to the leaf, or seeing him again."

"What was his name?"

"Shikamaru." She said, and he nodded slightly, about to say something but Kruno cut him off. "And before you say anything about killing him, don't worry there are four people ahead of you."

Kakuzu gave a slight chuckle, and cocked his head to the side. "Who?"

"Well, Kisame said he was going to rip him apart limb by limb, and the rip those pieces into smaller pieces, Hidan said he will sacrifice him to Jashin for "hurting his slut' Zetzu threatened to eat him, and... and Sasori said he would turn him into a beautiful puppet in his collection."

"Well, if I see him, add my threats to that list, for a small price." He said smirking, and Kruno rolled her eyes as a bloody Hidan arrived beside them, a huge smile on his lips.

"Kay, I'm done! Let's fucking go." He said, and Kruno nodded, and they started to walk, but Kakuzu grabbed both of their shoulders, and flipped them around. Kruno raised her eyebrow at him, and Hidan flipped him the bird. The stitched up man just rolled his eyes, and began to speak to the two.

"You can't exactly go into this village looking like yourselves, in your cloaks. Now transform." He said, and the two groaned loudly but nodded, doing the hand sign for a transformation jutsu.

Kruno changed into a girl with bright red hair that fell to the middle of her back, with chocolate brown eyes. The scar on her cheek was gone, along with the red mark, replaced with smooth white skin. Her clothing changed too, and she was wearing a pair of tight leggings, with a shirt that revealed her stomach a her cleavage slightly. She pushed her red hair out of her face, and glanced of at Hidan and Kakuzu, who both looked a lot like her, but their hair was obviously shorter. Hidans was still slicked back, and Kakuzu's resembled Gaara's shaggy mess of hairs

Hidan was dressed in a pair of normal ninja pants, with a shirt that wasn't too tight fitting, but it clung to his body slightly. His eyes were the same chocolate brown as the girls, and Kakuzu's. Kakuzu was dressed in a very similar outfit, and Kruno nodded her head slightly.

"Damn, we look good." Kruno spoke, and Hidan nodded his head, his eyes roaming over Kruno's body.

"You should dress like that more often, slut!" He shouted, and Kruno smacked him the back of the head.

"Fifteen! Remember that!" she said as she turned away from them, and began to walk towards the town with her arms over her chest, pouting.

Finally, her teammates caught up with her as she walked into the village, and they all three began to chat among themselves as they did on mission they were 'undercover.' Except this time, they were having more family related conversations.

"I miss mom." Kruno said, but no one knew she was talking about her actual mom, Tsume. Hidan looked at her, and smacked her in the back of the head with a snorting laugh.

"That bitch is fine! Don't worry about her and just focus on our vacation!" Hidan shouted, and Kakuzu just rolled his eyes slightly while Kruno rubbed the back of her head slightly.

"Fucking asshole.." She muttered as they walked inside of the Inn they would be staying at, and Kakuzu got the key from the lady at the front desk, because both Kruno and Hidan were too busy arguing over whose hair was better.

They walked up to the room, and Kruno's eyes widened as she saw it was only two beds, before turning towards the tallest of all of them, and began to whine when the door was shut.

"Did you really only get two beeddss?" She said, and Kakuzu rolled his brown eyes slightly, looking down at Kruno.

"Cheap." Was all he said before he laid his stuff down on his bed, looking at Hidan and Kruno. "You two will be sharing that bed." He said, and as they opened their mouths to argue with him, he placed his hand up, and shook his head. "No arguing."

Kruno groaned loudly before she got in her bag, and got things to sleep in before she went into the bathroom, and changed into her pajamas. She looked into the mirror, and ran her fingers along the smooth surface of her left cheek, something she hadn't done in three years because of that pesky scar. She sighed heavily, and she walked out of the bathroom, both boys were changed and laid in their beds. Kruno walked over to the bed Hidan was laying in, and she laid down beside him.

"Aren't you going to put a fucking pillow barrier up, slut?" Hidan spat, and Kruno simply shook her head.

"Too cold, might need warmth from you." She said, before closing her eyes and falling asleep in the bed, ready for the rest of this mission.

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