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Akiera

After my decent wake up call, Obito completely vanished from sight. He made a quick escape completely, avoiding me. Which was a good thing since I don't know what to do if I see him again. At least for a while.
Honesty, this is not what I thought I would wake up to. Awkward.

'And hot.'

Ugh! Why me? Why him? Why..... Everything....

I quickly brushed my teeth since I don't need to take a shower anymore, courtsey of my "roommate".
Why cold water? Now I'm freezing. Oh wait! I smacked my head.

'Stupid me.'

I remembered I am half dragon. I closed my eyes and concentrated to increase my body temperature, my clothes and hairs dried as well. Yeah. We can do that. No Chakra, since we are inborn dragon sages, me and my mom, we can influence our body temperature at will, also our surroundings. Cool, right.

"Oh good. Now to get ready."

Obito was saying something about some Konan to come pick me up or something. I made way to my room picking out what to wear and then changing into them.

My outfit now consists of denim shorts and a light green tank top along with cropped jacket. I put my hair up in a high pony with fringe falling on my face covering an eye. By this point in my life I know its useless trying to tame my hairs to make it look less like my dad. So I accepted my fate as the baby-porcupine. That's what Tobirama Sensei calls me. I don't blame them, I really do look like a girl version of Madara Uchiha, but only with my mother's eyes.

As I was changing, my thoughts kept going back to that incident. I just can't shake off the feeling of his eyes on me. How shamelessly he was gawking at me and how overwhelmed it made me. The warmth that spread throughout me when he spoke. The way he was just standing there, all flustered and....

The sight of his shirtless body, damp cropped hairs, the toned muscles with all those scars... Gotta admit it was a sight to wake up to. I'm not even ashamed to admit it, blame it on hormones. I've a sizzling hot roommate. Aaaaaand... I'm zoning out again....

Thankfully I was snapped out by the sound of the doorbell. "Coming." I yelled.

I put on knee-high boot heels and sunshin to front door. I open it to find the most gorgeous redhead I have ever seen.

Wait! Gorgeous!!?

'Oh yes! Gorgeous.'

I guess I was gawking at him until he clears his throat to get me out the trance. I blinked a few times before squeaking, "Hey!"

Yes. I just squeaked, in the most annoyingly girlish high-pitched voice you can imagine. What is happening with me today? I really regret coming here now.

My outburst caught the red-hot mess in front of me off guard and he was looking at me with the cutest WTF look ever.

'Who are you and what have you done to me?'
I wanted to ask but couldn't form the words. I'm just too embarrassed right now. Thank god he chose to break the awkward silence.

"Hey. Sorry, Konan couldn't come. She is... caught up in something else, so I came instead to fill in." he said scratching the back of his head with a sheepish grin.

"A-And... You are? " I finally found my power of speech.

"Oh! Sorry." he looked at me with a smexy curve of lips, "I am Nagato Uzumaki, Miss Uchiha."

Wait. WHAT!!!

My expression must be priceless because the next thing I know he was laughing his ass off leaning on the door frame.

We both composed ourselves after a minute. Now I was the one with the WTF look and he was trying to striffle his laughter, replacing it with a friendly smile and cold eyes. How is he doing that?

"um... Sorry... It's just that... I get it alot.... But your.... reaction... It was.... priceless." he said trying really hard not to laugh.

"Ok. Now will you be kind enough to tell me what kind of... joke is this?" I fixed him with the infamous Uchiha glare, looking him down to up. This is definitely not the Nagato san I met yesterday. I took a good look, taking in all his features, comparing it with the man I saw yesterday. Then it hit me. Those piercings.... They were Chakra receptors.

So, that man was a puppet. He had the Rinnegan and so does this one. So this must be the one controlling him then. I saw his expression become serious and the same cold stare becoming a bit more intense.

"Hm. Offcourse Akiera san. But this is not a joke. It is the real me, Nagato Uzumaki. The one you met yesterday was my Deva path. Pein, is my alias."

"Hn. A trick of your Rinnegan."

"Yes."

"Hn."

Another stretch of silence with both of us staring into each other's eyes, in an intimidating fashion. Being an Uchiha, this is our game. So, there is no way anyone could make me back down, not even a Rinnegan weilder. I had my sharingan activated and we were looking into each other's soul by this point. And let me tell you, it. Was. Interesting.

He chose to break the silence, again, with an impressed smirk. "You are interesting, Akiera san." he said averting his eyes to something behind me, "But we are getting late. How about we continue this later?"

"I'll look forward to that, Nagato san." I said with a smirk of my own.

He motioned for me to follow. I quickly locked the door behind me and trotted forward matching his steps. We went down a few flights of stairs, coming across a door behind which I guess was a noisy, cursing neighbor, but Nagato told me to ignore that. We reached the huge basement level, where there were many cool cars. And I mean really cool ones. I wonder what kind of people live in this building.

Nagato went straight to the 1967 black Chevrolet Impala (Dean's car in Supernatural) and opened the passanger seat door for me.

'What a gentleman...' I smirk hopping in, '...unlike someone I know.' my eyebrows cringed at the memory of the morning incident.

"Is there something wrong, Akiera san?" Nagato asks settling in the driver seat.

"Oh! No. Nothing's wrong. And please, just Akiera would be fine." I smile.

"Okay.... Oh! I almost forgot." he reached for a package at the back seat and I got hit with his intoxicating smell. Wow. Too close, but he has a manly, spicy kind of smell.

'Bad Akiera. Don't sniff your boss...'
I mentally scolded my self.

He handed me the package in black cover, "I hope I got the size right."

"A gift already? Aren't you a darling."

Nagato's blushing face is an adorable one I have to admit. He looked at me wide eyed before coming up with a sheepish grin. "uh.... actually... It's from your da-... The Akatsuki, I mean."

"Oh." Now its my turn to laugh my ass out, and I did.

Nagato just shook his head before driving off. On the way I opened the package to find a trademark Akatsuki cloak and a ring with the kanji of 'Blood' written in white on a deep blue stone.

"You've got to wear that in your left middle finger. It helps us to... stay connected." Nagato said.

I checked out the ring before putting it on. The moment I slid the ring on my finger, it adjusted to my size and my nails turned black. I could now feel the presence of all the possible Akatsuki members. Almost twelve.

"How many of them can you feel?" Nagato asked.

"Almost twelve. But for one... all I can feel is the ring, but not the person."

Nagato's  brows knitted as if in deep thinking and his grip on the wheel tightened, "That one must be that snake."

"Hm?"

He shook his head, "Nothing.... " he said. "So.... You felt twelve presence. That's a first."

"Hm? What do you mean?"

"You see. Those rings help me to stay connected to all the members. But some are strong enough to block out their own presence from everyone else, sometimes even from me. Yet you still felt them. That's the first time that had happened."

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. Should I tell him that I have extremely high sensor abilities. Or is this something else? This jutsu... It's so... unusual. I can feel an outside Chakra along side my own in my body. Is it his?

I was lost in my mental debate when I felt Nagato pulling over. "We're here." he announced.

I was about to get out when a hold on my wrist stopped me. I turned to find Nagato face extremely close to mine, his body almost pressing me. I tensed at the proximity. His hot breath and soft lips touching the outer shell of my ears as he spoke in soft whispers,
"Here's something Akiera... The other members see me as their leader, and as so, I am not so much friendly with them as I am with you. So please keep that in mind when we interact in their presence. Also, call me Pein. You understand Akiera san?" he purred and a shiver ran throughout my body with each word he spoke.

I only nodded in response. Satisfied with my answer, he left and I sat there for a minute or two, dumbfounded.

'What the hell just happened?'