A/N: This is a painting I finished recently and I think it turned out so damn cool.

After dinner Sasori wasted no time in rushing me off to his room to chat. That put us here, awkwardly staring at one another as he waited, rather agitated I might add, for me to spill my secrets or whatever. His room was more or less exactly what I expected, instead of a bed there was a metal table thing and a bunch of tools next to it which was probably for creating his human puppets or something.

In the corner of his room there was a table with a neat stack of books and covered beakers all lined up by the color of the liquid sitting in them. There were also a few poisonous plants that lived in the darkness sitting on the desk and on some of the other surfaces in the room.

In a lone corner, there was the Hiruko puppet in all its creepy ass glory. When I finally decided to look back at the redhead, he was tapping his fingers impatiently and his lidded chocolate-y eyes were glaring at me. He looked ready to stab me and if I didn't start talking soon he probably would.

"So um..." I chuckled awkwardly not really knowing where to start with the conversation. "What do you want to know exactly?" He leaned back in his chair, keeping his unblinking eyes trained on me.

"How do you know so much about me and the rest of the Akatsuki?"

"Oh thats easy, I saw it." man if only he knew how true that statement was. Sasori was dissatisfied with my answer if the huff and kind of scary glare he sent me meant anything.

"Elaborate, I won't give you what you want until you explain." I laid on my stomach on the floor, propping my elbows up and laying my hands in my palms so I could look Sasori in the eye as I talked.

"Well its pretty simple. Since I was a kid, I've seen these memories? premonitions? At first I was confused because they came at random but when I was around 8 and the Uchiha massacre happened, I was finally able to piece everything together. I was seeing bits of the past and future of the world and the people who I saw or at least lived through their memories or whatever all had important parts to play in the shaping of the future. Distinguishing past versus present was difficult so I never truly knew what was going to happen and when, it was more like I got to see information on people that influenced the world so I decided I needed to meet them all.

The problem with my dreams or visions or whatever the fuck they are is that there is one set timeline and the things that I've changed purposely or not has made the timeline  I saw different so now, other than knowing about people's lives I know nothing else." Sasori's expression stayed unchanging throughout my half-true explanation; he was impossible to read. It was slightly unnerving at how blank he was, there was nothing and it was my first time experiencing someone that I couldn't figure out ANYTHING from. I don't even know if he believes me or not and honestly I don't now if I can take on Sasori without help. Finally his lips parted and his eyes widened, drilling a hole into my skull.

"That is the most unbelievable thing I've ever heard. It is so inconceivable that I think it can't be anything but true. There is no explanation for why you know so much, yo haven't left your village enough and nobody has escaped from me in order to spill any of the information you have on me or any other Akatsuki." His fingers pinched the bridge of his nose as he contemplated deeply.

He had many answers swirling in his head before I started talking and my answer was not even close to any theories he had come up with, but with all the investigating he had put in, the answer fit in an imperfect, perfect way.

He felt as though his jump to eternal knowledge slipped through his fingers, the so called 'visions' I was having were impossible to give to anyone else and Sasori's above average brain was able to figure that out instantly, if it was possible and others had that information they would use it differently than I have, there would be no war only one supreme power but that hasn't happened.

"You just get more and more aggravating little girl." His cold eyes stared at me with some kind of desire and not the good kind. "What have you seen about me?"

"Your parents were killed by the White Fang and that forced you into living with your Grandmother Chiyo but you just wanted the love of your parents so you made puppets of them. Some other non important things. Oh, and I saw how you died." The last statement made Sasori freeze, he died? After working so hard on making the perfect un-killable body it seemed unfathomable.

"Die?"

"Yeah you finished killing one of my best friends and the people who came to get him back ended up fighting you and Deidara. You fought against a girl named Sakura and your grandmother and could have won but you decided to let them kill you in the end and boom, you were dead but that's not going to happen anymore so I guess its fine."

Sasori's brows scrunched together and he looked perplexed either at the idea of him essentially killing himself or fighting his grandmother. It was the most expression I've seen on him (other than annoyance because he always seems to be annoyed).

"What did you change?" Sasori was more and more interested in the conversation, everything I was saying helped him understand things but it also confused him more because he was trying to figure out my thought process with everything, jokes on him. I don't even know why I do things sometimes.

"Well Sakura is dead for starters after she joined Orochimaru, I'm on the team that was the one who killed you this time, and because I'm apart of the Akatsuki now I refuse to let you die. I want to give you and everyone else a second chance before they meet the same fate as what I've seen." Sasori leaned forward to study me, his fingers traced around my brow, softly moving over my cheeks and lips then down to my jawline. He was so concentrated I just let him be.

"You, you are a brat,"

"Well fuck you too puppet man." He ignored me to finish speaking.

"You are an aggravating little shit that I can't figure out but one day I will figure out how you work and then I will turn you into my puppet." I smiled cheekily and he removed his hands from my face.

"Good luck with that, I can't even figure myself out so you're going to have a hell of a time trying to do it." Sasori got up and walked over to his desk, pilling out a scroll that was sitting with his books, he tossed it to me and it fit snugly in my grip. I cocked my head to the side slightly. "What's this?"

"Are you that much of an idiot?"

"Maybe?..." It came out as a question and I could tell he was getting annoyed with me.

"It's a map of where all of Orochimaru's known hideouts are. Now get out of my room, you've tested my patience enough for now." I hopped up onto my feet, clenching the scroll in my hands like it was a lifeline. This is it, exactly what I needed to get my father back.

"Thanks, oh and by the way. Deidara is right, his form of art is better than yours." Before he had a chance to react, I hightailed it out of his room to look for someone who could show me where the fuck I'm supposed to sleep so I can put my stuff away and get ready for my spar.

I turned the corner quickly and crashed into a large and sturdy frame. I stumbled back a few steps and looked up into the blue face of a smirking shark boy. "Hey Kisame, perfect I was looking for someone to help me. I need to get my stuff from Itachi's room and I need to find my room. Oh yeah Tobi also said I'm supposed to spar with somebody so I need Hidan or something." Kisame chuckled, his sharp teeth on full bad ass display with his grin.

"Sure kid, lets go. I'm pretty excited to see you fight, you don't look like much so lets see what you got." My lips spread into a shit eating grin as I walked besides the giant man.

"You're going to be so amazed you'll bow down and admit I'm a better water user than you." His grin turned slightly sadistic in an I'm going to fight you and kick your ass for talking smack kind of way.

"You got a big mouth kid, you better back it up or I'll shred you to ribbons for talking like that."

"Oh I will, you may be a chakra monster but my control and technique are top notch, even Zabuza-sempai said I'm better than him." He didn't.

"If that little demon punk was willing to put aside his ego for that then you must have some skill." Kisame helped me get my stuff and showed me my room as well as a tour of the main hideout.  During the tour we talked about Zabuza and I explained how I got him to join Konoha and all of our adventures.

The giant shark man was thoroughly amused at Zabuza's shitty job (in his opinion) at being my protector. Kisame told me about what Zabuza was like as a kid and he was such a little angsty shit who liked blood and stabbing people. When we finished putting all of my stuff away, Kisame helped me find Hidan's room while he went to get everyone else to watch the spar.

I raised my hand and knocked on the door.

"Who the fuck is there?" A voice yelled out from inside.

"Hinata, open up you and I are gonna spar!" There was loud and wild cackling and the door to his room was flung open revealing Hidan with no shirt, his Jashin pendant was on full view, and his hair was not slicked back. The gray locks draped around his face and there was a slight sheen of sweat glistening on his rock hard abs.

"Oi hot bitch you came at the perfect time. I just finished my prayers to Lord Jashin." He leaned against the doorway and ran his hands through his hair, licking his lips and flashing me a smirk. "You want to spar me instead of those other bastards because I'm the damn greatest. Your ass really does know the way to my fucking heart."

"Uh no actually I want to spar you because you're the one whose immortal." He pushed himself off the wall and took a large step towards me.

"Din't fucking lie, I know you damn well you want me." He threw his arm over my shoulder, his magenta eyes never leaving mine. "Lets fucking go to the arena and unleash your chaos. Those goddamned idiots won't know what hit 'em."

Hidan kind of scares me in a way I didn't know possible, nobody has ever openly flirted with me in such a serious manner and it's more stressful than I thought. Even with that, he is kind of hilarious and his random yelling, ranting, and foul mouth amuses me to none other. My heart was beating quickly and my whole body was humming in excitement for a high-caliber spar. No worrying about killing or being filled with anger or having to protect anyone, I can just let loose and feel the momentum and exhilaration of a fight.

I think Hidan is feeling just as pumped as I am for a spar, just from our few hours together, his incessant talking shows that other than Jashin, he likes to spar too, he finds the thrill in an exciting fight. "I can taste your blood on my lips already. You may not be getting divine punishment but when we're done, you're going to look as fucking hot as you did when I first saw you. Lord Jashin will be pleased."

He laughed loudly and tightened his grip on me. Thats so many levels of creepy and I hate that it doesn't even phase me at this point. What the fuck kind of world do I live in where someone wanting to fight me taste my blood isn't even in the top 10 weirdest things I've experienced anymore.

"Coming from you that's endearing, in a creepy psycho vampire kinda way, so uh thanks?" I nudged him slightly (totally not leaving a bruise or anything) and he shoved me back, running ahead with me trailing behind as we laughed on the way to the training room. "DON'T LET THAT TAKE AWAY FROM THE FACT
THAT I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!"

"YOU FUCKING WISH HOT BITCH!" We finally made it to an exit of the hideout and when I went outside I was amazed at the training grounds. It was a wide space surrounded by trees and a lake in the most picturesque scenery but that wasn't what was amazing. There was a wall of different weapons and seal tags with tons of targets and dummies around the training area.

It was a perfect mix of Shinobi and peace, it was beautiful and when there is a full moon reflecting off the lake it is going to be one of the most peaceful places to sit and relax. My eyes were glowing with excitement at the area, this is going to be where I spend a lot of time when not on missions. "Sup fuckers."

Hidan's greeting brought me away from the scene and I noticed there were other people around me. Kakuzu, Kisame, Itachi, Deidara, Tobi, and Zetsu were all sitting on rocks, in tree branches, or on a flying bird (Deidara) waiting for us to spar. No surprise Sasori isn't here, he's probably still annoyed with me.

I'm guessing this is how I prove myself to be worthy as a member which means I need to assert my strength, most of them recognize you by your strength and because of that I need to prove myself strong if I want anyone to listen to anything I have to say. Itachi walked up to Hidan snd they had a small stare down the Uchiha glowering while Hidan smirked smugly.

"You try to sacrifice her and I promise to make you wish you could die."

"If I'm going to sacrifice anyone it's going to be a damned to hell prick like you first." I walked past the testosterone fest, smiling that Itachi is still protective even when he wants to say he's not and headed to the member I have yet to meet. The person I am most wary about in the Akatsuki, even more than Tobi. I mean, he fucked the whole world since the times before Hidden Villages and basically manipulated every big 'villian' until the end of Kaguya, someone with brains like that is definitely smarter than me and will probably hinder my plans of saving everyone. I stood in front of the black and white venus flytrap dude who was sticking half of his body out of a tree, his yellow eye watching me carefully.

"Hi/ What do you want?" Black and white Zetsu's voices rang out at the same time. White Zetsu sounds like a boy who hasn't hit puberty yet and Black Zetsu has a deep and gruff, hostile voice that sounds annoyed at everyone. (A/n Bold is black zetsu when he's talking and italicized is white zetsu.)

"I wanted to see the person who had been following me for weeks in person." His visible yellow eye narrowed at me and I turned around before I ended up saying anything stupid. I grinned dangerously at Hidan, cracking my knuckled and then sliding on my gloves. "I'm fired up." Hidan removed his 3 bladed scythe off his back and swung it around effortlessly.

"Lets go bitch, show Lord Jashin what ya got." Hidan started sprinting towards me and when he was close enough, he swung and threw his scythe speeding in my direction. I did a back handspring out of the distance of the scythe and with a yank of the chain, it was back in the Jashinists firm grim.

"Well shit, that was fast, this is gonna be so fucking fun!" Getting cut by his scythe is a no-no but I wan't to have some fun close combat before I might have to resort to any ninjutsu. I activated my Byakugan and moved my body into my Olympic style stance, bringing my feet and body into a dance-like position in a perfect spot for any directional movement.

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubble gum." I ran up to Hidan and began to throw various basic combo attacks to see how his body moved. He was quick and blocked well, but his inability to die made his defense somewhat lazy and he left his right side and left leg open for attacks. I feinted left and when he brought his arm up to block, I shifted my weight and aimed a blow to his right side. He barely moved in time to block with the end of his scythe and wrapped the chain around my hand, yanking and sending me flying with pure brute strength.

"That was a fucking close one!" I pushed myself off the ground and Hidan continued his forward assault. He wielded his Scythe with his right hand and I need to take that out. He attacks with no rhyme or reason, withy my olympic style I move so that it seems random but Hidan actually just fights however he wants and that alone makes him extremely dangerous.

Dodging the relentless strikes and follow-up's with his chain, he scratched under my eye and a few on my arms but I managed to get close to Hidan before he could lick it and with a forceful strike, I mixed my enhanced strength with the gentle fist and released my chakra as it made contact with his upper arm.

The release of my gentle fist chakra was a large enough wave to stop the flow of chakra into that arm completely and releasing it like enhanced strength managed to not only cut the flow of chakra, there was a loud crack and Hidan's humerus was sticking out of his skin, leaving his arm dangling at an odd angle.

I didn't mean to break his arm like that, trying to mix the two attacks is something I'm still working on and didn't know I added too much chakra into the hit. "Dammit fucking asshole, that hurts like a bitch." He attempted to move his arm and grab his scythe, not caring that his bone was just sticking out like that but was incapable of getting his hand to react at all. "Why the fuck can't I feel my arm!"

"I'm a Hyuga dipshit, disrupting your chakra is a specialty." Hidan picked up his scythe with his left hand, blood pouring down his right. His eyes were wide and crazed, a sinister grin on his lips. He brought his scythe to his lips and licked the blood off. The blood dripping from his arm he looked ready to make the Jashin symbol.

"FEEL THE FUCKING PAIN OF LORD JASHIN!"

"Crap crap crap." My hands quickly made the hand signs for my water serpent. The snake head rose out of the lake and came rushing towards us, I carefully expelled chakra out of every point in my hand and electrified it, sticking it into the serpent. The whole thing lit up as it started conducting the blue lightning. Hidan finished his circle and looked ready to stab himself in the shoulder.

"You ready hot bitch?" Before the spear could fully puncture his skin, the water serpent surrounded him and I infused more of my chakra into it to keep the water together.

I could feel the shock of lightning striking him go to me but I wasn't done. The electric snake lifted him off the ground and out of the circle, the pain ceased instantly but I still felt dizzy. I held him in the air for a few seconds before I could see his wild rushing Chakra mellow out to that of being knocked out. I released the jutsu and a soaking wet Hidan tumbled ungracefully to the ground.

I was panting hard and sat down, putting my hands over my face and chest to begin healing myself. The familiar light green came to my finger tips and a cooling sensation flooded my body as I sealed up the cuts and bruises, as well as the damage done from my lightning. Tobi was at my side as soon as I started healing.

"Wow Hinata-chan, you are really strong. And you can do medic stuff, thats AWESOME!" I shot him a grateful smile. Kakuzu walked up to the knocked out Hidan and kicked him a few times until he woke up.

Something Kakuzu said pissed Hidan off and he started yelling, the sight of his hair all wet and fuzzy with his yelling and shitty arm was pretty funny and I couldn't stop the giggles that erupted from my chest. My laughing sent Tobi into a frenzy as well. When my body was healed, I got up on slightly shaky legs and sat besides Hidan.

"What the fuck do you want?" He was pouting, actually pouting because he lost! It was adorable and with his wet hair it looked like a little kid pouting from having to take a bath or something.

"I'm going to heal you." I took his broken arm and without giving him any time to fuss, I pushed down and snapped the bone back into place. My hands glowed green and I focused on mending the bone back together, the feeling of my chakra draining more fixing something that takes a lot of chakra output was beginning to settle and a light sweat was glistening on my brow.

My tongue was sticking out of my mouth as I concentrated piecing the fragments and marrow back together and after a little while I had his arm fixed enough to just need a wrap for the next few days.

"You're sooo welcome! Sorry about breaking your arm like that!!" I shouted to Hidan as I got up and quickly stumbled over to Kisame. "So Shark Boy did I impress you enough to want to fight or train me or both? It wasn't the best show of everything but like a magician never shows his tricks." I asked him, excitedly bouncing on my heels.

"Yeah Kid, you were pretty alright. When Itachi and I get back from our mission I'll see what you got in the water ninjutsu department." I threw my fist in the air before falling into the grass.

"Ah I'm tired, mystic palm takes so much chakra." Kisame's laugh was teasing and his large hand came and ruffled my sweaty hair. Arms found their way around my body and I was lifted into the air, my lavender eyes met with the red Sharingan of Itachi's. "You know I can walk right."

"Yes..." His eyes softened slightly and he moved me into one arm, using his fingers to poke my forehead before shifting back to holding me normally. "You've gotten stronger."

"I better have or all that stupid training was a bust." I smiled goofily at him, sticking my tongue out. His long legs began striding back into the base and to the kitchen. He sat me on a chair and opened the fridge pulling out a box of Tri-colored Dango.

He handed me one and took a bite of the one in his hand the happy childish look overtaking his features at his favorite food. "Man you're still a slut for dango." Itachi choked on his food slightly and gave me a glare, it had no weight because there was a faint red hue forming on his cheeks.

"And you still have no filter." I shrugged and took another bite of the sweet dumpling.

"So 'Tachi what's your mission you and Kisame are going on?"

"Iwa hired us to take out some missing nin that have been causing them problems. Leader-sama wants us to leave in an hour." A heavy weight latched onto my side and right before I hit the ground, I was being cradled much like a baby.

"Ahh Hinata-chan Tobi thinks you are so clumsy sometimes. OHHH is that Dango?" Tobi set me down and shoved the last bite of Dango through the bottom of his mask, swaying happily as he ate it. "Ohh Tobi almost forgot again! Hinata-chan and Tobi  and Deidara-sempai have a super cool mission to go on together while Sasori-san is busy."

I perked up at the team up, this is going to be an interesting mission. I missed Itachi's knuckles turning white as he gripped his fists together, he didn't like the Idea of leaving me alone with Madara after what happened the first time we met.

"Sounds like a blast. What's are we doing?" Tobi grabbed me in his arms and began to run once again, probably to find Deidara and inform us of what we are doing. We stopped outside Deidara's room and I thought Tobi was going to knock but instead we juts waltzed straight in the bomber's room. He was sitting at his desk kneading a large pile of white clay. His hair was all tied back and his cloak was gone, exposing the extremely toned form that his tight clothing showed.

"Deidara-Sempai Tobi is a good boy and brought Hinata-chan."

"Sasori-Danna took the most inopportune time to go out alone at least I can respect his views on Art but you Tobi, you are a nuisance un." He spoke mildly annoyed and didn't bother to look at either of us.

"Yeah nice to see you too Deidara." I scoffed and went to his side to watch his hands work their magic in making things out of clay. "Is this explosive too?" He took his eyes off the clay for a second, looking to meet mine then rolling his blue eyes.

"Of course un. What else would I do with clay, yeah."

"Oh I don't know, not blow it up." I leaned down to look closer at what he was building, it was a bird I couldn't name if my life depended on it. Up close it was extremely detailed down to the looks of feathers. It was beautiful. "Thats amazing, man thats so fucking cool can you teach me to mold clay even if I can't make it explode?"

"I guess since you're begging me to learn what true art is I can't turn you down un." Deidara slid over on the bench he was sitting on and I took a seat next to him ready to start.

"Wait Deidara-Sempai Hinata-Chan Tobi wants to learn art too but Leader-Sama gave us a super special mission so Deidara-Sempai can't teach art now."

"Fine Hinata-chan if you actually succeed in this mission I'll teach you the wonders of my art when we return. Tobi, give us the details then we'll leave, yeah." He sounded positively annoyed and ready to just kick Tobi out of his room. Man, I wonder what happened in their first meeting that made Deidara dislike Tobi so much, it's not like he knows Tobi has the Sharingan either, that would just set him off more.

"Tobi thinks Deidara-sempai should let Tobi help make a plan." Tobi spoke hastily and excitedly like he just couldn't wait to plan things with his precious bomber boy.

"No, I don't plan for things. As a great artist, I stay flexible to be ready for anything un. A plan takes away all the spontaneity, yeah."  I rolled my eyes, the notion of not planning is slightly dumb. I get the whole expect the unexpected thing but at least having some idea of what you want the outcome to be is the best course of action for the most part.

I guess that things change so often maybe trying it out this way with people like Deidara and Tobi might actually work out in my favor, they are pretty unpredictable. For the next few minutes Tobi informed us of the mission and I was purely dumbfounded at what we were hired to do.

"What the hell, can't Konan go on this mission, she's an actual woman!" I sighed and ran my hands through my hair at the thought of pretending to be some sleazy woman, it was hard enough doing it to get Jirobo but now I'm doing it again and am not even the one to complete the mission. I'm the distraction. I guess it is just to see how well I'll follow orders as my first shitty mission, a hazing or something. "Fine whatever but if anything goes wrong, I'm going to have both of your heads on a platter."

"Don't worry Hinata-chan Tobi will be a good boy and nothing bad will happen to Hinata-chan!" His promise felt sincere enough and I smiled. I'm putting my trust into the biggest liar and a suicidal bomber, how bad can this go.