Eventually, I found Itachi and Kisame in Kisame's bedroom, which was practically right with Itachi's bedroom. Kisame's door was open, so I peeked my head in before fully walking in. The two men were there talking to each other about something that I couldn't catch. It was nice seeing them talking like old friends. It made me glad that they had each other in this difficult and strange time. I was getting lost in thought again, however, a voice brought me out of my thoughts finally.

"Hey, Adryn, come on in," Kisame called out when he noticed me, which was right away. "Itachi just found me and explained the situation. I'm definitely ready to fight!"

"You are going to train with him, not kill him, alright?" I was a little wary of Kisame training with Itachi, only because he was so much larger and probably more physically powerful than Itachi was. I didn't need the man I loved getting squashed like a bug.

"Don't worry, I was just kidding. I know that it's only training." Kisame got up from his bed and flashed me a smile. It made me smile back at him, but mine was a wary smile.

"Before we leave, I have to find Sakura. She'll be the other one watching over you two, making sure you don't run away." I explained as I fully moved into the room rather than just peaking in from the doorway.

"I see, that's no fun. Like little pinky can even stop us if we wanted to run away."

"You shouldn't underestimate her, she's powerful," I responded simply before turning away from them. "Though, you probably are right about that." I sighed and began to walk out of the room. I could hear Kisame and Itachi following behind me as I walked through the hallway. I instantly knew where Sakura was, it was just trying to get there was the difficult part. I had to ask Itachi to guide us to where she was, which was in the living room with Sasuke. "They better not be doing anything inappropriate in there."

"You say that like you've caught them being inappropriate before," Itachi commented a little wary of my answer.

"I have. I made the mistake of showing up at an Orochimaru hideout while she was there with Sasuke..."

"Oh boy, I bet that fucked you up." Kisame couldn't hold back that comment, nor his laughter any further. So I swung around and smacked him on the arm with my face completely red.

"Don't joke, it has fucked me up, no one needs to see that much of someone they think of as a brother!" Kisame just kept laughing making me angrily turn back to face Itachi who was grimacing at the thought of what I'd said. "Let's go, I sense someone else in there with them, so I'm sure they aren't naked or doing anything."

"Alright, good," Itachi responded simply as he began to walk once again with me and Kisame following closely behind him. We entered the living room to see Obito in there with Sasuke and Sakura.

"Oh, hello," Sakura muttered as she noticed us. Sasuke and Obito were clearly in a heated conversation and were standing just a foot from each other.

"What's going on?" My sister mode was instantly kicked in and my worrying began again.

"Sasuke and I were just discussing old times," Obito responded as he backed down and turned towards me. "I was just leaving." He then did as he said and left the room, heading into the kitchen.

"You alright?" I asked as I approached Sasuke. He just nodded his head and turned to Sakura.

"I'm sorry you had to witness that," Sasuke spoke to his girlfriend simply.

"It's alright, Sasuke," Sakura responded before standing up and turning to me, Itachi, and Kisame. "What was it that you three needed?" I then explained the situation to her and she just nodded her head.

"Can I join you?" Sasuke questioned as he looked to me. I just smiled at him.

"Of course you can," I spoke knowing that it would be alright. "Do you want to watch or join in the training?"

"Both."

"I see." I couldn't help but chuckle at him, but then turned around and walked out the door. "Well, let's get going before night falls. It is getting rather late." As I walked out of the room, the rest of them followed me. I quickly led them to the door but were stopped by one of the ANBU.

"We will be watching over you closely, do not try to run away. Understand?" The ANBU man had spoken to Itachi and Kisame. The two just nodded their heads and then we were allowed outside. Instantly, I began to get a bad feeling, but not wanting to ruin it for Itachi I kept it to myself, however, I noticed that Sasuke was feeling the same thing as I was.

"Alright, first, both of you do some warming up. Don't jump right into training with each other. Neither of you has fought or trained in a while. No injuries of any kind are allowed. Got it?"

"Of course," Itachi responded for himself and Kisame. The two of them then descended into warming up their bodies. Sasuke joined in on them however it wasn't long until Itachi and Kisame started to spar together. Just taijutsu was enough for them for a little while. After about 20 minutes, they turned to me and Itachi spoke what was on their minds. "Can we get a kunai for each of us?"

"I... I didn't ask about weapons, but sure, as long as you don't kill each other. Like I said, no injuries."

"Very well." I pulled out a kunai for each of them, meaning for Itachi, Kisame and Sasuke. He wasn't pleased with having to use a kunai instead of his sword, but he dealt with it and joined in their little fight now. So it was a one-on-one fight between three of them. Sakura and I just watched them with smiles on our faces. We were glad that they were enjoying themselves.

Of course, after about another 30 minutes of that, they were finished with Itachi coming out as the winner. It was good that they finished then, as the ANBU were going to come out any minute now to tell us to get back inside. However, that was when I felt that bad feeling once again. This time, however, everyone else felt it too.

"Get back to the mansion!" I ordered everyone. They all began to follow my orders but were stopped by men jumping out of the forest and landing in front of us. There were now 3 men standing between us and the mansion. It seemed like none of the ANBU knew at all, as no one acted right away. "What do you people want and who are you?!" I yelled out to them as I pulled the Kiba out from their resting place. Black lightning began to flow around me as I built up chakra to fight.

"If we kill you, it would destroy their plans. So we must do this, Adryn." One of the men stated before lunging at me. I was shocked but swung my right arm to bring the lightning imbued sword down on the man with speed that he couldn't dodge. He was knocked into the ground instantly, falling unconscious.

"So... Was this attack supposed to hurt me or what? Cause I don't think this is going to go your way..." I muttered as the other two began to launch their attacks. They just lunged at me with swords. However, I sidestepped both of them and hit them both with the Kiba, resulting in them being knocked out as well. "What... What just happened?" I was a little confused now.

"These are the two men that I saw outside of the mansion earlier. The other one I did not see." Itachi spoke up as I put the Kiba back away. I felt a little bad at using them on people like that. It seemed like they had no actual ninja experience.

"I see. Itachi, Kisame, you two get back inside. Sakura, Sasuke and I will take these men to the Kage for interrogating."

"Alright. Let's go, Itachi." Kisame began to walk back to the mansion with Itachi following behind him. Once they were inside, the three of us picked up a man and began the slightly long walk to the Kage's temporary home. Once we got there, we dropped the men off in a room with ANBU watching over them. I then went to informed the Kage of what happened, and this time, Lady Mizukage was in there.

"Oh hello Adryn, fancy seeing you here. I thought you would be training with Itachi." It was Lady Mizukage who'd spotted me first and had to say words that she knew would irritate me slightly. She wasn't wrong though, it was just how she said it in that teasing tone of hers.

"I was just watching him train, however, something happened. Three men came from the forest and attacked us." I explained what the one had said and that they only lunged at me with swords, showing that they didn't have too much ninja experience if they had any.

"I see. Was anyone hurt?"

"Other than the three who attacked us, no."

"You didn't kill them did you?!" Lord Tsuchikage called out to me. I just glared at him and shook my head.

"Of course I didn't. They need to tell us who sent them. The ANBU are watching over them and awaiting your orders."

"Good. Chojuro, go give them the orders to interrogate them." Lady Mizukage spoke to her subordinate. He nodded his head and then left the room. "Adryn, there is something we need to tell you. I think it's time for you to know."

"What is it?" I walked over to her and stood next to her to listen to her story.

"We are at war again. However, this time it is a civil war."

"Excuse me, what?"

"There is a faction growing within our country that wants us to go back to the Blood Mist Village ways. They are most likely the ones who stole your eyes and used them to bring back the Akatsuki."

"Wait, what?" I was so confused. I hadn't heard anything about this at all. "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"You didn't need to know until now."

"I see. I guess I understand... Wait I don't. You say that I am your left-hand woman, yet you keep me in the dark?! How long have you known about the faction?!"

"Half a year now. A little before the first Akatsuki member was revived." Lady Mizukage looked away from me then. "I understand that you are upset with me. I should never have kept this from you, however, you were too close to the Akatsuki. We were all worried that this would affect you negatively."

"I see..." I just turned away from her and walked out, ignoring her protests for me to stop. I instantly headed back to the mansion and went to find Itachi and Kisame. I passed Sasuke and Sakura, who'd already returned to the mansion on my way and informed them of the situation. Once I found Itachi and Kisame, who were now in Itachi's room, I told them the same thing.

"So, you had no idea? Why wouldn't she have told you?" Kisame questioned once I was done talking.

"She said she thought it would affect me negatively if I knew," I responded as I leaned against the now-closed door. Both men were sitting on Itachi's bed. "So, how was training, despite that ending?"

"It felt good to move around like that again," Kisame responded first as Itachi thought about his answer.

"It indeed felt good to move around like that again, especially without the feeling of being held back." Itachi finally responded after a few moments of thought.

"Is that how it felt for you when you were alive before?"

"Yes. Everything felt heavy and it was sometimes hard to move with the pain I was going through. The only time I ever got relief was when I was reanimated."

"God Itachi, I'm sorry..." I instantly felt terrible that he'd been suffering all that time like that.

"It's-"

"Don't say it's alright, because it isn't and you know that."

"Come on Itachi, don't argue with the girl who loves you. She'll win the argument anyway." Kisame jokingly added into our conversation, trying to bring everything back into a lighter atmosphere.

"I know, she was always winning arguments with Shisui." Itachi smiled fondly at the memory and I found myself smiling with him.

"Well, I'll leave you two to whatever you were doing before. I have to go get some food. I don't think I ate at all today." I finally spoke up as I turned to open the closed door.

"Thank you again Adryn, for everything."

"You don't need to thank me, 'tachi. I'd do anything for you." I flashed him a quick smile before leaving the room and closing the door behind me. Then my face blossomed into a full blush due to my words. I quickly made my way away from Itachi's room as I headed towards the kitchen. On my way there, I came across Hidan just standing in the hallway, right in the middle of it with a kitchen knife in his hand. I wasn't even sure how he got a hold of a knife anyway. The mansion didn't have any due to the worry that someone would kill someone else. "What the..." At my gasped out words, Hidan looked up at me. I could instantly tell he was in a genjutsu.

Hidan instantly lunged at me, making me dodge and collide with the hallway wall with enough force to dent the wall. He then came at me again, causing me to grab his wrist and twist it as I kicked out his feet from beneath him causing him to fall to the ground. I pinned him down and sensed around me to find the nearest person, which happened to be Obito in the kitchen.

"Hey, Obito, can you come out here?" I called out, just loud enough for him to hear me from the kitchen. He surprisingly listened to me and left the kitchen to see me pinning the knife-wielding Hidan.

"What is going on here?" Obito questioned instantly, however, he could also tell Hidan was under genjutsu, therefore his question was answered. "How could someone do this?"

"My eyes. They can remote attack people with genjutsu. If they've come in contact with someone, no matter where they are, they can control people." I quickly explained as I wrestled with Hidan a bit. He was fighting back against me. "Just help me hold him down so I can do something!" Obito listened to me instantly and helped me hold the man down. I was then able to grab his face and activate my Sharingan. Another one of my abilities was that I was able to trace someone else's genjutsu to find out who cast it. So, that's just what I did. I used Hidan's mind link to find whoever had my eyes. I could see through Hidan's eyes and see who had my eyes, and it caused me to jolt away and fall to the ground in shock.

"What's wrong? Are you alright?"

"It's... nothing. Just let me dispel the jutsu now." I shook my head and looked back into Hidan's eyes, effectively breaking the genjutsu controlling him.

"Hey! What's fucking going on here! Why are you holding me down you fuck?!" Hidan instantly began to yell at us. Obito immediately released him and allowed Hidan to stand up.

"You were being controlled, Hidan." I tried to explain, but he was already cussing me out.

"Fuck you, bitch. I bet you were controlling me you sick fuck! You just can't help but keep everyone under you, can't you!" Hidan yelled back, causing me to stand up and snap altogether.

"HOW ABOUT YOU SHUT UP YOU FUCKING IDIOT! YOU WERE JUST BEING CONTROLLED BY SOMEONE! I WAS TRYING TO HELP YOU!" I screamed before spinning around and leaving the mansion altogether. I could hear other members of the Akatsuki coming out from wherever they were due to my voice, but I ignored everyone and made my way to my home. I couldn't handle being around people, not at that moment. I knew that I needed to tell someone, but I just couldn't do anything at that moment.

My legs managed to get me out of sight of the mansion before they collapsed under me sending me into the dirt. Thankfully I just fell to my knees but unfortunately, I began to cry. I hadn't cried since I heard that Kisame was dead. So it's been a while, but there I was crying like a brokenhearted child. Well, at that moment, I was heartbroken. The person I saw, the one who had my eyes, was none other than my former lover, Ao.

Instead of heading home, I made my way to the Kage instead. I was now calmed down externally but internally I was still freaking out. It took me probably a half hour to calm down, leaving me in total darkness but I managed to find my way back to them. Once I got there, I made my way to their room to find only Lord Hokage and Lord Kazekage in there, chatting with each other.

"Adryn, what's wrong?" Lord Hokage instantly questioned when he spotted me. It took all my sanity to not break down there again. Instead, I informed them of the attack and how I dealt with it, leaving out the part that I knew who had my eyes now.

"Surely that's not why you are covered in dirt and were obviously crying, correct?" Lord Kazekage commented as he looked me over.

"I was able to see who was controlling him. It was Ao. One of the Mist's ninjas who was thought to have died in the war. That is why I was crying." I simply explained as I fought tears once again.

"Ao... You were in a relationship with him, were you not?" Lord Hokage questioned having clearly gossiped with Lady Mizukage before. I just nodded my head.

"Ao now has my eyes and is fighting against us. He clearly wanted me dead or at least hurt. He... The man I knew would never... He wouldn't..." I trailed off as I took Lady Mizukage's seat. I couldn't find it in me to stand any longer.

"You rest up, Adryn. I'll go gather the other Kage and inform them of what happened." Lord Hokage spoke as he stood up from his seat. I nodded my head and let my head gently fall against the table in front of me. It was hard to keep up appearances in front of the remaining Kage. I just knew that I couldn't cry. It wasn't something I was willing to do. I thought I missed crying before, but now that I remember it, I don't miss it anymore.

"Are you going to be alright?" I heard Lord Kazekage question. I lifted my head to look at him. He was just right across from me. He could see the look in my eyes and could understand that the answer was no, I was not going to be alright, at least not anytime soon.

"I should really get going..." I mumbled simply as I heard the footsteps of a few more people begin to approach. I wanted to get out of there before lady Mizukage arrived, but as I stood up, I wobbled on my feet and nearly fell over. By the time I caught myself, the other Kage were entering the room. Lady Mizukage instantly made her way over to me and wrapped her arms around me.

"I'm so sorry that you were attacked again, Adryn! However, I'm more sorry that it had been Ao this whole time." Lady Mizukage spoke to me in a sad voice.

"You didn't know, right? Please tell me that you didn't know Ao was the one behind this..." I was close to crying again, but I held it all in.

"I knew there was a possibility that he was still alive, but I never thought he'd go against us like this." I instantly pulled away from her and glared up at her.

"What do you mean, you knew he could have been alive?"

"His body was never found, so we knew that it was at least a possibility."

"Why didn't you tell me! He was my lover! We were going to get married! We even..." I trailed off as my voice cracked and the tears began to fall again. I took a step away from her and turned to leave as the tears kept falling.

"I'm so sorry Adryn, I just..." She couldn't find the words or didn't want to say them as I left the room. I trudged along the path that led me to my home. It was completely dark, so I wasn't entirely sure where I was going as I didn't feel like really looking up at the surroundings, but eventually, I found my home. As soon as I reached it, I entered, not bothering to close the door behind me. I collapsed on the bed and fell right to dwell on all I'd learned today.

I couldn't believe that Ao was alive. I couldn't believe that he would turn against us. He was always so loyal. It was horrifying that a man like that could start an uprising to bring back the old days. I just had a hard time believing it. Even though I'd seen him with my own eyes through Hidan. It was just so difficult for me. How could the man I love turn against me like this and send multiple people to kill me? More than anything, it just hurt. I felt my heart begin to break. There really was nothing like the feeling of betrayal. It hurt worse than when I heard that Kisame had died. It hurt so bad that I just wanted to crawl under a rock and just die there.

However, I knew that I shouldn't dwell on it any longer, so I slowly began to fall into a dreamless and restless sleep.