2 and a half years later - Elly's POV

The Leaf still have me, Old Man came to get me to talk but failed and went back home, I haven't said a word for 2 and a half years and everyone I had ties to before I joined the Akatsuki have tried guilting me into talking but that didn't work. As you can imagine, Ibiki is very angry, Tsunade is beyond pissed and upset, and I'm, not in the best state, physically or mentally. They got Cocoa before she got to the base and I've heard from the guards that she's at the Inuzuka compound. I also heard the Akatsuki are getting picked off, recently is was Hidan, Kakuzu, Itachi, and Deidara. That's half of us gone now and Ibiki is trying to use that against me. I've tried to escape a few times, but that didn't work out so well, each time, stopped by Kakashi and a team of ANBU, you'd think I would have spoken by now, but, I'd either be executed afterwords because that is the Leaf way, or I'd stay put here for eternity. I actually want to die, because its very hard to keep this attitude up in front of them, if I could, I would, but its impossible, I can't slam my head against the wall because I'd break through it with my thick skull, I would stab myself with a knife, but butter knives are the only knives I get and I could hang myself, but I'm chained to the ground, choking myself is out of the option, my physical strength is depleted from not being able to train it, so many things I could do, and all of them, I mean all of them, are impossible, impossible, it annoys me just to think about how impossible it is to kill myself here.

"Elly."

I glance upwards to see Naruto and I close my eyes again as I grip my necklace.

God give me strength.

"Why are you with them? Huh? All they do is kill." Naruto asks me angry.

"Because they're the only ones who didn't outcast me." I say to him and he looks at me shocked. "They actually gave a damn when I freaked out during a thunderstorm, they gave a damn when I was in trouble, they gave a damn to even recruit me, and you know what, no one has given a damn about me before like they did, and when I left the Leaf when I was a kid, everyone suddenly gave a damn, when I left the Stone to be part of the Akatsuki, everyone in these two villages gave a damn because they, don't want their secrets spilled, they couldn't actually give a damn if I were still part of the Leaf, because I was nothing, and you know what, now I don't give a damn about anyone but the Akatsuki, you all are just worried that you won't win against us and all that crap, well give up that shit thinking and start treating people like equals, none of this would have have happened if you all just decided to treat each other like equals instead of thinking everyone is so far below you, its that thinking that makes people like me, who feel they aren't good enough to be accepted by anyone, who decided that maybe no one cared about her, people like me, the Akatsuki, we all have different reasons for joining, but we all have one thing in common, people hate us, but we came together and became a damn family, if any of you Leaf people think your gonna get me to betray the only people who treated me like one of their own, then you dead wrong." I say and Naruto looks down.

"You don't think I know how you feel?" He asks me and I just roll my eyes. "Everyone hated me when I was kid because I have a beast in me, but I endured it because I want to become Hokage, so everyone stop disrespecting me and start looking up to me, and I'm making my dream come true. And its also people like you who think so low about their surroundings that they agree to anything where they feel welcomed, the Akatsuki don't actually care about you, and if they did, why haven't they come for you?" Naruto asks slamming his hands on the cell doors.

I laugh dryly. "If they don't care so what?" I say and he looks up shocked. "It won't be the first time anyways." I say as I look at the wall blankly. "All of you just treat us like dirt, what the hell have we ever done to deserve that? Your all biased people, you don't actually give two shits about me, you just want to know why this all happened, it only happened, because none of you could actually see what the hell we were feeling, none of you could get off your high horse and help us, you village ninja are too arrogant." I say and Naruto looks at me shocked as I pull myself in closer. "You guys never helped us when we needed it most, no one helped me as a kid and that's what disappointed me, because I had a sister who didn't give a damn, I had friends who didn't give a damn, when I went to the Hidden Stone, one guy, one, actually gave a damn, Deidara, we became like siblings and then he left for the Akatsuki and then two months later comes back for me, he actually gave a shit, the other members did too, and you know what, I was damn well happy there to, you all think of us as criminals, I wear this cloak proudly just as you wear that headband, if I'm a criminal to you and the Leaf, then I'm a damn proud criminal, I don't belong in a village, and I have no future and I couldn't give a damn about that." I say to him and he slams the door again.

"You don't care that you have no future?" He asks me.

I stay quiet as I look at him and Ibiki comes down to us and looks at Naruto.

"Anything?" He asks him.

"She's too loyal, she told me straight up that she would talk, I don't get it! Why? Why is she loyal to them? They kill people, they nearly killed Gaara for good and they're after me! They're capturing Jinchuriki to take their tailed beasts away and they kill the Jinchuriki in the process, so why is she with them? It doesn't make sense!" Naruto yells slamming the cage again.

"Quit it!" I yell at them and they look at me shocked. I glare at them harshly. "Your giving me a damn headache with all your slamming and I haven't slept in weeks because that's all, all of you do, you slam the bars and its giving me a bad headache that's keeping me awake and pissing me off." I say and Naruto takes a step away from the bars while Ibiki starts pounding them.

"Talk and I'll stop." Ibiki says to me.

"Fuck, you, bitch." I say flipping him off and I break the chains around my wrist easily. "I swear, your all bitches here, pussy's, well fuck you." I say and Ibiki continues to pound harder and I cover my ears, making him glare at me.

I keep my head down as I press my hands against my ears.

1 Month Later

A crash happens somewhere in the village and after about 20 or so minutes, I give up until Konan appears outside the cell door.

"Elly!" She says relieved.

I manage a small smile. "Thank God." I say and she opens the cell and helps me up.

"Are you hurt?" She asks me.

"Physically or mentally?" I ask her.

"Physically first because we need to get to Nagato, I'll check your mentality when we get there." Konan says to me.

"Considering I've barely walked the past almost 3 years, I'm a little stiff, but I can get there." I say and she nods.

We manage to get up the mountain to Nagato and he nods to me.

I put my hands in my pockets and I look at them. "What the hell has been happening while I was gone?" I ask them.

"Madara has completely taken over since your absence." Konan says to me and I nod.

"I heard the gang was cut in half, damn, they were some of my favorites to." I say and Konan and Nagato nod. "Now what?" I ask them.

"We were ordered to get the nine tails." Nagato says to me and I nod.

"Naruto Uzumaki, 16, student under Jiraiya and Kakashi Hatake, he's not in the village, I don't know where he went, they kept that quiet, but it happened about a week ago." I say and the two nod.

"We're gonna finish up here anyways, orders and we can't go back on them." Nagato says to me.

I nod. "Go ahead, I haven't had a decent sleep since I got here anyways, I lost count of how many torture techniques they used." I say and after a while Naruto gets here and sees me in the light and I look as fragile as I did when I was a kid. He looks at me shocked and I look at my hair and suddenly become very disgusted.

"I need a shower, badly, not to mention a brush and a ton load of shampoo and conditioner and is that a gray hair? No way, your village shortened my life span, cool." I say the last part sarcastically and Konan gets ready to fight but Nagato stops her and we listen to Naruto and then to Nagato and Konan's story and their story shocks him and he looks at us saddened.

Naruto then tells us his stuff and I just listen to what is going on.

"So, you want to have world peace and see people as equals?" I ask and Naruto looks at me shocked. "You actually listened to what I said about you village ninja being arrogant." I say to him as I put my hands in my pockets again. "Oh well, decisions up to them, I just want a decent sleep and a long, long, long, shower." I say and Konan argues with Nagato, but he uses the rebirth spell and unfortunately for us, dies.

I place my hand on her shoulder with a sad look and she looks at me with sad eyes.

Naruto then goes down to the village to be a hero and Konan wraps up Nagato and we head down for the Yahiko body we called Pain and she wraps him up to.

"So your even taking him?" Naruto asks us.

"He was the original leader of the Akatsuki and his body was a friend of mine when he was alive." Konan says to him and Naruto looks at me.

"Your going with her?" Naruto asks me.

"By the looks of this place, I won't get any sleep, I can't get a decent shower, and its smashed to bits, yeah, I'm going with Konan since, well, we're besties." I say with a smirk and Konan nods in agreement.

I hand Konan my bag and she looks at it.

"My teleporting seal is there, I leave it at the far bottom in my Bible, when you get to where your going, take it out and put some chakra in it, it'll let me know your there and I'll use my teleporting jutsu and appear next to you." I say and Konan nods.

She leaves in a whirlwind of papers and Naruto looks at me.

"Be good kid." I say to him and he looks at me shocked. "I'll be around somewhere, news will get to me fast if anything serious happens, the Akatsuki is just down to me and Konan so as far as you guys should be concerned, the bad guys are no longer us since I do what she does, and she believes in you, as long as she keeps that faith, I'm on your side, but if you tell Tsunade that, I'll wring your neck, alright?" I ask and Naruto nods.

"Do you believe in me?" Naruto asks me as I feel the teleportation seal being used.

I look at him as I put my hands in my pockets. "We'll just have to wait and see." I say and I teleport next Konan in her village where is only raining and not thundering. "Why is it so dark here? Its even darker than the base and the cell I was in." I say and she smiles amused.

"Come, let's head to where we stay here." Konan says to me and I follow her to her place and Konan gets clothes for me ready as I rush to the bathroom.

I take about a 3 or so hour long shower and I feel ten times, no, a hundred times cleaner than before.

I walk out in the clothes she gave me and she bleaches my hair and dyes it a bright baby blue.

"Thanks Konan, I don't think I could have stood that gray hair any longer." I say to her and she nods with a smile and I hug her. "Are you gonna be ok?" I ask her.

"I'll be ok." Konan says to me. "You should get some rest, but first, where's Cocoa?" Konan asks me.

"The last I heard she was taken to the Inuzuka, she'll be fine with them, but I do plan on getting her back once this all blows over." I say to Konan and she nods.

I fall asleep on the couch as soon as my head hits the comfy pillow.
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