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Just a quick story… Was a little bored and felt creative so here you go.

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Chapter 1 - A Sorry Sight...

She wandered slowly, clutching her painful side. Each agonizing step she took would make her knees buckle, her blisters more soar… Her whole body ache even more. She'd been on a retrieval mission, to retrieve a scroll from the sand. Unfortunately due to the shortage of free shinobi, she had been alone; Tsunade didn't see a problem, usually lone shinobi would carry out their mission without sparking interests of rival or enemy shinobi.

During her journey back to the leaf,she'd run into team Hebi, she held her ground and fought until she could barely stand; she'd defeated Karin, and left Suigetsu and Juugo unconscious, Sasuke on the other hand, she could not bring herself to fight, even with each slash of his blade, each punch of his fist and each bone shattering blow of his legs, she could not bring herself to retaliate… He saw her as a sport… When she finally fell, taking weak breaths Sasuke stared at her, before smirking and leaving her for dead, carrying the rest of his broken team with him.

She'd laid still for a while, her body felt overwhelmed, exhausted… Numb… That was until she managed to pull herself up onto all fours, she used the small amount of chakra she had left to clot the deeper wounds she had sustained, and stop the bleeding. Her pale hand gripped a low hanging branch of a tree, which she used for leverage as she stammered to her feet. Her vision was entirely blurred, it was scary infact, being unable to see more than a few feet in front of you. That was when her feet blindly began to walk further and further into the woodland, she was unconsciously walking, blindly looking for shelter. She was so exhausted, she hadn't even noted the three shinobi that were trailing dangerously close behind her…

Step… Step… Stumble… Stand… Step… Step… Fall… Her knees finally succumbed to the merciless battering that her entire body had taken. She laid silently on the leafy ground, her eyes were staring into a deep abyss of nothing. Meanwhile, the trailing shinobi stopped dead in their tracks, silently staring directly down at the pinkette, from the tree pew. Pein sighed, quietly glancing at a masked ninja, wearing the same attire as himself and the other follower.

They'd seen it all, it was Madara's idea to spy on Team Hebi's mission, the appearance of a lone leaf ninja was totally unforeseen. Nonetheless, they watched from a distance as she took down three of the team singlehandedly, which sparked their curiosity, and when they saw her falter to Sasuke however, their curiosity grew even more. When Sasuke and his team left, they watched her a little longer, while enjoying their skewered fish, it shocked them when she got up and wandered -well, stammered; away. Which brings us to the present…

As she laid their almost entirely motionless, with the exception of her chest fridgidly moving up and down through each gargled breath, three sets of eyes stared down with uncertainty. Finally they watched as the green gems she possessed closed, and didn't reopen. Madara was the first to descend, followed by an awe-struck Pein and Kakuzu. They landed beside her with a thump which would awaken most shinobi, but not her. She was entirely out of it. Kakuzu nudged her arm gently with his foot, as to try and disturb her from her unwilling slumber. There was no avail in his efforts. Patter… Patter… Patter… The skies opened up and the heavy pouring of rain covered everything in its path. Madara sighed running a hand through his hair as he spoke,

"We must find shelter, our detour means we will no longer be able to track team Hebi, when the rain has stopped, we'll head home".

Pein couldn't take his ringed eyes off of the now blue-lipped fallen ninja that laid motionless before the group.

"And what of her?" Pein glanced up lazily and briefly toward the ninja beside him, before returning his gaze to her.

"It would be an awful shame to have watched her and follow her this far to just leave her for dead…" Kakuzu spoke with slight unease, he was in the presence of his leader... leaders?

"Right…" Madara spoke softly, "you're right, bring her". As he barked the order Kakuzu picked her up and flung her over his shoulder. Pein flinched at how carelessly she was being handled.

The three, well four… then embarked on a small journey, until they found a cave. Madara used his fire style to create a source of light and warmth, whilst Kakuzu used his unique abilities to stitch up her wounds. Pein stared silently, until Kakuzu finished. Madara then set to work with bandaging wherever Kakuzu had stitched. When she was as patched up as she could be, the three gentlemen sat around the fire, watching her sleep.

"She is quite the skilled shinobi, don't you think?" Kakuzu was the first to speak.

"Mhm…" Pein droned.

"She would make quite the addition to the Akatsuki, don't you think?" Madara stared at Pein, waiting for an answer, the man however seemed distracted, engrossed in watching her sleep.

"Pein…" Madara twitched.

"Hm? Uh, yes. She would, however I do not believe she would come willingly, and Sasuke would probably be hell-bent on finishing her off". Pein glanced at his team mates.

"That is true" Kakuzu sighed,

"Well, we will just have to wait and see as to whether Sasuke is truly loyal to the Akatsuki, if he isn't… then at least we have a possible replacement lined up". The three nodded, and sat in silence until each of them drifted off to sleep.

The following morning, Madara restocked the fire and the three prepared to head off. Kakuzu left early, he wanted to get to work on a bounty hunting mission as soon as possible. Madara and Pein stayed and ate their breakfast. Afterwards they stood at the mouth of the cave ready to set off. Madara had watched Pein's behaviour, it was exactly the same as usual, except for one slight thing… He seemed truly interested in something… Well, not some-thing, more like some-one. He smirked beneath his mask, 'This could indeed become interesting' he thought silently.

"I'm heading off now, see you at the hideout" Madara quirked as he began to fade into a black abyss until he'd disappeared. Pein wandered over to the still unconscious young lady…

What was it that made him so intrigued by her? He didn't know. What he did know was that this would not be the last he saw of her. He would ensure that. He slipped his famous clouded cloak off, and laid it over her resting body.

"Until next time little blossom…" he sighed, before heading out.

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