(No one's POV)

"So this is that forbidden scroll, hm." A girlish looking blonde man held said scroll at arms length, looking at it suspiciously.

"Are you two sure this is the right one?" A black haired young man asked a masked man and a ….. weird plant… thing; his voice thinly veiling his disbelief. "In the picture that was shown to us, weren't the edges a darker shade of green?"

"Shut up, we know what we're doing!" The black half of the plant thing growled. "And you know things can sometimes look different in real life than in pictures." The white half added.

"Tobi is a good boy, Tobi wouldn't mess up something like this!" The masked man/mental-six-year-old protested his innocence to the Uchiha.

"It sure looks the F****** same to me…" An albino man remarked without much real interest.

"We should check the inside, just to make sure," Another man grumbled in a deep voice from behind a half-mask. "If it's the wrong one then that was all a waste of time… time which we could have been using to get more money…"

"Idiots." A young red-head scoffed at them. "Pein-sama told us not to look inside, it could be incredibly dangerous."

"Yeah, but he isn't here, so he'll never know! Unless you're going to tell on me, Sasori?" A shark-like man hefted a wrapped sword onto his shoulder and gave a sly grin.

Sasori held his gaze for a moment before shrugging and taking a step back. The blonde held the scroll closer to his face and squinted, examining the roll of paper. "I dunno, hm. I think we should just check real quick, hm." He handed it to the man with a half-mask. "Kakuzu, would you like to do the honors, hm?"

Kakuzu shrugged and took it, and now the others were crowding in around to see, even the puppetmaster and the Jashinist, who hadn't been all that interested to see its contents earlier. Tobi climbed onto the back of the …. plant thing... to see, who's white half didn't seem to care; while the black half hissed at the masked man. The blonde stepped back a ways to let Sasori into the circle, while the albino pushed his way to the front. The shark-like swordsman and his partner, the Uchiha, merely looked over the shoulders of the others.

There was silence for a moment, before the albino snapped and said, "For Jashin's sake, just get it f****** over with already! Enough with the d*** suspense!"

"Oh, shut up, Hidan." Kakuzu glared at him as he began to peel back the seal of the scroll. With the exception of the crinkling of paper, there wasn't any sound from the Akatsuki members as they watched with bated breath. One thought ran through each of their heads, with some slight variations. I (f******) hope that it's the (f******) right scroll ( , hm)!

The seal popped open, and Kakuzu had just begun to unroll the scroll, when the door, slammed open, admitting the last two people needed in this potentially disastrous situation. Pein and Konan entered, and took one look at the other members. "What is going on here?" Pein asked, the tone of his voice making it clear things were going to get ugly if they didn't have the right answer. Forget potentially disastrous, things were looking more on the complete and utterly f***** up side.

The blonde's hand twitched as he gave a little shriek of surprise (and maybe a little fear), flailing upwards and slapping the scroll out of Kakuzu's hands and out of the huddle where it rolled until it hit Pein's feet, almost completely open by this point.

"Huh?" Konan leaned over and picked the scroll up. "What's this?" She held it out for Pein to see. The others began to sweat nervously. "It's all over…" Kisame muttered.

"No seriously." Pein demanded. "What the hell is this?" He pointed at the scroll. "This isn't even the right one!"

"I told you…" Itachi mumbled to Zetsu, who scowled.

"First off, how do you idiots even get the wrong forbidden scroll?" Pein asked, frustration with his team clear on his face.

"Oh, come on!" Zetsu's darker side complained. "It wasn't that hard to get wrong; it looks practically identical to the correct one, they both had equal security around them, and you wouldn't even tell us what was inside, let alone look at it to confirm!"

"And that's the second thing," Pein sighed. "You disobeyed my direct order not to open it. How can you be such idiots?"

As the men argued, with the fight now aiming towards becoming physical, Konan sighed and tuned them out. She glanced down at the open scroll she held in her hands. This is …. a reverse summoning scroll?... Wait a second… "Guys." She tried getting to others' attention to no avail. "Guys!" She tried again with similar results. Now she was getting angry.

"GUYS!"

Wisely, everyone stopped yelling and put their weapons down. "This may not be the scroll that we wanted, but we can still find some use to it." "But-" "No buts," She cut Pein off. "I'm sure we're all tired, and don't really want to go all the way back for the correct one, so we'll just go tomorrow."

The Akatsuki thought about it. "Okay…" Pein reluctantly agreed, crossing his arms and sending a glare at the guilty party, Zetsu and Tobi.

"Finally!" Konan let a ghost of a smile onto her lips. "And I was half convinced that you're were going to keep arguing like a bunch of cats-"

A pulse of chakra emanating from the scroll made her freeze- or rather, she couldn't move a muscle, and none of the others could either. "I have a bad feeling about this…" Kakuzu said.

"T-Tobi is a good boy! Tobi doesn't want to die!" Tobi wailed, as the members of the criminal organization began to feel a tugging sensation, pulling them in the direction of the… scroll? "Quick! Konan, close it" Itachi yelled, realizing what was happening. It's pulling us into it!

"I-I can't!" Konan yelled back with panic in her voice. "I can't move my body!"

Pein, being the closest to Konan was pulled in first, yelling in outrage. As his body hit the paper of the scroll in between where Konan's hands held it, there was a dull popping sound and a flash of blueish green light.

"It ate Pein!" Tobi cried in terror before he noticed that he was next. He screamed in horror, trying in vain to run away. "Nooo!" He wailed. "Tobi doesn't want to be eaten!" Then there was another flash, a pop and he was gone as well.

Hidan was next. "Oh, what the F**-" Kakuzu gave a resigned sigh and muttered something about his money before he followed his partner in another flash of light.

Sasori was smarter though, he didn't struggle against the weird pull. I should save my strength for where ever it sends us… I don't necessarily think it's killing us, just… displacing us, so to speak.

"Kisame!" Itachi called as the living puppet disappeared. "Use Samehada to eat away at the chara stored into the scroll!"

Kisame nodded and with much effort, raised his sword towards the scroll that was still drawing them in. "I think it's working!" He smiled in triumph as the pull lessened and they regained the ability to move freely again.

"Oh, thank goodness, hm." Deidara pressed a hand to his chest in relief, breathing out shakily. Konan stood absolutely still in shock, thinking she had just murdered Pein and the others. Zetsu was silent for a moment before both sides spoke, saying very slowly in unison, "What… the f***... just happened…"

"Well at least it's over…" the white half of Zetsu sighed, just as the scroll began to pull them in again, this time with a force stronger than before. "You just had to say something, didn't you?!" the black half growled as they were pulled in.

Kisame began to use samehada again but he didn't get a chance to use it as the pull doubled in strength, pulling him forwards violently, where he vanished with another pop. His partner was next, frustration clear upon the Uchiha's face before the light enveloped him too.

Deidara and Konan exchanged horrified glances as the bomber was pulled in, screaming bloody murder.

And then only she was left, staring blankly at the space her teammates had been occupying only a few moment earlier. They're all gone…. Some part of her brain numbly realized. The scroll, now so peaceful and unassuming looked up at her, taunting her. Slowly the blue haired female looked down at the scroll, I've got to go after them. She leaned forwards ever so slowly, raising the scroll so it was level with her piercing eyes.

Konan fell face first through the scroll, hearing the 'pop' as she did, but her eyes were closed, so she saw no flash.

Now, inside…. wherever this was, she was free-falling in pitch black… no wait, there was a light somewhere below… make that several lights. Wait, She wondered,. Is… that a… village?

It was a village, and while not particularly large, it was the brightest village she'd ever seen, lights blazing with no concern whatsoever.

"Huh?" Konan's descent was slowed abruptly until she 'stood' suspended in the air some distance above the brilliant village. She looked around her and found the others floating all around her in some trance like sleep. "Pein!" She called out, trying to gain her partner's attention to no avail. "Nagato, wake up!"

She fought the urge to yawn as she struggled to wake the others. "Itachi! Sasori! Kisame! Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu! Wake up!" Her eyes began to to close and her head nodded forwards. "Wake up…. Deidara… Tobi, wake up, we..." She whispered, her head dropped onto her chest as she lost the internal battle. "We have… to… to…"

Her eyes shut and her breathing slowed as her consciousness slipped away into darkness. There was no one present now to see the criminal organization resume their descent to the ground, this time at a slow and steady pace, much like an elevator. No one was there to see them land in crumpled heaps in the scruffy grass of an abandoned lot. And no one was there to watch in awed horror and confusion as a strange blue-green light enveloped the unconscious akatsuki. So one ran from the scene when something else completely impossible happened.