Inevitable
Chapter 29

Suttefani Soule, a twentyyear old Kusagakure kunoichi with long purple hair and blue eyes, was taken bysurprise as two unknown shinobi had jumped in front of her with no warning.They were in the middle of an abandoned field, about twenty minutes away fromher village. Her eyes widened as she recognized their cloaks; the red cloudsagainst the black fabric were a dead giveaway that these ninja were part of theAkatsuki.

Of course, as a kunoichiwho was known to have Intel on the criminal organization, she was expecting themto replace her eventually, but not this soon. Looking closer at them, she realisedshe had never heard of the descriptions, let alone names, of these two membersbefore.

"Oh, sorry. Didwe hurt you at all?" the female member asked as she offered a hand up. Thatwas when Suttefani noticed she had been pushed to the ground.

"I don't thinkPain wants us to be nice to her," the male of the two spoke.

"He said not tokill her so there's no use of being hostile and rude. She might start a fightthen," the brunette reasoned with her partner.

"Hn."

The purple haired girllooked closer at the raven and her face grew pink.

"Y-you…" Shemumbled before jumping on her feet and attaching herself to the man's arm."You're super cute! Wanna go out?" The Kusa kunoichi immediately senseddanger and turned to look at the other girl whose concerned gaze turned into asharp glare and a snarl.

"Get off of himthis instant," she growled.

"And why should Ido that?"

"Yah,"Itachi smirked. "Why should she let go of me? It's not like you're goingto attack. You wanted to prevent that, didn't you?" he teased.

"You should makeher let go because you're mine,"Ameji hissed, glaring even harder at the other girl. The Uchiha was impressed -if his fiancée worked on her glare a bit more, she would fit right into hisclan by the standards of the hereditary evil gaze. He also found it amusing that she could getso jealous.

Of course, he wouldnever stoop so low to even give another girl the satisfaction of him flirtingwith her, but for now he would allow her to cling to his arm, though it did bughim ever so slightly.

"So, you guys arefrom the Akatsuki, right?" she guessed.

"If you alreadyassumed that, why would you allow yourself to cling to a criminal that couldeasily kill you?" Itachi responded.

"I've beenprepared for one of you guys to assassinate me for a while now, so I'm not tooafraid."

"You shouldbe," Ameji was now radiating an extremely bloodthirsty aura. "I don'tcare if you aren't afraid of the organization, but you better be damn afraid ofme!" She ran forward and punched the other kunoichi, who let go of Itachiin surprise and pain and landed on the ground once more. The brunette thengathered chakra in her lungs and started whistling the deadly tune that wouldtear through any part of the girl's body - she had been training.

Suttefani screamedslightly as cuts appeared on her face and shoulders. Most were extremelyshallow cuts, barely scrapes, but the few that weren't scratches ran deep, cutting her lips, ears, nose andwere as deep as kunai around her collarbone. "Stay away from myfiancée!" the Ishi spat.

She struggled to getup with the wounds, but managed to stand again. "Fine, I'll leave himalone. I feel bad for the guy, apparently being engaged to you and all."

"Just come withus," Amejisuto snarled before grabbing the other kunoichi's arm andtugging harshly to drag her back to the base. Itachi cast a genjutsu that madeit like she was sleepwalking; she could still go with them, she just wouldn'tbe able to remember anything of the journey as if her eyes were closed thewhole time. It would take a while to get back to base at the slow pace. Theyhad just over a week left and would be lucky if they made it on time.

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Deidara groaned as hewandered through the damp depressing land of water. Why Kisame wasn't assignedto capture the Kirigakure ninja that the blonde was on the lookout for, hedidn't know.

The bomb enthusiastgrowled as his hair started puffing up slightly. He wasn't too hair-obsessed oranything; he just didn't want to capture someone who was only weakened due tolaughing at a man who looked like he had a giant yellow puffball on his head.Hopefully this 'Jun Hazu' would be captured easily.

"Of course Leader would give the onlyjustifiable capture to the goodie team," he mumbled, used to gettingunreasonable and unfair targets. After his three years spent in the Akatsuki(being forced in because Orochimaru defeated him by having more snakes thenDeidara had in explosives handy) he should've lost all sense of justice.

It still was unfair tothe bluenet he had to capture. Itachi and Amejisuto were the only team who hadto go get a real threat to the Akatsuki.

Yes, there were moretargets. He thought back to the meeting room where they gathered a few hoursafter the Konoha duo left. He was assigned first to capture Jun and left,though he knew there were more ninja that the criminals were being sent out tocapture but not kill.

Deidara shrugged; hehad learned to not bother questioning Pain's motives a long time ago.

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Kisame Hoshigaki, mostruthless killer from a previously ruthless and blood-thirsty village, hadfinally captured Aika Tsugoi with difficulty. At a point in their fight, he wasquestioning if she was actually the eight-tails jinchuriki, but Samehada hadassured him that she wasn't.

'Maybe I'm just getting old,' he thought as he picked the unconsciousKumogakure girl up with slight difficulty. He chuckled to himself. 'Nah.'

He started walkingback to the Akatsuki base with a slight limp. Unlike Deidara, he didn't feelguilty at all for capturing an innocent person that had nothing to do withanything. Actually, he didn't really care. The Akatsuki was where he fit in;living with killers and criminals like himself was not quite satisfying but notuninteresting. It was now his family, and he had even accepted Itachi andAmejisuto into it already. He inwardly grimaced at what a softie he could besometimes.

He focused hisattention back to the girl he was capturing. She was already coming back to consciousness,and he didn't feel like fighting her anymore. He dropped her, giving her morebruises, and took out his spiky sword to take almost all of her chakra. Ofcourse, Pain would do the same when he got back, but whatever.

The reason they wereeven capturing these people was a mystery to him that he barely cared about. Ofcourse he was curious, but he just knew it either wasn't too important or Painwould tell them later.

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Orochimaru grinnedevilly as one of his snakes slithered up to the Iwagakure kunoichi and bit heron the left thigh, getting its poison into her bloodstream as quickly aspossible. She jumped up, screaming in pain as the venom burned through herblood.

The snake master washiding in the bushes, watching Heiwana Tsuku twist, gasp and cry out. What agreat coincidence for him that she was alone; if anyone had been around theywould've helped her and found him.

"Such innocentbut powerful blood needs to be harnessed for the collection of Akatsukihostages," he hissed, walking to her. She looked at him in horror and letout one last cry, and fell quiet with a choked gasp. "Don't worry, thepoison won't kill you," he set out a scroll and transported her toheadquarters. If his timing was correct, she would get there when most otherhostages did.

He knew of the plansPain had made and was excited for it. Bloodshed was always fun to watch andbattles were great opportunities to replace and 'collect' special kekkei genkai.

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Dekkusu Yutakana wasgoing about his day, feeling like he was being watched. Though it wasn'tunusual to be watched due to being in a high-classed clan in Sunagakure, thiswas different. It wasn't stares of jealousy or respect… It felt evil andbloodthirsty. He was immediately ready to battle but didn't give it away as hepulled out a special kunai and looked at it, pretending he was just mesmerisedby the design.

He could feel theperson's malicious chakra to the left.

Of course, Dekkusudidn't want to start a battle in his precious village. Due to the large amountof chakra his soon-to-be opponent had, he doubted he would even stand a chance,but he had some hope that he might be able to win and pull it off withoutalerting anyone else and putting them in danger.

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Madara watched the boywith interest. 'He knows I'm here,' hethought, amused that the orange haired teenager was obviously leading him out intothe desert and away from Suna. 'This isgoing to be a decent battle. Not too easy, but I'll win in the end.'

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"Leader, Ibrought the ninja you requested," Deidara bowed, presenting a spiky bluehaired boy with bright green eyes - so bright they practically glowed. Hisheadband marking was one of Kirigakure.

"Good. Now gorest," Pain ordered.

The blonde left, onlyto be replaced a few minutes later by Kisame. "I brought the kid," heshoved a gray haired and eyed girl with a Kumogakure headband into the meetingroom and left without being dismissed; not that the Akatsuki 'leader' cared.

Within the next hour,he also received an Iwa kunoichi with short black hair and unusual dark pinkeyes, a young boy from Suna with orange hair and black eyes and the woman fromKusa with purple hair and blue eyes. She seemed more outwardly injured than theothers, having cuts instead of just bruises. The orange haired man shrugged.

If Pain could count onanything from his criminal organisation, it was punctuation, though it was oddthat he got the Kusa kunoichi last even though he sent that team out first. Hesat down and sighed, not really giving a damn, instead running through theupcoming events in his mind once more.

After a few minutes,he approached the captured ninja from the great villages, taking all chakraexcept what was necessary to keep them alive. He then tied them up andtransported them to the hideout's dungeon that only he, Konan and Madara knewabout. Not even Orochimaru, the man who built most of the hideout with hissnakes, knew it existed.

He didn't need to takeninja from Amegakure, Konohagakure or Otogakure; he and Orochimaru were theleaders of two of those listed villages and they already had their hostage fromKonoha in their grasp.

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