A Place To Call Home [OC x Akatsuki Story]

Quite The Predicament Part 45

My vividly sickening dreams last night were of something I wished I'd never had to endure. Something so shameful that I wished I'd never have to be reminded of. Someone so vile that I hadn't felt an ounce of remorse for killing. I laid in bed and tried my hardest to avert my thoughts towards the looming mission. The nine tails Jinchuriki.

"Tila are you awake?" Konan's voice called from behind my bedroom door.

"Yeah! I'm awake, come in," I yelled back as I threw off my blanket and sat up, I felt glad that Konan had come. Anything to distract me from my stressful thoughts. The door opened and she stepped in giving me a smile.

"Let have breakfast" she grinned widely. It truly was astounding how even the smallest smile could lift my sullen mood. I grinned back and quickly got up.

"Someone's excited" she giggled.

"Yeah I just can't wait to get out of here," I confessed. I quickly grabbed clothes, had a shower and got dressed in the bathroom as Konan waited for me in my room. I came back out feeling a lot more refreshed and we both made our way to the kitchen for breakfast. I cooked up a storm as Konan sat at the bench and chatted with me cheerily about all sorts of random things.

"Konan.. Can I ask you something?" I giggled.

"Yeah, what is it?" She replied.

"So is there anything going on between you and Pain?" I sent her a cheeky smile over my shoulder as I flipped some eggs.

"Maybe~" She burst out laughing.

I chucked too and then started to plate up our feast of a breakfast. We continued to chat and eat together and when we had finished we decided to go and get ready to leave for the mission. I went back to my room and started to pack everything that I might need - by the sounds of it, this mission would probably take at least a week to complete seeing as we had to veer off into the rain village first. I wondered about what Pain had said about his real body being in the rain village.

What does he look like then?

Guess I'll find out when I get there.. I strapped on my leg pouch and left my room. I made my way down to the entrance where I was supposed to meet up with Pain and Konan, as I entered I saw them both chatting quietly by the boulder so I quickened my pace and approached them.

"Let's go" I said as I came close enough for them to hear me. They both looked over towards me, Pain nodded and then released the seal. We set off into the sunlit day - the three of us walking side by side as we headed in the direction of this unknown village hidden In the rain. We decided it would be best if we quicken our pace so that we would be able to keep our schedule as tight as possible.

Pain didn't like to be out in the open for long period of time, especially out in the middle of the day. There were a lot of Shinobi that were after the Akatsuki now that we'd started to make our movements more known. The great nations really were short-sighted. Not being able to see that this is all for a greater cause.

The forest continued to blur as we quickly shot through the forest in a three man formation. None of us spoke for what seemed like hours, the sun slowly started to set - now being not far from meeting the line of the horizon.

"We're being summoned." Pain's deep voice came from ahead. We slowed down until we all came to a halt, now standing together in a small clearing as we faced each other.

"Here should he fine." Konan reassured us as she looked around the surrounding forest attentively. Pain nodded and sat down on the grass, we followed his lead and crossed our legs, sitting in a three way circles, eyes closed.

Did Sasuke really capture the eight tails already?

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I reopened my eyes as I stood upon my designated finger on the Gedo statue. Everyone else was present too, I looked down and saw that a massive octopus lay on the floor before me. So the eight tails was an octopus huh? There's something ironic about that..