"Stupid Akatsuki.... stupid Itachi and Kisame," Nikki muttered under her breath as she walked next to Kisame and Itachi, it wasn`t on her own free wil, she was sick of being dragged and carried so she gave in.
Itachi smirked, "Nikki-chan, I thought you`d be stronger then this."
"Pft, I can`t kill you on my own, if I wait for help, then we can all kill your for sure AND I get friend fish after that too!" she giggled looking at Kisame.
Kisame muttered something under his breath, not sure if this was worth the young kunoichi`s insults..
Itachi snickered,"We got along so well before I found out you were with Orochimaru, but we can still get along fine... if you don`t struggle."
She crossed her arms, and looked over at Itachi before hugging Kisame.
"FISHY-SAMA! You`re so cute!"
Kisame stared at her, then at Itachi, who continued to look ahead, then he noticed Nikki`s disappointed look.
"You know, you can`t distract me or him so you can get away," Kisame said cooly.
She loosened her hug on Kisame, then looked at him with big eyes, "But Kisame-kun, I wanna see my Orochi-kun, and I wanna see Sasuke-kun, Naruto-kun, Lee-sama, Neji, Kakashi-sensei, Shika-kun, and Chijou-sensei!"
Kisame twitched, those eyes, so cute, wait, was he thinking something was cute? Did Kisame just use the word cute, even if it wasn`t out loud? He sighed, he was getting soft.
Nikki was soon dragged along by the arm by Itachi.
"Are all Akatsuki this cold?" she whined.
That voice was really getting on Itachi`s nerves, "Kisame-san, please shut her up!" he yelled.
Kisame grabbed a blindfold and tied it around her eyes, and took her missing-nin headband and tied it around her mouth, leaving Nikki very angry.
Itachi laughed, "Good job."
Soon they were at the Akatsuki`s base and Nikki was placed in a room. Kisame took her blindfold off and put the headband back around her head, he smiled at her then left.
Soon Deidara came in with Itachi. He poked her in the head, "Why did you bring her here?" he asked un-amused.
Itachi sighed, "She is with Orochimaru."
"But she is far too pretty to be with that ugly snake man," Deidara muttered, staring her in the eyes, which made Nikki feel uncomfortable.
"HEY!" Nikki yelled, "He isn`t ugly and he isn`t that old!"
"He should be in his sixties by now," Deidara stated.
"But he is immortal," she whined.
"He is still old," Deidara retorted.
They started arguing about Orochimaru`s age and looks, but soon, both were hit over the head by Itachi, who glared at them both.
"Deidara-san, stop messing with my new pet," Itachi said sternly.
"PET?!" Nikki exclaimed.
Itachi nodded, "Loud-mouthed ones are always the most fun."
"You know, she might be able to kick your ass if she gets ticked off enough," Deidara stated, sighing heavily.
Meanwhile with the search teams progress was happening.
All of the teams met up and decided it`d probably be best if they all combined together.
Kiba sighed, "If we don`t find bobcat girl, who knows what Itachi will do, but we do know Sasuke and Orochimaru will have a nervous breakdown."
Orochimaru and Sasuke were getting more worried by the minute, because Itachi had Nikki and no one knew what would happened.
Ino hit Kiba over the head, "Don`t worry Sasuke-kun like that!"
"Or Orochimaru," Sakura added.
Naruto sighed, "Two of the strongest ninja on this search team are having emotional break downs, how nice." He walked over and started to try and comfort Sasuke, while Kelsea tried to comfort Orochimaru.
"Nikki-chan will be fine, she is strong after all," Kelsea reassured him, a bright smile on her face, even though she was worried about Nikki too.
Neji crossed his arms, "Kiba and I found out that Itachi, Kisame, and Nikki headed North, there was some signs of struggling, but they ended, we saw Kisame and Itachi`s foot prints for about a mile, then, Nikki`s footprints appeared, Itachi probably carried her at points and then dragged her along, she probably gave up and walked along."
Naruto looked at Kiba, "Is this true?"
Kiba nodded, "Akamaru and I are sure those smells were those of Nikki`s, Itachi`s, and Kisame`s."
Chijou frowned, "I too saw these points, it`s true, I studied them when I jumped ahead of my team for a while."
Naruto put his head in his hands, "The people with the best senses all agree, lets follow the path and hope we find them."
They all agreed and started to run along the path.
TBC