Ouch.

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Shadows begin to appear as the Akatsuki members are sent back to base, after Dominic's devastating attack.

(Kinda. I, Yukiko/Laurie am Natsuki and Kumori, Kei is Kei, and Lauren is Naminea. But we all use each other ‘s characters and profiles and such a lot. So technically I am.)

Naminea knocks on the door. "I hope she is okay...." She sighs. Hito opens the door, his face dark. "...Yes?"

OOC: Ooookie.. I don’t get it but,, ooookie.. XD

IC:

As Hito opened the door, Haruko pulled him out of the room, dashed inside, and shut the door, leaving the Nam and Hito outside. ”Hihihi.. I can almost see their screaming expression. She laughed inside, but then felt small as she looked around the room. It was so dark, a hundred folds darker than hers. Wh.. what’s this? I feel like I’m in a horror movie all of a sudden. she thought as she felt goosebumps.

”Ku.. err.. Kumori-chan? You there? her eyes were not so adept with the dark than she couldn’t see anything.

Naminea looks at Hito. "What the...." He shrugs.
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The room is silent for a moment. Then a faint voice is heard. "...what?" The darkness seems to let up slightly as a light begins to glow.

Besides the suuuperly creepy darkness, it was completely silent, and only her breathing could be heard. Her heartbeat was increasing of fear. She was shaking inside.

"...what?" she heard a creepier voice.

”Nyaaa! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I won’t bother you anymoore! Please don’t eat meeee! she ran around, looking for the door (yes, she forgot that it’s just beside her), but then stopped as she saw light. ”Err, Kumori? She scratched her cheek.

She sighed then smiled. She walked towards the light. ”Hey, how’re you?”

Kumori is seen silently standing by a table. She is no longer wearing her torn Akatsuki cloak, but instead is wearing shorts and a tank top. (See spolier for details XD) She doesn't say anything at first, because she is concentrating on bandaging her many cuts and gashes. "I'll be fine." Kumori turns around and faces Haruko, her face blank and eyes tired. "I was concentrating on protecting the others... so I didn't watch myself too well." Her arms are bandaged but by now the bandages are red with blood. "What do you need?"

I sigh and find a chair to sit in "So what do we do now Trigon, Kumori? Another attack is out of the question for a while."

Haruko looked at Kumori's wounds, then wiped the blood on the side of her face as her own wounds healed.

"A new Akatsuki cloak." Haruko smiled. She lurked around the room. "Kumori-chan, you're an Akatsuki, right? But then, why do you care so much about your teammates? You act so much like them." she said, referring to Natsuki and Dom.

Kumori's eyes narrow at Haruko's statement. The darkness seems to become heavier as her mood shifts. "I'm nothing like them." She walks over to a closet and takes out an extra cloak. "I made sure that the Akatsuki survived in order to reach my own goals. It would be worthless to command dead bodies." She tosses Haruko the cloak. "Not that there's much of a difference with some of the members." Kumori looks at Haruko, her eyes still harsh. "Anything else?"

-Trigon looks at Kaida.- "The first thing Im going to do is get me a new arm..." -He gets up and puts a cigar in his mouth. He snaps his lone remaining arm and it lights the cigar. He sits and plays back the battle in his head.-

"Of course, that is important," I said "Well i guess one good thing came out of that fight."

-Trigon looks at her, a bit annoyed, but listens.- "You mean the hokage dying or something else?"

"Ok two good things, it should be much easier to get the stone now."

Haruko felt the sudden darkening of the room, but unlike a while ago, she didn’t flinch. She caught the cloak with her right, and smiled as she turned around. “You seem so affected, Kumori. The fight a while ago, I hope you didn’t hold back, nor had any second thoughts of taking the philosopher’s stone.” She sighed.

Haruko was still upset of their loss in the battle.

Kumori breathes in deeply, keeping herself calm. "I had no second thoughts about taking the stone. If you wish to accuse me of something, turn around and face me. If not...get out. Now." Kumori takes a cloak of her own and puts it on, concealing her wounds. Pathetic girl... I should kill her for even suggesting that.

Haruko stopped and sighed. Then turned around.

”Take care, Kumori. In your current situation, you won’t even be able to touch me.” she smiled as she looked at her wounds which was now covered with her cloak. She then turned around, and walked towards the door. ”By the way, thanks for the cloak.”

” See you then,… she opened the door and walked out …leader.

OOC: Woot woot! Oi natsuki, I’m not personally angry, alright? I just want to try something new.. haha.. I’m bored, you see.. Neahahaha,,

OOC: Bahaha, I know. It's cool, I'm not angry either. Fwefwefwefwe :3

Hito looks at Haruko darkly as she walks out of the room. "She may not be able to hurt you at the moment, but it would be very easy for her to trap in a world of shadows, in limbo between the worlds of dying and living. You would become lost...except you wouldn't be able to find your way out." He walks into the room and shuts the door.

Naminea looks at Haruko. "....What did you do?" >.>

-Trigon notices Haruko as well.- "You shouldnt disrespect those who saved your life...you may THINK your immortal but theres a way to kill you off too you know.."

"I would watch it if I were you," I said to Haruko

OOC: Oh wow, I thought this is a 1on1.. It became 3on1! Hahaha. And wow, I became the villain among the villains. Haha.

IC:

Haruko wore her cloak. "Careful now. You all don't know me very well. I have lots of things up my sleeve. Things that I've never used before." . She took a popsicle. "Haha, can't you just feel the love in this room?"

Naminea grins and dances down the halway. "I caaaaaaaaaan!"
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Inside her room, Kumori wraps herself in shadows and sleeps.

Haruko's eyes sparkled as she saw Nam. She appeared in front of her, bent down since she's tiny (lol), and poked her cheek. "He-llow." she said as she kept poking Nam's cheek.

Her anger had completely vaporized, and she was back to normal. XD

Damn, I can't believe I said those to Kumori. She must've been hurt. Or rather, pissed. Hihi, nah well. she shrugged.

"Hey Nam, Dom is dead, right? So that means they're all mourning for him. Aww. I want to go there to get the stone, and disrupt their drama. That would've been awesome since they must be very weak by now." she said as she kept poking her cheek.

OOC: Lol. I really want to get the stone and play with it cause we're once again, back to resting.. XD.. I didn't even realize that the battle was already over.. xD

OOC: Lul but Natsuki isssss the stone! XD Lul. Like physically the stone. And she’s on a misssssion! >.> :3

Naminea sighs at Haruko poking her cheek. "Nahaji and Natsuki left the funeral for Dominic. No one has seen them since." Deciding that she can't easily stop Haruko, Naminea opts to tackle her in the middle of the hallway.

"They left? Tsk. They are so obvious. They plan to revive dead. Haha. How desperate. Shouldn't we stop them? (to have a bit of a fighting scene? XD)".

The moment she finished. She was tackled by the little creature. On the floor, she was still poking her. Hehe. "I'm bored. Let's find them then stop themmm.''

Naminea frowns and bites Haruko's finger. "I duunf 'hink ihitts eh ood ideaaah." She then growls and shakes her head, still biting Haruko. (Naminea speak for I don't think it's a good idea.)

OOC: Note to you: If you try, Natsuki will kick your butt. You'll have an overly emotional philosopher's stone with nothing to lose. XD Bumbumbummmmm.

OOC: Lol lol! Overly emotional.. haha.. ooh, scary.. XD that is soo Natsuki. XD.. But would we do nowwww? >3< We’ll rest until Dom is revived? Wow.

IC:

Naminea was about to bite Haruko’s finger, but she didn’t mind. She knew her sand armour was there. However, when she bit her, she screamed. She totally forgot that she still hadn’t replaced her sand armour which was destroyed because of the blast earlier. ”Nyaa! Let go, you cute creature! Get off meh!” She pinched Nam’s cheek with her other hand while pulling her finger. ”Hihi, your cheek is soo red. I’m winning.”

Haruko sighed as she kept pinching. ”So what do we do now?”