Every Other Girl In The World (Akatsuki Love Story)

Chapter 10- The Challenge!

"What's your favourite colour?"

"Mainly pastels."

"Please go on inside."

The beautifully crafted golden doors opened and inside was magnificent. There was a fountain, a meadow and many other priceless things. I kept walking until I got to the doors. I knocked and they magically opened, inside there were al least a million butlers and maids, everywhere! The top of stairs, the hallway, literally anywhere!

"Hello, who's there?" asked a familiar voice.

"Kisame!"

"Huh?" Kisame walked by, he looked slightly confused, but quickly started to grin brightly.

"Lily, what brings you to the Akatsuki Base-House?"

"Akatsuki Base-House?"

"Yes, it's a house all the Akatsuki share together, but we all just like to call it 'Base' it's pretty nice don't you think?"

"Yup except the fact it squirming with the rest of the Akatsuki."

"Oh come on, I know you met some of our...less well-mannered members, but there all pretty cool peeps!"

"Says you, anyway the reason I came here is..."

"What?"

"Well remember back at the battles, you said you had a challenge for me?"

"Huh, oh!"

"Seems like you remember."

"Yes!"

"..."

"The Akatsuki and me have been working super hard to prepare a challenge for you, and we just finished in the nick of time!"

"Really?"

"Yup, come on to the backyard, I'll show you."

I followed Kisame to the backyard, where the most loveliest and girlie garden I have ever seen. There were dozens of Sakura Cherry Blossom trees in bloom, millions of scattered flowers, leaves, and I guess it was just so, so perfect, the most picture-perfect scene ever!

"It's so beautiful."

"Hehe, I'm glad, Konan worked so hard to make it perfect for you."

"For me?"

"Yup."

"...Why?"

"Why else?"

"She likes you of course, er, as a friend I mean." 

"F-Friend?"

"Yup, look, even I'm your friend, ha-ha I'm kidding, your everyone's friend, Lily."

"Really?"

"Lily, your acting like you never had any friends before."

"And maybe I haven't." 

"Wait, honestly, you never had friends before?"

"I don't think so."

"Well here's what I think, I think you had friends all along, but you were just too distracted to notice."

What Kisame is saying isn't false. I'm pretty slow when it comes to this kind of stuff. Like, Ino told me she was my friend, maybe she was from the moment I helped her, and the Akatsuki, maybe the moment my kunai sliced threw Hidan's cheek, maybe I had friends all along.

"Hey, Kisame, who's the cute girl you got there?"

I looked over to see Deidara.

"Me, moron." I replied.

"Eh?!"

"Lily?" He looked at me with shock.

"Yes, it's me."

"W-What are you doing here?"

"Kisame said you guys made a challenge for me."

"Kisame!"

"Hey, we're done, so why not let her do it?"

"Because, we could have added some awesome extra's!"

"Blowing up the person once they win is not a extra."

"Eh, why?"

"-Sigh- Anyway, Lily come this way."

I followed Kisame closely, no need getting lost in the garden. As we kept going, Kisame and me met the other Akatsuki's. He told them I was going to do the challenge, so they tagged along. That pattern kind of just kept going and going, until we reached this Greek-style stadium. 

"Wow, that's amazing!"

"Thanks, but you haven't seen much yet!"

"Really?"

"Well, yeah, this is like only 0.6% of this entire mansion."

"Wow, you people are rich."

"You are too Lily, but it's just your a wise spender, unlike us."

"Ha, thanks."

I entered the stadium, it was like it was just taken from the Greece-era, everything looked perfect.

"Okay, welcome everyone, for the 'Akatsuki Tournaments'!"

"Challenger Lily Skyria believes we are weak, we are all here to prove her wrong!"

Everyone cheered, I smiled and laughed lightly. 

"Our first challenger shall be picked by a 'draw in the hat'!"

"Will she luck out and fight Konan that refuses to fight her and will forfeit immediately or maybe somebody like Kakazu, who is betting on himself, and let me tell you folks, when  he bets on something, he really expects it to happen...or else!"

"Okay, my hand is in the hat, I'm touching somebody's lucky paper! 

"..."

"And its...Itachi..."

Everyone's eyes widened and then stared at me.

"Well Itachi's sort of unfair to fight Lily, so it's Lily's choice to either die immediately or survive!" joked Kisame.

"I swore I could beat most of the Akatsuki and Itachi's on the list!"

"Well alright, okay folks, Lily has chosen to fight the 12-year winner, Itachi Uchiha!"

Everyone cheered, and Itachi reluctantly came down, not because he was afraid of losing, he claims, it's just he doesn't want to fight a little kidie-battle, he states and blah, blah, blah.

"Itachi, I don't plan on losing, so do us all a favour and shut up!"

"..."