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As the dim, dawn sun began to wink through the trees, Kassandra slowly pulled out of her trance and started to look around. She never slept...she had no use of sleep, she just would stake out a secluded place somewhere, and sit and think.

What whould life have been like if she had finished her sentence in purgatory? The "Higher" Powers had promiced her that she would become an ascended being had she atoned for her sins...but now what to do? Living again wasn't really what she wanted....she didn't know what she wanted.....Well, that what her trance usually lingered on. But, now as she began to "awaken" she looked at her surroundings.

She was sitting on the slanted rooftop of an inn, with the balcony to her and her team-mates' room below her. They were in a beautiful village of the water country, for miles the water beyond the village stretched. With the new morning sunlight, the cool liquid gleamed and shimered...the sight was beautiful. People passing the building looked up to see what a misterious, dark-clothed woman was doing on the rooftop, but then waved off the question.

With a sigh, Kassandra pushed off the rooftop, and stood on tiptoe at the edge. Her cloak ruffled loosely in the wind, as it wasn't fastned at the moment. Without even looking down, she jumped from her perch and landed with a light tap on the balcony below her, and behind, from the doorway, she heard a startled noise.

"By the Gods, Kassi. What are you doing, sneaking around at the crack of dawn?"

Kassi turned, to see a startled Kisame standing in the doorway behind her. He already had his cloak on, and fastened, but his headband was handing loosely from his hand, and his bight blue hair was ruffled messily.

"Are you scared of me?"
"What? No...Never!"
"Right...and I don't see that look in your eyes...."
"I...uh..."

Kisame stuttered nervously, and broke eye contact with his teammate, staring somewhere over her shoulder. It's odd that someone like Kisame could be intimidated by a woman who was even an inch or two shorter than him. A slight smirk appeared on Kassandra's face as she slowly pulled Kisame's headband from his grasp, and slid it over his hair, to its normal position, over his ears and forehead.

"You better hurry up getting ready, before Itachi gets irritated, and throws one of his tantrums."

Without another word, Kassandra resumed her normal indifferent expression, walked around him, and back into the room, shutting the door lightly behind her. The large bed at the opposite end of the room was neatly folded, but there was a slight impression that there had been two people sleeping in it the night before. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to clear her mind of the flood of disturbing images before she continued to the door, and lightly pushed it open. A simple filck of her wrist, and her straw hat, and its white tassles were concealing her face. As she walked, she fiddled with the fastenings of her cloak, sealing it shut, to make sure her features were completely hidden. She slowed down when she reached the stairs, as not to fall down them.

When she set foot on the floor, a simple glance over at the bar told her that Itachi was trying to drown his sorrow yet again. Kassandra made her way slowly toward the young man, and took a seat next to him. From the look upon the part of his face that could be seen, it looked as though he was trying to console his tea. With a shake of her head, Kassandra tapped her fingers lightly on the counter to get the bartender's attention and ordered a glass of Sake.

She nodded when the drink was sat in front of her, then glanced around slightly to see if anyone was in earshot. "What's today's plan?" she mumbled to her team-mate.

He lightly traced the rim of his glass with his forefinger, before replying, "We're supposed to move to a new location, that's all." then continued to be absorbed in his drink.