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Here you are, stuck facing a wall of people. They aren't ninja. No, this is much worse. All you wanted to do was go out and get some of your favourite food, but you'd completely forgotten some sort of festival or something like that is going on today. It isn't that you hate crowds, they're just really annoying. There's no way through this blockade of tourists and Pain's not going to appreciate you causing a scene here. You guess you're just going to have to head back to the base empty handed.

“________-chan!” You've just been thinking about annoying things and Tobi comes running over like magic. “What's wrong _______-chan? You don't look happy to be at this festival.”

“No, that's not it.” You sigh, guessing that there's no harm in telling him. “I'm just really hungry and had my heart set on my favourite food. No way of getting past all those people though, so I guess I'm just going to have to go without.” Tobi suddenly grasps your hands in his.

“Tobi will help _______-chan through.” He tells you with one hundred percent assurance. You're about to ask him how he's going to go about doing this, when within a swirl you're right in the heart of that crowd, lying on the ground, being trampled on.

“Whoops! Sorry about that _______.” Tobi appears out of nowhere, grabs you and teleports you off again. You don't know what on Earth is going on, but you don't appreciate it one bit.

“Oi! Don't you try cutting in front of me.” The man you're now in front of doesn't seem to care about randomly appearing konoichi as much as he does this. He probably doesn't know you're in the Akatsuki either, with you not wearing the uniform right now.

“I got here at 4am last Monday to nab this spot.” He shoves you in the shoulder, starting to push you back now until Tobi suddenly appears between the pair of you.

“Don't talk to ________-chan like that!” Tobi turns on the man. He looks like he's about to start talking to the masked man in much the same way, but soon after Tobi's started looking at him, he's run off screaming instead. Well that was weird. Tobi turns back to you and shrugs, apparently not knowing what's caused that reaction either. Then you're off on this magical teleporting adventure of his once more. By the end of it you're lying face down on the ground, beaten and bruised.

“Okay!” Tobi leans over you as enthusiastic as ever. “Now _______-chan can get that food she wanted.”

“Tobi...” You say, struggling to raise your head. “The store I wanted was back that way.” You shake with the trauma as you point back into that crowd. Tobi offers to set out with you again, but you refuse. No, you're just going to drag yourself back to the Akatsuki base and make do with whatever the rest of the members have left rejected around the kitchen.