Yeah so this is my new story.. i really don't recall where the idea came form and i know it's a stupid name but whatever... so yeah.. it'll be partially in MSN form, hope that doesn't bother anybody.. if it does well you've come to the wrong place... updates should be just as fast as they usually are (cause i write WAY too much...) yeah...
you'll definetely be able to tell who's who.. especially Itachi cause i didn't know what to write so i made him unimaginitive. oh and Sasori and Deidara's names are really similar... yeah...
T for now but i might change the rating later on.
WARNINGS: swearing, msn, bad beginnings.. typo's, and other stuff
Disclaimer: *sighs* sorry. i don't own anyhting but the plot.
DOES IT RAIN WHERE YOU ARE?
You are now chatting with 9 random strangers, say hello.
You're discussion question is: Does it rain where you are?
Art_Is_Eternal: what kind of stupid question is that?
Art_Is_Fleeting: I think it's the kind you answer, un.
Art_Is_Eternal: un? What is that?
Art_Is_Fleeting: speech impediment, un.
Art_Is_Eternal: online?
Art_Is_Fleeting: I wouldn't want to lie about who I am.
Isn't there someone else on this stupid site, it says there's ten of us, un!
Praise_Jashin: well if you two would allow anyone else time to speak; maybe we wouldn't all be lost for fucking words!
Greed_Is_Good: great, who invited the potty mouth?
Praise_Jashin: fuck you, you heathen bastard!
Itachi_Uchiha: and here I was thinking I'd actually meet some interesting, civil people here.
Art_Is_Eternal: online?
Itachi_Uchiha: I'm an optimist.
Shark_Bait: you're also uninventive.
Itachi_Uchiha: how so?
Shark_Bait: you used your name for your email.
Itachi_Uchiha: what about you, you used 'Shark Bait'
Shark_Bait: yes, because 'Sharks_Are_Awesome297' was taken.
Tobi_Is_A_Good_Boy: Tobi!
Itachi_Uchiha: Tobi, hush. We came onto this site to meet people and I don't want you scaring them away!
Black_And_White_World: leave Tobi alone.
Praise_Jashin: great, I got stuck with a bunch of heathen weirdoes. Just my fucking luck!
Greed_Is_Good: quit complaining; if you don't like it then leave!
Praise_Jashin: bastard, why don't you leave?!
I_Am_God: mother of god, can you all just be quiet for a moment? I can't even hear you all bickering and it's giving me a headache! Now how many of there are you? I count at least eight; all of you introduce yourself, right now.
Praise_Jashin: who the fuck do you think you are?
I_Am_God: just do it.
Art_Is_Fleeting: Deidara, un.
Art_Is_Eternal: Sasori.
Praise_Jashin: Hidan.
Greed_Is_Good: Kakuzu
Itachi_Uchiha: I think it should be self-explanatory, but I am Itachi
Shark_Bait: Kisame
Tobi_Is_A_Good_Boy: Tobi!
Black_And_White_World: Zetsu
Paper_Princess: Konan
I_Am_God: excellent, and I and Pein. I've been at this for three weeks and I haven't met a single group as… lively as the nine of you.
Art_Is_Fleeting: three weeks? Try three months or better yet, try two years. I'm sick of this, un.
Art_Is_Eternal: why would anybody spend that long looking for friends online?
Praise_Jashin: it's clear the kid has no fucking life.
Deidara looked at the screen hesitantly. He knew why he had come online and why he had continued to search, but if he were to write it down….
Eh, he decided it didn't matter what they thought of him anyway. If he didn't want to, he didn't ever have to see them again. So he typed what he wanted to and hit entered.
Art_Is_Fleeting: because un, I really need somebody.
Praise_Jashin: that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!
Itachi_Uchiha: I can relate.
I_Am_God: so can I.
I've been looking for people to add to my chat group. I'm calling it the Akatsuki. We're not looking for a great deal of people, but if any of you are interested?
Art_Is_Fleeting: yes oh my god un, yes!
Art_Is_Eternal: sure, I came on here looking for friends.
Paper_Princess: Sure ^^
Shark_Bait: count me in.
Itachi_Uchiha: yes, against my better judgment.
Tobi_Is_A_Good_Boy: yes please, Tobi would like to join.
Praise_Jashin: whatever, I guess I've got nothing better to be doing.
Greed_Is_Good: okay, I'm in.
Black_And_White_World: we'll join.
I_Am_God: good, I'll have you all added by the morning.
Chapter 1 – Sasori
It had been two weeks since the beginning of the Akatsuki and Sasori logged on every day to chat with them. Granted, they weren't always all on at the same time, the only time that usually happened was during the weekend but it was nice to finally have somebody to talk to.
He found out a lot about them all since then as they were all so willing to share as long as it bore no real life consequences.
Pein and Konan were orphans living in Ame; they were both seventeen and lived in the dorms of their current school but had somehow never run into each other. They were both on scholarships and worked for everything they had, they were both real nerds, apparently.
Kisame was in a sort of gang called The Seven Swordsman of the Mist. They lived in Kiri and Kisame didn't get to go to school or make connections outside of the group. He said the guys were like his brothers, but he longed to know what else was out there.
Hidan was a traveller, originally from Yuga, his parents were killed when he was young, and he spent a lot of his childhood in a convent before breaking out and vowing to serve Jashin for the rest of his life though he claimed to be immortal.
Kakuzu said this was a load of bullshit and the only thing we could really trust or depend on in life, was money. He lived in Taki and worked two jobs on the side of school. He'd been emancipated from his parents, said they were irresponsible and wasteful. He'd been injured in an accident and as a result, he had numerous scars along his body. He had trouble making real friends at school.
Itachi and Tobi both lived in Konaha with Zetsu. Tobi and Itachi were cousins, the latter of whom was seen as a genius, the pride of his clan, a gift hand delivered from god. He got the top grades in school without even trying but due to immense family pressure coupled with a distant father and having to learn to take care of himself and his brother alone, he was too distant to really connect with people and just ended up scaring them instead.
Tobi was quite the opposite, friendly and happy, he hid his brains behind a smile and childlike attitude and was passed off by his clan and everyone else, as an idiot when really, he was capable of surpassing everybody his age – excluding Itachi. The only person besides Itachi, who got to see this side, was Zetsu who worked for the Uchiha's and took up residence in their compound, choosing to spend the majority of his time not working, with Tobi.
Tobi and Zetsu only agreed to follow Itachi online because he wouldn't do it alone. He had a brief moment of fear and they were there to support him.
That only left one person, but Sasori hadn't learnt a lot about Deidara. He was definitely closest to Deidara yet the brat had barely told anybody anything about him. He had a backwards view of art, believing it should be fleeting rather than everlasting but beyond that, he never said much.
After school on Wednesday night, Sasori had just enough time between making his cousins dinner and putting them to bed – because his grandmother wouldn't be home until late – to go online.
Logging on, he saw only one other member was on:
Art_Is_Fleeting
Sasori was only on for a maximum of thirty seconds before something popped up.
Incoming request for video chat with Art_Is_Fleeting
Accept?
Sasori stared at the screen for a moment. Deidara wanted to video chat?
What could they possibly say through camera that they couldn't say on a message board? Though he had to admit, he was curious about Deidara; what did he look like? What did he sound like? Did he really have an annoying speech impediment?
Sasori clicked accept and waited impatiently as the screen loaded and his webcam cam online. When all was done, there sat a smiling blonde, with ocean blue eyes.
He was wearing a Nirvana shirt, which was the first thing Sasori noticed. The second was all the posters around his room: Iron Maiden, Aerosmith, Incubus, Nirvana, U2 and Green Day.
"Hi, un," Deidara waved a little, reminding Sasori that this wasn't a picture. His voice was bright and cheerful and he looked happy, so why on earth did he need somebody? "I didn't think you'd accept."
Sasori shrugged, "I had nothing better to do, what did you want to talk about, anyway?"
"Nothing really, un I was just curious what you would look like, having gotten art so terribly wrong. Honestly un, I figured you'd look a mess but I'm pleasantly surprised."
Sasori scowled. Stupid brat.
"You're not so bad yourself considering your own backwards views on art. In what world would an explosion be classed as art?"
"Deidara get your fucking ass down here right now!"
Deidara cringed as the sound of shouting filled his room and echoed through the camera.
"A world that just makes you wanna explode," he said. He looked towards the door. Would the lock be enough? No, he should go down here. "I'll be right back."
Deidara left the view of the camera and Sasori listened, hearing the door unlock, open and close. Why would he keep his door locked? Did he live in a dorm like Pein and Konan? Was he a traveller or a group member like Hidan or Kisame? Was he a servant like Zetsu, or all alone like Kakuzu? Or, was he just an ordinary kid like Sasori himself, with a little too much on his plate?
Sasori heard more shouting downstairs. Something about a lie to a teacher and Deidara was told not to run his 'filthy little mouth'. There was silence – or really quiet talking – then a crash followed by another and a hushed voice growling, "go upstairs and stay there for the rest of the night., if I hear one peep out of you…" the next part was whispered but Sasori could imagine what was said.
Moments later, Deidara came back to his room; Sasori heard the lock click before the blonde sat down, blood dripping faintly from his mouth.
"Sorry about that, un," he said.
"What just happened brat, was that your father?"
Deidara's features contorted into a mask of disgusted anger but he caught himself in time to say, "No. I don't know what you heard."
"Look brat, if you're in trouble…"
"Can I see out your window, un?"
Huh, why would he want that?
But still, Sasori saw fit to oblige and held his webcam out his open window.
"Wow un, you really do live in the desert. It's beautiful."
Sasori pulled the camera back in and set it back up on the top of his computer. "What was that about?" he asked.
"Un, I just wanted to remember something."
"That's really annoying, you know that?"
Deidara shrugged carelessly and said, "yes un, well I do try," he looked over towards his door and sighed, "I have to sleep now un, but it was fun getting to see your face," he paused to yawn before saying, "night Danna, un."
The screen went black.
Danna? Just what was this boy playing at?
Itachi
Between work and school, Itachi found he barely had a second to himself and when he did, he spent it with his younger brother, either helping him with his homework or helping with other things.
Now not to be misunderstood; Itachi absolutely adored his little brother – not that anybody could tell – but after a while, he began to ask himself what kind of life he was really living.
He went to school, he went to work, did chores and whatever else his father wanted him to go, he spent time with Sasuke and occasionally with Tobi and Zetsu but there was nobody he could really talk to. That's when he started to schedule study dates with Tobi – Zetsu usually followed him around the compound as one of his main jobs was to watch him – and they began to search for friends online.
They found the Akatsuki on their first try and went online every spare moment they got. Itachi found them all to be quite interesting people but was particularly interested in the one called Shark_Bait or Kisame, if they were talking real names. He seemed to enjoy violence and shared many of his bloody adventures in full detail.
It was disturbing to say the least but intriguing nonetheless.
He logged on that night and checked to see who else was on:
Praise_Jashin
Greed_Is_Good
Art_Is_Eternal
Paper_Princess
Itachi was about to log out, feeling thoroughly disappointed but the conversation behind it caught his attention. Apparently, Hidan had returned to Yuga but was now looking to take up residence elsewhere.
Praise_Jashin: PLEASE!
Art_Is_Eternal: Hey, I didn't know you knew that word
Praise_Jashin: Fuck you!
Greed_Is_Good: you're not going to make any friends with that attitude
Praise_Jashin: I thought WE were friends! I thought that was the whole point of this stupid message board!
Paper_Princess: We ARE friends. And friends don't invite friends to stay over indefinitely for simple fear that their friendship will inevitably crumble
Art_Is_Eternal: that an, you're a psychopath wanted in two or more villages and I don't want to get messy with that stuff.
Praise_Jashin: Psychopath? I'll show you psycho! If I ever come to Suna you better watch the fuck out!
Art_Is_Eternal: Not at all helping your case
Itachi_Uchiha: You can stay with me?
Praise_Jashin: Finally, a real friend!
Itachi_Uchiha: I mean, you'll have to keep it low-key and stay out of trouble with my family, but you're more than welcome to stay.
Itachi blinked at the screen. Why had he just written that? What was it about being online that made him so… different? Why was he letting his guard down for these people? Usually he trusted nobody, much less somebody he couldn't see! But he didn't feel afraid and he didn't want to take it back.
Paper_Princess: Are you sure about this?
Greed_Is_Good: you know who you just invited to stay, right?
Praise_Jashin: No fucking takesies backsies!
Itachi_Uchiha: fine. It should take you about two days to reach Konaha from Yuga. I look forward to meeting you.
Itachi_Uchiha has logged off.