A/N Hey everyone! I'm Aqua!
This is my first Naruto story, and I apologize if anyone is OOC. Please read and review! ^^
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for my OC's and the plot.
In the dark cave used for the sealing of Bijuu, nine figures surrounded a tenth, staring at the butterfly that now hovered above them.
The Akatsuki had been trying to revive their fallen comrade, Akasuna no Sasori with a jutsu that Pein had gotten from one of his sources, aka Uchiha Madara. The jutsu, Pein assured them, would not cost them their lives when attempting to bring Sasori back. But something had gone wrong during the process.
Madara frowned as he stared at the butterfly. The jutsu had long since been completed, yet Sasori was not brought back to life. Instead, light had gathered near the top of the cave, slowly forming a butterfly. Madara was completely sure that this jutsu did not do that.
The butterfly had slowly descended, now hovering just above Sasori's body. It landed on Sasori's chest, where his heart was. It was still for a few heartbeats, before bursting into a shower of tiny lights that disappeared in Sasori. Everyone was still, waiting and watching for anything else to happen. For a few minutes, nothing happened.
Just when everyone was about to let their guard down and complain to Pein (or in Pein's case, brace himself for the negative comments that was sure to come from the other members of the Akatsuki), Sasori's body suddenly began to glow.
"What the hell?" came the shocked exclamation of Hidan.
"What's happening, un?" Deidara asked Pein. Pein did not reply, for he had no idea as well. Sasori's body was undergoing a huge change. The lines on his body from being a puppet had disappeared, as well as the canister that contained his heart. The cable that replaced his stomach was had been replaced with skin. His chest began to rise and fall as he breathed. Not only was Sasori revived, he had been turned back into a human as well.
Then, as suddenly as it appeared, the glow vanished… Taking Sasori with it.
There were exclamations of shock from the Akatsuki. Only the calmer members, like Itachi, Konan and Kakuzu, managed to refrain from yelling and instead cast a questioning glance at their leader.
"Everyone, calm down." Pein ordered. Immediately, the members of Akatsuki stopped talking and looked at Pein.
"Split up into your teams and search the area for Sasori. There is a possibility that he is somewhere in this area.
"And if he's not?" asked Kisame.
"If he's not, we shall meet back here to discuss the best way to go about searching for him." Replied Pein. He watched the other teams discuss with each other on which direction they would take and run off. However, before Deidara and Tobi left, he managed to catch the masked man's eye. Tobi gave him a small nod before turning to Deidara.
"Senpai! Tobi needs to go to the bathroom!" he whined.
"You can do that later. Help me look for Sasori' first." Deidara replied.
"But Senpai! If Tobi doesn't go now, Tobi's gonna wet his-"
"Okay, fine! Do what you need to do. We'll be searching the forest west from here so catch up with me then." Deidara growled, before leaving the cave. Tobi waited until Deidara was out of sight before turning to Pein.
"I am well aware that the jutsu was not working as it should." He said, his voice changing from child-like to a deeper tone.
"What do you think happened, Madara?" asked Pein.
"I don't know. Perhaps one of the members did the wrong hand sign. Or maybe, Fate decided to intervene and take the body somewhere else." Pein raised an eyebrow at this.
"You have an idea of where Sasori may be?" Madara nodded.
"It's only a wild guess, but remember the other world I was telling you about?" Pein nodded.
"Well, there's a chance that Sasori ended up there, with the family who I also told you about." Madara said. Pein's eyes narrowed as he contemplated this new information. Konan, who had remained with Pein, spoke up.
"So, if Sasori is, indeed, there, how do you say we get him back?"
"Oh, well, if he is there you don't need to. Because if he is there, then the children's powers would have been unsealed and-" suddenly, the ground began to rumble. Pein, Konan and Madara leapt out of the way just as the ground split and a door appeared through the crack, rising from the earth. Just as the door fully emerged, the ground merged again and the door swung open, revealing a girl, about sixteen years old, standing before it. She had messy brown hair that reached her mid-back and dark blue eyes with silver flecks in them. From her pajamas, Pein could tell that she had just woken up. Her face was red and she looked absolutely furious.
"Uchiha Madara," she growled through gritted teeth, "IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?"
"Katsumi," Madara smiled at her, though you couldn't see because of his mask. "It's been a while, hasn't it?"
I was furious. No, I was beyond furious. There are no words to describe how angry I am at Madara right now. It all started this morning, when I first woke up. I had been very warm for some strange reason, so I felt inclined to stay in bed a little longer and snuggle closer into my pillow. Until, that is, I opened my eyes and found out that I was not hugging my pillow. No, I was hugging a person. A freaking person. In my bed. And he was hugging me back. Did I mention that he was NAKED?
Now you see, I was not told that Akasuna no Sasori was going to be arriving in our world. I didn't expect him to be in my bed, totally naked. And I certainly did not like the fact that he was cuddling me against him like I was a giant teddy bear. Well, normally I wouldn't have minded being cuddled (my twin brother used to do that when we were young), but Kami, he was NAKED! Well, I was so flustered at this point that I did what seemed logical at the time. I screamed.
That must have woken him up because he was up in an instant, holding the knife I keep on the bedside table (for safety precautions) to my neck. My cry must have woken my twin brother up too, since he was in my room in an instant, gaping at the sight of a NAKED man holding a knife to my throat, telling him 'not to move or the girl dies'. Well, actually, Tsubasa must have been more concerned with the fact that one of his favorite characters from his favorite show had appeared, never mind that said character was naked in his sister's room, holding a knife against her throat.
Sensing that my brother was not going to be any help, I decided to take matters into my own hands. With a few self-defense moves, Sasori was unconscious again and I was storming off to the storage room of my house. I did the hand signs that Madara had taught me and saw that the door was glowing. When the glow faded, I slammed it open and growled at the man with the orange mask that everyone else knew to be Tobi, but Pein, Konan, Zetsu, Itachi and I knew to be Uchiha Madara.
"Uchiha Madara," I growled, "IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?"
Imagine the surprise that the Akatsuki had when they returned from looking for Sasori, only to find a girl, standing at a door that had previously not been there before, yelling at Tobi and calling him Uchiha Madara.
"You could have at least given me a heads up about this! I mean, this thing doesn't happen normally..." the girl went on and on about how Sasori had attacked her and how her useless twin brother had done nothing to help her out of that predicament. At that point, the Akatsuki could see a boy behind her. He must've been her twin because they could see the resemblance. However, his brown hair was short and shaggy while his eyes were sea green and had gold flecks in them.
"Katsumi..." he said. The girl ignored him and went on with her rant, which was surprisingly long.
"Katsumi." he said a little louder. Again, he was ignored.
"KATSUMI!" he finally yelled.
"WHAT?" His sister snapped. There was silence for a while until Madara asked,
"Are you done?" The girl, her name now known as Katsumi, took a deep breath and exhaled.
"Yeah, pretty much." Madara sighed in relief. Kami, he thought. That girl is amazing, how she talks so much.
"Umm..." It was then that Madara noticed the rest of the Akatsuki staring at them.
"Tobi... This may sound stupid, but are you really... Uchiha Madara?" Asked Deidara. Madara nodded.
"Yes, I am. And now, you will forget what just happened." Madara did a jutsu and everyone's eyes clouded, save for the ones who knew about his true identity.
"What did you do?" asked Katsumi, staring at him in amazement.
"It's a jutsu that erases their memories for the past few minutes," replied Madara nonchalantly.
"Cool. You have to teach me that," said the twins simultaneously. Madara chuckled.
"Of course." Just then, Deidara and the rest who got their memories erased blinked.
"What just happened?" asked Kisame.
"Senpai! You're back!" Tobi cried, trying to glomp Deidara.
"What the- Tobi! Why did take so long, hm? What the hell did you do?"
"Tobi told you, Senpai! Tobi had to go to the bathroom! But Tobi got lost and couldn't find it so-"
"Okay, I don't need to hear more." Deidara was twitching in irritation.
"What the hell is that?" Hidan suddenly yelled. Everyone turned to look at the door that had just appeared in the middle of the sealing cave.
"This definitely wasn't here the last time I checked." said Kakuzu.
"And who are they?" Kisame gestured to the pair of twins in the doorway.
"My name is Hayagawa Katsumi, and this is my twin brother, Tsubasa. Nice to meet you," Katsumi chirped. Tsubasa grinned at them and waved.
"They are my... associates." Pein said.
"Oh," said Kisame. "Well, it's nice to meet you too. My name is Kisame." Katsumi and Tsubasa smiled at him.
"Oh yes, Leader-sama, we found no sign of Sasori in this area. What shall we do now?" Itachi asked.
"No need. We found him," Tsubasa said. Everyone looked at him in shock.
"Really, un?" asked Deidara.
"Yeah, he turned up in our house. But he's still asleep, so its best if you leave him be." replied Tsubasa. Madara then remembered something that he had to tell the twins.
"Can Tobi see your house?" he asked. It was childish, yes, but he had to keep up the act and this was the only thing he could think of.
"No, you idiot! You just met them and besides, they must be busy!" Tobi ignored his senpai and looked up at Katsumi, who was struggling not to laugh at the thought of Madara calling another person younger than him 'senpai' and acting childish.
"Aw, I'm sorry Tobi, but we have a friend coming over in half an hour." Katsumi cooed sweetly, secretly smirking at Madara. Madara glared at her through the eyehole of his mask.
"Then shouldn't you go hide Sasori for now?" asked Kisame.
"Nah, relax. She's only coming over in half an hour and even if the doorbell rings, Tsubasa can hide Sasori and I would go get the door." said Katsumi.
"But Katsumi, Asura is always early. And she never uses the-" Suddenly, everyone heard the front door slam open.
"HONEY, I'M HOME!" Called a feminine voice.
"Oh, shit."
Tsubasa sighed in relief as they finally reached his room and closed the door. Pein, using a jutsu that made him invisible, had gone with him to take care of Sasori as the twins entertained their guest. Madara would have followed, but he had to keep up his Tobi act and thus stayed behind.
But even though Pein was invisible and he had taken great care to match his footsteps with the older man's (Asura's senses were surprisingly sharp), he saw Asura glance at him once or twice as he walked down the hallway. He sincerely hoped that she didn't suspect anything.
"So, this is where you took Sasori?" Pein asked, undoing the jutsu and looking around his room. Tsubasa nodded in reply.
"Yeah, after Katsumi stormed off to the storage room, I was left to drag Saori into my room and get him into some clothes."
"I see." There was an awkward silence in the room.
"Umm, I have to go entertain Asura so I'll just change and… Yeah… Will you be okay here?" Tsubasa asked.
"I will be fine. When Sasori wakes up I will explain the full situation to him. However, you can't confine him in this room for the rest of the day. He is a human now, and I imagine that he will need to eat and drink once he has woken up." Pein warned Tsubasa. Sighing, the brown-haired teen closed his eyes in thought.
"When I get the chance, I'll sneak some food and water in here. He can come out once Asura has gone, which is probably by tonight…" Just then, a thought occurred to him. "So wait, we have to house him here until he recovers?" Tsubasa asked.
"Yes. Right now, he is unable to fight and we have no members around to help take care of him, as they will be out doing missions." Pein replied.
"And… how long will he stay here, exactly?" Pein raised an eyebrow.
"Two, maybe three weeks. Is there a problem?" Tsubasa bit his lip.
"Well-"
"Tsubasa? Where the hell are you? Get out here so we can start already!" He heard Katsumi yell from the living room.
"We'll continue this discussion later. For now, I have to go." The teen hurriedly left the room. Pein heard him run to the living room yelling, "Alright, alright, I'm coming already!"
When Tsubasa got to the living room, he found Katsumi trying to stop Asura from drinking a cup of coffee. Wait a second… Wasn't that the coffee that he'd made and never drank because of what happened this morning?
"It's my coffee, I can do what I want with it!" protested the crimson haired girl, holding the cup close to her.
"Actually, its Tsubasa's coffee. And you know how you are with coffee! We want to keep our sanity!" Katsumi paused, "Actually, we don't have a sanity anymore but that's not the point!"
"Umm, mind if you gave me back the coffee, Asura?" Tsubasa asked, sweatdropping. The two girls turned to look at him.
"Tsubasa! Finally, what took you so long? We were getting ready to barge into your room to drag you out! It's not nice to keep people waiting, ya know!" Asura smacked Tsubasa on his head. She was wearing a Hell Bunny corset top and a plaid, chain skirt. She also wore combat boots and skull tights, and had a choker around her neck.
"Umm… Why exactly were you waiting for me?" Tsubasa rubbed the place that Asura had hit him.
"We were going to watch a Naruto Shippuden marathon and we decided to wait for you." Replied Katsumi.
"Oh yeah, by the way, can I have your cup of coffee?" Asura asked with puppy dog eyes. Tsubasa sweatdropped.
"No. And besides, I think you've had enough already, judging by the way you're asking. How many cups have you had?" Tsubasa asked.
"Five!" Asura stated proudly. Tsubasa and Katsumi groaned.
"Oh, boy… You know what, let's just start." Tsubasa said. The other two agreed and soon, they were watching the first episode of Naruto Shippuden.
A little while later in Tsubasa's room, Sasori blinked awake. He looked around, more than a little confused. This was not his room, or any of the other members' rooms. Besides, wasn't he supposed to be dead? Then, is this the afterlife? Just as he was going to get out of bed, his eyes fell on his leader sitting on a chair beside the bed reading a book called Twilight. Two piles of books sat on either side of him. Pein's eye was twitching as he read the book. He had barely finished a quarter of it before he put it in the pile of books that Sasori assumed that he had finished reading.
"Never again…" Sasori heard his leader murmur. Then, Pein noticed Sasori was awake and said to him, "Ah, you're awake."
"Leader-sama…" Sasori said. "Where am I? Aren't I supposed to be…?"
"You were dead, Sasori. However, we brought you back to life using a jutsu." Pein replied him.
"And this place is?" Sasori gestured to the room he was currently located in.
"We are in the house of some acquaintances of mine. Unfortunately, they are unable to look after you right now, as they are busy entertaining a guest. That is why they asked me to help. Well, that and… I think that the little incident this morning scared the girl." Sasori sweatdropped.
"So… that wasn't a dream then." He muttered. Suddenly, a low growl rang throughout the room. It took Sasori a little while to realize that that was his stomach.
"I'm hungry… Wait a second." Sasori's eyes widened in disbelief, " I'm a human?" Pein nodded, sighing a little. This would take a while to explain.
"Well, yes. The jutsu somehow turned you back into a human." Sasori blinked.
"How?"
"Well," Pein proceeded to explain to Sasori what had happened when they had tried the jutsu, as well as how Pein himself had gotten here. When he finished, the normally emotionless Sasori's eyes were wide with shock.
"I still don't understand… How did you know the twins in the first place, if they were from another world?" he asked. Pein sighed.
"Actually, this is the first time meeting them in person. However, the reason that I know them is because of a person named Uchiha Madara." Sasori scoffed.
"Uchiha Madara died years ago, Leader-sama." Pein shook his head.
"No, he is still alive and is currently known as Tobi. He is the one who replaced you as Deidara's partner. However, he has Orochimaru's ring since we stole the ring back from him."
Sasori was silent for a while. He could not believe this piece of information. If the person telling him this wasn't his leader, he would've smacked him hard on the head and tell him to save it for someone who actually cares. Pein let the information sink in for a while before continuing.
"He stumbled upon this world a year ago by accident, when using a jutsu that allowed him to teleport himself to other places. He arrived in the twins' old home, right in front of their eyes. Initially he would have killed their whole family, but he decided to keep them alive to tell him about the world that he had landed in. He learned that the humans in this world had never heard of chakra before and that there were no ninjas in it either. Madara was inclined to believe them, as he couldn't sense any chakra in them." Pein paused for breath and continued again.
"But as he got ready to kill them and go back to his world, he discovered a faint flare of chakra in the twins. When he checked, he discovered that actually, this world had chakra, but not all people could actually use it. It had been sealed, in a way. He decided to keep the family alive and train the twins to use chakra." Sasori nodded slowly and closed his eyes, pondering this new information.
"I see…"
"Do you understand?" Pein asked.
"Yes… though I have one question." Sasori said. "Could the twins use chakra before?"
Pein nodded in reply. "They could use it to a certain extent. However, the rest of their chakra was sealed and could not be used. When they turned sixteen, Madara would break the seal and help them control it."
"Then, how did they summon the door, if they could only use a little? It must take a lot of chakra to summon a door that links their world to ours. So, how were they able to summon it?"
"I… don't know." Pein said, frowning. "It's a feeling, but I think it had something to do with the butterfly that appeared during your revival."
"The butterfly?" asked Sasori. Pein was about to reply when suddenly, he heard a feminine voice cry out, "DIE, YOU PINK HAIRED BITCH!" He recognized the voice to be Asura.
"Yeah! Go Sasori! Stab her again!" yelled another. Sasori stared at Pein in confusion.
"What, exactly, are they doing outside?" asked Sasori. Pein shrugged.
"Madara did mention something about something called an 'anime'. He said something about it being about the nine-tails Jinchuuriki. I believe they must be watching your fight with his comrades after we extracted the One-tail." Mused Pein. Sasori blinked.
"You mean they actually show our fight?" he asked.
"Well, I suppose. The series is quite popular too, so a lot of people have watched it." Pein replied. Sasori groaned. Just great, his humiliating defeat against a pink haired brat and an old hag was known to the many people who had watched the so-called 'anime'.
Back outside, Asura suddenly remembered something.
"Hey Tsubasa?" she asked.
"Yeah?" asked Tsubasa.
"I left a Twilight book here last week. Did you see it?" Tsubasa thought for a while.
"Oh yeah, I do remember seeing that in my room… Wait, you read Twilight?" Asura cringed and shook her head.
"Of course not. I… 'Borrowed' it from my cousin to doodle on but I left it here by accident. She wants it back so yeah… Anyways, I'll just go get it then." Asua said, standing up.
"Sure." Said the twins simultaneously. They paused the DVD and waited for Asura to return.
"Wait, you kept the book in your room?" asked Katsumi.
"Well, why not? And besides, I only found it yesterday when I was cleaning out my room." Katsumi snorted.
"For once. It's still messy though." Tsubasa laughed sheepishly.
"I hope Pein and Sasori doesn't mind the-" and the twins' eyes widened. They were so absorbed in watching the show that they completely forgot about the two S-Ranked shinobi in Tsubasa's room.
"ASURA! WAIT!" they yelled, running towards Tsubasa's room.
Meanwhile, Asura had skipped over to Tsubasa's room. She paused as she reached for the doorknob. She thought she heard voices in there… Well, she didn't really care right now. She was too hyper to care. So, she opened the door… and was face-to-face with two fictional characters from the world of Naruto; one of them the one she had just seen on TV, the other one her favorite character. Her jaw dropped.
Just then, Tsubasa and Katsumi skidded to a stop beside Asura. It was too late; she had already seen the two Akatsuki members that they were trying to keep a secret. The redhead was currently talking up a storm on how Pein and Sasori's cosplay outfits were amazing.
"Man, you guys are awesome cosplayers! Tsubasa, Katsumi, why did you keep them a secret from me?" Asura rounded on the twins. Katsumi and Tsubasa blinked and looked at each other.
"It… was a… surprise! Yeah…" Tsubasa said nervously. Asura raised an eyebrow.
"For what?" she asked.
"Umm…." Tsubasa sent his sister a 'help me!' look. Katsumi shot him a 'how am I supposed to know what to do? You told the lie!' look in return. At that moment, Sasori spoke,
"Um, sorry, but what is 'cosplay'?" asked Sasori.
"How can you not know that when you're actually cosplaying?" asked Asura.
"'Cosplaying'…?" asked Pein.
"You know, dressing up as your favorite characters!" said Asura.
"But… I'm dressing up as myself." Said Pein, confused. Asura was silent for a while before bursting out in a fit of laughter.
"Haha, good one!" she said.
"Ahaha, yeah, good one… Peter!" Pein raised an eyebrow at the boy and Katsumi gave him a 'WTF?' look. Tsubasa mouthed 'Go along with it' and they nodded.
"So, what's the surprise all about, Tsubasa?" asked Asura.
"Uhh… A… thank you… for getting us in your school?" Katsumi nearly did an anime fall as she heard Tsubasa's reply. Asura looked confused.
"What do you mean, idiot? I didn't do anything." Tsubasa opened his mouth to come up with a lame explanation when suddenly, the closet door slammed open. Yes, the closet door.
"Pein! We have a-" Madara stopped talking when he saw the crimson haired girl. Asura was currently staring at him with her mouth hanging open.
"Wha…What the hell happened to your closet?" she finally yelled after several seconds of silence. Madara sighed and muttered something inaudible.
"So… wait. If that's who I think that is, then… Peter's name isn't Peter and he's... and then the person in your bed is…" The information began to sink in. Asura looked at Pein, then at Sasori, then Madara and finally the twins. She blinked a couple of times… before promptly passing out. Pein caught her as she fell and placed her on the floor. As Katsumi and Tsubasa ran out to get a bucket of cold water, Madara sighed.
"I was hoping to keep this a secret for a little while longer..."
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