Story number: #1

Rewritten on: 27.12

Pairings: Multi-pairings & some akatsuki/OC

Rating: M

Enjoy.

Akiko was tired of living all by herself. For most of her life, Akiko didn't have many friends and she was sick of it. She didn't need the extra income, but due to persistent loneliness, she put all the extra rooms in her apartment for rent, a cheap one at that. It wasn't even a week later that a group of males had approached her to check the living conditions of the apartment.

She brought them around her home, noting that they were ninjas. She didn't give it much thought at the time, more focused on getting them interested in renting their apartment. They were a group of eight males in total, however only one seemed to be in-charge of getting them a place to stay.

Once done with the open-house, the males were discussing whether or not to rent out the rooms. There were eight of them and four bedrooms available so space shouldn't have been a problem. The house seemed really clean and they could tell it was well taken care of by its owner. The rent was cheap too.

"Can't you lower the rent?"

But apparently not cheap enough for a certain miser. Akiko, though, didn't mind lowering it more to his liking. She didn't need the money anyway. The two quickly made a deal and before she knew it they were going to move into her home. Before they left, she wanted to get the formalities out of the way before they came back the next day to officially move in. Better do it now lest it gets awkward tomorrow when they really start staying here.

Akiko moved to introduce herself to the closest tenant - a blonde with long hair.

"My name is Akiko," she outstretched her hand for him to shake.

"I'm Deidara, yeah." He grabbed her hand and shook it, a sly grin on his face. When she was about to let go, something wet licked her hand. Akiko was in shock. Deidara opened his palms, faced up and there was a mouth on each one. A tongue stuck out from the one Akiko shook while the other palm's mouth just grinned. Akiko smirked, they were very interesting.

"I'm Hidan, fucking nice to meet you." A silver-haired man snorted. Akiko stuck my hand out in an attempt to shake his hand. "Same here. I'm Akiko." He took it but didn't let go. She tugged at it forcefully and the grip loosened.

The next boy she went to looked very young. He had blazing red hair, "Sasori."

She smiled and said "I'm Akiko."

Itachi introduced himself to Akiko and she shook his hand. He seemed quite reserved and quiet, but was well mannered.

Kisame was a brute guy with blue skin, topped of with a toothy shark grin and what seemed like gills. He didn't shake her hand but she didn't mind, with all that muscle he may have broken it trying.

Next was a man in an orange mask. He was pretty mysterious and that seemed cool to her. "Hi, I'm Akiko."

"I'm Tobi! Nice to meet you, Coco-kun!" He said. His voice was pretty high-pitched and he seemed nice. It seems like she gave him a nickname. She didn't mind. However, referring to her as a boy though made her temper show.

"It's Coco-chan to you if you insist on calling me that." She snapped. She heard a few gasps and facepalmed.

Even though Akiko wore baggy shirts and boy shorts, with bangs covering her eyes, she was in no way a boy. Sure she had androgynous features and barely shoulder length hair, but she wasn't a boy! Akiko had been called a boy for all her life, even her siblings teased her about it. No one wanted to be her friend because of this, they all preferred to tease her. After a few attempts of fixing her looks, Akiko gave up, and this was what had become of her.

"Listen here and listen good, I am NOT a boy. I'm 100% female alright!" she snapped again. She was pissed.

"Tobi is sorry Coco-chan! Tobi didn't know. Tobi didn't mean to make Coco-chan angry! Tobi is a good boy!"

"It's okay, I forgive you." she replied; she had actually found him nice and funny.

The only other person whom she didn't know the name of was a man who was half black and half white. She went over to him and he stared at her hungrily. "Hello. Call me Zetsu." The way he said that amazed her. The white half of the man spoke first before the other half did.

"Mine is Akiko." She replied.

After some discussion, it was decided that each pair of Akatsuki members would room with each other; and thus began the life of Akiko and the Akatsuki.