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Author's Note: Hello everyone! This is my first fan-fiction (Huzzah!) So I hope you will all go easy on me with the commenting. However some advice for me to improve and what parts need improving would be helpful to know. Don't expect romance to start right away, but do expect some tension and introduction of characters. I'm open to any suggestions for how to move forward in each chapter, so be sure to tell me your ideas and I might just take them into consideration. Hopefully the beginning isn't too confusing for you. Also, some of the characters have last names that may have been changed or did not have a last name to begin with (that I am aware of anyway). I did this because I do not know if it's okay to copy the name directly from the manga/anime. If it's alright for me to use, or not use, please let me know. Now let's get the reading ON! Sorry for the long author's note!
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Chapter One (1)
Hidan didn't know where he was going.
It was his first day at Attakatski High School and he couldn't find the main office, let alone where to go to class. Although it was his first day at the school, it was already halfway through the first semester.
He started at the entrance of the high school and began to wander the hallways. He started going down the left hallway and turned right and then right again. The bell had already rung and he was beginning to lose hope of ever finding anything. Hidan decided to ask someone for help with finding the main office (he actually already passed it, but he was nervous and was not aware that he did). He decided to stop a student in the hallway, however there was only one other student in the hallway with him. This student, however, seemed just as out of place as he was judging by the looks of it. Hidan noticed that the student was a lean male with long blonde hair put in a ponytail. The teen was wearing a weird, out of place black robe with what looked to be red clouds on parts of the robe.
Hidan himself had purple eyes and silver hair that was slicked back. He was wearing a navy-blue collared shirt and tight, black jeans.
"Hey blondie, mind helping me out?" Hidan called out to the strangely dressed teen. Although he was nervous, he certainly did not want to show it, especially when he didn't know anyone at Attakatski High School. And especially in front of this kid.
"Umm.. sure. What can I help you with, un?" the teen said, ignoring the "nickname" he has been given.
"I'm looking for the main office so I can get my class schedule. Could you perhaps show me where the main office is? You see I am new to this school and I don't know anything about it" Hidan mumbled all this as he said it. Somehow, the teen managed to hear him through the mumbling and agreed to take him to the office.
Along the way, Hidan learned that this student had a name. It was apparently Deidara.
I would have just called him freak, Hidan thought. But I actually need his help so I won't be too rude.
Hidan found out that Deidara has a mouth on each of the palms of his hands, which was extremely creepy. He explained that his hands were the result of some kind of abnormality he had received before he was born. It would eventually be added onto a list of other creepy things that he was eventually going to see.
After a few turns and going up a spiral staircase to the second floor, they arrived at the entrance to a door that had a sign that said Main Office above it that was right in front of the top of the spiral staircase.
"Thank you for helping me find the main office...Deidara. I can't believe that the main office is so far away from the entrance to the school" Hidan exclaimed.
"No problem my man. Wait. You do know that the entrance to the school is just down that hallway from the bottom of the stairs, right?... um what did you say your name was?" Deidara said.
"It's Hidan."
"Ah, well nice to meet you Hidan. I have to get back to my first period class as I was actually heading to use the restroom when you called out. If you need anything else, just ask" Deidara said as he walked away in a hurry.
Hidan watched the blonde Deidara go until Deidara disappeared when he went down the stairs. He turned his attention to the entrance of the main office and opened the door.
Once inside, he squinted to see anything as the lights were really bright. The lights here were blinding him, whereas the lights in the rest of the school were as dim as they could get.
"Hello there, what can I help you with today?" Hidan heard a voice call out.
Hidan looked around, trying to locate the voice. He saw a few chairs lined up against a wall and a tall, wooden counter that was in the middle of the room with an entrance at the far end. He saw a small head just barely sticking out above the counter. The small head belonged to a small, elderly woman who Hidan assumed was the secretary and also who the voice belonged to.
"U-um, I am a new student here and I don't have my schedule for my classes" Hidan said nervously. For some reason he felt intimidated by the elderly woman.
"Alright. Just a sec... name please?" the secretary asked.
"H-Hidan Yakuto" Hidan responded.
The secretary began to type and click the computer mouse a bunch.
"Um... Could you spell your first name?" she asked.
"H-I-D-A-N" he spelled out.
"Alright, and your last name too"
"Y-A-K-U-T-O" he spelled again.
"hmmm... ah, here you are. Now let's just print this out aaand... done!" the secretary mumbled out loud. As she mumbled, there was the sound of a printer printing from somewhere in the back. The secretary then got up and went into a side room in the back. She returned carrying a sheet of paper and handed it to him.
"There you are. These are your classes and the periods and times you take them. Right now, first period is almost over and second period is about to start soon. Your second period class is World History in room 147" the secretary explained as she handed Hidan his schedule.
"Alright, thank you" Hidan called out as he left the extremely bright room and into the hallway.
Just as he began walking away from the main office, the bell rang. First period was over and Hidan had to get to room 147 for his next class: World History.
Hidan walked down the staircase and down a hallway. The first thing he noticed was that when students exited their classrooms they were wearing the same odd robe that Deidara was wearing. The only noticeable difference was that girls had a red robe with black clouds instead of a black robe with red clouds on it.
As he walked down the hallway, several of the students stopped what they were doing and turned their heads and stared.
Hidan immediately knew he was sticking out as it looked like the weird robes the other students had were part of some sort of uniform for the school.
By the looks of it, Hidan wasn't wearing said uniform.
I think that secretary purposely didn't tell me about there being a school uniform, Hidan thought.
Hidan tried to ignore the stares as he walked pass the students and down the hallway, but he couldn't get that image out of his head
As Hidan passed classrooms, he looked at the top of the door frames on each side of the hallway at where the room numbers were. Even numbered rooms were on the right and odd numbered rooms were on the left. 139, 140, 141,142, 143, 144. Hidan's head bobbed from right to left trying to find 147 when suddenly he stopped. In front of him was a a huge clump of black and red robes gathering in what appeared to be a circle.
Hidan tried to move past them to see what was happening, when all of a sudden he heard shouting coming from somewhere in the middle of the circle.
Hidan managed to move past a few students in robes and ended up standing next to a girl with blue hair and a boy with black hair and eerie red eyes.
Hidan managed to see better and gasped at what he saw was happening.
Deidara, the blonde haired student who helped him find the main office, was on the ground, face-down, holding his stomach with one hand and had another hand in the air, as if reaching for help.
Just a few feet away from him, stood two more students that looked even more out of place than if Deidara and Hidan were combined. The student in front was a tall, blue-skinned student with dark blue hair and had shark-like features on his face. The blue-skinned student was holding an aluminum bat with the word "Sharkskin" on the side and had a sadistic grin on his face.
The student behind him looked extremely young, almost like a child, and had a mop of red hair on his head. His face was empty of all emotions as he just stared at Deidara.
How strange that we have a student that has blue skin and another student that looks so innocent but turns out is a juvenile, Hidan thought.
The blue-skinned guy noticed that Deidara's hand was in the hair and he swung his aluminum bat at Deidara's hand. Deidara realized what the blue-skinned guy was doing and tried to move his hand out of the way, but it was too late. The blow connected and a howl of pain rang out from Deidara.
"The next time you bump into me without apologizing, it's gonna be more than just a beating with THIS you fuckin' weirdo!" the blue-skinned student threatened, lifting up the aluminum bat so everyone could see it.
"HEY! Deidara didn't mean to do it on purpose. Why can't you just leave him alone. You don't need to resort to more violence!"
Hidan turned, surprised to see that the blue-haired girl standing next to him had spoken out for Deidara.
"Yeah! Listen to Konan. I don't think my father would be very happy if news got out that there were incidents of bullying at this school.."
The voice came out from Hidan's immediate left. Hidan turned and found that the voice came from the student with black hair and the eerie red eyes.
"Damn you Itachi.. You are fucking lucky that I can't get you or your little girlfriend over there" the blue-skinned student retorted before heading in the opposite direction with the red-haired student, but not before he kicked Deidara in the stomach one last time.
After they walked away, the huge circle of robed students dispersed. The two students that spoke out against the violence, Itachi and Konan, walked right past Hidan, only giving a look to make sure Deidera was okay.. Hidan noticed nobody was going to help the injured Deidara.
Hidan walked over to Deidara and leaned down to see if Deidara was okay.
"Hey Deidara, are you alright? That looked like it might have hurt" Hidan said with a concerned look on his face.
"Arrrgghh... that really hurts, un. It's a good thing my hand isn't broken or anything. There is gonna be like a big bruise there for a while... mind helping me up?" Deidara said as he tried to move himself up.
"Sure" Hidan said as he lifted up Deidara by his non-injured hand.
"Thanks. What a brute he is! I swear, one of these days I'll-.."
"Yeah yeah...that's enough. We don't want to make him mad at you anymore than he already is. Also, we should probably head to our next class.
"Fine.. let's go Hidan" Deidara murmured.
As Hidan and Deidara began walking away, Hidan noticed that someone was still standing around where the fight happened. Hidan looked back and saw a tall student wearing a mask. The student had green eyes and red sclerae and no pupils. The student looked like he was zoning out, but then suddenly turned his head to look at Hidan. It seemed so odd and creepy, but at the same time comforting because someone for once was looking at him without hate in their eyes. The masked student gave a glare at Hidan before walking off down the hall. I turned back to Deidara.
"Hey" I whispered to Deidara, "Who's the guy in the mask with the eyes?"
"Him?" Deidara whispered back, "That's Kakuzu. He's friends with Kisame and Sasori. Although he isn't violent like Kisame, he sometimes gets really angry with everyone. Although it's a good thing he isn't that close of a friend with Kisame."
"Who are Kisame and Sasori?" Hidan asked.
"Kisame is that shark sonofabitch who just hit me with a bat. And Sasori... Well Sasori...H-he's just a close friend of Kisames" Deidara said. His voice trailed off when he mentioned Sasori, but Hidan didn't want to ask why as he guessed it was something private.
"By the way, what class do you have now?" Hidan asked Deidara.
"I have World History in room 147. What about you?"
"Cool. We have a class together. Let's go before we are late" Hidan said.
Hidan and Deidara quickened their pace and arrived at room 147 just as the bell rang.
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Hidan and Deidara walked in to a class with most of the students staring at them. Hidan felt unnerved and he was sure Deidara was feeling the same.
Where was the teacher? And what's up with all the staring? Hidan thought.
The teacher in question was sitting in a corner at a large desk covered in papers. The teacher had short, spiky orange hair and had a lot of piercings on his face. Some in the nose, some by the mouth, and at least 6 in each ear. The teacher had purple eyes which was very rare to see. Hidan heard legends that a person with purple eyes would appear once every 500 years.
Except something like that seemed like complete garbage.
The teacher also had a different colored robe than all of the other students, perhaps to indicate that he was a teacher. The robe was white with purple cloud-like shapes. The robe along with the piercings made the teacher almost holy-like in appearance.
"Settle down class. It appears that we have a new student here today. How I can tell is that you don't have a robe when you clearly should have been told about having one. However, I can't ignore the fact that you don't have one as it would get me in trouble if I were to let someone enter my classroom without a robe. Stay here and tell the class about yourself and why you are here while I fetch you a robe. Oh, by the way, my name is Mr. Nagato. But you can call me Pein. Because if you break my rules, you will get a lot of my NAMESAKE inflicted" Mr. Nagato laughed as he said this last piece and walked out of the classroom.
The rest of the class did not laugh. Either they knew what happened when someone broke the rules, or they just didn't care that much about the teacher. They just sat with glaring eyes fixed on Hidan.
"Hello there. Um... My name is Hidan Yakuto. The reason I am at this school is because my father moved here to find a job and I had to come with him to this town. Um.. Hopefully we can get to each other better." Hidan said nervously to the class.
As Hidan finished this, Mr. Nagato came back with a black robe. Screaming could be heard in the hallway. It sounded like someone was cursing someone and screaming "MY EYES! MY EYES! WHO TOOK MY ROBE!".
"Here's your robe. Now put it on before I get in trouble. And just sit wherever. I have a lesson to teach" Mr. Nagato mumbled as he threw the robe at Hidan, after closing the door so the screams couldn't be heard.
Hidan caught the robe and quickly put in on over his clothes. Hidan then looked around and noticed that Deidara had already sat down at the edge of the classroom. There was an empty seat next to Deidara and Hidan walked over and sat down next to him.
"Alright class. Picking up from yesterday, can anyone tell me what this is and if there is any similarity between the suffering of this people and the suffering of any other group?" Mr. Nagato asked.
Even though it was his first day of school, Hidan could not seem to concentrate on the lesson at hand, which was gut-wrenching to hear, as Hidan was focused on what happened earlier and he didn't hear what the teacher was saying.
Before he knew it, class had ended and Hidan found himself going through two more classes before lunch started.
As Hidan was walking to the cafeteria, he heard a voice behind him.
"Itachi, can you come into my classroom for a moment? I need to talk to you about a certain incident that happened in the hallway after 1st period"
Hidan turned around and saw it was Mr. Nagato who had called over Itachi, the eerie red eyed kid. Hidan turned back and didn't take mind of it.
"Hey. Are you alright? You seem kinda out of it since 2nd period. What's on your mind?" Deidara asked.
"I'm not sure. Can I tell you in the cafeteria? I need to go find my locker. Perhaps you should see the nurse about your hand while I go find my locker" Hidan responded back.
"Alright then. And I was planning on seeing the nurse after school as I am really hungry right now. See ya in the cafeteria!" Deidara called out as he walked down another hallway towards the cafeteria.
Hidan walked down one hallway and then another one, finally finding his locker and the end of the hallyway. The end of the hallway was a dead-end.
Although Hidan was not told that there was going to a uniform, he did know he was gonna have a locker but didn't know who the locker partner would be.
As Hidan walked towards the end of the hallway. He noticed that there was someone standing in front of a locker with his face hidden by the locker door. As Hidan got closer, he realized that it was HIS locker that the student was standing in front of.
That must be my locker partner. It will be nice to get to know more students at this school.
"Hi there. My name is Hidan and I'm gonna be your new locker partner" Hidan said with a smile.
The student suddenly stiffened and closed the locker door slightly so the student could see who was talking to him. Hidan's smiling face turned into one of pure shock.
Hidan saw a mask that covered the student's mouth and nose and a dark flow of hair covering the head. The dark red eyes with green irises.
Kakuzu.
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Kakuzu turned and looked Hidan straight in the eye, causing Hidan to wonder what Kakuzu was thinking.
"Hello there Hidan. My name is Kakuzu. Say...I've seen you before. Weren't you that guy that helped up Deidera? I don't hate him or anything but you should tell your friend not to mess around with Kisame. I've seen what Kisame can do, and it isn't pretty" Kakuzu said.
"I will try. Anyway, I just wanted to know where my locker is. You don't beat people up like Kisame, do you?" Hidan asked.
"Huh? No. I'm not like that brute Kisame. In fact, I'm not really that much of a friend to him. But he respects me anyway and doesn't try anything with me." Kisame said.
"Well that's good to hear. If you don't mind me asking, what's underneath that mask? And what's up with your eyes?" Hidan said.
"I don't feel like telling you just yet" Kakuzu said.
"Alright. Sorry about that. Since I found our locker, I am gonna head to the cafeteria now" Hidan said as he began to walk in the direction of the cafeteria.
"Hold up! I can show you where the cafeteria is since you are new and all" Kakuzu said, putting his hand on Hidan's shoulder to stop him from going.
Hidan blushed and turned around with a surprised look when Kakuzu did this.
"Er..um..it's..it's okay. I know where the cafeteria is" Hidan mumbled as he walked away. That was so weird. He didn't have to grab me, Hidan thought.
Kakuzu just stood there with a puzzled look on his face and watched Hidan go.
I just want to help him but I don't know why, Kakuzu thought.
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Hidan entered the cafeteria deep in thought. I know it's just a touch, but why did Kakuzu have to do that? I don't really need his help and besides, I have Deidera to help me. Plus Kakuzu is friends with Kisame.
Out of the corner of his eye, Hidan saw a wave of an arm from a nearby lunch table. It was Deidera. Sitting next to him were two students he didn't know.
Hidan walked over to Deidara and sat down next to him. Across from Deidera sat a student that was literally half black, half white and had green hair. The other student had black hair and had on an orange face mask that covered everything but one eye.
"Hey Hidan, did you manage to find your locker, un?" Deidara asked.
"Yeah I did. But you won't believe who my locker partner is.." Hidan said.
"Who?" asked Deidara.
"It's Kakuzu. At first I thought this was gonna be the worst school year ever because my locker partner is friends with someone who bullies people regularly. But he just acts weird and isn't that close of a friend to Kisame. It's weird.." Hidan said.
"Is that why you looked out of it coming into the cafeteria?" Deidara asked.
"I guess" Hidan responded.
"By the way, I don't think you guys have met each other. Hidan, these are two of my friends, Zetsu and Tobi. Zetsu is the guy with the green hair and Tobi is the guy with the orange mask" Deidara said, pointing to Zetsu and Tobi in turn.
"Hello there. We are called Zetsu. It is a pleasure to meet you Hidan." the two voices said, the lighter voice coming from the white side of Zetsu and the darker voice coming from the black side of Zetsu.
"Why hello there! Tobi likes meeting new people! Will you be Tobi's friend?" Tobi said with extreme glee.
"Don't mind the voices of Zetsu. Zetsu has a rare form of a split personality disorder where instead of one personality comes out at a time, both of the personalities are active at once. Although they don't talk as one. They prefer to take turns, or try to anyway. They can be a real chatterbox sometimes" Deidara explained as he pointed to Zetsu.
"And that's Tobi. He acts like a child a lot and it's really cute sometimes. But there are some times when he gets really serious and it gets kinda creepy. Also... say yes or he will never stop bugging you about it" Deidara said as he rolled his eyes.
"Hi there Zetsu. Hi there Zetsu" Hidan said as he referred to each side of Zetsu.
"Hi there Tobi. And of course I will be your friend" Hidan said with a smile.
"Yaaaayy!" Tobi shouted.
A few heads turned to look at the shouting before returning to their meals.
"Hey Konan!" Deidara yelled out.
Hidan saw a blue-haired girl turn her head in the direction of Deidera and walk over to him. Hidan recognized her from earlier in the morning when she spoke out against Kisame.
"Yeah Deidara?" Konan asked.
"Thank you for sticking up for me with the whole Kisame thing. If no-one spoke out, then I would have a lot more than just this" Deidara said, lifting his bruised hand up.
"Aww.. no problem Deidara. Say, how is your hand doing by the way? That looked like it hurt. I'm sorry I couldn't help you up afterwards, it's just if I had shown up late to Ms. Tsunade's Personal Finance class again, then I would've had extra homework for a month and detention for a week" Konan said.
"Nah... It's alright. It's just a bad bruise. It'll heal in no time" Deidara said.
"Let's hope so. Hi there Zetsu. Hi there Tobi. How are things going for you guys?" Konan asked as she turned to Zetsu and Tobi.
"Hi Konan. Things are going great" Zetsu said.
"Hi there Konan! Looking good as usual, huh?" Tobi said.
"Haha, thanks Tobi. You are really sweet." Konan said smiling.
Konan then noticed that there was another person sitting next Deidara that she hadn't seen before at the school.
"Hey Deidara, who's your friend there? I don't think I have seen him before.." Konan asked.
"Oh.. This is my new buddy that I just met today. His name is Hidan and this is his first day here at the school. I helped him by showing him to the main office and he helped me up when and made sure I was okay when no-one else did during that fight" Deidara said, introducing Konan to Hidan.
"Hi there Konan. Nice to meet you" Hidan said.
"Nice to meet you too Hidan. You will find out that there are a lot of weird things that happen at this school that no-one seems to care about. You probably have already seen a number of things happen today as it is. Anyway, thank you for helping Deidara out Hidan. You seem like a really nice guy. And you have really cool eyes by the way.." Konan said as she stared at Hidan's eyes.
"Um.. Thank you Konan" Hidan said while blushing at the compliment.
"No problem. I feel a little nervous about this morning. What if Kisame decides to get back at me or Itachi because we stopped him?" Konan said.
"Well we won't let that happen to you or Itachi. We are all friends here so we should try to stick up for each other, un" Deidara proclaimed.
Deidara noticed that Hidan was being quiet all of a sudden. He was about to ask him what was wrong when suddenly a big grin appeared on Hidan's face.
"I just had an idea!" Hidan excitedly said.
"What?" asked Zetsu, Tobi, Deidara, and Konan in unison.
"I just had the perfect idea, and correct me if this sounds too risky, but what if we find a way to get back at Kisame for what he did?" Hidan suggested.
"Nahh... you don't have to get back at him, un. Really, it's fine. You all don't have to go out of your way to get back at Kisame" Deidara said.
"HEY LOOK! If it isn't the blue-haired FREAK!" someone shouted from across the cafeteria.
Hidan didn't even have to turn around to figure out who's voice it was.
"And what's THIS!... I see you've got a new friend to hang out with you bunch of LOSERS! HAHAHAHAHA! And too bad Itachi isn't here, because I would really like to beat the snot out of him after school. Send that runt a message for him to meet me after school in the parking lot or ELSE I will make his life a living hell!" Kisame shouted before walking out of the cafeteria with Sasori.
"Arrggh! Sometimes that bully is so freaking annoying and is such a jerk" Konan angrily said.
"You know what? I think I changed my mind. Let's get back at him. I'm sick of him having his way around here!" Deidara said.
"So what was that plan you had Hidan?" Zetsu asked.
"Alright everyone. Gather around and hear me out" Hidan said
