Have you ever had a best friend that you've known for your whole life or most of your life? If you have, have you ever wanted maybe something more than friendship? If you have, you'll understand my story completely. If you haven't, I just hope you understand all the pain I went through.
"Yo, Max. You doing anything after school today?" My red headed best friend asked me.
"No." I answered.
"Got much homework?" He asked.
"When do I ever have a lot of homework?" I said sarcastically.
"Always." He said with a smile.
"Ya, I know. I'm not like you Sasori. I don't get much work done in class, and I focus on my ninja training on the weekends mostly, and learning fire style jutsu from my brother and all is taking up time too. Oh, and on top of all of that, the ADHD doesn't help much ether." I said flatly.
Sasori laughed and slung an arm around my shoulders and said, "Ya, but that's what you got me for. I help ya train and study."
"Ah… the perfect combo when it comes to helping out your best friend." I said, smiling.
"Duh." He said.
I shook my head and said, "So why were you asking if I was busy and had homework?"
"Oh, right. The Akatsuki and I were going to the beach after school and Konan told me to ask you to come along. I was going to ask you anyway, but before I had a chance to say anything to her, she told me to invite you. So? What do ya say?" He said.
"I don't know. I have tons of homework and we have that test on Monday in math and you know I suck at math so I have to study." I said.
"Don't worry about that. You can come over to my house or we could go to your house afterwards and I'll help you with all of that." He said with a smile.
I couldn't help but laugh thinking back to the last time I went to his house to study for a math test; we both ended up falling asleep on the floor. When we woke up, it was midnight and he told me I could stay for the night so I didn't have to walk five blocks to get home. Good thing it was a Friday. He looked at me like I was crazy, which I am and he knew it, but he still gave me that look.
"What?" He asked.
"Remember what happened last time I went to your house to study for math?" I asked giggling.
"No. What happened?" He said.
"We fell asleep and I ended up staying at your house that night sleeping on your floor." I said, still giggling.
"Oh ya. Now I remember." He said.
I shook my head and rested it on his shoulder.
"You know Sasori, sometimes you can be such a blond." I said.
"Ya, but what's even worse is that you can be even more blond than me, and you have darker hair." He said.
It was true. He had blond moments all the time. We both do. That's why such good friends were. Ok, so maybe it's not the reason, but it contributes. What's scary about our blond moments is that his aren't as bad as mine. And he has fiery dark red hair, where as I have pure black hair. I blame my ADHD for my really bad blond moments and my screwed up life for the rest.
I have no parents because they're dead. I have an older brother and a younger brother. My younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha, is four years younger than me and is in second grade. My older brother, Itachi Uchiha, is one year older than me and is in eighth grade like most of the Akatsuki. The only Akatsuki members not in eighth grade are Sasori, Deidara, and Hidan.
I'm not a member, but the leader, Pein, wants me to join. I don't know why. I mean, I'm not even a skilled ninja yet! I'm still a Genin for Jashin's sake! There all like, Chūnin or Jōnin. Actually, some of them might even be S-rank ninja. But I still need training. I'm trained by Itachi and Sasori. I bet it's because he doesn't want Konan to be the only girl in the Akatsuki. Probably because he doesn't want the other guys hitting on her since she's his girlfriend.
The Akatsuki is a gang of kids that have no parents and are ninjas. And of course, where we live, there aren't a lot of ninjas. Maybe fifteen percent of the population is ninja. Like I said, not a lot. So there're not a lot of people in the Akatsuki. There's only ten real members; Pein, Konan, Zetsu, Tobi, Deidara, Hidan, Kakuzu, Kisame, Itachi, and Sasori. They always say that they count me as a member because I'm always with Sasori and I hang with them and everything, but they do want me to join officially. I'm not sure about joining them, but Sasori keeps telling me that its fine and it'll be fun. That and the fact that if anything happened I would have him there to watch over me. So I said I would think about it.
So back to the whole 'going to the beach' thing.
"Shut up Sasori. You're so mean!" I said, chibi tears flowing from my chibi eyes.
He laughed and hugged me. I hugged him back.
When he let me go, he asked, "So, you coming after school or not?"
"Sure, I'll come. But were going to my house afterwards so you can help me with my homework and studying and this time you're staying at my house got it?" I said, smiling.
"Yes ma'am." He said, doing a mocking salute.
"You would do that too." I said poking him in the chest.
He grinned and said, "But of course."
I face palmed and said, "Wow. Ok. Well, I have to get to class, see ya after school."
"K. Hurry after eighth period so we can go home and change." He said.
"Sasori. We have eighth period together and our lockers are right next to each other's. We'll just walk to our lockers together and walk home together like always." I said.
"Oh ya." He said.
I sighed.
"Baka." I mumbled.
"Ah, ya know ya love me." He said.
"Well no duh!" I exclaimed.
I then mega-glomped him.
When I let go, I said, "Ok. See ya in eighth period."
We both went to our sixth period class. Sixth and seventh period were nothing but a blur in my mind. By the time I got to art/woodshop, my eyes were glazed over. Sasori must have seen this because when I sat down next to him, he waved a hand in front of my face. I immediately snapped out of it.
"Huh…! What?" I said, blinking a few times.
"You were spacing out again." Sasori said.
"How long?" I asked.
"I don't know. Your eyes were glazed over when you walked in." He said.
I looked around and realized I was in art class.
"Oh crap!" I said.
"What?" He asked.
"Last thing I remember, I was in sixth period." I said, looking down.
Sasori sweat dropped.
"You've been spacing out since sixth period?" He said.
I nodded. He patted my back. We got a free day in art class, so me and Sasori just talked about random crap until the bell rang. When it rang, we ran out of the room and to our lockers. We grabbed all our crap and went to meet with the rest of the Akatsuki. We were supposed to meet on the roof of the school, so we headed up there. We were the first ones there for once. After a few minutes, everyone was finally there. Pein told us were to meet after we were changed and ready for the beach. We were to meet right back here on the roof of the school. So everyone left to get ready. Only me and Sasori were left on the roof.
"So? Ready to go?" Sasori asked.
"Ya." I said.
"You good to run?" He asked.
"You know can't run fast." I said.
"I know." He said, smirking.
"Why are you smirking like that?" I asked.
"Get on my back." He said.
"What? No!" I said.
"You don't trust me?" He asked with chibi eyes.
"No! It's not that. I do trust you. I trust you with my life." I said.
"Then what is it?" He said with a smile.
"I… I don't like heights." I said.
"Really?" He asked.
I nodded.
"Since when?" He asked.
"Last year. Itachi was carrying me on his back and I fell off his back into a lake in the forest." I said, drawing a pattern on the ground with my foot.
"Oh…" He said.
Then he came over to me into pulled me into a hug and said, "You can trust me. I won't let you fall. I promise."
He pulled away from me and smiled down at me.
"Ok?" He said.
I nodded.
"So you'll let me carry you?" He asked.
"Hai." I said.
His smile grew bigger as he turned around and knelt down. I put my arms around his neck and he put his arms under my legs. He stood up with me on his back.
"You good?" He asked.
"Ya." I said.
"K. Hold on tight." He said.
Then he jumped off the roof onto the ground. I closed my eyes as soon as he jumped. We ran the whole way to my house. When we got there, he hadn't even broken a sweat. Even carrying me. And I weighed one hundred ten pounds. And he didn't weigh that much more than I did. We met Itachi there.
He saw me on Sasori's back and asked, "Run did we?"
"Oh shut up Itachi." I said over Sasori's shoulder.
He just smirked. I flipped him off as he left the room.
"Oi! Itachi! When does Sasuke get home from school?" I called after him.
"He should be home any minute." Itachi called from the other room.
Then he stuck his head into the room and said, "You can't bring him with."
"I'm not going to. I just wanted to know so I could tell him that we'll be back later." I said.
"Ok. See ya there." He said, then left.
Sasori put me down in the living room.
"Alright Sasori. Sit and stay." I said.
He barked.
"Sasori? Did you just bark?" I asked confused.
"Yes, yes I did. You told me to 'sit and stay' like a dog, so now I'm your dog." He said smiling.
I tilted my head to the side, shrugging, and mega-glomped him so he fell onto the couch yelling, "YAY~~! PUPPY!"
Then I heard, "Max? Is that you?" from the front door.
"Sasuke!" I squealed, jumping off Sasori and running to glomp my younger brother.
"Hey Max!" He said happily accepting the glomp.
Then he saw Sasori and said, "Oh, hey Sasori! Did you finally hook up with my sister?"
Both of our faces turn pink and we both said, "What the-! No!"
"Well, you should. She needs a boyfriend. And who better than her best friend?" He said.
"Alright. That's enough from you." I said, pulling hard on his cheek.
"Ow! Ok I'll shut up!" He said laughing none the less.
"Good. Now go do your homework while I change and I'll make you something to eat before I leave." I said, letting do off him.
"Go? Where are you going?" Sasuke asked.
"Me and Sasori are going out with Itachi and some other friends tonight." I said.
"When will you be back?" He asked.
"I'm not sure. But Sasori is coming over afterwards and he's staying over tonight to." I said.
"You mean he's spending the night?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes Sasuke. He is spending the night tonight so he can help me study for a test on Monday." I said.
"Ok. Well, you might want to get ready for whatever you're doing." Sasuke said.
"Right. Now go do your homework." I said.
He went upstairs to do his homework.
I turned to Sasori and said, "If you want, you can go home and get ready and meet me back here while I get ready and make him something to eat."
"Ya, sure. I'll be back in like, ten minutes." He said.
I nodded and he left. I went up to my room to look for my swimsuit. I searched my closet and under my bed. All I found was my fiery red bikini that matched Sasori's hair. And I did not want to wear that one around the rest of the Akatsuki.
"Oi! Sasuke. Have you seen my black swimsuit?" I called.
"No. Why?" He called back.
"Because I need it and all I can find is the red one." I said.
He poked his head into my room and said, "The one that matches Sasori's hair?"
"Ya, and there's no way that I'm wearing that one around my friends." I said.
"Why not?" He asked mockingly.
"You know why baka." I said.
"Embarrassed are we?" He asked.
"Shut up, will ya." I said.
"Fine, whatever. Just wear the red one. It looks better on you anyway." He said.
"What do you mean it looks better?" I asked.
"It brings out your curves and makes your boobs look bigger." He said.
"SASUKE!" I yelled, covering my chest.
Bad day to wear a low cut shirt right?
"What?" He asked.
"That's really creepy!" I said.
"It's not my opinion. It's his." He said.