Disclaimer: I don't own any Naruto characters or concepts etc. I do own Aya, Rian, and Cat.

Summary: This is a drabble. It's from a variety of POVs, although it's mainly a Hidan/Aya centric. You'll see. It will be continued!


Red

He's always been so red, you know. The blood...the clouds on his cloak, even his eyes, a little. They're purple, and she likes to think of his god Jashin as the red and she's the blue. Together they make the purple. His eyes. Incredible.

The first time she saw them, though, (hell, the first time she saw him) she feels a chill that goes all the way down to her toes. She's a little scared at first. She relaxes, though, when the first comment that comes out of his mouth is, "You mean you've made the damn decision, Leader."

Aya's dealt with potty-mouth boys all her life. She'll treat him no differently than the rest, even if he's immortal.

Then Hidan stares in shock as she pokes him deliberately in the chest, right above his heart, laughs, and runs back into the house before he could even think to catch her.

Red is where it began, and where it would end.

One

'One' is a lot of things in Hidan's life. He's had one birth, one death, one life, one--

He shakes his head in disgust. Why the hell is he thinking of all of this? The f--- is with him and numbers, anyway? That's Kakuzu's territory, not his. He likes money, but not in a 'miserly-sonuvabitchin-not-gonna-buy-you-anything' way. That's how Kakuzu-teme is all of the damn time, and does he get any chicks? No.

But he figures he gets to indulge himself in thinking in numerical terms at least once in his life. After all, he is an immortal. He has eternity to get his damn head straightened out.

So. Back to ones. One birth, one death, one life, one god, one--

--and then Hidan sees Aya. Ever since they somehow teleported to this Jashinforsaken world without shinobi, he's had a somewhat hard time to adjust. She's helped along, playing pranks, telling jokes, and generally setting them all at ease with her other two friends.

Aya, Hidan decides, is different than other girls he's met. Sure, she's not the most beautiful, or the most clever, but she's definitely the most accepting and funny of all the females he's met. For a civvie, anyway. She couldn't kick a shinobi's ass to save her life.

Then again, he thinks wryly, she'd probably make them laugh to death.

What he realizes--belatedly, just when they're about to leave for good--is that she's the one girl he'll ever want. Remotely.

But she can't go with him back home.

Damn.

Orange

Orange makes Aya think of Tobi's mask and of Tobi in general for some very odd reason. Tobi (AKA Madara Uchiha, but she doesn't like talking about that, and neither does he) is a very cheerful and very gullible teenager, or a teenager that's acting like a kid, or a teenager that's actually a man that's pretending to be a kid, or--

She stops that train of thought before it gets any more complicated.

The thought then leads her from the orange of Tobi's mask to the number of secrets he hides because he's the secret leader of the Akatsuki, and how Leader and Konan have to listen to him and make it look like it was Pein's idea, even though it wasn't, and how all the other members can't know. Then she thinks of Pein and his hair, which is some weird reddish-orange color.

Which puts her back to where she started.

It makes Aya's head hurt sometimes, all the thinking in circles she does.

Thinking of Tobi also makes her wonder just why Tobi decided not to kill her and the others. Sure, Pein agreed not to, but Tobi--

--then she comprehends that even if she had wanted to stop his plans, she couldn't, not really. She's in a different world entirely, and she can't interfere.

Aya prays that Kishimoto writes the story with a happy ending.

She realizes that the color orange is the color of the title letters of Naruto, and Naruto's jumpsuit--

--there she goes again.

Two

Two, three, four, Cat's mind sings, five, six, seven--

Her mind-voice goes up a note and she doesn't realize that her actual voice is doing the same; she's jumping octaves and Deidara appears in the doorway to her room, asking "just what the hell is going on, un, and can't you do that when we're not sleeping?"

Catherine glares at the blonde transvestite-ish ninja (who she won't admit is actually sorta pretty in a weird way) and snaps peevishly back that no she can't, she has the musical tomorrow and she's scared out of her mind that she'll mess up and that it's her first really ginormous part and if he's got issues he'd better just--

--Deidara shocks the hell out of her when he puts a finger to her chin and shuts her mouth, then gives her a hug.

Cat has no clue has to what she should do. This is way out of her comfort zone and it is FREAKING HER OUT IN ALL CAPITALS.

So she punches him.

Twice.

His yelling draws the attention of Aya and Rian, who both roll their eyes tiredly. The other ninja know by now to not even get up--they all probably just rolled over and kept sleeping.

Hidan and Kakuzu are standing behind Aya and Rian and it's clear to Cat that it's taking all of the quartet's control to not laugh.

Catherine puts the info that Hidan/Kakuzu are even there on the backburner for later as to why they're actually UP in the first place.

Rian helps Cat drag Deidara back out of the room and Rian whispers in Cat's ear that maybe she should apologize in the morning for overreacting. Aya agrees and says in a modulated voice--so that Deidara can't hear, of course (he CAN, he's a ninja, for Kami's sake, but he loves being able to eavesdrop) that maybe she should also just hug him back next time and then hit him for coming into her room in the middle of the night, so she only has to punch him once.

Cat agrees that hitting him in the groin besides punching him in the face was probably a little much and she'll keep it in mind next time.

The five of her visitors wave before she shuts the door and she waits until the door is completely shut before her face falls.

What'll she do when all of the Akatsuki finally leave?

Two tears fall from each eye before she goes back to sleep.

Yellow

Yellow, Rian thinks, is Deidara's hair and Naruto's hair and the 4th's hair and, actually, a lot of ninjas' hair.

It makes her wonder why the only ninjas with yellow hair are also the ones that are completely nuts.

The Fourth, normally, would be excluded from this category except for the frightening fact that Naruto is his son and that he was apprenticed under Jiraiya so he must have some inner reservoir of insanity that no one had a chance to find out about before he kicked the ol' bucket.

The concept that scares her even more is wondering just who the heck was insane enough--if by some miracle of God the craziness didn't come from him--to marry the Fourth in the first place.

Sure, he was totally hot and nice and stuff but dude the stress of being the Hokage's wife would be a little too much for her to handle safely.

Not to mention he's a gazillion years older than her and for a fact she didn't date older men.

Rian is in denial right now.

She likes yet ANOTHER older man.

He's in Akatsuki.

His name begins with a K.

Yes, people, it's Kakuzu, not shark man. Heaven forfend. Not that she has anything against him, but dude. Scales.

She shudders.

Rian thanks her lucky stars every day that he's like, 91 and wouldn't think of her in a gajillion years as someone to be with. And that there's nothing yellow about him that she could tell. Except that Kakuzu likes money. A lot. Especially gold.

Wait. Isn't gold yellow?

Oh, God...


This will be continued! I promise!

Let me know what you think.

No, the OCs in this may or may not get together in my story This Just Isn't My Day. I like to keep people guessing.

Review and thanks,

Ice