Author's Note: Hiii, I'm starting yet another story, It'll take me ages to catch up when I start to do all these. Anyway, I've only got four exams left, and my friends birthday's are coming up so I'm spending a lot of time making them presents (either because I'm creative and thoughtful or broke and stingy). So I should be updating my other stories when all that's out of the way.
Okay, I know I always say this but this film actually is my ALL TIME favourite film, this is the one film I could watch over and over again and not get bored of it. Obviously I've switched it around so it can be a KND and ¾ themed story.
P.S. Sorry if it's pretty close to the script, I know the whole thing off by heart and didn't realise until reading through it how close it was to the script (so I changed some more).
Kuki's POV
We were all fourteen going on fifteen when we saw a real dead body. As KND members the worst we saw would be people who'd been caked, spanked, maybe even knocked out, but never a dead person. Well Numbuh 1 had left us two years ago to go to global command and Abby had taken over as our leader. We hadn't been decommissioned, that was stopped just before Abby's thirteenth in an attempt to stop so many former KND members from joining Teen Ninjas and other adult tyranny leagues.
A lot had happened in only two years, to all of us. It might have changed us a little, but our personalities definitely hadn't changed.
Normal POV
The Rain pounded violently on the wood of the roof, on a cold, drizzly Thursday afternoon. Three kids were sat in their old hideout, the tree house. Two of them played on a video game while the other lounged on the couch reading a magazine.
"Yes! And the four wins again!" The blond boy cheered as he beat his opponent for the fifth time.
Kuki tutted and leant back, folding her arms and pouting. "It's not fair, you know all the cheats for special moves."
Wally shrugged. "Well I can't help being plain awesome can I?"
He dug into his pocket and pulled out a packet of cigarettes. Opening it and placing one in his mouth. Kuki hummed in disgust as Wally pulled out his lighter.
"Can't you do that outside where we ain't gonna have to smell it and poison ourselves by passive smoking?" Abby narrowed her eyes at him as she looked up from her magazine.
Wally rolled his eyes. "C'mon Numbuh 5, it's raining!"
Abby gave an evil grin. "Should have thought about that before you decided to start smoking boy."
Wally groaned grouchily and muttered angrily to himself as he stood up. Kuki giggled at his child-like behaviour as she watched him walk towards the front door.
Kuki's POV
He'd decided to start smoking about 4 months before. His family had been through a rough patch and his parents had split, he decided to follow the steps of some of his other friends and take his stress out by smoking.
We didn't approve of it but it wasn't like we could really blame him. He now lived with his dad, who'd moved in with his uncle Bruiser, and cousin Francis. His dad was pretty depressed, so Wally didn't see much of him. Wally's uncle and cousin...they were a different story, they were the guys who had a rep around town as the one's not to be messed with. I'd heard before that a shop keeper gave them the wrong change so Bruiser slammed her fingers in the till.
If you haven't guessed, Bruiser and Francis weren't generally nice guys. Especially to Wally, Bruiser had things his way or the high way, obviously Wally challenged him a lot when they first moved in, trying to assert his authority. Bruiser had grabbed Wally's ear and put it on a stove, nearly burning it off.
Francis, he was just a plain old bully, he'd do petty things to wind Wally up and when Wally blew, he'd take action, starting a fight and then managing to get Wally into most of the trouble.
Following that bad reputation of the family, everyone in town just assumed that Wally would turn out bad. Including Wally himself.
Normal POV
As Wally opened the door, Hoagie came rushing in.
"Guys! Guys I've got something to tell you!" He yelled as he came in. Waving his hand in front of his face as he passed Wally, to get rid of the smoke.
Abby looked up from her magazine, then went back to the article which she was reading. "Numbuh 5 don't care if it's 2 for 1 at pizza palace. We've already had pizza twice this week, we're not having any more!"
"No! No!" Hoagie panted as he sat next to Kuki. "Let me just catch my breath, I ran all the way here."
Kuki and Abby exchanged glances before returning their attention to what they were doing.
"Were any of you guys going home tonight? Or can you all stay out?" Hoagie asked.
The two girls shrugged.
"I'm staying." Kuki nodded with a smile.
Abby shrugged. "Numbuh 5 was going to go home but she can stay, why?"
"Numbuh 4!" Hoagie shouted.
"What!" Wally yelled back from outside. It was hard to hear him due to the rain.
Wally then came in, Kuki began to giggle. He was soaked from head to foot. A grumpy frown on his face, his bowl hair cut almost twice the length as it clung onto his forehead and over his eyes. The cigarette which he had in his mouth was now just a nub, it had bent from the water and made him look even funnier.
"Can you stay over here tonight or don't you have any clean, dry clothes here?" Hoagie chuckled.
Wally shrugged and took the stick from his mouth, flicking it outside and striding in, sitting on the opposite side of Kuki on the couch.
"My uncle wants me home, I've gotta move some boxes for him." He sighed.
"Go and get dried silly!" Kuki shook her head. "You'll catch a chill sat like that. I can't believe you went out in that rain just to smoke!"
Wally grumbled to himself as he stood up and did as he was told. Deciding not to comment on Kuki's last sentence to avoid saying something he may regret.
"Well that boy's not too far away from a mother while Numbuh 3's around." Abby chuckled.
Hoagie looked up, a slight hush in his voice as he spat out what he wanted to tell them. "I think I know where Numbuh 13 is."
The two girls gasped and went into a hush as they looked up at him.
Wally walked in, ruffling his hair with a towel.
"I heard Cree talking to her friend about him. It sounds like that they saw him over Butter scotch gorge, by the train track." Hoagie explained.
Kuki's POV
We stayed completely silent as Hoagie talked to us.
Numbuh 13 had gone missing three weeks ago and everyone in TND was starting to worry about him.
Normal POV
"Boy, If Numbuh 5's sister knew you were there listening to her conversation she would have throttled you." Abby sighed.
Hoagie simple shrugged.
Kuki thought aloud. "Could he have gotten all the way from here to Butter scotch gorge? That's real far."
Wally scoffed. "Hmmph, for a kid like him yeah, he was probably following the train tracks and forgot which direction he was going...train comes along...Smash!"
Kuki tutted at her friend in disgust. "He might not be dead!"
"From the way Cree was talking Numbuh 3, he is." Hoagie nodded.
Kuki gasped, throwing her hands to her mouth. Tears began to well up in her eyes. She leaned against Numbuh 4's shoulder, who tried to pull away.
"Maybe we should go find him." Abby agreed.
Hoagie nodded. "Just to get it all out of the way."
"We'd better leave right after school tomorrow if we want to get home by the end of the weekend before our parents realise we're not there." Abby thought aloud. "Who's in? Numbuh 4?"
"Sure." Wally shrugged.
Abby looked to Hoagie. "Numbuh 2."
"Count me in." Hoagie nodded.
"Numbuh 3?" Abby smiled.
Kuki bit her lip. She gave it a moments thought before nodding. The two boys and Abby cheered at the thought of an exciting mission which they hadn't had in a while, Kuki merely smiled.
Kuki's POV
I wanted to share my friends enthusiasm but I couldn't. Back home I'd become the invisible child.
In February, my little sister Mushi had been killed in a hit and run. Three months had gone by and my parents were still getting over it. They seemed to be forgetting about their other daughter.
When I got home I decided to pack ready. I got together two days worth of clothes, my toothbrush and my hairbrush. I then walked to my closet where I kept my backpack and brought the backpack to the bed, where I put everything in there.
I heard the creaking of a door and looked to see my dad. I smiled at him, it was the first time in months he'd actually acknowledged me.
"What are you packing for?" He asked in a sad tone.
I smiled at him again. "We're going to camp out in Hoagie's back garden tomorrow, I was just getting ready."
Dad sighed. "I'm not sure you should be spending so much time with those boys. They can be a bad influence."
"They're not that bad daddy." I replied, pulling the chord of my backpack.
"One boy is a thief and a dunce, the other is just his brainless follower." Dad said in a monotone voice.
I chewed my lip to prevent yelling.
"Who are you calling a thief? Wally? He's not a thief."
"He stole the lunch money from your class room." Dad sighed, walking out. "Be careful when you're out with them."
I shook my head. Sometimes I think I preferred it when my parents ignored me.
A/N: Aww I always give Kuki's parent's the heartless role. Believe it or not I actually have nothing against Kuki's mum and dad, in fact I think Kani's a legend. They just really suit the over strict, over controlling parent roles so well.
