after running around reading a few stories, I decided to do this. Still working on my other stories, well two of them anyway, but this is my new fun side-project. So things are different in this story obviously, since It's an AU. If you have any questions on how a certain thing is in this story, which you probably won't since nobody reads any of my stories, but on the off-chance, just leave a review or PM me.
Enjoy!
"Akira-Chan!" Ino called. In the week that she'd been at the school, Ino had taken Akira under her wing. Which was good. It's always good to have a bitchy friend like Ino when guys like Sasuke Uchiha were giving you trouble. "What's up? You look tired. That Uchiha asshole giving you trouble again?" Akira nodded slightly, a few strands of raven hair falling in her face with the motion. She pulled her hand up to swipe them back, revealing eyes the color of a jade pendant.
"Don't worry about it, Ino-Chan. I'm just gonna ask my brother if he'll help me out with a little plan." Akira gave a small smile before hugging her and heading off towards the cafeteria. Once she entered she headed for the back corner where her brother sat with his group of friends. The hoodies and weird contacts kept away a lot of the other students, giving them all free reign to do, well pretty much anything. Deidara and Sasori shifted over to make her room. She smiled at them and took a seat next to her brother. His hood was pulled up, hiding most of his dark brown locks. He smiled at her, cheeks looking odd with his tattooed stitches curling up under his eyes, currently a light green with a red ring and no pupils because of his contacts. "Kakuzu-Kun, I need a favor."
"Oh really? Maybe I can help out, Akira." Deidara purred, putting an arm around her shoulders and pulling her close. Akira laughed and pushed him away. "Alright alright. Still immune to my charm. I'll get you one day, Akira."
"Maybe someday, Deidara, but actually, I need you to…erm, well…" Akira blushed, looking down at the table and almost whispering, "Hook me up with someone." Kisame spit out his water, Itachi looking close to murder as he wiped the water off of his face.
"Wait, wait, wait. You want us to what?" Sasori looked at Akira like she'd grown a second head and Deidara simply gaped at her. Konan smiled knowingly at her.
"This is about that senior who keeps messing with you isn't it?" Kakuzu nodded, his sister already telling him her plan. "So, we hook you up with someone who we know can keep his ass off of you, and your problem is solved, huh, Kii-Chan?" Konan had always been around since Akira was little, always a year younger than her brother, thus never left alone to hang out with his group of friends, and since she moved in with her dad and Kakuzu had become like an older sister. Akira nodded.
"I don't actually care about having a boyfriend, hell he can even see other girls whenever he wants, I just need someone to keep him away from me." Sasori smiled, having regained his composure and thought of a solution to her dilemma.
"I think I know someone who might agree to this little plan of yours." Akira looked over to him hopefully.
"What's his name?"
"Gaara Sabaku."
…
Akira sighed for the umpteenth time since her little lunch with the Akatsuki. That was what her brother and his friends called themselves. Everyone thought that they were a gang when in all actuality they were just a bunch of friends who sat at home playing World of Warcraft and watching old movies in-between games of truth or dare and strip poker. Normal high school students. Sasori insisted that Gaara would be the perfect guy to rid her of her boy troubles. Of course Akira hadn't thought about the fact that Itachi could just tell his little brother to stop until everyone had already voted her into being Gaara's fake girlfriend.
"Akira." A cold voice said. She didn't look up, preferring her knees pulled up to her chest and face hidden in her arms rather than seeing her new boyfriend. Gaara sighed and sat down next to her, leaning against the lockers lined down the walls. "So, Uchiha's giving you trouble?" Akira nodded, sneaking a peak at the tall senior sitting beside her. She almost gasped at how gorgeous he was. Gaara had eyes almost the same color as her's with dark red hair hanging messily around his head and barely hiding a tattoo on his forehead. She pulled her head up, hand reaching up to brush his locks away from the bloody red kanji resting above his left eyebrow.
"Why 'Love?'" She said quietly as he pulled away, turning his head so she couldn't reach his tattoo.
"Long story." She noticed that his voice wasn't as cold as she had initially thought. It was deep and sexy, but sad and angry at the same time. Her brows drew together, wondering why someone so young would have that note to their voice. "Well, if you want help with it, who am I to say no?" He said more to himself than her. He stood up suddenly, reaching a hand down to help her up. She slipped her hand into his grasp and let him pull her up. "If we're going to do this, I'm at least going to do it right. So, for now, you're on your own."
"What do you mean?" Akira drew her eyebrows together again, confused by his mixed signals.
"I mean we aren't together yet. I'll see you tomorrow." Gaara brushed a strand of hair behind her ear before turning on his heel and walking off.
"I think he might just be worse than Sasuke…" Akira muttered, heading towards her next class.
One more thing I forgot to mention, I'm just going to write this scan over it for anything obvious and post it, so if you see anything just tell me and I'll fix it.
-Amy.
