Chapter 1
The New Kind of Crazy
I was doomed. That was what was flashing through my head as I felt myself being pushed against the alley wall, the man had cornered me, and his eyes, face to face with mine, seemed to burn with curiosity, rage, and madness. He glared me down like I had just killed his precious dog (Of which I had NOT!), and said these words in his ugly gravely voice
"Where are they? The test subjects? Or whatever they may be, they are nothing near normal, and you, YOU! Know where they are right?" He asked, the only answer I gave was a whimper as he pricked me with his dagger.
"T-test subjects?" I asked, not even daring to wiggle free.
"YES!" The man snapped, his voice would have been more enthusiastic if his ski mask wouldn't have muffles it. "I KNEW YOU KNEW WHER ETHEY WER-"
WHUMP
The mans eyes turned white, and he held me there still for a second, then he collapsed to the ground. I squinted my eyes as the light at the end of the alley burned. There was a person there; the only features I could make out in the light were their skin. Grey blue. My eyes got wide and I ran towards to figure.
Woah woah woah woah WOAH! Woah. This is too forward! Let's start… In the beginning, shall we?
Picture this, a beautiful hot day, in the state of Arizona, Phoenix to be exact. My friends, Zoey, Jasmine, and Kaley and I were walking to school, blistering sun and all. We were around 16; school was annoyingly hard(Except for the brainiac Kaley), and we were complaining. As always.
"This makes no sense! We have to walk to school every, single, day! Why don't we take the bus?" Zoey complained, her dyed light purple hair swinging along her back, glimmering slightly(This is caused by the massive glitter she puts in it everyday) as she glared down the pavement with her sharp green eyes, as if she could make it ashamed or something.
"Hey! Those buses are GROSS! The other kids are loud as hell; the place smells like an expired diary farm and manure! And the seats are constantly steaming!" Jasmine spat, she was rather pessimistic, her pitch-black hair matching her glum attitude(I love the word glum) that hung down to her butt, she looked like the stereotype of a Goth or Emo chick, shrugging off anyone but us three. Her past was a bit sad.
"Oh come on guys! You complain about this every day when we're walking to school! Why can't you all just put on a fake smile like Sai for at least five minutes please?" Kaley pleaded, we all groaned, but in the end broke out into laughter at the redhead. She glared at us all slightly, but shrugged it off, along with her shoulder pack, of which she dug through, making us all stop for her. The heat was worse standing still. Then Kaley pulled out a book, sort of like a comic book, but flipped the other way, you READ the opposite way I mean! The cover said clearly, and we all said out loud before we even read it;
"Naruto" We all groaned. Kaley breathed heavily for a moment, before flipping through the wrong-way pages, stopping at one and shoving it into Zoeys face
"LOOK! He preforms his Sexy-No-Jutsu here! We all know you're a closet pervert Zoey!" Kaley coaxed, Zoey giggled a bit and looked at the picture a while, but didn't budge or move to grab the comic.
"My god you guys never give me a chance!" Kaley whined, but we all kept on walked and she picked up her bag, stuffed the book inside and ran up to catch up with us. She was what the guys called, 'S-S-SMOKING HOTT!' and we couldn't really disagree, but that hadn't been the case a year ago;
She used to have braces, and glasses, acne protruded from her forehead, and a terrible stuttering problem, the main idea for a geek or nerd. It didn't help she was smart and read what she called 'Manga', mainly obsessing over the one called 'Naruto'. We still hung out with her, it only made sense, her and I had been friends since Second Grade, fighting off bullies, and eating together, just the two of us. When middle school arrived I gained a posse, consisting of Zoey and Jasmine. Jasmine was hesitant to let Kaley join, her looks being one of a nerd and all, but I claimed she was an awesome person, which was true of course! We'd had sleepovers, done countless unintelligible dares, and messed with a few hearts on our own. In other words, Kaley and I were BFF's to the death.
When Kaley started getting noticed, it was when she finally got her braces taken off last year, she'd gotten contacts to drive better, and had finally found a working product and cleared up her forehead with some product not aired on TV. Her red hair was always to her shoulders, and slightly curly, making her hair seem angeletic. She attracted more guys now, but of all the jocks and popular guys to choose from, she secretly longed for some kid in the shadows, his hair was red, but not like Kaleys, it was pure red, he always wore long sleeves, and jeans. I had to admit, he was pretty cute, but why him? He always hung out with this guy, that always reminded me of a girl, I always teased her about them being gay for each other, at which she'd stare at me with wide eyes and start to scold me on such stuff, I believe she called it… Yaoi?
Either way, Kaley constantly cooed about how the redhead kid and his girly friend (Of which I note barely made friend, the two seemed constantly in argument, I heard a word of it once, oddly enough it was about 'art') were going to meet up with the rest of their gang, who were transferring to this school, today.
Kaley started to go on about how we should give her poor comic a chance, and Zoey along with Jasmine started to try to calm her down, and laughed slightly once in a while. I closed my eyes for a second, and tied my hair in loose pigtails. I let my mind wander as I mindlessly walked the same old path, staring at the clouds.
Did I mention? My name's Maria, my hair is brown, always straightened, and a little lower than my shoulders. Despite Zoeys bright green eyes, Jasmines dark hazel eyes, and Kaleys piercing electric blue ones, mine were just brown, easily mistakable for black, and you could only tell they were brown if you got close to look, but by then I may have bitch-slapped you and called you a 'creeper'. I had an odd habit of pulling my hair back with my hands when I got nervous and bored, and sometimes couldn't fall asleep because my mind took the time before bedtime to think, and think. You would think this would have made me smart, but it was random gabble, nothing useful.
Yet I'm jabbering on, the best part (As in everything) of our new life awaited when school would end. I will grant you the wish of not telling you of our boring day, just the part when the day started (They see me trolling, they hatin). We burst through the doors (And by that I mean opening them as softly as possible so as to avoid the ever present eyes boring at you) and before we could hit our lockers, Kaley dragged me, and Jasmine along with her, Zoey followed anyways, smartness.
We headed straight for the Principles office (Nice times here) where a curious sight awaited inside.
"Oh there you are, Ms. Hazly" Principle Steve greeted (Best. Name. Ever.), though the principle was already a weird sight, balding on the top of his head while the rest of his hair remained green (Don't ask, Chemistry is a bitch) and how he seemed to wear a full on tuxedo instead of some suit, was nothing compared to the eight (Seemingly) teenagers inside, all standing except for three, one of them was a kid with bright orange hair, piercings where no one wants them (Seriously, some were on his NOSE and EARS!), his eyes seemed to have circles within them, he seemed like a leader, I may just nickname Leader to poke fun at him. The girl sitting next to him had blue hair, tied up in a bob and a white flower in it, which remotely resembled paper, she had a few piercings too, but not as hardcore as that other dude, she seemed like his second in command or something, her name would be Calm Blue. The third person sitting (Or I think he was) was the weirdest and probably most scarring image ever. He seemed to be split into two sides, though it was one whole body, one half of his body was white, and the other was black. What was even weirder? His eyes seemed to be bright yellow and his teeth pointed. And what was the weirdest and most terrifying? He was enveloped form the chest up by a GIANT Venus Flytrap. The principal seemed rather calm at that man in particular, did he SEE him? My god… But everyone else was weird, though not as much as flytrap man (Who I was now CONVINCED was being eaten by the plant enveloping his body, why else would it be there?), but quite weird. I would call the Flytrap… Fly Plant
The next person I saw was the most normal looking one of the bunch; he had black hair, tied loosely in a ponytail behind his back. He looked a bit calm, or bored, I couldn't tell. His eyes were black, and I swear at moments they switched to red when he seemed tensed (Not very often), I'd name him… Cool Ferret. As I said, he is the most NORMAL of the lot, so things get weirder from here. Since I'm most likely going in order from normal looks to scary people, I'll explain this next guy.
His hair was grey, or silver. The only thing weird about him was both his eye, which were the strange color of violet (Contacts maybe?), and then also his entire face. Nothing was WRONG with it, just that he seemed eager to stab anyone (Including me) on the spot for absolutely no reason. I guess I'll label him Mentally Insane.
The guy next to him was weird (Overused word is overused in Chapter one), he was tanned and his eyes were green with black where the white should be. I have a feeling his face would be freakish, if I could see it. He wore this weird mask that covered everything but his eyes. I saw four small holes where something may have been stapled or nailed into the top of his mask, but it must have been removed. I would nickname him… Scar Face (Insert retarded face here).
The next was right beside Cool Ferret. His most distinguishing feature? Where do I start? His grey bluish skin? His pointed teeth? His SHARK FEATURES? Maybe I should go with his size? Yeah, good call. He was far taller than anyone else, I wasn't so sure about him and Fly Plant, but it was close. His smirk suggested either he was playful, fun to be around, or a complete pervert. Your call. I shall name him Jaws Jr. (More retarded face)
Next in the line of freaks… Actually the last one. He… I shall call him Retarded Lollipop off the bat immediately. He wore an orange mask, with swirly black lines that made his head look like a giant orange Halloween lollipop. My imagination goes far you see. He was acting rather retarded, and I don't mean this in the rude offensive way, he was literally acted retarded. I hope I don't offend anyone retarded by putting HIM with you… You know I'll just stop talking now in order for this writing to not be banned by all states.
That was about all of them. To wrap it all up, they were all wearing jeans (Scratch Fly Plant) and leather jackets, I could see there was a symbol on the back, a cloud outlined in white and colored in with red. Under that it said in simple white letters 'AKATSUKI'. The words and symbol meant nothing to me (At the time) so I decided that Jasmine was told to escort some creepy ass gang around school, and we were all to help. Oh joy.
This was all seen in less than ten seconds. I almost immediately heard Jasmine take in a sharp intake of breath at seeing the entire weird ensemble. I even heard her whisper the name of their supposedly 'group' despite her not having seen their backs yet. I stared at her a second
"You know who they are?" I asked. Jasmine quickly recovered herself.
"I- uh…." She mumbled. Kaley sighed
"Why don't you all come over to my house after school?" She suggested. We all nodded enthusiastically, we hadn't been to her house in almost five months. It made no sense, her parents were always gone, and if they came home it was to make sure Kaley was alive, then they'd leave on business or on vacation. Kaley almost always had the house to herself, it wasn't too big, two stories. Her parents had always done that, since she had ben a little girl, so they had once hired a caretaker, or a maid. Whatever. The caretaker died, and her parents think of hiring another one or even holding a funeral, Kaley was older enough to take care of herself now right?
I was a bit happy not to go to Kaleys house for so long, after her caretaker had died, Kaley had made a shrine to her, including a single bone of the woman's corpse and a picture that made it seem like she was staring into our soul. I tried to avoid that room, it had been the one she had died in and it seemed haunted.
"Will you explain why we have to… 'escort' these people around school?" I asked. Zoey seemed ready to do whatever, her normal bouncy and ready-to-go self as usual.
"It will make sense after school." Kaley hissed. I rolled my eyes, but stood still. Most people may have bolted from the spot (One look at Fly Plant and the murderous face of Mentally Insane was enough for normal people), but I was rather interested in this lot. They made that 'art' pair of 'friends' seem rather normal.
"You of all people recommended showing these eight around. I see you brought volunteers? Willingly?" Principal Steve asked, that last part made me sigh heavily. Zoey didn't care, and Jasmine kept her face emotionless. Her and Cool Ferret may be destined to be? Nah.
"Yes I did sir." Kaley responded, her respective tone made me cringe.
"Well then, you already seem to know all eight of these people but I shall introduce them to your friends Ms. Brioynth, Auburn, and Pesnet." He rattled on. I felt my lips form a straight line as he said my name first, I always wanted to cool last name, one that rolls off the tongue. Instead, I get one that makes all the teachers feel awkward so they just point to me and call me 'You'. Annoying really.
"The black and white one painted is Zetsu, the one with the orange hair is Pain, Blue hair with flower of Konan, shark guy is Kisame, black haired guy is Itachi, orange masked one is Tobi, the silver haired one is Hidan, and that guy next to him is Kakuzu." Jasmine mumbled before the principle could say another word.
All I did was giggle
"That guys name is Pain? Only adding to his goth or emo looks." I commented, "I'd rather call him Leader."
"That's fine too." The man named Pain answered. His voice was smooth, and full of authority
"My god Kaley. How did you FIND them?" Zoey whispered. Kaley giggled a bit, Jasmine smirked (SHE'S IN ON IT DAMN YOU!) and we all walked out of the office. The whole twelve of us must have looked like a circus, or maybe even a rainbow. I had a feeling that we may be with this group for a while. This, was going to be a whole new high school experience.
N: I started a new book. Do you guys like it? The idea's been in my head for a long while, so I decided to write it down. Make sure to review with opinions on how the story should go!
And for those who read Changes in Reality. I'm taking a break, I had to do a week of daily updates, I had n excuse last week, but now I admit I'm just being lazy. SORRY!
Please review? New story means new reviewers. At least I hope!