W00T!! This is the sequel to But, Why Me! I'm so happy! I was actually working on this before But, Why Me! was over, but it took me a long time to finish it. Also just for the heck of it, I decided to add extra emphasis to a lot of the words :D
Disclaimer: I do not own the popular Japanese anime NARUTO, or any of its related characters. -evil lawyers nod- But I DO own Autumn, and my other OCs -lawyers take out hidden tasers, and chase PZ- AHHH!! SAMMY I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO LOCK UP ALL OF THOSE TASERS!! -all of the OCs who have been tortured in the past attack- NUUUU!! SAMMY! WHY!?
It was a normal summer day, but for the children of the area, it was the beginning of the end. The end of their summer vacation that is, it was Monday, and that signaled that there was only one more week until school would start again. But before summer ended there was unfinished business between some of the neighborhood kids.
"Foul!" Yelled a girl.
"No fair!" yelled a boy.
"Very fair Joey, now get back in line so we can finish this already!!" The boy, Joey was a 5'6 14 year old. His light skin was covered with freckles, and his hazel eyes stood out from the rest of the boys on his team.
"No way Autumn! He hit that ball!" Autumn was a skinny teen with her somewhat short brown hair tied into a ponytail, the rest was hidden under a red white and black baseball cap that represented her school. Autumn had nearly flawless skin, except for a freckle here or there. And her eyes shone a brilliant green.
"Yeah! And it went like what? An inch?" Autumn smirked, she and Joey had been rivals since the first grade. Before summer began, he had the nerve to challenge her, and so far Autumn was winning their little feud.
"Fine we'll do it over." Joey said something to himself and went back in line. Autumn wound up and pitched the ball right over the plate, sadly for the boys it kept going over the plate and right into the fence that lined her backyard.
"Strike!" Yelled the umpire who was a girl by the name of Becky.
"Wow Joey, your team is just full of winners." Autumn said rolling her eyes, as Becky threw her the ball.
"Tch, whatever Autumn. Just pitch the freakin ball," Autumn shrugged,
"Whatever suits your fancy Princess," Here comes the wind up, and the pitch! The ball went right over the plate!
"Strike!"
"Shayne! Hit the stupid ball for once!" Joey yelled at the batter. Once again, the wind up, and the pitch...
-WHACK!-
This time Shayne hit the ball, but it went straight for...Autumn! Autumn had been an athlete for most of her life, and baseball was one of her best sports, instead of cowering in fear of getting hit by the ball, (like most of the other girls) she just put up her glove and and braced herself to catch the ball. Right before the ball could hit her though, something else caught it...
"OUT!" Becky yelled as the dust started to clear. Autumn stepped back in surprise. In all of her previous adventures this was one character she had never had the extreme misfortune to meet (although she was close)...
(I'll give you a minute to think about it... Ya done yet? I'll give it to ya anyway.)
It was the one and only survivor of the Uchiha massacre... Uchiha Sasuke (Shippuden)
(Thankfully) Apparently everyone else thought that the game was more important then some chicken-ass hair anime character appearing in front of them.
"What!" Joey yelled at the umpire (who also happened to be the catcher). "HOW THE HECK IS THAT A STRIKE! THAT WAS INTERFERENCE!" Autumn sighed, once this kid got started, there was no stopping him.
"Let it go Joey..." Autumn said stepping out from behind Sasuke, who was waiting patiently still holding the ball.
"HOW CAN I LET IT GO! MY TEAM IS SO CLOSE TO WINNING!"
"..." There was silence and then something else happened. Suigetsu, Juugo, and Karin jumped off of the roof, joining Sasuke, and almost squishing Autumn.
"Is something wrong Sasuke-kun?" Karin asked almost running over Autumn to go over to him. He just threw the ball in her face.
"..." There was more silence before Autumn walked in front of them so she could be heard.
"Joey... You might want to re-think that..."
"WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?" Jill, another one of the girls on Autumn's team, and also one of her good friends, walked away from her position at second base and over to where the real action was.
"IT MEANS THAT WE'RE AT THE TOP OF THE NINTH AND YOUR TEAM IS LOSING BY 19 POINTS!" She yelled in Joey's face.
"...Well yeah, but I was trying to be nice about it... Thanks!" Autumn said to her friend as she walked back to her position.
"No prob. Fall!" Meanwhile Joey had officially given up on the matter since he was out numbered, and his team was obviously not going to back him up.
"Umm... Why is everyone staring at me?" Autumn asked. Everyone especially team Hebi (still right behind her) was staring.
"It's your call..." Joey started. "Is he in or out?" Autumn looked shocked for a second and then thought it over.
"Well I guess..." Autumn suddenly smirked. " I guess then he's... OUT!" Team Hebi just looked about as the children switched sides.
"Right, could you people like, get off the field?" Sasuke blinked.
"Excuse me?"
"Would you PLEASE moveso we can finish our game?" Sasuke just blinked again and walked over to the deck and sat there, waiting.
"Well that works... Okay then!" she said turning back to her team.
"LET'S PLAY BALL!" Autumn turned once more and threw the ball at Joey, who barely caught it before it hit his face.
"Good luck!" she said happily running to her spot in the batting line.
"Okay! Chi-Chi, you're up! Kay, you're on deck! And... wait a second!" Autumn was looking at the batting order, something wasn't right.
"Oh, what's wrong Autumn? You've just found out that you actually have to bat?" Joey called, taunting her. Truthfully it was. Before, she had the batting order set up so that she would go only a few times in the whole game, but now... Someone must have changed it...
"Aw don't listen to 'im!"Another girl, May said.
"Maybe I wouldn't if someone actually decided to play. Although I'm not mentioning any names... May?" she responded, said girl just shrugged. May, even though she was usually more hyper than a chipmunk on caffeine, she never played sports. She loved watching sports, talking about sports, and listening to sports, but she'll never play one.
"Now that part, is soooo not my problem."
"You're just so helpful, ya know that? Just so helpful!"
"I'm doing my best here!" Autumn rolled her eyes once more, and took her new place in the quickly moving batting line. Chi-Chi had already gone, meaning that Kay was up, and she was on deck. Autumn picked up a helmet, and picked up her favorite bat. It was a long red metal bat with the words "Louisville Slugger" on the side in white letters. Her father had gotten this bat for her when she joined her first softball team, four years ago. It was too small for her now, but that had never stopped her from using it. (It just made her start wearing gloves)
Autumn watched as Kay got ready to bat. Crossing her fingers Autumn prayed that she would hit it. Kay had never been very good at sports, but she played them anyway. Last summer Autumn had played a game of baseball, just for fun with her. Every time she pitched the ball it either hit her in the face, or caused harm to other places on her body, and when she was up to bat, the ball and the bat itself seemed to have opposing magnets in them. The bat would never actually hit the ball. As Kay got into position, Autumn closed her eyes, she couldn't watch!
Suddenly, after a few moments of silence,
-WHACK!!-
Autumn opened her eyes, hoping that, that sound wasn't a bone snapping. But wait... She couldn't have... She did! Kay actually hit the ball! Apparently everyone else was shocked too, because Kay had made it all the way to third base already, and no one seemed to notice, they just kept looking at the ball. The ball had landed by a random tree in the yard, but no one wanted to touch it, they thought that it might have some kind of mystic power or it was jinxed or something...
"Go Kay!!" Autumn shouted, causing everyone to snap out of their little daze. Kay was five centimeters from home plate by the time that they noticed.
"NO FAIR SHE HAS GOT TO BE CHEATING!!" Joey yelled walking over to Autumn, who was getting ready for her turn at bat. She sighed, 'Here we go again'.
"Now just how did you come to that conclusion, Oh Smart One?" Joey glared at her.
"There is no possible way that, THAT girl could ever hit a ball! I mean, it's Kay we're talking about!" He said, motioning toward said girl.
"Well obviously she just did, so just buzz off!" Autumn pushed him back with the tip of her bat. Joey walked back to the pitcher's mound, but as he did the little emo cloud that had been hovering over Sasuke's head seemed to break in half and float over to Joey. Autumn smirked, apparently that had taken a big chunk out of his ego, and the fact that the emo cloud was starting to rain wasn't helping it either.
"Wow... Deja vu..." Autumn said as she watched Joey go sit in a random corner of her yard and start to grow mushrooms.
(Ouran High School Host Club)
"Do ya think someone should try and cheer him up?" Kay asked, walking over to Autumn.
"Nah! He puts us down almost every other day of the week, he can live with losing most (if not all) of his pride."
"But... What if we... Took it a bit... Too, far?" She asked, motioning to the emo cloud, and the big neon sign with an arrow that said "Joey's Emo Corner".
"Good point, so is anyone actually going to volunteer?" No one moved. Autumn let out a sigh, they weren't going to be able to finish their game without a pitcher, and she wasn't going to be able to pitch for herself.
"Let's have Kay do it then."
"WHAT!?" She yelled, causing Autumn to have to rub her ears, just to make sure that they weren't bleeding.
"It was your lovely idea to try to cheer up an emo kid today, so I think you should be the one to do it." She said, searching through one of her bags of random junk.
"Here," Autumn handed Kay a happy looking teddy bear. "It should protect you from his emo powers of angst and... emoness," Kay glared at the bear as if it's head was going to fly off any second.
"OH NO! THE ANGSTYNESS IS SPREADING!" Autumn said, snatching back the bear, and attacking Kay with it.
"Mister Bear! Please hug our friend and save her from living a life of emoness!" May said coming up behind Autumn. To Sasuke and the rest of Team Hebi it looked like a fight had broken out, and the bear was the cause of it.
"Kay! Kay! Speak to us! Say something happy and optimistic!" Autumn shouted holding Kay's hand, because she had fainted from getting the angst sucked out of her by the bear.
"I think I got chocolate on my phone..."
"SHE'S ALIVE!" Autumn shouted grabbing the bear. The teddy bear had the power to suck angst out of people, and recycle it into positive energy. Autumn stood on the pitcher's mound, she didn't want to get too close. She pitched the bear at Joey, hoping to get him out of his little emo mood. The bear hit him in the back, but was deflected by the emo cloud.
"NUUUU!!" The Autumn watched in horror as the emoness from the cloud attached itself onto the bear.
"No look Autumn you did it!" Autumn's eyes went from the now very emo looking bear, to Joey. He was dusting himself off, and was getting ready to pitch. At least something worked out.
"Hey Autumn! You just gonna stand there and gawk all day? I actually want to get this game over with before the sun goes down!" he yelled, getting back on the pitcher's mound. Autumn took one last sad look at the bear before she took her bat and got ready. As Joey wound up, May yelled out into the field,
"WAIT!!"
"What?"
"Please allow us to have a moment of silence for our brave soldier, the warrior against all things emo, Mister Bear..."
-Moment of silence-
"Okay, PLAY BALL!!" And with that Autumn went back to concentrating on hitting the ball, she had to think like she did during her training, she had think as she did during sword training. She had to become one with the bat...
"STRIKE!!"
"Hey no fair! I wasn't ready yet!"
"Gee Autumn, I thought you were a pro!" Joey yelled, laughing.
"Shut up!" Okay, screw training. Just concentrate...
-WHACK!!-
Autumn hit the ball right out of her backyard! She took off running,
"HOME RUN!!" And just like that she made it back to home without a second thought.
"Face it Joey, we're going to win!" Autumn shouted over to the pitcher, Joey just mumbled something incoherent in response.
In the end, Autumn's team did win the game 26-2, but Joey was very competitive, he wasn't going to give up just yet. Joey walked off of the pitcher's mound, and straight over to Autumn.
"Have you come to admit your absolute defeat?" She asked smiling cockily. Joey looked at her seriously,
"I challenge you to... A game." Autumn raised her eyebrow,
"Of what?"
"Of... DDR!" (Dun Dun DUNNNNNN!!)
"Heh, if that's all then I accept your petty little challenge!" Autumn said imitating a villain, and cackling evilly. Joey just gave her a 'WTF' look, and everyone else seemed to back away slowly. Sasuke's ears perked up at the sound of evil laughter, that sounded strangely like Orochimaru's, and with his ninja speed, he was in front of Autumn holding his katana to her throat. Now it was Autumn's turn to give the 'WTF' look, she turned to Sasuke,
"What?" she asked obviously confused. In Sasuke's opinion, she was either Orochimaru in disguise, or Kabuto.
"Don't play the fool shoujo," he said sternly, activating his sharingan. Autumn avoided his gaze, and carefully pushed his katana away from her neck.
"Could you please not call me that?" She said in her evil/sweet voice. "I don't enjoy being called a 'little girl' in anylanguage," Sasuke slashed his katana in the direction of her neck, causing everyone to gasp. Luckily for her, her training in the past had worn off. With her quick reflexes, Autumn managed to duck before she got decapitated.
"Anger management issues much?" she asked sarcastically, Sasuke didn't respond, instead he brought his katana down on her. Autumn rolled to the side, the katana missing her only by a hair.
"That could have hurt, a lot, and I am sooooo not going through that again!" (Kudos to you, if you know what she's talking about.) The rest of Team Hebi walked over to where everyone was standing, and Karin glared intensely at poor Autumn, who was rolling on the ground, trying to avoid getting stabbed by Sasuke. (Just like Lee did with Kimmimaru.)
"Would you mind not trying to kill me for a minute or two?" She rolled behind May, and stood back up.
"Now what is it that you want so much, that you'll kill an innocent little girl just like a heartless common criminal?" She asked, openly referring to Itachi. (He's awesome, but he killed his whole family! Plus I doing this prior to chapter 390) Sasuke glared at her, but backed off.
"See? Now was that so hard?" Autumn bounced out from behind May, and into Sasuke's face.
"So, what can I do ya for?" He just briefly looked clueless in response.
"It means what the heck do ya want!?"
"You should know..." now it was Autumn's turn to look clueless.
"Kabuto. I knew I should have killed you when I had the chance! But hear this I won't make the same mistake again! DIE!!" Grabbing a kunai from god-knows-where, Sasuke slashed where Autumn's neck should have been, but she dodged. Repeating the same dance as earlier, Autumn dodged all of his attacks. He was a lot easier to avoid than Itachi!
"Please tell me that you're done!" she said fanning herself with her hand. It was hot, and doing all of this wasn't good for her health. Sasuke glared at her.
"What are you doing here Kabuto?"
"For God's sake! Read my lips: I. Am. NOT. Kabuto!" Autumn went up to Sasuke and poked him in the forehead, just like Itachi used to.
"Who are you?" he whispered. Autumn just smiled, as she had learned in the past, messing with anime characters, (especially the emo ones) could be fun if you knew how to push their buttons.
"I. Am..."
"Crazy?" May ended. Autumn turned and glared at her friend who just shrugged.
"No... I'm," Dramatic pause,
"Your worst nightmare..." she said lowering the tone of her voice so that it was more of a stage whisper. Sasuke didn't believe this, but he had to admit, this girl was a bit creepy. May rolled her eyes, and went to stand by her friend.
"Who is this freak anyway?" she asked, closing her book.
"Trust me, you don't want to know,"
After hours and hours of persuasion...
Autumn finally got Sasuke to stop trying to kill her, but she wasn't so sure about Karin. She had been glaring at the back of Autumn's head for the past few hours, even after Sasuke had told her to stop. Joey and the others had gone home with hopes that they wouldn't have to deal with it, but before he left, Joey gave Autumn the date and time of their DDR battle. Sadly for her she didn't trust Team Hebi enough, so she would have to take them with her. Until then, she could just lock them in the basement, or put up a jutsu around the other floors. It didn't matter really. After the akatsuki left her house last time, she had collected all of their stuff, and moved it to her room. A few scrolls, some kunai, a shurikin here and there. But one thing that she remembered the most was going through Tobi's room. Somehow when she slept people away, everything besides their persons is left behind. In Tobi's room she found, A piece of gum, a paperclip, her iPod, her laptop a comb, her mother's glasses, the TV remote, Becky's lost earring, paper, a pencil, some stolen rolexes, some weird looking grayish powder(1), a mango, her mother's hat, and some less important things. Point was that Tobi had some serious issues. But at the moment, she just hoped that Sasuke didn't go all ninja on her in her sleep.
Team Hebi was currently watching Autumn read a book. She had tried to start a conversation, that didn't work. She had tried walking away, Sasuke followed her. She had even tried using a clone so she could get away, he killed it, and followed her anyway. And of course where ever he went, the rest of team hebi was sure to follow. So now she was in the library, reading a book, the anime, and the scrolls were locked up in the back, and Sasuke, and Karin were glaring at the back of her head, both thinking of different ways to torture, and kill.
"Would you two mind not glaring at me? It's getting annoying, and I'm under enough pressure!" she said, turning, and giving them a glare of her own. Karin looked away, but Sasuke seemed unfazed. She was using her "modified" version of Itachi's glare, only this time, she didn't activate her sharingan.
"I don't trust you," he said, looking her straight in the eyes,
"You shouldn't," Autumn replied, annoyed at the fact that one of the people that she hated the most was going to be living with her until next month. Before they left last time, Pein had Itachi teach her the jutsu that allowed them to move between different dimensions. They weren't so sure about it at first, but when it became apparent that the appearances, and disappearances when the gate opened were caused by her odd sleeping patterns, and her high chakra levels, They decided to teach her, just in case it happened again. If something were being sent to the "anime world" then the jutsu had to be preformed on the night of the new moon. If something were being summoned to the "normal world" then the jutsu had to be activated on the night of the full moon. Sadly for her though, the new moon had just passed, meaning that she either had to wait until next month when the new moon would come again, or she could take a flight to the other side of the moon, somewhere on Mars, and do it there. Well the second option was sure as heck not going to happen. So she was stuck with them. But of course there was always a third option, she could try falling asleep and hope that they would disappear, but that usually meant that there would be an exchange. If Team Hebi went away, she could end up with the akatsuki, the Konoha shinobi, or the idiots from sound living with her again. And she definitely didn't want that. Also since her sleeping patterns and the appearances were unusual, there was a high chance that someone she had never met before would appear, much like Sasuke did. She just hoped it wasn't the akatsuki again. She was still mad at them for what they made her do to May. It was a good thing she had learned to bring the dead back to life, but of course that brought back extremely bad memories.
"If you ask me-!" Karen started,
"Well it's a good thing that no one asked you now isn't it?" Autumn said, rolling her eyes. With that smart remark, Suigetsu broke out laughing.
"Now that we've had our two minutes worth of entertainment, I have a question," She said, looking at Sasuke.
"Why are you freaks here anyway?"
"HOW DARE-!"
"Shut up!"
"Why are you here?" Sasuke asked, causing Autumn to sigh,
"I live here! What are ya, stupid?"
"Hey! Don't you-!"
"Shut up!"
"We're here because I heard a rumor of Itachi-"
"What? Him, here? No. I don't allow people who would attempt to murder me in my home!"
" You know who he is?"
"... Yes," Sasuke grabbed her,
"How?!"
"Take a guess Chicken Ass! You'll probably get it right!"
"You little-!"
"Shut up already! haven't you learned yet that no one wants to hear your mouth!"
"HOW DO YOU KNOW ITACHI!!"
"SHUT UP!!"
"YOU CAN'T TELL SASUKE-"
"GET A LIFE!!"
"AS IF!"
"WHERE IS HE!?"
"WHO ARE YOU TO TALK TO-"
"UGH! THAT'S IT!!" Suddenly everyone went silent as Karin's body dropped to the floor. In an instant Autumn found herself pinned to the ground with Sasuke's katana against her throat. Sharingan glaring into sharingan.
"...Itachi..."
"Guess again, Pretty Boy!" Autumn yelled, flipping Sasuke off of her. Juugo, and Suigetsu got into fighting positions.
"Oh, come on! Three against one is so not fair... For you!"
"DON'T LOOK INTO HER EYES!!" Sasuke yelled, but it was too late, Suigetsu, and Juugo both hit the floor with a dull "Thud".
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked, glaring at her.
"Who am I indeed, I am your past, your present, and your future. Everything that has happened, I have seen it, everything that will happen, I've seen it. I have seen, and memorized everything that you have done in the past, and what you will do in the future!"
"..."
"In one year, you will kill Itachi, and then there will be only two Uchihas left in your world. After you kill him, you will learn the truth about your family, and everything around you. Your thirst for revenge won't be satisfied. You will hate yourself, and force yourself over the edge. I hate you Uchiha Sasuke. I hate you for taking lives for your own selfish purposes. I hate you for killing people that I care about. I hate you for hurting my friends... And I hate myself because I know that there is nothing that I can do about it... It's all history here... And history must run it's course... Aniki would be mad if I changed it..." Autumn who was crying started to laugh, "To tell the truth, he'd be mad at me for just telling you all of this, but it'll be our little secret okay?" she said, mimicking a little child, holding her finger to her lips.
"Who are you?" She stood up straight, and smirked as she stated proudly,
"I am the adopted daughter of the fearless akatsuki leader Pein! I am an official member, and I'm one of the most powerful too, I have traits and abilities from each and every one of the members, making me a deadly weapon. Just as all shinobi are. I am the elemental countries past, present, and future. I am the youth of tomorrow, but as for my name, my birth name is "Autumn"... Do you want me to keep going with the intro, or did you finally get the point after the fifteenth time that I've had to re-introduce myself today?" Sasuke glared at her. "'Cause this is one of my better intros, but it's kinda long..."
"...Hn,"
"I'll take that as a 'yes', but just to be safe," Autumn skipped over to where he was standing, "Let's review. Who am I?"
"..."
"Okay, too hard. How about this, What is my name?"
"...Hn,"
"You're hopeless, think about what I said, okay?" She finished, walking away. This time Sasuke let her go. After she left, Sasuke paced around the room a few times. He knew damn well who she was. She was that one girl that Orochimaru was going to have take his place. It was hard to believe at first, since she seemed not to have any mental damage, but after she revealed her sharingan, it was apparent that she was the one. He could tell that most of the things she had done to him so far were on purpose, so she could get under his skin. Eventually, he was going to do the same to her. Who said the antagonist couldn't have fun?
Finally making it up to her room, Autumn plopped down on the bed. He was sooooooo going to kill her later. Grabbing her skateboard, she skated over to the other side of her room. (Yes it is that big) In her desk on this side, was were she kept the scrolls. Finding the one she was looking for, she set it on the floor. It was a summoning scroll. She summoned Cleopatra, a snake who had helped her in the past, just for the heck of it. She really needed someone to talk to, and she sure as heck wasn't going to talk to the idiots down stairs. Not to mention that three of them were in the middle of 72 hours of hell, and the one that was awake was EXTREMELY antisocial. Plus Autumn was sure that she had pissed him off enough already. Besides, Cleo was special. She wasn't just any snake, she had been there for Autumn like a parent would. She laughed when she was happy, she cried when she almost died. (Courtesy of a certain Weasel-man Uchiha) She was like her best friend. Of course there was the small fact that the akatsuki did make her kill her best friend, but that wasn't important at the moment. (really)
"Aauuutuummmn?" came a hiss out of the smoke. In the middle of the floor sat a snake, with golden/green scales, and slited eyes.
"Hey Cleo," Confirming the identity of her friend, Cleo rose up to full height, and shifted into the figure of a woman.
"Where have you beeen?" even though she looked human at the moment, she still had that hissing problem.
"Busy. We have more company." Autumn stated,
"Reeeaaaally? Hm, anyone I know?"
"At least one of them, you should,"
"How interesting," Cleo who was wearing a green/gold kimono like her scales, stood up, and streached.
"I take it you want to see them?" Autumn sighed,
"Ooh, Aautuummn, you know meee all too weeell,"
"The reason I came up here was to get away from those idiots, plus they should be waking up right about now, my Mangekou isn't that powerful yet,"
"Morrre of a goood reeeaassson to go down there," Autumn sighed again,
"Fine, but you have to change again first," Cleo nodded, and turned herself into a kitten,
"For someone who's supposed to be ancient, you act just like a little child,"
"Isss that a prrroblem?" she asked, rolling over onto her back.
"Okay, now you're just trying to be cute," Cleo licked Autumn's hand as she bent down to pick her up.
"Issss iit worrking?"
"Yep!" That brought a smile to both of their faces. One that would hopefully encourage them to make the long journey all that way back down to the library. (It's only what, 4 floors away?)
Autumn took Cleo over to the staircase in the back. She rarely ever used this one because the ones in the front were so much more convenient, and a lot bigger. The back staircases, Autumn was sure, were servants staircases before Orochimaru moved in. This one went through the wall and down a deep tunnel. It had a small door that led to every floor, but besides that, there was nothing. No lights, no wallpaper, not even a handrail! Not like she needed one anyway. The passage was narrow enough that she didn't need it.
"Why can't you walk down here your self?" Autumn asked, stumbling in the darkness, "I bet it would save me a whole lot of trouble,"
"Nnoow wherrre iss the fuun in thaaat?"
"For you, none. For me, plenty."
"Oh rrreally?"
"Yes really,"
"How?"
"Well, in my case, watching you in your kitten form attempting to climb down theses steep stairs without my help would be more then funny," This conversation lasted for a couple more minutes, and as their voices echoed throughout the spiral passageway, a few extra ears listened, and waited in silence for the time to come to get their revenge.
"Do youuu have the feeeeling that we're being watched?" Cleo purred,
"Huh? Oh, those idiots' chakra signatures were so weak that I nearly forgot about them," Autumn said, finally coming to the door, and stepping out into the light. Suigetsu, Karen, and Juugo, who had all been listening against the wall, anime fell right into the opening door, which caused them to fall unconscious. Seeing their bodies on the floor, both Autumn, and Cleo sweatdropped. These were supposed to be powerful, and threatening ninja from another universe? I don't think so.
"Are they okay?" Autumn asked as she let Cleo down to inspect the scene.
"Theyy'lll bee fiiine," she said, morphing back into a woman.
"That... That is just sad." Cleo just nodded in agreement.
"What did you do to them?" Sasuke asked as he came into the room. "Who is this?" he motioned to Cleo.
"One, nothing, you little pose was knocked out by the door opening. Two, this is Cleopatra. You should know her already."
"Cleopatra?"
"The one and only, baka... OW!" that little phrase had earned Autumn a smack to the head. Even though she had become a bit more lenient, Cleo still couldn't tolerate impoliteness. Sasuke just nodded, it was hard to believe at first, but that little display was enough proof.
"Was that really nessesary?" Autumn asked, rubbing the sore spot.
"It got him to believe us didn't it?"
"What's your point!?"
"So you two know each other?"
"No, we just met five seconds ago, nice to meet you Cleo, what's your name?" She hit her again.
"Will you stop that!!"
"I would if you wouldn't provoke me!"
"HOW AM I PROVOKING YOU?!" She got hit again,
"DON'T RAISE YOUR VOICE TO ME!!"
"SHUT UP!" at this point, Cleo was beyond pissed, so she started a full blown cat fight.
"Could you two not fight at this possible moment?" Sasuke asked, wanting answers.
"I'll stop when she decides to get a life!"
"You should learn to respect you elders!"
"You act younger than me!"
"And who's fault is that?"
"... I really don't know..."
"Neither do I,"
"... well this is awkward.."
"Yep..."
"Sooooooooo... friends?"
"Alwaysssss," Sasuke stared at the two. One minute they had been fighting, and now they had just announced their friendship to the world... And it was and that exact moment that Sasuke finally threw his "Autumn being Kabuto" idea out the window. There was absolutely no way those two were even related! He knew that Kabuto was mad, but not insane. (I'd prefer it the other way around)
"Cleopatra..."
"Yesss?"
"Tell me... Where is Itachi?"
"I cannot say..."
"Please... I need to know!"
"Hate to interrupt, but you two need to end this conversation so I can go shopping for the school year,"
"Sssshouldn't youuu haaave dooone thaaat eaarlier?"
"... Maybe... but I didn't, so LET'S GO!!"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"... Aaautumnn... You do realisssse that it issss passsst four in the afternoon?"
"Yeah, so?" Cleo sighed, and Sasuke and Autumn stood there looking confused. Then it clicked.
"... Oh..." After four it was almost impossible to get to the other side of town because the tunnels started being patrolled last year after the akatsuki had forced her to murder May.
"That sucks..." Cleo hit her again,
"What did I do that time!?"
"Language precision,"
"I 'dislike' you,"
"That's nice." Sasuke kept staring and twitched a few times, these people were insane.
"I heard that," Autumn sang, that was another plus from her new eyes. She could read thoughts by reading movements! A lot like Neji does with the byakugan! (Neji is awesome!)
"I'm bored,"
"Hn,"
"I wasn't talking to you Emo Boy!" Sasuke waited to hear the sound of Cleo smacking Autumn, but it didn't come. He turned around, and raised an eyebrow at what he saw,
"Do I want to know?" Cleo had doubled over, and was trying hard not to laugh.
"No you don't," Autumn said, rolling her eyes. She took one last look at the emo boy, and his emo cloud, and left.
Even as she walked away, she could still hear the beginning of Cleo's continuous laughter. For a 'snake', she had pretty nice vocal chords.
Woo Hoo!! Over six-thousand, five-hundred-fifty words!! Isn't that awesome? Cleo's back, and Autumn finally gets to meet Sasuke! Did anyone besides me see how Sasuke kept making Autumn introduce herself? He should have gotten it the first time. Yeah, I'm starting to confuse myself, this skips around to random parts of the timeline, so at the moment, this is right after team Hebi is formed, and as I stated in the last story, everyone is alive at the moment. If you have any questions so far, please feel free to PM me about it.
(1) Crack, pot, dope, weed, marijuana, even tobacco. It's drugs.