Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the Akatsuki :( Buuuut I do own the others ;D

Chapter 2:

Games Lead to Destruction Which Leads to Unbelievable Dreams

Hanging upside down from the couch, blood rushed through Lena's head, but she continued to stay in that position until pain would start seeping in. She was talking to Josie as she stared at the television screen before her.

"Lena, is there any reason why you're sitting like that?" asked Josie.

"Nope."

"Le- never mind."

Josie, Lena and Beeb were on the couch watching the Akatsuki trying to play Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3. It was pretty amusing due to the fact that they were playing themselves. Through hours of Lena and Beeb's tutelage on how to play the game from hours before, they managed to get the basics down pretty well. Itachi was already pro, but it was probably due to his sharingan. He always seemed to win.

"Stopping winning all the time, yeah."

"Dammit Itachi! Get off the remote. I can never fucking win with you in the game" said Hidan frustrated.

"Shut up Hidan, yeah. Just wait, I'll be able to beat him soon enough."

"hn" Itachi replied. He didn't seem to be into the game as much as the others, but he secretly felt superior to win twenty times in a row. No way is he going to go easy on the idiots at all. Its not his fault that his opponents are weak.

"Yo Kisame, bring Erika into the living room, will you?" Asked Lena.

"No. Get her yourself midget."

"Dude, you're living in my house, eating my food, and you take up space! We made a deal, so do it."

"Lena's right" said Pein as he continued watching the three guys fight each other from the single-couch.

With no way of getting around it, Kisame grumbled to himself and started to walk into Lena's room until Tobi jumped and raised his hand.

"Tobi can do it! Leave it to Tobi! He can get Miss Erika, no problem!"

"By all means, go ahead."

"Yay!"

"Fish face, I don't think that's a good i-" stopped Beeb as Tobi ran into Lena's room. After a couple of seconds, a scream could be heard from the room and it was not Erika.

"Deidara, use that specialty bomb!" yelled Pein as he saw the chakra meter fill up on the screen.

"Okay, okay, leader, hm. I can't believe my special art could be made so easily just from pressing buttons! This game doesn't know how real and powerful my art can be! One hit from my C4 should have killed you all from the start" finished Deidara with a frown.

"Stop exaggerating retard. Who cares about your shitty art when there's Jashin. Wait till I use my specials and then lets see if you're still alive.

"Shut up, hm!"

A loud yell, "Tobi sorry! Tobi sorry!" was heard throughout the house and the trio paused their game. Everyone could hear a chair being knocked over, the click sound from a door and a thump was heard with a silence following after. Nothing else was heard from the room.

"Uhh shouldn't you guys be worried about your friend?" asked Kakuzu.

"I wouldn't worry about her. It's the other guy we should worry about" replied Josie.

"But we don't" said Beeb.

(._.)

The sound of a click signaled the opening door. The awkward silence turned to silence horror as everyone found Erika walking out with a red stained hand.

"Erika, please tell me you didn't kill Tobi. I've known you for a long time now, but this going too far, even with your anger management issues" said Lena, frightened.

"Oh my god, you really did kill Tobi" said Josie.

"HELL YEAH!" Yelled Deidara happily.

"What are you guys talking about? This is ketchup.."

"Ketchup?" Asked Deidara with a disappointed face.

It was just too good to be true.

"Yeah..." Looking directly at Lena, she gave her a disappointed look, "What's with all the ketchup packets in your room? I mean, I guess it's a good condiment and all, but what use does it have under your bed?"

"Hot dogs, hamburgers, stuff that needs ketchup on it..." Lena listed.

"Which is practically everything pertaining to food" Erika finished.

"Lena, really? I should have expected that" said Josie.

"Lena's just too lazy to clean up after herself" replied Erika.

Beeb laughed at the whole situation but couldn't help but knew someone was missing.

"If the red stuff on Erika's hand was ketchup, then where's that orange masked guy?"

"Oh, I knocked him out. Wasn't that hard."

"That figures, yeah. But it's pretty sad if he got beaten by a civilian" said Deidara.

"How did he get into Akatsuki again?" Asked Kisame.

(._.)

"So I heard something about a contract?" Asked Erika.

"Oh yeahhh. That."

Looking up, everyone else followed Lena and looked at the ceiling too.

(.-.)

*Flashback*

It was still nighttime and the lights were turned off. The the moonlight could not be seen through the window due to curtains purposely blocking it. Once again, electricity turned back on in a flash. One single lamp was lit and it flashed itself showing a scene of a coffee table in the middle of the room. On the right side, all of the Akatsuki members were standing and staring across the table at their current opponents. Lena and Josie stared back with a serious look, anticipating on what was about to happen. Beeb on the other hand, copied her friends and stared back, but it was hard for her to keep her giggle in as she put her hands over her widened mouth. With a pink pen in hand, Lena slapped a piece of paper in the middle of the table and slid it across the other side, in a swift motion.

"Here, you might want to look at it" she said.

Carefully lifting it up, the leader took it with ease and read the following things listed:

Due to the Akatsuki living under the civilian, Lena, anyone part of this group must follow the rules listed below if they want to continue staying here. The others, Erika, Josie and Beeb, also must be listened to as they help in taking care of these members.

1) All members must not kill, NO MATTER WHAT!

*Hidan that includes sacrifices.

*Deidara, no bombing for no reason either!

*Kakuzu, that includes stealing money from anyone! Earn it yourself.

2) Must clean after yourselves

*That includes washing the dishes and your own dirty clothes :|

3) Listen to what Lena tells you since she's the one providing the food and a home!

4) Find ways to give me money every month. I expect at least $1000 from all of you put together. Not that much guys, I'm sure the nine of you can do that.

5) You cannot show anyone outside the house your chakra and do not use jutsus for the public to see or else you'll give them heart attacks.

6) You have to learn ways of a civilian when outside of the house. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE show that they are not a civilian through random uses of jutsus. Taijustsu is permitted.

Note: Accept these rules, and we'll get along in no time! ;)

"We can agree to these trivial matters, but on one condition" Pein said seriously.

"What is it?" Lena replied back.

"When we find a way back home, you must come back with us."

"Why would I want to go back with you guys? I have a life you know."

"We'll give you all the snacks you can eat, including mochi."

"ALRIGHT! Deal!"

"LENA!" Yelled Josie. I can't believe she's that stupid. It's like she is a child! She thought.

"Then it's settled then" Pein said cooly.

One by one, each member signed the bottom with Lena the last one to sign.

"Well, since Erika is not here, I'll just sign for her!" Lena said.

*END*

(._.)

"I have nothing to say to you" Erika said as she walked to the couch.

"There is nothing interesting to see from a wall at all. Why the hell were we looking at it for so long?"

"Shut up, Hidan. What we don't want is having to pay that girl one thousand dollars. It's not from our range since the budget doesn't allow us to give out that much."

"Stop talking about finances all the damn time!"

Pein decided to ignore everyone and walked back to the TV.

"Ooo! I wanna play!" Said Lena as she ran and grabbed the first player gamecube remote.

"I got here first" said Pein flatly.

"Too bad, I took it first, so you're now second" she replied with her tongue sticking out.

"Brat" said Sasori as he walked up to get the third remote.

"I'm fourth!" Called Beeb as she ran to grab the last available remote. Everyone else tried to sit on couch, but it couldn't possibly fit nine.

"I said get off" said Erika menacingly.

"I don't know what you mean" replied Hidan with a shrug.

"Erika can sit on Tobi!"

"No way."

"You know what, I'm sitting on the floor" said Josie while Erika also followed her.

"Muhahaha I'm Deidara!" Lena said evilly.

"You know what? Since I'm not even in the game, I refuse to play this any longer" said Pein.

"But you haven't even started!"

"Mine!" Said Deidara as he took the second remote. He decided to use Hidan because he felt like humiliating him.

"Then I'll choose myself" said Sasori.

"Hmmm I'm gonna choose Sasuke!"

"No fair. He's so cheap!" Lena complained.

"Not true, you just suck."

"Whatever."

(-.-")

"Art is an EXPLOSION!" Lena yelled as she blew Hidan up. He died after a few kicks and punches and only three were left in the game.

"You fucking bastard. You purposefully let her kill me!" said Hidan.

"Yeah, I did" Deidara replied with a shrug. There was no point in sugarcoating the answer anyways.

Lena continued to use the exploding spiders and birds as Sasori tried jumping away. He was able to dodge them but couldn't block Sasuke's katana from behind.

"Yes! I got him!" cried Beeb.

When Sasori recovered from the damage, he used his puppet and threw weapons at Lena which got her player down to low health.

Trying to aim at Sasori, Lena used the giant bird but he blocked it and used his poisonous coil from his chest which made Deidara die. Sasori smirked at killing his opponent.

"Nooo I got beaten by a novice" she cried dramatically.

It was now between Sasori and Beeb. Sasori waited as Sasuke ran at him. Using the katana, it was blocked by Sasori who then used fire from his hands. Sasuke flipped backwards and used his fireball jutsu as it burned Sasori down to ten percent of his health life. He tried using his special to counterattack but Sasuke turned just in time to use the aaaaa combo on him which ended up with Beeb winning the match.

"Oh yeah! I'm the game master!" Beeb said proudly.

"Oh shut up" Lena replied bitterly.

(._.)

Currently in Lena's room, the four girls sat on her bed, bored from the game after hundreds of matches later. The Akatsuki were apparently still in the living room, playing the same game.

Standing up Lena finally stated, "You know what, it's time for a lesson!"

"A lesson?" Questioned Erika.

"Well, it's mostly for Josie and Beeb since there not too familiar with the Akatsuki and the anime itself, but I'm still going to tell you anyways."

"Good for you" replied Erika sarcastically.

"So what are we doing again?" Asked Josie.

"Well I've been thinking of a way for you guys to remember their names in the easiest way possible. Here, let me show you."

Lena took out a white board from the closet.

"Wait, did that come out from-"

"Yupp" as she interrupted Beeb.

Holding seven markers in her hand, Lena began writing different color names on the board and underlining them afterwards. It goes as the following: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple. The girls looked at her questionably but kept quiet to see what she was doing.

"To remember their names, remember the colors of the rainbow.

Red: Itachi, think of his eyes. Sasori, think of his fiery hair.

Orange: Pein, look at his spiky hair. Tobi, remember his swirl lollipop mask.

Yellow: Deidara, his hair is pretty obvious.

Green: Kakuzu, he has bright green eyes.

Blue: Kisame, he has blue hair, skin, and probably everywhere else on his body. Not that hard. As for Konan, she has blue hair and a blue origami flower on her head.

Purple: Hidan, he's the only one with purple eyes.

You guys got it?"

"Uh...I think so..." said Josie.

"Kay I got it" replied Beeb.

"Wow...It's so stupid that it actually works" Erika said.

"Told ya. Anyways, now that I think about it, it's getting pretty late now don't you think? Not only that, but we need sleeping arrangements. You guys are sleeping over right?"

"Yeah."

"Good, now grab blankets and pillows as I put this board back."

"Geez Lena, what don't you have in there?" Beeb asked.

"A panda."

"..."

"Thought so. Now lets go!"

(^_^)

"Here ya go."

"What the fuck is this?"

"It's blankets and pillows Hidan. Ever seen one before?"

"I know what it is. What's this shit for?"

"It's late so I'm giving you all sleeping arrangements. Everyone grab one and sleep wherever you want except the kitchen. Goodnight!" Said Lena.

"Oh! By the way, Pein and Konan can have the guest room! So no fighting for it."

They can probably manage sleeping arrangements, right? They're grown ups after all She thought.

*Next Day* .-.

Yawning, Josie was the first one to wake up. She rubbed crust from her eyes and looked around her to see that Lena had fallen off her bed, Beeb was drooling, and that Erika seemed to be cuddling with her jaguar plush. She chuckled a little and walked out to the bathroom to freshen up. What she didn't expect was a snore coming from the tub itself.

"Who-who's in here?"

Reaching to pull away the shower curtain, she was more than ready to faint.

Screaming, she saw a bloody Hidan in the tub. He was red from shoulders down and some dried blood were crusted around his mouth. He woke up due to the noise but closed his eyes again to continue resting until the rest of the girls ran into the bathroom to see what Josie screamed about. Lena wasn't surprised at all and kicked Hidan on the head.

"What the hell was that for bitch!"

"Why are you sleeping in the bathroom of all places?"

"You said anywhere but the kitchen."

"I would have never guessed why anyone would want to sleep here!"

"Well fuck that! Itachi and Kisame took the couch, Pein and Konan took that guest room, Deidara and Sasori took the last available room and Kakuzu doesn't really sleep. Hell, I don't know if he ever slept in his life. He's probably counting his money every chance he gets."

"Lets make this short. You dirtied my tub with your stupid ritual. Did you kill a pedestrian?" She asked incredulously.

"No I didn't. I took a cat instead. You wish it would have been a pedestrian."

"As long as it wasn't an orange one, we're good."

"Uh...it wasn't an orange one."

"WHAT THE HELL HIDAN! Don't tell me you killed that orange cat. What's it's name?"

"Oh there's that weird tag it had on it's neck over there."

"Tommy? Now that cat lady next door will sure bother me with her problems now! Why'd you have to choose THAT cat!"

"Fuck, I didn't know. That's not my problem now."

"The hell it doesn't. Anyways, how am I suppose to take a shower? Go clean it up" Lena finished as she walked out of the room.

"Wait till that bitch is going to be sacrificed to Jashin. Lets see how she likes pain to the heart."

"The contract" Erika replied as she also walked out.

Facing the mirror, Beeb and Josie brushed their teeth, trying not to stare at the grumpy, bloody man.

Lena walked into the living room to see Itachi, Kisame, Deidara and Sasori playing the same Naruto game from the night before.

"You guys are seriously still playing? I would have gotten sick of it by now."

"It's not like we have this kind of technology in our world, yeah."

"Hmm" said Lena casually as she lay down on the coach.

Pein emerged from the guest room upon hearing the conversation.

"How come I'm not in this game? Almost everyone is in here and I'm more powerful."

"It's because since you're so powerful, your almighty push would have finished the game every time" Lena said lazily with a waving gesture to Pein.

"I am god after-all."

"Pein, I'm sure you're strong, but not even one jutsu can destroy everything in this game, yeah."

"I agree with Deidara. It's just not possible. I'm sure Itachi and Sasori would agree."

"hn" was what the two grunted.

"I'll just have to prove it then. Prepare for ALMIGHTY PUSH!"

"NOOOOO!"

Lena rose from the couch but found that her house was crumbling faster. The power vibrated throughout the house and the gust of wind forced the roof to fly off. The television was crushed from one part of the ceiling and electricity wires screamed with static around it. The glass coffee table broke into smaller shards and the sound of breaking glass scared her even more. The ground trembled from the after effects of the jutsu and Lena couldn't walk. Her head was ringing hard and she fell to the ground; one hand on her head and the other slammed on the ground of broken glass.

Remembering that her friends were inside as well, she wanted to scream for them but the sound wouldn't come out but instead only choked, incoherent words.

Before Lena could try to run, someone grabbed her around the waist and carried her out of the house. Lena closed her eyes. She tried to fight it from closing but didn't realize that they were already closed.

All of the Akatsuki ran out of the house before being crushed, with some carrying each girl around their arms. Hidan carried both Beeb and Josie and Tobi brought Erika.

"Don't worry everyone, the money is safe!" Kakuzu said as he stopped a few feet away from the debris.

"What the fuck? We barely made out of that alive and all you care about is the money?" Beeb asked in disbelief.

The girls were lowered to the ground and when they turned around, there was an old woman who looked at them terrified.

"Mam, are you okay?" Josie asked.

"Where's my cat?"

"What?"

"My cat. My Tommy. Where's my cat."

"I'm sorry I don't know-"

"psst, Josie. I think it's that crazy cat woman Lena mentioned earlier" said Beeb quietly. Forming an O with her mouth, Josie looked at the woman.

"Uh...I'm sorry, I haven't seen your cat. I'm sure he'll come back...maybe" as Josie whispered the last word.

"My cat. My Tommy. Where is he?"

"I think it's time for you to go home, hag" said Hidan, annoyed at the repeated questions.

"Hidan shut the hell up!" All I ever hear from you are bad attitude comments and cuss words. It's annoying" said Beeb.

"Why don't you go somewhere else bitch."

"What did you say to me you fucking bastard?"

"Oh, so you deaf now. You must be a natural blonde."

"Well guess what?"

"What?"

"Chicken butt!"

"What the f-"

"Yeah! Blondes aren't deaf! And I'm NOT blonde. Orange hair! And the joke is that blondes are stupid, you retard."

"Hey, yeah! Don't put me in on your jokes."

"SHUT UP!" Yelled Erika.

"Did she just yell?" Asked Deidara.

"Erika scares Tobi."

Ignoring the idiot, she pointed out the obvious. "Can't you guys see your caretaker just went unconscious?"

Everyone soon realized as they look around for the girl and then gathered around Lena as she was placed carefully on the ground. Her hand had some shards sticking on and minimal amount of blood dripped.

They had to look around to make sure? Are you serious? Erika thought.

"Well fuck, now where are we going to live?"

"I would be rather terrified of Lena once she wakes up to find her house in such a condition" said Konan.

"Well first things first, someone go bandage her!"

"Where?"

"Her hand baka."

"Uh..have Kakuzu do it. He's the nurse around here, yeah."

"What did you just call me?"

"No way! How can someone like...like a zombie! Possibly heal her, right?"

"Oh here. My arm was fixed by Kakuzu. Not too bad, yeah. Works fine too, hm."

"Eww then why is that arm a different color then the rest of your skin?"

"Oh that. It's from another dead body."

"Oh god, I am SO not having him fix her hand now."

"My whole arm was obliterated! It's not like it can grow back, hm. So I mind as well get a new arm. Better than no arm at all."

"Oh my god, guys. She doesn't NEED a new hand!"

"How about Kakuzu give her stitches?"

"No way. She'll freak to find stitches on her."

"Here let me do it."

Itachi got a headache and ripped apart of his shirt. He pulled the pieces if shards out from her and rolled the piece of gray fabric around her bloody hand. It was just a simple gesture and she would get medical attention later. He then turned back to the group and stared at the rubble before them.

"Hn."

"Well don't you guys have ninja powers? Why don't you use that to rebuild the house before she wakes up" Beeb suggested.

"You understood that?" Said Deidara.

"Actually, that's not bad at all" said Erika, ignoring the blonde.

"I say we go to Home Depot" stated Josie.

"Uhh, we don't have a car...and I'm sure Lena doesn't have her keys with her either" Erika answered uncertainly.

"Ninja powers! We can piggy back on them and they can run super fast to the place, yeah?" Asked Beeb.

"Why would we do that?" Asked Kisame.

"Your stupid 'leader' owes."

Pein stood there acting like nothing happened.

"Okay, I choose red head!" Cried Beeb as she hopped on his back.

"Why did it have to be me?" Sasori said dully.

"Cause your hair looks cool."

He ignored her last comment and waited for the others. Erika was put on Kisame's back and Deidara took out his clay bird.

"Josie, hop on. We're going to fly, yeah."

"Ooo that sounds fun!"

"Ey, that's no fair! Why can't you have a cool, gigantic bird like that?" Beeb said with envy.

"Shut up, brat."

"I say let's have a race." Kisame challenged.

"Yeah! First one's a rotten egg."

"No way. Too childish."

"No, no, ignore Sasori, we challenge all of you!"

"Alright fuckers, we all know I would win this shit" Hidan replied proudly.

"That's funny. Coming from the guy who is all talk but no action" Josie countered.

"Then let's have a bet" said Kakuzu.

"I say the loser pay up for everything we buy today, yeah?"

"Can we hurry this up? We want to finish the house by today" Erika pointed out.

Everyone listened to what Erika had to say. When she finished she marked the time.

"ANYONE WHO BEATS KAKUZU WILL HAVE HIM PAY FOR EVERYTHING!" Cried Hidan.

"NO WHAT THE-"

"Move out!"

With chakra pumped to their feet, the Akatsuki ran in separate directions.

*With Deidara and Josie*

"Wow, looking down from here is awesome! I think we would win since flying is considerably faster and I can see everything from up here. Oh, look! I'm sure that's my house" Josie exclaimed.

"Pretty cool huh? As long as I give it chakra, the bird will move where I want it to and the view is good, hm" he proudly claimed.

"Now that I think about it, why do you always say 'yeah' or 'hm'? Is it some kind of habit or what?"

"What do you mean, yeah?"

"Just now! You had 'yeah' at the end of the sentence!"

"I don't know what you mean, hm"

"Like this, yeah. I am talking your style, yeah. Do you get it now, hm?"

"Are you saying I have a speech problem, hm?"

"No. Just that you have a weird way of talking, that's all."

"That means the exact same thing!"

"A penny for your thoughts, think on it."

After a few silence moments. Deidara gave up on thinking and looked at the sky. That doesn't make any sense, he thought.

"Wait, yeah. What's a penny?"

*With Erika and Kisame*

"Can you not go too fast? I'm getting a headache."

"No. This is the rate of my running and I wanted to win the race."

"And?"

"I'm not going to stop."

"Why not?"

"Because I said so."

"Just because you said so doesn't change the fact that you refuse to slow down."

"Why should I slow down? It's better to get there quicker anywa-..."

Kick

"Whoops, my leg slipped"

"Did you...just kick me?"

"No."

"I saw-"

Another kick

"Yes?"

"Your-"

Kick

"Leg-"

Another kick

"Can you-"

kick

"Stop that?"

"Stop what?" She replied innocently.

"That kicking motion."

"What do you mean?"

"This is going to be a long run" Kisame mumbled bitterly.

*With Beeb and Sasori*

"Please refrain from touching my hair with that hands of yours" Said Sasori, who happened to be very annoyed.

"But it's red and fluffy and red."

"Stop touching my hair."

"Why can't I touch it?"

"It bothers me?"

"Like an itch?"

"Yes."

"Uh...want me to scratch your head or something?"

"I didn't mean it literally!" Sasori replied irritably.

"Oh. Well I'm bored."

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"Let me play with your hair!"

"No."

"Oh my god, if you didn't want me to do anything, then why did you even ask?"

"You know what. Shut up."

"But I-"

"Just shut up before I put you in a comma you brat."

"Fine. I will do absolutely nothing."

"Thank you."

Sasori kept on running in silence.

"Where do I turn from here?"

"Oh...um..."

Looking around, Beeb couldn't place where Home Depot was exactly.

"Okay okay, don't freak but I'm not sure where we were suppose to go."

"So you've been saying that I have been wasting my energy carrying someone so useless who can't even lead me to a certain location. Must I remind you that you live in this area? I thought you wanted to win."

"No! I did know where I was going. Just not to a certain point as we went further. Of course I want to win too! We must beat stupid Josie, who is also on the most awesomest bird. She's flying. Literally! And plus it's not fair how-"

"That's great."

"Whatever. Wanna try turning left?"

"That's Genki Sushi."

"Yeah, I got hungry."

"Absolutely not."

"I can pay."

"I don't eat."

"Why you no eat? On a diet or something?"

"If I take you there, will you shut up? We're not going to win anyways."

"Oh fine. Josie is lucky this time since I'm really hungry and was kind of in the mood for maybe some fatty tuna or maybe even-"

"Starting now!"

"Oh okay. Oh whoops haha I was talking again without meaning to. Okay, starting now" she finished as she used both her hands to cover her mouth.

Sasori sighed heavily turning to the left and heading into Genki Sushi.

*Back to Lena*

The unconscious girl who has now been bandaged, continued to stay put on the ground. She has been in the same position for quite awhile now and the weather is getting warmer by the minute. The concrete is getting hot and no wind is felt. Everyone left forgetting to put the girl in the cool shade and she was now forgotten. The crazy cat lady went down the block again in search for Tommy but fails. She goes by Lena's body and never even took note of her as she played the shingling sound of the triangle.

"Tommy my Tommy, where are you? It's lunch time."

(._.)

The white bird landed in front of Home Depot. Passerby saw what had happened while others awed at the bird.

"No way! We won?" Josie said happily.

"Of course we did. My bird is a million times-"

"I see you made it Deidara."

"Itachi, what? No way! I didn't even see you, hm."

"This proves that my skills are superior to yours mostly if you couldn't even learn the basics of searching someone through chakra."

"Itachi. Go to hell, hm."

"I see you guys made it here fine."

Pein and Konan arrived on the scene. They joined the group and saw Hidan in the distance. He arrived distressed.

"Damn it all! I'm fifth?"

"I actually expected you to be last." Kisame replied coming from behind.

"Put me down" Erika commanded.

"Oh I would love to, your majesty" Kisame replied mockingly.

"Tobi is here!"

"No need to tell us, hm."

"Finally!" Beeb exclaimed as she and Sasori finally arrived. Beeb was pretty happy and content. Sasori on the other hand looked annoyed and had a white clothed headband wrapped around his forehead. He looked like a sushi chef if everyone didn't know any better.

"Danna, what took you so long? I would have expected you to he here before Hidan."

"This brat decided to drop out of the race to eat sushi. Apparently she threw it back up when I had to stop running for awhile and left her in the bushes. Made the both of us look stupid. After, I was suppose to go to this place, 'Walgreens' and get medicine. RIGHT after, I kept on running until she played with my hair AGAIN, and put this stupid cloth on my forehead" he finished trying not to lose his temper.

"Oh well I had a great time! Josie and I had this awesome conversation on birds which transitioned to horses then we started pointed out these buildings and made fun of some civilians. Actually we-"

"Don't care."

"But you got to-"

"Deidara, shut up."

"I think Kakuzu is the last one..." said Pein.

"Haha this is going to be good" said Hidan.

"Shit. NO ONE TOUCHES THE MONEY!" Said Kakuzu as he finally made it.

"Were you really that slow?

"I had to get a coin I dropped. Worth more than you guys."

Arriving in front of the smelly, building of Home Depot, almost everyone grabbed a cart. Tobi jumped into Josie's cart and was waiting to be pushed.

"Okay, I'm not going to push you" she said boredly.

"Tobi wants you to."

"But I don't want to."

"But Tobi wants you to."

"Fine. As long as you don't give me a headache."

"YAY!"

Such a childish personality for a man Josie thought.

She then pushed the now heavy cart inside the building with the rest separating in different directions.

*Tobi and Josie*

"Tobi stop putting everything in the cart."

"But Tobi wants this shiny thing."

"We're trying to buy what Lena had in her house. I'm pretty sure she didn't have a diamond chandelier."

"Do you guys need any assistance today, here at Home Depot?"

Asked a co-worker.

"Oh no, we're good, thank you."

"Tobi wants the shiny thing on the ceiling" he pointed.

"Oh, that would be $1,000,000 but since today's 50% off, the total would be $50,000."

"Load in the cart!"

"NO!" Josie yelled. "We can't afford this."

"Alrighty then. Make sure you check it out at the counter."

"Thank you pretty lady."

"Are you guys listening to me at all?" Josie asked. "We CAN'T afford this!"

"Byebye Josie!"

"No Tobi! Wait up! Damn it, what's with this guy?"

*Deidara*

"hm. Let's see what we need here."

The bomber went through a variety of isles and whatever he found he left it in the cart.

"I need this and this and this and this. Hm, maybe I need paint. Oh sure why not, yeah."

"Would you like another cart, sir?" A co-worker asked.

"Thanks, yeah."

"No prob" she replied. "If you need paint there's a whole row over there. Would you like me to show you what we have?"

"Yeah! I think I might buy a few dozens of it."

"Exactly what I was hoping for" she replied.

*Tobi and Josie*

How did I end up pushing Tobi...again? Josie thought as she pushed the even heavier cart around the place.

"Josie! Josie! Josie! Josie! Josie!"

"Yes?"

"Tobi don't know."

"Then do me a favor and shut up! I don't think I ever felt this frustrated before."

"Tobi sorry."

"Don't care."

She turned the cart into the section with tables and chairs.

"Wait! She had a wooden table just like this! I think we now need some Bath & Bodyworks later for the bathrooms too."

"Josie!"

"Yes Tobi?"

"Can Tobi not shut up now?"

"You're still talking."

"But Tobi wanted to ask-"

"Tobi. Go sit back on the cart. I want to go somewhere else."

"Yay! More rides!"

"Are you really this innocent? I swear, sometimes, I feel like you get a kick from annoying me even if I don't know it."

"Tobi doesn't know what Josie is talking about."

"Never mind."

They went through furniture after furniture. Tobi kept on rambling as Josie sweated from pushing everything.

"That's it! I can't take it anymore!"

"What's wrong? Tobi is worried" he stated innocently.

"YOU! Everything!"

Josie wasn't think straight at all. She had a major migraine and today was probably the worst day ever. Without realizing what she had done, she used all her willpower to push the cart as hard as she could down the next isle.

"Wheeeee. Josie is so nice!" he exclaimed as he enjoyed the ride. People walked by the two and gave them strange looks as some ran trying to avoid the fast cart. The cart kept on going from such a hard force that it crashed into shelves filled with porcelain cups, plates, ect.

"I'VE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE" she screamed.

Before anyone can see who made such a crash she ran and left Tobi all by his lonesome.

(._.)

With everyone meeting at the checkout, all carts were put together in one huge line.

"Wait, can we even afford all this?" Beeb asked.

"This is why we have Kakuzu" Hidan replied.

"No way in hell am I paying for all this crap! We don't even NEED it."

"Yeah we do! I got all this paint and we are walking out of the store with it." Deidara urged.

"Deidara! You have like 4 carts full of junk!"

"It's all necessary" he insisted.

"Wait for Tobi!"

"Tobi? I thought I left you back there..."

"What does Josie mean?"

"Uh...forget it."

"That would be $1,964,892.99" said the clerk.

"NO! Look at how many numbers there are. I'm not paying for it."

"Kakuzu, you lost the race. Pay for it" Pein ordered.

"Fine!"

He went up to the African American cashier lady and put foreign money and coins before her.

"What is this?"

"That's yen."

"We only accept American dollars sir."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"What I'm saying is this is not acceptable cash. Moola. We don't take yen. Get it?"

"Are you saying my money is not good enough for you? Then give them back!"

"I don't care honey. You pay for what you buy or else I'm calling the manager."

"Fuck you. I'm not going to buy this shit anyways."

"Uh huh. Then get out. Why you wasting my time with all this checking?"

"I wouldn't even want to come back here to buy bad quality knick knacks even if I was forced to."

"That's it. I'm calling the manager. I won't take crap from a guy who needs major plastic surgery."

"At least I chose to be ugly."

The woman furiously walked out of her station and disappeared behind doors to get her boss.

"Everyone carry what you can and let's run for it."

"Kakuzu, I will not be a criminal at this age" Josie said quickly.

"Don't worry. We're professionals who kills for a living. I'm sure we can manage escaping without a flaw."

"Haha this is going to be fun!" Said Beeb as she grabbed a few bags and jumped on Sasori's back. Kisame had to carry Erika so she could reach his back. Itachi used a scroll and transferred the heavier items inside. Pein and Konan started to leave carrying a few bags with them.

"Hurry hurry! The lady is almost out!"

With the manager, the cashier had a look of triumph as she gave her complaint to her boss. Upon seeing her victims escape, she shrieked and began running towards them in an angry manner. The Akatsuki disappeared in a puff of smoke as Itachi disappeared in ravens.

Deidara grabbed Josie's hand and ran out of the building. Collecting a certain amount of clay from his pouch, his hand began chewing which then produce his favorite bird. It enlarged and Deidara carried Josie as he hopped on. Within a second, the bird flew.

"Haha good-bye losers, hm."

To leave a little good bye present, he threw a few tiny insects on the ground.

"Katsu."

The insects exploded and shrieks were heard from below, especially from that lady.

"Art is an explosion!"

"Deidara! You didn't hurt them did you?"

"No. That would violate the contract. It was just a tiny shock. No harm done, yeah."

"I can't believe we did that" stated Josie, breathless.

"It was like...like AMAZING! I've never felt so alive before! There's so many things to say but the stuff is all jumbled up and...and...Oh, I don't know."

"Haha, I think you should go out more, hm"

"I do! Just never stole stuff or flew on a bird or things you ninjas normally do. I'm a regular, normal human being after-all."

He looked at Josie from the corner of his eye. She was laying flat down on the bird and holding onto it tightly with her delicate hands. She was staring straight ahead and it looked like she was in deep thinking. When looking appearance wise, her face had a hint of sadness.

"Wouldn't it be nice to forget everything. All your problems left behind to the wind and just fly" he stated.

"Forever like an endless trail? It would feel nice but it's not reality."

"I can make it a reality."

"How?"

"We're flying right now, aren't we? Come on, where do you want to go? Show me and I'll take you there, yeah" Deidara finished with a smile.

Josie looked at him in shock. She blushed and hid her face against the bird.

"I would never expect someone like you to say that at all."

"I'm full of surprises. I don't kill for fun you know."

"Then who are you really?"

"How about you close your eyes and just let the bird fly, hm?"

"That sounds...nice."

Josie let her mind wander blankly and waited until her eyelids slowly covered her vision. Deidara looked up and watched the clouds go by one after another.

Free. The clouds are free to float and nothing ever stops them from moving. Even if I fly this bird for as long as I can, eventually it will stop from lack of chakra. A bird trapped in it's cage. That's what I am. A bird trapped in it's cage.

(.-.)

Sweaty from the hot sun, Lena was still unconscious. Everyone met in front of the rubble and Itachi took out his scroll; getting out all of it's content. Beeb gathered everyone around a circle and put her hand in the middle.

"Alright let's start building!" She said.

"YEAH!" Everyone followed.

*Lena's subconscious mind*

Branch after branch, the girl with wavy black hair ran for her life. Cold sweat ran down her forehead and her breathing was harder by the minute. Adrenaline rushed through her and her heart beated rapidly. Forgetting to step to the right, the girl slipped. She was about to bang her head against the trunk but was caught by a man with crimson eyes. She forced herself to see who saved her but regret it instantly when the face was the one person she did not want to see.

"Uchiha, let me go."

"Why should I?"

Kicking her right leg up, the girl flipped over and threw a kunai from behind. Catching the metal weapon in his hand, he threw it back with three more shurikens. Using the caught kunai in hand, she deflected them and ran back up to the trees. She looked behind but found nothing until she saw him right in front of her.

How the hell did he get there so fast? she thought.

"Get out of my way."

"No."

Trying to punch him, he dodged and went behind. The most unexpected move was that he hugged her and the girl struggled from his embrace. Anger washed over her but his grip was strong.

"Why me? Of all the people in the world..."

"I'm sorry" he replied.

Finally waking up, her eyes blinked opened. The light was blinding and she could tell crust were around her eyes. Lena slowly lifted herself but was then suddenly pushed back down. She looked up to see Sasori putting a new wet cloth on her forehead.

"What just happened?" Lena whispered hoarsely.

"Nothing at all. You suddenly fell ill for awhile but now thanks to Itachi, you should be getting up by tomorrow."

"Oh, I guess I need to thank him later. What about my friends?"

"They fell asleep in the living room. Had a long day I suppose. I should get going. Someone wants to see you."

"Me?"

Entering the room, she saw a pair of black eyes. He had another bowl of water and set it on the table beside her.

"I'll be going now" said Sasori as he walked out of the room. Tension filled the air and Itachi cleared his throat.

"How are you feeling?"

"Um, I guess I'm alright. What are you doing here?"

"Just making sure you're fine."

"Okay. Well, I'm good."

"Hn."

"Uh...thank you." He raised his eyebrow.

"For helping with my hand."

"Anyone could have done that."

"Well I said thank you, so accept it."

Lena looked at him and he stared back. It was the way he was looking at her which made her feel awkward.

"I never knew you were this awkward."

"You don't know me at all Lena."

"How can you be so sure."

"I-" Itachi stopped himself and instead casually said "It's good that you're recovering" and left the room. Lena was confused on what just happened but shrugged it off. She then covered her face with the blanket and went back to sleep.