AN: So here's the latest installment :D Please enjoy :)
Legend: "Talking" 'Thinking' Dreaming/Flashback
Chapter Two~
The next morning, I woke up to some talking and two men in my room, sitting at the foot of my bed. So of course, the first thing I did was shriek.
"Janelle, hon, what are you doing up there?" I first looked at the clock. Nine. What kind of person wakes up at nine in the morning on a vacation? Apparently those two nins.
"Eh, um... Watching a horror film!" I said. "The, the person's leg just got cut off!" Funny, I always think my best in the mornings when most people are just groggy and funny.
"Okay sweetie! Just don't scare yourself to death!" I felt my cheeks turn a bit pink.
"I know, I know!" I yelled back. "It's not like I don't watch them all the time without your permission," I half muttered. I found the two nins staring at me. I couldn't help but turn red. "What are you looking at?" I snapped. Okay, so I'm grouchy in the mornings too. Kisame smirked.
"Are those men's boxers?" I turned redder and crossed my arms.
"So what if they are?" Yup. I slept in men's boxers and oversize tees. Deal with it.
"Sweets, come down here and give your mommy and daddy a hug before we leave!" My mom yelled. I heard the shark man snicker and threw a baseball at him which he caught with accuracy.
"Coming!" I ran out the room and down the stairs, making sure to keep the door closed. Giving my parents their final kiss and goodbye, I watched them leave and thought to myself. How convenient. My parents leaving me alone so that the two Akatsuki members would have a less of a chance of being caught and getting turned over. Psh, figures. These authors have no creativity.
First thing I did was take a shower, making sure to bring my clothes with me into the bathroom so I didn't have to change in my room in front of the two missing nins. Then I went through the dresser with my hair still wet, wearing an oversized tee and some boy's shorts.
Rummaging through the drawers, I picked out my second largest tee and my brother's old sports shorts and threw them at the taller of the two nins.
"Here, wear this." Then I pulled out my khaki shorts and measured them around the Uchiha's waist, finding that the fit perfectly. On me, they were loose and baggy, giving me an excuse to wear a belt. "And you this," I said, through the shorts at him. I made a grab for my large purple tee that had graphics of instruments on it and threw that at him too.
"Today, we are shopping for supplies, anime peeps, and that means getting you guys new clothes to fit in so that you don't have to wear the same old stuff all the time." 'And the fact that all the other fanfics' main character does this -_-"' Giving them a thumbs up and a big grin, I went over to my bathroom to blow dry my black layered hair and fringe, also to put on eyeliner. What? Just because I'm a tomboy doesn't mean I don't have a knack for makeup and stuff. I walked out the bedroom door with the two nins following and grabbed my skateboard.
"Excuse me, but we still don't know your name," the Uchiha said. I smiled brightly and held out a hand.
"Janelle Harris. First name first and surname second, that's how it goes in this country." He started to bow, but I stopped him. "And no bowing here either, it's strange here. Handshakes are okay, though. Oh, and don't call people by their last name unless you're enemies or close to them, so just Janelle is fine." Another bright grin from moi.
"I suppose you know who we both are," Itachi said. I nodded.
"Course! You're the all famous Uchiha and the member of the seven swordsman!" Itachi nodded, but Kisame looked mad.
"Member! I abandoned them!" He said, still looking furious." I waved my hand at him, uncaring.
"Member, ex-member, same shiz!" I said. He lunged at me.
"GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT GIRL!" He yelled. I fell to the ground.
"Rapist! Rapist! Someone help me!" I yelled. "Get your fat ass off of me!" Turning purple in fury, he tried a punch at my face.
"WHY YOU LITTLE!" I twisted my head and dodged his punch. When he lifted his fist for another punch, I knew I couldn't dodge it; it was coming on too fast. Damn. My heart started pounding and I got scare. Good bye, cruel, cruel world. But then after a second or two, I realized that his punch wasn't going to hit me. Then I heard Itachi speak.
"That's enough, Kisame." I opened my eyes to see the shark baring his teeth at me and the Uchiha holding up the fist Kisame was going to him me with. "I think you've proved your point." The shark man got off of me and I exhaled, a bit shakily. Damn, that would've hurt me if my favorite character hadn't—damn. Now you all know my fave character, huh? I inhaled deeply and exhaled once more.
"Thank you," I said to the sharingan user. He nodded. "Now, I think I'll leave a bit faster so the shark dude won't get me." I ran out of the room with my skateboard and down the stairs, out the house. That, was crazy.
Just Doing a Dramatic Skip :)
I'd lent the two skateboards so that going to the market was easier. I also had Itachi hide his stress lines with powder and change his hairdo just a bit with the bangs and gel. For the shark dude, I had him change his skin color and hide his gills with a transformation. His hair, I let him keep since it's normal to see people with differently dyed hair these days.
For shoes, I had them wear my brother's old ones, although even Geraldine's big size ten feet couldn't fit the shark man, so he had to walk with every step in pain. Uchiha though, he turned out to be a size seven, like Darren, the second oldest. His shoes fit him just fine. As for me, well, I wore my own :)
"I hate these, things," he said. I smiled as I thought about the trip to Walmart. It was a thirty minute walk and twenty on board. He was going to suffer :)
I lent them both skateboards, the one for Itachi my own, and the one for Kisame Geraldine's. I just didn't trust the guy with one of mine. Besides, the guy would probably break it just by standing on it =P As it turns out, I got to experience Itachi's prodigy smarts first hand, as I showed them how to skate and the guy knew how to in just one try. Kisame... well, it took a lot more than one. It was about five minutes and fifty tries before he stopped falling on his butt XD
We skated towards the store, and I slowed down for the blue guy behind me and Itachi did so too, just to ask questions. I have to say, it was nice to meet your hero in real life :)
"What's that?" He asked, pointing to one of the vehicles driving down the street.
"It's called a car. It's a type of machine used for transportation because walking's just too slow. The thing has seats inside them, kind of like chairs, to drive." He nodded and activated his sharingan to check out the car's inner workings. I looked around panicky. Thank the Lord that the my neighborhood's pretty much empty, or by God, we'd be in big trouble.
"Don't do that!" I half scolded. "It's abnormal in this world!" He just looked at me, and blinked. Yeah, he knew. I was about to look away when he nodded. Then he asked another question.
"How old do you have to be to drive a car?"
"Sixteen to get a license to drive one, why?" I asked.
"How old are you?" I raised a brow.
"I get where you're going," I said slyly. "You were going to ask why I don't drive, aren't you? Well, I'll tell you why. I have ADHD, it's short for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. You can probably tell by the words that it means I'm hyperactive. With a short attention span I get easily distracted, and driving could prove a danger."
"So you're old enough to drive then," he stated.
"Yes, if you want to put it that way." -_- "Now, it's time for me to ask the questions." :D "How did you get into this world in the first place?" He had a blank expression and paused for about... eight seconds?
"There was a storm. Then a flash..." I waited but he shook his head. "We don't really know ourselves.
"I see..." So there was a storm at their place too... how typical, arrival at a thunderstorm. Couldn't the author of this be anymore creative? "And how old are you now?" At this, I only had to wait one second.
"Nineteen." Nineteen... during the original of the series, he was eighteen to nineteen.
"Uh huh... and what about Naruto?" He blinked. "I mean, what's he doing now?" He looked back at the road and dodged a cat that was walking by. It wasn't black, I assure you that. But funny... there was two and one of them had yellow fur and a bright blue eye.
I say 'a' because that was the only one visible. The other was hidden by a patch of fur. Then there was a bright red one that had light brown eyes and had a passive look on his face. If I didn't know better, I'd say that they were the cat versions of Deidara and Sasori. Wait a second, there were fanfics where some characters were turned into —
"The nine tails is out training with the Sannin." I nodded.
"Ah, so you're from that part of the series..." Right at the end of the original. He turned and looked at me.
"How much do you really know?" He asked. At that, I turned to face him, a little shocked at his sudden question, but then I smiled brightly, a goofy Naruto smile, I call it.
"Enough to make me appreciate you and have you be my favorite character of the show!" I guess my toothy smile worked because when he turned back to watch the sidewalk, I saw a small, tiny, upturns of the corner of his lips smile.
Just Skipping to the Arrival to Walmart :)
Ah, Walmart, one of the bestselling, popular, cheap retail store :D I normally don't shop here and prefer Hot Topics, but for the sake of having two more mouths to feed, I have to shop the cheapest with best quality I could get.
First we stopped off at the clothes section because for food, I wanted some ice cream, and the longer we hold onto the ice cream, the more it'll melt. So we made our way to the men's, which I also shop at =P and we found at least a week's outfit for each, and on intuition, I bought more. See, I listen more to my gut than reason because I find that I usually don't regret it.
Then it was off to the shoes. Let me tell you, damn was the shark man so happy to be out of the sneaks he wore. And did they smell too. I was in luck when I found a plastic bag laying around to put them in, or it'd stink up the whole store. See, that's why I always buy shoes just a bit bigger than I normally wear, like about half a size. That definitely helped out because during my growth spurt, I didn't go around changing shoes every two weeks... I changed them every one week =P
It turns out, Kisame was a size fourteen XD it must have hurt like hell to wear shoes three and a half shoe size too small for you, but I couldn't help laugh when I heard. Itachi, on the other hand, was a size nine. Small for a guy, I guess, but decent. In all honestly, I probably shouldn't be talking about his shoe size being small, because mine is only a size three... in men's that is :) I usually don't wear shoes for women, but if I did it'd be a five :)
So moving on, we finished shoe shopping, in which Kisame was really is really grateful for, and moved on for stuff for personal hygiene... yeah, I didn't go with them. Instead, I went to Hot Topics to go shopping for myself :D
During my time there, I bought myself some colorful skinny jeans, more band shirts that I didn't already have, gloves for fashion, bracelets, anklets, earrings, nail polish, nail polish remover, which I was low on, and of course, hats :D By the time we all paid for just clothes and personal items, I found that I had wasted about four hundred dollars -_- Well, I save hundreds at Walmart, didn't I? :D
"We all done with clothes?" I asked. The two nins nodded. Well, Itachi nodded... Kisame just grinned.
"OF COURSE! We get new stuff and we don't pay for it!" My right eyes twitched and I felt like pounding him on the head. Damn, he shouldn't have mentioned that. Now, I was in a bad mood. But I sighed. This is what I get for wishing that the Akatsuki would come to my world when I as twelve... :( I got my wish and I had to pay for it... then again, I could always use the two thousand dollars in the credit card my parents gave me for emergencies :D If I could go back in time, the first thing I'd say to my twelve year old self, is They came!
Next up was food. I bought lots of cupped ramen since I pretty much can't cook anything else, so microwave pizza, microwave burgers, and microwave other stuff. Kisame threw in sushi, and just to make him queasy, I bought microwavable shark fin soup :) I can't wait to eat this in his face :D
I saw Itachi eying something in the aisle, but he didn't reach for it. Finding it a bit strange, I walked over to him.
"You want anything?" I asked him innocently. (Innocent my ass! I'm just about as innocent as a regular reformatory student! :O) He just looked at me and shook his head. When he walked away to the cart, I sneakily took a look and realized just what he wanted: Dango. Of course, I read it was his favorite in his profile.
"Itachi!" I called out to him. I made sure to do it quietly so that other people wouldn't be too suspicious. Then I handed him the bags of stuff we already bought. "Could you please bring this home? It's going to be a hassle with all the stuff we're buying unless we take two trips." I guess he felt a bit guilty over mooching off of me, so he quickly said yes and hurried off. I had the shark guy follow him out with more stuff too :)
When I was sure that they all left, I, like a ninja, grabbed a hold of a lot of boxes of dango and ran to the cashier's with all the other food to buy them. They're going to be a surprise for my fave character :) And the dozen microwavable shark fin soup are a surprise for his partner too :)
Running isn't exactly my thing, which is why I have a skateboard to do most of my work for me :) So when I made my way to the front of the store, I saw that the two nins already came back. Grabbing bags from the shopping cart, I handed a fair amount to each of them, keeping the dango and shark fin soup with me at all times.
Just Skipping to Dinner Time :)
When we arrived home, I taught them how to use a remote and kept them occupied while I had dinner made. Microwave pizza and shark fin soup :D While handing two slices of pizza each to the two Akatsuki members, telling them that it was called pizza, and had only one and the bowl of soup. I guess Kisame had a strong sense of smell because I saw him sniff the air out of the corner of his eye and turn to me in despair.
"Wh-what are you eating?" He asked, eyes opened wide. I smiled a sickly sweet smile.
"What? Oh, this?" I asked, holding out the bowl. "It's shark fin soup, you want some?" I was able to keep a confused face as the blue skinned dude ran out the living room, face turning green, or blue-green...
I doubled over laughing, almost falling onto the Uchiha's lap but caught myself.
"Oh, snap! Did you see his face?" XD I asked. "Man, I'm going to have shark fin soup for as many meals as I can!" When I heard the toilet seat slam up, I sat straight, shaking my head and tsked at his puking. "What a waste of good pizza," I said. Then turned over to Itachi. "What do you think of the pizza?" I asked him. He nodded, finished with the two slices. "Want anymore?" He shook his head. "Kind of quiet, aren't you?" He shrugged. I couldn't help but smile at how innocent he looked, sitting there relaxed, a big difference from his old reputation back at the nation of the shinobi.
I finished my pizza by the time he came back, and took a big bite out of one of the shark fin when he just came in, pretending not to notice the blue dude while my eyes glued onto the screen. It sent him right back to the toilet bowl for more puking :D When I was finished with everything, I threw out the paper plate and went to one of the plastic bags from shopping today, drawing out three dango sticks.
I went back to the living room where Itachi was on the coach, feet crossed, hands in his lap. How modest his posture is. He seemed intent in the television... or just how the TV worked because I caught him with his sharingan activated a couple times. He had them on now and didn't turn around, so I just stuck the dangos in his face. When he turned to face me, I smiled.
"Here, it's treat for being a good sport." He nodded and bowed a half way despite what I told him.
"Arigato," he said. I'm glad I learned Japanese phrases, or I wouldn't have known what he was saying.
"No need," I said, sheepishly. As he took the dango from my hand, I saw him crack a small genuine smile for the second time that day. Damn, that boy can smile :)
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