Chapter 2: Home! Put Without Peace.

Home was always a nice place to be. At least, it was much better then work in most people's opinion. Yin gazed at the apartment building as she yearned to get out of her work clothes. The shoes were never comfortable to be standing on for hours at a time and she hated having her blue shirt always tucked in with her stiff-feeling black pants. In the winter she found the clothes to make her very cold by time work was over. Then she felt the need to curl herself in many blankets before she would slowly regain warmth. Even a jacket didn't seem to help when winter rolled around. Yin usually wasn't bothered by cold weather since she was born in it and lived around it for a long while. But sometimes it became too chilly even for Yin. The working attire just seemed like a magnet for misfortune.

This theory was to only be proved more as they entered the building and made their way to the top floor. On the last flight of stairs there was a large crash as something heavy had probably dropped. It had caused the hyperactive Tobi to become startled and cling onto Yin as she had tried to go up the next step. His weight with her own - unbalanced - caused the two to fall down the stairs in a heap. Yin groaned in pain and sat up slowly to feel her body ache. She was sitting on top of Tobi, who had somewhat helped her tumble be less painful. But it had still hurt immensely and Yin spat out silent curses as she slowly got to her feet. Looking up the stairs she saw the Deidara was curiously peeking down as if he hardly knew what had just happened. That or he was curious to see if one of them had died - probably particularly hoping it was Tobi. But when he found the two were perfectly OK, except for the fading pain of the fall, an amused grin slipped across his face.

"Wipe that smirk off your face," Yin shot him a look, "or I'll be pulling you down these stairs with me." Her threat merely caused him to to smile brighter. His wide smile caused Yin to run up the stairs after him and he quickly took off toward their room. Lucky for him he managed to get to the door unlocked and inside before Yin had gotten her hands on him. So she let him off the hook for the day and entered the apartment with a posture that indicated peace. Looking around to find him poking his head out from behind the bedroom door, Yin chuckled and plopped down the couch. A feeling of exhaustion swept over her and she rubbed absently at her sore shoulder. Yin was slightly surprised that she didn't get a concussion or something.

As she laid her head down to rest, Tobi burst into the room all cheerful and loud as he usually was. Yin grimaced and slowly sat up and glared toward the boy.
"Tobi! Keep it down, I'm tired!" The woman grabbed her pillow and launched it at him. To her dismay though it hit his head it had hardly any affect to it. She had gotten a quick glance and if his mask were off she imagined a confused look. Then he continued his constant ADD movement and jabbering of nothing important. A sigh emitted from her soft lips and she leaned back against the couch, her dark eyes closing. Soon she felt weight on the other side and realized someone had joined her.

"I don't know what to do with him, hmm," Deidara uttered, "wish we could just blow him up already." He shook his head as his arm rested on the back of the couch and almost around the Izumi woman. When her eyes had shifted toward him he had merely given the look that said 'what...?'

"I wish we could, too. But we need Tobi for some reason or another," Yin responded, no longer leaning against the couch. She was now leaning forward with her elbows resting on her knees. A look of boredom seemed to be on her expression. The Akatsuki group all lived on the same floor and were in groups of two with the exception of Pein - the health inspector - and Yin's apartment - who had 3. The rooms went as followed: at the end of the hallway were Konan and Sasori, then Orochimaru and Zetsu, Itachi and Kisame, and Hidan and Kakuzu. To Yin, Deidara, and Tobi's apartment's left there was some random couple that had some on/off relationship. On the other side of the hallway down toward Konan on Sasori were Pein and then Evil and her family. It was quite the recipe for trouble and chaos. "Hey, Deidara...you need a shower." Her dark eyes shifted toward him. She found his look toward her amusing as it was not a dirty look or anything. It was just...a look...then it changed to that of a sly smirk.

"Care to join me, Yin, un?" He teased in an attempt to gather a reaction out of her. Instead what he got almost knocked him off the couch.

"Sure," Yin replied and shrugged, "gets lonely in there, doesn't it?" She smiled brightly at him, "I'll keep you company." Yep, that got her stared at. She just gave him an innocent look as he processed the fact she had said yes to his joke.

"Are you serious, un...?" He asked as he stared at her with a look of confusion. Usually that would get a different action out of Yin. Not an agreement! She sure was a strange person with many issues. One minute you think you'd know her and the next your whole world was just spun around to a different perspective.

"No, you pervert," Yin responded playfully and punched him softly, "why the hell would I be serious? About taking a shower with you?" She shook her head at him and he shook his head at her before going off to shower.

Kakuzu was busily writting on papers in his apartment with Hidan. Hidan, on the other hand, was ruining their re-newed carpet with his ritual. This frustrated Kakuzu when he realized it was happening. Money didn't grow on trees!
"Hidan! Can't you do that outside or something!? You're ruining our new carpet. Money is limited, you know! We can't keep wasting all my....our...precious money on carpet!"

"You need to chill, we have plenty of money," Hidan responded. "Now will you shut the fuck up? I'm trying to pay my respect to Jashin-sama!" He shook his head at his apartment partner, wondering why he had to get stuck with the moneyhog manager - of all people!

Yin, on the other hand, was busy trying to rest herself up for another stressful day of work. But Tobi wasn't going to allow that anytime soon as he made lots of noise and stomps. Yin wondered what he could possibly be doing. It wasn't like they had the Wii fit or anything. There was no excuse for all this noise!
"Tobi! Keep it down!" She yelled, figuring the sound of Dei's shower was already loud enough. She could always hear the shower when it was running. But the rythmn of the water hitting the ground was relaxing to her (and the perverted thought of him in the shower, mmmhmm.) so she was able to fall asleep to it. When it came to Tobi she had little patience and he was refusing to acknowledge her warnings. This often would end in him getting a huge smack to the head. Which is probably what was about to happen.

"Tobi!" Yin shot up as he made another loud thud! noise. She jumped off the couch and jumped for the male who stood in front of the tv. And just to make sure she hit him her eyes turned crimson and she threw a ball of shadows at him. Unfortunately, both she and the shadow ball missed. This ended in the ball of shadows hitting the wall, destroying it, and Yin tripping over something and falling into the apartment beside him. The apartment just so happened to be her manager's apartment. When she fell through, she noticed that everyone -including Tobi- was staring at her. "Umm..." Yin gave a sheepish grin, "oops? Sorry?"

"If I could, you'd get fired over this!" Kakuzu ranted once Yin had lifted herself and backed away into her apartment. "Do you know how much money this will take to fix!? We might as well move to the poor house now!"

"I'll pay for it or try to fix it!" Yin said quickly as she tried to put it back together. "I mean, it can't be hard, right? It's just wood put up to divide two houses an-!" Down went some more of the wall. " ...Heh heh..." Yin backed away from the wall, a wide, innocent smile on her features. She noticed Hidan was all very amused by this and automatically wanted to choke him. This was totally not funny.

"What was that loud noise, hm?" Deidara poked his head out of the bedroom with a questioning look on his face. He was completely oblivious of the events that had just taken place. Of course, he was also oblivious to the fact he was not quite dressed yet...

"Deidara...you're aware you've no clothes on? I wouldn't open that door any further..." Yin commented.

"..." And so he retreated rather quickly back into the room, probably embarrassed. Hidan was laughing at him as he shut the door. He made a mental note to get back at Hidan for what happened at work and this...maybe a nice little bomb up his a-

"Idiots..." Kakuzu shook his head at them all. Tobi was in complete awe over the situation. Nobody really knew why and how he could be. But Tobi was awed by the most simple of tasks. It just proved how much of an idiot he was. This is why they could shake his head at him as he awed himself over it all. Asking Yin how she did it and whatever else you want your mind to think of. "Looks like our privacy is going to be limited."

"...Yin....you better fucking fix that wall, now!" Hidan eyed Tobi, "I don't want to be stuck with this dumbass. That's your and Deidara's job!" Yin rolled her eyes at him. Though she was really stressing out over the wall. Why did bad things always happen!? She rubbed her forehead and sighed loudly in despair. Though she did notice Deidara coming out - dressed this time.

"Did you hear that, DeiDei-chan? Not a lot of privacy now. No more walking around the house naked," came Yin's sly comment. He gave her a glare and she swore she saw his cheeks turn a light shade with embarrassment. He didn't really walk around the house naked, for Tobi and Yin's sake. But Yin stating it in front of two people who didn't live with them...yeah...she was in a lot of trouble. Yin could tell by the look she had gotten and she had giggled. He would be too worried about the wall for a while to get back at her. But she decided it was time to start expecting it. Maybe he'd give her something and make it explode...Dei loved using his clay, after all.

"Good going, Yin, un," Deidara stared at the broken wall. "How'd you manage this?" She stuck her tongue out at him and he sighed. "Guess we'll just have to pretend it's not broken, un." He sat down on the couch and looked at the TV. "Tobi, when you're done with things you should put them up, hm."

Yin looked and realized...they did have a Wii fit...when did they get a Wii fit? When did they get a Wii!? That made absolutely no sense to her and she just scratched her head in puzzlement.
"How...?" An idea suddenly popped up in her head. "Pretend like it's not broken? Ok!" She moved over to to Deidara and plopped down in his lap, smiling at him. "Then how 'bout some fun time?" She purred and giggled, nuzzling him affectionately. "Since we're supposed to ignore the wall. It's that time of day, ya know. That time of the day we do that really awesome thing and it feels so great and..."

Kakuzu was disturbed and Hidan was making comments. Why did Yin have to do this to him? Deidara sighed in annoyance, pushing her off to where she was beside him on the couch. Then Yin gave the comment of 'Aw, you're not fun today, sweetheart.' Yeah...he'd show her how 'fun' he could be. His mind wandered off into it's own little world. Ignoring Hidan's laughter, he grabbed his clay and began to mold it.

"You're just grumpy because you're PMSing, aren't you?" Yin teased and got herself another glare. A death glare this time. Oh! She was really pushing it! "You know I love you." She purred.

"This might just be fun to watch after all," Hidan chuckled. Watching as Yin sat beside Deidara and watched the TV. His partner beside him, he knew, was praying that they behave tomorrow...