Sillymail: This time I'm doing the ANs. We'd like to thank you for all of your kind reviews!
A Cruise of Sorts
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"Staff room…staff room…staff room. Aha! Found it- wait no that's the kitchen. Whoever drew this map is bad at it!" Sakura shook the map out of anger. After Kakazu had taken all of her money he said that she would need to go the staff room to see her team mates and let the crew know that some of them would be sharing a room.
"I take offense to that."
Sakura's eyes widened as she slowly turned around to see a tall man with blue-tinted skin. Sakura paled, this was one of the crew members, and all of the crew members are S-class criminals. Meaning, he wouldn't think twice about killing her for offending him.
Kisame chuckled at the girl's expression. "Don't worry; we're not aloud to kill our customers. Captain Leader already got onto Zetsu for eating some millionaire.
"What are you doing back here? Customer's rooms are back that way."
Sakura found her voice and said, "Kakazu-san told me to go to the staff room to find my team mates and-
"Oh you're the special case. Follow me," Kisame ordered.
Kisame led the rest of the way to the staff room (which was only two more doors down) and waited until Sakura went in, and then entered the room and closed the door.
Inside the room were two white couches, two coffee tables, a small refrigerator and stove, a large window, and a door leading to another room. The silver haired man, Hidan was it?, was cleaning a wicked looking scythe, Itachi was doing a Sudoku puzzle, and a really big venous flytrap resembling man was cooking. In the center of the room Naruto and Sasuke were tied up and gagged (due to loud screaming of "I'm going to kill you!" and complaints.)
For a moment Sakura could only stand and stare. There was just something undeniably unnerving about seeing a group of cold-blooded killers acting so…normal. The sight of Itachi nibbling at the end off his pencil, a thoughtful expression on his calm face, nearly sent her over the edge.
Scampering over to her companions, Sakura knelt down to their level, "Um…hey guys…"
Naruto made a half-angry half-relived 'Srrgrphan!' sound at her while Sasuke continued to glare at his brother. Itachi looked up and waved his pencil at him before looking back down and writing a number in with a tiny satisfied smirk.
"Hey can I untie them?" Sakura asked, looking around.
"No." several voices deadpanned.
Sighing, Sakura turned back to her team, "Um…we're going to have to stay here for a while."
Sasuke turned his glare on her now and Naruto started to struggle again. Sakura rubbed her temple, "Look guys, I know none of us want to be here but what other choice do we have?"
Naruto started kicking at the air, his muffled yells getting louder.
"Um…no. Look what happened when you tried to fight them before."
Naruto's head dropped sadly and Sakura patted his hair awkwardly, "Hey um…It's not so bad! They said they wouldn't hurt us and they're going to drop us off in the port in just five days! So um…now we won't have to walk?"
Both boys glared and Sakura could have sworn she heard some one snort with laughter behind her. Sasuke looked away then back at her, making a kind of questioning grunt.
"Uh…you want to know where we're staying?"
The raven haired boy nodded.
"Oooh she's good." Kisame said.
"I guess being around an Uchiha you learn to speak fluent Grumble and Hn." Hidan laughed but was quickly silenced by both Itachi and Sasuke's glares.
"Yeah…so anyways," Sakura said, turning back to her teammates, "Um…the money Kakashi gave us didn't quite pay for the tickets soooo…we have to bunk with crew members."
That got everyone's attention. Zetsu stopped poking at what ever he was frying and glanced over his shoulder (quite a feat considering his shoulders have plant things on them). Itachi looked up from his puzzle. Hidan's hand slipped on his scythe and he ended up with a bloody palm while Kisame's jaw dropped.
Both Sasuke and Naruto gave her horrified looks of 'Dear lord NO!'
"Well what else was I supposed to do?" the girl snapped, her face turning a bit red from all the attention, "Maybe it…won't be so bad?"
For a moment there was silence filled only by the sizzling of the food the plant man was cooking. Then several voices rang out.
"I call the girl!"and then, "No I do!"
Itachi sighed and put down his Sudoku puzzle and pencil, "I suppose I'll be the mature one and take one of the boys. In fact, I think I'll take Sasuke," Itachi smiled a little.
There was a muffled scream that sounded like "Ill Will Wu!"
"I suppose I could take the moron. Zetsu would most likely end up eating him and that would be a waste of what could have been a sacrifice to Jashin!" Hidan said.
"I guess the little kunoichi is bunking with me! I'm the most acquainted with her in this room besides Itachi (and her team mates) and Zetsu-san would probably eat her!" Kisame smiled.
The three genin in the room went pale at the thought of their bunk-mates. Naruto was really fretting over the idea of becoming a sacrifice, so much so in fact, that he ignored being called a moron. Sasuke was imaging his team mates being eaten by the venous fly trap thing-person. Sakura was also imagining being consumed by Zetsu, and started edging toward Kisame a bit.
"In my defense, I only ate that millionaire because he was getting on my nerves and looked like he was about to die anyways," the white side of Zetsu's face said.
"All this talk of eating people is disturbing our passengers. We don't want them to have nightmares, do we?" Itachi said with the voice of reason, he then continued to suggest, "Why don't we take our roommates to our rooms? They need to get settled in."
"Good idea! Right this way girl!" Kisame put his hands on Sakura's shoulders, guiding her out of the room.
"Since you lack the ability to read my map, I'm going to give you the 'grand tour' of this hall way.
"Over there is the kitchen, the bath room, Itachi's room, Zetsu's room, Deidara and Sasori's room which they have to share because of lack of space, Kakuzu's room, Hidan's room, and my room," Kisame said, pointing right or left when necessary.
"Who are Deidara and Sasori?" Sakura asked.
"Did you see a blonde guy and a really big puppet?"
"Hai."
"That's them," Kisame said as he unlocked the door to his, and now Sakura's room.
It wasn't a particularly big room, but it wasn't tiny either. The plush deep, black carpet looked nice with the various red ascents, though she wondered why their where red clouds every where. She was surprised to see how clean it was with only a heavy red and black coat on the floor and what seemed to be black boxers with little blue fish on them poking out from a drawer.
Sakura, suddenly overcome with tiredness, jumped on the bottom bunk of the bunk bed. She curled around the pillow and quickly pulled the covers on and was all set to go to sleep when Kisame said, "That one's mine."
"Huh? Why? I thought everybody liked the top," Sakura said, obviously confused.
"Well I don't, and especially not on a ship. When the ship starts to rock about at night when you're trying to sleep you can roll off. Now get up, it's lunch time!" Kisame ordered.
Sakura got up, although begrudgingly. She really wanted to sleep! Then her stomach let out an angry growl. Sakura frowned as Kisame tried to hide his smirk. Apparently she wanted to sleep and eat at the same time. Sakura couldn't believe she was thinking this but 'So troublesome…'
When they got to the kitchen, everything was in chaos! The cooks that the Akatsuki had hired were trying frantically to get everything cooked for the buffet. Rice and fish heads were flying everywhere! And in the middle of it all, an untied and un-gagged Naruto was happily eating ramen, which he nagged a cook to give him hot water for. (He already had it in his bag.)
"Good lord…is it always like this?" Sakura turned only to see Kisame stalking away, small dark eyes set on an unattended plate of grilled fish. Sighing, the girl walked out of the kitchen and into the dining area. Little round tables dotted the room with five red-velvet covered chairs around them. A large chandelier hung from the ceiling, swaying with the ships movement and sun light poured in from the huge windows.
"Hm…this place is almost…nice." Sakura mumbled to herself, plopping down at one of the empty tables.
"Well thank you, un!" said a deep voice close to her ear, "I made most of the plans for it but of course Sasori-dana had to throw in his little 'artistic touches' here and there."
Sakura almost jumped out of her skin. With a little squeak she turned to come eye to eye with a rather handsome blond man. He was grinning at her, visible aqua eye shining with laughter, "Who are you?" She felt like she should know his name, but in her fright had completely forgotten.
"Deidara, un." He said, holding out a hand. When Sakura took it, however, she felt something slimy glide across her palm.
"YEEEEEW! What was that?" The pink haired nin squealed, yanking her hand away.
Deidara burst into a bout of deep laughter. How someone who looked so girly could have such a deep voice was beyond Sakura, "Sorry, they do that some times."
He held up a hand and, there in the palm, was a mouth, grinning at her and flicking its tongue out, "I think it likes you, un!"
Feeling oddly violated, Sakura whipped her hand on a napkin and grimaced, "Yeah, that's nice, bye now."
Before the blond could retort, another voice, smoother and a bit creepy, said, "Stop it Deidara. We're not supposed to scare passengers."
Sakura turned around, wanting to know who the person was, when she saw a very pretty red headed young man.
"Sasori-dana? Why aren't you in Hiruko?"
"Captain Leader said that it was scarring the passengers. Why aren't you wearing your waiter's uniform?"
The uniform consisted of shined black shoes, black slacks, a white flannel shirt, and a gray buttoned vest over the shirt.
"I was just going to our room to change when I heard this girl complimenting our work, un!" Deidara then turned to Sakura and said, "Oh! This is A-
"Akasuna no Sasori," Sasori extended his hand, which Sakura took.
"Haruno Sakura." His hands are really cold…
"Deidara, you know I hate to wait. Go change!" Sasori ordered.
Sakura started to meander toward the buffet when suddenly a small quartet started to play. Everyone's attention was then focused toward the entrance where the Captain stood with…
Sillymail: I've seen this type of ending (fade outs) before, and I wanted to test it out. Sorry if it confused anyone! Well, you can complain using the review button! All reviews are greatly appreciated!
Darkkinkachu: -dancing to 'Because We Can' in the background-