S is for September.

and

September is for school.

Naruto/Akatsuki (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Original Characters (c) me

Like being in the fiery pits of hell, I felt like I had just been engulfed by the flames of eternal torture as I sat beside a very real Tobi. Every once and a while I would look cautiously over to him, only to see him stabbing his eraser repeatedly with his pencil and then hear him mutter something along the lines of- 'Tobi is a Good Boy!'. What did he mean by that? In a sort of sick way it sounded really innocent and sweet but in a twisted manner. I wasn't going to say anything, simply because I wouldn't be able to bring up the courage to say anything in the first place. So I sat there hunched over in my chair at the very back of the classroom. I ended up falling into a very peaceful daydream as I blankly watched the teacher move around the front of the classroom talking about something incoherent. I didn't really need to listen anyways, since it was basically just 'beginning of the year lectures' that we got from every teacher we had classes from. As I resumed back to reality, I couldn't help but notice that Tobi had rolled up a sheet of paper. I watched carefully as he placed one end of the now tubular piece of paper in the only eye slot he had on his mask, and held it sort of like a portable telescope. He turn to me and leaned in very closely to my arm which was resting on the desk and said-

"Oh Nao, I can see your arm hair!"

"What the hell?... get off Tobi!" I pushed Tobi away but failed to avoid attention from the now starring teacher. Fortunately, they didn't say anything and I was off the hook. I wasn't the type of girl who constantly got into trouble, and I'd like to keep it that way.

"Are you angry with Tobi?"

Angry? Did I look angry? Maybe I did lash out at him. I sat there pondering at what I was going to say, trying to put together a sentence where I could say I wasn't angry, but in a very non-mushy way.

"Uhh, Tobi-"

"So you're not angry? Tobi is so happy now!"

I sighed and decided to just leave it at that. Tobi certainly seemed innocent enough, even if his innocence was too 'innocent' to ever be believable. The bell ended up ringing and I felt as if I was free. I quickly put together my books, closed my binder and-

"hey, watch where you're going bitch"

"Oh, sorry I just-"

Wait a second. My brain was furiously processing the situation as I looked up, setting my gaze upon a very familiar Hidan. We both stood there, harshly starring each other down with frowns planted on our faces. I took a step back and crinkled my eyebrows, feeling extremely tempted to throw in a witty comment about his foul language. There were no exchange of words, only harsh glares that would leave any bystander extremely intimidated.

"Did you want something, Hidan?" I managed to slice through the thick silence that loomed over the both of us. If I had stood there any longer, it probably would have become very awkward.

"No, but your cleavage is showing"

What? My cleavage? Why was he even-? I didn't know whether to slap in the face or kick him in his testacles. I had only known him for a mere couple of hours and he was already as obnoxious as it got. I wanted to let out my own string of curses, but something inside told me not to. I decided to just let it go and think it off, after all, what did you expect from a guy like Hidan anyways?

"Yeah, thanks Hidan" I rolled my eyes, at that moment I almost wished I was sitting beside Tobi instead. Now that I had thought about it, everyone else had already cleared out of the classroom, even Tobi was gone, but his eraser sat there all cut up and stabbed from- hey wait, that was just the excuse I needed to slip past Hidan. I inched away from the silver haired male and grabbed the mangled eraser, "well, looks like Tobi left his eraser, better go give it back to him" I let out a nervous laughter.

As I walked passed Hidan he shot me a look, not just any look, it was one of those 'wtf' stares that cut you up into a million pieces and left you for the birds. I left in a hurry, eraser clutched tightly in my hand as I left the classroom stiffly. Finally making it to my locker I could remember to breathe again, I opened it hastily, grabbing my next set of books and walking away. Peering into the my next class I could see I was late, again. There was only one seat left, and it was beside a larger male, who, when looked at closely had a very interesting array of stitches all over his body. I had just made my way over to the empty seat and set my books down when I saw him put his hand out. I simply starred at him quizzically.

"Ten dollars, pay up"

"Ten dollars for what?"

"Ten dollars to let you sit there"

"..."

"Fine, but I'll have to put you on a list" He said taking out a clipboard. He looked at me impatiently, waiting until I gave him my name.

"You're kidding right?"

"Of course not"

I sat down cautiously. Eying his clipboard and noticing that Hidan's name was on there over several times, including Tobi's and a bunch of other people who I did not recognize.

No wonder nobody was sitting here, I sighed and gave him my name, "you know what? how about I just... buy you lunch or something?"

He looked at me for a couple of seconds, nodding his head and stashing away his clipboard. Who was this guy? Was he for real? Charging people just to sit at the desk beside his own? I'm going to be broke if I keep sitting here. The class went by rather quietly, well, at least compared to last class. There was no Tobi, or intimidating Hidan to bother me while I listened. I eyed my neighbor suspiciously, he was so well organized. A neat freak. I glanced up at his facial features, his eyes were the first thing that popped out, they were the color of... watermelons? Pink and Green, Seriously? The corners of his mouth were stitched up as well, and so was most of his body from what I could tell. Despite his image, he seemed pretty laid back and it put me at ease.

"So" I began, "Hidan and Tobi are on your list as well?" It wasn't that I was interested in Hidan and Tobi's financial business, but it was my curiosity towards his clipboard that got me asking.

"They owe money, that's all"

"I see"

I also had the urge to ask how he knew Tobi and Hidan in the first place, seeing as he too was also a newcomer but decided against it and said nothing at all. I pulled out Tobi's eraser and began to examine it.

"Tobi owes me money for that too"

"he does? but it's all- mangled" Was this guy charging people for everything?

"I'll take that if you don't mind"

"But I was going to give it back to him"

"That's not necessary, now, if you please?"

I slowly put the eraser in his hand and leaned back in my seat. Next block was lunch, I could only hope that this guy didn't pick out the most expensive thing on the menu, and with that the bell rang. I picked up my things and walked outside the classroom. It didn't take me long to notice that he was following me, I stopped and gave him a puzzling look. He simply motioned for me to keep walking, I sighed and walked up to my locker, opening it up and bringing out a nice sum of money.

The cafeteria was fairly large, filled to the brim with hungry students lined up for a mile waiting to get their food. The tables were also loud and full of happy chatter. I looked around, trying to find a place to sit but I failed, turning back to the stranger I started to explain how there were no spots left but he had already started walking towards a table with a group already sitting at it. I contemplated on following, eventually deciding to go and I slowly walked up to the group now recognizing two of them. Hidan and Tobi sat stuffing their faces while the other people I didn't have the slightest clue who they were.

"Nao! come sit beside Tobi!" Tobi sat shouting, patting the empty spot next to him.

Well, it was better than standing. I walked over, eying everyone who had now decided to all stare at me at once. It seemed they all knew each other pretty well, which would explain why the one who had the list of people on his clipboard knew Hidan and Tobi. I was beginning to understand, which came with a nice sense of accomplishment. On the other side of Tobi sat an orange haired man who had an almost frightening site of piercings, while sitting beside him was a blue haired girl. Across from Tobi sat Hidan, and then a red head, followed by a blonde haired kid, who I'm sure has been mistaken for a woman before but of course, you could clearly see he was a guy. Beside him was Zetsu and then a rather large man, who had a very interesting tinge of blue to his skin and then last but not least, sitting on the other side of Hidan who seemed to be sitting a little farther away was a darker fellow. He had longer black hair, which was tied at the back as a low pony tail and he seemed to posses the sharingan. Although out of them all, I couldn't help but stare at the blue one, who eerily resembled a shark. At that moment Tobi stood up, raising his arms in the air and then slapping them down onto my shoulders.

"Tobi has an announcement!" he paused for a moment, "Nao, this is Tobi! duh!" he said pointing to himself, "and this is Pain, Konan, Kakuzu, Itachi, Kisame, Deidara and Sasori" Tobi glanced over at Hidan and Zetsu, "and you already know Hidan and Zetsu"

"Hi Nao" they all replied very monotonically but surprisingly in unison.

Nobody seemed to give a shit and neither did I for that matter. Except for Tobi of course who was eating his food quite enthusiastically while speaking to Hidan about something completely incoherent. Hidan obviously wasn't listening and everyone else was off into their own world. Eventually, the cafeteria lineup vanished and I was able to snatch up a plate of food for myself and Kakuzu. The rest of the day went by fairly quickly, as I was able to observe and sometimes even talk to each of the new, you could say in a way they were friendly, shinobi until I was pretty acquainted with them all. Some, very blan while others quite energetic.

At the end of the day you could say the hallways were pretty close to resembling hell itself. You couldn't see anything except for shuffling bodies rushing passed each another, occasionally bumping into one another. I had to jump into the crowd somehow though so I could reach the doors to freedom. I held my breathe and took a step into the hallway, immediately feeling the urge to hurry and run like hell. It was everyone to themselves and all I could do was keep shoving people to the side. Unfortunately getting traffic jammed right before the doors was not uncommon and I had already found myself stuck in between a mess of kids and the occasional teacher. I was about to abort my mission get-home-in-one-piece when someone pushed- no wait, shoved me out of the crowd so I could make my get away. I was forever greatful to them, until of course I realized who it was.

"Oh, it's you"

"hey, I just saved your fucking life, bitch!" Hidan crinkled his nose up, scythe in one hand, books in the other.

I stood there quietly, well, he did get me out of there, but it's not like it was life threatening. I kept quiet, my mind a blank as I stood before the foul mouthed boy. If you listened hard enough, I'm sure you could hear crickets in the background and maybe even the occasional howl.

"I like your scythe" I said randomly. Mine aswell say this instead of nothing at all.

Hidan's face brightened a little, "oh really?" - :D

ah, sorry for such a crappy quality, I really should stop forcing myself to finish this at 3 am in the morning and instead, do it earlier. D:

but anyways, please enjoy the second chapter.

Third chapter is coming tomorrow my lovelies.