"Of course I get stuck with the hardest job…" Kisame complained to himself as he walked down a hallway.
"Stupid Konan…that good for nothing…lazy…" he continued mumbling some choice words.
The blue man looked up and saw Deidara headed his way but didn't think much of it.
As he passed the blond artist, he made the mistake of saying "stupid bitch" just a little too loud.
Before he knew it, Kisame was pinned against the wall by a pissed off Deidara.
"What did you just call me, un?" he screamed at the shark man.
The Akatsuki members always joked around with Deidara, calling him a girl and such. The boy had a quick temper, so it was funny to watch him get mad. However, now wasn't one of those times.
"Answer me, un!" the furious artist demanded, slamming Kisame against the wall.
"Hey, chill out!" he yelled back.
"No! I'm so SICK of you guys always calling me names like that!"
Deidara was so overtaken by anger, that his 'un' habit had ceased.
"But I didn't call you a stupid bitch. I was talking about Konan!" Kisame admitted, wishing he hadn't left his sword in his room.
Deidara chuckled and let go of the tall man.
"Haha. Aw, I'm sorry, un!" he apologized.
"Yeah, whatever. It's alright. But you can make it up to me by telling me where I can find Kakuzu." Kisame replied.
This seemed to confuse the blond.
"Why are YOU looking for KAKUZU, un?"
"I need him form something."
A large smirk grew on Deidara's face, which told Kisame everything the boy was thinking.
"Ew, no, not like that! Geez! I need to ask him for some money for a party. You're such a pervert!" the large blue man scoffed.
"Party?" the artist asked, ignoring everything else the other had said.
"Yeah. A New Year's party. And I, unfortunately, volunteered and got stuck with having to ask Kakuzu for money." Kisame explained, grumbling.
"Ha! Well sucks for you, un!" Deidara teased.
"Shut up. Do you know where he is or not?" the large man demanded, his patience wearing thin.
"Oh, well I think he's in his room…counting his money, un." the blond snickered.
Kisame just pushed him aside and headed for Kakuzu's room.
SLAM
Kakuzu jumped up from counting his money, startled. However, he sat back down when he saw that it was only Hidan.
"What limb is it this time?" the stitched man asked with a sigh.
"Oh, shut the fuck up. Just sew my fucking arm back on!" the jashinist barked.
"Only if you ask nicely." Kakuzu teased.
"No fucking way you bastard. Now hurry the fuck up. I'm bleeding all over your fucking carpet." the armless man hissed.
"So touchy. Heh heh. Fine, come sit over here." the stitched ninja snickered, patting a chair next to him.
Hidan mumbled numerous choice words before heading for the chair, his right arm being held by his left hand.
When he finally sat down, Kakuzu took his arm and asked "Do you want to tell me what happened?".
The immortal mumbled some incoherent words and Kakuzu took that as a no.
The stitched man sighed as he got out his sewing kit and began to sew Hidan's arm back on.
A while later, when he was about halfway done with the jashinist's arm, there was a knock at the door.
"Little busy right now, come back later." Kakuzu huffed, simultaneously stitching.
A few moments passed until the person knocked again.
Hidan lost it.
"Go the fuck away!" he yelled.
Instead of complying, the person opened the door and stepped in.
"Oh, it's you, Kisame. I was beginning to wonder if it was Tobi at the door." Kakuzu sighed with relief.
"Er, yeah. Sorry about barging in, didn't know you were stitching up Hidan." the large blue man half heartedly apologized.
The immortal gave him a death glare and he averted his gaze to the floor.
"Anyway" Kisame began, "I kind of need to ask a favor of you."
At this Kakuzu stopped stitching Hidan, only ¾ the way done, and turned to the shark like man.
"What?" he asked grumpily and Kisame gulped.
"Well, ya see, Konan and Tobi are going to throw a New Year's party and-"
He was cut off by a swift "No." from the stitched ninja, as he returned to patching up the immortal.
An awkward silence fell over the three ninja, but Kisame stood his ground.
Surprisingly, Kakuzu broke the silence.
"Well if Tobi and Konan are the ones planning it, then why are you the one asking me?"
The large blue man wanted nothing more then to backtalk the stitched man but decided it best to just answer his question.
"I offered to help." was his only reply and the awkward silence returned.
"What kind of party?" Kakuzu broke the silence again.
"Don't really know. A small one I guess. I mean it's Tobi and Konan." Kisame shrugged.
"Fine. But only a little." Kakuzu sighed.
Hidan and Kisame looked, and were, utterly shocked.
"Tobi is a good boy!" the goofball chanted as he skipped down the hallways of the Akatsuki base.
His job was to find Zetsu and get the plant man to agree to bring flowers to the party.
Oblivious to his surroundings, Tobi slammed into something, or rather someone.
He landed on the ground with a thud.
"Owie!" the masked boy cried, looking up to who he had ran into.
"Oh, Itachi-san! Hi!" Tobi hollered from the ground.
The Uchiha was intimidating as he gazed down at the boy, before walking around him.
"Wait Itachi-san!" the masked man yelled, pulling himself off the ground.
"Hhhmmm?" was the black haired man's only reply as he looked back at Tobi, who shivered under his glare.
"Does Itachi-san know where Zetsu is?"
There was a long pause before the Uchiha answered with a "No" and began to walk away.
Normally the goofball would have gone after Itachi, but he decided to continue looking for Zetsu instead.
The garden was his next stop.
Zetsu was knelt over a pink rose bush, leaning in closer to sniff one.
"Ah, beautiful!" exclaimed his white side.
"You're such a pansy. I mean come on, a PINK rose bush." spat his black side.
"Can't you just let me enjoy something for once without butting in!" he whined.
"Well maybe if you didn't enjoy such girly things, I would let you!" he barked back.
"I'm not GIRLY! I'm just romantic."
The argument continued between Zetsu's two halves for several minutes until they were interrupted.
"Zetsu? Oh Zetsu? Is Zetsu-san out here?" Tobi called.
"Great" both sides groaned
"We just wanted some peace and quiet."
"But what do we get instead?"
"Tobi." they agreed in unison.
Unfortunately for Zetsu, the goofball had heard him.
"Zetsu-san! Tobi was looking EVERYWHERE for you!" he happily exclaimed as he walked over to the plant man.
Zetsu sighed. "What does Tobi want?"
"Konan and Tobi are planning a New Year's party." the masked boy proudly stated.
"Okay…and…?" Zetsu asked.
"Konan wanted Tobi to ask Zetsu-san if he could bring some flowers to the party!" Tobi declared.
Zetsu's black side's eye began twitching, while his white side let out a sigh.
"There is no way." grumbled his dark side.
"Oh come one." coaxed the light side.
"No."
"It'll be fun."
"Pansy!"
This continued for a while, much to the amusement of Tobi who sat down to watch the 'show'.
Soon enough, Zetsu calmed down and turned his attention towards the young boy.
"Fine, we'll do it." spat his black side.
"Yay!" Tobi squealed, jumping up and down.
"Now would you mind leaving me in peace?" Zetsu asked, mildly annoyed.
"Okay! Bye-bye Zetsu-san!" the masked ninja called out as he skipped away.
"This party is going to be amazing!" Konan chirped out loud to no one in particular as she walked down a hallway, headed for a certain puppet's room.
When she finally reached the door to his room, she knocked lightly.
"Yes?" was the only response.
"Er, hi Sasori. Can I come in? I want to talk to you." Konan cooed in the sweetest voice possible.
A silence lingered for a minute and the girl was about to knock again when she heard "Enter."
Despite being slightly offended by Sasori's tone, the blue haired beauty shrugged it off and opened the door.
The red head was at his desk, working on a puppet.
"What is it you want?" he asked coldly.
Konan decided to cut to the case.
"Tobi and I are planning this New Year's party and I was wondering is you would mind helping out."
Hearing this, Sasori put down his tools and turned to face the girl, who was now sitting on his bed.
"And what is it that I could possibly help with?" he questioned cautiously.
Konan could feel him watching her every move, reading her body language. However, she kept her composure.
"I was just wondering if you could make some small puppets to decorate the place with or to hand out as gifts." the blue haired girl answered nonchalantly.
Sasori couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, in both confusion and annoyance.
The puppet simply turned around and began working again, as if Konan had never bothered him.
After a few minutes of silence, he spoke.
"I don't make toys for you people to play with. These are deadly masterpieces."
The paper princess couldn't help but frown at his words.
"Come on Sasori, I'm not trying to offend you. I just want this party to be fun. It's not like I'm asking you to do a puppet show." she whined.
The red head froze up at 'puppet show' and turned around to give the girl a death glare.
"Ooops." was all Konan could day before the puppet was inches away, staring her straight into the eyes.
"You want to say that again?" he challenged, obviously offended.
The blue haired girl sweat dropped and chuckled nervously.
"Woah, woah. Calm down Sasori. I didn't mean anything by it." she tried to coax while putting up her hands in defense, telling him to back off.
He took a few steps back and crossed his arms, never breaking his glare.
"I only asked because I admire your work so much." Konan lied.
"Stop kissing up to me. I'm not buying it." Sasori spat, still vexed.
The paper princess got off the bed and let out a sigh.
"Fine Sasori." she replied as she walked to the door.
When the blue haired beauty reached it, she turned around for a second.
"Let me know if you change your mind." she added, as she walked out of his room, gently closing the door.
"So how did yours go?" Kisame asked as Konan entered the living room.
"Don't know. I accidentally angered him." the paper princess responded with a shrug as she plopped down on the couch beside Tobi.
"What about you guys?" she asked, looking at Kisame expectantly.
"Well I actually got some money out of Kakuzu." the blue man answered with a shrug.
"Really?" Konan couldn't hide the surprise in her voice.
Kisame nodded in agreement. "Yeah it surprised me too."
"Wow. Well what about Tobi?" The blue haired girl glanced in the goofball's direction.
"Apparently Zetsu agreed…after some inner conflict."
Both ninja were now looking at the oblivious masked man.
"Well that's good." Konan shrugged. "I guess that my origami will just have to be enough if Sasori doesn't want to participate." she stated, trying to hide her disappointment.
However, Tobi took noticed and hugged the girl.
"Don't be so sad Konan-chan! The party will be amazing!" the masked boy chimed.
The blue haired beauty couldn't help but give him a smile. "Yeah, I know. Thanks Tobi." she replied with a little more enthusiasm.
After that, a silence engulfed the room for a while.
Tobi played with his toes while Kisame and Konan just watched.
That's when Deidara stormed in.
"You asked Sasori-danna to make something for your party, but not ME?" he yelled, fuming.
"Er…" was the only response Kisame could come up with.
Tobi found it best to try and hide under a pillow now, he knew what happened when his sempai got mad.
Konan, apparently being the only one in the room with some balls, sighed and decided to calm him down before he blew up the entire base.
"Um, yes. I did ask Sasori if he wanted to help…"she began, only to be cut off by the blond directing his ranting at her.
"Woah, woah. Calm down! I wasn't done yet!" she screamed back at the boy.
All Deidara could do was "hmpf" and cross his arms.
"Thank you. Now, as I was going to say, he said no. So when the three of us met back up here, we discussed what we were going to do. We came to the agreement that we should ask you." Konan lied convincingly.
However, the blond eyed her suspiciously.
"Even if that's true, you still asked him first, un." Deidara nearly pouted.
"Well that's only because I thought that you would never want to. I mean, I figured you'd be way too busy working on something important!" the paper princess tried kissing up.
It seemed to take the artist a minute to process this.
"Really, un?" he finally questioned.
"Yes. Of course!" Konan persuaded.
"Hhhmmm…well ok…I guess I just didn't realize that I gave off that sort of image…" Deidara shrugged.
The blue haired beauty barely stopped herself from sweat dropping.
"Uh, well since your good at explosions, why don't you make some fireworks?" she suggested.
"Perfect, un!" the blond exclaimed as he ran off to his room so he could get started, leaving behind a partially stunned Kisame and Konan.
Tobi just clapped.
(A/N): LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG CHAPTER! I mean I guess I could have split it up more evenly...but I was too lazy. Oh well. Oh and comment on the first part, since when is Deidara strong enough to pin KISAME against a wall and make him afraid? It must be all the estrogen (we all know that Deidei is on his man-period)... heh heh heh...
