Chapter Two:

"Where's your locker Sakura-Chan?" Mafuyu asked looking around the bustling hallways filled with swarming students.

"Mmm…Here it is Mafu-Chan!" The pinkette told her quietly, pulling her off to the side to one of the sickly green lockers. She took a moment to spin the dial, unlocking it, before opening it with a clank.

"Whoa~ your locker is so clean Sakura-Chan!" Mafuyu gasped into the empty locker causing the twins to sweat drop.

"Thanks?" She replied, dropping her white and pink backpack onto the ground before crouching down to pull some books out. Meanwhile Gaara spotted Kankuro down the hall.

"I'll see you later." The red headed twin grunted before leaving the two females for his bestest friend, knowing Mafu would keep Sakura away from danger…or at least he hoped. Mafuyu waved goodbye happily before turning to Sakura who had finished putting her books into the locker.

"What do you usually do after visiting your locker?" The blonde/green haired girl asked, glancing around while acting oblivious to any stares.

"I usually hide in the girl's bathroom." Sakura mumbled, slinging her backpack back over her shoulder and shutting the locker.

"Oh really? That's no fun. We shou- OH MY GOD IT'S A GIANT FISH!" Mafuyu screeched, pointing dramatically at Kisame as he entered the school with Itachi. "EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

"Mafuyu wait!" Sakura called desperately as the two Akatsuki member's glanced between the running girl and Sakura who was called after her. They approached the pink haired girl, Kisame looking grumpy after being called a fish and Itachi looking quite smug.

"Uh…H-hi…" Sakura squeaked pressing herself against the lockers as the two males stopped in front of her.

"Sakura, your friend hurt my feelings." Kisame pouted, crossing his arms over his chest as slouched so he could get a better look at the short girl.

"S-sorry she's new she didn't know!"

"Sorry won't cut it~" Kisame breathed, flashing a sharp toothed grin at the cowering girl. "Now why don't you-"

Kisame didn't get a chance to continue as something slammed down on his shoulder blades, making him face-plant into the ground with a groan. Sakura jumped and let out a small 'eep' while Itachi's eyes widened slightly in surprise, though they quickly returned to normal.

"Whoops~!" The figure on top of Kisame laughed, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

"Mafuyu-Chan!" Sakura gasped, staring at the girl like she was crazy. The 5'6" girl just took down a 7 foot something male in seconds and wasn't she running down the opposite end of the hallway moments ago?

"Miss…Mafuyu, I would appreciate it if you would get off of my friend." Itachi spoke coolly.

"Hm~? You're friends with the overgrown fish?" She asked.

"Hn."

"Hn?"

"Hn."

"Is that all you can say?"

"Hn."

"I swore you spoke a sentence a moment ago."

"Hn."

"GOD DAMMIT SAY SOMETHING ELSE ALREADY!"

"M-Mafuyu calm down!" Sakura begged.

"Hn."

"WHY IS HE ONLY SAYING 'HN'?" Mafuyu shrieked dramatically while pointing at the Uchiha.

"Cause he's too cool for words."

"Oh Fishy-Chan you're alive." Mafuyu chirped, crouching down on top of him and poking his skull repeatedly.

"Surprisingly yes, now will you get off me?" Kisame growled in response.

"Magic word?" She asked.

"Now."

"Nah..."

"Now before I kill you."

"Don't you mean eat and nope."

"I can see your panties."

"Negative"

"….Please?"

"No."

"Pretty please?"

"Nu uh."

"Fuck. What else could it possibly be?" He growled.

"The color blue…"

"CORRECT! And the winner is Itachi-kun!" Mafuyu cheered, ignoring that the Uchiha basically just read her mind. She proceeded to jump off Kisame and making a move to glomp the Uchiha. Sensing this, Itachi side stepped away, expecting her to go flying into the wall except she didn't. Instead Mafuyu kicked off the wall, changing her direction so she plowed into Kisame…again after he had just gotten up.

"What the-" The blue teen fell once again to the ground, with Mafuyu lying on top of him, groaning in pain.

"Hello mister fish face" Mafuyu chirped, blowing her bangs out of her eyes causing Kisame to get a glimpse of her two different colored orbs before she jumped up.

"Damn it. She's just like a female Tobi." Kisame grunted as he got to his feet.

"Aa" Itachi agreed as he watched to blonde snuggle against the shorter pink female.

"Um Mafuyu-Chan…I have to get to homeroom…I'll see you after I suppose." Sakura told the energetic girl, patting her on the head before taking her leave.

"OKAY BYE SAKURA-CHAN!" Mafuyu cheered, watching the pinkette rush off. As soon as she was a good distance away, she turned back to the two guys who were exchanging a few words and stared at them with a stupid grin on her face.

After a moment both looked up and raised an eyebrow at her. "What?" Kisame grunted, clearly not sure what to do about the weird girl before them.

"Nothing~" She replied slyly before glancing towards the entrance and gasping.

Both seniors turned to look at what she had gasped at only to see nothing but other students chatting. Confused, they turned back to question the girl but she was already gone.

"This is ridiculous." Kat grumbled, crossing her arms. "We told her to meet her outside first period but she still isn't here yet.

"Don't worry. You told her to watch Sakura get to class, she's probably just making sure she gets into the room without running into trouble." Zephyr sighed.

"It has been five minutes since first period started! I bet she got lost. I knew I should have given her a map!" she grumbled in reply.

"Katherine, she'll be fine, don't worry so much." The white haired female murmured, looking up from her phone. "Let's just go to class, she'll come eventually."

"Alright…Let's go." Kat murmured, shaking her head lightly, her bell chiming slightly. She couldn't believe they were starting their first class with out Mafuyu. She let out a frustrated sigh before motioning for Zephyr to go into their first period class…

History

"When's our next meeting, yeah?" Deidara asked, glancing around the group as he played with some clay from the art room. Kazuku was counting some money he had gotten off of some freshmen, Sasori and Itachi were reading while Kisame played a card game with Hidan. Konan and Pein were speaking lowly to each other while Tobi was talking animatedly, about how his 'favorite sempai' had punched him because he had given him a hug earlier, to Zetsu. Zetsu was staring at Tobi like he would a talking plant and finally Madara was plotting how to take over the world.

"Isn't it after school?" Kisame questioned, not looking up from his game of cards.

"It is." The ginger confirmed, his ringed gaze sweeping across the group. "I expect everyone to be there."

There was a chorus of 'okay's and all right's' along with two grunts and a 'Hai sempai!' from the orange swirled masked male.

"Leader, yeah" Deidara suddenly piped up. "We were confronted by two females that seemed to be acting threatening towards us, un."

"We met a third today in the hall as well. She was talking to Sakura." Kisame suddenly spoke, rubbing the back of his head at the painful memory. "She was crazy, kinda like a female Tobi, looked weird too."

"ANOTHER TOBI! TOBI WANT'S TO MEET THE OTHER TOBI!" Tobi shrieked excitedly.

"Tobi shut up, un" Deidara snapped, slapping the childish male upside his head.

"Ow, sempai!" Tobi whined, rubbing his head in pain.

"Are you really related to him?" Kisame questioned, looking at the other two Uchihas in the group.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Itachi and Madara responded in unison, neither looking away from what they were doing.

"Enough, what is this about the three females?" Pein demanded finally, glaring at everyone in the group daring them to speak.

"One's my cousin." Konan piped up, giving the ginger a smile. "Her name's Zephyr"

"The other one was named Katherine, un" Deidara added.

"The third in the hall we met was named Mafuyu." Kisame included, this made Deidara blink and perk up a bit when hearing the odd name.

"What about your cousin?" Pein asked, turning his burning gaze to the blue haired female.

"I actually…don't know much about her. We were never really close. She seemed to distance herself from everyone except, from what I heard, her two best friends and one of their families." Konan explained. She felt like a bad person for not knowing much about her own family member but she was convincing herself that it wasn't completely herself.

"Alright, did they seem like a threat?" Pein asked, glancing at the males who had met them.

"Not particularly. Only the female we met in the hall seemed somewhat destructive." Kisame replied, remembering the pain of being slammed to the floor, twice.

"Aa" Itachi agreed, red eyes flickering up to look at the leader before he resumed his reading.

"Fine then let's do some recon and make sure she isn't a threat shall we?" The red head ordered.

"Ne Kisame, what did Mafuyu look like?" Deidara piped up, looking at the blue haired mega-male.

"Well, she had short blonde hair with green streaks." He responded, looking thoughtful. "Oh and what really was weird were her eyes." Deidara leaned forward at this, bright blue gaze looking at him expectantly. "She had her bangs covering one eye and at first you assume she had green eyes because that was the color of her right eye but…uh…when….well I got a glimpse of her other eye and it was like a gold color." Kisame finally told him, not wanting to mention being grounded by the small female.

Deidara suddenly slouched down and slammed his palm on the clay bird he had molded, squishing it into a flat shape. Sasori glanced away from his book to look at his blonde friend with a raised eyebrow. Everyone else looked at him as well, curious as to how Deidara knew the female. Everyone looked expectantly at him as he parted his lips to speak. "Well…" He started but never got to finish as the door slid open.

Usually they would ignore the door but it was what the teacher said that caused them to turn to look at the door curiously.

"Ah you must be the new students…where's the third?"

Katherine stared at the teacher, who seemed really…odd. Her amber gaze went blank at the book he was reading. It was one of those...books for the perverted. The teacher had the small orange book in his hand and was looking at Zephyr and herself with one lone silver eye. The other was covered by a headband type thing. What Kat found weird was that a majority of his face was covered by a navy blue mask that went down below his dress shirt. There was something…familiar about him though. She found it greatly unsettling …

"Ah you must be the new students…where's the third?" He asked lazily, lone eye flickering between them. Katherine shrugged, sending a wave down her long inky black ponytail.

Zephyr glanced away from the teacher, feeling some heated stares, and turned to see a group of teens, familiar teens, staring at the two of them from the back of the classroom. Her gray eyes caught sight of her cousin and locked eyes with her. Blue met gray and they stared at each other before Konan hesitantly gave her a small wave. Zephyr blinked before giving her a slight nod and turning back to the teacher to whom Kat was staring at oddly.

Katherine wasn't sure but there was something…about the way his eye twinkled he smiled beneath his mask…that she found eerily familiar. She closed her eyes a moment before letting out a breath. She would remember eventually she decided after a second. Her amber gaze opened and she crossed her arms, giving him her normal blank mask.

"So would you like to introduce and tell a little bit about yourself?" He asked, his eye crinkling at the end, a tell tale sign that he was smiling beneath his mask.

"Sure" Her melodic voice answered. Turning to the front of the room, she kept her arms crossed and scanned across the faces, majorities were new faces but there were some that were recognizable. A smirk played on her lips as she spotted every member of the Akatsuki sitting in the back of the class. Gesturing for Zephyr to go she let her gaze slip across each of their faces, matching them with names.

"Zephyr Stone." The white haired girl spoke, her voice a blank monotone as she stared, uninterested, around at the group of kids. She made a note that there weren't many kids in the class other than the Akatsuki. Her only guess to this would be that they transferred because they were too scared to sit in the same room as the well known gang. "Seventeen years old." She added offhandedly. Her eyes landed on Konan again as she stared once again.

"Mafuyu Stine!" A loud voice chirped, the voice echoing around. Everyone glanced around, except for the teacher and the two girls standing up front. "Er…ouch…AAAAAAAHHHH SPIDER!" the same voice shrieked before a lot of thudding was heard coming from the ceiling.

"Air duct?" Kat muttered, glancing at Zephyr out of the corner of her eye.

"Air duct." She confirmed, sighing slightly.

There were multiple echoing bangs before, finally, a blonde haired female came tumbling out of the ceiling, creating a pretty little hole in it. Coincidentally the blonde happened to land on something pretty sturdy but soft at the same time.

Mafuyu blinked and stared up at the ceiling, trying to figure out where she was. There was dust falling down on her like snow and something squishy beneath her and she felt quite happy to have experience such an awesome stunt. Falling through a ceiling, she would have to do that more often.

"Mafuyu get off Kisame, yeah!" A familiar voice boomed, causing the female to sit up immediately and look around. Currently she was sitting on the stomach of the blue haired male she had attacked earlier. Her green eye glinted as she whipped her head around to see the owner of the voice, Deidara.

"DEIDEI- CHAN!" She shrieked, tackling the blonde haired male to the ground. Mafuyu was planning to squeeze him to death but was promptly pulled up off of him by the collar and hefted into the air. Dangling helplessly, the blonde glanced up to see Kisame, covered in dust and glaring at her angrily. "Ah…fish-chan" she greeted, grinning stupidly at him. "did you want a hug too?" she questioned as she glanced around, twirling her body a bit in the air to get a look at all of the faces. All the Akatsuki stared at her with surprise or a blank stare. Only one seemed to have their face hidden and Mafuyu picked them out right away. "AAAAH GIANT LOLLIPOP!" She shrieked, pointing dramatically at Tobi. If she wasn't being suspended in midair she would have ran but Kisame held her firmly off the ground.

"WHERE!" Tobi shrieked right back at her, whipping his head back and forth, trying to find the giant lollipop.

"THERE!" Mafuyu responded, pointing directly at him.

"TOBI DOESN'T SEE IT!" Tobi complained, freaking out until Madara kicked him in the back of the knee, sending him crumpling to the ground. Mafuyu stared at the fallen giant lollipop before shrugging, twirling herself once again in a circle. It was when she twirled to the front that she saw her two friends standing there, both watching with blank expressions.

"Kitty-chan! Zephyr-chan!" She cheered, planting a foot on a standing chair and flipping herself out of Kisame's grip before making a dash for the black haired female.

Zephyr watched with a blank face as her blonde haired companion fell on top of Kisame, proceeded to tackle Deidara, and finally make Tobi more annoying then he had been. Zephyr watched as Tobi crawled over to the fallen Deidara and proceed to poke him multiple times. It was a wonder that Madara had been able to make him fall without even glancing at him. Actually the Uchiha had been staring at the spot beside her. Glancing out of the corner of her eye, Zephyr caught sight of Kat. Her gray eyes widened slightly at the expression in the females eyes that only her trained eyes could pick up. Katherine was staring back at the Uchiha with a mask that held a few cracks from the looks of it. If she wasn't who she was Zephyr would have told her self she was mistaken at seeing the slight sadness, pain, and…anger? Longing? It was hard to pick out the other emotions…in her eyes. The emotions flickered about before the cracks on the mask were sealed and the stare was blank.

Her gray eyes flickered away quickly to the Akatsuki, plus Mafuyu, to see the other Uchiha's gaze flickering between the two as well. There was a tinge of confusion in his eyes before the emotion vanished just like Kat's, though quicker.

Katherine seemed to right herself, tearing her amber gaze away from Madara as Mafuyu shrieked their names. She watched the blonde break free of the blue haired male's grip and come flying at them. Blinking, the inky black haired female acted quickly, her forearms coming up and crossing each other in an 'x'. The blonde seemed to recognize this symbol and sniffled, skidding to a halt by turning and sliding, with her hands planted on the ground, across the floor, her boots leaving a mark on the white tiles. These stunts would be why she wore bicycle shorts underneath her skirt. She popped up on the other side of Kat and grinned at the teacher who clapped his hands slowly.

"Excellent, now carry on with the introduction." He told them, eye traveling to the hole in the ceiling before returning to his book.

"Right! I'm Mafuyu Stine!" She chirped, saluting to the class with a sloppy grin. Her visible green eye glistening as she looked at Deidara who was getting to his feet after kicking Tobi away from him. "and that is Deidei-chan! My cousin" she explained, grinning from ear to ear at the long haired blonde. She looked at Kat and pointed at her "and lastly…" she started, ushering Katherine to move on.

"Katherine Haruno" the black haired female told the class, who by now were staying far away from the front and back of the room. Kat stared at the Akatsuki, amber eyes gleaming as she smirked. "I transferred here under certain circumstances. I'm sure some of you will be seeing more than you want of me." She told them, a sinister smile dancing across her features.

The Akatsuki from earlier seemed to understand what she had meant before at the mention of her last name. 'Haruno' also the name of two of the most well known outcast members. Strangely they were not looking forward to seeing the circumstances of her transfer.