Katsusaki stared at the lunchroom, looking positively horror stricken. She couldn't see her blue haired friend or her orange haired boyfriend anywhere. Was she really being stood up by jerks already? She had been almost sure that Konan wasn't like that at all, not in the slightest.

She jumped when someone tapped her on the shoulder. She spun around, and was immensely surprised to see Konan there, grinning at her.

"I forgot to tell you!" She had to yell over the screams and call's and laughter of all of the other teenagers in the lunch room. "We don't eat in the lunch room! Come-on!" Konan grasped Katsusaki's hand and began to pull her out of the lunch room until they were in the hall and the door closed behind them, muffling the sound. She looked at Katsu, an amused look on her face. "I think it's a bit obvious why we don't. It's so loud." She made an annoyed face and Katsu laughed, mostly because she was relieved that she would actually have someone to sit with instead of standing around like an idiot for several long minuets.

"Well, then, where do you guys eat?" Katsu asked curiously. Konan grinned.

"You'll see."

Katsu was surprised when the blue haired girl led her up a flight of stairs that she had not seen on the map. When Katsu was beginning to look nervous Konan was quick to explain.

"It's the old part of the building. The old science wing, actually. The teacher's don't use it anymore because the new science wing has better equipment," Konan said easily, a pretty smile on her face. "It's kind of like our own little hide out, right?" She asked laughingly.

Katsu suddenly realized she recognized this area. This was where Tobi had dragged her when she got lost. She tilted her head slightly in curiosity as she spotted the map on the wall. Now that she thought about it, it had a little extra bit on it that wasn't on the map Mr. Hatake, her English teacher had given her.

Konan walked into one of the classrooms, but Katsusaki didn't see anyone else around. She looked confused and Konan giggled. She walked to what Katsu thought was supposed to be supply closet, but when the blue haired girl opened the door it turned out to be another stairwell, this time going down.

"When the contractors built the place they messed up slightly and ended up making an extra room and a stairway from here leading down into it. They accidentally sealed it off, and ever since no one has bothered to fix it. Maybe even forgot about it.

"My friend Itachi found it in his freshmen year, and when he met us he showed us all here. Ever since then we have eaten lunch here," Konan explained as she walked down the stairs, Katsusaki fallowing closely behind in the dark. "Before we got down here it had been really dusty and used for storage, so we cleaned it out and fixed it up!" She announced happily. Katsu heard her fiddling with a doorknob before suddenly, a door at the bottom was thrown open and on the other side was a rather bright room. Katsu's assaulted pupil's dilated painfully and she squinted.

"Konan! Tobi needs help!"

Katsu knew the second she heard that voice who it was. She opened her eyes wider once adjusted just as Konan walked inside the room. Now that she wasn't blocking her view, Katsu was greeted with the sight of a normal looking classroom. There were windows, though they weren't the most clean and faced the very back of the school, out into the forest where no one would ever notice. There were old desk's, most of them carved into, in disrepair; desk's that the school wouldn't want to even use any more.

There wasn't a white board or a chalk board up on the wall, but an old spinning board, one side for chalk and one side a white board pushed against the back wall. The walls were colored the light green and the white color the entire school sported.

The room, however, held nine people otherwise. Six of which she recognized. Itachi; who she remembered Konan had said found the room (she had curious as to whether it was her photography partner or not.) The red head boy with the brown eyes who had been Kakuzu's partner (she recalled Shizune had said his name was Sasori), Kakuzu; still wearing his checked bandana, Pein; Konan's boyfriend; Konan, obviously; and finally Tobi, who was running around in circles like a chicken with its head chopped off.

The three she didn't recognize was a tall, pale boy with yellow-silver eyes who was sporting grass-green hair; a tall, muscle-y guy, also extremely pale with shockingly silver hair and pale violet eyes; and once more, another tall boy with, this time, bright blue hair and dark blue eyes.

"Hidan!" Konan scolded, sounding very motherly, "stop picking on Tobi!"

"Whatever," the silver haired guy said, waving his hand dismissively. His attention had traveled elsewhere, towards Katsu, actually, who was still standing cautiously in the doorway. She was staring at everyone with wide eyes, her lips pursed. He smirked dangerously and Katsusaki had the sudden urge to vomit; she was so nervous by his stare. "Who are you?" He asked, sounding very… smooth.

A vein in Konan's temple bulged. She attacked Hidan with a rolled up newspaper, that of which Katsu was very suspicious as to where it had come from.

"You pig!" She shrieked while he yelped, trying to bat her away. Finally, he had to give up and just run from her fury. Tobi began laughing, clapping his hands together childishly.

"Zetsu, Kisame," Itachi gathered the blue haired boy's and the green haired boy's attention. "This is my Photography partner, Katsusaki," Itachi introduced. He turned to Katsu, who was still looking extremely hesitant. "This," he gestured the blue haired boy, "is Kisame, and this," he pointed to the green haired boy "is Zetsu."

"Hi," Katsu said meekly. She jumped when Kisame laughed, his voice booming.

"Don't look so scared. I don't bite—hard." He laughed at his own joke. Katsu couldn't help the small smile that landed on her lips, making him grin, baring very white teeth, and extremely sharp (but not extended) canines. Something about him seemed almost… shark like. Maybe it was his sharp, gaunt features, or his rippling muscles. She had no idea, but whatever it was, it was frightening.

"Konan told us about you," Zetsu said softly, a tiny, meek smile on his face. "She said that you told her you'd already met most of us."

"Ah, yeah," Katsu nodded and smiled at him. She blushed a tiny bit as she forced herself to actually enter to room, rather than standing in the door way all day. The door she had been holding open clicked shut, and she very suddenly felt very much trapped.

"Ah, well, sorry about that," Konan said, Hidan twitched as he hid behind a desk, away from her. She gestured at the silver haired boy. "That's Hidan." Katsusaki didn't bother telling her that she had already figured that out. She turned around the entire group.

"Guy's, this is 'Saki. Be nice, kay?" Konan giggled, then hopped over to what Katsu assumed was her backpack and began fishing around inside. When she pulled back, she had a sandwich in hand and Hidan had decided he'd rather not cower behind a desk all day.

"Why the hell is she here, anyway?" Hidan barked, annoyance on his face. Well, at least until he was looking at Katsu again, a smirk on his face.

"She's my new friend!" Konan announced. "And now she's yours, too." A laugh escaped her lips and a slight look of annoyance appeared on Pein's face.

"Konan, we need to talk," he said. His voice was deep and almost threatening, but Konan didn't look the least bit worried. The two escaped up the stairs and Hidan rolled his eyes, annoyed, as Katsu sat down in one of the desk's and dragged both Itachi's and her own notebook from her messenger style bag. She swiftly began to copy down her notes.

"So, Katsu…" Kisame began, catching her attention. She looked up, her mint green eyes wide with curiosity. "What's your next class?" He asked, still grinning. She grasped her schedule and looked at the sixth hour class.

"Myths and Legends with Yuhi," she announced. Zetsu seemed to brighten suddenly, much like a plant that was getting both water and sun for the first time in a long while.

"I have that next as well," Zetsu said softly, smiling pleasantly. Katsu smiled, too, hoping that she would get to sit next to this new friend (hopefully) in her next class. Someone she'd know before she even stepped into the class room.

"I do, too, dipshit," Hidan growled, crossing his arms. Upset because the attention wasn't on him, Katsu decided. Zetsu's eyes flashed and he glared viciously at Hidan. The sudden emotion difference shocked Katsu into widening her eyes.

"Call me a dipshit again, dipshit, and I'll punch you so hard you'll have to wear dentures," he growled smoothly, a small, evil smirk on his face

"Wh-what…?" Katsu asked, looking at Kisame, begging for an answer. He laughed as Zetsu blushed and ducked his head while Hidan pouted angrily.

"He's a Gemini," Kisame said, his voice strained as if holding back a heavy laugh.

"Ah, sorry, Katsu," Zetsu said bashfully. She decided then that she never wanted to get on Zetsu's bad side, because his bad side… well, horrible side was more like it.

In the science class room above that one Pein was looking at Konan who waited patiently for him to start talking.

"You can't just bring people along to 'hang out' whenever you want, you know."

"Everyone else seems to like her," Konan said swiftly, knelling all of the arguments currently on his mind. Frustrated, he struggled to think of a comeback.

"But you didn't know they would. We can't talk about out club with her there, or the things we might be doing."

"Then invite her into the club!" Konan cheered; a delicate smile on her face. Pein narrowed his eyes, struggling to think with her smiling like that.

"We can't. We don't know her; she could go off telling everyone about us. Our secrets."

"She doesn't have any other friends, Pein. And she doesn't know our secrets!" She grinned, flashing her white teeth. Pein took a deep breath in through his nose.

"If she was a part of the club, she would."

"Well, I will make sure she doesn't." Konan nodded, her sense rattling his brain. He hated it when she was right; it drove him crazy. It was as good as gone on his part.

"Fine," Pein spat. Konan laughed and wrapped her arms around him, giving him a tight hug.

"Thank you, so much! You have no idea what it means to me, to have another girl to talk to!" She cheered. Pein felt slightly guilty for that, like one of those controlling boyfriends that didn't allow their girlfriends to have other people to talk to. It was long overdue that she have a girlfriend. He couldn't stop the smile at seeing her happiness as she bounced back down the steps to tell her new friend the news.

When Konan opened the door, she was only mildly surprised to find her chatting amiably with Zetsu and Kisame. The two were exceptionally nice people, despite their inane hair colors. Hidan was sitting to her right, arms crossed and pouting, despite the fact that he seemed to be listening. She knew that they would all jump at the chance to get to know this girl. Well, at least, the most outgoing of the group would. She was cute, with her auburn hair cut short and her smile wide as she listened to Kisame explain something. His happiness was incredibly infectious when he was throwing his arms around as if he were performing some kind of whole bodily puppet show, just to explain.

"Well, when he doesn't like people, he's usually really cruel about it. But otherwise he's a pretty awesome guy, right, Zetsu?" Kisame laughed, nudging the green haired boy. He blushed bright pink and ducked his head.

"I guess so…" He murmured and Katsu giggled. Konan could tell that she belonged here, in their little group of misfit's. She fit perfectly, like a puzzle piece. She had easy connections to all of the people in the room; she just didn't know it yet.

"Hey, 'Saki!" Konan yelped, jumping over to her table. Her paper flower wobbled and almost fell out from behind her ear, but she quickly fixed it. The red head looked up at her, her head tilted in curiosity. "Do you want to come over to my place tonight?" She asked.

"Uh, sure," she said happily.

Katsusaki had never imagined that she might be this lucky, to be able to find so many friends so quickly. She definitely didn't expect to be invited to someone's house already.

"Great!" Konan laughed. The bell rang just then, surprising Katsu. She bit her lip and quickly put away her notebooks and gathered her things. She wished she could have gotten more notes written down over her lunch period. She realized, as well, that she hadn't gotten the chance to eat. "Here's my address and my cell phone number, just in case." Konan handed her a piece of paper with the promised things written on it. Katsu thanked her and placed it into her messenger bag.

Between everything, walking down to the lunch from only to realize she had to go all of the way to a different part of the school, watching Hidan being beating by Konan with a newspaper, and then talking to both Kisame and Zetsu, she felt like she found somewhere she could really belong.

"I'll walk with you to our next class, okay, Katsu?" Zetsu stepped into place next to Mo and she nodded, a happy smile on her face.

"That sounds great," she answered truthfully. Zetsu blushed and grabbed his own backpack before the two were the first to rush up the stairs. Once they were out in the hall, they heard Hidan calling after them with annoyance.

"Idiot," Zetsu growled darkly, suddenly becoming very frightening. It was gone after he glared at the offending violet eyed student as he stepped out into the hall next to the pair.

"I fucking told you, I have the same damn class you guys have." Hidan scowled and wrinkled his nose. "The least you could fucking do is wait the hell up."

"Hidan, your mouth is getting on my nerve's," Zetsu growled. Katsu sighed as they began walking to their next class, already having gone ahead of her, too lost in their argument. "Maybe I could help us all out by sewing it shut."

Katsusaki quickly fallowed them, unable to help the laugh that escaped her lips. Zetsu and Hidan looked back at her, Zetsu's expression softening and Hidan's transforming into a smug look.

"What the hell are you laughing at?" Hidan asked, seemingly annoyed.

"Ah, nothing, I guess. Let's hurry up. I don't want to be late."

When they arrived at Ms. Yuhi's classroom she raised a dark eyebrow at Hidan.

"Huh. Seems we're on time for once," she said, while crossing her arms over her rather large bust. Hidan grinned wolfishly at the red eyed woman, making her scowl slightly.

"Anything for you, Ms. Yuhi," he purred. She rolled her eyes.

"That is inappropriate, Hidan. Have a seat." Hidan started towards the sliding chair behind her desk. "Not there, Hidan," she growled, jabbing a frustrated finger towards the desk's lined up across the room. "There."

Hidan sighed, and Katsu would have been convinced that he was truly disappointed, had he not been smirking. "Right, babe."

"Detention, Hidan. And thankfully not with me. You'll be reporting to the office after school, understood?" She didn't wait for a reply. "Perfect. Won't see you then." Her red eyes turned on Katsusaki as Hidan laughed to himself and took a seat at the back of the classroom. Zetsu had taken his own seat a long while ago, somewhere around the center of the room. Ms. Yuhi's expression changed the moment she saw the red head, and she smiled.

"You must be the new student," she said nicely, a pretty smile underneath her painted lips. "I'm Kurenai Yuhi, but you'll be calling me Ms. Yuhi, like every other kid here," that was aimed at Hidan "for the remainder of the year. Have a seat."

Sadly, Katsu wasn't seated next to her new friends. When she had turned she had been giving them both hopeful looks, but Ms. Yuhi had pointed her towards a seat in the front. She took her seat without complaint, however, and Hidan seemed as if he didn't really care all that much either way. Zetsu, however, gave her an apologetic look when she glanced back at him and she smiled thankfully, happy that he had actually wanted to sit next to her.

"Alright guys. Let's go."

They were right in the middle of a new unit; Japanese myths and legends. However, they had already gotten past most of the birth of the land, and Yomi, the 'shadowy land of the dead,' and were moving onto the Sun, the Moon and the Sea.

It was a strange idea. Every time Izanagi dropped an article of clothing after returning from Yomi, a deity was born. When he went to go cleanse himself in the river, more deity's were born. The most important, Ms. Yuhi explained, were Amaterasu, the 'incarnation of the sun' (from his left eye), Tsukuyomi, the 'incarnation of the moon' (from his right eyes), and Susanoo, 'incarnation of the storms, and ruler of the sea and storms' (from his nose). Izanagi separated the worlds for the three gods to inherit. Amaterasu claimed the heaven's, Tsukuyomi claimed the night and the moon, and Susanoo taking the sea, the storms on most occasions, and sometimes even the sand (but only very rarely).

Katsusaki Mo found it interesting. She had always loved hearing the myths and legends of places, what the people before the people there now thought, and Japan was definitely an interesting place.

When the bell rang she had stepped up to the front of the room and asked what she would have to go over before the test when they were finished. Ms. Yuhi had looked a bit lost for a moment before she began shuffling through her desk.

"Ah, I completely forgot that I would have to get you some notes!" She trilled. Katsu froze, unsure of what to do.

"Ms. Yuhi? If it isn't a problem, I don't mind sharing my notes with Katsu."

Katsu jumped and spun around, before being relieved to find Zetsu standing there. He looked a little tired, his polite Zetsu-ness turned off. He had his hands in his pockets and his tall form was slumped slightly. Both Ms. Yuhi and Katsu shot him a grateful look.

"Thank you, Zetsu," Ms. Yuhi muttered and he nodded.

"Alright." Zetsu smiled at Katsu as he led her out of the class room. "What's your next class?"

"Art. Drawing and painting." Katsu glanced around, a strange look on her face as she searched the hallway. Zetsu shot her a curious look. "Hey, where… where did Hidan go?" She asked, a small frown on her face. Zetsu looked around as well.

"He has gym class last hour, and every time he's late Mr. Guy goes off on a tangent about being youthful and chases him around the room until he gives him a hug." Zetsu made an interesting face after saying that, and Katsu couldn't help but laugh.

"What do you have next?" Katsu asked with a curious look on her face. Zetsu blushed a little as he spoke.

"Just Algebra 2; nothing special." Zetsu shrugged his shoulders and Katsu's face dropped.

"I suppose being by myself in art isn't too bad. At least it's a class I don't mind focusing on." Mo adapted a thoughtful face and Zetsu laughed.

"Well, I know Sasori and Deidara have drawing and painting last hour. But I don't know if they have the same teacher you do," Zetsu said thoughtfully while Katsu tilted her head, her eyebrows scrunching together.

"Who's Deidara?"

Zetsu laughed and shook his head. "You'll find out eventually." Katsu pursed her lips but shrugged when she decided she didn't really care at the moment. Her first day of school was almost over, and it had gone better than she ever expected it would have. She had made friends she hoped she would never forget, and could only wish would never forget her.


A/U: Hey, guess who got grounded?

Tch, well, it definately wasn't me... Anyway, I don't remember if I had said this or not, and I don't want to check, but I want to explain for those who may or may not think that Katsusaki Mo is a Mary-Sue. At first, when creating her I was immensly afraid that someone would start telling me she sucks because she seems like a Mary-Sue, but that's not my intention.

I will explain. In my opinion, when there is a new kid in school, people will often times be drawn to them to lay their claims. Akatsuki is basically laying their claim. Also, Hidan is a player. XD I know Itachi seems to talk a bit more than what would be usual, but remember, this is an AU and I will struggle to keep him in character, but I also feel that people will be changed based on the universe they will be placed in. Also, first bonding section is next chapter! Yay!

Anyway, sorry for the wait, those of you who were waiting.

Ninja Trio's Best: I will do my absolute GRANDEST to make sure that your one-shot is completed, but I would like to, uhm, say... That I suck at putting Itachi and Sasuke together without agnst. As well, I am not the best at comedy. However, I will try my hardest to make it something that you are expecting, and I will try to inform you when it is out! :D Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed this.

One last thing. I don't PM for a reason. To tell the truth, I'm advertising right now. Those of you who are intrested might check the next story I publish and try to be the first to comment! Also, perhaps, I might do some kind of competition where someone might get to, I don't know, choose the romantic intrest for my next story... or co-write a story-line... or co-write a character... hey, you never know!

Anyway, thank you- and good-morning, good-day, good-afternoon, good-night; respectively-to those who bothered to read all the way through this.