AUTHORS NOTE
Hi all my awesome readers!
Sorry for not updating on the weekend like I was going to, but I was slightly busy with my grandmothers 81st birthday! I had so much fun!
Anyway, although writing this took longer than I had expected, I hope you enjoy this chapter. I'm hoping to update every weekend at least. But if I can't, I'll try to write more to make up for it.
Whose looking forward to the next chapter of Naruto? I am! I really hope that Kishimoto keeps Itachi alive in it... I really do, it'd be a shame for him to die. Again. Which will be really frustrating for us fans.
Until next time readers, reviewers and all the above!
Apples ^_^
Ultimate-Apples does not own Naruto as however much she wishes to. She does, however own the song Sadness and Sorrow off the Original Naruto Soundtrack and cries whenever she listens to it.
NORMAL POV
The house was silent as I walked in. Weird, usually Cat and Zee were way louder than that. I hope something didn't happen to them.
"Yo brats, I'm home!"
Still complete silence and then I heard some voices that weren't in the house before I left. In fact these voices were incredibly familiar. Were those two watching Naruto Shipudden again? If they were, I wouldn't be surprised. But then again, these two voices sounded like Kisame and Deidara and they sounded like they were actually talking to Cal and Zee, which wasn't possible.
Unless of course these cats were actually the Akatsuki (which would explain their strange behaviour to anything Naruto related), but it just wasn't possible. But to Hades with it, I guess anything was possible.
Walking upstairs with Claude sitting on my shoulder, I noticed steam coming out of them bathroom. When I went to investigate I saw Cal and Zee hiding behind to very familiar men, who were only wearing towels around their middles and amused expressions on their faces. Calypso and Zeta still wore the signs of blushing on their faces. Ooh! Someone just saw their anime crushes completely naked.
Giggling to myself I said, "Oh my holy fucking Jashin of all hell. You have got to be fucking kidding me… They were our cats… HOLY SHIT! Itachi's on my shoulder isn't he."
"Yes he is." Kisame said and then he turned to his partner, "Ah, it's great to be human again. Shame you're not, Itachi."
Itachi just looked at Kisame and rolled his eyes.
"I'm guessing he just said 'hn'. I mean, is that all he says?" Zeta asked the two human Akatsuki members.
"I'm sure he says more than that. Now if you'll excuse me, would you change him back while I get the others?" With that I walked out of the room and Itachi jumped off of my shoulder.
What the hell was going on here? It was like one of those completely crazy fan fictions, yet this was reality.
When I had reached the other cats, they all just looked up at me as I entered. Princess (whom I now knew as Konan) and Garfield the II (I still cannot believe that Zee had ever named the Great God Pein Garfield the II. I bet he was pissed, but he probably didn't even know who in Hades was Garfield) meowed at me, trying to get my attention.
Wondering how I was going to do this, I just said it out loud.
"I know who you guys really are and I'm awfully sorry about the, um, horrible name that we may have given you lot. Please don't kill me." I added as I could see that Kakazu was eyeing me with a look in his eyes that made me shiver.
"It's not entirely my fault, it's Zee and Cal's faults if it's anyone's."
"We take offense to that danna!" I heard Zee shout down at me.
"Stupid supersonic hearing and you call me an ANBU ninja. " I muttered to myself, even though I knew that the ninjas in front of me could hear.
At that moment I could hear footsteps coming from the bathroom and into the room. Turning around I saw Itachi, who was completely naked, bar the towel around his waist covering his manly essentials.
Quickly turning around to hide my blush, I hid my face in my arm.
"Leader-sama, if you and the others go upstairs and get into the bath, you'll turn human." Itachi spoke. Almost immediately the rest of the Akatsuki rushed out the door. All of the Akatsuki besides Konan, who was glaring fiercely at Itachi, who looked impassive as usual; you could see in his eyes the slight amusement, though.
"I'll take you when all the men are finished. I kind of understand how uncomfortable it'd be to be completely starkers in front of six men who happen to be extremely attractive."
"Extremely attractive?" Itachi asked.
"Yeah, you lot have incredibly large fan-bases and they're all growing relatively larger every day." I explained to him. He seemed to be slightly shocked, but then he masked the emotion as if it had never been there in the first place.
Ninjas and their emotions. Nah, scratch that. Make it men and their emotions, whenever they show even the slightest bit of emotion they try to mask it and make it seem like it wasn't even there in the first place. Unlike most girls, who could pretty much fake any emotion if they wanted too.
"As you may have noticed Zee absolutely adores Deidara, whereas Cal loves Kisame to the extreme"
"And you?" I blushed.
"SHE FINDS YOU AND THAT SHARINGAN OF YOURS SUPER-MEGA-FOXY-AWESOME-HOT!"
"Cal I hope you know that you quoted it wrong. It's super-mega-awesome-foxy-hot, dobe."
"I must thank the baka's for announcing to the whole entirety of the Akatsuki that I think that the Uchiha is good looking." I muttered, but Konan and Itachi smirked. Well at least I know the Uchiha smirked, I'm not entirely sure what Konan did.
"Bitches the bath is ready!" It was Hidan who called this down.
"Are you covering up your manhood?"
There was a bark of laughter, but I head numerous shouts of yes and two girlish squeals. Turning to Itachi, I told him to take the male Akatsuki members, Cal and Zee downstairs to the kitchen to wait for me and Konan.
Taking Konan into the bathroom, I placed her into the hot water. Almost automatically there was a loud explosion of smoke and Konan was standing in front of me as I held out a towel in front of me. The first thing I noticed was that she was a bit shorter than me. I was quite tall according to my family's standard height (which was five foot four inches for the females, compared to my five foot nine and a half inches). My twin was about a three or four feet shorter than me and Zee was about her height, as well.
"Thanks for that." Konan said her voice surprisingly quiet. She held a small smile on her face which really suited her, especially since the only expression that I had ever really seen her wear (in both the manga and anime) was those expressionless and incredibly bored ones.
"No problem. I'll get you some clothes, though the pants might be a bit long."
I led her back into my room and started to look for some clothes for her. Giving her some options, she finally decided on a pair of black skinny leg jeans, a bright blue t-shirt with silver butterflies on it and a black leather jacket.
"Nice," I said when she was finally wearing "those clothes really suit you."
She gave a faint blush, like she wasn't used to receiving complements. She probably wasn't, unless of course Nagato gave her complements, which he probably didn't. I know for a fact that male childhood friends don't really do well with the complements department.
When we went into the kitchen, Konan and I were met with an incredibly strange scene. The rest of the Akatsuki were watching the kids channel on the TV, with Cal and Zee silently laughing in the background. I rolled my eyes at their complete childishness and proceeded to look at exactly what they were watching.
They were watching Sesame Street, which I found really quite amusing, especially since they seemed shocked that there was such a thing as a Grouch and that one lived in a rubbish bin.
I had also noticed that Cal and Zee had gone through some of Hyperion and Susanoo's old clothes and presented them to the Akatsuki. Hidan was wearing a t-shirt that used to be owned by Hyperion, before our mother told him to throw it away because of the 'obscenities' on the shirt. It had a large hand on it, with the finger sticking up and it read bellow it 'F U'. I almost giggled, the perfect t-shirt for a man whose vocabulary was severely lacking in words that did not begin with 'f' and end in 'k'.
"Great t-shirt for Hidan! Where'd you find it?" I asked Cal, expecting her to answer. Instead it was Zee who answered, with a faint blush on her face.
"Hyperion may have given it to me after…one night." Cal and I shuddered, still not daring to believe that Zee had ever dated (and, I shudder to think of it) and had sex.
"Too much information Zee, you never tell your ex-boyfriends sisters, who happen to think of you as a sister, that you may have spent some time in his bedroom occupying yourselves." I muttered.
"'Ear, 'ear!" Cal shuddered.
Hearing a shout of laughter, we saw that the Akatsuki was looking at both Cal and I, smirking. After the Akatsuki stopped laughing (or at least until the ones that actually laughed stopped laughing), Pein came over to us girls and his childhood friend. I didn't really feel intimidated, but I knew that I probably should have.
"How do you know who we are?" I swear I could see Zee and Cal gulp.
"The Akatsuki, as in you guys, are from an manga and anime series about Naruto, who is the nine-tails holder. You are basically the bad guy, with incredibly large fan-bases in this world. Um, what else? Oh yeah, I know some things about some people, but I'm not telling anybody anything, as they are the persons secrets. I'm not entirely sure that they'd want me blabbing it to everybody."
I had noticed that Tobi had become tense when I had mentioned that some people had secrets, but had relaxed when I said that I wouldn't go blabbing to people. Kakazu, however was more than suspicious.
"What kind of secrets?"
"Secrets of life and death, Kakazu." I mean, they really were. Madara would totally kill me, Zee, Cal and my whole entire family and make it look like a complete accident.
He took that as a fair enough answer, so did Tobi, as I could see him nodding his head. But on the other hand, he could have been nodding his head at Deidara, who was arguing with Sasori about what art is.
"Just a quick question for you Pein-sama, but do you ever get tired of those two artists arguing about what art is?" Zee face palmed and Cal threw me an exasperated look.
The two girls knew what I felt about art and what I felt about it was very strong. You could say that I was like Sasori and Deidara in that aspect, as I completely threw myself into my art, which (by the way) were mostly drawings (with some paintings along the way).
"Please Leader, sir, don't get her started… please just don't get her started!" Zee pleaded, but I don't think Pein really got the picture (of which I am thankful for).
"Yes, I do in fact get tired of them arguing about art." I just smirked evilly; the rest of the Akatsuki wouldn't know what had hit them, now that three incredibly thorough artists lived in the same building.
"Pein, you really do not want to know what you just got us in for. Now you have two ridiculously obsessed art ninjas and an Irish dancing artist. Now they're all going to be arguing!" Cal growled, actually growled, at Pein. Sighing in frustration, she went to sit down in front of the TV, angrily grabbing the remote and switching the channel.
"You're an artist, un?" Deidara actually stopped his disagreement with Sasori and both men had turned to face me.
"Yeah, as you've probably seen, most of the walls in this house have paintings on them. They're the ones that I've done, though I have blown a few of the up. The longest one that's been up there is about ten years old and it's staying up there forever, if I can help it."
There, I had just addressed both of the shinobis arts and my own, all in one hit. They seemed to notice this as well, but they just kind of stared at me and nodded, going back to arguing with each other.
"Holy fucking hell! You just managed to argue with Sasori and Deidara and you didn't get blown up or poisoned!" Zee gasped, her hand coering her mouth.
"Immature brat." I muttered, shaking my head. I saw Kakazu nod out of the corner of my eye, seems like he agreed with me.
"Right, so Leader-sama, I'd just like to lay down some rules. Firstly, no killing, maiming or injuring of any kind. Secondly, no ninjutsu or genjutsu, taijutsu is fine, it's like the martial arts anyway. Thirdly, no sacrificing people to Lord Jashin, Hidan. I'm sure he'll understand. Fourth, this is our house, so there will have to be some room arrangements. Is that alright?" This was Cal speaking, using her sensible side for once. Pein nodded and indicated towards the others that they should do the same.
"Um, let's see. Zetsu and Tobi can sleep in the lounge. Pein-sama and Konan can sleep in mum and dad's room, Deidara and Sasori how about you sleep in the spare and Itachi and Kisame can sleep in Zee's room."
"Hold up, danna! Not wanting to be rude or anything, but why do Weasel and Shark get to sleep in my room?"
"Because I don't think that they'd appreciate sleeping in Cal's room, especially the way it is now." Cal blushed.
We had almost finished renovating Cal's room, but the general idea of it was that it was blue, gold and looked like it had been invaded by a load of exploding Kisame Hoshigaki's.
"Hidan and Kakazu can sleep in my bedroom, while we'll bunk in Cal's." I continued. There wasn't anything in my room that was really that embarrassing, so I'd be fine with letting them stay in my room, just as long as they didn't destroy anything of mine or there'd be hell to pay.
The only really embarrassing room in the house was Cal's and we weren't going to let anybody in there without her permission, unless we wanted to embarrass both her and Kisame (as I'm sure there are quite a few almost naked pictures of him hanging on her wall).
"That sounds reasonable. Would you be able to show us to our rooms?" Konan asked and we nodded, but not before Cal had run towards her bedroom and slammed close the door, arms spreading over it and standing tall in front of it, an expression of embarrassment on it.
"What's in there that she doesn't want us to see?" Kisame asked. Trust him to ask that question.
"Too embarrassing to say." Cal muttered, still blushing.
"What is it? Naked fuckking pictures?" Hidan asked, sniggering. Call's answer didn't only shock him, put all of the other Akatsuki members.
"Close enough to it."