O is for October
and
October is for Friday the thirteenth
Naruto/Akatsuki (c) Masashi Kishimoto
Original Characters (c) me
It was friday, October the thirteenth and only a couple of weeks away from Halloween. From old folk tales and superstitions, Friday the 13th was always seen as, unlucky. Of course, not everyone believed that though and I for one, did not. It was probably just a random story someone told someone else a really, really long time ago to scare them and it just got passed down... but then again, a lot of unlucky things happen on the 13th including fatalities. I shuttered and pushed the thought out of my mind as the very last bell rang. It was Friday, Friday's weren't supposed to be unlucky. I grabbed my books and headed outside the classroom where I saw Deidara, Sasori and Kisame all following Tobi down the hallway.
"Hey Tobi, guess what today is?" Kisame teased
Tobi looked over to Kisame who was holding back a mischievous smile, "What day is it? Please tell Tobi" he pleaded
"Today is Friday the thirteenth Tobi, un" Deidara caught up with Kisame and was now joining in
"Yes Tobi, and do you know what that means?" Sasori snuck up behind Tobi and hung a pair of ghastly looking puppets in front of him.
"It means, tonight, when you're asleep in your bed all warm and cuddly..." Kisame started
"a guy with an axe will come through your window and-" Deidara began to continue but was interrupted
"stop scaring Tobi guys" I slapped Deidara in the back of the head
Tobi had curled up into a ball and was rocking back and forth, hyperventilating and chanting something incoherent.
"It's okay Tobi, they're just kidding" I comforted
Kisame, Deidara and Sasori all leaned down next to Tobi, "OR ARE WE?" they laughed and walked away.
"I assure you Tobi, nobody with an axe will jump into your bedroom and- nevermind" I sighed, picked up my books and continued to make my way outside. After struggling, pushing, shoving, crawling and jumping over people I managed to get outside without getting pummeled. It was fairly gloomy outside, with darkly colored clouds looming over the school. A random black cat made its way over to me while I sat on a bench right outside the school, it was pretty friendly for a stray and it welcomed itself over to my lap. I began to pet it when I heard a disturbing sound behind me, I turned around to notice Hidan rummaging his way through the crowd of students. He was pushing and shoving other kids out the way and shouting out random profanities here and there. He stumbled out, shaking his fists at a couple of annoyed kids who apparently were quite annoyed by his behaviour. Hidan looked over at me and immediately jumped back, pointing his Scythe at the cat that was curled up on my lap.
"what the hell is that?"
"uh, a cat" I paused for a second, starring weirdly at him, until it hit me "wait- don't tell me you're superstitious"
"just, get that damn thing away from me or else I'll-"
"Or else you'll do what?" I smirked, picking up the cat and walking towards him with it.
Hidan began to back away, "Hey! I swear I'll sacrifice that fucking cat to Jashin if you don't stop!"
I laughed, "I harmless kitty can't hurt you, get over here so it can give you a great big kiss!" I began to make childish kissing noises as I chased Hidan around the school yard.
Something caught the corner of my eye and I stopped, letting the cat go, I blocked out Hidan's yelling as I noticed Tobi sitting on the field playing with a football.
"You're gonna get it, Nao! I swear I'm-"
I began to walk towards Tobi, ignoring Hidan completely.
"Hey! don't you walk away from me!" Hidan shouted, trailing closely behind me.
I leaned over Tobi's shoulder, even though he was completely oblivious to my presence, "wanna play?" I asked, grabbing the football in mid air before it came back down to his hands. Tobi turned around, and by his actions he definitely wanted me to throw it, "go long Tobi!" I shouted and threw the football deeper into the field and watched him jump and fail miserably as it slipped through his hands and bounced away. I looked over to Hidan, who was standing behind me with his arms crossed, "come join us" I said tugging his shirt.
"I'd rather die"
"don't be such a stick in the mud" I complained, catching the football Tobi returned to me.
"yeah well, go fuck your-"
Hidan was cut short of his insult as I whipped the ball at his head, serves him right for not paying attention. The impact from the ball made him topple over and there stood Deidara, pointing and laughing. Deidara trotted over and picked up the ball, throwing it back at Tobi who, this time caught it. Hidan looked like he was about to explode, "you all piss me off to no end!" he shouted, grabbing his scythe and lifting himself up off the ground.
"you talk too much Hidan" Kisame smirked, and behind him came Kakuzu, Itachi and Sasori.
"I know!" Tobi shouted, dropping the ball and throwing his fists in the air, "let's play football"
"yes, let's play" Hidan replied, "TO THE DEATH"
"what? no way!" I frowned, but was quickly overpowered.
"sounds good to me" came Pein and Konan and then Zetsu, and with that everyone piled into the field
I quickly called dibs on referee while everyone else separated themselves into groups. I clutched a whistle in my hand as everyone got into position. I wanted to tell them that there should be no use of weapons or powerful ninjutsu, but it was too late. The war had already begun.
At first, it seemed to be going pretty well , everyone was abiding by the rules and it wasn't even leaning towards too much tackle, until Deidara set off a bomb while the other team was about to score. It was all hell after that.
"You cocksucker! We were about to score!" Hidan began to swing around his scythe, aiming for Deidara. Pein managed to restrain him and they lined up in their positions again. Everyone had a very mischievous glow about them, as if they all had their own plan. The game started again, and there was Sasori, off with the ball, dodging and evading. However, up came Kisame who was considerably faster than Sasori, seeing their height differences. Before Kisame could tackle Sasori he threw the ball to Tobi, guiding it with chakra strings. Tobi was about to jump up and grab the ball when Deidara also jumped up, kicking Tobi square in the face. And it was gone again, in the opposite direction, Deidara tightly clutching the ball under his arm as he made his way to the goal. Itachi however kept a close eye on Deidara who was only a few meters away from scoring a goal, he quickly seized Deidara in a genjutsu which confused Deidara into thinking that the goal he was supposed to score on was the other way, and this he began to run towards his own goal.
"Deidara you fucktard! You're going the wrong way!" Hidan cursed
"Hidan!" yelled Konan from the other end of the field, "It's Itachi, get Itachi!"
Hidan looked over at Itachi, who was standing in the middle of the field, fixated on Deidara. Hidan began to run towards Itachi, Scythe up and ready to strike but just before he could make his blow Tobi came tumbling in, taking Hidan with him. Fortunately Hidan was able to grab Itachi's shirt and all three of them landed on the ground with a thud, the genjutsu released. Deidara stood dazed and Kakuzu quickly swiped the ball away making up great distance quickly and to the other goal. Zetsu appeared from the ground however, grabbing Kakuzu's leg before it reached the goal and managed to trip him while Konan swiped it up off the ground, sprouted her origami wings and made her way to the opposite goal. There awaited Pein, it was an intense moment as Konan stealthy flew closer and closer ready to dodge whatever got thrown in her path when-
"SHENRA TENSEI"
everything within range of Pein's jutsu got repelled, including everyone on the field who was now piled up along the fence of the school field. Everyone groaned and dusted themselves off,
"Thank a lot, un" Deidara complained.
The ball had gone flying in an irregular manner and had landed inside the school, shattering one of the windows. The sound of glass breaking echoed through the building and into the field and everyone stopped talking.
"Someone's going to be in trouuuble!" Tobi pointed at the broken window.
I quickly swung around and headed for the school where I peered inside. There was no sign of the ball, but there was plenty of broken glass. I motioned for everyone to come and soon they had all gathered around the window, looking into the now dark school.
"I'm not paying for that" Kakuzu frowned
"Nobody asked you to" Sasori shot back
"well we should at least retrieve the ball" Konan suggested, "the janitor seems to have left already so I don't think we'll be spotted"
I started to rid of the remaining of the glass around the window, and managed to climb inside. Everything was dark, and I couldn't see a thing. I began to crawl on my hands and knees, searching for the ball but, nothing.
"I can't find it" I shouted
"Tobi will help you" Tobi hopped over the window sill and immediately began to search as well, "hey wait! I think I've found it" Tobi cried out.
"Tobi, that's my head"
"oh"
There was silence for a few minutes and I returned to the window and shook my head in dissapointment, "nothing"
"Hey Tobi!" Pein shouted, "did you find anything?"
There was no answer.
"Tobi?"
Tobi did not answer, in fact his chakra couldn't even be felt and I began to get worried, "what happened to Tobi?"
A ghastly noise echoed from within the school, making us all shutter, "fuck this, I'm not going in there!" Hidan began to leave
"no you're not, you're coming" I grabbed Hidan's shirt, tearing it in the process as I dragged him inside
"great! now look what you did" Hidan looked at the ripped shirt and since we were still standing by the window, eyesight was still perfect. Hidan began to strip of his top, "thank Jashin, that's better" he threw the shirts into a half visible trashcan, "damn shirts are annoying"
I stood there, a light brush of pink coated my cheeks, "Hidan, you have to know that you can't just start ripping your clothes off whenever you feel like it" Pein protested.
Hidan mumbled a few profanities before pointing a finger at them all, "oh yeah? watch me!-"
Another ghastly howl echoed through the hallways and I leaned back against the open window, a white figure began to appear at the end of the hallway, a very light glow radiated from it's body. Hidan picked up his Scythe and pointed it at the figure, stepping in front of me in a defensive stance. I felt kind of stupid and helpless at this point and I almost wanted to shove Hidan out of the way, but instead I let him flaunt his ego as much as his body. The white figure did not move and Hidan was getting impatient.
"Hey!" Hidan yelled, "show yourself!"
There was no answer, just light ghostly moans in the background.
"Hidan, wait don't-" I wanted to tell him not to go yet but, it was too late. Hidan was already off running down the hallway, while everyone else still peered through the window. All you could hear was a stumble and a few 'ouch's' and then Hidan yelling and screaming.
"Tobi! I'm going to fucking kill you!"
I started laughing, so it was Tobi all along. under a sheet! I'm sure everyone felt utterly stupid as they all frowned and wiped the sweat off their forheads, Kisame, Deidara and Sasori especially.
"Tobi tricked you all!" Tobi laughed and skipped down the hallway towards us holding the football with Hidan not too far behind.
"Well, atleast it was only you To-" I stopped and looked at the Football that Tobi was carrying, the football had 'Get Out' enscribed on it in a sickly manner, "Tobi did you write that on there?" I pointed.
"No, Tobi didn't do that"
We all starred at eachother for a moment and then scrambled out the school and into the field once more, Tobi had dropped and left the ball inside. Everyone was breathing heavily as I looked back at the window and pointed at a ghastly, truely glowing, real looking, grotesque figure in the window of the school.
And then we all ran like hell.
I had fun with this chapter. In the next couple of chapters I'm going to have them end up back at the school on Halloween, it will be fun! muahahahaaa.
Anyways, this chapter was delayed alittle bit, simply because I couldn't think of anything humorous enough so I waited xD
( chapter seven tomorrow, or atleast the day after tomorrow )
( oh and no spell check this time, it's 2:24 am and I'm too lazy to even read it over )