Chapter 6: Blackout!
With the suspension of Fire, Deidara, and I, we were back at school, as was Hidan. I never thought I'd say this, but I was happy to see that Ms. Dignem was back. I'm sure everyone was as happy as you can fucking get that Mrs. Oatmeal was gone. I hoped I'd never have to see her again. . . ever. It was a stormy day out, thunder booming and lightning flashing, rain coming down in torrents. I enjoyed storms like this, which just made my first day back from suspension (that our parents didn't find out about) even better.
Math was actually nice. . . it's a miracle! Tobi wasn't there! Until about ten minutes before the bell. Greeeaaaaaat. He sat down beside me after giving his late slip to the teacher.
"Tobi is sorry that Tobi is late to math class Mel-Chan!" he said to me. I sighed and shook my head, letting it drop to the desk. I hated math, but it was my best subject. . . it always has been. I wasn't sure why he called me 'Mel-Chan', as he just called Fire, Fire. When the bell rang, Tobi was still talking, and I was still ignoring him, finished my math homework. I jumped up and jogged out of the classroom and to the gym, eager to get away from Tobi. Konan, Fire, and I were all seated in the gym waiting for the teacher and talking about random shit when the teacher came in and the class started. We were playing badminton, and Fire, Konan, and I were put on a team together.
We were having a lot of fun when the lights went out. All of them. And it being the gym, there were no windows. Most of the girls in the gym screamed, except us three. The birdie that had been flying towards me in the game smacked me in the face and above the screaming you could hear my yell.
"OW! That hurt" I complained. I cursed as the girls continued to scream and Fire and Konan yelled at them. I joined in yelling as the teacher came in and told us all to settle down. She had a flashlight and she explained that there was a blackout all over the city and that we were to get our books and shit and go home. Of course she didn't say 'and shit', but I know she was implying it. We all filed out of the gym and went in the directions of our lockers, Fire yelling at me not to get lost. With my luck, I did.
"Shit shit shit shit shit shit!" I exclaimed as I made my way along the halls. I heard a few people laughing at me and I snapped at them to shut up. I continued along the hallway, avoiding bumping into people thanks to the dim light from the windows, but it was pretty damn dark outside as well. I finally found my way to my locker and found Sasori there. He raised an eyebrow as I sighed and fell against my locker thankfully.
"Deidara asked me to stay here until you got here. . . he said that he'll be here soon. . . he had a feeling that you'd get yourself lost" there was a hint of a smirk on his face as he finished speaking and turned to leave. As soon as he left Tobi ran up and hugged me, wailing pitifully.
"MEL-CHAN! I'M SCARED!" he cried. I pushed him off and glared at him. I flailed my arms as I yelled at him.
"DON'T FUCKING TOU-!" my voice was cut off as a hand clamped over my mouth and one went around my waist and dragged me backwards. I screamed and struggled as hard as I could against the restraining arms until I heard Deidara's voice.
"Calm down, it's just me, un" he said with a slight laugh.
I pulled out of his arms and glared at him.
"You scared the fucking SHIT outta me!" I yelled, ignoring more laughter. I could barely see the blonde's smile but I heard his apology.
"Sorry, un. I was trying to get you to stop screaming at Tobi, but you couldn't hear me over your own yelling" there was a trace of amusement in his voice but I laughed.
"My bad" I said with a grin. I walked to my locker and he followed. I crouched down so my lock was at eye-level and I peered at it. "Fuck. . . I can't see the fucking numbers!" I said quietly. I pulled out my cell phone and opened it, using the dim light from it to see the numbers like I had seen a few people doing. I pulled my locker open after I had opened my lock and shoved my phone in my pocket. Grabbing my stuff quickly I turned to Deidara. "Ok so where's everyone else?". Deidara laughed and took my hand, leading me down the hall.
"By the parking lot, un" he said as we walked.
Soon enough we were there, and then ten of us were crammed under three big umbrellas. It didn't work too well, but we were drier than we would have been if we were just standing in the rain. Looking at the two cars that the Akatsuki owned, we decided who would go with who and we all got in. In the first car it was Itachi driving, with Kisame in the passenger seat, and Tobi Deidara and I crammed in the back. The second was Kakuzu driving with Sasori in the passenger seat, and Konan Fire and Hidan in the back. Itachi and Kakuzu both drove home slowly in the pouring rain, unable to see very well. I was squished in the middle of Tobi and Deidara , leaning away from the masked idiot and into my boyfriend.
We finally got to the Akatsuki 'hideout' and got out of the car. Once we were under the cover of the house I called my mom and told her that I was at 'Konan's house'. She didn't actually know I had a boyfriend at all. Knowing her, she would kill me. She was fine with me being there, and she was on her way home from work because everyone had been sent home. I just hoped that when I did get home, my brother wasn't there. Pein had come to the door, alerted to our presence by the noise we made. After brainstorming ideas of what we could do, we all decided that we would play manhunt in the dark. No lights, whole house. No other rules.
It was decided that Sasori would be 'it' first, so we all took ten minutes to hide and prepare ourselves. I hid in the basement behind some old boxes and crouched there silently. I heard soft footsteps on the stairs and I held my breath. Sasori walked past, listening and watching carefully. I was completely hidden in the pitch black, and the only reason I knew it was Sasori was the place his breaths were coming from. It was too short to be anyone else. I kept myself completely silent, hoping that he couldn't hear me. He walked right past and deeper into the basement, so I took my chance and crept out from behind the boxes and darted up the stairs, almost silently. I was surprised I was able to keep myself this quiet.
I dashed through the front hall, illuminated for a moment as lightening flashed. I hid myself carefully behind a large grandfather clock, careful not to bump it as I hid. I heard a muffled scream from the basement, and guessed that the short red-head had caught Tobi, who had also hidden in the basement. I tried not to laugh as Tobi ran by, thinking people were in the most obvious places, so he didn't even bother to stop. I could only hear his footsteps, except after another flash of lightning in which it showed him running. The thunder that followed crashed overhead and the moron screamed and ran faster. I stifled my laughter as continued to stand still. I didn't even hear Sasori walking by. A third flash of lightning showed him walking by, as silently as a shadow. He paused for a moment before sprinting after a now cursing Hidan. Sasori caught up with the albino quickly and tackled him. Hidan cursed loudly again and got up, glaring at the puppet before joining in the hunt.
As soon as they had both left the room, most likely going to come back for a more thorough search, I slipped out of my spot once again and walked slowly and carefully across the room and up the stairs. I heard another set of soft hesitant steps and froze. They stopped as well which proved that whoever it was hadn't been caught yet.
"Who is that?" a voice asked and I laughed slightly. "Oh, it's you" Fire's voice was amused. I knew that she could tell it was me only by the fact that I had laughed instead of answering. "Who's been caught that you know of?" she asked quietly.
"Tobi and Hidan. You?" I replied.
"Konan and Kisame"
"Ok. . . see ya" I started up the stairs again and she continued down. I hid in Deidara's room under the bed, not caring about the clay I got on my clothes.
Soon enough I heard more footsteps and I pushed myself as far as I could under the bed, against the wall. Someone dropped to the floor beside the bed and reached their hand under. I panicked when their hand touched me, but the feel of a tongue against my arm made me laugh quietly. Deidara had taken his fingerless gloves off, and he was apparently checking under his bed before hiding there.
"Gotchya, un!" he said triumphantly. Ok apparently he wasn't looking for a hiding place.
"I hate you" I grumbled as I pulled myself out from under the bed. I went to walk out of the room and walked into the door frame, falling backwards and into Deidara. "Sorry" I exclaimed as I picked myself up from the floor. I found his hand in the dark and helped him up.
"It's ok, un" he said with a laugh. We both walked out of the room and set off in different directions, searching for other people.
I barely saw Itachi as I walked by. He was stuck to the ceiling. Yes, the ceiling. All I saw in a flash of lighting was a dark shape on the ceiling and a dull red glint. Itachi's sharingan eyes. My own eyes widened and I jumped up to try to tag him but all I felt was the ceiling, warm from the Uchiha's body that had been there a minute ago. I cursed and ran down the hallway, hoping to find him, but of course I didn't. I sighed quietly and continued down the hallway, keeping my eyes open. Pein obviously wasn't paying much attention, or else I never would have caught him. I saw him hidden behind Kakuzu's bed, and he seemed to be asleep on the floor. None the less I walked over to him quietly and poked him in the side sharply. His eyes flew open and he cursed, getting to his feet and glaring at me before walking out of the room, muttering something about cheating.
I slowly walked into the bathroom, looking around for any spots that someone could hide in. I waited as a clap of thunder was followed by some lightning and Fire was illuminated crouched beside the toilet.
"Aw fuck" she hissed as she got up and sprinted out the door, me hot on her tail. Sadly, she was faster than me, especially when I decided to jump the rest of the staircase as we raced down to the main floor. I lost my footing when I landed and my feet slipped out from under me. I screamed as I hit the stairs and slid down to the bottom and started laughing. Fire laughed as well but she continued down and ended up running right into Hidan since she wasn't paying attention. Hidan started laughing as well, his insane and contagious laugh. I heard some snickering as Deidara walked out of the living room and joined the three of us. I could see the general shapes of people now, so that was the only way I could really tell it was Deidara.
"So who's left?" I asked after a minute.
"Uhh. . . just Itachi I think, un" Deidara said, thinking for a moment. I laughed and shook my head.
"Figures" I said, getting up off of the stairs and rubbing my back. "Those stairs are fucking HARD!" I didn't really notice how loud I was being until I heard Kisame yell from the basement.
"No shit moron!" I rolled my eyes and flipped off the floor, hoping that he was somewhere in the general area I had flipped off.
All of us assembled, including Itachi, and we finally decided to check the time. We had been playing for over two hours. I broke out laughing at this, earning a smack on the back of the head from Fire and a few chuckles from the Akatsuki as I smacked Fire back and we started to beat each other up. Of course, she won, as always.
"Ow ow ow ow ow!" I complained as she had her hand twined in my hair and was pulling me down to her eye level so that my back was bent. It didn't seriously hurt, but it amused us, including all of the Akatsuki -well, most of them- so nobody intervened. She let go of my hair and gave a smug smile as I straightened up and fixed my hair quickly, sticking my tongue out at her.
We were seated in a circle in the living room telling scary stories. Some of them were actually really scary. Like really REALLY scary. . . not those stupid ones that little kids tell that they think are scary. I was sitting on Deidara's lap with my arms around him and my face in his neck and he had his arms around me as Sasori told a story. I was pretty sure Tobi was sitting reeeaaaalllllyyyy close to Deidara on one side, shaking, and Hidan was sitting on the other side with Fire in his lap in pretty much the same position I was in.
As the story came to a close Fire and I turned around to look around the dark circle as it was decided who would tell a story next. As it was decided that Itachi would tell a story and he began there was another flash of lightning and a shadow was illuminated on the wall that looked like a shark fin, and Itachi's story just happened to be about sharks. Fire screamed and threw her arms around Hidan tightly and the albino cursed. Apparently Fire was choking him as well as you could choke an immortal. I knew that Fire was terrified of sharks and frankly, I was too, and I cowered back into Deidara as we all looked at the window (except Fire) to see what looked exactly like a shark fin moving back and forth past the window. Itachi was the first one to realize what it was.
There was a smirk on the Uchiha's face and he shook his head slightly, his expression amused. My eyes were wide open as I stared at the window and at the dark shape moving before looking around at the others' curious expressions, and then I saw Itachi's and clued in. I started laughing. . . what a surprise. The sound was relieved and all eyes turned to me and everyone else clue in.
"When the HELL did Kisame leave?" I asked with another quick laugh. Most of them chuckled quietly and shook their heads but Itachi spoke up.
"He left in the middle of Sasori's story" he said calmly before standing up and walking to the window, rapping on it sharply. At this the 'fin' rose to reveal a grinning Kisame standing in the rain.
Kisame came inside a few moments later with a towel. He sat down beside Itachi and started laughing.
"I can't believe that you guys actually fell for it" he said and started laughing harder.
"Fucking bastard!" Fire exclaimed. "I'm scared of sharks!". Kisame fell forwards and pounded the ground as he laughed, though none of the rest of us found it that funny. Itachi began his story again as soon as Kisame shut up, and I had my arms back around Deidara, and Fire had hers around Hidan. They really knew how to tell scary stories. At one point in the story Tobi screamed and threw his arms around Deidara and I but at the moment I really couldn't care, not that I really noticed that much.
Only too soon there was a humming sound and the electricity came back on. A few of us 'awww'ed and I checked the time on my cellphone.
"Holy fuck!" I yelled when I saw what time it was. No wonder it had been darker. All eyes looked to me and I laughed slightly. "Uhh. . . it's 7:19" I grinned. Most of the Akatsuki looked surprised . Just then my phone vibrated in my hand and I looked at the caller ID and groaned. "Oh god. . . my mom's gonna flip. . . I'll be back" I sighed heavily and got up off of Deidara's lap, walking into the next room.
"Melanie do you know what time it is!?" she asked angrily.
"Well I just checked my phone now and I knew I would be in trouble I'm sorry mom. . . you should have called earlier!"
" Well you should be more responsible than that! I want you home now and we'll talk about this later" I rolled my eyes. I had no doubt that we would talk about it later.
"Ok, bye mom" I said before closing the phone, not even bothering to let her say 'bye' before I cut her off.
I walked back into the room with a frown. "Well my mom decided to ruin the fun. . . l have to go home now" I made a face. Fire stood up from sitting on Hidan and nodded.
"I'm gonna get in shit if I don't get home now too" she said with a hint of resentment in her voice.
"Now who can we trust to actually drive us home in this weather?" I asked as I looked around the circle of faces. I knew we couldn't really trust Deidara or Hidan to drive ion nice weather let alone a rainstorm. I would have to say that Kakuzu and Itachi would be the best drivers, and since I hated Itachi (damn Uchihas), I asked Kakuzu, who grudgingly got to his feet.
"Fine. . . as long as it doesn't cost me any money. . . gas is expensive enough" he muttered as he walked to the door.
"Ok. . . BYE GUYS!" I stood and waved energetically until Fire smacked my upside the head so I flipped her off. Deidara and Hidan were the only ones to get up to say goodbye. Deidara gave me a hug and said bye before kissing me quickly and going to sit back down with a grin. That was the first time he'd kissed me, so I knew I probably looked pretty shocked.
I found out in the car that Hidan had kissed Fire as well, and we discussed it all the way home, a very annoyed Kakuzu driving us. We thanked him when we got there and ran inside, Fire first, and then me, seeing as she lived about five houses closer. As soon as I got inside my mom screamed at me for twenty minutes before I went on the computer and Fire and I resumed our discussion. All in all we had a fucking EPIC day. . . I really wish we had blackouts more often.