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Chapter Four: Sweet Friendships and Sour Altercations~Part 3

Scarlett's pov

She wasn't pleased. She wasn't please at all.

Brows set in a deep frown, Scarlett paced back and forth in the room of another Akatsuki kid. She looked around all of their possessions then looked to the explosive clay she stole off Sora when chasing her around. The litter dobe didn't even notice. She smirked. Hmp…serves her right. Now after what I'll do to her name, she'll have no choice but to be my permanent play thing.

Rolling tiny (to her but the amount had to be the size of a bread roll) pinches of exploding clay, she stuck at least four rolls under the polished wood and stepped back looking at her work. She could tell this would really excite things up.

Illia's pov

Illia went back to her room noticing she'd picked up the wrong book. She'd mistakenly put the new book her brother gave her today back on the shelf and replaced it with another she'd previously read.

Going to pick up the book she was seeking, she blinked in shock and awe as something so terrible, so enraging happened.

Her favorite bookshelf…just exploded.

Paper flew everywhere.

All was still.

All was quiet.

Her face was unmoving from its wide-eyed, jaw dropped expression.

She couldn't believe this just happened.

Regaining her composure, she lowered her head, her bangs casting shadows into her eyes and she strode out of her room slamming the door shut.

Scarlett's pov

Giggling like a maniac, Scarlett popped out of the shadows and watched the beginning stages of what she'd done take course.

Sora's pov

Sora was lounging around in the main hall, tossing a tiny ball of exploding clay up and down and up and down over and over again out of boredom.

She blinked as the ball was suddenly snatched from her and tossed out of the window. An explosion was heard along with shocked gasps and yells of complaints. "Hey careful with that!" she said looking up at who'd done it.

Illia's pov

Illia looked down at the girl. Did she just tell me to be careful?

"You weren't careful when you wired my bookshelf now were you?" she felt her insides heat up as Sora had the nerve to blink in confusion. "Now I won't be so careful when I rip your head from your shoulders!"

"Hey! What the hell was that for?" Karin yelled crawling through the window with Kyo and Hirota following behind. "You nearly blew my foot off."

"Not now." Illia said none too politely and looked back at Sora and was preparing to launch herself at her when Kiyoshi showed up with Shouta close behind.

Kiyoshi's pov

"What's with all the explosions?" he asked looking around. As next in line to run the organization and the oldest of all the kids, it was his responsibility looking after all of the kids and making sure they got along okay; or at least didn't destroy anything of great value.

His father just placed the job on his shoulders and expected the task to not be handled lightly and that's just what Kiyoshi planned on doing. So when Illia jabbed an accusing finger to Sora, he knew the time had come for his first job.

"She blew up my entire bookshelf with all my favorite collections on it!"

"Did not!" Sora defended.

"Yes you did! You and your dad are the only two people around here who uses the explosive clay in battle and I doubt very strongly that he would be dumb enough to do that to my things!"

Sora blinked. "Did you just call my dad stupid? And I did not touch your stuff! I haven't even been in your room!"

"Yes. You. Have." The words came out as dangerous growls from deep within Illia's throat as she stepped closer to a quivering Sora. Now she was exactly where she wanted her.

Kiyoshi watched all this take place and could tell by the look on her face and the sound of her voice that Sora didn't do it. Before he could say anything, Karin beat him to the punch.

"Hey now, calm down and let's think about this okay. It's obvious she didn't do it."

"You stay out of this you inappropriately dressed emo wanna-be."

Kiyoshi's eyes widened and he looked over taking in not only Karin's but Kyo's face as well. Both were shocked, and pissed.

Karin's pov

"what…did you just…CALL ME?" she yelled out. How dare that little snot! Who the hell did she think she was?

Storming over, Karin grabbed her by the collar of her white cloak and pulled her up to eye level. "You listen to me you little terd, I'm trying to help your little ass out."

"Oh believe me I don't need your help at all!" Illia shot back.

"Looks like you need somebody's for taking a shot at a girl who didn't do shit to ya!"

"How would you know? You were outside the entire time!"

"Look at her! Look at how freaked she is! Do you think she really did this?"

Kyo's pov

Kyo sighed watching. She knew it would best to let them argue this out. Those books were important to Illia and they'd been destroyed. She's venting. That's important. Maybe then after she won't want to kill Sora anymore.

Among all this calamity…she was the only one to notice Scarlett not present.

Hmmm?

Kiyoshi's pov

The entire time they bantered back and forth, he'd been trying to use the quiet method to gain their attention but it wasn't working at all. Kiyoshi groaned and ran a hand through his hair. "GIRLS!"

He roared out. Immediately all eyes, female and male, were on him. "Settle down and let's solve this rationally."

"That'll have to wait for now." A smooth voice came from behind him. He turned to see none other than Pein. "Father…"

Pein's eyes flittered over to his son for a split second then back to the kids before him. "Come. We have important matters to discuss." He then turned and left, not looking back to see if anyone were following at all.

A/N:: Part three of chapter four down and out! Please readers review, review, review! Let me know what you think! And it's not too late to get your character in on the action!