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Chapter VI: A Day Filled with Awkwardness

"I can't believe it's been two months now since Hikari-chan went from being a baby, to being a total babe!" Sasori smacked his partner upside the head for saying such a thing.

"Do you hear yourself? I think you might be hanging out with Hidan too much." Deidara huffed and crossed his arms.

"No I'm not! I'm just saying that and I don't mean it in a sick way, hm! You have to admit it though, she really is pretty." The puppet master sighed and stared down at the wooden arm he had in his hand. Well, he couldn't deny, the girl did have a nice body-

"Damnit, Deidara!" He growled, trying to shake the dirty thoughts out of his head. Dei blinked at his outburst.

"What did I do, hm?" The redhead brushed it off with a grumble and continued to piece his puppet together. Not too long after, the very person they were talking about showed up, seeming to be looking for something. Sasori and Deidara watched her for a second.

"Um, did you lose something, Hikari-chan?" The blond asked as she kept looking around.

"Huh?" She looked up at them before walking over. "Have you two seen Tobi-chan?" The mere mention of his name had them both narrowing their eyes.

"No, thank god. Why are you looking for that brat?" Sasori inquired and she gave a light shrug.

"Well, we were playing hide and seek, but it's been over an hour since he's been hiding and I can't find him anywhere. I'm tired of playing the game." She sighed. Dei grinned and pulled her to sit next to them on the couch.

"Don't worry, he'll show up soon enough, don't bother looking for him, un." He assured, though in reality he just wanted to screw over with Tobi and have him remain in hiding for as long as possible. That way he won't have to see is annoying mask face and put up with his hyperactive crap.

"Oh, well…what are you two doing?" She asked now, looking at the puppet Sasori was assembling, then at the half molded sculpture of a bird.

"We're making art, hm!" Dei answered, Sasori giving a slight nod to that as he was back in his zone now.

"Really? Can I give it a try, Dei-chan?" Her request made the blond very happy.

"Of course! Let me teach you." He got some more clay and began to instruct her on how to mold it well. Hikari tried, but wasn't as experienced as he was, so she was slow in the making of it. Sasori paused for a second to watch this, a bit irritated that his bratty partner was influencing Hikari's view on art by having her take part on it…maybe he'll pull her aside later and teach her what art really is.

"Ano, Dei-chan, how come you have mouths on your hands?" She suddenly asked, curious about them. Deidara looked at his hands and suppressed a grunt. Sometimes he didn't like looking at his hand mouths, because he was teased quite a bit back home.

"Well, they help me make my clay bomb sculptures, hm. They're useful for that." He nodded. Hikari took one of his hands and made a close inspection, until the tongue suddenly came out and licked the tip of her nose. Deidara's eyes widened and he instantly pulled his hand back, feeling his face heat up.

"E-Err sorry about that, Hikari-chan, un." He muttered and looked elsewhere. Hikari blinked, not giving any reaction to being licked by it.

"It's no problem." She said and went back to molding her clay. Her enthusiasm wore off a few minutes after as she couldn't get any good shape, so she gave up and decided to find Tobi again. Once she was gone, Deidara gave a long sigh and shook his head.

"That girl…" Sasori glanced over to him and raised an eyebrow at what he said.

"What's with you? Getting embarrassed like that…you're not starting to get any inappropriate thoughts about her, are you?" Deidara jumped up when he suggested such a thing.

"Of course not, hm! Who do you think I am, Hidan? No, just no." He grumbled and gathered all his things before walking off. Sasori watched him leave and wondered if he had said anything to offend him.

"Tch, whatever. Touchy brat." He mumbled and went back to work.

Meanwhile, Hikari was checking every room in the hideout for the orange masked member.

"Where could he be hiding?" She mumbled, opening the door that lead to Itachi's room. She walked on in and looked around, even under the bed, but no sign of him.

"Hm." As she stood up, her eye caught sight of a box on the top shelf of Itachi's bookcase. That box looked strangely familiar to her, so she went over and tried to grab it, but it was too high for her to reach. Hikari pursed her lips and looked around, before spotting the chair and bringing it over to the bookcase. She stood on it, and finally got the box down. Hikari set it on the bed as she sat and took off the lid. Inside was a weasel plushie.

"I've seen this before…" She mumbled, frowning while trying to remember where. Just then, the door opened and Itachi came in. He paused when he saw Hikari there, and paled a little when he also noticed her holding the weasel plushie he kept away.

"What are you doing in my room?" He asked, startling her a bit. Hikari looked up at him and quickly put the plushie back into the box.

"I, uh, was looking for Tobi-chan." She said quickly. He closed the door behind him and walked over to her.

"And for that you had to go through my things?" She looked down in shame. "Sorry…" Itachi put the lid back on the box and took it back to the shelf.

"I don't want you snooping around here, especially without my permission, understand?" She flinched slightly and nodded.

"Yes." He put the chair back where it belonged and turned back to her. The look of guilt and shame almost made him soften up, but he couldn't.

"Are you mad at me?" She asked softly. Well, so much for that. Itachi sighed and shook his head.

"No, just don't come into my room when I'm not here, alright?" She looked up and nodded.

"But…I've seen that plushie before." That comment made him pause. She remembered that?

"I used to let you play with it…when you were still a baby." That seemed to trigger her memory and she smiled.

"Oh yeah!" That notion seemed to make her happy for some reason. Itachi didn't understand that, nor why she reacted to some things like she did sometimes, but perhaps it was that potion messing with her.

"Okay well, I better go find Tobi-chan now. Bye Ita-chan!" She said and left his room, just like that. The Uchiha shook his head and sat down on his bed. 'This is becoming a problem…why do I always falter with her? It shouldn't be this way.' He laid back and closed his eyes for a moment.

'I'm letting her get too close to me. I need to distance myself or else…'

"Come on Kakuzu, can't you make one fucking decent meal?" Hidan complained as he stabbed his fork into a piece of pea, only to have it leap out of his plate. He grunted and pushed the plate away.

"This is shitty-ass food! I can't feed off of some damn peas and mash potatoes that look more like dog shit." Kakuzu twitched and glared at his partner.

"We need to conserve money on groceries. Last month we spent over the average budget for it, and I blame it on you." Hidan gave him an indignant look.

"How the hell was it my fucking fault?" The waterfall missing-nin set down his cup of water on the counter and pulled out a long list from his pocket.

"Where should I begin? The amount of cleaning products we had to buy to keep the walls and floors clean of your blood or the amount of hair gel?" Hidan got red and scoffed.

"Bullshit, those things don't cost a lot." But Kakuzu kept going.

"Or maybe I should remind you of the large supply of ribs you got, or maybe the gallons of sake-"

"Alright alright! I get it already." His partner put the list away. "Then don't complain about what you have to eat." Hidan crossed his arms and looked away, sulking.

"But I fucking hate peas."

"Tobi! Tobi-chan where are you?" Hikari called out, still not having found him. She sighed and opened the door to Konan's room.

"Mommy have you-"She paused. The sight she walked in on was rather odd. Konan, now with a red face, was lying on her bed, covered by bedsheets. Meanwhile, Pein was on top of her and had a look on his face that resembled someone that wanted to die right there.

"Uh…am I interrupting something?" She asked, totally clueless of the situation.

"I um…n-no sweetie!" Konan pushed Pein off and quickly put on her akatsuki cloak; he groaned as he hit the floor. Hikari blinked, completely clueless on what was really going on.

"Let us talk outside, shall we?" Konan said, nervously smiling.

"Yeah, but why's daddy-"Konan cut her off as she pushed her out and closed the door behind.

"Now, what is it that you wanted?" Konan pressed, buttoning up the cloak meanwhile.

"Umm, I can't find Tobi-chan, so I came to ask if you saw him..." She mumbled, still perplexed.

"Oh, is that so? Well I haven't seen him dear. Did you try looking for him where Zetsu would be?" Hikari shook her head. "No."

"Well then, try asking him. He can probably help you." Konan nodded. Hikari stared at her, before slowly nodding back. "Okay, I'll go then."

"Yes, yes, go on. Good luck!" Konan went back into her room and shut the door. The black haired woman raised an eyebrow.

"That was weird…oh well." She shrugged and went off to find her orange faced friend.

"I couldn't find him." Hikari said as she found Sasori still working in the living room. He looked up when she came in.

"I wouldn't worry about him, Hikari. He'll show up later." He said, earning a nod from the girl as she sat down on the couch. Then, the earlier incident suddenly came back to mind.

"Ano, Saso-chan? Can I ask you something?" The redhead nodded absentmindedly.

"Go ahead."

"Well, earlier today, when I was trying to find Tobi-chan, I went into mommy's room and I saw something weird." She began. Sasori nodded again without thinking much of it.

"And what was that?"

"Daddy was on top of mommy, on her bed."

SCRATCH

The puppet now had a serious case of a splinter. Sasori looked at her with eyes almost bulging out. Did he hear that right?

"Hold on, you said Pein was…on top of Konan? On the bed? Is that what you said Hikari?" She nodded in confirmation.

"Yeah. What were they doing?" That next question caught him off guard as he didn't know how to answer that to her. 'Damnit, why do I have to be the one to get the awkward questions!?'

"They um…they were probably going to sleep or something." He thought up quickly.

"But…they sleep together naked?" He coughed a few times at the mention of it. Oh the bad images.

"N-no, I mean! Maybe. Ugh, damn." He rubbed his temples and stood up from the floor, taking a seat next to her.

"Listen kid, when two adults really like each other, and they decide to have some intimate moment with one another…then they get on the bed and-one stays on top of the other. The end." He said. It wasn't as if he could tell her the Birds and Bees story. But his way didn't do a lot of explaining either. There was just no way he could handle being straight forward with her on that topic.

"Okay…and they have to be naked to do that?" Sasori wished she would quit asking about it.

"Yes, sometimes. Alright? You shouldn't think about it, it's Pein's and Konan's business only." He told her and moved back to try and fix the splinter on his puppet. Hikari thought about it for a while. Seeming satisfied, she got up and left, giving great relief to the puppet master.

'Thank god. I don't think I'd be able to handle another round of questions like that. Damn…Konan and Pein huh? Well that doesn't surprise me much.' He shook his head.