Chapter six
"Sounds like Akasuna thought things through…" Itachi murmurs, his face passive as he stares out at the street in front of their school. "It's amazing, really."
Hidan nods, his eyes looking over the crowd of people on the school lawn. They were all students, backpacks full of books and homework. The school day had ended minutes ago, a few stragglers still exiting the front doors behind the two, some almost tripping over the albino and weasel as they continued to sit in the middle of the front steps.
"It's even wonderful how he squeezed Kinsen into the picture." Itachi turns to his friend, a teasing smirk twitching at his lips. "Imagine—you and Kinsen-sensei, alone for a month in Konoha…"
Hidan chuckles, shaking his head. "I bet the old bastard will bitch at me for every little thing I do wrong…"
Itachi laughs, nodding a little. "Or maybe he'd molest you in your sleep…" His friend turns at this, amethyst eyes wide with surprise. The Uchiha simply barks a second laugh, a mocking grin on his lips. "Don't act so surprised, Hidan—Kinsen-sensei has the hots for you."
For a second, things didn't register in the masochist's mind. He wasn't sure if he'd heard his friend right; did Itachi really just call him by his given name?
"What… did you call me?" He inquires slowly, his voice soft.
Itachi seems surprised himself, though for entirely different reasons. "Hidan… it is your name, isn't it?"
Slowly, the albino nods. "Yeah… but you never called me that before…"
The weasel smiles. "You are my best friend, Hidan."
Hidan takes a moment for this to seep into his memory banks. A grin slowly creeps over his lips however, his happiness beaming. "You're my best fucking friend too, Uch—Itachi." Something crosses his mind then, all happiness forgotten. "Swear you won't tell anyone about the plan."
The Uchiha nods, his own grin disappearing to be replaced by the usual emotional void. "I promise. Though, something does bother me about this plan of Akasuna's…"
Hidan cocks his head to the side, confusion evident on his face. "What's wrong with it?"
"You won't graduate… meaning you won't have a high school diploma, which means you'll have to spend the rest of your life as the house wife to Kinsen-sensei and depend on him for his money."
The zealot twitches at this. "I'm not going to be his fucking house wife, Uchiha…"
"Oh, so we're back to surnames?"
Sighing, Hidan shakes his head. "No… but still, don't worry about the fucking graduating thing." At the blank look he received, he sighs once more. "Sasori told me to call him about it."
Itachi nods, looking back out at the street. The front lawn of the school had a few students left, though they were all heading way from the school for their homes. Itachi and Hidan were, once again, the last two students to leave the grounds.
Silence fills the air between them for a moment or two, both thinking about certain teachers.
Hidan turns back to his friend then. "Do you really think he'll molest me in my sleep? Because if he does, I highly doubt I'll try to stop him…"
"Only you would let your teacher molest you in your sleep, Sendo…"
"Oh, so we're back to fucking surnames?"
Hoshigaki Kisame, in all his years of knowing Kakuzu, had never found anything the man said to be funny until that day. And because of this, the marine science teacher was still laughing on the floor, clutching his stomach.
Kakuzu was quickly getting tired of the shark's laughter.
"Knock it off, it's not that funny." Kisame's only reply was to laugh harder.
"Yes it is…!" He chokes out between laughs, his humor in the situation slowly beginning to die. "I can't believe this…"
Kinsen sighs, looking to the window with a glare. "Believe it, because that's what will happen on Sendo's birthday…"
Kisame calms his laughter before climbing up from the floor, moving back to his previous seat. It was after school hours and the two were idling in the chemistry room together, discussing the plan of their former student's.
"Sasori always was a bright kid… doesn't surprise me he's with Deidara now." Kisame's toothy grin grows wider at the scowl on his friend's face. "Alright, I won't talk about him. Even so, you have to admit its funny…"
"What is?"
"That the kid you hated a few years ago for his snarky remarks is arranged to marry the kid you lust for."
Kakuzu's boiling red face was enough to make the marine science teacher laugh again. "I don't lust for Hidan…"
Kisame's laughter cut off then, his expression suggesting something. "Eh? What happened to calling him Sendo?"
Laughter filled the room once more when the chemist began to blush again.
"So, what will you and Hidan be doing in Konoha… alone… for a month…" Kisame's toothy grin came back full force at the glare he received.
Kakuzu turns to the window once more, his anger subsiding. "I'm not sure… I've never been to Konoha…"
Kisame stares at his friend for a moment before standing from his seat to move over to the window. The window looked out to the front lawn of the school, or to be more precise, the front steps. At least, that's all Kisame found to be interesting.
The shark turns to the miser, the toothy grin becoming lopsided in a mocking way. "So not only do you watch his every move in class, you stalk him after school as well?" Kisame turns to the window once more to watch his little lover and the albino in question idle on the steps of the school.
"I don't stalk him…" Kakuzu mutters, scowling at his friend's back.
Kisame chuckles at this. "Then how did you know where he lives?" When he received no reply, the shark took it as anger. But once he turned to grin at his friend again, he was struck dumbfounded when he saw Kakuzu's face. "Ka… Kakuzu…?"
The chemistry teacher stood, moving around his desk to the window beside Kisame. "I wonder if he ever talks about me the way we talk about him…"
Kisame stares at his friend for a moment before smiling. "Course he does—didn't I ever tell you?" Kakuzu's surprise came as no shock. "Yeah, 'Tachi tells me everything Sendo says about you…" A sneer crosses his face for a moment. "Most of them are quite… scary…"
Kakuzu rolls his Christmas colored eyes in annoyance. "Great; he wants to kill me…"
His friend laughs. "I didn't mean that kind of scary!" At the blank look he received, the marine science teacher sighs. "Just know that he lusts for you the same way you lust for him… albeit a bit more, but that's probably just hormones."
Kakuzu groans, rubbing his temples in annoyance. "For the millionth time, I don't lust for the idiot!"
Itachi waves to his friend before continuing up the path, on his way home. Hidan smiles lightly, heading for the front door of his apartment complex. Busting in through the unlocked door, Hidan looks around for his mother before calling out to her.
She doesn't respond, letting him know she was either napping or not home yet. Shrugging, he closes the door behind himself before going into the kitchen to grab the phone.
A light blue sticky note catches his attention beside the telephone, a number and name scribbled on the front. "How convenient…" He murmurs, plucking the note and heading back to his room to plug in his dead cell phone.
Moments after falling back onto his bed, Hidan looks at the note, prepared to dial the number into the grey house phone. He sighs, deciding to get it over with and pressing in the directed keys, holding the speaker to his ear as the dial tone stops and a ringing begins.
A few rings pass with no one picking up. He almost chooses to hang up and try again later when a voice comes on and the ringing stops. "Hello, this Akasuna Sasori's office, un. How may I help you?"
Scoffing, Hidan sits up and blurts out, "Put my butt-fucking fiancé on the phone, Blondie."
Deidara clicks his tongue on the other end, as though he was about to retaliate. "Ah, Sendo-san… yes, one moment please, un."
Music begins to play through the phone's speaker, letting the teen know he'd been put on hold. He scoffs once more, falling back on his bed and listens to the orchestra play a melody reminding him of spring time.
Minutes pass with the song still playing, Hidan about ready to fall asleep after the tune began to go soft and slow. Just as he closes his eyes, the song cuts off and a curt voice answers the phone.
"Sendo, if you really needed to talk to me, you could have called my cell phone." A sigh escapes the business man then, almost sounding as if he were agitated.
Hidan sits up, yawning a little and stretching his shoulders. "Well maybe you should get a better fucking song to play on the hold…"
"Vivaldi's music is as good as it gets for me, kid."
"Like I care…" Hidan growls out, rolling his eyes. "Look, I called at least. So tell me about this plan for my graduating a head of schedule."
Sasori's light laughter comes through the speaker then, annoying Hidan even more. "I had a feeling that's what this is about…" The teenager rolls his eyes at this. "Well, you'll be pleased to know that I have a way for you to graduate before spring break."
Hidan pulls back from the phone at this, looking at it incredulously. "That's not possible…"
"Of course it is… if you do better in school and pass all your current classes, at least."
Hidan ponders this for a moment, nodding to himself. "Well… Uchiha said he'll be able to graduate by January the way he's going…"
"Exactly; and if you get caught up to him, which you should be able to by the end of March, you'll be able to graduate as well. Just not with him." The tone of the redhead's voice suggested he was smiling. "I know you're not an idiot, Sendo. You can do it; and if you can't, then live the rest of your life mooching off of Kinsen."
With that, the Akasuna hung up the phone.
