Author's Notes

Hey guys, I know I haven't published anything in FOREVER! But I have been writing everything down on paper, all I really need to do is type it up and upload it to Fanfiction, so here's the long awaited (and I mean LONG awaited) chapter 7.

Enjoy!

Oh and I can't remember if I told you guys already or not, but there's a bit of a time skip between the last chapter and this one.

Chapter 7 – It Just Gets Worse And Worse

Kakuzu's heavy footsteps echoed down the hallway of the new base, he looked left and right, searching high and low for a certain young girl. "Hey, have you seen Aza anywhere?" He asked Deidara; who was sat on the couch, perfecting his art.

"Nope, sorry –un," The blond replied, not looking up.

The brunet turned and went over to Hidan in the kitchen, "I don't suppose you've seen Aza lately, have you?"

"Hm…" The Jashinist thought for a moment before answering, "No, I haven't," Kakuzu groaned and after asking Tobi, Pein, Zetsu and double checking with everyone, he went to check all the rooms and places the girl in question could be hiding.

"Argh, where the hell is she?" The brunet thought out loud.

"BOO!"

After yelling in fright, Kakuzu fell back and landed, with a thump, on the ground. Aza was leaning through the 'Secret' door in the ceiling, her long black hair dangled down with a slight waviness and a look of restrained laughter was on her teenage face. "You should see the look on your face! Haha!" Aza said as she moved some of her hair out of her face.

"Don't do that, I'm too old for messing around and how can you see the look on my face? I'm wearing my mask," The miser said as he climbed to his feet and dusted himself off.

"I can tell by the look in your eyes, and it's not my fault you're prone to heart attacks," The teen replied with a rebellious tone in her mature voice.

"Oh, Haha, very funny," Kakuzu said sarcastically, "Get down from there, you've still got to finish your work," He stated firmly.

"Yes, DAD," Aza unwillingly did as she was told, jumping down and landing on her feet, in front of her unofficial guardian.

"Hey! What's with the attitude?" Kakuzu said seriously, disliking the lack of respect from the 14 year old girl.

"What attitude?" The teen asked, the pitch of her voice rising slightly.

"That attitude!" The brunet returned, his voice also rising, "Look, just stop complaining and go finish your work," Aza didn't reply, she just folded her arms and looked to the side, away from Kakuzu, "Oh c'mon Aza! You're not 5 anymore! It's not like I'm telling you to go kill somebody!"

"I'd much rather kill somebody than do anymore stupid Algebra!" The teen shouted, looking straight into Kakuzu's eyes, She means business…, "I don't like or need Maths! It's bad enough with just normal sums, but when you add in letters and values and equations, it's a whole lot worse! I've told you a thousand times or more that I never want to have anything to do with maths in the future!"

"I'm just trying to give you a proper education!"

"Yeah, well, all you've taught me in 9 years is stupid, friggin' MATHS!" The blood wood eyed girl almost screamed before she stamped her foot down then retreated through the small door in the ceiling, slamming it shut.

Oh great… now she's pissed off… Kakuzu thought as he looked down at the huge dent in the ground where it had been abused by Aza's foot. A few seconds later, the door opened and a huge pile of Algebra and other Maths books were thrown down viciously, the door slamming shut again after.

An almost silent sigh escaped Kakuzu's tanned lips, he knelt down slowly, though it was getting harder to manuver due to his age. He started to pick up the books, ignoring the pain in his back.

Just at that moment, Hidan turned the corner and saw Kakuzu collecting the scattered books, he was about to laugh and make fun of the senior but then he saw how much pain the man was in. "What are you doing, Kakuzu?" The albino asked, trying to sound as genuinely kind as possible.

"Aza's being a pain again," Kakuzu said as he sat back, taking the weight off his feet for a minute.

The old Hidan probably would have laughed at the situation and made more work for his partner but after everything that had happened the Jashinist had matured a bit and sort of understood Kakuzu's pain. The brunet was roughly about 108 years old, he had gone through such terrible heartbreak and now he was stuck looking after a stroppy teenager.

"Here, let me," Hidan offered, kneeling down to help.

"No, I can do it myself," Kakuzu protested, not willing to accept help just yet.

"I'm just trying to be nice,"

"Yeah, well last time you did that, you ended up snogging Zeotora!" The brunet snapped, leaving Hidan silent in shock.

"He did WHAT?" Deidara practically screamed, he had overheard what Kakuzu said and couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"He kissed Zeotora! The same night we watched that movie and you and Zeotora fell asleep on the couch!"

Deidara's jaw almost hit the ground, "So that's why she seemed really guilty the next day! –un,"

"It wasn't like that-" Hidan argued.

"How could you? –un,"

"It wasn't meant to happen like that!"

"We all know it was your plan all along!"

"You bastard! –un,"

"Shut the hell up!"

"No, you shut up!"

"No! You! –un"

"WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!" Aza shouted at the top of her lungs, making the three men shut up instantly, "JUST STOP FIGHTING ALREADY! WE ALL KNOW THAT NONE OF YOU HAVE ANY RIGHT TO FIGHT OVER ZEO!" The teenage girl turned to Deidara, "You only THOUGHT you loved her because she remind you of Sasori!" The blond bit the inside of his lip as he looked down at the ground, Aza then turned to Hidan, "Admit it, you only kissed Zeo because you never knew what it was like to have a best friend and you wanted to hurt Kakuzu because you were jealous!" The Jashinist scratched the back of his head and looked away in embarrassment.

Aza's eyes flashed with rage as she turned to glare at Kakuzu, "And you… you're always bragging to yourself about kissing Zeo five or six times when two times were against her will, once was when she was friggin' DYING and three times were in your own DIRTY FRIGGIN' IMAGINATION!"

"How the hell do you know about that?" The brunet asked.

"I was there! I saw the look in your eyes!" Aza spoke to all of them in a disgusted voice, "YOU'RE ALL PATHETIC!" After making her point perfectly clear, Aza stormed out of the base and into the night.

She soon reached a mountain side, the teen placed her hand on the rock face and sent all her chakra into the rock, it then slid slowly to the side, revealing a tunnel. Aza closed her eyes and walked into the pitch black tunnel, the rock slowly slid back into its original place, closing the entrance to the passageway.

Here… Aza knew she was safe…

*~To Be Continued~*

A/N

Well, that's chapter 7 typed up and posted, the next chapter will be posted ASAP, I'm planning on typing nonstop today, so hopefully you'll have some more to read soon.

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