Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything related to the series. Only the OC and the plot bunnies for this story is mine to torture.
Warning: Hidan is here and he's in a bad mood.
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Makayla was staring rather intently at me without bothering to blink and the intensity unnerved me to such an extent that I looked to Jason in a silent plead for help. Jason narrowed his eyes at me and pushed away from the back wall in the living room and disappeared with both Daniel and Cameron following him. I sighed inwardly. Everything had been so awkward since the four of them had found me amongst eight naked men two days ago.
"Mia." Makayla said and I looked up at her, very much aware of the eight pair of eyes watching us from the shadows of the room.
Why did everyone feel the need of staring at me? Or watching me? For the past two days, those damned kittens of mine – who by the way, weren't real kittens as much as they were criminal ninjas from another world – had been lurking in the shadows of the house, watching me like a hawk. It was freaking me out. Especially Gorgeous aka Hidan. Jason, Daniel and Cameron had made it their purpose in life to keep the silver feline slash human as far away from me as humanly possible.
"Do you realize the situation you're in?" Makayla asked and I blinked owlishly at her as I tried to figure out what kind of situation it was she was talking about.
Was it that my cute and weird little kittens were actual humans and had seen me naked more than once? Or was it the fact that my kittens were a bunch of killer machines? Maybe it was because they came from another world, they were bound to me and they needed my blood to turn into humans?
If only she could be a little more specific when she asked me that question … because it was a tough one to answer …
"Mia? Do you or do you not understand?" Makayla asked me again as she waved her hand in front of my face to get my attention.
I looked at her and furrowed my brows and began to fidget with my fingers. Makayla's eyes zoomed in on the fidgeting and her mouth twitched like she was trying to forcibly hold back a smile or laughter.
"Could you … Could you repeat the question? I'm not sure I understood it." I mumbled and gave her a shy look.
Makayla stared at me with an impressive blank look that would make even a rock pale in comparison. Then she slapped her hand to her forehead and made a long groan at the back of her throat. I gave her a puzzled look.
"Sometimes I honestly wonder how you manage to get top grades at every subject in school when you can be so annoyingly dense concerning the smallest of things." Makayla groaned and I huffed, a little offended at that.
I looked over my shoulder when I heard a huffing noise that was the telltale sign that one of my cats was laughing at me. Of course it was Blue aka Kisame.
"Kisame is laughing at me." I pouted and gave Makayla a pointy look.
More huffing noises ensured behind me and Makayla briefly glanced at the humans-turned-felines behind me. Then she looked back at me again.
"I would have told him to stop if you actually understood the situation you were in." she replied blandly and gave me a knowing look.
"I do understand the situation I'm in." I said and crossed my arms under my chest.
Everyone's ears peeked in attention, waiting for my answer and I gave Makayla my most serious look because, let's face it, the situation was pretty bad.
"Buying all of this cat stuff has been a terrible waste of money and I also have to cancel my appointment at the veterinarian to their check up's and neutering. And what will I tell my dad?" I said and for a moment everyone stared at me.
Then Makayla groaned, stood and left while huffing noises and something sounding amazingly much like relieved sighs could be heard in the living room.
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Dinner was awkward. Not only was I sore on my ankles and wrists but the tension in the dining room was so thick, you could practically cut through it with a knife. Daniel and Cameron had seated themselves on each side of me and while Makayla sat beside Daniel and Jason beside Cameron. I almost got the impression they were trying to function as my bodyguards.
"The food tastes good." Kisame offered and coughed when all eyes turned to him.
I blushed and smiled a little as I accepted the praise with a bow of my head towards him. I heard Hidan snort and looked over at him. He narrowed his eyes at me and then snorted again. He pushed his chair, stood and left the room hurriedly, heading into the hallway and probably in the direction of the stairs.
I looked after him and felt bad for him for some unknown reason but before I managed to get up and follow after him to check up on him, Kakuzu beat me to it and disappeared in the general direction of Hidan. I glared at my food and then stood, everyone giving me questionable looks.
"No matter what they were in their world, in this world they are mine and if I say they are our guest, you should show them some respect." I huffed at my brothers and hurried out of the dining room.
I had no idea what had made me talk like that but I guessed the tension just had gotten the better of me. I shook my head and decided that some fresh air would do me good and so I grabbed one of my brothers' hoodies thrown carelessly to the floor in the hallway and entered the backyard.
I took a deep breath through my nose and felt the tension slowly drift off of me. Yep, the fresh air would defiantly do me some good.
Kakuzu was staring at the back of his partner as he sat sulking in the windowsill in the room they had been given. Although the miser was much older than the priest and as such much wiser than him, even he had felt the invisible bond binding them thoroughly to the teenager. He knew that Hidan, Deidara and Itachi had been the ones who had gotten much more affected by the bond than their older colleagues and as such, it had been some horrible testosterone-filled weeks. However, Kakuzu had to admit that he was impressed by Deidara's and Itachi's self-control. Hidan could learn a thing or two from them, but then again, he had always been easy to rile up.
"I hate this damned bond with the stupid bitch." Hidan muttered and turned to give Kakuzu a frustrated look. "I hate being a damned cat. I hate feeling more like a fucking animal than a fucking human while being a stupid cat. I hate the fucking affection it forces me to fucking feel towards the stupid, insufferable bitch." He added in a rage and turned to look outside and down into the backyard where he could see the source of all his frustrations twirling around like some kind of ballerina.
"I know. I don't particularly like the bond either but it seems like for as long as we're here, we have to accept the bond are there." Kakuzu said and entered the room and pushed the door closed with his food.
Hidan glanced briefly at his partner before turning his attention back to the girl in the garden below his window. Hidan hated the girl. He hated, no despised,the weakness she unknowingly forced upon him. He hated her for being so kind to them. He hated her for being so innocent and oblivious to her own femininity that did funny things to his stomach and mind. He hated her for waking up some long forgotten and buried part of him that he didn't want to know or remember. Most of all, though, he hated her for making him hate himself because he hated her.
"Have that damned Pretty Boy found a fucking way to get back home?" he asked his partner.
"No, but he is working on it." Kakuzu answered and turned to leave the room. "Try not to kill her, would you? We need her alive for now." He said and left.
Hidan glared at the retreating back of his partner and huffed loudly. He looked down at the dense girl in the garden again. Killing her would be so easy. She was so weak compared to him, that a simple flick with his hand would send her flying and eventually kill her. He growled to himself. He couldn't kill her, though. Just as Kakuzu had said, they needed her alive for now.
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I was standing in the far end of the garden where no light could reach me and was staring up at the night sky above me. The stars were so bright this night and I had already counted two shooting stars and made wishes at both of them. So enthralled by the magical view above I was that I didn't notice the male figure coming silently towards me.
"It's getting fucking colder by the fucking minute."
The swearing gave away pretty fast who it was that had joined me and I forced my heart to slow down. Oh, I was afraid of him but since he hadn't done anything to seriously harm me – if not counting the burning picture of a very nice backside in my mind – and as such I forced myself to be polite towards him.
"Hidan." I greeted with a small and tight smile and looked over at him. "I know, I just like to watch the stars. I've already counted two shooting stars." I informed him and turned my head upwards again.
The silence between us stretched and for a moment I thought he had left when I heard a rustling sound and looked over at him. He was holding a jacket out towards me with his face turned away from me. I smiled a little easier now and when my hand was mere inches from the jacket, there could be heard a loud poof and then smoke filled my view completely. Inside the house I heard yelling and more poof's.
I crouched down and looked down at the silver kitten that was standing in Hidan's place. I picked the jacket up from the ground and pulled it on and then reached out to pick up Hidan. I tucked him inside my jacket and kissed him on the top of his furry head.
"Thank you … Gorgeous." I whispered to him.
He huffed but it didn't sound objective and I turned my head upwards once again. I found it a thousand times easier to interact and be comfortable with the guys when they were in their kitten forms. I've no idea why it was like this but I guess it was because I just felt more comfortable with animals than humans in general.
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Kakuzu stopped in the hallway when he saw the other girl and one of the twins. He hadn't quite bothered to remember their names because for now, they weren't important enough for him to be concerned with and yet he had stopped and hidden in the shadows like some creep when he had noticed them in advance before they even had a chance to notice him. Or so he liked to tell himself, since he at least remembered one name but just didn't want to admit the tiny soft spot he had for that person in particular.
"Makayla, you know who those guys are." The twin said intently and the girl merely shrugged.
Kakuzu wasn't able to see the girl's face but if the twins' face were anything to go by, she didn't wear a very interested expression at all. The twin let out a shaky breath, probably because he was getting riled up.
"Don't you care about Mia at all? We need to stop them before it's too late and they damage her to a point where she can't be repaired again."
"What do you think she is, Daniel? A car? Mia is a human and if anything, I'm pretty sure they can help her cope." The girl – Makayla – snapped and placed her hands on her hips.
"Of course I don't think she's a car." Daniel said defensively and somewhat offended. "But you know how she is. She falls in love with kindness and pretty words. I don't want that to happen to her because none of those guys can be trusted with her fragile heart." Daniel added while he riled himself more and more up by the second.
"Fragile?" Makayla screeched in a low voice. "You think she's fragile?"
"All girls are fragile." Daniel huffed and Kakuzu almost felt sorry for the boy. "That's why boys need to protect them."
The stupidity of this boy was too much even compared with the stupidity of Hidan. The priest may be an incredibly stupid idiot but even he knew to be careful with words around women … unless he of course knew he could handle them easily.
"Fuck you, you little motherfucking sexist asshole." Makayla screeched, turned around and stormed down the hallway in the opposite direction but then she stopped, turned around and stomped all the way back to the boy. "If you ever call me fragile again, I am so going to pull you balls behind your head and tie them there." She added with a hiss and then stomped off again.
Kakuzu looked after the brunette and then back at the idiotic boy staring after his girlfriend with eyes like saucers and his mouth hanging open. He sighed. That would have been a sweet thing to say in his time and age but Kakuzu had learned the hard way, that modern women liked to think themselves independent.
He stepped towards the boy and made his presence known with a loud and obviously faked cough. The little idiot was so oblivious, Kakuzu doubted that the guy could protect anyone … including himself.
"What do you want, Kakuzu?" Daniel asked when he had turned around and recognized the older man.
"That's right, you were the one with all the information about us." Kakuzu said and watched Daniel raise his chin in defiance the same way he had seen Mia do once or twice. "Do you think that your sister would be stupid enough to fall in love with one of us?" He asked gruffly.
"Yeah. I know Mia. She's so dense and oblivious, even towards her own wishes and desires, and she wouldn't know she had fallen in love with one of you before it was too late." Daniel said and looked down while clenching his fists tightly by his sides. "I don't wish to see her heart get broken by a bunch of guys that aren't even worthy of her love."
Kakuzu watched the way Daniels shoulders tensed and he narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
"You've seen it happen to her before." Kakuzu said without bothering to disguise it as a question.
Daniel jumped and then tensed lightly. He glared up at the missing nin in his house and hated himself for being weaker than the guy in front of him and for not being able to protect his precious little sister.
"Yeah. I have. It was two years ago. The guy had taken an interest in Mia because of a bet with some of his friends." Daniels jaw clenched and the anger and hate made his eyes shine ominously. "He won but the prize for his victory was Mia's heart. She was devastated for a long time and even to this day, we can still feel how hurt she is sometimes."
Kakuzu shook his head. Boys. Real men wouldn't hurt a woman and the other way around. He sighed and got irritated at the small voice inside of his head telling him to hunt the bastard who hurt her down and punish him for it. Yup, the bond between them and Mia had made them think and act strangely. He sighed again and turned away from Daniel, not really caring about the boy anyway and made his way to the living room. He stopped when he saw Mia in the corner of his eyes. He turned his head and saw her standing with her head thrown back and eyes firmly set upon the stars above her.
A little way from her, he could see Hidan and he shook his head again when he saw the jacket in his hand. The priest really was an idiot for letting himself fall for her. Then again, Hidan had always been the one out of all of them to lose control over his temper and mood the quickest.
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Hello guys, long time no see. :-O
I'm sorry for the long wait, I just couldn't find the inspiration for this chapter. I have no other excuses than that.
I hope you like this chapter because it have been a bitch to write.
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