O is for October

and

October is for Halloween

Finally, I'm able to update this. The cord for my laptop broke and the battery ran out so I havn't had a computer to go on, besides my parent's but the keyboard is literally crap on it. The cord for my laptop came in today, so I'm happy and now I can continue to sit on the computer for hours and hours again. :]

Naruto/Akatsuki (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Original Characters (c) me


It was that day, the day when kids, young and old dressed up in weird and wonderful costumes. Whether I went trick-or-treating or not, it was certainly one of the best times of the year. People say that you're never too old to go trick-or-treating, and they were certainly correct. I physically wanted to go, but my brain told me otherwise. The school day was almost over, and with that I would have a nice relaxing long weekend to enjoy. A lot of kids in the highschool dressed up however, even if they weren't going to fill up their bags with candy. Even though I myself did not dress up from head to toe, I still wore a very familiar wizard's hat to compliment the occasion, it certainly wasn't extreme, but who cares- I didn't feel like dressing up anyways. I yawned as I twirled the pencil around on my desk, it was almost over, and then I could go home and sleep- atleast until all the trick-or-treaters came knocking. I watched the clock furiously as the seconds ticked by at an excruciatingly slow pace. My brain felt like it was going to explode as the last few seconds went by, I sat there like a zombie vacantly starring at Deidara who was sitting a few rows up from me throwing pencils in the air and getting them stuck in the ceiling when the teacher wasn't looking and then- riiing. The rumble of the bell jiggled away the loose pencils and they all came tumbling down on Deidara's head, an unhappy teacher stood frowning as he dashed out into the hallway. I got up and lazily walked towards the door, where I bumped into a ghost- or a pathetic excuse for one. There was a large white sheet blanketed overtop of someone taller than myself, and two uneven eye sockets cut out at the top, I had a guess at who it might have been. I raised a brow sarcastically and then lifted the sheet to reveal a giggling Tobi.

"Tobi, why are you-?"

"Tobi's a ghost!"

"Yeah, I can see that" I replied, patting him on the shoulder and then heading out into the hallway where Tobi followed closely behind me. I got to my locker where I opened it up and dumped my books inside, I had no homework, and even if I did I was too lazy to do it. I craned my neck over to Tobi and starred at him for a second,

"Tobi, if you're going to be a ghost you'll need to-"

"Shhhhhh" Tobi hushed me, "Tobi is trying to be a ghost, don't talk to me otherwise people will suspect I'm not actually real"

I nodded and all the while, tried to keep a straight face as I walked down the hallway with Tobi crouching behind me. I had better not say anything and let the boy do his own thing, even if people were starring. He followed me outside and kept following quietly as I started to walk home.

"Tobi, you can't follow me home" I turned around and stated sternly but there was no response, "Tobi!"

"Shhhh, Tobi is haunting you right now"

I sighed, pushing him over playfully as I made my way back towards the school. Well, I couldn't go home like this, and it didn't look like Tobi was going to leave anytime soon so I decided to wait. I stood infront of the school, watching the other students make they're way out the door and dash off until I couldn't see them anymore. I glanced over at Tobi who was still standing beside me- maybe he'd get bored and leave? Just then, out came Sasori, Deidara and Kisame- finally, I was saved! It's not that I didn't like Tobi or anything, in fact Tobi was pretty cool, it was just times like today he was a little over the edge. I quickly shuffled my feet over to the three bodies that were standing and talking, Tobi still trailing behind.

"Nao" Kisame looked over to me, "what ever happened to that football?"

I remembered immediately, a few weeks back, when Tobi had pretended to scare us all inside the school after everyone had left, including the janitor. Tobi had accidentally dropped it while we scrambled out of the school. It had something creepy inscribed onto it, which was the thing that triggered us to leave. "Tobi left it in the school" I replied.

"Exactly" Kisame smiled, "it had something written on it didn't it? we should get it back"

I frowned, "if Tobi dropped it in the hallway, then someone must have picked it up already"

"That's what we thought" Sasori replied, "but we asked around as soon as we got to school and nobody saw anything"

"and then we asked the Janitor if he had repaired a broken window and he said he didn't, yeah" Deidara finished.

"Wait" I held up one of my hands, "so you're saying that the window magically fixed itself?"

Deidara nodded while the other two mumbled something quietly in response, "don't be ridiculous" I joked, "someone must have fixed it, broken windows don't just fix themselves"

Nobody else said anything and the three of them turned around to leave, "once everyone is gone, we're going inside anyways" Kisame turned and hollered.

Well, I had nothing better to do. Even if this whole thing looked like a giant hoax, it was Halloween after all. I glanced back at Tobi, who was surprisingly quiet. Even if I couldn't admit it entirely, there was a part of my brain that convinced me that I was just 'itching' to go with them. I tapped my foot on the ground as I contemplated on going or not, most of the students seemed to have left already but it would be a while until the school would be completely empty. I watched curiously as Kisame, Deidara and Sasori examined the window we had broken a couple weeks earlier. However, my attention veered elsewhere as Kakuzu came out from the school doors, counting a pile of something clutched tightly in his hands. A few seconds later out came a pleading Hidan.

Kakuzu turned around to face Hidan, "no Hidan!" he yelled, "I will not pay for your damn candy!"

"But...-"

"No! Now get lost and go bother someone else"

Hidan frowned, passing up his middle finger as Kakuzu left the area. He ended up looking over to me where his facial expression changed from a pouty frown to a dominant seriousness. I held back a gasp, he wasn't going to walk over was he- oh lordy help me. That moment when he had taken off his shirt really stuck into my mind and no matter how hard I tried to forget it I couldnt, and now, I couldn't even look at him the same. The white blanket overtop of Tobi was a quick but dearly pathetic solution to my problem as I ripped it off and hung it over myself. The poorly cut eyesockets left me just enough room to see Hidan walking over with a quizzical expression on his face.

"Hey!" Tobi exclaimed, "that was Tobi's blanket" Tobi began to try and prod the white sheet off but I persisted and held it tightly so it wouldn't come off.

"Nao" Hidan stopped infront of me, "do you have any-"

"Tobi did it" I blabbered out randomly

"what the hell are you talking about?" Hidan frowned

"uhh, I mean" I paused for a moment, "nevermind!" I scurried off in a random direction, Tobi's costume flowing in the wind as I ran towards the side of the school. Unfortunately, the little holes in the blanket had shifted over to another spot and I couldn't exactly see properly. I slowed down but ended up bumping into Kisame who was still bent over examining the window with Sasori and Deidara.

"watch where you're going" Kisame complained

"sorry" I apologized, finally taking off the white sheet and folding it my arms

"so you finally decided to join, yeah" Deidara put his hands on his hips and gave me the 'told you so' look

As much as I wanted to, I didn't, but looking back at Hidan and Tobi scuffling around about money and candy I decided to join for the sake of it, "so, what are we looking for?" I asked peering into the window

"nothing" Sasori replied, "we're waiting for the janitor to leave"

"I see"

Two hours later...

I yawned quietly as I layed on my stomach, pulling grass out from the side of the building and making a pile. Tobi and Hidan had joined and of course, I made sure I didn't make eye contact with Hidan for my own silly reasons. Every so often Tobi would topple over my pile of grass and I had to rebuild it, Kisame sat propped up against the side of the school building half asleep. Deidara sat doodling on a patch of dirt with a stick, Sasori starred up at the clouds and Hidan was laying on his back, fast asleep with his scythe clutched tightly in his arms. Nobody seemed to notice that the lights inside the school were already shut off, and not a noise was heard from inside. It was past five o' clock and I'm sure the younger kids were already out trick-or-treating. I was just about to doze off into a peaceful sleep when- crash. Something shattered and it sounded like it came from inside the school. My eyes shot open and I sat up, still slightly dazed from the two hour relaxation period. I wasn't the only one who had heard it, Kisame had already stood up and was looking into the window, aswell as Sasori and Deidara. The three of them whispering something to eachother as they all ran to the other side of the building, leaving me with Hidan and Tobi, both fast asleep. I examined them while they slept, even though in the back of my mind, I felt like I was a stalker for even watching them sleep like this but it was the only time Hidan and Tobi were ever quiet.

"Hey" I whispered, "you guys need to wake up" I shook Tobi lightly on the shoulder but he simply rolled over and continued to sleep. I really didn't feel like sitting here for another hour trying to wake them up so I opened up the white sheet I still had in my hand and put it on Tobi. As for Hidan, I eyed him suspiciously and crawled over beside him sitting down and leaning over to examine his Scythe. The three bladed weapon looked dangerous far away, but it looked even worse when up close. I reached over to touch it, accidentally nicking my finger on one of the blades. The blood from my finger oozed out and it ended up falling onto Hidan's cheek. Great- now what? I quickly whiped my finger off on the grass and leaned over to whipe away the blood that sat as a lonely droplet on his cheek. I slowly leaned in, reaching over to whipe it away when-

"what in fucks name are you doing?" Hidan had opened his eyes and was starring right at me with that 'wtf are you doing' look.

My face immediately colored itself with a bright red as I sat up, taking my hand away. My brain couldn't come up with an answer for this awkward situation and all I wanted to do in the first place was touch his Scythe. He lifted up his hand, wiping off the blood on his cheek and examining it, "what did you do?" he asked sitting up.

"Well I-" I scrambled to find something to say, "uhmm- uhhh", I ended up making odd squeaks and my hands occasionally made weird motions to my murmurs and mumblings.

Hidan's eyes shifted over to my hand that was laying quietly on my lap, one my fingers stained red. He grabbed my face with one of his hands, pressing my cheeks together so I couldn't say anything and he bent in closely, "I know what you were doing" he whispered leaning in closer.

I mumbled and questioned him incoherently, my mouth squished together so I couldn't say anything and the red plaster of color did not fade away from my face, infact it got redder.

"someone tried to come and steal my scythe right!" Hidan exclaimed, "and you tried to keep them away, those damn cocksuckers!" he waved his free hand in the air, "and you accidentally got cut in the process!" his face grew bright, as if he had just discovered something historical. He eventually let go of my face and sat back.

I sighed, Hidan was totally oblivious and for the sake of this situation, I was almost glad, "yeah Hidan, that's it" I laughed nervously.

"okay so, why were you leaning so close to me then?" he stated

I froze, "n-no reason" I mumbled

"I know why" he shook his head, "you were comparing our rosaries, weren't you?"

I looked down at the pendant that was hanging from my neck, a familiar symbol of our friendship, "n-no Hidan actually um-" I stuttered, "I just wanted to touch your-" ahh, who cared about his scythe. I had grown feelings for this jerk and I didn't want to admit it.

"actually Hidan, I-"

to be continued-


yay, to be continued!

the second part will be updated veeryyy shortly. e-e

*gigglesnort*

( again, I don't have to time to proofread, my apologies for any spelling errors )