Chapter 7
The Roof
Akatsuki high was originally a large house built in 18 something or other. The interior and classrooms had not been updated since the seventies and despite it's grand appearance from the outside, inside, it looked much the same as any other school. Scuffed laminate flooring covered the original floorboards and classrooms were painted a uniform sickly green.
A few years later, when the school had been at it's most popular an extension had been built to connect the building to the house next door. This had made the school much larger but since Konoha high had been built, nearly five years back, the number of kids applying to Akatsuki high had dropped dramatically and there were now many unused classrooms.
But the extension did still have benefits. It was two stories high with a flat roof. At some point in time, some biology teacher had decided to put a greenhouse on top of it. However, with the decline in pupils came a decline in staff and so the greenhouse had been abandoned. So had the small classroom with a fire escape leading across the roof.
Needles to say, the isolated rooftop offered an ideal meeting place if they didn't wan't to use the basement. A nearby streetlamp gave plenty of light so torches were not needed but the view of the graveyard and wooded park gave sufficient atmosphere and Deidara didn't complain.
Hidan sat next to Deidara again, there was no need to apologise; arguments happened all the time, but they meant nothing. Forgiveness was taken for granted; it had to be considering how much the two best friends argued.
"Hey Guys un! D'you think that Tsunade will have found out about the staffroom yet un? It was a great plan Itachi by the way yeah. You sure they won't have found any evidence though? Pein would kill us if anyone could prove we did it, yeah."
"If you all did what you were supposed to do then Tsunade can't prove anything." Itachi responded flatly.
"Hey it was Tobi's idea too!" The orange masked boy cut in. "It was a good idea."
"Yes, you're a good boy Tobi." Zetsu, the schizophrenic boy with green hair, answered "Tobi Just thought to turn everything upside down. It would never have worked without Itachi to figure out how to get in with no body noticing." "But Tobi did have the original idea" "But Itachi is a genius Tobi is an idiot." "Don't say that! Stop it we're scaring Tobi, sorry Tobi."
"Don't worry Zetsu; Tobi isn't scared, Tobi likes Zetsu!"
"Fag" "Shutup! shh!"
"What does that mean Zetsu?"
"Shit..""Im gonna kill u!" "I am you""Sorry Tobi it doesn't mean anything. Its just a very bad word. Not one that good boys say." "It means…"
Zetsu clamped a hand over his mouth and ran off.
"Where did Zetsu just go un?" Deidara, who was busy talking to Hidan about the upside down classrooms, was surprised to see Zetsu rush inside.
"Tobi thinks he has gone to take his medicine. The bad boy Zetsu was being too loud."
"Oh un." Deidara was worried. Not about Zetsu but because when the plant boy wasn't there he was generally Tobi's next victim.
"Deidara… can we play hide and seek? Tobi is a good boy! You can hide first."
"Isnt it your bed time now Tobi un?"
"Tobi doesn't know, Tobi lost his watch."
"Its five to ten yeah."
"Oh no! Tobi is late! Tobimustgonow. Tobihastobeagoodboy. Byeeee!" And with that he also rushed indoors.
"Thank god that worked un..." Deidara turned to Sasori. "Do you want to play truth or dare un? Now that Tobi has gone. Yeah?"
"Isn't that a bit childish?"
"Not if you play it properly un."
"Ok; I don't care" in truth Sasori would have said yes to whatever Deidara wanted to do, but he had never liked truth or dare. Something embarrassing always happened to him.
"Does anybody want to play truth or dare un? Tobi's gone now so we can!"
"OK, we have nothing better to do."
"Yeah sounds cool."
"Fuck yeah; we haven't played that in ages."
"Ok."
And so the game began.