CH.6

I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in a room with a window, a bathroom, and many machines. I looked down at my right arm and saw a tube. I fallowed the tube to a bag on a stand. An IV. When the hell did I get in the hospital? My head throbbed and I put my left hand to my temple. Then I noticed that my entire left arm, wrist to shoulder, was wrapped in bandages. Same with my right arm. And from my waist to my just above my boobs was wrapped in bandages also. 'What the hell happened?' I thought. What the hell did I do to even get in the hospital? The door opened and the Akastuki, A.J., and Shay came in. Itachi came straight to my side and took my hand gently.

"Max? Are you ok?" he asked.

"Ya, I think so. But what happened?" I said.

"You don't remember?" Shay asked.

"Ah… no. I don't think so." I said.

"You girls got in a car accident. Some jack ass blew the light and hit the hummer." Itachi said.

"What?" I said.

Flashback

The light turned green and A.J. pulled out into the intersection. Then, out of the blue, a car blew the light and hit the hummer on the side me and Kiki were sitting on. The door bent in and crashed into me and Kiki. My vision went black until I heard a voice calling my name. My vision returned and I saw Itachi looking down at me. I looked around and saw that the hummer was on fire at least a hundred feet away. I tried to move but I hurt all over. I looked down at myself and saw that I was covered in blood. I had several cuts and injuries all over my body. I heard sirens wailing and people shouting. Then there were lights. I looked to the right and saw two ambulances and, a fire truck, and a few squad cars. Paramedics ran over to me and Itachi and put me on a stretcher. They wheeled me over to one of the ambulances and put me in it. Then Kiki was put in the same one right next to me. I looked at her and saw she was covered in even more blood than me.

"K-Kiki…?" I said.

"Max…?" she said, extending her hand out to me.

I took her hand and held it the whole way to the hospital. We let go of each other's hand and were rushed into the hospital. I lost sight of her as I went into an operating room.

End Flashback

"Kiki! Where's Kiki?" I said.

"She's still in surgery." A.J. said.

"What? Did she go in after me or something?" I asked.

"No. she went in the same time as you. Her injuries were just worse than yours." Pein said.

"Oh my god." I breathed.

Then I noticed Sasori was missing.

"Hey… where's Sasori?" I asked.

"He's in the waiting room by the operating room." Konan said.

"I want to talk to him." I said, sitting up.

"I'm not sure he'll come, but I'll go tell him, un." Deidara said, as he and Shay left the room.

"Hey Hidan, come here a minuet." I said.

He came over and leaned forward looking at his face closely.

"Uh… what are you doing?" he asked.

I leaned back again and said, "You had something on your face. I wanted to see if I was right about what it was, and I was right. It's blood."

Right then, Deidara and Shay walked in with Sasori.

"You wanted to talk to me Max?" he said.

"Yes." I said.

Then I looked at Konan. She realized that the look meant 'get everyone else out of the room'. She nodded and herded them out. I motioned for Sasori to sit on the bed next to me. He sat down and I wrapped my arms around his shoulders carful not mess up my IV.

"Are you worried about Kiki?" I asked.

He nodded.

"It's ok Sasori. Don't worry. Kiki's strong. She'll pull through." I said.

He nodded again. I pulled away from him and put my hand on his back. Then Konan came running into the room.

"She's out of surgery! And she's going to be just fine!" she said.

"Really?" me and Sasori said together.

"Yes! She's in recovery and after that she's going to share this room with you Max!" Konan said.

"Good." I said.

She left and I looked at Sasori and said, "I told you she'd pull through."

He nodded and said, "Thank you Max." then kissed my forehead brotherly like.

I giggled.

An hour later, Kiki was brought to the room and we were both sitting there like, 'what do I do in a hospital?'

"Ug! I'm so bored!" I said.

"I brought you iPod." Itachi said, handing it to me.

"Yay~! I can hear music now!" I said, hugging my iPod to my chest.

"Wow. That bored?" Pein asked.

"Hell ya. I've been in the hospital more times in my life, than all of you combined." I said, putting the ear buds in.

"Damn, un. What've you been doing, yeah." Deidara asked.

"You'll find out later." I said, leaning back against Itachi, who was sitting on the bed with me.

Time Skip!

1 week later, Max and Kiki are going home the next day

I looked at the clock and saw it was already ten.

"Alright guys. It's late. You guys should head home." I said.

"Ok. Itachi and Sasori are staying again right?" Konan asked.

"Yes. Even if I told them to leave they wouldn't." I said, smiling.

"We would never leave you girls." Sasori said.

"And that's why we love you." Kiki said.

They smiled. We said our good byes and Konan got everyone out of the room. I looked over at Kiki and saw she was pale a little.

"Kiki, you feeling alright?" I said.

"Ya. Why wouldn't I be?" she said.

"You're pale." I said.

"I'm just tired." she said.

"If you were just tired you wouldn't be pale." Sasori said.

Kiki feel over anime style.

"Forgot they were here didn't you?" I said.

"Maybe." she mumbled.

Sasori went and sat down next to her on her bed. He put his arm around her and pulled her to him in a hug.

"If there's something bothering you, you can tell us Kiki." he said.

"I know." she said.

I got up from my bed, went and sat on Kiki's other side, and put my arms on top of Sasori's arms so we were both hugging her.

"Then tell us what's wrong." I said.

She shook her head. Itachi came and sat on the bed behind us and put his arms around the three of us so we were in a big group hug.

"Kiki." he said.

She sighed and said, "I just have this feeling that something bad is gunna happen."

"It's probably just because of the accident." Itachi said.

Me and Sasori just nodded.

She nodded also and said, "You're probably right. I just need to sleep it off."

We nodded and me and Itachi went to my bed and Sasori stayed at Kiki's. We all laid down and turned off the lights. I snuggled into Itachi's chest and fell asleep.

When I woke up, I saw Itachi looking down at me, smiling. I smiled back at him and sat up. I looked over at Kiki and Sasori. They were snuggling together on the bed, still sleeping. I smiled more and hugged Itachi. He hugged me back and I laid my head down on his shoulder. I let go of him, got up, and walked over to Kiki and Sasori. I shook them lightly.

"Kiki, Sasori, wake up. We go home today." I said.

Sasori opened his eyes and blinked at me.

"Morning strawberry." I said.

"Strawberry? What's with the strawberry?" he laughed.

"That's what me and Kiki say is your fruit." I said.

"Fruit?" he asked.

"Ya, like I'm a raspberry, Kiki's a blueberry, and Itachi's a plum!" I said.

"Wow. Anyway, should I wake her up?" Sasori asked, pointing to Kiki.

"Ya." I said, going and sitting back down on the bed with Itachi.

He nodded and looked down at Kiki.

"Kiki… Kiki." he said, shaking her a little.

She made a small noise and snuggled into him more. He laughed and tilted her chin up and kissed her on the lips. She opened her eyes as soon as his lips met her's.

When they broke apart, she asked, "What was that wake up call for?"

"You girls go home today." he answered.

"Oh." she said.

I shook my head and rested it against Itachi's shoulder again. Then a nurse came into the room.

"Good morning girls, boys." she said smiling.

"Morning Hana." we all said.

"How's your head Max?" Hana asked.

"A hell of lot better." I said.

"Good. Kiki, how's your side?" she asked.

"Much better thank you." Kiki answered.

"Brilliant. Boys, I hope you've been loving to the girls while I gone." she said.

I laughed and said, "Don't worry Hana. They've been nothing but loving to us."

Kiki nodded in agreement.

Hana smiled and "Good, 'cause if they weren't, I was gunna give them a piece of my mind."

"Believe me, if they weren't loving to us while we were hurt, my sister would kill them." I said.

She nodded and said, "Well, you girls get ready to go home and I'll be back in a little while."

"Alright." Kiki said.

Hana left and we got dressed in our clothes, with some help from the boys. We gathered all our crap and got ready to leave. Right when we finished getting ready, Hana knocked and came in.

"Oh! I see you're ready to go. Well, your sister and friend are here." she said.

We nodded and walked down to the front doors. We said good bye to Hana and thanked her for all her help. We got into the car and I was happy to see Shay driving. Konan was sitting in the passenger seat.

"Hey guy!" she said.

"Hi Konan." we said.

Time Skip!

At Max's house a week after they get home from the hospital

Max's P.O.V.

It was around eleven at night and I was tiered. We were sitting in the living room watching a movie. We were scattered around the living room. I was sitting on the love seat with Itachi. He was sitting on one side and I was laying with my head on his lap, my feet hanging over the arm of the couch. My eyes started to close but I shook my head. Itachi looked down at me and smiled.

"Tiered?" he said.

"Ya… I don't know why thou…." I said, my eyes closing again.

He chuckled and said to everyone, "Alright guys, Max and I are going to bed. She's starting to fall asleep on my lap."

They nodded. He picked me up bridal style and carried me upstairs. He set me down on my bed and shut the door. He shut the light off and came over to the bed and got in next to me. He pulled me to him and pulled the blanket up. He kissed my forehead and we fell asleep.

When I woke up, I felt something tickling my face. I opened my eyes and saw black hair. I looked down more and saw a face. My eyes went wide.

"Itachi?" I said.

"Hmm…?" he mumbled.

"Itachi… you're five!" I said.

"What?" he said, sitting up and looking down at himself.

"Jesus Christ!" he said, seeing he really was five.

I looked at him blankly, then squealed.

"OMG! You're so cute!" I said, mega glomping him.

He laughed and tried to push me away but I wouldn't let him.

"Come on Max! I can't breathe! You boobs are smothering me!" he laughed.

I blushed and let go of him. He chuckled at my blush.

"Come on Itachi. Let's go talk to the others about this." I said.

He nodded and we got up. I took his hand like he really was five and we walked down stairs into the living room. When we walked in, we saw the whole Akatsuki as five year olds. And Kiki was holding Sasori on her lap and Shay was holding Deidara on her lap.

"Awww!" I squealed.

They rolled their eyes as we sat down. Itachi went to sit next to me, but I pulled him onto my lap.

"What the-?" he said.

"What?" I said.

"Really?" he asked.

"Oh come on. I couldn't pass this up." I said, grinning evilly.

He pouted and he looked like total chibi! He was so cute. I giggled and kissed his forehead. He just leaned back against my chest and crossed his arms. I wrapped my arms around his stomach. Pein started talking about this little problem and how to attempt to fix it when I realized that A.J. and Hidan weren't here.

"Um… chibi Pein?" I said.

"What?" he said.

"Where's A.J. and Hidan?" I asked.

He looked around.

"I don't know." he said.

"Alright. Who thinks that A.J. and Hidan did this?" I said.

Everyone raised their hand. Then a five year old Hidan came storming down the stairs.

"Ok, scratch that. Who thinks A.J. is behind this?" I said.

Everyone, including Hidan, raised their hand.

"Alright. We'll look for her, but first, I gotta call the girls. They can't miss this!" I said, pulling my phone out and called the girls.

They came right away. The doorbell rang five minutes later. I stood up with Itachi still in my arms so I was holding him like a little kid.

"Oh my god! This is perfect cosplay!" Shay said, taking out her camera.

"You would think that too." I said.

"Whatever. Just let me get a picture." she said.

I rolled my eyes and turned around. Itachi put his arms around my neck and laid his head down on his arms. Shay took the picture and I went to answer the door. I opened the door and the girls just about died.

"Oh my god! That's so cute!" Sei said.

"Ya, I know. Shay already made us take a picture 'cause she thought cosplay." I said.

They nodded and Musa saw little Kisame walk by behind me and had just about had a heart attack.

"Holy shit! Little Kisame!" she yelled and ran past me and mega glomped Kisame, who started laughing.

I told the girls to come in, and noticed that Musa had brought Hades. I put Itachi down and crouched to pet Hades.

"Hades!" I said, petting the husky puppy.

Hades licked my hand and I laughed.

I looked back at Musa and said, "You brought Hades."

"Ya. I figured it had been a while since you saw her." she said.

"It has." I said smiling.

I stood and closed the door and walked back into the living room. I saw that each girl was with their Akatsuki member.

"Oh my god this so cute!" I said.

Someone tugged on my shirt and I looked down. It was Itachi who had a pissed off look on his face.

"What?" I said.

He just crossed his arms.

"Oh! Right, A.J." I said.

He face palmed and I patted his head. I picked him up again, against his will, and we all split up to search for A.J. the two of us, Kiki and Sasori, and Shay and Deidara went to look upstairs. We searched everywhere upstairs. Even the attic. But she wasn't there. So we went back down stairs and met up with the others only to find out that they didn't find her.

"Well crap. Now what do we do?" Shay said.

"Look all over the city for her?" I said.

"Nah. I'm too lazy to do that." Kiki said.

"Good point. Me too." I said.

"You're so lazy." Itachi said.

I looked at him like he was crazy.

"Well excuse us for not being ninjas." Kiki and I said together.

He just rolled his eyes. I put him down and hopped over the back of the couch. I laid across whole couch. I closed my eyes because I was starting to get a head ache for no reason. I felt a hand on my stomach and I opened my eyes. I looked over at Itachi who was looking at me with a worried look.

"Max? Are you ok?" he asked.

"Ya. I'm fine. Just a little head ache." I said, smiling.

He nodded and sat down on the floor in front of the couch. I patted his head. Hades came over and sat next to Itachi who scratched her behind the ears. She doggy grinned and I giggled. After a few minutes, I fell asleep.

I woke up about an hour and half later and realized that the Akatsuki looked about three years older than before. I sat up and looked at Itachi closely who had fallen asleep with his head on my lap. I moved a little and he woke up. He looked up at me and our faces were only a few inches apart.

"Um… what are you doing?" he asked.

"You look three years older than before…" I said, looking closer at him.

Our noses were touching now.

"Um… how does this help tell if I look three years older?" he asked.

"It doesn't. I just love looking into your eyes." I said, giggling.

He rolled his eyes and said, "Anyway, away from your craziness, how's your head ache?"

"I'm not crazy and better. Thanks." I said, leaning back.

He shook his head and got up off the floor. He sat down next to me. He was a little taller than before so he was definitely three years older than before. Well, physically speaking. Another hour passed by and I looked at Itachi. He looked another two years older!

"Itachi, you look two years older!" I said, pointing at him.

"Hm?" he said, looking down.

"You look ten." I said.

"Huh, what do ya know? I do look ten." he said.

"Hey, an hour ago, you were like, eight. Now you're ten. Do you think that every half hour you get a year older?" I said.

"Seems like it." he said.

"Yo chibi Pein!" I yelled.

"What!" he yelled back.

"Me and Itachi figured out something about you guys being kids!" I yelled at him.

"We'll be in in a minute!" he yelled back.

He and Konan walked into the living room from the backyard.

"What did you find out?" he asked, sitting down in a chair.

"Well, every half an hour Itachi gets one year older. And I see that you guys seem to be a different case." I said.

"Well, they are ten years older than me, so they would grow at a different rate." Itachi said.

I nodded in understanding. Another half hour went by. Me and Itachi were laying on my bed and I groaned.

"Itachi, how long till you're at least sixteen?" I whined.

He chuckled and said, "An hour and a half."

"Awww." I whined again.

He smiled and said, "Max, why don't you just go back to sleep and I'll wake you up when I'm sixteen."

"Ok!" I said.

I turned onto my back and closed my eyes. I felt Itachi pull the blanket up over me kiss my forehead.

Next thing I knew, something soft, warm, and wet was pressed against my lips. I opened my eyes to see Itachi. I kissed him back, and soon we had to separate for air.

"Why?" I asked, laughing.

"Why what?" he asked, smiling.

"Why'd you kiss me to wake me up?" I said.

"'Cause I thought you'd enjoy it." he said.

"Well, yes I did enjoy it-hey! You're eighteen!" I said.

"Your point?" he said.

"You said you'd wake me up when you were sixteen." I whined.

"Well, you look so tired I let you sleep until I reached me actual age again." he said.

"Wait, you're only eighteen?" I asked, confused.

"Yes. Why do you sound so surprised?" he said.

"Well, where we're at in the manga, you're twenty-one." I said.

"Then we must have come from three years before then." he said.

"Hmm…. Makes since." I said, smiling.

He smiled and nodded. I looked out the window and saw it was pitch black. 'That's strange…' I thought. It shouldn't be this dark. I shrugged it off and sat up. I stretched and got up. Itachi got up as well and we went down stairs. I looked around at everyone and saw the Akatsuki were all their right ages. I also noticed that A.J. wasn't there.

"Where's A.J.?" I asked.

"We don't know. We thought that she just ran off after the little prank but she hasn't come back yet." Kiki said.

"Well, we know that she stays out at least a day after she does shit like this. So we'll wait until tomorrow and if she doesn't show then-" I started.

"Panic." all the girls said together.

"That was creepy." Sasori said.

"Ya. And how'd you know what they were going to say Konan?" Pein said.

"Pein, its A.J. we're talking about." she said.

"Good point." he said.

Time Skip!

Two months later; A.J. is still missing

"Max! Where are you?" Itachi's voice called through the woods.

"Over here!" I called back.

There was rustling to my left and Itachi came through some bushes.

"There you are!" he said, hugging me.

"I thought I lost you out here." I said.

"So did I." he replied.

"Did you find her?" I asked.

"No." he said.

"Crap! That was the last place to look!" I said.

"There's got to be somewhere else!" he exlamed.

"No! We've looked everywhere!" I yelled.

Itachi was just about to say something when I suddenly fell to the ground.

"Max!" Itachi yelled.

I tried to respond, say that I was fine, but I couldn't speak, couldn't move. My vision started to go fuzzy. Then, slowly, it started to go black. Soon, all I could see was black.

I woke up in my bed. I blinked and sat up, but winced as soon as I did. My head hurt like hell!

"Ah!" I groaned, holding my head.

I swung my feet over the edge of the bed and looked down at myself. I was wearing my black tank top that had Akatsuki written across the boobs and the blood red shorts with an Akatsuki cloud on the butt. I got up and slowly made my way down stairs. I had to lean against the wall the whole way. I got to the living room and saw Sasori sitting on the couch facing away from me.

"S-Sasori?" I said.

He turned around and his eyes widened.

"Max!" he said, getting up and coming over to me.

Just as he got to me, my knees buckled and I fell forward. He caught me and picked me up bridal style.

He started walking towards the stairs and called over his shoulder, "Oi, Kiki! Can you come up to Max's room please?"

"Sure!" she called.

He carried me upstairs and into my room. He set me down on my bed. A few seconds later, Kiki walked in.

"Huh! Max!" she exclaimed.

"What?" I mimicked her.

Before she could answer, Sasori said, "Kiki, why don't you go tell everyone that Max is awake and to come up here before we tell her."

"Ok!" she said, running out of the room.

"Sasori, what the hell are you two talking about?" I asked, a little frustrated.

"We'll explain when everyone gets up here." he said.

I huffed and said, "Fine."

A few minutes later, everyone filed into the room. Itachi almost ran over to me and hugged me.

"Ok~!" I said, wrapping my around his neck.

"I was so worried about you…" he said against my neck.

"Ok, can someone tell me what the hell you're all talking about?" I asked, leaning against Itachi.

"Max, do you remember the car crash?" Shay asked.

"Of course I do. Why wouldn't I?" I said.

"Because that was two months ago. You've been in Acoma since then." Itachi said.

"What?" I said.

He nodded.

"But I remember being in the ambulance and going into the hospital with Kiki!" I exclaimed.

"You were awake for that Max, but after surgery you never woke up. You had gone into Acoma." Kiki said.

"But… but I remember waking up!" I argued.

"No. It was all a dream." Pein said.

"So then… I dreamed all that? Everything that I remember happening for the last two months… it was all a dream?" I said, close to tears.

"Yes." Pein answered.

"Oh my god…" I said, a tear sliding down my face.

"Oh no, she's crying!" Shay said.

More tears rolled down my face and I started to cry hard. Itachi hugged me to his chest and rubbed my back. Then I remembered something.

"Where's A.J.?" I asked.

"She's at the store. Why?" Itachi said.

"Because in my dream she was missing…" I said, snuggling into his chest more.

He wiped my tars away and kissed my forehead. I looked around the room and noticed that Musa, Sei, Alexandra, and Akane where there.

"Oh! I didn't know you girls were her." I said, weakly smiling.

"Are you kidding? They haven't left since you came back from the hospital." Kakuzu said.

"Really?" I asked.

"How could we leave when our best friend was in Acoma?" Musa exclaimed.

All four of them came over to me and I let go of Itachi and hugged them all at once.

"I love you guys. You're my family." I said.

"We know." they said.

When we let go, I got a sudden urge to eat roman.

"I want roman." I said.

I tried to get up but Itachi stopped me.

"You can't get up yet." he said.

"Ita-kun, I'll be fine. And if I'm not, I'll wear all pink for a week. Deal?" I said.

He smirked at the thought of me in pink and said, "Deal."

I got up and started walking down stairs and fell on my face.

"Told you." Itachi said.

"I tripped." I said, getting up.

All the rest of the day a kept falling because my legs were weak, so Itachi won our little deal.

One week later

"I can't believe I wore all that pink." I said, cringing at the memory.

"Well you didn't listen to me." Itachi said.

"Shut up." I said.

Then and ear splitting scream ripped through the house. We jumped up and ran upstairs. We ran into Shay and Deidara's room to find Shay looking mortified and Deidara looking pissed as hell because he had… Sakura pink hair? What the hell? Itachi and I fell to the ground laughing as Deidara was yelling at us about it not being funny.

"Like hell it's not!" I said through laughter.

"What the hell is all the yelling about?" Pein said, walking into the room.

When he saw Deidara, he burst out laughing and fell to the floor next to me and Itachi. Then Sasori came in and started laughing too.

"Kiki! Come here and bring the camera!" he called.

She came, snapped a picture and ran. Then I ran after her away from Shay and Deidara.

"Yo, you didn't start laughing like everyone else. Why?" I said.

"'Cause I'm the one who did it." she said, smiling.

My jaw dropped and I said, "What? Really?"

She nodded and I laughed my ass off.

And the pranks begin! I still need some more pranks and ideas for the holidays people. Reviews are always welcome. And if you see something that you think I could have done better, let me no. I take constructive criticism! Well, Max is out. Peace!