"Shit I'm late!" I yelled as I ran around the house. The Akatsuki were watching me, having being woken up by my alarm clock. I had taken a shower and blow dried my hair only to find I only had a few minutes to get my stuff ready and make it to my bus stop.

"What are you late for?" Sasori asked, watching as I zoomed past him.

"School." I answered, slinging my back pack on with my socks in hand.

"Dressed like that?" Kisame asked, eyebrow raised.

"Quickest thing to put on." I said, slipping on my socks and shoes. Opening the door, I turned to the group. "Stay in the house and I will be back a little after 3." Over my shoulder, I added. "And do not follow me!" With that I was off towards my bus stop which seemed to be as far away from my house as humanly possible.

After the sprint, I stood there panting while waiting for the bus to make it's turn.

"You look like you had fun." One of my friends said as I came on the bus.

"Shut –huff- up." I panted. She just laughed as I gave her a dirty look.

"Dressed more lazily then usual I see." She commented.

"At least I'm not wearing that see-through white tank top." I said, leaning back against the seat. "That seemed to entertain the boys." She rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, give them a show." She said. "That will get ya a guy." It was my turn to roll my eyes.

"Not interested." I told her. "And I don't really plan on having a boyfriend."

"Why?" She asked. "Most girls, like me, want a guy. While you have the guys drooling over you, you just ignore them." I laughed.

"I do not have guys drooling over me." I told her. She gave me an incredulous look.

"Oh, I forgot you don't really know when you are being flirted with." She mocked. I gave her an unamused look. Sighing, she continued. "You DO have guys that like you, you just don't seem to see it. Why do you have so many guy friends?"

"Because I act more like a guy." I said simply. She sighed again.

"You are a lost cause." She muttered, making me smile. The bus stopped, allowing us to get off and head towards he- I mean school.

We talked with our other friends for a bit until the bell rang, signaling that classes are starting. My first class was chemistry, which is, truthfully, scary cause my teacher was a MAJOR pyro.

Going upstairs and sitting at the small group of chairs that my friends and I sit at, we started talking about 'Creepy Pasta', which some of us just started getting into. The bell then rang and the teacher told everyone to get a net-book and take a quiz.

After the quiz, my friends and I went back to chatting until the bell rang. Sighing, I went to my next class where we had a Socratic discussion about a book we just finished reading.

A couple classes later and I was off to Lunch. I refused to eat the food though because, let's face it, the food looks like it was from a prison, which got me to believe that it was meant to prepare us FOR prison. How nice of them! Anyway, I just end up bringing my own food. And what did I bring, you ask? Well, a magical, wonderful bag full of Cheese-it's!

"Hey Dei." One of my friend's said, coming over to our favorite spot by the elevator.

"Hey Alexus." I responded. She set herself down next to me and took a handful of my Cheese-It's and tossed them in her mouth.

"You look like a slut." She said, making me raise an eyebrow.

"No I don't" I responded, popping a few Cheese-it's in my mouth.

"You're wearing supper short jeans and tight tank top." She said. I looked down at my outfit.

"I don't see it." I argued, pulling my bag away from her hand. "And I have my jacket covering me!"

"You do, and not much." She retorted. Turning to another one of my friends, she asked. "Doesn't she look like a slut."

"Uh, sort of." She responded, a slightly confused look on her face.

"There, Cassie agrees." Alexus said with a smile. "I win!"

"Oh yeah." I turned to my guy friends that were talking at the table near us. "Do you think I look like a slut?" They looked at each other before looking at me.

"No!" One of them said, putting his arms up.

"Yes." Another one said. I narrowed my eyes at him. The other guys didn't say anything, choosing instead to look somewhere else.

"So it's a tie." I mumbled

"No it's not, Corfish was the only one that didn't say so and that's cause he's too much of a pussy to say it!" I glowered at her

"I don't." I mumbled again. She waved her hand at me, looking away. Pouting, I looked away as well, much to the amusement of our friends. When the bell rang, I laughed as Alexus had to go to her homeroom. She flipped me off in return.

It wasn't long before I had to go to my next class, Dance Fitness, and then to my last class.

Finishing up my last class of the day, I finally made it to my bus and plopped down.

"So much walking." I whined. "And I have so much homework to do." Sighing, I sat back and waited for the bus to go. My friend was at basketball practice so I didn't get to see her after school.

When the bus reached my stop, I lifted my heavy-ass pack onto my back and got off. Sighing, I started the trek back to my home. 'Alright, first I'll start with Algebra II, then do English and last will be US History.'

Walking up the steps to my door, I pulled out my keys and unlocked the door.

Opening the door, my mood soured and my eye twitching at what awaited me.

"What. Did. You. Do." I growled, teeth gritted together at the mess that was originally my house. The Akatsuki members, most of which were brawling, all stopped to stare at me with bugged eyes.

"Well… you see…." Pain tried to say.

"He started it." Kisame said, pointing to Hidan. He, in turn, started waving his arms around wildly, pointing at Kakuzu, who pointed as Sasori, who pointed at Deidara, who pointed at Tobi who was in the fetal position, covering his head and whining about not being loved.

"You all are going to clean up this mess, and if you mess up anything again or start a fight, I will mount your heads on the wall after I'm done beating your asses." I hissed though clenched teeth. "And when I say all, I mean ALL of you."

"But…"

"ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO CLEAN THIS UP!" I yelled, slamming the door closed behind me and radiating anger. Everyone, and I mean everyone, all shot off to start cleaning, heads down and shacking. I was too pissed off to be shocked as I glared at the lot of them. 'Like a bunch of children..'

Closing my eyes, I took a couple breaths and went into my room, closing the door and plopping on my bed. Sighing, I took my homework out of my bag and started to work on it. 'Hopefully this will get my mind off the mess in the living room.'

My homework was fairly easy, only enough to where it distracted me but didn't add to my already high stress level.

Finishing up the final paragraph in my essay for English, I set it in its respected binder just as the door to my room opened.

"Dei…" Tobi asked, peeping his head in sheepishly. Closing my eyes and taking a small breath, I answered with a 'yes'.

"Tobi wanted to say that everything's cleaned up."

"Did anything break?" I asked, pulling out my US History homework.

"No." He answered, mask facing the floor. "Is Dei-chan alright?" Sighing, I slumped my shoulders.

"Just give me a few more minutes to calm down." I said, more tired than anything right now. "By the time I finish the rest of my homework, I should be calmed down enough to come back out."

"Alright…" He mumbled, closing the door softly. Sighing again, I looked gloomily at the paper. 'Great, now I feel guilty…' Sighing again, I started answering some of the questions while my mind kept wondering to how I was going to apologize to the group.

Staring at the completed work-sheet, I closed my eyes and let out a small breath before putting it back in my book bag. Going to the door, I paused with my hand on the knob, guilt and shame weighing down on me. Taking a breath and slowly letting it go, I opened the door and exited.

The Akatsuki immediately froze, prepared for me to snap at them again. That made me feel worse.

Looking down, I sighed, running a hand though my hair. "I'm sorry for snapping on you guys. I was over reacting and didn't wait to listen to all that had happened. I shouldn't have done that and I'm deeply sorry."I added a small bow to show my sincerity. "My actions were shameful. I should have a better grip on my emotions." I stopped my rambling when someone put their hand on my bowed head, ruffling my hair a bit.

"It's alright kid." Looking up, it was Kisame that was the owner of the hand. "We should have been more careful and shouldn't have caused the mess. You had plenty of reason to be mad. You gave us a good scare too!" I lowered my eyes and bit my lower lip.

"G-gomenasai." I mumbled, backing up and bolting into my room. Closing and locking the door, I slid down to the floor. Tears slipped down my face as I put a hand over my mouth.

"Dei!" Someone tried opening the door, but it wouldn't budge. It continued on like that for a while before they stopped. I just sat there, trying to reel in the tears that kept spilling out of my eyes. I felt awful, horrible and just like, just like….

I bit my lip, hard. Blood started pooling in my mouth and drip down out of the corner of my mouth, staining my hand red as I tried to get a grip on my emotions.

Taking deep, shaky breaths and slowly letting them go, I started to calm down. Taking a few more breaths, I was finally able to pull my emotions back and lock them away. Pulling myself up, I grabbed the tissue box in my room and patted away the tear stains and get the blood off my hand and mouth.

Once I was sure that I had my emotions in check and didn't look like I was just on the brink of tears, I opened the door again, only to nearly walk right into Deidara.

Blinking, I took a reflexive step back. Seeing this, he grabbed my arm, as to hold me in place, and opened and closed his mouth a few times before actually speaking. "We wanted to make sure you were all right, and were worried." Blushing, he looked off to the side. "U-um, maybe not worried, but we were wondering if you were fine and what we said that made you lock yourself in your room…"

Smiling a little, I relaxed. "I'm fine, and it wasn't really anything you guy's said that freaked me out. It was more you're reaction." Sighing, I shrunk back a little. "I grew up rough and had to do things I'm not very proud of." Flashbacks made me tremble a bit. "Me snapping just reminded me of those things, and those things just happen to be a sensitive spot to me."

"What happened, un? What did you have to do?" I didn't answer, instead looking off to the side.

"I can't answer those questions." I said quietly. "Like I said, it's a sensitive subject." Slumping my shoulders, I let out a breath. "All you need to know is that I'm not that different than you when it comes to growing up." Lifting my head and smiling, I added. "Why do you think you guys are still around?!"

He looked a little shocked before he smiled a little. The other members, who had listened in smiled too.

"Don't get to cocky kid." Kisame said, a large shark-like smirk on his face.

"Who said anything about me being cocky?" I retorted, feeling lighter. 'Everything's alright…

At least, for now….

Hi guys! So, what do you think? I had to re-write this chapter soooo many times to get it right! I everything should have a little more mystery and there is going to be more action to come! I just gotta get Dei to connect a little more to the Akatsuki, which should take maybe one more chap, before I'll start bringing in everyone who wanted to be in this story

THIS IS A REMINDER, ANY FANFIC AUTHOR IS WELCOME TO COME IN THE STORY!

Now, as for which characters are taken….

-Yu Yu Group
-Akatsuki
-Task Force
-Black Butler Crew
-Axis and Allies
-Fruit Basket Crew
-Undead Battle Force
-Homunculi, Ed, All, Hawkeye, Roy and Winrey
-Host Club

You can have any character groups you want from any anime, even from the same anime as some of those up here, as long as they're not the ones in those groups! Also, like what woof-chan1 did, some info on how you want to be would be useful. Examples would be what you would be called (it can be you're fanfic name) and how you would like you're character to be.

Again, I hoped you like the chapter. And as soon as I'm done editing all the other stories and updating their chapters, the updates for the stories (like this one) will be sooner and more frequent (at least I hope so) so thanks for staying with me for so long. Enjoy!