A/N: sorry for the delay but I didn't consider the review I got for chapter 5 as well a review and I complete for got about the chapter nine that was under it. So…it didn't come out. I was also working on my other story. On top of my mom took the keyboard and mouse so I couldn't do anything and school is about to start so…things have been a little stressful if you can't tell. Now time for my shout outs
Bronka: Thank you for think that it does, I try to do so but I do hit dead spots such as this chapter at least I think it is corny at time. I might as well call this a filler but since I really haven't finished it while typing these thanks well…hehe…I never know it could get better.
Tally Mai-chan: well of course it is slightly like yours I sort of got the idea from you but I have always figured they would be messy and was going to have clean the place but you gave me the war bit idea. Please don't hurt me for that, I have my muses to hurt me for my slipping tendencies.
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RomanceBookReader: thank you, for liking the gift idea. And I thought that would be, the whole that she could melt the rocks and everything. I sort of got that from Firestarter 2 so only those who have watched it will understand. I know the flashbacks are sad but I'm only nice to one of my chars that I made but I haven't put that one in because I'm only on the 2nd chapter and all.
Now thanks to those who have read the story thus far but haven't reviewed and you know who you guys are. And special thanks to Romance, Tally, VampireArgonian, X.Creature.X.EnchainedX, nekosoulreaper, and sarahstoletheworld for adding my story to your favorites. And thanks to Gaara The Eternal, Kumiko, Mizumi, Mushiku, PublicTherapy101, X.Creature.X., Kairi, demon-descended, sarah, and Decieved.Soul13 for alerting.
Jeez-la-wheeze that is a lot of people to thank, like a whole page worth. I'm winded so onto the last bit. Okay now readandenjoy.
Chapter 10: Training With the Snubbed Religious Bastard and The Beginning of Personal Training Time With Tobi
-day 10-
Alex went about cooking breakfast the day of her training. Zetsu and Tobi had gone a mission, god knows where, as well as Deidara and Sasori. She scrambled her eggs and the seasoning she liked and then slid it on to some bread.
Pity they don't have hot sauce. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. Foods food, right me.
She was humming a nameless tune when the four that were still there stepped in. "Oh hello." Alex placed their plates of food in front of them. Kisame having the most of the food.
"HOW THE FUCKING HELL CAN YOU BE THIS CHEERFUL IN THE FUCKING MORNING." The girl rolled her eyes.
"I've always been a morning person. You wake up the next day and you get another chance at life or to death whichever way you like to look at it."
"What happened to your arm?" Kisame asked, pointing to her left arm and she looked at the said arm.
"Oh crap." She turned, remembering that she was going to put the bandage on before the others would see and had completely forgot about.
Alex quickly wrapped the bandage around her arm and turned to the four guys. "See all better know." She lifted her arm and twisted it around back and fourth. "I hope I didn't put you guys off your breakfast."
Kisame had already finished his and she pushed her plate towards him. "You should eat if you are going to train with Hidan."
"And risk puking nii-san, no thank you."
"You never fucking answered fish-breath." Kisame glared at Hidan. The nickname sticking from last night when Alex had yelled at him for being too lazy to cook his own food.
"It is none of your business, that is what, so just shut up about it and leave me alone." The teenage girl got up and headed towards her shared room to get dressed for training.
The girl put on black leggings and a long skirt that if she would twirl it would go up enough to show her underwear. Alex then put on the beater she liked to wear even to sleep, most of the guys including Zetsu realized she liked these for shirts and gave her some spares, and training.
Then grabbing a shirt that belong to her that was ripped and stained, she ripped it so the sleeves were off and sewed them so that she could put the cuff by the elbow and the rest flowed down to mid thigh and both had slits up to about an inch left of material to keep it intact. Alex then dug in her bag to pull out fingerless elbow length gloves that were stripped and went to the wrist.
She put those on underneath the flowing material she had on as well. After slipping on her flats, Alex then headed off to Hidan's training grounds. She'd liked to familiarize herself with places that she needed to hide in or run around.
It was the same as last time, looking like a barren rock with a few scarce trees here and there and a rodeo area. She walked over and sat on the left side of the fence facing towards the center.
Alex tilted her head back slightly and closed her eyes, just clearing her thoughts when happy ones wouldn't come. She started humming again as she hooked her ankles lightly moving them back and forth so her calf would bump the lower horizontal piece of wood.
She heard the door open and close. "Fucking wake up. I'm suppose to be fucking train you to see your taijutsu. What the fuck are you wearing and why?" She rolled her eyes behind closed lids.
"I'm not sleeping you obtuse fucking feculent religious bastard." She opened her eyes and looked at the silver-haired man. "And you will find out why I'm wearing what I'm wearing and it is typically known as a skirt."
"You shouldn't use words like obtuse and feculent around him, you might fry his immortal brain." Kakuzu stated inwardly laughing at Hidan being called filthy and dumb in a very intelligent way so he wouldn't know.
"That would be scary. An immortal who has brain damage and likes to sacrifice people to his god. He might start castrating them for Jashin." A smile split her face. "You ready, immortal asshole?" She jumped down from her perch. "Or are you afraid you make a lummox out of yourself?" Her smile widen, she enjoying pissing off the man as long as it stayed away from Jashin.
He attacked and Alex not being prepared flew into a tree five feet away. She got up slowly and refused to touch the soon to be bruised cheek. "Not so fucking tough now that you've been fucking hit, huh? Got nothing else to say bitch?" He motioned for her to follow him. "Back into the fucking circle."
Alex headed back to the center with her mouth shut tight, while Kakuzu took her spot on the fence, this time watching Hidan closely, not wanting to fly into another tree. "Fucking come on. Aren't you going to fucking attack me bitch?" Another smile graced her face.
"Ready, Hidan." He got into a stance best for defense. She swung a punch at him and he attempted to dodge but went to far and then she spun around to kick him in the chest the skirt flaring out around her making her seem bigger than she really was.
Alex swung again purposely missing to cause the material to get in his face as she aimed another kick towards his stomach. She threw another punch at his face and he didn't move enough out of the way, her arms seeming to stretch beyond what they normally would, the girl land a hit flat on his nose.
Hidan disappeared in a poof of smoke and the girl looked around not being able to find him. He reappeared behind Alex and grabbed her pinning her to him. "Hey Hidan is my singing really horrible to you because your really going to hate this sing." He looked confused but that quickly changed to a hiss of pain when she elbowed him in the gut.
Alex stomped on his foot then threw a hand back to nail him in the nose to bring her fist down between his legs. The girl turned around as he groaned in pain doubling over holding himself and she not wanting to give him time to recover brought her knee into his face and then her foot connected with his 'friend.'
Alex nailed him in the gut once more before running off to hide behind Kakuzu, knowing Hidan would attempt to kill her for getting him twice where the sun don't shine. "Oh fucking sure bitch hide behind the greedy bastard."
She leaned her head out from her hiding place and stuck her tongue out at the religious man. He stuck his tongue out back with a few well placed gestures too. "Oh very mature Hidan."
"She fucking did it first." He pointed to the hiding girl.
"So if she were to jump of a bridge would you do it."
"Fuck no, I'd be too busy laughing my fucking ass off that she'd do a fucking dumb-ass stunt as that."
"He's saying that would you be a lemming you ignorant pompous ass."
"What Alz said?" He then turned to her. "Although you shouldn't resort to childish antics either."
"I just stuck my tongue at him." She then promptly added. "And wasn't I here for training." Alex then turned to Hidan. "So how's my taijutsu."
"It is fucking pathetically weak bitch."
"I'm not a female dog in heat, you dick." Alex yelled. "My name is Alex, not bitch. But keep calling me that so I can start taking it as a complement."
"How…?" She cut off the dark-haired man. "Don't ask."
"Now I at landed four…five…six…eight…nine…ten." She counted off. "So my taijutsu might be lacking in strength but hey I hit you nine times. Twice in the face and the balls, once on the foot and the rest in them landed in your gut." Alex looked at him still behind Kakuzu and then smirked. "And I seem to remember you groaning in pain a few times."
Hidan started grumbling and crossed his arms. "Just wait until you are no longer fucking needed bitch."
"Or what you'll send my spirit on its way to meet Jashin-sama, puh-lease." He glowered at her. "And I told you you'd find out what my outfit is for."
"I still fucking don't know what it is fucking for. The only thing it fucking did was distract, get in the fucking way, and aggravate me to no fucking end." Hidan grumbled.
The girl's smirk widen it to a grin. "Ah but that is exactly what it is for, Hidan." She explained to him as one would explain to a young child. "To give me the inept fight an advantage over the one who has had years of practice."
Kakuzu and Hidan then started to give her advice on how to become stronger and then to have her spar with someone once a week. Actually Kakuzu gave the advice while Hidan just swore and criticizes every little thing she did.
"Hidan stop being a sore loser for once in your immortal life."
"Shut up you fucking bitch." The three were heading to the kitchen, Alex to make something and the others to eat it.
"So I'm a babe in total control of herself. Or you could go by the dictionary." She grabbed a pan and pot from the bottom cupboards. "Female dog in heat, dogs bark. Bark is part of trees, trees are part of nature and natures beautiful. So Hidan thank you for calling me beautiful as nature itself." She bread, cheese, butter, milk, and eight cans of tomato soup.
She opened the cans pouring them into the pot and then added milk to it, stirring the contents together with a wooden spoon. Alex, after putting the milk away, butter pieces.
Putting the one of the butter-side down she cut up the cheese into slices and put it on to the bread and then another on top of it. Butter-side facing up so when she flipped it, it would be down on the pan.
Alex cooked five for the guys and an extra ten for the gluttonous pig named Kisame and three fro herself. Placing the bowls of tomato soup in front of the guys with their plates of grilled cheese she said. "Dig in."
Kakuzu looked at the little she ate, having not even a half a serving on the tomato soup in her bowl. "You didn't eat breakfast, and now you are barely eating."
"Kakuzu don't worry about it." Alex looked at him. "I'm not a big fan of the red soup and I never finish it if I take a full serving. Hell, I barely finish it when I take a half a serving. And three grilled cheeses is a lot for me, I usually only have one and a glass of milk."
She took a drink of her bottle water that she always seemed to have. Kisame polished off his meal and went to get what was left of the soup. "Kisame, do you have a whole in your stomach or something?"
He turned his head and looked at her weird. "Never mind, fish-breath." Kisame then glowered at her thinking along the lines of how Samehade hadn't fed properly on anyone else but him in awhile.
After the girl finished her eating she ran off to take a shower and to change into clean close that she could probably exercise in. She did shower then changed and then she did as many push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, runs around the base, and etcetera.
Alex took a break on the couch and closed her eyes, quickly followed by sleep.
-couple hours later-
Tobi and Zetsu walked into the living room, their mission not even lasting the whole day, to a sleeping, mostly sweaty and grimy, Alex.
She had was now laying down with a blanket over her, courtesy of Kakuzu. The girls eyes moved behind her eyelids and Zetsu instantly knew why her adoptive brother didn't bother wake her. It was still a rarity for her to sleep peacefully throughout the night.
Zetsu walked up to the sleep black-haired girl after waving Tobi off and telling him to be quiet. He slowly picked her up and she groaned in her sleep. She moved in his arms and then buried her face into his chest her left hand then bunching up his Akatsuki robes on his right shoulder.
Alex mumbled something in her sleep and then was silent as Zetsu carried her back into their shared room. He gently placed her on the bed and fixed the blankets so they were on top of her and went to change himself into night garments.
The girl mumbled some more and turned onto her side to dream even more. Her dreams soon turned to nightmares and she snapped awake and bolted up, running into the bathroom, to go puke.
She completely ignored the naked Zetsu, other than to push him out of the way and bent over the toilet. The plant man being embarrassed about being caught without closed quickly put pants on and then went to rub her back and hold her hair out of her face.
Once she finished, she rinsed her mouth out said sorry to Zetsu and walked back into the bedroom, deciding that she wouldn't be able to get anymore sleep. Alex left the room to go find the hyperactive member of the group, Tobi.
She walked up to the wooden door that housed the guy she wanted to see and knocked making sure her tears were wiped away. Tobi answered the door, mask in place, and Itachi left the room.
"I'm sorry Tobi did…did I interrupt something?" Alex looked at the retreating back of the Uchiha.
"No, no AJ-chan. Tobi and Itachi just discussing some things of no concern to otome-chan. Was AJ-chan crying?" He watched the teen wipe at her eyes again.
"No, I was just sick earlier after waking from a night…nightmare. I was wondering if I could sleep with you tonight." Tobi nodded and let her into his room. "Tobi?"
"What?"
"Can you help train me?" Alex looked at him. "Like help me learn to control my chakra, like you did, you know like climb up the walls type control."
The hyperactive Tobi nodded his headed again and got into his bed, Alex crawling in next to him and cuddling into his chest for warmth and protection.
-day 11-
Tobi didn't exactly have a training ground but he did sometimes go outside to do so. Alex followed behind him, knowing she wouldn't be able to runaway even if she wanted to.
Yes, the men and woman kidnapped her but within week she had become attached to them. She even started to wonder if she was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. She even thought that being locked in the nuthouse paid off with how many psychological diseases she knew and how it helped her analyze the people in the Akatsuki, even if she didn't always listen to those medical terms or how people acted in certain situations. Or her favorite way of using it, getting under people's skins especially Hidan's.
Tobi stopped in a clearing with a little waterfall, a waterfall that reminder her of her own little one that she had back home. Alex felt a wave of homesickness hit her and she quickly shrugged it off not wanting to have Tobi see her cry anymore.
He told her to mold her chakra and she sat down crossing her legs Indian style and put her hands in the correct position. Alex did what she did before when Zetsu taught her, the imagery of the little wires running threw her body from her stomach.
She molded it into her hand after thirty minutes of trying. "You take to long to mold your chakra AJ-chan. Tobi thinks you need to practice molding faster or stay hidden while you mold that much. Try molding less."
Alex then tried to do as Tobi said. She did the same thing only imagining less coming and pictured it traveling faster because it was lighter and it did show up fifteen minutes later after trying about eight times to bring less chakra to her palm.
Tobi kept her at this until supper, they both skipping lunch, which isn't a good thing when wasting chakra, where she could summon the amount she did originally in ten minutes.
Her stomach grumbled loudly along with Tobi's. "Tobi's tummy says time to eat." He helped the sitting girl up and she collapse into him, her chakra almost spent. "AJ-chan should practice more tomorrow. If you want in Tobi's room. We'll be closer to the kitchen then when Tobi and AJ-chan need to get food."
Alex tried walking and stumbled. "My legs feel like jelly or marshmallows or both." Tobi got in front of her his back slightly bent to allow her to clamber up on him. She rested her head on his shoulder as he took off running and lightly dosed off.
Tobi decided to let her rest, placed her in her usual seat and went to cook this nights supper. Which turned out to be breakfast for the night.
The others came in: Zetsu, Hidan, Kakuzu, Kisame, Itachi, and Konan who had just finished her mission or business in Ame, Pein staying a little bit longer. Kakuzu took his normal seat on the left of Alex, Konan sitting directly across from her with Itachi on her own left and Hidan on her right. Kisame sat on the other side of Itachi.
Zetsu claimed the other seat next to Alex leaving the seat next in between Kisame and Zetsu open.
Kakuzu lightly shook the dosing girl's shoulder to get her up. "Time to eat Alz."
She saw the Belgian waffles. "Oday di I seep thoogh suppeh." The girl stretched and yawned. "Mhmm. Waffles." Alex grabbed three on to her plate from the center one.
Alex quickly wolfed those down and grabbed another two and finished them just like the first. "Wha…?" She swallowed the food still in her mouth. "What?"
"And people call me a bottomless pit." Kisame was staring at her as she grabbed another sixth waffle. He then turned to Tobi. "Hidan, what did you make her do to increase her strength?"
Hidan shrugged. "The fucking usual fish-breath." Kisame then glared at Hidan for the nickname.
"Are you tasting your food?" Alex turned from the entertaining death-glare match the two were giving to look at Kakuzu. "I think you have a lot in common with a vacuum cleaner at the moment."
Alex shrugged. "So. And yes I do taste the food. It is quiet delicious." She turned to Tobi. "Thank you Tobi for making supper even though it is breakfast."
Alex got up and put her dish in the sink, starting the water, she then poured dish soap in. While her other hand grabbed a cup to fill with cold water. After filling the glass she switched the tap to hot.
She watched as the men placed their plates in the sink and then Konan. All the others had left and Alex started working scrubbing the dishes and putting them in the sink. Alex turned her head and looked at the blue-haired kunoichi when she started to help her.
"Is it hard being the only female in a criminal organization?" Alex decided to try and strike a conversation with the paper bound woman.
"No, not anymore, there is always you now."
"But I'm not part of the group."
They looked at each other and Konan smiled. "You never know. You are good cook and maid in away."
"Yes, everyone seems I should be a maid. Maybe I shouldn't of clean this room." She started drying dishes and Konan grabbed them after Alex was down to put them away.
"Well, maybe we could hang out sometime Konan?"
"Yes, maybe." Konan smiled again as they both headed out of the kitchen/dining room.
The both said night and head off in their direction of their room.
A/N: I'm sorry that this didn't come out sooner, I was trying to make it long as is usual and then when I finished, yesterday noon my computer wouldn't let me added. It actually still isn't letting me add my stories from the computer. So I had to delet something that I already had on here to copy paste this chapter in. Also stories might come later because school just started for me. Creative Writing, Chem, Physics, two college classes which happen to be College Writing and German 4. So I might get swamped and this might get pushed back. So I'm really sorry and please don't kill me for it.
Zetsu(both): that is a lame excuse.
Me: no it is not, i'm in high school and enrolled into U of M I'm a high schooler taking two college classes.
Zetsu(black): it still isn't a good enough excuse. (white) maybe it is just a little. (black) no it isn't.
Me: Okay while my muse is busy fighting with himself. -starts popping popcorn even though i don't like it- -starts eating and watching the amusing show of someone fight with oneself- you two know the first sign of insanity is talking to oneself right zetsu.
Zetsu(both): -glares-
Me: -to r&r- I'll try to keep things steady things might get pushed back a week though so i'm really sorry and i hope you won't hate me for not updating sooner
-Jinx