Bookworm here to give ya'll chapter 9~!
I do not own Naruto.
I don't know why ppl write that, but I'm gonna start doing it to. Yup, I'm jumping on the band-wagon.
EnJoY~!
Becka woke to rustling sounds and drosily lifted her head up. To her surprise, she wasn't at the foot of the foot of the bed anymore, but up along-side with Deidara. Snuggling against his chest.
Wow, she felt like the luckiest person/cat on earth. Here she was, in bed, with a super hot guy, in the Akatsuki layer!
Shaking her head slightly, Becka focused on the moving figure climbing into the bed on the other-side of the room.
Must be Sasori. She thought grimly resting her head on Deidara's arm. I wonder what's it like being a puppet... She wondered. Being un-able to breath or take a bath...eww.
Now pushing that thought out of her mind, Becka closed her eyes and yawned.
Boy, she sure was tired. Her mind drifted as she listened to the rain pitter patter on the window and fell asleep.
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Becka woke to an empty bed and glanced around the rather bright room. Surpressing a yawn, Becka did one of those cat stretches and climbed off the bed wondering where Deidara left. Sasori wasn't in his bed either! Now that she was alittle more awake, she noticed that some of their things were missing and that meant one thing, mission.
Becka jolted. So soon? From what she had guessed, they just returned from a long mission not even four days ago! Now they were sent off again?
Frowning, Becka crawled under the door and padded down the hallway, her tail low as she gloomily went downstairs and into the kitchen.
Nobody was there. In fact, it was deathly quiet. There was no screaming Hidan, no laughing Tobi, nothing.
Fear clutched Becka as she bolted out of the kitchen and back upstairs. She quickly checked all of the rooms and discovered that they were pretty empty. They were all sent on missions? She thought in disbelief.
Her stomach tightened in fear as she glanced around the empty hallway. Surely there had to be at least one person here and that person had to be Pein. He never seemed to leave his office, so she'd check there. Doing her little crawl under the door, Becka popped into the office and relief crashed into her. There was Pein doing paperwork and Konan off to the side doing some paperwork as well. It reeked of boredom...
"Meow?" Becka pawed at Konan's leg. "Meow meow mew?"
Pein glanced over at Aki, "How'd she get in here?"
Konan shrugged, "Beats me, she's probably wondering where everyone is."
Her acusations were proven right when she saw Aki Hana's tail wag back and forth.
"They're all on missions." Konan explained lifting Aki to the work station she was at, "But Hidan and Kakuzu's due to arrive some time tonight."
Aki's tail dropped and Konan chuckled. "Don't be all gloomy about it." She started filling out paperwork, "Now if you excuse meh."
Aki stared at the paperwork as if she were reading it and cocked her head. She placed her paw down on one of the papers. They were granted or rejected type of papers from the village.
Konan and Pein both did alot of paperwork due to them being the god and angel of Amegakure.
This paper was requesting more strip joints. Konan scribbled a huge 'REJECTED' sign on it before signing her name down and putting it on the stack of rejected papers.
Aki stared at the papers and stared doing the weirdest them. She started pushing papers to opposite sides of the desk. Before Konan could scold her, she noticed that Aki was putting the ridiculous requests on the left and pretty okay one's on the right.
"You can read this stuff?" She asked in disbelief. Aki simply twitched her tail and began sorting through the papers. The most difficult ones she nosed to Konan. Aki was sorting papers using her nose, paws, tail, the works and things quickly started to get organized and within an hour or so, it was all done.
"Pein, you need any help?" Konan asked innocently rolling her chair around. Pein was to busy in mountains of papers to really look at her. "You need to go through those papers first."
"But I'm done!" She said smugly. Pein snapped his head and stared in disbelief.
"How?"
"Aki Hana helped me."
He snorted, "Yeah right."
"It's true!"
As if were a command, Aki leaped off of Konan's desk and onto Pein's.
"Aki, I ain't got the time-" He broke off and stared as Aki started shifting papers into 3 piles.
"Told you." Konan said with one of those ego boosting voices. "Now since I"m done, I might as well help."
Her chair wheeled over to his working area and all 3 started working. Konan and Pein didn't even really need to look at the requests. The rejected ones where on Konan's side and the accept-able ones were on Pein's side. The extremly hard one's were in the middle.
Within the next 4 and a half hours, they were done. The desk was empty and only a few papers related to missions were left.
Pein scratched Aki behind the ears. "I believe Aki here has done us a favor."
"Not just a favor. She helped sort through an entire week's worth of paperwork with us in just a couple of hours." Added Konan giving Aki Hana some lovings as well.
Becka felt as though she were in heavon. All the attention she was getting right now made her purr, alot. Finally they pulled away and she was lifted up by Konan.
"Lets go downstairs and make some breakfeast or something." She suggested to Pein who nodded with a smile grin. "We might as well since we've got nothing else better to do."
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Becka eagerly chewed up the chocolate chip pancake Konan made for her. It was a small pancake, but it filled her up along side with her small bowl of coffee. Becka wasn't a coffee addict like Pein and the others were, but she didn't mind the occasional drink.
The mood was light and it sorta felt like a sunday at the orphanage. Every Sunday at the orphanage, every child would help Eva bake sweets. They ranged from Cookies, to cakes, to brownies, everything. They'd spend the whole day baking and whatever they liked best would be what they had for dinner. A wave of home sickness struck Becka like a wave. Boy how she missed Eva, the children, heck, even Mathew.
Mathew was the most hyper child there and could cause a nation wide disaster if he was left unsupervised. Mathew was one of Becka's favorites.
Remembering his goofy grin made Becka feel even more homesick. Right now she'd be helping Eva make the beds while Mathew threw pillows at her.
Pushing that out of her mind quickly, Becka glanced at the humming Konan and felt a small smile grow on her face. They were like a married couple, Konan and Pein. Pein was at the table reading the newspaper while Konan cooked. It looked like something Becka had seen on Tv.
Lapping up some coffee, Becka began to wonder why she was here exactly. Why couldn't she of got sucked into Fruits Basket instead of Naruto?
Maybe there was some sort or connection? All this thinking confused her even more than she already was.
So, she just decided to forget thinking how she got here and would just go with it. But, she wondered how long she'd be here. When was she going back to the orphanage?
How long was she going to remain in cat form? Once again, Becka got confused and nibbled on the pancake.
Pein patted her on the head, "It's pretty quiet when all the idiots are gone." He mused.
Konan slid another pancake on his plate, "It's also kinda eeire."
"Your telling me."
-Insert chuckle-
Becka shook her head at their chuckles. She had been here about 3-4 days and she still didn't understand their humor, not one bit.
Glancing at the time, she was abit surprised at the time. It was around dinner time and they were here eating pancakes, how original.
"Tomorrow I've got a council meeting." Announced Pein for no appearant reason, "So I might ont be here in the morning."
Becka blinked with curiousity as she listened it. "There have been more grass Shinobi spotted in the outer regions and the villages' leaders are starting to worry."
"How bad?" Konan asked clearly worried.
"They say they've been appearing more and more, about 6 or 7 at a time. My guess is they're trying to track our base down."
"Isn't that the Leaf ninja's job?" Asked Konan, her tone of voice just got flat and none intreasted. "They've been a thorn in our side ever since that Naruto fella returned back from training with the Toad Sage."
Pein nodded and took a sip of his coffee, "No matters though, we'll just need to re-ajust the schedule abit and start hunting down the tailed beasts."
Becka had a sudden urge to leap to her paws and paw slap him. He was underrestimating the enemy to much! "You fucking artard!" Was all she growled. Pein and Konan both glanced at her. "What's wrong Aki Hana?"
Becka took a breather and began washing her face, ignoring the two looks she was recieving. Washing her face wasn't the most fun things, but she couldn't exactly take a bath due to her being a cat. Being a cat had it's advantages as well as it's disadvantages.
She heard the front door open and a loud, "FUCK!" And knew instantly who was back. Becka immediatly darted from the kitchen and into the living-room where Kakuzu and Hidan were.
She climbed up Kakuzu's leg and onto his shoulder and began rubbing against his cheek purring.
"Why hello Aki Hana." He said in a surprised manner, "Didn't expect you to be this happy to see us."
Becka simply purred and leaped onto Hidan's shoulder. "What you want you damn cat?" He growled, but that didn't fool her! Hidan was a cat lover, he had told her himself yesterday!
Becka sat down on his shoulder and leaned against him. She was super happy some one was back. Both Pein and Konan barely spoke about something intreasting and where pretty serious, so you may see why she was over joyed to see them.
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Hidan clomped into the kitchen with Aki riding on his shoulders and was abit confused at what he saw. Even Kakuzu was abit surprised when he walked in right behind him.
"Why the fuck are you fuckers down here?"
"We finished the paperwork early." Replied Konan simply sounding cheery, and that freaked them out even more. "Who are you and what the fuck did you do to fucking Konan?" He asked taking a defensive pose. Kakuzu swatted him on the back of the head, cause Aki Hana to lose her footing and tumble to the floor. Aki landed on her fours and retaliated by lunging onto Kakuzu's leg and attacking it. While doing that, she was growling her head off.
"Whoops, sorry Aki." Kakuzu chuckled in amusment pushing Aki away with his foot and glancing at Leader-sama. "Seriously, you never finish your paperwork early, did it catch fire or something?"
Leader-sama shook his head, "Aki Hana helped us out by sorting the papers. It saved us alot of time. The mission went well I presume?"
The masked man nodded slightly, "Yes, and also...I didn't know Aki could read."
He shrugged, "Neither did I."
"She's a fucking ninja cat!" Announced Hidan plopping down, "Oi! Bitch, I want some pancakes!"
"Make your own!" Barked Konan.
"Damn..."
Kakuzu turned and sighed at Hidan, "Ninja cats can talk you moron."
"Well she seems to fucking understand us fucking well!"
Aki Hana was paying no attention to the arguing immortals as she pawed at Konan.
"Yes Aki?" The origami woman asked lifting her up to the countertops. "You want another pancake?"
"So the the fucking cat gets pancakes!"
Konan ignored Hidan and handed a medium sized pancake to Aki who jumped off the counter and onto the table. Then, she padded up to the sitting Hidan and dropped the pancake infront of him. Hidan stared stupidly at her and Aki nosed the pancake towards him, "Meow." She said waving her tail back and forth.
Hidan threw Konan a smirk and waved the pancake, "Victory is mine!" He declared biting into the pancake. Kakuzu faceplamed. "You do realize that that was in a cat's mouth and dragged across the floor right?"
Hidan shrugged, "Taste pretty fucking good to me."
Konan threw the immortal a disgusted glance, "Bleh."
Aki Hana was purring her little head off as she watched Hidan eat. Pein guess that she was extremly pleased. Konan decided to say a small comment, "I guess Aki has a new pet then?"
Hidan frowned at her, "I'm the fucking master and she's the fucking pet."
Aki's ears flattened and she used her claws to ripped the pancake out of the immortal's hand and padded a few pawsteps away before sitting down next to it.
Konan burst out laughing, "I guess it's the other way around for her!"
Even Kakuzu snickered and Pein grinned as he flipped through the newspaper.
"Oi! Bitch! That's my pancake!" Hidan reached for it and recieved a nip from Aki making him jerk his hand back. "Ah fuck it."
Aki had a smug look on her face as she nosed the pancake back to Hidan.
"I don't fucking want it anymore." Kakuzu watched as Aki rolled her eyes and leaped onto his shoulder. "Meow meow meow mew!" She seemed to be telling him something and he guess it was about Hidan.
"I know, he's completely useless as a pet." He answered back pretending to understand her, "It took along time just to potty train him."
"Fuck you!"
Aki Hana and Kakuzu both snickered at the immortal. Pein who had been observing all of this tilted his head, "You two seem pretty fond of each other."
The masked man shrugged, "Yeah, she's tolerable."
Then they all heard the from door slam open, "AKI HANA!" They heard Tobi's loud screech as the masked man skipped into the kitchen. "There's my kitty!" He squeeled plucking Aki off of Kakuzu and giving her a crushing hug. Instead of yelping or trying ot escape, Aki snuggled into his neck and started purring.
"Awww." Cooed Konan flipping a pancake, "I wish I had a camera right now."
Zetsu came in after Tobi, Mission was a success Leader-sama.
He reported handing Pein a small scroll, Why are you down here?
"Finished paperwork early." The leader replied stuffing the scroll into his pocket.
Then Zetsu not liking the spot light, sunk into the ground probably going to his enchanted garden or something to talk to plants again.
Tobi and Aki broke up their little lover's circle and the masked man glanced over at Konan,
"Can Tobi have some pancakes please?"
Konan nodded, "Since you asked nicely Tobi, yes you may."
"WHAT?" Hidan crossed his arms and snorted. Aki Hana gave him a pat with her tail before bounding across the table and running out of the kitchen.
Kakuzu took a seat and stretched his arms, "So when are the other two groups coming back?" He asked Leader-sama with a yawn.
Pein shrugged, "Some-time tomorrow morning I think." He said glancing at the time. It was around 8ish.
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Becka yawned as she curled up in a ball in the middle of the couch. She heard distant laughs and yells from the kitchen and purred to herself. With another yawn, Becka closed her eyes and fell asleep with a small smile on her face.
End~! Decided Becka/Aki needed to score some brownie points with Konan and Pein. :'3
Her relationship with Hidan is very unique. It's a love hate thing :]
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