Riayu: Know, I'm late again, I'm sorry, but I had SO much homework to do, and it's been a little hectic, and I had to read Skip Beat (it's a manga drama incase you didn't know)

Shichibi: Tch, she's all kinds of proud because some g-

Riayu: Covering Shichibi's mouth Eheh, just ignore her. Incase you're wondering, Sharin and Sye are sick and Kaki and Psy are getting ready for the chapter.

Shichibi: Right, and I'm here because I don't show up anymore. Why don't I show up anymore?

Riayu: Because you are simply a part of Kaki's soul now, thus the healing. Anyways, something interesting I found out a few days ago, Karakaki means 'born from fire' interesting.

Shichibi: Boring!

Disclaimer: No one would trust her with Naruto, she'd kill everyone.

Riayu: Eheh, old habit.

"Get up you lazy whore," the voice was heavy and angry, coming through a veil of mist. Gaara wondered dimly why he thought he knew the voice, and, as he fell off of a large cliff, he cursed it. A scream erupted from the red-head as he landed on his back on the dorm room carpet, opening his eyes to look up someone's towel at something he hadn't expected to see.

"PERVERT!" a foot slammed into Gaara's face and his view was obstructed.

"Karakaki, is that you?" he asked as the foot, which smelled like soap, was removed from his face.

"No, I'm the tooth fairy, I just happen to look exactly like Karakaki, baka." She turned away from him and took the towel away from herself, drying her hair and body quickly before pulling on a pair of underwear and a bra. "Could please stop ogling me, I have a boyfriend." Gaara was sitting on the ground, he had in fact been ogling her, but now he stared at her in shock.

"Who?" he asked, watching as she pulled on a fishnet shirt, a tank-top, and a pair of shorts before pulling on her normal male attire, a black T-shirt and a pair of baggy pants.

"I don't think that's any of your business, hurry up and get dressed, we're going out in a little while." She turned to look at him, putting her hands on her hips and tapping her left foot impatiently. Gaara obediently went to the bathroom and took his shower, returning to the room to see that Kaki had left. The sound of screaming indicated that she had gone to yell at Kiba for some horrendous act. Just as Gaara was pulling on his pants there was a knock on the door.

"Are you wearing underwear?" Kaki asked, opening the door, her hand over her eyes.

"Who are you trying to kid, you wouldn't care if I was naked," Gaara said, glaring at her. To his surprise, he got a laugh out of her. She plopped down on her bed, opened a hardcover book that lay under her pillow, and pretended to read it for a few minutes before turning her attention to Gaara, who was putting on his eyeliner.

"Listen," she said, closing the book with a thud and sitting up, "I know I've been a total bitch lately, and I know it's unfair…I," she looked away from the eyes in his reflection that she had been staring at, her face warming as blood rushed to her head. "I'm sorry."

"You're face is red," Gaara said, still looking at her via the mirror, though he knew immediately that the comment hadn't helped any.

"I'm not used to apologizing to people…makes my head hurt." She pouted, the pink seeping out of her cheeks to leave a small smile on her face.

"Where'd you get the tattoo anyways?" she stood up, stretched, then took the eyeliner from Gaara and fixed a smudge on his left eye, her face just inches from his. He swallowed as she stared into his eyes, her long lashes so close that he could count them all, the smell of soap and honey coming off of her skin. "Gaara?" she let out a long, slow breath, leaning slowly away from him.

"The tattoo place a block from my house, why?" he was breathing again and he could feel his hands again, though they were tingling strongly.

"I wanted to get a tattoo in town, maybe a bird, or a sword. Not sure, but I want it on my shoulder," she smiled, opened the door, and walked out of the room.

"Psy, but on some pants!" Kaki yelled, instantly several doors opened and heads poked out, looking up and down the hallway to see if Psy truly was pants-less. To their dismay, she was standing at the top of the stairs with a pair of long cargo pants. "You bunch of perverts, can't believe you would actually look," Naruto, Sasuke, and Gaara joined the two boys at the top of the stairs and they walked down together, gathering the members of Akatsuki before walking out the door and down the walk to the school gate. As they passed through the gates, they all felt a sudden swell of freedom, dangerous, pure, unleaded freedom, tempting them to do something completely spontaneous, Kaki was the first to act. She pulled off her black shirt to reveal the tight tank-top and fishnets.

"You look like a total whore," Psy said as they walked down the street, Kaki shedding her manly apparel and shoving it into a backpack. In moments she had transformed from a wiry man with a soft face to a muscular girl with determined, courageous features. She pulled a skirt from the backpack, pulled it over the shorts, then slipped the shorts down and tossing them in the bag too.

"You're just upset because I look hot and you don't. You have to wait until we get to a rest stop because you didn't think to put your clothes on under your guy stuff. Gas station, wanna use their bathroom?" Kaki looked at Psy expectantly, smiling when she got a look of complete disdain. "Good." After fifteen minutes of being outside the bathroom door, Kaki was starting to lose her patience.

"You're the one who suggested it," Naruto pointed out, a large smile on his face, partially because he was making fun of Kaki, but mostly because Sai was holding his hand.

"Go suck cock," Kaki said, turning a death glare on the two boys, who both shuddered in fear.

"Is Sasuke and Itachi?" a feminine voice said from down the small hallway. A girl with a slight figure, blonde hair with crimson tips pulled back into a pony-tail, and jade eyes came out from the men's room, smiling widely. She was wearing a green, low-cut shirt, a pair of very tight, black jeans, and white sneakers, a green, wire bracelet dangling on her wrist. She launched herself at Sasuke, wrapped him in her arms, and snuggled her face into his hair.

"How's my little emo boy?" she asked, a smile on her face as a vein in Sasuke's jaw started to tick. She squeezed him tight, her arms wrapping around his neck and strangling him for a few moments before she let go and turned to Itachi.

"How's my weasel?" she smiled at him and poked his forehead with a black-painted nail.

"Why are you here?" Sasuke said grumpily, looking up at the smiling girl, who was now blushing profusely, having noticed that all eyes were turned on her.

"I…um…was peeing," he face turned a deep crimson and she looked down at her hands, which were now moving swiftly to pick at the skin under her nails.

"Aren't you going to introduce us to your friend?" Psy asked, coming out of the bathroom in a tight, gold tube-top and a black school-girl-style skirt.

"This is Sukiyomi(1), her dad was partnered with my parents before they died, he's now the president of the company they used to own. As you can see, she is terribly disrespectful and has no sense of when to be appropriate."

"At least I'm not an emo kid with a duck-butt on his head," Sukiyomi said, her face a deeper shade of red. Naruto laughed loudly and the other's tried to smother their laughs and snickers.

"It's nice to meet you," Psy said, hold her hand out and shaking Sukiyomi's, "I'm Psy, that's Karakaki," she went through naming each person except for Itachi and Sasuke.

"It's nice to meet you all," Sukiyomi said, bowing low, her ponytail slipping over her shoulder to reveal a long, white scar on the pale skin of the back of her neck.

"Want to come with us to town, Sukiyomi? We're going to cause mayhem, and probably see a movie," Kaki said, looking at the scar in puzzlement.

"Sure, and you can call me Suki if you want." She smiled and followed them out of the gas station and down the road, giving slight direction as to where to go to avoid falling or poison ivy.

"Do you live around here?" Kaki asked as she stepped onto the sidewalk the led down to an outdoor mall.

"No, I've been hanging out here for the past couple of days; I plan on transferring to the all boy's school, but I have to wait a little longer because my aunt, Konan, said she's getting a job there and can sneak me in." She smiled brightly at them.

"Why do you want to get into the school?" Kaki asked, looping her arm through Suki's.

"Because my dad won't let me go to a co-ed school and all girls school are weird," Suki leaned closer to Kaki, "plus, gay guys are so hot."

"I like this girl!" Kaki shouted, beckoning for Psy to come forward. "We're currently hiding out in the all boy's school too, but let me tell you, there is so much drama it's scary. We got this lot from the school," she jabbed a thumb over her shoulder to indicate the guys; "they'll keep your secret."

"Who's the guy with the brown hair?" Suki asked, looking at the group, "I forgot his name."

"That's Tobi, he refuses to get rid of the mask, but he has a nice face." Psy smiled before being pulled back by Kisame, who began to nibble on her ear.

"Gross! Anyways, go talk to him," Kaki pushed Suki at Tobi, smiling as Tobi moved to catch the slender figure, nearly falling himself.

"You ok?" Tobi asked, helping to right the girl, who was now several shades paler than before.

"I'm fine, thanks for catching me," her voice was thick and indifferent, her eyes filling with tears as she clenched her fists at her side and started walking again. She was so humiliated, to nearly fall in front of all of these people, and to have several of them staring at her.

"Are you sure?" Tobi asked, rushing to keep up with her quick pace. "You look really pale.

"It's the light," Suki said, her eyes drying instantly, her voice terse. "Can we talk about something else, like, why are you always wearing that mask?"

"Old habit, I guess." Suki stopped, turned to look at him, and pulled the mask off of his face, her face blank and her eyes half-closed.

"You're right, you're hideous," she said, pulling the mask over her own face to hide the blush coming into her cheeks.

"That wasn't nice, Suki," Itachi said, flicking her in the ear.

"Neither is your face, you don't see me pointing out such obvious things, though." She pulled the mask off just so he could see her stick her tongue out. "And I was kidding; you have a nice face, just not as nice as mine."

"Suki, stop picking on people," Sasuke said, dropping back to walk beside her. "You can be a real bitch sometimes."

"That's no way to talk to your elders," Suki said, grabbing Sasuke by the cheeks and pulling them, making Sasuke's eyes tear. "Cheer up emo kid, we love you!" she planted a large kiss on his forehead.

"Ack!" he wiped his hand over his forehead as if to get rid of the remnants of the kiss. The progression jolted to a halt and Kaki turned around to look at them all.

"What are we going to do, anyways? We didn't really have much of a plan, any suggestions?" Kaki asked, letting go of Itachi's hand, which she had been holding for about ten minutes.

"Sai and I are going to go see a movie!" Naruto said before grabbing Sai's hand and leading the way to a theater.

"I think that, when he says movie, he means have sex…" Suki said, staring at the retreating blonde.

"She's smart," Kaki said, looking at Suki with mild confusion. "Why do you have Tobi's mask?"

"I think we should go to the arcade!" Suki said, pulling the mask off and putting it in Tobi's pocket.

"Does anyone have money?" Kaki asked, shoving her hand into the backpack to pull out several dollars. "I only brought enough for lunch."

"I can get some money, easy," Suki said, an evil smile on her face.

"The strip club isn't opened until four," Psy said, pulling away from Kisame.

"I wasn't planning on stripping, I have a few connections in town," Suki rushed away from the assembly, melting into the shadows of an alley, emerging a few moments later with a broad smile on her face.

"I don't think I want to know what you were doing," Kaki said, staring at the tall girl.

"Good, I wasn't planning on telling you. To the arcade!" she ran off, not bothering to see if they were following her, disappearing into a building beside the Starbucks. The rest of the group went in after, Psy shrieking with pleasure as she was enveloped by the dimly lit building full of the sounds of children playing videogames and the smell of stale, cardboard pizza.

"I'm in heaven!" Kaki yelled, snatching the twenty-dollar-bill that Suki held out to her and cashing it in for coins. "Who's in for DDR?!?" She ran to the machine, pushed in two tokens, then waited for someone to join her. Itachi, after shooting a death glare at Gaara, who had moved to play, walked to the platform and produced two tokens of his own.

"AIR HOCKEY!" Psy grabbed Kisame, took two of his tokens, and forced him to play, beating him mercilessly. Slowly, each person found something to do, Gaara and Itachi started fighting about playing DDR with Kaki, who stood there and watched them before offering to get off, getting a resounding 'no' from both of them. Sasuke was playing laser tag with Tobi, Suki, and Zetsu and Deidara was trying to get Sasori to win enough tickets to buy a large box of multi-colored clay.

"Lunch time!" Kaki yelled at half-past twelve, running into the laser tag arena to drag out her friends, "we're having imitation pizza, one step up from the gunk they serve at the school!" They sat down at a long table, everyone packed comfortably together, so close in fact that you couldn't move without brushing the person next to you, and they fought over what kind of pizzas to get.

"Pepperoni!" Kaki yelled, glaring around the table.

"Pineapple!" Deidara yelled, glaring back at Kaki.

"I like bacon," Tobi said in his gentle voice.

"Well, we can get bacon and pepperoni then," Kaki said with finality.

"I'm vegetarian," Zetsu said in a kind voice, switching over immediately to a darker voice, "trying to kill me!"

"Ok, so bacon, pepperoni, and a veggie pizza," Kaki said, leaning back in the chair.

"What about my pineapple?" Deidara asked, pouting.

"And I want sardines," Kisame said, bringing silence over the bickering table.

"Kisame, under no circumstances are we getting sardines, no one else will eat them," Psy said, laughing as Kaki pretended to throw up.

"I think we should make a list of what everyone wants then work out the best ones. But we aren't getting pepperoni and bacon, that's more sodium than anyone needs," Suki said, pulling a piece of paper out of her pocket and shoving her hand in Kaki's bag for a pen. The paper was passed around and a list was made, including green peppers and onions with soy cheese, pepperoni, bacon, sardines, pineapple, plain cheese, sausage, and meatball.

"Ok, is anyone willing to give up something they have given the choices here? We have to keep the green peppers and onion with soy cheese, so, if you'll eat that, give up what you wanted," Suki said, circling the first pizza on the list.

"I guess I don't need pepperoni," Kaki said, sighing in defeat.

"And I'll eat meatball," Deidara added. Sardines were crossed off of the list next.

"I didn't say I'd give those up!" Kisame whined.

"Get over it, no one else will eat them. Besides, you're a shark, you'll eat a license plate if you need to," Suki smiled in triumph before looking over the list again.

"Get the sausage off of there too, I'll settle with meatball," Sasori said, wrapping an arm around Deidara, who blushed slightly.

"Ok, we're down to cheese pizza, bacon, and sausage, does anyone really need to have the cheese pizza?" Suki looked around and, when no one responded, crossed it off of the list. "Ok then, Psy, you order."

"What! Why me?" she squealed, looking at Suki with wide eyes.

"Because, I just figured everything out and Kaki gave up her pizza, you're the only girl left."

"That's not true, there's still Deidara," Psy shrieked when Deidara threw a breadstick at her head. The waiter came over, looked at them all with loathing, then opened his mouth to speak.

"One green pepper and onion pizza with soy cheese, and a half-bacon-half-sausage pizza, both large, a pitcher of Mountain Dew, and a pitcher of flavored water, thank you," Psy made a movement that was assumed to excuse the waiter and he huffed away, holding his head high.

"We better not get any spit in our food or else I'll kill you," Kaki said, shooting a glare at Psy.

"You can use my knife if we do," Suki said, pulling a pocket knife from her pocket.

"I don't think I want to know how you managed to fit that in your pants. How'd you get the money anyways?" Psy said, shifting uneasily in her chair.

"I black-mail people for hundreds of dollars, mostly my dad," she smiled and stuck out her tongue.

"She's kidding, right? Please tell me she's kidding," Psy was moving farther and farther away from the smiling girl.

"My dad mails me money every week; I'm living here with a cousin, so I went and grabbed my mail." The lunch came out and was eaten swiftly, the bill delivered, and ten minutes were wasted while Suki and Kaki argued about who would pay. After the matter was resolved, Kaki paid the bill and Suki left a tip, they went back to their games, then went to see a movie.

"I say we see Beowulf," Gaara said, staring at the poster.

"Only because you want to see him run around naked," Psy said with a smile. "I think we should see I am Legend."

"I vote for Hitman!" Kaki and Itachi said.

"American Gangster," Zetsu said, his voice dark and disturbing.

"Screw that, I think we should see The Mist," the loud chatter coming from the group ceased as every eye turned on Suki.

"YOU ARE BRILLIANT!" Kaki yelled, hugging the girl before running to the window and buying the tickets. They filed into the theater and watched the previews with mild interest, all of them trying to come up with an alias for Suki.

"How about Kokoro Hito?" Tobi asked just as the lights dimmed and the movie came on the screen.

"I like it," Suki whispered before everyone turned their attention to the movie flowering before them.

(1) Sukiyomi means 'love of hell' cool, huh?

(2) Kokoro Hito means 'bandit's heart' just thought it was a cool name.

Riayu: I know! It's so late. I am SO sorry. As I've already said, I was really preoccupied, but it's 10:30 at night and I'm sick, so give me some slack.

Shichibi: Stop making up excuses you crazy bitch. Next time, Suki will be joining the school with them.

Riayu: I couldn't think of any good movies, so I used some that weren't out yet. Has anyone else seen Beowulf? I thought it was good, and I wanna see Sweeny Todd.

Shichibi: For sanitary reasons, I will be handing out the cookies today throws cookies.

Riayu: Right, reviews please, I feel terribly unmotivated right now and I might give this up for something else to right (and it's not even a fanfic!) Convince me to do otherwise. AkcessedImagination, I hope you liked the Suki I made, if not, tell me and I'll change her. And Sye, if you say one thing about this being late, Psy is totally going to take it, and you know what I mean (I think)