*Important question at the end.

Normal POV

The next morning the Akatsuki woke up to a quite house. No Lauren. No Tess. No Taylor. No one. All they had was a note on the kitchen table written entirely in Japanese.

Itachi picked up the note and started reading it aloud to his fellow members.

"Hello everyone. By the time you wake up we will probably all be gone. Derrick and Trevor will not be home until Friday, they live on their college campus and have jobs so they only visit on the weekends, so they wished for me to bid you farewell. Taylor, Tess and I all have different schedules for each individual day, but we shall speak of that once we get home. All you need to know for now is that Tess, Taylor and I will arrive home today at 3. Please DO NOT try to find us and please DO NOT leave the house. It is fine if you go into the back yard for fresh air, but DO NOT use any type of Jutsu. There are plenty of things in the house that will keep you occupied until we can access some basic and less restricted ground rules for you later. We did the whole breakfast thing the other day so you know how it works. And we have the same appliances that you have in your world so DO NOT burn out house down. See you all later. Lauren."

"Well that settles that," Hidan mumbled, his stomach already crying out for food. "Can I fucking eat now?"

The Jashinist turned to walk away but Pein stopped him.

"Everyone must abide by Lauren's rules, they were once our guests and we are now there's. If you chose to break them you will face the necessary consequences. Is this clear?"

"Hai, Leader-sama."

Pein nodded. "Alright then, do as you wish."

Hidan, Itachi, Kisame and Zetsu all got to work on making their breakfast. Since the house in its entirety wasn't all that big the Akatsuki figured that it'd just be easier for them all not to try and do the same thing at once.

Konan and Pein both walked into the family room and sat on the couches, picking up the books they had started yesterday. Both seemed to be quite intrigued with their reading selections. Kakuzu grabbed a cup of coffee and the latest Consumer Report and walked outside onto the back patio, enjoying the cool fall morning. Tobi said something about Eeyore's tail being missing and ran down stairs. Not having anything better to do Sasori followed him to the lower level, figuring that maybe he'd be able to find something interesting to do. And while everyone else was occupied with something Deidara decided that it was time to groom his hair and walked into the bathroom, locking the door behind him as he prepared to take a shower.

Downstairs Sasori was shuffling through some papers when he suddenly came across a small binder. It read "Lauren's best work; Progression throughout the years". At the bottom of the binder in small print was "put together by Derrick and Trevor- hope you like it sis."

Curiosity taking over Sasori opened the binder; the first tab was labeled Pencil/Pen sketches followed by Black and White, Color, Photography, Anime, and From Us to You.

Flipping the page Sasori blinked. It was a tree, a very intricate and detailed tree. Intrigued by his Lauren's work he took a seat on a bar stool and flipped the page. Every page he turned he became more and more proud of his brat. She was a true artist. Suddenly he found himself turning to the anime tab since it was the biggest. The first thing he saw was a drawing of Itachi and Sasuke back to back, glaring at each other with the Sharingan. He could feel the hate radiating from the two. The passion Lauren put into the picture was amazing and it made the entire thing. The next page he noticed was the Kyuubi, Naruto, and Sasuke. The page was cut into two panels, top and bottom. On the top the two boys stood with intense glares, kunai's held to each other's neck. On the bottom Naruto stood with a smile and Sasuke with a smirk; they were bumping fists. Then the quote in the middle of the page caught his attention. "Forever rivals. Forever friends. Bonds can be severed, but can never be forgotten."

Sasori could not fully comprehend the meaning of such words but he found himself smiling anyway. A sudden chuckling behind him however made it disappear.

"Holy shit, un…Danna were you just smiling?"

Sasori turned and glared at his partner. "Shut up, brat."

Deidara smirked and walked up closer, looking over the puppet master's shoulder to see what had made him do such a thing.

"Hey, isn't that Itachi's otouto and the kyuubi kid, yeah? That's an awesome drawing, un; who did it?"

"Lauren," Sasori replied, "she has an entire binder full of drawings."

Speechless Deidara stepped next to him and flipped the page. Both of their eyes widened when they saw that the picture was of them. Sasori was sitting in the corner of the cave used to capture the Ichibi adjusting some puppets stoically while Deidara was leaning over his shoulder, smirking as a bird fluttered above both of them. It was such a plain yet amazing piece of work.

Deidara and Sasori stared at each other, unable to speak.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Tobi's scream startled the entire house and Deidara and Sasori ran into the theatre room as the others bolted down the stairs.

"Tobi what's wrong?" Sasori demanded as he and Deidara burst through the door, others coming up behind them.

Tobi sat bouncing in a chair squealing and pointing a hand on the screen. "Look how cute Taylor-chan and Lauren-chan look!"

All the members walked into the room and looked at the screen, sure enough seeing tiny versions of Lauren and Taylor on the screen.

"Tobi," Pein asked, "What is this?"

"Tobi found a box in the back called "Home Videos"!" He replied. "Look how cuuuuttte they are guys!"

Looking back to the screen a title faded on.

Facing the wrath of a 7 year old

Slowly the Akatsuki all migrated over to the seats watching as Taylor and Lauren appeared back on the screen.

Lauren looked at the camera with wide, innocent eyes, lips slightly part as she stared at it in wonder.

"Tess, why did you get the camera out?"

"Because," Tess's voice replied, as the camera zoomed past Lauren and a younger version of Derrick and Trevor who stood on opposite sides of the backyard. "They are gonna do something stupid…"

Trevor and Derrick both grinned and charged at each other, arms extended and hands ball into fists.

Taylor smiled and Lauren blinked. "They're going to break their wrists…"

The two boy's fists collided and they both immediately hit the ground, rolling around, holding their hands in pain.

From behind the camera Tess angrily sighed and shoved the device into Taylor who struggled to get it refocused on the red head as she walked over and stood next to her brother.

"What is wrong with you!" She shouted, pointing a finger down at Derrick angrily as he still withered in pain. "Can you possibly be any stupider!"

"Actually," Taylor turned the Camera on Lauren, "it's more stupid. Stupider isn't…" She trailed off and raised her hands defensively as Taylor turned back to Tess who was giving Lauren a demonic glare.

"Anyway…honestly Derrick! Is it your life goal to break bones? Do you enjoy pain? God, maybe I should smack you in the head with a baseball bat, maybe then you'll get some common sense!"

This continued for another few minutes and the Akatsuki all sat there thoroughly amused. This was pure gold to them, something that would waste the day away until the girls got home later.

That section of video ended and as the next title appeared on the screen the video was unexpectedly paused.

"Tobi's thirsty! Hidan~ Go and get Tobi and the other's something to drink!"

Hidan blinked when his name was suddenly called. "What? Why the fuck should I get you a drink?"

"Hidan," Pein said calmly, "I'm sure Tobi would appreciate it if you would."

Hidan scowled, getting the real meaning of "I'm the leader, bitch. And I told you to get Tobi a drink."

Not about to argue back Hidan turned to leave when Pein called his name again.

"Oh, and since you're going up please get everyone a drink."

Hidan silently cursed Pein as he left the room and headed up the stairs.

"Get you a fucking drink…" he mumbled as he stepped into the kitchen. There would be too many glasses to carry if everyone got water…

Turning Hidan opened the door to the garage and flicked the light on. Nearby there was a cooler and he walked over, hoping that maybe there'd be something in it so he could just carry the entire cooler down. He opened the cooler and grinned when he saw the inside was packed with brown glass bottles.

Hefting the cooler up Hidan placed it on his shoulder and walked back in the house, heading down the stairs.

"Here," he said as he walked back into the theatre, setting the cooler down on the floor. Opening it he took one and tossed it to Tobi along with everyone else before grabbing one for himself and sitting back in his seat. Hidan twisted the cap off the bottle and took a swig of the liquid inside.

It had a peculiar taste, but it wasn't bad. He didn't question it nor did anyone else.

"Tobi! Start the video back up!"

"Sorry!" He apologized and clicked the remote, watching the scene come back into motion.

…

Lauren sighed and flopped into the back seat of Taylor's Jeep.

"I hate Monday's…"

"Doesn't everybody?" Tess replied as she climbed into the passenger seat.

"The geeks don't," Taylor said as she turned on the ignition, revving the engine to life.

Tess looked over at her. "…but we are the geeks."

"Nah," Lauren replied, "We're the hipster geeks. Not the brain smart geeks that like to do work."

"Ah," Tess said as they pulled out of the school parking lot and onto the main road.

Tess turned on the radio and "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns and Roses came on.

"Hey," Lauren said after a minute of silence. "Do you think they destroyed the house? Or even got my note…?"

Tess turned in her seat to look back at the brunette.

"Lauren."

"Hmm?"

"They are fine."

Lauren stared at her. "But how do you know?"

Tess rolled her eyes. "Because Pein is there; so if anything were to happen he would kill them. And besides that we haven't been called by the neighbor, fire department, or hospital so nothing could've gone wrong."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," Lauren admitted as they pulled into the subdivision.

From the distance all three girls could tell that the house was not on fire, and as they came closer noticed that nothing was out of the ordinary.

Taylor pulled the car up next to the curb since the drive way was already taken by both Lauren and Tess's cars, and the three girls hoped out.

"See," Tess said as they walked up the porch to the front door. See pulled out her key and unlocked the door, pushing it open with her hip. "Nothing went wro-…" she suddenly stopped. Lying on the floor in front of them was a single empty bottle of Beer.

They all looked at each other. Derrick and Trevor had left a cooler in the garage with beer from a party the other day…did the Akatsuki get into it? If so who knows what was happening…

"Shit," they cursed and walked into the house, setting there book bags down before heading down the stairs, not seeing anyone present on the first floor.

Tess led the way, and as they approached the theatre room, seeing light from under the door.

"Hey," Tess spoke loudly, testing to see if anyone was there, "we're home…"

She pushed open the door and hundreds of tiny black threads shot out at her. While frozen in shock Kakuzu stepped out of the darkness of the room.

"Oh, its Tess, perfect…I was hoping that someone would come home soon…I was hoping that you'd be my company."

Tess blinked. "Whoa there stitches. What are you talking about ? You're drunk aren't you? Let me out of these things."

Kakuzu pulled Tess closer and lowered his mask. "I am a guy you know."

Tess stared at him like he was insane. "What the fuck…Kakuzu put me down. Hidan'll be pissed…"

"That's what I want," Kakuzu mumbled smirking, and pulled her into the room, closing the door without another word.

"Lauren!" Came Tess's muffled cry. "They're so drunk! Retreat!"

Lauren grabbed Taylor and dragged her up the stairs, into Derrick's room since it was the most heavily armed.

We should be alright here for now… She thought to herself when there was suddenly a groan behind her.

Taylor and she both whipped around; surprised to see Itachi slumped against the side of the bed.

"Onii-san," Lauren said scooting over next to him. "What happened, are you okay?"

His heavy eyelids opened to reveal foggy onyx eyes. "Hidan brought us down something to drink earlier…sadly I didn't figure out it was alcohol until after I had already drunk one…I can't hold my alcohol very well…"

Lauren smiled and brushed a strand of hair out of his face. "It's fine…but what about the others? What happened to them?"

Itachi sighed, trying to regain his composure. "After a while everyone started to get out of hand…they had drunk too much and were losing control of their minds and bodies…that's when I managed to get up here…"

"Shouldn't everyone just be passed out then? Why did Kakuzu randomly grab Tess and say he was hoping for some "company"?"

"Imouto." Itachi finally said, pinching the bridge of his nose. "We are a group of S-rank criminals, hated by everyone. How often do you think we get drunk? Almost never. So when we do, we tend to go all out…"

Lauren and Taylor both blinked. "Meaning…?"

"We tend to want to have sex as well…"

"Oh shit," they cursed. Taylor turned Lauren.

"I know that since I haven't mastered any type of stealth yet you won't want me going out there."

Lauren nodded. "Yeah, if you could, please just stay here and help Itachi recover. I'll go out and try to find everyone and get Tess back here with us."

"Alright," Taylor nodded, "I'll lock the door after you're gone."

Lauren stood and walked towards the door. "Imouto," she stopped and looked back to Itachi, "Don't let anyone touch you or there will be hell to pay…"

Lauren only cracked a smirk and saluted them before walking out the door.

As she slowly walked down the hallway she chucked a little. It was funny how they were treating this as a lethal situation when really it was just a bunch of drunken criminals that wanted you in their pants.

Lauren stopped laughing, that was actually kind of scary…

She stopped at the end of the hall and opened the door to Trevor's room. Inside the room was dark and smelled of cologne, but she stepped into the room anyway, trying to find the light switch.

After a few seconds she found it and flicked the lights on…but not before a pair of arms snuck themselves around her waist and a head rested on top of her own. Lauren inched her head back a little and felt the edge of a hard mask touch her hair.

Shit.

"Madara…"

She was suddenly pushed up against the wall, the masked man's hands gripping her hips tightly as he leered over her.

"Hello Sōtai."

O-O

Hi.

I have a question: I plan to put some mature content (kissing, tearing off of clothes. Not too detailed) in the next chapter…but not too much, just things that drunk/stupid teenagers might do. But would you prefer for me to skip over it and start after it all or do you not care/want me to just do what I plan to do?

I thought that having something like this might be interesting, but in the end to me your opinion matters too, so I just wanted to see what you'd think.

Sorry for not updating-I hate school. That's all.

But thankfully it's over in a month and a half :D

And since during the summer I am a loner and have nothing going on really I should have more time to update :) Hooray!

Anyway. REVIEWS are APPRECIATED. Please let me know your answer to the previous question :)

Have a good day.

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