Chapter 10
~Halloween Surprise~
"Hey Yume," I hear someone shouting my name from behind.
Turning around I see Felix. Seeing he has my attention he waves his hand and runs over to me. I give a half smile as he reaches me.
"Konichiwa Felix," I say.
"Are you okay? I was going to talk to you after class, but you got out faster than anyone else."
"Yeah I'm fine, gomenasai. What is it you want to talk to me about?"
"I was wondering if it was okay if I came over your place today since school is over for the day. You can help me understand the material. Plus I have already talked to my coach about it and he said it was okay if I missed practice today if it meant I will be working on my schoolwork."
"I would have to call home," I reply. "My parents got home last night so, I'm not sure if we're going to go out as a family or not."
"Yeah, cool, I totally understand," he replies with a grin.
"I'll call them right now," I say pulling out my phone.
He nods and I dial the house number. After the phone rings a few times someone picks up. I smile at Felix to let him know someone was on the phone now.
"How does this thing work," I hear Itachi on the other side ask.
"Oh that is so adorable," I hear my mom gushing in the background. "I have met a lot of kids your age who already know how to work the phone. Here let me help you."
"Um…hello," I say.
"Did that phone thing just speak, un?"
"So cute," mom says on the other side once again. "Now Itachi, this is how you hold the phone…and then you speak through it."
"Hello," I hear Itachi a lot clearer now.
"Hey Uchiha-kun," I say with a small smile. "It's me Yume. Can you please give the phone to my mom?"
"Hai," he replies. There is a few moments of silence.
"Hello," my mom answers.
"Mom I want to know if it is alright if I brought someone home with me to help them with their school work."
"What is this person's name," she asks in a serious tone.
"Felix," I reply not knowing his last name.
"Well, as long as he is respectful and doesn't swear I don't mind. However, we will be going out in about two hours, so he can't stay for long."
"Who do you mean by 'we'," I ask slightly confused.
"You, me, your father, Mayumi and the children, we are all going to go out and eat."
"Is the kitchen not finished?"
"The kitchen is finished; however, there are some problems with the new stove. So your father and I decided we will all go out to eat instead."
"Okay, Arigato mom. I will see you when I get home."
"Drive safely," she says. Before I go say something I hear my mom's voice go distant. "Now Itachi, since you answer the phone you have to say goodbye."
"Goodbye Mori-san," Itachi says.
"See you soon Uchiha-kun," I reply with a smile. No doubt, my mom is having fun with the kids.
"Oh you are all so cute I could just pinch your cheeks," I hear my mother once again gushing.
I chuckle as I close my phone and place it in my pocket. Felix is staring at me with a patient smile. I smile and nod my head.
"My mom says as long as you're respectful and don't swear she says it's okay. However, we're going to go out for dinner so you can't stay for long."
"Arigato Yume, it really means a lot to me that you're helping."
"It's no problem. Do you have your own car? You can follow me home."
"Okay that sounds great," he replies his smile turning into a grin. "I'll escort you to your car."
"Um…arigato," I say slightly shocked.
Felix grins and holds out his arm for me. I hesitantly place my arms around his. He gives me an encouraging grin and together we start walking down the hallways. It feels really weird since this has never happen to me before. Plus there are a lot of people starring slightly shocked and some of them are evening whispering amongst themselves. Is something wrong?
As, we get near my car I pull out my keys. Felix reaches over and takes the keys from my hand. I look up at him confused. He gives me a grin.
"Which one unlocks the door I'll do it for you," he asks confusing me more.
"The middle one," I reply as we finally reach my car. "I can unlock the door myself."
"I know," he replies placing the keys through the lock and turning them. Pulling them out, he turns to me with a smile. "But then I wouldn't be able to do this."
He then proceeds to open my car door for me. This is just strange. No guy has ever done this for me, with the exception of my dad, but that was when I was a little girl.
"Why are you doing this," I ask.
"I'm just being a gentleman like my parents taught me to do," he replies, the smile never leaving his face.
"Okay," I reply with a nod. "Arigato," I then say and get inside the car. As I buckle up he closes the door. I roll down the window to let in some of the cool air.
"I'll go to my car now and then you can lead the way," he says leaning a little into the car.
"I'll wait," I reply.
He smiles then pulls away and starts walking. My eyes slightly narrow on his retreating back then roll my window back up. Turning the ignition on, music starts playing and I reach over to turn the A/C.
The drive home doesn't take long. When we reach my house, I quickly turn my car off and get out. I have been feeling guilty all day for snapping at the children yesterday. As for Mayumi, I do feel guilty for snapping at her this morning, but I'm still a little mad at her.
"I'm ready," Felix says as he walks over to me his backpack slung over his shoulder.
I nod my head in reply and make my way to the door. Since my parents are home, I don't bother with unlocking the door. Turning the handle, I push the door open.
"Yume-san Tobi is happy you're home," yells a very excited Tobi and suddenly I fall to the ground. I look up to see Tobi hugging me. I chuckle and hug him back.
"It's nice to see you too Tobi."
"Yume-san is not mad at Tobi no more?"
"No I'm not made anymore, and I apologizing for yelling yesterday," I reply with a smile and patting him on the head.
"Yay, Tobi must go tell this news to everyone," Tobi yells then gets off me. He then runs back into the house.
"Is that your brother," Felix asks as he helps me to my feet.
"No," I reply taking my shoes off and walking into the house.
"A cousin," he asks as he walks in and takes his shoes off.
"No, I'm babysitting some kids," I reply telling him the same lie I told my parents.
"How many is some?"
"Ten," I reply like it's no big deal.
"That's a lot of kids," he replies as he looks around the room.
"You can sit on the couch. Do you want anything to drink?"
"Water will be fine," he replies with a small smile.
"Okay," I reply placing my bag down.
I walk into the kitchen to see the new changes. It is obviously clean. The once pastel yellow walls are now black with red clouds outlined in white. That doesn't seem like my mom's kind of style idea. There's a new fridge, table and chairs.
In the middle of the room are all of the children standing in a line. All of them are dressed up in clothing Mayumi and I didn't buy for them. Must be some designs my mom made. I knew she would get them to do what she wanted. In the corner is Mayumi grinning.
"Hey," I say walking over to one of the cabinets.
"Do you like the kitchen," my mom asks as I pull down two glasses. "I was going to paint it blue, but then Tobi here wanted to paint the room like this. It's…different, but I'm sure I can get used to it."
"It's nice," I reply filling up one of the glasses with water.
"Do we really need to be freaking standing here," Hidan asks. "I don't want to freaking play freaking dress up anymore."
"Deal with it baka," Kakuzu says. "We're all stuck doing this."
"Are you turning them into models," I ask as I fill the other glass with orange juice.
"Yes and they all look adorable," she replies clapping her hands together. "Now just imagine what they would be like when they are adults. They will have girls swooning over them."
"Good thing they're still too young for you to play matchmaker with them," I say with a small chuckle.
"Sadly," mother replies with a pout. "So is that friend of yours over?"
"What friend," Mayumi asks pushing herself off the wall.
"Yeah, Felix is in the living room. I came in here to get us drinks."
"Who the heck is this freaking Felix, and what kind of freaking name is that?"
"I thought I told you I didn't trust that guy," Mayumi says with a slight narrowing of her eyes.
"You don't trust any guy," I reply and walk out of the kitchen with the glasses.
"Now I think we should all just calm down," I hear mother say as I continue making my way into the living room,
"Here you go," I say as I hand Felix his glass of water.
"Arigato," he replies with a grin.
I nod and sit down while placing my glass on the small coffee table next to the couch. Pulling my backpack onto my lap, I start rummaging through it for my books for the class I share with Felix. I pull them out along with some paper and pens.
"Let's get started," I say.
"Okay," he says.
-Time Skip: 2 Hours Later-
Helping Felix was a little frustrating, but I dealt with it. There were times I had to keep repeating what I was explaining, until finally I just explained it in simpler terms.
My mother had been using the children for modeling and would come out into the living room. She would ask our opinions on the outfit and gush about how cute each kid looked. After a while, she stopped and the children were free to do as they please. Some of them –Sasori, Pein, Itachi, Zetsu, and Kakuzu- stayed in the living room listening in on me tutoring Felix.
"Gomen Felix," my mom says walking into the room. "You're going to have to leave now. We're going out for dinner."
"No problem Mrs. Mori-sama," Felix says with a smile.
"Hope I was helpful," I say standing up with him.
"Yeah, thanks a bunch," he says holding out his hand with a grin.
"No problem," I say placing my hand in his and shaking it.
"We should hang out sometime," he says surprising me.
"She'll have to think about that," I hear Mayumi say from behind me.
"Sure," I say to Felix with a smile just to spite Mayumi.
"Cool, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Later," I reply taking my hand back.
"Have a nice day Felix. Arigato for your opinions," mother says.
Felix nods and grabs his belongings. Placing his shoes back on, he opens the door. He waves then walks out. I turn around to see Mayumi glaring at the closed door.
"I'll go get changed," I say then quickly run upstairs to my room.
I take a quick shower. After the shower I put on a strapless purple lace dress, with a baby blue VS pencil pants and a pink and black stripped hoodie. Brushing my hair quickly, I place it in my signature side ponytail.
"Ready to go," I say running downstairs to see everyone waiting for me.
"We're taking," my father says.
"A limo," mother finishes. "Since there…"
"Are so many of us," dad completes the sentence.
"Tobi wants to know, what is a limo?"
"You'll see," dad says with a small chuckle.
"Baka," I hear Mayumi mumble.
As we start walking out we each put on our shoes. Once outside the children kind of stand frozen look at the limo. Father, locks the door while my mom gently pushes the children towards the limo.
In the limo my parents are sitting together. Mayumi is sitting near them but is staying away from everyone. She has a scowl on her face and her arms are crossed. I just shrug my shoulder and turn to look at Tobi sitting next to me. He is jumping up and down in his seat. Next to him is Kakuzu. Then it goes from Kakuzu to Kisame to Zetsu and then Deidara. Turning to look who is sitting on the other side of me I see Konan. Then it goes Pein, Sasori, Hidan and Itachi
The ride is kind of quite. Tobi was asking questions the whole ride. My mother would giggle and alternate answering his question with my dad. I don't remember much that happens because I fell asleep. Konan gently woke me up when we arrived at the restaurant.
As of now, we are all sitting together at the biggest table. We have already order our food and drink. Unlike last when we ate at a restaurant, none of the children are having a food fight or trying to destroy anything. Almost everyone is having a small side conversation with one another.
I look down at the food at my plate and just poke it with my fork. I ate some of it but I'm just not hungry. However, if I don't eat my parents and Mayumi might start over reacting.
Maybe I am getting sick and it's just the normal cold flu. Oh, who am I kidding I'm not sick with the flu. I'm not sick at all and as long as I believe that, it will be true.
"Yume is everything alright," I hear my mom ask pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Hai, I'm fine," I reply with a small smile.
"Are you sure," father asks. "You barely touched your food."
"Gomen, I was lost in thought."
My parents nod but keep an eye on me as they go back to eat. I look back down at the food. My stomach turns telling me not to eat. With a repress shudder I slowly start eating again. This makes my parents happy and they stop watching me.
Dinner passes in agonizing slowness, at least for me. The entire time, I have to force myself from not bring my food back up. It tasted bland on my tongue and my stomach kept getting this clenching feeling.
When we finally we finally get home I say my good night and head straight to bed. I'm starting to feel hot yet shivering for being cold at the same time. Reaching my room, I undress and change into my pajamas. Climbing into bed I close my eyes telling myself I will be better in the morning.
-Time Skip: One Week Later-
The next day I had apologized to the children about my outburst. They didn't really seem to mind. A few hours later I went to apologize to Mayumi. She told that I shouldn't worry about apologizing to her because she was the one in the wrong.
During the entire week, my mom decided not only did she want to redo the house, but she was going to use all of the children as models. She even got to use Mayumi as a model. It was weird to see her wearing dresses and skirts. Mayumi didn't like it, saying it wasn't her style. Mother told her to hush. She then proceeded to take pictures of Mayumi only telling her she was going to take them to work and show everyone. It was funny to see the horrified look on Mayumi's face.
Felix and I started to hang out together. He now sits with me and Mayumi at lunch. Mayumi glares at him every once in a while still not trusting him. He didn't seem to mind though. He acts kinds to us and has been a gentlemen. And now, he sits next to me in class.
My parents are gone once again on their business trip. Tobi was extremely sad when they left. He had begged them to stay. My mom was crying too and hugged all of them. She promised that they would return as soon as they could. For an entire day Tobi stayed in his room.
As of now, it is Halloween. I am so happy and plan on dressing up the children to take them out trick-or-treating. Mayumi is acting like she doesn't care, but I know she really does. She plans on throwing a party. I'm glad it's the weekend.
"Okay everyone," I run downstairs. "Who is excited about today?"
"Tobi is," Tobi yells jumping up and down.
"It's just another day," Mayumi says trying to hide her smile.
"What so fucking special about Halloween?"
"You get to dress up in costumes, get free candy, and watch scary movies," I reply with a grin.
"Or you can steal the candy from little kids," Mayumi says and I glare at her. "Just kidding, but you can scare the living daylights out of people. Their reactions are funny every time."
"I am fucking liking the part of fucking scaring people."
"Just a couple more hours and the sun will be down soon," I say.
"Can we eat before we go out to do this trick-or-treating thing, un?"
"After you all help me finish decorating this place for the freaking party," Mayumi says.
"Tobi wants to be part of the party too."
"How about I make everyone's favorite meal while you all help Mayumi with the decorations," I say with a grin.
"Spicy BBQ chicken and karumeyaki for me," Mayumi says with a grin.
"Wait," I say before anyone else can tell me what they want. I go get a piece of paper and pen then runs back. "Okay now everyone else can tell me what they want."
"Bakudan, un."
"Liver sashimi and monkfish liver," Kakuzu answers.
"Spare ribs bitch." Mayumi glares at Hidan but nothing else.
"Tobi wants dango and inarizushi."
"Shrimp and crab for me," Kisame says with a huge grin.
"Karaage would be fine," Pein says.
"Onigiri with seaweed in it please," Itachi replies.
"Flame-broiled fish would be nice," Konan answers.
"Mixed pilaf," Sasori says.
"Okay," I say with a smile as I finish writing down what everyone wants. "I'll go get started on all of this now."
-Third POV-
Each person in the living room watched as Yume went off into the kitchen. The children have never seen Yume so happy. They don't know what is so special about this day, but Mayumi does.
A genuine smile crosses Mayumi's face before it turns to slight wariness. She is worried about Yume. Even though Yume keeps saying she is fine, Mayumi just can't help but shake the feeling that she isn't. That soon her worst fear will come true.
"Okay, midgets," Mayumi turns to the children. "Let's get to work. I'm going to go do the decorations outside while you all do the ones inside. And make it look as scary as possible."
With that said Mayumi grabs a few boxes and takes them outside. At first the children stay where they are seated. The Pein stands up and starts giving them orders on who does what.
At first the children didn't care about today. But as they start doing the decorations they are getting into the spirit of the holiday. Most of them try to make the decorations as real as possible.
Sasori starts making puppets. Hidan gets rid of the fake blood and uses his own blood to splatter all over the place laughing as he does so. Zetsu starts making clones making them look like dead bodies and place them in random places. Konan is making origami bats and has them flying around the house. Tobi follows Deidara around annoying him to no end, as Deidara makes clay spiders of different sizes and makes them crawl around the place. Together Itachi and Kakuzu are carving pumpkins. Kakuzu is making it into a contest of who can make the best looking carvings. Kisame does a jutsu that when someone opens the door a water shark will "attack" them. And Pein is the one shouting out orders.
Meanwhile outside, Mayumi is hanging up "dead bodies" in the tree. In one section of the yard it looks like someone is being beheaded. In the bushes next to the door she has a mummy that will automatically pop out at someone if they walk by it. She makes the yard look like there are graves and that a hand is sticking out of one.
With a smile she goes to walk inside. As she opens the door she activates Kisame's jutsu. She stands in the doorway shocked and now soaking wet. Her eyes narrow to a glare but then she shrugs her shoulders and walks inside to see how the decorations are going.
"Dammit," she says. "You make what I did outside look like crap."
"That is because we're fucking better than you bitch."
"Old Man, I'm going to ignore that comment and change into some dry clothes," Mayumi says as she starts walking up the stairs.
-Yume's POV-
It takes me a while but I finally finish making everyone's dish. With a grin, I set the table. Happy with everything, I walk into the living room. I'm amazed by the decorations and how real they look. It's like a haunted house or something you see in a movie. It is really cool.
"I'm finished," I say after a few minutes of looking at everything.
"Yay Tobi is going to go eat so Tobi can change into his costume and go trick-or-treating."
Tobi then takes off running into the kitchen. I let out a chuckle. Mayumi walks downstairs with a towel around her neck as she dries her wet hair.
"Hey," she says to me.
"Hi, I'm finished cooking," I reply with a smile.
"Awesome," she replies with a grin.
We all go into the kitchen. With everyone seated, I place the food they wanted on their plates. I then proceed to fill up their glasses with whatever drink they wanted. Before I can sit down there is a knock on the door.
"I'll answer the door while all of you go ahead and start eating," I say then walk out of the room.
Opening the door, I see a man taller than me. He has messy silver hair with blue eyes. He is wearing a necklace with a nice blue shirt and black jacket over a pair of grey jogging type of pants. I give him a small smile and he grins.
"Hey, my fucking name is Ken and I don't fucking know how I fucking got here," he says his grin still in place. "But this fucking woman brought me here and fucking said I'll be able to fucking see my fucking son. His fucking name is Hidan."
"Oh…um hello," I say unsure of what to say.
"Yume," I hear Mayumi yell. "I need the gun where is it?" Ken raises his brow as his eyes travel to the area of the kitchen and look back at me.
"Come in," I say giving a nervous smile. "I'll be right back."
Ken nods and walks in only to have a shark shaped out of water attack him and makes him dripping wet with water. My eyes widen with shock. I rush to the bathroom and come back with a towel.
"Here use this to dry off," I say. "Gomenasai."
"Yume I need the gun NOW!"
"Hold on please," I say then walk towards the kitchen. "What could you possibly need with the gun," I ask walking into the kitchen only to freeze in the doorway.
My eyes widen as I become immobilized. Sitting around the table is nine naked men and one naked woman. Well they're not completely naked; they have very few piece of clothing covering them up. The men and woman look exactly like the older version of the children.
"What is going on," I ask my voice shaking.
"I don't freaking know," Mayumi replies. "One moment I'm eating with the children, and the next there is a poof of smoke and the brats are replace with these adults."
"Haha bitch now I can fucking kick your ass for real."
"Wait," I yell. "Who are you people?"
"Tobi is sad now that they don't remember Tobi."
"Are you telling us," Mayumi snarls out. "That you are the brats?"
"We told you we came from a different world, un."
"We were never children from the start. When we arrived in this world we were change into kids," says the man who I guess is Pein.
"So you are all adults who were just moments ago the children we have been taking care of," I ask.
"Hai," Pein replies.
"If that's true…" Mayumi trails of as a grin crosses her face and she turns to Hidan. "I can't get in trouble for kicking your ass now."
"You can't fucking kick my ass bitch."
"I bet she could," Kakuzu says.
"Please no fighting in the kitchen," I say. "And Hidan, there is this man named Ken who says he is your father and he's in the living room."
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That is the end of the chapter. Yes, I'm letting it end here. I figured it would be good for a cliffhanger. Anyways, I hope you enjoy.
Yes, they all changed back to normal from eating their favorite food. I thought it would be different from other stories if I did it like this. However, since Pein and Sasori don't really have a favorite food, I made their partners least favorite food their favorite. Also, since no one really knows Tobi's true identity I used Madara's favorite food as his as well as making him like dangos since it was mentioned somewhere that he had a liking for them.
Also, Ken is Hidan's father at least in this story since no one knows who Hidan's parents really are. Ken will be in this story from now on. As the story progresses you're going to see some…maybe a lot of differences between father and son. Yes, I believe Hidan got his foul mouth from Ken, his father.
Though Yume's parents are once again gone from the story that doesn't mean they will be gone forever. They will be coming back…in the near future.
So, the poll for this story is still up and will be up for two more weeks starting from today. Right now Sasori is in the lead. So vote while you still can. You can use the poll or vote by message/comment/review.
Thank you to everyone who has been reading, reviewing and/or adding this to their favorite/alerts. Masashi Kishimoto owns the akatsuki. I won the plot, Yume, Mayumi, Felix, Ken and all other OCs. Once again thank you and I hope you're enjoying the story. Please review and stay tuned for the next chapter. Until next time. ^.^