+Chapter Ten+
+Why A Baby Will Scare You+
Konan had presented the Akatsuki with Kamiko earlier in the day with a simple, "Look. The baby. Have fun," in a complete deadpan. Pein had stared at Kamiko serenely and patted her on the head. Orochimaru had stared at her for only a short while before turning away. Sasori wanted nothing to do with her and backed off. Zetsu was arguing with himself about either to hold her or leave her alone. And Kakuzu had stood there limply, while Itachi did the same.
Hachirou, though, had smothered her in an instant and tried to make her smile by blowing raspberries and trying to make Kakuzu and Sasori sing various children songs like "Urashima-taro" and "Shojoji no Tanuki-bayashi".
"Follow my lead, Kakuzu, Sasori-san! Mukashi mukashi Urashima wa, tasuketa kame ni tsure-rareteeeeeeeee! Ryugujo e kite mireba, e ni mo kake-nai utsukushisaaaaaaa. Sasori-san, I can't hear youuuu!!! Sing with me, Kakuzu!!!"
Both Kakuzu and Sasori gave him horrendous looks.
After thinking about it for a bit, Hachirou snapped his fingers, finally agreeing upon an equally insane song to sing.
"Sasori-san, Sasori-san! How 'bout we sing Sei-kurabe? It reflects you so much, right, right?"
Sasori didn't take that the right way, and tried to strangle Hachirou. However, the younger shinobi scrambled away and hid behind Pein.
Pein turned around and stared hard at Hachirou. "Behave, children."
"Aye, Leader-saaaamaaaa!!"
So, Hachirou switched to a different song.
"Sho Sho Shojoji, Shojoji no niwa wa, tsu tsu tsuki-yo da, minna dete koi, koi, koi! Oira no tomodacha, pon poko pon no pon."
The black-haired, mediocre shinobi bounced around, grabbing Kakuzu's arm and bounding up and down with him as well.
"Koi, koi, koi, koi, koi, koi! Minna dete koi, koi, koi!" He completely skipped the first line of the next verse, and forced Kakuzu to hop up and down with him each time he sang the word 'koi'.
Well, until Kakuzu shoved a kunai up his nose. "Hachirou," Kakuzu growled keeping the kunai steady while Hachirou squirmed around like a fish out of water. "You have two more chances. If you blow it, you won't be able to sing again. Got it." (It was not a question.)
Hachirou, not being able to speak normally because of the large weapon up his nose, squeaked one last 'koi' before nodding quickly and falling to the ground on his face.
Once he hit the ground, he uttered a small, 'aye' before shutting himself up.
"Konan! She won't stop crying! Someone do something!" Zetsu's white-side cried out later that night, staring horrified at Kamiko.
The little girl was screaming at the top of her lungs, crying, and smelling incredibly vile. And the great thing was that it was Zetsu's turn to change her diaper.
"Konan--" "WHAT?!"
Konan stood in the doorway, completely calm but looking even more tired than usual.
Zetsu innocently pointed at the little girl. "She's crying and she smells really bad. The others are going to wake up soon if you don't make her hush."
Unfortunately, some one had waken up. Luckily, though, it was someone who didn't mind.
Hachirou andNingendōwalked sleepily into the room. (Actually, Hachirou was the only one who was sleepy.)
Konan turned to Ningendō. "She's crying and needs to be changed. Will you do it since you came all this way?"
Ningendō nodded and scopped up Kamiko, taking her away.
Hachirou, still rubbing his eyes, turned to Konan with a yawn. "Is Kami-chan okay?" Konan looked surprised (in only a way the emotionless Konan could) for a few seconds at the name. "Kami-chan?"
Hachirou smiled sleepily. "Yeah... It was either that, Ka-chan or Mi-chan or Ko-chan. But yeah, is Kami-chan going to be okay?"
The blue-eyed kunoichi nodded, turning around to leave. "She should be. Go back to sleep."
With another yawn, Hachirou turned and left, murmuring his signature 'aye' before closing the door.
+ Sei-kurabe is a Japanese song with the English translation as 'Who's Taller?'. Can you see why Sasori might have been angry by the suggestion Hachirou made? (Ur... Sasori is only 5'3" ft-- 164.1 cm)
+ Ningendō is Pain's Human path.
+ Urashima-taro (translated to 'The Turtle and Urashimataro') is a Japanese song about a turtle and a fisherman named Urashimataro.
Shojoji no Tanuki-bayashi (translated to 'The Raccoon in Shojoji Temple') is another Japanese song.
A/N: Please tell me, lovely readers, has Hachirou gotten annoying yet?
