Surprise Muthafucka's!
Welp, I'm back with Chapter 11 of Unexpected Friendships! I apologize for taking a while updating! Thanks for waiting!
Um, Well, Instead of wasting time, explaining what everyone did while moving in, I decided to do a time skip. I hope I didn't screw up anything.
And major thanks to Cloud Traveler for Beta-ing me (: I know that made no sense but that's okay!
Well, here it is!
Enjoy :D .
Zach .
It's been about two days since we got here and immediately moved in. Jerr and Iris were going berserk. Every day they brought in something to make the house look better. They even hung up all of our pictures around this big ass mansion. But Jerrie saved a lot of our pictures and was making an enormous collage from them all. She swore to us that she'd get pictures of the Akatsuki before they went back home so we could laugh and remember our crazy times with them.
Anyways, I was sitting on the balcony, leaning in the chair with a cigarette in my hand, my favorite energy drink sitting on the table. It was around seven in the morning and it was cloudy. I saw on the weather channel that it was going to rain sometime late this morning. I wasn't sleepy anymore and so I thought that having a cigarette right now would be a nice start. I took a drag of it and watched a couple of birds fly above me. I closed my eyes as a cool breeze hit my face and the smoke (which I blew out) intercepted it. I was content with this place. I mean this house was nice, right next to the ocean where we could hear the water crashing against the jagged rocks and a small forest where every now and then we saw wild animals pass through. We even had a large backyard with a pool and a patio. I actually had convinced Jerr and the others to put in a swing set and a trampoline to play with if we ever got bored.
Welp, tomorrow is Jerr's birthday and Iris and I had already gotten some of the things together, such as the party stuff and such. We even went to the pet store to get her a puppy since she was dying to get one if she ever moved out of her lousy apartment. Kat decided to make the cake since she was an expert at cooking and decorating edible delights. All we had to do was get a few more things for her today, and we were counting on the Akatsuki members to help us out.
I took another drag of my cigarette and then put it out in the ashtray since it was down to the filter. I took a minute to stretch and finish the last of my Monster, throwing it in the trash and heading back inside to see what everyone was doing.
Once I got downstairs, I saw Pein sitting on one side of the couch switching channels on the television. Kakuzu, Sasori and Itachi were sitting on the other side. I suppose the others were still upstairs sleeping.
"You're up early kid." Kakuzu noted and I grinned and shrugged.
"Yeah well, I'm still actually trying to figure out what to get Jerr for her birthday tomorrow. It's been killing me all night so here I am." I sat in the recliner and asked Pein for the remote. He complied and I switched it to the morning news instead. I sighed and rubbed my forehead, besides thinking about Jerr, what we really should be focusing on is how to get them home. And rather quickly. I'm pretty sure that they're missing home.
"Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that. Do you think the others have any ideas?" Sasori asked while I was staring into space, trying to remember who in the hell had the crystal ball last.
"Hey, do you guys miss back home? I mean it's been almost three weeks and nobody has complained."
There was silence afterwards and I Pein cleared his throat. "That's an absurd question boy. We need to go back in order to accomplish our mission of capturing the tailed beasts." I frowned and sighed.
"Yeah, that's cool and all but what about having fun and chilling out? Hell, even going out to party for a while and stop living such stressful lives? Haven't any of you thought about that?" I asked with a serious face and they all thought about it for a minute or two. I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
"Just forget it, it looks like until we find that crystal ball, we'll just have to show all of you guys what fun really is." They too rolled their eyes and grunted, turning their attention back to the television, there was a lady on it, talking about the weather once again and how it was rolling in our area quickly this morning. I stood up and opened the front door to see dark grey clouds greeting us, I then headed into the kitchen to see what I can whip up to keep myself front eating my own head. Once I was in there, Deidara was sitting at the table with his hand over his face.
"Um…Yo." Was all I could say to him since he looked upset or something. The blonde looked up to me and then sighed. "When is somebody going to get their ass up and cook, yeah? I'm starving." I laughed and nodded my head in agreement.
"Well, the two cookers are still sleeping and I'd hate to wake them up since it's a little early." He looked at me as if I just announced that I was gay. "THIS is early to them? You've got to be kidding me." Nodding in agreement I smirked. "Well, I mean we usually don't wake up until twelve or one in the afternoon. So yeah, this is TOO early… for Jerr at least."
Deidara grunted and went back to laying his head in his hand, and then somebody yelling sounded in our ears.
"OW! Oh my god ow… Dammit that really hurt." I jogged to the living room to see who the voice belonged to and then chuckled to see Iris sitting on the floor in her short shorts and red tank top. She was rubbing her back with a scowl on her face. She then looked up to me and I held out my hand to her. "Woke up a little too early I see runt?" She frowned grabbed my hand, and let me pull her up, she then went to flop in the recliner that I was just lounging in. She closed her eyes and placed her hand on her stomach. "I'm hungry… is Kat or Jerrie up? I mean like I'm so hungry, my damn stomach is what woke me up."
I chuckled and rubbed my own stomach, acknowledging the slight pain from it growling constantly. "Unfortunately no, they still haven't woken up yet." She looked outside and then grinned when Kisame walked through the door (from the kitchen). He had nothing on but his swimming trunks. Huh, he was outside swimming this whole time?
Well morning short stuff." He ruffled her hair and she frowned, slapping his hand away and scoffing. Kisame bellowed and shook his head.
"Not a morning person I see eh?" Iris shook her head and sighed. "No Kisame. It's not that. I'm just so hungry, and the bad thing is… I can't cook to save my life." Kisame only grinned and turned to the door to look outside. "Well let's hope that they'll wake up pretty soon because I'm hungry myself."
I smirked and went back into the kitchen and stuck my head into the fridge to see what I could do to get everyone up. Well, first things first… I could make coffee. I tapped my chin for a second and then nodded, taking out the ground coffee beans and the coffee maker as well as the creamer and sugar. I already put in the hot water and started up the maker. I sat on the counter and softly chatted with Deidara for about twenty minutes until Kat and Kakashi came in. The latter frowning when he and Deidara locked gazes.
I grinned and pointed to the coffee maker when a saw Kat's face. "You look like you could use it." The red head grunted and thanked me, going straight to the coffee and pouring her some. She then pulled out a pan and went straight to the refrigerator, pulling out biscuits, sausage, eggs, and bacon (she pulled out the bacon for Jerrie and the others since she wasn't a bacon lover). The silence in the kitchen was then replaced with sizzling, and the smell of sausage lingering around.
"Finally. Somebody's up to cook for us." Kisame came in and sat at the table, looking out of the window. After almost thirty minutes of talking amongst each other, the food was finally ready and everyone (well almost. Kakashi was standing up and eating his food, and only listening to the small conversations) sat at the table and fell into eating. Suigetsu and Hidan eventually came in once the scent hit them.
"Yo. Where the fuck is Jerrie-bitch? She ain't eatin' or something?" Hidan called out from the living room, Iris finished her plate and grabbed her orange juice, opening it and sipping from it. "She'll be up in a little bit. I mean we didn't go to sleep until almost four in the morning last night. Can you blame her for sleeping in?"
Deidara snorted. "Yeah well it's ten o' clock now. She should've been up. Don't you think, yeah?" Iris shrugged and I got out of my chair, heading to the front to go smoke for a minute.
"Well, what about tomorrow. I mean it is her birthday. Don't you think that we should be leaving to get her things?" Kat wiped her mouth and pushed her plate away. "But maybe only two of us should go and the rest can stay here, I mean it does look suspicious if all three of us leave together don't you think?" Iris pondered over Kat's question and snapped her finger.
"That does make sense! How about Zach and I go and then he can be replaced with you?" Kat shrugged and I gave them the thumbs up, slipping out of the screen door. I was pretty full by now so relaxing for a second was my only option. I leaned on the door way and sighed. There was a pretty awesome breeze outside and that helped me think a little more. I pulled out another cigarette and checked my pack to see if I was low or not, and unfortunately I was. Well damn. I just bought this pack two days ago. Oh well. The lightning finally lit up the fast darkening clouds and was followed by a crackle of thunder. Maybe in another hour or so, we'll be getting some rain. Pulling out my lighter, I fired up my cigarette and inhaled for a few seconds.
"Hey Zach, I think we should be getting a move on pretty soon. I hate going out when it rains." Iris poked her head out of the the screen door and noted. She was already dressed and I looked down at myself to see that I was still clad in yesterday's basketball shorts and a regular graphic tee. I mulled over what I should do about my clothes, and then I shrugged. "Okay, I'm ready whenever you are runt. Let's go." She scowled at me and eyed my clothes over.
"I really hope that you aren't planning on going with me in that Zacharie." I frowned. "Well what's wrong with this?" I took another puff and waited for her answer. "You wore that outfit yesterday. Now inside and go get changed so we can leave." I sighed and put out my cigarette, blowing out a smoke ring and pushing Iris aside.
"You really can be a pain, you know that runt?" Iris only grinned at me and poked her cheeks.
"And you love it." Oh joy… Sometimes I wondered who the older one in our group was.
I headed upstairs and got changed into a clean pair of jeans with my favorite Breaking Benjamin t-shirt. After slipping on my shoes, I came downstairs and Iris was sitting with Kisame asking why he was wearing swimming trunks when clearly it was about to rain soon.
"Well I mean it's not raining now short stuff. What's the problem with me going out for a swim? "
"You could obviously get sick stupid!" Kisame snorted and leaned back into the couch, watching whatever was showing on the television.
"Runt, there is no way I can get sick. Do you know who I am?" Iris thought about that for a second, biting her bottom lip. Everything was silent as she thought then she squinted her eyes at the blue man, looking very serious.
"Um…No?" Kisame and I laughed simultaneously and the former ruffled her hair.
"You poor little girl you. I just told you what we were last night! Don't you remember?" Iris shook her head and I sighed, standing in front of her with a smirk.
"Don't strain yourself runt, besides it's time to go anyways. Are you ready?" The short red-head nodded and she stood, telling Kisame that when she gets back, she should remember by then. I grabbed the keys from the kitchen and jumped when I saw Jerrie tumble down the stairs. Iris gasped and sat her up.
"Oh my Jesus!" She shrieked as she saw my buddy's face and I cringed. Jerr only groaned and rubbed her head, leaning into Iris' arms for support. She had deep bags under her eyes and her hair was all over her face. She looked like one of the dead zombies that were walking around in the Walking Dead, except…without the dead flesh on her face and such.
"It's too goddamn early for all of this…" She groaned with her arm over her eyes. Everyone crowded around to see what the commotion was. Deidara smirked and pulled her up.
"Wakey, wakey sleeping beauty. It's not lady like to be sleeping on the floor, yeah. Besides, it's already twelve in the afternoon." Jerr tugged her arm away from the blonde and frowned at him, still looking sleepier than ever.
"Fuck you asshole." Hidan as well as the others took a good look at her wearing her blue nightgown while she looked horrible.
"You look like shit Jerrie-bitch. Maybe you should go back to sleep." Hidan suggested to her but she only pushed passed the group and Deidara laughed.
"Too late now, yeah."
I smirked at Jerr as she shuffled into the kitchen with an angry look on her face. She'll get over it in a while.
"Anyways… we're off guys. Try not to break anything. Oh, and make sure Jerr doesn't go up the stairs until she's fully awake." Iris warned the guys and they waved her off.
We both left and hopped in her new Infinite. We all agreed on buying out own cars since driving around the Suburban's would waste gas. We had enough money to not worry about that but we thought getting our own cars would be better and use the larger cars when everyone was going together.
Well, this should be interesting. No?
Jerr .
I made my way into the kitchen when I saw Tobi, Kakashi, and Kat in there. I sniffed and grabbed a plate from the cabinet and took everything that I could stuff into my plate. I was right next to Kat when I opened the cabinet above her to get a mug so I could pour me some coffee. I accidentally bumped into her and apologized immediately and she smiled at me with her eyes closed…that is until she opened her eyes and dropped the plastic bowl she had in her hands.
"Damn…what the hell happened to you? You look…sick…or something." I closed my eyes and shook my head, taking my leave to go and sit at the island.
"I'm fine…Just need food…" Tobi gasped and ran towards me.
"Oh goodness! Jerrie-chan doesn't look so well! Maybe she needs to go back to sleep?" I sighed and pushed Tobi away from me.
"No. I don't need any damn sleep. Now go annoy Deidara. I'm really not in the mood for people…" I immediately went to work on my food and ignored everyone who stared at me.
"Well…if you need anything, I'll be in the living room then." I nodded and rolled my eyes when Tobi was still in the kitchen with me, well I don't have a problem with him IN the kitchen as me but…he was STARING at me while I ate. I sighed and rubbed my eyes. "Is something on my face that seems so damn interesting Tobi?"
"Why no! Tobi is just worried about Jerrie-chan because she looks so bad! She should probably see a doctor or something!" I frowned and stood, heading to the sink to wash out my dirty plate. "Yeah right. Tobi lying is bad. You should know that by now. You aren't a complete idiot. I know that for a fact." My back was facing Tobi when I turned on the hot water and grabbed the soap, scrubbing off the food particles.
"Of course I know that lying is bad. But I was just trying to be nice and now you just hurt my little ol' feelings." I immediately stopped what I was doing and turned around. I only saw Tobi…but…his Sharingan was spinning through that little hole in his mask. I blinked and backed into the sink even more. I mean, I heard Tobi speak in his real voice before in the anime and…I thought it was pretty sexy and awesome at the same time. But now? It just scared the hell out of me. I turned back around and began scrubbing the hell out of my plate, afraid that he might do something to me since we were alone.
"Did I just scare you Jerrie-chan?" Tobi said again in his deep voice and I flinched, not saying anything. He chuckled and I switched off the water and immediately dried off the plate, still watching the masked man just in case he tried anything fishy.
"You know, you could have just given me a warning instead of trying to give me a massive heart attack" I placed my now clean plate in the top cabinet and glanced at my hands. They were slightly trembling and I clenched them. Tobi then chuckled darkly.
"Now what fun would I get out of it if I just let you know, Hm?" I rolled my eyes and saw him sitting on the counter, swinging his legs back and forth while his arms supported him from the back.
"Well if you feel that way, how about I just let everyone know who you really are?" Tobi thought about it for a minute and shrugged. "It's not like they'd believe you anyways.
"Well, not necessarily. I have the anime to back me up. But then again, I'd rather not because then they'd ask me a lot of questions that would take forever to answer and you'd go back to your stupid self and then they'd think I'm lying…so yeah too much work…"
I turned around to exit the kitchen just when I was intercepted by the masked man, his Sharingan was swirling again and I stumbled over my feet, catching myself on the counter. Tobi chuckled at this and I sighed, hanging my head.
"Good choice kid. I like the way you think." Picking myself back up, I straightened out my gown and brushed past Tobi and went upstairs to take a shower. I looked out of the windows upstairs and saw that the clouds were dark and rolling in quickly with the occasional lighting and thunder following behind it.
Thunderstorm eh?
I grinned and made my way into my room and closed the door, heading to my dresser and pulling out clean clothes for my shower. I pulled my hair into a high bun, piling it all on top of my head. Thank goodness for my room. I picked the next best one with an en suite bathroom and a balcony.
A crackle of thunder made the lights flicker and sighed, quickly making my way to the bathroom, hoping to God that the storm would wait until after I take my shower to shut off the power.
Hopefully it'll wake me up and put me in a better mood.
Kisame .
I was sitting at the end of the dark blue couch in the living room unwrapping Samehada slowly. He hasn't been let out in a while and I hoped to let him relax in the pool. But the others thought that it wasn't the smartest of ideas because, A: the pool had a chemical in it called chlorine and B: they didn't want him scaring the life out of Iris since she didn't know everything about us.
Hm, well it doesn't hurt to try and see what happens right?
Deidara and Sasori were arguing again over what kind of art what better, and I sighed, not interested in listening to them today. Leader and the others were watching the television and I was interrupted with my quiet time when Suigetsu came up.
"Kisame-senpai…" I looked and stopped my delicate unwrapping of Samehada.
"What is it kid?" He scratched his head, staring at Samehada. His top half was revealed while the other half was still covered.
"So, what do you think about being here so far?" I blinked and shrugged, wondering why he would ask me such a simple question as that.
"It's alright here I guess. Except for the smoldering weather when it isn't raining and I can't kill anyone whenever I feel like it. The place in general is a nice area though."
Suigetsu sat next to me and nodded. "Well the killing was wrong back at home too, but I get your point."
It was true. I did miss home but this place piqued my curiosity. It was way different from back home with all this technology. But then again, would I trade it all with the thrill of killing and betraying the law without getting caught?
Hmm… Nah I don't think I would. Too much fun and excitement that I'll be leaving behind. But then again if you think about it, we're kinda getting a break from sealing those tailed beasts, which takes us days on end to get done.
"Anyways, how do you like it here? Are you happy with everything?"
Suigetsu was about to answer when Kat came in from the back with the copy ninja right behind her. She sighed and flopped on the couch, her face was twisted in an irritated expression.
"Great! It's going to rain outside so we can't do anything out there! Ugh! Why don't you people have a sense of having fun?" Everyone glanced at each other and blinked, not knowing how to answer her question.
"Psh, bitch we do know how to have fun! Well…" He looked up and thought about it for a second. "At least I fucking do!" Kat never paid any attention to the Jashinist, and he scowled. Kat, sighed and went straight to the television stand and pulled out wires and a shiny black device with a black controller.
"I don't care what Jerr says, I'm about to play this…" She mumbled to herself and searched through the green colored game cases. She grinned and pulled out a game called Dragon Age. She quickly hooked up what was called an "Xbox 360" and turned it on.
It was almost an hour and everyone began to get into the game. Kat was sure a player because every time she lost she was angrier than angry.
"Arghhh! Bastards! I'll get ya this time!" She yelled at the T.V and played over again, Kakashi was chuckling at her determination and watched like everyone else did.
"Well maybe if you handed the damn controller over then maybe I can fucking help!" Hidan grouched at her as she was concentrated to the screen. Kat rolled her eyes and sighed, still stuck at the dungeon scene, throwing the controller over to Hidan.
"Oi! I asked for it first you damn bastard, yeah!" Deidara yelled at him and snatched the controller up from Hidan.
"Too late pansy! I had the controller first so I get to go!" Hidan snatched it back and then Deidara took it back from him again. I sighed and leaned back into the couch and and rubbed my forehead.
"They do this all the time don't they Kisame-senpai?" I nodded my head on looked over to Suigetsu who was sweatdropping and shaking his head.
"Unfortunately yes… some days it's hilarious… other days…it's quite annoying."
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" What's all this noise down here?" Everyone looked up to see Jerr coming back down the stairs, looking a lot more refreshed than ever. Her hair was piled high on top of her hair in a bun and she was wearing a black tube top with khaki cargos. She looked natural…"
"Oi! Jerr! Tell this damn heathen to give me the damn controller so I can play the game! I told Kat I was going to play after her but this asshole won't share, yeah!" Deidara's face was a little red after ranting to the girl.
"Fuck no! She gave me the controller first so I get to play first!"
"NO! I asked firs-"
Jerr sighed and snatched the controller from Hidan and went to the game console and ejected the game.
"What the hell was that for bitch? I was playing that!" Hidan fumed.
"Will you just be quiet Hidan? You're gonna get a chance to play… everyone is… just let me switch the game. But you're not going first. That's for sure…" Jerr put in a game called Left 4 Dead and she squealed, sitting next to Deidara on the other end of the couch.
"Oh my goodness! I love this game! I haven't played this in ages!"
Kat rolled her eyes. "Yeah but why won't you play the second one… you did buy it after all…" Jerrie sucked her teeth and rolled her eyes as well. "That may be true, but as I said… I haven't played this game in a while so I wanna beat it all over again then go to the second one!"
With that being said, Jerr went on and picked the girl player. She grinned and rocked back and forth as she went through the abandoned apartments, killing each zombie. Then she squealed as a horde can towards her.
"Use your gun dammit! Hurry up before you die!" Suigetsu yelled, getting into the game as much as everyone else was.
"I am! I am! This Ak-47 had only a limited amount of ammo to use! They only gave me a damn pistol with unlimited ammo!" She grunted as she backed away from the horde and continually shot at them one by one of them going down.
"Shoot! My damn partners are assholes! They won't help you until you're completely dead!"
"Tch, told you to use the machine gun stupid…"
Jerr glared at Suigetsu and handed him the controller when the zombies ate her alive. "Good luck kid. Let's see how far you get on this game huh?" Jerr said nonchalantly.
In the first three minutes or so, he shot at a stray car and set off the alarm, which immediately alerted the zombie horde. Jerr laughed and I only grinned.
"Hey! Why didn't you tell me it was going to do that?" Jerr only shrugged and snatched the controller away from him and gave it to Hidan who laughing in Suigetsu's face and clicked play. He surprisingly got pretty far, not farther than Jerr but farther than anyone else has played.
"Ha! Suck on that bastards!" Just when he thought he was about to go to the next safe house, a big monster popped out and roared in the television.
"What the hell?" Everyone was on edge now, Hidan tensed up and sat up a bit straighter, his fingers playing along the colorful buttons and the joystick on the left.
"Hurry up Hidan! The Tank's going to crush you!" I sat on the edge of my seat and snatched the controller from him and began switching my weapons, joining the other three artificial players and taking down the over-sized zombie.
"YOU ASSHOLE! IT WAS MY TURN, I WAS ABOUT TO KILL THAT BASTARD!" I grinned and shrugged, giving it to Itachi. This was going to be fun… I think.
Well, Itachi was a good shooter, he was quiet though. He only made strained faces when he was trapped or in a tight spot where the artificial players couldn't get to him and help.
It went on like this for an hour until it we all stopped when there was a loud crackle of thunder. Sasori put down the controller and everyone went to take a look out at the front door to see it pouring outside.
"Reminds you of back home, huh Pein?" Jerr nudged his and Leader-sama sighed and went back to sit down on the couch and Jerr whined afterwards.
"Aww! And I wanted us to go out to the boardwalk! Everyone was going to be there!"
I quirked a brow at her. "Boardwalk? What's that?" Jerr stomped back to the living room and turned off the game.
"Walking on a boardwalk! Just what it sounds like, it's alongside the beach and we can buy a lot of goodies and listen to the music bands that play there and buy clothes and shoes!"
Kat rolled her eyes and snorted. "It's not all that great. Besides, we can't bring them out into public, we'll blow their cover." Jerr crossed her arms and puffed out her cheeks.
"Well we can't keep them cooped up in this damn house either Kitty Kat! They need to get out sometimes and see what things are like out here! That road trip was pretty short and we haven't seen all of Corpus as well." Kat's eye twitched and she sighed.
"Stop calling me that. If so, how the hell are we going to have a good time with Kakuzu's eyes, Pein's eyes AND orangeish hair, and Kisame's blue skin and shark teeth, huh? What about Suigetsu's sharp teeth or purple eyes? His white hair? We can't just have them put on long sleeves or pants. It'll be fucking 200 degrees out there and people will get suspicious of us. " She shook her head and leaned back. "Oh, and let me not forget about Tobi's weird mask and childish behavior. Have you thought about all of that?"
I crossed my arms and huffed. She made us sound like freaks or something. I mean I know that my blue skin is something to be curious about, but it's not I was the damn creature from the black lagoon. Just when Jerrie was about to counter her Tobi came out of nowhere and opened the door.
What the hell? He's been quiet for almost an hour now…hmm, that guy sure is a weird one.
"Pretty girl-chan! Zach-san! You're back-"
"SHHHHHHH-"
Jerr hopped up from the floor and went to the front door to see Zach and Iris soaking wet, well, the former having her hands wrapped around Tobi's orange mask and him struggling. Zach sighed and pulled off his shirt.
"Too late now runt."
I laughed and came over to pull Tobi away from her grip. "How'd it go?"
"How'd what go? Did something happen?" Iris giggled nervously while Zach passed us to go change out of his wet clothes.
"Nothing! We just needed to go out for a while… now if you'll excuse me…" She looked at us awkwardly and then ran upstairs.
I shook my head grinning. Just messing with Iris was just too much fun for me.
Kat.
After watching Iris run upstairs, I leaned back and tried to figure out what I was going to get Jerr for her birthday tomorrow… we had all of the party things set up…not that the Akatsuki would be happy to have a party but they'll get over it soon enough.
I tapped my chin and chewed on my lower lip, pulling out my phone I looked on google to see if going to another state would be fun…
"Hey…" I jumped when Iris whispered in my ear next to me on the rounded couch.
"Jesus! Would you quit doing that?" I sighed and patted my pounding chest. "What do you want?"
Iris pulled me up and began whispering in my ear. But the thing was, I couldn't understand what she was talking about.
"What!?" She sighed and pulled me off.
"Not here… we can talk outside in the back, come." I watched as Hidan narrowed his eyes at us while we exited the living room.
Once we were outside, the wind was blowing and the rain was pounding the ground each time it splashed on it.
"Okay, so have you found out what you wanted to get Jerr? I mean, her birthday is tomorrow and I was planning on having you teach me out to cook…" I quirked a brow at her and tilted my head to the side slightly surprised at her question.
"Yeah um…well, I was thinking about getting Jerr a ticket to-"
The door swung open and out came Hidan with a frown on his face. "The fuck are y'all bitches talking about? Getting Jerrie-bitch a ticket for what?"
"SHHHH!" Iris pulled Hidan outside with her hand around his mouth and she kicked the door shut.
"Shut up you imbecile! She's right over there! She could've heard you just now!" Hidan pulled her off him and growled at her.
"Hidan, what hell are you doing out here?" I asked him with my arms crossed. He grinned at me and then shrugged.
"I came to see what you and her were talking about. Now, tell me about this ticket thing… what is it?" I rubbed my head and turned around, facing the front and watching the wind blow the rain harder, some of it splashing on my warm face.
"I'll tell you only if you promise to not say anything to her…"
"Say what why would I want to do that?"
Iris smiled at him and patted his back, just say you promise and we'll tell you… you just CAN'T say anything to ANYONE once we go back inside." Surprisingly, the Jashinist, complied, hesitantly and I faced him again.
"I was going to order her a ticket to travel somewhere…I haven't thought of it yet though…and that's really about it. We were also going to the store so I can get her some other things as well. But I'm not sure what she likes. Hm…" I pondered over that for a minute and then sighed.
Hidan quirked an eyebrow at me and then shrugged. "Well, I wanna go to the store too." My eyes widened and I shook my head.
"No way! You're not going with us to fuck up this store either!" I growled at him quietly since Jerr passed us, she was on the phone grinning while heading back upstairs.
"Well then I guess I'll just have to go and tell Jerrie-bitch what you're going to get her huh?" Iris and I panicked, the former narrowing her eyes at him.
"You wouldn't dare!"
Hidan grinned and opened the door, poking his head inside and fdacing the stairs where she went. "Oh, Jerrie!" He yelled and I pulled him back outside with us, lightning began to brighten up the dark skies and thunder clapping afterwards.
"Fine, fine you asshole… but you better NOT touch ANYTHING when we leave to go there!" Hidan grinned and nodded, going back inside and disappearing around the corner. I sighed and sat down on the lounge chair, shaking my head, hoping that he wouldn't mess up our trip. But then again, I really don't want to go when there's all this rain… it'll be too much of a hassle as well as getting wet.
Iris sighed as well and stuck her hand out to feel the water on her hands. "Well we have no choice but to take him with us…I suppose." I groaned and rolled my eyes.
"Well we better hurry up and go then. I don't want to be all day in this damn rain." I got up quickly went back inside to go change out of my shorts and tank top, after that I came back down stairs with my umbrella and a deep frown on my face, not excited at all that Hidan was going. What if he decided to pull the same trick as he did back in Killeen? Oh boy…
"Are you ready Kat? Let's hurry up and leave before Jerr get suspicious and want to go with us…" I nodded and warned the others to behave, not that I had to worry much because Zach and Jerr were here to watch everything.
Hidan came along with us, but not without a firm warning from Pein. He rolled his eyes and waved him off as always.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what to do, leader." He turned around and Iris stopped and raised her eyebrow.
"Um, where do you think you're going mister? It's raining out there and you AREN'T going to wet up my car." She grinned at him and pointed to the various umbrellas. "Grab one of those and we can go."
"Yo…mind if I come along too?" Kakashi was already dressed and everything. I smirked and shrugged. "Whatever floats your boat, maybe you can keep Hidan in line so he won't cause problems for us." He rubbed the back of his head and chuckled.
"I doubt that. I just wanted to contribute too, since her birthday is tomorrow."
After that minor setback, we finally left the house and went to the mall to let me pick out what I thought Jerr would like.
"Well, Jerr isn't a picky girl. You've known her for a while…shouldn't you know these things about her?" I rubbed the back of my neck and shrugged.
"Yeah well, I don't really pay attention to things like that." Iris shook her head at me and sighed.
"You're going to need a lot of help then. I'll show you some things…she likes jewelry…anything will do as long as it's colorful and different." I nodded as I took all of these notes down in my head, looking over to Kakashi as a thought came over me I hadn't thought of before.
"Hey, before we left, you were all dressed up like you knew we were going to let you come with us." He glanced to me and his eye crinkled, I could see the smile outline on his mask.
"Let's just say that I knew that you wouldn't say no to me." I grinned and laughed.
"Nice one."
"I try."
Iris pulled is into one of the stores called Hot Topic. "Why the hell are we here? It's so…damn dark in here!" Hidan complained and I slapped his arm.
"Be quiet will you? We're in public."
I was pulled over to the electronic side of the store and Iris waved her hands toward the earphones and different phone cases. "Take your pick miss thing." I quirked a brow at the nickname and shook my head. I picked out purple in-ear buds and a matching phone case that came with a choker with a large locket which was black with a silver-colored locket. This is nice….
After I paid for that, Iris bought her another choker with a wolf hanging from it, even Hidan pitched in and threw in a couple of pairs of ripped skinny jeans. After that, Iris and I went into Victoria's Secret (while Kakashi and Hidan stayed outside, but we had a bit of trouble with Hidan wanting to come in and see all of the different lingerie and such) and picked out a couple of undergarments. I laughed when Iris bought her a variety pack of lingerie.
"Oh yeah, she'll definitely love THAT!" I laughed and joked good-heartedly. Iris shrugged and smirked, paying for her half as did I with my own.
"Oh, you think this is bad? Wait until you see what Zach picked out for her pajamas. It's freaking ridiculous!" I shook my head as we both exited.
"Is there anything else that you think that Jerr would like?" Iris asked me and I tapped my chin, wondering if I was finally done.
"Yeah, I think I'm about done for now. If I think of anything else, I'll make the run myself." She nodded and we quickly collected Hidan. We saw Kakashi staring at the window at something. I went over to him and tapped his shoulder.
"Hey, you ready to go?" He looked over to me and pointed at a book that was sitting in the window.
"You think she'll like that?" I blinked at him and eyed the book he was pointing at. 50 Shades of Grey, huh? I nodded and told him to come inside with me. I've never read the book before but I heard lots and lots of…disturbing rumors about it.
"It's a trilogy…you sure you want to buy her this?" I warned him softly and he shrugged.
"I see she likes to read a lot, and this one caught my eye the most."
"So you're a book expert or something?"
"Pretty much…" I grinned and shook my head, buying the whole trilogy for her and exiting with Kakashi.
"I do believe that she'll like this…I've heard her once or twice speak about this book but I've never really looked into it."
"Well aren't you glad that I thought about buying it first?" I rolled my eyes and elbowed his arm, walking out of the mall with him. This mall was way bigger than the one in Killeen's, it also had a lot more things for us to choose from. Though there was one thing that made me frown.
It was still raining…
We got home and quickly ran inside with Hidan slipping immediately in a puddle of water.
"DAMMIT!" He pulled himself up and shuffled back inside, soaking wet. We left the presents in the car for now and when Jerr was asleep we'd wrap them all up and give to her tomorrow. Well, I wouldn't be the one wrapping, just putting the colorful tape on it and all that.
Once we came inside,Once we came inside, Jerr was laying upside down on the couch with her legs crossed and talking on the phone while Zach was playing the same zombie game Jerr and the others were playing earlier. He was playing with Tobi while they were both shooting.
"Ah! Stop…shooting me for the last time TOBI!"
"Sorry Zach-san! Tobi keeps forgetting!" I laughed as I shook my umbrella and placed it in the bin where the other ones are. Iris quickly ran upstairs to hide the biggest of the presents that wouldn't fit and the gift wrapping paper. She bought so many that she came up with the idea of wrapping each of our gifts in different wrapping paper to know which ones was ours separately.
"How's your mother? Is she alright now?" Jerr asked while she slapped her hand in Deidara's lap, annoying him.
Kakashi laid a hand on my shoulder and I sighed. "Maybe you should rest. You look a bit worn out." I shook my head and rubbed the back of my neck, going into the kitchen to put up the cookie dough in the fridge that I picked up along the way. I know how much she loves baked cookies and all that. She was a chocolate chip cookie addict.
I leaned on the counter and grabbed a pencil and paper, jotting down everything I needed to make for her cake and what to put on it. I also wrote down what to make for her in the morning and the dinner afterwards. My goodness, it was going to be a stressful night and day tomorrow.
"You ready for tomorrow kid?" I looked up to see Kakuzu, going to the fridge and getting out and orange, he closed it and sat at the round glass table and began peeling off the skin from it. I bowed my head and shook it.
"I am, but all this damn cooking is for the birds…I'm a little tired, but nothing will stop me from giving Jerr the best birthday party." I went over to the cabinet and began inspecting everything that I needed for in the morning before the power goes out or something…
"I dare you and Iris to go out there for twenty minutes and play outside in the rain and roll around in the mud. Think you can do it?" I heard Zach's voice and a chorus of screaming afterwards.
Next thing I knew, Iris and Jerr were outside rolling on the ground and throwing dirt at each other.
I shook my head and sighed, smiling to myself.
So this is my new family huh?
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Im really tired now, so I'm just gonna end this here.
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~ Bye Bye Nao!
