Okay, so I have been sick lately and havent really felt like ding anything.
Because of this I have about 2 chapters from each story half written and waiting to be finished.
I just so happened to feel like finishing this one before I go back to sleep for a while, feels weird going to bed at 4pm
So anyway, enjoy this chapter and no hate if its a bit sloppy.

Hidan wandered down the streets of Konoha with Naruto, Sai and Sakura.
Unbeknownst to him, he was starting to pick up the real Kakashis habits, such as the way he walked, fiddled with things and spoke.
It wasn't a bad thing of course, it just further enhanced his disguise, which was pretty much flawless in the first place if you disregarded his foul mouth and pink eyes.
Being Kakashi, while troublesome at times, was refreshing, Hidan decided.
While Konoha had its share of nut jobs, its appeal was superior to that of the Akatsuki for the simple fact that everything was much more comfortable.
Life in the Akatsuki was very tough.
Due to boredom and not getting out as much as they should, the members were constantly ignoring, annoying or trying to kill each other.
Of course that posed no threat to him but it was still irritating.
More so because he had been used as a human stress ball of late with everything from kitchen knives, clay, wood and plastic toy cars being thrown at him.
Life in Konoha seemed much more easy going.
The food was infinitely better which wasn't much of a surprise.
Hidan had often speculated that the reason the Akatsuki were in such good shape was because they didn't have enough food to get fat on in the first place, normally living off of things that were canned.
Not to mention the people here seemed friendly and forthcoming.
It would be a shame to kill them all like he normally would at the end of a mission.
In fact, Hidan was finding himself more reluctant to sacrifice the village with each hour that passed.
Except for that kid with the ice cream… She would most definitely be killed.
And anyway, why destroy a nice place that you could one day return to?
Not that he was turning soft or anything, but Hidan had a feeling he was definitely going to miss the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

He sighed and looked at the ground.
Why couldn't I have been fucking born here instead?
Naruto and Sakura glanced up at him worriedly and Sai would have too if he cared.
Despite his cheery demeanor upon leaving the hospital, 'Kakashi-sensei' had started seeming very depressed of late.
It wasn't like him and they wanted to know what was wrong.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

Hidan ignored Sakura, momentarily forgetting who he was supposed to be.
It wasn't until she called his name a second time that he blinked and remembered what was going on.
Luckily for him, it just looked like he was daydreaming - further evidence that convinced Naruto and Sakura that something was wrong.

"Are you okay? You seem really down."

Hidan mentally swore.
It was just like him to lose track of what he was doing and convey his emotions through his disguise.
Knowing a normal excuse like "I'm just bored" or "Never mind" wouldn't appease the evil little children, Hidan gave a half hearted smile and replied with the first thing that came to mind,

"I'm fine, I lost something was all."

Naruto and Sakura glanced at each other with furrowed brows and Sai looked upon the scene phlegmatically, awaiting the opportunity to put his knowledge of human interaction to the test.
Sakura tilted her head at her sensei in thought.
There certainly was something different about him, maybe it was…

"Was it your book, Kakashi-sensei? Was that what you lost?"

Sakura looked to Naruto with a surprised smile.
For once the fool was catching on about something and had beaten her to the chase.
Hidan sighed.
Book… Yeah, whatever.
More like his will to leave the village – which was only for comfort reasons by the way.
Figuring that the best thing to do was agree, Hidan nodded to the three and tried to look glum.
Naruto put a finger to his chin In thought and muttered,

"Well Pervy Sage is still hanging around doing his 'research'. I bet he has a spare copy that you can have."

Hidan furrowed his brows.
Pervy Sage?
Something told him that this whole book losing situation somehow involved Jirayia…
Shaking his head and waving his hands sheepishly, Hidan said,

"No no don't worry about it guys, I have a spare copy at home. I'll get it later."

Naruto and Sakura exchanged glances.
They suspected (correctly) that their sensei was lying.
Instead of taking the track to the training grounds, Naruto steered the group towards the bath house – the only logical place that Jiraiya would be during said time.
Hidan didn't realize of course, having never actually been to Konoha before.
He had thanked Jashin that he was in hospital last night and didn't have to wander around looking for the copy nins house.
Impersonate someone and they may never know – stay in their house and sleep in their bed and things get a little different.
Sakura suddenly stopped walking, causing Hidan to just about knock her over.
He scowled at her and looked ahead to see what had caught her attention.
The girl he had encountered yesterday – Ino – was walking by.
She held a map in her hands and a confused look on her face.
Team 7 walked over to her as she tilted the map again, furrowing her brows and scowling.
Sakura waved and smiled,

"Hi Ino."

The map fell to the ground as Ino jumped about a foot in the air.
She glanced around wildly at them, clearly startled.
Once she realized who they were, she sighed and picked up the map, glowering in slight annoyance at them.
Sakura tilted her head at the map curiously and leaned over her rivals shoulder to read it.

"Huh? This is a map of Konoha? Why are you reading that?"

Ino glanced at Sakura and shrugged her shoulders.
She folded up the map and popped it into her bag before replying,

"Do you remember all those new apartments went up about a year ago?"

Sakura nodded.

"Well the map of Konoha had to be rewritten because of it so Tsunade-sama asked me to look around and make sure everything has been drawn correctly. Although to be honest, I don't think it is. I cant find a damn thing, uhn…"

Naruto sighed as the girls continued chatting, seemingly bored with the conversation.
Hidan had to agree, maps were a pretty boring thing to talk about.
The only cool maps were the ones you used as kids to find the 'treasure' that you yourself had just buried 15 minutes earlier for the sake of the game.
He used to love playing pirate with the neighborhood kids, although he got the odd complaint every now and then about how dangerous it was for him to make the other children 'walk the plank' and that his parents should punish him for it.
It was almost like they thought he cared that people were getting hurt when he pushed them off the town bridge and into the stream.
But now even treasure maps pissed him off.
Kakuzu had ruined them for him, having a massive stash of the things with 'X' marked all over them to pin point the location of shinobi with large bounties on their heads.
The idea of getting a map in this instance did seem smart though.

"Ino? Could I get one of those maps? I'll check around as well."

Ino scratched the back of her neck sheepishly and slowly replied,

"Sorry Kakashi sensei, I only have one copy, un."

Hidan cursed his luck.

"Hey are you feeling okay, Ino?"

The purple clad girl looked at Sakura in surprise as her rival wandered over and felt her forehead.
Sakura tilted her head and frowned.

"You voice is a bit deeper and sounds kind of scratchy. And you have kind of been grunting at the end of your sentences, are you getting a cold?"

Ino coughed into her hand and nodded.

"The back of my throat has been sore the last few days, it'll probably blow over though."

Hidan nodded thoughtfully.
Explains why she didn't go on the mission with Asuma, Choji and Shikamaru like Sakura had said earlier that morning.
Naruto was obviously thinking along the same lines and grinned up at Ino,

"Hey, why don't you come train with us? A bit of exercise helps clear the airways. We are going to the training field now."

Ino glanced between them all but looked hesitant.
Not that she really had a say in the matter, though.
Before she could even consider saying no, Sai had intervened and grasped her hand.
Pulling her in the direction of the training grounds with Naruto, Sakura and Hidan in tow, he smiled at her,

"If it makes you feel better then it's what you should do, beautiful."

Inos face went red and so did Sakuras, although for an entirely different reason.
Hidan glanced to the pink haired girl beside him and distanced himself along the path a little as she started muttering curses at her team mate.

Hidan leaned against a tree and watched as Sakura, Naruto and Sai sparred.
Ino had hung back a little, claiming that she was happy to sit on the sidelines until the medicine pill that Sakura had given her along the way to the training ground kicked in and she felt better.
Hidan was happy to stay silent for a while, observing his three 'students' was actually pretty interesting.
He had always enjoyed watching fights, other peoples techniques often inspired him to create his own based loosely on what he had seen.
And these three definitely had interesting techniques.
As Naruto created six shadow clones which began to gang up on Sai, an acorn dropped from the tree beside Hidan and his gaze was temporarily drawn to it.
He glanced at it and out of the corner of his eye, he swore he saw Ino watching him.
Well that's weird…
Hidan shook his head at his own thought, in all probability the acorn had caught her attention as well.
A kunai whizzed past his head and stuck into the trunk of the tree a few centimeters away.
He frowned at it.
That was a bit too close to be an accident.
Out in the training field, Naruto was choked up on laughter and Sakura was scolding him
With an irritated sigh, Hidan picked up the acorn that had fallen and threw it at Naruto, hard.

"AACK!"

The boy yelped as it hit him with so much force that it knocked him over.
Naruto curled into a ball on the ground and groaned as he lifted his shirt, an acorn sized bruise beginning to show up on his stomach.
Hidan smirked and turned to glance at Ino.
She was still watching him, openly now, with furrowed brows.
He turned and looked over his shoulder to see if it was in fact him that she was looking at.
Turns out it was.
Tilting his head at her, he asked,

"Is there something wrong, Ino?"

She looked slightly surprised that he had asked and hastily smiled,

"No nothing Kakashi-sensei. You seem a bit different is all, yeah."

Hidan raised a brow,
That sort of statement would normally offend him and whoever had uttered such words would normally be pounded into the ground and dealt a healthy serving of cussing.
But he couldn't do that now because he wasn't SUPPOSED to be Hidan.
So instead of answering and giving himself away, he asked,

"Do I?"

Ino hesitated for a second before she sheepishly chuckled and shook her head.
Hidan narrowed his eyes at her strange behavior.
What's gotten into her…?
Before he could dwell on it anymore, Naruto ran straight for him and dived.
Hidan instinctively spun himself out of the way and looked down at the boy in amusement as he pulled himself away from the tree he had just spear tackled.
Ino snickered as she glanced down at him.

"Urgh… Kakashi-sensei you weren't supposed to move-dattebayo…"

Hidan smiled in a very Kakashi-like way and gave him the peace sign before helping him up.
What did the kid expect? That he was going to let his S-rank reputation be crushed because he couldn't dodge a hastily timed tackle?
He glanced out into the training field and observed Sakura shaking her head and Sai giving a genuine half smile.
Hidan turned back to Ino and grinned.

"How about you go out and spare now, Ino? You look better, there is no reason to stay sitting down anymore."

Inos snickering faded and she began to stutter.
She looked like she could give him a million reasons why she should stay sitting down.
She probably would have as well if Sakura didn't at that exact moment taunt her with,

"You look like a pig, come on and fight us Ino-pig."

For some reason, this really got to Ino.
Her head snapped towards Sakura and she growled.
Hidan supposed that being called a pig one too many times was enough to make any one angry but… wow.
As the girl dashed off towards Sakura with an excited Naruto and Sai watching, Hidan briefly wondered if he was going to have to break the fight up.

So there you go.
I think I'm starting to make Hidan a little OOC but to be honest I have a hard time believing he is angry ALL the time.
Living in the Akatsuki (and with Kakuzu) probably just brings it out lol.
Thats my interpretation anyway.
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