Yay! another chapter out.
Although this chapter may be a little lacking on the humor, the next chapter will be full of funny surprises!
The bad thing is school has started again :( which means less time for writing, but i will try my best, though i really need to update my other story badly (sorry to the people out there waiting) hopefully school will provide insperation (haha yeah...) but my free periods at school should give me some time to work on writing.
so anyway, i will try to update as soon as i can, and until then, have fun living!
thanks, BlueBB
"NO!"
The scream coming from the house was loud enough to wake the dead. It was full of fury, loss and frustration. Emily and I looked towards the house fearing the worst.
Tobi was still running around with his hair on fire, screaming in pain. There was a loud thump from within the house, followed by Deidara running outside holding his head with Konan hot on his heels.
"This won't end well," Emily said with a sigh.
"Make it stop!" Tobi yelled out, holding his burning head in despair.
Emily looked at me with questioning eyes. I sighed, "Fine, I'll sort out Tobi, you go see what's up with Deidara and Konan."
With her eyes lighting up at the mention of Deidara Emily took off in pursuit of them. I turned towards Tobi, mentally preparing myself for the task. I looked around for something to stop his anguish, the garden hose catching my eyes. Bingo!
"Tobi, come here," I called out to him; I think he only just heard me.
Turning the hose on I pointed it at Tobi as he reached me, a hiss and a cloud of smoke erupted from his head, a sigh of relief escaping his lips.
"Better?" I asked, amused at his instant relief.
"Much," he said laughing. "Tobi thinks you're the best Crissy!" Tobi said and to my horror he threw his arms around me in a tight hug. A big wet hug.
"Uh, thanks Tobi but I would appreciate it if you didn't get me wet," I said, cringing slightly as the water started to seep through my own clothes. I thought he would let go, but he only squeezed me tighter, needless to say I got wetter.
Tobi laughed and pulled away, "Go and clean yourself up," I said laughing slightly, it was hard to stay angry at him.
As he skipped towards the house I noticed his hair was shorter, and the ends were singed.
Looking up at the house I saw black smoke coming out of one the rooms on the second floor, I almost died where I stood. What the hell?
From what I could remember Konan's room was there, why was it on fire? And then I put two and two together.
"Deidara!" I screamed out, furious at what he had done.
Not only had they almost destroyed my house, but now they had set it on fire. It would be a miracle if the house came out of this in one piece.
Trying to think fast I raced inside, grabbing the fire extinguisher on the way and bolted up the stairs. There was black smoke poring out of Konan's room, the smell of smoke racing down the hallway. Reaching the doorway I saw orange flames licking at the walls, the bed and wardrobe a smouldering ruin.
Pointing the extinguisher at the flames I tried to put the fire out, slowly moving into the room as the flames were put out. Unfortunately the room was too big, the extinguisher too small.
"Shit," I muttered as the extinguisher ran out. I backed out of the room, thinking of something, anything which would help.
"What in the world is going on?" a voice cut through my rapid thoughts. Looking up I saw Kisame walking down the hall, confusion written across his face.
"Deidara I think," I said, thinking back to Deidara being chased across the paddock by Konan. "Hey, you can create water can't you?" I asked, an idea hitting me.
"Yeah, so?" he asked, as though our house wasn't about to be burnt down, as though he wasn't the one person who could probably fix it.
"So, use that water to put out the fire!" I said, almost pulling my hair out in frustration.
A look of understanding came across his face, it was about time. He did a couple of hand signs and spewed out a huge gush of water. The flames sizzled and went out, leaving the once bedroom in a soggy black disarray.
Kisame and I stared at it for a few seconds, amazed at what had become of Konan's bedroom.
"Konan's going to be so pissed," Kisame said, chuckling slightly.
"She already is, the last I saw of her she was ready to kill Deidara." I said in reply.
"I'm not surprised." He said grinning. "Ah well, at least the fire is out."
"Yeah, thanks for that." I said, closing the door. I'll deal with it later, I thought, trying not to think about the clean up job that lay before me.
"No problem, although you do realise that you owe me one now," he said, a sly grin creeping across his face.
"What? Since when?"
"A favour for a favour, I'll let you know when I need something." He said, turning around and walking back down the hall.
I sighed, this wasn't going to end well.
It was awhile later when Emily, Konan and Deidara walked in the door, Konan looking smug but still angry, Emily looked flustered and Deidara looked beaten up, with what looked like paper cuts all over his body.
"All sorted out?" I asked the group, hoping Konan had let out all her anger.
"Yup," Emily said, "How's Konan's room?"
"Um…" I didn't know how to say that it was now a disaster zone, especially when it would probably fire Konan up again. "Let's just say Deidara, you're cleaning it up." I said, no question in my tone.
Deidara looked at me in shock, "But-"
"Listen, you're the one who almost burnt my house down, so you're going to be the one to clean up your mess."
Deidara grumbled something about Tobi being the cause and headed up the stairs.
"Serves him right," Konan said in satisfaction, glaring at Deidara's back as he made his way up stairs. Just after he disappeared from view the small tabby cat from earlier (the one that saved my butt) walked down the stairs stretching his back as he went.
"Aw, look at the little guy, he's so cute!" Emily said, looking at the cat with dreamy eyes. The cat returned her look full of love with a death stare.
"Aw come on, don't look at me like that, it doesn't suit you. You should look happy, it makes you seem even cuter!" she continued on, moving towards the cat and going to pick him up.
"Come on, come to Em-"
"Get away from me you oversized lump of meat!" We all stopped dead, did the cat just speak?
"What, you look like you've seen a ghost, you aint never seen a talking cat before?" its mouth moved, just like a humans, forming perfect words. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen.
"What the…" Emily murmured, fascinated and yet horrified at this small animal.
"Look, I'm sorry to have startled you, but please, just don't pick me up; I hate being man handled." He said, giving a slight shiver as he finished his sentence.
"Then why did you let the others hold you before?" Konan asked from beside me, she seemed completely used to having a conversation with a talking animal.
"Well that's simple, it's because Itachi asked me to," he said, as though that explained everything.
"Oh ok," I'm glad at least one person got what was going on.
"You still look confused," a voice off to the side said. We looked over to see Itachi standing there, watching Emily and my confused faces.
"Well when a cat starts talking to you, things start to get a little confusing," I said, wishing someone would just hurry up and explain.
"I guess I'll have to explain things then, considering who I'm talking to," he said, our earlier conversation coming back to me. I gave him a death.
"This here is Jeffry, he's a ninja cat from back home." He explained.
"Dam right I'm a ninja, and I'll scratch your face off if you get on my nerves," Jeffry said, the hairs on his back standing up in warning. "But if you stay on my good side, I'll be nice to you," he said in a pleasant voice, body relaxing. I think this cat had multiple personalities.
Well that explained what why he could talk, and I guess Itachi must have signed one of those blood contracts which enabled him to summon the cats.
"Right," I murmured. Slightly weirded out by the situation I went into the lounge room and turned on the TV, hoping to find something entertaining. Finally finding something worth watching I settled down into the couch, the others coming to join me.
"What is this?" Itachi asked, staring at the screen.
"It's an episode form Naruto," I said, only just realising it could have major spoilers, luckily it was an earlier episode, one from the chunin exams.
"Oh I love this episode, Sasuke gets his ass kicked by Gaara," Emily said, coming in to watch it. Itachi gave her a glare.
Pretty soon all of the members were in the lounge room, watching the past of their world.
It just got to the exciting part when there just had to be an add break.
"Aw come on, Tobi was enjoying that," Tobi whined, throwing a chip at the TV, yep we had got the munchies out.
"Tobi, don't throw things at the TV," Zetsu chastised Tobi while Deidara yelled at Tobi to shut up and Kisame yelled at Deidara to be quiet.
"Guys shut up!" I yelled at them, trying to replace the peace and listen to the news update that had just come on.
They eventually settled down, long enough for the last announcement on the news to be heard.
"And lastly there have been growing complaints of pick pocketing in the outer suburbs of cairns. Victims say they didn't know until they got home and found their wallets and valuables gone. There have been no eye witnesses but police are on the look out, so remember, keep a close eye on all valuables." The new caster said before saying goodnight.
The smarter of us thought about what he had just said, Deidara and Tobi started complaining about the adds again.
"There's only one person I know in this world who could steal so much stuff without being noticed, and only one person who would do it in the first place," I said, looking at the others for there opinion.
"There's only one person in our world I know who would do that," Kisame put in, a thoughtful look crossing his face.
"And it looks like we know where to find him," Konan put in.
"Now, or tomorrow?" Emily asked.
I looked outside to the darkening sky, the first stars were starting to show themselves.
"Tomorrow," I decided, wanting at least one night to prepare myself for the greedy, murderous but downright cool Kakuzu.