Chapter 20
~Bail Out~
-Konan's POV-
I watch as Yume leaves the room without saying goodnight. This is a surprise since she always says goodnight. Mayumi has her hands balled into fist as she glares at Itachi. Meanwhile, Itachi is unaffected by Mayumi's glare.
"She just got fucking rejected," Hidan says with a chuckle.
Mayumi turns her attention to Hidan and punches him in the jaw causing him to almost fall out of his seat. "Shut the hell up, no one cares about you or what you have to say."
"Fucking bitch I will fucking kill you in your sleep," Hidan yells.
"I would like to see you try," Mayumi says then turns her attention back to Itachi.
"Hidan, you will not be killing anyone in this house in their sleep or while they are awake," Pein says. I slightly sigh with a small shake of my head.
"A single date with Yume wouldn't kill you," Mayumi spits out.
"I've already stated why there won't be a date," Itachi replies calmly.
"Yeah I know, I heard you," she growls out. "This is what I have to say to your reason, bullshit. Why; because a bond has already been formed since you all started living here. She looks at everyone here like a friend. Whether or not you want that bond to exist it does and that isn't going to change. Men, you're all the same."
Mayumi then lifts up her middle finger then walks across the room and out the front door. Grabbing another slice of pizza Hidan stands up and runs for the door. "I'm going to fucking go annoy her," Hidan says then runs out.
"You and Yume will go out on a fucking date," Ken says with a grin. "Mark my fucking words; I'll make sure it fucking happens." Ken then skips towards the kitchen giggling then laughing.
"Does anyone else think that Ken is weird and wonders how he's Hidan's father, un?"
"We wonder the same thing."
"You know," Kisame says as he places his arm around Itachi. "I think the two of you would be cute if you went out on a date."
"I'll be back," I whisper to Pein.
I leave the room and head towards the Yume's bedroom. With a soft knock on the door, I push it open and walk in. Yume is lying down on the bed, holding a bear. Though her body is shaking, she isn't making any noise.
Closing the door, I walk over to the bed and sit down on the edge. Her body immediately stops shaking so I know she's awake. I don't know if she actually likes Itachi or not, but I'm sure the public rejection hurt. She is a kind girl, and she's let us stay with her even after finding out about us being criminals.
Mayumi is right, a bond has been created with all of us the moment we started living here. Though I know Yume has her own mother already, I can't help but see her as a daughter. If I'm ever blessed with my own daughter, I would like her to be like Yume; nice and caring the way people should treat others.
"Yume," I whisper. "I know you're awake. Do you want to talk?"
"I just want to cry myself to sleep," she replies with a few sniffles.
"Okay, well if you ever want to talk you can come to me."
"Thank you," she replies after a moment.
I only nod in reply. She quietly goes back to crying. Slowly, I run my hand through her hair trying to sooth and calm her down. Eventually, she stops shaking and her breathing becomes even.
Standing up, I place the covers closer to her. Quietly, I exit the room and walk back down the hallway. Itachi passes by me then stops. I stop and look at him.
"Is she asleep," he asks after a moment.
"Yes," I reply. He nods and walks over to the room he shares with Pein and Kisame. "Itachi, you may not like to admit it, but Mayumi is right."
Itachi says nothing, just opens the door and walks into the room. I let out a sigh and head back down to the living room.
-Mayumi's POV-
"Why the hell are you following me," I ask Old Man as he walks beside me munching on a slice of pizza.
"I fucking want to that's fucking why," he replies.
"Do you want me to kick your ass?"
"I'm not fucking scared of you. I can fucking kill you."
"Your threat doesn't scare me," I reply rolling my eyes and start walking faster.
"You're a fucking bitch."
"Thank you."
"Where are we fucking going?"
"We," I say turning to face him raising my brow. "Where do you get 'we'? I don't want to go anywhere with you. Just go back home and leave me alone."
"Not going to fucking happen," he replies and finishes his pizza.
"Whatever," I mumble rolling my eyes turning back around and start walking.
He starts talking about some nonsense about Jashin. Seeing as I don't care, I completely ignore him the entire thirty minute walk to the small park. I probably should pay attention. Before I always thought religion and anything mythical was a bunch of crap, but ever since the Akatsuki showed up and changed from kids to adults then Kasei –who is a kitsune- came into the picture it just goes to prove that maybe that stuff does exist. Then yet again, I'm not going to care unless it is going to harm Yume in any way.
"What the fuck are we doing here?"
"I came here to be ALONE and calm down."
"And fucking do what, stare at the fucking sky? That is fucking boring."
"I'm about to just kick your ass."
"Fucking go ahead."
"You know what," I say turning around to face him. "Let's fight each other."
"You're a fucking citizen and will fucking lose."
"Are you scared," I ask raising my brow. "I think I've proven that I can fight. So, let's fight each other. We can use this park; hit each other with the swings and stuff, but none of your ninja weapons."
"You're fucking serious," he asks with a grin.
"Hell yeah I'm serious," I say with a smirk. "My blood is pumping and I need to let out my aggravation. What better way than to fight? Besides, you're a good enough opponent and that's the only compliment you'll get from me."
"Okay bitch," he replies, his grin turning to a smirk. "You're fucking on."
I walk away from him to give us some space. As he starts taking off hidden weapon, I stretch. Finally, I can fight and just let out all of my stress and anger. I've been holding back far too long.
"Ready," I ask getting into a fighting stance.
"Fuck yeah," Old Man replies getting into his fighting stance.
We don't move. Instead, we look each other up and down analyzing each other. We've gotten into a few fights, so we have some sort of grasp how the other fights.
With a deep breath, I charge at him. He smirks and charges at me. As we near each other, he pulls his arm back balling his hand to a fist. Just as his fist is halfway to meet me, I do a half spin and bring my leg up to kick him in the face. He quickly grabs my foot before it makes contact and twists my ankle before pushing me away. I hobble back a few times to regain my balance. He uses this chance to attack sweeping his feet under me.
Quickly, I hold my hands out and do a backflip away from him. When I land on my feet, I kick the nearest rock at me towards him. He dodges and surprise tackles me to the ground. He lands a few punches on my face and immediately I use the jiu-jutsu scissor guard. It leaves my head open for some attacks, but it also makes it harder for Old Man to punch me.
I grab his left wrist. He tries to yank it free and I place my hand behind his left elbow and let my right leg fall to the ground. Glaring he uses his right arm and elbows the back of my head, which is exactly what I wanted. I scissor sweep, which causes him to flip over. Digging my knees into him, I flip with him and place one arm behind his head to bring his head closer and start punching and using my elbow.
"Fucking bitch," he spits out.
"Thank you," I reply back.
Old Man smirks and somehow maneuvers his legs between us. Using his legs he pushes me off. I roll off and quickly jump onto my feet the same time he jumps back onto his feet. He runs at me and goes to punch. I switch to Judo deciding to do the move Osoto Gari takedown. I protect my face and then smash my elbow into his face. While doing that, I grab hold of his arm and bring my leg behind him and sweep the back of his legs out causing him to fall to the ground.
"I'm winning Old Man," I taunt him while smirking. "Come on you're supposed to be a ninja. I was expecting better."
"I will fucking win bitch," he yells as he goes to sweep my legs out from me.
Seeing this, I jump backwards laughing. This angers him and he is immediately back on his feet. I start moving around a lot backwards and away from him; after all a moving target is a hard to take down. He starts running at me and I take off in the directions of the swings.
Just as I reach the swings I feel a blow to the back of my head. I stumble forward and go through one of the swings and fall onto my back. He looks down at me and smirk. As he goes to kick me, I roll out of the way. Seriously, I know better than to turn my back on my opponents, I shouldn't have gotten too cocky.
Jumping onto my feet, I grab one of the swings as protection. Old Man grabs one of the other swings. With a smirk at each other, we start our swing war. I throw my swing at him. He catches it leaving me open, which he uses to his advantage. He throws the swing I threw at him back at me. I duck, while ducking he brings his foot up. Quickly I move out of the way, only to get hit by the other swing across my chest, and once again I'm back on the ground.
"Fucking bitch, I was fucking expecting better."
"Fine," I say getting up. "We stop holding back."
"Bitch, you'll fucking die."
"We'll just see about that."
I kick one of the swings at him. He ducks and once again throws a swing at me. Spinning out of the way, I move closer and use my momentum to throw him into the pole. He lets out a small grunt and glares. A second later, my face is getting smashed into the same pole I threw him into.
Holding my hands out in front of me, I grab the pole and stop my face from hitting the pole once again. I bring my leg up and kick out behind me. Old Man chuckles as he lets me go and I turn around to see him move away. Wiping the blood of my busted lip I grin. This is a blast.
The fight continues on with each of us using the park as weapons. What Old Man lacks in speed he makes up for it with his strength and stamina, of course I will never tell him that. During the fight, I constantly switch to different fighting styles, which I think catches him off guard sometimes. One moment I'll be using Judo then the next all I'll be using jiu-jutsu or Koryū. Then I'll switch it up with Jujutsu and change it to Aikido or back to Judo. Either way, it kept him on his toes.
Though, I change the types of fighting styles I used –and it had helped me get out of a few close calls- Old Man was still able to do damage to me. There were times when he threw me around like a rag down. He would slam my body into one of the slides, the ground or a tree. One time we had taken our fighting over towards the small bridge over the pond and he went to throw me overboard. Quickly, I had wrapped my legs around him taking him over with me causing us to both get wet. When we got out we went back to dry land. The water was cold and there was no way either of us were going back into it anytime soon.
As of now, I go to give Old Man a roundhouse kick. He blocks my attack and goes to knock me down onto the ground. I reach out grabbing hold of his arms, and pull him down with me. We tumble for a few seconds them come to a stop. He elbows me in the face and I move away from him. It takes us a few minutes, but we're able to get back on our feet. I wince in pain as I take a deep breath and move into a fighting stance. I wipe the blood out of my eyes, and if I could I would be laughing, but my sides hurt too damn much.
We look at each other. I busted his head open when I pushed him to the concrete, so now the whole left side of his face his covered in blood. His right eye is bruised and closed up. There are a few bruises on his side. I'm pretty sure I look like hell as well.
"Let's call it a draw for now," I say as I spit out blood. "We can continue this another time. It's late; I'm cold and getting tired."
"You just fucking know I'm winning and don't want to fucking lose."
"Don't you wish that was true," I reply with a chuckle then immediately regret it. Slowly, I get out of my fighting stance. "I'm calling the match to be over and going home."
With that said, I turn around and start limping away. Moments later, Old Man is walking beside me. I'm too tired to start any type of conversation with him so I just stay silent. However, even after our fight he seems to have no problem and once again starts talking about Jashin. He goes on about how Jashin is the God of utter destruction and death, which doesn't sound that bad, but I'm not into the whole following a God thing. So, I just ignore the rest about his God.
The walk seems to take forever, but that's probably because I'm limping the entire time. When I see the house, I ignore any and all pain, pushing it to the back of my mind and take off running. I stumble a few times but I keep myself from falling. Old Man calls out, but I ignore him and soon I hear him following behind me. Reaching the door, I open it and run inside, almost collapsing to the floor. A moment later Old Man comes running in.
"What the fuck happen with you two," Ken asks looking up from the couch. Everyone else must be in bed, because the only ones I see besides Ken is Kakuzu, Pein, Konan and Tobi.
"I fucking beat the bitch in our fucking fight."
"You've been fucking fighting for two fucking hours?"
"If that is how fucking long we were fucking gone then fucking yes."
I look over at Old Man and glare. That is a total lie, neither one of us won. Oh, he is so going to regret what he just did, but right now, I'm too tired and in pain to do anything. So instead, I don't bother denying and close the door and kick my shoes off.
"Hidan-san has a black eye and getting blood on the floor," Tobi points out the obvious.
"Were you trying to kill her," Pein asks with a glare.
"She wanted the fucking fight and said no fucking holding back."
"I'm perfectly fine," I say standing up straight.
"You don't look perfectly fine," Konan says as she stands up. "I'll help you take care of your injuries."
"I can take care of them myself," I say not wanting any help.
Konan just ignores me and starts heading up the stairs. Sighing, I limp out of the room and up the stairs. I follow her down the hallway to the bathroom. She holds the door open for me and I limp inside. She pulls out the first-aid kit. Meanwhile I'm looking at myself in the mirror. There's a gash on the right side of my face with dried caking blood. Both of my eyes are blackening. My lip is busted open and there's blood trickling down my chin. Thankfully my nose isn't broken. Goodness, in the morning this is all going to be painful.
Konan takes a cool rag and daps at my face with it. Biting on the inside of my cheek, I hold back my hiss of pain. She then proceeds to disinfect the gash and my eyes immediately water up from the burning sensation. A moment later, she places a bandage over the gash and a small bandage over my busted lip.
"How are your sides," she asks.
"Painful," I reply as I slowly lift my shirt off to see the damage.
"That does look painful," she says as I finish taking my black shirt off and throwing it in the bathtub.
Looking in the mirror I see both of my sides with a variety of different size bruises. There are even some cuts thanks to my shirt that I didn't know about. Konan moves her hands over my ribs and I'm unable to hold back the hiss of pain.
"Nothing is broken," she says and pulls away.
"Surprisingly," I reply.
She nods and takes out the gauze and wraps it around my ribs. I just look up at the ceiling counting the seconds that go by. When I reach hundred and twenty, which is two minutes she pulls away. I pull my pants off and throw them into the tub, then carefully sit down on the edge. She grabs hold of my injured foot that I was limping on and carefully probes my ankle with her fingers. I check my legs to only see a few scarps, those will heal quickly.
"You might have pulled a muscle," she says and I give her my attention. She pulls away and grabs the bottle of painkillers. "It's not broken and there is no bruise. Take these; I'll be back with a glass of water."
I take the pills and she walks out. For a moment I just glare at the painkillers. Quickly, I pop the horrid tasting pills into my mouth and swallow. Konan comes back a minute later and hands me a cold glass of water. Gratefully, I take it and take gulps to not only get rid of the taste, but also to quench my thirst.
"When you get the chance, put ice on your bruises. Tomorrow I'll help change your bandages."
"Thanks," I reply after a minute.
"Did you really want the fight?"
"Yeah," I reply with a slow nod. "I also did tell him not to hold back."
"It looks like you injured him pretty badly as well. I'm amazed you were able to hold your own against him and you're not dead."
"I've been fighting all my life," I say with a grin. "In fact I enjoy fighting and plan on being a professional fighter. If I was unable to do anything in the fight I had with Old Man then that means I suck. Though I hate him, he is a good fighter."
"We wouldn't have had him in the Akatsuki if he wasn't a good fighter," she replies.
"So one of the requirements to be in your organization is to be a good fighter?"
"Yes," she replies with a small nod.
"How is Yume," I ask seriously, hoping she is okay.
"She's sleeping peacefully," she replies after a moment.
"Was she crying, because I will kick Itachi's ass if she cried."
"You may have been able to fight and hold your own against Hidan," Konan says with a chuckle. "But Itachi is in at a higher level than you'll ever be. In fact, he is one of our best and…I think he could even defeat Pein."
"That doesn't mean I won't try," I reply. "I refuse to allow anyone get away with hurting Yume."
"You really care for her," she states.
"She's like a little sister, and the one good thing in my life," I say slowly. "I'll never be like her, but she is my role model…and sometimes…most of the times, I wish I could be like her. I would hate if anyone was to break her or change her. She's the type of person that gives me hope sometimes."
I fall silent, not wanting to say anymore. Konan nods in understanding. She gives a small smile, and I give a small smile in return. I'm not saying Yume is perfect and all around a good person, because I'm not. Though she's close to it, she has her dark side just like everyone else.
"I'm going to go to bed now," I say after a moment as I stand up.
"Goodnight," Konan replies with a nod.
We walk out of the bathroom. Luckily, none of the guys see me in my undergarments as we walk down the hallway. I go into my room; closing the door I change out of my undergarments. I get into some dry ones and climb into bed, too tired to put on any pajamas. Within moments I fall asleep.
-Itachi's POV-
My eyes snap open from the repeating dream of my clan's death. For a moment I stay in bed hearing Kisame's snore and Pein's light breathing. Sitting up, I go over to one of the drawers that I claimed as mine for the duration of our stay. Opening the drawer, I pull out a set of clean clothes and the bottle of my medication. Frist I change, then twist the cap off and take out two pills. Popping them in my mouth, I swallow without a problem, used to taking them without water and hide it once again.
Knowing I won't be able to go back to sleep, I quietly make my way out of the room and down the hallway to the kitchen. I make myself some buttered toast and a glass of green tea. Looking at the clock, it reads three fifteen. That's the earliest I've ever woken up while living here.
Sitting at the table, I finish the toast and take small sips from my tea. Some time passes, my tea is cold when I hear footsteps. Looking up I see Yume walking into the room yawning and rubbing her eyes. She freezes when she notices me. I wonder if my words had hurt her.
Shrugging, she walks over to the cabinets. I watch as she pulls out a glass then goes to the fridge and fills it up with milk. She quickly finishes and puts the glass into the sink.
"You should get some sleep," she says after yawning and turning to me.
"I can't," is my simple reply. I can't tell her the real reason. She looks at me blankly and I stare right back.
"Whatever it is, it will end," she says, then starts walking out of the room. Before she walks out she turns and gives a small smile. "See you again in a few hours."
I watch her walk out and listen to her footsteps until they fade. Closing my eyes I let out a sigh. I'm a little surprised that she even talked to me and smiled. The way she acted after what I said, I was sure that she wouldn't ever do any of those things again towards me. Maybe I didn't hurt her like I thought. With a small smile no one will ever see, I finish my tea and go outside to meditate.
-Tobi's POV-
"Good morning everyone," Yume says walking into the kitchen with a smile; the bruise on her neck hidden. I'm a bit disappointed she doesn't look upset and that she's hiding the bruises. Her smile does fade though the moment she looks in my direction. I smirk behind my mask.
"Good morning Yume-chan," I say, using my childish voice as I go and give her a hug. I mentally laugh as her body becomes stiff as I hug her. "Something wrong Yume-chan?"
"No," she squeaks out and gives an awkward hug in return.
After a few moments of letting her suffer, I release her. She quickly moves away from me. I almost laugh out loud. Stupid girl, no matter how much distance she puts between us, I'll be able to get to her wherever she's at.
"Good fucking morning," Ken says with a grin. "How are you fucking feeling?"
"I'm good," she replies as she sits down next to Kisame.
"Yume-chan should sit next to Tobi." Her eyes widen a split second in fear. This is fun.
"Maybe around dinner," she replies after a moment.
"Does Yume-chan not like Tobi," I ask pretending to sound hurt.
"T-Tobi is okay," she stutters after fumbling around for some words.
I notice Itachi watching. The others may be fooled by my act, but he knows part of the truth. It's hard to tell what he's feeling or thinking, but I'm sure if I push hard enough I can get some sort of reaction from him. I smirk behind my mask. I'm positive that I can get a reaction out of him if I use Yume. My little pawns, this is going to be a wonderful game.
A moment later Mayumi walks into the kitchen looking worse than last night. Ah, yes I can't forget about her. She'll be another fun pawn to play with later in the near future.
"What happen to you," Yume ask with a gasp as her eyes widen.
"I was just fighting with Hidan," Mayumi replies with a shrug.
"A fucking fight I won," Hidan says with a grin. Mayumi glares and I wonder if Hidan really won.
"Don't worry about it," Mayumi says holding up her hand before Yume can speak. "We're going to be late for school."
"Maybe you should stay home," Yume replies.
"To let Felix have the chance to talk some crazy bullshit to you, yeah not happening," Mayumi replies and grabs a slice of bacon. "I'm ready to go when you are."
"Masaru-san," I say getting Mayumi's attention. "You don't look so pretty today."
Deidara, Kisame and Hidan burst out into laughter. Yume looks at me with wide eyes, almost not believing what I said. Mayumi looks shock for a second then shrugs.
"I don't care about looking pretty," she says. "Society is too caught up in being beautiful, when really in the end looks fade away."
I'm not that surprised that my comment didn't affect her, but I was hoping for a little better reaction. Yes, playing my little game with her will be just as fun as my game between my other two pawns.
-Mayumi's POV-
I sit on the other side of Yume to eat breakfast, though my face hurts along with the rest of my body. I had taken some more painkillers when I woke up.
"Thanks for the meal," I say to Ken, having no doubt he cooked it.
"No fucking problem," he replies with a grin.
There's some chatter while everyone eats. Afterwards, Yume and I place our dishes into the sink. I stand in the doorway watching her.
"Goodbye everyone," she says smiling.
"Bye Yume-chan," Tobi yells as he throws himself at her feet. She slightly jumps backwards. "Tobi will miss you."
"Y-yeah," she stutters. "I'll m-miss you t-too." Hearing her say those words immediately brings up the flag that she just lied. That's weird because I know she doesn't like to lie, plus the fact she stuttered, and she only stutters when she's scared. What does she have to be scared about?
"Have a good day," Fishy says as he ruffles Yume's hair and grins at her reaction. Tobi unlatches himself from her feet and moves back to the table. She relaxes when he moves away.
"Fucking take this with you," Ken says shoving bento boxes into our hands. "Have a fucking good day and fucking stay out of trouble."
"Okay," I reply and get the surprise of my life when he brings the two of us into a hug. "Now go and fucking make daddy proud."
"Are you on drugs," I ask the moment he lets us go.
"I'm on the fucking drug of life," he replies with a grin throwing his hands in the air.
Yume starts laughing and seeing that causes me to smile. Ken grins, seeming to be happy to get the reaction he wanted. Kakuzu, Pein and Sasori only nod at us. I assume their way of saying bye until we see them again.
"Fucking later," Old Man says not seeming to really care. Ken hits him on the back of his head and I just chuckle.
"At least fucking act like you fucking care," Ken says.
"Why the fuck should I?"
"Because they could fucking die on the way to school, or on the way home. Even worse something fucking horrible can happen while they're in fucking school and they fucking get kidnapped or something."
"That fucking bitch can fucking take care of herself," Old Man says pointing at me. Yume slightly glares at him, but says nothing. "No doubt she'll probably fucking beat the shit out of anyone if they fucking did something to Yume."
"You got that right," I say with a nod.
"You're not fucking helping my case," Ken says with a pout.
"It's okay," Yume says sounding very understanding. "He doesn't have to act like he cares to say goodbye."
"See they don't fucking care."
"Fine you fucking win this time," Ken says crossing his arms.
"Take care of yourself you two," Konan says with a small smile and nod. I nod in reply.
"Bye," Itachi says just as we started to walk out.
I freeze and look at him with a slight glare. The others look at Itachi some with mild shock and others looking unsure of what reaction to have. They then look at Yume as if seeing her reaction. For a moment Yume's expression is blank and then she smiles, a small smile but a smile nonetheless. Ken claps his hands grinning no longer in his pouty mood. Tobi is looking back and forth between Yume and Itachi.
"We're leaving now," I say pushing Yume out of the room.
We walk out, grabbing our school stuff then head to my car. Quickly, we buckle up and I start the car up and within moments I'm driving down the streets. Yume is quietly sitting in her seat looking out the window. I go to turn on the music when I remember something.
"Yume," I say gaining her attention. "When I went to leave with Itachi, Kisame and Ken what did Itachi say to you?"
"Why," she asks a bit confused.
"I'm curious," I reply.
"He said to let him know if Hidan hurts me in any way and he would take care of him, then he said take care."
"I see," I reply with a small nod, knowing that I would get a reply from Yume, which I did.
For someone who said he wouldn't date Yume and that building a bond wouldn't be wise, telling her that seems to be the opposite of what he said in front of everyone. I grin, the words he said last night mean nothing, they were just bullshit like I said, and of course I said that out of anger and didn't actually know they were true, but now I do. I am accepting the challenge of getting them together or at least get them to go on a date. Maybe Ken and I can team up.
When we reach our school, I pull into a parking spot and turn the engine off. Yume opens the glove box and pulls out a pair of red sunglasses. She smiles as she hands them to me.
"Thanks," I say putting them on.
"No problem," she replies as we get out of the car.
The first half of school is uneventful; with the exception of people talking about what might have happened that caused me to have my black eyes. Eventually there are some rumors saying that someone pissed off by just looking at me wrong and I got into a fight with them sending them to the hospital. I can't help but laugh at the rumors, because in each one I end up sending someone to the hospital.
At lunch time, I find Felix once again eating lunch with me and Yume. That boy doesn't fool me a bit. He is so up to something, and I will figure it out. Also, he isn't her boyfriend so he shouldn't be trying to spend so much time with her.
"So what really happen" Felix asks looking at me.
"None of your business," I spit out.
"Did you really send someone to the hospital," he asks.
"Are you deaf, I already gave you my answer," I reply glaring.
"Whatever," he says with a shrug and turns to Yume. "Do you know what happen?" So he thinks he can get the answer out of her, jerk.
"I have no idea," Yume replies shaking her head. "I wasn't with her."
"Oh well," he says with another shrug. "My parents are happy to get the chance to meet you."
"That's nice, I'm happy to meet them too," she replies.
"I'm sure you'll get along with them," he says smiling.
"You're so sickening," I say rolling my eyes.
"Do you not know how to say anything nice," he asks turning to me; no doubt trying to make it look like I'm the bad guy. Yume sighs and continues eating her lunch.
"Only to people who deserve it," I reply
"I find that hard to believe."
"Believe what you want to believe," I reply with a shrug.
"So Yume," Felix says turning his attention back to Yume. She continues eating but looks up at him letting him know she has her attention. "I was thinking for our date we can go to an amusement park. Afterwards, you can meet my family and stay for dinner."
"That sounds nice," she replies with a nod after a few minutes.
To me that sounds lame. However, I clearly remember Yume saying a few years ago that she would like her first date to be having a nice dinner and a movie. I'll be sure to tell Ken when we get home so we can start our planning.
"Okay, cool, well I got to meet up with some friends so I'll call you later," he says standing up.
"Okay, bye," Yume replies with a wave.
"Get lost and hopefully you never come back."
Felix glares at me then walks off. I turn to Yume, noticing she's been quiet most of the day. I wonder if it has anything to do with Itachi or the way she acted around Tobi.
"Are you okay," I ask.
"I'm fine," she replies with a small smile. "Just a little tired. How did your driving lessons go?"
I know she's trying to change the subject, so for now I let her have her way and reply. "It went nice."
In fact, I found teaching them to be funny. I would yell my instructions at them like a drill sergeant. This caused some of them –Sasori, but mostly Deidara- to be on edge. Deidara even jumped a couple of times. I actually got Kakuzu to snap and yell back at me threatening to take my life. Pein was calm the entire time; and Zetsu…well I only yelled my instructions once and then pleasantly watch as he argued with himself. In the end we were able to finish before the sun went down, unlike for Yume who came home after dark.
"What about you," I ask.
"Tiresome," she replies with a slight chuckle.
Lunch comes to an end and once again everything is uneventful. When we get home Kakuzu has somehow found some way to his job. Kisame, Itachi and Ken all come out and get into my car so I can take them to work. Since Ken and I work at the same place, I'll just be dropping the other two off first.
We say our goodbyes to Yume. No one else comes out to say farewell, not that I care. The first one I drop off is Kisame then Itachi. I start driving towards Ken's and mine workplace with a smile.
"I found out some interesting stuff," I say to Ken.
"What did you fucking find out," he asks with a smile.
I tell him what Yume told me about what Itachi had said yesterday. Then I tell him about Felix's plans for his date with Yume and the kind of first date she has always wanted. The entire time he is nodding with a grin.
"So…." Before I get a chance to finish anything I said he starts talking.
"We'll fucking be conducting Operation Hook Itachi and Yume Fucking Up," Ken says giddily clapping his hands. "We will fucking win. They don't fucking call me the fucking amazing matchmaker back home for fucking nothing."
"People call you that," I ask a little shock.
"Actually, I don't fucking know. I'd like to fucking believe that since everyone fucking comes to me to fucking help hook people up or to fucking get with someone."
"Nice," I reply with a nod.
We say nothing else as we arrive to our workplace. Not that we could really speak since he spent his time in the kitchen while I'm out front taking people's order and serving them their food. Hours later, after dealing with a lot of annoying costumers work ends. By that time I'm a little too tired to talk about the operation as I go to pick up Kakuzu, Itachi and Kisame.
"We're home," I say walking through the door with the others as I take off my shoes.
"Welcome back home," Yume says as she walks into the room. "I made pasta for dinner. Everyone else is already eating."
"Fucking awesome," Ken says moving towards the kitchen. It's a surprise that even after all the cooking he did he can still want to eat. I know sometimes after serving food when I get home I don't feel like eating.
"Thanks I'm starving," Kisame says following after Ken.
The rest of us silently move into the kitchen. Most everyone is finishing up their plates and placing them into the sink. Sitting next to Yume, I place the food on my plate and start eating ignoring everything around me. This has just been one long stressful day.
After finishing, I volunteer to do the dishes, but Yume tells me to go get some rest since it looks like I need it. Tobi offers to help and Yume quickly tells him no that she can do it on her own. Eventually, Konan offers her help without taking no as an answer. Knowing Yume has help, I go and change my bandages and go to bed.
A few uneventful days and nights later, I'm sitting on my bed fully dressed staring at my alarm clock. It reads two thirty in the morning. With a grin, I grab a marker placing it in my pocket and walk out of my room. It should be safe enough to leave, everyone should be sleeping.
I make my way to Zetsu's, Deidara's and Old Man's room. The door is slightly ajar, so I quietly push it open and walk in. Zetsu is sleeping quietly on his bed. Deidara has his arm thrown over his face and slightly snoring. Old Man is hanging out of his bed snoring loudly.
Holding in my laughter, I move over to Old Man. Placing my hands under his arms, I pull him out of his bed. His feet hit the floor with a thud. My eyes quickly scan over to Zetsu and Deidara. Zetsu's eyes are open and looking at me, while Deidara is sleeping on.
"What are you doing?"
"Teaching Old Man a lesson," I whisper in reply, surprised that said person is still snoring away.
"If he dies, can we eat him?"
"Do whatever you want," I reply.
Zetsu grins, and it looks kind of scary. I turn my attention back to Old Man. Lifting him up a little more, I starts dragging him out of the room, down the stairs all the way to the front door. Softly, I place him down and quickly open the door. Lifting him back up, I drag him to my car and just let him sit against it. For a ninja he sure is sleeping through all of this.
Quickly I close the front door and place Old Man into the backset of my car. Getting in and buckling up, I start the car and pull out then start driving. Meanwhile Old Man just continues on snoring. He rolls over, mumbles something then goes back to snoring.
I don't drive very far, just down the road and onto another street. There was no way I was carrying/dragging Old Man's body the entire time. When we get to the destination, I put the car in park and leave it running. I the open the back and drag Old Man out and place him on the front steps of some old person's house.
As quickly as I can without waking him up, I strip him until he's nude. I go and place his clothes in the car then grab a couple bottles of sake. Going back to him, I place one bottle in his hand and break the other bottle and let it lie next to him. With a grin, I pull the permanent marker out of my pocket and write on his chest 'Will give free sex!'
Quickly, I rush back to my car and drive away back home and go to bed. Back in my room I laugh into my pillows. Surprisingly after my laughing fit I fall asleep.
In the morning, I'm sitting at the kitchen with everyone, with the exception of Hidan. I just keep my head down as I eat my breakfast holding back anything that can give me away. I'm just waiting for Hidan to barge in pissed off.
"Where the fuck is Hidan," Ken asks walking back into the kitchen. I take a bite of my food and shrug my shoulders.
"I thought he was awake since he wasn't in bed when I woke up, un."
"He's going to fucking miss my amazing fucking meal," Ken says pouting.
"I'm sure he'll show up soon," Konan says. "He doesn't stay gone for long when it's time to eat."
"He better fucking show up."
Breakfast passes without Old Man showing up. A few of the members start wondering where he could possibly be at. Kakuzu said he couldn't care less. Even though they wonder where Old Man is at none of them bother to go looking for him, with the exception of Yume. She goes outside and walks up and down the street, but comes back empty handed.
Around noon, the phone rings. I go to answer and check the caller ID. Not knowing the number, I push the talk button.
"Who the fuck is on the phone," Old Man asks from the other side.
"Me," I reply.
"Who the fuck is me; give me a better fucking answer."
"Who's on the phone," Yume asks.
"Old Man," I reply with a small grin and put the phone on speaker.
"Who am I fucking talking to," Old Man shouts.
"You're talking to all of us," Pein replies. "Where are you at?"
"I'm in fucking jail." I blink a few times wondering how that happen.
"What are you doing there," Pein asks.
"Some stupid fucking old lady called the fucking police."
"What the fuck did you do," Ken asks.
"I didn't fucking do anything. I wake up to the crazy fucking lady screaming and then hitting me with a broom. I had taken the fucking broom away from her and went to hit her with it. The next fucking thing I know there are fucking police and I'm fucking sitting in jail."
"What were you doing at the woman's house," Pein asks. I bite down on my lower lip to keep myself from laughing.
"I don't fucking know, I fucking woke up at her fucking house naked with a couple of fucking sake bottles. Someone fucking wrote on my fucking chest will give free sex."
Deidara, Fishy, Ken and Tobi start hooting with laughter. Kakuzu coughs a couple of times. Sasori chuckles a few times. Pein looks like he is trying to hold back a laugh or chuckle. Yume looks shocked. Itachi doesn't seem to care, it's hard to tell. With a shrug I start laughing along, not like anyone will know it was me. Well, Zetsu may know.
"Stop fucking laughing," Old Man yells. "Someone come and fucking bail me out before I fucking sacrifice all of them to fucking Jashin."
"I'm not bailing you out," Kakuzu says.
"Fucking asshole, you're a fucking shitty partner."
"Well, you should have fucking known better than to fucking get caught," Ken says.
"He's right," Pein says with a nod.
"I'm going to fucking murder whoever fucking did this to me," we hear Old Man mumble.
"I'll come get you," Yume suddenly says. "Do you have clothes on right now?"
"Yeah, they fucking gave me a fucking pair of ugly fucking orange pants.
"Wait," I say. "Before we send Yume to bail you out, you have to say something."
"What the fuck," he yells.
"Tell everyone the truth about our fight," I say with a smirk.
"I fucking kicked your ass and won," he replies.
"Wrong answer, we'll talk to you later. Yume isn't coming to get you."
"You're the fucking cause of this aren't you fucking evil bitch?"
"Maybe, now tell everyone the truth or no bail out."
"I fucking hate you."
"Don't care," I reply. "I'm about to hang up the phone."
"Fine okay, I didn't fucking win. It was a fucking draw."
"See, that wasn't so hard," I say with a laugh. "By the way, yeah it was me. Pay back is a bitch."
Before he can say anything I hang up. Well, now everyone knows it's because of me Old Man is where he is at. It doesn't matter; hopefully he has learned his lesson.
"I'll go bail him out," Yume says as she goes to put on her shoes.
"Here," I say pulling out my money and handing it to her. "You can use this to pay."
"Fucking take Itachi with you," Ken suddenly yells. I turn to Ken to see him grinning. I look at Itachi then back at Yume.
"I can go by myself," Yume replies.
"Maybe fucking so, but I fucking know my son and no doubt he is fucking livid right now. He just might fucking take his anger out on you, so you should fucking take Itachi with you as protection."
"Ken has a point," Pein says after a moment.
Oh, Ken is smart. He is devoted to Operation Hook Itachi and Yume Fucking Up. The operation needs a shorter name…something like Operation Hook Up.
"Itachi go with Yume to keep Hidan under control and so he doesn't do anything rash," Pein orders. I send a mental thanks to Pein for unknowingly contributing to the operation. Itachi nods and within moments Itachi and Yume leave to pick up Old Man.
"Yes it fucking work," Ken says the moment they're gone.
"Hell yeah," I say as we high-five each other.
"Tobi wants to know what you're talking about."
"We're fucking talking about Operation Hook Itachi and Yume Fucking Up," Ken replies with a smirk.
"Did the two of you plan that entire thing out," Pein asks.
"Nope," I reply shaking my head.
"I seriously didn't fucking know about Hidan fucking ending up in jail. It does however fucking help with our fucking operation."
"I think it's a stupid idea, un."
"That's because you hate Itachi," Sasori comments.
"Can Tobi help?"
"I'll think about it," I reply knowing that for some reason Yume has been trying to stay away from him.
"Tobi wants to help."
"I want in," Kisame says grinning.
"You're fucking in then," Ken says.
"I think you should just leave it be," Konan says. I only shrug in reply.
"I, Ken the fucking amazing matchmaker will not leave it be."
This earns a few chuckles. Though honestly, I think Yume does feel something for Itachi and I'm just doing this so she can be happy. I really think that Itachi might be a good guy for her.
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My lovely readers, I want to thank you all for your positive feedback. It made me so happy that I wrote this chapter as fast as my fingers could type and as you can tell have updated early for all of you. You see what many positive reviews/comments get you, an early update. Plus this chapter is even longer, as in the longest chapter in the story now. So I also hope you enjoy that fact. I wasn't expecting it to be so long.
For those who think Mayumi shouldn't have done so well or been able to fight against Hidan, remember she said she has been right her whole life. Mayumi loves fighting and has practiced and trained in different fighting styles because, like she said she wants to be a professional fighter. Therefore, she was able to fight against him, though she did get badly injured. Of course, if she fought with someone like Itachi and/or Pein she would have lost. Also, those are really fighting moves that she used.
Anyways, it's after 5 in the morning (though I'll be posting around noon), and I'm tired. I hope you liked the different POVs and the fight scene and everything else in the chapter. Oh, I also created a playlist for this story. You can see the list of the songs on my profile as well as a YouTube link to the playlist. There might be more songs to come and if you have any songs that you think fits the story or one of the characters let me know and I'll add it to the playlist. I don't remember what else I was going to say.
With all that said, thank you to everyone who reviewed/comment and/or add to their favorites/alerts it means a lot to me. Masashi Kishimoto owns the Akatsuki. I own Felix (who I so wish to die), Ken (my favorite character), Mayumi (the one I sometimes hate and sometimes like), Yume (she's a sweet girl) and any other OCs or places I have created for this story along with the plot. Please review –you may get another early update not sure about the length of the chapter- they make me happy, and stay tuned for the next chapter that will come soon. Once again thank you and farewell for now. ^.^