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HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Chapter 21

Note: Keep cats out of reach

~Kahlan's POV

Laura starts bouncing on her feet impatiently waiting for Konan to come out so she can see how the furisode looks on her and probably to make any necessary adjustments. I push Laura's spinning wheel chair over to the bed and pick up Rellik. My thoughts drift over things that are going to be needed done. I'm going to have pay Laura back even though she might not want me to. Eventually I'll have to call my parents otherwise they'll go crazy and will hire someone to track me down so they could barge into my life and try to drag my "irresponsible" behind back home.

There's the shopping for clothes that will need to be done but that can wait for a few days while we save up the money for it. During that time I'm going to have and do a bunch of commissions while finding time to work on my music. I could always record myself and post on YouTube and hope someone will come along and decide that I'm good enough to sign a contract. However, I'm a bit paranoid someone will try to steal my music and claim it as their own.

The sound of the bedroom door opening pulls me out of my thoughts and I look up to see Konan walking in with the furisode on. Laura breaks out in a grin as she walks over to Konan looking her up and down while walking in a circle. I chuckle at the scene.

"It's perfect," Laura says stepping back a few feet.

"It looks very good on you," I comment. "You should allow Laura to make your more outfits."

Konan replies with an almost invisible smile and replies, "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Laura replies.

"I think it's time for the guys to see before Leader decides to order off with their heads," I say then let out a small laugh then remember Kakuzu had cut Hidan's head off. "Not that it would be funny if he actually did order something like that." Unlike Hidan any maybe any of the others, Laura and I are just normal humans who aren't demons or aliens, so therefore would die if our heads got cut off.

"Let's go," Laura says and goes to lead the way to the living room.

Placing Rellik down, I quickly stand up and follow Laura and Konan out of the room. We reach the doorway to the living room and Laura holds out her hands keeping Konan from going in. My guess is she wants to make this into a short show.

"Are you guys ready for the surprise," Laura asks in a sing-song voice.

"Oh Tobi loves surprises," yells Tobi the masked something as he waves his arms in the air.

I do a face palm wondering if talking in third person is an act. Sometimes I talk in third person but it's only one or two sentences and that's it. But that doesn't really happen unless I'm in a very good mood and hyper. In addition who in the world talks in third person all the time unless they are purposely trying to be annoying or something?

"Taadaa," Laura says with a grin holding out her arms towards the walkway. Konan walks out of the shadows into the light letting everyone see her new outfit. "What do you guys think?"

"Tobi thinks Konan looks pretty!"

"Konan actually looks like a woman now, un," Deidara says in a joking type of tone. Konan gives him a deathly glare causing him to shut his mouth.

"Whose outfit does that belong to," Kakuzu asks. From what little I know about him, he's cheap so he's probably thinking about if this will cost him money or not.

"It's Konan's outfit," Laura replies cheerfully. "I made it for her."

"It's got our colors," Kisame comments.

"What the fuck is it," Hidan asks.

"It's a furisode, you baka."

"It looks nice on you," Leader says. "I approve of it."

The other members nod their heads in agreement. I raise my brow at his statement. He approves of the outfit. Who does he think he is; the fashion police to approve or disapprove what people can wear? If he even thinks I'll bend to that type of rule he's wrong. I'm my own individual and I'll wear whatever I feel like wearing.

"If you can make Konan and outfit, then why can't you make the rest of us an outfit," Kakuzu asks, most likely thinking about the saving money aspect.

"That's too much of a hassle to bother with," I speak up, pushing away from the wall. "A yard of fabric can be expensive depending on the type of fabric it is, the color, if it's being brought over from another country and the design" I may suck at sewing, but while in sewing class I did learn a lot about fabrics and I remember some of the facts.

"I'm sure there are some other factors as well, so it will be better to buy clothing that's already made then to waste time on making them and stuff," I finish.

Kakuzu glares most likely not happy about I just presented. Some of the people in the room look a little shocked. I don't understand why, all I was doing was stating facts.

"Just steal the fabrics then, un."

Looking over at Deidara with a glare I ask, "Is that your answer to solve every problem?"

"Nope," he replies with a grin. "My answer for every problem is to blow it up turning it into art, un."

"Yeah okay," I reply rolling my eyes. "I'll call your explosions art, the moment it explodes and turns into a dragon and flies towards people like Gandalf did in the Lord of the Rings."

"What, hmm," Deidara asks looking confused along with Tobi (I'm guessing Tobi is confused he's tilting his head in a confused manner), Kisame, and Hidan. As for the others I can see some curiosity except for the red eyed demon Itachi, his expression is blank and same with the Sasori Danna dude.

I go to speak until I hear scratching at the door and a meow. It's the stray cat that I've been feeding; it has probably decided that now it is dinner time. Everyone looks over to the door; most of them eye it suspiciously.

"What the fuck was that?"

"It sounded like a kitty," Tobi shouts rushing to the door.

Tobi swings open the door. Sitting on its hind legs is an orange tabby cat. He has a torn ear; an old scar across his right eye that you can tell has caused him to go blind, patches of baldness, scattered scars and there is something wrong with his left paw that causes him to limp with it. All in all, he looks like a mean cat that has gone to war as he glares at Tobi.

"That is a fucking ugly cat," Hidan says as he walks up from behind Tobi and crouches down to stare at the tabby.

The orange tabby that I have named Sargent turns to Hidan and glares. Chuckling Hidan reaches out his hand. Sargent hisses, then with extended claws attacks Hidan's hand. Hidan howls in pain and literally has to rip his hand away from Sargent just as he's about to bite the hell out of his hand. See, Sargent is one of the most feared cats in the neighborhood not only by our neighbors and other cats, but the dogs also fear him. That has got to say something about him.

"Evil fucking cat," Hidan spits at Sargent and goes to kick him. Laura is actually laughing.

"Don't hurt the kitty Hidan," Tobi yells. "You just scared him. Isn't that right Mr. Kitty?"

Sargent hisses at Tobi and then launches himself to Tobi's face (it is a mystery on how he can do that with a hurt paw). Tobi screams and takes off running pushing Hidan in the way of the airborne cat.

"Get the fucking cat off," Hidan yells as Sargent clings to his face and starts biting.

Some of the members start joining Laura in the laughter. I bite down on my lower lip to contain my laughter as I walk towards the door and take a step outside completely ignoring Hidan's pleas. I grab the empty food and water dish that I leave out and walk back in making my way towards the kitchen.

In the kitchen, I take some of the leftover food and put it into Sargent's food dish, then place a divider in the other large dish. I fill one half with water and the other half with milk. There's yelling from the living room along with hissing and laughter. Smiling I allow a few chuckles to escape. Sargent hardly likes people, and the only time I'm really allowed to go near him is when I'm going to give him food.

Walking back out to the living room, I watch as Itachi is able to pull Sargent off of Hidan's now wounded face. Meanwhile in a corner, Kisame seems to be holding an injured hand as he glares towards the cat. Shaking my head, I watch Sargent glares at Itachi, hisses at him showing his teeth, but does nothing else. Itachi strokes him a few times then places him back outside.

"Leave the door open for a moment," I call out.

"No, fucking close it and keep that fucking devil outside!"

"He's just a cat," I say as I walk over to the door. "Hey Sargent," I say with a smile as I get down to my knees. "Here's some food and drinks for you."

I hold out what I got for him. He sniffs the air as if determining if it's safe. Slowly, I place the food and drink outside then stand back up. Sargent eyes me carefully as I slowly move backwards.

"Enjoy," I tell him then close the door. I know he won't eat with anyone watching him.

"That thing needs to fucking die."

"No," Laura shouts, defending Sargent. "It's not the kitty's fault that its last owners treated him so badly."

"Do you not fucking see what IT fucking did to me?"

"You called him ugly," I stated. "That's why he attacked you." I swear somehow Sargent understands what people are saying when they talk to him.

"He shouldn't have fucking attacked me."

"You shouldn't have insulted him," I counter.

"That's enough," Pein calls out.

"Don't feed that cat anymore," Kakuzu says. "We're not wasting money on feeding a stray cat."

"Well instead of having the food go to waste I just gave him some of the leftovers," I retort. "It's what I've always done, and I'm not going to just leave him to starve."

"The cat looks more than capable of finding his own food," Kakuzu counters.

"Kakuzu is right," Pein says siding with said man.

"Let it fucking starve to death."

"You're all so mean to the poor kitty," Laura says pouting.

"This is our home," I reply angrily, pointing between myself and Laura. "If I want to feed a starving cat by the name Sargent, then I will. This is a free country and there's no law stating that I can't feed him. Besides, it separates me from you cold inhuman people."

Glaring, I spin on my heel and storm out of the room, grabbing Laura on my way out. I head to my room to get my guitar and music folder. Evil stupid people telling me what to do and soon will be telling us how to live. I'm going to have to play some of my music and hope it calms me down.

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