A.N: Yay this chapter is finally up! And it's long too! 10 pages baby!! Finally the crazy week in the civilin world begins and the young shinobi finally get a real good chance at maybe some real high school romance?
Chapter Twenty-five: First Snow Falls And The Buses Roll Off
Surprisingly the week went by without much happening. Everyone was really to excited for the up and coming vacation to do any real kind of training. So the whole week was really just lazing around, computer, reading, drawing, chatting, and eating large unhealthy quantities of instant ramen.
"You're going to get fat un," Deidara had joked when he watched me eat twelve bowls of the salty noodles.
"I'll be fat and happy then," I had said back before feeling very ill and needing bed rest for the rest of the day.
But it was already Sunday morning and the alarm went off at about five o'clock giving us about two hours before the buses were ready to go. I made it to the shower first much to Deidara's dismay. I was giddy to see my family and hearing their voices and seeing their faces to refresh my blurry memory of them.
I did remember thankfully the way to my house having saved that information before the dragons could have gotten their claws on it. That would be very useful but I'm sure my parents would be waiting at the bus stop anyway.
Getting out of the shower I dried out my hair and removed the nail polish from my fingers and toes. Then I took the scroll from the toilet that held the disguise jutsu that Deidara had gotten for us. It was necessary for everyone leaving the Academy for vacation needed to hide his or her true appearance if any sort of odd change had happened to them and the scales under my eyes counted as an odd noticeable change.
"Cover up medical jutsu," I said doing the easy seals shown on the scroll. There was a poof sound as greenish smoke enveloped me and when I looked again my scales were gone but I also saw that my arms and legs had lost the muscle I had built in the last four months. I looked like a normal civilian girl again.
I smiled at the mirror and got dressed into a pair of jeans with holes in the knees a black t-shirt and the oversized sweater that I had been wearing my first day here. I brushed out my long dark hair and saw that I badly needed a haircut, all my layers had grown out and my hair was already down to the small of my back. It was weird having my hair down sense I usually wore it in a low ponytail or a braid if I had time. I left the bathroom and Deidara quickly took it next.
"I'm going to go to the Room of Dawns okay Sasori," I said taking my backpack that held my light luggage of drawing pad, color pencils, and the four scrolls holding the Dragon Kings. Vacation or not I couldn't have someone breaking in and stealing them. "Maybe there's someone to talk with."
"Okay I'll get you when we are ready," Sasori said blinking at me.
I nodded and left the room to head across the hall. And surprisingly there were a lot of people in the main Akatsuki hang out spot. But I nearly couldn't recognize anyone!
"Ha Jen-chan there you are," said a tall black guy and I had no clue who it was for a moment then I noticed his shark like grin and small black eyes.
"Kisame!" I shouted with surprise. Kisame laughed and he looked rather cute without his fishy look. "Who else is here?" I asked looking past him and seeing an Asian girl with short black hair with blue highlights dark eyes and a metal stud under her lower lip. Obviously Konan. A platinum blond haired guy with icy blue eyes and pale skin that I knew had to be Hidan. The guy next to him had brown skin and shaggy black hair his eyes were slender and black and his face bone structure was to die for. That had to be Kakuzu and I was right he is hot without the stitches! Near the bookcases were two boys one white and the other black chatting quietly to one another. I had never seen these two before so my curiosity was pinging. I looked back at Kisame. "Who are they?"
"Oh why don't you go ask them?" he asked with a childish I-know-something-you-don't-know grin.
"Fine," I said with mock anger and walked over to the two boys. As I neared I noticed that they both looked very similar except for their skin color. All of there facial features were exactly the same; they were even the same height. "Um hi," I greeted looking at the boys curiously.
"Hey Jen-chan," the white boy said politely.
"About time you showed up," the other said with a smirk.
"Oh my god," I murmured and both of the boys smiled "Zetsu-san?"
"Uh huh but you can call me Zet and him Su just so things don't get confusing," the white boy said.
"I think it's a bit to late for things to be not confusing," I said looking from one boy to the other. They both had the same spiky hair as Zetsu but instead of green it was blond and black and each had the same almond shaped eyes but rather then glowing yellow it was blue and brown. They were opposites that looked exactly the same. "So that's why you two always call yourself 'we' you are actually two people."
"Did you figure that out all on your own?" Su asked.
"We are twin bothers," Zet explained "But for some reason or another I was born without any pigment in my skin, hair, and eyes."
"Why didn't you tell me that before?"
"You really wouldn't have believed us in the form you know us as," Su said and I nodded in agreement.
We chatted amongst ourselves Itachi and Tobi soon joined us. Tobi still wore his mask and really his normal attire. Itachi was hadn't needed to change much either. Still it was nice to see the people that had become my good friends as people rather then Shinobi. This is how we looked when we were being ourselves rather then a tool to keep the civilians of the world from destroying each other.
"Jen-chan," I heard a voice behind me call. It was a low husky voice one that I knew very well. I spun around to see Deidara and Sasori. I was shell shocked from what I saw. There was a boy with long black hair with some of it tied up loosely standing there and had hawk like black eyes. The other boy just looked alive and soft. I could see his chest was moving with breaths.
"Oh my god," I said looking from one to the other "you guys look so…normal."
"Weird isn't it un?" Deidara asked sarcastically making me laugh and throw my arms around both of them. I pulled away and absent mindedly touched Sasori's cheek. It felt like flesh.
"What are you doing brat?" the red head asked annoyed.
"Can you feel that?" I asked looking at him seriously.
"…I can," Sasori nodded and I smiled.
"We should all get going it's nearly eight," Konan announced and soon everyone left the Room of Dawns and locked the temple behind us.
Snow was falling softly as we walked down the black marble steps as a group. We saw others flooding the streets, as we all headed to the center of campus were the buses waited for us.
The lines thinned out as everyone found their busses. Again our driver was Orochimaru so, Deidara, Sasori, Kisame, Itachi, Loren and me all sat together in the back of the bus. We were the only of the Akatsuki on the bus but there was a good mix of temple and tower students on.
I sighed leaning on Deidara's shoulder as I often did at home when the three of us would watch a late night movie.
"I can't wait to get there hmm," Deidara said "I want to see your home."
"Maybe next year we can go over your house," I said and Deidara snorted at the thought.
Once the streets were empty of anyone but a few staff members that were staying for the weeklong clean up the buses began to move slowly. There was an incredibly long line of buses so it took us nearly twenty minutes just to get out of the gates of the Academy but after that oddly we were the only ones on the street. The other buses had somehow just disappeared and we were moving rather quickly but my trained eyes could see in flashes we were moving through cities then country side then over water all in seconds that when you look with eyes that were untrained to ninja art just looked like ancient Asian houses.
The first stop came much to quickly and Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Itachi all got up.
"Bye Itachi-sempai take care of your eyes," I said quickly. He just glanced at me quickly giving a sharp nod before fallowing his brother off the bus.
Then the bus went off again and I began to study Deidara's new look. He looked pretty normal I mean the long hair might turn a few heads but only because they don't normally see boys with long hair. He looked good too his yellow-based skin tone looked good with either blond or black hair.
"I can't wait to get home I miss mom and dad," Loren sighed examining Sasori's now soft hands. I looked at her over the seat and saw that she was tracing the veins that crossed under the thin pale flesh. He seemed to be enjoying the attention too.
"I can't wait to see them either," I sighed sadly "I wish I could remember them better."
"Don't worry Jen they'll remember for you," Loren said looking over her shoulder at me. I smiled and she smiled back.
"Right," I said leaning back as the bus came to a stop in what looked like the port of Boston where we said goodbye to Kisame.
"See you Monday!" Loren waved and Kisame laughed hopping off the bus.
For some weird reason the last few miles seemed to last forever and I began to drift off, but I forced myself upright quickly because if I didn't the dragons would take the memories of this day, I didn't want to forget the first ride to my winter break. I refused myself sleep while Deidara gave me wary side-glances. He must have been wondering why I had stopped leaning on his shoulder since it was freezing on the bus because the cursed Orochimaru wouldn't just put the damn heat on!
"Something wrong un?" he whispered and I shook my head and smiled at him. He tilted his head and swiveled it slightly so he could look at me more directly. "Are you sure? You look tiered yeah."
"Ah yeah I am but I don't want to forget anything," I explained quietly.
"I see," he said rubbing his left eye still a bit scaly but not as scared as it normally is. The skin however did irritate him because it wasn't under the protection of his scope that he would lather with cream so it wouldn't become itchy, but without the scope the skin would dry and crack.
"I'll get you something at Brooks pharmacy when we get home for your face," I said "stop scratching your eye it will just get worse!"
"Sorry," he said with a smile putting his hand down from his face and into his lap "its just annoying un."
"I'd think so," I muttered moving the hair from over his left eye "you pierced the whole area with a whole bunch of little metal hooks, plus the weight of that damn scope."
"It's not that heavy," he defended pulling back so the black locks fell over his eye again."
"I've held that thing," I stated "it's an ounce block of tin with fifteen different lenses plus a small infer-ray camera that's pretty damn heavy for just your face holding it."
"I guess," he muttered "I could remodel the scope hmm. Make it lighter and easier to put on my face yeah."
"Maybe like a suction cup or something," I said with a shrug.
"That could work," he mused as the bus took its final stop in front of the town hall of the town of Cork. Cork is about forty-five minutes from Boston and is a big city wanna-be. The town could only be described as to small for a city but to big for a town, it's some awkward thing in the middle with the hassle of city life and the calm of a small ocean town all at once. Seeing that we had stopped Deidara did the language jutsu quickly being the only one who couldn't speak fluent English already.
"Hurry up you little rats," the bus driver hissed and the four of us quickly scrambled off the bus and into the high snow bank. And that was it the bus rumbled and drove off, our last taste of the ninja world till next Monday.
"Well I guess we go," I said looking around the disserted street. I checked my phone and was surprised to see that it was nine o'clock at night on a Saturday. Must be the time laps.
"I'm going to call my Mom," Loren said also flipping out her cell phone and quickly dialing the numbers.
I thankfully had my mother's cell saved onto the phone because there was no way I remembered her number. The ring buzzed in my ear before some movement background noise came on.
"Hello?" a woman answered tiredly.
"Mama?" I asked over the phone.
"Oh Jenny oh my God where are you?" the woman who I guessed was my mother though I didn't recognize her voice.
"At the town hall," I said as a car sloshed passed us in the messy road "can you come get us it's freezing."
"Uh huh," she said "I'll get you right away my love."
I smiled somehow knowing that that was something my mother would say. "Okay see you in a few."
"Okay see you." And she hung up the phone and soon I snapped mine shut too.
"Do you guys need a ride home?" Loren asked me still on the phone. I shook my head no and she nodded. Soon her car was already there, a big black ford SUV, I knew it wasn't my car when Loren came and hugged me tightly then Sasori then Deidara.
"See you guys later okay?" she said opening the car door.
"I'll call you in the morning," I replied and she nodded and shut the car door waving at us from inside as her father drove away.
We waited there for what seemed like forever, in the cold dark night. We could see the stars shinning dully over the street lamps that lined the road. Then out of the darkness a small jet black Nesson Versa drove up and parked right in front of us. I smiled slightly at Deidara and Sasori who both gave me wary smiles as a woman came out of the car.
"Baby let me help you and your friends put the luggage in the trunk," she said with a lovely Spanish ascent.
"Mami," I said running over to her and hugging her tightly while the boys looked on and soon began to take there stuff to the back of the car while I cried happily into my mother's chest.
A.N: Okay just so you know Cork is a fictional town so don't be going off looking for some place near Boston called Cork because you will not find one...I don't think you will at lest.