Chapter 37: How Do You Sleep?

"God dammit!" screamed one of the stupider inmates as he sat around a table with a few of his friends. "I'm sick and fucking tired of this shit! We are criminals inprison and not only are their a butt-load of sexy-ass guys here, there are girls. Two girls. Why the hell do we have to be fucking abstinent or fuck each other when we could really have the pick of the litter, because we are stronger than them and we can actually rape them. I don't think it would be real difficult. Who's with me?!"

All of his friends turned away quickly and pretended to have nothing to have nothing to do with him. He just glared at their backs and smirked at Karin out of the corner of his eyes. She made a face, swished her hair, then walked out the door.

Very soon after this incident, this inmate was transferred out of Kure-Ji-Kira.

"I'm a little nervous for Mei, un, being in here with all these guys..." Deidara muttered one evening as he stacked random objects in tiny towers that Mei crawled happily over to and promptly knocked down. Tobi, who was helping build towers and seemed almost as excited as Mei added,

"Tobi too! I saw Hidan changing her diaper the other day and you know what-!" His voice turned to a whisper as if he were about to spill some deadly secret, "She doesn't have a pee-pee!"

Deidara stared at him for a moment then just rolled his eyes. Kakuzu bent down to place Mei bak on her stomach as she had just flipped over on her back and gotten stuck. He said,

"Are you insinuating that I would let anything bad happen to my daughter? Because I would never, ever let any of these filthy criminals touch her."

Deidara just held up his hands in defeat. Hidan glanced off to the side and muttered,

"I'm not worried about her either. I'm gonna teach her to be tough, no child of mine's gonna be a weak little pussy, even if she is a girl. Any ass-hole guy tries to touch her, she'll break his neck!"

"What about friends though?" Sasori asked thoughtfully. "It's not like there are any toddler criminals in here for her to play with. She might get lonely."

"Hm..." Hidan hummed. He hadn't thought of that. He just assumed all the other Akatsuki members would play with her. But really she would need some company her own age or she'd turn out weird.

"We should have another kid." Kakuzu said flatly.

"Hell no." Hidan glared.

Kakuzu just stared at him monotonously and said, "Yeah, I don't even know if we could. Orochimaru being dead and all."

"You could always ask Kabuto." Karin said as she walked over to them and sat down next to Tobi. "He was always in charge of Orochimaru's weird projects anyway."

"You all are speaking about Kabuto? Why?" Pain suddenly asked, even though he wasn't paying attention before.

"Kakuzu wants to have another kid so Mei won't be lonely and they want to see if Kabuto's got more of that chemical." Sasori answered.

"You might get the chance." Pain muttered darkly. "Word on the street is he's been up to some shady stuff. He could be caught any day now. You know he'd get tossed in here."

"Perfect." Kakuzu smirked.

"Does no one fucking listen to me!? HELL NO means HELL NO. I'm not doing that shit again man. NO." Hidan yelled. Mei stared up at him then started giggling every time he yelled louder. Konan bent down and picked her up, Mei instantly getting distracted by simply staring back and forth between Konan and Deidara.

"You know what I read online the other day, un? Babies stare longer at beautiful people." Deidara said as he smiled.

"That's probably why she never looks at Karin." Suigetsu smirked as he sauntered over to them with Juugo behind him.

Karin glared daggers then replied, "I wasn't too ugly for you the other n-" Suigetsu cut her off by clasping his hand over her mouth and dragging her off to the other side of the room. No one seemed to notice this except Kisame who often found himself keeping one eye on his son subconsciously. It had become a habit he just couldn't break. He scowled a bit though he was more surprised than angry at the possible meaning behind Karin's words and Suigetsu's actions. Deep down Kisame hoped that maybe starting a relationship with someone else might distract Suigetsu from... everything.

On the other side of the room Karin grew angry with Suigetsu and nearly slammed him against the wall.

"Don't manhandle me. I'm not in the mood."

"Don't go fucking telling everyone what... we did." Suigetsu growled at her.

"You mean don't tell everyone what you did? Look, it's gonna come out sooner or later so you should just get over yourself."

"Why the hell would it come out? It was just a one time thing! It's not like a want you as my girlfriend or anything." He made a face and they exchanged glares. Finally she sighed and muttered,

"Look, it's gonna come out, trust me. I don't want you as my boyfriend either so it's no big deal." She suddenly scowled and said, "Also, you might think you used me, but I was really he one using you, so don't get a big head."

He looked taken aback. "How did you use me? I didn't even, you know, think you enjoyed it."

"I didn't." She answered snarkily. "I just... Don't worry about it ok. Don't worry about anything having to do with me. Don't you have your own problems? I see you haven't worked it out with your father-"

"Shut up, bitch!" he hissed.

She just smirked and walked away. He leaned up against the wall and pouted.

"Man, screw her! I don't even like girls..."

"Oh really?" Kisame asked as he looked down at Suigetsu casually. "Don't tell me that was my fault."

Suigetsu blushed then felt the sudden and faint need to throw up. He looked away, leaving Kisame with a warm feeling of accomplishment at the fact that even after everything, he could still make the kid blush.

"It wasn't your fault. She's just a whore that's all."

"The sex wasn't good?" Kisame asked, joy filling him because Suigetsu was finally talking to him again.

Suigetsu shuffled his feet a bit. "It wasn't really... I was upset and I... I do kind feel bad but I mean- She coulda stopped me if she really wanted to so it was all her fault!"

"You raped her?" Kisame asked incredulously.

"No!" was Suigetsu's only retort.

Kisame laughed his rough, gurgle of a laugh then muttered,

"Yeah, she doesn't seem pissed off enough for you to have raped her. She's the kinda chick who woulda skinned your ass alive."

"You think?" Suigetsu asked nervously. "Then how come she hasn't? She said it wasn't good and stuff but... Dammit! I don't get women!"

Kisame almost had the nerve to reach down and ruffle Suigetsu's soft, opal hair, but he faltered. He was finally getting somewhere with Suigetsu, and he didn't want to ruin it. He decided to walk away while muttering,

"Nobody gets women, not even women."

Suigetsu looked after him, surprising himself when he felt a bit sad that their pleasant conversation had to end. He stood up to go hang out with Juugo who looked a bit nervous at being left alone.

"I'll make you a deal." Sono said slyly as he faced Kabuto in the dark corner of a dirty alleyway. "If you give up now, I'll take it too."

Kabuto snarled. "You're just like your brother! I hope you die the same way!" He spat towards Sono, who just smirked.

"Whatever. Look, this deal only lasts ten days ok. Think about it. What would your precious Lord Orochimaru do?"

Kabuto's angry expression flickered and he glanced behind him for a moment. Sono just sighed, internally wondering how his brother ever did it all. He didn't let his doubt or fear show on his face as he turned from Kabuto and said,

"Think about it this way, you can get your revenge on the Uchiha brat."

Sono began to walk away, motioning for his two guards to follow. Sono walked slowly, just like his brother had taught him. When he heard Kabuto shout,

"Wait!"

He knew that it worked. It always worked. His brother was a genius after all. A genius at the art of convincing people. He turned around, barely keeping the smile on his face as he asked,

"Yes?"

Kabuto held something in his arms carefully as he hung his head and muttered,

"I'll go. Take us to Kure-Ji-Kira."

Sono smirked.

"I'm sure your friends will have a nice welcome for you."

Attention:

Ok, so the thing about babies staring at pretty people longer, I really did hear that, and I think it's true! I'll tell you why: It's because right now there is a small little girl, 8 months old, who lives with me and NEVER STOPS STARING AT ME. lol. It's very cute. She giggles every time I enter the room and if I leave she screams. Anyway, I just like the think its true cuz it boosts my self-asteem.

Also, YES, the little girl in my house right now is 100% the inspiration for Mei. just FYI. a lot of the things Mei is going to do are probably things the baby in my house has done to me.

Thanks for reading! Things are about to get real strange up in the story, just a warning! Review!

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