Lauren's POV

"Oh Jashin…," I sighed, looking into the mirror of our new hotel room.

Yesterday while we were traveling I had fallen asleep on Kisame and woken up in a bed this morning, leaving me to assume that we had stopped at another hotel for the night. Currently however, I was in the bathroom, looking into the mirror above the sink at the black blemishes on my face and torso. There was a giant bruise on the right side of my jaw and a scratch on my cheek above it from where Ibiki had punched me and cut me with the kunai, a very reddish/purple bruise on the right side of my rib cage and another on just below it on my abdomen. Not to mention the roots of my hair hurt like hell. So all in all, I looked terrible.

Sighing again I walked back into the bedroom where Itachi and Kisame still slept, which I found somewhat strange. I began to walk back to my bed when a sudden growling stopped me.

"Shut up," I whispered, placing a hand over my stomach. "I'll feed you, just be quiet."

It rumbled again and I walked over to the door, slipping on my shoes and exiting the room silently.

Our room was on the third floor so I walked over to the stairwell, not wanting to encounter a ton of people in the elevator and started downward. It didn't take long to get to the first floor and I walked into the dining area where all sorts of breakfast food were set out. My heart nearly stopped when I saw the familiar looking metal contraption at the end of the bar.

A waffle maker. I didn't know why in hell this Japanese hotel had a fucking waffle maker, but they did, and right now I didn't care if it made since or not because I wanted a fucking waffle.

So, I skipped over to said waffle maker, ignoring the weird looks from the other few which occupied the large room, and poured in a cup of batter, closing the lid and waiting for my delicious golden waffle that would soon appear.

After a minute the timer went off and I lifted the lid, picking the waffle from the maker and putting it onto a plate and before smothering it in syrup and walking over to a table.

As soon as my butt hit the seat however, I became suddenly aware of Kisame and Itachi's growing chakra's. I flared my own to let them know I was alright and their chakra's seemed to calm down slightly.

I had just eaten the final bite of my waffle when Itachi and Kisame entered the room. I waved at them and they walked over, grabbing a few items from the bar along the way, before sitting in the seats across the table.

"Ow," I said irritably when Kisame wacked my head from across the table.

"Don't just leave the freakin' room while were sleeping," he scolded, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Sorry," I apologized, "but I was hungry and I didn't want to wake you guys up just for that reason…"

"Its fine," he relinquished, "but next time at least leave a note or something."

"Will do," I replied, before taking a bit of the sugar covered doughnut I had also managed to snag.

Itachi and Kisame continued to sip their coffee and eat their breakfast while I continued to indulge in my calorie filled pastry.

"What the game plan for today?" I questioned as we exited the dining area and started our journey, up the elevator this time.

"Well, before coming down here I contacted Kakuzu and we arranged to meet at a restaurant a little ways down the road around noon," Itachi answered in his usual calm tone.

I nodded. "Alright, but what do we do until then?"

Kisame shrugged, "whatever, I guess."

The elevator stopped and the three of stepped into the hall, opening the door to our room and walking in.

I rolled onto my bed, pulling my iPod from my hip pouch which had been sitting on the bed stand.

"Fine then, I'm going to listen to some music. If you hear me start singing just throw a pillow at me to shut me up."

Kisame chuckled. "Will do."

I smiled, pushing the buds into my ears and shaking my IPod, placing it on random, before setting it on top of my stomach, the famous 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen beginning to blast into my ears.

Normal POV

Once Lauren had turned on her music Itachi sat on his own bed, pulling out a book from his Akatsuki cloak and beginning to read. Kisame took a seat on the floor, taking out his weapons to sharpen.

For a few minutes the room fell into a comfortable silence…that was, until lyrics quietly started flowing from Lauren's barely moving lips, her voice becoming increasingly louder with each word.

"I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango. Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me! Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro. Magnifico. I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me. He's just a poor boy from a poor family, spare him his life from this monstrosity. Easy come, easy go, will you let me go? Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. Bismillah! We will not let you go. Bismillah! We will not let you go. Will not let you go. Will not let you go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no!-"

Kisame's eyebrows landed on his hairline.

Scaramouche…Galileo….Magnifico…Bismillah…the hell?

Having enough of the strange foreign words and constantly changing genre Kisame reached over and took a pillow from his bed, throwing it at the brunette.

Lauren smirked over at the two once she had removed the pillow from her head.

"What? Not a fan of Queen?"

Kisame rolled his eyes. "What the hell were you singing?"

"Bohemian Rhapsody," she replied, "It's one of the best rock songs of all time."

"Sure it is…," he mumbled back, and Lauren rolled her eyes, putting her ear buds back in.

Itachi smiled slightly, before turning back to his book.

It was nearly 35 minutes before Lauren started to sing again.

"I'm blue da ba dee da ba da, da ba dee da ba da, da ba dee da ba da-"

Kisame's eyebrow twitched as he peaked over the edge of Lauren's bed, eye twitching again when he saw her purposeful grin.

He stood, smirking deviantly, before pouncing on top of the young Uchiha who was startled out of her peaceful music listening.

Lauren's POV

A sudden weight landed on me and my eyes snapped open, glaring at shark that was now kneeled above me.

"Kisame, get o-ah! St-stop! P-leas-se!"

Kisame laughed again continued to tickle my sides as I squirmed in his grasp.

"St-ah-p! Ki-sam-me! You-r-re, ha, hur-rt-ing m-me!"

He stopped instantly, pausing for a second to let me lift up me shirt slightly and show him the newly formed bruises lining my torso.

"Sorry," he said rolling onto the bed next to me, "I didn't know."

"It's fine," I replied looking over at him, "you weren't actually hurting me that bad. I only said that so you'd get off and I wouldn't accidentally kick you in the balls."

He chuckled, ruffling my hair. "Well I appreciate that, squirt."

"I bet you do," I mumbled, rolling so that I was now facing Itachi.

We sat there for a few more minutes before Itachi snapped his book shut, catching our attention.

"It's nearly noon, we need to get moving."

Kisame and I nodded, getting up from the bed and gathering our stuff while Itachi waited patiently at the door.

About 10 minutes later we entered the designated restaurant.

"Lauren!" Taylor shouted when she spotted us in the doorway. I laughed when Taylor smacked Hidan in the head as she was waving to us. She told him quick apology while he continued to curse, before glomping me when I slid into the booth next to her. I chuckled slightly, returning the embrace.

"So how'd your mission go?" I questioned once she let me go.

"Fine," she replied, "all we had to do was get a scroll from this guy. It didn't take very long because they guy tried to charge us for it and Kakuzu…well, you know Kakuzu. He pretty much just made the guy shit his pants and took the scroll for free."

"Ah," I nodded, and then turned you to Hidan and Kakuzu. "She didn't cause you too much trouble did she?"

Kakuzu shook his head. "She was quite well behaved actually."

I stared. "We are talking about the blonde idiot sitting beside me, right?"

"Hey!" Taylor protested while Kakuzu only chuckled and shook his head again.

"Speaking of trouble, who the fuck messed you up?" Hidan asked, poking the bruise on my face.

I slapped his hand away. "Ibiki, the interrogation specialist in Konoha."

"Oh, so you got fuckin' caught then."

"Yes, Hidan, we got caught. Now shut the fuck up before I reach over there on wipe that stupid grin of your face."

The Jashinist opened his mouth to retaliate, but the waitress brought our drinks stopping him. We all ordered our food and chatted for a few more minutes before the waitress came back, a tray of plates in her arms.

The six of us ate in silence and when we were done the waitress brought us our check, which Kakuzu proceeded to rip up, dragging us from the building after him.

"Sayonara, Imouto," Itachi said, enveloping in a light hug. "Be safe."

"I will," I promised, returning the gesture.

Kisame placed a hand on my head. "See ya, squirt."

"Bye," I said giving him a one armed hug.

Taylor jumped, panda clinging to me. "Bye, Lauren!"

I laughed. "Try not to get in trouble, okay?"

She nodded. "Yep."

Taylor walked over to Itachi and Kisame I headed over to Kakuzu and Hidan, all of us beginning to go our separate ways.

Once Kisame and Itachi were out of site, I turned to the zombie brothers.

"So, where we going?"

"Yuu," Kakuzu grunted in reply.

"Wait, you mean Hidan's home village, where people there probably have tons of grudges against him?"

He nodded and I sighed. Pein was out to get, for what reason I don't know, but first Konoha and now sending me to a village that hates Hidan while I was with the Jashinist? He was defiantly out to get me…but I can't stay mad at Pein. That guy, I love. Just like the rest of the Akatsuki.

*sigh*

I packed my bag for school last night. I still got 3 days but still.

The way I see it is that it's inevitable so I might as well look forward to seeing the faces of the Freshmen when they first get there and the friends I didn't hang out with over the summer…and Sensei! :D Sensei~ And my cello! My cello~

Sunday is my grandparent's 50th anniversary so the entire side of the family they relate to (my mom) is taking them out to a nice dinner :)

Ah, Love~

Well, I just read the newest chapter of Fairy Tail, and am sitting here thinking "WTF".

Apparently some shit is happening near future and Levy is writing about it because they're all dying or whatever, but they're letting you know about it even though it hasn't happened yet.

I'm seriously freaked out. There is so much foreboding going on.

Fucking Zeref. Natsu is gonna kick your ass.

Well, I'm done contemplating.

See you later.

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