Helloooo my loverly readers! I finished working on this chapter finally! Special thanks to princessbinas for helping me with the story and keeping me motivated to update it, it is so very much so appreciated.
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I sighed as I got comfortable in my seat between Helen and Zara; in the row right across from us (from isle to window) was Kakuzu, Hidan, and Pein for obvious reasons. Directly behind me sat (from window to isle) Deidara, Kisame, and Itachi; Zetsu, Tobi, and Konan sat (from isle to window) across from Itachi. Sasori, much to his annoyance, had an old lady on his right, a business man to his left, and sat directly in front of me. Now I may be more of a snappy, somewhat grumpy person, but on an airplane or any form of public transportation I can be quite loud, especially when listening to my iPod. A grin made its way to my face as I thought of various ways to torment the surrounding Akatsuki members. "Buckle your seat belts guys," I said with as much seriousness as I could possible muster.
Zara sweat-dropped knowing I would be causing trouble intentionally. I noticed the Akatsuki had listened and my grin widened; this would be fun. "Temperance, you okay?" Helen asked looking at me in concern.
"Oh, I'm just peachy~!" I said with a little too much enthusiasm that caused a few worried glances from the boys.
"The fuck is wrong with you?" Hidan asked pulling a glare from Helen.
"Don't cuss!" the brunette said.
"Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again. Oh babe, I hate to go~" I sang putting my left hand on my chest and throwing my right arm in the air.
"Seriously, Val?" my cousin sighed.
"What? Perfect opportunity," I shrugged.
Sasori turned around and sent me a glare, "I swear if you're like this the whole flight I'll make you regret being born."
"And if you do anything to hurt me I'll sick my shark on you," I countered with a grin.
"Why am I being dragged into this?" said shark questioned obviously not amused.
Zara covered my mouth knowing exactly what I was about sing. "Don't you dare. Sing it I will stitch your mouth shut," she threatened.
"Sing what?" Helen questioned.
I pulled her hand away from my mouth and took a deep breath, "He's my best friend, best of all best friends you can be my best friend, too!"
Sasori's eye twitched in sheer annoyance along with the majority of the Akatsuki's; the puppet finally turned back around to face the front. "So I put my hands up they're playing my song and the butterflies fly away!" I continued on with my random singing.
My cousin groaned in annoyance, "You drank an energy drink with alcohol mixed in it before we left the house didn't you?"
I put my right pointer to my lips, "Shhh!"
Pein raised an eyebrow before looking at the blackette, "Does she normally drink before flying?"
Zara nodded, "Yeah, she gets stressed while we're in the air, especially during bad weather or we hit turbulence."
"If she has a fear of planes then why does she fly?" Itachi asked obviously questioning my sanity.
"Fastest way to travel long distance and the view is beautiful," she replied.
Hidan looked out the window and tensed as he saw a plane land; he was question exactly how safe this plane would be in the air seeing the wings slightly bounce as its front wheel hit the runway. "I can fucking understand why it makes Temp so damn nervous..." he muttered.
Pretty soon all the passengers were on board and were moving the hall thingy away from the plane so they could back it away from the airport and get it to the runway. Zara looked out the window with excitement as the plane began casual driving while the stewardess went over the 'in case of an emergencies follow these instructions' ordeal. I began picking at the sides of my fingers after putting a piece of gum in my mouth so my ears wouldn't pop as bad as it would if I didn't chew gum. Closing my eyes, I chewed vigorously as my fists clenched; I didn't like the feeling of high speeds on the ground before liftoff. I felt a few eyes on me but I ignored it as I felt the plane speeding up drastically. "You okay?" I heard Helen ask.
"She will be once we level out and are in the air," Zara answered for me.
It was silent for a while and then the captain spoke once the plane saying it was safe to unbuckle our seatbelts. I sighed before pulling out my iPod and putting an ear bud in my left ear. Zara took the other bud before putting it in her ear. The Piano Guys rang through my ear buds to help calm me down after the initial take off; we did have approximately four hours or so until we landed so I wasn't in a rush to annoy anyone just yet. "Definitely a bumpy start," I heard Kisame mumble behind me.
"That's why I always do something about it," I mentioned as a stewardess began pushing a cart down the aisle and taking drink orders from everyone.
I sighed as I glanced around to make sure that the rest of the Akatsuki were okay; other than Deidara they looked rather unsure about being in the air on such a heavy form of transportation. "How long are we staying at Stephanie's?" Zara asked continuing to look out the window at the ocean of clouds.
"At least a month for sure, other than that I'm unsure. Hopefully a month away from stress will be enough time to allow a full plan for the Akatsuki to return," I answered as I grabbed a coloring book I brought with me and opened the crayon box.
A smile spread across my face as the scent of Crayola invaded my nose. I flipped through my Disney coloring book until I found a Lion King one with Nala, Simba, and Zazu on it. Having inspiration as to what to listen to next, I began playing 'I Just Can't Wait to be King'. "I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!" I sang along.
"Well I've never seen a king or beast with quite so little hair," Zara sang right on cue.
"I'm gonna be the main event like no king was before. I'm brushing up on looking down, I'm working on my roar!" I continued.
As our duet went on we were getting weird looks from just about everyone. Sasori looked like he wanted to commit murder along with Kakuzu. Kisame chuckled as he watched our show with amusement. Once the song finished, Lady Sovereign's 'Love Me or hate Me' started playing. Now because the fact the song had explicit language, Zara and I lip synched rather than actually singing the song while dancing in our seats like idiots much to the annoyance of the others. Tick marks would have been forming over Sasori's head if we were animated because I had started gently kicking the back of his seat. Helen ran a hand over her face in sheer annoyance at our behavior; I found it hilarious. "Kick my chair one more time. Do it, I dare you," Sasori growled from in front of me.
I went to kick his chair again but was stopped by Helen who had hit my arm. "Leave Danna alone," she said with a slight glare.
This took Sasori and I aback; she has never called him Danna. A slight blush of embarrassment crossed her cheeks before she put her face in her hands. "Just pretend that didn't happen," she mumbled.
I shrugged and continued with my coloring as 'Carry On' by Fun began playing. Now over the past few months of the Akatsuki staying here, each of us have gotten attached to the group as a whole whether or not we admit to it. Kisame and I generally talk alone at least twice a day on a regular basis so we were rather close. Deidara and Helen were getting extremely close to one another and if I didn't know better I'd say that the two had a thing for each other. Now, Hidan and Zara were an interesting pair; They both got along very well, but the Jashinist seemed to be unsure of himself when concerning my cousin. I could tell he liked her, but he never acted on it. It was like he was having an internal battle over the whole situation. Sasori seemed to get closest to Helen out of the three of us girls and Itachi was like my younger brother. Kakuzu may have been severely irritated by Zara at times, but he did have a slight soft spot for her. "Sempai, look at all the clouds!" Tobi shouted much to the bomber's annoyance.
Deidara's eye twitched, "I'm not blind, idiot!"
"Just ignore him," Helen said looking at him from over the seat.
"You have no idea how hard that is, yeah," he grumbled looking back out the window.
A light smile came across Helen's ace," I know, but please try."
I gasped at the new song playing through my earphones and immediately began singing along. "That's my cigar-"
"You'll steal another," Zara cut in before we both sung. "Hey bummers we got work to do. Since when did you become me muddah. Ah stop ya ballin'; Hey, who asked you." This got us a few more looks.
"Try Bottle Alley or the Harbor. Try Central Park its guaranteed. Try any bank or bum or barber, they almost all knows how to read. I smell money, you smell foul, met this girl last night. Ahh, move your elbow, pass the towel, for a buck I might!"
"That song sounds vaguely familiar..." Helen remarked.
"It's a Disney musical that came out in 1992 starring Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall, and a few other good actors," I said. (1)
The brunette deadpanned at my lack of answer, "That's helpful; why don't you just tell me what it is?"
"Because that would spoil my fun~" I teased.
The rest of the flight consisted of me finishing my coloring while singing countless song to the Akatsuki members much to their annoyance and I finally stopped when the stewardess told me I was disturbing the following passengers; I was bummed out. At some point I put away my coloring book and took out my laptop to watch some more episodes of The Big Bang theory; I turned on subtitles so Helen could enjoy it too if she wanted. When it was time for us to land I turned off all my electronics and packed everything so I was ready to go once we were good to get off the plane. As we were landing I closed my eyes and held on for dear life as the plane landed and the brakes were applied. The Akatsuki and the rest of us decided to wait to get off the plane until everyone else was off first so we didn't have to fight the crowd that was ready to trample us; once we were off I immediately began searching the lobby for my cousin. "Temperance!" a familiar voice shouted.
I looked in the direction I heard the voice and saw a boney twenty-nine year old wearing a light blue tank top, dark blue short shorts, and flip flops. Her brown hair rested on her shoulders neatly and her brown eyes complimented her tan skin; she stood at 5'4" so she was short for her age and she didn't have a full figure but still proportioned. I smiled and waved at her, "Stephanie!" I then turned to the Akatsuki and motioned them to follow, "C'mon."
They followed behind me silently as we made our way to my cousin. When I was in reach the brunette pulled me into a hug. "How are you, sweetie?" she asked as I hugged her back.
"Stressed, the usual," I said. "How are you?"
"Looking forward to my trip to New Zealand," she smiled kissing my cheek. Since I've known her she's been kissing her friends and relatives on the cheek; she didn't mean anything by the gesture. She then raised an eyebrow at Helen and the Akatsuki. "You weren't joking about the new friends," she mused holding her arms out to Zara before hugging her. "Hello, Zara."
Said blackette smiled and returned the hug, "Hey Steph; long time no see."
"Shall we get going?" Stephanie asked smiling like she usually did.
"Yes please," I laughed.
"About fucking time," Hidan sighed.
Helen glared at Hidan before punching him, "Don't cuss!"
Pretty soon we were all piling in the fifteen passenger van that my cousin owned and we were heading to the wonders of Stephanie's beach house. The van ride was very quiet at first. Most of the Akatsuki were sightseeing out the windows as they passed various land forms and buildings. They even asked about the chemtrails that littered the sky, which I didn't feel like explaining. It remained quiet until Tobi broke the silence. "Tobi heard you talking about a half sister on the thingy. Why wasn't she at the house?" he asked.
"She was younger at the time when I started storm chasing so I had to send her to Stephanie's since I was rarely home; before I sent her to California she usually got herself into some sort of trouble when left her alone," I replied.
"How old is she?" Itachi asked.
"She is fifteen but going to turn sixteen in a couple of months," I answered looking out the window.
Hidan raised an eyebrow at that part. "How the fuck can she not be left alone at that damn age? What is she? Stupid?" he questioned.
I sent a warning glare at Hidan, getting the zealot to shut up. That didn't mean Hidan was still looking for other things to use for getting a rise out of me. Bastard.
"She's... Well... a special case," Stephanie said trying to explain it in a polite way.
"What's so special about her, hm? Is she some sort of princess or something?" Deidara asked.
"She's not royalty or anything like that; it just has to deal with the way she developed mentally after birth," I stated getting a little annoyed.
"So she is fucking stupid," the Jashinist said.
"Hidan shut up!" I yelled, wishing I could punch the zealot in the damn face, "She isn't stupid! She is actually pretty smart. A little too smart for her own good..."
"What do you mean by 'too smart for her own good'?" Pein asked.
"She tends to think it's necessary to show people how smart she is sometimes and it's one of the reasons why she gets picked on aside from her way of thinking," I said as one car almost cut us off cause she was on a damn cell phone and wasn't paying any attention to the road. "Shit!" I swore, "You asshole! Watch where you're fucking going!"
The Akatsuki stared at the offending car, not very amused by the reckless driver. They were not planning to die anytime soon because of an idiot behind the wheel of a vehicle.
"Tobi doesn't get how being smart is a bad thing, because Tobi's a smart boy!" the masked man said.
"No, Tobi's a stupid boy who's going to be dead in fifteen seconds if he doesn't shut up, un," Deidara said glaring at the pathetic excuse of a shinobi.
"Why does Senpai hate Tobi?!" Tobi asked attacking the blonde bomber in a hug.
"Can someone remove this idiot, hm?!" said blonde shouted in both anger and annoyance.
"Quiet, Tobi; go back to your seat," Pein ordered.
"Okay, Leader-sama..." Tobi said dejectedly and crawled back into his seat.
Stephanie shook her head while chuckling, "They are a bit of the rowdy bunch aren't they?"
"They sure are," I sighed before going to answer Tobi. "Being smart is not a bad thing, but many kids treat you badly if you let them know you are smarter than them. Especially if said kids are jocks and those obsessed with how beautiful they look. In Andra's case, she managed to get as she claims 'every kid in the whole school' to not like her. I know she is just over exaggerating that because she does have some friends there."
"Why would she be concerned with people liking her?" Sasori asked.
"She can't stand being hated. The last time she brought up the subject, the bullying was worse. She was attacked almost every other week with some sort of verbal abuse or in rare cases, physical assault," I said, "I still don't know how you can lose footage of every incident when it's being recorded at both the school and central office."
"Then she's fucking weak then. I bet she would be the easiest sacrifice ever," Hidan said with a grin, earning another glare from me.
"I swear I will find a way to turn you back into a cat if you don't stop it!" I snapped, "You are NOT sacrificing my sister!"
"As much as I hate you being mean to Hidan, Temp, I agree with you on this," Zara mentioned.
"Hidan, be quiet," Pein said glaring at the zealot.
"Fuck you," Hidan muttered.
1) What movie was mentioned? It isn't very popular current day but it was fairly popular.
Thank you readers for not giving up on me and hopefully a new fan fiction will be out for Naruto in a few months!