Hey guys! I had been out of the Naruto mood for a while now and am slowly getting back into it. I have also been procrastinating since I've been busy with a few things. Thank you my lovelies for still reading!
First Person!
I blushed furiously as I quickly tried to tie my bikini top back in its proper place. During this time Kisame walloped Deidara in the head a couple of times. "Ouch, yeah! What was that for?!" said blond asked nursing his throbbing now throbbing head.
This earned the bomber another punch to the skull from the blue man as an answer. "You know, if you hadn't punched him so much I would have punched the brat; you carried out the punishment for me," Sasori chuckled.
I finally had my top successfully back on, but I refused to make eye contact with anyone. "We need to catch up to Andra," I stated following the footprints in the sand without second thought. I could hear the others following me, some louder than the more stoic ones but that's a given. I frowned after ten minutes of walking because we had yet to find her along the beach. As twenty minutes past I began chewing my bottom lip from worry, and finally after thirty minutes we found her unconscious on the beach just as another town came into view. I sighed in relief as I sprinted to her. "Geez, Andra, you know not to exhaust yourself..."I muttered as I forced her into a sitting position before sitting behind her and resting my chin on her head like we had done so many times when we were younger. I didn't want to move her just yet until she was awake.
"Why don't you have one of us carry her back to the fucking house?" Hidan asked.
"Because she'll freak out if she wakes up somewhere other than where she passed out," I answered.
I heard Zara clear her throat and my attention turned towards my cousin. "Helen and I are going to go back to the house so we can take care of her jellyfish sting," she said sending the Jashinist a meaningful glare.
"I'll go with you, yeah," Deidara stated following after the two girls. Hidan just shrugged and also headed after them.
It got quiet soon after since the most rowdy members were currently in the house; it wasn't an uncomfortable silence, but peaceful. I watched the ocean as the waves formed before coming to shore and touching mine and Andra's feet. "How long is she usually out?" Kisame questioned taking a seat next to me.
"It really just depends on how exhausted she was when she passed out and when she became unconscious. She probably sat down when she knew it would happen and then her body fell onto the sand once she was out," I answered leaning onto Kisame. "Whatever stress she's under currently isn't helping the situation either."
"Just a thought, but why don't you take her back to your place with you when we leave?" he questioned. "I mean it's obvious that you two have always been close, why not take her back while we're here?"
I sighed, "While you have a point, I don't know if I could send her away again. I only did it so she wouldn't be alone, and once you guys go home I'll be once again chasing storms; Andra will once again be sent to Stephanie's. It wouldn't be fair to her if I once again did that."
A small smile spread across the ex Mist nin's face, "Well we haven't found a sound way to get home yet so we don't know if we can get home."
I opened my mouth to say something but the stirring from Andra caught my attention as she started to wake up. I hugged her and rested my chin back on her head, "You alright?"
Andra tensed slightly, "Yeah, I'm okay."
"What got into you Andra? Why did you run off like that again?" I asked as my eyes narrowed. "I thought you out grew this."
"I don't want to talk about it," my sister said stubbornly with a hint of sadness on her face.
"You need to stop bottling things up like this. This is not good for you and you know it," I pressed.
"No!" she refused. "I don't want to burden anyone with my troubles again!"
"You are not being a burden to anyone, Andra. I have told you several times before that you can tell Stephanie and me anything," I said as I stroked a tear off Andra's cheek; it broke my heart seeing my sister this torn up.
"It feels like it," Andra muttered as she began to look slightly disoriented from the heat and her recent exhaustion and stress induced fainting. At least she didn't seem to show signs of fainting again anytime soon.
"Don't start beating yourself up again," I said, knowing she was going to fall prey to her guilt complex for the millionth time.
Andra's eyes began to skim everything within her line of sight. Whatever was going through her head now was making her sob a bit. She was now having one of her meltdowns, and the worst part was it was right in front of Kisame; I didn't like sharing family drama in front of others since it always got rather uncomfortable. Kisame cleared his throat, "Not to barge in, but Temp is right, kiddo; you can't go beating yourself up." A toothy grin spread across his features. "Don't let anyone tell you that you're not important or anything negative, okay?"
A small smile spread across my sister's face at his words before he rumpled her hair. I kissed Andra's head just as a yawn escaped. "Now, why don't we swim for a little while longer and then go inside? I won't press the matter anymore. Or better yet, we can go inside and convince the others to play Just Dance," I smiled.
"What is Just Dance?" Kisame asked raising an eyebrow at the pair of us.
"It's a fun dance game," Andra replied wiping her eyes from the tears that fell.
I patted my sister's shoulder before bending my knees, "Well, let's go before people start coming out and asking if you're okay."
My sister nodded before getting up and also helping me stand in the uneven sand. I noticed my half sister smiling at someone reassuringly and looked to see Itachi with a small smile etched on his face as if he were remembering a time with a sibling. Kisame stood and rumpled my hair. "Let's grab the picnic basket and then head inside," he chuckled as I smacked his hand away with a pout.
Andra gave me a knowing smirk before skipping back to the house along the beach. I shook my head before following with the others in tow. "Sorry about the drama, guys," I stated linking my arm with my favorite shark.
"Don't sweat it," Kisame remarked.
"She will be okay, right?" Itachi asked.
"She always is despite the stress that builds up," I answered.
"So what are we doing?" Sasori questioned; obviously he hadn't heard me the first couple of times since he was chatting quietly with the stitched miser. Gotta love them.
I smirked, "You don't have to, but I'll be playing Just Dance with Andra and hopefully Zara and Helen."
I heard Kakuzu and the puppet master face-palm as if to say 'Oh, God, why?'. Once we did get back to the house, Andra had darted off to grab the Wii system along with the remotes so we could get the dancing started. I saw Helen talking animatedly with Konan and Zara as said bluette finished healing her jellyfish sting. I smiled at my cousin who in return gave me a curious look. "What are you plotting?" she questioned.
I opened my mouth to answer but was cut off by an over excited Andra with the Wii in her arms. "Just Dance!" she exclaimed immediately setting to work on getting the system up and running.
I pointed at my sister, "What she said. You two wanna join or are you gonna sit there like a bunch of pussy willows?"
Zara stood up and crossed her arms, "I believe those are fighting words. Helen?"
Helen smiled slightly and looked at me, "I think they are. You two are going down."
"Like your momma last night!" I exclaimed.
"Buuuuurn!" Andra said in a slight gangsta voice.
Konan shook her head before heading back to the room where the leader and the other two antisocial people were hiding. Still a little irritating that they don't hang out but it is what it is. Pretty soon we were scrolling through songs on the Just Dance 2 game. "We should totally do 'Hey Ya!' That song is fun!" Andra exclaimed.
"Do something we can warm up to first like 'That's Not My Name' or something," Zara stated with a shake of her head.
"What about 'Firework' by Katy Perry?" my sister decided.
"I don't really care for that dance; it's not very...challenging or fun," I stated.
My sister pouted but nonetheless clicked on 'That's Not My Name', and our dancing was underway. As our dancing continued, we soon forgot about the other occupants in the room, well, I paid no attention to my surroundings until I heard something fall over from somewhere behind me. I turned around and noticed that Andra had somehow managed to migrate backwards and had knocked a vase off of one of the small, corner tables; I couldn't judge her exaggerated movements since we all were kind of dancing like that, but since she was slightly uncoordinated at times it made her more clumsy. I shook my head as she stopped dancing to pick up the vase. I turned around and cursed as Zara had jumped ahead on me with points.
Third Person
Pein rubbed his temples from the racket that was currently going on downstairs from the group and music. He was far from pleased from all the pressure he was feeling between the Uchiha in the room and figuring out how to return home; both Itachi and Konan had mentioned that chakra from this world along with the sharingan may need to be contributing factors in order to return to the Narutoverse. "Are you sure this will work?" 'Madara questioned.
The leader nodded, "I have reason to believe that the Sharingan and my Rinnegan should produce enough chakra to open a portal within that house."
"And if it's not?" Konan questioned. "What if it's too much chakra that is produced?"
"Maybe the chakra from this world may help?" Obito stated. "During the storm chasing you know as well as I that along with two other people in her team, Temperance had been producing chakra while assessing the weather conditions. It's safe to assume that she is attune to severe weather."
Konan's eyes barely narrowed at the imposter elder before glancing at Pein; she hoped that the leader wouldn't allow their friend to be used. "We aren't using Temperance or her crew for your schemes. Now that you've already tried to get rid of us, you'll dispose of her as soon as she no longer proves useful," Pein stated.
The elder imposter frowned beneath his mask, "Don't tell me the two of you are now attached to the girl? If she gets in the way of my plans, I will dispose of her; once we leave, however, I won't have a way to kill her, so unfortunately, that plan wouldn't work. So far she has proven useful for this organization so I won't kill her. If she suddenly stops, I will kill her along with the others; there's no point in leaving any witnesses."
The blue haired kunoichi frowned at the masked man; she was silently praying that Temperance wouldn't do anything to cause herself to be in a situation that would cause this man to kill her, because once that decision was made by 'Madara' he would go through with it. "The girls are not to be harmed," the pin cushion ordered.
"We shall see," the masked man sneered.
Zetsu was silently watched, listening intently to the conversation; his white half honestly didn't care for falling under a genjutsu and didn't want the girls to be harmed, but his black half that represented Madara wanted the plan to succeed under any circumstances. Both halves liked the girls, but one would kill the girls just like Obito would.
Downstairs, the girls continued playing and during so, Temperance decided she would drink while dancing to see how much alcohol she could consume before she couldn't dance anymore. The ginger pulled out four six packs of alcohol and somehow managed to carry them into the living room; she licked her lips ready to accept her personal challenge. Some of the younger Akatsuki members spotted the alcohol and Hidan went to grab a bottle or two, but Temperance smacked his hand away. "Ow! What the fuck was that for?!" Hidan whined as he rubbed his stinging hand.
"This is for me, not you," she stated. "If I am too intoxicated, however, and I can't control who has what, then Kakuzu, you're in charge; I don't want Hidan getting any alcohol."
"Why the fuck not?!" the Jashinist questioned.
Kakuzu sighed, "Because, moron, you're already too obnoxious without any alcohol in your system." The miser didn't voice it, but he was worried about the cost of the alcohol.
"Why this much?" Andra questioned eyeing the Green Apple Smirnoff as if it were Satan as she stepped away from it. "Aren't you worried you can get really sick or something."
"Sweetie, I can drink six and not get a buzz; besides, I never get sick or get hangovers cause for every bottle of beer I tend to drink water," Temperance shrugged.
The red head unscrewed the top and took a swig of the apple flavored beverage; Hidan was pouting since he really wanted some of the alcohol. After a few gulps she put the bottle down and the dancing continued; Kisame snuck a bottle to try some of the beverage and wasn't really sure what to think of the beer. Twelve beers later...
Andra gave a wide eyed look as she watched her sister giggle at just about everything. She no longer could dance without laughing at how funny the characters looked on the Just Dance games. Normally Andra would joke about a lampshade being needed, but this was her sister who was currently tipsy borderline drunk, and she was slap happy. Deidara had stolen two bottles in comparison to Kisame's four; Deidara had a very low tolerance of the alcohol and actually passed out on the floor while the ex missing nin hadn't seemed to be affected at all by the beverages. "Hey, Andra, Andra, ANDRA! What if, what if all the nuclear war heads exploded! BOOM!" Temperance said as her eyes randomly got wide.
The ginger's younger sister frowned and grabbed the remaining alcohol beverage and hid them in a mini fridge they kept in the pantry so Temperance wouldn't get to them anytime soon. She went back into the living room to see the ginger still laughing while wiping tears from her eyes from cracking up for no reason. Andra approached her sister and delivered a very strong slap across the ginger's face. Temperance appeared to have some improvement in her awareness, but before she could ask her autistic sister why she was just slapped, Andra was already approaching the unconscious Deidara. "Slap or not to slap is the question. Do I want to slap him and get the same treatment as Tobi, or do I want to run and risk everyone getting hurt?" she asked aloud to herself.
Sasori looked at the girl a bit surprised she was thinking on it; he didn't expect the goofy behavior to fade into this more analytical form. The puppet master assumed she either hid it or she just acted that way on a whim. However, a slap sounded and the red haired shinobi sighed; the girl had obviously made the poor choice despite thinking it over. Sasori shook his head as he heard his partner yelling at the fifteen year old. Helen was border line irritated with the autistic girl for causing so much trouble from a little harmless drinking contest. The brunette had noted Temperance stopping her drinking the second she started stumbling, so she knew that the older sister didn't plan on blacking out via alcohol. Besides, the ginger was old enough to have the beverages. Zara had grabbed Hidan's hand sometime during the yelling between the two younger teens and left the room since neither really wanted to be around it. Kisame sighed and stood up from his spot on the couch and covered Andra's mouth before she started yelling at unnecessary high levels of volume. "Kid, you need to calm down; yelling won' solve any issues, and neither will slapping people. In fact, the slapping will only get you in trouble. Besides, it's not like she chugged the bottles and can't talk straight. Your sister is more responsible than that, so give her some credit," the shark said with a straight face; him along with the rest of the Akatsuki members in the room were borderline pissed with Andra's over-reaction.
Andra shoved the ex-Kiri nin's hand away from her face. "I have had enough!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. "I have had enough of not being listened to! No one ever listens to me!" With a face red of fury, the younger sister stormed into the hallway. "If you need me for whatever possible reason you can think of, I will be taking an extra hot shower!" she spat as she slammed the door to the bathroom with force that allowed the sound to travel throughout the house.
No one really knew what to say; Temperance hadn't seen her sister so angry before so even she was silent despite her intoxicated state. It only took a few minutes after hearing the water running before they heard something fall. To the best of her ability, Temperance got up and rushed into the bathroom to hear the English version of 'S'envoler' playing and Andra laying in the tub. Surrounding the fifteen year old was a little bit of blood that came from a nick on her left temple. She was lying there with her eyes dull and glazed over, her skin more pale than usual, and obviously unconscious. Temperance felt the water and jerked her hand away immediately; the heat was turned on all the way. "Are you trying to boil yourself?" the concerned older sister asked with a sigh; she quickly turned off the water and got Andra out of the tub.
With care, the twenty-six year old put Andra into her zip-up, fuzzy, light pink bathrobe and took a look at her sister's injury. It would definitely become a scar, but an unnoticeable one at least if the girl wouldn't pick at it. The glaze left Andra's eyes and her skin reverted back to a healthier shade. She moaned and looked at her older sister with a dazed looked. "What happened?" she asked. "Last thing I remember is turning the water high up."
"You fainted," Temperance answered as she applied pressure to the injury with a gauze, "Again."
"Oh, that explains the blood," the autistic girl mused. "I thought Hidan may have started his ritual while I was in the shower."
"You wish. Look, I think it's time we see a doctor about these fainting episodes. That was the second one today, and you're bleeding," the ginger said applying a butterfly strip to the nick on her sister. She then placed two band-aids over it to keep the blood from getting all over the place. "Now don't pick at that, you hear?"
"I will try-"
"Do or do not, there is not try," the twenty-six year old interrupted. "Pick at that, you will not."
"Fine, Yoda," Andra pouted. "You're mad at me, aren't you?"
"Scared and a bit irritated, but no, I have a hard time being mad at you," Temperance sighed.
At that moment a knock sounded on the door before a voice recognized as Itachi asked if it was okay to enter. "It's safe to enter," Temperance replied.
The door opened and Itachi looked it. "Is everything okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I kind of fainted in the tub; it looks like Temp is going to take me to the doctors..." Andra answered a bit sheepishly, non too proud of her actions.
The Uchiha prodigy nodded before leaving the bathroom; he could tell that because of Andra's fainting instances that seeing a doctor would be a wise thing to do. Temperance kissed Andra's head, "Now, go get some clothes on and ask Stephanie to make dinner, I don't think that it would be a good idea for me to cook while still intoxicated."
Andra smiled slightly before nodding and heading to her room with her dirty clothes in hand. Temperance got up and made her way back to her living room. "You know, between the two of you, maybe you should take her back," Kisame chuckled. "You guys balance each other out."
"Oh shut up and come here," Temperance stated before grabbing his shoulders and pulling him down into a kiss.
The Akatsuki members who were currently in the living room blinked before turning around and going about their own business as they waited for Stephanie to finish dinner.
So I have soooo much I want to tell you guys! First, I'm doing my very first wedding ceremony and reception by myself on Saturday October 25; I'm sooo nervous and have even gone to doubting myself. Second, my counselor that I've been seeing every Wednesday has been helping me through my depression, anxiety, and guilt complex. And finally, I've actually been talking to a great guy and my interest towards him has been growing every time we hang out. We actually are talking about going steady and I'm super stoked. It doesn't help I think about him 9/10 and for the first time in a while actually have feelings towards someone. I'm so happy~
A: If I had the DeathNote, I'd probably be too freaked out to even dare try to use it. I wouldn't have the heart to sentence someone to death.
Q: What Personality type are you? If you don't know you can look on 16personalities*com to take the test. Don't worry, it's free.
It's good to be back my dearies!