Just a note, this story may be easier to unerstand if you read the companion fic, soon to be fics. Anyways, enjoy!

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Her cheek stung as she cowered in the corner, away from the two loud voices overhead. "You're a no good bitch! You'll never amount to anything if you don't behave!" the female shrieked. "If only we had had more money- then we wouldn't have been stuck with her and could've gotten a good abortion instead of just using a coat hanger!" the male yelled as he whipped her with a belt. All she could do was hurl curse words at the people there while they whipped her with a belt and its silver buckle, which bit into her back and made her swears louder and more colourful. She shivered but did not cry as blood ran in streams down her back. Finally, when there was a pause in the whipping, she jumped up and ran for it. "He's getting away! He's getting away!" The woman shouted. "He?" the runner asked themself.

Tayuya woke up suddenly to see Kimimaro with his hand on the doorknob, ready to leave the room. "And just where the fuck do you think you're going?" she asked him loudly as she sprung up and knocked his hand away from the doorknob. "The bathroom," he answered. "I did not wish to wake you." "Well, it's my job now to follow you there! So let's go!" Tayuya declared and opened the door. Kimimaro looked at her for a minute, then walked with her to the bathroom. They were silent on their way to the lavatory, and when they got there, Kimimaro watched Tayuya intently until she understood what he meant by his stare and sat down across the hall from the door. "Go," she said, thinking, 'He's shy of being heard. Wonder where he got that.' Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of 'water running.' Tayuya blushed crimson and tried to divert her mind, but it stayed firmly on course, laughing at her and saying, "He REALLY had to go, didn't he?" Tayuya suddenly got a vivid picture of Kimimaro using the latrine in her mind. She frantically shook her head and muttered, "Get out of my head!" just as the boy in question emerged from the bathroom. He raised his eyebrows, but didn't question her. Instead, he turned and walked back to his room, knowing that she would follow.

It was Tayuya's turn to watch stalkerishly as Kimimaro settled back into bed. He breifly looked over at her, then simply faced the ceiling and closed his eyes. Inwardly sighing, she rolled over and fell back asleep.

Kimimaro watched Tayuya as she instructed him. "You put a tutu on like THIS!" she expalined. He nodded solemnly and began to dance. Ukon suddenly appeared and danced with him. But they weren't able to dance for long because Orochimaru came in with a plate full of maggots, singing, "Oxford Laaaaaaarvitz! Come and lick a laaaaarvitz! Buy'em, sell'em, trade'em, eat'em!" Then he ran his tongue over his teeth. "I'll take two," Ukon said as he led Kimimaro by the arm to the display. Tayuya could only watch in horror as Ukon gobbled the whole plate down. Suddenly Kidomaru ran in, yelling, "No! The king is dead!" and cut off Ukon's head, which Orochimaru put on his plate and tried to sell. Kimimaro lifted it off, maggots from the plate crawling on it, then thrust it at me, saying quietly, "Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep."

"Holyshitwhatafuckedupdream," Tayuya said as she sat up and turned off her alarm clock, which she had brought to Kimimaro's room. "Was your sleep satisfactory?" Kimimaro asked from his bed. "Oh, you're awake," she stated as she sat up. "Yeah, it was fine. What about yours?" Kimimaro nodded solemnly. "Satisfactory. I must eat now." Tayuya stretched. "What were you supposed to eat again?" "A Five Alive juice box and a Bean and Spinach smoothie." "That's crap! I'll make you breakfast," Tayuya cried indignantly. Kimimaro shrugged. "Do what you will."

Tayuya did. Five minutes later found them in the kitchen, still in their pajamas, with Tayuya making Kimimaro some sort of mashed fruit thing. "If you're supposeed to eat vegetables, then so be it," she explained. Kimimaro observed her making breakfast, and for a split second she thought she saw a raw and intense emotion in Kimimaro's eyes. The feeling passed, but she could still feel a lingering slight fear of the true power of the Kaguya she had to care for.

After the Mystery Food breakfast, Tayuya and Kimimaro sat in the living room. (Tayuya had decided that her mystery food was not as creative as Kabuto's food ideas, but close.) "What're we gonna do now?" she asked herself aloud. Tayuya could see Kimimaro determining what to say by her expression and words. Finally he questioned, "Do we have any old board games?"

They did. Tayuya had found that they still had Monopoly. It had taken a while to sort it out, but after the rules were explained Tayuya and Kimimaro had blown off the game board and begun to play, Tayuya being the thimble and Kimimaro being the horse and rider. The game lasted for about 30 minutes; Tayuya couldn't seem to keep hold of her money and went bankrupt before you could say 'Collect 200 when you pass Go.'

"Well, now what do we do?" Tayuya wondered. Kimimaro sat and thought with her for a minute. "We could watch a movie," Tayuya suggested. "Which one?" Kimimaro inquired. "Well, we have that one trilogy that Kidomaru got that we never watched," Tayuya remarked. "What is it called?" Kimimaro interrogated. "I think it was 'Scary Movie' or something," Tayuya replied.

Tayuya slid a DVD into the household DVD player and pressed play before stitting back on the couch with Kimimaro. She skipped the commercials and the two watched as the movie started up.

Tayuya and Kimimaro watched the movie in almost total silence. When it finished, they watched the next, only pausing to let Tayuya make lunch before resuming, and then once that one finished they watched the third. "What did you think?" Tayuya asked afterward. Kimimaro shrugged. "They were good," he replied. Tayuya stared. "Good? Those movies were the shit! Well, who was your favourite character, then?" "Buffy," Kimimaro said confidently. Tayuya raised her eyebrows. Kimimaro looked at the clock. "You are to make me supper now," he remarked. "Great, let's get someone else to deliver us something. What do you say to Chinese?" Kimimaro nodded curtly. "Satisfactory." "Awesome," the kunoichi said as she picked up the phone and dialed the Chinese food joint. "'Sup guys, this is the house of the Sound..." Tayuya glanced over at Kimimaro. They had always addressed their group by who was in action. First there had been six: Kimimaro, Tayuya, Sakon, Ukon, Kidomaru and Jiroubou. Then Ukon was forced to share Sakon's body, and they were the Five. Then Kimimaro got sick, and they were four. Now Kimimaro and Ukon were back, along with Tayuya, and they were all that remained. "...Six, and we want just the deal thing for two. You know where we live," Tayuya continued before hanging up. She looked over at Kimimaro. "They said fifteen minutes," she informed as she walked over to him and looked up at him. Kimimaro was taller than her by about a foot, but she figured that she had a bigger ego. "Why are you not using the food that Kabuto specified for?" Kimimaro inquired. Tayuya stared at him. "That shit woulda fucked you up more than you already are," she stated.

Twently minutes later, the food arrived. Tayuya practically danced to the table before ripping open the lid of the sweet and sour chicken balls. She had already stuffed half of them in her mouth by the time Kimimaro had gotten to the table. "Ish good sho dohn oo wereh bou wah bootoh shesh," she informed him with a full mouth. Kimimaro ignored her and took the vegetables into consideration. Tayuya shrugged and finished off the sweet and sour chicken balls as Kimimaro dug in. He ate neatly, using hashis, but Tayuya used he hands. She could see him mentally sighing at her lack of etiquette but didn't care as she stole some of his vegetables from literally right under his nose.

After supper, Tayuya and Kimimaro had nothing to do, so they just sat around the living room. "Dammit, I should be training right now! We have nothing to do at home!" Tayuya yelled. "Well," Kimimaro said slowly, "What do normal teenagers do?" "Drink and have sex," Tayuya muttered. "I meant what do normal teenagers of the Sound do?" he clarified. "Drink and fight," Tayuya replied in a cheerier tone, implying that she would rather be drinking and brawling than drinking and reproducing. "Damn Leaf nins," Tayuya said randomly. Kimimaro nodded in agreement. "It was an insult to send kids like that after us! And then we had to act like we lost so we could take a different route to the Sound to escort that Sasuke boy!" Tayuya shouted fervently. Kimimaro simply nodded again. Then Tayuya paused for a moment to calm herself down before asking, "Speaking of those bastards, why did you threaten to kill me if I didn't hold them both back?" "Why were you frightened to see me?" Kimimaro retaliated quietly. Neither said anything for a minute, then Tayuya said, "I wasn't scared, I was surprised." "I was simply trying to motivate you," Kimimaro answered. Again they sat in silence, then heard the door quietly creak open. Looking back over her shoulder, Tayuya saw that it was Ukon, still in his pyjamas. "UKON! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING OUTSIDE IN YOUR PYJAMAS?" she shouted. Tentatively, Ukon smiled.

"Truth, dare, double dare, promise-to-repeat, rainbow or chicken or go?" Tayuya drilled Ukon. They had decided that with the addition of Ukon, they had enough people to play Truth or Dare instead of sit around. "Dare," he affirmed. "Flush your head down the toilet," Tayuya said gleefully. Grumbling, Ukon was followed by Tayuya and Kimimaro into the bathroom, where he fulfilled his dare satisfactorily. "That good enough?" he asked with a glare, but Tayuya could tell that he didn't really mind. They sat back down in a circle, Ukon's hair dripping, and he questioned Kimimaro, "Okay, Kimi, truth, dare, double dare, promise-to-repeat, rainbow or chicken or go?" Kimimaro blinked. He rarely ever played this game with them, and Tayuya knew that he didn't know what half of the choices were. "What is this 'rainbow' you speak of?" he asked. "He said rainbow! He said rainbow!" Tayuya said gleefully. "Rainbow means you have to take off the clothes you're wearing of the colour I name," Ukon explained, then thought fdor a minute. "Black," he proclaimed. Hesitantly, Kimimaro removed his pants. In her mind, Tayuya was singing. On the outside, though, she was snickering. Kimimaro sat there with a slightly perturbed look on his face, his robe only covering part of his legs. He was sitting in a kneeling position and had his hands holding down his robe. He was blushing slightly, but his stoic expression didn't change as he asked Tayuya, "Truth, dare, double dare, promise-to-repeat, rainbow or chicken or go?" "Truth." She had nothing to hide. "What are you looking for in a man?" he questioned. "Yeah, Tayuya, tell us!" Ukon coaxed. Now it was Tayuya's turn to blush. "I want... Uh... A ninja?" Tayuya tried, then gaining confidence, continued, "Someone strong, and well equipped, if you know what I mean." Ukon laughed. "Well, Kimimaro, for that, truth, dare, double dare, promise-to-repeat, rainbow or chicken or go?" Tayuya added. "Truth," he replied. "What do you want in a girl?" Tayuya quizzed. Kimimaro thought for a minute, then tentatively said, "Powerful. Determined... Well-endowed..." This time, both Tayuya and Ukon roared with laughter. "Well-endowed? Who would've expected that?" Tayuya said hysterically. "Kaguya Kimimaro. Stoic. Strong. Sexual," Ukon joked. This time, Kimimaro was distinctly blushing.

That night, as Tayuya lay half awake in bed, she caught herself thinking, 'Dammit, I have small boobs!'

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Sorry that it took so long for me to update, and with a bad chapter at that. I had a hard time writing this one. But things are going to start speeding up soon.

Yay, review reply time.

Koru-chan: I enjoyed your input muchly. I figured that my time switches were confusing, and while I didn't stop them this chapter, I will try to have them down by the next chapter. I don't have a spellcheck on my writing program, and though I'm a good speller I'm a bad typist. Also, I meant to have translations but I forgot. - I am getting my japanese from jim breen's japanese-english dictionary, so things like 'dzu' (which confused me, because i know of the lack of a 'dzu' in japanese) are not entirely my fault. I am trying to keep the characters IC, but as you can see I do slip up. As the story progresses and the characters become more themselves and are fleshed out they will become either more IC or OOC with reason.

As for everyone else: Yay thank you for reading my fic and ladyvirgo I am happy that you are starting to like Ukon and Kimimaro. As Michael Jackson said, I guess I'm not alone.

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